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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-26
Won by the Ouakers,

The Friends School eleven defeated the
DOT bail team from Tall River High
chool on Lintoln Field tns forenoon.
fhe score wss % to 0,snd 8 were made by
the Providenos boys in the frst half.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-26
l;uIneh hx Iira.

AUGUSTA, Ca, Oct 90 Fire in the lun-
Der md planning mill Of Jesse Thompson
a. Co consumed the plant. Forty-four
houses wcrv destroyed Several hundred
IrlnLe are hOmelnss.
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nensni,ated by a Train.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Oct 2d-George B.
Smith of Derby was instantly killed last
night by stepping in front of an express
train, his head being completely severed
from his body.
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Late Financial News.
ronAY,s srocK BOARD.

WALL STREET, Oct. 20. Trading was
brisk at the opening, but prices were
irregular. The market trended upward
under the leadership of Sugar and the
Grangers and then reispsed into dullness.
Leather preferred was the feature OF the
dealings. The shares declined 7-S per
cent to 70 3-s, rallied "a 1-2 and then
down - 1-2
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-26

New York Cotton futures opened easy;
sales 13. 200 bales. Jan, S.H; Feb. 'S 90;
March, s.. 81; April, s.62; May, 5. O;June,
s.75; July, $50; bid; Oct, S.35; Now,
8 s.33; Dec, S. 40
The herald., 1895-04-07
THE BLIND SHlPBUILDHR

Much has been written, deep has been
the speculation and varied the guessing
about the new cup defender-the yacht
which is being built to race against the
British challenger for the time -honored
Americas cup. The wonders of the Her
reshoffs of Bristol, r. l.. the men who
have designed and are constructing the
craft, have been elaborately described
but absolutely nothing has been said or
written about the most unique and won
derful feature of the whole enterprise. |:
This last is John Brown Herreshoff,
famous today and for the past generation
IN New England as the blind ship builder
Nat Herreshoff, who has just recovered
from dangerous Illness is the man most
spoken of in the newspapers in connec-
ton with the new boat. lie is popularity
regarded as the designer and the head
and front of the famous concern, but the
real head of it, to those familiar with it's
workings. is the blind man.
John b. is the president of the Herre-
shoff company, and his younger brother.
Nathaniel, is the general uperintendent.
The latter attends to all the outside work
and the actual supervision of the men.
But most of the head W Jrk and the pre-
liminary planning is done by the elder
man. He lays the foundation and lines
out the skeleton structures for the others
to put together and fill in.
The average day spent by John Herre-
shoff is unlike that of any other man who
il at the head of great business institu-
tion. Being stone blind, it seems an
mpossibility that he could attend to such
intricate matters as yacht designing and
machinery making. Every figure ana
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That is the way optimists are inclined
to look at it. tand whether coming events
will bear out this theory; eIily time will
show. At all events the trainers of the
big stables are preparing their strings
with as much energy as if the coming
season would be the greatest in the his
tory OF the turf.
The great trainers, the men who have
costly stables on their hands, are now
having their hardest tinre, educating
budding 2-year-olds up to racehorse trim.
doctoring old cripples so that they can
again face the starter and getting last
seasons crack-a-i jacks into proper shape.
The trainer is grand mogul about a
great stable at this particular season of
the year, and is even of more importance
than che owner or the SIS, 900 jockey.
Upon his Judgment and work with the
horses rests the all-important question of
withdrawing or maintaining the entries
in the various stakes, of wedding out the
racers who have no chance of proving
bread-winners, of selecting good exercise
boys and getting the intricate machinery
of big stable into good working order
for q hard campaign.
curious thing about the most success
full trainers of the day is that they were
all Jockeys in their younger days. Many
OF the trainers are big, portly men weigh
ing 700 pounds or more, and, looking at
them today. it requires strong stretch
of the Imagination to picture them as
weighing ninety pounds or SO and riding
a finish with the desperate energy of a
Sims Tarai or Griffin.
Wyndham Walden ranks in the first
batch OF leading trainers of America.
He is a big. solemn man, dignified and
taciturn and with a fine record for hon
esty. He was born in Virginia in an at
mosphere OF horse racing and turned to
it as naturally as horse turns to grass.
He never thought of following any other
pursuit, and his opinion in this respect
has never changed. His father was a
trainer before him and looked out for the
horses OF Francis Morris. father of John
A. Morris and grandfather of A. II.
Norris the owner of Morris park, the
finest race course in the country
Walden's horse education was a
thorough one. When little boy his
father first taught him howssto lead the
horses; then he was allowed to get in the
saddle and give them walking exercise.
Later he was permitted to ride at trot
and, after another period of practice, at
gallop. 1t was some time before he was
ll-hedged exercise boy and could
warm the horses up at top speed before
race. In time he was given regul ar
mount and rode some clever races. But
increased weight, the nightmare of all
Jockeys got hold of him at an unusually
early age, and he was debarred from
further work in the saddle.
Then he took up training, the natural
course of Jockey incapauitated by
weight. He trained for George Lorillard
and developed the famous Sensation,
who made the great record in his two
year-old form of winning eight straight
stake races. He also made the record
with Mr.. Lorillard $, horses of running
one two, three with Sensation, Rosa
lie and Grenada three times.
For several years past Nv Walden has
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Bismarck entered the ranks OF the octo-
genarians on Monday, and world
shouted as he crossed this rarely
touched milestone of time.
Bismarck will find himself in excellent
and brainy company on the thither side OF
his cighticth birthday anniversary. He
will find the school yard full of gay old
BOYS and girls. He will find Pope Leo at
81, writing Latin sonnets. just as in the
olden days when as lad he surprised the
Pecci family by his precociousness He
will find the English statesman, William
II. Gladstone, discussing Greek prose and
writing critical essays on religion and
philosophy. He will be surprised to find
Verdi at 80 planning new opera for the
great singer Maurel seeking his inspira-
tion FROM no less Il pleasant theme than
Shakespeare's Tempest. Here is Profess
sor Dana at 50 fresh from Hawaii, giving
the world mass OF new facts i'll geology.
Bessemer is still bright in his panoply OF
inventive thought and Sir Henry Parkes
is lust entering the realm of octogenariai.s
with new educational project for New
South Wales Couldoc comes gaily into
tie ranks of rare old men still treading
the boards and giving the world delight
The herald., 1895-04-07
iHE DUiLDEM
OF FAr1OUS YACHTS Is A
BLIND r1AN
nemoy Herresho Who Has Remarkably
of Touch That Tells Him When
Anything Wrong His Models
His Machinery

