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[URAL DEUTERT IN LOWNDES.
Lnrge Reßfstra lion—Mad Oor Killed.
\ero Bitten 1 Snake.
Valdosta, Ga., May 22.—There Is a very
f trong probability tha a system of free
rur3 l mail delivery will be started in
Lowndes county before very long. The
ltter is already exciting the interest of
I pcop i e living on two or three routes, and
it i3 sa id that Congressman Brantley be
hoves that, In view of the dense popula
tion of Lowndes county, it will be easy
to net an appropriation for extending the
~-t-rr. to this county. It is proposed
riii the postal officials at Washington
, ' petitioned for a routa to the north of
ih < city and another route to the south,
lioiii routes would run through excellent
and would afford mail ac.’omM)
notions to a large number of people.
Tie outlook is that Lowndes county will,
lm > the largest registration this year
pie county has ever had before. Al
eafly there are over 1,700 names on the
registration lists and the number bids fair
to co to 2.500 in the near future. It is
not known vet what the Populists expect
to do. hut it is believed they will name
candidates for some of the offices, with
.1,, hope of getting suiaiortlfrom the Re
publicans. A promlneat Populist told
votir correspondent as. piue.h to-dny.
' \ mad dog was kllioA.in the western
of the city last nifht. Several par-
L* got on the trail of the animal, which
v ,‘s snapping and biting at everything in
gjeht. After a volley of fourteen or iifteen
Sturts the dog was killed. _
The census enumerators of Lowndes
county are to have a meeting here- on Sat
urday' to discuss the work they are to do
ur d to familiarize themselves with the
questions which they are to ask on. their
rounds. In view of the complicated char
u : ,. r of their work, their plan of discuss
ing it before hand seems to be a good
one.
A negro named William Adams in the
l.ak Park distri t was bii ten by a rattle
snake yesterday and is not expected to re
iovtr. The negro thrust his hand into a
r hhit hole, and to his amazement, he
I seized hold of a monster rattlesnake
which buried its fangs into his flesh. The
snake, it is said, measured 6 feet in length
and Lad eleven rattles. At last accounts,
the negro was lingering between life and
death.
The Lowndes county Superior Court con
v n and here yesterday with the venerable
judge Hansell on the bench. All of to
day was taken up with a case against a
n gro named Spencer Scott charged with
criminal assault upon a little negro girl.
Th jury had not returned in the case up
\) a late hour this evening. The criminal
d:cket is also light, there being only one
murder case, that of a young negro in
the Dasher district, charged with the
murder of another negro named Sam
Jones seme time ago.
It is said, though, that the grand jury
is to have a very busy session, and that
many matters will come before them.
Forty-two subpoenas w’ere sent out for
witnesses at one time to-day, indicating
that the jury is going to the bottom of
some matters.
QU ANTITY OF TOBACCO LOST.
Fire in I>anville, Va.. Destroyed Two
I.arge AVarelionsea.
Danville, Va., May 22.—Fire broke out
at 3 o'clock a. m. to-dey in the tobacco
warehouse and factory district and for
over three hours furnished the Are de
partment the most stubborn fight of late
years, being only gotten under control at
f 30 a. mi., when two of the largest ware
louses in the country, both in regard to
f.ze and selling records, two factories and
a storage warehouse filled with bright
Inf tobacco, were destroyed and upwards
o: 800,000 pounds of valuable tobacco, val
ued at about $115,000. and buildings at $35,-
i* >. had either passed to smoke or were
ruined.
Several farmers narrowly escaped with
their lives, losing their wagons, loaded
with leaf tobacco, but saving their horse®.
The losses are as follows:
Acree’s great tobacco warehouse, cover
ing an acre of ground, Banner’s ware
louse, also a large one, Brown’s packing
warehouse, with about 700.000 pounds of
American Tol>aoco Company’s leaf tobac
ron in hogsheads, Acree’s tobacco factory,
leased by Chalmers Patterson; Hodnett’s
factory and a number of small brick and
wooden structures. The territory' burned
covered almost an entire square. The larg
est individual was F. X. Burton,
owner of the Brown’s packing warehouse
and Banner’s warehouse, which were un
insured.
maukikd SIXTY years.
