Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 21, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE *“THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1885. THE DAILY BEE. @wana Orrion No, 94 AxD 918 Fanwax B2, Mow Youx Orron, Roou 65 Taravwa Botuo without pre o Monits, without p e Month, on brial. . CORRRAPONDANCH | leations relating be News and Editorial meblers shoukd be_wddressed 4o Ahe Kbrron or Tia B hould be All Bustness Tottors and Remitiances sl Ghecks nnd Pow ofios o ve made AT ‘able 40 the order of the sompany. $HE BEE PUBLISHING CO, Pros. B. ROBEWATER, Evrron Manager D Olroulation, !.‘0‘.%’0:‘.‘ sg' Omahs, Neh..u' minm GeNerar Grant and his book are get- ting along qulte weil. N — Mayor Bovp has appointed a Shoe- maker as city attorney. Ho should now appoint a tailor for gas inspector. Twe Cinclon uthorities will not al- low & wild-wont show to exhiblt on Sun- days, but permits base ball games to be played on that day. The probabllity ls that some of the authorities are stock- holders In a league nlne, Tue clty attorney has been instructed to draw a squatter-tovereignty ordinance whereby grading contractors from other citlos and states can be kept out by un- frlondly leglalation. Thisordinance should have been passed a year ago. Tur Kaneas City Journal highly com- mends the Omsha charter and urges that some of its best features be adopted for that place. We are gratified to know that Omaha has somethlng which is supe- rior to anything of the kind in Kansas Oity. Havina falled to secure an office for his brother, Senator Blackburn of Ken- tucky swears he will not trouble the ad- minlstration any further In the way of office-seeking. Mr. Cleveland no doubt feels relleved at the prospect of not los. Ing any sleep on account of the Black- burn family. Mg, CreveLAND has made on &n aver- age twenty-seven appolntments a day since he has been in office, or a litile more than one appointment every hour. Yet the office-seekera think that he moves tooslowly. If he should make an appoint- ment every minute . it weuld hardiy be rapld enough for them, THE statement that Fred. Douglas had rented a pew in Dr. Sunderland’s church, and that some of the membera of the con- gregation were very indignant on that ac count, is pronounced & malicious false- hood. Mr. Dougles eays he has rented no pew, and does not intend to rent any. Ho further says that he does not kaow that any sensatlon was created by his presence in church, Tuk Plattsmouth daily Herald, which for the last six months has been a well- edited paper, has ceased to exist. The weekly Herald, however, will be con- tinued. The publication of the daily is abandoned simply because 1t does not pay. Some men would have continued it for the glory thers s in publishing a dally, but Mr. Windham has come to the conclusion that glory does not pay exgonses. THE bogus butter law passed by the New York legislature over a year ago hes had the deslred effect upon the oleomar- garine factorles. The dairy commissioner hss made his first report, which shows that 80 per cent. of the bogus butter traffic has been suppressed, and that the receipts of dalry boiter have Increased 7,000,000 pounds in seven months. The oleomargarine manufacturers and dealers have closed their doora or have moved to other sta‘es, belng no ionger willing to rlsk prosecutions, since thers have been eloven convlctions and forty-iwo Indict- ments. Curer ENGINEER Burier, who scts as building inspeotor, desires to be set right He ‘says that under bafore the public. the ordlnance his authority In regard to bullding {nspection is confined to the fire limit, and that within this limit he has wade record of the bulldings in progress and otherwale carrled out the provisions of the ordinance. Now, If the ordi- nance only iocludes {he fire limit, 1t is sadly defective. permlt to be taken out for every house erected within the clty limits, Nobody allowed to put up even a barn or shed withont reporting to the bullding Inspec- tlon department and getting a permit, “T'hls requirement is not only for the pur- pose of preventlng the erection of rook- erles and fire-traps, and bulldings that are liable to tumble down, but it Is also intended to enable a city to have rellable statistics In rogard to its growth, 8o far as the In- wpeotlon of brick bulldings Is concerned there are good grounds for fearlng that Omaha some dsy wlill have the exper- fence of other cities. Some of ovr nar- row gusge capitalists who have bullt one story blocks, with walls not over efght Inches thick, talk of ralsing them two or three storles, 1f they attempt anythiog of the kind they should cerialnly be pre- vented, for such flimsy stractures will Berdly bear thelr own weight and are liable at any moment to fall down and kill people. In the first place we want