Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, August 25, 1889, Part II, Image 16
i ( M4 Av iM " THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY , AUGUST 25. 1SS9.-SIXTEEN PAGES. VI REDUCED RATES ON ALL RAILROADS."DTTr7"E1Q "ETYP / "OTPQnn Jo " > ± bADD JD T5 A -JLMJL/o " OMAHA WILL BE BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED WITH ARCHES , BANNERS AND BUNTING. 'J ' ' 5 Merchants' Week is the outgrowth of a desire on the part of the Omaha Merchants and Business Men to become better acquainted with the Business Men and Merchants - chants in the country naturally tributary to our city. New Orleans for years has had her Mardi-Gras celebrations , St. Louis her Veiled Prophets , St. Paul her Ice Palace , and other placas various other entertainments. For several years there have been futile attempts to start a movement of the kind for Omaha but from lack of one to take initiatory steps they never culminated , any . . . _ . . . . . . . _ . . . . . _ _ _ . . _ . . . _ . . . . _ . _ . _ . _ . . _ . _ . _ " * 4r 4 ! l 1 J _ , . . . . . , . . . . A l& L-k . . . Ja J. j-J ! -L ? C \ / \ f \ .1 I in success. This year , however , the movement was started by a few of our leading business men others became interested an association of 1OO was formed , committees . -w v -w i y - * * rfrv -or r v * > w Vr f * / kw" J ' * ' " IKX V VX * * * * * * X V W * * > I Vrf > \ \v I I 1 I I I I l tees were appointed , and everything promises a great and glorious success. By perusing the programme it will be seen that there will be entertaining features every day , pleasurable and profitable to those who come to see us. Merchants'Week , therefore , is nothing more nor less than Omaha's greeting to the west. The Gate City opens her gates and bids you enter in. Come and you will find the "Gates Ajar. " WHAT YOU WILL SEE. You will see the best paved city in the United States. You will see the largest newspaper olliiso in the world. You will boo the host built city in the West. You will see the most prosperous business community on the face of the Earth. You will see the only city on the Missouri having two bridges across the Big Muddy. You will see the largest Smelting and Refining Works in America. You will 6co the best Bank buildings and moro of thorn than can bo soon in any other Western City. You will see the most approved and among the largest packing houses in our country , where they utilize every part of a hog but the squeal ; every part of ti steer but the horns. You will see the largest Water works plant in the Missouri Valloy. You will see electric motors and cable cars , of the latost'makc. You will see the great Omaha Fair with its Agricultural , Horticultural and Stock attractions , and its great horse races. You will BOO the largest trades display ever attempted west of Chicago. You will see the big Coliseum building , containing the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Exposition with its thousands of entertaining features. You will see a grand display of fire-works , and the largest and best drilled Flambeau Club in the country. You will see thousands of people from all over the West. You will find the citizens of Omaha willing to entertain and assist you to spend a plnasant and prosperous week. I It. sl Vicn-l 1. S. iM , L , T. H , TAYLOR , Ssmtarj. S.-ff. Gil , Treasurer. ARKANSAS WAY AT ATHENS. . Buckshot for Ballots in the Olty of the Parthenon. 'TIS A NATION OF WINDBAGS. Every Grecian Youth Imagines Him- tclfn Statesman and Beiiius to Spout Polities as Boon as He Can Talk. Tlio Greeks Are Garrulous1 , Ifopi/rtu/ilal / 1WO l > u I'VaiifcO. Carpenter. ] ATHENS , August 1. fSpecml to Tun BEE. ] The Athens of to-day is a city of the nine teenth century. Its buildings are the two and three story houses of brick and stucco which you tlnd in the towns of Franco and Italy. They nro roofed in roil tiles nnd they uro built in blocks with all the regularity of modern civilization. The streets are paved with cobbles and the sidewalks are flagged with blocks of stone , The stores uro of the tame description as these of any American city and their plate glass windows show stocks of goods that will comp&ro favorably with these of vVashlngtou or Denver. The streets cross each other at right angles and street oar tracks run through the busiest of them. You can ride in the Athenian tram way for three nnd llvo cent lares ever the same grounds upon which Alclbladcs dashed