TITF CVMAITA DAITA" BME : FRIDAY OCTOBEK * 15. I8 7.
HARK TWAIN'S ' NEW STORIES
A Rtfhctlofi bf His Early Manner , but More
Mature and Refined ,
WITTICISMS IN "FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR"
( if CtctnciiH1 Flr ! llnoU ,
1 llln HlriiKKli-H mill SIICCI-NM llotv
I , "InniKMMilN Alironil" Cniuc
V , | to lie
' "I am now reading the proof sheets of
Mark Twain's forthcoming book. 'Following
the Equator , ' nnd I must say that his writing
Is as vigorous and his wit aa sprightly HB
over , " nro the wordo of Frank llllss , who ,
twenty-eight years ago asslttcd his father ,
the late Kllsha Illlm , In bringing the first
book of the literary comedian before the
American public. This statement ot .Mr. llllss
tvlll ho highly nlgnlflcant to those who nre
acquainted with the Inner details of Mark
Twain's life , during recent years. Adversity
HCeitiH not to have stayed his hand nor to
liflvo' dimmed his wit.
"Mr. Clemens went on the Quaker City ex
cursion to the Holy Land , " continued Mr.
Dllfifl. "nnd his Impressions of his experiences
were detailed In his Icttem published In tlio
Now York Tribune from time to time during
thai trip , My father was attracted by them ,
and when the young man returned to Amer
ica invited him to visit us In Hartford ,
Conn , , with u view to putting the matter In
book form. .Mr. Clemens carnu to our house
nnd I we'll ' remember htm , already In lil.i
looka foreshadowing the llonlne appearance
of after years. Ills talk and his manner were
fully OH quaint as his le.ters. The ncgo-
tlallct'o were carried through very quickly
r.nd he went away well satisfied with his
contract. 'Innocents Abroad' was finally a
great success , but It required hard pushing
at first to mnku It sell. The new style of
humor shocked many people who wcro not
used to having their popular Kuropean Idois
laughed at , and besides , the public was not
ready made to the nutlior'n hand and hnd to
bo educated up to the standard nud lilylu
ho had placed before It , But dually It sold :
sold well , nud U still paying a handsome
royalty. "
His humor when It eventually caught the
breeze of public approval was a paying In
stitution and IILU been ever since. Hook after
book appeared , each one provl ig as rcimitier-
allvu as Its prcdecccaorfl , till Mr. Clemens
W H Induced to enter the book publishing
hilfllncsa on his own account. Kveryonc
knows of the collnpso that followed , the dis
appointed hopes , the failure which nut only
swept uwny hlo fortune , but left a heavy load
of debts In aildIkin : nnd all through no fault
of bin own. Then came the manly resolve to
bear up under it nil and meet evcrj obliga
lion befoic he would take to himself the
frulto of any subsequent toll. There nre not
many men who , staggering under til health ,
family bereavement nnd lluaiiclal revcraeu ,
all coming within the period of a few months ,
would bo able to rise above them" , shoulder
the load wltli cheerfulness , nud while sup
pressing the grlefu , set about with Spartan
courage to pay the claims standing lagnitmt
them. The new book on which Mark Twain
has labored so faithfully for many inonthx , II
Is hoped , will lift the debts and square him
with that world which ho has filled with
laughter and made happy in years goneby. .
TROPICAL HUMOR.
"Tills new book , " continued Mr. Hllss , "Is
the result of .Mr. Clemens' travels around the
world. When he was ubout to start on lit
lecture tour I suggested that he note dowi
the events of his trip. Going Into new ctnm
tries and feeing new people with the !
strange manners nnd customs would fnrnlsl.
him with new material and fresh Idcai
which I felt sure would reawaken the great
powers that lay within him. He needed new
scenes to feed upon. The result Is llmt his
line abilities never have shown to greater
advantage than In this book , which by th.
way has been spoken of under a variety o.
titles , while in reality It has only the slm-
plo one of 'Tolowlng the Kquator. " Indicat
ing a going around the world. At llrst h <
had an Idea that his observations would make
better magazine articles , but he wus flnallj
persuaded to put them Into the form of a
book. It has brought back Ms early expe
riences. .So with absolutely new material lit
Is entirely fresh , but a little stronger h. .
manner , more rellned In humor and kcsnc :
In descriptive power. Things nro pictured
plainly batore you nnd the old "Innocents
Abroad" style is followed right up. Hib
convciRational way adds much to the humor
of the narrative. His book In this respect
Is a reflection of his natural self. Hla pe
culiar drawl Is well known and you can
almost hear it running through the page. =
as ho tells us his stories. Snme of them
arc sure to run the gamut o. ' the clubs mil
become the text of after-dinner speeches.
Installed the one concerning his nineteen
Imbltb' ' :
'I can quit nny of my nineteen Injurlou
lublts at nny time , ami without discomfort
or Inconvenience. I think that the Ir. Tan
ners and .those others who go forty dajs
.without eating do It by resolutely keeping
out the desire to eat , In the beginning ; uml
after n few hours the desire Is discouraged
and comes no more.
