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THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, - SUNDAY, JUNE" 23, . 1889.
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CLARA BELLE'S CHAT.
A Talk on the Delights and Annoy
ances, of Traveling Alone.
THE QUEER PEOPLE ONE MEETS,
And the Well-Meant Efforts of Trainmen to
lie Entertaining.
BUYING 0KE CHICKEN FIVE TIMES
CCOEEESPOXDENCE OF THE DISPATCH.
New Yoke, June 22. It is funny how
people fancy themselves unobserved in a
theater. Ah well! what is one to do in a
great city like this? "What chance have the
innocent, foolish and exuberant young
things who want to be alone together. If
they are simply fond of eacn other and in
spired constantly with a desire to talk to
each other about it where, oh! where, shall
they go? Parks? Impossible. Nursemaids
and policeman, you know. Cab? Awful
cobble stones and racket Luncheon? It
won't do to have a private room, and, even
so, there is always the waiter. The theater
is, after all, about the only resort left
Time was when, if there was money enough
to buy a box, a two hours' tete-a-tete could
be secured, but not now. Yon might as
well try it on the steps of an elevated sta
tion. The boxes are all open, except, per
haps, in one or two theaters. But even if
he can't buy a box he can get seats, and the
pair of them begin to believe themselves all
alone in the world. Just sit in a cosy box
and watch the people in front of you. You
will see as many cases as yon can count oj
holding her wrap on with one hand and
fanning her with the other. .
I saw Eben Plympton the other evening
holding a wrap on and fanning. How a
tiny, black gloved hand does show up when
it is clasped in a big ungloved one, and how
cosy it is for two persons to share the one
arm between the chairs. The only way to
keep from falling off is to link arms, of
course, and then, too, hat brims are so big.
It is hardly noticeable whether one head is
tinder or two. If John goes out between
the acts, Jane takes out her powder puff and
freshens up her complexion a little, never
supposing anyone notices. Oh! the theater
is a great place for privacy. It is away
ahead of the top of a fifth avenue omnibus.
TRAVELING BY RAIL ALONE.
But it is in a railroad car that couples feel
alone in a crowd, because the spectators are
strangers, and many an honr have I whiled
away, on a journey which would otherwise
have been tedious because I was myself
really alono watching the spooners. The
sights were much like those mentioned as
seen in theaters, only more intense.
"Passengers are not allowed on the plat
form." We all know that Still, it is the
only place to ride sometimes. The inside of
the car gets stuffy horribly stuffy. Men
come in from the smoker and spread tobacco
around about Bread-and-butter children
and sour-milky babies add fo the stuffiness,
till you can stand it no longer and it is a
case of fresh air or death. About that time
you sneak out on the back platform. "What
a changel Especially if your car is that
rear one. A swirl of tresh air and cinders
but never mind that a flying country,
exciting whir of wheels and the track spin
ning out back of you like a black thread
woven by the flying shuttle you ride on.
Your ulster flaps madly, you jab your hat
down over youi ears to keep it "on at all,
you plant your little French heels firmly
and unbutton yonr gloves that you may get
a sater grip on the rail. Once so secured
you rejoice in bridges and short curves.
Of course, you are inclined to get reckless,
and let go to answer with a whoop and a
wave of a dirty handkerchief the flying sig
nal you get from a way station, or a lone
telegraph girl, who feels flirtatious, and
takes you lor the brakeman. He turns up
sooner or later. You have to pull a long
face, and assure him that the heat inside
made you quite ilL Then probably he will
stay out with you. If he does he is likely
to Drove a bore. He will tell you lots of
yarns,' point out this place and that where
accidents happened, and assure yon what a
hero he was each time, till you pretend to
remember it in the papers and make him
nervous. Then he has his girl at each town.
THE 'WAYS OF TRAINMEN.
Oh, he's a great fellow, is the brakemanl
He confides to you that many of the girls
have waved at him just like that for years
and all that time he has never exchanged a
word with them. You ask him about his
wife. Sometimes he gets mixed, but you
pretend you don't notice it, and he thinks
what a nice girl you are.
Now and then the conductor discovers
you instead of the brakeman. The conduc
tor is usually a man of more weight Be
sides, he has to attend to tickets, and can't
stay long. If you manage to look laint and
miserable, he will suggest the baggage car.
If he does, jump at it Of all places to ride
the baggage car is the best The engine
smells of oil, and the wind there blinds you,
but the baggage car is lovely. The baggage
man will always take the best of care of
you. You will find yourself, if there is not
an awful lot of trunks, ensconced by' the
wide open door.
The baggage man lounges around the
trunks, and talks or not as you encourage
him. He usually has a bit ot an eye for the
landscape, and prepares you for a "neat
piece of land" as you near it, or a "strip of
water that's right pretty to catch through
the trees." Maybe he casses his homesome
where along the line, and you see him swing
out beyond the door to catch the last glimpse
of Mollie and the little one. He tells you
how, when the little one was coming, Mollie
hung a white scarf in the window so that he
knew his baby was a little girl, and how he
cried all over the trunks, and wanted to
jump off at risk of life and limb, just to
hurry up to the little house and hold Mollie
close to his arms and kiss the wee daughter.
As it was he had to make the trip and back
before he saw the two, and "it was hard
waiting," said he.
BAGGAGEMAN'S LAUNDRY WORK.
-You wonder what the men on the train
do in the winter time. They have a better
time than the sleeper passengers though!
There's a rousing big stove at the end of
the car. The big doors are closed, the
place is well ventilated through the roof,and
the winter evenings aren't so dull, after all,
when the boys get together, tell stories, have
hot whisky and play poker and seven-up on
the trunks. You wonder, being a practical
young woman, how they get their washing
done 'Well, they have clothes at two or
three places. They start clean at New
York, exchange soiled for fresh linen at
Buffalo, do the same thing at Chicago and
the same back. Then, too, Mr. Baggage
man confides to von that he does a bit of
laundry work himself now and then, it
being easy enough to beat waier,and clothes
dry lamously when hung over a trunk by
the big door. So we never know what may
have happened to our trunks in the baggage
car.
Baggagemen are artists in their way, too,
and it is considered awfully bad form'to let
a trunk down on fhe flat "Tip it on the
corner. Miss, and a child can move it," ad
vises the brawny Hercules. Also, he hasn't
much use lor basket trunks, they are light,
but you can't tell where they will land,
which you try to feel is a serious objection
to basket trunks, that you may inspire Mr.
Baggageman with admiration for your dis
crimination. The newsboy camps out in the baggage
car between whiles and reads his own
novels, too. He says he has to know what
to offer people. If a girl asks for "The
Quick or the Dead," says he, its a good
thing, if he hasn't got that book, to know
what will suit her.
