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OR. HUIDEKOPER A WITNESS.
Ills TESTIMONY DIFFERS FROM
THAT OF DR. H VHTSV'FF.
lie Denies Tlmt There M a Lack
ing "I Tentage at Camp Thomas
ami lleeloreil That No Patient Hail
to Die Out Without Covering—Hail
Never Turned Down But One
Requisition— He Co.i trail lets Dr.
Hartsnlf as to Conditions in Porto
Rleo.
Washington, Nov. 14.—Gen. Breckinridge,
pr Huidekoper and Maj. Knox were be
f.re the war investigating commission to
ri y. Gov. Woodbury has returned from
y, rmont and sat with the commission to
day.
Pr. R. S. Huidekoper, lieutenant colonel
of volunteers, was the first witness. He
tai l that he had occupied- the position of
chief medicol officer of the First Army
Corps at Camp Thomas, Chtekamauga
park, until July 23, when he had gone to
1 rto Rico with Gen. Brooke.
Speaking of the supply dep*i, he said
jv : , re were large quantities of some ar
ti les and a superabundance of others at
the beginning of the history of Camp
Thomas, but that this condition of affairs
did not long continue. At one lime he had
to appeal to Gen. Brooke to get the sup
pli, s necessary, the depot surgeon general
insisting upon being guided by the supplies
on the table, which was not a fair test.
"Do you not know,” asked Dr. Connor,
■'that there was a full supply of medical
stores at the depot at Lytle?”
"I know that many articles were luck
ing.” the doctor replied, and added, "it is
not true, as has been stated, that there war
a full supply.”
He continued by saying that he had made
constant representations to the surgeon
general of the shortage of supplies. He
had never turned down any requisition
from the division hospitals except on one
occasion when he knew that the articles
were not on hand. Also he had refused his
sanction for a requisition for flooring for
hospital lenis when Gen. Brooke had ex
pected to move. He contended that there
had been a sufficiency of tentage, saying
that no patients had been compelled to lie
out without covering for any length of
time, ft was true, however, that there
were occasions on which the sick men had
heen kept for several days at a time under
the tent flies.
“The Second and Third division hospi
tal* were,” he f said, in reply to a question,
-always clean and well ordered,” both in
stitutions were well built, but they had
suffered throughout for proper attendance.
There were never a sufficient number of
hospital corps men. On the other hand
the First Division Hospital was not so
well conducted, for lack of discipline, due
to the prospect of removal.
Reverting to the question of tentage, Dr.
Huidekoper said he knew of his own
knowledge that the surplus tentage at the
reserve hospital was turned over to the,
division hospitals, and that tents had not
been held there to the detriment of other
hospitals. However, he stated that there
were always unoccupied tents at the re
serve hospital.
S|x iking of the condition of the camp
In general, he said that some of the
sink* vi re excessively filthy. Some of
them were never in proper condition. He
Eoid the officers of the regiments were
responsible for their condition.
”1 >id nor. the commanding general have
a duty to perform in this connection?” the
fluos-tloner continued.
The reply to this question was not satis
factory, and Dr.
knowing whether anything had ever been
done tiy the commanding general to secure
the punishment of regimental officers who
hud refused to obey orders for the proper
policing of the camps, but Dr. Huidekoper
declared that he knew no instance of the
prosecution of any offense of this kind.
Col. Huidekoper said he had succeeded
In getting supplies only by being the first
on hand, as the medical depot was run In
a very parsimonious manner.
Dr. Huidekoper said that, with a few
exceptions, the medical supplies for the
Porto Rican expedition had been ample.
At Newport News he had given orders
that the sick’men be eliminated from the
command, but he found that the order
had been evaded and sick men taken
aboard. This was especially true of the
Third Illinois Regiment, whose surgeon,
Dr Huidekoper said, had persisted from
the start in breaking the spirit, if not the
letter, of the law. The regiment had left
si k at every town that it had visited.
He said that when the command started
for Porto Rico, Gen. Brooke had exercised
hi* prerogative to demand the filling of a
requisition which had been refused by the
deputy surgeon general, but in response to
a question he said he did not know why
tin general had not exercised this prerog
ative in securing supplies at Chickamau
ga
Responding to a request from ex-Gov.
Beaver, Dr. Huidekoper detailed the par
ticulars of his education as a physician,
giving also his experience in sanitary
weak. He said he had graduated as a phy
ei' til from the University of Pennsylvania
In 1X74 and afterward had studied much in
Paris, Berlin and other European capitals
and had had considerable experience in
hi spiials and In general practice. He went
lo Europe a second time on the recommen
dn'ion of Dr. Hayes Agnew, who desired
to establish a veterinary hospital. After
returning to this country he went to New
Voik and was largely in the manufacture
of toxines, only practicing medicine for
charity. He had been a surgeon in the
Pennsylvania National Guard from 1874 to
being brigade surgeon most of the
time, covering the Homestead strikes and
the Johnstown flood.
