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( | | THE ABOUT CHAINED LIGHTNINC. How the Oity of Mexico is Lighted with Electricity, OPERATED UNDER DIFFICULTIES The Brush Plant in Boston—An Im. portant Electrical Question—Dif- ficalties of Underground Wire —An Electrical Road, W. J. Johnston, editor of the Electrical World, in writing upon the trical in- dustrics of Mexico: Just imugine, you can the authoritics of such a city as Cincinnati, or New Orleans, or San Francisco, giving the ex- clusive right of running electric light wires through the strects to one com- pany, and then streteh your imagination a dittle further and think of the com enjoying such exclusive privilege saying, in‘answer to a request for an electric )ifm in front of a business house, that ita utmost capacity is only 118 lights, all of which are taken by the city, so that if you want an electric light in front of your store, you must either putin a pri- vate plant, or wait until some arrange- ment is made by which the company having the exclusive right of running wires through the city for electric light ing purposes can _increase its plant suth ciently to furnish lights to the public! That is vrecisely the condition of af- fairs to-day in the City of Mexico, the capital of the republic, and a city with a larger population than either Cincinnati, New Orleans, or San Francis So far as [ was able to learn, the elec- tric light was introduced into Mexico for the first time in 1877, The pioneer plant was brought from France in that year- and was installed in a small cotton fac, tory in the little village of San Angel- about seven miles from the City of Mex, ico. It was put in us an exhibition plant, with thie expectation of getting the City of Mexico to adopt the system. Owing, however, to defects either in the mannge- ment or the systemn the experiment proved a failure. The dynamo refused to work on the third night of the exhibi- tion, and has never, ‘they tell me, run gince. It now langnishes under a collee- tion of old mill iron and cobwebs. ‘The Brush appears to have been the first American company that made an at- tempt to introduce an electric light system in Mexico. A reoresentative of that company went down there about 1880, and "two_years later made an ar- rrangement with the Meviean Gas Light company for the control of the Brush 8ys throughout the Republic of Mexico. The company that has the exclusive right of running cleetric light wires in the City of Mexico is an English one, known by the ne of the Mexican Gas Light company. It has two sixty-hght Brush machines, and supplies, as T inti- mated above, 118 hghts—all of them to the city. Mr. 8. B. Knight, the manager of the company, has hived in Mexico a long time,and does nou appear to h t much faith in the future of electric light ing in Mexico as have American electri- ns who go down there. Mr. Knight says that the company has a contract the city for a considerably larger number of lights than are now running; that the finances of the city are so low that the company has been asked to carry out, for the present, only a part of the contract, and that to do this taxes the present capacity of the company to its utmost. The ){xmt, vs Mr. Knight, is to bo extendod to 600 lights of 2,000 candle power each, in addition to ten towers of 6,000 candle power each. “Just as soon,” he adds, “‘as the city tells us to o ahead, we will at once put in the nec- eseary apparatus, not only for the extra lifil S required by the ecity, but also for what \}"ill probably be mneeded by the 0. n, publi There are several curious things about the City of Mexico which will inferest electricians. The ultitude 80 high-- 7,000 feet—that an arc dynamo that is ordinarily intended to run at u speed of & thousand revolutions will furnish one- third more current in the City of Mexico than it would, say, at Vera Uruz, with the brushes in the same relative position. The consequence of this has been that, through carelessness, a large number of armatures have been burned out in the City of Mexico. ‘The air in the City of Mexico also ex- erts aremarkable effect upon gas. The high altitude seems to make the gas slug- gish; and it requires a much larger pipe and more pressure to force the gas re- uired in that city thanin any place at the level of the sea. In fact, gas that would have an illuminating power of 100 at Vera Cruz, would under the same con- ditions have only an illuminating power of seventy at the City of Mexico. I'like to see circumstances of this kind taken advantage of and turned to prac- tical account, and it looks to me as if this is an important point in favor of the ineandescent light. Mr. Knight told me that it was the intention of his company to introduce incandescent lights and give customers the choice of ‘either gas or electric lights, just as they preferred. As I stated in the last article, coal costs $82 a ton in the City of Mexico, and &8 is made from wood which costs $14 a cord. The price of gas to the city is $5.50 a thousand and te private customers _There are