BAILOHS OF ALL CLIMES. THEY MAY BE FOUND ANY DAV IN COENTIES SLIP, NEW YORK. The U.uok ,a lCii|;llsltiiian, M Who I* ProutJ >f It —"Uurlmdy Niggers'* from #!• ioulr:i and KlMwhere —Shipping !!• Irr, Hoarding llou.se Keepers, Etc. In those hours of leisure when I wanl rest without solitude, and would lighter the sense of my own freedom by watch *""** '* —n4hAM thsra i* r\t in# iaeb... jo .,ovi ws—, part of Now York so attractive as the lower section of South street—from tht Battery around northeast to Wall Htreei ferry. There one may see specimens ol almost every race of man from North Briton to Malay, and from red liairec Finn to Barb::does "nigger." and witha some crosses which would at otice puzzle and delight the ethnologist. -- !j •=£ GROUP IN COENTIKS SLIP. "Kenchies slip" (Ooenties), as they call it, is the common parading ground foi many races and classes —the shipping agent, sailors, boarding house keeper, agents of many kinds and saloon keep ers of a very peculiar kind, "fakirs" of various moral shades, peddlers of foreign curiosities and sailors of every race and color. A city' ordinance grants some ex tra privileges in that locality to seafar ing men and those who deal with them, and the short, broad street or "slip" is at this season crowded with a chufferiug. disputing, polyglot and hilarious mass of humanity. As one walks along South street, the entire water front is thick set with the bows of sailing vessels from every part of the world: on the other side are the vast ware houses, while the streets leading off at right angles to the shore are well supplied with sailors' "re treats" and tho establishments which are usually connected with them, and from both directions the crowds center on Counties slip, which is to the sailor what the Produce Exchange or Stock Ex change is to the speculator. On a recent May afternoon in the slip I observed a great increase in activity, for now is the season when sailors are in demand. I was particularly struck with the appearance of a black crew just from Kingston, Jamaica, who had been paid at the rate of S2O per month for the voyage, and had already squandered enough of it to be in a quarrelsome hu mor and complain of imposition. They formed a noisy group, one part insisting on going at once to the British consul and asking for redress, the other advo cating a combine to whale tho "board ing master.;." Around thein was u cir cle of interested listeners, and on the outside another set of agents watching for prey. At length one Jamaican, so black that Georgia could not produce his equal, saw the "boardi lg m:u 1 "" iU( ...., suddenly breaking of and pointing. "Yes: he is a very singular lookinj man." "He's a Malay nigger." "What is that:" "A mongrel—mixed Malay and quad roon. They's a whole house full of 'en up on Mulberry street. Good sailors too, but not so stiildy as straight niggers The masters never mix crews any mon —either all black or all white—and the) don't mix in the houses or anywhere else Each set to itself. Bars up jos' as tighi as anywhere." And so. indeed, 1 found it. No mat ter how poor or ignorant or degraded whether English or Irish, Greek, Span iard or Italian, provided only that it ii pure Aryan, the little society excludei the negro as relentlessly as he is excluder from the mansions of Murray Hill am Fifth avenue. But, to her honor be it said, Great Britain stands by her blacks "Barbady nigger" is an American sea port phrase for a black sailor from an) part of the British West Indies, though in fact, most of them are from Jamaica and the British consul in New York looks into their rights and wrongs witl the same care as into those of whit* Britons. But the truth must be ac knowledged that neither the consul noi the missionary, much less the lawyer oi politician, understands the sailor's nature as well as the hoarding house keepers. In the olden time many grave charge* of robbery and brutality were made against this class; but under the presenl shipping laws they have to prove uj SOUK; kind of a character —or, at least the fossil remains of one, which is mucl more than they once had to do. I have made it a point to note their appearance •and method of dealing with the newly landed sailor, and my impression is thai his confidence in them is, in a majority of cases, better founded than is generally believed. But the minority—ah. there is a hard lot of them! The "touter"— landsmen would call him an agent 01 drummer—is a particularly active and pleasant spoken little fellow, in his way quito gentlemanly, and seldom or nevei strikes a blow, under the worst provoca tion. As quoted above, however, close observers on South street assert that he sometimes has underlings to ast o: the disagreeable. J. H. BEADLI. Lord Byron's granddaughter, Lady Anne Blunt, her husband and theii elaughter are living on the Iwrders of the desert in Egypt, about six miles