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CORBETT’S METHODS,
How He Developed tfie Half Arm Idea
of Fighting.
It Gets There Much Quicker—Ha Gives
a Few Reminiscences of His Life at
Mayport and Thinks Training Should
he Made Enjoyable—The Sea a Great
Help in Training.
(Copyright 1991.)
New York. March 3.—Training is not
half so unpleasant as most people imagine
it to be. That much I am anxious to in
sist upon at the very beginning. Fight
ing is not so unpleasant either—when you
win. The editor has been kind enough to
ask me to write down here how I train
and how I fight. It would lie hard to do
that in the brief limits of a newspaper
article, yet I hope to be able to te.l
enough here to encourage those who read
it to try the benefits of a little training.
It is pleasant to take, and it benefits a
man—or woman, either—more than a
cio’en doctors. If I were to givo up box
ing forever I should still take a course of
thorough conditioning once in a year or
so, just for the pleasure of the thing and
its beneficial influence on the health.
To begin with, the methods of training
as well as of boxing have changed vastiy
since the ancient Mr. Fi*g begun to teach
the manly ar: of self-defense. The old
London prize ring rules, under which men
fought barehanded on the turf, have prac
tically fallen into disuse. They should
never he revived, for they encouraged
brutality. Under those rules a tame man
was virtually knocked out half a do'en
times before he was so beaten that he
could not come to time at the end of one
minute's rest. Under the Oueensberr.v
rules, which now govern championship
battles, the man who is knocked down
must be up r.tid fighting within ten sec
onds or he loses the contest. This is
merciful to the conquered, and it does not
prevent the best man from winning. A
great many followers of the old system
complain that undt r modern rules the in
ferior tighter may win with a ■'chance
blow.” It seems to me that there is
nothing haphazard about it when two
trained athletes meet in the ring. Each
knows what ibe other is trying to do to
him, and it is his busin ss to take care of
hims' lf. It is lolly to talk about “chance
blows.”
They say that Mr. Cook, who coaches
the Tale crew, believes his men work best
when they are most comfortable. It i>
the s tme way in trrinln : for a tight. 'I ho
moie s omfortable the boxer is the better
work he can do and the belter his condi
tion will be m the day of the firht. For
that reason i prefer to do my training be
side the ocean. A swim is always a lux
ury to a healthy person and doubly so to
an athlete who has been working hard for
an hour or two. 1 hen there is something
restful in b ing by the ocean, the sea
always has something new to show. It
will be many years before I forget the
evenings at Mayport. We used to sit en
the veranda after supper amt watch the
fishing boats with their shining lanterns,
when there was moonlight the sceno was
like a bit of fairland. The long, smooth,
white beach, the waving green palms that
seeme black in the thin light, and an oc
casional happing sail made a charming
picture. bu.h thin s add to the luxury
of training. When the nerves have been
irritated by a very hard day s work, an
hour in the midst of such a scene as I
have mem.oned will send a man to sleep
like a baby. It does him a wonderful
amount of good in bis preparation for the
ring.
All my training for the recent contest
at Jacksonville was done as carefully as
possible. I expected to yo through twenty
rounds with Mitchell and 1 tried to put
myself in good enou. h condition to tight
all day if necessary. The event showed
that all this anxiety was perhaps not nec
essary, but it is an imperative rule fora
man defending the championship ot liis
country always to enter the ring in per
fect condition.
The great thing to bi done was to
bring my power of enduranco to its best
condition. For this it was necessary to
take and runs, to box, to
punch bag. to wrestle an 1 to
play a great deal of handball. In old
times a pugilist was dosed with purga
tives for several days at the beginning of
his course of preparation; then he was
set to running scores of miles on a heavy
road—all with the idea of gettinr rid of
superfluous flesh. I had no superfluous
flesh to get rid of. Indeed 1 actually
gained weight in training.
Every morning there was a short stroll
along the hard white sand of the beach
before breakfast. This was not really ex
ercise. but a p ay spell in the open air by
way of an appetizer. Med, Bert and
Mollie, handsome collies. played with me
and raced with one another after sticks
thrown into the sea. With breakfast
shortly before 3 o'clock the real business
of tne day began. Fruits, chops,
tea and toast were the usual thing.
Sometimes the bill of faro was varied
with chicken or steak or a hit of fish.
V. bile on the subject of diet I may add
that nothing was : arred at any meal ex
cept pastry and fan \v sauces. There was
a bottle of beer at dinner every day and
sometimes one at supper. I drink tea in
stead of co.tec.
With a cheerful companion at my side,
I usually cover eight or nine miles every
morning in rapid walking, varied now
and then with a run—good for the wind.
After bdxing and wrestling, p enjoy tho
luxury of a rub-down until thoroughly
dry: then a bath in a tub of sea water or
perhaps a swim for five or ten minutes.
Upon being rubbed dry again. I was
stretched upon a high couch and thor
oughly rubbed by my trainers with a lini
ment of alchol and witchha.-el. This is
one of the pleasantest things about train
ing. To be well massaged after a Turk
ish baih is well enough, but there is not
half the comfort in it that an athlete en
joys in a thorough rubbing after a brisk
morning's work. Billy Delaney managed
the job and Donaldson, McVey, Ureedon
and Tracy did the rubbing. No brushes
or mittens were used.
The appetite that comes to one after
such a course of work, bathing and mas
sageing is something enormous. N’o ono
will believe how much he cau eat under
the circumstances until he lias actually
en.ioyed the experience. The chief meal
of the day was eaten about noon. Our
dinner table was a oily meeting place.
