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How Public Men Could Make Millions
Tlirongh Information That Comes
in Their WaT.
TEE SILVER TOOL DIDX'T WORK,
Ent Other Similar Schemes Have Panned
Out Fortunes of Colossal Propor
tions in limes Past.
JEKUT ELACE AND SCOTT'S SECRET.
Etcao (hce Eefcscd Itsiie Ticts ca Whisiy Ttit Wen
Wcrli Big Kcney.
rcocnrsroxDExcE or tee iHsr.iTCH.1
Washington, November 29. The fail
ure of the Barings, the threatened panic
and the consequent tightness of the money
market, has knocked the life out of the
famed Silver Pool of the last Congressional
session. Silver is down to par instead of
being up to 12S, and about 20 of our Repre
sentatives and Senators are, figuratively
speaking, trotting back and lorth from the
Capitol to the White House, on their
uppers, instead of riding behind their coach
men and pairs.
This Silver Pool contained Congressmen
from all sections of the country. It was or
ganized at the time that it seemed sure that
the free coinage silver bill would pass and
it began to buy silver when it was at So. It
bought a big block on a margin before it
cot to par, and its members fixed the figure
to which Mlver would rie at the passage of
the bill to 12S or 13.. They watched the
stock reports, as it crept up point by point,
to 105, and liugged themselves when it
jumped to 108 alter the iree coinage bill
passed the Senate.
SWALLOWING TKE WORLD'S SILVER.
Their faces tell when the House struck
out the iree coinage provision, and silver
dropped to 1K, but they thought that the
51,500,000 a month which the Treasury was
to take, would be practically free coinage,
and they still held on and waited lor a
further rise. Some of the leading silver
men in Congress, then consulted Secretary
Windom, and he told them that the pur
chase of silver ought to be restricted to the
product of American mines, or that all Eu
rope would ship her silver here ior saie.
There is. however, no greater crank, nor no
more obstinate crank, than the silver crank,
and the silver meu sneered at Windom and
said that they would take the silver of all
the world.
For a time, it seemed as though thev
were right, and that we could swallow all
the silver the world had to give. Silver
went upward right along, till it got to be
321, when the Congressional pool sold out
a big block of its stock, and held the rest
for a iurther rise. The bill by this time
was a certainty. The Treasury was taking
in the metal in gigantic mouthfuls, but
silver, strange to say, began to fall. It wmt
down to 118, then to 117, then to 116
and then 112.
PLATING IT DOUBLE.
In the meantime, our money-making
Statesmen, who had cleaied themselves at
the sale oi 121, reinvested their earning, ex
pecting to see silver rise again and reach
12S. But it oid not rise. It continued to
fall, and the speculators aic nowdead broke.
Eugland did it. Frauce helped, and Ger
many was another of the bears. England
could not afford to carry on her trade with
India. China aud the East on a gold basis,
or rather a silver premium basis, and she
sent 511,000,000 in one chunk over here ou
the quiet to bear the market. The recent
troubles have made the matter worse and a
number oi our statesmen, by the sad lesson
o. experience, will speculate no longer.
The number of speculators in Congress is,
however, very small in comparison with the
number of members and still smaller in
comparison with the immense opportunities
for making money. It is a moral question
as to how far the Congressman has the right
to speculate on matters of legislation. Some
meu see no harm in it an. I some do not hesi
tate to give information to their friends as
to what Coneress will do pending financial
or other legislation, the passage or failure of
which will materially aflect the markets.
A CHANCE IX OCEAN LINES.
Suppose the general subsidy bill which
Passed the Senate ljst vear is goin? to n.iss
the House and become a law. The advance
knowledge oi this fact would be worth
millions. It -.rill put up the stock ot a
number of the steamship lines several
points, and I know a half dozen Congi ess
men who aie watching it, and of others who
expect to invest in I'acific 31 ail, as soon as
they are certain o! its passage. Nearly all
the committees of Congress afford oppor
tunities :or money-making in the changes
in the prices w hicn are affected by their
recommendations to Congress, and it is to
the credit of our American statesmanship
that so manv of our Congressmen are poor.
Take the AVajs and 3Ieans Committee ot
the House, and millions could be made off
or almost any article on the tariff hill in
which the duty is lowered or raised. There
.ire hundreds ot men who hang around the
lobbies of Congress during the session seek
ing for such information, and, it a Chairman
were dishonest, he could make a hundred
times his salary.
don't accept the offers.
v Still Morrison is comparatively poor.
Mills is worth little more than his salary,
and all the money McKinley has he cot
through his wi!e ami inheritance. Tom
Eeed is not rich, and vou will find hardlv
a Chairraau of the Ways and Means who
has profited by his office. It is the same
with the Finance Committee, but Sam Itan
dall was on this lor yars, and he died leav
ing only about So.000. Hand all was the
most scrupulous mm in. regard to such
matters we have ever had In Congress. The
fact that one ot his 'riends or relatives was
to indirectly profit by a piece of legislation
was a reason Miy he should vote against it,
and he killed many an nonest bill :or this
reason. It is the same with other committees
in Congress, and the wonder is not that
Congressmen speculate so much, but that
they speculate so little.
An immense deal ot money was made by
Congressmen during the war, and the rise
in whisky, when a dollar a gallon was put
upon it, made a nice sum tor a number of
statesmen and their friends. It was a ques
tion in the minds of the Finance Committee
of the Senate, as to whether the revenue tax
on.whisky ought not to be increased 50 cents
a gallon. All at once, in a secret mcpting,
they decided to put :t up to a dollar a
gallon.
A BIG HAUL IN "WHISKY.
