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LONDON GOSSir.
SOME DETAILS ABOUT THE
ATLANTIC RACE HOUSES.
The Authors and the Publiiher* Rapid
Frogrem of the American Exhibition
Work*— Latent Fashion* Stsc I>oor
—-Maahing hr the Shah of Nereis. Etc.
London, Maroh 11.—The influx of
Americans Into London has already be
gun, as is shown by the increasing i*s
senaer lists of the great Atlantic steam
ships. Last summer It is stated there
were about 70,000 Americans who passi
through London, tarrying for varying
r’riods. At the Consulate the other day
was informed that there 1* a resident
colony of Americans in London number
ing about 14,000. Where they aii keep
themselves it is hard to say, but It is cer
tain that to a great entent they avoid each
other, Instead of fraternizing as they do in
Paris, Florence, Rome and elsewhere.
One reason for this, I fancy, is that tney
are not drawn together by a desire to
apeak their mother tongue as they are on
the Continent, and there are other rea
sons not worth wnile speaking of here.
But if occurred to me tea: i! th ra sere
70,000 Americans orossed last year it was
notunlikely that, with the combined at
tractions of Jubilee year and me Ameri
can Exhibition, at least 30.000 or 40. * )
more will come over this year, and the
great steamships w ill be crowded to their
Utmost capacity. In fact it has been ru
mored here that speculators had been
nuying up choice rooms on the lavorite
ships, in order to ge’ a corner on toe
market, and exact high prices for them. 1
inquired among the steamship offices
here, and found that they did not believe
the story, and they more than satisfied me
not only that they were not in collusion
wgn any speculators, but that they dis
approved very strongly of speculation in
cabin passengers. They very justly say
that it will make passengers dissatisfied
and hard to please, and that they will do
all they can to prevent it.
A FLOATING CITY.
A gentleman connected with the
Anchor Line of steamships told me with
pride that they were going to exhibit in
the American Exhibition a tine model of
the “City of Rome,” wnich istbe largest
steamship ever built, except the “Great
Eastern,” and. as she was a failure, really
the largest ship in the world. As 1 have
made several trips in that mammoth
steamship, and found her a fleating
palace and a comtortable home. 1 felt as if
I had heard good news of an old friend.
It suggested itself then that 1 did not
know or realize,except in a general way,
bow vast an undertaking is the running
of such a ship, and 1 doubt if many old
yoyagers even ever do, much less the
millions who never saw salt water or
crossed it, so l proceeded to interview my
friend on the subject of the floating city.
He warned me bis figures were not exact
to a fractioa, but they are sufficiently
close to give one an idea of the expense
and labor involved. The cost of a round
tripof one of th'-se great ships is some
thing over $50,000 to start with.
Then to come to details, the catering de
partment is a work that can only be ac
complished by experienced men. The
ohisf steward usually calculates upon an
allowance of pounds of meat per day
lor each person, together with a liberal al
lowance of fresh vegetables, fish, fruit,
•to., etc. “The Rome,” when she is run
ning full, as she does in summer, shins
from 14,000 to 14,000 pounds of fresn
meat, and it is Berved daily to passen
gers and orew. In case ot delay from ac
cident, however, the 6teerage passengers
and crew would be pht on salt ration-,
and then the supply would last several
weeks in the first oabin. There are
separate and enormous ice'cellars, the
ban, poultry and meats being kept in
separate refrigerators. According to the
Mason, from 12 to 24 tons of ice are re
quired to supply the ship. Eggs aro laid
In fresh at the last moment lor each trip,
and preserved by a preparation ol lime
and some otner matter.
Something like hall a ton of butter is
used in a trip, and 3,000 to 4,000 cigars.
The quantity of wine and beer consumed
enormous, but it varies very much, as
on soma trips we carry a remarkable
number of Americans who do not drink
with their meals as all Europeans do. The
silver in use in the saloon number s near
ly 2,000 pieces, which have to be looked
after and kept clean. Tne towels, table
linen and turniture coverings areebanged
daily, and as no washing is done on
board, the stock is enormous. Sometimes
nearly 3,000 napkins alone are used on a
trip, 1,200 to 1,600 sheets, and 5,000 to H,OOO
towels. Tne officers and crew number
about 200 souls. The coal burned varies
with the speed, but a large ship like the
“Rome” will burn ovsr 3,000 to 4,000 tons
of coal in a round trip.
Think of the resemblance to city in
other ways, except Id name. There Is
a butcher’s shop, a baker's shop, a
grocer’s shop, a cigar shop, a burner’s
shop, a oarpeuter’s snop, a blacksmith’s
1 shop and a sailmaker’s shop, and more
than that, a printing office, where bills of
fare and other matter are printed and
from which a weekly paper is published.
There ,js a parental government, uud toe
ship is policed by watchmen and guarded
py a tire brigade, and lastly there is
usually as much gossip and jealousy as
in any small city, beiore the ship 'has
been forty-eight hours at sea. There is
something for you to think oi when you
are coming your 3,000 miles journey in a
week from land to laud.
THEATRICAL NOTES.
Mrs. Brown Hotter is announced to ap
pear here at the Uaymarkot Theatre, but
the critics du not enthuse much at tne
prospect, and say that they are quite
aware her appe&ranoe is part of too puff
preliminary process, to enable her to
gather in shekels in America.
Miss Sophie Eyre, formerly leading
lady at Wallaces, has joined forces with
Miss Grace Hawthorne, the American
girl who has the leases of the Olympic
and Princess’ theatres. They ought to
make a strong team, and certainly no two
women could be less alike iu methods or
appearance,
AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS.
A discussion is going on in the Daily
in regard to the relations between
authors and their publishers. It was
tiliated by Besant, of the I age literary
mof Itesant Jt Rice, who were most
successful. It has brought out some
amusing specimens of publishers’ ac
counts rendered, and also shown up tbs
tact that the great number of three-vol
ume novels of the trashiest kind, which
■rewritten by aoelety people End pub
lished here are paid for by tneir authors,
Jwho crave fame and are willing to pay for
it by tbs pound, or folio is perhaps a bet
ter word.
