Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 9, 1895, Page 10

ORDICR Yok $25—821—3828 and $30 SUIT fJt’s the talk—— of the town,’? that seems almost ridiculous! DO NOT confound our offer--with the *cheap catch sales”--that are so prevalent at the present time in this city, TO ORDER OUR REPUTATION is worth more to us than any amount of in- creased business we might obtain by any such method. REMEMBER, ALSO--that we do not offer-- *Anything in the House at $15%7 But our very finest woolens have been reduced to about one-haif of their former value! IF WE CAN'T PLEASE YOU—WE WON'T TAKE YOUR MONEY. « 15th Str. NECRO UPRISING NIPPED History of the Propored Insurrection of the Blacks During the War, HOW ARMY COMMANDERS WERE NOTIFIED Prompt Aetlon Averts a Movemont the Consequences of Whieh Mizht Been Disastrous to the Participants and to the Union C Have so. (Copyright, 1805, by 8. 8. McClure, Limited.) One day tn May, 1863, I was seated in the private office of General Rosecrans at his headquarters in Murfreesborough, Tenn., when Charles R. Thompson, one of his aldes, en- tered the room and handed him a letter, say- ing that the bearer was waiting for an answer. Rosecrans opened the letter and became at once absorbed in its contents. He then asked: “Tompy, what sort of a looking man gave you this?" “A bright colored mulatto, decently clad, and, I should judge, of more than ordinary intelligence,” was the answer. “Tell him to wait,”” said the gencral. He then rerend the letter, and, handing it to me, sald. “Read that; tell me what you think ol it." The outside of the letter was worn and leather stained, indicating that it had been pressed botween the outer and inner soles of & shoe, but the Inside startied me. It was written in a round, unpracticed hand, which, though badly spelled, showed that its autSor was accustomed to the hearing of good Bnglish. The date was May 18, 1863, and it began thus: PLAN FOR A NEGRO INSURRECTION “General: A plan has been adopted for a simultaneous movement, or ising, to sever the rebel communications throughout the whole south, which is now discloscd to some general in each military department in the Secesh states, In order that they may act in concert and thus Insure success The plan is for the blacks to concerted and simultaneous rising on the night of the 1st of August next, over the whole states in rebellion; to arm them- selves with any and every kind of weapon that may come to hand and commence opera dons by burning all railway and country Dridges, tearing up all railroad tracks, and cutting and destroying telegraph wires, and when this is done take to the woods, the swamps or the mountains, whence they may emerge, as oceastons. may affer, for provisions a¢ for Turther depredations. No blood is to be shed except in self-defense. “The corn will be in roasting ear about the 1st of August, and upon this, and by foraging on the farms at night, we can subsist. Concorted movement at the time named would be successful and the rebellion be brought suddenly to an end. The letler went on with s talls and ended as follows: ““The plan will be a simultanecus rising over the whole south, and yet few of all engaged will know of its full extent. Please write ‘I' and “Approved,’ and send by the bearer, that we may know you are with us. “Be assured, gencral, that a copy of this latter has been sent to every milltary de- partment fn the rebel states, that the time of the movement may be general over the eatire south. ROSECRANS CONSULTS GARFIELD. As | hed the letter the general acked “What do you think of jt?" make a ne other de- 1 answered: “It would end the rebellion Go-operated in by our forces it would ner- taluly succecd; but—the south would run with blood." Innocent blood! Wamen and chiidren “Yes, women and chillyen. If yom let tho blicks loose they will rusk huto carnage Iko horses inta & burming barn St. Domfugo would be multiplied by & miilion." “He sald no hiood is to be sbed except In salt-defense.” “He says 30, aud the leaders may w8, but they could not restrain the rabbles Bvery slave has some teal or fancled wronk, and b would take such a time to scourge it mean Wwell, T g0 with me We crossed the street lodgings, where he was bolstered up in bed, just recovering from a fever. Rosecrans sat down on the foot of the bed and handed him the letter. Garfield read it over care- fully and, then, laying it down, sai It would never do, general. We don’t want to win by such means." “I knew you would say so,” said Rosecrans, “but he speaks of other department com- manders—may they not come into it?” ““Yes, they may, and that should bo looked ust talk with Garflell. Come, to General Garfield's to. Mr. Gilmore tells me that he goes home today. Send by him this letter to the presi- dent and let him head off the movement He can do it by restralning the department commanders. Without their support it will soon