In his seven-horse chariots , and the steam whistles of the locomotives which draw trains along the railroads to the Pircns and Corinth , reverberate against the time colored MA1I11LE rilXAHS OV TIIC I'AUTUKNON , which , standing on the mighty Acropolis , still looks over the city as in the days when Pericles had his golden rule , nearly twenty- live hundred years ago. It Is tuo oldest of the old looking at the nowcst of the now. Modern Athens has boon built wUhln ilfty yeavs. At the tlmo of the Greek independ ence , In 1831 , it was a dirty village of thrco hundred misorublo houses. By u census , which has just been completed , it has now one hundred and eight thousand people , and it has nearly doubled its population within the past ton years. Tlio Greeks themselves look upon their country us that of a nation reborn , and upon Athens as a city , rising Phuuilx UUo , to u brighter and better exist ence from tbo dusty ushctl of Its past. The Athens of to-day lies partly on aad partly off the slto.of the ancient , city. It is on the cdcro of a plain with the lull of the Acropolis rising upward sheer U30 foot at Its back and with iho low mountain of Hymottus at one side. Near this are other mountains , mm away to one side across the plain are the blue waters of the Mediterranean sea. From the Acropolis you can see TIU ; I'LAINS OP MAIUTIIOX , on which the grout battln was fought , whore the Greeks under MultUdos defeated the Persians , and away to the west uro the blue , waters of tbo bay o ( Salamls , where Xerxes , the Persian king , watched the destruction of his thousand war vessels by the Grecian fleets , At the side of the Acropolis is a rocky hill about ono hundred feet high , and uioro of u cliff than it hill , on which St. Paul preached and on which the court of Are opagus was hold , to which the old Athenians passed sentences of tlfu and death , and whore Demosthenes was trtod for bribery and convicted , Every surrounding Is his toric and classic , and the sky , the hills and the sea are the same , The heavens are to day as wonderfully blue us they were in tbo days of Homer. The poppy HOWOH mixed with the wheat uro as blood a rod as they were when .Plato sat among thorn and talked phloBOpby , and the dark hemlock on the hills as grocn us when it. furnished the poison which killed Socrates. Mount llyuicttun , with its rocky , tilvcr gray sides furulihca as sweet aouey to-duy as when the Grecian poets sang its praises , und from the quarries on Mount Pentollkos ever there comus for the now public buildings of Athens as pure white ninrblo us thiit with which Phidias worked and out of which Praxiteles chipped his famous statues. It is only in respect to its natural sur roundings that Athens remains us it was in the past. Its buildings have nil the .fresh greenness of the nineteenth century , and it Is u town of hotels , theaters nnd newspapers. It is a business town , too , and the modern Greeks are among the brightest business men of the cast. The Turks have a proverb , which says : "From the Greeks of Athens , from the Jews of Salonika and from the Armenians everywhere , Good Lord , deliver us 1" Ills also said in the east that ono Greek is equal to at least two Jews , and you will tlnd no Jews in Athens , though thsy are scattered over all other parts of of the Levant. The storekeepers HAVE NO FIXED PIIICES , and you bargain for everything you buy. The rule is to offer not moro than one-third of what is asked , and you must bargain with your butcher , your tailor , and with oven your druggist , A lady of Athens was describing - scribing to mo last night the purchnso of her last spring bonnet. Said she : "I wont into the leading millinery shop of the place and picked out a woU-trimmcd piece of lace and straw , und uskoJ the price. " "It will bo 100 Jniucs , " was the reply. "Oh , " said I , "but I can't pay so much. I think Ilfty francs Is enough for it , and I will give no more. " Tha merchant looked at mn and said at once that it was impossible , then seeing Unit I was about to leavu , ho said : "Wullinuclamo , , if you think ilfty francs is enough you may have it for that. " And , concluded the lady , who Is a Greek , "It is so all over Athens. You must never pay what the pcoplo ask you. Then you will see in some of the stores prices marked oa the goods , und the notice hung up that there are none but llxed prices nt such places. But this is a fraud. Yon must toll them you can not