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DOLOIiES, ALIAS BELLA.
THE GIRL WHO MADE A SENSA
TION SEVEN MONTHS AGO
Then She Fainted in the Grand Union
Hotel and Said She Had Deserted a
Base Dpceiver Who Made Her His
Wife-How She Came to Shoot the
Jennings Woman in the Winchester
Cottage.
The following facts concerning the alleged
St. Augustine girl, in addition to those pub
fished in the Morning News on Sunday,
are from the New York World:
Dolores Dartmoor, the young woman who
amused hoi-self Thursday afternoon by till
ing Mary Jennings with sundry pistol bul
lets at West Brighton, S. 1., was released on
SI,OOO bail yesterday afternoon. When the
Staton Island isilice locked her up after her
little shooting she told them a marvellous
and moving tale about her groat wealth and
her stern, wicked father, with whom stie
could not live. Her lawyer, A. S. Warner,
added to this talo yesterday, putting in lit
tle amplifications and pretty- minor details
that had not occurred to Miss Dartmoor’s
fertile imagination as she fabricated tier
wondrous yarn.
“When the cruelty of her father drove
her to New York six months ago she was
taken in by the Protestant Episcopal Sisters
on Seventh avenue, lielow Fourteenth street,
who gave her a home. They cun tell you
aliout her character and her’ conduct while
with them.”
A reporter found the Shelter for Respecta
ble Girls and Domestic Training School at
No. 87 Seventh avenue, just above Fifteenth
street. He did find out, about Miss Dart
moor’s pranks—much more, perhaps, than
the innocent and unsuspecting lawyer ever
guessed.
On Sunday, Jan. 10 last, the newspapers
were full of ’ the story of Bella Harrington,
who was found unconscious in her room in
the Grand Union Hotel, opposite the Grand
Central Depot. It was thought she had
taken poison and she was at once taken to
Bellevue Hospital. There no traces of poi
son were found in her, hut she was declared
to be suffering from hysteria mid nervous
trouble The pitiful story she told attracted
the attention oi a Indy who visited the hns
pita), and she brought it to the attention of
the Superior of the Episcopal Sisters of tli •
Holy Communion. That lady visited Bella
in the hospital. The girl said she was lit
years old, although she looked all of 2li, and
that she came from Albany'. A few weeks
before coming to New York she mar
ried a man who believed her wealthy. One
day she found a letter in his pocket showing
that he had a wife and children alive when
she married him. The wicked husband
urged her to live with him, hut she indig
nantly refused ami ran away to New York.
She would not oven take money from him
to pay her faro nor would she wear any of
the dresses ho had liought for her. Homo
unknown charitable persons had paid for
her room at the Giand Union Hotel and she
stayed there penniless until she fainted from
hunger and excitement. The Sister Supe
rior was so impressed with Bella’s story and
the deep and effective sobs with
which it was punctuated, that she lielieved
the girl a victim of the unknwn man’s per
fidy in Albany. She took the girl to the
Shelter on Seventh avenue, and gave her a
pleasant home. On cross-questioning, the
girl admitted that she didn’t really cotne
from Albany, and that her true name was
Dolores Dartmoor. At that time she didn’t
happen to have a wealthy English nobleman
for a father, with great orange groves near
St. Augustine, Fla. He did not come into
view until she reached Staten Island. In
fact, she told the sisters that her fattier had
died when she was it years old, and her
mother not long afterward.
The story- Lawyer Warren told of her
yesterday was that her father still lives in
fine style amid his orange groves, and that
her mother died a year or so ago. The girl
had been her mother’s constant companion
for eleven years past until the time of her
death. During that time she had l>een
living apart from her husband in various
parts of America and Europe, having l*vn
driven from him by his cruelty. Dolores
had learned five or six languages and was
versed in many accomplishments. Asa
matter of fact she cannot write or
speak English, save in an archaic
fashion that the venerable Bede
bimselt would Ist ashamed to call his
own. She spells “know” with only two lot
liars. calls “gentlemen,” “gentlemens,” and
plays other tricks with the English tongue
that no person who even half knew it would
dream of {flaying. Some charita! le ladies
raised a fund by subscription for Dolores
and sent her to the Decorative Art School
to learn embroidery and other work in
crewels Dolores took four lessons and
quit. Sue said she didn’t care for that sort
of thing. Then die began to develop an un
governable temper, and inadi herself so
obnoxious that iho Sisters sorrowfully con
cluded they must part with her.
“Her actions were so peculiar,” said the
Sister Superior, “fhnt we felt that she must
go.” Dolores didn’t mind going. Early in
April she announced that she had got em
piovment ns “medicine distributor” in Bt.
Luke’s Hospital. The Sisters afterwards
foimd out that she was hired only tempo
rarily to take the place of a nurse who was
sick.' Some time in April Doloiei fell ill
with diphtheria. She was sick three weeks.
As she began to recover she said she wan
going to live with a discharged female
patient who took in washing for a living.
Not long after this Dolores was well enough
to walk about. Soon after this she disap
peared without being discharged or saying
good-by- to anyone. Vanished would be the
Lest word to describe her going out from
the hospital, for no one saw her depart.
This brings Dolores Dartmoor's story
down to the earl v jiurt of last May. She then
went to live with Mrs. Anna McKernan, a
very good, honest woman, who kept board
ers and took ill washing in her small home
on Jersey avenue. New Brighton. She was
afflicted with a never-do-well husband mid
had a hard time to get along. To her Do
lores spun her little yam about having a
rich, heartless father, who was keeping her
nut of her inheritance from her mother
■kill she should reach her 21st birthday,
when the law would force him to disgorge.
At first she spoke of getting $5,000 a year
income from her father, hut when days' and
months went by and no money was appar
ent, Dolores moderated her story some
what, and said that her mean old
father refused to send her a cent.
