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MUBDKBER MORRIS’ CRIME.
Xte elayer of the Locketts on His
Way to Madison for Trial.
Alex Morris (oolored), the slayer of Daniel
Lockett and his wife near Madison, Fia., in
1887, and who was arrested in Savannah
jast week by Justice E. A. Davidson, is on
bis way to Madison for trial.
Sheriff Fears left here night before last
with Morris seourelv shackled. Morris has
been in Chatham county jail since his arrest
by Justice Davidson. He had little to say
to the officers. His crime, committed in
October, 1887, is a shocking one.
THE CRIME.
South of Madison, about two miles from
the court house, lived Dan Lockett with his
wife, Lucy, and daughter Mary. Dan was
s bard working, inoffensive old negro and
bad many friends among both races. He
cultivated a one-horse farm, and by haul
ing wood and selling melons, etc., made a
good support for his family, besides saving
s little money at the end of every year.
About three years previous to tne crime
Aleck Morris had married Dan's daughter
Mary very much against ype wishes of her
father. They did not live happily together
and many quarrels ensued, resulting finally
in Aleck giving'Mary a severe beating and
nearly breaking her arm. After this she
left him and went to live with her parents.
Morris tried to induce his wife to live with
him again, but she refused and he became
enraged with Lockett, accused him of keep
ing bis wife away from him, and threatened
his life.
PLANNED THE MURDER.
On the day of the murder Morris went to
Lockett's house. Ho was received coolly at
first, but after some talk Lockett told him
he could come to see Mary whenever he
chose, but that she would not live with him
again. Morris seemed satisfied with this,
and soon the family retired. Lockett spread
a pallet on the floor before the fire, and
lying down was soon aloep, little dream
ing from that sleep he would never awake
again.
Tbs bouse, a small log cabin, had but one
room and two beds. Morris’ wife oocupied
the bed near the door. In the farther cor
> ner stood Lockett’s bed in which his wife
lay. Lockett’s double-barreled shotgun,
which he had loaded that night, leaned
against the wall beyond the fireplace,where
Lockett was lying, and near his bed.
THE FATAL SHOT.
So well did the fiend play his part that
not a soul in the house suspected his devilish
design. About 11 o’clock Morris, becoming
satisfied that all were asleep, arose from bed,
and, by the dim light that flickered in the
fireplace, crept over the slumbering form of
Lockett, and, seizing tbe gun, placed the
muzzle close to the old man’s head and fired.
Lockett never knew what killed him. The
charge tore an ugly hole through his head,
from which his brains ran in huge clots
upon tbe floor.
The report of the gun aroused Lockett’s
wife, who rnshing to the pallet where her
husband lay saw that he was dead, and that
the pallet was on fire, caused from a burn
ing wad. She extinguished the fire, being
assisted by Morris, who watching bis op
portunity and as the old woman turned
oaugbt her from behind, and drawing her
head back deliberately cut her throat,
severing the windpipe, and narrowly miss
ing the jugular vein on both sides.
STABBED HIS WIFE.
He then approached the bed where his
■wife lay, ana before she could get out he
stabbed her two or three times on the neck.
She finally managed to get out of his
clutches aud ran screaming from the house
closely followed by Morris. The report of
the gun and the screams of the terrified
■women aroused the neighbors, who soon
came running to learn tho cause of the dis
turbance. They saw tbe woman struggling
with her husband, but before they could
reach the spot, the murderer had fled.
Tbennurder occurred on the night of Oct.
1, 1887. Diligent search was made at the
time to apprehend Morris, but ha eluded
pursuit.
GRAND ARMY SOUVENIRS.
Unique Reminders of the Detroit En
campment.
Thomas F. Gleason of the national coun
cil of administration of the G. A. R. has
returned from the national encampment at
Detroit. Mr. Gleason was the only repre
sentative from Savannah at Detroit The
encampment, he said, was a great event in
the history of the grand army, and
its results will be felt by
every post in the organization. The pub
lished reports, Mr. Gleason said, cover
the proceedings too fully to leave room for
anything to be said concerning the encamp
ment.
Mr. Gleason brought home some interest
ing and unique souvenirs. One is the
souvenir menu card of the banquet tendered
the encampment by the citizens of Detroit.
