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2 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. 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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. 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