Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-12-24


MARnIEs PRINCESS. following
list of society news comes from the
Society Islands by recen. arriya! ct
San Fracisco:
A marriage in the very highest tier of
social life has been one OF the quiet
sensations lately transporting in Tahiti
On the 9th OF October, Dorrence At.
water, United States Consul for the
Society Islands, was united in the holy
bonds OF wedlock to the Princess Moetia,
daughter OF a chiefess of royal blood.
The marriage was conducted by the
civil authorities. DR.. Bonnet, Mayor Of
Papeete, officiating. No cards and no
cake. The Princess Moetia is very ac-
complished young lady. speaking En-
Rlish and French, as fiuently as she does
her native language. She is besides
wealthy in her own right, being the
owner OF the historical palm groves OF
Fara and other lands. She is also the
lessee OF Scilly Island, valuable for its
pearl fisheries. Her mother owns half
Of Moera Island (the Paradise of Eimed,
as old navigators call i'll and extensive
possessions on the island OF Tahiti.
Moetia has three brothers, splendid
specimens OF South Sea Chiefs. The
youngest, Narii, is about nineteen years
old, six feet two inches in hight and
weighs 200 hundred pounds and as
straight as an arrow. They were edu-
Gated in Europe, but like all South Sea
Chiefs, they believe in native customs
and habits. Their mother has equa
claims to rule with Queen Pomare, bu
has never asserted her rights. Tn,
father of the family was an English Jew
named Salmon, lawyer by profession
and very able man. Soon after he ar
rived in Tahiti he married the wealth,
Chiefess mentioned. As to Mrs. At
water, her many friends will wish he
much joy. She has been fortunate il
securing young, gallant and intelligen
husband, and he has been equally for
tunate in capturing the handsomest ant
wealthiest girl in the South Sea Islands
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The TRAINING OF RAILROAD MEN,
The Pennsylvania railroad company has
within the past few years. adopted tn
policy of taking number Of educate,
young men into its employ, and trainin
them in the different departments O
railroad management, SO as to produce
regular supply Of not only educated bu
practical officials. At the present tim
there are from twenty to thirty such me-
employed in Altoona, some OF them il
the drawing-room, others in the shop
and on the road. The testing dc
partment and the wheel foundry are bot
under the charge of such persons. Man
OF the sections of track are also super
vised by them, and the practical result
that there is growing up about this lin
corps of experienced and accomplishe
officials such as cannot be found on an
other railroad in the country. OF cours
these men are laughed at q good DEF
by the older and more experienced me
perhaps at times with some iustic,
but, although there may at times be som
amateur railroading, those who q,
laughed OF don't seem to mind the sneel
Of the older men, and the evil of inexp,
rience, il it be one, will cure itself
time. and when cured. the policy wi
bring with it the immense additional Al
vantage of having body of men wi
are both experienced and educated in Il
ordinary sense of the term. There is
course such thing as valuine too mue
the knowledge which comes from stud
alone, and that which islearned by pra
tical experience too little, and perhay
the practice Of the Pennsylvania Raj
road Company may have erred in tn
respect; but generally there has bee
shown an appreciation Of the value
intelligence, Of knowledge and OF educ
tion, such as no other railroad compar
has indicated.