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WHAT IT ALL COSTS
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS
TAKE A PILE OF MONEY
Total Expense of the National Con
vention at St Louis Probably Be
tween 3000000 and 4000000
WJnere the Money Goea
An Enormous Expense
Few people have any idea of the cost of
a great national convention Time was
when 100000 would have been thought
a pretty high figure In the old days
when Baltimore was the great national
convention city and half the delegates
-were represented by proxies from Con
gressmen and others in Washington and
when the convention met in theaters or
halls and the members and visitors lodg
ed in low rate hotels and boarding houses
no doubt conventions were held at much
less cost than even the half of 100000
But things are vastly different nowadays
Millions now figure where tens of thou
sands were once thought big
Col H L Swords sergeant-at-arms of
the Republican national committee esti
mates the total cost of the St Louis con
vention at over 3000000
First of all should be counted the
straight expenses of the convention borne
by the Business Mens League of St
Louis These expenses amounted to
about 150000 at Minneapolis in 1S92
The cost of the hall alone at St Louis is
not far from 75000 including cost of
repairs after the tornado Other bills to
le footed by the Business Mens League
FIFTEEN ACRES IN DOLLAR BILLS
the base would be five feet high Four
million silver dollars would make a pyra
mid ten feet square at the base and fif
teen feet high The cigars smoked by the
crowds allowing five cigars a day which
is not too many for each man would
make a pile of 70000 boxes of cigars and
this pile would be alout two and one half
miles high Arranged in a tier of five
boxes side by side the pile would be
about 202 feet high or within twenty
feet as high as the top on the Liberty
statue that stands on the top of the Cap
itols dome Placed end to end 3500000
cigars would reach 24S miles or almost
as far as from St Louis to Chicago At
an average of S 1 3 cents three for a
quarter these cigars would cost 291665
A statue to Li Hung Chang was un
Teiled at the Villa Huegal in Germany
belonging to Herr Krupp who made a
speech dwelling upon the cordial relatons
existing between Germany and China
Li Hung Chang afterwards inspected the
great gun factory and other buildings of
the famous Essen works
Father John J Glennon has been con
secrated coadjutor bishop by Rt Rev
J J Hogan of the Kansas City diocese
The ceremonies attendant upon the con
secration took place in the Cathedral of
the Immaculate Conception which was
crowded to the doors
Frank Bish a police officer was shot
and killed at Colorado Springs Colo by
one of three burglars whom he discovered
trying to enter the rear of the Gazette
building A crowd of citizens gave chase
and were closing in on one fugitive when
he drew his revolver and killed himself
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COST IX SILVER AXD GOLD
include the expenses of the
of the convention various printing
-accounts the cleaning of the hall its
lighting fees for police and fire protec
tion big postage bills and a thousand
other things Take 3000 men as repre
senting delegates alternates and their
following add the assistant
the doorkeepers and the messen
gers in all about a thousand and the
newspaper correspondents and reporters
and the total shows 4000 If each one of
these men spends 100 in addition to his
railroad fare and this is a very small
average the total reaches 400000 In
clude the expenses borne by the telegraph
companies and the big press associations
in getting ready to spread the news the
-total expenses of the Business Mens
League and those directly interested will
liot be a cent less than a round half mill-
J ion of dollars
Py -Allowing 100000 as a fair estimate of
- me number or strancers tnroncinc to tne
convention city and railroad tickets alone
lor such a crowd mean something like
3750000 and 300000 a day follows for
board and lodging The cost of main
taining headquarters music decorations
and literature cannot come under 100
000 This is not all however for neither
the expense of sending the news from St
Louis to the thousands of daily papers in
the various States nor the cost of the
thousands of private telegrams a small
er but still a considerable sum has been
counted in It is not easy to estimate
either of these sums but it is not going
too far perhaps to assume that all the
v vxpenditures due to the convention used
up almost 4000000
If the 4000000 were to be paid out in
