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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-03-03
A RICE ELEVATOR.
New Orleans Claims the First One Ever
Erected In tho World.

New Orleans Claims the First One Ever
Erected In tho World.
What the New Orleans papers call
'the first rice elevator in the world"
has just been erected in that city, says
the Seattle Telegraph. The plant"
consists of an elevator tower, into
which the grain is directed through q
movable chute from the loaded rail-
road cars and from which it is trans
ferred by machinery to the bins and
barrels of the warehouse, the latter be-
ing connected with the elevator tower
by covered bridge. The rice, on reach
ing the summit of the tower, is spilled
out on rubber belt some sixty feet in
length. running at a high rate of speed
between rollers inclined at an angle of
sixty degrees. These rollers are To-
Gated at intervals of eight feet and
serve to keep the rubber belt curved in
such a manner that the rice is not
spilled while in transit. This belt
terminates just within the wall of the
warehouse, where the grain is received
in hopper. At the bottom of this
hopper is an aperture opened by trap
door, through which the rice is spilled
on to screw conveyor traversing the
length. of the second story of the ware
house and passing over series of bins
designed to receive the grain. By a
delicate arrangement Of scales and
weights the rice is weighed while in
the hopper. At regular intervals rub
Der belts similar to the one running
from the elevator tower receive the
rice from the screw and carry it across
the bins. An ingenious contrivance
causes it to be dropped into the recep-
tacle when that receptacle is reached.
A single man can operate this apparatus
and thus control the movement of each
class of rice, till it is finally deposited
in it's appropriate bin. It's travels are
by no means terminated at this point.
Six screw conveyors traverse the ceiling
of lower story. Opening the trap
doors in the bottom of the bins on the
story above, the rice enters the spirals
of these machines and is borne across
the building and received upon another
rubber belt. This leads directly to the
milling department, where the husks
are stripped off and the grain pre-
pared for the market. The capacity of
the elevator is estimated at about
eight hundred barrels per hour, which
is equivalent to twenty four hundred
bushels, or four loaded cars The
warehouse can accommodate ninety
thousand bushels of grain.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-03-03
She Took Hor Pen In Foot.

A curious marriage took place at Yer
viers, in Belgium few days ago, when
Mile. Elizabeth Kunneich, without
arms, was married to her impressario,
an Austrian. The woman signed the
register with 9 steady foot and the
wedding ring was placed BY the priest
pn her fourth toe D
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-03-03
FAMILY TRADITION COUNTS.

A Dominant Force in the Politics and So
ciety of Little Delaware.
No resident of a great state can east
ly guess the feeling of local loyalty
and of almost clannish pride common
throughout the commonwealth of Del.
aware, says the New York Sun. When
Wilmington is left out of account the
remainder of the state is peopled chief
~ by rural community, native to the
soil and descended from ancestors
often settled for two centuries within
the bounds of the state. There are
many families still holding lands under
seventeenth century patents, lands
that have descended from father to
son all those years without the passage
of title deeds. It is only a few years
since Delawarean about to remove to
the west sold piece of land that his
ancestors had purchased from an In
dian chief as the representative of his
tribe. Long descent in Delaware is
confined to no self-constitutedu upper
class, but is the boast of all sorts OF
people. There are many ancient
churches in Delaware, and probably
every one includes within it's congre-
cation some families descended from
those that took part in organizing the
church. Rural communities through
out the state are curiously immobile.
Surnames are few, and the region from
which a man comes is easily guessed
from his name.
Family traditions are jealousy treas
ured, and family traits reappear gen
Grafton after generation. There is a
numerous family in the northern coun-
ty famous from the fact that nearly all
it's male members have red heads and
heavy red boards. The character is
said to belong even to distant branches
of the family in the west. Long de-
scent, though SO common, is highly
priced, and even where a family has
sunk into disrepute the fact of a re-
spectacle ancestry is held to make its
members little better than just every
day newcomers whose conduct is no
worse. Neighbors in Delaware have
tenacious memories, and old family
scandals are whispered about for gen.
erations. An old gentleman of blame
less life and excellent name never
dared to become a candidate for public
Office because it was recalled that he
had been born out of wedlock. Geneal-
ogies are carried in the heads Of hun
dreds and old ladies often know the
intricate family relationships of half
the community According to tradi-
ton. the Du Points, who have been
making powder for century, used to
remember with satisfaction that an
early Bayard had been halter. Every
community has local traditions Of this
sort and every man lives with the
knowledge that his family history is
known to all who have good memo
rfeS,
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-03-03
WILLIAM LEADS Is BAND.
Tho Kaiser Did Not Like tho Way th.
IA March Was GOING

