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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-30
Loss in Hotel Furniture and Carpets.

The greatest expense of all about al
MOTEL, OF course, is in the furniture andl
carpets. These have to be renewed in
part every year regularly as tho dull
months of midsummer come around. I
The carpets in the big rooms are taken;
up and cut down and put into the small
rooms. The carpets from the small rooms
are taken up and sold.
The carpets on the second floor arc.
put down on the top floor, replacing
those that are carried away to the secondi
hand dealers.
The chairs and sofas are upholstered
or recaned. Those that have bccomt
rickety with age are sold and new ones
take their place.
1t pays hotel to buy the best. Good
beds, bureaus and chairs will last, with
repairs, for ten years or longer. But
these repairs must be made constantly.
and new goods must be supplied continu-
ally.
If it costs 500, 600 to newly furnish a
hotel with furniture and carpets, it is
safe to estimate the annual repairs and
purchase at twenty per cent. Perhaps il
may fall as low as fifteen, but it is oftencr
twenty-five.
The second hand dealers buy the old
furniture, renovate it and sell it Mt a
handsome profit, for most hotel furniture
was made for use and is of good material.
There are several east and west side
dealers who make an exclusive business
OF buying and selling hotel carpets, and
here, too, there is good profit. Hotel
keepers estimate that their worn out car.
pets bring them in one.quarter their orig
inal cost, and their furniture nets them
ten per cent !.
In some hotels there is no charge to
the employees in the ordinary breaking of
china, but in most big hostelries some
system of compensation is devised. In.
one large Madison square hotel a peculiar
method is in vogue. When waiter, for
instance, drops loaded tray on the floor.
the head waiter OF one of his assistants
hurries to the spot, and scooping tho
fragments into dustpan he throwa-tgi...e
lot into pair of scales and the waiter is
charged certain sum per pound for his
carelcssness.-Ne,o York Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-30

Ike an airy cloud Of white dranery, ard
only by degrees do you take In the de-.
tails of the long white veil swathed
round the forehead and floating down
the back, the loose, wide-sleeved .em-,
broidered jacket over thin white
bodice, the broad jeweled girdie. tho
trousers of flcsh-colored silk and The
dainty little pointed slippers, stiff with
gold lace and richly embroidered With
seed pearls.
just at first they are rather shy Of YOU, !.
but this soon wears off, aud VIXEN freed
from the oyerawing presence of their
portiy lord and master, they crowd around
you and chatter to you like children. ex-
hibiting with childish pleasure the Jewels. L
chains and bracelets which hang on their
smooth necks and round arms rs thickly
"a tinsel on a Christmas doll. The first
thing to be done is to give YOU some
green tea, which replaces coffee in
Morocco. The sprig of mint that floats
IN 1t Is almost as great an addition as tho
lemon juice used in Russia, while the nc.
companying sweetmeats of almond paste,
mixed with sugar aud orange flowers
bruised into honey, are equally novelties
IN their way, and the quaint little handle,
less cups, set like fowerpots in silver
stands, would make any collectors mouth
water.
When you have drank your three cups
the regulation number in Morocco) tho
the ladies offer you long pipe OF east.
ern tobacco favored with rose water, and
express great surprise at your refusal
Then they begin to criticise your dress
which they examine with marked inter-
est and disguised mazement-while ask
ing you all sorts of questions; and when
the time comes for you to depart YOU
you hardly know which to won
der at most-the extreme ignorance
of your new friends or their insatia 3lo
curiosity. Brooklyn Citizen.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-30
The San Francisco Chronicle saws Il,

The San Francisco Chronicle says that.
swhen Stanley first told the horrib !,
story of jameson buying slave girl
aud turning her over to cannibals in or
der that he might have q subject for
: sketches the civilized world refused to
believe the tale. Now, however, oyi-
dence has come in from many quarters
to confirm this story of n white mans
degencracy, and there seems no escape
from the conclusion that one of the
most refined men in the Emin relief
party sank to the level of the slave.
hunting Arabs"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-30
The Longest Bridge in Furone.

