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THE GLORIES OF THE
GRADUATION GOWN.
Mrs. Van Knickerbocker Goes Shopping for
Her Daughter’s Summer Finery.
A Tonoli of Color Will lie Introdtieed Into the Moat Effective Froeki
Worn at Commencement Exercise* This Month—Charming; Descrip
tion of Shirt W aist and Mnsiin Gown* for Incipient Debutant*.
New York, June I.—"My eighteen year
old Mabel is graduating this month,” an
nounced Mrs. Van Knickerbocker in a tone
of pride and pkasure.
‘‘So it) my motherless little niece, Edith,”
chimed in the hostess. Then they both
laughed and opening their suede gloved
hands showed assorted samples of muslin,
lace ribbon and liberty silk and sitting
down at the glove counter began to dis
cuss graduation fashion.
‘‘Please show me some elbow’ long white
Buede gloves,” said the hostess to the
saleswoman, then to Mrs. \an l£hicker
bocker: "I've decided that Edith shall
wear a very spring-time little frock in
blue and white with an open neck to give,
her a chance at showing her sweet round
throat and her sleeves are only to be el
bow long. I am perfectly tired of the
hook muslin miss. A girl at her gradua
tion should look her most becoming l>est,
and as my little ward is slender, blonde
and rather pale and thin Just now from
(a) A plain muslin ahlrt waist, with stock of Liberty satin, (b) A bodice of white tucked silk with bolero of white and yellow. (c) Gathered and tucked mull trimmed with Valenclenne lace, (and) Lily-of-
the-valley green silk with tucked muslin yoke, (e) White muslin bodice barred with bands of pink and white embroidery.
hot weather examinations, I shall cast a
note of color into her costume and com
bine fashion with picturesqueness in the
etyle of her frock.”
"Thnt is right,” heartily seconded Mrs.
Van Knickerbocker, ‘‘but you must tell me
what Edith is going to wear, for I believe
she will stand right alongside my Mabel
In the chorus, and I do h pe their gowns
will harmonize as well as their voices.”
Kriith'n Frock
*'A fine cream white silk muslin,” be
gan the hostess, “very pliant of texture
and embroidered in open work dots of
blue that just matches the child’s eyes.
The skirt is a straight drop on a cream
taffeta foundation, tucked a little on the
hips and decorated at the foot by a bor
der of tucked cream mull set on to the
Edith's spring time graduation gown of
white silk muslin embroidered in blue
rings.
figured goods in scallops edged with a
quilling of blue grenadine ribbon. A big
collar of tucked muslin, figured over with
ribbon quillings, turns back upon the
shoulders from a quaint little inner vtst
of white chiffon shured with blue silk, and
ell this leaves Just her long white throat
end a tiny V point of her sweet fair chest
exposed, while a big bow of chiffon,drawn
through a turquoise set buckle lastens the
points of her collnr together. Round her
elender wait goes a chiffon sash
knotting in front to let frilled ends lal)
nearly to the foot and long ltbbon edg, and
frills of chiffon drop from the elbow of
the tucked silk muslin sleeve*.”
Malicl's flninrtness.
''Dear me, I am afraid you will think
Mabel quite overloaded with conven
tional smartness,” said Mrs. Van
Knickerbocker. "1 do like your idea of
dre ,-lng a graduate picturesquely rather
th in fashionably. IGrls have to get lino
the harness of the mode all too soon, hut
there Is nothing In the least picturesque
•bom my Mabel so I, too. decided against
overworked book imislin sentiment and
bougfht her a charming pearl white nun’s
veiling and Is groinpr to be trimmed about
the region of the knees and down, with
crossed bands of pale yellow batiste em
broidery. Instead of pleating I shall have
a trifle of shirring on either hip and thou
the embroidery trimmed waist Is to sup
port a round shoulder collar of tucked
batiste edged with needlework. ing
sleeves crossed with embroidered bands
and a rather broad cruvshed belt of pale
rose panne at the waist will, I think, give
my dork-eyed daughter just the setting
ehe needs.”
