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the patter Of the rain for which they
had 30 fervently prayed and with green corn as
the piece de resistance, or that Thanksgiving in
June. 1857. after victory over the Pequods when
the menu.
On these occasions, though. the colonists had
evidently quite lost sight Of the part that the
autumn harvest plays in the observance-the
prehistoric significance Of the festival. the
season being with them purely and simply q
many-voiced thankofering in acknowledgment
OF the lettering Of their condition. After IT
became On annual affair it supplanted in O
measure the English Christmas, whose celebra-
ton was too ri otous TO meet their strict re-
ligious noflons-this the .puritanic Tanks
giving, supplying the unalioyed devoutness
which was the one thing they would willingly
have retained in the Christmas Of their fore
fathers.
ASSUMING NATIONAL CHARACTER.
As has been seen Thanksgiving day for the
first sixty years Of its existence was hit-and-
miss affair as to time and place. and even after
1t had settled down into an annual autumn
festival IL the people did not feel particularly
encouraged the observance of it was liable to
be omitted, and it did not assume its national
character till during the revolution, when Con-
gress recommended the yearly appointing Of
such day. In spite Of this, though in the
years intervening between 1884 and 1889 there
were no Thanksgiving days. In 1889 Washing
'oh issueoa thanksgiving proclamation IN view
OF the adoption of the Constitution and after
that to the time of Lincoln. the example of
the first President was Internationally followed
by his successors.
but only since 1858 can Thanksgiving be said
to have been fixed and universal American
custom, and in that year the governors of the
different southern states united with their
eastern brother officials in issuing Thanksgiving
proclamations, and the example set by Lincoln
In 1868 Of issuing Thanksgiving proclamation
suggesting the last Thursday in November as an
appropriate day has been followed since with
out break by every occupant of the presidential
chair.
Though long in coming to its fulfllment,
like some fair oak tree that requires many years
Of storm and sun to bring it to its full beauty,
Thanksgiving, the Sunday Of our national year,
is now an imperishable monument Of the faith,
the benevolence and the softer graces SO often
averred TO have no existence in this practical
worl. .1ay American world.
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40 HE Is Now
Friday brought his career to a close and trans
formed him from wealthy man to q pAuper.
However. he recovered sufficiently to begin
life again o coal dealer, and for few years
was highly successful. But his mind began to
give way, and about a year ago he failed leav-
ing liabilities greatly in excess Of his assets
At the close Of a severe illness be taken to
the insane asylum q mental wreck, and re-
NAMED in seclusion there until his death
short time ago.
PROM SEWING MACHINES TO WALL STREET.
Alden b StockweIl, one Of the most celebrated
OF the Wall street wrecks, was born in Paines-
vile, Ohio, and in early life purser on one
Of the Lake Erie Steamship It happened that
on one OF the trips of his boat he made the ac-
quaintance of Elias Howe, the inventor of the
sewing machine needle, who was taking pleas
ure trip in company with his daughters. The
young purser was very attentive to them, and
when they made the return trip on his boat he
succeeded in establishing himself in their good
graces to such an extent that he looked
upon as family friend aud afterward married
one of the daughters. On the death of his
father-in-law Stockvell obtained full con-
troll Of the sewing machine company, which
was then making enormous profits, enough in
deed to have satisfied any man Of moderate
ambition. But the profits were not large
enough for Alden b. Stockwell. who by this
time had become interested in one or two Wall
! street ventures, and the year 1870 saw him in
stalled one of the most prominent men on
the board 1t about this time that he
began buying Pacific Mail stock at go and
| never left of till he held controlling interest
and the stock was worth 105. He then turned
his attention to the Panama Railroad Company,
and after that made president of the then
new road, the Atlantic and Pacific. At this
time he was living in splendid style on Madi-
son avenue, and often handling from
fifty to hundred thousand shares of
stock in a single day on the exchange. His de-
cline and fall began about 1878. when a politi-
cal scandal in regard to the Pacific mail subsidy
developed and compelled his retirement from
the various companies in which he was inter-
ested. He left New York and went to Europe,
and when he returned but a small part of his
former fortune was left him. He still owned,
however. seat on the stock exchange and with
the fatal persistence of q born gambler, he be-
gan to do trading business there. Some years
ago he was compelled 10 sell his seat and buy
one in the consolidated, and, a year or two ago
he failed on the latter exchange for less than
$500, an amount which he might have given
away in his prosperous days without MOTTO
ing it.
ONCE vAyDERBILrs CONFIDENTIAL AGENT.
Another brokeu-down Wall street magnate
who was once worth %, OOo, 600, slouehes around
the bucket shops of lower Broadway dressed in
a particularly seedy coat ard attracting very
little attention from any the few who
know the story of his career. And yet this
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bargain sales" or drives in muslin, :" "saugh-
tiers in socks, or any of the other "Cheap
John" devices for attracting trade that are com
mon with other houses in the business. On the
contrary 1t had no signs in its windows or over
its doors, and for a great many years the two
partners were not on speaking terms with one
another. few years ago one OF the partners
died, leaving a fortune of several millions of
dollars. and the surviving member Of the firm,
impressed with the success which had attended
the financing Of one or two business houses
into joint stock companies. determined
te capitalize the firms wealth, good will
and name, and invite the public to
invest its money therein. 1t was at this stage
of the proceedings that Henry s. Ives who
had been intimate during his prosperous days
with the family OF the dead partner, appeared
on the scene, and so influenced that partner g
widow that she permitted him to control her
