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The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
COLUMBUS DAY PREPARATIONS.

Suggestions to tho Public Schools for
tho Celebration of tho Anniversary.
The official programme for the ma
tional school celebration of Columbus
Day is now published. The first dutyof
each of our schools this fall, if it wishes
to be in line with the other schools of
America, is to begin preparations at
once for its proper observance Of Oct.
81, the 400th anniversary the discov-
cry of America. A. few suggestions az
to the first things to .be donemay be Of
some value.
Teachers, the superintendent and the
school board should confer, that action
may be harmonious and best resrlats at
tanned. The proposed, celehrationshould
be explained to each school atthe earh-
est moment. Itshouad be- so presented
as to awaken enthusiasm. Interesting
topics relating to, Columbus and the dis
covery should<be suggested for special
investigation. Such topics might be
"The Map. of the World Before the Dis
covery," Important Inventions and
Eventsan Europe Just Before the Dis.
covery," '.The Story Of Columbus"
"The Ships Of Columbns," "What Co
lumbus Expected to Find, J" ''Geograph-
ical Growth Of the United States"
"Stories of South America, " etc. The
teacher should assign the address and
the ode to those who can render them
most intelligently. The flag salute and
the songs should be persistently re-
hearsed.
Important committee of pupils should
be appointed: j.. First-A committee of
invitation, whose duty is to see that the
family of each pupil receives a special
invitation to the morning exercises of
Oct. 81, and also when they arrive to
show them seats. Second-A color
guard, whose duty is ~ to see that the
school has a flag and a staff in proper
condition.; C2) to meet the veterans 80
they arrive and escort them with dignity
to the principal in the school house: CD
to act as aids of the principal.
An efficient adult committee Of ar
rangements should also be constituted.
This committee must see-frst, that
seats are prepared out of doors in hope
Of fair :weather, and that a room is also
engaged for the exercises should the day
be stormy; second, that fitting decorar
tons and printed programmes are pro-
vided; third, that the local press is in
terested and invited; fourth, that ar
engagements are made with the veterans
and other special guests for the parts
they are to take.
But in AL cases the school principal
mustmake himself personally response
BILE for the work Of each committee.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
IMMENSE ORB DOCKS.
Busy Scenes at the Ports o. Lake
Erie.
Millions of Tons of Michigan Iron Orc
Find Their Way to Cleveland, Ashta-
buIa and Erie-Interesting Inform alton
About q Gigantic Industry.
Especial Correspondence

CLEVELAND, Sept. 30. - When the
great transportation hall of the Column
bian exposition next year is filled with
representations of systems and methods
of moving the worlds products it will
have few that will surpass in unique
and peculiar interest the sight that may
be seen daily at the ore ports of Lake
Erie.
The discovery of extremely rich and
almost inexhaastible deposits of Besse-
mer ore in the Lake Superior districts a
quarter of a century ago, as well as more
recently, has been followed by the
growth of commerce that is unrivaled
of its kind in the world, and nowhere to-
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05

in the business now" he said sadly in a
recent interview. "Old Jimmy Fergu-
son was killed not long ago. He slipped
off the tower of the Albany penitentiary
and was mashed on the ground. But
Jim was too old for this business. say
that when man gets to be fifty-six
years old he wants to quit climbing
steeples. Charley Shaw was another.
He dropped too. He worked on the
stack of Clark's thread mill at Newark,
and the papers were full of it at the
time"
Aleck went to sea at the age of thir-
teen, and soon became noted even among
sailors as a climber. His first exploits
ON land were so well paid that he quit
the sea and now for twelve years has
been doing 'steeple work" as it is called
by the profession" His achievement
on the Manhattan Athletic clubhouse in
New York was the wonder of the time.
The fagpole is forty-five feet long, and
it starts from the crown of cupola
forty feet high, so the top of the pole is
just 300 feet above Madison avenue. He
painted the pole entire in two hours and
got twenty-five dollars for it. Speaking
of his method, he says:
'sI use what's called the boatswains
chair in going up. It's board with a
rope through it. The rope comes up and
winds around the Sple. Then have a
strap down under the chair for a foot
rest. This strap goes around the pole,
and I just push myself up and then
fasten the rope that holds the boat
SWANS chair.
Liberty pole in Philadelphia was
good job. That is 1877 feet high and the
pole is only four inches through at the
top. I went up that, and Logan square
was full of people expecting to see me
slip off, but l fooled them. I finished
that job in three days and got seventy
five dollars for it.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
HIGH Priced Butter.

