Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 15, 1903, Page 11

) y ITO! § o T e PAGES 11 TO 20. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1903. NGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. MARTIAL SONS OF NEBRASKA Hovors and Promotions Won in Fighting for the Flag. OFFICERS WHO ROSE FROM THE RANKS An Instructive List Neb Soldiers the New Army, Positions They Hold a ™ of ka n ir Records. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—(Special.)— When the excitement of war provails, it 1s slways easy to arouse patriotism and the young American son needs but the stimu- lant of & knowledge t(hat his country's flag 1s being insulted or fired upon to find him applying (o the nearest available point | for an opportunity to enter the service It matters not materially whether the in- sult comes from within or without, the cause {s sufficient to call to arms the best blood of this nation. Atter “the war is over” and people have returned to their peaceful avocations, when the excitement has pacscd, It takes ruite as much true devotion to country for yourg men to leave home and its surroundings, its advantages and attractions o lead the lonely, isolated lite of a soldier. The wan who does this is entitled to the respeet and admiration of his people, for such service is as much needed as the more attractive duties rendercd during the feverish ex- citement of an actual war Were it not for thls class of welf- sacrifieing young men, where would our strength come from in the hour of great- est danger, when a war first breaks out? "Tis true that when we have a war ex- tending over a year or more the versatile ability of the American adapts himself to military duty, as he does (o all other emer- gencles, but at the outset, as a nuclcus, to meet fmmediate conditions, a trained army, a corps of skilled officers is absolutely necessary to prevent Irrcparable damage being done at the outset, and before the i elvillan has time to adapt himself. That being the case, it is important that wo have men who are wlilling to make the eacrifices to perfect themsclves in the arts of war. Such may be said of the following, who represent Nebraska in the ‘‘Regular Army."” It would be impracticable in the space allotted me to give in minute detail the en- tire record of each Nebraskan in the army, but it 18 here shown by classes the general records and as classes they will be appre- clated. Captain Swobe's Distinetion. Captain Thomas Swobe enjoys the sole distinetfon of being the one officer who be- gan his service In the United States army during the civil war. He began his career as corporal in Company E, Twelfth Michi- gan volunteers, He subsequently was com- missioned in that company as second and first lleutenant, During the ' Spanish- Amerfcan war he was made captain and a: sistant quartermaster. He wes then com- missioned as captain and quartermaster in the regular army February 2, 1901, which position he now occuples. ’ Two officers entered the United States army as soldlers before the Spanish-Amer- el war. They entered that struggle an Jfor chemselven fa that and since been co1 in t regular establishment. They are: William R.. Harrison, born In Nebraska, enlisted as private April 15, 1884, then w second lleutenant In Department of Colo- rado Infantry and also in the Forty-seventh United States volunteers. After the war was commissioned first lleutenant in the artillery corps August 22, 1901. Second Lieutenant Nathan J. Shelton, en- listed just before the Spanish-Amerfcan as private in the Seventh artillery. August 17, 1899, he entered the volunteer service e second lleutenant in‘the Thirty-ninth United States volunteers. After that serv- Ice he was made second lleutenant in the artillery corps. ‘West Pointers. There are several officers who tered West Point as padets before the Spanish- American war, roceived their commissions in the regular service; then, ambitious for 8 recond, were furloughed from that and entered volunteer service for that period at ranks above those held by them in thefr regular positions. They are: Captain Golden L'H. Ruggles, with rank of first lleutenant, was major and chief of ordnance in the late war. Captain Benjamin M. Koehler, while yet & second leutenant in the Sixth artillery, was major in the Thirty-seventh United | States volunteers in 1899. Captain Ernest D. Scott, while holding the modest commission of second leuten- ant In the Sixth artillery, was a captain in the Thirty-seventlr United States volun- teers in 1809. First Lieutenant Guy V. Henry was sec- ond lieutenant in the Fourth infantry. His abilities called him to the volunteer service, where, in 1899, he was major in the Twenty-sixth United States volunteers. Then follows = class of officers who were cadots before the late war, received their commissions in the regular army and re- mained with their regular ignments dur- ing that period. They are ‘aptaln Arthur M. Edwards of the com- miesary subsistence department. OCaptain George T. Patterson of the artil- lery corps. Captain Burt J. Reynolds of Company L of the Ninth infantry. Captain Fred W. Sladen of Company B, Fourteenth infantry. Captain Joseph D. Leitch of the Twenty- Afth infantry. From Volunteer to Regular. The next class recelved thelr commissions by appointment without the West Point ex- | perience, before the Spanish-American war, and remained In the regular service. This is confined to Captain Joseph P. O'Nell of Company M, Twenty-ffth infantry. The following was an officer in a Ne- brasks regiment, then entered the regular