Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 24, 1893, Page 10

10 SCOTCHED, NOT SQUELCHED Bond Promoters Noiselessly Working in Out of the Way Places. OUTWITTING THE POSTAL AUTHORITIES fowa Officinls Colleoting Information for Guldnnee of the Legislatare in Kx- terminating the Evil—Mass | Achusetts Object Less —_— | A significant calm i observable in bond Investment circ The promoters are lay ing low. For weeks not a word has been uttered in defonse of what they clam is “the most cauitabl of current in vestment in existence,” nor has life insur- ance agents or building and loan associations recelved the usual proc jealous fomenters of the assuults on the numerical jokers. he calm should not be mistaken for total system THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: of tho evil ot investment, bond companies and similar concerns.™ The Losson of Massnehusetts, In a former articlo on this subject Tk Bre published a letter from Deputy Insuravce Commissioner Smith, oriefly and forcibly outlining tho experience of Massachusetts with endowment orders and bond compa. nios, Statisties compiled by the insurance department show that the Massachusctts concerns had a membership of 364,000 and collected £12,500,000. Besides the home con cerns, n large number of balloon financiers flocked in from surrounding states, swelling the total membership to 1,000,000 and the collections to the enormous sum of £25,000,- 000. All these swindling companies bat the drum as_vigorously as their followers in the west and proclaimed that their's was a cure all for the illsof poverty and a straight, smooth road to affluence What was the outcomo? Judee Bumpers, special master appointed by the Massachusetts supreme court to di- rect the receivers of the various collapse concerrs in winding up their affairs, pr sented a report to the court recently It is an in rsting docnment, showing the ox- tent of tho ruin and the ‘value of what was saved. Out of th £12,500,000 collected by state corporations Lhero remains assets, es timatiog bonds, ot 000, of wh bonds and w Lab par, valued at § h £400,000 consists of first collapse. e promoters have been seotched, n teages now in the hands of not squelched. Bewg denied the use of the | the stato = treasurcr, The remaind is the hands of the receivers. ' United Stated mail, although a staggering | b5 1 the hands of ‘the rocelvers. Who blow, {8 not in itself sufficient. Indeed that | cash ns rapidly s possibie The was b contingoney forescen und providod | difiorenco hetiveen tho amount pid ani 4 sfore boud schemes received | What now remains is the amount filched Lzl bl Lo L “,'“, A x"w; from hundreds of thousands of people in the attention from stato officials, shrow Bay State, and presents an object lesson to promoters cautioned and urged | proes who imagine bond companios . are their dupes to forward remittances philanthropic mints for the coi age of fo by express, if living at a distance, | tuncs for toilers. or to call in person if living near the mamn | inthe light of the experience of eastorn oftice. By this means the carly dupes were trained without exciting suspicion as to the real nature of the contid game, ana without touching upon the danger of sending money by mail. Subscquent events justitied this precaution, for had letters been re turned to the sendor with the government brand of “fraud” and “lottery” stamped upon it, the most obtuse investor woula at once realizo that he had been tricked, and the company would have had its bailoon scheme_pricked an carly stage of the game, This policy is now being pursued with increased vi At every point where ror. the postal authorities have denicd the use of the mails to bond promoters, access is had to express companies. In most s, however, branch of- flees aro established in localities where postmasters are indifferent, and the shekels of the gullible are gathered mto the pot. “Thus the bond promoters are hanging on by their eyebrows, and at the samo time are pushing the salo of bonds in out of the way places with unexampled vigor. ‘The game is destined to be short-lived, and as a conse- | quence the promoters are concentrating all cnergies in 4 grand haul and a long haul be- fore the day of final reckoning. l 4 in Sight. That day is not far distant. Two years, at most, will bring into force liws designed to prohibit bond and similar financial swindles, e A number of western state legislatures will meet during the coming wintor, the balance o year later. 1t is reasonably certain that theso bodies will cnacy_drastic remedies for balloon financicring. Tho eyes of the au- thorities have been opened. They have ex- amined the schemes of bond companies, which, under cov tion laws, havo sceured a quasi-logal stand- ing, and’ where they were powerless to punish the swindlors under existing laws tho ofiiciuls did the next best thing—to brand them as frauds and swindles and warn the people against them. The ncor- | poration Iiws of lowa and Nebraska at present afford a limitless field for all grades of corporate_schemes. This is varticularly true of the Nevraska law. All thav is re- quired is a brief stutement of the objects of the incorporation, supplemented with the v oof indif Nt incorpora- custor fee. The fee is the main con- sideration. Incorporation papers may | convey us littlo information as to | the “real purpose of the concern | as the managers desiro, and that little may be enveloped in a fog of legul phrases, or contain as many loopholes for escape as' tho logal author elects, There is no inquiry by | county or state