Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 27, 1893, Page 14

T e e e A A Mficflixfidnrnfisflfim] Obronicles of & Journey from Tacoma to Bitka, Alaska, A PANORAMA OF UNSURPASSED BEAUTY Dountl Tslands ot Varled Formation Fringe the Route, with the Main Const Ever in Sight—C| the Citles and Residenta. SteaMsnir Queny, Alaska, Aug. 11.—(Bdi- y torial Correspondence.]—Afloat on the waveless arms of the Pacilic ocean, cut loose from the outor world, beyond the roach of telegraphs and tolevhones, and yet never entiroly out of sight of land—no other voyngze is comparable to the tour of Alaska. E'rom tho time the steamer loaves Victoria there is nn endless succession of magnificent sconery, A gark grecn serpentine waterway, varying in width from’ thirty miles to 800 ¥ wrds, most of the time as smooth as a plate gass mirror,and never rufiled for more than .50 or throo hours all the way from Tacoma o Sitka, with its ever greon background of pine clad hills and snow tipped peaks, fur- ro~ed by silvery mountain stronms and rav- ing cascades, But I am pucting the cart before the horse. The steamer Queen,on which wo embarked st Tacoma at4uw. m. last Sunday, is tho largost and most commorlious among the Alasltn excursion boatsof the Pacific Steam- ship company. With a capacity of 3,000 tons and saporb accommodations for 260 cubin passengers, sho is withul the swiftest, best manned and best handled boat in Alaskan waters. Her veteran commander, Captam Carroll, is the most expert pilot on this coast and knows overy nook and crook in the 7,000 miles of intricate waterway be- tween Puget Sound and Bering Sea. With this perfect familfarity with coast lines, sounds and channels, Captain Carroll com- bines rure executive ability and an intimate knowledge of mankind in general and the Alaskan population in particular, He is a strict disciplinarian and stern commander, bui hie knows how: to unbend and enjoy a tical joke and & good story as much as ever met, and while his pect and fear him the pas- tind hun jovial, good natured and companionabie, Jordinates r A Norvy Captain. our first stopping point after : leaving Tacoma, already fully described in my preceding lotter, was reached by 6 a. m As we steamed out of the harborat 9 a. m. the shrill, car-plercing steam whistle music forcibly mpressed upon us the fact that wo were wbout to pass beyond the boundaries of vivihzation. About 2 p. m.,as the Qu ajestically into the spacious harbor of Port Townsend, an incidentoccurred that roiled Captain Carroll's temper and showed the quality of the metal in his composi tion. A United States re! tter had an- d cl amship com- way to the ats, manned | Seattle, landing, and one of its by naval oiticers and marines, was deliber- ately paddling across the bow of our v, Captain pacing up 1 the ship's bridge like a lion in his menageric cage. Suddenly his face turned purple. “'Get out of my way!" shouted the captain in stentorian tones, “or I'll run you down!" The captain’s manner and voice evidently sed Uncle Sam's marines wish the he would execute his threat, and they promptly pulled their boat qut of the way. : his is by no means the first time these suobs have been trying to block my way,” said tho captain + on, In talking about this incident. have ample room elso- whero in the harbor and_know where we wre expecting to land. 1 certainly would nave run right mto them and cut their boat in two If they hadn't got out of our way, and I would' have risked vhe chances of 8 trial for damages.” Port Townsend rises from the sea shore upon a high bluft, very much like Seattle, but having no cable 1 roads to pull people up, the ascentof the streets upon the hiil tops is made by climb- ing u succession of wide wooden stairways, ‘T'he town presents an attractive appearance from the sea. Blocks of substantial brick busincss buildings occupy the lower terrace, and many handsome residences look down from the crest of thohill. With a popula- tion of about 8,000 Port ‘Pownsend-looks for- to become a sccond Seattie or ‘I'acoma ason of its unrivaled shipbuilding fa- ties and capacious hurbor, which com- mands the straits of Juande Fuca, and hence makes it the gatpway between British Columbia and the Puget Sound. Justas our steamer about to hoisy anchor { heard my name called by a robust voice from the wharf, and to my surprise discovered tho trumpet-throated person to be John M. Thurston, who bad just landed from the steamer Kingston that plies daily bouween Tacomn. and. Victoria.” Mr. and r/ Nirs. Thurston and the ba Were on an out- ing bound for Victoria, They had made the tour of Alasks some yeurs ago and pro- nounced it the most delightful voyage they had ever taken, { A Trunk Story. ’ “You remember Judge Thurston of Omaha, don’t you, captain?” O, yes,” responded the old commander, Y “he came on board us the guest of (eneral Alger five or six years agoand made the whole tour with me.. Talking about General Alger,” continued Captain Carroll, *recalls o singular experierce we had with that fa- wous Michigan millionaire. ‘The year I mado the first trip to Aluska on the steamer Corona we had three ludies aboard, They oeeupied one state room and had their three trunks put in, One of these trunks was con- siderably Jarger than the otiiers, and pres- ently there was a great racket in the ladies’ cabin on account of their trunks, ana the Jamboree was kept up pretty much all the way 10 Alaska and back. 3 4 ho noxt scason when I took command of the Queen I gave orders to the first ofticer, i now Captain Walluce,commander of the City of Topcka, Lhat 1o trunks must ve ullowed H 10 g0 Into the cabins, Just us tho boat was about to start n tall gentleman with iron gray heir, goatee and mustache came aboard 1 with o servant careying a trunk. *That truuk goes down in the hold,’ said & the first oftice That trunk will go into my cabin, s exclaimed the gentleman in a rufiled tone. ***Woll, sir, it will not go into your cabin, deciared the ofticer in a firm voico, “lum General Alger and 1 insist that N this trunk must be taken into my room. 1 dow't care who you are; the trunk 0cs into the hold and I'Il have no more par- leying about it.’ *Well,! exclaimed General Alger, ‘I shall notify Governor Perkins about this. (Per- kins 1s tho president of the steamship com- puny und recently appointed Lo succeod Sen- ator Stanford of California). * ‘You mu& notify whom' you pleass,’ re- torted the officer, and without further ado thoe trunk was lugged down the hold. “I was just dressing,” said Captain Car- roll, “and overbearing this coutroversy de- cided to put an end to it; but by the time I stepped ou deck it was all over. General Alger seemed very much put out with tho first afticer during the entive voyage. A day or two bofore we got back to Tucoma Gen- eral Alger said to me: * “That first otticer of yours is not as bad & man as ¥ thought he wak, after all. ** ‘Why should ke be,” sald I, ‘you were an, ofticer in the army once. Didu't you make your uu\mni:ll‘n;m.e- obey orders " 4 o8, eed 1 did." said General Alger. * ‘Well, then, the first oficer was lllguly oboying orde If anybody is 1o blame Tam Well. captain, saia General Alger, '[ hadu't thought of that. 1 see now how it Was, dud I presumo the man was Just carry- ing out instructions.’ Mritish Columbia. Across the straits of Fuca and about three hours run by steawer from Port Townsend is Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, and in poiut of beauty of location uot sur- Ppassed n the Pacitic Lorthwest. With the excoption of the red-couted soldiery the city itself is typically American rather than British. As the chief station of the Hud- son Bay company and an entrepot for ex- tensive trafc in furs, ish and Tumber, i is & great shipping point and important com- morcial center. The town is solidly built ur. but decidedly behind the Puget Sound cltios in stylo of archivecturc. The business streots are macadamized and disagreeably dusty. The private résidence grounds are aearly all adorned by a profusion of flowers and shrubbery and tho great city park, covering over 500 acres, is shaded by gigantic oak and fir trees. Here, as in all the Puget Sound cities, the butcher shops are wide open day and night with a grated wooden door to lot in the air upon the quartersof beof, veal and mutton which hang freely in_the shops and do not spoil. Hy reason of strict Sunday obscrvance on the ‘part of the British customs ofticials tho Quoen was unable to procuro her clear- ance ‘m[n-r.n until after midnight. Passing out of Victoria, we soon entered Alaskan waters, in which we are to remain for about two weeks. Tho inland passage, as the intricate notwork of deep sea chanuels and straits that wind between numberless islands of the north Pacitic for,thousands of miles, is called, presents an ever-changing panorama that baflles description. for more than twenty-four hours after sailing from Victoria the irregular forest-fringed shore of Vancouver Island, which is 300 niles long, is seen on our left. Weo thread o perfect labyrinth of islands of varied shape and size. Some of the smaller groups are duplicates of the Thousund Islands of the St Lawrence; others rise abruptly from 1he water to a helght of from 2,000 to 5,000 feet, their summits streaked with snow. From the suow line almost 1o the water's edge tho evergroens, hemlock, spruce, pine and codar, with a rank, matted undergrowth, cover the mountains, save where an avalanche plowed a swath and mado a windrow down the mountain In some of theso windrows the more delicate green of the moss which covers vho stumps of fallen trunks and rocks presents a charming con- trast to the darker hue of the forest. From some of thess mountains the melting snow sends down foaming streams that glitter like silver in the sunlightand in theirabrupt descent form cascades and roaring waterfulls before dashing into the briny sea. And the sea lends variety to the enchanting land- scapo reflected in the mirror-like surface. Day ofter day we beheld an unbroken chain of Alpine scenery that recalled to me the environment of Lucerne and the Swiss lakes overshadowed by the top lofty Rigi and majestic Pilatus, Vancouver, the largest of the inland soa islands, has an area of 18,000 square miles. In 1he region betweon Vancouver island and Queen Charlotte island we cossed an opon reach of the Pacitic, but_the swell was not very heavy, though this, I am told, is rather exceptional. The Perfection of Steambonting. Inland sea travel is the steamboating. The rapidly changing land- scape of these wild Alaskan shores reflected in the placid, inky waters through wh ship is ploughing never becomes weas Proceeding steadily in a dircction we passed” by Nanaimo, o Columbian town of 4.000 population til recently an important coaling station for the Alaskan steamers, perfection of Early inthe morning of the third day after leaving Victoria we sightea Fort rangel, which up to 1855 had been the principal Russian military post in Alaska, and now remains a straggling Indian village, with a sprinkhing of whites engaged in bar- ter with the natives or drawing rations from the federal crib as deputy collectors of in- ternul revenue, deputy United States mar- shals and United States commissioners charged with the preliminary trial of viol tion of laws enacted by congress for the gov- ernment of Alaska. Incidentally, there are also two missions for the con- version and the education of Indians. The landing of a passenger steamer is a red- letter day at Wrangel,and for that matter at y town and hamlet in Alaska. The whole population, whites, Indians and half-breeds, welcomed us with open arms at the landing. A whole troop of Indians swwarmed around the steamer, offering their services to help unload that portion of the ship's cargo des- tined for Wrangel. Life In Wrangel. Tho huts and moro pretentious dwell- ings of the reds and whites at Wrangel are all constructed of hewn logs and shiv- 1np boards. ‘I'he log houses are for the most part patterned after tho first Russian stock- ade, while the framo houses are American. Many of tho more thrifty Indians occupy largo two-story frames and some of theso are fenced in and surrounded by eardens in which potatoes, turnips and other root vogetables seem to flourish. As we passed along tho principal street, or rather roadway covered with stumps and full of ruts, the long row of Indian dwellings was linod with vucks, squaws and papooses _offering _their peculiar wares for sale. Nearly all had baskets of various colors and patterns and wooden ware carved out of pine. including spoons, forks and miniature totems. Others offered silver spoons, bracelets, rings and Alaskan garnets, whilo still others dealt in otter and mink_skins, fur caps, horn spoons and other curios. Upon close inspection the silver ware was all found to be of Indian make out of silver coins and engraved