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BURROWS AND OTHERS
IN THE FIELD.
Hew the School Fund Is being mad
Prosperous The School Land is
being Leased Rapidly The Prem
iums Good and Strong.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept 30. Hon. Jay
Burrows will stump the state for the
onion ticket. The demands for the
little campaign book, "Nebraska Re
deemed," are exceeding anything ex
pected. One county orders 100 for
ten precinct.
Mr. Bryan will give about ten days'
time to the Nebraska campaign, in
addition to the appointments already
Bade by him. Your correspondent
was at Mr. Bryan's home, and found
him as usual, working like a never
tiring beaver. Letters, telegrams and
visitors were pouring in on him all
the time, and it is astonishing to watch
him dispatch the work which he is
compelled to do. Of course, he evinces
a keen interest in Nebraska's cam
paign however one is compelled to
think of him more as a United States
man that as a Nebraskan,
Judge John J. Sullivan will not
Bake any speeches during the cam
paign. Investments made by State Treas
urer Meserve of money belonging to
the permanent school fund in gen
eral fund warrants, from August to
September 24, inclusive, amount to
48,070, or on an average about a
thousand dollars per day. The inter
est on a year's investment at this rate,
aay three hundred thounsand dollars,
takes the handsome sum of f25,000
as an addition to the temporary school
(and.
The temporary school fund on Sep
tember 25 contained $269,000, and there
are three months' taxes yet to be re
ceived by the slate treasurer before
December 6, the day on which the
semi-annual apportionment will be
made.
Up to the present time Land Com
missioner Wolfe has leased over 120,
00 acres of the public school land,
which the old officials declared was
not worth having, nor wanted by any
body. The people not only wanted
these lands, but they paid Uncle Jake
Wolfe over $6,000 in premiums for the
privilege of leasing them. This is
a pretty good way o make a wave of
prosperity wash up against the sides
ot the school houses of Nebraska.
COLLEGE GIRL BOOTBLACK.
Made Enough Money to Take a
Course at Vassar.
Denver, Sept. 30. Miss Lu Verne
Elizabeth Hall, the plucky Denver girl
who has been conducting a ladies'
bootblacking establishment to earn
money for a college education, leaves
the Western city today for Poughkeep
le, where she will matriculate at Vas
sar for a four years' course.
Miss Hall has been extremely suc
cessful in her undertaking; in fact, the
revenues from bootblacking during the
summer were sufficient to guarantee at
least a year's tuition. She will not
close her establishment, which is situ
ated right in the heart of the shopping
district of Denver, but will continue to
run it throughout the four years.
The business is no longer an expsri-
mentf it has been so thoroughly ad
vertised that hundreds of ladies from
every section of the city are now reg
ular patrons. While Miss Hall is pur
suing her studies in the East a youug
woman who has acted as cashier will
look after the business, and a hai!
dozen uniformed attendants will do
the "shining."
The novel business was conceived
early in the summer. The girl's par
ents did not have the means to asaibt
her in a college education, and as or
dinary work at a salary would not en
able her to get together the necessary
funds, she sought some other way out
of the difficulty. Miss Hall, with com
mendable foresight, decided upon the
bootblacking idea as the one most
practicable.
She accordingly rented space in the
rear of a confectionery store in th?
downtown district and hung out her
sign. One colored man was employed.
and be was busy a very small pat I of
the time for the first week or so. W hen
the object of Miss Hall's venture be
came noised about the business showed
signs of improvement. . The rusa did
aot commence, however, until the
newspapers told in detail all about the
enterprise and the young woman back
of It.
In three weeks Miss Hall Increased
her force to three men and enlarged
her parlors to keep pace with her
rapidly growing trade. Later on it got
"to be a "fad" to patronize Miss Hall,
and within a remarkably brief period
ahe and her admirers were rejoicing
over the fact that the success of the
thing exceeded her most sanguine ex
pectations. By the 1st of August the
force numbered seven people, a cashier
and six "shiners," who have been kept
busy almost constantly ever since.
