THE SCRASETOtf TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING OCTOBER 13, 1894.
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Tba Morgcnthalcr Linotype.
Type Setting Nou)
Don? By Machines
Explanation of Improvements Wrought
in This Copy of the Tribune.
LINOTYPE MECHANISMS USED
Short History of An Invention Upon
Which More Than Four Million Dollurs
Were Expended Before a Cent
Was Received lu Return.
The management takes pleasure this
morning in presenting to readers The
Tribune In its brand new dress of typo
that has been prepared for print on
type-setting machines. For several
months past the leading dally newspa
pers of the country have successfully
operated the wonderful machines which
lire destined to revolutionize type-setting
and advance the standard of news
paper work throughout the land. Prac
tical Investigation has demonstrated
that the mechanical device which, to
a great extent, doeB awny with hand
composition and distribution In a print
ing ofllce, has at last been perfected
und that the system Is no longer an
experiment and that it Is only a mat
ter of time when every flrst-cluss print
ing office In the country will be equip
ped with type-setting machines.
The Tribune, ever in the front rank
In the march of Improvement, has been
the first to introduce this mechanical
device in northeastern Pennsylvania,
and the offlce Is now provided with four
Mergenthaler Linotype machines of the
latest and most improved pattern. The
Linotype machines used In The Trib
ute offlce have been purchased out-
paratus, and other improvements that
have made the modern newspaper pos
sible. The Linotype machine Is tiot a type
setting machine In the ordinary sense
of the word.On the contrary it is a cast
ing machine which prepares the lines
which la kept full of especially prepared
type metal, and another movement of
the fnfLnhtriM ahnnta AnrtticyH hnt vntttal
Into the moulds to cast a line of type,
wnion arops out in its proper place on
a fra.mil nor tho knvhuni th
operator is setting up another line.
i.m moon as a nne ib cast automauo
prlpers move towards the moulds with
marvelous precision. One pair grasps
liio spaces between words in the line
and swings them into the proper chan
nel, for Immediate use again, while the
other set catches the type molds and
lifts them to the top of the machine,
where each letter Is droped Into its re
spective box right side up. Iiy the ar
rangement of the apparatus only a
few molds of each letter are required,
and the little bits of brass are almost
constantly in motion as they travel,
tireless, round and round upon their
endless Journey while the machine Is
In operation.
The Illustration of the"key-board and
metal pot" give a faint Idea of the man
ner In which molds travel in fulfilling
their mission. The type molds whtoh
are situated In the section marked A
at the touch of the finger keys drop
down In the channels designated E
to the level Q. When the line Is fuU
on O It Is carried along the lines above
O in the direction of the arrow to the
melting pot. The line and spaces near
K are lifted along course of the dotted
lines to the position In which they are
caught by the gripers. R represents the
line of molds in readiness for Its eleva
tion to the distributing bar T at the top
of the machine.
The machinery of the Linotype Is
run by an electrlo motor, and the typo
metal Is kept hot by gas Jets which are
continually burning under the metal
pot.
Operated By Union Printers,
The distribution of the matrices Into
their proper channels after leaving the
grlperB would seem to be the most dif
ficult problem in the whole machine,
but In reality the device Is the most sim
ple. As will be seen by the Illustration
each matrlce Is provided with teeth like
the notches of a Yale lock key. Eaoh
letter Is notched differently. The ribs
of the distribution bar upon which the
molds are thruBt by the griper fit these
various notches and are varied In
length. When a mold on Its travel
along the distributor reaches Its proper
chanel the rib that holds It to the bar
1 PlPlilSl
iiilip
The Distributing liar.
ready for use on the press or on the
sterotyplng table. The operator sits
before the keyboard of the machine as
shown In the first Illustration, and by
simply manipulating the keys and va
rious levers is enabled to turn out lines
of type already cast with astonishing
rapidity. With each movement of the
finger after the manner of the type-
tjisTffrauTOR
ends and the mold therefor drops off
Into its place at once.
The Linotypes in The Tribune offlce
were set up several days ago under the
supervision of J. H. Bedell, an expert
machinist in the employ of the Mergen
thaler Linotype company, and they bid
fair to accomplish even more than haB
been promised. They are operated by
SinCiirsf Gotham
find Its Ocioptis
New York's Police Force Shelters the
Biggest Thieves in History.
