Georgia Historic Newspapers

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GAY CARRIE CARELESS.
A LOOK AT WOMEN THROUGH
MAGNIFYING GLASESS.
The Things That Insure Success for a
Woman Who Wants to Please-A
Budget of Personal Gossip - Frederick
Gebhardt and Madame Patti as Mr.
and Mrs. Santa Claus—How a Con
test Between Inclination and Duty is
Likely to End-Some of the Trials of
Newspaper Women.
(Copyright.)
N*w York, Jan. 31.— “ She knows just
kow to talk to all kinds and conditions of
men,” was the recommendation given for a
bright woman who makes her living
as much by her ability to please as by her
actual labors.
Seeing that woman afterward and ob
serving her closely, one could not but be
impressed with the trutb of what had been
sata. She was gay with the gay, silent
when any one else wanted to talk, talkative
with the shy, always good tempered, never
too animated, and never, never visibly In
pain nor in tears. She was always charm
ing, bright, sympathetic and sweet. She
was witty, too, but not terribly so. She
kept ber wit to illumine Conversation nnd
to lighten dull spirits; not to burn hearts
nor scorch sensitive feeling. Everybody
went frjm her presence feeling comfortable
inspirit and with reasonably satisfied hearta
She was a peacemaker and a courage
strengthened There are two or three dozen
of such women in the world, and when you
find one sue will tell you that it is almost
impossible for her to got an evening to her
self, because so c'u- y clear, kind friends are
apt to drop in i m evening. And she will
add: “l’mgluil it's so, for I should not be
able to get through the day without the
prospect of these pleasant evenings. I wish
the days might be nil evenings, with a t me
table that never crept beyond the limits of
Bto 11 p. in.
No one knows as well as the woman of
the day how much she horself depends upon
thenewgpupersand magazines for the charm
and brilliancy that seems to be all ber own.
She must read the papers, and she knows it
And the more she reads the better it will be
for ber. Whether in the crowded horse car
or seated upon ber luxurious couch in her
own dainty boudoir, she seeks and eagerly
scans the latest and best that is in print, fur
well she knows teat she must add a charm
of mind to a beautiful faoe and stylish dress,
or the very ones whom she would give her
life and soul to please will turn from ber
with a yawn.
Signor and Madame Patti Nicolini are in
dulging iu a veritable dissipation of gift
giving. It is Madame Patti’s vacation, und
she has taken her auburn tresses and hor
handsome husband to Craig-y-Nos castle in
Woles, way over ttte sea. At holiday time
she gathered nearly 3,000 children together,
and gave them each something good to eat,
aud also a gift us a rememt ranee of herself
and of the merry Yule time. “Welcome to
the Queen of Hong!” “Long life to Hignor
and Madame,” and approgriate greetings
for the season were erected up in the bridge
leading over the River Tawl, which lluws
through the domains of Craig-y-Nos.
When Madauie Patti sets out to do a nice
thing she never doee it half way, and when
she works herself into a nice frame of
mind, there is scarcely anything she isu’t
willing to do in the helping-band line. Ho,
while she was feeling amiable and lovely,
she penned a letter to Hims Reeves con
gratulating him upon the excellent voice in
which she had found him and assuriug him
that she would do all she could to secure
pupils for so grand a master of the voice as
himself.
One must, one really must, write a suc
cessful novel if one would be feted, sculpt
ured, painted and sung. Mrs. Humphrey
Ward, whom everybody will lemember as
having brought forth Robert El-mere, re
cently sat for her portrait to Rudolph Leh
mann. The result is grand, and Mrs. Ward
will now have a portrait tea and be newly
lionized. There isn’t much money in a suc
cessful novel, for it Is the work of years and
must be a veritable gold mine if it would
yield sufficient back pay to atone for the
months and months of toil. But there’s
lots of fame in it, and lots of notoriety and
lots of honor, so who cares for the mere pay
that it brings! Nice, ambitious people can
eat. sleep, dream and get their washing
done on almost nothing if it is done to tne
tune of the world’s plaudits.
