Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1897, Page 13

=== THE EVENING STAR. es PUBLISHED DA EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenne, Cor. 11th 8t., by "he Brg Se ATI Compr. ge New York Office, 49 Potter Building. The Evening Star is served to subecrihbers fn the ety by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents per week. or 44 cents per month. jes at the co nets each. Ry mafl—anywhere in the United States or Canada—postage prepaid—50 cents per month. Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreign postage added, $3.60. red at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., a nd-cla. = mail matter.) £7 All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. Rates of adv tising made known on application. Part 2. The Foening Slar.-- 13=24. If you want to buy, sell or exchange anything, it will pay you to announce the fact in the advertising columns of The Star. They are closely studied by more than three times as many people as read any other WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1897-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. had these Cotton Fabri calendar s; Ss it is summer. as 4 beginning. Lowest of any v ee coming months will be fre $ ES ures t Print wid yard. Simpson's Mourning Prints—it ts msible to beliewe th: ther i pen—certainly line of the very newest y and subdued col nd exclusive with us—6e. at- ew know what usual good mt the price wide—Derk and Medium We. a yard. in Turkey Regd—1e. and 12%e. a Twilled Turkey Red—18e. a yard. sAutumn Percales. is where the mly pronounces it Ts Fine. Red a Here cetterns: proud of {{—36 inches Be E Ginghams. first t of a will want aprons—here —_ the supply are best and a happ they make—fresb and a yard. PERRY’S, “NINTH ANDTHE AVENUE.” Fstablished 1840. Telephone 996. eet Seadonsoesee ston ae PERRY’S. The store is beginning to take Already the fall Domestics have put in their appearance. Domestic things demand forethought—the thrifty house- wife plans and provides for the future. That is why we have brought to the front while yet the \ Perhaps enthy choice assortments of patterns we have provided—and eager- ness to have your appreval of the selections we have made— have had something to do with their early advent. are none too soon for timetakers. Perhaps in no other one season have there been so many handsome and unique effects shown in the costless Domestics we shall spread before you this season. And quality has not been sacrificed to design, either. are sure, at the prices that we shall quote rignt off at the very on the autumn hues. siasm over the But they You will be astonished, we Te a ese ts ee te ee In more ways than one the ighted with unusual conditions. Seats sSenseete Autumn OutingCloths.: Brand new stripes and checks, on all shades of Mzht and dark grounds. Proper width—10e. a yard. Soshoateeseeseiseote Soe) Canton Flannel. The makings of a winter's comfort— Seeenetoetecte ogeeg Brown or Bleached—in all the depend- = able grades—éc. to 15e. a yard. 3 © ° & Tickings. é We positively will not show you a & yard of any but the most reliable ws ickin We have both 1 plain and £ fancy striped- 32 and 36 inches wide— & AZtye. to Be. a yard. z $ Ready-made Sheets # s é and Pillow Cases. 3 2 = Our effort is always to have + something out of the ordinary for you—a little more than the $ money's worth, when it is pos- $ sible. Another opportunity to ¥ buy Sheets and Pillow Cases, 53 ready to put on the beds, for $ about what the materials are $ worth— is ‘3 Bleacised Shects, in excellent quality & of Muslin—S1\y6—worth G0c.—for 48¢. J, each. = $ ed muslin—45x3—ouly 36 ouly 1234 Le Se i a Ss i Sreeseegeedesenseegeeentoogecgecte A WOMANS KLONDIKE SYNDICATE. Several Washington Women to Join an Expedition. From the New York Tribune. The Womin’s Klondike tion is an organtz yndicate expedi- t appears to be fn process of crystallization. A golden eh m is in front of the originators, and shining realizations are cheering them in their plans. To Mrs. Sarah W. McDon- rnold is due the original idea and initial theusht. The bankers are Charles Frazier | &e No. %% Nassau street. Among the 1 patror esses are Mrs. Jennfe June Croly, | Woman's Press (ly s. Hall of Sorosts, Mis: United S$ col- S. Lockwood, te of ent Washington, Mrs. Mary M. Anacostia, D. Mrs. Mary Whitney Emerson, corre- ling secretary of the W.N.P.A., Wa: D. C.; Mrs. James E. Tanner, Wash- | D. C. W. Morgan Robbins, F.S.L, | consulting engineer. talk with Mrs. S. W. McDonnold, a reporter gathered a good deal -d expedition. New York on March