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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

tor of electric currents, and the passage OF q
train induced current which rang bell at
the receiving station. Another invention,
by Mr.. Coupan, signals the station keeper
if the lights at the switches are not burning,
or in proper position. M. Lartique has in
vented a signal for notifying the switchman
if the switch does not respond to the auto
matte levers. By various other inventions
it is proposed to set a danger signal auto
matically when rail breaks.
But of all certain, though slow methods,
the "signal staff" now about to be dis
carded at the Ohio Connecting Bridge, is
perhaps the safest. L. E. SToFIEL.
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When a train leaves the Allegheny ter
minus of the new road the conductor re-
ceiveS from the hands OF the telegraph opel
ator the staff. That telegraph operator is
not allowed to let any other train pass upon
the bridge or its approaches until he re-
ceives back IN mis- own hands the signal
staff, be it 80 minutes or half day. The
same rule governs the operator at the other
end of the connecting railroad at Nimick
station on the Panhandle road.
IT'S DONE SLOWLY.
When the conductor of the train from
Allegheny carries the staff over to Nimick
he delivers it to the operator there and that
individual hands it to the conductor of
West-bound train, thus admitting it to the
bridge. At present 1t takes the staff about
three-quarters of an hour to make the round
trip, providing it meets with no delay. Ii
there is delay in either of the yards it may
be an hour and a half returning, or even
longer.
The road from Werner station to the
bridge is such heavy grade that it requires
two engines TO carry up twenty-four cars
and II is full OF curves, even on the ap-
proaches, but the conductor feels perfectly
safe for he knows that he carries in his
hand the surest mark of safety-a signal.
denoung that his train only has the right of
way. Coming from the south side the road
is all down grade, and as many as 60 cars
are brought over by one locomotive fire.
quently.
INTRODUCING THE TELEGRAPH.
Ot course, however, each of the termini is
worked with the usual electric signals in
switching trains from the main lines The
signal tower at Werner station is managed
by four operators, viz: Messrs. c. II. Rugg,
C. Z. Rarick, j. NJ. Mcclure and j. Fra
Eier. But this week the work of construct
ing telegraph line over the new bridge
and its approaches will be completed. and
then the English "signal-staff" system will
be done away with and the whole line will
be worked by the telegrapher's KEY, and the
ponderous levers of the Union Switch ana
Signal Company's system. They are being
gotten into shape in the signal tower at Yer
ner station, as the accompanying illustra-
ton shows. These levers will operate the
semsphore masts as shown In the other cut.
Under this improved system of signals
II is hoped to gain speed in the dispatcning
OF trains. The capacity of the new bridge is
much more than 400 cars per day.
THE ANCIENT SIGNALS.
This thing of signals has tested the in
geuuity OF men of all ages. The ancients
Seem TO have elaborated a fair system of
night signals by torches for military pur-
noses. but in naval affairs the ships sailed so
closely together that orders could be COM
municated by word of mouth, while the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

Judges tongue was partially paralyzed, yet
he made an effort to explain to the doctor
his condition. The doctor remarked to him:
''Do not talk, Judge. 1t is injudiclous, as
it causes your blood to rush to your brain. +"
diving man for the last time he said with
effort: "Doctor, you are quite compliment
tary, for some men talk without its affecting
their BRAIN
The great man would have his joke, al
though he was dying.
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the great structure was opened 1or tralnc
nearly ], 900 cars passed over it.
The stick of wood is called signal
staff" For the time being it took the place
of the telegraph. 1t was resort to the
primitive railroad customs OF Great Britain.
A REMARKABLE RAILROAD.
So pressing was the demand for bridge
like this to supply the missing freight link
around Pittsburg that business upon it COM
menced at once without waiting for tele-
graph wires to be erected. The iron super
structure of the bridge is 4, 05O feet long,
which includes the approaches on either
side of the river. But in addition to these
iron approaches there is 500 feet of trestling
to connect the viaduct with the Panhandle
freight yards at Nimick station on the south
side of the Ohio, and on the Allegheny side
there are several hundred feet more of tres
tling and graded road-bed necessary to carry
the railroad down from the high bridge to
the level of the Ft Wayne Railroad tracks
In other words, so high is the bridge ap-
proach above Preble avenue and the tracks
OF the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago
Railroad that it touches the Allegheny
shore some distance above Woods Run sta
tion, but cannot connect with the tracks of
the latter road until it descends steep
grade as far as Werner station. This road
bed has been hewn from solid rock along
the hillside above Preble avenue.
THE STAFF OF SAFETY.
So that here is a single-track railroad two
miles long, and carrying in proportion, it is
said, a heavier freight traffic than anv other
railroad in the United States, that has been
running successfully without telegraph.
There has been no accident as a result and
not a single pound of freight has been lost.
The signal-staff is striped with red and
white paint. 1t is inscribed simply with
these words: "Ohio Connecting Bridge"
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Making Light of II.

