The Exeter Advocate, 1890-9-18, Page 2SrOKANE FALLS Ro 1114014"S CIREkT RIVA
Tortir or Fifty Meo. grueheci to Death or
Blowa AteM8
BY A BLAST EXPLOSION.
Tante hotographer Crow the
Nivaro, River
A Spokane Falls, Wash., despetth gays
On Saturday evening a premature blitat
the Northern Paean yaecla killed fifteen ON & SMALL NARROW WIER
preens and possibly more. The fall ex -
just before the, heer of quitting !writ. Peat Wtteh Made the glpeetatere Reid
.tettge force or men was engagad in bleating ,
' out a lenge molt pile in tlieNoethern Pepin.°
'. 'freight 'pods in the eastern part of the city.
From 50 to 7$ moo were at work in the out
at the time. Some of the workmen were
preparing blasts to be touohed off after
other workmen and teams had departed for
the night. One blast had been prepared.
In putting in the second it was exploded,
the jar Also touching off the first blast.
Twenty-five thousand cubic feet of rook
were thrown over upon the unsuspecting
mass of humanity with terrible results.
lent of the disaster is not known. It was
WOWS AND WORSE.
Time only heightens the horrors wrought
'by the premature explosion of a blast in
the Northern Pacifiafreight yards here last
night. At 11 p. m. the men engaged in
taking oat the mangled victims were forced
to desist, because among the rooks which
were being cleared away were five other
blasts that might be exploded in the taste
of removing the mass of debris that buried
the victims. Up to that hour eighteen
bodies Mid been taken out. There are yet
27 men unaccounted for, all of whom are
probably buried beneath the mighty mass
of rook. The fatality was terrible. The
men were given no chance for life, It was
either instant death or slight injury. There
were about 200 pounds of giant powder in
the blast. The accident was mused by
some one's carelessness. The man In
charge of the blast and three assistants were
blown to stoma. It is the custom to
prepare blasts and charge them lend
at the hours of 12 noon and 6 p.m., after
the men have left work and gone to a place
of safety, to shoot them. In this case it
Seems that one blast had been prepared and
the foreman, C. McPherson, was preparing
a second. The men had all finished their
work, and were putting on their coats and
picking up their lunch pails ready to go to
their homes after the day's work, when
they met a horrible and expected death.
Either the rook was too hot from the action
of the drills or else the tamping exploded
the second blast, and that exploded the
first. A man who was tamping paid the
penalty with his life. A man who stood
beside him escaped with slight bruises,
although 20,000 cubic feet of rock were
hurled for hundreds of feet in every direc-
tion. Another man who was near the
-deadly blast, and who was supposed to be
dead, was seen shortly after the explosion
in a half -crazed condition, walking around
with his clothing torn to shreds.
THE CLIFF TELL ON TEEM
Their Breath.
Yesterday's performance oenee off in WI-
liant weather, although the forenoon was
cloudy and threatened a continuance of the
heavy min that had fallen the night before.
This feet was, doubtless, one of the causes
that prevented a good attendance of Toronto
people. Only a small proportion of the
speotatore came from the Queen City, al-
though from the American side and the
district around the Falls there was a fairly
large gathering.
Dixon was advertised to walk the rope at
belt .past 3. By 3 o'clock a small crowd
gathered on the verge of the precipice op.
posite the Elgin hotel,on the Canadian
side. The centre of cariosity was the wire
cable, t luee.quarters of an inch thick,
which stretched a space of over 950 feet
from bank to bank, spanning a gulf at the
bottom of which.
TWO HUMMED FEET BELOW,
The men were working in a cut, levelling
off the ground for the new freight yards.
The cliff of rook on the side of the out
which was being removed was twenty feet
high. The blasts are so arranged that the
rock is thrown toward the out. Not antici-
pating the blast, about 30 men were under
the cliff when the blast exploded. A great
mass of rook and earth rose in the air and
pitched over into the out, burying the men
beneath its awful weight. None of them
had. time to run, but a few escaped in a
miraculous manner. Over 100 men were
M work in the adjoining outs and at once
were on the mane of the accident and began
with picks and shovels to search for bodieh.
From all over the huge mass of rook groans
and shrieks issued, and the air was filled
with the horrible noises and the appeals of
the wounded and dying. A short half hour
and all was still, except for the working.
men with picks in hand, who by the light of
lanterns worked late into the night remov-
'Mg dead bodiee.
the crowd. He appeared quite fearless,
dthi when rahlwaY Over the river he hp
trepidly locked up at a passing train on the
cantilever. He Welked backwards, rolled a
beep, wrapped himself in the flags, Etna
otherwise exhibited his nerve and skill, and
when he had fietilthed the crowd was mitts -
lied they had been given more than had
been promised. The cable on which the
exhibition was given was stretched in 1887,
and 'Prof." Stephen Peer, on dime 22 ot
that year, walked across for 625. RC got
on the wire three deem afterwards, while
unsteady fecra drink, and fell to the woke
100 feet below, receiving fatal injuries.
