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WOMEN OPERATORS.
A Vigorous Defense Against the Argument
of MIR. HumstOne.

OF MIR, HumStOne.
Boston Herald.
The argument of Superintendent Hum
stone. of New York, against making the pay
of the lady operators equal to that of the
men, when the same service is performed,
does not find a responsive chord in the
Brotherhood circles in Boston. He takes
the ground that, if there is an equalization
of salaries in this respect men will be pre-
ferred to women in all cases. In other words,
he argues that ii lady operator receives the
same pay as a man for the same work. she
runs the risk of loosing her work. 1t is noto-
rious that, apart from being excellent OPP
orators, women sometimes make better man.
ayers of Offices than men. The Western
Union Office in Lowell is a case in point.
Under the management of a man it was for
years one of the most dilatory in the couu-
try; but, under the administration of
woman it is now one OF the best managed in
the whole district. The same may also be
said of the office in Salem. When they first
entered the business there was violent OPP
position to their admission on the
part of the fraternity. Now.
justice and equal pay for the ladies is one of
the chief pianks in their platform of griev-
dHCeS-duu one WHICH VIII COihuehu tAelI
cause to the heart of every woman in the
land. 1t says with directness that renders
all explanations superfuous: Both sexes
shall receive equal pay for equal work"
Nearly every preconceived theory, urged by
the fraternity originally with some vehem-
ence and bitterness, autagonistic to the pro
posal to employ female operators, has been
upset, and the women stand forth with char
acters, skill and ability unimpeached by
their official superiOrs Selfish superintend-
ents may talk of woman's proverbial inaccu-
racy, her impressionable nature, her energy,
that displays itself by fits and starts, her
sudden attacks of fatigue or depression, and
they may draw fancy pictures of business
arrested or stopped altogether by whole
sale abandonment to flirting and gessiping,
yet her whole record in the telegraphic SER
vice is most emphatic and eloquent denial.
Women have their way to make in the
world; they are as ambitious and sensitive to
the wrongs imposed upon them as operators
of the other sex; they are properly proud of
the responsibility intrusted to them as ope-
rators of the other sex; they are properly
proud of the responsibility intrusted to
them. and, once in the service, have as much
respect for it as an inferior official has for
the one above him.
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James H. Heverin, Lotta's counsel In this
city, was asked yesterday if he had any in
formation as to the foundation of rumor
which was recently circulated somewhat
widely, and which was again given some
prominence yesterday to the effect that the
little lady was actually married to o. E.
Huss, of Washington. several months ago.
Il do not believe word of the story" said
the genial counsellor. 'It is a well-estab-
men labor under the hallucination that they
are married to Lolita To the best of my be-
lief she is single to-day. She certainly was
not married when last saw her, and l think
if she had since assumed the bonds of matri-
mony should certainly have been apprised
of the fact. think this young man is one
of class commonly denomineted cranks,
and I don't believe he is married to Lotua
any more than you are"
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TELEGRAPHIC BKEvITIEs.

ARRANGEMENTS are making for two DAYS boat
racing on Saratog. lake. Four thousand dollars
will be raised.
William Pile at Delaware, o., was bitten by a
dog last week. and yesterday hydrophohia ap-
peared, the sufferer barking and swapping like a
dog
A purse of $500 has already been given to
Mrs. Maddy, whose husband was Killed by one
of the Polk City murdeFers during the man
hunt in Iowa
At New York, James MeDermott shot at as
Gavnor with the crime. Gaynor is only recently
from Ireland
On Sunday morning, at County-line Church,
Doty county, Ga. Sampson Casou and Samuel
Clifton fought with knives, anu Cnfton was
hacked To pieces.
Mrs warford, of Gay street, West Nashville,
died yesterday morning from large dose Of
"Rough ON rats" taken by mistake for cam
phor about week ago.
Several dams in Dane creek. near Fond du
Lac, Wis, gave way on Sunday, submerging 200
houses, and damaging property in the latter Oily
to the extent of $25,O0O
While George Kane, Harry Suffer and Worth
ington McCullocD, young unmarried men from
Frostburg, Md, were rowing on the Potomac
their boat capsized and all drowned.
The New York Tribune fresil-air fand sent to-
ChenangO county, yesterday, 10J poor children,
to spend two weeks in the country. Twenty
more children were sent IN thu afternoon, by the
same fund, TO Essex county.
During storm, on Sunday, twelve inmates Of
Bellevue Hospital, New York city, seated on the
balcony, were prostrated by lightning. About
half the number were picked up unconscious,
but were seriously injured.
Henry r. Stoddards stable, and the Gibson
House., at Portsmouth, N. H., burned yesterday
morning. Twenty six horses were burned aud
a large number of vehicles The guests Of the
hoase had difficulty in escaping.
The Cable Railway Company OF California filed
a bill of equity against the Union Passenger
Railway Company Of Philadelphia, asking for
nn Injunction restraining the use of patented
i'm in a new cable ROAD to which the
complainant company claims to be solely ell
titled 1t also asks for damages.
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The Bishops Reasons.

