A JLlJtlUNDAY BEE
TWENTY-SKCONI ) YEAR. OMAHA , SUNDAY , , . '
MORNING AiMUL 10 ] 893-T\VENTY-FOUR PAGES. N I'M HER
A MILLION AND A QUARTER DOLLARS A MILLION AND A QUARTER DOLLARS
THE WORLD'S OREATEST WET GOODS SALE THE WORLD'S GREATEST WET GOODS SALE ,
BEGINS WT7'TlM'C < C < rA V APRIL BEGINS WltfFbMI7Qrn A V APRIL
NEXT NEXT W r < JJJM iibJJAI loth
COR , BEDFORD AND KINGSTON STS. , Boston , Mass. Q 3ING THE S TCCK OI Prom the SIX MILLION DOLLAR BOSTON FIRS
SOLD BY THE INSURANCE UNDERWRITERS.
N. / . Cor.
16th and Douglas
Omaha.
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ON THE MAIN Boston Store begins the greatest sale of wet goods
known to the world involving more ready cash than
AND IN THE BASEMENT tofore. has ever been required by us for any purchase here
WHICH WAS AFFECTED
° /t is \ \ - ellmown ittjcl nut hcntie-ally re"
corded by it ] I the laid ! us * ' pnjtcrs , not
only hy the Omaha papers , out also the
ATo\v Vor/c Herald , Philadelphia Led
ger , JJoston J Jem Id , &c. , Hint this \\-as
the most disastrous in J3oston , mcZ > F > a2s ww w5 : ms ! Linens , Damasks , Towels , Table Linens , Lawns ,
t/jc greatest loss cvcj * sustained In the ISTainsooks. Silesias. Prints , Calicos , Dimities , Mus
the dry goods \ \ orld. lins , Shirtings , Sheetings , Men's , Ladies' and Child
That the upper stories were com- ren's Underwear , Hosiery , Corsets , Gloves , Laces , 2mi
plesely gutted , whereas T broideries , Veilings , Quilts , Spreads , &c.
I L . - ILJ1 /Sa/JS AT T were so
thoroughly filled w//i water from fire -25 experienced salesladies.
hose that on breaking do\vti the front 10 experienced bundle wrappers
cash girls and cash boys.
25
doors it flooded the streets
adjoining ,
It Apply Monday or Tuesday
whilst In the basement the \va.tei.- mornings before 9 o'clock.
cajne up even -\vlth the street.
OF MINNESOTA MILLIONAIRES
"Oarp" Gossips About Northwestern Nabobs
and Their Palatial Residences.
MAGNIFICENT MANSIONS OF MINNEAPOLIS
Jlui Hill' * llnino unil It * Kiiiiituinih ] I'ur.
* V Look nt l.umbor Kill ) ;
\ -jrrlinimcr unit n Vitlt with
the Only Tom l.oury.
MlNXEArous , Minn. , April H. [ Special
Corre&ixmdenco-of THE BEE. ] Millionaires
fn Minnesota are thicker than mosquitoes in
New Jersey , and you can't throw a stone on
the streets of St. Paul or Minneapolis with
out hitting n Cnusus. The wonderful de
velopment of the country is rolling the dollars
lars into this hopper of the threat northwest ,
anil there arc lumber millionaires , milling
kings and real estate magnates and railroad
pold bugs galore. This is the greatest lum
ber center of the union anil J. Newton Nlnd ,
the editor of the Lumberman .beie , tells mo
that Minneai < ells will sell more lumber than
any cit ; , in the country in 1MH. Some of the
richest timber dealers of the world live hero
11 mlVej crhauser.tho lumber kingmakos this
his home No man in the world represents
so much lumber as We\erhauscr. lln owns
timber ah over the country ana ho buys by
the nil. lions .lust the other day ho paid
over fJ.OOO.OMU for r > 00. 000,000 feet of standing
pine in northoin Minnesota and the syiidi-
cato of xhu U he is the head will , I am told ,
within four A ears control all the white pine
of Wisconsin iind Minnesota. It has a capi
tal of $00,000 OvX ) . It has great saxv mills
which turn out hundreds of millions of fcot
of lumber annually , and whoso product Is
\\orthcloso toflO.000,000 a year. It buys
now lumber regions right along , and It is
looking out for new lields in the south and
northwest.
