Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1887, Page 10

MARCH 6, 1887 ~TWELVE PAGES., RAILROAD DEPOTS. GROUNDS. WEST'S ADDITIO RAIL: ROAD Must occupy tnis ground with depots, etc., if they come to Omaha. This ground is high and dry; has been farmed for 25 years. HOTELS. Bathing Houses, Boat Houses. A Grand Pleasure Resort This handsome addition is situated on Florence Lake, isle:s than 8 miles from the postoffice and Florence Lake must be to Omaha what White Bear Lake is to St. Paul, Minn, ure resorts and homes. Bt. This plat will, in the near future be covered with hotels and cottages, to be used for pleas- This isthe only outside property that has been offered which can be made productive at once. There is now on the adjoining property, a hotzal, a bathing and a boat house; all of which are paying well in their seasan, notw:thstanding the fact that: they are crude and pleasu.e resort. THE BARBARITY OF HANCING Joe Howard Strongly Protests Against It— A Relic of Barbarism. WHY NOT USE ELECTRICITY? The Execution of Mrs, Druse Causes a Sentiment in Favor of a More Humane Method. New York, March 5.—[Correspond- ence of the B he trap wassprung at two minutes of twelve and the woman was pronounced dead at three wminutes past twelve."—-Tribune reprrt. What woman? Mrs/Rozalana Druse. Pronounced dead by whom? By four physicians. Did you ever see a hanging? 1 hope not. I have seen dczens of them. Hangings in Jersev; hangings in the' court yard of the tombs; hungings in the wilderness; with armies camped about us; hangings in the corridor of a dark and gloomy jail, with norrified prisoners loc nd grated, barred doors, yelling and screaming with fright, while idiotic members of the Salvation army shouted “‘Glory to God, a new soul born.” I have seen men hang screaming yelling, cringing with abject ph al fear, others standing self poised, facing the eternal verities with unflinching eve, and women, too, Yes, women bold and audacious, with brazen front and women who yielded to the assumed weakness of their sex, crying, beseeching, begging, imploring, ehoked in the very utterance of their ¢ D, Do I believe in capital punishment? ‘That depen: The law, written, says ‘‘a life for a life,” based upon the seriptural decree, which, whether it be on all fours common sense or not, i 4 # substantial footing’ with and the procedures of nature for time im- memorial, I want my servant. How do I get him? Dol yell and scream, and shout for George? Do I clang the brazen tongue of clamor. Do 1 strike the triangle, or make the surrounding walls re-echo with the brassy nose of my gong? Oh, no. You know better than that. I simply press my finger agminst an ivory button n the wall, which, by the deft appliance of electric current, conveys to l'lm wait- ing vassal in the room beneath the infor- mation that his master wants him. And thenY He comes. What do we do when we hang a man? We choke the very life out of him, Is thut ally No, by no manner of meuans is it all. We lower our standard of manhood, we do in publie what in private we deplore. We utilize nothing of the improvements suggested by science, in no sense do we employ the advancements made known to us by art. We adhere to the old time method. * We put a rops about. hs neck and choke him untit he is dead. Over his face we draw the black cap. About his neck we pluce the Knotted noose and with infelicitous finger, ~ner- vous, excited, unfamil with procedure, we put the knot cither too far in front or too far behind his ear, and we yank him up to death, or pulling the bolt 'we drop him to a *“‘thud,” reck- less of hus suffering, us gro: ! t, as brutal as the men who lived 500 ye Ago, when electricity was unknown, be- !are even the guillotine was invented, wd years, if not eenturies, before the ipanish serew was dreamed of, Well, what's all this about? 2 ‘’'nis, simply, men and women ‘will commit murder. So the world goes the sprang to murder as a relief from some wrong, fancied or real. From that time till now men have tortured beyond en- ance, women whose wron first family she may be called—have sought, Human as well as divine ls says this is wrong and must be punished, and must be vpunished by des death by hanging. Hanging! ¢ hangings Some- xties a Methodistie parson, ndsome fellow, with more hair than , o ))el"l:lyl.