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About Bulloch times. (Statesboro, Ga.) 1893-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1893)
BULLOCH TIMES. STATESBORO. GA. It is proposed to make the insnt* iwaoo of cattle obligatory in Hungary. They say that oil is destiimd to su¬ persede coal as fuel for ocean steam¬ ships. The New York Press thinks everbodv will feel more comfortable when travelling by sea t<> know that there are no brother men shoveling coal in the floating inferno down under the engines. It is -said that a large colony of working men left Sydney, Australia, the other day, to seek their fortunes in Paraguay. All the members of the colony are said to be robu.-t and ener¬ getic men. and the married ones are accompanied by their families. Their object in the move is not so much that they 7 are not able to make a liymg where they are, but thy ve no chance to make more than, a bare living. They suv that capitalists have taken so entire possession of everything in Aus¬ tralia that there is not the remotest possibility 7 for anybody who has no capital bnt his hands and brains, to get beyond the position of a hired em¬ ploye. In fact, money has crowded them out of Australia. The common hoop, once thought to be the exclusive plaything of the frequent¬ ers of the nursery, has risen to a high¬ er sphere of usefulness, it is no un¬ common sight to see a portly man chasing a hoop round and round the ring at a gymnasium. It is 1 ho latest prescription by doctors for those clients who are suffering from too much flesh and who want to reduce their weight, Pugilists and other gymnasts long ago robbed tlio play¬ room of the skipping-rope and found it a most, excellent means of training and k -oping oft" superfluous flesh, but chas¬ ing the hoop is less violent and muscles are kept, in action at the same time, and one can cover more ground with less exertion than by simply running .around a ring. According to the official statistics there are in "round numbers 110,000 Chinese in the United States. Of these 13,179 have complied with the provis¬ ions of the registration law, and 90,821 have refrained, The official returns show forty-three registrations in Al¬ abama, thirteen in Arkansas, 4831 in California, 1500 in Colorado, 140 in Connecticut, forty-four in Florida, sixty-five in Georgia, 1019 in Illinois, 59 in Indiana, sixty-two in Iowa, twen¬ ty in Kansas, twenty-eight in Ken¬ tucky, 215 in Louisaua, 187 in Mary¬ land, twenty in Massachusetts, 103 in Michigan, fifty-nine in Minnesota, 400 in Montana, 333 in Missouri, ninety one in Nebraska, forty-seven in New Hampshire, forty-one in New York, five iu North Carolina, 106 in Ohio, 1092 in Oregon, 712 in Pennsylvania, thirtv-threo in South Carolina, nine in Tennessee, 725 in Texas, twenty-seven in Virginia, twenty-six in West Virgin¬ ia and 107 in Wisconsin. With a maximum pressure of 46,800 pounds per square inch, the Brown segmental wire-wound gun has pro pelled a sixty-two-pound shot at the surprising velocity of 2,065 feet a sec¬ ond. This is a great gain, boasts the New York News, for England’s great¬ est guns, and those of Germany have not reached any such velocity as that. The highest initial lelocity recorded with them in either country, or in France is but a little more than 2,100 ferft a second, though even higher than 3,300 has been obtained by smaller weapons. Now 7 , inasmuch as, other things being equal, the penetrative power of a shot depends upon its velocity, the trial of the segmental gun at Sandy Hook the other day, with the result noted above, sustains the view hitherto expressed that the gun will win in the end against the iron clad war ship, because the limit of armor a ship can carry is less now than the gun can pierce. The seg mental gun just tried carries ten times the weight of metal carried by guns which iu France have given the tremendous initial velocity spoken of; and, of course, the power of the weap on can be increased with its size until rt will throw a shot or shell of the weight deemed maHt most desirable in a fight with an ironclad. A TREASURE HOUSE. THE UNITED STATES SUII TREASURY IN NEW YORK. Two-Thirds of the Financial Opera¬ tions of the Government Are Transacted There—How Its Business is Done. WRITER in the New York Herald says: Uncle Sam’s strong box is situ v ated at Wall, Nas sau and Pine streets and is officially p known as the New vie j '('A York Sub-Treas uiy. The average ^ ^ individual who m ■/ passes it by on *( either of the three fiG thoroughfares is * thoroughly quainted with