from Cai ro. They have adopted the dress and cus toms *>f the Arabs, and seem to enjoy their lapse from civilized usages. The new Krupp gun ordered for Cron stadt is to he forty-four feet long, am can be fired twice a minute. It wil throw a ball weighing 2,000 pounds i distance of twelve miles. Each dis charge will involve an exp*;nse of $1,500 "Why drag in Velasquez?" This wai Artist Whistler's recent comment on I friend's remark that the world had pro duced but two painters—Whistler ant Velaetquez. A TALENTED 30Y COLONEL. rh© WomleiTul Military Aptitude Sliowil ly ?lchola* P. 1/artmnu. Nicholas P. <• ' New York reßidellto f Brx'klyn v 'itor to the dt, i lie is 32 years of age u a oommiasion as a colonel—not J*',/- V ' n the regular jffi&iu n'^ y af tw w .11 ted States, but in one ol >l tn U\ I its recognized ad jXji Soon after lib 14j> seventh birthday V i Col. Hartuian began to show a great fondness foi things military, from that 'o time on devoted COL. HARTMAN. much attention to the study of drill moyements and oi the sword and musket manual. In 1880 Col. Fred Graut, who had noticed and admired the lad's proficiency, secured him a cadetsliip at West Point. De fective eyesight barred him from taking the reguiar course, but he was permitted to remain as a social student of tactics. June, 2,1857, Ilartman was made captain of the West Point military company, an organization composed of twenty-four members of the various classes specially chosen for their proficiency in drill. Under Capt. Hartuian's command the company won fifty-four out of fifty-six contests, the chief secret of its success being a bugle drill arranged by the young leader. This drill is so highly thought of that it has of late been in corporated into tho regular tactics of the United States army. Jan. 1,1820, after the muster out of the West Point company because of the graduating of the members and their as signment to different posts of duty, Capt. Hartman wan commissioned colonel of the Washington military company, an organization which acts as the body guard of the president. It is composed of offi cers of the regular army and candidates for West Point, who are debarred from active field service by reason of some physical defect, and turns out four times a year for drill and inspection. In addition to his other accomplish ments Col. Hartman is a magnificent swordsman, and Gen. Jordan, U. S. A., offers to hack him against any person in the world of his age for the championship. For Many Years a Publisher. Fletcher Harper, a member of the pub lishing firm of Harper & Bros, in New York city, who died recently, was the last surviving son of Fletcher Harper, one of the four brothera who es- / \\ tablislied the bus- -px iuess. Bom 111 / / JR 1828, he took a Js voyage to China M before the must V, when only la years old, spent m 9 some time ut Co- $/ lnnibia college. n , T( , H ,, t HARPE(t . made a European trip, served a long apprenticeship with the firm of which liis father was a mem ber, and at the age of 41 succeeded to a partnership. He was a widower and leaves one daughter, the wife of Hiram W. Sibley, of Rochester, N. Y. Five members of the firm of Harjier & Bros, now remain—Philip J. A. Har per, tho senior partner, a son of James Harper; Joseph W. Harper, son of J. Wesley Harper; John W. Harper, Joseph Henry, a nephew of Fletcher Harper, and John Harper, son of Joseph Aimer Harper, who recently retired. A Model iiermuit School ho line. At Mannheim, i" Baden, Germany, there stands a sehool'ionse which is said to be the most perfect building of its kind. It cost $233,000 and contains forty-two ordinary schoolrooms, besides two rooms for drawing, two for singing, two for handwork, a largo gymnasium, a hall for public exercises, two meeting rooms for directors, two sots of rooms for servants and four little prison cells for refractory pupils. The materials in the structure are almost exclusively iron und brick. The ceilings of ull the rooms, corridors and the big hall are of concrete. Tho floors of the class rooms are bard wood laid on asphalt. They are supposed to be so constructed as to render the accumulation of dust and the breeding of bacteria impossible. The building is heated by a low pressure steam system. In the basement are swim baths. The boys' bath accommo dates twenty at once and the girls' bath fifteen. Half of the basement is a huge, bright room, full of tables and chairs. Here in winter IXJb poor children will receive a half pint of milk and a roll each daily for luncheon. In the ninety winter days during which this arrange ment will prevail the directors estimate that they will give away 20,350 quarts of milk and 81,0011 rolls. Telegrapher Boloson'a Untimely Heath. Telegraph operators and those inter ested in electrical affairs all over the country were grieved the other day to learn of the death of Mr. J. W. Roloson, one of the