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The Portland daily press., 1889-05-31
Advice 10 mother..-MRs. wINsLow',

Advice 90 Mothers.-MRS. WINSL0W'S
SOOTHING SYRUP should always be used when
children are cutting teeth. II relieves the little
sufferer at once it produces natural, quiet sleep
by relieving the child from pain, and the little
cherub awakes as "bright as a buttom.' 1t is
very pleasant to taste. 1t sooties the child soft
ems the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind. regu-
lates the bowels, and is the best known remedy
for diarrhea, whether arising from teething or
other causes. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
feb1 NV ,F&w1y6
For any case of nervousness, Sleep
lessness, weak stomach. indigestion, dyspepsia
try Carriers Little Nerve Pills. Relief is sure.
The only nerve medicine for the price in market.
dw1w
Castoria cures Collie, Constipation;
Sour Stomach, Diarrhga, Eructation;
Gives healthy sleep; also aids digesti0n;
Without narcoti stupefaction oct5d&wlY
The Portland daily press., 1889-05-31

Pears is the purest and best Soap eve
made.
The Portland daily press., 1889-05-31

Suits are going wonder
fully well.
We know what Is doing ii.
Five out of six will say their
prices are doing il.
We can't help seeing
they're going uncommonIy.
Suppose you can get a
better suit than you thought
you could. and you only pay
as much as you expected;
you can't get over seeing
that the suit is better than
you hoped, Is 1t price that
makes you buy or the better
suit? are you going to hide
your good fortune from
everybody?
Really they're only called
ready made. In fit and style
they might as properly be
called custom made. Yet of
course. the price wins you.
See our Blazer and Flannel
Shirt show today. It's great.
The Portland daily press., 1889-05-31
HOW TO PROlONG LIFE IN OUR
CITIES AND TOWNS.

BY increasing our knowledge OF the
laws OF nutrition, 1t enables us to know
what Is most easily assimilated by the
diseased system.
Just SO fast will the mortality OF our
loved ones decrease rs they will be re-
stored to health.
With all the improvements In sanitation and
ventilation, we find In our cities this high rate OF
mortality:
In MurdOck'ss Free Surgical Hospital
for Women, 3 to each 1000.
Women in Boston die. ............29 to each 1000
New York. ....26.32
Z" Philadelphia. 10
Baltimore. ..2O.4O
Chicago. ..ZO.9O
+" st. Louis. .2O.49
San Francisco. 1886
And in the hospitals the mortality Is much
larger, and about oneseventh OF all deaths are In
the hospitals.
Compare this reality with that OF the diseased
women who enter Murdock's Free Surgical Hos
pital for operations; everything free. including
The results show with how little risk OF life.
OF the 1000 operated on last year, representing
80 OF the worst classes OF surgery known, only B
died; the rest returned home restored to health.
Again, OF the deaths In Boston, AZ Of them
thirty-fve women, with no deaths, and they re-
NAMED in the hospital eighteen days on an
average. During the year we operate on more
women than all the hospitals of Massachusetts,
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island,
Connecticut and New York, and our mortality Is
Murdock's Liquid Food and Supposltories in re
pairing the wastes Of disease and operations.
The Portland daily press., 1889-05-31
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MAR RACES.

Clean clothes follow the use Of Index Soap
The Portland daily press., 1889-05-31

In the latest patterns-designs that are en-
tirely new, made in Walnut, Mahogany, Oak
and Antique Oak, with Mirrors of every
shape; and some of these Hall Stands are
combination Of Chair and Hat Rack Over
90 varieties to select from, ranging In price
from $500 to $4,000
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25

