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The evening world., 1894-06-16
WILD Dash FOR LIBERTY.
Lynch Jumps from a Window
While Handcuffed.
Fell Thirty Feet Head First and
Lives-Accused of BIgamy.

E,ro,o I,,o, ,,.o,
Husehe LYNCH outcher, was he!d In
the Even Street Court. Williamsburg,
to-day on a charge of blramy when
.u,,i,,s ~ r,sn
arraisheo the prisoner was weak and
upset, but Two policemen guarded him
aa.h ,or ,,hart,, ''"''
oash TOT liberty.
A woman visited the court yesterday
and secured n warrant for the .rrest ~
-, - ".
Lynch, saying she was MS wite' that
he had abandoned her and taken another
spouse. Policeman Farrell found the
spouse - n",, ,ounu .ne
nun at % Nusse'i street, Hreehpoiht'
The evening world., 1894-06-16
PEACEMAKER GOT CUT.
Charles Anderson Tried to Stop n
Row in n saloon,

lower jaw with pocket-knife during
fight in saloon at Central avenue
and Moffatt street, Brooklyn, early this
morning.
Anderson endeavored to stop row
between Gustave Skoog and man
named Henderson. and got cut by one of
An ambulance surgeon dressed the
peacemaker's wound. The fighters fed
Brown Anderson. OF IS Third avenue,
and Frank Anderson, OF 645 Central ave.
nesses. but they declared that they knew
nothing Of the fight. and were dis
charged,
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COULDN'T BRlBE THE OFFICER
Youthful Shoplifter Tried to Profit
by the Lexow Testimony.

William Twjl.man. nine years old. OF 432
West Forty-sixth street. has evidently
been reading the reports OF the Lexow
Investigating Committee.
When arrested for shop!iftlng outside OF
Buffers grocery store, Forty-fourth street
and Tenth avenue. last evening. by Police
man Beadle. OF the West Forty-seventh
street station. he calculated:
Let up on me and I'll pay yer!
Twi.!man's delicate offer was declined
The boy, according TO the officer, Is a
member OF gang OF youthful thieves
Justice Feltnar. in Ysrkvile Court. to-
day. committed him 70 the care of Mr..
Gerry's Society for further investigation
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ACQUITTED ON NOVEL PLEA.
Man and Wife Are One, and There
fore Can't Conspire.

t3y NnsOcIated Pfcbs,D
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, June 16.-The
case OF Mr.. and Mrs. Meter, on trial
here on a charge Of conspiracy to de-
fraud DR.. Wilhelm. has been ended by
the courts deciding on q unique point
Of law raised by the defense.
One person Of course cannot be guilty
OF conspiracy. The defense argued that
Mr.. and Mrs. Meter, as husband and
wife, are held in law to be one person,
consequently 1t Is impossible for them
to commit conspiracy. The Court sus-
tanned the defense and the prisoners
were discharged.
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SEVERE STORM IN CHICAGO.
Lightning Kills n Mnn--CIOse Call
for Two Policemen.
CDy Associated Press. }

CHICAGO. June ia severe electri-
cal rain and hail storm passed over the
city yesterday afternoon. doing consid-
cradle damage. Lightning struck the top
OF the Teutonic building. ten stories
of granite from the cornice to the pave
ment, where It narrowly missed two po-
licemen. A.
stone caused several horses 70 run away.
Gotlieb Gotski. a laborer, was Instantly
killed by lightning and several houeck
on the west and north sides or the city
were struck and danl%seth w q
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SENSATION IN ST. LOUIS.
City Council Calls for n MuIlanphy
Fund InvestiRntiOn.

IIIy NSsOclhteu TTe5AI
ST. LOUIS. June l6.-A sensation was
caused at last nights meeting of the
City Council by the adoption OF reso-
luton asking the Grand Jury to investi-
gate the Mullanphy Relief Fund. Reso-
lutlons state that n published report,
signed by J. B. Chambers expert ac-
countant and authenticated by the
Board OF Managers OF the Mullanphy
Relief Fund, contains prima -facie evi-
dence that there has been gross mis-
management and misappropriation OF
the revenues OF that Board during the
past five years.
The property controlled by the Board
is appraised at half million. and Its
real value Is placed at n million dollars
The evening world., 1894-06-16
SKIRT DANCE IN THE STREET.
Pretty DroOklyn Maiden Released
with n Reprimand.