Judge and Mrs. Hansell Celebrate.
TJiomasvillc New*.
Thomasvllle, Ga.. May 22.—Judge A. H.
Hansell and his wife celebrated on Sun
day the sixtieth anniversary cf the mar
riage. The clergyman who performed th©
ceremony, Rev. John W. Baker, is also
p * iJ l living, his homo being in Marietta,
Ga.
Prof. Euler B. Smith of the State Nor
mnl College delivered an enter'aining lec
ture here to-night on “Trifles.”
The colored excursion to Bilnbridge yes
terday over this end of the Plant System,
to ("lebrate Emancipation Day, was a
huge affair. Two trains of ten cars each,
v.nli some 1,700 passengers, 1 C he.e to ?ay
i-oihiug of those picked up biter.
lVudren Mitchell, Ktdar Powell, John
Triplett, W. S. Bulloch, Arthur Patten.
T. M. Cheatham, W. M. Brooks
uni 3. M. Beach'have been appointed del
egates to the State Democratic Conven
tion.
Jackson Bruce, son of Mrs. Emma Bruce,
v.as drowned Saturday while bathing n
th*- Ochlockonee river withs. me friends.
Tlu* lad was eleven years old. His b.>dy
v.a. recovered later by J. D. Pittman.
Mi®s Davie Bruce and T. J. Wilson wer*
married Sunday afternoon in this city by
Judge Massey.
l/OI iSI ANA'S SENATORS.
Pouter to Succeed Cnffery and 31c-
Enery to Go IlncU.
Baton Rouge, La., May 22.—80th houses
cf the Legislature assembled to-day and
* ted ex-Gov. Murphy J. Foster to the
United Sta<es Senate and re-elected
*• r ;Bod States Senator McEnery.
Senator McEnery is now serving a sec
°*i 1 term in the Senate and his new term
? vill begin 1903. Senator Foster’s term
begins in 1901.
Cnuadlnns Congrntiilnted.
Ottawa, Ont., May 22.—Lord Minto, Gov
ernor General of Canada, has received the
following cablegram from Joseph Cham
berlain, Minister for the Colonies:
London, May 22.—Congratulate Cana
dn on great service rendered by Canadian
artillery in relieving Mafcking.”
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find an Kuy Time.
w York, May 22.—Kid McPartland has
an rasy time with Billy Ernst at the Sea
fud* Sporting Club, Coney Island, to*
the end of the sixth round.
Actress* Brother n Suicide.
San Francisco, May 22.—Thomas MoDer
roott, brother of Maxine Elliot, the actress,
wife of Nat Goodwin, committed suicide
to-day. Domestic troubles led to despond
ency. - -
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RESULTS ON THE, DIAMOND*
Brooklyn Kept In Good Form and
Won the Game.
Pittsburg, May 22.—Inability to hit Kit
eon when hits were needed seemed to
take the ginger out of Pittsburg, and
they played a listless game. Brooklyn
was in the game at all stages. Attend
ance 3.200. Score: R.H.E.
Pittsburg 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 o—l 9 0
Brooklyn 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 o—l0 —1 8 1
Batteries— I Tannehill and Zimmer; Kit
son and Farrell.
How Cincinnati Won,
Cincinnati. May 22.—Grady’s muff of a
thrown ball w’hich he f llowed with a wild
throw to second, Hickman’s error, two
singles, a base on balls and a three-bag
ger gave Cincinnati six runs in the filth
inning. Mcßride’s batting was the only
feature. Attendance 600. Score: R.H.E.
Cincinnati ....0 1 006 1 00 o—B 11 4
New York 0 3 00 2 000 o—o 9 5
Batteries—Breitenstein and Peitz; Car
rick, Warner and Bowerman.
St. Looln Shut Out Bowton.
St. Louis, May 22.—The only error in to
day’s game was Sullivan’s failure to hold
Jones’ strike in the fourth inning. St.
