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The morning call., 1891-12-06

furtive CLEANS into the night. the daylight
wholly dies, the autumn colors Jade from
sight and are seen no more. for cooler
weather has barred the trees-and you dream
on Of the yesterday and the to-day.
Close 10 the rivers bank, with fishing and
hunting grounds all about, the first few
traders established trading post here in
1920, and as it grew erected stockades
CLOSE TO THE RIVERS BANK,
Aud the town grew and pTospered, as did
the several others from the mouth of the
Hudson around almost to Niagara. On the
night OF February 9, 1890, $50 French and
Indians attacked Fort Schenecthade +"
thei. purpose being to rOut the Dutch and
get control of the province of New York.
The town was burned and siXty-three per-
sons massacred. Within recent years an
iron fence has been placed about the spot
where the stockdde stood, which BY CON-
mon consent has been summed for many
years. Within, on granite pedestal, stands
bronze statue of an Indian. A hundred
yards TO the east is the Mohawk.
The town was Immediately rebuilt after
the massacre, and grew rapidly until 1888
when ii became an incorporated city and
numbered possible 300.
IT HAS sLUMBERED QUIETLY
Along until twenty years ago, when bust
ness men discovered il to be a most admira-
Die site for manufactures, and to-day %, 600
newcomers Lave built their modern homes
aHout the queer Oh Oulcu houses oil Two
centuries ago.
The Schenectady Locomotive Works en-
p oy 1900 men and turn out forty-five engines
a month, or one and half day. Every
part Vi the work is done on the grounds,
even 10 designing, except where special de-
signs are sent in with orders.
The handsome offices and designing-rooms
are fitted up With every appliance. A mile
Of side-tracking is in constant use in and
bout their yards. Three long rows of
workshops have between them double
tracks, say fifteen feet apart upon which
a SORT OF CATAMARAN
Engine runs. really bridging the space be-
tween the shops with a sort Of platform
upon which they swing the heavy bars of
iron with monster derricks. or run the
finished locomotives, carrying them from
point to point with the greatest ease.
Each part Of the machinery has a work
shop Tor It's particular manufacture. The
shops are mammoth structures, each with
70 m for 800 or 400 workmen, brawny and
soot-begrmed; through the center huge
beams support an immense steel truss,
thirty feet long, and as high from the ground,
from one end, in sort of suspended cage,
one man controls it perfectly Running on
tracks It Is supplied with the most complete
set Of hooks chains and clamps, and picks
Gp OF
HANDLES THE HEAVIEST
And most cumbersome machinery in a most
knowing manner; indeed, when fitted with
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PLATE GLASS.
An Invention That RcvoIutionizes the
Process of Manufacturing 1t.

An invention That Rcvolutionizes the
Process of Manufacturing 1t.
Roger 5. Pease of Minneapolis, accord
ing to Washington special TO the Globe
Democrat has successfully concluded In
the Patent Office one of the biggest fights on
record. He will be granted five patents on
the 9th for plate-glass making machinery.
His process promises to revoutonize the
glass Industry. Mr. Pease claims that he
can produce plate glass at 10 cents per
square foot which now costs the mnnufact-
urer 20 cents He has been working at this
kind Of machinery twenty years. having
settled In Minneapolis twenty-one years
ago. During that time he has spent
$4,000 on his inventions, the prime
object Of his study being to i'm
prove and cheaper the process of making
plate glass. He is one of the original plate
glass manufacturers of the country, having
been engaged in the business at Lenox,
Mass, before locating In Minneapolis. In
those days plate glass was nearly all i'm
ported from France and cost So 80 per foot.
Pease states that the French manufacturers
The morning call., 1891-12-06

