Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1894, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1894—-TWENTY PAGES. AL| ‘Inter Continental Railway Through Central and South America. “THE ROUTE HAS BEEN SURVEYED “Three Separate Field Parties Have Done the Work. REPORT OF THEIR LABORS (Written for The Evening Star. HE FORTHCOMING report of the inter- continental railway | commission, soon to be issued, giving the | results of the recent | government surveys | through. Central and | South America . to| connect by rail all! the republics on the} American continent, will be certain to create a profound tm- pression on the coun- try. Advance sheets indicate that it will be & marvelously interesting work from every standpoint. It will give !mportant infor- mation concerning railway possibilities never before offered to the world and will trace a continuous railroad route extending from Mexico clear down to Argentina, a distance of 4,500 linear miles. It will fairly tristle with newly ascertained facts and practical statistics touching all the repub- Hes to the south of us; it will be illuminated dy @ profusion of charming photographs of Uife and scenery along the whole route, and ‘will be still further enriched by a vast quantity of charts and maps, topographical, j geographical and geological, of the regions traversed, thus combining the attractions ef a fresh book of travel and adventure with the more substantial features of a technical | YTeport. But, above all, the report will de- Monstrate the entire feasibility of con- gtructing an intercontinental railway and (will show conclusively that no insurmount- able engineering difficulties stand tn the way of such a momentous undertaking. ‘his elab- erate report is now in process of completion - at the headquarters of the commission in Washington and will be promulgated from | the government printing office in three sumptuous volumes in the course of a few months. Its publication will mark an epoch in the history of great railway surveys, out- | rivaling in novelty, magnitude and interest, | if not in importance, the great Pacific rail- ‘Way survey reports of 1858. Three Surveying Parties. It will be remembered that three separate surveying corps were organized for the work and sent into the field in April, 1891. and that the last corps returned in July of last year, since when the engineers havi been engaged uninterruptedly in the reduc- tion of their fleid notes and the preparation of drawings and other details of their re- Ports. The whole survey was divided into three sections, the upper section reaching from the Mexican-Guatemalan boundary | Sugar Cane Press, Honduras. @own into Costa Rica, the second from} Costa Rica down to Quito, Ecuador, and the | third from Quito down to the lower ter-| minus in Peru. As the Mexican system of | Failroads is being extended to the northern Boundary of Guatemala ant is now in opera- | tion as far as Oajaca. 400 miles south of the | Sty of Mexico. the commission was not un- | je necessity of making any surv the republic of Mexico. samt ete oy ceordingly, the work of corps No. 1, un- der Licut. acomb, United States ar- my. was bee Ayutla, on the northern e 1 and a continuo Mine of survey was ron from (hoeague southeast through the republics of Guate arala, Salvador, Hondura razua and Costa Ri by way of Retalhuleu, Es- Qtnitla. Santa Ana. San s Cholu- teca, Chinandega, } Li and Punta Arenas to the Rio Savegre. 1 Years were devoted to the s and ex-} Ploration this part of t ute, letic addition ronor 4 an | high as 4 per cent. | inexpensive. | ald in the material an | stance of a committee on railway communi- ; United States | with instructions to shape their surveys so | Toad and by a new link southeastward to | La Paz, where it would join a road al- teorological observa large amount o Bearing on the rv val traversed. Throveh elared, construction w j cheap and easy. | Corps c fam F. Shunk Quito, Feu rorthw Jombia Rio Sa ing w the we Quito the lin Pasto and Ca river, lowed via ¢ to Antica via Ca ailiera t down tha Atrato; and basin and that river the line w Pona head of San M coast, via Pan: nd avid, to the Rio Bavegre. Leavinz the Cauca valley below Cartago, a branch line was surveyed via brought into commercial relations with our Medellin and Caceres to Cartagen: Caribbean sea, whence easy communication by water can be established with Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston and other southern ports of the United States. The section be- tween Quito and Popyan, passing, as it does, through the very heart of the Andes, is pronounced expersive to construct, but at Biggest Hotel at Agutla, the Strating Point in Guatemaln. the same time the surveys prove the entire feasibility of the route, with no grades as From the head of the Cauca valley the matter of grade ceases to be a ruling consideration, and the construe- tion of a road