Breakfast did not always bring us all to
gether, so my wife, her father, Mr and
Mrs. Brady, and all the rest of our party,
met for the first time in the day at din
ner. One friend, who was always at hand,
and to whose merry company we are all
indebted lor much of the pleasure we had
at Mayport, was i onstantly playing some
new prank or telling some new story that
kept us all in high spirits He and i man
aged to beat a great many of our visitors
at whist after dinner. We managed it
this way—he kept them laughing with
his anecdotes while we both attended
strictly to business.
There was always a couple of hours of
whist, lounging, chatting and letter
writing after dinner.
Then, instead of walking, there came
an hour or more of hand ball followed by
boxing, wrestling and bag punching. A
rub down like the one dcs ribed above
ended the day s worn. Besides the exer
cises mentioned above i used a wrist
machine every day. This is a long
wooden shaft. As you turn it (using none
but wrist power) it hoists a weight that
can be increased or lessened at will. This
Is a fine way to strengthen the wrists.
The pood effects derived from playing
baud bail would fill a book. It is splendid
work for a boxer Not only does it exer
cise every muscle from his scalp to his
heels. Vit it gives him good judgment of
distance, culti.ates quickness of thee.e
and teaches him how to dart either hand
exactly where he wants it at precisely the
right moment. And there's exercise
enough in it to tire a Rocky Mountain
ram. Is ept nine hours every night.
No two men tight alike. Indeed, if one
teacher should instruct a class of twenty
mien, and tne.v should see no style of box
ing but his. they would all use different
tactics at the end of a year. There are
many styles of boxing, and most of them
are excellent, it has always seemed to
me that a boxer should study his own pe
culiar abilities and endeavor to make the
best use of them. When I began at the
game I found myself taller, longer in the
arms and rather quicker than most men.
Next to hitting straight and hard, I found
quit kuess on the ieet to be most useful.
There is no way to cultivate this so well
as by boxing. Therefore I always box
while in training. It is true that many
authorities contend that a fighter risks
hurting his hands by doing this. Of
course he dots. Bui doesn't he risk
spraining a groin or a knee or an ankle
when he runs, or walks or plays hand
ball ?
It is not necessary for him to hit with
al! his might while boxing with his train
ing companions. An experienced tighter
should be clever enouch to box every day
without spraining his wrist or damaging
his knuckles. What would be thought of
a swordsman who trained for a contest
without fencing! Nothing but boxing
will bring a man's* mind, eyes, hands,
arms and legs into first-class trim for a
contest In the ring. Let him be careful
and he will be safe.
It is quite as important for a tighter to
avoid punishment as it is for him to pun
ish the other fellow. Therefore, let him
cultivate the ability to get in and out of
hitting distance with all the rapidity pos
sible. Now and then we hear of fellows
who are “gluttons for punishment.”
They ought not to be. In the game of
pugilism one must take as well as give
blows, hut he is the best man who takes
least and gives most. Ho who can strike
quickest ought to win, provided he can
protect himself from counter or return
blows.
Very early in my career I found that I
could get ray punch in most rapidly by
starting it from a “half arm position—
that is, with the elbows not drawn back
past the ribs. Suppose two men are box
ing. John Doe hits in the old style, draw
ing hack his tistand launching it out with
all his body weight behind it. Richard
lloe, let us say, starts his blow without
drawing back his fist. Whose blow
should get there first? Certainly the one
that had least distance to go. It is the
blow that gets there first that does tHe
business. I soon found that while this
blow was very successful in reaching its
n ark there was not steam enough in it to
suit. Undoubtedly there was some of the
weight of the body behind it, for in box
ing 1 stand with my feot closer together
than most men and throw the body for
ward even in delivering the short blow.
How was that punch to be made
heavier; I consulted a specialist—Prof.
Attiia—and showed him the way I hit.
He studied it thoroughly and examined
the muscles called into play. He decided
that the thing to do was to develop the
lower part of the forearnt Thereupon he
told me to grasp a piair of light dumb
bells. turn the fists over so that the
knuckles come foremost as they do in
striking, press the elbows close to the
ribs; then raise and lower the dumbbells
us far as possible. Two minutes of that
sort of thing was enough at first. By and
by 1 could stand it for ten. That half
arm punch has grown at least 30 percent,
heavier than it used to be.
i am constantly studyiug new tactics to
worry an antagonist. That has a great
effect upon him. Cut out the pace and
make him feel that he has met his mas
ter. it helps vou and it oppresses him.
Men in the fighting business s.udv each
other very thoroughly, in the training
at Mayport I hud Creedon and Donaldson
try as many of Mitchell’s tricks as pos
sible. He was likely to tr.v infighting.
Wo had lots of it and plenty wrestling.
It is impossible, though, to plan out a
battle step by step in advance. The fight
with Mitchell was on an entirely differ
ent plan from the fight with Sullivan.
The battle with Jackson will be on still
another scale. James J Corbett.
THE KEARSARGE'S ARMOR.
How it was Afterward Used to Protect
a German Man-of-War.
From the New York Herald.
The history of the Kearsarge has been
so many times told that it seems like
“taking owls to Athens'’ to attempt to say
anything new about her. There is, how
ever, an item of inlerest connected
with this famous vessel which, so far as I
am aware, has never appeared in print.
A number of years ago while stopping
in a little mountain town in Germany f
became acquainted with Chief Engineer A.
Uebhardsbauer, of the imperial German
navy. He recalled to me that when the
Kearsarge fought the Alabama off Cher
bourg anchor chains had been placed on
both sides of the Kearsarge in order to
protect the boiler and engines from the
enemy's fire.
