Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 5, 1893, Page 20

il — R BRO0A Il I GUARANTEED, W E FEEL the pressure of HARD TIMES and so come down to a PRICE that must ATTRACT ATTEN- .TION. $20.00 takes CHOICE of 500 elegant and new pat- terns of HEAVY WEIGHT SUITINGS or OVERCOAT- INGS. il —OR— OVERGOAT 10 URDER 300 Styles PANTINGS TO ORDER at $5.00. SCLENDID WORKMANSHIP FIRST CLASS TRIMMINGS THE WONDER OF THE AGE An Infant in Years, a Giant in Energy and Usefulness, ELECTRICAL PROGRESS IN 17 YEARS ' Tribulations of Brake Beam Tourlsts Christianity & Fallure?—How the Peo- ple Are Robbed—Gleanings from November Mugazin The marvelous development of electrical power is the subject of an instructive paper by Arthur V. Abbott in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Mr. Abbott contrasts the power exhibits at the Centennial exposition the World's fair, which forcibly il- ates the country’s progress in that line in seventeen years, In the days of the Cen- 1, he says, animal force and h encrgy, as transformed into mechan work by the steam engine, were practically the only commercial forms of power. Now the lightning is captured, and at the World’s fair it pulls the cars, drives shafting, lifts elevators, propels the boa lights the buildings, warms the offices, cooks food, purifies water, tans hides, muakes conyersa- tion between Chicago and Boston of daily occurrence, signs checks across the e tinent and forms a conservatory substitute for sunlight in which the most aclicate plants can flourish. At the Centennial, with the exception of the telegraph and a little electroplating, there was absolutely no come mercial application of electricity, Now there is scarcely a single detail of daily life that 1s not permeated by and dependent upon_it. So rapid and s0_important bas- been elec- tric development that withia the seventeen ears this counury has invested §1,000,000,000 n electric industries, At the Centennial the entire electrical exhibit was included in ® small section of the main building. Today the Columbian exposition not only devotes to electricity o special building, 700 feet long and 845 feet wide, covering noarly six acres of ground, but in addition at least one-third of the Palace of Mechanical Arts is given up to dynamos, and in the Mines, Transporta- Hon and Munufactures buildings exhibits Involving electrical applications meet the eye at every turn, At Fairmount park o single arc laip, as one of the greatest noyel- Ii}'l‘ was shown running from a mitive Wallace dynamo. Toddy Jackson park blazes with thousands of ave and glow lamps rheddhm such a flood of light that, except- ng under the shade of the thickest trees, oue can at night read with ease anywhere on the grounds, In the Palace of Mechanical Arts one huge dynamo supplics power to large circuit of ure lamps, some thousands of Incandescents, and energizes & number of werful motors located in the various other ildings, absorbing from the boilers of the exposition sufticient power to equal the com- bined effort of a team of horses that would be, if arranged in tandem, about three miles inlength, Krom all the buiidings except the Paluce of Mechanical Arts the steam engiue is banished, aud the electric motor TR Cotimiat Pror. B t the Centennial Prof. Bell gave one of the earliest public exhibitions gl the tele- phone, then regarded as hardly more than & scientific toy. Now, on the World's fair grounds alone, more than 800 miles of under- ground wire counect the various exhibitors with a complete telephone exchange, by means of which conversation may be car- ried on, not only all over Chicago, but from Dshkosh on the northwest to Lewiston, Me., on the northeast, or to Washiugton on the south. In 1876 the storage battery was not only unknown, but was unimagined. Now the waters of Jackson park are constantly Yeried by'a fleet of Doats requiring some unareds of horse power, actuated solely snd most successfully by this source of elec- tric energy. At Philadolphia the electric t,tl-ny Was but & dream in the imagination of 0ne Or Lwo most sauguine inveators. Now the lntramural road is a formidable engi- mrln'{ al to the famous elevated A New York, and from roads, in commercial operation. radiating southward and westward, extend through- out the suburbs of Chicago. How Tramps Travel. The November Century contains an unique articled entitled *“Tramping with Tramps,” being a record of the actual adventures of a young American who disguised himself as a tramp and took to the road. The following is an extrfact from the articl Of the states 1 the western district, I think that Illinois, Iowa. Wisconsin, Minne- sota, Colorado, Washington, and a part of California are the best for tramps. Illinois is thought especially well of by vagabonds because of 1ts ‘‘good” railroads. The [lli- nois Central, for instance, is known the country over as the best for a journey south, and I have known tramps to travel from New York to Chicago, and go south by this line rather than start from New York direct to New Orleans, The *‘C. B. & Q” s also a great “snap:’ in fact, so'much so, that when I was on the road. it was called ‘“the bums’ line.” In Nebraskn where the Q" becomes the “B, & M. R.” the lines are tightly drawn, and it-behoovesa rogdster to take to the trucks if he 18 anxious to make good time. Truck riding is necessa almost every- where west of the Mississippi. Of course one can “fool around” the freight trains, but he is liable to be knocked oft when the train is going at full speed, and unless this occurs on the desert, or where the ground is rather soft, it may prove dangerous, I once attempted to ride & ‘‘freight” on the Southern Pacific road, and it was the hardest experience I ever en- countered. I hung on to the side of a cattle car 1o order to keep out of the brakeman's way, but he eventually found me and ordered me to get up on op. There ] was made to turn my pockets inside out to convince him that I'had no money. Being angered that I could not give him a dime, he sai “Well, hit the gravel! I can't carry you ou this n.' 1 told him that I would not hit the gravel unless he stopped the train, *‘You won't, eh!” he said; *‘well, now, we'll see.” So he chused me over his train for about fif- teen minutes. I dodged here and there, and found that 1 was quite able to elude him as long as he alone followed me, but soon the “con” appeared, and then the chase began in earnest. They finally pressed so near that I was compelled to climb down the side of a cawle car. They then tantalized me by spitting and swearing. Finally the * con climbed down also, and stepped on my fingers, so 1 had to let go. Fortunately, the wrain was slackening its speed just then—i really think the engineer had a hand in the matter, for he is usually a good fellow—and I got'oft safely enough, But I had to “drill” twenty miles that afternoon without a bite 10 eat or a drink of water, In the far west, after that experience, 1 always made use of the trucks. ‘T'he usual time for eastern and western framps to start south is 1n October, During this month large squads of vagabonds will be found traveling toward “Orleans.” 1 ounce was on an tllinois Central freighy train when seveuly-three tramps were fellow- passengers. aud nearly every one was bound for either Florida or Louisiana. Sau k'rancisco and Denver are the main dependence of tramps in the west. If one meets a westward-bound beggar beyond the Mississippi, he may usually infer that the wan is on his way to Deaver; and if he is found on the other side of thav city, and still westward-bound, his destination is al- wost sure to be “Frisc or at least Salt Lake City, which is also a popular ‘hung- out.” Denver has o rather difficult task to perform, for the city is really a junction from whioh wramps start on their travels in various directions, and consequently the people have more than their share of beg- gavs Lo feed. I have met in the city, at one time, us many as 150 bona fide tramps, and one had been in the town for over a . The people, however, do not_seem to feel the burden of this rifft-raff addition to the population : at any rate they befriend it wost kiudly, ‘They seem especially willing 10 _give money. lonce kuew a kid, or “prushun,” who averaged in Denver nearly $3a duy for al- most & week, by standing in front of shops and “battering” the ladies as they passed in andout. He was a handsome child, and this, of course, must be Laken Iuto consider- :::l::lu, for his success was really phenom- s Chirlstianity Lostug Grouad? Dr. C. A Briggs, Prof, Felix Alder, sad Dr. Paul Carus, of Chicago, contribute to a religious symposium in the November Forum, Dr. .Briggs, who writes of *‘The ‘Alienation of Church and People,” declares that the church haslost the confidence of the people in its ability to teach them the truth, in its sanctity, and in its authority as a divine institutiol Prof. Adler thinks that scepticism is _increasing among people unable to accept the current creeds; and Dr. Carus believes that the parliament of reli- gigns at Chicago celebrated the dawn of a new religious era. All agree that there may be true religion outside of the churche _ Dr. Briggs contends that denomination ism is the great sin and curse of the modern church. Denominationalism is responsible for the elaborate systems of belief which are paraded as the banners of orthodoxy and which by their contentions impair the teaching function of the church and destroy the confidence of the people 1n its posses- sion of the truth of God. Denomination- alism is responsible for all these variations of church government