Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1895, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1895. (© A I IO IO IO IR IR IIIIOION SE/SONABLE GOOPS AT THE PEOPLE'S. i 5 Carpats, Rugs and Mattings, OFFER THIS WE_K . 4 ”'Pr ‘.h;'nlr".'.. Pnrl\v-ru“$3.84 4 T 1 AN S The Reason Why et o T L ohatomma : T8 We Sell Purniture $9.00 Chenllle Portieres 4.78 % Ll"l’“rlilv Boctleies . I bl (L Where. but at ths People’s Furniturs & Carpat Co. $1.50 Lace Curtains 98¢ can you get Moquets ae 87¢ a yard, with bordar? 4 3 $ 1.20 The bast Body Brussels a' 87c a yard. o Ch a Th - - The bast Tapastry Brusssls at 622 yard. eapvr an $2.00 Th= best Velvet Carpet at 87¢ yard, il 8 Others is Not a Secret . . . We simply do it, emall profits. 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S SRR @BIRRRIREK N : : : % : : : © ORSIHISIISICIICIBICISICIIIICIIIICIOIRO SIS OIIOISIICICICICICIIOIIOICIOK THE FANOUS RED RIVER DAM ass Tan One of the Engineering and Constructive Marvels of the Civil War, vessels were anchored, and ordered the Le: able | greater energy than ever bcfore, and the ington to pass the upper falls if possibls immediately attempt to go througn the D. Robinson, but had been deemed inady by Colonel Batley, who hoped to avoid the [ trestles were all mate by 9 a.‘m. Somo additional time and labor necessary to the | pleces of fron bolts (size, one-half inch)) were construction of two dams if one could be | procyred and one set into the foot of the mado to serve. It now became evident, | of each trestle; also one in the cap pieces at enomy against whioh warfare was useless sons_employed on the work would ever have [ however, that the river must be obstructed | the end resting on the bottom, up stream e a e e te e redILhafs Sy | tha teartito feriow (thainienterprive; | on the upper falls in order to obtain sufficient | The place selected by me for this ‘bracket down stream as best they could, impeded | “The Lexingion succeeded in geiting over | depth to relicve the larger fron-clads, such as | dam' was at a polnt opposite the lower end constantly by snags and bars, and frequently | the upper falls just in time—the water | the Mound City, the Chilicothe, the Caronde- | of the Carondelet, extending out close to this annoyed by the enemy. Arriving at last at |rapidly falling as she was passing over. [let and some five others which were still | vessel from the left bamk. A party of men | gomery soon after his recent Maugaration andria their worst fears were realized, | She then steered directly for the opening in | lying above the ids. (@l familiar with logging and dam buliding | {rites a gtaft corcespondent in the New York ot oni of the boats could pusst Hero was | the dam, through which the water was Two BIG IRONCLADS AGROUND. in the Wisconsin woods), selected and headed | Recorder. : £ an emergency In which failure meant the | rushing %o furiously that it seemed s if| A series of light wing-dams, consisting of | by myself, placed these trestles in position | L inds L S oy total loss” of ‘the entire Misslssippl squadron | nothing but destruction awaited her. Thou- | 12t orite® 10ihen tomether. (hat resulted in | UNder very adverse circumetances, the water | ooin® R AA T not b S| Feuriianab A and the consequent prolongation of the war | sands of beating hearts looked on, anxious | fourtgen fnches udd’ticnal depth cf water, were | being about four and one-half fect deep and | fawyer, and mever preionded to be: and there. | one day before (e s cBIMNINE an argument for an indefinite period. Unless the fleet | for the result. The sllence was so great as | cumplated in less than three days time. The | Very swift, and coupled with a very sIDDELY | oo nraun an iorercacd (o et and bt | 2 ille. cane. por Supreme court, “I have could be brought below the raplds it must be | the Lexington approached the dam that @ | Gpjiicothe now managed to work her way | bottom, making it almost impossible to stand | Tyose. were periions i and’the - court | pollce ‘count, andithat-oay b auted inikne destroyed or abandoned ‘to the enemy, It|pin might almost be heard to fall. She | hrough and the Carondelot attempted to fol- | against the current. Several men were SWeDt | moom possesson ve manality. than. a bars [iHeD WeEwent: to'ithe suerio Locei belng _manifest that the army, already on | entered the gap with a full head of steam | fireu8h and the Cargraclet hlempted (o (o | TRUASS HNE Gariehs. - Beveral meh wore S\wept | room possessed no more canctity than a bar- | (hen we wen he superior court with short rations, could not remain there to guard | on, pitched down the roaring torrent, made | N POECXOOPIE | JCU0 WEICH VL O | AEY L ek were fastencd as soon as they | FOM: for that matter. Every man went | (b Wd that court guessed on it; and now we Copyright, 159, it all summer. two or three spasmodic rolls, hung for a | yiddald B ot Aroug the awerved | were In position by mesns of taking ‘sety | Armed and especlally to this court, which was | WOUK \“(‘\’ th “:nu:‘: to guess on It."” The On the morning of April 17, 1867, the BAILEY OFFERS A RESCUE. moment on the rocks below, was then main channel and grounded | and driving the iron bolts above referred w'j4‘!;"',.