Mrs. McKernan didn't abate her
kindness, however, ami still sheltered
the girl. Etiriy in May Mrs. McKernan
asked Heal Estate Agent William A. Col
lins, who hns charge of the Winchester
place, on Bard avenue. West Brighton,
whether ho couldn’t appoint her caretaker
of a house. Ho arraugisl to give her the
Livingston place. Mrs. McKernan brought
over Miss Dartmoor, who at once repeated
her charming romance aliout. her father, her
mother who died a year ago, and the fabu
lous orange groves. Mr. Collins and his
mother and Maj. Brown, who owns the
property, were all much impressed with
Miss Dartmoor’s fable and believed it, Mr.
Collins forthwith appointed Miss Dart
moor caretaker of the Winchester place,
and she moved in with the McKernan fam
ily, minus Mr. McKernan, who was shift
less and idle and Inal threatened to shoot
bis wife and children a few weeks before.
On tliis occasion, by the way, it was Miss
Dolores who disarmed him.
On May 17 Mrs. McKernan calltsl in great
distress on Dr. Walser, of New Brighton
She begged him to have “that wicked girl.
Miss Dartmoor," taken a way-from her home
because she was “a disgrace to the place.”
The doctor visited Miss Dartmoor and found
strange eruptions that he couldn't quite di
agnose on her arms. He took hor in a car
riage fcn the Smith infirmary in Tompkins
vilie, where her trouble was finally set down
as ivy poisoning. On the way to the hos
pital she sprang the orange grove story on
Dr. \Vnlner, but he did not take any stock
in it. and mentally set down Miss Dolores as
“an erratic person."
The girl remained at the Smith Infirmary
until the middle of June, when she was dis
charged, cured. Somehow or other she
pah-hod up peace with Mrs. McKernan, and
wont to live with her again. The Siberian
1 bloodhounds and rare dogs aUeged tb have
! belonged to her, wero really tnc property of
| a coachman near at hand. They wero al
lowed to roam over the place.
The shooting of Mary-;Jennings took place
substantially as told in yesterday's World.
A reporter called on the McKernans and
found Miss McKernan only at. home. Her
mother could not be seen because she was
ill. Miss Dartmoor had come to their home,
Miss McKernan said, because the doctors at
St. Luke’s advised her to get a homo in a
quiet place in the country so that she might,
entirely recover from her heart trouble As
a matter of fact. Miss Dartmoor never had
heart disease, and her story was an imposi
tion on Mrs. McKernan. Miss McKernan
said that, she believed Miss Dartmoor had
gone upstairs and got her little brother's
pistol (Willie McKernan’*) to shoot Miss
Jennings.
The wounded woman was very comfort
able at the Smith Infirmary yesterday. The
doctors determined that it wouldn't bo wise
to dig the bullet out of her cheek bone, be
cause they would have to disfigure her face
to get at it, and the bullet doesn’t amount
to much any how. The bullet in her right
forearm lodged near the wrist.
At 2:30 o’clock yesterday Justice of the
Peace William J. Bowers held a preliminary
examination of Miss Dartmoor. She flit
ted through his dingy little office, where
twelve reporters Mf\t. and dodged into Mr.
Power’s private office. She scorned about
2fi years old. with a tall, well-rounded figure,
shortcut brown hair, and
eyes. Her features are fairly regular, but
she isn’t a beautiful woman. She wisely- re
fused to talk with the reporters, any one of
Whom would have detected her utter lack
of education in five minutes’ chat and sent
out 1 mu' gorgeous story about herself
through innocent and unsuspecting Lawyer
Warner. Inspector Cobh told how little
he knew about the shooting. Then
pretty little Miss Kitty McKernan,a peachy
cln eked girl, with wavy brown hair and
great soft brown eyes, took the witness
chair and related the story of the shooting.
Julia Howland. Mrs. McKemau’s servant
girl told the same story of the shooting as
her employer. Justice Powers admitted
Miss Dartmoor to #I,OOO bail. David Chris
topher, who owns many horsecars and much
solid property, and Henry 1). Leslie a
wealthy coal merchant, liecamo Miss Dart
i noor’s suorties.
COST OF A SWELL WARDROBE.
Exorbitant Prices which New York
Tailors Charge for Good Clothes.
New York, Aug. fib—l have heard half
a dozen men say recently that they found
they could save money by- going over to
London to buy their clothes. It is particu
larly true of actors, who are obliged to
have a large number of suits on hand, but
the economy is just as evident among less
extensive purchasers. Herliert Kelley went
to England this year for the sole purpose of
replenishing his wardrobe.
“One can get good clothes on this side of
the water undoubtedly,” he said, “but the
trouble is they cost triple what they- do in
London. A crack tailor hero charges #2O
for a pair of trousers, and that sum will
buy exactly three pairs in England.
The tailors of New York are constantly
f rowing more exorbitant in their prices.
here are, of course, huge emporiums or
bazars where clothes are clipped out like
shoe pegs and sold like hot muffins, but. it
goes without saying that well-dressed men
do not patronize them. A man to earn the
distinction of lieing pronounced well dressed
in New York, must exercise great care not
to dress too much or too richly. lie must
spend considerable sums upon hisattire, hut
nothing like the amounts set down of late
in numerous articles that are floating about
in the daily press concerning the cost of a
well-dressed New Yorker's wardrobe. The
statepient that at least twenty thousand
men here spend $5,000 a year on clothes
causes an aching void to replace my heart.
I’m not an export on clothes, but realize the
absurdity of that statement. Suppose a
man buys eight suits of clothes a y-ear,
which is an extraordinary number, the cost
would be about as follows:
Two frock suits #2lO
One evening suit 120
Two business suits 130
Three cutaway suits . 270
This would call for loss than SBOO of the
#•>,000 a year, leaving the overcoats, yacht
ing flannels and underwear to come out of
the trifling balance. Even under those con
ditions a man would have from fifteen to
twenty -aits in his wardrobe, for they would
accumulate rapidly with olio coming in
every six weeks. In sober fact a tailor who
succeeds in yanking what the gamblers call
“a merry little five ’nnderd” out of a cus
tomer regards him with reverence, respect
ami aff<x'-on. Thero is a limit to such ul
terior iuid interior trappings us over
gaiters, scarfs and linen. A thous
and dollars a year wifi dress the
Prince of Wales or the most impressive
of Union or Knickerbocker Club men.
