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HjjMie Automobile.
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Club of America for th* de
velopment of the motor-carriage as a
nource of sport and pleasure, the for
mation of a gigantic trust for the com
mercial exploitation of electric street
traction in this country, and the lay
ing of plaus for an international ra6*
between French and American anto
mobiles—all events of the past few
weeks.
So quicklyjdo the’Jnew* things be
come old,'and so readily do people
adapt themselves to the marvelons
contrivances which modern inventive
ingenuity has devised, that the auto
mobile, but a brief time ago unknown,
no longer arouses more than a pass
ing curiosity. And yet it is one of
the most interesting of latter-day ‘u
ventions of the annihilation of space
and time. In spite of its comparative
youth, it may be found everywhere—
in Paris, France, and in I’uris, Ky. It
adapts itself to a multitude of needs,
for ittnay be my lady’s victoria or the
butcher’s cart. It hauls packages
and passengers. It runs over coun
try roads and city asphalt. It diversi
fies life by the sea and it makes the
city streets more interesting than ever.
It may be bohght, hired or borrowed.
-JL-aftht no oafs or hay, but it may sub
sist on electricity or feed on petroleum
or gasoline. It is good ut sprinting or
at long-distance travels. It climbs
hills, speeds over fiat surfaces and it
may even turn flip-flaps, as the recent
experience of a young experimenter at
Newport has demonstrated. Altogether
the untomobilo, iu its various mani
festations and uses, is au exceedingly
OIIAMriON AIITOMOmniC STOKER AI.KX
ANDER WINTON ANl> Ills MANAGER, O.
*4MNKS, IN A RACING CARRIAGE.
span*’ \
• ' ..ille auu usEful thing. Iu some
pects it has threatened to supersede
horse, that faithful animal which
s so inauy times been turned out to
e, only to be resurrected to a career
A prolonged usefulness. The horse
is still with us, and the automobile
promises to occupy u very large place
iu the activities of men, but there is
no warfare between the two. It is not
nossible that the horse will disappear
• revert to the live-toed thing ho was
remote periods of the world’s life,
ire will always be a field for the
je, at least to brow se in, if not for
iv of the uses for which man has
and him indispensable. So that iu
grating the vogue of the automo
|,here is no reason to chant an
* of the horse. There are many
Drill take to the new form of pro-
there are others who will
or forsake the horse.
>me conception of the marvelous
ision of the automobile idea may
nthered from the casual auuounce
aitliat a contract has recently been
ertor the manufacture of 4200 elec
.(rthioles, or automobiles, iuvolv
pxpenditure of over $8,000,000.
r large amount for investment,
wliOy j u a uew enterprise, but if
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f* fAiUpled bjr H B*rtliolom# from Urpr'* WwUy.l
A ' AN OBJECT LESSON AT A GRADE CROSSING.
. es anything, it proves that the
is no inconsiderable factor
'odarn life, and that the making
‘ sing of electric cabs and carts
I’ isr-oeJ vast proportions.
is expensive to be-
Fitzgeral ing into considera-
Ga., is sut’ no horses to be
mormonisin c f 9t • mor , e
have been tr i a c “ b
„ ~ '-fired dollars to
Freemain. Plicate and ele
-1 hat s right, n „p into the
the country that bnsa of cpera
wandering proselv*
from too much moral '
oily tongues will dec
posted. .
tion is slight. A charge of electricity
for one run may be had for sixty cents.
The gasoline for an eleven huudred
mile trip, mado by a motor-carriage
from Cleveland, Ohio, to New York
recently, cost less than six dollars;
and William G. Tiffany relates that
thafuel for a two days’journey through
Tfiuraine cost him but three dollars.
M. Charron, of Paris, who was filial
!l*nged to an international automobile
[race by Alexander Winton, recently
•proposed a stake of one hundred thou
-1 sand francs, the object being to demon
strate the possibilities of American
STYLES OF WAGONS IN PRACTICAL USE.
and foreign made machines.
