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WOMEN PHYSICIANS.
Some Points of Interest About Dr.
Mary Putnam Jacobi.
New York. July 16.—“ Can you conceive
What it would feel like to I** one of the
members of ‘lvi: ig Thebaws Wonderful
Saere.l Hairy Family, Positively the Ij>st
Survivors of this Hextruordinary Racer"
And Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi lifted her
fan, for the afternoon was sultry, and
swung to and fro in a business like rocker in
her business like consulting room. “I have
just returned from a conference with a doctor
a brother of my ] tatient, I believe, from out
of town, who assured me that he laid never
mot a woman physician liefere. Positively
he remir.deil me of twenty five years ago,
when the few women who were timidly be
ginning to practice were stared at as it
they ought not to lie allowed out of then*
cages in the menagerie. They were veri
table curiosities then, and it seems that in all
eves we arc not the ordinary, commonplace
mortals we seem to ourselves yet."
Dr. Jacobi is not a commonplace mortal
herself by any means. Though not the first
woman to practice medicine, in America,
she was t he first of her sex who obtained ad
mission to the Paris L’Ecole de Medicine and
completed its course, holding first rank in a
class which reckoned many students, since
eminent, den. Putnam, of revolutionary
fame, was her ancestor, and the same traits
of firmness and quick resolution of charac
ter which marked him crop out again in
her, temp-rod, especially since the birth of
her children, by a womanly sympathy that
gives the competing touch to a character that
is, perhaps, a typo of the intellectual worn
an at her best. Dr. Jacobi's face expresses
tin- woman perfectly. Acute, logical,
bravely truthful, it fits well upon the shoul
ders of the most scientifically exact of the
women physicians of America.
Since her marriage to Dr. Jacobi, himself
a distinguished physician, whose name she
has added to her own, Dr. Mary Put, as she
is sometimes dubbed, half affectionately,
half in allusion to the old Connecticut hero,
has led a busy life in New York, where, in
spite of tlie curiosly untruthful adage
about women not trusting women, she en
joys Ik practice not exceeded by any physi
cian of either sex and running up to a fabu
lous number of thousands yearly, besides
writing extensively for medical and scienti
fic publications and holding the position of
professor of materia medica and thera pm tics
in the Woman's Medical College of the New
York Infirmary.
Her encounter of the morning had touched
a vein of reminiscence, and it needed but a
question or two to bring out recollections of
Hie past and facts of the present of women
physicians in the city.
“When I began to practice, not a medi
cal society anywhere admitted women to
membership. A handful of physicians only,
barely worth counting, allowed the claims
of a woman to rank as a regular practi
tioner. Not one physician in 500 would
consult with a woman if called in joint attend
ance. A woman who ventured to inquire
into the mysteries of her own Ixxly, who had
peeped within the doors of the dissecting
room, was something abnormal. to Ik- frown
ed down righteously and discouraged out of
existence. And yet 1 was not the first, Dr.
Elizabeth Blackwell—she has lived abroad
for many years now—opened her New York
office in 1851, the first regularly graduated
physician of her sex, not only in the city
but in the country, and Emily Blackwell,
the present Dean of the Woman’s Medi
cal College, was but two years Iwhind her.
“To earn a diploma in medicine in those
days required abundant capital of fortitude
and endurance. It meant braving the opin
ions of those you held dearest and running
counter to your whole little world. Yet it
was worth it. The woman physician has
her place in the universe and somebody had
to blaze a path to it.” Dr. Jacobi’s face was
serene as she spolje, looking back over the
experiences so little and yet in many ways
so great a distance behind.
There are 150 women physicians, or there
ahnuts.’in New York to-dav,l>r. Jacobi says,
and Brooklyn and adjoining cities have
their proport ion as well. In many cases the
profession offers the lost opportunities to an
educated woman of any work now open to
her. Her chances for usefulness among
women, an increasing projKirtion of whom
are yearly coming to prefer the services of
their own sex, are hardly to be calculated.
From a financial pointer view women phy
sicians find it easier to get a start than men,
because t hey are less numerous, and incomes
Of SIO,OOO a year, are enjoyed by several,
while $15,000. $20,000 ana $25,00(1 are not
unknown. Their reception by the mascu
line members of the profession is surtiris
ingly cordial, taking into account the brief
time in which their welcome has I wen won.
The County Metical Society gives rhein the
right hand of fellowship; other special medi
cal societies, sucli as the American and
New York Neurological Societies and the
American Society for Physical Research
take them in. I*llo Infant Asylum has a
woman in charge of its lying-in ward. The
Mount Sinai Hospital has a woman among
its resident physicians. There are women
nt the dispensaries. The working girls’ clubs
of the city make a special feature of their
organizations to secure the services of wom
en physicians on stated evenings every week.
In Brooklyn the Lucretia Mott Hospital was
founded by a woman physician and is offi
cered by women.
For the record of the women physicians.
Dr. Emily Blackwell, who keens a cosy men
age with her adopted little folk in the house
once made the salon of New York, by the
Cary sisters, Alice and Phoebe, is a charm
ing example of a woman past middle life,
white-haired, strong-faced, kindly and se
rene, useful, and knowing herself beloved by
a large eii'cle. She is at the head of the
Woman's Medical College and mother con
fessor of all its students. She has a large
practice.
In Brooklyn, Drs. Eliza M. Mosher and
Lucy M. Hall, of the younger generation,
work together in a partnership that only of
late would have lieen counted possible to
women. Dr. Hall, was until a few years
back resident physician of the Woman’s Re
formatory at Sherborne, Mass., almost tin
first institution of its kind in America, and
Dr. Mosher was its Superintendent, iicing
succeeded upon her resignation by Clara
Barton, who tilled the position for a brief
period. The partners have been physicians
to Vaxsar College, residing alternate terms
then- forthe post two yearn, nut their growing
practice will keep both at home in future,
though their leave-taking makes a void
that the college authorities will find it hard
to till.
