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22 FHE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY MAY 2, 189 — fo se may Ne a bere ay mf Sh 4 —\ 4 HY i evr CARRIAGE ENTRANC a aS wl eine oe Greceey COLISEUM CHICAGO. ones Fe SOLER own moreno nn enema y= PUBLIC RECEPTION 20x 270% MENDOUARTERS (0m OeiteArIONS C404 STATES ano TERRITORIES REFRESHMENT STANDS. % RESTAURANT, NEWSPAPER ROW Quy OAPERS ota GRAND : WALL —~ euBU Cc ENTPANCER ones — —_ DEMOCRATIC HOSTS Big Building Where the National Gathering Will Be Held. HOW THE DELEGATES WILL BE SEATED Some Unwritten History of Former Chicago Conventions. WILL COVER FIVE ACRES Sperial Correspondence of ‘The Evening Star. CHICAGO, April 20, 189 FIND LESS EX- citement here over the convention than at St. Louis. Chicago was satiated by the world’s fair crowd, nd a little affair like . national convention Ices not stir her blood. The hotels are amply large enough to take care of the crowd. No increase of rates will be made, and there will in all ity be plenty of room. The Great Nerthera Hotel, which was considered a folly in the way of magnitude at the time of the world’s fair, and of which it was i that would go to pieces as soon fair clored, is now building an im- i lding 500 rooms to its will be ready by the time convention me: Chicago has also scores of other hotels, and quarters can be gotten either in the heart of the city or ! close to the conventicn hall. The center of | the convention werk will be at the Palmer | Hovse. Here the leading men of the demo- | y from every state will have | Chairman Harrity has engaged | oms for di visked democrats, | puprtioning these among the | ew York dele » and, in fact, 13 the S at the quar: secured 1 torium, and the indi- | New York will be here in t that the conven- ded. Th is sure stion, and h in evi- practical- y. He he will at the con- | is a prospe > weil atte the n 1 be mn Hall. building in which the national demo- > held will be the biggest perman, ion hall ever erected. It will larger than the ¢ vito! at Its ground cover more and one-half with it will have ace. Think eld tron per- its gallery, of floor ng a wall about 2 fiv hen roofing it with an immens: work, so made that there are s four acres in the center unobstructed . Let this four acres be entirely from pillars or w You get so ch is now | put up for the great conventions of uture at Chicago. I went out to see it Sunday. The walls are already in ne iron network has been fasten- yeted together, and the roof is being put on. The roof is supported by immen: s of iron, which extend and pos free idea of the immens frem t ng in the shape of great arm ing in the center 100 feet above floor. The span is more than 200 feet, and these pieces of steel are all that support the roof. They look frail, re really very strong. They have d by the engin and it is said no danger whatever of the roof The building is to be made of ‘I. iroa and glass, with the exception of the floor, and it is as nearly fire-proof as modern ‘science can make it. Its outer walls are of a Milwaukee brick. The about sixteen inches thick, and the comes in through immense windows, of which is about as large as the floor of an average parlor. The building ts, you know, to be used for circuses, horse shows and such immense public gatherings as cannot be crowded into a small hall. It will be ened by Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Show on the ist of June. On the 15th of June there will be a bicycle exhibition in it, and after this it will be put in thorough shape for the national democratic conven- tion. After the convention is over there Will be another bicycle show, and later on in the summer there will be an exposition showing the industries of the southern States. There will be a foot ball match in the building on Thanksgiving day, when it is expected that there will be 25,000 peo- ple present. The Convention Arrangements. I have gone over the plans of the hall, and it will be, it seems to me, adinirably adapted for the democratic convention. it will, in some respects, give the best facil- ities ever furnished to a convention. At one end of the building there will be & space covering about three acres, | will constitute the convention | proper. This will contain 15,000 arranged somewhat in the form amphitheater, the seats of the public running about those of the delegates and alternates, who sit in a pit in the center, in front of a stage, upon which are the re. porters, the speakers of the convention and the national committee. The reporters are a bit below the desk of the speak- ers, but high enough to look over the heads of the people below. There are 1,000 seats set apart for the delegates. These seats run very much like the orchestra chairs of a theater in front of the stage. Back of them are 1,000 seats for the alternates, and back of these, as I have said, ar2 the + Seats for the public. At the onposite end of the building from the convention hall Proper is a public reception hall covering nearly two acres. This will be filled at the time of the convention with the crowd which cannot get inside, and it will prob- ably be free to all. Running clear around the building there is a tier of offices and rooms for committees, the officers of the convention and others. About one-quarter of these rooms are given up to the vifices for the dally papers. In these there will be tables and all facilities for writing dis- patches. This part of the building is called Newspaper Row, and from it will go out the news of the convention to more than *0,000,000 of people. The telegraph offices will _be under the speaker's platform. A large number of wires will be run into the building, and dispatches will be sent dur. ing the