For the future, the automobile holds
out the promise of a city practically
free, from the maddening street noises
that make modern urban existence more
or less a torture. Cobble pavements
are laid to resist metal tires and the
pounding of steel-shod horses. AVith
every vehicle motor-driven, and every
wheel pneumatic-tired, all pavements
can he of asphalt. Not only will the
rumbling of heavy trucks aud the clat
ter of lioof-beats disappear, but there
will be no more tracks to cut up the
streets, since electric omnibuses,
carrying as many people and moving
as swiftly as the electric cars of to
day, will take the place of street rail
ways. Having ulready comiuered the
rail, electricity will then have made
itself master of the highway as well.
Rapid transit for long distances being
supplied by electric trains in clean,
0001, brillantly-lighted subways, the
elovatod roads will be no more. The
removal of the horse from the streets
will not only make them noiseless,
but will practically solve the problem
of street-cleaning, and greatly improve
the sauitary conditions of urban life,
reduciug the amount of street refuse
to a miuimniu. With clean, smooth
thoroughfares, through which swift,
air-shod, easy-riding vehicles dait
noiselessly, it will no longer be neces
sary to seek the country for rest aud
quiet.
Ouce the horseless age is in full
sway, every man will have his own
automobile, aud the bicycle, which
has already, to some exteut, supplant
ed the horse, will iu turn be shelved,
save for purposes of sport. AVith the
universal development of sources of
supply of electricity, the electromo
bile will take the place of all other
forms of traction, and plugs will be
provided in the streets from which
the automobilist may take his supply
of power by a uickle-in-the-slot de
vice, while along rural highways
power stations will be established so
that journeys of any distance may be
undertaken. Even on the farm, auto
wnius will do the heavy burden carry
ing. The horse may still be harnessed
to the plow, may still furnish sport on
the race-course aud riding exercise for
the few, but no longer will he be the
chief bearer of man’s burdens. Who
will say he has not earned rest?
The General Postoftiee automobile
mail carts are being subjected to a
severe test by the postal authorities
of London, and it is believed that
they will be put in general use. Those
who have watched the new vehicle
say they are faster than any that have
yet been tried. Their appearance is
up to date in every way.
Imagine a wagon, not unlike the
mail wagons of Xew York with an im
mense hood over the driver’s seat,
aud back of it another case of hand
somely polished wood, which is used
for the supplementary mails.
“TOURING cart” FOR THE TRANSCON
TINENTAL TOUR.
(The automobile in which Mr. and Mrs.
John D. Davis started for San Fran
cisco from New York City.)
The front wheels of the wagon are
small enough to swing under the body
of the vehicle. They work on a pivot
and the wagou can be turned almost
in its own length. It is the facility
with which these wagons can be sent
around a corner or worked through a
winding lane between lines of other
wagons and drays that makes the new
motor cart valuable.
Automobilists in this country are
greatly interested in the attempt of
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Davis to make
the run to San Francisco in a motor
carriage Their automobile resembles
a road phaeton. The motor is con
cealed under the seat. The driver
sits on the left of the seat. With his
right hand he controls the direction
of the vehicle. Two levers on his
left regulate the speed. The automo
bile must be supplied with gasoline
and water every few miles.
France’s Most Picturesque General.
General the Marquis de Galliffet,the
French Secretary of War, shot 35,000
Socialists in 1871. General de Gal
lift'et is the picturesque figure of the
Cabinet. He captures the imagina
tion of the country. He is admitted
on all sides to be the ablest and most
brilliant cavalry officer in Europe.
Hale and handsome at seventy his life
is one long series of dare-devil adven
tures in wars and in love. An explod
ing shell tore open his abdomen in
SECRETARY OF'WAR GALLIFFET.
Mexico, and the French say he car
ried his entrails in his hat until he
found a surgeon. The present coat
for his stomach is a silver plate, and
he firmly declares that he experiences
all the violent fluctuations in the value
of the metal. Senator Chauncey M.
Depew says that “his conduct after he
defeated the Commune in 1871 is the
one incident indelibly impressed with
all the horrors of the time upon my
memory. He corralled a large section
of the population of Paris. As these
men and women were driven before
him he seized the ends of the fingers
of ench and bent back the hand. If
the palm was black they were shot,
the men as participants in the fighting,
the women as guilty of incendiarism
with petroleum. To the appeals of
the old, he answered, ‘you have lived
long enough,’ and of the young, ‘it is
a mercy to save you from the dangers
of living/”
Schoolboy Won the Priic*
"Now,” said a schoolmaster, as he
displayed a bright five-shilling piece
between the tips of his finger and
thumb, “the first boy or girl that puts
a riddle to me which I cannot answer
will receive this as a gift.”
