Capital city courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1893, October 01, 1892, Image 2
H w,. -- 1 -,, Ht ""k CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURAY, OCTOBER ,i 189? (rttWftwafciftit1- ' 8 IJIMBNSE OUK DOCKS. BUSY SCtNCS AT THE POflTO OF LAKE ERIE. MIMIoiii of Tom of Mlrlilunn Iron Or Find Tlmlr 'j lt :! cUnil, AiIiIn built nil lirlr liilcrcllim liifiiriiinllnn About n Mluniitlo Imltmli-y. (Pfvcliit CortmimnilriirtsJ Oi.KVi:t..Ni), Sept. '.Ml. When tin grcnt trniiNrtutliin Imll of tliuColtun Man exposition noxt year is filled with representations of systeiiM ami methods of moving tlio world' products It will havo fow Hint will surpass In unltuiu niul peculiar interest tlio sight that may bo neon ilnily at tlio oro ixirtn of Luke Eric. Tho discovery of extremely rich and almost inexhaustible deposit of Dessu rtior oro in tho Duke Superior dlstrleta n quarter of n contnry ago, as woll ns mora recently, lun Iwon followed by tho growth of a eoinmerco tliat la unrivaled of ita kind in tho world, and nowhere to- rUKt.INO AN OUK RTKAMKU. day will fltich inonntaltm of rich oro bo found heaped ready for tho transform lug flro of tho furnaces us at Cleveland, Ashtabula, Fairport and Buffalo and at South Chicago, on Lake Michigan. Tho oro lielng Ions bulky than coal can io carried farther than tho coal In the journey toward each other, so that but little oro is reduced in tho upper DoniuMila of Michigan. Much of it ineots tho coal at Chicago and Cleve land, but tho greater part la carried to the Mahoning vnlloy and western Penn sylvania furnaces. As tho lakes are open for navigation but sovon months in tho year, it is necessary to Hud a storage placo for tho oro required to supply tho furnnces during tho winter months. Accordingly at Cleveland, Ash tabula and Fairport iniles of docks have been built, lining tho narrow riven that put into tho lake at theso poiutx, nml here during tho summer is unloaded hundreds of thousands of tons of Iron ore and gradually forwarded to tho fur naces by rail. It is almost impossiblo to appreciate tho magnitude of this great truffle with out a walk nlong tho docks between great ranges of irod oro hills twenty, thirty and forty feet in height, only a fow railroad tracks separating them like narrow vm leys, and overhead a great steel frame Trork of oro hoisting machines. Tho rat tle of tho steel buckets as thoy tiro raisod from tho holds of great black hulled reisers by tho docks and go creaking on tho cantilevers back to whatever point the engineer has elected to dump them startles one, and tho stranger dodges In voluntarily as they rush backward and forward over his head. Half hidden behind tho ranges of red. brown or sparkling gray oro, tho colors varying with tho qualities, is tho pony engino operating each set of hoisting machines, pufiing and hissing away adding n familiar clement to tho strange scene. Now n train of Hat cars conn creeping nlong, drawn by n snorting switch engine. In each car are a dozoi. fills of those great ton buckets, look in j, liko such n light load as compared with the heaping coal cars, so usual in othot places, yet testing the strength of the gondolas quite as fully. A red tlnst rises and falls uiul tho laborers nro cat ered with it. Their clothes aro ochc: ona red, boots tho color of tho tnnbirl. piles they know as leather, and swea tnrrows aro down their dusty faces and through tho rust tinged beards. The unloading of a vessel nt one of these docks is rapid work. All tho lake oro carriers havo six and many of them eight hatches, and when thoy como to tho dock a hoisting machine is put to work in each. Tho great buckets un filled below, whilo tho others nro drawn up and emptied, sometimes being car tied back on tho overhead railway of the cantllovors 300 feet or more. Thus it l.i possible to take 3,000 tons enough to load 150 ordinary flat curs from a ves . sel in six or eight hours. At present tho nctlvity on tho ore docks, whether at.Clovelund, Fairport or Ashtabula, is almost at its height. T t latter point being nearer many furnace and having a straight river channel ro ceivos tho most oro of any port on Lain Erie, usually running 1,600,000 toiw ui moro annually. , OUTEIt KND Of CANTII.CVER. Clovelund tanks second, her receipt exceeding 1,000,000 tons, whilo Fairport is third, with 1,100,000 or more. Duf