day direct from the building in order that the wires may not be over- crowded down town. There are a large number of exits from which hall the building, and there is no danger of a panic, as it could be emptied within a few moments. This is a most important mat- ter. So far we have never had a panic at a national convention. We have a number of times been on the edge of one, and had the people appreciated their danger they would probably not have been so anxious te get in. At the Minneapolis republican convention, which nominated Harrison, about 12,400 people were packed in the third story of a house which might have easily been burnt to the ground. At the Chicago convention of 1892 there were 20,000 people crowded together in a hall of wood. Dur- ing the convention an immense rain storm eceurred, and at one time there was a fall of an electric light with the wires attacied to it. Had a fire occurred there might have been cne of the greatest parics of history. The last democratic convention (1892) was held in the wigwam here, and as far is seating capacity was concerned, it was perhaps the largest convention ever held. It contained 19,200 chairs, and in the seais were 500 ladies. There were 1,000 persons connected with the press and telegraph service, with the police and messenger service, and there were 2,000 delegates crd alternates. Some Bix Chiengo Conventions. By this new building Chicago hopes to be the great convention city of the future. had some of the greatest conven- tions of history, and, beginning with 1860, it has grown in favor as a central place for political meetings. Chicago's greatest convention, perhaps, was that which nomi- nated Lincoln. At this time the first big national convention building was con- ructed. It was known as the Wigwam, and it was an immense wooden structure, built in much the same shape as one of the immense panoramas ,which are now in existence in the different cities of the United States. It was a great round wooden hall, with an almost flat roof, and with seats ke those of a theater. This hall ut 15,000 people. The national Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, Joseph B. Foraker of Oh'o and John D. Long of Mas- sachusetts first came prominently before the country as national characters. Gen. Joe Hawley and ex-Senator Edmunds were among the candidates. Senator Cullom nominated John A. Logan, and thé famous blind crzter, Judge West of Ohio, nomi- uated Blaine. Blaine was chosen, on the first ballot and Logan was persuaded to take the vice presidency. President Arthur was a cardidate, nothwithstanding the fact that he had said not long previous‘that he did not I!ke the presidential office, and that he would »ot take it again if it were hand- ed him on a ellver platter. The McClellan and Grant Conventions Both McClellan and Grant were nom- inated at Chicago conventions. ‘The Mc- Clellan convention was held in 1864. It made {ts nominations late in August of that year. August Belmont, the father of Perry Belmont, called it together, and Many noted men were in attendance. Hora tio Seymour led the New York deiegation. Allen G. Thurman, the Ohio knight of the red bandanna, and Valandigham—vhom Lincoln ‘afterward banished to Canada— were at the head of the Ghioans, and Jos eph E. McDonald, who from his having started in life as a saddler was nicknamed Old Saddle Bags, was among the great democrats from Indiana. Then there were Samuel J. Tilden of N York, who wa: just beginning his career as a national fig- ure, Fog Horn Bill Allen of Ohio and N. W. Eaton of Connecticut. The convention ce- clared the war a failure and demanded peace. Eaton of Connecticut made a spe: saying that no Union troops should cros the confederacy to coerce a southern state except over his dead body. Other slinilar silly speeches were made, and Gen, Mc- Ciellan and George H. Pendleton were made the nominees. Lincoln and Johnsen were nominated by the republicans and were easily elected. The Grant convention was held at Chi- ‘TION BUILDING. he 1 at Charleston and Baltimore. arleston convention was held three weeks before the convention that nomi- nated Lincoln. It was held in a hall not bigger than the a’ theater. It did not seat-more than 1,50) people. Stephen The | A. Douglas was the candidate of the north- ern democrats and ex-Senator Henry B. Payne was the leader of this faction in the conventi Judah P. Benjamin, after- ward secretary of war of the confederacy, led the southern democratic delegates. He against Douglas and wanted a man ho would in way favor pro-siavery legislation. Ben. Butler got his first na- tional notoriety at this convention. He was a delegate from M chusetts, und_he voted steadily Jefferson Davis. The convention lasted over a week, and then en of the southern states’ withdrew, making the split in the democratic party, which brought about the election of Abra- ham Lincoln. The convention finally ad- journed, without nominating a candidate, to meet again in Baltimore, June 18, 1860, s held in a theater, and nominated ixlas. The seceding delegates also held their convention in Baltimore. They nomi- sted John C. Breckinridge as the presi- dential candidate, and Lane of Oregon was chosen as the candidate for Vice Presi- dent. The third Baltimore democratic con- vention of that year nominated Bell of ‘Tennessee and Everett of Massachusetts. Exciting Scenes in Conventions. The Chicago convention of 1860 was one of the most exciting of our history. Sena- tor Allison of Iowa, who is now to be voted for at St. Louis, attended this his first national convention. He was a delegate, and was Chosen as one of the tally clerks. He was the first man to announce to the president of the convention that Lincoin was nominated. I