servi First Lieutensnt Willlam H. Oury of the First Nebraska, in which he held rank as captain. He is now in Company F, Twelfth lofantry. The following entered the soldiers in Nebraska regiments came officers in the regular service during that war, They are: First Lieutenant John W. C. Abhott, en- tered the service as first sergeant Company ¥, Third Nebraske; was promoted therein 10 be second fleutenant and is now in the artillery corps. First Lieutenant Frank 8. Burr, entered the service as private in Company M, Sec- ond Nebraska, May 12, 1898 He s now with Company D, PFifteenth infantry. The following entered the late war as soldiers and received commissions during that time. They are: Captain James W. Dawes, was major and pavmaster in the volunteer service in the Spanish-American war; he is now in that same departmeént in the regular service. Capiain Bradoer D. Slaughter, was in the \ | | | { | | i | | | late war. | artillery | Troop C, Fitth cavalry. Second United States volunteers; he is now in the pay department. First Lieutenant Willlam B. Cowin, was a captain In 1899 in the commissary depart- ment; he is now with Troop C of the Third cavalry, First Lleutenant John 8. Falr was a cap- tain In the Forty-third United States vol- unteers; he is now with Troop F, Ninth cavalry. First Lieutenant Solomon Avery, jr., was captain In the Two Hundred and Third New York Infantry; he is now in the artillery corpe First Lieutenant Willlam H. Jordan, jr., is the only one of Nebraska's sons who was a private soldier in another state's forces | and who recetved his commission during the Spanish-American war. He served as pri- vate in Company H, Second Oregon volun- teers, and is now in the Bighteenth in- fantry. Appointed During the War, The following were appointed during the late war; they had their service with their | regular commands: | First Lieutenant Jack Hayes of Company Sixteenth infantry First Lieutenant Watts C. Valentine of Company D, Nineteenth infantry. First Lieutenant John L. DeWitt of Com- pany A, Twentleth infantry. | The following were soldiers in the regu- lar army before the Spanish-American war, were commissioned during eame and re- mained with thelr own commands First Licutenant Juan A. Boyle ot Com- pany I, Fourth infantry: First Lieutenant Chartes B. Morton of | the Sixteenth infantry. The following were cadets who received their commissions during the late war and | remained in the positions assigned them: | First Lieutenant Evan H, Humphrey of | Troop C, Seventh cevalry. First Licutenant Halsey E. Yates of Com- | pany K, Fifth infantry. Nebraska Militia Ofcers. I The following were officers In Nebraska regiments during the Spanish-American | war, and at its close were rewarded by ! commissions In the regular service: | Captain Juljus N. Killan of the Commis- sary Subsistance department, was a captain | in the First Nebraska infantry during the | “irst Lieutenant Henry M. Morrow of the h infantry, was second and first lieu- tenant in the Third Nebraska infantry in 1868-99 and w 1so first lieutenant in the Thirty-second United States volunteers be- fore he received his commission in the reg- ulars. First Lieutenant Charles C. Pulls of the corps, was second lieutenant in the Third Nebraska infantry and subse- quently first lieutenant in the Thirty- second United States volunteers before being commissioned in United States army. | First Lieutenant William G. Doane, Com- pany M, Sixteenth infantry, was first lleus tenant in the Third Nebraska infantry and also in the Thirty-elghth United States vol- unteers in the late war. Pirst Licutenant Willlam 8. Mapes, Com- pany I, Twenty-fifth infantry, was major of the Second Nebraska infantry and later first lleutenant in the Thirty-second United Stutes volunteers. Second Lieutenant Willlam K. Moore of the artillery corps, was first lleutenant in the First Nebraska infantry in 1898, and as captain therein in 1899, . -mrc who_are: mow- who ldiers in the N forcés during the late war and at its close were rewarded by commissions in the reg- ular service. They are: First Lieutenant Charles W. Weeks of the Thirtieth infantry, was a private and sergeant in Company F, Second Nebraska infantry, in 1808. Second Lieutenant Lewls 8. Ryan, was a private and corporal in Company H, and thereafter quartermaster's sergeant of the First Nebraska infantry in 1898. Second Lieutenant Willlam 8. Bowen of the artillery corps wi private and cor- poral in Company G, Second Nebraska in- fantry, in 1598. Second Lieutenant Robert B. McConnell, Company H, Twenty-fourth infantry, wi sergeant and first sergeant in Company H, First Nebraska ‘nfantry, in 1898, Up From the Ranks. There aré four officers now who served as soldlers in other regiments during the late war and were made officers aterward. They are: Second Lieutenant Clarence O. Culver of the Fifteenth cavalry. Second Lieutenant Willlam S. Barriger of Troop 1, Fifteenth cavalry. Second Lieutenant Daniel B. Shean of Company G, Sixteenth infantry. Second Lieutenant Austin M. Pardes of Company M, Twentleth infantry. There Is a class of young men who were cadets during the Spanish-American war and who have received their commissions since. They ure: First Lieuteant Frank P. Amos, Troop ©, Eleventh cavalry. First Lieutenant John B. Murphy of the artillery corps. Second Lieutenant Frank S, Bowen, Com- pany F, Sixth infantry. Four officers have been appointed since the late war, with no other record or West Point experience, as follows: Captain and cheplain, H. Percy Silver. Captain and chaplain, Timothy