“Dancing in tho Barn” isn’t a circum
stance in grace to the new Scotch reel which
has lately come over to us via Paris. The
flist hop is taken with the girl’s right hand
clasping the man’s right hand, and the other
pair of bands meeting in a back handed sort
of way behind the girl’s back. Her face is
over bis shoulder and her hair is acrosi his
face intoxicating bis senses with its fra
grance. Then comes a skip, they pnßs one
another. A swift revolution aud they re
turn and jump together through the three
beats that follow. l'Le girl’s skirts are all
flowing wildly and gracefully about her
limbs, and her ribbons entangle the man
in their silken meshes as they twine about
him.
Lillian Russell, Jr., is one of the sweotest
little girls the Lord ever gave into the arms
of a loving, pretty mo her. All the world
knowß that the prettiest sight on earth is a
woman with her own darling baby in her
arms, no matter if neither mother nor
child are except! nally baudsomo. Fancy
then the lovely, lovely Lillian with her fair
goldan hair aud her eyes like the blue for
get-me-nots, holding against her soft,
round cheek, a little child as perfect as a
bit of Dresden china. “Can thev be flesh
aud blood!” one exclaims, looking at them;
"or are they but a dainty piece of bric-a
brac designed in a lofty moment by a
sculptor who is able to give to mortals
snatches of human divinity for their own
good cheerf”
Lit:l.i Lillian is an accomplished lady.
She has much musical taloat aud is develop
ing it iu a quiel way all the time. And she
speaks little pieces, walks a stately stage
walk and is thoroughly interesting in spite
of the spoiling process to which she is daily
subject from her own and her mother’s ad
mirers.
The old-time prejudice against reporters
is fast passing away. Tho pencil and note
book scribe now finds little difficulty in
gaining access to auv and every house in
town. This is especially the case with
women reporters, who are now chosen from
a class of .people who would as soon think of
moral suicide as of violating a confidence.
Whatever is told them they rospect and
only print that which is actually intended
for publication. People have found this
out from experience aud they have gamed
confidence accordingly. But some of this
reporting is terriblv exacting work and dif
ficult to manage. For example: Miss Re
porter goes to see Mrs. Interview about a
forgery in which her brother was implicated
—not actually guilty, you know .but drawn
into the case iu a questionable way, possibly
receiving diamonds for his wife when the
world said none were due.
"Now, I’ll tell you confidentially,” begins
Mrs. Interview.
“No, please don’t toll me confidentially,
because I shall want to give the newspaper
a fair account, and I can’t do it if you bind
me in this way.”
"Well! jrou can say that those jewels
were promised long ago and were given to
my sister- in-law because she was of service
to Mrs. Blaiik when her last baby was born.
But, please, don’t tell that”
“I think if you will let me mention that
little fact every one will understand and
will be in sympathy, and it will do your
brother’s side of the story lots of good.”
“Oh, no Ino indeed! But you may tell
part of it.”
And so the interview goes on wearing out
the unhappy reporter who must get in her
‘story,” and who is doing battle between
her newspaper Instinct and the betrayal of
confidence. Try reporting a little while,
you think you can always tell the
right thing and withheld the wrong. Just
try it.
Since Rose Coghlan obtyined her bill of
separation from Mr. Edgertcn she Las
plunged into the art of acting with all the
ardor that such a profession, rightfully
treated, drserves. Her brother is her play
wright and most thoroughly understands tne
possibilities of his gifted and erratic sister,
i “Lady Barter,” brought <ut at Toronto.
Canada, was a howling success, if ons may
judge from the plaudits, shrieks and clap
pings of the audience. “Lady Ba'ter” hopes
to oome this way to show us her pretty
gowns and to treat us to a picture of her
perfect figure.
Few people understand the secret of Miss
Coghlan’s shape. This is its history. I tell
the tale as it ’twas told to me. Very firm,
stiff and long corseti are worn by the octrees.
They are perfect in contour as to bust and
stomach and of just the right waist meas
ure. Into this steel and whalebone armor,
she is laced every night by a maid stout of
muscle and brawny of wrist. Of late years,
her too exuberant avoirdupois has" been
difficult to manage. But anew set of cor
sets, firmer, higher and longer than the
rest have done the work. When fully
equipped for tt.e stage she cannot seat her
self iu it directly as the Christian might,
but is obliged, forsooth, to sidle upon a
chair in very much the same f.ishiou that
you and I wriggled into one.long years ago,
when we nent to spend the afternoon with
our best Aunt Polly.