PAYING OFTEl FOE A CHICKEN.
Then there's the sandwich man. He
comes into the baggage car to soak his
sandwiches in the water cooler when they
ret stale. "It brightens them up fine," he
says, and swears yon wouldn't know the J
difference. By the way, the sandwich man
considers that the buffet cars have taken
the bread and butter from honest men's
mouths. Buftet cars are rather a fraud, es
pecially about chicken. I remember order
ing cold chicken for breakfast They
brought me almost a whole lowL I ate jnst
a little. At luncheon I ordered cold
chicken. They brought me the same fowl.
I recognized it took a little more from it
and meekly paid for it again. The same
racket was played at supper. I wept softly,
took another slice and again paid for the
whole. At breakfast I paid lor it for the
last time. Then, on leaving the train, I
gently but firmly demanded the remains,
paid lor them and took them off with me. I
wasn't going to have that chicken paid for
right straight through eternity.
The dining car is a variation on the buffet
There yon go into a separate car, the move
ment heat, smell of cooking make you quite
ill. You pay 1 for dinner. The bill of
fare is liberal, but you take water crackers
and a glass ol milk, and escape as soon as
possible. That's how dining cars make
moner, and keep their colored waiters so fat
and sleek.
IMPERTINENT STRANGERS. ,
Isn't it funny how a man is inclined to
impertinence at a table. I remember travel
ingfOnce one of a party. I went into the
dining car alone. A man ahead of me sat
and stared till I thought I would "have to
scream. Just then, through the mirror, I
saw a gentleman of my party enter and seat
himself at a table back of me. I began to
write a note at once on the bill of fare. My
admirer looked cheerfully expectant. I
sent the note to the gentleman of my party.
My admirer seemed surprised a little. The
The note read, "Will you be good enough
to glare at the man who is utaring at me?"
My friend grasped tho situation and began
a "most stony regard of my admirer. The
latter fidgeted, spilled his soup, got red,
choked, and left the car, followed by the
fierce, fiery glances of mv rood friend.
There is nothing that will so nonplus one of
these smart fellows as stirring up a man's
attention when he is trying to attract a
woman's.
Sometimes when you ask for your bill the
waiter will grin and say the gentleman over
the way has pud it There is just one way
out of that Give the waiter the amount of
the bill, say in a low, clear voice: "Take it
to the gentleman over the way, and if he
will not have it you may keep it." Then
get up, and with'all the grace and air you
can command, sweep from the car without
waiting to see whether the waiter gets it or
not In either event the gentleman over
the way can hardly help wishing himself
well kicked. Clara Belle.
SUGGESTIONS FOR MOTHERS.
What to Do When One of the Little Ones
Ilai the Earache or Cronp.
One of our little girls has been troubled
with earache ever since her babyhood, says
a writer in Good Housekeeping. No sores
have gathered, but a cold or exposure to a
strong wind is almost certain to cause her
acute suffering with earache. After trying
almost everything I have seen or heard rec
ommended, I have settled on this applica
tion as giving surest and quickest relief.
It is a flannel bag stuffed with hops and
wrung from hot vinegar. I lay the bag
over the child's ear, as hot as she will bear
it, cover the whole side of the face with dry
flannel, and change the hop bag as often
as it becomes cool. The warm steam fill
ing the child's ear, soon relieves the pain.
Stuffing the ear wi'h the "heart of a
warm onion," tricklings of molasses, wads
of peppered cotton and lumps of mutton
tallow have never yet, in my experience,
eased earache, and sush irritating masses
crowded or poured into the delicate laby
rinth of the ear may do much mischief.
Another child is the victim oflegacbe,
inherited probably, for well do we remem
ber what we suffered with its tortures in our
own childhood. Heat and moisture gave
relief, and, following in our mother's loot
steps, we have routed night after night
from our warm quartets, in the dead of
winter, to kindlenr.es and fill frosty kettles
from water pails thickly crusted with ice,
that we might get the writhing pedal ex
tremities or our little heir into a tub ot hot
water as quickly as possible. But lately
we have learned that all this work and ex
posure is needless. We simple wring a fowl
from salted water a bowl of it standing
in our sleeping room ready for such an
emergency wraD the limb in it from ankle
to knee, without taking the child from the
bed, and then swathe with dry flannels,
thick and warm, tucking the blankets about
him a little closer, and relief is sure.
A croupy cough can often be loosened and
prevented by swathing the throat with dry,
warm flannels; a thick pack of them to
sweat the throat and chest often helps so
rapidly that it is not necessary to sicken
the child with ipecac or to wake the house
kindling fires or preparing hot packs.
HIS TRUCK A BATTERY.
Driver O'Keefe Has an Experience With the
Electric Flaid.
8W York Press. 1
When everybody in Brooklyn was ex
pecting a swirling storm of wind and dust
yesterday afternoon, the rain came down in
torrents instead, and the lightning played
some harmless pranks in several sections
of the city. It was not, however, accom
panied with the destruction of property and
loss of life that marked last week's tempest
The only case reported of any one being
affected by the electricity with which the
atmosphere was surcharged during the
storm was that of Patrick O'Keefe, a young
truck driver of 23 years.
He was driving down Third avenue
when the storm overtook him, and after
several flashes of lightning he noticed the
fluid jumping about in blue tongues of fire
on the metal work of his truck. He says
also that flashes ot light were emitted from
the manes and tails of his horses. He was
unconscious of his danger until a blinding
flash came as he reached the corner of
Union street and hurled him from his truck.
His horses- stood trembling in terror, prob
ably too benumbed by the shock to run
away. O'Keefe was carried into a corner
liquor store and an ambulance was sum
moned, for it was thought he had received a
fatal shock.
Surgeon Beed arrived and applied reme
dies that in an honr completely restored
the victim of the lightning. When the
storm had cleared away he left for home lit
tle the worse for his experience with the
fluid. His horses walked lame, but he said
they would come around all right
THE LADY LOST HER HEEL
An Accident That Caused Both Indignation
and Embarrassment.
Detroit Free 1'ress.l
A dapper little man stepped into a
Woodward avenue car, and as he did so he
picked up a tiny pyramid of brown leather.
"Now look at that," he said with several
inflections to his voice, as he showed his
treasure trove to the gentlemen next to
him. "What is it?" asked the other man,
adjusting his glasses, and taking the object
in his hand as if it might be alive and bite
him. "It's the heel from some fool woman's
shoe. Now try to think how she must have
wobbled for she could not have walked
on that French heel. I'd give something
to see her getting home without it"
"I suppose the effect depends on the size'
of the foot," said the other, handing it
back; "that looks as if it came of a pretty
neat shoe, hey old fellow?"
