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SECOND PART.
MOURHING BY ORDER
Doesn't Prove Much .of a Suc
cess, Even "When It Is a
Boyal Command.
IMDOX'S MAKY MILLIONS
Tail to See Anything in the Death of
the Duke of Clarence
TO MAKE THEM FEEL YEET SAD.
Hary Anderson Writes a Letter Kefating a
Tecnliar Charge.
THE CAEEEE OP A IUCKT CHICAGOAX
ITY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
Loiroox, Jan. 16. Copyright The
death of the Duke of Clarence and.Avon
dale has afforded an opportunity "which
English newspapers have eagerly taken ad
vantage of, to prove the claim of the British
people to the title of the most hypocritical
nation on earth. For the last three
days every journal in London, Con
servative and Liberal alike, has been
vieing with every other to see which could
present the most sycophantic and servile
editorial tribute of grief in view of the ter
rible calamity that has fallen upon England
in the death of the shallow, arrogant and
vicious princeling who has just passed
away.
The historian of a century or two hence
who goes over the files of the London daily
press of January, 1892, in the British Mu
seum to form his opinion of these times
will speculate upon the different course
English history ruicrht have taken if this
princely prodigy had been spared to direct
the destinies oi his country, "and will marvel
that in the age of commerce an entire peo
ple should put aside their usual avocations
and give themselves over to grief at the
death of the heir presumptive to the throne.
Samples of Editorial Toadyism.
"We have to record a tragedy as terrible
as any that imagination has ever con
ceived," says the Post, in its leader on the
Duke's death. "Nothing more remarkable
in its own kind has ever been recorded than
the demonstrations of sympathy and mourn
ing with which our columns overflowed
yesterday and are overflowing to-day."
"From every part of the United King
dom nay, more, from every part of the
British Empire there came unprompted
maniiestations of sorrowing loyalty," says
the Timet this morning, and this is the tone
of every newspaper in England.
The fact is, that outside of the Dnke of
Clarence's own family there is no grief over
his death at all. On the contrary, there is a
general feeling oi satisfaction that Prince
George, who is as popular as his dead
brother was unpopular, now stands in the
line of succession to the throne, and it is -
quite within the confines of possibility that
the death of Albert Victor will prolong the
existence of the monarchical institution in
England.
Everybody Ordered to Mourn.
The Earl of Marshall to-day, "by Her
Majesty's command," calls upon everybody
to put themselves in mourning for the late
Duke of Clarence in this big city. Possibly
10,000 men and women will give heed to the
quaint proclamation. The remaining 5,000,
O00 or so will just go their way an though
nothing had happened at Sandringham.
Englishmen have been told in the
editorial columns of their $ black
bordered newspapers that the whole
nation is mourning, and the statement
is repeated so frequently, and in such a
variety of forms, that the people almost be
gin to believe it, but a stranger coming to
this city would have difficulty in detecting
the popular grief He might walk for
miles, except in the aristocratic "West End,
and see nothing to lead him to suppose that
an heir presumptive to the British throne
lay dead, save lor an occasional flag at half
mast.
Had he been in Pall Mall, Thursday morn
ing, when the bulletiu announcing the
young Pnnc's sad death was posted out
side the Marlborough, the same stranger
would have been surprised a few hours
later to read in the ecning papers of the
sorrow-stricken thousands who blocked the
streets and wept aloud when the mournful
news was proclaimed. Later in the day
Pall Mall was blocked not by people, but
by "carriage folk."
The Signs or Mourning to Bo round.
Members of the aristocracy rushed wildly
to Marlborough House to inscribe their
names in the visitors' book, which they
knew would in due course come under the
eyes of the Prince of Wales. The same
people, as in duty bound, have pulled down
the blinds at their houses, royal shopkeepers
and caterers have put up narrow black
shutters kept in stock for such oc
casions, flags on public buildings have been
lowered to halt mast, and there, as far ax
eye cau see. this so-called national mourn
ing ends. The gigantic make-believe kept
up by the newspapers here renders it de
Eirable, however ungracious the task may
seem, to put these facts on record.
The spectacle of parents suddenly robbed
of their first-born and of a maiden rudely
thrust bv death from the threshold of the
bridal chamber has, of course, evoked wide
spread t mpathy, but this natural feeling
.quickly gave place to speculations as to the
eflect of the Duke of Clarence's death upon
the dynasty. It bad been somen hat pretty
generally assumed that Princess Louise, the
Prince ot "Wales' eldest daughter, re
nounced all her rights of succession when
she married the Duke of Fife.
Uuclirb. of Fire a roi,sib:e Queen.
Now Englishmen learn to their Riimrisft
and deep disgust that should anything
happen to Prince George, who, it must be
remembered, is barely convalescent from a
dangerous illness, the heiress presumptive
to the throne would be the Duchess of Fife.
Presumably there is no doubt about the
matter, lor the "garter king at arms," the
mysterious being who presides over the
College of Arms, and to whom such things
are asABC to the schoolboy, declares to
day that there was no renunciation at the
time of her marriage, and there has been
none since. Even had there been a private
family arrangement it would not be bind
ing, because it has not been registered at
the College of Arms.
Among the qualities of mind and heart
which no doubt the Duke of Fife possesses
there is not one calculated to commend him
to popular favor, and even his dukedom is a
shoddy thing of yesterday. Princess Louise
is the most dutiful of wives, and should she
become Queen of England the Duke of Fife
would either "boss" the British throne or
cause a revolution by attempting to do. so.
The prospect is so displeasing that some
newspapers, even the most loyal of the
Tory organs, are already with questionable
taste denouncing the Queen and the Prince
of Wales for allowing the Duke of Clarence
to remain so long a bachelor, and there is a
loud demand that Prince George shall "pro
vide for the succession" by taking unto him
self a wife with the least possible delay.
carainai manning Jot forgotten.
