Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 20, 1910, Page 20

THE CITY OF COLD AND SILVER! Days that Can Never Come Back tol Virginia City. | | HEYDAY OF THE COMSTOCK MINT.S‘ Sagebrush on ived in City Bulit the Mountain Where Luxury and Gaming Went On Twenty-Four Hours a Day. in Peo all merits the old out in Virginla “but it did my to read the other day ouce made music in our ears—Con Virginta, Ophir, Crown Point, Yellow Jacket, Belcher, Savage, Gould & Curry and the other big prodicers of the remember the time the name of any one of those stocks called in the big exchange In Pine street the little ex in Leldesdorff street—we all knew as Pauper Alley—would create a riot the floor when men were bidding for shares at a pri that would have been high If the 1500 feet of the lode the shares covered had been solid gold For it was a wonder city, provided natu with no inducement whatcver the settlement of men Yet it hod in days a population of about 0.0 peopls, | and from its mines t was' shipped bul lion of gold and silver of the ot $300,000,000. The city was located there r the one reason that it was there by accl dent that the great lode discovered and the first few cabins having been built around the first shaft that was sunk; thoss who followed in ¢ of other mines set- tled there g they ware but making & temporary home and therefore | not seeking a better town location could have been found within distance at of the of the lo Wages in the Bananza Days. So the eity grew by thousands, the com nest unskilled labor being pald $4 in gold for every day In ths y skilled labor of ail kinds receiving from & | 7 a day, and those engaged In superin tendence, that is, the shift bosses, level be engineers, foremen, machin as- sayers, mill bosses and superintendents belng pald from $10 a day up to $1,00 a month. With the preclous metals coming out of the ground (o pay these wages and | salaries, and there seemed 1o be no end of | the ore from w these metals were ex- tracted, a city of juxury and llll'u\'“k’uul:\!l grow up. The site of the city was the rather steep sagebrugh covered side of a mountain | without water or wood any modern means of transportation. But with the | gold mines supplled wooden flumes soon brought streams of water from mountain lakes, a railroad was bullt from the Central Pacific at Reno, which, winding in and out of canons, climbed in and over the lobe ilself to the heart of the mining camp, and then the golden age indeed of Virginia City had its beginning There soon grew a class of men who were accustomed to comfortable if not luxurious llving—mining engineers grad- uates of %astern and European schools of mining, assayers, superintendents—and soon these organized themselves into a social club, the famous Washoe club of the Com- stock. Following the completion of the rallroad hundreds of visitors came to town, mining experts, speculators, salesmen, and for thelr accommodation there was bullt a hotel which even today In a much larger | clty could justly be rated as first class, and | across C street from the hotel a San Fran- clsco French restaurant keeper opened & restaurant where he seved what he had been accustomed to serve in San Francisco; that is to say, the best meals to be found o Ameri Life Up to the Limit. The necessities of this shifting population of well to do people prompted the railroad 10 run a fast express daily between the Comstock and San Francisco, and each day that express In leaving San Franclsco carried from Its wonderful markets the best of the fresh meats, game, poultry, fish, frults and vegetables. When the population in thls sagebrush desert town found that it could done there as It was accustomed to dine at the Madi- son Doree or the Poodle Dog In San Fran- clsco, then It wanted the theater after dinner. The demand created the supply Thers was bullt on the corner of B street and Union street Piper's Opera house. The land lay 50 steep there that while you entered at B street on the sidewalk level, the sidewalk level of A street at the back ran along at about the height of the paint bridge. That is, the back wall on the stage was build up for thirty feet or so against a rocky cut. The stage it- velt was lald over a foundation of this same country rock, as It was called. Everyone had money and plenty of it, and the theater was crowded from the night of its opening. ews of this reaching the San Franclsco managers, they got into the habit of switching off New York companies at Reno and running them up to this new and wonderful mining camp for a week's profitable business. Thus Edwin Booth's company was daied for Virginla City. The stage manager was Informed that Booth would play one night at least “"Ham- let,” so he directed the stage carpenters to cut through the stage for a space the sixe of & grave and then hired some miners who dug what is perhaps the first and only real grave ever used by a Hamlet When Booth arrived and the situation was | explained him he was delighted, and | before Hamlet Jjumped into §rave he had seen the gravediggers throw | out some shovelfuls of loose natural the miners had left when