Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1895, Page 14

14 ‘HE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. VARIOUS NATURAL AND AaTIFICIAL BEAUTIES Of THE THAMES NEAR RICHMOND HILL. THE THINGS HE SAW Lederer Has Plenty of. Fun in a London Suburb. GREAT PLACE FOR SWEETHEARTS pte te Restaurants That Consume the Substance of the Unwary. THE ENGLISH MENIAL (Copyright, 1895, by Bacheller, Johnson & Bacheller.) LONDON, Séptember 10, 1895. OME DAY I'LL RUN across Jack the Rip- per or his understudy end give him a con- tract that will last him a year, if he nurses his job. * Ever since I reached this gloomly old burg it's been: K “‘Ank you, and— “The fifth floor, sir, please,” until my whole being is filled with an intense, wild yearning to accom- plish the wholesale slaughter of the Ches- terfieldian tdiots who infest the places fre- quented by tourists. At the hotels they are at their worst. If the British hotel clerk would only glare at me in the airy, contemptuous way af- fected by the American hotel clerk when I leave the key of my room on the counter for him to return to its pigeon hole in the key rack, or if he would only treat the matter with casual indifference I should feel less bloodthirsty. If, the “lift” man would only just say “Fift'” and suggest that I get a “move,” and in transit try to take off a wheel or the heel of a shoe as I essay to slide out of the cage, I should feel less homesick. A little of this kind of treatment would certainly imbue me with a feeling akin to tolerance. As it is I am willing to take all chances of a legal nature that may be engendered through this de- liberate encouragement of manslaughter. ‘Therefore, be it known that any one wish- ing to earn money “like firding it,” just as a side line, can do so by killing off a couple of hundred London hotel clerks and lift men, merely as a starter. There'll be steady work after that. As for compensa- tion, my means will permit a tariff of six shiliings sixpence for proof of death in each case. An additional fee of half a crown will be paid in each case where the deceased ecmes to his timely death by be- ing hit on the head with a brick or a Lon- don crusty roll. In extreme cases of lin- gering the price may be scaled up to ‘arf a Buy’. sir,” apt to meet these fearfully and wonderfully polite miscreants at every tewn. As the Devilbug says in his crude beastly politeful have we throughout the game.” And he says it with the air of one quoting Scripture. This flagrant ‘Ank you, sir,” is met with every- where. The hotel clerk says it when you hard him a key or take one from him. The ‘bus conductor says—’Ank you, sir,” when he takes the penny fare, after he has made his request for the same with a most con- ciliator: “Fare, if you please, si” He says ‘’Ank you, sir,” again when you ac- cept at his hands the little slip that is the receipt for the penny, and a check on his “Lend me a nov, me iud.” fhoresty, for an inspector may appear and esk to see if he has given you a receipt. I think the inspector is a myth, for I haven't met one yet. If he is as polite as the rest, I shall put him on my extinction list, too. There are only two people in the ranks of the understrappers whom I would spare from the general massacre. One is the boy who is enthroned behind the postage stamp ard cigar stand at the hotel. His is an in- solence that {s refreshing, inspiring. It is ot diluted. He does not know that he has een reprieved and that he owes his life to the fact that he snaps at me, fox terrier style, when I ask him how much a tupenny- ha’penny stamp costs and snarls when I ask if he can sell me half a cigarette for a farthing. Every day 1 egg him on to fresh outbursts of impertinence. We simply do not appreciate and understand each other, -d he does not kuow his luck. It is hardly be expected that he should realize that I deem it strange that at the cigar stand of @ swell London hotel cigarettes should be sold by weight or singly—a penny and up- ward each. When I buy a cigar he seems surprised that I should fall over the coun- ter when he informs me that they are four shillings six a dozen. Cigars by the dozen! The other object of my regard is the outer attendant of the gorgeous Turkish baths opposite the hotel. He may be the general suiyerintendent and he may be only the hall porter—I can’t tell by the pattern of the gold braid on his sleeve and cap, like the natives can. At any rate, he made me take off my shoes and lumber around in my stocking feet to the disrobing place. “A London Turkish bath is a peach,” says Devilbug, whom I met there. Speaking of Peaches makes me again digress a bit. I ate three the other morning at breakfast. ‘They looked tempting and had the delicious wood flowers flavor of early turnips—over- ripe ones. The charge was only a shilling each—seventy-five cents for the three. If I'd eaten the plateful I would have had to swim the channel to get out of the country. I made such a vehement kick that the manazement of the hotel made a reduction on them in the bill at the end of the week —two shillings thripence for the three. To retirn to the bath. First of all one of the nabobs locked up the would-be bather’s necktle and other valuables, and gives him a key without a wristband, but with it a bit of pasteboard having printed Fiddle, and so on ad in Finnerty. Many of on it a corresponding number. One loses his identity here, for one doesn't even reg- ister a name, merges into a mere numeral, like a convict. On the card is printed a list of things that one is liable to have to pay for when he backs out of the place—grilled fcod, manicuring, drinks, cigars, chiropody, cigarettes, varnished boots and barber work. I will not zo into the harrowing de- tails of a London Turkish. Suffice to