The London newspapers have beenjjui
pleased to decide that the death of the Duke
of Clarence "overshadows" that of Cardinal
Manning, and their space hat been appor
tioned in accordance with this strange esti
mate of the relative value of things. The
great Cardinal himself would not object to
the appraisement, for Queen victoria did
not number among her subjects one
more loyal than he, but the working
men of this country resent it in a
fashion which has moved Tory newspapers
to denounce them as disloyalists. The
London Trades Council and other organized
bodies of workmen have set on formal
record their appreciation of Cardinal
Manning's service to the people, while re
fusing resolutions of smypathy with the
royal, mourners, or ostentatiously ignoring
death's presence at Sandringham.
This procedure may be lacking in refine
ment of feeling, but none can deny this is
logical and natural There are 20,000
humble dock laborers in London alone who
at this moment are earning better wages
and working fewer honrs because of the in
tercession and labor ungrudgingly made
and given in the depth of winter three
years ago by an old man, who, although a
prince of the Church, has died poor.
A Philanthropist In Beallty.
The amount of practical good done by
Cardinal Manning, or under bis direction,
among the poor of London, and the value of
his direct services to the cause of labor and
social reform, cannot now be as sized, but
workingmen rerlize in a measure the value
of the friend they have lost, and in their
impulsive, perhaps "disloyal" way, are en
deavoring to emphasize the fact. A per
sonal friend of the late Cardinal writes:
It is well known in what affection he was
rcRarded by the very poorest la his own
community and he was very proud of his
body guard, as Jio had called one or two
rough laboring men who had ctmstituted
themselves his protectors after see
ing him on various occasians strug
gling through a dense crowd on his
way to' his carriage after preaching.
Latterly these self-appointed guardianB
of his person always arrived of their own ac
cord when he was fulfilling his public en
gagements and having performed this labor
of love disappeared until the next time their
services were required.
Cardinal Manning often expressed won
der that he had lived so long, and for some
time past he had felt that his life's work
was nearly done. He continually expressed
his thankfulness that though his body was
so weak his mind was still unclouded. He
replied quite recently to an inquirer:
"Thankvyou, I am quie'tly slowing into the
station."
The Machine Comes to a Stop.
"And so," writes his friend, the Bishop
of Salford, "after a gentle and gradual
slackening of vital speed, the well-worn
machine ceased to wore, and in perfect faith
nd all contentment has passed away one of
the keenest intellects and brightest spirits
of our age."
The action of the Knights of Labor in
cabling a long message of sympathy to
Cardinal Manning's Secretary has been
much appreciated by workingmen here.
The funeral will take place next Thurs
day, and the London Dockers' Union, the
London Trades Council and other organized
labor organizations will be represented.
The remains have been placed in Chapelle
Ardente, at the Archbishop's houe, West
minster. They lie on purple cushions,
fringed with gold. The body is clothed in
full canonicals, the gloved hands are
joined on the breast, and the thin,
ascetic face wears a look of profound peace
and repose. But for the extreme pallor one
could hardly distinguish the expression of
the face from that of deep sleep. The head
i3 surmounted by a white mitre, beneath
which the worn features look very small.
The catafalque is roped in, and within
the enclosure six purple wax candles will
burn until the body is removed. The round
hat of the cardmalate, with its many pend
ants or tassels disposed around it, lies
near the feet The official ring is on
the third finger cf the right hand outside
tbe purple glove. Behind the bier a
large silver cross has been raised upon a
background of black.
ROSENFELD A ROUNDER,
The Chicago-San Franciscan "Who Is a
Heavy Winner at Monte Carlo A Man
"With a Peculiar Becord Burning the
Candle at Both Ends.
rET CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
London; Jan. 16. Henry Eosenf eld, the
young American, whose heavy plays and
large winnings have been the sensation of
the week at Monte Carlo, is an extraordin
ary character. His home js in Chicago,
where his brother is a well-known business
man, and he is one of the heirs of Michael
Recce, the famous ten millionaire, of Sau
Francisco. Bosenfeld attained his majority
and his fortune about four years ago. Since
that time Chicago has seen him three times,
his longest visit being of ten days' duration,
and on each occasion he arrived from the
west and left to tbe eastward, having been
each time around the world.
He varied the monotony of his trip last
rear by buying an interest in the Cleary
London Opera Company that left here in
July to make a tour around the east and
west coast of South America, and accom
panied that organization for the fun of the
thing. He forsook the opera company in
the Argentine Eepublic, however, and went
on to Chile to see the war. but arrived in
Valparaiso the dav hostilities ceased. He
got back to London about three months
ago, and left for Paris and Monte Carlo
soon afterward. He is now en route for
Egypt and Japan and thence to San Fran
cisco, Chicago, Hew York and London once
more.
Boscnfeld, who is smooth-faced, pallid and
slight, does not look to be 21 years of ace.
but he is considered one of the cooltst
gamesters in Europe, either with cards or
at the roulette table. Last year he was
one of the four players at Monte Carlo who
put down the maximum at the same table
at every turn of the wheel, and gave the
bank a bad scare. He left Monte Carlo
loser by S30.000, however. To-day he is re
ported to be between 575,000 and 5100,000
ahead of the game.
Although Bosenfeld spends three or four
months each year in London, where he
keeps apartments the year around, and a
month or two each year in Paris, he has
never been inside Westminster Abbey or
the Tower, or a picture gallery, nor visited
the Pantheon, Notre Dante, the palaces, or
any other places of historic interest. It is
doubtful, even, if he ever thought to in
quire who was premier of England or Presi
dent of France. On the other hand he
knows where to find the best cooks and the
rarest wines in every European and a great
many Oriental capitals, and possesses ex
pert knowledge concerning the places that
are open all night in the principal cities oi
the world.