A long tiijje after the battle, when the
Kearsarge was lying off the A ores Islands
the anchor chains which had done such
good service were removed, and were de
livered over to the t are of the United
States consul at Fayal. They remained
in the consular Store house until July,
IS7O.
THE ARCONA MAKES USE OF THE OIIAINS.
At this time, just at the outbreak of the
Franco-German war, the German wooden
frigate Arcona arrived at Fayal. The
Arcona was one of the old type of wooden
war vessels. Mr. Gebhardsbauer, who
was chief engineer of the Arcona, was or
dered by her commander to rig up some
thing to afford protection for her engines
in case the Arcona should fall in with a
French ship, it being the intention to pro
ceed to Germany at once.
In a search for material in the store
house of Mr. Dabney, the United States
consul, he found the oid anchor chains of
the Kearsarge and immediately secured
them. They were placed on the Arcona
exactly as they had been on the Kear
sarge, and in a short time she was ready
and suiled for the Fatherland.
HUSTIXO IX A GERMAN NAVY YARD.
The Arcona met with neither adventure
nor trouble of any kind on her homeward
voyage, but she remained in service, and
the chains wore kept on her until the
close of the war, afterward being turned
over to the navy yard at Kiel as old iron.
They were still there in 1889, and several
indents made by the shot from the Ala
bama could still be seen in them.
The log hook of the Kearsarge does not
show that the chains were disposed of as
1 have stated. No mention whatever is
made of the disposition made of them.
Further, the records of the state depart
ment contain nothing on the subject.
The facts remain, nevertheless, and
now that the old ship has gone, it would
seem highly proper that everything in
the way of relics of her should be in the
possession of this government. Portugal
courteously returned the gun "Long Tom”
of the brig Armstrong, and Germany
would undoubtedly do the same with the
armor of the Kearsarge.
Crispt, the Italian prime minister, is said to
have both eyes affected with cataract. He is
to under.o an operation at the close of next
mouth at the hands of two distinguished
Italian oculists.
Not every one has so successful a method
with the autograph fiend as Alexander Dumas
Prince Metternlch once requested an
autograph of him. Dumas wrote, in his best
round hand: -Received from Prince Mettor
nich twenty-five bottles of bis oldest Juhan
nisierg." MeHerniih sent the wine with a
good grace.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 4. 1804.
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Railroad Looting by Officials Amazing
New York Stockholders.
An Altrurianizing Author—How the
Fourth of July May Prove a Trap for
Congressman Wilson.
(Copy right.)
New York, March 3.—The looting of
railroad companies by the officials thereof
would seem to be the sub.ect of the next
expose for which labor unions are to be
come responsible. The story, as it crops
out in New York, is as follows:
For some time there has been in prog
ress a quiet movement on the part of
stockholders in at least three great rail
roads to gather facts purporting to show
why it is that some eminent railroad men
are to-day worth millions in spite of the
fact when they entered the business not
so many years ago they were quite poor.
The money has been made by an ingen
ious system whereby the railroad officials
in question have organized dummy com
panies to sell to the very railroads which
employed them at exorbitant rates.
One instance just unearthed will give
an idea of them all. Avery large rail
road purchases its supplies from a corpo
ration organized to sell to railroads ex
clusively. This supply company, it seems,
is composed exclusively of officers of the
very railroad which is the biggest cus
tomer. The auditor of one railroad com
pany approves bills for goods which are
sold to lus corporation at fancy prices,
and the director of another railroad is
interested in the firm which does thecor
|xir at ion's printing. Another case in
point is that of a director who systemat
ically obstructs rival bids for car sup
plies because he is a stockholder in a
concern which does a large car business.
Names and dates have been obtained by
the investigators, and it would appear
that the man who is most involved is de
clared to be worth many millions, all
made out of the railroad ho ostensibly
serves.
Not only this, but some express com
panies which have been crowded out of
business have collected facts which prove
that a deal entered into by Now
Yorkers has obliged some big roads to
allow monstrous commissions to some ex
press concerns when others were ready
to undertake the business at a moiety of
the charges. If only a part of the allega
tions are sustained it will be conclusively
shown that many prominent railroad men
have connived at a system of jobber.)'
which would make Tammany seem inno
cent in comparison.
The causo of this quiet investigation
was the puzzling fact to some stockhold
ers that their dividends never went above
6 per cent., or less, even when the busi
ness done reached collossal figures. Not
only that, but the sight of men who began
as humble clerks at tstil) a month in the
company’s service, and who are to-day
worth fortunes, yet never had any oppor
tunities of making money outside of their
respective roads, has caused comment.
There is also a feature of this business
according to which new inventions are
not introduced on the great systems un
less the officials are given big slices of the
stock to get them interested. It is
charged that one invention relating to
brakes was brought into use by corrupt
“divvies,” aud the failure of another rail
road to employ a patented safety signal is
attributed to the unwillingness of the
patentee to make over a slice of stock to
an official.
But this is all a part of it only. The
price of coal appears to depend upon a
unique sort of corruption, whereby rail
roads refuse to deliver to dealers who are
not in the “combine.” And one railroad
official has even got control of the busi
ness of retailing coal iu a certain town
and through his monopoly reaps a
princely income.
The officials have so distributed these
jobs that one man never interferes with
another's good thing. So the dividends
are kept down and the stockholders re
main in ignotance of the deals.
Of course, the efforts to get at the facts
have been impeded by the officials them
selves, who have received a “tip" as to
what is being done, and are trying to
throttle investigators. But if the facts
are duly set forth in detail, as they
promise to be, we shall have one of the
biggest railroad scandals ever sprung in
New York, or in the country, for that
matter.
