Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1895, Page 10

A GEN ON SIERRA'S SLOPES Mountain Looked Idaho, Its Resources and Boenic Splendors. SEARCH FOR THE PRECIOUS METALS A Royal Netreat for Sportsmen—Res fore nnd After Taking Idaho Ozone—Impressive Grandeur of Shoshone Falls. HAILEY, Idaho, Sept. 10.—(Special Cor- tespondence of The Bee.)—Almost every man, woman and child In this fair young state has an interest In, or owns outright, a mining claim or “proposition,” in the vernacular of these scckers after new Eldoradoes. The servant girl, instead of putting on her back the gew-gaws of lovely femininity, is content to #o in well conceived calico gowns and effective ginghams, the major portion of her weekly wage going toward yearly devel- opment work, which is essential under the mining laws of Idabo, that claims may not be forfeited or escheat to the state by reason of neglect or inability to do the amount of development required, which is $100 per year. In the parlors, the hotels and saloons, where many of the inhabitants congregate nightly, but two things are heard discussed— the position likely to be taken by the old political parties on the financial question and the rehabllitation of silver upon the old ratio of 16 to 1. Now and then a “tenderfoot” at- tempts to lead the discussion along sporting lines and learnedly speaks of the reiative merits of Defender and Valkyrie III, but yachts are not owned in Idaho, although quite frequently a “prairle schooner” Is seen with canvas well spread pointing toward the north or west. In the belief that silver must once more take its old position In the financial world is seen the same childlike faith that char- acterized the forebearers of these arguments, a simplicity which is as rare as it is beautiful. They are populists because populists are for the freo and unlimited coinage of silver at the old ratio of 16 to 1. Any other ratio would be sulcidal to the white metal's posi- tion and anything that touches silver touches the heart of every man, woman and child in the commonwealth. Even though the “man from over the ridge” may not agree with these warm- hearted, generous people upon the silver ques- tion, ho cannot but feel that a heavy hand has been laid upon these toilers in the drifts, the deserted cabins that cling to the sides of mighty canyons, the abandoned bridle paths and trails leading to the “diggin's” and the smokeless chimneys of countiess reduction work and smelters telling in their own way the story of the world's ingratitude. UNWORKED MINES. Many of the leading silver mines in the state are shut down completely, as in the caso of the Minnie Moore and Queen of the Hills, water now occupying the levels where once hundreds of men toiled and worked taking out silver. Lives have been lost over the Minnle Moore and the property which sold originally for $30,000 cleaned up $6,000,- 000 for the English syndicate, headed by the president of the Bank of England, be- fore the order came to shut down entirely. It is thought it would take $10,000 to pump the waier out of the Minnie Moore and re- stofa " the decayed timbers and the same amount might be easily expended on the Queea of the Hills. There are hundreds of smaller prospects and mines situated as in the case of the Minnle Moore, worked by bt “few men, the owners continuing their holdings and doing ‘“development work” in the winfer time when the snow lies heavy and deep on the mountains and In the gulches and canyons. Realizing; however, the uncertainty at- taching to the silver question, some of the larger ming owners have commenced pros. pecting for placer and quurtz propositions, and already a number of er mines on the Snake' river are showing good outputs for thelr owners, one placer” which I visited noar Bliss ylelding §200 per week = for the three owners, nature doing comparatively all the work. There is another placer mine up the river which promises rich results, a steam engine being used to pump the sand and gravel from the Snake river, much on the: principle of a dredging machine, burlap taking the place of the old rockers to catch and hold In their meshes the tiny deposits of pure gold, which are very beautiful under the mieroscope. MILLIONS PRODUCED. Since the discovery of gold in 1860, Idaho has taken out $100,000,000 in silver and gold and today its mineral deposits are among the richest in_the world; and this immense sum of money represented in thousands of tons of are. has. practically been mined in the last quarter of a century, for until its admission as-a-territory in 1563, Idaho was but sparsely inhabited and then only so far as its white population was concerned by trappers and missionaries, And to today this gem-en- vironed state boasts of a smaller population 00.than the last decennfal census gave tg Omaha. But small as its population Is, the assemsed valuation of the state reaches into the millions, and if all the mining properties within fts borders were patented it would be a fahulous sum which these properties would represen B,n,u& “new. occasions teach new duties,” and the miner is turning husbandman, beating k.Into a plowshare that the rich lava ‘may be turned over preparatory to the ~of ~wheat, oats and alfalfa, which ws with wonderful rapidity in this eli- ~Fruit ‘trees are taking the-place of the sage brush and the grease weed and with man’s sure rainfall, irrigation, accomplished, 2‘. Jhblo use.of this wonderfully productive e Wil be changed. New ditches are being nually opened, brond waterways are man looking for bear, elk, antelope or deer, need not go outside the state to Indulge in tho harder chase after these animals, for great bands of antelope and deer are seen deily on the winter ranges. in some cases Joining the herds of cattle feeding on these immense grass plains, while bear continue to molest the farmers' hogs and chickens throughout the timbered sections of the state. Mountain sheep and goats, although protected for five years, afford exciting sport to the sportsman who cares but littie for the law and those who have stalked these wary animals say that all other forms of hunting pall, become stale and unprofitable. There are still left bands of mountain sheep and goats In the Sawtooth range of mountains but their ranks are being rapidly decimated. TWO PICTURES OF PRESIDENT CLARK. President 8. 