It is a miniature kuapsaek about Bxs
inches, of oil cloth stamped with
tbe inscription in silver, “ Twenty-fifth
National Encampment G. A. R., Detroit,
1891,’' and made with straps and blanket
rolled aud strapped .ready ior the march. The
blanket serves the purpose of a cigar case.
Upon unbuckling the straps the knapsack
unfolds and within its beautifully stamped
and engrossed silk linings are the menu
card, tho toast list, musical programme and
list of banquet committees, underneath a
cover handsomely inscribed to the officers
and delegates of the encampment. The
covers of the knapsack and the cards are
printed with historical army scenes.
Besides the menu card Mr. Gleason
brought back the grand army silver anni
versary souvenir book of the history of the
organization illustrated with portraits of
leading grand army men and views of De
troit
, NOT THE GIRL HE WANTED.
What Came of a Young Dry Goods
Man’s Appointment in the Park.
A practical joke was played upon a well
known young dry goods man the other
evening, which was the means of causing
considerable merriment among his friends.
During the day the young man received a
delicately tinted epistle—purporting to have
come from a member of the gentler sex
making an appointment to meet him at the
park in ihe evening, and stating that the
young lady would wear her new pink dress
in honor of the occasion.
During the remaining hours of the day
the young man’s mind was filled with de
lightful visions of a pretty face, stately fig
ure and pink dress, and, when near the ap
pointed hour, he arrayed himself in
■P 'tioss attire of white flannel, re
gardless of the rain which was fail
ing, and Ballied forth to meet his
fate. Upon arriving at the park, and after
waiting impatiently for about twenty min
utes, he was surprised at seeing a crowd of
about ten of his chums approaching. He
was completely disgusted when one of them
ventured to ask him if he was waiting for
“Miss Pinky.”
.The joke was not allowed to end, for upon
the young man’s arrival at his place of
business the following morning he was
greeted with very pleasant inquiry after
the young lady’s health, eto.. by each dork,
who wore a huge piece of pink calico as a
token of remembrance of the occasion.
SIGNS THAT MEAN BUSINESS.
Alderman Hsrmon’s Warning to the
“Cross Cutters."
The person in a hurry, or the one too lazy
to go around, now crosses the grass plats in
the squares and the greens on the Btreeta at
his peril. Yesterday every familiar cross
cut path bore a sign which said “$25 pen
alty for crossing plats.”
One of thege signs blocked up the entrance
to every path, and boldly defied the old
time offenders to cross. The signs are more
effectual than the old time warning to
Keep off the grass.”
THB TWELVE HOUR BILL.
Train Men Not to be Worked Longer
Than Twelve Consecutive Hours.
Maj. Ryals’ bill recently passed by the
Senate, providing that railroad train men
should not be worked more than twelve
consecutive hours in the twenty-four, and
providing penalties for the railroads com
pelling their train men to w ork over that
time, will probably become a law.
W W. Starr of the main stem of
the t en.ral railroad said yesterday that he
aid not expect any inconvenience to tha
railroads from the bill, if it is passed. He
did not specially approve of it, but he did
not think it would interfere with the train
service upon the Central.
The average run of the trainmen on the
Central is about eight or nine hours. The
passenger engineers and conductors that
go through to Atlanta have an
hour more. Exceptions are made as to short
runs and accidents.
The bill is intended as a safeguard to life
and property intrusted in the care of train
men by preventing the railroads from plac
ing or keeping ou duty men who have not
had sufficient rest or are already exhausted.
The plea has frequently been made by
trainmen in case of accident that they were
so exhausted by over work and loss of sleep
as to be unable to attend to
properly their duties. This, how
ever, usually happens when the
crews of freight trains have been delayed
on the road Dy accident to their own or
other trains on the same schedule.
ANTS MAKE LIVELY BACBRS.
They Can Beat the Best Time of the
Fastest Locomotive.
There are a great many ways of looking
at everything if one is only thoughtful
enough to study them out.
When he recently enlarged and refitted
the restaurant of the Marshall preparatory
to his September opening. Proprietor Fish
found it necessary to remove a partition.
This brought to light a dozen or more very
brisk and active ants iu the rear part of the
room. Being an eminently practical man
he at once set to work to chase them away.
But being also a very humane man, Mr.
Fish desired to give the little creatures a
chance for escape without injury.
That’s all they wanted. They made such
remarkable time getting away that Pro
prietor Fish was astonished and called the
attention of a guest of the Marshall to the
wonderful speed the ants made.