three fuctories in Mexico hfhlcd by the Brush system—two in the City of Mexico and one on the road to Vera Cruz. There are 45 1,200 candle power lights in one of these, 80 1,200 candle power hights in another and 16 2,000 candle power Ifghts:in the third. Vera Cruz has a plant of two 16 light Brush dynamos and supplies 32 lights, Electric Road for the Austrian Alps The Austrian government has granted & charter to the tirm of Siemens & Halske to make a preliminary survey and aloca- tiomn of a railroad from Iend to Bad Gastein and Bockstein, in the Austrian Alps, to be operated by electricity. The maximum grade will be 4 per cent, the entire length 15 8 English miles. and the cost 18 reckoned at $355,00. From the station at Lend the road will, by a series of extensive cuives,avoid the high grades until it reaches a point above the falls of he rivei'; then it will be laid through the lamm pass, and the bed of the river Ache, until the level of the village of Gastein isreached. This plan was adopted in preference to' that of two eom{ntmx firms for its cheapness and practicability. Th.{ proposed more direct lines, which would Rave necessitated the use of the rail for some short sections with steep grudes which would have been unavoidable, The New Pullman Train. The magnificent new Pullman train of t has lately been on wipped with incand e being d with incandescent lamps an s pebnwmu by the Elcetrical Accu- ulator company. The electric light is :n only one that goes well with such taste and beauty, or that it will not spoil the elaborate decorations. The train oos on the Pennsylvania road to run be- een Chicago and New York. Tue Telephone in China, The syndicate which is now about to develop the telephone in China has, it is , & backing of $26,000,000. Butter Making by Electricity. ~ At the agricultural and dairy show in ison Square gardens, last week, Electrical” World, a “‘Silver mdrlvcn ‘hhv a C. f (l:l hl:m‘mr oted up in the regular lightnin, . The butter made in this way pronounced excellent by all who have tried it—and it was in brisk demand. A great many of the people who saw the motor running the churn have gone home to think that matter over seriously. It was a new idea to them, Arc Lamp Boston Herald: “‘Does Heotricity, it not affect a watch to stand near a dynamo machine | when it 18 in motion®” was asked of the | night <uperintendent of the Brush station on Ferdinand street, “Oh, yes; very seriously.” “And why?" “Beeause the works become charged with electricity. The stecl absorbs a reater quantity of the fluid than the brass, and the resistant influence upon the latter metal by the former becomes 80 great that the wheels are held in che: and the watch stops,” “Is it dangerous business to work about a dynamo?"’ *‘No; we haven't had an accident here since the station was established. The line men, however, frequently get a shock, but it is seldom they receive eény serious n you tell when a lamp goes out on a given circuit?” “No; but if twoor three should fail those little dials upon that shelf over tucre would warn us of the fact." “Are you troubled much with lamps failing to burn?’ “No. If tne rods are properly covered and the other mechanism carefully at- tended to, we have no difficulty. A lamp with ordinary care ought to run six months without repair. After that it should be thorougnly overhauled.’ “What power does it taketo run a single lamp?" “We ruclmn one-horse power to each your amount of power worth 1 it we paid $100 a year; achinery it costs about Experts differ on this subject, how- ever, some claiming that it costs nearer £060 to develon a horse-power.”” “How muny lamps do you run on a cireujt?” “About sixty. “And how many cireuits have yo ‘“T'nirty-three running from thi tion.” *Of course the nearer your lamps together the cheaper 1t 1s to run them you have so much less wire to look aftc “Yes, that is true. But what do you think of two lamps three miles aparf, as is the ease on one of our ci! s in the ontskirts of the citv? The profit on these illuminators can’t be great when the cost of the wire and the attention ne y to keep it in repair are taken into e sideration.” “Why don’t you put your wires under ground “That we will willingly do when some nvents a properly 1nsulated cable, You see the nature of the clectric cur- rent is to reach the earth, and if the in- sulation isnot complete it jumps from the wire and its intensity for service be- yond the defect is thereby reduced. Our company has spent $10,000 in experment- ing with underground cables, but all the results have been unsatistactory. [t would cost an enormous sum to bury our wires, but it would be a good investment even at that, because we would then es- cape the nu of continually repair- ing them, as is now the case, and also avoid the constant complaints of people over whose buildings the wires ar strung. It popular belief that elee- tric lighting wires endanger property from fire, and the moment one n} them i house for the first time the owner immediately declares war against he thinks we are plotting to cre- The record of rires caused by you will find to be very s1aim that the premium of ir policies is increased when the wires are attached to their buildings. 