interest in the house. With the confidence of
the widow and the consent of the surviving
partner, Mr.. Ives, who had recently emerged
from an enforced retirement in Ludlow street
Jail, undertook the work of financing the con-
Germ and placing its securities on the market
He knew enough not to make himself promi-
nent in the venture and before the in
vestors realized with whom they had been
dealing the firm had been turned into a Joint
stock company, and Mr.. Ives found himself
$500. 900 to the good. With this sum Of money
IN his safe and with bitter experience behind
niin Ives reenters the money arena, conndent
that another decade will see him IN a position
similar to that occupied by Mr.. Jay Gould at
the present day. Those who know him best
declare that he has the ability to accomplish
great things and had he secured control of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad when he at
tempted it some years ago he would have been
looked upon as Goulds legitimate sue
cessor, and then all things might have
been possible for him. Meantime this dapper
young man with the eyes Of cold steel and the
peculiar narrow face is frequently seen IN Wall
street. in the uptown cafes and in various
places Of amusement. He Is no longer associ-
ated with his old partner, Geo. H. Stayner.
Men Of his stamp usually prefer to work alone.
RUFUS r. WILSON.
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A
same seedy old gentleman, now perhaps seven
ty-hve years Of age, made a cool million Of dol
lars out Of Commodore Yanderbilt's great Har-
lem corner in 1868. John W. Tobin was for
merry gate keeper on the Staten Island ferry
during Commodore Vanderbilt's control He
attracted the attention of the old fnancier,
who gave him opportunities for advancing
his position in life, and his protege was
clever enough to make the most Of it,
Iobin first came prominently before the
pubic In connection with the great Har-
lem corner already alluded to, and which was
brought about through a contest between Com
modore Vanderbilt and the common council of
New York This body had in April. 1863 passed
An ordinance authorizing the commodore to
build q Broadway street railway, thus ante
dating Jacob Sharp's scheme by nearly
quarter Of century. As the road
was to be run in connection with the
Harlem railroad the stock Of that company,
largely held by the yanderbilts, began to go up,
advancing In . short time from nine to
seventy-6ve. This remarkable rise suggested
TO the common council a chance to sell out the
commodore and make some money for them
selves. Therefore they had determined to re-
peal the ordnance ct the time and In the mean
time sell the stock 30 short that when the repeal
was announced the stock would 60 down and
they would be able to rake in millions Of dol
lars. But Vanderbilt found out what was
going on, bought up every share a. fast as it
pealed found himself in possession of all the
stock there Was and several thousand shares be-
sides, while the council saw with araazement that
the prices were advancing instead Of going
down and they could get no shares with which
to settle the contracts they had made in such a
sanguine spirit. Eventually matters were ad-
justed on the basis Of 179 for the stock, in
volving loss to the common council and their
friends Of several millions Of dollars. Tobin
was the commodore's trusted agent and as
sociate In this scheme, and it made him Q mill
! lionaire.
1t Is recorded In the history Of Wall street
that year later a second attempt was made to
down the founder Of the great Vanderbilt
family. and this time by the state legislature
who defeated by q vote Of $50 to 80 the commo-
dores bill authorizing the consolidation Of the
Harlem and Hudson River roads, Repeating
the tactics OF the common councilmen, the
state politicians sold the stock short. but Van
derbilt, aided by Leonard Jerome, Tobin and
one or two others, bought up every share in the
market, and compelled his antagonists to settle
at 2s5. 1 have heard that Tobin finally
quarrelsd with his chief over q chect
which he had given to John Morrissey
TO pay gambling debt Morrissey com
plained to the commodore that Tobin hai
bad the check stopped at the bank and defiet
him to take the matter into q court Of law
This conduct enraged the old man and b.
ousted Tooin from the presidency Of the Hud
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credit, position and friends-these old fnarciers
hang about the ticker in DelmOnico's, and now
and then, when in funds, go into some bucket
shop and bet FIVE, ten or twenty-five dollars on
the raise and fall OF the market. 1t seems
strange to an outsider that so few Of these men
should have saved even a modest country
home or q few thousand dollars out Of the ir vast
fortunes, but it is a fact that there are dozens
Of men 10 be found within a hundred feet Of
the stock exchange who have been millionaires
within the past quarter of a century and who
are now almost objects of charity.
OF course. the most famous OF all these
wrecks Is Ferdinand Ward, who not long ago
emerged from Sing Sing. to which he had been
sentenced for a ten years term But, unlike
others Of his class. Ward is not to be found
near his old haunts- At present, believe. he
Is living in little Connecticut village with his
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John W. Hobart, at one time one Of the
wealthiest and most successful brokers in Wall
street, who closed his life Of sixty years in the
Essex county, n. j., insane asylum. Hobart
was born in New York. and when still young
secured q position as Office boy in a Wall
street office. He was successful and finally
went into the brokerage business himself,
in which he accumulated an enormous for
tune. He built a magnificent house in
Orange, ". J., and in the days OF his
prosperity used to drive q four-in-hand to
the Valley Church, of whose Sunday school
he was the superintendent. But Black
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Stranger In tovn-"Sis, why don't You get
your hair cut2''
Sis" Cause when I get little older I'm
goan to DO Circassiam beauty, father ID the
fan-ltpped buzzard and mother 10 the Sumatrian
cork chever, and I've got . sister what can
swsiler terbacksr an tie her ear into true
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DAY JOHANNESBURG
The Origin Of the American Feast
Day Among the Pilgrims.
nihcance pf the Festival-when 1t Was .
Movable Feast Day-In Later Years.