THE AMERICAN EXHIBITION.
The work on the buildings and grounds
Of the American Exhibition is being
pushed with even greater energy as the
liiue for opening draws near. 1 visited
the grounds of the Wild West one day
this week, and was astonished to find
them nearly completed, although it will
be ovsr a month before Buffalo Bill and
his cohorts invade London. The oowall
lor the buffaloes was completed and paint
ed, the extensive stables completed and
receiving their interior fittings, and the
enormous grand stand progressing rap
idly, the heavy framing being in procese
of covering. All the fences are up, and
the track ad encampment laid out and
sodded. The gardrns are also In i* very
forward state, and the main building is
growing under the bauds of nearly 7oh
men, roofing, flooring, and putting tne
Iron aides®n simultaneously. lUe Diico
lor Oaoeral, Mr. Whitley, tells me they
will be lyAy to open, and open without
' the usual concert of hammers incident
to the inaugural ceremonies of most, if
not all exhibitions. The exiibits are be
ginning to arrive, and Jlr. Smith, the
< a.t-f of Installation, says that exhibitors
should hurry up shipments, so that every
thing may be in place on the opening
day.
A GRAND MLSICALK.
Mile. Gayrard Paolni, pianiste to the
Princess o! Wales, gave a grand musi
cal* on Tuesday last, at the studio of Mr.
Dampiar May, the portrait painter. The
attensanee was very large, and many no
tables end diplomatists were present.
Among tnt artistes who assisted Mile.
P.at wore : wo well known in America,
vis., Mine Louise Pvk-Xewson and
.Vi lit Scrrsys The former sang with her
sseaatvraed swoceaa, being a great favor
ite sera, and the latter reoited with
marxed ability,and :s having great suc
cess as the leading lacy In Pinero’s
‘•Dandy Blok” at the Court Theatre.
VEX SACS OF THE FASHIONS.
i have Dromlshd my lady readers some
la-hion notes recently, so I condense the
following from an unimpeachable author
ity:
'.me of the most extraordinary freaks
of fashion indulged in during the past
winter has been the entire absence of
white under garments for ladies; colored
t clangs were first decreed instead of
white ones, and tnen all tne rest of the
underwear followed suit. The extreme of
elegance Is for a lady in a ball toilette to
be entirely arrayed in garments the oolor
of her dress. The undermost garments
of surah, tbe corset of satin, the inner
petticoat of finely embroidered flannel,
the outer one of taffetas, must all he in the
r *.9>iue.or Dink, or scarlet of the dre-s.
Line cambric, dotted or striped in tine
linens lq a vivid scarlet, and finished with
acalops in button-hole embroidery in
scarlet thread, is used as a substitute for
surah for the undergarments. Even the
handkerchief is no longer white, hut is in
colored cambric, bordered with button
hole stitch embroidery in white, and Hav
ing the wearer’s monogram worked in
wnite. Ruches in crepe lisss or in plaited
cambric to be worn to tue throat and
wrists are as totally out of fashion as
though they bad never been in it. In fact,
nothing white remains but the night
dress, and that is now supplemented by a
matinee in cashmere or surah, elabor
ately trimmed with lace and ribbon, which
the fair wearer is supposed to slip on be
fore taking her early cup of coffee or tea.
STAGE- DOOR MASHERS
are not unknown in our country, though
we never see the sights there that can be
seen any night at any London theatre
where comic opera or burlesque is being
played. But it remains for the Shah of
Persia to eclipse everything known in
that line.
A Frenchman, one M. Leger, knowing
the Shah’s partiality Tor European rev
els, has just taken an opera bouffe o om
pany to the Persian capital. He was
certain the Shah would honor the first
night, and that all tbe big bashaws would
follow their monarch’s example. And so
they did, not only In coming to the snow,
but in wnat they did when they got there.
The curtain had not been up twenty min
utes when ML Leger received a note from
His Majesty making a handsome bid tor
three ot the ohorus ladies. Before the piece
was over thepuzz’.ed manager was in pos
session of casn offers for the whole of the
female members of his company. The
tastes ol the bashaws in the audienoe
were varied; in most casesoach would-be
suitor had selected a blonde and a bru
nette, and one rich old General,from the
Caucasus offered to transfer the whole
bevy of t wenty-four fair Parieiennes to his
harem. On the state of the audience bein g
made known to the interested parties they
flatly refused !o perform again, and M.
Leger, half-ruined, has betaken himself
and his company to the less combustible
atmosphere of St. Petersburg.
A “HAPPY IDEA.”
Speaking, or rather writing of queer
scenes iu a theatre, Bronson Howard’s
play tbe “Banker’s Daughter” is known
and popular still in England under the
title ol the “Old Love and the New.” Re
cently at a performance of it in the prov
inces, and at the commencement of act
IU., the banker’s wile is discovered re
clining on a velvet lauteuil, iu a regally
furnished boudoir, attended by her maid
For some reason or other, the banker,
who should have entered almost imme
diately, kept the stage waiting tor Hilly
two minutes. The two actresses were
tht-relorecompelled to ‘ gag,” to fill up
the time. Each had nearly exhausted
her fund of improvisation, when suddenly
tbe abiirail hit upon what she conceived
to be a nappy idea.
“Oh! my lady,” she cried,falling at the
feet of her mistress—“how ill you do
look I Shall 1 send out for some brandy ?”
This “one touch of nature” fairly
brought down the house.
A WORKING WOMEN’S HOTEL.
Something About an Institution of
This Character.
New York, March 26.—John TVana
maker will build a working women’s
hotel, so the story goes, in Philadelphia.
Better luck to tbe scheme than attended
Stewart's magnificent blunder in New
York. What a rich man proposes to do
lor the working woman is one thing;
what tbe working woman is doing for
herself is, to me. a far more interesting
thing.
There is a working woman’s hotel al
ready in operation in New York city,
which was started by tho capita! of shop
girls, which is run by shop girls and
which accommodates shop girls. It keeps
a root over the heads of some seventy in
mates. and it never asks tbe working
woman to barter her independence lor a
home.
