Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1894, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST il, 1894—-TWENTY PAGES. THE DANCING AGES‘: <cncaiocageie The Distinct Stages in the Career of | Society Women. THEIR The Music, the Floor, a Gocd Partner Are Prime Elements. HUSTASY LUSLAOL | DISILLUSION | HAPPY E EXPERI ——_-—____ THE Written Excl) for The Evening St HERE IS A POPU- lar saying that a woman ts as old as rhe looks, a man as old as he feels, Like most popular sayings it cnly covers a part of the ground. As though a woman's age was not also to be measured by how she feels, that ts, by the amount of expe- rience she has gone through. One might think, forsooth, that in this end of the century women had lives of the same in- experience that they did in. what another popular saying calls the good old day uge of society women;I ‘mean the ‘ling age”—is to be gauged by the stage | fn the p of dancing which they have reached. Every woman dances, but it {s the way she does it that !s worthy of no- tice. ne young girl at her first ball ts a | ma f so much poetical and sentimental enthusiasm that her w are known to | all How she plumes herself for days | nticipat the floor, hi m her tiny, | ow waltz 1, how her reshadowing of nt after ceaseless danc- age. A girl to act | be young in years, | t at sixteen or or damsel, until she has say at twe Prospect of her first in just that akes her heart able with ex- t of a good en of a good Not at all; It may be on | the strains of the waltz may be and discordant, her partner may be ay figure, but she will be tis ail she wants, simply ne would whirl around with | with a chair to the strains Pp rather than sit etilf. It ts ong duration, this age; it passes and life's first happy illusions go} jerky ut an animated dancing, and the motion. @uother girl or of a Jew not of quickly with tt. An Awkard Partner. Then comes the second phase, it ts one step, onward, to disenchantmert. Her part- mer must be good; the first time that a girl's heart sinks at the sight of a man whom she knows has a faculty of treading on her satin-stod toes, and getting out of step, and who is coming toward her with | evident designs upon her card, for the first time she says hesitat but With a courage born of des “Oh, Mr. Smith, I am so tired and hot; let's sit this out on the stairs,” that time she may know marks her entrance upon the second age. She will sit it out on the stairs, and talk the gayest of nonsense to this supernumerary she will let him fan her and will casi bright and dangerous | glances over the waving bit of gauze, but im spite of herself she will answer amiss | gome of his sweetest remarks, will even not | hear them pertaps, and her foot wii tap im time to the music, her eyes will stray wistfully to the scene In the ball room and ghe will watch the smoothly gliding couples longingly. She wishes that Jack or Tom er Dick had had this number with her, she @on't care which, one is as good as an- hen the thought comes over ner | ps it were wisest to dance this after all. I am rested now, Mr. Smith, thanks to fanning—you do fan so well—and this ‘waltz makes my feet ache.” So it does, and they start off; but the poor irl finds that if the mi ade her feet che, Mr Smith's girations make them sting, ruffle her temper and pull down her hair. The next time will be wiser and know that it is not better to have waltzed | amiss than never to have waltzed at all. The next time Mr. Smith or another like him looms upon the horizon her mind will be mad he will sit it out valiantly, even if 3 long to have the “dear char: and other ene in his place. | This goes on for a time, then she does not semark enthuslasticaily that the floor is | Just splendid. She comes, Tealiza suddenly, to a on of the fact that all floors are not splendid, that some are simply wretched. It never dawned on_her before that such | might be the case. Till now, they have all | been the same, delightful to move over,@e- | gardless of whether she gilded, whether her feet stuck on lumps of wax or whether re spots entirely free from wax 2i of the Floor. the knowledge that the floors are not 3 the feeling that a bad floor | spoils a good partner, she gets Irritated | she cannot slide as cn ice, and yet it must Fot be too slippery. She becomes critical, then over-eritical, then she stops some evening in the m with ill- t of a whirl and says, ust, that there is no long over such boards, | v with look h takes all the sting out of her words. $ the floor is bad it makes no = with whom she dances, It will be s she sits out a few more the proud consciousness that 3 she wants to, and then er to mamma and an- nts to go home, “for ure in this sort looks surprised, but i s will, and the maiden to the carrlage railing against fate her She is getting en no ples 1a goes that must thus spoi 1 on, she is in the third age. ‘Then in the fourth age of woman the/| eh tions of certain m 1'with only the composi- | clans, but in the first stages she merely requires what is played | to te well played, to be dreamy in plages, | Bo that ; doze lazily on her partner's arm, Tulle tfalness of earth by the movement end the hum of well at certain bars, , till one feels | . The music 'y to her com- he can put with a ot even a poor partner, ff the Voices; and it must strains, CESS; or bad floor perhs | the music Is very, very good, because the | Veriest s Ik must be moved to better danc- | ing the n that thrills each vein. | Bhe forgets that there are those who have | go