HAEY AHDEESON K0T GUILTY
Of the Charge That She Kept Her Theater
Open on a Mourning Night,
IBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.;
London, Jan. 16. The following letter is
published in the Daily Noes this morning :
Sir Will you allow me to correct the
statement in your issue of to-day to the
effect that "the Lyceum Theater, then under
tho temporary jnanagement of Mary Ander
son, who issued a public explanation ex
pressing her deep regret that tho theater
could not be closed, etc., etc.," on tho night'
of the day of the funeral of the lamented
Duke of Albany. Messrs. Abbey and Munn
were managing the theater, as well as my
affairs, at that time. I wrote no suoh ex
planation td"the public, and, if you remem
ber, the Lyceum Theater was closed on that
nlgut Yours very truly,
Maet Awuersoit De Navakbo.
17 Feehdale Paek, Tutjbmdge Wells, Janu
ary 15.
Some grossly ignorant or malicious indi
vidual wrote this paragraph 'in the Daily
News yesterday:
The day of tbe Duke of Albany's funeral
the West JJnd theater, savo one. woreXthe Vatican, It will not be accepted.
closed. The exception was the Lyceum,
then under the temporary direction of Miss
Mary Anderson, who issued a publlo explan
ation expressing her deep regret that the
theater could not be closed, all having been
booked and it being Impossible to transfer
them to another night, owng to the tact that
this was the last night of her engagement
in London. Her patrons, one would thine,
could hardly have felt quite at ease in wit
nessing her performance in Mr. Gilbert's
comedy and tragedy of "Pygmalion and
Galatea," that night, with the consciousness
that far and wide around them dramatic en
tertainments were everywhere suspended.
The writer doubtle'ss was not aware that
Our Mary had taken up her residence in
this country, but he is a wiser man now.
DEATH OF THE PELICAN.
Something About a Lately Famous English
Club Members Gathered From Every
Circle Deadbeats Hobnobbing With the
Gentry and Sports of All Kinds.
rnr CABLE TO THE DisrATcn.l
London, Jan. 16. The Pelican Club,
that has just succumed, probably possessed
the most heterogeneous membership of any
club in the world. Theie were members
whose incomes were in the hundreds ot
thousands, and members who slept on the
club sofas at night in default of any other
resting place and sponged on tbe club for
victuals and drink. There were dukes and
earls and lords galore, and blackmailing
journalists, music hall singers, and a Strand
restaurant keeper.
There were members whose checks for 1
were invariably dishonored, and members
who could write checks in six or seven
figures that would be accepted without ques
tion in any bank in England. There were
members who went to court and were on in
timate terms at Marlborough House, and
members who would be kicked out of the
kitchen of any respectable cabman. Any
young spendthrift in the bankruptcy court
was sure to turn out to be a member of the
Pelican, as were half the corespondents in
the divorce courts, and the membership also
included all the best gentlemen sports in
England.
Perhaps the Pelican was the only West
End club in London where an exhilarated
member who mashed the furniture and the
windows was not brought before the com
mittee, or where no attention was attracted
if gentlemen who had finished their supper
nd wished to play a game of dominoes to
see who paid for it cleared their table of
its dishes and cloth by the simple expedient
of tipping it on end.
This heterogeneous membership was
natural enough, the result of its origin.
It began with the getting together weekly
of a few devotees of boxing for a little quiet
sport, and only became a social
rlub when, the present fine new
house was built It was impossible
when the club grew, and there was a rush of
gentlemen for membership, to kick out the
objectionable ones who were already mem
bers, and hence tbe conditions that existed.
However, although the Pelican remained
primarily a boxing club until its demise, no
prize fighters were ever admitted to mem
bership. The demise, of the Pelican makes the
National Sporting Club, where Slavin and
Jack sou are expected to fight this year, the
leading organization of the kind in England.
Its membership is growing rapidly, and in
cludes a great many Americans. There aro
knock-out fights every Monday night at the
new club, which are largely attended by the
nobility and gentry of England.
AMEBICANS INVADE EQYPI.
Minister Vhelps at tbe Head or a Brilliant
Party in the Land of Pyramids.
- Caieo, Jan. .16. Hon. Walter Phelps,
Minister to Germany; Jesse Seligman, who
has been visiting the various European cap
itals as the representative of the United
States Government in connection with the
silver question; Leopold Morse, ex-Congressman
from Boston; Mr. Houghton, (ho
publisher, and a large number of Amer
icans are staying at Shepard's Hotel in this
city. Mr. Phelps took a steamer at Triesto
and landed at Alexandria, where he stayed
for a time at the home of Judge Barringer,
who was appointed by President Grant a
Judge ot the International Appellate Court
18 years ago.
Mr. Phelps was also entertained by Sir
William Butler, the British Admiral, and
others. He will remain in Cairo until
February, when he will make a journey up
the Nile. Judge Keily gave a dinner in
honor of Mr. Phelps, at which Tigrane
Pasha and the leading American visitors in
Cairo were present John A. Anderson,
the Diplomatic Agent and Consul General
of the United States at Cairo, has been
seriously ill ever since his arrival in Egjpt
He submitted to an operation last week
which the doctors say was entirely success
ful, and they promise that he is certain to.
recover.
PSIHCB B0NAFABTB FEES.
His Ball Is Bedncrd and a Mother-in-law
Goes His Security.
LONDON, Jan. 16. Prince Louis Clovis
Bonaparte, who, on a complaint of his first
wife, Eosalie Bonaparte, was arrested on
the charge of conspiracy to defraud her of
jewelry valued at 20,000, was again ar
raigned in court to-day. At the previous
hearing bail in the sum of 5,000 was de
manded, but to-day .the magistrate reduced
the amount to 1,000 and tbe prisoner was
released, the mother of Princess Bonaparte
becoming his security.
Mrs. Bosalie Bonaparte, from whom
Prince Louis Clovis Bonaparte is trying to
secure a divorce, alleges that her husband
has given her jewelry to his second -wife,
lormeriy jaiss xiaura -L,iizaDeth bcott
John Bull Stands No Nonsense.
