Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 7, 1892, Page 9

\ Tww | THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. TWENTY-FIRST YEAI 4 "OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY [ 1692—SIXNTEEN PAGE HAYDEN BROTHERS Colored Dress Goods SPECIAL SALE FOR MONDAY. 26-inch alvaca, Sie. 27-inch plaid Linsey. 24-inch cashmere, 15c. 86-inch homespun suiting, 25¢. 86-inch whip cord, all colors, 80c. 40-inch all wool plaids, 35c, 40-inch all wool cheviot, 45c. 40-inch all wool spring suitings, 40-inch all wool plaids, new styles, bSe. 46-iffch all wool henrietta, 574c, 2-1nch plaid camel hair, 8. 40.inch Bedford cords, 95e. /lench all wool stripe cheverons, 65c. “Special in Silks FOR MONDAY. A good gros grain for 60c, 75¢ and $1; cheap at 80c, $1 and $1.25, A good faille for 65¢, 70c and 813 cheap at 90c, $1.10 and $1.85. A good armure at 85¢, worth 1,25, A good royal at $1, worth $1.2 A good all silk surah, in blacks, for 60c and 55¢: worth 60¢ and 7se. New shades in crepes, for evening dresses, $1,10; cheap at $1 Surahs in all shades, worth 90c, for Monday 65c. Surahs in plaids and stripes, cheap at 81, for Monday 65c. . Remnants of trimming silks at less than half price. Carpet Dept. A few of those fine fur rugs left, at $2.50. We are still selling Smyrna rugs, 5 fect long, for $2. Our carpet rooms are full of bargains and the trade appreciate our efforts to give good goods at low prices, A good standard carpet for 30c meets the wants of people desiring low priced goods. Brussells carpets at 47c, 55¢, 60c and 75¢, are cheaper than ever sold before. Our stock of curtain goods of all kinds i8 full and the prices will be made way low for the next ten days. Drug Dept. Castoria, 2 15¢. reduced to t, 59c. Rubifoam, 19c. Cashmere of Roses Tooth Soap, 15¢. Almond Meal, 2lc box. Shandon Bell Soap, 49¢ box. Sponges from lc up. Lubine Powder, 15c. Tetlaw’s Gossimer Powder, 20c. Vaseline, 6¢ bottle. Viola Cream, 35¢ box. Malvina Cream, 85c. Stoneware. ‘We bave just bought 40,00 gallons stonoware, made in one of the best vot- teries 1n this country. It consists of milk crocks, jars, etc., and wo will put the whole lot on sale tomorrow at 5c per gallon. New Good Just In. 50 pieces black brocaded and poika dot black sateer yard. s black striped sateen 25¢ yard These are equal if not superior to the French. 100 pieces of high art noveltiesin satin striped and high colored satcens, black ground, best goods imported, finest goods shown, only 43¢ yard. Tosco them means to buy them, as they are benutics, and the only place to get them in Omaha is at Hayden’s, New styles in Brandenburg and Can- ton Cloths at 124c, 15c and 25c. Pineapple tissue and Shantong Pon- gee 124¢ yard, Now styles in 82-inch wide Anderson Zovhyrs ard. 32-inch wide American zephyr, the best goods in the market, at 17¢ and yard., ¥ 8.t non wide zephyr 10¢, 123¢, 15¢ and 18¢ yara, 40-inch wide Armadale zephyr, in The only these in Omaha is Hayden’s, and only yard. We are_showing all the latest wash dress goods. We carry the largest stock plain_colors, pluce to find and give you Omaha. 86-inch new double fold suiting 124c a yard, 36-inch wide new spring suiting, wool effects, 15¢ yard. 8-4 Burmah cloth 6ic 82-inch wide double sorgo 7c yard. Bannockburn, Chuddah cloth and Am((!yskuug teasle cloth, all go at 10c yard. 8 cases Garner & Co. fine shirting prints, clean. fresh new styles, no rem- nants, on Monday 2ic yard. the best selection in rd. fold Arabian Muslins and Sheetings We carry the largest stock and make the lowest price, no matter what the cost. Fine 86-inch wide bleached cambric 8c yard, 12 yards for $1. 50 pieces bleached muslin, soft finish, equal if not better than Lonsdale on Monday at 6ic yard. You can not afford to passus on mus- lin and sheeting if you look tothe inter- est of your pocketk.ook. Windsor Scarfs. 100 dozen find all silk W indsor scarfs in fancy stripes and plaids at 19¢ each, regular price 2 200 doz fine all silk, in all the new combination of colors, which are very nobby at 25¢_each, 200 dozen fine all silk gents’ windsor scarfs in plain, strip2s and plaids at 350, uutuul\y worth s0c. All the new shades all silk crepe scarfs at 50¢, regular price 75¢. Laces. Laces. Fine black chantilly lace, all silk, at 8e, 10¢, 124c, 15¢ and 20¢, well to 35¢ per yard, Yacht lace in several widths, at lc, 8¢ 10 actually worth e t worth 15¢ colors and and 15 per yard, ¢ per yard, Black Dress Goods SPECIAL PRIC FOR MONDAY. Whip cord serges, full double width and silk finish, for Monday, 80c a yard. These goods are superior in value. to any ever offered at 45¢. Good quality 386-inch cashmere on Monday for 16¢, real value, 25¢. India twills in two qualities. One quality will be offered at 50c, and the other at 55c a yard. Usual price 70c and 75¢. These goods are all pure wool and well worth looking after, An elegant quality nuns’ Monday at 65¢, regular 85c, Silk finish henrietta 70¢, usual price 90c. A very superior quality silk finish henrietta Monday at 79¢, No other house will sell this grade for less than 8 veiling and fency flgured Bedford cords Monday at ¢ Remember, the regular price is $1.25. Our best French serges go on Monday for 8¢ a yard. We always carry the largest and best selacted stock of fine mourning goods to be found in the west. Prices alwayslow. I Linen Department. Here is where you get the best value in table linen, napkins and towels. 