published a chat I had with him not long ago, in which he de- scribed the scene which ensued. He says the convention went wild. The men threw their hats into the air, and for ten min- utes it seemed to rain hats and handker- chiefs. A similar scene followed the announce- ment of the nomination of Garfield at Chi- cago. The last ballot took more than an hour, and at its.close the convention of about 15,000 people shouted steadily for a quarter of an hour. Now and then the ap- plause would almost die out, but it would begin again, and be louder and wilder then ever. Ex-Governor Charley Foster of Ohio was with Garfield at the time. He told me, rot long ago, that Garfield turned as Fale as a sheet. He sat still, looking like death, while the convention cheered and cheered and cheered aguin. At last he beg- ged Foster to get him out of the hall in seme way. Foster took him’ by the arm and pushed the crowd aside, making the way toward the door. The vast crowd out- side saw them as they came cut, and made a rush to get close to them. ‘Theré was a cab waiting, and Foster quick- ly got Garfield into it. The crowd, how- ever, in their anxiety to see Garfield, ac- tually tore the roof off the cab, and Gov- ernor Foster told me he had a Dill of $65 to pay the driver on account of the dam- ages done to his vehicle. There seems now to be little doubt that Governor Foster, Jerry Rusk and others were in a combina- tion which, though nominally for Sherman, wes really for Garfield. Whether Garfield was close in the secrets of the combination and aided it along is a question. I inter- viewed him at his hotel the hight before he was nominated. I was then a correspond- ent of the Cleveland Leader, which was, to a large extent, his organ. I told him of the rumors I had heard of the combination working in his favor, and asked if it was true that he was a candidate. He threw his arm over my shoulders and looked me straight into the eyes as he replied: “You must say there is not a word of truth in that story. It will not be. I am here for Senator Sherman, and I would be a vil- lain if I should prove false to my trust.” The Conventions of 1884 were both held at Chicago. That which nominated Cleveland was most exciting. Cleveland was practically unknown to a large number of the delegates, and the fight for his fomination was a bitter and an acrimonious one. An exciting moment was when Gen. Bregg cf Wisconsin leaped lke a tiger on to the platform and de- nounced the opposition, muking a speech for Cleveland, and saying: “We love him for the enemies he has made.”” Blaine convent ton of that year Theodore democratic conventions of that year were | At the}: cago May 20, 1868. Gen. Joe Hawley was | the president, ard Gen. 1 put in nomination, and every te present voted for him. The chief contest here was Aor the vice presideacy, Gen. Joe Hawley ‘Senator Fenton of New York, Schuyle Colfax of Indiana, Henry Wilson of Mas chusetts and Ben. Wade being candidates. Ben. Wade led on the first ballot, but the fight was very bitter, and I have been told that a malicious story which was cireulated saying that insanity nin his family, and that Wade himself was at times mentally unsound, aided in his Ifax got the nomination and ice President, but the next convention of 1872, when Grant was again nominated, Colfax was b en by Henry Wilson, whom he had defeated four years before. Big Cincinnati Conventions. Along about the seventies Cincinnati was the great convention city. It was there in 1872 that Horace Greeley and B, Gratz Brown were nominated; there in | 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes got the nomina- tion which made him President, and there in 1880 Gen. Hancock was made the demo- cratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden having declined to run. All of these conventions Were exciting to an extreme—that of Blaine being especially notable in that Blaine’ nomination was prevented through a re- Port that the gas pipes were out of order. This prevented an tvening session and enabled the Biaine opposition to concen- trate on Hayes. Judge Tyner of Indiana, who was one of Grant's Postmasters General, told me that this gas story was 2 trick ‘gotten up by the opposition. to beat Blaine. Said he: “We knew that if there was an evening session that night Blaine would be nom- inated. If we could defer the balloting to,the next day we-believed we could de. feat him. Hayes was from Cincinnati, and the man who had charge of the hall was a friend of his. Just as it began to grow dark he came in and told the officers of the convention that the gas fixtures were out of order, and that if the jets were lighted there might be an explosion. His story was believed, and the convention ad- journed tiil the next day. We worked all that night to teat Blaine, and succseded in doing so.” There will be no such trick played at the convention St. Louis and Chicago will be by electricity, and such a trick as the*} above could not be attempted a second Ume without its cause being suspected and the real condition of affairs investigated. The Cartoonists of the Conventions. The coming conventions wil! be pic‘orial- ly shown up in the papers as never befoze. Every big dally has now its own cartoon. ist. A number of the newspapers will send artists, and everything will be cartooned and caricatured. The last democratic con- vention was most ably treated here by Mr. Lederer, the artist of the Chicago Herald. His sketches, which appeared daily during it, were among the most humorous fea- tures, and not a few of them were repro- duced by Murat Halstead in an article in the Cosmopolitan Magazine, describing the convention. I saw Mr. Keppler of Puck making sketches at the convention of 1880, and both Puck and $udge, as well as the great illustrated weeklies, will have a force Rere next July. FRANK G. CARPENTER. ———.