If he buys his toggery in London half the
sum will bring the same results, though I
thoroughly believe that there an- better
tailors in New York than across the water.
Two men who sat on the rail of a yacht the
other dav wore comparing the prices of
their yachting flannels. The younger of
them, who had just returned from a six
years' term at Oxford, said to the other:
“What did you pay for that white suit?”
“It was mode to order,” said the other,
survey ing his flannels complacently.
“The coat and trousers were made by my
tailor for $45 and the shirts were $7 50 to
order.”
“Well this outfit," said the Oxford man,
stretching out his athletic legs and exhibit
ing flannels of far better texture and fit
than those of the other man, “cost, includ
ing shirt, trousers and coat, made by a
crack Luidon tailor, just sll inour money.”
That’s the reason it pay-s to go abroad to
buy your clothes. Blakely Hall.
HIS COSTUME LOOKED BAD.
A Young Cowboy, Dressed in Western
Style, Frightens a Country Town.
From the Meadrilie Tribune.
A young man liunicd Teagarden, who is
from tlio West visiting his home in Wash
ington county, came over to Brownsville
recently dressed in the habit of a cowboy,
which consists of a sombrero, belt, knife and
revolver, to get his picture taken. Ho was
followed to West Brownsville by Constable
Huught, of Bridgeport, arrested and taken
before Justice Smith. He explained that
his warlike nppuranco was not an indica
tion of auv hostilities meditated against the
people of Brownsville. He statort in effect
that although loaded he would not go off,
to which the Justice is supposed to have an
swered that tlr-re jvould be no danger of his
going off until he paid his fine. The young
man from tho West was a good talker. In
fact he propounded several stunners to the
court.
Wlion the Justice pointed to his hat and
said in thunder tones, as if it was an indict
ment of murder in the first degree, “What
is that you are wearing oil your head f" the
young cowboy, with a loqk of pity at such a
“t •nderfoot” question, answered “Is there
any law proscribing the kind of hat a man
shall wear?” “Well,’’said the Justice,“you
were carrying concealed weapons,” and he
innocently inquired: "If mv weapons were
concealed how did the Constable happen to
see them?” But his shrewdness availed him
not. No ml-honded rooster from the Rocky
Mountains can use himself for an arsenal in
Bro-.vtisvilie "if the court knows herself,
and she thinks she do." So, this young
man, who doubtless could have shot the
light* out of every street lamp in town, or
even could have shot the lights of the whole
court, meekly submitted to tlie inclemency
ol Browns villi law and was kindly admitted
to bail to answer the charge of wearing a
hat with a brim three feet broad, with a
leather saddle girth for n hand, and having
on ids person two Gatling guns and an Ar
katixas toothpick large enough to carve uu
ox.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1887.
A WAITER’S RESTAURANT.
One of the Queer Eating Places of
Gotham.
New York, Aug. 13. —Reading recently
about the cheap tables d’hote I determined
to patronize the more prominent, although
I may observe en passant thut my eating is
the last thing I seek to economize, os inferior
food is harmful, and there is everything in
the sty-lea meal is served.
I straggled midday into a 40-oent place
on West Twenty fifth street, thinking that
I would try the dejeuner -and there would
not lie so much of a crowd. Imagine my
surprise on entering to find the little salon
—a basement of a high-stooped house—
crowded with a distinguished ap
jiearing assembly, a glance revealing
that they- were all cleanly shaven
and attired in dress suite. A sec
ond glance revealed to me the familiar
faces of the waiters at Delmonico’s and the
other fashionable up town cafes and restau
rants. There was the pale-faced, dark-eyed
and spirituelle Francois from Del’s; the
sturdy, good-natured Fritz from the Hoff
man; the tall, military looking Henri from
the St. James; the swarthy, saturnine and
sleek Auguste from the Brunswick; the
portly, rotund, bald and blue-blooded Emil
from the Gilsey. Compelled by their duties
to l>e cleanly shaved and neat in their attire,
this gathering at dejeuner of the swell
waiters of the swell restaurants was a more
congenial assemblage than the heteroge
neous and untidy lot of small pay clerks
and poor gentlemen generally encountered
in the cheap restaurants.
Thinking of the joke that will lie ex
plained, I managed to escape observation by
sinking into a seat near the door among
some strange waiters whom I did not iden
tify and who did uot recognize me, proba
bly concluding I was one of the poor clerks
who dined in the place.
It is a singular fact which all men about
town will now recognize if they have not
done so before, that there is always a strik
ing resemblance among waiters to distin
guished men, whether intentional on their
part or not, 1 am not prepored to say; and
here I discovered a Charles Dickens, a I’ere
Hyacinthe, a Gladstone, a Cleveland, a
Carl Seliurz, a Gen. Grant, a Disraeli, a
Frchter, a Booth, a .foe Emmet.
When i entered all wen. devoting them
selves to the meal, and an excellent meal it
was. too, superior, indeed, for the price, lb
cents, including a small bottle of via ordin
aire. ,
After coffee cigars and cigarettes were
lighted, and soon the place was a cloud of
smoke, and there was conversation in
French, German and Italian, with the non
chalance and sangfroid of those to the
manor liorn, which to me who had seen
most of those waiters on obsequious duty
and alert for the inevitable douceur, was
simply very amusing There were no table
hells. In-cause everything was served in
course with military precision, and mine
host's eye could be caught by raising the
finger. I regretted the absence of the bell
for the reason that, I am sure sounding
it would have brought nearly all
of the waiters, suddenly taken off
guard, to their feet, in custom
ary obedience to the summons. I tapped
the glass with my knife after the fashion of
many in restaurants, and there was a gen
eral involuntary glance towards me. Many
commenced playing cards on the cleared
tables. Gaming. I have since learned, is the
favorite past imo of the foreign waiters.
