The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19??, April 30, 1892, Image 2
AN ODD KIND OF CLUB. IT RESEMBLES A TELEGRAPH FULL FLEDGED COMPANY. Aa Amateur Organization, tb Members of Which Hm Their Houses Conneet- . mA by Wire. Ho That They May Con. monlrato with Each Other by Telegraph. One of the most novel or unique or ganizations n Brooklyn is one that baa recently Rained a new lease of life through the infusion of new and vig orous blood and by a thorough reorgan ization. It is called the Phenix Morse Telegraph clnb, and is perhaps the only one of its kind in the United States. The old organization was formed in 1879 and started in life under the name of the Phenix club. It was inaugurated by a namber of young people, some of whom were engaged in occupation as telegraphers, and others of different vo cations, who took pleasure in studying the mysterious lanensure of dots and aasneA. BoeolleetloM of Oxford. My not being at a public school has, I have no doubt, strengthened my love of my university and my college. In my time the :be.-d masters" had not had everything their own way. It was pos sible to enter Oxford at the age of nine teen it was notViing wonderful to get a scholarship before eighteen or even earlier still. And to 1 scholar and fel low of Trinity from 1841 to 1847 was something to bo. It was indeed a circle to look bark to of which fifty years ago I was cln)f;i'!i a member, a circle of which a maa in unu h to be blamed if he is not wihtr and nobler for having been one. But love of the foundation, the feeling of membership, of brotherhood, in an ancient and honorable body, the feeling of full possession in one's college as a home, the feeling of personal nearness to a benefactor of past times, all that gathers round the scholarship that was something worthier than a mere prize, the fellowship that was something worthier than a crammer's wages all this, I hope, has not even yet utterly vanished, but under the hands of one re forming commission after another, such THE REAL LOBBYIST. THE WOMEN THE SAME ARE NUISANCES JUST AS THE MEN ARE. A - . . . . a private ieieirrann una was established and connected with the res- ! feelings have undoubtedly greatly weak- uieunnoen. a. dusv wim eueu in me uuora to ur.h hivn mma back. In the unreformed university, the tin reformed college in which I had the happiness to spend my youth, we had time to learn something, because we were not always being taught. We were not kept through our whole time, n was too. The hum of conversation, if it can be termed such, was constant throughout the evening. Stories were paased over the electrical current, jests and jokes bandied, chesa and checkers played by individuals who liked this sort of recreation, and in fact aa good a time was usually passed as if the mem bers were brought in contact with each ther by person in one room. Jokes of an innocent character were also carried on over the circuit, which had the advantage in so far as to allow the perpetrator to remain unknown or Talking it unnecessary to flee from the wrath of the person upon whom it Was inflicted. Quite a number of these axe : stock property among the old members, who relate them to friends with gusto and enjoyment as if they had oc- I Freeman in Forum. cwrrea oniy yesterday. One of these is to the effect that two members after practicing with another in the early evening, during which the sender trans mitted the Morse characters as fast as (he could, or as telegraphers would say "rushed" the receiver, notwithstanding the protests of this unfortunate disciple of America's noted inventor. The latter promised himself that a speedy revenge would follow, and sought to find some means whereby he could make th. 'rusher" as uncomfortable as he had been previously. The practicing finally came to an end, and the receiver waited until an un- : earthly hour of the morning, when he I supposed his victim had gone to bed and I when the click of a sounder would strike the gloom and quiet with the distinct ness of a blow from a trip hammer. At about 3 o clock in the morning he went to the instrument and began to call his victim in a manner which would indi cate that a fire had perhaps broken out or that the transmitter had serious need of aid in some dire calamity. lie ciilled m this furious style until he had awak ened the sleeper, who jumped up out of oeu ana went to the instrument, ex jiecting to hear that something dreadful had hapiwned. He answered the call quakingly. His indignation can be im agined when the query came slowly and distinctly: W ill you please tell me the time; my rlr 1 j