As to how the matter should have so
suddenly been inquired iuto very feu
have information. The labor unions are
the active movers, and the "tips” given
to soveral stockholders in New York
came from a labor leader eager to be re
vensred for a refusal to listen to the de
mands of his union. It may interest a
well-known gentleman in Pennsylvania
to be informed that there are now in pos
session of a well-known labor man three
distinct documents hearing the Pennsyl
vanian's signature, which proclaim him
the champion railroad looter of his day.
There seems to he only one way to suf
focate the movement. If there is made a
large concession to labor's demands by a
well-known railroad, before long it will
mean that the prospects of a scandal are
for the present remote.
RICH AND POOR.
So strained have become the relations
of rich andxpoor in New York that the
police have been obliged to declare to the
pow; r > that bo that the present attitude
of contempt adopted by certain million
aires must he modified, if trouble is to bo
avoided. Siueo the passage of resolutions
b,v a labor union, condemning some mil
lionaires for having their building done
ab.oad and then brought to this country
piecemeal, and the subsequent refusal oil
tlie part of another plutocrat to listen to
a labor committee sent to visit him, there
have been many surly mutteriugs.
Another grievance of the workingmen
is the invasion of their homes by parties
of the furious rich. It seems that the
custom of some residents of Fifth avenue
of visiting the slums in parties, lias
proved distasteful to East Killers. One
workingmen declared at a labor union
meeting that ho would throw a bucket of
water on the next batch of persons who
Invaded his rooms against his wishes.
When the slumming craze first began it
was laughed at, and it rather amused the
poor. Latterly they have begun to com
plain that it is inconvenient to be in
truded upon at all hours by streams of
well dressed people. The police are on
the side of New York's poor in this mat
ter, and when a whole tenement com
bined to repel intruders recently the
policeman on the beat refused to inter
fere.
THE ARTHURIAN MASTER.
Authors in New York do not, as a rule,
acquire political influence, bnt William
Dean Howells is the proverbial exception.
It is no exaggeration to say that with the
masses of Now A ork citizens ho is a sort
of so iai idol. He has adopted anew way
of attacking what the litterateurs style
the social failure. He has pointed out
one way of escaping from the breakdown
of society consequent upon what is termed
the weak foundation of the present order
that has made his name almost a talisman
with New York’s poor. Even the alleged
iguorant foreign element of the East
Side revere Howells. His latest work is
now running as a serial trarislated into
Hebrew in a weekly on the I .ast Side.
It is not likely that the talk of sending
Mr. Howells to congress will result in any
thing of a political nature in his future.
It is the invariable habit in New York,
whenever a man becomes suddenly popu
lar, to talk of sending him to congress;
hut the present aspect of the Howells cult
is significant us showing how powerful a
man may become with the “masses” by
aivooa'ing wnat are termed so ialistic
id as. although, as Howells himself has
pointed out, the ideas often branded as
socialistic are far less socialistic than
many accepted things—the Christian re
ligion for instance. That is the way
authors talk in New York nowadays.
WOMEN IX POLITICS.
It is asserted in New Yor:: that if the
efforts of the friends of Roswell P. Flower
to have him renominated for governor
this summer are successful, the executive
head of the Empire stale will owe his
prize as much to his wife as any one else.
Mrs Flower has proved the most popular
governor’s lady in New Yor.i for many a
day. and some of the social rivals of this
tactful woman ace .se her of being
Machiaveiian in the interest of her hus
band Bui. that is a mistake, for Mrs.
Flower has often taken occasion to say
that she is not a society woman and has
never aimed at social pres lgc. in which
ease it has come to her without any effort
of hers.
The gossip is interesting as illustrating
the increasing influence of women in New
York politics. Time was when such a
thing as social affairs having any intiuenee
on politics was too fanciful for considera
tion, but there are a, hast tour women in
the metropolis who are recognized influ
ences in this way. Delegates are regu
larly invited to the houses of men who
expect to benefit in oi.e way or another
from the work they are lo do in conven
tion. and as for social attentions to legis
lators to the wives of officials and from
municipal officers’ wives, they are now a
matter of course. Indeed, whenever poli
tics urinars anew man to tlie front ho is
overwhelmed with invitations to the
social functions given by the wives of the
men who propose to get his vote or his in
fluence. Thus have women come to play
a most important part in the politics of
the city and state of Now Y ork.
TAMMANY’S LONG TALK.
As an instance of the advance prepara
tions of Tammany for any event ina.v be
noted the efforts to have Congressman
and Tariff Student Wilson to deliver the
lone talk at Tammany's Fourth of July
celebration this year Although it is
barely spring, plans have already beeu
made to have the Indepen lence day cele
bration of Tammany so imposing in its
democracy and in the intellectual array
of oratorical genius that there shall be
given a prestige to its coming municipal
campaign. In other words, it is designed
to have the lights of the democracy ap
pear in the hall nominally to celebrate our
most sacred holiday, nut in reality to
overawe the state democracy into ac
knowledgment that it is 'Tammany that
has tho true party stamp. This plan
originated in the brain of Thomas F. Gil
roy. the brainiest man in the organiza
tion, and the state democracy will have
hard work to prevent its successful con
summation.
Taking time by the forelock is, indeed,
the secret of all Tam many success. This
fact has at last been appreciated in New
York, and explains the unprecedented ad
vance political activity in matters muni
cipal. But It seems doubtful if it will be
possible for the anti-Tammany democrats
to prevent a very adroit u3e to he made
by the tiger of the next Fourth of July
celebration.
