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3Jfce mtttaia glailij gaglc: Jrtntdlaj l0rimig, ffitaatg 1, 1890.
I1E DETAILS HIS CONNECTION WITH
THE SIXTH NATIONAL.
The Missing Securities Used to Eaise
Necessary Cash to Do
Business.
No Conspiracy Entered Into by Himself
and Others to Bob tlie
Institution'
Ha Walks into a News Agency, Dictates
His Statement and Departs He After
wards Delivers Himself to the
Police Most of the Alleged
Schemers Behind
the Bars.
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Signal Office, Wichita, Kan., Jan.
31. The highest temperature was 44,
the lowest was 37. and the mean 40
with brisk northeast winds, colder, cloudy
weather, with light rain at 7 p. m.. rising
barometer.
Last year on January '31 the highest tem
perature was 30. the lowest 23 o and the
mean 30, 10 lower than this year.
Fred L. Johxsox, Observer.
"War Department. Washington. D. C,
Jan. 31. 8 p. m. Forecast until 8 p. ni.
Saturday:
For Kansas. Light, local showers,
southerly and easterly winds, slightly
warmer.
NO WROm INTENDED.
President Classen, of the Now York Sixth
National, Makes a Statement.
New Yokk, Jan. 31. At about noon to
day a well dressed man walked into Ker
nan's news agency on Broad street. He
had a shrewd but disagreeable face. He
was apparently about 15 years old. Ho
announced himself as Peter J. Classen,
president of the Sixth National bank, and
told the group of astonished employes that
he had a statement to make. He dictated
the following.af ter which ho calmly walked
out of the office:
"To the public As the president of the
Sixth National bank of this city, I desire
to make a statement that I deem due
to my family, my friends and myself. It
is not true that I was a member of the
the syndicate that purchased the con
trolling interest in the Sixth National
bank. It is not true that I mide any loan
to'myself in said bank. On the contrary, I
have checked on my other personal bank
accounts in this city and have deposited to
my credit in the Sixth National bank, and
have checked not one cent against it. It
is due to my friend, General James L.
Jordan, for me to say that lie consented to
become a director in the Sixth National
bank at my urgent request. He has not
qualified as such director, nor has ho at
tended any meeting at the bank what
ever. He, finding from his engagements
that he would not be able to go so far up
town when needed, sent me his resignation
on last Tuesday. The same may be said
with regard to the position of Henry C.
Cutler, with the exception ho is Mr. Sims'
friend instead of mine, as General Jordan
was mine.
"The firsttime Isaw Mr. Leland was at
the bank on January 22, when certified
checks were tendered to him, and accepted,
amounting to ?050.000, for'which ho turned
over the control of the stock of the bank.
The checks were deposited by him in the
Union Trust comnanv and were paid.
Hence, I was not a member
of tne purchasing syndicate. All terms
had been arranged and agreed to before I
meet him. Afterward, this payment being
hatisfactory to Mr. Leland, he procured
the resignation, seriatim, of the old board
of directors, aud as they resigned the new
1 oird took their places. Thereupon Mr.
Leland tendered his resignation as presi
dent and I was elected unanimously in his
place.
"On the morning of the 23d, by an
agreement with Mr. Leland, I met him be
tween 10 and 11 o'clock, a. m.,
at the National Park vaults
where he turned over to me the
.securities belonging to the Sixth National
bank, and I, finding them correct, re
ceipted therefor. Either the same after
noon or on the following day, in conference
with the cashier, Mr. Colsen, I learned that
the bank lacked cash means and he sug
gested and 1 concurred with him that it
would be well to dispose of say from $500,
0C0 (o $600,000 worth of the high premium
bonds and have the cash therefor for the
use of the customers of our bank. My in
tentions were to raise the surplus of the
bank up to at least $2.0,000 and so be able
to accommodate our depositing cus
tomers with case to ourselves
and with convenience to them. I then
Mated to the cashier that before I would
hell any of these securities I would have to
cou-nilt with tliedirectois as well as with
the gentlemen who owned at least SO per
cent of the controlling stock purchased,
and 1 did so consult them. They also fully
concurred in the plan and I was requested
to eutmst the sale of these bonds to Pell,
Wallack & Co., who received thereupon
$fi22,(K.) par value of these bonds to be sold
for which they gave their receipt to the
bank, which I duly turned over to the
cashier. Subsequently 201 of these
bonds were returned: $300,0000 in
cash was paid aud for the balance Pell,
Wallack & Co. gave checks, mostly certi
fied to the bank on last Tuesday, January
-S, but the bank examiners, as well as the
the clearing house committee, declined to
nccept these as payment. About $300,000
of these checks wore certified by the banks
uu which they were drawn. It subsequent
lv developed that had they been sent to
the clearing house in the usual course aud
in order of business they would have beeu
paid. It will, therefore, le.idily appear
that I had no proceeds from these
bonds; that 1 did not ac
count for and checks thus far
not covered by Pell, Wallack & Co., nie
htill ca to the Sixth National banks. It
will also be seen that the bank assets were
not used to uurchase the stock. I further
desire to say that 1 am not a director or
ice president of the Eouitable bank, nor
um 1 such in the Lenox Hill bank.
P. J. Cla-sen.
President Sixth National bank.'