W A sturdy, brown-haired American girl
of 25 or thereabouts has Deen the bead
aud front of tbe undertaking front the
sturt, and tbe other day she gave me an
outline of thg, scheme. “There are three
ot us,” she said, “and we came to tho city
together a couple of years ago. Father
left us $590 apiece and beyond that we
Hail each two bauds aud nothing more.
We had no trade; nobody at home bad
ever thought ol our needlog one, aud w e
were unused to work of any kind. \Ve
drifted into the shops, of course Every
girl with one good gown and who knows
now to oomb her hair docs that iu the
citv to-day.
“I earned $5 a week und tbe others had
$4 a week at tbe start, and we lived like
sume thousands more. That nieaus a
tup floor bedroom, a gas jet, a tin pail,
bakers’ bread and tea. We bad to havo
oar tare, we had to have clothes and the
bread and butter had tu shut tor them
selves.”
Just when she began to think of other
possibilities, this energetic piece of
leminine humanity told me she dill not
know. A scheme bad been in her mind
almost from the start. ”1 was sure, as
soon as the idea came to me,” she said,
“that if 1 could onoe Und tue right sort of
bouso, in the right part of the city, and
manage the housekeeping as cleverly aud
as carefully as they do back in too
country, 1 could contrive a decent
sort of home living lor my sisters, for
myself and for u good many women
beside, at rates that shop girls can afford
to pay.
“I’Uu difficulty was about risking our
little capital. It didn’t earn much for us
in the savings bank, butlt was all we bad.
you know, and we bud never louchud a
penny ol it. no mutter how shabby we
went or how hungry we grew.
•'1 was liebind the Handkerchief counter
uud one of my elstere sold stockings aud
tbe other buttons in one of tbe biggest of
the New York stores. There were 700
women about tile establishment, and wo
talked the matt r up mornings and nights
witu uvery one that wo know. There was |
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a literary society that met every wees,
and we brought it up there and in two or
three of the girls’ social clubs beside.
There were plenty of girls who lived at
home with their parents, but we found
fifty or more who jumped at the chance we
offered tnem and were continually urging
us to go ahead witn the scheme. Finally
we began househunting, not at all sure
whether we meant to take a place, even
if we found one to suit us, or not. We
were staggered by the city rents, as a
matter of course, and more than once
gave up the whole plan in despair.
“We felt like a trio of gamblers, and not
at all like the confident business women
we had been at the outset, when we
finally paid down the first month’s rent
for this nouse of ours just four months
ago. We had staked our all on a desperate
onance, and tbe longer we looked at it the
more certain appeared the prospect of our
loss.
"It was a woman of whom we hired the
I place, and she put the figures as low as
i she could afford, and promised uscon
! sideration in aDy difficulties so long as
j there seemed a chance ol our final suc
i cess. Tnere wasn’t money enough left to
furnish very extensively, but we got to
i gather the needfuls for the kitchen and
I the dining room and put up as many beds
I as our last lingering dollars would buy.
The girls who nad promised to board with
us were eager to come, and most of them
had women’s koickknacks of one sort
or another—tables or chairs or pictures
or bits of lancy work—that brightened
up the bare place wonderlullv and made
it look from the first week almost like a
home.
“it was because it felt like a home that
we did not fail. There were fifty of us
the day the bouse opened, and tbe dining
room aud the big sitting room and the
hallways seemed running over witn a
flock of delighted children. To have a
bouse to themselves where they could du
as they pleased was a luxury that went to
their heads. They ran up-stairs and down
stairs. and the homlter a nook or corner
was the better tney liked it. It was a
camping out frolic, ana picnics were rare
enough with them all. They laughed be
cause I forgot towels in ordering the linen,
and they laughed when the milkman went
by without leaving the milk. They sat up
till past midnight sewing the long seams
of the sneets. They unpacked their
trunks and settled the furniture and
bustled about in that first week ol con
fusion in the firm conviction that the
whole experiment was the most delight
ful ot jokes that had ever exploded iu
their prosaio lives. Nothing dis
couraged them aud nothing daunted
them. No matter what went wrong they
were determined to be pleased anil to Unit
in every mishap only the materials for a
jest.
“I put tbe board as low as 1 dared alter
I had calculated the rent and the coal, tbe
gas and the table bills. I left tbe store, of
course, and my sisters did the same. The
three of us undertook to mauage the
house, and once things got into running
order we found no great difficulty with
the scheme. 1 interviewed the grocer and
the butcher aud the fish dealer, and have
been experimenting from the start with
simple meals of wuolesomo variety aud
material. Seventy boarders was the ut
most number we had room to accommo
date, and seventy boarders were on our
list before tne first three weeks had gone
by. When the first month of our experi
ment was over we had money in band lor
u second mouth’s rent and more in our
pockets than it we had stayed in tbe store.
After looking at that four weeks’ balance
sheet 1 put aside the last thought of dis
aster to my plau. It would work; it was
working and patience and good health
could not help carrying it forward with
out tail,
The building in which this cheerful
paragraph of the city’s history is being
written is a double brick house, abound
ing in a multiplicity of small rooms, in a
quiet by street. It is not over furnished,
but it never groans at a sewing maciiluo,
nor frowns on a canary bird, nor tangles
a woman in rules and regulations till sue
strangles for fresh air, It has a reading
room and a germ ot a library, and it sup
plies uoine ooiumrts and home rest at a
charge not exceeding from $3 to $4 50 per
week.
The latest projeot now under discussion
is to put this working girls’ enterprise on
a more permanent and substantial basis
by making ol the wnole institution a co
operative scheme. Low-priced shares of
a few dollars each will be bought by the
women out of their savings, aud if it
seems expedient a fund will no establish
ed for tbe purchase of the house. What
will be the final outcome of these more
ambitious’ plans of the “Working Girls’
Co-operative Club,” as the new organiza
tion has dubbed itself, it is as yet too early
to sav. The plans themselves are yet iu
embryo. They may take one shape; they
are quite as likely to take another. But
the working-women’s hotel has had up tu
date common sense and mother wit. con
trolling its fortunes, aud, ii it keeps the
same hand at the helm. Is more than likely
to find a harbor and come into port iu i he
near future laden with the fruits of the
American girl’s business talent and exe
cutive skill. E. P. U.
