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THE WEEK
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MACON GEORGIA TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18.1888-TWELVE PAGES.
THE SAND HILLS.
A Visit to the Now Famous
Fever^Hospital,
VOL. LXII1.NO. U.
A LOOK THROUGH ITS WARDS,
Eight Death* and Seventy-Four New Coses—
A Mate on Man (Louis Nelson) Among
the Dead-An Appeal from
the Masonic Fraternity.
Jacksonville, Sept. 16. — [8p«*ciaU) —
“Will ye' 1 g° out with “« 40 *•>« Sand Bills?"
atked Dr. Solace Mitchell, the physician in
charge, yesterday, ol your correspondent.
Xeedless to say the "kind” invitation was
accepted and this morning at 8:30 o’clock,
whea the doctor emerged from his breakfast,
he found the scribe awaiting him. Driving
through the city up Pine street past the Sub-
Tropical buildieg, the outskirts of the city
were soon reached. At a residence in North
Jacksonville a pleasant faced lady came
to the gate* wi n a big and beauti
ful bouquet oi Dowers, and halting
the doctor earnestly inquired after his health
and with feeling in her voice eaid, aa she
placed the dowers in the baggy, "I’m so glad
you are still up, doctor. We watch for you
every moraing. Please give these flowers to
the sick.” Tbe doctor thanked her, and the
reporter, with moisture in his eyes, thought
of the maay tired heart* that these flowers
would cheer and gladden. At another place
near by a big bouquet lay on the fenee,
awaiting the doctor’s arrival. Further
on he stopped to attend to two
patients and when he got into the buggy
again a charming miss of 15 brought out a
big bunch of fragrant roses and honey'
suckles. '“For the sick,”-said she, simply,
with eyes'beaming over with pity. God bleu
them; for their hearts’ offer ngs have done
much to aid the recovery of the sick.
THE HOSPITAL.
Pas ring North.Jacksonville, the road leads
through the pine woods for a mile, and then
a glimpse of white, dimly seen through
the trees, indicated that the famous Sand
Hills were near at hand. Emerging
from abeltof pine the hospital settlement
lay in front. At the foot of a gentle decliv
ity was the guard tent in front; partially to
the left and nearly at the top of the hill was
the old original hospital, a rough, unwbite-
washed two-story building, about 20x38 feet.
To the left of this is a long, neat and cosy
whitewashed building, containing rooms for
Miss Delano, tbe head nurse, aud .the
three sisters, with a diningroom and
a small chapel. !n the res? of
the first hospital building, which ia now the
woman’s ward, is a long building, 20 by 40,
neatly whitewashed, being now used for the
male patients. Then begin at tbe right
(facing the old hospital) a new row of small
cottages. Most of these are 12 by 20 and 16
by 26; those facing the south have u door
•it,I window in (root and a window on ea h
side. The larger ones have two
dnors, frout and rear. These cottages are
aboAt roii; hundred feet apart, extending
along the top of the ridge until almost lost to
viev On the extreme right the ridge .wi
sr,,. n.l so ne and the buildings eruwh the
sun tnit all the way along from one end to
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Ighest point of Abe ridge is a neat ‘two
room - home sixteen by twebly-
eight, for Misses Delano and Warner,
who will have entire charge here. It has a
iirettv matting on the floor, and with iti new
furniture makes a cosy place. Just beyond
this is Dr. Solace Mitchell’s new home,
where he will be located after to day. It
will contain his slteptng room, medical suir-
plies, etc.
Till.BUILDINGS.
Altogether, there are now on the place
some twenty-two buildings, as follows; The
maio two-story building,giving four wards for
white fenules;a largo building for the colored
ward, whiuh ie divided by a partition, giv
ing the males one-third and the females the
balance; two large white wards, one twenty
by forty, the other thirty by sixty; three
cottages for private patients, affording pri
vate rooms; a fumigating house, where
everything that leaves tbe camp is thor
oughly fumigated mi l dUinfectcJ. four cot
tages (or white female nurses; two kitchens
and two dining rooms; cottages for
female colored help, and a big
tent for the male stcwaids;
cottage store bouse and guards room; cot
tages for white male nurses, and Miss Ledo-
ns’s aud the doctor's houses.
Altogether, it is quite a settlement. Situ
steil as it is on- a high ridge the white
washed buildings present a very pleaeiug
and attractive uppauraiice.