The Telegraphic Messenger tells good
story Of a farmer who recently entered a
telegraph Office in Central New York and
sent this message to a woman in Canada
quick by telegraph" Although he waited
the rest of the day, he got 10 answer, but
the next morning he got night dispatch,
sent collect, but favorable. The operator,
in ex ressing his sym pathy, said: Little
rough to keep you in suspense so long"
Look -a- here, sonny" the farmer re-
marked. "Pll stand all the suspense. Any
woman thatll hold back her answer all day
10 proposal Of marriage. Jest so tibet she
kin send it half rate at night, is economical
enough to make up after git her for all the
loss of time and injury to feelin's I've SUI
garad maitin'p'
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shop, or sets it upon the jacks, SO the boiler
may receive its asbestos jacket before il has
its metal finish.
Hnrrying back to the doorway, we watch
the workmen take their final survey, while
with steaming breath the monster engine
SEEMS TO FEEL A THRILL OF LIFE"
Through all It's length. as it slides out on
us narrow pathway, thing of life, to
toll for men,
On the other side of town are the Edison
Works, covering thirty-two acres. while
nine more acres are rapidly being covered
with buildings Twenty years ago the need
for such business was unknown. In an
other twenty years one may almost predict
that the need for the locomotive works VIII
be gone. Three thousand men are enrolled,
receiving from 81 a week up to $500!
There are always thirty or forty young
men college graduates who have gone in. as
they all must. as apprentices, receiving but
So week, and glad of the opportunity for
study.
NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED GIRLS
Are employed In what is called the Knitting
Department. where the wires are covered
with either silk o. cotton, one girl attending
dozens of machines.
A model Street-car line is run in town,
the street lighting is simply perfect. and
most OF the private houses, as well as hotels,
are served from these works.
Here, as in the locomotive works, all cleo
trichl machines are made, as well as the
machinery that is necessary for their con-
StIuction.
Here are foundries. smelling works, mold
ing-rooms. furnaces, wire and cable works
! and deSigning-rooms. Each huge shop, two
or three hundred feet long and half as many
wide, Is well lighted and covered, warm ed
by steam, and has the same ingenious over
head cranes US those used in the locomotive
works.
IT LOOKS VERY CURIOUS
To enter these busy shops to find massive
machinery silently obeying the slightest
touch, doing work TO the nicely of hun
dredth part of an inch-clean, quiet, power
ful-all iobeyng an unseen force, carried
from central batteries through slender
wires. Visitors are only allowed admit
lance into perhaps dozen of the hundred
shops
One shop, 800 feet long, had three derricks
overhead. set of double tracks for trucks
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A Bit OF HOLLAND
HERE IN AMERICA.
MAGNIFICENT Description Of an Old-FaSh.
Toned City.
Transformation Scene From Town Of Dutch
Traders in the Mohawk Valley to Busy
Workshop of Machinists.
sreoial Correspondence of IKE SUNDAY CALL.

Editor Sunday Call: 1t Is with the great
est pride that the PEOPLE of Schenectady
drive you about their little city. They are
proud of the Mohawk Valley which cradles
1t; of its marvellous growth within the past
decade; proud of the mammoth locomotive
works and Edison's works. both the largest
of their kind in the United States, aud too,
OF the quaint old town-site lying in the heart
of the city, "a bit of old Holland. right here
in our midst" they will tell you.
From Syracuse to Schenectady. down the
beautiful Mohawk Valley by moonlight, is
a run never to be forgotten. You wonder,
half musinEly, If those early Dutch traders
ever found time in
EARLY REVOLUTIONARY DAYS
To see the beauties about them. As you
fly by town after town, or swing ley point
over the glancing waters, through cool. gray
meadows, With banks of pine-fringed hills
behind, or puff noisily by queer-gabled,
sturdy farm-hOuses, SO still in the moon
light, you leel sure the red-cheeked Gretch-
ems within must be disturbed. Great mills
line the rivers bank, electric lights cast
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the high-peeked roofs which stare you out
of countenance. From under the caves
tiny-paned, narrow. longitudinal windows
ogle you from crooked and weather-worn
fronts.
An occasional knOcker on a fine old
-oaken door, with sender-leaded windows
on either side, speak of some thrifty good
man. You find. wooden shutters, and
QUEER STAIRwAYS
Leading to upper rooms are built outside.
Doors cut half in two swing the upper part
cheerfully open, showing thick walls or
low. black cavernous freplaces, with may
hap home-cut chair or table near.
Surely "bt of Holland" is here; but
newer builders will surely jostle the houses
down and newer corners elbow the sleepy
folk into wakefnlness. Another generation
the houses will be gone, and the people will
have mingled with the new.
Schenectady, Non e. 1871. Mrs. L. E THANE
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FAMILIAR TRICKS.
The Part a StOYeDiDe Hat Plays in the WGrk
Of a Magician