oflicials as to whether the real object of the corvoration is outlined, or whother its object couflicts with other laws. The incorporation papers of bond compan- ios filed with tho clerk of Douglus county fnil to state the real purpose of the several organizations. Theonly sentence touching the surface of tho business is that they pro- pose issuing bonds payable on the install- ment plan. No reference is made to tho lottery feature of the Musiness. The nu- merical joker, the mystic multiple of three, 15 kept i the dark, as well as the system of confiscating all previous payments in ovent of failure to promptly pay the monthly installment when due. In fact the incorporation lawsare use. less as a protoction. They afford the widest latitude for all manner of dishonest schemes, and in reality encourage swind- ling by enabling swindlers to parade the fact that the conerrn is “incorporated under the laws of Nebraska." Towa Waking Up. Certificates of incorporation under the laws of Iowa are the chief propsof bond com- panies in that state. The value of these cor- tificates is just the amount of the fee paid— no move, no less. ‘There is no law governing them. ‘I'he absence of alaw is responsible for their existence, Although denounced by the state ofticers, they are vowerless to check or provent 'them from multiplying. About a score of them are now actively teecing the people of their state, and the numbers of cndorsements paraded is in pro- portion to the number of bonds liquidated for boom purposes. Two concerns have head- quarters in Council Bluffs, one in Creston, one in Watcrloo, two in Des Mowes and ono in Keokuk. Besides these, others have come to this rich fiela from Ogden, Denver, Lin- coln, Nevada, Mo., Minneapolis, Chicago and Galesburg, Il Every town and hamlet in the state is being worked by one or more agents, whose energies are whetted nov alone by the' §10 which every dupe puts in their pockets, but also by the certainty that the next legislature will make theid business 8 penitentiary offense, Stato Auditor C. G, Mo on all parts of ing a mass of informa the union concerning the operations of bond investuient companies and the laws enacted for their suppression. This information and copies of laws will be transmitted to the Twenty-filth general assembly, which meets noxt January, with recommendations as the cumstances warrant. A copy of Auditor McCarthy's letter, requesting informaution, was sent to the editor of the Unitea States Tuvestor of Boston and clicited tho following veply rthy is collect- Remedien for t L “The Towa state authorities proposo to miake short work of these coucerns, and it is perhaps natural for them to look to the eust to find out how to mpiish their onds. Probably the cxperience of Massi- chusetts, with its numerical bona schemes und its endowment orders, has suggestod to them that the same means might bo ad- vantageously ewployed in Towa to terminato the swindling operations now going on there, Tho measures cmployed in Massachusetts wero of the simplest character. Tho en- dowment orders and the numerical bond schemes wero terminatea by brief logisla uivo acts which prescribe that business of this character shall no longer bo transacted withiun the state, *Wo should supposo that it would be easy enough Lo make short work with investment bond schemes and similar concerns in lowa and other western states where the laws on such matters are aefectiv When au act ismot expressly forbidden by an existing Iaw, it is held that nothing stands in the way of 1ts performan that it is not contrar: Inthe cuscof any particular kind of bus. iness conducted” under sceh sanction it ought notto boa difficult matter to logis- late, provided the character of the business fails 1o commend itself to publie opinion It is suficient to enact thatata spocifiod tiwe concerns doing such busiuess shull cease their operations within the limits of the stato pussiug the law and that some official (the insurauce commissiouer, for in. stance) bo given power to apply for receivers for the probibited concerns. “The ouly thing that could jussibly stand provided, of course, Lo good morals, in the wav of a speedy termination of the ex- istang evil in Tows would be a lack of inclina- Hon “on the part of legislators to proceed against the various concerns in questic We should hardly care to beliove that an Towa legislature could coatain a majority of members of wan intellectual calibor so small 8 1o preclude their sceing tho necessity of Saklug spoedy measures to reliove the stale | nent English draniatis 1 Juror ates 1t issurprising that men of repute and business rity lend theil AMes as a prop to fraudulent concerns, They cannot plead ignorance of the character of the business endorsed, nor will the plea of friendship for the promoters relieve them of the odium at- tached to lottery swindles. Perhaps the cn- dorsements are secured on the Massachu- cuts plan. There the endorser drow ary proportioned to his vrominence in the community. A chaplain of some note was paid a salary of 500 for making a prayer once 1 two years. LR A MAGAZINES OF THE MONTH. The stamp collector will be delighted with the special illustrated number of Stanley Gibbons’ Mouthly Journal, which is brimful of the latest information about rare aud new postage stamps. Stanley (ibbons, limited, 8 Gower street, London. W. C. Aside from its fund of serial storics, C: scll's Pamily Magazine for September con taius a fine varioty of miscellany and_de lightful short storis “Between Two Waters,"” *The Mysterious House in the Latin Quarter,” and