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PURCHASABLE POLICE.
IHEY APPEAR TO BE PLENTIFUL
IN NEW YORK CITY.
A Sunday Incident at a Saloon-Re
turning New Yorkers How Hotel
Clerks Distinguish Men From Dif
ferent Cities.
New York, Sept. 17. —A party of gentle
men sat drinking wine in a west side saloon
a few Sundays ago. They had entered it
through a side door and a narrow dark hall
way, supposed to be known only to regular
patrons. The bouncer stood at the door to
koep out strangers. Nearly every first-class
saloon employs a bouncer on Sundays. He
is supposed to know every regular customer
of the place. While the wine drinkers
were sampling their second bottle two fash
ionably dressed men sauntered up to tho
side door with an air of assurance and were
refused admittance. They looked astonish
ed, said they were regular habitues of the
place and insisted on going in. The bouncer
reluctantly let them pass. They sat down
at a table and ordered and drank some
whisky. Then one of them approached the
proprietor of the plaee. uubuti on*i bis vest
and revealed a shield. He and his compan
ion were special detectives on the look out
for violators of the Sunday closing law.
The proprietor scarcely changed counten
ance when he discovered the nature of their
mission, although his arrest meant the loss
of his license and the ruination of his prof
itable business. He and the officer with the
shield held a brief parley, the other officer
standing by as a witness.
“You are not going to arrest me?” said
the proprietor.
“I must,” insisted the officer. “They are
so strict now in enforcing tho closing law
that I can't help it.”
Tiie proprietor smiled and invited the of
ficer to stop in a back room. The two soon
emerged; the officer nodded to his compan
ion, and they went out. No arrest was
made. When they were gone the proprie
tor looked happy as he sat down among the
wine drinkers and said: “It only cost me
$25 this time. When the license fee was $75,
the regular rate of getting immunity
from arrest when one of those fellows
caught you was Si'),but when the license was
raised to *2OO, and a disposition shown to
enforce tho law more strictly, I ha-1 to pay
*SO. ”
C “Why don't you complain of those men?”
asked one of the wine drinkers. Tho pro
prietor turned pale at the very suggestion,
and said: “It would ruin mo. 1 would be
lr.i it > 1 out o" b ninest in a month. One
liquor dealer in New York tried it and was
driven to the wall. He had been putting up
$.50 a week to a siiecial o!H -er, who finally
raised the sum to iIOO a week. That was
more than he could stand and lie refused to
come down any more. In a month his place
was closed.”
One of the party of wine imbibers, who
was a stranger in New York, expressed sur
prise at what he had heard, and the proprie
tor proceeded to tell him of tho methods of
some of the officers who see to the enforce
ment of tiie Sunday closing, or under cer
tain conditions are blind to it. “Under
stand,” he said, “I do not say that all these
special officers arc blackmailers, but my
cash account shows that some of them are,
and I know several dealers who have had
the same experience. It coits me alxiut, SSO
a month to keep those fellows at bay. Some
times one of them will drop in of a week-day,
make himself known and say: “Give me a
paper of tobacco. I want one of those prize
packages.” Wo know what a prize package
means. I wrap up the tobacco in a $lO bill
and hand it to the fellow, who goes away
satisfied for the time being. Tties ' precinct
detectives who were just in here are not na
iler the direct control of the Inspector but of
the Captain. Besides two special detectives
in each precinct there is the special excise
officer. If he is inclined to be crooked iw
is more to be feared than tho precinct do
fcective*. He is detailed from some squad
and sent into a precinct where he is not
known, and instructed to arrest violators of
the excise law. If he is fortunate enough
to get into a precinct where there ore 80>)
or more saloons, he reaps a rich harvest.
The crooked precinct detectives, who are in
pairs, huve to divide, but your special excise
officer, who goes alone, i as ail he can make.
I know one of them whose operations be
came so bold that he hud to resign. Shortly
after he left the force he bought a fine
house and had capital enough left to go in
to business. The” proprietors of small places
have to put up $lO, or, perhaps, as little as
$5. to keep from lieiug led to the station
house when one of these law enforcers In
citizens’ clothes catches him. 1 once knew
a poor saloonist. to get off for $2 5), but tho
enforcer was in a hurry to get homo and the
saloonist was inclined to lie obstinate. In
entering places like this the officers disguise
themselves in the garb of well-dressed men
about town, but wuen sent over oa the east
side an excise offi vr will put on overalls and
play the working man racket. The saloon
ist ttiinks it hard to refuse an honest labor
ing man a drink, he admits the fellow and
pretty soon discovers that the workingman
wears line linen under his rough clothes and
a shield on his suspender. You know the
law provides that we must clone at 1 o’clock
in tne morning on week days. 1 once
knew a policeman who used to make a good
thing for himself on his day olf by going
about in citizens’ clothes and pretending to
arrest saloonists whose places were open af
ter 1 o'clock in the morning. Another dodge
the crooked law enforcers have is to cornu
around and borrow $.5. to be returned when
they get their pay. \Ve never expert to
see it n„ain ana we don’t.”
A few weeks ago a reporter hud a striking
illustration of the fact that one New Yonc
policeman will take a bribe. The reporter
lia l been detailed to write up a big fire on
tiie Hayniarket. He had left the office in too
great haste to get tiie fire badge which each
reporter must wear to get through the fine
of police surrounding a big fire. He ex
plained the in itter to a burly policeman,
who gruffly said:
“Ye can t go through.”
The reporter insisted and the policeman
was obstinate but finally ho turned upon
the news gatherer with a knowing leer and
said:
“iiet’s sec if you’re worth tho price of a
drink.”
The reporter was entirely solvent, lie led
the way to a saloon and set ’em up for the
representative of the majesty of the law.
who had no sooner gulped down liis grog
than he said:
“Now give us ‘nothcr.”
The second drink was forthcoming and
down going, and then the officer issued the
edict:
“Now you tuay pass the fire line.”
