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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-22

done; how the plan and scope of the expo
sition have grown until they are away
ahead of anything heretofore given on the
"footstool" and much more extensive than
originally contemplated.
Looks Somewhat Auspicious.
So it was decided to invite them here to
see for themselves. About 100 representa-
tives and twenty senators accepted the in
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-22
WHAT THE STATESMEN SAW.

How Desert Has Been Made TO Blossom,
as 1t Were
Yesterday the visitors did little but look
around the city and go TO church, these
who were that way inclined. In the after
noon many went TO the Armour mission
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-22

cultivated. Now both are in the way of
soon being dream Of beauty and grand
eur. The exposition work is going for
ward at the expenditure rate OF 81 ,0O0, 900
a month. The visitors from Washington
looked over a tract of ground whereOn, as
already arranged for, viii be placed the
best evidences of the wealth and progress
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-22
for the Occasion.
NOTED MEN IN The Party.

Senators Palmer, Villas and PETER and
Others-Why This Visit.
The arrangements for the reception of
the party were perfect in detail and very
short time saw every one at home. Among
The best known congressman who came
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-22

TO the credit OF DIRECTOR GEN. DAVIS.
Chicago were pretty busy Saturday, yes
terday and today. 1t was recalled that the
committee of 100 Chicagoans who went
down to Washington to secure from con-
gress the fair left Chicago Feb. 20,
1890. They arrived in Washington Feb. p.
The day after their arrival was
Sunday, the 22d, and Monday, the 23d, at
o'clock the vote was taken by which Chi
cago was chosen. Now, just two years
later, a return pilgrimage is made and it
Is noted that the 23d of February is in it"
again.
The Masses Welcomed Them.
The four trains conveying the congress
sicIa al artI arri,.,.l
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-22

showed under with cards of visitors who
desired personal interview. To many of
these requests the irrepressible congress
man from the Seventh Kansas district re-
sponded, but there finally came a time
about 1880 p m.-when he was forced to
cut them off.
All Willing to Help.
Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire,
is decidedly friend of the fair. Il will
support ony reasonable proposition in its
behalf" said he last evening Congress
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-22

vi t a tion, and
m a n : brought
their wives. For
these re aSOns
President Pal
m e T, Director
General D avis,
NJ ay or W ash
burne, eX-MayOr
Harrison and 9TH
ers who had been
appointed to see
that everything
W as conducted
- =
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-22
The FIRST ENTERTAINMENT

the Scene.
Members of the nations congress were
Saturday evening the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs Potter Palmer The magnificent
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-22
The Park a City in Itself.


tories of the United States.
The Park City in Itself.
The main buildings in which these ex-
hibits are to be placed was found more
than half completed. The greater num-
Der of these are under roof and one. at
least is almost completed The great,
main building with its twenty odd acres
of flooring stands chief among them. "A
monument to architectural and engineering
ingenuity. Everything was found upon
the same gigantic scale. With its electric
light, water works and drainage plants.
jackson park takes on the essential feat
ures OF great worlds city in itself. and
the exposition structures alone will repre-
sent total expenditure of SS,OOO.0OO.
They Saw Sight Worth Seeing.
They saw 4.OC0 men at work pushing
this tremendous job to completion. If
any of them had ever been at Jackson park
they saw a change that was all but mar
velous And they were impressed 1t
was easy to see that some Of them at least
had just got an idea of how big thing
this fair is. ENclamations of surprise, ad-
miration and delight We're heard on every
hand as the party was taken through the
grounds. They We're shown through
the modelling works, where the staff
statuary is being prepared. While
there they walked through the great mines
and mining building. Thence the route
lay by rail to the naval exhibit in the
northeast corner of the grounds. Here On
the highest point in the exposition boun-
diaries a charming view of the whole site,
with the dark mass of the wooded island
bound in the silVery waters of the lagoon
IN the foreground, stretched away at
the feet of the sightseers. And here they
took leave of it all and were whirled back to
the city fun Of wonder at the revelation
given them of the situation at the Worlds
fair site.
Further Entertainments.
The principal events OF the remainder of
the day are connected with the anniver
sary at celebrates-WashiHgt birth.
The Union League club gives celebration
at the Auditorium, and 10 this the whole
Washington delegation was invited. 1t
begins at $50 p. m. and Stewart L. Wood
ford is the orator The club gives a ban
quet this evening, at which many of the
visitors will be present. The orators will
be Stewart l.. Woodford; Senator Daniel,
of Virginia, and President Gates, of Am
herst college.
The Press Club Reception.
All the newspaper correspondents and a
number of the congressman attended the
Press club reception yesterday afternoon.
The entertainment offered was pleasant
and novel. \ mandolin orchestra played
popular airs while the guests were gather
ing, and the members of the club went
around through the crowd making friends
with the guests. Speeches were made by
Major Handy, promoter-general of the
Worlds fair; Senator Gallinger of New
Hampshire; Representative O'Neill, of St.
Louis; Senator Peffer and others.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-22

