THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1900.
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GOSSIP FROM THE
NATIONAL CAPITOL
PENNSY DISCOURSES UPON THE
SITUATION.
Amusing Scenes at the "Old Ladles'
Sewing Circle" Senator Pettlgrew
Starts the Bow Eloquence of Wol
cott A Beer Garden Scene Talk
Regarding the Vice-Presidency.
JONAS LONQ'S SONS.
THE SIQ STOKE.
JONAS LONG'S SONS. JONAS LONQ'S SONS THK TWKNTIKTH OKNTUHY STORK. JONAS LONG'S SONS
Special Correspondence of Tho Tribune.
Washington, Jan. 10. Tho "old ladles'
cowing olrclo" lins been busy this week
ventilating Philippine politics. It Is not
exactly the right thing to apeak ot tho
United States senate In this belittling
way. but the petulant, noisy, djspep-
tlc, dear old gentlemen will nil talk nt
once and they nre responsible for tho
comparison. Senator Pettlgrew started
tho row this time. Ho Is always In a
row. Ho disagrees with everybody on
every subject and Is the most Ill-natured
man In the senate. Nobody likes
him and ho scorns to like nobody. No
hodv cares to associate with him and
his lclsuic moments are absoibed In
the contemplation of his own person
ality. It Is little wonder that he Is In
tensely disagreeable. It might be other
wise had ho been differently construct
ed, because be Is a man of more than
ordinary Intellectual vigor. Of coure
he tongue-lashed tho administration
nnd the Republican party. All the
mean, nagging, exasperating, baseless
accusations a bitter, caustic, unbridled
tongue could make he mailo. When his
impotent tirade had ended, tho pt evi
dent was up to his neck In the blood
of dead American soldiers, nnd Agtiln
nldo was a hero and patriot. It Is nec
essary to know Pettlgrew to appreci
ate tho nightmare effect on tho nerves
when he announces his puiposo to nd
dress the senate. It makes little dif
ference what he says, only one man In
the senate ever pays the slightest at
tention to It. Senator Woleolt seems to
be his bctc-nolr. He, too, has a sharp,
stinging tongue. Ho tells Pettlgrew
that he is a nuisance nnd an Ishmael
Ito and unlit to bo In the senate, and
Pettlgrew appears to enjoy tho dis
tinction of even this sort of notice. Any
sort of denunciation, In Pettlgrew 's es
timation, Is better than the Indiffer
ence nnd silence of tho senate. He w 111
talk for hours to empty seats with the
hope that he may say something menn
enough to nttract the attention of the
Colorado senntor. With this senator,
Pettlgrew's appearance Is a question
of opportunity. It Is the means to an
end. In this Instance Senator Bever
Idge was tho Inspiration of Wolcott's
vindictive phllllplc. Pettlgrew fur
nished the opportunity. Wolcott has
the presence and bearing of a well
bred man. He Is always faultlessly, If
not fastidiously, dressed, nnd whether
ho changes his hosiery and trousers
three or four times during tho day, he
Is the most carefully groomed man In
the senate. He has a rich, rotund oIce
and talks In pure, tetse English. He Is
a paragraph talker, and his speeches
bristle with Impressive periods and siv
nge Interrogation points. In the mat
ter of personal Inllucnce and popular
ways in the senate, he has tho advant
age of Pettlgrew In generally being on
the decent side of public questions. But
tho unseemly attempt to forever anni
hilate and extinguish tho able young
Indiana senator, was nn egregious and
humiliating failure. He got the accla
mation of a few Democrats, but tho
galleries, which hitherto have never
failed to fervidly respond to his foren
sic outbursts, heard his peroiatton with
rigid and ciushlng silence. He took his
sent, nnd Immediately, with a look of
disgust and rage, he sought tho wooing
nnd comfoitlng seclusion of the s-ennte
cloak-room.
A Beer-Garden Scene.
