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SIRENS IN THE SURF.
SCENES AT BATHING HOURS AT
NEWPORT.
Flirtations With Pair Ones En Desha
bille on the Bench- The Imported
English Footman as an Obstruction
to Love-Making- Striking Figure of
a Tremendous Girl.
Neieport Letter in Xew York Times
The bay is a great shining horseshoe.
There is a cottage on the fur low headland
on the left; a cottage on the far low head
land on the right. Beyond is the open
ocean. In the very centre of the arch is
Newport's bathing beach.
The Beach Casino is a long, low wooden
building, two-storied only in the centre. Its
roof is of gray shingles, its sides of yellow .
All along its front, massed on the 200 feet
of sand between its veranda and the water,
is a dense black throng of vehicles.
The morning is warm and the bright.sun
ligbt is glinting on the panels and wheels
of victorias with rumbles, and victorias
without, on char-a-bancs, dog-carts.
T-carts, s- daus, landuulets, clarences,
Coupes, broughams, village-carts, buggies,
and dukes—dukes are the latest two-wheel
ed fad—iti a confused and hetenigon<>oiis
mass of shining wood and leather, with here
and there a tally-ho rising bulkily
over all. Tigers are moro plenteous
and more gaudy than in a Bengal jungle.
The vehicles an- filled and the ve
randa is crowded Men in straw hats and
white flannel are tending over carriage
wheels to pass the compliments of the hour
with their lady friends. The women aro
chatty and smiling, and gracious. They
are in fresh, simple dress, simple in that
they cost $5 to buy, and #SO to mako. New
port, in fact, is out for the bathing hour,
and all of Newport which does not bathe
joins heartily to muko life miserable for
those who do.
The bathing begins at 11 o'clock, and if
you are wise you will not go near the teach
before that hour. If you do you wall strike
the antiques. The antiques are a queer col
lection of old ladies who coma from nobody
knows where. If the discovery of their
origin depends upon the public interest in
them, it will never be brought about. They
wear bathing suits consisting of a horrible
straw hat, a coat and knee-breeches These
are made from bedticking, a Jfaded sofa
cover, an old crazy quilt, or anything else
that has no particular value. They look
like Indian squaws on a pilgrimage. They
wear no stockings. Ugly? They are the
ugliest things in the whole realm of zoology.
Sin is a tinted Venus in comparison. If
one of them should come within the
luminous circle of an electric light at night
the light would flare up wildly and then go
out.
They disappear, however, like the witches
in the spectacle before the fairies come on.
The fairies represent Newport’s test circles,
for, despite the supposition to the contrary;
bathing is very generally indulged in.
Still, the crowd in the ocean is remarkably
mixed. Two-thirds of it represent the
middle class, and the distinguished feature
of this class is that its women do not wear
stockings. The difference between Narra
gansett and Newport in this respect is re
markable. At the former place no woman
appears without them. Their absence
at the latter place is unpleasant. A
stookingod limb is coquettish. A bare
one, except on occasions, is
ugly, if not. questionable. Modem footgear
has not improved the symmetry of the
female toes, and however skillful the
chiropodist may be he is sure to leave some
signs of bis art. If an Athenian sculptor
w ere to-day to seek in this country lor a
model for a female foot he would be as badly
off us Diogenes. It would seem ns if all
female bathers would strongly prefer to
cover their distorted extremities. Those of
their sex who make of their beauty a study
invariably do. The stocking, in ease of dire
necessity, would probably Vie the very last
garment discarded by them, and some
women, who would blush at nothing else,
would redden at tho exposure of their feet.
While the fairies in their pretty suits aro
demurely bobbing np and down in tho
breakers, tho girls of the middle class are
doing whatever their sweet w'ills suggest.
Down the beach, for instance, far back to
ward the line of hillocks, are two girls in
bathing suits, one of gray and the other of
blue. They linvo buried themselves in tho
sand up to their waists. They look as if
they were growing there. By them stands
a smart, dog-cart, with a gray horse in
silver-mounted harness. In the cart aro
two finely-dressed young men. Tho girls
are pretty, but have common faces. The
men are not totally at variance with them
in this respect, though there is a eoat-of
arms on the panel. Perhaps the coat is not
a very good fit.
The girls look like twin sphiuxes—frivo
lous daughters of that groat poem in stone
in Egypt’s sands. Retzch compared hu
manity to the Sphinx, saving that while its
soul was in the clouds, its body w'as buried
in the earth. He had no direct reference to
the young ladies, however. Their souls, in
aerial mounting, have stopp'd and gotten
into the curt. One of them smiles archly at
the driver. She U not immodest. She is no
more culpable in her dr>ss than the blue
laws of the Purit uiica'i prohibition State
freely permit. And yet under those very
laws she bends her knee, the sand parts over
her right limb, and from knee cap to too it
is exposed and lire nude and round and white
upon the sand. It does not shine. It glares,
and she knows it. Some young girls walk
ing by look nt her and blush. It is no won
der.
The flirtation en deshabille progresses.
Finally the driver makes his friend get out,
puts his English ulster upon her, and takes
her for a rattling ride up and down the
beach along the edge of the water. He
keeps far below the crowd, however. His
friend sits down by the other Sphinx and
cleverly enchains her admiration by peri
odically pouring sand down the back of her
aeck.
The teach is a little trying for the nice
youug ladies. It is shallow, and one has to
walk a long distance from the breakers to
the water line. Then there is another long
walk from the water line to the bath-house.
When, as is usually the case, one has to pass
in and out among a throng of carriages
tilled with staring strangers the ordeal is se
vere for shrinking modesty. Home, fearful
of it, pass to and fro up the teach beyond
the fine. Others do not appear to
mind, and join conversations with
friends in carriages as they pass in
with artless unconsciousness. It is
merely a question of experience, also, if
cynicism te i>ermitted, of figure. One
would not expect, fqr instance, that osseous,
old muiden, who has put on a scarlet suit to
decrease her rescmblnin'o to iui imaginary
line, to teas ready to chat with her gentle
man friends in her present state of candor
as tho plump little clmnipion whom she is
foolish to walk la-side. Contrasts aiv elo
quent, and bathing suits are as frank as
Fairbanks in telling a woman’s weight.