MecDonnold, briskly, laying our foundation plans ul trip. Why should not in a gold mining expe re There is no reason against it, and re starting with our ey open and thorough investigation and discus sion “How will you get there?” “A Pullman sleeping car—or two cars, if forty people join will be chartered New York to Seattle, ard will be exclusively by the members of the « tion. Three meals a da on the cer, and all f i by the part: =, and we will Lew will you ge ther thousand miles? y steamer, and it will will be furnished nd tips will be de- The dista - the outfit of the e om, which will be ordered by tele- 1 on leaving New York. e fun comes after you it net? ‘The Chilkat ps orler to comp leave Sitka, net to ver the Chil- ake the Schwatka route e will decide that question at We will travel by collapsible cara- when we leave Sitka, where the vans h en to pieces and carricd horseback over the pa so will the nd provisions. On the other side of the vans will be refitted and the continued as when leaving Sitka. we reach the’ lakes ,rafts will be trom timber on the banks, and these will float people, horses and vans For twenty persons there will be vans, each with four horses, and three © vans will be fitted with portable pers to accommodate seven persons each, The two other vans will be used for Provisions, with sleepers’ bunk in front. For those wishing to sleep alone tents and @rmy cots will be provided.” “How many men are going to figure in this expedition of Eve?" “My son will go with me,” said Mrs. Mc- Dennold, “and Mrs. Connor’s son will ac- company her. Then, there is Mr. Robbins, and we will have in addition a qualified medical man.” Properly: The cost to each person traveling with the expedition will be $1,000, 3500 payable on February 1, 1898, and the balance on leaving Sitka on the overland route, or the whole may be paid before leaving New York. : d Mixed With Alcohol Used y a '’Frisce Doctor. From the St. Louts Globe-Democrat. Dr. Fred W. D’Evelyn, head of St. Luke’s Hospital, San Francisco, has just made | Public the results of fifteen years’ experti- ments, by which he claims to have found a certain cure by inoculation of horse blood for drunkenness, as well as for transmis- sion of hereditary taint of alcoholism. D'Evelyn began his investigations while a surgeon in the British army in Zululand, | and he selected the horse as a clean ani- mal with plenty of blood. His cure fs on the same lines as Jenner's vaccination remedy, and he asserts it will not only kill the craving for drink, but it will relieve the children of a drunkard from hereditary taint, which he calls constitu. tional alcoholism. The substance which he obtains by injecting alcohol into the blood of a horse he calls equisine, and it is this he introduces into the human system. The doctor thoroughly introduces alcohol into a horse, and then draws off the blood into a sterilized vessel, where it is mixed with chloral to influence the clot. After settling twenty-four hours, it 1s subjected to a freezing process, then shaken for half an hour and decanted. The result is a slightly sticky, pale, straw-colored fluid whieh he calls equisine. What vac- cine has been to smallpox, equisine will be ito hereditary or acquired alcoholism, he isine is prepared in small plaques, e by saturating bibulous paper with fluid and then baking it in a_ hot-air chamber. The skin of the arm or leg of a patient is scarified and the plaque applied, moistened with boiled water. Twelve hours later the plaque is again moistened and ap- plied, and is worn for five days. In adult cases of alcoholism, the plaque is applied once a weak for eight or nine weeks. The doctor claims to have been successful in all cases where sedatives or narcotics were not used. SS eee Winter in Mexico. From the Mexican Herald. Perhaps the most trying sun we have here on the tableland is the midwinter sun, so “intense that the native expression is that “it bites,” and yet men perform great journeys on foot or horseback under the sun of winter without injury. This may be the classic land of manana, of delay and procrastination, but the people have strong- er nerves, and life, though led on simpler lines, is happler in many ways. Nobody goes mad here from the heat, nobody tum- bles down a corpse in the streets from the effects of the sun, and rarely any one re- marks about the weather, From the time of United States Consul Strother down to the present time residing and visiting Americans have never wearied.of praising Bose ae climate of Mexico's tabie- jan The First Thoughts of Autumn-=- A Heavy Transaction in Well-Located Mt. Pleasant