But it was in this very work that the
blind man gained fame forty years ago.
Friends say that when small boy, as
soon as he was trusted with pocket
knife, he whitfield out a miniature yacht.
All that he had seen prior to his aff1ic-
ton he can summon up before him and
his memory in this respect down TO the
minutest detail is most remarkable. From
a description he can set up himself
most intricate piece of machinery and
explain it's workings and defects. 1t was
he who invented the coil boiler as ap-
piled to extraordinary fast steam vessels.
He attends solely to the making of con-
tracts for steam craft, and only week
ago was in Washington consulting with
officials of the navy department concern
ing the construction of new torpedo:boats
Mr. Herreshoff is at the shops every
morning. when he is at home, before
o'clock. He goes to a stand in the outer
Office without any assistance and hangs
his hat and coat on their accustomed
pegs Without a eecond's h"s'tatio- he
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ing philosophical treatises. Harvard con-
ferred the title of LII. d on him.

ing philosophical treatises. Harvard con-
ferred the title of LII. d. on him.
Gladstone will be eightysiX this year.
So will Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky, er-
ratio and erotlc though he be, and so will
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Hugh Nc
Culloch. Secretary of the Navy Rich
ard W. Thompson of Indiana mas Just Gel
ebrated his eighty-sixth birthday. Hugh
McCulloch is the only living member of
the Lincoln cabinet. Ex-Secretary Thomp-
son was a member of the Hayes cabinet.
Ex-senator Thurman of Ohio is no
longer active and his 81 years of life hang
heavily on him.
But there is long list of
eligibles. The next few years will wit
ness many additional to the ranks OF
octogenarians should those now in line
remain alive. Justice Field, senator,
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ful touches of mimicry. Few have faith
omed life as deeply as he. Few know
how to interpret it better
But the list of famous old men and
women is u long one, and darkened only
here and there by the touch of mental or
great physical weakness. AS rule
these old men and women are still ex.
tremely active. They seem to drop out OF
the ranks very quietly, and then it takes
a long stretch of memory to find where
history connects the links of their past
active careers with their more recent
works. So Rawlinson has just died and
his first great volumes OF history look old
and musty on our shelves like the records
OF past century. SO with Professor
Blake. Old Marshal Canrobert has just
died. at S5 and the third Napoeon's
Italian campaign rises like the shadow of
the past, blending it's color with the light
of the present.
But it is with the living we have to
do, and the laurels we can place upon
their wrinkled brows and silvery locks are
tardy tributes to repay in some degree Tor
humanity's past ingratitude.
Bessemer, who enriched the world as
has no man living or dead, in the past,
stood biting his lips with rage at the sar-
casm and ridicule heaped upon him for
declaring that he had discovered cheap
process for quickly changing pig iron into
steel. The bronzed face, the burned
hands, the empty purse attested to the
labor he had devoted to his idea. Then
came his greatest battle. lie had to force
the world to accept his idea. When en-
gineers finally appreciated his discovery
they found him disheartened, discouraged
and ready to turn against the world. Then
came honors thick and fast. He was
knighted. Sovereigns We'd in doing him
honor. Great societies elected him to
honorary offices. Medals were voted to
him, and he is today among the happiest
of the ''Old Masters of England.
So is William Il. Gladstone. So is Sir
James Bacon, who at the age of 81 lives
happy life of retired ease. Until 1886
this great English jurist sat upon the
bench, and the clearest decision ever
rendered by him was that in case tried
two months before he retired from the
vice-chancellorship of England. 1t was
he who said that his life proved the re-
verse of Bowder's famous aphorism:
"The first twenty five years OF ones life
are worth all the rest of the longest life
twenty be spent in penury and contempt
and the rest in the possession of wealth.
honors, respectability, aye, and many of
them in strength and health
None of this century's living famous
old men have yet reached the age at which
the philanthropist. Montefiore, died, de-
cade or so ago. Yet William Salmon. today
the oldest member of the royal college Of
surgeons, comes near it. He is 105 this
month, and began to practice his profess
sion when Napoleon was at the height of
his glory. in 1909. He has also the honor
of being the oldest Free Mason in the
world.
General George S. Greene, U. S. A., the
oldest living West Point graduate, is SO.
Neal Dow is Maine's grand old man
and although very weak at ninety one,
still talks entsxtainingly of the days of
The herald., 1895-04-07
THE FAMOUS
MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE
OCTOGENARIANS
Fourscore CassGadstone the Pope
and verdi Are Hearty and Enjoy All Their Mental
Facuties---StiI Reading Classics and
Writing Latin Poetry