Mary Donnelly. a pretty nineteen
year-old Girl. handsomely dressed, was
arraigned before Justice Goetting. in
the Gates Avenue Police Court. Brook
lyn., to-day, charged with disorderly
conduct. .
The police of the, Seventeenth Precinct
found her late last night executing a
skirt dance to a number OF men on
Broadway, near Alabama avenue.
She pleaded hard to be discharged, as
u was her first offense. She was al
lowed to go with a reprimand.
The evening world., 1894-06-16
Big Ore Find" in Manitoba.
Dy Associated PrcssJ

WINNIPEG, Man, June ls-An immense body
OF auriferoIs ore, mile wide by two
long. Is reported to have been discovered he
tween Rat Portage and Port Arthur, seventy
miles south of the Canadian Pacific Railway,
Assays average s. In gold end 81 In oliver CroIos-
lists have expressed the opinion that the deposit
may be from 5000 to iooCO feet deep.
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Bride Robs Her Husband.


Wy NHhUcIuleu FTebs,I
ST. JOHN, N. D.. June 1s.-James A. TIL.
AGED forty. and his brdssrrived in ttis city from
Springfield. Mass. presumably on 4 Wedding tour
recently. and put up at the belmont House. Yes
terdey TIL found his wife and $500 missing lie
notified the police who captured Mrs TIL late
last evening After brief consultation with TN
fused TO give her In charge.
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is ACCUSED OF ARSON.
The Fire In SmcIIer's Butcher shor
Geta Him in Trouble.

Joseph smeller was held IN the Lee
Avenue Police Court. Brooklyn, this
morning, for arson.
Early last Thursday morning Smel!er's q
caught FIRE and gave the people In the
fats above a big scare.
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THAT CRIN0LINE SUIT.
Jury Unable to Agree, and IL Dis
charged by Justice Gaynor.

SA"rsSu W SuStAce "pyhors
The jury in the suit OF James Thomp-
son, Jr. Of Valley Falls. against Isaac
N. Norwood and Frederick Norwood,
of Brooklyn. for 10000 damages for as
sault, disagreed this morning and was
discharged In the Kings County Circuit
Court, Brooklyn.
Thompson and the Norwood brothers
are manufacturers of crinoline.
1t was alleged on the trial yesterday
before Justice Gaynor, that Thompson.
while trying to discover some Of the
secrets of the Norwoods' business, on
the night OF Oct. 20, 1891, was as
saulted by the Norwood brothers.
The evening world., 1894-06-16
VIII Vote on n village Name.

SOUTH MOUNT VERNON. June ls-rhe tar
payers OF this village on Monday next. will hold
a special election 20 vote on the question OF
changing the name OF tho village To Wakefield.
The evening world., 1894-06-16
lClNNATI IN COMMISSION.
New Cruiser Dressed in Bunt-
ing for the First Time.

ing for the First Time.
cruiser Cincinnati was formally
ia In commission at the Brooklyn
-Yard this morning.
"a. John Rodgers. In the absence Of
H Admiral Bancroft Gherardi. read
Hprder from Washington, and the
and Stripes was hauled up for the
Nime on the new cruiser.
4 he same time the commanding Of
$A pennant went up to the mast
Wand the Union Jack was displayed
bow
Rodgers made a short speech, for
turning the new cruiser over to
mmAnder. Capt. Henry Glass.
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Business Notices.

M other house has the right 10 hottie or use
IA" word hy' Ia connection with Old Grow Whis.
key our ilrm anr Is on the label cork an
capsule Of the genuine Old Crow Rye.
IL. Is. kiTk 4 Co.. New York.
The evening world., 1894-06-16
THE SUMMER GIRL.
Pictures of Pretty Women VIII Ap-
pear in Sundays world"

Living pictures have become SO popu-
lar with theatre-goers that the Sunday
World" will present page tomorrow
devoted to the Summer girl Of 1894. She
will have more drapery than Is worn by
those who pose at the play-houses.
The evening world., 1894-06-16

