Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1895, Page 14

14 ON HIS WAY NORTH After a Winter in the South the Tramp Departs. HE HAS AN ABUNDANCE OF LEISURE A Greater Number Than Usual Here This Winter. THEY ARE NOT POPULAR ——— ORTHWARD THE course of the tramp army wends its way and soon the tran- sient guests of the national capital will become scarce, and the people will then have only their own poor to care for and support. The tramps, and there are many of them, never fail to Yollow the northward flight of the flocks 6f geese in the spring, and southward flight in the fall. Just at this season the weary wanderers who reach here are not at all anxious to remain a few weeks as they were only a short while ago, when the severe winter weather made walking ex- tremely difficult, sleeping in box cars and sheds exceedingly dangerous. Then they eré glad enough to remain here and be sheltered and fed, and some of them were even willing to do some hard manual labor for what was given them. There were many of the “never-toilers,"”” however, who, even under the most distressing circum- stances, would not work, but would rather take their chances on the road in the deep snow and cold winds. In the words of one of their number, who was hauled up before the court, “The Lord made something for every mouth.” This fellow expressed the sentiments of almost every memt of the large army of rag- covered citizens who belong nowhere and By the Way. who imagine they have the rights of the citizens of everywhere. They certainly en- deavor to exerci: the rights wherever they go, and this is one reason why the ‘y guest is wanted nowhcre. winter the tramps swarmed here by the hundreds, and it is said that as many as 600 of them were in the city at a time. This was probably because of the fact that they were better cared for here than they were at most other places, and as some of the tramps have said it is a resting place for them while journeying from one section to another, and if they get arrested and sent down for a few days— well, that is not the worst thing that might happen to them, and they are satisfied. During the past season the workhouse proved to be a popular place for many of. them. Some of them had been without food for hours or days, and a tin cup of the “shadow” soup, with plenty of corn bread, some meat and vegetables, was to them what a course dinner at Delmonico’s would be to the average person in fair circum- A Hand-Out. stances. It was food they wanted, and the fact that their bread was not ‘buttered and there was no hereafter in the form of pie or pudding had no effect whatever on their appetites. Hundreds of the thousands of visitors did not ch the farm, and few of them were fortunate enough, as the lawbreakers term it, to reach ‘the jail, where no manual labor is required, and srved in the rooms designated by the But now the winter is over, and the char- itable institutions are no longer annoyed by these knights of the road, and the lodging houses are not besieged by them. The po- lice stations no longer furnish sleeping places for those who have tramped over the pike or counted the railroad ties from Much Needed Rest. There was a time when for the wanderers limited to the police sta- John Whitefo' here, modatil all the other” W ever, Mission” at 2d and I street This latter place was about the most popular resort Washington ever had for iramps, and the man who conducted it died in t to t friend. know hary » hundreds His death was a sad loss ef men whom he had be- r’’ Whiteford, as he was called, to the tramp in and he was alw they put thei lius of uired to do p expected to , or listen to Ss exercises sion was supported chiefly by per- sons who were poor, but who ¢ food. left from coffee collected antities. In THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. this way the mission was conducted sev- eral years, until death claimed its father, and then ‘the doors of the little building were closed. And now, because of the end of the win- ter season, ¢he doors of sbme of the local institutions are closed, the army is moving northward, and the soldiers who come do not want to remain long. Then, too, the weather is pleasant enough for them to sleep in the woods, except during wet weather, and then they can manage to get A Spring Blossom. a night's lodging in a box car, stable or barn, while in area-ways and beneath door steps some of them And resting places. They no longer go to the warm sand house on the railroad at Trinidad, or build fires on vacant lots and in the woods to keep off the frost. Nor do they surrender to the police and ask to be sent down to re- cuperate. z All of them are willing, after getting something to eat, to make a start out of town, and take the chances of getting a place to sleep, where they will feel safe from the hands of the police, if not from snakes and insects in the woods. The po- lice are not