It is a pity that some loss fattening sub
stitute caunot be found for lager. So
many professional women are addicted to
the cups and grow overfa: in consequence
that a fortune is in store for someone who
will invent a long, satisfying, cooling
draught, warranted not to produce an ex
cess of tissue.
When last we know Frederick Gsbhard.
he was rushing madly t > and fro up and
down the earth, seeking Langtry, who,
finding his money gone and himself dis
agreeably addicted to liquor, repulsed him
and drove him hence. Then Gebhard
would return to America, and for a time
ooutent himself with his dogs and ponies.
But the spell of the enchantress was upon
him, and its chains bound him to brr feet.
Her voica was ever calling, calling in spirit,
aud after a wild contest with self, he would
floe to hor whom he loved, only to be re
buffed and bidden go home "like a nice
bov.”
Now Gebhard is on a different tack, and
it is a noble one, just such as bis best friends
have always known him to be capable of.
He is doing his goodly beet to help the
church at Newport, where his family wor
ship. At Christmas lie made a model Santa
Claus, distributing gifts with his own bands
from a tree chopped by his own sturdy
arms. He is a groat success at all winter
festivals and entertainments, and seems to
be more than tolerably happy. Perhaps
he realizes the truth of the tiliakesporian
lines:
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Bears yet a precious jewel In its head.
Lily, you may go to Jersey, or to Egypt
after Cleopatra, or to the place wnere the
McKinley bill originated, or anywhere else
you pi ase, Freddie, and I don’t care what
becomes of you.
It is cl timed that a pretty woman is al
ways pretty, whether she is perched on a
chair decorating the chandelier, or is upon
her kneee tacking down a carpet. If she is
pretty at all, she is alwavs pretty. Faucv,
then, the possibilities for absolute beauty in
a young woman—-a new, fresh bride—who
has just gone to housekeeping in a brand
now flat. There are the window curtains to
be put up, picture throws to be arranged,
mosses and grasses to be artistically bunched,
and the thousand and one odds and ends
managed, each of which goes ever so far
toward making of that flat an E len upon
the earth, or, beg pardon, between the earth
aud the skies.
How does hubby like this daily toil? He
is simply enchanted. Each morning he
goes forth bewitched, and each evening
fluds him full of impatience to return to
the bower, that he may see the grand march
of improvement that has been going on
while he was away. It’s darling old times
every day iu the week when a freau young
couple start in housekeeping In a brand uow
flat.
Jay Gould owns a box at the Grand Opera
House, and he takes his family and goes
and sits iu it once iu a while. Now, “Doc
tor Bill” is a naughty play. Ella Wheeler
Wilcox has said so, and the public has
taken up the cry. It is common, naughtily
suggestive and low. Aud yet here sat the
richest man in all America, surrounded bv
his children, enjoying himself im ensely,
if one judge from the laughter
and. shaking of his sides.
Are Jay Gould’s tastes com
mon oris the public mistaken! Is it not
that we common folks are ready to see
naughtiness where none is intended, and
that we are too quick to observe u dis
agreeable suggestivenuss? Is it possible
that a man who is several times a million
aire would take bis family to view a play
in whioh, as has been claimed, the lan
guage is doubtful and the situations
naughty.
W neu does lovely woman appear as lovely
as when clad in a sweet dignity of manner?
And if to this she can add honors aud deco
rations and degrees nnd titles, there is a
Portia-like grace, serenity and magnetism
about ber that is wholly irresistible. The
day of helpless, incapable women has gone
by. Men aud all tho rest of the world like
a woman who has something to her, who
knows something, and who can sustain
her own iu a delightful Interchange of
thought.
Do not think, dear sweot little girl, that
you must, wear calf-skin boots and a divided
skirt and a self assertive manner. Nor that
you need go clad iu the armor of aggvess
siveness, carrying a prickly shield of sharp
opinions. But what you do need is to make
yourself attractive, is to cultivate all your
little gifts aud talents and to make the most
of the womanliness that is within.
Have you seen the lovely statue of the
Princess of Wales as Doctor of Music? If
you have, you remember the calm, s.veet,
stately above whioh the “mortar
board” cap sats as royally as if it were n
orown. You know how the long, heavy
doctor’s robe falls to the feet in g eat digni
fied folds that only serve to enhance the
queenly I earing of the woman. The statue
is a powerful one and a strong one, yet it is
that of a woman and it is all womauly.
