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The morning call., 1892-03-06
THE BOMBSHELL'S SHREK.
Startling Experiences of an Aid-de-C amp
of General Alexander H,Ys.

Startling Experience of an Aid-de-C am
of General Alexander Hays.
The talk turned upon personal courage in
a conversation l had the other day with an
aid-de-camp of General Alexander Hays,
says writer in the Pittsburg Dispatch
The veteran, who had the name of being
the most daring aid on Hays staff, said:
"You ask me how felt when l first smelt
powder, so to speak. Well. after the lapse
of all these years Pm almost ashamed to tell
you. / was panic-stricken, scared out Of
my senses, my courage oozed out Of me
in an instant, and a small boy
could have captured me without trouble.
This awful experience came after
l had been about year in the army.
was preparing to 60 into camp. We were a
few mites outside of Yorktown. which was
in the possession of the Confederates, but
none Of Us, not even our officers, realized
the proximity of the enemy. There were
some cattle with the army, and somehow or
other some Of my comrades ard were part
place where they were to be slaughtered.
We formed circle, sort Of bull ring, and
fell to skylarklng and firing at the cattle as
they ran hther aud thither. 1t was all
laughter and shouting.
Suddenly, without the slightest warn
ing, sound that We had never heard before
arose above tie clamor. 1t was sort of
whirring howl, lasting few seconds only,
but long enough to strike terror into our
hearts. The men, who had been as gay
and nuisy as scho0lboys a minute before,
were dumb. l don't remember now
they brhavcd. My own affairs kept ME
busy. ! lett as II MY boots were nailed
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NOTES OF THE OPENINGS.
Ellen Osborn Tells Where Spring Hats
Blossom.
a Thing Of Ruches and Ribbons-A Half.
Dozen Frocks-What the World Is
to Wear
sTeoial TO THE SUNDAY CALL