XnO A01SOr D1O NOE Like the way the
81 March Was Going.
A Berlin letter says: There Is, Of
course, nothing that Emperor William
cannot do. He knows everything. and
can give the most learned good start
and an easy beating in all branches Of
art, literature, music, soldering. or.
in fact, any other matter that mortal
man knows anything about. The mill
itary band Of the Foot guards, which
is about one of the best in Europe,
was playing march in the courtyard
Of the Schloss a few days ago, but the
time did not suit William He thought
he knew more about it than the con-
ductor, so he straightway emerged
from the palace, stopped the music
and, taking the baton from the band
masters hand, conducted the piece
himself to his beating. The musicians
were In q state of terror, but he
warmed them up to galop time, and
when he had finished returned the ba-
ton to the conductor with the remark:
"sNext time you play that march play
it properly. have given you the cor
rect time Now dismiss the band, go
to the barracks and play nothing else
for week. This order was religious
ly carried into effect. and for whole
week the guards knew no other melody
but that eccentric march, which no man
could keep step to.
Another matter which has upset
Williams equilibrium is the fact that
the people stare at him in church. He
doesn't like it, and has now ordered
that whenever he attends divine serv-
ice all seats of which he can see the
occupants, or from which he can be
seen, shall be filed by soldiers, so that
he may not be disturbed in his prayers.
The soldiers are compelled to look
straight before them, and any devia-
ton of the head from the 'eyes 'front.'
is punished by confinement to barracks
and heavy pack drill.
Although he does not initiate his
great-grandfather in criticising a SER
mon in the pulpit during the progress
of it's delivery, William nevertheless
follows in his footsteps with regard to
limiting it's length, and shortly after
his accession issued strict commands
to the. effect that none of the court
chaplains should preach more than ten
minute sermons. The kaiser says by
enforcing this rule he has contributed
in no small degree to the extraordinary
revival of religious sentiment through
out Prussia that has signalized his oc-
cupancy of the throne. Certain it is,
he asserts, that ten-minute sermon is
far more effective and beneficial than
one of twenty, thirty, forty or even
sixty minutes. 1t forces the preach
ers to be concise and to concentrate all
that is best and strongest of his argu-
ment in that brief span instead of
scattering it over a longer period Of
time-a process that naturally dimin-
ishes its vigor aud it's force.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01

IF YOU DON'T READ THE SUNDAY
WORLD" YOU SHOULD.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01
ELASTIC CRIMINALITY.

Justice Gaynor, OF the Supreme Court
Brooklyn, yesterday decided the Sax
ton amendment Of last year to the Ives
Pool law constitutional. The decision
was made In one OF the suits brought
by Peter De Lacy to test the constitu-
tionality OF the act declaring the plac-
ing of bets on race on commission n
felony.
II Judge Gaynor's decision is correctly
reported 1t goes to the marrow OF the
question. He decides II constitutional
to legalize betting at certain times on
a race track. and TO punish 1t as a fell
ony II INDUCED In elsewhere. or II done
on the track on commission. To oidi-
nary minds It seems like legaliaing the
picking of pockets on one side Of Broad
way on certain DAYS in the year. but
declaring It n felony II done or the other
side of Broadway or elsewhere.
The case will be appealed, ana 1t ie-
mains to be seen whether 1t will stand
the test Of the Appellate Court.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01
SHAFT NO. 2"

