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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-21

AFFECTIoNATE MI CONFIDENTIAL.
/ packed the revolver aud cartridges up.
and early in the morning mailed them by
parcels post to the landlord of the Sher-
bourne house in Dublin. The amount OF
satisfaction which l got out of police at
tentions after that may easily be imagined.
When l went back to Dublin | called on
my friends at the central office and told
them my experience in the west. thanked
them for the police protection | had en-
joyed, told them the name of my own de-
tective as well as those of the others who
had watched me-for after he got drunk
the brown suit was as wax in my hands,
and informed them that the revolver was
at the Sherbourne. Thereat Inspector
Beahe rose in wrath.
"On me soul" he said, "'tis you that has
been making game of us this whilel"
Inspector" said l, the revolver is at
the hotel, but 1 expect to take it to Eng
land tomorrow. Shall I report it again,
then, or will this do?"
"List' to me-" replied he. ""Tis but a
step to Mickey Phelan's, and Mickey has
the best whisky in all Ireland. Come an
lave a drink VII me an I'll nave mercy or
ye."
"But the revolver''-
IF liver ye mention that revolver to me
again III transport We for life. Now, will
We come to Mickey'ss"
ALFRED BALCH.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-21

The Record may leave it u of the K
mornings edition and insert instead: Mr.. :
Blank addressed the house. His remarks
are withheld for revision and will appear
hereafter"
At Z o'clock in the evening, which is
generally about an hour after the adjourn
ment of congress, the real work of getting
out The Record" begins in the great print
ing office. In The Record ROOM, which is
a department distinct from the remainder
of the office, a hundred men have their
coats off. Foreman Pearson, n of the
best printers in the world, and his assist
ant are cutting up great wads of copy. AS
the clock strikes Z eighty-two compositors
step forward one after another and get
their "takes." Soon %eighty-two nimble
fingers are picking up the bright BREWER
types and rafting them into eighty-two
sticks. 1t costs money to set the type for
The Record. The eighty-two men earn
from SO to SIS a week each. They are paid
fifty cents per thousand ems, and are en-
titled to seven hours composition per
night. In each page of The Record there
are, in BREWER, 5000 ems, and the average
throughout, extracts and roll calls being
set in nonpareil, about 5000 ems. This
the cost of each page for compost
UkOu hlOuo 3t, I'LL uuI1uA- -Vu0 ScSSlOu @uoV
ended Che Record reached the unprece-
dented number of II, III pages. The first
session of the Fiftieth congress, the longest
pages of The Record. This session was
twenty days shorter, but filed a thousand
pages more of the daily journal.
Setting the type is only n part of the
expense. Five first-class readers, each with
q boy "copy holder" first go over the
proofs for typographical errors. After this
Is don't the proofs are passed over to five
second readers, who read silently, on the
alert for mistakes Of any sort, particularly
those of grammar, punctuation or style,
which may have escaped the first readers.
Typographical errors are very rare indeed
in The Record. In addition to these ten
proofreaders and their boy copy holders
there are two r~evisers, whose duty it is to
see that all mistakes marked in the proofs
are properly corrected. Reading proof on
The Record costs Uncle Sam about $3.50 a
| week.
Publishing The Record would be a pref
ty and satisfactory task if it were not for
the vanity and timidity of congressman.
There is an old story (Which Foreman
Pearson says is true several times over) of
the new member of congress who had
made his maiden speech, and who not
only wanted to read the proofs but went
down to the printing office and watched
his speech 20 to press, and with great pride
picked up the damp sheets to read his own
eloquent words in print.
The statesmen not only revise the copy
furnished them by the stenographers-''re-
vision" often meaning an entirely new
~speech-but they van proofs sent them
from the printing office. How they do
struggle with these proofs! How timid
they arel They change u word or a SEN
tence again and again, evidently with fear
of their constituents before their eyes.
Late at night they send the proofs back to
the Office, and the sheets which went out
nice and clean are dirty enough on their
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-21