LONDON, Jan. 16. The British war ships
Boyalist sndBingdove, have just completed
a "cruise of revenge" among the Solomon
Islands, where several native chiefs have
been executed. The chiefs in question were
implicated in the murder of some British
subjects. In punishing the natives for the
murders, their war canoes, villages, and
other property were destroyed by the men
who landed from tbe war ships.
Egypt Receives Her New Baler.
CAIBO, Jan. 16. Princo Abbas', the new
Khedive, this morning entered the harbor
at Alexandria, from Trieste, on board a
steamer. Tbe steamer was accompanied by
a number of British war ships, which, as
they entered the harbor, thundered forth a
royal salute. The Egyptian vessels took ud
the refrain. At 10 o'clock he took a special
train and proceeded to Cairo.
Bunslm Treats Finns us Foreigners.
St. PEikHSBtrno, Jan. 16. The pro
jected Zollverein between Bussia and Fin
land has been abandoned. Henceforth
Finnish products imported into Russia will
be subject to the same increased duties that
are applied to imports from other countries.
The Grip Invades Ireland.
DUBLEr, Jan. 16. Influenza of a malig
nant type has appeared in the western part
of Cork county. Nine deaths from the dis
ease have occurred in the Skibberean work
house within a week.
Not Bothering A boot the Fair.
Madkid, Jan.-16. The energy of Mr.
Little, agent for the Chicago Fair, to the
Government and people of Spain, has so far
been powerless to move the Government to
action in behalf of a proper representation.
An American Bishop Resigns,'
HOME, Jan. 16. ThelJIshop of Greenbay,
"Wis.. EiAt Eev. Frederick Xavier
Katzer, D,B., has sent his resignation to. I
PITTSBURG, SUNDAY,
THE BUST MICROBE.
Heaping a larger Harvest Than
Cholera, Grip Causes No Panic
TWO STOEIES OP PRINCE -GEOEGE.
Eussell Sage Tells How He Did Not -Use
Laidlaw as a Shield.
FEESH GOSSIP .ABOUT MEN OP FAME
rcOBBESrONDENCE OT- THB DISPATCH.1
New Yoek, Jan. 16. Death and politics
have this week divided the attention of
those who live in New 'York. The grip
microbe is unquestionably bulging with
pride as he contemplates his achievements.
The heir to the English throne, two cardi
nals and a chief justice, all in one day, con
stitute a fine showing for the smallest
known bacillus. By makinghis grand coup
on Thursday, instead of waiting one day,
the vicious microbe has acted thoughtfully.
He has at least deprived the superstitious
of some very satisfactory conversation.
Such a series of calamities on a Friday
would have been very damaging to the "13
clubs" that give to so many harmless men
a chance to feel brave and noble.
It is interesting to note that while health
board reports, newspapers and common ob
servation prove that a very deadly epidemio
is raging here and m Europe, the average
individual is not really frightened at it,
and does not take any precautions to insure
his own safety. The grip and pneumonia
do not appeal to the imagination. Ten
deaths from Asiatic cholera in a week
would send theusands of New Yorkers fly
ing out of town. One case a week of cholera
in Venice made hundreds of Americans
abroad give up their only chance of seeing
that clean town.
Heath in Its Quiet Phaie.
Fifty deaths a day in New York from
grip alone would not keep the ordinary
man from standing on a street corner in the
rain without an overcoat It is in some
ways gratifying to observe that as a nation
we are not very much afraid of death all by
itself. It must come with waving of yellow
pestilence flags, sudden deaths in the
streets and other smallpox or cholera char
acteristics that act on the imagination, or
it cannot frighten us.
The death of the Prince of Wales' eldest
son, the young man who was to have been
King, makes everybody think in some form
or other of the question that Mr. Clemens'
Huckleberry Finn put to Tom Sawyer when
they wouldn't make up their minds to be
either hermits or monks. "How much do
Kings get?" was the Question, and "Over
51,000 a day" the substance of the unexag
gerated reply.
Concsrnin? thehannvman. Prince Georce.
who is to be King of England by the grace
of the grip microbe, every man who writes
for a newspaper will tell a story. Here aro
two incidents in the early youth of that
young man, which were heard in London,
which perhaps have, a foundation in truth
and which may have the flavor of novelty
while moat writers are telling how the
young man told his brother to go and sing
"God save your grandmother."
Two Stories or Prince George.
The stories, at all events, whether true or
not, feive an idea of the young man's inde
pendence and originality. On one solemn
occasion, having misbehaved himself at ta
ble. -Prince Georce was severely rebuked
by his Toyal grandmother. Full of wounded.
vanity and eager tor revenge, the little boy
disappeared under the table. Presently he
came forth naked. He had laboriously un
dressed himself In a crouching attitude.
He was rewarded by the sensation he
created.
At another time, in a critical mood, ho
observed his grandmother holdings chicken
bone in her fingers, and remarked in tones
of.scorn, "Who's a pig?"
This is to be the greatest year in politics
since the war. Even New York is begin
ningto take an interest in political doings
and in political probabilities.
Two New Political Straws.
Two interesting straws have been blow
ing about on the political breezes this week.
As usually happens with significant straws,
they have been blowing in opposite direc
tions. Th first straw was the conduct of
the New Jersey Legislature, which on being
interviewed, one-man at a time, expressed
an overwhelming preference for Cleveland
as compared with HilL
Many excellent judges of politics, in
cluding Hill, believed that Hill had a solid
hold on New Jersey. Mr. Cleveland's
course in taking his little baby to live on
New Jersey air has produced a great effect,
or New York politicians are out ia their
reckoning.
Straw No. 2, a rare" and unusual straw, is
the similarity of opinion expressed by
GeorgeWilliam Curtis and Bourke Cock
ran, one'of the Tammany Big Four. Both
have expressed a belief that the New York
delegition would be solid for Hill.
Before estimating the importance of Mr.
