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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-04-07
Gen. Lew wallace. New Book.

Harper * Brothers have just made a
definite announcement about the new
book of Gen. Lew Wallace, about which
so much curiosity has been felt. The title
is to be "The Prince of India; or Why
Constantinople fell" Like Gen. Wallace's
previous works it will be an historical ro-
nance. The story begins in 1895, but its
continuous movement is covered by the pc
riOd from l445 to 1853, the date of the
conquest of the old Byzantine capital by
Mahommed II. The assault and sack of
the city-the final degradation of Chris
tianity in the East-form the catastrophe
of the book. Speaking generally, the
publishers say, the book is tale OF love,
war and religion. Its movement is aston
ishingly rapid and varied, and $50 true are
the scenes to the period that they read as
If left to us by living actor in them -
The book is now in press, and will be is
sued early in the summer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-04-07

A. A. Mcleod has resigned as president
of the Reading railroad and the coal and
iron company, his reason being that needed
financial assistance will not be given the
company as long as he holds the positions
of president and receiver.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-03

each other in trying to make the most
noise. From the big ocean steamer to the
smallest of yachts il was all the same. The
whistles of all continued shTieking and
footing salutes TO the foreign ships. From
the big excursion steamers came cheer
after cheer from the sailing yachts with
their sales furled and in tow OF tugs one
gun was fired as each Yacht came abreast
OF foreign man-of war.
The crowds on the excursion steamers
were so great that the boats themselves
seemed 10 DO on the verge Of capsizing,
their port wheels scarcely touching the
water. For two hours the procession con-
tinued to pass. and at times nearly blocked
the limited spGce in which they had to
maneuver. The three vessels that eK-
cited the most interest with the excursion
lists were the English ship Blake. the
French protected cruiser Jean Bart and
the Italian protected cruiser Etna.
At 4:40 the president disemoarked from
the Dolphin and at the finish of the salute
OF twenty-one guns given hi.l from the
PhllGdelphia, the combined fleets honored
him with a national salute. beginning
with the Blake of the English feet and
the Newark of the American. Shot after
shot followed in quick succession, the
smoke becoming so dense as 10 hide the
different ships. To add to the noise back
from the high shore OF the Jersey side
flung the echoes in long reverberaiions
that rolled up and down the shore.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-03
WE SoMyo NANt,a.

were reinforced until q stream OF them
flowed over the high river banks and
blew away the mists. First the masts
and fightinR-tops OF the war vessels were
revealed, appearing 20 be suspended in
air, the lower cloud concealing all else
ahoat. Watching from the New York
shore the black hulls of the for.
eigners were first brought back from
clOudland to the sight of man. That was,
first, because they were black painted
and second, because this line lay close to
the New York shore. More time was re-
quired TO bring out the L. 5. ships, and
for diverse reasons, because of wilderness
and their distance under the Jer-
sey nights. The night-owls and the
early dock birds along the docks down
about Twenty-seventh and Fiftieth-sts
first got glimpses, however, of the white
ships of Spain and Argentina The great
ehsrp-prowed Jean Bart. from France, lay
only a stones throw from the end OF a
dock at Sixteenth-st., and at early dawn
on the warf the denizens of "HelPs Kit
chen" saw her black sides break out of
the SHREDDED mists.
Under the walls OF Riverside drive the
starboard squadron grew slowly out of
the still air, which the gusty breeze had
not yet stirred. but on the level reaches
on the New York shore the low lying
clouds were drifting away in battered
scarfs that Dissolved slowly on the water
soaked atmosphere. Over on the historic
nights of Wehawken and on the cliffs of
Guttenburg, early sight-seers were more
fortunate. The growing breezs ran its
frontlet against the sheer rocks and dived
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-03

The signal boat Cushing scurried up and
down the line with orders and the police
patrol, assisted by the naval reserves on
the tugs, preserved order. The space be-
vessels was kept open so that an unob-
structed view OF the feet was obtainable
from any point on the water front. The
blowing OF a hundred whistles and the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-03

booming of guns at l :15 announced that
the president had embarked and almost
instantly the crews of the men-of war all
along the line went to positions facing the
rail and at the mastheads and tops.
The rain had ceased, and while the
clouds hung low overhead there were in
dications that led the anxious spectators
to hope for the return of the sun. At ! 80
the first boom OF the ten-iHch gun on the
Miantonomoh announced that the Dol
phin, with the president on board was
passing up between the two columns of
war vessels. The rosr of the Miantono-
moh's twenty-one guns was followed by a
salute from the Brazilian ships Repubica
and Tiradentes. Then the Dolphin's re-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-03