Apprehension that tho Agulnaldo re
hellion might be crushed, when the
(Philippine question could be llscussed
on its merits, the house minority used
the urgency deficiency bills ns nn op
portunity to precipitate a beer-garden
scene. Little of a positive, dliect char
acter was said that might commit the
Democratic party to an avowed or au
thoritative position In tho Philippine
matter. What was said by individual
members had tho emphatic qualifica
tion of personal, not party responsibil
ity. Ono incident of the mobocratic de
bate can be taken seilously. Mr. Sib
ley's manly and vigorous defense of
Secretary Oage dumbfounded the min
ority. And when ho declared with
dramatic emphasis that the Demociatic
party had no dennlte policy, except to
live and succeed on calamity and do
presslon, even Sulzer diopped his red,
bushy, alleged Henry Clay head, and
seemed lost In despair in having the
cold truth forced down his capacious
throat. Democrats at once denounced
nnd disowned him. That was expected.
But who supposed that the Wanamnker
organs were so lost to all sense of com
mon decency as to wantonly accuse
him of fcoulid political motives. Con
sidering Secretary Gage's action fiom
the standpoint of a successful business
man, Mr. Sibley courageously defended
tho premier of a hostile political ad
ministration. It was an honest, con
scientious, brao nnd commendable ac
tion. Yet the Wnnnnmaker advertising
bureau despltfully nnd contemptuously
treat It as a soidld and base appeal for
the Republican nomination for con
gress. The Vice-Presidency.
There Is much talk now about tho
Republican -.Iri-prosldentlnl nomina
tion. According to cunent gossip Sena
tor Piatt, of New York, will numo the
candidate. Perhaps theie Is not a
grain of truth In the story. It Is en
tirely possible that the Philadelphia
convention will name the candidate
without regard to Senator Piatt or tho
numerous New York candidates, if
President McKlnley Is re-elected, nnd
that now seems altogether certain, It
Is equally certain that ho will not bo a
candidate for a third term. The con
vention may hunt for n flgmuhead to
complete tho ticket for l'JOO, and It mav
not. There was excellent piesldentlal
timber In Vice-President Hobart. Per
haps tho convention didn't know it.
Perhaps the next convention will have
learned something and will nomlnato
a vice-prcsldentlal candidate who will
succeed Mr. McKlnley In 1901.
Tho pivotal state of Indiana will
have to bo considered in this calcula
tion. The Tribune correspondent has
suggested Senator Beverldge ns mora
than a possibility in this connection
and It will be well enough to keep an
ryo on tho coming man. It must ho
understood once for all that his reputa
tion has not suffered through Senator
Wolcott's perturbation. But there are
others. Gossip says that Attorney
General Orlggs would not accept the
nomination. Ho was the close friend
of the lamented Hobart. Not that he
would not wear his mantle as a mark
of his personal consideration, but he Is
sot a man for the monotonous routine
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of tho position. He Is not only an all
lound athlete but is ono of the best
hhots In the count! y. Ho is a positive,
oggiessive man, the greatest lawyer of
his age In public life, and of comse,
he is not a politician. Why not Post-master-Geneial
Smith? Both In Re
publican majority and in material
wealth Pennsylvania stands at tho
head of tlv column, and the postmaster-general
stands with the nttor
ney-geneial at the head of the cabinet.
The attorney-geneial would bo an
ornament in tho postoftico department,
and the postmaster-general would b
equally conspicuous In the attorney
geneial's oillce One Is a piofound law
yer of extraordinary perceptions; tho
other the gieat executive ot the cab
inet. Perhaps the nomination might
be ns distasteful to General Smith as
to Attorney-Oeneial Griggs, but It Is
well enough to know that New York
lias no monopoly on the vice-presidency.
Ptnnsy.
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
"Taylorville Miner" Tells the In
structive Stoiy of the Gieat Mine
Sttike of 1870-71 and De
duces Its Lessons.
