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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-16
THE RUSHING SKIRT.
An Agreeable Sound Which Accompanies
the Fashionable Woman.

An Agreeable Sound Which Accompanies
the Fashionable Woman.
a couple of elderly men were engaged
in conversation in front of leading
hotel the other day, says Philadelphia
paper when fashionably dressed
woman, who, from the several small
articles in her hands, evidently had been
shopping, approached Suddenly stop
ping in the midst of his talk, the taller
of the two men bent his head down as
If to catch some sound. whats the
matter?" quickly inquired his CON-
panion. "Arc you sick2" mo. ShI
listen"
AS the lady swept past soft, low,
rustling sound was heard, like the crush
ing Of soft silk in ones hand 1t was
pleasing sound.
"Wondcr where that noise comes
FROM" curiously inquired the short man,
hardly before the fair shopper had
passed out of earshot-
why" explained his friend, "it
came from that lady's skirt 1t Is
woman's latest fad-a rustling skirt.
This sound is produced by strip of
some sort of silk importation, and Is
put on the lower edge of the undersl1irt-
When the feet touch it the noise is pro-
duced. 1t is European wrinkle. was
across the waterwith my wife last sum-
mer, and that's how got to know about
it. In Paris and London it's oil the
craze. Why, often over there would
watch women walk on quiet spots by
the hour TO hear that soft low, silkcn
sopudr
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BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS.
BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS.
The Iron Belt Building and Loan
Association
OF ROANOKE. VIRGINIA.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, ss5, ooo, 900.
OFFICERS:

PREsIDENT-GEN. FITZHUGH LEE.
Ex-Governor of Virginia.
1sT VICE-PREsIDENr = PEYTON T..
TERRY, President Roanoke Trust,
Loan and Safe Deposit Co.
I'D VICE PRESIDENTS. w. JAMESON.
Secretary and treasurer Roanoke
Trust, Loan and Safe Deposit Co.
SEcRETARY-JOHN OFT, late Cashier
City Bank of Richmond
TREAsURER-J. c. DAVENPORT, Cash.
Ter Commercial National Bank, Roa.
noke, Va.
GENERAL CouNsEL--IIon. c, a. Nc.
HUGH, Counsellor-at-Law, late OF
Charleston, S. G.
GENERAL MANAGER OF AGENCIEs-D
b. JESSE, late of Lexington, Ky.
GENERAL TRUsTEE-IIoN. HENRY S.
TROUT, President First National
Bank, Roanoke, Va.
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY = Roanoke
Trust, Loan and Safe Deposit Company.
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THE CITIZENS BANK OF ROANOKE
has been succeeded by THE CITIZENS
NATIONAL BANK OF ROANOKE, with a
Capital stock OF 100000. With in
creased capital and connections with
the largest banks in the United States,
we desire to say to any persons or cor
pora tions wishing to make change in
their accounts. or to those opening new
accounts, we Will extend every accom-
mediation consistent with sound and con-
scrvative banking, promising that moth
ing reasonable will be left undone by
us to please our patrons We will ap-
preciate any account, large or small,
with which our friends and the public
may kindly favor Us.
INTEREST PAID ON TIME DE-
POSTTS. MARRIOTT
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KEEP YOUR EYE
This Column and Find Out
Where the Bargains Are.

Seven rooms, Franklin road. an elo-
giant bargain. First class in all respects,
$500.
twenty-five feet on Robinson street
near Roanoke and Southern depot at q
sacrifice. Don't fail to see this
House of rooms on Center street
near Park, $1,000, 300 cash balance on
easy terms.
Fifty feet on 9th ave. Something
handsome and cheap, Sl.SOO.
House and lot corner jefferson and
4th ave. II. W., cheap, ''see this"
% feet on Commonwealth ave. next TO
Bse Hive, 25 per cent. Off If sold at once.
$4,000 will buy Salem ave. lot 5Ox2OO,
between 7th and Sth streets.
13f feet within one block of r. Il S.
depot, S75 per front foot-improved.
Ask us to show YOU our houses on the
installment plan.S200 cash, balance easy.
Will give some party with $500
chance TO double his money in six
months in business property in New
Town.
The above is only partial list of the
many bargains we are now Offering
F. w. CRAIG & CO.,
No. 10 Salem Ave. S. w. Cup stairs)
marl2-Gm
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THE ROANOKE DEVELOPMENT CON-
pANY.