Replying to another question from Gen.
Beaver, the witness said that Deputy Sur
g* °n General Hartsuff had refused to sup
ply disinfectants for the camp at Chlcka
m.tiiga. saying that to do so was contrary
lo army regulations.
Col. Huidekoper returned frequently dur
ing his testimony to his difficulties iu se
curing nurses. He said he had once secur
es an approach to the necessary number
through an arbitrary order from Geti.
luooke, and when this order was issued
tr.i- colonels had insisted on supplying the
s ”f*i men they had in their regiments for
b tubers of the hospital corps. One was an
f t - pile and another a confirmed drunk
dl ■ Yet, the men who had given him the
I -1 ii st nurses were generally the first to
builte complaint of lack of attention.
Pm witnesses asserted that the sick in
lo Rico had had good attention, contra
mg the assertion of Col. Hartsuff that
had been negligence. He said It was
.°‘ ' luo that Dr. Hartsuff had taken
” of a hospital ns the latter had stat
, because of Its management,
ij. Thomas T. Knox, inspector gen
th , who participated in the early part of
Santiago campaign and who was bad
' mounded at the battle of Laguusirna.
the next witness, but his testimony
■ loped nothing new.
- , waa followed by Gen. J. c. Breckin
, His testimony dealt with condi
' at Camp Thomas, at which he was
' time in command, and he took occas
w o say that but for the change that
made previous to the war requiring
T-ctor generals in the field to report to
’djutant general Instead of the inspec
Apollinaris
“THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS.”
Served at State Dinners given by the Queen.
N. V. Sun.
The beverage of the select world.
A r . Y. Tribune.
tor general the conditions of the camp now
being developed by the commission would
have developed three months ago.
Gen. Breckinridge was under the im
pression that all ordinary efforts had been
made by the officer In command of the
camp to instruct regimental officers in
the matter of sanitation and he thought
this instruction had borne fruit. The wit
ness expressed the opinion that Chieka
mauga Park was suitable as a camp site,
but the want cf potable water was a de
fect.
Gen. Breckinridge said that the condi
tion on all the hospitals at Camp Thomas,
except Sternberg, was bad. They were
crowded, and there was a lack of skill in
the attendants, ile also, thought the quart
termaster’s department had been remiw
in some of its duties, but he attributed
all the trouble to want of experience.
There had been a lack of tentage at the
hospitals and he knew of no reason why
the tents should not have been supplied
as he was informed that the tents were in
the quartermaster's depot.
Dr. Connor made an effort to get Gen.
Breckinridge to say whree the responsibil
ity rested for the poor conditions In the
camp, but tne latter said that he had never
attempted to locate the responsibility, de
voting himself parlicularly lo remedying
the evil.
He said that apparently up to the time of
his arrival the first duty had been con
ceived to be prepared for war. He had
changed this by turning attention of all
to taking care of the sick, and if he de
served any credit in his administration
it was for this change. He said the war
department was apparently unprepared for
the epidemic, as were the men on the
ground.
“If you could do what you did, could
not Gen. Brooke have done the same thiug
two months before?” he was asked.
“I have no doubt that if aroused as I
was aroused to the necessity he could
have done as much as I did,” replied the
witness.
"The indications were probably more
marked to me than to my predecessor be
cause my experience as inspector general
prepared me especially for detecting con
ditions which might escape others. Con
sequently, there was a condition there
which I did not believe was conceived of
by those preceding me.”
Regarding passes to visit Chattanooga,
Dr. Connor asked if the conditions in that
city were not such as to injure the morale
of the army, Gen. Breckinridge replied
that such was the case. “But you can
not make a prison of a camp.”
Continuing, he said the town was run
"wide open” and it was Impossible to
keep the men in their camps under the
circumstances. Gen. Breckinridge said
there was such a division of duties and re
sponsibilities that it was difficult at times
to know to whom to give instructions.
Gen. Breckinridge had not concluded his
testimony wheit the commission adjourned
for the day.
VIRGINIA BAPTISTS MEETING.
Bristol Selected ns the Meeting Place
Next November.
Lynchburg, Va., Nov. 14.—The Baptist
General Association of Virginia to-day se
lected Bristol as the place for the next
meeting, the time being Friday before the
third Sunday in November, 1899.
Rev. Dr. George Cooper, of Richmond,
was selected to preach the opening ser
mon. The committee on thanks-offertngs
to raise $25,000 for buildings at Richmond
College, reported $9,057.45 raised.
The report on education by President
Boatwright, of Richmond College, showed
the various institutions to be prospering.
A number of new members for various
boards of the association were appointed.
J. R. Harrison goes on the state mission
board; S. B. Woodfin, education; J. D.
Harte and M. E. Broaddus, Sundays’ school
and Bible board; E. E. Dudley, foreign
missions; Thomas Jennings, home mis
sions; B. C. Henning, Ashby Jones and
J. M. Mercer, on committee on county
operation; F. H. Martin, orphanage; Mrs.