pay so much , und you will got the goods for less. " I have tried this plan during the past few days , ami I llnd I can got a considerable ro- duution , oven in suni.ir rowDBits AN QUININE , The modern Athenian docs not like manual labor and the result is that most of the Greek citizens of Athens are in mercantile or professional business. I tlnd that there is little of what wo would consider s < iuuro dealing among the merchants , They try to got advantage of these who trade with them in every way , Tlio money used in tlio stores and la Athens generally is dirty , greasy paper money , issued by the national bank , and the shin plasters , which are in some de nominations not bigtror than u special de livery stump , reminded one of the fractional currency which prevailed In Amnnca some years ago. The ten fruno or two dollar notes are of about the slzo and shape nf our green backs , und as there are no ono dollar notes , the people provide for this by chopping or cutting the T\\O DOI.T.AU NOTKS IN HALVES ana these halves pass us good. This money Is nt a discount of over SO per cent , und in changing gold you make twenty ndd cents on every dollar. Thonj are taw foreipa batuts and tlio changing is Uono by men who have littlu counters with glass money boxes upon them and who IDUUO u commission oa every transaction. Athens , as the capital of Greece , Is , of course , the political center of the country. It Is here that the king lines nnd it is hero that the chamber of deputies meets and set tles the destinies of the nation. But lirst lot mo tell you something ubout the Gropco of liS'J , It is uot , you know , divided up now as it was in the past into a dozen different governments. It was consolidated under the Mohammedans. By the war of a half century and moro ugo it was freed from tlio domination of the Turks and it was given a Ulng by thn loading governments of Europe. This king was Otto , of Bavaria , nnd ho ruled until ISO' ! , when ho was expelled and Great Britain , France and Uus- siu chose the present king , who is tlio uon of the king nf Denmark. The Greeks prldo themselves oa their democ racy , and they say thov believe so much in equality that they prefer to havu a foreigner rulu over them. Their country is , all told , only us largo us AVost Virginia or half the Bizo of tlio Htato of New VorK. and they num ber only ubout two millions uf people , Each onp of tbo mule box among these two mil lions T1I1NK3 HIMSELF A STATE8HAN , and as soon as Iui9 old enough to.spoakbo The following programme has boon arranged for the week , but will bo aided by other attractive features : Monday , Sept. 2i1. Receiving visitors and arranging for their comfort. Tucxtlay , Scp' . Uil. Dr. Talmago will lecture at Fair Grounds at 11 A. M. Public Buildings and all Omaha thrown open to the mibhc. ' , : < ! -culay , A. SI. , Sept. till. Grand Trades Display , being the largest procession'of the kind overseen in the West , including Business Floats representing the Industries of the Nine teenth Century , escorted by an army of Traveling and City Salesmen , U. S. Reg ular Soldiers from Fort Omaha , the Omaha Wheel Club , Metropolitan Police Force of Omaha , Omaha Fro Department with its apparatus. Baud of Sioux Indians in their Sculp Dunces , Sun Dances and War Dances. WedncKilny Evonlns' . Illuminated Pnrado of Flambeau Clubs. Grand Display of Fire Works during the March. Electric Light Illumination of Streets , Buildings and Arches. Thursdays rl. M , Sept. 5tli. Railroad Excursion to the Great Stock Yards and Packing Houses of South Omaha Tlmrsilny Kycnlnp ; , Competitive Parade of Ornulia Ward Clubs for Prize Banner. Friday , A. M. , Snpl. Clth. Brass Band Competition for Prizes amounting to $000. ETC n In ir. Parade by Flambeau Clubs , Illuminated by Fire Works. Exhibition Run of OmahaMro Department , lighted by Electric Lights. gins to talk politics ; and there Is no political center in the world , perhaps except Wash ington , in which politics is moro talked than in Athens. The chief subject is tlio actions of the chamber of deputies , which is the Greek parliament , und tlio effect which these actions will have on the governments of Europe. The modern Greek imagines that everything that Boulanger , Bismarck or Gladstone does is moro or less connected with Greece , and , like onu of our own cities , ho thinks that Athens is the hub on which the wheel of European politics moves. The place of this political