Hiss Hall, who is very modest, was
delighted over the success of her ven
ture, but was much grieved because
the public has seen fit to regard her as
something of a curlouslty. She 1h of
the brunette type, with a wealth of
dark and large expressive eyes, which
some one has declared to be heavenly.
Che has fine features and her figure is
veil rounded and graceful.
The receipts from her bootblacking
parlors during the month of August
aggregated nearly $1,000. Some idea
of the fame that Miss Hall has so
strangely acquired can be gained from
the fact that for the past six weeks her
all reached several hundred letters
weekly. These letters came from every
state la the Union. Some of the writers
soagratnlatlng her for her pluck, others
csmtalaed off era for financial aid and
- chooJIng. while not a few were
frtyewM of marriage. Miss Hall em
f 'yed a typewriter and replied to all,
-1 aktag them for the Interest dls
, i Til la her behalf, bat declining their
.cm.
, , JLaoag the proposals of marriage
THE CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT.
Denies a False Statement Going the
Rounds of the Kepubllcan Press.
The chairman of Iowa's democratic
committee has issued the following
card:
"In view of the false statements now
being industriously circulated by the
republican press in Iowa and else
where that Mr. Bryan is being paid
for hia campaign in this state, I wish
to say, first, that Mr. Bryan paid hia
own expenses in coming here. Second,
that he insisted in paying his own ex
penses while here, but this I would
not permit. Third, that he has made
a most liberal cash contribution to the
campaign fund in Iowa.
I characterize as absolutely untrue
the statement that he Is paid for his
services. He is not paid 1 cent or any
other amount by either the state or
local committees, either to him direct
or any other person for him. The pa
pers publishings these matters have
said that his speeches at fairs and
elsewhere commanded $500 each. If
this be true, they should give him
credit, in addition to his cash donation
to our fund, for a contribution to the
cause in Iowa of at least $9,000, for he
makes eighteen speeches in this cam
paign. "Further, I have personal knowledge
that Mr. Bryan refuses absolutely all
offers of money for speaking at any
time except at places where admission
Is charged generally, such as fairs,
etc., and at that he refuses to speak at
all at such places within a state while
a political campaign ts in progress in
such states. Time will demonstrate
whether the opposition papers which
were eo ready to publish false state
ments to show the avarice of Mr.
Bryan will publish these real facts
which prove his exceeding generousity.
C. A. WALSH, Chairman.
UP GOES THE RATES.
Eastern Railroads Put a Stop to
Cut Rates.
Omaha, Sept 30. It developed yes
terday that the foreign railroads hav
ing Omaha connections had restored
the rates on freight which existed ear
ly this spring.
During the summer these railroads
cut the rates all to pieces, each be
ing charged by the other lines with
making "blind" rates on carload ship
ments. As a consequence of this rate
war rates have gone down in some in
stances so low that the lines hauling
the freight have made no money at
all.
The business affected was eastern
freight west bound; that is, consign
ments made east of Chicago and bound
for the west over such lines as had
eastern roads of their own and kept
agents in Omaha,
A representative of one of the big
gest eastern lines said when asked
about It: "The fact in the case is that
the rates have been restored three or
four days, but the matter has not been
given any publicity."
The restoration of the rates on
these lines in no wav affects the low
rates made on coal from Chicago to
Omaha by the regular Omaha lines.
THE FRENCH WHEAT CROP.
Official Report to the Government
Shows Big Shortage.
"Washington, D. C.Sept. 30. The of
ficial statement of the wheat product
of France for this year as made up
from the rfports to the French govern
ment by the prefects of the several
department?, has been furnished to the
state department by United States Con
sul Bruyot at St. Ettimne.
The product was 88,556,890 hectoli
tres (a hectolitre being two bushels
and 3.35 pecks), against 119,742,142 for
1896 and 119.967,745 in 1S95.
A leading flour journal estimates the
returns for 1897 to be 88,120,940 hecto
litres, as against 125,048,420 for 1896,
a decrease of 30,923,580 hectolitres.