Louis bunched hits when runs were need
ed. Attendance 1,900. Score: R.H.E.
St. Louis 1 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 x—7 9 0
Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o—o 6 0
Batterh s—Jones and Criger; Pittinger
and Sullivan.
Philadelphia Bent Chicago.
Chicago, May 22.—T0-day’s game was a
ccmedy of errors in which the Chicago’s
excelled, their misplays helping Philadel
phia to most of their runs. Attendance
4,000. Score: R.H.E.
Chicago 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0-5 9 6
Philadelphia .2 1010400 0-8 114
Batteries—Callahan and Chance; Dono
hue and McFarland.
Toronto, 4; Hartford, 5.
Syracuse, 6; Springfield, 13.
Indianapolis, 1; Milwaukee, 2. 1
Cleveland, 2; Kansas City, 12.
Buffalo, 9; Chicago. 6.
SPORT MARRED BY ACCIDENT.
Jockey Wnlxh Who Roile at Moryla
Park May Loop Hl* I.tfe.
New York, May 22.—A good day’s sport
at Morris Park to-day was marred by an
accident which may result fatally for T.
Walsh, the jockey. He had the mount on
Movay in the third race which was at
five furlongs down the eclipse course
chute. Just inside the last sixteenth Mo
vay apparently crossed his legs and turn
ed a complete somersault, falling on his
rider. The boy was carried to the jockey
room unconscious and later was sent to
the hospital. He was suffering from con
cussion of the brain.
The tacing was spirited. Two fixtures
decided were the Pocantico handicap and
the amateur cup, with gentlemen Jockeys
up. Summaries: -
z First Race—Seven furlongs, selling.
Rinaldo, 5 to 2. won, with Ron Jour, 5 to
2 and 7 to 5, second, and Dolando, 10 to
1, third. Tme 1:25%.
Second Race -Five furlongs. Handwork,
8 to 5. won, with Gold n Age, 5 to 1 and 6
to 5, second, and Bally hooky, 2 to 1, third.
T.me :KV 2 .
Third Race—Five furlongs. Bedeck, 6 to
1, w'on, with Prince Charles, 6 to 5 and 1 to
2, second, and Karl Kahler, 10 to 1, third.
Time 0:38%.
Fourth Race—The Pocantico handicap,
mile and, a sixteenth. Missionary, 3 to 1,
won, with Gonfallon, 5 to 1 and 8 to 3, sec
ond, and Contestor, 4 to 1, third. Time
1:47%.
Fifth Race—The Amateur cup, one mile.
Tulane, 16 to 5, won, with George Keene,
5 to 2 and even, second, and Post Haste,
8 to 1, third. Time 1:46.
Sixth Race—One mile. Queen of Song,
3 to 1, won, with Voter, 7 to 6 and 1 to 2,
second, and Half Time, 13 to 5, third. Time
1:42.
Chilian Claims Committee.
Washington, May 22.—The Swiss gov
ernment has cabled the state department
that its presidents, at the request of the
government of the United States and
Chili, has appointed J. S. Pioda, the
Swiss minister resident In Washington,
as a member of the Chilian Claims Com
mittee.
Receiver for Hold Mines.
Muncie. Ind., May 22.—Jordan Williams
was to-day appointed receiver of the
Snipes Gold Mining Company by Judge
Letier. The company has been developing
gold mines in North Carolina. William
Whitman of Muncie, and his brother in
North Carolina, were the promoters.
TAKES ENGINEERS TELL.
Queer Acting Loeoniotlves, Disap
pearing: Cars, and Oft-Occurriugr
Accidents They Know of.
From the Milwaukee (Wls.) Sentinel.
In reminiscent mood, the older ones
among the visiting locomotive engine rs
are full of story and incident. They get
together to tell their hair-bienllhs es
capes, of their hoodooed engines enl
ghosts, for every railroad has Its gho t,
of "logy engines,” of lazy engines, and
"tired locomotives" to their hearts’ con
tent. Many of these stories make inter
esting reading.