Forked lightning In strea<s OF Zigzag
,nnressiypness is the main feature Of
the domestic story OF to-day" now being
acted at the Columbus Theatre. Harlem
under the title of SHAFT No. g." The
lightning Is something new In the way
OF stage storms, and 1t succeeds moon
one OF the mooniest moons have ever
seen-over which clouds roll blackly and
ominously. OF far more consequence
than the hero. the heroine or the "doTes-
tic story Of to-day replete with intensity,
are the lightning and the moon. The
audience absolutely stopped the action
OF the play to applaud these electric
effects" which are undoubtedly original
and interesting.
Shaft No. ." itself is not a very val
liable contribution to stage literature.
Its story IL a trifie too far-fetched for
unhesitating acceptance. The villain Is
actuatcd by hatred OF man who TWEEN
ty years before the play opened had
married the girl loved by this villain.
Twenty years Is a long time Time heals
all wounds. as the copy-books say, and
one raraly hears these contests between
men when the woman has reached the
ripe age OF. say forty-five. In order to
bring the mechanical effects into SHAFT
No. g. something has to be done. The
first effect is the explosion by dynamite
OF coal mine. The hero Of the play Is
an electrical inventor. who works for
the gentleman whom the villain has
threatened. The villain. to prevent his
victim raising money by Jims most re-
cent invention, goes down the shaft to
get Jim wounded. There's your dyna-
mite explosion. ready on tap. Then for
the forked lightning. The villain tries &c
steal Jim's electric wires: storm RACES and
strikes villain dead. Tableau, out cont
forget that Jim IL accused OF the crime
In the next act his paralytic mother goes
to plead with the Governor for his life
and in the last act all ends neatly.
The story is roughly told, but In spite
of this the stage effects will make shat
No. g. a very profitable affair. So en-
thusiastic was the audience last night
the sixth performance OF the plece--tha
Frank l.. Bixby. the author. was called
before the curtain. The play will be II
much demand by popular-price houses
Frank Losee played the villain YER,
conventionally, and Miss Gilmore al
Irish role with which she did fairly well
The best work was done by Mrs. w. G
Jones. Paul Scott was acceptable an,
]. F.. Gilbert was not. The company i
described on the programme as "merito
rious." That's new. ALAN DALE.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01
LABOR DAY.

Next Monday is Labor Day and there
azr indications that the holiday will be
& brated with unusual spirit this year.
Tbs hard times through which the work
Ing people have struggled during the
past Winter are now believed to be
about at an end. The eventual settle
ment OF the tariff question after Repub
lican filibustering and Senatorial
treachery promises a revival of bust
ness. Money is flowing into the Treas
ury through the activity at the Custom
House. mills are resuming work and
there IL a general Improvement In the
outlook. The income tax brings the
weklthy tax-dodgers into assessment.
and,by SO much relieves the undue bur-
dens heretofore laid on the shoulders
Of the sons OF toll
Moreover. despite the temporary tri-
umph of the Sugar Trust ring. through
the ivenality Of Senators, the high pro-
tective policy which has built up and
fostered monopolies has received a blow
from which 1t will never recover. The
Democratic pledges to the people have
not been wholly redeemed. but McKin-
leyism IL dead, nevertheless. and each
coming election will bury 1t deeper In Its
grave.
All this encourages labor, and will
help to make the demonstration of Mon
day a significant and spirited AFFAIR, in
dependent Of the fact that the holiday
is becoming more and more popular
every year. 1t has lived down opposi
ton and prejudice, and 1t is now gen
orally admitted that labor. the mali
source OF our National wealth and powe
and the bulwark of our institutions, de
serves to be distinguished by holida!
of its own set apart in honor OF thos
TO whom the country owes so much. II
the great Republic labor Is honorabl
and idleness is disgraceful.
1t ought to be regarded as privileg
by all conditions Of men to observe La
Dor Day as a season of recreation an
enjoyment.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01
Girls. Learn to Cook.

