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2 A THREATENED TOWN. DANGER.-; TO WHICH THE CITY OF MEXICO IS EXPOSED. vj Van* Unci or taking of an American '.lmi'i’-'iy Tankoa Machinery to -e.i: 1A intOitmi'a Capital. i the Hoxton Herald. >r Mexico, .inly 10. —Every day . li is ' Mat wo are oxpe ; . . ... ]• ■•■ >r ■ n >o it this vipita'.. ; . dark cion ! I tanka, • m.J . i •>•••: rPi city fro n tho engird >• : itaic: i I t!u valley Jet loww , , j ; ’x> ~-!i -.i-iful, and auging the . ...| . ovoi ~.•••111;; tho tiwwluw ).i ■: . : ..uliiii'!,.' Making low ;>• n p'.;;s:.-i> ardour. kikes and ro vi i toforo tto evii (In; ‘•Venice of the A-.cv.'' '0 which Prescott wrote to e 10.,,, ~,, it|y. I prefer less Venice and more dry 1 m 1. Water is poetical enough in its proper p;;i ,’c; il is level;, in w inding river* like the Charles. grand in the ocean, and delicious in the summer brook gurgling between mosiv banks; hut water, dirty, wot, damp and mud making, in eit\ streets is not a hit p,x'tical. or grand, or sublime, It is simply u nuisance. For four centuries tlie waters of the flnna ncnt have toon tunihling down each sum mer into the vast basin which the world know.- as the v alley of Mexico. The Aztecs had a lake city, a lacustrine metropolis, and as they did much of their locomotion in canoes an 1 pleasure barges, they did not mind it very much; but when the Spanish conquerors BUILT A STONK CITY here and filled up lowlands and raised exist ing causeways, they undertook a battle against Hoods comparable only to tho work of the Hollanders, who have made a king dom out of what was tho tied of tho ocean. The Spaniards nor the Mexicans have lieen able as yet to do what the Hollanders have done, viz., to make dry land where once was water. From the time of Humboldt down to the present year the ques tion of the drainage of the valley of Mexico has been the theme of learned men. It is acknowledged to be a great work, but is no longer re garded as stupendous, for modern maeliin ery will dig the grand canal to carry oil' the waters of the lake and give outlet to the annually recurring rains, and do it all in vastly less time than peon latorers. The Cleveland, 0., company which has under taken to dig this canal will sixin be showing the dwellers in this valley the greatest spec tacle they have ever witnessed, and will, with their huge excavating machines, throw out dirt by the ton whore a [icon WWuld be lugging a sack of earth on his back a few rods. So confident arc the Bucyrus Construction Company of doing this work to the entire satisfaction of all concerned that they have accepted a con tract for excavating only 1,000,000 cubic yards, trusting to proving the capacity of their machinery for getting the whole con tract, except the tunnel through the moun tains, which is to carry the water into a river, which will finally empty the city’s drainage into the Gulf of Mexico. Tho tun nel is a government undertaking, and is likely to be put through rapidly. THE MAGNITUDE OF THE TASK will be seen when it is said that some 1,300 square miles contribute their waters to swell the lakes whicli surround the .city, and which at this moment are so full that for miles around they flood the country. It is almost by a miracle that the city escapes an inundation sucii as that famous one which, more than 250 years ago, submerged the streets of the capital and did not sub side for four years, a most calamitous event, which depopulated the city and almost entirely destroyed the commercial business here. As the progress of tho work of draining this valley, sixm to be begun, will interest engineers and sanitarians the world over, l will give, in as brief span* as possible, an ac count of the condition of this problem, as it presented itself in former times and as far back as the reigns of the later Aztec mon arch*. The storj’ is not a tiresome one, and is, in fact, occasionally somewhat humor ous. This City of Mexico was in ancient times situated in the midst of the brackish waters of Lake Texcoco, now withdrawn several miles from the town, and serving nowadays as a place of deposit for such part of the city’s sewage as manages to reach tho lake. At the time of the conquest the city was in tersectfd by canals, crossed at intervals bv wooden bridges. The canals were alive with boats and barges bringing to the mar ket-place the vegetable and floral products of the surrounding country, building mate rial, poultry, etc. Many of the suburbs were BUILT IN THE WATERS of the lake, being supported by piles, and the cam sis of the householders were tied 1111- dor their dwellings, into which access was had by a holo in tho floor. On the waters of tho lake were mameuvred the war fleets of the Aztec kings, and it was oil this city-en circling lake that Cortez launched his brig antines for the siege of the capital. As has been said, the lake was brackish or salt, the saline quality arising from the presence in solution of muriate and carbonate of soda. This .saltishness of Lake Texcoco is still its distinguishing quality, and even now tho salt water of the lake, penetrating the soil under the city, makes it difficult to maintain a healthy growth of trees hero. As the trees grow and send their roots deeper they strike the salt water beneath imd gradually die u wasting sort of dentil. The Aztec City of Mexico was connected with the mainland by three huge dikes, or causeways, a sort of combined water liar* rier and raised roadway, and a fourth dike led out to the island, now the hill, of Chnp ultepee. The Spaniards, on taking the city, threw down the great temple and demol ished the stone edifices, ensuing the debris into tho canals, so as to