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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

pyine place of some social prominence is made
TO aid in lobbying for bill in behalf of which
corrupt measures are being used at the same
time unknown to her. The episode is managed
with such discrimination, however, as to cause
the reader to feel that it is not an impossible
one. though far from being satisfactory as a
typical scene in the life of the Capital. This
work. whatever its shortcomings may be, is
not slanderous. 1t would be pleasant to be able
70 say as much of "A Washington WINTER
the latest in the series OF Washington books,
which, though it has little claim to discussion
rs literary work, has called forth more COM
mont than most of them. Something has been
said already in these columns of its gross exag-
gerations. Judge Tourg6e, writing in The Con-
.iueut takes the trouble to point out some of the
Inconsistencies in which the author involved
herself through a reckless jumbling together in
her story of fictitious characters and real per-
sops under their own names. This Is method
of criticism usually applied to more pre-
tentious works, but it is nevertheless OF some in
terest TO notice that Mr.. Ignotus, one OF the
leading characters, was a carpet-bag Repre-
sentative serving his second term in the House,
and that during this same winter, Mr.. Choate,
nreme Court. This would bring the carpet
baggers into being even before the war. Judge
Tourg6e shows also that Mrs. Dahlgren has
mixed her Presidents up and made other mis-
takes which would not be observed except In
one writing with every facility for being exact.
The general picture she gives OF Washington
society no pronounces " q silly and useless ex-
aggeration."
Other examples of fiction relating to the
Capital might be mentioned, but the list is long
enough. There is loud call from various
quarters for a satisfactory Washington novel
n thing which does not seem to have been
achieved yet. A writer in The Literary World
asks anxiously when the time is to come that
this picturesque and inviting field shall be we'll
occupied Here is an opportunity for some one.
The reception of " The Bread Winners shows
how eager tho public is for fiction that shall
deal with life, and not always with society !;
in which there shall be men and women, and
not paper dolls.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02
Tile WASHINGTON NOTEL.

The intelligent foreigner, or even the intelli-
gent American, who wished to gain clca. idea
of the nature and composition OF Washington
society-a subject apparently OF deep interest TO
large numbers OF reading people-wOuld be
sadly puzzled for his pains, if ho should Try TO
find it III the novels and plays that purport to
give pictures of life in that city. These works
are by Americans who are supposed to write
with comprehension OF what they have seen
with their own eyes. In some cases, they have
been written by persons who have enjoyed
special facilities as residents of the Capital for
observing the rapid whirl of changes that gives
society there the shifting character which has
drawn down upIn it the pens of so many
satirsts These works are not the fruit o. IA
hasty journey of observation by some super
cilious tourist from abroad, but deliberate por-
traiture by our own authors of one degree and
another and yet, curously enough, the chief
fault TO be found with almost all OF them is that
they are libelOus to an extent which Americans
would have been quick to resent in a foreign
writer in the days when they were much more
sensitive than now to foreign opinion.
None of the plays that have dealt with Wash
ingtOn society have ranked high rs literary per-
formanccs, but thousands have seen them who
never read a Washington novel, and they per-
haps deserve the FIRST mention. Ia one Of them,
a highly popular clay, there was an incidental
picture of Washington life, in which several
young women, presumably moving in the first
circles" rushed up AMI down IL brilliant draw
ing-room in long trains, wild with excitement
over the tate of a land bill, which is to bring
several million dollars into the family, and
Which they are lobbying through Congress-
They are likewise engaged in manipulating
some of The newspaper correspondents in the
same interest. IN another popular play OF the
same school Congressman BADLY sells his vote
to "A railroad capitalist for $4,000, and the in.
trigue growing out of this transaction supplies
much of the serious interest of the piece, such
as 1t is. In Democracy" the novel whose
accuracy and fidelity as a description of Amer-
can politics and manners were first disco vered
in England, Senator is Influenced in his action
on a certain measure by large bride, which
goes, however, not to his own personal benefit,
but to that of the campaign fund of his party
and lie defends the propriety Of the action.
Washington society, as depicted in this book, is
somewhat of picturesque mob, with the vulgar
element to the front, if not in the ascendancy.
In Through One Administration q lady occu-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02
1T PAYS, EVEN ~ SUMMER.