could be effected at 2 med- erate cost. This Colombian region abounds in natural rescurces, and :he Cauca valley is destined to become one of the richest mineral and agricultural portions of all South Ame-ica Corps No. 3, under Civil Engineer Wil- liam D. Kelley of Philadelphia, Pa., like- wise started at Quito, but worked south- | ward through Ecuador and Peru to the | confines of Bolivia, via Citenca, Loja, Caja- marca, Caraz, Cerro de Pasco and Cuzco Native Bridge in Peru. to Lake Titicaca. The investigations of this party also show the practicability of constructing @ railroad along the central plateau lying between the Eastern and | Western Cordilleras of the Andes and con- | necting most of the important towns and mining centers in the intertor of these two republics. In certain stretchés the build- ing of the line would be expensive, owing to various deep canons and heavy grades na- tural to so mountainous a country; but in other parts construction would be inexpen- sive. In some localities, indeed, more popu- lous and more level, a raflroad would be In some localities, indeed, more populous and more level, a railroad would prove decidedly remuferative from the local traffic alone. Their Work Summed Up. Summing up, corps No. 1 surveyed a stretch of 800 miles; corps No. 2 carried the line on 1,700 miles further south,.and corps No. 3 extended it on to Cuzco, the ancient capital of Peru, a distance of 1,74 miles— the three sections together measuring 4,234 miles, not counting the extra branch from Medellin in Colombia to Cartagena, or the remaining little links below Titicaca. The successive steps which have resulted in this preliminary survey may be related in a few words. ‘The survey was recom- mended by the Pan-American conference of 18s), in the belief that a railroad con- necting ali or a majority of the nations represented in the confgrence would greatly commercial devel- cpment of all concerned, and at the in- cations the intercontinental railway com- mission 's ereated to blaze the way for the work. Ly appointment of their respec- tive governments the membership of the commi: on _ was thus constituted: For the Argentine Republic, Messrs. Carlos Agote, Julio Krause and Miguel Tedin; for Brazil, Messrs. Pedro Betimpaes Leme, Francisco de Monlevade and Francisco Leite Lobo | Pereira; for Colombia, Messrs. C. Fred- | erico Parraga, Julio Renfigo and Climaco Calderon; for Ecuador and Peru, Mr. Lef- fert L. Buck; for Guatemala, Mr. Antonio Patres; for Mexico, Mr. Leandro Fernan- dez; for Paraguay, Mr. John Stuart; for Salvador, Mr. Benjamin Milina Guirola; for Uruguay, Mr. Francisco A. Lanza; for Ven- ezvtia, Mr. Louis J. Blanco; and for the of America, Messrs. en Cassatt of Philadelphia, H. G. Davis of Eiking, W. Va. and R.’ C. Kerens of St wouls. The commission first met and organized in “Washington, under the patronage of our Staie Department, on fecember 4, 1800, and remained in. session until April 1891. The scope of the work was care- fully mapped out, and the surveying par- ties sent into the field, as above recited, as to utilize as far as practicable the al- ready existing railway systems of Mexico, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Argentina, and to connect with the larger cities in the vicin- ity of the route in the general project of establishing a complete chain of railruads from our northern boundaries down to Ar- gentina. Funds were contributed by the several governments interested, the United States as the strong elder brother of the southern republics furnishing the larger share. Up to date the United States has contributed, In three installments, $105,000 Brazil has given $30,000; Colombia, $1,000. Guatemala, $3,000; Chile, $3,02 u $1,000; Costa "Rica, $1,007, making $242,623 in all. The Mexican Trunk Lines. The Mexican trunk Ines connecting with the trunk lines in the United States run- ning southeast, south and southwest from San Francisco, St. Louis, Chicago and Bos- | ton, through New York, Philadelphia, At-| lanta and New Orleans, would be availed of to supply connection between the north- ern terminus of the proposed route, while from Lake Titicaca, the southern end, con- nection can be had with a Peruvian rall- Bolivia, ready running south to Huanchaea, in west- ern Bolivia. From this point there is now a railroad running west and southwest through Chile to Antofagasta, on the Pa- own 65,000,000. Guatemala, the first of the Central American states south of Mexico, has a population of 1,200,000;Salvador comes next, with 665,000 population; then Hon- duras, with 440,000; Nicaragua, with 350,000; Costa Rica, with 240,000; Colombia, with 4,000,000; Ecuador, with 1,200,000; Peru, with 3,000,000; Brazil, with 15,000,000; Argentina, 4,500,000; Bolivia, with 1,200,000; Chile, with 8,000,000, and Paraguay, with 500,000. The products and resources of all these republics are valuable and exceedingly