Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 9, 1886, Page 4

,THE DATLY BEE. OMATA OFFICE,NO. 914 AXD 916 FARNAM ST NEw York Orrice, Roo 6, T RIBUNE BUILDING WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTEENTH ST. Published every morning, except Sunday. The flnl{ Monday morning paper published in the TERMS BY MAIL! e Yonr.. £10.00 Threo Months iix Months. . 5.00,0no Month. ... T WeEKLY Brw, Published Bvory Wednesday. TRAMS, POSTPALD: 6 Year, with premium.. .. @ Year, without premium . X Months, without vrlvmhlm One Month, on trial. £2.50 K] CORRESPONDENC A1l communications relating to news and torinl mattors should be addressed to tho B TOR OF HE BEE, BUSINFSS TRTTERS: All bu tiness lettors and remittances should be nodrossed to THE BER PUBLISIING COMPANY, AA. Drafte, chocks and postoflico orders 10 be made paguble to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E, ROSEWATER. Boitor. Tuis kind of weather ouglit to thaw out & new railroad scheme for Omaha, Tur Mexican “greaser” is a more dan- gerous animal on the border than the American Apach A Low-necked dress is d to have " killed Miss Bayard, Notwithstanding this report the age Washington belle will continue to prefer undress uniform and discomfort to a fight in the face of fashion's decrees. Tae plans for the boulevards will thaw ont in thospring. When the viaduct oyer Bixteenth street is comploted, that thor- oughfare will be one of the main avenues . of the system of boulevards with which it | _is proposed to encircle Om: Drt. MiLLeR has been once more inter- viewed in New York and reports that the course of the administration has strength- ened the Nebraska democeracy. He neg- lects to state which faction of the party seems to have been benefitted. Tue formal opening of the Omaha ex- position building takes place on the 18th of this month. Our citizens should show their appreciation of the publw spint of the men who have invested their money in this enterprise by filling the building to overflowing on that oc Fire insurance men are pointing with sorrow to the Junuary fire loss which Bhosws an increasa of $2 000 045 gyer that of lnst year. Omaha did not contribute materially to the increase, The under- writers have been very fortunate of late years in their ri terprises located in 3y midst. Nol'u-gc ¢ty is evér built up without them. ‘Wholesale trade employs few wage earners. Itis the population engaged in manufactures, large and small, which in- creases the census lists most of all, and furnishes in turn occupation for there- tailers and real estate men. T'E earnest appeals made in prayer by 2 Brooklyn deacon that the Almighty would help the poor produced a strong impression last week until it was diss covered that the average duily wages ot his sewing girls amounted to less than thirty-five cents a day. This beats the record of the Consolidated Company of Mean Men, ANOTHER life insurance case where the company fought the payment of insur- ance on the ground of suicide has been decided in favor of the family of the insured. Companies who boast of thei liberality in omitting suicide clauses from their policies will note their wisdom in providing in advance ageinst the expenses of a fruitless fight in the courts. NEw YORKERS are waging a vigorous war on bogus butter. Nine-tenths of the produce dealers have signed an agree- ment binding themselves not to deal in the stufl’ at all, and one merchant has been fined $100 for selling oleomargarine for butter lnst May. We venture the as- sertion that two-thirds of what is sold for butter in Omaha to-day is a compound of iuet or lard colored and flavored to imi- tate the genuine article. There are gro cers in our city supplying the best trade with ‘‘fancy creamery” at 40 cents a pound for which they pay 18 cents to a rominent Chicago grease factory. hile much of the bogus butter manu- factured is superior to the average of the xeal product of the dairies, its sale as butter is a swindle which should be dealt with just the same as other swindles are. Tue “mugwump’ organs who have the | civil servico reform disease in its most 3‘ wiolent form arc denouncing as malicious- 1§ 1y false the statement that thousands of 1 xepublican office holders have been re- moved under Mr. Cleveland’s administra- tlon They point to the pages of the Qongressional Record and call gleeful _attention to the fact that only 600 odd yemovals have been made by the presi dent since he assumed office, and inti- represents the changos in the ce as the result of the transfer of the government from a republican to a democratic adminis- teation,. No one knows better . than the ‘“mugwump” editors that * the presidential appointments represent " a small portion of the positions at the dis- . posal of the administration. With the wvast army of fourth class postmasters the ‘ohief executive has nothing directly to do. ~ Evaory clerkship and minor oflicial in the departments at Washington and in the ~ warious custom houses, postoflices and - land oftices throughout the country is as 9 mmll subject to removal on political grounds as if his nomination were withi the excoutive province. Of the thou- sands of names on the government blue Doot by far the greater portion can be ousted at any moment to make Wi for successors, 1t nakes Mo i employes wh: directly to exceutive action or indivectly through the department heads, The faot " ghatthousands of ofticials, clerks and e