make dry roadways of them. Thus, gradually, the Venice-like inspect of the city was destroyed and Mexico remained a compact sort of island in the midst of the lake. This Texcoco. salt, and alternately rising and falling, according to the prevalence or abatement of the east winds, was regarded by Cortez and his com panions as A SORT OF INLAND SEA. An odd sort of sea, resting in a shallow basm fully 7,000 feet above the level of the ocean at Vera Cruz! Even as an island, cut through by many navigable canals, Mexico was subjected to groat, floods, which, however, did compara tively little harm, as the houses wore so raised as to prevent trouble in case of fresh ets. During tho reign of King Ahuizotl the waters of Lake Texcoco had fallen so much that, to enable navigation to to kept up Ixv tween Mexico and the city of Texcoco, on the eastern shore of the lake, an aqueduct was Iniilt to replenish it. Without doubt tho reckless destruction of the forest trees of the valley and of the surrounding moun tains, begun and kept up by the Kpanish conquerors, had much to do with the later drying up of so large a part of tho lake. The Spaniards wanted the landscape to re soluble that of the arid and bleak plains of Castilc, and they worked with energy to de nude tho land of ti e. *s. Hoiv well tin y sue coeded is now easy to be soon. And the process of drying up the lake was hastened at the same time by the rapid evaporation due to tho altitude end the tropical sun. When, later, the great drainage canal of Noohistongo was opened, the lake again felt tho effects of carrying off those surplus waters of the higher level lakes which form erly had led it every rainy season. The lakes of tho valley of Mexico are tho natural tosins into which flow tho waters from tho surrounding mountains. Those lakes LIE AT DIFFERENT LEVELS, and it was on account of their inequality of height tint inuudi.t io'isoccurred in the early history of the capital. The inundations oil came n: the same way. Tho lake of Ztiin paitgo v .us brat filled to overflowing by tho summer rains and by flic inflow of the water* of it* swollen tributaries, and wheu Zunipango was full its waters rushed down into the lake of San Cristobal. Then the floods from this overfull basin would burst tho dike separating it from Lake Texcoco, lying at a lower level than the city and Texcoco, swelling to huge dimensions, would send its surplus waters (lowing over tho p'ains of Sail Luzaro,'pen etrating into tho city. Tho course of tuhse ancient inundations was from the north find northwest, and tho great cut of Nochistongo was made to carry off tho surplus of Lake Zumpango, winch did the damage to diko and city. Although the lakes of Xochimilco and Chaleo offer few dangers for the city, vet, should the snows of Popo catepetl lie incited suddenly by heat, these lakes would so fill up as to flow over into the city. Texcoco. though lower than tho city, is gradually filling up with solid sew age mutter and mud, and ns the level of tho lake is thus rising, the danger to tho city liecomes every year greater. It is very interesting to note the earliest o]x‘rations to prevent the cit y getting too much water. The Aztec engineers started out by building dikes, as before shown, and groat reliance was placed on those HUGE CONSTRUCTIONS, miles in length, and broad enough to enable an army to march therebn. Monpizgtn I. ordered the construction or thetAfujpoifhqt hydraulic works. toter oifc (Turing the reign of King Almizot Tlier# gppio a great, inundation, namlting fi-nru nidoinvh getting the notion "ito, Tiiij head that he was a compete™ <JkJ engineer. He un dertook, as I tiqvq Jpwn- to remedy the growing scarcity of miter A toke Texcoco, which then surroinuWi thgoitv, and to this end built the supply nojilSduct already noted. While In was going on with this work a citizen of some note at the capital, a man rejoicing in the odd name of Tz'ot niatzin, predicted publicly that the const-■ qence of the King’s work lyftuM la- tho flooding of tho city. But Ahuizotl had got a very well developed case of “big head," and in liis anger lie ordered tho unfortfiiiate critic, who, perhaps, ran a newspaper, to lie publicly killed as a warning to other captious people. So tho work of building the supply aqueduct went on, and when it was formally opened, tho water came pouring into the lake, to tho great joy of the merchants who trailed with the translake city of Texcoco. But Ahuizotl was soon made ridiculous enough, and the prediction of the sage Tzotmatzin was amply carried out. One day the heavy rains brought, via the supply aqueduct, n great influx of water into Lake Texcoco, and the City of Mexico was flooded to such an extent tnat the hapless King Ahuizotl, waking up in tho night, found his bedroom afloat, and had to swim for his life, and, in trying to find egress through nil open door, was SWIRLED ABOUT BY THE RAPID CURRENT and cut his head. I imagine that at that, moment the overconfident king did not think so much of his engineering qualifica tions. After the conquest tho dike sj-stem was kept up, but, notwithstanding tho enormous amount of work, put out on this sort of work, tho city kept on getting flooded. At last the Spaniards found that they would have to abandon the Aztec engineering scheme and try something beside dikes. The city had, by that time, become a quite different place than it was under the Mon tezuma*. It had a very few canals, and the people lived in houses built directly on the ground, and thus floods in the city were vastly move damaging than formerly. In 1607 the Spanish Vice roy, the Marquis do Salinas, engaged the services of u celebrated engineer named Martinez, to