Amos J. Cummings.
11.
A New Yorker in the streets of his nativo
city is now a common sight. Everytxxly is
returning to town. The streets are ’ blocxud
by express wagons piled to mountainous
height with trunks, blinds are being thrown
oiien from one end of town to the other, and
there is a general air of dust., stiruud excite
ment. During the past two mouths the
streets presented a strangely unfamiliar
look. While it is no longer possible to pie,
out a (State from which n strange.• halls
from his npix-nraiMv mi Broadway, and
while the bucolic aud suburban visitor bus
been vastly and perceptibly toned up dur
ing the jxist throe rears, there is st ill a de
cided difference between a native New
Yorker and a man from out of town. Ho
tel clerks claim that they can detec: even yet,
tiie difference between a New Yeiker and
a Bostonian or Philadelphian at sight, hut 1
doubt if their judgment is infallible.
What lias struck me particularly in noticing
the visitors Iron out or town is tli" fact
that the hack country contingent is far le-s
iwtalt by-looking t utu the native* of New
York as regards the women. One dty in
August 1 sat lor two hours in a window ut
the Hoffman House and watched 5,n0 I jmm>
nle, more nr leas, file slowly by. I was wait,
ing for an incoming steutier and I forgot
ail alxiut the im|s‘Hding arrival while
watching tiie crowd. Not more than 10 per
cent, were nalives. There was a lack of ro
bustness and vigor aliout the women that
was startling when compared with the
square-shoularred. straight, athletic and
handsomely built New York girls. The vis
itors were nearly all round shouldered, tlat
] across the chest and of wabbling gait. This
j effect may in..some instances have been duo
|to bad dressmakers and iil-fltting gowns,
I but in the majority of instances there was a
deed led lank of rouudness and fullness in
the figure. All of this was doubtless the ef
of wsrlv and overwork. I doubt if any
•f women have exerted themselves
in working for their husbands
auJ brother-, than the New York girls have
in working for pleasure or fun, but there is
a difference in using the muscles in washing
dishes and leaning over a wash tub on ona
hand and playing temvs, riding spirited
horses and yachting on the other. To play
j tennis a girl must stand straight and throw
| her arms over her head in a manner that de
velops the muscle of the chest and back and
forces her to stand in a graceful and erect
manner. In the same way horseback exer
cise, aud yachting bring color to the Sheeks
and build up health in the open air. The
effect of these pastimes is just as surely dis
cernible in the stunning and spirited ap
pearance of New York girls as tho effect of
long hours, of laborious toil and much stoop
ing over household duties is patent in the
daughters of the more remote towns, whoare
obliged to take hold of the working
end of life before they are fully devel
oped.
Ido not think that the New York men
have kepi pace with their sisters in the mat
ter of physical development. There is a
great deal of talk about the influence of the
various athletic associations and of the mili
tia organizations in building up the figures
-> f the youth of New York, but in point of
“act, excepting in very pronounced cases,
the youth of New York is not a spectacu
lar success. The prevalence of flat chests,
skinny legs and round-shoulders among tiie
natives here are not to bo gainsaid. The
high and rapid living of the men of a gen
eration ago is seen in their sons of to-day.
The sons will not pullout of the rut, and it
all points to tho degeneracy in the physical
future of New York men. At a Delmonico
ball or at the opera the number of puny,
undersized and unhealthy looking men who
walk alxiut escorting magnificent wives and
daughters is notable. Some of the women
are almost ablaze with youth, beauty and
perfect health, while their husbands and i
brothers walk at their sides, smaller in build
and lower in stature, pallid, and unhealthy
looking and vastly inferior in every (ihysi
cal point. But the men from out of town
who have kept New York streets alive dur
ing the past two months are apparently
made of sturdier stuff. Their coats may not
fit to perfection, but it only takes half an
(■ye to see beneath the folds square-should
ers, deep chest, and the big bunches of mus
cles that can contribute more to a man’s ap
pearance than all the tailors in the world.
Blakely Hall.
HOME OF THE INSANE.
The Legislative Investigating Com
mittee's Work.
Milledgeville, Sept. 18. —The general
joint committee of both Houses of the Leg
islature, Senator R. H. Jackson, chairman,
resumed their labors at the asylum yester
day, and having finished their investigation
adjourned at 4 o’clock this afternoon. They
have made a careful investigation of the
management of the institution and,
us charges had been made reflecting
upon the private character of the
officers, those charges were sifted to tiie
very bottom and found to be unfouude 1.
Small matters which, at a casual glance,
may have appeared to be grounds upon
which to base some charges, were examined
into and so clearly explained that they
amounted to nothing, but which was neces
sarily compelled to occur in a large Insti
tution.
An erroneous opinion seem3 to have ob
tain jd, that this committee had been ap
pointed to investigate certain charges made
by the chairman of the House Investigating
Committee. Such, however, is not the ease,
as this committeo was upixnnted solely for
a general investigation of the asylum, its
m magement and its needs, and these
charges, so made, only came up incidentally
in a general and complete investigation.
The effects upon the institution that the ten
tin itoe bill, if carried, might produce, was
inquired into, and although the committee
has not made any report, the impression
is that tho facts it obtained were hostile to
the bill.
Hon. F. G. dullignon, Solicitor General
of the Savannah Court, testified before the
committee and expressed liis opinion as de
cidedly opposed to tho changing from five
to ten trustees. Besides the risk of bring
ing the asylum into politics, there were
otnor patent reasons against it, most promi
nent among which would lxi the impossi
bility of getting them together as often as
necessary, and (Specially in cases of emer
gency. The small local board has proven
competent aud satisfactory.
The Beau ies of American Divorce.
From the New York Sun.
The open handed generosity with which
Western courts distribute divorce papers
brought Mrs. Ruth Lehrbaum to grief in
Castle Garden yesterday. Hhe arrived in
the country with her 9-year-old dnughter
in August, and has been on Ward’s Island
since, waiting to hear from lior husband.