Asa rule. business men let OF steam in sum-
mer. They know that many of their customers
are ont of town, and they assume that business
will be light They reduce such expenses as
can be contracted or expanded at will. espe-
cially in the way of advertising. How many OF
them have ever stopped to consider seriously
whether this is always paying policy The
CONSUMPTION of goods does not stop because
few score thousand OF people are living in the
mountains or at the seaside and not IN the city,
and the vast majority who remain behind must
still be supplied The experience OF the pres
ent summer may give hint to business men
on this point. The season has been exceed
ingly dull, as n rule. Yet there have been few
summcrs. if any, when there has been 40 much
advertising, at least in THE TRIBUNE, and
business men on all sides, who have followed
the policy OF liberal advertising, report. that
they have never done so large summer bust
ness before. Among the firms who report this
gratifying volume of business as the result of
a liberal expenditure are T.. j. DennDg & Co.,
who have succeeded A. L. Stewart * Co.,
Rogers, Peet s. Co., whose taking sketches and
announcements are often sought for by news
paper buyers with rs mach zest as ordinary
reading matter, anu Ioesei, tHe NVh-hho"h
dry-goods dealer of Brooklyn. These enter
prising houses, and many others, have found
that it pays to put money into advertising, even
in summer.
Readers of THE TRIBUNE have not failed, too
to notice the large array of school advertisements
which makes its appearance annually in the
columns OF this paper mt this season. No other
newspaper in the country has a showing which
will compare with this in fulness and in the
high character of the institutions advertised.
Parents Who are looking for schools tor their
children cannot afford to overlook THE TRIB-
UNE's list which is longer than that OF all the
other newspapers of this city combined and
managers OF schools cannot afford to neglect
this opportunity of reaching the best class Of
patrons, because the position of The TRIBUNE
as the chief medium If commun cation between
the schools and the homes is now universally
conceded.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02
Of romance with which they may decorate and
enliven their duties.

The rapid development of the West is Illus
trated to-day in letter elsewhere published de-
scrlbing the growth of Fargo, Oak. we can
well I'm agine that such a town-only five years
old-lighted by electricity and proud OF Its
street railroad, its public library. its water
works. its fine churches and Queen Anne cot
tages, and all springing up as If by magic on
the very outskirts of civilization, must nave
impressed the foreign visitor with vivid sense
of the energy and enterprise of the American
character. Fargo seems destined to be an I'M
portant railroad centre for the vast wheat crops
which the valleys of Dakota are pretty certain
to produce for many years to come.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02
TWELVE PAGES.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-Several Europeans are reported
among the dead and missing at Java. - Two
vessels have returned safely from the Grand Banks.
- Another Irish conspratOr was arrested at
Glasgow. 80 About 5000 Frenchmen nave gone
To i,oritz to attend the funeral of the Comte de
Chambord. - There have been 273ls deaths
from cholera IN Egypt since the outbreak Oh 'he
endemic. - Anti-Jewish riots are reported
from Hungary.
DoMrsT1c-Stephen A. Douglas, a son of the late
Senator Douglas of Illinois, is seriously Ill al hseA
home in Chicago. - Frank James gave tesu-
,nonv in his own defence at Gaatin, Mo-. on
Friday night. - The authorities of Dodge City,
Kansas. upon the demand of the Atchson
Topeka and Santa F6 Railroad, passed ordl-
nances against gambling. yesterday. - STE
phen Harris, ON attempting to take possession
of the Quidnlck Mills in Rhode Island. was
menaced with death by Ex-Governor Spragne--
There has been a marked i'm provement in the Ar
kansas cotton crop
Cry AND SUBURDAN.-A prisoner charged with
comphcity in the Northampton Bank burglary was
arraigned before Police Justice Duify
yesterday. - Bootjack. Aranza, MONITOR
Sister Strathspey and Jim McGowan won
the Sheepshead Bay races - The New-iork
Baseball Club beat the Providence nine. =
discrepancy OF S4,OOO was u'sco'e'0"
in the accounts of a Custom House clerk =
In the final heats of the professional rowing
regatta ON The Passaic, Hosmer won -
match for the championship of
the world at balk-line billiards was
arranged between Jacob Schaefer and Maurice
Yignaux. - Gold value of the legal-tender
silver dollar (412l2 grains). So cents. - Stocks
were feverish and fuctuatng, but closed with large
ADVANCES On Yesterdays prices,
THE Manufacturers local observations in
dictate clear and fair weather, with higher temper
AZURE Temperature yesterday highest So;
lowest $50; average. 6S3S0
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