SCARLET SKIRTS BLL'ECOATS
t'nholy Alliance Between Law an 1 Order
end Crime and Disorder-Thirty Ycare
of Depravity Lost Year More Than
Five Millions of Money Extorted.
right, and trie expense of the machines
together with that of other contem
plated improvements, will cause an out
lay of about 125,000.
The Machine's Advantages.
The m.ost important advantages of
the type-setting machine are the
amount of extra reading matter that
can be furnished patrons or a paper at
slight expense, and the new and clean
faced type that is presented the reader
each morning. As will be seen by the
description of the Linotype that fol
lows, the type for every paper Is entire
ly new each day.
For more than a century past ef
forts have been made to do away with
the slow work of composition and dis
tribution In the dally newspaper offlce.
Mechanics of an inventive turn almost
without number have endeavored to
solve the problem. But in every In
stance the Inventions have failed to
stand the test of practical application.
Among others who have struggled con
tinuously with the problem was a Bal
timore mechanio named Ottman Mer
genthaler. For many years Mergen
thaler and his associates labored cease
lessly In the work of perfecting a ma
chine, at the expense of thousands of
dollars.
After a series of failures and disap
pointments Mergenthaler finally suc
ceeded 'In producing a machine that was
Intended to do away with the use of a
single letter type and substitute solid
lines each In one piece. This machine,
operated by a keyboard like a type
writer Is known as the "Linotype."
Only Eight Yearn Old.
The machine was placed before the
public In 18Sl Owing to opposition
which methe Invention it was only
after years of persistent effort that it
was established as a reliable and desir
able Invention worthy of a place beside
the perfected press; the sterotyplng ap-
Key Board and Metal Pot. '
writer a little piece of brass resemb
ling the key to a Yale lock drops into
Its proper place on a line. Upon the
end of each piece of brass, or matrlce,
as it is called., Is the mould of a letter
of the alphabet corresponding with the
key manipulated by the operator.
Works With Human Precision.
The ringing of a little bell warns the
operator that the line Is full of moulds.
The touch of a lever sends the line to
the left in the vicinity of the metal pot
union printers, and the young men In
The Tribune composing room In charge
of the machines have made surprising
progress in learning the keyboard and
have already gained an unexpected de
gree of proficiency In their work.
Hero of Honor.
The college student kicks his way
To glory and clean through it;
If he s not king of football now,
lie's hair-apparent to it.
Detroit Free Press.
A Lino of Moulds and Spaoes,
New York. Oct. 12. In one sense the
so-called Lexow scandal by which is
meant the whole festering mass of
municipal corruption laid bare in New
York city by the Investigation of the
Lexow senatorial commltteee is, as
the Syracuse Post has well said, in
an article of which this Is a condensa
tion, the most colossal scandal of the
kind that Gotham has developed. It
differs from ordinary financial steals
in that the men who have been mixed
up in It huve not only been proved to
be dishonest, but to have linked them
selves to oil manner of revolting vice.
And the fact that they are all men
who have sworn not only to keep
financial faith with the public, their
employes, but to protect it from the
very people whom 'they 'have been
proved by undoub table testimony to
have fostered and encouraged in their
crimes adds to the amazing features of
it. Not In the history of America,
either, have disclosures affected so se
riously the personnel of the whole mu
nicipal department, not in the history
of America have disclosures shown so
great a fester to have existed so long
without Interruption in any city.
Thirty Years of Foulness.
When the testimony of Tom Gould, a
notorious dive-keeper and ail around
criminal a man who for years boasted
the proprietorship of a den so vile that
It was celebrated from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, a man who has often been
locked up for his wrongdoings and
would be now if he had his deserts
showed that the organized corruption
In the police department of New York
city had existed since the days of the
Civil "War, the whole city stood
aghast. That means thirty yearsl It
Is generally conceded now that it
began before the war did. And up
to the time that Dr. Parkhurst step
ped In with his disclosures it had never
been Interrupted for so much as a day
The town had gone through spasms of
virtue when the police had been
forced by public sentiment to close up
some of the dens which they were
paid to protect, but the police them
selves, Infinitely worse than the dens,
naa gone unscathed lioth the po
lice and the dens knew that It would
be only a spasm, and neither dreamed
for a moment of altering the pleasant
relations that had so long existed ba
tween them. The dens knew that the
police In closing them up were simply
Dowing tor a time, and that as soon
as circumstances altered they would
be permitted to go on again. There
was no "hard feeling" on either side.