8. H. Clark of the Union Pa- cific upon the sireets of Omaha presents a perfect picture of the care-harassed man of busipess, tall, with a tendency to pale- ness, his 'long reddish, brown whiskers seerning to accentuate the paleness of his face, To see him among these mountains, rigged out In a serviceable shooting suit of corduroy or wearing wading pantaloons and boots of dull brown rubber, armed with the ~dear delights of the true sportsman, is an- other picture which 1 have enjoyed on rev- eral occasions. To see this trusted friend of Jay Gould and the younger Goulds, the man- aging receiver of a still powerful railroad corporation, although somewhat shorn of its onc: great’ strength in the railroad world, follow the flight of grouse or sage chick- ens with the keen Interest of the true hunier was a pleasure hardly to be de- soribed. A fine shot and an expert angler for trout, Mr. Clark in these mountain fastnesses, scemed to combine all the essentials of the ideal sportsman. Ho asked no favors from his associates in the fleld, taking his bird as It came and generally putting in a shot that added one more to the day's bag or fish- ing, filling his creel with speckled beauties long before the others of the party. Men are dual In thelr cha , becausa of environ- ment. Mr. Clark is a true sportsman be- cause his is an inheritance from a sturdy yeomanry, lovers of outdoor sports. He is railroad director by education and assoc tion. In both positions he brings to bear the varied talents associated with an active out- of-door _lite, He i3 a nineteenth century Izaak Walton, knowing the habits and habitat of the trout, which are lured unerringly to the tempting bait he has leadered for these wanderers in deep solitudes, his angling sug- eating the old song: 'he speckled trout practice at vaulting and leaping, And stir the bright sand in their soft murmuring pool; From daylight to dark night and all through the moonlight They practl the games that are taught in_their school. They dart at a gnat and jump at a lady bug; High in the air they will leap for a fly; But_plumper they're growing, and in the near future Thl:"BHBQI‘ ones rising to feathers must e. \ SHOSHONE FALLS. In this mountain-walled storehouse of the gods, I know of no more splendid picture than Shoshone Falls. I have read a dozen deserip- tions of the falls and 5o have you, no doiibt, but all seem so hopeless in the presence of so much grandeur and sublimity. The falls scem so much out of place fn the soberly-toned landscape which surrounds them on all sides that I could not help but remark the theatri- cal effect which their presence suggested, al- most travestying Nature, I thought, as I stood overlooking the seething waters tum- bling down into abysmal depths, while the con- tinuous roar occasioned by .the falling and dashing waters sounded like the thunder of great moguls pulling heavily loaded cars up a steep grade. In Locomotive cave this sound was greatly augmented until you al- most felt the presence of trains but a few feet away, although, as a matter of fact, it is a good thirty-mile ride to the nearest railroad station, Shoshone. The impression of these falls is of something mighty, Titanic. Some- thing In their sublime beiuty and tran- scendent grandeur of the Norse Walhalla in some of their wild outbursts of rage or mad playfulness, parting asunder the piled up rocks that the streams of lava might flow in one continuous tide to be followed in other eons by the coollng waters from Lost rivers and hundreds of subterranean streams. ‘These great plcture falls of the Snake river come upon you £o euddenly that you almost doubt the sense which makes their presence known. The ride to them is over a lava desert, with no life to be seen except jack rabbits, an occasional magple and now and then a stray sage hen that has become sepa- rated from the covey. Sage brush, grease weed and buck brush relleve the drear mo- notony of fissured rocks and lava eoll, almost a Golgotha in the heart of a great commonwealth. ‘The presence of Saake river s indicated by no sign, until the tourist who has laboriously traversed the desert vaste stands on the topmost height of the wall rock, when, hundreds of feet below him, Is seen the tortuous waters of the river first named by Lewls and Clark in their voyage of discovery. The great chasms through which the river winds are worn smooth, ex- cept here and there, deep embrasures are seen, while high In the air rise battlemented rocks which unite in making the most spectacular scene I have ever looked upon. And tum- bling, rushing, roaring the waters go over the falls, reflecting in their mad rush the pris- matic colors of the rainbow, giving back far below illuminated spray, soft as the feathers of a bird, associated with a wild difipasan, the voice of the whirling wa'ers. Where Niagara s agsoclated with all the evidences of civilization, reached through one of the busiest rallroad yards in the country, Buffalo, Shoshone Falls is alone in its gran- deur, reached by hard travel over desert wastes, but repaying many times over the fatigue of the journey; whero Niagara is unbroken in the descent by projecting rocks, Shoshone is jagged and uneven, sending the veil-like mist to greater height than Niagara ever realized; where Niagara i3 calm, Shos- hone is tempestuous; where Niagara is en- vironed by beautiful landscapes, Shoshone s the one bright jewel in wide sketches of lava rock and sand created by the Great Seulptor, in fine contrast to the wild desolation that will go on forever until the waters of the Snake are turned into navigation ditches to bel ng planned and the waters