a short poem, “Willy- Nilly,"" are very pleasing. Cassell Publis ing ‘company, i04-106 Fourth avenue, New York. An illustrated article, “Memories of Augs- burg and Innsbrack,” by Rosalie B. Stroup, forms the leading attraction in the New Peterson Magazine, This takes one back to the days of the Emperor Maxmilinn I und the artist, Abert Durer, and gives us a glimpse at the picturesque fifteenth cenuur, buildings and streets by the sideof the ov towering wountains that dwarfed all man- mwade works. The Peterson Magazine com- pany, Philadeiphia, The progress of Christianity as it wor it way through remote quarters of the globe can be_observed in no better way than by a perusal of the columns of Theé Churclat Home und Abrond, the which furnishes very agreeable reading both as to the variety of information to be gleancd as well as the religious ideas aud movements it records. Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work, 1334 Chestnu street, Philadelphia. “The whole field of popular botany, natural history and general gardening has been culled in making up the September number of Mcehan’s Monthly. Odd bits of infor tion of great interest are incidentally brought to lignt—such as that the Jower forms of insect lite arc so abundant in the far north to account for the legion of fish and marine animals prevalent near the pole; that treo trunks cannot elongate; that good timber by planting can be had’ within a quarter of a century; tkat the roots of the evening primrose make oxcellent eating. Thomas Meehan & Sous, Germantown, Philadelphia All interested in_household art will find a valuablo friend in the Art Amateur. The September number of this copious journal is accompanied with a number of large pictures in colors, besides a supply of original new desigus for decorating china. Fine engray ings are interspersed. many of them suitablo for framing, and the reading is of especial value to amateurs and all sceking to develop the instincts of art. Montague Marks, 23 Union square, New York. For instructive and_profitable reading the double autumn number of Poet-Lore for Au- gust-Septembor ranks in the van of current art literature. “The general tenor of its con- tributions 1s” critica), but in such simplo form and warm coloring us to please, and no pleasure 1s like that accompanied with the kuowledge that 1t bears with it the fruit of sell-improvement, Ruskin _as an “Art Teucher,” by William G. Kingsland, and “Shakespearo’s ‘Julius Casar, © by W. J. Rolfe, Taw.D., are exhibitions of carcful analysis. Poet-Lore company, 196 Sumner street, Boston. The curvent number of the Sanitarian contains among its clinic contributions an articie on the exunetion of contagious dis- enses, by Walter Wyman, A.M., M.D., ro- viewing the history of epidemics’ and view- ing it in the light of recent understanding of their causes. Iu connection with the sub- Ject the writer roviews the sanitary regula- tions of nation, state and city as a brevent- ive and meaus’ of resisting spread where a foothold is gained. The number is fully up to the usual high standard. Dr, A, N. Bell, 201 Union street, Brooklyn, N. Y, People poss eptember number of cd of common sense do not agged through an abattoir to realize or believe in its nauscousness. Teli them that in large and old cities the special- ization of affuirs necessarily will develop in- stitutions of vice distinctiv their form and disgusting in nature, and it will read be believed without a sample imago beini lield under their eyes. Such pictures tako off tho edgo of wit and blunts the very capa- bility of enjoyment. ‘There is no more good reason for the existence of this class of lit erature than for quackery in-vther forms. “The Skivts of Chance” is o work of this order appearing in the Scptember issuc of ““Tales from Town Topics.” Town ‘Topics, 21 West Tweuty-third street, New Yorl “The July-August number of the Magazine of American History contains an exhaustive account ol the origin aud history of tho Ohio university by Willis Boughton, The exuct date of discovery of Florida is traced by 1. MacBennet in *A Tanzle in Amorican Chronology Straightened.” The incidents counected with the terribic explosion on the shiv Princeton are vividly outlined by Rev. W. W. Taylor. Unaer original docu- ments is printed for the first time, an ex- tract from the journal of the United States ship Cyane, Kdward Trenchard, commander, on the viest coust of Africa, 1520, showing roment was doing at that the suppression of the slave trade. Among the ofticers will be noticed the names of many who afterwards became promiuent i our navy. Maguzine of Amer- ican History, 120 Broadway, New York. Seven Facts About Silver,” by Hon. W, . Standish, is one_of the striking features in the Arend for September, The writer takes 4 bold stand. and furnishes, perhaps, the ablest exposition of tho merits of frec colnage thit the breseut coniroversy has de velopad. Rev. Howard MacQueary's disse tation on “*Moral and Immoral Literature, reveals some interesting historical facts and time toward much common sevse touching this impor- tant subject. The frontispiece introduces the reader to some of the Snhakespeare in the recent Bacon-Shukespearo dis- cussion, au installment of which appears in this number. The Arena Publishing com- vany, Boston, Sparkling as usual, the last number of he Tdler displays admirable taste and judg- mentin the selection of its waterial, “The King of Schuorrers.” by 1. Zaugwill, is a fanciful pastrait of Jewish boggur life in Londou a century ®r so back, very quaint snd full of excellent