undertake the drainage of the valley and the reduction of the volume of water in the lakes. Ofltd* half a century before a cut through the Nqehistongo bills had been suggested, and Martinez took tho idea up anew. On Nov. as, 1007, in the presence of high civil and ecclesiastical functionaries, be liegan, with 15,000 Indians, the work of constructing a tunnel through tho hills so us to give outlet to 1 lie waters. A year later he formally opened the tunnel, which was built of timlx-rs sup]X>rt.ing wooden cross tieanis to keep the walls of tho tunnel from caving in. Tho tunnel was about 20,000 FEET IN LENGTH. Sometime after it was found that the tun nel needed masonry to keep the earth from tumbling in and tilling it up, and archwork was put in at vast expense. But this work was done so unscientifically, the modern system of lining tunnels being unknown, that it led to a general caving in of the work. In 1614 a Dutch civil engineer, one Adrian Boot, came over from Spain, and, after studying the situation, recommended pro tooting the city by dikes and mounds. His suggestions, however, boro no fruit. 11l 16251 Martinez perpetrated a tiit of folly, only comparable to that of the conceited King Ahuizotl. Incensed at the many criticisms leveled against his tunnel, he had it stopped up in order to givo the people of tlie capital n demonstration of the needfulness of his work. The next morning a great, part of the city was flooded, and so steadily rose the waters that it became a tremendous inundation, and for four years was Mexico flooded, causing, us was said at the first of this letter, a vast amount of damage. Canoes again became the regula tion sort of thing, and bridges were built at places of convenience to the people. Tho viceregal government went to study ing the drainage problem all over again. They even tried bringing into the city the sacred image of “Ourlaulyof Gundu loupe,” but her presence did not have any apparent effect, nud it was not till some earthquakes came along in 1634 that the groun 1 opened and tlie waters disappeared. The damage to t%e buildings of tho city was estimated at 1,300,000 livros, over $40,000,000. Finally, Corral, who was then Viceroy, ordered the release of Martinez from prison, and told him to go to work and perfect some plan for permanently relieving the city of dangers of floods A duty was put on wine consumed at the capital to meet the bills. Martinez llettered around for three years, accomplishing little, and his work was, in 1037, put into the hands of a Franciscan monk. I<>. Louis Flores, who decided to abandon the idea of a tunnel at Nochistongo. and convert the work into an open out. Somehow, tho monks muddled the matter, and tlie history of the drainage proj ects for the next century is weari some beyond endurance. There were all sorts of plans adopted, pushed for a time and then ulmndonod; whenever tin lakes got very full a panic would ensue, nml there would lie more digging at the great cut and renewed projects of dike construc tion. At last, in 17811, I*2 years after Mar tinez la-gar l work on it, tho cut of Nochis tongo was ojientxl sulistantinlly as it stands today. Tins cut of Nochistongo is familiar to thousands of Americans who have passed through it on the Central railway, which winds along a shelf of earth at a dizzy height above the trench in which the water runs far below. It is really a groat engineering work, and if De Ixsseps’ descendants get, through with canal in the same proportionate time, the o|iening ci-TS-monics will occur some five centuries hence. Tin largest naval vessels could be floated in this cut, were it filled with water. It stands a MONUMENT TO GOVERNMENTAL PROCRASTI NATION and the blundering of engineers. I will not undertake to sketch the spores of proj ects which have lieen considered in the lost hundred yours for the drainage of t he valley of Mexico, nor will I go into details of the Inter plans of the Emperor Maximilian and his engineers but. will merely here state that Maximilian's tunnel will bo an essential part o! i he scheme which the Cleveland coin; any will work U|K>n. And all these centuries of effort, from thn times of the Aztec kings down to the latest twin of President Diaz, might have been avoided, hod the Aztecs not been led by su; erst.tion to found their city in the midst of a lake, uad had Cortez shown good tense enough to have built his capital at Turn b,'.\ a, on sloping land, out of all j>< >ssai>K' danger from flo.*ls. The valley of Mexico contains many tietter Rites for n city than tins undrniniyt swamp, which at any point shows water if you dig from *J to -1 feet, a city whero to maintain a ga service iu- '"HE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, ,iUi.* I voices great expense, as the pipes are prae ; tiddly laid in water, and where no good system of drainage can be effected till the | waters of the valley itself are drawn off. From King Ahuizotl to Engineer Shrove, of Bucyrus, (is a good distance in time, and we will await witli interest the outcome of a plan, which, if successful, will lie one of tho greatest achievements of the admihistration of President Diaz. TRAMP TRIPS FOR WOMEN. How Some Members of the Art Stu dents’ League Enjoy a Vacation. New York, July 23.