A report made to The home govern
ment by the British consul at Guate-
mala calls attention to the excellent
field open to the dairy farmer in that
republic. He says that very inferior
butter is now sold there at one dollar a
pound, and notwithstanding that there
is any quantity of available land to be
purchased at moderate prices in the
neighborhood of the large cities, we'll
adapted to stock rearing and dairy prod
nee, not much attention is given to the
industry, and comparatively little butter
is manufactured,
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
M1ssoURI's CONFEDERATE HOME.

MlSSOU6G CONE hOmGs
teristic of southern home in its wide,
double porch, hip roof, deck balustrade
and large, square opening to abundantly
light and ventilate the building. On
entering the visitor will pass through
wide vestibule into a reception hall,
With parlor and Office the building is to-
contain thirty-one rooms. At the head
of the first stairway there will be an ele-
CANT memorial window. The inception
of the project is due to many persons,
but the chief credit for raising the
money and aperfecting the details is due
to the order known as Daughters of the
Confederacy, and their building COM
mittee consists of Mesdames A. G. Cas-
sidy, w. P. Howard and R. w. PARCELS.
Brooklyn has just completed a beauti-
full memorial of her citizens who gave
their lives for the Union in the form of
a triumphial arch, which cost $780,
O00 Kings county furnished about 49,
900 men to the Union cause, and about
one-third of these either lost their lives
in the service or died soon after reach
ing home. AS the population Of the
county has about trebled since the war
began the obligation to erect fitting
memorial of these men was felt to be
imperative. The city of New York soon
after the war placed in Greenwood GEM
etery a magnificent granite obelisk,
with bronze figures at the base, in men,
DRY of her own dead there, and Brook
lyn placed statue of Lincoln in Pros
pect park.
The memorial arch was strangely de-
layed, but it is completed at last, and is
to be dedicated in a few days. It is con-
structed of gray granite, SO white that
without a close examination it appears
to be marble. The bases are of dark
Quincy granite 8 feet high and resting
on bed of concrete s feet deep. The
piers are 2 feet 6 inches by 45 feet, the
arch is 81 feet wide and 49 feet inches
high, and the entire structure is II feet
high and so feet wide. Within each
pier is stairway, and the public can go
up in one and down in the other. The
summit commands a magnificent view,
as the arch stands in Prospect park, mid
way between the main entrance and the
fountain. .
Standing upon the summit one can
overlook New York and Brooklyn, the
great bridge, Staten Island and New
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
A Dusky Petrol.

A rare visitor to English shores is in.
teresting Sheffield naturalists-a dusky
petrol, believed to be the only live speci
men in England. The bird was found
flying about inside fish truck, which
arrived at Sheffield from the north, and
it is supposed that it was attracted by
the smell of fsh--i5s usual food-and
was shut in accidentally. Though the
stormy petrol is common enough in
north Britain, the dusl1y petrol is
scarcely ever seen so far away from its
usual habitat-the west coast Of Africa
and the Mediterranean. Every care is
being used to preserve the bird alive.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
Alarmed at yankee Progress.

The leading commercial and financial
journals Of Germany are in state of
nervous alarm caused by the onward
march of American commerce into Cen
trail and South America. The CONNER
cial bodies of that country have come to
the conclusion that the greatest danger
to European interests lies in the ''new
departure" or commercial arrangements
which this country has negotiated with
the Latin-American Republics and the
West Indian islands. German newspa-
pers view with great satisfaction the
treaty recently negotiated by Germany
with Colombia, from which they antici-
pate favorable results, expecting to
counterfeit by it the inroads that the re-
cent efforts on the part of the United
States have made in their commerce.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05