fall through.” THE LETTER CARRIED TO LINCOLN. It was not thought prudent to entrust the letter to the mails, nor with the rallway in- fested with John Morgan's men and confeder- te guerriilas was it a safe document to carry about the person. If 1 should be captured and searched and that were found upon me—with no attending proof to show the use of it that was Intended short shrift and a long rope would be my way to glory. So ripping open the top of my boot, 1 stowed it snugly away in the lining, and then having a shoemaker seldier nicely restore the broken stitches, 1 took it with me to Washington. In a couple of days In a private inter- view I submitted the insurrectionary letter to Mr. Lincoln. He read it over thought fully and then asked: “Is not this a hoax?" 1 answered that at first T thought it was, however, it bore so many marks of genu- Iness—its stylo, just that of an uneducated negro, who had gathered a certain Kind of oral culture from intercourse with whites, but not the ability to express himself cor- rectly I writing, and the leather stainy upon the envelope—these looked so genuine that it seemed to me it would not be safe to treat it as counterfeit. “Well,” he sald, “it does have a ge uine look. What do Rosecrans and Gar- fleld think of it?" I told him. “And they want me to put my foot upon it “They do, most decidedly; they urge its h ng immediate attention. They think the country would be seriously compromised it the project were for a moment counte nanced.” ““They are right, and I will give It im- mediate attention. You may write them to that effect.” HORACE GREELEY TAKEN SULTATION. This was late in May, and early in June 1 received a letter from Garfleld dated tha 4th inst., of which the following is an ex- tract: “I am eclearly of the opinion that the negro project is in every way bad and should be repudiated, and, it possible, thwarted. 1f the siaves should of their own accord rise and assert their original right to themselves and cut their way through rebeldom, that is their own affair but the government could have no com- plicity with it without outraging the seuse of justice of the civilized world Wo should create great sympathy for the rebels abroad, and God knows they have too much already. 1 hope you will ventilate the whole thing in The Tribune, and show that the government and the people disavow INTO CON o I w at that time an editorial writer on the New York Tribune, and accordingly 1 submitted General Garfield's letter to Horace Greeley and Siduey Howard Gay, the latter the managing edifor in succession to Hon Charles A. Dana. This I did, as I felt in | duty bound to give them all lmportant in- formation, but not becausa I desired to then make the publication. Both urged it, but I said “The matter i now in the hands of Mr. Lincoln. It inight interfere with his plans it it should be prematurely published. However, 1 will write him at once.” His reply Is now in the Historlcal library of the Johns Hopkins university at Balti- ore. It was in_a letter from his private secretary, John G. Nicolay, dated June 14, 13¢3. S0 much of It as refers to this subject Is as folluws: “The president has no objee- tion whatover to your publishing what you propose concerning the negro insurrection providing you do mot In any way connect his name with it." A MAJORITY OF COMMANDERS FAVOR- ABLE, UI'T FROM NICOLIL Your last opportunity==this week==to have a Suit made to order at a price 207 South 15th Str. Those who bought Suits are advertising uss president T recelved another letter from Gen- eral Garfield, in which he sald: “The negro scheme of which we talked has been pressed upon us again, and the letter asserts that five out of our nine de. partment commanders have approved it. An- other letter, recelved yesterday, says one more department has gone into it, and that the scheme is being rapidly and thoroughly perfected, and the blow will certainly be struck.” This last letter convinced me that no time was to be lost, and after conferring again with Messrs. Greeley and Gay. I decided to go on to Washington, to show Mr. Lincoln the necessity for prompt action, and to gain from him such other facts as would be pru- dent to make public. A TALK WITH LINCOI The president read the two letters of Gar- fleld in his quiet, thoughtful way, and then moving his one leg from where it dangled across the other, he said, emphatically, “That Garfield is a trump—there i no discount upon that.” Not being in a mood to listen to a eulogy upon Garfield, or any one else, 1 hastily as- sented, and was about to ask him what he had done about the negro project, when he went on: Do you know—that job of his on the Big Sandy was the neatest thing that has been done in the war. It's something to have been born In a log shanty.” And to have split rails,” I laughing. rejoined, Yes, , “and 'l bet Garfield has done that.' “I don’t know about his having done