The four trains conveying the congress
sional party arrived at the Grand Central
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-22

or slXty-nve countries ana provinces OF the
world, and of thirty-five states and terri
tories of the United States.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-22

Then there were Senators GaIIlnger, OF
New Hampshire, Shoup, and Pettigrew,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-22
The Local Markets

Office Rock Island DAILY AND WEEKLY ARGUS
Rock Island, H., Feb. -, 1892
GRAIN, ETC
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WATER CONTAMINATION.

The "Rivers-Pollution Comn1issionu
of England long ago settled beyond all
dispute the untruth of the doctrine that
streams in few miles of flow purify
themselves. The Sanitary Era for De-
cember says that Professor Pettenkofer,
who formerly held to the river purifi-
cation theory, now appears with the as
sertion that water percolating through
the banks and beds of rivers is wholly
free from infectious elements. That
idea was not long ago advanced here, and
we were told that river percolation into
a pit sunk in the gravel of the bed, would
give us perfectly pure water, no matter
how impure the stream might be.
But the Era has this to say about such
liberation being effective:
Sometimes, and for some time, no doubt.
So long as this percolating water finds no i'm
mediate outlet, so that the pressure impelling
II is nearly neutralizeo, and il merely soaks
by slow degrees through a deep and broad
belt of sand, it is not strange that it is often
found pure at first tapping, especially from
organic germs, which could rarely survive
30 protracted a journey under ground with
out nourishment. But when we cut this cur
rent near enough TO its source TO let 1t out
INTO galleries. or pipes in gushing streams the
condltlons are essentially changed, and it is
but question OF time when the organic mat
YET anu traoes that live upon it will peryade
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ms; "a Tobacco Factory" by Joseph
Hatton; Rural Simplicity" by Barry
Pain; "Wolf-hunting in Russia" by DIR.
Z. j. Dillon; 1.-THE Sorting of Paupers''
lillustratedl, by Edith Sellers; San Old
Fife Burgh Town" (illustrated), by
David 5. Meldrum; About Fruit Ranch
ing" by Hugh Marshall; Village Life
IN the Olden Time," by Frederick Gale;
"A Strange Elopement" (concluded), by
w. Clark Russell.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly" for
February is rich in illustrations. The
frontlspleee is a beautiful colored plate.
Among the leading papers are: THE
Deserts of America" by r. J. Hinton;
The kh1edivesse Of Egypt" by Mrs. De-
Leon; Historic Haunts and Homes in
New York" by Colonel Mines; ''Da-
honey" by G. C. Hurlbut; "Gounod,"
by Louis Engel; mime Blavatsky" by
A. L. Rawson; "Couriers of the Air."
Impure Air and Water" ''Shells, Great
and Small, !" and besides there are poems,
tales, sketches, serials, reviews, scientific
notes and historical sketches.
"Harpers Bazar'' tor January 10th is a
superb number, has a supplement pat
tern sheet, supplement four-page illus
trated sheet, four full-page illustrations
and numerous smaller ones, besides fash
ion figures and humorous pictures. The
text matter is all choice-nothing
OuL "AclSSOLlos pure, helpful, el0SALlIlR
and entertaining matter is ever found in
the "Bazar," and its editorials would
grace any reviews and leading journals of
thought of the age. The "Bazar'' is
essentially a family paper, and for women
IL ought to have strong attractions.
The Columbus Number of 'sHarper's
Young People" January 5th) was one
that all boys and girls should see and
read. In brief space it gives more in
formation concerning Columbus, in
form attractive to children, than we had
thought possible. 1t is beside number
rich in other articles and in papers es-
peclally interesting to boys.
The 'Housekeeper'' for January Min
neapolls) is of twenty pages and we'll
filled with matter for the household and
| useful In domestic economy. Beside, it
presents literary matter in the form of
tales, sketches and poems, and articles
on special subjects, such as Horticulture,
art, fashions, etc.
Romance" for January New York.,
! presents seventeen stories, short, dra-
matte, full of crisp vigor, and told with a
literary skill of high order. Grant Allen,
Bjornson, Coppee, Shines, Ketchum, Alice
Gelchell Moberly and Annie Thoms are
among the story-tellers.
Forest and Stream" for January 9TH
was a number of special excellence, both
in Illustrative matter and variety. 1t
deservedly has the confidence of all
sportsmen, and is reliable register of
sporting events, records, trials and ex-
periences.
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the entire breadth of the Iltc9ing stratum and
the water passing through if.
The same scientific journal then pro-
ceeds to show the fallacy of the doctrine
that the current of a stream washes the
banks and beds clean of exfiltered i'm
purities. It adds that close observation
of the banks and beds of rivers will
demonstrate its position. The beds of all
river filters say to the muck layer on
their surfaces, ''Thus far shalt thou GO
and no farther, but the enterprising
atoms next the sand" says the Era,
pay no more regard to the mandate than
the tide paid to the royal presence OF
Knut." 1t adds that the rapid increase
of population and industries is making
itself felt in marked increase of con-
Eliminating excretions drained into water
courses, and will continue to aggravate
the evil.
1t thinks that sanitary science has al
last opened the understanding of the
PSOPAO w VIC AetSb li1e1L SOOO
for cattle is not necessarily good enough
for themselves, and hence they are in
sisting upon purified water to drink, and
that where publication by filter use is
attempted, they are now wisely insisting
that no day shall pass without thorough
scour of the whole body of the filtering
material. This, says the Era, is the low
est price for pure water on the planet.
The Health Commissioner at Denver is
advising the people to cook their mi
crobes; Chicago is complaining of the
foul sediment in Lake View water, and
Chief Dickinson at Cleveland reports the
water three miles out in Lake Erie as i'm
pure as at one-third the distance. Al
Pittsburg the river water is producing
much sickness, and boiling the water is
now the resort. Even that does not de-
stroy the putrescent organic matter
though it will destroy morbific germs
The only real remedy, according to the
Era, for contaminated water is scientific
filtration or distillation.
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TALKING "AT'' VISITORS.