Few persons can appreciate what
100000 tons of ore means without hay
ing it put in some more familiar shape.
amount or more is received every year,
have river frontage of over two miles,
and are from $50 to 2S5 feet deep. Here
Is heaped hills of fine red and brown
hematite, like so much ocherous gravel,
Or the coarser Jumps of sparkling gray
magnetic ore, varying widely in quality
and price.
The casual observer as he walks
Or at most half q dozen, grades of ore.
but experts know that these immense
conical piles are strictly classified, and
that upward of eighty different grades
have their place in the market lists.
But how much is 100000 tons of ore?
Loaded on fat cars thirty-fve feet long
ind carrying fifteen tons each it would
make train 700 miles long, or more
than five times the distance from Cleve-
land to Pittsburg! Yet this is but about
one-third the iron ore laid down at Lake
Erie ports every summer. The total
would more than fill two trains of such
fat cars extending from Chicago to
New York city!
Besides this great ore traffic, which
annually amounts to sec, 900 or more
in value, there is shipped from the ports
Of Lake Erie an immense amount of
coal, both anthracite and bituminous.
to Chicago, Milwaukee, Duluth and
smaller points, where it is stored for
shipment farther west during the winter
months. This requires very different
set of docks, and in extent they exceed
the ore docks. Cleveland leads in the
amount of bituminous coal shipped,
handling over 1000, 900 tons annually.
The coal docks are over two miles in
length, but narrow, and the coal is usu-
ally loaded directly from the cars by
means of derricks that handle great
buckets holding half ton or more. The
work is slower than that of loading ore
or unloading it, but a new device has
just been erected here that promises to
make it easy to dump whole carload
into vessel at once, and if it succeeds
the work will be greatly expedited.
Without this the Cleveland docks can
handle 1000 ordinary carloads of coal
day, and the total shipments from the
port each year reaches 10000 carloads.
or enough to make train over $50 miles
long! Nothing could better illustrate
the magnitude of these great interests
than that stupendous fact
When, in addition to what goes from
Cleveland, the large shipments from
Toledo, Sandusky, Ashtabula, Erie and
Buffalo are considered the aggregate
reaches an amount as amazing as that
of the ore traffic.
Both ore and coal docks gather an
added interest when one thinks of their
varied and close relations to the com
fort end industry of the central west
and great northwest, and what appears
at first as only strange and unusual be-
comes richly suggestive Of the great age
of steel in which we live, of the wonder
full development of the lake region and
especially the northwest, and of the
amazing increase in recent years in
transportation facilities and their even
more amazing cheapness.
SAMUEL G.. MCCLURE.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05


day will such mountains of rich ore be
found heaped ready for the transform
ing fire of the furnaces as at Cleveland,
Ashtabula, Fairport and Buffalo and at
South Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
The ore being less bulky than coal
can be carried farther than the coal in
the journey toward each other, so that
but little ore is reduced in the upper
peninsula OF Michigan. Much of it
meets the coal at Chicago and Cleve-
land, but the greater part is carried to
the Mahoning valley and western Penn
sylvania furnaces. As the lakes are
open for navigation but seven months
in the year, it is necessary to find a
storage place for the ore required to
supply the furnaces during the winter
months. Accordingly at Cleveland, Ash
tabula and Fairport miles of docks have
been built, lining the narrow rivers that
put into the lake at these points, and
here during the summer is unloaded
hundreds of thousands of tons of iron
ore and gradually forwarded to the fur
naces by rail.
1t is ALMOST impossible to appreciate
the magnitude Of this great traffic with.
out walk along the docks between great
ranges of iron ore hills twenty, thirty anG
fortyefeet in height, only a few railroad
tracks separating them like narrow val
ieys, and overhead great steel frame
work of ore hosting machines. The rat.
tie of the steel buckets as they are raised
from the holds of great black hulled
vessels by the docks and go creaking on
the cantilevers back to whatever point
the engineer has elected to dump them
startles one, and the stranger lodges in
voluntarily as they rush backward and
forward over his head.
& Half hidden behind the ranges Of red.
brown or sparkling gray ore, the colops
varying with the qualities, is the pony
engine operating each set Of hosting
machines, putting and kissing away
adding a familiar element to the strange
scene. Now train Of fiat cars comes
creeping along, drawn by snorting
switch engine. In each car are dozen
fills of those great ton buckets, looking
like such light load as compared with
the heaping coal cars, so usual in other
places, yet testing the strength of the
gondolas quite as fully. A red dust
rises and falls and the laborers are coy
cred with it. Their clothes are ocher-
GUS red, boots the color of the tanbark
piles they knew as leather, and sweat
burrows are down their dusty faces and
through the rust tinged boards.
The unloading of vessel at one of
these docks is rapid work. All the lake
ore carriers have six and many of them
eight matches, and when they come to
the dock hosting machine is put to
work in each. The great buckets are
filed below, while the others are drawn
up and emptied, sometimes being car
ried back on the overhead railway Of the
cantilevers 800 feet or more. Thus it is
possible to take 1900 tons-enough to
load 100 ordinary flat cars-from a YES
sci in six or eight hours.
At present the activity on the ore
docks, whether at Cleveland, Fairport or
Ashtabula, is almost at its height. The
latter point being nearer many furnaces
and having straight river channel re-
ceives the most ore of any port on Lake
Erie, usually running 100000 tons or
more annually.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
Thu BLUE and GRAY.
Honors for Each from a Common
Country.

