Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-14
THE TRAVELLING CONGRESS.
What the Three Americas Delegates
Have Seen In Connecticut.

THE TRAVELLING CONGRESS-.
What the Three Americas Delegates
Have Seen in Connecticut.
THEY HEARD MARX TWAIN CRACK A JOKE AND
LOOKED OVER MANY MANUFACTURING EsTAB-
INSTRUMENTATION HAwLEY ACTS AS GUIDE
THE LUXURY OF THE TRAIN APPRECIATED.
STAFF Correspondence Of THE EVENING srAn.
Hartford, October L.
Senator Hawley is taking a great deal Of in
terest in the excursionists, but he is not for
getting the main object Of the trip. Under his
skiliful guidance the delegates have seen more
of Connecticut in little while than any one
would have deemed possible. "This congress and
the excursion" said he yesterday after noon,
will be mutually beneficial. We have great
deal to learn of the countries and the peoples
to the south Of us. 1t is very plain to me, and
hope the next Congress will see it just as
clearly, that our trade with South America will
never assume its proper proportions until We
have practical legislation. What do mean by
practical legislation refer to the enactment
of laws which will, by granting subsidies, give
US direct lines of ocean communication. Then,
and not until then, will the American seamen
be numerous in southern ports These men
who have come to US from the other republics
have shown us by their intelligence that they
are fitted to deal with such great questions as
are involved They are teaching us a great
lesson, and while We are striving to show them
our greatness they are doing much to educate
us. There is room for missionary work in both
fields"
INSPECTING REVOLVER SHOP.
Senator Hawley took his party to that great
birthplace of engines Of destruction-Colts
armory.
Il do not see why we came here" laughed
Senior Aragon; 'our conference is in the interest
OF peace; we are not favorable to war;" But
noticed that the senior was interested more
than little in the weapons despite his care
lessly ocular remark. Thirty-fve hundred
machine tools are now in use in the great shops
and If it was necessary the armory could turn
out more than 200 rifles u day. Accompanying
the party was DR.. Gatling, the inventor OF the
world-famed gun which bears his name. Very
willing, indeed, was the doctor to show the
visitors the deadly character OF his pet. The
crowd adjourned to an Enclosure within the
walls of the works and there witnessed an exhi-
bition of the deadly accuracy and wonderful
rapldity with which the gun may be operated.
Magazine guns of a more portable shape were
then inspected and praised, and they were
practically tested at q target by Secretary Ma
yorga of Nicaragua, Secretary valdivieso Of
Salvador and Secretary N. Bolet Monagas OF
Venezuela. They all did some remarkably fine
shooting. An exhibition of the wonderful
powers OF the graphophone was given, the ma
chine treating the visitors to few sentences in
their own language and winding up the per-
Torrance with the rendition of a song in which
gentleman of apparently German extraction
inquired with good deal of anxiety to tine
whereabouts of his ''leede toy" The Thorn
type-setting machine, which is used on one of
the Hartford evening papers, was eyed Curl
ously and at some length.
HOW THE CALLING GUN WAS INVENTED.
A very pleasant, chatty old gentleman is DR..
Calling. He and had an enjoyable hour to-
gether, during which period he told me several
new and interesting things. Finally I asked
him how he came to invent the gun that has
made his name SO we'll known, not only among
military men and sailors but among all other
descriptions Of civilized mankind.
The story is not a long one," said he. Il
was living in indianapolis when the war of the
rebellion broke out. For many years previous
had been engaged in inventing all sorts of
useful things, principally agricultural impe-
that ever sewed wheat in drills-but the war
gave my thoughts another turn. The strife had
not been going on long before some Of our best
men were brought home in boxes. In little
while discovered that they had not all been
killed in action-the camp and the march were
more deadly. One morning I was down
at the railroad depot when eighteen bodies
were returned, and a brief investigation
showed that only three Of the men had
been killed by the enemy. That set me to
work at once on a gun or a combination of
guns which should be as deadly as possible,
which should save ninety-nine out of every
hundred of the lives that would otherwise be
sacrificed by the diseases incident to the camp
From the day when the idea first struck me my
gun began to take shape, and today there is
not its equal in the world; il il good for twelve
hundred shots a minute as a steady thing"
and the venerable old physician beamed on me
AA,. al L. IL
the discovery of elixir of life with which all
the nations were to renew themselves as often
as they felt the necessity for renewal
he GOT HER.
One of the happenings at the Colts arms
works which was not little amusing to the
few persons outside Of the principals who took
cognlzance of it was the introduction of Sem
ator Davis, the United States delegate. to Dr.
Calling. Before the formal ceremony was
fairly over the white-headed physician stepped
forward and, grasping the hand of the Senator,
said lauShingly: 80 you are the man who got
her, are your "Got who?" queried the SEN
ator. why, my wife that would have BEEN"
answered the doctor. And then it came out
that years ago, SO many that delicate regard
for the weakness of the fair respecting the
question of age forbids closer enumeration, the
doctor had courted girl only to be cut out in
the end by the embryo Senator. The latter's
good lady had forgotten to mention the fact to
her husband, and he counts on some fun in the
way of teasing when he returns to his home.
MARK TwAN's DRINK.
Mark Twain was down on the train while it
was at Hartford. While viewing the long
string of rolling palaces he was asked If he
would not indule in an intoxicant.
No, thanks" he replied, Il never drink
anything strong, but I will take glass Of
apollinaris-just little apollinaris without the
water, and with about three fingers of whisky
in place Of the apollinaris'
There has been great deal of courtesy dis
played by the newspaper men of the various
towns at which the train has stopped toward
their unfortunate brethren whose lot it is to
be with the delegates in their incomings and