humor. A roview of the carcer of Heury Arthur Jones, the ewi- is full of interest Quality is what shines inevery article, and the ensemble s very gratifyiug to the lit- erary sense, if such a sterm may be applied, I'he illustrations are also of exceprioual merit, rovealing the hand of the aviist's | Clure, limited, 743 | handiwork in a marked distinction from the York Soy cinat for-N thing," by A" B. Ward. The varied nd entanglements into which the youthful hero is plunged, his removal to Gotham, together with his abuse of valuable o” talent and gradual decline, hand in gifis hand desce races careol weak And s0 is thie complete story with common photogravares. S, S. Mo nd 745 Broadway, Now ano fas life itself, which it ptember's Outing is bright ing a8 the sport of outdoor ns, “Donald Gray; the Tack of a Good. with 1oss of employment and his nt to sharp practices in “playing the V—all the misfortunes pursuing such a with the sad accompaniment of a and doting mother sorrowing at hom are sketched very true to nature, Other features that will bo prized are “Temecula Canon.”” a picture >f California sport, by T. S, Van Dyke: “Our Sailor Soldicrs,” by I 3. Mero; *“Football on the Pacitic Slope,” by John Craig, and “A Wolf Hunt,” by Datty M. Selmes, Outing, 230-241 Fifth avenue, New York One of the triumphs of current literat is the September number of The Cosmopoli- tan, devoted alnost entirely to_that ines- haustible theme, the Columbian exhi bition.” The special mark of enterprise that distinguis this number as a great achievement and a memorial worthy of the name is in the remarkable galyxy” of con ributors, ombracing such names as ox President Harrison, Walter Besant, Price Coltier, Murat Halstead, Julian Hawthorne, Iillen M. Henrotin, K. J. V. Skiff and H. (. Chalfield-Taylor. Kack of these eminent writers has taken some spoeial branch or phaso of the fair for treatment, making the whole a collection not ouly worth reading, but also worth preserving. Mark Twan contry ing or i ibutes u delichtful skoteh, *Is He Li e Doad” and W. D. Howel sorial, **A Traveler from Altruria,” occupies a fo tratic politan M enth “The Pri by Victoria Woodhult M number of The furmsnes a to the dev finance and exposes thoe wi and o cating the ideal 18, ho! be the us Veing the commer and leading to one inevitabic conclusi ancial system, rather than a special cu butions abound in thi them | Hum pages ab the close. Almost’ 100 illus- ns brighten the issue.”The Cosmo sazine, Sixth avenue and klev- street, New' York, iples of Finance” are discussed rtmn in the current Humanitarian, The writer tatement of primary requisites opment of & correct system of aknesses of gold s fotcurrency, advo- redeemable greenback as il medium of exchange. This conelusion wover, no better grounded than would Is for currency, all ike to the charge of not fitting ul systom they are to serve, n that ther metallic base open . is demanded. Other valuable contr number, and most of izod by good sen aulon Press, 30 re characte aitarian, C strect, New Yorlk, Pol itical Science Quartorly for September opens with “Giffen’s Case Against Bimetal- lism,” vly b write vepr of of issue shows tii * by Chacles B, Spahr, being a lueid o0 the claims of monometallists. The r maintains that the currency problem ents a conftict of interests rather than nions, yet confines his discourse to the from a purely nomic stand. He t even gold coin cannot be kept in parity with gold bullion, the latter being the uniy and loss juvoived in reduetion com Dr. Max West presents a_condensed disct sion of the rsal standard, and the costsof transfer to the local of other countrics preventing paviy Inheritance Tux; heory of Alexander Winter ‘discourses sympathetic ally on Prot. Late tho oficial documents Ingli of Avou Al The Engincering M: insigh portin tary ¢ atten 2 ey governed system of c: pretty well r tific Analysis of Monoy aw “Ashle ud the pr The Modern Spivit of Penolo; J. B. Moore reviews the course of *“Ihe Chilian Controversy,” as_disclosed by Prof. H. L. Osgood The Prussian Archives'” and their ,and Prof. W. Cunuiugham of ically reviews the latest volume y's linglish Ieonomic History.” t lifty publications are noticed in the ments of “Reviews” aund *Book ' Ginn & Co., 70 Fifth avenue, New wnd i of bert William: Jr. gives the reade: zine for Septomber an 1Linto many facts and figures of im- nce in judging the merits of the mone- :ontroversy now engaging the country’s tion. g complications tical paradox of an honest cur- ite harmoniously with an un- erying ou trado is reading “A Scicn- Bmil Ichalks. As \ network it is o ope alized af y out ot the lab suggested that, a commission of scientific me and experts in finance ought to be ap- pointed to whom the whole question should be submitted for deliberate und e inquiry, scientific, tem may be expected. an arf Cost charge should b for the shortest carria claim argue strangely in favor of ultimate and s cessful gover nd from uthor whom a ative and pracugc ames 1., Cowles, in ticle, “Distance Not n Iactor in the of Railway Trafiic,” argues that the ame for the longest as whether for the ight or passengers. This ed on cost, and would tend to age of I is ba At ownersnip of the rail- ways. Tho Ingincering Magazine Co., World Building, New York. Henry M. Stanley contributes to McClure's for S he colleeted in A trodu other about Journ in his laborat important art description of the famous s him greatest bacteriolog g Bron and the remarkable stories rica. In an interesting in- ction Mr. Stanley tells how this and folk tales were related by the natives the camp fire at night during his eys in Africa. Pasteur in nis home and ry constitute one of the most sles. 