Together the two gentlemen proceeded to
estimate the time scored. Close observa
tion ana repeated tests with a watch led
them to estimate the time occupied by an ant
measuring less than a sixteenth of an inch
iu length, in crossing a four-inch board at
less than half a second. Reckoning upon
that basis Proprietor Fish concluded that a
horse of normal stature capable of equal
speed in proportion to size would be able to
make nearly three miles a second on a level
surface, or about 150 miles a minute.
Wouldn’t that boa humming flyer?
This is susceptible of demonstration.
Cipher it out for yourself.
Ants are not half so puny as they look.
AT THB COUBTS.
Judge Falligant yesterday afternoon
granted an order allowing the attorneys for
John Webb, the condemned murderer of
Anauias Hill, to argue a motion for anew
trial during vacation, at Buck time as tbe
court may appoint.
J. F. andC. Heltman, who were oonvicted
night before last in the superior court of
selling liquor to a minor, were yesterday
sentenced by Judge Falligant to pay a fine
of SIOO and costs each. The fines were paid.
Judge Falligant yesterday grauted orders
to hear the following cases in vacation:
Henry Coleman vs. the Ocean Steamship
Company of Savannah, motion for new
trial; the De Soto Investment Company et
al. vs. Louis M. Warfield and Charles P.
Rossignol et al., rule nisi and petition for
injunction and receiver; J. F. Cavanaugh
vs. J. H. M. Clinch and T. M. Cunningham,
executors of the estate of J. Waldburg, de
ceased, arbitration and award; 8. Herman
et al. vs. Epstein & Wannbacher et al.,
eta, order as to investment of funds in Re
ceiver Dillon’s hands; mayor and aldermen
of Savannah vs. D. C. Bacon, motion for
new trial; Henry P. Howard vs. Savan
nah, Florida and Western Railway Com
pany, motion for new trial; John J. Foley
vs. S. Elsinger, guardian, motion for new
trial.
The motion for anew trial in the case of
the Vernon Shell Road Company vs. the
mayor and aldermen was • overruled by
Judge Falligant in the superior court. City
Attorney Adams will at once carry tho case
to tho supreme court, where it will be heard
the latter part of October or early ia .No
vember.
RAIL AND CROSSTia.
It is stated that the proposed Pensacola
Short Lice, to extend from l’eusacola (Fla.)
to Mobile (Ala.) will be built at an early
data
The Montgomery (Ala.) Street and Ter
minal Railway Company has applied to the
city council for authority to change its
street railway to the electric system. The
estimated cost of the improvement is
SBO,OOO.
To-morrow Tybee sohedules will be
changed as follows: Lsave Savannah 9:30
a. m., 2:SO p. m., sp. in,, 6:40 p. m. Leave
Tybee7:loa. m., 11:05 a. m., 4:53 p. m.,9p.
m. These trains will run daily. The schedule
now in effect will be run as usual to-day,
after which tbe above changes wiil go into
effect.
T. P. Haddock, a former Savannahian
and well-known railroader, is stopping at
the De Sota Mr. Haddock is weli remem
bered by the patrons of the Savannah and
Tybee road during its first season, espe
cially those who on the first trip spent the
night at St. Augustine bridge. He is at
present running on the Burlington route out
of Chicago.
Master Car Builder Anderson of the
Pittsburg aud Western says: “The steel car
ithe coming car. There should, however,
be one standard make agreed on, so that all
roads oould unite on it. Otherwise there is
liable to be annoyance in their adoption. A
steel car that has been through a wreck
would be twisted and bant, and it would
take hard work to repair It, but tha ma
terial would be there and nothing would be
lost. It oould bo used in the construction
of anew car. There are several patents on
steel oars.”
By or before Deo. 1 the Manufacturer's
Record says the Seaboard Air Line system
will have completed the Georgia, Carolina
and Northern railroad, and will be running
through trains from Norfolk to Atlanta, in
connection with the Bay Line steamers
from Baltimore and the Old Dominion
Steamship Line from New York. The im
portance of this new route to the two termi
nal cities, and to all those sections of the
two Carolines and of Georgia this system
will traverse, the Record thinks, cannot be
overestimated.