Watching a good moment, I exclaimed,
“Didon! Garcon!” Immediately half the
crowd arose to their foot before recovering
from their surprise. In an instant the host
was at my side, whisjiering. “Raise your
finge. wlien you want anything; “I'll see
you.” Francois recognized me, and leaving
his companions came over to my side anti
explained to me that the waiters never cat
their breakfasts at the places where they
are engaged, blit always took this,
their principal meal, here. He further
informed me that the proprietor had
formerly liven a chef at Delmonico’s,
and that the cooking was equal to that oi
any of the fashionable places. “If it was
not good,” he said confidentially, “you may
know we would not come here, for \ve, Moii
sieur, know what good cooking and eating
is." lie continued that the proprietor sublet
the other part of lib house for sufficient to
reduce the rental of this portion to a nomi
nal sum: that, he purchased his supplies at
the market himself, and that cooking and
running things liimsMf most economically
he could afford to serve really excellent
meals for the small sum charged. Tile vin
ordinaire wns California claret, which was
cheaper than the imported wine, and often
us good if not better.
“L’addition s’il vous plais!” I exclaimed,
and there was a (hitter of hands reaching for
pads in the pockets before the trick was di
covered, and then Francois scowled at me
hut controlled himself, observing, ■'Mon
sieur is a joker, hut his little joke might lend
to trouble if there was any drunken one
here. Some of these men would not hesi
tate to stab Monsieur for his roniarK. We
waiters in private life do not !i koto be remind
ed of our duties in service. We consider
ourselves the aristocracy of this place and
the Americans who come here to dine take
our leavings,” he added disdainfully.
John d’Armk.
BUFFALO BILL’S BARBECUE.
His Noted Guests Learn f om the Red
Man to Use Fingers Instead of Forks.
From thr Xew York Sun.
London, Aug. 9.—A feast was given here
to-day which afforded a novel sight to the
astonished Britishers. A long table was
stretched under a big tent on the grounds
where Buffalo Bill is giving his Wild West
show. The table was surrounded by u dis
tinguished party. In the middle sat the
veteran Simon Cameron, with his keen eye
fixed on tho lingo pieces of ox ril>s which
were hanging on three sticks over n large
(ire which had ls<n built on the ground.
A young Indian squaw, clad in a bright red
dress, occasionally raised her daintily nioc
easined foot and gave the ribs a kiek to keep
them swinging back and forth in the flames.
The Hon. Cnmineey M. Depew sat beside
Mr. Cameron and also watched the ribs and
the comely squats ; ami so did Lawrence
Jerome. Senator liawley, of Connecticut;
Editor Murat Halstead, of Cincinnati; Jus
tin McCarthy, the Purnellito mcmlier of
Parliament and author, and forty other
gentlemen, nearly all of whom are cele
brated personages. Each guest was en
gaged in tho same occupation, and divided
his attention about equally between tlx*
rousting bovine ami t!v> dusky aborigine.
Mr. Buffalo Bill Cody, in ail t lie gorguous
ness of his alleged frontier attire, was the
host. The guests, or at least the Britons
among them, had come to see what a real
American rib roost was like. The ground
Ixifore tho table was covered with an abun
dance) of fresh straw through which fifty
sharp-pointed stakes were sticking up.
While the guests were watching the fire,
and the ribs, and the maiden, a band or
gaudily painted Indians appeared on the
scene and squatted down upon the straw,
one by the side of each stake, in a minute
each stase hud a huge rib of beef fa:'toned
to it, and a like huge rib i\a.s placed on the
table directly in front of Simon Cameron,
another before Lawrence Jerome, a third
rested in front of the President of the New
York Central railroad, and so on, until each
guest had a rib all to himself. Tiio Indians
set the example to their white brothers by
biking tho ribs in both hands, and Geri.
Hawley. Mr. I tepew, Mr. Cameron, and tho
other celebrities did just the same thing,
and the nimble waiters wore kept busy car
rying away the denuded ribs. Hominy was
owten in various ways. So were salmon
and trickles. The savages looked to M-.
Depew and Buffalo Bill and Gen. Cameron
to instruct them how tho-e emblems of
American civilisation, apple mid coooanut
pie, should be consumed. Mr. liepew gave
them a lemon full of grace, but it was wasted,
for the red man all agreed upon one manner
of pie-eating.
Each aborigine receive! Ins section of pj
on tile palm of his hand, and in two bites It
was gone Tlie cupidity of its disainx-.u
nnoe amazed the distinguished gentlemen
whi > were present. It is evident that the
savajjes take kindly to certain elements of
civilization. Red Shi it ate two pieces of
pie. Little Horse consumed three pieces,
Flies Above devoured four sections, and the
lass distinguished warriors as many pieces
as they could got. Mr. Chnuncy M. De
pew ate only r one big piece of cocoanut pie,
and the other distinguished white men
showed the same inferiority to their red
brothers. No fire water was served as un
example to the red men. hut there were
speeches just the same. Gen. Cameron’s
health was drunk He answered and spoke
to Hod Shirt, who was introduced to the
company.
He said he was glad to witness nt his
great age the queer mixture of civilization
and Indian life- a rib roost within a stone’s
throw of the underground railway system.
Each of the notable persons present made a
speech. Many of the talks were worthy of
reproduction.’ Especially were the remarks
of Mr. Depew. He was in a particularly
felicitous mood. He boomed Buffalo Bill
and told a story of Christopher Columbus
and the primitive Indian, which reminded
all the old gentlemen present of their youth,
lie praised old Simon Cameron in a way
that made the old Emperorof Pennsylvania
look very happy.
Mr. Cameron was the greatest man in
America, he said, and he had made and un
made pretty nearlv all the Presidents. Mr.
Jerome was meanwhile offering to het a
friend $2,000 to lie. that Mr. I)epew would
In the next Republican nominee for the
Presidency, but nobody offered to take the
hot, foi'Mr. D'i|>ew was talking at the time.
Those who listen lo the great railroad
President somehow get. an idea that lie can
have almost anything he wants, and there
is a general impression among Americans
here that he wants the immolation for the
Presidency. In the forcible language of n
gentleman who was eating roast ribs close
by* him, the Presidential bee in his lionnet is
rapidly assuming the proportions of a
partridge. At the close of the speeches,
in the course of which friendly |XM'soniil
attacks revealed the sad fact, that almost
every distinguished American present had
lieen seen by liis friends in the front row at
the Alhambra Theatre, where the wicked
ballet, and lots of it, draws many patrons
through its doors, an adjournment was
taken to another tent. Every kind of fire
wafer was there, and every gentleman made
at least one more s|i:n'!i. I<uwivnce Jerome
said that, he once killed seventeen buffalo.