little of that divire gift In their souls | that they can get out of time and tune to | sad experience teaches her nd then it is that she has en- the fifth By this time she ular. ne is apt to look were conferring a great | ne of her dances. Her | nk and waite, her smile E r loughter may sound as ag always sounded, but down in the | depths of her eyes, which are oftener shad- | ei by drocping lids than of yore, deep in hase ey may surprise now and then nee of disenchantment or any waltz. " Disiltusion Comes. She has found out that life is not made still | to indulge be favorable, else | sed to be a pleas- fc must be perfect, her a good da but a man/ must be a8 smooth as r too little nor too much | hout the combination of all | hese things she will net dance. Yet do| hot imagine that she cares less for the whirl of giddy steps. It Je not that.but that ure. part: she li! glass a wane | she ts profourdiy j the useless, happy past it brings up; when | tention to the fact, visible to ev intelli- gent observer, that it was coming to be a general custom among saloon keepers | tan; a larger number of red brick houses | are a few green houses, indeed, in the {tal- | blue house since the Armenians and Rou- | in general use. | houses | of days, she is Incapable F Ways asked for it in a wery 'spectful and and, so fur, she | opligin’ manner. If they didn’t give it to he could; with al- | me I took it, for fear I should be iead to do | brings wrinkies and t she cares for {t as aa accomplished artist, no longer a¢ an amateur. Still her Reart beats wildly at the mere thought of a dance, but now it fs at the thought of a perfect dance, in fact, an imperfect one no longer enters her head, she has ceased to consider the possibility’ thereof. And then, in phase six, she does not al- low upon her program the names of men » do not please her as conver he Says quite openly that she wou it a dance o ves of the mu do not ache now, but he 4 knowledged w in moves her to brig to powe! in passionat houghts are expres is or she y y what she mea rds wail low and soft, her vith half-clo: 3 pparent p) says which are tenderest, or waits with nce for them to be said to her. They he allows it, for where men’ find her clever woman, a woman of the world, good to talk to, and, better yet, a good Ils- tener. She will “sit it out and look in al- most wonder, certainly pity, at the gay young people in the first ages. She is sorry for them, for she knows that they, too,must come to the sixth stage, even as she has, and she knows what a lot they must find out before they do, how the bloom will be rubbed off life’s peach and how it will be brufsed and bitter in parts to the taste. he sees the debutante in her fleecy white, the girl a little older in butterfly glory of colors, and she knows that the light, bright colors cover light, bright hearts; then she looks at her own ‘perfect gown, as she sits in the dim conservatory or under electric lights, and realizes that its brilliant color- ings are absuraly unsuited to the temperd ment of the womani they clothe. She gives a little smiling sigh, none the less real for the smile, however, and as Dick bends over and asks if that sigh Is a token of surren- der she does not say “no,” for she has not determined herself, and she likes to keep him on pins and heedles. It ts about the only kind of pleasure she has now, and she knows that it fs all she {s fit for; her energies have all been directed to this from the cradle, and she ts to be pitied, not blamed. Then the Last Stage. The last and seventh is reached when bored at being asked to dance; when she would rather stay er li ner; when dancing music gotoa y ut Lome ever & good 8 bitter from the look of a polished floor reminds her how her best hours have glided away; when a to see Jack is to remember how he has her, to see Tom fs to remember has wre to be near Dick is that in him Hes a soul com- ely in her power, with which she m she will—a responsibility ske is afrafd to assume. When, at last, the woman who was once | = METHOD OF MAILING NEWSPAPERS: a mad, gay dancer down life's hall puts on with hatred and weariness a ball gown or pens on scented paper a 4 for al ball, at the end of e —that | is, of actual e ces; negative ones may follow, yet, which will refi e or give shape to the crade first ones, but the miles of the | | road have covered. She ean look back | and remember now the designs on the mile st anl in the light ef constantly com- ing eve can understand and see them better, But the pathway has been traveled. Crenm and White New York. From tie New York Sun. The Sun published about a month ago, in its news columns, an article calling at- (there are 7,000 saloons in New York) to paint white or cream color the bulldings in which they are located. On nearly every thoroughfare of New York, either on the east or west side of town, white or cream painted buildings are seen, and these are not all saloons, either. In the lower east side of town, a few years ago, the use of red brick, formerly uniform and indispensa- ble, began to give place to what is known among builders as cream-faced brick. The use of terra cotta, too, is general, especially in houses of finer quality, and mart%e, Previously eschewed on account of its di colorations under the influence of the cli- mate, is becoming popular, a more durabie quality of American marble being available for use. Marble buildings have an archi- tectural beauty which is difficult to re- produce in granite, long a favorite for important