CAPITOL OFFICE OF H RECORD.
return to make a printers heart sick.
Sometimes a senator will demand a second
proof at 2 o'clock in the morning, and
what a howl he will raise if he doesn't get
it!
Waiting for copy and waiting for proofs
is the bane of life in The Record room.
Messengers arc sent out to hurry the
statesmen, but the great men are often
found at dinner or at poker, and they re-
fuse to be distusbed. Some of these states
men have queer notions about ortlIogra-
ply. One changed the word traffic" as
he found it in his proof, to 'traffick," and
when the revise went back to him without
the final 'k" he wrote on the margin:
"What in hades do you take me forP Don't
you suppose I know how to spell ''traf-
ick?"
The Record should go to press at 4 a. M.
1t is often 6 before the pages are ready.
Getting The Record to press is in some re-
spects a different task than that which the
foreman of a morning paper has before
him. In the newspaper Office page after
page may be ''closed up'' and sent to the
stereotyper long before the last 'take' of
copy has been pulled from the hook. The
rush of the closing hour is on but one or
two pages, three at the utmost, and then
two men can work on each page. But The
Record cannot be ''made up'' till every
line is in. 1t is book work, in that it is a
straight story from start to finish, and if
some vain or timid congressman is holding
out his speech, a 'stickful" in length per-
haps, fifty pages of matter are held on the
galleys till these lines can be corrected and
put in their proper place. Only one man
al work ION the stones" making up the
Record, and twice this year The Record has
consisted of 104 pages. The largest Record
ever issued consisted of liz pages, nearly
equal in number of words to a thirty-six
page Sunday newspaper in Chicago or
New York, and greater than the news.
paper in amount of white paper covered.
The Record room is a complete and per-
feet newspaper Office. It has it's own stereo.
tipping outfit and a web press which is
used for nothing else.
The edition Of The Record is about nine
Thousand five hundred copies. All but a
few hundred of these are sent out on or.
der Of members of congress, each of whom
is entitled to twenty-one copies. All told
125 persons are required to do the work,
and the cost to the government is about
100000 a year. The revenue from sub.
scriptions would not pay the salaries of the
boys who hold copy. The permanent edi.
ton Of The Record, to be bound in large
volumes, is printed from new plates.
i though the type is not reset.
No daily newspaper in the world has a
J more picturesque Office than that which
The Congressional Record maintains at
the Capitol. 1t is in a corner Of beautiful
! statuary hall, at the feet of the immortal
Fulton, who in marble sits with a model
Of his steamboat in his hand.
ROBERT GRAVES.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-21

ana Gei:H.l,.t,i thut an entry Of my visit
should he n.;ti". This being done I volun-
tered to leave the revolver and cartridges
where they were until =! left the country.
After some consultation between the Off
Gals | was told that l might take the re-
volver to the hotel provided l would have
it locked up and would report when !
moved it. l drove to the Sherbourne house
and gave the revolver to the clerk to keep
for me.
But the fun l had out of that revolver
and the Dublin police passes words.
Whenever l left the city to travel to Eng.
land l reported the exit and the return of
that Colts navy. Each time. too, I insist
cd on being given a written receipt for my
report. This scheme worked so we'll that
when / went on an excursion to Black
Rock or took a trip to the Vale of Avoca l
lugged that load of iron simply for tho
pleasure it gave me to report it. l think
every inspector in Dublin got to know me
and my revolver, and / think l contrived
to make them all heartily sick OF it.
1t was not until Lord Spencer, then the
lord lieutenant of Ireland, look his trip
through C%onnaught that the cream of the
joke began to get SKINNED. had secured
permission from Mr.. Courtney Boyle, the
private secretary, to go with the party, and
Of course my revolver was to go along.
When I informed the central Office men
that l was going with Lord Spencer, and
wished to report the departure of the
weapon, they manifested some excitement.
They urged that I did not need anything
of the kind in Ireland, and offered to take
charge of it for me. told them l would
as soon go without my trousers as my re-
volver when l was travelling, and they
promptly swallowed this fiction. An Irish
official believes that an American carries q
deck load of weapons all the time. As up
to that date l had not manifested any muir
derous desire to slaughter the government
they could not think of any reason why l
should not carry the revolver. and so I left
on the train.
But we had not stopped at more than
three stations in order that the addresses
might be presented to his lordship before
I noticed Il man in a brown suit of clothes
who always seemed to be near me. Dur
ing the second day l became convinced that
I was the object of the brown suits spe-
cial attention, and that evening, l am
sorry to say, the wearer fell from grace.
Irish whisky did it, and it cost me two bot
ties of Jamison before he went under; but
during the time he became very affection
ate and confidential, and after getting full
directions as to the method of securing a
place on the New York force he told mi
his business was to look after me especial
ly. 1t seems that the addle pated officials
in Dublin had made up their alleged minds
that my extreme openness about the re
volver was merely a blind, and that some
thing-they did not know exactly what
was behind it all. Not only was l honored
by having this detective at my heels, but
myself and my revolver were reported to
all the police along the route. That night
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-21
Some Suggestions for Monuments.

