Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 10, 1901, Page 14

(1] Toe TeLusiraren B, Weekly by The Bee Publishir jee Bullding, Omaha, Neh Price, be per copy—per year, $200 Entered at the Omaha Postofice as Second Class Mail Matter For advertising rates address publisher Communleations relating to photographs or trifeles pablieation hould b el dressed Edtor The IMustrated Be Omnhn Pen and Picture Pointers I CARRIE L. CHAPMAN-CAT1 world of y vomen at present. Ha [‘(.’W ing weeedod M Anthony a the head of the National Equal Suffrage } irally has at CARRIE L. CHAPMAN-CATT, LEADER IN WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT During the last two weeks Mrs, Chapman- Catt has been busy in Nebraska spreading the doctrine of her cult. One day when passing through Omaha she was the guest of her local admirers at o most unique function, a tea served at the Union station It was on this occasion that the artist caught the picture which s presented in this number B Whenever a Iodge of any of the great Crui protected crulser Des Moines will take it first dip into the water at o Quiney Mass. When thi there will be much wonderment as to why and how a superb little fighting vesscl should have been given a name suggestive of the peace and contentment of o monas tery Des Moines suggests “of the monks and there will be nothing about the cruiser to indicate that the vessel is one of the monks. But the name was first given to the rapids in the Mississippl river, near which, on the Hlinois side, Trappist monks settled and nt thelr misstonaries up the valley into the then territory of Louisiana The name was given to the river, then to the fort established at the forks of the Ra voon, then to the village and town and city and now has been given to one of Uncle Sam fighting vessels Phe Des Moines is one of six sheathed protected cruisers authorized by congre in 1800 The bill provided that each one of the six should be “a protected cruiser of about 2,500 tons displacement to be sheathed and coppered o 1 1o have the highest speed compatible with good cruis Ing qualtties, great radius of action ind to carry the most powerful ordnan 8 of its class, and (o of armament not exq e sulted to Vess Ot exclusive ling £1.041, 800 The contract was let for construction for $1.060 000, the successful bidder being the Iore River Ship and Yard company of Quiney Muss The Des Moines is feet on the water OMB time during the winter the cruiser sails into the ports of the Latin countries flying the American flag omes suffici prosper ous it usually advertises the fact by build g a home for itself. In this way it con tributes to the material welfare of its home town. One of the latest of these buildinge In Nebraska the hall being built by the Odd Fellow it David City th corner tene of which was laid on October 29, 1901 I'he coeremaonie were in charge of Grand Muster « Ao Randall of New Grove ' ted by Past Grand Master George I, omis of Fremont and Rev. Shuman of ing Cit After the exercises of laying the cornerstone George L. Loomis delivered i addre it the opera house, taking for his subject “Fraternity They have moarriage ind giving in mar tlage in the Philippine islands much the e as elsewhere, if th picture presented this week of the Moyer-Escolar bridal party Is to be believed. The groom is an Amer lcan who went to the island with th Wyoming volunteer while the bride s a native of the island Mr. Moyer remained when his regiment was sent home and is now in charge of the government farm at Zamboango His bride is a daughter of th laland The New American of Manila prints a long account of the wedding, which wias solemnized at 730 o'cloek in the morn ing at the church of San Miguel, in Manila he account 1y Miss Escolar is a beautiful young member of Spanish social cirel i beloved by all for her grace and pleasing disposition Her costume | thus described The bride was dressed in a delightful mestiza costume of white pena cloth and 1k The bodice of pina wa tritnmed with hand-worked embroidery and v delicate tracing of gold, The sleeves were of the e material and all was trimmed with orange blossom The skirt and train. were made of lavender silk, covered with rich white lace, so designed as to give a delightful effect. The entire costume was temmed with orange blossoms A wreath of blo ms bhedecked her hair and the effect was most becoming, the beautiful bride presenting a most charming appear unce’ The marriage of Adjutant General Henry CoCorbin and Miss Edythe Agathe Patten which wa olemnized by Cardinal Gibbons en Wednesday, was one of the most bril Hant social events that has oceurred at the nation's capital for years The wedding breakfast which followed the ceremony was attended by nearly 600 guests, President Roosevelt, wife and daughter being among the distinguished personages present. Mrs Corbin 1s one of the richest women in Washington