“Any more?” he asked, as soon as
silence was restored, and no one had
claimed the coin.
“Yes, sir,” saug out a little fellow
from the farther end of the school.
“Why am I like the Prince of Wales?”
“The Frinee of Wales,” said the
master, thoughtfully. “The Prince
of Wales?” he repeated to himself.
“Really. Johnny, I see no resemblance
in you; I'll give it up.”
“Because,” cried the lad joyfully,
“I’m waiting for the crown.”—London
Tit-Bits.
dm: oi r;ii: last acts (Hf
TiRINU SECRETARY OF WITO
HE FULLY EXPLAINS HIS ACTIOnP
Denies Emphatically That Appointments
To Army Were Mado For Polit
ical Reasons.
O- e of the last acts of Secretary
Alger, who relinquished his portfolio
Tuesday, ivas to prepare a statement
covering several matters regarding the
conduct of the war which has been the
subject of criticism in the public press,
particularly with reference to the ap
pointment of staff officers in the volun
teer army. The statement in part is
as follows:
“All is well known, the force, with
the exception of three regiments of
engineers, three regiments of cavalry
and ten regiments of immjine infan
try, was made up of regiments from
the various states, the officers of which
were all appointed exclusively by the
governors of the respective states from
which the regiments came, aud any
officer found unfitted for service and
discharged was replaced by another in
the same manner. The president had
no voice or control in the matter.
“From the statement referred to the
public might be made to believe that
the volunteer was* officered by men
selected through political influence
with the secretary of ivar by special
favor, and without any regard to fit
ness for the duties they were to per
form.
“The returns of the volunteer army
show that in August, 1898, there were
207,244 enlisted men and 8,785 officers
iu those regiments. This, with the
regular army recruited up to the war
strength, made an aggregate of about
275,000 officers and men. The volun
teer officers appointed by the presi
dent numbered, all told, 1,032. Of
this number 441 were taken from the
regular army, and 591 from civil life.
“It has been stated and repeated
many times that the secretary of war
made these appointments, when the
truth is that very few were made upon
his recommendation, although he caus
ed the entire list, with the recommend
ations, to be compiled and placed be
fore the president for his selection. I
would be only too glad to have had
the honor to have made these appoint
ments. No better, no more loyal or
more patriotic set of men, as a whole,
ever served their country, and their
appointments were a credit not only
to the appointing power, but to the
country they served. There were ex
ceptions, but that could not have been
foreseen.
“Criticisms as to the amounts and
methods of expenditures which could
imply the wrong or careless use ol
money were also made by The London
Times. This charge is false. So far
as the conduct of the service was con
cerned no person with any knowledge
of the facts can ever charge truthfully,
and no one can ever show that a dollar
was misappropriated, stolen or embez
zled out of the hundreds of millions of
dollars that were expended.”
SHOUT ON GREENBACKS.
Northerners Are Annoyed By Scarcity of
Paper Currency.
Secretary Gage is much annoyed at
the scarcity of paper currency in the
north, and is uuable to help out the
merchants and banks in that section.
The demand for'paper currency is ex
traordinary at this time. Iu speaking
of the matter Assistant Secretary Van
derly said:
“The country has about all there is.
There is about $20,000,000 in green
backs in the treasury, but ive need
that to do business with ourselves.
We caunot issue any more Sherman
notes or silver certificates unless some
one deposits silver dollars iu the
treasury. It has been suggested that
the northern banks might be able to
get silver from the south and deposit
for silver certificates.”
Central Kailway Incorporated.
The Utah Central railway was in
corporated at Salt Lake Monday with
a capital stock of $87,000,000, its ob
ject being, it is said, to acquire the
Central Pacific railroad and all its
property and franchises.
BRICKMAKERS ON STRIKE.
Ten Thousand Workmen Thrown Out of
Employment t Chicago.
Ten thousand men were thrown ont
of employment and work was stopped
on 200 buildings in the course of con
struction in Chicago during the second
day of the strike of the union brick
layers of Cook county.