A girl who deliberately marries with
out understanding the art of cooking is
committing a-well, the law of the land
does not call 1t a crime, but the I'M
written law of the home certainly does
constitute it crime. Especially is this
true of those in modest circumstances,
who cannot employ efficient cooks.
Burnt fingers, sour bread scorched
roasts, leathery steaks, wishy-washy
coffee and disordered stomachs are not
conducive to the happiness that one i'm
AGNES the honeymoon should be filled
with. There are so many reasons, logi-
cal and philosophical, why cooking
should be included in the accomplish
ments of young girls that it Is useless
to enumerate them. Good cooking Is the
basis of happiness, health and success
in the home life. One may thoroughly
understand art, music, architecture,
science and philosophy, be familiar
with astronomy, mythology, the myster-
les of evolution, politics and literature
yet II the chemistry Of a loaf of bread
has been neglected the education is
sadly incomplete. so far as the house
mother is concerned.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01
BEAUTY, BRAINS AND THE BIKE.

a woman is going to ride to San Fran
cisco on a bicycle. She has her health
and nothing else to do, 10 she will make
the trip, and she expects to get through
1t all right. She could cross the CONT
nent In shorter time and with more
comfort and less loss of womanly dig
nifty in a Pullman car, but that way OF
doing It wouldn't bring fame. and fame
seems to be what this fair bicycler Is
after.
1t Is very nice to see pretty and
graceful woman on whirling wheel.
Beauty on n bike is a smooth sounding
alliterative. eye-delighting sight. But
there ought to be some brains with 1t,
too, and we don't think any woman on
earth has brains enough to last her
through a cycling trip from here to the
Pacific coast.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01
70 WORK. MR.. wELLnAN, TO WORK

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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01

OF bridge which would make New York
the terminus OF all the great trunk lines
Of railroad in the country.
The close friendship existing between
Mr.. Lamont, Mr.. Whitney and the New
York Central Railroad people is well
understood. 1t would be most unfor-
tunate II the Presidents closest and most
trusted adviser should be Influenced In
his action on such a matter as the con-
struction Of the New York and New Jer-
sew Bridge by any personal considera-
tons. 1t would be unjust to Mr.. Cleve.
land to make him the cat's-paw for fur.
Their obstructing such an important public
Improvement
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01
How to Wave the Hair.

The fashion of waved hair brings
about a new method in the use of the
old-fashioned curling iron. The hair
must no longer be crimped, but must
be laid over the head in large, natural
looking waves. The entire secret lies
in the fact that the iron is no longer
applied to the tip of the tress of hair
and the hair wound over it, but the
tress OF hair Itself is wound around the
iron, beginning as near the scalp as 1t
Is comfortable to hold the heated iron.
The parting of the hair, which proved
so unpopular when 1t was first intro
duced, has been accepted chiefly by
those persons of the Madonna type of
face, for they can bear this severe
style of hair-dressing The delicate
fringe of curls, which so many maidens
still continue to wear, is too becoming
to the majority of American girls to be
driven out of fashion.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01
WHAT CAUSES THE DELAY

Some surprise is caused by the fact
that the Secretary of War has left
Washington on a junketing excursion
before acting on the report OF the Board
Of Expert Engineers on the construction
of the New York and New Jersey
Bridge.
+, 1t is an open secret that Mr.. Lamont
for some reason, has not been friendly
towards that great enterprise. When
the first Bridge bill was vetoed for what
were generally regarded as insufficient
reasons, the new bill was made to con-
form In all respects with the sugges-
lions and objections set forth in the
veto message. 1t was also provided that
q board OF engineers should be appoint
ed by the President TO investigate and
report on the plan OF construction sub
tsct to the confirmation OF their conclu'
sions by the Secretary OF War Under
these circumstances. 1t seems most sin
gular that any further delay or obstruc'
lions should be placed In the way of ar
enterprise OF such vast Importance to th'
commerce OF the country, TO the con
venience OF travel and to the military
operations OF the Government.
The only interest opposed to the bridg,
IL that Of the New York Central an
Hudson River Railroad Company. TIL
Vanderbilt corporation, which has sc
cured the monopoly OF an entrance L
the city by way of spuyten Duyvil, an
has sought to destroy the Harlem Rive
y Improvement for its own profit. Is anx
ious 10 preserve its advantage by pre-
venting the removal OF the barrier @
4 - HUDSON River and the constructio
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01
For n summer Library.