lift the veil and bring into view the .attendant dipping a whitewash brush into a vessel full of lather, ready made, and swiping the bather with it until he is coated to the at- tendant‘s satisfaction. After the mangling is completed the poor bather is scantily swathed in odds and ends of towels and rags and permitted to recline on a musty Jounge until he is dried off. The attendant doesn’t wipe the bather dry, as is the cus- tom in civilized communities. Not wishing to “unshingle the roof,” as they say at Greenwich, I ran up 2 bill, including the bath, amounting to seven shillings six pence ha’penny (about $1.87 in United States money). I gave the head cashier a sover- eign and the chief accounting auditor brought me the change that I knew, after figuring in my head at lightning speed, should be twelve shillings fivepence ka’penny. I’m real quick at figuring, but I had to go off in a quiet corner and count the change. fhis was at 4 p.m. It was dusk when I had finished taking an inven- tory of my available assets. I had: m 30 3 half crowns. 7 1.0 06 -1.0 1 two shilling piece. 20 5 pennies. 05 1 ha’penny. 0.0% 12.5% ‘The man had tried to cheat me, but I was ready for the daffy wagon. At some Turkish baths in London the bathers are expected to take along their own soap— so I am told. Sunday at Richmond comes ‘nearer beliz a pleasant manner of spending a day than anything that has come my way since I have made this town my halting place. ‘There 1s more respectability en route and more of the/opposite kind at the terminus RECOLLECTIONS OF A TRIP of the Life Guards and to the private of the Royal Guard blue, .who strutted on horseback to the cubby hole alcove at the entrance to the place, which is the site of the tiltyard of Westminster. Now it is the entrance to the admiralty, I believe. For seal fun there is nothing more fill- ing for sixpence than a trip to Greenwich on a Thames steamer. The Devilbug from New York induced me to make the trip. I had made up my mind to spend the rest of the day in riot- ous respectability at the British Museum when the Devilbug chased into my room without even knocking. ~ “Let's go up the Tems to Gre’n’ch!”” he yelled in his well-bred Comanche tone. “‘Arry and ‘Arriet will be there by the grasse. It’s Monday, you know.” (Satur- days and Mondays are ’Arry and ‘Arriet’s days out.) Experience has taught me that time spent in expostulating with the Devilbug was time wasted. There was nething to.do but go. ‘We embarked at Waterloo bridge. The steamer, the measliest, the worm-eatenest steamer I ever saw outside of the Wis- ecusin Dells, came along already crowded with passengers from Westminster bridge. It was a floating, sputtering, wheezing, smoking Whitechapel with a smattering of imbecile respectability, of which later I felt myself a driveling component. Many of the passengers got off at the stations with queer sounding names, but their places were taken in the ratio of two for one by more murderous looking bands. The men smoked pipes. I got an inkling of what the tobacco that is made of the refuse cigars from the gutter smells like in the second smoking. Riffraff afloat! The Devilbug enjoyed it. “It's Baxter street and the Chicago levee rolled into one. And all for sixpence —the round trip,” he whispered with a cheerful grin. The Devilbug took his life in his hands and went up on the bridge and talked to the captain just at the moment when the latter was making a difficult landing at Blackfriars bridge. The Devilbug was only a casual acquaint- ance at the most, and I saw no reason for my risking my life in trying to save the rash New Yorker from the fate I felt sure DOWN TO GREENWICH ON A THAMES PLEAS- URE STEAMER. than anything I have ever seen. It's a jump from Sunday school to fishing. The Thames valley at Richmond is a piece of property that is rich in natural beauty. ‘The people who as a class visit that por- tion of London's subdivisions that lies near Putney and Richmond Hill and Park are not in themselves thus blessed. The wo- men who on week days and nights Haunt the “circuses” as certain street intersec- tions are called on the maps of London, are on Sunday seen at the Star and Garter’ in great profusion, adorned with an extra layer or two of paint and powder as their slight contribution to Sunday observance. Respectable people go there, too, but they are mostly strangers in London. In driv- Ing to Richmond one passes the loveliest places imaginable; the palace of the queen and the palaces of the drove of princes and princesses, dukes and dukesses, and the host of small-fry hanging on nobility who deid-head themselves on the cringeing Brit- ish subjects, who, in turn, receive reward for the genuflection by being told that they are real nice and loyal. And the boastful Briton fawns while, cap in hand, he pays the bill. Then one sees on his way to Richmond glimpses of residences not outwardly so glum and grim as the prison- like dwellings of royalty, but the cheerful Thames villas and the innumerable places for the quenching of thirst and the as-- suaging of hunger. Idly floating along the river Thames are swarms of beats of every variety in size and of form. Of house boats one sees but a few at this point; they are further up the river, where the Iittie cottages are that rent for as many guineas a week in the sea- son as they would a year if they were not so delightfully situated. "Arry and ‘Arriet, in their sweet London simplicity, are here drinking and eating and making love in a manner most public and extremely embar- rassing to the unsophisticated onlooker, the Baedecker-guided stranger. Nearly all the taverns are imitations of ancient hostel- ries and bear alluring titles—this and that Arms, the Boar and Thistle, the Blue-nosed Lion, the