Then followed one of the most remark
able sights eyer before seen on the waters
of the river or in the harbor. Each and
every one OF the many kinds of vessels
seemed to have gone wild. They We'd with
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-03

New YORK, April 27.-Rain on the
roof, rain on 10000 roofs. rain washing
the sidewalks and pave, rain drops
pricking the river surface into q
rash of white spatter, rain wetting
the decks and rigging OF the pulse
less war monsters riding at anchor,
wetness above, moisture below, permeat-
ing. satursting everything, everywhere
such were the conditions of the early
morning about this fagsmothered bunt-
ing-decked city. In the night time
q storm that had its birth yes
terday, away to the westward, had
stolen over the Jersey hills and had
settled down upon the city and blotted
ont the dark brow of the sea from the
view of people ashore. Along the Hud
son cloud and water had become one.
The sloping shores were the
sides OF a great flume that had
no existence to the eye AT the time
when the sunlight might otherwise have
been Frightening the fresh green slopes
and the monsters Rfoat dull gray cur
tain lay low and thickly over all. The
night gave wav slowly to the struggling
light that came diffusedly and apparently
without source.
A-Yiew at Daylight.
Out on the bosom of the lordly stream,
somewhere in the dense graz fogs, the ma
vIes of the nations were softly chaffed by
uneasy tides but TO those who were astir
as the daylight wore off the edge of night,
the ships bad been spirited away in
the darkness and no eye could
reach into the gray thickness where
the black waters yallowed about their
iron sides. AS the growing day advanced.
however, a breeze felt it's way over the
banks and across the waters where the
fleets were. 1t broke its way through the
rnis,s. and before the tattered fogs closed
in again the ghOstly outlines OF mssts
and the lines of dark hulls appeared
and half faded again. Then ventur-
ing gusts of air wandered through the
fog land, and gradually the little gusts
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-03
Every Man should Read This.

II any young, old or niiddls-aged man
suffering from nervous debility. weak
ness, lack OF viPor from errors or excesess
will inclose stamp to me / will send him
the prescription Of a genuine, certain
cure, free of cost No humbue. No Ide-
ception. Address Charles Gaus, box 279
Marshall, Mich.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-03
GREATEST OF MODERN TIMES.

For Peaceful Display the New York Re-
view Beats History.
The international rendezvous and re-
view, in honor of Columbus. which mas
been in active progress for nearly two
weeks. eliminated today in demonstra-
ton more spectacular, more noisy and
more remarkable in many respects than
anything of the kind recorded in modern
history. There have been naval revie VS.
of international character before, but none
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-03
Greatest Peaceful Marine
Display in History,
Imposing Parade by War
Ships at New York.
RAIN SP0ILS THE EFFECT.
ThunderOuS Statutes by the
Cruisers Heavy Guns.
The Dolphin with the Presi-
Dental Party on Board

Runs the Gantlet Between the
Double Line OF Battle Ships Gaily
The CaraVels-The Columbian Ball
for the Character of Its Guests aud
the Magnificent Display a Record
Breaker.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-03

downward, thus breaking the cloud walls
at their base. But the day broadened and
the two rows of bristling vessels were at
length revealed. although dimly at best,
for a persistent spring tide rain was falling,
and distances were uncertain and indis
tinct. Aloft a stiff breeze seemed astir,
but without affecting the heavy conditions.
Decorations Spoiled.
One of the most pitiful results of the
storm through the night was the wiltered
and forlorn-looking condition of the many
beautiful decorations of buildings through.
out the city. All their fine effect of yes
terday had passed away in the night and
the water-soaked bunting was as dull in
color as the leaden skies above. The flags
on the house-tops tlosted heavily in the
stiff breeze. After a while all New York
had aroused for its holiday, only to find a
steady downpour of rain ushering in the
day of tine great naval pageant. They
found a chilly east wind adding TO the dis
comfort, and hundreds of thousands of
people who bad arranged TO view
the grsndest marine spectacle ever
presented in American waters, if
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-03
The Music.
High Hats Useful.

