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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19

4 that have SO long been abandoned to prosser
uses; and another half century is likely to
| witness the rebuilding Of lower New York.
especially that portion of it around the Bat
terry, on scale of grandeur not elsewhere
| equaled in the New World.
| But let US continue our Sunday walk and
observe some of the characters that frequent
this public breathing place. What a motley
and Heterogeneous mass of humanity is in
motionl There are people of all nationahties
and you may hear all tongues. The coIors of
the costumes are Kaleidoscope. Here is a
group of Italians the men in SLOUGH hats and
the women wearing bright red and yellow
shawls and head dresses. Yonder are a lot
of sturdy Scandinavians, most Of the men
with their trousers tucked in their boots. the
women also heavily shod; nearly all fair
haired. rosy checked and substantial looking.
There are Germans, with their long pipes:
Turks, picturesque in fez caps and baggy leg
gins: dark faced Armenians; stolid Mormous
from England and Wales; mercurial French
men, jabbering to their wives and children
about the new wonders around them, and
Irish emigrants galore, who are holding in
formal levees with friends that have preceded
them and planted their tent pins in 'sfree
Ameriky." All these are gratis upon the ma
tional vine that is TO bear such rich fruit in
the future.
The broad serpentine walks that wind
through the twenty-one acres comprised in
the Battery are thronged with still another
class-the families of the work people who
live down town, young fellows and their
sweethearts from the Bowery and other
neighborhoods on the east and west sides of
the city, old men who have lived about here
for a lifetime, and hundreds of children.
Yonder under one of the trees is another
crowd peculiar to modern civilization in our
great cities, and a pitiful sight it is-the
Salvation Army, singing sweet hymn you
might have heard in the family circle in the
days gone by, accompanied now by a mo-
notonous tumtum on the tambourine and the
vulgar picking of a banjo, lot of small
boys, hoodlums and street Migrants mean
time bowling in dersion.
And now approaches a familiar figure,
that of Charles Gayler, the dramatist and
litterateur, one of the old fellows who often
come here to renew their youth. As he says,
it's his ''favorite stamping ground" He re-
members the Battery as it was fifty years
ago, when any fine afternoon it was the OBJ
jective point of all pronenaders, and as the
"reminiscences grow warm, listen to him:
why, that place yonder," pointing to
Castle Garden, ''wbere emigrants land from
all Christendom, was then in its glory. 1t
stood more than hundred yards from the
Battery esplanade, and was reached by
means of bridge over the water which
flowed between Castle William which was
the original name of the fort and the main
land. This bridge was a famous fishing
place, and every day, when the tide served,
every inch of available space was occupied
by the followers of gentle Izaak Walton, en-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19
THE COLORADO MINERAL PALACE

A New and Pleading veotare in tho Re
hibtfieo Bufiding Line
The purpose Of the Coiors6o Mineral PAL
arr, now being erocsed al the city Of Puebso,
is TO show the resources Of the Rocky usnsrrs-
tain mineral regions II - the Grsz assetrps
Of the kind get msGe In the work. with MN
erals. Credit for TIE conception Of the iasa
Is dne Gen r. A. CesD1rua. TIE people u
Pueblo have raised fund of fie go 70 IN
sure strs ssooess Of the proirct The palsoe Is
LA by - fe-s, and the sssdxtorr1m viii have
a seating capacity f $50
The archzfecsursi cssaEn rnay t~ termed
r,ooe<nr1ed Egypssan- The arcsstecx, Mr.. O.
Bsios, is . native q Sweden Tss extrerns
height q TIE bsnsding IL esStsy fet, and ons
Of ia uoS1 Attractive features h tsss ogssn
co3cuDade with which !, Il e7ss~.sy sur
rounded Tbe pillar, ~ksch stand t~ene7-t~o
feet from tns eosss11ng pFot>r. -tli sack BE-
furnished frss 5y toe rsone GnarTf.< of tee
state. Zach w7H be 81 sxes.al d~<sgn, saG
70 two viii be cenSsrecsed from TIRE s.sse
stone
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frsszs IL ha-aDrcd bras r-yre<zxnS Esn-
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19
Sugar and HEMP from Palms.