dollar bills and these bills were to be
made into a carpet it would be 1000 feet
long and G50 feet wide covering an area
of about fifteen acres and the capitol at
Washington if placed in the middle of the
carpet would appear like a toy house set
on a big rug Four million dollars in gold
piled in a pyramid four feet each wav at
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
Notable Gathering of Southern War
Heroes at Richmond
Richmond Aa was filled last week
with Confederate veterans for their sixth
annual reunion Tuesday and Wednesday
and for the corner stone laying of the
Jefferson Davis monument Thursday and
probably there were more ex-Confederates
there than will ever assemble at one
place again Many looked upon it as the
last great rally around the stars and bars
The decorators iiAd been at work a week
and the building on the principal streets
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RICHMOND WELCOME EX CONFEDERATES
are almost hidden from view behind Con
federate and national colors
When the convention of former Confed
erates was called to order Tuesday in the
great Auditorium building erected espe
cially for this occasion Gen Gordon
faced 10000 persons mostly grizzled vet
erans There went up such a shout as
has not been heard since the Southern
army was winning battles in the war
Gov OFerrall delivered an address of
welcome and Mayor Taylor welcomed
the visitors to the city In the evening
the Confederate Memorial and Literary
Society tendered a reception to Mrs Jef
ferson Davis and her daughters at the
former White House of the Confederacy
now the Confederate Museum There
were also bivouacs at the various camps
The reunion ended Wednesday evening
with a reception by the Governor of Vir
ginia a reception to Mrs Davis and her
daughters by the Sons of Veterans and
bivouacs in camps
Thursday the corner stone of the Jeffer
son Davis monument was laid The
great parade was headed by a band of
1000 uniformed children and there were
25000 men on foot and horseback In
the parade were the Worshipful Grand
Lodge of Masons escorted by Command
ery of St Andrew K T Governor of
Virginia and staff with a corps of cadets
as escort the military commanded by
Brig Gen A L Phillips of Virginia
the orator of the day Gen Stephen D
Lee Davis Monument Association and
Mrs Jefferson Davis and family At the
site for the monument Bishop John C
Granbery of the M E Church south
offered prayer The Grand Lodge of
Virginia laid the corner stone and Gen
S D Lee delivered the oration
DYNAMITE FOR TORNADOES
How a Government Scientist Would
Destroy Death Dealing Clouds
Fifty years hence not a big town in
the Southwest will be without a tornado
trap said Prof H A Hazen of the
weather bureau the other day The time
has arrived when serious attention must
be given to finding means of defense
against these whirling storms As the so
called cyclone belt becomes more thickly
populated disasters from this cause will
grow more frequent My belief is that
any town in that region would be ren
dered safe against tornadoes by a series
of lookout stations extended in a line from
north to south so as to interpose a barrier
on the danger side i e the west side
from which the revolving storm invariably
conies This barrier would be made ef
fective by means of a system of dynamite
bombs connected with the stations by
wires It would not be necessary to keep
guard all the time but the men appointed
for the purpose would only go on duty
when warning was received from the
weather bureau that conditions were fav
orable for cyclones On seeing a funnel
cloud approaching the operator would
simply wait until it got near enough and
then touch off the cartridge which would
blow it to smithereens
What reason is there for doubting that
such a method would be successful Do
we not know that waterspouts at sea are
sometimes dissipated and reduced to
harmlessness by the firing of guns from
threatened ships A waterspout is noth
ing more nor less than a marine tornado
Occasionally they have been seen to run
upon the land and transform themselves
into cyclones If the tornado were not
destroyed by the dynamite explosions it
would be likely to be deprived of so much
of its energy as to be rendered incapable
of doing harm The cost of maintaining
such systems of defense throughout the
cyclone belt would not amount in 500
years to the 10000000 which the recent
calamity is said to have cost St Louis
Money ought to be appropriated by
Congress for studying this Strange and
little understood phenomenon It is most
important that we should learn about the