58-inch half bleached damask 45c¢. 60-inch half bleached damask 55 62-inch half bleached damask 65¢. These were bought at auction in New York and will not be duplicated, in fact can’t be duplicated. 60-inch cream damask 40c, 60-inch bleached damask 50c. nch bleached damask 59¢. 82-inch bleached damask $1.50. ‘We are showing a line of damask at 75¢, 80c, 85¢, Y0c and $1 which are the best value we ever offered. We are showing without anv exception the largest line, best assorted line and low- est priced napkins and doylies n this city from 15c a dozen up to $8 a dozen. We can_suit you in size, quality and pri Our towel counters are always busy. The largest and best towels for the money. Examine and compare them, Art Department. SPECIAL FOR MONDAY. 100 dozen pair fine pillow shams, 15¢ per pair, worth 25c. 25 dozen 72-18 stamped linen dresser scarfs, to close, at 25¢, worth 50c. 25 dozen fine stamped Momie tray cloths at 15¢, actually worth 25c¢. 25 dozen fine stamped linen tray cloths, hemstitched appropriately de- signed, at 35¢, actually worth 50c. Just received an elegant line of'em- broidered felt goods. Full length fine embroidered felt scarfs, the best value ever offered, at 59¢ 78¢, 85c, 98¢ and $1.15, actually worth $1 to $1.50. 4-4 and 5-4 fine embroidered felt table covers at 83c, 98¢, $1.15, §1.59, $1.63. We have always on hand a complote line of all the'new shades in wash em- broidery silk, rope silk, jelly silk, ec- clesiastical silk, filo silk, couching silk, chenille, arrasene, ribbosium, plush balls, chenille and tinsel cord at our popular low prices. Embroideries. SPECIAL FOR MONDAY. Lot 15000 yards narrow Hamburg edging, neat ia pattern, at lc per yard, well worth Se. Lot 25000 yards medium width Ham- burg embroidery, in very nice patterns, at 3¢ per yard, well worth &e. Lot 3 -ffl,m\n yards Swiss and Ham- burg embroidery, in very pretty pat- terns at 5c, well worth Sce Lot 4—7000 yards Hambnrg embroid- ery, in elegant new patterns, at 8c, well worth 124e. Lot 5—10,000 yards fine wide Hamburg embroideries, in new and exquisite pat- terns, at 10¢, weli worth 15¢ to 19¢ per yard, We have the largest, the most com- plete, the newest patterns, and the low- est price ever seen in Omaha. Chiffons. Chiffons. In all the newest shades and styles at 26¢, 28e, 35c¢, 45¢, H0c, up to $2.75 per yd. Notions. Special for Monday. Dress makers opportunity. All silk sea,m binding at 106 per bolt. Whalebone' casing at 12§¢ per bolt. Belting, in all colors, at 2i¢ a piece. Good Aver’s stays at 7c per set. Vegetable ivory buttons, in all colors, at 10¢ per card. & Fine black braid at 3¢ per roll. Free count pins at e _per paper. 500 yards spool thread at 4e per spool. Stockinette shield No. 1 at ¢ per pair. Stockineete shield No. 2 pair. Stockinette shield No. 3 at 10c per pair. Hooks and eyes at 1¢ per card. Hook and eye tape 5¢ per yard. White tape at I¢, 2¢ and 8¢ per roll. ‘Waving irons only 25¢ each, regular price 5 at 7c per Moustache curlers only 10c each, Ribbons. We are the sole agents in Omaha for the celebrated Fair and Squire brana of ribbons, which is unquestionably the finest ribbon in America. We sell this superior make as low as ordinary vib- bons are usually sold for. Fine siik ribbons in other makes. No. 2 gros grain satin edge at 3¢ per yard. No. 5 all silk, satin and picot edge, at 4c per yard. Ngck ribbons, in all shades, at 10c per yard, Baby ribbons, in all colors, at 9c, 12ic and 18c¢ per bolt. Harness Dept. If you have a horse don’\ fdil to visit this department, for youinay see some- thing that you want in this line. We can save you money for we handle nothing but Omaha made goods at the lowest prices. Remember we arc headquarters for sad- dles, bridles, blankets, whips, curry ¢ombs, brushes and straps of all kinds. PAGES 9-16. 9 NUMBER The Leaders of Popular Prices and the Promoters of Home Industry, Furniture Department. FURNITURE BY THE CAR LOAD: ‘We have just received two carlaads of furniture direct from the factory in Wisconsin. The cars contained bed- room suits, bedsteads, cheffoniers, ex- tension tables, center tables, kitchen tabies. Weo have now on display a tine line, and our main object is to make the price as low as possible. Suits at $11, 815, $18.50, $19, $23, 826, With the exception of the 0 these are all oak suits with easy running drawers, The fnish is first class, and we believe the price is low for such suits. Bedsteads at $1.95, $2, $2.85, $3.25, 24,50, %5, $6.50; we can give you 8-foot, 3-foot-6 or 4-foot-6 beds. Extension Tables—A good 6-foot table for $3.45; a sohid ash table 6 foot, $4. 45; ®foot $5.50; an elegant S-foot table #8.50, worth $10. We have 30 different styles, all new. eboards—8§15, 816, $18, $20, 825, up to_$35. Kitchen Tables—8$1,15 without drawer $1.25 with drawer. Kitchen Chairs 29¢ each, light or dark Solid oak dinner, high back, wood seat, with square of woven cane in cen- ter 81 each, worth $1.85; the same chair with brace $1.10, worth $1.50. Books. Thackery’s complete works bound at &2 95, actually worth 85, Dickens’ complete works in 15 vol- umes nicely bound in cloth $4.50, regu- lar price $10. George Elliott’s works in 6 volumes, nicely bound in cloth, at $1.95; regular price $4.50. ODDS AND ENDS MUST GO. 2,000 volumes elegantly boundin cloth and gilt, including Dickens, Allison, Scott, Eliott, Bertha M. Clay, Lord Lytton, Thackery, Hume, Montgomery, Black, Vernes, Collins and Marryat, to be closed out at 25¢ per volume. Jewelry Dept. Special sale this week. Rogers’ 12 cwt knives or forks, $1.25 per set. Rogers’ AA tea spoons, %0c¢ per set. Rogers’ AA table spoons, 81,80 per set. Silver napkin rings, 10c. Silver butter dishes, 75c. * Solid silver pansy stick pins, the latest novelty, in beautiful hard enamel, 10c each. Child’s silver mugs, bright cut, 75¢. Nickel alarm clocks, 59¢. Springfield watches in dust cases, $2.06. Gents’ gold filled watches, stem wind and set hunting case, Elgin, Spring- field or Waltham movement, $8.75 up. Ladies' gold fillea hunting case watches, Elgin, Springfield or Wal- tham, $10.50. Baby Carriages. 