w: have been removed under Mr, & eland’s “‘reform” administration re- _ mains the sime. It eannot bo challenged or sot aside by a showing that the presi- dent is directly responsible for only six " bundred. In the face of the loud sound- blasts on the executive bugle it fur- a striking commentary on the -flwhiuh Lios between promise and per- ance so far as enforcing an imprae- teal nd odious reform is concerned. Tariff Legistation. Mr. Morrison is confident that we shall have some tariff legislation at the present session. Itis hard to discover on what grounds he bases his confidence. The house is divided into a score of factions, each represented by the champion of some specially protected issue. The sen- ate has an overwhelming majority against any bill which conld pass the gauntlet of the house as at present constituted, Certainly the general bill which the chairman of the ways and means committee is now attempting to hatch will never grow a pin feather dur- ing the present session. Its features are deseribed as follows—a general reduc- tion in about this ratio: Woolsand wool- ons, to about 50 per cent; iron and steel, to 50 per cent; flax, hemp and jute, to 25 per cent; the cotton schedule, from an average of 40 to 85 per bent; chemicals, to 25 per cent; leather nufactures thereof, from about 28to 25 per cent; steel rails to $13.50 a ton; pig and serap iron to $5 a ton; sugar to a polariscope test which will make about 40 per cent ad valorem, which 1s about what the su, men said they were willing to accept in 1883, although they red much better; glass and glassware m 5 to 50 per cont; earthenware ¢ china from 56 to 50 per cent; rice from 75 to 50 per cent, and lead to 50 per cent duty. The copper tarift would be re- duced one cent a pound. The majority of the ways and means committee favor putting the following articles on the free list: animals, humlnlu’h bricks, cement, soda ash, chickory, kaolin, unwrought clay, coal and coke, copper ore, regulus copper, flax, hay, jute, hemp and jute butts, iron ore, mineral and bituminous substances in the crude state, paper pulp, salt, lumber and raw wool. Here are ali the materials of a debate of months, There is not an item that will not find an opponent. A dozen protect- ed interests will see to it that combina- tions ave formed strong enough to break down the bill by spinning out the debate until its final consideration is delayed to the last days of the session, Representa- tives from the manufacturing south will join with lobbyists from the industrial north in opposing reductions on lines in which they are especially interested. Party divisions will be forgotten before mount consideration of self- A reform of the tariff is g nceded. But the time has not yet arri when it is possible to unite on Mr. Mor rison's plan of reduction of duties along the whole line, Suoh a species of assauft unites the enemies of tariff’ revision. The iniquitics of the present system must be assmled in detail if they sva o e re- moved, Revising the Land Laws. Bills to repeal the pre-cmption timber culture laws will probably congress at the present session. laws would have been repealed lasi ter if the bills, after passing the and hou had not been killed in confer ence by the advogates of the land-grab- bers. The public domuin available for settlement under the general land laws has now dwindled down to 200,000,000 acres. During the past five years 50,000,- 000 acres a year have tnkeh up. At this rate the public lands will be ex- hausted in lest than twenty years. It is admitted that vast tracts have been seized by syndicates and rings under the desert act, the tim- ber culture and the pre-emption laws The first two require no residence, the last calls for a residence of six months only. Under the homestead law a resi- dence of five years is required. The re- peal of the desert, pre-emption and tim- ber culture laws will still leave the home- stead act available to settlers. Under that law speculation will be placed at a discount and actual and continued set- tlement will be secured. The remainder of the public domain will be re: men who will cut it up into farr divide into large tracts of unim- proved land to be held until it can be disposed of at a heavy profit to farmers who will cultivate it. The land laws of the United states have heen too liberal in the past, Both the timber cul ture and pre-emption acts have had their day. The west will lose nothing by their repeal, while it will gain the assurance that settlement on the remaining land will mean something more than a pri emptor's roofless shanty and a furrow seratched around his clvim as evidence of actual cultivation. The Business Situation. The sev weather which prevailed throughout a large part of the country last week bad its effect upon general trade. No notable improvement over the previous week was observed at the leading trade centers. On the other hand there was no unfavorable develop- ments, and merchants generally antici- pate a satisfactory spring opening. The fact that the leading elearing house cities of the country report the total bank ex- changes for the week ending February 6th to be $1,001,801,383, an increase of 43.1 per cent over the corresponding weck of ayear ago, is taken to be con- vincing ev of the improved con- dition of ¥ Money is |nh-u|3 and llus howing is evidence that :nul Lm The failure list comprises 233 business suspensions in the United