read '-rhs Evening yvorIdr
Ees rfea ths Sunday weridf
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columns of white enameled brick and
have the plate glass wedged into these
columns without frame work, as is the
case in windows. Make the interior to
consist of one mass of iron network
running from the floor to the roof, 80
that when you stand within it you see
nothing but iron frames rising one
above the other and filling the whole
vast high room. This may give you
some idea Of the book stack. The iron
network consists of book shelves, and
these are reached by stairs which run
from ope tier of iron to another and
by walks of iron paved with marble,
which are suspended between the tiers
at regular intervals from the floor to
the roof. There are several of these
vast book warehouses in the building.
The one have just described will con-
tain 100000 books or more than
are now in the National Library. The
wells of glass give perfect light and
the books are so arranged that the
greatest number can be packed into
the smallest compass, making every
pamphlet thoroughly accessible.
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and the books went up in smoke.
A short time after this, President
Jefferson, who had gotten into financial
straits at Monticello, offered his
library for sale to Congress. He had,
all told, between six and seven thou
sand volumes, many of which were
valuable and rare. Congress paid him
s23,O for them, which was, it is
said, just about half what they cost
him, and they were hauled in wagons
from Monticello to Washington. Par
ton, Jeferson's biographer, says they
made sixteen wagon loads of books,
and that Jefferson was very sorry to
lose them. In 1851 the library had
increased 55, 900 volumes.
Then another fire occurred and 35,-
900 of these were burned, including
many of the most valuable. The fire
took place from defective fues, and
only 10000 volumes were saved from
the ruins. By this time Congress
thoroughly appreciated the Iced OF a
good library and the year following
1900 were appropriated for new
books, and the appropriations have
gone on from that time to this until
we now have 6sO,040 volumes and
1900 pamphlets. Last year we
added about $4,000 volumes to the
library, and the copyrights are now
increasing our stock at the rate Of 5O..
900 and upward per year"
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the main entrance are the types of the
highest order of men, such as the
Greek, the Latin and the Saxon, while
at the back of the building you find
the lowest types, such as you find in
Africa and in the South Sea Islands. I
can't describe the wonderful execu-
tion of these figures. They are the
most lifelike pictures in stone I have
ever seen, and they seem to almost
talk to you as their stern, stony eyes
look down at you from over the win
dows.
The building covers nearly as much
space as the Capitol. Its dome is not
so large, but it's plate of gold makes it
infinitely more conspicuous. If you
will take five city lots and carpet them
with twenty-four-carat gold you will
get an idea of the golden quilt which
covers this immense dome. There is
no room in the United States 30 large
that it would fit this great golden car
pet, and it is the largest golden dome
in the United States. 1t has been
called the largest golden dome in the
world. But this is q mistake. The
dome of St. Isaac's, in st. Petersburg,
has a smaller diameter, but it coyers
more space, and it cost infinitely more
than this. It took 200 pounds of solid
gold to cover it, and when you remem-
ber that gold at the mints is worth SIT
an ounce you will see that even at that
low rate the st. Petersburg dome cost
$40, 900 to gild.
The gold on the dome at Washington
did not cost one-tenth of that amount.
1t WAS put on in little sheets, each Of
which was about four inches square
and one one-hundred and fifty-thou-
sandth of an inch thick. 1t takes two
thousand such sheets to make an
ounce of gold, and this amount will
cover 8 space about as large as that OF
the average hall vestibule. The gold
made in this form costs $27 IN ounce,
and at that rate it must have cost over
$4,000 to gid st. Isaac's. 1 went up
to the top of the golden dome yester-
day and took look at it. The gold
is laid upon copper, and it is polished
go that it is as bright as a new we'd
ding ring. 1t is said to be very dura-
BILE, and is on the whole, I doubt not,
cheaper than the white lead with which
the Capitol dome is painted nearly
every year. The gold was put on by
specialists, who worked under canvas,
and one OF whom nearly lost his life at
the work.
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large as the rotunda of the Capitol,
and it's area will be about quarter of
an acre. It will have seats for 800
readers, and the desks of these run in
concentric rows around the central
desk in which the manager of the
reading room will sit, and from which
he will have connections with all parts
of the library by pneumatic tubes or
other modern inventions, which will
enable him to send message in the
twinkling of an eye to any part of this
great book palace, and by the touch
ing of button bring back the book
he wants. Electricity and everything
that the modern mind can think of
has come to the aid in adding to the
conveniences of the library, and it is
now thought that an electric railroad
will be built to carry the books from
the old library of Congress in the Cap
itol over to this new building.
From this great central dome run
ont like arms massive buildings in
which are to be housed our national
library of the future. These are
known as book stacks. but the word
conveys no idea of their character.
Imagine great, long warehouse, with
glass walls as high as one of the
largest New York flats and hundreds of
feet IN length. Let the sides of these
be walled with glass set into square
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I have not spoken of the 1900 win
dows OF this building. Those OF the
interior and OF these stacks are set
into the walls, great, massive pieces OF
plate glass, as large as good-sized store
fronts. 1t is not possible to raise or
lower them, and they are made 80 for
the protection of the books, in order
that no dust may enter. The ventila-
ton is all done from the roof, and
these windows are washed from the
outside by means of little railroad
which runs around them from story to
story, on which the washers can stand
and scrub them clean.
The acres OF floor in this great book
palace will be of marble. The walls
of the rotunda are of colored marbles
from all parts of the United States,
and in the whole vast, high four acres
of wonderful rooms not splinter OF
wood has been used. All is composed
of iron, stone, cement and glass, and,
as Mr.. Green, the engineer in charge,
told me, there will not be enough
wood in the huilding when it is COM
pleted to make match.
| This building is to cost Sc, 600, 0OO.
| The State, War and Navy cost $lO,-
900, 900, anu upon the Capitol has been
expended, all told, something like
$1S, 900, 900. Uncle Sam will get more
| for his money out OF this than out OF
either of the others. All of the work
is being done under the Government,
and everything is built to outlast the
ages, and Of the very best material. In
one of the rooms l found an army OF
carvers ut work making wonderful dec
orations which are to adorn the ex-
terror, and throughout the whole
building everything went on like the
work of an army under perfect con-
troll and in perfect order. The building
will be completed in about two years,
and within two years and a half the
new library will be in thorough opera
tion.
From here 7 walked over to the
Capitol and took stroll through the
library of Congress. Every available
room in the building is packed with
books. and the library proper is so full
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that you have to march through single
file in order to get from one part of it
to the other. pushed my way past
mountain of bound newspapers up
to the main desk, and asked Mr.. Spof-
ford, the librarian, to tell me some
thing about the condition of the IL
brary to-day.
There are in the National Library
nearly 700, 900 volumes, and in addition
to this there are over 100000 pam
phlets. Mr.. Spofford's brain is such that
he knows just where each one of these
700,0 volumes stands; and he can
tell you in an instant just which of
them ought to help you on any sub
ject you are studying 1t is the same
with the pamphlets, and the wonder is
how one little iron gray head can hold
it all. He is curious looking man,
as dark as Spaniard. He has black
hair and whiskers, now mixed with
gray. His eyes are bright. His frame
is short, 1.-THE and wiry, and every
atom of it is made up of muscle. He
Is the busiest man in the Capitol build
ing and he knows how to do WORK
quickly. He dictates all of his cor
respondence, and his ordinary CONVEX
sation, which is clean cut and exact, is
as classic as the mass of books which
surround him. always feel afraid to
report him. He says just what he
means, and if you misplace word or
figure you feel that it will cause his
black hair to stand on end in indigna-
tion when he reads it.
I asked him as to the story of the IL
brary and as to the new building. He
said: Before Congress came to Wash
ington it had access for time to the
books in the Loganian Library in
Philadelphia. The little city con-
tanned number of scholars and there
was not much trouble in getting infor-
nation. When the capital was moved
to Washington, however, Congress
found itself in the woods and there
were no books of reference or general
libraries. When Jefferson became
President the library was first estsb-
lished, and an appropriation of $1,000
q year was devoted to it. In 1914 we
had here about 5000 volumes. Then
the British came and burned the Capitol
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new National Library building. 1t
will be the finest public building in
the United States, and it will be the
most beautiful library in the world.
It covers nearly four acres and it is
already under roof. Its walls are as
high as those of the tallest New York
flat, and you can lose yourself in its
long corridors and winding passages.
1t has dome plated with the purest
of gold, larger than the largest circus
tent, and the golden torch which
flames over it's top, though it looks
not bigger around than your fist as
viewed from the Capitol, is in reality
as big as hogshead, and it may be
seen from Alexandria and far down the
Potomac. This new library building
is a work of wonderful art. Its ex-
terror is made of drab granite cut in
places 30 smooth that it looks like
marble and ornamented here and there
with wonderful carvings. The build
ing has about 1900 windows, and the
four sides Of the main gallery have
thirty three great arches, the key
stones OF which are images represent
ing the heads of all the races of the
world. Every type of man known to
ethnology has place in one OF these
arches, and the faces are marvellous in
their execution and character. Over
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.