making many arrests, because the tramps are more careful to keep out of their way now than they are in the cold weather, when they do not mind being ezged for a few days, The warm places to which they resorted in the winter are now deserted, and those who are arrested are gererally found in out-of-the-way places and about the railroad tracks, where they await a chance to jump on freight cars, as walking becomes monotonous even to the tramps. ‘Those arrested find their way into the Police Court, and Judge Kimball, who fails to see why the District should be com- pelled to support them, has endeavored to dispose of their cases in a manner caley lated to make them remember their visit. Many who were anxious last winter to go down for a few days were released, while, on the other hand, some who wanted to get out, and expressed a desire to resume their journey, were detained. This week several of these unwelcome guests have found their way to the Police Court, and in each instance some good talking was done to gain liberty. But the talking, in several instances, did not avail anything, and the men who were anxious to get out, in order that they might get away before the hot weather sets in, were sent down. Others were released upon a promise to leave. There was one batch of tramps brought m from the Anacostia freight yard, where they were waiting to get on a northbound freight, and they had differeny stories to tell. When the judge had listeMed to them he separated them by sending some of their number down. The others were asked how long it would take them to get out of town, and one of them said twenty minutes. “I will leave in ten minutes,” said an- other. “Then, your honor,” added the first man, “T'll get out in fiv guess not,” said the judge, “but I'll try you this time, and if you are caught here and brought back I'll give you a good long term.” ‘They never came back. —_—.—__ TO SLEEP WELL. Correct and Incorrect Way of Indulg- ing in Slumber. From the Philadelphia Times. Positively life is getting too complicated. A woman specialist has arisen who calls upon us to take lessons in sleeping. beauty sleep, she declares, is a delusion and a snare. The woman who goes to bed early expecting to get up rejuvenated is quite likely to add ten years to her age in the night by sleeping herself into a full set of wrinkles, We spend,” goes on this doctrinaire, “eight hours of the twenty-four in bed. and in that time postures are assumed that work injury not only to a woman's health, but to her possible good looks. One girl had no chest. I watched her day after day to find out the cause, but was completely baffled until I saw her while asleep. Sh shrugged her shoulders forward so far t it’s a wonder the lungs were not sjueezod flat. “The up-to-date girl who wants to rise from sleep rested and with her face cast in the lines of beauty should sleep on a nar- row bed, so there will be no room for her to distort her limbs by throwing them into grotesque positions. On this bed there should be a good mattress and one small, rather hard pillow. The bed clothing should be of light weight, but warm, and the room well ventilated and comfortably cool. “On this couch the would-be beauty should ife flat on her back, arms and legs straight. ‘To make a change from the back she should learn to sleep first on one side and then on the other. ‘Oh, I always sleep on the left side,’ or ‘I can’t sleep except on my right side,” are remarks continually | heard among women. The dressmakers for such sleepers find that padding is needed on one side, and that in the side ‘I always sleep on.” “Some people when asleep screw their faces into most grotesque shapes and thereby instead of getting beauty sleep add a wrinkle or two every week or deepen those already carved. This applies par- ticularly to those creases about the eyes. Perhaps you are young, but hints of wrin- kles suddenly appear, apparently without any cause. Find out if you do not squeeze your eyes tightly together when going to sleep, as a child does when it makes believe to sleep. Many women draw the corners of their mouths down, and so produce furrows from the nose to the corner of the mouth and down the side of the chin. “To get beauty sleep go to bed thinking of the pleasantest things that will befall you. In the sleep beautiful the eyelids rest lightly over the eyes as if a flattering breeze sweeping across the face would blow them. wide open. The lips should meet easily, the mouth should never be open and on the sleeper’s face should rest an expression as if absolute contentm possessed mind and body.” —— CLEVELAND AS A BOY. His Brother Says the President Was Not Fond of Study Interview with Rey. Mr. Cleveland in N. Y. Heyala. I asked Mr. Cleveland whether or not the family had alway sidered Grover to be the one son destined to eminent success in life. He laughed and assured me that the President had not be tinguished