100 styles now on show at prices which tell. The fact that we are selling car- riages now proves that there is some- thing the matter. Attend our great spring trunk and bag sale. cloth proof Underwear. To be closed out at less than cost at the mill. We have just received the entire stock of an eastern jobbing house, ]\\lrrlu\sml by us at an awful sacrifice, tealizing how short a time we have to dispose of this stock. we will cut the price so deep that it will pay you to stock up for next winter. Sale com- mences Monday morning and will con- tinue until every dollar’s worth of this stock is disposed of. Take advantage of this, it may not occur again. 1 'case ladies’ natural gray ribbed pants, 25¢ per pair. 1 caso of Indics’ Jersey ribbed punts and vests, 39¢; worth 75c. 1 caso of ladies’ natural wool vests and pants, 50 each; worth $1.00. Ladies’ natural wool vests, French neck, silk stitched and pearl buttons, only 75¢; regular price $1.00. Gents’ all wool undershirts and draw- ors, in natural gray. Too much cannot be said about this garment. We have sold “m"f’ cases thisseason at $1.00 each. They go in this sale at s0c. 1lot of genta’ fine KEnglish merino un- derwear, in shirts and drawers. They come in tan, gold and slate shades, with satin front, pearl buttons; your choice in this sale at 50c. The deepest cut will be found in the children’s underwear, We will place on our counter about 100 dozen of 16, 18 and 20 in. vests and pants, natural wool and camel’s hair, your choice of this lot 10c each, Broken lots of children’s underwear wi‘ll be closed out at less than one-half price. Stationery. Real Irish linen note paper at 25¢ per po nd. Rich eream commercial note paper at 25¢ por pound. Good envelopes at 3¢ per package. Fine linen envelopes at 10c and per package. ‘We have a fine line of papeteries at be, 10c. 12¢e, 15¢, 19¢, 28¢, 25¢ and 85¢ per box. Jersey 124c Great Butter Sale. Country butter 14c, 16¢, 18c and 20c. Made by Nebraska farmers and shipped us every day, thus enabling us to have fresh butter always on hand. Nebraska creamery butter 20c, 23¢ and . Buy your butter hore, where you will be sure to get the best at honest prices, Craunberries Tic per quart. Wall Paper. ‘White blanks, 4%c roll, Gilt, 5 10 7¢ roll. Embossed 10 to 15¢ roll, Ingrain, 7c¢ to 10c roll. Hand made, 55¢ to $2.00 roll. Veilings. 100 of the ne west spring novelties in veilings, which are very neat and pretty, at 5¢, 10¢, 15¢, 20¢, and 380c per veil, . 5¢ Great Meat Sale. Dried salt pork 64c pound. Sugar cured broakfast bacon, Tie pes pound. Boneless pound. Sugar cured No. 1 hams, 94e, 10jc and 124 per pound. Sugar cured California hams 5ic per pound. Dried beef 74e, 10¢, 124¢ per pound. Boneloss ham 8¢ por pound. Bologna sausage 5¢ per pound. Livor sausage ¢ per pound. Frankforts 7ic por pound. Head cheese ¢ per pound. Brick cheeso 15¢ per pound, Croam cheese 15¢ per pound. Swiss cheese 15¢. Best Holland herring in kegs Domiestle herring in kegs, Bost cape cod fish 124¢ 2-pound brick cod fish 15 Salmon 10¢ per pound. Wh ite fish 10c per pound. Mackoral 124c per pound. Ten-pound pail Norwegian sardines 75 per pail, Pure buckwheat flour e. Pure maple syrup, per gal., 75e, Aunt Sally pancake flour 4ic. New evaporated raspborries 174c. Pure apple butter, in cider, se. Sauer kraut por qt., 38, Sweet chocolate de. Woodenware and House Furnish- ing Goods. Coffee mills, 15¢ Potato musher: Mouse traps, 3 Rolling pin Butter ladles, 3¢ each, Wooden bewls, 5¢ each. Wash tubs, 20¢ each, Wash bowlg, 9 The XXX Peerless wash wringer. a hard wood frame wringer, with solid rubber rollers, $2.15; sold overywhere at rump corn beef Hic por each. each, 2c. ). Mrs. Potts’ flat irons, 00c set. shing machine, $3.50. Pie tins, 1c each, Milk pans, 1¢ each. Copper bottom wash boilers, 59¢. Copper bottom tea kettle, 30c. A solid copper tea kettle, with spun bottom, $1.15, worth Folding ironing table, 95c. Wash benches. 25c. Cups and saucers, 22¢ per set. Dinner plates, 18¢ per set. Fine tumblers, 15¢ per s Wine glasses. 