Each knew that the other was "right.1
The police were certain that na soon
as they could allow the dives to open
again their revenue would begin to
pour in, and the dives knew that the
police were animated by no personal
enmity, or even opposition, when they
ordered them to Btop business for a
time. For years It was the custom for
the captains of police precincts '.to
send men around to warn the dive
keepers when complaints made raids
necessary, so that everything could be
right and tight by the time the po
lice got there to enact their miserable
farce of enforcing the law. This lit
tle accommodation was only omitted
in those cases where the divekeepers
had failed to "put up." In such cases
outraged law swept the wrongdoers
away with a high hand.
Ramified Rascality.
Such a condition seems Incredible.
but It only approximates the condition
that really exists In New York. Not
only were hands outstretched from be
tween the silken curtains of the dls
orderly houses to drop coins Into the
waiting palms of the police, but com
mon criminals panel thieves, sawdust
men, green goods operators and a score
of workers in allied fields plied their
trades under the direct care and com
fort of the police of the biggest city in
America. During the testimony given
before the Lexow senatorial committee
a green goods operator told how the
whole detective force had been working
In the interests of the green goods men
who thereby had been enabled to form
what was practically a trust in the city.
The detective offlce acted as a kind of
board of directors for this trust. They
divided the city into districts, each one
of which was In charge of a certain
green goods man. That particular
green goods man was permitted to do
as much business as he liked in that
district, and whenever he needed help
he had but to call upon certain mem'
bers of the detective force In order to
get It If any victim of the green goods
men complained he was forced by the
detectives to leave town or be locKeu
up; and If any green goods man so far
forgot himself as to operate in another's
district he was promptly prevented
from so doing by the police. But no
objection was offered to his working In
his own territory.
In return for these little courtesies.
the green goods men of New York paid
to the accommodating detective force a
very large share of their enormous pro
fits. Rellablo testimony will be brought
out before the investigation ends to the
effect that the police protected pick-
Dockets as carefully as they did the
green goods swindlers. Their relations
to panel thieves and workers ot tne
"badger game" have been more or less
clearly understood for many years,
and will doubtless be proved beyond a
doubt within a few weeks. It Is al
ready evident that no wrongdoing has
been too vile for the police to act as Its
abettors and protectors when they were
well paid for it; and no persecution too
petty and contemptible for them to re
sort to for money,
' Trading on Female Virtue.
Perhaps the most Impressive part of
this disgraceful spectacle Is the unholy
alliance between law and female de
gradation. For thirty years the scarlet
skirted woman of the town and the blue
coated men of the police department
have walked arm In arm through the
dark byways of New York's nether life.
Prostitutes and police have played Into
each others' hands unceasingly and
skillfully. The police have carefully
seen to it that the prostitutes were not
molested, and that their traffic in souls
was brisk so long as the money was
given promptly at the end of each
month In payment for the service. The
prostitutes have carefuly seen to it that
the police were-able to live In fine
houses, give diamonds to their wives
and college educations to their children
so long as the protection was given ln
variablv In Dayment for the money.
As woman after woman swore to the
business-like methods of the police in
extracting this money stained with tha
blood of woman's virtue and man's in
tegrity, the town gasped and horrored
sit th news
That was the first chapter of the
Handbook of Infamy which the sen
atorial Investigating committee has
been reading to the Incredulous citizens
of the New world's imperial city.
Police Persecution.
