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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-7-6, Page 2IN LOST WARSHIP 'VICTORIA. Be Was Lest Whila Performing the Evolution of Changing Line, COURT-MARTIAL FOR ALBERT. The Queen Deeply Touched by the Ameri- can Xessage of Sympathy. A despatch from Melba states that the Veetoria was cut in two aft of the tarbette. "fad this not been the case the bulltheads could have beep filmed and tae water kept •in one, or 60 the most two, oorapartmente, an. the vessel would still have floated. Bet With the plating torn off or cutaway outside of several of the bulkheads, the inflow of water would have been enormous, and there would have been no time, even if it would Wave availed anything, to close the bulk - beagle, Lord George Hamilton further said he thought that with the plating torn off the water must have entered the ship in a solid mass, and thus entering on one side neueed the vessel to capsize almost im- mediately. The blow from the Camper - down he thought must have been delivered slantingly to have done the damage he thought had been done, The damage 'would be all the greater to a ship with her bulkheads pierced. She would thus be worse off than a. ship with no bulkheads. lithe cause of the collision, he paid, was as yet a matter of conjecture, and he declined ' to express an opinion on this point. OTHER OPINIoisT. An interview was also had with the Might Hon. Arthur Bower Forwood, a well- known shipowner senior partner of the Arm of Leech, Harrison & Forwood, of Liverpool, and Forwood Bros. & Co.'of London, who was formerly Secretary to the Admiralty, Mr. Forwood said it was a wonder that such an accident had not hap- pened before. The Victoria had a longi- tudinal bulkhead running through her, besides a number running across the ship. She was thus divided, into compartments on each side of the longitudinal bulkhead, with communication between them. In his opinion what had taken place was this—the 10amperdown had struck the Victoria a rip- ping blow, glancing along the side and opening cut the plates above several of the compartments. The water was then admitted into a number of the compartments on one side of the ship, causing her to capsize by its great 'weight. The longitudinal bulkhead was a good thing in its way, Mr. Forveood said, but it did not serve to avert the disaster. Me immediate cause of the collision, he added, cannot now be exactly stated. The squadron appears to have been naancetwring 'probably within a space of three miles, teeming a small area for each vessel to move dm A misreading of the signals must have caused the accident. Barents says that the collision occurred at 5 o'oloide yesterday afternoon, about maven miles from Tripoli. The vessels were almost at right angles when the "Victoria was struck. Those on the Victoria's deck at the moment of the collision scrambled away, and were rescued by boats from the Clamperdown and several other vessels. The men below had no time to reach the deck. The sudden heeling of the Victoria caused her to begin to fill im- mediately, and no escape was possible. She -went down in 80 fathoms of water. It is difficult to obtain the names of the rescued, as they are aboard several vessels, and so 'far all efforts have been devoted to recover- ing oodles. Shortly after the collision five bodies were taken from the water, one of them the body of the chief paymaster. They were buried last evening with mili- tary honors at Tripoli. The Camperdown was severely damaged forward in the eel - Brion. Temporary repairs will be made, and she will then start for home. It is said here that several times the Victoria had shown signs of weakness in her steering gear. THE ILL-PATED VESSEL. The Victoria was a single -turret ship, carrying two 110 -guns, mounted in a for- ward turret, coated with eighteen inches of compound armor; one ten -inch 29 -ton gun, Tering aft, and a broadside auxiliary arma- ment of tweve six-inch five -ton guns. Of artillery of smaller nature she carried twenty-one quick -firing and eight machine gnus. Her maximum speed was 16.75 &nets. Her armored belt and bulkheads consisted of compound armor from sixteen to eighteen inches in thickness. She was built at Elswiok. Sorrow in England. As soon as the news of the disaster be- came known in London the Duke of Edin- burgh, who was lately promoted to the po- sition of admiral of the fleet, visited the ad- miralty and conferred with the officials there. A meeting of the admiralty board was held and a telegram of instructions was sent to Rear -Admiral Markham. The news of the calamity has caused be most intense excitement, not only among theft who had friends aboard the ill-fated ship, but among all classes of the popula- tion. The admiralty offices in Whitehall is besieged by relatives and friends of the officers and crew, reporters seeking further details of the disaster and throngs of people attracted by curiosity. So dense wan the , throng in the vicinity that the admiralty officials were compelled