“Would you believe,” asked an old-timer
of the rail, "that engines need rest, that
they absolutely get tired?
"It is a fact,” continued he. "I have
known engines to get absolutely tired out
in my experience. 1 remember seve: a
years ago on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago, at a station called Nevada, I
was making a pretty sharp run to c ear
No. 3, the fast mall, and was getting iret
ty close to her time. We went into Neva
da on a heavy grade, when I sigr al and lor
the switch und the station tender cam’
down and opened the switch. Just as we
reached the opening I discovered that the
engine was going to ‘lay down’ between
exhausts, I could hear the express rumb
ling down the hill behind. I was a i til:
nervous as the engine w<nt on to a fr:g.
on the sharp curve to the s ding As I
, feared, she quit, lay down like a steer In
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1900.
the corn. I had but a sin ill train, not
more than two-thirds of her load. I locked
at the steam gauge. She had 129 pounds,
all we were allowed to cany; there was
absolutely no excuse for her refusing to
pull that train, except that she was tired.
•’ln my disgust I turned to the fireman
without shutting off the throttle, and sad:
’Well, he old jade is played out.'
‘ Knowir g tha: it v.as impossible to
back up and take another run at the biH,
the e was nothing to do but wait and flag
the ex re SB, ar.d have them push us in
on to the siuir.g The thrott'e was still
wile open, mind you, all this time, and
the lever was down in *the corner. I pre
sume for one mtnu e the engine was dead
to the world. This minute seemed to me
like an hour. My disgust and contempt
was nearly ready to break put. when
f’om the safety valve came a i>op, fol
lowed by a grian from the engine, and
what do you think—that ngine picked up
train and went on in the sidetrack
a a ten-mile clip.”
Two Curs Lowt.
“Once.” spoke up another old timer. “I
was a brakeman on the old Detroit and
Milwaukee Road, now part of the Grand
Trunk system. I was out on what they
called the night expr ss: which was a com
bination of freight and passenger. Be
tween Pavisburg and Fentonville .the
train broke in twain. I went out on the
train, and when the forward part had dis
covered the break and backed dow’n, I
w r cnt down and made the coupling and
signaled the engineer ahead. In those
days all freight trains carried a bell tope;
when I coupled up the rope and got back
to the caboose, it se mod to me that there
was a si’ht of sack in the bell rope. I
re led and reeled, but made nothing more
than a casual mention of it to the conduc
tor, whfse name was Thomas Rook. At
Fentonville T was given th<= numbers of
two cars to ‘shunt’ out. 1 look© 1 the train
over and over, and no such cars were in
the train. I reported the matter to the
conductor.
“He said I was blind, called me an
idiot. Ho said they were there when we
left Detroit, for he personally took the
number of the cars of the train, so he
started out bigger than life to make me
believe I was an idiot. He went the full
length of the train one way, but did not
discover the cars, then walked back to
the engine again and daunted the cars.
He was two cars short. None had been
side-tracked since leaving Detroit. The
result was that the matter was report
ed at the office and the next morning the
Fentonville accommodation was ordered
to look out for those stray cars. They
found them where the train broke in tw’o,
on either side of the track, one fully ten
feet in the clear, and the other down the
bank upside down.
“Stories like this are common, yet the
majority will not believe them and will
regard this as a ‘pipe story.’ The idea of
a train breaking in two and two cars
breaking out and the rest of the train run
ning on without jolt or jar sufficient to
alarm the train crew may be regarded
as fishy, but it is history no less.”
An Engine Elopes.
Here a third man put in his oar and
paid: “Say, Joe, on the old Western Union
Road, or later what was called the Racine
and Mississippi, I knew r an engine to Lave
the track, go down the bank, and the
passengers in the cars looked at the en
gine as the balance of the train went
past, and everybody was innocent of the
fact that they were riding on an engine
less train until it began to slacken speed.
At another time, on the same road, if I
remember rightly, Frank Black, while
running wild in coming through the sta
tion of Rook Run on a sharp curve, dis
covered a freight car standing across the
track. The wind had blown It off from* the
siding each side of the track, the trucks
stood squarely in the clear of the rails.
