The Wingham Times, 1889-09-27, Page 3•;r
During a particularly heavy downpour
of rain, the writer took refuge in the
doorway of one of New York's largest
warehouses. Tliete lie met the night
watchman, a grizzled but kindly faced
old man, who on being questioned spoke
Ca follows regarding his calling. After
a few silent whiffs at his pipe, during
which he seemed meditating, he began:
I have been at this employment for the
greater part of twenty years. My em-
ployer has about two hundred nten, and
controls nearly all the business of supply-
ing watchmen, at a moment's notice, in
tide city. Is there variety in the work?
Sure, so far as change of scene goes, for
one night I may be sent to assist a raga-
tar bank watchman to stand guard over
a vault containing many hundred. thou-
sands of dollars, or to watch a private
residence in some well locality, or I may
have to roam abouta huge warehouse all
night. • But generally we are kept busy
on the river piers, either opened or cov-
ered, or perhaps a day or•night at Erie
Basin, et in Hoboken or Jersey City.
.And there is considerable danger as well
as variety in the work. Not a groat
many years ago there were regularly ea..
grin sed gangs of river pirates; who made
certain localities their stamping grounds,
where they net to plan raids, eat, drink
and sleep.
A Ld1vZSO3XB LIFE.
We have had to fight against these
gangs ,for .years; and at last they are
pretty; well cleaned out and we have
Yng on her bosom. The magnificent fairly earned the gratitude of importers,
Duchess of Leinster was there, with her tah>p Q brokers
and owners—in fact, of
head lifted like a •great_etag x n the alert "Sometimes the gloomy stillness of a
Viler pictures do riot do her,$sice. She
trust be seen in the flesh to appreciate night spent on a dark pier is almost in -
her solar as well as her form.supportable. There is not enough noise
I heard one stout lady of paltal0 say: to interest a man, and not enough indi-
"Oh, you naughty American boy, why cation of danger to sharpen his faculties;
don't you make me look like Adelaide yet we must be always on the alert
Wharf rats are usually sly, but when
1tchon or Dorothy Dane?" These are ,
two professional beauties that Vander" they ilia 'naught but a mans life be-
Weyde has made famous. Mood deal tween them and their booty, they some
is expected from him sometimes. Most .tiirtga`ilGec,ine exceedingly bold. They
of his pictures are taken by elects iclight, sneak ulpng the docks, disappearing
and by the use of colored glass which now aaic then in the dark to listen for
softens and subdues the lines of the face the licemtan s footsteps. Then they
and gives to the skin of each woman its enrip e. Their spies keep diem well
poexh
loveliest natural color, and makes tome d to the kind and quality of the
vartcius cargoes.. One will sometimes
blain women look beautiful. ,-
My hour lengthens to two or three, get ori the docks as a peddlerd while , or on some
go is
then, when all the trains have departed.being
pretended
nlotierran In this manner they
I was taken to the studio, where the learn where fruit, nuts or anyne small
work of the real artist is semi --one might' packages are placed.
�ltrnost say he is a photographer only in No first class watchman will everpet-
play, an. artist in earnest, for while he
often rushes down to postrsome impor- mit a stranger access to a dock after the
ded 'for the
tant person he gets back to leis painting big
Form rlyors are
seal of loekmerolia di"se night.
as
as soonas he can, and sometimes works stolen in broad .daylight and virtually
until after midnight, forgetting club and under the very etes of the owners and
society. others interested in preventing such et: -
We had tea from some dainty Daps of currences. You must remember that
egg shell porcelain, and I ask; limn how when a ship or steamer is being unloaded
he became interested in photography, It there are usually over three hundred men
was by an a e exit --a terrible actCideut, about, 'longshoremen, stevedores, dock
S
He was a Seventh regiment boy. In •
clerks and revenue officers, and in the
the war he was captured, and was in coufuaion it was not such a (itiicttlt
Libby phaco for more than two years. matter to pilfer small artistes during the
Ile was always of an inventive genius,
day; it was easier really to steal in the
°n could avid not ` be idle even amid the
IkitE THE dAiitAL
lastatallat aOMEN WHO ARE P110-
Tf.uRAPHEO IN LONDON.