" 'Once I tiled my scheme In a large
medical way. I had been confined to my
bed seven 1 da > s with lumLugo. Finally the
doctor slid to nit : "My remedies have nt
lair chance. My case parslsteutly refused lo
Improve. Consider what they have to fight
besides the lumbago. You smoke extrava
gantly , don't you ? "
"Yes. "
"You take coffee Immoderately ? " . i
"Yes. "
"And some tea ? " i
"Yes. "
"You cat all kinds of things that nro dla-
Eallsllcd wllh each other's company ? "
"Yes. "
"You drink two hot Scotches regularly
every night , 1 suppose ? "
"Yes. "
"Very well , ( hero you see what I have to
contend cignlnst. We can't make progress
the way the matter stands. You must make
n reduction in ihese things ; you iniibt viit
down your consumption of them considerably
for some days. "
"I can't , dcctor. "
"Why can't you ? "
"I lack Iho will power. I can cut them off
entirely , but I can't merely moderate them. "
" 'He said that that would answer , en !
said hi > would come around In twenty-four
liours and begin work ogaln. Lie was taken
ill himself and could not como ; but 1 did not
need him. I cut off all those things for
two days and nights ; In fact , I cut off all
Iclnds of fcod , too , and all drinks except
water , and at the' ind of the forty el-lit 1 ours
< the lumbago was discouraged and left mo. I
w&s a well man ; so I gave fervent thanks
and imir.cdlatcly took to those delicacies
agnln ,
COULDN'T RWI3AH OFF.
" 'It earned a valuable medical course ,
nnd I recommended It to a woman , Shu
Jail run down and down and down , and hid
at last reached a point where medlcluex no
longer had , Miy helpful effect upon her. 1
paid I know I could put her upon her feet
In a week , H brighlened her up ; It tilled
her with hqiu , and. . shu said ulie would do
.everything 1 told her to do. So I said she
juust stop swearing and drinking and smok-
4ng and , eating for four duy , and then she
.would bo all right ugaln. And it would have
happcno.1 Juut so , I know It. but uho galu
ehe could not stop swearing and smoking
and drinking' , became BUD had never done
those things , So ( hero It was. She had
neglected her habits , and hadn't any. Now
that Ihoy would have come good , there were
jiono tu stack , She had nothing to fall
, back on. She was a sinking vessel , with
no freight In her to throw overheard and
lighten the ship withal. Why , oven one or
two IHMo bad habits could have baved her ,
but she was Just a moral pauper. When ehe
could luvo acquired them she was dissuaded
, by her parents , who were Ignorant people ,
though reared In the. best 'society , uml It
.was too late to begin now. It seemed such
A pity , but ( hero was no help 'or It. Thuo
.things ought cu be attended to while a per
son la young , otherwise , when age and dis
ease come , there U nothing effectual to fight
.them with. '
"There U one about General fipint which
Js not only funny , but which ls an Illustra
tion of the Una memory which General
.Grant p.it > ii' sed.
'General Grant had a fine memory for all
kinds n ( things , Including even names and
lures , and I could have furnished an in
stance of It If I had thought of U. Tim
.first tluio I ever aw Jilui was iwrly In tiki
drat term as president. I h&d Just arrived
In Washington from the Pacific coast , and
wholly unknown lo the public , and w.ts pats-
Ing the white house one morning when I met
a friend , a senator from Nevada. Ho ankrd
mo It I would like to see the president. 1
said I xhould be i'cry.Kt.ad ; so wo entered.
I suppcecd iit ] president would be In the
midst of a cTriiftl.and- 1 could look at
him In pcactF RnJ security from n distance ,
.is another Htrsy-rat might Icok at another
king. Hut It wns In the morning and the
senator was using a privilege of his office
which I had not heard of the privilege of
Intruding upon the chief magistrate's work
ing hours. llofore I knew It the senator
and I were In Iht presence , and there were
none there bliUfve three. General ( Jrant
got up slowly from" his table , , put his pen
down an.l stood before me with the Ircn
cxprcrfllon of a' ma\i \ who had not smiled
for seven years , and was not 'intending to
smile for another seven. He looked me
steadily In the eyes mine lost confidence
and fell. I had never confronted n great
man before and was In a miserable stile
of funk. The senator said :
" 'Mr. I'resldcnt.i.niay I Introduce Mr.
Clemens ? ' '
" 'The president * ' . gave -my hand an un-
lympathctle wag. and drqppod It. He did
lot * ay a word/hut jusl slOpd. In my trouble
rectild not thliik of anything to.say , 1 merely
wanted to resign. There was an awkward
lausB. a tlrcary pause , a horrible pause.
Then I thought of something and looked up
Into that unyielding face , ati.l raid timidly :
" 'Mr. President , I I am embarrassed. Are
you ? "
" 'His face broke juit a little a wee
; llmmer , the momentary flicker of a summer
liditnlng smile , seven years ahead of time
ind I was out nni ) gone as soon as Itw. . ! . '
" 'Seven years afterwards I met President
nrant. and his first wcrds to mo were , "Mr.
Clenu-ns , I am not a bit embarrassed , arc
you ? "
VIEWING THE EQUATOR.
"Here * Is a bit from his diary which may
irove Interesting : 'September 7. Crossed
: h ( > eriuator. In the dlstanco It looked like
a blue rlbban stretched across the ocean ,
evurnl passengers kod-ik'd It. We had no
tool ccrmonks , no fantastic * , no horse-piny.
