Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1885, Page 12

1 0 Ploy i m princip The N Burme and re year Th nan, | Bt work O $0.000 Haa facture o0 capy J. Seymour, cooper, 1 r tuhs 3,000 of rmann 1} vineg works & husiness £10.000 5,000 by rate year Cmploys 10 nien; rels and hutt o yearly, nime capital 10,00 Omaha Foundry, employ roll $2.000 1 $50,000, capit and 51 Milton s sartment employs « wet, corni manufacturer, does 1 bt §20,000, H 20 ) pay roll capital inve 50 men: 1 1 mont| nan $10,000 sumed annuall tin manufae fifteen men areg iron s of weekly is $200; 00, cornice manufae- employ 10 men and nnually | on do a §30,000 busines raic. Omaha has ns only The railrond traflic of sumed @ magnitude which can realized by w eareful study of the figures herewith presented. The following table from the Union Pacitic general freight of is a correet exhibit of the local re. ceipts and shipments of that road for the be | past year | NUMBLR OF TONS OF FREIGIT FORWARDED | AND BECEIVED AT OMANA FOR YEAR EAD NG SEPTEMBER 5, 1555 | Isse, | 18S5 2014 152,055 | Inerease 25,481 119,101 ] CATTIE FORWARDED OMAIA AND SOUTH TLN MONTHS ENDING | Freight forwarded | 1 Freight received on ¥ NUMBER OF €Al AND RECEIVED OMAIIA FOR I OCTORET 185 Recvived 142 Forwarded Omaha., 5 Sonth Omalia Tot 04 The inerease in one yvear over the Union Pacitic alone on freight received is one-third of the total fir The excess of this year taking ten tons to the car, 1 ads. With thirty ear lc 37 trains of freight came Omaha, In view of this fact that Tnion Pacific handles all the incom hit from the cast, except t of the Burlington, this snificant as showin the enormous business which | the Towa ronds ¢ done with Omiaha The increase in the freight forwarded out of Omaha is an index of our local busi ness. In the live stoek exhibit the differ ence ween the enrs received and for warded shows the activity of our home | cattle markets i vhngt remarka increase of busines: Freight tonnage vec wad forwarded 1 Omaba during the year ending June 1~ ing fro 1 road shows even 1 mor 1845 105,03 tons Forwarle tons | Total Sinc 200,240 tons of the Bur lington ros mereased more than 50 per cent. That road now curies a Targe proportion of the freight to com- mon points on the Union Pacific which formerly were exclusively handled by the ter road T'he Chic the trafi 0, St. Panl, Minneapolis & | Omaha,and the Fremont, Elkhorn & Mis- souri Valley, both of whieh are under Northwestern management, make the following statement Tonage handledat Omal Forwarded . Reee 11885 1 tons R Ly S tons out the Missouri Pacifie, whose inable, the railways ve handled 1,085, it during the past 903 tons were forwarded station y al fr of which « here and from this point. Figurcs such as these afford conclusi proot of the industrial and comme netivity of t which at no di day will be the atest railroad ce west of Chic wd north of St The reconsty of the Umon Pacitic bridge across the Missouri river, now in progress, will within less than two years the connections which Omal y enjoys between Chi and St. Louis. Thé three prineipal trunk lines converge in Onciha will dar coming year place this eity in mor mate connection with sections of th 1 PUBLIC IMPROVEME THE WATERWORKS, The waterworks of Omaha nre owne: y 2 company of Omaha capitalists, in PO {under the name of the City aterworks Co., of Omaha. It's ofi- cors are: Sumuel R Jolnson, president; Milton R« psident; J. H. Dumont, scer D. H. Goodrieh, superintendent; J. D, Cook, consulting enginecr. Dircetors R, John=on, Milton Rogers, Morse, W. Humilton and J. Dumont The works of the company embrace a combination of the direct reservoir system. Tl of supply is the Missouri viver. The pumping machinery consists of a pump of 10,000, 000 gallons daily capacity for raising tl water from the river ‘to the settling basing, one Guskill pump’ of 5,000,000 gallons daily capacity, and one Knowles }mlnhn' 000,000 gallons daily capacity or raising the wer from the I basins to the storage reservol muking an aggregate capacity of 20,000,000 Hons in