Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-28
SPEED THE PARTING GUESTS.
The Pan-Amerlcan Delegates Sec
ond Day IN Omaha.
THE SMELLING WORKS AND FORT
The Lininger Art Gallery, tho Ride TO
the Bluffs aud the Midnight Dc
parturc OF the Honored
Guests.
Three Novelties.

nestcruay morning INC BaNton MOTEL 0ftiCa
and court were crowded with expeotant citi-
sens ready to lavish their hospitality upon
the Pan-American visitors, when Mt 0 o'clock
the first of the delegates appeared and wcre
warmly greeted. The other distinguished
guests descended from their rooms at in
tervals and IL was MOI until twenty minutes
past 10 o'clock that all had broakfasted and
were ready to start for the drive around the
city.
Mayor Broatch and the members OF the
reception committee had been Mt work and
had everything in readiness. Major. Wheeler
mounted chair in the rotunda and an
nounced that carriages for the delegates and
members of the reception committee were in
waiting at the east entrance of the hotel
The vehicles for the guests, under the
direction of Committeeman Stephenson,
were brought up one Mt n time, and were
soon filled, extra room being provided on the
we'll known pair of rally-ho coaches. Word
was passed along the line aud the line of car
riages started, little attention being paid to
order. as the first drive was short one the
objective point;being the smeting works.
Arriving at the plant, the party left the
carriages and forming INTO groups, were
taken through the various departments of
the great establishment under the direction
Of MIR. Guy c. Barton, Captain Rustn Mr..
*. q. Barton and several employees, who eX-
plulUeu lHc UletDOuS OF operating tue WOrKS,
The first visit was to the ore yards, where
the raw material was dumped from the cars
like so much ordinary sand, and, in fact,
there is little to distinguish the crude ma
terial, at least to the unframed eye, from
the product OF any common sandbank.
The party followed Il load of the raw ma
terial to the second floor of the smelling
shed and saw 1t mixed with certain pr0por-
tions OF coke, Stag and common gravel, in
terspersed with an occasional empty
tomato and SlOypipu INTO the great
naces.
Descending to the first floor, the workmen
were found engaged in drawing the
products of the first smelling process
assumed two forms. In the melting, the
precious metals were separated from the
dross, and were drawn off at the bottom Of
the furnace and nodded into builion-bocks
of the mixed metal about two feet in length,
and six inches wide and thick.
The dross. or Stag, it is now termed,
pours out of the upper part of tho furnace,
above the precious stuff in ono stream Of
fire.
This is received IN cone shaped kettles, set
on wheels, and, after cooling, is drawn OUT
and dumped on the river bank. When the
kettle is empted the bottom part of the con-
tents is found to be of darker and harder
quality than the upper part. This is caused
by the pressure of copper ore in a consider
able qaantity. The darker part is therefore
Knocked off and separated from the Stag and
copper mills. The Stag, remaining after the
copper has been removed, is broken up and
again passed through the furnace, being used
this time. simply, as part of the alloy re.
qured in smelling the crude ore.
The party was then conducted to the refn-
ing department where, in mammoth blast
furnaces, the heat from which was almost
unendurable the bullion Is put through two
more processes, the first extracting the zinc
from the silver and the second separating the
silver from tho gold.
These two precious metals are then sub
mitted to a special refining process and are
then moulded into gold and silver, bricks. :.
Now, gentlemen, step this way,"'
said Mr. Barton, after the pro.
cesses described had been witnessed
by the party, "aud I'll show the results of
days work"
The visitors accepted the invitation and
crowded into small room in n corner of the
refinery in which the silver bricks were
piled like so much cordweod.
The silver bricks, as they come from the
refinery, are about as large rs granite paw
ing blocks. Each is worth about 81, 1O0
They were piled higher than "a mans head.
A small pile of silver bricks in the center OF
the room was capped by two gold bricks,
about one-half the size of an ordinary paving
brick
~ could just put one of them in each OF
my overcoat pockets TO add to my collection
of souvenirs" laughngly remarked a news
paper representative in the delegation.
I'm which case your souvenir collection
would have an enhanced cash value of just
$l2 000,' remarked Mr. Barton.
'What Will you take for the contents of
the room9o asked member Of the reception
committee.
Mr.. Barton didn't know exactly, but an ex-
pert employed at the works Informed the
curious committeeman that "the hull lot is
worth at least ~, 900, ,U00.n
The committeeman didn't buy.
Az IL o'clock tho party lett the smelling
works and drove up turnam 10 Sixteenth
street. thence to Davenport, ana then TO Hon.
c. w. l.iningcr's art gallery.
The programme called for a fiftoen-m
stop at the art gallery, but the time was ex-
tended to nearly an hour, IN compliance with
the request Of the delegates. MIR. Liningep
and members of his family welcomed the
visitors. The gallery was a surprise
Here is something really new,n said
Senior Carlos Silva of Colombia. Eve have
seen enterprise exhibited in every shape a
Utopian could dream of, yet this Is the
first art gallery we have visited. And such
n gallery There are works of art here in
the original and in copies that had never
expected to see, though have long hoped to
do SO. 1t is wonderful"
The delegates went through the gallery
very carefully and examined theeXhibit thor
oughly. A group of them gathered around
Luca Giordano n" Slaughter OF the InnocentsD
and stood in silent admiration OF the MASTER
piece, Needless of the crowd around them,
until the other delegates and mem bers of the
committee had left the gallery and were
ready to continue their drive. The members
of the delegation were unanimous in their
expressions of praise of the gallery and Mr..
LininRers hospitality.
The procession was formed in better order
when the departure WAS made.
James Stephenson, in a light buggy, took
the lead and set the pace-and lively one 10
was, too for the party should have been at
the fort at the time IL was leaving the Lin
niger gallery.
Stephenson was followed by carriage
containing Governor Thayer, Mayor Broatch,
Mr.. j. j. Brown and Captain X. S. Wilcox.
Then came the two concord coaches with
members oil the delegat on and the local CONF
mittee. The other delegates and members
of the COMMITTEES followed, occupying thirty
carriages.
The procession returned from the gallery
10 sixteenth street, north To Cunning, west
10 Seventeenth, north TO Grace, east TO Sixs
teenth, north to Writ west to Twenty.
fourth, north to Spalding, west to Thirtieth,
north TO Fort Omaha.
There were many spectators along the
line OF the march and, as the party neared
the fort, 1t was augmented, surrounded aud
finally all but lost its identity in the
throng of people which was Fastening to.
ward the post, In carriages, cabs, carts,
lumber wagons, carryails, on horseback
bicycles ana ON foot.
The soldiery was on duty, however, and
made a vigorous effort 10 keen the spectatord