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PrOTHAM’S POLICE FORCE.
WHERE BREACHES OF DISCIPLINE
ARE TRIED.
Sketches of the Commissioners- How
the Cases Are Inquired Into The
Politicians Returning: Broadway’s
Railroad Grease and the Big-
Schemes.
New York, May 21.- -Every Wednesday
• drama, much' more interesting than many
plays, is performed in a room on the second
floor of the big graystone building on Mul
burry street known as Police Headquarters.
A sign over the entrance designates it as the
courtroom. It is the place where the police
are tried for breaches of discipline. No out
siders except reporters ami witnesses are in
the room, whose benches are occupied by a
hundred or more policemen in full uniform,
gome of these are witnesses, but fifty or
sixty are defendants, and it is easy to pick
out the latter from their gloomy counten
ances. Every week about fifty of New
York’s 3,003 police have to be tried in this
room for offenses of various degrees of
gravity. One of the four Police Commis
sioners, whose offices are on the floor below,
sits in judgment on the offenders. If it
happens te be courtly Fitz John Porter's day
to try cases or mild little Commissioner
McClave’s or Commissioner Voorhis, the
offender congratulates himself, but if
Commissioner French, the President of the
Board of Police, takes thq beuch, the most
calloused officer trembles in his boots in a
way that would please the “toughs” of his
precinct if they were allowed to see it.
Commissioner French looks like the pic
tures the Gaborian draws of the stern, griz
zled, keen-eyed Prefect of Police. His sharp,
black eyes appeal- all the darker in contrast
with his long, gray moustache. His bronzed
face, free of ail wrinkles, nor liis thin lips
furnish any index to the offender of his
opinions. A man with a formidable blonde
moustache arises at a signal from the Com
missioner and reads so rapidly that no one
unaccustomed to him can understand what
he says the charges against a policeman.
The latter and the witnesses in the case step
forward. The patrolman wears on his
sleeve, midway between the hand and the
elbow, bands of blue braid which indicate
his term of service, every five years adding
anew bar so his sleeve. Up to a certain
point the officer takes pride in these blue
oars, hut when four or more of them have
encircled his sleeve and he hasn't been able
to exchange them for the gold braid that in
dicates the officer they become a source of an
noyance. The clerk with the big blonde
moustache, who sits beside the Commissioner
is often able to tell why the blue bars have
not been exchanged for the gold. He is the
record clerk, and he keeps in his relentless
fashion the history of every policeman’s
shortcomings. V digest of the record is
entered on the back of the charge againste
each man.
When the charges have been read the
Commissioner in a quick, imperious voice
orders the offender and all witnesses to Htaud
up and take the Bible. They cluster About
a small well-worn Bible to which each clings
with his right hand. Suu.-timee a dozen
witnesses are thus clinging .to the sacred
book. The Commissioner administers the
oath. When citizens apix-al* as witnessed an
average of one in twenty refuse to lies (trim
and stand apart from the group about the
Bible. After the ret* have takenpt&e oath
the witness makes hi* affirmation. The
chief witness for the proweution is usually
an officer of the precinct from which the
offender como%| The Comnir- rincr asks
him eurtlv: t* ‘
gg/Are fin >e charge* true - r
;U*ljiiMK4ai<’w nlmut the case."
Ek&SVc officer mail's 1 ■ m .i m n
JfrjlßOt.-fajot way and the Commissioner then
' gWhnt lpT~ T r 11 to say for yourself I”
JgiipAjpoilfreman is allowed to make a full
ynjrflr Tn'ftpmtr ' n 1 He may have .1 lawyer
JOB* *t olftMs, but he seldom indulges in
fH luxury. The commonest cause of com
ojam* te absence from ljost. The stereo
■HttflijigSieuv' of the offender is, “I was sick,
jfiuft JMmr, had l>ecn taking medicine and
a saloon to sit down a moment.'’
■BlfUtird clerk, who has heard this excuse
!!?*(; nail‘it's or moro every Wednesday,
■Qh,'oiH the Commissioner's black eyes
Jjjfrly gjtei *e the offender as he saj*s:
praf didn’t you rejiort sick and go
jiiliaMwWonder ninkes more excuses, and un
/MFjflktßerce glare of the Commissioner's
prettv sure to entangle himself in
of the case. The Commissioner
’ Hddenly exclaims:
“Closed!’’ makes an entry in his book and
die offender goes away in a state of sus
pense. He will not know his fate until after
the Commissioner and his three colleagues,
who meet Tuesdays and Fridays, have con
lidered and passed upon the case from the
svidence adduced at the trial on Wednesday.
He may be fined one or twenty days, or his
mpeador officer may announce to him the
terrible verdict that lie must hand over his
dub and badge and retire from the service
to private life. The latter punishment, how
sver, is seldom inflicted.
One remarkably self-possessed policeman
explains his absence from post by giving his
Movements through a labyrinth of streets
while the roundsman was looking for him.
There are more than 000 miles of streets in
New York, but the Commissioner knows
every one of them, and he allows the de
fandnnt to tell his ingenious story and then
iestroys his evidence by showing conelu
lively that a snail could have traversed the
route in the time that the defendant pro
iends to have taken to walk over it. Then
the Commissioner says:
“Your record is bad. You liave been
tried seven times for absence of post during
four four years’ service on the force, ana
rou havo told the same story each time.
iTou ought to invent anew excuse. Case
dosed!" The offender goes away feeling
pretty sure that if he gets off with twenty
lays' line after such a speech from the Com-
Missioner he will be fortunate.
“You failed to report at roll call; what
txcuse have you to offerf” demands the
Commissioner of another complainant. A
jomety woman standing beside the stalwart
officer says:
“I am his landlady and I forgot to call
Uni up in the morning.'’
