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TART TWO.
NATIONAL GCNMAKKRS.
DETAILS IN ARMAMENT OF
OCR LEW Wak S _lP*.
A Visit to Cue of the Greatest Gun
Feu" dries in the World—Young com
modore Folger the Genius of the De
partment of Construction—Guns for
Our New Bait e fchipi W ith an Ef
fective 1-ange of Eleven Miles—A
L ve!y Scsne—The Armament of the
$ Miantonomab, the Maine and the
Monterey.
Washington, May 2.—lf the material
ized spirit of old Real Admiral Dahlgren,
who thirty years ago was with Gen. Rod
mau of the army, a mighty power in the
science of ordnance, could revisit the scenes
of his old triumphs iu the Washington
navy yard, he would see so ne strauge
things. Thirty-five years ago Capt. Dahl
gren of the navy and Lieut. Gen. Rodman
of the army filled a large portion of the
world’s eye. Both were at work on monster
guns for their respective branches of their
country’s service. Dahlgren had then per
fected his 11-iuch “champagne bottle”
smooth bore for the navy, and Col. Rodman
had gone him an inch better and had
mounted a 12-inch gun upon one of the for
tifl atlons in New York harbor.
These were great ordnance triumphs, and
army and navy publications of tne day
were filled with elaborate and graphic de
scriptions of the “awful destroyers.” Even
foreign governments mode note of the
• Voormous strides” in gun manufacture by
“the inventive genius of America,” aucl
both Capt. Dahlgren and Col. Rodman
suddenly found themselves in possession of
world wide fame.
There was very little difference in their
respective guus. Both possessed the same
r inciple—enormous weight of metal in the
breech. Col. Rodman’s gun was shorter
than Dahlgren’s, and it was a little heavier
iu the breech. It was also shaped slightly
different. Of course, both inventors made
their guns of cast iron. One or two of
the nits are yet in existence iu
the Washington navy yard, where,
under the personal and frequently
profane direction of Capt. Dahlgren, the
moulds of sand were formed and t e molten
lead poured in. It did not take lo g to
make a gun in those days. Two or three
weeks at the most was enough in which to
turn out a monster of the period. Those
nine and eleven-ineh Dahlgren’s did splen
did service during the war. With them,
weak and inefficient as they would now be
regarded, Farragut won all*his splendid vies
tones, and the navy generally covered itself
with glory.
But if the ghost of Admiral Dahlgren
was stalking about now, the mighty high
power steel rifles which are to arm the new
navy are not the only modern things that
would astonish him. He would fin i, for In
stance, the youngest chief of ordnance that
the navy ever had. How the old admiral
would wonder, and perhaps swenr, if he
were living, to find one of the youngest
commanders in the service at the
head of the most important ord
nance plant, and the most im
portant establishment of its kind in the
world. Young Commander Folger was
given this position more than a year ago.
He has a commodore’s rank and pay, and
he is the youngest officer that ever held that
lank in the United States navy. Commo
dore "Folger was yet a midshipman at the
naval academy when Lee surrendered, and
Lincoln was assassinated, and was not given
an ensign’s rank until 1869. But he has a
genius for ordnance, like the great Dahlgren
nad before him, and hence his phenomenal
rise in his profession.
The Washington gun foundry is the most
important establishment of its kiud in the
world. It does uot cover so much ground
as that of the Krupps iu Germany, but it
bas better and more improved machinery,
end turns out what is conceded to be the
best steel high power breach-load
ing ordnance in existence. Again,
it is a national institution, manufact
uring gu: s for the United States
government aloue, while Krupp’s estab
lishment is a private enterprise making
ordnance for anybody who will buy. Per
haps one of the most interesting tributes
paid t > this magnificent establishment was
paid recently by Sir Wilfrid Hope of the
Englis . artillery, an expert who was seut
over here last year to look at what ycung
Commodore Folger wa3 doing. In a long
rep .rt which he made occurs this gracious
extract:
“I spent the greater part of last Novem
ber in Washington, where I was formerly
attache to her majesty’s legation, and while
there received a very kind invitation to
examine the new guns and the navy yard.