One of the correspondents, a man who is
stii: in Washington, met Senator Sherman
just after this meeting, and asked what the
Committee had done. He said it was a
secret, and that it would be known tne next
day. The knowledge was at that time, how
ever, worth millions to this correspondent's
friends in the stock markets o.' New York,
and he went from Sherman to another Sen
ator ou the committee, and was told the
news. The resuit was that his friends made
fortune!', and he netted several times a
Congressman's salary out of the stock they
bought or him.
Horace White, Villard and Whitclaw
Iteid also got this in ormation in advance,
and they each made 530.000 out of it. It
was this that gavcYiJlard his start. He
took the mocy to London, and there bought
our Government securities for 30 cents ou
the dollar, realizing handsomely on the pur
chase. White took hia money and bought
an interest in the Chicago Tribune, and
Iieid invested his money in a cotton planta
tion in the South at the close of the war and
lost it. Senator Sherman was accused of hav
ing furnished the information to his friends
away from Washington, but he indignantly
denies the accusation.
FIEST KNOWLEDGE MEANS FORTUNE.
The Ways and Means Committee at this
time had a constant influence upon the
stock market. An hour or two of advance
knowledge was worth fortunes, and the
members posted their friends. The Secre
tary of the Treasury would send up a mes
sage that it had becnadecided to issue $50,
000,000 more in greenbacks, and this would
send the prices on everything upward. A
great deal of money was made out of the
Morrill tariff bill, and intbi, as in all legis
lation, the first knowledge is worth money.
All of the Government bond issues were pro
ductive ot wealth to the men who had the
nerve to speculate on the information which
was furnished them before the general pub
lic got to know it, and the same is true to
day. The big railroad grants which were given
by Congress were productive of wealth to
many statesmen. The Credit Mobilier in
vestigation showed that a number of votes
had been secretly bought with presents of
stock, and there are men living in
Washington to-day who made their lortunes
out of it
millions to lobbyists.
It is said that 500.000 were given by the
lobbyist Dick Irwin to secure the passage of
the Pacific Mail subsidy, and C. P. Hunt
ington and Jay Gould have spent, it is said,
fortunes in passing or killing bills. Judgs
Jerry Slack once visited Tom Scott, the
President of the Pennsylvania Railway
Company, in behalf of a client, who had a
claim against the Texas Pacific. Scott
opened a drawer of his desk, took out a paper
containing a long list of names ot distin
guished men with big figues and a number
of ciphers opposite them.
"What is this?" said BJack.
"That is what I paid to get the charter of
the Texas Pacific," replied Scott. Black
crew angry. He threw down the paper and
said, '"What do you mean by showing me
that? I don't want my soul seared with
your sinful secrets. I shall not be able to
read those names again as they appear from
day to day in the newspapers without think
ing of my country's dishonor."
"Oh," said the railroad king, as Black
turned away. "They don't think it dis
honorable," and pulling out a bundle of
letters, "I have notes here Jrom nearly
every one of them demanding more
money."
MAKING MONEY IN LANDS.
Public men at Washington have many
chances to make money in land sptculation.
A great deai ot money has been made in
Washington real estate, and this has been
in nearly all cases of late years legitimate.
I know of a Congressman from Kansas who
made more than $100,000 during the past
year out of suburban property on the Mcssa-
chusetts avenue extension. The man is a
millionaire and he is a bold speculator.
A railroad is now being built from the
northwestern fashionable part of (be city
out to the district line by what is known as
the Calilornia Syndicate. This syndicate
has more than $1,000,000 capital, and sev
eral Senators are interested in it. They will
make fortunes, if wc do not have a panic, in
the rise of the land from the building of
this railroad. Senator Sherman, William
Walter Phelps, James G. Blaine, Don
Cameron and a score of other statesmen of
national note have added to their lortunes
by investing in Washington property. Sen
ator Sherman is both an investor and a specu
lator, and the same may be said of many of
the other men of the Senate. I do not mean
to say that they speculate on matters before
Congress, but they are shrewd and tar
sighted, and they are not afraid to pay for a
good thing when they see it
COULD HATE MADE A MILLION.
One of the most punctilious statesmen
who have ever been in Washington was
Hannibal Hamlin. He did not believe that
he had any right to use information which
he got as a public servant to advance his
private interests, and he once refused to buy
a whole square iu Washington for half a cent
a foot oa this ground. Had he made the pur
chase he would have been now a millionaire,
for this square is worth about 50 a square
loot to-day.
He acted the same in regard to bonds,
and at one time one of his fellow Senators,
in speaking of a bill which was berore the
Senate, asked him to vote for it, telling him
he could take him to a place where
he could get all these bonds he
wanted for G cents on the dollar,
which would be worth 100 cents when
the bill passed. He ciosed with: "Well,
Hamlin, what do you say to the chance?"
"I say," replied Hamlin, with an angry
frown as he turned his back, "I say
your chance and vour bonds." And
that was the end of the matter.
FRAUDS IN PUBLIC LANDS.
The Commissioner of ihe General Land
OfHco and the Secretary of the Interior have
advance knowledge of the most valuable
tracts of public land in this country aud it
is only their honesty that keeps them from
being wealthy. Suppose a valuable tract
ot coal land is reported. It could be bought
o." the Government by their friends at 1 25
an acre, and they could have an interest in
it aud no one be the wiser;
Congressmen have the same chance as to
land grants and as to the opening up of new
reservations. The first steals which were
discovered in the Government service were
land uteals, and as lar bick as 1795 there
was a scheme to get 20,000,000 acres of West
ern lands from Congress for a nominal sum.
This scheme was engineered by a lobbyist
named Itaudall, and he claimed that he had
30 members of the House and a majority of
the Senate in with him. In 1S57 two New
York Congressmen had to resign because
they acted corruptly as to a land grant, and
thebribe to one of these for his services was
seven square miles of land.