edifices of a semi-public char- acter in New York. Red brick buildings, It may also be said, are no longer being erected in this town. Many, indeed, are being tora down, to be rm placed with new buildings in white, cream, terra cotta, old gold, brown, gray, buff and are being painted in colors to correspond | with the new structures. Undoubtedly, too, the infusion of Italian, Hungarian, Greek and Russian elements into the New York population has served to | stimulate a tendency to bright colors in building, already” clearly marked. Dark and somber colors are typical of northern climes; light colors are suggestive and characteristic of southern countries. There jan quarters of town, and here and there a manians have made their appearance. New York hotels, theaters and public buildings are now usually of white or cream | color. New flat and apartment houses be- | ing constructed on either side of town are of the same material as the cheaper grade | of tenements, and from present appearances | red brick and brown-stone houses in York will soon become the exception. ill have, in our chief thoroughfare: | eam-and-white city where heretofore red | brick, brown stone and gray granite were | Will the change be an Improvement; is | the appearance of the streets of New York more attractive to the eye than it was? It) is a queStion. The color of the cheaper is garish and certainly not tasteful, but the increased variety and diversity of plan becomes the elty well. New York’s exceptionally fine geographi- cal position is favorable to its artistic d velopment in the fine science of house building. = Chinese Hospita From the New York Home Journal. “Very few people have any idea of the great hospitality of the Chinese,” said a Pittsburg celestial recently. ‘Chinamen coming to this country retain their tdeas of oriental hospitality, and always keep open doors for any of their race who may reed shelter. A Chinaman arriving in Pit burg without money would never want for a lodging and boarding place. He would simply go to the first Chinese laundry or residence, feeling assured that he would find a welcome there. If, after staying a couple he should learn that the circum- stances of his host were such that the lat- ter could not well afford to keep him, he would move away, making his home with another Chinaman, He would continue do- ing this, dividing himself up, so to speak, until he was able to get work and support himself. Of course, such wanderers usually endeavor to find the most wealthy China- men and become their guests. I have known some of the Jaundries in Pittsburg to have ten and twelve transtent visitors—you coul not call them boarders—to stay over night.” ——-+e Secret of Youth. Walter Besant has discovered the secret of perpetual youth. It fs one which must commend itself to all thoughtful minds No dieting, no expensive baths, no lotions, but this is what he says: “I read that Mme. Bernhardt has discov- ered, and has revealed, the secret of pro- ionged—I hope, perpetual—youth. The world has leng pined for this secret. According to the report, she says that the secret (a very, very simple thing) consists solely in getting at once whatever you want. Like a cer- tain friend of mine, Mme. Bernhardt pos- | esses a magte knob, the jinn of which, wher she rpress2s it, brings her whatever she asks fer. All we have to do, then, is to get such a magic knob. But—It really seems as if nothing in the world could be new— Sam Weller said much the same thing near- ly sixty years ago. ‘If ever,’ that great thinker observed, ‘I wanted anything I al- somethin’ Wrong threugh not havin’ it. The same thing, you see. Therefore, my dear ycung lady, since nothing would grieve your friends more than to see the decay of your beauty and the vanishing of your youth—pray—pray—whenever you want amy- thing, take it. Remember that grizzling t fretting spoils a complexion sooner than freckles. Help yo s the magic knob. Take whatever you want.. So you shall keep your you shall preserve your happi- | though recognized by the department offi- | invariably multiples of either two or three, issued less frequently. In this way the stamps running by twos and threes could be uullized for any weights. Under the law of 1879 the 3-cents-a-pound rate was re- | pealed, and with it the 3 and nt stamps were discontinued. In 1885, when the rate was reduced to the present charge of 1 NEW STAMP ISSUES Some of the Old Denominations Are -to Be Discarded. Some of the Results of Reduction in the Rates. THE COLUMBIAN a ISSUE Written for The Evening Sta OSTMASTER GEN- P= Bissell’s decision to completely revise the issue of newspa- per and periodical stamps, leaving only three of the old ones to remain in their present denomina- tions, will bring about the first change in these issues in the past twenty years, with the exception of the birth of the one-cent and the repeal of the three and nine-cent stamps, some years ag The dropping of many denominations and the substitution of new ones has seemed neces- sary ever since 1885, when secon1-class rates were reduced from two cents to one cent, but Uncle Sam has always hesitated to make an expensive change, until now, when he is his own stamp-maker. The time and worry saved the post office authorities in the large cities will, however, repay the government for this expense. ‘The present issue of these stamps in- cludes twenty-four denominations, tywenty- one of which are to be abolished. Ten new humbers are to be added, making the total