Following that came exposures of
less Important, but more unbelievably
petty extortion. There Is a law in New
York against obstruction of the streets
ly peddlers' carts and wagons. The
law was supposed by Innocent New
Yorkers to have simply fallen into deud
letterlsin. It was not enforced appar
ently and no one cared particularly to
have It. Testimony before the Lexow
committee thowed plainly, however,
that It was rot a dead letter. The po
lice h.d cot forgotten it, . Tjiey remem
bered It anduFfd It as ahandle forsmall
extortions. Peddlers violating it were
forced to lay Into the Police Depart
ment's creed y maw a weekly sum. This
nows. though not so great a shock, was
mill a most vr pleasant phase. Thes
rwldlera i r!sun.ab!y were honest men,
but men-riury of them incredibly
Pi or yet tl ey were forced to pay a on
sideial It- ah re of their puny profits to
the police. It showed that no purao
wan l o smhil to be fumbled at and
robbed by the fattening fingers of the
city's uniformed protectors. Thon came
ether wlUifKf.es showing that a sc ire
more of uiii.nportant laws, forgotten by
all who did not feel their influ mce di
rectly, were cnJ'oiced in the same para
doxic! way Anyone could violaci
thm-'f ho paid, and all who violated
thtm had to r&y Merchants whoie
business f oi red them to leave boxes,
barrels i:tid bales standing on the side
walk, or w!im, in loading trucks, threw
skids across, thus blocking the progress
of pedestrians; others having signs pro
jecting a few feet further from their
buildings than some long forgotten law
allowed; owners of trucks left standing
in the street at night, contrary to ordin
ance all these and more were levied on
by the rapacious blackmailers of the
Police Department for a regular pay
ment. If they failed to pay, then came
police persecution. Reputable merch
ants, who had submitted to these petty
extortions for many years, swore to the
truth of this amazing condition of af
fairs, and werefollowed by bulldtngcon-
tractors, who declared that for every
load of sand and lime their business had
compelled them to deposit In the street,
for every temporary bridge they had
been forced to throw across the Bide-
walk to cover an open cellar or support
a scaffolding, they had for years been
forced to pay to the captain of the po
lice precinct.
Scheduled Prices.
After these minor revelations major
secrets began to leak out again. Great
dlmculty was encountered when an ef
fort was made to show the dictations
between the liquor dealers and the po
lice, and up to this time a missing set of
books has made it impossible to posi
tively prove the charges that the prose
cuting lawyers have freely made. No
one doubts now, however, for an in
stant, that each one of the saloonkeep.
ers who violated any of the manifold ex
else regulations of the city paid, and
paid liberally, for the privilege. It Is
agreed that the police have had well
regulated tariffs for the different of
fenses. Saloons keeping open after 1 a.
m. paid a certain sum; saloons doing
business on Sunday paid another; Ba
loons selling without a license paid an
other. More than half of the 7,000 sa
loons In town committed all three of
these wrongdoings; so the revenue, as
shown below, was enormous. Besides,
It Is pretty clearly understood that
many of the low groggeries in town In
which drugged drinks are sold and cus.
tomers robbed nald hlehly for the nrlvl
lege of going unmolested, In one or two
precincts actually dividing the proceeds
of the robberies with the police captains
ana tneir ward detectives.
to the low hundreds, doubtless. It is
unquestionably fair to put the num
ber at 3,500 and the price at $500 a year
each, thus getting a total of $1,750,000
per annum.
In Tabulated Evidence.
From all these figures the following
table Is made up;
Per Annum.
Houses of prostitution J,i51,0M)
Green goods 3N
amblers '2,0 k) .
Merchants (iii.OH)
I'eddlerB 7S OK)
SlKns. fruit stands, bootblacks..
Baloons 1,750.000
Grand total t.',,600
This, of Itself, is larcer evf ry year
than the full indebtedness of the states
of Vermont, Delaware, Wrest Virginia,
.Florida, North Dakota, Montana, Wy
oming, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada,
I tah, Idaho, Washington or Oregon. It
almost equals each year the debt of
New Hampshire, South Dakota, Mis
sissippi or Colorado.
That gives an idea of what the blood
money levied yearly by the New York
police amounts to. Now let us get a
glimpse of the total for the thirty
years during which this system is
known to have been in vogue.
Millions of Blood Money.
Suppose that thirty years ago the
blackmail amounted to only 10 per cent,
of what it did last year, and that Its
growth since then has been uniform.
The figures then would run approxi
mately thus, like this: 18G3, $550,000;
1864, $715,000; 1865, $'.120,000; I860, $1,085,
000; 1867, $1,250,000; 1868, $1,415,000; I860,
$1,580,000; 1870, $1,745,000; 1871, $1,910,000;
1872, $2,075,000; 1873, $2,210,000; 1874, $2,
405,000; 1875, $2,570,000; 1876, $2,735,000;
1877, $2,910,000; 1878, $3,075,000; 1879, $3,
140,000; 18S0, $3,205,000; 1881, $3,370,000;
1882, $3,545,000; 1883, $3,710,000; 18S4, $3.