Hhe was sent lor yesterday and told that
her husband had got a divorce from her.
Her grief was pitiable. Tho couple had
partial lovingly three years ago in their
native country, and her husband went to
Columbus, O.
Agent Jnworower of the United Hebrew
Charity Society has been in communication
with tiie husband. The husband hid three
of liis children with liim, and offered to
take the 9-year-old daughter if her mother
could not provide for her. The mother
thought a longtime before she decided to
part with her daughter. She was too jxxir
and forlorn to interfere witli the child’s
welfare.
Tho parting came yesterday. A tag was
put around the child’s ixs-k, tolling her des
tination, she sobbed in her mother’s arms,
and then she was carried away. Tho He
brew Society will try to get a place for tho
mother.
A Farmer Fighting a Railroad.
A unique light is non- going on between
the Evansville and Indianoplis Railroad and
J. C. Ralmer, a wealthy farmer near Wasli
iugton, Ind. The road is built along the
line of the old U'ubasli and Erio canal, which
was abandoned by the trustees twenty-five
years ago. When the canal was abamlonel
iiio land reverted to the former owners.
Notwithstanding this and the fact that
twenty year’s p.*- " .eon gives a valid title
the canal trustees soil the property rights
an 1 franchises to Mackey, of Ev.uisv.lle,
and he sold to the ruilroud company. When
the road came to be built, however, the
farmers refused to allow tiie line to cross
their farms, but the company used force
and completed the road. In' 1 vC> Palmer
got a temporary injunction, which was
made perpetual in isstl, and under it he
is arresting the train hands from day to
day iu) they try to run trains across his
land, and seems to lie in a fair way to ship
the operation of the 1*08(1. Hu now has it
number of conductors, engineers and brake
nten under bonds.
Misery After Eating
Is avoided by dyspeptics who, guided by the re
corded experience of thousands, begin ami ays
tematically pursue a course of Hostetter's Stem*
aeh Hitter*. fVrsistcnoe In the us* of this pun*
and highly accredited stomachic is the sole and
agreeable condition of the entire removal of I In*
obstinate forms of dyspepslu, no less tliinu
temporary lit of indigestion. In conmvtlon
with ta * use of this N|**i*lHc. it Is deslra Me to
•void urtlcbis of find which individual exjs-rh
ence huh Known to Is* dittleult of digedlon, by
tin* atomaeli sought lo Is* Isoiofltod Knelt d.vs
|s*ptic |ist oiMorvation of ins digesilve c
pin-lty mlioiil I enable nun tots* Ids own guide
uud mentor in tins particular, not trusting to
uny set of dletetie rule* too general to lie Mine.!
to particular ( Uses lllliousaess and rimsllps
lion, lc;jrloiirn, win I upon tiie stoma *h. sour
erietathma. hnadjctw* and ment • I despoil,lenry,
are among the coucomlt of s of dysp.'itsis, and
w * cut it lo high! Ur IM Hitters.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1887.
BONNETS AND BONNET BUILDERS.
j A Topic That is Dear to the Average
Woman’s Heart.
New York, Sept. 17.—“D0 you know
who wears tho best bonnet in New York?”
“Mrs. Willie Astor, perhaps, or Mrs.
Burk"-Roche?”
“They know a good bonnet when they see
it and so dix*s Mrs. Frederick Jones, but for
an infallible judge of headgear commend
me to Mrs. Marshall l Roberts. She never
makes a mistake; her bonnets are gems.
She buys from thirty to forty every year,
and her milliner’s bill runs well up into the
l thousands.”
This scrap of conversation took place in
! my presence ut a private exhibition of
“Parisian models” in the parlor of u higb
| priced uptown establishment. “Miss Adele
Grant is more beautiful in a bonnet than
without one,” the first speaker went on,
“because she understands perfectly just
what tints and shapes will make a charming
setting for her charming face. That is
where she gets an advantage over the Bos
ton beauty, for Mrs. Winslow persists in
wearing cold colors that do not warm up
her skin. Mrs. Coleman Drayton is always
well bonneted. Mrs. Edith Ivingdon Gould
has spent an immense amount of money on
bonnets tiie past yoar. Dora Wheeler, the
artist, designs a great many of her own bon
nets, and they couldn’t well be improved on.
Mrs. Gilder, wife of R. W. Gilder, of the
Century, has exquisite taste in bonnets, and
Mrs. Helm, Helen Dauvray’s sister, is a con
noisseur in that line. A bonnet is a work
of art now-a-days. It takes an artist to de
sign it and an artist to choose it for you. Yet
millinery ns a whole is better now than it
ever was before.”
There are 10,000 milliners in New York
and Brooklyn; about one bonnet builder to
every fifty adult women. Ten years ago an
artistic milliner was something of a rare
bird. To-day it is safe to say the best New
York milliners are hardly excelled in the
world. The imported bonnet is still l.xiked
upon by society women as tin; model of
what a bonnet ought to lie, but in spite of
the continuous growth of wealth and dress
expenditure, imported bonnet > have appre
ciably diminished in number in the past five
years.
“Your bonnet is in the custom house,
Mrs. Browne; it came by La Champagne,
but tiie steamer was late in getting in and
1 those officials are so tiresome that I don’t
expert to see ray goods before this time to
morrow. So sorry to disappoint you.”
Mrs, Browne looked vexed as well as dis
appointed. “ Isn’t that too dreadful? I
had my plans all made to start for Lenox
to-night, but there’s no use goiug witiiout
that carriage bonnet from Virot. Do send
it round the instant it comes in.”
At this point, in an actual discussion not
many days since, Theophile, the little French
milliner’s little boy who had just trotted out
from the penetralia of tiie work rooms, eatne
to the rescue of both parties with the zeal of
an enfant terrible. “They are trying it on,
Maman,” was wbat he said, “Estelle has
it just finis.”