1t seems to me ridiculously absura for an insurance company to raise its rates electric wir under such circumstances, ns mice nib- bling at matches eause 100 fires to our onc; yet we never hear of them being taken into consideration when an insur- ance rate is given on a building.” “How muny men do you employ here? “One hundred and thirty, divided into three reliefs,” **What is the combined intensity of all your dynamos?” “'Strony enough to instantly kill every person in the city of Boston, were they to stand in line and take hold of the wires.” An Important Electrical Question. Philadelphia ‘Telegram: How long is lectric Mghting to be supposed to be on trial?” The question has oc- curred, no doubt, to every c! n, and the current proposition to remove street gas lamps rendered useless by the new lighting, so as to place them in new neighborhoods not soon likely to be reached by clectricity, may bring it to an issu We believe there will be no dis- position to hurry matters, yet naturally the question must be decided atv some time. When shall the marvelous new invention be considered fully installed? To retain the gas lamps as an alternative after the entire sufliciency of electricity should be demonstrated, would not be business-like. When gas superceded the street oil lamps, the early cumbersome apparatus was retained for a while, in expectation that some time it would be needed through a complete gas failure. But, in the end, lnmps and boxes had to go. The present situation is much the sume a8 that one. There is not an exact parallel, since the gas mains will con- tinue to run everywhere for the use of private consumers, and the street lamp attachments make a simpler system than the old lamps did, which stood for them- selves plone, All the same, when tne ras lamps are definitely shown to be use- ess, should they continue to encumber the streets? Undergound Electricity. Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette: HBefore thé legislative committee yesterday, A. Duncan,of the electric light company, gave testimony on the subject of under- ground wires. He said the electric light company had not experimented in this line very extensively in this city, but pro- posed during the present summer to lay a line of underground cables on Virgin alley. Owing to the stroug current re- quired over these wires they became dangerous when placed underground, as had been demonstrated in Philadelphin, The manufactured gas was apt to collect in the trenches or conduits, and in many instances where the wires had come in contact with each other sparks were emitted which caused disustrous ex- plosions. Also, where the lines hap. pened to touch the iron covering of sewer arops, the lutter became so clmrgml with electricity a8 to cause the death of animals stepping on them. He did not favor the idea of a large conduit in which the wires of the differ- ent telegraph, telephone and light com- auies would be placed, as the induction rom the many wires. which even now overhead is a source of trouble, would be largely augmented and -eriounl{ in- terfere with the business, especially of the telephone companies. He suggested that by way of experi- ment the city place all their own wires under ground and give the system a trial before it undertook to compel thy com- panies to incur an enormous expense for something which was at best a risk. . CADET WHITTAKER. The Late Career of the Famous Col- ored Kraud. A Washington dispatch to the Minne- apolis Journal writes: Five years ago Johnson Chestnut Whittaker, " who had then just escaped a sentence of one year in prison for having, as it was all mutilated himself to escape the result of failure to pass his examination at the academy, was induced to go to Buffalo o tell the people of that ofty what he knew of the color line at West Point. A Buffalo newspaper man conceived the idea of in- troducing the “colored cadet from West Point” to the rostrum. The venturce was not a great financial success, and Whittaker was dropped. Then another man took hold of him, and by taking him to the smaller towns in western New York succeeded in aiding him to make a very fair living, Finally, however, some enthusiastic col- ored niinister in South Carolina turned the head of the ex-cadet by offering him 100 for a speech in Columbia on the ourth of July. Whittaker was certain that this was the tide in his affairs which was to lead to fortune. He declined to fill any more enga F.'mun(s in New York, and at last induced one of the men who had befriended him to go south with him., He declared that Baltimore, on account of 1ts great colored population, would be a good one night stand, and against the judgment of the othe op was made in the Monumental city. The result was disastrous. Although they stayed week in the place, and advertised the lec- ture extensively, there was only §6.50 in the house, and'the purtnership