The Confederate Home Soon to Be Erected
in the State of Missouri-The Magnif-
cent Memorial Arch to Be Dedicated
in Brooklyn.
Every year the bitterness left by the
civil war grows less, and every year the
veterans of the war are more highly
honored north and south. There was
long doubt whether our division would
take the course that in Ireland did after
the treaty of Limerick, the result being
undying hostility, or follow the course
of that in Scotland, where the heroic
achievements of both sides were thrown
into a common stock and became the
common glory of the country. Fortu-
nately we followed the Scottish prece-
dent rather than the Irish, and two re-
cent events may serve as pleasing evil
dences of it.
The first is the building of Confed-
crate soldiers home on a farm bought
for the purpose near Higginsville, Mo-,
in state which never seeded and was
the theater of furious neighborhoodw wars
during the entire four years. The home is
to be finished by June 1, 1893; to have
front of 81 feet and depth of 40 feet; to
be two stories in height and have high
English basement, the whole affording
accommodations for $50 persons.
The building will be placed on mass
i've stone base, with brick superstruc-
ture and slate roof, and will be finished
throughout in natural woods, heated by
steam and equipped with every conven-
fence essential to a comfortable home.
It will be in colonial style and charac-
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
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THE COLUMBUS AUTOGRAPH.

THE COLUMBUS AUTOGRAPH.
learning, according to the standard of
his age, but the use of the pen was even
to him burden, and his famous diary
was probably written as matter of
duty and not of pleasure.
1t is curious to noto that he formed
the individual letters in the same bold
yet uncertain style which characterized
the chirography of Queen Elizabeth.
"Bess of England" could swear roundly
and steer the ship of state with firm
ness; Columbus could bring monarchs
to terms and cope with mutinous sailors,
but when either Of them took pen in
hand the unsteadiness of small practice
distinguishes the manuscript or auto
graph
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05

GEORGE T. WERTS. 1856 Mr.. WerGS
was elected the member of the state SEN
ate for Morris county by a plurality of
1874 votes, and was reelected in 1889 by
a plurality of 1872 votes only. During
the session of 1883 he led the fight in the
senate against the local option and high
license measure which had been passed
by the legislature in the preceding year,
and drafted the present licensing act,
known as the Werts law. He is also
the author of the ballot reform bill,
which is now the law of the state. Last
February Governor Albeit appointed
him to vacancy on the supreme bench,
and he thereupon declared his retire.
ment from politics, but in spite of his re-
peated refusals the Democrats insisted
on making him their candidate for gov
ernOr.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05

Cleveland ranks second, her receipts
exceeding 100000 tons, while Fairport
is third, with 100000 or more. Buff
falo, Lorain and few other points re-
ceive small amounts. The ore comes
principally from Escanaba, Mich, on
Lake Michigan Green Bay; Marquette,
Mich; Ashland, Wis, and Two Harbors,
Mimi, on Lake Superior. The river
frontage of the docks here is longer than
at any other Lake Erie point, but they
are not so deep, and have not as great
proportionate storage capacity as at
Ashtabula and Fairport, where land
near the river is much less valuable and
more easily obtained.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
Bogus Diplomas.