We have fallen into bad habit in Cali
fornia-one that the sooner abandoned
the better. When we receive visiting or
CARNATIONS we invariably arrange to cor
ner them at some time in the proceedings
and talk at them much as if we were fir
ing at targets.
No inhospitality can be fancied more
offensive than that in which the host
greets his guest at the door and holds him
in waiting while he fires at him at short
range long address, in which he boasts
of his hospitality and the beauties and de-
lights of the home into which he has
been invited.
Not long ago body of citizens of the
East were received in a city not thou
sand miles distant from this. They were
marshaled in chamber and chosen sons
put forward to address them. These gen.
tlemen, who are to be commiserated for
the position in which they were placed,
complied with California expectation and
desire and blazed away in conventional
order about the greatness of our hearts,
hospitality, and above all else INDUCED in
the usual vein concerning our GLORIOUS
climate"-all which occasioned two of
the guests who had adroitly escaped i'm
prisonment in the seats and occupied an
advantageous position near the door to
lock arms and retreat during one of the
descriptive flights of eloquence about
this land of sunshine, gush and climate,
one of them remarking to the other:
Let's climb it out of this"
OF course, it was very discourteous on
the part of the tenderfeet; of course, it
was very ill-mannered behavior, and all
that; but it was very suggestive, and we
apprehend that none would more keenly
enjoy the biting criticism than the pol
ished orator who was soaring on the
occasion referred to.
Let us reform our methods; let US cease
to talk ''at' our guests; in conviviaI
moods we may personally talk to them,
and should do so in response to their ex-
pressed desire for information: in post
prandial wit and the humor that over
flows at the generous board we NAV
modestly indulge in such invitation to
attention of sahent'features of the State
as the guests manifest special interest in,
But we ought, from this time forward,
to put restraining tackle on upon our Jaw
machinery, and prove our title as a
hospitable people by leaving our guests,
as far as is possible, to their own thoughts
and devices.
We should provide them transportation
that is the Office Of the host; we should
escort them and respond to their inquiries
that is an obligation of the receiver of
visitors; we should entertain them in
unaffected and unostentatious effort
that is the duty OF hospitality. But let us
hereafter cease to bore our guests, reject
programme-herding of them, and above
all, resolutely resolve that we will no
more corral and talk them to death. 1t
does US no good; it is undignified and in
hospitable; it makes an unfavorable i'm
preston upon the helpless guest; it gives
to our receptions a selfish and insincere
character.
Could the after-comments in which our
visitors indulge in the privacy of their
communing be published to US, they
would, we fear, fatter neither our vanity
nor our taste.
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The idea is constantly advanced, by
well-meaning Americans, that we cannot
afford to quarrel with so small a power
as Chile; that it is unbecoming in so great
a nation as this to manifest belIigerent
disposition towards a small and weak
State; that we can afford to be magnani-
nous and to put up with great deal
from a people who have just emerged
from long internecine struggle and are
yet feyered with the heat of revolution.
But we submit that there are obligations
superior to those of magnanimity; the re-
quirement that our citizens abroad shall
be protected, no matter how small or
what the domestic difficulties of the State
where they may be; that the flag and the
uniform shall be respected and accorded
due honors; in short, that whatever the
nations, tribes or peoples, they shall do
by us and ours as we hold ourselves
bound to do by them and theirs. There
is no magnanimity in submitting to in
suit from small power because of its
weakness. Establish it that the lesser
powers may treat our flag and blue jack
cts contemptuously, and with cruelty,
and that our leniency will run to the ex-
treme Of non-resistance, and our position
as great nation will be abandoned, and
our boast that the American abroad is
protected by the arm of his Government
will become hollow mockery.
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The RECoRD-UNIoN and WEEKLY
UNION are the only papers on the Coast,
outside Of San francisco, thGt recetUe the
faH Associated Press dispatches from all
paris Of the aOorld. Outside Of San Fran
cisco, they haze no competitors either an
influence or home and general circulation
throughout the State
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San Francisco AGENCIES,