“Quite right, you art* ” assented the hos
tess, selecting her gloves with care. “I
hear through Edith that no end of girls
will wear strings of pearls, diamond heart
brooches or charming new' neck chains
and jeweled pendants- at the commence
ment exercises; gifts you understand from
proud parents and I om sure poor Edith
longed to have permission to wear the gay
brooch and watch chain George and I gave
her, but I held firm in my refusal.”
Some Charming Shirt Wiilmln.
“Sensible woman!” agreed Mrs. Van
Knickerbocker as the two strolled away
townrd the silk waist deportment. "The
time for that sort of thing comes soon
enough and if you are not in n hurry int
me stop and cast an eye of maternal in
terest at these waists. All the pretty ones
I’ve seen of silk and many charming ones
of muslin are mode to fasten in the bock
and as Mabel’s smartest summer costume
will consist'of berlaps, pique, lawn and
jute skirts In white and colors, worn with
various fancy bodies, I took pains last
week to pick up several at this counter
that pleased her fancy mightily. One was
a lily of the valley green wash silk corded
in white, laid in box pleats in front and
set on to a yoke of finely tucked white
muslin, bordered and collared by a band of
white embroidery. Another w>as of white
muslin finely tucked in horizontal lines,
but barred from throat to waist with
bands of white and pink embroidery. The
sleeves correspond exactly with the body
and worn with a crush collar and belt of
pink panne and a pleated pique skirt. This
makes as smart a little afternoon gown
as an incipient debutante could wish.”
Effective Simplicity.
“There is a commendable effort I ob
serve this season,” said the hostess, pick
ing up a pretty waist of while mull laid
from neck to belt In baby tucks alternat
ing with perpendicular rows of gathered
Valenciennes edging and giving It, with a
nod and smile of acceptance, to the sales
woman. “for doing away with the stiff
linen collar and cuff. This pretty thing I
am going to buy for Edith. See how its
long tucked sleeves end In a soft point
over the hand, and all she will need to go
with it will be a four-in-hand tie of some
soft silk or lawn to wind about the high
straight neckband of lawn. Ido so dis
like to see young girls yoke themselves In
hard starched linen that chafes and dis
colors the tender skin of their throats, and,
oh. if you please!” to the saleswoman.
"I'll have this too and this—Edith will
look n picture, eh. Mrs. Van Knickerbock
er, In a pretty body of this sort,” and the
affectionate aunt held up n waist of en
tirely tucked white wash silk made with a
bolero and sleeves of more white silk, but
pin dotted in yellow and blue. The bolero’s
edges and the tips of the sleeves were
smartened with a shell frill of plain silk
bordered by bands of blue and yellow babv
ribbon. A stock of white silk circled the
r.eck. and Mrs. Van Knickerbocker en
viously but hastily ejaculated: "Simply
sweet."
I am buying this one for my 'aln self,"
remarked Edith’s generous relative,
spreading forth a shirt of orthodox type in
white muslin, not only tucked all about,
but showing lines of tucks running down
the backs of the sleeves. "Is thete any
thing that looks more bewitchlngly cool
than a muslin shirt waist? Sometime- I
shall wear this with one of the new jtlff
linen collars, cut to slope up high under
the ears, sometimes n stock of liberty silk
drawn through a long gold slide under the
chin and sometimes a high band of lace
showing my neck through an prtfully
bound and bordered with a little stitched
on strap of colored silk to hold every
thing firm.”
A Vision In Silk Veiling.
She would have continued her enthu
siastic Inveplmenis in fancy waist* earcer
ly and Indefinitely had not Mrs. Van
Knickerbocker, who had evidently been
revolving something in her mind, sudden
ly linked her arm in that of her friend
and whirled her gently away from the
fascinating counter with the plea that
she had a dress to try on In the upper re
gions of the shop and In the final question
of its choice and purchase.