from thousands « ms and springs are being harnessed at smiles may chase away the tears oc- casioned by the repcal of the Sherman act. +.... A SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE. August is peculiarly the sportman’s month n state. Tt brings in its train blue and willow grouse and sage chickens, and in the middle of the month ducks and geese, while trout fishing reaches its helght, the snow watér from the moantains and hills having been disslpated under the tempering nature of the day orb. I know of no more favored ldealities for the sportsman than are found within this imperial domain. But little known to the eastern hunter and nimrod the gamo above mentioned are endless in numbers and fn August reach perfection, It 18 no upusual thing for a bag of 200 grouse 0 Be made in a day by two guns, while the ardinary wing shot may bag fifty or sixty birds without great fatigue in climbing the canyons or Tapidly traversing the high es- carpments of the hills after sage hens. The sport is’ entertalning to a wonderful degree and acts on the system as a stimulant, the altitude and the bracing air, that contains not. a single bit of moisture, uniting in na- ture's cure for that “gone feeling’ whieh is the inheritanee of .every bread winner and Which asserts Itselt about the time the dog days dawn. Aud I know of no more favored locality for" trout fishing than Idaho, the waters of the Snake, Big aud Little Wood, and the Malad rivers with thelr hundreds of tributary erceks. abounding in brook, ratn- bow and salmen trout, which in their taking affords the true lover of the reel and line ::A-|mltpp:‘rl!l\:nllhy to bring into active y all the abillty he possesses in the way of angling for fontinalts, for the species 1s a most erratic one, aud it Is impossible to tell Just what fly will be needed in the taking until your book fs well tried. September also holds out glittering Inducemonts In the way of trout fishing and if larger fish are desired, sturgeon may be angled for in the Snake river, some of them welghing as high as 600 pounds, while a the Red Fish lakes, some sixty miles from Halloy, a speoles of fish known as red fish may be ‘spearcd, their punennie being the theme of enthusiastic les by those who have enjoyed their cap- ture. The proragation and habits of these fish are ncw being studled by representa- tives from the Ohio and Wisconsin fish hatch- aries with a view of attempting their culture in eastern waters. THE GAMBY MOUNTAIN TROUT. While the trout streams of the east are less n number each year, because of the fallure of fish commissioners to re- stock the streams, hero In [dx70 the Mshing seems to grow beiter, a wisa law, which is almest enforced, prohiblting the ex- nfln of firh or game oulside the state ‘min- 1dabo excels In tho vast numbers its sizall game and fsking, the sports- make the descrt places blossom as the rose. E. C. SNYDER. - DEATH IN BOLT. nvoe nt a Baltimore uneral. A scene of unprecedented horror was en- acted during an electric storm at Baltimore receutly, when a funeral cortege had drawn up to the entrance of the Sharp Street cem- etery, at Mt. Winans. It. was the misfor- tune of the party, says the Haltimore Ameri- can, to arrive at the cemetery entranco just as the worst storm of the season broke. The rain came down in torrents, the lowerlng clouds caused a darkness almost like that of night, In fearful contrast with which were almost instantaneously recurring and blinding flashes of lightning and desfening peals of thunder. Nature's elements made the scene weird and awful, and it appeared impossible for the funeral train to proceed. But horror was added to the apprehension by the occurance, the counterpart of which cannot be recalled by any witness, and which 1s not paralieled In any recent local annal, > When the funeral procession arrived at the cometery, and had almost stopped at the side of the grave, bearing the dead body of Mary Brown, a colored woman, & lightning bolt which stunued all the members of the part instantly killed Willlam Alsup, who w: driving the hearse, and started the horses drawing the hearse on a dead run. The deadly bolt at first stunned one of the hearse horses, bringing him t¢ his knees. He was but stocked, however, and being, like his mate, a fiery steed, the regaining of his fost was but the signal for a runaway. Mecantime the driver, already dead, sat bolt upright, the reins iu his clenched hands, and there was presented to the horrified on-lookers the ghastly sight of the maddened chargers, dash- iug over the narrow abodes of the silent dead, controlled oply by the relns in the convulsed hauds of a dead driver, and bearing within the somber vehicle a burden attesting the mortality of human flesh. The frightened horses, in their mad career, were thrown upon their haunches by a collision with one of the trees of the cemetery, and then the 8 driver was burled from his seat The horses struggled to ex- themselves, but before they could continue their mad career they were re- strained by horror stricken miembers of the funeral party. e -— Troubled h P oal Dysentery. Henry P. Silvera of Lucca, Jamaica, Wi India Island, says: “Sloce my recovery from an attack of dysentery some ten years ago, It comes on suddenly at times and makes we very weak. A teaspoonful of Chamber- lain's Colle, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy takea In a Mttle water gives me reief. 