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NEW YORK’S JUDICIARY,
SOMETHING ABOUT THE LUXURY
OF A LAWSUIT.
The Laws Protect the Poorest As Well
as the Richest Citizen The Working’
Women's Protective Union and How
It Has Broken Up Impositions Upon
Poor Women.
New York, May 38. —The District Courts
of the city of New York do not furnish
much material for the picturesque news
paper writer. Occasionally a case will be
tried in one of them which, on account of
some odd or unusual circumstances con
nected with it, is deemed worthy of brief no
tice, but, as a rule, these inferior tribunals
sit day after day and week after week dis
posing of their hundreds and thousands of
cases, unnoticed by the press, their very ex
istence unknown to nine-tenths of the people.
And yet I do not exaggerate when I say that
there is no branch of our civil judiciary that
is more important, none that we could not
better afford to have abolished.
It is frequently said that a lawsuit is a
luxury that the rich only can afford to in
dulge in. It isn't so in Sew York. The law
here not only extends its protecting arm
over the meanest citizen, but there is no one
so poor that he may not invoke that protec
tion. If a person desiring to liegin a suit is
able to pay the small fees of the court and
its officers and to employ counsel, he is, of
course, xjxjuired to do so. and will recover
hack his expenses from the defendant if lie
wins his suit. But poverty alone does not
close the doors of the District Courts to anv
man or woman on Manhattan Island. All
that is necessary for the person who thinks
he is wronged to do is to make an affidavit
that he is not possessed of SIOO
worth of property aside from the claim he
desires to prosecute and get a lawyer to cer
tify that he had examined the claim, and is
of opinion that the petitioner has a good
cause of action, and the Judge not only al
lows the suit to be begun without the pay
ment of a penny, but assigns an attorney
and counselor to prosecute it and deputizes
an officer to serve the summons. The veriest
tramp in the street, if he lias a good cause
of action against a millionaire for 5c., may
have his claim prosecuted, and if he wins it,
is given a special allowance to pay him for
bis trouble. In tmth, it is the glory of the
New York judiciary that justice is as free as
the air or the water.
But there are instances in which not alone
the open courts and the freedom from ex-
Eense prevent oppression—at the dividing
ne where justice is done in the name of the
law and justice is violated under the forms
of law. And it is just at this point that an
organization that ought to be more widely
known than it is steps in. Ignorance, timid
ity, dire necessity often causes a poor woman
to submit to wrromg and imposition. To
take charge of such cases the Working
Women’s Protective Union was estab
lished in 18(53. This society declares its
object, among other things, to be “the
prevention and redress of frauds and im
positions upon working women who obtain
livelihood by employments other than house
hold service,'’ ana “the enforcing by legal
proceedings, free of cost to working women,
the payment of wages which tney have
earned.” And how well the society has ful
filled its mission is shown by the fact that
it has extended its aid to 46,000 women and
answered 345,000 applications. It not only
employs counsel to prosecute the claims of
working women, but, in case an appeal is
taken, it follows the cause into the higher
courts and attends to it there.
I have not space to teH how this society
has suceoded m breaking up some of the
worst impositions upon working women.
Those who before grew rich by swindling
these poor creatures when they supposed
they were helpless now have a wholesome
respect for the Working Women’s Protec
tive Union.
The judiciary of the city of New York
has not always been as pure as it should
have been. All the world knows of tlie
corruption of the Tammany Judges years
ago, nut is nothing sensational or ex
citing in stories showing how justice is
•lone even to the meanest man or woman.
The most beneflcient of our institutions
are frequently those that make the least
display, and our district courts are in that
category. Z. L. White.
WOMEN AS TYPEWRITERS.
A Field of Labor in Which the Demand
is Greater Than the Supply.
New York, May 38. —Here is a bit of
good news for girls and young women. It'
was told me of the teacher of the best tyjie
writing school in the city, a woman of the
highest integrity, ability and an expert
shorthand writer and typewriter. She
says the demand for young women who can
use the typewriter is "far m excess of the
supply. Avery superior class ot young
women have adopted the typewriter busi
ness as a profession. Many of a class who
formerly adopted teaching as a profession
are now' taking up the business of stenogra
phy and typewriting and an* occupying very
nigh positions as such in insurance com
panies, law o(fict and in most of the large
corporations. Experts in these offices earn
from sl3 to S2O a week. The salary of one
who understands typewriting alane dots
not usually go beyond sls, although there
are some expert typewriters who earn as
high as S3O a week. Exjiert typewriter-;
who can take dictation are even more rare
than stenographers. Many jiersons engaged
in other professions, such as artists, music
teachers, etc., purchase a typewriter and do
piecework, thus supplementing their income.
. It is a great mistake to suppose that tylie
writer operators need no special training.
The ease with which the keyboard and the
mechanical part of the typewriter is learned
leads persons into the error of supposing
that no instructions are required to make a
good typewriter operator, on the con
trary, to do neat work oil the typewriter
and also to take dictation requires a special
kind of fingering and touch almost, as well
timed as is required in the manipulation of
the piano. Persons familiar with type
writer copies will notice a great difference
in the work of different operators, and.
the good work ran almost invariably lie
traced to an operator who has hud a thor
ough, systematic training, the jioor work to
an ojierut or who has taught herself. There
is a great difference in the individuals in re
garato the tine roqulied to make an ex
jiert operator. An operator who can take a
maximum of seventy-five words a minute
must have had two years’ practice from the
time she commenced to study. The sjieed at
which a woman can take dictation depends
on the amonnt of practice she lias had m dic
tation and also on her acuteness of hearing.
A person of superior hearing would reach
this speed in less time.