"It'sabarbarism a wicked shame to wear
such a tbingl".-retorted the other indig
nantly. "Why, the doctors say that more
cases of curvature of the spine areoc "
"If you have no further use for it I'll
thank you for my heel," said a sweet
voiced, pretty little lady opposite at this
moment
The indignant individual had just
dropped it in his pocket but he plunged
in after it and gave it back to its owner,
and talked to his companion about the
weather.
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GEKMS OF, CONSUMPTION.
PatboIocUu of tho Uonrd of Health
Say.
Disease Is Not Inherited.
New York Times.)
The report of the Pathologists of the
Board of Health concerning the manner in
which tuberoulosis is transmitted from ani
mals to man, and from one human being to
another, deals with a subject to which the
attention of sanitarians and physicians in
all parts of the civilized world has
recently been directed. We have frequently
spoken of the remarkable discoveries made
in the last lew years by bacteriologists wjth
respect to the minute organisms that are the
cause, either directly or indirectly, of infec
tious diseases. Among tho diseases that are
transmitted by means of a characteristic
bacillus or microbe is this dread malady,
consumption, to which are due one-seventh
of the recorded deaths in this city.
The board's pathologists declare that
tuberculosis is a "distinctly preventable
disease," that it is not directlr inherited,
and that it is acquired by the direct trans
mission of the tubercle "bacillus or germ
from the sick to the healthy. It has been
held by some that while a majority of cases
are caused by a direct transmission of the
microbes, entering the system with food or
air, others are really inherited. The board's
pathologists do not. seem to admit that in
any instance the malady is inherited, and
this conclusion is iu accordance with
the recent tendency of research in
this field. The introduction of
the disease depends , largely, however,
upon the physical condition of those who
are exposed to infection, and it should be
noted tnat the children of tuberculous per
sons may be peculiarly susceptible to infec
tion becanse of inherited physical weakness.
It is pointed out that the mortality due to
tuberculosis may be decreased by thorough
disinfection and by measures taken to pre
vent the pollution of the air by the germs of
bacilli. As it is well known that the germs
may be transmitted to human beings from
tuberculous cows and beef cattle in meat
and milk.'it is shown that for the protection
of the public there should be a roost rigid
official inspection of such animals.
The Nation and the States are spending
great sums of money every year in suppres
sing pleuro-pnenmonia by condemning and
J killing all cattle that have 'that disease.
This action is not taken lor the preservation
of the health of human beings. The meas
ures for the suppression of tuberculosis in
cows and beet cattle should not be less
severe, for in this case the public health
suffers, and the human death rate is in
creased by the prevalence of the disease
among the amimals.
PICKPOCKETS OP PARIS.
The Skill of the Different Nationalities ns
Light Flncered Gentlemen.
London Ulobe.
The majority of the Paris pickpockets
and pickpockettes, according to M. Mace,
are foreigners, the English and the Italian
being themost numerous. The English
pickpocket is the best known; one meets
him everywhere; but he is by no means the
cleverest He has obtained a reputation
which he does not deserve. He is stiff in
his movements, and, although very clever
with his hands, he has too much of the
national flegme about him. But he is an
indefatigable walker. He will visit all the
principal crowded points in Paris in a
single day, and fairly tires out the deteot
ives, who follow him. He.is as wise as a
serpent, and never lets himself be enticed
from the path of prudence by temptation to
a dangerous attempt He never remains
more than 10 minutes in one crowd, and
seldom makes more than one victim in the
same place. The race course is his favorite
field of operations. All the pickpockets of
the north, English, Eussian, Polish, Ger
man, are cool, methodical and tenacious.
and seldom let a victim go before they have
emptied his pockets. The German is excel
lent at the method known as a 1'esbrouffe,
which consists in hustling the victim vio
lently and robbing him during the confu
sion which ensues. He also excels in the
"vol au radin" diverting the attention of
a shopman and then annexing the contents
of the till.
But the north isnot alone in supplying
Paris with pickpockets. Italy and Spain
furnish a numerous contingent The Spanish
picketpocket deserves special mention. He
combines theft with devotion, and when ar
rested makes a revolting display of hypocri
sy protesting his innocence by all the saints
in the calendar. The Italian is extremely
clever, is conscious of his superiority, and
can often snap his fingers at all the detect
ives in Europe. Full of confidence in him
self, and rejoicing in his triumph, he never
theless, ends in ruining himself. If the
Italian only had the prudence of the En
glishman he could laugh at the entire police
of the universe; but, carried away by the
southern fougne he gets canght through
remaining to repeat his triumph in the
same place.
POOR LITTLE PROG.
When Mr. Bnnko Gets a Hold on His lies
He's b Goner.
I have never seen a snake charm a frog,
though I have seen them catch frogs
often, says a writer in the St Louis Report
er. They are more than a match for the
frog in a foot race, consequently they have
frog legs to eat whenever they wish, pro
vided the frogs can be found. The greatest
trouble is to swallow the frog after catching
him. The frog is swallowed heels first
Whether this is a preference on the part of
the snake or whether because this is the first
part overtaken and laid hold of I do not
know. When canght, the poor frog cries
out in the most pitiful terror. Then the
struggle of life and death begins, with de
termined animal instinct on the part of the
snake-nay, I might say with devilish tri
umph, 'for he knows that victory is sure in
the end ana almost human horror on
the frog's part. The instant the snake
seizes a hind leg it is swallowed, and the
hard part of the job is to get hold of the
other leg without releasing the one he al
ready has.
The frog soon finds it is useless to strug
gle to release the leg already swallowed by
the snake, and seems to realize that its onlv
hope is to keep the leg that is free out of
that horrible mouth, which has such won
derful sucking power. I once saw a garter
snake push a trog over 30 yards, endeavor
ing to force the leg of the frog that was free
against some obstruction that it might get a
hold on that also. It finally succeeded and
the struggle was soon over after that When
both hind legs are once in the snake's power
a deeper horror seems to take possessson of
the poor little creature who has battled so
hard for lile, its eyes dilate with terror and
assume a glassy stare, its whole body is
stupefied, paralyzed with an awful dread of
its impending fate. The- snake does not
swallow; it crawls over its prey. It does so
by means of strongly contracing muscles in
the throat
Cholly Be sure, dean
boy, and make the cane
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How the cane
showed.
- "-We.
AMERICANS "ABROAD.
A Comparison of the Cost of Living
in London and New York. -
HOW THE NOBLES AFFECT RENTS.