The Commissioner gives the landlady a
tort but severe lecture and tells the officer:
“You may go," which means, “I will not
lne you this time. ’’
‘A handsome policeman, charged with taili
ng nn official of the post offioe, with whom
oe has had a political quarrel, hard names,
.s arraigned, and a letter carrier who rut
lies off his testimony in the stilted, studied
tones of an amateur tragedian testifies and
ind supplement! his words with:
‘Such language pained me very much
uid ”
“Oh, this is the merest lxxh,” says the
Commissioner. “Case closed.” The police
man lias said little except to deny tlio
marge, but his manly face and positive
Banner contrasted with tlio effusive con
flict of the complainant have won the case
tor him.
None of the fifty detectives on the New
Fork force are ever formally tried. Their
iestiny depends on one limn, and, and he is
Inspector llyrne, a rtian nattily dressed in a
lU'ipod business suit, who sits in au inner
worn at I’olice Headquarter*, reached by a
i confusing labyrinth of passages guarded
▼ uniformed supernumeraries. The French
leteetive has been praised much in print,
™t exports and criminals will admit that
hi* French Vidocq does not equal the keen
letertivo of the New York force. When
ibc funeral of Grant took place thieves from
ill over America came to New York. They
were spotted by dt 'ectives on incoming
E™?*’ w !° allowed them to land in New
♦ n<l th ‘'" “Terted them. As mamas
TW**n in a herd were arrested and locked
*P at one time and the rolls or the city pri
•wu were fuU of thieves. A million stranger*
•re la the city, but tile only wt <>l
theft reported during the obsequies was
the robbery of an old German in a remote
part of the city, who lost a cheap silver
watch.
At 9 o’clock in the morning the fifty de
tectives, a motlv throng representing all
nationalities, gather at the Inspector’s office.
Some of them who work in the aristocratic
parts of the city are fashionably dressed
and others w ho explore the slums and docks
are appareled like coal heavers. One is a
Bohemian, another an Italian and another
a Hebrew. They make their reports to the
Inspector, and if one has been derelict in his
duty lie is pretty apt to find that somebody's
eves have been on him and that the In
spector knows about his movements. The
Inspector is the court to try his case and
no outsider hears it. Ho may lie reprimand
ed or quietly dropped from the force, but
there is no appeal from the Inspector’s de
cision.
When anew detective is needed a patrol
man is sometimes flattered w ith an invitation
to put on citizen’s clothes and report to the
Inspector. He may have been patrolling a
forlorn beat in the outskirts of the city, but
the Inspector who watches the record of
every promising policeman has heard of his
making a clever arrest and wants to give
him a trial. The Inspector lias his truisms,
one of which is that a man who is to make a
detective will show something of his
fitness in his face, and another being that
he must first possess a great ambition to be
a detective. Ambition is the mainspring
and secretiveness and perseverance the bah
mice of a good detective. The Inspector has
also a tradition that no woman makes a
good detective. “They are too npt to fall in
love,” he says, “and a woman in love will
tell all she Imows. I sometimes have to em
ploy a woman, but I tell her no more about
the case than is absolutely necessary.”
Amos J. Cummings.
11.
The politicians are returning to town from
Albany and Washington, and the cafes and
barrooms are crowded at all hours of the
day and night by little groups of emphatic
talkers. •Th 6 emphasis of the average poli
tician is his distinguishing characteristic.
Theutrical men, when they get into a dis
cussion in a public place are apt to bang
their lists, wag their heads and pound the
bar up to a certain period, but after that
they fall into a plaintive state of mind, and
appeal to their mends for support in their
arguments. Croups of brokergme invaria
bly pervaded with a know-it-alL,air, and
their talk is not so winks,
gestures and nods. But when Con
gressman. Asseuilih inan qj- fSeftgTO? returns
to Now York his presence 'lff 'ieSf rroni the
day of his arrival until far itfto the summer
season. He h:- .vtuct the gombl its c;i!! --a
dead sinoh” on everybody else in all political
discussions, andyrfuia irate, he is not slow to
take advantage uf ill He wears his new
beaver hat sqiiare upon his statesmanlike
head, braces back flnnlv against the bar,
shakes hands profusely with everybody who
cornea his way, *nd reveals important state
secrete, with every breath. This is the com
manor type oHKc local stateman. There
are, qf course, quiet and domestic men who
are unostentatious in their manners and not
overt swing in their talk. But they are
nsithiy picturesque nor interesting. It is
pS#JßWdiloquent, flowery, assertive, doni-
ImsSrag, emphatic and suave politician
wh# is suraounded from morning till night
tjwgroupsof friends. In one of these groups
in the Hoffman House yesterday were E. S.
’Stokes, Col. Tom Ochiltree, E. G. Gilmore,
Harry Miner, Gov. Dorsheimer, ex Gov.
Curtin, of Pennsylvania, Henry E. Dixey
and Congressman Tim Campbell, listening
with thorough amusement to a local politi
cal light. It was a difficult audience to
amuse, too, for all the men were good talk
ers, but they stood in wrapt interest as the
New York politician spoke. At one point
of his address he insisted that the coming
man in Albany or Washington is the one
who will stand in defense of the rights of
corporations and big companies, instead of
the alleged rights of the people. He said
that then> had l>een such a hue and cry over
the Broadway investigation, the Pan-Elec
tric exposure and the Pacific Mail investiga
tion that what might be called a stampede
of terror had set in, and representatives of
the people were actually afraid to vote as
their senses dictated for fear of finding them-
selves concerned in a job. He said:
“Neman with a grain of sense attempt*
to deny now the extraordinary usefulness
and value of the Broadway railroad. If
anybody should try to rip up the tracks and
remove the road it would result in a riot
from one end of New Y'ork to the other.