to summon the pollee to restrain the crowd. No informa- tion has been received at the admiralty since the receipt of Bear -Admiral Mark - ham's official telegram. An official telegrams in regard to the loss of the ship Will be sent at onde to the Queen at Windsor castle. Her Majesty has ordered the postponement of the state ball, Which was to have taken place at Buokingbam Talcum to -night. OVER POUR HUNDRED LOST. Mr. Gladstone was greatly shocked when he received the news of the disaster. He Informed the House of Commons of the ac- cident, and paid a most glowing tribute to -the worth of Vice -Admiral Tryon, who, he said, was one of the ablest, most esteemed officers in the service. Mr. Gladstone said there were 611 officers, seamen and boys, and 107 marines on hoard the ship. It was feared that of tide total of 718 souls, 430 had been lost, lie was sure the deepest sympathy of the House Would be felt for the brave men who bad fond an early grave in the service Of their country, amide -estate would be extended to their relativrtel p friends. lathe Houle° of Lords Earl Spencer, laird lord of the Admiralty, referred to the dig meter he terms simile& to those employed Mr. Glaaetteie in the House of °ornate's& TUE QUEEN TO tADI TRYON. The Queen hese flent Col. Carrington to 'express het sorrow and sympathy to Lady Tryon. On the evenieg following the afternoon of the disaster Lady Tryon, Who arrived from Malta three weeks ago, was holding her first receptiOn of the season. Two hundred guests Were present. When the neWit other hatheild'e deitth ;latched her the fell in a t4int. The state °Wert and other royal Juno - time on the programme for next week have been postponed,. The Lord Idayor has opened a ell e f fund for the benefit of the needy families who lost members in the disaster. LESSON' OP TIII6 DISAspER, The morning Iteenipepere are filled with articles describing the vessels, and, with obituaries of the mod conspicuous officers lest. All publish leaders extending con- dolenoe to the friends of the drowned men, Eirety leader eulogizes Admiral Tryon. The Daicy News asks: "Are we to pay ao much in millieep and broken hearts only to learn that the compartment: eyttem Is a de- lusion and a snare 1" The Times says; "The inquiry into the mutes of this die. aster must be searching and exhaustive. The punishment, a blame be found to exist, adequate and unflinching," GERMANY'S svMPATRY. The Duke of Edinburgh has received this , despatch from Emperor William IL : " Words cannot express our horror. We all sympathize with our British comrades, As tokens of our sympathy your ensign is flying from the mainmast of our yeesele, with our own ensign at halfsmast, according to my orders." The Duke of Edinburgh replied : "The British navy and nation feel deeply the sympathy expressed by Your Majeety and our brother officers of the German navy for us in this great dis- aster." Former Notable Disasters. The most important losses to the British navy,other than vessels destroyed in battle, during the last 200 years are given here- with: The Association, with Admiral Sir Cloud. splay Shovel and 800 men on board, was wrecked off the Scilly Iolanda, October 22nd, 1707, when returning to England from an expedition naiad Toulon.' The Eagle,' the Romney and Firebrand were led at the same time, following the fiagehip on to the rooks, which had been mistaken for land. The Victory, 100 guns, the finest first- rate ship in the navy at the time, was lost in a violent storm in the race off Alderney on October 8th, 1744, and Admiral Sir John Balthen, 100 gentlemen's sons and the crew of 1,000 men perished. The Prince George, 80 guns, was burnt near Gibraltar, April 13th, 1758, and 400 men lost. The Royal George, 108 guns, was lost off Spithead August 29th, 1782. While keeled over to repair a pipe a sudden squall washed the sea into her ports and she went down. Rear Admiral Kempenfelde and 600 other persons were drowned. La Tribune, 36 guns, was wrecked off Halifax November 1603, 1797, and 300einals perished. The Minotaur, 74 guns, lost on Decem- ber 22nd, 1810, off the Hardt bank, had 360 men on board. _ The Seahoree, a transport, with 365 per- sons, principally soldiers, on board, sank in Tramooa Bay, January pm, 1816. The Birkenhead, troop ship, iron paddle - wheeled, and of 556 horse -power, sailed from Qaeenstown, January. 7th, 1852, having on board detachments of the 12th Lancers, 2nd, 6th, 12bh, 43rd, 45th and 60th Rifles, 73rd, 74th and 91st Regiments. She struck upon a rook off Simon's bay, South Africa, and of 638 persons only 184 were saved by the heats. The Lady Nugent, a troop ship, foun- dered in a hurricane while sailing from Madras to England, on May 10th, 1854. About 400 men were lost. The Captain, with 500 men on board, went down off Fintaterre, September 7th, 1870. "She capsized in a squall shortly after midnight, and went down in three minutes."