I'roui IJi-er tu IIullloii.
The sAndicato includes a small number of
rich men. but Frederick Woyerhauser is the
richest anil the brainiest of them. Ho is a
German un-1 he began life in a brewery. Ho
catno tu this country without a cent and ho
worked for $1 n day. After leaving the
brcwcrj he piled slabs In a saw mill for u
time at Jl 'jr * n day , and gradually worked
Inswap up in lumber until ho isnorth mil
lions Heis. . as plain today at fifty us ho
was when 1 e worked m his first saxv mill and
he laLors just as hard. He is wrapped up
in his business and goes at times from
lumber camp to lumber camp taking pot
luck with his men and having a thorough
knowledge of every detail of his business.
He Is a man of great ability , full of common
cense , an. 1 his four sons , who arc all in the
lumber business , take after him. The bays
tut vo been well educated , and his youngest
sou Is now in Yale college. Ho gives , a great-
doitl in iharitA , and hisoldist daughter , who
latelj i. avried a Dutch Koformed preacher
of Syracuse. spent a jear some time before
her inarilago in going about among thu
lower class s of New York citj doimr
tlmritatilc work.
T n Walker of Mlnnoaixills is another
lumber 'king He is saU to bo worth $10-
000,000 and his house hero contains some of
the finest palntlnps you will lind in the
Cnltcd States ,
.MlniH'iota
I wbh I could uke you Into the houses of
these rich men of the northwest. Tho.\ are
as line as those of the money kintrs of New
York or Boston , and many of them will rank
with the oldest houses of Europe in their
artistic furnishing. There is today more art
displayed in the big business blocks unl in
the line residences of St. Paul and Minne
apolis than you will llnd in those of 15oston ,
Cleveland or Cincinnati , and money is
shoveled out hero on architecture , art , and I
might say religion us well. The linest
Young Men's Christian association building
in the world is here. The Minneapolis
club has liner quarters than any club
in Washington city , and there : ire a
number of million-dollar business blocks
here which have more fhu , * marbles and
Hoinan mosaic work than the cathedral of
St. Mark's at Venice. These men have made
their money quickly and they spend it freely.
Their homes are full of beautiful things
from all over the world. Take , for instance ,
that of Mr. Thomas Ixiwry , the street rail
way millionaire of Minneapolis. U is a big ,
old-lashioned mansard house of about twenty
rooms , which are packed with art treasuics.
Old Gobelin tapestries , some of which would
carpet a small parlor , hang upon the walls.
Oriental rugs , which Tom Ix > wry bought in
Kg } pt. lie U | on the floors , and line paintings
of the great modern painters cover the walls.
Hare Sevres vases stand on the mantels and
pieces of reallA flue Japanese art and of rare
East Indian workmanship are scattered hero
and there about the rooms The house is in
fact n museum of curios , but they have Ixjon
so well selected and arranged that it is a
most comfortable home.
lli loin I.our } .Milill ) Portiine.
And just here I want to say a wont about
Tom I/JWT.V. Everj olio calls him Tom here ,
anil he is evr.one's . friend He is still in
his -lO.s , but ho controls a capital of frlx'-
(100,000 and his income is probably something
Hko $100,000 atar . He came hero from
Logan eountA , Illinois , as a young lawyer.
Ho wanted to go to some place where ho
could bo known as something mo o than as
Just Father I-OXXTA'S son. His father x.asa
trieud of Abraham Lincoln , and had Lincoln
not been elected president Ix > wr > would
have studied law in his office Ho was poor
when he came here , but ho at once
jumped into a bur practice and he
was soon engage. ! in nearli every speculation
of the town. Along back in the ' 70s the
horse car street railway line of Minneapolis
was In a bad way and Tom Ixnvry borrowed
$7. > ,000 of the Securitj bank and bought it.
lie improved it , extended the lines and so
managed it that ho was soon able to get
hold of the St. Paul street car lines as well ,
and ho now practically owns the street car
lines of the two cities. He hat made his
system the best , it is said , in the United
States , and his credit is .such that at the
time of Daring's failure he was able to raise
1.)00.000 iii New York at a low rate of In
terest. His street car lines were changed
from horse cars to elcetrii ity in twelve
months and he has iMI miles of track.