15¢ pe Salt and pepper shakers ‘Wash bowl and pitcher, 26, 1 gallon tankard water jug, Dinner sets, $7,63, wo.th $20 Spring extension lamps $8.75, 88.. solid worth al cream sets, butter dish, spon= creamer and sugar bowl, 20¢. T'oilet sots, $1.95, A Job Lot 20,000 yards all linen torchon lace, ta close out, e, 8¢, fe, Te, 10¢ and 12ie por yard, actually worth 7c to WITH BANDS OF STEEL Project for the Building of the Longest Con- tinuous Railroad in the World, SURVEYS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA Wonderful Resources of the Countries Through Which the Rond Will Yass—Where the Intercon- tinental Will Go, Copyrighted 1892 by Frank G. Carpenter. ‘WasniNatox, D. C., Feb, 8. —[Special Cor- respondence of Tue Bee]|—It is now mearly ten months since the three govern- ment expeditions of civil engineers sailed from New York city for South and Central America to make the surveys for the line of the Intercontinontal railway., Ever since last May these parties have been in the field and though suffering the greatest of hard- ships and aurrounded by mll the incon- wvenionces and difficulties of the rainy scason among the Andes and on the highlands of Guatamals, they have prospected and mapped out nearly 1,000 miles ot road, The territory through which they are traveling 1s practically unknown to the world, and a great part of their journeys have to be cut through forests, and for hun- dreds of tailes thoy are away from the lines of wagon roads and have nothing but mule paths to guide them, The reports from the different expeditions have been received reg- ularly at the 1ntercontinental railway office here, and very full private letters have been writton to Mr, Cassatt, the president, and to Lieutenaut Brown, the executive officer of the commission, by the men of the various parties, This correspondence and these reports have not been given to the public, and T have pont soveral days during tho past weok in looking over them. Mauny of the letters read ke romances, and one shudders and shivers @8 he hears of the trials and troubles of the various camps. Some of each party of en- gineers have cameras with them, and the photographs of the country and the people which have been seut here are interesting in tho extreme, A Stupendous Und ‘But first let me give Tur Bre some 1dea of this wonderful undertaking. Itis the most stupendous international enterprise in his- tory. Think of seventcen great nations made up of different peoples and owning the best part of a great hemisphers peucefully combining together to build a line of railroad which shall carry their people and their products from one country to unother. The representatives of these people meet together and decide that they will donate a strip of land to such a railroad which shall for all time remain neutral ground. They agree that the railroad when bullt shall never be taxed ana they put their bands right down into their pockets and pull out the money to be used in laylng out the Mne. They agree that each shall pay a fixed proportion of the whole according to its pop- ulation and each of the seventeen nations rees Lo give $1 for every 1,000 lo it ha ::wud Illfkhlg’lllu Sul oy eop a They appolut commissioners to take charge of the work ana they sclect three of ithe big- fou and most practical of the millionaires of he Unitad States for this purpose. The of theso is A, J, Cassatt who started taking. life in the Pennsylvania railroad ¢ar shops Wwho has beon vice-presidont of the Penn- sylvania railway cum\nm_v and who dealing with railroads all his life is now in his prime, a number of times a millonaire. Another of the commissioners is ex-Senator Henry G. Davis who worked on the railroad as a boy and who now is an owner of rail- roads and a builder of new lines. Tho third millionaire 1s Mr, Kerens a practical business man of St. Louis and the trio forms one of the strongest com- binations of practical brains in this country, The executive officer of the commission, Lieutenant R. M. G. Brown, is the son-in-law of Henry G. Davis, and one of the ablest offi- cers of our navy, It was he who saved the Trenton during the terrible storm at Samoa by making a human sail of the men on the ship and thus tiding it away from the rocks and saving the lives of several hundred men. ‘The secretary of the commission is Hector DeCastro, who was engaged with John Mackay in making the Commercial Cable company & success and who has also been en- gaged with Mr, Mackay in his railroad en- terprises. The commission has an oftice in Wasnington and though 1ts work is dona quietly everything is pushed forward with energy and ravidity. Hard, Earnest, Practical Workers., The engineers selected by such men were of course the very bestin the country. Will- iam ¥, Shunk, the headof the South Ameri- oan party, built the Pennsylvania railroad across the Alleghanies, and J. Imbrie Miller, the chief of the second South American par- ty, s known everywhere in the Unitea States, The Central American engineers are picked men from the Unitod States navy and there is not a man connected with any of the parties who is not a specialist in his line, and 1 hara, earnest, practical worker, Bound by Cords of Steel, The line whon comploted will give a contin- uous railroad journey from auy city iv the United States to almost any point of promi- nence in Souch America, and the idea is that tho trunk line will run from Mexico City to tho northern termiuus of the Argentine rail- road system, or a distance of moro than 5,000 miles.” When it is completed, one will bo able to take a continuous railroud journey from New York to Buenos Ayres, a distance of in round numbers, something ' like 10,000 miles and the Line will wonderful in the world. The general elevation will be from a mileto & milo and a hulf above the sea and at some oints it will be one of the highest raliroads [ the world, Of the 4,000 miles from - the southern terininus of the Mexican system to the northern terminus of the Argentine rail- , only 230 b be one of the most 08 of road are already con- structed, but prizate lines, which can ba used in the system, are uunder construction