Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 7, 1889, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1880~SIXTEEN PAGES. B i —— =TWO ORPHANS e ate— T T T . e e o . —_——== ENTIRE STOCK OF CLOTHING, 'HATS, CAPS AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. TO BE SOLD REGARDLESS OF COST. THE TW ORPHANS will Begin Monday Next to Close Their Entire Stock of Coods. Everyone _Should Investigate This Closing Sale as the Entire Stock MUST BE SOLD. nless the Stock Should be Sold in Bulk, as Other Dealers are Liable to Buy it, We will Selj the Same to the Gonsumers, Regardless of Value TILL OTHER ARRANGEMENTS ARE MADE TO CLOSE THE WHOLE STOCK. RPHANS, Gorner HIDDEN STREAMS OF WATER, One Hundred and Fifteen Miles of Them Course Through Omaha. IMPELLED BY MIGHTY PUMPS. All of Which Have Cost the Ameri can Waterworks Company More Than a Million and a Half of Dollars. Omaha's Water Supply. An interval of nine years would be but an insignificant paragraph in the history of most of the older cities of the country, but in the marveious record of Omaha—the predestined metropolis of the west—it has been a period of such remarkable growth as to amaze even those whose memory can recall its every progressive phase. In no respect has such improvement been made as in the matter of supplying the city with water. In 1880 Omaha’s population of 80,000 souls secured its water supply en- tirely trom wells and cisterns. To-day the supply is furnished by a waterworks plant which, it is said, has but two equals and no superiors on the conti- nent. In fact, it has no equals when the source and character of the water is taken into consideration. The new works of the American Water Works company at Florence have just been put into operation. Work was commenced on the plant in 1887, when' the company bought 100 acres of ground along- the river bank east of Florence and alongside the rail- way tracks, The first work necessary was to protect the site chosen from the encroachments of the river. This was done by sinking stone jetties at various points north of the plant and building o stone dyke 80 feet in height and 15 fect wide along the river bank. For this work 2,600 car loads of stone were used, the entire cost of the protection im- provements exceeding $100,000, The new pump house is a model in its way. The main building is 125x65 feet with & wing 55x120. It is built of cut stone in the Norman style of architec- ture and is perfectly adopted for the purpose for which it is to be used. The machinery rooms are all large and fine- 1y finished, having ample space for an increase of capacity. The bulding is fronted by a handsome square tower which, while enhancing the beauty of the building, also furnishes a splendid obsexvatory and offices for the engincers and officers of the company in charge of the works. It is interesting to trace the water, as did a reporter under the guidance of Munager Hall, of the waterworks com- pany, the other day, from the time 1t is taken from the river until it is deliv- ered at the pipes, ready for use by the consumers, " Exteoding inside and forming a part of the protection wall, already referred to, are two immense inlet cribs, twenty feet square and forty feet deep, into which the river water has free access. Counnected with each crib are two thir- ty-iuch suction pipes, protected at the openings by double screens, through which the water 18 taken by an Allis ump, & monster machine with a capac- ty of 15,000,000 gallons of water per day, and carried to the sottling basins, And here is the handsome feature of the compawry's great plant. The grounds of the company south of the plant rise 4n a gentle slope, and along this eleva- tion aro locuted the settling bLusins, These are five in number of irregular shape, and each about 300 by 400 feep in size and 85 feet deep. The basing are dug out SEihs clay, then floored with six inches of concrete and plastered with Portland cement, making them absolutely im- pervious to the action of water. The walls are of solid masonry with stone coping. The bottom of éach basin is built with depressions, like so muny hills and valleys, each depression being connected with a mud-valve so that it can bo cleaned when necessary. The basins are also so arranged thatany one of them may be empticd and cleaned without interfering with the work of the other four. It is the fifth basin,or the one farthest to the south, that the water 1sdelivered by the Allis low-pres- sure pump already mentioned. The fourth basin is several feet lower than the one which receives the water dircct from the pump. They are connected by o cut in the top of tho stone wall which allows the water to overtlow into basin No. 4. As everyone knows how rapidly a sediment forms in a pail of Missouri river water, it can easily be understoed that the water which would blow over the top of a 85-foot wall into basin No. 4, would be clearer than when delivered into basin No. 6. 