Black said he had not time to stop, s</he
opened the throttle, and he and his fire
man got down behind the boiler head and
waited for the crash. It came; they split
the cor into splinters, tore (he smokestack
and bell frame from the engine, ripped
half the jacket off, and made kindling
wood of the cab, but the engine staid on
the track. Black had to fix up a smoke
stack out of boards set down into the
smoke arch around the nozzles, but he
went Into Racine with his own steam and
boasted that he had never been ‘towed in’
yet. This story is history, although I am
not personally known to the facts. But
it is one of the stories that old-timers re
late who knew Wisconsin in the days
when Alexander MUc.hdL and Oapt. Gilbert.
Knapp of Racine were the biggest men
from the railway point of view.”
Iloodooed.
“I have known engines that were abso
lutely ‘hoodooed.’ *1 knew of an engineer
who waß eternally in trouble, yet he was
a thoroughly practical man, but he was
always breaking down or going into the
ditch. Several time he had narrow es
capes from death. He went through all
the accidents that engineers can undergo
—throwing off tires, punching out cylin
der heads, the blowing out of gauge
cocks, breaking side rods, and other like
mishaps. Finally, we laid it to* the en
gine; said she w’as hoodooed. He W’as
given another engine, and the same
ill luck followed him. One morning,
standing in the gangway between the cab
and tank, he threw a tire and broke a
side rod. The whipping of the rod and
he Jolting of the tireless wheel threw him
from hie engine, and he w’as severely in
jured. He recovered from his injuries,
was given still another engine, and still
ids misfortunes pursued him. He quit
the road some twenty yeare ago and went
to the Flint and Pere Marquette in
Michigan, where he has had a continuous
run of prosperity and good luck, never
has even so much as ‘slipped an eccen
tric/ to use his own words, since he
changed roads.
“Before the time of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, men used to run
the railroads in their own way, the offi
cers were absolute dictators, dominating
the men <o excessive labor and to the en
dnngerment of their lives and the com
pany’s properties. In my personal ex
perience/’ said one of the party, “I re
member a hair-breadth on the De
troit, Toledo division of the Michigan
Southern road. I had Just got in with
my train from’ Goshen on tho air line, it
being the fifth day and night for my
self and the whole crew’ on the road
without sleep, save cat-naps caught on
the sidings at meetings points. I was
told that I must he ready to leave in an
hour for Detroit,
“I went to old man Hardy, who was
master mechanic and boss of the round
house, and protested. I told him that I
must have rest. Ho said that the train
must be hauled to Detroit. I knew it
meant the of my Job if I rehell. and. so
after a conference with my firomin, I
agreed to go out with the promise that I
have twelve hours to sleep in Detroit. We
started, and the last I remember w s at
Milburn, a few miles from Toledo. When
I awoke and pulled myself together, it took
me a moment or two to discover my wher -
about*. Finally I located a f miliar land
end knew that I was standing in the
coroporate limits of the city cf Monroe,
twenty-eight miles from Toledo, nor" 1
than twenty miles of which had been tnad?
by myself and fireman while we were in
the ‘arms of Murphy.’ We had slept for
inon- than twenty niitn and the engine
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was dead—not a stvtrk of fire in the fire
box, nothing but a cold engine. Ixtoklnn at
the cab clock, I saw that wo were si\ min
utes on the south-bound passenger i rain’s
time. That was an exciling moment.
Figuratively speaking, my hair stood on
end. To make mature worse, my lie d
light and gone out. It, too, was tired. I
picked up a red light, lighted it, woke up
my fireman, started him up Hie track to
flag the pasenger train, went back to the
caboose, found the conductor and three
brakesmen in a go-as-you-please sno ing
match. It was the worst crew of played
out railroad men that I ever saw. I woke
them tip, hurried back to the engine, put
In a tire, wiicn the passenger train, wh eh.
luckily, was twenty minutes late, piil'ed
in, told my tale of woe to the crew, and it
was agreed that nothing should be said
about it. No one ever knew of this inci
dent. except old man Hardy, who will lie
remembered by some men in this conven
tion. I told him my stoTy when I got back
to Toledo. He patted me on btek and
said:
‘You will never die in a railroad
smash-up. You are too lucky.”