The brother of that unfortunate rope -
walker latuig the sandbags on the cable and
guyed it for William Leary, who put it
won when he was proprietor of the
Elgin House and who has since been
Minim to find people to walk it.
The feats of Blondin and Parini, each with
a man on his back, and thole acrobatic per-
formance! on Leary's wire cable, which is
the first to be thrown across the river, and
Harry Leslie's daring, sad the " nervy "
Fronde woman, Opilterina, are all notable.
Then in August, 1887, a men called Deline,
now working in Buffalo with the Electric
Light Company, alleged to walk the cable,
but reconsidered it and disappointed the
people. Mr. Dixon's receipts from his
work were small -25 per cent. of the Tor.
onto boat excursion, 10 per cent, of the
bridge toile and 10 per cent. of the Buffalo
=Mini= receipts, together with the sub-
soription Wien up in tin contribution
boxes whioh were circulated among the
crowds His object in making the exhibi-
tion was to Meow that he could perform the
feat, and next summer, with two or three
exhibitors in different lines, he wants to
give e three days' time " that he expecte
will draw great crowds. Be also talks of
starting a photograph gallery in New York,
with his rope -walking as an advertisement.
How He Felt.
The Professor's own graphic words Met
night were:.
Now I had reached the testing point. I
nerved myself as well as I contd. I kept
saying to myself "Steady now, Jack;
steady now. You're going to do it all right,
but steady." And here l noticed that the
guys which were to steady the centre part
of rope were not working and that the cable
was swaying he the wind. This of course
somewhat unnerved me, but I Boon steadied
myself, being determined to succeed. The
danger of this part of the journey, the great
height above the water, the swaying of the
rope and the full knowledge of my personal
disk kept my wits at the highest tension. I
had to change my point of vision every
• moment or two. If I looked steadily at the
rope for more than three monde I would
imagine that the rope, like the rushing
water, was moving in the same direotion,
and my senses would begin to reel; but the
moment I changed my point of *ion and
would look one time at the bridge, another
at my hand and another at the Warming -
pole, thus varying the centre of observa-
tion, I was enabled to resist the illusion.
So impressed was I with the,ngravity of
the situation that I occupied' tally five
minutes in crossing the 200 feet of the
centre of the river. The wire was swaying
at snob a rate that I had to exercise the
greatest care; but when I was over the
centre and felt that the greatest danger was
passed my spirits rose steadily, and I had
no difficulty in, sitting on the rope and
kneeling on it.
When I was fairly over the bank the
hardest part of the walking occurred, as
the guy ropes at this part were utterly
useless, and the cable shook in the wind
more than the aspen. I got safely through
and was heartily congratulated by those on
the American side. The first thing I did
was to take a small infusion deem dedylem
with% little soda mixed therein. /
A riummmusx CANTER.
the green and swirling waters of the
Niagara River seethed and roared as they
rushed onward in the resistless current
whose embrace means death. The cable
was firmly guyed at both aides to the rooks
and to the piers of the Cantilever bride by
stoat though small cables of galvanized
iron wire, newly put ap for the occasion,
and was weighted at the juncture of the
guys by bags of sand, each weighing seven.
teen pounds, and working upon pulleys so
as to deaden as math as possible the vibra.
tion of the wire. The work of attaching
the guys and attending to the safety of the
cable was done by Mr. W. Peer, brother of
Mr. S. Peer. Bat when every precaution
bad been taken, it looked a perilously slim
thread for a man to hang his life upon.
At twenty minutes past three the rope.
walker made his appearance, dressed in the
drab tights and black trunks which his
recent appearance at Hanlen's Point had
made familiar. Es had selected a stout
pair of moccasins as his foot -gear, the soles
of which he carefully rosined. He looked
cool and collected, bat it was evident from
the whispered remarks of the spectators
that most of them looked upon him as a
suicide.
At exactly half -past 3 the performer
raised his balancing pole, twenty-two feet
six inches in length, and weighing shirty
pounds, and with one foot on the wire ad-
dressed the crowd in a few words, stating
his intention of walking across and then
going through a series of feats on both sides
of the river. Then he stepped on the wire
and went steadily forward, his progress
watched with intense interest. The great
depth of the gorge and the length of the
cable were realized as the figure of the
daring walker dwindled almost into minute-
ness on approaching the middle of his peril-
ous journey. A single false step or the least
faltering of the nerves
STREET CAla HORROR.