CABINET OFFICERS COULD MAKE MONEY.
Secretary Windom's word will raise or
lower the value of bonds and stocks. He
knows of legislation and ot the financial acts
which the department is to perform days and
weeks in advance, and a wink from him
could turn certain things into gold. Still
he is to-day a poor man, and no one has
ever charged him with corruption. In the
awarding of a contract like that of the seal
trade ot Alaska, involving millions, a cor
rupt man could squeeze matters this way
and that so as to make his services worth
thousands.
Access to the presenceof the Executive is
often worth a lortune if it can be accom
plished in the right manner, and during the
days of Grant the influence exerted upon
him was, it was openly charged, bought and
sold. There is no doubt hut that President
Cleveland was scrupulously honest and that
his Private Secretary. Lamont was equally
so. Still Cleveland made 5100,000 out of
his real estate investments, aud the friend
ships which Lamont made by his courtesy
and ability as the White House watchdog,
have since given him openings which make
him a rich man to-dav.
Frank G. Carpenter.
PAYIHG EACH OTHER'S FAKES.
TheScene WhichEnsnesWhenTTro Women
Cet on a Street Car.
New York Times.
Everybody is amiliar with the spectacle
of two women in a street car endeavoring to
pay one another's fare, but it remained for
an energetic Brooklyn conductor the other
day to take the matter in his own hands and
straighten out the snarl. As usual, when
the two were seated, each plunged for ber
purse, which receptacles were brought out
with mutual protests. No. 1 got out her
coin, a dime, saying complacently, "It's all
ready, my near." But No. 2 had a quarter
which she "really wanted changed."
So it went on while the conductor stood
before them waiting forsome decision. None
came and he grew impatient He counted
out some change in each hand. "Let me
have your dime, please," he said to No. 1,
and she obediently handed it over. Then
he put out his hand to No. 2, who gave him
her quarter, not understanding what was
coming. Then quickly to No. 1 he banded
a nickel, and to No. 2 20 cents in change
before either of the women discovered" his
intention, and walked off to the platform
muttering something that probably would
not look well in print
THE REALISM OF RHYME.
ICAr.XEr.ED FOB THE DISPATCIt. !
Tlio Iticli and tho Poor Man.
An Old Latin Epigram.-!
Not free from want the rich man, nor alone
In want tho poor; wants rich and poor must
own.
The rich wants gems the poor a frugal feast
xotn are in want tne poor man s warns are
least
-Beclouded.
By Emily Dlcklnson.3
The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A traveling flak'e of snow
Across a barn or through a-rut
Debates if It will go.
A narrow w ind complains all day
How someone treated him;
Nature, like u, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.
Invito Minerva.
OllTer 'Wendell Holmes In Atlantic Monthly.!
Vex not the muse with Idle prayers
She will nothear thy call,
She steals upon thee unawares.
Or seeks thee not at all,
Boft as the moonbeams when they sought '
Endymion's fragrant flower,
Ebe parts tho whispering leaves of thought
To show her full blown flower.
For thee her wooing hour has passed.
The singing birds havo flown.
And winter comes with icy blast
To chill the buds unblown.
Yet though the woods no longer thrill
As once their arches rung,
bwect echoes hover round thee still
Of songs thy summer sung.
Live in thy past await no more
The rush of heaven-sent wings.
Earth still has music lett In store
While memory sighs and sings.
Little Fir Trees.
Evalcen Stein, in December St. Nicholas.
Hej! little evergreens.
Sturdy and strongl
Summer and autumn time
Hasten along.
Harvest the sunbeams, then,
Bind them in sheaves.
Range them, and change them
To tufts of green leaves.
Delve in the mellow mold.
Far, far below.
And so,
Littlo evergreens, growl
Grow, growl
Grow, little evergreens, grow!
Up. up, so airily.
To the blue sky.
Lift up our leafy tips
Stately and high;
Clasp tight your tiny cones,
Ta.wnv and brown;
By and by, buffeting
Rains will pelt down;
iiy ana uy, Ditteny
Chill wit.ds will blow;
And so.
Little evergreens, grow!
Grow, growl
Grow, little evergreens, grow!
Gather all uttermost
Beauty, because
Hark, till I tell it now!
liow Santa Ciaus,
Oat of the Northern land.
Over the seas,
Soon shall come seeking you.
Evergreen trees!
Seek you with reindeers soon,
0cr the snow;
Ard so.
Little evergreens growl
Grow, growl
Grow, little evergreens, grow!
What if tho maples flare
Flaunting anu red.
You snail wear waxen white
Tapers instead!
What if now, otherwhere.
Birds are beguiled,
Yoii shall yet nestle
The little Christ-child!
Ah, the strange splendor
The flr trees shall know!
And so.
Little evergreens, grow!
Grow, grow!
Grow, little evergreens, grow!
Tho Lowers' Litany.
Byltudyard Kipling. 1
Eyes of gray a sodden quay.
Driving rain and falling tears.
As the steamer wears to sea
la a parting storm of cheers.
Sing, for faith and hope are high
Nono so true as you and I
Sing tho Lovers' Litany:
"Love like ours can never diel"
Eyes of black a throbbing keel,
Milky foam to left and right;
Whispered converse near the wheel
In the brilliant tropic night
Cross that rnles the Southern skyl
Stars that sweep and wheel and fly,
Hear the Lovers' Litany:
"Love like ours can never die!"
Eyes of brown a dusty plain
S'llit and parched with heat of June,
Flying hoot and tightened rein.
Hearts that beat tne old. old tune.
Side by side the horses fly,
Framo wo now the old reply
Of the Lovers' Litany:
"Love like ours can never die!"
Eves of blue the Simla Hills
Silvered with the moonlight hoar;
Pleading of the waltz that thrills,
Dies and echoes round Benmore.