--Guiner's report'. Her destruc- tion was attributed to too low free -board, heavy top weight and hurricane deck. The Eurydice, frigate, a training ship, foundered on March 2403, 1878, in a gale off Dunose, Isle of Wight. About 300 men and boys perished. She was brought up in Sep- tember of the same year, and was broken up shortly afterwards. The last great disaster preceding that of yesterday was the loss of toe Serpent, which foundered off Camarinas, about 20 miles north of Cape Enlist -erre, on Novemberllth, 1891. She was a twin-screw ambler of the third class, built in 1888, at a cost of Z121,- 000. Her armor plate, as officially described, was an unprotected steel hull, and her armament consisted of six five -ton breech - loading rifled guns, eight three -pounder quick.firing guns, two machine guns and one light gun. She was bound for the west coast of Africa to relieve the Acorn, and ibis sup- posed that she was driven out of her course by stormy ,weather and Amok a rook in a fog. Of her full complement of 176 on board, only three men were Hayed. One of the survivors made a statement that it was three-quarters ef an hour bsfore she went down, but the sea was so heavy that in try- ing to get the boats out they and the crew were swept away. pRoTliER OP ROBERT Mom Surgeon j. A. Mo. n, f ih, Vie oria, is a brother of Rob, rt Moon, of 11,e Legal and CommercialExchange, Tone, a see nepe ete of T. W. Russell, M. P., 01. rroin.-ot anti - Home Ruler, whose receut seen to Ca ads is well remembered. Most of those who lost their lives were drowned by being drawn under the water by the suction caused by the sinking ship. Vice -Admiral Sir George Tryon was picked up after the founderiog of his flag- ship and carried on board the biteleship Edinburgh, one of the fleet under his com- mand, where he died :Moray afterwards. The despatch vessel Sutpriee, Commander B. F. Tillard, is expected to active at Si mita to -day. She will convey to Malta the body of Rear -Adrenal Tryon. The t eiteeirider of the fleet is due at Malta is rnday. Rear -Admiral Albert if. nape hole who, since the death of Vice-Adaa, ei Tryon, in in command of the British Mediterranean squadron, has telegraphed to the Admiralty that the damage sustained by the Ctmper- down in ramming the Victoria is lees than was expected. Se adds that though the vessel Is seriously damaged, he hopes that the will be ready to proceed for Malta in a few days, where she will be aepeired. It is understood that Reer-halladral Markham will be court-martialled with the officers of the Camperdown, as that veasel carried his fiag as second in command of the squadron when she collided with the Victoria. EMPErtoR WILL/MA'S SYMPATHY. The callers at Lady Tryon's house to -day have been very numerous, and have inclu- ded a large number of naval officers, who have striven thus to show their esteem and regard for one of the Most popular admirals in the service. Lady Tryon also received the following telegram from the Germane Emperor, which reached her through the German ambassador here:: "Mei. June 23. "Lame Titvott, London : "As an ardent admirer and friend of Sir George, X ha -ten to express the warmest and most heartfelt sympathy in the terrible lose which he befallen you. England has lost Me Of her noblest eons. Inv navy feebt and deplores with me the uritimely end of such brilliant life. We mourn hire as if he were One of our May God comfort: You. wtmeett, L R. "Admiral of the nee.' Inquiries were made this morning by tbs Queen regarding Lady Trent's health. She also received through the poet a most tem - pathetic) letter from Prime Louis of Bottom, berg. Captein Rielaard Tryon, a brother of the drowned admiral, Is in town ond is staying with his widowed eider -in-law. THE coiuritunigri: SYSTE64. I learned that the flag officei regarded as most likely to succeed the loae Sir George Tryon in command of the Mediterranean fleet is Vice-A4miral John O. Hopkins, now commanding the North American station, and ‚who recently vistted New York in the flagship Bake for the naval review. Attentian centres in the watertight corn- partment' s and the Wonder is expressed that these did not keep her Aorta As ex- plained in some former deepatehes, the pos- session of the comportments proved, curl - mealy enough, a source of weakness rather than strength. As one naval °Meer put it to me, she was really capsized by her water. tight compartments. The effect of so large a proportion of midshipmen having been drowned, together with Chaplain Norris, who was also naval iostructor, points to the foot that they Were at ochool on the lower deck when the collision took place. Other- wise the majority of the lads would have been on deck, and thef probability' 4.8 that, as they could swim like ducks, most of them would bleve lama saved. A FIERCE TIGRESS. Site Killed Twenty Men Refore a /Me of Soldiers Killed Her. A correspondent of the Allababted Pioneer, writing en man-eating tigers, mentions the career of a young tigress who, in the space of nine months, killed some dozens of hurnani beings, depopulated several 'villages and stopped work over a greater part of a forest division in spite of