The directors of the Kansas City, Port
Scotland Memphis road have agreed to
postpone the dividend upon the oontracts
for preferred stock, which was to have
been declared at this time, until the result
of the earnings of the calendar year 1891 be
ascertained. This is the first time for vear9
that the board has been compelled to take
this action, and inasmuch it was not gener
ally expected. The report of earnings for
the fisoal year ending June 30, 1891, shows
the grossearninge to be54,702,142; expenses,
$3,389,318; net earnings, $1,313,924; other
inoome, $11,803; total, net. $1,325,727;
charges, $1,008,846; surplus, $256,881; divi
dends February, 1891, $208,972; balance,
$47,909; deficit on current year, $26,948;
Kansas City, Chicago and Springfield, $37,-
297; total, $64,245.
Augusta is very muoh agitated over the
the recent change of the taritT schedule of
the Southern Railway and Steamship Asso
ciation, by which, it is claimed, Augusta is
placed at a disadvantage in rates, as com
pared with Macon and several smaller
points, the reduction to these points being
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1891-TWELVE PAGES.
greater than that to Augusta. A meeting of
the business men was?he,d*as the cotton ex
change Friday to protest against the action
of the railroads. The subject was fully dis
cussed. It was said that Augusta was being
discriminated against in the matter of
freight rates. It was stated that the rate
on mill goods between Augusta and New
York had been raised 25 percent, since tbe
Richmond and Danville came into power.
The Manufacturers’ association has ap
pointed a oommittee to go to Atlanta and
state its grievanoes before the railroad com
mission.
The New York Central is testing, at six
points ou its lines, an ingenius device for
signaling engineers of the condition of the
road ahead of them. It is a signal intended
to let the engineer know how many minutes
ahead of time is the last train that passed
the signal, provided the time is under fifteen
minutes. The machine is stationed beside
tho track and comprises a dial-face on
which a hand moves from zero to fifteen.
This hand is regulated by clock-work.
When a train passes it moves a spring
which sets the band at zero. Immedi
ately the clock-work is set in motion
and the engineer of the following train
reads on the dial tne exact number of min
utes which have olapsed since the preceding
train passed. The hand, however, stops at
fifteen, and if the engineer finds the dial
hand at that point ne knows simply that
the preceding train is fifteen minutes or
more ahead of him. It is an added safe
guard to railroad travel, of course, if the
engineer can once in so often look at the
signal dial and know how many minutes he
is behind the preceding train, and tell
whether he is safe in running at his present
speed-or should slow up and proceed more
cautiously.
J. M. Culp, who has been appointed as
sistant traffio manager of the Richmond
and Danville, is one of the best known rail
road mon in tbe south. His resignation
from the Louisville and Nashville railroad
will take effect Sept. 1, immediately after
which he will begin his new duties. He
will be assistant to Traffic Manager Haas,
and will be located in Atlanta. Mr. Culp
is at present in New York. His salary in
his new place is said to be SIO,OOO, and the
large sum was the inducement for him to
leave the Louisville and Nashville, in tho
employ of which he has been for twenty
two years. He stands high in railroad
circles as a general freight agent,
and is thoroughly acquainted with
every detail of that branoh of
traffic. Mr. Culp is 42 years of age, and his
record as a railroad man has been confined
exclusively to the Louisville and Nashville.
He was born in Harrisvilie, W. Va., iu
April, 1549. He entered in the employ of
the Louisville and Nashville road as a bill
clerk in 1870, and in 1871 he was made
chief billing clerk. A year later he was
promoted to the position of division clerk in
the general freight agent’s office, and in
1873 he was made ohiof clerk in the same
office. In the year 1880 be filled the posi
tion of general freight agent of the terri
tory north of Montgomery, Ala. At the
beginning of 1881, he was made general
freight agent of the entire line of the Louis
ville and Nashville road, which position he
still occupies.
CITY BREVITIES.
One of the self-winding clocks synco
uized daily to standard, ninetieth meridian
time, was placed in the office of the De Soto
hotel yesterday by the Western Union
Telegraph Company. There are about
twenty of these clocks now in use in the
city. They are connected by wire with the
Western Union office, and receive the time
from Washington every day at 11 o’clock.
WOMAN IN A NEW BOLE.
She Will Soon Wear a Uniform and
Jerk the Bell-Punch.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Women as conductors! That means a
revolution in street car etiquette. The sex,
which has long suffered from man’s rudeness
and domineering ways, which has invaria
bly been compelled to ride a whole block
beyond its destination because of man’s in
uttentiveuess, whioh has never been allowed
an opportunity to get on or off a streot car
without unbecoming baste, which has en
dured—not in silence always—untold Impo
sition from heartless, shameless, impolite,
mean, contemptible, despicable persons
whose tyranny is legalized by their uniform
and bell-punch, will now have a chance to
get even.