New York night managers of the Postal company, whose demise at .a,,. a Brooklyn hos pitel was due to fb. . injuries received Mfe -3K bCL* ' n a Co ll' B ' o * l#p CT while riding a bi- IV aJ. cycle. Although v f JiMjkjr but 81 years of \ T y age, Mr. Roloson had achieved K me in his chosen A Ysjhgg® profession .and up s> *° laet spring was ' accounted the fastest sending j. w. ROLOSON. operator in the United States. At that time, however, the distinction was wrested from him in the New York tournament by a young man named Pollock, living at Hartford, Conn. Despite this, however, Mr. Rolo son, was generally conceded to be one of the most excellent and acourate teleg raphers in tho country. He was a widower and leaves two sons, one 7 and the other 5 years of age. HOMES 01' PTTwrin HEN. EACH HAS A DISTINCTIVE INTER EST ATTACHING TO IT. Delegate Caine' lieuutiXul ■£s alt ~e Senator l'ugh's Washington Mansion —MeMillin'* Tennessee Home. [Copyright by Aii*ric*n I'retß Association.] The residence of iffr. John T. Caine, the Momion delegate to congress, has the distinction of being the first modern house erected in Salt Lalte City. The Latter Day Saints hnd only been located in Utah five years when Mr. Caiue crossed the plains nnd joined them. Nine years later, in 1871, he started as a pioneer in ' the improvement of the dwellings of the city, which were then nothing better than adobe huts. He went to what is now known as the East Bench, an elevated piece of tableland now almost in the center of the city, but then quite a distance out. THE RESIDENCE OE DEI.EOATK CAINE. There he erected the handsome struct ure in which he now lives, and topped it with the first mansard roof seen in Utah. The basement, which is entirely above ground, is of rock, surmounted by a white stone water line. The upper por tion is of adobe covered with plastered stucco—the advantage of the adobe beihg that it makes a house wonderfully cool in summer and warm in winter. The roof looks as though it was mansarded with slate, but it is not. It is covered with shingles, each one of which was shaved and shaped by band. They were made hv a friend of Mr. Caine, and al though they have been doing duty for nineteen years not one has had to be re placed and all are apparently as good as when new. The extensive grounds in which the house stands are filled with flowering shrubs and peach trees, which were im ported from the east, and it is n remark able fact that the latter, although plant ed more than a quarter of a century ago. are still bearing fruit in quantity and quality as good as when they first ma tured. The avernge life of a peach tree in the east is not more than six or seven years. Mr. Caine takes u great personal inter est in his garden, and was one of the first to import into the territory the small fruits of the east, such as straw berries, gooseberries and raspberries. His house contains eleven rooms, and commands a view, 011 account of the ex treme clearness of the atmosphere, of twenty-five miles in all directions. On the east are the Wasatch mountains, with Fort Douglass, a military stati n. On the west, at a distance of about twenty miles, lies the groat Salt lake and its islands, and a good view can be had of the country "across the Jordan," as they call the further side of the river which connects the fresh water Utah lake with the Salt lake. WHERE REPRESENTATIVE SPRINGER LIVES. Mr. Caine has a family of ten living children, six sons and four daughters, two of the latter being with him in Washington. Just a half mile from the Illinois state house at Hpringfleld, 011 a piece of rising ground overlooking the city, stands the pretty home of Representative William M. Springer. The approach to it is along Jefferson avenue, a fine street paved with wooden blocks and lined with handsome houses. Mr. Springer's residence stands about two hundred feet from the road, a carriage drive shaded by tall old trees leading up to the house. It is called "Oakwood" and stands in its own grounds some seven acres in extent. With the exception of the smooth lawns in front the whole of the grounds are in grove. There was a vegetable garden in the rear, but even that has been abandoned to give room for more trees. Conse quently Mr. Springer has now a small forest of oaks, elms, hickory, Rsh and walnuts. Some of them are very large, having been of good size when Mr. Springer took the place, twenty-five years ago. Grav eled walks and pathways wind in and out among the trees, sometimes cir cling a miniature grotto, but generally with no particular destination. Hosts of birds have made their homes in this grove for years and they are never dis turbed. The house is a pretty little frame coun try place with i>oreh and gables. It faces south and a good view of the un dulating country surrounding Spring field can be obtained from the veranda, which is Mr. Springer's favorite