twenty-four hours The | esent consumption aside from that used or fire proteciion about 3,500,000 W essur | are | building | corner Farnam and Tenth str J | of | Nebras! [ Major Guy V. | Ninth eaval are sufficient of 1 #7000 )00 edin | " comj nployed during The Army. Omaha has been the b mil m known ment of the Plat 1865 I'his e partment includ wa, Nebarska, Wy portion of Idaho. A large commercinl and finan ciul supremacy of Omalia in the Missonri valley is due to the purchases and distvibution of military supplies at this point, and the handling of the quarter master, commissary and paymaster funds of the department by our bank In 182 the national acquired 82} acres of land on the platean two miles north of this city. Upon this tract was tablished what is known as Fort Oma Over $500,000 has been expended in b ings and’ upon improvements of th grounds. The quarters for soldiers accommodated Trom two to cight panies of troops of varions g wh winter. The dwellings for oflicers are neat and commiodions, and the store houses neat and substantial, The unds tastefully laid ont. An abundant water supply has been secured by the fasystem of water works t commander of the depart G 0. O, Howard, Uters in Strang's building, ots. Licut. Geo nide-de-canip, Iwin St.J. Grebble, M Iquarters of a tary divi the “Depart <ined oming, Utali an share of th Wy government ave m des The pr ment s Bri with headqg stall= Second wth i ut. 1 Personal N. Chase, I and Sceond 1 Sccond artillery Department stafl (brevet brigadier jor Samuel Breek weneral), stant adjutant general, Onihas Major Robert M. Hall, (brevet licutenant colonel), Twenty-second infantry, acting mspector general, O Licutenant Colonel Hos deputy judge advocate s ‘of the department Major George B y chief quartermaster, Omaha Mujor John P. Hawkins, com- of subsistence, chief comn subsistenc Omaha, Ne- cutenant — Colonel ~ John wgeon, medical director, Major Ch Onnaha wdy, ary sary of braska; 1 S, Summers, Nebr yiast master, Omy Wilson, . engincer ofticer, Omaha, First Licutenant Orrin B ordinance depuftments chicf ,and Co O, Cheyenne, pot, Cheyenne, Wyomn Henry, revet colonel), niry, inspect- Neb ) \ted in the tive proof and briek building erected by the govern ment at o cost of 30,000, on the grounds west of the Union Pacitie depot, in we of Capt. Charles AL HL MceCauley it quarter-master, U A, The embr in s operations area, but the facilities for handling supplics’ and quartcrmaseer stores uple and all the requirements lave been promptly met. During the y troops transported from th pot, Omaha, were as 8 TO ALL POINTS, Officers and men.. Horses and mules, Subsistence stores Quariermaster stores. Ordnance stores, ... Medieal stores and Supple Miscellaneous stores corps engincers, Mitcham or of rifle pr he ot now | and supplies rmaster’s de- Total Pounds e period, gon (contract) trains - A NAP OF FIVE DAYS. Young Mr. Banks Appears to Have Needed a Long Sleep and He Took It. The New York Sun says: Alva Banks, a clerk in the grocery of ( Wash burn & Co., in Pleasantville, Winchester county, is 22 years old, good looking and popular. On last Thursday morning, while at work in the store, he began to et drowsy. He kept walking about to keep awake. He nad had a good sleep on the night before At noon he went home to dinner, but he feel asleep while he was eating. He awoke and finished his dinner, andafter dinner e thought he would lie down and take a nap. On reaching his room he felt so sleepy that he undressed himself and went to bed. He went divectly to sleep, and kept on sleeping. Saturday morn- ing he was slecping as peacefully as a child, Hehad not moved a muscle after nt to bed. His brother punched nd tickled him, pulled him out of and threw him back into it. He s of wiking. De It was eallcd on Saturday forenoon. A pin stuck into Banks' lei had no eflect him at first, but when | the doctor pushed the pin in ne the head, the leg drew up, but slumbered on, Spanish fly-blisters Kind of slow torture—wer wl over the wh th Hlunim nd on the hack of his nee loctor ve him some cathart ment nis still slept. On Sunday morning members of the family, 1 wous treatment, aroused him.