414 logentous American Who i t Irept. Bu&j
uitt Drawing ligase Day—l,aeltes Wha
Want Titarulsoute Pictures --An Interest"
leg Sit of history of, thy Artist.
Olga finds so many world renowned
aetebrities passing down Regent street ou
a pleasant afternoon that he keeps bola
1rlxtg from one to another and often loses
all. ";here goes Lord Tennyson!"
'Quick! Tho Duke of ]:'ortlttnd wasin
that carriage. I wonder if that was alias
Dallas. York with him!" "There goes a
carriage with royal • arms!" "Oh, where?
I did net see any of them;" and so on all
the time. While I was trying to push to
the Croat a grand carriage drove up tU
the sidewalk, then another and another;
a red carpet was laid down to tho door;
there wasa flash of jewels; some buudles
of millinery quickly sprang out. I
;;lanced to the coachmen and footmen;
they all had big posies and satin ribbons
iu their buttonaeles. '!'hen I knew the
real &vele a of the crowd, It was "draw-
ing room day" in Regent street, After
being presented at court the beauties
were coating to be photographed.
The Loudon photographers usually re-
ceive no other customers on that day.
Most of the royalists go to Vander
'Weyde now. It a singular fact that
Wader Weyde, with this old historic
Dutch name, is teeny an American, who
otuue to London penniless after the war.
eta the carriages rolled up the crowd in-
creased, Several ladies in the street tried
to go up, but were repulsed by the grim
sorvant in livery at the door. When the
Duchess of Marlborough swept in the
excitement became tremendous and I
could stand it no longer, so I Lound my-
self following yards and yards of black
brocatelle, tulle, lace, gassementerie, jets
aid feathers up the wide staircase to
the little Moorish waiting room.
'
The American Duchess of Marlborough
.i,a not pretty, but she hese fine presence,
and carries herself with grace and .dig-
t::lty, and a little self consciousness or
exalted looks, perhaps. She waadressed
in court mourning; with the magnificent
family jewels, which, were once the lau-
rels
arrels of asplendid home I thought her
dressed in the best taste of any of the
ladies lag the gallery. Many portraits of
Lady Randolph Churchill hang about,
r from the simple American girl in white
muslin when she first came over to the
mono mature woman oaf the world in hef
court dress, with the star of India blaz-
and•the blood stain on he catling --the
thought of his clays of wasted iabar was
too much, Re fainted and had a re.
tepee.
"When he recovered he heard that a
now discovery had been made—the elec-
urio light. 'Phie was what he had been
Bearching for, Ile hired a poor photog-
rapher to work for hire nights, and at
last perfected the inventiou for which
all the court beauties thank him when
drawing room day is a foggy one.
The pictures produced by it are pecu-
liarly soft land suggeetive without chang-
ing the likenel;s of the face, for they
need but. little retouching. The great
advantage is that the light is movable,
so that when a ease is +:aught it eau be
experimented with from every point.—
London Cor. Philadelphia Press,
A WATCHMAN'S STORY.
LIFE AMID THE DARKNESS OF -nig
RIVER PIERS IN NEW YORK.'
Wharf Pirates nod Their Schemes --myon.
Sous Panne for l`tobblog the nook Ware,
houses ---Fishermen Who Aot os Confrater.
sites—Guards Who have Lust Their Lives.
da when there was a crowd about than
lnarrors which surrounded him, whiley'
there hecancel vedsome inventions which at night,
made him a fortune when he came out. Titian of ciie es to is.