QUOTATION PARTIES.
A New Lenten Amusement That Has
Iteeomo Fashionable.
New York, March 20,—A new Lenten
amusement has become fashionable. It
is considered the correot thing that all
pleasures indulged in during the peni
tential season shall aIBO be instructive,
so that tbe new form of entertainment,
which is called a “quotation party,” tills
tbe requirements. It Is astonishing
how ignorant most of us are with the
authorship of old familiar quotations
whiob, possibly, we have beard all our
lives.
The hostess provides a prize, some
times two or three. Some article of bric
a-brac is usually the first prize, or a pic
ture painted by the hostess, if she is
artistic. For the second prize any of tbe
pretty lace scarfs are used, and for the
third a bouquet, box of bonbons, or any
pretty, comparatively inexpensive knick
knack. At a recent quotation party a
large Xruitcake, made by the accomplish
ed yotntg and beautiful hostess, was the
third prize. It is not, of course, neces
sary to havo more than one prize, al
though it is more exciliug.
The hostess makes a list usually ot
fifty comparatively familiar quotations.
Then caou guest Is provided with paper
! and pencil, and as tue hostess reads oil'
I the quotation the guest writes the name j
of tho author. These pupers are not signed, |
so that if none are answered correctly 1
t here is no mortification attending it, anil I
the victorious one is ready enough to i
claim ins paper. This amusement has
tbe advantage of being equally attractive
to both sexes, it is, 1 believe, a Boston
importation. Almost every one Is capa
ble ol answering correctly otto or two. It
is mudo necessary that at least tiall must
bo answered to gain first prize, aud a
third to gain second prize, while a fourth
of the aus wet's must be correct to obtain
the third prize. All of lashionahle society
t- engaged in reading up, and the literary
flavor about this recreation makes it some
thing to be proud of.
Anew aud pretty work is painting on
chamois skin. It is used to cover glove
boxes anil jewel oases, ami the tops of
small stools and tables are covered with
chamois skin witn a design of flowers,
grapes or cupids painted at one side
Chamois tidies also deoorate chairs and
sofas, Evelyn Baker Hakviku.
I Have Itoeu Afflicted
With an Affection of the Throat trnm
childhood, caused by diphtheria, and have
used various remedies, but have never
lound anything equal to Brown’s
Bronchial Troches,— Jtrv, a. M. F.
Hampton, I‘iketun hij. Mold only in
boxen.
MAN OFMANY MARRIAGES
POLICE STOP A CHASE FOR
HEARTS VXD PLUSES.
Arrsst of Dr. Andrew Jackson Grant,
Bigamist—Living in Clover on hi oney
of Female Victims,
Dr. Andrew Jaeksou Grant, alias Dr.
Perrle, alias Burns, and other assumed
names, was arrested early Saturday
morning, says the Boston Herald, at
Woodbury, N. J„ by Detective L. J.
Duoey, of Cambridge, on an indictment
warrant for larceny and bigamy.
Dr. Grant will be remembered as the
matrimonial swindler, whose various
rasoalities and love escapades at moun
tain and seashore resorts were published
in September last. Detectives have been
on the trail of the doctor ever since that
time, tracing him to Florida, Texas,
Long Branch, finally getting hold of him
at Woodbury, N. J. Dr. Grant was in
Long Branch Wednesday, and prepara
tions were made to arrest him, but he got
an inkling of it, however, and skipped
out. Detective Dueey kept sharp on nis
heels, and overtook tbe doctor, whom he
took back to Cambridge a few days ago.
DR. GRANT’S RASCALITIES.
The first the public heard of Dr.
Grant’s rascalities was his desertion of
Miss Lucy Torrey, of Cambridge, a few
days alter marriage. In August last
Hiss Torrey spent a couple of weeks at
Llttletou, N. H. At the end of that time
a portly, good-lookiug and well-dressed
gentleman, accompanied by a motherly
appearing, white-haired woman, whom he
called his sister, registered at the hotel
where she was stopping. In a short time
Miss Torrey made the acquaintance of tne
white-haired sister. Then it was learned
that the brother was Dr. Andrew J aokson
Grant, of Australia, an extremely
wealthy Englishman, born at Brighton,
Eng. It was a remarkable coincidence
that the doctor and Miss Torrey were
each 54 years of age, a fact whicn rather
pleased the Cambridge lady. The doctor
was introduced, and after a few careful
inquiries he began a vigorous courtship.
His story was that he was immensely
rich, owning valuable gold mines and
other property in Australia. So rich
was be that he found it absolutely impos
sible to even spend his income. He had
studied medicine, but practiced little on
account ot his vast wealth. The sister
had married a wealthy Australian, the
owner of many mines and landed prop
erty. The nusband had died some three
years before, his death being followed
quickly by those of his two children,
leaving his widow millions of money,
but almost alone in the world. The be
reavement incident to their deaths nail
completely crushed the widow, whose
bair turned perfectly white under her
load of sorrow. Her health was ruined,
and it was decided that foreign travel was
the only thing which would save her life.
The brother proposed that they should go
abroad, which they did at once. Before
going the wealthy widow made a present
of her elegant mansion and extensive
lands adjoining to her faithful servants,
as a reward for their fidelity. For three
years they had been traveling ail over the
world. At the present time were “dsing”
America, and had just come from the
South, through which they had traveled
extensively. They had also been in
Canada, and were going next to Cali
fornia, and from there back to Australia.
Dr. Grant was a well educated and well
informed man, and was a fluent conver
sationalist. He was rather dlstiugue in
appearance anil wore his full hei.d ot hair
quite long and brushed smoothly back.