There are now about thirty-six miles Of
elevated railroads in New York city, and
sos, 900 persons are carried on these roads
every day. The fare is cents, and the
profits of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad
company (lnder which name all of the COM
panies have been united are enormous. The
roads are under the control of Jay Gould.
The Metropolitan railroad, as it was called
when the company was first organized, is a
most ponderous and elaborate structure.
The tracks are supported by two columns
and overriding the middle of the thorough
fare. The track below Canal street rests
upon lattice grders which connect the pill
lars longitudinally and transversely; above,
it rests upon floor beams supported by the
side trusses, which III turn are supported by
the columns. The structure is warranted to
bear running load of l,500poundsto the lin
cal foot. A solid foundation was secured for
each pillar, in some instances by digging and
blasting to depth of twenty-five feet; some
times it was requisite to drive down piles to
obtain solid bed for the foundation stones.
The engines of the elevated railroads are
capable of a speed of forty miles an hour.
The standard pattern weighs about nineteen
tons, and has IA load upon the driving wheels
of about 5000 to $500 pounds, They are
furnished with spark arresters and smoke
consuming apparatus. The passenger cars
are 81 feet 10 inches long and feet 8 inches
wide, and have seats for forty-eight persons
EACH although, as a rule, there are as many
more persons hanging by the straps. The
cars are well lighted, and are fitted up with
bright colored woods and painted decora-
lions. The benches, with their backs to the
sides of the car, except a few transverse
seats in the center, are composed of single
seats. The stations are light, ornamental
structures the New Workers call them
"pagodas'0, consisting of small houses whose
walls are of corrugated iron with roofs of
tin, on platforms, which, with their supports
and the stairways by which they are ap-
preached from the street, have frame Of
wrought iron. They were made after an
original modern Gothic design by j. F.
Cropsley, the landscape painter. The plat
forms are, on the average, 20 feet high, II
feet wide and 1870 feet long.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25

by the entire width Of the street, or where the
streets are narrow, thus obtaining in meas
ure the additional stability afforded by the
transverse trusses of the Sixth avenue struc-
ture.
There is great deal q talk in New York
just now-though 1t was lulled during the
centennal--over an extension which the
managers of the elevated roads araendeavor-
ing To add to their Sixth and Ninth avenue
lines, but as the proposed extension would
take up another portion OF Battery park,
part of which the elevated roads have already
usurped, and rs on this account public opin-
ion seems to be massed against the scheme, 1t
can scarcely be predicted at this time what
the outcome will be- The four tracks of the
Sixth avenue and Ninth avenue lines meet at
Battery park, but from that point the trains
of both lines are Obliged TO proceed to the ter
minus at South ferry upon but one track.
This necessitates vast deal Of shifting and
delay, and besides is dangerous, the complica'
tions arising when trains on both lines are
running at intervals OF two minutes being
very puzzling. To obviate this danger, delay
and Inconvenience the company is trying to
get another slice of Battery park upon
which to build an extension to the ter
minus which will curve around in the
form Of loop and come together with the
main lines at the point in the Battery where
the two roads meet, from which point to the
terminus where the structure forming the
loop is to be built there will be a two track
line constructed, as shown by dotted lines in
the diagram This will do away with all
shifting and delay. Some of the New York
newspapers are in favor of this scheme,
while others are waging fierce fight against
it, their grounds being that the new struct-
ure will interfere with the poor peoples en-
joyment of the park.
The elevated railroads of Brooklyn, which
were built later than those of New York, are
constructed somewhat more solidly than the
latter, and are calculated to bear a strain Of
80, 600 pounds to the square inch. There are
several other minor improvements in con-
struction.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25

plete success in section which the inventor
had constructed under Broadway The most
original of the projects was that of an end
less movable platform, travelling with con
slant speed OF ten miles an hour up one side
Of the street and down the other, crossing
the street in curves at the termini, being kept
in constant motion by friction rollers actu-
ated by shafting, operating through hollow
iron columns and driven by stationary en-,
gines underground placed at distance OF
one mile apart.
The moving causeway was TO DO elevated
above the street on iron pillars AT short
distances were to be stations where passen.
gers could be transferred to and from the
travelling sidewalk by the aid OF wheeled car
riages Passengers, by adding their own
walking speed to that Of the moving floor,
could advance at the rate Of fifteen miles an
hour. This ingenious scheme was proposed
by Alfred Speer, Of New Jersey. Many
other plans, of various merits and dement's,
were suggested when the investigation OF the
subject was most widespread. The public
was altogether averse to the scheme Of I'M
foreground railways such as they have in
London-the Zimmerman gloom and nauseat-
ing odors Of which are peculiarly distasteful.
OF all the plans proposed, that of the. elevated
railroad practically as it is today, was the
most practicable and at the same time the
most popular.
The first elevated railroad, SO called was
constructed in 1866 A track was laid through
Greenwich street and Ninth avenue between
Battery place and the Hudson River railroad
depot, in Thirtieth street, on u framework
supported by single row OF iron pillars
over which cars were to be drawn by an end
less chain worked by stationary engines, The
fate of this enterprise augured ill for the via
duct system. The property was sold under
foreclosure in 1871. Dr. Rufus H. Gilbert
whose attention had been directed to the
problem of rapid transit by his experience as
physician of the excessive mortality in over
rowded tenement houses, had long occupied
himself with this question.
After devising seven different plans he OBJ
tanned, in 1872, charter for an overhead tu-
bular pneumatic railway The New York
Elevated Railroad company" the successor
to the "West Side Elevated Railroad COM
pany," was organized in 1872. The Gilbert
Elevated Railroad company was incorpor-
ated by an act of the legislature in 1872, 1t
received its name from its originator, Rufus
H. Gilbert, and changed it in 1878, after DR..
Gilbert was superseded in the management,
to that of the metropolitan Elevated Rail
road company"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25
Smoke Over London.