‘:":‘1‘:“:'{'r‘},.l\" l;’ ording “;' o 1( = | court doesn't gueas on- eases 'l\';:”s B alierift of Vernon county, Missourl, set out | It Was in this crisis that the genius of | sWept Into deep water by the current and her stern lying down stream | down into the = bottom. ALl were | 2 DRS00 (261098, LA6E R0ICInE. omIRRtlaN| replied: T\ beg ‘Dardon; your honios 144 LA o . Sak Colonel Joseph Bailey became manifest. Not- | rounded to safety Into the ban MrLY | ana pointing diagonally across the channel. | in position by 10 a. m., and the plank | ‘P, that section. the judgment of this co o oauai e on horsebick from the town of Nevada for | i} tanding the previous rebuft he had re- | thousand volces rose in one deafening ch Ah attempt was made to haul her oft With a!| having arrived all that remalned was. to piace L recallione. day iwhen th ORIH0R the 9 the purpose of bringing in two brothers by | celved from the naval officers he now pro- | and universal joy seemed to pervade the [ ¢f ROMTES NS WS (O M0 A0 00 s un- | them. This was done 1n lass. than an Hour. | Judge’ hung by a thread. A ne the name of Pixley, against whom complaint | posed to build a serles of dams oss ‘the [ face of every man present. The Neosho | oo o " Uaqniral Porter, belleving there |and by 11 a. m. there was at least a foot of | /¢4der had been brought to the bar for a had been lodged for hog stealiug. The | raplds that should deepen the channel and re- | followed next, all = her hatches —battened | o Foiy cymcient room in the channel for | water thrown under the Mound City and the | Misdemeanor and had stated his case to the Pixiey brothers lived in a somewhat remote | lleve the flect. He consulted with his as-|down, and every precaution taken againet | ol "poucs to pass, now gave orders for | Carondelet, and both vessels floated off casily | Judi, Who listen-d, and tien said: ‘Al right, B Lorhood, and had | besn: known:-as |-Lriant, Lisutegant Colonel” Url, B. Pearsall, ident. SRtasCIAL AR IS (a8 the | {1 e Mound City to make the attempt. This | before the ultimate height of water was ob- | Mr. Sumn I will make a proper entry in elghborhood, ¢ who promptly agreed with him that such 4 | Lexington, her pllot having become fright- | the Mound ity o make the aUSwPe EAG| PRECE the Hlmate height of w s TR s T Aubingas 7 hwtandaoabitiall @epatudons and guerriiss during the war. | plan was fassible. Both had heen lumber- | ened as he spprosched the abves, and Monbed| oe ey e carondelet. - Pive mare of the irom- | with but 1ittls. ificulty snd at noon the fol- | da you not?" The officer, however, belng & man of un- |men and dam buliders n the woods of Wis- | her engine, ‘when 1 parucularly ordered a | ¢ 106 GRS ing above the falls. JERRUL s dineity and ab sopBitheitol; St E 4 cent | CONSIN_ previous to the war and neither | full head of steam to be carricd; the resu . 19518 Alexanarlaith . usual daring, declined asslstance and went | .o o 0% congider the gigantic undertaking | was that forea moment her hull disappeared THE NEW EMERGENCY. | Alexandelsntiis G T el unaccompanied to make the arrest. WHAL|iypracticable, notwithstanding the fact that | from sight under the water. Every one| At this crisis Colonel Balley came riding | i€ FRCCIR, T80, pec (ERETRRE PR happened later was told by the Pixleys | the plan suggested was ridiculed by the West | thought she was lost. She rose, however, | up in hot ha:te to where (.ulunfl l.