and discipline, for all those historical tyrannies and wrongs, which have undermined the faith of the people in the divine authority of such im- perious, self-complacent and mutually ex- clusive ecclesiastical institutions. Denomi- nationalism is responsible for all that waste of men and means, all those unholy jeal- ousies and frictions, all that absorption in external, formal and eircumstantial things, which disturb the moral development of the ndividual and the ethical advancement of the community, and especially retard the evangelistic and reformatory anterprises at home and abroad. Liberal men in all the denominations, holy men and women 1n all religious agencies, have set their minds and hearts upon the removal of these hindrances to the progress of the kingdomn of God. The denominations have accomplished thewr his- toric task. Thero is no longer any sufficient reason for their continued existence. They should yield their liffand their experience 0 a more comprehensive and more efcient church plan, An Aristocracy on Horseback. The first show of the day in London, writes Richard Harding Davis in Harpor's, is the procession of horses i the Row. It lasts from 9 to 11. It used to take place in the afternoon, but fashion has changed that; and Eunglishmen who have been in the colonies, and who ne home on leave and walk out to the row at 4 to see the riders, find seldom more than a dozen from which to pick and choose; and they will find even a greater difference if they again go at the right hour, in the modern garb of both men aud women, At least it was so last summer. The light habit and high hat of the girls and the long trousers and cutaway coat of the men had given way to a dishabille just as different as dress can be, and jusv as rigorous in its dishabille as in its former correctness and “form,” The women who rode lust summer wore loose-belted blouses and looser conts that fell to their knees; straw hats; and thew hair, instead of being = bound tigatiy up, was loose and untidy: and the men avpeared in yellow boots, or even leggings, and serge suits and pot-hats. All these things were possible because the hour was eurly, and because women who follow the hounds dress more with an eye to comfort than they did, and others dress like them to ghm the idea that they, too, follow the ounds. The row, with 600 horses i, is one of the finest sights of this show ¢! 1t would not be i)onhile were it not for the reat leisure class, and it and all the other eatures of Hyde park show not anly how the leisure class is recognized as an institu- tion in the way the authorities have set aside places for it, but how the people them- selves, not of that class, bow to it and give 1t the right of way. There is nothing so curi- ous or incomprehensible to an American as this tacit recognition that somebody is bet- ter than somebody else. We never could get any one to admit that in this country— except those who thought they were the better ones, and they are so muny ! How the Fublie 1s Robbed. New issues have come to the front in our country of momentous import Lo every wan, woman and child, saysa writerin Donahoe’s. They press forward for settlement and will nol{)e denied. Here is one: I have been robbed here in Boston, since the 1st of May of the present year, by the coal barous of Pennsylvania, of 65 cents a ton on every ton of coal which I have bought. They have ralsed the price twice since May. The wages of the miners were not raised, but cut down. During the summer and fall of 1802 they robbed me of §1.25 a ton over and above the fairly, to be presumed, large profit whicn they exacted in the early spring. This wholesale robbery of the masses on this necessity of life has been going on for years, but the lords of anthracite ar ing more arvogant and cruel from y year in their nefarious exactions, household, along the Atlantic seaboard least, is arpitvarily mulched by the coal combine and the railroads which help to form it. What have the republican and democratic parties to y to this stand-and-deliver game? Nothing, absolutely nothing, save the passage of an anti-trust law which can- not be enforced. They keep up a rub-a-dub- dub about the tariff to confuse and perplex and hoodwink the unthinkiug voter, but the tariff has mnothing to do with this tribute. There is not a cent of duty anthracite coal. Iven Shylock's honest gold dollar has nothing to do with iv, It is a naked system of robbery, operated by men who are stanch supporters of the old parties :rmll ‘genm'ous contrioutors to their campaign unds. Tne First on English Soil. An interesiing story is told of the artist, John Singieton Copley of Boston, says Demn- orest’s, At his studio in London he was painting o portrait of an American gen- tleman of 1702, sixteen years after the Declaration of