Those big schemes can oidy be pushed
through by greasing the proper channels,
for, as soon as you start to promote an en
terprise legitimately and squarely you are
hampered by a thousand drags. In Albany
this winter a body of Philadelphia capital
ists had an experience that illustrates this.
They subscribed $5,000,000, and began to
build a bridge across tin* Hudson at Pough
keepsie. They went about the matter in
good faith, under the impression that, as the
charter had been in existence fifteen year*,
there would be no trouble übout the bridge
in having nn (extension for one year more,
particularly as tin* bridge would help all the
middle section of New York State. But
they had no sooner begun than they became
the prey of the most extraordinary attacks
from till sides. They decided that they
would fight tho thing out on a square issue,
and not list* a cent in smoothing things over,
ami the result is that they havo liad about
as bitter a fight as I can recall. They finally
came out ahead, but it was a big struggle.
There was scarcely a man in Albany who
dared stand up and protest against the at
tack on the vested rights of that company,
and yet every Ixxiy knew that the company
was iu the right from begining to end. That
is whe, I thiiik, that the man who goes to a
national or State Legislature with the idea
of prefix-tinga big public interest is liable to
create a large and amiable reputation.
Blakely Hall.
A COMPLETED RAILROAD.
Some Interesting Points About a
Flourishing Florida Town.
Plant City, Fla., May 21.—The Florida
Railway and Navigation Company, under
the able management of Receiver 11. R.
Duval, is at last finished into Plant City, and
in two weeks through trains will bo run to
Jacksonville, Savannah, and Montgomery,
Ala. This is the greatest success South
Florida has achieved since it was opened to
settlement. Iu the neighWirhood of this
town arc found some of the finest orange
groves in tho Htate, and the shipments of
oranges, strawberries and vegetables are
immense.
This year’s crops of uorn, oats, sugar cane
and other field crops are very fine, and the
yield will lx* very great. Peaches are ripe,
and are sold in stores at 20e. per dozen.
Watermelons are also being marketed.
Two acres planted in strawberries by
Messrs. rates, Jett & Cos. last October
have paid all expenses and some money
Ixs-ides. Some of these berries sold In New
York at $2 50 jkt quart, and there is no
liner strawberry garden in the South to-day
tiian this of two acres.
The railroad from Plant City to Bartow
is to lie built during the summer, and the
J. M. and G. railroad is to be built from
here to Sara Sota on the Gulf; and we hear
of a road tieing built, or iibnit to be built,
from Macon, Gu., to Plant City.
The people of Plant City and neighbor
hood will unite on the opening of the Florida
Railway and Navigation and give a grand
reception to the officers of the road and
strangers. The committees are hard at
work.
A Bonanza Mine
of health is to be found in Dr. 11. V. Pierce’s
“Favorite Prescription,” to the merits of
which us a remedy for female weakness and
kindred affections thousands testify.
A MULATTO, who went into a Boston liarlier
shop the other day to have his hair cut, was re
fused service because, os an attendant said,
“They don't run the place for colored men.”
A jKiflce olfa er, who wds informed of the case
by the mulatto, accompanied Ike Ulttir Uakto
tfi“ shop and beard the rnfmui) > cpoiuoii.. .Xho.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1887—TWELVE PAGES.
SUICIDE FROM A TRAIN.
A Daughter’s Flight' Causes a Man to
End His Life.
A Boston dispatch to the New York
Herald says: It was French from the be
ginning to the end. Dramatic as a Porte St.
Martin play was to-day’s culmination of a
wretched career.
Shortly before the fast 10 o’clock express
for New York via the Shore Line should
roll out of the big iron train shed of the
Providence station Friday morning a re
porter who was near the engine observed a
young girl, accompanied by a middle aged
woman, bot h well dressed, and the pair ap
peared equally nervous and overcharged
with apprehension.
Now there arc plenty of young girls to be
seen in the Providence station—thousands of
them <svery day for that matter—but there
was something that attracted more than
l>assing attention in the one in question. She
was well dressed, as previously mentioned,
but the cut of the garments indicated that
they were shaped in a foreign land, and a
closer insj icction led to the mental conclu
sion that provincial France was the country
in which the maiden's modiste wielded scis
sors and needle. The wearer was blonde,
blue-eyed, round-walsted, indite, 13 years of
age, apparently, and chic despite her agita
tion. Her little bottines with narrow toes
and high Gallic heels clicked on the pave
ment as mademoiselle embarked with her
companion on the Now York express.
A BROKEN UP PURSUER.
B|Tho blonde young lady had scarcely en
tered the railway carriage when a small,
middle-aged man with disarranged gar
ments ran to the gateway and accosted Con
ductor Richardson in broken English. His
suspenders hung down behind and appeared
beneath a brow n overcoat. A hat, u pair
of trousers and shoes without stockings com
pleted the stranger’s attire. His hair was
dark and his fine, with its restless, keen
black eyes, had a French cast.
“Where is my daughter?” he cried. “She
is running away from me. I must go in
and spoak to her. lot me in, I say?”
The gate-man permitted him to pass.
“I scent news,” soliloquized the reporter.
“I will go, too."
AN UNDESIRET> MEETING.
The excited littlo man ran through the
crowded train. Soon he espied the young
French girl, who was seated with her com
panion.
When the hastily dressed man came in
sight the young woman appeared ns if de
sirous of crawling beneath the seat. The
interview which followed was conducted in
French, and was —putting it mildly—excit
ing. The man gesticulated and declaimed.
He importuned and threatened. The young
lady cowered in her seat and regarded her
persecutor with aversion and terror.
Meanwhile the fast express was speeding
along on its forty-five mile run to Provi
dence where it was due an hour later.