The typewriting business is almost en
tirely in the hands of women, although
within a Tew yeaix it has been entered into
by a few of the other Sex. Several women
in this city have offices in different build
ings and employ a large number of opera
tons. One woman has six offices in six
different buildings, employs about fifteen
young women on salaries, and has connected
with her hundreds of stenographers and
operators who work by the piece. These
operators are supplied from a large training
school connected with the business. They
spend from three to six months in the
school room. They are then taken
up in the businuss office and put
under an office training Most of
them remain in business offices until they
are either received in that, business or placed
in other positions. Alter this office training
they command excellent salaries. The wo
man referred to was obliged to commence
this office training in order to have opera
tors for her own offices. A large number of
persons are rushing into the typewriting
copying business, but as two-thirds
of them are poorly trained, out of every
500 who attempt to learn it there
are probably not more than fifty good,
well-trained instructors. At the present
time the large typewriter offices in the
eftyare triable to get extierts enough to suu
ply the demand. Hundreds of people who
nave managed to scrape together enough
money to buy a ripe writer have advertised
themselves as instructors in typewriting, and
as a result many poor girls' have spent all
the money they could borrow or obtain in
any other way in fitting themselves for the
business, and have afterward, in applying
for work, discovered that both tanle and
money have been thrown away, and that
they were utterly unprepared for work.
Foster Coates
THE WOES OF MILLIONAIRES.
Deception About Their Happiness—
Jay Gould on the Rack.
New York, May 38. —Jay Gould was not
an object of serenity, tranquility and ease
when the government investigators had him
on the rack the other day. He announced
at the beginning that he would have to
speak in a low tone, as he was differing
from neuralgia. But it was not neuralgia
that disturbed him. When he entered the
room there were no traces of it, and as he
sat for half an hour waiting his turn he
was apparently as well a man as could be
found. But when he sank into the chair
and realized that he was in for a rigid in
vestigation at last, one that would lay his
methods hare and expose the deal that had
added millions to his fortune his hands
shook, and his first answers w ere given with
the half chocked utterance that can never
be mistaken for anything else than fear.
1 believe that mere is more deception
about the happiness of the average million
aire than the most skeptical of us imagine.
Last Sunday I went to a Baptist church
presided over by an old-fashioned clergy
man whom I heard first when 1 was <5 years
old. He isn't exactly the fashion, but he
preach** sermons of the good old orthodox
style that are to me more acceptable than
the vain frippery and resonant conceit of
the two preachers who are just now the
idols of tne town. The usher took me half
way up the aisle, and I sat down behind a
man who was perhaps 4* years of age. He
wore the conventional frock coat. 1 was
struck first by the magnificent contour of
his head. It might have been modeled after
that of the greatest of the Csesars. But he
looked very much out of health. His skin was
colorless, his eyes heavy and his brow
wrinkled. From every quarter of the
church eyes were strained at him from time
to time. What struck me particularly was
his restlessness. It seemed an utter impos
sibility for him to remain quiet even for an
instant. He shifted his seat, t waited his
head and twitched his fingers all through
the service. I have no doubt he would
have resented such a sentiment on my part,
but I mfist say that I pitied him —and be
tween you and me its an exceedingly pleas
ant thing to be able tojpitv a man who is
worth $100,000,000. Mr. Rockefeller is the
head of the Standard Oil Company and one
of the rich men of the world, but I would
Dot take his nervousness, responsibility and
ill-health if the capital stock of the whole of
the big monopoly went wlth it.
Another millionaire who is somewhat
known sits about in hotel corridors and
cafes, lonely, crabbed and curt. One after
one his friends have left him, till now not
even an old schoolfellow looks at him as he
parses by. He is a rank drunkard aivl
nothing more. The vice has brought out all
that is repulsive in his character and driven
even his family from him.
Russell Sage entered an elevated car the
other dav and sank into a scat near tlie door,
looking like a frowsy and ill-kempt fanner.
I wondered at the time if the volley of ill
natured remarks that greeted his arrival
reached the old miser's ears.
Perhajw iwverty has some advantages
after all. Blakely Hall.
KILLED BY HIS OWN HAND.
A Rash Act Results in the Death of a
Young Man.
From the Washington Post.
Herman Sehimmelfenning, a young clerk
in the Pension Office, accidentally shot and
killed himself about midnight last night, at
the house of Mrs. Doughty, 1007 Thirteenth
street northwest. Sehimmelfenning hail
been calling on one of the young ladies in
Mrs. Doughty’s house and was preparing to
leave. As he put on his overcoat something
in tlie pocket of it attracted the attention of
the girl, and, finding that it was a pistol,
she upbraided him for carrying so danger
ous a weapon.
“Why, it’s not loaded,” he said, laughing.
“An unloaded pistol can do no harm,” and
to reassure the frightened girl, he placed
the pistol to his mouth and pulled the trig
ger.
The result was a loud report, a scream
from the young lady and the next mo
ment Schhniualfenninc fell headlong on
the floor with a bullet lodged in his
brain.
Mi's. Doughty’s house was in an uproar in
a moment. The lady, herself, attracted by
the shot, rushed immediately to the room
just in tune to meet several gentlemen who
had come in from the street. Schimmel
feuning wus bleeding freely and was uncon
scious, but, os he still breathed, he was
nicked up and laid on the sofa. Drs. Ford
Thompson and Fry were summoned, and for
an hour or two did all they could to restore
him, but idle ball hail pierced his brain an* 1
about 3 o'clock this morning he expired
without having uttered a word after the
fatal shot.
The peculiarity of the accident gave rise
to the belief that Sehimmelfenning had
committed suicide intentionally, hut this
does not seem to have been the case, and he
evidently believed that the pistol was not
loaded when he pulled the trigger.
His mother and sister, with whom he re
sided at No. 100!) N street, northwest, and
who were summoned immediately after the
accident occurred, stated that he was in the
best of spirits on leaving home, while his
conduct at Mrs. Doughty’s was bright and
cheerful.
He was 37 years of ago and much respect
ed among his acquaintances.
WKAT A FATE IF INNOCENT!
Mrs. Zimmerman in Jail Fifteen Years
On Mere Pretense of Evidence.