".Mabel," "Officero," Goodby,"
Glamour, wine and witchery
On my soul's sincerity.
"Love like ours can never dleF'
Maidens of your charity.
Pity my most luckless state.
Four tunes Cupm's debtor I
Bankrupt in quadruplicate.
Yet, despite this evil case.
An a maiden showed me grace,
Four-and-forty times would I
Sin; the Lovers' Litany:
Love like ours can never die!"
To the Sunset Breeze.
Walt Whitman In Llppincott's Magazine for De
cember. J.
Ah, whispering, something again, unseen.
Where late this heated day thou enterest at my
window, door.
Thou, laving, tempering all, cool-freshing,
gently vitalizing
Me, old. alone, sick, weak-down, melted-worn
with sw eat;
Thou, nestling, folding close and Arm yet soft,
companion better than talk, book, art
(Thou hast O Nature! elements! utterance to
my hi-ait bejond the rest aud this is of
tncin).
So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within
Thy soothing fingers on my face and hands.
Thou, messenger-magical strange brluger to
body and spirit of mo
(Distances balked occult medicines penetrat
ing me from held to foot),
I feel the sky, the prairies vast I feel the
mighty Northern takes,
I feel the ocean and the forest somehow I feel
the clone itself swift-swimming in snace:
Thou blown from lips so loved, now gone
haply from endless store. God-sent
(For thou art spiritual. Godly, mostot all
known to my sense).
Minister to speak to me, here and now, what
word has never told, and cannot tell.
Art thou not universal concrete's distillation?
Laws, all Astronomy's last refinement?
Hast thou no soul? Can I not know, identify
thee?
Tho Secret
Cosmo Monkhouse In Somerville Journal.
She passes in her beauty bright
Amongst the mean, amongst the gay,
And all are brighter for the sight,
Aud bless her as she goes her way.
And now a beam of pity pours.
And now a spark of spirit flies.
Uncounted, from the unlocked stores
Of her rich lips and precious eyes.
And all men look, and all men smile.
But no man looks on her as I: """"
They mark her lor a little w hile.
But I will watch her till I die.
And if I wonder now and then
Why this so strange a thing should be
That she bo seeu by wiser men,
Aud only duly loved by me;
1 only wait a little longer.
And watch her radiance in the room,
Heie making light a little stronger,
And there obliterating gloom.
(Like one who in a tangled way
Watches the broken sun fall through.
Turning to gold and faded spray.
And making diamonds of dew.)
Until at last as my heart burns,
She gathers all her scattered lights,
And undivided radiance turns
Upon me like a sea of light
And then I know they see in part
That which God lets me worship whole;
She gives tb em glances ot ber heart.
But me, the sunshine of ber souk
THE HAT OF ENGLAND.
Stove-Pipes Are as Characteristic as
Juggling With the fl's.
THE BUTCHER, THE LORD, THE BUM,
ill Delight in Them, for They Lend Dignity
to All Stations.
FIEST THING A WINDFALL BRINGS
COItBESrOXPKNCE OF THE DtSPATCUl
London, November 2L The tall hat is
an essential part of every Englishman. It is
far more to him than the tall hat is to an
Irishman, even at a St
Patrick's Day parade
in New York. It is
even more than the kilt
is to a Scotchman. To
the Englishman, the
tall hat means'-dignity
and respectability.even
if occasionally com
bined with a certain
amount of festivity.
According to the
shape and newness of
the tall hat, the style
and characteristics of
' tliA T. n irl I qTi m a n rnr.
ijj usually be ascertained.
With the average En
glishman a tall hat is
the first thing he buys
wheu a sudden wind,
fall arrives; conse
School Boy.
quently, it is not an uncommon sight to see
a ragged-edged pair ot trousers continuing
upward to a brand-new tall hat Ou the
other hand, there are Englishmen, usually
literary men of note or noblemen of very
high rank, and a few poets and bankers,
who pride themselves on the antiquity and
complete shabbiness of their tall hats.
A poet who
wore the most
disreputable
tall hat I have
ever seen, wrote:
Tho lensrth of
his whisker3
defines the cat,
And a man you
can tell by the
style of hubat.
But I do not
agree with that
poet For in
stance, his
verses were gen
erally better
thau his hat;
had they been
worse, the coup
let might have
been regarded
otherwise.
Again: I was
once seated in
my office await- Provincial Cricketeri.
ing subscriptions for a charitable object A
man entered with an awful-looking tall hat.
I said to myself, "Here is the charitable ob
ject" But it wasn't It was one of the
biggest dukes of England, and he called to
leave me a cheque for a substantial amount
The Englishman hunts. Now, I should
say that the most unsuitable headgear possi
ble for a man even an
Englishman oa the top
ot a horse going over
fences, rushing under
trees, tumblingover five
barred gates and other
things, is a tall hat. But
no; it has been definitely
decided thatonlyonchat
can be worn with "pink"
the tall hat.
"You see, suppose you
fall on your head, you
know," explained a fox
hunting judge to me
yesterday, "many a fel-
' Inw a nrtIr his noon
(saved at the expense of a
crushed tall hat," which,
from the judge's point of
I view, is a strong plea.
But, oh dearl "How
fuuny it looks to see a
- small boy of 7 or so with
g. a tall hat as long as his
little Dody; and yet no
young English gentle-
Tlie Fly Catcher, man who wishes to be
regarded as "a young English gentleman,"
ever dreams of creepiuglike a snail, un
willingly to school, unless he is wearitig a
tall hat. Go to Dean's Yard, Wesiminster,
and watch the boys at play. They are spin
ning tops, climbing poles, and even kicking
the football in tall hats. At Christ Collese,
another public school known as "The Bine
coat," the boys do not wear any hats or caps
at all, which is presumedly the other ex
treme of the tall hat mania."