'This is really a twofold ntist, portray- ather, us the sptember one husband and tof the c te article tells of the most romantic exciting courtshin and elopement of as a Hugh Bronte, the grandfather of the novel- sts. wiy The Re in full glory with a perf whole planet an en “Our cus the Ber on Si Turo| cago mino: von Chica uniy also 1 econ Itas about econ and some prova powe brought to ments by hum rehy 15, ed economies the fount by greed, rtoons and othe: eye glancing over authority” 5. S, McClure, limited, 743 Now York. »w of Rov! 5 Broad- ws is out this ‘month ¢t epitome of our 1t serves its readers with ticing diet beginning with a review of American Monetary Crisis.”” It dis- the silver debate, the tariff outlook, \r sea decision, the French attack am, the pr S pean politics, and the Worl r but of the home rule bill, at Chi rious matters s fair, interesting Portraits, pictures speak to the its coutents. Prof, H Holst, imported to the University of ago fromone of the leading German itics, writes with much force and much narrowness under the cloak of what is principally a lot of Jmic superstition and no morve—trash time ratioual men ceased to jabber “inexoruble laws inhereat in omical ~ facts” until they produce establish these laws and they possess thing like universal intelligent ap. Al Itejected theories are not laws, and rs based on such theories may be' conform to practical require law, Nature's law is an- inexorable until man fits it to his The fact is we have too much jm- and it is badly mixed av ' interests seeking less to learn than to prevail. No wonder the writer is impotent to grasp the first clement in tho problem when he bars ut the outset all views tending to “increase the clamorings for fratornalism”—an anti-government sen- timent that logically leads to absolute an- archy and nothing else. *The Silv tion in Colorado,” by Prof. Fdw Bomis, gives a view of purel the 1 Somerset, the A ve Reu the situnti y monetary stundpoint. An account of ifo, career and work of Lady Henry most influential woman in t Britain in social and moral reforms, y interesting. I'he Reviow of Reviews, Astor Place, New York. aders of the September Century will be apt to turn first to the opeuing _chapters of Bret the uext of an Scottish estate and title, Harte new novelette, “The Heir of McHulishes,” 1w be completed in the number. 1t is the story of the attempt American syndicate to secure a Another series of letters from the late Bishop Phillips Brooks appears in this letters Lo grows they lotte August Centyry with of of Chamberlain, on whicl ness 1850, Othe clude a ograp scribes his first visit to America. his i and My Asia." number. While these a veople of his family, yet as charming and s naive as the chiluren which appeared in the Dr. Brooks cuils Benares, its 5,000 temples, “the very Back Bay The frontispiece is & portrait Daniel ~ Webster, which Mellen the author of an urticle “A Glauce ot Daniel Webster," h it illusirates, considers the best like- of Mr. Webster made between 1540 and It is here od for the fivst time r biographical articles in this issue in- coutiuuation of Salvini's aulo) in which the Italian actor de sud gives pressions of Henry Irving's Hawlet The Author of Hobinson Crusoe,” by M. O. W. Cuiphaut, the English novel are s 10 phy st. Mrs. Oliphant tells us that tho father of Danil'Defoo was n buteher named IFoe, “and whiithbr the Defoe of his son was a mere ploasantry upon his signature of D, Koo, or whethbr'{t embodied an intention of setting up for ‘smothing bettor than the tradesman’s mondsyllable, is a quite futile question upon wiich nobody can throw any light."~The ‘Céntury Company, Union Square, New York. Fx-Speaker Reed prosents his views on (“Thn Political Situation" in the curront num rof Tho North American Review. He attributes the present condition of affairs to the uncertainty of the coming price of labor, due to two causes; first, the {ndefinito base of our future measuro or standard of valuo, and second, the indefinite ‘conditions under which our manufacturers can proceed. The Right Hon. the Earl of Donoughmore dis cusses T'he Hou of Lords and the Home Rule Bill," concluding that the House of Lords have but one course open to it—to re- Ct o proposal which has never received tho sanction of the nation and which its af. thors and supportersnever intended snould be prssed into law." He bases this conclu sion on the distinction between home rule as 0 abstract proposition and home rule in legislative form. The people have passod the abstract proposition, and the wri irims would not consent to the bill as it and though the Commons have tor the people passed on this, Parliament, con sisting of both houses nd the wn, i alone represent all and must coneur bo- fore the bill may bo considered approved Andrew Carncgie, in a very fatherly, confit ng sort of a way, whispers into the ears of wago earncrs his profound knowledge on he Silver Problem.” Like most men whoso interests lic in one direction, his opinions are a strong reflex of innate egoism. Mr. Carnegie tells them ho has given the viows of the most brilliant thiskers on all sides, but either ne has done all his reading abroad or had his best ear open to the sweet voice of John Bull, creditor. Certainly his essay isa plea for monometalism, based on nirast with a most biased and warped view of bimetallism. Mr. Carnegie is not up with the spirit of the times. and both by position and late association has oeen Iurovean. His eye has learned to regard old abovo flesh, and broad moral principals are nothiug in the face of economic. ledger- demain serviug his indivioual interest. The egoism has yiclded 10 his station and surroundings usted the seat of juidg- ment. A man cannot 1ive ouv of the current of the world and vemain in touch with it, Mr. Carnegie begins w h the ena ho wishes and builds” to support this end, the method of tho advocate but not of the' student. 