Dr. Kate Parker is the resident physician
at the New York Infant Asylum,and statis
tics of the lying-in wards, under her care,
show the best record of any in the city. Dr.
Annie Daniels is one of the Ixet known phy
sicians of New York in quarters where to
be well known means labor and self sacrifice.
During the summer months when the infant
mortality mounts up to half the deat h rate
of the city, the dwellers m the tenement dis
tricts conic to rely upon her with absolute
trust, and her acquaintance with their needs
has prompted the State Charities Association
to call upon her for papers on related topics
several times. Dr. Elizalieth Cusliior is the
first suoessfnl ovuriotomist among women
physicians. Nho is a morsel of a woman who
doesn’t stall impress you ns a devotee of
anatomy at first glance. Dr. Mary Wattles-
Faunce, who fills the chair of anatomy
at the Woman's Medical College, lives in
Brooklyn, where she has the daintiest of
homes with tiiree or four chubby, rosy
cheeked children rioting als-ut. it. Dr. Grace
Peek ham, is making her mark as a writer on
the stuff of several of the medical journals
and Dr. Sarah Post has invented several at
tachments to medical electrical machines.
Dr. Lozier, the two doctors, Sarah unci Julia
McNutt and scores more, have found that
the world has room for them and makes
place cordially for their work. The woman
graduate of the medical schools averages
some years younger now than she did a
dozen years ago. Kbe is never. Dr. Jacobi
says, overdo nowadays, usually about 2d,
and this (act she thinks promises well for
the permanence anil the multiplication of
woman’s woMc by the bedside. Dr. Jacobi
certainly lias done much to vindicate the
soman physician's usefulness and can look
to the past with pride and the future with
h °pe. Eliza Putnam Heaton.
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Points Furnished by Prominent Men
Who Visit Gotham.
New York, July lti.—Rotund and burly
Tom Corrigan, of Kansas City, who sur
prises all by the softness of his voice, which,
like the late John Morrissey, he seldom ex
erts above a whisper, looks admiringly on
Jake Sharp’s canary cars on Broadway
from the portals of the St. James Hotel.
Before Sharp’s legal misfortunes Tom used
to he styles! the “Jake Sharp of Kansas
City,” because before he sold out to the
Boston syndicate ho used to control the
city railroad interests in Kansas City. It
is to be said for Corrigan that ho obtained
his concessions qnd franchises by dint of
hard work, and in this respect he is entirely
unlike Sharp, as he used to personally work
in tin* street in building and running his
roads, while that gentleman never per
formed any duty that he could deputize.
Corrigan evidently does not feel at ease in
the big city of New York, and is not in
dined to talk to any but his intimates;
nor is lie disposed to discuss any
subject with winch ho is not
entirely familiar. "New York is a great
city,” he says reflectively. “Its street car
system is no greater than mine used to Ik;
considerin’ the service, but it’s a great city
of magnificent bouses and elegant streets.
And what a place Coney Island is! What
a big thing the ocean is! Beats all tlio
prairies I ever see for extent of view.”
Tom’s safely invested capital received from
the Boston syndicate inclines him to be con
servative in his views in regard to the big
real estate boom in the Vest. He says real
estate in Kansas City, which he believes to
he more like New York than Chicago, will
hold and increase its value, but the boom
elsewhere is a balloon that will burst.
When in a talkative moodCorrigan tells some
amusing stories of his early experiences in
tracklaying in Kansas City, and his bobtail
cars winding about the city, until "Corri
gan's consolidated” got too big for bin* to
Control with his limited financial adminis
erative experience. There is an inward
chuckle of satisfaction when he says he sold
out, adding: “But the biys ’ll make big
money."
The redoubtable Col. S. S. Smart, so well
known in departmental and speculative cir
cles in Washington, and who probably
knows more about Western land specula
tion and location than any man outside of
the Land Office, is to Ik; seen almut the cor
ridors of the Grand Central when he is not
to be encountered in those of the Fifth Ave
nue Hotel. He is spending the summer in
the city watching the market —the Wall
street market. He strokes his long mous
tache complacently, and there is a gleam in
his eye as he says there is money to be made
this summer in the rises and falls of the mar
ket pending the settlement of the combines
in railroad and telegraph matters, prelimi
nary to the bull movement in the full. He
is just now watching the telegraph deal with
faith eyes, confident that the deal will soon
mature, when he experts Western Union to
jump to 80 and waits to get a lot of it at 76.
Col. Smart is no Sellers, because ho is often
a winner. He thinks John Sherman will
receive the nomination from the Republi
cans.
Henry Watterson, who has steadily im
proved since his serious illness of last year
until he looks better and healthier than he
has for years, bad hardly registered his
name at the Everett House before the re
porters were after him to interview him on
the political situation. He believes Cleve
land will be nominated by the Democrats
and can be elected over Blaine or Slier
man. Mr. Watterson believes New York
city is n natural summer resort, but in order
to obtain the sea bath so much enjoyed by
those from the interior he will take his wife
to his usual haunt, Block Island. Mr.
Watterson predicts for the South
a great boom in all its interests and de
clares that the present improved senti
ment prevailing wifi grow stronger.
Ex-Senator Mahone, lean, lank and
languid, the very opjosite in appearance
and manner to Gov. 100, who was so re
cently here, like him speaks of “ole Virgin
ny” as in a prosperous condition, only he
lias some complaints to make of the hard
ships of the internal revenue on the tobacco
fanners, who are largely in the ascendant in
the State. A short while ago the anti-Ma
hone faction in the State felicitated them
selves that the “old man” was settled, but
the ex-Senator intimates, as far as Ins char
acteristic caution will permit, that he lias
his linos well in hand and he can read his
title quite clearly, which is a_gentle intima
tion that he can control sufficient votes to
satisfy his ambition, whatever it may be.