I knew that the guns made there were on
the same general principle as the modern
English anti French euns, and expected to
condemn everythin*, but in the end could
only praise. The faulty proportions aud
abominable workmanship of our
English guns is carefully avoided,
with the result that, "unlike the
Elswich and Woolwich guns, the Washing
ton guns can be thoroughly relied on to do
what is professed for them. This is a large
statement, for the Elswich and Woolwich
guns cannot be relied upon to do more than
M to 75 per cent, of what they are professed
to do. The Washington gun factory is
perfect, the lathes superior to any in the
country, and they work faster. Thesecretof
the good workmanship lies in fastening the
responsibility for everything upon some
official by name. Here in happy England
the system is that no man shall be responsi
ble for anything. The oountry is so soft,
so indolent, so ignorant, so rich and so
careless, that it is perfectly contented with
floating down the stream gaily to coming
disaster, when the awakening will be too
late; but wise old Uncle Sam insists upon
someone naval officer being responsible
by name for each individual thing. All
these officers being on the active list of the
navy, their own lives may depend, the
next year, on the carefulness of their work
this year. It is then no wonder that not
one of the Washington guns bas ever
burst, or failed to do what it was intended
to' do.”
Everybody understands thegeneral points
of difference between the “monster’’ guns
of Farragut’s and Dahlgren’s day, and the
splendid armanent that is to adorn the new
snips. The old 15-inch Dahlgren, which
was then the apotheosis of marine artillery,
weighed about 44,000 pounds, was
about fifteen feet lung, took a charge
of eighty-five pounds of powder, and could
carry a 450-uound solid shot, with effective
for ce, a distance of 2,000 yards. The big
gest gun now being made at the Wash
ington yard is the 12-iDcb, hlgh-power
breech loading rifle. It, Ilka all tbe new
guns, is built upon a forged steel tube
jacked and hooped with steel hoops or
bands of varying widths, but uniform
ttnekuess, until over the breech there are
three thicknesses, over the main
body of the gun, forward of the
trunniores two, and over the remainder
of the gun clear to the, muzzle once. Two
of tinea 12-incb gun* are now on the lathes
in the great gun shop. They are to arm the
forward casemate, or barbette of the coast
defense ve-eel Monterey, about to be
launched at Han Francisco. Here is what
the 13-iucb gun can do, and • comparison
with the biggest gun of thirty years ago is
hot only iuterrsUng hut almost ridiculous.
Let usput it in intelligent form for com
parison :
THE TRIUMPH or DSHLOKEN.
Caliber of gun 15 in.
Length of gun .14 ft. in.
Weight of gun , 40.460 lbs.
Powder charge £5 [b s .
Weight of shell MO ibs.
Weight or solid shot 460 lbs
Effective range 2,000 yds.
THE TRIUMPH OP FOLDER.
Caliber of gun .12 In
Length of gun 39 ft
Weight of gun 45 tons (103,46? ibs).
Powder charge 425 lbs
Weight of 5he11.... ..too lu-!
Effective rauge for distancedestruc-( ~ ,
tion [ 11 miles
Thickness of steel which projectile 1 .
will penetrate at muzzle t lnß -
It is perhaps unfair, however, to call this
12-inob gun young Comir.od re Folgor e
triumph, seeing that he is yet out a kid, r.nd
has already contra Hod for twelve still bigger
guns. That he can make them goes without
saying, for the stoei forging3 are already
contracted for. These are twelve 13-
lnoh guns, four of which are to be mounted
on each of the thiee new 1 attleships, Indi
ana, Massachusetts and Oregon. “It is
astonishing what an inch increase of caliber
leads to in calculating the power of modern
ordnance,” said the young commodore, as
h3 showed the w riter the plans, specifica
tions, and a cute little steel model of this
“infant” of ordnance.
“Almost as much in proportion," said
Capt. Barber, who was present, “as an inch
in addition to the length of a man’s nose.”
"Here are the figures on the 13-iueh gun,"
said Commodore Folger: ' compare them
with Dablgren’s triumph:"
Caliber of gun 13 j n
Length of gun 40 ft
Weight of gun 60 tons (135,400 lbs)
Powder charge 550 lbs
Weight of projectile 1.100 lbs
“The range and penetrating force of these
guns will be hjut slightly more than the 11-
inch, but the crus ning force incident to the
impact and explosion of a I,luo-pound
projectile must be much greater. I ought
to iay here," continued Commodore Folger,
“that the length of a 13-inch projectile will
be about 40 inches. Stand one up along
side an ordinary man ar.d it would reach
nearly to his arm-pits.”