A Locomotive Crashes into a Car Injuring
About a Dozen People. Some Fatally.
A Cleveland despatch says: A frightful
accident occurred at the Wilshe avenue
crossing of the New York, Chicago, and St.
Louis railway in this city about 7.30 Satur-
day evening, by which at least a dozen
persona were terrible injured, some fatally.
The crossing is on a std. grade, down
which runs an electric street railway line.
At the time the accident ocoral a freight
train was standing close to the crossing on
the south treck. An electric motor, draw-
ing one car; was approaching train the
south. The safety gates were put up, and
the road apparently clear. Just as the
motor had crossed the railway track a
locomotive, running twenty miles an hour,
dashed out from behind the freight train.
The pilot of the engine struck the electric
train between the motor and trail oar, tear-
ing them apart and hurling one to eaoh side
of the track. At least a score of persona
were on the trail car, and they were
tumbled about in all directions, some being
hurled about a dozen feet away, and others
pinned under the oar, which was demolished.
The street railway barns were close to the
scene of the wreck, and a rescuing party
was soon on hand. The victims were
hurried away in ambulances to the
hospitals. Following is a list of injured:
Minnie Mock, crushed, died at hospital;
A. Moore, right arm crushed, leg lacerated;
Annie Nieman, collar bone broken, face out;
Louisa Mock, out on bead and arms;
Edward Watson, right foot crushed ; Chas.
Woode, body bribed: Geo. Somers, leg
cult; George Neff, several bruises; Lizzie
Cable, badly bruised; Lizzie and Eliza
Bragg, cut on head and bruised; Mrs.
Mooney, leg sprained; Frenk Rose, bruised
About the hip, arm, and shoulder; Leona
Howell, out about the legs and head.
Death ore Captain.
Many who have pruned the Atlantic r
the Cunard liner Bothnia and latterly on
the steamship Umbria, will regret to hear
ir)f the death of Captain Wm. 1dolidiokein
the popular commander and commodore of
the lite. Captain Mollfithan, who was 70
years old, succumbed to an illness of a
year's duratien at hie home in Liverpoel
on Sunday morning last. Efe wag a favorite
with Moan travellers, notwithstanding his
bluff mannera. lite believed in running
steamships for all they were worth, re-
marking that, in the event of collision,
the ship going the fastest would be least
baited.
Mies Kate Menden'an Englishwoman,
bag been decorated by the Empress with
the insignia of the Russian Red Crows for
service5 as a nurse during the war with
Turkey.
Archduchess Stephanie went on the 14th
inst. for the fitst time to Disporting, to see
the place where her husband, Archduke
Rudolph, died so tragically. She prayed
for a long time in the (lapel, at the foot of
the altar !Meted on the !Mot formerly mote
pied by the bed of the Archduke. The
Atchdritheis vieited afterward the home
for invalids and old people Which has been
Wilt in art Outbuilding of the New Convent
Of Meyerling.
MEANT DISTANT DEATH.
But Dixon di not falter. Several times
he stood on one foot, waved his hand, or
knelt down on the wire, and all with evi-
dent ease and confidence. In thirteen and
a half minutes from the time of leaving the
Canadian Bide be stepped on the American
shore amid loud cheers. After a met of
four minutes he, walked out again a dis-
tance of two hundred feet and went through
a performance, whioh included wrapping
himself in the American flag and waving
his cap and handkerolaief. He then drove
across the bridge and gave a similar per-
formance on the Canadian side, walking
backwards for a considerable distance, and
being photographed sitting on the wire,
with the British ensign around him.
The only approath to a slip. was made
when approaching the Amerman shore
The walker's right foot slipped an inch or
two to one side, causing him to sway a
little. There was a breathless moment of
suspense, but he recovered himself with
hardly an effort. At the middle of the
rope a guy had broken, and it was here that
the difficulty of balancing was greatest,
owing to the jerky motion of the wire when
guyed on onlyone side. The guy that
broke was of inferior wire, the supply of
good material having given out.
Prof. S. J. Dixon is 38 years old, 5 feet
63 inches in height, and weighs 138 pounds.
Re is of a wiry and motive frame, and evi.
dently possesses great nerve. In his
younger days he had some practice in rope.
walking, baying given exhibitions when
about 18 years old at Clarksburg, on
Georgian Bay. But he declares that his
chief practice was obtained during his
recent exhibitions at the Island. "All the
practice I have bad," he observed, "does
not amount to more than a few days' hard
work. If I had a month or two steady,
practice I could do some things on that
wire that would astonish you.' He pea
With no special training, and takes no extra
care of himself. He intends to cross again
next season if the financial conditions are
satisfactory.