and surveyed to the extent of 1,800 miles, leav- \mz“len than 2,000 miles to be located and built. Irom this mamn line, the idea is to run branch lines off to Venezuela, aud there will be other branch lines so that the whole of the vast resources of the South American continent will be opened up, At the rate so for made the engineers can survey 2,000 miles a year and tho road will be surveyed in a year and a balf, A ®erfectly Practicable Scheme. The building of this railroad and the mak- ing of tho survey scems so far to be porfectly l)rlellcublq. ‘T'he road which the commission has to outline and build is not as loug as the distance from New York to San Francisco, and the reports of the engineers show that the difticuities of construction 1n the Andes can be easily overcome, Already South America, Mexico and Cen tral Awerica construction of railwas way development have done much the in the rail- of some of the countries withiu the past decade bas been wonderful Mexico is building rail- roads as fast as the United States, She has 6,000 miles iu operation and her roads pay good dividends. The road she is building southward from Mexico City towards Guatemala, and which will form o part of the lntercontinental railway, will be one of the best built in the world, aud its ties, us well us its rails, are made of steel. This road hus already been compieted to the city of Qaxaca, and itis being pushed rapialy on and to Tehuantepec, from whence a line will go to Ayutla in uatamala, where the Inter- continental railway survey will begin. ‘The Argentine Republic, at the other ter- minus of the Intercontinental railway,though in bad financial straits at present, has a sys- tem of fine railroads, and these are, it is saiq, paying well. About 6,000 miles of road are in operation, and the recoipts from theso 1n 1800 were $35,000,000, and the roads them- selves cost $250,000,000. In addiiion to these lines there are nearly 5,000 miles of road under construction, and this great country, which is almost one-third as big as the United States, and which has the richest of lands and resources, will be tapped by this line, Countrles Rich in Resources, The South American countries through ‘which the Intercontinental line is being sur- veyed are rich in resources though very poor in railroads. Chili and Poru have tho long- ost lines, Peru having 1,625 miles of road and Chili having 1,700 miles, of which 670 miles belong to the state. Ecuador, where the two South American putics have douo the most of their suvoy- ng, has only fifty miles of railway, and its roads are bridle paths and the chief carry- ing trade is on steamers and mules, Brazil has 5,000 miles of railway, and some- thing like 8,000 miles under construction, and Colombia, where the Shunk party is now, though it is one of the richest countries in the world, has only 218 miles of railroads. The country has no means of communica- tion, whatever, with the oxception of its rivers and its mule paths. Still it is one ot the richest countries of South America and aud it is nearly ten times as big as the state of New York. Ithas a population a littlo less than that of New York state, and its capital, Bogota, towards which Mr. Shunk is now moving with his surveying party, is 9,000 feet above tho sea, Colombia has some of the finest mines in South America, and these will be openeda up by this railroad. Since the sixteenth cen- tury 1t is estimated that $525,000,000 worth of gold has been taken out of Colombia, and it has vast areas of fine coffee lands, Rivaling the Mines of the World, Speaking of mineral regions, the second South American party is now moving down into Peru and it will soon be in ihe mineral region of that country and be cutting its way throueh some of the groatest minoral weaith of the world. It started at Quito, the capital of Eouador, on June 8, and in five months completed 507 miles of careful surveying, and on October 8, 1801, it was ‘at the boundary of Peru and within a few months iv must reach Cerro ge Fasco, It will be here in the very midst of the Peru- vian silver regions, aud the road, it built, will cause a great dovelopment in mining, ‘Tho mineral regions of Peru are being rapidly opened up, and nearly a thousaud new mines have been worked since 1886, and in 1880 about 2,600 mines were being worked, The country produces vast quantities of gold and silver, and gold is found in uearly every state, The Route to Be Traversed, Tias South American line, which will run from the Isthmus of Panama down througn Colombia, Ecuador, #eru, Bolivia and Chili to the Argentine system, ruus mainly on the plateau of the Andes mountains, Tho Andes are duriug 8 part of the distance in three al- most parallel raoges with broken plateaus between them, and it is between the two western ranges that the road is now being surveyed. The two parties of civil engineers who started oat on April 10, 1801, from New York, sailed first for Panama_and thea went ou 10 Quito, 1 Kcuador. From here one party, under William ¥. Shunk, went nortbward through the country iato Colombia and on towards the Isthmus of Paunama, while the otner, under J. mbrie Miller, went south- ward towards Peru and Coili. Both parties were radically fected by the bigh altitude and by tho hardships of camp life, and J, Iwbrie Miller, the head of the second party, was s0 afflicted with dysentery that he had to be carried on a litter to the sea-coast