New York Special.
MY decision not to allow tine pamphlet out
for general circulation was based principally
on the erroneous position which it main
tanned on the public-school question. The
late Pope Plus TX, shortly before his death,
issued a circular strongly against Catholic
parents allowing their childrsn to attend
goddess public schools. / wish you would
observe that goddess here is not meant in
the sense that infidelity is taught, They
were declared goddess by the late Holy
Father because there was no religious train
ing for children in them. Father Corrgan
says a child may, after its first commun-
ion, attend these schools with safety. l
do net agree with him there. The
most of Catholic children eeceive their
first communion when they are about ten
years of age, At that age no child is suffi-
GENTLY we'll grounded in the faith to render
it safe for it to go to schools where all fur
ther religious training is dispensed with.
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GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPHY.
A United States Senator Thinks the Time
for 1t Is Here.

N QuitOu oiHtoo ochhtuF tho AlAo
for 1t Is Here.
Washington Special to Boston Journal.
The few congressman who are in the city
thought that the telegraph strike would so
sharply call attention to the relations of the
telegraph to the government and the people
that it would give an impetus to the postal
telegraph scheme or to some plan for the
better regulation of Geographic communica-
ton.
THE time has passed. said United States
senator, when the general government or
the States can permit the people to be placed
at the mercy either of a monopoly of capital
which controls the telegraph wires, or mo-
nopoly of labor which seems to control the
operators. This is not the age of the stage
coach. The telegraph is as much a common
carrier as the railroad, or as a steamboat is.
II is as much of an element in the transmits
sion Of Intelligence as locomotive, and
the government mas as much right to
control il as it has to carry the mails. The
public used to complain when the mail sys-
TEN was extended that it would interfere
with the rights of private parties and when
the postoffice entered into the business of
CARRYING small packages it was said that it
would injure the express companies, but
the pc ople were benefited, and the express
companies still live and pay handsome divid-
ends. Senator Edmunds, you will remem-
Der. called attention to this subject In the
last Congress. and gave notice that he should,
at the first opportunity in the next Congress,
introduce bill for a postal telegraph, and
this strike will do good deal to bring many
over to Mr.. Edmundss way of thinking; but
this movement will not take the direction of
purchasing the lines of the present corpora
tons with their watered stock. Competent
telegraph men say that the government, with
the right of eminent domain which it has
under the power to establish post-routes,
could establish postal telegraph system for
$4,000 900 which would be practically equal,
as to all central points, to the Western Union
Company with its almost 800, 100000"
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THE LINElIEN.
Difficulties of Keeping the Wires in Order
in Bad Weather.