an ordlpance covering the entire clty, and in the next place we need a bullding inspoctor who will be wvigilanr, fearlees, and fmpartial in the discharge cf his da'ics, Other citles require a THE PANAMA CANAL, Whatever opposition there fs In this country to the Panama canal has been toapired to a considerable extent by the Pacific rallroad companies which tce in the completion of that canala dangerons competitor for trade, The travscontl- nental traffic, which the rallroads now enjoy almost exclasively, will paturally be dlvided, as the opening of ths canal wlil greatly shorten the water route be- tween San Francisco, New York and Liverpool, and contequently the low rates of water transportation will compel the transcontinents] railroads to reduce their rates. M. de Leeseps, the moving apirit in the great enterprise, In his ro- cent article touches the real spring of opposition to the Panama canal, when he says: ‘‘Your great railroad companles ssem to dread the faclllties that will be eecurtd by navigation between the two shores of the union, They understand that they will be obliged to reduce their rates, which at the samo time are likely to become more stable,” The advantages of th's canal, or any other canal connecting the two oceans, cannot be overestimated, It will affect the entire commerce of the world. The work upon the Panama canal e, however, progreseing slowly. There Is a conslder- able difference of opinlon as to the time of its completion ard its cost, but that it will be finished some day we have no reaton to doubt, for there has already been too much labor and money expended for 1t to be abandcned. It is clalmed by Awmericans who have made carefal in- vestigations that it cannot be completed within the time orlgivally sat, and that 1ts cost will be contiderably more than at fiest estimated. It was calou- lated, when the canal com- pany was organized, that 75,000,000 cubic metera would havs to be excavated, and now it is officlally stated that the work will require the excavation of 111, 000,0C0 meters, whils the director-gen— eral gives it as his opinion that it will take 12,000,000, but already the sum cf $74,000,000 has bzen spent and only about one-tenth of the excavation has been made. The present uncompleted contrac!s will call for an expenditure of more than £50,000,000, while according to Lieat. McLean, of the Unlted ;States navy, the parts not yet contracted for will swallow up over $50,000,000 more. In addition to all this there is the big dam at Gamboa, which is to ccst at least $20,000,000. Lieat. McLean, who has made a conservative estimate, calculates the total cost of the canal will be $350,- 000,000. The report of L'eut. Winslow, also of the United States navy, shows that the cost cannot be less than $240,— 000,000, but it szems that he had consld- erable difficulty in obtalning reliable in- formation, and hence h's figures cannct amounts to over twenty-five per cent of its actual value, Althoagh the owner Ilven in the east there Is no good reason why the resident sgent should not be compelled t> pat the side walks in good- condition. Some people have been hounded about their side walks, while others have been treated s {f they owned the town. There should be no favoritism shown In this matter. MOVING WEST. In comparing the Massachusetts school reglster of 1884 with that of 1840, the Boston Advertiser finds that of 3456 towns In that sta‘c 143 are decreasing in population. In twenty four school dis- tricts in the central part of the state the echool population has fallen off one-third to one-half. Barre has fallen from 712 to 434; Petereham from 474 to 175; Greenwloh feom 259 to 111; Cummington from 370 to 196; and numerous other towns In slmilar proportion. This re- markable decrease in the country towns would lead one to suppore that the popu- lation of the entice state is diminishing. This, however, s not the case, for the population of Maseachusetts is steadi- ly growlng. Thls 1s explained by the fact that the clties and manufacturing towns are constantly In- oreasing, owing to the steady Influx of forefgners, but the old natlve stook of Massachusetts is rapidly abandoning the state for the more invlting and produc- tive fields of the west, where better op- portunitles are afforded for accumulating fortunes and winning fame. Thesigns of decay in the rural districts of Maseachu- sotts gives riso to a mournful strain in the Advertiser a8 follows: In some towns whole families hava moved out, their farms are forsaken of tillage and the dwelling-houses abandoned. Our corre- spondent speaks of giviog up ten days, not long since, to gun and rod in Wendell, when he found probably twenty miles of old high way grown up to woodland and about thirty houses gone to decay. While there he saw one dwelliog-house and one