in the family circle during his early years. Indeed, without a touch of self-c iousness and very naively, he told me that his father had always said the Lrightest boy should be sent to college, and the clergyman was the boy who was sn pre-eminently dis- Df all the sons,”" he added, “I had the of literary taste and was particularly fond of books and On the other hand, Grover was in e fond of learning after my fashiom, but he had the faculty of administration. And that faculty is a power by itself. As a boy he had, too, a strong sensi nal right and dignity. When his cc Viction dictated a certain course of action he would pu: at course and no other motives were 5! nt to divert him. He m 1 him, ch a way that he s cured attention and admiration of a solid sort. More than that, when he won esteem no Wi of ci ined it nd when he achieved a isfuctory position he preserved it. We who knew him best In his youth did not understand the fuli si ificance of ch haracteristics. We did not consider him as one born to gain fame. Now, looking back and reviewing his life as I know it, I can see in him those elements which have je him what he is. sa boy he le for those me traits of h give him dignity and worth —+0+_ pectation, ‘om Puck. Deacon Hae port from e’s a glowing re- in this here paper. Hap. Do soon be al with our chui mortgage A NOTABLE CAREER The Retirement of General Casey by Operation of Law. HIS LONG AND VALUABLE SERVICES He Has Done Much to Improve This City. A TRUSTED OFFICIAL Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Casey, -chief of engineers, U. 8. A., will celebrate his sixty- fourth birthday next Friday, and simply because of that fact he will then be rele: gated to the retired list of the army. Such is the law of the land. The retirement of Gen. Casey is an event of general interest to the county at large, and of special Intesest to the people of the District of Columbia. He has had a brilliant and honorable career. Although ‘the scope of his public services has extended over the entire country, he will probably be best remembered for his record in the District of Columbia. For the past seven years he has had supervision over all the river ard harbor improvements in the United States, and also over the construction of fortifications for national defense. In these works he has been responsible for the proper dis- Gen. Casey. bursement of many millions of public funds, and his administration has been so faithful, capable and judicious that he gained the confidence of Congress to a de- gree probably never exceeded in the case of any other official in the history of the government. According to one of his brother officers, the appropriations commit- tees always accepted his judgment as to the needs of the public works under his charge, and made their appropriations ac- cordingly. They did this, he said, because Congress had learned that Gen. Casey's estimates were invariably correct, and be- cause his official promises were always faithfully executed, especially in the im- portant items of time and mouey. Gen. Casey comes of a military family of distincticn. He was practically born in the army, that interesting event having o. curred In Madiscn barracks, Sackett's Har- bor, N. ¥., on the 10th of May, 1831, while his father, Gen. Silas Casey, was stationed at that post. His father was retired as colonel of the fourth infantry, and brevet major general, July 8, 1868, and died in January, 18% The military career of Gen. T. L. Casey began in 18i8, when President Polk ap- pointed him a cadet-at-large at the West Point Academy. He was graduated four years later at the head of his class. Among his classmates were Maj. Gep. Slocum, Gen. D. S. Stanley, Brig. Gen. Haskell, Gen. C. R. Woods, Gen. A. McD. McCook, Gen. A. V. Kautz, Gen. Crook and Gen. J. F. Hawkins. Upon his graduation he was appointed brevet second lieutenant of the corps of engineers. He served at West Point the year he graduated, attached to the company of sappers, miners and pon- tooniers, and was then the assistant engi- neer in the construction of Fort Delaware and works of harbor and rive ments in Delaware river and b: s when he was detailed at the United States Miltary Academy as assistant instructor of practical engineering. He was then made principal assistant professor of en- gineering, which Aurust 21 1 He was pi position he occupied to »meted second Heutenant June i854, and first lieutenant December 1, 1856. Being ordered to the Pacifie coast in 1859, he was in command of a detach- ment of engineer troops in Washington territory, and in charge of the construc- tion of a wagon road from Vancouver to Cowlitz, Ore., and in selecting and sur- veying milita reservations on Puget sound from 1850 to 1861. During the War. He served during the civil war as en- gineer at Fort Monroe, Va., on the staff of Gen. Butler, commanding the Department of Virginia, from June 11 to