Statos and 34 in Canada, or a total of 287, as against More than two-thirds of the whole number in the United States are furnished by the southern, western, and Pacifie states, Cottons are reported a shade lower, owing to the continuance of slow trad- ing. Manufacturers of cotton maintain a pretly strong position both as re; supplics and prices. The latter ure f tionally higher in some tive market for staple fu ] a hardening tendency. Some weakness is noted in cotton yarns for woven goods as a It ot wider competition and the apening of the raw staple, but a very business 1 progress. Cotton hosiery yarns arve closely sold up, and inners find it difticult to meet orders. There is some hesitancy on the part of buyers to pay the adva 1 prices asked on autumu styles and weights of woolen goods, but the general feeling as to the prospects for business in this branch of he textile interest is cheerful and hopeful . The wool mu crate degree of g as to the fut of ant as it was u few weeks There is show only a mod- nd the feeling s 1ot 50 buoy ne yielding on the part of sellers, how- ever, except on fine flecces, which are somewhut depressed by the backward THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1886, demand and the prospect of large ad- ditions to the supply by importation. The iron trade exhibits a fair degree of activity, in view of existing weather con- ditions, and the market throughout shows unabated firmness. Regarding the grain and vprovision market the Philadelphia Record, in its weekly review for the week ending last Saturday sa; As noted last week, the bear influence in the market is not so strong as it was a short time ago, and while the indifferent character of the foreign demana and ample stocks in sight give a downward inclination to values whenever speculative support is momentarily withdrawn, the market responds quickly to favoring developments in the foreign news or in the attitnde of buyers. The American visible supply is 1,000,000 bushels less than last week, but this decrease is largely offset by a gain of 880,000 bushels in afloat stocks. Beerbohm reports a decline of 114 cents in English markets, but some of the private cables to United Stat es firms note a better feeling in the markets of the United Kingdom and continent. The latter report finds no substantial confirmation in the movements of foreign buy The statistical position of wheat in this country is generally regarded as favorable to higher prices hefore the erop year is out, but the dullness of legiti- mate trade discourages active investment by capitalists who take this view of the situation. Corn is moving out fre forelgn orders, and the markets gene stronger on prospects of a light tun of receipts pending the removal of the snow blockade in many parts of the country. Chicago prices show little change, but the seaboard markets are !¢ to 1§ cents per bushel higher than at this time last weel Provisions show inecreased firmness asa re- sult of the moaerate movement of hogs to packing centers, The larger proportion of the arrivals of logs are of light weights, which encourages the belief that supplies « closely marketed, Prices of hogs in the west are 15 to 25 cents higher, and mess pork shows an advance of 35 cents per barrel, with other products proportionately advanced, Tuw argument now used for the exten- sion of the date at which the Union Pa- cific debt to the government shall mature is that the road is practically bankrupt, that it would be entirely so if it were not for its branch lines and that the funds which, under existing legislation they are required to pay into the national treasury, are needed to meet the competition of other tems whmh are pushing into their territor; "his is a late day to di cover the suic ts of the past pol- icy of the Union Pacific in neglecting to possess itself of its tributary territory. For ucarly twenty years the main stem been milked and bold dividsy among ring that controlled ts management. With a lack of fore- sight which seems remarkable, the man- agement expended what funds they had remaining from dividend divisions in building hundreds of miles of costly ex- tensions across alkali deserts and sa brush wastes while they turned over the rich state of Nebraska with its profitable loeal traflic to its competitors north and south of the Platte. It was only when the company found the territory tribu- tary to its main stem tapped by the Bur- lington and menaced by the Northwest- ern that it retaliated by muking some efforts at branch line construction in ze Nebraska, Now secording to the reports | of the government directors, the profits on through traflic are insuflicient to even pay interest on the government debt, and the profits from the branch lines are sustaining the main stem. Mr. Adams’ policy is to be a_revival of that of his predecessors. He sees very clearly that transcontinental competition has wiped out the enormous profits which the Union Pacific at one time was able to make from its through traflic, and that future profits must come from branch extensions in the settled coun try north and south of the main line. But what the peo- ple of the territory who are to assist m lifting the Union Pacific out of the mire are anxious to know is why they should be compelled by the government to pay principal and interest on the en- ormous debt of that corporation for eigh- ty years to come. Mr. Hoar’s bill will fasten the