He did not seem inclined to talk on national
(Kilitics, merely observing Blaine was mag
nificently advert ising liimself by his foreign
tour and escaping local complications.
The story is whispered that the famous
Biircharil campaign speech was the work of
a son of the notorious divine, who was at
the time connected with one of the metro
politan papers. Dr. Burchard discussed the
speech with this son, who was much given
to alliteration and the sensational in his
writings, and the father allowed kim to
prepare the political or concluding portion
of the speech, which was a bombshell not
only in the Republican ranks, but in those
of the Democracy. Blaine said in a recent
interview that he did Hot hear Burchani’s
remarks or he should have replied. It
should be added that a proof copy of Burch
ord’s spee<*h was supplied to tne reporters
present, which, it is averred, was furnished
by the son, who was present in his report,o
nal capacity. Henry James.
A Parson Driven out of Town.
Adel | (In.) Cor. Alapaha Star.
From a gentleman who was in Valdosta, at
the learn of the following sensational
episode which took place there last Friday:
From 'that we can gather it seems Parson
F not long since married a young lady
of Valdosta, but the union not being sur
rounded by the halo of domestic felicity
the young wife separated herself from her
husband and returned to her former
home. ()n the day mentioned Parson K
arrived on the train. He had not been in
town long before a perfect brigade of both
white and negro lioys were organized for
his special reception. The toy shops were
ransacked and every conceivable variety of
musical toy, bell, jangling and jingling ap
paratus available were brought into requisi
tion. A large banner, with the gaudy in
seription "Salvation, Army ls>ad by'Par
son F was waving at the head of their
column. They gave him an enthusiastic re
ception. The white lioys blowed
him, the negro boys belled
him. They all Invited, tooted, rang
and cheered at him. They followed him up
and down the sidewalks, holding the Hag in
front of him, jumping at him and grreting
his ears with the screeching blasts of the
toy trumpets until he sought refuge in
Stuart’s Hotel. Even hore he was not free
from them. They entered the hotel with
him and surrounded him like so many
blackbirds around a hawk. Finding
no relief from his persecutors at the
hotel, he next lient. his steps towards the
depot, the brigade of boys still increasing in
number and noise until it seemed that all
the demons and evil spirits from (lark re
gions of pandemonium had assembled to
pay him tribute. All the way through he
appeared to hour his persecution with an
air of Christian fortitude, and even leisurely
puffed away at his cigar while the young
urchins would spring up before him and send
deafening blasts into his face. While at the
depot ,at which place some 300 or 400 of
the citizens had assembled, the hoys kept up
their til'esome serenade, and even followed
him to his seat in llie train, and only left
him, with an extra flourish of the trumpet,
as the train moved off which liore Parson
F to more genial climes, feeling, no
doubt, that he had escaped from the demons
of a temporary hell.
When on Your Vacation,
If you think of spending a week, or even less
time in Boston, and want comfortable quarters,
convenient location and moderate charges, no
house in the city is so well prepared to give you
all those as the United (States Hotel; located
within live minute* walk of all the Western and
Southern depots and steamboat landings, as
well as the great retail establishments and pUi
ces of amusement and interest
THE MORIS ITS It NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 18, 1887.
JUST ABOVE GROUND.
S An Old Lady Who Owns Her Own Cof
fin Plato.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The words were engraved upon a silver
coffin plate, but there was no coffin under
them. Mrs. Purroy, an elderly lady, visit
ing friends living in Clinton avenue, Ala
meda. but whose home is in Williamsburg,
Long Island, N. Y., looked with an air of
mingled pride and reverence upon the carv
ing; for her name was once Elina Griffin,
and the coffin that was made to hold her re
mains until dust returned to dust has proba
bly commingled itself with the mortality of
somebody else long ago; but the original
owner of the name upon the plate was still
alive to tell her friends a gruesome story.
“On my nineteenth birthday,” she said,
“my mother invited a party of acquaint
ances to our house to celebrate the day.
We lived some distance outside of Williams
burg, as it, tavern was, and the ground was a
little soft and tioggy. One of my friends
remembered this as she was about to start
for her home with her brother, and she
laughingly congratulated ino on Ix-ing
housed already and having no occasion to
brave the swamp. I was a wild young girl
in those days, and I declared at once that, I
would go witii them and return alone. Ev
erybody present tried to dissuade me—ex
cept the girl’s brother.
“We started, and when we readied my
friend’s house I was conscious that my feet
wore quite wet and that a disagreeable chill
had crept over me, but I declined an invita
tion to go in and went away at once. Of
course Rob —the brother, I mean—came with
me, and, somehow, I forgot the cold and
damp as I walked home.
THE ILLNESS.
“I think we must have talked for a long
time as we stood on my uncle’s doorstep, for
suddenly Rob —my escort, I mean—suid:
‘Elina’ (or Miss Griffin, or something, I
have forgotten how he calk'd ine), ‘your
face is very pale. Have I kept you
standing here too long!’ He talked to
me for ton minutes after that and then
wished me a good night and left me.
I rang the bell, and when my mother
opened the door I told her, what I might
have known an hour sooner if I had given
it a thought, that I was really ill. She
hurried me to bed immediately, and when
she came to call me the following morning
she looked very anxious. By noon I was de
lirious, but 1 could hear the doctor tell my
mother I had typhoid fever, and that lie
could not hold out much hope for my re
covery. I knew that my mother was weep
ing, liut I was always a selfish girl, and l
could only cry oat ‘Robert, Robert! where
is Robert f and they told me, hardly think
ing that I heard them, that Robert had been
suddenly called upon to start for California
early that morning, and had not even heard
of my illness. He sent a letter to me, how
ever,'but 1 did not see it until many weeks
later.