All that sort cf thins has gone out. In
oM times a sailor , dressed as Neptune , used
o come In over the bows , with his tuite. and
lather up and shave everybody who was
c.-csslng the equator for the tlrst time , nnd
then cleanse these unfortunates by swinging
'hem fiom the yard-arm and ducking them
three times In the sea.
" 'September 8 , Sunday. We are moving
so nearly south that wo cross only about two
met Miami of longitude a day. This morning
, ve were in longitude 178 , west from Green
wich , and 57 degrees west from San Kran-
Isco. Tomorrow w ? shall be closs to the
winter of the globe the ISOth degree of west
L.tigltude and the JSOth degree oC east
i.mgltudo.
" 'Aivl .then wo must drop out a day loss
i d.iy out of our lives , u day never to be
found again. We shall all die one day
tattler than from the beginning of time we
> -.eie foreordained to die. We shall be a day
behindhand all through eternity. We shall
always be saying to the other angels , "Fire
lay today , " and they will be always retoit-
! ng , "Hut It isn't tcday , It's tomorrow , " We
- < hall be In a stmtc of confusion all the time
.ind ihall never know what true happl-
necs K
" 'Next day. Sure enough. It has Inp-
I mod. Yesterday it was September 3 , Su v
dr.y ; today , per the bulletin boards nt the
head of the compnnlonway , It is September
10. Tuesday. There IB something uncanny
aboul It. And uncomfortable. In tact , nearly
unthinkable , and wholly unrealizable w'neti
cine comes to consider it. While we ware
crossing tho1 ISOth meridian It was Sunday
In the stern of the ship where my family
were , and Tuesday in the bow , where I was.
They were there eating the halt of a fresh
apple on the 8th. and I wns at the same
tlmo eatlnsi the other half of It 'on the 10th
and 1 could notice how stale it was , al-
icndy. The family were the same nge that
they were when I had left them five minutes
before , but I wns a day older now than I
was then. " ' '
AMONG THE FIJIS.
"When Mark Twain was at FIJI Islands ,
ho says that 'everybody went aBhore to look
around , and spy- out the land , and have that
luxury of luxuries to sea voyageis a land
dinner. And there we enw more natives :
wrinkled old women ; plump and smlly young
girls , a pleasure to look at ; majestic young
men clothed in loose arrangement of dazzling
.vhlto with bronzed breast and naked legs ,
tind the head a 'cannon swab of solid hair
combed straight out and dyed a rich red.
Only sixty years ago they were sunk In
darkness ; now they have the bicycle.
" 'We strolled about the streets of the
white folks' little town and around over the
hills by paths and roads among European
dwellings , and by and by we stopped to ask
an elderly English colonist n question or two ,
iind to sympuhize with him concerning the
torrid weather ; but ho waa surprised , nnd
said :
"This ? This Is not hot. You ought to
ho here in the summer time once. "
"We supposed that this WHS summer. But
'f ' It Isn't summer , what does It lack ? "
"It lacks half a year. This la mid-winter. "
" 'I had been suffering from colds for sev
eral inontlitf and a sudden change of sea
son , like this , could hardly fail to do me
hurt. It brought on another cold. It is odd
these sudden jumps from season to season.
A foitnlght ago we loft America In mid
summer , now It i midwinter ; about a week
hence we shall arrive in Australia In the
spring. '
" 'It Is a ( Ino race , the FIJIans. with brains
.n their heads , and an Inquiring turn of
mind.
" 'It appears that their savage ancestors
had a doctrine of Immortality In their
scheme of religion with limitations. That
is to say , their dead filcml would go to
happy hereafter If he could be accumulated ,
but not otherwlia. Tney drew the line ; they
thought thut the missionary's doctrine wai >
too sweeping , too comprehensive. They
called his attention to certain facts. For In
stance , many of their friends hnd been de
voured by sharks ; the sharks. In their turn ,
wore caught and eaten by othar men ; later ,
these men were captured in war and eaten
by the enemy. The original persons hnd en
tered Into the composition of th sharks ;
next , they or.d the sharks had become part
of the llcsh and blood and bone of the canni
bals. How , then , could the particles of the
original men be smirched out from the llrul
conglomeiate and put torfelhar again ? Th'
Imiulro H were full of doubts , and c-inldcre1.
.rut the missionary had not examined the
matter with the gravity nnd attention which
t > o serious a thing deserved.
. " 'Tho missionary taught these exacting
savages nuny valuable thing * and got from
.hem one a very dainty and poetical Idea :
Tlrse wild and ignotunt poor children of
nature believed that the Dowers , after they
porlsh , rise on the winds and float away to
the filr fields of heaven and nourish there
forever In Immortal beauty. '
"The story of the orulthorynchus Is also
good. Ho says It was perlnpa the only anl-
in.il that did not go Into the ark at the
time of the Hood , but that fact did not Hem
to bother It very much , for hu says there
were plenty of logs floating around on which
to take rust when not swimming. As to
food. It had plenty. When it wanted fish
It caught them , and when it wanted eggs It
hid them.
SCENES IN INDIA.