+—_ On Broadway. From the Yonkers (N. ¥.) Gazztte. Stranger (who has been trying for half an hour to stop a cable car)—‘What's the mat- ter with these cars anyway? Don’t they ever stop?” Citizen—“‘Oh, yes, occasionally; but you See they have to economize on time now and then, so they may have some to spare for their daily blockades.” ——+e+-___ Ambiguous. From the Yonkers Statesman. “We are going to have the minister for supper tonight,” said the returned mission- ary, who had invited the dominie to break bread with him. “Ah!” gaid the converted who had return smacking his lip: to lighted cannibal chief, with the missionary, “you could do nothing make me feel more at home.” this year. The halls of both] THEGREAT-CRANK PEN Miniature Meclidnical Devices in the U. 8 Patent Office. ————+-—_ THE GROWTHOF INVENTION ——_, ___ Men Who Have’ Made Fortunes From Patents. MODEL. ROOM CURIOSITIES A LTHOUGH NINE- tenths of the people of the whole country are directly or indl- rectly interested in the manufacture or use of patented in- ventions, only those who have given the subject attention have~ any compre- hersion of the great interests involved or of the vast number who are laboring in the fleld of invention or in some manner allied to the Industry. Applications come to the United States patent office from ev- ery clty end every little hemlet in the land. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1805, the number of applications filed, including caveats, reissues, etc., was 41,014, of which 22, wer: granted. This aggregate, and that of the year next preceding, shows a slight falling off from the average for sev- eral years previous, especially in the num- ber of patents issued, which is due to the hard times. Not many years ago nearly all the inventive genius of the country was lo- eated in New England and the eastern states, bet during the last two cr three de- cades the west has developed its share of mechanical ingenuity, though Connecticut, the land of wooden nutmegs, still leads with the largest number of patents in proportion to population, with Massachusetts second, the District of Columbia third, New Jersey fourth, Montana fifth, Rhode Island and New York sixth and ,seventh, Colorado eighth and Ghio, Minnesdta and Illinois well vp in the list. The government departments have all been called beehives, but the patent office is more than eny other aptly described by the term. It is a busy, bustling place, with Its nearly 650 employes—examiners, drafts- men, clerks, copyists, ete.—crowded into fifty-six rooms. And with all the rest, it is the only bureau or department that is sclf- sustaining. In the year 18), the banner year in the histor: the office, the total receipts were § .66, while the ex- penses were $1,009), giving a net profit of $241,074 the ret earnings for the fiscal year 40 last the profits were $1 1, notwithstandirg the depressed con- ition of busin erally. The total amount of net earnines to the credit of the ers of the United States . Phe question has been er the goverrment should go cummating this fond, which has been characterized as so/mech blood money squeezed from the, fr of the coun- and vento If the fees are new lat r than neces- to cover the cost of adjudging and g upon all applications, say the ob- jecters, why them? In Patent office many interest- ing feature 1 room, that great torebouse minjatsre mechanfeal de- curious and its humoro josities of literature” are aining than the curlosities nt offlee. “Within its ves of almpst.every imple of 2 from the Hotchkiss machine un to the toy pistol! from a steam én! ao common wocd'strew, Trom the great ndmill to a hottle st rom a steam= sid not more of are the pa model: ship to a rap, ashing ma- chine to an ice freezer, from a cradie to a tombstone, and from a brick machine or a folding bed to a fish hook and a toy hoop. There are juraping jacks, losing bottles and I'fe-saving hoats, cook- ing stoves, printing presses and ga ers, horseshoes, railroad frogs and machines, corn planters, corn shellet corn extractors, fans, corset stays and glove fasteners, without end. Patents for the Same Thing. The number of patents that have been issued for variations or Improvements of the same thing is astonishing. Covering so small a thing as a wood screw, there are over 100 different patents; in the cl of lanterns nearly 1,0) patents, and for wash boilers something like pipes and mouth picces been issued, rd of 600, 7 patent and fer bottle stoppei nese are among the mplest devices; but coming to the more important E there have been up to the last MS paten r granted for sewing ma- chines and their various att : firearms, not including torpedo or machine guns, 4, car couplin, knitting mach implements, including planters, harvester: thrashers and the whole range of m: chines and appliances, the total number of patents is 36,575, of which 19,122 relate to alone. In the class of électrie light- patents have been issued previous to the current fiscal year, and in that of carriages and wagons the total number is 20,000. These are fair iMustrations, In the line of toys there is an almost endless array, including nearly 200 toy savin; banks, some of which are exceedingly genious and unique, and dolls without number. Many of these are among the most profitable patents issued. Most of the contents of the model room have recently been removed to the Unton building, over the city post office. Within a Few Years, It would seem that with this great num- ber of patents already granted every pos- sible improvement or device in these classes must be covered. But so it seemed to