school-house abandoned, s2sh removed and windows boarded up—only three pupils left. Old cel- lars, fringed with rose bushes and lilacs, were found in the thick wood, and he shot par- tridges and rabbits on grassy mounds and overgrown {hreeholds where children played forty years ago. Another war, twenty-five years hence, would not muster 5o many ‘‘boys in blue” from the old farms. INasmucH as the Nebraska ratlroad commlssion was created at the {nstance of the railroad managers, it will be 1 keep- ing with the whole scheme that only creatures of tho rallroads shall be ap- pointed as secretaries of the commission. Noman has made Limself more useful to the railroads In doing their bidding in teason and ocut of season, through his subsidized paper, than Charles H. Gere, of the L'ncoln Journal. Since railroad be regarded 8o accurate as those of Lieut. McLean. Howaver, it ls demonsirated by both reports that, even if ample labor and funds are supplled, the canal cannot be completed in less than five years, while the prchabillty is that it will be ten or twelve yeers before the waters of the two oceans meet in the blg ditch across the isthmus, The question s whether the business of the canal will pay aressonable interest upon the enormous investment. De Les- seps, of course, in hils efforts to keep the work going, !s enthusiastic in drawing glowing pictures of the ad- vantages and wealth that will be derlved from the great enterprise, but whether the tolls of the canal will ever be suf- ficient to remunerate the bondholders in any way for their investments the future can alone demonetrate. Can the money neceesary to complete the work be rafsed upon the credit of the compary? 1Indis cuseing this (uestion, the New York Times says: One of the numerous experts employed to work up the scheme in Paris in 1880 calculat od on a traflic of 5,000,000 tons, and 16f, per ton for transit was the charge, which it was thought would be low enough to attract ves- sels to the isthmus route, This would give a revenue of 75,000,0C0f, Five par cent would go to the Colombian government, and the cost of management was estimated at 6,000, 000f. This would take out nearly 10,000,000f, leaving still a liberal dividend for the amount of obligations originally contemplated, placed by the writer mentioned at 500,000,000f, But it is likely to be at least double that amount This will render the prospacts of the invest- ment much less inviting, to say nothing of the great uncertainty as to the amount of traffic. 1f the canal is to cost $350,000,000 and its vet receipts at first should amount evin to $13,. 000,000, the fixed charges would swallow up nearly, if not quite, the whole amount. It is extremely doubtful, in point of fact, if the in. terest on the obligations could te met, to say nothing of dividends on the stock, With this prospect will the bonds of the canal company be readily floated hereafter in the volume required to carry the work along on the enormous scale neces- say te insure its completion even in five or tenyears? On its ability to ralse money when the present resources are exhausted, as they are likely to be in about a year, depends absolutely the ability of the company to go on, If it gets into financial straits what will be the consequence? Too much will have been done and too much expended to admit of the scheme being readily abandoned. Will not the interposition of the French govern- ment be then invcked and the complications #0 often prophesied come 1n sight? ——— Tuk chairman of the board of public works has tuken great pains lately to have the sldewalks on the prinelpal business streets properly constructed, but there ls & good deal to be done yet. The walks on Farnam street are still in a wretched condition, We can polnt out a number of places tha! should recelve immediate altention from the chairman of the board of public works. One of these plsces, by way of illustratlon, s {he northeast corner of Farnam and Twelfth streets, where the walk has not been extended to the curb, and the four feet of space is converted into & mudhole every time it ralee, The rental of this property- leglslation under a powerless commisston is worse than a farce, and the secretary- ship is a mere sinccure, Mr. Gere will be the right man in the right place. Lot him be appointed by all mesns. He needs {wo thousand dcllars a year to brace him up in battling for corporate menopoly, and since he can not got the Lincoln postcffice through a democratic prexy he must be provided for at the public crlb of Nebraska, That is all he has ever made a living from, and without 1t Le and his pampered organ would soon become a charge upon the overseers cf the poor of Lancaster county. Tae New York legislature did at least one senslble thing, and that was {0 pass a law prohibiting the erection of