~ He rolfed over, yawned, and went ‘0 Dr f:\lhnh ly. The ind boiler L0ises Ivick solid stone and conerete foundations, ana roofed with corrugated ivon on iron trusses. The stack is of brick hundred feet high, resting on twenty foet of solid masonry with pile base. Wate dinwn from the rviver and pun into four setiling basins on the viver hottom, solid stone vip-rapp have n ity of 12,000, From here the water is raised into a of clevated reservoirs, two and one-half miles west and three hundred and seven feet wbove the viver, having a capacity ot 12,000,000 gallons; and from here ir distributed throughout e eity throt 40 wiles of vipe. The compuny Droyides 400 fve hydrants, the judicions distribution of which her with large capacity and clevation of th gtorage reservoirs amply provides for the five protection of the city. During the year 188 the company has expended for'the purpose of enlirging the works §2,000. This includes the lay ing of 16,400 fect of pipe, the purchase of one pumping engine, the constraetion over-flows at the settling basins enlar; the coal house, number of improve ments at the engine house, ete. The total one situated back of ) gallo h ngzon | wronght | | setd i and | to sleep again, They kept slipping him and finally he sat up, rubbed his ey nd e e e A N AR he walked into a her room, whe he wn in « chair and went oft to sleep. He swallowed mechanieally some food which was forced into his® mouth and he drank a Sunday little water, On afternoon he awakened more casily. It was not until Monduy morning thit he woke up for good. “He had no inclination to slecp fur- ther, and red to be bright and strong us over. His long sleep had been a quict one, Ie had not cven dranned when the Dlisters were gnawing at his neek and back. Monday night he was about > in his usul ¢ on, except 2 couldn’t wils at his by bend it anks had had a long sleep twice be, The lirst time was about ten years , when mumps developed into inflam mation of the covering the brain. After a day of deliviuin he went to sleep and slopt soundly and uninterruptedly for six days in spite of a council of doctors. ce years ago he had another sleep of three duys. It is suid the o due in part to over-exertion. Banks is an ener getie young man, and he has a great deal ponsibility in the store, w hich just pipe distribution now is about 46 wiles The compuny's grounds at the site ot w is busy filling the orders of wmen ut 4 Work on the new agueduct, A & THE OMAHA D AILY BEE, T ! associates made £100,000 by the cense from Hoe & Co, | | o hour, or 50,000 copics | the eut.” This continuo | with two corresponding scts of ink Teft, and are inked by the inking cylinder The paper then up over the big alittle to the right of of the big eylinder wheel, the latter not shown in the and a little to the right of the larg GROWTH OF THE OMAHA BEE, 1 Wl of o four-page roll of paper in Facts and Figures From the Records - of the Office, IMMENSE INCREASE OF BUSINESS The Cireulation of the Daily and Weekly Bee Compared With Otber Papers, WITHOUT A RIVAL IN THE STATE. A Lightning Press With a Capacity of 16,000 Eight-Page Papers in an Hour, OTHER COSTLY IMPROVEMENTS. The Cost — An Interesting ment of the Year's cted Bee Oflice St Reconstr nd Its Business, The present year has in many respects marked an epoch in the history ot the Bk asanewspaper. By rapid strides it the end of 1834 outstripped all itors in this section, and the b of 185 found it in that stage of erowth which pro the standard metropolitan newspaper of the present day. Although its cquipment of presses nd machinery had been vided le than twe months ago as ample for many y to come, the ly iner of the circulation of its editions brought the proprictors to face with the question whether they would risk of overtaxing their n consequently limiting the or venture into the b would require a complete revolution in their equipment. Realizing the position that the Bre wounld occupy by placing self in the coudition