Astral-eyed Donkey, the Ark and them have the sign of the Star and Garter, the biggest of the lot having that appella- tion. The latter is beautifully situated on a fine terrace nearly as high as the prices that prevail on the spacious hotel’s volu- minous bill of fare. Those who came to or- der a la carte can get a nice plain dinner | for $1.85, translated from shillings to dol- lars and cents; coffee and bread and butter is half a dollar. If one should care to stay over night there will be, besides the regular charge for entertainment for man and beast, extras of 37 cents for “attendance” per day and 37 cents for a lamp each night. If a pair of dressing lights were required the tax would be half a dollar per eve. Aside from these little financlal {diosyncra- sies, the Star and Garter is a fine old ho- The Royal Horse Guard. tel, with a record of entertaining royalty and “sich,” of which its managers are raturally and snobbishly proud. . 8 ar On Monday morning I dropped in on the Royal Horse and saw the changing of the guard. It was a pretty sight and about the most inexpensive to be had in London. I felt {t more a matter of duty than of obli- gation to tip sixpence each to the colonel was in store for him, so I became tem- porarily interested in an evil-faced young ruffian who had just Invited the sylph who sat at my right to go into the refreshment room and have a “sip o’ suthin’.” I fol- lowed them down into a small cave that seemed imbedded in the dingy boiler room, where a grimy sign announced that all sorts of refreshments both solid and liquid were to be had for the paying. “Two bitters and a tupenny smoke,” was what the ruffian asked for, and the dis- penser of refreshments drew two glasses of bitter ale and produced a box of short ropes, of which the evil-faced one selected one, engrafting it on his ccuntenance. I felt in my heart that it was his fell in- tention to smoke the thing and I concluded to risk all, go on deck again and gaze upon the mangled remains of the Devilbug. The remains were on the bridge sucking away at the captain’s pipe, while that official The Jolly Crowd on the Greenwich Bont. was smoking a cigar that I recognized from the sweat-band around its center was one that the Devilbug had ten minutes before transferred from my upper vest pocket to his. I_drew near. The remains were telling tha captain that they were a Mississippi river pilot off for a vacation. I overheard the re- mains say to the captain: “I'd like you to meet my friend who’s down on the deck somewhere. He's the sole owner of the line of river steamers running between Barnstable, Mass. (which ts in the Indian territory and near Alaska), and Keokuk, Ala.—ferty steamers in all—total tonnage $90,000. He's looking for men experienced in river sailiny Good experienced river boatmen get $350 a month as deck hands. I don’t know what he's paying “mates and captains—proportionately fair wages, though, I guess. I hid behind the boiler, which is partly on deck. It was a hot, ill-smelling place, but I could see the scenery and hear the Devilbug still speaking of me. “I don’t see my friend, he’s down tn the engine room, I guess. Regular crank for inspecting marine machinery, coming over from the states he put in nearly all his time in the tea pot department—took his meals there.”” I wouldn’t go into the engine room of an ocean steamer for a hundred. I grew ab- sorbed in the scenery along the Thames to Greenwich which consisted mostly of docks, greasy “London luggers” and vessels that are purposely beached in order to be unload- ed. When the tide comes up they float off all right. Some of the steamers are quite large ard coast over to Scotland and Ireland. I learned all this by close personal observa- tion and without asking a soul a single question. I was in retirement, being the ory one who cared to sit on the seat that ran along the hot boiler. But the Devilbug couldn't see me. And my horrid fellow passengers only looked at me with intense ferocity of expression. Strange to say, they didn’t seem to want to molest any one. They just persuaded themselves they were re a good time after their own uncouth n-cde. We arrived at Greenwich at last. The captain and the Devilbug parted in the mc¢st affectionate manner. I came out from my retreat and the man whose utter disre- gard for the truth had added so much to my discomfort during the trip led me from the boat. People who became weary of Greenwich were making desperate efforts to get aboard by the same gangway by which the passengers were endeavoring to leave. On shore a slight woman, holding a heavy infant, was indigaant. Her husband, per- haps, a husky fallow, with dull features, smoked his pip®, dndifferent to the-crush. The pipe was Mghter than the baby. * She turned to him and tried to arouse in him some latent spirit that, maybe, she had seen shown ‘by him some time in the dim past—the ovgiinted British spirit pro- testing against! passing wrong. “Poor byby'sittred. Th’ o’ ta be a wye af an’ a wye tan. Look a’ t’ pypl bean’ crushed! Th’ o° Me be @ wye af an’ o wye oan.” But the BrifisH! lion was not so easily arou: He could get on board someway and his ‘‘’oorifan” and the “byby’ couid follow—or stay“behind. We saw Greenwich, the hospital, the mu- seum and thé picture galleries,.and the queér places whete queerer peopie live in this London siburb. We wandered around the park and‘‘saw the observatory where they make eastern, tral, mountain and Pacific slope tine, besides the varieties in use on other of the globe, but where time is of little account, the only thing that 1s in unfailing plenty. ey 5 That evening we were in Piccadily Circus. Along came a horde of the precocious street gamin. One of them tackled us and made a slim show of trying to sell a box of