and it is expected that her entertainments this winter will be on a seale of magnificence such as has not been cen in Washington in a generation. Gen eral Corbin made violent love to his wifs last season and the gossips have been busy with the love affairs of the two. But, as all the world loves a lover, he has recefved the plandits of h sex in being able to carry off so rich a prize \ feature of the government service of which very few people know anything | tHustrated in this week's issue. The Burcan of Animal Industry was organized in the first place to meet the objections of torelgn governments to American meats Since then its scope has been extended ity Watehful care was in the b n ning exercised only over the meats intended for export, but it was only a little while until the authorities came to the conclu ston that the citizens of the United States were a " entitled to protection in the mat ter of food. So the observation of the in spectors at the stock yards and the packing houses was extended until now every meat consumer in the world has the benefit of the United States government supervision of all animals staughtered in the big packing houses line and 308 feet over all; extreme breadth W feet; mean draft, 15 feet 9 inches; dis placement, 3,500 tons. The Des Moines will have two masts and will carry fore and-aft alls when necded, it vl area being ab u 6,000 feet Below the water line it will be sheathed with yellow pine covered with copper, beneath which is the steel hull. The coal capacity is to be 700 tons, with which the Des Moines could cross the Atlantic three times without coaling. There will [ IX water tube boilers with twin crews driven by triple-expansion engines in vertical position. There will be two mokestacks and their tops will be seventy feet above the grates. The contract calls for a speed of sixteen and cne-half knots an hour, but the actual speed will b greater I'he tattery of the Des Moine when placed, will consist of ten inch breech leading rapid-fire guns, for the main bat- tery, eight 6-pounder rapid-fire guns for the secondary battery two 1-pounders ind four Colt's automatic machine guns The protected steel deck is from one to two inches thick on the slopes. The decks and all the joiner work will be fire proofed wood backed with corn pith, so that large leaks will be stopped at once by this mas terial I'he gun protection is of two-inch el plates. The vessel will carry a crew of 300 men The other cruisers of the same class as the Des Moines, authoriz>d by the same act, are the Cleveland, Tacoma, Galveston Chattanooga and Denver In the same act three full armored battleships were au thorized and three armored cruisers Th Des Moines is a larger vessel than the ILLUSTRATED GENERAL WEDNESDAY BRILLIANT WEDDING INGTON'S MOST was called on to perform the of pallbeare of the wife of a compatriot who is an enormously ers of the coffin experienced great diffic ulty After consid- maneuvering perspiration Finerty turned to a fellow bearer ilustrative federation IS Washington street And one of the other little boys safd: it 50 Pennsylvania avenue to the house Montgomery and others of that Philadelphia placing of the machinery is launched Miss West to Christen 1wt of breaking hull when th 1 extensively the cruiser was expected formed early Thanksgiving day been disappointed In this they Bav: satisfaction sheathing for water line, This sheathing BEE. CORBIN WHOSE ONE OF WASH MISS EDYTHE FUNCTIONS ERAL H. C. CORBIN ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER Five Good Short Stories id grandma, Ccause mother was at the club.' " . The teacher of an intermediate grade in a Milwaukee school the other day was “show- ing oft” her pupils before a number of vis- itors The spelling class was on the floor and one small, red-headed boy was given the word “introduction.” He paused, twisted his lips, stared, ana then in a faltering way spelled it correctly and seemed rather surprised that he had done it, Do you know what that word means?' asked the teacher. No'm “What? You don’t know what Introdue- tion means? “No'm."” ‘Well, now I'll explain it to you. Does your mother ever have callers?" “Yes'm."’ “Well, now, suppose that two women came in to call on your mother Your mother knows one of the women but doesn’t know the other. She has never seen the woman and doesn't even know hep name Now, how would she become aee quainted with this woman and find out her names e'd send me out for a can of beer." As that was the correct answer the teacher had nothing further to s B She doesn’t go to her clubs and euc hres half as much as she did, relates the Louis ville Times. People used to say this charm Ing woman spent most of her time at these gatherings. One day she called on a dear friend to reprove her for her slackening in terest in the club. 1 believe it was a club for reforming the gas meter or something anyhow, it was a reform affair, covering of the steel hull The purpose of the copper sheathing is to keep off the barnacles and other accumulations of the sea which ordinarily adhere to wooden sur- faces and to steel and iron hulls The cop per sheathing is bolted on with copper holts By some misarrangement the fac tory making these bolts did not get the order in time to fill jt promptly and work stopped while the bolts were being mad The latest reports from the yards at Quiney Indicate that the bolts are now being sup plicd and that the work of finishing the hull Is going on rapidly But the delay in su plying the bolts has caused indefinite post- ponement of the day for the launching Big Work at the Yards, Fhe Fore River shipyard at Quincy is the newest in the country and the company operating there is backed by ample eapital S0 that its work is regarded as first class In CYery respect Among the first vessels built there for the government were the fitty-knot torpedo boat destrovers Lawrence ind Macdonough, and these have proved highly satisfactory to the government Two other vessels are being constru ted alongside the Des Moines in the same yards the seagoing defense battleships New Jersey and Rhode Island, which will be among the most efficient heavyweight fight ers in the world In the same yard at Quiney, Mass., there has been built whil the Des Moines is under progress the fa mous seven-masted schooner, the largest salling vessel that has ever been con- structed The idea of returning to sailing vessels is comparatively new and the ship- builders, especially those of the northern vards of the New England o« 1st, are giving ovember 10, 1901 PATTEN, WHO WAS MARRIED TO GEN “Look here, Lizzie,” said the enthusiast why on earth don't you come to the meet ings? Here you are paying your dues and never showing up. You owe it to the club to take an interest in the work." “But I can’'t come,” explained her friend “there’s the baby, and Henry doesn't com: home sometimes till late, and supper must wait, and if he wants to go out I can't go away and leave the children. 1 would wort myself to death,’ “Well siderate I must say Henry is incon said the caller ‘Why, there's my husband and children, too They giv me no trouble. Every time | want to ;:M the club Charlie says he will be glad to #fay at home with Bridget and keep an eye on things till I come back. He never ob Jects “Maybe,"” retorted the amiable hostess, "if I had a housegirl as handsome and young as Bridget Henry would be glad to stay at home, too; but mine is black and goes home at nights.” The blow landed, and Charlie hasn't been asked to look after Bridget and the houss since. B United States Senator Spooner of Wiscon sin was sitting in the corridor of a New York hotel recently, surrounded by a circle of men attired in evening dress, one of whom, in the course of a somewhat pedan tic disquisition, referred to some one as being “‘as rich as Midas." "I have read something about that fellow Midag and his opulence,” said the senator “'He may have been a fairly rich man in his day, but if he had existed today with his reputation and wanted to sustain it with the ‘vants in a New York hotel the ex penditure necessary would have made him look like what the horsemen nowadays call a ‘selling plater,' " ser Des Moines Soon to Be Christened more attention to this now than for a half century The Des Moines' keel was laid in the Fore River yard August 28, 1900, and work has proceeded with great rapidity. The work of building the hull, which is of steel frame and steel structur through out, has been in progress on the ays from wWhich the vessel will glide into the water of the bay and at the same time the shaft and machinery have been under construction in the shops The shafts have been forged by a splendid twenty-ton trip hammer, one of the largest two in the country In the outfitting basin, where the hull will e while the machinery is being placed, there aseventy-ton traveling crane, Work will proceed without regard to the seasons Des Moines Deeply 1 terested, It is expected that Governor Shaw and party of lowa inclhuding perhaps, the mwayor of Des Moines and re presentative citizen Will go to Quiney to attend the launching If the launching takes place after the first of the year Governor ( mins will hardly be able to attend :|~"l‘?1h legislature will then be in session The people of Des Moines will give to the cruiser Des Moines a library A fund is now being raised for that purpose, which fund was started with a sul eription of $100 by Jerry Harenbower, mayvor of the ecity The size and nature of the library have yet to be determined A fine portrait of the cruigser has been placed in the Towa Historical building by the Navy partment and Curator Aldrich has applied to the Navy department for the model of the vessel, to be kept in Des Moines also. ORA WILLIAMS.