King Charles OF Roumanie has laid
the foundation stone of the new railway
bridge across the Danube at Tchern-
avoaa. His Majesty declared that the
new bridge would be the longest in
Europe and would form the shortest
means of communication between tho
North and Black Seas, thus making an
epoch in the history of Europe and
affording evidence of the economical
power CT Roumapia. Moo York Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-30

S a strange story is told of marooned
Dntchman. The crew that put him on
shore at the same time buried an officer.
As soon az they had gone the man dug
up the coffin, tumbled the corpse out,
launched the coffin as boat, and, using
the lid as paddle, overlook the ship,
which was becalmcd. He was pardoncd.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-30

Miss Halle Horwitz, of New York,
Who is heiress to half million dollars, is
unusually handsome and very clever. At
an early age she is said to have won a $50
Prize offered by the Philadelphia Press
t Tor the best story written by school
girl.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-30

One Of the longest electric railroads in
process of construction is that between
Seattle aud Tacoma, in Washington. 1t
IS forty-two miles long.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-30

osman, Of oayallovit, Turkey, is prob.
ably the Oldest man in the world. He
HAS documents to prove that he has lived
16O years.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-30

During the last fifteen years the On
rolled military force of the leading Eu-
j sopean nations has doubled. There arc
now II, 600, 600 men in Europe ready to
be called into the field.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-30

According to the Chicago Herald til,
next House of Representatives will have
the largest party majority in the history
of tho American Congress.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-30

Arthur Il. Pitcairn, son of Canon
Pitcairn, of Manchester, England, has
been cured of epilepsy by a delicate sur
s.gical operation performed in PhiIadel-
phia. His skull was opened and some
splinters of broken bone removed which
had been pressing on the brain. He has
had no return Of the epilcptic symptons
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-30

"Drop me line,n yelled the drown &
ing man. What's the use2' said the
humorist on the dock. nThere,s ndJ
pcstofice where you are going. Life
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-30
There were In operation In the South
! 1890 as many as 1884, 1886 spin
les.

The coss ofmaintaining tho police de,
Ipartments all oyer the United States is;
about fifteen million dollars Year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09

that circumstance has a great deal to do with the
development Of the small racing yacht
One of the most interesting articles that has ap-
peorcd lately on the subject Of yachts Is Lewis Heres
hoes .The Possibilities OF the steam Yacht which
anneared In the August number OF The North Ameri-
can review lie goes into the subject carefully ana me
discussions weight, material fuel ana engines oro
an InstrrIctve lie thinks that nghtness OF construc-
lion Will become and more important FACTOR
i'm construction, and that with means now availaDe'
need OF twenty sight miles hour IS within reach'
Tor n run of five hours. For shorter runs, he say s.
thirty one miles hour have been made by rev tor
nodo boats and whatever that class of vessels can 40
may be taken rs a measure OF the possibilities OF
vacht and indeed more, for in yacht the heavy arm
ment is omitted lie thinks that within ten years u
will be no uncommon thing to build steam yachts nav
inc speed Of thirtydve miles an hour.
I'm tie same article he says that the steam yacnt 70
comfy built for william T.. Hearst, OF san Francsco
which was lately launched at Bristol, II. L. Is intcnaed
70 he the fastest afoat by the of the CONTRACT
She must attain speed of twenty-five miles an hour.
she is 112 feet long and has engine OF eoohoise
mower She is seaworthy enough 10 make voyage W
The Pacific coast.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09