Independence, but when, as yet, England had not for: muily recognized the existence of the new nation. The background of the portrait had a special significance of the birth of the new republia, being & ship at sea b the American colors. As the Engiish royal family came continually to Copley’s studio he thought it impolitic to paint in the fag, and the picture remained unfinished, Finally the time came when the king ana Parli; ment formally recognized the American re public. Copley listened to the specches in the House of Lords, and then, rushing home, painted in the stars and stripes on the flag- staff—probably the first American flag howsted on English soil, Copley painted mauy portraits of Enghsh avistooracy; his picture of the children of G e 111 still \angs in Buckingham paluce. The portrait of John Hancock, in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, is o good example of his quite dignified though stiff style, and the same gallery nas often other interesting speci- mens loaned to it, from time to time, by the New England families who owa them. The most celebrated of his works is *“I'he Death of Lord Chatham,” in the Nationul gullery, London. — Great Haman Gatherings Tabula A glance at the fallowing table will give in comprehensive form an idea of the compara- tive size uf great gatherings in the past: Chicago day at World’s fair Greatest day at World's fair Greatest day at Centennial ank holtdwy in London, 180 ( Cleveland day, St. Louis fair, 1859 Melbourne cup day, Melbourne, 1893, TOBK) s rs e ns ey reirresss 225,000 Shah of Persia day, Paris exposition 330,000 Closing day, Paris exposition ... 370,000 Cleveland's inauguration, 1803 (est.).. 275,000 Grand Army encgmpiient, Washing- ton, 1892 (est.).. § Review of union armies, Washington, 1805 (est. e A English D ay, 1 (est.) Oxford-Cambridge boat race, (est.) e Unveiling Grant monument, Chis 1891 (est.).. .. : k Edison day at Paris exposition American Derby day, 1802 Naval review, New York, 1893 (est.).. 825,000 500,000 150,000 SASURAARAL AL Made Plaln, Deuroit Free Press: “A million dollars in old,” read the wife from the newspaper, welghs 5,685 pounds, 12 ounces.’” "Ry Jove,” exclaimed the husband, who nad always wanted 81,000,000, but had never come nearer thau $999,99 of it, “I under- stand what's the matter now.” “What do you mean?” asked the puzzlea wife. “Why, I understand now why & man of wy strength couldn't raise $1,000,000. See? N headaches prompily eured Imwslgfuxhuhl botul 1‘? c‘li W A THING OF SIZE ASD BEAUTY Mammoth National Mausoleum for Congres- ional and Cther Thonght, COSTLIEST LI3RARY BUILDING IN THE WORLD A Fittiug Mate for tue Natlonal Capitol— Iuternal and Externa Foatures of the Structure—Gilding the Great Domo with Gold. A few hundred yards southeastof the cap- itol building, across a stretch of lawa bor- dered with walks and shrubbery, is the mas- sive new congressional library building. Besides being the second largest building on the continent, exceeded only by the national capitol, it is the largest depository of writ- ten ov printed thought ever undertaken. It covers four acres of ground, and will, when finished, represent an outlay of at least £6,000,000. Winle magnificent in its propor- tions, 1ts nearness to in no way detracts from the grandeur of the capitol, nor does the contrast belittle its own dimensions, Italian renaissanze is the period repre- sented, and granite the material employed. The general features are arranged so as not only to express the purposes they are in- tended to ser but 1 so doing to form the decorative as well as the useful featurcs of the building; there are no superfluous porti- coes, 1o obstructive pediments, but s pleas- ing and reasonabln design throughout. Tha granite pile rises cool and gray 1rom its em- erald setting of u sting solidivy, restful to the eye, und a pleasing cont. the marble fairness of the Temple of Fu on the west, Dimensiol The three floors of the building will repre- sent twelve acres, ‘T'heground plan repre- sents 12,500 square feet more than that of the British museum, 11,000 more than the ’ ibrary of Bavaria, and 21,000 more than the War, State and Navy buildings. It has o storage capacivy for fifty miles of books, or in round numbers 5,000,000 vol- umes, which is something over 4,000,000 more thun the United States now possesses. Twenty-tive millions of brick are used the walls that line the inside of the granite bowlders which form the exterior surface. It has 1,500 windows, not counting the glass bookstacks nor the skylights, “I'he construction is as thorougnly Ameri- can as it 18 possible to make iv. Those 25,000,000 bricks are manufactured out of ‘American mud, grown in the Distr ‘o- lumbin, Peunsylvania and New Jersey fur- nished all the iron used in the coustruc of the main