An Iowa woman has named her twin
daughters Gasoline and Kerosene.-Er.
The old mans name is probably Pete
Roleum.-BoSton Commercial Bulletin.
The man who marries into that family will
strike oil.-Cape Cod Item.
We hope the babies will grow up para
fine giris.-Boston Herald.
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turning of a shield from right to left suf-
feed as sailing directions to the several
lines. In modern times signaling between
ships has become indispensable; but there is
probably no department of practical science
in which progress has been slower, and
every so-called system of signals has been
distinctly without any system whatever.
But in railroad signals progress has been
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
Giving Him Courage.

Boston Herald.l
She-How beautiful the autumn leaves
are, George.
He (seeing chance for compliment)-
You are like the autumn leaves, Clara.
She You never pressed any autumn
leaves, did you, George?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

in the day as possible and on every package
being weighed in the Office. 1 don't mind
paying for dampness, but 1 hate to have
valuable mail matter held on a mere tech
nicality.
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How Brainy Actors Save Money.

Actors on the road have the best plan for
putting away their surplus cash where they
cannot get at it easily that know Of. They
get postoffice orders, payable to themselves
in New York, and when the season is over
and they are "resting," as the professional
term Is, these orders come in extremely
handy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
ALWAYS READY TO FIGHT,

characteristics of the Sakalava Warrior of
the Madagascar.
st. Louis Glooe-Democrat.l
The Sakalava warrior is a typical speci-
men of the dark-skinned tribes of Mada-
gascar. These tribes are very numerous,
and people the entire west coast region and
sections of the interior. They are separated
from one another by forests, mountain
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
JUSTICE MILLER'S LAST JOKE.

Bis Remark to One of the Doctors Who At
tended Him at the Last.
DR.. G. Wythe Cook, Washington, was
one of the attending physicians to the late
Justice Miller in his last illness. The
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
In A SHOP WINDOW.
Some of the Novel Ideas in Advertis-
ing Seen in Busy Gotham.
A DREAMY-EYED YOUNG KNITTER.
The Man Who Pulls Candy Behind the Big
Plate Glass of His Shop.
WAYS OF ATTRACTING THE PUBLIC

rCoRREsPoNDENCE OF THE DlsPATCH.l
NEW YORK, November 15,-The shop
windows of a great city present some
curiously interesting sights. Ii you care to
note these get off the Broadway tram at
Forty-second street and saunter down the
former thoroughfare. Do not be in hurry.
Keep your eyes open; not alone for the win
dow shops. but for those too who cluster
about them. Here is a little knot-perhaps
there is something here. Let US see.
A young man sits in the show window
knitting. He is blonde young man, with
pale mustache and dreamy eyes. He sits
upon a low and stubby sofa, one slender
foot upon a small footstool, one slender leg
thrown carelessly over the other slender leg
and ten taper fingers rustling the glittering
steel through the soft wooden yarns of a
house slipper. He looks like young man
"a Sunday school young man, an entire
church sewing society all by himself.
Around him are slippers and shoes Of
various designs
STAR ATTRACTION.
Before him the children's noses are fat
tened against the plate glass, and older
people stop and smile at him from over their
heads-and others, as we do. pause to see
what they are looking and smiling at, and
make cruel remarks about his feet, satirize
his pale mustache and variously comment
upon his labor. But, bless you he doesn't
care. He is an advertisement He sees
you and heeds you not. He kn1ts and knits
and knits, all day long, and in the early
evening. And as he knits he thinks
Wonder what he really thinks
Here is an automatic gentleman in a
cigar show window-not so far away from
the knitting young man but that one sug-
gests the other-in the guise of Cuban
planter. He is about two feet tall and is
more grave and thoughtful in facial ap-
pearance than the other fellow, though he
impresses you as a bad man, satiated with
excesses. He looks to the right, and he
looks to the left, and slowly shutting and
opening his eyes, elevates his brows con-
temptuously, places the cigarette between
his lips, pulls ON it, takes it away and per-
mits the smoke to curl upward from his
wavy black mustache, as much as to say:
"Well, gentlemen, you've stared at me long
enough-what do you think OF me? If you
don't want to buy anything, better pass on. !"
We pass.
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THE SIGNAL STAFF,
A Resort to Pioneer Railroad
Methods at the Ohio Con-
Meeting Bridge,
SAFEST SYSTEM OF ALL,
Enormous Traffic Over this Monster
Structure of Iron and Steel.
FACTS ABOUT SIGNAL HISTORY.
Early Day SemaphOreS and Various I'm
prOvements Upon Them.
AUTOMATIC SWITCHES AND THE LIKE
WRITTEN FOR THE D1sPArcH.l

