Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 18, 1888, Page 6

THE SUNDAY BEE | SAINT PETER'S NEW CHURCH COUNCIL BLUFFS, OFFIOR, NO. 12 PEARL STREET. Delivered by Carrier in Any Part of the City at Tyenty Cents Por Week, H. W, TILTON....... MANAGER. TELEPHONES: BusiNgse OrFice, No. 4. Niant EDiron, No. 2. (= MINOR MI-ANTI( )V N. Y. Plumbing Co. New spaing goods at Reiter's. Colorado coal at Council Bluffs Lumber Co., 900 main street, telephone No. 2 Sid Stringham, the assailant of Hi Baird, has boen bound over to the grand jury in the sum of §00. The United States court opens here March 27. One of the rooms in the new court house ‘will be occupied. The Hibernian ball last night was a grand puccess, One hundred and fifty couples were in attendance, The flags of America_and Ireland waved over the roof of Rev. Father McMenomy's residence yesterday. Several members of Hazel camp, No. 171, Modern Woodmen of America, visited Omaha camp Friday evening. It is said that J. W. Merrill has his eyeaset 'on the position of clerk of the school board, in place of C. M. Harl, The members of St. Agnes Guild held a meeting yesterday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. B. S, Josselyn. The paper carnival at Driesback's hall Fri- flay evening drew a large attendance. The affair wound up with a ball. The hour of morning service in St. Paul's church has been changed to 10:80 o'clock in- (stead of 10:45 as heretofore. Franklin assembly, No. 0505, K. of L., will meet this afternoon at 3 o'clock in their rooms, over Burnham, Tulley & Co.’s bank. Moore & Kiplinger have made some changes 1n the rear part of their establi ment, and put in two Brunswick billiard tables. A deal of fifty-eight lots in Railroad addi- tion 18 reported. The sale was made by Frank Evans, but who the purchaser is deponent sayeth not. ‘The ‘‘come quick” wagon brought in Jake Shope last evening and the hotel d’poli register shows the same old charge, *dis- turbing the peace,” The pool exhibition at at the Manhattan last evening possessed poor drawing quali- ties. There was some. excellent playing, however, which those preserit enjoyed. * % J,T. Davis, of Marysville, Mo., has arrived at the park with his stable of flyers, Many of them are entered for the races of the May running meeting and are now training. These are the first entrics. Notice was received at the “Q.” office in this city yesterday that after the 1st of April rates would return to the same schedule as was in force before February 4. On the other roads the change to old rates takes ef- fect March 26, The ladies of the (‘nncrcmlmnal church will give an Easter supper on Saturday even- ing before Easter Sunday. The supper will be spread in the parlors.ef the church. Fancy articles appropriate to commemorate the sea- son will be on sale. Henry Eiseman & Co.’s Peopld® store is undergoing extensive changes. One portion of the second stol s being fitted up to'be used exclusively as a children’s department. The cloak room also is being changed to suit the requirements of their trade. The machinery of Mr. Mullen's knitting factory has been ordered shipped to th ty. from Detroit immediately and will be ]blmml in position as soon as it arrive The new factory will probably be located on West. Broadway and will employ forty hands. Since the frost has gone out Harrison street is almost impassible for vehicles. ‘The grade is now much lower than when the street was filled and a deep gully runs down the center. A ‘large amount of .dirt will have to be replaced before any paving can be done on that thoroughtare, The bankrupt shoe store on - Main _strect ‘was raided by burglars Friday night and some stock carried away. ‘Entrance was ef- fected through a back window, where a pasteboard was doing service for a broken Klme of glass. The amount of the loss is not nown, but itis not a very large sum. Flora Christianson, eight years of age, diéd ather home, 1510 Eighth avenue, yestérd morning of membranous croup, A six-year- old brother is also very low with the same dread disease, and arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made, as it.is foared that both may be buried in the same grave, St. Patrick’s day. passed very