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The new North-west., 1883-06-01
NEW YORK AND BnooKLYs BRIDGE.

The East River Bridge, between New
York and Brooklyn, the greatest bridge ever
bnllt in the world, was formally opened
Thursday, May Path, and took Its place IN
history as one Of the greatest engineering
and mechanical feais of modern times. The
Wild rumor preceding the statement of facts,
bad enough In themselves, that the bridge
had fallen May 3Oth and killed thousand
people was the more depressing In view of
the effect 1t would have on the public mind,
the discredit It would bring on American
engineering, and the repression 1t would
cause TO similar enterprises. The rumor had
the greater credit In that certain rival engi-
neers have In times past asserted the East
River Bridge would not stand.
1t Is q matter of congratulation that the
disaster of Wednesday was not only not
caused by any weakness of the structure, but
that the disaster IN fact proved Its
strength under an unusual pressure and
panic. although 1t seems demonstrated the
fooLway division should be separated SO as to
compel foot passengers. like vehicles, to take
one promenade In going to Brooklyn and
another in coming to New York. As 1t is
now, the foot passenger-way. or promenade,
is In the middle Of the bridge, and Is only Is
feet 7 inches wide. With thousands of per-
sons passing and repassing on tins way con.
tinually, the opportunity for liam" like
that which took place, exists continually and
the accident is liable to recur. 1t IL not i'm
probable it will be determined TO at least
divide this promenade by railing and re-
quire passengers TO keep to the right.
In this connection some facts concerning
the great bridge are apropos. The charter
authorizing 1t was passed by the New York
Roebling, the noted suspension bridge build
er, placed In charge. In 1869 be was injured
while In performance of his work and died
Of lock jaw. His son, w. A. Roebling, sue.
ceeded him, but for the past two years he has
been an invalid, and 1t is matter worthy of
note that his wife, noticing his failing health,
studied engineering and rendered him valu-
able assistance In the work. The entire
length Of the bridge between the Brooklyn
and New York towers is 1851 feet with an
approach from Brooklyn 900 feet long and
an approach fron New York 1916 feet long.
The height Of the roadway above high tide
is ll0. feet, and the height Of the spring
Of the arches above the roadway tot feet.
The entire height Of the Brooklyn tower
from the foundation stone to the turret, 316
feet aud Of the New York tower 340a feet.
These towers are respectively 57x14l and
59x14l feet in dimensions at the water line.
The bridge is SO feet wide. On each exter-
ior side is a wagon road lss feet wide, next
inside of these are two 12s feet ways for the
"a passenger cars which move to aud fro by
means OF an endless cable operated by a sta
tionary engine. The footway, - feet y
inches wide is In the center and somewhat
elevated above the car way. The total
weight of the suspension bridge Is 1850
tons and its cost was SIS ,33I ,05S.
The new North-west., 1883-06-01
A BRIDGE HORROR.
A Panic Ensues and Many Are Killed and
Wounded.

Condensed from yep York Dispatches, Nay 30.
New YORK, May 3o.-A fear full catastro-
phe occurred on East river bridge this after
noon by which q large number Of people
have lost their lives. The narrowness of the
footwsy for passengers is the cause Of the
horror. At four o'clock the long line of
people on foot In the center Of the structure
going from and coming to this city thickened
and swelled and stopped Its motion just at
the stairs leading from the concrete roadway
to The bridge proper. Strong men and feeble
women, manhood and infancy, were wedged
together in that fearful pressure ofthe crowd
which extended miles, one might say, on
either end of the line. 1t was q remorseless,
fearful stupid force that held Its victims as
immovable as the stone foundation of the
bridge itself. The stoppage lasted nearly an
hour, during which time scores of people
tainted. To release the jam IN the bridge,
the officials removed some of the iron paling
a few feet from the stairway on the New
York side, when of course those unfortunate
enough TO be near enough and weak and
fainting, fell helter skelter, heels over head,
down on the jagged, gravelly road beneath,
a mass of bruised, dscolored human flesh.
Scores were tramped upon instantly, and to
stumble was death. Men were dragged out
Of that heap Of helpless humanity with their
faces blae as indigo and their life blood
trickling "ul of their nostrils, children aud
a. IaI Ia.
way on either sidewalk was strewed with
dead and dying, pitiable sight, and yet it
Is said no efforts were made by the bridge
officials to stop the people coming on the
bridge. The dead and dying we're carried
of in wagons, carts, ETC., improvised on the
moment for service, and 1t was a long time
before the police arrived and anything like
order was restored or an ambulance ap-
peared. Meantime teams were rushing both
ways at full gallop over the roadways; why,
no one could tell, threatening the limbs and
lives Of those on foot who were attempting
to help the unfortunate victims. Men shout
ed themselves hoarse crying "Clear the
way" wagons rattling over the rough stones,
men and women crying in oil directions,
made 1t a bedlam indeed. A party of men
In uniform did some service on the spot as
volunteer police to check the vulgar and Gu
rious. At Chambers street hospital there
are lying thirteen dead bodies, six unknown
men and six unknown women, and many
people were wounded.
The details of the horror are appalling.
The Sun extra says the action of the people
coming from Brooklyn was inexplicable.
They kept coming and pressing on, and the
toll keepers kept taking their pennies as
though nothing was wrong. The jam lasted
two hours. during which time no policemen
appeared. by jumping down q few feet
people could have escaped, but they were
panic stricken and perhaps too tightly packed
to take that course.
The kilograms are voluminous, but the
above gives the main facts.
The new North-west., 1883-06-01