London cabmen, 'bus drivers, and street
fakirs invariably wear tall hats; ancient all
hats often, mildewed tall hats mostly, but
distinctly tall hats.
A group in a beer
saloon with pewter
mucs at their lips and
short tall hats well
tilted on the back of
their heads, is a scene
worthy of a chapter
of Iiudyard Kipling.
A man who was
selling comic sonzs
three a penny in the j,
OLICC1, lUiU U1C lilSb
Saturday, confiden
tially, that he was
hnnrv and wanted
boots, and bad neu- I
ralgia everywhere.
He looked it; hut on
his head was an al
most new tall hat
He noticed my as
tonished eve and ex
plained: "A bloke
guv' it me yesterday
with an 'am san'widge
and sez 'Try and look
respectable in this; it
Undertaker's Man.
don't fit me, and my brother wot wore it
Sundays is dead." It'll come in blooming
fine when I follers my profession ageu in
the summer, I does the 'ketch'em alive n'act'
from the day when the furst warmint is
'atched up till when he dies of the bally
frost, and I h'advertises my business in
front of mv tall 'at stuck h'all h'over, sir.
with flies."
I gave him sixpence, and moved on ater
accepting a copy of a comic song with the
following chorus:
Oh the 'at oh the 'at
Oh, the nobby tall 'at!
It's the pride of the boy
and the man;
It's always the stvle
Is the glossv silk tile.
From the Duke to the
fly-catching man.
Go to the Bank of
England to collect or
sell or buy jrour Con
sols. A man in a white
apron and a tall hat
shows you the rinht
door. Several other
tall hatted, white-aproned
men show you
more doors, and one of
them points out to you
a nice fat-lni-prl V.
stomached old b o v
crossing n corridor.
"That's n mo,,..:
director, sir.worth hun
dreds ot'thousands, but
just awful eccentric;
never wears a tall 'at
h'anytjme, sir. H'al-
WflTS In !l Vttllir-fM,T-
A Century Ago. fr0m h'aem. to p. h'm.
Fact, sir, s'elp me."
An obliging middle-aged man leaves
every morning on my doorstep half a dozen'
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little slices of
hors e fl e s h,
stuck neatly
on a skewer.
The best part
of him is cov
ered by a
huge blue
apron, but his
tall hat looms
up proudly to
the sky with
the words on
a band round
the brim:
"Purveyor of
catsmeat to
the royal fam
ily." And so I
could go on
for columns,
but the artist
wants too
much room
for his pict
ures. I see
he has de
picted a swell
of the day and
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a swell of 100
A Swell of To-Day.
years ago iu their tall hats. He has
also
that
drawn a gentleman whose profession is
27ic Turncock.
of a "Turncock" (vide Dicken's
"haughty uncle" in "Nicholas
Nickelby"). Well a turncock is an offi
cial of the New Kiver Water Company. The
Englishman's house always has a cistern,
and he is allowed so many gallons of water
a day duly measured according to the size
ot the residence, for which he pays a tax
known as the water rate. If he fails to pay
it the turncock turns the water off nntil the
bill is settled, and the two iron instruments,
somewhat vaguely drawn by the artist, are
the turncock's implements ot business.
Without his tall hat, however, he never
Have a Cab, Sir t
would bo able to perlorm his merciless
errand with the dignity due to a man who
lully realizes the import of the lines in the
"'Orrible Story" ballad:
And nothing was left, 'tis the truth I state,
H'except a h'unpaid water rr rate.
A. B. C.
TASTY ADVERTISING COLUMNS.
How tjie Compositor's Art Brings Order Out
of Hopeless Chaos.
"It has been a subject of wonder to me,"
said a retired newspaper compositor to a
St. Louis Republic man, "how the numer
ous advertisements in a morning news
paper these days are set up so tastily and in
so brief a time. While standing in the
counting-room of the Republic a few min
utes one evening last week there came 15 or
20 persons with copy for advertisements to
appear in the next day's paper, some to oc
cupy a pige, others a half page, and so on
down to SO lines double column. The copy
was mostly written ou large sheets of manila
paper, in some instances making quite a
bundle for each ad.
I fancied that the printer to put in type
the manuscript that came while I was wait
ing, to say nothing of what had already
been received or came afterwards, would
have to run the matter together, like a trus
tee's sale, with a line of big type at the top
and bottom to make the required space. I
was surprised next morning to see all the
advertisements properly classified, artisti
cally arranged, and the feature of each dis
played so as to catch the eye at once. When
I was at the business a merchant or business
man wanting an ad to occupy more than a
column in width was required to furnish
copy several days in advance ot its publica
tion." HOW THEY GET POINTEEa
Milliners and Dressmakers Attend the Fash
ionable Weddings.
Sew York Times.
A well-dressed woman put her head
through the dour of a fashionable church
on Fifth avenue the other day and asked
the organist, who was giving a reporter a
list ot the weddings to come: "Is there a
wedding here to-night?" There was, and,
after inquiring the hour that the ceremony
would take place, she withdrew.
"Relative?" asked the reporter of the
organist.
"Oh, no; she's a milliner. They always
come to the weddings. I keep halt a dozen
posted on the weddings to take place. And
the dressmakers, too; they are always here
long enough before the service begins to
see if there is any new style worn."
A QUESTION WELL A2CSWEKED.
In What Kespect is Chamberlain's Cough
rtcmedy Better Than Any Other We
Will Tell You.
It is the only remedy that will liquefy the
tough, tenacious mucus incident to colds,
and renderit easy to expectorate.
It is the only remedy that will cause the
expulsion of mucus from the air cells ot the
lungs.