quictly throughout the cit There were no parades of any societies, and with the excep- tion of the numerous green ribbon badge adorning the bosoms of the sons of the Emerald Isle, there was nothing to distin guish the day from any other. The lovers of the shamrock were all sportmg the lively green, and prondly carried the national color or their native land. Mr. and Mrs. S. . Maxon eitertained a large number of friends ata dancing and card party Friday evening at their elegant home on Harrison street. During the after- noon Mrs. Maxon entertained the ladies and the gentlemen arrived later in the evening. The occasion was highly enjoyed by thos resent and the host and hostess added new aurels to their already enviable reputation a8 entertainers, - For sale cheap, Lots near the bridge, to parties who will build at once. Ad- dress or call on J.R. Rice, No. 110 Main street, Council Bluffs, Sheafe loans money on mal estate. e~ Get your horses chpp d at Dohany’s livery stable. O. C. Barton will be there during this month with the cele- brated rotary clipper -~ Personal Paragraphs. Mrs. A. S. Borham is reported as. quite seriously ill. Aldermen Danforth and Metcalf have re- turned from Colfax Springs. E. J. Strow is spending Sunday at home. Ho leaves for the west to-night. Henry Eiseman leaves to-day for the east on a protracted visit with friends, Mrs. J. W, Peregoy has returned from a yisit of several months in California. John Schoentgen, of Groneweg & Schoent- gen, is in Chicago on a business visit, Deputy Sherift Hawker, of Glenwood, took a look at the new court house here yes- terduy. Mrs. M. F. Rohrer and Mrs. Phil Armour went to Sioux City yesterday morning for a short visit. L. T, Genung and P. P. Kelley, of Glenwood, were among the attorneys attend- ing court here yesterduy. Mrs. A. G, itman, of Sioux City, was in this city yesterday on i visit to her daughter, who is attending the Sisters’ school, W. A. Stevens, travelling man for the McClurg cracker company, came in yester- day from a two week's trip on the roa Miss Julia . Desmond, a teacher in the Hastings schools, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. D. A. Farrell of this city, for a few days, Joseph Spaulding recoyering from his vecent illness. He was out of doors yester day for the first time siuce Le was taken sick. Scnator Groneweg and Representative Wyman - arrived here yesterday morning from Des Moines to spead Sunday with their familics, A, Clavk, the loeating engineer of the Union Facific, arrived home yesterday on o bricf vospite, He is looking well and is ap- ntly in excellent health, M, Woodward of the Santa Fe railr dquarters ut Des Moiues, was in the erday muking arrangements for the r-state teachers' excursion to California, 1o Jeave Kunsas City June 3. Gceorse Laughridge, of Creston, hus been lom\ rarily prowoted from a - conductorship on the Kansas City division to the position of trainmaster of the Chicago, Burlington: & | 8\|im'y aye stemw, with headquarters at the luffs. He decs not expect the position to be permanont, Mr. Truman Vanderlip, who has been spending the winter im California, stopped ovur here on his way back to his Michigan home. He was shown about the city by his nfiuw,) W. Morse, and was so pleased the adv. .nlutu and prosperity that it is by.no n\s-uuuuh el,v that he will dispose of property and wake this Lis howe. { special attractions The Work of the Garmnn Oathollca to Be Orowned To-Day. SLASHING AT A COURT DOCKET. State Onses Thrown Out—The Last of the O1d Council—Republican Pri- maries—Police Doings—Per- sonal Paragraphs. Sermons and Seryices. This will be a great day for the German Catholic citizens, Their endeavors to pro- vide a suitable place for worship have been crowned with great succe: St. Peters elegant mew chiurch, corner of Bluff and Pierce streets is_completed and the dedica- tory services will take place to-day. The following is the PROGRAMME OF SOLEMNITIES, The ceremonies will begin at 10:15 this morning. The peal of bells will - sound the time. Ith. Rev. B. P. McMenirny, of Daven port, will conduct the solemn_rites. Rev. B. P. McMerirny will celebrate the solemn high mass with Rev, Fathers John Daxacher as deacon and