The United States had 219, 1868 retail liquor
dealers July 1st. 1898.
The criminal arrests in the United States
have incl eased more than fivefold since l8GO.
Out Of 1000 liquor saloons in Brooklyn,
about 5000 nre said to be mortgaSed TO brew
erS.
The Chicago Tribune says liquor was the
cause OF 748 murders reported In ITS COL
umns in 1899.
According to the Swiss Federal Statistical
Bureau, Switzerland, though so largely
wine country, has also S24 brewerles.
A large number of souvenirs, in the form
of little square bottles OF mt: vernon WIS
KY" were given away at the "orlds Fair.
At Burgstadt, Saxony, those of its inhabi.
tants who are delinquent taxpayers are not
allowed to be served in the beer shops and
cafes.
OF Gil paupers in the Edinburgh poor.
house not one was an abstalner, ana 4ui al
mitted that their poverty was due entirely to
intemperance.
Alcohol insanity is twice as common in
France now as it was fifteen years ago. ana
the number OF persons placed under restraint
ON account of it has increased twenty-five
per cent in the last three years.
The generally accepted theory that alcohol
is no good "to keep out the cold" has once
more received confirmation by the fact that
the celebrated explorer, DR.. Nansen, VINO
started on his voyage to the Arctic regions on
June 9th. has taken no alcohol whatever
with him except for purposes OF fuel
BENJAMIN Franklin died in the year 1880
lover one hundred years ago); but even IN
those times he had tine sense to know that
HSome of the domestic evils OF drunkenness
-. houses without windows, gardens With
out fences, fields without tlllage, barns with
ont roofs, children without clothing, nrinci-
Piles, morals or manners"
At an inquest held the other day in Eng
land the evidence brought to light the queer
fact that the dead mans life had been In
sured for 800 the liquor dealer whose par
he chiefly patronized. No secret was made
about the matter, it being perfectly fair and
above board, the liquor dealer only wishing ing
to insure himself against the loss OF business
CONSEQUENT onthe death OF o valuable custom
er. The practice is stated to be quite fre'
1uent.
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Leap.Year Privileges.