It is the only remedy that will counteract
the effect of a severe cold and greatly miti
gate, if not effectually cure, the cold within
one day's time. To do this it must be used
as soon as the first symptoms ot the cold ap
pear. It will cure a severe cold in less time than
any other treatment
it is the only remedy that will prevent
croup.
It is the only remedy that has cured thou
sands of cases of croup without a single
failure.
It is the only remedy that will prevent
all dangerous consequences frooni whooping
cough.
It is pleasant and safe to take. There is
not the least danger iu giving it to children
in large and frequent doses which are always
required iu casesot croup and sometimes for
whooping cough.
It is put up in large bottles for the price.
Many persons who have used it lor years
and know from experience its trne value,
say that a fiO-cent bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Keniedy will go further toward
curing severe colds, and do more real good
thau a dollar bottle of any other cough med
icine they have ever used. wsu.
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REAL ESTATE BOOMS.
The Experts of New York Can Give
Western Geniuses Points,
GEASD SDBDUBS ALL ON PAPER.
Prices Steadily Advance Without a Single
Sale lieing Made.
THE EXPEEIEXCE OP A D0UB SEEKEE
fCOEHESrOXPEXCE OF THE DISPATCH. 1
New Yoke, November 29. The New
York real estate man is fully up in all of
the wiles that characterize his Northwestern
brother as drawn by the humorous pencil
of Bill Nye. On the whole our New York
dealer in suburban property can probably
give a Wisconsin land agent points. There
are undoubtedly some beautilul pieces of
suburban real estate contiguous to this great
city, but they are held at prices that would
make any but a real estate man blush. If
you will take the trouble to consult some of
the maps that adorn the walls of the real
estate agent you will be surprised to find
how many beautilul villages of which you
never heard before are lying within easy
reach by the elevated road and by hourly
trains out of New York.
These villages promise not only lovely
homes to those who desire them in the coun
try, but the most tempting bargains to the
capitalists and speculators. It is astonish
ing how much property of this character is
bought aud sold without ever having been
seen by the purchaser. Take the trouble to
visit personally one of these suburban vil
lages and you will be more astonished to
find that they exist chiefly on paper.
A TOONG HOME SEEKEE'S TEIP.
A young married man who is desirous ot
obtaining a home without great expense
made a tour of some of these places recently,
and his experience would make an interest
ing volume of many chapters.
"A real estate friend of mine," said he,
"has been after me for some time to purchase
a lot or two in his sub-division north of the
city. He has asked me to go out there a
dozen times, but my experience iu other
directions was such that I didn't think it
worth while to pursue my investigation in
this line. Finally, I concluded that I would
go, and one bright day we took the train
north to look at the property.
"On the way out I studied ihe map of the
locality pretty thoroughly. A lovely town
was laid out, and a beautiful railway sta
tion was represented on the edge of it. There
were churches and schools and lovely villas
designated on the map, and the streets and
avenues bore high-sounding names. I was
informed that most of the property had been
gobbled up by very prominent men, and the
pieces of land they had secured were pointed
out to me. Be. ore we got out there I was
chock full of enthusiasm, aud bad almost
settled upon the particular lot that I was to
have and on which I was to build a country
residence.
HO VILLAGE I2T SIGHT.
"There was a little hitch about the prices,
which I considered somewhat high, but this
was in a fair way to be smoothed over before
we reached the epot After about an hour's
travel my friend pointed out of the car
window and said: 'Hereweare.' I looked
out, but saw nothing iu the shape of a house
within the radius of half a mile, except an
old farm house, which has been there for a
century. 'Perhaps it is on the other side of
the train,' I thought, getting up and follow
ing my real estate man to the door
"The cars slowed down at a cross road
and the agent nudced me, saying: 'Don't
be in too big n hurry and be. careful when
you jump. We jumped, landing in the
mud and dust of the country road. My
breath was fairly taken away. There was
no station at all. When the train passed on,
which it did immediately after dumping us
there in the road, I saw that there was no
village either."
"The station will be right here," said the
agent, pointing to a couple of sticks driven
iu the road near by. "Isn't this just
lovely?"
A VILLAGE OF TITE FOTUEE.
"But where is the village?" said I. "It
seems to me that the village is a good bit
like the station, yet to be built"
"Oh, the viliage and the station are all
right," said the real estate man, confiden
tially. "This place will be covered with
houses before the middle of next sum
mer." "We walked out into a plowed field and I
was shown the streets and avenues that were
laid out in anticipation of the spring rush.
There were two or three meu digging a hole
in the ground, which hole was to answer the
purpose of a cellar for one ot the villas
marked out on the map. There was another
hole in the ground nearby, which was evi
dently started for the same purpose hut
which purpose was evidently abandoned be
fore the hole was completed. I then noticed
in the field nearby two lonely little frame
houses, and was told these were the resi
dences erected by the first comers. There
was a big board sign on each announcing the
fact that they were for sale. One of them
had never been occupied and the other had
been, occupied but a couple of weeks when
the family moved out and back to town
again, where thev could consult without
difficulty the family physician.
EVEN THE FAU3IEE GONE.
"Even the farmhouse which stood in a
lovely grove of trees flanked by garden
patches, stables and other 'outhouses, was
vacant and to let cheap. There was not a
sign of a pavement or even a gravel walk in
the whole neighborhood, and the mud
would have floated a barge. I took all
these thinirs in while my friend, the real es
tate man, glihly presented in the most
glowine language the unparalleled advan
tages of living iu the country. The only
A COLUMBUS CELEBRATION AT HUELVA.
Hnelva is, perhaps, best known in this country as the great copper port of Spain, from
which the product of Rio Tinto mines is (hipped, but it has other and historical interests.
