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[ a thoroughfare:
A “SCIENTIFIC STREET” FOR A GREAT
CITY.
A Surface Void of All Immovable Ob
struction*, with Underneath Spaces for
J Cars, Sewers, Telegraph, Telephone
and Electric Eight Conductors.
[Brooklyn Eagle.]
While the problem of rapid transit by ele
vated roads is in course of gradual solution,
engineers and monos business are consider
ing more ambitious plans for this city and
New York, involving the construction of
what is called “the scientific street.” When
this highway of the future is completed its
surface will be free from all obstruction
' which can interfere with the original uses of
a thoroughfare, while railroads and tele
phone wires will run beneath the surface.
Descriptions of the work have already been
published, and an especially interesting ac
count of it was given by Mr. Rowland R.
Hazard in a paper read before the American
Institute of Engineers at its meeting in
Philadelphia last year. The following ex
tract will sufficiently indicate the nature of
the plan as proposed for Broadway, New
York.
THE GENERAL PLAN.
The roadway between the curbs furnishes
all the accommodation required for all pur
poses. It is divided into two sections; the
one centrallj' placed affords accommodation
for way and express tunnels. The sections
. on either side disposes of the existing imped
iments of the street at the point of access to
. the abutting houses. By this disposition of
the street all requirements are fulfilled. A
smooth, noiseless and unobstructed surface
is provided for pedestrian and vehicular
traffic. Express and way trains for rapid
transit. Permanent housing for sewer,
water, gas, steam; pneumatic, electric con
eductors and. pipes, with access throughout
for inspection, and all the cases in imme
dipte contact with the premises where the
' connections are to be made. In neither ex
press nor way stations is private property
taken, nor at any point does the structure
abut private premises, even during con
struction.
CONSTRUCTION.
The method of construction is as follows:
street excavation is effected in sections, and
is governed by the extent and character of
the traffic. A uniform platform of concrete,
about two feet in thickness, floored by half
inch of Trinidad asphalt, is laid, extending
across the street at the maximum base depth
of about seventeen feet, forming a founda
tion for the whole structure. Upon this is
erected the external vault wall, securing to
the abutting proprietor the permanent use
of the whole vault and area undisturbed
■ throughout the standard section. This vault
wall is fitted while under construction with
suitable connections for gas, steam, electric
ity, sewer and water at every house. This
wall is also the external wall of the pipe gal
leries, arranged adjacent to either curb.
The galleries are subdivided longitudinally
and continuously, by beams riveted to their
internal and inserted in their external walls.
' WIRES AND PIPES.
Access throughout is provided at the ter
mini and stations, and they are calculated
for access to, housing and inspection of the
tubes, pipes and wires. The electrical con
ductors of the various telegraph, telephone,
lighting, burglar alarm, messenger com
panies are arranged anti-inductively, upon
shelves riveted to the roof and gallery
beams. There being no permanent floor
above the foundation, the pipes in either
gallery are accessible from above or below.
Street opening for repair, replacement or
connection is thus wholly obviated. The in
ternal frame supporting the galleries is
formed by iron columns, placed four feet
apart, and coincident with those forming
the outer wall of the way railway tunnels.
These columns are composed of two angle
irons riveted, and rest upon a continuous
granite foundation.
FOUR RAILWAYS.
The space remaining between the pipe
galierie- is disposed in tom - railway tunnels,
for the accommodation of an up way and ex
press and a down way and express train.
These tunnels are formed by five rows of
columns, each composed of four angle irons,
arranged longitudinally four feet apart,
resting on a continuous granite base, the
spaces between the columns at the founda
tion and the roof being filled by a panel
composed of a tough, non-resonant mate
rial. This panel fulfills a double function:
it completes the tunnel for purposes of ven
tilation, and it prevents resonance, which
might be caused by the rapid passage of a
train through a tunnel with metallic walls,
j THE ROOF SUPPORT.
The roof is supported and the whole struc
ture tied by beams placed four feet from
centers which extend across the entire span,
bolted at every eight feet to the tunnel
columns, the ends being inserted in the
vault wall. Upon these beams the steel ten
inch span buckle plate roof is laid and
bolted; over this is a two inch skin of Trini
dad asphalt,|as a protector from chemical
contact and dampness and a,s a slight cush
ion! Above this is placed six inches of con
' Crete, which completes the permanentstreet.
