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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
WHITE HOCNE DTSIrORS.
Many Congressmen Climb tho Steps with
Aspirants for once.

WASHINGTON. March 1.-THE Cabinet
meeting to-day eEcrcached on the time
usually allotted to callers at the White
House and as a consequence the rush
OF visitors was not 50 great. But the
score OF more Of conciessmcn who saw
MIR. Cleveland had plenty Of applications
for offices 10 hand in. and he was kept
busy until II O'Clock, when the Cabinet
meeting began.
II is understood that Mr.. Cleveland
wishes Il to be known that In the ap-
pointment Of consuls. particularly those
20 places in South and Central America,
he will be guided largely by the adapt
ability Of candidates for business He
wants practical business men. who shall
Oe Democrats. Of course; men who can
assist In the expansion Of American trade
through their knowledge Of business
affairs. He wants these consuls 10 be
persons Of experience in all trade matters,
so that they can readily recognize
whether a port is capable Of becoming
a good market for American goods.
Speaker Crisp was one of the Presi-
dents callers to-day, and with him was
j. w Waters. Of Albany, Ga, applicant
for the district attorneyship for the
South s-n district Of Georgia. Another
Georgian who called was eN-Coneressman
Blount. chairman during the Fifty-second
Congress Of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs Tho Cabinet meeting prevented
him from seeing Mr.. Cleveland. Rumor
connects Mr Blounts name with the
Hdwaiigs commission He came 10 the
White lsouse with Secretary Gresham.
The application Of s. Z. Mayer, OF
Clarksvile. Tenn, % be Recorder Of
Deeds for tne district Of Columbia. was
fled on request b. Representative Wash
ington of Tennessee.
others callers We're. Senator's Gray,
Mills. Irby. Harris Cau. Vance and
Turpic, Representatives. Noses Of Georgia,
Caruih Of kentucky and some ladies.
NcRac Of Arkansas ard more ladies.
Bvnum Of Indiana and Washington Of
Tennessee with a party OF Giris from q
Nashville seminary.
The President ard private secretary
have drawn up the usual set OF rules Tor
the government Of the public part OF
the White House. one Of the rules Is as
follows:
"The President intends 10 devote the
hours designated for the reception OF
senator's and representatives, exclusively
10 that purpose. and he requests their
cooperation in avoiding encroachments.
upon the time set apart for their benefit.
II was reported this afternoon that eX-
Congressman Blount will be designated TO
perform special duties under the direction
OF the Secretary OF State. His position
wilt be a permanent one during the ad-
ministretion. and he will hold much the
same relation 10 the state department as
General John W. Foster did during
Secretary Blainc's incumbency being paid
out Of the contingent fund Of 100000.
which Is provided by Congress annually
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
O'BRIEN'S PROPOSITION
Rejected by the Officers and He WIN be
Prosecuted.

TOLEDO, O., March H-M. ]. O'Bren.
Of Chattanooga. Tenn. formerly treasurer
OF the Catholic knights Of America, and
who defaulted in the sum OF $4,000 OF
the funds Of the order met the supreme
officers OF the organization here to-day
with a view OF making a settlement. He
submitted a proposition TO pay down
g, 500 cash and give bond 10 pay 5000
year In semi-annual installments till
the discrepancy. which he claims is &c.,
0OO. IS made good Mr.. OBrien was repre-
sented at the meeting by General Wheeler,
OF Chattanooga.
After lengthy consideration OF the
proposition the officers rejected II. and
pending a more acceptable one resolved to
prosecute the case against the ex-treas-
urer o. Brien. II viii be remembered.
He'd from Chattanooga before IL became
known that he was a defaulter. but was
subsequently captured and indicted.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
JUMPS THE TRACK Ar 4 CURTE.
The Fast Express on the Central Conn
pleteIy Nrecked-NO One Killed.