Some Yankees Who Hire Mansions In the
English Metropolis.
LIFE IN SOCIETY'S SELECT CIRCLES
tWMTriUf TOR THZ DISPATCH. I
A never failing sourceof discussion among
Americans in London is the difference in
the costs of living on the different sides of
the Atlantic. The exact facts about rents
are as difficult to generalize here as in New
York. A man can rent a better house for
$600 a year in Harlem than he could get for
$2,000 a year on one of the downtown cross
streets near Fifth avenue. It all depends on
location in both of the big towns.
There are discrepancies in the rents of
the houses of London as distinctly marked
as in New York. For fashionable people it
is; absolutely necessary to live in certain
well-defined localities in'the different cities
of America, but there is no portion of Lon
don outside the slums where people of posi
tion may not live, provided the house itself
is satisfactory. Fashion smiles upon lo
calsties already inhabited by the nobility.
They fix the rent
In Park Lane, St. James', Mayfairand
Grosvernor Square, or in other words in the
aristocratic districts of London a certain
heavy increase ol rent is inevitable. In
Charles street,St James',forinstance,a small
house of five bedrooms, two dressing rooms
and three reception rooms may be had com
pletely furnished for $1,700 a year. This is
a fair type of the London house, and its
aristocratic associations are numerous.
WHERE THEY LITE.
Lady Dorothy Nevill, one of the present
leaders of London society, lives in Charles
street, and so also does Viscount Dangan,
the young man against whom Phyllis
Broughton, the actress, has brought an ac
tion lor breach of promise and recovered
50.000. The Countess of Bessboroueb.
Lord Bevelstoke, Count Piper, the Swedish
Minister, Viscount Templetown, the Mar
quis of Ailsa, the Countess of Polignac and
no end ot baronets and knights are quartered
in the little street H. S. H. Prince Dem
prey Soltykoff, who draws a big income
from his estates in Russia and spends it
with royal recklessness in London, would
also be a neighbor of anybody who cared to
take one of the little Charles street houses.
Another curious thing is that it is often
entirely unnecessary in London to take a
house for a term ol years or even months,
for the demand is so constant and persistent
for houses in good localities that they are
often rented by the week.
If the purse of an American coming lo
London is ample, and a house in Charles
street or similar location is not pretentious
enough, he can, for $7,000 a year, secure a
lurnisnea house in uievclana row, St.
James', containing seven or eight bedrooms,
bathroom, six reception rooms, and so on.
One advantage in living in Cleveland row
is having the Duke of Beaufort for a neigh
bor. Americans are fond of the Duke tor
a number of reasons among others for the
princely style in which he entertained the
Chicago and All American baseball teams,
and for the grace with which he presides
at theatrical dinners and similar social
functions.
TITLES AND EENTS.
In St James' place, where lives among a
crowd of nobility the Marquis of Drogheda,
Earl Spencer, the Earl of Egmont and
Viscount Cranbourne, eldest son of the'Mar
quis of Salisbury, one can hire a furnished
house for the season for less money than a
smaller house would cost on Fifth avenue;
but the houses are small and do not average
more than 10 or 12 rooms each. I give the
names of nobility, not because they are of
the faintest interest'on earth, but to show
what an astounding'influence exalted titles
have on rents.
Some houses in Dover street off Piccadilly
have electric lights, and any one hiring
these houses has to pay the wages of the
man who looks after the dynamo, which is
situated in the cellar, and is run by a gas
engine. For some inexplicable reason also
the incoming tenant has to take over the
housemaids and pay their wages, whether
they are fair to look upon or capable or not
One or these houses in Dover street, con
taining 11 bedrooms, six reception rooms, a
stable with four stalls, mav be had lor
$5,00U a year or $3,000 for the season, fully
furnished, of course. In this locality the
tenants rub shoulders with the Lord Bishop
of Ely, the Earl of Ashburnham, Lord
Truro and others.
In Maylair, where the houses average 15
rooms each, and most of them have first-rate
stables, a whole furnished house may be
had for the season for $6,000.
GLADSTONE'S RESIDENCE.
The Marquis of Queensberry live's in
James street Buckingham Gate, which is
the least fashionable street in Belgravia,
and Mr. Gladstone, for reasons which to
him seem sufficient and proper, has during
the past year or so set up "his modest town
household in James street He pays about
$2,200 for the use of a furnished house dur
ing the parliamentary session from Febru
ary to August. If the weather is at all
favorable Air. uiaastone invariably walks
to the House instead of driving, and his
advent in the streets is eagerly watched for
by the neighbors.
Park Lane corresponds in a measure to
Fifth avenue from Fifty-ninth to One Hun
dred and Tenth streets. The houses there
look directly over Hyde Park, and they are
in certain respects the most desirable in
London. For some reason or other the
houses can only be obtained furnished and
for short periods, the rentrangingaccording
to the size of the house at from $100 to S200
per week. His Boyal Highness, the Duke
of Cambridge, cousin to the Queen, and
Commander-in-Chief of the British army,
has lived in Park Lane for many years past.
Among his neighbors are the Marquis of
Londonderry, the Lord Lieutenant of Ire
land; the Countess of Dudley, at one time
the reigning lashionable beauty, and still a
very lovely woman; the Countess of Gros
venor and Lord Brassey. In London the
influence of such dwellers on a street is pro
nounced in the list degree.
NOBILITY'S HATJIITS.
In a few special locations in London
almost all the occupied houses contain a
number of the nobility. In Belgrave
Square, for instance, lives the Duchess of
Montrose, the 70-year-old bookmaker and
owner of race horses who has just married a
young man of 25. Her neighbors are the
Dukes of Bichmond and Gordon, the
Baroness Willoughby di Eresby, whose title
is almost the oldest InEnglandftheCountess
of Shaftesbury, Lord Aveland, Earl Beau
champ, the Austrian Ambassador, the Earl
of Feversham and Lord Trevor, Viscount
Oxenbridge, the Earl of Clan William, the
Earl of Stradbroke, the Earl of Sefton, Earl
Fortescue, the Earl of Bradford, the Mar
quis of Headfort and Viscount Combermere.
Such an array of titles as this is enough
to cause a New York anglo-mamac to stand
in the middle of .Belgravia and swoon with
gratification and delight With the excep
tion of the unpleasant and horsey old
duchess, Belgrave Square is probablv peo
pled with the bluest-blooded households in
London. It is very often the case that the
purse of some of the nobility of Belgrave
Square is shorter than the lineage, and fur
nished houses may often be hired tnere from
the noble owners. Three hundred dollars a
week for a house of 20 rooms and good stab
ling is about what the ambitious American
would have to pay.