This structure as a whole contemplates the
minimum of excavation, the max imum of
capacity, the greatest number and most
equal distribution of points of support, and
consequent maximum of strength and stiff
ness in use,
VENTILATION.
The railway tunnels form open cylinders
from station to station, and the trains being
of approximate cross section constitute loose
pistons always moving in the same direc
tion; the obvious effect is the establishment
of a ventilating current, dependent for its
force upon the approximation of cross sec
tions and the speed of the trains; as the
products of artificial combustion are excluded
from the tunnels the requirements of ven
tilation are reduced to a minimum, and per
fectly performed. The traffic rails and the
electrical conductor conduit and the rail
guard are bolted to the same steel tie, which
arrangement secures perfect alignment, the
tie being permanently set in the concrete
foundation. While it is not essential to the
plan the modern wood pavement now used
in London and Paris should be substituted
for Hie noisv granite.
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Grape Juice for Communion.
The grape crop of A. Speer’s vineyard
last year was double that of any previous
year. His vineyards near Passaic have so
increased that he is able to keep a stock five
to six years ahead. They have become pop
ular wines among the best physicians in
New York, and largely used for Communion
purposes and for weak and aged persons.
For sale by Osceola Butler, Druggist,
corner Bidl and Congress streets.
Try L. Freid’s reinforced white shirt
f.r fit and quality.
THE SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES: WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1885.
IT 13 THE SEA3ON.
[R. L. Stevenson in Magazine of Art.]
It is the season now to go
About the country high and low,
Among the lilacs hand in hand,
And two by two in fairyland.
The brooding boy, the sighing maid,
Wholly fain and half afraid,
Do meet along the hazel’d brook,
To pass and linger, pause and look.
A year ago, and, blithely paired,
Their rough-and-tumble play they shared,
They kissed and quarreled, laughed and
cried,
A year ago at Eastertide.
Her, whom wdth rude, uplifted hand
He did bethreaten or command—
Her, in a somewhat longer dress,
He now would tremble to .caress.
Now by the stile ablaze she stops,
And his demurer eyes he drops;
Now they exchange averted sighs,
Or stand and marry silent eyes.
And he to her a hero is,
And sweeter she than primroses;
Their common silence dearer far
Than nightingale and mavis are.
Now, when they sever wedded hands,
Joy trembles in their bosom-strands,
And lovely laughter leaps and falls
Upon their lips in madrigals.
THE NEWSPAPER REPORTER.
A Life of Sunshine and Shadow—Make.
Others Famous —Dies Unknown.
[Arkansaw Traveler. I
Among the workers who with brain or
muscle toil their way through this weary
world, the newspaper reporter seems to oc
cupy an anomalous position. The whole
course of his life alternating between the
deepest shadows and the wildest merri
ment show that he is at once the
most courted and neglected, the most
sought-fbr and shunned, hated, feared, un
derrated and overestimated factor in mod
ern society. At the regulation social gath
ering, “The Press” is toasted amid applause
and the response always alludes to “the
great power” and the “moral lever,” but the
world knows nothing of the trials attending
the life of the average reporter. The plaudits
of the public are sometimes wafted into the
editorial sanctum, but the poor reporter un
noticed, has to see the credit which should
belong to him given to another.
The nature of the reporter’s business en
ables him to estimate human nature, as he
sees his fellowman under all circumstances.
In all the scenes which go to make up the
drama of life, the reporter is on hand, quick,
apt, and ready to take a mental photograph
which will include the most minute details.
As circumstances require he must be able
to spread a trivial occurrence over
a column of space without repetition, or
describe the most thrilling scene
in a paragraph. He must be ready at the
call of duty to fraternize with the bar-room
rough, and be competent to discuss theology
with a doctor of divinity. To-night he is
wading among the slums of a great city
viewing vice in its most hideous form, to
morrow he may be sitting in the parlor of
the merchant prince, with whom, for the
time being, he is on terms of equality. He
shakes hands with the condemned murderer,
and turns to hob-nob with the judge who
pronounced the sentence.
He is ever among us, yet seldom recog
nized, and whether the occasion be a dog
fight or a political revolution, he takes in
the situation at a glance, and makes the
most of it. Like the poet he is born, not
made, for all the colleges in the country
could not turn out a reporter, as nothing
short of actual experience will fit him for
his business. He makes fortunes for others
and lives in penury himself. Ha makes
others famous and dies unknown.