M. T. Schiffmacher, of Neola, as sub deacon. ‘Rey. Boniface Verheyen, O. 8. B., professor at St. Benedict's college, Atchi- son, Kansas, will preach the sermon of the day th. Rov, Bishop O'Connor of Omaha, and Rh. IRev. Abbot Innocent Wolf, O.S. H., of St. Benedict's Abbey, Atchison, Kansas, will assist. besides many visiting - pricsts. Rov. R, 1. Healy will act as master of ceremonies, The choir under the able management of Mrs. James F* Dillon, arganist, of the church, will be assisted by - Mrs. J. O'Neill and her well trained choir. A 'very instructive lecture will be given in the church this even- ing at 7:30 by Rev. P. T. McCarthy, rector of St. Philomena’s cathedral, Omaha, on the historic subjeet: “'St. Pefer was in Rome five Years,” The learned and elo- quent, reetor will show by the records of his- tory that the scare-crow planted, perhaps, re- garding this subject in the minds of some, to be cither a stupendous imposition or all his- tory. of christian antiquity a marvel of delusion. Allour frlends and benofactors especially, and the public generally are hercwith cor- Gially invited and weleomed to' the. opening solemnitics of St. Peter’s, morning and even- ing. Rev. Adolph Wesseling, O. 8. B., pas- tor of St. Peter’s, SAINT PAU! Divine service at 1 nday-schoot at 12:15 and ‘holy communion op of Towa, the Kt. Rev. Will- Perry, D. ., wili preach in the morning and evening, and in the evening will administer the apostolic rite of confirmation. Young men and strangers always cordially welcomed to these services. T. J. Mackay, rector. TARMONY MISSION. Seryices to-day at 3 o'clock, conducted by Mr W. C. Stacy, of the Congregational church. - Sabbath school at 4 o'clock. Prayer meeting Thursday evening. Subject: ‘Lot Patience Have Her Perfect Work,” James 14 Much interest was manifested at the meotings last weck, the chapel being filled to 1ts utmost. FINST BAPTIST. Preaching at 10:30 6. m. and7:30 p. m. In the evening the pastor will speak concerning “The Two Sisters—Mary and. Martha,” the $1i1F0 Q180oNFE0N ORI Tha' Wonianz of. the Bible.” Scats. free. All are. cordially in- vited. THE SALVATION ARMY. Meetings Sunday as_follows; - Knee drill, 7 a. m.: holiness, 11 a. m.; Oh, be joyful meeting, 3 p. m.; salvation, S p. m. Captain Little David's subject in_the night meeting will be *“Three Terrible Fires.”’ Al are in- vited and welcome. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, v. W. 0. Allen, of Malvern, will' preach At 7350 there will be_a mis- neeting. Colonel L. W. Tul- ) ide. Addresses will be made by Rev. W. O. Allen, J. T. Brown und the pastor; W. H. W. Lees. The public is cor- dially ‘nvited. X2 MLACH Ay Rooms of the Young Men’s Christian Asso- ciation open on Sunday from 2.to 6 p. m., cor- ner Main_strect and Broadway. Strangers in the city are especially ‘welcome, Free readini room. Gospel meeting at 4 o'clock, for men only. Subject to-day, “Power of God's Word,” Heb,. 4, 12. ATIONAL CRIURCIL ovvices to-day, morning and cvening, ning subject, “The Insanity of Sin:" "( omfort fur ()ulsldcl:." The e Money at low rates on first class farm . Burnham, Lulleys & Co., 102 Maijn street, e Call and sce the new millinery and fancy ‘goods at Mrs. T. B, Louis’ on Broadway. e The District Court. The district court had a spring house clearing yesterday. The docket had become lumbered up with a lot of old cases, in which nothing had éver been done, and nothing was expected to ever be done. The attor- neys saw their pets swept away by Judge Carson, who called case after case, and when there wus not a_satisfactory showing, such cases were stricken off. Ihe size of the docket will be materially decreased, but the live cases will be given a botter show. Among the numerous cases stricken off yes- ter. that of Burnett vs Globe Print- ing comp: t being a suit for libel, the plaintifl being a preacher who locked horns with that paper over the prohibition que: tion, ‘There was some excitement over it at the time, but the scnsation has died out, and the suit now drops, after being carried along for several years. iy S. B. Wadsworth & Co. loan money. - Madam Blanch, greatest mind reader in the world,is at the Metropolitan hotel, Omaha. it B8 A Full