ard was seut baci bome. Fis party is now under the command of W. D, Kelloy, Jr,, and it is af- doing excellent work. are no engineering difficulties except high viaducts over the many daep rayvines along tho mountain slopes and it gives the altitudes at the various points along the lines and the sizes of the towns. In 247 miles of road they found 22 towns ranging in size from 8,000 to 80,000 population, and these towns were at altitudes ranging from 7,600 to 12,000 feet above the sea. The road will run up and down from 9,000 t0 11,000 fect above the sea, and the charaoter of the country seems to be such that it would be locally profitable. Incldents of Camp Life, The letters of Mr. Milier eoncerning his camp and camp life are intéresting. At ono lace he says it takes forty-fiye muies to move Eh camp, and he states that he has seventeen men who are carrying extra provisions for use in Peru. The country of Ecuador has shown itself very friendly to the surveyors, but the peo- pleamong whom this second ' party now is are uncivilized Indians and the country is lean and stingy and the people will neither give nor sell. It is for this reason that they have had to carry extra provisions. The camps aro far away from the mails or telegraphs and the party will have to go 100 miles or so to cash a draft, It is reported that the country in which they are now is going to be a very expensive ono for the con- struction of a railway. This road will be 10,000 or 12,000 feet above the sea, between ranges of high mountains and over cross mountains, forming what is called a koot of the Andes. Running a Line Under Difficulties, The party under Mr, Shunk has been mov- ing northward from uito through the Andes, and on the 10th of last December it had surveyed 300 miles pngd, though it was in the rainy season, was ‘making about three miles & day. Mr. Shunk writes that he can make about 1,200 miles per year, and his estimate is that it would cost only £32,000 per mile for the sixty milos of road north of Quito, He says that the building of the: road over the coun try he has passea 1s entirely practicable, and he reports that the officials and the people are very kind to their party aind are helping italong n every wuy they can, The party nas had many hardships, | Like the other surveying parties, they live in tents and carry their camp from place to place on mules, They have a lot of Indiaus m\.\;lp theuw, and the food is by no means good. In one letter recoived by Mr. Cassatt shortly after Mr, Shunk’s’ party got into Colombia, Mr. Shunk writes! *The work here is very hard. The days are Ianf and the nights” are from 9 to 4. There is littie fruit, and the only vegetables aro potatoes and beans, If the nature of the animals we eat enterod into, us, we should utter by this time some nightmare outery be- ttwixt a grunt, a baa and agrow, and have muscles like catgut. A Day In the Heart of the Andes, The chmate of the Andes during the ramy season is terrible, sud the men are working under great difiiculties, Here is & day in the Audes us doscribed by Mr. Sbunk, He say "Today began ciear. The. tremendous bulk of the volcano LaGalera to the west- ward was cloudless except the towering white cloud from its crater, The mir was perfectly calin, the sun rose brigh, and we bad every outward token of & good day. As the sun ascended, the whole atmosphere mistified—a universal, balf transparent sat- uration came up that after & while bulkea into clouds, hiding the mountain tops but leaving the lower earth in sight, With clouas overhead, the weather was cold, over- coats were comfortable and the cawp fire wa enial neighbor. Now and then between tho clouds, the equatorial sun wilting hot, shone out.’ It doos nov heat the air. The ground is its beach. Jt teaverses spaco liko @ sea swell unbroken and splashes into calorific surl which I cax nd certify to be more than six foet deep but ywhich is & with ering, smothering gush of heat. Then clouds come again and cold weather ugain, one iu- stantaneously following the other. *‘In the afteracon wo bad chiliug showers until about three or four o'clock when it be. §au 1o brighten up aud we bave now a biight It reports that there starlight night. They say the desert of Sat- hara, though suffocatingly hot by day is cold at night owing to the fre¢ and quick radiat- on into a dry sky. Changes of ~empersture equally great occur here, hourly sometimes, and without any graduated intervals.” A Report Full of Interest, Mr. Shunk’s scientific descriptions of the Andes are full of interest and his report con- cerning these lands which he calls the para- dise of both artist and scientist, will be of great value. He is now in the wilds ot Col- ombia and in some of the most uncivlized portions of this remarkable country. Tha Central American party is composed entirely of naval officors and is working its way through Guatamala, Ii sailed from New York on April 20 and in the midalo of 1ast October bad surveyed 100 miles of road, These Central American roads promise to be among the most profit- able parts of the whole line. I'ne climate of Guatamala along oue of the lines surveyed 1s as fine ns any in the world and one of the lines laid out runs through the richest coffee belt of Guatamala. The country is praoti- cally uundeveloped though it has gold and silver, coal and iron and the finest kinds of timber. It has seyeral quite large cities and one of tho