The cable is owned by Hotel -Keeper
Leary, of the American dile, who ex-
pended e500 upon it. Mr. Leary was ex-
ceedingly surprised at Dixon's success.
"He will never get to the centre of the
:-ope ; he is going to certain death," was
We lugubrious prophecy. He was agreeably
disappointed in the result, as were mane
others. Whatever may be the true ethical
standpoint with regard to such exhibitions,
and the wisdom of permitting ropewalkers
to minister to the popular love of sense.
tion, there is no doubt that Mr. S. J.
Dixon)of Toronto, hen established his
reputation as the possessor of clear grit and
exceptional skill.
Another Account,
At 3.30 Mr. Dixon made his eppeeramie
dressed in yellow tights, black silk trunks
and me, and with buckskin melamine,
their* soles well rosined, on his feet. He
!ironed from the Canadian side to the
American, and eve further exhibition& of
various feats neerboth shores. He carried
a balancing pole longer than rope -walkers
usually carry, measuring 22 feet 6 inched
add weighing 80 lbs. As be stepped out
on the sagging wits he was encouraged by a
cheer. The sides of the river are at that
place over 875 feet opera. The cable gagged
22 feet it the centre with the weight that
had been pelt on to steady it, amounting to
070 pounds. Gime stayed to the bridges
and banks prevented much Swaying. A
Union Jack and the State and Stripes fell
gently waving from the cable on the China,
clian and Ametioah sides reepectively. With
bated breath the spectators watched
Mr. Dixon make the first 50 feet of the
trip, and horror would creep on tberri
when the walker melted to hesitate. Halt
a dozen time e on the journey soma he
stopped, stood on one foot, kneeled down,
sat down, laid dorm, and Went through
variotie other manoeuvres that tow first
to the Wieldy and thee he the applause of
• •• •
TYRANNY IN THE glum ARIL
I,ead to Mutiny in the Bird Battalion of
the West India Regiment
••••••••••••••••40,........,
AND THE MURDER Or AN MUER,
A Halifax despatch saye : Fuller details
have been rammed from Jamaica of the
mutiny of the mon of the First Battalion
of the West India Regiment and of the
killing of Sergeant White, notwithstan4-
ing the efforts of military officials to sup-
press the facts. These details show thet the
regiment is in a thoroughly demoralized
condition, and compered with it, the Gren-
adier Guards are models of discipline.
The official story given out of the shoot-
ing of Sergeant White was to the effects
that while temporarily insane and alone be
took °huge of the fort lemma as the Apoe-
ties' Battery, attempted to shoot his cap-
tain, and,refusing to surrender himself, lie
i
was shot n the effort to capture him. The
military authorities had the man promptly
buried, and at first refused to afford infor-
mation to the oivil authorities, intimpting
that the oivil power had nothing whatever
to do with military discipline, but the
coroner insisted on having the body ex.
humed and on holding an ingrown. The
fads throughout show that Sergt. White
was discontented with his treatment. He
had been on duty at the fort for five
months, and had frequently been refused
leave of absence to see his family. A
soldier can only see his captain by consent
and in the presence of his immediate
superior. The muse of the whole
tronble with the Grenadier Guards and of
half the discontent in the British army
was the tyrannical conduct of the sergeant -
majors. The same difficulty mused the
mutiny in the West India regiment at
Jamaica. SergteMajor Hodgkinson re-
fused Sergt. White permission to see Capt.
Norris. This denial of the right of every
British soldier drove White to desperation.
There were a dozen men on guard, who
evidently fully sympathized with him.
White armed himself with a Winchester
rifle and 46 rounds of ammunition, took
charge of the battery and resolved to kill
Capt. Norris and the obnoxious sergeant.
mayor. The rest of the men at the battery
did nothing to prevent him carryingnut his
murderous designs.
On Friday Mr. Dixon kissed his wife,
whom he left in tears in Toronto and set
forth, in company with his friend Eddie
Bond, for his deed of daring at htiagara.
euriving at the river he got pp rgrehe wire
without its being guyed and walked on it
for a considerable distance. He took off
his coat and sat on the rope for from 20 to
30 minutes, looking at the madly flowing
river below. His intrepidity did not give
way and he felt satisfied that he had the
ability to do the feat announced for the
following day. He came away fully satis-
fied with his preliminary canter. The Pin.
tosser then sought repose and passed
fairly good night. In the morning he took
two seidlitz powders, ate a light breakfast,
and made arrangements to have the rope
properly guyed. This, the Professor claims,
was not satisfactorily done, as the cable
swayed considerably in the centre whilst he
was on it.