its massive granite walls, huge columns and severely classic style of Grecian architecture. Half w r ay up the long flight of stone steps which communicates with the mam entrance in Wall street stands a bronze statue of Washington of heroic size, keeping watch and ward, as it were, over the vast treasure within Upon the same site in 1789 arid for a score of years later was Federal Hall, standing upon the balcony of which the Father of His Country took the oath of office as the first President of the United States, The building, therefore, rests upon historic ground, which lends to it a double charm and connects the present with the past. Washington no doubt had an abiding faith in the destiny of his country, and < h m m 3 2-0 y |i I S a M SB ■ -:i mmk I ■ I G !■- I--. n *3 ■feyash E3 I Mj 1* % S5V % MAIN FLOOF. OF THE SUB-TREASURY 7 . believed that it would attain an impor tant place among the nations of the earth, but never, it is safe to assume, did his mind picture the transforma tions that have come to pass over the site of the old colonial hall within the brief space which separates his gener ation from the present. Tlien the country was emerging front the effects of a devastating war and was without a revenue or public credit. Now its resources are bound less, and its credit, unshaken by a financial storm, stands pre-eminent among the nations of the earth. On the site where in 1789 the infant Re public was launched forth upon an un known and untraversed sea, without a penny in its coffers, stands its treasure house in which is stored wealth be yond the dreams of avarice or the combined fortunes of Croesus of old or Monte Cristo of modern times. Within the gray granite walls of the New York Sub-Treasury are transacted two-thirds of the entire financial oper ations of the United States Govern merit. In 1892 its receipts were $1,- 259,730,591.30 and its disbursements were $1,279,579,904.24. This would have shown a deficit but for the fact that the Sub-Treasury had a small bal auce of $138,072,240.63 left over from [Li. : L L r UrJJ f 1 r r r ! S] m, ■ f/ P -’ 3 r ■ f$ggg ||p|| ; cfetgSl * j* !V -1 mm i Ml ‘ m - \l I I where the treasury notes are kept, the rear before, and hence a year ago last June,when Government the balance w& struck, the found that it ha I H ^ ore( j j n jf s New York treasure house the neat sum of $118,222,977.09 to be gin the work of the fiscal year of 1893. It is difficult to conceive of one hun dred and eighteen million and odd ‘ hundred thousands of dollars in coin and bills, and yet at the Sub-Treasury this is a trifling amount, and hundred has fre quently been exceeded by a or two millions more. The building fairly groans under the weight of gold and silver and heaps of copper and nickel and huge stacks of bills. Stored neatly in little steel cubby holes, inside huge vaults, them selves incased in metal and granite, or scattered around on desks or counters, undergoing the process of weighing and counting, the building fairly reeks with wealth. The very air seems im pregnated with an odor of riches. In one instance this amounts to an em barrassment, for in the case of the sil ver dollars, forty millions of which are stored in a series of vaults in the basement, the heavy iron lattice work and huge steel bars are bulging out of place under the enormous pressure of 1200 tons of silver, for $1,000,000 of silver weighs thirty tons, and $40, 000,000 is the burden of the vault. Under ordinary" circumstances the Sub-Treasury handles very little coin, The metal lays stored away in the vaults in neat canvas bags, $t>000 in each one containing gold and $1000 in each bag of silver. At the present time, however, all this is changed. The Government has suspended the issue of gold certificates against deposits of that metal, the free silver dollars are exhausted, and only those secured by 7 silver certificates remain in the vaults; the Clearing House balances are settled in actual coin, gold is coming in and going out, is weighed and counted, and the passer by in Nassau street at the corner of Pine hears all day 7 long the clink and clatter of metal. At any time a visit to the Sub Treasury is interesting, but it is particularly so now. Walk up the of stone from Wail street to the main entrance of the building any morning after 10 o’clock, pass by the guardian statue of Washington and between the huge granite columns which support the projecting roof, and you enter a cool, lofty counting room, Standing at the main entrance be tween two supporting granite columns similar to those