Miss Delano took charge of your corres
pondent aud showed the various wards and
buildings. In the women’s ward Mother
Josephine and Sister Elizabeth, from the
convent here, were found busy at their
work of love. The patients were
all doing well, many, of them sitting up
Preceding hack of this the male ward was
readied. Just entering the door, the re-
por.er was given a gruud view of the inte
rior. It is a large, roomy building with
doors ut each eud and many windows oil
each ide. These latter are high *o that they
'“n be left open for ventilation and the
patient* not he placed in the drafts. The
•tots are arranged on each tide, four feet
upur‘, leaving a wide passage way
nt the centre. There were some fifteen
patients here in all stages. The convales
cent ones regarded the reporter with great
surprise, but most of them were too ill to
P-y much attention to interior objects. Some
were covered up tightly with quilts, taking
the sweat hath; others were tossing rest-
'fro . side to side, their feT?r-ffo*h»d
fsces and sunken eyes presenting a shook-
>ng appearance, while on many cota the
motionless forma bore evidence of nature's
sleep, or of the api-etrance of that —*till
longer sleep. On all countenances was
depicted he yellow palor, the type of tbe
disease. It was a sad scene and one the
writes does not care to witness often.
rrom this the other wards were visited,
one sue* one with only two patients in it.
and both doing well. Everything about all
the houses is kept iu the ueatest trim and aern
pnluualy clean. The breezes swept through
the pines and cooled the feverish brows of
the sick. The air there is pure and fresh,
•ud the .ocation could net be improved
upon.
1(188 DELANO.
Miss Delano, who ia in charge, was form
*rly head uurse at Believne huapital, New
1 ork, and she has achieved wonders at the
hospital. When she first came here all was
in the Utmost contusion and discord. Tbe
nurses were poor, inefficient and neglectful.
They could not read and for fear of their
giving the wrong oedieinee she bad to mark
■any of they with red strings, so that those
•o-calied nurses would not mix them. She
•ells most amusing tales of her eariy stf«-
nsnee, but now everything in in perfect
order and system. Hissce Dock ami Weir,
two other New York nuraea, are there and
two other* are expected to-day or to-nior-
- I'liere are at present mily thirty-five
Patient* there aud the doctor has accotuiaoda-
there are so excellent an-. ' — the |
deaths have been *o exceedingly . f C ao _
favorite place for all sick people ana,.;;*
first choice. With the cosy cottages and the
white guard tents gleaming through the
treea, it present! a pretty picture and one
would not imagine it the hospital lor one of
the most fearfnl scourges that we are called
upon to fight. _____ '
OFFICIAL. HUIXETIN.
Eight Deaths and Seventy-four New Cases
Hcportcit Yesterday.
Jacksonville, Sept. W.—[Special.] -The
official bulletin for the twenty-four hour*
ending at 6 o’clock p. m. 8ept 16th is as fol
lows: New cases, 74; deaths, 8; total cases
to date, 995; total deaths to date, 126.
The deaths are: Louis Nelson, Harry
Kimbaii, Abram Wichard, Edward Garr,
Harry Catherne, Kate Marant, Henry Lie-
cenniag, Mrs. Jas. M. Matthews, Harry Hines
(reported last night).
New oases, Frank Holt, Louisa Gilbert,
John Frabre, Wm. J. Tutt, Mrs. Brock, Wm.
Palmer, Hrs.'Olefield, It. C. Marshall, L.
Cbattnm, Mils Mary Smith, Wm. Shnmons,
Mrs-KSeorge Graln, Mrs. Miran (colored), L.
H. (Little (colored), Wm. Pitman, 8. B.
Nathan (colored), 51. J. Foster, George T.
Miller, George Eosignal, Mrs. Lewis
Burner, James Davis, William
Davis, IR. O. Nelson, Mrs. Drived,
Mirtha German, Ellis Haddock, Pinkey
(Haddock, Ella Bryoks, Frit* Oehler, Mr*.
Beltler, Miss Seitler, Mrs. and Mr. Oehler,
Ernest Rebruenshurcher, August Clayton,
(Louisa Clayton, Tom and Amos Clayton,
Lizzie Nelson, Eddy Butler, an infant of
•Orval Tyler, Alice E. Granger,
C.flC. Nelson, Maud Tisseran, a policeman
named Pate, Maria Williams, Louisa Wail-
isms, Hattie Williams, L. If. Settle, 51rs.
Gray, William Palmer, John Loyd, George
'Keefe, Miss Smith, Mr. Simmons, Mrs.
Bryant, M. Bentley, Mary Johnson,
child of Mrs. Lucas J. Mont
gomery, W. H. Drew, Joseph Willi ms,
urs. Mary Stratton, Miss Jitary Stratton,
-Jennie Reed, H. T. Peterson, Daniel Ed
wards, a child of Panl (Bird, Mary Arnold
(colored), William Atkins, S. W. Wade (col
ored). Annie Dougherty, Mrs. Edward Ritter,
Miss Eveline Bialock.