many a few years ago, when a majority of the present inventions were undiscov- ered; yet inventive brains have gone on evolving new ideas, and more than half of all the patents issued have been granted in the last fourteen years. In the various classes of electricity ‘the most’ extraordi- nary development has been shown within a few years, and the number of patents run weil up into the thousands, of which the wizard Edison alone has obtained nearly seven hundred. The great aggre- gate of patents granted is vastly swollen by the continual, improvement of impor- tant inventions. {For instance, a single firm of pasgengerjand lifting elevator man- ufacturers empléy in thelr construction and cperating mechanism more than 250 separate patents,; anil new improvements are being added ‘constantly. The modern printing press manufacturers own hun- dreds of ‘patent: vering the various parts which go t@ make the complete ma- chine, while the -great electric companies have procured or-purchased scores of pat- ents useful or nétessary in the perfection of their various systems. And so it is all through the list. “Thé field of invention is practically limitless, and great as are the rewards that have been realized for the wonderful and useful discoveries already made, still greater ones remain to be en- joyed by those who solve the numerous problems and possibilities yet remaining in the realm of the iinattained. It is the profit realFxed by successful in- ventions thatvinspires the greater part of this activity. Néarly every inventor ex- pects or hopes to make a fortune out of the happy idea which he believes he has discovered; yet it is a singular fact that the original inventor is rarely the actual beneficiary, either because his necessities compel him to sacrifice his prospective profits before the patent is secured or be- cause he fs so lacking in business capacity that he lets his interest slip away from him before its real value has been demon- strated. It is the great companies organ- ized for handling or manufacturing valu- able patented inventions that really make the money in a majority of cases, Ex- Commissioner Mitchell 1s authority for the statement that more than three-fourths of all the capital Invested !n manufactures in this country, a total of over $6350,00,000, is directly cr indirectly based upon patents. Wealthy From Patents, Several of our well-known American mil- aving and 12. For agricultural 6-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES, Yonaires owe their fortunes to valuable in- ventions, Of these, perhaps the four most conspicuous are George M. Pullman of pal- ace car fame; Alexarder Graham Bell, who secured the first telephone patent; Cyrus H. McCormick, the harvester manufacturer, and Thomas A. Edison. Of the other ‘men whose important and successful inventicns brought them both fame aud wealth, high up on the list is Elias Howe, the original inventor of the sewing machine, whos early struggles were full of disappointments ‘and trials, finally ending in success and affluence; Samuel F. ‘B. Morse,who invented the telegraph; Sam- uel Colt, inventor of the revolver pistol, Who made the first model of his invention on board a ship in 1820, and took out his first patent tn 1835, which was the fore- runner of all the great inventions in re- volving firearms bearing his name; Rich- ard M. Hoe, wno by gradual steps. after many improvements, finally produced the wonderful rotary presses, into which were fed ribbons of paper five miles long at the rate of 800 feet a minute; Robert Bruce, inventer of the type-casting machine; Eli Whitney, who invented the cotton ‘gin; Thomas Blanchard, inventor of the tack machine; John Eriesson, who designed the screw propeller for vessels and invented the ironclad Monitor,’ and James B. Eads, whese genius created the St. Louis bridge and the New Orieans jetties. More honor- ed than any of these, perhaps, because his inventions stood more for ‘philanthropy than for possible profit, is Joseph Francis, who invented the life-saving boat used in the government coast service, The Fifty- first Congress voted him a medal of pure gold, valued at $6,000. It 1s the largest and finest ever given by this government to any individual, and was presented to Mr. Francis at the White House in 18) by President Harrison, with appropriate cero- monies, It is two-thirds of an inch thick and as large as a tea plate. On the occa- sion of his last visit to Washington four years ago, then in his ninety-second year, the medal was donated to the National Museum, where it is now on exhibition, to- wether with his original life car, which saved 201 lives from the wreck of the Ayr- shire on the coast of New Jersey in 18. The Great American Crank Pen. With all its other peculiarities and at- tainmemts, the patent office is known as the great American crank pen, and it is this feature of it that presents the humorous aspect. The great number of utterly im- practicable and almost ridiculous devices for which patents are asked is a source of amusement and wender to those who get an insight Into the matter. “Wheels In the head” seems to be an apt designation of the mania which possesses hundreds @f men who are busying themselves in the field of invention, and a glance through the recent files at any time will reveal some new in- sanity in mechanism upon which a patent is asked. Years ago, in the days of fre- quent Indian depredations, when the fron- Uer covered a good deal more ground than it does now, some rural genius invented a common plow that was to have its beam filled with grape and canister ready for use In case of a curprise by the redskins. An- other western chap designed a house which was to be anchored at the four corners