line of cookery and glassware at Lund Bros.’, 23 Mair - City Council Proceedings, Last evening the city council were to meet. It was 9:80 o'clock when a_quorum was se- cured, and Alderman-elect Knepher was sent for to constitute the requisite number. When the gavel fell the following answered to their names: Mayor Rohrer and Aldermen Dan- forth, Keller, Lacy and Knepher. Various bills, finishing the past year’s busi- ness, were allowed. Settlement “was made in full with the out-going officials, The grade of North Secomd strect was changed by resolution and ordinance in com- pliance with petition of property owners upon that street, Petition of Mary Ward that the waterwa through Max Harle's property be opened referred. The balance of the petitions were laid over. The annual report of the county treasurer and auditor were received and placed on file, Considerable other busiuess was trans- acted and the council did not adjourn till after midnight. e — Found—Opportunities toinvest money and make 100 per cent. Inquire of Johnston & Van Patten, 88 Main st. - e . EvERY LADY within trading distance ancil Hlufl should not fail to eall AN'S PEOPLE'S STorg during and see the e \m'.ml display of silks and dre ived. This week. w \g special bar- gaius in dress goods, wraps, jackets cady-made drosses and wrapper seys and muslin underwear. other department in our house will l\mu You will fiud anything you want in our vity, Mail orders receive prompt attention. los sent on application at seman & Co.’s People's Store, Couneil Bluffs, Iowa. tore withoat .lmp]nng all over the s e Republican Primaries. Republican prunaries were held in the vari- ous wards lust eveniug for the purpose of choostng delegates to the county eonvention that ls 1o be beld at the Magonlo temple to- THE SUNDAY BEE. MARCH 18 18388.—SIXTEEN PAGEN. morrow for the purpose of choosing dele- gates to the gtate convention at Des Moines on the 21st, The delegates from the various precincts were as follows = First Ward—W. C. Stacey, chairman; W. H. Lynchard, secretary. Delegates: R. C. Hubbard, W. H. Lyn hard, B, B. Gardiner, John Hammer, Jacob Sims. Delegates in: A to cast full yote of delegation, Second Ward—J. J. Steadman, chairman; Mott, secretary. Delegates, J. Stead- man, J. H. Pace, C. M. Harl, C.'S. Hubbard, Ed. Mott, Theodor Suittar, . W. Burnham. Delegates instructed to cast full vote of pre cinet. Third Ward—W. F. Sapp. chairman: George F, Smith, secretary, Delegates, W. F. Sapp, A. 8, Hazelton, D, B. Clark, W. A. ood, W, E. Haverstock, S. T. Waiker. Doteghtes Instiucted o cagt Yull ¥ots of the ward at the county convention. Fourth Ward—J. F. Evans, chairman; A, J. Brown, secrotary. The following dele: ates were chosen F. Evans, Walter . Smith, L. Everett, George H. Stillman, John Clark, J. C. Medlar, A. J. Brown, Thos. Baldwin, Tho delegates’ were instructed to support John Y. Stoue as delegate at large for Towa. i Another Burglary. The store of J. Sullivan, at 348 Broadway, was burglarized at 1 o'clock this morning, but the exact amount of goods stolen is not as yet known. It is supposed that the thieves are the same gang which went through the bankrupt store Friday night. or Sale. A real home, possessing all the re- puirements of a family. Two story house, barn and necessary outbuildings, sarly now. Lot 148 feet front by 120 feet deep. Fruit in good variety. two squares from Broad way es portion of the ¢ Oy #2,500; part cash, balance on - time. Warrantee deed. Also o few chenp lots on easy payments, A. J. Mandel, 325 Broadway. i Police Points, In polico court yesterday morning Owen Cunningham was arraigned for rafling the waters of domestic life at his home near the Milwaukee: roundhouse. He pleaded not guilty, and was released on payment of costs, 4.0 J. T. Smith was also nssossed a like amount on a charge of drunkenness. J. Lewis was taxed the full limit, $7.60, having run ashore on the Baptist church steps after loading up on four-ply booze. st Union Abstract company, 236 Main street. o The River's Condition. The condition of the river is watched here with mucti interest especially in viow of the condition of the work on the new Broadway bridge, and the improvements being made and planned