Other shooting stories followed, hut to send
them to you under the ocean would cause
I he fishes to lose nil coulidoni'e in the verac
ity of tile human race, and l forbear.
AN AUTHOR’S FIRST NOVEL.
It Lures a Reader Into Impersonat
ing One of the Characters.
From the St. James Gazette.
One day I heard through my publishers—
l admit I had lieon questioning them—that
one person had ordered six copies of my
novel. I kept my countenance and asked,
with apparent calmness, who it was. with
out, however, expecting that they lfculd be
able to toll me. 1 had been vainly trying
to track my admirer for weeks; and if they
had said that he bought the books across
the counter and took them away himself, I
should have accepted it as my usual luck.
But he had not done so. He had left a
name and address for the parcel to be sent
to. The address was , Kliep
herdV.-biisli, and the mine was Banks. That
evening, having nothing particular to do, I
took the Underground to Shopherd’s-btish.
You would have thought that every one I
asked to direct me to the address was in
league against me, for no one seemed to
know it. I was not to be balked, however,
and presently found it for myself. I liked
the look of the house. There we e pots of
flowers in the window and the door stood
open, showing two umbrellas and an over
coat in life hall. A beggar happened to
pass me at this moment and I gave him six
|x‘iiee. I would have stool and lookedatthe
house for soni" time, but I felt thnt the peo
ple in the other houses were staring nt me,
so I walked hack and forward in a tottering
way, glancing up and down the street occa
sionally and consulting my watch as if I
was waiting for a friend. All this time I
kept an eye on the house and at last I saw a
gentleman come out. My heart beat fast,
but; the next moment it sank within me.
This was not mv admirer. Evidently he
was a doctor. What had he been doing in
that lionsi.' I sow it all in a flash; my ad
mirer was ill. Very likely he would die
just when I had run him to earth. Was
there ever such an unfortunate person as
myself <
lie did uot die. Perhaps it would have
been as well if he had; for he was a very
disappointing man on acquaintance. It
turned out that the reason why he liked my
novel was entirely because one of the char
acters happened to be called William Banks.
His name was William Banks also. The
coincidence struck him as by far the most
amusing and curious thing lie had ever
hoard of. The copies of the book he ordered
were for friends; and before lie sent them
away he went through each one underlining
the name of William Banks every time it.
occurred, and adding a note of exclamation
on the margin. His eldest daughter, who
was a girl of 14 or 10, must have grown to
hato me. Every evening on his return
from the office Ins had her into the dining
mom after dinner to read chapters to him.
When she came to such a sentence as
“Banks shook hands with himself and be
hind his back, which was a custom of his,”
or “Banks drummed with his fingers on the
windowpane,’ her father Hung back his
head and reared. So far as I got to know
him, he was only interested in one thing,
and that was how 1 came to hit u)K>n the
name William Banks. I would re
ply that it was by an accident and
then try to get him on to something
else; butitwasnou.se; his mind dwelt on
that one theme; and after 1 had said some
thing about, the comet or the housing of the
poor, he would roplv, “I don’t think thnt
that, kind of thing could be entirely an acci
dent.” Whether his friends were really as
ridiculous as himself, or only pretended to be
io out of politeness, I don’t know; but when
he introduced me to them os the man who
lmd put him in a book they said it was too
bad, and expressed a fear lest I should put
them in my next one. As I have said, I
have written a good many books since that
one. Banks gets them ufl: but his invaria
ble criticism is that they are not equal to
my first one.
The strangest part of the business has st ill
to bt* i old. Should a biographical notice of
the writer over ho pinned it will undoubt
edly ix- pointed out that the character of
William Banks In my first novel was not
only drawn from life, but named after the
original. This was not, of course, the ease;
but it, is inevitable that the charge will be
made, and I shall not lx' able easily to prove
it groundless, Tim fact is that the Banks of
i-ihopherd’s-buslj had thought over the coin
"Videuee ol names nntil he lins got to mix
himself up with the Banks of fiction.
Whether uiiiiitentiaily or not, lie has
adopted most, of the peculiarities of the
other Banks, such ns clasping his hands be
hind his back mid drumming with his fingers
on window-lames. The Banks of imagina
tion was distinguished by a white hat,
which ho wore Rammer ana winter. Banks
of Bhepherd's-bu‘ih has discarded black hats
for white ones. He also divides his hair as
my Banks did, “with two tufts that looked
lik? horns, one on each side of his lead,”
and "never walks on the pavement v.-hen
tie can get the curbstone to himself.’’ I
have s ?cn the living Banks within the last
month and was quite takon aback by the
resemblance.
Consumption, Scrofula, General De
bility Wasting Diseases of Children,
('lmmii- I'ontfhs anil Bronchitis, cun be
enro lbv t lie use of Stott’s Kmclmon of
• ’utv Cos l I<iver Oil with /{ypophoftphites.
Ihoimueiit physicians use it and testify to
ic- |;ivat value. I’lons" read the following:
"1 iristi Scott's Bmuisiou for an obstinate
Coiijth with Hemorrluuio, Lam of Appetite.
Kinaciation. Sleeplessness. etc. Allot them
have now loft, and 1 Iwllevc your Utnulslen
oas saved a case of well do volo|ied Consump
tion. "--T. J. KI.NDLKV, ii. 1>„ Lone Star,
Texas.
POINTS ABOUT ALASKA.
A Great Deal of Weather, Some Pish,
Mines and Shins.