Loss than an hour later, in a fashionable
millinery show room, I noticed a blonde
beauty enjoying unalloyed bliss in the con
templation of a dainty thing in blue and
gold. “You don’t need to tell me, Madame,”
she said, turning to the waiting milliner,
“that this is French. There is nobody in
America who could have given such a droop
to that feather.”
Tiie milliner said nothing and the brown
eyed girl who had arranged the droop of
that feather and a great many other equally
important feathers stood ut my side and
smiled.
So much is expected of a bbftnet now-a
days that a competent bonnet maker has a
trade requiring not skilled labor merely,
but artistic capabilities, and, for no small
numlier of crafts women, an apprenticeship
longer and more severe than the average
doctor or lawyer undergoes in the profes
sional schools. Millinery, indeed, has grown
into a profession, a difficult profession, but
one which, wlion mastered thoroughly, pays
a woman txitter than almost any wage earn
ing punmit she can enter.
To become a first-class workwoman re
quires from six to seven years’ time. Ac
cording to tiie figures given me by the head
of the largest establishment in New York,
it is worth from $lB to S3O a week for medi
ocre to good hands, SSO to $7.5, or even high
er figures for trimmers and designers of ex
ceptional talent.
I sjient an hour yesterday in a millinery
workroom where some sixty women are
employed, and watched the evolution of a
round hat. The raw material of a hat is its
frame, and this went first through tho Hands
of tho chief designer.
“This is a French model,” she said, “and
altogether tixi low-crowned and flat-rimmed.
French fashions jump from one extreme to
another; last season hats were high, this sea
son they must be low. That is Parisian
doctrine, hut in modifying it for American
tastes one must shade off a little more gradu
ally.” A few touches of the scissors and
manipulations with the fingers gave the
inchoate hat a more jaunty and tip-tilted
look, and then it wont to a miss in her teens
with long yellow braids of hair wno sat by
herself at a window.
“I saw wires about the brims of hats and
straw bonnets,” she told me. I have been here
eight months and they are just beginning to
lot me put in silk linings,” snipping some
lengths of brown silk for the purpose. Tho
hat, whoso fate I was watching, went from
her hands to those of a pretty girl somewhat
older and with noaviy two years’ expu-ience
who faced it daintily witli velvet. It was
thou passed to a milliner proper, as the word
is used in a somewhat restricted technical
sense, who prepared it for the trimmer. The
milliner put a band of piieusa.lte’s plumage
about the rim and covered the crown with
a glossy plush, blending shades of brown,
bronze and olive to match the feathers. T 10
milliner was a piquant brunette. She had
been at work nearly four years and aspired
shortly to become a trimmer. This im
portant personage, who keeps about four
milliners busy supplying liar with material,
received the Hat ias't of all, mounted it on
the ends of her fingers, gazed at it reflect
ively a minute, and then proceeded to con
coct a bow which she planted in exactly tho
right place on the front and pronounced it
done.
The little apprentice girl who sews wires
doesn’t earn above $2 or $3 a week. The
older girl, who can be trusted to cut velvets
and plumes for facings, is paid anywhere
from yti to $lO. The milliner, who is often
u woman who lioiiod to be a trimmer, but
never develops ability enough for that grade
of the profession, does nothing hut pot the
outer cover of lace or beads or plush upon
a bonnet, and is paid from $lO to sl4. A
trimmer has to have inventive gifts and lx<
something of a designer. If she has genius
in tins line she can name li*r own wages.
“This is Mrs. Ilieks-Lord,” said my guide,
performing the Introduction to a quiet girl
who was grouping some fly-away feathers
on a Gainslxuougli “We* end tier so ‘be
cause she makes Mr# Hicks Lord’s bonnets.
Some trimmers make quiet bonnets, some
dressy ones, and we apportion things among
them accordingly, it is curious,” site went
on, “toseeliow tlieuatamalitlesaredivideJ.
Germans, as a rule, liuvm’t u good color
sense. Jewesses dross with exquisite taste
when they have money, but there are almost
no gixxl milliners among them. American
girls ure quics at anything, but Irish girls
are perhaps the best of till. All good mil
liners are of an emotional, warm hearted
disposition. Perhaps that, is because they
liuvo to have something of the artistic tem
perament to succeed at ail 'Fleaaaut
work f Yes. it is lighter than dressmaking
and tiie materials are pretty to handle, but
it is not. easy. One is racking o.e’a brains
for something entirely new ail tiie time.’’
Millinery is becoming so much of u fine
art that ft attracts ix-tter educated girls I
every year. It is going to lw a profession I
to which it will pay them to turn their time
and attention in preference to teaching. Ii |
offers a competence to many, a fortune to
some. Mine. Connelly was u seamstress for
tiie Living,tones till they set her up in busi
ness. Hhe is worth Imlf a million now*
Eliza i*. Heaton, j
Dili you cull met i knew that IxMorc.
That II H licvy A Brn. ure slaughtering 1
K<*nU’ *uoi nee lurnisiiUig* a.id neckwear? i
A FINANCIAL SEA DOG.
Some Interesting Point3 About a Man
Well-known in 3 ivannah.
New York, Sept 17.—One of the Wall
street men who, within the last few years,
has leaped into sudden celebrity is Commo
dore Arthur E. Bateman. He used to be a
clerk in the Treasury Department at Wash
ington with a salary of $1,490 a year. Now
he is worth a million or more and Commo
dore of the New York Yacht Club. He is of
the medium height, well built, dark com
plexioned.witb strong features, and nervous,
off band manners, suggestive of sailor like
heartiness. Ho is a man of strong will, quick
mentally and physically aud endowed
with the positive characteristics which win
friends while they also make some enemies.
Jay Gould recently gave an unwonted ex
hibition of temper "in referring to the per
sistent “coppering” of his bull talk on the
market, under the belief that he was really
a bear aiding Commodore Bateman and his
followers in their assaults on the market.