August 5, 1861; as superintending engineer of the perma- nent defenses and field fortifications upon the coast of Maine, and on recruiting serv- ice for engineer troops; on special duty with North AUantic squadron during the first expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C., De- cember 8-2), 1864, and as member of spe- cial board of engineers for work at Wil- lett's Point, N. Y., from April 7 to June He was promoted captain of the corps of engineers August 6, 1861, and major Oc- tober 2, 1863, and’ brevetted Meutenant colonel’ and ‘colonel March 13, 1865, for “faithful and meritorious services during the rebellion.” Col. Casey was engaged in the construction of Forts Preble, Scammel, Knox and Popham from August, 1865, to February, 1866. He was then detailed as superintending engineer of construction of Forts Preble and Scammel, Portland har- bor, Maine, and “other important works, from March 1, 1867, to November 21, it when he was ordered to Washington a: assistent to the chief of engineers for duty in connection with fortifications. He 1 mained on this duty until February, 1 when he was detailed for duty in this city in charge of public buildings and grounds the Washington aqueduct and the con struction of the State, War and Navy De- partments building. Public Buildings and Grounds. It was at this time that he first became jated with public works of special in- to the people of this city. While in of public buildings and grounds he reorganized and extended system of improving the parks and_ reservations. The reclamation of the old White Lot south of the President's House must be placed to his credit. Up to the time he transformed it into a thing of beauty it was eight feet belo present surface, and wholly un- asi unimproved. It was also Gen y wh troduced the system of as- phalt walks in the parks, which have since heen of so much comfort and convenience to the people. There was, however, a gen- eral protest against these walks when the project was started. Gen. Casey also in- augurated the extensive use of decorative plants, which sre now the chief beauty of our parks. He has always taken a deep personal intgrest in the water supply sys- m of the District, and is personally iden- tified with several important improyements in the system. While in charge of the Washington aque- duct he made report to the § mittee on the District of Columb: me a e best. method of increa y of the District for benefit dents of Capitol Hill that an additioral main be laid trom the dis- tributing reservoir to the hill. This report ed August 28, 1879. Hi: an wa jected by the com ttee, and a plan mitted b; he engineer officers of th adopted in 1882 in its stea plan contemplated the construc- tunnel conduit and a reservoir ity. Major Lydecker was put in charge of the work. Owing to the di covery of fraudulent work after more thar million dellars had been expended, the nnel had to be abandoned. Subsequently, in 1889, Congress adopted. the plan of Gen. ¢ and appropriated 00) for its The plan called the ing of ight-inch main cution. forty for from the distributing reservoir. Its com- pletion did away with the cause of all com- plaints of lack of watet on Capitol Hill and other high parts @f’the city. The sup- ply became abundant: Before this main was laid water could not be obtained on the lower floors of houses'on Capitol Hill dur- ing the greater part of the day. - Although the use of cast iron mains was first sug- gested, the plan was hot/adopted until the tunnel-reservoir plan“had been tried and abandoned While in charge of the aqueduct Gen. Casey also introduced the system of re- ing the clearness ofthe water of the river by means of numbers, which sy: has been continued ever since. These fi ures are reported in The Star every day, and are of great benefit to fishermen, to whem they mean so much. The Washington Monument. Perhaps Gen. Casey's most important engineering work, however, was in placing a new and enlarged foundation beneath the Washington monument and carry! the shaft from a height of 150 feet to a height of 500 feet and crowning it with a pyra- midion 55 feet insheight in place of the flat terminal of the proposed original design. He was placed in charge of this work in 1si8 by the President of the United States and the joint commission for the com- pletion of the monument. ‘The corner ston2 of the monument was laid in 1848 and the work upon it progressed slowly until spension in 1856, en the shaf ched a height of feet. In 1! Con- on for a resumption of Its unfinished condition wa source of general regret, and Gen. Case took @ patriotic pride in the work of push- ing it to completion. : Ilis plan for the completion of the monu- ment contemplated, first, the digging away of the earth from around and beneath the outer portions of the old foundation and 1e- placing it with Portland cement concrete masonry; then, in removing a portion of