burden of enormous transpor- tation charges on this section for nearly a century. If the road were permitted to go mto bankruptey, on the verge of which it is trembling, there would be such a wringing out of wat tion on a basis of fair capital its patrons throughout the west could well afford to give it a profitable support without impoverishing themselves by so doing. OxaHA has given away too many valu- able rights of way. Itis high time that the city should realize something from the usc of her streets. When the new viaduets are built the right to their occu- pation by the street or cable cars should not be granted without a consideration. New York's legislature is now consider- ing a bill disposing of such purchases at public auction. So long as the right given is not an exclusive one, there is no reason why Omaha should not do the same. For a country that has but 3,000,000 people and a big debt Canada has done quite well in the way of voting railrond subsidies. They foot up $24,000,000. A retrenchment wave, however, has struck the Dominion parliament, and a measure will be introduced proyiding for the can- cellation of all sabsidies the terms of which have not been complied with, Mg. CLEVELAND is not to be bulldozed by the warnings of the telephone com- pany to *disconnect’ the circuit be- tween the White House and the oflice of the attorney general. The wire is still working, and the last message sent was to push the suit against Bell and his sue- cessors for fraudulently obtaining a tent right which belonged to anothe man. SeNATOR FrYE's bill to provide a com- mittee of flve to investigate the liquor traflic has been favorably reported to the senate. It is dificult to see what use there can be in the appointment of a special committee when any congress ional sampling committee could afford aflord volumes of information on the subject. WiiLe several of our Nebraska towns have secured canning establishments, Omaba has made no movement towards vroviding hersclf with such an institu- tion. - Thonsands of dollars worth of gar- den produce could be marketed every year at a canning establishment in this city 1if Douglas county were given an op- l portunity, and exhausted Dby | Ireland’s New Secretary. Mr. Gladstone's selection of J ohn Mor- ley as secretary for Iyeland has given general satisfaction ;to the nationalist party, and to those who hope for a better administration at Dubline Mr. Morley is a leading radical whose opinions 1 philosophic statesman have earried for years great weight with the advanced element in the liberal party. Heisa journalist of matured cxperience, and has served in several parliaments, and has for years made Irish history, Irish poli- ties, and Ireland’s necds a special study. His position on home rule was frankly defined in the last electoral ecany when he addressed the liberals of New- castle upon the parliamentary cl then approaching. Mr. Morley, on that occasion, pointed out that the tory c that the empire was in danger on account of Mr. Gladstone’s supposed sympathy with home rule was on a par with other panies which that party had nourished whenever its su- premacy had been endangered. He urged that the attempt to stifle the voice of Mr. Parnell’s majority was to destroy the basis of representative government, and insisted that the return of the Irish leader at the head of cighty-six followers made it evident that it was no longer possible to resist the demand of the Trisn for a larger share of self-government. For himself Mr. Morl announced that he was quite 1 to grant to Ircland these iner rights so far as was consistent with *“‘the safety, the integrity and the honor of the em- pir He assured Ins hearers that the question raised could not slumber and that before many weeks parlinment would be driven to consider some plan of giving Ireland “a greatly extended system of self-government. It was doubtless this speech which so incensed the queen ngainst Mr. Morley. In spite of her objections he has been summoned by the premier to his assist- ance and placed in the one position of all others where his suggestions on Irish legislation will be most fruitful of results. Tug Dawes county Journal notes the receipt of a communication from a John lhmmnlmmml of Omaha, addresscd to the le. Mr. Higgen- bottom nguine of his ability to pro- mote a railroad from Omaha to the north- west through the interest which he hopes to excite in English capitalists. We trust Mr. Higgenbottom will get promptly to work with his “Omaha, Northwesterr, & Chadron,” QOmahs applaud his effortsin that dir fortunately for her inte: ists are muliing too muelr money nowa- vs from real estate spdeulation to in- aportion of thert reserve in enter- I will inereasecthe population ier eapital- have a daily income of £500. Chie tice Waite is said to have in mind a pleasure trip to Alaska. Perhaps he has a sealskin robe in his mind’s ey Chas. L. Vallandigham, clerk of the Ohio senate, is a son of Clement L. Vallandigham. He s g er and seems to know what he is about. b The military rank of Private Bill Day hardly entitles him to so much attention ashe isgetting in the house of representa- tives, s Attorney General Garland, it 1s said, sum- marily dismissed a servant girl the other day when she asked him it he would have Pan- rk Twain’s profits from Gen, Grant’s book, as chief member of the publishing firm of Charles L. Webster & Co., will amount, it is said, to