H. A. Coleman, central committee; David
Johnson and J. G. Payne, Southwest Vir
ginia Institute.
To-night the report of the home mission
board was read by the secretary, Mr, C. B.
Fleet of Lynchburg. It stated that the re
port of the home mission board of the
Southern Baptist convention showed that
ort May 1, 47 missionaries were employ
ed, supplying 1,960 churches and stations.
Asa result Of their labors 4.739 persons
were baptized, 4,770 received by letter, 45
houses of worship built, 68 improved, 297
Sunday schools organized, etc. The re
ceipts of the board were $54,251.04 for mis
sion work and $56,385.46 for buildings. Vir
ginia was second on the list of contribu
tors. Georgia first.
The association accepted the resignation
of Mrs. J. S. Dill as president of the wo
man’s central committee, passed resolu
tions of thanks ar.d adjourned until next
year.
SOLDIER DIED IN THE STOCKADE.
Alonso Bixby, Supposed Deserter, n
Convict for Larceny.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 14.—Coi. John Pimp
son, quartermaster general, department of
the Gulf, to-day received a telegram from
the war department instructing him to ship
the remains of Alonzo Bixby, Twenty-fifth
Infantry, to Worcester. Mass.
On advising the Fort McPherson au
thorities in accordance with his instruc
tions, Col. Simpson was advised that Bix
by had left the post without explanation
Sept. 21.
The police wore wired later by Bixby’s
father, who lives in Worcester, that he
had been telegraphed for money to forward
the remains, and on investigation It was
ascertained to-night that Bixby had been
sent to the convict stockade several weeks,
ago for iaveeny, and died of pneumonia
Nov. 8. _
THREE ARRESTS MADE.
Augustan* Indicted for Attacking
tlic Jnll There.
Augusta. Ga., Nov. 14.—Under indict
ments to- nd by the grand Jury for riots,
three arrests were made to-day, Dr. A. B.
Me Na ugh tor., K. L. Storey and Pleas Me-
Cothern. They gave bond of SSOO for their
appearance before the Suiterior Court on
Nov. 21. These cases grow out of the re
cent attempt to lynch the negro. Will Rob
inson. who was confined in the Augusta
jail on the charge of attempting assault.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 180S.
west vm<>im \ wo*.
They Took the Championship of the
South Front \ Irglutiin*.
Charleston, W. Va., Nov. 14.—The West
Virginia foot ball team mel the University
of Virginia team at Riverside Park this
afternoon, and won from the visitors a
splendid victory, the score being 6 to 0 in
favor of West Virginia. The winning of
this game carries with it the championship
of the South, which the Virginia Univer
sity team has held for many years.
It was a splendid victory for the West
Virginia boys for the reason that the Vir
ginia team has recently won many victories
over some of the best teams of the coun
try. It was plain to be seen that the
West Virginia boys over-matched their
competitors from the beginning. They had
no advantage in weight, but they wqre
ahead of their opponents in scientific play
ing. Over 1,(W0 spectators wilnessed the
game.
Auburn, Ala., Nov. 14.—The University
of North Carolina defeated the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute eleven this afternoon
i:i an exciting game by a score of 24 to 0.
They day was anything but agreeable.
COLUMBIA’ W INTER CAMP.
Third Kentucky Regiment Reached
There Yesterday Morning.
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 14.—The winter
camp of the First Brigade, Second divis
ion, First Army Corps, will be in opera
tion to-morrow. The One Hundred and
Sixtieth Indiana, which was the first regi
ment to arrive, to-day welcomed the Third
Kentucky, which came in during the
morning. The First West Virginia, com
pleting the brigade assigned to Columbus,
is expected to-morrow.
SHERRILL’S ACCOUNTS SHORT.
Warrant Issued at Atlanta- for a
Missing Insurance Man.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 14.—A warrant was
issued to-day by Special Executive De
brow for William Sherrill, southern agent
of the Manhattan Fire Insurance Company
of New.York. Mr. Debrow has been exam
ining Sherrill’s accounts and it is said
finds him $3,000 short. Sherrill cannot be
found. He was in New York last week and
presented a check for SI,OOO at a hotel
there, but payment was refused, and the
insurance company advised. Sherrill’s at
torney says he is away on a business trip.
Fnnerni ol a Little Child.
Valdosta, Ga., Nov. 14.—The funeral of
little Florence Holland, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. D. Holland of Alexanderville,
occurred here yesterday, Rev. J. E. Wray
officiating. The deceased was 6 years old
at the time of her death, which occurred
Friday. A week ago she and a little
brotner were at play and suddenly the lit
tle girl was seized with paroxysms of
pain. She remained in great pain for sev
eral days and died. It is thought that
she was hurt internally while at play.