falo, Lorain nnd u fow other "jioints re ceive small amounts. Tho oro cornea principally from Escunaba, Mich,, ou Lake Michigan (Green Day); Marquette, Mich.; Ashland, Wis,, and Two Harbors. Minn., on Lako Superior. Tho river .frontago of tho docks hero is longer than at any other Lako Erio point, but they -aro not so deep, nnd havo not as great a iproportlonato etorngo capacity as at .Ashtabula and Fairport, whero laud snear tho river is much less vnluublo and i moro easily obtained. Few persons can iippreciato what 1,000,000 tons of oro meant without luiv ling it put iu somo more familiar shape 'The docks at this port, where thnt amount or mtro is received every year, bave a river It-outage of over two miles, and are from 1M to 2?3 tttl deep. Here mMk ' W!kS? IL-Kjrsa? Is heaped hills of lino red and brown hematite, like so much ocherous gravel, or the coarser lumps of sparkling gray magnetic ore, varying widely in quality and price. Tho casual observer ns ho walks along can distinguish but four or five, or nt most half n doren, grades of oro. but experts know that theso immense conical piles nro strictly clansiflcd, and thnt upward of eighty different grados have their place in tho market lists. Dut how much is 1,500,000 tons of oro? Loaded on flat cars thirty-llvo feet long nnd carrying ilfteon tons each it would make a train 700 miles long, or more than five times tho distance from Cleve land to Plttsburgl Yet tills Is but about one-third tho iron ore laid down at Lake Erlo ports every summer. Tho total would moro than till two trains of such flat cars extending from Chicago to. Now York cityl Ilesldoa this great oro truffle, which annually amounts to $!0,000,000 or moro in value, there Is shipped from tho ports of Lake Erie an Itnmonso amount of coal, both authiaclto and bituminous, to Chicago, Milwaukee, Diiluth and smnller points, where it is stored for shipment farther west during tho winter mouths. This requires n very different sot of docks, and in extent thoy exceed tho oro docks, Cleveland leads in tho amount of bituminous coal shipped, handling over 1,000,000 tons annually. Tho coal docks nro over two miles in length, but narrow, and the coal is usu ally loadotl directly from tho cars b means of derricks that handle great buckets holding half a ton or more. The work is slower than that of loading oro or unloading it, but n now dovico hai just been erected hero that promises to make it easy to dump a whole carload into a vessel at once, and if it succeeds tho work will Imj greatly oxiedlted. Without this tho Cleveland docks can handlo 1,000 ordinary carloads of coal a day, nnd tho total shipments from tho jiort each year reaches 70,000 carloads, or enough to mnko a train over 450 mile longl Nothing could hotter Illustrate the magnitude of theso great interests than that stupendous fact. When, in addition to what goes from Cleveland, tho largo shipments from Toledo, Sandusky, Ashtabula, Erio and Duffalo aro considered tho nggregato reaches an amount ns nmnzing as that of the oro truffle. Doth oro and coal docks gather an added interest when one thinks of thei varied and close relations to tho coin fort nnd industry of tho central west and great northwest, and what appears at tlrst as only strange and unusual be comes richly suggestive of tho great ago of steel In which wo live, of tho wonder ful development of tho lake region and especially tho northwest, and of tho nmazlng increase in recent yearn in transportation facilities and their even moro nmazlng cheapness. Bamukl. O. McCi.uitu. iloul llurluw. IBpvclul Corri-HHimU'iico.l Rkddino, Conn., Sept. 0. Asido from j their Interest us tlio theater or many notable events in Revolutionary times, theso rock ribbed hills possess a charm for tho student of literature also. On one of the broadest of them was be ti in tho year 1 751, Joel Darlow, tho most widely kno n of early American poets, author of tho ambitious epic tho "Co lumbiad," and in tho early days of tho republic "a man of might." Tho poet's father tilled n farm of 170 acres, and loci became thoroughly familiar with tho ins nnd outs of colonial husbandry. Tho old Darlow homestead wns de molished in 18211, nnd local antiquaries can merely locato its sito in the western part of tho town. Dut tho old tavern roadhouso and postofllco combined whoro at ono timo tho poot lived, nnd In