number, after the change, only thirteen The third assistan€ postmaster seneral bas decided to retain the old. popular designs for the new series, as it happens that there will be just enovgh to go around. ‘The present arrangement includes, in the b) series, all of the lower denominations, viz: the 1, 4 4, 6, 8, and 10-cent sta the re only to ¢ dorned with the statue of ain, vig: America, 1, 2 and 10 of which This black serie: nette of ¢ - which is on f the dome of the Caj The p . engraved with of Justice, which is now vu denominations under $1, be cents and running in muitip! up to niy will probably one number, that for 5 cents other nine old stamps rep. denomination, and the new $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $90 and $100 i Just fit in their places on the new. plates. It has not been definitely decided what particular values will accompany the old figures, but it is generally conceded that the same order of importance tised now Will be observed. This order, beginning after the two low denominations described, is lows: One-dollar-and-ninety-two- re ignette of Ceres, Goddess of Agri- culture, deep brown; three-dollar—Goddes: of Viciory, holding a wreath, vermillion; | six-dollar—Clio, the Muse of History, with stylus and tablet, light. blue; nine-dollar— twelve-dollar--Vesta, the Goddess of the Fireside, rieh green; wwenty- four-dollar—Goddess of Peace, | leaning against a broken column and holding an olive branch, purplish slate; thirty-six-dol- lar--Commerce, holdin; one hand the | winged rod of Mercury and a small ship in the other, dull red; forty-eight-doilar—Hebe, Goddess of Youth, light brown, and sixty. dollar (considered the most beautiful stamp ever engraved in the world)—shows the vig- nette of an Indian maiden, robed from her waist downward, against a landscape back- | ground, with wigwams in the distance, the whole in rich purple. Thus it may be no- ticed by the inspector of these beautiful stamps that the most exquisite figures grace the higher denominations in order cf the artistic qualities of the work. The Newspaper Series. ‘The newspaper and periodical series, al- pitol, the figuré for the other with 1 cials as the most artistic engravines* de- signed by the government, are the only stamps which the public is forbidden handle. The office of the chief of stamp division in the Post Office De ment is the only place in the count one may gaze upon them, and special permission mi spect the large government stam which contain the only ss man who regularly recety: <papers and magazines through the mails notices that no stamps are used up and perchance may know that sp = | duced rates are offered ‘to pablishers, but | his knowledge is scant in regard to the in- | teresting method which Post Office Department uses in the Th ons, nner the amount p. as given the s so many pounds of paps to the ignorant of the m tal clerk designat ter sent, After he fo to Uncle nder a recelpt | the man be. hind the window retires to the privacy of his office, and affixe a slip of pape number of huge stamps, representing amount of money recefved. The stamps must be canceled as soon as the glue has adhered, ard must be sent direct to the | Post Office Departic where they are immediately crema a commities ap- pointed especially to disp: hem into ob- livion, It will be noticed that the old issues of these stamps had face values, which were and generally both. The reason for this is that at first the rate was fixed at 2 cents a pound upon weekly or more frequent pubileations, and 3 cents a pound on those cent, the l-cent stamp was inaugurated and the 3-cent one brought cut again. The cent stamp, however, has never been con- tinued. The new series, beginning with 1 and 2 cents, and running in multiples of five to $100, leaves out all unnecessary val- ues. According to the old series the post office clerks have such a broad field of se- lection, when they desire to attach stamps to thelr memoranda, that they waste much time deciding upon the most artistic com- hinations, while the postmaster who han- dies the stamps for the first time always gets In a mix. The $1 stamp is a good example of the unnecessary denominations, which have only been repealed at this late day. Entered as Second-Class Matter, The method of mailing newspapers and periodicals 's interesting from this very fact that few people outside the post offices and publishing houses know anything at ail about it. In the first place, the publisher must have a legitimate list of subscribers before he has the privilege of sending his matter under second-class rates. The first step is to enter their publication on a special form, which must be sent to the Post Office Department and filed before any reduced rates are allow This accounts for the familiar words “Entered at the post office at so-and-so as second-class matter,” which is to be seen on every paper and periodical in the country. If the character of the pub- Meation 4s doubtful the postmaster has the authority to demand the deposit of thir class rates until he has thoroughly invest!