Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 29, 1891, Page 10

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH (ONGRESSIONAL ~ FUNERALS. Ourious Items of Expense of Burying Rep- resentatives and feaators. AU. S, SENATOR AND A BOSTONGIRL'S PUG P. T. Barnum's Literary Methods— Last Days of the Confederacy— Frand Stockton in W ashing- ton—Di, lomatic Gossip. Wasmxarox, March 25, al Corre- spondence of Tne Bre.|—~All Washington is still talking of the funeral of Senator Hearst, and it1s wondered whether the government will have to pay for the special train across the country. It was only the decided objec- tions of Mrs, Hearst that provented this Journey from being turned into a picnie, and Iam told that a great many so-called very respectable ladies and gentlemen tried to take advantage of it in orderto get a freo ride to Califorma and back. A number of society indies wanted o go, and it was only through the positive instructions of Senator Stanford that they were kept off the train. A congressional funeral 5 often as much of a pienic to tho mourners as & funeral march, and it isa question as to whether the custom should not bedone away with. It is m many cases not at all popular with the family of the do- ceased and no person cares to have a com- mittee of unsympathetic men chosen to weep ot his grave. The cost of congressional fun- erals comes up for discussion b every time a long trip is taken and the items are fought over in the committees of congress, It costs about $10,000, more orless, for a sona- torial burial and when Senator Miller of Cal- fornia died it cost just §7,378 to carry him to California tosay nothing of other oxpenses not down on the bill. *THE ITEMS OF A CONGRESSIONAL FUNERAL, When a congressional funeral is held at the capitol as is often the case, the expeuses are generally borne by the government and the congressman who dies here {s buried in the richest style. Unclo Sam is cha double rates for everything, and ther fixed etiquette and dress for the occas The pall bearers and other dignitaries con- nected with the ceromonies rrust each wear whito silk scarfs which cost us much as a dress, and ono of which a leading congress- wan of Pennsylvania tells me, he gave to his aughter after the ceremonios were over at one of these fanerals, and she wado it up mto a ball gown. ‘The cheapest of these scarfs are of the best of material and the same scarfis never used more than once. All the parties connected with the funerals must have $2.50 gloves, and the Washington undertak ers run up bills of $500 and over. There are few caskets bought for*Uncle Sam's dead which cost less than $400, and theve are fow funerals managed under his auspices which cost less than #5,000. Carriage hire for such oceasions is double its value, and at Grant's funeral in New York the carriage hire cost 5,000, Grant’s funeral cost the zovernment, all told considerably over $2,000, and the government paid a fortune to bury President Gartleld. Al of the expenses of a funcral hero at Washington aro trebled in case tho deceased is o statesman, and it is safe to soy there is no more costly place to die in the world than here. BOME EXPENSIVE FUNERALS OF THE PAST, I took' oceasion to look through the ac- counts of the clerk of the house of representa- tives for seyeral com, 9es 08 to such mat- ters yesterday, and L find some curions items among them. A congressnian named Allen, whao came from Massachusetts, aied here and was buried at_the expense of the govem- ment, His funeral cost between $1,00 and $,000, and though he lived omly & day's ride from here, the transportation alone cost $§820 and one of the lunches cost $122. Onmeof the mourners lost a hut and he charged Uncle Sam £3.50 for it. and among the lunch items there was one of $16 for Apollinaris water, $20 for sandwiches and 818 for spring chickens. Another luncheon during this trip cost $150, and it is probavle that the congressiontl committee fed.well. It cost $1,043 to bury General Williams at Detroit during the Fourty-sixth congress, and when Senator Bursido died the scarfs used at his funeral cost #144. I doubt not in Senator Hearst's case the family would have much proferred to have had no funeral what- soever in commection with the government, and the expenses mentioned here will hardly relato to it, though the committeos will of course bring in their bill for expenses. SOME DIPLOMATIC GOSSIP, “The Japanese mission is still vacant aud Senator Blafr is, I understand preparing to » 8010 Chind. ‘These are two of the best mis- ons in the gift of the government, though he statesmen here do not seem to appreciate them. $12,000 a year in_Pekin is equal to $17,500 in