the most strenuous efforts made to destroy bet—efforts indreased by the incentive of 500re. reward offered for her head. She began her career. in July by killing two women near a forest village, and by the end of the following December had killed at least 30 persons, becoming bolder and more cunning with each fresh murder. Her beat lay in the foot hills of the' Himalayas, and she roamed oyer an area 25 miles long by three or four broad. The country was such that she couldeeither be tracked for any distance nor arty= by elephants or beaters. She would not kill a tied buffalo nor would she go back to a corpse if once disturbed. She became at last so bold that she would In open daylight carry off men and women when cutting the crops in the terraced fields, stalking the unfortunates from above and, suddenly springing on them. The terror of her ferocity spread through the country. The villagers left their homes for safer regions, and no wonder, for the writer found on one occasion a village seemingly deserted, but in reality in a state of siege, the inhabitants being afraid to draw water from a stream a hundred yards from their house. Work was commencing in the forests, and in a eked time the tigress learned to stalk the sound of an axe and made many victims before the forest was proved to be even more dangerous than the fields had been. The method of attack adopted was so sudden as to prevent any possibility of escape, the blow dealt so deadly SB to render even a cry for help im- possible.. The victim was dead and carried off before his companions knew what had occurred. The most strenuous efforts were made for her destruction—poison, spring guns and dead fella were ineffectually re- sorted to any number of buffaloes were tied up at night, and many a time the fresh trail of a kill was taken up in hopes of obtaining a shot at the tigress, but with no further result than that of zecoyeraig a mangled or half -eaten corpse. Daring January and February this tigress had killed fifteen or twenty more persons and at last a file of soldiers were requisitioned to see what force could do to remove this horrible animal, cunning having been found of no avail. On being killed she was found to be a young animal, in perfect condition. The pad of her left fore foot had at one time been deeply out from aide to side, but had thoroughly healed, leaving, however, a deep scar, which proved her presence wherever she roamed. HOME RULE BILL. Mr. Gladstone Proposes Some Changes the Ninancial Arrangements. A London cable says: In the House of Commons to -day Mr. Gladstone stated the alterations the Government had decided to make in thefinancialclausee of thelrish Home Rule Bill. He proposed a provisional term of six years to effect the financial arrange. anent& No change in managing or collect- ing the existing taxes would be made. The Irish Parliament would be empowered to establish new taxee. Ireland's contribution to the Imperial exchequer would he one- third Of the ascertained revenue, also the whole yield of any taxes imposed upon Ireland by the Imperial Parliament ex- pressly for war or special defence. At the close of six years the contribution and the whole arrangement would be revised. It would be provided that Ireland should col- lect and manage taxation, with the ex- ception of the Customs and excise duties. In A Refreshing Bath. Various sanitariums and private hospitals are using the "salt rub," and it is becom- ing so popular that some Turkish bath establishments are advertising it as a spec- ial attraction. It is just as good for well people as sick once, is the most refreshing of all the baths and rubs ever invented, only excepting a dip in the sea itself, and is matchless in its effect upon the skin and complexion. Pub a few pounds of coarse salt, the coarsest you can get, sea salt by preference, in an earthen jar and pour ()dough water on is to produce a sort of slush, but not enough to disolve the salt. This should then he taken up in handful° and rubbed briskly over the entire person. Of course it is better to have it rubbed on by another person, but any one in ordinary health can do it for himself or herself satie- fretorily. This being done, the next thing Is a thorough douching of clear water, perfectly cold, and a brisk rubbing with a dry towel. The effect of elation, freshness,and re- newed life is felt immediately, sod the satiny texture of the skin i and. ncreated °learned and brightness of the complexion swell the testimony in farm or me salt, rub. A Blind Woman's Memory. Anielia Chatham, of Mobile, over 70 years of age and blind, recognized a mur- derer by hut voice. The murder was com- mitted 24 years ago, and the murderer visited the scene of his crime unrecognized by those who ktithe him in former years. This is another evidence that "murder will (Mt" no matter how carefully the tracks of the murderer are covered up. A bachear seeks a wife to avoid solitude; a married is an seeks society to Refold tee fete-a-tete.1 A scientist has diecievered that women live