The parents of the child were Northern
people, who moved to this section some
time ago, and were, consequently, strang
ers to the people here.
Pilot Boat Grade Afloat.
Brunswick, Ga., Nov. 14.—The pilot boat
Gracie, one of the crack vessels on the
Brunswick bar, was pulled off the marsh
to-day, and is now’ afloat in Oglethorpe
bay. The Grade went ashore during the
October storm, and was blown three-quar
ters of a mile on the marsh. Tugs Jacob
Paulsen and Wm. F. McCauley of Sa
vannah, and the Inca of Brunswick got
her off. The Gracie is a very fine vessel,
and cost originally about $12,000.
Bark Arrives From Spain.
Brunswick, Ga., Nov. 14.—The Spanish
bark Maria arrived to-day. The Maria is
consigned to Rosenda Torras, and is the
first of a small fleet that sailed from Bar
celona for Brunswick some weeks ago.
She came direct and experienced no very
bad weather en route. The Maria is com
manded by Capt. Vieenti Torres, an oid
trader at this port, and he received a warm
welcome from his friends here.
Another Ueeurit Broken.
Philadelphia, Nov. 14.—“Majah” Taylor,
the crack colored cyclist, to-day broke
another world's record on the track at
Woodside park. He rode for the third of
a mile record of :301-5 seconds, made t.y
Willie Witidle at Chilltcothe, 0., in the
fall of 1895. and was successful in his first
attempt. Taylor had quintuplet pacing. A
strong breeze was blowing down the back
stretch. His time was 29 4-5 seconds.
Standing of Billiard Match.
New York, Nov. 14.—Thomas Gallagher
of Chicago and Edward McLaughlin began
a 1,500-point match at eighteen-inch balk
line billiards at the Ives Billiard Academy
to-night. The score stands: Gallagher,
total, 300; average. 10 5-7; highest run, 45.
McLaughlin, total, 196; average, 7; highest
run, 41.
Little Jenny Clarke Dead.
Valdosta, Ga., Nov. 14.—Little Jenny
Clarke, the 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Baskin Clarke, died yesterday
morning, after an illness of two or three
days. The remains were carried to Perry,
Ga., where the funeral occurred yesterday
evening.
Troop Movement South.
Middletown, Pa., Nov. 14.—The Thir
teenth and Fourteenth Pennsylvania Regi
ments, Ninth Ohio colored battalion, Thir
teenth Connecticut, and a wagon train
started to-day for the new camps in the
South. The regiments are leaving on sched
ule time and by Thursday Gen. Young
expects to complete the movement.
—Wife (proudly): I saved you SI,OOO to
day.
Husband: Saved $1,000? We haven't
that much to save. We haven't SI,OOO we
can call our own. Hang me, If we have
over $lO, come to think.
Wife: But you have always said that
if you ever had money enough you would
build a house.
Husband: Of course.
Wife: Well, for $5 I bought a book show
ing how to build a SIO,OOO house for $9,000.
—New York Weekly.
—America’s oldest light-house keeper is
Capt. Ellsworth, who has had charge of
the Ipswich light since 1861. He is 85 years
of age, yet attends to ail his difficult du
ties.
WALKING ADVERTISEMENTS
NEW YOU K SANDWICH-MEN AND
‘•l* ANNEU-P ACKERS."
Their IlnniitH end Crntiinm—\ Pecu
liar Caste Seutimrnt— \\ here the
Army of Streset Sign-Currier* Is
Recruited The Invasion of Wo
men.
From the New Y'ork Post.
The number of men now regularly em
ployed to carrly placards and advertising
symbols about the streets in this city :s
computed to be between 1,000 and 1,200
more than a third of that num >er having
been secured for the purpose within the
last twelve months. Wherever the people
congregate most, and traffic and travel is
thickest, these queer conscripts are seen
quietly pacing their appointed beats, each
with a special advertisement welt in view;
perhaps blazoned on a banner lashed firm
ly to the shoulders, or inscribed on a head
trapping, worn helmet fashion, or lettered
across the breast, or on boards or gar
ments that cover the entire laxly, accord
ing to the will of the employer.
A motely, grotesque array the peram
bulators are, uniform in the motive, If not
the method, of their calling, and exciting
alternate mirth and ridicule or sympathy
in the passers-hy, according to the mood
of the moment. A pedestrian making his
way along a populous street not long since,
laughed heartily at a heavily encumbered
sandwich man, whose appearance was es
pecially ludicrous; then turned and spoke
kindly to him. offering to get him a place
as porter lit a store if he wished to be
fteed from his present Incubus. The offer
was accepted, and the man now does cred
itable work In liis new capacity.