with sharp tools, also of their own make. The buskets and mats are plaited and ‘woven by hand from reeds and grasses that have been sub- Jected 10 & process of bleachng or dyeing. Looming above the house tops and most conspicuous of all things to be viewed nt Wrangel are the totem poles that stand in front of the homes of “big Indians” and tako the placo of n.onuments at their graves in the burial grounds adjacent to the town. These totem poles are in fact hugo logs from twenty to forty feet in length, stand- ing upright, with grotesque carvings of beasts, reptiles, birds, fishes and hideous human mages painted in red, yellow and black. Oneof theso totem poles'is a twenty- five-foot log planted upright, with the im- print of a double row of eight human feet, climbing one_abovo the other, and perched on the top is a moss-covered bear asdarge as o cow. ‘The two tallst totem poles in Wrangel stand sentinel before the lurge two- story mansion of the prineipal chief, who takes great pride in exhibiting the interior of his house, its quaint furniture and the gorgeous trappi he wears on_ state ocea- sions to visiting tourists. The chief and his wife talked pigeon Knglish protty fairly, but nearly all’ the other Indians. male femal, talk o horrible guttural and scar can muke themselves und pronouncing tho few words necessary for carrying on barter, A Famous Mine. We stgamed out of Wrangel 1n the midst of adrizzling rain at 10 a, m,, w! beautiful mountain scenery in its e ment was wrapped in a white fog Lh vermitted an occasional glimpse ut tho snowy peaks and mountain cascades, Con- tinuing our yoyage 1n the misty atmosphere tnrough Wrangel Narrows, Prince Fred- erick Sound and Stephens Passage. we finally t anchor by 8 p. m. at Douglus isl- ond, near the famous Treadwell iwine, which has its mills and reduction works Jess than balf a mile distant from the wharf. The Treadwell mine, owned and operated by California capitaiists, is stocked Tor #.000,000 and paid a dividend of #450,- 090 lust year, besides payiug for enlurgement of the plant. Its mill of 240 stamps, the lurgest quartz mill in the world, is kopt running in full blast night and day. During the eigiit years since this mine has been worked nearly $4,000,000 in gold has been taken out of 1t. Anothergold wine hus recently been opened within seven miles of the Treaawell by & local company, which cluims to have great prospects in the near future. Despite the drenching rain a majority of the passcugers clambered up the ste mountain 1w view the mine and meandered through the mammoth stamp mill amidse the deafening noise of the quartz crushers. At daybreak Thursday morning the Queen exchanged her moorings from Douglas Island 1o Juneau, only two iiles distant, una the holiduy stamping ground of the 300 miners omployed in theTreaawell mines and mills. Although the weather still continued diizzly and foggy the tourists were out in full force exploring the muddy and helter skelter streets of this live mining town, which has within half & dozen years distanced all the aspiring Alaska trade centers—including Sitka—in pobulation and commerce. Juneau, like Wrangel and every other Alaska town, deals heavily in “Wonderland curios” and_ products of Alaskan natives' handicraft. You can invest {:nrlurpllu in miniature totems of wood, ne and walrus ivory, in baskets, furs and implements of the chase. One of our tourist passeugers invested in a bear cub and an- Oulior i @ fawa. Bears and deer are said Lo | @2ru this year, bo plentiful in the forest back of Junsan and bear cubs are a common article of merchane dise A Day's Progeam. The captain’s bullotin posted daily mn the social hall of the steamer was decidedly characteristio. Tt reads as follows: “‘On Board Alaska cursion Steamshin Queen, Aug. 10,1 1803, —Latitude at ncon 5% degrees, 12 minutes north. Longitude at noon 184 degrees, 8 minutes west. We will sail through the following channels during the rextr twenty-four hours, if not detained by thick weather: Taku inlet, Stephens passage, Favorite channel, Lynn canal, Chatham straits, ley straits, Glacier bay. We will arrive at Taku glacier about 1:30 p. m., and remain there about two hours taking jo our supply of ice There1s no landing at’® Taku glacier. We willarrive off Chileat about 11 p, m. We will not land. We arrive at Muir glacier about 8:30 a. m. tomorrow and remain until noon. Passengers will not lana at Muir glacier until after breakfast. This program may be changed late this evening. It will depend _upon the weather whether we will g0 to Muir glagier tomorrow or postpono it for a day or swo. JaMES CARROLL, + Commander."" P.S.—~The officers and crew have no con- trol over the weather. If thereis any pas- senger or passengers who think they can control the weather they will please step up 10 the skipper’s oftice and report for duty. There 1s a dark and lonely room 1n this ship, down below the ‘‘glory bold,” and any of the passengers wishing to go down there for the purpose of expressing their opinion abous the weather have the hearty consent of the skipper, J. C. wing to the thickness of the weather the program was changed and we made a detour to Sitka before ascending Muir glacier. The marvelous sights of Glacier bay and our experience in climbing up the Muir glacier will be related in my next letter. E. ROSEWATER. R ey POINTS OF INTEREST 10 BOYS. Probably the first thing to catch one's eyes atter entering the World's fair ground would be a Columbian guard, resplendent in blue trousers, blue coat, with several yards of black braid with brass ornaments hang- ing therefrom; a short sword clanking at s side, a black cockade set rakishly in a soldiery cap and white gloves. A good deal for a boy of 17 or 18 to carry around, isn't it? But that is just the age of many of the awful veings called “Columbian Guards.” Although at first o guard was required to be at least 21 years old, there at present many boys under that age who have entered the ranks of this organization, tpon whose courteous words of direction so many people daily de- pend. The efictenoy of boys as guides was early shown by the company controlling chairs, who chose as their motive power intelligent High school students, a decision which has resulted most advantageously for the chair compuny. This is only one of the many proofs of the ability of American boys to do anything they have a mind to do. In the gallery of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts building are rooms upon rooms filled with the nundiwork of the boys of the German, French and American schools, con- spicuous among them all being a fine exhibit of the manual traiting department of the Omaha High school. Perhups next ia point of nterest to the boys would be the Traus- portation building, where ‘means of travel by air, land and water are all fully illus- trated. The exhibit of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, showing the evolution of the railway locomotive by means of locomotives which are, in nearly every instance, the original engines of the class which they represent, and the first engine that camo into Chicago, shown by the Chicago & North- western railway, both well repay the boy giving them special attention. The numismatists and philatehsts will find much food for reflection both in the United States Government building and in the exhibit of Stanley Gibbons, England, in the gallery of the Liberal Arts building. Mr. Gibbons has one set containing the first stamp issued in almost every country, and another set of 208 envelopes, being almost the entire number that were issued during the civil war on both sides, But boys. don't for oue moment forget that the greatest exhibit here is thé people who attend the exhibition. Keep your eyes and ears open for even one day and you will in all probability run across some ,incident or bit of conversation that will be more ludicrous or have more humor about it than any minstrel show now traveling. Ouly the other day, while standing.in front of a glass partition which surrounds the day nursery m the children’s building, a woman with & baby and husband came along. After con- templating the evident enjoyment of the babies within the inclosure, he suggested to his wife that they leave their baby there so that they might spend a day in peace; 8o they started off to leave their baby. After paying the entrance feo and handing over the baby the nurse gave the mother a check and proceeded 1o put & large tig on the baby >’ give me the baby,” excitedly called the mother when she comprehended this oper- ation; *You ain’t & going to put a tag on my aby just asif it was adog orcow; o, sirrce,” and off sho marched with the baby proud with a consciousness of having saved the buby of the eternal disgrace of being tagged, #Whilo standing 1 the Administration building ono morning I overheard the fol- lowing interesting cotlloquy between husband und viif Sho: I tell you I am going to sce the W man's building and the Childrens’ building.” He: “Well, I want to see Machiuery hall.” She; “1 don't care if youdo. Do you sup- poso L'would miss seeing Childrens’ building and all them handsome embroidered things in Womaw's building?" Ho ~Of course. 1 want toseo them But let's see Machinery hall first.” She “None of the old machinery for me. Iam going.” Andaway she went, while “hubby” meokly followed her, ruminating on tho peculiar mental construction of women, which causes them to see nothing interesting in machimery. JUNIOR. — VIEWS FOi SUMMER, too. Jud e A crystal luke all frozen o'er, White, in the moon, from shore to shore, A field of freshly fallen snow, Where bracing wintry breezes blow. Long fcicles that glicter fair On troes and shrubs and everywhere, Cool caverns deep, where trickly rills Sugest tho most delighttal chills, These are the sort of pletures we Justat this time would like to see, For of this stufl our dreams are made Whon It is ninety in the shade. e — For quality, purity, boquet and healthful- ness there is no wine as gooa as Cook’s Iixtra Dry Imperial Champagne. —_————— . Stub Ends of Thought, Detroit Free Press. A thought never dies. The rose never tries to wear the livery of the lily. We may fill our lives with music if we know what ¢hords to touch. Cupid is scarely to be believed on outh, Matrimony is materialization, Richoes have wings that flap the other way only. Let us talk only of what we have done, and think of what we will do. Yesterday is much farther away than tomorrow. ‘What the girl thinks she will do, the woman seldom does. Old age thinks backwarks — Busy people have no tune, and sensible people have no luclination to use pills that mako them sick a day for every dose thoy take. They bave learned that the use of De Witt's Little-Early Ris does not in- terfore with their neslth by causing nausea pain or griping. These little pills ure per- fect in uction and result, regulating the stomach and bowels so that headaches, aizziness and lassitude are prevented. They cleanse the blood, clear the complexion and one up the system. Lots of health in these little fellows. o — Dakota county will have full yieid of THINKS THE FAWR: WILL PAY Director General David ¥ Oonfident of a Sucoassul Financidl ‘bnuwmo. “ag. TALK WITH THE HEAD OF THE EXPOSITION it epipts and a De- n Gratifying Inerense in crey In Expenses uture of the Great Hundings—Mafor Handy on the Sifuation. = tn Cricaco, Aug. 25.—Spetial Correspond- ence of Tue Bee.]—1 walked under tho statue of victory into the Administration building of the World's fair today to see the director general. This building contains the offices of the men who are managing the great show. Itis covered by a great gold dome and a mortgage. The domo is very big and very costly. The mortgage, by which I mean the indebtedness of the fair, isalso big and it represents millions, The dome covers nearly half an acre and it shines out under the sun above the great city of Chi- cago. The mortgage covers all the 700 odd acres of shows hére andit can bo seen blazing over Chicago all the way from New York to San Fraacisco. The dome will be wiped out at the end of the fair, when the Administration building will be sold to the highest bidder. Whether the mortgage will be wiped out or not remains to be seen. The director general thinks it will, It was to ask as to this that I called. A Chat with Director General Davis. Walking over the marble floor of the ro- tunda past the pretty girl in the center who peddles out for 81 each silver souveuir Columbian half dollars, though in reality they contain less than 15cents worth of metal, I reached one of thoe halt dozen steel elevators which carry you to the upver floors. At the second stop I was landed and a moment later, through the introduction of Major M. P. Haudy, was in the big parlors of the director general. A tall, robust,gray- haired, gray-bearded man, with an eagle eye