London, and Blair will probably savemoney while he is in the east. His hovise will'be furnished for him and ho will have servants and other extras for which the overnment will probably have to help pay. ‘He will have as good a cook a5 you can get anywhere outside of arls and he will live better in China Ll;ln he :lll ever E‘I;lodl here. Heo will have plenty of zood society in the compuny of the other diplomats who' live nlui’()gln, and his summers he will spend in the mountains near the city or in taking tours about the coast in one of our naval vessels. The. mis- sion at Tokio, Japan, is morc expensive, but it is much pleasanter as far as the intercourse with the poople is coucered. Tokio isas ,lively a place as Washington, It has its court soclety, 1ts cluvs, and from now on it will have its senate and house, bringing the best men from all parts of Japan there overy win- tor, There are several hundred foreigners living in Tokio, and one has all the advan- tages of avilzation. Some of the native book stores have the latost editious of all for- elgn works and the markets are cqual to those of New York. The Japaneseare very friendly with the Americans. They pridethemsclves on beiug like us, and the man who gets this $12,000 place will have one of the softest snaps and pleasantest positions in the gift of the government, 1 have just received a letter from Edward Bedloe, who isnow at Amoy, China, He writes that Amoy is an “earthly paridise, where sea and sky, land and lake, plain and pesk, mako a penngoma that excels aught [ ave ever seen iu my life" Ho goes on to congratulate himself an his position and its advantages for the study of the Chinese language and the phllmo{my and questions of the far east, He predicts an increase in trade between China and the United States, and evidently has a bigh {dea of the abilities of his celestial brothers. A STORY OF FRANK STOCKTON. A sallow, dark-faced Little man who looked almost sickly h’ his contrast with the burly statesman’s wife who sat by his side, rode up from the capitol in one of the five-cent herdics yesterday. The face of this man was extremely sensitive, His eyes were dark and full of soul. His jet black bair showed out from under a derby hat aud he scemod rather to shrink from notice. As he got into thie car ha limped siightly, and ho sat there pacized between two big women like a sand- wich until the car came to the transfer station at the coruer of Lafayette park, Here a crowd of women rushed in, They saw that the herdic was full, but that made no difference, and, young and old, they stopped ~ in mud loked at - the men inviting them with their oyes 10 give them seats. A number of ‘men were congressmen. These sat still but when a gray haired lady enteved the herdie, this lit- tle dark-faced man stood up and gave hera soat. The condition of his health however, evidently wvented his remaiuing standin and ho quietly stepped from the herdic au waited for another car on which he would have to an extra fare. This dark-faced man was k Stockton, the novelist. The ray haired woman was twice as strong as ¢ was and sho entored the herdic kno some man would wise and give heraseat. The women of Wushiugton are uniformly well treated in' the stroet cars. Asarule they give uothanks to the men who rise to give them places and they will not discom. mode themselves iu the least, to give seats to their sisters. MADAME'S DOG AND THE SENATOR, 1 saw a fuuny instance of this on a Peunn. sylvanis avenue caryesterday, A vary well dressed and eviaently wealthy young lady from Boston was seated in_the conter of ono s1de of thocar. She had the ugliestof ugly English pngs beside her, avd this pug was trolting up and down over the two vacant seats, which were the only ones left in the car, 'when a well known senator of the United States entered with his wife. The lady stood for a half minute expecting the woman to lift down her dog, but she merely drew tho dog down towards her, allowing it ty occupy one seat, while the sen- ators wife took the other. In the meantime the senator was standing and had been detained for & moment at the entrance of the car by a friend. He came alon, front of his wife and looked at the dog. The young malden from Boston saw him but made no motion®o take the dog from the seat, and as she did 8o, I could see a famt flush crawl up to the sénator's forehead and overspread his dark rosy cne It was o flush of aneer which soon quickened into action, Without saving a word to the girl, he ook his big thumb and forefinger, placed them gingerly on the neck of the pug and dropped him cooly on the floor, He then sat down in the vacant seat without looking at the girl. The whole car broke into a