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THE OMAHA DAILY IVEE : WEDNESDAY , SEPTEMBER 20 , ISOf ) . an illustrated , true and concise history of the Q Q © Special Pictures of the 1st Nebraska "Old 01017" at Port Santa Crux , Zadrone IsUtttda * including the late Colonel Stotsenberg , Camp Mesa , the Hospital Reproduced from an illustration lu " Ou to ManlU Illustrations taken pital and the fighting line a complete roster of the regiment , at the time by showing promotions , etc , White the Douglas , A Book war correspond- In order to give all the etlt of the 8mt to be friends Francisco Exam- Pre of the First Nebraska an opportunity of havner * * served ing a complete and correct history of the regi for ment The Omaha Bee has at great expense placed this beautiful future book within their reach no coupon required order quick as we The Old Islands. Bell at Cast Snmnye In 1680. , padrone refer Reproduced Tram mi HHistratieu . In hava only a limited number. in to Manila. " ence. On sale at the Circulation department of The Bee Sent prepaid to any address tipoti receipt of the price , The First American Flag Rained Orer Manila. Address , History Department Omaha Bee. . Reduced from an illustration in "On to Manila. " CROWDED PUBLIC SCHOOLS Large Gitiei Unable to Meat the Demand for School Accommodations. NOTABLE FEATURES OF THE OPENING Nniuorlcnl Supremacy of Glrln In ClilcaKo'fl IIlKk School * ill I-I'll 111 Tcncliern School tVorlc Among IndlittiH. Notwithstanding the efforts made and tbo expenditure ot vast sums of money , many of the largo cities are , unable to provide adequate school facilities for tbo rising gen eration. This Is particularly true of Chl- cage , Now York and Philadelphia. It Is not a new condition. It lias existed for several yoaia back. But 'tbo number of children excluded from school for lock of room Is not nearly as largo as a year ago. In Now York City eight now buildings materially relieved the crush for school accommodation. The new buildings provide for an addition of 45,000 children to the rolls , raising the total to 400,000 , with a teaching force of 11,000 In the borough of Manhattan. Brooklyn's 131 schools opened with an attendance ot 163,000 , but the schools were not as crowded as last year , mainly because the attendance at tbo opening Is not as high as In mid winter. By the February term six now 'buildings ' will bo ready to accommodate the Increased attendance. In Philadelphia the demand for Increased school facilities Is vigorously voiced by the newspapers. The Hoard of Education ap pears unable to realize that growth In popu lation requires proportionate growth In school facilities. . There la no stinting of moans for -the purpose. The trouble Is the means are uaod In Iras needful ways. In con sequence of the mossback pulley 7,000 chil dren will be given only half time In school this year. I''cnturiN of ChlciiKo SrhoolN , Unfavorable weather cut down the open Ing attendance In Chicago public schools to 100,000. A few da > ii Inter the attendance Jumped to 220,000 , an Increase of about 10- 000 over 1898. The opening of three new schools and tbo largely Increased facilities of parochial schcola practically absorbed the BUrpHis of children In Chicago. But there Is no room left for tbo usual winter Increase , and should that come up to expectations half-time will bo necessary In many schools. To meet the needs of next year the cvhool tooard demands an appropriation of $10,000- 000 for new buildings. The expense per pupil In Chicago last year waa as follows : Elementary schools , $22.35 ; night schools , JS.u4i high ecboolx , $53.98 ; normal schools , $116.76 , and schools for the deaf , $96.74. Special studies cost per capita as follows ; Music , 11 cents ; physical culture , 56 cents ; drawing , $1.35 ; manual training , $3,73 ; household arts , $1.26. Some features of the eohool opening In Chicago are of general Interest. Teaching Spanish , a particular fad of Superintendent Andrews , waa Inaugurated In the high schools. A large tncreaso In the number of kindergarten schools evidences their growIng - Ing popularity , Another striking feature is the marked numerical supremacy of girls In the high schools. There are eight high schools and the enrollment bhows 5,090 , of whom 1,493 were boys and 4,097 were girls 2,804 more girls than boys , or only four boyo to every eleven girls. In the manual training school there are C30 boys and no girls. "This fact suggests , " comments the Chicago Chronicle , "the question whether the girls are not being educated away from the boys , so to speak , to a eerloug extent. The boys are taken from school at an earlier ago than the girls , and , It la to to presumed , Bet to 'work : la occupations not requiring In struction In the high school tranches. Is It well