Prince Victor of Hohenloe Langenburg, a
cousin of the princers, made it aud he well
knew Uow to draw the firm lines, curved
and sweet,“that are part of a womanly
woman’s make-up.
“Be good, swe it maid, and let who will be
clover," says Charles Ki; gsley. But
Be clever, sweet maid, aud good also, says
Cariuk Careless.
A DOG THAT SMOK &
How the Astonishing Intelligence of a
Canine is Turned to Account.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Attornoy John J. McCarthy has a friend
who owns a dog. The canine is of the
"curb stone breed,” but possesses
ing intelligence lor one of tho four-fo .ted
genus. Through vicious associations the
dog has become nothing less than a “crook.”
He performs any number of curious tricks.
Ho follows Mr. McCarthy with more fidelity
than his owner, and has an admiration f< r
the attorney that is psst all und-rstamiiug
At tho lawyer’s command he will sit up ,
and, after being oovored with a hat, will put
on a most sago look and smoke a cigar. Mr.
McCarthy, by way of a joke, lias turned his
brute friend’s accomplishments to account,
though the benefit all went to the crowd.
During these exhibitions of tho canine’s
tricks someb dy has ill ways offered to buy
him. Mr. McCarthy has always explained
that the dog did not belong to him.
The would-be purchaser, so anxious to
pjsiess the dog, would express a willingness
to take chances, and after much persuasion
the lawyer would yield and transfer his
rights for $5, which would Le spent in
entertaining the crowd. The purchaser
would take the dog home, but in a hour or
two the canine would make his escape and
return to bis real owner. The animal has
thus been sold a score of times, and in one
night t vice. He seems to understand what
is expected of him and enters into the fun
with almost human intelligence.
The bakers' strike at Seattle is ended, and oil
of the strikers have returned to roil call.—CAi
cago Post.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY’, FEBRUARY 1, 1391-TWELVE PAGES.
SOLID MEN AND WORK
HEADY FOR THE BUILDERS*
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
How the New York Exchange Will
Entertain a Great Crowd of Notable
Guests Arbitration and Other
Important Subjects to be Discussed.
( Copyright .l
* New Yoitk, Jan. 3L —The National As
sociation of Builders holds us fifth annual
convention in New York beginning Feb. 9.
The meeting is notable because of tho re
presentative men who will be called to
gether, the Important questions which will
be discussed, aud the wide-spread interest
in the decisions to be reached.
First, as to the men. The association
was organised in 1885. Ths delegates to Us
convention are elected by building ex
changes, or similar bodies having member
ship in ths association. Each city is repre
sented by a delegate at large, who is a
director of the association, and by one addi
tional delegate for every fifty members or
fraction thereof. About forty cities are
represented.
Ths officers of the association are: John
J. Tucker of New York, president; Arthur
McAllister of Cleveland, 0., first vice presi
dent; Anthony Ittner of Bt. Louis, Mo.,
second vice president; William H. Hayward
of Boston, Mats., secretary; and Geo.ge
Tapper of Chicago, 111., treasurer.
Among the delegates who will be present
are tho following whose names are well
uncwn in the trade throughout the country:
O. W. Norcross, Elisha Littlefield, E. Noyes
Whitcomb, James Smith of Bos
ton; George C. Prussing, W. P. Ketcham,
Joseph Downey, John Rawle, W. H. Alsip,
C. W. Gindele, M. B. Madden, R Vie-ling,
F. E. Spooner. W. Goldie, D. V. Furingtou,
P. B. Y\ ight of Chicago- D. W. U. Bell
ville, E. D. Tippett, M. P. Scully, of Cin
cinnati; John D. McGilvray, F. N. Davis,
of Denver; B. F. Swain, David Pullman,
W. U. Louvett, Capt. Goss, of Kansas
City; George W. Libbey, E. F. Dobson, of
Minneapolis; W. Harkness, Jr., Stacey
Heaves, John S. Stevens, Charles Gilliug
hatn, Murrell Dobbins, Samuel Hart,
George Watson, of Philadelphia; Edward
E. Scribner, J. W. Makinaon, John H.
Donohue, of St. Paul.