There's something of the tenderness a
woman feels for baby in her sentiments
toward spring bonnet The thing is so
little, so pretty and so fragile. She turns it
round and about and holds it off and holds
1t close and touches its roses and pulls out
its ribbons and can't persuade herself that
such wee dainty thing can really be hers
This is what makes spring opening so
interesting-the attitude of the women to-
ward the DonnetS. In their heavy cloaks
and furs they hover over them and cradle
them and pet the airy. fairy things newly
born into cold and cruel world. There's
the instinct Of protection mingled with their
fondness, giving big sisterly or motherly
cast 10 their alteration not observable at
any other time of year.
For is there anything so helpless as a
spring bonnet in March? l was noting one
at an early opening this morning, a little,
round. caplike tOque of fanciful straw
curled into twist of creamy ribbon, dashed
with brown. Out from under the ribbon
started halo of gauze in transparent puff
projecting all around. A breath of wind
would have lifted it and swept it away like
dandelion down. There was girl in a boa
touching it with kidded finger, and you
could tell by her face she wanted to be good
to it and take care OF It,
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hon sash and the punches of ribbons on the
shoulders share picture room with more or
less amiability with the girl with the bre-
telles.
street dress of sage green cheylct brings
US back little nearer, though not so
mnch, To everyday grubbings and drudge
RES. 1t has flounce and puff OF paIer
hued Dengaline about the bottom of the
skirt, with a band of old rose velvet be-
tween them TO keep them from Quarreling.
1t has tieht-fitting jacket with basques
reaching below the hips and turning up
Win reyers OF old rose velvet II has d.
rectoire revers in front, lying out over the
shoulders and half buried as to their sub
dued glories by an immense fall of lace
trimming from the neck and flooding the
entire front OF the gown. With this not
altogether commonplace street outfit goes
Gains borough hat of sage green straw with
facings OF old rose.
L have mind to set down a visiting
dress OF street heliotrope'' as a modest
but rosy sort of tint is now called. 1t has
scent skirt unplagued with trimmings. The
front OIL the bodice comes down in rounded
point hall way to the knees-an odd notion,
but not worth copying; the flap is not
graceful and suggests no reason for being.
A Jacket oil green velvet is to be looked at
when you view the dress from behind. 1t is
long enough TO cover the hips, but does not
reach farther front than the under arm
seams. A velvet ruffie stands ND about
the shoulders in fashionable but
most unwarrantable fashion. Long
velvet sleeve puffs reach to the
elbows and velvet belt of three mar
row straps fasteus with q gold buckle. A
hat OF beliotrope straw trimmed with droop-
ing clusters OF wistaria lies with it, and
parasol Of mauve chiffon with a whitewood
handle glittering with gold filagree.
There will be much Jet 1t glitters and
women bear the burden Of it as willingly as
those OF some savage tribes do the three and
1--WE pound copper neckrings which consti-
tnte their only clothing. There will be
Vatican folds. They are graceful costume
adluncts Tor some women and on some
toilets, therefore they will be worn by all
women ard upon all sorts of cloaks and
gowns. ELLEN OSBORN.
New York, March l.
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and with voluble pride exhibiting their
treasures. A number of characteristic
costumes came III my way yesterday
and are worth each a word of de-
scrlption. A gray and blue homespun
shall have post of honor, because ii is
least elaborate and most widely suggestive.
The gray background Is striped diagonally
with paler slvery gray and with blue. 1t
Is made like seamless caftan, fitting with
HAWKES. perfection, the stripes going diago-
naily from throat to feet; this fabric Is hid
den under long princess polonaise of plain
blue stun slaslied to the waist not to keep
the stripes too closely prisOned. There are
full plain sleeves met at the elbows by
very long striped cuffs, very striking and
wretchediy uncomfortable. On each hip is
q large pocket flap fastened with three iri-
descent pearl buttons. From the shoulders
seam down the poionaise is open.
A pretty dress is a trim little girlish frock
fastened in the back. as shown in the
picture. 1t is made of a soft ecru summer
silk. lowered with brown and pale blue
The waist Is without darts and is gathered
INTO the neck opening and again into the
point OF the bodice. Ribbon-lIke stripes
are woven across it and give a curious effect
OF insertion. ruche of blue ribbons fin
ishes the neck opening and the edge of the
cor5age. The half-long blouse sleeves are
mover and as pretty as sleeves average.
other ribbons are set on in the middle In
front with huttering bow. are carried
along the edge of the corseet and end with
Dig DOW and long loops behind.
In my memory. and, truth to tell, more
safely In my notebook, is q pink batiste
frock with pink velvet ribbon bretelles,
which am going to use for the wearing
apparel OF girl In story, il the story gets
written before bretellrs go out of fashion.
The backs and sides of the bodice have the
sheer batiste drawn over them plain the
front INDUCES In Dlsils and fiounces, and
then full basque fiyunce of embroidered
oatiste starts from the seams under the