Without a stovepipe hat your prestidigita
teur would have to abandon many of his
best tricks and give up one of his most
valuable assistants. OF the that" tricks,
few which are among the most
popular may be described. The op-
orator begins by borrowing a hat
from one of the spectators. To provo
that what passes for a fine hat is really Of
poor quality. the magician punches his An
ger or his wand through the top of it. The
finger, as shown in the illustration, Is made
of either wood or 'papier machee," and
terminates.in long slender needle (B. fig. y.
the juggler, who holds this artificial bent
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crown of the hat 80 closely that they Cannot
fall out when the same is turned upside
down. Only the fraction of a second is
necessary to put the roll into the hat, and
one need not be an expert sleight-of- hand
man to do it quickly and without detection.
The juggler begins by pulling the paper
from the center of the roll and turns the hat
upside down without letting the spectators
have look at the interior of the hat. Then,
turning it bottom down again, he unrolls
bands of paper seem to gush from the hat
with great EMBELLISHMENTS Post Dispatch,
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CASTLE OF WEIERBURG.
A Delightful Country Residence and a MagHif-
cent Landscape.

When the stranger, approaching Inns
bruck, has crossed the marble bridge over
the Inn. small stream in Germany, pic,
turesque little castle glances at him from
out thick masses OF trees on the hills of the
left shore 1t is the Castle of Weierburg
A charming path leads to it. One drives
over the Inn, crosses the suburb ST. Niko-
laus, and ascends from there by shady
road to the stately Buchserhausen. which
was once the favorite seat of the noble, in
tellectual, but unfortunate Biener.
The path from this castle to the Weier-
burg affords glorious view OF the ever
varying mountain landscape on the right
bank of the Inn. An avenue of old broad
topped walnut trees receives the wanderer
The morning call., 1891-12-06
DOINGS At THE
HARVARD ANNEX.
How 200 Girls Spend Their Time Grow,
ing Strong and Wise.
Very Few High Jinks-Comparing Their Be.
haVtor With That Of the Harvard Men.
Athletic and Social Clubs.

1.-The Harvard Annex" is sort of nick
name. and, as nicknames usually do, has
pushed the original and legitimate designa-
ton or title entirely out of sight. This is
the more readily understood when you
Know that the proper name of the institu-
ZION Is The Society for the Collegiate In
struciion of Women"
Inc society for the Collegiate Instruction
Oh women is not Harvard, and has no power
to give Harvard degrees.
Inc ages OF the Annex students entering
upon the regular course are less than the
corresponding class in Harvard College In
The morning call., 1891-12-06
OUIXOTIC.
Love Still Continues to Make Men Do
Strange Things.

Love Still Continues to Make Men Do
Strange Things.
Pardon me. Have you cigar you
wouldn't object to part with ?"
1t was o'clock in the morning and rain
ing heavily. The speaker was standing
beside letter-5oX on Fort street, trying to
keep off the rain with small umbrella. He
was in his slippers, and as l could see no
reason for his standing there in such plight,
l grew inquisitive. Handing him my last
cigar-which, by the way, had also been
handed mel said:
waiting for a street-car?"
NO"
Measuring the fall of rain. perhaps?"
No. As you are not likely to guess why
l am apparently giving you good ground to
doubt my sanity, shall have compassion
on your curiosity and tell you.
Il got letter from my girl yesterday, and
last evening answered ii. Shortly after mid
night came out to drop it in this letter box,
aud-well, | dropped the wrong letter. You
see. instead of putting in the answer l put
in my girls letter, and | am going 10 wait
here until the postman makes his collec-
tons and get it back"
l offered TO relieve him at his vigil while
he went to his room and put himself in bet
ter condition to withstand the incement
weather. He gladly accepted. and | guarded
that mysterious Disseminating some
woman's heart-till the lover returned
decked in macintosh and heavy shoes, and
well fortified with cigars.
THANK you for that cigar and your kind
help he said at parting. The contents of
that letter are too personal and precious to
be coolly criticised by prying postoifice Of
fcials."
AS l went slowly homeward l thought of
the love-tortured Knight of La Mancha
guarding his armoT, and concluded that love
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few of him have ever been apprehended by
the athletic arm of the law The letters are
fastened to the glass with cement which
yields readily to the burglars steel, and if
lie can get within reaching distance it is but
a matter of moment for that gentleman to
gather in half dozen of them. He disposes
of his spoil to secondhand sigu-dealers and
iunk-shops, and generally gets good price
for TN. Y. Commercial.
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Gemmed With Pearls.