“I waver, like n leaf in the autumnal
blast, between two equally Irresistible
com(K>sltlons from the most author.tatlve
French masters of good gowns,” sighed
the good lady, ns she sank into a tufted
chair In the softly lighted,
decorated importing department of ths
great shop. "My husband always gives
me a special allowance every season for
two of the finest Purl* frocks I can g t
in this town. I've already bought one but
as I am going to visit a bit • New cor'
this summer I feel I must have one ve y
definite, gracious, * ornamental alTair lo
the morning entertainments they (til me
are the feature of that watetiiig pla c,
so I—”
Mrs. Van Knickerbocker broke off
breathlessly as th* model* emerged fruo*
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1900.
the fitting rooms into ihe presence off the
ladies and slowly and solemnly revolved
about the mirror lined salon.
“That would be my choice.” said the
hostess, indicating, after momentary hesi
tation, a diaphanous eilk veiling of cream
white, delicately embroidered, in cluster
lines and tiny figures in Skirt
proper, overdress and bolero waist were
trimmed with the finest embroidered crejm
batiste entre deux and edging, skillfully
and uniquely brightened with narro.v
bands of stitched old rose cloh. Around
the neck and waist went a collar tie and
broad cefnture of turquoise taffeta and the
hat of cream Tuscan straw waved two tall
black plumes in front over a brim turned
up with a row of pink panne roses s t
low' against the hair.
“Send the gown home to me to-night,*’
ordered Mrs. Van Knickerbocker, with a
happy sigh, “I always felt that gown
would be my destiny and now come
along and try n salad and some ic*s at
the restaurant down ihe street, this shop
ping is a very hungry business, is it not?”
Mary Dean.
TO KEEP A FINE HEAD OF II.AIR.'
Correcting n Predisposition to Early
t Greyness.
*‘Tf you want to keep a fine head of hair
don’t give it a soap end water shampoo
oftener than twice a year,” said the
coiffeur, as she brushed out fairly healthy
looking brown tresses and talked instruct
ively to her patient whil* she brushel.
“I’ve been long enough in this business
to learn that every suit of hair has to be
differently There are scalps that
actually need and plenty of it,
others that grow sore and irritated if too
vigorously brushed, and this happens to
be a naturally fine growth of locks sadly
Injured by too frequent hard washings.
"When there is an hereditary predispo
sition to early grayness and lack of natu
ral oils in the hair a conscientious and
regular application of water fosters this
weakness. The tendency of dry hair Is to
grow course, and therefore a constant
use of artificial oils is necessary after
every washing. The thing to do for stiff
hard hair that is growing gray is constant
brushing. In the fall of the year when Ihe
proper shedding of old hair can be ex
pected, and again in the early spring,
when the young growth comes on a soft
light bn'iioon brush is the only kind to use.
This is the invention of a famous French
coiffeur. The brush is made of fine flex
ible selected bristles so set in to the wood-
Mabel's commencement frock of pearl
grvy nun's veiling elaborately trimmed
with yellow batish embroidery.
en back that a fully convex, Instead of
flat, brushing surface Is presented, and by
this arrangement the bristles run through
the hair without tearing or breaking the
strands os they go .and yet they carry
away all the loose lying dandruff on the
surface of the scalp and all the dust that
hangs tn the tangled mesh of locks.
"Brushing done In tills way can’t hurt
the most sensitive scalp, while If the pro
cess Is carefully gone through once a day
the head can be kept so clean that It
actually won’t need wash ng more than
once in two or three months.
"A woman who Is delicate, cleanly and
ambitious to possess fine luxuriant sweet
smelling hair should never fail to brush
her scalp and then her length of jocks ev
ery night before retiring. After the dusty
day her hair and head are as full of dust
ns an old unbeaten carpet, nnd every bit
of the deposit can be removed by going
over her tresses nnd her scalp with clean
white brushes and then braiding the locks
In two loose tails down the back, she will
not only feel cleoner hut sleeps ihe hei
fer for the operation.