Tne regular delegates will of course be
accompanied by a host of members from
the several exchanges. Not less than a
thousand men are expected to attend the
banquet, which will be oue of the features
of the entertainment offered by the New
York Builders’ Exchange to its guests. Ever
since last March the committee appointed
by the exchange has been considering the
question of properly receiving what will
unquestionably be the largest and moot
influential company of builders ever assem
bled. The exchange appoiuted a committee
of 106 for this purpose, whioh, as is the rule
with such bodies, selected an executive
committee to do the active work. It con
sists of those men: Maro Eidlitz, chairman;
Caarles A. Cowen, George Moore Smith,
Frank E. Conover, John M. Canda, Richard
Deeves, Otto M. Eidlitz, Robert C. Martin,
Henry W. Redfietd, William C. Smith,
John J. Tuoker, Stephen M, Wright. Mr.
Tucker is president of the New York ex
change aud Mr. Wright Is secretary. The
latter, in particular, has had his hands
full making the arrangements for the con
vention and for the entertaiument of the
guests.
Tho general programme includes dally
sessions of the conveution at Masonic hall.
Forenoons and afternoons will be occupied
in this way. On Monday evening the build
ers will visit the New York trade school at
First avenue and Sixty-eighth street. There
will be general sight-seeing at all available
hours on Tuesday. The biggest theater
party ever given in New York will occur on
Wednesday evening. The committee of ar
rangements has made a bargain for a whole
theater—one of the Broadway bouses—and
they will run it to suit themselves. The
regular attraction will be given but special
gags will be introduce 1, aud a “gag” com
mittee has been preparing them during sev
eral weeks. It is a pity that the general
public will not be permitted to discover
what sort of a gag can be turned out by the
rules governing bricklaying aud masonry.
Handsomely engraved invitations and
gorgeous souvenir programmes will also be
included in the list of special attractions.
Tho house will bo decorated for the oc
casion.
Thursday evening will witness the grand
banquet in Lenox Lyceum. It is a spacious
hall, but the services of expert designers
have been required to solve the problem of
getting in seats enough. Ou Friday tho
whole party will be taken to Philadelphia by
special train. The trip will be under the
direction of the New Yorkers, but the enter
tainment in the Quaker City will bo in
charge of the local exchange.
The special reason of this visit is to give
the builders a chance to see the homo of the
Philadelphia oxchange, which is regarded
as very near the ideal of what such a build
ing should be. It is oue of the chief objects
of the national association to encourage
local exchanges in its membership to put up
such buildings as that in Philadelphia. It
includes besides the facilities necessary for
tho ordinary exchange business a perma
nent exhibition and a manual training
school. These two features, in the opinion
of the builders, are of the utmost im
portance. To* Philadelphia belongs the
credit of first carrying out successfully the
designs of the association.
The permanent exhibition is intended to
bring peace out of the three-cornered war
fare which has always been waged among
owners, builders and architects. It is worth
while speaking of it here, because the idea is
so prominent in the minds of the builders,
and because tho coming convention and the
visit to Poiladelphia will doubtless result
in tho establishment of similar exhibitions
in other oilies. The buiider has always
claimed that he was u njustly at the mercy
of the architect. The latter, according to
the ordinary business form, holds the certi
ficates of pay, and the builder cannot get
bis money unless the architect is ready to
say that his designs have been carried out
A builder sometimes finds it hard to make
au architect state distinctly what kind of
work he wants in the Various parts of a
building. The architect makes his plan,
the builder goes ahead with the work,
and tho owner isn’t satisfi and. Then the
owner goes to tho architect with a “kick,”
and the architect lays the blame upon the
builder.
•This isn’t the s rt of wall I intended,” he
says, and the buiider can only reply that
tha: was the sort he understood was re
quired. It is often imnnssihlo for the owner
to decide where the fault lies. There is need
of some satisfactory ar.angement of
samples, which remain unobauged, and can
always be u od as a reference in raso of dis
putes. This is what the Philadelphia Ex
change building supplies. Therein is n wall
58 feet long by 4 >4 feet high, divided into
twenty-one parts, of which eleven are of
stone and ten of brick. They illustrate
twetiiy-oue standard forms nnd styles of
finish. A numbered placard is affixed to
each of these divisions, and on it is a full
description of the material and methods
used iu construction of such a wall
There is no juggling with samples of that
kind. An owner can select what he wants,
and the architect can designate it by num
ber. When the work is done it is easy to
see whether the plan has been followed by
the builder.