All day long it was expected that Presi
dent Tallman would call at the Equitable
bank and furnish the ?."0O,OCO necessary to
lesume business, but he did not appear
aud the doors remained closed. A great
many depositors called at the bauk
dunnc the afternoon and were told
that the business of the bank would be re
humed in
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the iustitut
tion wefe all richt and that it
was onlv closed Iipciusa nf .riminntinn I
The examiners worked all dav at the
Lenox Hill bank. No statement has been
made as to its affairs When the afternoon
sen. accompanied by three clerks and a r result m tiw same way.
policeman, stepped forth. Thev carried a 1
number of old valises and canvas bans. The J IOWA'S DEADLOCK.
bags contained the remaining securities of DES MoiNES. la.. Jan. 3L In the house
S-SbessSe?!? nurr-first ballt? beT tha
burn. He sent word to the reporters tht ' thirty-third on permanent speaker re
he would probably finish his work rfr. I suited: Hamilton S3, ilson S. After
morning aud would make no statement tn
the press, but he would immediately for-
ward his report to the comptroller at!
Washington.
Lawyer Henry W. Unger has com- i
menced suit asainst the Lenox Hill bank
in behalf of a depositor for a compara
tively small sum.
George H. Pell was taken to United
States Marshal Jacobus' office this after
noon to give his frien da an opportunity to
secure bail. There were five applicants to
became bail for Pell but none of them,
qualified and Pell was taken back to jaiL
A little while after 0 o'clock President
P. J. Classen Rave himself up. The war
rant charged him with embezzling and
misappronriatiug the funds of the Sixth
.National bank. Mr. Classen when he gave
himself ud to the marshals made it a con
dition tha't ho would not be required to
spend the night in Ludlow street jail. He
was permitted to take rooms for the night
at the Astor house. ZVIr. Classen denies
all intention of any wrong doing in the
bank and asserts there was no misappro
priation or embezzlemennt.
PELL ARRESTED, CLASSEN AT LARGE.
New York, Jan. 3L George H. Pell, the
broker who was arrested last night for the
part he took in disposing of the gilt-edged
securities of the Sixth National bank, was
taken before United States Commissioner
Shields today and held in 25,000 bail for
examination Thursday next. Peter J.
Classen, president of the bank, for whose
arrest a warrant was issued at the same
time as was that for Pell, is still at large.
He has undoubtedly skipped, for a corps
of United States "deputy marshals who
have been in search of him since early last
evening have been unable to locate him.
They spent many hours shadowing his
home in Brooklyn and his office in this
citv. but without result.
The Sixth National and the Lenox Hill
bauks are still closed and at 1 o'clock a
notice was nosted on the door of the Equit
able which stated that the bank was closed j
temporarily.
The United States district attorney this
afternoon issued a warrant for the arrest
of James A. Simmons, and officers are now
looking for him.
HATEFUL BLOOD RELATIONS.
Hateful kindred are those sprung from
the parent stem malaria. They are chills
and fever, bilious remittent fever, dumb
ague and ague cake. These 'foes to bodily
peace are ail blood relations, as there is no
doubt that these endemic complaints are
produced by contamination of the blood
by the miasmata existent in both air and
water in malarious regions. Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters expels from the blood the
virus wish which miasma infects, but it
does more than this, it neutralizes the at
mospheric and aqueous poisou and its
germs before tbep nave been permanently
tructified m the system, and thus effectu
ally protects against it the fierce inroadsof
this diabolic brotherhood of diseases.
Thus it is not only a remedy, but also a
preventive, prompt in relieving, lasting in
effect, perfectly efficient. Nervousness,
biliousness, dyspepsia and kidney troubles
also succumb to it.
STANLEY'S SILEHOE,
The People Eegard the Lack of Informa
tion as Suspicious.
LONDON, Jan. 31. People are asking,
and it is inevitable that they should asK,
whythis silence concerning the expedi
tion of Stanley still continues. The ex
plorer himself is understood to be in
fairly good health and must know
how impatient is the reading world, from
those who are eauer to leain what gains
science has made from the costly trip to
the general public, to most of whom the
narrative will be more fascinating than the
most highly wrought novel. Perhaps Mr.
Stanley is bound to submit everything in
tended for print to the king ot the Bel
gians, or to Mr. Mackinnou, of the East
African company.or possibly the publishers
of his prospective volume have insisted that
his tale go forth to the public fresh from
their presses; but there are plenty of dis
connected incidents which would gratify
reading people of all classes nud would ad
vertise the forthcoming work by stimulat
ing public curiosity.
Is Emiu to ba forever dumb? Is his
pen" forbiddon him, too? Ho has surely
had provocation enough and a denial of
Stanley's concerning him has been ex
pected for some weeks. Among the
members of Stanley's party are sev
eral intelligent white men who do not
seem to dare to give uny account of their
adventures unless to their nearest relatives
or friends, and with the proviso that sucli
account shall bo kept strictly prfvate.
The ioregoing pertinent questions are
beinit freely asked and they must shortly
be answered. There is an increase ol mys
tery about the whole affair which is ag
gravating to the British public and has
aroused an antagonism which found voice
in John Burns' speech in the county coun
cil, although the labor leader's abuse of
Stauley was much too indiscriminate.
Ayer's Bherry Pectoral cures colds and
couehs; an unequaled auodyuo expec
torant. NATIONAL LEAGUE FINANCES.