Appointments For Speakers.
The following ar the appointments
of the Hon. Richard Dobson:
Holdrege, October 6; Elwood, Oc
tober 7; Euistis, October 8; Cozad Oc
tober 9: Lexington, October 11: Kear
ney, October 12; Kenesaw, October 13;
Harvard, October 14; Sutton October
15.
Colonel Edward Daniels of Omaha
will speak at the following places:
Blair, October 6; Tekamah, October
7; Pender, October 8; Emerson, Oc
tober 9; Dakota City, October 11;
Sioux City, October 12; Ponca, Oc
tober 13.
Attorney General C. J. Smythe and
the Hon. E. Van Farrell will address
the citizens of Wahr-o October 9 at 2
p. m.
The Dobson and Daniels' meetings
are in the evening. ,
BOILED DOWN.
Governor Plngree of Michigan, whose
friends were anxious about bis where
abouts, has been located at Chicago.
Dr. A. J- Phelps, a wealthy planter,
and lately president of the Mississippi
levee board, died last night at Nltta
Yuma, Miss. He was Grant's surgeon
general In the siege of Vlcksburg.
The secretary of the Interior has
awarded the contract for the proposed
Indian school building at Flandreau,
8. D., to Owen Hllle, on their bid
of $40,000, and has signed the contract
A coroner's Jury at St Louis decided
that Hon. B. F. Lamar of Falrland, I.
T., whose body was found in front of
the Gaiety theatre with his skull
crushed, died from injuries received in
falling down a stairway.
The will of the late Ogden Goelet was
filed for probate at New York City. It
places the value of the real estate at
more than $5,000,000 and the value of
personal property at more than $4,000,
000. Frank E. Nye, for some time su
perintendent of the city water office
at Chicago, was arrested charged with
embexxlement. It Is claimed that Nye
entered Into a conspiracy with other
employes to defraud the city.
Mrs. Martha Moore Avery, the social
ist orator was found guilty at Boston
of having loitered in a public thorough
fare in Rosllndale and obstructed travel
on the aldewalk by delivering an ad
dress, after having been ordered by
a policeman to move on. She wax fined
flO oa each count la the complaint
TAMMANY IGNORES SILVER.
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS NOMI
NATE VAN WYCK.
Platform on tooal Issues, for Home
Rule, Municipal Ownership and
Against Raines Law Nomination
For Mayor Hissed.
For Mayor ..ROBERT A. VAN WYCK
For Comptroller .. ..IilRD S. COLEh,
For President of Council
JACOB RUPPERI
New York, Oct. 3. The democratic
city convention tonight nominated the
above candidates for officers of Greater
New York. .
The ticket had been agreed upon by
the Tammany ex active committe be
fore the convention met and the dele
gates simply ratified the choice of the
leaders. The platform favors home rule
and repeal of the Raines law and other
restrictions on personal liberty and de
mands dollar gas and municipal owner
ship of franchises.
The nomination evoked disapproval
rather than enthusiasm in the conven
tion hall.
Congressman Ames J. Cummingi
was temporary chairman. In his speech
on taking the chair, Mr. Cummlngs
said:
"This is an age in which associated
wealth is marshalled, organized and
equipped for municipal state and na
tional control. Gradually and steadily
it has taken possession of the citadel,
seized upon all its approaches and now
raises its braxen front to terrify all
who venture to question its supremacy.
"Want, if it does not obey its man
dates, Is threatened with greater want
Destitution, humiliation, and finally
death, follow in its wake. Millions in a
day made by a government pawn
broker is hailed as a great achievement,
while honest wages are deplored as an
intolerable burden upon the savings of
the pawnbroker."
The platform reported by the com
mittee on resolutions was adopted. The
platform practically Ignores national
issues, declaring at the outset:
"We regard as the supreme issue of
the municipal campaign the inaugura
tion of a wise, liberal, honest and dem
ocratic government in place of the pres
ent costly, wasteful, illiberal and in
efficient administration."