In the basement of the Philadelphia ex
change building is the trade school, and the
buildeis will have a chance to compare it
with that under Col Auchmutty’s charge
in New York Tho importance of estab
lishing such schools is strongly sot forth in
the “declaration of principles” of the na
tional association. The association urges the
establishment of manual training as a part of
the public school course, but if that were
done there would still 1 emain the need of
the special night schools under tho direction
of the various local trades organizations for
the boneflt and improvement of apprentices
Col. Anchoruty’sschool teaches bricklay
ing, plastering, plumbing, cameatrv,
various kinds of painting and blacksmith’s
work. Doubtless there will be addresses and
deoate upon the trade scnool question in
the coming convention.
1 But the most interesting of all the sub
| jects to be considered is arbitration. Tots
matter bas been, far the past year, under
con-ideration by the following committee:
J. Milton Biair, Cincinnati; Anthony Itt
ner. St. Louis; George C. Pressing, Chicago;
Marc Eidletz, New York, and David A.
Woelpper, Philadelphia. A report has been
prepared for the convention, and, whatever
may be its nature, there is no doubt that it
will be warmly debated.
The subject is intricate. In the first
place the association recognizee and encour
ages the formation by workmen of trades
unions with a central body. It also claims
a similar right cf organization. Given,
theu, the two kinds of organizations, shall
arbitration be the means by which in gen
eral disagreements shall be settled? If so,
what are proper questions for arbitration?
How shall the joint board of arbitration be
formed?
The association is not a unit on the first
of these questions. It will probably be de
bated ; and among the champions on either
side will be Mr. Hay ward of Boston and Air.
AlcAUister of Cleveland. The former is in
clined to look with favor upon any reason
able plan of arbitration; the latter is a
Hcotctnnan with plenty of fight in him, and
he objects to dictation.
The association will probably recommend
some plau of arbitration to the several ex
changes. It can do no more. There is no
provision for enforcing action. Hitherto,
however, the orders formulated in the gen
eral convention have had a widespread and
important effect.
As to tha proper subjects for arbitration
I bad a conversation with an officer of the
association, who told me that as a general
rule the builders granted the workmen the
right to decide for themselves the question
of hours aud pay. Thu was not, a matter
for arbitration. In the same way, the
builders assert, the question of employing
or discharging this or that man. La matter
for the “bosses” to decide and should not
come before the board of arbitration. Such
an arrangement, if agreed upon by masters
and workmen, would seem to amount to a
permanent arbitration upon certain ques
tions.
As to the constitution of the board the
gentlemen to whom I have referred thought
the standing committee of the exchange
would answer as its representative to meet
a similar body from the trades union.
A paragraph from the association’s decla
ration of principles may be interesting as
showing the general ground it takes and os
indicating to the sociologist whether any
form of arbitration is likely to be reoom
mended which will diminish the number of
strikes in the building trades, so frequent in
the last few years.
1. This association affirms that absolute
personal independence of the individual to
work or not to work, to employ or not to
employ, is a fundamental principle which
should never be questioned or assailed; that
upon tt depends tho security of our whole
social fabric and business prosperity, and
that employers and workmen should be
equally interested in its defense and preser
vation. While upholding this principle as
an essential safeguard for all concerned,
this association would appeal to employers
in the building trades to rec gnize that
there are many opportunities for good in
associations of workmen; and while con
demning and opposing improper action
upon their part, they should aid and assist
them in all just and honorable purposes.
That while, upon fundamental principles,
it would would be useless to confer or ar
bitrate, there are still many points upon
which conferences nnd arbitration are per
fectly right and proper, and that upon such
points it is a manifest duty to take advan
tage of the opportunities afforded by asso
ciations to confer together, to the eud that
strikes, lockouts and other disturbances
may bo prevented. Wnen such confer
ences are entered into, care should be taken
to state clearly, in advance, tnat this fun
damental principle must be maintained, and
that suen conferences should only be com
petent to report results in the form of reso
lutions of recommendation to the individu
als composing the various organizations
participating, avoiding all forms of dicta
torial authoi ity.