over $500,000, . Senator Vorhees can justly elaim to be cially in- Washington as her Washington cor Mrs. Speaker € s robe worn by her ata recent reception was a Parisian ¢ tion, and was made of electric embossed vel- vet, with a breast knot of lovely rose Don Cameron always denies the accuracy of newspaper interviews attributed to him. He talks so poorly thatno correspondent has been able to make his intentions read well. At one of cent receptions Mrs, Senator Cockrell’s re- in Washington, Roman punch was s in baskets formed from scooped-out oranges, the handles being tied with yellow ribbons, Henry Guy Carleton, the dramatic author, is an erratie sort of a genius, and has for pets several large bullfrogs which he has trained to eat live mice, which, when placed in their reach, they catch with the avidity and skill of a terrier. Thomas A, Edison, the electrician, having paid $300,000 for a mansion in New Jersey, Is this month to marry the young and handsome daughter of Lewis Miller, the millionaire manufacturer of Akron, Ohio, Edison has three young children, The Way to Treat Bismarck. New Haven News, “How shall we treat Bismarel exchange. Beer Is good enough, asks an e — A Paying Investment. Chicago Herald. The Bell Telephone company’s investment in newspapers seem to be paying pretty well, - Euchered the Queen. Boston Post. Some of Gladstone's enemies call him a knave. He certalnly euchered the party that held the queen. e Omaha's Prosperity. Papillion. Times, With the exception of New York cit Omaba s e most- prosperous town in America, e Cold_Chill Siowr ity doursgl. It wust have made cold ahills run down Vietoria's back $he ofier day when dstone kissed her hahd. The Blundes oP N Harpors, Chicago Tadhu The blunder of the Hirpers ing money to M nade in send- ilbera of Pinatore,” and “Mikado” fame mm‘ thg swin sent was insignificant. The meanhesd of it offset the exhibition of possible regard for principle of justice. i Must Do Something to Keep Warm. Oslikosh 1 imes. People who neglect theirbusiness to parade the stre carnivals, or slide down hill, are sure to come to some bad end in business, and every result of this nature is a serious damage aud drawback to a cowmunity, - A Bankrupt Law Needed. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, It seems quite likely that a bankrupt law of some kind will be enaeted during the p session of congress, and such a law many respects unguestionably desirabl matter is a difficnlt one to adjust, Low in sueh a way as to insure fairand prog m.uu-. particularly in the matter of keeping peuses of the adwinistration of a bankrupt's estate within reasonable bounds. Usually the lawyers and court officials ab- sorh nearly everything in s|gm? and the pro- ceeding is'a mere mockery so far as gain to the creditors is concerned. It is certainl Pn!flhl(‘ to frame a law which shall effectual- prevent sueh an abuse of {nxucm and it is to be hoped that congress will not adopt one of any other sort, The Telephone Scandal, New York Times, The Pan electric scandal, fnvolving cortain public men at Washington, is & small matter in comparison with the Bell telephone scan- dal, involving certain newspaper editors in the city of New York. The newspaper out- ety about tie Pan electric scandal i promot. and, for the most part, paid for by the Bell Teleplione company. W —— “Here's a Howdy Dy New York Herald Cable. N Ibert, the dramatist, prints this morning a card and correspondence about himself with the Harpers, The card calls attention to an “instance of munifi- cence on the patt of the Harpers, the wealthy publishers, exhibiting o sympathy for dis- tressed British authors deserving recogni- tion.” The publishers writo: “We inclose herewith a dratton Sampson & Low, at one day’s sight, for £10in acknowledgement for ur original comic operas in-our 3 quare library, Please advise us of the receipt of the draft, Wesend you by mail a few copies of our edition of the book.™ TIANKS! Mr. Gilbert replies thus: “You have been good ehough to forward me a donation of £10, notwithstanding the fact that for many years I have been pillaged right and left by Such of your countrymen as are engaged in publish ez and theatrical venture: amn not yet reduced to such a_ state of absolute peniiy as wonld justify my taking advant- age of the charitable impulse which prompted you_gift, but the Vietoria hospital for dren stands sorely in need of funds, therefore faken the liberty of handing your elieck to that institution.” 2 Baby Mine, Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle. “There is no joy in the world like No music sweet as your “goo-ah-£o No skies so elear as your eyes of blie— Baby, oh my baby, But when you ground on the secret pin And open your valve and howl like sin No gong can equal your little din— 3aby, oh my baby. My heart is glad when your face I see, My joy is full when you come to me, I laugh with you in ramping gle Baby, oh my baby. And oftentimes my midnight snore 1s broken short by your screaming roar, And till morning dawns we walk the floor— Baby, oh myfbaby. tbfonard THE VANDERBILT BOYS, How They Were Taught to, Shift for Themselves—Lessons Well arned. Cornelius Vande i \Vullll at least saotl)uo ,000, perhe- at ‘49"“"“" nte; ke 51\0“11[ iy tweivd , which would not less than $640,000,000 when r. Cornelius ll would m(-l(-'\w a great deal faste hat which he is to-day receiving on his stock will come panic 'sms, perhaps, and