How one of these gre A guns is made is
an interesting siudy. The evolution of the
ship of live oak into the steel cruiser of to
day presents no more striking contrast than
the evolution of the gun which is to arm
her. The huje furnace with its weight of
n elted iron is no more; the great casting
pit with its sand mold ha 9 gone to keep
company with the old Spanish bronze re
tort. Ail the effete traditions are cast
aside. The manufacture of ordnance
has become a science. There is re
quired the same genius, the same skill,
the same delicaoy of manipulation on the
part of artisans, which a century ago was
required to make a watch. Picture the
ponderous machinery required to make a
12-inch rifled gun for the Monterey, and
compare it with the delicacy of the machine
which turns out a Waltham or an Elgin
watch. Both are beautiful, both run
noiselessly, both are controlled by a man in
a blouse, representing the very acme of
development in American ekiiled
labor. The great aid more impos
ing difference is the magnitude of the
operation. Tho machine whicu makes the
watch, or its various parts, could be put
into a Kodak case; that which turns, bores
rifles and polishes the great artillery to de
fend Uucle Bamuel, afloat and ashore,
weighs hundreds of tons. Yet both sets of
machinery work with almost equal preci
sion of touch and perfection of result.
Commander O’Neill of the navy loves to
show how a big 12-inch gun is finished. He
is at the head of the big gun foundry. He
is on duty at the Washington navy yard as
“inspectorof ordnance.” If anybody comes
along with an interest in such things Capt.
O’Neill usually details a young officer to
show everything. Ensign Armistea i Rust
is the young gentleman vzno best fills the
as gnment, according to Capt. O’Neill’g
idea. Young R Ist knows all about the new
gur.B. One of these days he will boa big
figure in naval ordnance—probably as
big a figure as Commodore Folger himself.
The nucleus of the big guu of to-day is not
a sandpit and a pot of molten meta , but a
tremendous cylinder of forged steel. It
comes from Behlehem or the Midvale steel
works, and it takes several flat cars to carry
it. It weighs about fifty tons. It gets into
the Washington yard on trucks of the Penn
sylvania road, and a 100-ton crane jerks the
tning up as a grocer’s scale would lift a
pound of cheese, and puts it on a steel
carriage. Before the big cylindrical block
knows It, a huge tubular bore is at work
at its vitals. The 1 ore cuts siow.y but un
erringly. A core comes out in a solid mass.
This being bored in turn becomes the basis
of the four or five inch gun. One set of
machinery cuts out this core; another set is
at work on the rear of tne monster, planing
and turning it for the reception of the
"jacket.” !he jacket is the first reinforce
ment of the gun’s strength. It is a huge
cylinder received also from the Bethlehem
or tne Midvale works. It, too, is turned on
the inside to make its inner surface smooth.
Then when the gieat steel forging, now by
the action of the boring machine become a
tube, is ready, the big crane emies along,
lift) it out of the lathe cradle and carries it
off to a huge pit, where it is turned muzzle
down, seemingly into the bowels of the
earth. Then comes along the 40-ton crane,
holding in its arms the jacket. The jacket
is lowered into a roaring furnace, built in
one side of the great pit, and there it is left
to its own reflection for some time, while
Satan and his imps get in their hottest
work. Nobody sees the fire. Nobody feels
the heat, but when ail is
reported to be ready. Commodore Foi
ger, Capt. O'Neill, Capt. Bob Car
rnody and Lieut. “Regy” Nicholson get
ab ut. The skilled workmen are all there
with their hands covered with asbest- s mit
tens. When the gray-haired man in charge
of the furnace dec ares that all is ready, tbe
40-ton crane comes over, giant steel books
seize upon the cover of the retort,and away
it goes. Great flames shoot up. Down goes
another set of steel hooks, and they grapple
the 10-ton jacket and in five seconds more ill
is dangling in the air, sizzling and sputter
ing in its white heat. The point is then to
carry it and settle it upon the big cold tube,
wboe stern is in tbe air to receive it.
By this time everybody is busy. Tbe
man controlling the crane gets orders at
the rate of sixty a second. Men with guy
ropes to direct the descent of the jacket
almost dance jigs in their intensity of pur
pose. Copt. O’Neill keeps his arms going,
and tries to shield his face from the awful
heat. The cry of “Lower away!” comes
from every throat, and ‘Steady!” “Steady 1”
fills tbe air. Sparks fly from the
great mass of metal, and when
anything goes amiss Commodore
Folger takes a hand. Then tho fin begins.