any houte higher than eighty feet. Thls ls intended to put an end to the rage for high bulldings which has recently been developed In New York city., Some of tbe apartment houscs that have been built within the last two years are fif leen stories and 180 foet high, Water can only be thrown to the height of 80 feet in New Yoriz, It will therefore be eeen that the upper half of these buildings is beyond fire protection. Although they are s»id to be fire-proof, yet their walls might be afiected by fire in the 1mmedi- afe vicivity so that they would fall and rush ad joining houss, Here {s something from the Philadel- phia Record whichJs worthy of serious consideration on the part of the working- men: *‘If the workingmen of the United States would refrain frow using spiritu- ous and malt liqaors and tobacco in every form fora perlod of ninety days there would result a revolutionjin government and society the like cf which clvilization never experlenced. Such an expedient to better the condition of the wage- workers has never been trled; yet In this country they have the power ia thelr own hands, by the practice of a little self- denlal, to force national, state, and mu- nlcipal legislators to consider, them as an imporlant factor in all legislation, Tae annusl report of the operations of the Amerlcan Bible siclety made at fts racent sesalon In New York city shows that during the past year 1,548,175 biblcs and testaments had bacn iseued, of which 608,719 wera cleculated in foreign lands, The total lesues of the society number 45,440,206 volumos, The cost of trans. lat'ng, publistirg acd distributing the sorlptores during the past year amounted to 8142 202, The total expenditures for the same period were $(19,852, and the 8 recelpts $587,014, The sum of $172,850 was appropriated at the meeting to carry on the forelgn work of the scclety duting the coming year, A Broapway cigar store, York 7'ribune, exhiblts & cartoon which admirably depicts the attitude of most people In th's couniry with regard {o the complications between England and Russla, A brar and a lion are attached by the ssme rops to oppotite trees, ard are grashing and pawleg at each other, bat oannot stretch the rope far enough to come into actual collision. Unecle Sam looks on with a quizzlos] exgression and says: ‘I with that rope would break, so that there would be some fan.” B SECRETARY LamAR Is already pro- nounced a failure as a cablnet pflicer for the reason that he “‘soldiers” too much. The routine work 1 too Irksome for him, and the resolt is confarion and del forgotten engagomenisand broken prom. ises. It seems thatall the bad predic- tlons concerning him are being rapldly falfilled. Tuar rieing young Missourian, [Con gressman O'Nelll, having read the confi- dentfal clrcular of the postmaster-general, has put in an appesrance at the natlonal caplfal with a long list of *“‘offsnslve par- tlsans.”’ It is safet> say that the list contains the name of every republicen office holder In Miesourl. OANADA, like the mother country, Is heavily in debt. She owes nesrly $300,- 000,000 aud she proposcs to Incrate It £60,000,000 If a loan can be negotlated. She hes plenty of territory, but not enough tax payers to stand any such finanoisl burden. Joux A. L frlends say that he will be elected to-day. Like “‘sheol” he will be elected!—Chicago Zimes, 18:h, He got there the day after the Zimes mads the revised observation. Ex-GoverNors are of some use after all. Fourteen of them have been util- ized as delegates to the national commer- cial convention now in seseion at At- lanta. STATE JOITINGS, A flour mill is béing built at Wayne, Three taps is as_good a8 a drink in a Lin- coln saloon after 10 p.m. The normal school at_Bloomington has an average attendance of 160, . The daily arrivals at Valentine, tordon. and Chardron are enormous. A Franklin wife beater was fined $100 fo: his last display of brutality. The roller procees will replace the old fnnllfioncd grinders 1n the Scribner flouring mll, Hugh Linn’s residencein Dawson county, valued at $1,000, was deetroyed by fire last week. + Mark Tully. of Fremont, held a claim fora week near the new town of Rushville, and sold i: for $1,000. Two countrymen were held up and robbed of $60, a revolver and a pocket knife, in Lin- coln Tuesday night. The Lincoln water works will be tested ogain to-day. Harry Birkenbine of Council Eluffs will supervise it. The toachers of Franklin county will hold an exhibition of school and industrial work at Bloomington, June 11, 12 and 18, The Lincoin ges company will put up gas lamps and illuminate the town for 32 25 each o month, the glims to be snuffed at midnight, The Plattsmouth canning company bas & stock of 30,000 ready for the fals pack, and is adding about 1,500 a day to the stock, Al. Fairbrother, of Nebraska