875,000; 1S85, $4,040,000; 1886, $4,205,000;
1887, $4,370,000: 1888, $4,545,000; 1809, $4,
710,000; 1890, $4,875,000; 1801, $5,030,000;
1892, $5,195,000; 1S93, $5,200,000; 1894, $5,
325,000. The enormous total of this
amazing array of figures Is little less
than the Inconceivable Bum of $100,000,
000, or, exactly, $97,580,000.
The bonded debt of New York state
alone equals this great figure; It Is
larger than the combined debt of all
the western states. It Is doubtful If
In the history of America any one fam
ily has really owned property aggregat
ing in value this stupendous sum. And
yet It represents only what the po
lice of New York city have demanded
and received as bribes to induce them
to break their oaths of office and prosti
tute instead of protect the city.
Truly, New York has reason to hide
her head from shame.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS)
Physicians and Surgeons.
DR. G. EDGAR DEAN HAS REMOVED
to GIG Spruce sreet, Bcranton, Pa.
(JUBtopposUo Court House square.)
DR. A. J. CONNELL, OFFICE 201
Washington avenue, cor. Spruce street,
over Francke's drug store. Residence,
722 Vino at. utnee hours: 10.30 to 12 a.
in. and 2 to 4 and 6.3U to 7.30 p. m. Sun
day, a to 3 p. m.
DR. W. K. A LLEN, OFFICE COR. LACK-
a wanna and Washington avt.; over
Leonard's shoe store; olllce hours, 10 to
12 a. m. and 3 to 4 p. m.; evei.liiKH at
resldence, 012 N.WaihlnHon arenuo.
DR. C. L. FREY, PRACTICE LIMITED
diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat; olllce, 122 Wyoming avu. Rcsl
dence, 629 Vine street.
DR. L. M. GATES, 125 WASHINGTON
avenue. Otllce hours, 8 to 6 a. m., 1.30
to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m. Residence 309 Mad
ison avenue.
JOHN L. W'ENTZ, M. D., OFFICES 52
and 53 Commonwealth building; resi
lience 711 Madison ave. ; otllce hours,
10 to 12, 2 to 4, 7 to 8: Sundays 2.3U to 4,
evenings ut reslduiice. A specialty
made ot diseases of the eye, ear, nose
and throat and gynecology.
DR. KAY, 206 PF.NX AVE. : 1 to 8 p. m.:
cull 2Wa. lJls. of women, obslutrtce and
and dls. of chtl.
Lawyers.
J. M. C. RANCH'S LAW AND COL
lectlon ofllce, No. 317 Spruce St., oppo
site Forest House, Scranton, Pa.; col
lections a specialty throughout Penn
sylvania; reliable correspondents In ev
ery county.
DR. DOYLE'S PLANS.
Hush Money from Gamblers.
Then came the gamblers. This class
may be divided into three classes. First
were the big gambling houses where
faro, roulette, rouge et noir, keno, poker
and other like games of "chance" were
carried on; then the nool roomB. In
which bets on horse races were illegally
plnced, and then the policy shops.
Up to the present time this group has
been only casually touched upon by the
committee, but enough is known to
make a certainty of the belief that all
paid the police large sums for the privi
lege of fleecing the confiding public.
That there have been scores of other
lnes along which blood money has flow
ed into the capacious coffers of the po
lice, nobody for an Instant doubts.
Hints of many have been heard and
proof of many will doubtless develop
before the Lexow Committee ends its
sittings.
But without these minor matters the
stealings which have already been ac
counted for are so enormous in their
total that the people of New York are
dazed by amazement.
Figuring It All l p.
It is not easy to approach accuracy
In figuring up the aggregate of all these
stealings. The estimates below are not
too high, however.
The price charged houses of prosti
tution for protection was as well estab
lished as Is the price of pig iron or
wheat and, unlike them, it did
not fluctuate. When a disreputable
house opened Its proprietor was ex
pected to pay $300 to the captain
After that, as long as the house was
running, a regular contribution of $50 a
month was called for. Default of
any payment was the signal for an
immediate raid. A little figuring will
show how much this amounted to.