AS the good people Of Massachusetts are
showing just now some activity in the
monument building line, it may not be
out of place to suggest to them the pro-
priety of erecting memorials to such wor.
thies as Miles Standish, Cotton Mather.
John Robinson, John Winthrop, Massa-
soft, Jonathan Edwards, John A. Andrew.
Hawthorne, Longfellow and Sumner.
Nearly all these names are world famous,
but their dead and gone owners do not live
in "Parian marble or enduring bronze," at
least within the limits Of the common
wealth they loved.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-21

. typewriter the copy is brought to the
house or senate, and the remarks of each
laid before him. As rule these reports
are Immediately revised and sent back to
Record o of the government printing
office. 1t often happens, however, that
members carry their copy home with them,
rewrite it again and again, and send it to
the printing Office about 2o'clock in the
morning. The rule Is that when copy Is
received after midnight the foreman Of
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-21

and the policeman gave it to the railroad
porter himself. What was my amazement
when I left the train in Dublin and got my
valise to recognize this man standing q
little way from the %jaunting car which !
had hired. ! began to experience a delicious
sense of conspiracy and felt that my read.
ing of Gaboriau was not in vain.
I drove at once to the Central Police
bureau, and taking the valise in produced
the revolver and cartridges. as well as Mi.
Daly's permit. The inspector in charge
seemed at first a little puzzled over the
case and did not seem to know butte what
to do with it. told my story, produced
my credentials and letters of introduction
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-21
A COSTLY NEWSPAPER.
THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD AND
HOW IT is MADE.

The Speakers in Both Houses of Con-
gress Furnish h Copy and Read IRE
vises" OF 1t Afterward-The Stenog-
raphers-The Record Once.
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, Oct. l3.-One of the unique
publications of the world is now taking it's
annual rest. The Congressional Record,
which will not appear again till congress
meets in December, is the most compre-
hensive, most perfect legislative record in
the world. It is the fashion in this coun-
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-21
he CARRIED REVOLVER
AN ARMED AMERICAN NEWSPAPER
MANS EXPERIENCE IN IRELAND.

the Authorities Allowed Him to Keep
his Weapon Under Absurd Conditions.
A Police Spy Who Succumb to the
Seduction OF Poteen.
Copyright by American Press Association.l
The visit of MI. William O'Brien to this
country reminds me of the time l first met
him in the Imperial hotel in Dublin, when,
in b person of a slender, quiet gentleman
with the name of a student. I saw the
"Firebrand of the Land League" There is
Astory connected with my visit to Ireland
which is wonderfully characteristic of the
methods which Mr.. O'Brien so f1ercely de.
nounced.
It was in 1882 that Mr.. William Henry
Huraburt, then the editor of The New York
World, decided to send me abroad to write
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-12
cart in the parade with its banners inscribed
THE CAPTAIN is WITH Us.