The platform declares for home rule
In city government and denounces the
dictation of the state legislature in
municipal affairs. Laws that "curtail
the personal liberty of the citizens in
the pursuit of harmless pleasures," are
condemned and their liberal adminis
tration Is demanded until they are re
pealed. The Raines liquor law is condemned.
The public franchise plank declares:
"We favor municipal ownership and
municipal control of all municipal
franchises." The platform demands
that the price of gas be reduced to $1
or less per 1,000 feet.
The progress of organized labor, the
platform views with rej iicing; enforce- j
ment of the labor laws is insisted upon i
and the "extension of the law of In
junction in suppression of the stn:i;g:
of the laboring masses" evokes a pro
test. The platform pledgps the democratic
party to hotter the high schools, im
prove rapid transit; recreation grounis,
good roads, bicycle paths, small parka
and pier gardens.
The resolution recently adopted by
the democratic union recommending
for consideration as candidates for the
mayoralty nomination the names uf
Robert A. Van Wyck, Hugh J. Grant
and Charles W. Dayton were read by
the secretary.
There were ceers and hisses as the
name of each of the gentlemen referred
to" was mentioned, but Dayton's name
received the most applause.
The announcement that Van Wyck
was the choice of the convention was
the signal for a storm of hisses from a
large portion of the audience and from
the Brooklyn delegation from the
Twenty-flirst district, which it took the
band to drown.
The name of Bird S. Coler was pre
sented for comptroller. Coler's name
was received with cheers. There was no
counter demonstration. Mr. Coler was
unanimously nominated.
Jacob Ruppert was unanimously
nominated for president of the council.
Robert Van Wyck, the candidate for
mayor, was born in this city forty-nlns
years ago and bis family has been here
for some two centuries. He was grad
uated from the New York Law school
in 1872, Joined Tammany, left it to go
into the county democracy, then went
back to the old organization. He was
elected to a Judgeship In the city court
In 1889. Now be is presiding Justice
of the city court.
Bird S. Coler, the candidate for
comptroller, is a Brooklyn banker. He
is, it Is reported, a free silver man and
supported Bryan.
Jacob Ruppert, Jr., the candidate for
president of the council, was born In
this city in 1867 and Is a sen of Jac'b
Ruppert, the brewer He has never
run for office. In 1889 h- was unpointed
a colonel on the staff of Governor HIII.
STATE IRRIGAT'ON OFFICERS.
A. G. Wolfenbarger Is Elected Pres
ident of the Association.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 3. The Stat
Irrigation association have elected of
ficers as follows: President, A. G.
Wolfenbarger; vice president, W. R.
Akens; secretary, Joseph Oberfelder;
treasurer, L, C. Lloyd. The committee
on resolutions was Instructed to report
to the executive committee.
President Wolfenbarger announced
that the appointment of committees
would be made later, and the names
would be published In the newHpapers.
The meeting then adjourned.
Big Prairie Fires.
Webster City, la., Oct. 1. A de
structive fire Is raging In Twelve Mile
Lake township, Emmett county, and Is
weeping everything before St. The fire
la traveling In a northeasterly direc
tion. It Is estimated that over 12,000 tons
of hay have been burned. Several small
buildings and residences have also been
consumed.
LITTLE CHINtSE DIPLOMATS.
How They Are Educated In This
Country.
No better test of the gradual loosen
ing of the bonds which for many cen
turies have made China the most ex
clublve and least progressive of na
tions could be cited than the fr-edom
with which the children of the Chinese
legation are not permitted to mingle
with American playfellows.
It is Indeed but a few year since
the women of the legation Were induced
to somewhat modify the absolute se
clusion of which they were accustomed
in their "celeftial" homes, Mrs. Tsin
Kno Yin being the first to exchange
social courtesies with women of the
diplomatic corps. Nor was this accom
plished without serious misgivings on
the part of the minister himself and
considerable clever management on the
part of his frunds.