Over half of the new cares are probably
colored, but the new dootoe failed to so state
in their report.
congneats this week.
TRADE REVIEW.
Political Debates Lively to Prevail In tbe
Senate—Prospect* lit the Mouse.
Washington, Sept. 16.—The bill to create
an executive' department of agriculture
stands at the head of the Senate calendar
unfinished business, having displaced the
Washington territory bill irom that position
and those for the admUaiou of north Dakota
and Montana, wLiuh have stood -ai ''if-e
orders” for date* loug aiuce passed, and after
“unfinished business,” have also been sent
back to their places la the body of the calen
dar. While a vote of the Senate may at any
time bring these measures to the front
f.-heM
indicate a purpose not
territorial question again tilts -
Tin- snort (Iconic on tin* department o
culture-bill which took place Friday
purpi^frftrfltt'yilillfflire, Viu~i Iti Ong desire
was manifested ny n ntilnber of senator-
including Senator Plumb, who has tin
hill ia charge, to restore the eeotlrm struck
out by theNenate committee which provide*
for the transfer of the weather bureau to the
proposed new executive department. This
is the pending quest ou anti its considera
tion will open the proceedings of tbe week.
By agreement the bill gives way at 1 o’clock
to-morrow for a vote on reconsideration of
the vote passing the Chinese restriction bill,
but aside (rout this interruption there is aa
understanding that it shall hold the floor
until disposed of, uulese an appropriation
kill shall be brought in. Beyond the meas
ure indicated the Senate haa no programme.
An effort will (be made to clear
the calendar of Housb bills during
the week, but it it doubted
that much will be accomplished. The ex'
perieuce of tbe past three weeks leads to
the expectations that campaign politics will
largely consume the time of the Senate
whatever may be the pending legislative
3 uestiou. Itii probable thu. the general
eficiency hill will be reported fruui the
Senate committee before tbe middle of the
week.
There is a probability of •' contest in the
House to-morrow between the a propriatiou
committee which has in charge the confer
ence report on the sundry civil appropri
ation hill, aud the friende of the Oklahoma
bill. Tbe last named bill i* pending order,
on motion to pais it under suspension
of the rules. Should its promoters
fail to secare consideration for it - Monday,
the effort will doubUeee be renewed ueit
day and as the opposition ia very pro
nounced, little legislation is lively to be
achieved during the week if the bill Is kept
eefore the House. The deficiency bill is the
only remaining unenacteil appropriation bill.
The sundry civil bill is expected to lie re
turned from th« Senate before the end of the
week. The democrats of - he House will hold
a caucus on the adjournment question next
Tuesday evening, the result ol which may
modify or wholly change the course of pro
ceedings for the week, or for the eut re re
mainder of the session.
LITCHMAN CKNKOKEII.
Tbe Local As>< rnbly Heads Him n Lesson
nml Approves the Stills Hill.
Philadelphia,SepL 16.—The resignation
of Secretary Charles U. Litchmau of the
Knighte of Labor was considered at the last
meeting of local assembly No. 3,635, and the
following condemnatory revolution was
adopted:
Whereas, Charles H. Litchmsn, ex-general
secretary of uur order, has gone forth In to the
political field, taking polities in preference
to labor organization,
Resolved, That local assembly No. 3,635
iu session condemn Charles II. Lttchcian for
misrepresenting the political view* of the
laborer! present end for endeavoring to use
the order for political and financial consid-
©rations/’
The local eseembly also passed these reso
lutions relative to the Mills bill:
Whereas, as textile workers we have (or
years felt the evil effects of the tariff tax on
raw materials of onr industries in lessening
our opportunities for work aud reducing
our wages, and, whereas, the present tariff
laws impose a heavier tax upon raw mate
rials and partly finished prodncls than upon
finished commodities, thus being in tbe
direct interest of foreign manufacturers, and,
whereas, the Mills bill reverses this obvious
discrimination again'! American labor by
'ing duties upward in accordance with
amount of Lbor required to uske the
commodities; therefore
Resolved, t hat all member* of local as-
laiblv No. 1,635, discarding all parties and
i-aiii.rations, do protest against th
riunix-s* "I lb'' i r--"Ut
,rill chedulra, and denu
the Mills bill as a me
! - r in i:
- -ie Week Stowing Improvt
ment in Business
AN INCREASE IN IRON PRODUCTION
A<tvicea from th© Crops Showing but Slight
Impairment > by Storms—ColWcttoiiH
Free and .Money Kn*y—Darg©
Increase in failures*
New York, Sept. 14.—R. G. Dunn A Co.'s
review of trade for the week says: Tin
week ha* been one of further improveme-i!
