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Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22

pany of which William Scarborough. of
Savannah, was President; that she was
built in New York by Samuel Pickett
and William Crockett, master carpen-
ters; that she had one deck and three
masts; was ninety-eight feet six inches
IN length, twenty-five feet ten inches
In breadth, fourteen feet two inches in
depth, had burden of 319. 1895 tons,
and was q square-sterned ship. As will
be seen by the picture, she carried q
good load of canvas, and, according to
the best authorities, this helped her to
England more than her steam, as q mat
ter of fact. She left Savannah May
22. 1919, and did not reach Liverpool
until June pa trip of thirty-one
days. She subsequently visited st.
Petersburg and Stockholm, and did
not return until December Her vow
age occupied so much time, and was so
expensive, that it discouraged, rather
than encouraged, attempts at ocean
steam navigation, and it was not until
1888 that any further serious attempts
were made at ocean steamship navi-
cation. In that year the Royal VIII
liam made the trip from Quebec to
London in twenty-five days. In 1888
regular voyages began to be made. the
pioneers being the Sirius and Great
Western, the former of which made
the distance from London to New York
in seventeen days. and the latter from
Bristol to New York in fifteen DAYS.
This was great advance on the time
made by the Savannah and the ROYAL
William, but seems slow, indeed, COM
pared with the rapidtransit of the pres
ent time. The last-named steamers
were much larger than the craft of
Capt. Moses Rodgers, and We NAV pre-.
sumo that DR.. Lardper was less skepti-
cal as to the ultimate success of the
enterprise. when he witnessed or learn
ed their proportions.
1t is claimed by some historians that
the Savannah was not, in the strict
sense of the term, the first steamship
to cross the ocean, but that the honor
belongs to the Royal William. which
was built at Quebec in 1S30-31, and in
August, 1888, sailed for London, where
she arrived after prosperous trip of
twenty-five days. 1t is claimed-and
we believe it is true-that the Savan-
nah was not an ocean steamer, but a
regular-built, full-rigged sailing ship,
and that she depended more largely
upon her sails than upon her crude
paddle wheels. In fact. it is averred
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22
A Great Pine Collection.

One of the finest collections of pipes
in the world is to be found in the En-
glish residence of Capt. Bragge, well
known to every antiquary and bric-a-
brac dealer on this terrestrial sphere.
He has clay pipes from the sixteenth
century, wooden pipes from Switzer-
land, very ancient German pipes of
china and porcelain: French pipes of
great antiquity, made from curious
woods now unknown to growers; Swe-
dish pipes of copper and stone; Rus
sian of silver, niclo and malachite
great, seductive Turkish pipes of glass,
metal and clay, nargilehs, chibouques
and hookas; italian pipes, centuries
old, of terra Gotta and olive wood; an
tique Spanish pipes, that might have
been smoked by the Moorish dons after
the invasion, and which were formed
of various woods, and of material re-
sembling meerschaum, that is still
found in Spain: African pipes. brought
by traders from the interior, where
they had belonged to kings and chiefs
in the Black Country; venerable Chi
nese pipes, said to be of almost myth.
cal age; and those that the Hindoos
use in their temples.
America contributes jade, flint. and
hard stone pipes from Mexico; but
how pipes were carved from jade is q
mystery. It is the hardest of all ma
terials, and was used in Egypt and
Greece for certain weapons, and it is
even to-day esteemed as so valuable
that the Chinese hold it as the equal OF
gold. Also Indian calumets made from
the pipe stone or catlinite. Others
were of Aztec clay. similar to our pot
ter's clay, and having the general char
acteristics of all Aztec pottery work.
manship. From the Lake Superior
region came many pipes artistically in.
laid with copper and lead, and along
the lower valley of the Mississippi the
pipes of the mound builders, some.
what similar in form to those of the
Aztecs.
This collection has been repeatedl,
loaned to exhibitions, and contains
5000 specimens, and is considered ver,
valuable as showing the progress in arr
development in the past.-Tobacco.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22