The question is, How is Mr. Wilson to
he "landed;” It will be interesting to
see whether he will give the long talk,
after all.
STATUARY PRICES.
It looks.as if New Y'ork will find itself
swamped with statuary before long. This
is because the honors of statues nearly al
ways fix a condition connected witli the
acceptance of specimens of sculpture, or
at least express a desire as to where it
shall be placed. This often proves em
barrassing, and at this moment two socie
ties are quarreling as to their prior rights
to a certain site for statues, which they
have almost in opposition to each other.
If donors of statues to the city of New
Y'ork would simply specify that it be
placed in tho most suitable spot witiiout
insisting upon a special site, there would
be no quarreling, aud the number of ac
cepted works of art would add to the
beauty of the streets and of the park.
But that thoy will not do.
It is interesting, in this connection,
that the city of New York is gradually
acquiring a superb collection of statutes
at practically no expense to itself. The
sculptors are now arranging a plan
whereby some of the present disputes
shall be settled. At this time there is a
sort of blockade, and orders are not com
ing in as rapidly as they might. Hence
the artists have a selfish interest in see
ing that present dissensions are put to an
end. as they probably soon will be, and
the prices of statuary will once more be
up to par. David Weousleu.
THE HUMBUG OF PALMISTRY.
Palmistry Characterized Without Ba
sis in Scienoe or Sense.
From the Century.
After many experiments with those
considered most successful, and a study
of the subject in the light of anatomy,
physiology and natural coincidences, I re
gard palmistry as without basis in science
or sense.
That no two hands have ever been abso
lutely similar is indisputable. When crit
ically examined no two leaves or flowers,
though of the same species, appear ex
actly alike, much less would such complex
organisations as human bauds be found
without difference.
General conclusions can, therefore, bo
drawn from tho shape and size of the
hands, as to strength, suppleness, circula
tion of bioo.i. temperament and the size of
the form to which they belong. But even
here a large margin must be allowed
for departures from general rules.
Huge hands are sometimes the
mortification of small and otherwise
beautiful women, while giants are fouhd
with small foot and diminutive hands.
Sometimes large feet aud hands are
possessed by the same persons. Walker
and Darwin observed that the hands of
the children of laboring men are larger
from birth than tnose of persons whose
ancestors have lived idle lives or have
been engaged in vocations,not requiring
the use of the hands. Though such chil
dren might become renowned for intel
lectuality or proficiency in art, the large
hand might be transmitted to several gen
erations.
What is justly allowed to ehirognomy
is true of every other part of the body, in
its proportionate relation to the sum of
human activity. With these rational con
clusions the votary of palmistry will not
be content. It is mystery lie seeks, and
a power to read the past, present and fu
ture, which nature has denied man. *
* *
The sole p.nd sufficient cause of different
lines in different persons is tho difference
in the shape and si..e of the hands, elas
ticity of s.tin, strength and use of the
muscles, and external pressure. There
fore, hands of different persons are not
aliko. nor both hands of the .same person.
Mr. Fran, is Gallon's remarks, in his
work “l- inger Prints,” ore to the point:
The palms of the bauds and tho soles of
the fee.'are covered with two totally dis
tinct classes of marks. Tho most conspic
uous are the creases or folds of the skiu,
which interest the followers of palmistry,
but which are no more significant to
others than the creases in old clothes;
they show the liues of nrcst frequent
liexure. and nothing more.
For lines to oe an indication of anything
mental, moral, or emotional, it would be
necessary for them to be evolved under
the influence of nerves connected with
the brain centers, in whit h the said intel
lectual and moral qualities inhere; but
superinduced from the periphery, they
can mean nothing except more or less of
different motions and use.
THE WOMAN OF FASHION.
Some Practical Suggestions For Early
Spring Gowns.
Quieter Suitings and Crepe Cloths.
Spring Promises Moderation in All
Thing*--An Overskirt That is Be
coming—A New Cape or Two.
(Copyright)
New York. March 3.—Fashion's wheel
turned gayl.y when the light, airy imprac
tical spring materials were on top, but
now it rolls more slowly to show the
quieter, more seusible ones that are just
beginning to show themselves. Here
come, first, the lovely pale suitings in silk
and wool—no stripes -just a clear, pale
ground, quaintly and closely dotted with
indefinable figures and lines. In some,
tho dots suggest s foreign color, which
must be brou ziit out in the trimming. l or
instance, a fa wn that suggests pink has
dottings of both these shades, lightly in
terspersed with a delicate bit of blue here
aud there.
The French suitings have clearer and
stronger dashes of silk over; they are par
ticularly serviceable in the clear browns
and olives. Scotch suitings are heavier,
and tnnko excellent gowns for both
spring and early summer. These show a
mottled surface, with dull blue spots
merging into white; gray green into pinky
while; darker preen into paler shades.
These suitings are made into plain, full
skirts that clear the ground well, and are
four yards wide. The jackets are shorter
than those of last year, and all show a
vest or waistcoat beneath. They are
made up severely plain, with even the
pretty lace effeot at the throat exchanged
for a linen collar and cravat. Rows of
stitching finish the edges, and the revers,
sharply pointed, fall well over the sleeves,
which show some moderation of the pre
posterously large puff we have been wear
ing
In fact, from the present indications,
it would seem that the cry ot "modera
tion, moderation!” will at last be heeded,
and that we shall do little more this
spring than tone down some of our most
alarming whims and extravagances. The
blouse as it has come to us this spring,
shows no change from the blouse of last
year; the short jacket is perhaps a little
shorter, and a little rounder, the revers a
tritie more pointed, but what of that;
The sleeves droop a little more, and make
their puff a little smaller; the skirt is
perhaps a little narrower. And when
these have been said, is there anything
more to add?