j 111 jl.iim There Han Been a Great Deal of Korosnce Circulated About the Lobbyists, and It la Time That the Truth Was Known. The Real Thing; Is Very Disappointing-. "Show me a lobbyist" was the request of a friend who was walking through the Capitol with the writer. This visitor was a reader of the newspapers, a man of intelligence, and a believer in most of the interesting 6tories he had read about the number, ingenuity, boldness, skill and usefulness of the body of lobbvists that is supposed to be almost a necessary part of the legislative machinery. I showed my visitor a lobbyist. lie was one of the best known of the lot about the Capitol. He was leaning back against the corridor wall, opposi : e the entrance of the house of representatives, with his hands thrust into the pockets of a pair of trousers that were so raveled about the heels that they might be said to wear whiskers without provoking the remonstrances of the most thorough de tester of slang. If this man had an overcoat it was hung up somewhere, but the dusty con dition of his rather thin frock coat, which carried the polish on its back that Catholic-M. Paul's riiim-h. Fifth and Klxth. Father a tiey, Hervlces : Wins at i-iiu 1 : am. Hchool at 2 :3m, witfe to-neilici . I'ele-B PaMr S II In lay ChhImTIAK. t oil er l...riiM Hlui I u'till: M. Services innruiny r. mi n n I ,. a Ual'oway &Mir suij:i .- i. ..! ,v EPl.H'.:OPAl Kt Luke's i lioi. l. : . I , and V in-, liev II IS lirm -.- ,. ;i .-.i vices : 11 a. M a l 7 .'! v i ' !.. I v at 2 :30 P. M. GkKMAN MKTIIoli.'l . .full , liranit". Hv. Un (.. i, . ,x ... ,! and 7 .30 p. m. Ni.ihiu) .n,. .', . -.: PM KHM VT H I A N .- .-rvic.-NU , , v, ... , . tifT MIXlli MIX! I I Mi ! s(r I.Hstor ui!l;r -( I j,i al 11 a in '.! m in llif V K. . ('. I' . fhviii Nabtialli fveiiii at ' i.'i ii. Ilie OIllHTh All ; lei mini K meetlnf 1,. I First Mftiiiim;.i. smi, -t and Pearl. (ev I. k. )uk. Service : 11 , . m. x nu ? m 8:30a M l'r;tvi i tit. . li f.- v . , injf. 1. i ii i kI Nimh. J'ltt-I"-.VTI. A N Hi'V V. 1).', i;.x1. iiimI.iV - dim I :t . Collars and uurra COAP FOR SWFKDISK C I.X.KH, ,1 I .NAI tweei Fifth ji'i.l .-.ixtli CouiHru hAi-n.-T. Mi nv lentb ul Fii'enth Hi v. tor. HerVH-rs 11 n. m. iii 7 nieeliriL' W i;i.-M,i;i e.-ni! t. VOTful i v A v n n. 7 n n a -.Mi. ' j I j MMuumuuu tu. tor BiaminaHon. i nirh v.n., u: j. . examined in thia ,hi.t - r.""'. y" vry awrepu- ln this subject one term, in f that subject the next term, all inmiw ly combined for the better forgetting of one ining Dexore the next was taken in. We had one examination, and a search ing one, the successful passing of which could not seem ' to any but a fool to be the goal of study, but which, by the reading it required, gave a man the beet possible start for study in several branches of knowledge. Edward A clock has run down, His answer is not recorded, but it is safe to assume that the immediate vicin ity became as warm as a hot box of an x overheated wheel. The organization went on in the even tenor of its way until two or three yearo ago, when it liegan to languish, partly on account of a defection of members who moved away from the city or be cause the remaining persons would not shoulder in the proper or necessary man ner tne worry and expense of conduct mg such and organization. Then came another club which was purely social in its character and which was also called the Phenix club. It may have been that the similarity of names caused - a bond of friendship to be established or that some of the members of this body were capable of handling a key ana woriang tne electrical current However this may be, the two organ izations were amalgamated and a new order of affairs brought about thereby. The name was changed to the present one, ana unaer which it started out with bright and prosperous auspices, a nat, corner ot Alarcy avenue and Jr ulton street, has been made the head quarters oi tne club, and which may be termea me main omce of this amateur telegraph company. Here are located the battery room, which furnishes the powerful fluid by which the wire is worked, and another, which is called the operating room, in which are placed four sets or instruments and a double practic ing outfit. A galvonometer, wherebv the wire is measured, so that the where abouts of any trouble on the line can be detected, is also included in this space. Meetings and social gatherings are held in a larger room running off from this 1 1.1 A, T-" i r I . . . . 1 1 . 