llS L u n II n n L IA
been q sorry time" said
a hoary-headed pilgrim.
1.-The hand of Provi-
dence hath been heavy
upon US and methinks
it were indeed well to
institute a day Of fast
ing in expiration Of the
evil that hath caused
this visitation Of the
Lord"
1t was Plymouth on
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SHB WRECK As He WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO.
small cheap restaurant somewhere down town
He Is known as "Old Hutch" and his right
name 10 Benjamin p. Hutchinson Old Hutch
made his money by q series Of operations
In food staples on the Chicago market, but
since he lost his money and left the western
metropolis he has become hopeless, and
now serves only a. . laughing stock for mes
senger boys and cheap clerks. who love to hover
about the door Of his New York pie shop. He
has never made any friends, and so, Of course,
his hfe IL . worse than lonely one.
FORTUNE AND MIND vRRCKEp.
Old Hutch win not be the first man to lose
his reason after his fortune is gone, for not
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LIZ bANAkL-o vi W ALL
and broad streets are
covered, after every
great financial storm,
with greater or lesser
wrecks that have been
cast up there by the
waves. Every panic
adds to the number OF
those who fit about the
streets, mere shadows Of
their former greatness.
Even after everything
has been lost-monsy,
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IN SIGNAL TOWERS.
Telegraphers Who Hold the Safety
of Thousands in Their Hands.
A Branch of the Railroad the Travelling Pub
lie Is Interested in-Many Lives Depending
Upon the Faithful Performance of Duty
How Accidents Have and May Occur.