- gated the character of the matter. In the weighing of second-class matter Uncle Sam gives very poor measure, charging a full pound on any fraction over--for instance, four pounds and a half ounce would be counted as five pounds. One who attempts to evade the regulations will find second- | class matter to be the poorest field in which he works, since all postmasters and their assistants have the authority to investigate any publications which seem suspicious. After this investigation the matter is: sealed again without the knowledge or consent of the sender. Now, in regard to the stamps. The papers or magazines are each wrapped and ad- dressed and go through the mails without even a cancellation. According to the act of 1875 the Postmaster General has the privi- lege of either attaching tee stamps to the sack which containg tho bul* of the matter or to a memorandum accompanying ff, As before described, the latter method is adopted, which choi¢e was indeed a happy thought, since any amount of trouble would be occasioned by the aflixing of stamps to all the numerous bundles of matter brought into the post office of one of our large cities after the newspapers havé been printed. In the smaller offices the postmaster attaches the stamps to the stubs of the receipts given to the publishér and sends them in to the department quarterly. This goes in with the regular quarterly report, which each postmaster is required to furnish the department. For the larger offices, however, a labor-saving system has been inaugurated, but it was not accomplished until Uncie Sam deducted from the quality of the paper and the covers of the books to make up for the extravagance of the new luxury. Ac- cording to this system each number on a receipt has a duplicate underneath. Car- boniaed paper is laid between the pages, so that when the busy postal clerk is filling out a receipt for the sender he at the same time makes his memorandum to be after- ward stamped and sent to the department and another to be kept on file in his own oifice. In this way he is saved the un- necessary trouble of copying the receipt on the stub and of afterward entering up his accounts in a separate book. In New York, Where the second-class mail service is the busiest in the world, the clerks are allowed to place all the stamps for the same publi- cation on one page, rather than make out a different memorandum for each bundle of matter, Some Hig Stamps. The cnormity of New York’ publication business can only be realized by looking at the books, which show that city to have handed over $144,610 to the department for newspaper and periodical stamps sold during the first quarter of this Year. During the Whole of the last reported fiscal year New York sent out 0,914,149 pounds, equal to one-fourth of all the newspapers and periodicals matied in the United States. Chicago came next, with 34,077,001 pounds while the other cities at the top of the lis were Beston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Ci einnati, San Frarcisco, Milwaukee, Detroit, Washington, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Pitts ul, Cleveland, Kansas City, ete, These stamps, although the ‘largest, as well a ing 15-1 the handsomest now published, be- by 13-8 inches in dimensions, are rly so large as the first newspaper odical stamps issued. These were t 2 by 23-4 inches in dimensions, being Tgest single stamps ever issed for in the United The first . in Great Britain, however, in 1840, covered the whole envelope, leaving only pace for an addre: he stamp was the of the envelope. nt newspaper and periodical mps of ours were issued first in i865, | ing the war of the rebellion. These were in three denominations—-five, ten and twenty-five cents. The five-cent issue, was blue, adorned with the pro ton in the center. In ¢ of the corners was the figure with “UU. § Postage” forming an arch underneath. At each side of the portrait was the I numerai “V,"" and beneath it “Five Ci At the bottom appeared “Newspapers Periodicals.” The ten-cent stamp similar in design, printed in green, with the head of Frankl The twenty-five-cent mp was also very much the same, with 1€ profile of Lincoln In red. . These, on ac- count of their bulk, were soon repealed, giving away dircetly to the present system They lasted cnly four years. They were {n- led to be purchased by publishers, that might mail their pubiications where in money could not be made, and e could not be collected at des- le of Washii was Effect of Low Rates. In 1851, four years after the stamp act went into effect, Congress made the first curtailment in the postage rates charge] on hewspapers sent to regular subscribers and on printed matter. ‘The year previous to this five cents was the lowest face value printed cn any stamp, so the limited num- Ler of papers published In these times, for out-of-town circulation, may be attributed to this enormous expense of mailing. No special stamps were used in the early days of this law, When the rates were so irregu- lar that no recordgwas kept in the d ment, showing théfr worth, until 1s le of newspaper and periodical stan year brought in about four tim amount of those Issued in 1873, which sh a remarkable development tion business, considering the constant re- ductions which ve been made in the postal rates. This year will bring in about three times as much money as received from the sale of newspaper and periodical amps in 1886, the ti rates, and the probability is that when we reach the end of the de pound rates we will have come up two more fell In the early day and periodical stamps a few speci into the hands of the philatelist before the laws governing the so binding as they are at present. quence of th 1 outlet into the m thes the collectors, ens Kot This was ue became In conse- ket stamps are the rarest in the hands of and a full sct is worth a small fortun: ruiator. The old large stamp. : uithough they were sold at large v they