discussion and gossip is the cafes , of which there uro hun dreds in Athens , und in which every after noon and evening thousands congregate and drink poifco or mastilc and talk politics. They buy tlio different political papers and settle as they como up , the question of the hour in modern Greek. There nro a half dozen newspapers published here , und they nil seem to bo thriving , if their sales are any index of success. They nro all in Greek , and ono of t turn , a comio political sheet like Punch or Pack , hut not ouu-tonth the size , is made up entirely of poetry , It has cartoons teens taking off tlio pccularities and doings of the leading politicians , and it in said to bo us witty as un old Green comedy. I visited THE I'AHMAMUNT HOUSE yesterday. It is a big three-story building brick and stucco , which looke moro like the mansion of a Paris millionaire than a govern ment onlco. Ionic columns of the purest white murblo support a portico ever its front door , und its Interior * contains a library , some ofllccs nnd the hull in which the deputies meet. There is but ono house in the Greek parliament and this contains 150 members , who nro elected Uy the pcoplo of the various provinces , every man having the right to vote. The members are elected for four yours nnd they must sit not less than thrco nor longer than six months every year. They rocolvo salaries amounting to $400 a session , anifif an extra session is called they got $300 moro. In the most prosperous times they cannat thus inuko moro than $700 a year. They huvo fully us much power us our members of congress - ' gross and they in reality govern Greeco. The king has the veto uoxver , but ho would not dare to exercise it iigahist u largo ma jority vote , and the result is that his power is not much greater than that of the quean of England. The room in which the Greek parliament moots Is ubout us big as the avor- ugo church , HOMXNO TiutER nuNDiir.n I'IOPIU. Its walls roach from the ground floor to the ton of the three-story building which con tains it , and Its colling Is of great panels of gold and whlto wood work , it Is built in the shape of a half moon , und into the walls nro cut two rows of galleries , oua above the other. The seats of tbo deputies are semi circular benches which rise la concentric rows ono above another , und in the , center of which , at the front of the room , is the seat of tbo president. This seat is built between two great whlto murblo columns , ana in the galleries back of it nnd considerably above It is u sort of an opura box in which the king sits whoa ho attends the meetings. Marblu busts of the king and queen stand on pedes tals , just below this , and between the depu ties und the president uro desks at which sit the ministers of the king's cabinet. The mouibers themselves have little desks a foot square which are' fastened to tbo backs of tuo benches In front of them , arid ouch bench contains room for several members , The Greeks are very fond of speaking and they uro good speakers und a place In this chamber Is qulto as much an honor hero as is a seat in our senate , A politician bus , in fact , more influence hero than In tlio United States , and it is men rather than measures which constitutes the politics of Greece. Tjio party in power rules und controls the ofiicos and if it falls to hold the support of the chamber of deputies the opposition comes in und takes the reins and ON THE OLD Sl'OIW SVbTf.U ousts the oulcials of the opposite party and puts m its own. Just now Mr. Tricoupis , ono of the greatest statesmen of Greece , is the uromlor and his party lately got tbo reins. They changed all of the clerks and by lookIng - Ing at the books proved their predecessors guilty of defrauding the government. This was especially so In the custom house ofllces , All of the old employes are , I am told , now In prison , while the clerks of some of the other oQices are awaiting trial. The elections m Greece are hold somewhat on the same plan as In America. There is ututnp speaking beforehand and many of the same electioneering dodges uro played , Not a few of the wives nf candidates have re cently helped In the election of their nus- bar.d'j to parliament , nnd I was told of an Athens lady who , nt the last election , seeing that her husband was lilcoly to bo defeated , took several embroidered liars to neighbor ing villages nnd calling the people together , told thorn that all such us wanted to