they quit work. King Faro's Rule, Before the French resiaurant started, street, the Broadway of that mining camp, | was pretty well lined on both sides with | saloons and gambling resorts. It was not | until the fortunes of Virginia City began | 10 wane that a state law was passed re- | quiring faro tables and other gambling out- | fits to be placed one floor above the street level, For many years in nearly all of the sa- | loons at least one faro table was run. In| famous saloon, Orndorff & McGee's, | nearly every known gambling device was run twenty-four hours a day to «'Iuv«d-\l‘ tables. There half @ dozen faro lay- | outs, roulette, chuck-a-luck, keng, three card monte. Something of the hours of labor must be told to explain why these | gambling establishments were patronized one of the twenty-four hours. The army of 2,00 wminers was divided | into ‘three shifts. One shift went to work | at 7 o'clock in the morning and knocked | ‘off at 3 o'clock In the afternoon, when the | second shift went on, and that second shifi | kuocked off at 11 o'clock at night, when the third shift of 8,000 men or so went on for | thelr elght hours labor under ground. Once In two weeks a shift would work a time and & half. Their places were then taken by another shift that worked time and a half, and so it fell out that without losing a day In the vear once In two weeks a| shift would have twenty-four hours off. Under this arrangement it is seen that 8,00 men and more were released for play at 7 in the morning, 3 la the afternoon and at A et night. At whatever hour they quit anything about lode 1 don’t know the ot scheme to the mother #ald an old good Just the old names that it miner good old days. 1 can back In San Franclsco when or change that on too b tor its ere value was also, th a hich reasonabla east the foot canyons a day ses, or rock wer ever | by sagebrush, , while work enough of their lodgings, change to street clothes and then promptly scek a gaming table, and thus keep busy at all times. On the other hand, Virginia City had a set of men and women whose social activitles were of as polite and refined a nature as one would find in a New England town of the same population. There were the educated men concerned with the mines, that 1s, the mining engineers, superinten dents, assayers and their wives, the lawyers, ministers, brokers and mer- chants and their wives, who had their dances and teas and cotillons, falrs and bazars, their callings, rid- ing and driving partles, rather more extensively than one would find in a village of that size In New England And it was curlous to note that on that desolate sagebrush mountain- side these peopls of education refinement almost invariably something at first atiractive, then thoroughly charming, In the natural surroundings. The view from any stret corner led away through the steep sides of Seven-Mile canyon out across miles of flat sage brush, then the sandy expanse of the sink of the Carson river—where the river mysteriously disappeared into the earth— and far beyond to the snow capped moun- tains of the mighty Humboldt range But to see the beauty in that sort of a scene was an acquired taste. Strangers refused to recognize it. Charles Goodwin, a gentleman and a scholar, was the editor of a dally morning paper, the Virginia City Enterprise. He frequently entertained strangers visiting there and they sorely tried his good nature and hospitable in- stincts by thelr fallure at onco to rejolce in the grandeur of the view. A classmate of Goodwin's went up to Virginla City to visit him and took lunch with the editor. In departing he tarrled on the veranda of the editor's home and looked off toward the distant Humboldt range and turned pityingly and sald: “Good Lord, Charley, 1 should think the dreariness and desola- tion of this outlook would drive you mad.” Charley Goodwin’s Answer. Goodwin had been tried just once too often. With & blg sweep of his arm, com- prehending all that lay below In the canyon, the desert, the sink and farther on to the purple mountains, tipped with white, he replied: “Sir, the good Lord has made it pos- sible for a man blind to all the beauties of this earth to dig his way through a college. You, sir, standing there, are an ovidence of what I have sald. You are within sight of, yet you are blind to, the grandest, the most ennobling panorama of nature God has ever spread upon His be- loved footstool. “There nature in her most glorious mood them would go to and found has painted a canvas for the eyes of the |a vast body of 3200 a ton ore which seemed | its romance of life. You can organize min- soul—but damn, you, Jack, you never could see anything pretty outside of Central park! I tell you, sir, that you are incapable of distinguishing between somberness and sublimity 'in nature; I tell you, sir, that a4 man whose soul is refined above a long- ing for the frou-frou of silks on Fifth av nue cannot without a trembling at his own littleness and Insignificance view so mighty, so glorlous—Must you go, Jack’ Jack was sprinting it for the traln and would not wait to listen, into an editorial that was a prose