were in vogue offi Department stamp albums of ce are worth many thou- sands of dollars, There are two—one taining the ordinary s and another devoted exclusive Columbian series, the latter's pages being with large sheets, untorn, just as the me from the press. The value of the old albuin | estimated at $100,000 1 the chief of the stamp diyisi 1 at se to the govern- ment, has un as late as IS74, during ation of Postmaste ditticulty was ex- nf the old ob- to this day r obtained some of the fi everal of the oldest specimens re: uncanceic that no numbe} st among many classes which w almost as soon as {s- ued. The $1 Columbian stamp is the only one of that series which Is entirely ex. hausted. It cannot be obtained -anywhere for less than All of the other den tions are rapidly decreasing, however in consequence mone the phil sts are making Stamps Not Countertecited. It is a fact not generally remembered that the present Columbian stamps are not the first ever issued in the United States. in 1869 there was issued a ont stamp bear- ing the engraving after the painting by Vanderlyn in the tunda of the Capitol, the same vignette used on the new t Columbian stamp. old one was much handsomer then th one, the tinish being much more delicate. The picture is Prussian blue and the scroli work and lettering is light brown, like its younger brother. ‘The old Columbian stamp is one of the rarest and most expensive in the market, having been greatly boomed by the present issue. It forms an appropria addition to the proud set of world’s fair souvenir stamps. Mr. Munce Says there is practi counterfelting in stamps at the present day, the work of duplicating the engravings being much too ponderous, ‘The high denomina- tlons are so unpopular that the counter- feiter could not rid himself readily of his ware unless he brought it direct to the ex- perts at headquarters for redemption. ‘The greatest number of counterfeit cases have appeared among the dealors in obsolete is- sues, but this does not troubie Uncle Sam. ‘rhe mest striking figures i rd to the rapid advancement in our postal system a comparison of some of the given at the large cities asking for s during the first quarter of 1817, w ly no first used, compared with the number fur nished for the last quartér of the present ition year. New York's first quarter!: called for $5,000 worth of s $100; Boston, requ’ Chi . 5 je last recorded quarter of the present year we have: New York, $1,827,668; Chic 111,882; Boston, $¢ M; Philadeiph 650; Washington, $37,244; Baltimore, Pittsburg, $155,465, and Louisville, $96, J. EB. W., Ir. 989. soe The Bishop Took the From an Exchange. The late Bishop Selwyn delighted to tell the following racy incident in his varied expcrience. While bishop of Lichfield he wis walking one day in the Black Country, ard observing a group of collicrs seated by the rcadside in a sezui-eirele, with a brass kettle in front ot thom. he had the curiosity to irquire what w: on. “Wh: jad a grave-looking memty 1p, “it’s a sort of wager. Yon kettle is a prize for the fellow whi tell the biggest Iie, and I am the umpire.” Amazed snd shocked, the good _ bishop said, teprovingly: “Why, my friends, I have rever told a lie that I know of since 1 was born.” There was a dead silence, only broken by the voice of the umpire, who said, in a de liberate tone: “Gie the bishop the kettle,’ Prize. in the publica- | st year of the reduced | of one-cent-a- | s of the small newspaper | the Post | filled | Uncle | [A MODEL SYSTEM How Toronto Solved Street Railway and Telephone Problems. ‘LOWER RATES AND BEPTER SERVICE The Profits Go to the City Instead of the Corporations. A SHINING EXAMPLE aoe eens one From the Review of Reviews. The street railway system cf Toronto has been reconstructed and transformed, elec- tricity having superseded the horse. Satis- factory as is the service rendered by the street railway company, the terms upon which it holds its franchises are still more satisfactory from the public point of view. The original charter of the Toronto street railways was granted in 1861. The thirty- year period terminated in 1891, and the municipality instead of renewing the fran- chise exercised its alternative right to pur- ckase the property of the retiring company. The purchase price was determined by ar- bitration, the sum falling a little short of $1,500,000. The city thus became possessor of tracks, cars, horses, stables and every- thing which had been used by the street railway company in the carrying on of its business. The municipality, however, had no intention to operate the local transit system on its own account. It merely wished to be in the best possible position to grant a new franchise upon terms that would se- cure the largest benefits to the municipal corporation itself and to the citizens of Toronto. Accordingly, the council, before attempt- ing to dispoze of its investment, carefully determined the conditions of sale. ‘Thus it was decided that ihe purchaser of the new franchise shovld, first, pay the amount | awarded by the arbitrators to the retiring company. The purchaser would be expected } to replace horses with electric power and to | lay additional lines wherever and whenever the ccuncil might direct under the super- | vision of the city’s engineer. The purchaser would be required to pay inio the city | treasury $800 a year for every mile of single track (31,000 per mile for double track), be- jes a percentage upon gross receipts, ‘The enure supervision of the system from