mechanism of the tornado a meteorologi
cal disturbance capable of destroying 10
000000 worth of property in ten minutes
All we know at present is that the energy
of the cyclone must be electrical In no
other way could the destruction caused
by it be accounted for It is always ac
companied by a severe thunder storm
The weather bureau report says that dur
ing the St Louis tornado the electric dis
play was exceeding brilliant the whole
west and northwest sky being an almost
continuous blaze of light Intensely vivid
flashes of forked lightning were outlined
in green blue and bright yellow against
the duller background of never ceasing
sheet lightning Evidently then it is
necessary that we should find some means
of dissipating the electricity with which
the destructive funnel cloud is charged
The persons who were drowned by the
collapse of a wharf at Boston were
James J Washburn 11 years old John
F Cole 9 years old John A Leary aged
13 Lawrence McDowell 10 years
A petition has been filed before the
AttorneyGeneral of New York State ask
ing for permission to begin an action in
the Supreme Court to annul the charters
of the various Brooklyn gas companies
known as the Brooklyn Union Gas Com
pany on the grounds that they are violat
ing their charters and the laws of the
State which forbid trusts
H G Thurstons homing pigeon Rex
has arrived at Fall River Mass from
Amherst Va a distance of 500 miles
the average flight being 119S yards a
minute
CAMPAIGN CLUB OUTFITS
How to Costume an Polit
ical Organization
Political clubs are the pride of those
who belong to them and the envy and
admiration of those who view them
To manage a campaign club takes the
skill of a Napoleon But before the
Napoleonic era comes that of the Roths
child The wherewithal and the how
wlthul to fight Then the conflict
In getting up a campaign club the
rooms take care of themselves A
friendly nook always opens itself and
there unite the forces that are to con-
quer the opposing elements in the
neighborhood The initial step is the
uniforming A warrior must be armed
cap-a-pie before he goes out to meet
even the curious small boys that hang
around the doors
To dress a campaign warrior is a
matter of price and endeavor with the
committee having the dressing in hand
Manufacturers have been busy for
month getting ready to meet these
committees and shop windows are as
luminous at night as the transparen
cies they offer A battle ax a gun
and a transparency may be enough
for a boys club but men want more
elaborate equipment They must be
dressed from peak to toe Uniforms
of all styles are made for them and
to ask the price of them is to set a clerk
rattling off prices as though a handle
had been lifted from a phonographic
machine
The most extensive political uniform
outfit can be purchased for 7 This
is a very expensive outfit and is bought
only by gilt edged clubs with either
a fashionable neighborhood to parade
or a womans auxiliary club to ad
mire A complete outfit of an expens
ive suit in a Prince Albert coat a pair
cost of getting up a campaign club I
so small that it Is practically nothing
A collection will inaugurate the move
ment A ten cent cap a ten cent dou
ble swinging torch and a fifteen cent
oilcloth cape set the ball rolling gayly
There lives no man with political soul
so dead that he has never joined a
campaign club and this year the low
price of uniforms brings the political
club within the range of all who fee
the spark of marching patriotism
Balloon Game in Paris
The newest sport in Paris is the bal
loon game which Is played in this fash
WITH THESE ANY CAMPAIGN CLUB CAN BE FORMED
1 Oilcloth cape In red white blue or
ilack
2 Wooden musket
3 Flannel shirt embroidered with candi
date or muslin shirt stamped with same
4 Transparency painted with name and
national colors
5 Silvered battle ax upon light wooden
mounting
6 Double swivel torch hangs straight no
matter how carried perfectly safe
7 Bulls eye fixed with red glass
8 Political broom can be fixed in end of
musket or above battle ax
9 Flag of stiff material silk or muslin
or tin
10 Fur shako of white or black for cam
paigners or musicians
11 12 White duck leggings for knicker
bockers or trousers
13 Dark night marching lantern set with
colored lights
14 Cockade hat for Napoleonic or Wash
Ingtonlan clubs
15 16 Cap and silk hat the latter a politi
cal favorite with certain clubs
17 Patriotic belt for full dress white
leather with raised silver eagle
18 19 Samples of uniforms for clubs that
wear full military or fancy dress
ion A number of toy balloons are en
tered for the competition and in each