that so many ot their elsters receive so much more schooling ? Do- not the latter acquire tastes and ambitions and Ideas of llfo unfitting them for the relation of marriage with the less cultivated young men ? " lH-l'ulil Scliool Teacher * . In the latest published report of the superintendent of public Instruction ot Pennsylvania are the following remarkable statements : With the maximum tax rate allowed by law the schools In some districts could not bo kept open during six months. In others the salaries of teachers were altogether Inadequate. For Instance , ono superintend ent found that there \vero teachers In his county teaching for $4 per year loss than It cost the county on an average to keep ono pauper. * * The county hero referred forrod to Is not a solitary Instance. Taking for comparison the figures furnished by Cadwalader Blddlo , secretary of the State Board of Charities , showing the average ccst of keeping a pauper at the different county homes In the state , and comparing these figures with the salaries paid to ' teachers In the school year 1896-1'897 , It Is found that In moro than a dozen counties there were teachers who received less per year than the average coat of maintaining a pauper. In a surprisingly large number of counties there arc teachers who get only a small sum In excess of what It would bavo cost the county officials to keep the same teachers In their alms houses. The avorngo cost per Inmate throughout the state Is $2,65 per week , or $138.32 per annum. * It Is Eelf-ovldcnt that teachers who receive for tbo annual term a sum below or even slightly In excess of this amount can mnko very Httlo preparation for their work. " Commenting on this showing the Phila delphia Record says ; "In order to throw light upon this painful subject we should see how wo stand In comparison with other states In the matter of average salaries paid to teachers of the public schools. The re port of the superintendent of public Instruc tion of Pennsylvania for the year ended Juno 6 , 1898 , shows that there were dur ing the year 28,080 teachers In all ( male and female ) , and that the total salaries amounted to $10,332,759.07. The average salary , therefore , was about equal to $1 per diem for the whole year , The report of the commissioner of education In Washington shows that In Massachusetts In 1890 there were 12,275 public school teachers , and the total salaries amounted to $0,990,039 , or an average of $5C9.SO per annum , or $1.50 a day for the whole year. In New Jersey there were 5,620 teachers * , who received $3- 057,860 an average of $561.00 per annum , In the . For Connecticut or $1.B4 rash day year. necticut approximate figures are given as follows : Three thousand nlno hundred nnd sixty-two teachers ; salaries , $1,748,475 making an average of $441.30 enlary for each Instructor , or $1.20 per diem for the entire year. " Hrliool Work Aninnir Indiana. The annual convention of the Indian School Scrvlca Institute , recently held at Los Angeles , Cal. , marked n , new epoch In .lie Indian service and from It will date a radical departure from former custom In the holding of yearly gatherings of these who are concentrating their lives and am bitions to the upbuilding of the Indian race. Thcso Indian Institutes , reports the Wash ington Post , are tbo outgrowth of the on- eigy and executive ability of Miss Estclle Heel , the first woman to hold the office ot national superintendent ot Indian schools. > ln discharging the duties of her office by In specting the Indian schools In Kansas , Oklahoma , Arizona , New Mexico , California , Wyoming , Washington and Oregon , Miss Reel becumo acquainted with the needs of the Indian and as a consequence endeavored to bring about a broadening of the minds that directed the educational branch of the Indian service. Having tula In nilnd , Miss Reel recommended that an Institute for In dian teachers bo held , where , emulating the practice of the teachers of colleges and nor mal public schools , these government teach ers could meet , become personally ac quainted , exchange Ideas and offer sugges tions beneficial to their vocation. The con vention In 1898 was hold at Colorado Springs and demonstrated the wisdom of holding these Institutes. To further old the teachers In the Indian service Miss Reel suggested to the depart ment tlhat the institute lor 1899 be held at Log Angeles at the time of the meeting of the National Educational association. The central Idea that governed this Impulse waa embodied In Miss Reel's language : "Wo believe - liovo that every teacher can learn , and I think that when the teachers who come from every BoeUo-n of the United States meet In session dtwill bo possible for the teachers employed in the Indian service to bo able to study method , by hearing eminent