the old masonry foundation itself from be- neath the walls of the shaft and substi- tuting therefor a continuous Portland ce- ment concrete enlargement extending cut over the new subfoundation, The weakness of the old foundation lay in the fact chat it was too shallow and covered an area of sround insuflicient to sustain the pressure of the completed work. ‘The strengthening consisted in the enlargement of the founda- tion by spreading it over a greater area and sinking ita greater depth into the earth. The work of excavating beneath the monument was commenced January 28, 1S79, and the new foundation was finished May 29, 1880, AS completed the new foundation covers two and a half times as much area and extends thirteen and a half feet deeper than the old one. Indeed, the bottom of the new work is only two feet above the level of high tides in the Potomac, while the water which permeates the eatth of the monument lot stands six inches above this bottom. The foundation now rests upon a bed of fine sand, some two feet in thickness, and this sand stratum rests upon a bed of bowlders and gravel. Bor- ings have been made in this gravel deposit for a depth of over eighteen feet without passing through it, and so uniform is the character of the material upon which the foundation rests that the settlements of the several corners of the shaft have dif. fered from each other by only the smallest subdivisions of the inch. The pressures on the earth beneath the foundation are nowhere greater than the experiences of years have shown this earth to be able to sustain, while the strength of. the masonry in the foundation itself is largely in ex- cess of the strains brought upon it. The stability of this base is assured against all natural causes except earthquakes or the washing out of the sand bed beneath the foundation. Having enlarged the foundation the ‘work upon the shaft was speedily com menced. The summer of 188) was mostly taken up in building an iron frame within the shaft, prepariRg the hoisting ma- chinery and collecting the granite and marble needed in ‘the ¢onstruction. The first_marble block Was set in the shaft on the 7th of August, 188, ‘and the last stone was placed at the level, 500, on the 9th of August, 1884, thus consuming four seasons in finishing the shaft. The topmost stone of the pyramidion was Set on the 6th of December, 1854, thus essentially completing the obelisk. 3 > State, War and Navy Departments. While engaged in this) work, Gen. Casey was also in chargé of the work of com- pleting the State, War and’ Navy Depart- ments building. He began this work in March, 1877, after the south wing had been completed’ and the walls of the east wing were up to the cornice.” Architect Mullett built the south wing and commenced the east wing. The work on the east wing up to the bottom of the roof was continued by Col. Babcock. Gen, Casey put on the roof of the east wing and built the north, we and center wings entire. The total 70: the building was $10,088,482, The sou east wings and approaches cost $¢ and the north and w proaches and the center other words, Gen. Casey did three-fourths of the work fer about $2,000,000 less than the other fourth had cost. It com- menced in 1871, and was completed and ready for occupancy throughout March 1, ISSS, In the summer of 1873 Gen. Casey vi Europe as a member of a board to make ed ccniracts for torpedo cables and to examir the systems of torpedo defense adopted b Great Britain, Germany, Austria au France. He was also a member of various Se an improved system the House of Represen s from 1877 to 1886. He superintended the erection of a monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, Va., in Is86, and also assisted in the work’ of marking Washington's birthplace at Wake- field, Va., and his headquarters at New- burgh, N. Y. He superintended the con- struction of the Army Medical Museum in tLis city from April, 1885, to October, 1883, and he had charge of the erection of the statue of Garfield at the foot of the Capi- tol. He served as a member of the light house board and had charge of several im- pertant engineering works in New York harbor. The River Improvement. Gen. Casey has also heen identified with the improvement of the Potomac river. In June, 1878, he made a report to the chief of engineers for the information of Con- gress in regard to the practicability of erecting a dike along the western edge of the Potomac flats, to improve the sanitary condition of the city. He said the dike was entirely practicable. After the great fire at the patent office in 1877 Gen. Casey was appointed by Presi- dent Hayes a member of a board to e: amine all the public buildings in the cil and determine the nature and extent of their security against fire. He was also a member of a board appointed under a: thority of an act of Congress of March, 1879, to superintend the fire-proof recon- struction of the