The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-03
NOW A FAD.
Resorted 10 by Travellers as u
Means OF identification.
FEMININE LEGS ORNgMENTED.
Men and Women n Refinement Now
submit to the Operation, Which is
PainIessIy Done by >Electrici'y.
Some Queer Designs seIected-Wo-
men Who Have Their Lips TattoOed
With Carmine Ink.
PaRadeIphia Reeord.

" AbA va AAhN A"As
Philadelphia Record.
With the big number Of railroad acci'
dents which have marked the Column
bian year there has been a widespread
, boom given to the art of the tattooer
There has been such large percentage
of unidentified dead among those killed
in the smash.ups on the railroads OF
the country during the past few months
that it has had remarkable effect on
the travelling public. Men and women
who year ago would have shuddered
at the nero suggestion Of having the
point Of tattooing needle touch their
skin, are having their names. mono
grams and even their crests tattooed
upon their bodies. And they all say
that they have been tattooed in the be.
lief that the marks made by the needles
will be the best means for the identiii-
cation OF their bodies should they meet
death away from home and friends.
But there is another class Of people,
who, caught by the popular tGd, are
having embleps OF secret societies and
fraternities 10 which they belong marked
on their skin. Many OF the best known
college men OF the country carry the
insignia OF their fraternity worked upon
their arms. 1t is among the drummers
and members OF the theatrical profess
sion, however, that the tattoo man finds
his greatest number of patrons. They
spend large portion Of their lives in
railroad cars, their danger from death
in wrecks is greater than any other
class OF people, excepting railroad men,
postal clerks and express messengers,
and the tattooer is reaping 4 rich re-
ward OF coin from them.
With the spread OF the tattooing lad
in all parts of the United States the
work with the ink and needles has been
made well nigh painless. The tattoo.
ing art has kept step with the march OF
progress in other directions, and u
brand new method OF puncturing the
skin has taken the place oil the old.
Instead Of the !aborious work OF early
days, an electric tattoo machine has
been invented. Where it required an
hour in the old.iashioned way TO tattoo
name or figure, the electric machine
does il in few minutes. The inventor
OF the machine is In this city, and yes
terday lie chatLed Interestingly OF
tattooing in general and the prevalent
craze in particular. Ho is Professor
0'ReilIy, probably the best,known
tattooer in either the United States or
Great Britain. Many OF the most noted
tattooed men and women who have
been on exhibition on both sides OF the
Atlantic are examples OF his skill.
81 have tattooed thousands OF per-
sons, both in this country and Eng
land" he said, "but at present the
craze exceeds anything have ever eX-
perienced during the last twenty years.
Most people believe that only sailors
and vulgar class in general have tattoo
marks put upon them. That is true, in
many instances, by far the largest num-
her OF those that | am tattuolng now
are men and women OF intelligence and
refinement. The only explanation that
can make for this is that the danger
OF being buried among the unknown
dead in case OF railroad, Steamboat or
other accident has been so strangely
emphasized during the present year
that men and women who travel much
very wisely have the neddles and ink
place sure Identification marks upou
their bodies
MANY OF those tattooed, the ladies
artistic surroundings. Men generally
want to be tattooet on the arms, while
the women almost invariably have the
decoration placed on the lower limb.
recently tattooed serpent in brilliant
colors around the leg of one OF the best
known comic opera prima donnas OF
the country. 1t bears her name in
delicate letters Another popular &c.
tress had me place n garter in vivid
hues below the knee OF her left le.: and
tattoo upon 1t Tom; the name OF her
sweetheart, ana one OF the most promi-
nent juvenile men in the profession.
III tattooed the insignia OF Delta
Kappa Epsilon, one Of the strongest OF
college fraternities, upon the arm Of
almost every member OF the society.
George Gould is one OF the young men
upon whose arm placed the symbol
OF the fraternity.
almost every day put secret society
marks on the arms OF patrons. Two
months ago was surprised by call
from tramp. He wanted n peculiar
mark by which he was known to knights
OF the road tattooed in the palm OF his
right hand.
"a peculiar practice among vain
women is to have their lips tattooed with
carmine ink to keep them a perennial
red Quite anumber OF nice young men
come to me to have their lips and also
their cheeks tattooed with rosy tint.
There are many persons who believe
that even diseases can DO removed BY
having tho body from the neck to the
heels tattooed. The carbon in the ink
seems to have beneficial effect. Car
bon is death to poisonous gases or mi
crobes in the body"