MACON, GA. March IA special
from Bolllngbrooke, Ga, says: The fast
express on the Central road was 'srailed
this afternoon two and a-half miles above
BolIincbrooke. The engine and all the
coaches save the palOr car are IN "uins
The train was making it's regular time
end I'm rounding curve jumped the track,
the engine turning completely over IN a
ditch ard the tender reversing itself
fifteen or twenty feet beyond. The mail
and bacpage car went on the opposite side
from the engine and are pile of deb.iS.
The smoker was iammed against the on
ene. md the escaping steam forced the
passeneers 10 break through the windows.
The next coach was badly broke IN. For
tunately the coach did not leave the track,
and WAS converted into hospital for
the wounded. Special trains from Macon
and Forsyth took physicians 10 the "cene.
No lives we're lost Engineer Ramsey Is
seriously hurt and the fireman is slightly
scalded Conductor Beebe escaped un-
hurt. Not more than a half dozen sus-
tanned injuries Of consequence.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
COTTON MILL OWNERS PROTEST
Against the Reduction Of Hours OF Labor
The South Gaining ON the North.

BOSTON, MASS. March H.-At a hear
ing before the labor committee OF the
Legislature to-day representatives OF the
cotton mills at Chicopee, Fall River.
Lowell and Taunton demonstrated against
the reduction OF the hours OF labor In
manufacturing companies 10 81 per week.
claiming they cannot stand the competi-
ton OF mills in other States and Eng
land.
The treasurer OF the Massachusetts,
mills, at Lowell, and the Whittenton
mills, at Taunton, said he was absolutely
driven from the State. and that he Is
going South TO build a mill In order TO
hold his export trade. His goods, he said.
can be made much cheaper In the South
on the indical machine. The South Is
gaining rapidly on the North. though he
did not believe the South would destroy
Northern business.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
SUBURBAN DAY FOR GUTTENBURG
Closing OF the Pool-RoOms Cause Flow
of Yisitors-The Results.

NEW YORK, March l-lt was Subur-
ban day for the Guttenburg track this
afternoon. The closing OF the city pool
rooms caused big influx OF visitors
The crowd was the largest sin, the hoii-
davs. The weather was pleasant, the
track in fair shape and the programme
excellent. While but two races, the sec
ond and fourth. went TO the favorltes
second choices captured the others. he-
suits:
First race. five and half furlongs-
Rig Man first. Defaulter second. Gradn-
ate third. Time, lI3 L.
Second race, half IA mile-CheValler
first. Pie second. Spladie third. Ilne'
g.
Third race, six furlongs-St. James nrst'
Bon Voyage first, Mayor B. third. Iime'
100.
Fourth race, one mile-Fenelon first,
Vfrgfe secor q, Lester third Time 40 II
Fifth race four and halt iurlohss-
Capulin first, Peralto secohu' H'esu'ai
third Time, SO IL.
sixth race. five and a half furlongs-
Perlid first. Midget second, Lord Auck-
land third. Time. ia.
GLOUCESTER, ". j., March l4.-Three
faVorites and a four, six ana twenty 10
one shot won here to-day. Results:
First race. ,mile and one-sixteenth-
Glenall first, Pocatello second, Missiye
third. Time. 200 IL.
Second race. five furlongs-Sue Ryder
(colt first. Pathway second. Jim Foster
third. Time. ll5 IL.
Third race, four and half furlo rs
Trixy Gardner first, John Lakeland sec
ond. Repeater third. Tfne, l:O4 i-2.
Fourth race five furlongs-Mollie V.
first. Richal second. All Ablaze third.
Time, 1913 IA.
Fifth race, six and a half furlongs-
Houri first, Gloster second. Eolic third.
Time. 1885 ii.
Sixth race. five furlongs-Black Knight
first. Jim Clare second, Bias third. Time.
1872 IA
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
The War-Ships Arriving.

WASHINGTON, March 14.-The Chicago
has arrived at Hampton Roads. where she
will remain until the naval review. She
was docked and cleaned at New York and
ordered 10 Hampton, as there was not
room for her AT the New York yard.
The arrival OF foreign vessels to partici-
pate In the naval review is daily expected.
and other cruisers now at the New York
yard will folew the Chicago as soon as
they are in condition. so as TO make room
for foreign vessels.
FORTRESS MONROE. March a.
The Chicago, which arrived here this
morning, has been Joined by the Atlanta,
from Key West. and they constitute the
advance guard OF the home squadron for
the naval review.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
Lawn Tennis Contest.