It was from the estuary now known as Huclva harbor that Columbus sailed on his memor
able voyage, which was to have such enormous results for Spain-and the rest of the world.
Several governments having been consnlted in connection with the celebration of the
fourth centenary ot the event, the President of the Eoyal Historical Academy in Madrid,
Senor Canovas del Costillo, announced at its last meeting that the American Congress had
fixed upon such part of Spain as the Madrid government might designate for the holding
of the next Congress in 1892. The Madrid government have selected Huelva for this
nAEBOE 'WHENCE
pnrpose, the meetings to be held at the convent pf La Eabida, which sheltered Columbus
when he was about to give up his idea in despair, aud the prior of which secured for him
that Eoyal aid which he had himself failed to obtain. The visitors will not find anything
lacking in the wax of hotel accommodation, as Huelva is the possessor of one of the be't
organized modern hotels iu Europe. The Colon, or Columbus, as it is named, was founded
by the Eothschilds, Mntheson & Co. and thoEio Tinto Company, aud between them they
have produced a palace. The municipality is taking steps to render the stay of the mem
bers of the Congress agreeable. It is intended to erect a monument to Colamhus at the
old port of Palos, on the estuary near Huelva. at the ceremonies in connection with which
the Queen E'gent and the Eoyal family will be present.
reason that he didn't put up a residence
there for himself was because his business
required him to remain iu the city. Nearly
every other lot I found was the property of
big New York speculators, who were hold
ing for the inevitable rise which was to
come through the settlement of the place by
home-seekers.
"The probability of anybody going to
such a place to live filled me with astonish
ment. I wouldn't lire in such a place (or
S1.000 a month. No, sir, not if you would
put up a $25,000 house there for me and
make over the deed for 1 cent. We loafed
around there for two mortal hours waiting
for the train which was to take us back to
New York. Standing there in the muddy
road and shivering iu the cold wind waving
a white handkerchief to bring the train to a
standstill for us, we formed a picturesque
and idiotic group.
CUBED OF, ONE DISEASE.
"I came home that night and had a chill,
followed by m-ilarial fever, which I caught
out there in that plowed ground, which is
some day to be a village, and tossed nn my
back in bed for two days. My doctor bill
has not been sent to nie yet.'but wheu it
comes I think something of sending it to
my real estate friend for payment. No, sir,
I don't care to live in the country. A fiat
in a tenement district in New York is good
enough for me. I am thoroughly cured of
my notion ot a suburban residence, though
1 am not fully cured ot the malaria that en
tered my system while I was on the lookout
for one."
A casual investigation will show that
speculators hold every foot of ground within
ten miles of the city limits. The value of
this ground is just what they put it at
These map villases, or sub-divisions, as
they would be called out West, have been
put up in price year alter year without re
gard to purchasers present or prospective.
These lots or 25x100 feet range all the way
from So00 to 51,000.
GOOD TLACES FOE GOATS.
Some of the property is among the rocks
and in such places that a builder would
have to spend double the value of his prop
erty in blasting lor a cellar and walks.
There are towns laid out above the city of
New York in the vicinity of Yonkers that
are practically inaccessible to anybody but
a goat at present The goat would have to
be a pretty sure-footed one, too. When a
real estate man tells you that such property
has doubled in value within the last year or
two, he means that the speculator has sim
ply put up the price from time to time until
it has reached that point This without ref
erence to any bona fide purchaser who in
tends to co there to live.
It will be seen at once that it will cost a
man who desires a home more motipy to cre
ate such a home in the suburbsofNcwYnrk
than it would to buy a house in Harlem.
To a busiuess man the matter of railway
fare is the most important item. From SO
cents to 81 a day for every business day will
go to the transportation company.
A LOSS OF TIME, TOO.
The value of the time it requires to go and
come is not generally estimated in the ques
tion of expense. It should be, however, and
if it is it will form no small item in the gen
eral aggregate. This is saying nothing of
the discomforts of two or three hours a day
in dirty railway cars. New York is a great,
crowded city, but it will be a good many
years, and it will be a much greater city
than at present before the suburban property
of this character will be desirable for homes.
It would seem to be a reat mistake for those
real estate boomers to put such property on
the market, even at the figures asked for it
before sufficient means of transportation are
at hand.
When New York adopts the underground
railway system, by which a man can leave
his business in the lower city and be whirled
away by steam at the rate of 15 to 20 miles
an hour, it will be time enough to talk of
living comfortably and satisfactorily above
the northern extremity of Manhattan Island.
ClIAS. T. MUEEAY.
The Snake Charmer.
New York Herald.!
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Storklet Ah I What a snap. Yonder
cometh a snake charmer.
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I simply dote on snakes.
But this is the most ticklish one I ever
struck.
COLTJlIijrjs SAILED.
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THREADS OF STEEL.
Transforminjr Iron Ore Into the
Wire Used by Jswelers.
INTERESTING GAS CITI INDUSTRY.
Strands So Fine That Three Will Go ia
the ije of a Xeedle.
YAJS OP S0FTEX1XG AXD DKAWIXQ
1WKITTES FOB TOE DISPATCH. ""
An old resident was much astonished
lately when told thataPittsburgmill turned
out watch springs, orthe next thing to them.
He conceded the Iron City's supremacy ia
rail making and pipe rolling, but he grew
skeptical when the manufacture of wire for
watch springs was mentioned as a local in
dustry. Nevertheless wire is made here day
by day of such fineness that the skeptical
citizen could walk away with a couple of
hundred miles of it on his back without ex
erting himself very much. A freight-car
load of this would be long enough to encircle
the earth, and then have a good bit over.
The most interesting thing in connection
with this fine steel wire wire so fine that
three strands can be easily passed through
the eye of an ordinary needle is found in
considering the intelligence and skill
which has converted lumps of mineral dug
out of the ground into such a delicate form.