de- sirable in North American commerce. Guatemala, with an area of 46,800 square miles (about equal to New York or Penn- sylvania), produces a great variety of ar- ticles useful to the United States, among them being coffee, cocoa, bananas, hides and hard woods. Her coffee crop alone amounts to between eighty and one hun- dred million pounds annually. Even now the United States imports from Guatemala over $3,000,000 worth of goods every year, which, from lack of facilities, are brought principally by sea and enter at the port of San Francisco. Salvador, though the small- est of the Central American states, is pro- Portionately the most populous and prosper- ous of them all. Coffee, indigo, sugar, me- dicinal plants and rare woods, together with gold, silver, iron, copper and mercury, are among her products. The exports of Honduras, one of the largest of the Central American republics, are chiefly cattle, ma- hogany, cedar, hides, India rubber, ban- anas, cocoanuts, bar silver and gold bullion. Resources of Different Countries. The resources of Nicaragua are also very great, especially in fine hard woods, dye woods, rubber, sugar, coffee, cocoa and in- digo, besides cattle, ccrn and potatoes. In- deed, Nicaragua’s trade with the United States already is larger than with any other country, amounting to about $4,000,- 000 annually. In return for her exports she imports from the United States ma- chinery, fron, steel, flour and manufactured goods. Costa Rica, with her exceedingly fertile soll, already ships to the United States large quantities of coffee, bananas, hides, rubber and mother-of-pearl, and in’ réturn imports sitk, woolen, linen and cotton goods, machinery, agricultural implements, furniture and hardware. Recently the American trade there has almost entirely superseded that of England, and now amounts to nearly $5,000,000 a year. Colombia, with her area of 505,000 square miles, possesses enormous natural re- sources, but heretofore, through lack of in- telligent labor, transportation facilities and means of communication, she has been un- able to develop them properly. Among het products are gold and silver, emerald: opals and other precious stones, marble! mineral salts, coffee, hides, ivory nuts, cocoa and cinchona bark. She imports ali kinds of manufactured goods, and her trade with the United States amounts to about $12,000,000 annually. As to Ecuador, owing to the fertility and diversity of her soil, and the variety of her climate, all sorts of plant life flourishes within her boundaries with remarkable lux- uriance—rice, pepper and _ semi-tzopical fruits, cotton, corn, sugar, wheat and bar- ley. Her exports, mainly’ shipped to Eng- land, include cotton, cocoa, rubber, tvory nuts, cinchona, straw goods and precious metals. In Peru, besides her wonderful treasures of gold and silver, and coal and iron, largely undeveloped, as yet, a wide range of agricultural crops is produced— Sugar to the amount of 100,000 tons, cotton to the value of $3,000,000, wine to the value of $4,000,000, and also enormous yields of rice, cinchona, rubber, fruits and vegeta- bies. Corn also is extensively grown and constitutes the staple food of all classes. The export of wool brings $5,000,000 a year, and other exports are guano, cubic ulter, sugar, cotton and sulphur, at present sent principally to England and Germany. But the construction of a section of railway through Peru, Ecuador and Colombia to Cartagena on the Caribbean sea would put them in easy communication with the southe-n ports of the United States, and very materially increase our trade, even should there be a delay in the construction of the entire system northward. It is Practicable. The conclusions reached by the commis- sion based upon the expert reports of the engineers are that the intercontinental rail- way is absolutely practicable, and that @ mere piece of engineering it can be built, not simply without excessive outlay, but really at a moderate average cost per mile. The only question now remaining is that of commercial expediency. Everybody, of course, can understand that it would be followed by great business and political advantages to all the nations con- cerned, and that it would be perhaps the most potent promoter of unity and co- herency among the republics of the western hemisphere. Nevertheless, the expense of Native Boatmen at Atitlan. construction could not be otherwise than enormous. A carefully prepared estimate places it between $130,000,000 and $160,000,- 0ov. Private financiers and merchants are of opinion that under present conditions the road would not earn enough money to pay the interest on the cost, and that pri- vate capital, at least in this generation, will probably not be found for such a gigan- tic venture. However that may be, the preliminary | surveying. and pathfinding has been done, and well done at that, and the construction of a longitudinal