Women, pretty, young women with tight
fitting, braided jackets and jaunty caps
could not be rude under any oircumstauces.
It would be unbecoming, hence out of the
question.
THEY ARE A NECESSITY.
“We do not propose to man our cars with
lady conductors simply to create a sensa
tion,” said James L. Dyer, No. 230 La Salle
street, yesterday. Mr. Dyer is the designer
of the new Columbian coach which it is
promised will soon be a familiar feature of
street scenes in Chicago.
"Lady conduotors are a necessitv to us
owing to the city ordinances," he continued.
"There is an ordinance to the effect that no
vehicles oan be run on the boulevards unless
there be a lady aboard. I suppose the object
of tbe ordinance was to keep the boulevards
for pleasure riding, and to secure this a gen
tleman is supposed to be out riding with a
lady.
“But the ordinance is clearly nonsensical.
For instance, I can ride down Michigan
boulevard on a load of hay if I have a lady
with me, but I can’t make the same trip
alone in a grocer’s delivery wagon.
"During the world’s fair it will be abso
lutely necessary to utilize tbe boulevards
for passeDger traffic, and we purpose to
evade an unjust ordinance by carrying our
‘lady passengers’ in the shape of conduc
tors.”
NO HOMELY ONES.
"Will you secure the handsomest women
you can find for your conductors?”
“We won't have any homely ones If we
can help it,” said Mr. Dyer with a wink.
"There is no reason in the world why a
woman should not engage in the legitimate
occupation of street car conductor. There
are women lawyers, women doctors, women
clergymen. Women are gaining an en
trance to the ranks of toilers everywhere.
Why not in the street car? ,
“Our cars will be fitted up in palatial
style, fit for tho occupancy of any lady, and
we shall maintain them as such.”
"Don’t you apprehend oriticism of your
new idea?”
“Of course, but we will see that our wo
men conduotors maintain their proper deco
rum and turn in all the nickels in due form.
Women havo more souse than they are
ordinarily given credit for.”
Mr. Dyer does not think it will be neces
sary to post iu conspicuous places signs
reading:
No young woman will be accepted as con
ductor, he says, unless she Is proof against
the smiles of tbe other sex.
TRIAL TRIP MADE.
The first of Mr. Dyer’s new cars made a
trial trip on Michigan boulevard yesterday.
The car looks liko an ordinary grip coach,
and can be run by an electric motor or
horse-power without tracks. When elec
tricity is used the vehicles are be-t ac
commodated to the macadamized streets.
The cars are light iu weight aud run
without perceptible jarring. The platform
is close to the ground, and passengers will
enter from the sides. The seating capacity
will be sixty-five to a coach. The best
feature of the car will be its easy move
ment. The axles are provided with anti
friotion rollers and ball bearings, and no
lubrication is required. In winter tbe
coach can be made storm proof and heated.
A dry goods firm on State street has ar
ranged (or a line to be run from State and
Adams streets to the Northwestern depot.
Another line will be o Denod between
Lincoln Park and the down-town district.
A plant capable of turning out twenty of
the cars a month will be built at Momence,
111.
GENTLEMEN
WILL PLEASE NOT OGLE
THE CONDUCTORS.
PEARLAND IN PALL .MALI
VALUES THERE AS THE RECENT
LEASE FIXES THEM.
Values Elsewhere in London and
Reasons for Making Them High—Pall
„ Mall in the Past—Land Valued at Five
Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling
Per Acre.
From the London Daily Telegraph.
A small tract of crown land in Pall Mall
was recently leased for a term of eight
years, at an annual rental of £1,525,
amounting to 8 shillings 6 pence per foot of
the area, which is nearly equivalent to a
selling price of £500,000 sterling per acre.
The plot of ground is 60x59 feet and is sit
uated nearly opposite the Travelers’ Club.
Looking at the immensity ot the ground
rent agreed upon and the shortness
of tbe time the lease or its re
mainder has to run, Lord Lyt
ton’s celebrated question, "What will he do
with it!” at once recurs to the miud. For
the renewal of the lease the crown will
naturally demand a heavy fine, and, as
there are several clubs in Pall Mall, tho
leases of which are within measurable
distacce of falling in, the various commit
tees will sooner or later be in the delicate
predicament of not knowing exactly what
terms they may be able to make with tbe
office of works.