JACKSONVILLE. FLA, March II. -
Contests for the tropical championship"
In lawn tennis. which have always been
participated In heretofore by national
champions and aspirauts for that honor.
were originally set for this year at st.
Augustine March 1fth. Tampa Bay Hotel
Mar IN 2lst. and Magnolia Springs March
2sth. Subsequently the St. Augustine
date was withdrawn and now contests
will be held only In the two latter places.
upon the dates named. The games Will
be played on both in singles and doubles.
The contestants are all men OF national
reputation and prominent in national
tennis tournaments.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
NINE MEN KILLED.
Reports Of Fatal Mine Explosion at An
derson, In Indian Territory.

KANSAS CITY, MO, March IA spe-
cial from McAllister, l. T., says Mine NO.
1, owned by the Choctaw Coal Company.
at Anderson, I. r.. six miles east Of here
on the Choctaw Coal Railroad Com
pany's property. Is reported 10 have ex-
ploded.
The explosion occurred az l:D o'clock
last night. and was caused by the prema-
ture explosion OF blast. There were
only eighteen men IN the mine at the
time. or these nine were killed outright,
and eight so badly burned that they will
probably die. The dead and injured are
mostly Italians. Tho mine Is owned and
operated by the Choctaw Coal Company.
and is considered one OF the best In their
possession.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
Mr.. Gladstone Much BETTER.

LONDON, March 14--sir Andrew oiarS.
Mr.. Gladstone's physician, states tna'
Mr.. Gladstone has moi got the innuenza.
Mr.. Gladstone has slept well, Sir Andrew
says. and is much better. but remains III
bed with view 10 recuperation-
Gladstone is so much better as 10 DC
able TO conduct all his correspondence.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
The l.. and n. Refuses to Obey the Orders

NASHVILLE. TENN, March H.-John
Ruhm. United States district attorney
filed in the Federal court here yesterday
the bill OF complaint OF the Interstate
Commerce Commission against the Louis
Vile and Nashville railroad. The bill al
Ieges that the company has steadily re-
fused and continued 10 refuse 20 obey
an order made by the commission under a
decision OF the commission relative TO
determinations in coal rates charged
shippers 10 Nashville over its lines.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
Central Rum0r Denied.

KANSAS CITY. MO-. March A-Ths
Central railroad OF Georgia representa-
tives deny the report circulated 70 tne
effect that the company was again tssu-
ing passes 10 the packers Al a meeting
OF the shippers Il was demonstrated thai
the report was without foundation.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
RANGE OF THERMoMETER-

Range Of the thermometer at The Times
ofHce yesterday. March H. 1893:
A. NJ, 81: ~ NJ. 81; r. NJ. %:
p. NJ, SO: p. NJ. 90; midnight u
Average. 81 So
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15

LONDON, March 1.-THE lanure 10
posted I'm Liverpool OF Btgland q harvey
stock brokers. who operated largely In
the American market. The deficiency OF
assets is estimated at $4,000.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
British losing twenty-three killed and

british losing twenty-three killed and
thirty wounded.
The trlbesmen, finding themselves una
BILE TO resist any longer suvIni''su ~
British authority. The result y, ..tnh t
struggle greatly strengthens the British
nosi,,or ~ what was considered its
weakest point in the vicinity OF Hin
dukush.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
Lord Salisbury Has n Cold.
STATESMAN WITHOUT 4 JOB" WOW

LONDON. March 14-Lord SALISBURY
is confined to his house by cold.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
4 i,innrr to Tx s cr,tn v racy.

WASHINGTON. March .i.-Secretary
Herbert. % the Navy Department will
go 20 New York tonight 10 be present at
q dinner to be given BY the Hamilton
Club 10 cx-sccretary Tracy.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-25
The Little Fellows Answer.

The story of the rich mans selling all
he had and giving unto the poor was the
subject of discussion in certain Sunday
school class not long ago. The teacher
was Illustrating the moral that the les
son conveys. One of her most attentive
listeners was a little fellow scarcely 6
years old, but as bright as dollar, and
with tongue that uses the queens Eng
lish in manner that would make that
motherly old soul squirm if she heard it.
FNow," said the teacher very impressive
ly, ''if a man is fortunate enough to
make 81, 100000 in the course of his life,
it is his duty to give half of it at least to
the poor" eyes," interrupted prim
little girl in one corner, ''but how many
men make 100000 in the course Of
their lives?" There was silence for a
moment, when the little fellow chirped
in the caustic answer, "Darn few
Utica Observer.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-25
MILLS SHUTTING DOWN.
Important Action of a Recent Meeting of
Maine Manufacturers.