wax lights—the usual game. rebuff didn't freeze him. “Lend me a sovereign, sir, I'm stun broke, sir; I'll pay you back at the races, sir. I’m sure I saw you on the grandstand today, me lud. A few shillings will do, sir; I’ve a wife and fourteen chil- dren at home, Colonel North.” . A penny from me, and “I'll steal you,” from the Devilbug induced the gllb-tongued crafty visaged youth to part company from us. I haven't seen a duke yet. Dukes must be out of season, “ CHARLES LEDERER. a A HUMAN ALARM CLOCK. A New Line of Busincss That a Chi- cago m Developed. From the Chicago Tribune. There is one man on the North Side who has built up a novel’ business. It can't be eaid that he is growing rich at it, but he makes a good living and his hours of work are short. His work is to awaken the vewspaper carriers, so that they can get downtown to lay in their supplies and de- liver the papers to their customers before the breakfast hour. To get their supplier in time many of the carrters have to start downtown between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning. The papers are ready shortly after 3 o'clock, and to get his supplies early the carrier must be on hand so as to get his order registered with the delivery clerk, for, to avoid trouble, carriers are supplied with papers in the order in which they have given their orders. The carrier doesn’t want to stay up all night just so that he can leave the house at 2:30 o'clock in the morning. He wants to sleep in the evening, so that when he gets up he can stay up for the valance of the day. And so, in the old days, he went to sleep, trusting to habit and his alarm clock to waken him. But human nature is weak, and after getting accustomed to its clamor @ man will frequently sleep peacefully through the racket made by an alarm clock. Many times carriers have learned this to their sorrow and have opened their eyes only to find that it was broad day- light, and that their work should have been half done instead of still unbegun. What they wanted was a sentient alarm clock; one that would ring just long enough to awaken them and would not stop until they were awake; one that would arouse them even if they forgot to wind and set it before they went to sleep. But the jew- elera don’t keep alarm clocks of that pat- tern. So the newspaper carriers set their wits to work to find another scheme. One of them decided to have one of his assist- ants wake him. That put all the blame for oversleeping ‘upon: the assistant. After a few days the assistant was told to call another carrfer—a friend of the first one— while on his ~way-to arouse his employer. That put ai 4deainto the assistant’s head. Why not make some money by calling car- riers? That Gay he visited a dozen of them living near Nim and asked if they would pay 50 cents a week for being aroused promptly on ‘time. Taught by long experi- ence with an alarm clock they said they would. gladly. In @ few days the story of the new scheme had spread among the carriers and’ the young man was flooded with orders from ‘men who wanted to get up in the middle of-the night. He accepted all the orders he cduld, amd arranged a reg- ular time table by which he visited his pat- rons. More orders came in and he found himself unable to get around fast enough on foot. Then he went to the stock yards and bought a saddle horse, oné of the mus- tang breed—not handsome, but speedy and enduring. Within a month his income as an alarm clock was greater than his pay as a news- paper carrier. Then he remembered that other people had to get up early—among them street car conductors and drivers. Resigning his job as carrier, he canvassed the car barns, and soon had a score of men on his list. Now, every night, from 1 o'clock until 6 in the morning, the young man gallops about the streets of Luke View. In his hand he carries a ioaded stick and with this he bombards the doors of his patrons and doesn’t stop until he sees a light and hears the sleepy reply of the inmates. Half an hour after he has passed his course can be traced by the line of carriers’ wagons, drawn by sleepy horses and driven by sleepy men, all headed for the newspaper offices in the downtown dis- trict. +e —__—_. New Uses for Peat. From the Worcester Spy. German chemists haye been experiment- ing with Irish peat, and have secured such remarkable results that a syndicate has been formed for the manufacture, on a commercial scale, of the various products that may be obtained from Ireland's bog lauds. One of these products is an antisep- tic “wool” for dressing wounds. It pos- sesses absorbent qualities so great that it will soak up nine times Its weight of mois- ture. The medical department of the French army has adopted this substitute for lint, and 12,000 ‘kilograms of it were sent with the expeditionary force to Mada- gascar. By a different process of chemical treatment the peat is formed into a ma- terlal from which any article requiring hardness and durability can be produced. The German syndicate has now on exhi- bition in London insulators, axle boxes, machinery bearings, gun stocks, pianoforte legs and numerous other things to illus- trate the possibilities of this new material. Peat has been used in this country for ning refrigerators and cold-storage rooms and to some extent as a covering for steam pipes, because of its value as a non-con- ductor of heat. But by these new German processes a wide field appears to have been opened, in which capital and labor may be profitably employed, and the Irish peat bogs acquire a value hitherto unknown. One of the largest beds of fine peat in this country underlies the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia. If the experiments of the German-chemists should ultimately result in a large utilization