A dispatch from Madison, Wis., to the
New York World says: “Gov. Rusk has
issued a pardon to Mrs. Aurelia Zimmer
man, who has served over fifteen years-of a
life sentence in State prison for murdering
her husband in 1871. Mr. and Mrs. Zim
merman were living happily on their farm
in Washington county. At the breakfast
table one morning Zimmerman was taken
violently ill and (tied shortly afterwards. A
post mortem revealed strychnine and it was
ascertained that he had drunk it in his
coffee. The wife was rrrest<sl. She ac
knowledged having purchased strychnine
to kill rats, but denied having administered
any to her husband. On the trial the pros
ecution s. night to prove the existence of a
criminal intimacy between Mrs. Zimmer
man ami a young schoolmaster and thus
show her motive for committing the mur
der. This was not successful, but she was
convicted.
Several attempts have been made to secure
her pardon. One of the most earnest advo
cates for the pardon was the wife of Deputy
Warden Wliite of the State prison. The
jjrisoner was attended by Mrs. White during
a dangerous illness. Tlie patient was told
that the physician had given her up, that
she could not live until midnight, and she
was asked by Mrs. White to tell the truth
regarding Zimmerman's death. In fpeble
voice she renewed her protestations
penee. Mrs. White was convinced that she
spike the truth. Gov. Rusk had an inter
view with the prisoner soon after her re
covery from tins sickness, ami was also con
vinced that she was innocent of the alleged
crime. He began a thorough investigation,
which to-day resulted in the pardon. Judge
Pulling, who sentenced the woman; all the
jurors who served on the trial and several
prominent officials petitioned for the pm don.
Mrs. Zimmerman is now over 70 years old]
Bhe has three children, all prosperous, re
siding in Greene county, who will see that
their mother is marie comfortable for the
remainder of her life.
Dr. Remedy surpasses all.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, MAY 30, 1887.
HETTY GREEN’S GRIP.
Confusion in the Plans for Reorganizing
Houston and Texas Central.
From t!ie Few York Herald.
Mi's. Hetty Green, the woman with a
terrible grip on many millions, which she
wields as a club, has lifted her arm to strike
a deadly blow.
C. P. Huntington, whose comprehensive
and powerful grasp takes in thousands upon
thousands of miles of railroads, from ocean
to ocean, with branches everywhere l is the
object of her attack.
It is a giantes* against a giant.
She wants him either to let go his hold on
the Houston and Texas Central railroad,
with its splendid land grant rights, or eLse
pay her a grand sum to leave him to his
purposes.
The facts leading up to the present crisis
may be briefly stated.
HUNTINGTON’S scheme.
Mr. Huntington some vears ago decided
that the Houston and Texas Central rail
road. which runs through a rich country
and has a land grant of 10,340 acres for every
mile of road constructed, would be a good
property to hold. It would help his South
ern Pacific and other less productive roads
out of their difficulties. So he went to work
buying up the stock and finally
got control at, it is said, a cost
of about $lO a share. But the funded
debt of the company was very large, and to
make the stock valuable it would have to
be reduced. On Jan. 1, 1885, the company
defaulted, and on Feb. 33, 1885, i> a suit
brought by the Southern Development Com-
I>any. which is another name for Hunting
ton and associates, receivers were appointed
to take charge of the road. This suit was
brought for sijoO,ooo advanced to pay in
terest. but on May 36. 1886, it was dis
missed, and new receivers were apixiinted
on the suit of the first mortgage bond
holders.
REAR BONDHOLDERS TO TIIK FRONT.
But Mr. Huntington was not permitted to
have entirely his own way. There were
$3,446.(100 of general mortgage loads out
standing, and the ownei-s thereof insisted on
saving something for themselves. Finally
the best Mr. Hnr.tington could do was to sub
mit to an aiTongmeent by which these bond
holders would purchase tne property. They
appointed the following as a committee of
purchase and reorganization: Henry
Budge, of Hallagarten & Cos. • William
• Mertens. of Van Hoffman & Cos.; Thomas L.
Manson, Jr., of Chas. Head & Cos.; Frederick
Taylor, of Frederick Taylor & Cos.; H. K.
Pomroy, of Pomrov Brothers; Charles Rob
inson Smith, and William J. Quinlan, Jr.,
of the Chemical National Bank. Mrs.
Hetty Green owns $1,000,000 of the bonds.
She agreed that when $1,350,000 of the
bonds had been deposited with the Farmers'
Loan and Trust Company she would de
posit her million also and leave jthe pur
chase of the property and reorganization of
the company to the committee. Mr. Quin
lan signed the agreement for her.
MRS. GREEN DRAWS BACK.
Yesterday was the last day for depositing
the bonds.
Two million, one hundred and twenty
seven thousand dollars were deposited
and more were on the way from California.
But Mrs. Hetty Green did not deposit hers.
On the contrary', she refused to go into the
syndicate because she wanted better terms.
7 he plan agreed upon by the committee was
that the general or third mortgage bonds af
ter foreclosure and sale were to bear 4 per
cent, interest, instead of 6 per cent., with de
bentures at 4 per cent, for past due cou
pons; the second mortgage bonds to bear 6
per cent, interest, instead of 8, with like, de
bentures, and the first mortgage bonds,
which fall due in 1801, to bear 5 per cent,
and be extended fifty years. The interest
on the first mortgage bonds was to be paid
in cash. Under this scheme Mr. Hunting
ton’s stock rose to 41, showing a gain of
about%l above the price he paid.
When Mrs. Green lifted her aim against
the scheme yesterday Huntington's stock
dropped to 34, and the bondholders were
thrown into the greatest consternation.
MRS, GREEN MUST BAY
But the members of the committee w*ho
were seen by' a reporter claimed that Mrs.
Green assumed her warlike attitude too lnte.
Said one of them: “We have a clear major
ity—nearly two-thirds in fact—and Mrs.