profoundest mysteries Of our faith, with the
name and even the death of the Saviour, is not
any result of the zeal of good men. IL Is the
coarse vulgarity of garrulous men and women
who gossip about Jesus and the salvation OF
the soul IN camp as they would about their
cooks or village politics at home, and reduce
them to precisely the same level.
Besides the effect of this Odious familiarity,
the whole moral atmosphere of the place is
feverish and irritable. 81 felt" said vener-
able clergyman after two weeks experience in
camp, "as if had been tippling religion" 1t
is not for THE TRIBUNE to decide whether the
good wrought in such places by awakening at
tention to the subject of religion among care
less people be not counterbalanced by the low
cred tone given to all religious truth both for
the careless and devOut. That is for the we'll
meaning managers to consider. They should
remember that these gigantic camps are not
only the battle-ground where really devout
men come to fight Satan, but the property OF
scheming spectators who, when they find
religious excitement pays will keep up relig-
ious excitement by means which, to speak nod
erately, call for close in estgation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

have, merely in a summary Of notable events.
necessarily imperfect, and taking the lowest
estimates in each case, record of the loss IN
eight months by accident. fire aud pestilence,
of more than 1900 lives. How many moro
complete enumeration would show, WE can
oriy guess What sermon upon the uncer-
tainty and the little worth of human life!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

A correspondent in to-day's issue gives some
interesting particulars respecting the early his
tory and early inhabitants OF one of Penn
sylvania's pleasantest towns. There may be no
giants in Milford in these degenerate days, but
the Delaware Valley is as beautiful now as it
ever was, and must always be attractive to the
lovers of wild and picturesque natural scenery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

The railroad makes its appearance at Dodge
City, Kansas, as a missionary agent. The
officers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa re
are said to have offered to build branch road
to that city, and erect permanent buildings, II
the authorities would suppress the gambling
saloons and other dsorderly houses. This they
are about to do.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

Frank James has not read Plckwick in yail
Franks defence is an alibi. 1t will be remembers
that that was the favorite defence of the eide
Weller.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

Among the alleged hazers in tho Naval Academy
are Indian lads. Ii has looked ever since l492
or say 1920 az If the Indian must 90.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02
Yesterday WAS the day selected by the trus-

Yesterday WAS the day selected by the trus-
tees for beginning the running of CARS on the
East River Bridge, but travel did not begin,
and it is evident that it cannot begin for sDme
time to come. Those in charge of the work are
not communicative on this subject, and the
condition of tho machinery to be used is not as
forward as it might he. A little restiveness on
the part of the public under the delay is surely
not unnatural. The Bridge authorities have
had before them ever since the elevated roads
were opened, the necessity of providing rail
transportation over the Bridge, and it would
have been practicable, every one would sup
pose, to make better preparation for doing it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

The Governor of Kansas. TO the police OF New
York and Boston: Keep your favorite sluggers and
clubbers for home halter consumption.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