The little man soon fell into the clutches
of the conductor. To the latter he explained
that his daughter was running a way from
him; that he discovered her departure and
had time only to make the hasty toilet in
which he appeared, and he did not bring
money for his unanticipated journey.
“Blie is going to New York,” he cried,
“1 will follow her to the death.”
The conductor informed him that the
fare must be paid or ho would be put off at
Providence.
“Ah ha!” shrieked the stranger.
MENACE AND SUICIDE.
Soon he returned to the pretty blonde.
“I will kill you!” he hissed in her ear.
She shrank away, and the look of fear,'of
horror, of loathing, she gave him seemingly
touched him deeply.
In milder, almost imploring, accents he
exclaimed:
“Will you return with me, Marie? I will
kill myself if you do not.”
Marie sobbed, “.Yon, non,” and turned
away to her companion, who endeavored to
soothe her.
The man deliberately walked to the door
of the car and disappeared. The Gain was
flying along over the smooth steel: Fifty;
live miles an hour is the speed at that pointy
as a train hand explained.
The reporter observed a brown cbfet
seemingly roll and tumble amid a cloud of
dust on the down track.
On sped the express. The old man was no
longer a passenger. ( i
Mr. A. How, of Boston, who occupied a
front sent, said of the old man’s jump: “I
saw him walk out on the platform as calm
as going to a picnic. He grasped the rail
ings and lowered himself between the two
cars The dust was terrible, owing to our
great speed, but after he lowered himself I
saw him raise himself again and cast a look
in through the window toward the young
lady. Then he let go. All was done-iu a
few seconils.”
A PAINTING GIRL.
The girl did not see her father take the
awful plunge, but she suspected it. With a
fearful shriek, that caused every traveler to
spring up, and which was blood-curdling iu
its intensity, off she went in frightful con
vulsions. A. call was made for a physician.
Stimulants were administered, and after
awhile consciousness and quiet were re
stored.
“.1 foil prre. ,v the poor thing whispered,
the tears suffusing her big blue eyes.
“lie got off when you were unconscious,”
was the well intended fiction that was told
her. Meanwhile the 1 xlv of the suicide
was lying between the iine of rails in a
cutting near Canton Junction, surrounded
by rude track laborers, who gazed on the
crushed blood bespattered face and tlte
mangled body, and wondered who it was
and what it was all about.
TOE EXPLANATION.
The reporter returned as speedily as possi
ble to Boston. From information obtained
from the companion of the weeping French
damsel, a strange and terrible story was
brought to light—a talc of crime and of its
penalty, of an unnatural father and a virtu
ous daughter, of shame auil unmentionable
horror.
M. do la Jourasse, memlier of an excellent
family, was a trusted notary ten years ago
and an advocate of Toulouse, in Kouthern
France. He ran away with over 700,000
francs belonging to his clients, lieggaring
his wife and leaving her with helpless chil
dren. Society in Toulouse sustained a great
shock.
Hieng him to America M. de la Tourasse
became M. Auguste de Hempey, and an
nounced himself a teacher of languages.
M. de Sempey was unaccustomed to work
except in his profession and he niqienred to
have met with ill success. Finally he
brought up in Boston and lived with a
French woman not his wife at No. Oil Cbnp
mnu street. Two mnifths ago sho died,
leaving a little girl of 5 years and a few
davs old infant.
l’hen M. de Soinpey, formerly de la
Tourasse, wrote to Toulouse and requested
his daughter, Marie, to come over and vist
him in his "elegant home” in tho New
World.
AN CNHAPPY DAUGHTER.
Leaving her mother, who is now well pro
vided for, and her brother, an officer in the
French army. Marie trustfully embarked on
the steamer Chutau Margaux on that ship's
last trip to this country, and in due time
Inndisl nt New York.
Speedily the proems of disillusion followed
the young lady s arrival at Boston. Instead
ofa pleats tnt home and a prosperous father,
she ascertained that her domicile was to lx*
a garret and that she was to take the
charge of two illegitimate children.
Then tier honest pride became aroused,
but it did not burst forth in liaines until
she was coini**lled to seek the friendly
offices of the priest of the French Church of
Notre Dome.
“MORE THAN KIN AND LEM THAN KIND.”
The offense attempted of which she tear
fully told the good lather was the same as
that which history teaches was the cause of
tho murder of the .head of the inodiirvHl
Roman house of CencJ, for which the lovely
parricide Beatrice Ccnei suffered a cruel
death.
to sell her to a certain wealthy libertine of
this city.
The priest of Notre Dame promptly ad
vised Marie to fly as quick!}' as possible, and
the Italy, her companion, was selected by
him to accompany her to New York.
Discovering the departure of his daughter
the miserable man followed her to the sta
tion, only to meet his doom.
A MISERABLE HOME.
The reporter visited this evening the
squalid apartment iri which Professor de
Semper existed and where lie introduced
tenderly nurtured Marie. The baby, a
young thing, lay on a dirty bed wailing for
food. A pretty little girl of 5 tearfully
whispered that she had nothing to eat since
yesterday. The [<oor thing grasped the
doughnuts and cakes purchased lor her as if
half famished.
Meanwhile the dead father lay in the little
undertaker’s shop at Canton, and blue-eyed
Marie was resting in happy unconsciousness
of her father’s end in flew York. The
orphans here will be cared for by the French
Church.
BLOSSOM’S FRIENDSHIP FOR PATTI.
Her Guests in Her Castle in Wales.