-..xml:l The uiatn il maok ot Honk peicthaginks apd themselves, to those who probably aided | Point engineers of the army. The rapids | swept along over the rocks With the cur-| was standing. ~Colonel Dafley was & dark,| o, "giving; the hatches had been battened them in their flight from the county. extended one and one-fourth miles in length, | rent and fortunately escaped with only one | stern-looking man at all times. | 1l 0 oy, ‘and every precaution taken against ac- Arriviog at the eabln 1n the woods. where | MAkIng o gradual descent of eight feet and | hole in her bottom, which was stopped in | kempt raven hair an S (O IERRIIDD, TARED aRIN 8o , some inches, the width of the river at this into the water was terrific, and as the heavy the brothers lived, the sheriff called upon ] them to surrender. This they agreed to do provided they might be allowed to retain their arms. The officer knew both by almost imp-metrable woods. They were MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT. constantly under seattering fire, for the enemy hovered about them like vultures, and what was still worse, they were assaulted day and | I thought I might be able to e the fo ht by myriads of ravenous mosquitoes—an | Ve below, not knowing whether the pe , against Mr. The Merry Side of Life on the Bench and | U nt the Bar. IR “There was a judge in my town during re- | Vhere construction dayswho' wasta:.terror.” 8815y thag tather riof Nt KaAIR O would be able Governor Oates of Alabama, in the course of | to spend the ensi | Jend uing Christmas sea: e a conversation which I had with him at Mont- | one roof.” aiss !I“ll. but he was glad to say that eloguent appeal would not remain answered, for he would commit the soner to Maitland—New South Wales—jafl his aged parents at the , present mement were serving sentences respeotlvely. The following story is told o Yentional court methods of the late Geo i ¢ late Georgi though | M. Stearns of Massachusetts: *May it please RESCUE OF ACMRAL PORTER'S FLEET f the uncon- A Crisls In the Nuval Southwest—How Disaster Was Averted by the Euergy and Skill of General Balley und Colonel Pearsnil, Operations in the as the huge a little from the in dead water, life of that olitica o political LABOR AND INDUSTRY, The total weight of the latest electric locoe motive constructed fs 134,000 pounds. It I ntended to use it experimentally in swi and handling heavy freight, o 0IE One of the southern fron companies sold 100 tons of pig fron the other day for delivery. at Liverpool, and another has dispatohed 5 agents to Spain and Italy. The Improved Industrial Dwelling company of London accommodates 30,000 persons in its houses. It is claimed that Its system ha reduced the tenement death rate from forty to only eleven in 1,000, The trolley roads are beginnin & to aspire to freight, and a bill in the Pennsylvania legis- lature proposes to give them the privilege of rrying it It is evident that the steam dat's what T want, said the Very well; T will make an entry of ac- quittal. You may go, Mr. Summwers.’ “‘But, your honor,’ said the negro's coun sel, ‘this is rather unusual. My client’s case has not even been given to a jury. We want a trial and we are willing to go to a jury This entry will not stand, for it s not regu- lar.! “ ‘Never mind, sir,” said the judge. ‘T have settlid the case, and you need give yourself no further trouble.* per point being ‘758 feet, and the depth of the ironclads onme after another ran down the water from four to six feet. The current furious incline and out into the deep water very rapid, running about ten miles they were for some moments almost entirely hour. submerged, in the case of the Carondelet the B i focd Satiaelly. aatesd to thik THE BUILDING OF THE DAM. water actually pouring in at the smoke stacks. condition. He then started with his prisoners back to town. While still some distance from Nevada they were obliged to pass through a thick growth of timber where (he road became little more than a bridle path, compelling the three men to ride single file. Just why, at this point, the wary officer allowed one of his_ prisoners to drop behind him will always rémain a pro- found mystery. Such, however, seems to have been the case. His body was found some days later, dragged into the thick brush a little way from the path—a single bullet hole in the back of his head. Large rewards were offered for the assassins, but they were never captured. Thus came to & violent death at the hands of rufflans none other the gallant officer and engineer, Joseph Balley, under whose command and -by whose direction was constructed the famous Red river dam, a feat of engineering which for rapidity of construction and magnitude of result is claimed to be without a paraliel in the history of military works. IN A CLOSE CORNER. Early in the spring of '64 the Army of the Red River, General Banks commanding, and supported by the Mississippi naval squadron (consisting of some fifteen gunboats, ironclads and monitors, besides numerous transports), under the command of Admiral David D) Porter, had ascended