along the river bank. Harry Birkinbine, the well known engincer, and superintendent of the water works, is keep ing close watch and is in receipt of - frequent telegrams from other points on the river. One telegram from Sioux City says— URiver still being crossed by footmen. ~ Lee soft.” Another from Bismarck, dated at 11 0'clock yesterday s River solid here and much lower than last year. Yellowstone broken at Glendire.” The following shows the time of breaking up of the river during the past years, the ob- servations being taken at Omaha mul Coun- cil Bluffs and some at Nebraska : February 28, 1864; Febru ruary 2 "lnbl‘flv April 2, cembel 13, rch 7, Mareh 24, 1851 Febius 1888; March 15, 188 18, 1886; Marc March 4, j, March el il Travelers! qmp at the o Bechitele. - E. H. bh("\lc loans money on chattel security of every description. Private consulting rooms. . All business strictly confidential, Office 500 Broadway, cor-~ ner Main street, up-stair: - A Business Change. W. S. Homer yesterday purchased the en- tire interest of F. H., Orcutt m the Council Bluffs Carpet company. He will enter upon the duties of his new relation at once. - This will be gratifying to his many friends here, who feared thit his selling out of his Mai street store would be followed by his remo 10 some other city. The Council Bluffs Ca pet company has a large and inereasing by ness, und ‘is just the kind of a lve conce with which an’ enterprising man like Mr. Homer should be connected. . The house is hardly less to be _congratulated on securing such a partner. Mr. Oreutt will continue to make his headquarters in Council Bluffs as the representative of the large wholesale dry goods house of Wood, Brown & Co., of Phil- adelphia. . He will have an ofice with the carpet company, at 405 Broadway. Cabinet Photo Fre Every purchaser of a Domestic sewing machine for cash or on monthly pay- ments from this office during the next ten days will recoive one dozen cabinet photos of then taken by Sherra- den, in that artist’s best style. Remem- ber ten days only. No canvassers. 105 Main St. There will be a s A 1663, K. of L., at their hall this afternoon at Bo'clock. Every member is especially re- ested to be present as business of the greatest importance will, be presented to the meeting. Sxow, M. W. e B The Wanderings of a Watch. Cincinnati Enquirer: Ten years ago Mr. Stephen Kelso, then night yard- master in the Ohio & Mississippi’ rail- road yards, lost his watch, a valuable Howard timepiece which had cost him §170. The watch wasa very plain one, the movement being inclosed in a silve case. At the time of the loss Mr. Kelso advertised it in all the papers and went £0 far as to offer a reward for it. - Since then he has changed his official position and is now a freight conductor, running between this city aud Seymour, Ind, Yesterday the long-lost timepiece was turned up, being found in the po: i of a Mr. O'Leary, a saloon-kee Eighth and Evans street. He had worn it for years, having reccived it from his aged father, now nearly sixty-five years of age. The old gentleman’s story is that he found it in the railroad yards on the night it was lost, Detective Calla- han yesterday brough the watch to po- lice headquarters and turned it over to the clerk of the department. To-day Kelso wilt return from Seymour and of- ficial action will be taken regarding the recovered ncn-u - A man \\lm has been in the fish trade at Port Clinton, O., says the fish caught there are so strongly impregnated with oil that it is hard for the dealers to get rid-of them. Many people will not cat them. The oil is washed from the Wood county fields down the Portage river, il Colonel T, W, Bullitt, of Louiswille, says that it was not Daniel Boone who i settlement in Ken- but an ancestor of his own named v, In proof of this assertion he shows a hatchet with which the said Mr. Walker blazed a path through the trackless woods in 1749 - Senator Tugulls and Congressian “*Sunset’” Cox are each very fond of read- ing Home Before he prepares a speech Mr. Ingalls usually looks over a few pages of the old Greek’s sonorous verse and treasures up fc some of the winged words the old chieftaing were wont to hurl about in the vigor