Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-03-23
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The New York and New Jersey poo
room gamblers mean to continue in bust
ness If they can. They have organized the
Municipal telegraph company" profess,
ing to have telegraph lines to all the chief
sporting centers on the American CONT
nent, and claim that they do a strict COM
| mission business when they sell pools on
horses. 1t is asserted that they have leased
wires of the Western Union company and
| will use them exclusively for their busi-
ness. The articles of incorporation are
regular, and are in evidence at Albany.
A perfect working steam locomotive 81
inches long and weighing IT pounds has
been built by matchmaker of Glovers-
vile, for exhibition at the Worlds fair.
The materials used in its construction are
solid gold, silver, steel and brass. 1t is
made up of 2,S38 pieces, including 1858
screws and bolts and 353 rivets. It is 81
inches in height and designed to run on a
track with 1s inch gauge. 1t is said to
be the sm sllest locomotive ever built to be
run by steau,--Mr.- Henry Chase, its
designer, has spent three years of steady
labor in its construction.
This country owns some silver. The bar
silver now stored in the United States
mint at Philadelphia amounts to 10000
900 ounces, the largest quantity ever de-
posted in one place in this country. This
quantity is equal to 6,250,000 pounds
avoirdupois OF 8, 1876 tons. Loaded upon
wagons carrying one ton each, and allow
ing forty feet for each team and vehicle,
this mass of metal would make a process
sion over twenty miles long. The quantity
is 30 great that new steel lined vault, 35
feet long, feet wide and 10 feet deep, has
been built to accommodate portion of It,
Piled full from Fl oor to csiling, however,
this new addition holds only 10000, 900
ounces.
The special train bearing the ten logs
destined for the hsgpoles for the Wash
ington Worlds fair building at Chicago
will be run in three sections of fourteen
cars each. Each of the logs equals the
length of seven fiat cars, though they are
loaded in such manner that the weight is
carried by two of the cars. With the ex-
csption of the two largest, the logs are
placed two together on the cars; but it
was impossible to load the two largest in
that manner, owing to their enormous
weight. The two end cars of the sections
will support the load on raised block
working on pivot. The other cars will
be empty, and the logs will extend over
them above the cap floors. This arrange
ment is necessary, owing to the curves In
the road.
The District of Columbia branch of
the Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution makes public a strong protest
against the attempt to secure for the Chi
osgo exposition the original copies of the
constitution of the United States aud the
Declaration of Independence, which calls
attention to the present condition of one at
least of these great documents. The Dec
lsration, 1t declares, has already become
so faded as to bs almost ineligible in
parts, while what remains can only be
saved by protection in hermstioally
sealed glass and shielding from sunlight.
The society "views with alarm" the propo-
sition to send these precious documents to
the fair, to be kept in a non-freproof
building, and calls upon historical socis-
ties and patriotic citizens throughout the
country to protest against the idea.