In colony of Summer cottagers there
has been committee formed to buy
a library for the use of the cottagers-
One of the managers of this scheme
says very sensibly: we don't want to
get Lowells Letters or The Heav-
emily Twins for this purpose. All who
wish to read those books may do so in
town. 1t seems to me that we should
have. in stead, ali works relating to this
particular region of country. all legends.
poems, and other illusions as we can
discover them, and then all books OF
Summer life and Of interest to Summer
tourists or country dwellera"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01
The Protected Chump.

To the Editor:
The American worker votes for protection In
order that he will have lots Of work. Then he
Joins a union and strikes against having to work
so much. What is he driving att He evidently
doesn't like work. because the more he gets the
more he kicks. SO it is evident it is not work he
wants. but the reward OF work. wages to buy
commodities But II 1t is merely the commodi-
ties that he wants and not the work. then why
does he vote to pay high taxes on his commodi-
ties7 Would It not be more sensible for him to
want to get them cheaply as possible' Why
does he want a tariff on his clothes for instance.
so that he has to pay 500 for a suit worth about
SO? don't do It. I'm not such chump l
buy my clothes where I don't have to pay any
tariff on them That's in England. and the
American tariff tax pays my fare across. All pro-
tectionists do likewise. The only chump who
doesn't is the protected American worker.
THOMAS COOPER.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01

Capts Cross and Devery have been
found guilty by the Police Board Of the
charges made against them and dis
missed the force. Up to date the result
OF the Mulberry street trials has been
the dismissal Of three captains, four
sergeants. two ward men and three pa
trolmen and the suspension OF one ward
man and the retirement OF one sergeant.
This does not look as II the Police Com
missioners were trying to protect often
ders. although Commissioner Sheehan
has done his best to save some of the
accused from punishment. 1t is prac-
tical. actual reform. What a mistake IT
would be II the renewal OF the Lexow
inquiry should interfere with the useful
work of the Police Board.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01

any serious Injury. had they checked themselves
from jumping out. ~ course. like every other
rule. 1t has It's exceptions No person will stay
In carriage that Is about to plunge over a preci-
pice or be dashed to pieces against a fence or
rock II escape is possible. A timid horse will
take fright at a nyins Newspaper that somebody
has thrown away. or a baby carriage trundled
across the drive by nurse, which was the un-
fortunate case with Miss shanner. And many
times. too, horses away. not from fright
but Just from high spirits They 10 along well
enough on the avenue, but when they strike the
smooth park roads they grow excited and want
to 20 faster. and the hrst thing the driver real
ires they are running away You see that the
danger here 10 not simply to the occupants Of a
vehicle attached to runawsys but to those on
bicycles and in other carriages with which they
may come In contact. But the peril OF the former
| is generally much the greatest. especially where
they are so void OF judgment to jump out
1t does not seem az II the advice Sit STIR would
| be hard to remember. and yet nearly everybody
appears to forget 1t just at the moment when
1t would be most important to keep 1t In mind
| In the excitement Of the moment they appear to
| think only Of parting company with the team.
ELLA M. HESS. . wiliett street, city.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-01
A Hint to

At about twenty-seven or twenty-eight
the average woman begins to get stout,
or let us call it plump. The girl who
from twenty-four to twenty-seven had
an ideal figure begins now to get too
much. She herself does not realize 1t,
because her waist stays the same, or
gets even smaller Chiefly because Of
this has come the increase above and be-
low the corset line-below especially. A
roll of flesh is pusdeh out below the
corsets, and this means getting fat.
Now is the time-not to tighten up but
to loosen. Proportion is the important
beauty Of figure, not a small waist
The proportion of your figure demands
more girth. Give 1t; loosen up till the
roll Of flesh pushed out below the stays
disappearS.