Mr. John J. Chielcering recently said to a
reporter of the Washington Star, who asked
if the weather was cold in Alaska: “Well,
now, its queer, almost every man who has
spoken to me of our summer’s trip has
asked that question. Very few people seem
to know that the coast climate of south
eastern Alaska is much warmer than the
corresponding coast of the Atlantic; that
the Japan current sweeps across the Pacific
and warms up those shores till the average
winter temperature of Sitka is higher than
that of Washington. But it can and does
rain in Bitka. And it's very interesting to see
it rain: no big, black clouds; no thunder; no
premonitory guest-, of wind. The skv is
full of fleecy clouds and you stand talking
with a friend and remarking on the delicious
sunshine, brilliant hues of the sky and
vivid green of the mountain sides. All of
a sudden the rain comes down in drops as
big as marbles ahd the whole landscape
turns a dull gray. One of those white,
fleecy clouds Tins sauntered across the face
of the sun, and for an hour or two it ‘pours
as if the lid was off the everlasting teapot.’
This is summer weather. In the winter
they say it pours all the time. Very little
snow, but lIK inches of rain the water
soaked officials at Fort Tougass registered
the only year they kept a record. Our own
rainfali here in Washington is, I believe,
about 41 inches. The vegetation is simply
marvelous. Such living green as clothes
the mountains must lie seen to be appre
ciated. The growth of timber is enormous,
mul while much of it is the Oregon pine,
which doesn't rank very high as lumber,
there are enormous tracts of the yellow
cedar, which is the great shipbuilding wood
of the Pacilie coast. Grain can’t be raised
there with profit—too much wet weather.
Some vegetable and root products thrive,
but you can writedown Alaska emphatically
as not a farming county. In Victoria,
which is practically the same climate
as ,Southeastern Alaska, was measured
stalks of the common brake or sweet
fern, which boys smoke in New England,
fourteen feet high, and ordinary alder
hushes, which I used to cut for Ashing poles
in Maine, thirty-six inches in circumfer
ence. Yet many people, including a goodly
number of national legislators, ray, ‘nothing
grows in Alaska.’ Her main resources, lie
side her woods, are tlsh, minerals and furs.
The fisheries seem inexhaustible; cod, sal
mon, herring and other tish peculiar to the
Pacific coast fairly swarm in the waters.
In the spawning season one can wade into
the mouth of a brook and literally kick the
salmon ashore. These wild northern fish,
however, won’t take the fly. and it is very
aggravating to see the water fairly
alive with them and yet find
yourself absolutely unable to get a rise.
Many peole ask if I saw much of the seal
fisheries, evidently failing to appreciate the
extent of coast line belonging to Alaska and
not understanding that one can sail north
along the coast, from Washington Terri
tory 1,500 miles and still not come within
2,000 miles of the Pribyiof Islands, where
all the seal fishing is done. But southeast
ern Alaska lias furs in abundance,and black,
grizzly and Silver of St. Elias bears, red
and silver fox, beaver, mink, blru-k wolf
and squirrel skins are abundant. Tne minps
and stone quarries are at present an
unknown quantity with the exception
of some place at, Juneau and a few
other places, and the finely de
veloped Treadwell mine at Douglass
Island. This is, l believe, the biggest
‘crusher’ in the world—a 1~0 stamp mill.
The mine is owned by Mr. Treadwell, who
discovered it. Senator Jones and some San
Francisco capitalists. No one knows what
it is paying, but some estimate as high as
#7o,(rib monthly. They have worked the
sulphurets to groat advantage, and Mr.
Treadwell showed me a greenish yellow
dirt in one corner of the yard which he
said was bv actual assay worth #250,000.
We brought, down $04,000 worth of gold
bricks in the steamer with us. One
queer thing about those Ihlinket In
dians is that they cut off the noses of all
the bears they kill, as an offering to the
deity of the chase. In the whole length and
breadth of Southern Alaska you can’t get
a bear’s skin with the nose on. A little
German tanner in Sitka showed me a room
half full of black ‘St,. Elias’ and grizzly
skins, and every one of them was minus the
nose. This, of course, materially lessens
the value of the pelts.”
“Has Alaska much of a white popula
tion f”
“Yes, there are some 2,000 white people
there now, Americans and Russian half
breeds, and there will lie many more when
ever it becomes passible to acquire any title
to property there. Under the existing state
of things iio man can acquire a title to a foot
of ground or stick of timber. The only
claim that can be taken up is mining claim.
What few laws tlicv have are very imper
fectly enforced, an-1 it has been a shamefully
misgoverned country. I think t.hut struck
every visitor there more forcibly than any
thing else.”
“What of the native population ?”
“The Idians, or Siwash, as they are all
called, are a race with fine heads and splen
did chests and arms; their legs are unde
veloped and weak, owing to their 1 oat life;
their walk is almost, a shamble. They are
willing to work and the Treadwell mine is
now worked entirely with Chilkat Indians.
The scenery of Alaska is superb, surpassing
anything else in the world; 5,000 glaciers
between 50’ and 60', some of them big
enough to cover the whole of Switzerland;
thousands of waterfalls, oven surpassing
the streams of Yosomitn Valley in height;
fiords which would take in dozens of the
Nor wav article: mountain peaks- but one
mud visit the place to appreciate it. 1s t
me recommend it to you for a summering.”
HINTS TO PEN NY-TOSSBB&
What Prof. Proctor Says About Chance
and Buck.
Proctor, in his new book on “Chance and
Buck,” touches upon one point which must
at some time have interested almost every
body. It is the notion that if you toss a
coin, say ten times in succession, and it
comes down “toils.” it is more likely on the
eleventh throw to come down “heads” than
“tail-.” The truth appears to be this, that
I if you toss for an hour “heads” will not ex
ceed “tails” or “tails” “heads” in a greater
ratio than twenty-one to twenty, if you
to s for a day the inequality will not lie
greater than 101 to 100. And yet, if during
that time you toss “tails” ton times in suc
cession (as you may often do) there will be
no more likelihood of “heads” than of
“tails” on the eleventh throw.
It, is, indeed, obviously out of the ques
tion that anything that has previously
taken place can have given the coin a ten
dency to come down in one way rather than
in another. The notion is peruups capable
of a reduction to ateurdity in this way.
Suppose it to be true that a coin which has
come down “tails” ten tunes in succession is
more likely at the eleventh throw to come
down “heads” th in “tails.”
Now let the tower who has thrown “tails”
ten times refrain fivtn making the eleventh
throw. Let him put the coin in his pocket
and toss it a year hence; it is still more
likely to come down “heads" than “tails."