City, has been commuesioned major of the circus pasts brigade. Gienuine tolent, sconer or Jater, re- ceives its roward. George Smith, of Dawes county, was ar rested aud taken to the Sidney jail last weck, charged with the malicious shootirg of a neighbor's horse, An insane man, confined in_ the Atchison jail, made his escape last week and returned to his farm, where he was recaptured and re- turned to his confinement, ! The twelve-yoar-old son of Willlam Mo- Cumber, of Auourn, was thrown from a pony and dragged romo distance. The boy was soverely injured, baving heen kicked in the head. | Too journalistic procession in this state s il- lumnated by toe Headlight, lLalf a dozen Suns, the Twilight, snd the’ Electric Light, The Iatter has just flashed on the ranks nt North Platte. Mrs. Alma Elmund, liviog in Lancester county, has been adjudged insane, and s:nt to the asylum. The unfortunate woman lost her husband by death a sho.t time ago, and this, with finan cial troubles, dethroned her reason, The Plattsmouth Daily Herald ruspended publication Tuesday. The immediate and all-sufficiont cause was_that it did not pay, and the proprietors failed to sce and realize the benevolent side of working for glory, The Weekly Herald will continue at the old stand. Platsamouth is about to organizs a dramatic club. The names of H. M, Bushnell, Al Dorrington and Thos Wilkinson sre alrcady flickering among the budding stars of our southern suburb Mr. Bushnell has carved the air in mavy a tregic sceme and culled boquets of varying odors from cold and penur- ious audienc2s, Dorriogion is fitted by nature and education for serio-comic roles; his mar- vellous gift of epeech and unlimited stock of ancient jokes would split the rafters of the Watterman’s. Wilkineon has not yet chased “‘fame’s flzeting fancy” before the footlights but his admirers claim that asastatuesque pose he is “no slouch at the business,” The roll of beavy villian falls by common consent to Moriis O'Rourke, whose prodigions gitth and length of pedals “admirably fits him for the possition of mankiller, ~ Will Cushing would add immeasurably to the “fleeting show,” as asong and dance artist, in which line he is said to be inimitable, His rendition of “Do you Love me, Darling,” with heel and ton ac companiment, is alone “worth the price of ad- mission.” Many other dvamatic lights might be suggested from the vast stores of illumioants ic Plattsmouth, but we decline to crowd the mimic procession, e ——— - The Millerites and Mortonites, Lincoln News, Aud now comes the thrilling rumor that the good Dr. Miller, reinforced by Mayor Boyd of Omaha, flushed with the vic'ory thoy won for thelr candidate for postmaster at Plattamonth, bave carried the war to the very portals of J. Sterling Morlon's home and sre now presmiog the olalm «f a candldate for the post office at Nebraska City in oppositlon to bis man, The presumption of these fcllows de- eorves the severest reprobation and if they are not soon checked in thelr vic- torious career, we will bs humillated by secing our own Genersl Vifqualn, J, V. Wolf, John McManigal and other asplrants, for the post office, bowlng low before this Omaha feticke, It must not be, Miller may rule north of the Platte, south of that may be neutral round, but the classic Salt Creek s the Rubicon beyond which he must not pass. e Liquor Hales in New York Drug Btores, N. Y. Mail and Express, If 1t is true that clty drug stores are often gln mills, where anybcdy can get & pint of llquor for the ssking, and even tske a drink on the premiser, it s truer stlll in the country. Thero is bardly & country drug etore from Westfisld to Sag Harbor, from Ronse's Point to Stapleton, which does not sirve the purpose of dram drinkers, f drug stores are to be bar rooms they should be classed as such and made to pay licenses accordingly, SENATORN PLEASURLS, Amusements in which the Mennt the Nation Find Relaxation, Great Philadelphia Times, The Hon, A, P. German finds unceas irg delight in two games—polities snd baseball. Of the former he has had a sarfeit istaly. Now he looks for amuse- ment to the dlamond, and seldom misses a conteat at Natlonal park. Senator Butler, ot South Carollna, 1s a devoted admirer of the drams, especially when the play fs of that order which re- lles for success more on the beauty of ite ssonery, female and otberwite, tban on literary merit or able acting. When once the pretty girl of the play oomes upon the stage he Is totally Jost to all sense, and never lowers his glasses till she dis- appears, Senator Howell Jacks:n, cf Tennessee, contributes more to the svpport of the drama than any other man In public life. Four nights & week at the theatre fs not an unueual average for him. Opera is his gpeclal delight, Semator Inglls Ia fond of comedy. He has a keon apppeciation of