Complaints were received by the So
ciety for the Prevention of Vice of
1.435 houses of ill fame during the past
year. Prank Moss, counsel for the
society, estimates that less than one
third of the existing houses were com
plained of. This Indicates that New
York's number la 4,000. It Is an expert
who says that the average life of a
house of bad character under one pro
prietor is three years. That makes the
"initiation fee" of one-third of the
houses fall due every year. So the
total figures up in this way:
"initiation fees" of 1.500 houses ($500
each), $750,000 per annum.
Regular monthly payments of 4.500
houses at $50 per month ($600 per an
num), $2,700,000 per annum.
This gives a total of $3,450,000 per
year for the houses of prostitution,
and, immense as this sum may seem,
it Ib based on hard and undeniable fact.
uemembertng that no account is made
of the extras paid to the police for
overlooking other violations of the law,
such as assaults, robberies, etc., oc
curring In the houses, and the prices
paid for bogus ball bonds when the
Inmates were arrested (and proof that
this latter is a considerable Item has
been offered to the committee), it
will be seen that these figures are small.
From Green Good9 Men.
The blood money paid by the green
goods men makes a total of great size,
but smaller than that paid by the
houses of prostitution. It was Bhown
that the main operators there were
four of them who controlled the whole
city paid the police captains $150 a
month each and the detective bureau
from $76 to $250 a month each. Average
this at $300 a month each, and vou iret
$1,200 a month, or a total of $14,000 per
annum.
The exact number of "writers' Is un
known, but at the loweBt calculation it
was not less than eight for each "boss
"Writers" paid $50 a month each. Thus
thirty-two paid not less than $1,600 a
month or $19,200 per annum.
The amount turned Into the pockets
of the city's blue uniforms by the gam
blers Is, at present, hard to guess at.
As has been explained, there were three
classes of contributors: The gamblers
proper, the poolroom keepers, and the
policy shop men. A conservative est!
mate (and it probably falls short of the
fact by one-half) guesses that their
payments amount to $6,000 a month in
all, or $72,000 per annum.
The average price paid by merchants
for the privilege of obstructing thealde
walks was $25 a year. At least 2,000
merchants gave this tribute, amount
ing in an to ?oo,ooo per annum.
men come tu peddlers, who were
permitted to violate city ordinances for
is a week. This made $78,000 per an'
num.
At least 1,000 owners of signs, fruit
stand keepers bootblacks encroached
upon the public domain to an extent
which the police thought Justified an
assessment of $25 a year, making $25,000
per annum.
To wind up the list It is necessnry to
put some estimate on the amount paid
by saloonkeepers. There ore about 7,000
saloonkeepers in New York, and at
least one-half of them violated the law
and paid for it. Among them must
be included not only violators of the 1
a. m. and Sunday laws, but those who
Bold liquor wholly without license and
those who kept concert halls at which
various Wrongdoings were tolerated.
Prices ranged from the thousands down
JESSUrS & HAND, ATTORNEYS AND
Counsellors at law. Commonwealth
building, Washington avenue.
W. H. JKSSl'P,
IlOltACH H. HAND,
, W. H. JKSSL'P, JR.
WILLARD, WARREN & KNAPP, AT
torneys and Counsellors ut Law, Re
publican building, Washington ave
iiue, Smanton, Pa.
PATTERSON & WILCOX, ATTOR
nej'B and Counsellors at Law; olllcea 8
and 8 Library building, Scranton, Pa.
HOSWELL H. PATTERSON,
WILLIAM A. WlLCOX.
ALFRED HAND, WILLIAM J. HAND,
Attorneys and Counsellors, Cormnon-
wealth building. Rooms 19, 20 and 21.
W. F. BOYLE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAwT
Nos. 1!) and 20, Rurr building, Washlns
ton avenue.
He Will Lecture in America Hut Not Write
a Hook.
Tribune readers doubtless remember
how they were pleased at Conan
Doyle's "Study In Scarlet," in which
Sherlock Holmes figured. Well, Doyle
he must be called Dr. Doyle by the
way Is In this country now. He came
to deliver a series of lectures, und this
Is how a group of Gotham quizzes were
entertained by him the other day:
"What I want to know. Dr. Doyle,"
put In a little gentleman with whis
kers, who had been bursting with Ina
bility to restrain his curiosity, "What
I want you to tell me Is wholht r you're
going to resuscitate Sherlock Holmes.
You threw him down a precipice in
your last story about him, but couldn't
you manage to have him crawl out
and go In for some more adventures?"