A mouth gemmed with pearls flashes radiance
every time 1t opens. The contrast between the ruby
OF lovely lips and the peary teeth they lnclosed
has winged the fancy OF many poet. SOZO-
DON'T, fair ones, Is the thing that most contrib
utes to adorn the feminine mouth. 1t Is puro, 1t
Is aromatic. II retains the natural color OF teeth
incrusted with yellow tartar. No gritty nor Other
Objectionable ingredient communicates II, Its odor
balmy, and It's purifying operation is thorough.
The morning call., 1891-12-06

A young Philadelphia girl who is in the
habit OF taking constitutional every after
run down into the area if she stops at a
house TO see a friend. and locked IN between
the ball door and the gate the dogs make
themselves at homo while their mistress
pays her visit
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An Easy Way to Get Them.

Where the waveIets play on lovely bay.
And the goldfish leap in sport.
Where The parrots swing and canaries sing
And the rich ships ride TO port;
There under the sea, the divers be,
Aud where the maelstrom whlrls.
They come to the top with hard won crop
or beautiful. shining pearls.
But here just go to store you know.
For SoZoDoNT you pay;
And before you think, your gums are pink,
And your breath like new-mowu hay.
And without a grain of the Divers pain.
Men. women, boys and girls
Are fools who wont buy SOZODONT,
And have mouths full Of pearls,
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1-rtVI PTfsH INV hOguees
The meanest kind of thief in town is
the fellow who sneaks around with ehisel
in the early morning hours ana prizes enam-
eled letteIss off shop windows He put
himself in evidence soon after these letters
began to be employed in business signs,
and, owing to the opportunities which he
enjoys for quick and noiseess work, but
The morning call., 1891-12-06
COM BIN Ed.
Latest Edition Corrected to Date.
46x66 Inches Largest Ever Printed.
THIS DOUBLE MAP CONT AIMS +:

A Diagram showing all Of the Political Par
ties. 11x66.
A Diagram showing all the Presidents AMI
Cabinets 5x66.
Diagram showing the Political Complexion
OF each Congress. 2x66.
A Diagram showing the Creeis Of the World.
1Sx10.
Diag gram showing the Standing Armies OF
each Nation. 1870.
A Diagram showing the Naval Tonnage OF
esch Nation. 13x10.
A Complete Map OF the World 1890.
Complets Map OF the United States Grand,
McNally & Co.'s 1890. 1895
A Map Of Central America. 10xlS.
4 Map of Alaska. 10x13.
Map of South Africa 10xi3
A Map Of Upper Nubia and Habs3h or Aby3.
sinia. 10x13.
a Map Of Persia, Afghanistan and Beluchi5-
tan. 10x13
a Complete Map OF the Soar systsm-5sst svsr
made. l3xl0.
The morning call., 1891-12-06
That Time win Never Coma.

Periodically we see newspaper artlc les on
the establishment OF perfume factories in
California. Let the editors who encourage
such enterprises read carefully the methods
Of producing these commercial perfumes,
and they will see that labor forms very
large part Of the cost Before California
can compete with European or Asian labor
at fifteen to twenty cents day, the prices
of Ia Dor here must fall to a pittance-which
we hope IL never will be our lot 10 see.-
Ctr ograph.
The morning call., 1891-12-06

A wonder of longevity is the so-called
dragons blood tree Of Teneriffe Resin
obtained from this tree has been found in
sepulchers, where it had been used for en-
balming the dead. Trees of this species
are now standing which are estimated as
being older than the Egyptian pyramids.
The morning call., 1891-12-06
Pictures Of all the Presidents from
Washington TO Harrison.
1T ALSO GIVES IN BRIEF:

The History OF Colonial Politics.
The History OF Revo' utionary Politics.
The History of the Confederation.
The History of the U. S. government by Con-
crosses.
The History OF the U. s BY Administration.
An Analysis Of the Federal Government.
Valuable Statistics on Debts.
Valuable Statistics on Revenues.
Valuable Statistics on ExpsnditursI.
Issues of all Political Parties
The History OF all Political Parties which hly,
existed Ia this country.
The morning call., 1891-12-06

A Nuremberg watch in the form of an
acorn has tiny pistol which serves as an
alarm.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-23

Our friends at Hood River send up a
bitter wall over the death of the Cas-
cade county bill, and take occasion to
censure Representative Johnston and
some of our citizens most severely be-
cause of their opposition. We plead
guilty to the charge that the people of
the eastern portion of the county op-
posed the bill, and we presume a consid-
cradle portion of the inhabitants of the
territory of the proposed new county
would do the same. 1t was the opposi-
tion OF the people of Cascade Locks com
bined with the general feeling in the
legislature against the creation of new
counties that defeated the BILL Had we
OF The Dalles maintained an armed neu-
trality, the opposition of the people Iof
Cascade Locks would have killed the
bill and had not the sentiment of the
people of The Dalles been grossly mis-
represented by the Hood River advo-
catesEof the bill it is probable that no
direct opposition would have been made
here. We think the people of what
would have been Cascade county have
themselves and not Representatives
Johnston and Welch, or our citizens, to
thank that Cascade county is not a
county.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-23
Handsome shada rre...