Mr. Gould said that if the alleged misrepre
sentations of his position did not cease he
would “hang someone on the fence.” The
bulls claimed that lie referred in this threat
ening manner to Commodore Bateman.
There is no doubt that Mr. Bateman has
been very successful on the bear side of the
market for some time past, and as lie lias
stepped upon the toes of bulls who had pet
stocks to protect, considerable bitterness uas
been aroused against him. Mr. Gould,
however, probably referred to a number of
persons.
Who is Commodore Bateman?
He is only about 30 yoars of age, and has
had ail int< resting career. Ho was bom in
the town of Attica, Ind.. and was. perhaps,
the wildest boy in the place. Attica was
too small to hold the precocious youngster,
and when only 11 years of age, ho ran away
from home and went down to see the Union
soldiers. Tho North was just gathering it
self in grim earnest for tho terrible struggle
with the Confederacy. A year later young
Bateman started with a party of teamsters,
and took the trip overland in “prairie
schooners” to Hanta Fe, N. M. He secured
his passage by gathering wood for the cook
and feeding the mules. He Came back a
year later working Ills passage in the same
way and then enlisted in the navy. He was
only 14 years old, but hardy, self
reliant and courageous. He en
tered the revenue marine service as
an apprentice boy, and worked his way up
to Second Lieutenant But lie wanted to
lie rich, and as to become so in the treasury
service would require a lifetime longer by a
hundredfold than that of the ancient patri
archs, ho doterminixi to strike out for him
self in another direction. He established a
stock brokerage office in Washington in
ISBI on a capital of less than $2,500, and
was so successful that in 1884 he came to
New York. Ho has been singularly for
tunate.
He has been a speculator to some extent
in reul estate. Witli John W. Thompson
and Washington McLean he has speculated
in property on Massachusetts avenue and
elsewhere in Washington. He takes more
or less interest in polities, and is a personal
friend of Benator Sherman and his brother,
Gen. W. T. Sherman. The Hon. Warner
M. Baker, of Cincinnati, is his uncle.
He believes in taking recreation when
ever a fitting opportunity arises, and in his
steam yacht Meteor ho often makes long
cruises. He is usually as brown as a sailor,
and his brawny build also suggests the
jolly tar. He might be the hero of one of
Capt. Marrvatt’s novels. He is a fighter
when arojfse 1, though not so pugnacious as
some reports have made him appeal - . He
knows that discretion is indeed often the
better part of valor. But when Judge
Advocate Bwaim, in Garfield’s administra
tion, tried Bateman's metal he found it had
a fighting ring When Bateman went
into the stock business Bwaim be
came liis spixinl partner. Just after
Chester A. Art hur’s accession to the Presi
dency Mr. Bateman preferred charges
against Judge Advocate Swatm of grave
financial irregularities, growing out of
their business relations, it appearing that
Bwaim had transferred a note given by
Bateman which hud been wholly or partly
liquidated. A court martial sentenced
Rw'aim to suspension for twelve years on
half pay, tho effect of which will carry him
lieyouil tho period of compulsory retirement
at the age of 64, the sentence going into ef
fect in 1884. Swaim is now living on his
half pay of $2,500 a year.
A rather amusing story is told at Commo
dore Bateman’s expeuse. He stepped to the
telephone one day, and calling up the Cap
tain of liis yacht began to give orders con
cerning the vessel, and asked if his instruc
tions of the previous day had been followed.
Tiie Captain’s replies were unsatisfactory,
and the naval training of the Commodore
became manifest when he discharged an
electric flash of profanity along the tele
graphic wire at the head of the old sea dog.
He was not aware that there were ladies in
the next compartment of his offices,
but one of his clerks slipped a note
through a ere vice reading thus:
•‘There are ladies in the office.” The Com
modore stepped out vuicklv from the little
telephone closet, and in a tone of highly
offended virtue addressed the young man
who handed him the note: “Mr. So and So,
I never wish to hour you use such language
again in this office. See,” he added very
severely, “see that it does not occur again.”
Then with a cherubic smile and the odor of
sanctity hovering over him as a cloud of m
eense he stepped into the adjoining apart
ment and greeted the ladies like one who
had just been leading a class meeting.
Coni. Bateman had charge of tiie public
movement among down-town brokers to
present the millionaire Deacon S. V. White
witli anew suit last spring, on the ground
that Mr. White needed some new clothes
and that it was the duty of his friends to
sre that lie had them. When tiie Congress
man-elect appeared for tiie first. time in this
magnificent suit with a really creditable
lint, he seeiaed'to.discount .Solomon in all his
glory. The joke uii.’Bate nau and the others
was" that the Hon. 8. V. White took the
matter in earnest, refused to see the joke,
kept a solemn face, t<x>k the suit as a merely
complimentary expression of numerous
friends, and learning that #SOO lmd been
raised and only s3l expended in his behalf,
he suggested the propriety of an investiga
tion, to see whether t here had not been a
misappropriate!! of funds by the ringlead
ers in the enterprise. Commodore Bateman
has never tried to get the laugh on S. V.
White since, but the two together have since
made plenty of money on the bear side of
stocks. ‘ Oscar Willoughby Riggs.
The Carrier Pigeon’s Secret.
From the Augusta ((fa.) News.
“K—OS.”
This is the message of a carrier pigeon
which will never Is* delivered by the Hying
]*t of some waiting owner. And it will
remain a secret, unless this notice shall
fall ’neatli the eye of the owner of the bird.
Mr. 11. P. Monte, our clever friend and
neighbor, brings the story back from u visit
to burke county. He tolls the Keening
News thut a lew (lays ago Mr. Kolierts, who
farms near the Savannah river, observed a
pretty carrier pigeon come down in his lot
as if for water. A negro boy also saw the
bir 1 and, picking up a stick, lie killed the
bird before Mr. Roberts could prevent the
rash act. Tiie pigeon was very gentle and
could have been caught with case, but for
the negro's sudden linpuls*.