Dr. Doyle smiled. "Well," he re
plied, "I had an impression that it
wouldn't do for Sherlock Holmes to
outstayi his welcome. Yes. Sherlock
Holmes Is quite dead."
"Perhaps," pleaded the little gentle
man, "you might some day change your
mind and let him climb out of that
chasm?"
"Oh, I might," answered the novelist,
"after a few years, but I wont prom
ise anything."
Dr. Doyle seemed a good deal pleased
at the almost boyish excitement of the
company at the thought that Mr.
Holmes might be resurrected some
day.
Then some one else ventured: "I sup
pose you're going to lecture on Amer
ica?"
"Lecture on America? Not I," said
the doctor. "Before I left a magazine
wanted me to write my impressions of
this country, but I declined. I felt
that while I might have a great
many impressions, and vivid ones, too,
they might not be so.
Wrhnt do you intend to lecture
about?"
"I 'have three .lectures. The first
Is entitled 'Facts About Fiction:' the
second, 'Novels of George Meredith,'
and the third, 'Readings and Reminis
cences.' The lecture on Meredith, I am
told, will be a little heavy and uninter
esting for this country, where there is
not alarge amount of curiosity on that
subject. The lecture on myself Is the
one Major Pond seems to think will be
the most popular."
'In it I give my early recollections,
and speak about short story writing,
and the detective In fiction, denling es
pecially with Sherlock Holmes. In
'Facts About Fiction' I speak of Ste
venson, Olive Schrelner, Rudyard Kip
ling and others who have left their Im
press on literature."
"You know Kipling, well personal
ly?" "Only very slightly. I shall speak
more of his works than of himself."
"In a speech you made before the
Author's club In London recently, you
complained that the novelist wus not
sufficiently recognized in Knglnnd."
"I did. I think that writers of fiction
are more recognized in America than In
my own country. Poets are made
poets-laureate and receive peerages, as
do historians and biographers, but the
writer of fiction, whose talents are per
haps of as high on order, though of a
different type, is not rewarded In that
way. Now in this country, if I remem
ber rightly, you often bestow consul
ships and that sort of thing upon novelists."
HKNRY M. SEELEY-LAW OFFICES
In Priee buljillns, 120 Washington ave.
FRANK T. OK I'LL, ATTORN ET-AT-nt-Law.
Room G, Coal Exchange.Scran
lon. l'a.
MIT.TON W. LOWRY, C. iT VON
Stored, Attorneys, 227 Washington ave
nue, Court House square.
JAJ1F.S W. OAKFORD, ATTORNEY"
at-Lnw, rooms Itt, 4 and 65, Common
wealth building.
BAM PEL W. EDGAR. ATTORN EY-AT
Law. Utlice, 317 Sprure St., Seranton.I'a.
L. A. WATRES, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW",
423 Lackawanna ave., Scranton, Pa.
P. P. SMITH. COUNSELLOR ATLAW.
Olllce rooms, 54, 55 and 56 Common
wealth building,
C. R. PITCHER, ATTORNEY. AT
law, Commonwealth building, Scran
ton, Pa.
CCOMEGYS, 321 SPRUCE STREET.
D. R. REPLOG LE, ATTORNEY LOANS
negotiated on reul cstuts security. 408
Surucestreet.
R. F. KII.LAM, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
12U Wyoming ave., Scranton, Pa.
Schools.
SCHOOL OF THE LACKAWANNA,
Scranton, Pa., prepares boys and girls
for college or business; thoroughly
trains young children. Catalogue at re
quest. Opens September 10.
REV. THOMAS M. CANN,
WALTER HBl'ELL.
MISS WORCESTER'S KINDERGAIt
ten and Sehol, 412 Adams avenue. Pu
pils received at all times. Next term
will open September 10.
Dentists.
DR. WILLIAM A. TAFT SPECIALTY
in porcelain, crown and bridge work,
odontothreapla. Offlce 104 North
Washington avenue.
C. C .LAUBACH. SURGEON DENT
1st. No. 115 Wyoming avenue;
R. M. STRATON, OFFICE COAL Ex
change.
Ho Came Hack.
From the Indianapolis Journal.