1 . . . . , - .ou,j vtju ji iu.it-ry worK tne circuit, which covers a distance of near ly eighteen miles in this city, mainlv i;i the upper residence section. The old "string was overhauled lv an exierienced lineman recentlv au'l put in sufficiently substantial shajie in order to enable it to more readily resist the wear and tear of a line in a larye and busy city. The circuit is placed along the housetops- pn: the route, and trouble of any kind or, as an operator would say, "bugs" are rarely met witli or experienced. Twenty-three so called . offices" are on the circuit, all of which '. have their calls in the same inanner as t3o the stations of a telegraph company. Among the present members of the jlub are practical telegraphers of skill tsnd records for sending and receiviu"-. Considerable rivalry exists between j them, and it is proposed at some future i time to have a tournament for fast trans- . j nutting and also for skill and ability in 1 receiving the Morse characters. Classes J will be established in order to give every one a cnance. une or tne tartest senders in the country is the secretary of the or ganization, Mr. Frank L. Cathri. Brook- Jyn .Eagle, A Question to Pucsle Over. He was a "likely" looking Afro-American, and as he boarded the elevated train at Twenty-eighth street attracted no small amount of attention. He be took himself to one of the cross seats, facing the rear of the car. As he set tled himself comfortably, one of the two male passengers seated opposite said to his companion in what was evidently intended to be an undertone, but which was nevertheless plainly au dible, "Do your people permit colored folks to ride in first class compartments . m puoiic conveyances!" What the re ! ply to the question may have been will never be known. As for the occasion of the query, he did not betray by so much as the movement of a muscle or tha quiver of an eyelash that he had over heard what had been said. uut just before Bleecker street was reached he straightened himself up and aaaressea tne inquirer. "Dis yere ain't no question of the Fiftyent' 'mend ments," he said. "I knows richt nlain dat me and my race has all de rights ob de white peoples to ride in dese ver l jteersso long as we got de money and naves ourselves. So oat ain t de ques tion. But what I ' would like to have you gemmens tell is dis, How kin a man be colored when he's born so?" And as he stalked out of the car the passengers all looked at one another and wondered if they had been given a new problem in socio-political economv to puzzle over. New York Times. Where "Ked Tape" Counts. Said one of the oldest and most suc cessful legal practitioners of the citv bar to one of his rising young students a short time ago: "My dear young fellow, nevpr fail to remember that in the successful career of a lawyer there is no one item so important to his reputation as 'red tape, loumay smile at this remark, but it is as true as Holy Writ, and the proper use of it in binding up a legal document has saved many a court paper irom being nanaea back for perfection or revision to its legal sponsor. In ear lier life I practiced in the court of one of the most particular judges in thi.- conimonweaith. I presented, as I be lieved, a well prepared report which 1 asked for confirmation, and to my sur prise tne judge unfolding it and looking it over found a hundred and one fault and directed me to prepare another one, out in better form,' as he said. I was utterly nonplussed. My time was so limited it was utter ly impossible. An idea 6truck me. That night in my office I put on a showy out side wrapper, with a hand indorsement of the title, with the most liberal supply of the widest red tape that I could find in graceful bows. The next morning' T nervously presented it again. The iudce received it smiling, adding: 'That is the correct way all papers for the court should be drawn up.' There B not'iiTr like red tape." Philadelphia Press. The Governor's Quills. The governor of this commonwealth figns every bill with a quill. This isn't because he is fonder of that particular kind of pen, but it is rather in obedience to a well established custom that has ob tained with the chief magistrates of the last decade. There are always a few members of the legislature that have thp collector's passion, and requests are regularly received by Private Secretary Roads from lawmakers and fliers for pens that the governor has used for signing bills. Accordingly dozens of these quills are purchased ever so often and the governor makes his signature each time with a new pen. which is carefully preserved and set aside for the next quill hunter that calls. Boston Globe. It is said that the manif estlv corrupted word, "isinglass,' owes its