it, but his mother has—she's told me so he self.” “Is that so?’ he sald smiling. “That accounts for Garfield—he had a good mother." Then, subsiding into a serfous mood, he added, “‘Now, about the negro business. As Garfleld says, it is bad every way, and we can't afford it. I think I have put my foot upon it. “And are you disposed to give me any inside facts for publication in the Tribune? I might suppress the names of the six com- manders, if you thought it advisable.” I've been thinking on that subject. I guess we had better say nothing whatever Just yet. You see, I have scotched the snake, not exactly Killed it. When it is dead will be time enough to preach its funeral germon.” ““And you will let me know when you are ready for the sermon?” He promised to do so, and soon the in- terview ended. I do not assert that this projected in surrection was not, what Mr. Lincoln at first surmi it might be, a hoax, I simply afirm that Generals Rosecrans and jarfield—and soon Mr. Lincoln also—be- lieved it to be a real danger, which threat ned the south with all the horrors of St Domingo. But, whether the danger was real or not, the action of the president and of the others who bhad connection with this projected insurrection has the same character of the genmuine human kindness toward the south All know that the Insurrection did not take place, and I have always doubted If the conspiracy was so widespread and uni- versal as It was supposed to be by the sub ordinate leader who wrote the letter to Rosecrans. The uprising was fixed for the 1st of August, and serious outbreaks occurred among the blacks in Georgia and Alabama in September. May not those have been the work of subordinate leaders who, mad dened at the miscarriage of the main de sign, were determined to carry out thelr part of the program at all hazards?' Mr. Lincoln was disinclined to talk about the part he took in the affair. The last he said to me upon the subject was a short time before his death, when he said: ‘‘Some time, when I have a little leizure I will tell you the whole of that story.” The assassin’s bullet cut short the story . JAMES R. GILMORE. o~ It Is estimated that the sugar beet fac tory at Chino, in San Bernardino county California, (will cenvert 100,000 toms ipf beets Into sugar this season. This means the distribution of $400,000 among the farm ers and workmen of tuat district. The Chino factory s the mniost perfect on the comst. A large number of cattle and hogs aro fattened on the refuse of the beets. e When you shut your closet door, lock it Before the arrival of this reply from the ' with a promise. AN DR ( OF THE WHEEL THE TURNI) Social Evolutions Set in Motion by the Bicycle. THE CHAPERON OUT OF BUSINESS Physical and Fducational Elemeats of Wheeling—The Manufacture of Bikes and Their Cost—A Factory in Operation, Why do bicycles cost $1002 Lots of folks ponder over that question every day and fail to find a satisfactory answer. Many people think that wheels are made like sew- ing machines and turned out just as easily That isn't so a bit. A trip through a bicy- clo factory shows where some of the heavy cost comes in, and a talk with the manu- facturer, who tells of the enormous amounts spent in advertising and marketing his product, makes up the rest of the hundred. And there is no denying the fact that the same competition that has brought the price of wheels down from the $150 mark of two years ago has also made the expense of put- ting them on the market considerably greater | than it was. There are, perhaps, two-score of places in Chlcago, says the Times-Herald, where the “bikes'" are made, and eighten or twenty o these places are factories devoted exclusively to the manufacture of wheels. Every last one of the local concerns is far behind its orders now, and will be unable to catch up during the rest of the summer. Such a rush for bicycles was never known before, anl a great percentage of the increased do- mand is for women's wheels. Last year women rode 5 per cent of the wheels sold; (his year ‘they ride one-third. MAKING THE MACHINES. The making of bicycles is an interesting process to watch even for the layman who knows nothing of mechanies, patents and such like things. Some of the machinery employed in the making of wheels ls almost bumen. Bt Is gnostly speclal and very ex- pensive. That her reason why wheels cost as muc 0. The fact that the best skilled employed in turning ri#ason. Labor, in fact e The difference be best material and the slight that except in the cheapest gryde Wieels, there is little ob- Ject in using the poorer kind. Just where to $taf in telling how a wheel is made is a difficult thing. In the making they start In a dozen piaces or more at once. In a general way thece are four different par's to a bicyole—the wheels, the frame which acts as the: commecting support for all the running gear and the steering apparatus Carrying