dissolved. Whittaker was yosy angry at the cool- ness with which™ the colored people greeted him, and to vent his temper he vitched into President Arthur for his ap- proval of the findings of the court mar- inl of Licutenant Flipper. This indis- creet act cost him dearly. It was the only vortion of the lecture reported by the Baltimore Sun. A few days later {\'hib ta through the tnfluénce of Cong- rsssman Smalls, was about to be ap- pointed to a place in the surgeon gener- al's office of the war department, His appointment had been made out and was in the hands of Secretary Lincoln for his signature, when the atténtion of that of- ficlal was directed to the Baltimore speech of the ex-cadet, That settled 1t. not appointed, but instead went on to South Carolica, and was, I am in- to practice at the bar. it is said that he is doing well, e MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC* Miss Vernona Jarbeau son in a play ot lier own, It is said among Mr. Lester Walla 1nates that he has a desite to go to k o live. will star next sea- K's inti- sland A New York contemporary asserts that Sarah Bernhardt is a “born “ruler.” That may be true, but to us she looks like a v stick. It is said that Dixey will not play here next season, but will goon the road. e will produce “Adonis 1L at the Bijou on May 50 Rose Coghian, Osmond Tearle, Kyrle Bel lew, John Gilbert and Madame Ponisi will be members of the compary at Wallack's theatre next season. ard- The gossips say that Mr. Frederick Gieb- hardis a partner with Mrs. Langtry in her theatrical ventures. Mr. Gebhard has the happy faculty of combining business with pleasure. A Kansas City contemporary, evidently with glee, says that a theater will ehortly be erected inthat burg “that will kuoek the spots of’n the measly old Grand opera house of Paris.” Modjeska will produce a new play next season, ““The Witeh,™ an _adaptation by C. M. Rae, an Enelish dramatist, of “Die Hexe, asi r-old German drama, 1t1 tried in London, Mr. M. Hill has seeured an additional five years on the Union Square Durinz the summer Mr. Hill will make several ulterations in the bLouse, and redecorate 1t throughout. Mr. Lawrence Barrett's season will close in this city next | week. M pend the summer at Coh: etts, Next week he will pl “Richclien,” “Yorick's Love,” ehant of Venice” and “David G Munager Ro s puiehinsed & new play b ston. called “Hypo- crite, at the Fourteénth Street theatre, on Monday evenine, June 6, with Osmond’ ‘Tearle, Herbert Kelcey ton Gottliold and Annie Kobe in the parts, By the terms of the agreement bets Mrs, James Brown Potter and Harry she will make her first appearan York on October 10, remain there for six a tour of the principal scenery and proper- to Mrs. Pottel’s ap- Barrett will et, Massachu- t: any, ties ate to be subjected proval. Miss Helen Dauvray will travel during the whole of Lier next season by special cars, so arranged as to accommodate all the scenery and propertics used by her in “Walda Lamar” and the comedies in her repertory. This will, to & certain extent, obviate any diflicultis which mi:ht arise throuzh the op- erations of the inter-state coninerce biil. Miss Dauvray will be one of the few star: who will carry with thewm a lurze amount_ of scenery. She thinks that 1t is due to her audiences throughout the country to produce her plays in the same manner as was doue in New York. e e SAFE FROM CYCLONES. The Well-Furnished Underground Apartments of a Southerner. Savanah Times: Perhaps the largest, best arranged, best furnished and most costly cyclone pit in the country is owned by Edward Brown of Katonton. It is sit- uated near the back door of his residence and 1s large enough to accommodate his entire family, The walls are of brick, laid in cement, the floor is carpeted, has a fireplace and u chimney, and the room is handsomely furnishes The famil could spend the night there with us muc| comfort as in the dwelling. Inrepai it Mr. Brown had an eye to its ria- nency and spared no expense in making 1t pleasant and comfortable. To guard against the contingenoy of the house blowing over on it and i i oning the inmates, a large sewer pipe leads off from the pit in an opposite di- rection of 100 yards, through which the family could escape. The unique under- ground dwelling is thoroughly protectea against water rising from below or run- ning in from above. The cost wus over Chinese Temples and Altars. an_Francisco Bulletin: In and near nton are 125 temples. Every store- keeper has a picture of Confucius or of some other sage conspicuously placed onthe rear wall of his store. I'o these home altars incense is ly buraed. The temples are usually filthv; a crowd of fortunc-tellers, gamblers, sellers of small wares and beggars infest the m)ular places. One of the temples life si: fn. nif, all in_a sitting posture, and each with a different ex- pression or with his hands in a peculiar position. One wise man had whiskers and a edly European cast of counte- nance. Upon asking what Ged he was 1 was told that it was Marco Polo, 1t was my