considerable knowledge Of what the paper con-
tained-l had watched the make-up-had Even en-
me no impression that all our news Pertalncu "a
Gghts and fiohters racers and racing, murders anu
mnrderers The crowd there found nothing else
in the paper. and was soon expressing lts lhteI-
est in those phases of life by animated discussions
~ them over the most unthnkablc whiskey.
tool a glass of il with Glasgow Jack, who treated
me with that considerate--shall say fraternal p
kindness our profession ever receives from me-;
lack laughed when asked him about Pete.
Pm kinder stuck on der kid said Jack 'dere
ID, u t,ies nn i'm an I'm gon TO do der right thing
by him | was thnkin it would he der proper
DSSme fer rive der kid some schoolin'. lie KINDER
taxes 10 literary ways-seing poipers, and mat
I'm dom pretty well, an amt got nobody via
string on me sack, so was thinkin meooe couu
send der kid TO one of dem schools in der country
where he'd get away from dis gang ana prace up
a little. and be a lawyer, or somethin' lie
kinder got ter me, ye see, ana m sor'er SOU vi
IT knew Glasgow Jack to be the toughest char
acer in the city, but just the way all the Villany
went out of his wicked eyes when ne spoke 81
Pete has secured him graceiul epI,aph-h
have the pleasure of knowing OF his death.
There must have been some very eNcl.ine
sporting news that night, for me crowd oecaii'
noisy and drunk in discussing H. o
1t was such nasty outfit that should nave
left before Pete returned, but ] had resolved 10
see him through one day When ne ana return,
his papers all sold, Jack motioned him TO- come
over to u.s. but couple Of men at an ADJOINING
table stopped the boy, and one OF them oneTea
him a drink of whiskey. Jack called out; LEI
go, now! lou KNOW L uon "aNo AN'N
aThe man laughed in an ugly way. and replied,
You are getting too pious, Jack If tiie klns
no so funny about him The man, by quick
grip, opened Pete's mouth and threw some whisiey
in it. -. IL. ho,oro no
Jack sprang at him and hit him before ne
could rise The mans pistol whipped out.
and he pulled with dead drop on Jack, but Just
10 he pulled, Pete jumped in between them ana
cook the ball in his head
Every one was silent and motionless for sew,
eral seconds, as Jack caught poor little Pete ana
laid him down, with woman's gentleness, on the
sawdust floor. -,
Suddenly, with lightning. swiftness; Jack
pulled and shot. The man fell backward; JACK
stood over the body, and with horrible calmness'
II was kneeling by Petc's side when his eyes
opened He whispered something, and ! put my
ear to his lips When ger write it up he muir
INJURED, be sure an say me side-pardner never
pulled his gun It'll after de odder Teller had de
drop on 'imr"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09

coprtc arc laid ont on the western sde survey the IN
field the onarter-mile circular track, the bleaching
boards against the fence on the brotherhood Park
side and the clubhouse and dressing rooms, tat meet
the view when looking toward the river ana see Ill
vour minds eve the splendid picture that Will greet
vsitors on Metropolitan District championship day,
sentember IT, or at the formal opening of the GROUNDS
with the carnival on september 10, winch Will peeih
at O'Clock in the afternoon, winding up WIN hre-
works somewhere around midnight, or at the great
Amateur Athletic Union championships of 1892.
Then will be scenes TO put to shame the fondeSt
dreams of the athletic enthusiasts of less than ten
wears ago From grand stand and carriage tops lroi
bleaching boards and field, from "Dcadhead" hill and
from housetops countless thousands Will watch the
contests of speed, of strength and Of endurance. II
Amerca has come boldly the front in horse racing,
with Monmouth Park and the Morris track its grand
stretches and its fabulous clubhouse and grand-stand
has she not also taken her place In the fore when
such athletic grounds Manhattan Field are open
right on the island within easy reach Of every one
II 10 600 people can turn out at games In London
m 500 Remington perform, In spite of a Naval ex-
bihIton a German Exhibition and reception to the
German Emperor II % 900 people pay in England 70 see
an exhibition of the Stafford arers, what hrongs
not be expected at the final OF the college foot
ball championships perhaps game between the
blocband yellow shirted men of Princeton and tho
representatives of Yale wearing the blue, here
on THANKSGIVING Day Thirty thousand or 10000
can certainly witness such athletic trumphs in COM
fort for not only is the wide terminus of the Metro
poltan Railway right at the gates, but only ten blocks
below are the stOre-yards Of the West Side system,
with its hundreds of cars ready on tap
splendid as are the athletic arrangements, for which
the Manhattan Athletic Club took upon Itself the
pendturc of $4,000, great features of tho new
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09
MUST THE BLUEFISH GO?
From The Boston Globe