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 31. The work of
the auditing committee of the national
land league was practically finished this
evening at 8 o'clock, when the committee
retired to consider their report, which has
almost been agreed on but will not be
given out for publication till tomorrow
noon. The following, however, are re
ceived from an authentic source:
Ballance on hand at the Chicago
convention in 1S;0, ?21,8S3.7S; re
ceipts to January 1. 1S90, .257,922.79;
remitted to Ireland to January 1, 1S90;
$237,24S.0S;" current expenses, S22,225.27;
balance on hand January 1, IbOO, ?20,335.22.
The current expenses include an item of
$3,000 as President Fitzgerald's salary,
which that, gentleman donated back to the
league as well as the expenses of the con
vention in Chicago in ISiO. This leaves
the expense of the league for three years
less than 7 percentof the amount collected.
UNITED ACTION URGED.
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 31. The following
cablegram was received today by Presi
dent Fitzgerald of the Irish National
league of America:
"Dublin, Jan . 31. Parnell strongly ad
vises that no convention bs held by the
league in America at present. A general
election is pending. Urge our friends to
redouble their efforts to take place in pc
bition for tne contest.
T. Ij. Harrington, M. P., Sec'v.
J. E. KENNEY, M. P., TreasureV.
The following cable was sent from here
today:
Detroit, Mich.. Jan. 31. E. J. Kenney.
treasurer Irish National leacue. Dublin: I
send today i2,000 more. D. O'Klilly.
Constitutional or scrofulous catarrh,
sore eyes, etc. surely cured by Ayer's
Sarsaparilla.
A CASE OF BEER.
Replevin Suits Brought by Brewers to
Becoyer Liquors Seised
Burlington, la., Jan. 31. An interest
ing liter case came up in the district court
yesterday, it being the replevin suit of a
St. Louis brewing firm against Sneriff
Fullerton. The suit grew out of the seiz
ure last summer of several car lo.ids of
beer consigned by the brewing company to
parties in this city. After the seizure the
brewing company brougnt suit to repleviu
tne properly una on givin
bono tne court
orit'red b? 'F E5-toJfa-e ?.I
Sienees. AUtr me laipuuueuus ol .i juri
the case was dismissed; the costs to be paid
by the brewing company, the company
thus saving the difference between such
takinir nine btllots with the same result
the house adjourned
WEST VIRGINIA'S CONTEST. i
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CHARLESTON tt. A a., Jan. &L-Argu-
nients in the 1- leming-Goff -contest cie
were completed today and a resolution
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resoiuiion win w i.vt:u ui luiuutfuiv, s
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A PI8ASTB0US USE.
A Eefrigerater Plant l?i' Kansas City, Kan,
Consumed, t,
Kansas Citt,,Mo t Jdp. 3L A disas
trous fires 'occurred tonight in the plant of
the Kansas City Refrigerator company in
Kansas City, Kan. The fire started in
the lard room of the hog killing building
from some cause unknown. Before it was
discovered the entire room was in
flames, and by the time the
fire department arrived on the
scene the flames had communicated
through the ceiling to the floor'above and
through the floor to the story below.
While the department was fighting the
fire in that quarter, the flames spread to
the building occupied by the fertilizing de
partment. It became evident then that
both buildings were doomed, and the fire
men turned their attention to saving the
adjoining buildings. In this they were
successful, but the other two buildings
were wholly consumed. The loss is about
5100,000, fully insured.
A week ago the plant was owned by
Morris. Butts fc Co. They reorganized the
company at the solicitation of a Boston
syndicate and sold to it the majority of the
stock. The syndicate was composed of the
following Boston men: G-. E. Parker, T.
II. Odiome. A. F. Nathan, A. G. Sweeney
and A. J. Chase.
TERRIBLE FUED BETWEEN ITALIANS.
ERIE, Pa., Jan. 31. The Italian quarters
of the city has contributed another bloody
chapter to the history of that section. An
tonio Rossi called at the house of Antonio
Palorabo, and was there attacked by James
Palombo who, while slashing at Rossi
with a stilletto, inflicted a wound upon
his sister-in-law) Mrs. Antonio Palombo,
in the abdomen which will prove fataL
The blow was intended for .Rossi who then
returned and cut James Palombo's side
open, embedding his knife in his antago
nist's Hmg. Jo?e Palonxbo while attend
ing to part the infuriated dagos, was also
so badlv slashed that he may die. Rossi,
who will, without doubt, have to stand a
trial for murder, is also badly wounded
and declares that he was only fighting for
his life.
BUNCOMBE THEIR WEAPON.
The Democrats in Caucus Decide to Eight
to the Last.
Washington, Jan. 31. The Democratic
representatives met in caucus tonight to
consult over the extent of injuries they had
sustained as a result of the speaker's rul
ings, supported and confirmed by the Re
publican representatives, and to devise
ways and means to preserve such power
and influence as in their opinion should be
exercised by the minority. Mr. Holmau
presided. One hundred and twenty mem
bers were present.
A letter wa3 presented to the caucus
from Representative Randall. He ad
vised the Democrats to stay in the house
aud stand by their guns, to use every ef
fort to stop absolutely all business in the
house until a set of rules had been printed
and adopted. This advice Irom the old
time leader, lying on Lis sick bed,
was extremely welcome to his fellow
Democrats and was morever in the line of
action that they decided to follow the
leadership of Messrs. Carlisle, Crisp aud
Mills. Tne program followed during the
last three days will be continued and
every parliamentary move that can
obstruct the Republicans in their de
signs will be made. The reading of
the journal in full is to be insisted upon
and is expected to consume an hour of
each day. The yeas and nays are to be de
manded at every step and appeals to be
taken from all rulings regarded as arbi
trary and unjust by the minority.