first interview with Mark, and he seemed to be pleased at meeting me. At least a benign smile rested on his wooden face, Patience has its re- ward. Marco was accused of lying be- cause he told the customs of the Orient, but now he 1s enrolled among the Bud- dhas und sits composedly among those 500 gilded idols. The god who holds up the moon was shown to me. The left arm is much longer than the other. There is also a temple, a Tartar temple 1 think, devoted to the five genix who come to the city on rams beariug gifts of grain to the city. The rams were turned tostone and are there to convince the obstinate—tive rough-lookin, stones, about 48 large as a man’s head showing that the rams were condemned when transformed. ‘Thereis also a large bell here with a piece knocked out of the bot- tom. It was a tradition that whenever the bell should sound calamity would fall upon the city; and when the English and French besieged the city in 1857, one of their cannon balls struck the bell, broke off a piece and caused it to sound. In sight of this temple is a tower built by the Mohammedans in the 11th century. The next object of interest was the Flowrey Pagoda, the stories high, about twenty feet in diameter and with & great amount of carving on it. OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY MAY 20. 1887~-TWELVE PAGES. THE ROCK OF ' GIBRALTAR, The Present Oondition of the Famous Fortress ADDITIONS TO THE DEFENCES Adeguate Water Supply—Visitors and How They are Regulated ' —A Jolly Place for Jack Tars. A correspondent of the 8an Francisco Chronicle, writing from Gibraltar, says: Thereis no port on the European station hailed with more delight by the crew of an American man-of-war than is Gib raltar. Let a hundred tars go over the side on liberty with a month's pay in their monk bags, and depend on it the Scoteh Highlauders will soon be singing ‘Yankee Doodle'’ to the tune set by the jolltest crowd of tars that ever stepped ashore, ‘There is something connected with the *'rock"’ that is just to Juack's taste,though the merry fellow will admit that the lassies arc not equal to those in Monaco and Naples, “The good-natured Highlanders get along famously well with our blue jackets, and thus save the ship’s marines no end of trouble. To the ofticers of the vessel there is al- ways much of interest to be seen at Gib- raltar, and especially to one who has only recently come on the station, Our vessels always touch at the ‘rock’” when going up the *‘straits,” and it 1s often the first port made « leaving home Gibraltar has <o often been written up that I doubt not that many readers of the Chronicle have more than a general iden of the famous fortress, for it is by no means apart from the highwav of the traveler and pleasure secker, | pression “as strong as Giby come well nigh trite, but well chosen it one can is the but conceive of the immense strength of the place. ralt simile has not been sub- s of war ot present still it has withstood a siege before which no otner fortress in T'hough ( the world could have held out. Since that famous siege of the last century everything has been done to make the “place, humanly speaking, impreg b glance suflices to show, and I tell his messmates on some foreign station that ‘“the bloody ‘lime j at the ‘rock’ add a gun for every new year, and now they have 1,887 guns ion. ‘rock’ itself is not more than seven miles in circumference, and its ele- vation above the at the highest point, does not ex 1,400 feet. The town is situated on the western slope, for on all ot} pre- I'ihe isthmus which connects Itar with the main land 18 a little more than a mile wide, and it is on this isthmus that the famous neutral ground is marked oft by the two paraliel rows of English and Spanish sentry boxes. Apart from the position of the “rock, 1t is greatly strengthened by the presence of remarkable natural cay itis verfory 'l'|l4‘fi:.( ns with which verns are all diflicult of e largest, St Michael's il hung with st tit hing from roof to floor. Its en- trance is 1,000 fect above the level of the sea, and is eonnected with other caverns beneath of unknown depth. No doubt the presence of these natural caverns suggested the idea of the British of excavating and tunneling the “rock.” A system of gal- leries have been cut facing the harbor and neufral ground at an enormous ex- pense. Much of this work carried on by prisoners. At intervals of twelve yards ports have been cut for guns, and some of the ordnance mounted is of very heavy caliber. The galleries are tunne| ed in tiers, and several extend to a dis- tance of two or three miles, being wide enough to admit of the ox-carts of the fort. On the western slope mauy level spots, but the *f ¢ raltar are near the tov of the “‘rock is here that the infantry is drilled and exercised. The garrison consists of nearly 5,000 men, and it always been the custom of the *Horse Guards,” in London, to send out a great many High- landers to Gibraltar, though they do not compose the full force. 