Alexander Ill, Car of All the Russias, Is
the second son of Alexander H., and was
born March 10, 1S45. His mother was the
Princess Maria, daughter of the late Grand
Duke of Hesse Darmstad:. He was we'll
educated at the Russian universities, aud in
1866. In consequence of the death of his eld-
est brother, the Grand Duke Nicholas, he
married the daughter of the King Of Dem
mark, the Princess Maria Dagmar, TO whom
the deceased Prince had been betrothed
Four children have been the result of this
union.
The Nihiist conspiracy las confined the
attention Of the Cars government to home
AHA rs. His attitude toward Germany is one
cf f. iendship ahd his aim has been to main
ain amicable relations with foreign powers.
Still, lie represents the feeling that is Intense
ly Russian, a sentiment which might give a
more positive coloring to his foreign policy
were he free from danger of domestic revo-
luton.
Nihilists are punished with unrelenting
severity aud at times the governments re-
pressive measures seem on the verge of sue.
cess, but 1t Is only in appearance. The ma.
lional strength is paralized by this internal
malady. Only the dread Of dynamite plots
could have occasioned this unparalleled de.
lay Of the coronation ceremony for more than
two years. And now that the event has oc.
Cured, the Gear is credited with great cour.
age In so far braving Nihilistic attacks as to
be publicly crowned.
The private property of the Emperor yields
him large annual revenue. He possess es
a million square miles Of cultivated land and
forests, besides owning gold and other Ii ines
in Siberia, the vast revenue of which Is not
known, as, being the Emperor's private es
taLe,t amount never appears in the budget.
The sum arising from all these sources Is es.
timased, however, at over $4,000, 900, OF
which sum S2,000,O00 are expended In chari.
ties, schools, and theatres, leaving a net In.
come Of Sl0,000,000.
The present Czar Is the sevent teenth of his
house The following is the list of the soy.
creigns of the 4 manofr dynasty:
The new North-west., 1883-06-01
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.