\! more brains than morals, fascinated by the uttentions of his female flock, ed of his wife gave her arsenic and she was ver Sitting by her side with pious prots tions, and much evidence of “love” he gave her an appla, and in hat apple was concealed arsenie of which, partaking, she sickened and died. This was in New Jerse, He was suspected, raigned, convicted, sentenced. his final night with him. Oh, how prayed and how he sung, How glec- fully he anticipated the early joining of the angelic band, when he should throw himself prostrate before the throne and worshipGod the Futher, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Rapture was the absolute expression of his sentiment, He cried and he prayed and he sang and he waited only for the coming of the hangman as tor the coming of the Lord. The noose about his neck quickly choked him and he went beyond the clouds. Shortly after that I went to the tombs to see historic execution, that of Gor- don, the slave trader, the victim, th oat, for Boston and New York nts, men of wealth who had en- ave trade with him and him in the hour of his de drunk by copious libations of whisky on top of an over dose of poison which was taken from his vitals by the cogencies of a stomach pump, he reeled and staggered toa grassy plathetween the woman's prison and the house of deten- tion for men, and sickeningly twirling like a misauthropic top, he bounded from space into etermity and joined the vast multitude. But women? Oh, yes, | have seen women hanged, How many? Four, And how did they behave? Well, I can’t say that women meet their fate as calmly as men, for in the experience of u quarter of a century, during which I have seen possibly thiriy men hanged, I reeall but one coward, unless those who made them allowed themselves to be drunk prior to the momont of expiation may be ealled such, but no woman whom I have seen failed to quail at the last moment. Why? Well, I wouldn't be surprised if it w beeause at each occasion the woman surrounded, confronted, insulted, b: daged and hanged by men, just this side of brutes incarnate sand tiends most damnable. Come with me to Elizabeth, New Jor- deserted need, air is bleak, and the cold wind s with a chilly knife. The favor of Is takes us beyond the iron-guarded portal to the corridor. In a cell I see a woman, comely, sturdy, with magnificent hair, with great big gray eyes, moutn indicative of Her heav- mg breast, the full flush of health, every physical indieation shows her to be & woman of strong desire. Bridget Dur- gin is her ne. Reeiprocating the ad- vunces of fier master, siie became enam- ored of the husband of her mistress. Day after day passed in_her company led up to night after night in which orgiecal h and anaa | s the record of | i nce dominated the situation. The absent, there was no bar to of their lust. On her return senson of common sense relegated the husband and recrcant lover back to his normal position. The woinan, with her ited, her blood stirred, and h ires wide hori ed protested. The man_cowardly h ck. “‘What's the barrier,’ “My wife's presence,” L1 kill her,” was the instant sugges- tion, And she did it. She bit her to death, and the marks of her teeth were the pregnant witnesses zainst her on the trial in a Jersey court. st, with all the passion desires, tremendously volcanie insistencies of a b t. She was caught, tried, convicted, sen- tenced and I find her on a bright clear alking to her doom, with a fold built upon the ground, two uprights with a horizontal bar, a noose depending over a pulley, under which she stood, while a mimster of God pharisaically prayed for her deliverance Women attendant there was none. Woman sympathizer there was none. What then? Five hund smoking politicians, rounders, pressmen, men about town, favorites of the sherift, ds of the governor, intimates of the v 4 of the vicinage. The cold necessitated whisky. Whisky started enthusiasm and enthusiasm becime n vulgarian exhibit, the like of which I never saw before nor since, and while the pious phrasings of the priest assayed deliv througzn the clouds ot nicotine that circled about and mantled the entire enclosure, the woman stood and shivered, Men pinioned back her arms, men put her oxs close together, men wound about her limbs he cordage that held them tght together; a man pulled the black cap over her head, and when, with screceh and yell and ternified ex clamation, she was shot into the air, there echoed in and and about that brutal ace pro-anities, indecencies and in- nies which no white man’s pen ever yetdared to put on paper. nd the body twirled. And the body twirled and whirled and swirled, the sKirts were brushing against those of us who stood near, while the svirit was choked out from that brutal mouth whose biting teeth had sent their victim to its long account many many months befo Whom did this exhibit benefit? e been one murder one one fliration less, one adul- tery less, one man and woman less in- duced to love or license? Nonsense. Ponpyeock. In ali the executions 1 have seen,I have yet to see one conducted with deceacy, regard to humanity, with the faintest Pretense to courtesy und kindliness to- ward a man about to face s God. Now you know if there 1s anvthing in this Christian religion that when we leave this mundane sphere we are brought fice to fuce with the eternal verities, with that great Omnipotence who' sent us here, with that vast Omniscience who knows everything before it is done, and with that tremendeus Poteney which tashions all here and concludes ever thing hereafter, is it not a serious mat- tery Is it not something that the young flippancies of the press should regard as sucred, and which the sturdy operations of the law should apvrouch with a solemn aporeciation