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O'NEUL MANUPACTDRING COMPANY. ROME, GEORGIA. The present we deem a proper season in which to address ourselves to the building interests of this section. After arduous exertions and a vast combination of resources, we have succeeded in founding an establishment abundantly able to cater for the large interests of the building trade and fully able to cope with any competition. We manufacture StisiDoors, Blinds, Stairs, Newels, BRACKETS, BALUSTERS, MOULDINGS, ETC. Yellow Pine Lumber, Flooring and Inside Finish. 4 Our saw mills being most eligibly situated with reference to transportation enable us to place Lumber in our yard and factory at the very minimum of cost. Our manufacturing facilities are unexcelled, and that fact is proven by our rapidly increasing production. We attribute our success to the highest grade of workmanship and the most perfect machinery. WE GUARANTEE PRICES AGAINST COMPETITION! O’NEILL MANUFACTURING COMR’Y. Office and Factory foot of First Avenue, Rome, Ga. BOHEMIA OF FASHION One of the Most Interesting Parts of the Horse Show and a Rare EXHIBIT BY THE MILLIONAIRES OF New York—Where the Smart Set Dines and Gossips In Public—Scene, the Waldorf Garden. Society left the horse show recently held in New York at 5 p. m. every day. In the ten minutes on either side of chat hour there was a great gathering of wraps and calling of carriages, and one by one the boxes were emptied. At 6 :30 p. m. the horse show spectacles began again, but not at the Madison Square Garden. To see this part of the show, the most interesting part of all, you must go to one of three fashionable din ing places. This seems almost incredible. The most, in fact almost all, of the people who make the smart set in New York society are rich.' Several hundred of them are enormouslv rich, worth from $5,000,000 to over $100,000,000. They have magnificent houses. They have scores of servants. They have dining rooms upon which tens and even hun dreds of thousands of dollars have been lavished. They have imported and ex travagantly paid cooks. Yet they do not dine at home. At the Waldorf hotel any evening during the horse show week you might have seen W. K. Vanderbilt, John Ja cob Astor, Oliver Iselin, George Gould and a score of others of great wealth, seated in the public restaurant, eating and drinking as though their gorgeous homes were not within a few blocks, open and ready for guests. There they sat, a part of a noisy, elbowing crowd, enjoying themselves as if peace and quiet and privacy were not supposed to be the main requisites of a good dinner. The favorite dining place at the Wal dorf is not the big dining room, where the management has made an especial effort to gratify the desire for splendor and quiet. In the main dining room there is a carpet upon the floor, the lights are softened, and the most softly shaded lights are upon each table, and the tables are removed each from the other a sufficient distance so that con versation cannot be heard from one to the other. But the smart set does not dine in these surroundings. They prefer the winter garden. It is a pretty room. But it was intended as a place for afternoon tea or for late supper or for a quiet drink when a man wished to have a woman with him and also wished to smoke. There are palms and ferns and various blossoming plants, and in a corridor overlooking the room an orchestra plays. There is no carpet on the floor, and every footfall and every movement of the legs of a chair makes a loud noise. When a waiter drops any- thing, the ci <i.:.n touvues up the nerves. Men and women feel freer there. The men smoke, and both men and women lounge in a respectable way. It is very fashionable bohemia. And here the smart people came. So eager were they that there were not nearly tables enough. So you might see W. K. Vanderbilt and Gould and Astor sitting solitary, each at a separate table, holding that table until the people they have invited to dine shall come. If they did not sit thus, the table would be given to the first comer. And the rule is not lifted for millions or titles or any other con sideration which will work any wonder in other parts of the world. At 7 p. m. the little room was full. The tables are so close together that the elbows of those at one table, came dan gerously near plunging into Ifie ribs of those at the next table. The service is of course as careful and as perfect as in any other part of that beautiful hotel. But the reasons this little room is popu lar above other rooms and other restau rants is the privilege to smoke and the accompanying air and feeling of being bohemian and also being surrounded by fashion and eminent respectability in the sense in which that phrase is used by society. Now, in any society but that of New York such a state of affairs would be impossible. In any capital city of Europe the high society seeks privacy above all things. To be looked at, to be seen of the outsiders is to be miserable and bored. Other societies have built their palaces to live in, to be at home in, to be at ease in. New York’s palaces seem to have been built to get away from. Why do men With tens of millions with longings to be thought aristocratic and ultra refined thus subject themselves to the miseries of a long and dreary wait to hold a table in the semibohemian eating place of a hotel? Why do women who carefully copy the manners of roy al persons and spend countless dollars in the pursuit of exclusive ideas dine in publicity and in tobacco smoke evening after evening and enjoy it enormously? Then there were a few people either from out of town or from less fashiona ble sets in town. These people were enormously interested in the bearers of well known names. But they were not more absorbed than were these well known people in each other. Os course they knew each other well. But the women were discussing each other’s gowns, each other’s personal appear ance, and the men were listening or taking part in the gossip. From table to table it was gossip, gossip, gossip, never things, always peo ple as subjects of conversation. And as the dinners progressed the talk grew louder and louder. In a lull one voice, male or female, could be heard almost in a shout. And the clatter of dishes, the scraping of chairs added to the tu mult. It was bohemia indeed. About the doors stood an ever chang ing crowd of curious people. They were of the same general class as the people at the tables—persons who have worked so well with, their brains or have had TRADE EDITION—ROME TRIBUNE. DECEMBER. 