longer thee men because they talk more. DYIsTAIETB IN 'MADRID. ttombs Explode rreMaturely, Shattering Anarchist to Atoms.. TRE 111f4ED AND INJUABD, A Madrid table says: Great excitement prevails throughout the city to -day in con- sequence of the dastardly attempt last night to blow up with dynamite the residence et Senor Cauthas del Castillo, lately l'rime Minister. Though the occupant s of the residence of the ex -Prime Minister escaped unscathed, the explosion watt the cause of the death Of two parsons. one of whom:wait blown to pieces, the fatal injury of Another, sad the wounding of several others. At the Woo of the explosion a perform- ance was being given at a circus, a short dietanee from the residence of Senor Castillo. The :Mock was to great that it caused o port of the ceiling directly over the stalk, that were ecoupea by a pair of nobles, to crash down upon the hee.ds of the occupants of the stalls. Among the oe011.. pants of the stale were the grandson of the Marquis of Havana President of the Senate, and eon of the Havana, Gaudalest. The former was struck on the head by is largo piece of the falling ceiling and sustained injuries that will cause his death in a few hours. The son of Marquis Guadalest attempted to rush from the building, but lost his foot - big and the panieestrielion crowd trampled him to death. His body was leiter removed from the building. His face was hardly recognizable. Seven other portions were aim trampled upon by the crowd and seriously injured, while a large number of those who escaped unaided from the build- ing sustained painful but not dangerous Injuries. It is generally believed that the explosion was the work of Anarohiste, whose head- quarters are at Barcelona. It is believed that the workman who was killed by the explosion carried a number of bombs charged with dynamite and large bullets, and that it was his intention to distribute them in various parts of the city. It is conjectured that the fuse of the bomb that first exploded burned much more rapidly than the conspirators calcu- lated upon, and that the ohm* of the explosion caused bombe carried be the workingman to explode'blowing his body Into, fragments-Thedead man was a printer. Anarchist papers and doonments belonging to swell -known anarohiet named Ernesto Alvarez were found in the pockets of the clothing that were left on the horribly -mutilated trunk, and it is believed that the victim of his own diabolical de. algae was none other than this foe of law and order. A letter dated from Barcelona was also found, advising the recipient to use the utmost caution in carrying out the plans intrusted to hint. The official investigation baa led to the discovery of a plot that einbracesAmarchists In several European countries. Twenty- three arrests have already been made, and more are expected. The police are still pressing Suarez, the man who was badly Injured by the explosion and who was cap- tured before he eould make hie escape, to divulge all the details of the plot. He has already made admissions showing that the conspiracy had wide ramification& • Romano= SEIZE A TOWN. A Riot Quelled by the Police, Who Shoot Down Some of thenieters. A Vienna cable says: Great excitement has been caused at Andrychow, a town of about 4,000 inhabitants, in Andean Gali- cia, by the rioting of a number of Socialists who live in and about the town. The mob had full possession of the place for a time, and took advantage of the opportunity to loots number of shops, despoiling the pro- prietors of goods and money. The robberies would have been more extensive had not the military finally intervened to protect the defenceless shopkeepers. When the troops arrived they charged upon the mob without ceremony, and some of the rioters were killed and a number wounded. The mob was forced to disperse, but did so sullenly, and the troops are now stationed In various parts of the town toguard against a repetition of the rioting. The Fertect Female Form. Nothing ismore truly artistic than the simplyoutlined oval of the perfect female form, writes May Root Kern in an illus- trated article on "The Artistic Side of Dress Reform," in the July Ladies' Home Jourtica. Ibis but slightly depressed at the waist, the hips are as wide as the shoulder there is not an angle from top to toe. It is as different from the outline of the fashion- able " well -set-up " woman with her squared shoulders and angular hips, as a horse in from a camel. We call the high - belted Empire dresses artistic, because they preserve this oval better than the longer -waisted shapes. The nude figure has no belt line. When the weight rests equally upon the feet, and the body is held, upright, the smallest measurement of the weld is about where the modern belt is placed. But lot the body bend to one aide, and the point of intersection of the hip and side muscles will hoover an inch above the former belt line. This is why field laborers, even to the elenderest young girl, are " short.waisted." For hygn, neic reasons the belt should never be