heightened ten feet, made regular trips
to Albany in 1903, and was the first
steamboat ever made commercially sue
cessfuI.
Col. John Stevens, in 1904, expert
mented with encouraging success with
a small vessel driven by high-press-
ure engine, sectional boiler, and a
single screw. He also tried twin
screws, the steamboat having a length
of sixty-eight feet and breadth of
fourteen feet. This machinery, which
is shown in the illustration, is retained, ;;
in good state of preservation, at the
Stevens Institute of Technology, in.
Hoboken. N. J. In 1874 it was placed
in new hull and produced a speed of
eight miles an hour
Almost simultaneously with Fulton's
Clermont, Stevens brought out the
Phoenix, a side-wheel steamer, which
was taken by sea to Philadelphia and
placed in the Delaware River. This
was the first sea voyage ever made by
steam vessel. From this time the
steamboat was rapidly introduced, and
it was not long before ocean naviga-
ton was made an assured success by
the voyages of the Savannah in 1919
and the Royal William in 1888.
The experiments and inventions of
Hulls, Jouffrev, Fitch, Fulton, Ste
vens and others had been watched with
intense interest, but there were few
who anticipated any considerable
success, and those who predicted
that, by this imperfectly under
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22

ly all of which was spent over the bars,
to his evident satisfaction and increase
of popularity with the miners.
Mexicans who came to the diggings
from Sonora subsequent to the arrival
of Hijinio told stories regarding him.
They asserted that he had formed a
close corporation with the devil, and
was in the habit of roaming over the
mountains and through the forests
with wild and savage beasts, with
which he was on the most friendly
terms. His right ear, they said, had
been taken off by stroke from the
paw of huge jaguar, which also left
the scars on his neck. The laqul was
playing with the animal in the timber
when the accident occurred and he
afterward severely punished his rough
playmate for its disastrous careless
ness.
This and similar stories produced no
further effect upon the American min
ers than to cause them to apply the
cognomen of Panther Joe" to Hijinio
Carabel, the latter name being long
and somewhat difficult to pronounce.
1t was six months after his arrival
that the 1aqui earned the title OF
"Panther joe" and became a hero as
we'll as a mystery to every man in the
~diggings." A family named Stapley
came out from California and estab-
lished station near Antelope, but
severaI miles from where any people
were mining or living.
Opa ayaniDr offer SnndowO and
when the men-folk were away. Mrs.
Stapley went to the corral for the pur-
pose of milking her cows, taking with
her little daughter 3 years old and
also rifle as protection from the con-
stant dangers of that country in that
period. The woman had proceeded
with her duties but few minutes when
she was startled by scream Of terror
from the child, and upon turning in
the direction of the sound was Mortified
to see large panther jump over the
fence with her child in its mouth.
Picking up the rifle the thoroughly
frightened mother rushed to the gate
in an effort to rescue her offspring
INIT when outside the inclosure mos
unexpected, unusual, and startling
situation was met, and while hope wa
INSURED she was rendered powerless I.
act herself and was compelled to sui
for the most intense suspense. Abou
forty wards from her stood the panther
with both front feet upon the child
which was on the ground and crylni
Justify. The beast was not Looking a
the child, but had its head raised AM
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22

stood means, the great seas would be
ploughed by myriads of keels were re-
garded as visionaries. There were
some, however, who dipped into the
future far enough to catch glimpse Of
what is to us no special wonder. The
eminent scientist, DIR. Lardner, is on
record as believing that steam naviga-
ton of the ocean was impracticable,
but he confined his prediction to ves-
sells of the size then built. Yet SO gen.
eral was the unbelief in the success Of
such experiments, that the voyage of the
Savannah appears to have caused little
excitement, until it became known that
she had safely arrived at Liverpool.
Newspaper enterprise was at dis
count in those days, and We find little
material from which to write history
of the event Our engraving is taken
from an old picture, which has the fol-
lowing legend: Steamship Sa-
vannah, Captain Moses Rodgers. The
first steamship that crossed the Atlantic
Ocean. Was built in New York, and
sailed March %, 1919; arrived in Sa-
vannah after a passage of six days,
thence to Liverpool in thirty -one days.
When entering the ST Georges Chan
mel, off the city of Cork, she was deserted
by the commander of the British feet,
lying in that city. Seeing a volume Of
smoke ascending from the steamer, he
naturally concluded she was on fire,
and with commendable promptitude
dispatched two cutters to her relief; on
boarding they found her all right. She
steamed for Liverpool; on nearing the
city the piers were thronged with
thousands of people, who greeted her
with enthusiastic cheers" The regis
try of the Savannah, made March q,
1919, the day before she left New York
for the city after which SHE was named,
states that she was owned by COM
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22