18»5. parents who worked so well that they have leisure to dress and to practice the luxurious ways of living. They were at the doors to see the celebrated persons. Their curiosity was well bred, and so ne single person lingered long. Aside from the interest which the presence of so many much talked about people gave the scene had another and more abiding interest. Everybody was so very well dressed. The men were sc well groomed and so polite and grace ful and, as a rule, so athletic looking. The women had more than their share of beauty. Freedom from money cares, attentive servants, luxurious surround ings have such an .amazing effect in the way of softening and beautifying the features. And they were tastefully dressed, as a rule—arm# round and bare to the elbows, brilliant colors in gowns and bonnets, attractive jewelry. And the brilliant lights were softened some what by the masses of green. There were powerful odors of flowers, delicate odors of perfumes, suggestions of the bouquet of wine, a flavoring of superb cooking—by no means objection able when the cooking is of the right sort. And above all there was the fas cination of freedom. The millionaire came because he could not get that same freedom where Ise is host in his own mansion with his own solemn servants behind the chairs. And his guests in this winter garden were happy because they felt this absence from constraint, this sense that everything was being done without trouble and inconvenience to any one they cared anything about, that so many magic dollars were pro ducing without apparent effort fish and game and fruit and coffee from all parts of the world. Such is the picture seen at the W al dorf those nights. In this little room as sembled all that so many people think it worth seeing at the horse show.— New York World. INTERESTING RUMOR. Hon. George Cnnon May Become British Embassador at Washington. For some days we have had in Wash ington the interesting rumor that Hon. George Curzon, who married Mary Leiter, was to come to this city as Brit ish embassador, Sir Julian Pauncefote to be promoted to the embassy at Paris. According to the story Mrs. Curzon is HON. GHJRGE CURZON AND WIFE, exceedingly anxious to return to Amer ica and to shine In Washington society as the wife of the most important mem ber of the diplomatic corps. Inquiry made in the quarter likely to be best informed on this subject devel ops a great improbability of there being any truth in the rumor. That Mr. Cur zon is very ambitious no one denies. His friends say his fondest aspiration is to be premier of England, and that he is very likely to succeed in bis purpose. In this case a Chicago girl will reach, the very heights of social life in Lon don. Mrs. Curzon is already popular in London, and about her there clings not only the fascination of great wealth and beauty, but the glamour of enormous possibilities of political promotion.— Washington Cor. Chicago Times-Herald. A USEFUL INVENTION. Telephone Circuit Alon#; the Wires In Case of Trolley Accidents. A telephone circuit is to be construct ed along all the lines of the trolley car system in Hartford and its suburbs, so that the conductors may communicate with the power houses and the car dis patcher in case of accident or delay. A telephone wire will be strung on the trolley poles, and at every eighth pole there will be a switch for making con nections. Each car will carry a trans mitter. It is expected that the device will prove of great utility and conven ience and will do much to prevent acci dents and delays on the single track lines that run long distances into the suburbs. The device is the invention of W. C. Fielding of Hartford. It ought at least to prove of great service in relieving the minds of the passengers and the strain on the conductor when the power is sud denly shut off and the car halted and every one wants to know just what the trouble is. There is no more exasperating situa tion of utter helplessness than to be halted in a trolley car a mile or two out side the city line and not be able togain the slightest idea of why the power has been shut off or when it is likely to be turned on again. Not a few suburban ites have been brought near to insanity of a violent type by just such a situation of trying uncertainty.—New York Sun. Plan to Win Foreign Trade. E. A. Keeling, signing himself *‘Tem porary Secretary, Sherman bank, New York city,” has written Governor Greenhalge of Massachusetts a letter concerning an enterprise intended to es tablish better social and trade relations between merchants in this country and foreign merchants. He stipulates that money is not solicited, but broad and wise suggestions as to the best method of making the undertaking a success are desired. It is intended, the letter says, to in troduce products into foreign countries in a more extensive and profitable man ner than ever attempted. No particular line of goods is to be preferred, but all are to be handled jointly, and the ex pense thereby lessened.—New York Herald. _ Burney Transfer Company. Tele phone 126, Armstrong hotel. One of the Most Desirable -«F ARM Ss 5 - IN NORTH GEORGIA. Has about 225 acivs, (125 acres cleared and 100 acres woodland). Situated at Harper’s Station, four miles northeast of Rome, Ga.. immediately on the line of the Great Southern Railway. It is within 10 minutes ride of the city of Rome. Trains stop there daily. Has excellent side track facilities. It cannot be excelled for health. The farm is well watered —has three splendid springs, Is well arranged for stock raising. Is a Splendid Manufacturing Site. For sale for division among heirs. Titles perfect. Apply or write to FOSTER HARPER, Executor, Rome, Ga, or ROB T. T. HARPER, Glastonia, N. C. New Store. New Goods. New Prices- G. G. BURKHALTER Is now ready fcr the winter trade with a varied line of goods, embracing Dry Goods, -Dress Goods, Hats, Notions, Boots, Shoes, Clotting AND AN ASSORTMENT OF GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS id a hundred other things not surpassed in this section. My stock is lAiirely new and has been purchased with the utmost care and with pccial view wants of my patrons and I invite all to give me a call. None can Undersell me—l will not let them do it. I will prove it if you will but come and see me. It will prove to your profit to make your purchases of me. I will pay highest market price for country produce. G-. G-. No. 10 Broad Street, Rome, Ga. 1 0-w3l-2m