arms. The bretelles-to think that batiste
should come 70 such dignity-are Of velvet
embroidered with pink silk and gold beads.
Another novelty Is dinner dress FROM
nafis, which lays much stress OH dinners.
Frogs legs and salads can he deyoured with
great pr0priety in this White embroidered
wolfe. with its V-shaped neck opening. edged
with deep waving ilouDce, which il gathered
behind tie shoulders. so To do duty both for
corsage garniture and for sleeves. The
scant skirt has an embroidered trent, with
Vaienclennes insertion. The narrow rib
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supply-ship 10 the North Atlantic squad
ron, bat her voyage was the longest ever
made for that distance at sea. She sailed
on February "a, in command of Com
.mander A: ). Baldwin, and when
off Cape Cod she encountered a gale
which stripped her IF every stitch of canvas
10 less than an hour. On the following day
her rudder, seven boats and her three
anchors and cables went by the board, and
she was tossed about in the trough of the
sea like a great bowl. During the three
days tempest three OF the men died. and
they received the sailors burial with the
chaplain dashed to a gun while he read the
burial service When the gale subsidized a
jury rudder was shipped, but gale sue
ceeded gale, and she was swept
two thirds OF the way across the
Atlantic. The Navy Department sent
the Saxon and Sabine out to look for her
and when the former found her off the
Azores she furnished TO her q new rudder
and suit of sails. The new rudder was
carried away in a tempest few days later,
and Boaiswain Isaac Bartlett rugged an
other rudder out of a spar and got her on
her course again. The frigate Sabine next
picked her up on April 3, and ten days later
she reached Port Royal. She had been forty
nine days at sea, eighteen OF which she was
without rudder or sails, and for twenty
three days there was no sunshine.
The Vermont was afterward flagship of
Admiral Duponts South Atlantic squadron
Tor time, ana sue later served as store
ship. hospltal-ship, and even prson-ship,
holding as prisoners various persons inter-
ested Ia the notorious and remuEerative
practice of blockade-runnng. Among the
latter was the king of blockade runner cap
tains, the famous "Bill" Perry. Tie Yer
mont was surveyed and condemned in 1874,
aud the Colorado succeeded her as receiving
slip, but the Vermont was afterward dis
mantled and housed over, and again took
her former place, and her timbers are so
sound that she may last fifty years more for
her present duty.
During the social season the captain and
officers give weekly receptions, and in the
meanwhile the sailors are also permitted to
have entertainments after their own liking.
with plenty of music. Religious services
and temperance meetings are also held on
board the old frigate, and a well-stock ed
library offers plenty of reading matter for
the men, the Dutchmen and the Dagoes."
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the curly hair beyond the brim. In the
folds of the velvet were tucked twigs Of
peach blossoms.
On more generous scale was guards
mans" nat of brown straw dashed with
pink. IL had a big fiat crown. as crowns are
now reckoncd, with great brim rolling up
ward raklshly. Wide brown ribbons trim
med ii, and the knots were thrust through
the sword-like leaves, ana round stalks of
purple fleur-de-lis.
There were good many poke hats. whose
bTims were lodges on which grew fine moss
like flowers or thick-set viOeis. Aud there
were. as last year. an infinite variety of
flower wTeaths to buy IL you arc economi-
cally minded, and endOw out of your own
resources with wisp OF lace and two broad
strings.
The room seemed to be full of yellow, as
IL IL were bank of dandelions. If you
looked closer you saw much green and
more blue.
1t was ruched room, all a-hutter with
tulle partially hiding forget-me-nots or the
pretty pink boulyardia.
Dress novelties do not come so early, and
yet importing dressmakers are scudding
back one by one across the stormy Atlantic
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Ali the bonnets at the opening were like
butterflies; they were winged. Each had
Its frilled or plated lace or ribbon pinions
III you had seen one of them before 1t fell
into the hands Of the miiliner you would
have said it was meant for q doll; or that IL
was model hat on a scale of three inches
to the foot or Whereabouts. The crowns
made no pretense Of fitting human head !:
they were caricature hats like those be-
slowed on their victims by newspaper lu-
morlsts. But here came in the craft
woman's genius. Mists of gauze or droop-
ing wells of lace or standing fans OF chiffon
added themselves in mysterious c0mbna-
lions to the outer bruins with results pic
turesque, fowerlike and plumed.
remember particularly turban hat with
full caplike crown of pale green straw rib
bon gathered in a narrow band. On one
side nodded q bunch Of snowdr0ps, and low
enough to touch the ears and reach almost
to the eyebrows hung fringe of black lace
OIL such patterns as to suggest a wreath Of
pointed. spiky leaves.
There was sailor hat, too, of blue straw
blotched with ecru-for there are almost as
many coiors now in straws as in ribbons.
It's crown was very low, and you would
never have guessed 1t to be sailor crown,
Tor loose puff of creamy brown velvet fell
over part OF 1t and over the brim and over
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THE TAJ AGRA.