Notes of the Great Feat.
Mrs. Dixon was sick in bed in Toronto
on Saturday, and was more than relieved
when she got a telegram announcing the
Professor's success.
Mr. Dixon was born in New York State
but was raised around Georgian Bay. This
is the fortieth performance he has made
of his wire -walking abilities. His first
exhibition was at Clarksburg eighteen
years ago. He had no special training be-
fore his Island and Niagara exploits.
The Professor himself is a wiry man and
always equal to the occasion. On Satur-
day he wore moocasins and cotton socks.
These will be on exhibition to -day.
Saturday's feat, not counting stops, wee
accomplished in 133 minutes, but the pro-
fessor will bet $1,000 that he can cross the
river in ten minutes or even lees.
Professor Dixon intends to make this
offer to the managers of the World's Fair
at Chicago: If they will erect two Eiffel
towers 500 feet high and 1,000 feet apart be
will give daily exhibitions thereon during
the big attraction.
Mr. Dixon goes to Niagara to -day and
will remove the guys from the wire rope.
It cost him $60 to have these guys erected.
Bishoprics appear conducive to long life
in England. There are at the present
moment no INS than five spiritual peers of
the House of Lords who are over 80 years
of age. The Bishop of Worcester is 83, the
Bishop of Bath and Wells 82, the Bishop
of Winchester 80, the Bishop of Norwioh
81, and most vigorous and lusty of all, the
Bisrop of Chichester who, at the age of 88,
is still able to make long clic:mean tours,
to read and enjoy Stanley's last book and
to express eynephtley with those Who find
pleurae in dancing.
East Tawas', Mich., is meetly run by
ladies. One is postmaster, another runs
the telegraph Office and has female messen-
gers, another runs the beet hotel, lady
printers get out the weekly newspaper, a
lone woman manages a big tea home, and
two others have general stores, the school
teachers are women, and so are the stoke
clerkS.
A. dancing club has been formed at
Sarnia.
The fires which broke out almost
siniul-
famously in four different parte of &denim,
yesterday, and which destroyed 12,000
houses and most of the public buildings,
have been extinguished. Twenty thothand
persons are hOlnelOSS.
Mr. Henicker Heaton, M. P. for Canter-
bury, England, the advocate of penny post-
age, is in Montreal on his way to Washing.
ton.
ATTACHING THE FORT.
Capt. Norris ordered Corporal Allen,
with an armed escort of eight men from
another fort, to arrest White. They went
within 500 yards of the battery and stopped,
saying they were afraid White would shoot
them. Capt. Norris again ordered them to
advance, but they refused, offering the same
excuse. Capt. Norris upbraided the men
for their cowardice, and said if they would
not advance be would do so himself. He
then walked up to near the battery and
asked White to surrender. The latter re-
fused unless Capt. Norris brought Sergte
Major Hodgkinson to the battery with him.
All this time the men who were at the bat-
tery with White failed to interfere. Then
Norris, finding his escort panic-stricken,
went off to another fort and obtained
twenty picked gunners and sappers under
Capt. Brett, R. E. Some hours elapsed be-
fore they arrived, but when they did so
they attacked the battery from two points
and poured in a fusttede of bullets. But
in the dusk Sergeant White and his
men sheltered themselves behind the
cannon, and thus escaped the fatal
missiles. They returned the fire promptly,
and Corporal Dawaon, of the attacking
party, was shot in the shoulder. Finally
Sergeant-Major Hodgkinson got the drop
on his enemy, Sergeant White, and sent a
.bullet through hieleart. Mho firing limited
about half an hour. It was 11 o'olook at
night when Captains Norris and Brett re-
captured the fort from the mutineers, who
had held it for 24 hours. Captain Brett
says he found the soldiers sitting and
laughing about the place. A gereral court-
martial was ordered, but the result had not
been made known when the steamer left.
The regiment was paraded by Major-
General Clive Justice and a- number of
non-commissioned officers were degraded
for their unsoldiemlike conduct and dis-
graceful disregarded of duty. Major-General
Justice after stripping the badges .of
the arms and breasts of the officers said he
hoped they would never again have to re-
sort to such an expedient for the mainte-
nance of discipline and in the interest of
duty, or that any men under his command
would ever again act so unlike soldiers.
Thirtymeven of the men and of the die.
graced offioers have.been exiled to Barba -
does. The affair has produced a profound
sensation in military circles.
TABTED OLD
Southampton iatrihers Repaleell at the
.e.914t of the 130,y.mlott
MANY OF THEM WOUNDED.