and a brunette complexion, was pre- sonted as the manager of the World's fair, Diroctor General Davis, and he, in response o my questisn, sal “The Wotld’s fair 1s doing botter every day. 1t will pay all its debts, and we will come out even. Wo are cutting down our expenses in every way, and the saving from the music under Thomas is to be followed by other radicalreductions. Prof. Thomas and his orchestra cost us just $1.800 a day, and the peoplo who heard him had to pay $L apiece to go to his concerts. It took me sev- oral months to get rid of him. Think of it! Eighteen hundred dollars a day! Why it costs only $1,200 a day to run the great build- ings of the exposition, We are reducing right along. Our next cut will be as to the gates, which cost us $1,500 u day, and ‘ve will cut also in other quarters.” What does it now cost to run the exposi- tlon?” ¥odtave “It costs just about $18,000a day now, but an average in the past hasibeen far above that. When we were building we spent $0,- 000 and more a day for weeks, and money had to flow like water...Wo have labored under great disadvantages, All the work has been done under the elgt-hour law, and that law has increased the expenditures of the fair over $1,000,000,° The irades unious have regulated our. prices, and we paid double wages for tho work we had to have done on Sunday in order to get ready in time. Some of our contracts were made for the en- tive period of the fair, when they should have boen made fora short time, and the expense of the whole has been materially in- creased through the haste we have had to make.” Police and Detecrive Force. “Where does ‘this $18,000 a day that it re- quires to run the exposition go?” I asked. *1It is spent in all sorts of ways,” was the reply. “A lurge amount has to be paid out for guards, police and detectives. We have about 200 detectives and 1,600 guards. Tho number of guards has been criticised as be- ing too large, but we need them to provide against fire. The statue, ‘Fire Controlled,’ above this building is typical of our work. ‘We have here one of the most inflammablo cities of the world, and one of the most dan- gerous as regards loss of life. Supposing a fire should oreak out in the Manufactures building, Machinery hallor the Electricity building and should gain headway. Think of the electric wires charged with hundreds upon hundreds of velts of electricity that might fly about as wild wires. If we were not prepared for them they would deal death avevery touch, Why some of those wir es are charged up to 1,000 voltage. One of them broke the other day and fell into a pond covering nearly an acro of ground. A man was standing in the wat ers of this pond a good distance from the wire. He is now laid up with a sore leg coming from tho elec* tric shock ho got at that time. I have it now arranged 8o that these wires can all be deadened at once. If it were not soand a fire should break out the results would bo more terrible than any contlagration of his- tory. We have already had fifty fires, but they have been put out so promptly that the people have never heard of them. ~ As it is our fatalities have been very fow. We have had in round numbers 7,000,000 people on these grounds. Wo have built these great buildings with the men clinch- ing the bolts on some of these great iron structures as they were put together, hang- g onto the beams while they were moving, and all told only fifty men have been killed, and not more than 700 wounded. In other words, including visitors, only 0ie man in every 10,000, 0 far connected with the fair, hus met with an accident. The only building burned has boen the storage building, and for this we were not responsible, “You must also remember that these great buildings are not like ordinary struciures, They are fragile, und, solid as they look, you could kick a hole ‘iuto them at almost any point.” The Future of the Fair Buildings, “What is to become of these buildings?" 1 ask “'Will there be a fair next y f *No,” replied Director General Davis, “A i air next year with these ! builaings is an mpossibility. They jwopld not last the winter through. The yools are so con- structea that thoy would bé’ broken by the 106, and the puildings would fall to pioces, [ know there is some talk of an exposition next year, but it is out of the question.” *How about the extedding of the cxposi- tion on into Novembert? ' ¢ “I can't say whether it will be extended or not. I think it might be 4 %ood thing for us if we could have ten days, ¥Wo wecks or even more in November, anddt weuld help us out, Whether congress will tngw for this, and whether it will be granted, Teannot now say, but it is very probable thatsome such move- ment will be undertaken, How Hard Times fave Affvctod the Falr, “‘Has the panic hurt the fair?” I asked. “Yes,” replied General Davis, “it has re- duced our attendance at_least 25,000 o duwy and our receipts proportionally far more. “The rich men of the country ure not coming to the fair. Capitalists, bunkers, merchants and the men who usually spend 8 great deal of money at such pluces as this are staying at home to watch their business. The finan- cial coudition is such that they @re afraid to goaway. The banks are agaiust us. Sena. tor Mandersou was here a day or so ago. He told me thut oue of the chief enemies the fuir had was the banks. Said he: “The banks don’t want the people tugo to the fair. They are hard up all over the country, and it burts them to have their money taken off 10 Chicago h{ their depositors, They have een doing all they cau with the railroads to beep their rates of fare up, and they discour- kge the World's fuir in every way.” 1 believe ahisto he true. Director General Davis twent on, “A great deal of money comes here fruw every puiuk lu the Uniled States HE BMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 1803-SIXIERN PAGES ;m‘ At this time the loss is being seriously olt.” Chieago and the Falr, “'Has the fair helped Chicago?™ “Yes," vepliod Mr. Davis. 