of their expression, hon a red-hot stove, for he shall arise agul Out in Minnesota @ baby has been born‘ that weighs only & pound aud @ half, INCIDENTS OF AIQBSY LIEE. Reminiscences of the l}nte Thomas 3. Pottefy { HIS JUSTICE TO_" EMPLOYES. The Historical Part HelPlayed in Town Legislation - His Meeting With Governor Larrabec—How He Quelled a Riot i 1877, Denver New The dpath of Thomas J. Potter will doubtledd revive smany reminiscences of his railway career by those who eénjoyed his acquaintance and friendship in the years that elapsed from the date of his humble beginning to the time of the illness that termi- nated his lhfe at Welker's hotel in Washington, D. C., last Thursday morn- ing. Many incidents are related by his Denver friends. HIS CONSUMATE DIPLOMACY, At the time of his incumbency of the position of superintendent of the Towa divisions, a general feeeling of hostility was excited against the railways of that commonwealth owing to alleged extor- tionate freight and passenger rates. Tuking advantage of this discontent, a gang of cheap politicians for which Town has long been noted, grasped the opportunity to ride into power upon the wave of popular discontent, and con- ducted the canvass of 1873 upon the railroad issue. The republicans had had undisputed sway in the state for years, - there being at that time only 'one democrat in - the . senate— the Hon. B. J. - Hall, of Bur- lington. The meagreness’ of the democratic representatives induced a facetious republican member - to - intro- duce a motion to the effect that Mr. Hall should be placed in the state museum at a curiosity, In the contest that followed purty lines were ignored, and a legisla- ture’ largely composed of hory-handed yeomanry from the rural district chosen in both houses. True to their ante- election pledges, the members tackled the railroud problem, and, finally, de- spite the most determined opposition from the railway lobby that actually swarmed upon the floors and flitted through cloakrooms, a law. cast iron in its provisions, was enacted for the regu- lation of freight and passenger traffic. The operations of this law,seriously em- barrassed the railways, whose attorneys fought it through the state and federal courts to the-tribunal of last ort, where its constitutionality was affivied. This law remained in force until the winter of 1878, when Mr. Potter, repre- senting the Chicago. Burlington&Quiney appeared in the legislative arenu, for the avowed purpose of securing the re- peal of the obnoxious granger law, B a series of the shrewdest and most d plomatic moves ever known in the his- tory of western. lobbying, Mr., Potter and his heutenants, J, W, Blyth and Judge Hubbard, solicitors for: the Chi- cago, Burlington . & - Quiney - and Chicagoand Northwestern respectively, the legislature was induced to repeal the law in the very teeth of the clamor- ous public opposition.. Senator, now Governor Larrabee, was one of the most potential factors in assisting Mr. Potter, and is credited with having drawn the bill creating the present railway com- mission as a substitute for the grangor law. The specific part taken by ¥ Potter in this_splendid triumph et popular prejudice has never been made public, but Governor Larrabee isauthor- ity for the statement that to Mr. Potter belonged the credit of securing the repeal of the granger law. Governor Larrabee has since changed front, and is to-day re d as the head and front of the ailroad - crusade in Towa. TIHE TRONY OF F. Nine years later Mr. Potter and Mr. Larrabe whose formidable coalition in 1876, had expunged the anti-railway law from Towa's statute hooks, met again under widely diflerent conditions. The former had traversed the highway of fame, and appeared as fir ce-pres dent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, whilst the latter had reached the dignity of governor. This histor- ical meeting occurred in the rooms of the state railway ‘commissioner in the new capitol at Dés Moines one yearago the ninth of next April. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy had - established an arbitrary rate on coal hauled from Cleveland to Glenwood, for use at the home of feeble minded children, located at the latter point. The distance be- tween the two points is 136 miles and the tariff exacted $1.80 perton. At the sume time the company was hauling coal from Cleveland to Council Bluf twenty-five miles furthe , for § The governor, in approving bills for the various state institutions, discovered the discrimination, and forthwith for- warded & communication to Mr. Potter, demanding a modification. Mr. Potter very adroitly referred to President C. 1-e.1\ us for a reply. Instead of comply- vith the governor’s demand, Mr ns ordered the coul tariff revised, but instead of basing the revision upon the Council Bluffs rate, as presumed by the governor, the Glenwood tariff was made the basis rate, and the charge pe ton to Council Bluffs raised from #$1.25 to $1.98. The governor thereupon sum- moned the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy to account for alleged contempt of executive authority and violation of state laws. THEY TAD. Ir. Potter and Mr. the latter general freight agent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, appeared in behalf of the company 1o make defense. A heated discussion en- sued, in which the governor severely ar- raigned the railway commissioners for repeated delinguincies in failing to hold the road in striet accountabi lation of the law. In the hpat of excite- ment Governeor lJn'l'uhar‘iul'nml to Mr. Potter, who stood leaning*earele the window-sill, and remarke: want to state, Mr. Potter, that so long as the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy lines in Tows were under your imme ate personal supervisi P manages ment was marked by a pelicy that en- deared you to the people of Towa and s cured for the road in thisstate a repu tion never enjoyed before, but I am re luctant to say that since your transfer to a wider field of adthority, and your consequent removal from the state, and the delegation of its management to subordinates, the Chicago, Burling- ton & Quiney has become the most arro- gant and odious corporation in Towa.” The serious features of the great manas- ger relaxed, the firm lips parted for a moment and asmile of sutisfaction played r his swarthy face as he bowed and y remarked, *Accept my thanks, governor, for this unexpectcd compli- ment.” Little did Governor Larrabee or the assembled magnates of the rail- way world suspect that at that moment Mr. Potter had ‘written out and ready for submission his resignation as general manager of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney, but such is the fact of histol for, to the knowledge of the writer, Mr. Poiter, on returning to the Kirkwood house that evening, Submitted his resig- nation to Mr, Peter A. Dey, one of the railway commissioners, 0 whom he as signed his reasons for severing his con- nection with the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney. A RETENTIVE MEMORY. Mr. Potter and the Chicago, Butling: ton & Quincy had been inseparably as- soviated together foryears, and to speak of one was toinclude the other. He was familiar with every station on the main line and ¢ould call by name every agent employed at these vided they had been empld siderable period. With the engine conduetors and subordinate officials h(‘ always maintained the most friendly re- lations, and never failed to call them by their first names when they were cas- ually met on the rond. Familiar he never tolerated, but his keen preception and rare judgment of men enabled him to readily distinguish between manly independence and impertinence. He admired the former and despised the latter. s -ITANDED JUSTICE, No employe ever appenled to him in vain for the correction of a just griev- ance. An incident will illustrate: A conductor who had been discharged by the division superintendent at Ot- tumwa for no other reason than the wish of the superintendent to oive the run to ason-in-law. Robert Patten, the ag- grieved conductor, conscious of having given no occasion for dismissal, re- quested the superintendent to give him a pass to Chicago and return. **What is your mission to. Chicago?” queried the nervous superi “Tam going to lay case before Tom Potter, who, T know, will accol me the justice denied me here,” replied the conductor. . “You'll