as a protection against cyclones. Among the other oddities noted are a tape worm trap, fo be inserted through the mouth to catch the unwary tapeworm when he ventures too far off his reservation, and an illuminated metal cat, with eyes of fire, designed to be aholy terror to rats and mice. A later device of the funny sort, but one with some possible utility, is a hen's nest in which the egg drops through a trap door as soon as deposited by the hen, the object being to make the hen believe she has not succeeded tn laying an egg. Still later than this Is an invention by a man named Batter, which consists of a shoe with a heating apparatus in the sole to keep the feet warm, also a steering con- trivance for hunting’ dogs, consisting of a fan attachment to the tail of the dog to a sist him in turning si corners. In re- prank devices are One of the most in- He of these is a “pick- ef det invent connecte which ri I rotect Another J!lin man patented an elec- contrivance to assist the befuddled club man in finding the keyhol hen re- ng home late on a dark n small metal ¢y r containing a powerful little incandescent Is to he countersunk in the doorjemb near the ke 5 is a‘push button. No matter how dark the night or how uncertain the gentleman's frame of mind, he has only to rub his hand down the side of the door over the button and the keyhole is disclosed to view. LOUIS M. BABCOCK. ——. —__ ole, just over which SPOONING INTERRUPTED. Katie Degnan's “Fren’ Broke Tom Hyde's Slats ‘n’ Shut His Lamps.” From the New Sun, “"Twer only a little mix, 'n’ Hy was pushed in 'n’ his lamps shut, ’n’ his slats bruk; wat t'll’s use talkin’! You’ tink be d’ papes dat Dynamite alley war torn up ‘n’ 'twerrent nothin’ but a mix.” It was a friend of Katie Degnan, “the | ple-plate greaser," that spoke. He was gusted because the evening papers had ex- ploited a little Incident of the alley, which ended in Tom Hyde being taken to the le's puss. hospital with the damages enumerated above, the same having by inflicted by George Cox, wh temporarily Katie Degnan’s “stead: Cox is a little fellow and Hyde ts a big fellow. an extra steady for steady being at sea. She met Cox at the Hounds’ ball, and she says: “He treated me whit Ibe on d’ level wid him If the truth must be told, Katie and Cox have been spooning like sixty since they met. The only spooning place in Dyna- mite alley i: on the stoop at the end of the alley, and right under Tom Hyde's windows. Spooning, of course, must be done at night. Tom Hyde is a hard-work- ing man, and his spooning days are over. The real cause of the row, then, is obvious. As for the row itself, weil, Cox and Katie were spooning far into the night, when Hyde, his slumbers disturbed, strode out, Cox is a sort of atie, her regular why shouldn't ‘| and, brushing against Cox, said: ‘ay, Snipe, you ain't a t'ousan’, you're only one.” Cox was so busy thinking that he forgot to resent this until after Hyde had gone. When he did remember it he said: “Say, Kate, if d’ bloke peeps agin I'll push in his te soothed him and had him quiet when Hyde got back. It would have been all right if Hyde hadn't said to Katie: “Say, you ain't no upstairs girl; you kin be called down.” This was construed by Cox to be a deadly insult, and, to use the words of a Dyna- mite alley man, “he pasted him one in d’ lamps.” Katie screamed and ran and hid in an ice wagon. Cox “trun d’ bloke down 'n did a spiel all over him, brekin’ his slats’n suc! Mrs. Hyde heard the rumpus and ran out. She found her husband with broken ribs and a broken nose. Cox had gone. She screamed. Policeman Devery pulled Katie out of the ice wagon and escorted her home. Hyde went to the hospital, and the police are looking for Cox. —___-+2+—_____ Incorrigible. From the Philadelphia Aimerican. Dunner—"“It’s impossible to get Bilkins to pay his debts. He won't pay anything.” Kalvy—“Is that so?” Dunner—“Yes; why, he won't even pay attention to my demands.” ——_—+e+ cyclone | | pct? fs mot much like T Ro Highest of all in Leavening Power— Latest U.S. Gov't Report al Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE MINISTER THYRSO The New Representative of Portugal in This Country. SOMETEING ABOUT HIS CAREER His Wife Chats About Her Native Land and the People. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN Portugal has just sent a new minister to represent her in the United States. The Viscount de Santa Thyrso, with his wife, arrived in this city a few days ago. The viscount was born in Lisbon about thirty- two years ago, and was christened by his parents Carlos Cyrillo Machado. He is of medium height, rather heavy set, with dark eyes, hair and complexion. He was educated in the polytechnic school of Lis- bon, and has been in the diplomatic serv- ice almest continuously for twelve years. As an attache o? the Portuguese embasey at Rome, he began his career, and was advanced from an attache to the position of second setretary, and in "91° was ap- pointed first secretary to the London Jega- tion. While occupying this position hé was transferred to Mwirid, and again to Lon- don, where he was connected with the le- gation for three or feur years, and was charge d'affaires, In 18M he was elected deputy by the electoral circle of nis father's native town, Santa ‘Thyrso. He comes of a distinguished family. His uncle is the Count de Mesquitella, and is a man of great wealth and distinction. Not long since he was created Viscount de Santo Thyrso, in recognition of his skillful diplomacy. The peerage in Por- tugal is not hereditary, decided, in 184, that the succession by heredity should ‘be discontinued, and the honor is now confered by the king. ‘The government 1s a constitutional mon- archy, the crown being hereditary