1| could get a dozen testimonials from people here who have been cured by tlis remedy.” FIELD ELECTRICITY Oelebrating the Tnstallation of Electrio Power Produced by Water, OF ELECTRIC SEPARATOR OF ORE PERFECTED The Storage Battery and the Under ground Trolley—Speculating on the Resnlts of Long Dise tanee Transmission. Sacramento, Cal., celebrated on Monday last the formal completion of the electric line from Folsom, twenty-two miles off, whence the transmission line brings 4,000 horse, produced by the harnessed falls of the American river. This power is used for lighting purposes, driving steel cars, and for manufacturing and domestic uses. It was an electric jubilee. The city was literally a blaze of light, and in the night parade the designs on the floats were outlined and shaded with electric lamps of infinite gradua- tions of color and ranging from two to 200- candle power. The enthusiasm displayed on this occasion was In marked contrast with the temper of the California capitol six years ago. During the summer of 1880 a street car company bullt a number of branch lines to suburban points, intending to operate them with electric power. Before their comple- tion, however, the company, as well as the townspeople, became imbued with the notion that the introduction of electricity as a street car motor would Imperil the lives of the residents, so the project was held up and the lines idly gathered rust for over a year. Hamilton, 0., which. rejolces in the title of “The Pearl of the Miami,” proposes to cele- brate its 150th birthday and the opening of its new o'cctric lighting plant ai the same time on uhe 15th inst. Although the pro- gram may not be 8o pretentious as that of Sacramento it is looked upon by the citizens as a grave responsibility and elaborate prepa- rations are being made. Ten women were selected from each of the fiye wards of the city, who will wear flower dresses, with in- terwoven electrically illuminated flowers. After a grand evening dress parade, which will include “all the military and civic or- ganizations of the city and county and or- ganized bicycle riders” there will be a mam- moth vocal and instrumental concert, to be followed by festive orations by the poets of the city. The culmination of the festivities will be reached at 9 o'clock, when the firing of twenty-five glant bombs and shells, with incandescent fire rain, electric stars, ete., will be the signal for the starting of the lights of the electric plant, and the costumes of the fitty flover girls will burst into light. The Hamiltonlans intend to have a soul-stirring time, for of the twelve committees to which they have intrusted the control of the pro- ceedings not the least important is that on “brass bands, ringing of bells, steam whistles and cannon firing. THE ELECTRIC SEPARATOR. The electric separator, which has been the subject of innumerable experiments, has at length been reduced to a practical form and it is certain to have a weighty influence in the fields of potting, glassmaking and gold and copper mining. The first idea of the in- ventor was to construct a machine which would extract the iron from potter's cfay and thereby largely increase the value of the ware. When this had been dome atten- tion was turned to the extraction of the iron from the silica sand used in the manufacture of glass. It was premised that if thig conld be done America would be able to produce just as good glass as Europe, which has hith- erto excelled in the finer grades. Silica sand free from iron is very scarce and has to be sought at great depths and necessarily at much expense. On the other hand there is a tract of 112,000 acres of land in Pennsy vania containing almost inexhaustible quanti- ties of surface silica rock which has hitherto been of no value because iron was present in it in such large quantities as to make it use- less in the manufacture of glass. This, when put through the separator, comes out ready for the glass factory. One well known inven- tor has concentrated himself for many years on the magnetic separation of metal from tailings and there appears to be every likli- hood of his making the process a commercial success. Gold mining companies are now turning their attention to the inventfon as something by which millions of tons of ore that had been worked over and thrown away may become the source of new and immense fortunes. A mine owner who sald that he had been praying for such a machine as the electrical separator for years, declares that he loses about 40 per cent of the.value of his ore the present mode of working. As a test he sent a quantity of tailings and every particle of iron was extracted by the ma- chine. In passing the crushed ores through the separator the iron is attracted to the machine_ while the rock is allowed to wash away. Experiments with the separator on gold ore, silica sand, ground lime, soda ash and pot clay are said to have heen invariably successful. DOMESTIC UTENSILS. One of the latest adaptations of electric heating s the eldctric ““hot plate,” for keep- ing food hot during dinner. This, in a sim- ple form, is being used in English restau- rants. The me:al plate is electrically heated before being brought to the table; but should it be necessary to renew the heat, a plug is inserted at the side of the plate, connection is made with a socket on the table and the current 1s kept on as long as needed. ‘A new form ot hot plate for kitchen use has three dises fitted In a row into a stand, electrical connection being established by a socket under each plate. The stands are nickel- plated and the plates are each eight inches in diameter. Although, ordinarily, provision 1s made for the regulation of the temperature of each plate, 1t is sometimes found advisable to dispense with the regulating apparatus and to adjust the plates to reach different de- grees of heat. The first may be a slow plate, reaching a maximum temperature of 300 degrees Fahrenhelt; the next may be 500 Qegrees, and the third 600 degrees or 700 degrees. These temperatures cover all the requirements for the preparation of an or- dinary dinner, and the utensils can be moved from one heater to the other. A great num- ber of these heaters are being used in houses In the West End of London, and they are by far the best means yet invented for keeping food warm during dlnner. The eleetric radiator has already come into vogue in this country, and is most in demand in the shape of a light ornamental screen, which can be easily moved from place to placo. A small size, made espe- clally for bed rooms, can