AS the battalion, which marched in finer
shape than any similar body OF military
seen on the streets for years, passed the
PRESS and Argus offices the men cheered
Justify. After the parade dinner was en-
joyed at the United States Hotel, and the
Worcester campaign was over.
Ex-Councilman j. A. MCGOWAN re-
sponded to the toast. the "City Of
Portland" with good effect; Adjutant Gen
eral Sprague replied for the estate Of
Maine; Col. Kimball spoke for "The Mill
tia of Maine." Capt. Hartnett for "The
Visitors" and Gen. Lynch also spoke.
The Worcester Spy of yesterday says;
"They came, they saw and they conquer
ed"
The prize drill is over and the Montgomery
Guards Of Portland, Me-, have won great
victory over the Emmett Guards Of Worces-
ter.
1t was hard fight to lose and a grand one
to win, aud the visitors take back to Port
land not only wealth Of laurel but barrel
Of Worcester money. They came prepared
pile. and they found Worcester men just as
ready to put up as they were. The drill was
for $3.50 side and the entire gate receipts,
and means nearly $1,000 for the victors. The
Portland men have taken THEN victory with
all the noise which goes with such grand
event, and the Emmets have taken their de-
feat phil0sophically. They have been
beaten, but by such a narrow margin that it
is even an honor. Less than one per cent.
was the margin, and, as 1t was on the Mont
gomerys' side, it brought with 1t the prize Of
$3.50 and the box Of tobacco offered by
Holden & Earle. An immense crowd wit
messed the drill, which was as fine an exhibi-
tion of military work as was ever seen in
Worcester, or will be for long. Both COM
panies did great work, but the best company
did not win. The judges themselves ac-
knowledged that the work of the Emmets
was superior to that of the Montgomery
Guards, but that Capt. Regan's mistakes in
executing the programme gave the prize to
the other side"
Why is it always considered necessary to
try and explain how a company fails to win
Isn't it because the other company was the
best? If it wasn't the case they wouldn't
get the prize.
The Montgomerys are to be heartily con-
graduated. They have plucked, fairly and
squarely. for Maine, the laurels of victory
from the crack company OF Massachusetts,.
Much of this success is due to Capt. Hart
nett who has been untiring. The men have
drilled steadily and persistently and have
kept up to high standard the long estab-
lished reputation Of the company.
The reception committee, consisting of
James FL. Tobin, r. McCafferty, B. Nc
Donough, E. E. Philbrook, John Cady, Can't.
|. II. Baker and Capt. M. E. Conley are en-
titled to much credit for the excellent recep.
tion afforded the company on their return
hama
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-12
RocKLAND NEWS.
Knox County Ice mems iuck-The
New Steamship Line.
Especial 10 the Press.l

RoCKLAND, April 1.-THE ice harvest for
the winter Of 1890 has been highly satisfac-
tory for the reapers in this vicinity. The
PRESS correspondent has been taking look
about Knox county and has gathered the fol-
lowing information in regard to the subject.
The Rockport Ice Company has the best
record, having cut 27, 200 tons. Case, Marsh
& Co., of this city come next with 1900 tons.
Cleveland Bros, West Camden and the
Chickawaukee Ice Company Of this city
have cut 1000 tons each. The Knox Ice
Company and Burns & Allen both Of this
city have cut 300 and 5000 tons respectively
The ice In this neighborhood is Of the very
best quality, clear and averaging 10 inche;
In thickness. A part of this has been
shipped as water ice direct to New York
but the most Of it is now stored for summer
trade or awaiting bids.
Captain A. G. Hunt the ROckland agent
for the New York Steamship Company has
received a communication from N. l.. New
comb the general manager OF the concern
which conveys the Information that negotia-
tions have just been closed for the steamship
Valencia. She Is one Of the finest ships on
the American coast.
The ship is Of iron, built in 1888; length
270 feet, breadth "a feet, depth 20 feet and
carries tonnage Of 1898 tons, dead weight
capacity 1900 tons. She will leave New York
on her maiden trip to st. John April %. Ar
rangements have been made whereby the
Atlantic wharf will be her landing place in
this city. The wharf, which Is now in poor
condition for steamboat landing, will be
repaired at once. The job is too extensive
to be done this year and 1t Is proposed
completed. 1t will be fr0nted by granite
wall
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-12
GENERAL WASHINGTON NEWS
The. annsrIess line Iss..s.:s
Canadian Cheap Labor.
Ispecial to the Press.1