1t has prac- ed the Chicago banks. Theco has been less trouble here than at any other int in the country and the Chicago banks ave pienty of money. Tho merchants are doing o big business and some of the larger firms aro having more custom than they can attend to. 1 don't think the hotels are making much, as nd_ thereis by no b meass the extortion p A that has been charged © probability 18 that September and® October will see by crowds thaa ever, and the richer peovlo will probably come at that time. Now many of them aro at the seashore and we could seo_ the falling Off of this class as soon us tho hot weather bowan, Itis thiscluss that patronizo tho best hotels and that spends the money which comes into us largely through the concessions. The Concessions Pay the Expenses. “Does the fair management make much from the conces 1 asked “Yes," replied General Davis, “our re- celpts from the concessions ave granted to the different shows in the Midw ance and to others doing busi grounds now more than pay running expenses of the fair. We get a percentage of the gross receipts of all the shows o porcentage of the receipts from ne everything sold. These percentages all tho way from 20 per cent to 70 per and every girl who chows gum in the grounds gives 70 per cont of the amount sho pays for the gum to the World's fair. In otnar words the chewing gum company pays us 70 por cent of its receipts, Of the shows in the Midway 1 think the Calro street pays best, though we get a good round sum from all. The big Ferris wheel has id us nothing, as yet. It was not to give per- centage until it had received enough to pay the expenses of putting it up. This has been abous accomplished and we will get a good income from it. Some concessions have not paid nearly as well as was ex- vected. The roller chairman has not been doing as much as he thought he would, and popeorn, which was considered a very good concession at Philadelphia, is not worth much here. How the Forelgners Klok, “Are the foreigners satisfied with tho tair?’ +Not very well,” replied Director Goneral Davis; *'they do not Iike the concessions and they say that the allowing thom to pedale out things from the different countries materially affects their business. Many tof them have so decidedly objectea thab we have changed the rule and allowed them to sell things in the various buildings. W ex- pect them to pay a percentuwo to the fair They are not doing, however, the business they expected to do. This s largely from the fact that the richor class of our peoplo are not here. Tho crowd you see on the grounds today is not mado up of men who buy $1,000 vases, fine carriages, or order beautiful china and pictures. If the times let up we will have somo of these people in September, but not now.” “Who are making monoy out of the fair?’ T asked. “The Chicago merchants, a fow of the hotels, the railroads and somo of the con- cessionaires,” was the reply. “As to any ono connected with the fair making money, 1 do not know of 1 cent that has been gotten by the ofiicers, As for me, as large as my silary is, I have spent more than it right along in the duties I have had to perform in keeping up with the position. 1 think the same is true of the other officials.” Major Hundy on the Situation. After leaving Director General Davis L talked for some time with Major M. P. Handy, who had charge of the bureau of publicity and promotion, and who has been, as theatrical peonlo would say, the advance agent of the fair. One question I asked him was in regard to the large free list. There 1s, you know, a turn- stile for passes connected with every gate at which paid tickets are taken, and the num- ber of passes givenout amount to about 30,000 darly. -~ Said Mafor Handy: *Thirty thousaud is not a large number of free admissions fora fair like this, It is gencrally supposed that these are all given to the press. The truth is most of the passes belong to vhe employes of the fair. re are 60,000 exhibitors here. Each has the right to'a ticket for himséif and his at. tendant. Then think of the army of men connected with _the concessions, of the cleaners and sweopers and of the peoplo who have to come to the fair to bring food and other things, and you will sce that this number is very small. " It is true that i num- ber of newspaper passes have been given out, but the newspapers have made the fair, and it seems to me that the pushing of the fair with the newspapers ought to be kept up today as strongly ever. I think this fair ought to be runas a great show, and that is the only way to make 1t pay.” “Is it going to pay?” I asked. “We will pay our debs,” was Major Handy’s reply. "“‘Had tho times not boen so hard we would have given a big dividend to our stockholder **When will the next world’s fair come?” “There will never be another big world's fair,” replied Major Handy. *“This has capped the climax. Chicago has set the pace too rapid. for any other city orany other nation to compete with it. Think of it. The fair has cost $20,000,000. The thought of such an attempt would send the cold chills down the back of any nation in Europe. New York couid never haye done what Chicago has done,and I doubt whether Chicago will ever do as much again.” for Chicago, Major Handy comes from Philadelphia. ‘When I knew him some y ago1 was socinted with him in thé New York World bureau in Washington, and I found that his iews on most subjects were conservatiy Like all men who have becn connected for time with Chicago, however, he has now ome convinced that 1t is the T of the ears nd when 1 broached the idea that the World's fair might, on the whole, be rather an injury vhan a good to this city he scouted the insinuation and i | World's fair has aiready helped Chicago and it will materia s0 it in sizo and th. Chicago grows right along. It now has 1,400,000 people, and it is bound to be the biggest city in the United Yori will, perhaps, hold her com premucy, but the World's fair has Chicago ' into close touch with g markets and the great merchants of Eurono, and her business will now be done with them direct. Already gold 15 being shipped from Furope directly to Chicago. One of our firms brought in $1,000,000 last. week, and Phil Ar- mour received 00,000 in gold riot long ago. The biggest cities of the world are not at the sea shore. London, Pars and Berlin ave all in the interior, and the 18 10 be the fate of the United States. Chicago bas the best location in the country for a great city, and it will steadilysgrow. *Another thing that tho fair is doing for Chicago,” continued Major Handy, *is in the way of education. It i3 making the city cosmopolitan one. 1t is provincial no longer It has grown in art taste, and it will hay ult of the fuir o magnificent art palace, go is in a better financial condition toduy us & result of this oxjosition, Its peoplo are now making moncy, and the hotels are, I