The overhead titilley Is used and ho
tells nfo that the conduit .s.\stem which ho
tried for one of the St. Paul lines was a
fatluu' . His franchise of thu two > ities is
an exclusive one. and it runs , 1 am told , for a
long term of i oar * . These car lines have
Immense shops hero and power houses coverIng -
Ing acres They can make everything con-
lu'ctoUIUi an electric car line , and it will
not IHJ surpiising if tho.v e\entually add a
great manufacturing car Industry to thetr
business. Mr I iwry is eminently llttn.i
for ( loin ? this He bus the best of business
i brains ami his credit i * such that ho can gel
) any reasonable lunnber of n.illious ul 4 per
I cent
I Tom I.OUT.V is a man of strong fricmUhips.
I Ho is as well known in New York and
Washington as he is here. He was one of
the few men who li.M afct-sx 'o Dialnc- all
tunes , and he largel.N aided Senator \Va4U-
bum iu tiding over the llnancial troubles in
which he was involved at the time of his
election to the senate He < s a good story
teller , und it is said that ho knows Shakes-
pcaro by heart , and can repeat "Paradise
Lou" from beginning to end. He has a
beautiful wife and a very bright family. 1
am told that ho had a Hery
red bend as a bo.y. though his hail-
is now a beautiful brown and his whiskers
are almost black. Two of his girls have red
hair. Thejoungest of these was only fi
Acats old when her little babv brother was
t'oili. She saw the bald-hcaOcd baby and
that night they say she elosd her prayer as
follows :
"Please , fiod , bless babv brother , but don't
let him have red hair. We have enough red
heads in this family already.1'
S iiitor Wakhburn' * Ilnnm.
Senator Washburn and Mr. Lowry are in
terested in the See read together and they
are rapidly pushing this on to connect with
the Canadian Paciilc. When this is done it
will form the last great trunk line across the
continent. I am told by Senator Washburn
that the See road has now more than It can
do to haul its local freight and its lumber
shipments are enormous. There are millions
of telegraph poles Ijing along it awaiting
shipment and it promises to pay well.
Speaking of Washburn. his residence is
worth a fortune. It is an immense white
stone surrounded bA' ten acres of ground ,
every foot of which is valuable. Ho has
gotten out of his llnancial troubles and is
again rich.
Jim Hill's Mansion.
St. Paul has dozens of great houses which
would do credit to any eastern city , but the
res'-'ence of Mr. , lamrs J. Hill , the Great
Northern railway magnate , is one of the
reallj- line houses of the world. George W.
Childs. when ho visited it. said it surpassed
that of the Vanderbilts in many ways , and
that ho liked it better than his own home at
Woolen. I visited it in company with Mr.
Hill's friend , Mr. George A lirackett , ycster-
da\ , and 1 like it far better tnan the
home of North , the nitrate king , which I saw-
in England last summer. It is more home
like and less gaudy. It Is located In St.
Paul on Summit a\enue. and its grounds
slope down toward the Mississippi river. It
has acres of ground about it , and its windows
give wide \iews of the hills aud valleys of
the Mississippi The house is an immense
two-story building of brown stone put to
gether in the rough and criwned with a
steel roof , which slopes down In many
gables. A porte cochero big enough for an
ordinary house , under which AOU could haul
the biggest wagon load of hay you have
ever seen without touching its wa'.ls or its
sides , lorms the entrance to it. and as you go
into this jou are impressed with the massiveness -
ness and solidity of the structure. The house
looks as though it were built to outlast the
i ages. The walls are about four feet thick , and
1 in constructing it Mr. Hill went down thirty-
eight feet , until he struclc the solid bed rock
for the foundation. This is one of the char
acteristics of his work he goes to the bottom
of everj thing before ho begins it and builds
substantially and without frills or llligrees.