New York, May 21. —Nobby young men
in dress suits, who drop into up-town bil
•lianl halls for a quiet game after the theatre,
handle their cues with a dreamy air nowa
days, and when they score a round-the-table
shot, or a cushion follow, they sigh and
whisper: “Wonder what Patti would think
of that?” They amuse themselves by im
agining that the divinity of Italian opera
at $7 a seat is present in spirit watching the
play with a tienign and sympathetic in
terest. And it is all on account of the
friendship of Patti for George Slosson,
the Chicago billiardist. Everybody knows
by this time that the expert is ac
companying the singer to her home in
Wales as an invited guest. A few days
more and they will be knocking the bolls
around the table in that delightful Country,
and there will be an Palmndance of caroms
and strictly technical kisses. And when
Slosson places Nicolini’s tall hat on the
table, and cues his liall so that it jumps
clear over the hat and collides with the red
liall near the rail, and then bounding into
the air again makes a point op the spot ball
lying on the window seat in an adjoining
room, Patti's dainty hands will come
together with a resounding spat, and her
wonderful voice will ring out a merry
“Yglaggdebabgejabwg ap-punk” (which is
Welsh for “good shot I s ) For Patti always
speaks the vernacular no matter what land
she may be in. Nicolini cannot, and’there
was where ho was at a disadvantage in
making the acquaintance of Slosson.
It began in this city when Patti was
singing her first season hero under Abbey's
management. She and Nicolini were quar
tered at the Windsor, and the first thingput
into their suite for their especial use was a
billiard table. The second was a piano. Dur
ing the winter several noted billiardists
were in town and Nicolini was a regular
spectator at the matches thev played. He
wandered one day into the billiard room of
a leading hotel and found Slosson practic
ing there. An introduction was readily ar
ranged, although it was necessary to retain
the services of an interpreter. Their con
versation was of a rather formal character
and consisted mainly in the exchange of
compliments. On tile same day Nicolini
sent Slosson a request that give a
private exhibition of his skill at the Wind
sor. Slosson, of course, consented, and the
exhibition took place oil an afternoon with
in a week. ■ Nicolini and Patti were
the only spectators. Slosson performed
a number of fancy shots, made long
runs from given positions at straighs
billiards and cushion caroms, and
talked with Patti about the game. At
Nicolini could not speak English he had to
keep still, but his lingers were all the time
aching for the cue, and eventually, with
the assistance of Patti as interpreter, a
game was arranged between the tenor and
the expert. Slosson discounted the tenor
and beat him. The entertainment was re
lieated on several other afternoons during
tho season, and once or twice Dion, who
was also in the city, took part in the exhibi
tions. How much Slosson was paid for his
services is not known, but when the singers
reached Chicago he courteously invited
them to a private exhibition, and they saW’
a good deal of each other. Nicolini and
Patti found him a true gentleman, anil the
commercial character of the private games
soon disappeared. Slosson became a fre
quent guest at their hotel whenever they
were in the city. He has played many a
game with Patti hci’self, who is very fond
of the diversion and is a fair player.
John Field.
THE LATEST INNOVATIONS
In What is Now Called Feminine
Gear.
New York, Mnv 21.—'There have been
several inLovations, many of them startling
enough, made recently in tho matter of
feminine gear. We have grown accustomed
to towering bats covered with the most
ridiculous ornamentations in the shape of
flowers and feathers; we havo watched
calmly; if not approvingly, the evolution of
tho bustle and the gradual appearance of tho
leg-of-mutton sleeve: but I confess to hav
ing experienced something very like a start
the other day on visiting the establishment
of a fashionable French corset maker to tee
the latest importation of Parisian stays
manufactured of no ordinary material such
as contil, sateen, silk or satin, but of eonunon
blue-striped bedticking! These stays were
of the most perfect cut and workmanship,
elaborately trimmed with lace or ribbon and
cost no less than sl(> a pair. Considerable
ingenuity and taste were displayed in the
cutting of the stuff, so that the stri]x* should
follow the curves and outlines of the figure.
They were rather chic, on the whole, and I
fail to see why in the future bedticking
should not be used for v arious purposes be
sides coverings for mattresses and pil
lows.
Every women of fashion nowadays has on
her toilet table a pretty little feather duster,
set in a beautifully embossed silver handle.
These dusters are really useful as well as
ornamental, and it is no uncommon sight to
sis* a lady occupy a spare hour in bruhsing
off the dust that we all know wall collect
with lightning rapidity on bureau, desk and
table. Most of these duster* are so made
that the feather portion can be put securely
away inside the silver handle thus forming
a convenient article for the pocket or trav
eling bag. They can be purchased from a
leading house iii this city for th" trilling
sum of Juki apiece. ' Clara Lanza.
The San Franeiso Examiner calls upon
all adult male citizens to boycott the plug
hat and to indulge in the use of hair oil.
“Much,” it says, “as we sometimes laugh in
our sleeves at the vanity of using hair oil,
yet the experience of the African Nubians,
who consume all the grease they can get on
their woolly heads, would seem to favor tho
practice in preference to witter, which most
generally contains more or less matter that
is injurious to the hair. There is no bald
ness among the Nubians, whose hair is
greased stiff all the time, beside living iu
the scorching sun.”
Rough on Rats,”
Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants,
bedbugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack rab
bits, sparrows, gophers. 15c. At druggists.
"Rough on Corns*..”
Ask for Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” Quick
reliof, complete cure. Corns, warts, bun
ions. 15a
"Rough on Itch.”
“Rough on Itch” cures skin humors, erup
tions, ring-worm, tetter, salt rheum, frosted
feet, chilblains, itch, ivy ixiison, barber’s
itch. 60c. jars. ' •
"Rough on Catarrh”
Corrects offensive odors at on<*e. Complete
nire of worst ehronic ease*; also unequaled
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters of Money and Management
About Vadous Lines.
Treasurer Rauh, of the Richmond and
Danville Extension Company, gives notice
that a dividend of 35 per cent, on the capital
stock of the Georgia Pacific Railway Com
pany, at par, will be paid on and after May
20, on which date the books of transfer will
close.