The hathgnwn exists only in the fashion
Journals as far as the beach is concerned.
The question has been widely debated here,
but nobo ly seems to dare to venture it.
Those who most desire its use seem to te
afraid of the notoriety it would nt first ox
rite, ami prefer to walk unobtrusively to
the house.
Only the misses of the aristocrucy in
dulge in brine. Their elders prefer to
lounge picturesquely on their carriage seats
and wittily comment. Altert is usually the
only one of the family who invariably
bathes. Altert is a block poodle with wor
sted in place of hair, whe has lieon shaved
by the laudsc&|> gardener with a lawn
mower. Having caught sight of himself in
the looking-glass ho has very properly gone
mad. He lias high times in the water with
a common bulldog, whom he jmtronixes,
while Doru, a lady King Charles of his ac
quaintance, barks bronchially from an adja
cent carriage scat, us she anxiously watehes
him, fearful that lie will get bis death of
cold Dora is in tears, in fact but Albert
d<>s not heed. It is her normal state. James,
the vrouni. as he stands liv the horse’s bend.
also keeps a sharp eye on Altert. James is
in high liat and full livery, with immacu
late cream-colored breeches, and most care
fully brushed tops. James stands very
straight. He has grown frightfully brittle
since he was imported and put in service.
Perhaps it is the American climate acting
on his English system. James will fall
asleep and blow over some day and break
into a thousand pieces.
While you are watching James and wish
ing he would, another James comes riding
by, sitting beside his young mistress, who is
driving, on the seat of a yellow trap. Ilis
hands are in red gloves and crossed on his
lap like small specimen hams from (Jincin
nati. He looks exactly like his fellow on
the sand. All grooms, in fact, are very like
a sheet of English postage stamps, identical
in apiiearance and value. They all have a
cleanly shaven Chauband look, and thoy
constitute one of the many present myste
ries of the American social panorama.
It is understood, of course, that from our
shirt collars to our tally-hos wo import and
adopt nothing English unless it is more
awkward and ungainly than our own home
articles; but why we should have gone to
the extent of a James is none the loss
puzzling to determine. If mademoiselle
and her young lady chum take a ride they
can interchange not one word of eonff
dentlal gossip unless the rod and capacious
ear of James receives it also. If Stanley
and Elsie ride side liy side through the in
spiring softness of the after-glow no word
or sigli of tenderness between tl em can
'■scajie the knowledge of the salaried goose
berry iu tops, on the seat behind, who is fed
and found that lie may certainly te on hand
when he assuredly is not wanted. Stanley
must either stow him under the seat, or jolt
him off. Or keep discreetly silent,. Those are
his only courses of action, and yet the young
ladies indignantly seek to know why our
young men no longer marry. James is the
can*'. James may te simply a thing. His
brains may bo bidden in the lining of his
hat, and Ids relation to the vehicle tea
little less than the kingbolt and a little
more than the pug, but he is there just the
same, and whenever a mail feels yearning
and ulloverish, he invariably insists upon an
audience of only one.
Your lieautv of the hop of the night be
fore comes down to the wafer. The pretty
back is just as straight, though it is bidden
now in too trim red bathing dress, and the
smile she gives tho ocean the same she gave
her partner. She has two girl friends with
her, ladies bom, with their milk white
teeth and bright New England faces. The
three go ha ml and hand into the water.
There is not a man of their class to accom
pany them. There are comparatively few
men, anyhow. The college boy and the dude
are both absent. The dude does not swim,
lacking a cablegram that Wales has put his
royal feet in the royal water, and the college
boy is miles away. He shunsiNewport. He
is at Narragansctt and the Massachusetts
beaches in his rowing shirt, with the class
number on its breast over the muscles lie
so obviously wears. He is there with the
pretty girls in the gay wet multitude, and
they are duly appreciative of him, for he is
a very good sort under all circumstances,
and the liest natured and brightest of
cavaliers.
The three Graces run into the water, how
ever, and run well, for u wonder. No two
women run alike, and few run well. There
is nothing locomotive in the whole animal
kingdom that some of them do not man
age to imitate. From the tragic stork to the
contemplative hen in a hurry all the varied
gaits are clearly to te found upou the teach.
Most of them run like snipe, tue wings close
to the side, tho legs straight, and no bend
ing of the body anywhere. When a silver
winged flock of tue latter light a little way
down the shore mid skip stiffly along the
sun Is with that constant ami industrious
search for nothing in particular which dis
tinguishes snip ; in moving and women in
shopping, their resemblance in motion to
t.ie greaqis of women near them savors too
much of mocking purpose to be entirely u
matter of choice.
There is nothing striking about the bath
ing suits, it is not good iorm to wear war
paint in the water. As fur as appearances
areeonoerned, the dress is quite us conserva
tive, if not more so, than that of the ball
mom. Borne of the figures are striking.
One of them is a tremendous girl, tstie
wears a cap of blue and white lateral stripes,
which hung down backward. Bhe is very
strong, full chested and brunette, and walks
with her head thrown back like anas
Shi- looks like a salon painting of a Breto 14
iisher-girl os she trump* across the sands-
The basket would make, bur one to the life.
Sue swims, too, with power. Bhe can
scarcely be called one of the elect, though
many of the elect are strongly-built wo
men. The hunting field and the English
fashion or health and strength are remov
ing a little of that weak delicacy which has
liven charged against American girls. An
instance of it is just going over the sands.
She is too straight and elastic. Yesterday
aftornoon, on the ocean drive, she was ele
gantly clad on the summit of a monumen
tal English cart. Bho wears a pretty
suit of black, und her feet are an
innovation. Bhe wears white sundals, with
rubber soles, bound about her ankles
with bright red braid. The effect is strik
ing. It truly seems as if she desired to call
attention to Her lower limbs, for fromaukle
to knee they are unprotected against wind
and water; in fact, bare. Nevertheless, you
forgive her. You are not sorry she dirt so.