Property. EIGHTY-THREE THOUSAND FEET SOLD The Outlook for Improvement Con- tinues Very Good. NEW BUILDINGS PLANNED The rather sluggish condition of affairs in real estate circles was pleasantly agitated during the past week by two very large transactions. The first was the transfer by Mr. W. Bourke Cockran of New York to Mr. Jchn T. Willlams of the same city of the handsome residence known as the Robeson house, at the corner of 16th and O streets, just north of Scott circle. The other was the sale by Mr. George W. Silsby to Mr. J. L. White of Montreal, of 83,000 square feet of land in Mount Pleasant. This handsoine property is a part of Ingle- side and extends from 17th to 18th streets, fronting cn Park street. Mr. White paid $1 per foot for the property, cash. About a year ago, when things were so much de- pressed, Mr. Silsby purchased it from Mr. Chapin Brown for about 75 cents a foot, so his investment has proved highly profit- able. It has also shown that he took a cor- rect view of the future at the time he made the purchase, for he asserted then that prices would improve substantially in a very short time. Mr. White, the purchaser, is known as “the Jim Keene of Washington’s Wall street,” having been so remarkably fortu- rate in his operations on the stock mar- ket, it being said on excellent authority that he has made $150,000 in the last eleven months. He has large interests in the south in the shape of cypress forests, and has been in the lumber business all his life. He contemplates building a mansion on his newly acquired property that will cost not less than $40,000, and he will improve the grounds in such a way as to form one of the handsomest private parks in the Dis- trict. Views of an Expert. In speaking of the sale yesterday evening # well-known real estate man sald it was enly another instance of the fact that the improvement in the real estate market here would be first felt in suburban property lying along or near quick transit roads. It was already being shown, he said, in the higher grades of property located near the Metropolitan and Capital Traction lines, end medium-priced property would come in when the Eckington road was improved d the Brightwocd road bettered by an ‘change of t fers with city lines. ‘The next improvement we will see,” he continued, ‘will be in the erection of fine city residences. The disturbed condition of labor thioughott the country will have, 1 am sure, a tendency to cause capitalists to crowd to the national capital, where they can be free from uneasiness and find ample laws for protection, while at the same time they can direct their affairs else- where without inconvenience. This may sound like the fears of a nervous man, but it is true. Then, again, a republican ad- ministration alwa: tracts well-to-do peo- ple to Washington. So I look for a very substantial spring revival in the building and the renting of houses of a superior character.” Good Sigus for the Future. Among architects there is considerable work of a preliminary nature that will take substantial shape in a short time. An- other apartment house {s in contemplation, and the chances are that it will be erected. Messrs. George E. Emmons and Charles W. Simpson have the matter under consid- eration, and Architect A. B. Morgan has outlined the plans. It is proposed to buiid it at the southwest corner of 25th street and Pennsylvania avenue. The preliminary drawings call for a structure 100 by 146 in size, of steel beams and terra cotta fill- ing, making the construction fireproof. The front will be of buff brick and Hummels- town stone. It will be six stories, attic and basement in height. All the latest improve- ments be introduced, and the cost will be between $80,000 and $00,000. If present indications hold good work will be com- menced this fall, and be completed in the spring of next year. The row of white marble dwellings which Messrs. Emmons and Simpson are erectiag at the corner of 14th and Yale streets, Co- lumbia Heights, are completed as to their fronts, which have been rubbed down, and their attractive style is being commenied on in a very favorable way. The stone is Georgia marble, the same as that used in the new Cocoran Gallery, and it possesses the characteristic of growing whiter all the time. Buildings to Be Erected. The movement on Columbia Heights con- tinues. Henry Simpson has prepared plans for three eight-room dwellings on Kenyon street between 13th and 14th streets. They will be 16.8 by 41 feet in dimensions, ard will have very prettily designed fronts of mottled brick. Cabinet mantels, tiled ves- tibules