of a wmetropoli daily a contract was mad. web-perfeeting press, and incidental re- quirements. On the 7th of October the BEE appear- ed in anew dress and printed from stere- otype plates, on a Scott perfeeting press, capable of printing 00 eight-page papers per hour. The appearance of thi B on that oceasion and for some time afterwards was not up the desired standavd, and was therefore somewhat of a disappointment to our readers as well to oursclves, althongh it contained news and more al reading matter than previous The poor print was due to several eauses, one was inexp with the new and with the stercotyping process, the defeets have since been removed, and for w month past the Bee has presented a very attractive typographical appear- ance, com g favorably with that of the best printed papers in the country. The stereotyping room is in the hands of skillful men who are turning out lent plates, while the new press is good work. In this connection we produce the illustration of the BEE'S NEW PRESS, W ot web-perfe prose, munufactured expressly for the Bk publishing company. 1tis the first and only perfeeting press in Nebraska, and was built by €. Potter & Co., at nficld, N who are the manufae- of this press under the Scott and n y permission of R, Hoe & Co, While it is indeed o mechanical warvel, itis simple and its mechanism compact in form and substantial in con- struction. In these essential qualities it is the most perfeet press in the world, white at the same time itis as rapid other rotary press in this countr, Europe. It occiipies a spaco fiv wide, seventeen feet long and four half feet high. The weight is 39,000 vounds and it rests on a solid foundation of masonry. This ) prints from a continuous roll of paper, specially manu fuctured forit. It has the wity of turning out 15,000 eight-page papers” per hour, cut, pasted, folded and mted in packages of twenty-tive, and 1t can turn out 80,000 four supplements per hour, This i the rate of 250 complete cight-page papers every minute, or 500 four-page papers per minute. Its opera. tion Las been witnessed by o’ large num ber of persons from time to time, all of whom have expressed their admiration of the woderful ingenuity displayed in its workin; . THE DAMPING MACHINE he paper, before it is run through the press, must be dampened, otherwize it will not take as good an impression. The wetting is done by a s myh» machine, iron axle is run through the core of the roll of paper, the roll is suspended in bearings so as to revolve freely at one end of the damping machine, and’ the end of the web is attached to a core and axle, running in bearings, and lying in contact with a driving eylinder at the other end. The eylinder is set in motion by steam power, and the roll is unwound from one core and rewound upon the other, and in its passage it moves through a spray of water from two jets above it. This spray imparts to the paper the required mois- ture. The roll then hus u few hours to absorb the moisture thoroughly, and ve ste; all circulation, to nmors ene rience press ng re- Itis a te a8 or feet ud a l when wanted itis putiu its proper place | basbeen crecied om the"lot adjoluing ou | 15w, The above cut is a vaor fair representation of the Scott perfocting ) o of the s uhout nineteen tons pper ot rolis tc Jove picture, y : central eylinder, 18 the wheel that drives tne whole pross, | cess, which was | troduction of the | joining thy | gins 1o op tield which | in June fora | of which | All | exeels | cting | | ter | with the intre An | THE BEI'S (B ress. Thisn 1 known firm of R, Hoe & ( wd costin the neighborhood of Tt is wi Ui its compactness, comy four miles long. There e two pread the ink on the plates. The stercoty left. The third eyli patent to the w the one on the extrome teyinderand heather sileof the paper the right is an inking ey Another evlinder t : 1deliver it folded, cut 1K fonnta HURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1885, CTING matvel is the made by the © 1t prints, cu i ! tthe to print one fes the payy i J s printed by being prossed ‘1 nder. The trce eylinde I The upright levers serve te cchanicn 0. 