'This overflow process is continued until the water is deliv- ored 1nto basin No. 1, situated nearest the pumping house and below all the others, At present ouly two basins are in operation, but the others are beiug completed as rapidly as 700 men can do the work; and, when they are allin operation, the Waterworks company promises to deliver Missouri water to consumers almost clear as spring water, The process of settling the water is simple. It couldn’t do other- wise, under the circumstances, than to overflow the various ba- sins, in other words, run down hill, to basin No. 1, where it is deliv- ered in as nearly pure and clear state as it is possible to get it. But here the work commences. It is necessary to get the supply through six miles of thirty- six-inch pipe to Cuming street, and then up . that long grade to Walnut hill, where are located two reservoirs, each with o capacity of 10,000,000 gallons, from which the city is for the most part supplied. To do this work a monster Gaskell pump, with 800-horse lmwur, is used, each revolution of which sends about six hundred gallons of water pul- sating through the main artery leading to the reservoir. The water from the reservoirs at Walnut hill, owing to the altitude of the latter, furnishes a pres- sure of 100 pounds to the square inch at hydrants in the lower parts of the city, and the supply for the majority of consumers is furnished ~from their reservoirs. Consumers in the more elevated portions of the city are furnished by & high pressure system, formed by pumping directly into the pipes with a pump at the Walnut Hill plant, The reservoirs at the IMlorence plant have a total capacity of about one hun- dred million gallons, and from them the water is conducted through 115 miles of ipe to reach the consumers in the dif- erent portions of the city. The pres- ent pumping capacity of the machinery on hand is 15,000,000 gallons per day, with ample building rooms for increas- ing the machinery supply at any time. The company, at the completion of the work mnow in progress, will have expended ever and a hulf milhon dollars and will have a plant of sufficient capacity qnu}»ply the wants of the city r:cm line for many years to come, The greunds around the company’s works are to be graded and seeded, giving the entire 100 acres the appear- ance of a handsome park with a system of rock-banked lakes extending through iv, The old works of the company, in the bottoms north of the Union Pucific shops, are to be abandoned as soon as the new plant isin successful operation, as the location was not suitable for a proper arrangement of the necessary settling basins. Manager Hall expects to have the new works in full operation by August 1, when the citizens will be invited to inspect the plant. e HONEY FOR THE LADIES, The rubber-finished and cork-soled bath- ing stockings find a large sale this season. Simple white waists made of French n sook, India linen, American surah, or China silk are worn over skirts of various %inds. Both here and in Paris and London the sailor hat is again very popular, and 18 seen eivur_y\vhera and upon almost every occa- sion. Cool and dainty summer toilets in white and green, or white and gold, ure of white crepaline or India veiling, with a garniture of China silk arrangea as a soft, easy Em- pire vest, with drapery in sash form deeply fringea. Many of tho pretty indoor dresses at the summer resorts are made in quaint simplicity. Most of the skirts are full and straigut, the bodice fittting closely, and pointed front und back, and lightly poiuted with lace or point d’esprit net. Some of the picturesque flower-crowned bats in Empire and Directoire styles ars triumphs of French art and taste, Others, on the contrary, particularly those known as the “Tosca” styles, have a Baccoanalian air, and are triumphs of ugliness. The fobrics and costumes for bathing uses this year show as much variety us those for tennis. Somo are as pretty as they have ever been made, which 18 not saying a great deal, bat there are neat and sensible waists und skirts of proper fulness and length, Among some pretty summer dancing toilots recently shown was one of anemone pink, The color was hardly as deep as the faintest tint of the seashell, and but for the volume of the material laid fold over fold, the tulle would handly be visible as pink. In passementeries and embroideries of every device and shade, some veritaple mar- vels have been produced this season. Nothy ing can equal the grace and beauty of the designs, the fineness of the work, und the richuess and elaborateness of the effects. The fiat has gone forth in London's best society that bare arms will appear as much at dressy afternoon fetos as iu the evening. At kettiedrums, lunches, 5-0’clock teas, etc., “‘the hair will