Kensington and South Kensington, the
newest districts ot London which correspond
to the West Side ih New York, are rapidly
becoming fashionable, though the nobility
still cling more or less to their old location.
A few famous men like the Duke of Artrvle.
the Duke of Rutland and the Earls of Nor-
mantou and Horley, have forsaken May fair j
..
and St. James' and moved to the new lo
cality. In time It fs notunlikely that many
others will follow them, for the modern
houses are far superior to those in the long
settled portions of the town.
CHAMBEELAIU'S LOCATION.
Joseph Chamberlain with his yonng
American wife lives in the new quarter.
The houses are large, the situation very
pleasant and anyone may become a neigh
bor of Mr. Chamberlain by payine $120 per
week for the season. One will get ten bed
rooms, two bathrooms and five parlors for
the money but will have to get stables else
where. At Prince's Gate, within a stone's throw,
a similar house may be, had for $7,000 a year.
It is to be remembered, of course, that all
tnese nouses are tuny lurnisnea with linen,
tableware, in fact every detail necessary for
housekeeping in good style.
It is when people are content to move to
the outskirts of London, that they are con
fronted with the choice of excellent houses
at reasonable rents. In Pembroke road, for
instance, you find a large furnished huuse
with a larse garden, tennis ground and
stables which cost only about $1,200 a year,
while in Onslow Garden a house of 16
rooms, with good stabling and a honse maid
thrown in, may .be secured for $60 a week.
These houses are very largely sought after
by Americans coming here for a month or
two, and indeed there is no better way to
live for a large family than to take up quar
ters of this sort, for the hotels in London
are less satisfactory than those of any other
city in the world. English people do no
patronize hotels when they can help it, and
facilities for renting housed for short terms
are numerous. ' Blakely Hall.
A CUBI0US TALE.
A Sword S00 Year! Old the Heirloom of a
Mohammedan Prophet's Family.
New York Sani
Heie is a story that is told by one of our
esteemed fellow citizens: "When I sat
down to breakfast in Delmonico's I no ticed
at the other side of the table a queer-looking,
gaunt-faced old man, who did not seem at
ease in his suit of New York clothes.
After a time I made a friendly approach to
him by offering him a small courtesy at the
table, accompanied by a few words. He
did not understand English, but I found
that he spoke French in a curious way. We
strqek up acquaintance, and before our
coffee pots were empty we were on confi
dential terms, which seemed to give him
great pleasure. He was a stranger in New
York, to which he had jnst come, and did
not know anybody in the city.
"He grew so friendly that after breakfast
he invited me to a room which he had taken
the previous day. He there told me that he
was a Calmuck in the Bussian service, and
that during a leave of absence he had come
to New York, which he had been anxious to
see. I noticed a' pair of Turkish trousers
hanging on the wall, and beside them a
curved short sword of peculiar form, and
destitute ot the regulation hilt or handle.
As I looked at it he said: 'Take it down
draw out the scinietar, and you'll find a
thumb ring by which it can be used.' I did
as he directed, found the ring spoken of,
grasped the weapon, and began to handle it.
While doing so I bent it, and noticed that,
instead of springing back when ths pressure
was taken off, it returned gradually to its
proper lorm. It had evidently been forged
from an untold number of steel rings welded
together like old Damascus blades. When
asked about it he told a curious tale.
" 'One day,' he said '40 years ago when
I was in the Caucasus under Voronzoff, a
cloud of Circassian cavalry under Schamyl
suddenly . came upon us in a pass. A
Circassian with a drawn scimetar galloped
toward me, and I raised my sword to guard
my head, but he cut it in twain with a single
stroke as he wouldhave cut a carrot At
that moment his brain was pierced by one
oi our uaimucK Duiiets, ana J. sprang irom
my horse to get his scimetar. Next morn
ing Schamyl sent a messenger to our camp
to ask General Voronzoff for the body of his
brother, who bad been killed in the previ
ous day's fight, and he asked also for the
scimetar, which, however, could not be
found. That is it It had been an heirloom
in the family of Schamyl the Mohammedan,
prophet, was said to be 700 or 800 years old,
and had probably been made in the Cau
casus out of Damascus steel.' "
HOW TO BATHE.
Some People ftlnko Too SInch Trouble
About It.
Joe Hoirard in the New York Press.)
Everybody washes his face and hands.
Beflect for a moment upon the extraordi
nary refreshment given by that ablution,
and then multiply it a thousand fold, and
you have an idea of the good gained by a
daily morning and a daily evening all-over-bath.
But how to bathe!
Many people find bathing a physical dis
tress, a burden, a discomfort, by reason of
the trouble they make about it. There are
thousands and thousands of unfortunates
here who have no bathing tnbs, but I doubt
it there is a laborer s family so poor that a
movable tub cannot be afforded, and water
runs in all our tenements. With the aid
of a sponge the poorest equipped man may
provide facilities for himself, his wile and
his children in this line of refreshment, but
the ordinary user' is where a bath tub is
at his disposal. For such, a simple plunge
is the best mode, and a vigorous rubbing
with a heavy crash towel immediately after.
Too much stress cannot be laid upon this
recreative operation. It opens the pores, it
removes the dead skin, it sets in motion
that marvelous-system of exudation upon
which health so largely depends, it gives
the whole body a tonic andfreshens every fac
ulty. I have been using for many years a
sedative water suggested to me by my old
friend Dr. Otto Fullgraff, for 20 years at the
head of one ot the largest dispensaries, and
to-day standingat the very head of eclecticism
with all that that suggests. Take a whisky
bottle, or any other utensil of that capacity,
put in it a cup of sea salt, a half ounce of
camphor, a half ounce of ammonia; fill the
bottle with hot water, and let it stand 24
honrs; then when prepared to bathe with a
sponge, put a teacupful of this mixture,
well shaken, into your basin to bathe your
self. You will be surprised at the dirt that will
come from the cleanest skin!
The ammonia will cleanse the pores, the
camphor and the sea salfwill impart a
tonic, and the whole produce a beneficial
effect which cannot be exaggerated. Do
this night and morning, and you will find
yourself not only beautified in skin, but
made strong and sturdy, healthful and,
therefore, good natured.
Story of a Delayed Letter.
Detrot Free I'resj.l
A letter proposing marriage to a Castile,
N. Y., girl remained in the coat-tail pocket
of a proposer for eight months, he suppos
ing it to have been .mailed. When he
finally did mail it she was married, but she
gave her husband the shake and eloped to
far off Connecticut.
Monk I say, Jocko, catch on ter We
hornlettsl "Wonder whfa his tailor la?