T Is SAFE TO SAY
that one Of the hardest
problems that the large
railroad corporations
will have to solve
within the next six
months will be the safe
and speedy handling OF
the immense throng
that will visit the
worlds fair in Chicago
next year. Block sig
nails and interlocking
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BucxN0EAn's dye for the whiskers can be an
piled when At home and ID uniformly successful II
coloring brown or black. Hence its great popu
larity.
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Practical.

Practical.
From Life.
Lize-"What 20 got to be thankful To-
nigga7"
Uncle Mose-"Dst chickuns can't see after
dak"
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From Life.
Hall back. % las he is dragged from bsue.sA
esrrck load OF scrap iron that var orsrtur,.S
on -isa): Wen % soach DOWN."
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IxsrRucTrNa srupEyrs.

Another loophoIe through which the ODD
orator can escape work and thereby increase
the danger to the train service il the student
orators SO as to be in readiness to take their
places In case OF sickness or discharge, and in
this way salaries arc kept down. The operator
at hrst resents the intrusion, but as the novice
begins to come around and becomes able to
work the signals and later on the wire many .
quiet snooze is INDUCED in with the green hand
ON duty. Everything goes along smoothly for
many months, and it is only when a mishap oc-
ours that We learn Of the true situation. but
when it docs come the delay il amply compen-
sated for by its horrifying results.
"But, to continue, let me cite Q case with
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WALLSTREET WRECKS
Men Once Worth Their Millions Who
Are Now Penniless.
EX-KING OF FINANCE.
Some Have Been Reduced Actual Beg
gAry-Life Stories which Read Like I'm
probable Noveis-Riss and Fall In Finan-
cial Circles.
Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
AkA-AA

Nzw York. Nov. "a, 1892.
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THAMES IN DETAIL.


Instead, too, Of a general expression Of
thanks, IS Is now the custom, they rendered up
thanks in detaiI-on one occasion it would be
in return for much-needed rain, then for tri-
umph over the Indians and again for the safe
landing Of the English supply ships. One time.
indeed, in July 1921 when rain finally came after
prolonged period Of drought and prayer, they
appointed . Thanksgiving Of one week in dura-
ton.
We're such q peripatetic Thanksgiving to
come in vogue again it would be quito a shock
TO Us OF this generation, with our preestablished
notions Of Thanksgiving a. inseparable from
roast turkey, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.
Fancy sitting down to our Thanksgiving dinner
In April whom We might esteem ourselves lucky
we were furnished with asparagus a.
delicacy and rhubarb pie as dessert, for il We
had been pilgrims or even Massachu setts Bay
colonists We would have been obliged to choose
between taking what the soil produced or going
yishont, these present happy days Of q whole
doors in midwintsr not being yet on The
Amerfcan program. Or imagine the Thanks
giving dinner Of July, 1871, partaken Of per-
hsps 70 the delightful accompaniment Of
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A MOVABLE REAsT,

Nor has this result been brought about with
out ieak and intermission and with complete
unity Of purpose, for though the other colonies
followed the example Of Plymouth in appoint
ing day Of Thanksgiving, it by no means &C.
CURED as matter Of course that the day sci
BY them was identical with that Of Gov.
Bradfords people, or that thanks were offered
up for the same thing. In fact. Thanksgiving
TIL es late as $780, nearly sixty years after its
idea was first suggested, was eminently q NOV.
able feast, liable to occur a. any time from
January to December and in any place
throughout the colonies, wherever the various
inhabitants felt gratitude to be becoming
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1892-05-12
Recortamos de La P0tsiG de Santiago de
SANTO DOMINGO

"Nuestro t0legrama de sntes de aver, dice
que 81 Gobierno DominiCano ha vendido. una
parte dc Ia isla una compsfia americana. p
Dada Ia mala redacci6n del Gelegrsma debe an.
poncr que 50 ha enagenado algo del territorio
della Repdblica.
Segdn nos manifesto un amigo, enterado
de los asuntos dominicanoS, puede suceder oue
el Gobierno haya vendido terrenos que posee
On gran escala, para el fomento de incas de
todas eaases Despues del Tratado nos dice
el amigo aludido han estado en- aouella RenG.
blica algunos representatives smericanos oes.
EOnandO estOs asuntoS
No hace mucho que una cOmpafia inglesa
ma compradO particulares al Estado Cerca
de 5000 cabslleriss de TERRA On las provincias
del Este"
Nosotros solo tenemos que s1iadir 10 que
dice 81 diario cubanO, que la Constitution pO-
Utica dc Santo Domingo declara uno indivi-
Sible el territorio de la Repdblica.
que son muy celOsos. de 50 Independent
ola los dominicanos, y rnuy patri6tas, para
consertir que ning6n gobierno atente contra Ia
integridad nacional
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1892-05-12