From The Boston Globe
Are the buensh deserving usi The bootmen OF
SHAY that this gamy FISH Is not In IL
this year ExPFesidcnt Cevelands pretty boat chafes
AT her cable mpatently from day 10 day, on the Gr1y
Gables waiting for the fish 10 come up the bay. And
the theory that the ghosts at onset are keeping the
Gsh away will not work. for they arc Just wary OF
the Methodists at Oak Bluffs. -
A few years ago when the waters Of the south shore
were alive with bluefish great shoals OF menhaden
we're seen everywhere. Finally was discovered that
these feed fish could be probably seined and ground
into oil Factory after factory went up along the
shores. In few years the depletion had become SO
great that many Of the factories went up
A few struggling shoals OF menhaden yet remalll'
and where these found the buefsh congregate.
will ere long be eXtermlnatcd'
N Is 10 be feared that nothing but ground hsh
will remain Tor the ardent angler along coasts.
II is regrcttabe drift Of things, for half OF seaside
health and pleasure departs with the gradual dsap'
pearnnoe Of tho maekercl and blneneh .
Vet II Is an memorable law Of life that one cannot
eat his cake and have Il too 10 Is for the legislatures
10 saw whether greed shall finally abolish the occup-
ton OF the handlner II they neglect 10 act decls
lively in the near future there is growing evidence that
their action will come too late
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09

b,ns unapproached BY any track IN this or any oVer
country. 49,. 49,
The clay and cinder quartcrmile path has thrown-up
rn NJ between three and four feet in height on the
outside And these turhs arc not Of the short and
INADEQUATE type commonly SEEM but have long
r,duai inclinaons, which actually lift the nying
clers right around and speed them on their Journey
pocord breaking In the various bicycling classes may
- confidently looked for at the first great bicycle meet
yo,vY York has seen, which is TO be hed nero on
sentember &c. The track is egg.shaped, II might DC
lid 10 be lle-shaped like the celebrated Williams
,rottng track at Independence Iowa. Ihec was
GOOD deal OF discussion over the dimensions OF INC
tcIf OF course as soon as 1t was decided to move
hack the fence at the western end Of the field some ooo
feet and drill out the solid rock twenty-five yards ln'o
the cliff which is the support or foundation OF Eose
comb Road it possible to have constructed
third-ofa-me track which would nave nvalied th'
ono of this distance at Montreal II was finally ue
cided though, not TO have the stralghtaway anu o
crcuiar cross, IL being thought better 10 haNe v
Straight go yards spur of the southeastern corhcl
81 The circular somewhat after the plan Of the LONDON
Athletic Clubs combination. ,, l.. ha
overcome to construct what is going 70 be perieGe
combination OF tracks and superb inhed ~ oi2 IT,,
had the chi to be cut away from the SoSndaon
for the ground here Is less than two reef apoo S
high water mark, and If thousands of cart loanS m
earth d na he Shower pend The Maintains
anxious for boating and aquatic facilities 9Ho sc
81 The Harlem River instead of floating their IN IN
field although this may be done In winter 10 s
icct1d clay and cinders have been usen ~
form the circular and straight tracks ana t, have
Geld has been lld In foot. beside which IL VIII nay
az soon as the heat of a New York August Is past,
Is 900 square feet of soddng. This sod Robinson i
CONTRACTED for at his old headquarer Phce. c and
the depression for $500 cubic yards OF hill haa 70 No
ran,oved from the southwest corner to MAKE Ioopl
Tor the lawn tennis courts and the carriage stand
The 220yard traghtaway which starts %as o inn
aqinable course joining the circular where the ater
turns to the finish, 1t gives that track an 10
have these paths absolutely level and exactly cor,
rect as 10 distance. No 220yard record breaker anu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09

place will be the provided for the comfort and
convenience Of visitors. one will be special refresh
ment stand in charge OF the clubs steward, Michel
Myer who will take charge Of this department at the
grounds day like september 26, providing such
an entertainment il carte may be had at the club
house at Forty iifth-st. and MadsOnave. There Will
also be fine cafe then the carriage drive Is to be
graded one and pretty view a will be furnished
will be the array Of carriages and dfags which viii
take their stand in the neghborhOOd Of the lawn tennis
courts gala days. The dressing rooms have not
been forgotten by any means and Manhattan Fields
saddlng paddock" will compare with Morris Parks as
favoraby do It's other arrangements Not only have
ample lockers and every possible facility been pro
vlded for athletes training competing at these
grounds in the clubhouse at the northeastern corner
of the Enclosure. but there is a swimming tank five
feet deep.
Now. 70 be more explicit the big double track. the
circular and the 22Oyard sra.ghaway arc the parcu-
lar prdes of the director Of bicycling Charles Perry,
and the clubs athletic trainer, James Robinson Rob
lnson has had charge Of the entire alterations and
struction, Mr.. Perry only stepping in at the last
moment TO be sure that his beloved bicycIers had
rather more than fair change I- thrown-up turns or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09
A SUPERB ATHLETIC FIELD.
THE MAyHArrAY,s SPACIOUS GROUNDS.
SOME OF THE FINEST PATHS IN THE WORLD