scholars discuss pedagogic questions. The influence is for the hotter , and our teachers will be made stronger and become imbued with , a higher conception of their calling. Hence , the Indian Teachers' Institute will this year become , during the dally session ot the Na tional Educational association , a part ot that national body for instruction , advance ment and ) improvement. " The Institute tJhifl year was the most suc cessful over hold , both in point of numbers and in the enthusiasm of the meetings. The Pcrris Cal. , Indian band , eighteen strong , furnished music for the convention nnd nlio gave concerts at the different places In nnd about the city. The girl's Mandolin and Gui tar club , composed of fifteen girls from the same school , played/ selections and recited during the Institute and at different en tertainments during their stay In Los An- golea. They also played and recited nightly at the exhibit rooms of the Institute , West minster hotel. The work of botlh the band and itho girls' club was highly complimented. The manual training work consisted ot leather work , blackstnlthlng , tinning , car pentry , tailoring , etc. , such articles ns har ness , bridles , whips , children's shoes , chains , horeo shoes nails , hammora , doors , window cashes , tin dishes , wooden dishes , dresses , aprons nnd boys' suits being exihlbltcd , also a email stationary engine. Bach department of the manual training -was well represented , the work attracting a great deal of attention and receiving much favorable comment. I.diii'iitlonal ftotcH. The largest school In San Juan , Porto Ulco , occupies only one room. Harvard has 391 instructors ; Yale , 245 ; Pennsylvania , 'M ; .Michigan , 167 , and Chicago , 175. A score of ( Indents from Cuba and nearly half aa many from Porto Rico are at Notre Dame. Indiana. In future Russia will punish disorderly students by requiring them to servo In the army from one to three years , Princeton's new freshman class contains 259 members , a alight decrease , due to liiwrher HJholurtfMp requirements. It coats a girl $100 to KO to Vussnr. $404 to go to Smith , 420 for a year at We.lcsley , and $750 to spend a year at KadcIIffe. The college graduates of the country make a pretty good part of the population and Harvard taken the lead with a. total of 22,2) ) > 7 graduates. Yale has sent out into the world IS , 460 men , and Columbia 15,9il. Princeton has graduated 7,500 students ; Dartmouth , 8,501 ; Hrown , 4WO ; liowdoln , .4,1119 ; Am-ierst. 4,000 and Washington unl- I verslty , 3,436. Ann Arlior. Mich , has the larsci t coeducational - ' educational institution In the world wlth'.n 4t.s borders. Oberlln coHege was the first to , adopt co-education In the west , but now ' the University of Michigan Icud4 the way with 671 young women out of a total of 3- 111 atudents enrolled , Another feature of i Ann Arbor la the fact that , with only 1Z.COO Inhabitants , it supports forty grocery stores , , or one to every 300 people. ' Dr. W. O. Starr , the new prenldent of Hnndol | < n-Macon college. Is a native of Virginia and Is 5S ytara old. Ho Is a Knuluuto of Randolph-Macon college nnd has been ranked as one of the motet brilliant Methodist ministers In the south. 'He wnJ for live years president of the Wesleyan Feinalo college. Murfreesboro. N. ( . ' . . anil for the lust four yearo has bc-en pastor of i the Uroad Street Methodls-t Episcopal | church of FUclunoncL BANISHING THE GIDDY WALTZ t The Good Old Danca Discarded in This Utiliarian : Age. SIMPLER TWO-STEP IN POPULAR FAVOR MiiNtcrH licmnnn the 1'iiHNliiKT ot the flrnccful AVhlrl Oil tllC CHUMP Of ItH Downfall. To the carpet knights whoso dancing days came to an end a generation or more ago , relates the New York Sun , the announce ment of the dancing masters at their con vention last week that the waltz la no longer popular must have como both as a surprise and shock. All the statistics , however , seem to justify the declaration of the masters and to indicate that the good old waltz that became popular a hundred yoara ago , and was danced in Germany no ono knows how many years before that , is giving way to the quicker two-stop. The dance that our grandfathers and grandmothers learned only after patient practice has been succeeded by the two-step that a boy or girl can learn in two minutes of sidewalk dancing to the music of a hurdy-gurdy. It Is not with any pleasure that the dancing masters make their scmi-ofllclal announce ment of the change , for to them the transi tion mean's loss of business. Of all the round' ' dances the waltz Is the most dllllcult to learn , and that fact alone has always made ! it profitable for the teachers. Nowadays' ' when knowledge of the two-step In all that Is required to enable a person to go through fully half of the list