Professor Chandler Roberts estimates the
weight of the smoke cloud which daily hangs
over London at about fifty tons Of solid car
bon, and $50 tons Of carbon in the form OF
hydro-carbon and carbonic oxide gases. Cal
culated from the average result of tests made
by the smoke abatement committee the value
of coal wasted in smoke from domestic CRATES
amounts, upon the annual consumption Of
100000 of people, to e2,2j7 800 The cost Of
carriage on this wasted coal is calculated to
be 92GS, $50, while the unnecessary passage Of
about 100000 horses through the streets in
drawing it adds seriously to the cost of street
cleaning and repairing. Then there is the
cost Of taking away the extra ashes, G43 600
per year. Summing it all up, the direct and
indirect cost of waste coal may be set down
at G2,GOO,000 plus the additional loss from
the damage done TO property caused by the
smoky atmosphere, estir ed by Mr. Chad
wick at 42,0o0,0OO, the ".)le aggregating at
a reasonable estimate "a, 600, or $780,
600
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25

Potatoes are natives of Chill and Peru, and
were originally taken to England from Santa
Fs by Sir John Hawkins in 1868. Others
ascribe their introduction to Britain to Sir
Francis Drake in 1856, while their general in
PRODUCTION is mentioned by many writers as
occurring in 1892. Their first culture in Ire
land is referred to Sir Walter Raleigh. who
had large estates in that country about
Youghal, in Cork county. 1t is said that
potatoes We're not known in Flanders until
1920 Hedyn says a fine kind Of potato was
first brought from America by Mr. Howard,
who cultivated it at Caldington, near Bed
ford, in l7G5, and its culture became general
soon after. Italy does not appear to loom up
as the original potato garden.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25
AN ELEVATED STATION.