in business, notwithstanding some disturb
ance in the speculative markets. The pass
ing of a dividend by St. Paul caused a fall i'
stocks and the government crop repor
a fail in wheat, while the export trade
though improving, continues small. But
the volume of legitimate business is Ur (
and increasing, and there is improvement in
the productive industries. The crop report
was so much less gloomy than other recent
accounts that it caused a fall of 3K cents in
wheat and 35J in oats, with corn a half cent
lower. Estimates based upon the report
differ as usual, but tbe figures, whether or
vect or not, appear to indicate a total yield
of 415,000,000 bushels ot wheat, which, with
the large surplus of 51,000,000 bushels from
previous years, would meet all requirement*.
IRON PRODUCTION.
The monthly statement of furnace* in
blast shows at output of 125,966 tons cf pig
iron weekly, an increase of 67,000 to ns for
the month and prices nevertheless arc well
maintained, with stiffening at Philadelphia
and Pittsburg. Southern production gaiin
largely and the demand for bar an I t.thei
manufactured iron improves, but in -tee
rails there is no change for tbe better. i
Tbe cotton statement also shows that con
sumption in manufacture has bceii 4 pn
cent, larger than for the previous year, wife
a considerable increase in spindles nt th
south.
In wool manufacture there are no ne
signs of improvement.
Once more repo ta from interior poiu
are uniionaiy encouraging, both n* to
volume of "busia's* ana as to the men-
market. There is at all points said to he su
ficient for legitimate trade, and collection-
are fair or improving. At New Orleans it
thought that the injury to cotton has be-
generally exaggerated. At Kansas City th
recent rains are held to have dispelled ail
fears us to the corn crop of that region, and
Omaha reports very good crops. Heavy fro*
at Milwaukee injured some crops, bqg©
tenor of local a fvlees (or the past weec is
almost uniformly favorable. The volume
business, aa measured by bank exchanges, i
larger than last year by 10 per cent, outshl
of New York, though smaller by s.'vper
per cent. here.
EFFECTS OF THE INTER STATE A
The passing of t ]lp dividend by St. 1 aul
has not been unexpected,but^t convincei.tbe
public that the losses of the western raid*
because of the inter state act (i^vy
k. a.i'sswlimv ...ycnVsibrie, tiivvu iCpiVecl
or Investors believed. HI consequence con
sideiable selling On foreign account inline
diately appeared which might easily go fi
kiYrniffirrawte.• Vw5.
The export trade still lolls tar oeninu last
year’s. Preliminary statements for August of
breadstuff*, Jcotton, provisions, dairy pro
duct* and oil aggregate only $27,446,118
against $35,07 *,2 O last yeai, a decline of 23
K ‘ r cent. For two weeks of Septem-
r New York exports show
a decrease of 7 per cent., while
imports here increased 13 per cent. No
financial disturbance has occurred as yet,
though the rate of interest has rapidly ad
vanced. The treasury purchased over
$3,000,000 more bonds Thursday and has
psid out for the week $1,000,006 more than
it has taken in, but it is an unwelcome fact
that the failurea for two week have been, for
the United State*, 364, against 317 last year.
Busbies* failures occuring throughout the
county duri..g the last week number for tlie
United States 190, and for Cauaila 27; a total
of 217, against 224 last week.
A CLOSE CALL.
Slxty-ntn© Warkmeu in the Hootac Tunnel
.Make a Narrow Escape.
North Adams, Mass., Sept. 15.—A terri-
ble disaster was narrowly averted In Hoosao
tunnel to-day, when 69 workmen employed
in tbe tonuel were overcome by coal gas
from a passing locomotive. The men wer
divided into three gangs, 39 being masons
employed repairing the brick arch, 22 iu the
electric light gang and 8 in tbe track gang.
The passage of three heavy freight trains
had tilled th* tunnel with smoke. The last
one lo pus had lost steam, so tpat when the
train went Into the tunnel the fire-box woe
filled with new coal. Soon afterward it was
discovered that some of tha workmen were
overcome by gas. Au cast bound express
train, just entering the tunnel, wsi flagged
just as the cars were forced into tbe tunnel.
The rescuers found the men all lying along
the track, siqne partially and some wholli
overcome. Ail were placed on the cars and
brought out into (he open air. This work was
accomplished by John Magratli, Edward
Dolan, Patrick Shea and Ebeu Wilaon, Do
lan being so badly overcome by gu that he
laid *11 the afteruoun in a precarious Condi*
tion. The-e iit-n went to the working place,
rescuing eighteen, who were unconscious.
