Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 6, 1887, Page 9

PART II _ 3 - I | SEVENTEEN'T H YEAR. O\IAHA SUNDAY. MORNING, NOVEMBER 1887--SIXTEE 0. NUM BER 141, -~ PEREKINS, GATCH & LAUM Will Open the Finest China Store in the West, TITESDAY, NOVEMBER THE NEW PAXT Oyster, Fish, Game, They have the Handsomest Rooms, in the Finest Building in Omaha, You are Respectfully Invited to Call and Examine Our Large Lines of DINNER, TEA, BREAKFAST AND SUPPER SETS, alad Berry. Ice Cream, Oatmeal, Wine and Liquor Sets. =CTUJ" Worcester, ART GOODS FROM ALL THE ROYAL POTTERIES, Dresden, Hungarian, Persian, Cashmere, Egyptian, litz, Carlsbad, Crown Derb , Etc. 014 FARNAM STREET BRASS, BRONZE AND COPPER FIGURES. Vases, Pitchers, Stands Tables, Fire Sets, Lamps & caret, and Bohemian Glassware. Etched & Chandeliers,Bac=- Plain, Crysta: & Colored. AND A MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY OF GLLASS. = Silverware from the Most Reliable Manufacturers, Carving Sets and 1514 Farnam Stree" SOME VARIETY CHESTNUTS. How the Good Old Rounder Finds Pleasure in the Vaudeville. THE SAME OLD SONGS AND GAGS* @he Sylph, the Irish Comedian, the Negro and the Banjoist all Carry { Us Back Like the Old Songs of Childhood. 2f, Louis Globe Democrat: To the the man about town, the ) s asource of never-failing jdelight, though he knows when he pays tais money at the box oftice just what he is going lu see and hear. He knows as avell as he knows he's alive jnst what the grand olio will consist of, for he’s sccen hundreds of them. It is not the least of his pleasure of the evening when he picks up the play bill and ree- ognizes the familiar luxuriance of the adjectives sprinkled about the names of the performers in this amusement-mak- ing sggregation which holds the boards. He takes his seat, and the whistles from the galiery gods ave dear to his heart, for when he was a lad he sweated and whistled in the gallery, too, for the ap- pearance of just such lights of the stage us he has come to see to-night. Hal the same old fut man at the bass fiddle, and the same distinguished-looking vear of the orchestra leader rosining his bow. Like the memory of an old song learned in childhood is that over- ture, the chief feature of which is sure 1o be the bird in the forest or the loco- i The curtain goes up, and fore his eyes is the same old gcenery which he used to see in the old theatre to which he went when a boy— the gorgeous parlor in which the aggre- ration comes out and presents its full tt:‘t‘u to the audience—he used to think it was such gorgeousness at this parlor that the story writers tried to tell in Avabian nights. After the grand en- tree and and all that he sees the scene shifted, and a sylph-like form trips out into the wood, where the boughs of a majestic onk bend their majestic arches over a purl- {ngstrenm which runs back, narrowing belween highly improbable rocks und up the sides of an indigo mountain. Can he believe his eyes He must. It is that same charming vo ist who in years gone by sung his youthful heart clear out of Niis burning bosom. But no —that was tweuty years ago, and it is noi the idol of his youthful dreams. It is another,according to the programme, but not at all different. She smiles the same smileand walks with the same ap- puarent propensity to genuflect every time she takes a rh's She has the s pink slippers with the same high heels und the gorgeous stockings ave filled out to the same phenomenal aptitude. The dress has not grown longer in twenty years, nor the wear and tear ‘abated one jot or tittle of its starchiness or glitter, The bust is remarkable as ever, the paint on her cheeks as red, the ochre of her hair un- tarnished—tho tout ensemblo is the same. It is the change in things about & man that makes him feel old,but there is no change; it's all just the same as it wus in the ‘,ood days, and no wonder She old rounder wpplauds. It's all the same—only different. for he enjoys this now on a different basis than then, He beholds this witehing sylph an un- changed type of onc of the joys of lis earlicr days. He settles back for the subsidence of the applause, her song. He notices now the same cute look at the audience over that fan of red and green and ivory and gold the same office to the orchiestra