Mrs. Yang Yu, her succcessor, easily
slipped into the way which had btn
opened tor her, her picturesque ap
pearance and charming personality
making her a social favorite. At her
first appearance In public she was the
object of which friendly interest and
undisguised curiousity, but it soon be
came no uncommon event to see her
in public, surrounded by her little fam
ily. The children were, therefore, early
introduced to American customs, and
under American tutors advanced rapid
ly in the language. The spirit of Free
Masonry existing among boys made it
a comparatively easy matted for the
eldest son, a boy of eight, to make ac
quaintances, and gain friends. He was
placed In school, and possessing an un
usually quick mind, soon acquired
enough English to prosecute hie ordin
ary studies in that language. He be
came so attached to his school friends
and American ways generally that
when In April last a change in the
ministry was made the thought of turn
ing his back upon it all was a source
of the greatest grief to him. It was
rather hard upon the boy, too, Just as
he had got a good grip of his English
to be obliged to drop It and begin the
same grind on French, for as soon as
It was known that his father was to
go to St. Petersburg that Is what he
had to do, French being the court lan
guage In Russia. Master Y'ang Yu al
ways wore his little Chinese costume,
which made him rather a conspicuous
figure among his playmates, but once
a boy proves himself a thoroughly
"good fellow" his clothes count for
little with his chums.
The new minister, Mr. Wru, being a
protege of LI Hung Chang, and. there
fore of the more liberal party, be
sides having studied law In London
four years, had, perhaps, fewer pre
judices to combat upon coming to
America than any previous Chinese
minuter, though to distinctly reverse
one's social code is always more or les
of a wrench. Mrs. Wu, however, early
made her entree Into Washington so
ciety, and their only son, a lad of ten,
was Immediately placed in a private
school. Of course his school life seems
a little dull at first, as about all he can
do Is to sit and listen to the other
pupils rpciting, his teacher occasion
ally railing bis attention to som par
ticular object and requiring him to
proniMr.ee its name. However. Wash
ington teachers have had consideratl?
experience with the children of for
eigners and have consequently learned
to adapt their methods to th"m with
a goodly degree of skill. Recreation
time is quite a different mat'er. "
games and toys, the universal language
of boys, are fortunately about the iau.e
the world over. Balls, marbles, tops,
hide-and-go-seek, etc., are as much the
part of a Chinese boy's life as of an
American's, and with these as pass
ports, Master Wu already boasts his
circle of boy friends. He has even
learned to ride a bicycle fa diversion
as yet little known In China), but ow
ing to his costume, Is obliged to con
tent himself with a girl's wheel. Foot
ball Is also a new game to nlmi, though
baseball Is quite a favorite game among
the Chinese. Kite flying Is much more
of a pastime among Chinese boys than
among the Americans, and even old
men Indulge in the amusement with
the greatest delight Chinese boys are
also extremely expert at playing battle
dore and shuttlecock and amuse them
selves with it hours together. The
Fourth of July was the first fete day
that Master Wu witnessed in America
and It seemed a very home-like cele
bration to him, as fireworks, especially
fire crackers, are used on almost every
fete occasion in China. The evening
display in Washington, however, was a
great revelation to him, as, though the
Chinese were the hrat nation in the
world to make and use crackers, and
tUll continue to export tbetii in enor
mous quantities, tfiey know little or
nothing ot colored lights and tnt. bril
liancy and magnificence of modern py
rotechnical uibpiays.
Life, however, is very far from being
all beer and skittles to Chinese boys.
They are accustomed to spending man;
more hours a day at their studies than
the ordinary American youth. Master
Wu besides bis rtguiar bmwi vork
bag a Chinese tutor with wbotn he i
expected to work several hours a day
at his studiee in Chinese. Chine
parents are indeed exceedingly strict
fend careful In the training and educa
tion of their children, rarely turning
them over to the nurses during their
hours of play. The Chinese mother of
the higher class expects to spend the
greater part of her time In the com
panlonshlp of her children.