Life,
HOMES OF BACHELORS
Rich Unmarried Men of the Metropo
lis and How They Live.
A NEW SOCIETY IN NEW TORE
And the Great Progress It Has Made in
Discouraging Matrimony.
LUXURIOUS BOOMS OP SINGLE MEN
IMHUTTJCir FOB THI DISPATCH.'!
Not the King's Daughters, nor the socie
ties for the suppression of the various in
iquities, the Salvation Army and the rest,
are now making such substantial progress
as the Society for the Discouragement of
Matrimony. The society proper, its officers
are kept in that strict seclusion which is
most effective for its public work, but its
agents, the real estate owners and builders
are carrying on an active and aggressive
campaign.
Following the example of the temperance
people who set up coffee houses to forestall
the drinking of liquor, this society builds
bachelor's apartment houses and these are
so equipped and carried on that, according
to the statistics, it is alleged that the aver
age sum of comfort and happiness has been
largely increased oyer the older method of
marriage.
The only objection to the' plan, and it is
an objection that is manifestly reasonable,
is that thus far the society has worked only
for men, while its aim, as everyone will
agree, is one in which women are equally
interested. I have taken some pains to get
an expression from women similarly placed,
on the subject, and so far from objecting to
the work of the society, they object only to
its limitations, and their feeling toward
men for whom the society labors is rather
one of envy. '
A VERITABLE BACHELORS' HALL.
The first of these apartment houses was
"The Benedict," on South Washington
square. The name gave the watch word of
the new undertaking. It was built by Mr.
Lucius Tuckerman, and especially with a
view to the needs of artists, literary and
professional men. A nnmber of the 'best
known artists live in "The Benedict," Mr.
George Maynard, Mr. Francis Lathrop. Mr.
Bobert Blum, Mr. A. P. Ry.der. Com
mander H. H. Gorringe lived " there, and
there he died.
If by any chance a man back slides and
marries he is forced to leave the Benedict
as his habitation, although be may do his
work there. Among the men whom this
fate has befallen are Mr. Wyatt Eaton and
Mr. Olin Warner. But with a certain de
gree of consideration Mr. Tuckerman has
built an annex to The Benedict fronting on
Washington place, and there men who have
married may be admitted, a privilege ac
cepted for example by Mr. Augustus Saint
Gaudens.
The Benedict, although modest, is one of
the most thoroughly comfortable of the bach
elor apartment houses. It has a bureau of
information with all the paraphernalia of
speaking tubes and an .attendant to take
charge of and answer inquiries; there is n
elevator. These suites of rooms are adapted
to different deeds and different purses of
men. The house is very agreeable to the
eye, the wood is red. and the walls are
painted the color of yellow clay which here
is really charming. The fitting up of the
rooms is left to the occupants and is
ARTISTIC BATHES THAN LUXURIOUS.
Mr. Francis Lathrop, who has one of the
apartments overlooking the square, has
overlaid his walls with gold and repeats in
a less luxurious way that style of decoration
he so successfully practices. The example
of The' Benedict was speedily followed by
turning the old Hotel St Germaine into
bachelor apartments under the name of the
"Cumberland." The Cumberland fills the
broad end of the wedge that faces Twenty
third street, Broadway and Fifth avenue.
Its situation in the heart of town brought to
it a clientele that could afford its high rents,
and with these came a greater degree of
luxury than is found in the modest equip
ment of "The Benedict"
When the Metropolitan Opera Honse was
built the npner floors were assigned to bach
elor apartments, although the restrictions
are not rigidly insisted on, and these are the
largest, most perfectly appointed, and most
comfortable in town. More recently has
been built the "Janseu" on Waverly Place,
and the "Alpine," which is the most im
portant and boldest step yet taken. It,
stands on one of the most prominent corners
on Broadway. It gets the eastern sun and
catohesthe southern breeze, and commands
the painted sky in the evening. It has
everything that comes within the term
modern conveniences; boys and bells and
tubes, buttons and what not In it live
swell artists, prosperous young commercial
men, lucky brokers and that class of men
who find life pleasant as well as prosperous.
In the Alpine also lives merry Mr. Marshall
O. Wilder.
Just two corners below another large
bachelor apartment house, the "San Carlo,"
is now going up, eieht stories high. It is
built along a right angle and has in this
way secured windows on every side. These
windows it has fashionably hung in green.
Estimating from the number of windows
and the average space allotted to each
bachelor the house appers to offer accom
modation to at least 100 men. Thus the
work goes on.
WHAT A BACHELOR APARTMENT IS.
A bachelor apartment is understood to be
a sitting room, bedroom and bath. But the
sitting room may have an alcove which
serves as a bedroom, and a private bath may
not be included. This will be according to
the means of the bachelor, and apartment
houses are built accordingly. In most
houses there is a restaurant, and breakfast,
it desired, can be served in the rooms. If
there is no restaurant, the janitor, the only
man who is permitted to indulge in a wile
and family, usually utilizes his wife and
children in furnishing provisions, tea and
coffee in a small way; and bareheaded
women carrying trays are features of most
of the studio apartment honses.
There are no regulations in a bachelor
apartment house beyond the unwritten laws
that prevail in civilized communities; no
bachelor, for example, would be allowed to
throw a glass of water out of the window.
Equally necessary to their success is the ab
sence of small extortions in the way of fees.
In the Metropolitan Opera House apart
ments gas, heat, attendance, ice water and
boots blacked are included in the sum total
of rent This accords with the American
idea that money is relatively smaller in a
lump. Another important consideration is
that the elevator runs all night, whereas in
the only apartments that the women can
secure the elevators stop at 9 o'clock.
Bachelor apartments are never furnished,
or I should say rarely furnished. There is
one notable exception. In the beautiful
new church house given by Mr. Pierpont
Morgan to St George's Church compli
menting the remarkable worK done by the
Bev. Mr. Bainsford, the upper floor is
given over to the living rooms of the assist
ant young clergymen that the magnitude of
the work demands. Their sitting room is
an immense living inside room, attractively
fitted up and with a capacious rocking chair
for each preacher.
VERY DAINTY BEDROOMS.
The sleeping rooms open out of this, some
have private snuegeries attaehed. These
sleeping rooms are dainty enough for girls
of 16. There are pretty chamber sets of
light wood with dressing casss and what
women would call little sewing chairs.
Each room has some prevailing tint, rose or
blue, which is accented in a luxuriant duvet
folded across the snowy beds.