in m: and female. The houses of representati Viscount Thyrso. are called cortes, and corsist of the camara dos pares, which is composed of grandes chosen for life by the sovereign, and th camara dos deputades, composed of 17: members, elected by pepular yote. The legislative power is vested jointly in the sovereign and the cortes. Both chambers meet and dissolve at stated times, and the agreement of both to a measure is a con- dition to its becoming a law, but the king has an absolute veto. The present king, Carlos I, has the throne since ISS8, and is the p Viscou: Februar: Na Jervis @’Althouguia Ferreira Pinto. She is the daughter of the corsul general of Po, tugal at London, and on her maternal side a granddaughter of the late Viscount Athouguia, minister of marine for several terms. She is a handsome woman, and of a most charming pe ity. She speaks English without a suggestion of hy eign birth. She lived several years in land and was partly educate: viscount said to a only eon Eng! which is, however, an assumption of too much modesty, as there is but a slight accent to his pronunciation. This is their first trip to America, and they are de- lighted with what they have seen of Washi: bon, yet it is a beautiful place,” said the viscountess. “Our capital is a charming place of residence. In the winter the king and his court stay at the Palace dos Necessidades: the cortes also convene there, as well as the supreme 4 Viscountess Thyrso. court, and life is very gay. The climate is perfect, the mountains on the north protect us from the cold, and the sea ways tempers the heat. “There are beautiful women there, too,” said the viscount. “They dress well, their gowns come from Paris, and hardly a handsomer set could be found any place than can be seen at a ball or the theater in Lisbon. But perhaps as handsome rep- resentatives of the sex to be seen in Por- tugal are to be found among the Varinas women. Who are the Varinas women? Well, they are probably descendants of the old Grecian colony of Iberians who were among the first settlers of Portugal. They are a class of fishermen who have lived in the province of Algrave for ages, they are very clannish, and intermingle socially but litle with people outside of their own race, and seldom intermarry with persons of other nationalities, so that they have preserved their identity among alien people to a re- markable degree. “The men spend their lives on the sea fishing, and the women go about the neigh- boring towns, with great baskets of fish for sale on their heads, walking as straight as an arrow. Their costumes are striking, too. On Sundays and holidays they tie their hair up under a bright-colored hand- kerchief, and on top of that-they place a large, wide-brimmed hat, with one big, bright pompon on it. Gn work days, when they wear a hat, it is a small affair, with little pompons all around the brim, but on holidays it is always the big hat, with the big pompons. “They also wear a gorgeous skirt, and a white waist, over which they fit a gaudy corselet, but their chief pride is their neck- laces. They are composed of all the gold Pieces that they can obtain. In many cases the necklaces represent the com- bined wealth of the family. “The poor in our country -do not suffer as they do in some other places. Wags are very low, but the necessaries of lite “Has yer man got an ole pair of pants what I kin have?” “No, he hasn't, but I have.”"—Life, are very cheap, too, and they require so little, the climate is mild, their wants are few and easily supplied. They live on fish, vegetables and wine, especially wine; you know that it is absurdly cheap in our the cortes having | | at once busied herself with the preparations | bit = country. A bottle of wine such as the poor use is sold for a two-pence. It is an im- mense wine-producing section. The valley of Doure alone yields one hundred and fifty million gallons of wine annually. Then, too, they are fond of the olive, and it grows in abundance. All the fruits of a warm climate do; oranges, lemons, peaches, pears, and so forth, grow in the greatest abundance. In the country places the peasants own small farms and raise almost everything that they need, from the wool for their own clothing, to the food they eat.” E The viscount and the viscountess will be at the Arlington for the present. Their plans as yet are not entirely settled, but they will probably spend the suramer at Newport, and when they return to Wash- ington in the fall they expect to establish quarters for the legation, and to go to housekeeping in a manner betitung their position. —— BATHS THAT sw Young Women Attendants Welcome All Comers. From the Brooklyn Standan? Unton. Another institution peculiar to Sweden ts the bath. To speak of a Turkish or @ Russian bath brings visions of hot rooms ard clouds of vapor, with a marble slab to le upon, as in the morgue, and a cold plunge at the end. The mention of the Swedish bath brings visions—shall I say it? —of fair women. True, not ali of the at- tendants at the Swedish baths would win prizes at a beauty show, still a large major- ity of them are ycung and buxom, and many of them, dressed and promenading DES TAKE. the Drottninggaten, would be not unat- tractive representatives of their sex. In all the considerable towns of Sweden, also of Finland—waich 4s Swedish in char. acter, although now an appendage of Rus- sia—there are well-appointed oublic baths, and the attendants at all of them are wo- men. When I was first told this I thought {t a hoax of the “Ole Olesen” type, and I “winked the other eye” at my informant, but I soon found it was true. J was in one of the first-class hotels in Stockholm, but when I asked for a bath I was directed to a house several