The sparks, tbe heat, the general excite
ment go for naught when Folger bursts
forth. The brilliant young commodore in
charge of guu manufacture has a vocabu
lary cf invective which for forceful pict
uresquenes* and variety would shame any
bdy in Hatan’s dominion. When the
jacket does’t go on just as it ought, tbe
atmosphere is not only hot, but it is sul
phurous.
But usually everything works smoothly
aud In a few hours the gun and Us jacket
are sufficiently cooled to tm removed The
cooling proesas is done by the I mart ion of a
pipe carrying oold water to tbe inner sur
face of tbs tube, thi* rnakee the cooling
gradual end obviates tbe possibility of
flaws aud cracks iu the structure.
SAVANNAH, GA.. SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1891.
From the pit, the gun with its jacket,
now adhering more cioscly than a poor re
lation, is carried to the turning lathe and
its outer surface turned and polished. Then
comes the edjus nieut of the hoops, which
are shrunk on in much tbs tame way as tbe
jacket, ;but being lighter they are put on
with lighter machinery. When all is fin
ished the big gun is subjected to a final tnrn
ing of its outer surface. Tbe machinery
weieb dots this is massive; it moves slowly,
but every tit and cutting utensil that is
brought to bear 03 the gun’s surface
works with mathematical accuracy.
Tho whole massive surface is
turned with a precision that is marvelous.
The little bit that does its work cuts no
wider than a sixteenth of an inch or deeper
than a thirty-seco. dth of an inch, but the
big gun revolves Into its bite, §and the re
sult is a little coil of steel that is
stretched out iudefinitely like an olderly
maiden lady’s curl. When that process is
finished the outer surface of the guu
is as smooth as a baby's skin. The boro of
the guo has already been polished
like glass. The next important thing is
the rifling. Fifty-two spiral grooves have
to be cut into the bore of a 13-inch gun.
The great crane comes and takes the gun to
the rifling cylinder. The machinery of this
is too complicated to describe, but Its mech
anism is fault leas. It is tbe most tedious
prooess of all that enters into tbe manufact
ure of the gun. Then comes the cutting
and boring for the breech mechanism. A
separate and distinct machine does this.
Altogether It will be seen that the making
of one of the big guns requires the highest
soienoe and skill.
The ordnance department has already
turned out 128 6-incb rifle guns and are
well along with 50 8-inch. Twenty-two
10-inoh are either completed or partially
completed. Tbe 10-inch gun Is almost as
effective as the 12-inoh. These are the guns
which are to arm the monitors Miantono
mab, Amphitnte, Manodnock, Terror, the
Maine, and partially arm the Monterey.
Eight 12-inch guns are to be made —four to
arm the Puritan, two for the Texas, and
two for tho Monterey. Twelve of the
big 13-inch guns are to be made—
four each for the three battleships
now building. The 18-inch guns have not
been begun, though the contract for the
forgings is let. Commodore Folger says
that all these great euns are being built at
the cost of about 50 cents a pound. This
will make the 13-inch guns cost about $70,-
000 each, and the 12-inch guns ateout $50,-
000 each. The commodore thinks be can
build a 16-inch gup for 40 cents a pound,
which would make such a gun cost a little
less than SIOO,OOO. He thiiiks, however,
that tho navy will build no larger guns
thau tho 13 iuch, for the reason that tho
great 100-ton guns of European navies are
practically failures. R. D. Bogart.
THE SPEED OP INSECTS.
Flies Will Soon Come on the Scene at
600 Strokes Per Fecond.
From the New York Ledger.
There are many insects which one would
little suspeot to be furnished with apparatus
suited to swift and more or less continuous
flight. House flies frequent the ihside of
our windows, buzzing sluggishly in and ou
of the room.
But what different creatures are they
when they accompany your horse on a hot
summers’s day. A swarm of these little
pests keep pertinacionsly on wing about
the horse’s ears; quicken the pace up to
ten or twelve raiies an hour, still they are
there; let a gust of wind arise and carry
them backward and behind, the breeze
shaving dropped, their speed is redoubled
and they return to tbeir post of annoyance,
to the poor horse, even whan urged to its
fastest pace.
But this example gives only a partial
proof of the fly’s power of flight as the fol
lowing will show:
The writer was traveling one day in au
tumn by rail at about twenty-live miles an
hour when a company of flies put in an ap
pearance at the car window. They never
settled, but easily kept pace with the train;
so much so, indeed, that their flight seemed
to be almost inechanioal, and a thought
struck the writer that they had probably
been drawn into a sort of vortex, whereby
they were carried onward with but little
exertion on the part of themselves. But
this notion wa< soon disproved. They
sailed forth at right angles from the train,
flew to a dis ance of thirty or forty feet,
still keeping pace, and then returned with
increased speed and buoyancy to the win
dow.