he can f\ll\' coul on making more than *1 50,000,000 in thirty-six years. These young men arc remarkablo characters. They started in the path of life under the iron rod of their remark- able grandfather, the old ~commodor He didn’t believe in boys at all; he didn't believe in anybody mucl | and when Cor- nehus and William K. clothes he said to their here, Billy; boys are no good; there's only one 7 ‘em, and that is by puiting 'em ut something, and ma ‘em work like the devil all the while, Now, stick these boys in somewhere and wake 'em come down to it. Don't let up not half as hard and in- ther, but he was tomed to mind that gentleman—as obedi- ent when he was 40 as when he was 14 and he knew perfectly well it was Dbetter to kick a h()? out than it was to pet him and to give him money; so he told the hoys, as his father had told lum that i st support themselves.” nelius got a little clerkship in the shoe and leather bank when he was 16, and for four years e got there as early as any clerk “and worked as late and a8 hard.” He allowed himself no extra holi- ncx(ln.r his father nor fp id anything lo make his life cus During ihese ye his Uncle T going Lo Luropo for the Commodore, invited “'the youngster'’ to go with him, and the gr: ndfather re- lented and contented. The boy was de- lighted at the chance, but the question of salary was involved. He presented llu' mattcr to the president. “You can go,’ suid the amiable functionary, “but of course you will lose your s: $150 That scttled “ornelins d his back on the temptation and declined to go. When he was 20 he was made a clerk “at the bottom of the ladder” in the Hudson River railroad oflice, and his younger brother, William K. 5 put at Work there the next ye re than ecighteen year: by have *‘how down to 1t” in that great concern, they are far bettec trained than their er was in all the details of the flexible as | re not (nal men. They own no nothing for clubs. Thoy are content, up to the present time, with one wife apiece. They love their children, and each family filing into church tha like a pair of gently sloping s. They care little for fast hors They . do mot &wear,. One. of . them. 18 superintendent of a Sunday school, and both are decply involved in various char- ities of the cf Cornelius is first viee prosident and head of finance, \\1ll un K. is second vice sident and master of transportation. PRy T MM DT L S The most striking thing about cither of them is |.]ml they work as hard as if they were hired by the job—which they ave, by the way—and that they ave perfectly democratic and accessible to anybody who has business with them. On the whole, the present seniors of the house of Vanderbilt a bout the most quict, unassuming, well-behaved, well-trained, and level-neaded of the New York mil- lionaires of the present day. -~ HE WENT TOO FAR. vas Perfectly Willing to Apolo- gize and Promise H rmation, Detroit Free Press use me,”’ he said, as he halted a gentleman in tho cor- ridor of the city hall, “but will you lend me your eye glitsses i moment?” He put them on_ his nose to read a lot and veturned thens with: Thanks! Ah! Ten He'set his watch and confidentially in rrect tine? 't any tobacco ubout you, eh He was handed a box and, after’ help- ing himself 10w liboral share, he. re- “I want to mail a letter in the box here, but lllml 1 have no postage stamps, If ou—-—" 7 . He was handed a stamp. When he had cked it on und muiled his letter, he said: I'm going up Michigan avenue to Twelfth st Do you lmppl u Lo have a couple of street car tic “8ir ! This is too much "' exclaimed the other. I can stand about so much, Bog your pardon ! ou drow the line at no How nhd 1 Luu\\ street car tickets? No oflense the least. T'llt your name and make amemoradum of whore yvour zenerosity os and this thing han't happen i Imistook yoi for u gentleman W 2 line on paying tor the coupe when I ask wyself up to bis house for supper. bilt is 40'now, and he it MAKING HIS OWN FORTUNE. Andrew Oarnegie's Indomitablo Courage Makes Him Rioh, He Lands in New York With a Sove eign and by Diligence Becomos Immensely Woalthy, New York Journs Andrew Carnegie, then a 10-year-old lad, landed in this country in 1845 with only one sovereign in his pocket. Andrew Carnegie to-day owns the largest iron and steel works in the country, works that consume one- tenth of the ) on that the country produces The 10-year-old Andrew Carnegio waited for weeks before he could get em- wywhere, He answerd every ad- ment but he was always disap- pointed. One man wanted a cool boy to turn an ico-cream freezer,another wanted alad to hold a pipe in his mouth in a shooting-gallery, a third wanted a tooth- less youth to gum envelopes,and Androw Carnegie did not feel that he was fitted for any of these avoentions. The soverc that he had lived on lm three weeks 1 almost dwindled when a notice 1 the window of a tele- ught his eye. He entered, uunmh( Cng ged hnn 50 and nn( of the s every week to ns for five y ) he sent w\vm) cen Ius old mother in He had a tin savings by mL wn. and man: aged ln I little store in that. Y ntendent, observing t \uuu" messenger did not take a w 1o from Harlem to the B tery, promoted tlm At the end of the five years Carnegie be v superintendent. © Out of hisincreased salary he saved at least half. When he had $500 he resigned, went to Pittsburg and started in the iron business. He rented a shed and made nails and horseshoes with his own