placed below this point, and by thus shortening the straight under -arm seam by an inch the beauty of the uncoreeted waist is materially aided. Beliieved. A sergeant of an Irish regiment used to dislike one of hie men whom we will call Brady. One day after drill at which the sergeant had ielieved his mind on the squad, and Brady in particular, Brady waits op to the sergeant—who, by the weir, squinted horribly—and says: "Sergeant, if I was to call you a squinted son of a busted bomb, What would I get?" "Faith," says the sergeant, "you'd get Mx months." "And if 1 only thought it?" says Brady. "Oh, you'd get nothing." " Wen," returns Brady, "by Jabers, I think it." Glass Lined ipee. The oxidation ox Iron anti iced pipes, with the consequent conterminatim inure or less Of water or other liquids which may pass through them, has loci to further ex- periments with glass -lined pipes, which have, it is eaid, been successful, the pipes showing an unexpected capacity for resisting great interior and exterior pressure. The glass tube is placed in the' metal tube, and the space between the two is filled with a special cement, perfectly uniting the two tubee. After the Wedding of the Princess May and the Duke of Tuck, which will take place early in July next, they will occupy their' Inane in St. .fames' palace, which is now being prepared for them, The hooey - teem will be epent at Othborne. flo (bitterly)—Peisiew I Ali Women are She—Then why in the world do 1 on spend so meek time tryirg t dad the one you Want to marry? FOUR BIG BITILDINOS, They are the itarZeSt of Their Kiud in the World. nieauuatfaetUretrbse' Building World's ttit Ad Masonic Temple and the Leiter structure, °Moog° has out- :- Interesting figures it and present records. dripped both ancient follow regarding the Materials in these piles of steel, iron, brick and stone. He who maid there was nothing new under the sun evidently had not seen Chicago before he made the remark. had he visited this city he would have known better and would not beere left such a monu- ment of his ignorance. Wo -clay all the world marvels at Chicago. It is, how- ever, far behind some cities in regard to size. In this respect, probably London heads the list, and in order to make a city equal in eiZe to mighty London, you mud pile together New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, St. Louie, Bal. timore, Cincinnati and San Francisco. But Chicago is but a child. It is said of London that three hundred years ago it was con- siderably smaller than the present Boston. Sir William Petty, in an essay on political arithmetic, says that London two hundred years ago, according to a some- what careful computation, had reached 700,000 inhabitants, which is lap than the population claimed for Chicago. It took Ibis great city another century to climb to a plebe equal to that of Philadelphia, and half a century more, bringing it down to 1836, did not make it equal to the present New York, if you include with New York Brooklyn and Jersey City. Any one who visited this place in the year 1833, just 60 years ago, would have beheld nothing but a solitary house, and that a log one. If Chicago is not the largest city, it has the largest buildings of their kind in the world. These buildings are: The Manufacturers' building at the World's Fair'the Masonic Temple, the largest office building ever built; the Leiter building, the greatest store building; the Fine Arts building (at the fair), the largest and most extensive brick structure and greatest art building ever constructed; the Auditorium Hotel. The most wonderful of these is the won- derful manufactures and liberal arts build- ing at the World's Fair grounds. Beside Its big neighbors it does not look the mar- vel it really is. "It cannot be done" was the verdict of many one year ago. The result shows the falsity of their figuring. After one walks the mile necedery to go around the iron monster he begins to appre- ciate its magnificent distances. When he hears that 150,000 people had been within its walls at one time, and yet room left for 100,000 more, he begins to think he is now seeing one of the wonders of the woeld. It is 1,687 feet long, 787 feet wide, 245 feet high and has a floor area of 44 acres. In its construction were used 14,000,000 pounds of steel trusses, 17,000,000 feet of lumber and 3,000,000 pounds of iron braces. There is steel enough to lay 53 miles of railroad track. This building is three time larger than the Cathedral of St. Peter's in Rome, and any church in Hamilton could be placed in the vestibule of St. Peter's. It is four times larger than the *old Roman Coliseum, which seated 80,000 persons. If the great pyramid Cheops could be removed to Chicago it could be piled up in this building, with the galleries left from which to view the stone. There are 7,000,000 feet of lumber in the floor, and it required five carloads of nails to fasten this 215 carloads of flooring to the joists, There are in the roof eleven scree of skylights and forty carloads of glass. The