When re vhed neariy all of them were lying
on the east-bound track and had .th® easl-
bouml express passed the flagmsu th*
slaughter would have been terrible.
When the tunnel wu finally cleared tbe
rescuers and tbe rescued were alt unniraicd,
some remaining in that condition all tbe
uft-ruoou. It re thought that two of tbe
cases will prove fatal, they being French
tracklayers whose names are unknown. Tbe
expreu did not proceed until the tunnel had
been cleared of smoke, when a track-walker
went ahead.
A search wu made for bodies hut none
wu found. There are some days when
heavy air outside causes the tunnel to
choke up with smoke, but there seems tv
have bean a peculiar atmospheric condi
tion in the tunnel to-day, u tbe air outside
was clear and dry, such u would, ordinarily
clear tbe tunnel quickly of s«ioke or gu.
To lie Hun Jos II.
Breus Bridge, La., Sept. is.
rime wu perpetrated iu this
night, when a gang, supposed tob
of five member* (so far uni
a negro cabiu and, shoot
walls, mortally woundrA a
who died a lew boar* i
there they went to anotlu
thev outraged a <
Ex plosive* and tlie Ilnvoo They
Will II...
From the Loudon gtandard.
A tier all, it has been found impossible
to leave the question of high explosives
out of the programme of modern warfare;
and we have jut learned by practical
demonstration on our own shores that we
have neglecti d to provide ourielves with a
formidable weapon of war which isalready
iu the hands of the foreigner. France hu
not neglected this question, and she is
ahead of us. Her chosen explosive is
melinite, and with this she has armed her
self to an extent which may be known
to our war office, but of which the
] British public have no conception. All
' the requisite materials, in the shape of
steel projectiles and the melinite for tilling
them, have been provided for the French
service, and distributed so as to furnish a
complete supply for ihejarmy and navy.
Whatever may bd Baid as to the dauger
which beset- tlie use of melinite, tbe
French authorities are confident that they
have mastered the problem of making
this powerful compound subservient to
the purposes of war. No doubt they-have
some painful experience to re
cord. An accidental explosion of
melinite shell took place last year at the
government arsenal nt Belfort, and it is
acknowledged that five soldiers were killed
and eleven seriously injured. But accord
ing to another account which reaches us,
the mischief was more serious than this,
and of those who were killed the destruc
tion was so complete that only a few frag
ments of their remains could be found.
Concerning tbe composition of this explo-
five great secrecy ns observed by the
French government, aa also with regard to
the experiments that are made with it. But
the Armstrong company at Elswick have
secured possession ol melinite by virtue of
a compact with Mr. Turpin, the inventor,
and have supplied our government with
projectiles containing this destruct
ive compound. Col. Majcndie states that
melinite is largely composed of picric acid
iu a fused or consolidated condition. Of
the violence with which picric acid will
explode an example was ;given ou the oc
casion of a fire ut some chemical wooks
near Manchester a year ago. The shock
was fell over a distance of two miles from
the seat of the explosion, and the sound
was heard for a distance of over twenty
miles.
Tbs conduct of the French in commit
ting themselves so absolutely to the use of
melinite as a materiel of war clearly sig-
fitfH that with than the use of such a
sMiad mil nf the reoinn of
doubt and experiment. They .have not ar
rived at this point hastily. ’Their experi
mental investigations extended over a con
siderable period of tim*; but at last the
stage of inquiry gave place to one of con
fidence and assurance. So great is the
confidence of the French government iu
the uew^ shell that ii is auiii the French
forta . are henceforth v to be prp-
'^tweteil Jiy a -Composite aiateriaA 1
-yWr -- •. *ec‘
force of a projectile charged witli a high
explosive. In naval warfare, the value of
shells charged in this manner is likel,
be more especially shown in connection
with the rapid-fire gsns which arc son
coming into use. The question is whether
the ponderous stacatto fire of monster
ordnance may not be largely superceded
by another mode of attack, in which a
storm of shells, charged with something far
moro potent than gunpowder,
w 11 be poured forth
constant stream from numerous
guns of comparatively small weight aud
calibre. Tbe new feature* in modern war
fare have to be carefully considered—the
greatly increased power in the shells, and
an immense advance in rapidity of fire.