to the ground. They wouldn't move,
neither would my legs,-in fact, had lost
control of my body. l was perfectly limp,
and my knees sagged out. That was at
the first strange sound, as Of some l1ideous,
deadly bird dying overhead. hardly
realized, mind you, that the enemy was
Smelling us. All l knew for sure was
that somehow my life, which I had en-
Joyed so much minute before, was in
danger. / wanted to run, but my legs
wouldn't obey me- Two shells passed over
me before | could shake off the paralysis
Then l ran as l never ran before or
since, with professional sprinter's speed,
to the shelter Of the woods from which our
regiment had only just emerged. A second
terror seized me as | reached the first
scattering trees. had selected one, big
fellow, as my refuge, and when l reached
1t three other men who were crouched be-
hind it pushed me violently away, saying
there wasn't room for more. Shells were
still in the air, and with terror purs ued
my flight. When at last fell exhausted on
the ground beyond the range of the enemy's
artillery l almost lost consciousness for a
while.
Nobody was killed by those shells, but
the rebs' must have laughed to see us run,
and laughed louder yet when our cattle ran
into their lines as they did. | felt more or
less uncomfortable in going into battle after
ward, but never again lost my nerve as I
did at my fire baptism before Yorktown
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The Vermont as She Is To-day.

narrow channel which separates Cob Dock
from the navy-yard proper, and which is
only to be crossed on the HORSEPOWER scow
run as ferr y-boat by steam power, acting
upon twisted wire cable, and the cabins Of
which cannot be entered by civilians I'M
provided with pass or unaccompanied by
an officer. 1t is not difficult to obtain the
former, but the applicant must show that
he or she is a visitor with a legitimate pur-
pose. Not that il is feared, SAYS
the New York Tribune. that the visitor
will carry away the great hulk Of the ship.
or will secrete one of the 20-inch guns In his
pocket TO dispose OF it as Old iron at cent
a pound, but that the stranger is purveyor
or conveyor of liquor to the sailors.
The Vermont is the receiving-ship at the
navy-yard; in other words, the nautical
clearinghouse for the newly enlisted men
or Tor those just returned from cruise and
waiting 70 receive what is due them from
the Government. The newly enlisted men
remain on board until drafted" or detailed
tides OF the East River have washed agains {
the sides Of this old-time lne-of-b battle snip
for a quarter of a century, but they
never cause the least motion to the vessel
nor any commoti0n on board, for she lies
deeply imbedded in the mud, her triple
tiers OF gunports contrasting widely with
the battle-ship of modern days. She was
of that class of frigates like Lord Nelson's
famous Victory and the old United States,
which did such effective service under COM
mand of Captain Decatur in the war of 1912,
and Of the Ohio, which is The receiving ship
at the Boston Navy-yard. She was con-
structed at the Boston yard in 1s4S Of the
best live oak, pine and backmatack, aud was
butt for comfort There is no navy vessel
afoat to-day which has so big staterooms
and large berths as are In the Vermont.
!, The Vermont was originally built in 1S48
and was afterward rebuilt with the inten-
ton If making her the flagship Of Comm0-
dore Perry's expedition to Japan, but some-
thing happened that made it necessary to
send the Mississippi in her stead. nd she
rested for ten years o., more on the stocks
before she was again put in the water.
Then when the civil war began aud there
was demand for everything that could
foat she was finished and put into commits
sion on January II, 1862. She was filled up
with stores ana was sent to Port Royal as
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HYDRAULIC CLOCKS.
The System Recently Established In the
Berlin University.
Jewellers, Weekly

The System Recently Established In the
Berlin University.
jewelers. Weekly.
A system OF ALPHABETICALLY controlled
clocks has recently been established in the
Berlin University by the Urania- Uhren and
Saulen Cemmanditgese The plant
consists Of an ordinary clock, seven second
airy clocks. and four ringing appliances. all
connected by system OF aater-pipes with
central apparatus erected in the vestibuie
of the building
AT the end OF each hour the principal
clock sends an electric current through the
electromagnetic OF the central apparatus, dis
engaging an arrangement of wheels and
opening a water cock. The water then
flows through the jet pumps, and absorb.
the air in network of tubes with which all
the secondary clocks and ringing arrange
ments are connected.
Each OF the secondary cloeks is provided
with abrass casing, which is closed by
means OF leather membrane. As soon as
tue air III the casing becomes rarefed the
membrane lifts bar by means of which
Inc nour hnger is made to act at the exact
moment OF completing the hour, and the
CLOCK IS wound to the extentlt II IS run down
during the hour just completed.
Inc ringing arrangements are fitted with
a similar casing ami membrane, which, dur
Ing the rarefaction of the air, lifts ham,
mer and causes bell to ring three times.
When the necessary amount of rarefactiou
of the air has been attained, and the work
OF the apparatus Is completed. the wator
cock in the central apparatus is automatic
ally closed. Several systems Of clocks on
this principle are already in use. notably
these in the Berlin Exchange and the Pots
dam railway station.
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marble. At the extremity of wide avenue of
cypress trees is The Tai in its dazzling white
splendor standing on a vast platform of
marble fifteen feet in height From its roof
springs great central dome and four lesser
ones. Every part except the dome is
covered with inscriptions. in fact it is said
the entire Koran is written there. Bishop
Heber said of the Tai: sit was built by
Iitans and finished by jewelers." And
justice to its Incompatible beauty and
astonishing grandeur" The sarcophagus
of the Sutana and Of her husband is of the
purest white marble. the former more
elaborate, ornamented with arabesques and
texts in every variety OF precious stones
On the main floor are two duplicate
sarcophagi. They are directly above the
vaults which hold the real ones, and are
protected by most exquistely carved
marble screen eight feet high, mere lace
work of stone. Twenty thousand workmen
were employed on this magnificent edifiee
for seventeen years. Ali the provinces of
Southern Asia contributed to this rare and
splendid memorial to a beloved Queen.
Notwithstanding these gifts and the forced
labor of the laborers, the building cost
about S12,000,000.
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HER GLORY HAS DEPARTED.
In Interesting Relic Of thG Old AmGri-
can Navy.
The Line-ot-Battle-ship Vermont Now Used
as a Receiving Craft for
Recruits.