Maria Dagmar, the Czarina, Is the fourth
child of Christian IX., King of Denmark, and
of Louise, daughter Of Wilhelm Landgrave
of Hesse Cassel. she was born November
20, 1917, and is consequently In her thirty
sixth year. The Cars advisers deemed
union with the reignng family Of Denmark
desirable, and the Piircess was bethothed at
an early age I" ihe Grand Duke Nicholas,
heir apparent 70 The Russian crown. But
The Grand Dukes death at Nice, April, 1868,
precluded the marriage, and to secure the
objects sought by the proposed union, tile
Princess was, al the expiration Of tle period
Of mourning prescribed hy court etiquette
espousrd TO the lae Cars second son. the
Grand Duke Alexander, the marriage being
consummated in November, 1866. On as
suming the orthodox Greek faith, the Prin
cess was known as Maria Feodorovna.
Four children have been the result Of this
union-the Grand Duke Y icholas, born May
IS, 1868; Grand Duke George, born May 10,
1871; Grand Duchess Xenia, born April Is,
1875; and Grand Duke Michael, born De-
cember 5, 1878. 1t will thus be seen that the
House Of RomanoT Is In no danger Of ex.
tinctlon. It is In fact prolific race. Be-
sides bis four children, the Emperor has
three brothers and one sister, who, in a case
OF necessity, could take the crown. OF these
four younger children Of Alexander H., the
Grand Duke vladimir is married, and has
three sons, while one sister and three broth
ers Of the late Gar have total Of fourteen
children.
The imperial family descends IN the fe-
male line from Michael Romanof, elected
Gear in 1913, after the extinction Of the
House Of Rurik, and In the male line from
Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holstien Gottorp,
who was born in 170l, aud married tho
daughter Of Peter l., the Empress Anne, who
reigned from 1870 TO lT40. All the subse-
quent Emperors have, without exception,
connected themselves by marriage with Ger
man Protestan families.
The domestic life of the imperial pair Is
said to Ire happy one, that Is as far as they
they themselves are concerned. But the Nj
hilists are II source Of constant anxiety aud
| alarm. The coronation ceremonies OF the
| 9th Of May were attended with unseen dan
gers. Guards, police aud spies were at every
point TO detect and arrest consplrators before
| they could consummatcd their deadly work.
And yet with all these precautions, the Car
was In constant apprehension that the TRACE
| dy Of March l3, 1881, might be repeated.
| Happily these fears proved TO be without
| foundation.
The new North-west., 1883-06-01
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

Peter Anderson has leased the Fuller Hot
Springs.
Work in constructing the Virginia City re-
ducton works has commenced.
The St. Nicholas hotel property at Butte
has been sold to Patrick Talent for 81 900.
Salton Cameron, of the Pyrenees, took
81 200 of gold retort to Butte last Tuesday.
Five hundred children born in the homes
of Helena have yet to see their first railway
train.
All of the diphtheria eases in Butte are re-
ported as recovering, and no new cases are
reported.
The end of the track was thirty seven
miles away from Missoula on Wcdn esday OF
last week.
Stuart is to have an opera house, an elevat-
ei railroad, and weekly newspaper.-Inter
Mountain.
Returned Montaniaus report good sheep
worth 81 per head in Oregon and S3.5J in
California.
The Piegans stole one hundred head of
horses at the terminus of the Canadian Paci-
fic last week.
John Fox dropped dead in Benton saloon
last Thursday. Alcoholic paralysis was the
coroner's verdict =
On the Canadian Pacific wages are low
$3.50 per dav for man and team and $50 n
month for laborers.
Last year the number of school children in
Montana was 1I,209 and Sill 1896 were ex.
pended on public schools.
The Missoulidn mentions several resi-
| dences, business houses, and manufactures
in process of construction there.
Thh first train carrying passengers, ex-
press, and mails was run to Bedford Saturday
night, reaching that place at 1880 o'clock.
1t is reported that the Utah and Northern
Company will build a large and substantial
freight depot at Dillon before next winter.
The ETecla Consolidated Mining Company,
OF Glendale, paid its monthly dividend for
Nav of $1,000, making s75,C00 in dividends
since the 1st of January.
The Montana mission of the Methodist
Epi' copal Church will meet in Conference at
Butt on August 18th. Bishop Wiley, of
Cincinnati, will preside.
Horace Il. Brown, who has had several
narrow escapes before, had his shoulder dis
located Mt Missoua a few days ago by piece
of machinery falling on him.
| Paul Boulon, an oil time Helenian of mus
ical celebrity and recently of Walla waila,
has returned to Missoula with company and
is announced for concerts there.
sebree, Ferris & White are to put up an
immense agricultural warehouse and supply
establishment at the depot in Helena. 1t
will be of brick and will cost about $4,000
| Washington Dunn received dispatch yes
terday to send forward force of men and
teams to build the west side of the switch.
back over the Mullan Tunnel l-Missot,lial,
| I'D.
| There is a woman living in Gallatin county
who is the mother of seventeen children.
She lives on the banks of the Gallatin. Her
husband is pale, sichly looking man.-Hter
Mountain.
The new North-west., 1883-06-01
YELLOW FEVER AT HAVANA.