O'Keefe. First lleutenant and assistant surgeon, Conrad E. Keerper. First lleutenant and assistant Robert M. Thornburg. Four others were soldlers in the regular army during the late war and bave been commissioned since. They are: P, surgeon, First Licutenant Henry C. Merriam of the artillery corps. Second Lieutenant Frederick Mears of Second Lieutenant Thomas A. Jones of the artillery corps. Second Lieutenant Charles L. Woodhouse, Company I, Twenty-third infantry. J. W. KINSLEY. Only an Im The opposing elévens had struggled des- perately for the mastery. But the game was over. Strange to say, nobody had been carried off the field senseles: There were no broken bones. Not a player had been disabled. Not one bove the mark of the slightest injury. “It 1s magnificent,’ “but it 18 ot foot ball! sald the spectators, ‘—Chicago T-ibune. Great Cure. The Doctor—Yes; I understand what ails you. You can't sleep. Take this preserip- tion to the druggist. (Next day)—Good morning; you look better todsy. Have you slept well? Petersen—Like a top. man. Doctor—How many sleeping powders did you take? Petersen (surprised)—I, didn't take any. 1 gave & couple of them to the baby.—Dag- bladet. 1 feel like a new LURING THE MIND T0 BOOKS| Plan to Stimulate Readers Adopted at PICTURE BULLETINS DO THE WORK Enticing Array of Illustrations Ha Public Library. the Effect of Inducing & De- sire to Read Books Treat- ing of the Toples. greatest larger citte It interest patrons of mat of with a sm ous place consequence taining Ssubject. A new development of the bulletin idea— the literary bulletin—came 1 has been consistently followed, as pletures | could be col in manilla mounted plctures relating | pening of importance, perhaps political, or | something new In the world of industry, or a demonstration of the forces of nature, | amount of descriptive and explanatory matter, is hung in a consplcus the children’s room. the children's board, in interest ) ilected. e find the colored pictures the most useful In making the picture bulletins for the children,” sald Miss Egbert, the chil- dren’s librarian of the city lbrary. bright colors attract their attention where the black and white pictures do not. difficulty is to obtain enough of these colored prints pertaining to the sub- ject of the bulletin we have in hand at any time, and this makes our work slow For several years the system of ploture bulletins relating to and depicting current events has been In use at the city library. The idea fg not new and similar bulletins are to be found hung up in the children's departments of most of the libraries of the is a well established fact that these pictures are the means of stimilating much current events department. on which are to some hap- As is aroused and the | attentive librarian can eupply books con. matter which will reader's interest in and knowledge of the | further Expansion of the Iden. ““Bearing the success of the current event | the librarian, “‘we came to the conclusion that | Interest could be created In standard books, and the attention of the children brought to the best kinds of literature by showing bulletins of plctures {llustrating the volumes, with proper explanatory mat- ter and references, this plan has been tried in other libraries, | but we feel that it has been most success- In almost every case the bulletin has cavsed a good demand for the book to which it drew attention, and in some in- unable to supply books 1 feel that there is a grave re- sponsibility in giving books to a child that these may be such as are suited to his or her home life and condition, and believe that the bulletins will help us In choosing. ‘We hope in time to have enough of these picture bulletins so that they may be cir- culated as the books are, and taken out by public and parochial schools sired. We have already furnished pictures in two Instances to public schools and our Christmas bulletin was used in connection with the Christmas lesson by one of the Sunday schoals pictures in an ful here. stances we enough. ‘mind,” sald were I do not kmow in the eity.’ Miss Tobitt, ‘Samples of the Bulletins, ‘Perhaps the best of the literary bulletins have been the Gulliver cards. There were twelve 6x10-inch colored pictures {llus- trating this book, which were fi four manilla-board sheets, with short ex- tracts from the book and a note as to the These pictures were hung up for some time and created conmsiderable atten- a result of which a number of author. tion, children read the book. Another book for which a demand was created was “Pllgrim’s Progre: letin displ that some number of books were beautiful plat collection. nch of the reference: given. lower grads schools were studylng Holland a Holland bulletin was prepared, with a picture of Mary Mapes Dodge, and quotations from and library numbers of her books. nection with the Thanksglving bulletin a to Thanksgiving The picture of a tur- key used at that time was one of the trom the copy of Elliot's “North American Birds" in the Byron Reed These plates, which are 18x24 have been taken from the binding and will be used during the spring and summer, as the birds return to this state, to interest the children in them. A bulletin which is now on the walls is the Dickens, which calls attention both to the fact of the author's birthday, on the 7th of the month, and to his works. Gossip of an Old Minstrel | The oldest living minstrel who is still before the public is Dave Reed. He is fils 734 year and has been on the stage almost constantly since he was 10. er he is still vigorous. He delights, In telling of his early ex- now In Despite his periences. “It makes me think that I am getting very old, judging from the changes that have been made In the profession since I started out,” sald Mr. Reed to a New “Although so- minstrelsy still has a say on the stage, It act, since Dan Bryant died it has been on the first York Sun will never decline. 