1t was 18,000 ter P il f iz i letene pe plates side ¢ nvention of Walte hottom 4v|‘l‘ rLand stop the press fike the Bee, in <. s slown in ot vight i con 1 eylinder f Lone he paper is 1to the small eylinder press, to the ¥ight, The very small ¢ s com printed e il under at one end of the press, through which it run i peed, comimg. out, as deseribe ,in complet of the cight-page BEE, cut, pastec and countes THE PROCESS OF STEREOTY PING { Anothier interesting feature of the BEe's new cquipment s the stereotyping pro- nec ed with the in- | new press. The sterco- typing room is_located on the scc floor of the building, conveniently composing room. A six-horse ine has been placed in the | £ room to operate the ma the steam being supplied from om hoilers, hing inquiry as to the merits of preceded the decision to stereotyping in this oflice, with the new press, and the investigation r sulted in conviction that, although a few minutes are lost in making the p the gain in time when onee the pre rate. more than compensates. More mprovements in- stereotyping have been devised which reduce the tim required to make the plates o about iifteen minutes, Another ad ot ing is that 1t s the type for nse ag in less than half an hour. Without stercotyping, the type is locked up on the press and cannot be by ositors until the edition s , folded power en; | stercotyy chinery the press As rival methods introdu ived which n of the type is ro matrix, from solid metal plates, the cxact fac-similes he form to be printed, and curyed to it on the eylinders of the pr This matrix is made” by placing on face of the type several thicknesses of damp paper pasted together. The im pression is made by foremg the paper on to the type by a volling machine or by beating it with a brash.” The form with the paped thus pressed into the face of the type, is then transferred to asteam drying table, whe under heavy pres- sufe (0 prevent its shrinking or warping under the process, it is dricd and comes | oft brown and hardened into a complete | matrix and ready for the casting pro The metal is Kkept in a molten state fur After the matrix has b - Lto the coneave side of the curved casting box, the metal is poured in and i seconds the rough itype is tauken out of it. This is then | trimmed and beveled at the ends so as to | fiton the cylinders of the press, and the workmen go over it rapidly and cut out the large Dlanks. 1t 18 next placed in a | ine where a revolving knife shaves | its inner surface until the shell s a uniform thickness. It takes from fifteen to twenty minutes Lo produc a stercoty plate THE BEE'S NEW DRI consists of five cla of type minion, nonpariel and of the paper, and { The dress is standard type thre from the foundry of Barnhart Bros Spindler, Chicago. This foundry m the type for ne all the Teading ) in the country using the stercotyping | process. Typé for storcoty ping purposes must be maide with v {0 expiniston and contraction caused by the process, | AN ENLARGEMENT The Bee in donning its new dress made quite an enlargement, but in such a man- ner as not 1o hikely 1o by the rdinary observer columns | : the ne in number ve been widened one-half e, 1 ¢ stand ard width of 13} ems, e as the Chicago Tribune and other metropolitan pape This widening of the a6 col wmns is equal to an addition of oyer th columns. ‘The substitution of a smal type for a larger—brevier for hourgeois also makes room for more reading mat- brevier, the body advertising ty) EVERYTHING NEW of dress und press together sduction of tl oty ping process, has compelicd us to dispenso with nearly our entire &d outfit.” The olil type, the stones, column rules, chases, and “everything in the news-room, with the exception of some of the racks and have been Lud aside. The only thing retained is one of the two doubl cylinder Hoe presses, which formed part of the old cquipment, This double-cyl inder Hoe press thus retained is intendod for use in ecase of accident or ¢ emergency, 1t is o nearly new pro supplicd