think, doing well. 1t is & ourious tning about this fair that there wias more money spent during the fivst two months than there hus been since then. The Hotel Richelicu wade §0,000 in June, aud all of the good hotels did well during May and June. The her people came at that time, They will be back iu September, aud they will spend u great deal here before the fair closes.” FRANK G. CARPENTER, A Bad ¢ GEORGEVILL Allen Blockwillder ha or the doc- tor, but he was noi at home, haviug been called off on some other case. The man who came for the doctor said that Mr. Bl willder was vory sick, that he was passing blood and vomiung. We gave him a smail bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera und Diarrhasa Remedy, and told him to go back and tell Mr, y After ubing thr quarters of the medicine he was woll. WIDENHOUSE & SHINN Messrs, Wiaenhouso & Shinu are promi- nent merchants and are widely known in that part of the state. Their statement can ve relied upon. C.—Mr, et <R el The reason why so few wmusical students win real success is that thoy are in 100 great a hurey to appear in public, and fancy that afier their first public appeirance they need uo further study. Muwe. Albani, in a recent interview, ascribed her success Lo hard work from the beginning, kept up till the present time. She began training at 4 and contiaued for thirteen years before she hud confidence | in ber vowers, “DINK” WILSON AND HIS PALS Oareor of the Oountry’s Most Desperate Qang of Safe Blowers, THE LEADERS WERE BORN IN THIS CITY Commenced Their Careers While Mere School Boya—Story of the Robberies by the Gang, All but Two of Whom Are Now in Jail “Dink” and Charles Wilson, who were tho leaders of one af the most desperato and daring gaugs of l:{umm and safo blowers in this countr; U Syrrcuse, i Detective 0. Death y electrocution is now stariug theso men in the £ nd thoy seew to have no reasonable hopes for escaping justico. Theso two Wilson boys were raised in Omaha and are well but not favorably kuown in this city, When they were wmere lnds at school they gained a reputation for desperato daring which caused them to bo feared and avoided by their play fellows. Tho boys were of vespectable parentage and their parents used overy means to con- trol them, but bad company seemed to bo thoir delight, and they soon got from under parental control. They are now under the ban of the law chargea with the blackest of crimes as a result of their youthtul disobedi- onco. When the Wilson boys were going to school they used to organize and lead gangs of boys into more or less serious mischicf. They kept this up until their numo bogan to appear on the police blotters, and the Omaha ofticers had to keep them under continual surveillance, From petty crimes thoy branched out into greater onos, and now thoir numes, descriptions and photogravhs adorn nearly every rogue's gallery i the country. ‘Ihe fivst vime these young men becamo prominently known in" police circles was when they wero arrested in Loavenworth, Kan., with a complete set of finely made burglar and sufe blowing tools. The fine finish of vhe tools actracted the attention of the western police, who at once began to re gard the boys as boing more than ordi criminals. During their imprisonment in the Leavenworth jail they wroto to their Nettie in this city. The girl was then a saleswoman in the $0-cont store on Farnam s She left for Leavenworth with all the money she could raise, and by hard and untining work she succeeded in securing their release on bonds. Before time for their trial tho men left tho country, forfeiting their bail. "The chief of police in K Chief Seavey of their escape and jocal ofli- cers were put at work to locate them. nk” and Charles were soon located at venty-ninth and Cassius strcots. When placed under arcest they made a desperate fight, but with much dificulty they wor overpowered and locked up in the city jail. Then their photographs were placed in the ha rogues' gullery for the first timo, nen resisted all efforts to got pholo- graphs of them, but with the mid of a kodak Chief Seavey caught them off their guard and secured the identifying likenesses which have bean the means of thoir finul capture for the brutal murder of Detective Harvey. The boys were afterwards ordered to leave the city, which they did. Thoy went to St. Joseph, Mo., and fell in with Sly and Hedspeth, the noted train robbers, who were then ex-couvicts from the Missouri penitentiary. It was then thav tho notori ous train robbing gang, whose daring rob- beries almost paralyzed railway oficials, was organized. Théy sent to Omaha for three more crooks named Getche, Kellner d Hawkins. 80 threerecruiis were all ex-convicts ready to do any kind of crooked work. The gang was organized when the recruits reached St. Joseph. A few days afterward they were joined by a burglar named MeDermott, who had just finished serving a sentence in the Canon City, Colo., penitentiary. This McDermott was ar- Tested once in Denver on suspicion of being the murderer of Ofticer John Phiilips, who 'was shot by a burglar whom he caught in the act of going through a house on his beat, Nothing could be proven against the man, and he turned up in Omahu shortly afterwards, where he was recognized and arrested by Sergeaut Ormsby. The Den- police were notified, but as they did nog ave n case aganst him, he was released and told to leave the city, He then went to St. Joseph and jolned the now thoroughly organized Wilson gang, of which “Dink" and Charles were the leade They had cnough men then 1o do daring work and their plans were laid for the successful and thrilling robberies which followed each other in quicl succession, heir first job was to hold up the employes at the Ames avenuoe street car barn 1 this city. Aftor subduing mployes they cut 1ho telephone wire ing down town and blew open the s: ling about $1,000 ped and shortly held up the “Missouri Pacific ex- press train at Fortieth and I nworth 18, robbing the passen nd express messenger of several thousund dollur: ang left this part of the country avd of at Milwaukee, wh y heid up another train and secure h haul. hen tho robbers went into Missourd, they plauned the now famous expi robbery, which was succossfully oat under the leadership of Chu Up to this time the robb nsas City notified nd whe train do the plunde for the ofi- ud sepa s all over the country were on the alert to thoir capture and earn the