be worn powdered, the long gloves drawn off, and tnen fair rounded arms will emerge from laces and draperies, bare to above the elbows, without bracelets, but the fingers glivtering with costly rings. Churming little sscaside hats are in the “Niuiche' shape'the broad rim slanting down in front, from underneath which pro- trudes the pointed or rounded edge of & closely shirred rufiic of point d’esprit lace. ‘These hats are made of fancy scwraw in sll the fashionable shades of moss, olive, straw- berry, tan, etc,, and are decorated outside with large Alsatisn bows of gayly striped ribbou, The pale, shadowy broche patterns pro- duced by the Jacquurd looms are noticeable in many of the beautiful semi-diaphanous textiles imported for midsummer wear. These lovely devices appear on the creamy surfaces of the new delicious crepe-lisse fabrics, and among some ethereal and very poetic-looking garden partytoilets, those wade of these muterials over silk of like tint were particularly admired. En suite were sbirred hats, and parsols edged with primrose lace. India cashmeres are exquisitely fine and beautifully colored this season. The three popular shiades are willow, primrose yellow and pale mauve, and novel use is made of them as linings o tollets of transparent em- broidery on cream net represeuting lace. Skirts made thus are axl-rcmeli' soft and retty, The bodiceis draped in surplice orw with folds of the net, Gowns of this description are degigned for wear atthe soaside, where the cashmere proves a light Vouscl.mn against the strong sea breezes, ‘et the dress bas & most daiuty and delicate effect, while still avoiding danger of & thioly lined transparent gowa. GRIM SENTINELS ARE THEY. | A Night With the Guards at General Grant’s Tomb. THEIR'S IS A LONELY VIRGIL. A New York Reporter Who Remained During One Watch Gives a Graphic Description of the Sombra Scene. Guardians of the Dead. At 1 0’clock in the morning the last light in the village of Edgewater ) the Hudson, has been extinguished. An hour later, save for the street lamps, Harlem 18 in darkne: The last be- lated bicycler in Riverside park has whirled past on his phanton steed and the only sounas that relieve the mono- tony of the vigil at Grant’s tomb are the quarter-hourlo rumbling of an elevated train and the rustling branches of the trees that line the river’s brink. It is the loneliest hour of the watch. The cool sea breeze freshens and the two men in uniform who stand in front of the tomb button their great coats closer abour them and scan the sky for the first signs of dawn. Ordinarily there are but two men on guard at Grant’s tomb, but to-night there are three. The third is the ‘World’s sentinel, on duty for one night only. He came on just now at 10 p. m. with Corne- lhus Hosey and John Fagin, of the Park police, whose *‘tour” will lust un- til 6 o'clock in the morning. George Mott and Jonn Failer, having answered all sorts of questions propounded by all kinds of people since 2 p. m., have gone home to their familiesfeeling very tired and pessimistic. A similar fate, though of shorter duration, awaits Charles Buttneo and Pat Meehan, who will re- lieve the presemt guard at 6 a. m. sharp. “The sharper the better,” comments Hosey, who is & trifle under the wea- ther and finds the air unpleasantly keen. The Worlll's reporter drew a flask from his pocket and said: “Have some of this. It will warm your blood and keep you from catching a worse cold.” Both men started back in amazement. It is as much as their heads are worth to touch liquor, even when off daty, To do so at their posts would be official suicide. “The same rule applies to you, too, while you are with us,” says Fagin, firmly, and the flask was returned to its appropriate pocket with the cork un- touched. ‘‘Have a cigar, then?” Hosey and Fagan shook their heads as firmly as before. The business ot the night is to watch Grant’s tomb, not to drink or smoke, ‘The outcome was not encouraging. For & year after’ General Grant’s body was placed in the tomb built for it o pposite One Hundred and Twenty-third street in Riverside park it was guarded by a company of regular soldiers, sent alternate months from Fort Hamilton and Governor’s Island, The compauy lived in barracks on the brink of the river a hundred yards west of the tomb, One sentinel was always on duty in front of the tomb. Immediately to the left was a sentry box, to which he wus permitted to retire at intervals in stormy weather. A cor- poral and three privates occupied a guardhouse, built on the elevation back and to the left of the tomb. June 30, 1886, this military guard was with- drawn and the duty of protecting brated soldier’s remains, and the casket and tomb enclosing them, from possible acts of vandalism, was confided to the department of park police. In the estimation of the neatly uniformed, courteous, clean-looking men