be so connected with an_alarm clock as to come into operation a sufticient time before the sleeper is aroused to il the' room with a gentle comfortable heat againit his getting up. The strong point in favor of this device is that it never over- heats an apartment. When It comes Into gen- eral use, which it Inevitably will, the sti- fling and unhealthy atmosphere Incidental to the prevalent abuse of other systems of heat- fling will happily be & thing of the past. The rage in England for electric heating dovices has led to the employment of a port- able electric radiator, made in the form of a banner, for use in the drawing room or near the plano. English rooms are often chilly and comfortless in winter, as steam heat is the exception, and it takes scveral hours to heat most rooms by means of the ordinary fireplace. Ope consequence is that many ladies shirk thelr dally piano practice dur- ing the winter months, because the room Is too cold, and the stiffened fingers derive no benefit from the exercise. The banmner radi- ator, hung conveniently near, has the merit not only of warming the player, but also tending to keep the Instrument in order. POWER TRANSMISSION, It success in long distance power trans- mission shall be achieved by the Niagara ex periment, saya a writer In the Review of Reviews, a host of competitive power supply stations ‘will spring into existence ‘wherever there 1s an avallab'e water supply or favor- able fuel location, auch as the coal mining regions or oil and gas flelds. Though the Niagara plant has little to fear from a rival ‘waterfall, the probable competition with power derlved from large steam central sta- tions promises to be serious, particularly in the manufacturing eities located within a radius of 150 to 300 miles. At present no such central power supply stations exist, al- though thelr advent seems Imminent. Con- sequently the only data on which to predicat tho cost of power to Buch installations Is the experience derivable from the largest and most carefully administered steam mills. JSUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1895, Charles Shiverick & Co. - -~ Y SEPTEMBER SPECIAL SALE. Wé*have been constantly adding new goods to our stock, and when one piece is sold there is another in waiting to fill the place. Our fall line is now complete, and every piece in our stock is marked down to such prices as these. Each succeeding day has brought us more goods, which were ordered last May and June, when prices were the lowest ever known to the furniture trade. We have now the largest and most complete line of furniture ever shown in Nebraska. You should wait until you see our goods and prices before making your selection of furniture, State Fair visitors are welcome in our store whether purchasers or not Parlor Furniture. Ordinary Price. ©dd Corner Chalrs, highly pol- ished $12 00 0dd Corner Chalrs, highly pol- ished Inlaid Reception Chairs, highly @ pol . Div in brocateile. Divans, In damask. Divans, in mahogan; Divans' in mahogany Arm Chairs, Spanish mahogany inlaid with brass and mother of pearl 75 00 Old_Colonial Sofa, in" Antwerp velvet, with beautiful grained mahogany fram 1 Spanish mahogar Beaufort velye 6-piece inlaid Suit September $ 760 10 00.. 10 00 12 00 15 00 20 00 2 00 47 00 110 00 48 00 Store Open Evenings, Hall Racks. Ordinary Price.” fleptember 110 00 67 00 58 00 Oak . Oak " Oak Oak Oak Oak Oak Oak Oalk Oak Oak Oak 33 00 18 00 4 00 12 00 800 6 00 500 Dining Tables. Ordinary Price.” September $175 00 $110 00 100 00 €0 00 75 00 40 00 Mahogay, 16 feet Mahogany Mahogany long. Oak ... 100 00 ' 6200 62 00 | Al |Brass and lroh Beds, We have on hand about three thousand of th beds which were bought during the cut rates on the New York Central last spri nd the prices we quote are TO- DAY lower than the factory cost. Ordinar Pricy September fron, our | White amous .. White or biue jron.. White or bluel ron. White or blue iron All brass brass, or blue Chamber Suits. r Ordinary Price. Mahogany 500 00 Mahogany 450 00 Mahogany Mahogany 300 00 100 Mahogany i Birch . 5 00 Birch September X | Manogany, e ary September Mahogany 00 Mahogany Mahogany 12 00 D ining Chairs Ordinary Price.” September and $1100 leather seq back . o Mahogan; back 125 00 Birch 6 00 CHARLES SHIVERICK 100 00 Birch . 50 00 82 00 & CO. Mahogany, Teat Mahogany, leather seat 60 13th and Douglas. Mill ard Block, Y With coal varying from $2 up to $2.50 per ton, an allowance of ten per cent for in- terest and dividends on invested capital, and assuming the most careful executive admin- istration, it seems probable that a large, con- tinuously operating steam central station with a daily average output of 15,000 to 20,000- horse power could produce electricity at the rate of $45 to $55 per horse power per annum. The Niagara company has offered to sell electricity at the Falls station at $18 per horse power per annun, thi figure doubtless includ- ing what the ompany considers a profitable margin. In each case a horse power is to be delivered for twenty-four hours per day, 365 days per year., Obviously the difference be- tween $45 and $18, or $27, may be expended to cover losses in transmission ana profit on the necessary capital Invested in transmission lines and still permit the Niagara company to compete on an equal basis with the best designed central station. This difference is a_very wide margin, and_would seem to afford so large a radius of distribution as to easily absorb all the energy that the Cataract company could dispense. Our more sanguine electrical engineers predict that at no distant day even New York and Chicago may be thus suppiied. Steam experts, possibly a little Jealous of their electrical confreres, pesitively declare 150 or 175 miles to be the commercial Imit of power transmission. STORAGE BATTERY CARS. The cost of installation appears to be the chief objection to the conduit method of trac- tion. The objection to the storage battery was that it could not be operated econom- ically