'The garrison is one of the havdest drilled in the British service, and the men are usually the pick of the army. 'The feeling of pride will allow only” the flower of the British troops to hold Gibraltar, — Report has it that General Grant considered this gar- rison the tinest body of men of any he saw during his tour around the world, There are a great number of Moors and Jows here beside English, and not few Spaniards. All foreigners visiting the town are required to take out a per- mis de sejour, and_must_find bondsmen to go security for their good behavior _during the ten, fifteen or twenty days for which the permit 18 madeout. However, his stay may be renewed after the expira- tion of the “time limit. The authorities prevent as much as possible any acquisi- tion in the way of new residents. This is to the town only. Inside the linits of the barracks no strangers are admitte after nightfall. 'The ofticers, howe may introduce a friend for a period of a month, but are held in strict account for all his actions. Justice is adminis- tered nccording to the laws of England, but there 1s a prevailing spint of the military court martial in all the procee ings of the court. The air militaire is nculeated in all pertaining to the “rock,” and is more than an apparent seeming. The majority of the houses in the town are built with flat tops, which enable the inhabitants to secure a considerable amount of rain_ water. Tanks are built under the buildings and are fitted with drains leading from the roofs. It is the water supply which has always proved of vital importance to Gibraltar, but the authorities have finally mastered the question, and the “‘rock'’ is now well rovided with good water. Two large anks, one containing 9,000 and the other 11,000 finlluns. are kept constantly full with which to supply naval vessels. Gibraitar stands to-day the key to the Mediterranean, and is the center of that line of fortresses which eonnects Great Britain with - those enormous fields of wealth in the East Indics. The strategetic importance of this position was observed by the Saracens as far back as 711 A. D.,and under a leader named Lorik fen Leyad landed ai fortitied the place in that year. During a period of 700 years from its first acguisition by the Saracens, Gibraltar was held either by the Moors or Saracens, and was a constant cause of war between these two races. In 1462 a Spanish force under the Duke of Medina Sidonia wrestled the fortress from the Moors, and o strength- ened it as to be considered impregnable, Butin 1704 the combined English and Duteh fleets, under Sir George Rooke and the prince of Hesse-Darmstadt, took the ‘“‘rock’ from the Spaniards and held it util 1713, when it was confirmed to ireat Britain by the treaty of Utrecht. The Spaniards would not let Gibraltar &o without another struggle, and attacked the garrison 1n 1727; but a cessation of hostilities soon came about on the sign- ing of preliminaries of peace between Spain and England. ‘The noted siege, which lasted from 1779 to 1783, marks one of the greatest annals in British military history, and never did troops win greater renown than the fa- mous garrison that held Gibraltar against the combined forces of Fruuce and Spain. All the implements of modern warfare were used by the besiegers,but the ‘‘rock " vroved impregnable. ~ Captain Drink- water of the British army is authority for stating that 1,000 guns were brought to bear by the allics, and that in the outer harbor were anchored forty-seven ships of the line, carrying the ensigns of France and Spai The stubbornness of the defenders was wonderful, fighting, as they were, against such odds; but in the end'it brought vie- tory to the British standards and immor- talized Eliot and his men, British troops may never again be calléd upon to hold Gibraltar as they did in 1780, but the garrison of to. er prepared to defend the famous “rock’’ against the arnues and fleets of the world. - . A NIGHT AT THE OPERA. Pen Picture of Some Women. New York Sun: It was the last Patti nlfill, and la diva smiled her farewell. Waves of song surged through the grand opera house, the scent of roses filied the air, the light flashed on the diamond-decked brow of a woman whose face betrayed riness of her world She had led her set through so many sea- sons. The haughty face rarely reflected ashionable emotion, but that night she sighed at the cnld of an act, and said to a man by her side: ‘It is 8o long since 1 heard that won- derful voice. T feel old tosee the look of youth {cl inits possessor's face and its clasticity in her step, and to think tha ere long she must lay aside the sceptre of song. The world 1s leaving us be- hind, mon ami, but the songstress yonder is part of its history still.” Like a cameo it looked, with white, chiselled features and black velvet caught to the women's breast by great chains of gems. Patti sang in the olden days to this woman young and fair, with a song of joy in_fer heart, light as the singer’s own. It was silenced long ago, and diamonds shine now where the Tose of aflection once rested. ke the song of the bird, the