and baths and modern conveniences will be introduced. The cost will be $8,000. I. W. Stone will have J. C. Yost erect for him on plans drawn by Architect Edward Woltz a three-story brick dwelling on 12th street between A and B streets southeast. Phe pressed brick front will have a square bay window running the full height. The house will be 22 by 60 feet in dimensions. It will be heated by hot water and equipped with all recent fixtures. The cost will be $5,200, Three very handsome houses are to be erected by Redford W. Walker & Son on 2ist between R and S streets. The plans have been prepared by C. L. Harding. They will be three stories and basement in height, with balcony bay fronts of Seneca stone and mottled brick, with gables and dormers. The mansard roofs will be tiled. The hard woods in the interior will be oak and pine; the baths will be tiled and steam heating fixtures and electric appliances in- troduced. The cost will be $20,000. The northeast is getting a very good share of improvement. D. B. Gottwalls will build twenty dwellfngs in.that section from. plans prepared by B. Stanley Sim- mens. They will be two-story and cellar houses, with bay-window fronts of pressed brick and Indiana limestone. They will be heated by latrobes. Six of these dwellings will be erected at the corner of 10th and I streets northeast, and fourteen at 12th and S streets northeast, Trinidad. The latter will have flat fronts. Dr. W. C. P. Hazen will build three dwell- ings on A_ street northeast between 6th and 7th streets. They will be each 19 by 48 feet in dimensions, three stories and basement, with press brick fronts end Hummelstown’ stone bay windows. The marsard roofs will be slat- ed. Heating will be by iatrobes and fur- naces, and all modern improvements will be introduced, including tiled baths and elec- tric appliances. B. F. Judson is the atchi- tect. —_.s—_. S A Thin Excuse. From Puck. Deacon Hasbeen (laying down his paper) —“I heve just been reading that alcohol will remove grass stains from the most delicate fabric.” f: Mrs. Hasbeen (severely)—“‘There you go’ again, Jason, trying to find some excuse for tippling!. Just remember that you have | no grass stains in your stom: ——-—-2- “Want” ads. in The Star pay because they bring answers. prices before in America. Bargain Tables Ist Floor. Table 1—Containing $1 Shirt Waists. Reduced to. 35c. Table 2—Containing Waist. Reduced to. t 49c. ‘Tuble 8—Containing $1.50, se Sure Waste Neauckdes Z5Ce Table 4—Containiny peaalicas aye Summer Corset ae ase: Umbrellas Cheaper. Unbretlas—oretl made—mere Whee Bale price... 43c. All of the Men’s High-class Silk Umbrel- lass will go like this: $4.50 Umbrellas, $2.85. $5.00 Umbrellas, $3.00. $6.00 Umbrellas, $4.25. $7.50 Umbrellas, $5.50. ‘The balance of the Tadies’ 26-in. Fine Black Silk Umbrellas should go a fiying at these figures: $3.75 Umbrellas for $2.50. $4.25 Umbrellas for $4.25. $5.00 Umbrellas for $3.50. Parasols Reduced. $2.25 Parasols for $1.48. $3.00 Parasols for $1.98. $5.09 Parasols for $3.25. Men’s Jean Drawers, 373c. —never sold under 50c. Men’s Gauze Shirts, 36c. —long sleeves—couldn’t be made to sell for less than 50c. Men’s Gauze Shirts, 22c. —short sleeves—were 2ic, 25c. White’ Pique, 15¢. 374. White Pique, 29c. Best 3714c French Challies, 25c. [a 2c. Foulard Silks, 35° —blue ground, with white fig- Sree ce Tt, 25c. Silk Striped Linens, 12}c. 37!4c. French Organdies, 25c. —this season's newest designs— ate a under 87) yard Sale 25c. Printed Cottons, 714c. aR EMRE cea yo 12!4c. Ginghams, 7c. ji a 2 BER Seg Pea fall Pal aaa Cs Batiste Lawns, 8'4c. 40-Inch Batiste Lawns—selected pat- terns—alw heretofore Sale pr Cc. Dress Goods Cut. gent Black Figured Mokairs. 75¢. quality for 59c. $1.00 quality for 75c. $1.25 quatity for 8gc. All-wool ee in four rs—was 75e. yard. 8: price . = ZI 50c. 54-in. Fine Cheviot Suiting. st the right weight and color for early fall 15 wear—was $1.25. Sale price... Co 40-in. All-wool Mixed Diagonal Suiting— suitable either for street. or 40-1 geod bike wear— ale Bike ear 37. Handsome 88-in. Suiting—splendid for chiliren’s school wear—was Wc. 5c. yard. Sule price... Seeeeee ry Greater & Greater Reductions AtClark & Co.’s Surplus Stock Sale. We've dropped the prices a peg or two lower—that means bigger bargains for you. We are determined not to carry any summer merchandise past this season—no matter how great the loss sustained. Equal qualities were probably never sacrificed at such trifling Lad. Vests, 10c. Ladies’ Swiss Ribbed Vests, low neck, With and without sleeves, ribbon ff Gig, Tun—were 15e. Sale price 2 Ladies’ “Fine White and ere SOc. t 15c. Ladies’ 50c. Hose, 25c. Ladics’ 50c. Tan Lisle Thread Hose. Sale price.. 