SCHUETTLER'S VICTIM DEAD.
Chicago, 111., Jan. 31. Patrick Gibbons,
the Cronin witness who was shot by Po
lice Captain Schuettler in a saloon row
two or three dags ago, died today. Cap
tain Schuettler was taken into custody by
order of Superintendent of Police Marsh,
and tonight slept on one of the city's beds
provided for witnesses who are greatly
needed in pendinc cases. It is expected a
warrant will be sworn out by Mrs. Gib
bons, the widow of the yictim.
Beecham's Pills cure billious and nerv
ous ills.
THE RATE MUST BE REDUCED.
JjINCOLN, 2eb., Jan. 31. Governor Thay
er today add lessed a letter to the officers
of the Trans-Missouri Traffic association
at Chicago in relation to the through rates
on corn from Nebraska. It is a reply to a
teleirrara sent out to the effect that the as
sociation was not likely to take such ac
tion. The governor tells the officers blunt
ly that they must reduce the rate or there
will be troubie all over Nebraska.
THE CUSHING TESTED.
Providence, R. I., Jan. 31. The new
torpedo boat Cushing was given a trial in
Bristol harbor yesterday. The party on
board comprised the Herreshoff Brothers,
her builders, the commander of the ves-el
Lieutenant Winslow, U. S. X., also the in
spector, Commandant Converse. The con
tract speed, twenty-two miles an hour
was readily made under half steam, the
vessel of course being light.
ONE ST. LOUIS BOODLER.
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 31. The grand
jury made its final report today and re
turned an indictment against William
Gartenbacb, charging him with accepting
a bribe while a member of the house of
delegates. This was the only true bill re
turned against the alleged boodlers.
CHARGED VITH A HUGE SWINDLE
Kansas Cm-, Mo.. Jan. 31. j. p. uor.
riue, of this city, was arrested late tonieht
charged with swindling H. D. Stringer
and J. S. Warden out ot &,000 worth of
real estate. The latter gentlemen assert
that Hornne traded filteen sections of
lexas land to them for equity in valuable
real estate here. They claim that Hornne
had no title to the land in Texas.
He "Was raid to Piny anl Flayed.
A long while ago a comic opera called "Pip
pins" was produced at John Stetson's theatre
in Boston. A younj; man was hird to ?;o on
the stage in white fur and caper around and
miaouw like a cat for roie ten minutes. The
first night the cat act did not seem to please
the audience, and Stetson ordered i done
away with. Tho young man demanded a
weeks salary, however, saying that he bad
been engaged for a full week.
"Very well," said Stetson, "come around
every night, then, and earn it.'
The young man appeared the next night
and tza.jed through the performance withunt
being called upon to go on. After it wa
over he turned to go, but Stetson stopped
him.
"Get into your costume and give yonr per
formance," said the manager.
"But the performance is over.1
"Xover mind the rest of the show; I'm
paying you to act your part and you've got
to do it.'
And every night for the rest of the wcec
the young man had to caper and miaouw for
tec minutes with Stetson for sole auditor, or
with a grouD of stage band1?, whom Stetfon
ordered to watch bun, looking on and jruy-
TThrn UootU Lanched.
"I never saw Booth laugh heartily bat
ence, said Billy Mestayer not log ago to a
writer in Tho Stare. "Ke was pisying 'Ju-
j lius Cassr at the Baldwin, m Trisco. Booth
J vras Brnfcs, McCuiiough was Cassus, Harry
j Edwards Ta Cassar. ar.d the lato Charle
hop d 1 were pUm every day cxrixen
It was tho lastmsbt of the ran and we ail
Wc fristT -fccn ccar spoke the well
lcamn L' Let na hav0 nfabonr Di who
RrcfatSyi 0?SndIwalkl up ad shook
Mm hesrttir h,-tfce hand. It brcka Boats
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an up anc nc iauccu cuuu.
A THRILUNG RESCUE,
JoanaSafe here of late ywra dons, good
csssl of detective worlr, hot the recent Kf
ig pneratiosai Ssa Tnmcmoo by netm
paper men is a novelty. Antonio Nicholas
-aadseveral other fisbenom wha -were out ia
tfa ocean in a smack were capsized, and
vnre obliged to swim for their fires. An
tanioswam for a small rode and reached it
The rest ware drowned. There he clang,
bntfeted by the waves. At last he was seen,
and. a party of men from the office of The
San Francisco Examiner chartered the tug
Sea Queen and went out toreacoe-bim.
BOCK FCOX WHICH HS WAS EXSCT7ED.
Onn of them, H. R. Haxton, upon arriving
Bear the rock took off his clothes, jumped
overboard and tried to reach Antonio. He
failed, and subsequently a line was thrown
to the exhausted fisherman and he was res
cued. t
Ho thus told the story of his sufferings the
next day to an Examiner reporter:
"I was chilled through and so exhausted
that I could just stand. The spray of tha
rising tide began to dash over me. I knew it
was only a question of a little while when I
would bo torn on! the rocks and swept away
like Spezzice.