Not only has the vocation of "banner
packer” (the trade name l'ur the craft)
come to be a recognized means of liveli
hood, but its establishment has in turn
created anew calling, that of the banner
packer’s foreman, a functionary retained
by employers who have many men on the
street, and find a superintendent neces
sary to keep the signs moving in the right
directions. He merely wears a cap, let
tered with the firm name as a badge of
authority, and makes the rounds of his
district at irregular and unexpected In
tervals. Some firms have as many as
twenty-five or thirty banner-packers on
the streets at one time, their respective
heats covering an extended territory. Of
this number only a small proportion Is to
be depended on for regular, daily service
The others enlist by fits and starts, work
ing on.y two or three days consecu
tively, or, may be, only one day or one
hour at a time, leaving a gap in the ranks
that must be filled as best it may.
The foreman goes out into the high
ways and byways to rally reinforcements,
getting new men here and there from a
class whose integrity Is usually a matter
of doubt and uncertainty until it has been
tested. Even the most promising type of
banner packer, it is said, is liable to lapse
on any sudden accession of prosperity,
so the wary foreman, who is usually a
promoted banner packer familiar with the
inns and outs of his world, extends as
vigilant surveillance over his seemingly
more worthy subalterns, as over those
whose natural incompetency for work Is
patent. The foreman’s duties are not easy.
He must prorpj.t the laKJWd and Iqqistive
"packer” to fresh exertion, and defend his
temptations of the free-lunch counters. He
must start his men out promptly in the
morning, all properly uniformed, and he
must pay them off at night, making prop
er reductions for delinquencies, and per
sonally adjusting such brawls or disputes
as may arise l>etween Individuals of the
clan. All hours of skulking, protracted
visits to the free lunch counter, or sly
smokes on the park benches or In out-of
the-way saloons, when the significant sign
lies prostrate away from the public eye,
are carefully tabulated, and the time de
ducted from the delinquent’s pay. This
procedure naturally invokes disappoint
ment and protest. The shirkers claim that
they have been unjustly accused by com
rades who desire to secure the positions
for some of their friends. A hand-to-hand
encounter Is not infrequently the outcome,
and thus It follows that to be a successful
monitor of n band of banner packers calls
for brawn and muscle and a physical build
that the men will respect.
Three explicit stipulations are laid down
In the banner packer's manual of conduct,
namely, never to walk two together on the
street; never to keep the banner or sign
out in the rain, or In a wind that will in
jure It, and never to engage in jovial so
cial converse with any ]>erßon during
working hours, least of ail with one of
his own fraternity. Occasionally, how
ever, in between lines, and when the fore
man’s attention is relaxed Or diverted, two
of the craft will be seen hobnobbing to
gether, oblivious for a time of their re
sponsibilities, and enjoying the brief re
spite.
Such a pair, trigged out ill diverse attd
parti-colored regalia, crowned with odd
head-gear, met and exchanged greetings
on Tenth street the other evening, con
versing with a spontanicty of Interest that
proved them men and not mere automatic
machines. The sight gave the on-look
er something of the same sensation that
might be experienced if the lamp-posts,
window-frames, and other inanimate street
objects should suddenly become sentient
and begin to converse. One of the couple
was short and thick of girth, and his sand
wich placards covered him completely from
chin to shoe-top. The other was tall and
loose jointed, and as the two gesticulated
famillariy, bowing and bobbing In the
light that shone from the shop windows
and open doorways, they could not have
looked mote grotesque had they been de
toiled for the express purpose of taking
part in a street thtater. There was in the
manner and countenance of the pair a com
fortable oomentedness, even exhilaration,
that made the lot of the street advertiser
seem neither so ill-starred nor pathetic as
might at first appear. Fifty cents a day
and a meal or two is the average compen
sation, and from 75 cents to $1 for those
whose luncheons are not provided. Very
seldom are the banners and working para
phernalia kept at the employer's place of
business. If the shop or resiauranl In at
all pretentious, or ambitious of good stand
ing. the men and their trappings are kept
out of sight, and a place Is hired in a lo
cality where rents are light, to serve as
headquarters for the out-door force, and
as storing place for their business equip
ment.
The confirmed park-lounger, accustomed
to sitting about apathetically out-doors in
fine wea’her, and huddling In wherever he
can in the rain and cold, with a scramble
In between times for meals or for a night's
lodging, acorns the office of a banner-pack
er, and shows unmistakably that he es
teems his own niche in life to be far more
loftily placed. The park-lounger has his
special code of social ethics as well as
other people.
“Will you carry a sign for a' day or two?
Just a banner and the uniform hat and
gloves," was the proposition made one day
to a hearty-looking bench-occupant In the
city hall park.
“I wouldn't care about it,” was the able
bodied reply. "1 can make more on the
street than you give,” and four other park
idlers interrogated at the same time on
the subject refused flatly.
There is testimony that others share the
&BULL STS.
Clothing Department.
3 Very Good Items for To-day.
Men’s Strictly All Wool Pants $1.25,
Sweet-Orr Overalls 50c.
Men’s Fine Black Worsted and Serge
Suits $9.75.