Cockran's utterances as a Tammany Hall
representative it is necessary to know that
Mr. Richard Croker when questioned on
the same subject only shrugs his shoulders.
one else. Able man, Air. Croker.
doesn t talk, but be does things.
Dolncs Amone Mrn of Fame.
In the Garden of the Luxembourg, when
the band was playing,. I once heard an old
French workingman, in a blue" blouse, re
mark: "C'est egal, il n'y a rien de beau
comme lamusique ei les fleurs." To which
his wife, studying the crowd, replied: "Oui,
mais les gens, ils sont plus interessant." It
is not necessary to translate the words in
full.
The same conversation took place between
Boswell and Tohn6on before the French
workincman was bom, and between Adam
and Eve previous to that. Men and their
doings always interest man more than any
thing else, so the facts that follow are im
portant. Mr. Eussell Sage has decided to reply to
Mr. Laidlaw, the clerk who accuses Sage of
using him as a shield during the explosion,
and who asks for $100,000 of Mr. Ease's
valuable money." James Gordon Bennett is
said to have given 1,000 to a man who
knocked him down. Bichard Harding Davis
is going out West, and then to Europe to
write. Billy McGlory is working at the
blacksmith business on BlackweUs Island,
and no one has said a good word for him.
Laidlaw's Snlt AgHlnst Sagr.
Mr. Laidlaw was in Bussell Sage's office
when then the satchel went off, and now he
is in the hospital more or less damaged. Mr.
Sage, on the contrary, is as free and active
as a bird.and as gay. In this contrast the
enterprising editor of an evening newspaper
on a certain dull morning detected the seeds
of a pleasing sensation. He went to Laid
law and said to him: "Here's your chance.
Sue Sage for $100,000 for holding you be
tween him and death, as you say he did."
Mr. Laidlaw seemed to think it was a
good idea, and acquiesced. Ho one took the
matter very seriously except Mr. Sage. His
feelings were hurt at the prospect of a series
of small financial explosions following the
big dynamite one. Two weeks ago I heard
from Mr. Sage his account of the Laidlaw
matter. At that time, on the advice of Mr.
Jay Gould, he decided to make no reply to
Laidlaw's statements, hut sijje then he has
changed his mind. It annoyed him to be
accused of holding a man in front of dyna
mite. Sage's Aceonnt of laidlaw's Fart.
Mr. Sage's statement, as I heard it. should
,make i.t.difficuH for Mr. Laidlaw, to recpyer..
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ping on y Mr Croker knows what New vdunfesof water will pour. That, by the
York will realty do about Mr. Hill or any wav. elDlains uow we aFre to die. once and
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Mr Sage's physician testifies that Mr. Sage
had about 70 wounds on the front of his
body, He still has the scars to exhibit,
Eoman-like, to a jury if necessary. What
ever made these wounds must have gone
right through Laidlaw if the latter really
was held in front of Sage. If that had hap
pened Laidlaw would not be alive now.
Mr, Sage was very graphic as he acted
out the dynamite f cene in his sitting room
uptown, using me for the dynamite&and a
chair for Laidlaw. Briefiv he says that he
and the dynamiter faced each other con
stantly, while Laidlaw set off to one side,
the three forming a triangle.
The dynamiter backed away, dropped the
satchel, and the explosion came. Mr. Sage
had never once spoken to Laidlaw, and had
not touched him. When the explosion was
over Mr. Sage says he found himself knocked
flat Laidlaw had been knocked toward
him. His head lay across Mr. Sage's
knees. Mr. Sage picked himself up, then
grasped Laidlaw under the arms and lifted
him up.
Who Laidlaw Beally Is.
Laidlaw, according to Mr. S'ge, was em
ployed by Bloodeoo, the distinguished
broker, to go from office to office and con
fide to big men in deep confidence important,
pieces of news calculated to affect the mar
ket to 'suit Mr. Bloodgood. Mr. Laidlaw's
conduct has hurt Mr. Sage's feelings. It is
not likely that the case will ever come to
court It is probable that Mr. Laidlaw feels
hurt also. It was not his dynamite satchel,
and perhaps he feels that Mr. Sage otieht to
make some cash acknowledgment of Fate's
discrimination against Laidlaw.
Mr. Sage's hearing is now almost as good
as before the accident Mr. Sage has heard
from Inspector Bjrrnes that the annals of
crime do not show any case analagous to
his. That fact interests him and he has de
termined himself to write and to sign, for
the benefit of history, a complete account of
his adventures. That writing will be inter
esting! It will give to every newspaper
man a chance to calculate just how much
poorer Mr. Sago would be nowif he had
pone originally into journalism instead of
groceries. Mr. Sage speaks of the gentle
man who blew himself into tne otner worm
as "My Dinnamitter," with the accent very
properly on the "din." Mr. Sago does not
Bhare the belief that Norcross dropped tho
valise accidentally.
Doing the West With a l'enknlO.
Bichard Harding Davis, who is going to
do Mexico, Texas and other wild" places for
the Harpers, will surprise these places. Ha
will wear hii best clothes out there and has
bought no daggers, boots, leggms, saddles,
revolvers or sombreros. He will be able to
write a piece entitled, "Through the West
With a Penknife." After the West he goes
to London, also for the Harpers, and next
fall he resumes the management of Harper' 'a
Weekly.
As everybody has said something un
pleasant about Billy McGlory, a dive keeper
of this town, and as he is now in prison; it
is only fair that someone should mention
the good that is in bim. He once jumped
from his buggy, stopped a runaway horse
and saved a young girl's life. The horse
was going so fast that many quieter men
than McGlory, policemen and others, had
let it go. He is certainly one of the bravest
men in New York, so far as physical cour
age goes. He is a thin man, and consump
tive, but the biggest rufhans in tne city
stood in terror of him. When knocked
down by McGlory, their habit has always
been to get up and walk off.
What McGlory Might Have Been.