Another of the valuable industries Sc
cured by the Roanoke Development
Company is the Virginia Blanket Mills,
manufacturers of wooden blankets Of all
grades, spinners of yarn, and scourers
and sorters of wool. These mills will
secure the pick of the fieeccs of South
west Virginia, where the sheep-raising
Ind ustry is developing more rapidly and
re proftably than in any other part
of tho United States. Manufacturers
of fine cloths should seize the opportu-
nifty to locate in the midst OF wool
raising country and close to their yarn
supplies. For further information adj
dress,
ARLINGTON GiLPIN,
General Manager Roanoke Develop
ment Company, Roanoke. Va.
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RAILROADS.
N 4 s : Wy RorfoIksWesternR.R
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAY o. 1871

SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAY p, 1891.
wEsrBouND, LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY.
':55 q. m. Arrives Radford 9:a5 a. H., connecting
nc Radford with New kivcr branch lcayiuS
en- daily ut ai5 n. m, Bristol ll5 p M.
lO;lo a. m, Arrives Bristol i:,0 y. m Stops nj
all stations. f "
G:25 p. m, Arrives 11:a, p. M Connects et Rad
ford with New River branch leaving Radforti
e:o5 p. m. daily for BluciicId and PocahOntas
100 p M daily for Radrord and intermediate sta.
tions. ~
NORTH AND EAsTBouNp. LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY
G:So a. NJ for Lynchburs. Petersburg and Rich.
mond. $3.50 ~
1850 p: nj. for Hagcrstown, HARRISBURG. Philade,.
phia and New York
l2:l5 =. III. daily for Richmond and Norfolk.
5:3o p. IN. daily, Arrives I.ynchhurg 7sO d. m.
5i0 p NJ for Shenandoah.
ll:20 y. III. for Richmond and Norfolk.
ll:2o y. m. for Harrisburg. Phiadclphia and New
York, and Washington via Shenandoah June
tion and Is. " o. Il. H.
For all additional Information apply NJ ticket
Office or to * Il {IEVIIt
General Passenger Agent. Roanoke Va.
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LIABILITIES:

Twenty water bonds OF $500 each. 8.
1ntercstou same 10 date. July l. 1871
Forty-cight Improvement bonds Of
$500 each. ............ ...........
Interest on same To date.
Twelve public school bonds, 500 each
Interest TO date.
Excess OF resources Mt estimate value
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RESOURCES.
Cash in the Farmers Nations, Bank

July LIST 1871 .....................S s332.iG
Water works with land conveyed $50. III. So
One-half interest in town hall ......... 2,MOu0
Fire apparatus, alarm hell and clock E. 100000
Poo house and furniture. ............. 1.20OOO
Stable, scale and hose house. ........ 13i0.O0
Ohicc, safe, furniture, books. ........ 1JO.U0
Mules, carts, wagons, harness, street
lamps, street tools, plow etc...... 2,20N.O0
Six town lots and two quarrics. ..... t,5lMOJ
PERSONAL accounts ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $3.50
Public school building Crown or Salem
r. school district. ...;.............. r,c00OO
Twenty-one shares Salem Improve
ment Companies stock: .......... a,o.oo
Solvent taxes $3.50. uncollcctcd. 395 gS
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S''',5l2.q

Respectfully submitted.
THOMAS X. BOON. Trcasurcr
Approved: TuOS. J. PRES ron, Finance Com.
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The Times for one year and your choice
feither tho Waverly or Dickens lcvels
complete.
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THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK

r % a y OK f, VA
CAPITAL STOCK, 500, 600
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CT. w. Sislcr. aO1 second street n.
Roanoke. Telephone 100. Undertaken,
Embalmcr and Funeral Director. Calls
answered in city or country. Full stock
of burial cases, plain, fine cloth and
4rapcd. and robes, sbr"vds, etc.
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SALEM
sALEM's FINANCES.
The Annual Statement Of Treas
urer Boon.
ROANOKE TIMES BUREAU,