of them is placed an envelope contain
ing a postal card which is addressed
to the judge of the contest The little
balloons are then set free and after
more or less time come to earth again
in different parts of the country Those
who find them see the envelopes and
notice thereon a request that the time
when each balloon was found and also
the place be written on the postal card
which is then to be dropped in the
postoffice At the end of a week the
various postal cards are compared and
the prize is awarded to that balloon
which traveled the greatest distance
in the shortest time Not a costly sport
this and one which is likely to give a
great impetus to a new industry the
manufacture of racing balloons
Only One Way to Get Volunteers
There had been a lack of men joining
the ranks and the colonel was visit
ing a recruiting station inspecting the
workings of his recruiting sergeants
Suddenly a terrible noise of shouting
and shuffling of feet came through the
open window Now7 it came from the
stairway intermingled with sundry
WHAT WE MAY EXPECT DURING THE CAMPAIGN
of trousers a belt a lantern a battle
as a shako and leggins Of these the
Prince Albert costs 3 the trousers
150 made either of white duck or
felt of any color the belt of white
canvas is 25 cents the white duck leg
gins 25 cents and the shako 125 The
remainder goes for torch and battle
ax
A cheaper uniform and one that
looks almost as good comes within
115 There is a helmet costing 30
cents a belt a gun charged with a
flag upon the end and a flannel shirt
The last is stamped with the name and
face of the candidate Vote for A
A cap a cape of oil cloth in any color
and a torch can all be bought for 55
cents for the uniforming of a boys
club The most important part of a
political uniform is the hat There
arc small white duck caps that cost
15 cents Oilcloth ones in colors can be
purchased for 25 cents and so up to
the fur shako of fairly good quality
for 75 cents
Makers of uniforms say there is no
call for good materials The cam
paigners want a great deal for the
money but they do not ask for endur
ing things They want them for night
ly appearance for three months but
after November they will be hung up
j in the archives of the clubs or thrown
to the boys for city elections The
loud bumps and knocks and the door
burst open showing a red faced pers
piring little sergeant pushing haul
ing and tugging at a big country lad
The latter was doing his best to es
cape the firm grip of the soldier Halt
cried the colonel How is this he
said to the sergeant Is this the way
you secure recruits by force sir The
red faced sergeant looked up and down
then at the colonel and blurted out
Sure sir the only way to get them vol
unteers is by force sir
Mark Was Grateful
When Mark Twain was married his
brides father bought and furnished a
handsome house for the young pair
Twain says Harpers knew nothing
of it until after the wedding when
it was shown to him in all its com
pleteness by a party of his wifes rela
tives and of course his wife who at
length broke out
Its our house yours and mine a
present from father
He choked up and with tears in his
eyes stammered out to his father-in-law
Mr Langdon whenever yon are In
Buffalo if its twice a year come right
up here and bring yonr bag with yon
You may stay over night if you irant
to It shantcost you a centl 4
TPfeSRf
A mysterious ringing cf electrical
bells in a house in Switzerland was
traced to a spider whose web had con
nected two wires
Fashions in dogs change as often as
any other fad This year dacshunds
and poodles seem to have the call and
pugs are relegated to obscurity
Light acts upon the brain and those
who sleep with their blinds up will
find that in summer time when so few
hours are really dark their sleep is not
refreshing
The county clerk of Fresno Cal is
in a quandary A will written In
Chinese has been filed with him for rec
ord and he doesnt know how to copy
It into his book
It is estimated that the average life
Insurance in Cape Colony is about 125
per head a very remarkable showing
and Indicative of activity among in
surance men
The railroads of Mexico are with
one exception of American make and
the engineers train and station officials
are nearly all Americans The roads
are all well managed
The Russian Government is expected
to introduce the Gregorian calendar in
1900 This may be done suddenly or
by omitting the 29th of February in
the first twelve leap years
The Mexican police attend closely to
their duties and are very polite At
night each policeman carries a lantern
and his lantern is set out on the side