who preserve peace and good order at Riverside Pack, this military guard wasa good deal of nuisance. There was too little to do and to many to do it. Though out of the twenty or thirty men in the company ten or twelve were officers, there was a lack of discipline and restraint, and a tendency to bois- trousness which scandalized the park police the more because they were not permitted to interfere. When the military guard was taken away six men of the park police force were appointed guard to the tomb, two at a time, eight hours ou and six- teen hours off duty. The morning “tour,” from 6 a. o foh i20 p, m., being the least monotonous, and that from 10 p. m. to 2 a. m. the most so, the order of the guard is changed every month, so that the disadvantage of the watch shall be equally distributed be- tween the six men assigned to that duty. The work is very much more irk- some than that of patrolling the park drives, but there is a certain distinction attached to the position that offsets the inactivity and monotony of it. At 11 o’clock the park is closed to pe- destrians, and the roundsmen are oceu- sionally heard challenging some one who is unfamiliar with the rule or wishes to break it. The clouds which obscured the sky earlier in the evening have beea blown by the rising sea breeze into a heavy bank on the north- ern borizon, and the moon, well along in her last quarter, transforms the Hud- son into a sheet of bucnished silver. The fringe of trees along the bank is too thin to obstruct a view that is en- chanting., The elevation of the spot oc- cupied by the tomb is such as to give the lights of the village of Edgewater the appearauce of floating in the bosom of the river. The guard house is in the shadow the wild cherry and hem- lock trees that grow on the highest part of the elevation, but on the front of the the tomb, its rays, even penetrating to the flower-covered sarcophagus, the moon shines in all its splendor. One can easily read the inscription on the white memorial arch sent on Memorial Day by the Envoy Extraordinary of the Emperor of China— *Inshrined in the Hearts of His Coun- trymen’’—and other floral emblems are pluinl{ outlined against the iron gate, though their colors cannot be distin- guished. The moon’s rays light up the interior of the mausoleum sufiiciently to reveal sthe profusion of flowers and growing plants that half bury the casket and cover the floor with a luxurian tof living green. By day, the vio fi;- of the tomb is the most commanding and romantic part of the park, lo the silence of a moonlit midnight the ro- mance of the surrounding scene and the sentiment inspired by the tomb and its ?.umwiul.kous are enhanced & hundred- old. But by the time Hosey had remarked that it was midnight the World reporter had become fully alive to the disadvan- tages of his position, The air was cold and constantly growing colder. There was a combine on the part of the other wo sentinels that refused to sanction & of temporary adjournment to the station, and all intercourse with the still care- | (ulle' corked tlask was stornly prohib- ited. There never wasa more faithful exemplification of the desirability when one is in Rome of doing as Romans do. For at least half an hour Fagin and Hosey stood like siatues af their re- spective sides of theé iron gates, never moving a muscle or uttering a syllable. In front of the tomb is a perfecily flat and smooth spuce about fifteen feet square. T'wice or thrice up to th, ent time first Hosey and then Fagin have stalked sedately about the m in of this space, but had not ventured one step beyond. Once the sound of foot- falls on” the drive brought them both forward three or four paces, and as the steps drew near the clubs of both were struck against the stone pavemont with a ringing round, and Hosey called out: “*Who comes there?” It was only o roundsman on his beat approaching when the moon was under a cloud. At 2 a. m, there were no signs of life in any direction. The lights of Edge- water are all out and the street lamps of Harlemare out of sight behind the clevation back of the tomb. The neces- sity of doing or saying something be- comes imperative. Both of the regular guards stood erect on their feef, with arms folded. The imperturable Fagin might have been carved out of gray sandstone, but there were signs of life about Hosey, who was not quite himself that night, and so to him the question was addressed: *'Is it like this every night?” “Protty nearly. One night is about like another, unless it rains,” *‘Has thare ever been any attempt to steal Grant’s remains?” “No.»