poem. One of Charles Goodwin's reporters was a clever cub named Sam Clemens, who was | already begining to sign his special articles “Mark Twain." named Wright, k tants of sagebrush land by his beloved pen name of “Dan de Quille,” and a third was a rollicking young Irishman, Dennls McCarthy, who later on his own evening newspaper, the Virginia City Chronicle, trained many & newspaper men now writ- ing In shops far removed from the Com- stock. Happy Day for Reporters. These four chums on Sundays took long rambles over the hills and down through the canons of the sagebrush. Down in Seven Mile canon a German had started @ little brewery. An aftesian well supplied his brewery with water and gave him an which he used to demonstrate that , once cleared of its sagebrush and irrigated, would grow almost any veg- etable of the temperate zone. Wherever they walked on Sundays the four mewspaper chums would bring up at this brewery, hot, dusty, tired, thirsty and hungry. Mark Twain would jolly the brew- ery man into drawing from his best keg foaming wooden beakers of lager, Goodwin would Jolly the brewer's wife Into getting frésh onions from that garden surrounded Dan de Quille and Dennis McCarthy would construct sand- wiches of rye bread and sausages. And then,” us Mark Twain has often told since, “we would go uptown and on smelling llke buszards, but ob, so happy. Another one was & man own only to the inhabi- | | OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 20, 1910 Sitting Officers of Omaha Lodge No. 39, B. P. O. E. c SAUNDERS Omaha Elks In Their New Home (Continued from Page One.) low and the lodge found itself $9,00 in arrears. However, the faithful did not lose heart. A hustling committee was chosen consisting of George F. Mills, David Bennison and Edward O. Brandt. To these men No. 30 owes a great debt for putting, the club on its feet ad re- storing Its strength. By the sale of furniture and collection of debts and the sacrifice of the lodge rooms in Continen- tal block for small quar- ters on Farnam street the present site of the Postal Telegraph com- pan's offices, the financlal standing of the lodge was made solid. From that time the lodge has prospered. For thelr efforts Messrs. Mills, Bennison and Brandt were made life members of the order. From the dwarfed quarters on Farnam street the lodge moved in 1897 to the third floor of the Ware block. Rooms were maintained there thirteen years, or until the Granite block had been remodeled. With the purchase of the Granite block the Elks planned their new home. The financing of this deal was done through a stock company of corporate form. The e WALTER. P. THOMAS. ESTBEEMED HAS. L. REASURER e > ' STDNRY. W i} company was organized with a capltaliza- tion of $100,000 and stock sold with interest guaranteed at 6 per cent on the invest- posed of Lysle I. som, and Frank Crawford, and a hustling com- GNP /n-a«ufiflaf?mmg ) o )\ .\—\fl'u AW\ / ment. The Elks' bullding committee consisted of J. B. McPherson, D. B. Welpton, H. F. Metz, Rome Miller, E. A. Benson, W, 1. Kier- stead and C. L. Saunders An advisory committee for the new home was com- Abbott, Frank T. Ran- Wakeley, A. H. Burnett Arthur C. & mittee to sell stock was composed of H. B. Peters, Gould Diets, D. B. Butler, G. A. Renze, John E. O'Hearn, T. F. Swift, John C. Drexel, @. F. Brucker, Frank A Furay, Frank Simpson, C. H. Withnell and A. J. Stors. Through the work of these committees, with whom the officers and members of tho lodge co-operated, the purchase of the bullding, its re- modeling and the present beautiful home of the Omaha lodge was made possible. The general public Is famillar with the benevolent and protective features of the Elks' lodge. It is primarily a lodge of brotherly love, of fidelity and devotion to one another and to other men. The Elk himself need expect no pecunlary aid from the lodge by reason of his membership. The work of the Elks fs on the outside, among the needy, the unfortunate and the helples: When the city of San Francisco was stricken by earthquake and fire in April, 1906, the Elks did not await & cry for heip, but within a few days after the serious- ness of the holocast was apparent $10,000 in cash was forwarded to the sufferers at the Golden Gate. Omaha shared in the work of benevolence, the local lodge ap- propriating $00 immedlately toward the rellet tund. The Oakland and San Fran- clsco lodges of Elks led in the rellef work in the stricken city, with Robert W. Brown, the grand exalted ruler of the order, on the ground. In works of charity and be- nevolence in every city in the country where there are lodges of Elks the same spirit of brotherly love inepires deeds of kindness In affairs of the grand lodge No. 8 hi borne a prominent part. In 187 the local Elks went to Minneapolls 100 strong In hopes of capturing the next convention, but lost out In the race. The Omaha lodge, however, came back with the prize banner for the best representation. Memorlal sery- ices of the Elks, held in every city in the country on the first Sunday in December, are public. The beauty of the Llks' ritual is patent in this