of Ireland's peat de- posits, it will not be long before some American chemist determines whether Vir- ginia peat can be, treated in like manner and the same products be obtained. +o+—____. Lack of Pure Coffee in England. From the Lopdon Dajly News. A writer in The Lancet laments that good, wholesome, pure coffee, free from chicory, 1snot brought to the notice of the public by advertisers as much as tea, cocoa or chocolates. As he observes, those fwho have traveled on the continent know that a cup of excellent coffee can be ob- tained at an almost trifling cost, and know what an excellent stimulant it is. Why (it 1s asked) should this be? and why, on the other hand, should coffee, even in the homes of the rich, in this country, be too often wholly undrinkable? That there is no difficulty about the making of good coffee is held to be proved by the fact that the best is made in the simplest ap- paratus—a plain earthenware jug. This, with boiling water and a reasonable amount of berries, freshly ground, {s all that is re- quired. “Both the demand and supply of coffee in this country (adds the writer) are diminishing, but a more extended knowledge of its value as a stimulant and as an article of diet would insure its in- creased use and in due time its reduced price.” —_+e+___ The Cousinly Kiss. From Life. Jack—“Half a dozen of my girl's cousins are growing up, and I am considering the question as to when I should stop kissing them. What do you think?” “There's only one rule, my dear fellow. When they are old enough for you to enjoy it, then it’s time to stop.” IAS A NEWS MEDIUM Remarkable Rise and Development of the Afternoon Newspaper. WHY If HAS COME 0 THE FRONT Supplies What the People Want And When They Want It. OPINIONS OF EDITORS Correspondence of The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., September 20.—The two most remarkable events’ in ‘newspaperdom for a dozen years have been the evolution of thg Sunday paper and the revolution which has brought the evening paper to the front. The Sunday paper has succeeded in making itself heard for its much speaking, and everybody knows its history; byt the Progress of the evening paper has been so entirely without noise that one seldom thinks to inquire how it hes happened that within a dozen years the circulation of evening papers, in most of our cities, has advanced from a humble figure to a point far beyord that of the morning press. I asked a dozen prominent editors: “How do you account for the marvelous progress of the evening paper?” The question struck home, and the result is this batch of replies, which makes as interesting reading as one comes across these days, even in the even- ing paper. A Frei Record. The evening paper is gaining the supre- macy because it is published at that hour of the twenty-four which marks the close of the period of greatest news-making ac- tivity and the beginning of that portion of the day which Is devoted to rest, recreation and retrospection. The busy man or wo- man, having finished the work of the day, finds entertainment and instruction in read- Ing the record of what the whole world has been doing during these same daylight hours. This record is then fresh, and the American, with more than Athenian éager- ness for some new thing, will not wait for twelve hours to learn the day’s history, when the information will be stale, and when, plunging into.the busy activities of the new day, man’s face is turned toward the future, ard he has neither time nor in- clination to bury himself in the affairs of yesterday. Owing to the difference in time the American afternoon paper covers in for- eign news, which comes to us from Europe, the happenings of the evening as well as of the daylight hours. In domestic affairs the business day, in which the most impor- tant events occur, furnishes the matter for its columns. And the opportunities thus supplied by the more natural and appropri- ate time of publication are being more and more utilized and developed through com- plete, abler and speedier collection of the rews by press associations, gprclal corre- spondents and reporters, its quicker trans- portation to the places of publication through telegraph, telephone, bicycle and other rapid transit devices, and its speedier handling in the newspaper office through typesetters, phonographs, pneumatic tubes, typesetting machines and improved presses. This is the era of rapid transit in news, and through steady improvement in the art of combining the skilled labors of men and machinery to quicken such transit, the evenirg pape: is fast approaching the ideal condition in which the news of the whole world up to the very moment when the last page goes to the stereotyper will be flashed to it at lightning speed and spread before its readers with similar-rapidity. THEODORE W. NOYES, Washington Evening Star. Twelve Hours Ahead. The well-equipped afterroon paper is suc- cessful because it meets the demands of a Progressiv2 age and people. In its news it is twelve hcurs ahead of its morning con- temporaries. When its forms close the business of the day is completed, and the news field so fully covered that rothing re- mains for the morning papers save such accideats and crimes as may become public between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. It prints to- day the news of today. It reaches its pa- trons in the evening when they have time to read. Each improvement in the means of communication adds to its advantage over morning papers. CHARLES F. MOSHER, Cincinnati Post. The Paper for the Home. One reason is that every improvement in the getting of news tends to make it pos- sible to gather and publish news during the day of its occurrence, and thus to enable the evening newspaper more and more to