With Dester automatic folders, and is itself worth 36,000, THE BEE BUILDING In consequence of iner 1 the Beg has bean compelied to its building, which has been remd and reconstrueted, and is now one handsomest and most substantial story brick structwres in Omaha. The front has been made particularly attrac tive, the flrst story being of Uolorado ved-stone and platdgluss windows, and the upper stories of St Louis pressed k. The basement is occupicd as the pressroom and engine-roons, the first | Hloor contains the counting room and | mailing room, the second floor is divided | into the composing room and stercotyping | room. The editorial rooms are located m the third story. T’ ¢ convenient ly 1 1, ¢ will be occupied in about two weeks. The fourth story is devoted to general purpos The biild ing will be sup, ‘\ throughout with all modern conveniences, and will—when everything has been’ arranged—be of the most complete newspaper estab- lishments in the country | The first floor of the BEg building will | be made fire proof in order to protect the | L e e raa Iron beams are to be put in,” with brick arches and conercte filling, and a floor of tiling. This will be the only fire-proof pressroom in Nebraska. ! ? To accommodate the city circulation department, a one-story brick build The ¢h: ster bu of the | foun | tive circulati the cast. Tn this buildin vaults for the storage of t Ber and other valuable basenient of this building is ilicial stone, voom for printing paper room is located in the rear the I'he 1 with o files of property Py used as I'he boile this build of THE all these improvements ssim us will be seen by ing items The new pr COST amounts to a the follow S with the stereotyping apparatus, and wetting machiic The new dress, and other equipments COmOSINE Tooin, Building improvements, .. $15,000 2,000 $30,000 THE IMPROVEMENTS i this article have made for mere amuscment or hoastful display, but have been necessitated by the rapid and constant growth of the B, which has become ¢ of the lead ing newspapers of Ameriea. In order to maintain this position, which has been secured by hard work and the « turo of larze sums of money, the publish ers of the Bk expect to kedp the . abreast with those newspapers ploy the hest talent and enjoy unlin Hities for pr vs by telegr nd otherwise. The cditorial Stafl of kE, which was already In incrensed, as well as its corps o rs all over the country ULATION The follow iy wres cirenlation speak for th Cirenlation of the Duai 1y iary Maich April. . May.. Jue.. Angust Septen Octoher Nover Decer . CIRCULATION OF THE DAILY DECEMBER, 1885, deseribed not been ke BI Dee. D Dee! Dec, . Dee, Dee. Do D D D i D Do Fhe follow! 15 of the Om pers TOTAL DAILY CIRCULATION. HERALD, REPUBLICAN AND WORLD, 2590 ™ the 1850 on of the v by the mth of Au cireul is 5 n The increase in DAty Bk sine following statement of the grust during the last six yen ge circulation August, 15 THE WEEKLY y The incres in the irculation of the weekly is shown by the following state | ment 1580, 185 189 168, M 1884, ¢ I35 cireulation ling Jine six months el ave tire-proof | 1000 | LUNNING EXPENSES OF ves paid to printers durin ading Dec, 51 s paid to other Cmployes Telverapl service. ... AR Postaw 4 Papar i the BLE, 15 0616 03 TN 08 0 al running expenses for the yoar 1585, 11 The Hnning expenses of 1585 ¢xee of 1884 by = 153, The reduction 10 postage expense s ac- counted for by tie reduced rate of posta | " The tollowing shows the in i expenses fol iive years preced- 159 214 those the r 1580 11 18 18 1884 CONSUMED, ) 10 0N 4G St 1,08 | 26l | vATIR | u the consumiption of paper following Stateient % 1hs: monthl 0,906 1hs: Ihs} S 1hs, 378 hs, W00 [hs, ST 1743 11 41,501 1L Employment is given by the Bie pub- lishing company to one hundred and five per The B employs twenty-eight carriers in Omaha, aod nine in Coancil Blufis Fhe B has a branch office in Couneil Suis and ierdelivery of the morn ing edition has been in operation in that city for the past four years. Hs civeula nin that eity is equal to any other | has