voice of the sweet singer rang on the ear of the listening throng. A woman heard it with and jealous glance. It nights when she stood in her flower- wreathed beauty and g to eager crowds, when lovers sued and the public bitter smile recalled the encored. Gone together, both changeful as the sunshine of an' April day. A dethroned queen, stout, fade and™ for- gotten, Muany singers have come and gone sinee Patti first warbled to us, while she still wields the sensuous spell of the i, but lurs us to pleasure alone. he voice went to the heart of a woman with burning cyes and hectic cheek. Her brief reign almost ended in the kingdom of fashion. Her rare gift of song had no utterance now, and she had come to take with her the sound of 1a diva's voice into the realm of the zr unknown. Snatching the flowers by her side she threw them at the singer’s feet, a compli- ment which seemed greater from the n the jewels that bluzed on Many eyes followed a tall, hissome figure i a shining satin bodice resplend- ent with gems it moved in and out of a box. [I'he prominence of the man who had bought this loveliness made 1t more noticed still, She had the beauty ot Gretchen, with the gits of the tempter about her white throat In the hush of the music our fancy drifted back to the tin en the woman a child playing n the sand on the h eyes like wet yiolets and hair pun gold, she flashed among the break her joyous laughter ringing like a silvery chime anud’ the ocean's roar. We'saw her dancing like a sprite to the music of the band, in the muslin and lace of her ballroom ' att She grew up like a lily, tall and fair, and girlish coyness merged into maidenly coquetry, Next her beauty flashed upon us amid the whirl of a Saratoga season., She wore white mushn still, with crimson at her waist, and the fre: °r complexion attracted every ey lovely hair formed uu aureole about her Greceian brow. ‘The laughter sounds less often on her rosy lips, and within the pansy eyesa strange seriousness seems to rest. : Studying her among the jostling throng, we fancied that the shadow of a doom seemed gathering over the pale, smooth brow, anl that the fitfulness of life already touched the depths of her which had the innocent look of a likened her to Vera in ‘‘Moths,” and her blonde mamma to the Lady Dolly. The prince came. He was old and hardened by distrust and care. He had known Dolly these many yeurs, but the child he had™ scarcely ' noticed until, hke a great white pearl, she med before him and caught the fancy wearied u{v She is restful,”” he said. I can trust her, I think, because her eyes do not lie, nor has she yet learned the tricks of her world of womankind. Dolly’s daugh- ter secems odd to trust, but I will chance it,” the old millionaire said, and into his crusty heart n new emotion crept.’’ **She 18 unhke her kind; 1 will wed " he decided, dudes and swells bring flowers to you. This man ofters jewels,” clever Dolly whispered in her duughter's ear. “He will give you the power that rules the world—goid. Listen to his wooing,'” heartless Dolly said. = Decked in costiy stuffs and strung with gems, the flower-faced girl became the old man's bride. Her carriange flashes through the park, her laces float along the corridors of the watering place ho- t Jewels burn like tire upon I 34 heart, and the shadows of a lo youth have chased its brightness from her face. ? “I'will go to hear Patti to-night: it may give me pleasure,” she said to a friend as they drove through the park in the fading sunlight of the late afternoon. Yet women envied her in her box with her gems, and youth, and gold to make life like a dream. i Dolly looked on witha smile like that of an auctioneer who makes a good sale. She wore dinmonds, too, and the world said “'a pretty woman is Dolly,who looks a8 young as the daughter at her side.” A batiered face, all patched with cos- metics and crowned with u wig of pale old, caaght the eye. The shade of the fimr brought out” the lines of the face, which once may have worn the flush of beauty. It was the same that was crowned with snowy hair but a nights before. Was 1t 8 woman or a h dresser’s model, with it curly w varied hues and the pink and white face of a doll? The model serves a purpos man makes us pity more than Outward the music rang on the the still, starry night. La diva mad final bow behind a bank of tlowers. women of high fashion awee Patti’s last night her The smled their st, and the curtain rang down on in America. —— WuEeN the stomach lacks vigor and regularity there will be flatulence, heart- burn, nauseasick-headache, nervousness, use Dr. J. H. McLean'’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier, to give tone and regularity to the stomach, - Mrs. Hannah Buxton, widow of Aaron Buxton, died at her home nesr Pleasant Ridge, Hamilton county, O., last Satur- day afternoon 1u the eighty-seventh year of her age. Her husband was buried about three years ago and was about the same nge, “HEADQUARTERS.” M. A. UPTON. 