1t shows that his previous clearness belonged to the advocate whose intercsts ran in the direction of right. Feonomicsis a moral science—the theology of future religion —and thosa who would be its prophets must be something more than shrewd advocates and must_riso above their personal interests The North Amorican Review, East Fou teenth street, New York. Now Books. The complete novel in the September nun ber of Lippincott's is *A Bachelor's Bride, by Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron. It tells of an unconventional and illstarred macriage and its tragic conscquences. The seventh in the series of Notable Series is *The Cross Roads Ghost,” by Matt Crim. Itis illus- trated, asure two otber brief tales, “Ish- by Richard Malcolm Johuson, and 'he Carthusian,” from the French of Amedeo Pigeon, aptain Charles King, in “Uncle Sam at the Fair,” describes the government exhibit at Chicago, and telis how thaw partofit which relates to the arm; thronged by itors, while those which display the artsof peace arecom- paratively nezlected. “In the Plaza de Toros,” by Marrion Wilcox, is an illnstrated article describing an Easter bull Seville, “'the cradle of the spor writer, like a good: Americar specta Recolloctions of Dickens™ on his first 10 America in 1541 A short study of ‘orest Fires,” by IPelix L. Oswald, is ac- companicd by his portvait. Juason I M. D., writes of “Hypnotism: Its U Abuse.” Commander C. H. Rockw the Unitea States novy, narrates pisode” on a fever stricken ship. Lippineott Co.. Philadelphia, The leading article in Harper's Magazine for Sentember is A’ General Tlection in England,” by Richarl Harding Davis, who vividly describes his experiences as the com- panion of a_conservative candidate auring the exciting campaign which veturned the vresent Parliament. The article is illus- trated from ten drawings by W. Hatherell, Readers of “T'ne Refugees,” which has been published in book form since its completion as a serial, will be interested in an_article on Dr. A. Conan Doylo’s hero, Dulhut, by William MeLennan, which appears under the title, “A Gentleman of the Royal Guard, ted by Reinhart. Two articles of biogs and " historical inter- estare “Texas,” by ex-Senator Samuel Bell Maxev, and “idward Imerson Barnard,” the director of the Lick Observatory, by S W. Burnham. Both are illustrated. “The Letters of James Russell Lowell,” by Charl Eliot Norton, contains some of ‘the charac teristic correspondence of the poet during his college days and through the war period A S J. B, “An Albert Durer Town,” by Ilizabeth Robins Pennell, is a description of Rocama dour, illustrated with Lwelve charming skotehes by Joseph Penuell. In “Down Love Lane” Thomas A. Janvier describes the Chelsea and Paisley of Old New Yorx in light though sympathetic vein. The illus trations are by W. A. Rogers. Harper & Brotirers, New York. In the September Forum, which begins a new volume, three striking’ articles are pecially consy glo for Silver, cuous. by tor| ‘A Century's Strug- John Bach McMaster, the eminent h n: “The Vat the United States,” by Rev. Dr. Edws Glynn; and “My Four Favorite Parts, Henry Trving, the famous Inglish trag Mr. MeMaster's paper summarizes te the experience of the United States in se- curing an apundant and convenient silyer cerrency medium for everyday mercantile transactions, De. MeGlynn off an acute dingnusis of the present relations of the pope and American® Catholics, condemning buses and reciting the exact lan- recent remarkable personal con- versation with Leo XIlL, during which the pope discussed the Satolli-Corvizan contro- sy and frankly condemned fomenters of clesiastical dissension. Albert C. Stevens, editor of **Bradstreot’s,” in “Phenomenal Aspects of the Financial Crisis,” codifies the history of notable panics and’ shrewdly criticises ~the present business situation Edward M. Shepard, in “T'he Brooklyn Idea in City Government,” insists that Brooklyn's present miszovernment is duc, not to its municipal charter, but to the men who act underit, W. M. I, Round, secretavy of the National Prison ~association, writes on “Criminals Not the Victims boldly defending with facts and figures the revolutionary conclusion implied in the title. The Forum Publishing Co., Union Square, New York. of Heredity. RER A sure Sign. Detroit Froe ‘Press: An irascible, ugly old brute, WHo hadn't half as much of an idea how to/treat his wife as he had of how to tigat his cattle, was one of a jury inquirepdo de lunatico, the paticnt being a neighbor of the old farmer, . “What do you think of Mr. Bilson's mental condition?" asked a physioian, “Crazy as a hal! bug,” said the old man. f *Did you eve gep any signs of it **Not lately, for Lhaven't scen him." **‘What did you ever see that would in- duce you to think e was not of sound mind? iy “Well,” said the old fellow with an air of convietion, *“Pve scen him carry in two pails of water, while his wife wasn't doing a thing but, talk to a neighbor woman over the fonee,” - An English writer,speaking of Mme. Patti's coming tour of America, which bagins No- 9, and for which 'she