Especial timeliness attaches to the
following communication, thu third In
thi scr'es oi leniiniicenees which a
etewin miner gles of the labor
ttoubles In this allev:
Editor of Tho Tllbunr
Sir: Having gone ow r tho conlllcts uo
twetn capital uml lubot lit the aulhiacito
coal Hi ids during tiie cirs lSUj mid WJ,
now wo come on to the grc.it btrlke or
lTO unci 1S71. This Htiiko wus luaugiir-
attil on th ihs-l do ot December, li"u.
and the conlllct was wuged for six lucg
month'. This wan one of the longest
lights that ever took place In the nuthra
lte coal Melds. It was begun against a
i eduction. To this the miners objected
without producing any reason for thu ob
jection savo only that tho corpoi.itlors
liud bun paving cuorn.GUs big wages lor
tho picvlous Hftiin months, nnd now tho
minus m ide a counter move by claiming
bisls or November prices. Tills was thu
great him nnd try tho nilncis nuido dur
ing tho rtrlko: "U.isls or Nov i nibs.
price and nothing liss will wo accept"
I desire to icl.itu one. Instance that
occurred ubout tho llrst week of tho
Mi Ike. There was a mat-s meeting to bo
held In tho Hound Weeds and tho Pino
Hrook miners came up In a body beating
a banner in front of them with this in
scription, "Solid for Six Months," mid
that motto gave great cnthiiblnsm to tho
other miners, so that tho phruso becamo
nn "very day sentenco relutid by nl
most every mnn, woman nnd child In fv
ery village and hamlet In the anthiaclto
coal fields.
a PKoi'iurnc cny.
"Solid for Blx Months" was all the go
and, euro enough, wo managed to wage
that sorrowful strike for blx months.
Well, let us seo how did we succeed In
that strike Did wo gibi ns much u
,cno point in this struggle? Did wo com
pel the companies to concede ns much as
n small portion of our demand? Not ono
lotn; but wo hud to surrender uncondi
tionally without realizing a single thing
but plenty of misery and poverty to tho
creat majority of uh. I sy the great
majority of us, because the miners
arc ctmposed of two classes of men. like
all other branches of workmon tho sav
ing, Industrious, economical and tt.o
spendthrift; and it's cty often the cao
that It's tho spendthrift that bliouts tho
loudest for a strike. And well ho may.
for ho knows that ho will bo as well oft
at the end of tho stilke ns at tho begin
ning. To him It is Imniati'Ual how long
It will last, lor, ns ho was nt tho begin
ning M) at tho end he will linvo no houso
rent, no butcher and no ctoro bills that
Uo ever irtends to ray to trouble him
in tho lorst; nnd if jou don't believe mo
in tills statement Just ark of uuy good
hearted business men from Tnvlorvillc
to Provldcrco how did tho people treat
him after tho six months strike after ho
had given nil ho had to help them along
i'l their day of need and snuggle what
did many of them do towards him.' Noth
ing, and that will cover evcr thing; ami
thesu strikes, we know, have driven
many a prosperous business man tu
llnanclnl straits so that he becamo men
tally deinrged nnd also as 11 result of
thco great strikes some business miin
bavo been driven to n premature grave.
Such aro only some of tho Instances nt
tho dlsastious results of past strikes.
no mohk credit.
ISut by what I can Hud out amongst
business men Irom Taylorville to 1'iovi
dence buch Unancial disaster will never
ofcur ng iln, for should a btriko taliu
place eveiy pcrbon will luivo to st mil on
his own bottom and padellu his own
canoe; llvo on his own it sources anil :it
on his neighbor as In former strikes; ana
I s.tv, although being a miner, Clod bless
tho business men for such n rctolutiuii.
It Is to their own benellt, to tho btnetlt
of tho community they live In and to that
of tho honcbt. intelligent miner.
I made tho assertion in my last letter
that the btriko ot the Delawaic, Lacka
wanna nnd Western mlnoi.s was hiought
ubout by agitation and intimidation In
1st,1). I dpsiro to call jour cttetlon to tho
mass meeting that was held by us on
tbo plot wheio tho French Hoot hotel
stands today to prove that It w.ik out
siders who wcio Insisting on attending
to our own business nhTairs. A number
of Hdo Parker can call to memory that
hundieds upon hundud of miners fiom
tho Womlng valley, the middle coat
Held, and even from Bclnivlkil! county
were prtsent ut that memorublo meeting.