blocks away, and thither I went. At the entrance to the bathing apartents sat a row of healthy-looking ycung women, all neatly dressed in gowns of some washable stuff, cut high in the neck, but sleeveless, their white arms giv- ing evidence of the beautifying effects of much ecap and warm water. A girl of about twenty-three, I judged, stepped forward to receive my ticket, and led the way to one of the apartments. for my bath, and I sat down to wait until she had finished. She was a Swedish girl, ¢ ber name could not have been Lucy, she lingered long. I was still skeptical &s to what I had been told, rather believing that the prerogatives of the young woman as an attache of the establishm nt_must heve a judicious limitation, and so, finally thinking that her exit must near, I deliberately—very deliberately—removed my coat, vest and trousers. Then I sat down again. She was in the tub room and I was in the dressing room, but I saw her plunge the thermome into the water and hoid it up to read tk Then she look me in a wondering way 4s if to ask, “What in the world are you Waiting for?” and motioned me to “come on, iding some words in her native tongue. I could not understand what she said, but she beckoned in English, and the tcne of her speech suggested both persua- sion and command. To be coaxed on a woman while I coyly held bac rather a reve the order of n but my natiy y triumphed, an told her—chi pantomime—that services in my { were at an end To be “pointed to the door” will u make an impression of gray matt seemed only to s pon the least s but in th t to the BR al query whether gray m: ene of my conspicuous deficiencies. r did she appear to comprehend the site ‘ation when J finally took her by the arm and led her out of the apartment, locking the door behind her. Then I heard a chat- ering among the gples outs’ punc- tu by exclamations of sury fe and ending in a peal of laughter. No doubt my buxom attendant was telling her compan- ions of the monstrosity in No. that insisted upon washing itself! When I passed out T had to run th Uet of ail these girls, and the baby hippopotamus could hardly have ex: ed more expressions of amused wonder. FOOD ADL ATION, How the Abuse is De: Hap, From the Boston Transcript. it With at the A little cheese story is told in the an- nual report of Dr. Charles L. Harrington, milk inspector, to the effect that during the early part of the year the first of what was intended to be a series of carloads of “filled cheese” from Wisconsin ceived in Boston and sold to ble dealers. Anal of samples showed the article to be a product of lard and skimmed milk. A warrant was issued for t of the selling agent, who at once city. The dealers who had bought were notified not to sell, and all stopped payment of their checks and returned the goods to the agent In Chicago. Since that time, so far as is known, there have been no further shipment “The local oleomargarine trade virtually dead,” says Dr. Harringto: ing to the enfi it of chapters Chapter 8 the sale of oleomargarine colored in imitation of yellow butter, and chapter 412 es a number of regulations to be observed by dealers, and prohibits t ing of oleomargarine in restaurants and hotels without notification to the guest of the true character of the subst served. But ten persons or firms were licensed or registered as dealers in oleomargarine ing the year, against seventy-four during 18M. Most of these ten ceased selling af- ter a short experience, the sale of colored goods meaning prosecution, the keeping of uncolored natural oleomargarine meaning limited sales and greater or less pecuniary loss. The prosecution of complaints based on twenty-one sales of the colored article sufficed to drive the fraudulent imitation out of the market. At present those de- siring to use colored oleomargarine obtain it on order from Rhode Island, or by order- ing through agents who have regular can- vi ig routes in the city. The tubs are forwarded by express. The chief buyers are keepers of restaurants and boarding houses. For a time a considerable —_ in was re- rrest left the is was observed in the use of the article and seventy-one ca: restaurants, 'S were entered in court for failure to notfv guests.” In regard to milk, Dr. Harrington states that, while a number of samples examined have shown unusually extensive adultera- tion—one, for instance, from a store, being more than half water—the tendency has been, as in previous years, constantly tow- ard improvement. This is conspicuously noticeable in the case of restaurants. The adulterations were, as heretofore, mainly abstraction of cream and addition of wa- ter. The use of preservatives and coloring agents Is very uncommon, and, although more samples containing these substa were fcund than was the case during the year 184, their use is more restricted, for the colored and preserved specimens came chiefly from two dealers, both ot paid heavy fines on several counts. The character of the vinegar and cider vinegar samples obtained has continued to be uniformly good, but few being found which required complaint in court. ———_ 0-2 ___ Flower Farming for Women. From the Gentlewoman. Flower farming undertaken by women is by no means unlucrative. I have one friend who is doing wel with a violet farm and apple orchard. Another lady, no longer young, but with an indomitable pluck, com- pelled by circumstances to make ‘her own living, started a lily farm last summer in @ remote country village in Sussex. I am glad to say she is succeeding wonderfully, ard besides her Mlies, disposes of eggs, cream, mushrooms and other garden pro- duce without difficulty. And my friend was a London woman who had had no pre- vious experience im country ways and doings. whom