Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 11, 1889, Page 5

THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER | Death of a Well Known Omaha Commercial Man. A BOOT AND SHOE MAN TALKS Grocerymens' To Camp Out-The K. K. }d Cloud's Conti Grip Samples. Boared Travelers — Meeting Twelve gent Obit Lieberman ry. y covered the Blk ity for M. F th & Co., died at in Fremont, Wednesday night, of congest the kidt A. C. Smuth, one rs of the deceased, who attendod the funoral, says that Mr, Liecber man drove sountry last week and that the exposur i his last illness, but that, as he had had similar attacks once or twice before, no dangor was until within n fow hours of his death, deceascd had been in the employ of this i since the first of the year and prior to v time had covered the same territory Henry Fuhrman, of Fremont, eight or "n years, He was well liked and bis death w be a great There are left a wife and a boy about two years old, who have a com- fortable home ind a good fund of life insur ance. One of his comrades pays the follow ing tribute “Tho regiment of travelers representinie the various wholesale houses of Nebraska is composed of as fine and intelligent a class of men as can be found engaged in any other H C horn coi his residenc: 38 the brought wvocation in any state in the union, With very faw exceptions thoy are honorable gen. tlemen, courteous, obliging, generous and enterpr honor to their cmployes and the state. And among them all 1 venturs the asscrtion that none of them was more popular throughout the territory he covs than Hugo Licherman, who died at his ho in this city on Tuesday evening last. Kuou ing him intimately for several years, I fully appreciate his sterling qualitios of head and heart, and with the rest of the boys will miss his pleasant smile and hearty greeting, 1 feel that all the fraternity ill join me in extending genuine sympathy to the afilicted wife and the bright little son Rex. who was 1 the king of his papa's heart Mr. Leiberman’s death was brought about in the dischurge of his duties as for M. E. Smith & Co., of Omatin. On Sat urday he made a fifty mile trip by team in the cold, came home chilled throuzh and through, and not being very robust in con stitution, could not withstand the shock, and in spite of the beat of medical attention’ and the care of the bestof wives and fricnds, was oblized to obey the summons of the Great Master and start out on the unknown road on his last trip. Peace be with him.” Scared Traveler Oneof the tourists furnishes the fo January 80, about 11:30 p. m., ¥ spondent was just folding up his griy having fought a successful v customer (sold a car) when the front door of the Tremont hotel opencd and a larg man cnterea, earrying a large Colt's revol- ver cocked and liable to go off. He was fol Towed by eleven more armed with fircarms, any one of which would down a man at 500 yards. Thesemen all coming in the small oftice made quite a rustle, and the clerk bewan looking over the ook to find places for the company to sleep, but they were not sleepy. On the contrary, they had “blood in their'eyes’ and “wool in thowr teeth.”” They were looking for mon who had been cou- verting cattle, horses and live stock that run on the resc , into money without the consent of the said partics with “blood in thoir eyes.’ inquired of the cler “if a counle of the much wanted parties we there.”” He stoutly denicd that they wer jthere, aud at this the captain aud his eleven went'out. About sixty men had the house surrounded, also the barber shop- adjoining. 1t proved that one of the men wanted was in the barber shop. He was arined to the toeth, but when the captain and his guards openc the door and there were twelve large hole resented to him, with trigger attachments, his_arms _went down. Ilc did not shoot, neither did the others. This was a graud victory. Enough glory for one night. The, toos the capuured man and J. M. Moffat wagon, and the entire number of seventy five mounted and rode away. This was3 o'clock in the morning. In the morning you could seo two or three men wandering up and down the street, cach with two large Colts revolvers strapped in a very conveni- ent place, and were sudly humming the old song of “Dearcst brother thou hast left’ us.” As to your humble servant and others present, I presume that words cannot express our feclings. Having once got outside of the guard around the house aud barber shop, most of you would have some curiosity to see what was going on. One of our purty got rather close o0 the line, and the man with a long barrelled squirel riffe stuck the end up under the in- truder’s vest, and remarked. “if you have no business pass on,” and he passed, and several others, myself inciuded, followed suit. ranke Ayres, traveler for J. L Case's plow works, was stopping at the Springview house. He refused to get up until the porter accepted 10 conts and went all over tow: and returned and assured Frank that the string ban had left town The Richardson Drug_company since dis- continuing business in St. Louis and adding soverul of the best travelers of that bouse to the Omaha foree, have been overrun with orders, being literally smotherad with them The business of the louse is nearly double what it was last year at vhis time. “Parson” Kluy is holding along the Elldiorn line, heading for the Black Hills. Klug is o new man but is coming to the front like an old timer. W. C. Pomt leadquarters coln, is gathe: nice ordors i the B3. & M., and *Pomnf " is smiling. H. S, Weller heads the liston sales, Harry doesn't ot any moss grow on Lis to particularly Kausas, 1d G, Rust, the tenderfoot of the house, was at Alliance last week fopming the sequaint- ance of Kilpatrick's “hobos,” kd is bound to “I3oe-be-Low’ all competitors on price and his order book gots “*Fuller” every az Tom" Wiley rested from his labors among the prolibitionists over in Towa long cnough to run in and sce stock on ‘cherry tonie’ and to find out if anybody got soriously hurt by the sudden collapse of the new city hall on Jefferson square last