Wo wanted to transact our own business
but they would not ulluw us. Well can
I remember how, when tho piesldcnt ot
tho meeting would not cntcttain their
motion, they shouted, "Put him down,"
"put him down!" but with nil their
rumpus they failed tint diy. 'Iho lol
lowlng morning, when tho Oxford minors
wcro going to work, what was con
fronting them on the breaker but a ple
turo of a collin with tho Inscription writ
ten under It: "Woo unto tin in tint en
ter this shaft today." Now If that Is not
intimidation, what Is?
The so aro factb ot what took place In
those dais. My article is getting lather
long-winded, else I would say Hom tiling
about mining coal by weight and not by
measure. I say, let well enough alono
or else) wo will burn our fingers In this
matter. Tajlorvlllo Miner.
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that Chamberlain's Pnln Uulm re
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THE "HARNESSING"
OF NIAGARA
Niagara Falls Destined to Become
the Leading Electrical and Indus
trial City of the Woi Id 75,000
Niagara Horsepower in Actual
Use Tremendous Developement
Now Going On.
Unquestionably the greatest Indus
trial wonder the world has even known
wns the successful "lutnesslnj;," bev
eral wais ago, of AineileM's and tho
world's mightiest and must silbllui;
cataract Niagaia' Tor euis it hael
been the dieam of scientists and the
monied kings of the enith, nnd when
the foice f the famous watotfull was
at Inbt, after many ais of experi
menting and the expenditures of many
millions of dolhus, converted Into oloe
tilcnl eneigy to do tliei bidding of man,
Is It to b? vvoneleieel at that Nikola
Tesla, the gieat ele-ttleal genius of
tho age, e'litlnt.slnstKilly exelaliiied:
"Niagaia power will make Niagara
tho greatest city In tho woild! '
Tesla, looking for the llrst time upon
the gieat whliliug dynnmos in tho
power-house' of the Nligai.t Falls
Power Compiny nt Niagara, saw plc
tuieel In his mind's eve a vast city
Btl etching fmm one end of the Niagara
fiontler to the othei; u gttMt Indus
tilal community tho like ot which the
woi Id has never yet known; a splcnellil
city of gieat factoiies, whose wheels
should be elilveu by tile silent, won
detful eleetilcnl foiee generated fiom
tho mighty nisli of wntois past th
city's doom: a elty of millions of peo
ple, of untold wealth, tho manufactur
ing and Industrial center of the whoto
civilized wot Id.
That was TesU'.s lslon of tho fu
ture of Niagaia, and Just so suiely as
electricity Is to bee the coming lulhur
force In the Indiistilnl llfu and activity
of tho civilized woihl, just so suiely Is
It NIagaia's manifest destiny to bo
tho gieat edertileal nnd Inelustilal city
of the idith.
Niagaia eleetile power has been In
uso only a few ycni.s, but nlieady It
Is being used to opeiate u l.ugo num
ber of tho gitutest Industrial plants
In lluflalo and Nl.igiu.i Falls. Over
75 000 horso-pow er has s'i far been de
veloped at Niagaia Falls.
A large number of gieat manufac
tures havo been established oa tin
Niugui.i dining tho last lew years and
under tho magical Inllucnce of Niagaia
Falls power tho cheapest and bebt mo
tive power In tho woild, havo pros
pcued and cieated wealth. It is a fact
of tecent Inelustilal history that there
Is seatcely a big manufacturing plant
nt Niagara Falls that han not at least
doubled its sizo and capacity in tho
lust two or tlneo yeais and these
weio the years of panic and hard
times!
In less than five yrais, Nlagari
power will bo In general use all over
tho Niagara Frontier.
Imi ortant new plants aro constantly
b-lng attracted to tho present city of
Niagaia Falls and with the great re
vival of business nnd prosperity from
ono end of the land to the other, hun-
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Some of it is just from the presses the immense hits of the day.
Not a Sheet Worth Less Than 40c to H50.
Below may be found a few of the titles as we see them at random. Positively
none will be sold to dealers and none will be exchanged. The extraordinarily low
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Entire Main Aisle Wyoming Ave. entrance, will be devoted to the selling today.
Gov. Roosevelt's Bough Riders.
Country Club Phillips.
