Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-15

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matter whether there are two wires or
two hundred by the side Of the track
messages can be sent or received on the
car without commission. An that Is needed
Is 70 put Ia che Edison instrument at any
station along the road In order to estab.
llsh communication. Aud this apparatus
icing nesr the ordinary telegraph instru-
inents IN the same Office messages can b.
az once forwarded by the reaular chez
nels to any station where there
y no Edison apparatus On the
staten island railroad dispatches wert
sent and received every day for week a.
rapidiy as they would be IN the Telegraph
oilices that we commonly use, which have
direct c0nnec ions with other Offices. The
marvel about this ystem Is that 1t re-.
CURES no special wire, hut enables the
transmission OF messages along the som.
mon wires aud through thu air space De.
tween them and any moving train, be The
space Hity feet or even 200 feet wide
The scents OF the Edison apparatus
have not been divulgtd but IL Is known
that II gives the electric current musi.
cal tone which Is heard through tee.
phone receivers. The dots aud ciashes OF
the Morse alphabet are thus most audible
In short or long sounds aud the ordinar,
telegraph key is used MIR. Edison aud
his associates, VIM. Wiley Smith and 4
T. Gilliland, are confident that messages
may be sent in this way TO stations 1000
miles distant, because the moment tn,
current reaches the wires It will
run any distance without losing
It's efficacy. attended the pub
lie exhibitions aud noticed that there wa,
not the slightest hitch in the working
There are few sceptics, but the prevail.
ing opinion seems to be that this prac-
tcable invention is going TO be OF great
use In tran-dispatching, newspaper re-
porting, police telegraph work aud or.
dinary business and travellers messages
The Instrument may be placed In bag.
gage or passenger car and changed in a
few minutes from one car to another
GEORGE PARSONS LATnRor.
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THE "divine ipnapsn ia what some
reckless Frenchman would call the STYLE
of drama that has broken out at the
Union Square theater. An attractive
young woman. calling herself Carrie
Swain, undertakes to mold an assemblage
and carry an entire drama by the lexi
bility OF her backbone and her voice and
the versatility of her legs and her talent
You are to imagine robust Young
woman with deal of that animal grace
that IL seen in a cat, and with rich
mellow voice, who wins all her applause
by trying TO be as unwomanly as possible
She sings a song at the footlights. 1t Is
intended 20 be pathetic. At the end OF
each act she turns handspring on the
stage Agility thus accomplishes what
ability will not.
The whole exhibition is vulgar, coarse
and painful to good taste, but II excites
the admiration of the class OF men who
will make ring in the street to see q
drunken woman demean herself. This
girl will probably MI the Union SQUARE
with rude people for weeks, and the In
iquity of it all is that the entertainment
gets classed with the drama. This girl is
a fair type of class of quick-witted, un.
educated, natural tomboys, with good
looks, who get upon the stage aud then
advertise the fact that they have not one
impulse OF good taste in them. They will
do anything that will draw money. The
burlesque business Is full Of them.
MIR. Edwin Booths New York engage
ment has been SO far the most inartistic
that he has ever played here. His sup
port is wretched, and his stage work gen
orally far behind the ordinary travelling
show. Some of his representations
have been mechanical; others have
flashed up for moment with his
old fire. But be appears to have lost hi
artistic ambition. 1t is rather early fol
| him TO begin the "superfluOus lag's" busl.
ness. MIR. Barrett may stir him up next
season with new management and l I'M
derStand that it Is the Intention OF these
| actors Co join hands the year after in .
starring tour with the best leading woman
that can be found. Where, oh where
will she be found?
Leading women are nil. Rose Coghlan,
the pet OF the golden youth here, is barn
storming In one-night towns, wearing on
her voluptuous soul In railroad travel
Clara Morris plays internationally in the
ghastly drama. Kate Forsythe is holding
up the one-part show of Raymond some
where. Mrs. Bowers is over the line o
attractiyeness. Modieska only speaks
English well enough TO stand alone
Sarah Jewett is a lost pleiace. Mathel
will not play second fiddle. Anderson Il
aching TO get DdCk 10 iIOnuOu' Ncuucls
who ought to be at the top-simply isn't
Laura Don is dying. Maude Granger i
fat and dropsical. Marie Wainwright
I goes only with her husband and he !
! gone already. AS for that slim and beau
tiful girl that Frank Mayo launched upo
, us in "Nordeck," she is gaming In fies
J and experience only TO be snatched up b
some worthless husband just as we war
/ her most.
When one thinks of all the schools an
academies that were started here yea
ago and the battallons of genius thi
came from all parts of the Union, on
, wonders what has become OF the mat
rial.
To replenish the stage we snail have
q wait for a financial panic and crasl
> Then host of society bellies will wa
! out OF their parlors into "Camille" al
!, srThe Lady of Lyons" 10 recuperate the
husbands fortunes and to show the
I diamonds NfM CRlNKLE'
An Enterprlsing, Reliable House.
IL. w. williams & Co. can always
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