Tuesday. F. . Groshell is rusticating among the mountains in Montana, and if he doesn't see muny flowers in bloom, he succeeds in send- ing i somo daisy orders that puts everybody house i the hole,’ rattling even and snowing ‘*Mendel” under bher, who held down New Mexico, for the St. Louis house during the past few years, says that when he asks o man to ship from Omahas he is met with this: *“The Richardson Drug company is all right, but where the d— is Omaha(" But, nevertheloss, he is sendine orders from dow there. It wou't be loug till they will all know where Omaba is. M. W. Ryerson, for a long time on Union Pacific territory, has been succeeded by 13d. G. Rust, late munage orthweste Druggist agency. .y is in charg of the travelors’ department and corvespoud- ence of the fim. at Lin The K. K. Twelve. Two woeks ago you noticed the movements of one-third of the above for and if you bave room in your columus we will try and introduce four more. Foremost in point of years and varied ex- pericnce is “Cap” E. W. Holly, who hus represented the K. K. company sice its or- ganization two yelirs ago. In:the early days Mr, Holly represented St Joseph when the country had but few railroads, and he has many interesting tales to tell of those times, 1n those days he was one of the leading sales- men in this section of country, and an old Omaba traveling man informed the writer that when he was the only dry goods wman ROINE OUt from our vity the “'captain” wae the only competitor he scknowledged or feared. After leaving St. Joseph he went bought a vessel and assumed com- Hecoming tired of the monotony, er, he drirted west again, and realiz- ing that St Joseph must very soon take & back seat as u jobbing center, he cast his lot with the future great, and’ throwing into the business !l his old-tume energy, rapidly gained the frout and to day is again near the bead of the profession, His terri- ory cxdenls from Ashland through the southoon part of the state. On the other sude of the Big Muddy the house epro- sonted by(i. Marty. Marty's good natured face is known to many and wel by sl Coming to this country when a boy, the fam ily settiod in Okio, and during the war, filled with devotion for his adopted country, be shouldered his musket and mar to the front. On traveling men's day Marty was an attractive fizure with his smiling counte nance entering into the whole thing with en thusiasm, and marching to the music of the band like a drum major. While spending most of his time in Towa, e is not a beliover in prohibition, but thinks high license a much botter solution of the question. Ho really enjoys the frosdom with which he can visit Bd Maurer's wlen the thermometor s up in the nineties ana quench his thirst or refresh himself with either a glassof mineral water or an cinstein. His trade staris in at Couneil Bluffs and reuches east haif through the statc John J. Fleming isone of the heavyweights. He formerly represented MeCord, Brady & Co., but a year or so ago took a fancy to the dry goods business and started out ‘with his grip. o makes his home at Freront, and no man is better known from Omaha to Buffalo Gap, Dakota, than John, Hail fel- low with everyone, while not a dry goods mau, he is building up a large traac and quickly getting to the front J. O Glason, or Jack, as_he is known, spends most of his time in Utah, Tdalio ‘sud Wyoming. Damo Rumor suys that the Mormons havo taken a great fancy to Jack, and it would not be surprising to sec him a pillar of the church ere long. Until within a year Jack sat on the high stool and drove a quill as entey clerk for the firm, but being ambitious to’ become acquainted with the followers of “Nephi.'' or to become distinguished as a disciple of the first travel ing man, whose history was so fully touched upon at the meeting of the knights of tne grip in the board of trade rooms, he started out a year ago and to-day has a large con- nection. The boys say Jack is a jolly good feliow, which nobody can deny The aforesaid_quartette are all brothers, a credit to their house and our city., Next week we closo out the remnant of the twelve, and after the introductions lope to give you occasionally some spicy news, familiarly A Boot and Shoe Man Talks, “I have been traveling on the Union Pa- cific roud uine years for this house, and I never suw - scason just exactly like this,’ said an O boot and shoe man. *“I'lie weather has excepticnally fine, and there has been scarcely any severe cold to speat of when you consider what real winter is made up of, and the merchants throughout the state, if proper deduction be made for tho open climate, laye been driving an s tionally good ‘trade. There is, and has been for a number of vears, a move 'nt of eastern travelers to wostern houses, that [ think is of much significauce s pointing to the building ~ up of western jobbing. Reasons for this are many and apparent 1o almost any man who will wive casual attea: tion to the subject. The resentative of an eastern house in this section of the coun- tey has to stay away from home a whole son without. heing to consuit his m in the various exizencies of business such asahe euts in prices, freight rates, credits, and the long distance is a scrious hindrance to the shipments of a size suited o western stocks, while a west 1 can reach headquartérs generally by a night train, or by losing a day at the most, the distance enables him to place smallstocks in short time. Again, western houses able to sell goods on sixty cr more d time because they have the debtor con under their eyes and can_secure the at short notice. And it is a fact that most river houses are four month houses, whilo eastern dealers stop at sixty days. “Yes, wedo sell a superior quality of boots and shoes in this part of the country. Now, in the south, the demand for cheap Zoods ob- tains; that possibly might be accounted for in a measure by virtue of a milder climate, However, one fact is patent, and that is that the zoods for the western trade cannot well be of poor canstruction and material. The factories at IBoston, Beverly, New