When a violent explosive is used, the
effect is intensely local. Thi*i* proved by
various experiments, and was shown in
the case of tlie dynamite outrages some
time back, when everything close at band
was shattered and pulverized, but the
more wide disturbance effected by gun
powiiei »ns singularly absent. It is the
detonating character of a high
plosive which makes it particularly
formidable when launched against
armor. Combined with rapidity of
fire, these shells cannot but prove formid
able to an armor-clad, independently ol
any damage inflicted on the plates. The
great thickness now given to ship armor
fc accomplished by a mode of concentra
tion which, while affecting to shield the
vital part--, leave* a large portion of the
‘ ip entirely unprotected. On site tin
armored portion a tremendous effect will
produced by (he quick tiring guns dash,
ing their powerful shell* in a fiery deluge
on the ship. rihoul^Jhe vessel roll while
under fire, her deck will he u
tempting mark. What this means
may he exemplified in the
ease of the Victoria, with iter seventy feet
of beam. When she rolls ten degrees to
ward the enemy her deck will be equivu
lent to a thinly-armored target twelve feet
high.. Altogether the new force which is
now entering into tbe composition of anil
lery is one which demauda the prompt at
lention of the British government, not in
the shape of a long and exhaustive inquiry,
* ut rather in the form of prompt and vig
orous action While we are experiment
ing, others are arming.
A FLOOD OF SILVER n ?, d , c ” t ; t * incd 200,000. The silver w m
KJU OlXJ V TUT. p l Jtd high at the end of the vault furthest
from the door and sloping doiwi to the
Storing Minted Dollars in the “ ther 5idt ’- . 0lh ? r *l 6e there would he
Treasury Vault,
A STREAM OF SILVER DOLLARS’
Where the Money Comes (rom anil How It
Is Transported—A Delicate Weighing
Machlue-Protectlun Against
Thieves.
From the Washington Star.
There is a stream of silver pouring into
Washington at the rate of half a million
dollars’ worth a day. It comes in the
shape of fresh, glittering, new dollars,
standard silver dollars of the vintage of
1888, with the milling unnicked and the
Goddess of,Liberty fresh from the stamp
The stream is flowing at present from the
Philadelphia mint, but before long the
sluice gate will be switched around and
the shiniDg flood will be turned in from
N ewYork, then, after a time, from New
Orleans, and finally from Ban Francisco
thus giving the United States a silver belt
that will outshine even that ot a champion
pngilist. The Adams Express Company
carriea the silver in trunks,
or iron-bound boxes, guarded by armed
men. At this end of the line
U>e silver is carried direct to the treasury
department in great iron-latticed wagons
that look like the animal cages in a men
agerie. At the treasury the boxes are
taken into the building and into the base
ment, then down a winding stairway in the
northeast corner of the building into the
sub-basement, where the air at present has
an odor of soft mustiness that brings
thoughts of mysterious treasures, hidden
gold, stories of Capt. Kidd, and similar
ideas. The visions of the mystic are sud
denly dispelled by a prosy, business-like
door of grated iron that bars the way and
brings tne visitor to a halt.
IN THE VAULT.
Treasurer Hyatt and a Star reporter
took this route last Wednesday, whrn the
first consignment of silver arrived, and
were consequently stopped in their course
by the barred door. In the distance was
heard the clink and musical rattle of coins,
like'the chains that are rattled behind the
scenes at the theater when the prisoner is
being ironed or liberate. Mr. liyatt shook
the door, but the noise was arowned by the
Aft
vaVMp St,-I— k-
-An awfsl
lly Friday
n), attacked
ring prosperity, ste.i
(nr every taXtiJ
he white populate 11 is Very much
erlhe matter. luod night they
indignation meetuc.-, - white.
ing prtienL i’.e...lutioi,* were adopted
-using protection to the colored people
d dei laring that the perpetrators of tlie
trage ■hall be punished.
Oofor Theta, Girls.
From the Brunswick Appeal.
Our morning cotemparary ia oat to day
iu an editorial on matrimony, advising
the young men to take onto themselves
wives.
Now, girls, if you are at all matrimoni
ally inclined, just remember this is leap
year, and you can go for that office with
all your might. There are four nice
catches there.
' First on the list is business manager
Roberts, handsome and urbane. Seize
him.
Next c.unes editor-in-chief Colonel Brob-
ston, with bis winning wavs and gentle
voice. Talk love lo him, be can’t dodge
you, for he ha* advised it.
The third mi the li-t is Col Vining, tall,
erect aud gifted, with a heart brim full of
love for some fair maiden that dares to
give him the chance.