—A novel vacation party left tho city this morning. It comprised a half dozen mem bers, an artist whose name is not unknown, with his wife heading tlx* group, and ac companied by a quartette of girls in their early twenties, two of them being pupils of the Art Students’ League. The six are en route for the Catskills, but. they will not see the sun rise from the plateau in front of the i Mountain House to-morrow morning. They purpose to lie anywhere from a woek to a mojitn on tlie road. 11l a word, they are , going to walk. A tramp trip through some of the most tyj&fyflil—though it may not, arrogate to jrajjutbe title grnndcst-s-scenerj* in the East fiMfJat'the party, largely feminine, lias in ngq/l Taking boat from New York to New Briiffewick, the pedestrians will have a look at the Orange and Ramapo hills, swinging round to the Delaware Water. (Jap and working their- way !iy easy stages north through the Swawangunlcs—better worth knowing if less known than the rest of the Catskills—and so on, to whatever final de stinahion fancy may direct them, walking in the cool of the morning and in tlie Into afternoon, sleeping in farm houses or m an occasional barn if the hnv mows happen to hi- piled soft and high and the watch dog lie fit 4. too attentive. Baggage has been limited to a small light-weight canvas bag swung liv leather straps over the shoulders of each, and the object of the jaunt is the enjoyment pure and simple of a lapse into boheniianisra, the probabilities being that Pouitney Bige low will get an account of the undertak ing with a sheaf of sketches for Online/ in the fall. The women of the party, “tho gallant five,’’ as the home-stayers dub them, have adopted as accoutrements for the tramp skirts of brown serge, undraped, as light as possible and short, just reaching to tlie tops of high walking boots made for the occasion; blouse waists with scarlet sashes for pic turesque effect, brown sailor lmt with scar let ribbons, oil of pennyroyal for mosquito liitos and plenty of pluck to last them the journey through. Alpenstocks are dispensed with and parasols left at home, tlie old-time heat remedy of a handful of broad, wet leaves in the hat being relied on for duty in time of need. * Such a trip afoot is not a usual vacation outing for a woman, but if the project now in contemplation for a College of Physical Training tor girls in New York goes through, it may in the future lie as much as a matter of course as it has boon in the past out of the course. The proposed school, tlie place of which exists in the minds of some of the best known promoters of physical training in the country, trill be, if opened, unique in design and scope. A desirable up-town west side corner lias lieen “spotted,” so to speak, money has been promised for the undertak ing by some of the Vanderbilt connections, more is expected from one or two of New York’s rich women who have tho prospects of girls at heart, and it would not to sur prising if building were commenced within a brier period. Dr. Mary Taylor Bissoil, sister of the President of Vassar, who is in charge of a girl’s gymnasium in the city, is interested in the project, and though noth ing is definitely concluded the outlook is favorable. Ho far as any plans have been precisely formulated, the design of the new school will be to dis[ie! the popular notion that the ill health of women is natural—that they are the victims of functions whose exercise necessarily constitutes a sort of invalidism. The girls entering will to treated according to Dio Lewis’ old theory that the micro scopic misses who swarm about our schools and chatter in our streets are the curiosities of a “high civilization,” and that women who give free play to their lungs and stomachs ought to grow- nearly as large as men All pupils in this school of the future, which may to a school of the present within a year, will be subjected to a daily regimen with carefully apportioned exercise, with a view of determining the possibility of im proving their bodies as the bodies of young men are improved in the Gorman gymnasia. A full curriculum of studies, probably'of the academic or college preparatory grade, will to. it is thought, adopted covering four years time. Home restriction ns to dress it is proposed to adopt, not amounting to uni form, but making short, loose, light at tiro, with no pressure whatever about the wa’st, and hygienic shoes compulsory, leaving tli® girls all day long as much at liberty as bovs in their gymnasium dress. Pupils will to measured on entering, and an average gain of two and a half inches about the chest, live inches about the waist, one and a half inches about the arm and an inch about the forearm is what is looked forward to as the desirable result of the first year's bodily training and exercise of tho typical slim girl of 17. That such a school would succeed, Dio Lewis’ ex|s'riments at Lexington years ago demonstrated. Whether the plan, as at pres mt entertained, becomes anything more than a plan or not, there is no reason why the average woman should not add ten fold toher enjoyment of life and out-of-door liv ing l>y cultivating the noble art of walking. A delicate woman, properly dressed, and who knows how to walk, can walk ii miles of a summer afternoon without injury when an equivalent amount of other exercise might produce serious injury. Walking is the natural and normal exercise and hurts no woman who sets rigidly about it. A woman who is unaccustomed to vigorous walking in order to become a good pedes trian, should look first to her shoes. These should Ik- broad across the forward part of the foot, oifering not the least obstruction to the five movement of the toes. The heels should be low and broad, and the shoe should fit rather snugly about the heel and instep. The full dress equipment should weigli upon honest scales not more than two and a half or three pounds and should hang from the shoulders without any band, pin ned or buttoned or laced, about the waist. No woman can walk in a corset, The. walker must lie comfortable enough to be uncon scious of her attire. A hatthat shades