Mr. iu ttidu uruugm with her to
America a nephew of sixteen, who is
bard at work taking dally lessons in
English, with the hope of entering the
high school in Washington this au
tumn. Mr. Sze, an attache of the lega
tion and a very Intelligent Chinaman,
wag graduated from the nigo school
In June, and Is already entered as a
student at Cornell. During a recent
Interview with Mr. Sze, be remarked
that very much more work was ex
pected of university men In China than
front the men bpre., their principal
tudy being in the line of their litera
ture, which Is complicated, involved
and difficult, but which they are taught
to adore. Mr. Sze having Just returned
from a "spin," was dressed In the con
ventional English bicycle suit. In which
be looked very smart. He does not
bave his bead or wear a pigtail; and
at Cornell will wear the ordinary
dr of an Amerleaa cltistn.
HOW UONEY MAKES MONEY
GEORGE COULD S GREAT FOR
TUNE RAPIDLY INCREASED.
A Sample of the Republican Wave
of Prosperity A Stock Boom
Heightens the Fortune at No Ex
pense or Effort on Hl9 Part.
Sw York Journal.
Over 125,000,000 $23,641,037, to be
eiact shrank away as If by magic
from the Gould estate during the time
that Jay Gould, the founder of the for
tune, died on December 2, 1892 and
the present big boom In Wall Street
It was no reflection on the steward
ship of George Gould, the eldest son of
the Wizard of Wall Street, who suc
ceeded to the management of the vimt
estate. Those five years were not yea' s
of prosperity and stocks and bonds
kept depreciating 1n value to an exten1
that sent many theretofore wealthy
men to the wall. The fall in values of
almost all classes of security, indeed
was alarming even to such great for
tunes as that of the Gould's.
LOSS ABOUT $5,000,000 A YEAR.
It was this long-continued deprecia
tion in stock values that sent the
Gould fortune from $84,001,917 down io
$58.35,280 in a trifle less than five
years, or at the rate of about $3,000,000
a year. Nothing that George Gould,
clever business man that he is, could
do availed wholly to stem the disas
trous tide. Indeed, It is said In Wall
Street that with a less capable man
than he at the helm the shrinkage
could easily have been one-half as
great again.
George Gould, however. It was point
ed out fought the current at every
turn, manipulating the market with
such skill that In many Instances val
ues were prevented from falling as low
as they might otherwise have done.
HIS MIND EASY NOW.
Now he stands where he can contem
plate the situation with an easy mind,
tor In the last three months the vast
estate, under his management, has re
covered almost three-quarters of the
louses entailed by the bad times of the
previous five years. Instead of being
$25,644,637 behind the figure at which
Jay Gould left It to his children It is
only $9,778,528 short, and tt Is believed
in Wall Street that it will not be long
now before the estate will overcome
this handicap and pass the value It had
at the time of Its founder's death.
The boom that has sent the value of
the Gould estate up began shortly after
George Gould sailed for Europe three
months ago. Then the business world
of the United States was still In the
dumps. There was little sign on the
horizon of the wave of prosperity that
has since had such a magical effect nn
the fortunes of m-any, but while Mr.
Gould, accompanied by his entire fam
ily and a large retinue of servants, was
enjoying himself Bbrotid. participating
In the festivities of the Queen's Jubilee
In iondon. watching the Rovnl Yacht
Club races at Cowes and indulging In
pleasures on the other side that are
only possible "to owners of princely in
comes, his fortune increased by phe
nomenal leaps and bounds.
WEALTHIER BY $15,910,112.
In those three months he grew
wealthier by almost $1G.(iO,000. yet he
had turned not a finger toward that
end. Not only had he given no care
to business, but he even spent moro
money than ordinarily. It is not giv
en to many men to burn the candle at
both ends by relaxing their efforts at
getting wealthier and spending more
money than ordinarily and then find
themselves richer when they return
from their vacation than when they
Btarted.
That was the fortunate experience of
the fortunate George Gould, and It is
therefore no wonder that when he land
ed from the American liner St. Ixmis
lagt week he was so Jubilant that he
was described as the wealthiest man
In sixteen counties.