1 be foil*tb on tbe list is our modrst
young friend Gemini-, innocent and pure,
mother'- own boy. He w. nid recipe, ate
* itli .,ii the fer.-or of :. -
rusl
■ uing life
Make a
111 r of re
your golden
ti.; for then:
ley will g
’each of Which will contain about :
^00.1* straight .4hea<l ff »r 0(in u J to t : i
corridor, was a group ot n llt( „ n , v e |„ tl ' icilv .
the
dne
office and
y become editre-^. Now
j»|»ortiinitj.
and take no denial, unless
cement to
rl w ithin tin
lontha. |
who opened the door for th? treasurer. In-
sids the small rotffii on the other side ol
the gratiDg is the machinery oi the freight
elevator, which a few hours before had
groaned in carrying its precious burden to
us resting place. On the left, as the visi
tors proceeded, an opening into tbe wal
disclosed, the painted door o! a vauit
marked-with a great “2,” and conHfining_
upXlJrdiU®
tYieTmTof a
men bu-y with the examination of the sil
ver, and producing tlie clinking heard
from the outside.
n either hand was a slack of canva*
bags, portiy and pruuu iu iiieif appear
ance. “Each one of these hagt contains
SI,000, anil weighs 00 pounds/’ said Mr,
Hyatt “Try to lift it, and you will see
ho* hard it would be for a thief to take
away very much monev.”
The reporter grasped the neck of one of
the bags with one hand, but it only slid
from the pile to tlie floor with a muffled
clinking that was tantalizing. Tlie re
porter stooped to replace the bag with
both hands, but a tall, brawny, colored
man came to the rescue and, picking
up the bag as though it were a leather,
carried it a few steps to a queer looking
wooden utensil about two feet high. There
was a shelf about a foot square on top, and
below was a slide or abute, narrowing to an
opening about six inches across.
WEIGHING TItE SILVER.
The big was dumped on the platform
and the securing coni cut with a rapid
motion of a knife. Holding the mouth of
the bag down into the shute tbe man
directed the silver stream into a cop)»er
scoop, something like those used by gro
cers, with handles on the sides. The thou-
sauil coins filled the scoop exactly, and as
soon a» the clinking ceased another man
lifted it from tlie block and set it on the
nan of the scales. These scaltw glittered
in the gas-light like gold. The top bar
was massive and looked more like the
walking beam of an engine than a part of
a piece of apparatus so delicate that the
hundredth part of an onneecould tie earily
weighed. The pans hung down to a plat'
form, »'die a great brass standard in the
center bon- the weight of the_ whole. On
the pan opposite that holding the coins
were two great brass weights, one the
equivalent of the money, and the other,
on top of the first, the 'balance for the
scoop, 'i’llesc weigots were exactly in tile
center of the pan, as was the scoop also.
As soon as the scoop rested on the
pan the scalesman, seated in front of tne
central beam, turned a crank at its base,
moving a couple of arms running upward
from the center to the crossbeam, and
tliruwtug the pans Lorn their rest. They
at once began to oscillate slightly, but
soon came to rest, when the man shoved a
little L*v” rt “ news the crank and a Inns
neeille poinliug downward at the very cen
ter of the machine moved slowly to one
side and then back again to the central
mark of a scale below it. “All right!’’ he
said, quietly releasing the pressure on the
button and turning the cruok back. As
quick as a wink the scoop was wbitked
irom the pan and up to tlie top of the
■Irate, where it was tipped and its shining
contents slid down into tlie mouth of their
original bag, field open by a man sit iugat
tbe foot of the machine, who tied the
mouth of I he canvas and handed the
proved bag lo another man at his elbow.
The latter placed it on alow truck already
full of other bags.
STORING THE COIN.
He picked np the tongue of the truck
and strained hia muscles to start it. Grad
ually it moved, and then wheeled slowly
np the corridor to the middle door of tbe
cages. ' n either side of the central aisle
the gratings rose to the roof with unpleas
ant uiggi-t ion* of jaildom. Away down win a
in tbe semi-darkness, relieved only by the r ro m tbe
flickering of a feeule gaslight,* a door In It
yawned, and iito tUs Iks *■■ raided the non tic* menu (
truck. On the far side of the cell or cagw kee thin
a liue of while hags, piled against the wall, there is hardly
showed the work already done. of being
The rinrle line of bags reached up to bar* to catch -t
about the lower edge of a man's vest anil st-rv
danger of its falling in when dis
turbed in the future. The mouths
of the bags point outward, flushing
on a narrow corridor running entirely
around the cages. In order to prevent the
chance of a thief sneaking in with a party
of visitors, slipping around through this
corridor, and, by cutting some of tbe bugs,
helping himself to a pocketful of “wheels,”
Mr. Hyatt is going to have this passage-
wav closed by means t f iron doorB at each
end, to be kept locked.
The central aisle is also closed in at each
end by heavy grated, doors, anil the keys
to the cells are kept inside of the aisle, and
the communicating doors will be locked
when the silver is ail stored, eo that it wiii
only be necessary to guard tbe little piece
of corridor in front of the two outside cells.
In these the silver will Blantback from the
front, so that it will be impossible for any
light-fingered visitor to slit open a bag.