A London cable says : The Southamp-
ton strikers made a riotous dentmetration
last night, and were only dispersed at the
point of the bayonet. The trouble began
with the dock laborers preventing the de.
palture of several Maine. The ateikere also
'besieged the gates of the dock and pre -
Vented the entrance of ()Meals. Two
companies of infantry arrived Shia evening
0,4a drove the mob from the rails. The
dookmen made desperate attempts to break
the line formed by the troops. Some of
them took the horses from the ebbe !stand -
Mg near by, and mounting them, charged
furiously upon the soldiers. The troops,
however, stood firm and repeatedly re-
pulsed the strikers. A number of the
horses were bayonetted and florae of the
riders were seriously wounded. By thio
time the crowd had been greatly augmented
and Volley after volley of stones was hurled
at the troops. One lieutenant had the
bridge of his nose broken by a atone, and
two others were severely hurt. At this
juncture the Mayor appeared and read the
Riot Ant. This only added to the fury of
the mob, a section of which stormed the
Mayor's business premises and smashed
every window in the place. The troops
were now supplied with ball cartridge, each
man receiving twenty rounds. The mob
still keeping up the attack, the soldiers
were ordered to charge, and the whole line
advanced upon the crowd with fixed bayo-
nets. For a moment the rioters made a
show of resistance, but seeing many of
their number fall, pierced by the bayonets
of the soldiers, the mob broke and fled in
wild disorder. The excitement throughout
the city to -night is intense and farther
trout is is feared.
ENGLISH NIGHT MAIL
comes to Grief on its Way to Paris—A Van
Goes Over an Erobankm ent—One Man
Killed,
A Paris cable says: Early this morning
Paris wan startled with a report that a
frightful accident had happened on the
Northern Railway. Information was soon
forthcoming that the English night mail
from London to Paris had come to grief.
The following is the official report of the
disaster which was embodied in the report
made by the Chemin de Fer du Nord to the
Minister of the Interior: "Between Ailey
and La Faloise, the night mail from Lon-
don ran into a piece of iron work that had
been dropped by a goods train. The
consequence was that the engine, two car-
riages and the Mail van left the rails and
went over an embankmefft between five
and six metres in height. Fortunately
there was only one passenger in the car,
riage that went over theetnbankment. He
was an employee of the Chemin de Per du
Nord, and he was killed. The driver and
fireman escaped. The guard had compound
fracture of the leg and other injuries. The
passengers escaped without injury. They
were conveyed bath to .Amiens and brought
on to Paris by another route, and reached
Paris at half -past nine with the mails.
There was no interruption to the London.
Paris traffio except a delay of about a
quarter of an hour to the half -past eleven
express train through having to work tem.
porarily on a single line.
Chinamen who passed through Montreal
in bond yesterday spoke very bitterly of
being treated with such indignity, and said
their Government would be likely to re4
taliate.
Rudolph Rankey, of Pert Larobtoti,
Out,, has been committed for trial at
Sarnia, charged with selling fire to the
butcher shop of William Davis at Port
Lambton,
A very influential citizens' committee
has been appointed in Montreal te make
arrangements for the reception of Admiral
Watson and Prince George, who are ex-
pected to arrive on Tuesday.
The maohiniate and boiler makers em.
ployecl be the shops of the Pennsylvania
Railway at Pitteburg have been notified of
the adoption of the ninebour day at the
same compermatien per hOur as before.
Detective Grose of Montreal, has taken
an action for damages against ma. Strange,
a member of the Labor Conference at
Ottawa, for having described private de-
iv:elvers as an ended hay of blackmailers,
NEW YORK'S KEW L.W.
Two ()Isere:A-A-Smoking Boys Arrested
While Enjoying Themselves Illegally—
A Tender -Hearted Policeman. ,
wET,COME TO STRAN,EltS.
The Haspitableltec—eption that a tree Conn,
try Gives to Travellers.
Travellers whp have entered the terri-
tories of all the European monarchies and
despotisms lose their enthueiasm for the
tree institutions of America when they strike
its Custom Homes. In England they are
asked whether their baggage 00atiline any
tobacco, spirits or English reprints, When
e traveller replies in the negative he is
allowed to depart without upsetting the
contents of hie Munk. In Idreuee, Germany„
Belgium, Italy and other Bemoan coun-
tries the baggage is barely opened, and the
traveller is rarely subjected to the formality
Of an examination as to his identity. When,
however, be sails for the Uniled States he
is informed on shipboard that he must fill
up a blank giving the following informa-
tion :
NSeogatem:
Country Ay to which he belongs.
Country to which he is going.