San Francisco Agencies.
This paper is for sale at the following places:
L. P. Fishers, room 81, Merchants Exchange,
California street; the principal News Stands
and Hotels, and at the Market-street Ferry.
Es- Also afor sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento
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gale ssrn#. & 90.

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No harm to see them when you are out shop
ping.
Mems Medium Dark Fancy Striped Cashmere
FrOck Suits with fine silk mixture; sizes 81 to
49, Price $40.
Pure Bristle Hair Brushes, polished oval
back, for 25c each.
Mems and Youths Dark Fancy Checked
WorSted Sack Suits in several coloringS; sizes
"a to AZ. Price $40.
Fancy Wool Flannel Shirt Waists, ages to
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Our 81 50 line of Children's Suits will be
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The Arder, Laundried White Shirt plain
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Money Purses, Letter Cases. Bill Books,
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Rufus Warehouses; Fine Neckwear. A full
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Cloth Brushes 25c, soc, 75c and 81 each.
Fancy Turkish Towels at sc each just placed
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weather Forecast.

Forecast till 8 p. NJ. Monday: For North
ern California-Fair, except probable light
rain in the extreme northwest portion; cooler,
except stationary temperature at Eureka and
Keller, and warmer on the middle coast.
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cents bottle MWF
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4pertnl Ltpttrea.

FAST TINE TO THE EAST-The Atlantic
and Pacific Railroad Santa Fe route is now
twelve hours shorter to Kansas City and St.
Louis, and twenty-four hours shorter to Chi
cago than formerly. Pullman Tourist Sleep
ing Cars to Chicago every day without change.
Personally conducted excursions every
Wednesday, with tourist car to Boston.
GEORGE w. RAILTON, Agent 1904 Fourth
street, Sacramento. MWF
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Mall or Express to agents or single subscribers,
with charges prepaid. All Postmasters are
agents.
The Best Advertising Mediums on the Pa
cific coast
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use OF local anesthetic. DIR. WELDON, Den
fist, Eighth and streets.
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teeth are too valuable to be trified with.
When gone, you must have false ones or
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eecond-class matter
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SKATING RINK,
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every Wednesday and Saturday evenings.
The Rink has been entirely renovated, re<
ntted, refurnished and supplied with news
skates Open all day.
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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-04-11
strIngers Cannot be Used.

One of the most reliable newspapers in
the country publishes the following con-
cerning railroad tracks, and tracks for cleo
trio railways in particular: Railroad pro-
jectors, builders, operators and repairers
are being confronted with problem which
years ago produced Embarrassment i'll
thinking how to meet it, and now that is to
be met, and as it can no longer be showed
aside the question looms up and demands
solution. What sort of tie will that be
which must be used as substitute for the
wooden tie in building railroad track2 All
the sources of supply of the wooden tie are
so gradually and rapidly being exhausted
as to render it a very difficult task to pro.
cure sufficient to meet the great demand
for them. Since the introduction of the
electric motor car the tracks for street
railroad lines need to be constru oted as
securely as are those on which the heavy
locomotive runs. The horse car railroad
track could be run on stringers-thst for
the electric car must be laid on ties, which
adds to the consumption Of the wooden tie,
and now forces the question, what sort of a
tie will it be that substitutes the wooden?
Will it be iron or steel2 No matter which
it may be, it will add to the consumption
of iron and produce a boom in the iron or
steel rolling business that will mai
enormous demand for that metal