STICK OF wood, not
more than an inch
thick and one foot long,
has for two or three
weeks past protected
ithe millions of dollars
worth of freight that
has crossed over the
new Ohio Connecting
Railroad bridge at
Woods Run. One day
last week-the 7th of
November-52 freight
trains crossed this new
bridge, or &c each
way. This meant a
good many cars. In
the first "a hours after
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
BY RUDYARD KIPLINC

Being the First Serial the Pen of the Gifted Young
Author of "Soldiers Three" Many Other Popular
Sketches of Arnny Experiences in India.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
CIGARS UNDER YOUR EYES.

Now we are right among the theaters on
''the Strand" A cigarmaker is working in
a window here, advertising a 5-cent cigar.
1t is not surprising that good many people
are curious to know of what the ordinary
5-cent cigar is really made, so this accounts
for the audience usually in front. The
cigarmaker is rather good looking ami quite
jolly, and has his own fun out of this crowd,
as he nimbly rolls and presses and squeezes
and trims the tobacco on his board. Every
now and then he passes the jokes and quIps
back among his fellows. A queer face or
an odd figure in front strikes his sense of
humor at once, and his eyes twinkle and
dance with fun when brace Of pretty
women give him more than-a passing
giance--as they often do. This window
worker never goes out on strike. .-------.
Not far away on the same side is a famous
candy shop, and in its gorgeously lighted
window every evening the candy puller
weaves his sweet meshes around the fem
mime heart. He walks up and down, swing
ing the whitening folds over hook and
then letting the mass go down, down, down
until every breath outside is drawn quicker
for fear it will sweep the dirty floor, then
catching it up deftly and swinging it on the
hook again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

more accelerated. IncompArably the most
powerful medium for the purpose is the
electric current. But before that was dis
covered the basis of the present system ex-
listed. 1t was used though for various pur-
poses.
ALL ABOUT sEMAPHoREs.
Semaphore was the name applied to the
system of telegraphy in use before the ap-
plication of the electric current. Sema-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
A VERY COMFORTABLE INN,

From Liverpool she went by rail to Nor
mantown, quaint old Yorkshire town, with
typical English inn, where one sleeps in a
great soft spacious bed, big enough Tor four,
and eats Yorkshire ham and fresh country
eggs, and falls in love with English life and
English customs, and particularly English
inns.
From Normantown she went on by rail to
Hull. and thence by steamer to Antwerp,
Belgium.
The channel is not a good-natured stream,
as every one who has crossed it is aware.
1t has fondness for cutting up all sorts Of
funny capers, the humor of which most peo-
pie fail to appreciate. On this particular
occasion it conceived the idea of shaking up
the passengers like dice in box and spill
ing them out at random. It shook up our
heroine not q little, and caused her to think
many unchrlstianlike things Of the Welsh
doctor. But the channel can do worse
than convert Christians into heathen for
that matter.
ON FIVE FRANCS DAY.
1t was IL P. NJ. when the steamer docked
at Antwerp. The custom house officers
were too sleepy to examine the baggage, so
it was not long before the invalid and her
friend found themselves walking up the
street in search Of lodging for the night.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