“I grew rapidly worse, and gradually the
knowledge of all outward tilings passed
from me. I fancy that I had a certain con
sciousness, but not of matters around me. I
was in another state of being, in which the
person acting and speaking—always
strangely speaking—was myself, and yet
not myself. Then came an utter blank,
from which I awoke, after nearly three
weeks of oblivion, to see my mother and the
doctor standing by my bedside. The doctor
said the crisis was past, and l shonld prob
ably recover, but I did not feel any interest
in what he was talking about.
“The quiet days of convalescence fol
lowed, and the doctor, seeing that I was
very weak, regarded me seriously, and
warned my mother that a relapse should lie
carefully guarded against. I used at that
time, too, to fall into curious physical con
ditions that I suppose were trances, in which
I knew all that was going on around ine,
but from which I did not seem to care to
arouse myself by moving or speaking.
These periods of inactitude lasted longer and
longer, but they were not observed, and as
they were rather pleasant than otherwise I
said nothing about thorn.
DEATH.
"One morning I awoke from what seemed
to he a natural sleep, and lay with mv eyes
closed, listening to sounds 'that I could not
at first interpret; but slowly the knowledge
came to me that my mother was sobbing
beside my bed. I tried to ask her why she
was grieving, but I could not move or speak.
The trance was upon me. 1 was sensitive,
however, and I knew that I was lying upon
a hard substance, and not upon the comfort
able mattress of my bed. I could feel, too,
very little covering over me, and, despito
my eyelids I icing down, the gloomy darkness
of the room could be detected. “Where in
the world have they carried me to;” I
thought.
“Presently I heard my mother’s voice, and
I knew that she was speaking to my cousin
Mary, who was staying in the house with
us.
“ ‘Poor Elina,’ she said, ‘I was so sure
that God would spare her to me. She strug
gled through that dreadful illness only to
die quietly in her sleep at last. It is very
hard, Mary.’
“I have often wondered since that I did
not really die of horror at that moment, as
I realized like a lightning flash, that they
thought I was dead and had put me in my
eoffln. They were going to burv me! I
strove hard to speak, but the sphinx was
not more dumb than I. I tried to stir, but
the rock of Gibraltar might have moved as
easily. ‘Must niy life be smothered out in a
grave for want of a little speech or action
now?’ I thought.
“ ‘lt is hard, indeed, dear aunt,’ replied
Mary, ‘but His will lie done. You must
arouse yourself. The undertaker will close
the coffin in a few minutes. Do you think
Roliert —Mr. Purroy—will be here C
“‘I hardly think so now.’answered my
mother, wearily. ‘Something must have
happened to delay him. He was to have
arrived at home yesterday, but he did not
come, and 1 post|>oiied the burial until to
dav. He had not heard of her death. Poor
fellow! The news will nearly kill him.
There is one person in the world, I think,
who loved poor Elina as dearly ns I did.’
“‘Oh, Robert, Robert,’ I cried with a
silent voice, ‘come quickly. If you look at
me you will know I am not dead.’
‘“I heard a knock at the bedroom door.
Was it Robert! No, it was only tho under
taker.’
“ ‘May I close it now ladies Vhe asked, in
professionally mournful, but very business
like tones.
REVIVAL.
"Nobody but tnyself knew that my heart
was heating, and even I hardly knew it as
the undertaker spoke. A second afterward
it seemed to me that it throbbed loudly
enough for every one to hear it, for some
1 Msly rang the door-liell, and I knew ns well
that It was Robert ns though mv sealed eyes
could have lookixl through brick and wood
and mortar, to see him standing outside.
Softly and quietly he entered trie room;
gravely and calmly he asked my mother and
my cousin to leave him for tr few minutes
alone with his dead. He closed the it sir
after they had gone out, and, stooping over
the coffin, gently kissed mo. Then he started.
I hoard the quick, nervous movement, and I
knew that I was saved,
"lie hastily called my mother, and the
doctor was quickly summoned. He saw at
once that lito was not extinct, though he
Itnd been just as isisitive four days earlier
that 1 was quite dead.
“My husband declares that an old woman
may say it now—that I blushed and smiled
when lie kissed me. At all events, I lived
to marry him, and he would not part with
that silver coffin-plate for ton times its
weight in gold.”
There are several effectual means of tak
ing out grease spots. Chloroform will do it.
So will salt dissolved in alcohol. So will an
equal mixture of alcohol, pin and ammonia.
Or you can wet the place with ammonia
water; then lay white soft paper over it and
iron with a hot iron. Or rub French chalk
on the wrong side; let it remain a day: split
a visiting card: lay tho rough side on the
spot and pass a warm iron lightly over. Or
try’ the old-fashioned “grease-balls,” a stiff
paste made of fuller's earth, saleratus and
strong vinegar, molded into balls and dried.
Wet the spot; scrape the ball over it; let it
dry and then wash it off with tepid water.
HOW GREAT MEN WRITE.
Something About the Manuscripts
Sent to the Public Printer.
One of the brightest printers of those em
ployed on the Congressional Record gives
me some interesting facts about how our
Congressmen prepare their speeches, as
serts a contributor to the Washington /‘oat.
He says that out of the 325 members of the
House less than ten now furnish their own
manuscripts to the printers, and that of
these Warner of Ohio is the worst writer,
while Breckenridge of Kentucky is
about the best. “Warner’s copy,” he says,
“is full of interlineations and revisions.
It looks like the tracks of a drunken hen or
an intoxicated fly who has crawled in irreg
ular lines across the sheet. It is readable,
however, by those who are accustomed to it,
and it looks much better in the Record than
it does in manuscript. Breckenridge writes
a very nice hand. He dictates some of his
speeches to the type-writer and furnishes
others in pen and ink. Holman, the great
objector, writes very well for an old man.