leader, and starts into interest at the Vo tive note of the song, Why, he remem- itas well as ho does that supper i with prototype. who ed his heart nnl made him stand y belore the v of pistolsina pawnbroker’s window. The very same old song. Mis S o'clock and { am Tere, Down by the shady dell, To hear him whisper in my car— Those words I'll never te Ol he'll be always trie to me And Il be true'to him, His coming fills my heart with joy, My own, my darling Jim, The boys who wer night he first heard about gone now. Some ure de in jail, perhaps, and some so vich that theéy have discarded long ago the va- viety show and go in their own carviages to the opera at 5 per seat, But the grandest flights of the queens of song bring nothing like the recollections of old times which this sang docs to the old rounder. He applauds until his hands sore, and she umu~un| a and sh ," that never grow wear, ing her cheerily over the sca, Old Rounder is being cavried back into the olden time, and is aroused from his revery by the silence which indicates the lapse before the next “turn’ o the programme, Can O1d Time have turned hack in his flight and made him a youth again, for this night? It would scem so, for there are the two Trishmen he saw on the the first time bhe played hook take in the matinee on moucy uhl:ninm\ from his mother under the false pretense that he had to buy copybooks, There are the sume plug hats, brushed the wrong way, surmount- he same terri framed in serubby bric whiskers. the same Irish dialect that wasneverspoken in any part of Iveland or an earth except on the var identical high-water pants, the cal shillulat After they have guarded each other and beaten each 1 Cain, he waits for co eyesight by his hear- other, and rais roboration of h ing. Hereiti “Pat, phat's good for rats? s “Phat's good for rats? Mike, pison’s (e liyer, it’s not ¢ good for good for ‘em; it'll kill **Boom, hoom, hoom g drum and the fiddles s at the joke—this old, hoary, paleozoic, joke. “Then these “refined Irish come dians"—to quote the play bills—quarrel, and they spit in each other't faces and do other refined humerous thi which amuse the audience, and then they sing one of the songs of theirown composi- tions It runs thusly: We came hot long a; s one and all must ki From that dear old little isle acro The land you know it w Old Ireland we must t We sing and dance both every night and day. Fach succeeding verse is of a higher order of poetie genius, until the culmi- nation is reached in the last by the most remarkable rhymes the languiige can be contorted into. These comedizas are aly in their song goi right back o Irelund after nh,, nave momphnhud s the big base ch in agony W, the say; ), Table Cutiery. PERKINS, GATCH & LAUMAN, the of their long voyuge over © tion of a poor skater on iee, and a sud- | Th *ench other in the most vul- the *say " —name nyoand da den developmant of the skater into an L and then all of a sud- for the populaec, v were going | expert. This is the most wearisome of K sk i moderately good backe years ago. but they ” haven't gone. | all the antiquated things on the variety | English, and not scldom_ they ‘branch Like mo brated. but cortainly not | stage. Next comes the infantie i off in sman and Irish dinle What entious nembers of the' pro- i their favewell have three sot o work o they ke they S night, off.” When they go out to the ne in the ihborliood aud 1e wve Ld Harvigs most 07 de hiz Lavry and of and of Mt John, some’ poor dude, heer, just as the them under the when e was young aloon how they T talk of F Ande the ullough or 1 and impross the who old on s ymond 1s poor wselves upon pays for rounder did for e cireumstanc W griddy. When they have disappeared from the stage, and the dust they have vaised has settled, their plag s taken by another familiar figar tleman in full dress with o very divty shirt and a copious flow of pollysyilables. from the pouring out of which 1t is g »d that he is amusician, and he tised for a competent assistant for a public performan There is o ring ut the e R s e 00 opens and in walks a very dilapidated negro. his hat on the wall where 1l su'tanail, so it dreops on the floor, and he still has o little toy hat over his » which hat is attached to his ]n:nl by i rabber hand, o