His gray moustache was gracefully
trimmed, and he wore a sparkling dia
mond in white shirt front. He laid siege
to Miss Torrey’s heart with youthful
ardor, and was most assiduous in his at
tentions. Finally be proposed and was
accepted,
MARRIAGE
followed about two weeks later. Rev. A.
P. Peabody performing tbe ceremony.
The doctor got his wife to draw al! her
spare money out of the bank and sell
some valuable stocks, in all amounting to
fti 1)00, of which he took possession and
started on a bridal tour. Toe doctor’s
“sister” packed up all Miss Torrey’s
dresses aud cloaks in her trunk and took
them along. Several date later Dr.
Grant deserted his newly wedded wife at
Albany, taking all the money, while his
“sister” took all the clothes.
In connection with this marriage, it ap
pears that Miss Torrey wanted to be mar
ried by a distinguished divine, and was
willing to pay welt lor it, so she suggested
it to the doctor. Tbe latter coolly asked
herhowmuen it would ba necessary to
pay tho minister who performed tbe cere
mony. Miss Torrey said that the legal
lee was something like $2 60. Feartul
that the doctor might disgrace her by
giving the minister that sum, she got a
SIOO bill and gave it to the doctor to band
10 the minister. Dr. Grant took it, but be
iore he handed it in an envelope to Rev.
I)r. Peabody the SIOO bill hail been trans
formed into a $lO. and Dr. Grant was S9O
ahead in the game.
A PREVIOUS MARRIAGE.
In looking up I)r. Grant it was found
that he bad married a Miss Emma Kanes,
of St. Thomas, Can., a year or so before,
and had succeeded in getting away with
most of her lortune of $50,000. He also
had laid siege to the heart and purse of
Mrs. Gussie Britton, a wealthy Long
Branch widow, but under the name of
Dr. I’errie. Mrs. Britton was not mar
ried to him, but was engaged to be, audit
was upon her that he called a few days
ago, when the police were readv to arrest
him.
In the summer of 1884, Dr. Grant, with
his sister, were at Old Orchard Beach, N.
H., under the name of Dr. I’errie. He
proposed to a ffumber of ladies who had
money, hut only succeeded in catching
one, Aliss Kanes. He came so near mar
rying Mrs. William Williams, a rich
widow of Kennebunk, Me,, as to be en
gaged toiler, but friends interfered in
time to prevent the marriage. At Kye
Beach Dr. Grant paid a good deal ot at
tention to a Miss Fautne ltiddle, ot Man
chester, N. H., reputed to be
wealthy, And proposed, but he
missed fire that time. The
pair ot adventurers visited Swampscott
and Nahaut, wtiere the doctor, as usual,
wanted to marry every widow, or, in
fact, anybody who had money In both
places. So far as known ho did not suc
ceed in capturing either.
HEARTS OR PURSES.
The couple traveled all summer long,
taking In Newport, Nantucket, Loug
Branch, Bar Harbor, Saratoga, Lake
Wlnnipiseogee and resorts in the White
mountains. In every place the “rich
Australian doctor” tried hts little game
oi love and lucre, with more or less suc
cess. He swindled a wealthy Brooklyn
woman, and Inspector Bvrnes lias a war
rant for him tor that now. In September,
1886, Dr. Grant, under the name of Dr.
Ueorgo Washington Burns, practiced as
an "electric” doctor in an apartment
hotel on Columbus avenue. Ho adver
tised for partners in his business and lor
housekeepers. To somu he sold an inter
est for cash, some he engaged and some
ho made love to. All were treated Hist
alike, though. Those who bought' the
business found it to be worthless, the
housekeepers lost furniture, silver ware
and money which they brought, while the
three women he promised to marry on
one day had to mourn his loss, lor ho sud
denly took lllgbt for purts unknown. A
uumoer of furniture dealers were looking
tor him about the same time to have their
goods paid lor. For something like three
years this remarkable rascal has been
living in clover on money secured from
his countless lemule vlottms. .Just bow
many wives be has cauuot tie told.
I It is known that he has two. and
J probably more. Detective Ducey
has done good work in capturing the
fellow.
The woman whom be represented as his
sister has been known under tbe name ot
Kate Ray. or Mrs. Ray. The grand jury
at the October term of the Middlesex
Superior Court brought in an Indictment
which alleges that Andrew J. Grant,
with several aliases, on Sept. 7, 1886. un
lawfully obtained from Lucy Torrey of
Cambridge 32 shares of the Cambridge
Gaslight Company of the value of $l5O
each share, four shares of the Cambridge
Railway Company of tbe value ot slls
each share, a bankbook of the Cambridge
Savings Bank representing SI,OOO, and
$6,342 in money, the property of the said
Lucy Torrey, and also alleges that Kate
Ray incited, procured and aided th e
said Grant in illegally obtaining said
property.
DUVAL, THB ANARCHIST.
The Latest Case iu the Criiniual
Court of Paris.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Since the celebrated trial of Mtue.
Clovis Huges, wife of the French poet
aud Deputy, tor slaying her slanderer,
the Criminal Courts of Paris have had no
other sensational case until this week.
History does not always repeat itself.
One cause celebre is rarely like another.
The case of Clement Duval, wbioh has
just closed, is quite unique; it was the
trial of au anarchists and the noise of it
will echo round the world.
Let the American reader make a care
ful note of the essential facts, which are
these:
Madame Herbelin, a French lady of
property, lived in a handsome house,
which she owned, situated at No. 3, rue
Monceau. With her, as her chief com
panion, dwelt her niece, Madame Made
leine Lemaire, a well-known artist. In
summer and autumn the two ladies were
every year in the habit' of sojouraing in
the oountry, leaving their elegant city
apartments, furniture and household
effects in the care of a neighboring con
cierge, On Oct. 5 last during tbe ab
sence of the two ladies in tbe country
the house was discovered to he on tire.
Fortunately this discovery was made In
time to arrest the flames
AND TO BAVE THE BUILDING.