Hettv Green can do nothing with her mil
lion.”
“But she has other millions in cash. Can
she not bid against y'ou at the sale?”
“Oh, yes. She can buy the whole road if
she wants to bid enough.”
“Suppose she relents and ngress after all
to come in, will you let her ini”
“Not with any special privileges, that is
certain. She agreed to come in like the
I'est, and at the last moment she has held
back to be treated with separately.
Wlint do you think of it? No sir; she will
have to pay up like a man.”
Tho agreement declares that the commit
tee may impose additional terms on any
holder wishing to come in after the time to
sign it has expired.
WHY MRS. GREEN IS ANGRY.
Mrs. Green's representatives claim that
the property is very valuable, and can be
made to pay' far better returns on the bonds
than the plan of reorganization would se
cure. They assert that Mr. Huntington’s
scheme is to bleed the Houston and Texas
Central road through his Southern Pacific
and other lines, ana to make his Houston
and Texas Central stock valuable at the ex
pense of the bondholders. They say she owns
not only third mortgage bonds, but large
blocks of the other and lietter bonds of the
company, and that she intends to have her
rights to the last dollar.
Mrs. Green treats Mr. Huntington and the
committee as if the were one in interest, but
members of the committee do not acknowl
edge any privity between themselves and
the Southern Pacific magnate.
If Mrs. Green takes any legal steps in the
matter it will l>e through her counsel,
Messrs. Sullivan & Cromwell. They re
fused pesterday to give any intimation wliat
her plan of procedure w ould he.
Where the Mining Fever ia Hot.
Avery entertaining article in the June
number of the Choutauqvun is entitled
“The Black Hills of Dakota,” written by
Coleman E. Bishop. He says that one of
the strangest studies in human phenmenn to
be seen in that country is the mining craze,
and relates this incident -
“One morning at Custer, when I came
down to breakfast, the landlord, clerk and
liartender of the hotel were missing, the
hostler lieiug in charge. The streets were
deserted, the stores, ofth-es and bank closet!.
‘Why, is this Sunday? Where is every
body f
“ ‘They’re pretty near, out proper ting.’
“ ‘Out prospecting!’
“ ‘That's what, they are. Everybody that
could rustle a cavuse (get a horse) left the
camp be fore daylight.’
“ ' Where are they gone ”
“ ‘O, you’re too lab*, cap’ll, for a show in
that deal. It's in the Limestone range, 15
miles from here. By this time they ain’t
enough prospect ground left there for a go
pher’s ranch. A couple of fellers came in.
hist night and give it away to some of their
old pan filers and they lit out before mid
night; but the rest of the camp was watch
ing ’em and trail's! ’em to the new digging.
You oughter seen thf* stampede before dav.
They’ll all be back before night rich ns
Rothschild—ln their minds—and the chances
is not one of ’em will ever go out there
again or even put up a dollar for recordin'
their claims. You're a tenderfoot, and
don't know what fools a lot of men are in
such a race. Why, stranger, I’ve seen this
snme country staked over in mining crazes
half a dozen times, for four different min
erals in the same ground—gold, mica, tin
and silver—and no one has made a nickel
out of any of them.”
Sam Jones, the revivalist, says: “I don’t know
where hell is. I don't want to know, for 1 ain’t
headin' that way. I'm goin‘ to let them fellers
as are gmn' there find out.” It was supposed
i hat the misalou of ail evangelist was to snatch
•■them fellers" who are heading that way nnd
put them on the straight and narrow mtb lead
ing to the other place.— Norristown Herald.
STARVING A SENATOR.
GOING TWENTY DAYS WITHOUT
FOOD OF ANY KIND.
Discovery of a Medical Ponce De Leon
at Washington—Noted Men Readily
Take to the New Cure-All Levy’s
Falling Away.
Washington Correspondence of Chicago Fetes.
Ex-Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, is the
latest convert to the starvation cure, and
thinks there never was anything like it.
The Senator has always been a high liver,
and has eaten more good dinners than any
other man in Washington, except, perhaps,
Ben: I’erley Poore. His cook has always
been famous, and Mrs. Pomeroy’s table has
been the best in town. No one ever enjoyed
good living bettor than tho Senator, and
therefore his friends will be surprised to
learn ho has gone entirely without food for
twenty day's—not a mouthful of anything
but the juice of an orange or grape fruit,
and the elixir‘which a doctor in this city
gives.
“I never felt so well in my life,” said the
ex-Senator, when I saw him the other morn
ing. “I am as chipper as a squirrel and as
proud as a fighting cock, and I haven't been
hungry', either. The first day or so I felt
a little hunger, and several times when I
have sat down to carve a roast or something
like that for the rest, of the folks I have felt
like cutting off a good slice for myself, but
when I say I have not felt any hunger. I
mean that I linve not suffered from the
craving appetite people talk about. I have
slept better than since I can remember. I
fall asleep as soon as my head touches the
pillow, and do not wake till morning.”
“What are you starving for?”
“I am 70 years of age. I have never taken
a drop of medicine in my life till a few
weeks ago, when I got all stopped up in my
bronchial tubes and was troubled with a
dreadful cough. I went to a homeopathic
doctor. I don’t believe in medicine, any
how, and as he gave as little as anyone I
know I went to him. He gave me a bottle
full of little pills marked A and another bot
tle full marked B. He told me to take three
of A and the next hour three of B. I took
them honestly, but they did no good, and it
occurred to me that it could not pos
sibly do any good to put a little medicine
into the stomach on top of .a big dinner. On
an empty stomach it might do some good.
I had heard of this starvation fellow and
went down to talk with him. I was im
pressed w'ith the conversation and com
menced to fast twenty day's ago. Now I
am better than I have been for years. My'
weight has been reduced from 334 to 307
pounds. I was weighed the first day and
every subsequent day except Sunday since
I began. The second day I weighed 339
pounds, the third 936, the fourth 234, the
fifth 321: then 320, 219. 318, 317, 310, 315,
315 1-2, 314, 314 1-3, 211, 209, and to-day 307.