Ou the leg of the pigeon was a silver ring,
on which was the simple and singular sym
bol. "K—IK” This was evidently u mes
sage or some sort of identification! but how
it was put ou the bird was a mystery.
The log had to la* out to got it off, uud the
pretty device is now in Mr. Moore’s |s>-,-
session.
It is suggested thut (swsibly the bint is an
os ope, mid that the device is the name or
the number of tin* pigeon, placed there in
inluucy, to identify it as belonging to some
special cot*. If such be the caw*, ”K—dH”
will have to bn registered among the missing
and off the list..
Why can’t you get powerful bargains in
warm weather clothing at U. H. Levy A
Bros i
CHARLESTON GOSSIP.
Getting Ready for the Municipal Con
test in December.
Charleston, Sept. 17. —The old City by
the Sea has had an abundance of excite
ment this week. We are stili wrestling
with the railroad freight discrimination,
and now that public attention has been
called to it, fresh cases of ruinous discrim
inations are brought to light every day.
We are still also talking about anew steam
ship line to New York, although we are not
subscribing any money as yet for its estate
lishment. In the meantime our friends the
enemy—the Clydes—have put on an extra
steamship, the Gulf Stream, which they
said would have to come hero in ballast and
at a loss to them. The Clydes are now talk
ing about putting on another extra ship.
Ad of which goes to show that there is
really plenty’ of business for a daily line
between Charleston and New York.
Cotton is coming into Charleston now at
a rate never before known, ami jet there
is not a single square rigged sailing vessel
in port. On the other hand there are ten
ocean tramps in port all loading with cotton
and who will take 50,000 bales and there is
a fleet of six or seven m<We on the way.
These are expected to arrive next week.
CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR.
With all these things and with the gala
week thrown in another excitement has
occurred during the week which is destined
to occupy a very large share of public at
tention for the next three months. The
municipal campaign has been already open
ed. The readers of the Morning News
will remember that it has been always stated
in this correspondence that Mayor Courte
nay' would under no circumstances be a
candidate for re-election. The statement was
made on the highest possible authority, that
of Mayor Courtenay himself. Still very few
persons outside of the Mayor’s most intimate
friends believe it. The fact is that Mayor
Courtenay has done so much for the city
that the city could scarcely bring itself to
realize an administration without him.
Capt. George it. Bryan, at present corpo
ration counsel, will be a candidate. Thus
far Capt. Bryan is the only nomination that
has been definitely made, although there are
at least a half dozen more leading citizens
who have the Mayor's bee in their bonnets.
The fight promises to be a lively one.
There are already three distinct parties in
the field, not counting the Democratic
party, which will, of course, elect its candi
date. The old enemy, the Republicans,
have come to life in tiie Republican Protec
tive Union, anew organization, which, how
ever, has no strength. Its leaders are young
negroes of the most ignorant class, whoso
only recommendation to consideration is the
fact that they were too young to have had
any connection with the old Republican
ring in this State. They hope to form an
alliance with one or two sore-headed ele
ments in the Democratic party', but will
probably find themselves badly left.
Then we have the United Labor party',
formed under the auspices of Henry George
and Dr. McGlynn, and engineered here by
a white crank, supported by two or three
other notorious cranlof. This concern will
recruit almost entirely among the negroes.
Next in order is the new deal Democratic
party, which is also engineered by cranks.
A meeting of this concern was held during
the iveek, and a queer meeting it was, too.
There were about 100 persons in the hall,
most of them factory operatives. The en
tire business of the meeting was formulated
by one Mr. Franklin, somewhat prominent
in Knights of Labor circles. Mr. Franklin
elected the chairman and secretary, made
all the speeches, arranged and adopted the
platform, and finally tried to take up a col
lection to raise the § l 50 for the hall rent.
The platform, for a Democratic platform,
is one of the queerest of its kind. It de
clares in favor of a protective tariff and
the abolition of the internal revenue. It
denounces Cleveland and the convict law
system, and is in favor of exempting from
taxes for five years all houses rented to poor
people. It also asks for the enforcement of
the usury law as to house rents by restrict
ing the rent to such figures as will pay the
property holder 7 per cent, on the assessed
value of the property.
This concern has nearly all the cranks in
the city at its back, and is trying to operate
on the ranks of the Democratic party. It
will probably succeed in sending Mr. Frank
lin to the Democratic nominating conven
tion, to represent the Ninth ward. Mr.
Franklin has already been in one conven
tion, representing the Knights of Labor,
and distinguished himself by failing to ob
tain a representation on "the legislative
ticket, when any other man would have
found no trouble in doing so, because there
is great respect for the labor element here,
and no one would object to their having
representatives of their own selection, either
in the Legislature or in the City Council.
These are the parties thus far
developed. The three combined do not
amouut to a row of pins politically. The
fight for the Mayoralty will be conducted
strictly within the Democratic party, and
neither the New Dealers, nor the United
Laborers, nor the Republican Protective
Union, will have a word to say on the sub
ject, The New' Dealers will probably bo
ruled out of the party uuloss they repudiate
Mr. Franklin’s platform, which it should be
stated was crammed down their throats
without their knowing much about it.
WHEN THE ELECTION OCCURS.
The election docs not taka place until late
in December, and it is of courso impossible
to name the successful candidate as yet.
Still it is not too early to say that Capt.
Bryan is the coming candidate, as things
look now. He is a representative young
Chnrlestonian, is familiar with public
affairs, having been the legal adviser of the
city for eight years, and has a strong per
sonal following. Young, talented, popular,
honest, upright, with good address, and a
heart that is always in the right place, he
combines all the elements of success. He
has been at the head of the Democratic
party in the city for years and has led them
to victory through some hard struggles. No
one who has been named as yet could defeat
him before the people.