His railroad ofllces at St. Paul are so\erelj
plain in their construction and Aouseotho
same good taste displaced about every
part of his house. Iho front doors
are of massive oak , beautifully carved
and you pass through them over n
as a rlorentino breastpin , into a grand hall
finished In antique oak. As AOU go in you
note that the walls are of cario.l .oak and
that the ceiling is of the same wood in great
panels. You come tlrst Into a grand hall
nearlA' as long as the promenade corri lor of
the white house , but far more btMutifully
Mulshed. U must be a hundred feet long and
about twentA feet wide , and it runs iroin
the picture gallery at ono end to the great
"mahogany dining room at the other Its roof
is made up of four gr.'at panels inclosed in
rafters of carved oak , each four fee' wile ,
and these are upheld by eiirh' llute/d oak
columns , each of which is as biir anmuJ as
ihc waist of a good sized man. The walls of
this hall are hung with Hue painting's. Its
lloor Is covered with soft rugs unJ it is
lighted , as are the largo rooms of th3 house ,
in a most wonderful way. Fro .1 the center
of each of these panels , strung us it were
upon wires , scorns to hang down a bushel of
diamonds These are prisms of cut gl'-iss
festooned in the shape of a basket , and
lighted by electricity , which , coming from
globes behind them ana reflected by mirrors
above , make a most wonderfully effective
illumination. There are four of these diamond
mend baskets in the hall , one in Uie dining
room , another in the library , and others in
the music , reception arid drawing rooms. A
chandelier alwaja looks out of place in a
house It makes a big room look larger and
a small room look smaller , but these diamond
baskets take up no room , and they are the
most beautiful things I have ever seen in
bouse lighting. From the center of this hall
rises the staircase between these fluted oak
columns bA' easy Ian3ims to the second
story , and lookinjrUown upon A'ou from It , as
you come in , are great windows of stained
glass , which throw u sToft light into the hall.
At the right and left bf the staircase arc
grates covered 1 > A' mantels of the same mas
sive oak , and over tlfese Is a painting of
Mrs. Hill and another of Mr. Hill.
The Dining Itooin.
The dining room < s about f > 0 feet long by CO
feet wide. It is finished in South American
mahogany , and the/Urniture is of the same
wood. The walls from A'our feet to above
your head are paneled iu the richest of ma-
hogaiiA' . which has a polish equal to that of
the linest piano. The ceiling is made up of
panels framed in great mahogany rafters ,
and the panels are of rough stucco covered
with gold leaf. Window scats run around
the end of the dining room , sitting upon
which you can lookout over the Mississippi.
There is a great sideboard of mahogany 1-
fcct long tilled with the finest of china
and cut glass. In two corners of the
room are. glass-covered cupboards
llllcd with beautiful glassware , and on the
sideboard and other places about the room
are pieces of the finest of all kinds of china ,
not a few being of Sevres and Koyal Dres
den. The butler was with me while I stood
in the room and ho told mo the cost of fur
nishing it was over f H.OOO. The dining table
is of carved mahogany , and it is of immense
si/e. In fact , all the furniture in this house
is fullA' from one-third to twice as large as
that A ° U llu ( ' in ordinary houses.
Mrs. Hill told mo that when
she came into the Jiouso she was sur
prised at the immense size of the rooms
and she was in despair as to how she could
make them look smullor nnd moro homelike
She did so by having the furniture made in
proK | > rtion. and the result is that the whole
housu has a homelike Character and every
thing is harmonious.1 In Mrs. Hill's bed
room , for instance , thefbcd , of white maple ,
is six feet wide , but it iloes not look larger
than an ordiuarA'one. and I was not aware
that it was so largo until my attention was
called to it. The snfas are very long and
the chairs and ' tubles match. Even
the lamps have bocn made larger
than those of ordinary houses , and the result
is a combination wluuh you will not Und in
the great palaces of Europe nor in the other
line houses of the worll. Speaking of lamps ,
ono on the center table in the music room
has a body two feet high and is fuliA' a foot
in diauioter. Mrs Hill limited for it fora
long time , and finally had it made out of a
vase which she found which Just harmonked
with the coloring of the room.
The Den of a ICuitroad Magnate.
The living room of the bouse is the llbrar.i.
and Just off of tills is Mr Hill's den. It is
not more than tin ftet square and it is
walled in malngan.v. It lias an air of sjlidity
about it , and it is furnished elegantly but
simply. On the book cnaes on one side of the
room are L'reat volumes of railway reports
and railwa\ magazines , while a globe stands
In one corner. There Is a little library table
under the w in low witJ1 paper and i > cns on it ,
and at the rear of the roam theie is a ma
hogany door , which opens inlo a great vault ,
tin which is store I at times. I doubt
; not , securities which are worth millions
1 The library Is f mulshed in maho < -
I any. Uron/o llgures ot Henry CTay and
I Daniel Webster stand-on each end of the low
bools cas s. which run urojnl the room on
either han-1 us AOU enter The great library
I t-ible is covered with papers and magazines
and the room looks HS though it were used
The collection of books is a good one All
of the great authors of tlction and science
may bo found upon the shelves , nnd AOU will
find French and German books as well os
English. Mr Hill is a good French scholar
aud both himself and hU wife have good
literary taste. They are both well read and
ineir domestic relations arc of the happiest
The Iliiftomrnt nnd the Attic.