annual observance. Each year the lodge of sorrow is held to com- memorate the virtues of the dead whose names have been written upon another roll, And in life and In death EIKs have this motto: The faults of our brothers we write upon the sand. Thelr virtues upon the tablets of love and memory. When the big bonanza was discovered, inexhaustible, the Comstock began a career of riotous extravagance. The ore of the Comstock Is what miners know as free | milling, requiring no furnace or other ex- pensive metal, Stamp mills pounded the ore to a fine sand and that was ground to a pulp in grinding pans while mixed with wate work for the extraction of the | salt and bluestone were added, quick-silver Ophella's | Goodwin put his views, for which Jack | | | the Sutro tunnel || long submerged lowe our fashionable friends with breaths | was poured-into the mass, the temperature was ralsed until the quicksilver permeated the mass thoroughly, then the temperature was lowered until the quicksliver was pre- cipitated to the bottom of the pan holding the metal. That amalgam was drawn off, the quicksilver retorted out of it and a brick of gold and silver remained. There would probably have been a big profit in the milling at $1 & ton, but the stockholders pald $ a ton. So It was with timber for timbering the mines and holding up the stopes, for cord wood fuel, for freight transportation. For all these and all other supplies three, four or five prices were charged, and every one had pockets full of money. High class theater companles could not whit for a date at Piper's Opera house and showed in a National Guard armory. Men who were profiting by the extravagant prices paid for everything neglected the product of the little brewery down in Séven Mile canon and drank champagne for lunch as well as for dinner; speclal trains brought capitalists and investigators daily. The prices of shares soared to mon- strous figures—and suddenly it was discov- ered that just below and just beyond the points where the Investigating diamond drills had bored through the bonanza there was nothing but country rock, barren por- phyy. The collapse was so unexpected that it took heat out mot only of the Investing public but even the experts. Since then there has been no extensive and system- | atic prospecting of that wonderful lode. But even if modern pumping plants, usiug as an outlet, draln the levels, and sclen- rch shall disclose riches In the tfic res lower unopened depths of the lode, the old |cers and sixty men, volunteers from the Virginia City will never come again Into ing, but not romance. Career of General Morton (Continued from Page Three.) | engagement left Captain Morton in com- mand. He Immediately advanced upon the | my, drove them back and seized a strong, commanding position that was the key-point of the seige. | Showered with a cross-fire from both ar- tillery and rifles and unsupported on either flank or from the rear, he persistently held | the position. Twice he received an order ‘ln abandon the position as untenable, but | he continued to hold it, the order coming {from a general so far back behind the hills | and out of the zone of fire that Morton did not belleve that the vital importance of the position or the conditions were under- stood. At the close of hostilities in Cul he returned to Montauk Point, N. Y., where he recelved his promotion to be major of the Fourth cavalry, a part of which regi- ment was then in the Philippines. | In the spring of 18% he was on duty with | his regiment in the Coeur d'Alene district | in 1daho, ana being the senior officer on | the ground in that much-distracted min- | | ing region following the dynamiting of the Bunker Hill-Sulllvan Reduction works, | going there from Fort Walla Walla, | Wash., Major Morton was put at the head of the milltary forces upon the district | being placed under martial law, . Major | Morton began at once a systematic | rest of the miners charged with foment- |ing the disturbance and committing the ‘l.‘f[!l'l(lll”l'”h and rounded up about ) of ‘(he-m In the midst of this disagrecable work Major Morton ordered (o the Philippines, sailing from San Franeisco i June, 188, In command of the troops on the fll-fated steamer Valencla, that after- | wards was stranded with terrible suffer- | ing and loss of life on the coast of Van- couver. | On his arrival In Manila General Lawton | | placed Major Morton in charge of the | safety and security of the city. He later commanded his squadron on General Law- | ton's expedition north, and with ten offi he he was ot Lieutenant Colonel M: Ing at Fort Sill in 1902 when he was ad-| States since the civil war, and was up to vanced Eleventh Philippines. | fce in the Philippines he was transferred bIg milltary tournament at Des Moines, Ia., to the Seventh cavalry, of which regiment | Which was even larger than the one held Colonel brigades at the Point, in 1004 | He returned to Manlla in the summer of | C/Pating were marched to Omaha and | 1906 In command of the forces being trans- | ported was assigned Batangas, years, military command of Camp Mc ton was notified by from brigadler