To account for thi3 look at the wings of a
fly. Each is composed of an upper and
lower membrane, which, though delicate,
are strong and supported by a stout frame
work of interlacing nervures.
These are used with great quickness, and
probably (500 strokes a e made per second.
This would carry the fly about twenty live
feet, but a seven-fold velocity can easily be
attained, making 175 feet per second, so
that under certain circumstances it cau out
strip a racehorse
If a small insect like a fly can outstrip a
race-horse, an insect as largo as a horse
would travel very much faster than a can
non bail.
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For coughs and colds, take Lemon Hot
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For sore throat and Bronchitis, take
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For Pneumonia and Laryngitis, tak
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Forconsumption and catarrh, take Lemon
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For all throat and lung diseases, take
Lemon Hot Drops.
An elegant and reliable preparation.
Hold by druggists. 25 "cents per bottle.
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Hternberg’s for diamonds.— Ad.
Three hundred white and P. K. gents’
summer vest', reduced from tl 60 to 50c., at
Kohler’s, I.VJ Broughton.—Ad.
Look at the watches in Hternberg’s win
dow,—Ad.
Farmers, merchants, mechanics and capi
talists all buy their hats at Kohler’s sacrifice
sale, 16e Broughton street.—Ad.
A GOOD STORYS VALUE.
HOW A SILL? NEWSPAPER MAN
Made a lot of money
He Had to Feat Fis Own I aper—Ned
Harrlsar.’a lilt—Two Navy Yards—
The Close of the See son—Dr. Talmage
end the Dal ry—Billy birch off the
tt .ge.
(Coouriuht.)
New York. May 2.— The other night a
newspaper man here in New York happened
upon a piece of news—not at all of a start
ling nature, but still a good piece of news.
No one else could get it. He went to one of
the papers, briefly outlined his facts and
asked; “How much can I have for this
story! It will be about a column.”
“Fifty dollars, if you sell it to no other
paper,” said the night editor.
“All right,” said the reporter, “you can
have It exclusively In New York if you let
me market it by telegraph.”
“Of course,” said the night editor.
Then the young man Jwent to work. He
wrote a column for the New York paper
and a slightly shorter story to telegraph.
This he offered to one great paper each in
Boston, Providenoe, Chicago, Buffalo and
perhaps two dozen other cities, stipulating
in each case, “special rates for an exclus
ive." Then he sent out his telegram, the
same matter to all papers. When his bills
were all honored he had made several
hundred dollars out of that evening’s work.
Smart young man you say i Not a bit of
it. He vi as the uiggest fool I have heard of
iu some time. For in order to pocket that
haul he had to “beat his own paper," and
such treachery never pays in the long run.
He would hove been wiser if he had turned
in the story to his own paper and pocketed
only his regular salary at the end of the
week.
The value of a really exclusive piece of
news is always very considerable. Of
course many newspaper men often learn
things which would make valuable stories
but which considerations of honor forbid
them to use. 1 have had this experience
pretty frequently and can testify that it is
rather exasperating. In ope case a friend,
fully aware that l was a newspaper mau,
told me a moat lovely sonsational story.
“That would bo worth four columns and
a special rate to me,” I said.
He gasped and fairly turned pal® as he
said: “But you won’t use it, will you!”
Of course 1 never did; but I long wished
he hadn't told me the story.
LITTLE ELSIE LESLIE AT HOME.
I saw a photograph the other day of
which there are only twelve copies In ex
istence. It was a picture of Edwin Booth
and Elsie Leslie, the child actress. The
former is seated in a chair and Elsie is
standing by the side of it, one arm over the
back, the other baud clasped in that of Ed
win Booth. Six of these photographs were
retained by Mr. Booth and six were given
to Mrs. Lydo, the mother of little Elsie.
Mrs. Lyde also has possession of the nega
tive. I never saw a finer portrait of the
famous tragedian.
In her home Elsie Leslie R a charming
girl, with large, trustful blue eyos and a
sweet expression on her face. I saw her
one afternoon last week romping with her
pet dog, whose name, Todkins Tudor Lyde,
is altogether out of proportion to his size.
But, though small, he is full of mischief.