that he can pull ol and et it He has a pair of i ehing up to his chin. His cont is rvipped up the back. He valise which is empty, and bulldog and an winhrella, Kuows what's going to hapy caller is to be very funny. He is to spit in the other fellow'shat, fallo s ad wloons strilie at his dog with his umbrd that the cloth may Ly out in the audienee, persist ~in unty- iug the gentleman’s be s upronrously in the same lines neetie, and iy as he can he. 000 or 4,000 others as just like him, have been every night for years, and will be every night for cen- turies, apparently, Finally, he isto de- velop the most phenomenal mu 1 tal- ent, pliy ments ng on all the musical instru- | the other fellow's stock xtracting music from the eh and his stuffed dog. Th has seen him a thou and he knows every move every tune he pluys by heart. Kknows it’s all a chestnut, and has been for a long, lo back in his ter; ju who ar tieth time, The girl who sings while she with a -|\|| ping dates away from the flood. are pictur herin the pyramids. She simpers and blooms perennial, and she sings most dolefully some unintelligible words about a bench where the honeysuckle grows. She generally winds up with un it |\I|nl|llll' exhibition, the objecs of which 15 to tire out the fiddlers and excite the sympathy of the audience, where theve are whispers that she’s liable to die of heart diseas Just about the time they all expect he to topple over dead, a'martyr to dut; she comes to a stop as fresh as & dais and retires with her rope over h shoulder amid thunders of us h ap- plause, in response to which she appears again and sings, ‘*When the Robins Nest Again.” After her comes the roller-skating act, with its ridiculoys beginnlug ina representa- their | Nevae was ical prodigy. complete without or never was anything mor put upon the stage. cannot sing, and their sole ol waukin it rests, in almost eve Uheir valgarity in spe business on the and ing | ter children | the »of The prestidigitator usual L with a full line of trieks | wh sen exposed for years and | no dly makes anin- fhe don’t he wing vt with a pie-biting match b o boys from the audie who are catled np'to see that eve is done without the aide of n 7, up his | i tween the ¢ chine very song-nnd-dance man for Yy yemrs has sung the same | for tune, and the ation in words of | bri du w their song to entire | riavism. suspicion of pl always about pie iti of this mmediate ver and diveet lden hai y the bright moonshine must hut 1 melancholy expression, hold down his side as if he was »d up in tights and tinsel, \(l the audience with that | 2 “of which the novelists | &5 through his part like n | F¢! wooden man, and turns up in front of clothing store ed once off the stage the theater like n [ M dummy, in the loudest suit the brond land can The banjoist is another of the features, He is in burnt wit Rit would Shakespeare. He runs one st into another as though he had just so much tosay, and wanted to get through it. When he has rattled it off, he Irl.l on the mn,., and singsa topical s here and nn.x you why it is The two negry in white clothe moj out, end for put on_rear is as old as th presence of negro busi- | ope ness on the stage, have sor nul too, all alike, "Phey Tiave just come from *‘de old ntation,” and th not going to stay long, for they get right back to “dear old mas: de “fiels o’ yellow corn,” and watermel- qu ons and magnolias, and hoe cake ay variety show | the fric |u“\ with th Last but not les with the most ritten law of the stage, thr couple wer recognized no gentlemen assisting to t was learned that the couple had pre- of an apartment to pe tion, , and | The r is funny in it, all_but its supreme badness, no one can tell when the mat- is discussed outside it seemsto be all i thle,if o man has t s aboard which makes world, st of these chestnuts of the ne but in @he t.and very number of him feel be mentioned that ling in a ite maiden ur ver met hefor veque used to sin ind girls™ together, { The song-und-dance man is an old hefore ¢ nd suind :d_them, stitution ernew. He stepsout | And they sing about happiness in the tin lines of (|1~|u| te | past and in the future, and dance off | and stands stiff and | together, kissing their hands to the au- ht while the orchestra tunes up | dience. Then