railway, bringing the United States within two weeks of Val- paraiso or Buenos Ayres, is proven to be entirely within the power of modern ratl- way engineers to accomplish. The road can be built, but whether it will be bu! either soon or in fifty years from now, is a mat- jter to be left to the future determination of our statesmen, financiers and capitalists. JOHN D. CREMER. —— NATAL AUTOGRAPHS. The Sign Manual of the Child That Does Not Ch: From the Louisville Courier-Journal. There is born with every one of us and continues unchanged during our lives an unfailing and ineradicable mark or marks, which absolutely distinguish each one of us from every other fellow-being. These physical marks never change from the cradle to the grave. This born autograph is impossible to counterfeit and there is no | duplicate of it among the teeming billows in the world. Look at the insides of your hands and the soles of your feet, closely examine the ends of your fingers; you see circles and curves and arches and whorls, some prominent with deep corrugations, defined and closely traced pattern. There is your phystological signature, Run your hands through your hair and press your finger nails on a plece of clear giass. You see all the delicate tracing transferred—not two fingers alike, even “the left hand knoweth not what the right hand doeth;” they are all distinctly differ- ent. Even twins may be so similar in size, features and general physical conditions as to be scarcely distinguishable, yet their finger autographs are radically different. In fact, in all humanity every being ci ries with him his baby fingers and his wrinkled hands of decrepid old age, the identical curves, arches and circles’ that were born with him. Nothing except dis- memberment can obliterate or disguise them. Criminals may burn and sear their Primitive Plow, Argentina. elfic, and by additional surveys three more ines, branching from Huanchaea, are con- templated—the first one to run south to Jujuy, in Argentina, the second to run east I to Rio de Janeiro, on the At-| d the third to run southeast to the capital of Paraguay. In ad- the link connecting Medellin | abia with Cartagena on the Cartb- | 1, where our trade is as yet com-| and awaiting our | another link is pro- | n Medellin to Venezu- | South Amertean states raced in the grand project | and Uruguay, and of these, Uru- | utor to th . besi | through 1 for- | eleven Central | can republics directly In- sive of Mexico, with her 12,- have a combined population ready and waiting to be 100,000. hands, but nature, when she restores the cuticle, invariably brings back the natal authograph. — > 00 The Fool Mule and the Bui From the Cincinnati Tribune. There is a dead mule back in Kentucky, a sun-colored, fool mule. For a long time this mule and a swagger young bull have lived on the farm of the Benedictine Monks, be- yond Covington. When the brothers rose yesterday there was an unearthly sound in the pasture lot below the monastery. It was the mule and the bull fighting. The blood ran in streams from the bull's nose and mouth. The mule was unhurt. He was moving on a pivot, with his heels ever éoward the big, angry brute on the circumference of the circle trodden in the grass. Suddenly, with lowered head and a bellow I'ke thunder, the bull rushed at the mule. There was a flash of steel, a thud, and the bull was on his knees, the mule was on the kick. Time and again the bull went down before the mule’s lightning feet. Once more he made a rush, then retired, seemingly beaten, The mule looked about, shook himself, and began to eat grass. The first time his eyes had left that buil the latter saw his chance. When he had finished with the mule there was scarcely enough left to bury. One of the monks said he was a fool, like other mules; then they killed the bull to put him out of his misery. others minute and delicate, but all a well! | bills for education, but made an extra al- | 1882; an ensign in July, 1884. He fs still an TO STUDY ABROAD Two Naval Academy Graduates Will Have That Advantage. KNOWLEDGE OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE There Are Three Colleges Open to These Cadets. BENEFIT TO THE NAVY wo oF graduates of the! Naval Academy are to go to Greenwich, | England, to take a| course in naval ar- chitecture. There is no ade- quate course in naval architecture at the Naval Academy, An- napolis, or at any | college in the United | States. The Poly- technic at Boston has & course in architecture, which includes shipbuilding; and Cornell, within the last three years,has established a similar course. But both of these are incomplete. It 1s necessary, therefore, to send our cadets abroad to obtain the education necessary to make them competent naval constructors. Two of them go abroad each year—either to the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, | to the institute at Glasgow, or to | the French