Aye, the overskirt. Is it making any
progress? Sometimes it makes a great
stride by the tasteful form in which it
appears; at other times its progress is
woefully retarded by the lack of anything
graceful in its folds. Now an ugly one in
brown suiting with long, square apron
effect in front, elongating itself into
sharp points at each side, falls In most
unprepossessing folds; while a dainty one
in soft green was the prettiest thing I
had seen for a long time. The skirt be
neath was edged with a twelve inch band
of rich eminence velvet, which in its turn
was edged with a band of white moire,
embroidered with gold. The overskirt of
a pretty green was cut in sharp points all
around, each point falling over the band
of white and gold work at the bottom.
The overskirt had been cut so full that it
fell in a large godet between each point.
The bodice was of the same green cloth,
made very simply. A yoke of the white
and gold formed half of it, and the lower
half was made from the gathered folds of
the green, banded by a white moire and
gold belt. Avery tiny figaro jacket in the
purple velvet of the skirt met over
the bust and then turned back
in broad revers that were faced
with white moire. The sleeves were all
in green gigot. Such a gown could not
fail to recommend the over-skirt; and if
Paris sends us many more such dresses,
its fate will not remain longer in sus
pense.
The blouse effects, and the long coat
effects, are being introduced into the robe
d’interieur as well us the street gown.
With gauzy materials the severe lines
may be softened, and a judicious drape
falling over will change completely tho
tailor made look of the coat gown. This
dress, which started'plainly and severely,
was suddenly changed into one suitable
for home wear only, when the crepe
sleeve puffs and blouse drapery had been
added, The skirt was a simple, unpre
tentious one, divided as it 'was into tour
portions by the narow bands of black
velvet that ran up and down, from waist
to foot, meeting another velvet
band that edged the skirt, the
plain bodice and a single band of the
velvet running straight down the middle
of the front. Over the bodice was a
loose blouseof white crepe, which showed
daintily through its thin folds the soft
green of the dress beneath. The blouse
was long and full, falling well over the
hip and hiding the bodice altogether in
tho back. In front, however, the crepe
was gathered closely together at the
shoulder seam, but gradually spreading
as it neared the waist-line it stretched
out to its fullest extent below the plain
black velvet belt which confined it. Here
it was cut up over the hips. The broad
green collar, failing over the crepe at the
back, was also cut into divisions. The
portion that fell over the pretty gauze
sleeve puffs was divided off like the skirt
with the velvet bunds.
OTIIER NOVELTIES IN CHEPE CLOTH.
More varieties in the delicate crepe
cloths have reached us. These show the
stripes much finer and closer. A green
that is both serviceable and dainty is in
dull, dark shade of light texture and has
a minute, close satin stripe running
through over its crinkled surface; a dull
blue has heavy twisted i ords in pink and
white, forming the stripe; a gray is dotted
with big spots of green; rich golden
brown is both pointille and strip' il with
blue; while a thin silk crepon forms it
self into small square puckers, and is all
of the one clear Havana tint.
CAPES Foil EARLY SPRING.
While it is yet too early to think of the
spring jacket, one makes a neat little cape
to hang over the drooping sleeves. The
sleeve of the winter jacket has its puff too
high to accommodate the drooping infla
tion of the latest sleeve, and therefore the
cape is more acceptable. The coat sleeve,
at its best, has never been a success; for
make it large as you will, the revers and
dress puff will never tit neatly under.
The spring cape is very short; in fact, it is
little more than a deep collar. It ialls in
godets over shoulders, and generally
matches the costume. A neat one in
fawn silk-and-woo! mixtures has two
short capes, falling over in the full
godets. quite plain and double-breasted in
front, trimmed with largo buttons. A
turu-down collar in blaek'velvet extends
itself into broad pointed revers in front
away from a pretty stock collar of white
silk, a small chemisette of white and a
neat w litc bow.
Holder simplo one made from the ma
terial of the dress orof plain black cloth,
falls in godets all around, is very short,
and is trimmed with three rows of nar
row satin ribbon, running up the fronts as
well. A ruche of bias k ostrich feathers
forms a tasteful collar.
Cue in Scotch piaid is rather pretty for
going away. Its two capes fall in the
regulation godets. while a narrow. Hat
one above them both, is edged with a nar
row fringe. Eva A. Schcekrt.
David Garrick Longworth. an American
whose home is in London, is publishing an
American newspaper in Cairo, under the verv
shadow of the Pyramids. Be calls his jour
nal Sphinx.
KAiLROADS.
,ii hi ■ nut iiil
(BOTH MERIDIAN TIME.) *
Time Table in Effect Feb. 26, 1594.
T ain | Train I Train I TO AND FROM THE I Train Train i Tr-1—
' *34. I 36. I NORTH. | 35. ‘il j
lZulnn 345 pm; r :> pm Lv savannah An 430 am. 10 00 am YVif —*
143 pm: 6 01pm: 901 pm Ar '.Fairfax, S. C Lv! 244 ami 748 am 1
225 pm; 655 pm 941 pm Ar Fenmark. S. C. Lv 203 ami 651 amfi'xo „
350 pm! 84a pn 11 65 pm Ar Columnla S. C Lv ; 1240 am! 800 am' 12m S®
830 pm 300 am Ar Charlotte VC Lv, 10SO pm 1 .. tWt?