The following is the report of Treas
urer Thomas r. Boon, of the town of
Salem, of all monies received and dis
bnrsed showing liabilities and resour-
ces;
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-01
HARVARD MUST WIN
That is the Basis of the Foot
ball Controversy.
THE COLLEGE AND THE TIGERS
The Team from Cambridge Must Either PIsy
Princeton ut a Disadvantage or
Risk Losing to Yale.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct. Ill Special cor
respondence of The SUNDAY HERALD. =
Aside from the tennis tournament and the
fall track athletic meeting, football has
been taking the attention OF every man
who has any interest in athletics at Cam
bridge. The team is at work daily with 8
vigor that ought to produce better results
than It has as yet But The question of the
moment is whether Harvard shall play
Prluceton. The decision for or against a
game in ary one year cannot put au end to
the controversy. II involves 700 much. 1t
reaches forward into the future. In order
to understand the feeling Of the university
oae must review the case as Harvard pre-
seEts Il in her own counsels.
II has always beer and will eyer be the
ambition of II Harvard team 10 beat Yale
IN Fair snG equal ga;n., and the two great
universities are natural rivals, and from
the earliest history IN athletics they hive
been tst against one another by al the
causes that have made them tho acst
prominent universities ot America.
There is n doubt, on the other hand, that
q game sach as that played oy Harvar.i
against Yale and Princeton .s a gres.
strain apon he men, and the danger Of
temperorsry injury or OF using up The
members os the team for a fortnight or
more is SO great that there should a,
least be from three &c four weeks interven-
ing between The games. Harvard has
agreed 10 play fsie or the Saturday ps-
fore Thanksgiving in each November for
four years. II Harvard should play
Princeton on the preceding Saturday, the
team could NOT pc In az favorable condition
for play with Yale ns II Princeton had aot
taken large part Of its strenKth AWAY.
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The result is, 1t is being proved conclu-
siveiy that Harvard's chances for SUCCESS
with Yale are materially injured by play
ing football with Princeton. One football
game, such as that between Harvard anC
Yale, is quite enough for one month, and
two months is only too short time in
which TO prepare the men for it,
These arc the reasons why the sentimen.
at Harvard has been and is against the
game with Princeton. When the sport
was iass perfected the objection did not
appear: new 1t grows more important year
by year. For tho present year the rule of
the athletic committee that Harvard shall
act play cut Of New England prevents the
game, out II Is the serious opinion that
Harvard must devote all energies to beat
ing Yale. That is the real cause, regard
isss OF faculty ruling
With regard to the team itsel. there is
much 90 be said, but IL is not as eaocurag-
ing as might be. The team is left with FIVE
consecutive places Ia the rush line to fill
from last years vacancies EDd two places
back CT Aha line.
1as coaches are old men, Messrs. Stew
art ard Adams, and they have the exue-
riencs which may enao.e them to FL The
gag with new men. 1t Is difficult work
however, for it Is necessary to lind among
the new players some who combine great
weight and greater activity. Here the
present material is sadly wanting. There
are some men who have the activity but
want the weight and vice versa, but three
weeks a. tne close of the season can do q
great deal to improve well-grounded
team. and 1t Is on that that Harvard must
rely for success.
AS far as can be seen now, barring acct.
dents and unforeseen contingencies, the
team will be made up somewhat as fol-
lows:
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when the team had been trained fully to
know their game, and that it may be lost
or won not on its real merits.
This, we say, appliss to one team as we'll
as to another; but in the first place II in
iures the whole game by depriying the
teams of satisfactory training and in
struction, and then it actually favors
Princeton, owing to the systems of train
ing adopted 81 Cambridge and Princeton.
THE HARVARD POLICY
is now and has bean for some years TO
train men as thoroughly as possible IN the
rudiments of the game during the early
part OF the season, and to add the team
work and all the system Of the game at the
last point. Princeton adopts the other
plan and edDcates her men day by day in
the whole game. Princeton, therefore. ia
In a far better condition to play on the LIST
of November than Harvard, aud she always
has distinct advantage for that reason II
the game comes al en- early date.
If, 10 avoid these difficulties, the Prince
ton game IS played after the contest with
y aio has been decided. the interest falls
away to such an extent that II Is difficult
20 keep the men In good training. 1t hss
been proved by experience that Princeton
must be played first If SUCCESS is to be
hoped for.
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have cut q slit from the piano which
rented in Franzensbad, as it was used
previously only by