anticipate the morning rewspaper. It is in the evening, when the day’s work is done, that the great majority of Americans find their only oprortunity to peruse a newspa- per. The business man and the politician want a mcrning newspaper, but it is the evening newspaper which is most read on the railways and in the homes of the peo- ple. The morning newsrarer will continue to flourish, but the evening newspaper will always have the larger constituency and the greater amount of advertising. Every increase of intercommunication by electric railway enlarges the number of people who can obtain an evening newspaper on the day of Its issue, and every extension of the electric telegraph adds to the ability of the proprietors of the e\ening newspapers to make their journals a more complete rec- ord of events occurring on the day of issue. EDITOR HARTFORD TIMES. A Matter of Supply and Demand. The people have come to demand a daily record of the day’s important events, and a school of young, active journalists has sprung up that is giving it to them. R. F. PAINE, Cleveland Press. Comes When We Want It. The present position of the afterrioon paper is due to a demand for the world’s news of tcday; not yesterday. It comes to the home when men want it and chil- dren have time for 1t; {t has all the news in a concise and good-natured form; it gives less space to scandals, and subordi- nates the criminal record to other matters. It does not sacrifice six issues in the week to one on Sunday; it is more independent, or honest in politics, and ts of interest to both parties; finally the men who make it work when other men work, and rest when they rest, and have Sunday for their own. RICHARD W. KNOTT, Louisville Post. Nenrer to the Henrts of the People. The evening papers contain the news of the day on which they are published. Events generally happen in the day. The great masses of the people, men, women and children, have the time to read the afternoon paper, fresh from publication. Only the few have time to glance over the morning paper. The afternoon paper is nearer to the hearts and homes of the people; hence, the masses subscribe and pay for the paper of their choice. Evening newspapers, in every locality, should be strictly local, first, and then have all the general news, of special interest to the field that is concerned. The evening papers have a clientage of millions. The morning paper has a more limited field. Therefore study your clientage end make a paper to suit it, and not to suit yourself. JOHN D. MISSIMER, Reading (Pa.) Eagle. What Rather Than How. The evening paper tells what happened; it is sometimes left to the morning paper to tell how it happened. The people want the news and they want it as soon as pos- sible; therefore they read the afternoon paper. J. L. RODGERS, Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch. Attributable to Its Own Improvement. The growth of the evening paper ts at- tributable, primarily, to its own improve- ment. As soon as lively and enterprising afternoon papers began to appear they fcund an appreciative public. When it was demonstrated that the evening paper could give a complete record of the im- portant local and general happenings of the current day up to the time of its ap- pearance it became popular. People in ordinary occupations have more time to read in the evening than in the morning. The lower price of afternoon papers has also done much to extend their circula- tion. In most of our cities they have be- ecme distinctly the people's papers. With the increase of their patronage from sub- scribers and advertisers, they have as a rule improved in all their departments, spending more money for news, employing a better class of editors and writers and giving a greater variety and a better gen- eral quality of reading matter. The lead- ing afternoon newspapers now cover their field quite as well as the best of mornihg pepers and the future of afternoon four- nalism grows brighter every day. In many cities of the United States the afternoon pepers have a far larger circulation than the morning papers, and they are no longer confined to the local community. The best and brightest of them are first- class general newspapers and have suc- ceeded in building up a large general cir- culation. . Some of the shrewdest advertise I know tell me that they obtain the best re- sults from the space they occupy in even- ing papers, because they are read more thoroughly than papers which appear when the rush of the day's business is setting in. |. H. RICHARDSON, Atlanta Journal. Like Hot Cakes. Did you ever hear the expression “It goes like hot cakes?” A full realization of the practical meaning of that homely phrase will account for the rapid development of the afternoon paper. ‘This is an age of quick delivery. The stage coach has given way to the locomo- tive and passengers, mails and express packages are delivered at their destination within hours, when days were necessary under the old regime. As if that were not fast enough, the telegraph takes the piace of fast mails in emergencies, and the tele- phone has largely supplanted the messen- ger boy. Is that strange? The afternoon paper has come in response to the same demand for quick delivery. An important event transpires in the morning, at noon, or late as 3 o'clock. It may be a yacht race; it may be a flurry in Wall street; it may be the passage of a bill by Congress. Instead of waiting until next morning, the afternoon paper delivers the news at 4 p.m. Is it remarkable that peo- ple will buy a thing fresh at 4 p.m., instead of waiting until it has stood in type over right? Hot cakes means fresh cakes, delivered directly from the oven and at a time when men are hungry for cakes. A hungry man wants supper