An 1 election has been ordered by the
County Commissioners for Newberry town
ship, S. C., on subscribing .JIO.OOO to the
Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad.
The requisite number of signatures was se
cured to the petition in about three days.
The election will be held on June 0. There
will be littlo opposition.
Twenty legal firms are said to have be
come independently rich from the litigation
that the Philadelphia and Reading i;oad lias
been subjected to within the last twelve
years. Once a week during this period the
lawyers have turned out to fight over some
claim, and to listen to each other’s argu
nients.
IV. J. Sein worth has been appointed South
ern Passenger Agent for the Michigan Cen
tral railroad. His territory extends over
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Caro
lina*, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Illinois
south of the Wabash railway, extending
from State line to East St. Louts, Missouri
south of St. Louis and Iron Mountain line,
including St. Louis, and that portion of
Louisiana east of the Mississippi river.
Central’s Summer Schedule.
The Central railroad’s summer schedule’
will go into effect to-day. The principal
changes are in tho day express, which will
leave at 7 a. m. instead of 10, arriving at
Macon at 1:30 p.m., and Atlanta at 5:40.
The same train returning will leave Atlanta
at 0:50 a. m., Macon at 10:35 a. m., arriving
at Savannah at sp. m. The mountain ex
press will leave 1 Savannah at 5:15 p. m., ar
riving at Augusta at 9:35, and returning
will leave Augusta at 0 a.m., arriving in
Savannah at 10:30.
The Guyton extra will leave Savannah at
2 p. m., arriving at Guyton at 3 o’clock, and
returning, will leave Guyton at 8:10, arriv
ing in Savannah at 4:25. This train will
not be put on until to-morrow, and will run
only on week days.
Favorable Railroad Earnings.
Railroad earnings continue to foot up fa
vorably, and, taken as a whole, the roads
were never doing better. Early in the
year there were indications that this year’s
business would be the heaviest in their his
tory. Great earnings were predicted, until
the new law took effect: then everybody
was down in the mouth. Transportation
lines were to be ruined, and some went so
far as to say it was unwise for the roads to
undertake to do business under its provis
ions. These fears are proving groundless.
At all events reports show that on most of
the roads more freight and passenger traffic
is moving than ever before in the month of
May.
The Heaviest Locomotives.
There has been an interesting discussion
among railroad men, both in California and
in the East, as to which were the three or four
heaviest locomotives built in this country.
The Canadian Pacific has the heaviest. It
weighs 160,000 pounds. It is used to haul
freight through Kicking Horse Pass in the
Rocky Mountains. Tho Southern Pacific
has the next largest, weighing 154,000
pounds. Then there is a locomotive on the
Northern Pacific of 145,000 pounds. The
Brazilian government had an engine built
in this country a few years ago, wliich is thb
fourth largest, weighing 144,000 pounds.
A Much-Made-Up Man. _
A much-made-up man is described in the
Lewiston (Me.) Journal: It isn’t every day
that I see a man take off his spectacles to
give them a rub and off with them comes
his nose. Such a combination of spectacles
and proboscis did I see while taking an ex
cursion in the elevator car of the Mutual
Insurance building at Portland Friday
morning. The man told me when he took off
his specs that I needn’t be scared, so I
wasn’t. When he was in tho army, cold
deprived him of a Roman nose of his own,
and plaster paris was better than nothing,
lie has false teeth and false hair. One leg
was a cork leg. He can see out of but one
eye. The other is glass. Three fingers and
one thumb is all he possesses in the world.
One of his ears are lalse. But for all this;
he is the liveliest man in Portland. He
walks ten miles every day, rain or shine.
He has had three, wives and survives them
all, and has refused five chances to get mar
ried again, so ho says, since he buried his
last wife, about a year ago.
Weather Indications.
Special indications for Georgia:
RAIN Threatening weather, light local
Irains. light variable winds, general
ly easterly, nearly stationary tem
perature.
Comparison of mean temperature at Savan
nah, May 21, 1887, and the mean of same day for
fifteen years.
Departure Total
Mean Temperature from the Departure
Mean Since
for 15 years,May 81, ’B7. -|- or . Jan. 1,1887.
70.5 i _T2.3 4.3 816.9
Comparative rainfall statement:
ssss nr W
.098 .0 — r '
Maximum temperature 80.0, minimum tem
perature 67.0.
The height of the river at Augusta at
1 o’clock p. m. yesterday (Augusta time)
was 6.2 feet —a fall of 0.4 feet during the past
twenty-four hours.
Cotton Region Bulletin for 24 hours end
ing 6p. m., May 31,1887, 75th Meridian
time.
Districts. | Average.
Name Max. Min. Ratal■
Name. TempTerap . m
1. Wilmington | 11 85 08
2. Charleston 8. 88 84 .02
8. Augusta 12 85 82 .02
4. Savannah 13 84 68 .02
5. Atlanta 18 4 82 .12
6. Montgomery 8 85 84
7. .Mobile 7 88 63 i .06
8. New Orleans 14 88 03 .01
M. Galveston 80 fit 64
10. Vicksburg 5 87 04
11. Little Rock 4 88 88
12. Memphis 18 I 87 63 .14
Average*. • m I 185 < n s .os
Observations taken ut the seine moment
of time at all stations.
Savannah. May 21, r. si., city time.
; Temperature.
Direction. <
L , ac j
Velocity. 9
Rainfall.
Name
OF
Stations.
Norfolk Htl, F. Clear.
Charlotte 70 K I Clear.
Wilmington 70 S E 1 1 Clear.
Charleston | 72 NE: fair.
Augusta j 72 S Cloudy.
Savannah 70IN Kill . . . Clear.’