The basement and the attic of this great
mansion are to me even moro interesting
tnan the living rooms. The house must have
a quarter of an aero of lloor space and the
basement is a house in itself. It has a hall
so wide that you could drive a wagon througn
it without grazing the walls and its rooms
are all largo , airy and well lighted. The
lloors arc of marble. The halls and rooms
arc.l''lnled with slabs of white marble , so
polished that you can see your face in them
and the whole is lighted by electricity ,
ineso marble floors rest on a
bed of mineral wool and r > 0.000
pounds of mineral wool were
used in making this house fireproof. Mr.
Hill says it is fireproof , ratproof and cyclone-
proof , and it has a steel mot over it so
strong that you could run a train of cais
over it without injury. The attic has been
turned into a theater for the amusement of
Mr. Hill s children , and there Is a miniature
stage here and an audience room about
thirty feet wide by liftv feet long. The
stage has scones and footlights , and it is , in
fact , a complete little theater. The bovs
have a magic lantern and they sometimes
give exhibitions.
Two Tons of foal u Hay.
1 It takes two tons or coal a day to keep this
house warm , and I spent some time in look
ing at the great boilers in the basement.
There is an engineer who does nothing else
but attend to these , nnd Mrs. Hill tells mo
that the house is so thick that during the
nast winter they have not had to open the
registers of the different rooms for heat , but
have only had to warm -tho halls 'I no en
gines represent liOO-horso power , and if AOU
will keep 1500 horses at work da.\ and night
AOU will get an Idea of the amount of force
that it takes to turn winter Into summer for
Mr. .lames J. Hill. There is a dummoand
electric plant connected with the house.
Ono of the most interesting parts of
the biscment is the laundry. It has a marble
floor and brick walls. The washing is done
in great porcelain tubs and the clothes are
put on racks that are rolled in and out of
lases under which steam pipes are colled.
These pipes keep the temperature of the
dryinj ? cases at lllOaegrecs and the clothes
are dried in a Jiffy. The kitchen has the
sirne marble tloois , but its tables are of
white wood , which are as clean as those of a
Dutch housewife. I noticed that most of
the cooking utensils wore of copper and the
range seemed to bo largo enough for the
roasting of an ox.
IIIII' * ramlly l.lfp.
As I said above , the strongest feature of
this big mansion is Its homelike character.
Mr. Hill is a man of domestic tastes. Ho
loves his family and ho has a beautiful homo
life. His wife has Ixirno him nine children ;
and when I took lanih with her there were
three pretty dark-eyed girls and a very
bright 8-year-old boy with us at the table.
The lunch was served in the breakfast room ,
and it was as simple and unconventional as
those which A" " llnd in any well-to-do
family in the L'nltcd States any day.
Mrs. Hill is a charming woman. She
does not look to bo moro than
forty , and though she has these nine chil
dren there is not a fjrai hair In In r head
and her face is free from wrinkles. She is
rellned and well educated and Is full of com
mon sense. She is a woman of remarkably
good taste and she imjnvssod mo as an ov
i client mother. She is a CuthoSie. but not
an illiberal on van : ! is. I am told , alwa.Ns
dohu good in the \viy : of charity. Mr Hill
is himself very chatable { , though most of
his gifts are never known to the publi.- . Not
loir.- ago he itttenJexl a sermon of Bishop
're' ind , which pleased him very much. It was
no Iu whl-h the gieat bishop preached en
tiU ) AmericanUm. in v. hlrhhc said It wa
even AO'ing man's dut ; , to be a true Ameri
can , to b-Komp permeate. ! with the spirit of
the count n ana to aU in iis government
unJ development At Iho rloso of the
sermon Mr Hill tolii the bishop ho would
llko to have him call u | on him and that ho
would give him a check w hlch would enable
him to carry out to a certain degree
his ideas. He did and he received
moro than half a million dollars to build
a Catholic theological seminary , the priests
of which should be educated along the lines
which he had marked out in his sermon. I
don't know that Hill is a Catholic , but ho is
a great friend of the archbishop , and
Mrs. Hill showed mo a beautiful
medallion of l > eo XIII. which the pope
recently sent as a present to Mr. Hill. The
picture is as nig around as the palm of your
hand , and it represents a lovely face , kind
and gentle. . As we looked at it J remarked
on the sweetness of the expression of the
good father's features , and Mrs. Hill said :
"Yes , he is a beautiful character , and 1 only
wish ho was fifteen years younger.1' I then
asked her a question or so about Hisbop Ire
land , and she said that a lady of St. Paul
who had recently been in Home had met the
pope and that ho had spoken in the highest
terms of the bishop , and had asked her if she
was one of his friends. She replied : "Yes.