"Of course It Is all important for the
brushes to lie kept white as bristles can
be bleached and then stiffest growth from
! a hog’s back, -won’t endure constant wash
; ing with soda, borax, ammonia or any of
the grease dissolving alkalis that are ad
vocated. Qasoime or naphtha are the
proper cleansers for hair brushes. After
they have been plunged in e bowl of either
volatile liquid and rubbed quickly, one
against the other, they should be set In
the open air to dry and thus in ten min
utes will be ready for use again.
“A timid person, fearful of these in
flammable extracts from oil, can by a
slower but Just as efficacious process clean
her brushes in wheat flour. The receipt
for this is to dip the brushes one after
the other in a pan of flour and by steadily
rubbing their bristle covered surfaces to
gether, successfully rub away all the
grease and dust collected on them.
‘‘A head to be kept clean requires that
the brushes be cleansed as often as three
times a week, and now for washing the
'head Itself. When I have the care of a
head like this,” indicating the tresses un
der the hand, "I shampoo it in tepid wa
ter and pure castile soap once in six
months, not oftener. and at the season
when trees and hedges are cut I clip
off a quarter inch at the ends of the
strands. That is quite enough pruning.
After a shampoo the head is terribly dry
and stiff and then I rub in a little of that
precious brilllantlne that a French chem
ist makes from the oil that nature sup
plies In the sheeps’ fleece.
"It is very pure, nourishing and very
lightly perfumed and looks like a jelly and
costs a lot, but it brings the roughness
out of hair unfailingly. After this treat
ment I show’ my patient how to brush her
head properly every night and then once
In six weeks, if she has been traveling
or the weather is pretty hot, I give her
head What I call a secondary cleaning. It
is not a bit less thorough than the soap
and water treatment, but it is far le;*
heroic and I alternate between a cleaning
with wheaT flour and one with naphtha. I
“Highly refined benzine or gasoline x\ill
do as well, but a naphtha hair bath is cut
sort of cleaning a woman shou,id never
give her own hair, because it is both diffi
cult and dangerous. I put my patron in
a chair, tuck protecting cloths about her
neck and shoulders, draw her head back
until ail her hair lies out in a basin, and
then, putting a napkin over her face and
opening a skylight in the studio calling J
pour on the naphtha, rubbing lightly as
I go, and let it drain through the long
hair into the basin. A little rubbing, a
pint of naphtha and ten minutes’ time
are all the requisites for thoroughly puri
fying scalp and hair. When the naphtha
las been carried out I fan and open the
tresses and in two minutes more soft and
bright and sweet smelling as fresh linen
they are ready to be pinned up.
"If the patron objects to naphtha I can
just as effectively, but more slowly, purify
her hair by shaking in o it a handful of
wheat flour and then dividing the locks
into sections brush out the white dust.
Doing this three or four limes produces
a panful of refuse that by its color and
consistency very clearly proves that the
head has been rid of an amazing accum
ulation,
“With careful brushing, cleaning and a
yearly clipping. I can guarantee to keep
hair in apple-pie order, provided Its pos
sessor has not let the scalp fall into a
seriously diseased condition. Asa rule,
though, hair that is turning grey and
falling, can. In a man or woman under 50,
be checked in its evil courses by keep
ing it very clean, using a soft brush
lightly and by aid of one finger massage.
The charm of massage is that it not
only brings out anew growth, hut brings
it out even darker than the natural color
of the old hair. Any patient and suffi
ciently ambitious individual can help their
hair bv massaging it night and morning
and massaging it correctly. There is a
general and erroneous impression that to
rub the scalp is to massage it and so
serious nn error is this that if a perfect
ly healthy heavily thatched head is rub
bed faithfully and persistently all the
hair will drop out.
“To massage rightly and effectively,
place one finger with a firm, but not se
vere, pressure on any spot and with
it push the loose scalp under it with a
regular rotary motion After a few sec
onds move the finger along to another
point and repeat his process, but never
permit the finger end to slide upon or
ruh the scalp’s surface. It seems a te
dius method of Inducing hair to grow,
but for all Its slowness. It is as sure as
no other process is. whether by applica
tion of patent liquids or no.”