of the realisia of the oceasion? See what was done with Mrs. Druse, Gulty or not she is hanged The thirty deputy sher from all the papers, men, children—and doctor Doctors? Why, bless your soul; who ts it that de- termined she dead five minutes after she was hanged? Wha' jumped - upon her body¥ . Who puthis hand all over her s, reporters women and Who pressed his head and car close against her beating heart? Who toyed with” her pulse? Who held her limp hand in his while the death agony rolled in her throat and spasms ran through every limby The doctors. Jump back with me my friends to the mtroduction of this letter. **At two min- utes of twelve the trap was_sprung, and the woman was pronounced dead at three minutes past twelve,” What mean? Itseems that when the sprung and the woman jerked into eter- nity these young doctors sprang upou her adeer, One puts his long nst her throbbing breas r her right hand, and hi nd while the final kic the convulsive palpitating form? s given throy is de- veloped, h watech in hand, these little practitioners, reckless ot the fact that the God in heaven looks upon an ascending soul, ignorant or careless of the dogma that the gates of heaven are opened to receive the penitent, exhibit their little learning over the lLifeless bod; and jot down in their books of record, this, that and the other index of her dis- solution. Not to benefit science, not to advance art, not to enlarge the volume of human knowledge, but that each may display his petty momentary authority, and stand in ‘the presence of his neigh- bors and his friends, as one of the privi- leged who can dally and play and toy with this mortal coil; while it is shuffling off, is part of a procedure dignified by the law permitted by humanity, Is this common sense? Is it deceney? Is it humanity? Would you treat a pig, a cow, 2 horse in that manner? Come with me to my stable. See a favorite mare who five year: cost me 500 Silk hair, exquisite li with a keen, bright ey tenderness at its master’s approach, with a neat, well shaped head, a° supple form, Wi 1, symmetry in_ every line, loved by the children, played with by the stableman, petied by its owner and quick at the fuintest suggestion of desire. Catehing cold, dropsy sets in her flank, and her day: numbered. Give her all she wants to eat and dr: Brush her carefully every morninz. See that no speck of diry, no k of straw rests on her glossy skin, Pet har gently day in and night out, lead her carefully as one_would a d; mother, press her to mothing, give r the daintiest bed, and ‘when the moment of dessolution approwohes, rather than let her suffer, put the pistol to her brain and quick, flash, crack, the vi 18 gone, the body remains but for an hour, when degent sepulchere is given. And why, that's w) not utilize for the d¢ by the laws s of science, ago 1b, full of loving at [ why? Why arture of the spirit est, the Cov- the advances of art? If my Dbecfsteak is to be called b the ressing of a button, why not the all-protecting shield of a heavenly angel? If my servant can be called from Kitchen depths, why not the ministering spirits of whom the bi tellsy Is torture what we ? Is po what we enforeeY suffering the ire? Nonsense. We know better th; that. Unto him by whom a life is s» ticed comes the edict of the life also must be sacrificed. snggestion of torture. suggestion of o pe brin with it physical n or disa- grecable surroundings of any sortor kind. God knows that death, the great black drop-curtain which falls at the end of the scaffold, is punishment encugh, and possibly torture suflicient. Why should we, in the nineteenth eentury, serve for the pleasure and the cony nience of the living the progress and ad- vuncemement of the age: Why uot give the dying their share? Lo other words why not humanizé and revolutivnize the barbarity of the scaf. toldy . 3 OWALD, MAROCIHE ~7th, We will place these beautiful lots on sa'e at the remarkably low pr ce of $250 par lot, one third down, balance on easy terms. We will Run FREE CARRIAGES from Our Office, 115 N. 16th st. BRAKE-TWISIERS BATTLE. A Great Strike Among Stroet Oar Cox- ductors and Drivers. BRICKS AND BLOOD IN BOSTON. Uncle Sam's Rheumatio Navy—Sulli- van’s lnjured Arm—Lenten The- atricals at the Hub—Gen- eral Beantown Gossip. BostoN, Mareh 2, —[Correspondence of the BEE.]