he sings—and such sing- The afterpicce winds up the show, but no lover of the variety stage stuys that, because it mc ng out all those who ¢ the evening, y serves to have appeared and there is an un- that an after- ciatingly bad as ¢ shall be as excr ely who is only s possible to make it. cver loved “s0 charm- | Year after year the things herein de- young and fair,” which in the | s d hold the boards. Age may Y kind of wit her and custom: stale all things else, the chestnut of the variety stage catens to hold on forever. - “oed AR Mar ber Shop. will you be mi The b ovge Fitzherger to be married rig 7 was the ) Just why it is, no one S f song-nnd-dance man proper i Bt more Al S entored: Mr. v uside, ask allow .|um|l|« 10 be The request w 1 calling e would mted, and the steanger went out and urned with a young woman and a n who was 1o perform the cercmony. Louis Lehman, of Lehman & Hei being shaved when the trio Pitzberger got through h him as soon as possible zberger, Lehman and Geor Jeatp S S Bl inek were pressed in #s witnesses, and o ! appears on the stage dragging | 1), oremony was rushed through. The s chair behind himiwith one hand, | L10 Soremany whs rusiod through, the while he holds his banjo with the othe {“”'“h el St e AL He sits down on his chair and e PR S g i frony big shoo to thesudien then went out, the bride whisp e strums his banjo ineidents Al totelling | ;b o' c d Mr. Fitzberger to ) what wonderful |h\))g(;lm|\]n'lu\l to him }n-ml.‘rr& o FRGOIRERR 10 % n he was “comin’ in down de | Bl o AR street.” He rattles them off as aparrot | WO'¢ known, but the names n as John J, The minist his name and Ida Shaw ' Was not ned by the the knot. It 1 ously asked at a store on Bunk street, about the prize ring, politics, anything | Yo% A -|3||All|g_ Ay iy Ann street, to be allowed tho use form the cere- uy in, but were refused und ordered He Ma i most, and fall around all over the stage An Ashland, correspondent and club each other with stuffed clubs, | writes: Louis Richter, son of a St. Paul never fail to catch on, though their act | minister and until recently telegraph 20, went to the Odan- 1 Indian re: ix weeks ago an operator at the Lake Shore sta- About the same time Me oung squaw, returned from the Mil- waukee Industrial school and the two ckly fell in love with each other, ult was a wedding, which has all that, but they will s ust o little | caused a great commotion among the while t0 sing und dance. ‘They may.per- | Tndians, who have made it &0 unslons haps, sing an_alleged religlous ‘song, | ant for Richter that he has. been but if they do it’s sure to be as vilely | obli vendered us itis sure to be ancient. | the r iged to resign his position and leave reservilion. THE OMAHA SMELTING WORKS The Largest Establishment of the Kind in America. OVER FIVE HUNDRED EMPLOYES. How an Establishment Which Began on a Small Scale is Now Doing a Business of $15,000,000. From a manufacturing point of Omaha possesses ny featuresof inter est, and one of the most important of these is to be found at the smelting and refining works situated between Doug- las street and Capitol avenue. Here the iblishmentoriginally started by Messrs. A. L. King, C. H. Downs, C. Mead and General W. W, Lowe in ), has gradually advanced with the city until at the preseut time the works have far outstripped .in growth and magnitude all other establishments of the kind in America and in conjunction th the Grant Smelting works of Den- (which are owned by the Omaha firm),the company can lay elaim to the proprictorship of the largest smelting establishment in the world. Whilst the Denver establishment, how- ever, is confined to smelting operations only, the Omaha shops both smelt and refine. The large gnantities of ore which daily find their way into this city fortreatment are principally brought from Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Dakota and Avizonn, Base bullion is also shipped to the works on a ) scale from the different smelting works throughout the country, for the purpose of refinement. About 40 per cent of this latter gubstance comes from the Denver branch of the firm. An idea of the magnitude of the compuny’s operations may be gathered from the fact that they em- ploy over 500 men und have already $3,000,000 