roar of laughter, the girl's face became ten times redder than _that of the senator, and at the next block she loft tho car. FRANK STOUKTON'S LITERARY WORK. Frank Stocktoh is doing some literary fo, Hocarrios his work with him wherever he goes and he has some of the most curious literary methods of any of the American authors. He plans his novel and writes it out in his head, so tospeak, before he puts down a word on paper. He thinks it out down to the conversation, including the commas, periods and oxclamation points, and when he has the whole story ready and not till then, ne dictates it. After beginning his dictation he goes right along from morning to morning until itis completed. He dictates about & thousand words in a morn- ing and he walks up and down the floor while dictating. He once told me that he could dictate better than he could write, and that the only writing he did was his pri- vate letters. He sometimes dictates the last chapters of a book before the first, and he says he does not see how he can w novel without he has outlined it bef He does not revise his stories to an extent, and his memory is & most phenomenal one. He likes Washington well enough to come here nearly every winter, but the most of his work is done at his home in New Jer- VELY P, T. BARNUM WRITES, I'had a curious experience with the great show man and advertising philanthropist, Mr. Barnum, about a year ago, which is hy of being pranted. ~ Lwas prepaving an article for THe Bee and [ wanted an expression from Mr. Barnum on the subject. 1wiote askiog for it, and by return mail re- ved the following reply : New Youk, April 25, 1500.—Dear Sir: Yours received. 1 have more calls from mag- s and popular newspapers for what I can werite than I can supply. Every penny earned by my pen is given to worthy charita- ble objects, and 1 don't write anything with- out_rccawing liberal payment therefor. Truly yours, P. T, BARNUN. P. 1 nearly fimshed a fortnight ago an article on the subject you name, for which cither of threo or four magazines would gladly pay me liberally. P.T. B. In response to this, I wrote to Mr. Barnum telling him that whilo I could not give himas much perhaps as some of the magazines, I would gladly pay what would b a good news- paper rate for the matter, and that U could give him & very wide circulation for it. A few days after this i received avother letter which read as follows: Niw Yousk, May, 180, —My Dear Sir: My time and brain ars entirely too valuable to be sold for the amount you mentioned. Yours truly, P. T, BArNUY, A"fow weeks after this, an article on the subject above spoken_of, appeared signed by Mr. Barnum in a weekly' publication issued in New York city. 1 met the editor of this publication at Saratoga and asked him what hie paid for the article. Hereplied: “I did not pay Mr. Barnum anything. One of my writers called upon him and dictated the ar- ticle 1o him, and gaveit to him for nothing.” This, however, was probably a matter of frienlaship, for I happen to know that Mr. Barnum does write articles himsolf and gets g00a prices for themn. GENERALJOE WHEELER'S LAST RAID, The memoirs of Jefferson Davis by his wife say but little about General Joe Wheeler's conneetion with the last days of the confederacy. General Wheoler was the groatest cavalry leader of the south, and he s us active now as ho was when he followed the fortynes of Jefferson Davis down into Georgia. - Ho 1s & short, slim, nervous, wiry little fellow of about one hundred and ‘twen- ty-five pounds weight. His black hair has becomo tinged with gray and white strauds aro_creeping into his full black beard. His heart is still young, however, and though he has made o fortune since the war closed as a planter, there is nothing snobbish about him, and _heone of the most popular congressmen at Washington, He told me the other day of Lis last days with Jefferson Davis. *I saw him,” said he, “‘when he was still presidont at Charlotte, N. C. Ho had been ariven away from Ricnmond, but he still kept up his show of authority. ' Ho held his binet meetings, and among the others who were present at the time were Wade Hamp- ton, John C. Breckenridge, Regean and my- self. 1knew that the war was over and I wanted Mr. Davis to fly. He did not seem to think as I did, and he tield a cabinet meeting at which he told mo he had decided to move my troops on to Cokesborough, N, C. Ithen had eight brigades under me, but 1 told Mr. Davis that my men thought the warwas over,and 1 thought it douotful whether I could hold them together. Wade Hampton was more sanguine, and he sald pompously, ‘Well, Goneral Whedler's troops may not obey, but whatever I order mino to do, they will do.” This