SOME OF THE FINEST PATHS IN THE WORLD
HOW THE WORK HAS BEEN DONE.
aMonhattan Field in letters foot and one-hat
hitch is the title clear on the new and royal patuc-
cround Of amateur sport which the great Manhattan
.hiotc Climb has now all but completed on the double
A,o,, Mot formerly the Polo Grounds, ADJOINING
proherhood Park at hundrcdand ifty-hith-st anu
richthave Passing through any one OF score III
&C. entrances the visitor at once gazes huge In
geId bounded on all sides by the level stretches ana
thrown up curves of the finest quarter-me foot ana
hIcvcc nab in the world upon straightaway twenty
tvro feet wide and 200 yards long; upon footoai
0eId n rifle range baseball diamond lacrosse neIu
COLLECTION of lawn tennis courts, fine carriage con-
Course and crand-sand and blesching-board capacity
for 10000 spectators. Everything Is complete no"
with tbe exception of the sOddng Of the inheld ana ue
LAYING OF It of into the spaces planned for such ne"
COMPETITIONS as putting the shot, throwing the hammer
,h.or,nc thc fifty six pound weight, high jumping
broad jumping and pole vaulting and the moving BACK
NJ he curved portion of the grand stand to the fence
at ono hundred and-hfty -ffthst.
Here on this royal battle-ground, which Is not only
the one athletic field In the metropolis but beyohu
Doubt the finest in the world. with the possible excep
+ion NJ the London Athletic Clubs ground OF Sanforu
Bridge at which there is a 2s0yard straightaway VIII
he fought every kind Of amateur athletic contest
iuocnablc ON this field will meet all manper OF
athletes from the slender lightly built sprntefs Oh .e
TYNE Of Lon Myers to the rugged giant of the bulldog
proportions and Great Dane OF h'sulh eiNo Vi '0 ~
ton football man Janeway.
The Tribune shows herewith diagram OF inc nc"
grounds With it one almost take his pace OH
the big grand stand, gaze down the Deep lever "o
twenty" TO the cliff at the northwest corrr honi
tich TONS of solid rock have been drilled and 0laSted
a. give n suficency of room for this record-bnanng
track; look toward the space where the ia"h'eiin'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09
THE WOAiEN'S BATHS AT POMPEIr

From The london news.
Two important monuments in Rmpeii have now
been opened TO the public, after remaining closed for
the last thirty years because they used as de
poSits for objects OF art They are the Temple ded
Gated TO Augustus and the Womens Baths The lat
ter is the only building in Pompeii IN which are pre-
served intact without any restoration the ceilings OF
the rooms and the pavement Of the tepda1um IS also
intact. In the Temple only one Oblect-but that OF
great value to arts preserved. the altar on which
sacrifices offered up. 1t Is of marble perfect In
all its parts covered with rich has relics, represent
ing the different forms and Incidents OF sacrifice. On
one side Is represented virgin scattering incense ovcr
the altar, while the sacrhcal bull Is brought up IN
procession OF priests and musicians. ON the other
Side are sculpturcd wreath OF oak leaves and two
branche5 ~ laurpi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09
MAMMALIAN. FIELD

neither runner nor bicycle nder on the 44O-yaN
"fonr lapS To the mie-will ever be thrown ont for
short distance or down hill" In the course Both
have been measured and surveyed, and found 10 De
nc level as die and correct to a hair Just how good
the tracks are is apparent In the mention OF their
widths The Manhattan Field tracks are twenty-five
feet vide while that ut the celebrated Berkeley oval
Is only an eighteen foot 1t entirely probable
that the enterprise Of the Manhattan Athletic Club In
reitl1g M these splendid grounds and tracks Will be
mot by tho New-York Athletic Club with prompt
filling in of the space between Travers Island and the
maitland so that IL too may have a 22O-yard In
stead of only a 1OO-yard straightaway.