on account of the short life of the battery. This was not the reason, however, that the storage battery cars were given up by the Madison avenue line years ago, says Harper's Weekly. Litigation over patents re- sulted in an injunction. Shortiy, however, storage battery cars similar to those in use on three lines in Paris are to be put bn the Madison avenue line, and it s claimed that owing to new inventions the battery to be used will last a satisfactory length of time, and that the cost of running the cars will be Jess than horse traction or cable or conduit trolley, and compare favorably with overhead trolley. If practical experfence shows the: claims to be well founded, then the storage battery cars are sure to be used very ex- tensively in all large cities. The writer is not In possession of such convincing facts as to feel justified in saying positively that these claims are well -founded. He hopes, however, that they are. The cars to be run on the Madison avenue tracks will be equipped with a new type of storage battery known as the chloride accumulator. These batteries have been practicaily tested in Paris on three lines, and it is sald that with one charge of the battery a fully loaded car can make a run of seventy miles. If this be so it is surely a great Improvement on the system used sIx years ago. tha new cars the batteries wi.l not' be carried in the car body, s has hitherto been the practice, but will e suspended from the truck under the center of the car. The tray or box containing the Datterles Is readily and quickly detached from the truck, and removed for the purpose of charging, on a small transfer car running on rails to and from an elevator situated be- tween the street car tracks, and running be- neath the floor to a cellar or subway, the elevator being adapted to hoist the batteries into place on the car truck, or to remove them therefrom, as the case may be. By this arrangement a car can be loaded or unloaded in half a minute or less. Auother important teature of carrying the batteries beneath the cars Is that any car body may be used, and 50 a company adopting the system will not have to seil all of the old equipment. PUMPING WATER BY ELECTRICITY. The ecity electrician of Chicago, TIl., has recently proposed the use of electric pump- ing machinery in that city as a supplement to the large main pumping stations by which the water supply s forced from Lake Michi- gan into the strest mains, following in his schemo the same ideas which were first advocated in this country at the Atlanta convention of the American Water Works association by John M. Goodell. The city now has four el=ctrié light plants, located in as many important sectlons of its area. The dynamoes are used for furnishing light during the hours wHen there is the least demand for water, IL is proposed to con- nect them with ths electric motors to fur- nish power to minor pumping stations in sections where there is a decided lack of water pressure, owjng to remoteness from the great pumping stations. These minor plants are expected to re-enforce the main pumps by reducivg ‘the pressure in the mains between thim and the large pumps. The principle Is the same as that applied in the relay stations’on) oil pipe lines or long mains for conveying inatural gas, the theory being that the diminighed wal pressure in outlylng sections of the city is not due so much to inadequate Mmain pumps as to the friction of the water against the pipes when conveyed a long distance aud through mauy bends. The limit of pressure at the pump- ing stations is the. strength of the plpe forming the matus, and this limit has al- ready been reached; hence the desirability of relay pumping stations in ocutlying se tions. Not only can the city electric light stations be used In this way, but it is ex- pected that electric power can also be ob- tained from electric lighting corporations now operating large plants In many parts of the city. The scheme is b:ing worked out by the city engineering departmen it believed that the present water supply can thus be mads amply sufficient for some time to come, and at a much smaller expense than would attend the construction of additional main pumplng stations. If it proves suc- cessful in Chicago It will be equally adapted to other cities in which efforts are made to distribute water over great areas from a very few central pumps. THE TELEPHOTOGRAPH. The telephotograpl is tho name of a new Swedish Instrument which, 1t s claimed, does for the eye what the telephone does for tho ear. It is based upon the peculiar prop- erty of selenfum by which its resistance to the transmission of electricity depends to a Breat extent upon the intensity of the light to which it is exposed. The construction of the apparatus is as simple as that of the tele- phone. A’ fine point of selenfum is made to move in a limited plare by a mechanical ar- rangement in such a manner that it describes a spiral with very close windings. An elec- tric current passes through the selenium point | and the power of this current will vary cc- cording to the light to which the point at any glven moment is exposed. The receiver ls constructed in a simllar manner to the above, except that a very susceptible incandescent light has been substituted for the selenium point. The intensity of this light varies in harmony with the light to which the selenium point is exposed. When the Incandescent light is made to move In a similar manner to the movements of the selenium polnt, it will produce lights and shadows on the plane similar to those through which the selenium point passes in its plane. The dispatching, ap- paratus is inclosed in a case, somewhat iike a photographic camera, fitted with an objective which can be so adjusted that the picture of the subject to be telephotographed is formed in the plane in which the selenfum point moves. The lights and shadows produced by the Incandescent light of the recclving appara- tus will then produce a picture identical