the anklysis farther, the wheels are made up of spokes, bubs, rims, tires, spoke uipples, ball valves, oups and cones, and the washers that godvithithem. The frame is composed of thedamend shape set of tubes that join the wheel together, the head through which runs the steering tube, the rear fork, the seat post and the crank hanger. The aring apparatus includes the hanliles, the steering tube, the fork sides around the tront wheel, the fork crown and the balls, ap and_cones on which the stecring tubes turn. The running gear takes in the pedals and crank which operate cn the sprocket them out is an is the greatest tween the cost o poor is sald to be sl wheels, the chain which connects them and carries the driving power and the ball bear ings on wheh these things revolve. The sad- He in also & necessity which properly be longs with the frame, MANY HANDS TO EACH PIECE. These are the minute parts of the wheel, and each separate plece, whether b'g or little, requires separate handimg many times ov before it finaliy enters into the make-up of & complete wheel. E plecs passes through numerous hands before it is Anished, each porson who handles it taking it a little nearer completion in making the rima for wheels, for in- +va workman Onds his material in & sheet of steel four feet broad, perhaps, and twenty feet long. He puts it into a cutter that rips it into proper widths and then cuts it to requisite lengths. From there each plece {s sent through a machine that bends it into circular form and on through others that turns up the edges into concave shape When that is done the two ends are brazed together, holes are drilled for the spokes and the rim is complete The to hold the rubber tire. except for the nickeling and polishing. spoke, spoke nipples, hub and washers are all .| lookout on the roadway In front of him. At the moment it may be clear, but a few seconds may suffice to change the -entire situation. At times he has to thread his way among a medley of vehicles of all sorts, and only a cool head and steady nerves will carry him safely through. Constantly he 1s called on to exercise his judgment as to what course to pursue—whether to go slow or fast, whether to turn on this side or on that, whether there is room for him and his handled separately machine in the narrow opening between With the new method of making the frames | tWo trucks—and his decisions have to be comes the greatest reduction in the weight of | made instanter. Little time is there usually wheels. Instead of using small bars of solid | for deliberation. Then suppose he has to steel, as formerly, lighter hollow steel tubing | cross a street car track. It is remarkable is employed. This lessens the welght without saorificing the strength, for a tube of steel is said to be stronger than a solid of the same we'ght. In making the joints, too, there is a great saving of welght heavy castings and reinfo Instead of the old | cements, the joints how soon a rider who glves his attention to his business will learn to note even when a considerable distance away whether a car has crossed the roadway ahead of him in either direction, and so estimate his chances of finding his way clear. These are but are now brazed, one piece into the other,|a handful of il which ~adds strength and _decroases the | sand that come. aithin the cobetnencr Ol welght. In place of the heavy castings used, | qear, “Wil (OMe WItHn the exp o for instance, in the fork-crown, a vital part S ETLacndies a8 - ogrs of the machine, drop forgings are now em ployed to the increase of strength and safety and the decrease also of weight. In making the running gear the greatest care s exercised, both in workmanship and the selection of material. Each piece handled a dozen times, made with the ntmost procision, tested for every possible strain, and not put into a wheel without every assurance | & that it will be able to perform its function properly. Special machinery s used for most of it, and the best of skilled workmen are employed. If there is but one part about a wheel that requires particular treatment it is the running gear, and it gets it SOME OF THE MACHINERY USED. A great deal of the machinery used is auto- matic, and can be operated by boys and girls. The making of oil cups, for instance, and the many nuts and rivets used in a wheel is done by machines that bite off pieces of steel; turn them about a few times on automatic lathes, and then throw them out finished and complete. Sprocket wheels are made in this way. First they are cut in circular form from a plate of steel by a heavy drop hammer, then strung together in lots of a dozen or more in a machine whose teeth eat out spaces in the rims and make the notches, one row at a time, on which the propelling chain turns. Saddles are first cut out of bit sides of leather, soaked and put through a lot of forms, till they are pressed Into the proper shape. Most