THE DOCTOR’S GREAT DISCOVERY.
“This doctor has a wonderful discovery.
I have taken a spoonful of his liquid three
times a day, and I know it has sustained
me, for I tried several times to get along
without and could not do so. It is pleasant
to the taste, and I do not believe it is in any
way' harmful.”
'The discoverer of this my'sterious mixture
lias an office near the Efihitt House, and
when 1 asked him for an interview he said
he had nothing to coni oal.
“Well, then,” I exclaimed, “what 'is the
drug you give your patients? What is the
stuff made of?”
“That 1 cannot tell you,” he replied. “I
have discovered a drug which must revolu
tionize our medical practice. I will keep its
elements a secret till it is recognized bv the
profession, which now scoffs at it and pro
nounces me an impostor. When the profes
sion is willing to give it a fair trial and it is
demonstrated to possess the properties
which I claim for it, then will I give the
secret of its composition to the world. I am
content to wait, however. I have a number
of patients who are trying it and my suc
cess with them is extremely gratifying. Of
course it is not absolutely certain in its
results. If it were I should claim omnipo
tence in medicine, but in every case in
which it has tieen fairly tried it lias met my
expectations.”
‘ ‘The doctors say it is a preparation of coca
—a form of cocaine?” I suggested.
“It is nothing of tho kind. There is no
trace of coca in it, and I do not claim that
it has of itself curative properties. All I
claim for it now is that the use of a small
quantity in regular doses enables me to
control the nerves of the stomach so that
there will be no desire for food, and at the
same time maintain the strength of tho
patient while he is under treatment for
whetever disease he may suffer from. It is
not a medicine. It is not a stimulant. It is
simply a nutrient. It sustains life w'hile
other curative agencies are at work.”
THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE TURNED ON.
“What is your theory'?”
“My theory is perfectly simple. It can
not tie questioned. I beliove. as all civilized
men do, that the source of all diseases lies in
the impurities of the blood. When the blood
is perfectly pure the body is perfectly
healthy—disease cannot exist. The next
axiom is that it is impossible to entirely
purify the blood while tne stomach is re
ceiving food which furnishes impurities.
To suspend the functions of the stomach, to
enable him who is suffering with disease to
live and receive treatment without food,
simplifies tho problem and enables tho cura
tive agencies free anil perfect action. My
nutrient does that. It takes the place of
food for a time, while other remedies are
being applied, and thus the most obstinate
case will yield to the treatment readily.”
“How long will it sustain life? How long
can n man go without food by taking your
nutritive?"
“It depends upon t he physical condition of
tho patient. Ino not recommend it as a per
manent substitute for food nor would I ad
minister it to a person who is weak and
wasted. One must have a constitution of
average strength to work upon—a reserve
force that mav be employed while the cure
is going on. 1 recommend it especially in
chronic coses of rheumatism, diabetes,
scrofula, asthma, and other diseases which
are directly traceable to impure blood; but,
as I have said, standard remedies must be
use*! to accomplish the cure while my nu
trient sustains life.
“How long have you known of it?”
“I discovered it in 1882 while I was a
student in California. I have used it suc
cessfully for two or three years in Sharon,
I J a., where I first hung out my shingle, and
here in Washington, although l have patents
in Chicago, St. Paul, New York and else
where.”
OK COURSE CHICAGO IS ON THE LIST.
“What patient.-; have you in Chicago f”
“It is scarcely professional to lunation
my patients by name for publication, but I
think I am at liberty to refer to Mr. Fred
erick E. Brown of the firm of Shields &
Brown, 78 and 80 Lake street. In St. Paul
I am treating the wife of the publisher of a
newspaper. In New York I have a patient
in the family of one of the most prominent
bankers, also an actress who is well known,
and members of the family of the late Gen.
Hancock. Here in Washington I can refer
you to the family of Justice Wood of the
Supreme Court: to the family of George W.
Monnypenny, formerly Commissioner of
Indian Affairs; to Gen. Colston, formerly
of the Egyptian army and now employed in
t he i iffice of the Surgts in General of t he army;
to Mr. Moses, the furniture dealer; to cx-
Senator Pomeroy; to Mr. Ayres, the cor
resjiondent of the Kansas City Timex, who
is now- under treatment, Mr. Ayres has
eaten no food for several weeks.
“The most conspicuous case I have at
present is that of Col. I/hvy, a clerk in the
Post Office Department, whom I am treat
ing for asthma. I also have several patients
whom lam treating for oliesity. Mine is
one of the most popular and easy methods
for reducing flesh. It is absolutely certain
and harmless. A man who will fast nnd
take my nutrient can reduce his flesh enor
mously, and by proper <-are may keep it
down. Of course, if he goes hark to hearty
eating at once, he will become fleshy again,
as the same consequence will follow the
same cause; but a man of 300 pounds can
remove the surplus of 100 in thirty days,
and keen it removed, if he will take my
treatment and not gormandize again."
HOW MRS. GREEN B. RAUM FARED.
I went to see some of the people to whom
the doctor referred. Among others he
asked me to see Gen. Green B. Raum, of
Illinois, whom he thought would condemn
him and his treatment. The doctors story
was that he had been called to treat ilrs.
Raum. who was considered a chronic inva
lid, and had been confined to her bed for
more than a year. She had little strength,
and he attempted to treat her with many
misgivings. She fasted fifteen days, during
which time she suffered dreadfully and
purged herself of enormous quantities of
bile. Then she became salivated, and at
tributed it Do the nutrient, which she
claimed contained mercury. The doctor, to
convince her it did not, drank the contents
of a large bottle of his mixture,
with no evil effects. The treat
ment was suspended, and the doctor was
discharged, supposing that Gen. and Mrs.
Raum would condemn him and his treat
ment, hut the General tells me they do not.
