The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-11-20
HUMAN COMEDY IN STONE.
The Busts Which VIII Adorn the New L
brary Buildings at Washington.

The Busts Which VIII Adorn the New Il,
brary Buildings at Washington.
Nine busts in granite have been fin
ished for the exterior decoration of the
new library of congress in Washington.
The worthless who first come to the front
are Walter Scott, Dante, Demosthenes,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emerson, Irving,
Goethe, Benjamin Franklin and Ma
caulay.
Judging by newspaper cuts, great
variety of expression has been obtained
by the respective artists who have MAIDS
these nine busts
Walter Scott has the intent, forward
gaze of a college Splinter waiting fos
the word ''go" Dante looks as if DR..
Chauncey NJ. Dapew had just refused to
accommodate him with pass to Buffa-
10. The model who sat for Demosthenes
was Puck's Weary Waggles. Benjamin
Franklin is slyly chuckling over his sue.
cess in lodging big charge of electrici-
ty in Nathaniel Hawthorne's back hair.
Macaulay has put on beautifully and
symmetrically curled wig. Ralph Wal
do Emerson has got the railroad pass
which Dante missed. Washington ry-
ing is listening to the Hon. Amos j.
Cummings latest and best anecdote, and
Goethe has just caught through his
aierG IeIG ear a. IGYIGaUIon TO drink
from a man whom his soul loathes
For picturesque animation the work
of the seven seulptors seems meritorious.
If this is only beginning, the front Of
the new library buildings bids fair to
be human comedy in stone. The ap,
pearance of the second nine will be
waited with great interest. Washing.
ton .atta-
FIRST TRANSATLANTIC STEAMER
She Was an American Vessel Using Both
Sails and Steam.
The first steamer to cross the Atlantic
was an American vessel called the Sa-
vannah. She was steamship, and used
both sails and steam, and was built by
Croker & Pickett at Corlear's Hook in
New York city. The present belief is
that she was built by party of capital
lists who intended to sell her to some
foreign monarch. She was commanded
by Captain Moses Rogers and was a
ship rugged vessel of nearly 400 tons.
She had horizontal engine, which was
placed between her decks, and her boil
ers were IN the lower hold.
It is generally admitted that the Sa-
vannah sailed from New York in 1919,
going to Savannah, her namesake, in
seven days, four of which she used
steam. There she was chartered by the
city corporation TO go to Charleston to
take President Monroe, who was then
travelling through the states on a pleas
ure excursion. He failed to accept the
invitation, and the boat returned to Sa-
vannah. After remaining at this port
for some days and taking out parties
of curiosity as we'll as pleasure seekers
the Savannah sailed for Liverpool
reaching it after voyage of IS days,
seven of which were made under steam.
The arrival of the strange looking ves-
sci, with huge clouds of smoke ascend.
ing from her decks and obscuring her rig
ging, caused quite a commotion when
she entered St. Georges channel of
the city Of Cork, and the commander Of
the British man-of-war lying in the
harbor thought she was vessel in dis
tress and sent two cutters to board her.
Everything found all right, however.
the Savannah was allowed TO proceed
on her way, and thousands of people
greeted her as she steamed up the Mer
sey to Liverpool with the American
flag flying at her head. The Savannah
then made trip to Copenhagen, Cron
stadt and st. Petersburg and then re-
turned to this country, where she wa
relieved of her steam apparatus anC
for many years ran as packet between
New York and Savannah, finally going
ashore and breaking up on Long Island
The Savannah was, Of course, a sid'
wheeler. and as it was impossible tt
carry sufficient supply Of fuel in he,
to keep up steam on long voyage he,
wheels were removed during good sail
ing weather and canvas substituted
The king of Sweden wanted to buy thu
boat when it was abroad, but the dea
went through. Now, those are the fact
about the hrst steamship that ever cross
ed the Atlantic ocean. Washington
Star.
Possibly 1t is not generally known
chat the Aston House block has two own
ers, whose relations are strained, to sa,
the least-John Jacob Aston and Will
liam Waldorf Aston Although the rem
of the hotel itself is necessarily paid j
a single check, that of the stores an
offices at one end of the building is col
lected by the representative of one As
tor, while the revenue from the othe
end is garnered by the representative
! the other, National Hotel Reporter