"I found a small crevice near the top of the
rock, and sitting in it grabbed the rock with
both hands. I was soon so chilled that I felt
I could never move again. The only relief I
had in my dtspair was when tugs passed out
of the harbor. There were three of them,
and each time I thought, "At last some one is
coming for mo.' I was so hoarse and weak
that I could not stand or shout, and they all
passed without noticing me. I saw the Mon
arch put back to port, but I thought she had
not seen me either.
"I was so dazed and hopeless, and I realiza
now that I was fast going crazy. Somehow
the icy, pounding water didn't seem to affect
mo any more, and I thought it would be
morning in an hour and then I would be seen
and rescued.
"The tide had risen so high when the Sea
Queen came in sight that I knew I would be
swept off in less than an hour.
i"rv-v
cnFT rtr the rsab op poist bosita rocks.
"In a dazed way I saw the boat put off
from the tug, approach the rock, and then
return. In two minutes it came back. I
saw it was my last desporato chance, and
roused myself. The boat came within ton
fathoms of the rock and held up.
"I was so stiff I eould scarcely move, much
less swim, but some way, I don't know how,
I seemed pushed off the rock. I mado several
weak, despairing strokes, and felt it was no
uso any more. i Then a hand grabbed me.
Some one shouted for me to raiso my legs
and they would pull me into the boat. But J
was too weak for the effort. Just then a
wave caught me and Uf ted me up, and I was
pulled into the boat."
THE CAISSON HORROR.
How Nearly a Score of jLlves Were Sacri
ficed by Some One's Carelessness.
Ono of the most frightful catastrophes that
has over happened in bridge building was tha
recent collapse of a caisson of tho Louisville
and Jeffersonville bridge, which Is being con-
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THE CAISSON FROM TOTE SHORE.
structcd across tho Ohio river. Nearly a score
of men were in the caisson at tho river bot
tom excavating or a foundation. Suddenly
there was an escape of air, and water rushed
in between the bottom of the caisson and the
sand- The men at once rushed to get out,
but all except four wero too late. The rest
were drowned.
John Knox was on the caisson with a gang
of men. It wa3 the duty of tho lower loci
tender, Baldwin, to be below. The men had
been engaged in shoveling sand on ono side,
and were preparing to lower the other side.
Baldwin was not at his post. Knox, how
ever, thinking all would be right, went ahead
settling tho caisson. The pressure of water
began to force the air out, tho lower door
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Ss-MiffipSrSffil. i. ,
THE ATR rTFE.
g PCT .BaM. .wbf the j
upper aoor, .ned to manipulate the escape t
and started to go down. The opening of the
upper aoor, which held the compressed au
la, gave it an escape. Tho air gone, of course
i wj.i' rushed in.
Tlie Tnrfl or tb Wheel.
First Tramp (encouragingly) Cheer up, j
el' ftL We'ro down cow, bat you dunso how
soon we may be oa top. It "s only the torn cf !
the wheeL
Second Tramp fgleomily It must be a t
blame big wheel or tris? it turns mighty slow, j
New York Mercury.
In Chicago, of Coarj.
J'- 9k X
Visitor Ah, you have a family album, I
se. j
Lady Weii, yes, you miht call it a faintly j
album. I? contains the photographs of rsy J
deceased husbands. The vehiroe en the otb-r j
table i my dirorce. boend in rocrweae
Texas Siftuijrj.,2 r,
SQUARE
GARDEN. S3
,Cfcey Are Trtlwg Beady to Opea a Great
Hall in Sew York.
The old Madison Square garden in 2fow
York is a thing of the past. ITany a. trav
eler who thirty or forty years ago used to
ride between If ew York and New Haven wUi
remember the days when it was a, railroad
depot In those days, there were two depot3
VIEW OF TQE HEW GARDEN,
for the "New York and New Haven and New'
York and Harlem roads, one at Twenty
seventh street and Fourth avenue, the other
down town, at Centre street The cars wero
drawn between the two by horses. When
the great Union depot at Forty-second street
was built, the Twenty-seventh street depot
was turned into a garden.
Since then there is nothing in the shape of
a show that has not been held there. At one
season Theodore Thomas would delight the
cultivated ear of musical people with his
trained orchestra. Then Moody and Sankey
would use the place for their services. They
wOuld be succeeded for a few weeks by a
menagerie of wild animals, and the sweet
tones of Mr. Sankey would give place to the
roar of the king of beasts. Dog shows,
horse shows, chicken shows would bo tho
SECTIONS OF MAIN HAT.T. AND THEATER.
next attraction, after which there would be a
walking match era bicycle race. Ono of the
later specialties was Buffalo Bill's Wild West
show, which exhibited there before Buffalo
Bill took it abroad and begau to hobnob
with the Prince of Wales and a lot of dukes
and marquises.
Tho Madison Square garden must have
been profitable, for the old building is to bo
replaced with a new one .of the same kind.
Now shows will take the place of those which
have been there before, but whether the last
decade of tho century will bring any new
amusements remains to be seen.
WALKER BLAINE.
The Son of tho Secretary of State Who
Died Eeeently.
No blow could have fallen with more crush
ing weight upon Secretary of State Blaine
than did tho death of his eldest son, Walker.