The young man whose brief and inglorious
career as deaf-mute ended in the .FOmbs
Police Court yesterday, with six months SEN
tence, which he had no difficulty in hearing, de-
nonstrated at least the ready sympathy of the
poor with each other. He was shIewd enough
20 90 and beg among the very poor. BY dis
playing a sign in tenement-house, describing
himself as deaf-mute, he aroused the sympa-
shies of the inmates who took up collection
for his benefit. When they saw him afterward
In animated conversation with an acquaintance
they naturally caused his arrest. Even then
this bungling impostor couldn't play his part /;
and when he was asked at the police station
how long he had sheen deaf-mute, lie said :
A year." The professional beggars will be
ashamed to think this young man ever aspired
70 be one of them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

And now Minnesota endeavors to fill the trump
of fame. She does it with an Enoch Arden OF her
own But since this occidental Enoch answers to
the rhyme-defying name of Beanblossom. 1t Is
doubtful if his penslyey romantic story will wake
any of the Western poets TO ecstacy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

There is a mysterious prisoner in one of the
els at the Police Central Office about whom
the detectives are solemn and obscure 1t is
understood, however, that he was implicated in
the great Northampton Bank robbery, one of
the most famous crimes of that class ever COM
mitted in this country OF course the truth
about him will be known in due time, and the
pprtentous secrecy with which our excellent
inspector and his assistants love to surround
everything which they do, even when there is
no occasion for it, will damage DO public inter-
sst Whatever Is hidden by New York de-
sective Is sure to be revealed when the time is
ripe tor getting all the glory possible out of the
disclosures. The work is often commonplace
and prosaic enough in these times-the Vidocqs
are all dead-and no one will begrudge Inspect
or Byrnes aud his men any OF the little touches
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

For his betrayal of the Irish Republic and the
dynamiters in England McDermott might have
hoped for forgiveness: but his conduct as offering
an excuse for unlocking the jaws of John
Dewey and ODonovan Rosa can never be forgiven
by an outraged American public.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-19
i. He Him.

A New York s'ocl-broker who WAS on
his way to Buffalo last week observed,
says the Wall Street Daily News. that
one oF his fellow passengers was closely
regarding him, and after Il tinie the man
came Yer and asked:
r"Di Mt 1 see yop in Chiaaao in 1872"
The broker wasn't in Chicago that
year. but thinking to humoc the stran-
ger lie replied in the affirmative.
"Don't you remember of handing a
poor devil a silver %half-dollar ose night
in front Of the FREMONT"
81 do"
"Well, I'm the chap ] was hard up,
out OF work, and about ready to commit
suicide. That money made u new man
of me. BY one lucky SHIFT and another
lam worth r25,O0U.a
"Ah! glad to near IT,"
"Anh. now l want YOU 10 take ID in
place of so tents. | can't feel easy antil
the debt is paid.pa
The br ,ker protested and objected,
hut finally, Just to humor the man, he
took his $50 bill and gave HIN back SIS.
The stranger soon witndrew.and every
thing might hive ended then and there
il the broker, on reaching Bu!fllo, hadn't
ascertained tina, the twenty" WIS Il
counterfeit, and that he WAS SIS out of
hOcket,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-19