York, Cincinnati, Baltimore and Washmgz- ton Courthicuse, Ohio, deal direct with re- tailers, but our river housss are able to moct them and distribute goods more economi- cally. There is no questioning the increasing importance of the river jobbing industry. Its travelers are able to botter salaries and to this territory than _the tern trav- clor can obtain. Wiy, here is another important element of the success that | kad almost overlooked. An castern man makes Lis season and goes home, while we, on & count of our proximity to our customers, arn able to goover onr route botween seasons and “sort up,” that is, fill out lines that have had a run, aud we scll about as many goods in that way as we disposc of during scasons. “1 have talked lengthily on my own line, but may say that pretty much the same Jing of argument couid be applied to all other lines. Iknow that the western jobber is maling great strides after the trade’ of the country naturally his, and as a final state- ment in proof, when 1 first commenced run- ning out of this town 1 had not to excecd one hundre contemporar but to-duy I bave over six hundred,” ha been To Camp Out. The discussion of the 8 at L, rangements for the midsmmmer ingz av Cushman park. led to the appointment of an executive committee composed of the following gentlemen: F. A. Falkenbury chuirman: John M. Cotton, secratary ; Joha B. Utt, treasurer; I M. Simmons, 'S, S, Leland and L. W A general committee to co ope the executive committee in | ments i3 constituted of representatives from various cities s follows. Ashtand, W. B Laine; Ialls City, F. L. Sandusky; Columbus, C. H.”' Jackson; St. Jos- cph, Nat' Miller; Chicago, Charles N. Hendman and Fred A, Wilson; Council Bluffs, 13. E. Hayworth; Atchison, W. Wol- cott; Sioux City, Lyman Page; Kansus City, Phil Jacobs; Des Momes, Dr. M St Louis, H. I Hubbard; Denve 73, Stringfollow, Milwaulee, J. . Litt: . Lin- coln, L. W. 'Garroutte; Omaha, C. O. Lo- beek; Frewont, Joe May; Norfolk, Ben Higdon; Hastings, 1. 1. Cherry; Kearnoy, Mr. Metealf; Holdrege, Isaac Hill; MeCoo Harry Waterman; Red Cloud, W. M. Doug lusa; Beatrice, A. J. C ; Nebras Henry S¢ u P, Hicks} York, W. M. Wiedner; Seward, Jeff Ogg. Anotlicr meeting will be held ou Maret which will push on the worl, Traveling Grocerymen, Attention ! The traveling arocery salesmen will hold a social session in Lincolu, Sat Febra- ary 23, 1850, You willall bring your sam ples of eastern half peaclics and 1587 Turkish prunes for lunch. Water will bo furnished from Seward or some other t s0 do not suffer any from dread of the city water, You will got the pussword by applying at the ofiice of Hargreaves Bros. at any tin after Lp. m. Any member of the U. not present and failing to furnish excuse will not be allowed to 1 a sall for two weeks, By order of exec committee, oIn on ar: camp-ineet About Town. Owsha Hardware Company: C. O. Lo beck has re ed froma trip on the Ci cago, St. Paul, Miuneapolis & Omaha rail- way. He was looking over the country for his house, and during his four or five days abscnce met Messrs, orge Davis, of Rector, Wilhelmy & Co. ; Jake Millay, of the Lee-Clark-Anderson company; Mehegan, of Hibbard & Svencer, Chicago, and Hunter, of the Kmkie Hardware company, Council Bluffs, 1t is the opinion of Mr. Lopeck and of the other geutlemen mentioued, that the hardware trade is in a fair way. C. 5, Brown, with headquarters at Ogden, is fixing his samplos for the Mormons. Sunday’ Visitors. Atthe Murray: C. H. Smith, Chicago; C. H. Petick, St. Paul; C. W. Lyford, New York; . C. Achlerman, New York: J. W. Ebert, Kansas City: 8. I, Clark, Cincinzati; C. R. Hoftwan, Chicago; W, A, Kerr, Cleve. land; J. K. Pollock, Lincoln; H. 8. Leici- hardt, Ohicago; J. Secluff, Denver; J. it Greer,, Minucupous. At the Paxton: J. M. Welsh, Chicago; B. B. Nagle, Erie, Pa.; E. C. Nicholson, Minne- apolis; F. O, Whitfit, Chicago: E. S.Travis, New York; W. C. Richmond, Chicago. At the Millard: O. W. Norcross, Mass. H. A. Brown, Kausas City; O. K. Hrown, Indianapolis; John W. Brooks, Chicago; George Le Blanche, New York; Charles (Gleason, seston ; James E. Bourke, Chicago; THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY F. W. Jones, St. Louls; Paul; A, M. Lymaua, Lemmon, New York. W. B. Loomis, St Milwaukeo; W, S. Ted Cloud's Contingont. The following boys make their headquar- ters at Red Cloud: Asa Hollebaugh, with Turner, Frazer Mercantile company, St Joe; Clarance Price, with Paxton & Gal iaghor, Omaba; P. W, Shea, with Steele & Walker, St. Joe: J. K. Brown, with Blake, Bruce & Co., Omaha; Billy Duglass, with the C. D. Smith Drug company, St. Joe; William Athon, with Tootle, Hosea & Co., St. Joo; C. N. Smith, with the Western Tank Line company, Omaha: Ed. Allen, with Brit tian, Richardson & Co., St. Joe I Ulster Hones, with the Crown Biacking company. Chicago. Samples. Georpe Root, the popular from Lincoln, spent last Sunday Clood C, . Brown, with made a regular trip la lican valley Ed McCracken, the pop A. D. Morse & Co., was wor lican Valley last week. Reddy Mclntive, the furniture man Burlington, la., is baving a fine trade, cold day when “Reddy” gots left Jim Pershing, with Kuh, Fisher, Chicago, has finished trip on the west ead of the 13 all right Johunie Beall, the old_war house who rep resents M. C. Smith & Co., is having a nice trade, Johnnie says that it is not too hot to sell goods now. Ed Ianna, the young man_that carrics a grocery wrip for Plumer, Perry & Co., Lin coln, was 100! after’ his customers be tween 1Red Cloud and Lincoln last weck. Ed Drew and Clarence Price, the noisiest geocerymen i western Nebraska, were working their trade west of Red Cloud last week. It would take threa big oncs to beat this pair. The rotund and genial prinee brokers, J. 1<, Armsby, of Chic tertain Thursday afternoon a number of his friends in the trade here,at the Omaha club rooms. An elegant luncheon flanked by the twins, “Pom" anda “Clig,”’ was served and with the best wishes of the compa Mr. Armsby took the Overland lyer for the Pacific coast. The establishment of