In preparing to receive the visiting mem
bers of the craft, the New York Mechauics’
and Builders’Exchange has oeen assisted
by the Building Trades Club, an orgauiza
tion which is tho only one of its kind in the
country. Of course the club members are
uoarly all members of the e’xchange, but the
club as a Lody aots independently. It has
handsome rooms at No. 'JO East Twenty
first street, and these will be prepared for
the reception of the visiting builders. Among
tho interesting things which they will see
there—exclusive of a first-rate lunch—will
be a fine collection of photographs of all the
principal buildings in tho city. The hand
some, well-lighted room now used for bil
liard playing, will include both tho lunch
and the photographic exhibition.
No doubt the visitors will vote unani
mously that that the Building Trades Club is
a great institution, even as it stands,
though it is nothing to what it will be if its
ambitious designs are carried out —and
there is no reas mto doubt that they will
be. Tha club is negotiating for the lease of
anew home which oue of tho members told
me was now a “palatial residence.” When
they get it they will tit it up iu a manner
well fitted to supply both business and so
cial needs. The first floor w ill be used for
business purposes. There will
be opportunities for conferences
between men engaged in dif
ferent departments of building work;
between contractors and sub-contractors,for
instance. Stenographers and typewriters
will be furnished by the club, and all sorts
of documents can thus be speedily prepared.
On the floors above will be tbo rooms for
social purposes; the cafe and parlor. It is
an institution likely to be duplicated, or at
loast imitated in other large cities by and
by. Its membership is drawn exclusively
from those actively engaged in building
work. It has been iu exiitence only a year
and a half, but is already an assured suc
cess.
The club “talks shop” and is not ashamed
of it. W ithin its walls one hears nothing
but discussions upon subjects relating to
building.
“Ti e chappies in the clubs on tho avenue
talk clothes and sociecy,” said a member to
me, "and the athletic club men talk slug
ging aud rowing. Our conversation is a
little more solid, that’s all. The club has
done a great deal iu introducing builders to
each other socially. Meu who have been
bidding against each other and doubtless
hating eacn other for years, meet here, and
learn that they’re both good fe lows after
all” Howard Fielding.
How Gen. Hooker Got His Charger.
“lien. Banks'story about his war charger.”
said Pension Attorney Bond in the St Bonis
Clobr-bem -c rat, ‘ recalls to mind one Hooker
rode in 1863. and especially at the battle of
Cuaneellorsville. Few people know how Hooker
came by that horse. I will tell you. Wnen
Sickles’ corps was camped on Hood Hope Hill,
just across the eastern branch anl about a
quarter of a mile above the r sidence of Fred
Douglass, i happened one day, while foraging
for aoiuethlnsto eat, to run across a milk-wniie
Arabian stallion that had been hidden in the
pines by his iuasie . I took the horse into
camp, and Gen. Sicklos, who was a connoisseur
of borse flesh, no sooner put his eyes on biin
than he recaptured him from mo. I made no
remonstrance, however, as the horse was of no
use to mo.
“A few days later the owner of the Arabian
came into camp, identified his horse and
claimed him. Sickled held ihat ho was a con
fiscated horse, and refused to give him up. Then
the owner went to Secretary Stanton for relief,
and made affidavit that he was a loyal man,
and came back to camp w ith the order from
Stanton to Sickles to ricil.er the horse. In the
meantime the horse had disappeared. He
turned up, however, in New Yu. k city a few
days later as the property of George Wilkes, but
neither Stanton nor tne horse's owner was
aware of these f ict-. YVbeti the matter was
quieted down, one day an item appeared in the
papers that George Wilkes had present and a
thoroughbred Arabian war charger to Gen.
Hooker.
•'That was how the horse came into Hooker's
possession, and how he came to ride him at the
battle of Chancellorsvil e. Ho was one of !he
fln.-st specimens of his race, and when seated
ou him Gen. Hooker was not only the best
mounted officer in the union army, but he was
far and away the handsomest.”
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bottle. Dr. Schenck’s Hook on Consumption
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COTTON FACTORS.
Thomas F. Stubbs. William S. Tisoi*
STUBBS TISON,
Cotton Factors,
86 BAY STREET.
SAVANNAH. - GEORGIA
Liberal advance, undo on consignments of
cotton.