ev point of view was reserved to the city’ | engineer, acting under direction of the council. ‘Thus the city authorities expressly | reserve] the right to determ e the speed and service necessary on each line or part of the system, besides, as already said, as- Serting the full right to order the exten- sion of the system in any direction. It was determined that while single cash | should be five cents each, tickets should be sold at twenty-five for a dollar, or six for | twenty-five cents, and that tickets for use | on morning and evening cars, intended es. pecially for people going to and from work, should be sold at the rate of eight for | twenty-five cents, and should be valid for , use between 5:30 and 8 o'clock In the morn- | | ing, and between 5 and 6:30 o'clock p.m. Furthermore, it was stipulated that school children’s tickets, gcod for use between $ o'clock in the morning and 5 in the evening, should be sold at the low price of ten for twenty-five cents. All fares were to be go0d for a ride from any point on the street rail- tem to any other point, thus requir- | way sy | ing a comprehensive system ‘of transfers. | Further specifications were adopted touch- | ing the general character and { the duties of conductors and | cperation in the streets. It was particularly | Specified that cars were not to be over- crowded, and that a “comfortable” number of passengers for each class of cars should be determined by the city engineer and ap- | proved by the city counen. As io workinen employed by the compaay, it was determin- @1 that no man should be required to worit in the service of the street railway for a longer perind than ten hours per day, of | than sixty hours per week, or on more th. | six days per week, and that no adult em- ploye in the service cf the company should | ever be paid less than ‘ifteen cents an hou j2 of cars, he mode of | Terms of the Street Railway Fra: ne. The advantaze of metho] employed by the Toronto authorities was obv'ous. In- stead of gaining all thes2 points by a pro- cess of haggling «nl bargaining with some particular company, the city first -xequired abselutely everything t pertained to the | street railway system, and then calmly ar- | ranged the conditions under whica it would be disposed to ent posed pure! : ed its posi: Ontario hk slature ate the street raila count if it should strenafhen- from the am. oa its ewn ac- >. Now, the of ihe United States on me hand, and the average American in on the other, would dee be found for a = i about by us see What success ing its franchise. ser could never franch) ‘ori The iring com- | rew franchise were made publ | In June the terms of a sale were practi: | agreed upon, end on September 1 the ally completed and greed to all the conditions rvations required by the corpors tion, They assumed the city’s place in com- pensating the retiring street railway com- y agieed to ay $800 per annum » of single track, or $1,000 per mile leuble track, to the municipal treasury; they further agreed to pay percentages of their gross receipts from all sources what- scever, as follows | | | | 1 | On all gross receipts up to $1,000,000 per nnum, 8 per cent. Retween $1,000,000 and $1,500,000 per an- . 10 per «K),000 and $2,000,000 per an- num, 15 per cent, | On all gross receipts over $?,000,000 per ; | annum, 20 per cent. They bound themselves further, should a f the city ny time release them from the uirement of issuing eight tickets for | ty-five cents for use at certain hours | of the morning and evening, to pay 2 per cent of the gross receipts in addition to the percentages above named. These percent- ge payments were to be made monthly, ty’s officlals were to have the ight of inspecting the books and ac- of the purchasers An Example for the United States. This contract is the most complete and | fullest counts ever been grapted in America. form a model for the cities of the United States. The strect railway companies of this country can afford quite as well as that of Toronto to make just such returns to the public for their privileges. Already the Toronto street railway fs a source of very considerable revenue to the city treas- ury, and the rapid development of the sys- tem, both as to its mileage and also as to the volume of its business, is constantly in- creasing the municipal revenue from that source. But the advantage (o the public dees not accrue alone from the share of re- | ceipts that goes into the city treasury, The | three-cent workingmen’s tickets, the two- | ard-a-half cent school children’s tickets, and the four-cent ticket for general and un- Imited use, constitute in the aggererate an enormdus concession to the public. The transfer system, moreover, is a strong point. The protection of the employed men against longer hours than ten per day and sixty per week, and against lower wages than fifteen cents per hour, secures practical immunity from strikes and dissensions, and must be considered an excellent example. To dwel- lors ia most of our American cities the pro. visio against the overcrowding of car: znd the authority of the council to require for every portion of the system a fully ade- quate service, will seem not the least in- teresting and important features of the ‘Toronto system. At the termination of the charter the elty will have the privilege of purchasing at actual value, to be deter- mired by arbitration, everythirg that is es- sential to the cperation of the system. The city engineer has authority to prescribe the ctaracter of