On the side of morals nothing can be said
in McGlory's favor. But ft is possible that
if he had been born under different con
ditions his name might have had a different
meaning. He would have made a wonderful
fighting cavalryman if he had had a chance.
It is quite possible that he is thoroughly
bad, but it is certain that he does not know
or feel that he has done wrong.
Tbe interesting story concerning James
Gordon Bennett which comes across the
water, and which perhaps is true, tells how
this journalist and some of his merry men
were disposed to play with boxing gloves.
Stanhope, of the Herald, knocked out one or
two rivals in play, whereupon Bennett
challenged him to do as, much for his
superior officer. Stanhope,' after warning
Bennett, did so most successfully. Mr.
James' Gordon Bennett got an unlucky
upper-cut, where upper-cuts are most ef
fective, and, in the language of sport, was
dead to the world. When he recovered he
made Stanhope a present of 1,000. The
story is told now about the Herald office.
If true it is calculated to drive Mr. Sulli
van from the stage to the newspaper office.
He could easily make 2,000 a day while
his popularity lasted.
Patti and a Change In Clothes.
Patti, charming and everlasting monu
ment to the wisdom of careful living and
careful eating, is singing here again. She
has not changed, and the preservation of
her voice is marvelous. She has a secret
that would be valuable to all who pretend
to preserve peaches, asparagus and other
good things.
The feature of the opera this year, a more
interesting one to some than Patti or the de
Beszkes, is the marked change in the dress
of the women. Gowns are not worn as low
as they were; in fact, nothing like. Long
sleeves and dresses almost high in the neck
prevail. The comforting deduction may be
drawn that when women aro fools the only
thing to do is to let them go on and they
will recover all alone.
The End of the World.
An astronomer consoles us with the state-
ment that we shall not have to handle all
the water now visible, because as the inside
of this earth gets cold and contracts it will
for all.
When'all the water has sunk out ot sight
the atmosphere will follow, men will have
to dig one well for airand another for water,
using pumps on both. It will he a workaday
world. Birds will all be dead, and no fish
or oysters to eat. An imaginative gentle
man inclined to write up tbe end of the
world could do a fine picture of the rich
man hoarding his air while the poor suffo
cated, etc.
The moon is alleged to have died that sort
of a death queersortof a corner this corner
of the universe will be with two moons
lighting each other up and not a young man
to walk with his young woman in the double
moonlight, Aethtje Beisbane.
Fonght hy tho Light of the Moon.
City op Mexico, Jan. 16. A duel took
place by moonlight Thursday night, between
Carlos Esparaza, a discharged prison official;
and Inocencio Arriola, of the editorial staff
oi the Mario Dei Hogat. Tbe combatants
were placed 20 paces apart, and exchanged
shots without effect Then they advanced
'five paces and fired again, when both were
wounded. Neither man is fatally hurt.
A South Dakota Bank Failure.
Aberdeen, S. D., Jan. 16. The North
west National Bank, of this city, organized
1888, went into voluntary liquidation by
the action of the stockholders yesterday
alternoon. Both President Barnes and
Cashier. Briggs say there is- plenty of cash
on hand to pay depositors, and creditors
will not lose a cent.
Drowned In tbe Touch.
DAWSON, Pa., Jan. 16. ISpeciaf John
Bimel, aged 19 years, while crossing the
Youghiogheny river near Dawson, fell from
his boat and was drowned. Any informa
tion, if found, would be thankfully received
by his widowed mother, Mrs. John Bimel.
Maglnn to the Fore.
My old customers and friends will find me
at the old spot, with a large and varied
stock of cakes, candy, fruits and nuts.
E. Magmit.
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An Underground Trolley System for J
the Electric Street Car
INVENTED BY HARRISBURG MEN.
They Use a Magnet to Draw the Conductor
Up for Contact
THE -CROSSING OP USES MADE EAST
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Haebisbitrg,- Jan. 16. A practical
method of propelling street cars by elec
tricity without tho aid of the overhead wire
or the storage battery has been invented by
EdwarJEBaum. and Harlin A. Hoopes, of
this city. It is simply the trolley system
underground. v
A porcelain lined iron tube or sealed con
duit, similar in shape to an ordinary T rail,
is imbedded between the two rails. A flat
continuous strip of copper or a copper wire,
which conducts the electricity from the
dynamo, is laid in the bottom of the con
duit 'On this is placed a chain of ordinary
sized links, which of course is charged with
electricity by reason of its' contact fith the
copper strip. The conduit is covered with
short sections of non-magnetic plates. These
are eight or ten feet in length. There is a
space of two inches or so between the chain
and the covering plates. Suspended from
the car is a magnet immediately above and
within a short distance from the plate
covering. Directly in the rear of
the magnet' is a small wheel
which runs on the plates. The magnet
draws the chain, which is continuously
charged, against the plate covering, which
being consequently charged will in turn
charge the wheel, and the same power of
locomotion will be obtained, greater in fact,
than that from the trolley in the overhead
system.
One Plate at a Time Alive.
The nlate coverinc is only alive when the
chain is drawn against it by the use of the
magnet, and as the links are small only
that portion of the covering immediately
under the wheel will be alive, as link after
link will drop on the wire again as soon as
the magnet and wheel pass. Appliances for
locomotion of any pattern can be used, the
invention being simply a device for con
ducting the electricity from the wire to the
car.
Another and hitherto unsolved question
is easily overcome by the Baum-Hoopes
system. It is that of "crossing other roads,
turnouts and switches. In this respect it is
vastly superior to the cable or grip method
and the overhead systpm. The chain makes
these difficulties simple in a way that can
readily be understood. There can be no
danger to life with this new electrical inven
tion though high tension currents should be
used, as the plate coverings will be entirely
dead, except when and at place where the
car is passing.