The big boom In the stock market
that followed the great rise In wheat,
consequent on Europe's failure to har
vest an adequate supply for her own
consumption did It for Mr. Gould. Clev
er bu6lnees man as he Is, he could not
have done It better for himself If he
had slaved from early morning until
late at night at his desk In the Western
Union building. No effort. In fact, was
necessary on his part. All he had to
do was Just to see himself grow richer
as the three months went by.
ALL GOULD STOCKS PROFITED.
Almoet all the Gould stocks profited
Immensely by the boom while he was
sway. The main cause, of couse, was
the heavy movements of grain that In
creased to a remarkable extent the
earnings of the railroads In
cluded In the Gould property.
Then there was the sympathy
of the market that followed, for
Wall Street Is immensely responsive to
promptings of prosperity, and now that
an accounting Is cast op It Is found thai
In only a few Instances did the Gould
stocks and bonds fall to appreciate con
siderably In value.
Missouri Pacific, in which the Goulds
&re heavily Interested, about trebled It.
value, for Instance, rising from 14, the
figure at which It stood whpn George
Gould sailed for his European Jaunt
last June, f.o 39' on his return. That
alone meant an Increase of almoet $2.
000,000 to the Gould fortune.
WG JUMP IN MANHATTAN.
Then Manhattan Elevated, another
Important Gould hold Ins, took a big
Jump In those three months. from about
SO to 112U. As the Goulds hold mor
than 100.000 shares, not to mention
bone's, 'which cliwe of Manhattan "L"
securities alao participated In the gen
eral rle. here la another addition to
the Gould riches of about $4,000,000.
A FAST TRIP ON WATER.
Plan to Build a Boat to Cross the
Ocean In Twenty-Four Hours.
The partial failure of the new
RFreneh roller ship did not discourage
Mr. P. A. Knapp. the Inventive
Scotchman, who has not a roller-ship
bee of his own In hia bonnet, which Is
otilte distinct In Ha lines from the
French craft, which floundered around
a few miles In the lower Seine and
then, was laid up for future and In
definite rnnalderatlon.
Put In a nutshell, what Mr. Knapp
proposes to do Is to build a ship on
plana of hi" own which will "
the Atlantic In twentv-four hours or
UMer. That li all, About 120 inllce
an hour, he think, will be moderate
fair-weather pate for the rrnft.
run from Iondon direct to New ut
Mr. Knapp ollev., thould be made
In something like twety-four bouri.
I This la by no means an on-pa.per
dream of Mr. Knapp's. He la actually
at this moment btllldlng a trial tb P
ln Toronto, and expects to Le aUs
to experiment with her on Iake On-
, tario before the month of October I
out This craft was launched only a
few days ago, and with plenty of
money to go with her the work of
completion is being rushed ahead wl b
as much rapidity as possible. Mr.
George Goodwin, of Ottawa, Canu.a,
is supplying most of thee apiial i,r
the trial Ebip, and Is enthusiastically
confident of success. The boat, a it
now lies in Toronto Day, looks liie a
huge tank resting on the water, ;.nl
is about as little suggestive of fp el
as anything ever seen afloat. m
length it Is 100 feet, by 22 feet in di
ameter. The diameter Is the time to
within five feet of the enda, wh'ie it
then tapers down to fifteen feet, l'-.v
this means each end is kept well out
ef the water. Inside the vestf! .it
each end a track somewhat wider th; n
a railroad track of ordinary gauge i
fastened to the outside cylinders. u,
on each of which a platform will be
placed. On these platforms will bo
the motive power, which will cons st
of four fifty horse-power steam boil
ers, two at each end, together wth
high pressure engines of 130 pounds
pressure, two of these also at earrt
end.
The two platforms will be abov
wheels resting on the tracks. These
wheels will be three feet In diameter,
with their interspaces filled with
highly compressed pat.rr to deaden,
the sound and give a greater amount
of friction.