in Bad Weather.
New York Tribune.
1--WE have sort of up-and-down life" said
a bronsed-faced lneman of the Western
Union Telegraph Company to a reporter the
other day. Sometimes we are worked to
death, and others we have a dead loaf
Most of our work comes in the nastiest
weather, too. Just as certain as we have a
heavy thunderstorm and it's raining cats
ana dogs, something gets the matter with
the line, and we are sent out to hunt the
wrong But of course the hardest time Of
the year is in the winter. Then the wires
get coated with ice and break, It's easy
enough to find break, though. It's the es-
capes that bother us more than anything
else"
What is an escape?"
can escape Is when, from some cause or
other the wires come in contact with some
conducting substance, and a ground connec-
ton is established The current is broken,
then, of course, and you can't get into COM
munieation over that wire"
"What is the most frequent cause of es-
capes%
"Sometimes the wires come in contact with
wood where they are tied 10 the insulators.
This is caused frequently by careless tieins
on the part Of the inemen. and sometimes
the tie gets loose. This IS the most frequent
cause of escapes, Another cause is the
swinging of the wires The span between
two poles stretches and swings, and when
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WATCHING FOR TRAITORS.
A Feeling that the Brotherhood Co muittee
Has Too Much Power.

A Feeling that the brotherhood Co mmittee
Has Too Much Power.
Boston Herald
With the discouraging feeling born of de-
lay, there was occasionally an expression
among the operators that there was alto
gether too much authority and power vested
in the executive committee of their order
They realized that human nature is weak,
EVEN among telegraphers, and the horrible
Thought once in while found expression
tAat few of Jay Gould's thousands might
convince their representatives that a strike
was inexpedient at this time, or that an in
grease OF to 5 per cent would be about the
right thing. The more enthusiastic MEN,
bers, of course, banished such suspicion of
corruption on the part of one of the Brother
hood, but they did not doubt but the West
ern Union officers might attempt some such
iisreputable means of persuasion. In this
connection the strike Of 1870 was referred to-
said one OF the Brotherhood to the Herald
attache: THAT was forced upon us by the
Western Union officials Tor the purpose Of
crushing the then existing telegraph league
nut Of existence. That organization
Gas vastly different in its constitu-
lion from the present one. Absolute
power was placed in the chief officer The
strike was inauguraied in Sacramento, Cal,
By the superintendent OF the Pacific division
living the operatives OF that Office the alter
iatiye Of deserving the league and violatin 8
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Lodgings fsr Operators.

New York Special.
The cots for the Western Union operators
are distributed through the various offices on
the second, third and fourth floors. In Jay
Goulds private Office there were four to-
night. There were several in the Union Pa
cific office. Those operators who wish to
sleep late are put in the annex. The cots are
made of wood and canvas, like those in the
ten-cent lodging-houses. The bedding con-
sists of two sheets, one blanket and pillow,
The boys say they are not very comfortable
in them The free restaurant is we'll supplied.
The free cigars have been shut of, but smok-
ing is allowed
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GOULD AND EcKERr.
Stormy Interview Between the Wall Street
Man and the Acting President.

Stormy Interview Between the Wall Street
Man and the Acting President.
New York Special.
To-day the trouble eliminated in an angry
interview between Mr.. Jay Gould and Gen
eral Thomas T. Eckert, acting president of the
company. The interview came about acct
dentally when the two men met in a corri-
dor of the Western Union building this
morning, and a trustworthy informant. states
it began by Mr.. Gould asking, in tone that
indicated both chagrin and anger "Mr. Eek
ert, when is this thing going to stop? 1t is
costing nue. money in Wall street, and we are
losing thousands by the hour here"
General Eckert appeared to be taken by
surprise, and began to explain that business
was moving along in the operating-room,
when lie was interrupted by Mr.. Gould with
the INTERCEPTED remark
Yes it's moving along-like freight
train"
General Eckert ATTEMPTED a reply, but was
again cut short by Mr.. Gould, vino is report
ed to have said;
General Eckert, do not want to say that
you are fool or knave, but what can
think? Either you did not know the situa-
ton well enough to keep us posted, or else
must think you have been playing double"
There was an ugly look upon the faces of
both the men at this juncture, but their
further talk was lost to the public by General
Eekert leading Mr. Gould into the Presi-
dents elegant Office and closing and locking
the door The handsomely-dre colored
Servitor who generally attends i'll the presi-
dents room even during very confiden tial
interviews, came out very hurriedly a mo-
nlent later, and as he arranged his swallow
tail coat and white necktie. remarked casu-
ally: sit looks squally i'll there TO de boss"
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Hints for MIR. Irving,
Cable Special to New York World.