hands. Ho prospered. His brother eame out from Scotland and worked with him. The shed grew to ashop, the shop to a factory, the factory to an immense works that to-day give employment to thous: m|~ of men. he almost penniless be become the plnll nthropic ml]lmn re of 1886, Four y gio gathored about fim o pr oung veople in whom he was intc He took them as his guests to Europe on the steamer Bothnia. Then he fook them on i wecks' conching trip through }ul\ and Scotland, ffe celebrated mxm-x '8 birthdgy with ..,mumu and his guests aymg on that day the foundation stone of free library that he presented fo s native town of Dumferline, Scot- land. l\h Carnegie has told the story of lh.xl s (rip in one of his book in-Hand»’ for despite his multiplicity of business he has found time to write ind publish hooks Besides the free libr §: r. Carnegie bui native town, endowed them wi 000 and gave them to Dumferline. He gave to the church where his mother used to worship a magniticent glass window and took eare that the chureh’s_exchequer shonld never be cmpty. He endowed seholarships i the free schools of imferline as an impetus to study, for he believes that learning soonest makes men free. 1, too, Mr. Carnegie has expend- # 5,000 to endow schola hips in the Royal College of MlN i London. New York ¢ 5 tory that L()\L -M) 00 ] Mr. Carnigie's gift, is now being built at s expense in Bradford, Penn. He offered to build .'l I'u‘v lit y in Pittsburg, near wh are situated, but the shol ities of Pittsburg refused th a they did not want to maintain the hhl The infinite number of Mr. C: benefactions ar known to lmuwnll but he does not hates Tords; kings and emperors he abhors, but if he can in g way aid free institutions, free governmeént, free specch, he will let his money flow like wat He, a _capitalist, to band together against eapital nd which cost free bath: encourages workmen for their protection vhen eapital tries to grind them. He is a_good friend to the Knights of Labor. Mr. Carncgie s that only under a free, republi ernment could such success sible, but his friends say tha an born ch clements of ~cleverness would and lourish anywhere. - BIG BOX OFFICE FIGURES. What the Greatest of Theatrical Stars Have been Able to Earn, Froma New York Letter: Late this noon Ifound myself in a group of rlomlm'n! theatrical mar Mr. W. 1. Rayden, who manages 'I'om Keene, told me that his star apidly getting over his stroke of paralysis and would bo ready: to resume work the 1st_of M.noh Next to Rayden sat Marcus May: Abbey’s representative, who h LV with “all the leading attractions this manager has controlled. He and Al lldvlmm, who managed Baldwin's thea- tre'in San Francisco, but who is spending most of his time he got to comparing notes about the average business of the great actors who ve appeared in this country in the pust few years, Hayman sip by suying that Maple- company, with Patti and 15 the star ng in San Fran- to $160,000 in' eighteen perfor ances, or an avi 000 a perform- ance. Mayer said, considering the expens ho could beat that. i Neilson,"" said I r Francisco ts or on an average of $7,000 a performance. Patti during her fivst engagement with My, Abbey sang to 12,300 in one performance ut. the Me- chanics’ institute, over on the Back Bay. That engagement in Boston and the next one in Philadelphia brought Mr. Abbey out ahead of 000 los: “when he |uu. her into opery, “Speaking of big vo. ceipts,” said Mr, Mayer, “lot me read o xomething from tho 'vocord.. A b gty her fivat season under Mr, yed 1o $25 in twent, nances o week., into Mr. Abbey's ,000 in twenty-five weeks, g six times a week, © Patti in the L twenty- ks Ihln box of- 1wWo concerts Neilson in fifty ¢ J Booth play zht week concerts 10 280,000 acensiomed 1o d Think of six work of twenty-six arning §1,i81,500. with theatrical matte stars with ¢ e - An Evil to be Corrected, an Francisco Call. It has been the practice for years deed, almost since the establishment of the government-for members of con- gress who were lawyers to aceept fees and appear before the supreme court of the United States nnsel in cases there pending, and might, by a wossibility, have to be subsequontly leg- isluted upon. It will be remembered that Daniel Webster, in his debate with Joln Y. H Suth olina, on the Foote resc ted that his time had been so divided between the su- | The | deeply impressed me, and corild not, eonsequently, reply to his speeches in dotail, Several instances have occurred of late r(\nr» to show the impropriety of mem- hers of congress who are lawyers prace ticing the legal profession while oceoupy- ing seats in that body; and yet they ap- gmr to bave no _scruples on this head, enators Edmunds and Evarts, holding seats in the United States senato, aro at this time engaged in a railroad ‘tax cnso before the supreme court, thus earnin high fees from a client that was anc probably will soon be the subject of con- gressional legislation. The impropriety of their conduct is therefore evident, and suggests the necessity a law being passed which shall forbid congrossmen, when serving as such, going before any of the courts in a pmf ional capacity, LONDON \JOURNALS. A Talk With HI{ e um Editor and William Sime, the \wll known English novelist—the aunthor of “Ilzum‘ the mer,” “Red Route,”” “Cradle and ete., and editor of lho . James zetie of London—arrived in San Fran sco recently from England. Mr, Sime ing a voyage around