He shows his character in his handwriting
and makes the letters small and puts the
lines close together. He does this, I suppose,
to save ink and paper. Wo never see Tom
Reed’s copy at all. He always speaks ex
teinporaneously, and his chief work in Con
gress is in making short speeches. His
average speech is a line and a half long,
but bo sometimes rises to the occasion and
makes a fiery political speech which reads
as smoothly as though it had been carefully
prepared.
“Knute Nelson developed into a promi
nent sjieaker this year. Last year he didn’t
say one word. This year he and Hepburn
were, next to Holman, the most chronic ob
jectors. Dick Townshend, of Illinois, is a
good friend of the printers. He writes a
good hand and his copy is well prepared for
the press. Sam Cox furnishes as poor copy
as any that comes into the office. His hand
is a running scrawl and any kind of paper
suits him. He ust-s old envelopes, news
I >aper wrappers and scraps of any deserip
iion. He pastes his manuscript together.
He interlines it, recorreets it, and some of
his copy looks as bad as the hieroglyphics
on the tomb of Ti. He is a great fellow to
correct proofs, also, and though his speeches
are very good it costs tho government some
thing to get thorn.
“Senator Call, of Florida, is another man
who is not particular as to his pa) icr. The
back of an envelope, a piece of a circus bill
or common printer’s paper suits him as well
as anything else. Call’s hand is very hard
to read. He writes the first letter of a word
very plainly and then makes a running dash
with his pen for the rest. Half of his words
are alike and none of them are easy to make
out. Dan Voorhees writes many of his
speeches. Ho uses large sheets of printing
paper of the same size and neatly cut.
Hawley furnishes splendid copy. He is an
old editor and knows how to get his stuff
up for the press.
“We seldom get anything from Randall
or Carlisle. Randall’s matter comes from
the stenographers of the House, and Car
lisle doesn’t make the long speeches, so full
of statistics, which he used to make several
years ago. Morrison didn’t appear on tho
floor very often during the recent session for
a leader of the House. He has his lieuten
ants speak for him, and thus you see that
Randall, Carlisle and Morrison, who arc
considered the leaders of the Democrats,
furnish as little matter as the country mem
bers from Way back.
“The three Republicans who furnish the
most copy are Burn mgh, Hiscoek and But
terworth, and a great many of the members
never speak upon the floor at all. Hutton,
of Missouri, last year made a speech of one
line in length, ft was: ‘Mr. Chairman, I
submit the following report.’ ”
“Most of the long speeches are printed in
pamphlet form, are they not?”
“Yes; I should say that 09-100 of them
are so issued. The members get them
printed at about cost price, and thus they
distribute them over their districts and
throughout the United States. Beck’s
speech on silver had a big run, as had also
the eulogies of Henry B. Anthony. When
ever a big speech is made we always have to
get out a lot of pamphlet copies of it.
“Speaking of Beck, he is well liked at tho
government printing office. His copy is
always rightly paged and it shows study.
“As to the other Senators, Edmunds never
writes a speech, and Morgan, of Alabama,
is known in the Government Printing Office
as ‘Old Perpetual Motion.’ He is always
talking and never lacks something to say.
Senator Sherman’s speeches are largely dic
tated to his private secretary. He writes a
rather plain hand, almost effeminate in its
character. He is more particular about its
expression than he is about the comfort of
the printer, and lie is particular to have
himself well reported. Lamar
used to bring a secretary to the Gov
ernment Printing Office whenever he made
a big speech, and the two would stay there
and correct and recorrect the proof until
they got it just to suit them. Lamar has
an elegant style, and his speeches always
read like classical essays. When Jones, of
Nevada, delivered his great silver speech he
brought his private secretary to the office
with him. The speech was a long one, and
it covered 150 pages, I think, of the Con
gressional Record. During the reading
the secretary ventured to advise
some change, when Jones asked: ‘Who in
the d—l is making this speech, young man,
you or me? ”
A Vast Pile of Gold and Silver.
From thr Sprinijfleld Republican.
The United States Treasury to-day is a
vast bank in metallic money and money
metals. Probably it has the greatest hoard
of the precious metals, coined and tmeoined,
anywhere gathered on the face of the earth
—and this is not all gathered in one place.
On July 1 the Treasury of the
United States had $378,000,000 in gold, $85,-
000,000 lieing in bars, and $:!15,000,000 of
silver, of winch less than #4,000,000 was un
coined. The amount of Treasury
notes on hand was less than 000.000.
The Secretary of the Treasury has been
able, by carrying gold bars, to keep down
the amount of cash takenfromthe monetary
circulation to the lowest limit. It is amaz
ing, when we think of the monetary condi
tion of this country forty years ago, when
the supply of both metals was very small;
thirty years ago, when money as good as
gold was unknown between Pennsylvania
and California; and twenty years ago, when
this side of the Rocky Mountains not a silver
piece was visible, and gold was the centre of
a vast daily circulation, in which the Treas
ury notes passed current at 60c. on a dollar
or less, it is amazing, in view of tho past,
that to-day our national Treasury is a vast
bullion bank.
A Savannah Lady’s Laurels.
Miss Fedora Isabel Wilbur, of this city,
graduated at the Elmira. N. Y., College
Wednesday last and won high honors. Be
sides her high class standing Miss Wilbur
creditably served as the editor of Sybil, tho
college journal, for the last year. The Elmira
Gazette , in its account of tho commence
ment exercises, lias the following concern
ing the fair representative:
The essay of Miss Fedora Isabel Wilbur, of
Savannah, Ga., was one of the most original
which has been read from the college com
mencement stage. It was in a humorous vein
and on the topic, “The Natural History of
Genius." The essayist advanced the theory
that genius is propagated by u form of liacterin,
as fever and diphtheria arc spread by g-rtns.