WASHINGTON, May 26.-The National
Board of Healtn is officially informed from
Havana, Cuba, that yellow fever has at last
got into the shipping in port. For some
weeks IL has been rife among soldiers re.
Gently shipped from Spain to Cuba. Havans
authorities have done what they could To
keep it confined TO the military hospital
where 1t worked terrible destruction, mer
dying at the rate of score a week. Now
comes news that the captain of a large vessel
is down with the disease. Anticipating this
information, the Surgeon General of the
Marine Hospital service has sent his best
surgeons to the Gulf ports within the past
week.
The new North-west., 1883-06-01
Don Cameron departs for Europe.

oSh ISpaTks toF EhEopc
WAsHINeToN, May 24.-Don Cameron
who started for Europe Tuesday, left WASH
ington two or three weeks ago, after bidding
farewell 10 all his friends. In day OF
two he astonished them all by returning and
did not leave until the last moment neces.
sary to catch Saturdays steamer. He was In
very depressed spirits OH account of his rap.
idly failing health and showed very decided
ly that he took no further interest In politics.
he said that he did not expect to return to
America until late In the fall, aud if his
health was benefited he nigh, remain
abroad two years. His friends say Cameron
Is so anxious concerning his physical condi-
tion and so dissnstsd with p.lliics that he
would resign his seat in the Senate excep.
fer the fact that Democrat would be sent
TO succeed him.
The new North-west., 1883-06-01
Crook Whips the Apsches.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26.-An FL Paso
special to the Chronicle sends the following
by courier to San Jose and ON the Mexican
Central and thence to this point:
CERRALITos, May 24.-News is just re-
ceived here that General Crook engaged a
strong force of Indians. supposed TO be COM
posed of Juh's and Loco's bands, together
with stray renegade hostiles, last week, al
Guaynopa, on the Sonora slop of the Sier.
ras, In The raighborhood of Casa de Grandes.
There is c'"at uncertainty as to the date
when the fi4'd took place. The mountain
spurs at the point Indicated are the favorite
resort OF the Asaches, and are peculiarly in
accessible, which accounts far tie eiItrencbed
position on high ground of The hostilrs, and
the confidence which they exhibited In hold
Ing their ground until thirty three of theii
number had fallen, when they broke and
fed, closely followed by the victorious
American troops. They are supposed to
have made their way toward Conway, In
Casa de Janos, on the Chihuahua slope Of
the mountains, where they will probably
make their last stand. ..--
The operations around Casa de Janos will
be extremely difficult, as the country to be
traversed Ii literally without roads or even
good trails, and the mountain passes are ad-
mirably adapted for surprises. The town of
Salmaripa, which lies In northwesterly
direction seventy-five miles from Guaynopa,
contain 1900 inhabitants, and IS the largest
town on the Sonora slope Of the Sierra Ma.
dres. That Crook will endeavor TO pene
trate into this almost unknown region there
Is no doubt, and as he advances the Mexican
troops will draw closer their Gordon on the
Sonora side, and the Mexican columns on
this side at Casa Grandes, San Buenaventura
and Janos will keep complete line of COM
munication SO rs to prevent the hostiles from
escaping from the mountains In which they
are hiding from the vigorous pursuit oi
Crook and Colonel Torrez on one side of the
mountains and Colonel Gallardo on this
side. Crook can, IL be desires to do so, es
tabllsh communication with the Mexican
toIcts seUoPcTdittis oH tuls slus OI the otefTa
sending couriers through the pass on the
Muites road, and then heading for Santa
Maria river. then bere In less than two days.
San Jose station Is aboat seventy-tour mile.
from Ell Paso, on the line OF the Mexican
Cenral. Il can be reached aud the General
placed in communication by wire with bis
government. Every one here land the little
town has large American colony) Is de-
lighted with the news, for il means that the
hostile Apaches are at Last doomed 10 total
extinction. and that the Sierras and their
vast mineral treasures are about to be opened
TO the world Of enterprise and capital.
The new North-west., 1883-06-01