the eyes is in order. So prepared, try nny distance that does not prove fatiguing as an initial experiment. It will probably be from a mile and a half to two miles, and must l> walked at a I .risk pace, three miles and a half nil hour being a good limit. When this can lie done, with out linckache or foot weariness, and a well woman ought to have no difficulty at her first trial, increase the distance during the leisure days of the summer vacation daily, maintaining the same gait, and 15 mill's a nay for a week or fortnight in succession, 25 miles on any occasion that demands it will ls< found within any ordinary capacity with a month or six weeks training. Women will never make the time of pedestrians of the other sex. There is no need of their doing it, though Herthn von Hiliern, I believe, can maintain a pace of six miles an hour. But three miles and n lmlf its a standard, with four now and then, is not only what every woman can if siie tries, but "hat. she ought, ns a fully develop ed human lieing, to lie able to maintain for several hours at a stretch. Then tramp trips would lie not only common but among the most enjoyable of vacation outings known. Emza Putnam Heaton. "CJentle as the Breezo of Evening " This line of an old hymn is quite appro priate wlien applied to “Pleasant Purgative Pellets.” "I don't like to take pills if 1 can avoid it,’ we often bear jm.u'soiis say, "be cause they constipate me so.” Now the “Pellets” never do tins. They are so gentle and mild tlml their effect is almost pro finely similar to a natural movement of the Imwls, and uo unpleasant elfcets mv left be.iuui POWER OF THE SOCIALISTS. How it Manifests Itself at Public Meet ings in Now York. New York, July-23.—At a public meet ing held recently in 'L'toper Union to pro test against the sumptuary laws, the Hon. Ashtol P. Fitch, Republican Congressman, was chosen chairman. Mr. Fitch, although attorney for nearly all the’ New York brew ers, is. nevertheless, considerable of au aris tocrat, and is connected among the blue blooded leaders of the Republican party in the city. He is therefore known to abhor Henry George, Socialism amt Anarchy. Printed lists- bf Vice Presidents, which were distributed in tlie hall, contained more than fifty names of prominent New York ers, each oin- of whom, like Mr. Fitch, was a supporter of the present social condition and opposed to all revolutionatv doctrines. Among them were Mayor Hewitt, Carl Hcliurz Roscoe Colliding. Charles A. Dana, Oswald Ottendorfer, and many others equal ly well known. Hardly one, however, was present. The hall was packed, even the aisles being filled, despite tho efforts of Capt. McCul lagii’s police to keep them clear. It seemed as though New York was at last thoroughly aroused on the subject of beer, and that the old blue laws would have to lx- wiped out. Before the meeting had proceeded very far, however, it was (dearly demonstrated that tho majority of the audience cared hut very little about the question mooted by the chairman, but was determined to show its antipathy, not only for a great many I other laws, hut also for a number of the honorable gentlemen whose names figured in the list of Vico Presidents. A telegram from Col. Fellows, of the Dis trict, Attorney’s office, was received with a storm of hisses. The reading of the names of Oswald Ottendorfer and Judge Barrett brought forth a deafening chorus of cat calls, groans and derisive cries. All the ef forts of the Chairman, judiciously hacked by a brass baud, could not drown these un ruly demonstrations. Heveral times he was himself greeted with reftuirks of ail uncom plimentary nature. Mr. Fitch is reputed to be shrewd, persuasive and polished. He certasnly combined tlie three character istics in his endeavor to quiet the crowd on this occasion. But, he might just, as well have attempted to keep hack an approach ing cyclone as to oppose his force against the voice of the majority of the audience. When it came to the speaking his choice of speakers was ruthlessly disregarded. Tho first were well received, but the ap pearance upon the stage of M. Schevitch, the Socialist, and his confreres, John Mo Mackin and Ed King, was the sigiial for thunders of applause that completely si lenced the chairman’s chosen orators. There after the audience named tlie speakers and no one else was allowed to be heard. Tlie choice of the audience showed its tout. Tlie new speakers denounced tho blue laws, to to sure, but so they did some others with which the former speakers were in accord. They even denounced some of the previous six'ukers, and made it evident that while the question of Iks-r was very important, it,. was only a drop in the bucket compared to tho great and only question* Six-ialism. The chairman, after listening in despair to long tirades against his wealthy lim'le his shrewdest move of the evening, and declared the meeting adjourned. The above event might seem of little im portance were it not that it is a type of many meetings held during the past six months. It had toen announced and exten sively advertised in the newspapers as a meeting to to held for a specific purpose. Naturally it would lx- supposed that the audience would he composed of jiersons favorable to that purpose. It was a subject of popular interest. Why did the majority of the audience prove to be indifferent to this subject and change the character of the gathering? Because the Socialists saw here an oppor tunity to promulgate their own doctrines and givo their strongest opponent a direct blow in the face The same thing lias been done frequently of late and will to done again. The fact is that although there may not to enough Socialists in New York to accom plish any revolutionary extremes, there are enough to form a disturbing element. There are also enough to control any public meet ing, and they are sufficiently in accord with each other, and well enough disciplined to overcome any expression of dissent on the part of the minority. They understand their power end they intend to use it. It will lie well for their opponents to recognize this and devise some means to sueeqjsfuUy combat it. Charles J. Rosedault. * A Convicted Boocller Escapes. Chicago, July 21.