But most young men have to do their own
furnishing, and the taste they develop, for
not only luxury but even feminine adorn
ments, is marvelous. The other evening it
was my good fortune to see the rooms in
which two young doctors make themselves
I comfortable, and they even had two covers I
n . -ma-
,ti y fi&..';Avj' . in jifefaaa .-a ' in ' -ft , -f itfJjffiflk'--y:'-X' -' i 'wffimiii lift ffi ' ? ' jrW Ti - te-?. atflfl&mm&
tied to the chairs, arranged as draperies,
and the chairs wore tidies. Nothing could
show more conclusively that women are no
longer indispensable.
Naturally one of the most artistic apart
ments was that of Mr. W. M. Chase in his
bachelor days. This included the lofty
studio, which it will be remembered was a
mecca for sight-seers in the early days of Mr.
Albert Bierstadt, later the barren but al
ways interesting studio of the late William
Page, and now is hung with the spoils of all
ages and nations and veritably a show place.
Adjoining this is a large ante-room. There
is no bell, but as the door opens arises a
tinkle like the spirit of all musical sounds
that announce a visitor. It proves to be a
pretty oriental device in which soft silken
bells fall at random on a quaintly strung
piece of wood, and which never repeats its
soft harmonies. Upstairs Mr. Chase's bed
room contains old Italian furniture, bed,
armoires, and seats, black with age and
rich with carving.
ARTISTIC-DECORATIONS.
Other men affect more modern, equally
luxurious, surroundings. I have seen
panels of yellow satin embroidered in rosv
hued silks with roses and loves that are to
hang in a bachelor boudoir. Other men
have a fancy for the fine arts and are buyers
of pictures. In the Perceval, a bachelor
who has recently changed his state won
from it by the attractions o( the Gaity girls
who has become his wife, was known among
picture buyers as a most discriminating and
valuable purchaser.
Naturally in bachelor apartments a man's
private tastes may not be undismayed.
Usually men take to manly diversions,
pipes, arms, etc. An inordinate taste for
athletics make some men's rooms look like
a prize fighter's den. A voune Chicago
bachelor now living in this city who has a
taste for music, has surrounded himself with
every means of its gratification. He is a
beautiful performer and happening to pos
sess a face charming in line and after the
Angelic type as seen in the old masters,
when at his organ, looks like a rapt but
muscular oi. uecuia.
The apartments of Mr. William C. Wick
hap, in the Metropolitan Opera House, a
suite of six rooms, are described as a show
placewell worthy of attention. Mr. Wick
ham is a well-known collector. In the gem
room of the Metropolitan Museum is a case
or old watches and precious things loaned
by Mr. Wickham. The special feature of
his rooms is his collection of arm Dr. This
is used in their decoration and makes it one
of the most remarkable apartments in town.
APARTMENTS OF CLUB MEN.
But all the bachelor quarters are not con
fined to apartment houses and studio build
ings, .oroni the humble lodging houses for
"gentlemen only" to entire brown stone
dwellings they exist in every form. The
lateAUen ThorndyKe Kice at one time oc
cupied the Vice Presiden't spacious house,
and again the residence of Mr. James Gor
don Bennett
U the Osborne villa at Mamaroneck Mr.
Howell Osborne has a complete establish
ment, separated from the lower part of the
main villa by the porte cochere and con
nected with it by the passage way above.
In this part of the house was the billiard
room I have before described. The kitchen
was tiny, but complete, the dining room
small but very attractive, and the sitting
room and library appropriately robust.
Other men club together, take a house
and apportion its rooms among them. There
are nests of houses so converted all over the
town. Not unfrequently a woman is at the
head of such proprietary clubs, as it were,
who manages the servants, attends to the
table, laundry and pays the bills. This co
operative housekeeping is very popular and
successful when the right sort of business
like women can be found. But most men
donot care for a table, a French breakfast
being all that their needs require until an
early breakfast with a fork. Dinner is a
more formal and ceremonious occasion and
its opportunities are various.
A NOTABLE SMOKING ROOM.
Mr. Frank Farness. of Philadelnhia .
a smoking den that is regarded as one
of thenotable rooms in the countrv. Phila
delphia has several distinctions, among
others it is a city of back alleys. This is
not only a convenience, in the matter of ash
barrels which Philadelphians send out the
back way, but it allows for many pleasant
eccentricities of bnildintr. Tt i t,;
back alley exposure that Mr. Farness has
built his poking den. Mr. Farness is a
mighty hunter, and has traveled many
times to the Bocky Mountains and returned
home ladened with spoils.
CJFhi8,d,en one-story high, built of
cedar slabs unDlaned and with !,;.,,.
roof. Inside there is a dado of nnhnrt.,1
young cedars and a fireplace built of rouh
blocks of gneiss. The rafters are exnosed
and the beams are hung with skins and In
dian blankets. The table is a cedar slab
mounted on nnbarked cedar legs, the chairs
are rough iu form and workmanship but
made easy with the skins of buffalo and
bear. The adornments of the room are
antlers of moose, elk and deer, the horns of
the buffalo and the huntsman's arms. One
side of the room is hung with engravings.
It seems that a man could not express himl
self any in a more ideally virile manner
than in this room.
Mary Gay Humphreys.
A PB0DDCT OF THE AST.
Where the Haircloth Cornea From Used In
Covering Fnrnlmre.
New York Evenlnz World.!
"Yes," said a furniture man on the Bow
ery a few days ago, "the manufactnrfi nf
haircloth has fallen off considerably, chiefly
because it is not used to such a great extent
as it vsed to be. Furniture covered with
haircloth used to be very popular, but other
materials have superseded it. And, speak
ing of haircloth, many people are ignorant
of where the hair comes from that was used
in the manulacture. The first piece orhair
clolh that was made in this country was
made iu Bahway, N. J., in 1813.
"Two New York men were the patentees,
and it was called Taurine cloth. It was
made from the hair of cattle, with a mixture
otwool. The sources of supplr for horse
hair were Siberia, which probably furnished
60 per cent of the amount used, and South
America, which furnished about 25 per
cent The rest was collected in other coun
tries. ""hat is collected in Tartary, Siberia
and other Russian possessions is brought to
Tobolsk, where there is an annual fair, in
which the sale of this hair is one of the
principal articles of merchandise."
Wonld do for a gnbultote.
Chicago Tribune.!
"Got any lemons?" asked the customer.
aorry, hut we're just out ot lemons,"
said the grocer.
"Any pickles?"
"No pickles either."
"Well, give me some of those 'three boxes
for a quarter' strawberries.
Mralcgy. .
Photographer My dear sir, can't you
assume a more smiling countenance and
throw off that jaded look ?
Bev. V. V. Heighton Take me as I am.
I need a vacation this summer, and these
pictures are for distribution among my
parishioners. Life.