“But those things arc changed now; men
do not. as a rule, have to respond to every
beck and call of a train dispatcher, or di
vision superintendent. The limit of human
forbearance has been discovered by rail
road officers, and men are treated like
men, not like serfs nowadays.”
CENSUS ELECTRICAL MACHINES.
flow the 75,000.000 People Compos
ing the Nntton Will Be Coanted.
From the Chicago Record.
Washington. "May 18.—IXrwn at
the census office are a thousand or more
electrical machines that can almost talk,
and the labor they save is impossible (o
calculate. But for them it would require
10.000 clerks several years to tabulate and
classify and compute the information sent
in toy the 50.000 enumerators regarding the
75,000,000 people who compose this great
and glorious republic.
The first thing to be done when the re
turns of the enumerators are sent tn upon
large sheets of paper, will toe to transfer
the information they contain, to strong
manila cards about four by eight Inches
in size. The cards are impersonal, but
each bears a number and represents a
citizen of the United States. Eighty mill
ion cards have been provided. Upon this
card are 240 symbols, which represent
every item of information that Could pos
sibly be reported by an enumerator under
his Instructions—birthplace, age, color,
sex, occupation, number of children, etc.
For example, the "W" over at the left
hand upper corner of the card means
white; “B,” black; 'Th.,” Chinese; "Jp.,”
Japanese; “In..'' Indian. In the next row
“M” represents male and ”F” female?/
Over in the other corner are the signs
for place of nativity, which can easily
be identified, the upper litters represent
ing the state and the lower ones foreign
countries—‘'En.,” England; S. A.,”
.South America; "Dk.” Denmark; “Sz.,”
Switzerland; "Php.,” Philippine islands.
This card is placed - upon a machine that
resemble® one of those tracing instruments
used fo-r transferring maps, and the key
board corresponds exactly to Us lettering.
The operator, glancing at the return of
the enumerator, moves the key over the
board and places it carefully upon the
spot represented by the symbol wanted.
This causes n little knife to pierce a hole
In the card at that precise spot, end when
the operation Is completed the card re
sembles the perforated sheets that are
used in orchestrions and automatic pianos.
When all the returns from a census dis
trict have beon transferred in this manner
from the enumerators’ sheet* to the cards
the latter are packed away in a tin box.
properly marked, each .box being large
enough to hold 2.900 cards, and* it can be
easily storedi away with other canned
statistice, each box bearing a label indi
cating its contents.
I do not think I can describe the enumer
ating machine so that the reader can un
derstand it. It is about the size of on up
right piano. Upon the upright part is a
set of dials, like steam registers, one for
each of the items embraced In the popu
lation schedules. When the operator runs
through thks machine the manila cards
as above described and closes an electric
circuit by moving a lever a little rod runs
through each hole in the card and causes
the dial at the other end of a wire to reg
ister one. Therefore when the operator
has completed the pile of cards and has
run them all through the machine the in
formation they contain has been accurate
ly transferred to the several dials, end the
operator can take the totql off on a- slip
of |>aper prepared for that purpose. The
dials will show how many of the people
represented by thosa 2.000 cards were }>orr
hi Ireland, and how many in Ohio; how
many are married; how many are natural
ized citizens, and all the other answers
to the inquiries imposed by Congress upon
enumerators.
The economy of this remarkable method
was illustrated beyond a question In the
last census, and can bo appreciated when
ir is known that Alexander Maurice, one
o f 'he clerks In the lest census, averaged
1.1,356 cards o day—about six and a half
hours’ work—while his highest record for
any given wns 19,071 cards.