Electricians to whom the invention has
been shown have pronounced it the best
method of conducting electricity as a mo
tive power for burface cars, and there is no
reason why it cannot supersede eam in
locomotion. The inventors will give a
public exhibition in 'the Board f Trade
rooms, this city, next week, when they
will show the workings of the system in
every detail, embracing turnouts, switches
and crossings of roads.
Cable Lines Can Adopt It
The various grip or cable lines can easily
adjust their lines to tne new system, as
they already have a conduit between the
tracks can be easily made to fill the require
ments of tbe copper conductor. Tbe in
ventors claim that the system will in time
supplant steam on the great trunk lines of
the country.
A patent has been applied for, and prob
ably by this time has been issued. The
simplicity of tbe invention has been com
mended by all the electricians who have
seen the drawings, and the practicability of
the idea has been demonstrated.
Mr. Baum has for a number of years been
a successlul newspaper man in the capacity
of business manager. He is now business
manager 6f the 'Patriot. Mr. Hoopes was
the city's Chief ot Police fori years, then
a detective and he is now conducting a sinte
mantel establishment. He is unassuming in
manner and very popular. These are the
last two men who would be expected to solve
an electrical problem which noted electri
cians have studied in vain. The tests made
with miniature apparatus have fully de
veloped the completeness of the method.
Both Exports and Imports larger.
Philadelphia, Jan 16. The exhibit ot
business at the Custom House shows im
ports valued at 62.438.000 for 1891. aeainst
S6,057,000 for J890, and exports of $42,845,
000 against 136,462,000110x102 -the previous
tyear.
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GEAVS ASKS A BEPBIZVE.
The-Flnkcrtons Don't Believe the Story of
an Alleged Detective.
Desteb, Col., Jan. 16. Dr. Graves,
through his attorneys, has applied to Gov
ernor Boott for a reprieve for 60 days. His
petition is accompanied by his affidavit, in
which he denies that he is guilty, and avers
that it will require at leaast 30 days for the
stenographer to prepare a transcript of the
case for his appeal to the Supreme Court
It also states that repeated errors were
made by Judge Bising during tbe trial.
A dispatch from Chicago says: Tbe story
told in San Francisco by Joseph "Woods,
who claims to be aPinkerton detective, that
he has discovered evidence to prove the in
nocence of Dr. Graves is discredited at the
headquarters of the agency here. Assistant
TJ. P. Murray says 'Woods is not and never
has been in the agency's service, and points
to the fact that the evidence against Graves
waa worked up by the Pinkertons as show
ing that they were in the employ of the
other side, and could not De hired to clear
Graves.
MEXICANS ABB SHEEZING.
The Grip Causes a Frightful Mortality In
the Interior of the Krpnbllc
Cits" of Mexico, Jan. 16'-There are
many cases of the grip in this city. It has
been prevalent for a month past, and 300
deaths have resulted within the "past three
weeks. In tho States of Oaxaco, Vera Cruz
and Pueblo the epidemic is very severe, and
in the city of Orizaba the schools have been
closed and many deaths occur daily.
The common people are the worst suffer
ers, and in the mountainous region the
malady is most severe. The fatality among
tbe 1,200 Cninese laborers employed on rail
road construction and coilee plantations in
the State of Oaxaca ha3 been very alarming.
The epidemic is spreading rapidly to the
northern parts of the republic.
COLOEED MEN OBJECT.
Befased Representation on TTorld's Fair
Board, They Oppose Further Grants.
Chicago, Jan 16. The colored men of
the United States have been for some time
preparing a protest against the loan or ap
propriation of f 5,000, 000 by the Government
in aid of the world's Fair. This protest
will be presented when the matter comes
up before Congress.
T. A. Dawson, of this city, who was at
one time a member of the Arkansas Legis
lature, has the matter in charge.. He said
to-day: '"The Fair is run as a close corpora
tion, and we are prepared to prove it TVe
were refused representation upon the Board
of Directors and National Commission.
"We will not stand such treatment"
A L. & 0. INFOEMIB IS JAIL.
Arrested
and Fined for Doing, Business
Without a License. ' -
St. Johits, N. B., Jan. 16. Joseph
Holly, who is head agent for the Massachu
setts Law and Order League, was brought
to "Woodstock recently to act as an in
former in the Scott act case. He went
about as a traveler, and succeeded in ob
taining information against several illegal
liquor sellers. Yesterday he was arrested
for doing business without a license.
An effort was made to bail him out, but it
was not successful, and he was sentenced to
pay a fine, which not beiDg paid, he was
sent to jaiL There is much excitement over
the affair.
Bankers Must Go to Jail.
Cbestojt, Ia., Jan. 16. Wesley Taylor
and A.E. Jackson, officers of thcFontanelle
Bank, of Fontanelle,Ia.,which failed for f40,
000 about a, year ago, were yesterday found
guilty of receiving deposits while knowing
that the bank was insolvent Each was
sentenced to four months in jail and to pay
afineoff50O.
Kewfonndland'i Census Disappointing.
St. Johns, N. ., Jan 16. The census
returns have been completed. They show
the population of Newfoundland and
Labrador to be 202,000, an increase in the
last seven years of only 4,100, or at the rate
of 2)4 per cent This showing is a great
disappointment
A Georgia Town Flooded Oat
Bome, Ga., Jan. 10. The business part
of the city i3 from four to seven feet under
water. The weather is'.very cold, which
adds ,to the discomforts of hundreds of
people who have been driven out of their
homes by water.
The Guatemala Fresldental Election.
Guatemala Crar, Jan. 16. Dr. Lain
festa has been elected President Manuel
A. Sab6rio, a Guatemalan exile in this
country, will be made Secretary of the
Treasury. He will leave for Guatemala in
i.a.few dayi.
THE GOOOuM POET,
Jolrn Russell Young Tells How
Walt WlutmaE's Works -Were
Beceived.
ABSENCE OF JIG LEAVES
Cost Dim the Clerkship That Gaye
Him a Very Scant Living
WRATH OP A CABINET OFFICER.