You are disposed to generously accord her
all the powers of observation that you have
at your command. It all the young ladies
were as happily adjusted as she is, you nqght
be induced to overcome your very natural
scruples on the matter, and consent to let
them enjoy all the freedom in walking that
the ultramurine laws oi Rhode Island ap
pear to contemplate.
An Englishman on a Bucking Horse.
Fi om a London Letter.
The trump card of the cowboys in the
American exhibition is the bucking horse.
Buffalo Bill lias some twenty or thirty of
these animals, and proclamation is marie ut
each performance inviting anybody desirous
to make the experiment to mount and ride
a bucker it ho can. Recently n company,
especially favored by Col. Cody, wont up to
tho exhibition between the two perform
ances to see the first Englishman bold enough
to pick up the cowboy s challenge acquitting
himself on tho bacn of the fiery untamed.
This daring rough-rider was mi officer of the
Royal .Marines who had ridden and broken
in similar cuttle in Australia. Attar Col.
Cody had done, the honours of the “Welcome
Club,” established on the promises as a com
pliment to the members of the “Ravage,”
the officer in question put himself astride of
“North Platte," one ot tho least vicious of
the buckors, and prepared to witch tho
world with noblo horsemanship.
Ho *tiii not witch much, however, for
“North Platte” commemvd curvetting, and
in about two minute* the gallant officer whs
buried up to his shoulders in the earth and
tan of the arena. It Was thought his neck
was broken, but he only lost two front teeth,
and stoutly insisted on another trial. He
was so pressing that Buffalo Bill had not the
heart to refuse. This time also he siieceedtsl
in getting into the saddle, but it, was not u
permanent act. Hardly bad lie touched the
leather than he was snot out of it with a
clear fling, which pitched him twenty foot
oil' on the broad of bis liack. A trifle
sliaken, but with his blood up, the gallant
soldier jiersisted till he was allowed a third
essay. This time he failed even to get on
the Imeker’s back. “North Platte" danced
and jumped, and shufllod and dodged, and
made arches and semi circles mid llgures of
eight of himself to that extent that the
would-be rider, quite baffled, bt go the
isimmel, whereupon, quick ns a prizelighter,
the mustang loa|sxl buck for elbow room,
and letting fly with his unarmed hoof, gave
the now would-not-be rider a whaek on the
back which sent him sprawling. He fnihsl
to come up to time, and "North Platte"
was left with an easy victory, having
knocked his man out in three rounds. All,
however, complimented the officer heartily
on his pluck ami perseverance.
Orrr.NnacH. the conqioaer, was a great gam
bler at the roulette, his favorite number being
from superstition -the thirteen. One evening
at tipi the nmutier came seven times, ami Of-
Itfnlff tin* hldl
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1887.
MINISTER HANNA’S TALK.
He Wants a Line of Stoamers to
Buenos Ayres.
Washington, Aug. Hi. —Hon. Bayless
W. Hanna, Minister to the Argentine Re
public, arrived here lust night and en
gaged a suite of rooms at Willard's. At 5
o’eloc’. this afternoon he left for Baltimore,
where he intended to take the steamer for
Buenos Ayres. While laying over at Nor
folk he purposed visiting friends residing at
Newport News. When seen by a Sun rep
resentative this afternoon, Mr. Hanna had
just returned from Oak view, where he had
a very pleasant interview with the Presi
dent. The Minister could not say too much
in praise of the Chief Executive.
“The President looked like a farmer
in love with his business,” he said,
“when I presented myself to him. Ho
f ;reetod me, not as an official subordinate,
nit as though I were an old college crony.
Mr. Cleveland is tho Colossus that strides
our Rhodes. Every step he takes strength
ens his hold upon the people. He is a man
of broad and liberal views, and that does
much toward winning the res]ieet and ad
miration of a democratic people.” Minister
Hanna has been exceedingly busy toslay at
tending to affairs concerning his mission.
Beside calling on the Presi'lent, he spent
some time with Secretary Bayard, with
whom he had a very satisfactory consulta
tion. Speaking of our relations with the
-Argentine Republic, Mr. Hanna said that
it is a matter of regret both with
the authorities of that country
and himself that the United States
is so slow in opening up com
munications with the js-opla of the South.
“The government of Argentine," Minister
Hanna went on to state, “is extremely
friendly to the United States. So great an
admiration have they for our institutions
that they have adopted our form of govern
ment anil our constitution with but few
modifications. The President is elected for
six years and for but one term. They have
a Congress organized as ours Is. Instead of
States they have provinces. In every pos
sible way they have shown their friendship
for us. W hy, England and Germany have
long teen trying to secure an extradition
treaty from the government, but have not
yet succeeded, while I returned here with
un extradition treaty, covering every crime
on the calendar, which has been ratified by
Argentine. I had but little trouble in ac
complishing this, so friendly is the republic
toward this country. There are many
American rascals in Argentine, who will be
turned over to this country as soon as the
treaty is ratified by us unless they escape in
the meantime. Winslow, the embezzler,
formerly of Boston, who is editing tho Her
ald there, could te secured under the terms
of tho treaty if we want him. There are
many others who have reason to fear the
adoption of such a t reaty. The government
of Argentine accords this special favor to
the United States because it desires that
commercial relations should bo established
with us. They aro willing to offer every
inducement to our merchants to open up
trade with theirs. It is now the desire of
Argentine to have a direct mail route lie
tween Now York and Buenos Ayres. They
offer any American company #125,000 per
annum m gold to establish a mail line bo
tween those two cities, having no stops <*n
the Brazil coast. At present tho mail for
Argentine is delivered at Rio Janeiro and
left to the mercy of any vessel going to tho
river Platte. It is my experience that com
merce follows the mails. If some American
steamship company accepts this liberal offer
of the Republic we will soon lie reaping a
harvest. Argentine is strictly a pastoral
country It has no means of manufacture,
being without coal or wood, and it is to our
interest that they should remain so. For
these reasons they devote themselves to the
cultivation of tho soil, the raising of sheep
and cattlo, and other industries of like char
acter. They drive a great trade in hides and
coarse wool, and have lately commenced the
freezing of sheep for exportation. Thoy do
not attempt much in tho way of producing
cereals, for they have uo market for them
within easy reach. With proper attorn
tion, however, they would distance us in the
raising of wheat aiid corn. They can now,
without effort, raise 00 bushels of wheat to
the acre. It is to tho interest of this coun
try to gather in some of this trade. I favor
a literal reduction in the tariff on wool. If
it were made and we had ships plying be
tween this country and Argentine wo would
secure the principal portion of thoir wool
trade. They being without manufactories,
wo could supply them with manufactured
woolen fabrics. A great industry would
thus be opened up in this country, and we
would te the gainers. It is truly to te re
gretted that w ; e are allowing England and
Germany to get Rieir hands on this rich
country. One hundred foreign ves
sels visit Buenos Ayres at regu
lar intervals. Germany leads in
tho trade with Argentine, but there is $181),-
000 of English capital invested in railroads
there. We ought to have an eye open to
our interest there. There is now being built
a railway between Buenos Ayres and Val
paraiso. Chili, which is destined to te the
greatest highway in the world. It obviates
the passage around Terra del Fuego, tlie
most dangerous voyage a vessel could make.