patent office. In 1882 there were serious apprehensions as to the safe- ty of Winder’s building on 17th street, oc- cupied by the second auditor’s office, and Gen. Casey was president of the board tha examined the building and suggested mea: ures for its security. In October, ISS, he was placed by Con- gress in charge of the construction of the building for the library of Congress, w work is still in progress. appointed a member of (th Park commission, and in 1 aber of the comm! s in the District of Coluinbia. He rendered good service in beta capaci- promoted Heutenant colonel of gineets September 2, 1874; colonel, Mare 1884, and brigadier Beneral and chief of engineers, July/6, IS8: Since that tune he has been stationed im Washington, at the head of his bureau.’ He lias been a member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati sinee 1882, of the nal Academy of Sciences since 159), cer” of the Legion of Honor of France sit:ce January, 1890. A Deserved Tribute. He received this last diploma by decree of President Carnet, and Congress author- ized him to accept it. When the question was before the House of Representatives, . Rockwel, from the committee on for- submitted a report as fol- of the Unit nd favorably Spe on account of his brilliant to this government in successfully con- struc any of our most important pub- lie w he French government, in pur- i 1 policy of recognizing in 1 that contribu Ifare of ‘the human race—among not only Frenchmen, but _foreigne: ribed his name in the Legion of Honor and the diploma of the order was bestowed upon him. But he is an officer in our army and he cannot law- fully accept it. The resolution permits him to receive this recognition by a foreign na- tion of his individual character and serv- ices to mankind. The Legion of Honor is an order of merit, originally instituted by the French republic, after abolishing or- ders of nobility and founded upon republi- can principles, recognizing the absolute equality of man without regard to birth, fortune, race or occupation. Your com- mittee ‘recommend the adoption of the resolution.” And it was adopted. Will Reside Here. Although he will relinquish his present office in a few days, Gen. Casey will be enabled to continue his services for the District of Columbia for some time yet. He has been specially designated by Con- gress by name to complete the Congr. sional Library building, regardless of retirement, and he has also been desiz hy Congress to act as consulting offi the completion of existing projects for in- creasing the water supply of this city, which duty includes the determination of the question of the utility of the aban- doned tunnel. The library building will be completed in January, 1897, but the date of the completion of the other work 1s problematical. Gen. Casey will continue his residence in this city. He has a cozy home at 1419 K street, and expects to end his days there. He has two sons, one an officer of the corps of engineers, stationed at Norfolk, and the other an architect, in business in New York. Capt. Silas Casey of the navy is his brother. Capt. Edward W. Casey of the army, another brother, met a tragic death a few years ago at the hands of treacherous Indians whom he had undertaken to befriend. Besides numerous official reports and arti- cles upon engineering, Gen. Casey has contributed several interesting sketcnes to histerical and genealogical magazines, The general impression in the corps 0 engineers is that Col. Craighill, now sta- tioned at Baltimore, will ced Gen. Casey at the head of the corps, and that next to him Col. J. M. V , stationed in this city, stands the best ‘chance of promotion. "The duties: of the office are important and require that it shall be filled at once. It is therefore assumed that there will be no delay in the appointment of Gen. Casey’s successor. pleas WILTON LACKAYE’S SVENGALI. The Remarkable Personation of This Much-Talked-Of Character. If New York is not more than ever Trilby mad since the production of the play, it is because it has gone “Svengali” mad. Everybody around the clubs, the hotels, the exchanges—in short, everywhere in the busy town—is talking about Wilton Lack- aye’s Svengali. Once in a very long time some actor comes to the surface in such a way that his name is in every mouth, and this time it is Lackaye. Not that this gen- Wilton Lackaye. tleman is now for the first time credited with a great success, for he has scored many a pronounced “hit” during the past six or eight years, but his Svengali so thor- oughly dominates the whole performance at the Garden Theater that he, or rather his impersonation, furnishes the topic of two-thirds of the conversation that the re- markable play is causing. It is almost in- credible that this stalwart, good-looking, pleasant-voiced, accomplished young man could, by any manipulation of the arts of make-up, so completely transform his