He says that he believes the doctor's treat
ment did Mrs. Raum a great deal of good,
for she is much better now and is able to be
out for the first time in eighteen months.
He says the doctor has a wodderfui remedy,
something of the utmost 'importance, but
that he did not diagnose the case of Mrs.
Raum correctly or did not apply his treat
ment skillfully. Something" was wrong
about it, he would not pretend to say what,
but the result was beneficial. The doctor
says that the trouble was that Mrs. Raum’s
system was saturated with drugs, and as
soon as she commenced to fast their effect
was noticed in a powerful and distressing
manner.
THE STRANGE CASE OF COL. LEVY.
The case of Col. Levy of the Post Office
Department is, ns the doctor says, a very re
markable one. The Colonel was very obese.
He weighed over 300 pounds and suffered
distressingly from the asthma. For years
he has been unable to sleep lying down,
but always maintained a sitting posture.
He lias not been able to take exercise either,
but has always ridden wherever he hail to
go. He commenced the starvation treat
ment two months ago. For sixty days
he has taken no food whatever. During
this time he has lost eighty pounds of
flesh, and his asthma is entirely gone.
He not only sleeps naturally and enjoys
such rest as he has not known for years, but
his strength has increased without food so
that he now walks to and from the depart
ment night and morning, something he has
never done before. He takes a teaspoonful
of tho nutrient three times a day, drinks
water and milk, eats oranges and grapes,
being careful not to swallow any of tho
seeds or pulp, and says that ho suffers no
hunger whatever. For tho first two or
three days he craved food, but soon lost his
appetite entirely and feels better in every
wav than he has for years before.
The regular practitioners in town of course
say that the doctor is an impostor and his
nutrient a fraud. One regular physician
with whom I talked said that he was willing
to admit that the nutriant was an impor
tant discovery, and one which would be rec
ognized soon, but the doctor was not a reg
ular graduate and should not be allowed to
practice. He said that he had spent but
two years in study at an eclectic school in
San Francisco. It is worth watching, how
ever, and if the regular physicians here
would drop their etiquette mid make a thor
ough examination of the subject it would at
least demonstrate how much humbug there
is in it, and how much merit.
FRKIPHT RATKS.
The State op Georgia, 1
Office of the Railroad Commission, -
Atlanta, Ga., May 85, 1887. j
Campbell Wallace, Chairm'n)
L. X. Trammell, > Commissioners.
Alex. S. Erwin, )
CIRCULAR NO. 84.
MONTHLY REPORTS.
RAILROAD COMPANIES doing business in
this State are hereby required to forward
all back monthly reports required by the rules
of the Commission to this office by June 15th
proximo, and said companies are notified that
such reports must be hereafter forwarded by
the twentieth of each month as required by
General Rule No. 2.
On failure to comply with this circular, the
Commissioners will take steps to cause the
penalty prescribed by Section 16 of the act es
tablishing the Commission to be enforced against
such company or companies as may be in de
fault. By order of the Board.
CAMPBELL WALLACE, Chairman.
A. C. Briscoe, Secretary.
The State of Georgia, )
Office of the Railroad Commission, >
Atlanta, Ga., May 25, 1887. j
Campbell Wallace, Chairm'n)
L. N. Trammell, r Commissioners.
Alex. S. Erwin, I
CIRCULAR NO. 85.
CHANGE IN CLASSIFICATION.
ON and after JUX T E 15th, 1887, the following
change in the Commissioners’ classiflca
tion will take effect:
Class.
Riee, rough, any quantity. times C
“ clean, in barrels, L. C. L., ltd times.. C
“ “ C.L C
“ in boxes or kegs, L. C. L 3
By order of the Board.
CAMPBELL WALLACE, Chairman.
A. C. Briscoe, Secretary,
State of Georgia, 1
Office of the Railroad Commission, >
Atlanta, Ga., May 25, 1887. j
Campbell Wallace, Chairman,)
L. N. Trammell, Commissioners.
Alex. S. Erwin, )
CIRCULAR NO. 80.
ON AND AFTER JUNE 26, 1887, the following
correction of errors contained in Circular
No. 82 will take effect.
C R | Released.
1. Brass, N. O. S 1 3
2. Meal and ashes, cotton
seed, L. C. 1., (see cotton
seed)
3. Corn meal D.
4 Meal, corn D.
5. Axel grease 6
6. Omit: •Wool, N. O. 8.,
pressed in hales S” *
By order of the Board.
CAMPBELL WALLACE, Chairman.
A. C. Briscoe, Secretary.
The State op Georoia, )
Office of the Raiuioal> Commission, \
Atlanta. Ga., May 35, 1887. |
Camfbeli.Wallace, Chairman, )
L. N. Trammf. l.1., \ Commissioners.
Alee. S. Erwin, )
CIRCULAR NO. 87.
AMENDMENT TO FREIGHT RULE NO. 23.
/ AN AND AFTER JUNE 15th, 1887, RULE No.
' / 33, of the rules governing the transporta
tion of freight, will rein 1 as follows: .
WEIGHTS—A ton is 2,000 pounds. A car load
is 20,000 pounds, unless otherwise specified. For
loads above 20,000 pounds, pro rata at car load
rates.
Provided, That when a ear is loaded over its
marked capacity by the shipper at a flag station,
the railroad companies are left free t<>c!'.'<r,:e
for the excess a rate that will effectually stop a
practice fraught with so much danger to life
ami property.
By order of the Board:
CAMPBELL WALLACE, Chairman.
A. C. Briscoe, Becretary.
STOVES.
TREMENDOUS DEMAND
OUR sales for this present season in the
STOVE and HOUSE FURNISHING LINE
s away in advance of what we have lief ore had.
The steady growing popularity of our ACORN
and FARMER GIRL STOVEs wo are certain is
the main cause, and the call for them includes a
run for HOUSEHOLD GOODS. We have no
experiments to offer in STOVES anil RANGES.