Unless a site for the new war office and
admiralty has been positively decided upon,
it may occur to the greatly daring mind of
tome future first commissioner to extend the
facade far east aud we6t of the present in
congruous pile of buildiugs used as the war
office, and absorb in one ruthless sweep of
adaptation to clerkly uses the Guards, the
University, the Carlton, the Reform, and
the Travelers’. All those palatial edifices
would make capital annexes to tho minis
try of war. There would be no need
to demolish them, seeing that they
are highly creditable specimens of metro
politan architeeure, and the dispossessed
members would only leave to find new
quarters on the north side of Pall Mall.
Failing their ability to obtain shelter in the
locality just named, or in tbe adjacent St.
James Square, they would be fain to mi
grate into King street, St. James’, or else to
seek roofs to cover them iu some of the
small streets between King street aud
Piccadilly.
The immensity of the prico at which the
vacant site ou the north side of Pall Mall
has been leased affords a curious ematnple
of the growiug prestige of oertain thorough
fares in what may bo ter inn 1 exceptional
London. To find a parallel for tbe prodi
gious ground rents obtained in Pall Mall,
and to almost as great an extent in St.
James street and Waterloo place, one must
go into the heart of the city, where anal
ogously inflated pricos are eagerly paid for
the freehold or leasehold of every inch of
available ground in a leading thoroughfare.
Nor is it difficult to understand the contin
ued keenness of this demand for space in
the city proper.
WISH TO BE NEAR THE BANKS.
Two reasons, one financial and the other
strictly commercial, keep up the desire to
obtain bouseroom between Bt. Paul’s church
yard and Cornhill. It is an absolute neces
sity to business men that they should have
their offices within easy walking distance of
the bank, the royal exchange, the stock ex
change, the corn and coal exchanges, and
the auction mart. The second reason why
every inch of land in the city is so inordin
ately oostly may be found in the fact tnat
atter all it is to the shops in Lud
gate Hill and Cheapside of the Poultry aud
Cornhill and Leadenhall street, that the
great army of purchasers from foreign
parts inevitably gravitates. The trades
men of the West End have little to com
plain of in the way of patronage for
articles of taste and luxury which tn*y sell
bo the incessantly-arriving armies of
strangers who visit our shores every year;
but on inquiry it might possibly be found
that the city traders do the most remunera
tive business so far as foreign orders are
concerned.
It will thus oease to be a matter of aston
ishment that land in the city should sustain
its prestige and fetch almost as much as its
owners ohoose to ask for it, but the amazing
quotation of value when any ground is ob
tainable in Pall Mall suggests matter for no
little perplexity and cogitation. Pall Mall
is a very spacious and handsome street; in
deed, a somewhat too fervid essayist has
ventured on the assertion that the thorough
fare is lined on each side with so
many palaces that it only requires
a stream of water running down
the center to be a replica of
the Grand canal at Venice. Still, Pall Mall
is not a lengthy street, and as a place for
tbe transaction of official business is not by
any means so convenient a location as
Whitehall, which, when the shops toward
Charing Cross are replaced by public build
ings or grand hotels, and King street is
thrown into Parliament street, will be one
of the most magnificent streets in London.
At any rate, Pall Mall can claim without
fear of contest to be,in a socially aristocratic
sense, the most interesting street iu the
modern Babylon.
From tbe time of the Stuarts Pall Mall
has been an appurtenance of the neighbor
ing palaces of Whitehall and St. James.
It was originally known as St. Janies’
Field, aad was a large open space until
after the restoration, when the present Pail
Mall. St. James square, and the adjacent
streets were built. The place where the
actual game of pall mail 'was played by
Henry, Prince of Waies, son of James 1., is
said by that distinguished London anti
quary, Mr. Wheatley, to be what is now
the south side of St. James square, and on
each side of it was a row of elm trees,
numbering altogether 140, which wore
valued at £7O in the survey of
the crown lands in 1650. These trees
formed "the sweet shady side of Pall Mall,"
immortalized by the tuneful Capt. Morris.