also the ,and a ws b Des been estab Nebraska stat venu | been capit the capital of opened at Towa A branch of)! has ished for the Bek ia the city of New York fortwo years —Room 65, Tribune huildin, A. F. Richardson is the also been estab ton oflice is at No. 3 Fourieenth strect, o Postoflice Changes, Postoftice changes in Nel during the we g Dec. 26, 1895, furnished m Van Vie of the postollice Postmasters appointed maha county, k. We Dawson connty, Gec Brown; Dil* ler, Jeflerson county Loock: Ma Buflulo county, Miss Lizzie C. Sal Menominee, Cedar county, Henry L City, Nemaha county, s Obi, Custer county, Aspinwall Ne- dev: Congidon, mon Hoesing; Richard J. Chiarles H ords Postoftice chunges in Towa, week ending Dee, 26, 1855, Estaplished—Croamery, Cerro Gordo Ca., Cornelius H seil P, M.; Inger: soll, Dallas Co., Ole Anderson, P M, Discontinue Fiticld, Marion Co. Postmasters appointed-—Brooks, Ad ams Co., C. S 1e: Cairo, Lonisa Griswold; Carrollton, Carroll Co. Crockett Ribble; Cleve L o James Flood: Crown, Deeatur Co., My mees V.o Funk: Hancock, Pottawatt mie Co., Mrs. A. M. Dru wold Co., Mrs, 8. Guthrie} Co., John H. May 5.8, Rufien; Marne, men; Menlo, Guthrie Co. Mormontown, ‘Taylor Co., Moulton, Appandose Co Mount Valley, Winneb Michue! Evanson; Northhoro., ty, Wiliizon Creal; Numan, county. . W, Hibbs; o O H. Tayden; Plano Yanoose coun ty, J. N. "Dool Reels, Pottawottamie county, L. L Axtell; Redding, @ connty, J. W. Crouch: Quingly, county, A J. Mallon; Seymoir i county, M. /G, Cain; Untonville, Apps noose county, B Bicks; Weldon, Decatur county, L. T Greenlee; Wirt, Ringgold county, Mes. Westersid House; Woodburn, Cl mty, J. R, Felger; Yorktown, Y. Ernst - Crazed by “Hamlet." Cleveland Leaders 1< that young ndowll ring the B. Shaver; " Chipinan; J. M. Willet; r0 county, Page coun Appanoose e county, Api vk« county, J lady sitting by the v inquired wre moan pot yesterd porter of a p: cast train at the union ¢ v, Y es | Yorkto a ecli A y rn hereft man who ocen ther and 1'm to New on. Th wentd pies aseat with rf arelat W sir, m is of 1 Ve sing her n ek only & few woecks theater, he plag of Wl seene that inee then | the thin, her » Whi her the i er face 1 Her hand h tal tronble dates WS peop an [ s ol 1 1 and brown tastet yanged, erowned her shipely b but her utterincos whispers. The at word, ‘gl relrain of a song Banquetted the | On Xmas eve the employes of the Union | Stock compuny presented the superin- tendent, Mr. Walker, with a handsomo omne Hoved L it were the Jmployes. gold wateh, us an expression of the kind ly fecling they have for him, and on Xmas day he invited one and ull to his residence, where o sumptuous feast was served 1o theus, nd | & little | 1780 S0 | honnd | ROLLER SKATING. The Rice and Fall of the Pastime - Ihe Fortunes Made During the 0. cat, empty, ung i with thous- KS v quict wm be f t to keey poor, a1 r would mnd L the liave r but season It was for the and ve this in Phils ol ry for ;.I\!- .|‘|H.n and Hall suys or it s A {ing ac n Wihien ded roll o sof a or nk that 1 educed ot 1 which legitimate made onnected with the < than the mane et hoxwoe S may b hing the factur Last v ton tunate In that wood jumned o §i0, and purchase just upward turn tho weeks almost Lar thonsand made 1 ors IRE P trom fivm, by o fore the nade $15,00 Tlie market v of boxwood fo n usinds « nto rollers in a fe Boswood is oW ton, and the 18 s own. So enornic for the hecome i wer selling price did infatuation for rolic that companies witi of thousands of doltars as cuy cre formed for the purpose of coi - stracting rinks in small cities all over the country. These rinks were built for the most part of hemlock, and so extens sive were the operations that this lume ber, notwithstanding the immense sups ply, made advances until the market at one time showed that its value had been inereased at least cent by the large operations the construction companic Since last veur the sof hemlocek has fallen off 50 per eent. beeanse the building of the rinks had to he stopped. One of these construetion companies in 1 months