"India was quite a new field for Mr. Clem
ens. Some of the observation ! ) are really
very funny , Speaking of India , railroads , ho
sas :
" 'After a while wo stopped at a little
woadcn ccop of a station ' just within the cur.
till n of the somhe'r jungle , o place with a
deep and dense /prest of great trees and
scrub and vines nil about It. The royal
Bengal tiger is In great force there , and Is
very bold and unconventional. From this
lonely little stall n a message once went to
tlio rullivay manager In Calcutta : "Tiger
eating station master on front porch ; tele
graph Instructions. "
" 'It was there that I had my first tiger
hunt. I killed thirteen. We wcro presently
away again , and the train began to climb
the mountains. In one place seven wild
elf-phnuts ttfoited the track , but two of them
got away ifcforo I could overtake them. '
"Some f > Ohlsstories , however , are as path
etic an others ure humoroun. Inntcincu the
following :
" 'Wo all know abput Father Damlen , the
French priest who voluntarily forsook the
world micl went to the leper Island of Molo-
kil to labor among Its population of sorrowful
rowful exiles who wait there , In slow-con
suming misery , fur death to como and re
lease them from their troubles ; and we know
that the thing ' \\tilcli ho knew beforehani
would happen , did happen ; that he became
a leper himself , Und .died of that horrible
disease. There was still another case of
sclf-sacrlftco. U appears. I asked after
"Ullly1' ' lUgsdile , Interpreter to the PtirlU-
ment In my time a hnlf-whlto. Ho was
brilliant young fellow , and very popular. As
an intetiireter he would have been hard to
iintch anywhere. He used to stand up In
Parliament and turn the English speeches
Into Hawaiian and the Han'allan spcedus
Into English with a volubility that was as
tonishing. I asked after him , nnd was told
that his prosperous career was cut short In
A sudden and unexpected way , Jiift as he
was abn-Jt to marry a beautiful half-easte
girl. He > discovered , bv some nearly Invisi
ble sign about his skin , that the poison of
leprosy was In him. The secret was his own.
and might be kept concealed for years ; but
he would not be treacherous to the girl that
loved him ; he would not marry her to a
doom like bin. And to lie put his affal's
In order , and went around to nil his friends
and hade them goodby , and called In the
letiei- ship to Molokal. There he died the
IcMthsomc and lingering death that all lepers
die.
" 'And one great pity of It all Is , that
these poor miffercrs are Innocent. The leprcoy
does not come of sins which they committed ,
but of sins committed by their ancestors ,
who escaped the curse of leprosy. '
"When he was on shipboard Mr. Clemens
siya that they fared fairly well ; 'they had
a great many things that wore provided by
Doily nnd cooked y Ihc devil. ' Ho also
tolls of an InqutaUlve lady on shipboard , who
Insisted on asking the sailors all kinds of
questions regarding the vtggcl. Once she
wanted to know why the vessel labored so
hard on Its way. Mark paid tint the sailor
told her that It was because they were going
up hill toward the equator , hut that when
they should once get over nl Hits equator and
tart down hill they would fly. ' When she
isked him what the fore1 yard was he said
it was the. front yard. 'That man has a good
.leal of learning stored up and that woman
| s likely to get It all. ' "
KIHI3 r\COVKIMCI > A ft A MM.
r l Tft I'lnyorM tVnm-il Only \Vlii-n
I'ni-r iif IIIllunf 10-11 In.
A hitherto unchroulclcd Incident of the old
Pike opera house fire. In 'CO , was told a few
days ago , relates the Cincinnati Tilbune , by
a nnn : who , nt that time , was. a member of
the fire department , nnd who still does serv
ice with the fire laddies. The Incident was
characteristic of the times , ' . ' .or , In those days ,
when the town was .wide rycn and the
stranger could get any old game at any old
plnoe If he had the- roll , the 'fact ' that a ( Ire ,
even cf the magnitude of that famous blaze.
V.MS not sufilclent to interrupt a seductive
game r.f draw caused no surprise.
The like of that 1'lke fire will probably
never occur , for with the poor facilities with
which the firemen wore then equipped , nnd
the element of danger which m.irkcd their
every step. It has always been regarded ns a
mliacle that no life was sacrificed In the con
quering of thntimous blaze.
The nlnht wns well spent , and the efforts
nf t'ho fire.nen had been so Mr successful as to
"radically gel the flames under control , when
it was di = ccvered that the fire had made Us
way Into the building in 'the rear , which fared
'in Ilakei' street. Now this structure was
frame , and bore the name o ( sheltering from
public view some of the most talked of games
of poker which this town then had in plenty.
All through the night lights had blazed
brightly frcm within the place , and the rooms
wcro filled whh Its lubltues. though at times
it seemed as If the heat and the iiroxlmlty cf
the blaze would cmroel them to vacate. That
th's was not the case w\is proved by the file-
men a .ew moments after It was obsc.-vcd that
' . . 'ac htrifctire was on fire.
A half dozen members of the old Hooks
No. 2 wre sent to the roof with buckets with
which to stay Ihe progress of the fire. When
they reached the scene of their new labors
the roof had been burned through in several
places and n clear view of the interior of
the upper room was to be had.
When the first man looked through he-
stopped In amazement and then called his
companions to his side. They looked nnd
caw a sight that so filled them with sur-
piiso that the fir ? burned unmolested for
several minutes. There , gathered around a
email oak table , were four men , their faces
showing no traces of fear , even ns th-
fircbrands dropped one by one through the
burning rcof to the floor below ami the cards
were dealt once while the firemen watched
the strange sight.