Before the restoration, however, there had
long been a highway lietween St. James
and Charing Cross, with a few houses at its
eastern extremity, and when the highway
was laid out as a regular thoroughfare it
enjoyed for a short time the name of Cath
erine street, in honor of the consort of the
Merry Monarch. It was more generally
knowD, however, by the name of Pall Mall
street, from the elm-shaded avenue whioh
ran parallel to it. At the western side, close
to Marlborough house, was a row of low
roofed buildings tenanted by the chATsters
of the Chapel Royal.
IT IS A PATRICIA!! STREET.
Pall Mall may still be considered as an
intensely patrician street, since some of the
handsomest and lordliestdubs of the West
End are to be found on each side of the
thoroughfare, but and exceedingly curious
study of Londou life is afforded by asirvey
of the gradual disappearance of the man
sions of the nobility and their utilization
either as public offices or as clubs. The
south side was almost entirely occupied by
palatial private mansions with gardens
looking into the park itself, and one of the
earliest occupants of a freehold house In
Pall Mall was Nell Gwynne. Evelyn has
described his walk with Charles 11. through
Bt. James’ park to the garden where he
both "saw and heard a very familiar dis
course between the king and Mrs. Nelly, as
they call an imDudent comedian, she look
ing out of her garden on a terrace at the
top of the wall.” Some antiquaries have
held that, as the gardens of the Pall Mall
houses come do wn to the park, Charles stood
in the mail to interchange witticisms with
Nelly, but others maintain tnat the garden
was at the eastern end, adjoining old Carl
ton house.
The fact nevertheless remains that in the
garden of Marlborough house there yet ex
ists such a mound or terrace of earth as
Evelyn spoke of. Nell’s dwelling was, how
ever, one of the many splendid mansions of
Pall Mall formerly inhabited bv tbs bluest
blood in England. There was Buckingham
house, so called because it belonged to L >rd
Temple, and afterward to liis son, the Mar
quis of Buckingham. Old Schomberg
house, now utilized as part of the war
office, had in its rear a raised turfed
terrace, commanding a view of
the royal garden and the park
beyond, just as was the ca c e wits Nelly’s
house. It had been teuauted from tho time
of Charles 11. to the revolution by one Ed
ward Griffon, a court official, and was re
named when it became the residence of
William, Duke of Sehomberg, tho famous
General of William 111. Sehomberg house
wus afterward the residence of William,
Duke of Cumberland, the ferocious hero of
Culloden, and after his death the house was
divided into three parts, which received a
long succession of notable tenants. Here
Astley, the painter and dandy, had his
studio, and was followed by Cosway, the
portrait painter.
FUNNY FACTS ABOUT FEET.
A Study Concerning the Tootsies of In
fants—A Few Scientific Theories.
From the Washington Star.
“How many people have ever taken no
tice of a baby’s foot, except to admire its
pinkness and prettiness?” said
scientist to a Star reporter. "And yet to
the anatomist it is a revelation. Take, for
example, the tootsies of a child of 10 months
that has never walked nor stood alone. It
has a power of grasping to some extent and
is used instinctively like a hand. Tho great
toe baa a certain independent w.irking, like
a thumb, and the wrinkles of the sole re
semble those of the palm. Those markings
almost entirely disappear alter tho prdal
extremity has come to be employed ior pur
poses of support and locomotion.
” The hands and feet of a human being
are strikingly like those of the chimpanzee
in conformation, while the gorilla’s resem
blance to man in these respects is even more
remarkable. The higher anes have been
classified as ‘quadrumaua,’ or ‘four-handed,’
because their hind feet aro hand-shaped;
but this designation is very improperly ap
plied, because the ape’s posterior extremities
are not really bands at all. They
merely look like bands at tbe
first glanoe, whereas in fact they
are but feet adapted for climbing. Tho
big toes cannot be ‘opposed’ to the other toes
as thumbs are to tho fingers, but simply aot
pinoerwise for the purpose of grasping.
Now, funnily enough, the ‘infant’s’ feet
have this same power of grasping piuoer
fashion, and the action is performed in pre
cisely the fame way. Advocates of evolu
tionary theories take this to signify that the
human foot was originally utllizod for
climbing trees also before the species was so
highly developed as it is now. They also
assert that the fact that the art of walking
erect is learned by the child with such diffi
culty proves that the race has only acquired
it recently.
“There aro many scientists nowadays who
contend that man is not structurally
adapted to walking ou two feet, and that
this habit is responsible for the frequency
of rupture in the male and of utorius com
plaints in tbe female. If this most inter
esting of animals went on all fours, they
say, the strong abdominal walls would
properly uphold the internal organs. Also
they find confirmation of their theories in
the fact that the foot of tbe unborn infant
is very like that of the anthropoid opes,
lacking development at tho heel.