The police authorities at Berlin have
recently been conducting a crusade
against ''doctors" who.use bogus Amer
lean diplomas. Through the foreign
office it has in many instances been as
certained whether or not the alleged
qualifications were obtained after reg
ular course of study at an officially rec
ognized institution, and where this has
not proved to be the case proceedings
have been taken and the offenders SEN
fenced to pay fine.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05

on the Worlds
fair buildings he
went there at
once. The man.
ayers were de-
lighted to see
him, as no one
else had applied
for the job. He
has a. monopoly
indeed, but not
what people gen
orally would call
a '.soft snap"
though he earns
fifteen dollars a
day. +" T h ere
oronHDoa,,xyo f1u
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
A BALLAD OF GOLD GLORY"

It futters from ocean to ocean
High over the elements roar,
The flag of our love and DEVOTION
The star spangled flag we adore!
1t shall reign and shall rule evermors,
Far famed, both in song and in story.
Today and for days still in store
Hurrah for the folds of Old Gloryi
Who can see without deepest emotion
The stars that emblazon it DER
The stars thatin wars fierce conmotion
Flashed triumph DER sea and DER shoroi
The banner confusion that bore
To despot and autocra; hoary.
Striking tyranny right to the core
Hurrah for the folds of Old Gloryl
II foe or false friend have notion
Its provess and strength to explore,
1t shall set all his nerves in a motion
They never experienced before!
oh, tits stronger by far than Of yore
When it crushed the vile plot Of each Toryt
Ho! fighting twill simmer and soar
Hurrah for the folds of Old Gloryl
81
ENvoI.
Their light may its stars never pour
For wrong on a battlefield goryi
May its eagle bird live but to score
Hurrah for the folds Of Old Gloryi
Eugene Davis.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05

1869, and in 1876
W as graduated
from Yale col
lege with high
honors. He then
began to study
law in the Office
of James r. Eng
fish at Elizabeth.
In 1879 he passed
a creditable ex-
animation and
was admitted to
the bar, but did
little practicing
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
MORNING. OCTOBER 5, 1892.

ominous name, was covered with a
thick forest growth. Now it is mostly
cleared and gone to barrenness. A few
stunted bushes crop out here and there.
Spring lends a brief freshness to the
vegetation, which soon disappears, and
ere long the blood red sumac flames in
the sun and the withered grasses sway
in the strong winds, all the work of its
i'll favored name, the superstitious will
say. ALBERT j. POTTER.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
NE DOES "sTEEPLE WORK.

Chat with an Expert Climber About His
Business.
Aleck Virgins wears the belt as the
champion climber of Chicago. A New
York man tool He had been doing all
sorts of high climbs in New York for
years, and hearing that a man was need
ed to put up and paint the fagpoles
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
Germany Took the Lead.

The official value of the merchandise
imported into Santa Catharina, Brazil,
direct from foreign countries during the
year 1881 amounted to $511, 051, of
which $43, $40 came from the United
States, $s32, 800 from Germany, $171.570
from Great Britain, $29, 500 from Uru-
quay $12, 40 from France and the rest
from other countries. -t.....-t
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05

Jersey as far as the Orange mountains.
From the palisades on the northto the
Atlantic highlands on the south, and
from Fire island on the east to the New
Jersey heights on the west the panorama
is indeed magnificent, as the top of the
arch is 225 feet above sea level. The
panels at the base are for appropriate
designs representing the state and the
nation, the army and navy.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05

fession until his
elevation to the
bench in Febru-
airy last. From
M ay, 1888, to
May, 1885, he
served as record
er Of Morristown,
and in May, 1885,
was elected may
or of that city,
being reelected
in 1883 and again
in 1890.
At the Novem-
Der election Of
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
THE LEADERS IN JERSEY.

Two Able Men in the Field as Guber-
material Candidates.
The campaign in New Jersey this year
is one of unusual liveliness, and both
parties have named active and expert
enced politicians as their candidates for
governor. Hon. John Kean, the Re-
pdblican candidate, was born March 3,
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05
Australia's Population.

The population of the Australian con-:
tinent numbers 3,s99,0O0, according to
the recent census. New South Wales is
the most populous colony, beating Vic
toria by 1900 inhabitants.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-05

Few persons can appreciate what
1900, 900 tons of ore means without hay
ing it put in some more familiar shape.
The docks at this port, where that
amount or more is received every year,
have river frontage of over two miles,
and are from $50 to 2S5 feet deep. Here