It takes from six months to year to be-
come accustomed to the l. roads. A man
who takes an Office in q building by which
there is an elevated road will for time be
constantly irritated by the rapid succession
of DINING trains, but after while it be-
comes such an old story that he notices it
no more than the scratching of his pen. 1t
Is the same with the people who live in rooms
fronting the l. roads.
On some of the lines, especially the one on
Sixth avenue, the trains pass so close to the
windows of these rooms, that standing upon
the platform of one of the cars, you can al
most clutch the window curtains with your
hand. Yet the occupants of these rooms are
not in the least disturbed. Indeed, they COM
placently lean out Of the windows and gaze
at the network Of iron, the cobblestone pave
ments and the red brick stores with as much
evident appreciation as though the prospect
were as beauteous and full as natures chang
ing colors as the view from a mountains
summit of sunlit valley In the course
of ride on the elevated railroad from
the Battery to Harlem you will see
many curious things through the win
dows of these rooms. Weary looking needle
women, in six by eight rooms, sewing
for pittance children being spanked by
their mothers; working girls clustered to-
gether, eating their lunches; man beating
his wife; party of gentlemen of color play
ing poker, with black bottle on the table;
ingenious youths shaving shining their
shoes or otherwise making their toilets, to-
tally oblivious of their audiences rushing by;
q drunken man demolishing the furniture;
lazy men sitting on the fire escapes, content
edly smoking short black pipes, while their
wives are at washtubs inside; an Italian
nobleman leaning on the window sill and ex-
pectorating on the heads of dear friends be-
low-such sights as these, and Others mex
pressibe, you will catch lightning glimpses
L., ulalL LIZ
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25
The Climate of Washington Territory as
Taken from Signal Service Reports.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-Last July the
Senate passed resolutions directing the
transmission of reports prepared under the
direction of the chief signal officer upon
the climate and climate conditions Of Ore
gon and Washington Territory. These re-
ports, together with illustrative charts and
letter from Gen. Greedy, have just been
published, and, in view of the emigration to
the far Northwest, will be found to be Of
general interest. The rainfall on the Paci
tic coast is the heaviest in the United States,
ranging from Tot ITO inches annually, but
this enormous fall covers only per cent of
the area Of Oregon and Washington Terri.
tory. On the other hand, the area where
less than 10 inches fall is less than five per
cent of the whole. Wheat can be grown in
nine'tenths of these two States without
irrigation. Owing to equable rainfall, agri
cultural operations are more fruitful with
the small rainfall than in some sections of
other States with a considerable larger pref
cipitaton. Remarkably equable tempera-
ture conditions also obtain, the entire range
of mean annual temperature over this terri
tory being but 81 degrees from 45a at f.
Colville, in Northeastern Washington Terri
tory, to ID degrees at Ashland, Ore. In 300
miles of latitude along the coast the range of
temperature in the summer time is only 81
degrees-from 90 at Port Angeles, Wash, to
500 at Fl. Stevens, Ore. During the winter
months the mean temperature Of more than
half of these States is above the freezing
point, and on the coast ranges between 40
and As degrees. Gen. Greedy says:
"To summarize, Oregon and Washington
Territory are favored with climate of UNI
usual midness and equability. While the
immdeiate coast ranges have very heavy
rainfalls, yet such rain occurs during the
winter months of December to February
and in all cases the wet season gives place
gradually to the dry season, during July and
August While the preponderating amount
of rain falls during the winter, yet the spring,
early summer, and late fall are marked by
moderate rains at not lnfrequent entervals.
These climate conditions favor to mark ed
extent the growth of most cereals and other
important staples - Minneapolis Tribune,
Apr. 4, 1889.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25
RAILROADS IN THE AIR.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE ELEVATED
SYSTEM OF NEW YORK.

It Il for Fact Ono Of the Modern Won
/ ders Of tho worid-How It Was Built
and How 1t Is Run-The Dispute Over
the Battery Loop"
To travellers who visit New York city for
the first time-and there were many such
during the centennial week-nothing is the
source Of SO much establishment as the ele-
waited railroads When a train goes rushing
by over their heads they start look up with
dazed expressions, and feel inclined to run.
They find it difficult to become used to the
perpetual roar, the smoke Of the locomotives,
the creaking Of the cars that sets their teeth
ON edge and makes their nerves throb. If
they are crossing street beneath the ele.
waited structure when train is passing they
make a dive for the sidewalk, as though ex-
pecting the whole mass Of iron and wood to
tumble down upon their heads and drive
them into the bowels Of the earth, like pile.
Some Of them seem to feel a little hurt be-
cause they are not edited by the sight of at
least one grand smash up.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25
The Power of Ink,

"a small drop of ink, falling, like dew,
upon a thought, proclaims that which
makes thousands, perhaps millions, think
wrote Byron. The inspiration of his pen
might give the dusky fluid such far
reaching power, and we wish we were
possessed of such an inspiration, that we
might, through like medium, bring into
such extended notice the matchless virtues
of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, those tiny,
sugar-cOated grsnules which contain, in a
concentrated form, the active principles of
vegetable extracts that Dame Nature de
signed especially to promote healthy &C
ton of the liver, stomach and bowels.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25
The High Grade Norman Stallion
TACHEAU