three lines surveyed by our naval party is on the highlands of the country in a cli- mate that is excellent for northern people. Another line is along the foothils ranging from 200 to 600 feot aoove the sen but any one of the three lines will, the oMcers say, pay through the local traflic and natural resources of the country and can be built without great trouble, Sceule Route of the World, From Guatamula this party will push its way down into Honduras and this land is sa1d to be the richest of all the American re- publics in its mineral wealth, The road will go vory near the silver region and it will open up a mineral country which is now to a large extent inaccessible.” In Salvador there are also mines of gold and silver, and gold is also found further south in Costa Rica. This Central American branch of then Iter- continental railroad will in fact opoen up an almost unknown country and in scenery and pleturesqie nature it may become one of the tourist routes of the worid. The railroads alreaay in the countries amount to practic- ally nothing, but the officers report that the people are very friendly and they expect to move rapldly along the route from now on, Their work during the past fall has been largely retarded by the rainy season, Aunxlous the Road Should be Built, The reports from all the parties show that the governments of the South American countries aro anxious to help along the work in every practical way., Everywhere our engineers have been well treated. Maps have been made for them in maoy cases and the goverrment departments of all the coun tries have united 1n assistog them. Some of the photographs which were taken by the parties givo some idea of the hospitalities they have received, aud one represents a ban- quet at Loja in Ecuador, at which one of the table oronments was a piece of sculpture in sugar representing the United States shak- ing hands with South America. The two coutinents were represented by female fig- ures and Se.th America is sitting on a chair drawn by a railroad train. Fuaxk G, CanreNren, —_———— When a man begins to tell a story about fish, says the Boston News, he is at once lubelud as a—well, as a story teller. Thisis not a fish story, but a chicken story that comes all tho way from Colorado. A chicken fancier was troubled exceedingly by the propensity of his brood to scrateh up his garden, so he set to work to solve the problem of prevention. Afterelaborate experiments he succeeded in crossing a breed of long- legged brahmas with -fior\.‘legged ban- tams in such a way that the chickens had one long leg "and one short one. When they attempted to scratch they lost their balance and fell over, which, after a few trials, was sufficient to show that scratching was impossible, and they gave it up. TROUBLE AHEAD IN CHICAGO Fred Nye Tells of Evils Which Beset the Great Municipality, OFFICIAL NEGLIGENCE AND INCOMPETENCY A Deplorable Condition of Affairs for Which the City Government Seems Unable to Provide a Remedy—A Tale of Wue. One who has secn the average frontier too big for itself, which has sprung up ght, whose places of business are tents or shanties constructed of rude boards, un- painted and unhappily jointed, leaving amplo room for ingress of wind and weather; whose churches aro yot unthought of, and’ whose government is comprehended in the sporadic efforts of a vigilance committee to protect the live stock of the community; whose banks are faro banks, and whose even- ing industry is the maintenance of saloons, may form a partial idea of the city of Chi- cago, municipally considered, Not that Chi- cago presents the rude physical features ofr the mushroom western sottlemont, [ts peo- plo revel in paluces, residences or hovels, as fato and their own abilities may have deter- mined their lot in life, and us people in other civilized cities universally dwell. But in the one main feature, that of being too many for self-government under temporary conditions, they resemble nothing so much as they do the citizons of a froutier sottlement, Chicago has grown too fast. It has not been able to catch up with itself, The inclu- s10n of its suburbs has com plicated the prob- lem of the passage and aamimstration of law, and to this has been added an unparalleled influx of legitimate population. Theabstract question of how to govern is for the time subordinated by the concrete quustion of how to make & nving. The Chicago citizen is naturally absorbed in the pursuit of food and o place 1o sleep, if he bea new arrival, and of the most feasible method of extracting the spare change of the new arrival if he be an old settler, and while these struggles are going on the always more or less imperfectly realized theories of the duties of the citizen Jlo the city are shamefully and shamelossly neglected. In the enumeration of the ills which, by the accident of progress, Chicago has fallen heir to, it is wflclully difficult to tell where not to begin, With an exhausted fund which bad been the purpose of keeping its streets clean, the city is confronted with slushy and filthy sidowalks, noisome alleys, burst- ing garbage boxes and thoroughfares coated with mud and diversified by puddles, The supreme court of Illinois recently decided that as the owners of business lots had no right to the ground under the sidewalks, they wore under no obligation Lo remove the snow from the sidewalk space iu front of their premises, That this