To get the boat going the driving
belts from the engines will be con
nected with the wheels, so that when
the engines are started the platform
will correspond to a locomotive on a
railroad track. The boat will progress
by the rapid rolling over of the cyl
inders In the water in much the same
way as It waa planned the French sblp
should do, only the power In the
French ship was utterly Inadequate
to what was actually required. Mr,
George Goodwin, Mr. Knapp's finan
cial backer, gives to Sunilay World
the following terse description of the
craft and of Its method of propulBioo
and carrvlng passengers:
"The Knapp roller ship, as designed.
Is a long cylinder. It will be driven
by steam and will roll over the water.
The passengers will be on a platform
on the Inside swinging from the shaft,
or, as In the trial ship, running on
wheels from which engines will alVr
work against gravitation In turning
the outer cylinder, on which paddles
will be placed."
Of course the actual Rervire ship
will be of much larger size than the
experimental craft now In process of
construction. Instead of 22 feet, it
will have a diameter of 150 feet and a
length of 750 feet, as against the 10O
feet adopted for the trial ship.
The engines will be geared two to
one, and can be run at a speed of COO
revolutions per minute, altho'irrh they
will be rnrly driven at that hleh rale.
They will lie run at a a peed of 3"0
revolutions. At that rate the wheeU.
being 9 fet In circumference, would1
give the platform a progressive ppeefl
of 5,400 feet per minute, or about 6&
miles an hour.
Mr. Knapp had a great deal of dif
ficulty, as all men do who advance
great and startling Ideas, to get
scientists to even so much as look.
Into what he had to show them, but
he Is persistent and not eahily dls
couraeed. He had been working at
ibe plan f'-r years, and had made
models which gave him evety reason
to believe he was on the track of an
application of steam power to navi
gation which meant nothing more nor
less than a complete revolution of ex
isting methods. He at last got the
scientists and finally the capitalists
to look Into his acheme. and although
the scientists st ill are skeptical and
are particularly lacking In faith a
to his ability to drive hi craft against
a head wind, he yet found capitalists
more open to conviction. It only re
mains for him to go on. having the
cash In bank to do It, and complete
his craft. By the middle or the latter
part of next month be will be In a
position, he believes, to demonstrate
by conclusive experiments that he Is
all right and the doubting Thomases
all wrong.
When the proposed transcontinental
electric elevated railway between
Chicago and Jersey City Is running.
It la asserted that the traveller will
be able to eat breakfast In Chicago
and on the evening of the same day
bave his dinner In New York. Prob
I ably by that time Mr. Knapp will have
j a line of bis lightning express roler
steamera plying between New York
i and Southhampton, io that the trav
j ellcr will be able to take his break
fast In Chicago on a Monday morning
! and his dinner In Iondon on Wednes
day evening next following.
Four-Leaf Clovers For tuck.
As a good lurk charm the rabbit's
foot has a rival. Just now It Is the
four leaf clover that superstitious
maldena are looking Mpon w-lth favor.
Even the rabbtt's foot m,nnnted In
gold has lost much of Its subtle power.
Fashionable girls are wearing the
four leaf clover an a belt buckle, a
watch charm, cuff buttons, a pendant
and as the newest ornament to wlng
from the chatelalna. And it Is a real
clover which they are wearing, and If
possible one that they bave found
themselves.
The clovers are mounted In a moat
clever fashion, and make an excep
tionally pretty ornament as well as a
lucky one. The clover la first carefully
pressed, and then each petal mounted
on a small, round piece of white silk
or satin. Thla la then In en sell In a
glass, and the charm la complete.
Thla lucky clover leaf forma the cen
ter of many an exquisite belt buckle,
thla season. One of the prettiest show
ed the clover motinted In malachite
and gold. The belt Itself consisted of
oval pieces of malachltecaughttogether
by gold chains.
One of the newest lorsmette has
down In the corner of Its golden handle
a tiny ItirVy clover, mounted on white
aatln and covered with glaaa. It to
sunk and then surrounded by tiny diamond!.