the world for his healt Journalists of the botter class are held in ve ry high esteem in London,” re- . Sime to a Chronicl Iumvurlc “Now, take for instance the chief Times reporter. He is received everywhere as a guest and a gentleman. ~ At royal banquets, for instance, he might bo sitting between Huxley and Roscoe. You know he happens to be a barrister, Tilg vepiorters of parliament are treated by the members of the house on terms of equality, and chat_justas freely with them in the lobbies as if they had seats them- sely But you must remember that in Englisih journalism there is avery broad linc of demarkation between the réporters and the editorial writers, the latter of course occupying the hightr position “English journalists are then recog- nized mul received in the highest so- ciety?' “Well, no, not exactly. You sce, just as Idare say you have here, there are journalists ‘and journalist Quite re- cently a German journalist, who was en- aged in writing the lifo of the poet, unuel Taylor Coleridge, ecame over from enna to pursue his investigations fur- ther in England. Ho met Lord Coleriage, the lord chief justice, who asked him first to come and dine, and then to como and liye with his family, Now I doubt very much whether that courtesy would ) been extended to an English ]nurn'\‘hl You know, of course, that Lord (,oh.ndgn' {oscendant of th What London, \h Walh : "y among the dailics there are the Jimes, the Daily Telegraph, and o aily the Da larity libes the, G Tlie Times has no politis - Telegraph simply while the Daily New al organ. evening sazotte, the Pall Mall ccks popu is a stanch ‘Then, of course, there the St. James , the licho, and the ything about the proprictor: of any of th journals “Well, let us take the Times first of all. The proprictors are, fou_know, the Yalters. Buckle is the chief literary man and young Walter the business inan, off managing editor, &5 you would call him ery morning Buckle and Wal- ter hold a couneil on the nows of the day and decide s vl particular editori- als, ete., written, The Times doesn't car any sensational correspondence and has an in- veterate ave to all notorious men. Now Archibald Forbes, for instance, has been dying to obtain a position as :s correspondent for some time and it will not give it to him. too notorious. It wants simply the plain facts, nothing else. It spendsa great deal of money in forcign corre- spondence. Take, “for instance, Lllu spondent of The Times, It him_£600, besides the sinecures of oftice. He lives o style, keeps two hm Lirfon, he has™ a German oflicinls, for over cleven years puul-l.l penny Sim ly that at the disclose rent, how- sion spumlonts i send home flaming lett “Well, how about the other papers?” “The Pall Mail Gazette is, perhaps, now the most notorious of any English journal. Smith and Son & Greenwood vore formerly the proprictors. At the ad of 1879, liowever, Greenwood quar- reled with the Smiths and started The St. James's G of which he isat present editor chief proprietor. Smith i to a former re- of an Irish lord lietenant, limmp- nd as Thompson red to vun for nent his father-in-law gave him the Pall Mall Gazette. He accordingly started out and ran it on entirely new Il:nc-w making it as American as possi- “What s general journalistic pay “Well, take The Pall Mall G with wlich I am best acquainted, e wood, the editor, gets as editor, £1,500 a year.' If he writes any editorials he gots paid at the usual editorial rate i a column.” “How are outside co “At the rate of 2 Besides the cditc column of what are termed occasional notes. For each of these, if aceepted, the contributors get half a guinea, T Journalist” who s the bigiest saly London is a friend of mine named who works for The D; |I\ News. makes about and the of rate vibutors paids” lineas a column, column there is a A Shrewd Superintendent. Confession of an ex-superintendent of a st ralway line in the St, Louis Globe-1 erat: - When I ran this road T never in d with an employe's poli- tics. I never made a conduetor or driver do anything he didn’t want to do in the voting line. I just went to them and told them what I thought was right and explained how I was going to vote, and ou bet there was no trouble with them, generglly voted the same way, be ise you see they knew their busine how I got along with tl now, on the other hand ne to compl un about the road or of its employes, I gave him tion his he o to make him feel that his vanee | 1y t a block paper and u lead pencil und noted down even to the slightest particular all the de in order | \\Iu n he | in- g B P P o oy e with him from the start, d—d the man he i bout, promised to fire him the minute he turned i his ¢ then sent the {».n-r\ away feeling h after inviting him to be sure to eall found anything wrong on the P'he eitizen depurted fully assored » had achicved the objeet of his visit and then as soon as the damphool had shut the door 1 threw the compluint e stove .....\ never gave the matier No Brains. Gilhooly went into an Au ¥ ant, gave his order for some ¢ mul waited a loug time for the whiat he ord , butin taur- If’s braing waiter to vain. At t about ealf’ 8 waiter shook 1,\,‘“ .vl i brains? ally and & outlook is pretty gloowy, judge.” “What's matter with my Lrain s There ain't any . there preme court and his senatorial duties that he was deprived the opportunity of Leuring Mr. Huyne except at inter somg talk of tunuing liin'for the I Lure, ub