have cut a slit from the piano which
l rented in Franzensbad, as it was used
previously only by
JOHANN STRAUSS, THE GREAT WALTZ KING
of Vienna. OF course we are anxious to
see him. The lady in whose house he lived
told Is that he was very nervous, and fire.
quently in the night would write music on
the bed linen.
Whatever may be said of Vienna by the
proud Berlinese. she certainly is ahead of
the other in the beauty and architecture OF
the Ring strssse, said to be the most
beautiful street in the world. It is a new
street, laid in place of the removed fortifi-
cations and girds the entire city proper.
Most OF the magnificent public buildings
of Vienna are located on this street. The
Suhn house, built by the Emperor in place
of the theatre that was burnt, where many
people lost their lives few years ago. as
home for the orphans of those who thus
lost their lives; the Votiv church, built
by the Austrians in commemoration of the
Emperor's escape from assassination, are
here. BY the way, they have now chancs
to build another as the Emperor after leav-
ing Prag this time barely escaped another
assault. There are also on the Ring strasse
the university, city hall, exchange, parlia-
ment, museums, opera house and burg
Court theatre, which in the description Of
each would in itself make letter. Since
the two Berlin court theatres refrigerated
so much, the theatre and court opera house
in Vienna are the best German stages.
The parks and statuary deserve no small
mention and among these is the celebrated
Prater, where by martial music we took
supper. st. Stephens cathedral is a great
structure and is one of the largest churches
in the world and has also one of the highest
steeples. 1t is remarkable in every sense
and the building OF it has been going on
through many centuries. To me, lover OF
BEAUTIFUL HORSES,
a more magnificent sight than the Em-
peror's private stables has never been pre-
sented, and I was amazed when the keepers
told me that his majesty himself has never
been inside to visit these beautiful ami
mails. The stables contain thoroughbreds
of every breed, Arabian, Spanish English,
etc, each reserved for its own par
ticuiar service, and none other to
render. The tails of the Spanish
blacks easily swept the floor. Not a
speck Of dirt is seen on horse or stall. and
the eating trouEhs are made of marble.
We spent here three hours and saw hun
dreds of horses, and still did not have time
to see all of them Many Of the race
horses Of the best blood are presents to his
majesty. The children's delight would be
the beautiful Shetlandt ponies aud tiny
carts. On some occasions the Emperor
drives out with four and sometimes six
mated horses.
Upon the second floor are the carriages,
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our last days, so great was the contrast
between the life as we found 1t and as we
left it. To walk solitary and alone to the
mineral springs was perhaps great deal
quicker than falling into line as if to buy
tickets for the train. but it was not quite
so pleasant as promenading to the strains
of the '.Kur Kapelle'' (Cure band), and it
was nc less lonely to see the barred windows
and doors of the once beautiful stores, whose
keepers have returned to the cities from
which they came and where their main es-
Establishments are located. The gardens,
restaurants and parks, where coffee was
taken OF afternoons while listening to
music, were deserted and the tables
and chairs piled in heaps. All the
building that IS necessary for the next sea-
son is now going on, as building and other
objecrional work is not allowed to go on be-
tween the months of May and October,
during cure time. The drinking halls are
filed with boxes, each holding about 800
bottles, and women sit around the wells
bottling and corking this water to be sent
away to all countries and in America you
pay, perhaps, 81 q bottle for what Is here
wasted by the gallons.
Returning to Prag again we found the
last traces of the reception TO Emperor
Francis Joseph disappearing. The re-
ception was one in every way worthy Of
THE MOST POPULAR RULER
Of great empire. The Emperor is rather
handsome man OF about sixty, fully six
feet tall, with moustache and Burnsides OF
iron gray, through which the auburn of
former years occasionally pstrays itself;
and he dresses invariably in military uni
form with sword by his side. He drives
through the streets about the same "a any
other man. The reception in Prag was as
usual competition between the Germans
and Bohemians to Guido each other. The