Prospective Shut Down OF Iron Works.
CHICAGO, May 25.-All doubt Of the gen.
eral strike among the iron workers June 1st
has been removed by an order which has
gone forth from the headquarters Of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers, demanding that the present scale
of prices be maintained. Members of the
Association In this city and vicinity have re-
ceived orders to step work on May 9'.., at
midnight, If the companies do not decide to
meet their demands, and notices to that ef-
feet were generally served upon the manu-
iacturers yesterday. In every case cempli-
ance with the demands was refused, and
preparations are being made for general
shut down. Workmea as rule do not look
forward to an indefinite period Of idleness
with any degree Of satisfaction; but they are
under control of the Association, and there
Is no alternative. Manufacturers are equal
ly reluctant to lie idle, bu. while they ex-
press sympathy for the men, they say acced-
Ing to their demands would result In actual
loss. The strike will affect only what are
termed Western establishments, which in
clude all the mills west Of The Allegheny
Mountains, those east Of the mountains hav-
ing no Amalgamating Association to deal
with. The Allegheny Range Is numerically
the dividing line, about the same number OF
mills teing on either side. In the western
division there are about $50 blast furnaces,
with ANIMAL capacity In pig iron of about
100000 net tons. With the exception OF the
steel rail mills aud very small percentage
of iron works, which employ non-union
men exclusively, these establishments will
be closed, and At least 00,o00 operatives will
be thrown out Of employment. OF this num-
Der, Pennsylvania will have about one hall,
Ohio about the second largest number. and
Illinois the third, with Indiana little less
than 1ilinois.
The new North-west., 1883-06-01

Windsor u. Cone, a miner of Park City,
was found dead lying in bed in his cabin yes
terday morning, by Mr.. Elkhorn, who was
in the habit Of taking over hts mail ON Sun
day mornings. The deceased was about fifty
seven year. Of age, one Of the old timers, and
was wen known and esteemed. Herald. 18th.
The n. p. tracklayers west of Missoula re-
Gently made progress as follows: Friday,
May 18th, s.0to feet; Saturday, the 10Th, Zoo
feet; Monday, 2lst, s.700 feet; Tuesday, I'D,
ZOO fe.t. Total, 81 600 feet, averaging over
a mile and half per day.
The new North-west., 1883-06-01

The Union Freemaa says that two married
women who separated from their Iiege lords
on account OF Jealousy engendered by skating
rink associations, are now fancy waiter girls
In beer cellar In Butte.
II Is rnmored that the ground on which tho
Southern Methodist church stands has been
purchased, along with the vacant ground be-
tween II and Fifth avenue, by the hotel COM
pany and that Helena's big hotel will be
built there.
The new North-west., 1883-06-01

IT rs q trite saying that "We didn't come
to this country for our health" In fact the
principal business Of the majority Of Ameri-
can people is TO make money, and In fact we SO
devote more time than demonstrates good
common sense-earn IL, set it, pile II up and
die that II may ruin, and be squandered by.
our children, instead Of iaboring, acquiring,
spending and enjoying nationally. But
what We started to say was that Uncle Ru-
fus Hatch, who has been pounded on the
back beyond any reason for endeavoring to
get fair show 10 make some money by his
miilion-dollar investment In the Yellow
stone Park, has been over the water and has
invited whole lot Of very prominent men
OF Europe and America to come and accept
bis hospitality and view of the Park this
summer. The N. +. II. r. Co. proposes to
put at their disposal train OF Palace cars
from Chicago west, and the following are
some of the distinguished guests expected :
John M. LeSage, editor London Telegraph,
and wife; J. c. Mcdonald, editor London
Times, and wife James McMartin, chairman
aiIlAuIs baihf Sthaphs 'ug fsoShhtiis soh
OF the Hon. silInesby Bethel, secretary Par.
liamentary committees, house of lords
Campbell Clarke, Partisan editor London
Telegraph; Count Hoyas, Secretary OF State
for Foreign Affairs, Austrian Empire; tie
Austrian Minister Of Commerce; DR.. Knapp,
Of Berlin, journalist, member Of the imperial
parliament aud director Of the Denische
bank; DR.. Sonnemann, editor Frankfort
Journal, member OF imperial parliament,
writer, and authority on finance; the secrcta-
ry Of the Hamburg chamber OF commerce,
the president OF the Hamburg assembly, the
editor of the Paris Figaro, Roscoe Conkiing,
Cyrus w. Field, Albert Beirstadt, artist;
Frederick L. Church, artist; Senator Jones
Of Nevada, Senator Beck Of Kentucky, Sena-
tor Voorhees, of Indiana, Secretary Teller,
Judge John II. Brady Of New York, Judge
Noah Davis Of New York, ex Judge Robert
n. Green and wife of New York, ex-Judge
Fullerton Of New York, Rev. DR.. Shipman
and wife Of New York, Senator Alllsos OF
Iowa, and Assistant Postmaster General
Frank Hatton.