Anybody who wf.l compare this work
with the old-fashioned tally sheets, with
c'oFely packed lines of figures, which used
to drive some of the census clerks blind
and others crazy, con realize the value
of the enumerating: machine, which could
not make an error under any circum
stance*. It is estimated that In the lost
census these,machines saved not less than
$600,000 In clerk hire. Both were invented
by Herman Hollarith. a graduate of Co
lumbia college, New York, who was a
clerk in the census of 1880 and also in
that of 1890. where he invented both de
vices with the assistance of Dr. Billings,
now librarian of the United Libraries of
New York; Henry Gannett of the geolog
ical survey, ond others who took an inter
est in his work. He has since perfected
the apparatus and Is now preparing to
place 1.00) punch’ng machines and 250 enu
merating machines in the census office.
Mr. Hollarith * Invention* have be* n
adopted by France, Germany, Russia an*)
Canada, and are now being adapted to
railway accounts. Both the Pennsylvania
end the New York Central Railway com
panies hove Introduced them and art
finding them very useful
HOW THEY ARE HUNTED.
METHODS OF CATCHING AY H ALES
OF THE DEEP CHANGE.
Old Manner of Harpooning Ha* I’n•*_
cd Into a .More Memory—Modern
A’cmkclm and Appliances Have Come
Into Voa'uo.
From the New York Times.
Moist persons think of whaling as an in
dustry pursued with a bluff-bowed old
vessel beating her way round the world,
manned by New’ England farmers and the
refuse of crimps’ lodging houses, and at
tacking the leviathans of the deep in
frail boats with harpoons and lances.
Nothing could be more at variance with
the modern method of whale hunting, for
science has enlisted In the pursuit the
most efficient as well as most destructive
of accessories, and the killing of the ce
tacea has been transformed from an ad
venturous pursuit, abounding in excite
ment and hairbreadth escapee, into a mat
ter-of-fact, every-day business undertak
ing.
Whaling in Green bay illustrates these
new’ conditions. A specially built, stanch,
s<out and swift little steamer prosec lit <©
the fishery, replacing tho old-time boats
and rowers. She carries on her forecastle
the weapon with which she does battle—
a powerful cannon, w’hich fires a projec
tile capable of destroying the largest
leviathan in these wutets. This gun
ejects a large iron harpon, with cross
arms, which lie against the shaft until
it strikes a solid body, and then project
out and imbed themselves. The head
of this harpoon is formed of the fore
going projectile, which is cigar-ehaped
and sharp-pointed, and explodes ns it
pierces the whale’s side, generating a gas
w’hich serves <o keep the fish afloat after
tho wrecking effect of the shock on its
Internal organe has left it a lifeless mass.
A stout rope Is attached to the butt of the
harpoon, and by this the w’hale is kept in
leash as it thrashes madly through the
w’ater in a vain effort to escape Its un
known enemy. Death rapidly ensues un
less, as sometimes happens, the projectile
goes through the fish from aide to shle,
and a second shot is then necessary. But,
though the ship may have to fire a second
shot, in no instance, has a whale once
struck by the harpoon escaped the hunt
ers.
Given the Whalen Hard Work.
The whaling steamer Cabot is power
fully engined, makes thirteen knots and,
on occasion, can hold her own when a
huge finback, frenzied with pain, seeks
to drag her ofT toward the ocean. The
practice with the whalemen Is that as
soon as a fish is struck the engines are
shut off and the whale is allowed to ca
reer along on its way, towing the steamer
after her. This soon exhaunts the whale,
which then comes to the surface and here
its death flurry takes place. Very rare
ly one of them will attempt an attack on
the boat, though ns a rule they are too
terrified to approach the strange object
which plows so rapidly through the wat
er, but when any such menace is at
tempted’ the quick handling of the steam
er and the discharge of a second hai-poon
will soon put the Infuriated animal out
of the fight and drag his carcass into the
factory at Snook's arm, where the manu
facture of the oil and the cleaning of
the whalebone are undertaken.
This form of whale Ashing originated
in Norway, where It has been pursued
for many years with conspicuous success.
Several companies are engaged in it at
various points on the Norwegian coast,
and very large profits are made, so plen
tiful are the fish, and so readily are they
captured. It was then extended to Ice
land, where it proved equally successful,
and thence it was established in New
foundland. In those days the dead whale
was hauled into the beach at high water
and the fat was taken off at low tide.