"0ur son is determined TO go TO see the
'BackCrook.' What shall do" Buy
two seats, one behind the other, and give
some woman the front one"
Passaic City record., 1893-04-08

curving these plank with hatchets and
axes. They are riveted on with iron
rivets, which are clinched on both sides,
and there are few oaken bolts here
and there. She has no deck, and the
seats for the rowers are probably
having been removed when the boat was
placed in the tomb. A floor made by
notchlng the sides and lower planks and
putting loose boards therein, covers the
bottom of the boat, leaving bilgeways
beneath. There are sixteen oar holes or
row ports on either side, each about four
inches in diameter. These row ports
are SO constructed that the oars can only
be thrust outwards, toward the stern,
and are covered by pieces of wood on
the inside when tie oars are unshipped.
The size of these row ports and the
absence of seats would Indicate that the
short, quick, standing stroke was used
and not the long, man -of-war, sweeping
stroke.
The rudder of this vessel was in ex-
cellent preservation and it is interesting
from many points of view. 1t is on the
starboard (steer board) side of the ves-
sci, and this, the governing side, is that
still sacred to official use in all ships.
This rudder is sort of broad, thick
paddle, with very short handle. It
pivots on a conical piece of wood pro-
jecting foot from the vessels side and
through which rope passed confning
the rudder. A tiller, fastened to the up
<f lod fr,h ho
turned readily by changing the angle of
the blade in the water.
The galley was fitted WITH one NOV
able mast, which stepped in socket
sunk in beam at the bottom of the ves-
sci. At the pardners the mast passed
through a lozenge shaped hole in fish
shaped piece of wood, where it was con-
fined by wedges.
The discovery Of this gallery was of
importance to scholars, as well as to
artists and seamen. Its construction
illustrates many points in art, literature
and history affecting the ship. This
finely modelled craft was probably
Snekar, or Drakar, whose carved PROV
and stern, riding far above the wave,
made her resemble the fancied sea-
snake or dragoon, so much feared by the
sailors of the age.
1t would indeed be great deed if the
veritable remains of the vessel, whose
lord may have at least ventured to
Britain in her, should be brought half
way round the globe to the inland lake
by the newest city of the western world,
probably first made known by an ad-
venturous comrade to the old Viking.
As we cannot possess the original, we are
fortunate, through the kindness of the
Norwegian Government, to be able to
have its exact fac simile, and to compare
her lines with the typical schooners Of
the great fresh-water fleet, and with the
graceful yachts from abroad. Chicago
Times.
Passaic City record., 1893-04-08
The TELAUTOGRAPH.
TRANSMITTING WRITING AND
PICTURES By WIRE
Recording Letters, Figures, Signs
and Sketches Sent From a Dis
tance-Professor Gray's Won
derful Invention.

~ TX years ago last February Pro-
~ fessor Elisha Gray, who has al
l y most devoted his life to the
perfecting of systems of com
munication by electricity, conceived the
idea of inventing an instrument which
would transmit writing by telegraph.
He has labored necessarily since then,
and at his factory at Highland Park has
made thousands Of experiments, but none
Of them was satisfactory until quite re-
Gently, when the telautograph, or long
distance writing machine, was evolved.
The telautograph, as its name implies.
enables a person to transmit instantane-
ously fac-simile of his handwriting or
sketching to distance. 1t consists OF
transm1tter and receiver. The struc-
ture of these instruments is remarkably
simple, is devoid of complication, and
the mode of operation is in all respects
direct and positive. The methods for
transmitting the electric impulses to the
line and then converting them in the
receiver into the corresponding move
ments of the automatic pen are all alike
distinguished by simplicity and direct
ness. Being of positive character.
they are, therefore, not dependent upon
or influenced by accidental changes in
conditions. In the transmitter an or
dlnary lead pencil is used, near the
point of which two silk cords are fast
Passaic City record., 1893-04-08