iron and steel in the roof would build two Brooklyn bridges. The twenty-two main trusses in the roof of the central hall required 600 flat cars to bring them from the works to Chicago. The lumber in this building represents 1,100 acres of average pine trees. Ten thousand electric lights will be used. COMPARED WITH TEE AUDITORIUM. The Auditorium hotel is the most notable building in Chicago, in fact the most wonderful 'building ever erected by man, but twenty such buildings could be placed on this floor. To properly appreciate this last statement, a few facts and figures in regard to the Auditorium may be of assis- tance. Its thick walls contain 17,000,000 brick.. This is many millions more than everbefore placed in one building. The build- ing weighs 110,000 tons. There are in it 50,000 square feet or 50,000,000 pieces of Italian marble mosaic flooring, each put in by hand 1,800,000 square feet of terra coda; 175,000 square feet of lath; 60,000 square feet of plate glass; 25 miles of gas and water pipe; 230 miles of electric wire and cable, 11 miles of steel cable, and 10,000 electric lights. The Maine and Minnesota granite used weighs 25,000 tons. Broken into pieces, it would require 11,000 cars, or a train extending from Niagara Falls to Detroit to remove the material. In this great hotel there is a theatre that will hold 7,000 people. This also contains an organ of 125 stops, costing over $50,000. Sitting In the fourth gallery and looking down upon the stage is like sit- ting on the roof of the Mountain View Hotel and looking down at the entrance to the incline plane at the foot of the mountain. So great is the distance from this gallery that most who go so high vow they will never do it again. There is abundance of material in this great hotel to fill a book. TSR MASONIC TEmPLI6. Next to the temporary manufacturers' building in point of greatness comes the Marano Temple. It looms up in the long perspective of State street almost as &moun- tain. To the traveller in Egypt the pyramids are a source of disappointment because they stand within the immensity of the desert sands, whereas the Masonic Temple is sur- rounded by conditions that exaggerate its height and length. The great pyramid of Khsuf on is only half as high as this modern Denotement of "roe, steel and clay. mASONIC TEMPLE PouNDATIoNS. Thousands of tons of steel and concrete went into the ground to form the founda- tion. The footings are on this foundation of solid teel and concrete. At the main entrance to the building, facing State street, the two mod remarkable footings are located. These are each 28 x 31 feet square. To begin with, there is a heavy bed of concrete, upon which is placed a mune of fifteen -inch aixty.pound steel beams. Upon tale is laid another course of steel beams arranged tranthereely and imbedded in concrete. At the base of the 300 feet ernekrastack another 23 x 36 foot block is made in the SeMe manner, The basement is below the public sewer on State street; and in order to get rid of water, hydro -pneumatic ejectors are used, the motive power being compressed air, An incident in connection with the building of this foundation le worthy of note. A hard- ware store wait burned there in 1871. When the &elevation wee Made a large iron Mass was discovered. TO move this, ,great ex- pense and delay would doubtless °tour ; id It was tunneled under and lowered, and f4Tt asub-foundation of 95te0 el 01ixon.Abovethebuemeitar:5,0ooneolsteelteai4extenaing0et, into the air, and 785 carloads or 15,700 toile of fire clay hollow tiles Were used, The 1,000 horse power engines and boilers weigh 344,300 pounds. The oast that supply the elevatorare strong enough to supply power to a town og 60,000 inhabitants. The 19 tilevatersi are capable of carrying 100,000 persons in a day. The 8,000 sixteen candle power eleoteld lights require the iaying of Sixty-five miles OP fifteen tons of electric wire, and 1,300 radiators, requiting miles of steam pipes,. supply the heat. The machin- ery plant is claimed to be as large as the Edison electric plant of Chicago. Where the weights and figures abut mate- riale are nob given some idea can be formed, from the contract prices. The bronze and ornamental iron work was the largest con- tract ever let?. The price wee .S108,0014' The glass was furnished for $45,000, the marble for 8118,000, and the woodwork for $125,000. The machinery and electric' light plant cost $110,000, the elevator plant $149,000, the firs -proofing 16,000 tone— $155,000,‘ and the terra cotta $65,000, were the contract prices. The granite and stone coat $62,000; the brick end masonry above the basement $107,000, constructional iron work and hardware • $325,000, and the steam -fitting, pipes, radiator' and the roofing $91,000, placing the electric wires in positienalone cost $18,000 - The original estimate of the building's cost was $2,600,000, The actual cost woe 82,000,000. The land is held at $2,380,000, or $104 a square foot. The estimate weight is 3,500 pounds to the square foot, as against 6,000 Pounds to the square foot - at the Auditorium. An allowance of four and one-half inches was made for' settling. 