of dances at any function there isn't apt to bo such a de mand for professional instruction. So the masters protest nnd It will bo no fault of theirs If the decline of the waltz Is anything more'than temporary. Dealers In sheet music have the same story to tell. They declare that the demand for waltz musto has been steadily decreasing for several years and that tbo sales of music written In two-fourths , four-fourths and six- eighths time suitable for the two-step have Increased In proportion. There are almost s many theories ad vanced to explain the decline of .tho waltz as there are myths and legends relative to the origin ot dancing. All axe agreed , how ever , tfhot the ease and quickness with which the iwo-fiptcp may bo learned Is the principal reason for Its jurreent popularity. Some oWMImons who were in their ballroom prime ton years ago declare that tbo recent death of Strauss lias had something to do with tbo case , Hut the young folks laugh at this and say that Strauta wan a , back number In this city long before ho died , that bis music was seldom played at dances , especially at fashionable ones , and that if there Is anyone now who eSicmld bo called the "waltz King" H Is Waldtcufc-1. Another explanation Is that the waltz has auffereJ the fate of the bicycle , only by a slower process , it 'become ' too popular , end when prizes "were given for the be-st "lady and gent waltzers" at Row cry festivities it hurt that particular dance In other parts of the town. AuthorlllfH DUiiKrcc. ! Hut this talk about the decline of the waltz rule applies to the largo cities and to certain parts of thorn. There are BOJUO Fifth avenue authorities Who do not agree with the aver age dancing master that the waltz Is going out. They admit , however , that the two- step Is Just an popular as the waltz oven In their own limited circles. The dancing man- 1 ager for Sherry's said that It was a case off half and ihalf. "I am sure , ' " he continued , ! "that I have found plenty of waltzing t all 1 the summer placet ) this reason. Ot course the city season ( hasn't opened ; yet and wo can't tell what -will happen when it docs. " Another authority declared that ono can't toll anything about city dancing from what is scon out of town. "Why. I was In New port a few years ago , " said this dancing master , "and saw New York society people dancing polkas in the Casino. They wouldn't have tlhought of such a thing at 1iome. " The dancing out of town Is altogether dif ferent anyway , and the further out ono goes the moro ho will learn about the dances that used to bo popular Jn this city but now are forgotten. A young man from a New Hamp shire village went to a dancing master in this city recently. "I want to learn tlho Portland Fancy , " said the applicant. "What ? " asked the dancing master. "Say that again. It brings up a lot of memories. Why , you must bo forty years elder than you look. I'm nearly 60 and haven't heard of a Portland Fancy since I was a boy. " "Why , they have boon dancing It for the last three winters up In my place , " replied the man from New Hampshire. "They think it's great and don't even dance the Tempest now. " Orliclii of DIIIICUM. The dancing master looked dreamy and reminiscent again. "The Tempest , " lie said , half to himself. "I remember now. Everyone ono in the room dances In the Eamo set and they are drawn up in two long lines. " "Yes , Just HKo a big Virginia Reel , " Inter rupted the young man. "And after the line-up the rest of the Tem pest is sort of a stampede. Something like a foot ball game , only Instead ot rushing at each other the two lines race up and down the hall. So you got through with that only three years ago up In your place , and then took up the Portland Fancy tor something new ? " "Yes , but wo like It and wo'vo danced the Virginia Reel for years and years. That's the only real and original American dance. " "No , it isn't , " said the dancing master. "Thoro Isn't any real American dance , ex cept perhaps the scalp dance and the sun dance of the North American Indians , and they'll never be popular either on Fifth avenue - nuo or on the Bowery. . The Virginia Reel was arranged 200 years ago In England and the lasc name It was known by over there was the 'Sir Roger do Cnverly , ' nnd wo re named It the reel over here. All of our dances came from Europe Just as they are now , or else they are modifications ot the foreign article. The waltz , for Instance , Is of Slavic origin and worked its way through Germany , Franco nnd England to us. Lord Byron once wrote a denunciation of it. The polka was invented in 1831 by a girl In Bo hemia. The redowa came from the same country nnd the mazourka had Its origin in Poland , where the Russian soldiers took it up nnd then carried It homo. And so on through the entire