Or let him not toss at all, but jtass it to an
other, who will toss it five years after. As
the probability inheres in this coin it is still
more likely to come down “heads” than
“tails. ”
Supposing all this to be trite, it would ap
pear that you might take up an old Roman
coin and tow it, thinking the chances to lie
even, whereas the probabilities had really
lieen decided by the last pitcher, who tossed
it two thousand veers ago.
Anew method of scouring veneer to its
base consists in spreading gme or other ad
hesive matter lietween the veneer and the
base, passing the t w o secure 1 parts under a
beaten roller to melt the glue and cause it
to enter the pores of the wood, then finally
1 Kissing the connected haso and the veneer
under chilled roller* to harden and set the
glue, and prevent, the warping or shrinking
of the vansor consequent urt in the gradual
cooling or drying of t tie An \
MEETINGS.
CLINTON LODGE NO. 54. F. A A. >f.
A regular communication of this /,
Lodge will beheld at Masonic Temple—
THIS (Monday) EVENING, Aug. 15, at
8 o’clock.
The E. A. degree will be conferred.
Visiting brothers are cordially invited to meet
with us. HENRY BARTLETT, W. M.
Wap.[N<; Russell. Jk.. Secretary.
DcKALH LODGE NO. f>. I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting will tie held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o'clock.
The Initiatory Degree will be conferred.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
nre cordially invited to attend.
By order of 11. W. RALL, N. G.
John Riley, Secretary.
GEORGIA TEXT VO. 151, 1.0. R.‘
Attend a regular session of your Teut THIS
(Monday) EVENING, at. 8 o'clock.
Election to fill vacancy of offices.
By order of C. O. GODFREY, C. R
Thomas M. Hoynes, R. S.
RAILROAD LOAN ASSOCIATION^
The forty-eighth regular monthly meeting
will be held at Metropolitan Hall THIS (Mon
day) EVENING at 8 o'clock.
WILLIAM ROGERS, President.
H. C. Cunningham, Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
SPECIAL NOTICE!
Lady, full graduate, wishes situation to teach
usual branches. Latin, French and Music. Ad
dress P. O. BOX G 4, Marion, S. C.
NOTICE.
All stockholders in the ,Jasper Mutual Loan
Association holding upcane 'led stock are di
rected to present their scrip to me at the office
of J. S. Wood & Bro., 74 Bay street, for regis
tration. By order of the Board of Directors.
CHAS. S. WOOD, Treasurer.
Savannah, Ga., Aug. 13, 1887.
NOTICE
Central Railroad Bank. I
Savannah, Ga.. August 8, 1887. f
I an- instructed by the Board of Directors to
notify the public that this bank is prepared to
do a genera! banking business and solicits ac
counts. T. M. CUNNINGHAM,
Cashier.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
City of Savannah. I
Office Clerk of Council, Aug. f>, 1887. f
All persons are hereby cautioned against
placing obstructions of any kind around or
about the public hydrants or fire plugs in I bis
city. Nothing that will obstruct or hinder the
Fire Department front having free access to
said hydrants or plugs should be placed within
fifteen feet thereof in either direction.
The ordinance regulating this matter will be
rigidly enforced.
By order of the Mayor.
FRANK E. REBARER,
Clerk of Council.
DR. HENRY 6 FOLDING,
DENTIST,
Office corner Jones and Drayton streets.
ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR.
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the reiteration 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 Whitaker Street.
The Job Department of the Morning News,
embracing
JOB AND BOOK PRINTING,
LITHOGRAPHING AND ENGRAVING,
BOOK BINDING AND ACCOUNT BOOK
MANUFACTURING,
is the most complete in the South. It is thorough
ly equipped with the most improved machinery,
employs a large force of competent workmen,
and carries a full stock of papers of all
descriptions.
These facilities enable the establishment to
execute orders for anything in the above lines
at the shortest notice and the lowest prices con
sistent with good work. Corporations, mer
chants, manufacturers, mechanics and business
men generally, societies and committees, are
requested to get estimates from the MORNING
NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE before send
ing their orders abroad. J. H. EBTILL.
PROPOSALS WANTED.
Proposals for Paving.
City of Savannah, Oa m )
Office of the City Surveyor, V
July 2luh, 1H W 7. )
I PROPOSALS will I>‘ received until WEPNES
-1 DAY, August 24th, at 8 o’clock i*. m.,
directed to Mr. F. E. Rcharer. Cierk of Council
of the city of Savannah, (in., for the paving of
that portion of Congress street in said city lying
between tin* east property line of West Broad
street and the west property line of Drayton
street; ai.*o. that portion of Bull street in said
city lying between the south line of Congress
stPM and the north line of State street, being
a total arel of about eight thousand square
yards.
The pronosals may I>* for granite, grawackc
or asphalt bliwks or for sheet asphalt, the speci
fications >f which will bo the same &u civen by
the Engineer Department of the District of Co
lumbia in their repeit for 18Kb.
Any iHU“*on desiring to bid upon the above
work, but use different specifications from those
enumerated above, may do so provided that a
copy of the sjyvitieaiions upon which they bid
is enclosed with their bid.
All bids for grawaoke, granite or asphalt
Mocks must l>o accompanied by a specimen of
tie* blocks intended to tx* used.
Separate bids will also i>o nxjeivod for the fur
nishing and laving of about thirty-tin* hundred
running feet of curbstone. of either blue stone
or granite of the following dimensions; four
inches broad, sixteen incite* deep, and in lengths
of not less than five leot. The curbing to tx*
dressed on the ton ten inches from th*' top on
the front face mid four inches from tin* top on
th<* rear face: to be perfectly straight and
suuure on the ends.
The right to reject any or all bids is reserved.
For further information address
J. deBHUTC HOPS. Jr., c. R.,
Acting Surveyor.
BRICK.
Wm. P. Bailey & Cos.,
3RICK MANUFACTURERS,
KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND, lu large
quantities. at their ynnl on the SPRING
FIELD PLANTATION, furl w ill deliver the sumo
in any part of the city upon the shortest notice.
Tbo best
Well Brick, Pressed Brick, Hard Brown Brick,
Gray Brick, Soft Brown Brick.