put me in rather w bad plight but I doudted what Hampton said. Upon reach- ing my soldiers I fouud that they had all dis- bandod, and the best I could do was to get 500 men whosaid they would stick to mo and the president, This 500 were splendid fel- lows and 1 started with them towards Cokes- borough, but I soon received orders to go toward Washington and Georgia. As I wont south I stopped at Yorkville, where Mrs. Wade Hampton was, and called upon her, She told me that General Hampton haa just come Iu and a moment. later he entered. Ho was as tired and as sad & man os I have ever scen, He had found that his boast about bringing his soldiers with him was an un- founded one. He had to start out with a sin- gle company but. his men had all dropped oft before he had got to Yorkville aud he had ridden fifty miles on a streten in order to wet in Well, from Yorkville I went on south, but I received an order to disband my troops before I reachea Jefferson Davis. 1 had done 50 and was lying in the woods in company with several of my soldiers whou a company of federals discovered us. I had torn the stars from my coat and they could not tell my rank. 1finally told them who I was, and they said asI wanted o be with Jeflerson Davis, they would take me t¢ him. There- upon they carried me to Agusta and put me on aboat in companry with Jefferson Davis, Alexander . Stephens, Cloment C. Clay und John H. Reagen. This boat took us to Sa- vanuah and from thence we were carried to the northern prison. | was sent to Fort Del- aware. but was released after a time," FRANK G, CAKPENTER Mr. H. declares he prefers his wife to use Spanish Court Face Powder, as it has not the vulgar appearance of some of tle other preparations. For sale by all druggists. Samples free, ess Succeeds. “The man who dabbles inscience may win Lo humsel{ a glorions fame, But he's far More hkely to blow in his tin Ou a dog churn, and give it his name. T man who suctoeds is the maw who works ith muscle and nerve and wit- Who hustles and rustles and never shirks ; In short, who can *'git up and git.” —_——— Among the many articles acceptable as gifts none is more appropriate than cut glass, Dorflinger's American Cut Glass is by far the vest. Ther trade-mark label is on every plece. Your dealer should be able to show it o you. ATl Fliegende Blatter: 1 hve just heard that my family physiclan 1 dead. Just think ! ho was scarcely * thirty years oid.” “Then [ ‘must say that 1 don’t see how you cau have any conlidence in & physician who dies so eatly.” ) ——— Do Witt's Littlo Early Risers; bost littls pills for dyspepsia, sourstomach, bad broath, AT e TR “Detroit Judge” and Jack Prince have submitted their grievauces 10 Griffeth, who adjusted matters so sutisfactorily that the three have formed # Wiangular mutual ad- airation society, ONAHA TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION Establ ‘shment and Remarkabls Growth and Prosperity of the Organization. RESULT OF ITS LAST ANNUAL ELECTION. Educational Work Taken Up by the Stationary Eagineers — Latest Notes an Gossip of the Labor Unions. The members of Omaha 1 ypographical Union No, 190 feol proad in knowing tnat the Australian ballot system has become a law in this state. They take upon themselves much of the credit of being the first to agitate its passage in Nebraska. Three years ago, before the law had been adopted in any ot the states the union,backed up by the Central Labor union, held a meet- iug and’ drew a bill similar to the one that has recently passed, A committee consisting of John E. Emblem and Charles Abernethy was appointed to go to Lincoln and labor for the bill. At that session of the legislaturo these gentlemen spent most of tho winter at the cavital, but failed in their efforts, The next spring the union held its elec- tion according to the strict provisions of the system and so perfect was it in every respect that the members concluded to adopt it atall future elections, Last year the print- ers followed the same plan, and again last week they voted according to the details pro- vided for by the bill as it is now in form. The election was held in Fuller's hall and was conducted the same as will be all future state, county and city i The bal- lot box, the judges and cl vere stationed in the south ‘end of the hall; the booths on the cast side and the registrar just inside the door, and beside him the man who distributed ticke Whenever a voter entered he gave his name to the registrar, who looked through his book to see that the man was properly registered. If his name was found corvect, he was given a ticket and with this he walked to one of the booths, where the ticke prepared. This being done, the vot