Maritime School in Paris, This | year it Is the Royal Naval College which | is to receive two of our bright young men. They will do well if they approximate the | records of those who have preceded them. | Naval Constructor Taylor, who went to Greenwich in 1885, carried off the highest honors of the Royal Naval College three years later, and, moreover, excelled the highest record made by a student of that institution up to that time. ‘The Hest Institution. Of the three institutions named the best is the Royal Naval College. It was estab- Ushed in 1873 in the building which had been used as a hospital and home for re- tired seamen for many years. In 1865 the 8,000 seamen who were living at the hos- pital were offered the option of an allow- ance for food and lodging. In 1862 they were compelled to accept the allowance and the hospital building was cleared of them to make way for the Royal Naval College. There is reciprocity in naval matters be- tween great rations, notwithstanding the fact that navies are maintained for the pro: tection of one nation against another. Eng land invited all the nations of the world to send students to the Royal Naval College. The number was limited to two from each nation, The United States did not take ad- vantage of the invitation until 1879, when | two cadets, who had led the graduating class at the academy, were selected to go abroad. At that time naval constructors Were appointed from private life, by com- petitive examination, because there was no course of naval architecture at the Naval } Academy. The object in sending the cadets | to Greenwich was to qualify them for ap- | pointment as naval constructors. The ad- | vantages they would receive at Greenwich, it was thought, would make them muc nore competent than any applicants for appointment from civil life, whose oppor- tunities for instruction must have been confined to private institutes here or abroad. The Pioneer Cadets. The pioneers of the experiment were Ca- dets Bowles and Gatewood. Gatewood 1s dead, but Mr. Bowles has been stationed for many years at the Norfolk navy yard. Bowles and Gatewood returned at the end of three years and were made assistant naval constructors, with the rank of Heu- tenants, Then Nixon and Shock were sent THE to Greenwich and two other cadets—Wood- ward and Linnard—were sent to the French maritime school in Paris. In 1885 Taylor and Armistead were sent to the Royal lege, and three other cadets— Baxter, Capps and Hewes—were sent to the University of Glasgow. From that time on cadets have been sent regularly to these three institution. As a result, one-half of the naval constructors and all of the assist- ant naval constructors on the naval list | ere graduates of the Naval Academy where few years ago all of them were civilians. | The chief of ‘the bureau of construction | and repair, Mr. Hichborn, was appointed | from civil life. He 13 not a graduate of Annapolis and he has never seen a day of sea duty. The same is true of Naval Con- | structors Fernald, Steele and Varney, who hold the relative rank of commander. Not All Remain in the Service. Of the cadets of foreign colleges who have returned to the United States and received | appointments in the navy not all have re. mained in the service. Only three years | ago Lieut. Nixon obtained permission from | the Secretary of the Navy to resign to en- ter the employ of the Cramps. It was said at the time that he was to receive a salary of $7,500. The Secretary of the Navy hesi- tated for some time before letting him go. The government had paid for his education at Greenwich, and Mr. Tracy had an {dea | that if he was worth $7,500 to the Cramps he was worth $7,500 to Uncle Sam. Finally | he was permitted to go. There was per- | haps a little more justice in giving him permission than there would be in the case of the later graduates of the Royal Naval College. The first students sent abroad by the government were compelled to pay a! good sum for the privilege. It cost them | not less than $1,200 u year to live at Green- wich, and all that they received from the Navy Department was the salary of their | rank—$0w in the case of a naval cadet or! $1,000 in the case of an ensign. In 1886, however, the government not only paid the | lowance of $40 a month for expenses. This | has been done ever since. Many Advantages, The advantages of taking the course of in- | struction abroad are many. In the first; place, there is an assurance of permunence | in employment, which no leutenant or cap- | tain in the navy has. A naval constructor is seldom ordered away from the United | States. Usually his assignment is steudy. and he has an opportunity to establish a home for himself and his family, instead | of spending, alternately, three years on | shore and three years cruising about the world. Then the pay of a naval constructor is much better than the pay of an ensign or @ Meutenant. An