—W. J. MeGarigle, one of the convicted boodlers, recently sentenced to three years imprisonment, escaped to night, from his own house, whence he had toon taken by Sheriff Matson t o meet State’s Attorney* Grinnell. MeGarigle pretended Qt ho wanted to take a bath, and upon £n6 Sheriff’s allowing him to do so to es caped from the bath room at, the back of the house. There is little prospect that he will to recaptured. A Negro Preacher Killed. Starkville, Miss., July 24.—W. H. Gatlin (colored), pastor of the African Methodist church of this place, was shot, and killed to-day by officers who w ere attempt ing to arrest Item. It ts recognized as quite an unfortunate homicide, as Gatlin bore the character of a peaceful citizen. A Rapist Riddled With Bullet3. Tullahoma, Tenn., July 24.—Dick Hoover, the uegro rapist, who outraged a ixigi'o woman near Porterville, Friday even ing, was surrounded by a body of negro men to*dny at 12 o’clock, two miles and a half from Fostcrvil'o, and riddled with bullets. Brodie Knocked Out. Pittsburg, July 24.—A hard glove fight between Htove Brodie, the bridge jumper, and Joe Ridge, a light weight pugilist of this city, last night resulted in the defeat of Brodie, who was knocked out in the seventh round. A1 McKinnon Dead. Boston, July "A. -Alexander McKinnon, first baseman of the I’ittshurg Base Ball Club, died here this evening of typhoid fever. , Costly Information. From the Ihiltimorc Anu ricun. A thrifty clerk bus just toon dropped from the War Department |>a v roll. It is alleged that not long since he hired a jxist office I xix under an assumed mime and pro ceeded to do business with his fellow eiti zons. A printed circular notified the in habitants of tlie “way-back" district that the receipt of tdO would entitle the sender to information which would enable him to secure employment under the government,. Not a few took in the tempting bait, and Hie mail received by the enterprising clerk was consequently so large that it attracted the attention oi the |x>.st office authorities, and an investigation followed. His identity was soon discovered, and he was nt once discharged. He coolly remarked when con fronted with the evidence against him that he had intended to rend his victims a copy of the Civil Service Commission's instruc tions to applicants in return for their slt> remittances. Just received an entire new line of Boys Fancy Ties, ut Gutman’s, 141 Broughton street. t ry BONDS. CITY BONDS. \\ T K will r *r*r; vo proposals for thirty days for ▼ the puivtmst of Fifloi‘l! Thousand I' liars of thf* lioiids of ill* Town of Tlioin.uailk*, (door pia. Tin* Hum!** un? in ttoo sums of Fm> Hun drafl Pol la ix with roupon* h*arin.£ f|v* nor tvnt. imorHHt. payuhir .4 niary on i July of ouch y'vu , ttnd Irnvo ihirc yoftix lo run. Tbo" an* ill.* only bonds ever Ihsiuhl bv tin* town and they olter a ran* opportunity for mvostoix. \ V. U ItlfllTT, Chairman Finance Co^.iiiitteo FUNERAL ISmTATIOTfS. PKSVERGF.S The friend* an I acquaintance of J. .T. Pf-sveroes and of F. H. Desverges and family, also of Mrs. J. 1' Jones, are respectful ly invited to attend the funeral of the former from St. Stephens Church THIS AFTERNOON at 4 o'clock. MEETINGS. DeKALB LODGE NO. !>, 1. O. O. V A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at 8 o'clock. First degree will lie conferred. Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers are cordially invited to attend. Hy order of 11. IV. RALL, N. G. John Riley, Secretary. CALANTHE LODGE NO. 2*. K. OK I*. A regular meeting of this Lodge will /fJTX be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, at Wa* A 8 o'clock. Members of other Lodges cordially invited. u-jMSJI First rank will he conferred. \3a6tJr I. GARDINER, C. C. W. Faj-coner, K of H. ami S. ARMOR LODGE NO. INSi, G. L : . O. OF O. F. The memliers of this Lodge are hereby sum moned to appear at your Lodge room at 2 o'clock p. m. THIS I)A A' to pay the last tribute of respect to our deceased brother Joseph J. PESVEKOES The sister Lodges are fraternally invited to attend. By order of S. C. GREEN, N. G- R. H. Byujsb, P. S. SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE. On and after TO-DAY, and until further no tice. we shall discontinue the delivery jpf Ice' after 3 o’clock p. m daily. Saturdays excepted., We are compelled to do this in justice to the men and In consideration of our stock on ac count of the excessive heat. Our Ice House will remain open until 7 i*. M. daily for retail trade. HAYYVOOD, GAGE & CO. Savannah, July 25th, 1887. NOTICE. Owing to the excessive heat, on and after TO-DAY and until further notice, no Ice will be delivered after 3 o’clock p. u. except on Sat urdays. Our Depot will remain open until 7 o’clock p. M. for Retail trade. _ KNICKERBOCKER ICE CO, PRESERVING AND BRANDYING. I am receiving very choice Preserving and Brandying Peaches. Send me your orders. L. PUTZEL, Market Basement. NOTICE TO TAILORS. CITY OF SAVANNAH, I Office Clerk of Council, > July 1 2th, 1887. Bids will he received at the office ofl the Clerk of Council unltf 12 o’clock M. MONDAY, 25th indt.,'for furiifehing,the police force with YVin ter Uniforms in