Some palm trees furnish shortening Juice
The most famous Of these is probably the
Areng, or sugar palm Of Amboyna [Arenga
sacchariferai, which grows in India and the
archipelago. 1t is superb tree, with pin
nate leaves twenty-five feet long, and is as
handsome as tits useful A number of species
belonging to different genera furnish kind
OF hair or finer or coarser texture. Il IS
found IN the fiorouS sheatns of the leaf stalks
and IN the jagged edges of the leaves. Cables
made of the black, tough fbers of the ArenG
are preferred by the coasting sailors of the
Spanish colonies on account OF their elasticity
ana durability; and they are, moreover, very
fine. The hemp palm OF Japan and China
tChanarops excelSa) is available in the hands
OF the industrious people of those countries
fer making the finer broonls, light strings
and thousand articles OF daily use Palms
of coarSer fiber. like the Piacaba OK Brazil
Leopoldina piacabal, furnish material for
blinds, brushes, broouls and the rollers of
mechanical sweepe-S, which are much more
durable than rollers cited with steel teeth
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19
A Pocket Mirror Free to Smokers Of
E7ssIs2;1; \

In Persia IL u rot good manners 70 make
any inquiries a. 20 tne health Of a friends
wife. The Hsersws IA View York city have
forty nine synagogue, asd onnstitrts larger
population than in JERUSALEM ttself, nGmher-
ing nearly 5000. Tss annual pr,oisctsoE q
Chemicals In Franco u ssfd 20 Esvs rsaeAe5
tns great vas1s Of 500. os,Ooo Az sn,~r~
prisinz firm has offered the Brt.i.h govern
rusH. sl28oD year Tor the privilege a
placing g s1ssp aad pill Al rtaSssnezt % It's
postage st~Espss tns Asysrt lz.nsat % b. ps,s
On TIE time The esaosiing . done and By Lhx
same machine. Tiers are 40 barons Ia
Germany. Locouno,tTes in England are zos
supplied wish headlights or h<ls. bad
hgEts are ECf sLssc bsca1ss guards are sss.
tened along the road q. intervals q ons
mil, sH9 10 AviCE ;hlnz ia allowed 20 70
1pSn ths trEcs. bells are unnsp.ssa-r. Il
there are ~ eTo~sEGs e. track B4rsl IL
salsnos 81 ~A,eb ns1<, bat Isl. ~. 90
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19
RoouE S. PIMA. MANuEL ouINrANA.

hOQUE D. PIMA. MANUEL QUlNTANA A.
The delegates, attended by their United
States colleagues, have done an immense
amount of travelling and have been wined
and dined, toasted, Toasted and junketed to
degree that would seem wearisome; but
they protest that they like it, and as they
seemed willing to bear more they have re-
Gently been taken from their labors to New
York city and gone the rounds of the public
institutions, besides enduring much attention
from various clubs. 1t is a gratifying fact
that they win on the popular favor quite as
fast as they advance in admiration of the
country; for they are gentlemen of rare cult
ure and high character.
Part of their entertainment in New York
was quite unique They were first con-
Quoted to the hall of the Normal college, and
welcomed by 1,700 of the young lady pupils.
The display of so much youth, beauty and
intelligence in school aroused the enthusi-
asm of the visitors; various pupils gave reci-
tations in English, French. Spanish, German
and Latin, which interested them still more,
and when an unusually attractive miss (her-
self of Spanish descenO recited in fine style
an extract from a South American patriots
address to his army the visitors applauded
long and vigorously. Then, in response to
the welcoming address by PresidentJ. Edward
Simmons, ~ the Board of Education, Senior
Nicanor Bolet Peraza, Venezuelan minister,
spoke of woman's education in way that
showed he had gone deeply into the philoso-
ply of the subject. In this matter he de-
clared that the Americans had evolved a
new force in humanity, chad completed man
upon the globe and discovered the real pur-
pose of God in humanity"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19
Winters aroa,ns narme,