club rooms including a restaurant similar to those at Denver has agitated the enterprising bosoms of Omahu travelers more or less for a year past. The benerit of such a place of rest and refresh- ment for travelers and their customers are apparent 1 Mr. Otto Lobeek, with the Omaha Hardware compa will be pleased to hear from anyone interested in the project. A drummer 3 that two of his intimate friends, William Barnes, of pevper whisky and race course fame, and Isaac Liebold, car ying Mendria e using the telegraph and a mutual frier St. Joseph to establish their ages, and that, having made a joint stock company of thew stomachs and sam- ples, there is dangor of a personal application of the dispatches. Neither of the gentiemen are spring chickens, according to our inform- ant, hide buyer at Red Bruce & Co. Repub Blake, week in th r salesman for ing the Repub from IUsa Nat! a sic & M an & cssful Jim's of grocery 0, Was en by C Cure of Pneumonia. William A. Sawyer, Hess Road, Niagara Co., N. Y. says “About a year ago T was taken with a severc pain in both lungs. I was first at- tacked with a violent chill, then a dreadful pain and then a cough accompanied by con- siderable fover. It looked very much like a bad attack of pncumonia. A friend of mine procured five ALLCOCK's PLASTERS. One he put under each arm, one under each shoul- der blade, and one on my chest close around my throat. In a few hours the cough ceased, the pain gradually abated and 1 broke out in a profuse perspiration. 1 fell into a pro- found sleep aud the next day was alwost well. I wore the Plasters cight days aft wards, and have never had any trouble since.” South Omaha Notes. Mrs. William Trouson is very ill. Little Kate Rowley is sici with bronchitis, David Auderson has returncd from Colum- bus, F. Graham will leav land, Ore, The board of directors of the Emanon club will meet Tuesda Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Evans left Saturday for Lucas, L., where they will reside. The first regular shoot of the South Omaba Gun clup will be held Sunday, April 7. A social dance was given by Mr. and Mers. James Pivonka at the Natioual hall Sunday evening. Mrs. Thomas Rock Sunday turned from Denison, Ia., visiting friends. Walt Phalanwill bave a hearing before Judee Renther this morning oa the charge of assaulting I’atrick Gaunon, Saturday Bruen & Carpenter furnished thirteen miore horses under contract with the government, making in all 143 horses under this one contract. Henry Miller accuses Richard Crowloy of Qisturbing the peace, and Mr. Crowley will answer before Judge Leuther's bar at § o'clock this movning. At the practice gun club shoot Sunda, forenoon, twenty-five blucrocks, Simon Renier got 10 out of 25, Hermann Kobert Nicholl Kemer 19 and 3. Blum 19, Owing to the supper to Le given Friday ovening by the King's Daughters, the Pros byteriun social, appointed to be held at_ the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Max- well, hus been postpoaed, The King's Daughters will give a_ supper Friday eyening. Supper will ve served from 5 t0 9 o'clock, and then another supper will pared for those attending the Emonon phantom party, to be served at 11 o'clock Allof the provisions will be donated, and the proceeds will be uscd for the beelit of the poor At the mecting 616, Knights of 1 noon, it was devide in conjunction with Union of Carpenters und Joiners and - Messrs, Al fred Anderson, Bdward Eister and R, C. Hilliker were ‘appointed a committee from the assembly to Luve charge of the saue. Tuesday for Port evening re- whoere she was of Local Assembly, No. or teld Sunday after- 10 hold a public mecting 112, Brotherhood - atareh cured, health and breuth sceured by Shiloh’s Remedy, Price 50 cents. jector free. For sale by Drug Co. sweet, Catarrh Nasal In- Goodmun ———e Cabin et Outlook. INpiANAPOLIS, Feb, 10.—General Harrison went to church this morning and spent the rest of the day with his family, Tho recent visit of Seaator-clect MeMillan, of Michigan, is now said to lave been for the purpose of urging the selection of Senator Palmer as the head of the department of agriculture, and that he went away satisfied that Michi- ganwould get the place. His visit, how- has given an impetus to the talk of for the war department Major Calkins, ex-congressman Thirtcenth Indiana district, has just re turned from a visit to New York, " He re- gards the situation there as being too decply involved for the gencral to scttle it satisfac torily by cabinet appointments, He says that tire farmers and all church elements sapport Miller, while the party machinery is allied to Platt, and that uo peace is possible between the two factions. - from the Minister Pendleton’s Health, Beroiy, Feb, 10.—The North German Gazette says that @ gratifying change for the petter has lately occurred in the condi- tion of Mr, Pendieton, justifying the hopo that Le will soon personaily assume the direction of affairs at the Americon legation, Mr, Pendieton returned to Berlin on Now Year's day, and the official American over- tures regarding Samoa, which were made at the foreigo ofice on January 7, are attributed to bis intiative, e Beware of worthless imitations of Dr, Jones' Red Clover Tonic. The genuine cures headache, piles, dyspepsia, ague, malavia, and is 4 perfect tonic and blood puritier. Price 80 cents. Goodwan Drug Co. TALKING UNDER TAE OCEAN. How the Bee's Cablegram's Qet Across the Atlantic, SOME VERY REMARKABLE FEATS, From London to New York in Five Minutes—A Physician's Trans. marine Consultation—~Mend- ing a Broken Cable. Deep-Sea Couversation. Thero is down in Broad strect a whis- pering gallery where the secrets of the world are repeated in forty different languages, says the New York ,or gpondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Here you may ask a question of London and get an unswer in five minutes, In two hours you may henr from the utter- most parts of the earth. Turope, Asia and Africa are within call: Central and South Americ re almost within h ing: Australia is not far aws the central office of the