At Richmond, a peculiar circumstance
has como to light with regard to Warren
D. Jewell, a member of the Eighty-fourth
regiment of Indiana Volunteers. For sev
eral years the local Grand Army of the
Republic post has decorated the memorial
monument in the post room for him as
one of the unknown dead, Jewell not
having been heard of since the war closed.
At a rcent reunion of the regiment, how
ever, he showed up and said that he had
been living in Kansas.
Foiled Again.
From the Detroit Tribune.
"Bethink you ero you strike."
The assassin paused with his glittering
poniard raised In air.
"Contemplate," the victim argued fur
ther, "the risk you run of being proved
insane if you kill mo."
The dagger fell upon tho pavement.
With a snarl of mingled rnge and fear
the desperado troubled the crouching llg
u ro at his feet for a clgiyotto and strode
away.
Ills Hearts' Desire.
From the Indianapolis Journal.
Weary Watklns How would you like to
be disposed of when you ure dead?
Hungry Hlgglns Glnenilly.l would pre
fer beln pickled In alcohol, but I am so
hungry today that I would Just as soon
be stuffed.
in" the dark.
The fields are silent and the woodland
drear.
The moon had set, and the clouds hid all
tho stars;
And blindly, when a footfall mot my ear,
I reached across the burs.
And swift as thought this hand was
dapped In thine,
Tho' darkness hung around us ana
above;
Not guided by uncertain fate of mine.
Hut by the law of love.
I know not which of us may first go hence
And leave the other to be brave alone,
Unable to dispel the shadows dense
That veil the life unknown.
But if I linger lubt, and stretch onco
more
A longing hand, when fades the earth
to .i.,..
Again it will be grasped by thine, before
My steps can lose me way.
The Independent,
Loans.
THE REPUBLIC SAVINGS AND
Loan Association wll loan you money on
easier terms and pay you better on In
vestment than any other association.
Call on S. N. Cullender, Dime Bank
building
Seeds.
O. R. CLARK & CO.. SEEDSMEN AND
Nurserymen; store 146 Washington ave
nue; green house, 1350 North Main ave
nue, Btore telephone 782,
Teas.
GRAND UNION TEA CO., JONES BROS.
Wire Screens.
JOS. KUETTEL. 615 LACKAWANNA
avenue, Scranton, l'a., manufacturer of
Wire Screens.
Hotels und Kestuurunts.
THE ELK CAFE, 125 und 127 FRANK-
lln avenue. Rates reasonable.
P. Z1EGLER, Proprietor.
WESTMINSTER HOTEL.
W. G. SCUENCK, Manager.
Sixteenth St., one block east of Broad
way, at Union Square, New York.
American plun, $3.50 per day and upward.
SCRANTON HOUSE, near D.. L. & W.
passenger depot. Conducted on the
European plan. VICTOR KOCH, Prop.
Architects.
DAVIS & VON STORCH, ARCHITECTS,
Rooms 21, 25 and 26, Commonwealth
building, Scranton.
E. L. WALTER, ARCHITECT. OFFICII
rear of 606 Washington avenue.
F. L. BROWN, ARCH. B. ARCHITECT,
Price building, 126 Washington avenue,
Scranton.
Miscellaneous.
BAUER'S ORCHESTRA MUSIC FOR
halls, picnics, parties, receptions, wed
dings and concert work furnished. For
terms address R. J. Bauer, conductor,
117 Wyoming avenue, over Hulbert.s mu
slc store.
HORTON D. BWARTS WHOLESALE
lumber, Price building, Scranton, Pa.
MEGARGEE BROTHERS, PRINTERS'
supplies, envelopes, paper bags, twine.
Warehouse, 130 Washington ave., Scran-
tonJ'a:
HORSES AND CARRIAGES FOR 8ALB
at 1533 Cupouse avenue.
D. L. FOOTE, Agent,
FRANK P. BROWN & CO., WHOLE
sale dealers In Woodware, Cordage and
Oil cloth, 720 West Lackawanna ave.
JIT. PLEASANT
COAL
AT RETAIL
Coal of tho best quality for domestlo
use, and of all sizes, delivered in any
part of the city at lowest price.
Orders left at my Otllce
NO. 118 WYOMING AVENUE,
Rear room, llrst floor. Third National
Panic, or sent by mail or telephone to the
mine, will receive prompt attention.
Special contracts will be made for the
sale aud delivery ot Buckwheat Coal.
WM. T. SMITH. ,