Jacksonville 70,N E 01 Clear.
Key West 7<iiNW 14 ... 'Clear.
Atlanta M|SEi.. 01 Cloudy.
Pensacola TSi E ill ... Clear.
Mobile 70 E | .on Clear
Montgomery 728 E . 02 Cloudy.
New Orleans 72. E .. Clear.
Galveston 70 8 til Clear.
Corpus Christ!.... 70 8 E' 15 .... (tear.
Palestine 74 SF. : . . Clear.
Hrowtieavllle 74.8 E1..1 I Clear.
G. N. Salisbury, Signal Corps. U.S. Army.
A fairy lost a precious charm
To keep the rosy gums from harm.
To keep from teeth decay and death.
To sweeten and purify the breath,
MARRIAGES.
JOHNSON —BROWN. —Married, at the resi
dence of the bride’s mother, No. 26 Harris
street, Thursday, May 5, Mr. James W . John
son, formerly of Macon, Ga., to Miss Mary
Ella Brown, of this city.
DEATT rsT
BARNWELL.—Died, at Savannah, Ga., May
20th, 1887, in his fifty-second year, Dr. John S.
Barnwell, a native of Beaufort, 8. C.
In the valley, in the shadow of Death, Peace
hath come to Unrest.
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
MACK.—The friends and acquaintance of
Mrs. Sarah Mack and Mr, William Mack, and
Mr. and Mrs. Grant R. Lee are respectfully in
vited to attend the funeral of the former from
her late residence, Gaston street, first door front
Roberts. THIS MORNING at 10 o’clock.
MEETINGS.
TRAVELERS’ PROTECTIVE ASSOCIA
TION.
The Annual Convention of the Georgia State
Division of the Travelers' Protective Association
will lx- held in Macon on MAY 23(1 and 24th next.
' T. P. A.'sand all other traveling men are re
spectfully invited and cordially requested to at
tend. Reduced rates will be given from your
town.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
GRAND SUNDAY EXCURSION.
STEAMER POPE CATLIN
Will leave Kelly's wharf, foot of Bull street,
ON SUNDAY, MAY' 22d, 1887,
at 2:30 o’clock, for atrip around TY'BEE BELL
BUOY, returning via LAZARETTO CREEK,
THUNDERBOLT and Music
and refreshments on board. Fare round trip,
50c.
This steamer can he chartered for excursions
by applying to the Captain on board or at the
GOLDEN ANCHOR, corner Broughton and
Drayton streets.
CAUTION.
All persons are warned against giving money
or aid to any person asking or writing In ELLEN
M. RANKIN or MAGGIE RANKIN’S name. We
are not in need of money, and the parties ask
ing for it are frauds. ELLEN M. RANKIN,
MAGGIE R. RANKIN.
REMOVAL.
DR. B. S. PURSE
Has removed his office and residence to 140
Liberty, lietween Whitaker and Bull streets.
SOME PEOPLE DO NOT TUMBLE.
Skilled labor, cheap rent and first-class mate
rial will enable any man to make money.
TOWNSEND IS MAKING MONEY.
If you want good work you can get it at
TOWNSEND’S. He intends to keep at the head
of the procession.
He will double his business in the next twelve
months.
YOU KNOW IT. HE KNOWS IT.
TOWNSEND,
FINE PRINTER AND BINDER,
86 and 88 Bryan Street, Savannah, Ga.
“Telephone 341,”
FAUST BEER,
CHEAPEST AND BEST.
Cheapest because bottled here in the city,
saving middle charges to the consumer.
Best, because it is the favorite brewing of the
renowned Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association.
For sale by all grocers and dealers. It is a
mild tonic; just the thing for delicate persons.
GEORGE MEYER.
75 Bay street.
NOTICE.
Savannah, Ga., May 18, 1887.
The Lumbermen's Association , to Whom it May
Concern: ,
We, the Association, met arid agreed that on
and after the 25th day of May, 1887 we would
w ork under and about the wharves for 25c. and
30c. per hour. R. 11. PARKING,
W. B WILLIAMS.
RICHARD POOLER,
Committee.
FOR SALE.
T2O Horne Power ENGINE for sale at a bar
gain. Cylinder 20x30. About new and in per
fect order. A. B. HART.
Lake City, Fla.
DR. HENRY S FOLDING,
I
DENTIST,
Office corner Jones and Drayton streets.
3 BULL STREET,
Over W. U. Telegranh Office,
SAVANNAH, GA.
WANTED.
Wool Wanted
The highest cash
prices paid at all times
for WOOL. Shippers
will save money by
consulting me before
selling.
M.Y. HENDERSON,
180 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
Mowing Machines
AND
HORSE HAY RAKES.
EDWARD LOVELL I SONS,
155 BROUGHTON STREET.
City Delivery
—OF THE—
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS.
The undersigned I* prepared to deliver the
Mouxino News (payable 4n advance) at the fol
lowing rates:
One Year $lO 00
Six Mouth* 5 00
Three Mouth* 2 50
One Mouth l 00
WILLIAM ESTILL,
(Lai ill's News DeDot. No. 28 HUIIW.4
Stats
OF
Weathkh.
j AMUSEMENTS.
SAVANNAH THEATRE
MONDAY, MAY 30th, 1887.
SOIREE MUSICALE
—FOB THE BENEFIT OF—
BETHESDA ORPHANS’ HOME
—by—
MAD. ST. ROQUES-PLAYTER
And her Pupils, assisted by Distinguished Mna
cal Talent of Savannah.
Reserved seats at Davis Bros. -Box Sheet
Saturday, 28th. ‘Admission 50c. No extn
charge for reserved seats.