Western Union Telegraph compauny. It is tentious place, but it boldly professes to hold communication with any civilized part of the globe, Men that have passed their lives in any business that makes electricity its servant get to have an odd enthusiasm for the mysterious foree and a supersti- tious faith in its possibilities. They see miracles performed every aay, and yet never quite cease to wonder at them or to look for more marvelous thi N Wall street growls now if it does not re- ceive an answer from London in ten minutes, Young men remember when communication with London was an all day affair. Editor Stead of the Pall Mall Gazette in London, once held a two hours' consultation with a_corre- pondent at Victoria, British Columbia, and more recently a London physician consulted for three hours with a practi- tioner at Vietoria when a nobleman’s son lay gricvously ill in that far northwestern city. Telegraphists have ceased to wonder at these feats. It is only communicating by several vepeti- tions through 2,600 mises of submarine cable and 4,000 or 5000 miles of land lines. A small matter, they say. It is an every day affuir to hear San Prancisco calling Halifax, and London calling Bombay throu 7,000 MILES land lines and cable. admit that the human relay system is neat thing. It is worked on ‘the Indo- Luropean company’s line from Pen- zauce on the west coast of England to Gibraltar on the Mediterrancan sea to Malta, thence 1 sl and land lines to Aden, at the southern extremity of the Ked seq, thence by cable under the Indinu ocean to Bombay. IHere is the wiy 1t is done: The message start at Penzance, and as soon as the operator at Gibraltar gets the first letter he tel- egraphs it to Malta. Malta sends it on to Iiden and Iiden signals it to Bom If Gibraltar misses aletter and receives one that makes mere nonsense, he doe not break the circuit to make a correc tion, but cables the mistake to Malt: Malta disregards Gibraltar’s error and any of his own that may oceur, and ‘Aden unquestioningly sends to Bombay whatever comes over the cable. 1B, the time the message reaches Boml it contains perhaps three or four erroi but already the work of corrcction has hegun: for as soon as Bombay receives the first letter from Aden he sends it back by another operator’ to another operator. Operator No. 2 sends it on to No. 27at Malta, and so it goes till it gels back to Penzance. There the errors arve detected and corrections ave sent flying over the original course. Tho delay ol writing down the message at cach station has been saved. If the Morse signals could be eabled by sound under the Atlantic it would be possible to telegraph direct from any inland city of this continent to London, and perhaps in time to all parts of the carth. The sound did work feebly over the cable at the rate of three words a minute when the earliest submarine line was laid between the old world and the new. This wuas too slow and un- certnin. Now cable messages are re- ceived by the flash hight and mirror at an average of ubout twelve words per minute. Invention is constantly directed towards the utilization of sound signals by cable, and telegraph- ists, with the sereno confidence char- acteristic of their trade, have no doubt of final success, When on this has Dheen accomplished New York will haye instantaneous communication with Lon- don, and the precious minutes that make Wall street chafe will no longor be lost. The Morse telegraphic alphabet has practically given commerce ATULIVERSAL TONGU Whatever language ean be expressed in Roman char s cun be cabled by the Morse system from one end of tho world to thé other. The telegraph op- erators at cuble stations do not undor stund oue word in 1,000 that they re- ceiv Messages are sent in almost every civilized language of the globe and in a hundred secret cod ud ci- phers. These strange tougues and signs come flashing in at Canso, at Ry Beach, and at Duxbury, to_be confiden- tiplly retelegraphed to their various inland destinations. The Chinese mer- chants at Shanghai telegrap San Fran- cisco via London, New York and the transcontinental lines of this country Perhaps the messt is in ecipher, or perhaps in some strange Oviental lun- guage, but whatever it may be it usu- ally reaches its destination in San Francisco and tells a truthful tale to one who understarids, It may be an order to buy and sell property” valued at thousands of dollars: itmay be o stute secret; it m werely an invit to dinner in Shanghal four wecks later, Invitations to dinner, hy the way, are sent by eable, and so are tightly packed LITITLE LOVE LETT Sy s well as every other conceivable form of social messiges. DBut the cables ar y, by far the greater partof thei L with matters of dollars and ceuts, Even the long dis: hes of the new papers aggregate but very small portion of the business compared with the vast volume of commercial m sages. The difference of time between New Yor nd London is five hours, When the London exchanges open at 11 a.m, itis6 a. m. here, und when the London exchanges closs at 4 p. m. it is 11 a. m, here. Thus the cables are busy with commercial messages one way or the other from early morning till after the exchanges heve are closed. Later begins the mass of morning nows- paper business, and this is kept up until 1 or 2 4. m., our time. After that hour the cables sometimes have a short rest, And oddly enough this is re- garded by electricians as almost a ne- cessity for the satisfactory working of the cables. The mewl needs an “‘electrical rest,” is the explanation. After hoursof use the cable becomes saturaied with elec- tricity, and it must have rest to dis- charge itself if itis to be in good con- dition. The molecular condition of the cable is changed with each counter cur- rent, and rest from this constant molec- ular movement is needed. Even wheun an unpre- Telegraphists FEBRUARY 11! 