An interesting relic at the Brooklyn
Navy-yard, and one even more interesting
than Satan-not he who rules over Dante's
Inferno, but that "hellish outcome Of
Yankee ingenuity" (Which has two broth
ers called Lucifer and Moloch close along
side On Cob Dock the immense 20-inch gun
into which many sailor has crawled and
slept all night, and backed himself out in
the morning in time to scrub and wash
elolhes"-is the old Ship the-line Yer
mont. In the Navy Register she is put
down as ''hOused over" and that is perhaps
the most comprehensive term to apply to
the construction over her deck. This upper
work has the appearance of the slanting
roof Of house. and bereft Of spars. with
the exception of the short lower sticks
along the ridgepole of her house-roof, she
does not look like the historical vessel
which she is; but she is admired
by hundreds Of visitors who brave the
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Street Imnrnxeu,an,s


Editor CdtE-The system OF assessing prouertv
owners along street TO be wideaed or ex.
tended In my estimation Is wrong. Ii has ten
dency 10 retard public Improvement,
III The widening or extending OF a street (ss I'm
the case OF Mission. Howard, Market aud Post
streetslls pubic improvement, why NOT have
the public pay for II?
In Boston. when such Improvement Is made
ana ne city orders it done, they do not appolnr
commissioners 10 assess the damages or benefits
70 ada 10 tile expense. The city engineer SURVEYS
u ana lays out The work 10 be done and the city
uoes lne WORK, 10 pay fer IL (after the estimated
expense Is reperted). The entire TAXABLE pron.
erty OF the city Is taxed aud In that way IL comes
light On all. and no protests are ever heard "a
there are no directors.
10 take an Individuals property and tell him
the benefit exceeds equals the damage Is an
injustice 10 the property-owner on such a street
ana WORKS hardship on many property owners
HE opening. widening or extending OF 81, eet,
dement's the whole city. Is public Improvement
and should be paid for by the public.
il Ia
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A WOMAN'S TOMB.
The Noblest and Most Beautiful Fabric
In the World.

India Is pre-emnently the land of jeweled
architecture. For ages the builders of the
Grand Moguls had We'd with each other until
the entire empire CLEANS with fabrics splen-
did as the rare conceptions of dream.
Even when squalor and degradation settled
down upon the land her splendid palaces,
temples and tombs have still stood upon
their rich foundations the wonder of the
world.
The queen of these queenly fabrics is the
wonderful Tai, situated in the city of Agra.
1t was erected by the Shah Jehan as a
mauS1leum in memory of his wife and is
called the most beautiful edifiee in the world.
1t rises its gilded crescent 275 feet in the air
and is surrounded by walled garden Of
twenty-five acres in extent The main en-
trance is through a magnificent Saracenic
arch eighty feet high of red sandstone with
panels of white marble which are covered
with texts from the Koran inlaid in black
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20 dozen CHILDREN'S DRESSES. made OF
extra fine nsins0ok, yoke of embroidery
and tueks, skirt flushed with deep hem
and cluster of tucks, extra value for
81 so.
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METALLIC GLASS.
A Remarkable Material Now Being Made
at Dresden.


Philadelphia Record.
A Dresden Germany firm is introducing
a compound OF glass and wire, which pos
sesses remarkable resisting power to sudden
changes Of temperature. The process Of
manufacture consists in furnishing glass,
while in hot plastic condition, with flex-
IDLE metallic lever, like wire netting, the
metal becoming completely imbedded in the
glass. and thereby being effectively pro-
teeted from rust. As proof OF the tough
ness CT this compound. it is said that the
glass may be sprinkled with cold water
while it is in highly heated state, without
the surface being materially damaged.
The glass made by this process is espe-
cially adapted for skylights, the powerful
resisting qualities of the material rendering
the use OF the ordinary wire protectors un-
necessary. 1t has also been successfully
employed for the manufacture of hollow
glassware. and is particularly suitable for
making glass vessels which have to stand
high pressure or which are subject to hard
usage. AS the glass cannot be broken with
out causing consider able noise, and as 1t is
not readily cut with the diamond, it is
claimed that the substance is in measure
burglar proof.