the Red river to & point a little beyond Grand Ecore, La., with Shreve- port as an objective point. Their progress up the river had been almost a constant skirmish, and afer severe battles at Sabine Crossroads and Pleasant Hill—the former a wnion defeat and the latter a fruitless vie- tory—it was decided to abandon th> undertak- ing and retreat down the river, Great expedition was necessary in order to save the fleet, for the water, which had been barely sufficient to allow the larger boats to pass the rapids at Alexandria, was falling r idly, and it was extremely doubtful whether any of them would be able to do so on their relurn. One vessel, in fact, the Eastport, wax already aground and abandoned, aithough Licutenant Colonel Bailey (afterward general and then acting engineer of the Nineteenth ‘my corps) had proposed to float it over the bars by constructing a series of wing dams simllar to those afterward built at Alexandria This assistance was declined by the officers of the fleet—counsel from army officers ap- parently not being as yet regarded in nautical affairs, The tired, disheartened foot soldiers now 86t out to fight their way down the river ap they had fought up. Their path was inter- 60 by bayous and swamps, and barricaded The work was begun immediately. It was now the 1st of May, and every day meant erormous additional labor, as the river was still falling rapidly. Four large coal barges were first towed to a ledge of rock in_the middie of the siver—scuttled and sunk. They were placed lengthwise with the current, two and two, with a channel of forty feet between them, and fastened to the ylelding soapstone river bed with long bars of iron, sharpened and driven through their bottoms ke nails. These barges were then filled with such heavy material as could be readily procured They were to serve as the abutments for the dam to be bullt out to them from either side of the river. The current was thus to be ob. structed and deepened and it was through the forty foot channel between the sbut- | ments that the big iron-clads and transports were to pass into deep water and safety be- low. From the north bank it was decided to build a tree dam formed of the bodies of very large trees, brush, brick and stone, cross-tied with other heavy timber, and strengthened in every way which ingenuity could devise. This was constructed under the personal supervision of Colonel Bailey, while to Colonel Pearsall was assigned the task of Alling the barges and projecting an obstruction from the south bank The swift current was thus to be gradually diverted and forced between the abutments in_the center. The dam from the south bank was to be a serfes of log eribs built above and floated down Into place, there to be flled with brick, stone and firon, such as could be procured quickly, regardless of cost. All the neighbor- ing sugar mills were destroyed for this pur- pose, costly machinery hammered into frag- ments or because it was heavy, and the welghty debris thus obtained was carried by an endless procession of men with hand- barrows and dump:d into the river, 8ix thousand men were divided Into two | forces, which relleved each other every six | hours, working day and night | “Trees were falling with great rapldity, says Admiral Porter; “teame were moving in all directions, bringieg in brick and stone; quarries were opened; flatboats wers built to bring stone down from above, aud every man seemed to be working with & vigor 1 havs seldom seen equaled, while perhaps not one in ffty belleved in the success of tbe under- taking.” At last completed, broke, on Sunday, May 8, the dsm was But, alas, the very next day it A FRIGHTFUL PASSA (the broak Porier, T junped “8:eing thls unfortunate acelden in the dam), says Admir PLUNGING THROUGH THE DAM. out “The all over. to issippl. of disheartening Colonel duced him to renew his exertions after he To had seen the success of getting four vesscls through. water, the course of an hour. Osage both came through beautifully with- touching a was only fortunate enough to get my large vessels as well over the falls my fleet once more would do good The A NEW noble-hearted soldiers, | labor of the last elght days swept away in a moment, cheerfully went pair the damage, These in vented them, running on certain destruction. of the water and the current being too great construct a continuous dam at | across the river, in 8o short a time, Colonel Bailey determined to leave a gap of fifty-five feet in the dam, and bulld a series of wing- dams on the upper falls" This plan had been a ou & horse aud