1 got my first encouragement from my brother John, who kept an oyster and chop house and cafe on Broadway, next door to Thorpe's where all long cal reporter. be the me In to me. “The Oour among the the ¢ summer and | that | s de- d on the bul- ing one large colored plate and giving & sketch of the author and an idea of the character of the book. At the time in the In con- There led are ecleven plctures which have clipped from magazines. been These have cre- ated a call for his books. Miss Egbert is now collecting pictures for bulletins or “Don Quixote,” “John Glipin's Ride,” Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales Thompson Seaton. ¥or the ¢ and BErnest tmas Kvent. The most ambitious of the current event list was the Christmas bulletin. This wi composed of twelve plates from Van Dyke “The Christ Child in Art" and Elizabeth “Stewart Phelps' “Story of Jesus Christ,” which were in the library bindery at the time. The plates were removed and used effort being to interest children, it was the | pletured being Hoftman's “Christ in the Temple.” The text was taken from Bishop Potter's bible for chiliren. In addition to these pictures were Fra Angelico's brightly colored angels on a card with the poem | ‘Holy Night,” and seven large colored pic- tures {llustrating Clement Moore's peem. At the time of King Edward's corona- | ton, Caton Woodville's series of twelve | pletyres of former coronations taken from the [llustrated London News was hung up. The assumption of the crown by the king of Spaln was also noted. Hallowe'en, Thanksgiving, Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays and such holidays bring forth bulletins Which endeavor to emphasize the historical reason for the day. The Arbor | day card showed pictures and poems of tree planting and a view of the early wind- swept prairie and a suggestion that the time had come for yard cleaning and the making of gardens. As the seasons ad- vance it 18 the !ntention to display bulletins of flowers and birds. For the A Little Ones. | Another class of bulletin 1s that designed | simply for the amusement of the smaller children. These display plctures /by Kate Greenaway and Sarah Stillwell, with selec- | tlons from Stevenson's “Child's Garden of Verse.” A bulletin for grown people is to be found on the wall at the first landing. On a netting have been hung from time to | time sets of Rinehart's Indlan pletures, | | plates of architectural details, bird plc- a {tures and selections from Remington's drawings. The plctures for these bulletins are mostly obtained from wornout volumes. Another source of supply 18 the advertising poster. There has been some difficulty in finding pictures for holiday and other bul- letins, because these were not saved last season, but all these are mow being laid aside as they come and can be used in eason, PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS, Johnnle (to new acquaintance)—How aid you get that scar on your head? Willle—I fell downstair Johnnie (in disguet)—Huh! I thought it ‘was from a scrap. Mamma—You have drawn the horse very nicely, Charlle, but you have forgotten one thing. Where is his tail? Charlle—Oh, that horse doesn’t need any tall. There ain’'t no files on him. ‘Read about the falries, mamma,” sald little 3-year-old Margie. ‘‘Not tonight, dear,” replied the mother. “My eyes ache.” “But,” pleaded Margis, “vou needn’t. read with your eyes; read with your mouth.” “Mamma,” sald little Charlie, ‘‘does sugar cure people of any disease?" “No, dear, not that I know of,” the mother. “But why 4id you ask?"’ | ‘Because,” replied the youthful scheraer, “it it does I'd like to catch it,” plied Kitty's grandmother, whom she now saw for the first time, was deaf and had to an ear trumpet. “You ought to see my grandma,” said | Kitty to the girl next door. he carries a ' telephone with her and makes you talk into it." A very small boy was watching his mother sew whalebones in her dres “What are they, ma?" he asked. “‘Bones,” she relpled. ““Whose?"" continued the little fellow. “Mine,” she answered. He regarded her a minute in amazement, and then asked, solemnly: “How did you get ‘em out?” ““What on earth are you dolng in here, Tommy?" asked his mother, peering into the darkness of the benhouse whence had been coming for five minutes or more*a serfes of dismal squawkings, accompanied by a loud flapping of wings. am trying,” sald Tommy, who seemed to be doing something with a knotted rope, in the bulletin and afterward rebound. The | child Christ which was depicted, the last | | He 1s one of the charter members of a { peculiar reason the motion of an electrical LITTLE TRAITS OF BIG MEN Peculiarities of Prominent People When They Forsake the Office FADS AND FANCIES AS A DIVERSION Lenders in Various Activites Show Commonplace Characteristics and Possess the Means to Humor Them. A. J. Caseatt, president of the Penn | aylvania, who is forcing & hole under the Hudson into New York for the use of his rallroad, likes a horse better than any- thing else in the world, but his tastes are | 80 catholic and his information so varied that he is able to make himself interesting on almost any tople. certain swell dining club in Philadelphla— that town