engaged in experiments looking to the
development of steam navigation as
early as 1854, and in 1856 he succeeded
in driving boat on the Potomac River
at the rate of four miles an hour by
means of water jet forced out at the
stern. Eumsey subsequently went to
England, and continued his expert
ments on the River Thames. John
Fitch worked at this problem at the
same time with Rumsey, and had an
experimental steamer On the Delaware
in 1856. His propelling instru-
ments were paddles suspended by
the upper ends of their shafts.
and moved by a series of cranks.
Fitch's steamer, which is herewith IL
Illustrated, was sixty feet long. In 1876
Fitch resumed his experiments In New
York, using screw. In Scotland, In
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22
A Singular Community.

The valley of Gressoney is one of the
most beautiful localities in the Italian
Alps. 1t also has a curious history.
In the eleventh century it was coloniz-
ed by German soldiers, to whom it had
been given by King Otto in recogni-
ton of their valiant services to him.
The descendants of these soldiers,
though in a strange land, have stuck
fast to their German traditions. They
still speak German and keep up the
closest connection with Germany,
which they consider their fatherland.
Their daughters are educated in the
best German schools and seminaries.
When the young women come home
from the big cities of the north. how
ever, they are compelled by their par
ents to lay aside their fine Berlin and
Frankfort garments to don the curious
costumes of their forefathers, and to
learn TO bake, scrub and wash As their
mothers and grandmothers did before
them.
The cleanliness of ~Gressonan" has
made them famous throughout Italy.
Ct is q proverb that their barns are
cleaner than other peoples houses.
German is spoken in the family,
French in the churches, and Italian
in the schools. Consequently all the
Gressonari know at least three Ian.
guages.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22
ENGINE OF THE CLERMoNT-1s0

returned to the United States, and
with Chancellor r. Livingston had a
boat built 13O feet long, called the
Clermont, which made successful
trip from New York to Albany and
return, accomplishing a speed of five
miles an hour.
The engine of the Clermont, which
is shown in the illustration, had a
steam cylinder twenty-four inches in
diameter and a stroke of four feet.
The boiler was twenty feet long and
the wheels fifteen feet in diameter.
The Clermont, after having been
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22

down to 1876, in which year Jonathan
Hulls patented marine steam engine,
his design being to employ his vessel
for towing purposes. In the following
year he published a descriptive PAM
phlet containing sketch of q New
comen engine. As will be seen by
reference to the illustration, it con-
sisted of series of counterpoises, ropes,
ratchets and grooved wheels, giving q
continuous motion, and, in its day, was
regarded as a wonderful and compi-
Gated machine, hut in our time would
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22

was missing, and on that side of his
neck he carried three scars resembling
such as might have been left from knife
wou DIS. Like all his people he was
passionately fond of intoxicating liquor,
but as he was harmless and inoffensive
when under its influence, and imposed
upon his fellowminers no greater infiic-
tion than was to be created by the
weird music of his native tribe as pro-
duced on an antiquated and discordant
harmonica or mouth-organ-which he
always carried with him-the Indian
was regarded as compadre and per-
mitted to pursue his natural inclina-
tions. He secured good claim and
took out large quantity of dust, near
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22

twenty-five inches in diameter, but it
was laid up soon afterward because it
was feared the banks of the canal
might be injured by the waves.
These experiments toward the appi-
cation OF steam to water navigation
bring US down to 1903, in which year
the immortal Robert Fulton appears
upon the scene. Fulton built steam
boat and launched it on the river
Seine, at Paris, in 1903. In 1906 he
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22

while it is only half a century since
ocean steam navigation became really
an accomplished fact.
Though steam navigation is of very
recent origin, the invention of the
paddle-wheel for propelling vessels
antedates the Christian era. Roger
Bacon anticipated the earliest applica-
tion of steam to turn the paddle-wheel,
and various endeavors and experiments
toward a practical application of the
idea were made from Bacon's time
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22