949 pm: 440 am Ar Saiisoury.N. C ...Lv! 915 pm . . b,.?®
11 09 pm 620 am Ar Greenshc.ro. .S, C Lv 732 pm 1 ' il J®
12 27 am BCoamAr an-iID Vn Iv 550 pm... "
too am 125 pm Ar Richmond Va Lv 12 40 pm 1” so
zlB sm 10 00 am Ar Lynchburg. \ a Lv 350 pm j,, , lln
400 am 11 40 am Ar Charlottesville. Va Lv 212 pm "
713 am 255 pm Ar Washington Lv 1101 am! mix J?
323 am, 420 pm Ar Baltimore Lv, 042 am ' #ii S2
1046 am 640 pm Ar Philadelphia Lv 720 am : ' flic?®
1H pm 10pm Ar New York LV 1? 15 am' " aw?®
*3O pml 725 am Ar Poston Lvi 730 pm j OOiam
Train I Train - ] TO AND FROM" Train | Trairi
35- I *39. I 37. I FLORIDA. 38. 36.
440 am: 840 am 410 pmlLv — Savannah Ar 1150 am 710 pm To
645 am: 1100 am 604 pm Ar Everett Lv 942 am, 668 pm 8"6 F®
835 ami 100 pm 815 pm Ar Yulee Lv 745 am 313 pm 615 EE
l* am 410 pm Ar Fernandina....r.... Lv 715 am 1225 pm M *
J*B am Ar Callahan Lv | 215 pm
S m ! p > 900 pm Ar Jacksonville Lv 710 am 250 pm "j#*
10 .10 am f. 4.6 pm Ar St, Augustine Lv j 115 pm P ®
Jl Wpm 345 pm, iAr Palatka Lv | .
j' 33 am 50 pm Ar Lake City Lv 11 58 ain
237 pin 12 05 am Ar Montlcello Lvi 830 am
3 30 prnj 12 45 am Ar Tallahassee Lv 755 am
“ ?? P m i Ar Chattahoochee Lv! 1238 am
oh> l jnl Ar River Junction I.v! 12 35 am
**9dp ui Ar Pensacola Lv! 4 2b pm
3 0? ni, Ar Mobile Lv 3 35 pm
11 am 420pm1203 am Ar Waldo. .T Lv 333 am TTiTpi ~2 66
5 lu Ptn Ar Cedar Koy Lv 6 15 am
203 pm } 615 pm 214 amlAr Ocala Lv 110 am 10 08 am 12 28 nm
259 pm 709 pm 332 am Ar Wildwood Lv 11 55 pm 910 am ll 31 EE
330 pm 445 am;Ar Leestmr* I.v 10 20 pm 833 am *®
P ra 755 am Ar Orlando Lv 7 1.3 pm 640 am
550 pm 11 30 amjAr Winter Park,. Lv 247 pm
356 pm 811 pm 501 aril Ar ~ fiacoozhee Lv ~o4Bpm~B 08 am fiTSTS
9 pm 4 20 pm Ar Tarpon Springs Lv . 7 25 aE
1040 pm .. . .... 700 pmlAr St. Petersburg Lv 550™
459 pm 9 3. ? pm 636 am;Ar Plant City Iv 808 pm 702 am 9 17™
pm in2.mil ,4n amiAr Tampa Lv 7UQpm 615 am 830 aS
¥ Xotb—Daily except Sunday.
,_„ Ve * tlbuled sleepers on trains 37 and 38 pia Richmond and Danville .railroad be-
MIwEMSKwit tt hout N chan ork ' COD “ eoUn * Colon ' al “I™** -olid tram
Bnd St '
Sparian ftt uil* rlor CarS ° D trains 37 an<s 38 Jackßouvlll a nd Asheville via Columbia and
Dining cars on trains 37 and 38 between Savannah and New York
°' MAC DO NELL. G. P. A., Jacksonville, Fla.
N. S. 1 KNMNGIOV Ira Tic Manager. Jacksonville. Fla.
All trains arrive and depart at Central railroad depot.
Bryan streets and Central railroad depot, Savannah! Gs.
THE TROPICAL TRUNK LINE;
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway,
Joseph M. Durkee, Receiver.
THE FLORIDA SOUTHERN RAILROAD CO , j
JUPItEK M AND* LAKE WOKTH RAILWAyI f “* "* CA “ LE *
—SOUTH— I j —NORTH— *
No IS. No, .15 \0.71. | No.S. Time Table in Effect Feb. 7, ’94 1 No. 78, No. 72 No. 14.'