All are of well tried and responsible makes.
For everything of this description call on us.
LOVELL & LATTIMORE,
HEADQUARTERS.
DEATHS.
SAVARESE.—Died in this city yesterday at
6:30 p. I,ocis SaVARESE. Funeral announce
ment later.
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
LINDSAY.—The friends and acquaintance of
W. J. Lindsay and family are invited to attend
the funeral of their son, Herbep.t, from their
residence. 44 Jones street, at 5 o'clock THIS
AFTERNOON.
MEETINGS.
DeKALB LODGE NO. 9, 1.0. O. S’. (
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o'clock
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
By o*ier of J. S. COLLINS, N. G.
John Riley. Secretary.
CUA.VTHE LODGE NO. 28. K. OF I*.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will
be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at iC J* V
8 o'clock. The second and third ranks KLyjLjjy
will be conferred. Visiting Knights \aSjSy
and members of other Lodges cordial
ly invited to attend. G. H. MILLER, C. C.
W. Falconer, K. of R. and S.
GEORGIA TEXT NO. 151, I. O. H.
Attend a regular session of your tent THIS
(Monday) EVENING, as news of importance
from High'Tent will he received. Every mem
ber requested to be present. Bv order.
C. O. GODFREY, C. R.
Thos. M. Hoynes, R. S.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
I MASONIC TEMPLE.'
TUESDAY, MAY 31st.
____ *
GRAND ENTERTAINMENT,
MUSIC AND TABLEAUX.
For the benefit of the Cathedral Choir. Doors
open 7:30. Admission 25c,
TO THE PUBLIC.
We, the undersigned dry goods and millinery
merchants, do hereby agree to close our respect
ive places of business at 6:30 p. m.. prompt, from
June Ist to Sept. Ist., Saturday excepted:
A. R. Aitmayer & Cos., Crohan & Dooner.
J. P. Germaine, Gustave Eckstein & Cos.,
I. Dasher & Cos., D. Hogan.
Jacob Cohen. F. Gutman,
David Weisbein, B. Golinsky,
L. Fried, Gray & O’Brien,
K. Platshek, P. J. Golden,
S. Krouskoff, L. E. Byck & Son.
luidies will kindly co-operate with us in this
movement and make their purchases earlier in
the afternoon.
CITY TAXES.
City Marshal's Office, I
Savannah, May 27th, 1887. f
The real estate of all persons in arrears for
City Taxes for 1886 has been levied on, and will
be advertised for sale on the 7th day of JUNE
next. Titles will be made to purchasers the day
after the sale, or as soon thereafter as con
venient. ROBERT J. WADE,
City Marshal.
FOR SALE.
120 Horse 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 8 GOLDING,
DENTIST,
Office corner Jones and Drayton streets.
DR. MONTAGUE L. BOYD
Has removed his office and residence to 159
LIBERTY STREET, between Whitaker and
Barnard.
ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR.
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to the sys
tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other
ills, caused by a disordered liver, it cannot he
excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in
dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul
mer’s Liver Corrector and take no other. $1 00
a bottle. Freight paid to any address.
B. F. ULMER, M. D.,
Pharmacist, Savannah, Ga.
RAILROAD BONDS.
The undersigned offers for sale at par ex-July
Coupon *.¥K).o<)o of the MARIETTA AND
NORTH GEORGIA RAILWAY COMPANY'S
FIRST MORTGAGE 6 PER CENT. FIFTY
YEAR BONDS, in multiples of 81,000 to suit
buyers.
r |''HESE lionds can be safely taken by inves-
I tors as a reliable 6 per cent, security, which
will, in all probability, advance to 15 points
above par within the next three or four years,
as this road will traverse a country unsurpassed
for mineral wealth, for climate, for scenery, for
agricultural purposes, and for attractiveness to
the settler.
The company has mortgaged its franchise and
entire line of railroad, built and to be built, and
all its other property, to the Boston Safe Deposit
and Trust Company to secure its issue of 50-year
6 per cent, bonds. These bonds will be issued at
the rate of about $17,000 per mile, on a line ex
tending from Atlanta, Ga., to Knoxville, Tenn.
A sinking fund is provided for their redemption.
It will be one of the best paying roads in the
South. It will he of standard gauge and will
develop a region of country extending from
Middle Georgia, through North Carolina to
Knoxville. Tenn., where it will connect with
lines leading to Cincinnati, Ixmisville, St. Louis
and Pittsburg.
The road is now completed to Murphy, N. C.,
and is to be pushed on to Knoxville as fast as
the nature of the country will permit. The high
financial standing and energy of the men prin
cipally interested in it sufficiently guarantees its
early completion.
Further information will be furnished upon
application to A. L. IIARTRIDGE, Savannah,
Ga , or to BOODY, McLELLAN & CO., 57
Broadway, New York.
INSURANCE.
The Savannah Fire L Marine Ins. Cos.
CAPITAL $200,000.
OFFICE 93 BAY STREET.
WM. GARRARD. LEWIS’ KAYTON,
President. Vice President.
W. H. DANIEL, Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
JNO. S. HAMMOND, HERMAN MYERS,
GEORGE J. BALDWIN,SAMUEL MEIXHARD,
J. H. ESTILL, L. KAYTON,
WM. GARRARD, I. G. IIAAS,
W. H. DANIEL, ANDREW HANLEY,
J. B. DUCKWORTH, DAVID WELLS,
C. R. WOODS.
Nots.—On July Ist the office of the company
will be at 97 Bay street, the building now occu
pied as the Cotton Exchange,
HOTELS.
DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE.
'TWIIS ItIPULAR Hotel Is now provided with
I a Passenger Elevator (tho only one in the
city)and has been remodeled and newly fur
nished. The proprietor, who bv recent purchase
is also the owner of the establishment, spares
neither pains nor expense In the entertainment
of his guests. The patronage of Florida visit
ors is earnestly invited. Tho table of tho
Screven House is supplied with every luxury
that the markets at home or abroad can afford.