ened at right angles to each other.
These cords connect with the instrument
and, following the motions OF the pen
Gil, regulate the current impulses which
control the receiving pen at the distant
station. The writing is done on ordinary
paper. FIVE inches wide, conveniently
arranged on roll attached to the ma
chine. A lever at the left is SO moved
by the hand as to shift the paper forward
mechanically at the transmitter and
electrically at the receiver.
In the receiver the receiving pen Is
capillary glass to be placed at the juno
ton of the two aluminium arms. This
glass pen is supplied with ink which
flows from a reservoir through small
rubber tube placed in one of the arms.
The electrical impulses coming over the
wire move the pen of the receiver stimuli
taneously with the movements of the
pencil in the hand of the sender. As
the pen passes over the paper an ink
tracing is left, which is always fac
simile of the sender's motions, whether
in the formation of letters, words, fig
ures, signs or sketches.
Yesterday afternoon in Professor
Gray's Office, the telautograph was tested,
an artist and reporter for the Herald
being present. The longest connection
was made with Waukegan, and mes
sage sent from that place was faithfully
and accurately recorded by the receiver.
In addition to the written message
drawinu of a flower was received accu-
rately.
Passaic City record., 1893-04-08

Those who have seen this vessel as
sure us that her model embodies all that
is requisite for speed, strength, and
beauty. She is no rude craft OF primeval
days, but deftly fashioned structure,
whose graceful lines would do honor to
a sailing craft of to-day. She is COM
plex structure, and must have required
the labor of several men-united and
harmonious. She is especially seaworthy,
and her broad bows distinguish her from
the smoother water galleys of the south.
Boats of similar kind are seen in Nor
way to-day. Bow and stern are alike,
pointed, and rise some distance out of
the water. This is the form given to
Passaic City record., 1893-04-08
DUPLICATE.

The working of telautograph is no
simple that after very little practice any
one can work it. Transmitters were
placed in one end of the room and re-
ceivers In the other, and messages written
by dozen different persons after two or
three attempts. Exact reproductions OF
their handwriting were shown on the re-
ceiver at the other end.
The writing tests having been sat.s-
factorlly made, the Herald artist set to
work to try the telautograrh as
drauphtsman. 1t was his first acquaint-
ance with the instrument, but after five
minutes practice he produced the ac-
companying sketches, which were, as
can be seen, faithfully reproduced on
the receiver.
The advantages of the telautograph
to business men are untold. 1t can be
connected anywhere with the ordinary
telegraph wire, and a merchant can con-
duct his ordinary correspondence and
transact matters of Importance without
the medium of an operator. He can send
instructions from his Office to the fac
tory, close By or many miles distant,
having the same delivered In his own
handwriting. A banker can sign check
in New York without moving from his
Passaic City record., 1893-04-08

hatchet, and piece of wood with hole
into which the shank of an anchor had
been inserted, with few bits of iron re-
naming near by. The remains of two
or three small oaken canoes were also
found, with some oars belonging to the
vessel and to the canoes. The ships
oars were from eighteen to twenty feet
long. There were also found in the
mound large solid copper caldron,
some low bedsteads like those still in use
in Norway, some drinking cups, some
tubs, and several pieces of carved and
painted wood.
Some of the beams were carved to re-
present dragons heads, and many large
round shields of thin wood were also
found, all these having like the walls of
the ship traces OF black and yellow paint
on them. These shields were undoubt-
edly placed overlapping each other along
the sides OF the vessel for ornament and
to protect the rowers from the spray.
There was also landing plank twenty
four feet long, ten inches broad and n
inches thick, roughened on its upper
surface to prevent Shipping. A few pieces
of rope and some woolen rags, part of
the sail, were also found.
The chamber in the ship in which the
unburned body was deposited was tent
like apartment made of logs placed side
by side sloping to ridge pole running
parallel to the keel.
Passaic City record., 1893-04-08