It will open up safe and direct communica
tions with Australia and will lie of immense
advantage to England. We cm hardly
realize the energy of the people of the Ar
gentine. They nave the g.i-alie id-ntiveness
of tho Americans. As an illustration, only
four years ago a town was laid out about
twenty miles from Buenos Ayres. To-day
this town has a cathedral, a magnificent
opera house, and the streets are lighted by
electricity. It. is thriving well and tho
population daily increasing. Tho his
tory of its growth is more marvelous
even than that of any of our West
ern cities. I had nearly forgot that they
also dug out a canal leading from the Platte
river to the town, which is navigable by the
largest of tho ocean steamers. And nil this
in only four years. I have laid all these
matters before the President and Secretary
Bayard. Both warmly favor closer com
mercial relations liotween Argentine und
this country. It is my opinion that the ad
ministration is on the ere of making a
strong effort hi push the South American
trade. They realize its importance, and
will doubtless, if Congress makes tho neces
sary legislation, adopt a jKiliey as to South
American commerce that will add to the
wealth of the United Blates anil at tho same
time be of benefit to the Mouth. There is no
reason why nil the republics should not be
strongly bound together. The Monroe doc
trine is generally respect*! in Mouth
America, and it is my impression that Brazil
will soon tea republic.
“The peoide of Argentine are of the Latin
race; their language is Spanish. Thev live
in greater luxury than any people t. have
ever lieon among, and entertain in a prince
ly manner. They have a weU-otlicered ar
my of I.‘i,()uO men and navy much in ad
vance of ours. They have colleges similar
to our West Point and Annapolis, where
young inon are educated for the’ army and
navy. The discipline there is even more
rigid than at our military and naval schools.
They have free schools supported by a
stiecial tux. The finest school buildings in
the world are in Buenos Ayres They num
ber sixty-seven in that city alone. Idle sys
tern of teaching is that of the Indiana
Normal school. They live in one-story
abodes which cover an extensive area of
ground and arc surrounded by gardens con
taining the most bdhutlful flowers. The ap
pearance of Buenos Ayres is that of a huge
flower garden. I tell you it is a delightful
people and n delightful country, and we
ought to know them better.”
Drowned in the Surf.
Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 21.—Dr. N.
A. Archer, Professor of Hygiene in the
University of Pennsylvania, was drowned
while Kurf-lNithiug at Longport, two miles
below here, to-iluy.
John Brown. 31 years old, residing on a farm
with his mother three miles north of li[**er,
Mich., deliberately pul a bullet through the
polin of his lotiid with a revolver to evade work
He submitted himself to the same ordeal aoout
a year ago, only using ttie other hand as a
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THE IVES COTERIE.
I Facts About the Way They Started
on the Road to Wealth.
New York. Aug. 20.—Ives, Staynor and
| their allies are likely to occupy public at
: tention for some time to come. And, by
! the way, there aro a few facts concerning
these persons which by some chance have
not appeared in public print even if they
aro generally known. Ives, for instance, is
said to have once been a clerk for Harper
<fc Brothers, the publishers. He really began
as a bell Ixiy for Joseph Harper when he was
about 17 years old and later tecame a clerk
in the establishment. But he was a young
eagle in a dovecote. It was too quiet and
peaceful. He wanted to enter that Gehenna
of sjieculative excitement, Wall street, and
he did when lie was about 20 years
old. He was a bright, promising boy with
pleasant, ingratiating manners, and readily
obtained a place. He was with a number
of firms and tho list has never teen bor
rectly stated in print, though, of course, it is
not an important matter. He is said te have
been discharged from one place for dishon
esty. As he grew older, but while still a
clerk, he speculated in fifty and one hundred
shares and bought put* and calls By hook
and by crook he got together enough money
to go into the brokerage business himself,
ami the sequel is that the former bellboy
fails for the nominal sum of #15,000,000.
On one occasion I talked to Ives at his
office for some minute's under the impres
sion that he was one of the clerks. His
office is on the southwest corner of Nassau
ami Cedar streets, within a short distance
from where Aaron Burr otice lived,and with
in a stone’s throw of the site of the ancient
Dutch church, once occupied by the poet
office, and where now stands one of the
finest of the commercial palaces of Now
York. There, by tho way, ex-President
Arthur had his law offices. Nassau street
is one of the oldest thoroughfares in the city;
it was laid out two hundred years ago and
was named in honor of William of Nassau,
or as he is generally known in history,
William 111. of England. Washington,
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr,
Talleyrand, Louis Philippe and Washington
Irving, and in later times Emerson, Gen.