DESK*.
OFFICE 'AND PIItLOR DESKS.
SPECIAL PRICES THIS WEEK.
MCGILLIS <fc RU6TIN,
192 Broughton St. Telephone 531.
DANIEL HOGAN.
THE BIG
CLTS throughout our stock
are wearing it away. We
continue our low prices on
Ladies’ and Misses’ Fast
Black Hose, full regular
made, 25c per pair. Also on
FRENCH STRIPED FLANNELS,
At 70c, reduced from 80c.
These are all surprising.
BARGAINS
Ladies’, Misses’ and Men’s Standard
Winter Underwear
Is a safe purchase for next season even at
our prices. Notice our Men's
UNLAUNDERED SHIRTS,
At 50c. Never before sold under 65c, and
worth even more. Have you availed
ycu- eif of our great
NEWMARKET SALE?
—IP NOT—
Advised to look over our remaining Wraps
and make a selection by which you will save
money. Our line of
BLACK SILKS
Merits close inspection from the Ladies.
Those Fine
FRENCH ROBES
At reduced prices should be taken up at
once, and while you are
LOOKING
For bargains you make a mistake if you let
the Robes go by. We are desperately in
earnest, as we must have space for our
SPRING GOODS, and the Money Savers
you may wish
FOR, ARE AT
HOGAN’S, and it remains only for you to
say whether or not our great drives
are to “GO-A-BEGGING.”
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Four hundred and sixty-three have been given
relief. Testimonials on view, and relief free of
charge, at G. DAVIS & SON’S,
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Sold by all druggists.
PIXMIIKU ANI) (iAs FITTER.
ESTABLISHED
JOHN NTCOLSON,
30 AND 32 DRAYTON STREET. '
Practical Plumber, Steam
and Gasfitter.
All sizes of
IRON AND LEAD AND OTHER PIPES AND
COOKS.
A full line of Valves and Fittings, from 14 to
6 inches. Everything necessary to fit up Steam,
Hydraulic and Wind-mill power.
Civil and Steam Engineers will find it to their
advantage to call.
BATH TUBS,
WATER CLOSETS and
wash basins.
CHANDELIERS, GLASS GLOBES,
And other articles appertaining to a first class,
honest establishment always in stock.
_ CLOTIIIXG.
SOLIDFACTS
NO BUNCOMBE.
We are positively offering
big inducements to Clothing
buyers just now. Everybody
knows that we will move into
our new quarters, 159 Brough
ton street, on or about March
We do not care to
move any more of our pres
ent stock than we can help,
and in consequence have
marked down our stock to
ridiculously low prices.
CASH BUYERS
should avail themselves of
this opportunity to buy first
class
CLOTHING
at low prices. Call and seo
for yourselves.
ippiuiii,
ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS,
163 Congress Street
Headquarters for Sweat,
Orr & Co.’s Working Pant3
and Overalls.
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, ETC.
Order Now
What
Wagons
You Will Need.
Prices Goin?
Still Higher.
SAVANNAH CARRIAGE AND WAGON CO.
Everything on Wheels;
Harness, Too,
FLOUR.
YAECERS ~~
“ROYAL LILY" FLOUR,
Mads by the new Cornelius system, all
the moisture contained in the grain is kept
in the flour. No matter where it has been
tried housekeepers haye uniformly pro
nounced its superiority. For sale by
S. W. BRANCH,
Corner Broughton and Whitaker streets
VEGETABLES PRD ITS. ETC.
SEED POTATOES
ARISTOOK AND HOULTON,
EARLY ROSE,
KANSAS R. P. SEED OATS. FLOR
IDA ORANGES, MESSINA
LEMONS,
Nuts, Rai sins, Turnips, Cabbage
B. E. PEAS and COW PEAS,
HA\, OvKaTN- and feed.
W. D. SIMKINS
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FIRE,
lAEINE, CYCLONE
INSURANCE.
REPRESENT ONLY FIRST-CLASS COM
PANIES
98 BAY STREET.
Telephone 64. P. O. Pox 4
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priuting. lithographing, and I4ank books es
have their orders promptly filled, at moderns*
wums, at the MORNING NEWS FfcUfTDM
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