178S, q speed of five miles an hour was
attained by steamboat consisting OF
two connected hulls driven by single
paddle-wheel placed between them and
turned by q small engine. A few
months later larger vessel, propelled
by an engine of twelve-horse power,
attained q speed of seven miles an
hour. In 1901 Scotchman named
Symington constructed for Lord Dun
das . canal steamboat with stern
wheel driven by steam-engine
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22

by many navigators that without her
sails she would never have been able
to reach the shores of England. These
claims are borne out by the fact that
on her return to New York, after her
first and only voyage across the ocean,
her engines were taken out, her side
wheels unshipped, and she resumed
her place in the line as q regular SAIL
ing packet.
On the other hand, the Royal Will
lam was built expressly for an ocean
steamer, and was the first of her class
to cross the Atlantic.
James Goudie, the man who super
intended the construction of the Royal
William, is still living in Chicago, and
in excellent health and spirits, al
though over 81 years of age. In let
ter written by him not long ago he
says:
I proceeded to Quebec in NJ y, 1870, and was
engaged to carry OUT the plans nd Instruction
of vessel. She was laid down the fall OF 1889.
and completed in 1881. The late, of the sea-
son at which the ship was got ready precluded
her from doing much that season. The next
year opened up with very poor prospects. Chol-
era had made its appearance at Quebec, and
business was almost entirely suspended 80
she was run at a great loss, ultimately being
laid up. The following year she was run few
trips at q loss and it was decided in the month
of August. 1888, TO send her to London, England.
for sale. She arrived out after prosperous trip
of twenty-five days. She WIS put up for sale,
and was finally sold to the Spanish Government
for $4,000 sterling, having cost in building Rl9-
600, Halifax currency.
The Royal William was by the Span
ish Government rechristened the Isa-
bel Segunda, and added to the Spanish
navy. Thus she was the first steam
ship ever employed as a man-of-war,
and the first in any service to be un-
der fire. And she was designed and
constructed on this side of the Allan
tic, and by an American shipbuilder.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22
if Indians had camp in that vicinity

if Indians had camp in that vicinity,
they cautiously penetrated willow
thicket in the direction of the sound.
When they reached the creek they
found themselves at the edge of q
green open space in the shape of an
amphitheater-a bend in the stream
and high precipitous walls of rock,
vari-colored with moses and delicate
mountain wild flowers, forming an al
most perfect circle. In its wild beauty
and usual solitude the scene would
have been sufficiently striking and TO
mantle, but q central group served to
make the picture one of the most
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22

no doubt strike one as very crude,
simple, and commonplace affair.
In 1853 one William Henry tried a
model steamboat on the Conestoga
River, in Pennsylvania In IVA
Count d 'Auxiron, assisted by NJ. Perier,
made similar attempt in France.
The Marquis de Jouffrey was engaged
in the same work in France from 1775
to 1888, meeting with what was re-
garded as encouraging success. In
our own country, James Rumsey was
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22

'AKING into view
the enormous extent
of steam traffic be-
tween this country
and the old world
at the present time,
it is difficult to
realize that the
wild waste of waters
was first traversed
by means of this
agent only seventy
ono vn orc q m
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22
THE FIRST STEAMSHIP,
THIRTY-ONE DAYS CROSSING THE AT
LANTIC OCEAN.