Cable Special to New YORK World.
Mr.. Irving, who is shortly to sail for New
York, is laying in American flags to use on
ship-board. and is learning The Sword of
Bunker Hill'' and other patriotic poems to
recite. Christine Nilsson gave him bit OF
good advice before she left London. 'If you
want to keep the right side of the Ameri-
cans" said she, learn the Way Down Upon
the Suwanee River They care more for
that than the 'Star-Spangled Banner 1t
took me through two seasons, and is really
their national air" irving did learn the
song. but when he was FOLD he would have
To accompany himself on the banjo. he gave
it up.
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Wealth While 1t Lasts.

New York Special
day." was asked of one of the working ope-
rators.
81 am making st4 day; you can figure
from that. It's wealth while it lasts" he
said. He sleeps on one OF the cots in the
building.
A young man who has been employed dali
ly in the operating room since the strike
said:
'1'll bet $25 that the strikers will win. 1t
won't be Monday; it may be Tuesday"
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OBITUARY,
Major General Is. o. c. Ord. a Grandson Of
George ".

George IN.
HAVANA, July 23-General f. O. c. Ord of
the United States army, who took passage on
the steamer City OF Washington, at Vera
Cruz for New York. and was taken with yell
low fever. compelling his removal to shore
while the vessel was here, died last evening,
at o'clock.
Edward Ohio Cresap Ord, Brevet Major
General U. S. A, was born in Allegheny
county Maryland in 1918, and graduated at
West Point, in 1889. Entering the Third
artillery be served from 1889 to 1912 against
the Seminole Indians. He was employed in
eoast-survey duty in 1855, when he was
ordered to California where he contributed
to the preservation of law and order by the
execution of several no ted desperadoes. He
was made captain Sept. I, 1850. In 1855 here
turned to California, serving there and in the
Territories until 1861, taking part in several
Indian expeditions He was made brigadier-
general of volunteers Sept. IA 1861, and COM
manded a brigade in the Pennsylvania re-
serves under General Mccall. Dec. 20, 1861.
he defeated Confederate force under Stuart.
at GAINESVILLE, Va, for which he was made
major-general, May 2 1852. Ordered to the
Army of the Mississippi, he was placed in
command of Corinth, and subsequently Of
the Second division of the District of West
Tennessee. He participated in the battle OF
Iuka, Sept. 10, 1862 for which he was bre-
veted colonel, and was severely wounded in
the battle of Hatchie, Oct s. 1862 Com
man6ed Thirteenth corps at siege and cap
ture of Vicksburg, and at capture of jack
son: Commanded Eighteenth corps, July 81
to Sept, 30, 1864, in operations before Rich
mond, and was wounded in assault and cap
ture of Fort Harrison, Sept. 30, 1864. Com
manded Department of Virginia, January
June, 1865 and engaged in the siege of Pc
tersburg and pursuit and capture of Lee.
April 8 1865. Breveted brigadier-general
for battle of Hatchie, and major-general for
Fort Harrison; brigadler-general of regular
army, July g. 1856.
No man was more beloved in the regular
army than General Ord, who was pleasant
old gentleman with a rare fund of anecdote
and "reminiscences, and a delightful talker.
There is a romance connected with the Ord
family well known in the army. The late
General was a grandson of George ~ and
Mrs. Fitzherbert. His father, James Ord.
son of that marriage, was raised in the
faith OF his mother, and was, like his son, a
Catholic. James Ord when boy was sent
to France to be educated, and was afterward
brought by his tutor to Georgetown College,
where he became professor He took part
in the war of 1912, serving as a captain. was
long clerk in the departments at Washing
ton, and died in 1872 or 1878 at Omaha He
assumed the name OF Ord which was that OF
his tutor, from desire to avoid unpleasant
notoriety. Thus the scion of a royal line
has given glorious name, although an as
summed one, to adorn the pages OF American
history,
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Hon. Ginerx Tmichen.