decision is taken advantage of oven by men who have ex- pended millions of dollars in the erection of sky scrapers with marble fronts is not so surfrising as that the city autborities have not shown the slightest disposition to remedy the condition so created, or to purify the strools in other ways where the evils are more noxious and dangerous, and where the duty of the municipa'ity is unquestionable. ‘I'he street car service is abominable. At least one-fourth of the people who wait for Lhe cables gulnr north, south aud west are forced ultimately to a choice between walkin and taking the overcrowded horse cars whic land them, aftera slow and exasperating pilgrimage, a woary journey from their legiti- mate destinations. Volumes have been priated in the pewspapers against the systew which inflicts these grievauces: countless calamities have been recorded locally and editorialized upon, in which the loss of life was clearly attributable to the od plat- forms of the cable cars or the carclessness of conductors. What is the remedy providei by the wunicipal authorities for this intoler~ collected for able state of things? The mayor appointed a committee on intramural transit composed of councilmen, citizans und reprosentatives of the street car compunies. This commit- tee has been in intermittent s month. It has heard every crank vague conception of an impossible invention to provide Chicago with adequate street car facilities and has listened patiently and in- dulgent!y to the enumeration by Baron Yerkes of tho reasons why his linds cannot quite meot the public demands and why no other line could afford so satisfactory an ap- proximation as his lines afford. ~ It has finally veported. It recommends double- deck cars, which cannot possibly, owing to their height, be drawn through the tunnels which counect the center of the city with the North Side and the West Side, and is inchned par ticulurly to favor the trolley electric system, which, because of its overhead wires, is utterly mapplicable to those business por- tions of the city where the necessity for re- lief is most pressing, The ouly practicable solution of the street car problem is the es- tablishment of the elevated road, but the mayordoes nothing to encourago the possible promoters of such an enterprise and thoy are doubtless debarred from the solicitation of franchises from the council by the experi- ence of other applicants who have been forced to go through an excessively costly ordeal to securo the opportunity of investing their money for the indireot benetit of the municipality, Four hundred condemned boilers are run. ning in this city today. Two weeks ago a boiler which had been pronounced defective by the inspector exploded, killing five men. At the inquest it was rovealed that this boiler had been run since November I with- out a certificate, The owner was bound over to tho grand jury but the city inspector, who seems not to have insisted upon the repair of the boiler aftor he had found a mild hint to the owner incflectu was rewarded with a recommendation that his salary be increased. He complained that the ordinance under which he was appointod gave him the power simply to withhold cer- tificates, not the pawer to prevent the use of defective boilers, The council has moet sey- oral times since the explosion occurred but no member has seen fit Lo wtroduce an ordin- ance delegating to the inspector a reauisite authority or calculated in any manner Lo in- terfere with the use of the 400 boilers which continue to menace proverty and life, A week ago two persons were killed at the Forty-sovonth streot crossing in & collisifh between a locomotive and a horse car and twelve lml'm)lls were injurea, This was an emphatic casualty in a series of daily occurs rence. The victims of murder snd suicide together in Chicago in 1591 do not equal in number those who were kiled ou railroad tracks, Along last summer the city council appointod a junketing committee on elovated terminals. This committes went cast in & apecial car, dispersed to the various watel ing places, came home in September, made a weak report in favor of the elevate terminal system in use in Philadelphia, and collapsed. Nothing was beard of the matter agaiu until the Forty-scventh suweet acel- dent. Then Mayor Washburne went east to investigate elovated terminals and finci- dah'.-lll{ to enjoy the fesuvitios of the Clover cluo, He has returned in favor of clevated terminals, In the meantime nothing has been doune by orainance to prevent the rail- roads trom continuing their reckloss assaults on human lhife. The mayor will perbaps nd a message to the council. A measure will be introduced embodying his views, The railroads will bring their iufluence to bear and collapse will succeed collapse. Millious of dollars have been spent by Chis cago for water works, ery day or two the cribs are choked with ico and thé water sup- ply gives out. Nobody admits responsibility for this and nobody seems iuclined to at- tempt to fix responsibility, It is pari of the general maladwivistration and impotence caused by overgrowth. IFifty adaitional in- staucos might be cuumerated. Hempstead Washburue is a good fellow. The club men like him immeusely. He 15 & boon compan= 1on over a bottle of Veuve Cliguot, und no- body is more popular iu soclety than he and hus jolly lieutenant, “Jim” Nye. But there have besu more earnest and effective mayors, Fuep Nyw