Over and over he rolled, while his little
mistress tried to take from him a small rub
ber ball which was held fast between his
teeth. She got it at last. Miss Leslie is
like any other ohild. She plays with her
dolls, her gameß, and paint* a little. She
aho composes short stories and keeps a little
diary.
Mrs. Lyde never allows Elsie to see any
press notices of her acting. She is retaining
them until her daughter is old enough to
appreciate them. Elsie always arrives at
the theater au hour before the curtain rises
and walks around superintending things.
She loves tne stage and is ambitious to con
tinue upon it. She says, in her unassuming
way, that she means to be a great actress
some day.
TWO VISITORS PROM THE LAND OF THE CZAR.
An unpretentious house on Irving plaoe
contains witbin its walls two notable
women, the Princess Engalltcheff, well
known as a lecturer on Russian affairs, and
Mme. d’Offrossimoff, a former lady of
honor to the Czarinu. Mme. d’Offrossimoff
is here to see what America and Americans
are like. She is exceedingly pretty and
well proportioned, and, of course, as* befits
one who was formerly a lady of honor to
an empres*, cultured and accomplished.
She is not seeking notoriety in any shipe
or form, and but rarely appears in public.
Wherever she has gone, however, she bus
become very popular, owing to her charm
of manner and erse of conversation. Her
husband is an official In the Russian gov
ernment, wealthy and accomplished, and a
man of lioeral ideas, but thoroughly loyal
to Russia and Czar. Mme. d’Offrossitnoff
will soon return to St. Petersburg.
HARRIGAN’S GREAT HIT.
Ned Harrigan is making big money out
of his new theater. He has a field of amuse
ment all to biinseif. The phases of life on
tbe east side are full of interest. Harrigan
has studied them, and portrays them in bis
plays. He is a histrionic Meissonnier. He
draws to the life, and not a shade or line is
omitted. Sometimes in his plays there Is a
momentary lull, a time when the audience,
or part of it, is not altogether interested.
But after the play is over run your mind
back over what you have seen; there was
nothing in it irrelevant or superfluous.
I saw Mr. Harrigan in his dressing room
the other evening just before the curtain
arose. Down a passageway we went,
through au improvised door of waterproof
material, up some stairs to the stage, and
down more stairs to tbe greenroom. There
all Is clean and neat. A large room, with
sink running along one side and tables on
another, partitioned off at one end from Mr.
Harrlgan’s little room. Other r. oms for
the ladies of tbe company are near by.
Harrigan sat on a bench facing a mirror,
which rested on a long aud broad shelf
against the wall. On this shelf reposed all
the paraphernalia of the actor’s trade, the
time-honored rabbit’s foot, cosmetics, etc.
Uarrlgau was about half made up as I
entered, and he presented a comical ap
pearance ns he grasped me by tbe band
and asked me to be seated. A touch
here, a touch there, a little pen
ciling on this side, a little rouge on that, a
slight adjustment of tbe hair, arid, presto!
he was Wily Reply, with au ambition to
place his son among tbe “400.” Around
were “•upes” rehearsing tbeir parts, some
turning somersaults, some going through a
dance, tome adjusting tbeir dress and faces,
and some lolling around waiting for tbe
summons from tbe stage sb <ve, aud even
while I was talking to the genial actor tbe
shrill summons came, and there was a hur
ried scamper away. Mr, Mai rigau leisurely
surveyed himself in the glass, thens owly
accompanied me upetairs on to the stage,
where I left him. In auothor moment 1
was outon the street, and he was In front
of a large audience, which be, as Wily
Reilly, tbe pawnbroker, kept In conttaut
laughter.
MILT Finoil OFF THE HTAOE.
How time flies! Here’s Billy Birch! Not
the jolly end man of the minstrel slAge, but
a w oil-preserved, kludiy faced mau of
middle age, whose hair and mustache are
silvery gray. He is seidorn seen on the stage
now, and moro’s the pity! '. a drifted out
of the business some tears ago. Jack
Haveriy, I suppose, was the principal cause
of this. Hircn t ok him into partnership,
and the house, to use a theatrical expression.
“fell in two." He lives in a modest house
on the west side near twenty-third street.