1851, when as mayor of Portland he
drafted the famous Maine liquor law. His
career as rigadier-general in the war
is to him rather sad reminder OF woes.
He lay eight months in Southern prison
recovering from severe wound. But
the bright particular events on which he
converses freely are his famous visits to
England in behalf of the prohibition
cause.
Among the famous nonogenarians are
Rev. d. William Furness OF England,
now 92, and Field Marshal Sir Patrick
Grant of England, 80.
Those.who enter the ranks of nonogen-
arians OF 1895 are Francis William New
man, brother of the great cardinal; James
Martineau. philosopher; Barthelemy-
Sainte- Hilaire and George Mueller, the
orphanage founder. DR.. Newman only
recently completed memoir of the early
days of his great brothers life, and is
now deep in the study of Gaetulian. His
knowledge of ancient languages is marvel
ously rich. and he has given the world
some valuable pathological treatises. He
is not alone an abstainer from liquor and
tobacco, but never touches meat, and at
tributes his longevity to this method Of
living.
James Martineau, the brother of the
famous Harriet Martineau, is still discuss
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a new craft, and this model is given to
the elder brother. If the work is of ex-
treme Importance. like the building of
cup defender, the elder Herreshoff some
times sits for days rubbing his hands
lightly over the model, thus getting
perfect prcossre of the lines of the
boat. Many changes suggest them
selves to him, and he works them out
with mathematical precision to show
their correctness. A few inches more OF
depth at certain point may mean the
added po-,er of several hundred square
feet of canvas or the alteration of an
angle, even the fraction of degree, may
reduce the friction so that the speed of
the craft is accelerated without injuring
its heavy weather capacities.
This blind man with his wonderful men,
tai powers and his acute sense of touch
accomplishes more in day than many
men do in a month. He never refers to
his affiiction; he seems to have forgotten
it. He is close to 60 years of age now.
and SO perfectly has he accustomed him.
self to work without seeing that some Of
his friends say that he has converted his
misfovtunes into an advantage.
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was in the affirmative. The boats were
constructei and shipped as ordered. This
reads like a feat of legerdemain, but
similar ones are executed day after day
in the Bristol shop.
Mr. Herreshoff has not been blind all
of his life. The trouble came on gradu-
ally, when he was about 16 years Of age.
A film slowly came over His eyes, and the
quiet shaded streets of sleepy Bristol
grew fainter and fainter, until they faded
away completely. But he had already
the water. In the old days Bristol was
something of seaport town, but now the
docks are decayed and the old hulks of
former queens of the deep lie rotting at
their sides. The only signs of maritime
life at the place are the bustling shops of
the Herreshoffs.
Until the last few years the concern has
mainly been identified with the building
of wonderfully fast steam craft. notably
the torpedo boat Stiletto which created
furore in naval circles the world over ten
years ago by her marvellous speed. 1t was
deemed an experiment when the brothers
took up the buildin~ of sailing craft
The herald., 1895-04-07
Los ANGELES HERAnp SUNDAY MORNING, April 1898.