Milllcent Arrowpolnt.
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TAKING DOGS TO WALK.
A School Girl Hn* Mnile It n Profita
ble Occupation.
From the Philadelphia Record.
We are constantly hearing of new and
novel occupations for women, and here is
a rather young specimen of feminine in
genuity who is making the most of a
pleasant occupation for these delightful
spring days. It Is an occupation that
probably would have seemed undignified
for any save a rosy-cheeked 10-year-old
school girl who adopted It—that of taking
to walk dolly, rain or shine, four small
dogs, belonging to four different persons,
all of who(n are flat-dwelleis.
She gives her canine friends a Jolly romp
and run of half an hour In the morning
before school, and an hour in the after
nooh. They are always ready and waiting
for her with cocaed ears and wagging
tails, and the walks mean lots of fun and
healthiul exercise to them, and 60 cents
a week to her—a great amount of s|>end'ng
money for a 10-year-old girl, all of which
she is laying aside for a seashore vaca
tion.
—The Refreshments—Mamma (to Bobby,
Just returned from an afternoon party)—
What kind of refreshment* did you have,
dear?
Bobby—Liquid,
Mamma—Liquid?
Bobby—Yes; us fellers all skipped out
and went swlminia’.—Puck
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Movement* of the People Well-
Known at the Nationnl Cnpitul
Washington, June I.—The Swedish min
ister. Mr. Grip, sailed for Europe Wednes
day, to spend his annual vacation in his
native land. Count Shebeko, the new
military aftache of the Russian embassy,
has Just arrived in Washington, but has
not yet been presented to our Secretary
of State. That pleasing duty will doubt
less be performed by Count Cassini, the
Russian ambassador, before he goes to
New York with his grandniece and other
members of his official household, early
in June, preceding their departure for
Europe. During their short stay in the
metropolis, ’ several entertainments arc
planned for them by distinguished Rus
sians in that city. Among ihe hosts will
be the first Russian consul to Canada,
M. Struve, who will arrive in Nerv York
at that time, and M. Kosakevitch, the
new Russian consul. Count Cassini and
his niece will go directly to Paris, and
later make a visit in Russia, returning to
the United States in November.
Mme. Wu contemplates a trip to the Pa
cific coast, while her husband, the Chi
nese minister, is off on'his official mis
sion to Peru. What an innovation for
a wife of the court circle of China to be
thus traveling about a foreign country,
or any other country, for that matter—
unaccompanied by her husband, Just like
the ladles of this heathen land! Truly,
little Mrs. Wu is eminently the new wo
man of the Flowery Kingdom. She frank
ly says that what she likes best about
America Is ‘‘the freedom of Amelielan
lady;” and she combines with her cordial
good will, a quiet dignity w’hlch protects
her everywhere from invidious comment
and too intrusive curiosity. She will be
accompanied on her travels by her son,
Tal Wen Wu, and also by her nephew,
who is about 15 years old, and, of course,
by a force of Chinese secretaries and ser
vants. After the Western trip, Mme.
Wu will go to one of the Virginia resorts,
to remain until her husband returns. As
everybody knows, [he Chinese minister is
accredited, not only to the United States,
hut to South America and Spain as well.
That wide field gives Mr. Wu an enorm
ous amount of traveling, and it would
seem as if the powers that prevail in
China had not a very clear idea of the
geography of the Western world.
**•**♦*•*
The Misses Feraker, daughters of the
senator from Ohio, will spend the first
Mrs. Van Knickerboker’s costume for the
Newport season.
week of June visiting friends at Chest
nut Hill, near Philadelphia. They will
be widely entertained during their visit
to the City ot Brotherly Love. On
Wednesday next a dinner is to be given
in their honor at the Merlon Cricket Club,
Philadelphia,
Miss Helen Hay has been visiting
friends In Boston and vicinity. For a
time she was the guest of Mrs. L. M.
Sargent, at the Tudor, but is now at
Westwood, the country seat of Mrs.