The latter bad for years occupied the posi
tion of adviser of right hand almost to his
father, and between father and son had been
woven bonds of affection unusually strong.
Walker Blaine was born in Augusta, Me.,
Hay 8, 1S55, and had his first taste of Wash
ington life in 1867, when his father had been
in congress five
years. He gradu
ated from Yale col
lege in 1876, and in
1878 completed his
course at the Co
lumbia Law school.
He then practiced
law in the office of
Cushman K. Davis
(now senator) at St.
Paul. In 1SS1 he
received his first of
ficial appointment,
that of third assist
ant secretary o f
state, and while waxkeb -dlaine.
holding tins position he was sent as special
commissioner to Peru during the trouble be
tween that country and Chili. After Presi
dent Garfield's death ho acted as bis father's
secretary.
After this he was made assistant attorney
for the government before the Alabama
claims court in Washington and did some
good legal work. When the court was abol
ished young Blaine -went west and formed a
law partnership in Chicago with George S.
Willits, now a partner of the Hon. Lyman
Trumbull Ho mado many friends and soon
established a good practice.
He finally left the west, however, and went
, to New York, and from thero to Washington
not long before his father received the ap
pointment of secretary of state. The very
night of bis arrival in Washington he made
a misstep while alighting from a cab and
broke his leg. For many weeks he was unable
to leave his home. Upon his recovery he was
appointed solicitor of tho state department.
Walter Blaine had chargj of all his fa
ther's strictly private and confidential af
fairs, and was undoubtedly a young man of
unusual ability. Few men were better
known in Washington than was bo, and he
was very popular, particularly among news
paper men.
Although he was by no means a society
man, ho often attended the receptions and
other social event3 ivhich play so large a
part in Washington life, and in society cir
cles he was a general favorite.
Homr Ton Lose a Single Dst.
What yon will lose or gain if you go round j
the world is a date, not a day. In traveling
westward each date, commonly callf-d a day, '
hides the fact that for each degree of longl- '
tude passed over you have added focr min
utes to tha twentv-four hours. If at noon. .
utes to
when by
by custom you change your date, yon
on have traversed fifteen degrees,
nen "your day hag contained twrenty-ure
hours instead cf tweatr-fenr. In going tc
' the eastward the conditions would be re-
verged, and vour date called a "dav" would
contain but twenty-three hours. Bat. if you,
,,) ..r fnnrf .1,,! cn,i K-v rnhnrt m
New York and, starting at the same instant, ,
walk straight round toe world, eaca walking !
exactly three rmles an bosr. and neTer stop-1
ping for anything, you . ould both meet and j
pass half way in exactly 3JXi hour, aad yon
would again meet in New Yk i exactly
r.COO hour- -.?" zne. '
IHE SAV5 wC
.o Ti.E STAGE.
L Setiatr Klce TVho Becentlr
Clo-
j amed Oot a an Actrr.
! Miss Letma Aldrvh a the niece of Senator
Stewart, the Nevada jflver king, aad the j
' rraaddanshter of H. S. Hood, of MiasscppL
She a. also a lull tedded actress, having made
MADISQN
5 f
i-t- dbct at a Waanington theatre only a j
-g-r Treats tgo. Sbe was torn in Califcrcia,
n-here she has lived ainsci all bsr life, 'dtr i
ieshre to become an aetr-s -as facra of what j
she read in tfae newspapers aad elwwhere, i
at teesnaU tastewhlch ibe he already bad i
xi the real life beaicd ti fe&tiyjhtt ps J
sot to have cQBeachantea ner, as It does moac
Df the newspaper made stage lovers.
Miss Aldrich iff a bright, Tivmcioss girl, of
mmMOMa presence
and BBBgninceat
physique. She has
soft, dark brown
hair and dark eyes,
rosy cheeks and a
very pleasinc ex
presaoa. Her man
ners are as mcoa
ventional as those
of aschoolgirL&nd
she looks forward
to bar profesaeeud
life with bright ex-
I2IRU aldbich. pcctations, appar
ently having no fear of the bitter disappoint
ments that are as likely to come to her as is
brilliant success.
The sight after her debut she said to a re
porter: "I am perfectly devoted to tho
stage; otherwise I never should have thoaght
of taking the step which I have just taken."
The play in which Miss Aldrich made her
first professional appearance was "itaad
Marian," a three act comedy by Miss SeawelL
the scene of which is laid ia New York eity.
Ic was the first appearaaoe of the piece as
well asof Miss Aldrich, and friends of each
sro wondering anxiously as to whether they
will succeed or not. Toe yoang-star is backed
by unlimited money and high social prestige,
and it is not improbable that she will do welL
PRESIDENT OF NEW ENGLAND LEAGUE
Frank C Bancroft, Um "Well Known Man
ager, Recently Chosea for tbe Place.
Frank C. Bancroft, the recently elected
president ofthe New England league, whose
picture is hero giyen, isoneof the best known
baseball men in the United States. He is
wide.awakein fact,
a-hustler, as-his rec
ord will show.
He has managed
with great success
clubs in New Bed
ford, Detroit. Wor
cester, Providence,
Rochester, Phila
delphia andJndian
apolis. Mr. Ban
croft has been very
Rnorrfil m mat
ing money for the;
owners of the clubsiL?
he has managed. ,
Mr. Bancroft rs
authority for tno niAst c. BAScnorr.
statement that the
New England league will bo composed of tho
following clubs: Springfield, Worcester,
Hartford, New Haven, Providence, Lowell,
Brockton and Holyoke. It is President Ban
croft's intention to organize the Springfield
I team. In a recent interview ho remarked
that tho outlook for baseball in tho New Eng
land field next season never was brighter.