The crackling of the flamss .brought the
firemen to their senses and they sprang to
tlulr work and even ns they did so a portion
cf the roof "fell " with a resounding crash.
Carefully they made their way over the
charred timbers to the spot where they had
watched the game , but the room wns now
vacanl * xcept for a colored man who seemed
ton much frightened to gather up the money
which lay In profusion about the Hoer and
table. The firemen clambered through thereof
roof and helped the colored man gather up
the bills nnd then they worked on until
the great Pike fire was tapped out.
For many a day In the engine houses that
scene was the topic of much conversation
and to this day it is talked about by the
men who witnessed it nnd told to llr h
friends who still recount It. That must
have been a poker game which should liavi
Tno down in the annals of that wonderful
ami much-wrltten-of game as the one- which
was played under circumstances that would
have made the average game a very small
affair played within n few feet of Cincin
nati's most talked of fi'e and Interrupted
only when the flames were so near as to
scorch the dealer's hands.
Till111 HON.
This Is a synonym for thai gloomy , har
assed condition of the mind which has Its
origin in dyspepsia. All the ugly spirits
that , under the name of the "blues , " "blue
devils , " "megrims" nnd "mulligrubs" tor
ments the dyspeptic almost ceaselessly , van
ish when attacked with Hosteller's Stonucn
Hitters , that , moreover , annihilates bilious
ness , constipation , chills and fever , kidney
complaints nnd ncrvoutncsB.
wn-'H KXTHHTAIXS ifiTit iirsii.\\n.
! : HIIINII-N n IliumIliilVft , Hn-liUx I'p
n dull unit Mullen Vimr.v.
Mrs. Salus could not undiirsljud why her
husband preferred the club to his own
"den , " relates the Chleigo Record.
"HecauFO I can have things there that I
can't have at home , " explained Mr. Salus.
"You can play cards here , can't you ? You
can einokc or drink or do anything you
want lo. "
"Yes , but I like to be with my friends. I
llko to be with Haikes and Thompson and
Hurgess and thoeo fellows. "
"Why don't you have them come over
hero ? "
"Well , in the firsl place , I can'l afford to
provide refreshments every evening Inhe
week for all of my friends , and In tie ! second
end place. It wouldn't be any fun for us to
hit hero and pUy cards , because no one
could bo stuck. "
" 1 suppose If we had a regular buffet hero
In the house you wouldn't inlnJ having your
friends come that Is , If they would pay
when they were 'stuck , ' as you call it. "
"You don't expect ino to open a buffet
and charge visllors for Ihelr clgara and bev
erage's , do you ? "
"Certainly not. I'll run the buffet myself ,
You bring all the men over some night and
I'll have a full line of goods ready for you. "
Salus pooh-poohed the Idea , wlrich had
been conceived half in fun , but Halkcs ,
when hu heard of It , was Impressed. He
Induced Ilurgras and Thompson to join wllh
him. and they outvoted Salus and moved
over to the Fa IMS house for their evening's
amusement. Mrs. Salus provided the clgarr
and hail the girl take In the beverages to
them , and sao kept a strict account of the
che'cks and charged club prices. As a spe
cial Inducement she served free lunch late
In the evening. This was something which
the men had never receivcJ at the club.
They complimented Mrs. Salus on the excel
lence of the service , and told Mr , Salus that
ho ought to be proud of fiuch a wife. A
bachelor profoundly admires any woman who
allows her husband to act as If lie were an
unmarried person of no responsibilities. The
bachelor is led to believe that married life
Is not a total gloom , after all.
"I'm afraid that the revenue officers and
the police will find out about It , " said Salus.
when ho was congratulated. "You tec , my
wlfo i running this pUce without a license ,
and she keeps open after midnight. "
At the .end of the drat week Mrs. Salus
took stock and estimated that she had
cleared JS.
"Why not ? " asked Salus. "You haven't
any rent to pay , no expenses for heating or
lighting your plaeo , and Ihe free lunch
doesn't cost anything. No wonder you make
money. I'd like to get a half Interest In the
business
Hut Mrs. Salui would not full out. She
hoprn to nuke enough money tM > fall and
winter to enable her to take a trip to Europe
next spring.
know Dr. IXivU'
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CLIMBING A TALL SHAFT
Glorious View from the Top of the
Washington Monuimnt ,
A RID- IN A NOV-L LL'VATOR
VlrnhiK the \nlloiin1 Criiiltnl from 11
nf Kl\f lliiiulrfi ! l-Vrt
cHllnu In form ( I oil
for ToiirlNtN.