When the water was high again the car
cass was turned over, and later the pro
cess was repeated, until the whole opera
tion was completed. Thie made it im
possible to study the whale as a whole,
hut at Snook’s arm there Is now a "slip”
pr sloping platform, running out Into the
watJr, and by means of this the fish are
hoisted up high and dry and the removal
of the "blanket” or oil-bearing outer cov
ering ts possible without any cessation,
the scientific observer having at (he same
time an unrivaled opportunity for his
work.
The Rest Oil Bearer*.
The Industry was only set on foot in
this island in the spring of 1898, and for
that season the Cabot killed ninety-one
whales, many of which, however, were
only small ones. This year the total has
reached iimety-etght, the average size
being much greater. It might he thought
(hat such killing would soon deplete them,
but Dr. True counted over 100 of them
spouting together on more than one oc
casion. The Norwegian whales are richer
in fat, owing to a greater plentitude of
the mollusks on which they feed, but the
Newfoundland ones are much larger and
far mere plentiful, so that the balance is
struck about equally. The humpback
gives the poorest yield, Its "blanket” be
ing thinnest of all. The finback Is more
valuable, yielding four to six tons of oil,
besides a good quantity of baleen, or
wha'ebone.
A huge factory has been erected at
Snook's arm for the conversion of the
dead fish into commercial products. As
the whales are towed Into the harbor they
are moored by ropes to ringbolts fastened
In the rocks, and here they Aral, as many
as thirty or. forty at a time, waiting their
turn to he rut up and thrown into the re
fining vats, which rapidly convert the fat
Into fine, clear oil, largely in demand in
Europe for soap-making and other indus
trial undertakings. Only the fat is re
moved from the carcass. This fat is the
outer covering, inside that, and adher
ing to the bones. Is the meat, a strong,
tough, stringy growth, which so far has
been valueless, though now' an attempt
Is being made to transform it Into patent
fertilizer.
All last winter the flsherfolk in the
n lchborlng harbors carried it away by
boat Fads and used It for food, it being
to them a very agreeable change from
their eternal diet of codfish, though It
would hardly satisfy the tourist or tray
fl r. Not infrequently it was silted dow i
in barrels, and did duty a'l the post sum
mer. and this earn a similar pracil' l '
w i 1 be pursued, as the guaoo factory wl I
not be ready to work before the spring
As the meat rots or Is str.pped from the
w > ales, tho hunts drop to the b.jtlom
where they will r train as an ever-: 1 in ■
monument to industrial activity, until
s lerce has devi'ed some mea-s of utl iz
leg them as It has of the other portion
of the fi’h.
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Established 1823.
Wilson
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mer stock of PARASOI.S, BELTS, COLLARS, FAN'S and RIB'BONS,
New effecta io Hemstitched Velvet Ribbons.
Latest fad in Ladies’ Boston Bags.
New shapes in Linen Collars.
Unquestionable bargains in Shirt Waists: Derby Waists selling at 50c. One
tot Dirge Stare, worth SI.OO, $1.50, at 39c.
Not the least interesting article in our store at present Is Mme. Butler's
'Buena Tonic. This exquisite nut tonic excels any remedy on the market; a
positive protective against wind and sun.
Freckle Eradicator is a positive cure for freckles and tan.
Excellent values in Foulard Silk this week.
Ribbons—the laleet, best and chenpest. B-ln. XXXX Rag Envelopes 2%c park.
No. 1 Ilaby Ribbon, lc to 2%0 yd. ; 48c sp’U P * BB Memorandum and Counter
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All above run 10 yard, to the bolt. If you 1 “ ™let £jtft asst., large cakes,
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prices of our goods. Tappan'r Face Powders 3c, s<: and 8c box.
3,000 fine Ink Tablets 4c and 5c each. Sterling Silver Bracelte* 99c each.
10,000 boxes Puper and Envelopes, worth sterling Silver Friendship Hearts 8o to 15c.
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