BosroN, July 23.-Hon Ginery TwichelI
died at BrookliDe, aged seventy-two. lie was
superintendent of the Baltimore & Ohio road
in 1848 and became its president later on, re-
tanning the position till 1867. He was active
ly connected with the Boston & Albany road
until his DEATH He succeeded A. II. Rice in
Congress in 1866, and was reelected to the
Forty first and Forty-second Congress. He
was intimately connected with several West
err roads
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TORONTO, July 23.-The vacancies in the
Great Northwestern Telegraph Company's
Offices are being RAPIDLY filled up at Ottawa.
A full complement OF operators has been OBJ
tanned at Toronto; fifty operators are at
work. Montreal had fourteen new accessous
to-day and expects a full staff to morrow.
Meantime the public business and press dis
patches are being handled expedtiously and
efficiently.
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An Unanswered oaestion.

Since Brady 'corroborated" Dorsey in re-
gard to the purchase OF Indiana IN 1880, the
Democrats consider the case as closed, with
out waiting for anybody to corroborate
Brady. Conceding, however, that the State
was Bought in, we repeat our inquiry to the
Democrats What have you to say as to the
character of your voters that could be bought
for 50 per head? OF course, the Republicans
didn't need to brbe their own men, Are
such venal and cheap voters the stuff to
make a reform party out oil
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Practical sympathy at Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, O., July pa meeting of
strikers, this afternoon was addressed by
County Recorder. schelIentrayer, W. J.
Gluson aad James Atkinson, president of
the Molders' Union. Two more operators
Joined the Western Union force this alter
noon Ex-Alayor Rose. Republican candi-
date for Lieutenant-goyernor, gave the
strikers 500 ths afternoon.
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Two Train Men Shot for Asking Fare.

GALVESTON Tex, July % The News's
Denison special says "On Saturday night
man got aboard freight on the Missouri
Pacific, near Red river, and upon his fare be-
ing demanded drew his shooter and killed a
brakeman, and shot a second man, Grumble,
just under the heart The latter fell from
the train and was again shot at twice by the
murder who then ran into the brush. The
brakeman leaves wife and ten children.
His body was found horribly mangled by the
cars and with bullets in the brain"
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Both Sides hopeful at Loulsvilie.

LOUISVILLE. July 23.-There are no new
developments in regard to the strike. The
Western Union announces that it now has
twenty -one available operators who have
been divided into day and night forces. More
commercial business has been done to-day
than at any time since the strike began. The
strikers continue enthusiastic, and have not
lost man
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Inoendiaries Arrested.

CAIRO, ILL.,, July 23.--William johnson,
who set fire to several houses in Columbus,
KY, on Saturday last, was arrested yester-
day and confessed. He also duplicates Frank
Smith and G. Duffy, of the same city. John
son says he was directed by the two former,
Smith furnishing the combustibles for doing
the work, and Duffy helping him. Smiths
house was next to the one set on fire. and
insured for 5000. All the parties were sent
to Jail. Preliminary examination tomorrow.
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Pramatura Loss of Hair

May be entirely prevented by the use OF Bur
petts CocOaine.
THE Superiority of Burnetts FlaynrinR En-
tracts consists in their perfect purity AMI
strength,
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DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
WAaHINGTtlN IulV "a A. NJ

WAR DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
WAsHINGTON, July 81 A. NJ.
For Tennessee and the Onto Valley -FSir
weather in Tennessee, partly cloudy weather
and local rains in the Ohio Valley, southwesterly
winds, stationary lower barometer aud tenn
perature.
For the Lower Lake Region-Winds shifting
to southery, with olondy weather and local
rains, stationary or lower barometer and tenn
perature.
For the Upper Lake Regi0u.-Partly cloudy
weather and local rains, falling followed by RIA
ing barometer, nearly stationary temperature.
variable winds.
Local Observations.
INDtASAPorIS. .fuly %
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A small Tornado.

small tornado passed over the city thia
morning. shortly after o'clock Within five
minutes after the stcrnl-clOud first appeared via
Idle in the western horizon it passed over the
city. the wind. however, was too high to 40
much damage, and resulted in nothing more So
rious than rather a frightful shaking up Of roofs
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A LittIe Encouragement at Detroit

DETROIT, July ga few additional oper-
ators have been secured here. who. though
somewhat inexperienced. make a helpful ad-
dition TO the force. so thai the manager feels
encouraged. Otherwise the situation re-
mains unchanged.