suppertime and you will not satisfy his appetite by telling him to wait until breakfast. Breakfast is well enough when it comes, even if some of the dishes are a bit stale, and rehashed from the evening meal. But breakfast will not do for supper, you know. Finally, the evening paper comes at a time when people are at leisure and there is no more welcome visitor to the fireside than a bright, clean, entertaining paper, fresh from the pre: It supplies the de- mand. W. 8. COPELAND, Richmond State. Sa A BICYCLE EXPERIENCE. As It Was Brought Out in a Park Con- versation. From the Chicago Tribune. He looked dyspeptic as he sat scowling at the procession of bicycles; he occupied two- thirds of a park bench and pretended not to see the longing looks cast upon it by stout matrons and weary spinsters. Finally a stout, good-natured looking man slipped into the vacant part of the seat, and, lighting a cigar, stuck his thumbs into the armholes of his vest and proceeded to enjoy life. “Pleasant day,” he ventured in an apol- ogetic tone. 2 ‘The dyspeptic-looking man grunted. “Been sick, ain't ye?” That opened the dyspeptic-looking man's mouth: “You just bet I have,” he repiied; “can't get anything to agree with me—not even my wife. Doctor says it’s dyspepsia. I thried enough inedicires ’n’ patent foods ‘n’ mineral waters t’ kill a horse. Then 1 just paic my bill ’n’ told the doctor I'd save what I had left for a coffin 'n’ a cem- etery lot.” “Ye might try bicyclin’,” suggested the other man, hopefully; “I know a fellow—” “Humph; I did. Everybody told me to until I got tired an’ did. First time I tried I fell off ’n’ broke my arm—that laid me up fer six weeks ‘n’ me paying installments on that blame wheel all th’ time. I wasn’t to be downed by it, though, and soon as I got well I tried again—made the kids take turns in helpin’ me til! I got the hang of it.” “But you must have learned at last. My wife learned in two—” “Yes, I learned. Got so’s I could go alone, 'n’ one day I went out In th’ park here an’ was gettin’ along well when one o’ those bloomer women rode right up one 0’ the cross roads ‘n’ into me. Say, I was in a heap, with th’ wheel all twisted up on top of me!” “That woman must ‘a’ felt bad.” did. She rode right on ‘n’ never looked back, though all the people called t’ her t’ come back 'n see what she'd done.” “Well, she was no lady, sure. I'll tell my wife about that. She rides lots an’ she’s never had an accident yet. She—" “My wheel was knocked into next week— been*at the repair shop ever since, half o my nose was skinned an’ iny coat torn half off my back. Repairs ‘Il cost me about $12 an’ everybody says that fool woman ought t’ be made to pay tt.’* “Hope ye made her do it.” jaw. Don’t know her from Adam. I'd recognize her if I once saw her, though, ‘n I come home every day and watch—some time I'll see her slippin’ by and I'll just stop her and—” : te eake her pay for it; that’s right, the w— “You bet I will. You ride?” “No, my wife does. I haven’t seen her ride yet: come over this evenin’ to see her go by. Say, I guers I'll feel proud; she learned in a week and never had an’acci- dent. She—" But the dyspeptic looking man did not heed. He had risen to his feet and was gesticulating wildly at an approaching wheelwoman: “Say, ma’am, you stop!” he yelled. “You ran into my wheel a week ago an’ smashed it, an’ I want— ‘The pleasant-faced man also sprang to his feet; “Say, that's no way to speak to a lady,” he yelled. “That's my wife, an’ all I've got to say is that the accident was all your own fault. I'll stop her myself and But the fair rider was disappearing up the road; she had never looked behing. The Grave of Jenny Lind. B. W. Williams in the Boston Transcript. It has been stated that the grave on Malvern Hills, in England, of Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, the Swedish nightingale, has been sadly neglected, and is not even marked by the simplest slab. This is not true. A handsome and costly monument in the shape of a cross tells the passer-by that there rests the body of that noble wo- man, renowned not only as the most won- derful songstress of her day, but for her almost unparalleled generosity and saintly character. It is stated that her husband, long after her decease, was in the habit of visiting her grave dally and strewing upon it the most beautiful flowers. He was @ most devoted and loving husband, and her last days were made happy and sweet by his kind attentions. Mr. P. T. Barnum, her American agent, in a visit to England some years before his death, called upon the Goldschmidt fam- ily and saw the daughter and grand- daughter. In the house were a number of fine portraits and marble busts of the Swedish nightingale. She was much be- loved, not only by her own family friends, but by multitudes who have been the grateful recipients of her many charities. Her very last days were spent in singing for indigent clergymen. It is recorded of Mr. Barnum that he could make her cry any time by repeating to her a story of poverty, and that she always “backed her tears with a purseful of money.” Jenny Lind had a world-wide reputation as a songstress,but without this she would have been honored and almost adored as a great- hearted, benevolent woman, and, as some one has said, would have “been known and loved if she had never sung a note.” Very Timely. From the Chteago Record. “Some English words are very confusing.” “For instance?” “Well, ‘rowing’ and rowing.’ In some sentences you caa’t tell whether it’s boat- ing or fighting.” “Yes, and the worst {fs that in some match races you can't tell either!” RAILROADS. PENNSYLVANIA’ RAILROAD. Station corner of Gth and B streets. In effect September 9, 1895. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED.--Pullman Dining, (Smoking ‘and Ubservation Cars to Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Bt. Lou Cleveland and ‘Toledo. Bufet lor Car to Harrisburg. tte Harcture Parle and Dining Gara, 4 fas ure. ‘arlor al og ra, inerisbarg’ to. Pitesburg. 3:40 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS.— Pullman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Sleep- ing and Dining Care, Harrisburg to St.. Louis, Ciicionati, Loulsyille ‘and Chicago. P.M. ‘WESTERN EXPRESS.—Pyllman Sleep- Car'to Chicago and Harrisburg to Cleveland. Dining Car to Chicago. 210 P-M. SOUTHWESTERN EXPRESS.—Pullman og and Dining Core to St. Louis, and Sleep iF Harrisburg to Cincinna’ 10:40 P.M. PACIFIC EXPRESS.—Pullman Sleep- Car fo Pittaburg. 10:30 AM. Sh 7:0 A.M, Kane, Canandaigua, Rochester and Niagara Falls daily, except Sunday.” 10:30 A.M. for Elmira ai daily except Renovo, nda FOr, Williamsport daily, 3:40 P.M. 7:10 P.M. for Williamsport, Rochester, Buffalo and ‘Niagara Falls daily, e3 Saturday, with Sleep- ‘Washington to" Suspension’ Bridge via ing Car 10:0 FAM. for Erte, Ca nda Rochester, But. flo abd ‘Niagara Palle daily, Biceping Gar Wasil- ror Philadelphia, New Tork and the, Fast New and ti 4:00 P.M. OONGHESMIONAT LIMITED,"" Dining Car’ from | Baltiio weel tag ser For Ainapolla, °1:30"79:00 and 4:20 PAM. dally, except and 4:20 P.M. AM, 12:15 Sundays, 8:00 A.M. Alexandria, 4: 11-80 AM, 12-80" 15, $202, "10:10 and 11 80, 7:45, 9:45 AM., and ‘11:06 ” On Sanday AM., 2:15, 5:80, 7:00, 7: ‘Ticket olfices, northeast corner o! Pennsylvania avenue, and at the station, oth B is, where orders can be left for ti baggage to destination from hotels and 8. M. PREVOST, General Manager. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule In effect July 12, 1895. Leave Washington from station, corner of New Jersey avcnue and © feet, For Chicago and Northwest, Vestibuied Limited trains, 11:30 a.m. 8-0 pam — For’ ci Louis and, Laulertte,, Veatt- baled m.; express, 12: oe ea gy et ceva ere al 18:0 wm. and 9:10 p.m. For Lexington and Staunton, 11:30 a.m. For Winchester tions, °5:30 p.m. gba sfianpoea, New Orleans, 11:2) p.m: For La For xis xis ‘KA:28, 4: 38.00, 8: Sundays, xi: m., x12:10, ib, 6: For’ Anna; 4:23 p.m. For’ Frederick.’ ***9:00, Vor Hagerstown,’ 911-30 a.m. and °5:30 p.m. For Boyd and way point =*9:40 pan. For Galtneraburg’ and. way, polnts,'°6:00, 78:00 212300, *3:00, 4:33, 290-85, $°T:08, 9°0:40, = PHILAD! nes bars ite Fh sais week (4:55 Di 5 or 8:00 (10:00 a.m. Dining Dining Cai 205, G2:01 night HTA. ‘with Pintsch light. ¥ Boston and the SeeeDaily. ny. Sunday only. xExpress traios. Baggage called for and checked from hotcin and residences by Union Transfer Co. on orders left at ticket offices, 619 Pennsylvania avenue nortawest, New York avenue and Fifteenth street, and at CHAS. 0. SCULL, Gen. Pass. Agt, R. B. CAMPBELL. Gen. Manager. jyid SOUTHERN RATLAVAY. (Pieamont Air Line.) Schedile in effect July 28, 1895. All traips arrive and ieave nt Pennsylvania Possenger Station. 8:00 A.M.—Datly—iwcal for Danville, Connects at anussas for Strasiurg, daily, except Sunday, and at Lynchburg with the ‘Norfolk and Western dally. aud with C. & 0, dally for Natural Bridge ai Siitton . 215 A.S.—Dally—The MAL ‘warees Pullman a as lotte with Pullman Sleeper man. Sleeper New York to Mon nection for New Orleans; connects Pullman Sleeper for Birmingbam, Louis. 4:01 PM.—Local for Strasburg, dafly, except Sun- 45 P.M.—Datly—Lacal_ for Charlotterritie. 10:48 P.M._Dalls— WASHINGTON AND SOUTH- w IN VESTIBULED LIMITED, composed of Pullman Vestibaled Sleepers and Dining Cars, Pull- man Sicepers Washington to Chattanooga, via Sulls- bury, "Asheville and Knoxville. New York to Met- phis via Birmingham, New York to New Orleans via ‘Atlanta and Montgomery, and New York to Tampa ja Charlotte, Columbia and Jacksonville, Vestibuted Coach Washington to Atlanta. Parlor Car Co- lumbia to Aucusta. Dining Car from Greensboro’ TRAINS HETWEEN WASHINGTON AND ROUND HILL “leave Washington 9:01 AM. daily, 1:00 P.M. and 4:89 P-M. daily. except Saudar, ane 6:25 only. for Round Ht 22 P.M. . for Leesburg 6:25 P.M. dail ing, arrive at Washington 8: . daily, and 2:25 P.M. dally ex- Round Hill, 8-34 AM. dally ex- 1 7:08 AM. dally, ‘only. ins from the south arrive at Washing- js'on, 9:45 A.M. dally, except 4 M. daliy from Charlottesville, is ge inv, leepi Car reservation 1 informat! furnished at o@iees, B11 and 1300 Penetylvnula: aver ne, und at Vennsylvania Railroad Passenger Sta- ‘W. HW. GREEN, General Superintendent. , i... CULP. Traffic Manager. ‘W. A. TURK, General Passenger Agent, my20 L. 8. Brown, Gen. Act. Pass. Dept. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. Schedule in effect July 1, 1895. Trains leave dally from Union Station (B, and FHurougl the grandest scencry in America, with 01 met E the hantsomest and most complete solid train sere: Ice west from Washington. 2:25 P.M. DAILY.—“Cinginnatl and St. Louls Special”—Solid_ Vestibuled, Newly Equipped, tric-lighted, Steam-beated’ Train. Pallman's finest sleeping cors Waxtington to Louisville, Cincinnati, Indiznapolls and St. Louis without change, | Dini Car from Washington, Arrive Cincinnati 8 a.m.; Indiana x a.m., ai le ti, Lexington, 8:35" a. cm.? St. Louis, 6:45 p.m, Rouiseitte, 11:30 a.m 1:10 BM, DAILY.—The famous “F.F.¥. Line at A ‘soil vestibuled train, with ining car and Pellman Sleepers for Cincinnati, Lexington and Loutsville without change. Pullman Sleeper Wash ington to Virginia Hot Sprinzs, without change, s. Observation car fram, Hinton Arce 5 Le! week days Cincionatt, 5:50 p.m. ington, aie ville, 9:40 Talon Depot to Hi points, of rt 3 i037 AM. EXCEPT SUNDAY.—For Old Point Comfort and ‘Norfolk. Only rail Une. 2:25. P.M. 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