with the one at the dispatching station. This pic- ture can be made visible in various ways, either through photography, or by baing looked at directly through some magnifier, or by a stereopticon. The selenium point has to move with a rapidity great enough to produce the impression on the eye of a continuous complete picture. COMBINATION LIGHT. Quite a sensation was created recently by Prof. Vivian Lewes informing the members of the gas Institute at Edinburgh that a French sclentist, M. Denayrouse, had discoy- ered a means of increasing the illuminating power of gas something like fifteen times. Prof. Lewes had been made aware of the dis- covery during a visit to M. Denayrouse in Paris and he had obtained permission to ex- periment with the new method of gas light- ing and to make a communication upon the subject to the Edinburgh meeting, In the invention M. Denayrouse had first been struck with the idea of applying the principle of the blowpips to the burner. He cmploys a lamp with a spherical-shaped me- tallic body and an incandescent mantle. In the body of the lamp Is placed a very small dynamo_working a ventilator and recelving the current from a couple of small accumu- lators. The electrical energy required is ex- ceedingly small and is said to be only about one-third volt and one-tenth ampere. This is, however, quite sufficient to force a current of air through the mantle and cause the gas to burn with remarkable brillianay. According to M. Mellet the lamp has a den- sity of thirty-five to forty carcels and con- sumes seven liters of gas per carcel. Prof. Lewes had, however, been shown a lamp of eighty carcels (abouf $00-candle power), and he was convinced that the light was quite as brilliant as an arc lamp. NEW THINGS IN ELECTRICITY. A filament for incandescent lamps formed of vegetable fiber, treated before carboniza- tion with hydrofluoric acid. An electric arc lamp, in which a secondary circult 18 wholly within the frame, and within the circuit are two movable electrodes and means for malntaining the electrodes in con- tact. A system of electric signals for rallway traing embracing a circult having therein gates placed at each end of each car and a signal to indicate when they are closed or when they are open. A coin signal apparatus for telephone pay stations, consisting of a casing having a sig- nal adapted to sound when a coin strikes nxnlllusl a plate arranged in contact with the wall, A method of extinguishing electric are, con- sisting in restraining the path of the arc to a line of direction substantially transverse to the lines of force from an arc-disputing means tending to extinguish it. An anti-inductive conductor for electric cur- rents, consisting of a wire grooved spirally in opposite directions, so that the spirals will intersect or cut across one another at each turn or twist around the wire. PEOPLE OF NO' Gossip Abous People, Thelr Hobbick and Characterintion, The death of George W. Buckingham at Omaha a few days ago, says the Wa:hin Post, recalls to western newspaper men mem- orles of one of the most eccentric reporters i America. “Buck,* as he was universally called, was an old man fifteen years ag when he wrote “local articles” for the M souri river papers. He always presented a smocthly shaven face, ¢iving the pecullar effect which s noticed in plctures of Web:ter and Clay. In summer he never wore a vest or coat, One suspender held up a pair of dilapi- dated trousers; one foot was Incasd in a shoo and the other in an old arctlc. On top of his I air loomed a battered silk hat thal scemed to dats back to a period before the war. But Buck was by no means & tramp. He had a resp-ctable family and a comfortable home, and everything heart could wish, for all the merchants in town were his fricnds, and no one expected him to pay for anything he chose to order, from a bag of flour to a parior stove. Ho was a good story teller and a and nobody thought the less of him because his white shirt front was stained graphic description of him found its way into a book of recitations, The “new man” in the repertorial line at last, however, crowded the old man out of his field, and he retired on a comfortablo subsistence, raising three sons Who are now prominent in railroad affairs at Omaha, without any of the eccentricities of their father, Captain Hank Haff, the veteran skipper of the Defender, has a flowing beard that fs not only ornamental, according to the New York Sun, but also of great practical utility in the management of the big single sticker under his charge. To get the best results out of a sailing craft the salls should bo properly ad- Justed to the direction of the wind. It is said among yachtsmen that Ciptain Haft's wh ers aro an invaluable guide to him in the per- formance of this important duty. When the Defender {s sailing close-hauled in a frosh breezo on the starboard tack the hirsute ap- pendages on the captain’s chin bunch them- selves together on his leeward coat collar. As the skipper casts his weather eye down his expansive shift front ho quickly detects the slightest deviation in the direc ion of the wind by noting the angle formed by the windward section of his beard, and he gives the big wheel which controls the movements of the Defender a turn to the right or leff, as the shifting breeze demands. When the Defender is sailing free, with the wind nearly dead astern and the big spinnaker set, the extreme outer fringe of hair, near the ears, is relied upon as an indicator. 