Coon's Holiday Two-Step.
Uncle Sara's Navy Phillips.
Selections from Bunaway Girl.
Selections from the Geisha.
Selections from Girl from Paris.
All of Chauncey Olcott's Songs.
May Irwin's Coon Songs.
Just One Girl.
The Church Across the Way.
Always.
Georgia Camp Meeting.
The Ameer Selections.
My Honolulu Lady.
The Honolulu Cake Walk.
11 Green's Cake Walk.
Dance of the Brownies.
Cotton Blossoms Two-Step.
Mollle I Love You Wooler.
Se-Koven's Recessional.
Nordica Schottlshe.
ALL OF JOHN PHILIP SOUSA'S
Selections from Fortune Teller.
An Old Fashioned Girl.
Impecunious Davis.
Campln' on do Ole Suawanee.
One Touch of Nature vocal.
Dearest Flower, Forget Me Not
Wooler.
The Angel's Anthem.
Jolly Musketeers.
Only One Daisy Left.
Somewhere a Heart is Waiting.
Moonlight Serenade.
MARCHES.
These titles form a small part of the collection. There are religious vocal solos,
and many solos, duos and so forth for the cornet, mandolin, guitar and other instru
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ioo Musical Albums in both vocal and instrumental; containing the very 'jCn
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dredj of manufacture! In nil parts
if the United States nui making ln
eiulries ns to Niagaia power i.nd many
of them nro getting mndy to remove
their plants to Niagaia.
The men who have Invested their
millions lu tho Niagara Falls Power
Company, the younger but the gi eater
and the more vigorous power company
at Niagara, nie nmoniT the leadlntr
eapltallsts of this country. Their
names aie house-hold words. Pome of
them are1 John Jacob Attur, 'William
K. Vanderbllt. J. I'leipnnt '.loigan,
Kdwnid U. Adams. 1"). O. Mills, Isaao
N. Stllgman, Mori Is K. .loaup. Augtut
Uelmont and other banktis from New
Yoik and Huston
The Niagara rails Power Company
wns oiganlzed In 10. Tho woik of
"hain"ssliiB Nl.ig.ua" was undertaken
lu 1SS' and up to thu piestent tint"
about 57,000,0(10 has been spent on the
Immense wotk of thin company and
lis allied companies.
Tliftt' Is not space hcie to descilb?
nioie than the few main featuies of
this wondi'iful power-plant. The sur
face canal, a mile and a half above
the P.ills, is L'"0 feet wide, 1-' fe-et elee
and extends Inwaid l.Ti'O fe-et. It will
MMVe- w.Ui'l- sullleient to geneiate 100,
000 boise-powei. At It" side stands
thij powei-housf, beiieaih which is tho
wheel-pit, 400 feet lonp and ir.8 leet
deep. The power Is geneialed at tho
bottom of the wheel-pit, where thy
watei. pouilmr Into gieat steel pen
stocks, escapes and In escaping- whltls
tho Immenso tuiblnes nt the lato ot
2V) levolutliins a nilnure. 1'ioin the"
tin bines, whli ling with them, the shaft.
2S liuhes In diameter, leaehes into tho
power-hou-i', wheie it Is ci owned by
tin' i evolving llelds en tho dvnamo.
Heie tho dlie-et motion ricilvcd fio'H
the water Is (ouveiteel Into electilcal
energj.
Pi oni the power houo tho eloetllo
run Hit is sent out to points nil over
the Niagaia Fiontler. The transmis
sion line to Duffalo is nnu of the most
lemniUahle uehlevemenU of Its Kind
In r-xlste'iice. lleaehltir the- city, tint
Tails ede'ctilc.il power Is delivered to
sovei.it btatlons lu widely Mpni.tll
paits of the city nnd fiom these Is
sent out to rustomeiH In the respej
tlve dlstilet.
Niagaia Tails Is nlieady the gieatest
center of the elect lo-cheinlcal manu
facturing industry In the world.
Miinv new plants of this kind havo
been established at Nlacaia Fails with
in tho last few je'ais and these nio
among the most suieessful Indu'tiles
In the woild of m mutiifture today.