tho upper front chamber of which ho wroto, still stands iu West Redding. It has uot suffered material clymgo. In it, wo are told, bluff and hearty old Put nam frequently enjoyed good cheer, both social and bibulous. Tho nent farm house into which tho old roadhouso has been metamorphosed ic painted a bright yellow and stands on tho old Danbury post road. Near it flows tho Saugatuck river, hero but a brook. Tho barroom was iu tho northeast corner, and back of tho liar was a wiuo closet closed by a glass door. A quaint fashioned smokehouse mains unaltered in tho sklo or tlio enormous chimney, limns and bacon were- hung high In thoso days. UMsumimwun year ninues the read- .elves, would preservo tho now unequal 1? of Darlow s epic timely, not nloiio rttti0 between tho Increase and slaughter, because or Columbus' "vision" therein , As it is now thero is practically no pro described, but also to show how far wo tection, nnd fiom June to December tho havo advanced in pootic composition markets of western cities show forbid s nee Darlow wrote. Tho "Coluinbiad"i3 den gnill0t it i9 not alone grouso, but tho perfected version of an earlier iioeiu quail, wild turkeys and other variotlos v) mu n.iiuu nuiuui, luiiuu mu --isiun of Columbus, ' written ere Darlow had gained such distinction iu other ways us n diplomat, general writer and man of nffairs. Tho bchcnio of each poem Is substantially tho same, Columbus, tho discoverer, being represented as a seer who dlscourt-os at length concerning tho trials, triumphs and future greatness of tlio Now World. Tho events of tho Revolution occupy a prominent part in tlio work, and Harlow has noted many incidents connected with tho localities and men thut wero specially familiar to him. A short distnnco from tho old build ing is tho sito of the cump ground in Now first Methodist England, estnb- lrshed ubotit lolO. The tents wero verv primitive then, often only branches of trees or blankets stretched ou poles. Abovo tho vnlloy to tho east is n high lidgo called "Uallows hill," from the execution of a spy nnd n deserter there by Putnam's orders. When Darlow lived nearby tho hill, then haply of less ominous name, was covered with n thick forest growth. Now it is mostly cleared nnd gone to barrenness. A fow itunted bushes crop out hero nnd there. Bprlug lends n brief freshness to tho vegetation, which soon disappears, nnd iro long tho blood rod sumao flames iu tho sun and tho withered grasses Bwny In the strong winds, nil tho work of its 111 favored uuiue, tlio superstitious will lay. Ai-beut J. Potter. PA83INQ OF THE PRAIRIE CHICKEri Us Hm llrrn Alniixt Kitorinlintliul It) lliillili' NiiortmiMin. Hh'L'IiiI Corrcnixmilciico.l Anil,KNK, Kan., Sept. 20. Tho oxliilii rating sport of hunting the prairie chick en on tho plains of tho west will soon he ns extinct ns thnt of shooting bultalo The quick whir-r-r of the bird is lu aril loss nnd less frequently, and tho hunt crs encounter a far greater watines than of old. Only a fow years ngo and tho sportsman was in clovor when In reached tho prairies of Kansas, Special cars with hunters alsmrd stopped in the midst of tho level plains, and whon the men came back It was with shoulders heavily laden with tho toothsomo and attractive game. Hut tho heartless nnd indiscriminate slaughter in season and out of season to which tho different varieties of grouse and quail have been subjected during tho past decade has almost ruined the sport on tho plains of Kansas, Nebraska Iowa and other sections of tho west. To bo sure there Is yet game, hut it has so decreased in quantity that tho present reason sees not one-tenth tho nmouut that existed a fow years since. Thorn Is little sport moro enticing than tho shooting of prairio chickens- or pinnated grouse. Nothing can be compared to it except tho hunting of wild turkoy. Whilo turkey Is sought in tho timber of tho liottom lauds tho prai rio chicken lives boldly out on tho plain, and trusts to his keenness of vision and rapid flight to protect himself. To creep tqion a flock of the fowls nt homo is a sight to bo remembered. Tho rich, plump bodies of tho hens shading from dark grayish brown on the breast ami wings to a light gray neck and dark head, and tho larger build of tho males with tho distinguishing long black feath ers on tho neck, reaching down like the cuds of a yoke, make a delicious con