Reminiscences of Thad. Stevens.
[Lancaster (Pa.) Cor. Philadelphia Times.]
Passing down from the newspaper office I
saw the plain, old-fashioned house of Thad.
Stevens. It is a barber shop now, and with
all its charming associations it is given over
to be a relic of the olden time. Just below
it, on the opposite side of the street, the tin
sign of Dr. Carpenter recalled to me a story
he once told me of the great commoner. He
was his physician for a long number of years,
as he was Mr. Buchanan’s, and he said these
two men differed as widely in their habits
and inclinations as in politics. Mr. Stevens,
said he, would do exactly as he was told in
relation to his medicine, etc., while Mr.
Buchanan was often irritable about the man
ner of treatment. While Mr. Stevens was
in Washington he always sent for ma when
when he got very sick, and he seemed to get
confidence when I came. He once said,
“Doctor, you understand me thoroughly.
These strangers do not.” And had I been
with him, continued the old header, I do not
believe he would have died when he did.
He went to Washington reluctantly the
last time and I feared then he would never
come back alive. He was a remarkable
man, kind-hearted and generous to a fault.
I never could get him to take any liquor,
and I believe if he had it would have pro
longed his life. But a sad incident in his
life made him a teetotaler. He was out for
a frolic with some friends and one of the
number, who was very close to him, drank
too much and it went to his head and he
died suddenly. At that moment Stevens
made the solemn promise to himself that he
would never drink again and he never did.
“Hunt’s Remedy is valuable and its bene
fits are permanent. Cured me of kidney
disease.” Sullivan Fenner,
Providence, R. I.
American Institute on Grapes and Wine,
ornnknness, or the Liquor Habit Can
be Cured by Administering Dr.
Haines* GoldenSpeclflc.
> It can be given in, a cup of coffee or tea
without the knowledge of the person taking
(.effecting a speedy and permanent cure,
vbetber the patient is a moderate drinker or
in alconolic wreck. Thousands of drunkards
have been made temperate men who have
•aken the Golden Specific in their coffee
without their knowledge, and to-day believe
hey quit drinking of their own free will.
No harmful effects result from Its adminls
ratlon. Cures guaranteed. Circulars and
•stimonials sent free. Address
Golden Specific Co.,
185 Race St., Cincinnati, O.
PILES 1 PILES PILES! 11
Sure cure for blind, bleeding and itching
piles. One box has cured the worst cases ol
twenty years’ standing. No need to suffer
Iva minutes after using Williams’ Indian
Pile Ointment. It absorbs tumors, allays
tchlngs, acts as poultice, gives instant relief,
hepared only for piles, itching of the pri
lote parts, nothing else. Hon. J. M. Coffen
mry, of Cleveland, says: “I have used scores
>f pile cures, and It affords me pleasure to
<>y that I have never found anything which
fives such Immediate and permanent rellel
ts Or. Williams’ Indian Pile Ointment.” Sold
>y druggists and mailed on receipt of price,
11. Bold wholesale and retail by O. Butler,
lavannah, Lippman Bros., wholesale and re
al! druggists.
KINID SEASES-SWAYNE’S OINTMENT
Swayne’s Ointment” cures Tetter, Sait
Rheum, Ringworms, Sores, Pimples, E zem
on matter how obstinate or long standing-
'Mis'
Remedy
ITISASPECIFIC’I ITISRELIABLE
TOR • ~ in curing
Kidney & Liver Dto ‘i
>- Troubles, - ln
t ' I I th® Back?, Loins
Bladder, Vrinary or Sides, Betert-
and Liver Diseases, Jf or Non-
Dropsy, Gravel tent ion of
Diabetes. (
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.,
r 'lt cures Biliousness, Headache, Jaundice, Sour g
U v Stomach, Dyspepsia, Constipation and Piles., /
WORKS”
J and cures Intemperance, Nervous Diseases,
General Debility, Excesses and
j Female Weakness. "
USE IT AT <ONCE.