win make the Of 1889 follows: From Tuesday
noon untll Thursday morning. nj Ireueus Brewers,
seYsn miles north of Ottawa, in Dayton township.
Thursdays at Jacob Iimmerman's, two and onehalf
miles west of Ottawa. From Friday afternoon until
saturday evening NJ a. Y. Ames' two and onehalf
miles north of Utica, in Waham township. and the
balance of the time at A. |. HaRenbaughs three miles
south and nile west of Prairie Center, in Watham
township.
Observation-Disclosures was foaled June, 1884,
He is in color beautiful dapplcd black, with fine
arched neck very heavy quarters short strong back
with clean Hat bone, sound and perfect hooks splendid
feet, hne action and disposition and color and noble
pair of lungs and hardy constitution He VIII weigh
In fair breeding condition. upwards OF LOO lbs, and
has proved to be very sure foal getter and good
average breeder.
PEDIGREE -TAcHHAU was sired by Western Beau
ty, No. l.6l. His dam sired by Bureau, No. ia
His grand dam sired by French Giant No. 34S His
great grand dam wasa very well bred Norman and
Samson mare. TACHRAU descends from the very best
Norman stallion that ever imported from France,
and have every to believe that he will make
excellent breeder.
TER MS.-To insure u living foal. Sl2 payable when
the foal Is fourteen days old; $40 10 insure mare with
foa payable when the mare Is known 10 be with oal
Parting with mares or removing them from the county
without my consent forielts the insurance and the
money becomes due and payable immediately. Care
will he taken 70 prevent accidents but will not be
responsible should any occur.
VIM. JAMESON,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25

The elevated railroads of New York city
were constructed in the face Of the most de-
termined opposition. Property owners united
and made a fierce fight against the project,
and almost defeated it, For many years be-
fore the roads were built the subject of rapid
transit had occupied a large place in the
popular mind Owing to the narrowness OF
the island on which the city of New York is
built most of those residing or employed in it
are subjected to the inconvenience Of living
at considerable distances from their places of
work or business. Before the elevated roads
were built the people were obliged TO depend
entirely upon the comparatively slow street
cars, and it took over an hour Of busy mans
time to ride from One Hundredth street to
the city hall.
The street car facilities, although on a vast
scale, were inadequate to meet the great de-
mand made upon them, especially in the
morning and evening. In order to do away
with this manifestly disagreeable condition
of things, the public recognized that some en-
tirely new scheme of rapid transit was nee
essary, and was prepared to ratify almost
any practicable idea that would deliver them
from so annoying an Inconvenience. Therapid
transit agitation was at its height during the
latter part of the eos. Innumerable invent
ors set to work to devise means to shorten the
time of transit between the upper and lower
end of the island.
Some Of the plans proposed were almost
ludicrous in their impracticability, others in
volved an expense that was startling even to
the Cresuses who were interested in rapid
transit. A tubular tunnel, eight feet in di-
ameter, through which cylindrical cars
nearly of the same diameter should be driven
by pneumatic propulsion, was demonstrated
70 be quite practicable, working with COM
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25

Proposed extension shown by dotted lines.l
The structure Of the Third avenue, Second
avenue and some short minor elevated rail-
roads differs materially from the form
adopted on the Sixth and Ninth avenue
lines, the chief points Of variance be-
ing that the viaduct is composed of trestle
work supported by single rows of columns
instead of by double rows with cross
girders. The roadway passes over the posts,
causing them to bear the whole strain directly.
They are, however, braced together by cross
girders in places WHARF they are not separated
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25

As a family medicine We cannot too
highly recommend Laxadore, the famous
household remedy. 1t should always be
kept on hand.
II regulates the bowels, cures diarrhoea,
dysentery and wind collie; in fact Dr.
Bulls baby syrup acts promptly and effect
uallY In all cases.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25


You can secure just the farm
you want for stock or sheep
raising, or mixed farming. Plenty
of coal, timber, good water, short
mild winters. Immense crops
of all kinds without irrigation.
Farms Immediately adjoining
the railway, on the level valley
lands or the gently rolling bench
lands. Write for the new
pamphlet, "The Great Reserva-
ton" and other information, to
F. |. Whitney, Gen'l Pass. and
Ticket Agent, St. Paul, MINI.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-05-25
1t Makes You HUNGRY

Spring medicine means more now-a-days than n
did ten years ago The winterof s-so haslon
the nerves all Jag9sd out. The nerves must b
strengthened, the blood purified. liver ana
bowels regulated. Paine's Celery Compound
the Spring medicine of fo-iay-does all thu.
as nothing else can. Prescribed By PAy~eiaaa
Recommended By Druggists, Endorsed By kiafa~s
Guaranteed By the Manufacturers to b.