vote for her husband would have a free passage to Athens and tickets to the theater. Sha then presented them the Hag to carry and the whole town glad of a cheap trip to the capi tal accepted the offer and the husband now sits in the chamber. In the processions of candidates in Athens it is , I mn toU , not an uncommon sight to see TUB WIPK OF A CANDIDATE in flno clothes riding along in a carriage and distributing election documents and some times flowers to the pcoplo. In the getting up of a boom for a candidate friends sur- pnso him by serenades and demands for speeches in front of his houso. The candi date comes out , and just as aincng our poli ticians at homo , protests that ho is surprised nnd goes on to make his "extempore" re marks by pulling a roll of manuscript from his coat-tall pocket. All of the elections and public meetings of Greece , oven to the court balls , are held upon Sunday. The election polls are in the churches and the chtof election place of Athens is the cathedral. The voters are all registered and the balloting is done in such a way that fraud is hardly possible. Each candidate has u ballit-box of his own and his judge sits behind it. These boxes are ia a row along ono side of the church , und this place is so fenced off that only one man can puss along nnd vote at ono timo. The boxes themselves are ubout a loot squuro , and each has a round plpo-liko hole in its top just largo enough to admit the arm of a man. This pipe runs down through the miudlo of the box until it meets a parti tion which divides tlio box in half. " ' TUB IIALLOT8 AHE 11UCKSUOT and the voter casts his ballot in the afllrma- tivo according us ho casts his shot into the compartment on the richt or loft side of the box. His name is given as he starts In to vote and ho Is handed just us many buckshot as there uro candidates and no more. Each judga can see thai ho rolls uu his slcovo and that he has only ono ballot m his hand before ho puts it Into the box , and as ho drops it to the right or the loft insldo the box no ono can see how ho votes and fraud Is almost im- posaiblo. Tlioro is no ballot box stulling In Greece and la case the ballots In the boxes bo not correspond with the tally at the entrance - trance tlio whole vote is thrown out , Both in the making of laws and In tlio elec tions the groatestnficaro is taken to prevent fraud , and in the chamber of deputies u bill must bo discussed and voted upon urticlo by article on Hi re i ) sojciruto days before it can bo passed. Thoj standard of Intelligence among the people Is high , and the poorest consider themselves un un equality with the richest and the blnojt blooded , The modern Greek , whatever his-position , does not imag ine that ho can boibalow you in station , and the waiter at a caftf or the driver on u street car does not hosituto to chut with you und to express his opinions ; The people uro very patriotic und tucy.bollovo in THE FOTCBI5 OP OnEECE , They are making wonderful progress. Already they hava U8Q miles of railroad , aud there is talk of uillno which will go from Athens north andwrill make connections with the railroads oflKuropo , This will bring the cast ut least aday nearer Europe , and It will probably dlveHin largo part of tlio trade and travel which goes from Inaia and Egypt to Paris and London , by Hulv to Greece. It will make the city of Athens ono of the great cities of Europe and will muko u material change in the country. At present all ves sels going to Constantinople and Athens must sail around the Polopoacsus , a great penlii- sula , which lies at the south end of Greece and which is the southernmost point of Europe , The sous ubout this uro very stormy and tuo passage is always rough , 11 y TIII : coniNTii CANAL , which is now being cut , the boats will bo able to como through the Gulf of Corinth , ubovo tba Polopoooaus , and a day will bo saved between Athens und Italy , and the ships which go to Constantinople will save twa days In their voyages from Naples and Sicily , An immense amount of shipping will in this way be brought to Athens , und the city will Increase oven more rapidly than It is now doing , The people show themselves capable of taking advantage of every improvement. They uro more like Americans than orien tals , aad tuey do not scruple to spend taoaoy ALL PLACES OF AMUSEMENTS Present Attractions During the Week. COLJSKUM EXPOSITION. At the latter place there will to open every evening IHo