Grant and many others of wide celebrity
have passed slowly along the ancient
thoroughfare, but none in ono sense more
remarkable than the quickly moving young
man of slight build, somewhat under the
medium height, with curly brown hair, a
smooth, innocent faisi, having yet a certain
lurking, sinister suggestion in spite of the
reassuring gold-bowed spectacles seemingly
indicative of tno student at Andover. The
young man lias a courtly address; at
tractive manners ami cordially greets ac
quaintances. He is pointed out as Henry
8. Ives.
Whatever may lie said of him he is not a
snob. Young men of one-tenth of his con
ceded ability net like autocrats, and the
veriest cads, simply because somebody has
left them some money or Ixjcauso they hap
pen to have rich fathers. Ives had nothing
but brains, and adopting Danton's motto of
“Toujours de l’aulnoe”he has made a fortune.
His character is exactly as good as hundreds
of men well known in the financial world.
That is no defense of him; it is the worst
thing that can be said of him. In Wall
street tie is guilty of the unpardonable sin
of iieing caught. The Stock Exchange in
dorsed him when it supposed him anew
power in finance and it greeted his downfall
with cheers. Nothing could more strik
ingly exemplify the character of that insti
tution.
Ives lives in Brooklyn in the height of
luxury He has a colored valet to whom lie
has been in the habit of giving carte blanche
in the matter of expenditures for furnish
ing tile house. Recently this enterprising
colored person bought, I understand, $O,OOO
worth of beautiful decorations,including fine
bronzes, and got a commission of 10 per
cent, on the purchases.
Then there is (ieorge Staynor. The news
papers have said little of his antecedents be
cause they seem to know very little about
him. He came, as is generally known,
from New Loudon, Conn., and is about 00
years of ago. Ho is short, squab, bow-legged
and waddles like Gen. Butler. How did he
get his first starts I haven’t seen a line in
print on this subject. In New London,
some twenty-five years ago, there was one
of those obscure geniuses who have the know
little or nothing of business or the ways of
the world. He invented a lathe for print
ing the filagree engraving on the lineks of
bank nets; it hail a peculiar movement and
it did almost instantaneously what might
take days to do by the old method
which, moreover, was not only slower but
much more expensive. The inventor was
drowned a short time after he had shown
Staynor his invention. Staynor obtained
possession of it and came to New York,
lie went to the office of the American
Rink Note Company and asked for the
President. He was told that that official
was engaged.
“No matter if he is,” was Staynor’s re
sponse. “I wish to see him at onee. I have
something thut I wish to tell him.”
He was admitted and shower! the Presi
dent of tlie company the invention. The
President called the superintendent, who
pronounced it a valuable thing.
“Well," said Staynor, “I’m here to sell
it.”
The President asked how much he
wanted, and he named a good round sum
in cash and a considerable amount in
stork.
“Wo don’t caro to pay so much,” said the
official, anxious to get the invention for little
or nothing.
“All right,” said Staynor. “If you
don't take it others will.” And ho started
to go.
‘‘Holdon!” railed the official when Staynor
had reached the door. “Hold on. Perhaps
we can do better. Give us until to-morrow
to think it over.”
"No, sir,” said Staynor emphatically,
“you must decide to-day.”
Then the head of the company 1 logged for
an hour for consideration. It was given.
On Staynor’s return he was told that the
company would take the [intent, but could
not pnv his price.
“Well, ’ said Staynor, “I’vo got a good
thing and 1 know it. Since I have been out
1 have changed my terms. I will let you
have it at the same amount in cash as I
said before, but you have got to give me
more stock."
They did.
Staynor got his start, became Secre
tary of the company and later drifted into
finance.
Christopher Meyer, who has lieen Ives’
backer to some extent, used to Ins a porter
in this eltv. Ho owes liis fortune to two
wealthy ladies who established him in
the rubber business. Now he is worth $l,-
000,000
It is a strange story. An idle lounger in
n small Connecticut town, a bell hoy in
Harper’* and a porter in a Now York mer
enntilo house. The whirligig of time brings
them in millions. Two drop faint, by the
wayside and one, shrewd old Christopher
Meyer, is enjoying life at Saratoga with a
youiigand beautiful wife. Staynor sits with
bowed head utterly crushed. Ives keeps up
a brave chipper front, hut the mask drops
at t imes and shows a face on which anxiety
and anger st niggle for mastery as he catches
the muttering of a coining storm that may
sweep him into Sing King.
Oscar Willoughby Kiwis.
A Healthy Stomach
Is a hlesssing for which thousands of our dys
peptic country men and women sigh in vain, and
to obtain which swallow iifncli medicine una
vallingly. For no ailment—probably —an.' there
so many alleged remedies as for dyspepsia. The
man of humbug is constantly glutted with the
dollars ami climes of those who resort to one
nostrum nfter another in the vnln ho|M> of nl>
taining relief, .it least, from this vexatious ami
obstinate malady. Experience indicates Ho*
teller's stomach Uiitom as a means of eradica
ting dv*i'ii*ia, in which a th in reliance an be
place,! No remedy has in tints* decades end
over established such a reputation, none has re
ceived such unauaMtied professional sanction.
It is an admirable invigoram. liecniisc it rn
ticiiek the Mood, and not only this, but it thor
oughly regulates tlie dowels.' kidneys and bind
der. The nervous symptoms iv usually 111
WeVMd I,V 1
THE OLD WILD HEN.
The Commercial Traveler Outlines the
Eccentric Career of an Heirloom.
From the Few York Evening Sun.
“I have just received a letter from my
folks at the old homestead. It contains
some bad news," said a commercial trav
eler at breakfast this morning, a.s he showed
the reporter u letter which opened as fol
lows-
Rassom. ?-f irie, Aug. 8, 1887.
Dear Boy, The old wild hen is dead. * * *
Your Mother.
“You needn’t laugh," said the commercial
traveler ros[n-oachfully. "The death of that
old hen wus a great event in our family.
Khe a petite blonde, sly, selffish, und
self-possessed. She was the only surviving
one of eleven debutantes of ten years ago.