25c. Child’s Socks, 9c. Children’s White Cottoa Socks, half and three-quarters length—-worth up Be. Sale price...... 12}c. Unbleached Sheeting, 45 inches wide, 7c. yard. Honeycomb Weave Cotton Ala. Towels .. wa -eee: - colorca Doris, "She pace, UNBe. $1.35 Napkins, $1.15. Napkins —were $135 doz. Sak Shirt Waists Reduced. Third Floor. We kare made still farther concessions* in all Colored Shirt Walsts. now have the handson sirable of nous ley” inanufactures at ridiculous prices as the $1.25 to $1.75 Waists for 98c. $2.00 to $3.00 Waists for $1.25. Beautiful White Dimity Shirt Walsts that were $2 and $2.25. $1.25 luced to. $1.75 Linen Skirts, 89c. —beautiful striped patterns—wide hem— nicely finished. $2 Crash Skirts, 95c. Ladies’ Fine $2 Russian Crash irts. Sale ee 95c. White Pique Skirts, $2.98 Tuke all we have left of those $2.98 $4.20 White Pique Skirts at. $2.75 White Canvas Skirts, $1.25. “Stan- ‘such Owing to the extremely low prices during this sale goods will be sold for cash only. ue Nhat ” ARK & CO., cick AVE. Duck Skirts, 58c.. Ladies’ $1 Colored Duck Sale price. FRE Silk Waists Reduced The latest advices from the seat of fashion indicate that Silk Shirt Waists are te be worn all fall, and y are to be made after the same patt as these we are offering at a reduced price. Just scan these prices: $3.25 75 $5.00 $6.50 for for for for for $2.50. Waists $8.00 Waists Colored Cloth Suits. The Colored Cloth Suits are going splen- didly. A few days of such buying and the racks will be cian, Take what are left at these figures. $10.98 Suits for $5.50. $12.00 Suits for $7.50. $13.50 Suits for $8.25. $22.50 Suits for $13.50. olin sf “ait Se!" $2.98 ce of the $4 ts at.. cae S250 Piece of the $7 Ch ears $3.98 Lad. Linen Petticoats. Ladies’ Linea Colored Wash reduced as follo 75¢- quality for 59c. $1.00 quality for 6gc. ar oes = sk SBR All Wrappers Reduced. $1.25 Wrappers for 89c. $1.50 Wrappers for 98c. $1.98 Wrappers for $1.35. $3.00 Wrappers for $2.00. Petticoats or INVENTED THE “MINREKISHA. Japan’s Vehicle for Passengers De- signed by an American, ‘4 From the Pittsburg Dispatch. It is not generally known that the in- ventor of the famous national vehicle of Japan, the jinrikisha, is an American, and resides in Philadeiphia. He is Rev. Jona- than Goble. Goble accompanied Commo- dore Perry in his expedition to Japan in 1853, when that country was opening up to the commerce of the world. Returning to the United States, accompanied by the first Japanese convert to Christianity, Sentaro, Mr. Goble entered Colgate University, at Hamilton, New York. After finishing a four years’ course he was, in 1859, ordained a Baptist minister and sent to Japan as a missionary by the American Baptist Free Missionary Society. Mr. Goble, who served as interpreter to the American consulate and adviser to the Jap- anese government, was also commissioned as United States marshal, in order to hold control of the United States consulate at Yokohama, at a time when an unfaithful consul was trying to abscond with papers and funds belonging to the government. In 1869 Rev. Mr. Goble was asked by Prince Ito to draw a plan for a vehicle to be used in the imperial parks at Yokohama, and made a drawing of a little jinrikisha, or man-power cart,now so popular all through the exst. He derived the idea from the London bath chair, simply substituting a coolie for the little front wheel. For many years past Japan has exported mnany thousand of these vehicles to other Eastern countries. In Tokio alone there are not fewer than 500,000 now in use. The government levied a tax of 50 cents each per annum on these little carts, the sum received from this source forming no incon- siderable item of the national revenue. Mr. Goble never received a penny for his invention, as the Japanese government does not issue patents or copyrights to foreign- ers. However, one of his servants became a wealthy manufacturer of jinrikishas, and used his profits in the. promotion of Bible distribution and other missionary work. ——+ e+____ Most Nertherly Theater. From the Atlanta Constitution, : The farthest north theater in the world 1s undoubtedly that at Circle City, Alaska. Circle City is 898 miles north of Juneau, which is the best known Alaska town. The isolation of the region may be judged from the fact that it cost Casey Moran, the manager, $1 postage to send the letter con- taining a picture and the facts about his company to Juneau on its journey to the Citpper office. The Circle City theater