—In these days of trades anions and Knights of Labor everybody knows what a “'strike’ is. Around Bos- ton especially, within the last few weeks, we have had opportunities to learn the meaning of that ominous word in its fullest sense. Itis true that our strike wasn't on such a large scale as the one in New York, neither was it such a warlike affair as that at Pittsburg a few years ago—but a strike it has been, and is yet, and will be, for no one knows how long. ‘That sounds like a strange statement,but itis true, nevertheless, and here the nestion arises: When does a strike end it the strikers are not successful? Asis ase with the Cambridge & Boston e car line, the conductors and drivers s were not run for several but at last the company hired new nd now the cars are running as far ns the company is con- isended,but the strikers still striking, or think they are. ‘Their position is a ludicrous one for it is clear that they are striking against nothing—pounding the air, as it were, and with them 1t 1s only a question as to how long they ean live without wages, or how long the union will support them. But the company did not succeed with- out an effort, The condition of affuirs last week reminded one ot the old Romun times when the poor people would come together in crowds on the streets and as- sert their rights. And when horse cars could not run without a couple of police- men on each platform, and an escort of mounted police at their side it reminded one of the times of the krench revolu- tion when every poor man looked with an evil eye upon every one clse who was not as poor and nearly starved as him- self. For it was not an uncommon oc- currence to see a mob of yelling hood- lums throwing bricks through the car windows and performing suchother little freaks of barbarity as rendcred the posi- tion of passengers equally upcomfortable, It may sound democratic and Ameri- can and all that to sympathize with the laboring men in what they call their de- demands for justic but when I see squads of specinl police marching through the streets, and troops of mounted police patroling the car lines, and know that the militia has been ordered under arms, and that all this even is not enough to make it safe for a woman or child or ven a man to cnte hout the danger of a cracked skull, 1 begin to think that sometimes wage-workers are not angels. SCAB CONDUCTORS, Istepped into a drug store on Main strect the other day and whom did I se stretehed on a couch, with a white clot tied about his head, but Mike, who used to be the man-about-the-house, at the place where I roome I was surprised to see him in such a pickle und more sur- prised to hear a lot of loose change r in his pocket. When L saw “No. 306 C R. R." on his hat I knew that he had be come a “seab” conductor. ‘it was thim divils o' strikers us dono it, Misther Sip ole, sorr,” gaid Mike. And (0 it was. 1'uur fellow! Two men had stepped onto the back platform of his car, and while one engaged s attention the other struck him bebind the ear with & slung- men, usu Sole Ag 5 But for the ‘ture the both Mike shot and knocked him sens Mike recovered inafew days, blow was not hard enough to skull, and it was lucky for and the striker that it wasn't. Mike 1s on his car again now, and ) the 1dea of big work und small pay him, [ suppose he'll join a union strike too. ~ Then if he comes to me for advice, as he hus done on many other occasions, I shall tell him to pic traps and go west—to Nebras! stance, where he can buy a farm for a triflc and be his own master. If more of the men who think tney are too good to driye a horse car for $2a day would do this, the world would be the better for it. THE RHEUMATIC NAVY. It is the fashion now to abuse the American navy. Tkis is merely a waste of powder, since we have no navy. But there is one feature ot American aquati which in part atones for the non-exist- ence of steel cruisers and batter and that is the sucecess of our fast sailing yachts. It has been some time since the original Muyflower crossed the occan with its precious burden, and I can- not imagine anything more remote from the minds of those sturd¥ fathers than the thought that after a few cen- turies when the country they were seck- ing should have become one of the na- tions of the earth, another Mayflower would cross thcAAmmlic—to sail a race. Yes, General Paine’s famous Mayflower is going to England to compete with the Arrow for the queen's cup. This will be a very important affair since it will cost more money and exeite much more com- ment in the newspapers than the first trip of the Mayflower did. Morcover, the English sovereign cuts a big figure in both these events and the hmo,r will please the royal mind much more than the former did especially if the Arrow wins. Even Dr, Holme s feels that yatch ing is as important as some graver ques tions, when he says: Let not the mitre England’s pre Next to the crown whose rega shares Though I Leave its o Wears, pomp it before it courtly Christians bow, mark on yonnger England's brow, We love, we honor, the maternal dame, But let her priesthood wear a modest name, While through the waters of the Pilgrim’s bay, A new born Mayflower shows her keels the way. SULLIVAN AND OTHER SHOWS, “The hand that grasped Sullivan’s” and broke his arm a secona time, proves to have been the hand of one who knew his business. The last time 1 saw Sulli- van he had his “powerful left *‘tied up” in a sling, but now he has removed the sling and the plaster cast and the arm iy in a fair way soon to be ready for busi ness. ‘The champion is in strict training, taking long walks every day, and looks to be in fine cond! He 'is gomng on another tour in a few weeks. Notwithstunding the many rare attrac- tions