Sanford, August 24.-Some of the
largest wooden mills in Maine will shut
down within the next ten days to wait
for restoration of confidence. This
movement was decided at "a meeting of
the Wooden Manufacturers Association
of Maine held at Bangor, Tuesday.
Among the mills to suspend operations
are the plush and carriage robe factories
at Sanford, the largest producers of those
fabrics in the United States Mill No.
of the Sanford mills, containing the
carding, spinning and weaving depart
ment, shut down Wednesday night.
Thursday the printing department. shut
down and Friday night a total suspen-
sion of1all except the blanket department
in Mill Noe will take place. These
factories give employment to nearly 800
hands.
The Goodall Worsted company has sus-
pended operations in the weaving de-
partment, 100 looms now being idle.
There is, however, prospect that the
yarn department will be kept in opera
ton.
The wooden manufacturers prefer to shut
down their factories and keep what raw
material they have in stock, rather than
put the manufactured goods on the mar
ket and wait indefinitely for their pay.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-25
Not a Lawbreaker.

It was in the public garden. Two
pretty little boys were running upon the
edge of a big flower bed and jumping
off, only to run up and jump off again,
while a nursemaid smiled at them en-
couragingly from bench under a tree
near by. After they had made the bank
like border very ragged. several of the
gardeners came by, and one of them
stopped to reprove the children. ''See
here, stop that" said the man. $50 over
there and play under the tree"
why, we mustn't play there" said
one of the little boys with dignity.
'sCan't you SEQ that sign there to keep
off the grass?" And, entirely satisfied
with his own Difference of law and or
der, he went on jumping on the flower
bed as soon as the gardener had passed
out of sight. Boston Transcript.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-25
HEAVY ARTILLERY VETERANS.
Reunion of the Boys Of the First Maine at
0rono.

Orono, August 24-Thursday was a
day that will be long remembered by the
citizens of Orono. The flags here were
all flying in honor of the reunion of the
First Maine Heavy Artillery Association
'Thirty-one years ago, agallant company
of Orono boys, headed by the late Col
onel John w. Atwell, marched away to
the front. This regiment won for itself
an immortal name during the war, max
ing the most daring charges the world
ever knew. At the reunion there was a
very large attendance.
The forenoon meeting was called to
order by President Albert P. Eastman
of Washington, D. c. The following
officers were elected:
President--Albert White. Orono.
Vice Presidents-Chas. Hamlin, Bangor; G.
j. House, Augusta.
Treasurer--H. E. Sellers, Bangor.
Secretary-Isaac j. Dunbar, Winterport
Directors-H. H; Shaw, Portland; Rufus P.
Peakes. Bangor; V. D. SWeetland, Palmyra;
haven.
Messrs. H. FL. Shaw, Chase Hamlin
and George X. Fernald of Wilton were
elected as committee to arrange for
the erection of the monument on the
Opars farm near Petersburg. 1t was
also voted to have history of the regi-
ment printed.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-25
Puzzled over a Word.

knew an old lady once who was great
" puzzled about the word s'ridama-
daisy" Often she told me when she was
little girl in Ireland her mother would
say to her, "Come, now, get your slate
and ridamadaisy and be off to school,"
sssNow," she would say, II can under
stand why you call child's lesson book
primer or a preparatory or even a
chart, but I never could understand
why our book SHOULD be called sridama-
daisy5"
The daughter had often heard the moth
er so express herself and had often won
dered at the strange word as applied to
a lesson book, but one day, after hearing
her mother hold forth on the subject, the
daughter said:
Mother, don't you think you mean
reading made easy?" The old lady
studied awhile and at last said: ssWell,
I don't know but what you are right, but
can hardly believe that after studying
and puzzling SO long and never being
able to find meaning or solution for
that strange name, 'ridamadaisy, that
it was so simple after all. Yet reading
made easy must be the proper word, but
what made you think of it?' ssWhy,"
said the daughter, who was school
teacher, ga little boy came to me today
and asked me for a new pray paddy
book and it took me some time to find
out his pray paddy book was a prepara-
tory lesson book, and I thought some
easy solution could be found for your
absurd 'ridamadaisy book and at once
/ thought Of reading made easy"
P. G. Kelly in New York Advertiser.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-25