is famous for such organizations —whose methods, though vastly more in- teresting, remind one of & progressive euchre party. Every member must attend every dinner or be fined and each must in- vite ome guest—no more or less. There are twenty-one members, and thus & fully attended dinner s always served to forty- two. Often the number is less, but the club’s round table is so cunningly devised that it can be made just large enough for ‘whatever number draws round it When all are seated, each guest is placed between two members and each member between two guests. At a certaln stage of are charged not only to entertain the guests, but also to bring out whatever is in them, all change places, s6 that nobody has a chance to bore anybody else. This maneuver is repeated several times during | the evening. There 1s no formal speaking, but the din- ners are so interesting, quite apart from the menu, that it is well worth scheming | a long time ahead to win an invitation to attend one. At one of them the members and guests present included the most fa- mous nerve speclalist in the United States, a general in the army, the governor of a an explorer fresh from strange the dinner, on signal, the members, who | cording to Mr. Elkins, who frequently tells the story, had scarcely got started on the first mile, when he noticed that his friend | was beginning to look white about the lips and shifted uneasily in his seat | “What's the matter?" asked Mr. Elkins | "O-h-h, no-nothing," said Mr. Widener. | “A minutes later,” says Mr. Elkins “Peter clapped a hand over his mouth and ( rushed wildly for the door. The conductor taking in the situation, wildly signaled the motorman, who, thinking someone had | Jumped from the car, suddenly stopped it with the result that Peter was thrown into my arms. Tenderly 1 helped him to the tound n ground, and, some time after he h his legs, he said to me, plaintively “‘Bill, why can't a man, when he's able to buy up a trolley system, enjoy a ride on it, too? * ¢ 1t 13 needless to rdd that hasn't tried a second thne office by trolley. ers Are W. Mr. Widener 1kine' Hobby. Mr. Elkins experiences no discomfort in A trolley car, but he is miserable when his valet forgets to place a flaming red carnation or an orchid of the same color in his coat lapel every morning. It is said that such an untoward event has not hap- pened since a ceftain day, several years ago, when a new valet inadvertently forgot this most important duty, with disastrous results to himself. By reason of this hobby Mr. Elkins fs a marked man whenever he walks Philadel- phia’s streets, and many a promoter, un eble to gain entrance into the financier's private office, has waited for him at foot of the elevator, spotted him by the flower, and importuned him in public to take up with this scheme or that | Mr. Elkins' passion for these two flowers in particular, and all flowers in general, {8 80 strong that at his beautiful country home In Elkins—a picturesque Philadelphia suburb which bears his name and has been developed by him—he has no less than a dozen big greenhouses filled with aM sorts of blooming plants. His favorite flower for bis dinner table is the American Beauty rose, and costly vases filled with selected | buds are always to be found in the gret dining room Charles M. Schwab, as a musiclan, Is not very well known to the world at large, but among his intimate associates the president a great ship bullder, a titled for-| . a world-famous financier, etc., but | Cassatt's was the most interesting per- | sonality about the table. He talked like an | expert about hackneys, runners, trotters, Assyrian antiques, German operas, irriga- | tion, nervous diseases, Thibetain goats, au- | tomobiles, piotures, statuary, ecclesias- | tical architecture and in fact every topic | he was approached upon excepting rail- | roading. Concerning this he did not seem anxious to exploit his knowledge. And his demeanor was as unassuming as his infor- mation was encyclopedic. When he leaves his office in New York, or | fis committee room in Washington, he | sticks a handful of the latest cuttings he has received into the lefthand side pocket of his sack coat, and, as soon as he gets into a cab or car, he begins pulling them out, reading them one by one, and trans- ferring them carefully to his righthand slde pocket as fast as they are read. In keeps a goodly supply of his clippings con- stantly by him, so that he can consult them whenever he has a spare momen! Depew Devotéd (o Ulppiugs The most curfous thing about Senmator Chauncey Mitchell Deptew s his devotion 10, the newspaper clipping. Nearly every man in public life today subscribes to one or other of the many clipping bureaus, for that {s much the easlest way to learn what the newspapers say about him, but Depew thus utilizing his spare time for the perusal of his clippings he keeps much closer tab on the comments made on himself and his public eye. It might be added that he generally laughs long and heartily at the frequent gibes due to his story telling and jokes, but a serious | oriticism by a paper of his own faith some- times causes him considerable discomfort. Can’t Ride on Mis Trolley Cars. P. A. B. Widener, who owns and operates thousands of miles of street raflways in a score of American cities, never rides in a | trolley car when he can avold it. For some car nauseates him, and, if persisted in, produces the same disastrous effect as a voyage on average transatlantic travelers. Mr. Widener once made a brave attempt to conquer this feeling. In company with his