Tickets for sale at Davis Bros.’; Wm
and Ludden & Bates’. ’ ' u ’
BASE BALL TQ-MORROVT
New Orleans
SAVANNAH!
Tickets on sale at FERNANDEZ’S CIGU
STORE.
Game called at 4 o’clock.
D- : 1
~ ‘
Charleston and Savannah Railway Ca
3ST aijioxLal
DRILL AND ENCAMPMENT
AT
WASHINGTON, D. C. f *
May 22d to 27th.
SPECIAL EXCURSION RATE OF
sl2 05 PER CAPITA J
Savannah to Washington and Return.
Will be given to parties of TWENTY-FIVE 01
MORE traveling in a body on a solid ticket.
TICKETS ON SALE
MAY 18th TO MIDDAY MAY 221
Good only when presented for passage on
day of sale. Not good after departure
of 12:15 p. m. train May 22d.
Good only TO RETURN when stamped and
signed by Ticket Agent Pennsylvania Railroad
at Washington.
rr EXTP.EME LIMIT JUNE SIXTH.
Single Tickets S2B 95. On sale from May 18 U
23. Good to return not later than June 3.
For Tickets and organization of parties, call
on WILLIAM BREN, Ticket Agent, Bull street
E. P. McSWINEY,
General Passenger Agent.
PROPOSALS WANTED.
Proposals Wanted.
BIDS will be received up to the Ist of JUNB
for the buildings on the eastern half of lot
on the corner of Whitaker, President and State
streets, and also for excavating to the depth ol
feet the lot above mentioned, measuring 60bj
90 feet. The buildings to lie removed within ten
days and the exca'vating to be finished by the
first of July, 1887.
Bids must be, made separately. The right ,i
. reserved to reject any or all bids.
J. H. ESTILL.
D. R. THOMAS.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM,
RUFUS E. LESTER,
Committee Union Society.
City of Savannah, 1
Office City Marshal, >
Savannah, May 19th, 1887. )
PROPOSALS
YYTILL be received at this office from Plumbers
v i until May 25, to repair or replace water
boxes on sidewalks. Specifications furnished. The
city reserves the right to reject any and all hida
ROBERT J. WADE.
City Marshal.
RAILROADS.
SCHEDULE
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Savannah, Ga., May 22, 1887.
ON and after this date Passenger Trains will
run daily unless marked t, which are daily,
except Sunday.
The standard time, by which these trains run,
is 30 minutes slower than Savannah city time:
No. 1. No. 3. No. 5. No. 7.
Lv Savannah. .7:00 am 8:20 rnn 5:15 piii 5:40 pm
Ar Guyton 0:40 pm
Ar Milieu 9:40 am 11:03 pm 7:30 pm 8:45 pm
Ar Augusta. .t1:45 pm 7; 144 am 9:35 pm
Ar Macon 1:30 pm 3:20 am
Ar Atlanta 5:3u pm 7:30 am
Ar Columbus..s:so pm 5:30 pm
Ar MOntg'ry 7:09
Ar Eufaula.'.. ... .... 3:sopm
Ar Albany 2:45 pm
Train No. 9+ leaves Savannah 2:00 p. m,: ar
rives Guyton 3:00 p. hi.
Passengers for Sylvania, Wrightsville, Mu
ledgeville andEatonton should take 7:00 a.m.
tram.
Passengers for Thomaston, Carrollton. Pern - .
Fort Gaines, Talbotton, Buena Vista, Blakely
and Clayton should take the 8:20 p. m. train.
No. 2. No. 4. No. 6, No. 8.
Lv Augusta 10:00 pm 6:00 am
Lv Macon... 10:85 am 10:50 pm ..
Lv Atlanta.. 6:soam 0:50 pm
Lv Columbus 8:25 pm
LvMontg’ry. 7:25 pm 7:40 am *
Lv Eufaula. .10:18 pm 10:49 am
Lv Albany.. 5:05 am : •••••
Lv Milieu.... 2:28 pm 3:10 am 8:00 am 5:20 am
Lv Guyton . 4:o3pm s:olam 9:27 am 0:55 aui
Ar Savannah 5:00 pm 0:15 am 10:30am B:osair
Train No. lot leaves Guyton 3:10 p. m.; arrives
Savannah 4:25 p. in. „
Sleeping cars on all night trains between sax
vannah, Augusta, Macon and Atlanta, also Jin'
con ana Columbus.
Train No. 3, leaving Savannah at 8:29 p- m.,
will stop regularly at Guyton, hut at no other
point to put off passengers between Savanuan
and Milieu.
Train No. 4 will stop on signal at stations be
tween Millen and Savannah to take on passen
gers for Savannah. .
Train No. 5 will stop on signal at stations Be
tween Savannah and Millen to take on passen.
gers for Augusta or points on Augusta branen.
Train No, 0 will stop between Milieu anu
vannah to put off passengers from Augusta aa*
points on Augusta branch. „ .
Connections at Savannah with Savanuan,
Florida and Western Railway for all points it
Florida. , h
Tickets for all points and sleeping car berm*
on sale at City Olllee, No. 2(1 Bull street, anv
Depot Office 30 minutes before departure o
each train. _. _ '
J. C. SHAW. G. A. WHITEHEAD,
Ticket Agent. Gen. Pass. Agent. _
STOVES. *
CONGRESS STREET FOR P&
WE CAN SHOW ALMOST ANY STYLE ANT ,
KIND OF
Stove or Range
At price* below the reach of competition.
LOVELL & LATTIMORE.
Hardware and Stove Dealers, Kavannahrij^.
I AWYERS, doctors, ministers,
I j mechanics and other* having book*. '•■ *
zinc*, and other printed work to* oe bound
bound can have such work done intteljetJ ,yj
of the binder’s art at the MORNING
BINDERY. 3 Whitaker street