The Only Headquarters lor Military Clothing.
park-loungers’ estimate of this grotesque
calling, and add their measure of con
tumely to the not especially happy lot of
the average sign carrier. Hack drivers and
waggish cabmen slash at his banner or
head topping with their whips as they
drive by, and young bullies gibe at him.
The drivers' whip gash the sign and get
the poor bearer in trouble, and sometimes
he answers his tormentor with a blow
that precipitates a street tight and results
in an arrest. That night there is one sign
missing from the count of those unbound
from the banner-packers' shoulders, as
they file one by one into the narrow quar
ters where the signs are stored. Men like
ly to get into the police courtß are not de
sirable employes. Only the sign-bearer
who is pat'ent under insult and avoids be
ing drawn into sireet brawls is wanted,
so the vast majority patrol their beat in
the benumbed, unnoticiug fashion that is
best calculated to avoid unpleasant com
ment. ,
The members of this humble army or
sign-bearers, who patrol the main avenues
of the town from the Battery to Harlem,
and from Eighth avenue to Rlvington
street, although tramping each separate
ly and solemnly in his own prescribed dis
trict, have a common bond to unite them,
and that is the universal intuitive recogni
tion of the various slips and backsliding*
that have reduced each and ali of them to
this dernier resort. Incompetence is, of
course, one main cause, ill luck or ad
verse circumstances another, but the lik
ing for drink enters prominently in the His
tory of their misdeeds and misadventure.
Numbers of them hehave beautifullyfor
months, get together as much i*M
*r> and then, unable to withstand this
dizzy hight of affluence, spend the entire
sum in one great celebration that dispels
their employer's interest and leaves a
(rail of mud-smirched banners ami tr * d .’
trappings as tell-tale witnesses of their
plight So they are cut adrift once more.
The army as a whole is recruited fron.
the ranks of a middle-aged and settled, if
not a solier-golng, constituency. Boys are
employed as stop-gaps at times, but they
are too prone to mischief to make avail
able material. Moreover, they are not
strong enough to carry the banner. Some
few firms have lately dressed up women
in light advertising gear—that is, with no
tangible burden to carry outright, but the
brand of their calling blazoned conspicu
ously on some detail of their attire or ap
purtenance. Half-a-dozen young women,
dressed in brilliant plaid gowns, and wear
ing exaggerated sun bonnets, have been
much in evidence during the last few days
in certain busy parts of Broadway. Their
sun bonnets and capes are decorated wiih
letters announcing the virtues of anew
patent medicine, which is descrilred at
greater length in the yellow hand-bills of
fered to passers-by. The brotherhood of
banner-packers is doubt.ess much disturb
ed by this invasion of their field of work,
but they may as well take it philosophi
cally as a sign of the times; for the doors
of the various occupations, from the high
est to the lowest, have one by one been
opening to women who have entered eager
ly without waiting for the final verdict
as to the proper limits of their "sphere.
However repugnant such a spectacle
may be to others, the sign-bearers them
sfelves are glad to have the work to do,
even in awkward guise; and cases are
cited where the calling patiently pursued
led to more hopeful conditions, boreign
ers unacquainted with the English tongue
or with American customs are g.ad of a
merely mechanical occupation until they
can find their bearings, and men out of
work volunteer temporarily rather than
remain idle. These are willing to carry a
banner, but refuse to put on any clown
like garb that may go with it. The mere
carrying of a banner, whatever its start
ling purport, is regarded as less humiliat
ing than to be tricked out in a harness of
odd trappings that not only interferes
with the wearer’s movements, but that is
so ridiculous as to create a stir wherever
he appears.
The sandwich man prays for sunshine
and clear weather. On days calculated to
damage his letterings and equipment his
services are dispensed with and his source
of revenue cut off. All trades, from cob
bling to watchmaking, from tailoring to
typewriting and dentistry, now have their
banners abroad In the land, and the num
ber of moving testimonials to the value of
cough mixtures, nerve tonics and baking
powders increases from day to day. The
cafes and restaurants, however, are In the
lead, and the most glaringly attired re
tainers are enlisted In their service. The
love of fantastic display is a craze that
grows with what It feeds on, and superin
tendents of trade establishments revel in
the chance afforded for showing off fresh
conceits in this uncouth hut startingiy ef
fective mode of advertisement.
MAY IA.9E BOTH EYES.
A Two-Year-Old Hoy l*nt Creosote
Into a Child's Eyes.
Odum, Qa., Nov. 14.—Daniel Tye’s little
6-month-oM child happened to quite a se
rious accident yesterday. It had sore eyes
and its little 2-year-old brother had seen
the mother putting eye-lotion In its eyes,
and while she was out it procured a bot
tle of creosote and emptied the contents
in the little fellow's eyes. He Is suffering
greatly, and it is feared that the sight of
both eyes are gone
FIVE SNOWSTOIt VIS AT OM'E.
A Startling nod brand I'nroruuiu
Seen at \ Irginin City.