big rewards offered. siou of the “swag” took place in a house in the heart of Louis. Sly and Hedspeth went u California and_enjoyed Jife on the Pacific coasy with tho ill-gotven gains, The others of the gang went in various directions, o= William Desmond, l')lh?f’l’f the & city detective force, put all his men to try and capture tho daring robbe came to Omaha with Detective Mo( i sought ussistance from Chief Soavey, who gave the St Louis oMceers all the help and intormation at his command. A tic hunt was then begun for the membors of the gang., Chief Desmond located the woman in St. Louis at wh louze the gang had made their headquariors where they had divided the spoils, In 10 save herself from prosecution for rhoring iciinals tho woman told the chief all she knew about the men, Not long ufter this Sly was captured in the postofice ut Los Angeles by means of & decoy letter. Then Hedspeth und his wife were din San Francisco and all of son back to Missouri, where ied, found guilty, sent s' imprisonment in the | 1y penitentiary and are now engaged in sorving their seutences. Owing Lo the many stories printed about the two men they are objects of much interest to the visitors to that prison. Since that time Charles Wilson and Me- Dérmott wore arrested in Council Bluffs for blowing of wafe in a store on Broadway. While in jail in Council Bluffs Charles’ sistor tiie went over there from this city and wain securad bail for both of them, They fmmediately forfeited their bonds snd lofs tho country. They next heard of in San Fraucisco, w blow open se | safes, making some rich hauls. The u Francisco police Hoally caught them and ettt e il R ARl crs on this Our Intest fmpr anything éver before produs 5., 256., Jertin, Do sare to have BEABURY'S, " Ask or them spread on cotton eloth. SEABURY'S SULPHUR CANDLES: Provention s botter than oure, by burning these candlos bad smells in basenionts, closetd, &o. aro destroyed, and thuscontagious diseased aro kopt away i als0 useful for expelling mos- quitos and irritating iusects, Price, 2c. each, To purity sick-rooms, apartment, ete., use wiitDROMARHTAOL PASTILLES, | fragrance refreshing an 1 invigorating, 3 oy S boxof12. _ Bole BEABURY & JOHNSON, Pugrmaceutionl | NEW YORK, seoured their convistion for one of the minot Jobs they did and the men were sentenosd to the San Quentin penitentiary for a term of five yonrs oach. On their way to the peni. tentiary Charles Wilson offected his esca) through the negligence of his guaras, b& Dermott was not %o fortunate and he is now sarving his sentence in the Oalifornia prison, Some time after this the safoin Jullus Treitschke's saloon in this ity on Thirteenth and Toward streots was blown opon by ox- pert “gophers’ and $1,400 worth of money and jowoiry stolen. Detectives Savage and Dempsey wero of the opinfon that this job was done by Geteho, Kellner and Peto Haw- kins, a now recruit to tnd now partially de. moralized gang. The robbers must have left the city at once, for no trace of them could be found In a short time aftor this robbery Chief vey received information from the shoriff of Carroll county, lowa, that two men, whom ho described, ' had broken out of the county Jail there. These men were cap- tured in the act of blowing opon a safe in tho city of Carroll and were locked up in the county Jail, from which they mado their es- capo. The Omaha police k scription of the burg thay were Hawkins and Kellner, Thoy were ar rosted o week lator by Dotoctives Savage and Dempsoy in a room over the Now York chop house on Fourteenth street, noar Doug: lus. still bad on prison clothes, not having had time to make a change. A’ soou a8 thoy wero locked up the Carroll county shorifl was notified and soon arrived in Omaha. 1o identifipd and claimod his pris- oners, and aftor putting on the handcuMs and shackles he offered to wager that the men would not escape again. In twent; houts after ko ronched Carroll with the men Huwkins was again a_froo man, having out his way through the bars with small saws furnishied him by some pal who gained ads mission to the Jail and probably hood winked the not averly caroful jailor. This was tha Lust seen of Hawkins until Wodnesday uight, when he turned up unexpectedly in Omaha, but disappeared almost immediatoly ugain, Kellnor was triod for the Carroll job and was sontencod to Sorve two years in the Fort Madison penitontiary. Getchodsa blacksmith ana machinist and id to have mado all the tools for tha gang, but so far he has always managed 10 escapo being caught. Ho is now wanted in Creston, Ia., for blowing open u sate in the business portion of that city. Tho Wilson boys, who wero the head of thisgangand who planned and helped executo the most of theso robberies, went east and were lost track of until they were caught in thoact of blowing open a sufe in Syracuso by Dotective Harvey about four wooks tgo. Thoy murdered Harvey in cold blood. “Dink” Wilson was ired, Shortly aftor: ward, Hogave an assumod name, but his identity was disclosed. Charles managed to oscape and th cuso police hadto send to Omaha_for his record, deseription and photograph, whick Chicf Seavey sent them. When th ity of tho mon was cloarly es: tablished ors had something more tanpiblo 10 work on nnd Charles was ar- rested in Buffalo on Friany of the past wook. Ho made a desperato resistance und near shooting ono of his captors, but ho was lodged in jml and is charged with murder along with his brother “Dink Geteho and Hawkins are tho only oues of this dangerous gang who aro now at_large and it is only a question of timo until the are lodgged behnd the bars. This Is the hi tory of tho Wilson wang. 'Lhi to lnugh to scorn the fancied ) modern safo and the public in_general has reasou to fecl thaukful that this gaug has been 80 thoroughly broken up, with most of 1ts members confined i the various prisons throughout the country. e R Intonse Pain Fromptly Relleved. WoonLAND, Northatpton Co., N. C.—[ re- ceived a samplo bottlo of Chamberlain's Colie, Cholera apd Diarrheca Remedy. T gave Dr. Brown, D.D.S.,a doseand ho did uot have any more troublo. Tho samo bot- tle cared two more cases. All' theso cases were suffering intensoe pain. This medicine gave them relicf almost ins sEeci'al:IIs}s CHRORIS, NERVOUS AND PRIVATE DISEASES Wo oure Catarrh, All Disoases of tha Noso, Throat, Cho’t, Stomaoa, Bowals and Liver, Rheumativm, Dyspepsla, Blood. 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