receives §40,000 for forty concorts, recalls that thut is the samo mouey that Gye and Mapleson paid her for her operatic tour ten years ago,and states that then the ingenious device was invented by some impecunious amateurs of yndi cating” an opera ticket. A party of i subscribed teu shilliugs each for a singl. seat, each laking o twenty minutest then going out and giving the pass-out check to-the ext in order SERAR DA = We could ot iwprove the quality if paid doublo the pri DeWitt's Wiich Hazel Salve is the best salve that experieace cau produce, or that money oan buy. INRAY, SEPTEMBER 9 & L RENINISCENCES OF THE RAIL Memories of Pioneer Days in the Oabs of 0ld-Time Engines. TRAINS OPERATED WITHOUT TELEGRAPHY Chat Between Robert Mo( Gi Loo of This City When Modern € Were Unk oll and Juhn They Rallronaed entences Wi The exhaustive display made by a number of the leading trunk hnes of America-in the Pransportation building at the World's fair has inspired many well written articles upon the evolution of the locomotive. T road has now a literature quite as var the older trades and professions, andit is be ing added to every day or o throughout the length and breadth of the land, not only by philosophical engineers, but by t wore assoctated tutimatoly in tho early pioneer days 'wo men, both in the late lite, with hait of snowy deepseamed though very faces, sne on a vine-coverced the other day, chatting railroading in the “thirties tion was so replote with mterest to the railrond man of ihe day, with his perfectod system and appliances, that a portion of this afternoon talk is here. with reproduced, A son of one of the men, now a power in the railrond world, had just returned from a o men who with ratlroading afternoon of whitenoss, and Kindly, gen porch in Oma miniscences of “I'he conversa- past glories and visit to the Transportation building. He told his' father of the fine display aud the liberal - edueation - railroading one could acquire by a visit to the structure, He de scribed tho “erabs” and “grasshoppers,” names given to engines of certain classes in the carly days., Both these men, Robert McConnell and John G, Lee, were among the pioncers in tailroad construction and operation in America, both machinists of _pronounced ability. ' One was a master mechanic on the Union Pacific in tho '60s, and their talk sounded much like pages out of long since forgotten books, while their deep friend ship for one another is as refreshing as a south breeze in summer time. Mr. Leo who will touch the eighticth mile stone on Octeber 12, began his career with the “Rocket” and “Firefly,” ruming on the Schenectady & Sa Springs railway, New York, in 1836, Both these engiues were of Linghsh make, and about ten tons in weight, Mr. Green, who was a practical locomotive builder, operated the *“vonderful curiosities,” while Mr. Loe looked after the fires. Both engines had single drive; with lateral motion for turning curves. r'h were minus a cab and the water tank was merely a hogs- head in the back part of the tender. The cvlinders wero pla at angles of about forty-fve degrees, the valve gearing being particularly intricate. The “Rocket,” named aftér the famous engine which took tho prize of £500 offered by the divectors of the Liverpool & Manchester railway in 1820, had four coupled wheels, four feet in diameter, driven by the vertical cylinders with thirty-six inch stroke placed at the back on each side of the boiler. The motion of the piston was transferred through two “grasshopper” beams to the connceting rods auk pins in the wheels. The power of these engin: d Mr ‘was suflicient to draw six cars about 20 of the strcetcars of today. uud fitted up exactly like Concord conclies scen on our strects. The track upon which these cars and engine ran were coustructed of strap iron spiked to pine rails, the wheols, then, as now, being flanged, Engines Without Trucks, “After some time with the Rocket I ran sa an engine called the Tuscarora on the Mohawk & fludson railroad between Schenectady and Albany. Later 1 ran the sume engine between Jolict and Blooming- ton in nois. This engine about | twelve tons in weight and ex plicated, the hooking m being underneath. But, while they levers to do the work of one today, the engine began to shovs four., | “Up to this time the engines wor out trucks, but David Matthey very clever A drawing for’ a to land to will be re patent anc Scotchman, made and fe. truck ne nembe for sent it m; Ross ars the case wound its w through the colrts. Matuhews, 1 believe, 1 living and i ntendent of the water in San Fra co, The trucks of to- cally the same as the one in- s many v . except have incroa woeight. About twenty years ago I quit runuing on the roud, the Jast run being made on the Denve St.Joe. 1 came to Omaha to see my ofd friend Mr. MecConnell, who was then in chargo of the Union Pacific shops here, and he put me to work at tho beneh where T worked for fifteen yeavs.” “Throughout the conversation Mr. N nel acted the part o) brompter and pleasant flavor to the talk, “When a boy,” said the father of Mr. seph H. McConnell, the superintende motive power and machinery of the Union Pacific, 1 began my mechanical career in the city of Philadelphia, going intoa ma- chine shop there. There were only two planing machines in the wholo city at that time, and they were constructed in'the erud- Jon- died a Jo- L oof st manuer, very poorly conditioned for doing any intricate work, the uprights being s0 pluced that unless o man was exceedingly careful his head might be caught and whisked off before you could say “Jack Rob- inson.’ There were no slottiig machines and only a fow cheap drill presses. short time in Philadelphia T weng tinna, Pa., and entered the maching the Pennsylvania company tice. I recall with considerable inte 10w th mode of maicing car wheels in 81 av this shop. | Water power was used to drive the machin- After a 10 Chris- lops of ery, which necessarily was crude, and of the simplest kind. There was a large lathe for boring car wheels, the axles being straight | picces of iron. After the car wheels were bored out a sheet iwon or steel templet with three grooves was slipped into the wheel and a scriber used to mavk the lines of the key way. Then the workman took a half chisy sound chisel and eut the key w ‘s depth e the templ slipped over the axle as far as the key and’ the crude wheel rolled into the bl smith shop, where the blacksmith took a round pieco of 1ron, pointed the end and drove it into the key wiy, then the wheel was slipped on by hand and keyed on, Of course under this primitive fashion it was impossible to chill the wheels, orat least they didn’t attempt it because they didn'y know how +About a year at Christiuna told me that it was not the place to learn my trade, and | commenced worls in & cotton will near IPhily- delphia, but the west was holding out such glivvermg ind nents, nd be r of a somewhat ambitious temperament, 1 decided 1 puil up and tey the new country. | worked my way on canalboat over the Allegheny mountains to Pittsburg, where 1 succeeded in getting employment at & a month and board. But it ‘was decidedly botter than starving, From t Idrifred | y to the to Beaver Meadow and commenced to labor for the Pennsylvania company und later | went on to Elmwa, N. Y. Until now my work had been desultory. but in 1544, whilo at Greenbush, N. Y., 1 entered the machine shop of the Boston & Albany company and worked at the vice, lathe and in fact all the 100ls in the shop. 1t was the turning point w way radroad carcer. After leaving the shop they gave me an ui, the make being oue of Ross Winaus' ‘Crab' species, aud my haul from Greenbush to Pitsfield, a distance of fifty miles, Ihe cugine was speeded to twelve miles un hour, which was something prodigious for thost days. « “There wis 1o telegr traios thea done on scl erated Withoot Felegraph ph lwe for running ud of course everything was dule. But remarkable as it may seem. we had very few accidents and these usually due to the breaking of u wheel Cabs had come into use on cogines at this time, but the bell rope on the passenger train was unheard of, the cugineer being provided with a looking glass uear the | steam guage 8o hocould sce the signals of the conductor and train men and also the rear of the traiu us he stood facing the lever For five years 1 ran on this road and ouly had one genuine swash-up in that time. T'hat 1s o mighty good record,” chimed in Mz, Lae, “but | think I never nad so big o scare 1 my life us when 1 was witn the 1893--TWENTY PAGES | | ® | | e « 1 f t « shops.which posittion 1 held until 1888, when W N il n M most car. two and got BOWELS Chicago & Alton road. train up & long inclined plane near Alton and had gone back to the plug for water. 1 wasn't thinking of anything in particular when Iheard a rumble and roar behind mo like tho combined discharge of forty cannons. 1 looked back and saw my stock train comine down the incline at ata sixty-mile For the momens when 1 decided train with the we reachod the river, [ the and, pulling wway in front wont until, little gine down until wes for the thrown all into a hox but the tra o1 the round he “From Green ‘onnell, “I went ady. when Era and after wait i engl 1 ran for 1855 the ro yoar 1 we | of me and I came to Bloomin, 1 woent where I was connected with ym there whera T took a into th Alton. 1% me foroman ity, who was rchanic of 864 T went t field and ran on he Chicago & Ymaha and took age told me that 1 had better quit. Now m son occupios my old_position with increase power na responsibility.” Mr. McConuell, who was born in 1818, grows old gracefully and the meetings be. twoen these knights of the iron hovse are iteresting even to the host of friends and relatives elustered about them “when the sun sinks s t he west.” One word de: o DeWitt The latest out, ish, nobby traveling hat ‘in white and colors, Then five feet roversing , th the Witch Hazel Salve,cures piles 1 had hauled a stock an hour clip. my heart ceasod to beat, 1 would make a run with the ope of eatching hold before had lots of steam throttle wide open, I got of the wild train. On we 2 by tittle, I brought the en within ten feet of fore intervened, then engine, 1 shut my ash. It came and 1 was eap in front of the fire in was stopped Just in front 1se at Alton bush, " continued Mr, Me to the Mohawk & Schien stus Corning was president ing around for a day or two Little Jenny Lind, which and a half, - In March of ton, 111 on to the Ch to Springfield and eventually Congdon of this general master from 1861 to from Spring the sion o shops, then lie:, went locomative under 1. 11 the first Union Pac ) Jacksonvill the Tonica road, a branch of Alton. Tn 187 I came to charge of the Union Pac ts.not onily to themselves, but wly in SN, ibes it-por " Were- on, —} HOTELS. - —— . The Mercer. Omaha'’s Newest4otsl, Cor. 12th and Howard streets 40 FOOmS §2.5 por day. 0 rooms K500 por day 0 rooms With bath «t 81 par day, 90 rooms with buth at#1.5) por lag Modern In Every Respect, Nowiy Faraishod Thronghout C. S. ERB, Pron. ¥ Burlington Route Pl 1. 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