She never looked a day olderthau when, a
blithe and trustful pullet, she assumed the
active duties of life by adopting an orphan
door knob. I never shall forget the spirit of
self-denial and persistent mother yearn
ing with which, for six weeks she folded
the unresponsive door knob in her
bosom.
“Then she assumed her place in the world
with an evident determination to drown her
disappointment in the. fierce activities of a
cynic, Ehe became grasping and conscience
lass. She drove an inoffensive duck from
its nest, hatched out the egp herself, and
then murdered her stepchildren. Finally
she developed a habit of hiding her nest in
unheard of places, far from tlio haunts of
men. She didn’t announce her eggs with
the wild manifestations of joy peculiar to
her kind. She would sneak up to the houso
from her nest, and in about four hours she
would suddenly seem to remember that she
had laid the superstructure of an omelette
and burst into a wild prean of rejoicing.
The egg was probably secreted about a mile
from the spot where she seemed first to re
member its occurrence. One day I had a brief
hut busy engagement with a nest of hornets
in a clump of hushes about a mile south by
southeast from the house. I there discovered
that ttie old hen had formed a treaty of
defence with the hornets, under whose villa
sho had deposited her eggs. I was so
surprised and pained at discovering this
alliance that I never went back after the
eggs.
“She got the hens’ rights craze, and was
seized with an abnormal desire to crow.
During this period of her life she licked a
dude jieacock and led an otherwise riotous
career. Hhe saw generation after genera
tion of fowls rise, ilourish a year or two,
and go down to death and the market under
the nom de plumes of spring chickens, but
she defiantly lived on until she became a
relic of the farm, and we learned to love her
as well as one can love such a cold nature.
It must have galled her to die a natural
death. She would have preferred being
killed and sold as a spring chicken, and she
would have cackled with glee at the pros
pect of the pained surprise of the man that
should buy and attempt to eat her ancient
carcass.”
Weather Indications.
Special indications for Georgia:
RAIN Local rains, east to south winds,
I becoming variable, slight changes
in temperature.
Comparison of mean temperature at Savan
nah. Aug. 21, 1887, and the mean of same day for
fifteen years.
Departure ! Total
Mean Tkmperatt re i from the | Departure
1 Mean Since
for 15years;Aug.21.’8".I -1-or Jan. 1,1887.
300 i 80.0 j -0 0 1 - '120.0
Comparative raiufall statement:
. . Departure ! Total
Mean Daily Amount j j rom t j l( , Departure
Amount for for Mean Since
111 Years. Aug. 21 870 or _ j an . j, per.
.36 ! .01 | .25 5.67
Maximum temperature 80.0, minimum tem
perature 77.0.
The height of the river at Augusta at
1:33 o’clock p. m. yesterday (Augusta time)
was 13 9 feet—a rise of 1.0 during the past
twenty-four hours.
Cotton Region Bulletin for 24 hours end
ing tip. m., Aug. 21 1887. 75th Meridian
time.
Districts. | Average.
~ Max. Min. Rain-
NAMB - t P“ l s Temp Temp fall.
1. Wilmington 20 90 70 .02
2. Charleston 8 88 70 .07
3. Augusta 12 88 70 .13
4. Savannah 9 92 72 .38
5. Atlanta 9 H 8 70 04
6. Montgomery 5 92 68 .00
7. Mobile 8 8(5 64 .00
8. New Orleans 7 94 72 .00
9. Galveston 17 98 74 .00
10. Vicksburg 5 91 72 *T
11. Little Rock , 18 96 66 .00
12. Memphis 1 19 94 64 00
Averages
*T denotes trace of rainfall.
Observations taken at tho same moment
of time at all stat ions.
Savannah, Aug. 21. 5:36 p. si., city time.
Temperature.
Direction. !
Veit 'city. H
Rainfall.
Name
or
Stations.
Portland I 66'SW t Cloudy.
Boston (JHjSW Clear.
Block Island 08 SW Fair.
Now York city 72 S j.. Cloudy.
Philadelphia 74 S ; Cloudy.
Detroit 06 W .00 Cloudy.
Fort Buford 50 N TC .01 Paining.
St. Vincent 54 N Cloudy.
Washington city.. 74 SK . .20 Clear.
Norfolk 76 S E 6 . Clear.
Charlotte 70: E .64 Clean
Halteraa !
Titusville 82: N 14 ....Clear.
Wilmington 78 S K . Clear.
Charleston 82 E 14 .16 Clear.
August a 7> E Clear.
Savannah 80 E 1 6‘.... Clear.
.Jacksonville 80 N K Clear.
Cedar Keys H 2 E 10 T* Clear.
by Wm. .. 85 NW 22 .. Cloudy.
Atlanta 70S Ej 8 ... Clear.
Pensacola 81 S ..Clear.
Mobile 82 W C ...Clear
Montgomery 82 E Fair.
Vicksburg 8* Clear.
New Orleans 80 S ' Clear.
Shreveport 82 S E < lear.
Fort Smith Hu 8 ..{ .02 Raining.
Galveston 82 S | 8 .... Clear.
Corpus Christ!— 84 SE 10 .... Clear.
Palestine 00 s 10 ... Clear.
Brownesvllle Hi S K 8 .... Clear.
RioUrando WPS Fl 2 ... Clear.
Knoxville 76 8 W Cloudy.
Memphis* 82 N Clear
Nashville ill nw Fair.
ludiana|>olis 70 ; N Cloudy.
Cincinnati 70 N ... Cloudy.
Pittsburg. 70 NW Clear.
Buffalo 60 S .38 Raining.
CtevcLmd tkJSW .52 Raining.
Man|netU* M NW Clear.
Chicago ON S W Cloudy.
Duluth 00 N E .. Fair.
St. Paul 08 N E ; .08 Cloud/.
Davenport 70 SW clear.
Cairo ho S'.. Clear.
St. Louis 78 s * 10 Fair.
leaven worth.. 70; S .01 Fair.
Omaha 70 . clear.
Yankton 74 NW ~.. Clear.
Bismarck 54 N .. j OS Raining.