at the older theatres, the Hollis street theatre has been doing a business this week. Mr. Dion with his new and origin been delighting 1 audiences for fi 's" populari not' seem to The pl elf is u rare literary production, abounding in fine delined- tion of charac fille y ingenious plot, ct of the re on will to Amerieans, and cate sub, and in f true devotion to it has succeeded in handling such a de painting characters both sides, Mr. Bouci: admirably. THE TWO SANMS have come and gone, and NOW tie ques tion is, did they da any good? There 15 no doubt that Boston’ is irreligious. It seems a strange anomaly that Puritan Boston should be so, .but it is, Our church folks don't seem to make much fuss about the Lenten scason, and it is probuble that the theaters will be, us they A to overtlowing | ust started. These buildings only serve to illustrate the great possibilities of this p'ace for a beautiful and popular This property offers bziter in :ucements than any p-operty within the same distince from postoffice now offered. MONDAY MORNING, nts. always have been before, as well patron « 1zed during Lent a: any other time, The statistics are hard to get, and it may be saud, to the great credit of Mr, Jones and Mr. Small, that they make no boast of the hundreds of souls they have & But it is very clear their work in Boston has been fruitful, and the writee in the New York Independent may not have expressed it too strongly when he said that we had undergone a great re- ligious upheaval. The thinking element was prejudiced against the greut southern revivalists on their fivst appe nce, but this prejudice has entirely disappeared, and persons whe were their harshest critics are now fully satistied of their sincerity. FRANZ SEPEL. - HONEY FOR THE LADIES. Afl;l@znen and chestnut-bronze 1 a color combination fayored in Paris. It is predicted that gray will be a leading color during the spring and summer. The Philadelphia News wonders: “Is there a wife fu this city to-day who makes her hus- | band’s shirts?” H?a butterflies, both of bronze and gold-| powdered gauzds, are again used upon sums' ‘mer bonnets by leading milliners, { ‘The ladies say thev are becoming tired of) the talk about high hats in the theatre, bu hope thev we will be more so before th season closes, One who has been there says in that part, of the worid where the nights are threej months long, it Is lots of fun 10 g0 and seg" the girls and stay till widnight, Among the effective but minor decorations are pointed triangular and spear-shape pendants, little **dumb ' sequins an drops of évery Imaginable shape to use in varlous ways on new spring costumes. g Next to Mrs. Cleveland, who probably re ceives the most letters of any woman in’ the United States, Mrs. Jenness Miller, it Is said, has the Iargest daily post. Mrs. Miller is oms of the leaders of the dress reform movemen! tor women, i Love is blind, and this explains how it ' manages to get along on a winter’s evening Jjust as handily with a kerosene lamp and the wick turned way down as though it was sparkling under the reflected rays of a 2,000 ' candle electric carbon, Spring colors in hosiery are unusually varied, and in quality are beautifully fine jn | krades of “'‘regular made” goods, In solid colors there are some handsome shaaes in the colors rich in tone, and also delicately tinted. The dove-gray and hellotrope dyes are particularly attractive, Fine gold necklaces are again popular for evening wear on full dress occasions. Very elegant ones are shown set in tine jewels, and there are some pretty styles in fine gold and enamel, with a handsome pendant in front. Among th r enzthy list of beautiful- all well fabrics, is a preity white chuddab-cloth, with fine e or herring-bone weave, and a stylish way to trim dresses of this material 18'to border the panels, tunic, and portions of ll‘lfi(budll'u with pleated rusnings ot fringed silk, “Hello!” exclaimed a giddy little comet, disporting itself in the milky way, “Who are you, anynow? 1don't belive I've seen you'In these ports before,” returned the stranger, “this s my tirst here. 1'm the top plume of a lady’s theatre hat, The hat's just below here a litle way.” Among the ribbons adapted for s bonnets are hand ualities in ga grenadine, stripe and a tufted picot e These nall ti veral lovely s¢ tint, and Pretty day bonnets to be worn at 50’clock teas, ete., are of fancy rough straw trimmed Lwith velvet and hi h montures of flowers, and also of dainty nets worked with colored beads 0 shaded effects, and coquets tish shirred silk bonnets trimned with gold or silver powdered aigrottes and sprays of white lilac in softest velvet. Upon pretty Freuch dresses for young tadies’ wear are half vests of striped of deep-, colored velvet, starting from the eollar band, and fitting in’ the opening of & cut-away ocket or natty basque bodice, the edges of Jaunty short coat finished with” vevera'of tie velvet, lined with satin, and orted Lalg their graduated length with large buttons of Lawwered brouze, gold, or_silvers .