1889, the cables are not in use, however, they are not entirely free from eloctrical action. The aperator waiting for the “eall” from Kurope sces strango flashes in his mirror and knows that the carth currents of the two continents are seek- ing to establish an equilibrium, Back and forth from Europe to America, from America to Europe, in THE SMALLEST FRACTION OF A SECOND, rushes the invisible fluid throngh its 2,600-mile wire. This wild play is kept up until something like equilibrium is established and the agitation for a time is stilled or shows itsclf only in faint tremblings, Sometimes the play of carth currents is a serious interruptign to the business of the cable. Indeed, the deep sew wires are subject to dis- turbances very like those that delay business on land lines, Nobody knows just what is going on at the Atlantic's bottom, but auroral storms and like electrical displays at the surface ave sriously felt in” the course of cabling. Now and then some great disturbance, a submarine earthquake perhaps, breuks cable f: and business on that line comes o o standstill, Perhaps the cable has become suspended between two mountains the bottom of the ocean and has broken of «ts own weight or worn through by attrition upon deep sunken rocks. In’ the southern seas a submarine insect bores through armor, insulator and core, rendering the cable useless, When any one of these things occurs, a_cable repaiv ship is hurried out to pick up and splice the broken ope. ( .lrmm Samuel Trott is the greatest of cable fishermen, 1t is an elusive cable end that escapes his grap- pling. Somo strange things have hap- pened in the course of Captun Trott's labors. Time and again he has picked up a eable end and telegraphed from mid-occan the movements of ves- sels. On one oceasion while two cable vepair boats wore working far at sea one received telegraphic orders for the other and signaled them with good ef- feet. Down at the Direct ¢ com- pany’s ofifee, at 40 Broadway, Superin- tendent James Brown exhibits a photo- graph of a cable end broken by A SURMARINE EARTHQUAKE, It looks like the stump of a long-used weale-hone carr! » whip. Oncof Cap- tain Trott’$ catehes was a bit of cordage from a ship sunk twenty years before- The rope was as sound as when it was ficst spun. This sct the captain to thinking, and it is probable that as a result of his discovery woven hem p will be the outer covering of future subma- rvine cables. Al other material thu far tried soon yield to the chemical ac- tion of the waters. Captain Trott's great performance was tishing up the ends of the brpken French cable from Brest to St. Picrre ata depth of 2,000 fathoms or about two .nul one-fourth miles, This was done in July of last year. The broken cable was promptly Spiiced and dropped to its bed at the bot- tom of the Atlautic. If all the cables between North Amer- icn and Burope were broken telegraphic communication between the new world and the old would not ®e interrupted. There are two cabuwes between Lisbon, Portugal and Pernambuco, Brazil, and there are cables from Galveston to Vera Cruz, and thence to points in Cent America and via the isthmus to the western eonst of South Ameri Com- munication with Rio Janeciro some- times obtained by way of Central and South America to Valparaiso in Chili and thence across the Andes by land lines to Rio,and at others by way of the Atlantic cables to Penzance, Lingland, thence to Lisbon. thence back under the Atlantic to Pernambuco and thence by land lines and short eables to Rio. Mr. W. J. Dealy, cable manager and manager of the general operating de- partment of the Western Union, esti- mates the world’s cable lines AT 75,000 MILES in length. Of this mileage third is included in the various tic cables and their anchors. The Meditervancan is spider-webbed with cables, and o ave tho narrow seas that lie about the British Isles. There are 6,500 miles of ¢ connceting British India with Australin and the tropi islands of the Indian occan. The West- ern and Brazilian Cable company has nearly 4,000 miles of cable conneeting various points on the eastern coast of South Amerviea, The Central and South American Telograph company has webbed the Caribean and the waters off the west coast of South Amer- ica with more than 3,000 miles of cable. Mr. Dealy regards the report of Troquois’ victory at the Derby of 1883 as the most remarkable feat of rapid cab- ling yet accomplished by the Atlantic cablé, In five soconds after Iroquois pussed the winning post his vietory was announced in the oflice of the New York Lvening Telegram, The news telegraphed from Lpson to London, was there probably transferred to the dirvect cable and after another verbal transfer at this end of the line was delivered in this city. The one word, “Iroguois,” was all that came. “That was very good time,” suid Mr. Dealy, “but ] think we could do it now in two and a half sceonds. T think we could communicate with Aus- tralia in five minutes,” Jlectricians find the idea of telephon- ing by cable a most fascinating one, and with = characteristic optimism they » the hope that one day New York exchange bul messages with Experiments to this end have made with what is known as an 1 cable,” thatis, a short land line 50 contrived as to reproduce the supposed obstacles to submarine cab- ling. An “artificial eable” supposed to be equivalent to 2,500 miles of subma- rine wire cd through a tele- phone the signals of a telographi sounder, but when the experiment was tried through 1,000 miles of actual sub- marine cable, not a *‘tick” was heard. Competent elcetricians believe that in even this instance the real difticultics of telephoning through 2,400 miles of actual submarine cabie were not repro- duced in the “actificial cavle” through which the expernacnt was teied. Since the disappointment of the experimenter almostd nothing hag been done toward solving the probiem of submarine tele- phoni We have advertised a great mu different patent medicines, but have tuken the pa to editorially *one. We are going to do it now for the first time. Chamberlain & Co., Des Moines, Towa, manulacture a cough sdy woich 18 absolutely the best thing we have ever scen, We have used it in our family for the past yea and consider it indispensible. Its ef- focts are almost instantaneous, and there is no use talking. it is a dead shot on a cough or cold, We don't say this for pay, but because we consider Cham- berlain’s Cough Remedy the best mad and we want the people to know it and use it.