Patient Toil in the Hospitals and
Poetry of the War.
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THE IFPICX OP BI3 UTIBABY STILE
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Faper No. X.
Among my earliest indiscretions wa m
"Walt "Whitman. So at least I was summa
rily informed one day by the famous Shel
ton Mackenzie, Doctor of Civil Law, literary
editor and miscellaneous magnate on For
ney's Press, a considerable and shining
figure in hi3 time, with a large place ia
criticism and current affairs, and memorable)
to me always for many friendly words and"
deeds. I had written something in an
ambitious vein, and decorated the thema
with lines from a book I had tumbled over
in literary wanderings a thin book, with
Bolid, square type, wide margins, the front
ispiece a figure in shirt sleeves, brawny,
spry, nonchalant, one hand on the thigh,
the other in the pocket; deep eyes, a sorrow
ful face and lips of expectation.
Out of this hook I had dug something I
have long forgotten what which seemed to
beautify my composition. Mackenzie gava
me dne monition. No gentleman ever read
such a book. No gentleman ever referred
to it in the presence of ladies. It was un
speakable. And if I had ambition, as the
good Mackenzie pointed out in his emphatic,
paternal way, I must never have it known
.that I had kept company with such a writer.
Emerson's Opinion of Leaves or Grass.
"Whitman was the author of the lines, and
my quoting them among my earliest indis
cretions. I accepted the admonitions of
Mackenzie, and for a long time literary re
lations with "Whitman were maintained un
der furtive conditions. The wise, prudent
Mackenzie spoke from his own conserva
tism, which was likewise the literary judg
ment of tbe hour. "Whitman was not re
spectable. Mackenzie also had high, an
tique notions as to what was proper in one's
literary sympathies. He had lived when
George the Third was King. He had been
the friend of Mooro and Southey, had
supped with Sir "Walter Scott Deep in hia
heart he saw much tha might be mended in
Tennyson, as well as in Thackeray and Bul
wer and others of the "new writers." "Whit
man had come upon bim somehow no one
knew whence or wherefore how did he
come?
"One book last summer," wrote Emesson
to Carlyle, "came out in New York; a non
descript monster which yet had terriblo
eyes andbuffalo strength, and was indisput
ably American, which I thought to' send
you. But the book throve so badly with
the few to whom I showed it, and wanted
good morals so much, that I never did.
Yet, I believe now again, I shall! It is
called "Leaves of Grass, was written and
printed by a journeyman printer in Brook
lyn, New York, named "Walter "Whitman,
and after you have looked into it, if you
think, ai you may. that it is only an
auctioneer's inventory of a warehouse, yoa
can light your pipe with it"
The Criticism as to Morality.
Yet, somehow, there were things ia
"Whitman that I found in no other boot.un
less I went back among the Hebrew pro
phets. The wanting in "good morals" never
occurred to me. Then, as now, when I look
at "Whitman with maturer eyes, when I
see him accepted and ruling Z3 one of the
influences of the nineteenth century, I was
never in sympathy with those who deemed
him an immoral writer. He was an exem
plification of nature. I should as soon think
of finding immorality in his writing as ia
the antique statues of Louvre, in the pad
docks of the Derby, or the Zoological Gar
dens! In Byron, yes! In a dozen other
writers,sin exultant and in rose-tinted hues;
the immorality that would awaken by
mockery or invective the delicate sense of
right and wrong, which underlies the de
votion we call love this with too much
abundance. But "Whitman, as I read him,
never gave a thought which could awaken
the sense of shame in those not prone to
shame.
"We were a long time coming to this recog-
nition. I am not sure that we have reached
it in America, but it will come, as it did ia
England years ago. The most origiaal
writer of our day, a generation since won
across the sea what had been denied at
home.
I saw "Whitman in war times and later
with an -experience akin to that of soma
Athenian who had known Socrates, and
perhaps followed the grand pug-nosed old .
loafer from place to place to hear him talk.
If ever the loafer may come to his own, and
we amend our Christian legends, Saint So
crates will be his patron.
First Impression of Whitman.
Even as I had fancied the shaggy-powed
Socrates, floatintr alSout Athens, tne eye of
the police upon Bim with their own thought!
as to his means of support, there was tha
suggestion of a parallel in "Whitman. He
had a conspicuous, massive figure, invari
ably ia frowsy, picturesque raiment Yott
ran against him in out of the way places
riding on the front of horse cars in conve;-- Qi
sation with the driver, giving pennies to
ragged groups of negro" children; sailing
down Pennsylvania avenue, with that
wonderful hat, that collar that was never
buttoned, like some slow old three decker
of a 94, or trailing out toward the camps ia
suburban "Washington with packages under
his arms or in his coat pockets, presumably
for the hospital
There was something of a rude, enviabla
splendor in his superb, rugged health tho
body dominant with wholesome conditions;
something also of the Horace Greeley in his
personality the same shambling,go-as-you-please
gait, Whitman rather the sturdier of
the two; nothing of the inspired childhood;
phenomenal touch of genius, as in tha
famous journalist You were apt to find
him silent, civil, not communicative, bus
cordial when you could reach him. He had
no apparent companionships, apparently
alone with his teeming soul. A sincere,
absorbed man, whom you neversaw in what
was called society, pr at the rude homely
routs of war days; nor at dinners rather j
gentleman of the pavement,even as Socratea
must have been, when fe loafed about
Athens and said such living, wonderful
things.
Walt Whitman Was a Martyr.
"Whitman was in those days likewise a
martyr and his sufferings were, much talked
abont in our independent circles, although
they seemed to sit bitterly upon the, shaggy,
lounging wayfarer. The secretary of some
thing or other, and by some odd twinge of
fortune in the Lincoln Cabinet, had been
told of "Whitman's book, "the nondescript
monster which had terrible eyes, and
buffalo strength." This secretary, as I well
remember -him,-was of the dumb species,
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