EAST PROPS OF OIL
Prof. Carll, of the Geological Surrey,
on the Situation.
PETEOLEUM SUPPLY GIVING ODT.
The World Wants 5,000,000 Barrels a Tear
JIoraTlanltCanGet.
ALL THE FIELDS EAPIDLI FAILING.
ICORBESr-OSOETCX OT TUB DISPATCH.!
New York, June' 2L John F. Carll is
Assistant Geologist of the State of Pennsyl
vania, and for several years it has been his
especial business to collect statistics and all
valuable information regarding petroleum
and natural gas. Prof. Carll lives atfPIeas
autville, Venango county. Pa., in the heart
of the great petroleum fields, and has had
opportunities of making a carelul study of
the oil industry. His geological reports
made for the State are invaluable to the
trade, and are eagerly sought after both by
producers and speculators.
In conversation with Prof. Carll he ex
pressed to the writer some rather sensa
tional opinions regarding the fntnre supply
ot petroleum. Notwithstanding other views
are taken by producers, Prof. Carll says the
petroleum fields of Pennsylvania are being
rapidly drained, and at the present rate of
exhaustion it will not be many years until
the question of supplying the world with
petrolenm will be a most serious one. "For
the past year." said Prof. Carll, "the sup
ply was 5,000,000 barrels short of the de
mand, as gauged by former years, and every
day the demand is more and the supply much
less. A few years aeo the reverse was tho
case, blocks were piling up at the rate of
2,000,000 barrels a month, or almost that,
and now thev are being decreased at tha
rate of 1,000,000 barrels a month,
and have been for the past year.
This shortage in the supply inelndes tha
large production of the Ohio fields, where
extraordinary results have been obtained in
the way of large wells. There are now
something like 12,000,000 barrels of petro
leum in tanks in the Ohio field, but this
was becanse Ohio oil was not yet used ex
tensively as an illuminant
THE OHIO FIELD.
Prof. Carll was asked his opinion regard
ing the probable extent ot the Ohio field,
and said he believed it would be found
much less in extent then the trade and tha
public generally believed. There have been
opinions expressed that the yield of the
Ohio field could be increased to 100,000 bar
rels a day. He thought it would not last
long at this rate of production.
"When this field comes to be entirely de
fined," Ke said, "it is pretty sure to fall
very much below the expectations that are
now held out for it" ,
When asked if he thought Ohio oil would
ever be successfully refined and enter tha
market as a competitor of the Pennsylvania
product, he said: '"I certainly hope so.
Without this oil I cannot see where the
world's supply is to come from, and it would
be a very great hardship to the people if
they had to give up this cheap and popular
illuminant Neither gas nor electricity, in
my judgment, can ever take its place as a
means of illumination for the masses. And
yet, with the known fields being so rapidly
exhausted as they are, I look, before many
years, for a great scarcity of petroleum."
Bradford was the, field that produced
such anextraordinary quantity of oil piling
up the stocks in tanks until "they reached
36,000,000 barrels, with the field still yield
ing 60,000 barrels a day or thereabouts. In
regard to the possibility of another such
field being-discovered, Trof. Carll said he
believed there was absolutely no likelihood
of it The number of experimental wells
that had been drilled in search of another
Bradford sand in all parts of the country,
seemed to establish the tact that Bradford
was
UNIQUE AND AXONEL
He did not believe that such a Detrolenm
deposit as this would ever be found in any
country in the world. The Bradford field
and its annex in Allegany county, N. Y.,
is apparently being drained to the dregs.,
At one time the production of the field
was as high as 105,000 barrels every
24 hours. Now it is down below 20,000,
possibly as low as 18.000 barrels. Bradford)
has produced about 56,000,000 barrels of oil,1
and a pool that would yield the 56th pare of
this is something that the oil producer is
eagerly looking tor. Prof. Carll said there
were yet possibilities of opening up small
pools that would produce from 1,000,000 to
3,000,000 barrels even in some of the old
fields, such as Venango, Warren and But
ler counties in Pennsylvania, but even
these possibilities were growing more and
more remote. The Cogley field, which has
produced about 3,000,000 barrels, was the
last extensive field found in Venango
county, and this was perhaps as large a field
as would ever be found there again.
Considerable exploring has been done in
Kentucky for petroleum, and Prof. Carll
was asked his opinion in regard to the like
lihood of oil being fonnd in that State in
payiug quantities. He thought fr6m his
observations in that State, that Kentucky,
would yet produce considerable oil, but
nothing in comparison with Pennsylvania.
The oil-bearing sands underlie a portion of
Kentucky, and lap over into Tennessee, and
here petrolenm would be found, but in
limited quantities. As to Texas, he was
of the opinion that experiments there would
never be profitable. Prof. Carll, before he
became connected with the Geological sur
vey, went into Texas, in Nagadoches coun
ty, to superintend the drilling of experi
mental wells there for a company of capi
talists, who had great faith in the country,
because of alluring surface
INDICATIONS OP OIL.
After drilling a well or two and noting
the various strata of rock he was convinced
that petroleum in paying quantities would
not be found there. The company decided,
however, to prosecute the work, and only
abandoned it after spending $50,000 without
any return. This was .very soon after the
early discoveries in Pennsylvania, and since
that time other capitalists have continued
experiments from time to time with not
very gratifying results. Two companies,
composed largely of New Orleans business
men, are now drilling wells in Nagadoches
county but so far there has been no
money made at it. One company
opened up a well that produced
100 barrels a dav or a lubricating oil.
Two or three other good wells were soon
struck in the same vicinity, and this en
couraged the company to expend a large
amount ot money in building a pipe line to
get their oil to a railroad, some 17 miles,
but the wells soon ceased to yield, and the
expensive pipe line has never had a barrel
of oil pumped through it The three or
four wells had exhausted the pool and 25 or
or 30 wells drilled since have not opened up
another rich spot, and probably CO wells
will not
The opinion expressed by Prof. Carll that
the great oil fields cannot much longer ba
relied upon to supply the world with a
cheap illuminant is likely to set commercial
people thinking. E. W. Criswill.
He Didn't Insist.
New Yorfc Snn.7
Ella How do you like Mr. Mash? I
hear he called the other night
Ethel I think he's fearfully horrid. Ho
asked me if I conld play on the piano, and
I told him that I couldn't play much.
"And what then?" ;
"That was all." V
A Remarkable Family.
Buffalo Express. J
"There are queer people in this world,',
said a street car conductor wearily, as he
punched one fare on the card after he had
taken two. "A woman rode on a car going
out to the park about an hour ago witfrfiva
children, and she swore that they were'' all
under 6 years of age." '. "
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