of the work Is done by girls. Putting the spokes in hub and wheel is a puzzling job, which has been well learned by a lot of boys, and they do it as well as men. Putting tires in the rims Is simply a trick, too, but they tell you at the factory they will give anyone a wheel who can pull an inflated tire away from th: rim. The enameling, nickeling and polishing of the different parts are done by the same processes always used in finishing the same sort of material in the same way Th> assembly room is the place where all the parts come and are put together., Each part is there tested again strain it for every Kind of will have to bear. It to see the making of any particalar wheel in one day, and you can't get “one while you wait,” as you could get silk handkerchiefs at the World's fair. It the process, however, and or opportunity should embrace it THE BICYCLE AS AN EDUCATOR. Although so mueh is printed nowadays about the bicycle, says the New York Tri- bune, comparatively little attention is given to its educational effect upon those who use it. Emphasis is commonly laid on the physi- cal benefits to be derived from wheeling, and none can dispute that these are many and great. It is not only the muscles of the lower limbs which are developed by exercise on the wheel; the muscles of the arms, the chest and the back are brought Into constant play, so that on the whole there Is even development, and it may be questioned whether any other form of exerclse produces morz uniformly good results, It is safe to say that no other is at once so exhilarating and satisfactory. Except in hilly regions it can be taken with the greatest moderation and from this point any degree up to that of violence is attainable. But the bicycle does more than develop muscle and send the blood coursing vigor- ously through the velns. It has an educa- who has the tional value mot to be despised. Bicycle riding tends to train the perceptive and judictal faculties to a remarkable degre Especially is this the case where the rid- ing is done In city streets. The rider must in the first place keep a constant and sharp is | nervous isn't possible | is interesting to see | stantly arising, new problems are constantly presented, unexpected combinations con- stantly appear, and the bicycle rider must be continually on the alert. Of course, in the case of a beginner there is considerable strain, but this soon disappears and a sense of exhilaration comes with the demonstration of one’s ability to go through “tight place” without getting ‘“‘rattled” and without taking any serfous risk. Cau- tlon, as well as nerve, is required, for at times the only safe thing is to dismiount. But it s not the perceptive faculties and the judgment alone that arc cultivated In the wheelman or wheelwoman. If the rider I3 a person of intelligence he will not fail to discern and take advantage of the op- portunities wiich the wheel presents to him for gauining a knowledge of nature at first hand. — When he takes a run Into the country, therefore, it will not be stmply for the purpose of seelng how long or how fast a ride he can take. The desire to make ““records” is one of the evil phases of bic cling which can only be deprecated by the wise and prudent. ~ It has its manifesta- tiens not only on the racing path, but in the unlaudable ambition of many riders to Indulge fn “century runs,” as if thero was some peculiar advantage 'in the demonstra- [ tion of one’s ability to ride 100 mlles in one day. Rightly employed, the bieycle en- abies its rider to study with ease rocks and flowers and trees and the hundred and one natural objects that should bo of Interest to every rightly constituted mind. It also enables one to travel over considerable sec- tions of country with ecase and delight in the week or fortnight which constitutes the ammer vacation of so many men. It i3 a good thing for them to plan long trips awheel, but let them not place emphasis malnly on the matter of making them as long as possi ble. The bleycle tour should combine health, pleasure and knowledge; and It may bo added right here that the smailer t | company which starts on such a tour the smaller will be the temptation to fast riding, which cannot fail to interfere seriously with | at least. two of the objects that should be | kept in view The bicycle has apparently eome to stay. | If rightly directed its use cannot but be of vast benefit to its votaries in many ways. It | clearly may have a markel educational influe- ence ‘upon them, not only physically, but intellectually and’ spiritually THE CHAPERON OUT OF DATE. { _The bieycle has a new function, writes a w York correspondent. It is relegating | the chaperon to her proper sphere. It is not goodby nor a long farewcll to the dowagers on duty. They will wag as long as society swings. But in the last year there has been a lightening of the fefters that fasten a society girl