Among them aie tho well-known Cnr
boiuiiduin company, which manufai!
ttiio cniboruiiduin, the new nbiuslve.
This company has bi-on ro hiiccessful
that It has JiiHt doubled the capacity
nnd sizo of Its oilglual plant em tho
Ameiic.in side of the river and has also
established a Uouilshlntr factory acioss
tho ilvcr In Ontario, where it gets Its
power fioin tho Canadian Falls Povvr
Company, the Canadian branch of the
big Power Companv.
Other leading' electio-clumlcal plants
nro the Union Caibldo company, man
ufacturers of calcium carbide: Slathie
eon Alkali works, manufactuiers of
soda ash; tho Niagara Klectro-Cheml-cal
company, manufacturers of perox
ide of sodium; tho Oldbury JOIectro.
Chemical company, manufacturer of
electro-chemicals; and tho nowly-cr-ganlzed
National Electrolytic com
pany, manufacturers of rhlorato of
potash.
Seven buildings aro being construct
ed for the Ohlbury Chemical comj any,
who aro u concern from Oldbvry (near
nirmlngham), England. Their estab
llshmcnt has been In existence for ovor
fifty vears, and they nro well known
lu Great Britain ns onu of tho largest
liiniH manufactuilng elect! o-chemlcal
pioducts. The land for their plant at
Niagara Falls covers about two and
one-half acres. At Pint 400 horsi
power will bo used.
The three greatest ludttstiles of NlajJ
nia Tails nio the Niagaia Tails Ta
per mill; the Union C.ubide company
nnd the Pittsburg Reduction company.
These nre among the rreatest manu
factories in this countiy nnd each
ui,es over T.d'C boise-puwi'r fiom tho
great cataract, Peslde-. a laigo num
ber of other lndustiles, paper and Hour
111111.4. muchlne Miops, i-tc etc., all the
elect! lu l.illw.ivs, the local lighting
companies and the cltv water works
aie supplied with power fiom the
world's gieutos,t cataract.
CAUSED BY CHILDHEN.
Catnstiophes That Have Resulted in
Loss of Life and Property.
It is not ofte-n that a child In a
naughty mood does so much dumage as
was occasioned lecently In an Indian
village In Malabar. A little lad of six,
having been scolded by his mother,
thti'iitened to set lire to the house
and did io. lu hot weather on tho
plains, and especially In a native vil
lage', wheie' the houses He thick and
wheio (lie engines aie unknown, a Hie
soon s-pie.uls, and thu one that was
Mudled by this mischievous urchin
lasted two bouts and destioyed llfty
sev en houses.
On the 2Sth of November, IS";, a med
dling "middy" opened a valve In the
Iron Duke, nnd the ea lushed In. He
Hist tried to shut thu valve, and then,
becoming filghtened, inn nway to an
other patt of the ship. Ills cowardice
caused damage to the extent of 85,000,
and came veiy near losing the country
one ot Its llnest men-of-war. This was
bad enuuglt, but Kime tluee or four
jeais later a big ship, thu Esperanto,
fiom San Fianclsco, to Callao, was
totally lost owing to tho action of a
bnby of five, a little gill, In meddling
with the compasses. Tho Ill-fated ves
sel huel on boaul ninety-seven pnssen
geis and ciew, and of these all but
eleven perished. Among tho saved wns
tho innocent causo of the terrible
cutastioiihe.
Theiu have been muny cases of fatal
theater panics being willfully caiihol
by mischievous childicn. One of th
most tenlble of all, however, was
bi ought about ciulto Inadvei tently. At
the YlctoiU Hall, Kundetland, on June
10, l&H a few I'lilldien In the gall. iv
htuiteel to nui down slabs. In order to
secuie their slmie of Mime tovs that
weie being dlsti United In the body of
tho building by a conjuier named Fay.
Othei.s followed their example, the
staits became blocked, and In the end
no fewer than ISC unhappy little ones
weio clashed to death.