ave have a sure proof that the sveracs
cold OF the winter Is not 70 great nor extend.
ed over 50 hong period rs IL was twenty
years ago" remarked a hardw dealsr VINO
has been in business since $50 at Il that
we do not sell taif as many pairs Of states "a
in my earlier years. II won't do to attrihute
the decrease 10 tho fashion of roller skating,
nor to say that young people and adults have
given up the notion Of gliding over the ice.
If we had the ice, this generation wouid bs
qusek TO take 10 IL ~ thear predecessor
were. Garry your ufpd back twenty years
and you VIII recall that there were a eozs,n
ice Kinks in and about the city. the largest
and best Of which vas that In old Eat wick
park. Men rented the grounds. flooded
them, put up restaurants and dressing rooms,
and then made money, because there wa
rarely a wtstsr when the ice was not good
for week after week Climatic oondifaohs
have changed 20 that the man who should 20
into il now would be bankrnpted Freezing
weather doaSnt last long enough 70 insure
any profit for the venture. We hardly ssi
one pair Of ssates IN the holiday season now
where we Sold dozen 10 the old days Of fro
zsu streams and ponoh. "-Iklladeiphia In
ouirer
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19

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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19

restoration of her African Indian empire.
And among the most active promoters OF the
restoration is Maj. Serpa Pinto, whom the
British accuse of aggression ON their terri
tory
He first became famous in 1879 by the COM
pletion of his remarkable journey from Ben
guela, on the west coast, to the center of At
RIGA, and thence to Durham, on the southeast
coast; and, as he went through the most
savage part Of the continent, many good
judges rank him as the greatest of living Al
rican explorers. As the Portuguese have ex-
tensive interests on the west coast, he made
this journey as ma or in the regular army
of Portugal, and has since given his entire
time to the upbuilding of Portuguese interests
there.
The king of Portugal has conferred high
honors on him. His discovery and survey
of the river Coando, navigable for GOO miles
and flowing into the navigable Zambesi, was
of the utmost Importance to trade; and on
the basis of it Portugal has since laid claim
to wide tract, embracing Mozambique and
the Shire river district. The extraordinary
fact about Maj. Pinto's journey is that he
employed only native guides and escorts, at
one time travelling for weeks under the guard
of tribe of cannibals, and that he traversed
the continent with none of those sanguinary
battles which marked Stanley's course. The
Portuguese have from the first shown
genius in dealing with the negroes In Africa
equal to that shown by the French with the
Indians in America.
As the British were pushing southwark
and the Portuguese northward, it was but a
question of time when their claims would
conflict. Maj. Pinto alleges that MIR. John
ston, British consul at Mozambique, to whom
he had given safe conduct through the Por-
tuguese territory went inland and excited a
revolt of the Makololo. The Portuguese put
down the revolt and the native chiefs have
accepted the Portuguese alliance. The Brit
ish allege that the Portuguese forfeited
their former claims to the disputed strip
when their traders abandoned it some years
ago. The Portuguese engineers are now sur
veying for a railroad through the disputed
region and the government has ordered two
gunboats to the Zambesi, and is having
small ones constructed for Lake Nyassa- The
British move more slowly, but are apparently
just as determined. The excitement IN Lis
bon is great and other European capitals
look on with much interest. If general
war should start from so small a matter of
dispute, it would be no more than has often
happened in Europe
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19
THE THREE AMERICAS.
THE PAN-AMERICAN DELEGATES EN-
JOYlNG THEIR RECEPTION.