From the New York Sun.
"Virginia City," said Snyre Noble, a'Ne
vada ranchman, "Is pretty well up In the
world, as any one knows who has ever
been there, and there tire few localities in
all the ltocky mountain region from
which a wider range of country can be
taken in at ore view. Owing to that fact,
some very beautiful, striking and unusual
sights are frequently seen by the dwellers
In that favored city, almost within sound
ing distance of the clouds, I have witness
ed some of them myseif, and one in par
llculur I remember. In fact, it was a sight
lhat no one having seen could ever forget.
It was a moving panorama, grand and Ini
pressive In the extreme, being no less than
live distinct snowstorms raging among the
mountains and deserts to the eastward,
while in the city not a flake of snow was
falling. The storms represented all degrees
of fierceness, and covered an area of at
least 100 miles. The one furthest to the
east, and at the same time the most north
erly one, was apparently passing directly
over the forty-mile desert It was as black
as a thunder cloud, so dense was the whirl
ing body of snow, and was, perhaps, ten
miles in diameter. Any one in the midst
of it would have been willing to av. ear that
a snowstorm must be raging over the en
tire continent, but Just to the north of it
several tall, stately peaks rose out of the
fierce storm and lowered above it in the
full splendor of sunlight. The high -hills
that lay beyond the storm w.-re shut off
from sight as though by a gigantic black
curtain.
"Nearer, and to the southward, another
storm, not so black and fierce as the first,
but still dense enough to hide all the re
gion behind it, was In less active progress.
It crept along toward the east, reaching
from the level of ihe Carson valley upward
to the very cloud whence It came, high in
the heavens. Still nearer, and between Ihe
city and the mountains of Como, a light
er storm yet, one only two or three miles
in width, passed on its way. Through this
the mountain jx-aks could be soon dimly,
as in a thing fog. A mile further south
a fourth snowstorm, smaller In area than
even the last one, but as black and tem
pestuous as the great blizzard that, with
the sun touching Its crown, wiih sweep
ing the forty-mile desert raged in awful
fury. All behind it was hid as with ihe
pall of the blackest night. Milos away,
further up to the southward, the fifth
storm, a vast and violent one, was sweep
ing along, covering and hiding a range of
thirty miles of high Hills.
"Between those several storm bodies
hills, plains and mountain peaks stood re
veulcd as far las the eye could see, all
lying in Ihe glory of a late October sun.
The gleaming peaks that rose golden far
above the black masses of storm as they
raged In fury at the mountain bases and
far up their rocky shies made a particu
larly striking and awesome part of that
strange picture."
BAIKT OF JOURNALISM.
The Novel Suggestion of n London
Divine Is Noted,
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A distinguished Episcopal divine of Lon
don has an idea lhat is both novel and
Interesting. He urges the formation of
an order of Journalists with fit. Paul for
their patron saint.
He admits that tiie editors and report
ers are a great power for good, and that
if banded together they would aecompilsn
still more for the benefit of humanity. He
calls attention to the fact that the phy
sicians have St. Luke as their patron
saint, and he asserts that St, Paul, whom
he styles "the best reporter of ancient
times," Is the kleai saint for the editors,
and, as the zealous churchman expresses
It, “the best mediator for Journalists be
tween heaven and earth."
The reverend gentleman’s plan includes
an annual reunion In Bt. Paul's Cathedral,
with an address tiy a bishop and prayer
for Ihe benefit of the newspaper frater
nity in general. There Is no doubi the
fraternity needs something of this sort,
and the rev. rend gentleman’s plan has
several excellent features, in particular
the setting 'aside of St. Paul as the news
paper men’s patron saint may be taken
as a high compliment.
In styling the sturdy St. Paul the best
reporter of ancient times tie- clerical gen
tleman said a very clever thing. Certainly
as a special correspondent St. Paul was a
model in his way. He told his stories with
a clearness, a directness, and a freedom
from all attempts at fine writing that
commands admiration from the entire
craft. He vus a keen observer, and, if at
times he saw more than some others did,
he described these observations in a man
ner that to many mind* completely dis
arms doubt.
In selecting this grand old prototype- for
their especial spiritual guardian the Lon
don clergyman deserves ihe thanks of the
entire profession. As for the rest of his
plan—well, let him go right ahead and see
what he can do with it
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The express stonnwhips of this line are
appointed to sail from Savannah, Central
(Outh) merldan time, as follows:
SAVANNAH TO NEW FORK.
TALLAHASSEE. Cnpt. Asklns, TUES
DAY, Nov. 25, at 5:00 p. in.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett.
THURSDAY, Nov. 17. at 7:30 p. m.
KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher. SATUR
DAY, Nov. 19, at 0:00 p. m.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt. Burg,
MONDAY, Nov. 21, at 10:30 p. m.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith. TUESDAY.
Nov, 22, Ht 2:00 p. m.
TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Asklns, THURS
DAY, Nov. 24, at 4:00 p. m.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett, SAT
URDAY, Nov. 26, at 1:00 p. m.
KANSAS CITY. Capt. Fisher, MONDAY.
Nov. 28. at 5:00 p. in.
CITY OF BIIAiINGHAM, Capt. Burg,
TUESDAY, Nov. 29, at 5:00 p. m.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, THURSDAY,
Dec. 1, at 5,'00 p. m.
SAVANNAH TO BOSTON.
VIA DIRECT SHIP.
CHATTAHOOCHEE, Cnpt. Lewis, TUES
DAY, Nov. IE, at 7:00 a. m.
CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, FRI
DAY, Nov. 18, at 8:00 a. m.
GATE CITY, Capt. Uooglns, MONDAY.
Nov. 21, at 10:30 p. m.
CHATTAHOOCHEE, Capt. Lewis, FRI.
DAY, Nov. 26, at 4:00 a. m.
CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, TUES
DAY, Nov. 29. ut 7:00 a. m.
Steamers leave New York for Savannah
5 p. m. dally, except Sundays and Mon.
days, and leave Boston for Savannah
every Wednesday at 12 noon. Saturdays at
3 p. m.
W. O. Brewer, Ticket Agent, 39 Bull,
street. Savannah. Oa.
E. W. Smith, Con’t Frt. Rgt. Sav.. Gt,
K ,G. Trozcvunt, Agt., Savannah, Ga.
E. H. Hinton, Traffic Manager.
John M. Egan, vice president.
MERCHANTS AND MINERS’
TRANSPORTATION CO.
Tickets on sale at company’s office to
the following points at very low rates:
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J
BALTIMORE, MD.
BUFFALO. N. Y.
BOSTON, MASS.
CHICAGO, II,L.
CLEVELAND, O.
ERIE, PA.
HAGERSTOWN, MD.
HARRISBURG. PA.
HALIFAX, N. S.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.
NEW YORK, N. Y.
PHILADELPHIA. PA.
PITTSBURG. PA.
PROVIDENCE, R. I.
KOCH ESTER. N. Y.
TRENTON, N. J.
WILMINGTON. DEL.
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First-class tickets Include meals and
state room berth, Savannah to Baltimore.
• Accommodation arid Cuisine Unequalled.
Freight capacily unlimited; careful
handling and quick dispatch.
I’he steamships of this company are ap.
pointed to sail from Savannah to Balti
more as follows (standard time); ,
ITASCA, Capt. James, WEDNESDAY,
Nov. 16, 8 a. m.
BERKSHIRE, Capt. Dlzer, SATURDAY,
Nov. 19, tl a. m.
WM. LAWRENCE, Capt. Willis, MON
DAY, Nov. 21, I p. m.
ALLEGHANY, Capt. Billups, WEDNES
DAY, Nov. 23, 3 p. m.
•Steamship Wm. Lawrence does not car
ry passengers.
And from Baltimore every MONDAY,
WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, at 4:00 p in.
J. J. CAHOLAN, Agent.,
Savannah, Ga.
W. F. TURNER, G. P. A.
A. D. STEBBINS, A. T. M.
J. C. WHITNEY, Traffic Manager.
General Offices. Balllmore, Md.
For Port Royal and Beaufort, S. C.
Steamer Clifton leaves from foot Bull
street on Sunday 12 a. m., Tuesday and
Friday at 10 a. m., city time.
H. 8. WESTCOTT, Agent.
For Bluffton and Beaufort, S.IT
Steamer Doretta will leave wharf foot
of Abercorn (Ethel’s wharf) street at 3 p.
m. for Bluffton daily except Sunday and
Thursday. Wednesday's trip extended
to Beaufort, leaving Bluffton Thursdays
at Ba. in. Returning same day.
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coo Cily and SudurDan R’y.
SCHEDULE
For Isle of Hope and Montgomery.
Sundays excepted.
Lv city for Isle Hope: Lv Isle Hope for city
6ou ,im from Bolton 600 am for Bolton st
700 am from Bolton 710 am for Bolton
90C urn from 2d ave. 810 am for 2d ave.
10 37 am from Bolton 946 am for Bolton
230 pm from 2d ave. 100 pm for 2d
UW pin from Bolton| 4 00 p m for Uoltou
530 pm from 2d ave.j 500 pm for 2d ave.
6 30 p m from Boltonj 6 30 p m for Bolton
7 30 pm from Boltunl 7 30 pm for Bolton
900 pm from 2d ave. |lO 00 pm for 2d ave.
LV city for Montg’ry| Ev Montg’ry for city
~9 00 atn” from~2d ave.| 730 am for 2dave7"~
10 37 a m from BoltondS pm for 2d ave.
S tl pm from 2d aval 4 29 p to for 2d ava
S 30 p m from 2d ave.|
To take eflect Nov. It. 1808.
H. C. BENAOH, Bupt.
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