assistant naval constructor recelves at first $1,500 u year when on ieave or waiting orders, and $2,000 when on shore duty. After four years of service in the grade, he receives $1,700 or $2,200, accord- ing to his assignment. Four years later ke | begins to draw $1,000 or $2,000, As a naval constructor, when he has been advanced to that grade, he draws $2,200 when on leave or waiting orders and $3,200 when on shore duty, After five years this compensation ts | tycreased by $200; in five years more $300 ts acded to this; after the next five years $300 mcre 1s added; and when the naval con- structor has served twenty years in that grade he draws £3,200 when on leave, or $4,200 when on shore duty. There is only one officer In the navy Who draws more when on shore a He is the rear ad- miral, whose shore-duty pay 1s. $5,000. Some Differences Explained. Here is the differenc? between the experl- ence of Naval Constructor Linnard, for ex- ample, and a graduate of the Naval Acad- emy of his class. Mr. Linnard became aj cadet midshipman in June, 18 He was | made a naval cadet in August, 1882. He was appointed assistant naval constructor in July, 188%. He was made naval con- structor in 1801. Take any one of many Who graduated with Mr. Linnard. This oth- er graduate was made a cadet midshipman in June, 1877; a naval cadet in August, engign. He has been transferred from one duty to another; sent to the Asiatic station or the European station or the South At- lantic station; assigned to work in one bu- reau or another of the department at Wash- ington or at one or another of the navy yards; has been ashore three years and then aflcat three years and then back on} shore duty again. His pay for the first five years of his service as ensign was $800 on leave, $1,000 on shore duty or $1,200 when at sea. Now he draws $200 more. Present- ly he will be made a Meutenant of the junior grade and his pay will be increased to $1,200, $1,500 and $1,800 for the respective assignments. His education has fitted him for nothing except to be a naval officer. No one wants to give him $7,500 a year to superintend the building of great ships. The naval officer is the most helpless man on earth. He is awav from home so much of the time that he gets out of touch with home institutions and home industries. He is seldom fit for anything but naval duty. Occasionally some officer who is on assign- ment at Washington takes up the study of the law or medicine in his spare hours. One or two officers graduated at the law school this spring. Once tn a while an offi- cer like Capt. Mahan, whose work on The Sea Power has created such a furore in England, or Lieut. J. D. Kelly, who has done a great deal of magazine writing of a Nght character, displays tslent with his pen. Sometimes the naval officer develop: inventive genius. But as a rule the officer “sticks to his last” and retires finally in- capacitated by sickness or age for further service. Officers seldom leave the navy to engage in other pursuits. Owes Mach to Naval Constractors. The United States navy, however, owes much to its naval inventors. Many of the devices used on our new ships of war are the inventions of our own officers. Naval constructors have contributed two of these. The Navy Department paid to Chief Con- structor Wilson (now retired) a few years ago $10,000 for his invention of an air port hinge. The present chief constructor, Mr. Hichborn, is the inventor of an automatic life buoy, which has been adopted by the department. Lieut. Diggs and Lieut. Schroe- der together invented the Driggs-Schroeder rapid-fire gun, which is in use on some of the vessels of the new navy. Lieut. Da: fell is the inventor of a mechanism for rapid-fire guns, which has been adopted by the department. Frank Fletcher is the inventor of a mount for rapid-fire guns, which is in use in our navy. Lieut. W. H. Beehler of the hydrographic office is the in- ventor of a solarometer, with which he pro- poses to provide greater. safety against wrecks. Chief Engineer Webster has in- vented a clinometer for determining the angle of the roll of a ship. Lieut. Dieh! and Lieut. Gibson have devised a “com- pensating binnacle” in which the magnet- ism of the steel hull of a vessel is counter- balanced. Chief Engineer Towne is the inventor of a boiler much used on steam launches. Passed Engineer Tobin is the inventor of the Tobin bronze, which is be- ing used very generally. Capt. Howell is the inventor of an automobile torpedo. Altogether the officers of the navy who have not had the advantages of foreign ed- ucation are not the least useful or the least ingentous of the graduates of Annap- olis. GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN. see ——_—_ TWO GIRLS AND A MAN, The Young Women Found Life Less Serious Than He Did. From the New York ‘Tribune. He was carefully dressed.. There was not the slightest blemish on his silk hat. His