The evening times., 1896-06-27
HEA|Rs,e'nGER q +
,teIJ on are probably aware that the
" nabobs of Fifth avenue are want

seS J on are probably aware that the
nabobs of Fifth avenue are want
ing that thoroughfare paved with
CORK" said +. p. Fillmore, OF New York,
at the Raleigh. LAS they are going to
pay for it, don't see why they should not
have ii. Many of the streets in London
are paved in that manner, and 1t is said to
make very good paving. l saw one
avenue in the British metropolis laid
III cork, and while it was new it was very
nice indeed. l am told they last well,
but do not know IL to be fact. OF
course they are perfectly noiseless and
very easy on the hurses-feet."
n MONG the louDgers in the corridors
I of t9es Arlington last night there
was one group the members of
which were not discussing politics.
II spent great many years making
geological researches in California" said
one of the parity. Il was a student, and,
of course, was not making my expenses by
I merely studying the rocks, l fad 10 live
and l mnnaGcd to do so very nicely by
hunting and selling curios There are few
cities in the United states that have not
at least one curiosity store, and they all
want -spcciIfcnts from California, Florida
and Mexico, Tons OF curios are each year
sent from fheI Golden State or sold to
tourists within the borders. My geologi-
cal searches weuld naturally lead me into
those localities where would easiest
fiDu strange, objects.
II have gathered everything from spiders
and butterflies TO birds and small animals
suitable for stuffiDg. I have caught hun
dreds of taraDtulas and have been repeat
cdly bitten by them, but was never ser-
ousiy poisoned, as you see. They are not
poisonous except 10 u pcIsCn who is IN
people dying from their bites are fabulous
The uglier the reptiles and spiders are
the greater the deInaDd for them. ON the
other hand they want pretty birds and but
terfles. All kinds of wood and leaves and
fern are in great demand, too. BY the ool-
lection of these objects / easily made all
my expenses and more too
10 ONE days age I saw a new wreck
O) crane built for the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad and brought to our CITY,
said j. b. Gfist. OF Altoona. Pa. 1T is a
monster flair and marvellous in its sirer 9Th.
The ma chine picked up box car we Ching
19.So0 pounds and swurg IL around as
easily as though il had been block of ice.
After swinging IL about In Il circle il re-
pla ced the car on the rails. That was IL
we glit of nearly ten tors. you observe.
One man can operate the entire machine.
al Hds Il UdNliilutn Tdtius Dl twenty Ieet.
and when equipped with outrgcers its
capacity is thirty ions. They say that it
cost a bout as much tn huiiL the crane rs it
costs TO bny locomotive.''
TeTRAyELERs entering the Van
Couyer haTbor can see the remains
of the first steamer that ever
floated in the waters OF the Pacific" said
Benton NJ. johnson, OF Baltimore at the
Metropolitan. Mr.. johnson has lately re-
turned fro:it tour through Washington
state. The steamboat was the Peaver
from England. She belonged to the Hud-
sod Bay Company, and reached Vancouver
Bay in the spring of s36. There were very
few steamers when the Beaver pushed way
from old England's shores, and she came
near heing the first steamship that ever
crossed the Atlantic. i believe only one
preceded her. aud tina Il was the Savannah
Anyhow the Beaver was the first steamer
to enter the waters of the Pacific Many
pioneers Of the West still remember OF see
ing the boat as il steamed clumsily about
off The coast of Washington and Oregon
The steamer Was torn up before the timbers
in her were the least bit impaired. and what
remainsof her is lying rotting onthe sands"