George T. Rice.
The summer colony at Manchester, on
the north shore of Massachusetts, will
not be Joined this senson by Mrs. U. S.
Grant, notwlshstnndlng tho announcement
so widely disseminated from that resort.
She has decided to spend the next few
months very quietly at Richfield Springs.
She will be accompanied by her daugh
ter, Mrs. Nelly Grant-Sarlorls, who has
not yet fully recovered from the severe
surgical operation of last winter, and her
granddaughter, Miss Vivian Snrtorls. Mrs.
Harriet Lane Johnson, the beautiful,
white-haired lady who reigned in the
Whlto House long, long ago, will sail fer
England June 4, accompanied only by a
young lady companion. Former Secretary
Established 1823.
WILSON
WHISKEY.
That’s All!
THU WILSOW DISTHAJ2CW CO*.
Baltimore Md
Savannah Grocery Company, Distributors.
and Mrs. Sherman have closed their
handsome residence In this city and gone
to ♦heir Ohio home for the summefr, ac
cording to their long-time habit. Their
adopted daughter, Mrs. McCallum, with
her husband and children, accompanied
them.
Mrs. Matthew S. Quay and daughter
have gone to their summer home near
Lancaster, Pa., leaving the would-be sen
ator to tight out his political difficulties on
the old line in Washington, until Congress
adjourns. Mrs. Washington McLean is
visiting the Admiral of the Navy and Mrs.
Dewey at “Beauvoir,” their summer home
near this city. Senator and Mrs. McMil
lan. will pass the summer, as is (heir cus
tom, at Their
daugter, Miss Amy, who went abroad a
short time ago. was presented at the
Princess of Wales’ drawing-room the other
day, with other Americans of note. Nar
ragansett Pier promises to reiain its popu
larity as a summer home for members of
the diplomatic corps. The minister from
Brazil and Senora Assis-Brasil have al
ready opened their cottage at that resort.
Others who have engaged cottages there
and will scon go to occupy them are the
minister from Chili and Senora Vicuna
and the Costa Rican minister and Mme.
Calve. Mr. M. de Wollant, First Secre
tary of the Russian Embassy, who will
in charge during the absence of the Am
bassador, will spend the early summer at
Bedford Springs, Pa. He will be accom
panied by Mrs. de Wollant, who is trans
lating one of her husband’s works from
the Russian.
* • * • * • •
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Crowninshild en
tertained a number of their friends very
pleasantly the other afternoon by a trio
down the Potomac on board the “Sylph”
The. same trim yacht was the setting for
a similar hospitality earlieh In the week,
when the Secretary of the Navy give a
Cabinet dinner on board in honor of the
President and Mrs. McKinley.
Mrs. Gallinger, wife of the senator from
New Hampshire, who passed the w inter in
n Washington hotel, old during the last
month has been enjoyifig a visit from her
daughter, Mrs. H. A. Norton of Caiy
bridge, -Mass., has gone to New England,
and will not return until next winter.
A startling report comes from the Mid
dle West, concerning one of Indiana’s
most distinguished citizens, the Hon.
Benjamin Harrison. It is nothing less
than that the portly asid dignified ex-
President of the United -States has gone
in for golfing, with the vim that character
izes all his movements. The statement
looks harmless enough in print—but imag
ine a man of his years and figure eapering
scampering and cantering about over a
field after the ever-evasive white ball! It
is related that Gen. Harrison arrays him
self for this youthful amusement in a
suit that is a wonder, if not the admira
tion, of all beholders. Knee-breeches,
short jacket, jaunty yellow cap and gor
geous plaid stockings give his bay-win
dowed physique the look of a Brownie.
Worse yet, while the former President was
abroad he learned to utter the name of
that popular sport in truly English fash
ion, to-wit; “gawf,” completely eluding the
1 and giving to the a the sound of a harsh,
gutteral o. There is no telling into what
follies a man past middle age may be led
when he takes unto himself a compara
tively youthful wife.