CONES AND LANTERNS.
Before the electric telegraph many gentle
, 1890-05-14

d. D. Streeter & Co. have contracted to
extend the Elkhorn & Missouri Valley
railroad from wildwood to Deadwood,
Oak, a distance OF ten miles. 1t is all
heavy rock work, with one tunnel, which
is $50 feet long. The extension is to be
completed by the 18th OF October.
When tbs line shall have been finished
says the Denver Times, the North western
railroad, of which the Elkhorn & Mis-,
souri, Valley is a branch, will run through
passenger trains from DeadwoOd to Dem
yer. taking about fifteen hours to make
the trip. The route will be over the Elk
horn K Missouri Valley railroad to Doug
las, and from Douglas to Denver over the
Cheyenne Northern and Denver Pacific
railroads.
There is a large quantity of low grade
silver ore in the Black hills that will find
a ready market in Denver and Chey-
ennp.
, 1890-05-14

LARAMIE, Wyo.. May l2.-Charles j..
George has sold his tract of $50 acres east
of the city to L. H. Mitchell, G. II.
Wright, J. F. Howell and o. p. Poole of
Denver. The land is within the city
limits, and includes the addition of East
Laramie and the driving park The con-
sideration was $50, 000. The purchasers
will go into the real estate business here,
and will handle other additions on the
east side. They have also entered into
an agreement to construct a street raj
way through thu principal part of the
city and out to the addition. There is
more prospect now OF investment being
made in Laramie by outsiders than ever
before.
, 1890-05-14
When on the High Seas,

On the rail, on a steamboat, aboard g
fishing smack, or yachting on the coast,
HOstetteters Stomach Bitters will be
found a reliable means OF a~verting and
relieving ailments to which travellers, ma.
riners and emigrants are peculiarly sub.
ject. Sea captains, ship du,tprs, voyager:
or sol burners in the tropics and all about
to encounter unacclimated, an uulccus-
toned or dangerous climate, should not
neglect to avail themselves of this safe
guard of well ascertained and long -tried
merit. Constipation, billiousness, mala
rial fever. Indigestion, rheumatism aud af
~feciions of the bladder and kidueys are
among the ailments which it eradica'es,
and it may be resorted to not only with
confidence in its remedial efficacy, but
also In its perfect freedom from every OBJ
je~ctionable ingredient, since it Is derived
from the purest and most s%alutary sources,
1t counteracts the effects OF unwholcsomt
food and water.
, 1890-05-14
DYNAMOS ARE HERE.
Receipt of Electrical Equipment for
the New Shops.
Opening of Bids for this Years
Shops Postponed Five Days.
About SAC, 900 Will be Expended in
Yard Grading Here.
THE DYNAMos.

One power and two light dynamos, the
new machine shop electrical equipment,
were received by the local supply depart
ment of the Union Pacific yesterday and
at once delivered to Superintendent
Munro. They will be placed immedi-
ate'y. Receipt OF the dynamos will en-
abe the management to light the various
shops with about 300 incandescent globes.
Depot and yard illumination will still be
furnished by the local light company.
The transfer table and travelling crane
are to be operated by electric power.
CRANE M TABLE.
The bill of ladiug for the travelling
crane to be placed in the machine shop
came to hand a week ago and Engineer
Butler now has the plans in his Office.
Girders have been strung and the crane
itself will be promptly added to the work
ing shop machinery upon arrival. This
crane will be one of the heaviest in the
United States. By its aid a locomotive
can quickly be shifted from one end of
the shop to the other. Its lifting power
is practically unlimited.
In a few hours the machine shop trans
fer table can be placed in shape for use.
This is something new 10 western shops.
1t has been aptly described as a ~''longitu-
dinal t~urntable." 1t is a section OF track
mounted on a strong platform, and by
touching an electric button travels up and
down a set Of tracks on either side.
FIVE A EXTENSION.
The time first announced for the open
ing OF BIDS for the construction Of the 1890
edition Of shops was May Is, at Omaha.
The event has been postponed for five
days at the urgent request of eastern men.
Among the bidders are NJ. Z. Keeie,
Geo. East and Mr.. Wilson of this city,
the latter late OF Lincoln, f. NJ. Sharp OF
Kansas City, and st. Joe and st. Paul
firms. Mr.. Est and Mr.. Keefe or a
representative will be in Omaha next
Tuesday, when the bids will be opened.
The result of the figuring will be given
out in two or three days after that time.
YARD WORK.
Engineer Butler is nov receiving bids
for grading to be performed in enlarge
ment and Encouragement of the Chey-
enne yards of the Union Pacific. For
this work there has been appropriate
$40. 600. A large force of men will be
employed here several months. This
sum is for grading alone, the iron to be
laid by the company. Bids are to be
opened tomorrow. The contract will be
awarded without delay and by June ! the
work will be well under way.
, 1890-05-14