It was then noticed that the piano, the
chairs and other articles of furniture had
been smeared with petroleum, it was
turrher ascertained that the apartments
had been ransacked, drawers had been
broken open, closets bad been plundered,
silverware, lamlly jewels, gold medals
and various precious bijoux bad been
stolen, making a total loss of about
$3,000. Tbe valuables were, for tbe most
part, of so peculiar a kind that au accu
rate account of each one could be given
by the owners from memory. A descrip
tive list was thus made, and copies of it
were sent to all tbe leading jewelers of
Paris; a happy thought, which led to tbe
detection and arrest of Clement Duval,
as the chiet aud incendiary, and of two
other tnen who acted as accomplices,
not in his robbery, but in his attempts to
dispose of his ill-gotten treasures. These
confederates (or perhaps non-guilty help
ers) were Didier and Houcbard. The
brave policeman who succeeded in ar
resting Duval was Itossignol, whom
Duval, in the struggle, severely wounded
and tried to kill.
There were thus three counts in tbe in
dictment against Duval—theft, arson and
attempted murder.
What makes the case remarkable is not
tbe character ot the crime, but the bold,
novel and startling detense urged by the
prisoner—a defense so astounding’tbat
not even bis own counsel adopted it in
his pleadings on behalf of the accused.
His defense was
THE RIGHT OF THE POOR
to rob the rich, a doctrine which nerar in
the olden days of Merrie England was
more audaciously stated by any high
wayman on Hampstead Heath than last
week in Paris by Clement Duval fn the
Cmir d’ Assizesde la Seine.
Let the Americau reader who has late
ly been keeping watch of the trials of
other Anarchists nearer home enter this
Paris court room, and listen with as
tounded ears to the “wild and whirling
words” of this latest and loudest of the
roaring apostles whose creed is “kill,
burn and destroy.”
it is a densely crowded room. The
court is under the Presidency of Rerard
des Glajeux. The prisoner Duval makes
no attempt to deny his triple crime. lie
coolly admits every thing laid to his
charge. But, in order to lay an anchor
to winward, he invents an imaginary ac
complice, who was bis Instigator and
master-spirit. This chief devil was Tur
quais. It is Turquats who devises tbe
robbery, it is Turquais who possesses tbe
unrestored plundtr, it is Turquais to
whom belongs all the guilt, together with
the chief part of the glory of the great
transaction. So far as Duval himself is
concerned, he declares that he is not the
principal; ho describes himself as a sim
ple private member of a group of Anar
chists; tbe theft wbioh he committed is
(he alleges) nothing but a restitution of
property from the wealthy to the indi
gent; his own words are:
“It is tho right of those who have noth
ing to take from those who have
PROPERTY TO HE PREYED UPON.”
“I think myself,” said he to the Judge,
“absolutely irreproachable from the
point of view oi natural right,”
When asked why he attempted to kill
the policeman, who was simply doing his
special duty in arresting him on a legal
warrant, Duval replied:
“The officer grabbed me in the name of
the law—l stabbed him in the name of
liberty.”
"You have been condemned for previ
ous crimes ?”
“I do not deny it.”
“Had you long premeditated your rob
berv of Madame Lemaire?”
“Not 1.”
“Who*”
“Turquais.”
“You speak of this Turquais, but he Is
a nonentity.”
“Is it my fault if the police do not
know whore to search for Turquais?’ ’
“Why did you choose the house of
Madame Lemaire as the place of yourde
predation t”
“Because Madame Lemaire was one of
the collective mass of parasites—she
merited her fate.”
“\" a loulumitli—you un-
locks adroitly?”
“Yes, the workingman will not be en
franchised until the day when ho shall
no longer hesitate to pick open the iron
sale of his employer.”
“Aresuch your sentiments?”
“Yes.”
“You cannot pretend to have been a
regular workman—vou have too olteu
changed your abode.”
“Parbleu! Ir is my principle never to
pav m.v landlord. This'is because tbo
proprietors always oppress and live upon
the proletariat.”
"You did not lind any money in the
house?”
“UNLUCKILY, NO;”
and except for that circumstance 1
would not be here. Just Imagine it 1 had
found 15,001)irancs in specie! A man can
do wonders w ith 15,000 francs! But I
failed to realize on the Jewels, and by
Ibis mishap, you see, to whut pass 1 am
here brought!”
"Alter the theft you prepared to burn
the house to couceal your crime?”
“Always. Turquais.”
“Always?”
“Oh, it is not that 1 disapprove of vio
lence. The poor and wretched will never
accomplish their ends but by the torch
and by lire! The day wheu the oonvict !
shall burn bis jail, the dav when the eol- I
flier shall reduce his barracks to
j the day wheu the salaried workman shall
destroy the factory in which he is a
hireling—that day will brine anew
aurora to shine upon humanity!”
“Very well, but you have co-operated
with a thief whom you call Turquaia; is
he reserving for you any part of the
plunder?”
“No; the plunder is net for me.”
“For whom,then?”
“For the revolution.”
“Will Turquais, then, give over the
proceeds to the funds ol the revolution?”
“Y'es; he has had the wit to get oft" to a
foreign country. He is in England.
England is a big country; search it if you
will.”
Examined as to his endeavor to take the
life ot the policeman, the magniloquent
prisoner said:
“The law! I know what your law is!
The law is a prostitute, ready always to
sell itself to a purchaser. It is on the
ruins of your law that the common peo
ple will found anew world ”
“Ves,” interposed the Judge, “a world
of thieves'”
“1 am no thief,” replied Duval.
“I AM A REVOLUTIONIST.”
“But what of the poignard with which
you stabbed Rosslguoi ?”
“1 repeat that I struggled with him in
the name of liberty. 1 told him so at the
time. As to the law which he represent
ed, Ido not rcognize it. I would have
fought wlt-o him to the bitter end, till one
or the other of us had been killed.”
“You have been a soldier?”
“Against my will.”
“You have been punished under the
flag for misdemeanors?”
“What does that prove?”
“And you have been a thief before?”
“I am proud ol it! When it is understood
among the hungry masses ibat it is no
crime to take what they can lay their
hands upon, social injustice will disap
pear. Ah, life is easy to those who have
no gnawings of the stomach! But I had
a wife and children.”