nearly fifteen miles, being over bait
that distance in width. Messrs. Hun
ter, kronk and others were among the
principal losers, each having destroyed
from thirty to fifty tons of hay apiece.
Three villages are being hauled bodily
to Ipswich with teams, and fifty build
ipgs made an appearance III II week.
The corner stone of the first church III
Steele was lad on the 9th inst, by the
Presbyterian society.
Alexander Hughes Of Bismarck, chair
man of the DAKOTA capital commission,
HIS returned from Yankton, whittier he
has been to represent the commission
in an appeal from the recent decision of
Judges Edserton, onstiIg the commis-
siuners from office. He underworld to
obtain a hearing atthis term OF the court
he st ties, but as II hearing 1T this time
could only be had by mutual consent of
the parties, and the plaintiffs in The case
objected To the hearing going on, it
will he necessary to wait until the May
term before any further steps can be
taken in the matter.
Miss Sarah Ruthersford, Of jackson,
Michigan, recently sued DIR. Calvert, of
Eckleson, Barnes county, for breech of
promise OF marriage aud Obtained judy
ment for damages in the SUN of 5000.
The Northern Pacific branch of the
jamestown Northern, running from
Coninyton 10 Sykeston, q distance OF
thirteen miles, has been comp eted.
The Wahpeton Times says as large AS
the emigration into Dakota has been
this year, IL will be double discounted
next Spring.
A rich piece Of quartz was found while
~excavating for q cellar in Bismarck the
other day, and thetown is intensely ex-
cited.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-19

The town Of Tournai, Belgium, held
recently : fete in honor Of her two
tOWnsinen who have risen to great dis.
MISUNDERSTANDING Dnmortier, the
botanist and political orator, and Louis
Gallait. the painter. Dumortier was
bsrn in 1897, and was remarkable, in his
younger days for his opposition to the
Dutch government. During the e Y
STATIONARY period he commanded the
Civic guards Of the province of Hainaut,
and from 1882 till his death, in 1879, he
occnpiedA seat in the chamber on the
cierfalside. His labors as q botanist
Were duly appreciated at home and in.
foreign countries. The statue which has
been erected to him by public subscrip.
tom In his native town, wa unveiled in
the presence OF the minister of justice
fwhoi is one ofthe representatives ofTour-
nal inthe chamber), and Of the local
authorities. The statue is of white mar
ole, and is the work of the well,
known sculptor Freikin. Gallait's
INST great painting, THE plague of Tour
NAL representing the procession which
was held In IO92, to implore the cessa-
tion Of the plague. is now on exhibition
of Tournal. A recent Sunday Nas the
day for the annual procession, which
sas lett the old fiVe-towered cathederal
every gear since I092. AtTournal, which.
possesses also Gaiii1it's Jesus restoring
sight 10 the blind and Lost Honor's
Rendered TO the Counts4of Horn and Of
On IGe-# - ~ ~ Gr.EfAnar@r sfs=n E.4 -
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-19

the trade winds. Each vessel is divided
into eight water-tight compartments.
Five divisions are Carried up between
main end upper decks. and fitted with
water tight tirepro,f doors giving ac-
cess from mi part of the ship,
to the other. By this arrangement, the
danger of irespreading, should it break
IN any part of the ship is
checked. and greater insured by being
able to isolate any n compartment in
case of da' age to the hull and the com
partment being flooded. The vessels
are also built under spec al survey to
the requirements for Lloyd's highest
class Tor hnll and machinery. The prin-
elpal dimensions Of these vessels are as
follows: Length between perpen-
dicnlars. $50 feet; length over all; 40
feet; breath, 46 feet; depth, 80 feet 4
inches. with n gross tonnage OF about
1900.
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Electric Lighting of Steamers.

From the London Times.
The largest contract for electric light
ing up to the present time has been con.
Guided in Glasgow between the owners
OF the New Zealand Shipping company's
fleet and the Edison Company's branch
in Scotland, under the management of
Mr.. Charles T. Grant. Three fine steam
ers, two of which are sister ships to the
steamship Tongariro. launched on
Thursday at Messrs. John Elder & Co.'s
yard, are to be lighted throughout with
the i~neandescent light, and fitted with a
duplicate set of Edison's marine dvnames
and engines, II set being for reserve
in case OF emergency. These steamers
when finished, will he the finest elect
really equipped vessels alnat. The
Toneariro, and the two sister ships now
in course OF construction, are built O.
steel throughout, and have cutwater
sterns with tigure-heads, which gives
them a very grace vi appearance. The,
ere to be bark-rigeed, having masts anc,
yards of steel. with a large spread OF
canvas, which viii be of great service in