per- sonality, or so perfectly put aside every outward semblance of the Lackaye so weil known—voice, manner, carriage and_ all. From a handsome one-hundred-and-eighty five-pounder to an attenuated, shagg: bearded, revolting, almost horrible-looking specimen of the human race, is a trans- Wilton Lackaye as Sveagali. formation difficult of accomplishment. But Lackaye manages this metemorphosis to the amazement of everybody. Nor is this ail he has accomplished. He is credited by the entire press of New York and Boston, the orly cities that have seen him in this part, with having achieved an artistic suc- cess equal to anything that has come to notice in many years. — : Careful of the Wall Paper. From the Philadelphia Press. “I have suffered so much at the hands of the chromo fiend," said the girl bachelor plaintively. “If you have ever moved about any, you will know what I mean only too well. They are the people who cajole the landlord into getting new paper for a room, and then, after a short oc- upancy, leave it for the next comer with the walls more or less covered with tacks and nail holes, with a neat little bit of plaster knocked out about each one. From having been a victim so often, I have de- termined never to add to the number cf these ruthless vandals. So whenever I find it necessary to put a small unframed pic- ture or card on the wall, I attach it by means of a large lump of gold beeswax, and there it will stay until I wish to move it to another p n, and will leave behind no tell-tale tracks, or tacks, of {ts presence. I may add, in a whisper, by the way, that when beeswax faits me, I have found chew- ing gum a pretty good substitute.” COLORS FOR ROOMS. Why Some Are Regarded as Desirable Than Others. From the Upholsterer. A man who has given the subject much thought has laid down a few rules which are worth thinking about. “I have not,” said he, “put yellow into a sitting room in ten years with the exception of the little that gets into a gold paper, and when I hear about Whistler's yellow room it makes me shudder. “Yellows are all right for a hall or vesti- bvle, but they must not be used in any room in which one rests or reads‘or works. Why? Because yellows do not absorb any lignt, but are strong reflectors, and the re- flected rays of light are not only trying to the e but positively affect the brain and the spirits, creating a distinct disturbance of the nervous centers. So the modern scientific decorator, at any rate, tells us, end we believe him. “On the other hand, buffs and creams are recommended for the nursery and chil- Gren’s sleeping rooms, because of their tonie qualities. They are better than white, whicn is apt to disturb the young optic nerves by its brilliancy, and are calculated | to impart a cheerful but not too boisterous temperament as well as a good complexion to the youngst. “For the library or workroom there is no eclor like coffee. Coffee, in fact, is the mest soothing thing in the color world, it seems. It induces a pleasant nirvana feel- ing such as nothing else does; ii conduces to habits of speculative thought; it pro- Guces a philosophical calm, and it is emi- Ler successful as a mild incentive to literary efforts. Indeed, there seems to be some delicate and abstruse connection be- tween coffee as a beverage and coffee as a cclor for demestic decoration. I suggested scmething of this sort to the handsome and interesting young artist who was superin- tending the decoration, and he condescend- ed to agree with me. “I have learned one really important fact abeut colors, however. I used te imagine that there was no color so cool as white, but I have been taught that, to the contra- ry, the coolest of all colors is red—not the flaring, glaring red, but the dull Pompeiian red and terra cotta. These are cool because of their peculiarly absorbent qualities. It is almost impossible to ight or warm them, ard I had today a most convincing object lesson of this fact—that while the cool vehite room of the Wordsworthian poem is all very nice to read about, and does at first sight impress one as being such, it ces not begin to compare in coolness with ene in dull red. A visit to the two rooms had just the same cooling effect on me that is produced by passing from sunshine into shadow. Of course, you know I am speak- ing all the time of interior decoration, al- though I am not sure whether a terra cot- ta town would not be considerably cooler than a whitewashed one. So you see the old Pompeiians were right when they cool- ed off their atria and patios by painting the town red. The only other color which approaches Pompelian red for coolness, so the elegant and artistic young workman told me, is dark green, but it has been found to have so depressing a mental ef- fect on most people that it is very sparingly used. Then I was told lots about mass ef- fects, distance shadows and length lines, and I don't know what