***.***
President McKinley’s surrender to the
canteen question, has evidently whetted
the appetites of the cranks for other con
quests. The Methodist brother, who late
ly put tobacco under the ban because
they believed that the President is a suf
ferer from the noxious weed, were en
tirely mistaken about that “tobacco
heart” they have been mourning over. He
has nothing of the sort—but the falsehood
is on its travels all the same, along with
those other libels anent former President
Hayes' addiction to drink, Garfield’s picca
dillos, Cleveland’s domestic troubles, etc.
Slander, like death, "loves a shining
mark,” and none in high places can hope
to escape it. Presently some body of
women, or men, will petition the President
to prohibit the sale or use of tobacco in
any form at army posts, on transports, or
in any building controlled by the govern
ment. True, it might be a good thing—
and so Is Individual liberty. By the way,
have you heard the latest conundrum?
Here it is, and Republican papers need
not copy: "Why is President McKinley’s
mind like his bed. Because somebody has
to make it up for him every day.”
East Hallway Trains.
Prom the New York Press.
We are so accustomed to beating the
world at everything that it is difficult to
believe there can be a rai way train in
France that exceeds the speed attained
I y our fast'st expresses Yet the Journal
of German Engineers declares that the
fastest train in the World at present Is
one on the French Northern Railroad,
which makes its regular run from Paris
to Amiens a distance of 82 miles, with
out stop, in on: hour and a quarter?
which is equal to 65 miles an hour. The
time schedule of French railways con
tains not less Jhan ten trains which, in
and stances of more 'han 62 miles, make
an average (f over 56 miles an hour.
Compared with this record, says the
Journal, the English railroads are con
siderable behind. The best time—6o miles
an hour—is made on only one train be
tween Perth and Forfar, a distance of
33 miles. The German railroad manage
ment does not p-rmit a sr>eed of more
than 56 miles and hour, and the average
is much less. 'I he fastest trains run be
tween Wittenberg and Hamburg, at the
rate of 52 miles an hour.
The Journal says of the Americas roads
that our forced time is In the nature of
a double experiment. Our highest record.
1 believe, was made on the Burlington
Route, between Siding and-Arion, where
for a distance of 24 miles a speed of 130
miles an hour was attained. The Em
pire State Express ran a mile in 32 sec
onds. equal to over 112 miles an hour. A
Pennsylvania train has run at the rate
of 102 miles an hour. The regular sched
ule of the Empire State Express, New
York-Albany, is less than 54 miles an
hour, and that of the Baltimore and
Ohio, Baltimore-Washington, Is about the
same. I have no doubt that many of us
have ridden at the rate of ICO miles an
hour or over when go'ng down grade
trying to make time on the Central or
Pennsylvania, it Is possible to pick up
lnsolaied miles on marly any first-class
roads where such speed 1 probable. But
the record of long-distance regular runs
must go to the Chemln de For du Nord.
M. O’MARA & CO.,
Lat* ot O'Mar* Foundry and Machine Cos.,
Brass Founders,
UUUIUIU MWI Ml lllq —W.
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CAR BRASSES A SPECIALTY.
BRASH WANTED.
Refrigerators.
Ckilcot, the Yukon
and the Economic.
Best in their class.
Freezers.
Peerless and Zero.
Best in the world.
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—Manufacturer* at—
Beamless Turpentine
Stills and Fixtures.
PATCHING COPPER AND RIVETS.
SHEET AND BOUT COPPER.
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fATKTTBR'SLLB, M. a
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Henry Bunt, Jr Sec y and Treaa
KEAL MILLARD CO.
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Hotel Gerard,
44th St., Near Broadway, New York.
ABSOLUTELY KIHE-PHOOF. Mod
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ALSO
Avon Inn and Cottages,
AVON, N. J.
Most select resort on New Jersey coast
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All commercial branched tauvht. Forclrcnlnraexplaln
tng " Heine study Course," addreas “ Prpaitmont A,”
rvt college catalogue, address " Department
MASONIC TEMPLE. SavsnnaU.