to the judges, where his name written down and his ballot deposited in the ballot box by the judges. As only five voters were allowed within the room at any one time, the election was s quict and as ovderly as 8 prayer meeting. The candidates and electioneers were kept arespectable distance from the poils, tous preventing them with interforing with any voter while he was in the act of preparing his_tickot. To test the efficiency of the system, a rush was mado during the first hour, and during. that. time fifty-cight votes were cast, and the number could easily have been increased to wwenty, so well did the plan work, The officers olected are as follows: T, F. Sturgess, bpresident; C. W. Bigelow, vice president; W. A. Pangouru, recording secretary; Joe Stemm, financial secretary : J. M. Sirpless, treasurer; execu- tive committee, Herman Hathis, Frank Kenunedy andJ. B, Corcoran; finance com- mittee, . M. Tra John C. Clark, F. M. Thompson ; sergeant-at-urms, George D, Henderson' committee, Ceorge Farell, Frank Keatley and G, H. Fredericka; read- ing clerk, Nelson Badway; delegates to jn- un‘;;miuuul, W. C. Boyer and William Max- well, The Stationary Engineers. The cducational work of the stationaty én- gineers association has been greatly im- proved since Mr. Anderson, of the smelting works, was elected instructor last January. His 1ast effort was giving instructions in the use of the planimeter in computing the horse power of engines. from indicator caras. Mr. Palmer interested the association not long ago with a description of his filter, for filtering condensed water from the exhaust pipe of his engine. Hesmado a skiteh onthe blackboard and described tho device in de- tail. The water leaves the filter without a article of grease visible. The filteris Mr. Palmer's own idea and can be seen in opera- tion at his engine room. Mr. Austin addressed the association a few days ago on tho different types of boilers from the earliest in use down to the modern, their advautages and disadvantages. He also proved on the blackboard that the term “horso power” had no application to steam boiler. A boiler that would develop forty horse power with one engine might Sovelon sixty horse power with atother. The pow: of @ boiler was 1ts ability to evaporate water and the economy of a boiler was its ability to evaporate tne greatest quantity of water with the least quantity of fnel, The use of coaloil to remove scale from boilers was argued pro and con last Friday evening at some length. The majority fa- vored keeping the coal oil out. Another very interesting subject that camo up for discussion was 'the loss of ecurrent duriug transmission to the motor by the pres- ent trolley system,” Mr. Austin of this city has been appointed local correspondent and agent for the Sta- tionary Engineer, a weekly paper of the or- der published at Chicagoand New York. Western Lavorers. The broom workers in_the Eurcka factory of San Franclsco are out on astrike. Tnho strikeis on o question of wages purely, the strikers resisting the cut from 8 to 8 and from § to 21 cents per broom on certain work, The employers have not replaced the strikors by thirteen Chinese, butaid take in four, two of whom, however, the strikers in- duced to leave. Last week some fifteen or twenty repre- sontatives of the building trades unions of California and Oregon met to discuss tho practicability and wisdom of orgauizing a uilding trades foderation for the Pacific coust. The meeting; which was held in So- cial hall, Sun Francisco, was a long one and covered ‘a great scope of industrial territory. An attempt was made to obtain from every one present s guaranty of supnort from their respective unions. Some were willing o give it; others could not. Again, others did not feel like taking too bold a stand on the spur of the moment, for fear of percipitat- ing troublous complizations with the em- ployers. A representative from the wood- workers remarked: * Wo got intoa mess of thatkind somo time ago, and it didn’t do us any good either.” ‘Phe senso of the meeting, however, was for the immediate orgunization of a building trades federation, so it was decided that an adjournment should be taken until this week, when & permanant organization will* be formed. Meanwhilo ail the building trades unions will be requested to send delegates vested with authority to act. It is under- stood that sowe of tho trades will stand ous but the others are anxious to go ahead an; how. Journeyman bakers' union No. 51 of Cali- fornia celebrated the fourth anniversary of its existence by a banquet at Irish-American hall, San Francisco, Friday night. Mauy prominent laboving men, besides members of other unions wore