Number of pieces of baggage.
The official idiot who prepared that
blank did not know that the information
he strove to obtain respecting age and sex
was utterly worthless for statistical Fur -
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those who entered by way of the Canadian
frontier.
iierAquarantine a Custom House tug
steams alongside, and the impootore Metal
themselves In the saloon. Then one of
their number distributes a circular warning
all persons not to bribe any customs ofatilal.
Each passenger in turn tekee a met on the
left of the examining inspeotor, one answers
such questions as may be put to him. He
gives his name, his poet -office adtlrese and
a list of the various packages belonging to
"Have you anything in your baggage
other than wearing apparel or persona*
effects not merchandise? Have you an
presents 7"
In the case of a lady passenger he would
add: "Have you any dress goods not
A New York eapatoh of last Tuesday
night says: Policeman Downing, of
the Elizabeth street station, was on duty
on the Bowery yesterday when he was
approached by a grim -faced individual,
who said harshly:
"Where have you been 2"
"I have been here all the while," replied
Downing. "Why, what's the trouble?" .
"A great deal,' saidthe man. "A person
is wilfully violating the law on your post,
and here I've been looking for you for ten
minutes. The criminal has probably
escaped by this time."
The policeman followed the man to the
corner of Canal street, where the man
pointed to a dirty -faced, weak-kneed lad
not two* feet high, who was standing com-
placently on the corner with a lighted
cigarette in his hand.
"I'm not going to arrest that kid," de-
clared the policeman.
"It's your duty to do it, sir 1" shouted the
man. "What is your number? I'll report
you for neglect of duty."
When the lad felt the policeman's hand
on his shoulder he cried, and 500 persons
gathered in the space of five mmutee.
Abuse was heaped on the bead of the police.
man by the onlookers, who declared it an
outrage to arrest a child. The policeman
never felt more uncomfortable, but he was
unable to explain that he had made -the arrest
against his own inclination. The man
who had caused the trouble disappeared.
The boy was Meyer Levy, aged 7, of No.
16 Ludlow etreet.
"Don't ory, there's a nice little boy,"
tenderly said the newly -appointed Justice,
Clarence W. Meade, who is being " broke
in" by Justice Smith. .
Justice Smith said, "Go right home.
Don't smoke any more cigarettes. It is
against the law."
Richard McManus, aged 15 years, of No.
242 East Thirty-ninth street, was standing
at the corner of Thirty-ninth street and
Second avenue smoking a cigarette Tuesday
night,. and Policeman O'Neil, of the East
Thirty-fifth station arrested bins. In the
Yorkville Police Court yesterday the lad
pleaded ignorance of the law, and Justice
McMahon discharged him after he had
promised to give up cigarette smoking until
he attained the proper age.
THE MAID AND THE MEERSCHAUM.
A Pittsburg Girl Wins a Husband in a
Strange Way.
A Pittsburg, Pa., despatch says: The
firm of S. D. Oche ns Co., importers, of
this city, recently received an invoice of
very fine meerschaum goods which had
just been placed on sale. Miss Maria New.
ball, one of the firm's employees, was
assigned the task of taking the articles
from the packing and placing them in the
show cases. As she was handling one of
the largest pipes she found a note in the
bowl from Franz Diebert, of Berlin, a
carver in meerschaum, sayinghe was
anxious to marry an American girl, and if
any of them saw this note be would like
them to write to him, and if they suited
each other lee would marry her.
The sequel of this has just been learned.
Miss Maria Newhall answered it for 'fun
more than anything else. Several letters
have now passed between them, and photo-
graphs have also been exchanged. The
couple seemed to be wall pleased with each
other, and in his last letter Diebert said he
wouli shortly visit America, and then
when they saw each other, if it was mutu-
ally agreeable, he would take an American
wife home with him. • It is a queer
romance of life, and will doubtless have a
pleasant finish.
—Lord Tennyson is said to have recited
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" and
the" Ode on the Death of the Duke of
Wellington" into a phonogragh, no that
the vibrant melodies of his voice may
be heard "in summers that we shall not
see."
THE W/sDOst or 'FEAR%
The plump little oysterlet shivered in fear,
And cried to its Mother, "Oh, dear
This world is So big and so bright, my roanortla,
That I'd like to live out my first year.
"Oh, where can I hide to take in all the show,
And myself not got took in,' you know?
I am juicy and tender, and Thar / will be
The Arst of our family to go."
made up?
In the event of the passenger answering
" No" to these questions, he ie asked :
"Do you swear to the truth of -your
anewera ?" and replying " I do," he is then
invited to sign an affidavit to that effect.