ts a variety house, with seven men:and six wo- men in its company of actors. The price of admission is $2.50, which does Rot indicate 80 much the exalted character of the enter- tainment as the high schedule ef prices for everything which prevails at Circle City. The audiences are drawn for the must part from the neighboring fields. o<_—__—__ Prepared Justice Outside. From the Atlanta Constitation,’ A newly appointed Georgia justice of the peace was informed that some dne had stolen his horse during the night. He was not long in locating the crimigpl, who was speedily brought to trial, when the justice ain't qualified ter set on this case, see- in’ as the horse was mine; but I’m goin’ ter let the bailiff preside, an’ while he’s a® tryin’ of the criminal, I'll be out yander a-stretchin’ of the rope an’ locatin’ of the tree!” ———_+e+____—_- Child Sent by Post. From the St. James’ Gazette. A novel parcel for delivery by express post was yesterday Hanfled in at a Bir- therities, under the deli of live animals, acce| child Se fered. si : ao CURIOUS FEATURES OF LIFE. A Colorado Girl Blacking Boots for Money to Enter Vassar. From the Boston Advertiser. Miss Lu Verne Hall, one of the clever2st young girls in the class of ’97 of the East Denver High School, and historian of her class, who is employed a part of her time in the reportorial department of the Times, has opened a bootblacking establishment on 16th street, in order to raise enough money to enter Vassar College in the fall: The salutatorian of the class of "07 is the cashier, and a half dozen school- boy friends will assist as shoeblacks. When business is rushing the young wo- tan who opened the establishment, when not engaged in pen work, is attending strictly to business. “What suggested such a scheme to me?” said the young lady, as her eyes sparkled at the thought of college doors being opened before her. “It just flashed across my mind the other evening at home. I was thinking hard how I could get enough money to go to Vassar. I looked down slowly at the foot that was keeping time to my thoughts. My shoe needed cleaning and the thought rambled into my mind that the big shoe stores had discontinued their shoe polishing stands, which they !et people patronize free if they purchased shoes in their store. Then, like a fash, I saw a way to raise money. There is no place in the city where a lady may have her shoes polished except she sit up on a box in an alley like the men do. I never said a word lo any one, but set to work. First, I had a circular printed and mailed it to every club and society woman I could think of. Then I took out of what I had saved from my newspaver work and bought all the equipments for my stand. When all this was done I asked the saluta- tcrian of our class if she would help me. She consented at once and now she is cashier. Then I spoke to some boys and they were all delighted to come and belp me. Now that I am started I have no ex- perse, as even the store room is given to me free, and I hope to make $300 by Sep- tember. I have risked my $70, to be sure, but I think I will get it all back and more. I will be the happiest girl in the world if I can go to Vassar this fall, and every min- ute I am not working in the office I spend soliciting trade and waiting on customers. Of course I will shine shoes myself.” —____-e-______ He Learned Something. From the Chicago News. Stubbs really is not very absent-minded, but when he is riding on a street car he makes it a point not to look at the conduc- tor. It often saves car fare, for there is something about Stubbs that makes him lucky enough to be overlooked two cases in ten when he boards a loaded car. One morning he was absorbed in his pa- per, and when he felt a touch on his arm he mechanically passed out his nickel and went on with his reading. Later the con- ductor stood beside him and murmured: “Fare, please,” but received no attention— Stubbs had paid his fare! Then the abom- inable nuisance of a conductor seized kim by the shoulder and held out his hand, say- ing, sternly: ‘Fare, please.” “I paid you before,” said Stubbs as affa- bly as he coyld. oe you did not. Come, pass out car ‘an, I paid my fare when you were around before,” and Stubbs thought for an adjective he might use when there were no ladies about. “You—you—infernal idiot, you are drunk or asleep, for when you touched me on the arm I passed out a nickel and you must have taken it, for it was the only one I had,” fumbling in his change pocket. 