Quien, indudab ablemente, sera uno dc los testigol
del nOviO, el dia de Ia ceremonia, IL Que Droba
blemente se verificaT6 81 mes entrants. ri te
legrsfo he anunciado "a la ce,ebraci0n del re-
teridO matrimonio.
FL Sr Martinez de Roda Sc a,oia en- el
elegante hote]l Plaza, que est4 muy cerca de ls
sOberbia mansion de Ia archi-millonaria viuda
ri Marques c0nOci6 Ia hermosa dana er
uu bale verjf "adO haoe ocho meses eul Lega
ci6n dc Austria en- Madrid.
La fortuna de Ia seflora de B5rrios se cal
Cula On $40 900 600 La espl6ndida casa en- que
vive actuaimente cost6, en- 1881, $500 600. y
tu6 comprads por O. G aneral Barrios al hacer
su famcsO viaje al rede lOr del mundo.
La Sra de Bsrrios SO cas6 cuapdo tenia IA
amos, ahOra debe tener cosa de 80. Es una
mrjer muy hermosa, dc esclareoido talento. =
habla iDg'6s frances Ia perfecci6n Su es
pOso fu6 matado On ia baJalla de Chaichups e.
2 de Abril de 1885 Els b ia del senior don Juan
Aparicio. comerciante COM sionista de Ia ciudad
de New York
El seflor Martinez Rnda es miembro del Par
lamento espanol por la provinoia de. Granada.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1892-05-12
% correspondence Do Pnerto-Rico.
Mf{ycO1cs, IL de 1favo az, 1892.
EL CR u p

CreemOs OpOrtunO publican algunos para
tcs dc Ia carta que desde Chichester (cODdadC
de Lusse6 ha dirjgido don Arman Kuntfeld 81
Director general de Comunicaciones se nor Man.
gi. Dice asf:
Hace pocos sfios, cuando la epidemia
dift6rica sft'jia IngIaterra, un caballer0 sc
propusO acomps1Ar en- euG v1GitaS 81 C6lebre
doctor Field, con OtjetO de presenciar lss fA-
moses curas que llevab cabo cusndO por to-
das parties sucnmbian tantos atacadOs.
81 remediO era tan T6pido como sencillo
TODD 10 que el doctor levaba cOnaigo era sim
plemente for de azufre y un cadoncito de plu-
ma, con este curaba todO Gle nte, sin ex-
cepci6n algunS.
g tPon'a una eucharadita de for de azure
una cucharills de las de t6), en- una copita
de aqua 10 revOlvia bien CON gel dedo, en- veg
De hacerlo con la cuchara, pOrQne el asufre no
Sc mezcla bien con eI aqua.
"CuandO el aEufre eGtaba bien mezcadO.
hacfa que 81 enfermo hiciese g4re aras con ei
y en- diez minutes Sc hallaba 81 atacado fuera
de peligTO.
..El azufre destruye todo g6nero de hon
gos en- Ell hOmbre, en- los animales en- las
plantas en- pocos minutes.
: En- vez de escupir arrojar el gargaris-
mo, 81 doctor TecOmendaba Sc trsgase
En- los caSOs extremes. cuando le llama
ban en- 81 periodic On que el hOpgo se habia de-
BarroEladO hasta obstrUir casi la garganta, con
oDlafO dc fac1 itar 81 gargarismO, fntroducia Ell
6zuf Q en- Ia garganta, poni6ndOJo en- un canon
dc puma y soplandO, y cuandO las fuDgOsida-
des Sc habfan contraido, entonces daba 81 gar
gari0mO menciOnadc, Jam&S Derdi6 nm solo
entermO atacadO de difteria.
u agdn pacieDte no podia hacer garRaras,
t0maDa Un 8sCua y eSpOlvOY eaba Ia cSntidad
de una cuchariila pequeia de azure, 8 veces
dos, hacia al momento al enfermo aspirar el
humO. De este m0do las fungOsidades ersn
destruidss."-[ Copisdo]
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1892-05-12
Baquero ' Gandara

OFRECEN.-Cerveza Cristianfa logfti
ma en- cRjas de 48E1 botellas $40 Gaia
Id 4" "722
Bacalao de Esc0cia superior On caias
de medic quihtaI 411 M
Idem g de arroba
ManteQuilla Danesa legitima maroa L
=. Brun, lata amarillo oajas de 100 la
tas de.1a - $50 %
CajaG de 200 latas de media libra
=. Recibid0 por los. dltimos vapores de C6diz
30 cajas Cognac-Je maroa Rafael Ro
moro So GAIA. a. -, =
20 cajas PonChe Militar marca Rafael Ro
nero $113 GAIA. s s. s
De Canariaa, On canastdtos de 400 caraco
les cada uno, hemoa recibido una partida de
200 canastos que vendemOs rs Oentavoa.
Procedente dc Liverpool ha ensrado how
on nuestr0 puerto el vapor espaIiOI EkGacise1
C0n carga general para variOs.
Retreta mahana por la banda del Batall0ri
Cazadorea de- bon nnmero 29 lis Paao dohle
"La = eQmpahIs 4 Yaleto-aas 1Rals .nl coecs