arches of triumph, decorations and crowds
OF people, including bowling children and
screaming women, wns about the same as
in any other demonstration.
On the way to Vienna we passed Brunn.
the capital OF Moravia, which Is also a
great point for cloth manufacture. We
also passed Koiin, where the decisive
battle between Frederick the Great and
the armies of Maria Theresa was
fought. En- route to Vienna many
scenes OF historical interest through the
long continued wars with the urks, and
with Napoleon the Great, meet the eye On
nearing the city the Kahlenberg is seen IA
barren bluff from which the rescuing
army under King Sobesky, of Poland, was
signalled after terrible and protracted
siege of the city, which he raised. Vienna
has been overtaken by Berlin so much that
the Viennese deem 1t necessary to do some
thing to catch up. An amount of over
100 600, 900 horins Is being raised to build
an elevated railroad, regulate the Danube
canal and put in such other improvements
as the capital of a powerful empire re-
quires. I should say to the relic hunters of
America that had / been one l would
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II The games are divided by q longer
period % tims and Harvard plays Prince
ton 81 the Hrss OF the month, the one di I'll
Guilty ia obYiatcd al the expense OF another
-cr tar training season 10 too short In any
case, cveu when ;he games are not played
2ntil Thanksgiving time And three of
she most valuable. because .ha last. weeks
are lost Il the game 10 played SO early IN
November, neither team being IN ii.
condition 30 plsF. TEAM pay" &C
called, that 70 the training aud ability
that leads the entire sesm 70 take part IN
asoh and every play, mad not been per-
fected to any extent at that time. and as a
result there are many more chances tina, n
game may be lost or won on some care
less. !nsdverteut Play that could 70, occur
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and among them is to be seen one in which
the Emperor drove to his coronatiCn as
King of Hungary. Many children's car
rlages are also there for the little arch
dukes and archducheSses, too great a variety
indeed to describe them all. Among the
most noticeable vehicles are the mourning
carriage In ebony, carved exQuisitely, and
the hearse of like material in which Max
1mlllan of Mexico, brother of Francis
Joseph, was taken to his grave: the COR
onatlou wagon of Maria Theresa, which is
made of solid gold, with gold sraruary.
crystal lamps, and paintings on the doors
by the celebrated Rubens, while inside ia
SILK plush, gold tinsel and lace. There is
also to be seen the carriage in which the
great
NAPOLEON RODE WITH MARIE Louise
to their marriage.
A little out from the city is Schonbruun.
one OF the many castles of the Emperor
IL is summer residence and the grounds
are immense, the foliage of trees forming
great arches with statuary in every niche.
beautiful walks and drives, many uonu-
ments TO celebrated Austrians, grand
colonade, lake with gold fishes and q pri
vate zoo containing rare birds and beasts
which live more comfortably than some
people, grace the grounds.
we saw many rooms in the palace buk
were not allowed to see the private apart
ments OF the present ruler. So MANI
grand reception rooms, sleeping rooms,
ETC., almost daze the eye. One OF them is
called the Million room, because its frat
cost was clear million forms, at the time
of Maria Theresa. The walls, floors and
furniture in this room are made of rose
wood inlaid with solid gold, chairs M
holstered In plush. Unique were the
Japanese and porcelain rooms, also the
China room, the chairs in which were M
upholstered in China silk while
the frames were made OF china and the
walls OF the room to correspond. In one OF
these rooms each chair cost $4,000, The
paintings were mostly court events of tina
aapsburg family. One picture shows the
wedding OF Emperor Joseph, the son of
Maria Therisa, where the minuet was
danced in & lded carriages and Mozart was
the leader of the band.
Among the private treasures of the royal
family, the most prominent were
THREE CROWNS OF DIAMONDS
and other rare diamonds and precious
stones. These are kept in a separate suite
OF rooms and guarded by the Imperial body
guard. In one loom Napoleon II died, and
in this room are contained the private writ
ing desk and other articles belonging to tha
unfortunate Marie Antoinette and paint
ings made by her in her girlhood. From
out of this slavish splendor one after ell
breathes sigh of relief when he again
issues into the fresh air.
VERONA E. POLLOCK.