2 ruouAsohr‘ M.A.UPTONS& CO ITOR SALE. Business Property, Residence Sites, Trackage Locations, Vacant Lots Business Property 77 feet on Farnam street cast of Twenticth, on grade, well improved, £40,000; £15,000 cash. 44 feet on corner Nineteenth and Farnam, improvements will rent for $250 per month, £38,000; §16,000 cash, 50 feet on Farnam east of Twenty-fourth street, 9 room house, ull modern improvements, rents §15 per momth, $16.500, one-half cash 66x182, corner Twenty-fourth and Farnam, ele, antly improved, $35,000, only £5,000 cash, 77 feet on Farnam just west of Twenty-cighth street, $200 per front foot. Good business property. Stores adjoming. 66x132 on Dodge street between Eleventh and Tweifth, §27,000. $3,000 cheap, for nothing between Eleventh and Sixteenth street can be had for less than $500 a foot and upwards. at once or the price will be $33,000 in a few days. 109 feet on southwest corner Eighteenth and Harn ness property, $41,500; $15,000 cash, 44x66 corner on Tenth and Douglas, improved, $24,000; 6,000 cash. 26x150 near Williams street on Thirteenth streef paved. t-class busi- ness lot, two houses on it, stores all around and a fine block to be built nearly ovposite, §5,000; one-half cash. Tnis a bargain and no mistake, This prop- erty will bring $300 a foot before the year closes, Q 66x132 corner lot Sixteenth ana Jones, $10,000; $17,500 cash. This i feet on Sixtcenth street. 132 feet square, corner Davenport and Sixteenth streets, $90,000; one- third cash, 98x185, corner Eigiteenth and Leavenworth, 185 feet on Le $46,000; $16,000 cash, balance on long tin 75x182, corner Eighteenth and St. Mary’s avenue, improvements, rents for £110 per month, §30,000; one-third cash. 22 between Douglas ana Dodge, three story biick building, will rent for $2,500 a year, $22,000, one-half cash. Thisis gzood for permanent invest- ment, Choice lots of Sixteenth property, south of viaduct, at $100 front foot. All about on grade—not the low stuffon west side of street. The time will soon be here when this will be fine business property for retail purposes, then you will buy 1t for §300 or $400 per foot. RESIDENCES. Lot 7, block 6. Denise’s addition, 42x150. Good 5-room house, furnace,barn ete. Everything in nice repair, $4,500; §2,500 cash. 132 feet square on Ninth street. just south of Bancrott, fiva-room house and barn. Now hold your breath while we quote a price on this half scre. You guess it will be about $6,000, don't you? Well, §8,200 will buy it for a few days; one-half cash. Breatte. A fine lot on South Eleventh street,north of Bafcroft,in Bowery Hill;house 20x28, in good repair, $4,150; $415 cash. Lot 11, block 1, Kountze's 4th addition, on Eleventh strect, just south of Centre, lot 80x138, house rents for $13 per month, $4,500, Lot 13, block 7, Shuli’s sccond addition,six room house, cistern. city water cellar, ete., lot 6)x168, south front on Poppleton avenue, house will aent for $27.50 per month, $4,650; 2,000 cash, balance to suit. 100x150 on Georgia avenue, one block from strect cars, twelve room, two story house, city water in house and yard, cistern, cemented cellar, small fruits, large barn for six horses and four carriages. An clegant and com- plete home, $12.000; $8,000 cach, balance to suit. 182x140, east front, corner Fifteenth and Dorcas streets, good h>use; an elegant half acre, only a little over a mile from Farnam street, and half block from Sixteenth street. $10.000 cash. We have other residences in Shul]'s ad in Hanscom Place,Shinn’s,Idlewild and most other additions. Remember that we can fit you out with any kind of property. TRACKAGE. Lot 5, block orner Sixtecnth and Mason, 1382 feet on Sixteenth street. { U. P. railway has bought up everything around this corner,two stores on this lot that are bringing good rent, only $19,600. Money in this and no mistake. The trackage lot we advertised last week on Murcy street is gone. The owner 18 $5,000 ahead on it. 69x132, just north of Nicholas on Eleventh strect, will be worth $5,000 before the year is out, $3'000 will buy 1t this month, 66x182, south front on Izard street, track in alley, $6,000, one-third cash, This 18 between T'welfth and Thirteenth streets, | VACANT LOTS. Vacant lots! It is usecless to enumerate them. We have them anywhere and everywhere, inside the city limits of Omaha and South Omaha, and we have good purchases that cannot help but make the buyers money. We will not guarantee that you will double your money in sixty days or any such nonsense. But let us tell you one thing, Omaha is a growing city. There is no boom here, no excitement, but rapid, substantial growth, which indi- cates permanency. Keep in Omaha or South Omaha and you are all right. You will get good interest on your investment. We are now in our new oftice, 1519 Farnam street, where we have plenty of room and are fully pre- pared to accommodate dand show property. Call and talk matters over with us. Our door always opens easy, M. A UPTON & CO. 1519 Farnam St. ; This is reets on Dodge ‘T'his is to be taken Gilt-edge busi. 132 venworth, ‘HEADQUARTERS.”

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