else, but quite rough to convince me that the decoration of our house interiors is conducted upon a plane so lofty that it is impossible to say whether it is an artistic science or a scien- tifie art.” WORLD'S FAIR RUINS. More At Jackson Park Only the Monastery of La Rabida Remains. Trom the Chicago Times-Herald. Time has not deait gently with the ruins of Jackson Park. The April sun is white and glaring; not mellow and tender, like the sun of autumn, which softened the nakedness of the ruin and made it almost beautiful. A few workmen are listlessly engaged in completing the destruction‘ They call it restoration, The onlookers, who see them at work with sledges and cold chisels, call it chaos. The men work slowly and’ seem to produce no resuits. Twisted masses of iron are heaped where shining palaces once stcod. The monastery of La Rabida has been spared for what, In the swift destruction of all things around it, may be regarded as a green old age. It stands silent and de- serted on its lonely promontory, buffeted by the waves that sweep over the sea wall. it has made a brave stand against the snows and frests of two winters. The tiles are crumbling from the réof, some of the windows are broken in, some of the doors re hanging outward, and the dead weeds stand tail and quaint in the quiet court yard. But from the towers the iron crosses Still point heavenward. Time has spared them and the statue of the republic near by, no longer shining in a raiment of gold, but In a new and fairer garb of purest white. All the rest is ruin, brooding heavily on the place that used to intoxicate with its fanfares, its peal of bells, its pageants, its people. s0e A MONSTER WHEEL. A Structure Being Erected in London Larger Than the Ferris Wheel. From the > York World. The wheel which they are erecting in London in connection with the coming Em- pire of India exposition will be much larger than the Ferris wheel, and it is now very near completion. The top of the Chicago wheel was 258 feet above the earth. The London wheel will attain to a height of 300 feet, and from its top the passengers in the small carriages which are to be carried around its periphery will secure a magnifi- cent view of London and its environments. There will be forty of these carriages attached to the wheél, and among these will be hve ‘smoking saloons,” five “non- smok aloons” and thirty ordinary cars. The “non-smoking saluors” will corre- spond -with the first-class carriages found on English railways, and an extra price will be charged for a seat in one of them, so that the socially exclusive may not rub elbows with the common herd, even among the el Se Each one of these carriages Is designed to carry forty persons, and the wheei, when fully laden, will carry 1,600 passengers. The construction of this enormous wheel was commenced about a year ago and the English engineers have been working at it ever since. The Ferris wheel was com- pleted in a few months without an acci- dent. The English engineers, however, prefer- red to co slower, and thus lost the oppor- tunity to ma ofitable at the exhibition held at Earl's court, where the fair grounds are situated, during last sum- mer. The chormou of the parts, how- ever, afforded one reason why the wheel uld be carefully and slowly put to- gether. It is about.two-thirds finished at the present time. The work on the wheel has been going on all winter, and about 100 tons of iron per month Rave been added to the structure. The total weight of steel in the wheel and its supporting colur at the present time is 1,300 tons. From Life. “And now, gentlemen, to cur distinguished poet, and may his fe be a long one. He himself has told me ‘That no more of his verses will appear until after his death.” SAVED HIS LIFE. What Munyon’s Remedies Did for a Prominent Obioan. He Could Eat but Little and Was in Constant Pain—Cured With One Bottle. é WW. T. 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RISK ~your health in drinking the muddy, polluted Potomae water if you will, common should tell ‘you to have it filtered. ‘There is but one filter Which “purities” as well as erystal- izes the water, and that is the “Pasteur” Germ-Proof Water Filter , nS i —ouly obtainable of us. We will pot one in and take it out 2nd refupd you your money if yop don't like it. ‘There ix a new arrangement of the “Pastour ilter,”” under the name of the “Leda,” which filters without being attached to the pipes, especially — desir: for country Lomes and roomers. “Pasteur” Germ-proof Filters, t ordinary family, oaly=.- $0.60 Wilmarth & Edmonston, Crockery, &c., 1205 Pa. Av. my3-34d Has cotton all around it—on both sides. Has twice the service as has the one-sided mattress. COSTS NO M@RE. Ought to be an easy matter to decide which to buy. 4 G>The genuine “Reversible” has S. & B. stamped in each corner of 4 the Iabel. Look for it. 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