aawad many 1hishnnrics. has established
homes for the fallen. homes for children.
and in thousand different ways aiven
the world object lessons in real charity.
Her romantic marriage with young Ash
mead Bartlett is still fresh in the minds
of readers
Senator Dawes, Leon Say. Parker Goodwin
and Russell Sage will be so in 1896. In
1897 King Christopher of Denmark. Pro-
fessor Mommser, Sir John Gilbert and
Senator John NJ. Palmer will reach the
octogenarian stage. In 1898 ex-senator
Evarts, Bishop Coke and Mrs John Drew
become so. In 1898 Queen Victoria, Julia
Ward Howe, CrIspi, Longstreet, Ruskin,
W. W. Story and Bishop Huntington will
make up the list of young octogenarians:
In 1900 the list will comprise Herbert
Spencer, Florence Nightingale, Mrs. q.
w. Gilbert, Jean Ingeow, General Rose
cranz and Susan B. Anthony.
As for the famous people between 20
and "a. their name is legion.
The herald., 1895-04-07

very active at 81, although his senatorial
contemporary. Senator Morrill, of Ver-
mont, has by no means retired from
active work. he, like ex-senator Pavne,
is nearly in his S5th year.
Harriet Beecher Stowe lives quietly
with her son in Hartford, Conn. She will
be "a on June 18th and her closing days
are marked by extreme mental weakness.
/. Bishop Clark of Rhode Island was still
active at 81, although now growing some-
what weaker.
Curtius, the polished Greek scholar, is
living at so. Verdi is nearing 81, and
has just achieved marvellous success
with Falstaff Baroness Burdette- -Coutts
begins her s1st year in 1895, and her life
runs on as smoothly as ever in it's philo-
sophie channels. It seems an age since
she succeeded. to the Coutts millions.
Still since that time, 1887. she has en-
The herald., 1895-04-07
BOTH WERE BISHOPS

The Bishop of London. so runs the
story told by an exchange, not long after
he was appointed to his see, became dis
satisfied with certain arrangements in his
palace of Fulham. and called in an ar
chitect OF eminence to advise him as to
the alterations that could be made.
On receiving the statement OF the ex-
penditure which would inevitably be in
yolved, the bishop decided to allow things
to remain as they were.
81 shall be glad if you will tell me now
for how much / shall draw check on ac-
count OF the trouble you have taken.
81 thank your lordship-$500. was the
disconcerting reply.
But, sir. many of my curates do not
receive so much for whole years SER
yices!'
THAT may be very true. my lord, but
YOU will remember that | happen to be
bishop in my profession,
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calculation he must carry in his head.
Writing is of no service to him as he can
not read OF course he has men about
him to do work of that character, but he
only employs them for clerical purposes.
He has probably the most retentive
memory of any man in the world. and as
he is not annoyed by seeing anything of
an interrupting character his powers of
concentration are wonderful. An incl
dent which happened in the latter part of
the seventies illustrates his peculiar men
tai machinery perfectly.
While working in the Bristol shop one
day he received a telegram asking him
to come to New York at certain time to
meet representatives of a South Ameri-
can government. The telegram was from
the New York consul of the government,
and when Mr.. Herreshoff reached the lat
ter's office at the appointed time he was
informed that three torpedo boast of a
novel design were wanted. These boats
were to be built in sections, so that they
could easily be shipped on the deck of a
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steamer to their destination. Several
other unusual conditions were attached
to the proposition, and then Mr. HERES.
hoff was asked how much he would build
them for.
II must have time to think it over, y
he said.
''How much time?"
about twenty minutes.
Then this man SIMPLY sat still and
thought. He carefully considered the
plans and specifications of the boats, the
cost of material the time it would take his
men to build, the mechanical possibilities
of building them in sections as desired.
These and dozen other features OF the
proposition were gone over. As soon as
one part was duly considered he made
mental note of the result and took up the
next, finally totalling up the various
items. At the expiration of the twenty
minutes he had his answer ready, and it
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walks some distance to his desk, taxes
out bunch of keys. selects the right one
in a fash and throws open the desk.
It's many pigeon holes are filled with
papers and documents of all kinds and
although he has never seen one he can
pick out any particular paper he may
want simply through memory ana ms
sense of touch, which has been developed
to truly wonderful degree.
Mr.. Herreshoff' S method of planning in
ventions is unique. Sometimes for hall
a day he sits at his desk with his head
resting OH his hands. thinking. Great
problems in mathematics he can work out
in this way, and wonderful devices in
mechanics are evolved without the aid of
secretary, pen or paper.
All the models of vessels to be built are
subm tilted to him. His brother Nat in
varably has tiny model made on the
lines to be pursued in the construction OF
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a short time the big race courses

short time the big race courses in
the east will be thrown open for business,
and the reign of the runner will begin.
While the gambling element, the men and
women who go to the races not for any
love of the sport, but merely as means
of making a precarious livelihood do not
see anything encouraging in the outlook,
and briefly refer to racing in general as
sport. will probably be better and truer
than in many years simply because OF the
elimination. TO great extent, of~the pro-
fessional betting army.