trast for tho lover of a riilo with tho gieen of tho prairio sod. Thoy nro large enough to mako a good, legitimate prey; they aro excellent eat ingtender, rich, gamy. Dut their out posts hear you, and a quick clucking warning is given. In an instant ovory head drops, tho bodies crouch close to tho ground and apparently disappear. Unless you nro a practical huntor you will declaro thnt, half a second has suf (iced for homo of the birds to sink into tho earth. Dut they aro all there. This one behind a little grass clump; that iij a tiny hollow made by somo pony's foot, another spreading its wings as it squats nt tho base of a weed stalk. To tho ama teur eye it is remarkablo if without con sidorablo search moro than two or three can bo detected, so closely (Jo tho colors of tho birds blend with tho shadows and tints of the sod. Tho professional knows that thoy are nil there, and tho bunch is speedily rilAIUIR CIIICKO. (lushed. In an Instant they riso about you ns if suddenly created from dust. I Ono was less than a yard from your feet, I yet you did not see it. Their flight Is a . peculiar one. Rising to a height of from twenty to fifty feet they tako a horizon tal course, churning tho air rapidly with tho stumpy wings until momentum is acquired, then sailing with outstretched pinions for many rods. A prairio chick on is never awkward or ridiculous ex cept when in tho nir. On taking flight tho birds do not, liko quail, go as a flock, but radinto in every direction, so that ho is a good gunner indeed who makes both barrels count. Tho prairio chicken is nonmigrntory, and, liko quail, turkey nnd rnbbits, might bo preserved for nil timo if af forded a reasonablo amount of protec tion. Grouse and quail can stand a com paratively closo settlement of tho conn , iW(, ,, wnll i n nmnlv rnrHir. , ttnco ou tbo part of tho sixirthiiion them- ! (jutfer Poacher Butter. Poachers go with dogs out of season and bring in loads of tho pretty game, and it finds its way mysteriously into tho stalls of tho cities. Kansas and Nebraska have laws pro hibiting tho killing or offering for salo of birds except from Sept. 1 to .Inn. I. ( Yot so flagrantly has tho law been vioiatcu tliat it ias become necessary i for sportsmen's clubs to offer purses for Information regarding violation in order , to prevent entjro extermination. It will tako but a short timo to put nn end to tho sport ut tho present rato of do- crease. The famous civilian Kpnnt. Itunnwa nbo ik iittnuhed to tlin irnvprtitiiinit ! ' in Yellowstone nark, idves somo inter. esting facts regarding tho Increase of ' giuil0 Bico b0Vero Ullasures havo been taken with tho poaching trapper. Tho elk, ho says, nro now in such nbuudanco that thoy promiso to give gumo to tho hunter in season for many years to . come, whilo tho buffalo nro increasing ' to such an extent thut tho park will soon bo well stocked. Tho sumo kind of vig orous measures will bo necessary if tho I western prairies aro not tobo stripped of j tho smaller as thoy havo been of tho larger gumo. u. .ii. u.uuii'.it. Mr. Thomas Evans, fanner. St. Mel- j Ions, England, while (lowing iu one of - ev"'" signi is mo oia try, at least ono as closo as most parts of ' "". " ; . which still re I tb west will admit of. and with tl. !,HM,tof. t,c foresaid. rohnny. Next morn- garret by tho i nr,M.r f0r,...,t of riL.,iiv Arklti . lnAntT "'V""H "lT ' I 'u,n? i ct i fiuriiiri-ii in ri'iiiiiinr iinn iiiiil.- iiiiiht. his iiolds, unearthed a jar containing 1 nearly 800 Roman coins of tho Second bud Third coutuvies. I trr-l-IHl. One of the mnnjr advantages of an edu cation Is displayed In the case of a negro woman who net long ago married a man of uiiprcKHHCiiltig appeuranco and any thing but an amiable disposition. She had formerly been ii servant, and one of tho young ladles of the family with whom she hsd lived asked hsr how she ever came to marry 1'ompey. "What In the world did lio say to you Dinah," she Inquired, "to persuade you tc marry hlmr" "Lnw sakes, Miss Mary, chllel" ejaeu Inted the good nntured Dinah, "you kno dat I couldn't rank' no answer to Point when ho come a-eo'tlu oh me, cuwu Pomp, he's edlcuted. honey, don' you si-e! Why, I s'mNu dat he got some ' lib Words out de Jngnfy, an a whole potty nl em out de dictionary, an so, co'se, Ml Mary, It wa'u't no use oh me trylu to hold Out against Pompt" Youth's