On tho evening of October 11. 1STS, a
policeman on duty near tho Coliseum
Jluslu Hall, Elveipool, noticed an un
usual commotion at the en tu nice. Dis
heveled boys and glils, their clothing
in many Instnnces toin fiom their
backs, and some of them coveied with
blood, weie pouring fiom thu gallery,
while fi mil within the building came
thu sound of shrieking und wild cries
for help. Heullzlug whut was happen
ing, the constablo seized an ax and
smashed In two of the extra doois; but
desplto this timely assistance thirty
seven unhappy people lost their lives,
and moie than twice that number wch
badly hint. The cauo of tho panic
was a .joung Hooligan of ten, who
thiew a lighted match Into the nudl
toilum, and then lalsed a cty of "Fire!"
A similar piece of folly perpetrated
by a gill Initiated an almost precisely
similar stampede umong tho occupants
of the gallery of thu Star Theatre, Olus
gow, on November 1, 1SSI, when fifteen
persons were killed nnd as many in.
Jured.
At the Suirey Music Hall, Shemeld.
again on September 13, 1S5S, a lad In
thu galleiy In selecting a match fiom
a box for tho pmpnse of lighting bis
pipe, accidentally set file to the re
mainder. A glil sitting next to hltn
cried out, and instantly theio com
menced a wild lush for the doots.
Luckily the gallery htalicuse was wliM
and the lllght shoit; otherwise tho loss
of llfo would piobably have been very
great. As It was, five poisons perished.
To go faither back still, a panic,
oilglnatlng In piecisely the same way,
caused tho loss of eighteen lives in thu
winter of 1SU7, at Sadler's Wells Thea
ter, then one of the most fashlonablo
lesorts In London, whllu ns recently ns
January 18, 1887, a false alarm of tire,
ittlsed by a .voting Jewish girl, cost the
lives of seventeen peisons at a Hebrew
dramatic club In Spltalflclds.
Tho iccent teiiiblo accident to tho
Scotch express, caused through two
lads playing with a luggage trolley, will
be at once lecalleel by nine out of evciy
ten people who read these lines. Well
nigh fen gotten by this time, however.
Is the even iimio shocking catastropha
near He dual, In which no fewer than
thirteen people were killed and about
forty Injured. It occuired through
the mischievous conduct of a paity of
school bo s, who lemoved tho Hplkes
that held ono of the rails to tho sleep
ets. Only the other day, It will bo ic
membeied, two lnds weio arrested for
tampering with the signals on a subur
ban line, and the evidence' cleaily
proved that a toirlble accident would
have been Inevitable but for a chancn
dlscoveiy of tho mischief.
One of the woi&t colliery accidents
that has ever taken placo lu tho united
kingdom was that which, on November
8, 1807, plunged into mourning nlmort
the whole of the Khondda Valley dis
trict. A llttlo pit lad employed at th
Ferndale mine opened his safety lamp
contiary, of comse, to regulations
anil caused an explosion which blew to
atoms himself and nearly 200 of bis
matcf. Another explosion, atti Unli
able to a similar cause, was that which
killed tltty-four miners at Astley pit,
near Manchester, on Apill 14, 1S7I,
An Unconscious Error.
A shoit time fllnco the daughter of a
inllllonulro drovo up to tho door of .i
jewi'lei's bhop, went In, and selectesi
a tuuiuolso nnd diamond ring valued at
$.'."10. Sho mudo out her check for that
sum und passed it to tho assistant, iu
lates thu Hoston Tiaveler, ,,
The aleit onug man glanced at it
and then looked iuqulilngly up at thJ
voting woman and said, "Theiu la souu
mistake heie, I think."
Tho voting woman (lushed, and naked
If thu ehi'ck was not for the right
amount.
Shu was told It was, but
"Hut what?" Mio exclaimed frigidly,
"I)u you mean that my check Is not
acci'ptableV"
The assistant acknowledged that ho
know who tho young woman was, hut
explained that tho check was not mado
out Just ns It should be, and ho handed
It back.
The glil ran her eye over It and then
tinned a deep cilmson. "Oh!" sho ex
claimed, !il see!" -
Md .tUcn sjje brpfaded to make nut
nnoiher(Check. She had ilgned tho
first one, "Your own "iweethcart,
Jessie."
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