was Department the late October 9, General command duet the fifteen-mile test ride otficers of the department, which required | prg him department dian eral tion year Instruction partment Crawford, ming, and the other at Fort Riley, Kansas All of the arrangements for these maneuyer wps wero made by General Morton, and | him in basket. a force of insurrectos, tne alleged impen. etrable stronghold of Blacn-a-Bota and in- flicted the severest punishment upon Insurrectos, two was promoted to the leutenant colonelcy | of the Cuba. and Cuba. the scattering them badly. After vears' service in the Philippines he Isighth cavalry, then serving in He at once joined his new regiment remained with it during its stay in on was command- to' the grade of cavalry, then Owing to colonel of the serving In the his previous serv- the commander Morton was for four years. commanded the cavalry army maneuvers at West Ky., 1903, and at Manasses, Va., on the army transport Logan, and to duty at Camp McGrath, he remained for two there one of the finest the islands. While in irath, Colonel Mor- cable on April 19, 1907, of his promotion be In the summer of 1907 the command of the Missour!, succeeding General E Godfrey where bullt in and posts Washington to general assigned to of the Brigadler 1907 Morton's first duty of the department 8. upon was for taking to con- the fleld 10 Visit each of the ten posts of the and embraced a total test ride That autumn zaw thres In- troubles In South Dakota and Gen- Morton managed the military expedi- sent to quell them. The following large maneuver camps of were held in the de- at Camp Emmet D. A. Russell, Wyo- two one near Fort Fourth cavairy, he penetrated, following|M® commanded Camp Emmet Crawford in person.. At the close of s encampment he conducted a ninety-mile test ride for | all the field officers on duty at the camp. Upon his return from Camp Emmet Craw- ford he went Immediately to Fort Riley, Kan,, where he took command of the pro- | visional division, “which had been organized upon the termination of that camp, and marched it to St. Joseph, Mo., where a great military tournament was held under | his command. This was the largest body | of troops on so long & march In the United the time, the largest military ever held in the United States | ber, 1909, General Morton tournament In Septem- commanded the |In St. Joseph the previous year. During the Des Moines tournament President Taft | visited that city and reviewed the great parade. At the concluslon of the Des Molnes tournament 5,000 of the troops par- took part in the Ak-Sar-Ben parades. In October, 1908, General Morton again con | ducted the ninety-mile test ride for staff officers of the Department of the Missourl General Morton has been one of the most popular department commanders ever serv- Ing In that capacity in Omaha. His host of Omaha friends will note his retirement with the keenest He has been es- peclally popular board of gov- ernors of the Ak-Sar-Ben, and It was largely thiough his efforts that the last two, fall festivals have been so eminently successful. It is not yet definitely known where General and Mrs. Morton will make their home for the future. There is some probability of thelr selecting the Virgina seaboard, but In any event General and Morton will make an extended tour of Kurope before settling down perma nently regret with the e nking in a Bottle. While tearing down a partition in a house formerly occupled by R. T. McMillin, & miser of Chattancoga, Tenn., who died two years ago, J. W. Owens, @& carpenter, found suspended between the walls @ half pint flask in which the miser had placed $1,160. McMillin was an eccentric man who for years carried his fortuns about with IS A POET CLUB WOMAN * Miss Irwin Tells How London Mee\ a Real Need. !GOTHAM TO HAVE A NEW ORDER One Orga ves the Young Poet a Chancé—She Quale ed for Membership—Poets’ Fancy Dress Dinner. NEW YORK, March 19.—Stock in the re- cently formed Poetry club—thus {nnocently named, though charter members themselves not deny corporation possibilities—bids fair to rise rapidly. With the acquisition of a genuine English poet club woman who not only has seen but has participated in the activities of a similar society in London what should prevent skyward booming? Miss Beatrice Irwin, whom Ben Greet brought over to take the leading part in his revival of “Everyman,” can speak with authority on how these little bits of Mount Parnasus brought to earth should be con- dycted. For in addition to belng an ac tress Miss Irwin is also a post and no mean one, fudging from the London Poets club's action In electing her an honorary member and Inviting her to read verses (o which it might listen “I did the ‘Peacock,’ " says the actress- poet, “'a very barbarie sort of thing. The members were very kind, lked ft, and nominated me a member of the club." So it seems in London it fs not one who may belong to a poe aspirant must make good. “It was at the annual meeting in April, " goes on Miss Irwin, “last April—the club s only two years old, you know. There was a big dinner first at the United Arts club—the Poets' club is affillated with the United Arts club “Some were In fancy dress, some nv!