tirely due to bad If not questionable
financiering. The receivers appointed
Thomas F. Cakes, president OF the COM
pany; Henry G. Paine of Milwaukee,
prominent corporation attorney, and
Henry G. Rouse, president OF the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas-are all accept
able to the board of directors, though
they are supposed to represent the
STANDARD Oil interests" rather than
those of Henry Willard, who was chair
man Of the board up to June last.
The company has paid no dividends on
it's preferred stock since May, 1892, but
has been engaged in a scheme for fund
ing its floating debt by the issue Of col
lateral trust notes. Since it was char
tered by congress in 1864 it has frequent
ly defaulted in it's payments, the first
time as far back as 1874, after the fail
ure of Jay Cooke SEQ, its fiscal agents,
and in 1875 it was placed in the hands of
Of receiver-George w. Cass. Then
came the first Willard regime, which
promised so much and did so little, and
finally went up in smoke because the
floating debt had become unWieldy.
Willard retired then, as he Shas this
time, amid considerable clashing of adj
verse interests, but before long was again
practically at the helm and directing the
financial policy of the road along lines
alleged by interested people to be the
reverse of conservative and safe. Asuit
to recover $40 900, 700. said to have been
lost to the road through his mismanage-
ment, has been begun in Philadelphia
John D. Rockefeller, who was elected to
Wizards position in the directorate, re-
fused to serve, but his refusal was not
made public until after the receivers
were appointed:
There are now about 90, 900 miles of
railroad in the United States in the
hands of receivers out of total at the
end of 1899 of ia, 1928 miles, This esti-
mate includes the Northern Pacific, $500
miles; the Erie, 1868 miles; Richmond
and Danville, 3,258 miles; East Tennes-
see, Virginia and Georgia, 2,613 miles;
Georgia Central, 1851 miles; Reading,
1,1S5 miles; Union Pacific, Denver and
Gulf, 1853, and number of smaller
companies.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-25
COMFY ISLAND STORM SWEPT.
Guests in a Hotel Aroused Becauee the
House Was Likely to Go to Sea.

House Was Likely to Go to Sea.
Coney Island, N. Y, August 24.-The
most disastrous storm of years howled
around Coney sIland from midnight last
night until long after daylight this
morning. 1t was accompanied by the
highest tide ever known here and the
destruction by wind and tide falong the
shore will undoubtedly reach far into the
hundreds of thousands. From Norton's
Point on the westerly end of the island
to Point Breeze on the extreme east, the
beach is full of wreckage The marine
railway running to Manhattan Beach was
totally washed away, shutting off this
section of the island from communlca-
ton with the west end. The Brighton
Beach hotel grounds are wrecked and the
lawns and walks completely gone. All
the small buildings around the Brighton
were more or less damaged. Hotel
Brighton itself is intact. The tide swept
up to the electric railway tracks on Sea
Breeze avenue, nearly an eighth of a mile
from low water mark. AT West Brighton,
the damage was more marked. Palmer's
mammoth. bathing pavilion, the largest
building in the world devoted to such
purpose, is a wreck, it's sides beaten in
by the wind. BOWS bathing houses
NSiO WI Il iLOlA LOoAAtd SiH
tributed along the beach or carried out
to sea. Small buildings were overturned
and there was general wrecking OF
shanties, sheds, merry-go-rounds and
other apparatus used to amuse the holt
day crowds Manhattan Beach escaped
with less serious damage than the other
parts of the island as the buildings are
all of a larger and better class, and the
whole shore protected by heavy bulk
head filled with stone The only damage
done at this point was by the heavy spray
which beat over the bulkheads in foun-
tains thirty feet high, damaging the
lawns and flower beds and undermining
slightly the Manhattan Beach hotel,
causing it to settle in places
Probably 200 buildings, more or less
pretentious, were destroyed and the con-
tents lost. 1t is reported that man busy
saving property was lost, but the report
was not substantiated The guests of
the Hotel Brighton, were awakened by
direction of the proprietor just after mid
night, as it was thought possible the
rising tide might destroy the hotel.
They remained up all night. The first
train over the Brighton road in the morn
ing carried away nearly all the guests.
Hundreds of wagons are on the beach
gathering up the wreckage
AT Sleeps Head Bay the avenues were
washed out, trees uprooted and vessels
damaged. Advices from all the country
towns tell of the over turning of trees
and damage to houses and property.