For many yearsMUo first object to nrrcst
the attention of ino visitor to Washington
on approaching thd Capital City was the
dome of the caplud.1 While still many nvilcs
away , writes a correspondent of the New
York Times , that il.u7.llng white object , fa-
mllUr to every student of geography or his
tory , appeared out of the distance , while all
lesser structures wore hidden behind trees cr
hllla. The cnpltol was watched Irom far dis
tant points while the train that carried the
visitor wns circling the city to reach the
station nt a point 'almost opposite tint at
which the capltol was llrtt seen. Since 18SS
the capltol has suffered an eclipse , as It
were. The Washington monument , completed
In that year , and rising to about twice the
height of the capltol , attained a prominence
that It promiees .to . retJln forever. It can
ho seen long before the capltol , and , looked
at from many points on the Potomac below
the city , even as far down as Mount Vernon ,
the monument ecems to dominate every
thing. Ofl to the northwest , as you look
toward the city from the elevation of SOO
feet , sometimes reached by the -Maryland
hills , .the great white shaft , glistening In the
atteincon sun , impresses the observer as
the most prodigious of all cbjoctd in the
range of his vision. In the city , over wi.-lch
It almost seems .to throw its shadow , It ir.uy
be seed from nearly every dooryard , lifting
tuperlor to all Intervening objects.
For the stranger and sightseer It has a
fascination that the resident may have Jelt ,
but which has long boon outgrown. Indeed ,
It Is not. at all uncommon to llnd permanent
residents giving directions .to . visitors at their
homes about visiting the monument , when
they 1jtvinever so much aa set foot In t .0
lot upon which It Is built. That Is not so
strange , when It h considered that Huffjlo
will tcLtlfy that there are men and women
in that city who have never seen Nlagira
falls. The Washingtonlans who luve not yet
been to the monument or to the top of It
ixaton that 'it Is a reasonably permanent
ttructure.they ; . nro busy people ; they have
cxpcctatlcr.s of leisure ; the monument is
sine to slay until they have opportunity to
make the trip to the top of it , and they are
pre..ty familiar with the scene to be enjoyed
at the top from the accounts of those who
have gene before them to obtain n bird's-eye
view of Washington and Its environs.
HOW TO HEACH THE SHAFT.
The monument is but five inlnutis away
from Pennsylvania avenue nt Fourteenth
street. It Is on about the lowest part of
the city , but on. a rising ground. At Penn
sylvania avenue and Fourteenth street the
land Is but fifteen feet above mean high
water mark , and It hara been several times
a couple of feet bjlow highest water inaik.
To reach the monument visitors may ride the
short distance- from the avenue or walk from
the treasury across the Smithsonian reser
vation. s called bccaused the Smithsonian
Institution was the ( Irst building to be erected
on the tract reserved by the government
for public use. The street care will not
land you nt the door. They will drop you
at the ncaiest point opposite to the monument
ment on Fourteenth street , and then there
Is a treeless stretch of space , with defective
pltnk walks or gravelly roads used by teams ,
and leading right up to the foot of the shaft.
The nearer the visitor gets to the monument
the greater becomes his Interest in Its size.
It hid hitherto -looked like a very high
pillar. Now It 'has become thine.qf .enor
mous proportions , cutting off the high'aftor -
aoon sun us it is approached , and inviting
inspection of the line of later construction
that tells of the renewal of work on the
monument after It .had been suspended for
the entire period of the war of the rebellion.
Climbing up a gentle slope on the east
ride , toward the base , a gentle elevation
Is reached overlooking the White house a < rd
the neighboring ipublic buildings. Here
there Is an open'doorway. ' There is not n
guide about. A few carriages stand near ,
evidently waiting for persons who have
been , dropped at .the door. Inside the door
and oppcslte to it ithere Is an Inclosure of
Ironwork. Upon the dco a arc hung , Just
above- the center , two horseshoes. At cne
side is a notice requesting gentlemen to re
frain from smoking. On the other aide Is
another sign asking gentlemen to abstain
from the use of tobacco while In the menu
ment. Then there is another notice Implor
ing everybody not to write their name ? on
the walls or to toke away parts of the monu-
nien.t with tliem. The most Interesting no
tice of the many notices Is the one which
Informs visitors tlmt guides nre not ncces-
rary that the attendenta In the monumo.-.t .
win'giva nil Information required and that
they do not expect and will not receive fees.
There is a distant rumbling as you
enter and sit upon the seat set apart
for the expectant , around in the iccess be
hind the elevator Inclosure. Off at the right
the stairway starts skyward. There Is n
glimpse up it of gloomy walls and labeled
stones st hero and there In the wall. The
distant rumbling continues. Occasionally It
! s combined with loud chattering- and re
verberations , tnuRlcd shouts and exclama
tions , mysterious noises that keep the necks
of the easily Impressed st'etched.backward
as they peer upward through the gloom In
sear-h ot a cause for the dleautetlng clamor.
Without much increase ot the rumbling
within the shaft the eyes of the anxious prcs-
ently see dropping out of the gloom above
a great elevator car. A moment later
It hss stopped on a level with the plat
form under the two horseshoe * , the door Is
opened and fifteen or eighteen people , men ,
women and children , step out.
"All aboard ! " shouts an attendant , who
Is not to solicit o.- accept tips. The fifteen
or eighteen people pass Into the car.
"Go ahead/ ' says the man In the uniform
nt the foot of the shaft. The doors uslow
the symbols of good luck are .closed. The
car msvcB , and tlio rumbling is again re
sumed.
AN ELEVATOR WITH A TKUSPHON'E.