The Paris Dix-Neuvieme Steele pub
fishes information received by private
letters from New Caledonia which is
calculated to cause some anxiety. 1t ap-
pears that leprosy is spreading in New
Caledonia in a most alarming name
OF 10000 KanakaS no fewer than 1000
are described as suffering from the ter
rible disease. Till quite recently the
public authorities had taken no meas
ures to prevent it from spreading; but
now two subordinate colonies have been
created-one on Goat Island, in Dumbea
bay, and the other in Canada, mt a spot
known as the Pic DIES Morris. Every in
habitant recognized as n leper by the
rledical commission is to be confined in
one of these leper colonies. The cores
pondent Of The Dix-Neuvieme Steele
declares that this measure has been de-
layed too long to prove of any great use,
and that it is not applied properly.
Three Europeans nave already been at
tackled by this incurable disease.
, 1890-05-14

II is said that in 1871 n Spanish bark
dropped anchor opposite the present town
site of Columbia City. and near the farm
now owned by Hez Copler. There was a
large mount of treasure aboard the
vessel and the crew %conspired to obtain
possession of it. They mutinied, assas-
sinatel the captain and buried the gold
and silver somewhere on the Gopher farm.
Some say that the treasure wa buried
before the captain was killed. and that
the man who buried it mysteriously dis
appeared Immediately afterward. Others
claim that it was buried after the mutiny,
and that the men were frightened away
10y a band of red skins. AT any rate the
mutiaeers failed to find the treasure when
they returned. Others who became nc
Quaintel with the fact that n great for
tune had been buried on or near Copler's
farm made unsuccessful effort to find it,
but always with serious consequences to
one or more of the searching parties.
At II spi%ritualistic meeting in this city,
some five or six years ago, a Spiritualist
claimed to have n revelation AS to the
identical spot where the S~paniards had
covered up their i'll gotten wealth. Sew
eral Spiritualists, reposing confidence in
the revelation, visited Copler's farm, and
after searching several days discovered
a large deposit of small rocks at II depth
of a foot, and supposed the money to be
buried beneath it. While they were at
work removing the rocks one of the men
dropped dead. This created such con-
steination among the rest that the party
abandoned their labors.
No further efforts to secure the hidden
treasure We're put forth until last week,
when another party went on this wild
goose chase. Among them was William
Matthews, who succeeded in locating the
rock deposit. While delving underneath
it he struck Il mas of human bones. Dur
ing the few moments consumed in ex-
amining them Matthews was transformed
into II raving maniac. After that his as
sociates also abandoned the work. Mat
thews was brought to this city on the
steamer Alarm, and is now under the
care of friends, who will cause his re-
moval to the insane asylum should he
not soon recover his reason.-Portland
(Ore.) Cor. st. Louis Globe-D Democrat.
, 1890-05-14

The announcement of Elite Ellsler's APP
pearance at the opera house, Saturday
evening, May 18th, will give great salts
faction to the large class of tneater goers
Of our city who appreciate good acting and
a strictly irst-class performance, and Fife
Ellsl,rs name Is sufficient guarantee for
the quality of the entertainment. She
will present her latest great success, + ].
Swartz' dramatic comedy drama, The
Gorerness. Report speaks highly of it,
not only that it affords the star an op2or-
tunity to display her great talent, but
that it is a dramatic work in which the
interest never flags. 1t is a story of life,
full of trials, sacrifice and persecution
that of a gOverness-such as are going on
around us all the time, told ~truthfully
and effectively. As the heroine, ''Zorah
Warden" Miss Ellsler is said to be
lnimitable.