It restores the KIDNEYS, IjTV.FR and
ELS, to a healthy action and CUBES when all *
other medicines fail. Hundreds have been saved
who have been given up to die by friends and v
physicians. M
Price $1.85. Send for Illustrated Pamphlet to, J
HUNT’S REMEDY CO., Providence, R. L
6 '' SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
DEAF AND BLIND.
How an Atlanta Woman was
Made to Pee and Hear.
AX INTERESTING STORY.
Miss Minnie Wallace resides with Mrs.
George Fickland, 41 McAfee street, Atlanta,
Ga., and from her own lips a Constitution re
porter learned the following story:
Several months ago she became almost to
tally blind and deaf, and could not tas’e any
thing except s dr. Her bones became the seat
ol intense pain, her joints were swollen and
painful, and eventually her whole body and
limbs became covered with splotches and
small sores. Her appetite failed, and she
gradually lost flesh and strength, and had but
little use of herself, as her limbs and muscles
were paralyzed She, as well as her friends
aud those with whom she lived, despaired of
her recovey. Her sufferings, combined with
loss of hearing and taste, and blindness, were
truly heartrending.
All treatment from physicians and the use
of medicines seemed powerless. Her dis
ease was blood poison and rheumatism.
As she now seemed well and hearty the re
porter asked what wrought such a wonderful
change.
“I used a medicine recommended by a
friend,” she replied, “and before one bottle
had been taken I began to see and hear. The
second bottle relieved all rheumatic pains
and improved my appetite. When I had com
pleted the use ot six bottles my eyesight and
hearing were fully restored, sense of taste re
turned, and splotches disappeared, sores all
healed, and my strength and flesh restored.
I now feel as well as I ever did, and my
friends, as well as myself, are astonished.”
“What was the Medicine?” asked the re
porter.
“Botanic Blood Balm—B. B. B. was the
great remedy that acted so powerfully on my
disease and cured me. 1 never experienced
any unpleasant symptoms from its use, and
iis action is so quick that it surprises all.”
The reporter then sought a physician who
knew the case, whereupon he handed us the
following lines:
“1 examined the above case of blood poison
and rheumatism, before and after being
cured, and certify to the main facts above
stated, and must acknowledge that the B. B.
B. effected a most wonderful cure in this
well-known case.
[Signed] “J P. DROMGOOLE, M. D.”
Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga., will mail a
32-page book free, tilled with magical effects.
For sale by
OSCEOLA BUTLER,
Savannah, Ga.
Without Money
AND
Without Price!
We have just issued a most wonderful and valuable
new book, which treats of diseases “peculiar to the
female sex,” and have spared neither pains nor money
to make it worthy the perusal and confidence of the
women all over the land.
Every mother, wife, sister aud daughter in thip
C untry is deeply, aye, vitally interested in this grea
v ork, and should send for It without delay.
It will be sent to any address in the United States
Free of Cost I
Read it carefully, study it well and you will glean
from its pages information that may prove more valu
able than all the wealth of all the Rothschilds, more
precious than all the gems of Europe’s royalty!
I! MW W 11!
Give Post Office and write name plainly, and ad
dress
The Bradfield Regulator Co.,
P. O. Box 28, ATLANTA GA.
Bradfield’s Regulator and Mother’s
Friend
For Sale by OSCEOLA BUTLER,JCornerBuII
a nd.Congress;streetß.
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Our Wide-Awake Buyer
IT\ EW YORK
Keeps us c nstantly supplied with NEW and INTERESTING BARGAINS, as well as with
the latest Novelties in our 25 Departments.
On IVlay IXtli,
We will nut on our counters 100 pieces of Summer Si k« at the uniform price of 33c and 49c.
These represent goods which were never purchased for less than 75c to $125.
Our Black Silks sell more rapidly than ever, because they cannot besurpassed in quality
nor in price.
We are making immense sales in Summer Cashmeres. Albatross and Fancy Dress Goods
for our assortment and prices are just what the people desire.
In Housekeeping Groods,
Such as Table Damasks, Napkins, Doylies Towels, Sheet ings and Pillow-casings, we are
always ahead Wedffer this week for Instance 9-4 Sheetings at 11 cents, and the best quality
of Pillow case Cotton at in fact, extraordinary bargains ail round.
We Have Never Sold More Hosiery
For Gents’, Ladies and Children, in fine grades, than we do now. The reason is, we have
Just what the people want at half value. I: surely will pay you well to examine this de
partment.