walk opposite wherever he may be
A city ordinance in New York limits
the number of hand organs to 1500
The result has been to crowd Brook
lyn full of perambulating music boxes
to the great annoyance of the people
The quantity of bananas shipped
from West Indian and adjacent ports
into the United States now amounts to
13000000 or 14000000 bunches an
nually valued at considerably over
0000000
A cafe chantant and May day revel
at which Princess Edward of Saxe
Weimar opened the proceedings was
the method by which money was raised
for a childrens hospital in London
lately
About 2000 miles of railway are un
der construction in Japan and the Lon
don Times says there are signs that
American engineering and material will
be preferred to English hereafter by
the Japanese
It is understood that the government
of New Zealand will introduce a meas
ure for the exclusion of consumptive
persons on the same lines as that deal
ing with small pox making masters
of ships liable
Mr Gladstones political life as rep
resented in the pages of Punch is soon
to be published in London He had
been nine years in Parliament before
Punch appeared The first picture of
him are by Richard Doyle and John
Leech
There has been a great falling on in
the use of shoe buttons The manu
facture was formerly very profitable
but owing to cutting of prices the dis
use of the button shoe by men and to
some extent by women the profits
have been lessened
Buttons are the jewelry of China
The manufacture was originally intro
duced into Canton by foreigners but it
has been allowed to pass almost en
tirely into native hands and last year
over 500000 pounds of brass buttons
were actually exported by the Can
tonese
The value of some preservative pro
cess for the protection of telegraph
poles imbedded in the ground is best
appreciated when it is known that the
telegraph poles of Europe alone are
estimated to have cost 50000000 and
that the sum of 1000000 a year is ex
pended for renewals
A German naval captain has Invent
ed a new lifebuoy It consists of a
large cork ring capable of floating
three persons and provided with a
kind of net which affords a support to
the feet Its principal feature how
ever is that it is fitted with an electric
light and a small supply of provisions
The new Uganda postage stamp
ought to fetch the philatelists One
of the assistant commissioners has es
tablished a sort of native post and pre
pared a series of type written postage
stamps When used they are crossed
with a pen and ink mark instead of
I eing defaced in the ordinary manner
The Canadian press is enthusiastic
in its support of the petition to H R H
the Prince of Wales for the restoration
of the One Hundredth Royal Canadians
to Canada All over the country the
question is being taken up with the
greatest keenness and the petition
forms have been distributed broad
cast over the dominion
Professor Carl Barus recently com
municated to the National Academy of
Sciences a plan for the measurement
of the velocity of wind by computation
from the pitch of the note caused by
the wind passing over a wire of given
size at a given temperature By plac
ing several wires at angles to one an
other the direction may be approxi
mately determined
Outside the walls of Jerusalem is a
lepers hospital tended by deaconesses
from the German religious houses
Year after year these heroic women
without pretentiousness without any
trumpeting of their work almost un
known to the world have waited upon
lepers while themselves literally dying
by inches Their courage has only
come to light by the chance notice of
travelers
The paper ior printing Bank of Eng
land notes is dampened with water in
tt exhausted receiverof an air pumj
The ink used in the plate printing 4
made of Frankfort black which Is com
posed of the charcoal of the tendrihJ
and husks of the German grape ground
with linseed oil The ink has a peculiar
and deep shade of black common
black Inks being tinted either with blue
or brown
The result of Mrs Langtrys suit
against a London bank which delivered
up her jewels worth 175000 on a
forged order last summer Is somewhat
out of the usual order of decisions
She gets 50000 from the bank and the
continued ownership of the jewels on
condition that when they are found
they must be sold and that any sum
over 125000 realized from the salo
shall go to the bank
It is now proposed that instead of
vaccinating persons bitten as in the
Pasteur method dogs should be inocu
lated with the virus of rabies in th
hope that they may thereby be made
proof against the usual effects of the