the rails and materials used by the company, ard in all matters that affect paving and ‘the use of (he streets the city retains full certrol and has made condi- | tions that are altogether favorable to the ublig. ip Siscussing this Toronte street railway It ought to | { | | | | fares | ion to cper- | satisfactory municipal franchise that has,| = 13 2A NEW MA a N OF HIM, What Paine’s Celery Compound Did for nd mn aud Women whose store of strength nervous energy has fallen eo low that it bs Keeps them through the day should fll their now with fresh blood full of red corpuscles, and store the million tiny merve cella with energy by | means of Paine’s celery compound, while it is summer and the sun shines, There are now few drafts upon the strength of the body; mo winter colds to resist, nor spring | languor to drag one back. It ts amazing bow | | mapidly ft ts now possible to lay up nerve force | | and vigor, over and above the daily expenditure. Those who suffer from kidney troubles, liver or | stomach weaknesses, and rheumatism find no | | time so sufted as the present to overcoming these | | diseases by giving these overworked, poorly fea | organs blood that fs rich and pure in quality, and sure to invigorate. | This is what Paine’s celery compound ts doing | all over the country while it is summer and while | every one feels that now is the time to get well. ‘That most remarkable blood and nerve remedy Sheriff Sinnott, of this country Paine’s celery compound make) new, vigorous red blood; removes disease from organs by richly feeding worn out nerve tissues all over the bods and butlding up the strength of the body that is why it makes people £0 quickly well Prof. Edward EB. Phelps, M.D., LL.D. of Darte mouth College, first prepared Paine’s celery com pound. It has met the- hearty approval of phy- sicjans ad scientific men all over the world. It makes people well. Says Deputy Sheriff Jobn Sinnott of Whitehall, Y., whose portrait is given above: “In wy opinion, Paine's celery compound ts the pest remedy in the world. I bare been troubled with inflammatory rheumatism some 12 years, Sometimes crippled for three months at a time, A friend told me to try Paine's celery compound, and I am now on my 12th bottle, it bas made & Dew man of me. I heartily recommend it to every one troubled with rheumatism.” It makes people well. X. franchise, too much stress cannot be laid | upon the fact that these numerous condi- tions were not imposed upon any existing ccpany, but that they were made an in- tegral part of an exclusive franchise that was put up for sale to the bidder who should, besides agreeing to the absolute re- quirements set forth in the city’s spectfica- tions, offer the highest percentoge of gross receipts. The syndicate of purchasers was made up of capitelists from both sides of | the boundary line, some of them being officials of street railway companies in the United States and thoroughly ex- | perierced. They knew what they could af- ferd to give, and nade the purchase as @ profitable investment. The operation of street railways in Toronto is not a whit more profitable than in a large number of cities great and small in the United States, | any one of which is entjtled to terms quite as favorable as those that the business-like mayor and council of Toronto have secured for their municipalt! No Sw jay Cars. The Toronto railway compary, indeed, ts in one respect at a serious disadvantage. | No Sunday cars are permitted to run, and | thus there is a tctel stoppage of business for fifty-two days in every year. The use of a local transit plant for only 313 days | 1estead of 365 days means a very serious | difference in the annual volume of business and in the amount of net profits. The Tor- | onto company, however, made its bid upon | the basis of six days’ operation, and a strict | erforcement of the laws against Sunday | cars. Permission to operate the street rail- way sysiem on Sunday would require a ma- | jority vote of the citizens of Toronto. At | present there is no question whatever as to the overwhelming sentiment against this in- | novation. | How Toronto Meets Telephone Mo- nepoly. Less important than the Toronto street | railway franchise, but ‘aly less signifi- cant for the principles involved, ts the fran- . | chise under which the municipal authorities permit the Bell Telephone Company -to do business. The existing agreement was made in September, 1891,for a period of five years. The Bell Telephone Company was permitted to operate in Tcronto en condition that citi- zens should pay no higher price than $25 a year for a telephone in a dweiling house, $15 being the maximum price for an instru- ment in a business house. Strict require- ments to underground wires in the cen- tral parts of the city were made, and in a variety of ways thet need not be specified the cicy retained authority and control over the situation. Finally, the Bell Telephone Company agreed to pay to the city treasury 5 per cent of Its gross receipts, promising also to maintain the most efficient possible service with the latest and best instruments and methods. In the city of New York the rate is $240 per year for a telephone in a business office, and $180 for a private house —every precaution being used to compel the casual user of a telephone to patronize a pay station at ihe rate of fifteen cents for tive minutes. New York ts an extremely ccimpact city, and the average telephone wire is short. 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