HERE'S A GKfcAr aoncmc.
A Wild Inventor Who Says Ho "Will Cross
tho Atlantic In Twenty-eight Hour.
Across the Atlantic in twenty-eight hours!
And under water ot that! This not a wild
i Jules Veme semi-scientifie dream. It is the
cool proposition of an accomplished engineer,
I who claims to have proved the possibility of
j it by actual experiment and presents somo
very plausible facts and figures in support of
his claim.
TOE BATEAU PLONGEUB.
Leonido Apostoloff is his,namo, aad Russia
is his nation; and, if not a real discoverer,
he must bo a remarkably persuasive talker,
for his government has f urnished him with
funds to study aud experiment at Marseilles,
from which point he expects to make his first
trip in a few weeks. He yromiBes to go to
Toulon and back in fifty minutes, and,
though he cannot guarantee a greater speed
than 100 miles per hour, ho thinks ho can by
practice attain to 120. And as the old time
conjurer, in his "humorous" by talk, used to
explain that "it's all dono by a simple twist
of tho wrist," so Engineer Leonido Aposto
loff says his achievement will bo by a simple
but effective application of the spiral move
ment. "You can drivo in a spiral naiLmuch quicker
than a square ono a make in tho water
swims faster than a fish tho spiral rifle ball
goes much faster aud farther than a smooth
round one," says Mr. Apostoloff, "and to my
'Bateau Plongeur under water wW go five
times cs fast as the fastest vessel on tho sur
face. I already have over fifty applications
from people anxious to go on tho trial trip."
Ono wonld say that if thl3 bo true thcro
must be over fifty people at Marseilles quite
readylo die; for Mr. Apostoloff" scheme 13
for a long, oval bbat of iron, with spiral
groovings and a fish tail propeller, to travel
under water, rising bnt once m thirty hours
or so to tako in fresh air. What add? to tho
complication is that the outer dholl of the
boat is to revolve rapidly, while the hmer
part the "cabin," so to speak is to remain
upright in ono potation, held on a central iron
axis, which projects behind the concern and
is kept level by a properly adjusted tail. The
motive power is below the "cabm," in tho
belly, so to speak, of the fish, and consists of
a new electric motor. Aronrvl the central
section of tho revolving sbe'i ia to bo a glaas
section admitting light, not to tho interior,
but from it; the light is ako to be electric,
and through this glass bat,d the engineer can
see some distance into the water.
i
I
rtsn TAit ccuDJta.
The inventor says he. got tho idr by efcsg
some ryRaai raising tones cat of tho Lot
tern of a nver by means ri a log art upright
in the wstr aad grooved with rpiral, ia
which a rope -wcand and curwouBd. He saw
that the spiral motion jjcrstd the force
enormously. He built an exprnrou Initial
of tin and made a ftpleedid tnp m tb Voijja,
easily outrunning theswif tt s&eamrz. AH
the difficulties tho meet fertile facy cooJd
suggest be claim to have cvctocbk. aad
thinks he wfil revclctieoize ocran travel aud
naval warfare. HtKb is tbebrilLant prsaju
made to the world by M. Lnido ApvaalcC,
esar and Rntsisn.
Tfa cntx here given are from The Pall Mal2
London Btsdrfi
A Ikl- lUmark.
"FarcwelL dear-st." th szrsd, M be lay
Against the Ufrtl of ni doubte brajcted coat,
"and, George, you may loss m caee, on my
forehead, er you go."
"Thaaki, Ancelma," thoohtfrdly mur
mured tie ymg rsan, "but tfce lat tbaie J
kirsiod a giri en tne forehead I Ot a bang la
th mccth." A moment Liter be left tb
hwnwj Jookny; as if h aad bn atirg auwji
uuuioir. Harvard Lampoon.
. Oalllz ImU.
Caar.c Aisrsaintaace reag nrrrpapcr) J
I fe Bearj X Stanley fcoaii -Jrsy to Cairo j
by 7 ef Jf-T.indris I
'isdlgsiait Feiunr Pauen sr tJnsra Hi- j
ckt& Darn bis pctur"' la he j:ng to slip
St. Lcniif Ne w York M-rccrT." j
P&fs
MiUr itt s
"So Other Cigar has Suc a Record a3
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THE NfW BRAZILIAN FLAG.
Sere I the Xa:st Alleged to Be Cetrect
The interest ia the new republic of Brazil
grows, rather than decreases, as infonnatioa
of its inception slowly filters through official
channels. Now that the United States con
gress has begun to talk f foraoaDy recognis
ing the new goreraraent, is becomes import
ant to know what its flag really is. Varices
designs have been offered, and tro or three
have been published as the adopted one; but
tho new government has finally rejected
them and adopted a modification of the im
perial flag. The latter was an oblong green
flag, with a yellow locaBge.in the center, and
in that a greea shield, surrounded by &
wreath, snrmopunted by a yeQow crown aad
lined with red..
On the new tat; the twenty-one stars rep
resent tho neutral municipality of Rio.