we people of the northwest are all friends of
Bishop Ireland. " WhercuK ] > n the pope said :
"I am glad to hear it , for I think ho needs
friends. " FJUNK G.
///.s im\TiTi ;
Cliithtcrunit 7'nniMicr.
A < down the aM'iiue ho rolN
Amid the city's noi-o and rumble
I \ low his greatness as ho strolls.
With cyo respectful , mien that s humble
Ills frock coat buttoned up quite tight ,
lias not a nilnUlc to IHMIICUII It ,
UN m-i-Utlo would be called quite right
Hy oery ciltlc who has seen It.
1IK silk hat , with Us curving bull ,
UN time-of just the inopor .hading ,
I'loclulm tilil.o the howling swell ,
Who Is accustomed to parading.
The niiglo that bo holds bis stick ;
Ills tiouser- , with tlifli fault loss crenses ,
UN lialr , that'ni | led strain-lit anip'sllck , "
I'lll me with awe that IIUMTceu- .
Pureno ho comes , with Pphln\llko face ,
lEcmoto from oveiy human passion ,
Humbly 1 stand and note the grace
Dlsphiycd by ihNgiivit King of fashion.
And as 1 watch him swiftly pass
What out ions thoughts aicmlno tohaibor ?
I'ntll I look unco 11,010. Alas }
I know him now. Me Is my barber.
tO.YUltl.l LI /j.i. .
The minute a mnn falls In love his previ
ous contempt for poetry is saro to vanish
into the very thinnest kind of air.
Jack You seem worried tonight. Tom-
Yes ; Mabel is hero with a squint-OAcd chap-
eion , and I can't tell for the life of mo
whether she is watching me or not.
Mr. Whoopcmup of Harlem reaclitil home
at ! ) o'clock in the morning ono day last
week. "William , is that youf" fiskod his
wife. "W-w-w-hy ! " said William , with pro
found .surprise , "w-who else d-dld y-A'ou ex
pect ! "
Mr. and Mrs. Philo Clifford of Ujon , Mass ,
observed the skttctlr anniversary of their
marriage at their residence on April 1. Mr.
Clifford Is one of Lyon's oldest inhabitants ,
and ono of three brothers who lived to cele
brate their golden weddings.
The engagement is announced of James
Arnold Churd of DrooklAii , a graduate of
Amherst college , and Miss Ixmiso Cable , the
eldest daughter of Gcorgo W. Cable , the
author. Her homo Is at Northampton , Mass.
When a young man asks a woman signifi
cantly if she knows how to cook , and she
doesn't , she can get back at him bA' asking
him significantly if he doesn't know how to
earn enouirh to hire somebody to cook for
the ghl he wants to marrA-
St. Peter Well , Miss ? Summer Girl-I
would like the key to and number of my
mansion St Peter The last desirable one
toJay for . \iiur sex is engaged. Miss Sum
mer Girl -Get me a fun and I'll sit down and
wuu until the engagement is broken.
Louisville s icu't.x has something to talk
about i.i the approaching marriage of Miss
Frankie Guthne , the greatest heiress In
Kentucky , to Master Sherley Moore , a deli
cate AOUth of about her own age. Miss
Guthrie is about-0 i ears old , and , as she
has nobody over her. will have her own way
aud marry the Aoutig gentleman next month.