list ot dances , old and new , oquaro and round , all can bo traced back to a foreign country. " scouucn OK THU sic AS. Xcw ln ! li'Nlil | ( AlahaiUH Coiniuircil \iiUi UN Famous .NaiucNaUr. Something llko thirty-four years ago , relates - latos Collier's Weekly , a war ship , with a record , went down among the blind fishes In the deep sea off the French port of Cher bourg , after n savogo fratricidal duel. Every Bchoolboy kuo\\s the story ot the I light between the confederate cruiser Ala- ' bnmii and the United States steamer Kcar- fcarge. And now , after half a lifetime , the ship's name that made merchant sklppeni carry two nets of papers lu the ' 60s has been resurrected , for Captain Raphael Semmcs' "Scourge of the Seas" has como to llfo again In one of the finest battleships of the new American navy. If It Is ever put "Did you find it expensive at the seashore ? " "Awfully ! Even the tide was high. " forth for the undoing of an enemy may she pllo up a record as formidable as 'that of her namesake. The United States battleship Alabama has had Its flrat ocean trlail nnd has demon strated Its ability to exceed Its contract re quirements. Consequently It returned to the yard of Its builders , the Cramp Ship and Engine Building company ot Philadelphia , with a broom at Us foretop. Designed to steam sixteen knots an hour , the battleship plowed over the measured trial course off the Delaware capes at an easily maintained pace of 10.33 knots for the full run ot twenty-two nnd one-hnlf knots , The trial of the Alabama developed three points in Its favor : First , great friietnl , second , perfect tractablllty and obedience to Its helm ; third , splendid stability , us > suri 11 ; a perfect gun platform In n. heavy nca. The latter qualification is perhaps the most Im portant of all. Fault could bo found with but ono feature the ventilation of Us stoke hold. This can bo easily remedied and will bo cro It goes on Its olficlal trip. * * Now came the spectacular part ot the trial. With the double Intention of storing steam for the final ru.sh back and of testing Ilia eteorlng gear , the Alabama ran In an Im mense circle around the lightship. Gradu ally Pilot Long sent Its helm over harder and harder , until the Hanged rudder stood almost at right anglr < i to the ship's kcol , and then ns It heeled , v'-h ' the tip of Its port bridge far down I 'hosuter , itua scon that it could l Lomplccc clitln In about three nnd one-halt times its own length , less than 400 yards. Finally , out of this ring of foam , the Ala bama was hoadcd down wind toward the ! lglitslitp , duo on the course ' /or what piovcd to bo her record-breaking run. A couple of crazy rain squalls strolled aimlessly ov > r the vasto of water and viciously pelted the unarmed battleship , Tha screws were * still turning at 114 revolutions when the light ship was left for the last tlmu and the battleship begun to show her licoh. And now came the unique /experience / of carryIng - Ing wet forward deck.i whllu running dead 11 lee'ward. The wet and grimy congress men nnd , the phlegmatic Russians ( dreaming of their own thlps building , looking Into the mist , waited to ralsit the lightship , which would mark the finlhh of the run. They did net have to ttraln their eyca long , It bobbed into view In nb twenty minutes , and in prt-clbely thlrty- nlno minutes and twenty-seven seconds after the start the finish line was crossed. This showed a speed of 17.20 knots per hour or an average out nnd In ot 1C 33 knots. 'Mr. Town , iho big chief 'engineer ' , having cheered up the tired 'but complacent engine- men with the assurance that "they i\er < > all right , " gazed with hugis content and meditatively at the distinguished group of naval officers and clvlo dlgnatarlea that decorated the deck , and a murmur came eoftly from nobody In particular : We've got the men ; We're getitln' the eWps The broom went alo.'t to the foretop , and the Alabama ran through the breakwater and fctoamed up the bay , whereupon all floating things therein that carrlul a uhlutlo straightway went mad and postponed re covery until their big slstor reached liur moorings. This Is what the Alabama will be when completed : A turret steel battleship , with epeclflcatlonu and equipment as follows 11,525 tons displacement , 3C8 feet long , Bovuuty-two feet three Inches beam , twentj- flvo foot elx Inches draught , two propel lers , 10,000 Indicated horse power , coat , $2,722,695 ; to to armed with four 13- Inch and fourteen 0-Inch and many smaller caliber guns. She will carry a crtw of 489 men. So It Is apparent she will be able to ghu a good account of herself. "Best on the markut for coughs and colds and all bronchial troubles ; for croup it has no equal , " writes Henry It. Whltford , South Canaan , Conn. , ot Ono Minute COUKU