preseat. Plates were laid for 130 persons, J.J. Barrett, vresident of the union, de- livered a short address appropriate to such an ausicious occasion, after which many toasts were offered. Tho following were responded to: “The Day We Celebrate—Fourth Anni- vemsary of “Union No. 51" W. O'Neill “Federated Trades and Labor Unions of the Facifie Coast,” A. Fubrman and H, Soule, “Our [nternationsl Union—May it within a short time include ull the operative bakers of the American continent,” W. Meares, *‘Iron- moulders’ Union No. 164—A " speedy and vie- torious ending of their great strike,” Joseph Valentine, *Friends of Labor,” Gambarth, O'Counell and Gaunon, *The Eight-Hour Movement—May the agitation continue the world over until a standard Working hour is established,” J. D, Condon. The Hacifie coast laborers have decided to seud their committee back to Sacramento to urge the passage of the bills providing for an urgent necessity fund and & Tree employment bureau. The commitiee was censured for not_having interviewed the governor before he vetoed the eight-hour bill aud the bill pro- viding chat # o day shall be the minimum rate of wages on all city and state contracts. abor N Toledo horsemen organized, Brass unions are spreading Initiation fees are golug up. There is & wilking machine, New York has 10,000 artists The Californis legislasure defeated the eight-hour bill and one to pay unskilled men on city work # tday. St. Louls linemep won $2.50. Colorado has miners! alliances. "Frisco metal rodfétslorganized. "F'risco unions exclude Japinese. Albany will not take fat firomen. Cineinnatt Knightslof Tabor debated tarlft. Pottstown puddiers.get only #3.50. Brooklyn cigarmakers gain points. Perth Amboy Dtics fire organized. Now York has mJupanese carpentor. Quincy (TlL.) stonp-meunters struck. "Frrisco painters agitate eight hours. Springtield raitroaders want advances, "Frisco box-sawyers aind nailers are out. Lowell weavers can avorage 8.0 a weck. England will revive industrial villages. Washington moulders want 83 for aine hours. Muncie bollermakers struck for advance. Eight hundred New York hat mukers struck. Last year's wool clip was pounds. Palestine, O,, pottery girls struck for loss hours, Greencastle, Ind., butchers have a list of “hoate" Dennison, 0., Pan Handle shops cut hours and force, Victoria, B. C., miners are charged with intimidation, ' "Frisco school-boys struck til a teacher was reinstated. Western flint-glass mills will shut down to keep up prices. _One hundred and fifty thousand New York girls get 60 cents a Xn_\’. Chicago cabinet-makers want eight hour s $2 and weekly payments, Brooklyn furniture workers kick against overtime and Sunday work. Donmark proposes an international union of muchinists and blacksmiths. ‘The boiler manufacturers are forming an insurance and inspection company. Providence workers were discharged for refusing to work on St. Patrick’s day. L tone of the printers homo at Colorada Springs, will be laid on George W. Childs' birthday. Canton (Switz.) municipal authorities ha decided that all employers must share profits with the laborers, _Now York jockeys organized. Thoy wan t 00 for winning a stake race, 82 for ordi - nary and £10 for losers, Quincy (IlL) plasterers, smiths, stonemasons, barbers ters are yet unorganized New Hampshire unions went a legal day of nine hours, the conspiracy law abolished and the extermination of Pinkertons. Near Madagascar 15,000 islands are unin- habite One can | there by working twenty-five days a year. No clothes are worn, The Boss Plasterors' association of Chicago has decided to refuse the domands of the journeymen for an increaso of wages. It is stated that the stove moulders in St. Louis will strike for higher wages and a gen- eral adjustment of griovances on May 1. Six hundred miners omployed in tho East Rungo mines at Negaunee, Mich., went on a striko on Monday becauso they had not ro- ceived their pay. Bight hundred »weavors of the Atlantic Mills in Pravidence, R. I, struck on_Friday last against excessive nnes imposed for ai- leged imperfoctions in tho cloth. Representatives of. the different brothor- hoods of which the cmployes of the Illinois Central railroad are members have, it is stat- ed, arranged for a confederation. 267,000,000 coopers, black- and stonecut- — Value of Strest Ruilway Franchises. New York, March (24.