She liebl that llie genius deserves little praise
for what he does, only for supplying the germs
with solid food upon which to feed. The rever
ence we feel for the belongings of the great and
the desire to possess them was accounted for by
the theory that some of the germs may have
remained about them and we may catch the
disease. The crank differs from tho
genius only In degree, the essayist
thought. The former received the germ front
nature, the latter received the germ from genius,
and by that time it had lost some of its viru
lence. Tile crank communicated the luictcria to
others and the hobbyist results, thence eccentric
people. There are different orders of the germs.
The poetic order is particularly virulent about
stiriugtline, and poems on spring are the result,
The germs work until November, when poems
on autumn result, and the germs lose their pow
ers for the remainder of the year It would tie
a blessing the writer thought. If the theory
could t>e proved by science, as an institution
could he founded far inoculating for genius, the
only difficulty being to And a genius from whom
to secure the virus. Tic essay caused much
amusement and was loudly applauded
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
KIEFER.—The friends and acquaintance of
Mk. and Mas. Gras. KiErzaareinvited to attend
the Funeral services of the former at 5 o clock
THIS AFTERNOON at residence. No. 11l York
street.
MEETINGS.
CLINTON LODGE NO. 54, P. A* A. M.
A regular communication of this Jk
Lodge will beheld at Masonic Temple—
THIS (Monday) EVENING, July IS, at
8 o'clock. '
The M. M. degree will be conferred.
Visiting brothers are cordially invited to meet
with us. HENRY BARTLETT, W. M.
War!no Russell, Jr.. Secretary.
IL K VI.H LODGE NO. f*. I. O. O, F.
A regular meeting will he held THIS (.Monday)
EVENING at - o'clock
Amendments to By-Laws to be acted upon.
The Third Degree will be conferred.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of H. W. RALL, N. G.
John Riley, Secretary.
GEORGIA TENT NO. 151, I. O. R.
Attend a regular session of your Tent THIS
(Monday) EVENING, at 8 o'clock, as business of
great importance will he before the Tent.
Members will come prepared to pay dues.
By order of C. O. GODFREY, C. R.
Thomas Moynes-, R. S.
ATTENTION GERMAN VOLUNTEERS.
You are hereby summoned to appear at Jji
your Armory THIS AFTERNOON at 4:30 0)
o’clock in Fatigue Uniform, with Side Arms.Kn
to jiav the last tribute of respect to your de-Wfl
ccA-srrl brother private (’has. Kiefer , 1 f
By order of JOHN DEEST, If
Captain Commanding. icat
Attest: M. G. Helmken, O. S.
ATTENTION TURNERS.
You are hereby summoned to appear at your
Hall THIS AFTERNOON at 4:30 o'clock to pay
the last tribute of respect to our deceased
brother, Chas. Kiefer. By order of
JOHN WOHANKA, President.
Emil J. Rall, Secretary.
IIVILROVR LOAN ASSOCIATION.
The forty seventh regular monthly meeting of
the Railroad Loan Association will be held on
THIS (Monday)EVENING at 8 o'clock at Metro
politan Hall.
WILLIAM ROGERS, President.
H. C. Ciinninobam, Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
NOTICE TO TAILORS.
CITY OF SAVANNAH, 1
Office Clerk of Council, V
July 12th. 1887. )
Bids will he received at the office of the Clerk
of Council until 12 o'clock m. MONDAY, 25th
inst., for furnishing the police force with Win
ter Uniforms in accordance with specifications
to be seen at this office. The citv reserves the
right to reject any or all bids, fey order of the
COMMITTEE ON POLICE.
Frank E. Rebarek, Clerk of Council.
DR. HENRY S COLDINU,
DENTIST,
Office corner Jones and Drayton streets.
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 be
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.
PROPOSALS WANTED.
Proposals for Sewers and Culverts.
Office of the City Surveyor, )
Savannah. Ga.. July 15th, 1.587. f
1 PROPOSALS will be received until WEDNES
DAY NIGHT, July 27th. at 8 o'clock,
directed to Mr. F. E. Reliarer, Clerk of Council
of the city of Savannah, for furnishing mater
ials and building three hundred and sixty-one
feet of forty-two inch sewer, seventy-five feet
of thirtv inch sewer, forty-one feet of
sixty inch half round culvert, together with
sundry catch-basins and bulkheads as may be
required. The said sewers, culverts, bulkheads
and catch-basins to be built on the Waters Road,
near the property of Mr. John Schwarz.
Plans and specifications may be seen at the
office of the City Surveyor.
The city reserves the right to reject any or all
bids.
All bids must be signed by two sureties, before
a Notary, for the faithful performance of the
work. J. deBRUYN KOPS, C. E.,
Acting < *ity Surveyor.
Proposals for Culverts and Ditches.
Office of the City Surveyor, 1
Savannah, (4a., July 15th, 1887. f
IJROPOSALS will (a- received until WEDNES
DAY NIGHT, July 27th, at 8 o'clock,
directed to Mr. F. B. Rebarer, Clerk of Council
of the city of Savannah, for the furnishing of
materials and building forty-one feet of forty
eight inch half round culvert, aud forty-one feet
of thirty six inch culvert, together with such
bulkheads and catch-basins ns may he required.
Albo, for the digging of three hundred and
sixty-one feet of ditch, two and one-half feet
wide at the bottom, seven feet wide at the top
and live feet deep: and, also, seventy-five feet of
ditch, two feet wide at the bottom, five feet wide
at the top and four feet deep.
Plans and specifications may lie seen at the
office of the City Surveyor.
The city reserves the right to reject any or all
bkls.
All bids must he signed by two sureties, before
a Notary, for the faithful performance of the
work. J. deBKUYN KOPS, C. E„
Acting City Surveyor.
BRICK.
Wm. P. Bailey & Cos.,
BRICK MANUFACTURERS,
KEEP CONSTANTLY on HAND, in large
quantities, at their yard on the SPRINO
FIEI-I > PLANTATION, and will deliver the same
in any part of the city upon the shortest notice.