acchrdance with specifications to be seen at this office. The city reserves the right to reject any or all bids. By order of the COMMITTEE ON POLICE. Frank E. Rebareh, Clerk of Council. DR. HENRY S COLDING, DENTIST, Office corner Jones and Drayton streets. ELMER’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. THE MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE, 3 YVhitaker Street. The Job Department of the Morning News, embracing Job and Book Printiug, Lithograph ing and Engraving, Book Binding and Account Book Manufacturing, is the most complete in the South. It is thoroughly equipped with the most improved machinery and employs a large force of competent workmen, and carries a full stock of PAPERS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. These facilities enables it to execute orders for anything in the above lines at the shortest notifce and the lowest prices consistent with good work. Corporations, merchants, business men and others are requested to get estimates from this establishment before sending their orders abroad. MILLINERY. 138 Broughton St. Positive Clearance Sale OF OUK ENTIRE REMAINING STOCK OF SUMMER GOODS IN Millinery, -'L-X Parasols, " v Gloves, Hosiery, Embroideries, Laces, Collars, Infants’ Lace Caps, Ladies’Muslin Underwear, Canton Mattings, Linen Ulsters, Knit Underwear, Jerseys, and Our Great Line of Novelties Those wishing to buy rent, live bargains can never avail themselves of a better chance than we are now offering, lor what we state is posi tively bona fide. N 11.- Country orders wilt receive the same benefit of reduction (riven to our be no tin do. Your oislers we respectfully solicit. IRON PIPE. RUSTLESS IRON' PIPE. EQUAL TO GALVANIZED PIPE, AT MUCH I.Eari PRICE. Weed & Cornwell iu:y ggop . Tnfwc Tiirvri 1 III!IliM WILL OFFER DURING THIS WEEK ft 50 Saratoga Trunks At One-Half the Regular Price. Anybody needing an article of this kind will find this an exceptional opportunity, as I intend to close out the entire lot within the next week or two. lile GooGs, Wliils Goofls. 50 Pieces CHECK NAINSOOK at sc. : reduced from HJTjC. 40 Pieces CHECK NAINSOOK at Bc.; former price 10c. *75 Pieces PRINTED ORGANDY MUSLIN at 10©.; reduced from 15c. 50 Pieces PRINTED INDIA LINEN at 10c.; reduced from 15c. 50 Pieces PLAIN INDIA LINEN, at 8)4c.; reduced from 12V£c. 25' Pieces LONDON CORD at 614 c.; reduced from 10c a yard. 100 I >i/.en LADIES' HEMSTITCHED HAND KERCHIEFS at 12bjc. each; former price 18c. too Dozen Ladies' HEMSTITCHED HAND KERCHIEFS at 15c. each: former price 20c. 50 Dozen LADIES' HEMSTITCHED HAND KERCHIEFS at 20c. each; former price 25c. 50 Dozen GENTS' LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS at sl\6o a dozen: worth $2 a dozen. 50 Dozen GENTS’ LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS §2 a dozen: worth ?2 10 a dozen. 25 Dozen GENTS' LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS at $3 a dozen; worth at least .$3 50. 25 Dozen GENTS’ REINFORCED SHIRTS at 75c. each: reduced from $1 each. 50 Dozen GENTS REINFORCED SHIRTS at 50c. each: reduced from 75c. each. 25 Dozen GENTS’ BALBRIGGAN UNDER VESTS at 50c. each; former price 05c. each. SUMMER SILKS At 22V£c., 25c., 30c., 85c., 40c. and 45c. a yard. These figures do not cover half the cost of im portation. MATTINGS, MATTINGS. 100 IMeces CALCUTTA (all now, fresh goods) at prices ranging from 20c. to 50c. per yard. Daniel fan, PROPOSALS W ANTEX). Proposals for Culverts and Ditches. Office of thf. City Surveyor, } Savannah, Ga., July 15th* 18.87. \ 1 )ROPOSALS will he received until \VEI!ES- I DAY NIGHT, July 27tb, at 8 o'clock, dircctvvl to Mr. F. E. Rebarer, Clerk of Council bf tiit* city of Savannah, for the furnishing of materials and building forty-one feet of forty eight inch half round culvert, and forty-one feet of thirty-six inch culvert, together with such bulkheads and catch-basins as may be required. Also, for the digging of three hundred and sixty-oue feet of ditch, two and one-half feet wide at the bottom, seven feet wide at the top' and five feet deep: and. also, seventy-five feet of ditch, two feet wide at the bottom, live feet wide at the t >p and four feet deep. Plans and specifications may Ixs 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 K< >PS, C. E., Acting City Surveyor. Proposals for Sewers and Culverts. Office of the City Surveyor, | Savannah, Ga., July 15th, IRB7. f I )ROPOSALS will be received iintil WEDNEB - DAY NIGHT. July 27th. at 8 o'clock, directed to Mr. F. E. Rebarer, Cl**rk of Council of the city of Savannah, for furnishing matt-r -ials and building three hundred and sixty-one feet of forty-two inch sewer, seventy-live feet of thirty 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 anu catch-basins to be built on the Waters Road, near the property of Mr. John Schwarz. Plans and specifications maybe seen at the office of the City Surveyor. The city reserves ihe right to reject any or all bids. All bids must l*e signed by two sureties, before a Notary, for the faithful performance of the work. J. dkBRC\N KOPS, C. E., Acting City Surveyor. HARDW A RE. 155 and 157 Congress Street. o Heavy anil Shelf Hardware, Stoves and Ranges, Ti.iware and Houso Furnishing Goods, Etc., of Every Description. FOR SALE BY LOVELL & LfiTTIMOSE, Savannah, Gra. mm Well l m, HARDWARE, Ron and Turpentine Tools. Oflleo: Cor. State and Whitaker .streets Warehouse: 138 and 110 State struct. molasses! OLD TIME PORTO RICO MOLASSES -AT- A. M. & ('. W. WEST'S. Utl'AliTN KUMIII* NOTH T:s. DISSOLUTION. 'Pin: nrm or Paxton pros . mile po*t, I b. I' vW. It i{., I.iU'rty county, (la., in t:is l.'v diHNolvM by mutual consent.’.Mr. \> B. PAXTOVImvif.u !