Though at time* in his career ha has made
as much as $25,000 a year, he is practically
“daad broke.” He appears on the stage now
and again, and lately ooacbed tho Progress
Club of Fifth avenue and Sixty-third
street, in the presentation of an entertain
ment gotten up by himself. In bis parlor is
a parrot which he prizes very highly aud
for wbioh he has been offered SSOO. He will
not part with it, though. He considers it
oue of the cleverest parrots ever introduced
into this country. It has quite an extensive
vocabulary. .It will shako hands with its
friends, and every morning when tbe cover
is taken off the cage, it orioi out: “Good
morniug!" I saw Birch the other day, and
when we became reminiscent tbe contrast
between the days wheu mousy was plenti
ful and cow, when money with him i* any
thing but plentiful, drew from him a heavy
sigh. Billy has given his services often for
the benefit of brother professionals, and
there it talk among members of the profes,
sion of tendering to him a benefit.
TWO NAVY YARDS.
There are two navy yards near New
York, one known and one uuxuown to
fame. In both, gigantio hulks lie at anchor
or aground; in both tbe clanging of ham
mers on iron is heard aad workmen hurry
to and fro with tools and timber. Here the
parallel ceases, for in the one case tbe work
is of construction,in the other of destruction.
Iu one navy yard long, low vessels of
sturdy appearunce lie deep in tho water
aud rakisn torpedo boats now aud then
couio to anchor to bo gazed at by pasaongors
on the ferryboats that ply on tbe F.ru*t
river. In tbe other lie the useless hulls of
vessels of which the country was once
proud, now the spoil of the junkmen.
Port Washington, on Manbassot bay, is
the scene of the melancholy dismember
ment of many of tbe condemned vessels of
the fleets which are sold at auotion for old
wood and iron. Here where land is cheap
and labor plenty the old battered wreoks
are towed and slowly disappear into
heaps of rubbishy looking* materials. Bel
doni are there less than four or five war
ships aud merchant vessels at the yard at
once, in various stages of dismemberment,
and a rarely interesting place It is for the
country lads to come of Sunday mornings
to gossip about the old days when admirals
trod those sagging decks end the amoko of
boomiug guus blew about them.
TALMAGE’S DAISY.
It was in tbe midst of one of Dr. Tal
mage’s most eloquent passage* before he
bad shaved off his whiskeis. “I was pass
ing through the fields,” he said, “pressing
the soft grass snimmering in the suu, revel
ing in the light, the joy, the freshness
which tbe Almighty bad unrolled before
my eyes when I uotioed something gleam
ing like yello'v 7 gold beside me. I picked
up a daisy.”
Tbe dootor pausod, his eye reminiscently
oast down.
“Ob, you wicked old sinner." sympa
thetically murmured a graceless young man
In tbe audience, aud those who heard it
laughed and others theu “caugbt on” in
turn until it became general. Nor was the
laughter lessened when the doctor said, "I
did not moan a ‘daisy’ in its metaphurical,
but its literal sense."
POOR STOCKHOLDERS.
One of the funuiest features of New
York politics is the complicated ownership
of the New York Timet. Tbe paper is tho
most decided of free trade, Cleveland
organs, but a large amount of its stock—us
high as 40 or 45 per cent., I believe—ls held
by the stanchest kind of republican stock
holders, who date back to the time when
the paper voiced their views exactly. They
can’t sell except at a sacrifice; if they stav
in their feuliug* are daily lacerated by tho
Timex’ editorial blasts against their party,
and they have the doubtful consolation of
reflecting that their property doesn’t pay
them as good returns a* in the old days
when tbe Times bad a party behind it. At
present it is hated about a* much by demo
crats as by republicans.
That's a queer fix for the stockholders,
isn’t it!
PRINTER AND CONGRESSMAN.
The close of congress brings back to New
York a man who was once an ornament to
politics and to his profession in Amos J.
Cummings. Mr. Cummings is a middle
aged man, with a full, well-shaped head,
kindly eyes and a drooping mustache. Mr.
Gumming* is one of tbe very few well
known newspaper men who can write an
article, set it in type and put it in tbe form
properly. He served his apprenticeship at
the case in the old days, and it proved as
good as a college to him. He was one of the
first to make his mark by tbe most straight
forward aud unpretentious style of writing.
He was tho first editor of the Uveniny Sun,
and much of its instantaneous success was
due to bis rjuick judgment and tireless in
dustry. IV ben such a man goes to oongress
tbe eternal fitness of things is verified.
FROM GREENLAND TO NICARAGUA.
John R. Speais is a lucky man. Probably
nearly every writer in Newspaper row bas
rather envied bins his experience of a ship
wreck on the Hnorer Reef, unaccompanied
by danger, cold or starvation, and with a
prospect of unlimited columns of space for
fine descriptive writing up the story of tbe
wreck.