trousers were carefully creased, his coat was long, and he held his stick in the approved fashion. With him were two charming- looking young women. Their complexions were fresh, their teeth white and small, and their gray eyes bright with an honest, mirthful sparkle. They boarded @ Broadway cable car, the girls climbing up with uncon- ventional alacrity, the man swinging him- self to the platform with an assumption of easy dignity. The girls plumped themselves down on a seat and then crowded closely together, for the car was about full, to make room for him, “sit here, George. ‘There is plenty of rcom,” said one, patting about two inches | of space with a little hand that in a mouse- celored glove looked very pretty. “Oh, no,” said George, graciously. ‘You will be more comfortable if I stand up.” So the girls smiled and laughed and chatted, while he stood straight up with a lofty, “know-it-all” air. Those girls were delight- ful to the rest of the passengers, There was something about them that showed that they were not New York girls, though they were dressed in the proper New York fash- fon. They were wholesome-looking girls, who smiled when they were pleased and laughed when they were amused. They were full of youthful spirits and their inno- cent frankness was reflected in their pretty faces. When they laughed they made no attempt to conceal the clear ring of their Voices. ‘There was not the slightest affecta- tion in their manner; not the faintest trace of a “pose.” Every movement and posture of the young man was studied to give him a cold, calm, superior appearance. If he were not to the New York manner born, he was at least carefuily trained to it. lt was warm in the car, and he stepped forward to catch the c@ling breeze on the front platform. The door was open and he tcok up a dignified position there. “No standing on the platform,” said the | gripman, curtly. “Oh, 18 that the rule?’ stepping back. said the other, in two pairs of gray ey there was a gleam of fun that “George” should have | been caught transgressing a New York rule. One pair of pretty lips curved suspiciously, | giving warning of a little laugh. Another pair, pressed tightly together, held in check what would have been a musical peal. Swift glances were exchanged. Just then the car gave a quick twist, and “George” went forward with a lurch. To save himself, he caught the handle of one of the doors. The weight of his body drew it toward him. Broadway cars, those who ride orf them know, have double doors. When one opens its half brother does the same. When one closes the other comes half way to meet it. Poor George worked his own destruction. His body kept the doors from closing entirely, but they crush: ed his splendid hat and they skinned his well-shaped nose, sending his stick to the floor with a most unconventional clatter. There was alarm in the faces of the two young women then, but when he gathered up his hat and stick, and, with a bored, un- interested look on his face, resumed as easy a position as circumstances. would permit, the ccuntenances of the girls changed. “A man-trap,” he said, with calm scorn, and at that it came—two bursts of ringing laughter. They tried to stop, but they could not. He did look like a fool, stand- | ing there wkh a haughty look on his face, but a battered hat on his head, a passion- less, stcely eye, but a skinned nose. Peal after peal came, not loud and vulgar, but musicai and mirth-stirsing. There was no stopping that merriment. They laughed, and they smiled, and, it must be confessed, they giggled. Every time their eyes met they either began with a giggle and ended with a laugh, or, starting with a laugh, ran it on into a giggle. And all the while he stood in his end of the car like a statue which some irreverent man had decorated with a smashed silk hat. The passengers, too, were joining in the chorus. That merriment was irresistibly In- fectious, and however much one could ad- mire the unflinching courage of the young man, sympathy was with those girls, who Gid not take life so seriously as the man, Finally they got up. Beforé they reached the rear platform the young man began to administer @ severe reproof In a low tone. “Isn't it enough,” ke said, “to have a gripman show his insolence, and to have a lot of stupid passengers snicker at a man’s unavoidable mishaps, without having his own sisters humiliate him?” “But, George,” sald one in @ whisper, “you did look so funny,” They were filing off the platform into the street now. “It may be fun) said the young man, with lotty scorn, “but I call it very unbe- coming. My own sisters"—but the rest was lost in the merry peals, which again burst from the girls. 2 Two Sides to It. From Life. Those on the east end of the piazza were somewhat shocked. HE WRITES HAPPY SONGS, ‘Charles F, Pidgin, Whose Popular Airs Are Everywhere Sung. 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