1If the big mainsail has been boomed well out to port the slightest fluttering among the starboard hairs on the skipper's cheek shows that the wind has shifted toward that side of the boat, and the order is promptly given to trim in the main- sail until it s correctly adju:ted. The skip- por's beard also serves as an anemometer, and he is able to determine the strength of the wind with great accuracy by noting the force with which it blows through his whiskers. The sailors on board the Defender all swear by the beard of Captain Haft, Judge Emory Speer, who has been selected as the feading orator on opening day of the Atlanta exposition, i noted as one of the most fluent speakers of the south. He repre- sents more nearly than perhaps any other man in Georgia the popular idea of southern oratory. At present he is United States dis- trict judge for the southern district of Georgia, and his home is at Macon. While his position on the federal bench has naturally retired him from the activity of political life, there was a day when Emory Speer's name was talked of from one end of the stato to the other, and that day was not very long ago. Judge Speer s a Georgian. His tather, Prof. Eustice Speer, was for years the professor of belles letters in the University of Georgla. As a young man Speer was an active democratic worker. His ability was recognized and he made a successful race for the democratic momination for congress in the old Ben Hill district. In congress he attracted considerable attention on account of his oratorical ability and of his posilion against election frauds in the south. When the district of Georgia was divided and an- other judge was to be appointed Judge Speer was named for the position. The fight over his confirmation was one of the bilterest ever known. The senate was republican. The contest was very close, and Speer was con- rmed by one vote. He has since he has been on the bench led a very quiet life. He is regarded as an able and fearloss judge, a man of great strength of character, and an orator of note. Lord Dunraven would hardly bs selected trom a erowd of strangers as a yachting en- thusiast, says the New York Sun, much less as a genuine yachtsman, who knows how to handls the tiller and take full advantage of every puff of air and slaut of wind. His bronzed skin might suggest that he was an outdoor sportsman who shunned neither sun nor wind, but his manner is not that of a man who'is a devotee of any particular sport He is small in stature, end when he rises (0 address an assemblage a shade of disappoint- ment passes over the faces of his auditors who see him for the first time. The ldea that greatness of character or achicvements 1s always associated with large bodily propor- tions is strongly fixed in the minds of most persons, although there have heen many dis- tinguished individuals in the world's history who were inferior physically to men of less importance. One characteristic of Lord Dun- raven that is clearly read by a physiognomist is persistency, and this trait readily accounts for the promptness with which he went to work to build a new cup challenger after the defeat of Valkyrie Il As courage is also a quality that is well developed in him, it is easy to believe that a failure to win the cup this year will not mean a cessation of the struggle on his part, but that he will come over here again with'a better boat, aud make another try for the posses that anclent and honorable mug—the 2% cup. In one of General Benjamin F. Butler's political campaigns, says the Boston Budget, he was to speak in a hall which bad a smali aperture over the speaker's desk. Some of the younger aud dare-devil clement secreted themselves in the loft from which the hole opened, and at an impressive moment in the general's speech a huge wooden spoon sus- pended by a cord was seon descending slowly from the ceiling. 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The improvement in firearms goes on steadily, the new rifles which the United States has adopted for the navy and marine corps being a decided novelty, says the Phil- adelphia Enquirer. The patent for this rifle has becn turned over lo the government by the Inventor, J. P. Lee, in_consideration of the payment of $20,000. Tho Lee rifle weighs only elght pounds. The bullet h: not much ‘more circumference than a pea, hut is half an fuch long. 1In length the gun is only twenty-seven inches, a groat varia- tion from the long rifle “Kildeer,” which Naity Bumppo used. The barrel is made of nickel steel. The callber of 23.6 Is the smallest anywhere adopted by an army or navy. The penctrating power of this toy-like looking weapon exceeds that of any rifle In tho British, French or German army or navy se s. Its power is represented as being equal to sixty inches of oak, or three- quarters of an Inch of steel, with a velocity of from 2,400 to 2,600 feet per second. As the bullets from the Lee rifle will travel more than (wico a3 fast as ound travels for the distance of nearly a mile, it follows that a whole line of battio at that distance might be exterminated without any one in the line Learing the sound of the volley. At that dis- tarce the report would not be followed by the buliet, but_ would arrive a considerable time afier ‘the bullet. The Lee rifle, owing to its light weight, will permit the sallor or marine to carry more rounds of ammunition than could formerly be carricd. One of the problems of modern warfare I8 to tell how troops {n line of battla are to be replenished with ammunition after they have fired all they carried fnto position. It is conceded that modern cannon and smaller arms will not permit the approach of fresh supplies. In & mcasure the Lee rifle may furnish & solution to this problem. - Yet She Went. Chicago Trib Mrs. Flyabout—You don't look as if your trip esst had done you any good.” Mrs. Gofrequeni—It didu't do me any god, 1 knew it woulda't, but the doctor said I needed change and rest, That's why I went, 1 way carsick ull the way from here to New York and seasick all the way from Now York to Boston, ben how about your ehange and rest?* pants of the platform could not help joining, with tobaceo juice and his style of dress was H the spoon pursued its downward course, hal ing only when directly opposite the speak face. Mr. Butler gazed calmly at the cause of the merriment. Them, reaching for the Why, lioads got the change and the ockan got t est.” il BT Joe Straus old Omabog, 1s & great favorite in Minneapolis,