This is the situation at present. The poli
tical spurt this week is only spora lie,
Charleston will not consent to go into a
political canvass now. We have the freight
discriminations, the Nt w York steamships
and the gala week oa hand. These will re
quire ali our attention, and these having
Loen dispi se i of, wo will then be rondo to s t
down on the New Dealers, and the United
Laborers,and the Protective Union, and elect
a Mayor who will be a fit successor to our
Courtenay, who will carry on the work that
has been mapped out liy the best Mayor
Charleston ever had.
Two Cute Maine Dogs.
From the Brunswick (Me.) Telegraph, Sept. 9.
Our nephew, Mr. J. K. Estabrook. who
lives at tile head of Masju.nt Bay. owns a
lino doc, a cross between a collie and St
Bernard or Newfoundland, we don’t know
which. The animal inh rits enough of the
shepherd dog to servo ns tender to care for
the cows and to drive them up from pas
ture; lie is also an excellent watch dog. For
the present there is at the farmhouse a pure
blooded Kngli-hpug. a bright little fellow,
but 1 laving a horror of water. A brook
runs through the meadow near the house.
Not long sine) the pug and "Tiger” were
on the meadow, and the latter tv esod the
bro >k. The pug came to the brink but re
fuaed to take the water old “Tice” took
in the situutiou in a moment, returned and
iKirsuaded the little fellow to get ujion his
back, uni then liegan to wade across; the
pug slid off into the water and yelled with
fl ight, but he got out all right. Whether
b 'low or after this occurrence we forgot to
ask, the "pug” was fed most bountifully.
Katmg only a portion of what was given to
him he limited up “Tige,” who was on the
meadow, and brought him to the house, sat
and >wu and complacently wntclnsl the big
dog eat up the rest of his dinner. Do dogs
converse 1
A earot <w gold received its name from
the carat-seed or the seed of the Abyssinian
corn flower. This was at one perils) made
uselul w .mil gems of gold weie to lie weiguod
und so cam about Uw peculiar olid now
general use of the word.
DEATHS.
O'NEAL.—Died on Sunday morning. Sept. 18.
at 22:30 o’clock, W. A. O'Neal, an engineer of
the Savannah. Florida and Western Railway.
Funeral notice later.
MEETINGS.
VIIYTOY LODGE NO. 34, F. <& A. M.
A regular communication of this JA
Lodge will be held at Masonic Temple
THIS (Monday) EVENING, Sept. 19, at
8 o'clock. / W \
The F. C. degree will be conferred.
Members of sister lodges and transient
brethren are cordially invited to attend.
HENRY BARTLETT, W. M.
Waring Rcsseli.. .Ik., Secretary.
DeKALB LOItGK, NO. 9 I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o’clock.
There will be an Initiation.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of H. W. RALL, N. G.
John Riley, Secretary.
THE HIBERNIAN SOCIETY
AVil hold “ Quarterly rmet- a.
ing at the Marshall House, jfsr *
THIS (Monday) EVENING, -■
at 8:15 o'clock punctually. drJV* >
J. F. BROOKS, ' fcVJ
Treasurer. *
Charles F. Prenderoast, Secretary.
RAIL.RAOD LOAN ASSOCIATION.
The forty-ninth meeting of the Railroad Loan
Association will be held THIS (Monday) EVEN
ING, at 8 o'clock. Treasurer will make his
report, and officers will be elected for the
ensuing year.
WILLIAM ROGERS, President.
H. C. CcNNiNGnAM. Secretary.
WORKINGMENS UNION ASSOCIATION.
The members of this Association are notified
to meet at their Hall to pay the last tribute of
respect to their deceased brother, Alexander
Brown, THIS AFTERNOON at 1 o'clock.
By order of LEMUEL WADE, President.
R. M. Bennett, Secretary.
ATTENTION, TRAVELING MEN!
There will be a meeting of Savannah Post D,
Of the TRAVELERS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIA
TION, at Screven House, on Sept. 30th, at 7:80
p. m., to perfect the organization of the Post.
All traveling men, or those who sell goods by
samples or otherwise on the “road.” are ur
gently requested to attend, also wholesale mer
chants and manufacturers who employ
travelers, as the merits of our associa
tion will be fully shown at this meeting.
All travelers who join us on this occasion will
he admitted as charter members Attendance
of members from adjoi. ing cities is also re
quested. DEAN NEWMAN. President
Sid. A. Pughsley, Jr.,Secretary and Treasurer.
SPECIAL NOTICE.-'.
NOTICE.
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 1, 1887.
The firm of DARNALL & SUSONG has this
day been dissolved by mutual consent. Either
parties are privileged to sign in settlement of
the assets of firm. JNO. P. DARNALL,
W. A. SUSONG.
NOTICE TO DELINQUENT WATER
TAKERS.
. CITY TREASURER'S OFFICE.>
Savannah. Ga., Sept. 14, 1887. |
Unless your water rent, past due since July
Ist, is )>aid without further delay, the supply of
water will be shut off from your premises with
out further notice.
C. S. HARDEE, Citv Treasurer.
DR. HENRY S COLDINCh
DENTIST,
■■ Office corner Jones and Drayton streets.
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. ESTILL.
ULMER'S LIVER CORRECTOR.
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to the sys
tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other
ills, caused by a disordered liver, it cannot be
excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in
dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul
mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. Jl 00
a bottlo. Freight paid to any address
B. F. ULMER, M. D.,
Pharmacist. Savannah. Ga.
FUKNA<T>.
Richardson & LSoynton Co.’s
SANITARY HEATING FURNACES
Contain the newest patterns, comprising latest
improvements possible c> a’opt m a Heating
Fumae • where Power, Efficiency. Economy and
Durability in desired. Medical ami Scientific ex -
put:; pronounce these Furnace* superior in
every resiieot. to all others for supplying pure
air, tree from gas and dust.
Send for circulars—Sold by all first-class deal
ers.
XiiehfrdHon fc Boynton Cos.,
M'f ’rs, 232 and 234 Water street, N. Y.