get no pass from this office,” was the decisive response. Mr. Patten, nothing daunted, paid for a dispatch andfeeached Mr. Potter, from whom there came a few minuts an imperative order to the supe ent to issue the desired pass were issued, and two days afte conductor returned from Chi companied by Mr. Potter. He inves! gated the case thoroughly, and after ascertaining the facts refused to be sat- isfied with reinstating the man. He did mueh - better, and appointed him night trainmaster, with headquartersin the spperintendent’s offic REWARDED HIS ENDS. The high respect and kind regard in which he was held by the men would have enabled him to have trans- ferred many of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney employes to the Union Pacific, had he merely announced that he wanted them to come. Conductor Hill, now running on the Kansas Pacifie, be- tween Denver and Kunsas City, was dis- charged from the “'Q" last June, on ac- count'of anaccident, for which he was only technically responsible. He was given employment under Mr. Potte and is one of the most honorable and competent_conductors in_ the service of the Union Pacific, as he was also on the icago, Burlington & Quinoy. OMMAN MEN. IV During a rm al period of the great strike of 1877, in which employes of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy were in- volved, an incident occurred at Burling- ton which strikingly 1llustrates his wondrous control of men. That tre- mendous contest far supremacy was not conducted in the quiet and orderly way that has marked the struggle now in progress between the sume road and its men. Fully. a thousand angry men had gathered at the old depot_near the river front, and their turbulent conduct gave rise to_a . just fear that a single overt act would ignite aflame that boded disaster to the exten- sive property of the company located at Burlington. Foresecing the approach- ing storm, Mr. C. E. Perkins assayed to reason with the crowd, but he was treated with contempt and hooted down. At this juncture, when the men were becoming turbulent and were on the eve of violénce, a_determined looking man was seen pushlug his way through the erowd. s Tom Potter. He was recogn d o though moved by a common impulse the men fell back and opened a way for him. ping upon a baggage truck, he took a sweeping sur- vey of his grim audience, as though t: ing a mental inventory of its composi- tion. The angr i silence reigned. Turning to a number of bronzed firemen and time-scarred en- gineers, he addressed himself to them: ““Has any one o s appealed to me for a courtesy, or requested the righting of a wrong that has not been granted or rectified if you deserved it said he “Do you believe that the de- struction of property will provide you a remedy for the evils you make com- plaint about. I want to meet you' like men and I will assure you we can reach a satisfactory solution of the trouble by an appeal to reason than a resort to vio- lence.” At this, a stalwart, red-headed engineer uulnul Tom Hawksworth. who, 1 his great leader, has crossed life’s division and been consigned to the “windowless palace of death,”strode up to the trucl 1 ped Mr. Potter by the hand, gave it an air brake squeeze, and fairly yelled: *You bet your life, Tom we will follow your lead. Boys, three cheers for Tom Potte and from a thousand throats a fierce yell of de- light went up. _In fiftcen minutes they had assigned 100 men to guard and pr property of the company, an ex- ample that was followed along the en- tire line the n d Buenos Ayres, in the Argentine Re- public, is now the largest city in South jea, the census of 1887 giving it o population of 434,000. The population of the entire country has increased 175 per cent in the last twenty years, while that of the United States in the same )d of time has increased only 79 per e A new musical instrument, the Clavi harp, the invention of M. Diez, of Brus- sels, has pussed o successful private trial, It has a keybourd like a piano, but the mechanism’ plucks the strings like n harp instead of striking them. Any pianist can play it. SPECIAL NOTICES. I( 108 such as Lost, Found, . 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