Orange trees in full bearing are as nu-
merous as ordinary shade trees in the
streets of some inland Florida cities and
towns. 1t is a common sight just now
to see the sidewalks lined with trees well
loaded with the golden fruit, which no.
body takes the trouble to pluck The
oranges seem to be as large and fine :,s
any which command 81 per box in the
orchards. The real reason why the fruit
Is neglected is that most of it is sour and
often bitter. Oranges which grow wild
and which are not carefully cared for by
a cultivstor are poor fruit, and Florida
people don't think it worth while to take
them of the trees. But no sight could
be moro attractive to northern eyes than
that Of the public walks shaded by the
deep green foliage of the orange trees, in
which the ripe fruit glistens like apples
of gold.-New York Sun
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-23
GOOD LORD DELIVER US.
Portland oregonian.

The legislature ought to have author
lied the construction of a portage rail-
way at The Dalles. Had it enacted a
proper assessment law, this railway
could have been built and the state
would not have felt the outlay. The
next legislature could have ordered the
construction of a transfer boat, which
could be built in ninety days, and the
problem would have been solved. But
where one member was ready to urge
immediate action, two or three were
always at hand to fill every proposition
full of obstacles. No spur to action was
sharp enough to overcome the stolid re-
sistance of inertia and hesitation, the
customary disposition and inclination to
postponement and delay. But the de-
mand for this measure is not to be
silenced. 1t will increase to a storm,
will rise to whirlwind, and will sweep ali
before it. A beginning of this workAa
work that the people will surely insist
on till they get it-ought to have been
made now. Postponement of it has only
thrown forward most disturbing factor
into coming elections.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-23
A vessel In Two Parts.

A vessel constructed ON tho shores Of
Lake Michigan was recently hoated
down to the sea in two sections The
course was through the Welland canal
down Lake Ontario and on to Montreal,
which was reached in eleven days. The
after section of the ship, containing the
machinery. had steam in one. boiler and
backed at the rate of seventy revolutions
per minute. steaming stern first, while
the forward section followed in charge
of two tugs. On arriving ut Montreal
the two sections were placed on creased
ways in dry dock, and when the parts
were closed in upon each other the butts
came together SO closely that knife
blade could not be inserted between the
plates. The re-riveting was accomplish
ed with facility III the usual way, and
the vessel was fioated out Of the dock a
complete hull, defying the eye of any ex-
pert to tell where the junction had been
made.-New York Commercial Adyer-
tieor
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-23
A Rint TO Railroads.

n k1tnt 20 6atlE0008s
The Listener saw sight the other day
which has moved him TO nrake protest.
On the Back Bay, at the 6sosaipg Of the
Boston and Albany and Providence Bail-
road tracks, . gang Of men weEe engaged
in burning up lot Of railzsad ties Ev::
IDENTITY the ties made capital fuel, for
the hrc vEas cracking mezrRy. They
were evidently disused but By NO means
rotten. OF course tho railroad would
not venture to keep ties In place on the
roadbed until they were rotten. The
LISTENER has often seen ties burning on
tho traciu near the city, but never before
% far within the city itself, and actually
within short stones throw Of the homes
Of the poor people who would have been
only too glad to relieve the railroad cor
pors&ion Of every stick Of their disused
ties at IA hours notice,
Did it ever occur to you, MesrA. Bail
road Superintendents or Directors, or
whoever 10 responsible for this destruc-
ton Of good fuel, that your old ties would
give at least little warmth to a good
many households that have had none, or
next to none, thTough all this cruel
weather. There would be no need OF
advertising for people to come and TAXA
the ties; every laborer among the num-
Der who work at the task Of destroying
them mnst know families who would be
glad enough to get them. The railroads
could actually save money by giving the
wood away. Boston Transcript. =.