—Lewis lowa Independent, A Masterly Retreat. New York World: 3 y, this is an old revolutionary house, isi't it? ner—Yes, sir, —[ thought so, for [ was driven out of bed last night by red-coats. R An Absolure Cure. The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OIN TMENT is only put up in large two ounce tin boxes, and is an absalute cure for old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands, and all skin erup: tions, Will positively care all kinds of piles, Ask for the SRIGINAL ABIETINE OINT: MENT, Soid by Govdman Drug Co., a cents per box-—by wall 30 cents about on: Atlan- MORE RAPID TRANSIT S00 The Oonsolidation of Street Rail- ways Means Something. HORSE AND CABLE TO UNITE Extensions to Be Made in Kvery Di- rection as Soon as Possible and the Best System Pore fected. Consolidating Strect Car Lines. Tt is now definitely settlod that the cablo and horse railway companios will consoli date, Inorder thatthe corporations could become one, a bill empowering street rail ways to consolidate, was introduced in the legislature and was passod Friday Oficers of the respective companies eon ferred with ofticials of eastern ways, and it was finally determined that it would be advantageous o the local corpora tions to securc specific legislation on consol dation o that they co the castern markets was introduced and passe lature, and is now awaiting signatire. At present all stock of cither corporation is held by Omaha men is now proposed by the consolidation the street railway men say they can issue a gilt edgo bond The motor company made a fig the passage of the bill in the house, for it thonght that the combination of tho cable and horse vailways might interfere with the extension of the motor lines. Over threcquartors of a million dollars will be expended at once for extensions of the consolidated system One of the ofticers of the cable company, who is much intcrested in the consolidution, in speaking of the results which would be sc cured for Omaha through tho passage of the bill, said to a reporter for Tue Bk last rdingly the bill by the legis the goveruor's t against “The cabloe and horse since the bill was mtroduced in - the legisla ture, come to u definite agreement in rogard to consolidating. As yet i am not at liberty to make public the ‘details of what that recinent is, but it is suficient to say that by it the two companies wili be mergod into another corporation which will be directed and managed by the parties now controlling both railways. The property will be bonded as one corporation, and froni tne sale of the bonds threobuarters of a mwillion dollars will be at once laid aside for immediate cxtensions in Omaha We proposo to give to this city the bost sys. tew of internal rapid transit that is known in any city of Omaha’s size in the United States. The cable lines will bo extended north, south, east and west. Arrangements will s00n be perfected for quick transit to South Omaba by the cable line. To make these extensions over a million and a half dollars of Omaha capital will be unlocked to into the enterprise, Who are the principal stockholders in the two companics? ““In the cable company the heaviest stock holders are Senator Paddock, S. R. Johnson, W. V. Morse, B. . Smith and Captain Kus- tin. 1n the borse railway company the lead- are Captain Marsh, Prank Murphy, Guy I W. A. Marsh and K. V h. These will be the incorporators of the con solidated company.” “Will the consolidation have any effect on the horse car company reverting its equip- ment back to the citd at the expiration of its ¢ years franchise ‘That was an act of the territorial legislature of 1867. The horse car people have twenty-eight years yet before their plant goes ‘to the city. The consolidated company has no new rights only those given to any company. It will rest under the same public obligations as if they were two sepa- rate companics, or had_never consolidated In order to make it perfectly clear that no right ot the city will be affected, the bill pccitically provides that nothing in' the act shall bo construed so as to affect any - ionary right of any city in street railw Pt i, EASTERN MANUAL TRAINING, A Correspondent’s Visit to the Balti- more School. BALTIMORE, IPeb. 5.—[Special Tur Bek]—From an antiquated but »acious building in the central por- tion of this city, the continual ring of the blacksmith’s anvil and repeated sound of the carpenter’s hammer fall every week-day, upon the ear of who- ever happens to pas It is an old four-story brick building which dis- playsat its entrance a dingy-looking sign bearing the words, “The Balti- more Manual Training School.” This institution is now enjoying the fifth veur of its existence and seems to be pursuing a carcer. Some six years ago, a resolution was adopted by the board of public school commis- sioners calling for the appointment of a committee to investignte the means of retuining seholars longer at school, and of fitting them as quickly as for their self-support. The report of the commitiee ommending the introduction of industrial educa- tion was adopted, and means of carrying out the plan were immedi- ately The obstacles to its ae- complishment in the school law removed, and an oflicer of the engineer corps of the navy was detailed by Presi- dent Arthur under authority of a general statute, to charg of the department of mechunics and steamn engincering. The gchool was opened March 3, 1851, and so was one of the pioncers among the public institutions for industrial education, It 15 claimed that it was the first to be conducted in connection with the pub- lic school system. ‘I'he objeet of the school is stated as the instruction and practice in the use of tools and such in- struction as may be deemed necessary in mathematics, drawing, and the lish branches of & high school course. Though a