The tie-ups came first on the smaller
jobs, where the contractors had not
taken the precaution to increase their
supply of bricks in anticipation of the
strike. The bricklayers and hodcar
riers were forced to quit for want of
material, and following them the car
penters were compelled to lay down
their tools.
LARGEST IX THE SOUTH.
Million and a-Half Dollar# For Cotton Mill
Subscribed in a Few Hours.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Books of subscription to the capital
stock for the largest cotton factory in
the south were opened Tuesday morn
ing and by evening the entire million
and a half capital had been subscribed
and officers elected.
All the officers and directors are
Columbians.
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at Hampton.
JFfc, igHHb Deaths Sunday.
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Hnn.pt. and three the
disease were reported’ it
cannot be stated that all were
caused by yellow
News and Hampton have
against the soldiers’ homef whe gov
ernment authorities of Old Po\t have
already adopted this step, aud ho
strangers are allowed to enter the res
ervation. Quarantine Officer Hobson,
of Newport News, the soldiers’
borne Sunday night and verified the
statement that there ara now thirty
cases of the disease at the home, and
that there were three deaths from the
malady Sunday. While no one out
side of the soldiers’ home knew any
thing about the existence of yellow
fever until Sunday, it is said that the
disease made its appearance three’
days before. The most rigid quarantine
regulations will be enforced to pre
vent the spread of the malady.
The news created great excitement
in Newport News, Old Point and
Hampton, and the most vigorous meas
ures will be resorted to to prevent its
spread. There are 4,000 old veterans
at the home.
Wymnn Sends Experts to Investigate.
A Washington dispatch says: Sur
geon General Wyman, of the marine
hospital, was informed Saturday night
of an outbreak of what it was feared
was yellow fever at the National Sol
diers’ Home, at Hampton, and imme
diately dispatched surgeons in the ser
vice from Washington to investigate
the sickness, report on its character to
the authorities, and to take measures
to prevent the spread of the disease.
Dr. Wyman himself will go to Hamp
ton in a few days to take charge of the
work of preventing a spread of the
disease if it develops into genuine yel
low fever.
NEBRASKANS HAVE ENOUGH.
Regiment and Two Rattfrieg Arrive at San
Francisco From Manila.
The United States transport Han
cock has arrived at San Francisco from
Manila, with the Nebraska regiment
and two batteries of the Utah artillery
on board. The returning soldiers
cheered themselves hoarse at the sight
of the little fleet of launches, and from
the decks of the transport shouted
greetings and messages to the people
on the craft below.
Colonel H. B. Mulford, of the Ne- I
braskans, who is in command, soon i
appeared at the railing.
“I don’t think you will see any of
ns returning to Manila very soon, ”
said Colonel Mulford, in response to a
question.
“Just one man in the entire regi
ment re-enlisted. Only twenty-five
remained in the Philippines to engage
in business.
“The Nebraskans had as much work
in this war,” continued Colonel Mul
ford, “as any regiment, volunteer or
regular. Our death roll in the Phil
ippines from gunshot wounds, acci
dents and diseases is sixty-two. In
cluding the sick and wounded who are
recovering, we dropped all told 204
men. On the Hancock are more than
one hundred wounded soldiers. The
entire regiment is glad to know that
it is to he mustered out in San Fran
cisco. ”
Bozen Firemen Badly Hurt.
Fire in a five-story brick building at
New York Saturday night did $150,000
damage. A dozen firemen were injured
or overcome by smoke. The building
was owned by the Trinity church cor
poration and was occupied by a num
ber of prominent firms.
MORMONS GO TO ENGLAND.
Twenty-Nine Mlggionarle* Sail From
Philadelphia For Liverpool.
Twenty-nine Mormon missionaries
from Utah sailed on the steamer Pen
laud from Philadelphia port for Liver
pool, Saturday, They are all young
men. In speaking of their missionary
work in foreign lands, they said:
“There are 3,000 Mormon mission
aries now at work all over the world,
and the number is daily increasing.
Every man goes on his own expense
and because of the faith that is in
him.”
They refused to discuss the recent
mobbing of three of their elders by
whitecaps in Georgia.
PENALTY IS DEATH.
Private Giveng Is Returned to Manila
Under Charge of Desertion.