outside, the view is unobstructed to the Pine street, or rear, entrance of the building. Be fore another step is taken the visitor becomes at once aware of the over powering strength and massiveness of the structure. He has passed through a doorway of solid granite blocks six feet in depth, guarded, by an outer door of huge iron bars, an inner door of heavy steel plates and a frame door the projecting rivets in the surface of which bears testimony that it is metal sheathed. On either side of the entrance is a room of comfortable proportions. That on the left, or Nassau street side, bears the words over the door, As sistant. Treasurer/’ while to the right are the quarters of the Cashier and Acting Assistant Treasurer. Ihe one is occupied by Conrad N. Jordan, the other by Maurice L. Muhleman, one of the most popular, painstaking and efficient Government em¬ ployes in the country. The entire executive work of the Sub-Treasury— and it is vast and multitudinous in de tail—is transacted within these two j rooms. The interior arrangement of the Sub-Treasury is peculiar to the date of | its construction. The form ceiling of of dome the main room rises in the a to the extreme height of the building, and is supported by granite columns, : forming a rotunda. Four galleries afford a means of communication be tween the rooms situated at either angle ox the building on the second floor, from which can be obtained a bird’s-eye view of the clerks at work in | three departments on the floor below —the cashier’s, receiving and paying. These, situated on the main floor, are separated by bank counters of wood j and partitions of iron, pierced here and there by the familiar pigeonholes of a bank. In fact, the entire appear ance of the main room of the Sub Treasury suggests the arrangements of a large bank as they existed two score years ago. of the Sub-Treas The departments receiving and ury are the cashier’s, paying, which is sub-divided into cash paving and check paying; coin, divided into paying and receiving; minor coin, bond, coupon, authorities, accounting and superintending. The names of these in most instances amply describe in » general way the nature of the work performed. The duties of the authori ties department, however, are pe culiar. In it are kept the lists of cor porations having business relations with the Government and the names of the officials of each who are authorized to sign and receipt for checks. In the accounting department are kept, in addition to the general accounts of the Sub-Treasury, the account of the Post Office Department, always maintained separately, and the accounts of the disbursing officers of the United States Army and Navy, etc. bal At the present time the daily ance in the Sub-Treasury averages about $125,000,000, It runs, how ever,- at times as high as $225,000,000, a sum of money of which the ordinary mind can form no conception. Nat urally enough every' safeguard is taken for the protection of this immense treasure. The casual observer of the Sub-Treasury building knows full well its massive exterior. Its full strength, however, is not apparent until after a careful scrutiny of the interior, The building itself was constructed for the purposes of the Custom House in 1832 and used as such until 1862. Strong as it was originally 7 it was, in remodelling, made absolutely impreg nable. A board of United States army officers were intrusted with the work, and as it stands to-day 7 it contains many features of a fortress. The walls in the basement are eight feet thick and are built of solid granite blocks. No part of the walls anywhere are less than four feet through. All the par titions between the rooms are of masonry. The ceilings are concrete, all the floors are of stone or metal and the various doors are of steel plate. The treasure is stored in five princi¬ pal vaults, three of which hold the greater proportion. These are the gold vault, the note vault and the vault in which is stored the silver dol¬ lars. The first two are on the main or rotunda floor, while the other is a huge cavern in the cellar of the building. The vaults on the main floor are bombproof and burglar proof and proof against everything else short of a general cataclysm. That in the cellar is equally so. The walls of the building forming the sides of the vaults are eight feet thick, and masonry encases them on all sides,, saving where the entrance doors pierce through. The ceilings of the upper vaults are about twelve feet in height and the dimensions perhaps twelve by fourteen feet. An Autumn Bonnet. A stylish little bonnet for autumn is made of velvet w 7 ith just a touch of gold lace about it. In shape it is m Ms iglpL :,sn $ % c. 7 f fji A w T e "AN- 7 V & 8 W V - ra ther long. The low crown is covered w j^j 1 ft rich wine-colored velvet, Where the velvet touches the hair the g 0 id i ace appears. Graceful loops of Ye ]vet and wings decorate the f rcm t; w ith a gold feathery aigrette in the center. The tie strings are wider than those worn last season. —New York World._____ The Little One’s Guardian Angel. L f or > u ms i V »vu> “Aunt, have I a guardian angel?’’ “Certainly, my dear. I am your guardian angel!”—Fliegende Blaetter. There is _ a Japanese student, a bright fellow of eighteen years, in the third year at the Lmteu States Aaval Academy, A Hercules Beetle, The Hercules beetle (Dynastes Her¬ cules), one of the largest species of the Coleoptera or beetle family, is fre¬ quently seen in the cases of the en¬ tomologist, but it is seldom that one is seen alive iu New York. Just ait present William Bentenmuller, Fro fessor of Entomology at the National History Museum, lias one of the giant 8^ t"— /t HERCULES BEETLE. beetles alive, and the huge insect seems to be doing uncommonly well, as it has a capital appetite. It was caught in the Island of Dominica and brought here by a sailor. It is fully six inches long from the tip of the upper branch of its pincers to the end of its body. The head is jet black, and from it grows out a long black horn, somewhat irregular in shape. The lower surface of this horn is cov¬ ered with deep, gold-colored bristles, which no doubt aid in holding what¬ ever the beetle seizes. Another bnt shorter horn grows out from the thorax, and the two form a powerful pair of pincers, with the body for a handle The elytra, or wing covers, are of a dirty dapple gray,, while the upper part of the body is clack. There are six powerful legs armed with claws, which easily sink into-the human flesh, while a nip from the pincers is a thing to be remembered, even when the in¬ sect has only begun to pinch.—New York Tribune. Historic Church. The honor of being the oldest Meth¬ odist Episcopal Church in China be¬ longs to Tien Ang Dong, or the Church of the Peace of Heaven at Foo Chow. It was built in 1850. From that beginning great things I i@/p 1 1 i it 1 I #' Mil; I hi K —71 china’s oldest m. e. church. have come, Scores of Christian churches may now 7 be found within the bounds of the Foo-chow confer¬ ence with an aggregate attendance of about 6000 members and probationers at their regular Sunday services. From Foo-Chow went out the men who founded Central China and North China M. E. Missions, and there are. now connected with fhem over 2000 Chinese Christians. Tien Ang Dong at Foo-Chow is the mother of all the churches in which these thousands now worship. Foo.-Chow is the chief cen¬ ter of Methodist work in South China. They have there an Anglo-Chinese col¬ lege, theological school, boys’ board¬ ing school, girls’ boarding school, womans’ school and womans’ hospital. The numbers of Christians connected with these institutions has increased so that the Chinese edifice will not ac¬ commodate them. East year a gal¬ lery was added, but even now this is too small. Efforts are now 7 being made to raise a fund for rebuilding the Tien Ang Dong edifice with twice the pres¬ ent capacity. —Mail and Express. Fish or Sea Serpent? The fishing schooner James B. Stet¬ son, Captain William Wolfe of Pro vincetown, brought to T. wharf a fish that comes nearer, probably, being,, a sea serpent than anything yet captured. The curiosity in question is about five o m rr' s' AN odd fish. feet long, and is nearly the same size at the tail as at the head. It is slen¬ der, not being over seven inches in cir¬ cumference at the largest portion of its body, resembling, save for its fin-tail, a snake. There is a long fin some ten inches high, running nearly the entire length of its back. It lias a head shaped very much like that of a boa constrictor, and its teeth are long and very sharp. One upoer tooth is one and one-half inches in length, about one-quarter or three eighths of an inch wide, and as sharp as a needle at the point. The jaws are long and when open in an ordi¬ nary position easily reach eight inches apart at the end of the nose. The fish is of a bluish color. Tim tall fins are large, and the two tins me der its jaws are exceptionally large for its size, measuring not less than eight inches in length. The thing was cap¬ tured off La Have, Nova Scotia, in l3d fathoms of water.—Boston Globe.