Mr. Hpears i* a slender young man of
medium bight and a thorough good fellow.
He was in Greenland last summer and has
written many breezy articles about that
queer far-awav land. His appearance sug
gests that bis health may impel him to take
these excursions from tbe pitiless climate of
New York.
THE LONDON SEASON.
For tbe very swellest folk In New York
the "season” is practically over. All those
who rejoice in an English connection or ac
quaintance have either already taken pas
sage for Europe or are preparing to do so.
As London isn’t tolerable until spring, the
season there isn’t fairly under way until it
is about over here, and by making quick
connections it is possible to enjoy tbe greater
part of both. 1 hus the exigencies of Lon
don society avail to snorten the season hero
for the ultra swell.
But there is plenty of fun yet for us who
stay.
THE FIRST MAN WHO HAD THE QRIP.
I have a friend who claims to be the first
man who bad the grip. He Bays he had it
with all the possible complications and
symptom* whicn will be mentioned in the
encyclopedias of the future, and that he
ought to have a 1 ension in the interests of
so.cnee. That, of course, was more than a
year ago. He has Just repeated the expe
penenos and is apparently proud of it.
Owen Langdon.
One hundred and seventy-eight Suita,
rhenlx and Eagle fabrics. Everybody knows
that $6 U cueap for theae goods. We will
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IRY GOODS.
THE BEST BARGAINS YETf
ECKSTEIN’S
FOR THE NEXT TEN
Days, Prior to Stock
Taking, Every Article
S-A-C-R-l-F-l-C-E-D!
MONDAY-Bargain Day at Eckstein’s.
S2O Robe Dresses Now sl2.
TUESDAY-Bargain Day at Eckstein’s.
Our $1 Fine Corsets Now 50c.
WEDNESDAY-Bargain Day at Eckstein’a
Stamped Linens Half/Price.
THURSDAY-Bargain Day at Eckstein’s.
Laces and Grenadines Any Price.
FRIDAY-Bargain Day *at Eckstein's.
All Linen Goods Sacrificed.
SATURDAY-Bargain Day at Eckstein’s.
All Fancy Coeds Sacrificed.
Every Day This Week
Grand Bargain Sale,
As Goods Must Move
Prior to Taking Stock.
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN & CO.
* -i ui - -i i m ,j
cLoTuinu
Won THE
OUTING SEASON.
Sate9n Shirts, Sateen Shirts, Sateen Shirts,
BLACKS $1 and £1 25. NEAT KANCYB, 81 25. $1 60. Blue Htrlped and Dotted. *1 5),
EVERY SBIRT GDABANTEED TO FIT.
Will Not Fade, Crock or ShriDk.
MADRAS SHIRTS, MADRAB SHIRTS, MADRAS SHIRTS,
5 Styles at |1 60. 15 Styles at $3 00. 10 Styles at #2 25.
These Are (he Host Perfect Fitting Shirts in America!
SILKSHIRTS, SILK SHIRTS. SILK BHIRTS,
Blue aud Gold Stripe., 12 25. Pin Check., |.'i 00. Plaids and Figured, $3 50.
This Line Has Been Reduced from S3, $350 k $4 Respectively
25 dozen Sateen Hhlrti, 75c., worth |l; Boy.’ Shirt Wa'its, 39c., worth 50a and 75a
Big Drives This Week in Underwear—-Regular Goods.
NAINSOOKS, FRENCH BALBRIGGAN, V3Q JEANB DRAWERS.
|IOO and |1 25 a Suit, fl, |125, $1 50, $2, |2 50 and $3 a Suit. 500, 75c, sl, Elastic Seamed $1
BALBRIGGAN UNDERSHIRTS, all color., 50c, 750, *l, |1 25, |1 50, |1 75and *2.
White Flannel Suits - - - - sl2 00 and $lB 00
Fancy Flannel Coat and Pants - - 12 00 and 13 50
Fancy Flannel Coat and Vests - - 500 to 12 00
Fancy Flannel Coats (double breasted) - 600
Silk Watch Guards and Fobs, White and Black.
20 Styles Puff Bosom Shirts. $1 up.
50 Dozen Windsor Ties, 10c, 25c and 50c.
Outing Caps—Blue, White and Fancy—soc and 71 5 c.
Silk Lmb relies. Mounted Handles, $1 50.
All Styles in Ladies’, Gentlemen's and Misses' Russet and
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