Dead wood tJOSW, Clear.
Cheyenne 61 F. 2f. Clear.
North Platte | 72 N . Cloudy.
Dodge City 72 N . j. . Clear.
Santa Ft* GO 8 Clear.
*T denotes trace of rainfa'l.
G. N. Salisbury Signal Corps, U.S. Army.
The canning of fruits and vegetables in Cali
fornia has increased rapidly within the last
few years. It has nearly trebled in a decade,
the pack of last season exceeding 700.6*' cases
and that of 1887 to estimated u no at least 30
per cent larger, making the production nearly
l,tkX>,ooo cases Fully 8 percent of these can noil
goods are marketed east of the Rocky Momi i
tains, not a few of them being wild for direct I
export to Europe.
Vice President Wheeler, of the jEtna Life
Insurance Company, has in his grounds at Hart
ford. Conn., a hnuaua tree, from which he daily
cuts the ripe fruit. It In 5 years old, and has all
the luxuriance of the pl.uits growing in a trop I
leal climate. The flavor is very dlFerent from I
i/nxmi itnnnrtnf imifc nt I .* ♦!-
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
SMITH The friends and Acquaintance of Mr.
and Mrs A. E. Sipith, are respectfully invited to
attend the funeral of their youngest daughter,
Freddie, from their residence. 100 Überty
street, THIS AFTERNOON at 4:30 o'clock.
WRIGHT—The friends and acquaintance of
Mr. and Mrs Edward Wright and Mr. and Mrs.
.John F. Snyder are invited to attend the funeral
services of the former from his late residence,
Bismarck street, five doors froinOgeechee, THIS
AFT ERN( >ON at I o’elock.
Columbia, S. C. papers pleas* 31 copy.
MEETINGS.
DeKALB LODGE NO. I>, I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting will lie held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at H o'clock.
The Third I>egree will l>e conferred.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
an* cordially invited to attend.
Ry order of H. W. RALL, N. G.
John Riley, Secretary.
< YLAVI HE LODGE NO. -JS, li. OF P.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will
be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at h /t W A
o'clock. Meinlers of other Lodges in
vited toatttend. Knight’s rank w ill beggj t£g&J
conferred \3SS3r
J. GARDNER, C. C.
Wm. Falconer, K. of R. and S.
HILTON LODGE NO. 2, F. A. M.
You are hereby summoned to api>ear A
at your Lodge room corner of Bay and
Lincoln streets, on MONDAY, August
22 at. 2:80 o’clock r. m., to pay the' *
hist tribute of respect to our deceased brother
Edward Wright. Members of sister Lodges
are fraternally invited. By order of
I. M. DOWSE, W. M.
Attest: Milton G. Robertson, Sec'y.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
PARIS GREEN,
LONDON PURPLE,
PATENT WATER CANS,
—AND—
FOUNTAIN PUMPS
For applying same.
A cheap and sure method of destroying cot
ton worms.
Send orders or correspond with
WILLIAM M. BIRD it CO.,
205 East" Bay. Charleston S. C.
NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS.
City of Savannah, i
Office Clerk of Council, Aug. 20, 1887. f
During the succeeding ten days, required to
make necessary repairs to the large pump at the
Water Works, the small pump will lie relied
upon to furnish our citizens with water, and in
order to assist the Water Works Department in
maintaining as much pressure as possible,
water takers are requested to desist from sprink
ling the streets, and are also earnestly requested
to coniine their use of water to their act ual ne
cessities.
By order of the Mayor, pro tern.
FRANK E. REBARER,
Clerk of Council.
METROPOLITAN SAVINGS v.NDLO AN CO.
The first semi-annual dividend will be payable
to stock holders on and after MONDAY, the 22d
day of August, 1887, at the office of the Treas
urer, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and
2 o'clock p. m.
H. C. DAVIS, Treasurer.
NOTICE—FOR RAFFLE.
R. N. Stunt’s Horse, Buggy and Harness will
be raffled on MONDAY NIGHT, 22d inst., at
Charles F. Graham’s Restaurant, at 8 o’clock.
Those holding chances will please take notice.
NOTICE TO WATER-TAKERS.
OFFICE WATER WORKS, 1
Savannah. Aug. 18, 1887. (
There will be a reduced supply of water to
consumers for the next ten or twelve days,
owing to the necessity of using the small engine
while connecting the larger pump ends to the
large engine.
A. N. MILLER, Superintendent.
DR. HENRY S COLDI.YG,
DENTIST.
Office comer Jones and Drayton streets.
NOTICE
Central Railroad Bank. 1
Savannah, Ga., August 8, 1887. j
I am instructed by the Board of Directors to
notify the public that this bank is prepared to
do a general hanking business and solicits ac
counts. T. M. CUNNINGHAM,
Cashier.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS^
Office of The Brcsii Electric Light and 1
Power Cos., Room and!),Odd Fellows' Hall, v
Sava. -oi, Ga., Aug. 18, 1887. \
The subscribers to the stock of this company
are notified that the first installment of 50 per
cent, is due and payable at this otlice.
A prompt response is necessary.
SAMUEL P. HAMILTON,
President and Treasurer.
IL.MER’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 bo
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 ROUSE,
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 iiapers 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 ami committees, nre
requested to get estimates from the MORNING
NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE before send
ing their orders abroad. J. 11. ERTILL.
State
OF
Weather.
PRINTER AN D BOOKBINDER.
NICHOLS— JOB PRINTING.
NICHOLS— BINDING.
NICHOLS —BLANK BOOKS.
NICHOLS —GOOD WORK.
NICHOLS— FINK PAPER.
NICHOLS —LOW PRICES.
NICHOLS—9.'U bay street.
I’OIC SALE.
FOR SALK.
\FINK TEN-ROOM. TWO-STORY UEBI
DLNiT hi city of Griffin, Ga. Ifodarti
Rtvlc. Hcven ncre lot, excellent win nr. qnnd
orchard and grape* In ton ndnubM walk of
centre of city. Stahl*, onrrlngo hounc und
kitchon. Small pond .n lot Addr**** H .
v n iinv’Dk oum.. .