3 With 4 red face the conductor rang the bell to stop the car, roaring: ‘You will have to pay your fare or get off the car,” in a tone that startled every one. “I did not get your nickel, and you know it!” “No, I don’t. Some one took it, and if you didn’t, who did?” At that minute the man who had nudged Stubbs to: move‘ over in the seat he had oc- cupied with him dropped off the car walked the other block to The next time Stubbs réde car he gently touched the a BICYCLES TO KLONDIKE. They Are to Be the Carriers on a Freight Li From the New York Herald. One of the most novel of the many schemes to obtain a share of the wealth of the Klondike region has been developed by a syndicate of four wealthy New York business men, who are planning to estab- lish trading posts and stcres in the mining camps and also to purchase all promising claims on the market. They will trans- port their men and supplies to the gold fields on a bicycle specially designed for the purpose. The members of the syndicate prefer that their names shall not be made public. They have no stock to sell, and will fur- nish all the money required themselves. Their attorney is Henry F. Granger of No. 45 Broadway. As Mr. Granger outlined the plan to me yesterday the enterprise will be under- taken on an extensive scale. He will meet a mining expert in Seattle and wiil di: patch him at once to the gold fields, well supplied vith money to buy up all the promising claims in the market. The at- terney will also talk with returning min- ers and gather all information obtainable. If it is possible to buy or charter freight steamers on the Pacific coast at anything like their true value he will invest in two or three. If the transportation companies | have got control of all available vessels, however, bozts will be bought here on his return and dispatched at once around the Hern. They will be laden with a general carzo of dry goods, clothing, provisions, tools, whisky and tobacco, and, in fact, every- thing that a miner needs, and their desti- netion will be Juneau. Then the Klon- dike bicycle comes into play. It will be used to transport the supplies over the 700 niles between Juneau and the gold fields by the Chilkat pass-trail. Every miner who goes jo the gold fields must tske with him abéut 1,000 pounds of supplies, and the only way to trans- port them is for him to carry them 9on his back. The most that a man can carry for any distance is 20) potinds. The meth- od now in vegue is to carry one load about five miles, hide it so that it will not be destroyed by animals, and then go back for another load. In this tedious way the gcods-are finally transported to their des- tiation. The Klondike bicycle is specially design- ed to carry freight, and is in reality a four- wheeled vehicle and a bicycle combined. It is built very strongly and weighs about fifty pounds. The tires are of solid rub- ber one and a half inch in diameter. The frame is the ordinary diamond, of steel tubing, built, however, more for strength than appearance, and wound with rawhide, shrunk on, t> enable the miners to handle it with comfort In low temperatures. From each side of the top bars two arms of steel project, each arm carrying a smaller wheel, about fourteen inches in diameter, which, when not in use, can be folded up inside the diamond frame. Devices for packing large quantities of materials are attached to the handle bars and rear forks, and the machine, it ts es- timated, will carry 500 pounds. The plan fs to load it with half the min- er’s equipment, drag it on four wheels ten miles or so. Then the ricer will fold up the side wheels, ride it back as a bicycie and bring on the rest of the loa A sample machine has already been made and patents heve n applied for. As scon as Mr. Granger returns from Seattle, | if his report be satisfs a large num- ber of these bicycles will be manufactured. Another device for arctic comfort, whica the syndicate will control, is a portable wouse of thin boards and felt, which can be folded up in small compass, and whicn, when erected, will be perfectly airtight. 200. abt In the Interest of the Bargain Hunter From Puck. “It seems to me,” said the man who, in an unguarded moment, had allowed his wife to lure him into a dry goods storc; “it seems to me that we need currency re- form.” What do you mean?” she asked. Why, instead of issuing dollars and | fifty-cent pleces, the government ought to | turn out ninety-ecight-cent bills and forty- nine-cent piece! The eyes are probably th e most delicate organs of the anatomy. Why trust their care t6 any inexperienced man who chooses to hang out his shingle? Proctor Donahay if your eyes all. 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