It Is ten chances to one that the elevator
conductor Is the only person in the far who
Imposes implicit confidence In. the ma
chinery rather than In the horr.rahoes above
the door to the elevator. The ear Is not
dark. Four electric lamps , onn at each
ccTiior nt the top , light up the Iron cage ,
with more signs advising gentlemen not tii
smoke or not to use tobacco In any other
way or Indulge In the unworthy and punish
able practice of putting their names on the
walls In pencil. A scut runs along each
side of the car. Scats and standing room
ore occupied , as there are eighteen passen
gers , old and young in the cage. Just at
the conductar'3 side Is a telephone. The
first anxious passenger soon finds out that
If the machinery should stop the conductor
could reach the engineer by means of this
telephone. Up goes the car. Its lamp
throws a light upon the landings a * they
lire passed. The lining of the mo'nument Is
sicn to be apparently of white and yellow
ish stones set alternately In the wall , ex
cept where therf are stones of varying
dimensions and colnr , carrying Mpsonlc em
blems and the names of MaKOtilc organiza
tions that contributed the tablets years ago
to the construction < of the shaft.
A landing Is passed , and the passengers
in the elevator iMti.aeo figures marked upon ,
the edge Indicatingthat It Is 100 feet above
thebase. . Abovri the rumbling of the ele
vator and the none of the chains that carry
It rises a new anfi disquieting tumult.
"What Is that'.asks : a nervous woman ,
whol looks anciently aloft at the top of
the elevator , wkuru A rover cuts , off any
passible discovery tot the causes of noise
above.
"Somebody coralDK down the stairs. " la-
( or-lcally arawcrri the conductor.
The nolsu becoiutw almost deafening , and
suddenly the ftglirn of a boy Is seen as he
clatters down the Iron steps. A fat woman
has behaved very well , up to this time. She
cers the figure's ' 'S50 feet" as a landing Is
slowly passed.
"Please let me 'out , " she faintly gasps ,
and the conductor lets her out at the
" 370-foot" mark. A bald-headed man , who
ipoaks English with * strong German ac-
cent , tells his wife that It Is all right now ,
ami Ihst Mio would bo Just as dead falling
100 feet ns she would If she fell 300 ant
his slender and weary-looking wife tj not
easily persuaded to stay aboard unM the
top Is reached.
FIVR UUNDHKD FEBT AHOVH OHOf\D
Mcst passengers who bear with rompokuro
the lift to the -100-foot mark resign MIPIU-
reives to their fnle for the rest of the up
ward Journey. The conductor can be drawn
out lo tell his passengers that the elevator
and ! ( machinery Is Inspected once a month
by the builders. There has never been an
accident. Not one of the 1,600,000 who have
trusted to the elevator has had occasion to
regiet his reliance upon It.
Then It Is assuring to ho told that there
Is a trial ot the strains every morning be
fore passengers are allowed to second , ami
( lie engineer Is reciulred to exercise the
ttrlrtest watchfulness of his engine and nil
Its parts , so that accident may be absolutely
avoided.
Still , a slight vibration draws n little
shrl k from the nervous spouse of the bald-
headed and fat Uerman patiu'iigor , Just after
the " 450-foot" landing Is passed. "You bet.
If 1 get down safe , 1 don't ila It again , " she
proi&Hit , and a moment later the daylight
Hoods the car , the elevator comes to a stop
and eighteen pairs of feel clatter out upon
the Iron floor at the top ofthe monument ,
f,00 feel above the Irou doors wl'h fie horse
shoe decorations.
The passengers , who have been what lus
teemed to them nil Interminable time reach
ing the top , have room enough In the cham
ber about the elevator ehalt. There Is a
margin of six to ten feet between It and the
wall , Overhead trio monument runs rapidly
to a point , the elevator stopping where It
begins to pinch and fifty feet below the fii > r
feet distance from ( he ground to the alu
minum tip. The breeze plnys freely In
through sixteen openings , which are really
only four , each pair being divided by n part
of the structure that projects Inward cs a
brace lo the pyramid with which t.ie shaft
Is terminated. These four double windows
face the four cardinal points of the compass ,
the shutters of granite swinging back like
the port ah'ittcrs of a ship. They are rather
too high to facilitate the falling out of
frisky Juveniles , the lower sill of the window
rcac.ilng breast high to a man of five feel
ten. A now sign meets the eye at the very
door of the clov.itor. Visitors are requested
to please not throw articles out of the windows
dews , ns Indulgence In that pastime would
endanger the lives of persons below.
EASTEIIN AXI3 SOUTHERN SIGHTS.
All the painted cycloramns In the world be-
conio dull InJced as compare J with the lm-
prcsslvcness of the view that meets the eyes
of Uiose who have Just step-.ed from the ele
vator. AB the elovutor drri ) the vl&.tcr Just
opposite the east window , the first look out
and down Is toward that side ot Washington.
At first there Is nothing to bo noticed hut
the capltol , upon which the sun is shining
brightly , while most of the city on that side
Is under clouds. Then the great bulk of the
Tension building is observed to the northeast ,
and aa the eye drops , the Smithsonian reser
vation , the National museum , tl.o Medical
museum , the Department of Agriculture , and
the brilliant green lawns and darker g'een
foliage or the park , the wlndl.ig brown reads ,
tlio w'ss-crosslns streets and slanting ave
nues , with moving trains of ear * , street cars ,
fluttering flags , and microscopic men and
women moving upon this living inci.i. 111 ! the
picture with color , life , nud motion. The
c owd In the monument moves around and
flutters from one window to another.