“A wife whom you abandoned?”
“It is false; 1 forbid you to say that. I
loved my wife. She was unworthy of
my love. That concerns only herself and
me.”
“You did not work to support veur
family ?”
“1 worked.”
“It is certain that you preferred talk
ing to working.”
“Yes, when 1 had the rheumatism.”
“You are one of the heads of an as
sociation called the ‘PaDtherof theßatig
nolles?’”
“Yes.”
“Do you still pose as a politician,
while the public prosecutor arraigns
you as a thief, an incendiary, and a mur
derer?”
“I mock at all these applications; I am
above the law.
“I CONSULT ONLY MY CONSCIENCE.”
The above are the most important
questions and answers in the examina
tion of Duval. Hie two humble accom
plices were not men whose mouths were
eloquent with suoh quotable phrases;
nevertheless a single remark made bv
Didier is worthohronicllng:
“You swear to tell the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
“No I”
“I offer you.” said the Judge, “the cus
tomary form of oath; “will you take it
and comply with the law?”
“No,” repeated Didier; “there Is no
God. and I refuse the oath.’ ’
Alter two exciting days the trial
reachad the point at which the Judge
asked each of the accused if he had any
thing to add in his defense.”
“Nothing,” replied Didier.
“Nothing,"repeated Houchard.
“But I,” exclaimed Duval, “wish to
speak; 1 wish to explain my motive.”
“You can speak only of facts,” replied
the magistrate.
Duval then lifted his fist and struck
the table before him with great vehe
mence.
“If it be so,” he cried, “1 will say but
a single word. Vive l’anarchie!”
“Be silent.”
“NO, I WILL NOT BE SILENT.”
Shaking his list at the Judge and jury,
he exclaimed:
“Ah, you cowards! You tremble on
you marrow-bones. lain accused—l
will be accuser in mv turn. Vive l’an
archia! Vive, l’anarchie! We bide our
time!”
Under the law of 1835, applicable to
such disturbances in a Court of Justice,
the magistrate promptly ordered Duval’s
removal from the court room.
“Do what you like. It is nothing to
me. Vive l’anarohie!”
The prisoner was taken from the court
room by a squad of soldiers. Some of his
friends in attendance then attempted a
disturbance, but the emeute was quickly
Sjuelled. Nine offenders were arrested on
the spot, including three women, one of
them biting Duval’s wife.
'The jury took an hour to deliberate.
Their verdict acquitted Houchard and
Didier, and condemned Duval. His
crime was capital. He was sentenced to
death.
It is useless to review the trial any
further than to say that Duval’s law
yers urged in his defense, not his own
monstrous theories, hut the simple yet
vain plea of “hallucination,” the well
known dodge which in America is grand
ly styled “emotional insanity.” .
FA VO KS AT DLNNFKS.
New ami Grotesque Ornaments all
tlie Itaige t his Season.
New Y'ork, March t>6.—Favors at din
ners this season have been most costly
and elegant, no expense, apparently,being
spared by ambitious housekeepers to have
something on their tables that has not
been seen anywnere else; and the more
eccentric or grotesque the form in which
their desire shows Itself the more satis
lactory doubtless it is to the mind of the
originator. W bether display of this sort
be in questionable taste or 'not is a sub
ject open to discussion. At a dinner given
in this city a few weeks ago, satin banjos,
exquisitely hand-painted in water colors
and mounted in solid silver, were placed
beside the corsage bouquet at each lady’s
plate. Silver toilet articles, desk imple
ments and cat collars continue to be the
rage. The dressing bureau that does not
exhibit at least half a dozen nieces artisti
cally spread out upon a cover of plush,
generally deep red or sapphire blue. Is
decidedly behind the times. The plush
also must be lined with yellow surab,
tilled with violet sachet powder—no com
mon rose or patchouly—ami edged with
lace. Imitation in any form is justly con
sidered vulgar, hence silver plate and
German silver lake tboir place beside
French gold and Parisian diamonds. The
silver brushes, combs, trays and boxes in
beautiful repousse designs certainly make
an effective foreground to a woman’s
toilet mirror, but they are exceedingly
costly and are troublesome to keep clean.
One of the latest, pieces manufactured by
a leading New York firm is a muoiiage
bottle destined to be added to the para
phernallaof a fashionable writing desk.
Tue bottle is of glass, pear shaped, the
stem of silver with two pendent leaves
forming the oover to wbioh the brush
is attached. The bottle stands upon a
t iny silver dish, ami the whole can be pur
chased lor the modest sum of S4O.
Clara Lanza.
Chronic Cough* ud Colds,
and all diseases of the Throat ami Lungs,
can be cured by the use ol Soott’s Emul
sion, us it contains the healing virtues of
Cod Liver Oil ami Hvpnphospbites in their
lullest lorm. is a bcaatlful oreamv Einul
sum, palatable as milk* easily digested,
and can be taken by the most delicate.
Please read: “1 consider Soott’s Emulsion
the remedy par excellence In Tuberculous
and Strumous Affections, to say nothing
of ordinary oolds and throat troubles.”—
W. ft. 8. CONNELL, M. !>.. Manchester. O.
THE TkInCESS’
A TIN BASIN THE LINK I N I
FAMOUS ROMANCE.