bice of a mad dog just as human sub
jects are vaccinated to make them
proof against the ravages of small
pox The result of researches on this
matter undertaken by an eminent
Frenchman will be awaited with in
terest
When the Siberian Railway Is com
pleted the journey round the world will
occupy not more than forty day3 and
the cost of transportation will not ex i
ceed 400 A traveler leaving London
reaches St Petersburg In forty fivef
hours Thence by rail the time will be
eleven days to Port Arthur and seven
more bf steamer lo San Francisco
The tourist might lose several days byj
delay- and still reach London again
within the forty days r
A New York man has received n
patent for a magnetizing box for hair l
pins He does not clearly state the ob-
ject of his Invention in magnetizing
the pins but it is presumed that thai
charged pins are less liable to come out
of the hair and be lost as they aro allj
attracted toward each other when in
position To remove one of them it
must be done against the magnetiC
force which tends to keep it in place by
attracting it to the remaining pins
In all the civilized countries of thb
world thirteen is referred to as being
somebodys dozen In America
tralla Great Britain present day and
several other lands that number Is
said fo be a bakers dozen In Italy
it is referred to as the cobblers
dozen there being a tradition that
there was formerly a law which com i
pelled cobblers to put twelve tacks orj
nails round the edge of a boot heeLj
Finally when nails became cheap at
center nail was driven for luck j
About seventeen years ago an old
man named William Davidson died in
Gainsboro Tenn A day or two ago
relatives had the body taken up In-
tending to remove it to another place
of interment When the coffin was
reached it was found to be so heavy
that it required four strong men to lift
it to the surface Upon examination
the body was found to be petrified One
arm was entirely gone but the remain-
ing portion of what was once a human
body is now a light grayish colored
stone a perfect man in form size and
shape
A practical young man in Brooklyn
by the name of Lombars had a chance
to take a good business position only
he could not fulfill the one require
ment which demanded a married man
for the place Not entirely discour
aged by this he thought he would ad
vertise for a wife and see what would
come of it He received letters from
women of all sorts and conditions until
he had a total of 649 replies In fact
many of these came in long after ue
had made his selection and now be Isi
married to a nice girl and has secured
the job in addition
The Yuma Indians are an ungallanr
lot When a boy Is born the papa Is
very happy but if the babe is of the
female persuasion the papa is sad and
congratulations are not in order Babes
are not named until they begin to talk
Then if the infant says something
strange or comical it Is given that ut
terance as a name The Yumas are
very cruel to their aged relatives It
is not uncommon for children to dTive
away their feeble and aged parents and
let the old people starve simply be
cause the young ones do not want to
be bothered with them
This country to people who have not
looked Mnto the matter does not figure
as a large owner of floating property
outside of war vessels and those at
tached to the revenue and lighthouse
service but a recent careful estimate
shows that on one part of the- Missis
sippi River the nation owns over 1000
craft of different kinds This is the
stretch between New Orlean and Cairo
and the value of the vessels and their
outfit for riprap revetment and levee
work does not fall much below 6000
000 When work is rushing there are
at times 10000 men employed on the
vessels and in connection with the
tasks assigned them
A most remarkable pair of deer
antlers is reported from Beiiefonte
Pa A local paper got itself into dis
repute because it said a deer-
twenty three prongs had been killed
in Center County It had a photo-
graph of the head taken and was no
longer called fake The antlers are
26 inches long spread 10 inches longest
prong 11 Inches and circumference of
horn at the burr 6 inches at thei
broadest place 86 inches and the lieadj
and horns weighed 15 pounds The
deer weighed 23S pounds Threerongs1
five inches long came out at the burr of
each horn Eleven points were on the
left and twelve on the right antler It
was killed by Robert Mann Thl3
deer differed greatly from oneMlled by
Jeff Worden of Wheelertcwn Her-
kimer County N Y a yer ago Wor
tens buck weighed 190 pounds asd had1
a head and horns tha weigfel iJLQr
I than its body