Go to the south window next. Ilt-ro Is a
superb view away from Washington , wlt.li a
most 'Interesting foreground Immediately be
low. Just beycnd the monument grounds and
In Its o'\-n emerald lawn is the sl.apely
Bureau of Engraving and Printing , to the
southeast. Then come some propagating
grounds , with many glass covers pushed Ijack
to let the light and air i cacti the bedded
plants. Still further westward Is the city
bathing beach , on the edge of n bay made
by the Hilling up of the Potomac to create a
park that will one of these dr.ys be added to
the. many present attractions of the capital.
Beyond all these Is the Potomac , sweeping
gracefully around from the northwest to the
southeast , and then flowing out of sight in
the haze that has settled down between the
shores of Virginia and Maryland. It Is at
once seen that { ho Long Hrldgc , right In front
cf th'e monument. Is not \c-ry long ; that It
js broken in two by an island just between
the Maryland and Virginia ends , and that the
cars aid engines that run over It would
have been considered small by Gulliver's
Lilliputians. The specks on the water turn
out to be1 boats , and some white objects clus
tered along the nearest edge of the stream
are found , after a moment of observation
and reflection , to be steamboats and sailing
vessels at the city's wharves.
TO "TUB WEST AND NORTH.
Still a different picture is obtained from
the west window. The Potomac , shln'ng
In the afternoon sun , creases the view diag
onally , with a majestic curve bofoie It parses
Analcstan Island and under the Aqueduct
bridge at Georgetown. Tlie soft haze don not
quite hide Arlington , where the old home of
General Lee Is seen with Its Parthcnrn front
of wprm yellow contrasted very distinctly
with the dark green of the surrounding
foliage. At the north end of tie ! George
town bridge may bo seen the Impos'ng lines
of the Georgetown university , tlio group of
buildings suggesting a rlverrlde caatlo at
that distance. Directly below , If the visitor
can calmly look down over the window edge ,
re the ponds of the Fish commission , large
rnd small , some In little squares and others
of Irregular form. A flue view ! s obtilncd
of the great area reclaimed by firsdyking
the Potomac and then dredging it and filling
up the space behind the dykes with the ma
terial taken from the river ted. A few years
ago it was a recking , noxious mass of ooze.
Now It Is high and dry covered with luxu
riant grass and waiting for the congress to
authorize the development of the made land
Into a superb park with a river-edge drive
way.
way.Kroni the north window one sees only the
c'ty ' and the hills of Maryland beyond It.
But It in as interesting In its way as any
of the four views. From this point It Is
easy to believe the report about the 7.r > ,000
( hade trees growing along the streets. Their
tops mark the divisional lines of streets ,
giving a dominant green color to the pic
ture. Right In front and cloci' u the bottom
of the nioitumnnt Is the White Lot oval , an
elliptical grass plot , with a dusty drlvuwety
about it and porno minute creatures on. hl-
i\vcleii speeding along Its edge. At the
border of this reservation , on the wc-at sldo ,
Is the glittering now marble homo of the
Corcoran Art gallery. At right angles to
that , fac'ng the oval , Is the big pile in which
are loJgeil the- State , War ami Navy depart
ments .Near to this mass of gray granite
are the flue old trees of the executive , man
sion grounds , and the White house Ittelf ,
showing the semi-circular rear porch , the
pretty tear grounds , the freshly thaven
luwn , and tlio fountain plajlng in the midst
of a wri'ath ot green end red pnd yellow.
Tlio somber treasury building , with Its clas
sical parch , ends the line of public structures
at the edge of the reservation , and then ttj
the north , the northeast and the east spread
out the housetops of Washington.
"All aboard ! " calls out the keeper at the
dosr. You may go down on the return trip
or wait for the next one , or you may prefei'
to wtlk down the fifty flights , of stepc. A
few nervous' persons make the trip up and
down by the stairs. Of the Ii.lGS who
reached the top In July , l.MS chose to climb ,
and eomo of those who rode up walked down.
It Is a gloomy , fatiguing way of getting
down. The steps are all of Iron , and the
hi-els of visitors clatter over them with
many reverberations following up and down
the great shaft. Down toward the bottom
Iho Inquisitive vlflitor may grope in the Im
perfect light supplied by occ2i > lon&l lamps
for the ( uscrlptlcm upon the blocks prc-
tented by Jlqtonlo lodges.
Some of the gropers have groped with Im-
plomcnfs that clipped off bits of ornamenta
tion or letters to be taken away as keep
sakes Sometimes the lead pencil fiend
stop3 to scrawl his loathsome name upon the
walls. The visitor who takes away chips
of stone or leaves his autograph in pencil ix
charged $5 for the privilege if bebe caught.
When the elevator has male flfirc trips its
day IB done. The conductors have long
B'nce coated to be worried by tbe commenn
of the nervous or fearful. L'p n the a preach
of a ghouor the IrljM ara suipemled , for the
lightning | > la > 8 familiarly about Iho top of
the monument , and has nouietlirifi etruck
It. not , however , with much injury to the
structure. a.Dd absolutely ullhout harm to
anybody In the ilmft.
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