Companion, WIIIIiik IVi't. She Why tu toe world does ho call his feet pocticf lie because they go to meet her, you know. Life. Tlmlr Cum'- Hotiiimlint Hliullnr. Thero could hardly haVo lieen n great rt contrast between two men who had beet; chums at school and afterw.ud at college. The first had a tingo of gray In his hair, wrinkles on his brow anil was round shouldered from long hours spent over n desk. He was trudging slowly home ward. The second was well dressed, and when he walked hud a moro elastic step than tho first. Dut he wasn't wulkinu; hu wa driving ns usual. Thero were some llin- of earo on his face, but altogether he looked prosperous and happy. "That man's worth half a million," said ono of the two men who had stopped tc watch him drive past' "And that i. mu Isn't worth fiOO," said tho other, nodding toward the one v.' lie was trudging along on the other side oi tho street. "I knew them when they were lioth poor," said the llrst. "Doth started out in become rich, and for a year or ho It seemed an even thing. Each was striving ami struggling for thoame end." "1 know, and ono failed." "Doth failed." "I mean one failed to get rich." "Doth failed to get rich. The other went Into bankruptcy and paid ten cents on the dollar. That's how he did get rich." De troit Free Press. Still Wiiltlng. "Waiting for dead men's shoes" Is a sor ry occupation. No man can follow itlnng without losing what little of enterprise and Independence he may once have had. Dut few pi-oplo aro frank enough to admit that they aro on that "waiting list." "Well, Drown," said Smith, as they met for tho llrst time in several years, "aro you married yet? Did that rich old grandfa ther of yours leave you moiieyr" "Waal, no, I ain't marriid yet, nor ain't likely to be author, 's fer's I kin see. Ef Grandfather Green lied done as ho ought ter hev done 1 s'posu I'd been settled down in a house of my own years ago. He" "So ho didn't leave you a cent, eh? That's too bad I declare." "Jos' so. Puts Mary and mu in n awful hard place. There ain't nuthin fer us ter do now but to wait fer some o her folks to die." Yc tub's Companion. Hint Colnrlilnl. A young man with a wldo brimmed straw hat on the back of his head nnd a look of forgiveness for everybody on his fnce entered a suburban car at a South Sldo depot yesterday afternoon, scanned tho few passengers who had gone aboard and took his Ktbytho sldo of a pretty, black eyed young woman half way down the aisle. "I Ieg your pardon," he said with nn en gnglng'smlle. "The car Isn't full yet, hut It soon will be audi think ono runs less risk of getting an undesirable scat mate if one makes the selection one's self. Don't you think sof" "Yes, sir, I do," sho replied, rising up at once and taking a scat by the sldo of n white haired old lady on tho other side of tho car. Chicago Tribune. Society Note. Johnny Fizzlctop accompanied bin sister to n party nt tho residence of Colonel Percy Yerger. In accordance with tho prevailing fashion the ladies wore low said: "Pa, what do they mean by unanimous?" "Unanimous, my son well, when every body wants the same thing, then they are said to bo unanimous." "Well, then, thoso ladles at tho ball last night were unanimous, for they all wanted the same thing." "What was it, my son?" "Clothes." Texas Slftings. circiiinituiitlnl Evidence. Clara Did you accept Mr. Pelter last night? Maude Why, how did you know that he proposed? Clara I noticed when he came out of the conservat-jry with you thnt the creases In his troupers had disappeared. Clothier and Furulbher. Ilo Will, Though. "Well, Tommy," said the visitor, "how ' do yon like your baby brother?" "Oh, lots nnd lots only I don't think he's very bright." "Why not?" "We've hud him nearly two weeks now. I snd ho hasn't said a word to anybody." uoston uione. Nothing to Fonr. JlniRon I tell you what it is, old boy. You ought to sco Dr. Cureall about your ease. Sick Friend To bo frank with you, I am k little afraid of doctors. Jlnuon Oh, you needn't bo afraid of Cureall. He Isn't n regular doctor. New Voik Weekly. la lleuiiiilil. Jurvis Miss Smlthert had fifteen pro posals of uinrrlagu made to her the day if ter she graduated, Bnell-.nd shu such a plain glrll What n-as the cause? JarvN Her commencement essay was n "Dow to Cook n Deefhtenk." New York Berald. A. M. 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