t £®V p H J® a !*S *2 a Lv Jacksonville Ar 3(opm I 545 pm 530 am
*P| !®®2 a i Magnolia Springs 200 pm 451 pm 519 am
?03P 1105 a, 1013 a Green Cove Springs 151 pm 446 pm 515 am
U2OP| }l?oa Jlosai ...Palatka 105 pm 4 01pm 420 am
? )!? p 12 P 12 18 p Seville 11 48 am! 307 pm 303 am
oV- S*J P ■•:••• • DeLeon Springs 11 14 am| 223 am
2 l° a * 134 p Ilb p tieresford 10 55 am 203 am
X p ,IS P 155 PAr.... I rw _- i ~..Lv 1020 am, 205 pm
Ud °P ,i50 P Lv .... ( DeLand j....Ar 1120 am 250 pm
232a 53p ....... 127 p Orange City Junction 10 Mam 150 am
2®®? S,. 4p J O21 ’ 14r, P Enterprise Junction 10 85 am| 207 om 137 am
* 4 00a <3sp 2 4.jp 233 p Sanford 1010 am 146 pm 115 am
d®i p 2i2 p Winter Park J... 915 am i245 pm 1155 pm
i?2 p p Orlando 905 am 12 20 pm 11 40 am
52* # 1*1 p 4 J~ r Kissimmee 830am12 00 n n 10 50 pm
e.Ba 8 45p 4aHp aO7 g Bartow Junction 740 am 11 10 an 948 pm
7 ana 9 4‘tp 550 p 6 00] Ar Bartow 630 am 10 12 am 730 pm
tin-5 a £X p j i...Ft. Meade 945 am 255 pm
I 4 J p ?®P Ft. Ogden 716 am 1000 am
t J 45p 935 p Ar Punta Gorda Lv t 6 40 amt 900 am
8 35a*10 35p 6IS p 650 p Au- Tampa Lv >6lO arc 19 45 am 1 * 805 pm
'2 dOpjrlu 15 a Lv Jacksonville Ar SoO pm 515 pm ",
®®® p 225 p Ar I Gainesville j Lv 10 33 ftm 105 pm
♦ l<p :Lv.... Ar 1140 am 225 pm
8 40pl 515 p Ar Leesburg ... *8 07 am 10 47 am
fK) 05pj 610 p Ar Pemcerton ! 645 am 920 am
Jl, P a " : ® p ! Paola 923 am 420 pm
I'ZPI -Sorrento 8 45 am 3 05 pm
2*>P| , Mt. Dora 8 32 am 2 45 pm
+ 6OOpj 210 p'§ 115 pLv Enterprise Junction... .Ar 10 25 am! 150 pm "
8 17p 344 Pi 819 pi LaGrange 725 am! 1226 pm
*pl 400 p| 335 Pi Ar Titusville Lv *7 13 am|M2 1& pm
Courtney i *
Steamer-St. Augustine'Ms g, Indianola El Steamer “St. Augustine'' is
apeomted to leave iitusville £ Georg ana 2 appointed to leave Melbourne
d'li'.i. except Sunday , 5.30 a. ~ Tropic. - daily, except Siuday. 12:10 p.
m: due Ro, kledge 9;JO am.; ...Cocoa £ m: Rocklodge 4 p. m.; due
Melbourne 12 noon. - Rock ledge J .Titusville :sw p. m.
Steamer St, Lucie or St. Kau Gallie u 1 Steamer “St. Lucie” or “St.
~e appointed to Melbourne P ’Sebastian” is appointed to
leave 1 1 tusvilm for.!upiteron Cf >,t. Lucie ~ leave Jupiter 1 p. m. daily.
arrival of train No. ,1—4:0) g Ft. Pierce '-1 except Saturday: Rockledge
p.m. dally, except Sunday: - Eden a 7:30 a. m . except Sunday;
due Rockiedge 6:30 p m.: g Jensen .5 due Titusville 10:30a. rc., con.
Jupiter lJnoon following day. 3 Sewail s Point necting with train No. 72
' Hobe Soiyid Cj
i* | pm ;* JO® am LV Jupiter Ar T1~45 a mF*ls pm I
I 1 pm l B ■D arn Ar ...Juno,. .. .Lv *ll 15 am| * 145 pm|
♦Daily. tDaily except Sunday. §Sundayonly.
Trains 71 and 72 carry par.or l ufiet cars between Jacksonville and Titusville. Punta
Gorda ana i; ■ lpa. an voen Palatka ft'<l if 'rains 23 and It catrv thro’irh
P'Tunan Buffet Sleepers daily between New York and Port Tampa, connecting at Port
Tampa on Mondays. Ihursdays and Sat mi lays for Key West and < uvana. lraiusaoaud
,rtc° carry through Pullman .leaping cars t et- eii ,w >rk and Port Tampa
Trains 15 and 14 carry through Pullman sleeping cars between Cincinnati and Port Tampa.
G. D. ACKERLY General Passenger Agent, Jacksonville, Fla.
TYPEWRITERS.
RmmaTOM Typewriter
The history of the RFMIffGTOR shows a steadily rising tide of popularity and success.
It is absolutely nnrivaled for all the essential qualities of a first-class writing machine.
r 1 FirstinventionoftheTypewriternowknown
41PND POP AN ' VJul • asthe Remington Standard. Afewmachines
o u run /ui made by hand during this and the following
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. * e u arß,
<• 1 Q7l The repeated experiments of the inventors
£T" l vt having somewhat improved upon the first
, t ~ j* crude attempts, it was brought to*the
'• Remington factory, at Ilion, N. Y.
C-p*N*l f;er mor e than a year of painstaking labor
l TANARUS on the part of many able mechanical experts,
Efcfri •' t},e rst machines were
I -V i u’v I put upon the market.
h t Six years after, only 1.000 machines had been
' Y sold. The public were slow to realize the
WnxY ’! | : |i j ¥ value of the invention.
t 1882. The number increased to 2,300 machines.
ADOPTED AS THE OFFICIAL i 1 88 s ; s'no° 5 ' no ° machines were sold this year. It grew
1 in popular favor. In
WRITING MACHINE J 890 a ' es risen to 20,000 machines per
OF THE | Found a production of 100 machines per day
wnßtri<; rniTTMRTAN 4 onv inadequate to supply the still rapidly in-
VV URLIJ LULbiTBlAri 1 592. creasing demand. We have planned exten-
PYPncmnv 81ve additions to our factory, to enable it to
c >* wM Uv).,'. keep pace with all demauds.
WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT,
327 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
C. S.
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