Why is it that ladies are permitted
to propose in leap year, Here is the
answer:
It appears that in the year 1888
statute was published by the Scotch
Parliament ordaining that during the
reign of Her Maist Blessit Majestic,
Margaret" every maiden and lady OF
high and low estate should have
liberty to speak to the man she liked.
If he refused to take her to be his
wife she should have the privilege OF
fining him $500 or less, according to
his estate, unless be could make it ap-
pear that he was betrothed to another
woman, in which case he would be free
to refuse. After the death of Mar
earet the women of Scotland became
clamorous for their privileges, and to
appease them another act OF Parlla-
ment allowing them to propose every
fourth year was passed.-Pan Mall
Gazette.
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to lock up these pages. Something tells
me must never part with these papers.
"Yes; I have them safe: Now, lying
here, the wallet is safe in my hands.
81 returned to the village then, and
must have wandered around, selling my
books, as Rev. Edwin C. Stiles.
"But now I am sane. My senses have
returned I am Sir Arthur Glendenning,
and am dying!
II know I must have been insane, or
partly so, for the last few weeks; but,
thank God, my mind is clear, perfectly
clear tonight.
at came back to me in such a strange,
unlooked-for way!
at came back. and I found myself
standing at the foot of Reginald's bed,
in my own old room, at Glendenning
Hall
HI stood there, say, gazing into his
eyes, and he seemed very i'll.
"Horrible! How he glared when he
saw me silently looking down at him!
"He half raised himself, as if to push
me off, and shrieked out:
"'Great God Mercy! Mercy" then
fell back senseless upon his pillow.
II could endure no more.
"Horrifed at finding myself in his
presence, and fearing another imprison-
ment, I turned and fed.
"Fled! Yes, fed! Fled from my own
room, my own house, my own brother,
back to this cave, where I Immediately
was taken i'll, and could scarcely move
for days.
II had food to last for a week or moro,
and I crawled out, once in while, tor
water.
"But now food has gone. am too
weak to drag myself to the spring. I
thirst am burning with fever. I think
I shall die!
"But If do, what Of it?
"God knows best
@But supposing l do not die. What
then?
aShall I make myself known, and so
expose my brother, and reclaim the title
and estate be has wrested from me?
"Never! Never
3He is my brother, child Of the same
parents, and-the husband of my lost
love! .
"Poor Constance She shall never be
made sad by acts of mine. She shall not
shed tear over the loss OF wealth, title,
or reputation, if can help it.
"But, blessed be the name Of the Lord,
shall never sigh for my lost home, for
am going to rich inheritance above; "A
house not made with hands eternal il the
heavens
II know by my waning breath, my
fading sight, that this is death!
farewell earth! I shall write no
more; but with my latest sigh, thank
God that die free man."
[To BE CONTINUED.