resting place. The west end of the porch it covered with a thick tangle of vines which form an effectual shade from the rays of the setting sun. Everybody whe knows Mr. Springer will understand why, although the vegetable garder was abandoned and overgrown witt trees, a flower garden is not only allowed to flourish but is most carefully attend ed. For fifteen years Mr. Springer liai been In congress, but during all tha time it would be difficult even for him self to say when he appeared in the of representatives without a flower -— in his buttomhote. Up of eoine . would scarcely be recoguized witnoui n. He is very fond of them, and flowering shrubs and vines cover the pillars and Srnament the front of his porch. Three or four flower beds in the lawn in front jdso furnish him a variety from which to choose for his daily adornment. His house is plainly but comfortably furnished. A large double parlor is on the right of the wide entrance hall and a reception room on the left. Mr. Spring er's sleeping room overlooks his grove and has a good view of the famous Lin coln monument. Senator James L. Pugh, of Alabama, lives in a house plain und unpretentious in its exterior and without any omate decoration to distinguish it particularly from its neighbors. It is situated in a comparatively newly developed section of the city of Washington, and was built for him three years ago. His old home at Eufaula, Ala., has been occupied by tenants during the teu years Mr. Pugh has served in the senate, and what was a fine southern mansion, surrounded by a wide colonnade, is now nlmost in ruins. His R street house has no grounds con nected with it. The severity of its front is relieved by a bay projection running through two of its three stories, aud its only ornamentation is the colored glass in the upper parts of the windows. It is very comfortable inside and quite large enough for the accommodation oi the senator and Mrs. Pugh and theii occasional guests. Their children have all grown up and made homes of theii own in Alabama. The reception room is on the right of the entrance hall, and separated from it by folding doors is the senator's library, where ho spends most of his time. There is nothing gaudy about tho furnishings of the interior, everything being handsome but plain. At the end of Main street, in the little Tennessee town of Carthage, just as il begins to slope down towards the Cum berland river, is a long wooden fence Inside the fence are a number of maple SENATOR noil's WASHINGTON ABODE, trees and great tall rose bushes, almost trees in themselves. In the midst of thii mass of foliage, hut almost hidden frou view, is the home of Representative Ben ton McMillin. A prettier hoine it woulc be hard to find. The grass plot in front is filled with flowering shrubs, and tin rose bush seen in the picture rises above the two storied veranda and then droop: down, covering tho whole front of the place with a wealth of ruiUly color. The house, which is of brick, stands on i knoll, and the Cumberland river flow: by the lower slope of tho grounds. At the north end of the house is a portico overgrown with clematis vines heinnj giant flowers seven a:id eight inches across. This portico is continued arounc the rear and at the north end is aconser vatory. Old fashioned tall double win dows light the house and a wide hall oil the lower and upper floors affords free circulation for the air. Trees so thorough ly surround the place that the snn liat but little effect even in the hot days ol summer, the view from the uppei windows ol the river bluffs on the Cum berland is ijuperb. In the middle of the river is an island which is owned by Mr McMillin uid his cousin. It iscultivate. as a farm of 170 acres, and on the souti siele therej is an original canebrake somewhat j>f a rarity in these utilitunar days in Tennessee. The canes grow REL'LII ENTATIVE M'MIM.IN'S HOME. from eiglteen to twenty feet high anelsc thickly tlat the elaylight never pierces their hie len depths. They make good fishing p ,es, and Mr. McMillin and hie friends irnish themselves with new rods froi this inexhaustible supply each time the go fishing. HENRY E. ELAND. Transmission of sound by the vibra tion of I } B O. An Advantageous Trade, It is to your advantage to tra.le with us. You may not have thought so here tofore. But here are a few points for your consideration: The assortments in the fifty-two depart ments of these large stores is the largest. The qualities are the best, as we haudle 110 low grade, trashy goods, and The prices are reliable, just and lowest —always the lowest. We want you to hold us to a strict ac counting for all these claims. SILKS At 90 cents. 34 inch, extra quality Black Gros Grain Dress Silks. You may think it strange that we claim these Silks are equal in quality to most $1.15 and $1.36 ones. 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