change from a foreign to its English dress to the pop ular lancy, -wmcn, finding the Dutch term, Vhnizenblas" (sturgeon bladder), meaningless in English, quietly changed it into isinglass" and secured ' its easy remembrance from association with the 'icing" purposes for which it is used and the "glassy" appearance it presents. Chambers' Journal. table looking slr.oes, justified the conclu sion that he was not finding an overcoat necessary this winter. He was a spare man, with a gaunt face, crossed by a white mustache stained at the ends with tobacco juice. His shirt was not clean, and he showed a good deal of it, but he wore a white tie, which only added em phasis to his otherwise forbidding lack of neatness. When he moved away from his place against the wall to meet a member of congress who had come out of the chamber upon the call of one of the doorkeepers to see him, his gait was a sioucmng one, and he might have been mistaken for any other loafer about the hall if he had not been so much more re pulsive than the others. My friend was disappointed. He could not understand when 1 told him that this man was one of the best of the lot of lobbyists about the Capitol, that he had been a member of congress, that he was, therefore, entitled to the privi lege of the floor, and that the house of representatives has never yet had the sense to makes its rules so strong as to keep out this man and several others just like him who are well known to ba nothing more than strikers and lobbyists who linger here to pick up odd iohs to neip tnem bang on to a miserable exist ence. They do not, one ought to be thankful, thrive as they are popularly supposed to do. If the public knew what a mistake the professional lobbyist is they would be driven to sawing wood or working on the railroads, or into doing some other useful and laborious busi ness. Then I showed my friend another lob byist. This was a thin, sliding fellow, with a gray close beard, who toed in as i . 1 1 - . , . no wameu quicKiy aiong tne passage, and who glanced furtively about as he went, as if watching to pounce down upon some one. This man was not an ex-member of congress: but he hail been an employee of the house mam- years ago, and had been caught taking money to enable a corporation to reach. through the door of which he had charge, the men who were to be pur chased to get through a subsidy bill. He was dismissed, and he at once went into tne service of the corporation that had led to his disgrace. He is in that employment still, and he associates with a great manv senators and representatives who do not know, or nave torgotten that others know, his odious history. He is an errand runner and a sneaking watcher of members who are to be encouraged to vote this way or the other on bills to be reported or killed. He would buy a member without hesitation if it were safe to buy him, but he is cautious. He finds out his venal man before takiner anv risks. He is not ingenious, nor is he bold. He follows the instructions of the corpora tions that keep him here, and he gets off in the course of the year very well in deed if he does not get kicked out of a gentleman's house more than half a dozen times. The female lobbyist is. generallv speaking, a myth. The women who come to the Capitol as promoters of the bills for pensions or for claims, come on their own account, and the onlv skill they exhibit is that which consists in so persistently bothering the members who have introduced their bills for them that they undertake to have them passed in order to get rid of terrible afflictions. The marvelous woman of charming manners that cannot be resisted is to be found only in the syndicate stories. The women who undertake to promote legis lation are, almost without exception, bunglers, and failures. Few women know enough about the ways of legisla tion or the ways of the legislators to qualify them to undertake lobby work or to approach members to direct their actions, except by the most vulgar spe cies of blackmail made possible by con tributory immorality. Generally shaking, the lobbyist is a fraud and au unnecessary nuisance. He exists mainly because most people do not know anything about the methods ef legislation, and because nearly everv- body interested in a bill not public be lieves that the lobbyist is a creature who can tide over difficulties and remove them. As a rule the employment of one of the throng of disreputable lobbyists, and most of - them are disreputable on their faces, is prejudicial to the legisla tion they are . employed to promote. 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