On board the transport Ohio, which,
with the Newport, sailed from San
Francisco AVednesdav night for tha
Philippines, was Benjamin Givens,
private of company H, Fourth United
States infantry, manacled and guarded,
to be returned to Manila for trial upon
the charge of “desertion in the face of
the enemy,” the penalty for which is
dea‘h.
Two of the surgeons dispatched to
the home reported at once that the
symptoms very much resembled those
of yellow fever, and that while they
could not be positive in their diagnosis
as yet, they were inclined to the belief
that the illness wan the dreaded yellow
jack. The government will adopt strict
precautionary measures to prevent a
spread of the disease, and will fight its
progress with all the skill and resources
at its command.
Sunday afternoon the surgeon gen
eral received a dispatch from Dr. Was
din expressing his conviction that the
hospital authorities had been correet
in their fears and that the disease was
genuine yellow fever. Surgeon White,
of Washington city, and Surgeon Wur
tenbaker, from Wilmington, N. C.,will
go to Hampton, and other assistants
from the service will be directed to
proceed there as soon as the exact
condition of affairs can be learned and
the needs of the situation known.
Surgeon General Stern'ourg, of the
army, declared to an Associated Press
reporter at a late hour Sunday night
that he had no official knowledge of
the reported outbreak of yellow fever
at Hampton. He expressed himself
as highly incredulous of the truth of
the story, saying he had no intima
tion even of the question of the fever
at Hampton. Still, he said he might
not get the earliest news in such case ;
as reports probably would be first sent
to the managers of the soldiers’ home.
Norfolk Applies Quarantine.
The Norfolk, Va., board of health
has quarantined against Old Point,
Hampton, and Newport Nows. Police
officers have been sent out along the
water front to watch for tugs* sail
boats and other craft. There in much
excitement. Governor Wood, of the
soldiers’ home, confirms the report of
the existence of fever there. Hampton
has been quarantined from Old Point,
and the trolley cars stopped running
to the former place Sunday night.
ARE UNDER ARMS.
Friends of the Dominican Govern
ment Expect Outbreak By
the Revolutionists.
A dispatch of Sunday from Puerta
Plata, San Domingo, stated that the
situation there is critical. An out
break is momentarily expected. The
friends of the government are under
arms and ready for action to protect
property and preserve the peace. A
feeble attempt was made to seize the
body of President Heureaux by the as
sassins, Ramon Caceres, Manuel £!a
ceres, Horace Vasquez and Domingo
Picharda, who are in the country
about Moca, with their followers.
Governor Pepin has assembled
troops in Moca, and the governor of
Lavega Real has 10,000 men. The
minister of the treasury has arrived at
Moca in hot haste.
The government- is taking steps for
the protection of business and the
finances of the country, and expects to
cairy out the contemplated cancella
tion of the state bank notes. In
Puerto Plata there is an urgent de
mand that the government send a
sufficient force to Moca to hunt down
the assassins of the president.
TRIED TO RECAPTURE CALAMBA.
Filipino KebeU Repulsed —One
American Killed and Six Wounded.
A dispatch from Manila received at
London Monday morning states that
the rebels attempted to recapture
Calamba, Sunday, but were easily re
pulsed. The dispatch says that one
American was killed aud six others
wounded. The Filipinos’ loss wai
heavy.
CARPENTER COMES HOME,
Late Military Governor of Fuerto Principe
Hag Four Months’ Leave of Absence.
General L. H. Carpenter, late mili
tary governor of Puerto Principe,
Cuba, and on a four months’ leave of
absence before going to Porto Rico,
arrived at New York on the Munson
line steamship Olinda Sunday morn
ing. General Carpenter said he was
relieved from the military governor
ship when the province of Pueito
Principe was merged into the province
of Santiago. After a brief visit to
Washington the general will visit his
family on the coast of Maine.
COLLISION ON VOLGA. •
A Passenger Steamer Goes Down With 153
Souls On Board.
A dispatch received at Berlin, Ger
many, Thursday, from Nijni-Novgorod
reports that a cargo and passenger
steamer collided on the river Volga,
and that the latter sank, drowning 155
persons.
The report states that the captain of
the cargo ship has been arrested for
disregarding signals,