divided profits of $100.000. The plan of RGOS WS LD DIk HL AR promising locality, run it fora fow week: il then sell out to local speculator: Maple was tound 1o be the best wood with which to constract the rink floors, and this lumber jiuped up to $30 and. $5 a thousand foit It is an interesting fact tiat the “roller craze’ wouli have come long he patent. For seventeen years f e was patented not a_skate was sold, and yet the patentee in that time made $3.000.000. Even Plumpton wis the Tucky fellow who first conceived +idea of 1 and h ade all of roller ed during the years his patent ran, and rented them ot to skating rink managers. He alw the contracts read tat he shoul 10 per cent of the admission receipts and 1 : money 1rom the rvental ot the Of cotirse, roller skating did nog L these circmmstances, but inusement was popular enough to 1 swail ) re cities, npte s soon nt ¢ uld be " start chmond, Ind. M. Honley started the manufacture of roller | skate<'in a little woodshed in that city, | The s becime popular, and he ene | Targed his shops until now he has a factory of over 400 fect in length, and one in which ninny workmen employed. He has made aoround million of dollars in the business ter | owi ad My, 1 | s the pat made by any and started in - Freight Rate Grand Island There bz “Averages.” Independent, oo feature of the vailrond ion discovered.—It has materially hastened the tin wi the railronds will be called o account by sev- eral ye Up to the tme the commis- sion wus ereated, and began its huckster ing tours throughout the state, the strongest argiment of railrond men wag the laughing down every friend of the people by vidieuling them as cranks, The tables have been neatly turned rom- mission has become (e “mother-in-law, and the mule,” of newspaper pars ph- Itis a perennial fount of nurth apd sm 2 man like Charles I Gere, who is not in the habit of being laughed at those tiings sting, and ~o the wditor of the State Journal his taken up the eudgel in de- fensc. crhias fled in dismay from Journal sanetvm, It is urging the cause of the valroads, with all its might, and the ntry rs ore picking 1t to picees with the’ Grand Islind Independ- ent taking the lead, General Manager Ca ay, of the Union Pacilie, is one of the latest to in defense of rail- rouad man with the p u||mlillfi statistics (o prove it that the “‘average facight rate 1s less than in - Europe ot wed as 1o how the We ofler an ex- ample Suppose one hundred ears [ten tons each | of corn are shipped one huns dved miles, pro rata ate of two-fifths, in force from David City o the Missonri viver, the compuny realizes 748 cents per bush I'here are 357 bushels of corn in acear. shows an earning of 2.08 eents per ton per mile. Now, if the coms pany should conclide to send’ three cars of supplies out, at. 23, 28, 28 cents per. ton per mile Add the 55 to 2,65 we 3 divi 1)318 87 Itis an average, and per mile, the cost to f e zht would only is ns it A g I'his haul of 100 miles, mfret: One thous ransport been one comnis pa is looks fair ents per lon s the 1,040 1 40, That | a ditterer It s ures and be able to n rage no ng cheated, 1 county for 1585 bushels, It will T per ton per mile, ounty woulil be ens 10 cach man, on thi th t srn crop ol wted at 4,0 11,201 tons, Al 100,000, or ) lone taples of corn, wheat, i Tumber, the “average’ no comfort, fi'e Butle 10,100 cer to connect his wontier by rail, and a ol it the Iidian a 1oud thiough Bues system ai the fron- th the ¢ yment whil build Slainese n Iher JTohn Milton said: no jared with the of Zion; no orations eqial to (hose of the proohicts, and no politics like those the seriptutes teuch, - General Strachey, the sreatest authority on Indian rallioads, estimates that the benetips wecruing trom her nhways to India amoun i, now at Astoria, 10 0yor £40,(60,000 per aniium, - The British ship Winnip made the voya from Shanghai in exaetly ity days—the quickest time on record, - Biitish Burmah railroads returned 6 per cent dividends last year, and have paid &ood diiciest since the day they were open A i <X R |8 \