partner, Willlam L. Elkins, he got on a suburban car at his | country home, in Elkins, determined to ! stick it out until he had reached his office in Philadelphia. It happens that, by trol- “to fix this rooster 5o his alarm won't go off before 7 o'clock tomorrow morning.” went with & man named Kephard. I was making excellent progress and in 1844, when 1 was 14, I was considered a pretty good performer. “Most of the bone players then used the ribs of beet for their instruments. But after several weeks of service the bones would wear off almost to the marrow and consequently lose their intonation and sound. I then conceived the idea of using wooden clappers. They were a success and other minstrels after that took them up. “My next engagement was at the Pel- more Opera house, at the corner of Cham- bers street and Broadway. The theater was run by two newspaper men named George Woolridge and John Austin, who owned and edited two dailles called the Whip and Flash. Messrs. Woolridge and museum, which was between Austin gave a minstrel show composed of Grand and Howard streets. This was six people. I played the triangle and sang the stage drivers stopped to and danced. I got $6 a week and thought John was a clever 1 was doing very well. water their horss dancer, and he would make me go through a number of steps in the morning came proficient, and in.a' little while I was able to dance as well “Not far from our home was a dock where all the boats carrying fruit tied up. to long for some of the One day one of my pals approached the man in charge of an apple boat and The boys used truit said “ Mister, If you give us each an apple my friend, Dave Reed, will dance for you.' “‘All right,' sald the man, and I danced until my feet were sore. “The fellow was so pleased with the ex- hibition that he gave us each a red, julcy apple, and the following day he got me an engagement sort of minstrel show, in which there were three other lads about my own & one of them Is alive today. Kennedy, familiarly known as ‘Pop, employed at Tony Pastor's theater as door We each received $1 I sang and danced and got along and ticket week. tairly well. “After my engagement at Thorpe's I at Thorpe's. tender. he 1 organized 1 be- “After a briet stay there I joined a troupe managed by Matthew T, Brennan, who after- ward became captain of police, judge and comptroller of New York. Brennan leased Monroe hall, at the corner of Pearl and Center streets. 1 stayed there for three years. It was here that I introduced the double bone act. That i to say, I used a pair of bones in each hand. Then I juggled them, first throwing them from one hand to the other, then under my feet and jnto the air. 1 was also the first to give imitations of horses running, drum beating, etc. Do- ing this gave me the reputation of belng the best bone player in the country. “I became a member of Bryant's Min- strels later, and it was during my connec- tion with the company that I introduced the Only neat song and dance act which is now a He is J:hln part of vaudeville. It was in an accidental and is way that I came to do this. “Dan Bryant, who left the show to go to England to witness the Heenan and Sayers fght, returned with a copy of the song ‘Sally Come Up, Sally Come Down.' He bad heard an English music hall singer Bamed Mclnnee render it and thought that a ley, Mr. Widener's office is just twelve miles distant from his residence. The car, ac- Dave Reed the Veteran of His Class. it would be a good number for his show. ““After using it as an end song for a few nights e cut it out because it did not go. I got hold of the ditty and learned it. “Formerly minstrels used to dress up in acts than almost any other man now in the | | no planist alive who can equal “Charlie” | of the United States Steel corporation is considered a singer and a planist of no | mean ability. Mr. Schwab, as a boy In Loretto, the 1it- tle Pennsylvania mountain town from which he went into the world to make his for- | tune, was taught music by the Sisters of Mercy, who have a convent at that place. For years he sang in the church cholir, and when he went down to Braddock to work in the steel mills his voice alded him in forming new acquaintances readily. The story is frequently told ifi Braddock that his accomplishment was, in large measure, responsible for Schwab's gaining the good will of Andrew Carnegle. Be that as it may, this is what Braddock folks say. It scems that while Schwab was still in a very minor position in the mill his fellow workers, knowing his ability as a singer, asked him to sing at a certain social gath- ering of the mill employes. Schwab con- sented, and, at the appointed hour, ap- peared clad in Highland costume and sang a typleal Scottish song. He was just in the midst of it, and the audlence was giv- ing him close attention, when the door Teading fito the room opened and—lo and behold—who should the unexpected new- camer be but Andrew Carnegie himself. It 1s sald that Mr. Carnegie enjoyed both the song and the singer's evident confusion, { and it 1s further sald that the iron master, who had already heard something of Schwab, was led to inquire further sbout his commercial sbilities, with the result that he was given wider and wider oppor- tunities. Mr. Schwab particularly delights in in- dulging In his love of music when at his summer home in Loretto. He plays on the | plano, many times a day, and those of his former playmates now remaining in the town of their boyhood believe that there is Schwab in playing “ragtime.’ Carnegle’'s Admiration of Tall Men. Mr. Carnegle likes to talk to tall men. Pittsburg friends say that they have kmown him to deliberately scrape up acquaintance with representatives of the six-feet-and- over class for no other season in the world than to ask them how they managed to grow tall. Mr. Carnegle has never got over his boyhood ambition to be a big man, physically. He once sald to a friend apropos of this disappointment: “People tell me I'm a blg man. But I'm not as big as I'd like to be. Look at me." George Gould's Charity Basket, Mr. and Mrs. George J. Gould coming out from Georgian Court on a cold winter's day to distribute charity from a big and | bulging hamper te needy residents of Lake- wood and thereabouts s a far from un- common sight, Mr. and Mrs. Gould believe in personally relieving any suffering that may be within the shadow of their magnificent country seat in the pines, and, as a result, any person In Lakewood who gets into difficulty 1s now rr‘,cunvumvd to look for aid from the Goulds. Residents of Lakewood eay that this dilapidated trousers and blackened their faces, exposing a big pair of red lips and a wide, cavernous mouth. I thought that the reverse of this would be the novelty, so 1] made up with regulation shoes, clean shirt | and white duck trousers. 1 ng the song and after the chorus came the dance, the mu of which was jingling and extremely catchy. Well, it was a big go and the other fellows Immediately followed suit. grotesque fashion. They wore big shoes, | | “The theater now known as Tony Pastor's bullt expressly for Dan by the Tam- many Hall folks. I played the wench to Bryant's male darkey and we introduced the song, ‘Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me.' I got the idea of using the song by hearing Dolehanty and Hengler. It was part of their act. Delehanty and Hengler were the finest dance team in the business then, but they did not use the song in the way we did. It was not long before we had them all coming to hear us sing ‘Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me,’ and we sang It for 400 nights throughout the country. That's a longer time than any song can live nowadays, I'm sure. “After Bryant's death the old-fashioned minstrel show began to decline. Dan's death put a damper on the entertainment and the people stayed away. They were lonesome for their old favorite, it seemed. “About this time my family began to grow, and in company with my wite, daugh- ter and son I went into vaudeville, where 1 Bave been ever since. Al Sheldon wrote a sketch for me and dubbed us the ‘Reed Birds,' a name which bas stuck to us ever since. I have often thought of the old days and wished that the boys were back in the fold once more. But they are gone and minstrelsy, real old, good minstrelsy, {he kind which our fathers and mothers used to like, I'm sorry to say, s dead.” i winter the Goulds have supplied many tons of fuel to poor familles, Mr. Gould fre- quently superintending its delivery. to reach his | | perience in the meantime. | that is pract (PREVENTS FIRES IN SHAFTS on Omaha Man to Be ¢ Applied to Elevators. Invention of | DEVICE THAT MEANS MUCH TO OWNERS at Will Close the System of Traps 1 Klevator Shafts at Each Floor and Stop Spread of Flames. life and destruction of property nd other bufldings by | reason ot fire epreading in the structures | through the elevator shafts have caused two Omaha men vent an automatie | elevator shaft sysiem of dampers that is | intended to furnish ihorough protection | with entire conveniencc. The principal | patent’ rapers re recelved a fow days aga, and a thorough test of a full-sized ap- paratus will be made probably in the |course of a few weeks. If the device is found satistactory the organization of a company and the establishment of & manu- facturing planj in Omaha may follow, The inventors are Assistant City En- { gineer George W. Cralg and his brother, James A. Craig, who is an assistant super- intendent for the Barber Asphalt company. { The original idea and main features of the device are James A. Cralg's, while the as- sistant city engineer perfected many of the mechanical detalls. Ins the patent, which is fssued jolntly to both, James A. Cralg is given the benefit of being the in- ventor. He was formerly a machinist, and it was while repairing elevators in this capacity (hat the necessity for better means to stop the progress of flames in shafts was brought to his notice in a atrik- ing manner, Bxperjence Suggests Idea. He was standing at the foot of a shaft making a memorandum on a sheet of paper, which by the force of the draft was blown out of his hand and upward to the top ot the shaft. “Great Scott!" he ejaculated, “what a place for a fire.”” This was several years ago and the finished invention is the result of hard study and practieal ex- Both the Cralgs feel very sanguine of its success, though the possibilities of the invention have been demonstrated as yet only by small models. There are few apparatus of this nature on the market and none of them resemble that of the Craigs’. About the only one 1 1s the “flap-door” tvstem, on a hinge in the which consists shaft at cash floor. They work indspend- ently and from tbeir iimited use would seem to be dly satist The Craig invention provides & separate plate or trap for each floor, all of the traps when not In use being confined at the top of the shaft by a set of holding blocks, or clutches, which are operated by an endless cable, running down the side of the elevator shaft to the bottom. The traps are made of a fr mework of steel covered by asbestos. ‘they