And as to Cur Parasols,
We can sa*ely say it will be worth your while to look at ours, for we can give you anything
you want atsuchnrlces that will please ymt
Do not forget that we are Headquarters on Gloves, Notions, Fancy Goods, Ladies’ Under
wear, Childreu’s White Dresses, Infants’ Robes, Lace Caps, H mdkerchiefs aud White Goods.
hemember, zALways
We know the wants ofthe people and we try our very to please them in every way—in
the choice ofthe selection and in prices,and no muter how great bargains other houses offer,
we never allow them to undersell us.
o-V V II) WEIISBEIIV.
KEROSENE
CHANDELIERS, | chandeliers,
GAS BRA! KETS, W
STORE PENDANTS, BUCKETS
Hall L iglitn,
G-AS GLOBES,
wHS/rcb* AND
Gas Shades :
dAS CHIMNEYS. :jj [P Hall Lights.
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i K felfoury-.J II jTII LI-X ®
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JOHNA. DOUGLASS & CO.
161 ROUGHTON STREFT. SAVANNAH, GA.
Vegetable and Fruit Crates.
We are now manufacturing and tan furnhh in car load lots
VEGETABLE and FBUIT BOX MATERIAL.
Also Laths, Pine Shingles, Staves, etc.
WWRITE US FOR PRICE.
11. JP. SMART & HRO.,
MIDVILIE, t) 1-i 11 HALIiA IlHCAI), GA.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES
PORTER’S
WH CfflETO Elin,
For Biliousness, Dyspepsia, Malaria and all
troubles of the liver; acts as wellas pills with
out depressing the system; clears the liver
without requiring a cessation from work: not
unpleatant to take; not excessive in action;
just the tiling for the ailing. Recommended
by physicians.
Bottles 25 and 50 cents.
DAVID PORTER,
BROUGHTON A HABERSHAM STREETS.
jTc. c. c. c. •
Japanese Shraj Unia
CLEANS CLOTHES,
Removes all Grease, Paints, Oils, Varnish
Tar, Dirt or Soils from any fabric
without injury.
FOR SALE BAf
J. R. Haltiwang-er,
Cor Broughton and Drayton streets.
Also sold by L. C. Strong and E. A. Knapp
PAINTS, OILS, ETC.
JUSTIiEI'EIVEI).
Cargo of
HEST LION BRAND
Portland Cement
FOR SALE LOW AT
HANLEY’S
Paint, Oil, Sash, Door & Blind Store,
Corner President, York and Whitaker streets,
Savannah, Ga.
Paint and Oil House, .
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS
Mouldings, Etc.
hitog Very Fine.
ISAAC ROOS & CO.,
Stalls Nos. 9 and 10 Savannah
Market.
Receive by every steamer BEST and
CHOICEST MEATS from NEW YORK and I
BALTIMORE.
CHOICE SPRING LAMB.
Everything ofthe best. Orders promptly
attended to. Branch Store, corner MLacon and
Drayton streets.
Garden Borders.
10,000
EM TILES. '
-FOR SALE BY—
-I’ALNILR BROS.
148 Congress aud 151 St. Julian street.
PERCYOLMSTEADr
THE ONLY ;
LIVE STOCK DEALER
AND j
Commission Broker
IN
SAVANNAH, - GEORGIA.
CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED FOR
CATTLE, SHEEP, HOflS, Etr.
SAVANNAH MARKET. :
WE read occasionally of invitations to buy
Meats and Vegetables at other places
but the market. Now, is not the market
the place to buy your Meats and Vegetables ? {
Isn’t it run for that purpose ? If you cannot s ’
find what you want at one stall, you can get
it at another. We guarantee to keep the best
and freshest the market affords in Choice
Northern Beef, Boneless Corned Beef and
Pickled Tripe, Fish, Game, etc. Every
steamer from the Northern Markets brings
fresh supplies for us. You will serve your <
own interest by examining our stock. You
can leave your orCer for the whole week at
first call. Orders will receive best attention
•and prompt delivery.
Logan & Calder,
67 & 68 MARKET.
Tools! Tools!,
Morse’s Twist Drills, Bailey’s Patent j
Planes, Disston’s Hand Saws. . 1
A FULL LINE OF ; j
Carpenter’s Tools.
For sale by
PALMER BRO’S. |