humor—more particularly comedies. There 1s no pub- lic man who has a keener sorss of the ridiculons, and no man can show his en joyment by a heartior laugh, Senator Call, of Florida, attends the theatre quite frequently, but has only once or twice been known to smile, and even on those memorable occations the smiles are said to have come in at the wrong place. A joke fs something that the Florida senatcr hay never been able to comprehend. A pun is jost so much Choctaw to him. Senator Frye is seen more frequently In the billiard room than at the theatre. He is an excellent thot, sometimes mak- ing rans of fifteon In o three-ball game. He likes r!ding, too, and takes delight in dieplaying his little grandaughter, who invariably occupies a posltion on his knee during his drives, The crack billtardist of congress la Warner Miller. Tho senator from New York hondles a cus as gracefally as Slos- son, and thivks it nothing to run up thirty polntsin an ionlng. He Is fond of socicty, in which he shines on account f his poiished manners. In the senate, however, he is utterly lost, and seems to be in a constant s'ate of wonder at the unaccountable freak of fortune that put him there, Senator Bowen of Colorado gained a wide reputation at home as a poker player, nor has h's fame diminished sincs his advent into poker circles in Wash- ington, When he sits down for a game he assumes the innocent ¢xpression of the ' Heathen Chinee,” and can manipu- late the ‘cards quite as successfully as Bret Harte's hero. Like all men of ge- nius, he is modest, never playing except when presssd; but once tnto it and he can scrape up more flushes than any p'ayer on record. Senator Coke's favorite recreation ls huntirg up old booka in the capitol li- brary and in the book stores about town. With a tatter:d book and a very bad clgar he passes his leisure hours, varying occaslonally by substltating some Lone Star whisky for the cigar. One of the leading pedes'rians of ‘Washington {s Senator Jones, f Florida. His towering figure {s familiar to al the resideats of northweat Washington. » John Sherman ssems to rellsh amusenent, Serator Vest is fond of good dinners and the jovial conversatlons to which they givo rise. Asa story teller he ranks high, but lacks the finlsh of Senator Vance, who ia the champlon humorist of the eenste. Senater Vest admiras athletlc sports. Ha was quite a famous athlets himself in the days of his reporter’s life in Ken- tucky. High living has since taken the elasticity out «f hia body and robbed his once well-turned limbs of thelr supple- ness. He is stlll a t)lerable billiard player, however, and ccoss'orally displays his ekill in the hotel pocl rooms. Wade Hampton s a personsl fiiend of John McCallough snd Lawrence Barrett. When these actors sre in the clty he Is one ¢f their first callers. He has glven dioners in their honor both here and at his home, and is a regular attendant at thelr per formances, Senator Alllson, who a few years ago was the jolliest cf pubic men, 1s almoat no @ hermit now, living a_retlred life, and || never appesring at places cf amuee- ment. Mr. Ransom, of North Caroliva, wears a button hole bequet summer and winter, is very proud of h's geod figure, and in- dulges freely In the plessures of soclety. Senstoe Falr finds a pleasure in glving costly dinners, whi:h dieplay his enor- mous weal'h Senator Morrill, the best preserved soptuagevarisn | know, owes hia excel- lont condition to & qulet life, vold of any- thing like dissipation, Mr. Edwuna’s principsl sources of amoeement ara musical and literary en- tertsioments, Senctor Flamb regards newspaper welling as o recreation, and indulges in it frocly for tho bencfit of his Kanses orzan, The new sevators who came In last session are rather a solomn set. They include such men as Spooner, the skelo- tonlan ralroad lawyer; Eustis, the cranky Loulstenian, snd" Chase, the Rhode Island Quaker. ¥ Chicago Times, The manis at presont among tho enst- ern lines keems to incline in the passen— %er depertment toward fast ruoning 'tme-tables are shortened up, and limi- ted traios are the fashion, 'Ihe subject of the advisability of too rapid progress In this directlon or the economy and profit of quick eervice for long distances have been diecussed pro and con, without any definite conclusion having been arrived at. Without entering Into the broad field of dispu‘alious argument, it is well to look at ita workiogs from a lcoal standpoint, and judge 1t by its practicil results in the Jimited hor'z n of Chlcago. The Peno- eylvania has been 1unning a “‘limited train" now for a perlod of over two years batween this clty and New York practl- cally at a speed that can not be exceeded exc( by the matter of an hcur or 8o, It has been a paying tratn, considered from its own standpoiat--that is, it