Sold by JOHN A. DOUGLASS &. CO..
Savannah, Ga.
DISSOLUTION noth E.
lotice of Dissolution
r rHF. firm of WILKINS A CO., .lesup, Ga .
1 was dissolved on the tltli day of September,
1887. h> mutual consent. Mil. T. S. WILKINS
hue pinv’.isse I the entire luisinev . nooks, notes
and hoc units, and ukiiuucs all liabilities of the
old firm, and will continue the business a.< here
tofore under the name and style of
T. S, WILKINS A t O.
Buists Reliable Cab'iaire ami Turnip
SEEDS,
JUST RECEIVED FRESH AT *
< ISOEOLA B (IT 1, I*’.;
FURNISHING GOODS.
Go to LaFar’s New Store
AND SEE HOW CHEAP HE SELLS
Summer Hats.
Have your measure taka*
i\ T the same time, and
T
X RY a set of his excellent
(Shirts made to order.
& WHILE THERE INSPECT HIS LINE OF
UNLAUNDEIED SHIRTS,
Monarch dress shirts,
Boston garters in silk and cotton.
Rubber garments of all kinds.
I embroidered night shirts.
I .(INEN HANDKERCHIEFS AT ALL PRICES
I >ISLE THREAD UNDERWEAR.
A. FINE ASSORTMENT OF SCARFS.
Shawl straps and hand satchels,
Anew line or HAMMOCKS, with PILLOWS
and SPREADERS, just in; also a lot of NEW
BATHING SUITS, at
L air ar’s,
29 BULL STREET.
EXC'U RSIONSL
lii! fci'Miiitais!
Through Pul] man Service.
COMMENCING June 12th a through Pullman
Buffet service will be rendered daily be
tween Savannah and Hot Springs, N. C., via
Spartanburg and Ashville.
Leave Savannah 12:28 pm
Leave Charleston. 4:55 p m
Leave Columbia 10:20 p m
Arrive Spartanburg 2:20 am
Arrive Asheville 7:00 a tn
Arrive Hot Springs 9:00 a m
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 be had at BREN’S
TICKET OFFICE, Bull street, and at depot.
E. P. MCSWINEY,
Gen. Pass Agt.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS AND MOTORS.
Arc and Incandescent Electric
Lighting.
Office of the Brush Electric Light and!
Power < 0., Rooms 8 and 9 Odd
Fellows Building,
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 1, 1887. J
Tf/’E are now prepared to furnish Arc and In
i' t candescent Lights. Buildings wired by
thorough Electricians in accordance with the
rules of the Fire Underwriters. Incandescent
Lights have many advantages over other modes
of lighting, some of which are the absence of
heat or smoke, the brilliancy and steadiness of
the light, uo danger from fire.
ELECTRIC MOTORS.
We are also prepared to furnish Motive Power
in quantity from H. P. to 20 H. P. These
Motors recommend themselves to all persons
using power for any purpose.
We also furnish and put in Electric Annunci
ators, Door and Call Beils, Electric Gas Lighters,
etc. Employing only the best skilled labor, we
guarantee our work. Our office is in
Rooms 8 and 9 Odd Fellows Building,
where we invite the public to inspect the lights
and motor which will be in operation every
evening.
SAMUEL P HAMILTON,
President.
GRAIN AND PROVISION*.
18. 331
Wholesale Grocer,
Floor, Hay, Grain and Provision Dealer.
TARESH MEAL anl GRITS in white sacks.
-T Mill stuffs of all kinds.
Georgia raised SPANISH PEANUTS, also
COW PEAS, every variety.
Choice Texas hl Rust Proof Oats.
Sj>oeial pri.ms car load loti HAY and GRAIN.
Prompt attention given all orders aud satis
faction guaranteed.
OFFICE, 5 ABERCORN STREET.
WAREHOUSE, No. 4 WADLEY STREET, on
line Central Railroad.
HOTELS.
NEW HOTEL TOGNI,
(Formerly St. Mark’s.)
Ncwnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla.
WINTER AND SUMMER.
TMIE MOST central House in the city. Near
X Post Office, Street Cars and all Ferries.
New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bella
Baths, Etc. iS2 50 to $3 per day.
JOHN B. TOGNI. Proprietor.
DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE.
r | > HlS POPI’IiAR Hotel is now provided with
1 a Pas.’ou£*.*r Elevator (the only one iu t’ie
citv) ami has boon remodeled and newly fur
nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase
is also the owner of the establishment, spar*J
neither pai ns nor cxjjense in the entertainin'***.
or’ his quests. Tne patronage of Florida visi -
<>i*s is earnestly invited. The table of
Screven Mom#.* is supplied with every luxury
that the markets at home or abroad can afford.
TILEi MORRISON HOUSE.
One of the Largest Boarding Houses in the
South.
\FFORPS pleatant South rooms, good board
with pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit
those wishing table, regular or transient accom
modation#. Northeast corner Broughton aud
Drayton strode, opposite Marshall Ilouao.
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Bnker Wuisky 4 00
Imperial Whisky 3 00
Pineapple Wuisky 2 00
North Cflrollun Corn Whisky S 00
Oi l ltye V, Msky ’ 1 50
Hum—New Kurland and Jamaica..sl 50to 3 ft)
Kye and Holland Gin 1 50 to 3 0.)
Brandy—Domestic ari l L’-ognac l Ooto 0 ftl
WINKS.
Catawba Wine 51 mtosl .50
UUckherrv Wine 1 00 to 1 BJ
Madeira, Port* and Sherry* 1 auto 3 00
PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL.
A. H. CHAMPION,
154 CONGRESS fjTREET.
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WALT HOUR & RIVERS^
AGENTS AND DEALERS IN
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HjW'ial attention given to collection of Kanta,
iUT’h'i’h * U\; also buying and Soiling.
Oftiao 1 No. s;i Ttuy Slraat.