The best
Well Brick, Pressed Brick, Hard Brown Brick,
Gray Brick, Soft Brown Brick.
Office— Corner BitlJ and Broughton, at SI
MON GAZAN’S CIGAR STORE, where all or
ders will receive prompt attention.
iron WORKS.
McDonoflil k BaMtyne,
IRON FOUNDERS,
Machinists, Boiler Mahers and Blacksmiths,
MANUFACTURE US OF
STATIONARY and PORTABLE ENGINES,
VERTICAL and TOP-RUNNING CORN
MILLS, SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
\ GENTS for Alert ami Union Injectors, I lie
simplest and most effective on the market;
Oullett Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, the
best in the market.
All orders promptly attended to. Send for
Price List
Bath Tubs
AND
TIN TOILET SETS.
A LARGE SUPPLY TOR SALK CIIEAP AT
LOVELL& LATTIMQRE’S
Hardware and Stove Stores
155 and 157 Congress street, near the Market.
AMUSEMENTS.
SAVASSfAH THEATRE
Thursday and Friday, July 21 and 22.
Success Follows Success!
AGAIN TRIUMPHANT!
THE FORDS
In 11. T. Craven's Beautiful Comedy Drama,
Meg’s Diversion
Miss CLARA BAKER in her original creation
of MEG. Strong Cast, New Scenery, etc.
Prices 75c., 50c. and 25c.
Reserved Heats on sale at Davis Bros.’ without
extra charge.
t ex X &
AT TI IUNDERBOLT,
MONDAY, JULY 18, 1887.
HPHE TROTTING RACE for Texas Horses
1 advertised to come off over the Thunder
bolt Park Course on the above date fora purse
of SSO, divided—s2s to first, sls to second, $lO
to third horse -closed with the following entries:
Zaek Cade enters s. g. White Stockings.
James Dorsey enters hr. m. Betsy.
John Burney enters b. m. Nelly Dennack.
Jim Smith enters b. m. No Name.
E. I). Campbell enters b. m. Rosa Moore.
Charley Levy enters s. m. Fanny.
Tins is a splendid field of Horses, evenly
matched in size and speed. Owners. Drivers and
Horses all amateurs. Best Horse will win. The
race will commence at 3:80 i*. m. Mr. W. B.
Brou n has the bar privileges. Pools will be sold
on the grounds by experts. The best of order
guaranteed. M. J. DOYLE,
Proprietor Thunderbolt Park Course.
EX( l RSIONS.
Warsaw Excursion
BY THE
Stewards nf New Houston St. M. E. Church,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHURCH,
Thursday, July 21, 1887.
Steamer POPE CATLIN will leave wharf foot
of Lincoln street at D a. m., sharp.
Refreshments on board. Whole tickets, 50c.;
Half Tickets, 25c. For sale at Ludden & Bates’,
Davis Bros.’, and by members of the Commit
tee—George P. Wiggins, Chairman: L. W. Rob
erts, W. L. Mingledorf, C. E. San berg, T. H.
McGillis, H. W. Clark.
Charleston i£ Savannahßy.
lo! ferltojintas!
Through Pullman Service.
(COMMENCING June 12th a through Pullman
J Buffet service will l>e rendered daily be
tween Savannah and Hot Springs, N. C., via
Spartanburg and Ashville.
Leave Savannah 12:26 p m
Leave Charleston. 4:55 p m
Leave Columbia 10:20 p m
Arrive Spartanburg 2:20 a in
Arrive Asheville 7:00 am
Arrive Hot Springs 0:00 am
EXCURSION RATES.
To SPARTANBURG sl3 30
To ASHEVILLE IT 1 5
To HOT SPRINGS XT 15
Sleeping car reservations and tickets good
until Oct. :11st, 1887, can be had at BREN’S
TICKET OFFICE, Bull street, and at depot.
E. P. McSWINEY,
Gen. Pass. Agt.
Charleston and Savannah Ry.
Reduction in Rates
—TO—
NEW YOEK.
'T'HIS company has now on sale tickets
V at sls to New York via Atlantic Coast
Line and the magnificent steamships of
the Old Dominion S. S. Company, sailing from
Norfolk. Va., every Monday. Tuesday, Wednes
day. Thursday and Saturday, arriving at New
York on following evenings. Meals and state
room on steamships maluded.
Passengers should take train 78 leaving Savan
nah at 8:23 p. M. on days previous to those men
tioned above.
This rout- ■ affords a delightful sea trip, avoid
ing Cape Hatteras.
Pullman accommodations and elegant state
rooms secured on application to Wm. Bren,
T. A., 22 Bull street, or J. B. Oliveros, T. A.,
Depot. E. P. McSWINEY,
Gen. I'ass Agent.
TV BEE RAILROAD.
SAVANNAS AND TYBEE RAILWAY.
Standard. Time.
/COMMENCING SATURDAY, July 16, 1887, the
V following schedule will be in effect:
No. 3. No. 1. No. 5. No. 7.*
Lv. Savan
nah 10:30 am 3:01 p m 6:00 p m 0:50 p m
Ar. Tybee.4:ls p m 11:45 a m 7:00 p m 11:05 p m
No. 2. No. 4. No. 6. No. B.*
Lv. Tybee.7:oo a m 4:05 pm 9:15 pm 8:00 pm
Ar. Savan
nah .. 8:15 am 5:30 p m 10:25 p m 9:10 pm
•Trains 7 and 8 Sundays only.
All trains leave Savannah from Savannah and
Tybce depot, in S., F. and W. yard, east of pas
senfier depot. Leave Tybee from Ocean House.
Tickets on sale at depot ticket office, and at
Fernandez's Cigar Store, corner Bull and
Broughton streets. ’
C. O. HAINES, Supt.
Savannah, July 15, 1887.
CITY BONDS.
CITY BONDS!