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
Ono of the Largest Boarding Houses In the
South.
AFFORDS pleasant South rooms, good board
with pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit
those wishing tab!", regular or transient accom
modations. Northeast corner Broughton and
Drayton streets, opposite Marshall House.
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 w
cal Talent of Savannah. ■“’***'
PROGRAMME;
PART I.
1 Overture r
Mis*s holey, Tupper, George and HershUeif*
2. “Swallows Homeward’ piolTd ,
Lilia Exley. Solo
3. “Robert,” „
Miss Isabella Sternheimer ( vocal' bon ®
4. Musical Box Twe!v*w„j
Misses N. Cohen, Sternheimer. Krtt„*‘'‘ s
O’Connor, Samuels, Master Sullivaji ’
5. “Lucretia Borgia” odd. ~ .
Miss Boley. Sol °
6. “Pilot Brave” Dnotv
Messrs. McDonough. oca^
7. Song jf p „
8. Piano and Violin. Master and Miss Perbmlri
9. Norma (two Double
Misses Georz.
10. Scotch Medley • Ri-rv,„a.
Misses Weisbein and Cohens a ™ 8
11. “Salut de Pesth”
_ . . Master Krouskoff. 6010
Recitation Misses Cohen
PART 11.
1. Battle March, “Priests of Athalia”
Master krouskoff Misses Georzs and han<l3
Hersiibach.
2. “Only Thee” Vocal iw
Messrs. McDonough and Miss Sternheimer
3. “Rigoletto” t j) .
Miss Perlinski.
5. “Murmuring Fountains”....... Miss^wS
6. “Fra Diavok)” “trh^dS
Misses Roos, Cohen, Exley.
Miss Sternheimer (vocal), pupil of Mad St 5
Roques-Playter.
8. “Galop Chromatique” raj*
Miss Tupper.
10. Home Sweet Home” Double Solo
Master Sullivan and Miss Muhlberg.
Reserved seats at Davis Bros. Box Sheet now
open. Admission 50c. No extra charge for
reserved seats.
Tickets for sale at Davis Bros.’, Wm EsHllv
and Ludden & Bates'. 8
BASE BALI. To-DAY.
SAVANNAH
—vs.
A in ateurs
At Base Ball Park for Benefit of
Savannah. Base Ball Club.
Game called at 4 o’clock. Tickets on sale at
Fernandez's and Marshall House Cigar Store.
S l AIM ER RESORTS.
MONWALE SPRINGS,
Blount County, - Team •
THIS Health Resort will be open May 15t,1887.
The most celebrated Dyspeptic Water
known. Elegant Hotel and Grounds. Excellent
Table. Telephone connection with Knoxville.
Rates: $1 per day: $25 per month for May and
June: $2 per clay, $lO and sl2per week, s3sand
S4O per month for July and August. Half rates
for children. J. C. ENGEL, Prop.
Silt Spring ltd,
AUSTELL, GA.
THIS New Resort Hotel, especially adapted
for families, has reduced tts rates to $7 per
week. The accommodations are first-class in
every respect. For further information ad
dress T. J. MAY, Proprietor,
Austell, Ga.^
(TLA FT ,TN HOUSE
Among the “Berkshire Hills.”
BECKET, MASS.
Twelve Hundred Feet above the sea. Savan
nah reference. Address
A. O. CROSS, Proprietor.
THE WHITE SILPHUR SPRINGS,
GREENBRIER COUNTY, W. VA.
The most celebrated of ail the Mountain
Resorts, and one of the oldest and most populai
of American Watering places, will open for the
season June 1. Elevation above tide-water.
2,000 feet: surrounding mountains. 3.500 fret.
Send for pamphlet describing hygienic advan
tages. B. F. KAMLE, Sup t.
THE COLUMBIAN,
SARATOGA SPRINGS,
THE FAVORITE HOTEL OF SAVANNAHIANB
Opens Tune 25th.
JAMES M. CASE, Proprietor.
CLARENDON HOTEL,
Saratoga Springs, IN. Y,
OPENS JUNE 25th.
Popular rates $3 00 per dV
. P. STEIN FELD.
proprietor^
/“(APON SPRINGS AND BATHS, All#*
Vl Lithia and Superior Iron W aters, HaiuF
shire county, W. Va.—This celebrated moun
resort for health and pleasure: Baths or ~
temjierature; a summer climate unsurp•
charming summer home with its many ni'P’” .
ments, accommodating 800 guests, ope*“j
Ist. Send for circular and rate shed I for ®
cal and other testimony). WM. H. sale,
prietor. -—-
DUTCHEH HOUSE.
PAWLING. N. Y., on the Harlem railroad;
large brick structure, first class m .
particular. Now open. Terms reasonable’
Lr circulars. WM. H. BUKROUOH^
HOTELS.
WASHINGTON HOTEL
7th and Chestnut Streets,
PHILADELPHIA, PA
JOHN TRACY, PROPRIETOR.
RATES, &2 50 PKB D^. na
Centrally located, only a short wnlk
renn’a and Reading Depots. New •
Elevator, Electric Bella, hew Dm not K _ r . a <*
all modern Improvements, lohte a
and unsurpassed table. — 7"
NEW HOTEL TOGNB
(Formerly St. Mark's.)
Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville.
THE MOST central House In Mm&'Ss*.
Post < mice, Street Cars and all Ferri
New ami Elegant Furnltur.. Elec
Baths, Etc. Propria.
8. A. UPSON, Manager.
MARSHALL HOUSE.
SAVANNAH, - -
pKO. D. HOIKIES, Proprietor. Form w^tM
( T the Metropolitan Hotel, New ' ‘ ’ jon <*o
- Union, Saratoga Springs. f inter
tral. All parts of the city Lafirt
re: accessible by street cars ***•* A yu*
the doors. Special Inducements h
lug tho cltv for business or oleisuiw