rode up 0 wiere the upper | the begtnuing by Colonels Pearsell and accident to the dam, DAM BUILT. being confident mow that the gunboats would finally be brought men had eight days and nights, up to their necks in the broiling and wheeling bricks, humor prevailed among them. “On the whole it was very fortunate the Aam was carried away, as the two barges that were swept away from around against some rocks on the left and made a fine cushion for the vessels, and pre- It aterwards appeared, fro The Hindman and and loss of slee| it 1| terocious. Neither: of and I thought the Miss- Instead only i service on time for idte Bailey, offered. name of God seelng their boats (the twenty-four hours." Colonel Bailey: o you want. Ouly t Colonel Pearsall—1 Army to work to re- been working for sun, cutting trees d nothing but good morning. Colonel the center swung it was now dark The force | gon does not appear. 600 feet Colonel Pearsall's this part of the work was sunrise pposite sid>. 1 0 in bullding tw ket dum.' They ady euggested —wild and bloodshot from nervous tension made him seem now almost slept to exceed thirfy hours during the past ten days, and their merves were terribly over- wrought by the: featful strain. confectiires and the abrupt Question, “What in are we_ going colonel?” Colonel Pemtsall as abruptly replied “Give me what men and matceial 1 and I will put @ f8ot of water under those Mound @ity and Carondelet) in sholl have whatever I us what fc is, quick. want Pioneer corps to report to me on the left bank at midnight, and 10,000 feet of two. inch plank to be here at 9 o'clock tomorrow the Bailey at once aseent:d requirements, and the orders were promptly given. Immediate steps were taken by Colonel Pearsall to get his men across the river, but nd the transports refused to put off boats until morning—for what rea THE WHOLE FLEET SET FREE. report briefly o before all were medately gaed trestles for a worked officers had It was no none was the to do mnow, want Thirte-nth to these rates acros o | instructed | with even But as each vessel righted and rode out into the placid river below the thousands cheered, and as the last iroi d passed safely through and the weary army realized that their work was ended and the fleet saved there rang out a4 mighty cheer that was a peal of triumph to the union and a knell to confederate hopes. A. B. PAINE, — - THE OLD WAY THE BEST. Toston, Transeript ot rich and stylish, and took to eling 'round, wife she calls me I like the sound— And my girls no longer call me “pa, “dear papa” these days They're all of them all ta falutin® w I put up with a lot of blessed if I can stand To see my wife beginning now to write this new-styled hand, Mister—can’t say " tis { up with high- things, but I'm e horse track fashion while still_they wore short clothes. thelr ma was brought up different and it's tough, 1 do declare, Tq, see her learning the girls’ ways now she has got gray hair! But Ma always took to writing, and her hand- write's been my joy, Since ever we were Loy and girl way out in Illinols. When we was children that prairie school (Run_{n the good old-fashioned rod and dunce's stool) She used to write her name and mine, and link ‘em like our fat Before she learned the capitals, little slate And after we grew up and I went off to war, how sweet The letters that I used to get in her hand- write, small and_ neat. used 1o me “noble," of the I And say she'd alwa Spencerian hand long ago out In way with upon her She and a “hero s love me, in a fine And once she wrote some poetry, with rhymes, got It ye ou just can bet old war times; It's In her prettiest running hand—not all sprawled out and straight, Like that confounded “angular’ shes taken to of late. I s'pose I'm an old fogy, but I declare to- day There's scarcely any wouldn't gladly If we hadn't got so stylish and moved here poetry, real I've about the sum you'd name I to New York Where you have o eat each kind of food with a different kind of fork: It we still Mved where we used to (Lord, how the bob'links sung!) 1ty wite would write as she used write when rhe and 1 was young! live to] ““But, your honor—* ““That "will do, sir. Step aside, if you please,” and the astonished counsel sat down “The next case called was that of a white man charged with assaulting a negro. Ol Colonel Courtney was the man’s counsel. “‘How do you want this case tried? asked the judge of Colonel Courtney. * “Well, judge,’ drawled Courtney, ‘T reckon we will be satisfied with an entry like the one you just made. Acquittal will do.’ “‘What do you mean, sir? thundered the judge. growing very red in the face, ““Why, you seem to be finding verdicts of acquittal today without a jury, and my cli-nt would Ifke to have one, too.* *‘Colonel Courtney you are fined $50 for contempt of court.’ shouted the judge. ‘T shall pay it, but before T do I want to tell you what T think of you. You a judge! Why, you are a disgrac® to the name of Judge. you hound. you scoundrel!— ““Take that man to jail!’ cried the judge to a big negro balliff. ““It you move a hand, T will bore you through and through.' said Courtney coolly to the balliff, his hand in his breast pocket. “Every white man in the court room arose to his feet and for a moment there was a dead hush, save for the rustling of clothes as each man sought his pistol, and one or two half-smothered clicks, which told of a der- ringer cocked in a coat pocket. It was a mo- ment of suspense, necding only m move to precipitate a fight, and the judge would have been the first man to be killed. Courtney gave one scornful look at the judge, turned on hie heel and walked ont, while the court ad- Journed tn coufusion.” There was a certain barrister In Sydney well known by reason of his padded chest and the bluelsh dye on his whiskers, relates the Green Dag. His services were generally called into request when there was no hope of getting a prisoner aequitted by ordinary means of defense. Holding a brief one day in such a case, he made an cloquent appeal to the jury, urging them not to blight the future of the young prisoner by convieting him and sending him to jall. He proceeded to draw a harrowing plcture of two gray haired parents In England looking anxiously for the return of their prodigal xon to spend he next Christmas with them, and he asked Had tbey the hearts to deprive the old ecuple of this happiness?’ The jury, how ever, belng heartloss men, found the prisoner guilly Before passing for the prisoner’s jail rec after examining which he blandly remarked “that the prisouer had some five previous convictions called roads will have to change their methods to keep their suburban business. - Industrial resumptions, wage ingreases and orations, working force enlarg¥ments and reductions in the ranks of the unemployed ntinue and increase as time passes, and every weck multiplies the conditions Which &0 to make up a higher standard of industrial and commercial prosperity, In machinery, such as locomotives and sta- tionary engines, England ranks only second to Brazil among our customers. In passen- ger cars England toock more than Brazil and more than twice as much as all Continental Burope. Of our exports of leather 75 per cent went to England, of sewing machines 25 per cent, of naval stores over 33 per cent, of mineral oils over per cent, of all manu- factured woods over 25 per cent, and 0 on through the list of artieles exported from our tactories, During the nine months ending April 1 the United Kingdom was our largest cus- tomer in several of the most fmportant lines of manufactures, and oue of the largest in all. Out of a total ef $7,989,000 of exported American cottons ghind took $478,000, or more than all the rest of Eurcpe and twice as much as Mexico, Out of a total of $3,262,000 exported manufactures of iron and steel England took $660,000—twice as much as Mexico, the Argentine Republic or Brazil, which have been supposably our best cuse tomers for such goods. e A Wonder in Minute Writing. A recent writer on the subject of wave lengths of light, In describing the apparatus used for taking asurements of such lengths, mentions the “Nobert test plates.” These plates are made of glass, and have the scale thereon so finely graduated that there are often as many as 150,000 lines to the inch, Such infinitesimal magnitudes are totally bee yond our powers of conception, yet much more wonderful things in that line have been sc- complished. An artist by the name of Webb, a regular manufacturer of these “Nobert test plates,” once tried his hand in microscoplo writing on glass. The specimen turned out, which 1s now In the Army Medical Museum at Washington, Is the whole of the Lord's prayer on a plece of glass which is only 1-204th of an Inch one way and 1-440 of an inch the other.. In the Lord's prayer there are 227 letters, and, as shown above, they were put on a plece of glass having an area of but 1-129,663d of an inch. Had an eus tire Inch of space been used st the same rate, the engraver would have put no less than 29,431,455 letters upon it. The entire bible, Old and New Testaments, could have been written on that inch of space elght times over,