OrFi'-E—Corner Bull and Eroughvin, at St-
MON UAZAN’S CP 'AR STOKE. where uil or
ders will reeoive prompt attention.
MOXIE.
M O X IE.
FOR SALE WHULEoALE BY
C. M. GILBERT & CO.
SoulhciUit curuor Bay aid li rn.im ... i.
SUMMER RESORTS.
Ocean House
TYBEE ISLAND. GEORGIA.
SEA BATHING unsurpassed on the Atlantic
coast. Comfortable rooms, neatly fur
nished. Fare the best the market affords.
Bathing suits supplied. Terms moderate.
GEO. D HODGES, Proprietor.
THE COLUMBIAN*
SARATOGA SPRINGS.
THE FAVORITE HOTEL OF SAVANNAHIAN3
Opens June 35th.
JAMES M. CASE* Proprietor,
NEW YORK BOARD.
]TO \ AND 1,707 Broadway, corner 54th.
• i " "• I House kept by a Southern lady; loca
tion desirable. Refers by permission to Col.
John Screven, Savannah.
'T'IIOUSAND ISLANDS.—Westminster Hotel,
1 Westminster Park, Alexandria Bay, N. Y.—
“Unquestionably the finest location in tho
Thousand Islands."— Harper'* Magazine , Sept,,
1881. Send for descriptive pamphlet. H. F.
INGLEHART, Proprietor.
r a
EXCURSION'S.
international Steamship Cos, Line
OF
“Palace Steamers”
—BETWEEN
Boston, Portland, East
port and St-John, N. 8.,
With Connections to all Parts of th®
Provinces.
PORTLAND DAY LINE.
Steamers leave Commercial Wharf, Boston,
8:30 a. M . every Monday, Wednesday and Fri
dav for Portland, making the trip in 7 hours,
affording excellent coast scenery.
EASTPORT AND ST. JOHN LINE.
Steamers leave Boston 8:30 a. M.,and Portland
5 p. m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
for Eastport and St. John.
ST. JOHN DIRECT LINE.
A steamer will leave Boston every Thursday
at 8 a m. for St. John direct.
ANNAPOLIS LINE.
A steamer will leave Boston every Monday and
Thursday at Ba. m. for Annapolis, N. S., con
necting i’or Yarmouth, Digbv, Halifax, etc.
J. B. COYLE, Jr.. fi. A. WALDRON,
Manager. Portland, Me. o*n. Pa.* Agt.
Charleston & Sayamahßy.
M Mis Idibiis!
Through Pullman Service.
/COMMENCING June 12th a through Pullman
V 7 Buffet service will l>o rendered daily Ik*-
tween Savannah and Hot Springs, N. C., via
Spartanburg and Ashviile.
Leave Savannah 12:20 pm
Leave Charleston 4:55 pm
Leave Columbia 10:30 p m
Arrive Spartanburg 2:20 a m
Arrive Asheville 7:00 am
Arrive Hot Springs 9:00 am
EXCURSION RATES.
To SPARTANBURG sl3 30
To ASHEVILLE 17 15
To HOT SPRINGS 17 15
Sleeping car reservations and tickets good
until Oct. 31st, 1887, can Ire had at BREN'S
TICKET OFFICE, Bull street, and at depot
E. P. McSWINEY,
Gen. Pass Agt.
HOTELS.
Fifth Avenue Hotel,
M4IMSON SQUARE, N. Y.
r JpHE largest, best appointed, and most liber
ally managed hotel iu the city, with the most
central and delightful
HITCHCOCK. DARLING & CO.
A. B. DARLING, formerly of the Battle House,
Mobile.
HIRAM HITCHCOCK, formerly of the St.
Charles Hotel, New Orleans.
NEW HOTEL TOG NX
(Formerly St. Mark’s.)
Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla.
WINTER AND SUMMER.
’ | 'IIE MOST centra! House in the city. Near
1 Post Office, Skrent Cars and all Ferries.
New and FJegattt Furniture. Electric Bells,
Baths, Etc. Sc 50 to $3 per day.
JOHN lY TOGNI, Proprietor,
DUB’S SOREVEN HOUSE.
rpillvS POPULAR Hotel is now provided with
Ia Passenger Elevator (the only one in the
city) and has i>c remodeled and" newly fur
nished. The proprietor, who bv recent purchase
is also the ownsy of the establishment, spares
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 caii afford.
MARSHALL HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, - - GA.
/ - EO. D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of
V 4 the Metropolitan Hotel, New York. an<l the
Grand Union, Saratoga Springs. Location cen
tral. All parts of tho city and places of inter
est accessible by street car.? constantly passing
the doors. Special inducements to those visit
ing tbs city fo; otnsmeas or pleasure.
THE MORRISON HOUSE. ’
One of the La.rge.st Boarding Houses in the
South.
\FFORDB 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.
STOLI \.
$25 REWARD*
QTOLEN from the Tod 1 Place, 1 miles from
Waynesboro, Ga., on Hie night of August
llth. ONE BLACK KAWBONE MARE MULE,
sixteen hands high and about nine years old,
with unusual criaiko.l hind legs. When lying
down lias a peculiar wav of first rising on bar
front feet an Is imctuues turning round before
goring her hind feet upas if w :tk in back. I
will pay tiCo reward for her arid thief.
WALKEK McCATIIERN.
Waynesboro, Ga., Aug. IS, 1887.
FOR HE NT." "
For Rent or For Sale,
rpHAT DESIRABLE RESIDENCE southeast
corner of Gaston and Abercoru streets. For
particulars apply to
HENRY BLUN, Blurt's Building.
CHANDELIERS.
FOE SALE/
1 18 BURNER CHANDELIER, suitable fur
church or hall.
SI II BURNER CHANDELIER.
8 4 BURNER CHANDELIER.
8 S! BURNER CHANDELIER.
Apply to JN<>. MuoLSON or K. M. HULL
BAY HUM.
...... .
Imported Bay Bum,
A FINE ARTICLE,
AT STRONG'S URUG STORc,
Cutset' Bull and Perry street lan*.