are raised on the roof of the elevator rnd ‘owered auto- matically by their own weight, controlled by & governor. The s:mple act of pulling the cablo releases the entire set of drops, which descend nstantly and prajde an absolute damper on every floor within ten seconds. st Hach Floor Protected. Fach floor has its own particular trap, the plates being srrested, floor by floor, by an ingenious combination of slots and lugs. Around the base of each floor in the shaft are certain iron projections, over which the traps for the floors below pgss, while the trap for its particular floor is caught by the lugs. The principle is the same as that used In the Yale look, and the number of combinations that can be made, and floors thus provided for, is endless. Guide blocks on the traps prevent them from going awry on their sudden descent down the shaft. It is intended as genvral thing to have the device operated manually by simple pull of the cable when a fire breaks out, but arrangements are made for the automatic dropping of the iraps in case of a sudden blaze or a fire by night, when the dampers have been left at the top of the shaft. What is known as the fusable link system does this. Wires with links of soft metal are placed around the ceilings of each room. A fire will meit and sep- arate the links, permitting a weight res strained by the taut wire to drop on the cable, which in turn releases the clutch above and the dampers fall. Should the elevator be at any point in the shaft, it wil! be sent downward, also, automatically and without delay. During the day the dampers are to rest secure at the top of the shaft, there being ‘no indication of thelr presence. The ap- paratus can be fitted to any kind of a freight or passenger elevator and is'com- paratively cheap, the expense belng estis mated at about $600 for a five or six-story building, or about $100 for each floor. Good Thing for Fireme: “Provided the device works as it's in. ventors claim it will, there is mo doubt but that it will prove extremely valuable and save great losses of life and property,” sald Pire Chief Salter. ‘“‘Elevator sbaftq are the best alds that fire has in large buildings that otherwise are nearly fire~ proof. Many of the biggest fires of late “If there is & single case of unrelieved destitution in this township,” said a promi- nent citizen of the resort recently, “it is because the Goulds have not heard of it And if any one will be good enough to tell them of it, in less than an hour's time | we'll see them making for the place with | a big basket occupying the better plrlt of their trap. “Mr. Gould has told me that nothing | gives him so much pleasure as to help a deserving nelghbor, and he 1s 8o modest and unostentatious and diplomatic about: it that the person helped never fecls as it he were a dependent.” | Ex-Speaker Reed's Elephant, | Thomas Brackett Reed never read the things printed about him with very much attention. He wae intensely Interested, though, in cartoons which took up him or his schemes. He used to preserve carfeatures of himself, and the first in which he figured had a place of honor in | his Nbrary, framed, much to the distress | of Mrs. Reed. who could not hear to look at it It was printed early in the '70s. Reed's queercst fad was @ grotesque statuette of an elephant about six inches | high. Whenever he was puzzled, or when he bad the blues—and even he had them | sometimes—it was his wont to stand and | contemplate his little elephant in all its ugly grotesque humorousness, and thus he wrought out many a problem, and more than once wooed back the sunshine that had temporarily disappeared, The late C. L. Magee, the multi-million- aire of Pittsburg, would never live in any other than a frame house “A frame bouse was good enough for me to be born in," he always told his friends, when they asked him why he didn’t bufld & modern residence, “and in & frame house T sball Mve untll I dle.” | years could have been prevented had the flames been confined to a single floor or two until the fSremen arrived. Then if the shaft is protected by & coyering on each floar, a great deal of the danger to firemen is eliminated. Many have been hurt and killed While groping their way about in the smoke near the scuttle holes.' Should the fire be on the ffth floor, for example, the elevator may be run to and from the landings below, thus assisting in clearing the building of people. Stock | may be saved from flooding by the dampers and altogether there are many poiuts in favor of the lnvention if it can be made to work in actual practic Most of the men who make a study of fighting fires* who have seen the model say that the invention should be a succest In- surance agents declare that if practicable it will mean a considerable reduction in rates where wused, as exposed elevator shafts are now the greatest menace In many large wholesale, manufacturing and office buildings. As an instance, it is quoted that the plant of Armour & Co., at South Omaha, has & total of seventeen elevators. The mechanical construction is the very simplest throughout and it ie declared that there s nothing to get out of order. At the present time patents are pending for certain small perfections, but the inventors aro preparing to go ahead and make prace tical use of their apparatus, which they say will be creating a demand in the market soon Not Then, Thers's many a shp Twixt the cup and the rhaps &0 1 it's twenty-year rye . 3 the sighc of your eye And makes you ecstatic'ly Bhucks, 10! b Not when iU's twenty-year ip, ~New York Kv Bun.