She is the daughter of the late 13. Frank
Guthrie of Louisville and has fSS.dOU a year
to do with as she plo.isis
Mr. and Mrs Haxs of Philadelphia have
been married soxtnt.vears . and are Ilvlna1 in
a house in North Thirteenth street , xx-hicli
was built ciglitA A ears ago bA' Mrs Hajs'
father , in xvhat was then a pasture lot Mr.
Hays was ono of the "directors" of the
famous "underground railroad , " which ,
after the passage of the fugitive slave law ,
helped bring so uiaiiA negroes north.
A A'oung colored girl of Philadelphia thus
told her grioxanco to the court the other
day : "Mali name's -Virginy Georgy Luzby ,
but I has hopes oh hit bcin' changed , an *
dat's xvot Izo hjar fo' tcr kick erbout. "
"Never mind that , ' ' interrupted the magis
trate. "Go on with your story " "Well. "
continued the girl , "dis hyar niggah hez biij
a-keepin' cump'ny wif me fo' nigh outer six
months , an' ho bin powerful sugarA an * lobln'
fo' quite a spell He's a Janitah in a
skulo , an' kinder high-inflooenced in gram-
mah Well , ho promised lo' tor marry mo
Jes' ez soou ez ho could atTohd hit. He kin
affohd lilt noxv. but ho xvoan' . " "How do A'OU
knoxr ho can afford to man\v you * " asked ,
the Judge. "Hoxvd1 knoxvl Hoxv d' I knoxv 1
tried the girl. "Why , hlton'y locks M ) cents
fur a license , and I seen him flashin' a dol-
lab. larso night ; dat's how 1 knoxr. "
Ex-Governor A. U. McGill of Minnesota
has just been appointed bA' Mayor Wright nt
St. Paul , a member of the Board of Educa
tion of the city.
President John F Gouchor of the Balti
more Woman's college , announces that the
college has Just rercix'od a gift of # 10.000 Iu
the form of a chock from a friend xxhoso
name is not yet made public.
President Charles F. Thxvlng s.xvs that
John L. Woods of ( 'lex-eland , who has just
died , gave to Western Kescrvo university
during his lifetime about * JOO,000 , and not
$ -7 > 0,000. as currentlA reported.
Prof. John Fisko will deliver the opening
address at the first unixersitA extension
summer meeting , to DO opened in Philadel
phia July D under the auspices of th Ameri
can SooletA' for the Extension of I imcrsity
Teaching.
Prof. F. W. Dlackmar of the Univr-isltA of
Kansas has ) > ccn usk < ul to appear b < fore thu
International congress of historical xvrltera
at the Columbian exposition that moots dur
ing the month of July The university ex
tension congress that meets at the same
place , has also asimi Prof. Dlai lunar to
present a paper before its session
Mrs Sarah H. Cooper of San Francisco ,
president of thu Golden Gate Kindergarten
association and the xvann friend of Mrs.
Lcland Stanford , Mrs Phinbc Hiarst and ,
others of the philanthropic millionaire
women of the Paciilc slope , was a noxxs.
paper xvoman before she became an active
worker lo the kindergartens.
The Lenox library of New York is to ro-
cclx-c , through the generosity of John
Stcxx-art Kennedy , the library of the Jato
Gcorgo Bancroft. This is a splendid bcne
faction , bestowed at a cost of fso.OOO Uy
the terms of Mr. Hanoi oil's xvill this library ,
which Is cspeiiailA rich In documents i elat
ing to the events and men of the revolution ,
was offered to i .ingress for f'o.OOO , but ,
xrhilo the senate accepted it , the house do *
clined for the present to act.
\bout STO.O'W Iris bo.'n promised toward
the S'Jf.0,000 cndoxvment fund President
Eliot requires of the Woman's Education
society before he can recommend th incorporation -
poration of the llaixanl Annex wuli the
university to the dlroi tors of the institutljn.
It Is noxv thirteen AO.US slnuo tho.-'o icty fop
the Collegiate Education of Wonen : known
as the Harvard Arnox. xvas cs.ablishcd ai
Cambridge , and it is noxv a school of f00 !
women. Its studies the same as those ot
Hirx-afit collozo , atiJ Hi classes uuirhi by
Harvard professors In time noi claimed by
the college Students taking regular op
i special courses icccho certificates from their
professors ns testimony of satisfactory
work but as the annex has no ollitlal con
nection with the university Its students c *
not receive Harvard degree * .