The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-01
THE GREAEsr OLE sArE DOORS.

Davis, visited Mrs. Dew in her New York
home.
THE GREATEST oE SAFE DOORS.
One of the largest, if not the largest,
doors in the country, was hung on the Man
haitian Savings banks vault last week. It
weighs eight tons, and has thirty-six bolts
that hold it when locked. This ponderous
door is so nicely balanced that 2-year-old
child can open or close it. 1t required the
services of sixteen men, an engine and
several jackscrews to get it in place, but
the workmanship at the shop had been so
well done that two men fitted and finished
the job in three hours.
1t was from this bank that Jimmy Hope
and number of his pals stole over half
million of dollars worth of United States
bonds in 1878. Hope has no chance at this
safe.
ACTRESSES DIVORCED FROM THE STAGE.
Mary Anderson Navarro will be one of
the most prominent guests at the balls Of
the Patriarchs and Colonial danes.
Out of the somewhat considerable list of
actresses who have married rich New
Workers, not more than one or two have
attained the bliss of entering the fashion,
able circle, which makes Mary Anderson's
success the more brilliant. The best stage
match heretofore, from the society stand
point, was that made by Annie Robe, who
left Wallack's company to marry Daniel
G. Griswold. The Griswolds are of the
inner circle of Knickerbocker society.
Miss Robe was a Scotch GIRL whose mother
was an actress. There is no shadow of
doubt about the position Miss Anderson
has obtained. The Navarros are rich, Of
noble extraction and entirely an fat in
society Her husband is conspicuous in
the dancing set.
The size of this climax can only be an.
preciated by those who knew Miss Ander-
son personally in the first years of her
career Reams have been written to per.
suade the public that her extraction and
breeding we're gentle, but the fact remains
that ten years ago, and even less, she knew
next to nothing about the manners and
habits of people with even ordinary social
advantages. Her first photographs wit
ness this without any other proof They
show the same beautiful face that has since
made her fortune, but In posture, express
sion, and in the way she carries her dress,
they betray lack of breeding.
1t is just ten wears since / CHANGED to be
standing one day at the counter of store
in Concord, III. H., when Miss Anderson
who had played in the city the night be-
fore-and her mother entered and asked
for gloves. Mary selected some isle thread
ones and her mother objected to them,
saying: Ladies don't wear Isle thread,
Mary" The daughter hesitated, they both
looked doubtful and anxious, and after
some debate on the point the order was
changed for kid. The incident shows how
little they knew of the simplest of dress,
and also points out the direction of their
ambition, which has always been social
rather than artistic. Art has been to them
a means and not an end.
TYPE-sETTING MACHINE POSSIBILITIES.
The fact that many Of the great news
paper offices of the country are about to
use the new type-setting machine, indi-
Gates, to many minds, a revolution in the
production of books and newspapers
almost as great as that made by the
sewing machine in the production OF
clothing. Many printers there are who
fear that the art of typography will be
entirely swept away and that IN place OF
human setting machines, there will be
instruments that will do double the work
of any man at, perhaps, one-third OF the
cost.
Practical printers, those who regard
Typography as an art, are not enthusiastic
| over the work of the machines While II is
probably true that several of the big dailies
| IN the country intend 10 give the machines
a trial in the near future, it is equally
| fact that one great newspaper in New York
city has decided against them. The adop-
| tion of the machine means the sacrifice OF
| the typographical appearance OF the paper
| Nome OF the machines can ser IN more than
| one kind Of type, and this is IN ITSELF great