A little bard numbered to oorrespond with
the number of the blank which he ban
signed is then given to him.
After a tedious delay the . passenger
reaches the dock and then presents his
check to the Chief Inspector, who details a
subordinate to see whether the passenger
has perjured himself.
This is a chilling welcome to the land of
the free.
A lady only recently returned from a
prolonged Continental trip declares, after
going through the Custom House at New
York, that it was the Ivey unpleasant
experience she bad ever idita in a Custom
House, and the most disagreeable incident
in the entire journey. nil Americans
returning to the United States from a
journey in Europe complain in the most
• eraphetio terms of the Custom House,
annoyances.
The dread of seasickness is mild com-
pared to the horrors of the New York
Custom House, where the trunks are not
only ransacked but where a shipload of
passengere is often forced to remain over
i
night n Jersey City became the customs
officials refuse to examine their baggage.
When the Inspentor is secured, courtesy is
not always extended if anything is disoov.
ered which he thinks is dutiable. Generally le
he does not know. Any per cent. of the
purchasing value imoharged, and the Gov-
ernment does not always receive the whole
amount.
h
No doubt. -'much' smuggling is done.
This could he largely corrected if more
judgment were used; but travellers are
treated like criminals, which leads them
to " declare " nothing and to claim all as
"personal."
It is most unreasonable to suppose that
travellers will not buy for themselves and
friends some of the thousand and one
charming things seen in the shops
abroad—things which America does not
produce—and by purchasing them the
American workman is not injured. It in
equally unreasonable to suppose that any
one will " declare " these sioall things.
Sometimes when an over -conscientious per-
son does " declare " them a most absurd
duty is charged.
Why should the officers not he obliged to
furnish a list of the dutiable articles and
the duty upon each? Why should the
traveller be obliged to pay the duty asked?
These officers are not sufficiently clever to
remember all the rates. What chance has
a person who may be going to a remote
part of the country to enter a protest or
reclaim the money?
The fatigue of waiting for several hours
upon the dock and the annoyance of seeing
the contents of a well -arranged trunk
turned upside down are bad enough, but
are as nothing compared to the feeling that •
one is being swindled and is powerless to.
remonstrate.
The English would not stand such a
state of things for a month, yet Americans,
who constantly boast when abroad of their
free institutions, endure this without com-
plaining, except when they are sure it will'
not be heard.—Philadelphia Record.
Than the withered old crone gave a wife Iittle
grin,
" the tenth year I've reveled in tin;
We'll jump into this can, for it goes to the
church,
And the soup we will never get in."
—The neweet sit machine is fitted out
with males, Meg tester, electric battery,
height -register, lift and horee-racing
attachments, all for a nickel, and there's a
Man down town who was mean enough to
"beat" it with a nickel tied on a string.
The Qtiebea Legislature it to be called
Mk the despatch of business On Idovenaber
4th.
The remains of M. lit axi mullian Fleisch-
mann, the millionaire yeast manniacturer,
who died at sea on board the Hamburg
steamer Columbia on September 1) have
arrived in New York,
French Poultry Figures.
Poultry -breeders may read with interest.
the following statistics which have beenA
collected, says our correspondent, for the, I
French Department of Agriculture. The
income derived by French people who rear
fowls, according to octroi and market re-
turns, is 337,100,000 francs, of which
153,500,000 francs represent the value of'
the flesh and 183,600,000 franca that of the
eggs. The quantity sold in poultry yards is
Immense, as is also the number used in the -
homes of those who rear fowle. Thetie
figures do not find their way into Madre
Mos.—London Daily News,
What a Single Letter Will Do.
In a re cent lecture a professor of Ian.
gasps, moromenting on the diffioulties.
foreigr h 1 had to overcome before they
could master our language, made mention
of the following pbilologioal oddities: The
lette d changes lover into clover, d makes
a crow a crowd, h makes eyed keyed, g
changes son into song, I transforms it pear
into a pearl, a changes a hoe into a shoe, t
makes bough bought, and to /mime omen
women.
In response to the invitation extended
by Admiral Itiounier, naval commander at
Toulon, the Britian Mediterranean squad-
dron, Vice -Admiral Hoskin commanding,
entered the hatbor at Toulon yesterday -
morning. As the warships entered the
port a gelato of 21 guns wag fired, which.
was answered from the shore batteries.
The flag of Prance was then hoisted upon
the British flagship and sainted with.
ghee' guns. The French ironclad Ver.
Mideible and the Spanish ironclad Pelayie
each ran the Britigh ensign to the tore -
masthead and Betel 6 salute in its honor.
A large crowd gatikereci upon the (Mays to.
witness the ceremonies.
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