Then he apont tine t'eat's in lruropean Many ingenious schemes to steal have
travel, and 'visited many then little ex -
of
tried, and successfully, too, law
plored countries. A sudden change swept of them was to row under a clock at lotvg
away his fortune. Ile was in London tide, and bore upthrough the flooring
and wondering what to do; chance tank into barrels of asses or hogsheads
hint into a photographer's. He was Luid. whisky and molasses, and barrelsso et theirc
the could not be taken that day, it was ylacew intoe oat. 'vsey
tat foggy. Without thinking he said: they placed in theaholdl I've hogshead,g burly
"Could not one be taken by artificial longshoremen take mightyof a e
lir light?" "There would be a fortune for and t themselves then for a effort.,
the man who could invent one," the and then rollro1 whichselves
badhad over hook
clerk replied, That night he went to with the barrel, rvllictn previously
work. lois first idea was to collect the been draineda1s ngits frontents by ofs
rays of the sun in a gigantic burning wharf rats. Fishing from the end a
glass; atgreat expenso he had one con- pier and seizing small articles when a
$ Lntcted, hoilow anti filleal with water. chance was presented, and dropping
be -
The room for experiment was in a north theta into wits
the hands of a confederate dock 1 low, rv�s a common dodge. Now, cloak
light; Lad it been under the sun's rays
the monster glass could have melted a
Irian to a grease spot.
One day while he Was working there
crane to terrine explosion, the glass
buret, be wan knocked down and deluged
with water, one of the fragments piere-
ing his arm, coined him to the floor and
severed tut artery, while the blood spurt--
eel
purted to the ceiling. The inmates of the
house, hearing the mew, rttsltecl to the
A. room to i.iud bh n eettst']ecs. Ile was
W. taken to bed and for months lay in a
raking fever, 'aric ,route Was locke.i,
Suitt wltrn he rr't: t.t last allowed 1.0
walk bo opened the door and found the
halm rit:attercta with i ralktuentg Of glees
. owners aro very cautious about Ietting
peoplefish from their loaded doeks, un -
the parties are well known.
I)o we ever get injured? Yes, watch-
men are often assaulted, and ono is ore
castonaily murdered. Sleet) I've been in
the business thirty of my associates have
lost their lives while on duty. The
thievoat reasea that dead muen tell no
talars,° There are more Murdered watch-
men than murders convicted, Some.
tinges a tough character will lounge
around the saloons alongshore until
drunk, and then stray doe% to the look
Ict+ ux tttra a1►lc:o to 4WD, To Llrf vt
litm away is to provoke Min to a Oght,
and though we are armed, he is drunk
and desperate. Of course it would never
da to shoot hila, simply because he wants
to lie down quietly and sleep; public
Opinion would convict us. So we must
endure his vile language, and permit
him to remain at the risk of losing our
positions, or Incurring severe censure.
At tunes words are altogether useless,
and we Must wield our night sticks to
drive away these thieves and their ace
coanplices, the dock loafers. The police
themselves have no liking for river'duty,
particularly on dark or stormy nights.
And I don't blame them.
.At this point the old man drew bis
pipe from hie mouth; the last spark of
tiro bad been extinguished; and he
alowly rose up, stretched himself, and
with a remark about going his rounds,
said good night and was gone.—New
York Star, -
superior to Dynamite,
periments first made in London
with carbo -dynamite, one of the latest
explosives, would seem to show that it
possesses some important advantages
over ordinary dynamite, among others
that of considerably greater power, and
the generation of much less noxious va;
por when exploded in confined places.
It is composed of nitro-glycerine absorb-
ed by ten parts of a variety of carbon,
and is claimed to be entirely unaffected
by water, --New York Telegram.
'P4 no Away 'With Prunke>Anotta.
"1 notice," said Col. John J. to The
Man About Town, "that the daily preps
of the country is beginnin4 to agitate as
a means of doing away with the evil of
drunkenness a remedy which I advo-
cated several years ago. My idea was
to build at public expense asylums where
drunkards could be sent and kept in con-
fiuement until prortounced permanently
cured by a competent physician. It was
my opinion that these institutions should
be maintained by money secured through
a tax levied on the. keepers of saloons,
and I do not believe that there is one
saloon keeper. out of a hundred who
would 'not favor such a. plan. Such in-
stitutions, properly conducted, with a
law requiring the confinement therein of
every man detectedin a state of intoxi-
cation would, I think, go far toward
bringing about an abatement of the evil,"
It would cause a large percentage of the
men who now make a practice of getting
drunk to hesitate before making the ven-
ture. I had even gone so far as to draft
a bill embodying the provisions outlined
above,with the intention of haying it
introduced in the legislature, but at the
earnest solicitation of a few friends, who
deemed it an unwise measure, I allowed
the matter to drop, although I felt then
and still feel that it would be a good
thing for the state to have some such
law in operation."—St. Lads Republic.
