Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-08

given III Tue Stu1iO OF MT LOUIS IlHany, IN
the great house on Seventy second street
and Madison avenue, every one anxious to
see the studio and at the same time benefit
the inhrmary for women and children.
Pretty girls, including the Misses Minturn,
Hoe, Porter, Lambert Willard, Doremus and
Mitchell were dressed as Dutch maidens,
and they wandered about in their full skirts
and peaked caps selling flowers and fresh
eggs. There were also many booths, con-
tanning all sorts of Easter novelties. There
was also music aud dancing.
OF the new engagements, that of Miss
Banks, the daughter of Mrs Lenox Banks,
10 Mr.. Charles II. Marshall, is one Of the
most romantic The young people met on
the old wall of the fort at St. Augustine and
fell in love in the good old-fashIoned way.
Both are young, handsome and rich.
a most interesting engagement just an.
nounccd Is that of Miss Edyth Newcombe,
the only daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. II. Victor
Newcombe, TO Mr. Reginald II. Ward, a
wealthy young bachelor and banker of Bos-
ton. Miss Newcombe is very pretty girl
of twenty and will have large fortune
running into seven NUMBERS some day. She
has only been in society q little over year.
VANDERBILT RETURNS.
Anticipating the return home of William
X. Vanderbilt, at his Fifth avenue palace
staff of servants have been preparing the
house for his reception but the general APP
pearance Of things will not have altered
very much from what 1t was before his de-
parture. Numberless boxes have arrived,
but they are not opened, and the priceless
treasures which they contain-the laces,
the bric-a-brac and the pictures collected
abroad-wll remain hidden until they are
opened under the supervision of their owner,
In the meanwhile Maitre Josef and his two
assistant chefs have not been idle. The bat
terie dc cuisine has been unpacked and the
implements of the cult placed in their proper
places. Josef has ransacked the markets and
declares himself fairly well acquainted with
their resources and ready at few moments
notice to begin operations. He Is dtsap-
pointed in our markets he says. Many kinds
of fish which are common, or much priced
abroad are not to be found here, for instance
the tarbut and the sale. Our mutton, he ad-
mits, is good but our beef and our fowl are
superior to those abroad. To the Blue Point
| oyster he renders all praise Josef had last
night tried an American dinner, which was
not satisfactory. He did not like buckwheat
cakes.
Yesterday President Depew of the Wander
bllt system of railroads, sent a special Lake
| Shore car to Brunswick. 1t was w. K. Van
dcrbilts private coach, carefully proviSioned
| with everything likely to comfort the hearts
OF such ancient mariners as Vanderbilt and
those sad old sea dogs f. o. Beach and w.
l.. Hoy when taken away from salt water
They had pretty good cruise They
| talked of three years when they started.
People said then that they would get tired of
| each others company in one year and that If
| they stood it for three they would have muir
| der in their hearts.
A certain famous traveller described an
| old time sailing voyage as developing human
nature in this ratio:
| First week Gentlemen, has anyone seen
| my hair oilt
Third week--What blankety blank rascal
| has lugged off my tooth brush!
| 1t may have been this weariness of each
| others society that cut short the Vanderbilt
| trip, and it may have been the gastronomic
| hopes raised in the Vanderbilt stomach by
| the seductive $4,000 cook, M. Duquot, that
| turned the Aiva's Prov homeward Who
| can tell
| CORNELIUS vANDERBnTs DEPARTURE.
! With the departure of Mr.. and Mrs Cor
| nelius Vanderbilt and their two sons and
three daughters on the Cunard steamer Um-
| bria for several months tour abroad, the
annual spring exodus of Americans for for
| eign shores commenced and the ball was set
| rolling in real earnest
| The distinguished family arrived on the
| steamers wharf an hour before the sailing
| time of the steamer, and when the huge yes
| sci swung out into the stream upon her long
| voyage their costly rugs, chairs, ulsters,
| newmarkets and all the paraphernalia of a
| miliionaire's family en- voyage were snugly
| slowed away in the staterooms.
MOVING 5000 900 POUNDS
| Everything is ready to start the big
| Brighton Beach hotel on Coney Island on its
| wonderful journey. Eight or more power
full locomotives will begin to snort and pull,
| and it is expected that S,000,0O0 pounds of
ing 460 feet long by 1870 Deep with numerous
| long extensions, and with it's four s.ories aug
mented here and there by lofty towers and
| cupaos moving in one mass along the ground
| will be at least interesting and novel. The
| moving of such structure in its entirety
| was never undertaken before
| The engineers have taken great precautlon
| against any rackng or wrenching OF the
| walls or floors, and assert that if the powers
| Of the locomotives can be applied equally
| and very gradually the great great structure
| Will be moved easily and with perfect safety
| It's proposed to give the hotel ride of 6OC
feet inland. At that distance, it is thought
| it will be safe from its old enemy, the sea
| which year after year has been knocking the
| sand out of it, or rather from under it. The
waves have worn away its foundation until
| only a few spiles stand between them and
| their long for prey.
| On these spiles immense beams were laid
| and regular railroad tracks Duilt to get the
| hotel out of the wet. The tracks number
| twenty four, and on no iron fiat cars run in
| under its floor the hotel will make the eXcur
| sion. The building does not rest directly or
| the cars but on great timbers, which, as the
| tracks are only about nineteen feet apart
| make firm bed 1t is, of course, absolutely
| level, as an unevenness would imperil the
| whole structure.
The tracks, except two run out about two
| hundred feet, where, If the scheme works
the hotel will take brief rest before it sits
| down and laughs at the sea. The two center
| tracks run out to the main track of the
| Brooklyn & Brighton Beach railroad. On
| them the locomotives will do the pulling
| On each track there will be four iron horses
| or more if necessary, bound securely to
| gether and attached to the iron fiat cars
under the hotel by heavy CHAINS. These
chains will not lead directly from the cars tC
the engines, but will run from the cars tc
| iron pulleys at the ends of the respective
tracks and back again to the cars, where
| they will pass through another pulley, anC
thence to the locomotives. Thus will eact
fiat car be pulled along its own track as i
attached TO the locomotive itself.
DIR. TALMAGE'S TWO WATCHES.
AT the close of the service yesterday morn
ing DR. Talmage pulled out of his pocket
magnificent new gold watch, He had JUS
| received it from one of his congregation fol
an Easter gift, ''rhe story is interesting
said the doctor, land ! meant to tell it Il
the congregation, but / changed my mind
| Last Monday night, when lecturing at Louis
| vile, KY, | lost my watch had placed il
| on the table to measure the length of my re
marks. When / finished speaking forgO
TO pick it up In the morning it could not bt
| found. While mourning the loss of an ole
and honored friend which had done gooc
service, and which to me had many sacred
| associations, | received this watch from
member of the church, who knew nothing o
my loss. While admiring the new watch tn,
bell was rung and an eXpressman handed III,
u package containing the old watch"
| DRAMATIC NOTES.