? ‘‘Nor to mar or desecrate the tomb in any way?" “Noae at ull. There would be no ob- ject in marring the tomb that would warrant the risk of arrest and punish- ment, and it would be useless for any one or number of persons to attempt to remove the remains.” *How so? There are only you two to overpower.” “Ther call,” “Three would be no mateh for a dozen who might first overpower the rounds- man nearest to the One Hundred and Twency-second street entrance and be down on you in a body betore you had time to give any alarm, “Even then the attempt would be useless,” said Hosey. *‘The outer casket and its contents weigh 4,200 pounds. Enough men to carry it out of the tomb could not get hold of it. As to breaking open tne outer casket and removing the coftin containing the re- mains, that could not be done at all without tools made expressly for that purpose. The case which contains the coffin is made of hardened stecl five-eighths of an inch i 8, fastened together with steel bolts of equal hardness, Itis calculuted that it is always another within would take a skilled workman four days, with tools made for the purpose and renewed as fast as they gave out, to ones had lost th brilliancy. The moon had gone to rest over in New Jersey somewhere. hough now the st no shadow, a dim, all-prevad- which seemed to have no source, outlined their trunks and branches almost as plainly as did the moon’s rays earlier in the morning. A glance at the eastern sky solved the riddle. The fleeey margins of a bank of wind-whirled clouds were dripping in the warm tint which heralded the approach of dawn. The spectacle had not escaped tne eyes of Fagin and Hosey. They gazed upon the stendily brightening eastern sky with evident satisfaction, and so far relaxed their dignity as to stretch th musculare arms and yawn melodiously in unison. Thoe World reporter had barely energy enough left to snceze respectiably. Noticing the easier dignity of his come panions now that their virgil is nearing d he ventures to inquire fow long have you two followed this sort of thing for a regular business?? “Three years,” answered Hosey. *‘And during those three years has nothing ever happened?” *‘Yes, once—about two years ago, wasn’t it, John?—a tramp came along at clock in the morning and lay down ) the gruss beside the tomb. We stirred him up. ‘Can’t you let n poor devil take a stone out of his shoe?’ says he. ‘Certainly.’ says I, ‘an’ now youw'd better move on. What are you doing here at this hour in the night, anyhow?” ‘I'm tryin’ to find Mrs. Vanderbilt’s house, suys he. ‘I've an engagement to take brealfast with her, an’ ettiquet s that I shall bo on time. nin’ gents.’ “With that the chap moves on. I guess there’s nothing else to tell, is there, John?” “No,” said John, ‘“‘that’s the only adventure that’s ever been heard of around here.” Presently the sun_came up rosy and smiling out of Long Island Sound. “Hoist the colors,” says Fagan, and ten seconds later the Americaa flag, at the top of a tall stafl, floated in the ze above the tomb of General Grant, The early bicyclers began to whirl down the drive, and occasionally an ambitious horseman jolted along on his stiff-legged but fashionable trotter. Promptly at 6 o’clock Chavles Buttner and Pat Meehan arrived and relieved the guard—much to the guard’s relief, Such is anight with the guard at Grant’s tomb, There are 865 of them in each year. e IMPIETIES, (he first matoh miado Tn heaven was Luc- or, No good clergyman can consclentiously go 10 the Paris exposition for the benefit of his thro. at. ‘There are lots of good throat pluces in this country, The Pittsburg papers have become 80 ex- pert in handling floods that they are prepar- ing to publish a serics of articles on *‘Some Mistakes of Noah.” A young preacher said to Dr. Westons “Your audience scomed a little drowsy to- duy. It could not have been the fault of the sermon. I have noticed the same thing get at the remains. The’ entire police force could have time to get here before & mob of flll,,y men could make a start at such a job.” Nevertheless, Hosey and Fagin kept up a sharp lookout in all directions. It may be an extremely difficult task to steal the body of General Grant, but once stolen and successfully secreted, what ransom might not be asked for its restoration. Superintendent Walling is said to have paid $20,000 to the men who delivered t0 him a body sad to be thatof A, T. Stewart, and A. T, Stewart was only a private citizen, A little before 8 a. w. the very small stars began to disappear, and the larger when I preached.” Iofidel (discussing catechism with old col- ored womun)—Now, suntie, if God made man of dust, what did he do on rainy days when there 1s no dusvi Auntie—Oh, 1'spocs He makes iufidels dem duys. Gertie (after the vastor's visit) -Mamma, were you engaged to a minister before you married papal Mawmma—Why, yes, wy child, hy do you ask such @& question, Gertie—Wolll 1 was just thinking what dull time we'd have bud 1f you had warr] him, e — A popular youthful toi'et at the fashio nable resorts is 4 tinted silk blouse waist with skirts of lace, cither white or matcued 1o the blouse lu color,