—(Spesiat Corre- spondenceof Tie Be. }+The valueof astreet railway franchisc mecessarily varies in differ- ent cities, but that it has mors or less value wherever it operates, cannot be gainsaid. Thus far Omaba has néver recéived any re- turn for the privilege cpuferred on the fran- chised, corporations oxcept in the way of taxes and oven in this the latter have shown great tax-shirkingabilities, A number of cities in this .countey” have fared bettor in these matters and have Succedded in exacting at least a partial return for the benefit granted. Itis trae that Omaha is to be com- pared with neither New York nor Clicago but yet the same principles which operate in’ these cities are applicable here though in a less degree, Comparatively little has been done in this country to preserve for the people a due share in the benefits of street railway monop- oiies. In Canadaa beginning is being made in "oronto where, in pursuance of the wishes of a large majority of the citizons as expressed by their votes, steps have been taken 3for the. acquirement by the municipality of tho strect railway sys- tem, The city oraposes merely to own the undertaking and to lease out its operation on «terms similar to thoso obtained by British local authorities. In thoUnited States, there are a fow iostances in which stipulations have been made in the franchise for a rever- sion of the whole property to the municipal- ity at the expiration of the charter; in other cases, u right of repurchase after the lapse of @ prescribed number of years has been pro- vided for. The United States contains but one public railroad and that is operated in counection with the Brooklyn bridge. Though 1t transported in 1890 over thirty- eight million passengers, representing agross income of more than $1,000,000, its peculiar situation precludes any comparison with other street railways. . Among the various methods adopted by American_cities for obtaining special reve- nues from rapid transit privileges, the sys- tem of demanding a percentage of 'gross re- ceipts hias been most commonly resorted to. The city of Baltimore, when it grauted its first street ruilway charter in 1850, stipu- iated that 20 per cent of the ' gross receipts bo contributed to the public park fund. The proportion was later reauced to 9 per cent, which is now received annually by the city from all lines in operation. Cin- cinnati railways pay the municipality 214 per centof the total earnings each year, At first New York city obtained 10 per cent of the gross earnings of certain lines, but this condition was not long maintamed.” “I'he leg- islative act of 1584 provided thut all future frauchises be granted for new strect railways only on condition of payment to the city, be- sides the price bid at auction for the fran- ise, of § per cent of the gross earnings a during the first three years, and 5 per cent thereafter. The systematie sale of the franchise has been carried on most extensively in Now Orleans, The first one disposed of, netted 30,000 1n 1579, In 1881, another yielded 300,000, while two years later an extension of time was granted” the first com- pay in- cturn for the paving of a portion of the streets over which the line ran. A third franchise was gratted n 1882, in_considera- tion of the company. paving cortain streets, ard a fourth in 188 yielded nearly an eighth of the total phunfripal expenses for the year. Cleveland has also had streets paved by a street| railway corporation n return for the priviloges granted. In 1884 a law enacted by the York legislature gave the aldermen g ow, Yone city the power to sell streef¥ai)ftay franchises, under certain conditions, #8 anction. The free grant of the Broadway right’ of way raised such a storm of public indjgogticn that in 185 the Gisposal of the fraghissto tho highest. bid. der was made comphisory. During the fol- lowing year two mittor street railway fran- ises were disposed ét'gecording to that act; for one 26.2 per cedtlf the gross receipts an- nually was secured,jaug for the other 35 per ceut. The new lawe£3501 places a discre- tionary control over th proposed means of rapid transit in a*bodrd “of commissioners who are required to séll the franchise at pub- lic auction upon such terms as they think proper; but the priyilege is ouly fora defi- nito period of time, at the axpiration of which it will be subject o resale. It is thus evident thut the demand for a re- turn to the public for street railway fran- chises i3 by no means s novetty, Nor is it confined exclusively to the largest aud ‘most densely settled citios, Omaha can well com- parc with what Baltimore was in 1830, and the local street railways ave undoubtedly avle to turn over that shar of their profits which results from the value of the franchise alone, It is always well to learn by experience, and the city, if it profits by theso lessons, will grant no further franchiges without a reason- able return. VICToR ROSEWATER, t. Joseph News : s like ghosts. 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