invested in the enterprise, 1e annual business done by the cor- poration, too, is in the like proportion. During the last year upwards of 000, 000 has been ‘‘turned over.” Progress is the motto of the firm, and it is wor- thy of note that the work done for each yeur since the works were established shows an enormous advance from that of the year preceding. The compuny receives on an average 200 carlouds of rrive con- ore per month, and over 200 cars monthly laden with buse bullion gigned to th When the ore or bullion arrivesat the works the first thing done is to make an from which the compuny to measure the amount of 1 er, gold, antimony, or other metals they will severally yicld per ton, and so accurate has this process become that by treatment of a comparatively small por- tion the furnaces will disclose, almost to a dollar, the net value of a large ship- ment, Cash is then paid m.u..lmw to the prices for the time being xulm{m New York, The ore is now treated on the larger scale. As in the assay this is effected through the medium of re- verbatory furnaces so constructed n.‘n by means of a dome, or low arched voof Lhe fame, In passing through the five chamber is reflected or reverber: the ore. Whilst undergoing this ficr ordeal the metals are separated and tha attendant at the furnac cures thess in the form of base bullion or unrenned metal, Lead, silver, gold and antimon ¢ are thus extracted from the same 2 ¢ The bullion is then moulded into bricks whieh are in due course sent to the fin Here they ain pli reverbatory furn dross and * foreign substances are tracted until nothing remains but pu metal. This also is moulded into bric Th brick made by the ulul)mn\ We 250 ouncesand is worth $5 Iver s turned out in 1,000 ks which are ch. process of reducing ore is, of reessity, of the most technical nature, and athorough knowledge of metallurg y and c| h.-um.n\ i8 nec for a proper apprecfation of its inty es. To enter into an elaborate dissertation on the inner workings of the process. however, would bo outside the scope of this article. The greater worth about hortion of the gold and silver is fc :d to the United States mints,at New Orleans and Philadelphia, where it is purchased by the govern ment, The refined silver sells at prices ranging from 94 cents to #1.15 por ounce, whilst gold brings the uniform price of $20,67 por ounco. ‘or the ha ar ending Julyl of » present year, the works huve tarned 83,264 ounces of silver and 40,640 of gold, whilst they have placed enormous amount of 28,514,000 the pounds of lead on the market during the same period. For the last numed metal the ruling price is about 43 conts per pound. The company is also extensively engaged in the muanufacture of blues stone, of which they turn out sixty ha rels per day. This substance s {n inc ly employed in the working of elees ¢ batter The works cover a large area of ground and comy f sof solidly constructed brick buildingsin which the scething flames of upwards of one hun- dred furnaces are constantly at work. 1 The present officers of the company Guy C. Barton, president; G, B, Vico president; W. Nush rand secretary; and Edward tr! Eddy, general manager, Charles Bal- b the superintendent of the works, This gentleman has a la of tho severnl processes employed in smelting, W, Page, too, is an ex= suced man, and ably superintends furnaces. The refining dopartment, with the exception of silver refiuing, is under nu- supe fon of Herman Garlock. 8. A. Barrow is the chemist in charge of the labaratory and supe Pe intends lhn assaying, Fre IY Shaefer is superintendent over the silver refining and bluestone manufacturing, The foundry and construction department is ably managed by L. G, Heybrock, Rich- ard Remington is the “boss” in charge of the yard. All the above named gen=- tlemen go to make up a force, that for sound, practical knowledge in their several de partments, is sccond to none in any smelting establishment in America, -——— Boston Corbett.now livir Can., who killed Wilkes Booth,has bee committed to the ite nsylum, Last winter, it will be rememberod, he sum= marily adjourned 1} a3 house of representatives with a shotgun, in Topek in “scientific temper- to the curriculum of versity at Athens, e kind - in any cole legiate institution, 4 ' 4 i