Merchants'and Manufacturers' Exposition. This exhibit will bo arranged tiiitl superintended by Mr. J. C. Bon null , who hud charge of the Nebraska exhibit at the World Fair at New Orleans. THE L1NINGER ART GALLERY. Through the liberality of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Liningor , the Liningor Art Gallery will bo open every day from 8 u. in. to 8 p. in. This gallon' is noted for its many art treasures , gathered by Mr. and Mrs. L. in their several tours to the Art Centers of the old world. Every one who is interested in art should tuko this opportunity to visit this grout art gallery. , PRIZES FOR BRASS BANDS. The management have offered prizes of $000 for the best band participating in the parades. Conditions of Band Contest The competition will bo cpon to all bands out side the oily of Omaha. Award to bo made Friday , September ( i. Throe com petent judges will decide. No band of less than twelve pieces will bo allowed tb compete. All entries to bo in the hands of E. E. Bruce , care of Blake , Bruce fc Co. . on or before Augusts. " ) . No entry fee , but all bands competing for prizes must participate in tuo parade free of charge. CHEAP RAILROAD FARES. Take nil vantage of the reduced rates on railroads nnd como and see Omaha and get acquainted with those with whom you do busine&s. Among other attractive features the Omaha Fair Association have engaged the renowned Brooklyn divine , Rov. Do Witt Talmago , to deliver an address on the fair grounds on Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. on public improvements. The Athens of to day Is a town of theatres nnd good hotels. It is a city of line schools and of museums. It bus a ( 'ooii society , and Its pcoplo are as bripht and well posted as these of most cities of Europe. FIUNK G. CAWEXTKH. PEPPERMINT DROPS. The pretty housemaid is the lily of the valet. , It is novcr too late to learn Hut sometimes - times we llnd nothing left to learn , except that it is too late , What a ( ] uiet , economical world wo would liyo in were it not for the movements of the upper jaw. The sensational columns of some ilailos oniuluto the jiollywog in their proportion of head to tnlo. Remorse is a good deal like a wooden leg. It mny help you on your way , but ulwavs think how much happier you would bo with out it. The harvest of flnpers torn off and run through threshing machines is reported to be fully up to the average this your. The name applied to a now train between Chicago and Now York Is the "Ladies' lim ited. " Do the managers of any railway blindly imagine they can limit the ladles ] The bathing dress is a lovclcr of all dls tinctions. In a single scanty garment there is no use of putting on airs. If your friend , who has been cultivating a kitchen garden all summer , looks thin and wan , don't lay It wholly to hard work. Ho may bo trying to live on what ho raised. It w.is all very well for the bravo Law- rcnco to say : "Don't give up the shipl" But when it is a postmastcrshlp that jou hold , and the president cuts your head off short , you are hardlv to bo blamed for giving it up. "This is somewhat of a 'twino trust,1. " said the young man as his best girl wound her arms about his nock to whisper sweet nothing * in his largo loft year. Hens nro kept busy llnding the means for moving their crops. Whoever expects more of this Ufa than victuals nnd clothes , with a little suaro change for the circus , is doomed to a brolccn- hearted old ugo. The BHHiiL'rt family will have a reunion at Springfield , Mass. , September 0. Poor Josh is dead , but the purveyors of billingsgateara numerous. "I am always ready to give nny man a llf t , " said the sheriff us ho sprung the gallows- drop. Tlio finding of Tascott has become a dis tinct industry. It has got , In fact , to the point whore u littlu protection might provo valuable for aomo of these found. Though America is not famous for her jew elry , it Is said fiHo has a rlcli Henl ring , 'Tls ilio accounts of u side-door sulooa that nro Icnpt up by the double-entry system. Whoa the American Uar association meets 'at Chicago , tenders of hospitalities will bo uiudo on all hands. Marriage Is the hitching post on the road of life. It's a lung lane that has no dog in the or chard at the other end of It. An opening attraction at the seashore- The culm and placid elain. Jefferson D.wis has i sufd what Boulon- gor would call a manifesto about "tho bravo men who sustained our righteous cause , " addressed to an ox-con federate colonel nt Pine Bluff , Mr. Davis has , perhaps , been experimenting will ) the now elixir. The singers who saug Into tidison's phonograph graph at the top of the Eiffel tower this week found themselves able to inuko higher tones than ever before , This is both physiological and ambiguous , No wonder St. Paul Is indignant nt ( hiding the names of four dogs In the Minneapolis directory. One uog in a city directory is , counted as about three and a half human be ings hi estimating population , A bachelor of forty ho , A man of culture , pride and wealth ; A maid of twenty summers she , With spnrltlmg eyes and glowing health. Ho wooed , but not as others have , With loving words more sweet than truoj Ho laid his bank boolt in her hand , and merely turned to "Balance duo. " She raised her eyes ; his cause was won A maid of Kterljng sense was she. Ho clasped her to his manly Iruast , And now a warned man is he. THE ENGINES TELESCOPED , The Remarkable Result of a Ool- liHion on the Union Pacific. TRACKING A VAGRANT CAR. Electricity Knocttine ; Out the Best Knllwiiy IjliiL-s Witli a Speoil 13qu.il Almost to That of Thought. Railway Clmttors. "Railroad accidents are sometimes odd af fairs , notwithstanding tba fact that they are sometimes very serious , " remarked Train master Baxter , of the Union Pacific , a few days ago. "During uiy checkered career as a railroad man , I have had ample opportunity of noting the truth of ray assertion. A few years ngo , I was train dispatcher ou the Union Paciflo. I was very tired ono evening and was almost dozing when I heard the ticker click off 'First section No. 14 , going cast , ran into No. 3 , between Grand Island and Lockwood.1 My heart jumped right into my throat , bccauso I was afraid perhaps that I had issued a wrong order nnd was responsi ble for the accident ! and I breathed very much easier , you may depend upon it , when , on looking over the copies of the orders sent , I found that the engineer on the freight had evidently misunderstood his orders and was alone to blame. "Tlio ticker kept oa tolling about the acci dent and , as good luck would huvo It , no ono wus killed , or oven seriously injured but the track was blockaded badly. The superln- tcndant came down In u few moments nnd inside of half an hour had a wrecking train on the road. I went with it. When wo reached the s6ono wo found that the crow from Grand Island had cleared tllb wrecked cars away , but the engines were still on the track or oil it , for they had loft the rails , and there is where tbo odity of the accident comes hi. Of course you havu hoard of curs being tele scoped but did you over hear of locomotives being telescoped i Certainly not. But thcso had , The freight vngmo wus a heavy draft affair while , the passenger locomo- tlvo was of light draft , Tnov had not mot fairly and squarely and actually the smaller onglmi hud dived , as it weru , straight into the larger. The smoke-stuck of the inrgor engine was still standing , and the cabs not being much Injured , it was the od dest looking sight I oversaw. There was a photograph taken of the scene , which was reproduced in the Sciontiilu American. It caused consldorub'lo comment among ma chinists. " * * "Thoy may all talk UH they please , " re marked Car-Accountuiit Buckingham , who chuncod to listen to the nbovo unocdoto. "of accidents and other incidents of railroad life , but , if you dnslro real , genuine , unalloyed excitement citomont , como and hold down my place of three months while I take a vacation. "Two months ago , a fellow out ut Fromoqt asked und gained permission to remodel a Union Pacillq mock-car , claiming that ho could so change it that it would equal if not excel any of the high-priced stable cars , und Unit the expense would bo light , very light. Well , ho llxed up his cur und got a stock uhlpper to load it with cuttlo for the Chicago marknt by way of a trial. It was a pretty fair arrangement but not up to uxpectutlons , so wo did not have any moro llxed up in that fashion. But that curl I haven't seen that car since , although 1 have been trying to tlnd it over since. Some road collared it ut Chicago , and , after tracing it nround for u time J located it at Atlanta , Gu. I wanted It right uwoy und ordered It back and it got as for as Memphis , whoii I again lost It. Tlio next point that I located it at was St. Joseph and I thought I had it sure , when presto lit was