body of the building. The arches used in the big dome were made in Indianapolis. New Hampshire furnished most of the granite and the remainder is 4 product of Maryland., When the workmen get veady to put in the flooring Massachu- setts will furnish the handsome tiles. T'ho pretty ina” bricks that give artistic finish to the inner court were made in Leeds, Eng. They are manufactured in this coun- try now, but at the time the contr: were let neither quality nor quantity were up to the requirements. Italy will be called upon to furnish the marble for the interior orna- mentation, The kind of marble required does uot grow in this country, Modern Convenleuces. The mice thut gnaw those bookshelves will have steel teeth,and the dust, mold aud bookworms that infest the damp, dark dungeou, where the library has been stored 80 long because of congressional penurio ness, will have Lo emigrate to more congenial climes. They all hate sunshine and Old Sol won't crack a smile, from the time he washes his face in the Potomac in the moroing till he bathes in the salt,water of the Pacific at night. that will nov oniy penetrate that in- geulous book stack, but every nook and c ner of that whole great building as well ‘Those are two of ils strongest poinis, sus- shine aud pure ug‘w The walls of the court ioto which the K BLACKS project are con- l structed of white enameled brick as smooth and polished as a dinner plate. They are impervious to dust or moisture and have splendid refractive qualities. 1t y a Sabbath day’s journey, as t before steam, cables and electricity, to getaround that building, and the most complicated mechanism has been summoned to the aid of aching legs. In the big rotunda under the skylight is the main readiug room, and in the center is the librarian’s desk. This is about the only feature that may be said to be copied with- out modification or embellishment. It is adapted from the plans of the British musenm. Around the librarian’s deslk, radi- ating like spokes from a hub, are ranged the desks for the readers. Here, withm. in range of the librarian’s eye, there will be accommodations for 300 people to read and write, Irom the center desk to the hook stacks, in a tunnel, is endless chain, with metal b noiscless and autor tray has its station in the bookstack, unloads its freignt of books at that boin Returning to the reading room 1t empties i contents and stolidly travels back for more. 1t never gets tived, never makes a uois never goes on a strike. There will be vate reading rooms for the use of c men who are not too lazy to walk over there to use ‘t A miniature tunnel will con- nect the capitol and library, and through it, by pacumatic force, the volumos used in proparing original speeches adapted from the ideas of the ancients will be whisked to impatient statesmen. High salaried clerks and the Congressional Record will do the vest. There will bo pretty little alcoves for the use of the privileged students, and around tho inside_of the dome, above the reading room, will be a handsomely deco- rated lobby, which the inquisitive stranger can vi i animals and not_disturb th ruminations, and the guides can relate their remarkable tales un- checked. Meontal 1 Physieal Fodd There will be a museum some place in the labyrinth of rooms, and a book bindery. Up in tho top,probably in the southwest i there will be o restaurant. ‘Thero m one in each corner, for there is a chance Lo got hungry 1n going from one to the other, but one will fill all “the requirements of Li- brarian Spofford, though book worms do not form any part of his menu, as many supy Up there, while he his mentality on buked beans and blue fish, he canulso feast his artistic senses on the scene without. He can view the storied Potomac from Arling- ton's grove crowned heights, past drowsy Alexandria, clear to historic Mount Vernon Ho can nod'almost on a lovel to Miss Liborty on the dome of the cavitol, and within the sweep of his_vision around the hori he has a scope of country that has more stirring history to the cubic foot thau any other ton wiles square of country in the universe Tnose who aze with understanding eyes upou the simple exterior decorations will have ample education to cope with life's disadvantugos. So arvanged that they form eight keystones on cach of the four sides of the building are thirty-two heads, rep enting the Lypes of mankind, Kach b is carved from granite, after a picture takon for the express purpose by ethuological artists. There is o barvarian from some- where who pierces his lower lip and at- »s @ dinner plate or butter bowl and thus achieves his idea of ornamentation, and the father of the society girl who hangs plate glass in her ears and hopes it will be wistaken for the Kohinoor. There is the woolly headed son of Africa and the carniv- orous