WE will receive proposals for thirty days for
7 * the purchase of Fifteen Thousand Dollar*
of the bonds of the Town of Thomasville, (eor
gia. The Bonds are in the sums of Five Hun*
dred Dollars with coupon* learing five per
cent, interest, payable January and July of
each year, nnd have thirty years to run. They
are tnc only bonds ever issued by the town and
they offer a rare opportunity for investors.
A. P. WRIGHT,
Chairman Finance Committee.
URO< KKIES.
Going Out of Business.
FOR SALE, GROCERIES.
FOR RENT, STORE.
IC - PO-WER
Corner Bull and Congress.
P. J. FALLON, _
BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR,
22 DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH.
IJ'STIMATES promptly furnished for building
J of any clasa.
SUMMER RESORTS.
biemaNn’s hotel;
Walhalla, S. C.
/
SITUATED at foot of the Blue Ridge Mou*
tains. Delightful summer resort. Good
climate. Excellent water. Also, a direct hack
line to Highlands, N. C. Terms reasonable.
D. BIEMANN & SOs,
_____ Proprietors.
The Sweet Water Park Hotel,
AT SALT SPRINGS, GA.,
I S NOW OPENED for the reception of guest*
Rate of board from sl2 50 to $lB per
week. In architectural design, finish and
general appointments the Sweet Water
Park Hotel has few equals in the South. Th*
fame of the Salt Springs water as a cur*,
t ive agent of great value in the treatment of all
forms of dyspepsia and indigestion, blood, skin,
bladder and kidney diseases is now fully estab
lished. For all information, etc., address J. D.
BILLINGS, Manager, Salt Springs, Ga.
S. G. HE All Y & ca;
PROPRIETORS,
SALT SPRING, NEAR AUSTELL, GEORGIA.
A WATER almost a specific for Dyspepsia, Kid
rv ney Trouble and Cutaneous Diseases.
Orders for water and all information addressed
to the firm at Austell, Ga.
THE COLUMBIAN,
SARATOGA SPRINGS.
THE FAVORITE HOTEL OF SAY A N N A H IAN &
Opens June 25th.
JAMES M. CASE, Proprietor.
rrqiE WHITLOCK HOUSE, in Marietta, Ga.,
L combines privileges and conveniences of a
first-class hotel, and the comforts and pleasures
of a home. Capacity, about one hundred and
fifty guests. large, handsome, well furnished
rooms: best of beds; table good; large shaded
grounds, covered with blue grass; Lawn Tennis,
Croquet, Billiards and Bowling Alley, all free
for guests. Prices more moderate than any
other house in Georgia for the accommodations.
M. G. WHITLOCK, Owner and Proprietor.
FJSHE WATAUGA HOTEL, Blowing Rock. N.
I C. In the mountains of North Carolina.
4,000 feet above the sea. Easily accessible. Medi
cal graduate on the premises. Terms the low
est in North Carolina. Opened June Ist for the
season. For information address WATAUGA
HOTEL CO., Blowing Rock. N. C.
1 THOUSAND ISLANDS.—Westminster Hotel,
Westminster Park, Alexandria Bay, N. Y.—
“Unquestionably the finest location in the
Thousand Islands.’ Harper's Magazine , Sept.,
1881. Send for descriptive pamphlet. H. F.
INGLEHART, Proprietor.
HOTELS.
Fifth Avenue Hotel,
MADISON SQUARE, N. Y.
fJ'HE largest, best appointed, and most liber
ally managed hotel in the city, with the most
central and delightful location.
HITCHCOCK. DARLING & CO.
A. B. DARLING, formerly of the Battle House,
Mobile.
HIRAM HITCHCOCK, formerly of the St.
Charles Hotel, New Orleans.
NEW HOTEL TOGNI,
(Formerly St. Mark's.)
Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla,
WINTER AND SUMMER.
r |''HE MOST central House in the city. Near
I Post Office, Street Cars and all Ferries.
New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bells,
Baths, Etc. $2 50 to $3 per day.
JOHN B. TOGNI, Proprietor.
DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE*
r piIIS POPULAR Hotel Is now provided with
1 a Passenger Elevator (the only one in the
citv) and has been remodeled and newly fur
nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase
is also the owner of the establishment, spare*
neither pains nor expense in the entertainment
of his guests. The patronage of Florida visit
ors is earnestly invited. The table of the
Screven House is supplied with every luxury
that the markets at home or abroad can afford.
MARSHALL HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, - - GA
p EO. D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of
" I the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, and the
Grand Union, Saratoga Springs. Location cen
tral. All parts of the city and places of inter
est accessible by street cars constantly passing
the doors. Special inducements to those visitr
ing the city for business or pleasure.
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
One of tho Largest Boarding Houses in tha
South.
\FFORDS pleasant. South rooms, good board
with pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit
those wishing table, regular or transient accom
modations. Northeast corner Broughton and
Drayton streets, opposite Marshall House.
MILLINERY.
Platshek’s,
138 Broughton St.
Positive Clearance Sale
OF OUR ENTIRE REMAINING STOCK OF
SUMMER GOODS
IN
Millinery,
Parasols,
Gloves,
Hosiery,
Embroideries,
Laces, Collars,
Infants’ Lace Caps,
Ladies’ Muslin Underwear,
Canton Mattings,
Linen Ulsters,
Knit Underwear,
Jerseys, and
Oar Great Line of Novelties
Those wishing to buy real, live bargains can
never avail themselves of a better chance than
we are now offering, for what we state is posi
tively bona fide.
N. B. -Country orders will receive the same
benefit of reduction given to our home trade.
Your orders we respectfully solicit.
IAWYF.RS. doctors, ministers, merchants.
j mechanics and others having hooks, magi
zines. and other printed work to tie bound or re
Itound can have such work done in the best style
of the binder's art at the MORNING NEWS
BINDERY. 3 Whitaker street.