POWER OF THE GREAT TOE.
“However all this may be, there is no
doubt of tho fact that tho power of tha great
toe for grasping and other services may be
preserved and developed after infancy if tho
foot is not confined. Many savage peoples
make considerable use of the foot for handy
purposes. Australian natives employ the
grasping power of their groat toes in climb
ing trees, and it is their habit to pick up in
the same way speurs and other objeots from
the ground. Nubian horsemen hold the
reins with their big toes, and Chinese boat
men pull their oars by the same means.
Persons born without hands often use their
feet for nearly every object that hands
ordinarily serve for, threading needles with
their toes, using scissors, writing, etc. it is
a very interesting thing to examine the
skeletons of a human foot and hand side by
side, and to observe how the two structures
are absolutely similar.save for certain modi
fications which adapt the foot for locomo
tion and the hand for manipulation.
EQUIPPED FOR LOCOMOTION.
“There soems to be no doubt that man,
compared with other animals, is very
poorly equipped for locomotion. The horse
walks on its toe nails, likewise tho moun
tain goat and all other beasts that me swift.
You can yourself discern the superiority of
this method for grace and rapidity by ob
serving the ballet daucer, who, by the arti
ficial cultivation of certain muscles, is
enabled to prauce upon her toes and with
out touohing her heels to the ground. Did
it ever ocour to you to think how wretch
edly inferior as a runner man is to nearly
every living creature?
"The instep is a feature peculiar anatom
ically to man. Asa rule waut of develop
ment in this particular is characteristic of
low physical development. Certain negro
races laok it notably. In southern cities
colored youths who enjoy the gift of flat
feet do frequently, when the pavements
have been watered in the evening, walk
over them, their soles acting like the leather
suckers utilized for purposes of amusement
by small boys, and delight in the loud re
ports which follow their steps.
jS“From the occidental point of view the
Chinese deformity has always been regarded
as most interesting in considering the sub
ject of feet. Torturing of these extremi
ties is begun in the second year of infancy
by turning the toes underneath aud bandag
ing them tightly iu this position. Among the
rich it is considered necessary that the big
toe shall approach the heel as nearly as pos
sible. Of course the pain is agonizing, and
delicate children frequently aro killed by
the process. But oven death is preferable
to being out of the fashion."
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ECKSTEIN’!
Week of Special Bargains
The balance of onr summer stock of Dress Goods, com
prising light colored Albatross, Cashmeres, Henriettas,
Beugalines, Nuns’ Veilings, Etc., Etc., at
FULLY ONE-THIRD LESS THAN REGULAR PRICE
For This Week Only.
SPECIAL SALE OF WASH DRESS GOODS.
1 CASE Dress Sateens, French Patterns, Recently
sold at 20c.,
THIS WEEK AT 12 l-2c.
60 PIECES Figured and Striped Linen Lawns, sold
at 25c. and 30c.,
THIS WEEK AT 18c.
2o PIECES French Ginghams. Sold up to this
week at 45c. to GOc.,
THIS WEEK AT 30c.
Special Sale of Ladies' and Men's Umbrellas.
100 28-inch English Fast Black Gloria Umbrellas,
mounted with fancy silverine handles at $2 00, reduced
from $3 00.
100 26-inch Blnck Serge Umbrellas, fancy silverine
handles, at $2 00, reduced from $3 00.
SWEEPING REDUCTION IN HOSIERY.
SPECIAL: 100 dozen Ladies’ fancy and Black
Cotton and Lisle Hose at 25c. Reduced from 40c. and 50a
SPECIAL TO BARGAIN SEEKERS.
1 CASE yard-wide Bleached Domestic at 61c. yard. Good
value for 8a
1 CASE yard-wide Sea Island at 5 cent®. Regular
price Bc,
Special Sale of Remnants.
SOLD TUTS WEEK REGARDLESS OF COST.
For Wednesday and Thursday’s Sale
SPECIAL: 25 dozen Men's Night Shirts, Plain
and Fancy. Sold up to $1 00. For this sale at 50c.
SPECIAL: 25 dozen Men’s Neglige Shirts, best
quality. Sold up to $3 00. For this sale $L 50.
MM ECKSTEIN & CH.
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