They Visit New York City and Have Top
Royal Time-Important Changes Since
the Conference Conyened-RraziIian and
Central American Changes.
The Pan-American conference bids fair to
rank in United States history as the event
Of greatest Importance in the year 1882 The
year has not, indeed, been a very diversified
one in the United States, as, except the fact
that new administration came into power
and there were more rainy days in the Attain
tic states than for some decades, nothing un-
usual has occurred. So the conference has a
fine neutral background to show it off, and
may be the beginning of new era in Ameri-
can affairs
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19

Of the news which alone could save AK from her
fate,
With his nostrils Ike pits fun of blood to the
brin,
And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim
Then cast loose my buff coat each holster let
fall,
Shook of both my jack boots. let GO belt and an
Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted bis ear.
Called Roland his pet name, my horse without
peer,
Capped my hands laughed and sung-any noise
bad OF good
TIL at length into AK Roland ganoped and stood
And all remember is friends Aoching round
As safe with his head twixt my knees on the
ground;
And no voice but was praisrng this Roland Of
mine,
As poured down his throat our last measure Of
wine,
Which Qhe bursesses voted by common consenD
Was more than his due who brought good
news from Client.
These spirited lines need no Browning so
ciety to interpret them, and the reader, un-
less be be devotee of the psychological
school OF poetry, must regres thai Mr.. Brown
ing has not given us moro of the kind at the
expense of his psychological worries The lat
ter are only fitfood for thinkers and Students,
while these delight millions.
Browning societies began with the one es-
tablShed in London in 1881 This society,"
saws its declaration of its irteutson, rs
founded to gather together some, at lsast, of
the many admirers of Robert Browning for
the study and discussion of bis works and
the publication of papers on them, and ex-
tracts from works illustrating them The
society Will encourage the formation of
Browning reading Clubs, the acting Of
BruwIrng's dramas by amateur companies
the writing of Browning primer, the com
pilatson of a Browning concordance and lex-
icon, and generally the study and influence
of the great poetn
All this may be Iaudable work. but its
results seem vague even if they are ever at
tanned Those thoughts which have achieved
the greatest results have been spoken in the
simplest language. There are people who
find pleasure in extracting beauty by labor.
But that beauty which is not plainly discern
ible by the masses cannot affect them II
can never move uHIltitudes. ESgateeu hon-
dred years ago Que said, "Conssder the iisrr
of the field they toll not neither do they
spin, and yet | say unto you that Solomon in
all his glory was not arrayed lire one Of
these" Here II poetic thought and express
siea TO bring blush 20 the cheek Of one who
has covered what no wished TO ippart deep IN
obscurity and afectation.
beginning 30 write whom he was x years
old, Robert Browning wrote volaDinousiy. I
A ''BtbiocrzPhy" cf hss works from 1893 70
1887 was published in London 10 1889 Tnere |
IS a collection Of ms more popular works, or,
rather, his shorter pieces, IN winch tbs intro
duction states that Browning is there seen at |
his best. The University Of Oxford, in 1852, |
conferred upon him the degree OF d. c. I.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19