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE post offices
at South Otisfeld and North Kennebunk
have been discontinued. An increase of
mail service has been ordered between Cape
Porpoise and Kennebunkport to twelve times
weekly from July to September 80 each
year. This is to accommodate the summer
visitors at Cape Porpoise.
The New Brunswick lime burners are un-
doubtedly surprised to find that their in
trigues against what they have been repre-
seating as a small Maine industry stirred up
the lime burners from Maine to Virginia.
The New York, Maryland and Virginia
burners have representatives here working
in unison with Messrs. Crockett and Shep-
bers the necessity of the rate of 135 cents a
barrel made in the Mckinley bill. Other
states will probably be represented here
also.
Although the plan for the three battle
ships was defeated in the committee of the
whole, the House, when it comes to vote, is
likely to disregard the recommendations of
the committee and pass the clause author
iZng the ships, Many members in the COM
mittee Of the whole voted against the propo-
sition under the impression that it was the
beginning of the carrying out of the exten-
sive Senate plan and having found out the
difference in the two plans may change their
positions on the House vote. So it is not at
all unlikely that the three battle ships will
be built and one of them may be built in
around and it is but reasonable to believe
that Bath, after she has completed the gun
boats, will feel equal to the construction of
anV war VnSSpl
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-12
WAITS OF THE STORMY ATLANTIC.
Disabled Bark and Schooner Sighted
by the ocean Prince
The First Abandoned and No ono
Visible on the second.
One Of the Steamers Crow Probably
Fatally Injured.

HALE -, N. s., April 1.-THE steamer
Ocean Prince, Captain DavfdsS2. from Glib
raltar. with salt for Gloucester, Massx.aI-
rived this afternoon short Of coal. The cap
tain reports having had very tempestuous
passage of two days. Shortly after leaving
port terrible storm came on very suddenly
and washed away number Of buckets, sew
eral life buoys and other movable articles.
After being out eight days the already heavy
blow developed into a regular hurricane. The
waves washed over the funnel and threat
ened to carry away the bridge. One of the
boats was smashed and a seaman had a mar
row escape from being washed overheard. 1t
Is thought he is fatally injured. having been
thrown by wave with terrific force against
the bulwarks. A week ago a bark was
passed. There were no signs Of life on
logged and portion OF her canvas gone the
captain of the Ocean Prince concluded she
had been abandoned. The bark was painted
black with dark green stripe. The letters
"a ID" were all that could be made out on
her stern. The sea was breaking over the
deserted deck Of the bark. Three days ago
a quantity of ice was passed off the New
fOundland coast. A schooner with one mast
gone was sighted. IL could not be ascer-
tained whether the crew was on board or
not. The captain Of the Ocean Prince de-
scribed the weater as something terrible, the
like Of which he never experienced. The
Ocean Prince leaves tomorrow morning for
GlOucester
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-12
TWELVE HUNDRED STRIKE IN GOTHAM.
The Trouble Caused by the Employ
& ment Of Non-unio Men.
Strikers In Vienna Dispersed by the
Police and Hussars.
No Change In the Situation In the
Windy City.

NEW YORK, April 1.-THE executive COM
mittee of the Central Labor Union today Or
dered strike of the men employed in the
building trades in this city belonging to that
organization. Over 1900 men threw down
their tools and left unfnis h work. The
trouble is said to have originated with Paul
son and Eagers Of the Hecla Iron Works.
Greenpoint. The firm recently had trouble
with the Central Labor Union but the mat
ter was patched up and all parties suited.
Yesterday the firm agreed to employ none
but union men In their works. This morning
a great crowd of non-union men appeared at
the works and made application for places.
A large number were taken on. The men
called out were carpenters, housesmiths,
stairbuilders, steamftters, plumbers and Ia
bOrers. Among them were the men In the
big, unfinished World building.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-12
GEN ERAL NEWS.

District Attorney Fellows OF New York Is
dangerously Ill with pneumonia
Bradstreet's reports 157 failures IN the
the same week last year.
Owing to disagreement between the Cen.
tral Labor Union of New York, and the
Greenpoint Iron Works, one thousand men
are out of employment.
In the Superior court, in Boston, j. W,
Sweat mas been awarded $4,000 for injuries
received while employed by the Boston x
Albany railroad.
A special from Dover, y. u, says that
men of Northwood. each purchased two
onnces Of Jamaica ginger at Tucketts drug
store Thursday evening anG drank it. Smith
died In is minutes. Kimball was alive yes
terday morning and may recover. An in.
quest will be held and the ginger analyzed.