MILLINERY.
ltd letter tops
0
Are Laid to Rest Against These
Boldly Outlined Facts.
PLATSHEK’S
1.18 BROUGHTON STREET,
The Controllers and Originators, Pro
claim in the Blackest Type Ever
Printed,a Bona Fide List of
WIDE .EYE-OPENERS
<1
Plucked from the Newest and Freshest Con
solidated Lines with but one view,
that of reducing our stock.
500 yards 3-inch wide Linen Torchon Lace,
hand made, BUc.; was 15c.
35 dozen Children's solid shad- and black
ribiied Hose, white feet, 12(Ac per pair; was 20e.
20 dozen Children’s Ribbed Lisle Hose, solid
shades, was 50c.; now- at 35c. per jiair.
1,500 Children's good Cambric Handkerchiefs,
with colored borders, at 2e. each.
1,000 I-a.lies’ pure Linen, special size and Hem
stitched Handkerchiefs, our former 25c. goods,
now down to lZujc., in white, mourning and col
ored borders.
600 mirs Ladies’ pure Silk Jersey Mitts, in 8
to 12 button lengths, in all shades, reduced to
63c.; were sl, i! 25. Si 80.
Odds and ends in Silk Gloves for Ladies and
Misses at surprising reductions.
85 dozen Ladies’ 4 ply clerical shape Linen
Collars with cape, our former 20c. collars, re
duced now to 10c.
All those Ladies’ extreme high Collars, with
straight and turn edges, formerly 25c., now at
15c.
50 dozen of the finest modeled Corsets, ex
travagant silk stitching, bone filled and extra
long, reduced to 7>oc. from 87c.; all sizes.
100 dozen Ladies' broad rim and high crown
rough and ready Straw Hats, in white and black,
only 25c.: worth 50e.
30 dozen Ladies’ rough and ready Straw Sail
ors, in white and black, at 25c.
IYF~Don’t Delay for the old rule holds good,
FIRST COME, Etc.
Grand Catches in Every Department.
EXCURSIONS.
Charleston & Savannah Ky.
I! I'or Monts!
Through Pullman Service.
COMMENCING June 12th a through Pullman
Buffet service will l>e rendered daily l>e
tween Savannah and Hot Springs, N. C., via
Spartanburg and Ashville.
Jjeave Savannah 12:26 pm
Leave Charleston 4:66 pm
Ijeave Columbia 10:20 p m
Arrive Spartanburg 2:20 am
Arrive Asheville 7:00 am
Arrive Hot Springs 9:00 am
EXCURSION RATES.
To SPARTANBURG isl3 30
To ASHEVILLE. 17 15
To HOT SPRINGS 17 15
Sleeping car reservations and tickets good
until Oct. 31st, 1887, can he had at BREN'S
TICKET OFFICE, Bull street, and at depot.
E. P. McSWINEY,
Gen. Pass. Agt.
SUMMER RESORT'S.
House
TYBEE IL’LAND, GEORGIA.
SEA BATHING unsurpassed on the Atlantic
coast. Comfortable rooms, neatly fur
nished. Fare the best the market affords.
Bathing suits supplied. Terms moderate.
GE >. \). ill >i>GES, Proprietor.
NEW YORK BOARD.
\ AND 1,707 Broadway, corner 54th.
• 4 v) House kert by a Southern lady: loca
tion desirable. Refers by permission to CoL
John Screven, Savannah.
r PHOUSAND ISLANDS.—Westminster Hotel,
1 Westminster Park, Alexandria Bay, N. Y.—
“Unquestionably the finest location in tha
Thousand Islands.' I — Harper's Magazine, Sept.,
I SHI. Send for descriptive pumphlet. H. F.
INGLEHART, Proprietor.
HOTELS.
Fifth Avenue Hotel,
MADISON SQUARE, N. Y.
r pHE largest, best appointed, and most liber
ally managed hotel in the city, with the most
central and delightful location.
HITCHCOCK. DARLING &
A. B. DARLING, formerly of the Battle House,
Mobile.
HlltAM HITCHCOCK, formerly of the St.
Charles Hotel. New Orleans.
NEW HOTEL TOGN L,
(Formerly St. Mark’s.)
Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla
WINTER AND SUMMER.
r PHE MOST central House in the city. Near
1 Pest Office, Street Cars and ull Ferries.
New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bells,
Baths, Etc. $2 50 to 83 per day.
JOHN B. TOGNLJrt^^w^
MARSHALL HO ITSE,
SAVANNAH, - - GA.
f'F.O. D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of
' "T the Metreuxditan Hotel. New Yorfc, and the
Grand Union, Saratoga Springs. Location cen
tral All parts of tho city and places of inter
est accessible by street cars constantly passing
the doors. Sjiccial inducements to those visit
ing the city fo* justness or pleasure.
DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE.
r PHIS P< PUI* Alt Hotel is now provided with
Ia Passenger Elevator (the only one in the
city) and has been remodeled And newly fur
nished The pro| irietor, who by recent purchase
is also the owner of the establishment, spare®
neither pains nor expense in the entertainment
of his guests The patronage of Florida visit
ors is earnestly invited. The table of the
Screven House is supplied with every luxury
tlmi t he markets at home or abroad can afford.
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
One of tbo Largest Boarding Houses in tho
South.
VFFORDB pleasant South ri>oms. good hoard
with ivire Artesian Water, at prices tosuit
tho* * wishing table, regular or transient accom
modations. Northeast corner Broughton and
Drayton streets, opposite Marshall House.
FOR SALE.
HOUSES AND LOTS
IjH>R SALE on reoMounble terms. Apply U.
WM. JIbUIUN, on Huntingdon, between
Price anil East Broad fttreet*.
FOR SAIiU
J iOSSESSION given Oct. Ist, that desirabls
Residence southeast corner of Gaston and
Ahercorn streets. For terms apply to HENRY
m nv si...', 0.. 11*11*,.,