deavoring with their rods to empty the sea.
Having served its purpose as castle, it be-
came the principal place of public entertain
ment The price of admission to the bridge
or garden was one shilling Q21s cents,
which entitled the purchaser either to fish on
the bridge or enter the garden, where he could
listen to a tolerable concert by brass band
and in the evening witness the fireworks
and regale himself with glass of ice cream
Yum, yum!
Occasionally some more pretentious en-
tertainInents were given, such as a pyro-
technical representation of The Battle OF
Navarino,' and then the admission was raised
to twenty-five cents, the ice cream being
extra. The reception given in that building
to Gen. Lafayette was the most splendid
thing of the kind | ever saw Gen. jackson
landed here on his last visit to the city, and in
lS43 President John Tyler was also publicly
received here. Subsequently it became a
concert hall, and is famous as the place where
Jenny Lind made her first appearance under
the management of the modest and shrinking
Barnum, when he secured for her an audi
ence of such brilliancy as has rarely, if ever,
been seen in this country. Still later, Kos
suth, the Hungarian patriot, received an en-
thuslaStic ovation in the old fort
The Sunday school anniversaries were
held here for many years. Every 18th of
May AN army with banners composed of
the teachers and children of the various Sun
day schools, marched through Broadway to
Castle Garden, where the exercises took
place. What an exasperating thing it was
to be n big boy on those occasions and stag
ger under n banner at the head of my school.
-a1 bx-s, ! !
at every corner and fly down a by street to
retreat near the docks, where l could invest
my few pennies in 'bolivars' and spruce beer.
Within the garden, which, by the way,
was vast blank space with its surface COW
cred by quartz pebbles, there were no seats
provided for the children, and they were ac-
cordlngly compelled to stand shivering in the
breeze or blistering in the sun for hours. as
the Old Probabilities of that day chose to
have 1t, while we listened to drowsy addresses
or took part in singing hymns with a dis
cordant chorus
Remember old New York, huhl Why. bless
your soul, I'm old enough TO remember when
Canal street was out of town and the sports
men used to shoot snipe in the meadows back
OF st. Nicholas hotel; when Iroie in the first
omnibus That carried people to Niblo's Gar
den, which we then thought was in the corn-
try. AT that time to be on speaking terms
with an alderman was great thing: to get a
bow from Old Hays the chief constable
was bigger thing, and a call on the mavor
Of the city when he lived in the fashionable
part OF Beekman street. now occupied by
chop house, was positive distinction. talked
about IN the family for days afterwards
The Old gentleman spiced his "reminiscences
with many descriptive incidents but there is
not space 10 introduce them here, and our in
terestnla Sunday stroll may well come to an
end FELIX u. be FoNTAINE.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19

In front of these buildings an equestrian
statue of King George III was erected in
Bowling Green, but on the evening when the
Declaration of Independence was read TO the
troops IN New York il was thrown down and
destroyed by the citizens, the metal being
subsequently melted by the wife and daugh-
tiers of Oliver Wolcott, the patriotic governor
Of Connecticut. ''of which the Wings of the
surrounding country We're invited to come
and take freely" Forty-two thousand bul-
lets were made from the statue.
Next TO the Field building referred to is
the Produce Exchange, facing Bowling Green.
These magnificent edifices and others erected
In the locality are beyond doubt the pioneers
of one of those great cyclical movements
sometimes recorded in history, in which are
observable the return to the starting point of
the results that have obeyed certain infln-
ences affecting the progress of mankind In
either words Just as the wealthy citizens of
half a century ago began their movement
uptown for residential ahd business purposes.
their descendants are today gradually reoc-
eupYing. the s.A = o. the old e-s1nial homs
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19
A PORTUGUESE EXPLORER.
Serpa Pinto, Who Knows Africa Like a
Book.

Serpa Pinto, Who Knows Africa Like a
Book.
Portugal is little, but she is extremely
pfucky. In proportion to her area, she has
the most extended coast line of any country
in Europe Greece possibly excepted, and so
her great enterprises have all been on the
ocean. Once she rivaled England, and if the
present trouble between the two nations
grows into passage at arms, the smaller
country may prove no mean antagonist. 1t
is an important fact, too, that the Portuguese
havealways shown moro capacity for rapid
adaptation totropical climates than other Eu-
ropeans, and have been remarkably success
full in dealing with the natives of Africa,
where they have had important interests at
various times since the Fifteenth century.
The Portuguese were the first (of modern
people, to sail around the Cape of Good
Hope, as well as Cape Horn, and for nearly
q century thereafter n 497-15SO they dorni-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19
I'm Fine Voice.

Young Mr.. Waldo speaking of Miss Wa
bash, who is at the pianol-Your friend has
a very strong voice, Miss Breezy, though
sweet. Her lower notes show remarkable
depth of tone.
Miss Breezy IA rival belle1-Yes, Clara has
a fine voice for crying clans up dark alley.
Are you lawn tennising any this summer,
AR Waldos
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19

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