hasreturn- ed a small profit over ranniog expenses. The company probably conslders that it has derived other benefits fiom it tn ihe way of praetige, ete. This may be, but it can uot be demonetrated that very many travelers have been attracted away from o:her lines because the road runs a “limited.” Still farther, the train itwelf shows no evidence of growth or of Increas- +d demand, for the facilities that it offers. Doriog lts existence, except upon the otcasion of a national conventlen, or some extraordinary event, no extra sleepers have been rquired. The travel to-dsy is aboat the average of what it was a year a0, and no demand exists fcr more fac- ilriza, ruuLing at an extra charge does not & very popular chord, st Time, This reems to prove that fust| trike {uther clroumstanc The other roads honorable prisilege. do not deaw the same conclusions. The Lake Shcra and tho Michigan Central both project fast tralns of a like charac. ter, and other lines are scanning thelr time schedules and debating es to the wisdom of beginning the ssme policy. s there not just a litile danger that the thing Is to be overdone? If the origlnal limited has et grown in two years be- yond its first patronege, what Is there to ineues custcm for the others? A wise old officisl romarked the o'her day when dis cassing the subject that none of the three would ran without t'avcl, bat they would not draw It from the ouiside, 1¢ would come from thoss who had always pafron- izad the rerpec'ivelines, and that it would prove to ho merely robblng Peter to pay Paul, Perhaps he was right. With three ‘‘limiteds” running batween Chicsgo and Now York, coverlng the distance in from twenty-five to twency-slx hours, the sum- mer will give a practical demonstration a8 to whethor fast trains are demanded by a sufliclently numerous class to make the new fashion a profitable and econo- mical departure. Hanlin and Be, Boston Heral An Australian named Alexandor Mey- ers, who raw Hanlan and Beach in their prec ice at Sydney, arrived In this country a fow days ag), and, speaking of the two onromen, he says: **We like your wan, Hanlan, over there. He ls a mod- dest, manly oort of a fellow, and bas made many friends, I think he bad the idea that he could beat Beach easy enough the first time they rowed., He didn’t show it much in his actlons before the race but the matter-of-fact way in which he took it showed that he didn’t consider he was adding much to bis lau- rels, 1 belicve, however, that he was a little apprehensive about the last race. Ho thing of what he could do.” *Was the match an equal one?” “In what way?” *‘Why, In regard to the physleal con- ditlon and training of the two mep, and familiarity with the course ” 4O, it was as squate & cont:st a1 way ever rowed. Tho course is one of the finest in the world, and Honlan had {rain- ed upon it long encugh to be as famillar with it as Beach. Both men wera in splendid form a fow days before the race, the last time 1 saw thew, and I was told that they were at the race. No, I think that Hanlan had his day, as all men must, and was fairly downed by the Australlan boy ” Y Bonch s plelured asa very athlet'c Icoking man in ell reepects in vhe Aus— tralian papera.” “‘He is a man of magnlficent physlcal propertiens. He shows a deal better de- veloped muscle than Hanlap, and is lar— ger, I thiok, in every way. Hels com- ing to this country, howeyer, before long, and your caremen canmeasure bim up then.” Srreatel Gen, Stannard at Gettysburg, Letter to Boston Advertiser, Ta the ssale down below the cemetery wall, where Hancock held the conter, (and in the last day beat back Pickett's 18,000 men as they reiched cur lines after their seething wile rush across the valley) Moj Gen. Stannard, s little o'd man with an emply eleeve, is telling his story. “My Vermonters were in the line here,” he eaye, *walting for the at- tack., I had come forward to take this lttle rise, for I knew if the rebals got it they could reform their lives behind it. The day was o hot that one of my regi- ments 1 let fall back Into the shaae of some trees that stood here then, ard they loy thers walting. Sure enough, the rebals had their eye on that iise and Kemper's Virglnia brigade was headed tor it. As they came near I ordered that regiment to take its place, and that was the first Kemper knew that we held it Ho halted a m'nute, then marched to the ride 8> as to go past us. Then I made the movement that I never krew 10 be done before. I syung my brigade into the gap in thelr lines made by his flank movement, and began firing. It was right in the slde of tnelr advanclog column, and they could not meet it nor escapo it. It broke their 1'ne comy 1ately, 88 you know, and some think it saved the day.” “‘General,” asked one of his listeners, “‘how wide do you think was the front of Pickett’s column when it reached ue?”’ Stannard answers: ‘I bave no ides; no one can tell. It extended all a'ong wy front, and that Is all I know atout ““What of Stannard?” dces s:me cne aeh? Ho is a messenger to the housa of representatives, and sits during the ses- slon &t a gallery door, hclding it open for ladies to go In and oat, at $1,200 a year —this general who saved the city of Gettyebarg. e A Mild Fraud on Brides, One of the “‘sighw” f Washington is the vault of the treasury depsrtment, where, among other thing, the $50,000,- 000 reserve la kept. Besides this there are several cart-loads «f gold, silver, and giconbacks. Pacple who have been ad- mitted to the vault basve, therefore, seen more money or {ts equivalent at one glance than it is possible for them to ree at any other place in this country, excopt- ing the New York sub treasury, It has long boen the custom to hand esch brida who en‘ered it & package containing 5,000,000, They were allowed to hold it for a second, It was then carctully taken from them and put awsy, It has also been gonerally understood among the kuowing ones tha this §5,000,000 pack- age, which has been the brical poit'on of s0 many beides, did not contaln much money, but it was never acertained ex- actly what was in the package until a few ays ago, when the count of the treasury was commenced. A diepatch to the New York Horald eays: *'Iv was found that this 85,000,000 packsge which had been 80 fondly bandled, and over which so much endearing words have beea ssid, was eimply a huge joke containing three or four heavy old government documents such as would sell in » jank shop fcr two cents per pcund, The package weighed fifveen pounds, and as old paper it velue would be thirty cents. The pickage was carefally tled up again, ana it will con- tinue to be used 10 mske biides happy. 1t will sutt them just as well as if it con- talned real money.” e —— A Teip Kecommended, Chicago News, Prostdont Cleveland Fas never been west of the Alleghanles, aud we have a dim and twinkling saepicion that he dces ot more that half comprshend what & clvilized and enlightened people wo are out thls way. Mr. Rayard and Mr, Lamar are two other dissinguihed gen- tlemen who would stand s good deal of traveling west by nor'weet, e — A To the Editor of the Big, I notice in the papers that I am pamed for participation in the ceremonies for openivg the new court housa, 1 bave not tlme, in the midst of cther engage- moents, to arrange data for the proper treatment of the eubjeot aseizned me. 1 must, thersfore, decline what, under , I would deem an E, EstABROOK, Experience with Imported Outlors, New Haven News, About four years ago Col, Frary, proal- dent cf tho Bridgeport Cutlery company, while on & tour throngh Earope visited many of the catlery catablishments In Germany, Hamburg, snd England, The manufacture of razors belng In a primitive state in this conntry, he decided that he could do no better then t> bring over some of the workmen to the United States. The workmen in Sheffield, Eng« land wero as a rule members of the trades unfons, and Col. Frary hed considerable difficulty in engsging the mon whom he wanted. A fow moaths lster he had the satlefaction of reelng forty of them with thelr famllies sall for this country, accom- paoled by the secretary of tbe trade unlon. In Germany and Hamburg he had felt of Beach, and knew some- | £ ong' ged sixty men, and at once shipped them and thelr families to this country. Seperate rocms were fitted wvp for the newly arrlved raz r makers In the shops in Bridgeport, the Germans belng in one patt of the works and the English in avother. Col. Frary eaid: “I had a great deal of trouble with my men at first. 1 did not havoe nearly as much trouble with the Germans as with the English, The latter demanded a seperato work room apart from a'l other werkmen in the factory. If one of the men in my .employ waoted to enter the room while they were at werk they would throw down theie tools and would not resume their 'abors until the visltcr had clesed the door behind him, I was the only man in the entire thop whom they would Ict go through the room without stopping work., A pecallar feature about them was that they would nct work after 12 o'clock noon on Satur— days Whatever money was loft after buging (he weeks supply the men would o0 on & sproe with until the last cent was spent, which was usually about Tuesday worning. American workmen are the best in the world. —e— The Camel Test, Brooklyn Union, Mr. B. W, Hanona of Indiana, does not want to go to Persia. Ho finds the cost of the necessury camel transit journey would eat vp a year’s ealary, and he is a poor man. He therefors asks to be trans’erred to the Argentine Republlc. But why need he be sent anywhere? 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