>oii"iii nut the cut ire interest of Mu. .1 M. PA XT(.*, th** ImHineim will lv* con ducted in lilk own impic. tad hr* HannimM all li/i bilitie* and will collect all hum*is due (ho late flrui. j M. PAXTON, Jviv w\ IPA. i). it i .\XT *V: SIIMMEU RESORTS. ill KM ANN'S HOTEL, t Waihalla, S. C. QITUVTED at foot of the Blue Ridge Mourn tains. Delightful summer resort. Good <‘limate. Excellent water. Also, a direct hucl iiuo to Highlands, N. C. Terms reasonable. D. BIEMANN & SOU, Proprietors. The Sweet Water Park Hotel, AT SAI T SPRINGS, GA., IS NOW OPENED for th reception of glints Rate board from $l2 50 to $lB pel week. In, architectural design, finish and general . apjjgjuaients the Sweet Watei Park Hotel hastfiV equals in the South. The fame of the Salt Sjjfingp water as a cura. tive agent of great value In the treatment of ali forms of dyspepsia-and iufqjgstion, blood, skin, bladder and kidney diseases is now fully estab lished. For all infofmatijsh, etc., address J. D. BII.LI NGS. Manage)', Salt Sidings, < la. S. G. Hi-lAI.Y & CO., PROPRIETORS, SALT SPRING. NEAR AUSTELL, GEORGIA TITATER almost a specific for Dyspepsia, Kid- V) ny Trouble and Cutaneous Diseases. Orders ffir water and alj information addressed to the firm at AusteUptjlt. the Columbian; SARATOGA SPRINGS. THE FAVORITE HOTEL OF SAVANNAHIAN3 Opens .Tune 3oth. JAMES M. CASE, Proprietor '■put: WHITLOCye HOUSE, in Marietta, Ga., I combines privileges and conveniences of 3 hotel, and the comfits and pleasures of a home. Capacity, about; cpie hundred and fifty guests. Large, handspUje* well furnished rooms; best of bpij-s; table'gdoj; larger shaded grounds, covered, with blue grotf;; Lawii Tennis, ('roquet; Billiards and Bowling AJley, all freo for guests. Prices more moderate "than any other house in Georgia for the acoonuuodutioiH. M. G. WHITBOCK, Owner and Pfoprietor. THE WATAUGA HOTEL, BldfWng I C. In the mountains of rJbrth Carolina. 4,000 feet anbve the sea. Easily accessible. Modi* cal graduate on the premises. Terms the low est in North Carolina. Opened June Ist for the season. For information adOrcss WATAUGA HOTEL (A Blbwiug Rock, N) C. TpHOUSAJSD lg I -ANDS.—Westminster Hotel, I \Vestull flktegPark, Alexandria Bay, N. V. - ‘.‘Uu<|ustionaßlj- the finest location in the Thtms.iM lskfOlhi. l^ — Hurper's Mno’zine, Sept., 18ft. Send' for* descriptive pamphlet. H. F. INULLjIA RT, Proprietor. EXCURSIONS. International Steamship Cos. Line OF “Palace Steamers” BETWEEN Boston, Portland, East port and St. John, N. 8., With Connections to all Parts of the Provinces. PORTLAND DAY LINE. Steamers leave Commercial Wharf, Boston, 8:30 Al. m.. every Monday, Wednesday and Fri day for Portland, making the trip in 7 hours, affording excellent coast scenery. EAST PORT AND ST. )fIN LINE. Steamers leave Boston 8:30 a v M..and Portland sp. m. every Monday. Wednesday and Friday for Eastpoi t and St. John. ST. JOH N.UQUECT LINE. A steamer will leave, Boston every Thursday at 8 am. for St.'dohn direct. ANNAPOLIS LINE. A steamer will leave Boston every Mondr^ r and Thursday at Ba. m. for Annapolis, N. S\ con necting for Yarmouth, Digby, ILiJifax, etc. J. BVJOOYLE, Jr., E. A. WALDRON, Manager. Portland. Mo. Gent JPasg. Agt. Charleston & SavanDahßy. In! WHblmis! Through Pullman Service. /"COMMENCING June 12th a through Pullman V Buffet service will be rendered daily be tween Savannah and Hot Springs, N. C., via Spartanburg and Ashviile. Leave Savannah 12:26 p m Leave Charleston 4:55 p m leave Columbia 10:20 p m Arrive Spartanburg 2:20 am Arrive Asheville 7:00 am Arrive Hot Springs 0:00am EXCURSION RATES. To SPARTANBURG $l3 30 To ASHEVILLE IT 13 To HOT SPRINGS IT 13 Sleeping car reservations and tickets good until Oct. 81st, 1887, can be had at BREN'S TICKET OFFICE, Bull street, and at depot. E. P. McSWINEY, Gen. Pass Agt. HOTELS. Fifth Avenue Hotel, MADISON SQUARE, N. Y. cpHE largest, best appointed, and most liber ally managed hotel in the city, with the moot central and delightful location. HITCHCOCK. DARLING & CO. A. B. DARLING, formerly of the Battle House, Mobile. HIRAM HITCHCCJt'K, formerly of tho St. Chart's Hotel, New tffieaps. NEW HOTEL TOGNI, (Formerly St. Mark, js) Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla. WINTER AND SIJMMGH. r PHK MOST central House in the city. Near I Post < )illee, Street (Mrs aud all Ferries. New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bells. Baths, Etc. frj:) tos3 j rj* ii;nr. JOHN B TCjUNI. lToprletor. I) UP/S SCREVEN HOUSE. r PIUS POPULAR Hotel If now provided with I a Passenger EldM&tor (the only one in tho city) and has been reaaodcled and newly fur nisliod. 'i’ll#* projirlclor, who by recent purchase is also the owner ofltiv establishment, spares neither pains nor ex penaoin the entertain inont of his guests. The patronage of Florida visit ora is earnestly invited. The table of the Screven House is supplied with every luxury that the markets at home or abroad can utTonL Marshall House, BAVANNAH, - - GA. / 1 F.O. 1). HOIHiKS, Proprietor Formerly of ’ I the Metropolitan Hotel. New York, and the Grand Uniou, Saratoga Springs. Location cen tral. All parts of the city and places of inter est accessible by street c nr, constantly passing tbe doors. Sisviol inducements to those visit ing the city for justness or pleasure. THE MORRISON HOUSE. One of tile Largest Boarding Houses in the South. A FFOKDS pleasant South rooms, good hoard J\ with uure Artesian Water, at prices to suit those wishing table, regular or transient accom modations Northeast corner Broughton and Drayton streets, opposite Mitfshnll House TOILET ARTICLES. Fine Bath and Toilet Sponges, Flesh Brushes and Toilet Requisites, BUTLER'S PHARMACY, Cvr. 13*41 wid