cutthroat Sioux. Thehead of Apollo, and & Persian whose eyes ave invisiblo even in stone. ‘I'hey are there to the number of hirty-two, aud that is enough for orna- meutal purposes, according to the sculptor, My, Boyd. The Golden Dome. Hitherto the great white dome of the United States capitol, vising in the blue sky like & snowy mountain, has been one of tne most conspicuous and beautiful sights of the city of Washington. It is to have a golden rival, The roof of the new National library is to be cappea with a dome of generous proportions co with pure gold.” Part of the work 18 already completed, and a gor geous picture it is. “The work of gilding the deme is full of in- torest. The details are worth rewemberiag, More gold will be used on this dome than on any gilded dowe in the world. There are S0 10,000 square feet W be covered wiik tho precious metal. Tmagine some great hotel lobby paved with gold, and some idoa is gained of the immensily of the work which 1s being done. Thero are not many gilded domes in the world. The Hotel des Invalides in_Paris, the Conngg house at Hartford and tho State house at Boston are tho bost known, and yet the dome of the new library builde ing is larger than any of these—two-third( larger, it is estimated, than the famoug dome of the state house in Boston. It is not hard to realize, therefore, what a conspicus ous sight it présents, although there is nq doubt but that 1t loses some of its brilliancy by being somewhat less sphericel than uh great golden ball which shinesand shimmers above the Boston comamon. How it is Done, Only a vortion of the work has been cony pleted. Some six weeks ago the upper part of the dome became enshrouded in a huge bonnet of dirty white canvas. It was tha chrysalis, Underneath the cunvas, where the wind coula not blow its disturb. ing breath, a score or more of men were at work placing the little bits of gold leaf upoy the metul frame, and presently, whea thd covering of the chrysalis was thrown aside the dome stood revealed in all 1ts golded glory. Now the workmen are busy with the art of the dome. below the palus “This part of the domo s too large to »d all ut once, and so the cauvag a secvion, Iu is o slow and . A If rain or fog comes they wilf o suspend their d U for the atmosphere to g Under the shadow of the i are the offices of the government oftice who have charge of construction, and in t Yoo oecupicd by Mr. Bernard I, Green, the representitive of the chicf of engineers, is a In this safe are kept the precious 5 0f gold leat, Gold is worth at thd 1bout £20 an ounce. Purchased by t gover 1t 1 the form of gold leaf 1t cos abou 7 an ounce, are 2,000 shee in an ounce, each Io less' thun fo inches square, but th » 2,000 sheets \\Il} themselves over about thirt Witn 10,000 squarq /1o aco Uhat tho gov ernmont will require & good many ounces o %old to carry out tho work of gilding the dome, ; old has many curious characteristics,” said Mr. ( en. “‘but the one that serves us best 10 this particular work is its extrome malleability, | See how gossamer-like this Shoet of metal is. 10 s us light as & broath of wind 1t takes 150,000 to make an inch in thickness, but an instance is recorded }vlm L) gold was beaton 5o thin thata leaf of it was H07,650th part of an inch iu thicknoss. 1t is tho oxtreme malleability of gold that makes it possible to use it in covering lurge faces like dome, Otherwise the expense would be begond the treasury of even the nt'of the United States.” npt has been made by the governs ment oficials to learn whether they aro covs oring the dome with American gold or uot, but they are rather inclined to believe thad the procious motsl which they are usiug came entively from Ame: Ivas beaten into leaf in Baltimore by a mun whe has achieved quite 8 reputation as u golds beater, and he sends it to the hbrary build- ing in packages of twenty books, each book containing twenty-five leayes. Another in- Lorosting fact about the gold is tha it is a8 pure as can be found. Twenty-four-carab™ Fola is the purest form of the metal, and the Fold that s being used to beautify and adorn the greatest dome 1n the world 18 25-carate fine. mints P A Dubious Complim New York Press: 1 used to think yow were not & man of your word, Jones, but I've changed my mind.” h, you understand me mow, friend Smith. But what led you to change your mind?" “You remewber that $10 you borrowed from me!” “Yes. 't “You said if I lent it to you you would be indebted to me forever.” ¥es “Well, you ure keeping your word man.” et The “No. 9" Wheeler & Witkon, with its perfected tenisons. upper and lower, is the, ouly lock-stiteh muachine thet' makes an’ clastic seam. It is the dressmaker's favorite on that account. Sold by Geo, W Lancastes & Co., bl4 South Sixtecnth strect. liko & P ] ra ot wa = ) = "