‘ Almost every nationality was represented. 1t was really a most cosmopolitan atfair. “After the dinner came the postry and discussions. Mr. Bernard Shaw spoke on the censor for about thirty minutes—very witty and amusing, of cour: Then the poets got up and spouted their poems’— her very words. The atmosphere was 80 very cosmopolitan that the varying languages in which the poems wore spouted does not seem to ha been a drawback. There were those who could understand and appreciate one and all. “At the time of the annual meeting,” resumed Miss Irwin, the ‘Album of Poems' comes out. It Is something like the ‘Yellow Book'; contains spectal coatributions ty members asked. Which reminds me that I have not yet sent in my contribution, she continues modestly. “This blg annual meeting is not, how- ever, typical of the life of the club. It meets fortnightly, sometimes at the United Arts club, but most often at the houses of the different members. “The meetings are very informal. Orf inal poems are read and discussed A most interesting feature is the reading of Impromptu poems in response to given sub- jects. Member So-and-So has a subject assigned to him, he retires, and reappoars with the poem, which sounds rather cold blooded to the laymen's conception of poetio frensy and its workings, but per- haps it 1s the effect of the rarified Parnas- slan atmosphere. “The purpose of such a club is not ele- vating, of course; it could not be. That would be so painfully educational It simply furnishes the leaven of romance and fancy which this prosaic era of ours is 80 trightfully in need of. And it serves to bring forth the young poet and give him a chance. The movement is a good one; there is need of it. And most of all there is need of a journal for poetry, one periodical devoted exclusively to poetry, where poetry lovers might go to find what they want. America is a big field and I hope the club here will be Instrumental In filllng this need.” “How many club have?" asked. “Oh, 1 don't know exactly,” she replied. “Two hundred or thres hundred perhaps,” which, considering that only the qualified and demonstrated may belong, speaks well for the condition of the art abroad. Miss Irwin admits that much time has been begged off from her professional duties recently to get in readiness for April publication & volume of poems of her own. The verses are chiefly lyrical, songs of ditferent lands, for the young woman has been once and a hmt around the world, But though Miss Irwin has jaunted to the ends of the world she confesses herself under the spell of New York. “I love America, and I love New York," she says. “I like the bigness, the blg feel about it. It is just the place to inspire poetry."” And New York if It could would probe¥hiy take off its hat at the tribute; It is not often accused of belng poetry Inspiring. | :I'HANSITION IN STRIPED POLES Outward Symbol of Tonsoriml Has Taken on New Shapes. Blectricity within recent years has been applied to the barber pole. The electric or revolving barber pole has” for a middle section & glass cylinder that s two feet or more in height by about elght Inches in Qlameter, this section being supported on an ornamental base or on a stout brass rod rising from the sidewalk. The glass section of the pole is surmounted by an ornamental cap. Within the glass section another cylinder made of welght, transucent material, are painted the traditional spiral stripes of red, white and blue, the familiar sign of the barber. This inner sylinder is pivoted top and bottom and made to revolve by | means of a tiny electric motor attached at |the top. Current is carrled this motor |on a wire leading from an electric light | fixture within the bullding up out of sight inside the pole’s base. Within the inner cylinder of the electric revolving barber pole are two Incandescent electrio lights which the pole can be {lluminated at night. The electric barber pole, support, is also made In bracket pole which can the front of a building; styles of revolving barber made to be wind driven, inm(nr within It avery ' club; the members does the London the visiting member was Art of the pole Is thin, light- upon which a to without & base the form of a be attached to and both theso poles are also Instead of with wires connecting, the | wind ariven revolving pole has surmount- | ing its onnamental cap a gilded wind ball |in form not unlike a globe shaped ventilat ing fan. The wind ball is attached to the pole's Inner striped cylinder, and when the | breezea turn the bal it the inner eylinder. Formerly all barber poles e of wood, as still great numbers ‘ “.. 13 made of wound base will keep |a wooden barber pole Is timber and set where its | dry it will last for many years, but If the pole Is net where water collects at its foot it will rot there. A few years ago there was produced & barber pole of latticed iron construction, The very latest thing in an all metal barber pole s one that which has its cylindrical column section formed of sheet steel, with base and cap of cast lron.—New York Sua, turns