The History of Frederic Ton „
Trenk— Hl* Love fr the SUter nf
erick the Great, and His ImDri** 4 '
mentln Magdebnrg-The Princes. t°"‘
fthe hast Disfiguring
Marriage to a Detested H
PitUbur ° Commercial
Mr. Franz, Muller of Sprin, on,
Allegheny, is in possession of a tin h,.
which is a kind of heirloom in Mulier“
family, as it was presented to nts „ *
grandfather at the time he was a sold?,
in Magdeburg in 1744. The basin
link in the life of Frederic von der Trenk
the famous Prussian officer, whs for ,
long time was a prisoner In Magdeburg
and about whom Is told the follew ]n
3tory; ‘ u
Frederiovon der Trenk was born i,
Konigsberg, Prussia, about 1725 a,.
schoolboy he distinguished hims.i
greatly on account ot his easy com®,
hension and the rapidity withwhich ta
wouid grasp the most difficult problem
that were invented to tax a schoolboy,
brains. The consequence was tbath!
was soon ripe for the university W h£?
he entered when but 13 vears old i, J
obancedthat he was noticed by FredVr
lek the Great ot i’russia, who came ti
Konigsberg while Trenk was a student
The monarch then spoke to the youth
very encouragingly, and when Treok left
college to follow bis desire of enterin!
the army the King immediately made him
an ensign In the Garde du Corps the
crack regiment of the last century. How
ever, the King would not have bestowed
such a high honor upon the young mao
had not his outward appearance been
greatly in his favor. The young ensUn
was at that time considered the finest
looking soldier in the army. He waa*aii
well proportioned, with a dignifiefcar.
riage. and his looks were of such genial
beautitul character that he was called
among his comrades the “Prussian
Apollo.” The partiality which tbe Kins
at every opportunity showed towards tne
young man made it necessary for him tc
be frequently around the court, and on
one of these occasions it was that tbe
Princess Amalia was attracted by his
beauty. Tbs royal lady became interested
in the ensign; she threw herself often in
his way, anil the consequence was at last
a mutual attachment between the King’s
sister and her brother’s ensign. Alt the
difficulties which placed themselves in
the lovers’ way which might have pre
vented any tete-a-tetes were easily sur
mounted by the ardent Princess, who was
too inventive in finding a thousand and
one reasons for having her young lover
around her. But there came "a day when
the King was told of the clandestine
love affair, and his wrath knew ns
bounds.
Of course his sister he could not impris
on, but he thought he might punish botn
equally severe by sending Trenk into s
dungeon. A cause was soon found. He
was arrested on a charge of high treason,
and the young soldier who had engager
the favor of the King almost to friend,
ship, who bad been the lucky recipient
of a Princess’ love, was confined tt
a dungeon, and, as the King in
tended, for the balance of the prisoner’s
life.
Trenk was first sent to the Fortress
Glatz, in Silesia. He made here several
attempts to escape, until he at last suc
ceeded. He flew to Vienna, where ha
met an uncle of his, who was a million
aire. From Vienna he went to llu.isia.
where he was tavorably received bv the
Empress Elizabeth, who bad beard of his
imprisonment, and aiso about his love
affair with the peerless Amalia. As she
at this time was on not very friendly
terms with Frederick of Prussia, sue aid
everything she could to please Trenk.
She made him a Colonel in one of her
regiments, and Trenk would have even
tualiy been able to lorget the past had ha
not unfortunately been sent to Danzig,
which at that time was just on the bor
ders of Prussia and Russia. Trenk while
in Danzig becan_y very desirous to visit
bis mother in Ken.gsberg, as he had not
seen her for so long, but on the way there
tie was suddenly kidnaped by Prussian
spies and he was now immediately tran
sported to Magdeburg, in Saxony, to be
again in Frederick’s power. He w
here put in a dungeon with chaf,
on his feet, bands, and round t
body and neck to prevent anothf
escape.
in the meantime the King, howavq.
had also given vent to his anger by tyra
nizing over his sister for her mesallian
with one of his officers. But if the Kin
was harsh, flrui, and unforgiving, b
sister was true to the yow she had ma.
to Trenk, and she loved him the same* ’•
ever. The King at last went so i <
as to make an attempt at forctii
her to marry the Crown Prince of De >
mark.
The Pricoeas, however, as soon ass
beard of this, closeted herself one night
her chamber and moistened her eyes an.,
throat with medicine that had been pre
scribed for her, with the warning that if
it would ever come near her eyes or into
her throat it would surround her optics
with a red ring, make them constantly
running, and it would totally destroy bet
voice. The stuff did its duty. When the
King saw his sister the next morning sue
was the most horrid woman to look at
and her voice sounded like the screeching
of a raven. Of oourse the marriage was
broken off, but the poor Princess was to
the end ot her life the most borrid
leoking creature and an object of aty**
misery.
While Trenk was In Magdeburg he suf
fered the most brutal degradation from
the commander at the prison, although
be succeeded gradually In making him
self tree trom his bond by the aid of the
keepers, who were all friendly to him on
account ol the money bo would give them.
This money he obtained secretly from the
Prinoess, who asked him to escape as
quickly as possible. It was also during
this time that Trenk occupied himself
with making all sorts of piotures on the
outside of the basin or tin cup that he
would drink out ot. As soon as he bad
finished one he would contrive to obtain
another. Gradually he became quite an
artist in engraving with the point ot a
nail on these basins, and the keepers, to
whom he gave them when he had finished
them, gave them away. When it became
known who was the painter oftbese basins
there was a great demand for them and
everybody wanted to have one of Trenk’s
basins. Trenk staid in Magdeburg for
ten full years, wheu the King at Inst gave
him bis liberty on the condition that be
would leave the country and never re
turn. Trenk left and went to Vienna,
boon alter Frederick the Great died, and
Trenk was allowed to return to Berlin.
Here he had once more tne pleasure to
see his onoe lovely Amalia. Tne scene
was very pathetic when they met alter so
many years. Amalia soon died after this,
and Trenk again traveled. He went
to France. At the time of the revolution
he attempted to take a part in the tight
himself for the cause of liberty, but he*
wae looked upon with suspicion
thought to be a German spy, and asjn
German spy he was killed under tU
guillotine In 1793. Y,
Thh Salvation Army at Nevada City, Cl
charge a small admission fee to their religio** >
services in order to keep hoodlums out of the*
hull. Thev have now been required to ,
for a license, the authorities holding ti
their prayer and praise meetings oorno unugp
the bead of "showsl” m fU
There’s one tooth-wash, the ladies' pride* . j
lli-ioved bv belles o’er every “w ash’ besiaoii/
One deutifrice there is supremely blest,
A sweeter, better one than all Ibo rest;
And you will find, in every land the same
That SUZOOONT’S Its old, familiar **■• \