to her chaperon’s side, and this, too, in the innermost circles, the ‘approval of which makes a custom good form. This ts how the change was described by one of the moving spirits In the potential clique of New York's most desirable soclety This white haired young matron was in an after dinner mood, ready to scintillate a new idea if her brains were properly rubbed Her white crepon dinner gown, touched up | with & cool, green velvet and ' valenciennes lace, was faultless and harmonized with the | youthtul face under its pompadour frame of { prematurely white halr. ~ She had bosn con gratulated on the overwhelming success of her last charity project, and not a care dls turbed her merenity. Everybody knows (h this woman, with her unassallable position due to birth, wealth and natural leadership, can afford to polat a new way even ‘f 100 | other women have not discovered the possie bility of leaving the old one Bicycling was the_subject. In the midst of a breezy description of the possible aps pearance of certain soclety women as chap- erons aboard bicycles the hostess flung her little bomb. “Didn’t you know that chaperons a insisted on' now for girls who bicycle? asked. A couple of elderly dinner guests who had returned to the drawing room In time to catch the question looked amused, and the satirical one of the pair smiled an appro- priate smile as she said: “Ah! doubt the not she no bicycle will be very popular this season in that case.’” The hostess laughed. “That expresses It, and, of course, you will try a wheel at once. It seems ridicu lous to think of the bicycle having a hand | In the downfall of chaperons, but it ap- | pears very much that way now. This v my experlence. I have two sons. Both my boys disappear every pleasant day for several hours, When they come back, it I ask where they have been, the answer Is, ‘Out with the girls bicycling.’ ** ‘Who went?’ and they mention a couple of girls who are going into soclely next season, As to chaperons, never one |s heard of. I have been talking this over with the mothers of several girls. They agree that when their daughters go out with their bicycles they never think to ask where they may be going or suggest the necessity of a chap- eron. They know that when a couple of girls start together somewhere very . hortly a couple of boys meet them. Usually ‘the gang,' as they express it, s togother, Now, those girls are too Intent on keeping the pace the young men sct to get into mischief. They are going to get to Clare- mont in the fifty minutes' time limit, and the girl who keeps up best with the boys is the favorite. They don't dismount ex- cept for a few moments before returning. It is the athletic spirit again, and all very favorable to the release of the chaperon from many of her dutles. Such a thing wouldn’t have been heard of five or six years ago, when we were ultra English, Then a chaperon was indispensable, and the proudest boast of a soclety mother was that her daughter had never been left alone a moment from her birth to the time she was handed over to some young man at the altar. ““What s the matter with Just {magine some of the ing on a bieycle. Don't yc had to be accompanied every wanted to rido the bicycle, be much bic and yet further “Katherine P., you know, is like a daugh- ter in this house,” and the speaker men- tioned one of the best known young women the change? chaperons rid- it a girl time she there wouldn't the change goos in New York “We were talking over this very thing yesterday. 1 sald it looked as If the bis cycle would be mcre popular this season than driving, because the girls had to take a chaperon when they wanted to drive with “‘Oh, but we don't do so now, Mrs. A broke In Katherine. ‘I don’t, and then she named at least a dozen of the leading society girls who are in the same list It seems that lately It is considered allowable to drive with a yonng man, sans chap- eron, out to the Country club or in some locality not too consplcuous. That 1s & long move from the strict position on the tained by New York soclety.” - - The latest capes for summer wear are tri- amphs of color and decoration. One exar ple is made of glaco silk, that with thres | colors to it has a chameleon effect. It is | slashed to the neck at Intervals all the way round and cream guipure is inserted in the openings. While the whole s spangied with small black sequins and lined with white silk, & special model for young ladles is @ short, full black satin cape entirely covered ! with cream guipure spangled with paillettes and finished at the neck with a black chiffon ruche. Amother movelty in black satin has a narrow yoke of green velvet, and the satin is cut In a deep point at the back, on t ve | shoulders, with two points in front and ¢ | ered with spangles to match the velvet i w York union printers $31,000 in providing for thelr during the past year. | spent nearly unemploy 1