Janeiro aad the twenty states. The decree
for this flsg is in these words:
'The-pixvtsianlgopernTnentt the United
StaresBranTrtaJdng-into-consideration the
fact that thecolors of our old flag comsMsn
orato tho victories and achierenien of on?
army and navy in the defease of OKrfafcr
land, and that these colora, iadupmdeBtfy-og
tho form of our government, repraBentthe
perpetuity of our f&taerlaad amoo-theotiher
nations:
LATEST FLAG OF" BRAZIL
i ,t. . : 7 . . T . '
puuiic maintains our iraoitional.ana.naUonal
colors, greea and yellow. In tho followias
, shape: An eblong yellow and green flag,
having in the center a bine sphere crossed by
on obliquo bar of white rnnnlng,frona left to
right, with the motto 'Ordetn e Progresso,1
with twnty-cne stars emblaaoned on tho
field, among which will appear the-constella
tion of Cruzeiro placed in its astronomical
position. Tho stars represent the twenty
states of the republic and tho-neutral munici
pality of Rio Janeiro.
The description is-plain. The national coat-of-arms
remains as before, except- that a cap
of liberty is substfented for the imperial
crown. Thepostago stampadd thewoeds,
"Repablica-dss Erfaukw Jiudox da BrariL
A remedy for barns is paste-of baking
soda and water. Take a wot cloth, cover
with the pasttvond hind oer tho burn. Should
the naste b-wro ilrr. wet it from tho on.Jd.
!A
JLons, Clear Imported Tobacco for 5 emit.
j .Absolutely puro and free from all acids extract, palats,
or flavoring, and ate not d.pptd. In a, bautait and rr
feet cigar, not a, ehrapclirarro orchrroot. Kqital to any
10-cent clear in the United Sutw, that U sold regular.
J. T. CMtaltE.M .t. CO., Nholr-' Acfnt.
for Wichita, Kxanat. ull-lStS.il
bl-ooml llsaeraan ChariM Crook.
Charls; Crooks, tbvrpcriaeeood baseman
of the Columbus club, ban been & professional
ball pluyer for tho past tbrr years. He wa
born NoV. 0. l&CG, m St. Paul,llnn. IHa first-
baseball exp:nenc o
was gained wliJirr
a student at college
in Racine, Wk
His first profes
pional engage
ment was in I860
with the Minneap
olis team. At tho
end of the ocaaoa
he ranked first in
the official aver
ages as third base
man. In 17 be
covered seecu4 base
for the Si. Paul CRAEXJK CEOOU.
club and ranked sixth -in the batting aver
ages of the Northwestern league. DUTtsfr
the latter port of tbexnaaeo of iabelyr
I second bee for-thoOaaaha-dubof the West
ern association. He ttaid "with thoOmatuu
during thfeBOOGoa of 18S9, playing la ninety
seven frames, and being-credited wjth4xtn
borne runa, twerve tkrerba Mta atxl fltteeo,
doubfai. Towards the end of the season bo
lagned with Colombo for the remaining
months. Hi work with that etebwjw-of a
very high order. In thirteen gscvwtbat he
playd at socond basn for the CoJembts-chib
he bad earventy-oae chanota, and -accepted all
except one. While playing wilfc tbn Omaha
team in a championship cam agafnc&'the fit
Puul club, June 6, 1&S3, Crooks mode fir
sncceKave waio hiU, including foar beinn
i-uns and a single, or a total oC flvmaterva
basea. Crooks covers a groat, deal of aronnd
j In a short time, and his celerity tn stopping
ground tuw and tnrowtng to fea 1 mar
velous. Jack O'Connor.
Here is a picture of Jack O'Ccamor, known
by some as Peach Pie O'Connor, thovpopBlar
catcher of tko Colaiaba (O.) Vnza. 0Con-
rnr eaiurjkt for 1k
Colombo team
during the snarca
ViS, bnt had &I
moit decided to
nhamdon h-in old
:np)ej3Tnsid yAn
the riAjera ImffM
far 1290. Thrj
was corasOerabla
regret and dtesattv
factk.or-4 trw
tmtfcn, has -w
tht k ks nnd
to play wJI ksvoU
JACX o'coiraon. Vasn-fcs-tb raacn
1800 everything gusgiUfcy em:" sacra. O'Con
nor did p-eat -work for tfca-OiSMHtusi team
during tb uxum ot XVA. H has kLswq
tU&t n a baejc xp he has lm ss-ftmtv-satd
bi turowin Xr. Ws resaassmhly acca
ra. II all that is dttmtd fee htea irlr.
it is not to I wondered a ttbssrQJasnWt
was o anzico to retain kten. Bysagafax
with Colnmbos GOanor wfil reetgv O0
iem than t? h" bd WaH lh TrrrejV Vgkjroe.
HEALTH AJTTJ BEAUTY.
fvtft'i 5prs? tu csred esyJUte fsWe cf
fee riffisr of Ux cnt ty?. J&eo tfcsa
twrctypfeeef oflc&iczzxscrztot hrzU. sW
fit zoi tlrb te vk i or elftij . aad .
ca cmd a J"A T d3t5ra a4rll uass-
uttoa.bst I iteA. sl pet tw ea H. S. S.
Sie U zxr well ad pbrf si asy c9H.
Xxs, Axtie Oexttrstf, CcOssUxst. C.
Tralie on tUxA mti Stta DVim za&Scd
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