Lucky Guesses.
A San Francisco newspaper offered
$200 to the one who would correctly
guess the number of types in ' a jar ex-
hibited in the exposition there. Twomen
were successful, naming the correct
number, 84,200. How they came to hit
on that nuhtber is interesting. One of
them oitoe guessed the :lumber of shot in
a jar aboutthe same size as the one con-
taining the type. There were 95,000, He
thought there were one-third ae many
type as shot, and so divided 915,000 by 8,
and he said, "added a Iittle to make it
even." The other man saw a crowd
around the jar, and felt in his pocket for
a pencil with which to write his number.
LteYcouldu't find one, and moved on; but
afterwarda,'feeling strongly hi:melted to
make a guess,cfelt again for a pencil,
and found an old lottery ticket, on
which was the number 84,200. He bor-
rowed a pencil, put down the number,
and won $100: Tnland Printer,
Uncle 11tto's Philosophy.
De mo' locks and keys the lest honesty.
De hen dat won't Lay must mix wid de
Potpie..
Aftah lekshen a=ntany wish dey'd sol'
lair vote.
Yo' rumytie may ache yo' bad, but yo'
demi wantoe silo,
Ef de peacock cud see 'is feet he nebbah
brag ob his tail,
De nled'cine dat taa'oa de winos er
li'ble toe da Ste Enos' good.
Ef de ex knew how high ho cud jump
he'd gi t in dat madder.
When a loan er mad he loan' membah
dint dar er eich a t'ittg es law.
A -many dat er start obala 'de notion'of
a ghos' wudn' know a phos' of dey shod
see Ina—Judge, "
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WEBS TEJtrS
THE CITY GROCERY
CHANGED HANDS.
•
Ocean Parasites.
Everything is said to have its para-
site, and the cable at the bottom of the
sea is no exception. Cables have been
taken up from a depth of a mile and a
half with the hemp •covering badly eaten
away, and at adepth of over half a utile
strong currents of the ocean have rasped
' the armored wires on the rocky bottom.
l xperienee has not yet determined tate
full lasting qualities of electric cables,
Specimens have been taken up which
iIIOW no signs of deterioration after
having been in the water for more that
thirty-ilvc years. Water, and eepecially
colt water, seems to be a Freeerver of
insulating compounds.
T 'ov have a "Toniet , pilin" in
Ctililornia,. 11icx alai) ut'tlts avt'rug!'
12,000 hetet; a day, awl hu b. are the
insane A. I.,, Graham.
DIN
Having purchased 11. lliscocl's grocery and
°}lasses in
GENERAL
°suits,
made heavy
pal•.
GROCERIES and PROVISIONS✓.
Confeattnteryt Cream,
Manures &a.,
He has naw
FIRMAS'H GOODS".
ARRIVING DAILY,
SOLID
Come and 'see.
A. CHOICE STOCK
and offers
BARGAINS FOR CASH.
Try goods and ascertain prices.
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1VATOHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELLERY U'1 WINGHAM.
2nd. TEIAT THE QUALITY OF MY GOODS:IS EQUAL TO
THE BEST.
3rd. THAT MY PRICiS ARE SUC$ THAT IT IS SAFE; AND'
FITABLE FOR ALL TO DEAL W1'T11 ;hiE.
TEST THIS PQM `O17RSE:;. •'
BY CALLING ON '
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Have changed the
Mrs, liopanct,, next door
will welcome old and new pt:
articles usually kept in a fan
business prennisee t, the shop lately occupied by
o 3 raeey's far iture wareroouts, where tin
ons: Cti$toel S Viii: find amongst the nunlerous
c stays,
Silks ..for • Art Needle -W8rlr.
GLOVES, HOSI
A:'PL24lT i EMBROIDERY',
Medieval Lace for Trimmings..
UNDERWRARS,
t3E EltixBI',,OIDE1Y,
POINT LACE.
POINT LACE AND MH'ROIDER' MAX:. TO
t- Stamping in ne es designs. ]emitting fink. Materiel for Point Lace,
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