was disinterred from Gokstad. mound
on that sound, IN 1880. The fact that
the mound, which was about $50 feet in
circumference, was made Of blue clay,
accounts for the preservation of this
wonderful relic.
Such interments and such discoveries
of them have been made in other parts
of Scandinavia as well as elsewhere, but
this is the largest and most perfect ves-
sci yet found. Professor Engelhardt
found one in 1868 at Ny Saur, in Schles-
wig, forty five feet long, and another was
found in 1857 at Tune forty-two feet
long. This one is seventy-seven feet
eleven inches long, sixteen feet seven
inches beam, and five feet nine inches in
derth from keel to gunwale amidships,
drawing some four feet of water.
The tumulus, where she was buried, rs
now mile from the sea, but geological
changes show that the water once washed
its base. The boat was evidently drawn
out of the water on bed of hurdles and
moss. The sides were then covered with
clay, the hold filed with earth and sand,
and the mound built up over it. The
PROV was turned toward the sea, as was
always the case in these mounds, go that
the chief should, at the last day, launch
his bark upon the wave. Such mound
burials were common, and Du Chaillu
describes many ship-shaped and boat
shaped mounds, rocks disposed to form
q ship, graves dug in the shape of a
boat, and numerous other remains in
popular ship form in burial.
This was then sepulchral ship the
coffin of some great Viking of the Tenth
Century awaiting the summons of the
cock, which will crow at Ragnarock.
This boat is marvelously well pre-
Passaic City record., 1893-04-08
A Unique Cup.

The origin of the saying, .Wet your
whistle can be traced to the famous
drinking bouts Of old. The accompany
ipg cut represents very curious old
drinking cup, surmounted by wind
mill. It will be perceived that the cup
must be held ia the hand to be filed,
and retained there till it be emptied. as
then only can it be set upon the table,
The drinker having swallowed the con-
tents, blew up the pipe at the side,
which gave shrill whistle and set the
sails of the windmill in motion also.
The power of the blow and the length Of
the gyration were indicated in small
dial upon the front of the mill and also
in some degree testified to the state OF
the consumer. Among the songs of
Burns is one upon whistle, used By a
Dane of the retinue of Anne of Den
mark, which was laid upon the table at
the commencement of the drinking bout,
and won by whoever was last able to
Passaic City record., 1893-04-08
THE VIKINGS SHIP.
A CRAFT A THOUSAND YEARS
OLD Is UNEARTHED.
For Centuries 1t Rested in a Nor
wegian TumuIus-A Repro
ductfon Coming to the
Worlds Fair.

" SMALL vessel, the exact simili-
tude of the oldest surviving
~ relic of the greatest seamen Of
the Middle Ages, will soon
journey from New York by water
through the Erie Canal and the lakes to
Chicago, where will be exhibited this
relic OF the past. The vessel of which
this is an exact reproduction, made by
order of the Norwegian Government, is
no rude affair, although it is 1000 years
old. In its fine lines, careful ccnstruc-
tion and exact finish we find much that
the best art of the shipbuilder has failed
to improve.
This craft herself may have visited
under her owners command the whole
north of Scotland, Ireland, and even
England. One just like her must have
been sailed by Left Eriksson when he
landed upon the cost of Vinland, pre-
figuring the remarkable voyage now
made by the duplicate of the ancient
ship.
As to this particular ship, however,
its age is not ascertainable with any de-
gree of accuracy, nor to whom it be-
longed. All that we do know is that
she was placed where she was found
somewhere during the Ninth or Tenth
Century. She doubtless belonged to
some Viking who made his piratical
cruises from the great Sandetjord, as she
Passaic City record., 1893-04-08

hundreds of miles, the artist having
transmitter and there being a receiver in
the Office.
Professor Gray, who has now achieved
the crowning effort of his career, was
born at GAINESVILLE. Belmont County,
Ohio, August I'd, 1885. He was ed
ucated at Oberlin College, graduating in
1862. Since 1867 he has been in the
electrical business, and in 1869 organ
ized the Western Electrical Company.
Passaic City record., 1893-04-08

A rrculiar looking visitor from Cen
trail America has arrived in this city.
He is undoubtedly ''stowaway," as he
arrived by Central American steamer
from Yumuri TO New Orleans, thence to
Chicago by rail, hidden in cargo OF
bananas and was not on the bill of lad
ing. The stranger was found concealed
in large bunch of bananas. It is said
to be ssbanana rat, but it bears but
little resemblance to the ordinary rat
its nose is long. ears large, eyes large,
black and lustrous, forehead vide, max
ing it look like bear. Its mouth
opens far back towards its ears, and the