The Famous Voyage of the Savannah-A
Brief History Of Steam Navigation
Crude Devices Of the Pioneer Inventors
Wonderful Developments of Ocean Navi-
cation.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22

The wheels of matrimonial life run
more smoothly where there is little
juvenile.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22
PANTHER JOE.
An Extraordinary Arizona Indian.
By NAT HAN n. Lew.

:HORTLY after
the discovery OF
gold at Antelope
Peak and along
the Hassayampa
River, in 1868, a
Yaqui Indian ar
rived in that part
of Arizona and
engaged in min
ing. He bore the
name of Hiiinio
Carabal.
In general ap-
pear ance til e
zYaqui did not diff
fer from others OF
his race, saw
that the rinhf aar
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-07

DR.. Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-07

barracks and Coeur d. Aleue, Idaho. He
whiled away the time as sergeant and quar-
termaster's storekeeper and IN the cavalry
was drilmaster When no other barber was
around he polished the chins of his fellow
soldiers for a fair consideration.
Ofhcer Poole has seen more military sGr->
vice than any other man on the force, having
been in the regular army ontinuously for
seven teen years and a half, and during that
time was duty sergeant for four years and
hrst sergeant for twelve years. He first en-
listed In 1869 in Company G, Thirteenth in
fantry, and the first five years of his military
life was spent at Forts Buford. Shaw and
Douglas, with the exception of few months
In 1872, when he was detailed for marine SER
vice at the Washington navy ward, after
which he was ordered to rejon his company
to participate in the Big Horn campaign
When his term of enlis tment expired in 1874
ne enlisted in Company G, Ninth infantry,
at Fort Omaha, and again re-enlisted in the
same company in 1879. His ten years
IN that company were passed at Forts
Laramie, Russell, Sidney, Omaha and Robin
son, with the exception Of two winters and
and one summer in the field. He was under
General Crook at the time of the Custer fight
and was only forty miles away during the
massacre. In 1884 he again re. enlisted in
Company |, Fourth in nfantry, and served two
and a half years, at Fort Omaha and Fort
Spokane, being discharged by order at the
latter place.
Mounted Officer Byrnes enlisted at Mad
lson, WIS.,. IN 1867 In Company A, Fourth in
fantry, and for three years was stationed at
Fort t'etterman, Wyo. His company pro-
tected the mail between Fetterman and
Laramie, and was called upon to run down
John Boyer, the half breed, who murdered
Jim McCloskey, the post guide at Fort Lara
mie, and John Lowry, government team
ster between Laramie and Cheyenne. They
arrested Boyer in Red Clouds camp, but he
escaped from the guard house at Fort Rus
sell and was reca ptured by a cavalryman. He
was hung at Cheyenne in 1871. At that time
Byrnes was sergeant, but he was reduced
to the ranks on account of an untoward acci-
dent. 1tso happened that he was the owner
of bulldog, and this same dog, utterly dis
regarding all military etiquette, one day ran
up against dog owned by a lieutenant and
the mischief was DONE The ieuten ants
dog was not cut out to figure prominently in
chewing matches, and his owner very natur-
ally came to his assistance with drawn
sword. BY rnes knocked the sword from the
lieutenant's hand and was placed under ar
rest He broke the arrest and was forthwith
reduced The bulldogs privileges were not
curtailed in the least, and thus again the
guilty went unpunshed. Bynes was shot
three times while in the service, all Of the
wounds being in his lower limbs and none Of
them SerlOus
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-07
A Remarkable Blue Stone.

Probably the most remarkablo piece
of blue stone ever quarried in this coun-
try and brought safely to tide-water is
now at Wilbur. II is 20 feet long by "A
feet 9 inches, 10 inches thick and weighs
over twenty tons. 1t was taken out of
quarry near Kingston and by its side
the celebrated slab in front of the Van
derbilt mansion in New York, which Is
l5x2O feet and 8 inches thick, is shorn Of
much OF its glory. This monster stono
is so large that it may have to be cut in
two for a buyer, which will detract from
its actual value about 20 percent. In its
present shape it is practically dead
money TO its owners, as it is larger and
wider either way than any sidewalk in
America.