SHORT WEIGHT.
While the visitors were looking around
the merry clinking was going on at the
entrance, and the pile of wealth in eellNo.
4 was growing higher. M hen the party re
turned to the door the scaleman had hem
relieved by another, and through some
means.the apparatus was not registering
the weight it should. Little pieces of lead
were dropped on cither pan to determine
where tne trouble lay, and it was finally-
concluded, that the money then on th* pan
was tight in weight, and it was taken off^
bagged, tied and sent up'stairs to a count
ing room. In case the number of coins
was correct each one would be weighed.
“We could detect a trade dollar jn a
second,” explained Mr. Hyatt, “and also
a dollar that was plugged. See how fine
the scales are," tearing off a small piece o£
paper from a sheet at the scalesman’a
elbow and tooting it into the scoopful of
silver on tlie pan. Tlie needle, before sta
tionary, movedquickly toone side. “You
see that it would be pretty hard to get iu
some old coins,” said the treasurer.
SAFEGUARDS.
The atmosphere was horrible, close,
damp and musty, and the visitors who*
began to feel the oppressive effects of the
vitiated air were glad to get out into the
corridor. The time-lock door yawned at
the entrance; the intricate machinery, aa
fine as that of a watch, (eemingly too-
frail for the responsible purpose for which
it is intended. The real door of the
vault, however, is inside of this piece of
mechanism, at the end of the short corri
dor. It is of solid iron, six inches thick,
anil weighs 5,000 pounds. It slides into
the wall on the right, and, without thu aid
of the windlass that nestles in the wail be
side it, needs the strength of five men to
move it. It goes, when shut, nearly a foot
into the left nano wall.
The construction of this vault was
begun last summer, and has cost about
430.000. Tlu- scale* at the entrance, which
will form a part of the outfit, cost $1,200.
liie vault consists of sixteen cell rooms.
ONE M IN DAKI-.II 81'EAK.
I'ruf. lllilduln or Vale til Hie Courage o(
i .... ;.
From a 8p. erii Intrcducli.« Mr. Mills of Texas
The last twenty years have formed an
exceptional era in American politic*. It
has keen an era without an issue. The
war had succeeded in maintaining the in
tegrity and supremacy oi the Uuioir.
Slavery was destroyed, (he territories were
forever free. The ntlional debt was being
paid off as fast os it matured. Specie pay
ments were resumed. Civil service relunn
wm introduced. All parties acquiesced in
these result*, and the only quration in na
tional election* wa* to which th* party or
to which men the great office* should be
intrusted. But duriug these years, since
the ending of the war, a new order of
things bad been growing up, so gradually
a* to be almost unseen.
Great fortunes were n>lr>d np, such a*
under former laws and conditions were
unknown and inqxissible.
Great corporations had combined to
gether for the purpose of controlling prices,
under forms that the law seemed power
less to control.
Taxes grew more *nd more burdensome.
American shipping in foreign trade was
driven from the sea*.. The commer. e that
before the war had carried our good* aud
our II ig to the remotest corneraof the world;
that had covered Long wharf with cargoes
from the West Indies; that had sent our
e-fringe* to Mexico and Hoiuh America,
was declining and perishing.
uur wotkingmeii were restless and dis-
*.iti*fi»l Their wage*—when the shop
was imining-might be good, but when
they erme to buy or hire, th y often found
ptiie and n uts hiqlier than reasonable or
right.
What was the trouble?
One man aaw it and dared to speak.
It is not yet a year since President
Cleveland—our great President—great in
a rugged, direct honesty of purpo e, that
sweeps away considerations ot personal or
party expedient )', when right aud duty
are iuvofved; it is not yet a year since ho
met in congress in his annual message, not
with clerk like reports of this or that de
tail of the year’s work of official routine,
but with one single thought of lightning
power that this weight which we ail left
nung a boat the nation, came tram our own
bad laws; bad because they had outlived
their time; that taxes laid to pay debt*
were being continued after the debts were
paid; that excessive duties burr.edly and
unequally imposed on raw materials, on
necessities of life, in time of war and of
depreciation of our currency, were sapping
the lifeof the ftecple, to raise great for
tune* for a favored few._
Gentlemen, the American people are not
asked by the administration to adopt free
trade. The people of Connecticut and of
New Haven, so widely interested in manu
facturing induatries, want no sudden and
radical departure from that system of
tariff law* of whose protei lion many of
our manufacturers - ill stand in need, lo
secure fair wages to the hands, and fair
interest on the plant. But they want a
tariff that pn
eesary and reu-
more money th
nabli
further than i
and that ra;
tave get to .-qi(
Iio would he gtiiltv
The people will
w ami aiake him