part of the public school sys- tem, it is an entirely independent in- stitution intended to take the place of the high school to those mechanically inclined. The dead languages are alto- gether discarded and little attention companies have, to successful possible sought. were tal is A float a good bond in | paid to the abstract solonces, Boys who are fourteon yoars of ago and who have passed through the required grade of the common schools, are entitled to ad- mission. Young ladics have no oppor- tunity of learning to bo mochunics. It is & free school, although, of course, non-residents are chavged a nominal fee. By freo is meant froo to boys wha reside in the city, but this denotos in- clude colored children. Distinctio si made between white and blacks with teue southorn spirit, €0 that the colored boy who would porhaps reap the groat est advantage, is given no opportunity to received manual training evon in @ sepurate school At the oponing of the institution sixty students were envolled, so that prosent there ave about three hundred pupils in attendance. The ground floc cotisists of an ordinary assombly ané 1y room, fitted wi nd fur nishing accommodations for about three hundred and fifty students. The next story is divided into theoe rooms, pros viding a laboratory, drawing and recit tion room. In the fivst are work tables, upon whic sots of chomical reg its for analysis and compounding i also apparatus for experiments in natural philosophy. Everything is ar ranged and eonducted so as'to bring out the practical side of overy study. In the dreawing room may be the working models and specimens of froc hand and architectural drawing. Tho other room contained besides the recite ation chairs, several ¢ containing specimens of the work done in thy various departments. Most of thesg samples have the samoe appesrance o similar articles made by professional mechanics. The floor above is used matnly for recitation rooms for instrues tion in the theovetical branches of tha carriculum, The workshops are basciment and form th nter of activ- ity,as well as of interest. Manual - striction is givon in carpentry, wood- turning, pattern-making, chipping and filing forgo work. moulding, soldering and brazing, and the use of machinery. T'he wood- working depurtment fitted with n number of carpenters’ henches and sup- plicd with the necessavy tools. In one part ave the turning lathes besides a Jig and civeular saw and large grinds Stone, all rau by steam. The next room is devoted to metal working. It is sup- rounded by benches equipped with vises and other instruments. All the avail« able tloor space is occupicd by machines for deilling, turning and working the metal. The gearing is connected with anine by twelve inch eylinder stenm engine which furnishes all the power required, This engine was made en- tively by members of the first graduat. ing ¢lass from theiv own drawings and patte Beside itis another similay engine made by last year's eluss, but not at present in use, This is an illus< tration of the practical work to which the instruetion lends. In the adjoining apartment a number of portable for and small anvils are situated for use in training some future blacksmiths, Many of the tools are the result of the students” worlk. The time spent by the scholars is ly divided between manual and wdemic work. But the members of the junior or preparatory department devote but one hour per day to the uso of tools and forty-five minutes to free- hand drawing. The remainder of thei time is spent in the regular work of the corresponding grade in the grammar school. The course extends over throe years, Tustructions is given by class recita- tions, lectures and experimental work. Visits of inspection are often made to manufactories and machine shops in or- der o see the practical working of tho artigan and to become acquainted with work upon a large seale. The school does mot attempt to teach any one a teade, but o basis for many trados. 1t aims to give a foundation for mechani- cal work, so that any one who has gone through its course will be enabled to malke hi successfully in whatever branch of industry, fortuuc ov choice may bear him. Up to this time it has met with success, and is continually at- tracting more and more to its atten- dance who would otherwise ecither im- mediately have ventured into the’ cupation” in the outside world or by giving attentions to other schools, have swollen the number of those engaged in the already over erowded professions. The opening of the institution was fol- lowed by the adoption of similar sys- tems of industrial education in many cities throughout the country. If all attain o similar success and give the same satisfaction, it is reasonable to suppose that manual training will soon be given in conuection with all our public schools. V. R. 1 dosks soon chictly in tha is - The Troubadour's Lnst Kiss. Philadelphia Ledger. Sad was the kiss the peerless countess gave To him, who sick with love, came o'er The princely Troubadour, who on the wave Lay dying then by sunny Tripoli. ling beside i, on his lips’ cold blue sed her’ own, ripe with love's crimson charms; One moment’s cestacy his spirit knew, “Chen his worn frame lay lifel arms, And she within a cony Smitteny with loss cfface, Buried her griel and all life's hopes away, Her only joy that oue sad, foud cmbrace, - in Mex Crry or Muxics, Feb, 10.—Bishop Spald- ing, of Peovi ved here to-day “The first vestibule train from New Orleans arvived here to-day. 1t made the run in sey- enty-three hours, An immense crowd gath- ered at the depot to witness the arrival of the train, Luis Huller, concessionaire of the Lowes Culifornia branch of the International com- pany, is uecused by the stockholders with misappropriating funds, and the wuthorivics have ordered his_arrest, but Le has con- cealed himself. President Diaz is person- ally proceeding in the matter, Great denoues ments are expeeted, in her ant from that day, no bliss could e'cr Affiirs 0. MUSTANG LINIMENT Thus the * Mustang”. conquers pain, Makes MAN or BEAST well again!