While the manufacture of the steel from
which this fine wire is spun has no very
extraordinary feature, the various opera
tions by which the thread is reduced from a
big block of steel are interesting enough.
Patience is a primary element in the work.
It takes about a month to make a coil of this
fine gauged wire.
MAKING THE STEEL.
This description of the wire is made from
crucible steel. The steel is melted in pots
in a Siemens' regenerative furnace. The
material from which the steel is made is
wrought iron scrap, etc., fused or melted in
the pots or crucibles and then poured into
molds. The Crescent Steel Works has a
plant of 60 pots, said to be the largest in the
world. The furnace in which the pots are
snbjected to such a strong beat as to liquify
their contents, is constructed of brick, tfUb.
a number of holes to receive the pots, each
hole being covered during the heat. When
a heat, of which six are made iu 24 hours,
is ready, men armed with huzc tongs, lift
the pots from the turnace and pour the con
tents into the molds. These are about four
feet high and vary from 3 inches to 16
inches square.
The metal, when cast into the molds, be
came what is kuown as "ingots." These
ingots are high carbon steel. When coid
they are released from the molds and con
veyed to a storehouse. Here the ends are
struck off and each one is separately exam
ined and set apart for the purposes for
which its particular quality is best adapted,
whether tor tool, sheet or wire making. A
glance from the skilled examiner decides
whether the incot shall pass into a knife for -a
harvesting machine, a carpenter's chisel
or the mainspring of a watch.
FEOJI INGOTS TO THEEADS.
Those for the latter purpose are conveyed
to the mill, where they are heated, ham
mered or rolled down into billets. Next
they are passed tbrongh roughing rolls and
reduced to billets inches wide by half
an inch thick. Tney are then cut into
lengths of about four leet. These are again
heated and passed through a train ot finish
ing rolls eight inches wide and having a
series of grooves ou their face. This opera
tion reduces the billet 4 leetlong, 1JC inches
by hal: an inch to a rod 3-3 feet luug and
one-quarter of an inch in diameter.
As an instance of the wonder u! homogene
ousness of the material it may be mentioned
that a six-foot billet has been drawn out to
a rod 500 feet fong and inch in diameter
by passing and repassing it through the
rolls.
With the next operation begins the long
process in which the rod is slowly reduced
to wire. From tbe rolling mill the steel,
made up into coils, is conveyed to the an
nealing furnaces. Here it is heated and al
lowed to cool gradually to render it soft and
pliable for drawing out. It next finds its
way to the drawing house. This is a large
house with benches running around the
walls. The center of the shop is filled with
coils of wire in various stages of manipula
tion. On the benches are the drawing ma
chines. They consist of two vertical draws,
placed about lonr feet apart, with a strong,
vice-like arrangement immediately between.
ALL DONE BY 1IACHINEEY.
The coil of wire is placed on one drum
and fed through a pair of dies fixed iu tbe
vise, being received and taken in charge by
the other drum as it passes through. This
is all done by steampower, the work of the
attendant being to keep the dies well sup
plied with grease to prevent them losing
their temper by heating due to the friction
of the wire as it is drawn out The coil of
wire when passed through the first machine
has been reduced .005 ol one inch. The
wire is next reheated, and bathed in sul
phuric acid and water. This is for the pur
pose of further softening it aud removing all
surface impurities.
It is then dried in an oven, and once more
returned to the drawing room, where it is
put throngb the second machine, and so on,
until wire of the requisite gauge has been
obtained. The operation of annealing,
pickling, and drying is performed after
every reduction. To make the smaller
gauges these processes are gone through no
less than 24 times. Hence it will be seen
that wire drawing is a matter of patience,
rather than of any great mechanical skill.
There are loO diffeieut gauges. The smallest
is known as .0o5 of one inch, or as "jewelers'
gauge."
EEADT FOE THE JEWELEE.
From the drawing room the wire is con
veyed to another department and straight
ened. This is done by paing it through a
small machine making3,5U0 revolutions per
minute. Next it is cut into lengths of three
feet and turned over to the polishers, who
pass it through other machines with emery
cloth fixed between a, pair ot blocks. It is
then sent into another department where
each strand is polished, examined and
gauged. The strands are then tied up ia
hnndles and placed away in proper order
for shipment
Side by side in the storehouse may be
seen a bar of steel inches in diameter,
and a strand of wire so fine that a piece of
cotton thread of the No. 40 variety looks
coarse beside it. The wire, after passing
through so many annealings, is soft, and
the jeweler has to temper and farther
manipulate it to meet his requirements.
Keijou.
LATEST SWIHBLIHO DEVIC3. -
It Is Called the Glove Trick, and Is Almost
Aln-nya Successful.
Oneof the neatest swiodliug devices of the
street fakir is what is known to the police
as the "glove trick," says the New York
Journal. It is worked in two ways and
usually in a crowded thoroughfare. Tha
fakir is always well dressed and has the ap
pearance of an eminently respectable gen
tleman. He carefully selects a victim whom
be readily perceives" is not a native of tha
city, and, therefore, apt to be unacquainted
with the scheme. Alter having picked out
his man he-walks a short distance in front
of him, and when he is positive that his
victim is looking carelessly drops a glove.
The stranger sees it fall, picks it up and
restores it to its owner, who is overjoyedto
receive It, because he buds that a valuaoe
ring is lodged in one of the fingers. An
heirloom, etc. They naturally tall into con
versation, and before they part the swindler,
out of pure gratitude, offers to sell him a
very fine chased ring, marked tea carats on
the iuside, at a ridiculously low figure. Tha
victim swallows the bait and gets a ring
valued at abont 5 cents tor $2. He does not
discover thj fraud until his very finger beA
gins to turn green.
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