hauled down to Dennlson , Tex. But I persevered and finally cornered it ut San Diego , Cal. From tliero It wont to Ban Francisco und 1 said to myself now that cur Is coming right straight to Omaha. ' But did ill No. After u spuoo of three months I found it nt Portland , Ore , Thence it wont to Sioux City , nnd I chucKled to myself , 'Buck , my boy you've won ut last,1 But have II Well , to quote the Immortal Lew Dockstader , 'I guess not.I guess not.1 That car is now on the Canaillnn'Puclllc , and I ex- pcct-is loaded with steve coal going west. But I will cct it or die trying to llud out why I do not. " "Wlmt changes hnvo taken place in raiU road equipment within the lust few years I1' asked John Francis chief of the B. & . M. passenger department. "When I llrst begun rnllroadlng , the pas senger service on all lines were very ordi nary. Sleeping cars , and there were a few in use , were tame affairs contrasted with , those of to-day , with all of llfo's comforts attached. Thobunksforsuch only could they be called , were hard , uncomfortable affairs , and the sleep of the passenger was anything but balmy. Then , too , there were no dining cars , and the traveler , Instead of sittln down to an elegant table had to bolt nld dry sandwiches nnd muddy coffee nt a station where u frco-lor-ull light was generally the termination of u rush for something to eat. Instead of cushions on the scats of passenger coaches , there were wooden seats. The roads wcro rough , tlio engines slow and nothing was us nice aa it is to-day. " "Yes , " said Arthur 'Smith , Mr. Francis' chief clerk , "and what improvement wo will yet see In the matter of transportation when electricity shall have become completely harnessed. Eat your breakfast ut homo , dinner In Chicago and supper m Now York. Everything fast , nothing slow. No side * tracking for trains , no danger of running oft the track , no Bleeping cars , no dining cars , no uncomfortable passenger conches , no dusty , dirty cinders from the engine to got m your eyes. Oh , this electrical nlr ship trans * portatlon will bo a great " * "Arthur , " remarked Mr. Francis sternly , "Do you forget that you are in the employ of the gioat Burlington route , the greatest oa earth , standard gauge , steel rails , double track , fast trains , the bust scrvlcn , etc. , etc. ? " * * "No , sir , " said MrSnith , as ho resumed his occupation of writlmr a loiter to Chair man Blunchurd of the Central Tralllo asso ciation. 4r "Very few pjoplo in railroad service , " re marked Uond Master O'Uonnoll , of the B. fa M. . "have any idea of the causes of broken rails which frequently result In serious acci dents. Some causes uro very curious. For Instance , n nut wheel on a car has been known to break a rail ut the Joint. A heavy engine with wheels which have sharp llangcs under the trucks has been known to exert such n pressure on the curve us to break a rail , but such un Instance Is rare. A heavy unglno also has been known to crowd a guard ruil on u curve so hard as to break It , und lump the truck. Such accidents uro morn likely to happen in winter than sum mer. " I' . P. Shelby , the Into general manager of the Montana Central , who was a few nays ngn selected us trufllo manager for the Mani toba Is once moro In his proper sphere. Ho Is essentially u trafllo manager nnd no man in the country knows the transportation situation - , uation from the Atlantic to the Paclllo and from Canada to the gulf bolter than ho. Despite that under his management the earnings of the Montana Central Inivo In creased from month to month until a point when u dividend can bo declared has been reached , ho himself will concede that the supervision of nn operating department is not his forto. Ho Is among the leading tralllo men in the country und has fovy equals ana no superiors. His promotion is a deserved ono and the Manitoba managcmont will never have cause to regret their action. Wo two alone. 'Che rustless ocean Broke billowy on the glistening shore , "Tell mo , " I whispered , with emotion "Toll mo you never loved before. ' Her azure eyes thro1 tear-drops glistened And stilling heart-throbs half o'orcorna her , While wind and wuvo stand fillll to llstoa Soft fulls her answer : "Not this sum * inor. " Mrs. George Pondleton Howler , of Cln- olnnull , wus not carried off by Italian brig- unQs , us recently reported. But aim is hav- Inir a tough light with Parlsan brigands dlt guisud as hotel keepers ,