'Up to date the settlement has only been four bathes. There are 800 offices and desk room for 5,000 persons in the, structure. THE LEITER BUILDIND.' The next building in point of eize is the Leiter Building, used by Siegel, Cooper & Co. as a general store. There is more floor space in this one store than in all the stores. in the city of Hamiltenalf all put together. The thirteen sores are divided into sixty- three departments. Thirty contractors did the work. In the building there are 5,126. tons, or 343 carloads, or forty miles of steel beams, 4,000 tone or five miles of steel columns, an acre of plate glass, and 94,000 square yards or twenty acres of plaster. Fifty-four steam engines run the eighteen elevators, with a capacity of 100,000 persons a day. Two miles of iron guide posts and six miles of wire cable are used by these -elevators. The building cost 81,500,000. The value of ground, building and stock is given as $7,000,000. All this is but figures and facts; these colossal structures must he seen to be ap- preciated. Get your tickets for the World's Fair city. —Yours forevez , WILLIAtt Gmousst. PEARCE. RENTING A. SHE PANTHER. An Old Soldier's Story of a Hunt in tar Indian Jungle. Dr. Brian O'Kearney, a retired surgeon of the British army in India, relates an experi- ence in the jungle as follows : "We fellows on half pay, you know, like: a bit of hunting now and then, BO when one, of 'my men came to my house near Deccan' one morning with .the news that a big. panther had broken cover, We lost: no dna in getting up a pally of beaters and stadia! . out. "The beast turned out to be a pantheress. She had hidden her cubs somewhere and,;, had taken possession of a nulls or ravine only about a mile from the house. Thet beaters did not care to go up the ravines after they had locatedthe panther, so took a dog, boy and a man to carry my second gun, and we started ahead. "There was not a sound to be heard save our own movements. We had gone about ten rods up the nullah when there was a half growl, half spit, like that of an angry cat, and the big beast jumped out of the bushes within a yard of my face. "One of the men was on his knees halt under me pulling away the brash; the other - was at my left hand with the extra gun. The panther ignored me, but she pulled the dog boy out from beneath my legs as a cab - would a mouse. She took this poor fellow" lather mouth, seized the other with her paWe . and then made for the thick brush again. "I confess I was too frightened to stir, but as she passed me she gave use a blow with her great long tail, as much as to say,. My mouth is full and my paws are Mule,. but give you one whack just for luck.' That blow sent me spinning down the hill. and that fact sealed the big beast's death warrant. I kept hold of my gun, and when , I got to my feet she turned her broadside toward me. The dog boy wee still in her - mouth and one paw was on the breast of the other beater, but I pulled a bead on her and 4 dropped her in her tracks. "By this time the rest of the beaters had f come up, howling oyer the fate of their' comrades. We measured that panther, and - found her eight feet long. It was one of the. biggest ever killed in that district. The , beaters skinned the beast, and I've got thin pelts at my home in India now." Dr. O'Kearney, before hisretirement from active service, was in the Afghanistan war 1879-80. He was with the 66th Regiment,, at the battle of Mayand. Better Out Than in. The feeling of a good many men with rea. gard to public office is no doubt much the same as that which a certain ditainguitheeie Frenchman had, or professed to have toward the Academy—that group of forty who aroa called " the Immortals." He wile asked one day why he did net propose his candidacy for the Acadeiny. Ah," said he, "if I applied and were admitted, some one might ask, 'Why is he - In it l' and I should much rather hear lb asked, • Why isn't he in It?' " The appetite that has to be stimulated by a cocktail before meals is not that of am. epicure. LET IT RUlt and your cough may end in something seri- ous. It's pretty sure to, if your blood is poore That ita just the time and condition that in -- vitas Consumption. The seeds are sown and, ft has fastened its hold upon you, before you knovettbat it is near It won't do to trifle and delay, when tiare. remedy is at learid. Every disorder that care be kreachecl through the blood yields to Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. For Severe Coughs, Bronchial, Throat and Lung Iliseases, Astlinsg, Scrofula in every. form, and even the crofuloes aftectien of the: hinge that's called Consumption in all its, earlier stages, it ill a positive and complete), Care. "ot It is the oak blood -cleanser, strength re- storer, and flesh -builder so effective that tan, be gitarnitteed. If it doesn't benefit or etre, in every case, Yon have your scone, beck All media* tw3er1 have it.