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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-29


terminal railway which connects these
works with all the trunk lines passing
Niagara, and has erected num-
Der Of pretty frame cottages OF at
tractve appearance, surrounded by
grass plats that will be leased tc
the working people employed on the
grounds. 1T has given them also beau
tiful school building that contains q
hail for entertainments, a library ano
other comforts and conveniences
There is already q population of several
hundred, and 1000 or more families can
be accommodated.
A company has been organized In
Buffalo, with q capital of $2,0OO,0oo,
which is to purchase electricity by
wholesale from the Niagara Power
company and sell it at retail to the
people Of that city as fast as it can be
supplied. The first customer, as l have
stated, is the street railway corpora
tion of Buffalo, of which II. II. Littell
is the manager, and beginning with
the first of November 1t is to receive
1000 horsepower day and night, seven
days in the week, for $40 per horse
contract extends for period of ten
years.
This company already has splendid
plant, which runs by steam and fur
nshes 1900 horse power daily to OPP
crate $50 miles of trolley railway, and
under its charter pays the city 214 per
cent. of its gross earnings for the priv
ilege of occupying the streets. The
officials of the company were very
courteous in showing me around it's
works, but the manager would not
tell me how much its power cost at
present nor the amount that will be
saved by taking it from the Niagara
company. There must be considera-
\ Die profit in the contract, however, or
it would not abandon its present ex-
pensive plant for an experiment. Out
siders, who claim to know something
of its affairs, says that the recent cost
to the company is from $50 to SEQ q
horse power, so that the economy car
not be less than $40 or s12, or about
$4,000 year. The company will re-
quire $500 additional horse power from
Niagara, which will be furnished next
year.
The next customer for the Niagara
power will be the company that fur
nishes electric light for the city of Buff
falo. 1t will require 1900 horse power
daily, and that will absorb the addi-
tional 10000 horse power which has been
contracted for next year. 50 that the
public will be compelled to wait until
1898 before it can expect to subscribe.
Mr.. George Urban, of the local COM
pany. who was very kind in showing
me around, said. in reply to my inquir-
les: "The power will be transmitted to
Buffalo from the falls in an alterat-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-29
JUST BEYOND OUR
NORTHERN BORDER
From Ocean TO Ocean Through the
Queens Dominion.
AN AMERICANS VIEW OF CANADA
Origin, History, Cost ana. Advantages
Of the Canadian Pacific Railway,
Ohe Of the Greatest systems on
Earth..The Sprightiy Young City of
Vancouver.
Written for The Tribune.

Written for The Tribune.
A railway from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, all the way on British soil. was
long the dream of a few of the earliest
settlers Of Canada. The dream of the
few became in time the hope Of the
many, and in 1867 the government OF the
Dominion of Canada set about the build
ing of q trans-continentai railway,
which was the most important single
factor in forming the confederation OF
the British North American provinces.
1t was afterward found to be mil
itary as well as political necessity
and is now growing commercial neces-
sity. 1t was an undertaking of such
vast proportions that the richest en-
pire of Europe might we'll hesitate to
enter upon it. Three thousand miles
of railway surveys were made, largely
through a country unexplored, but ow-
ing to political jealousies, party strife
and change of government the work
was so blocked that in 1880, by common
consent. 1t was decided to surrender
the outlay, machinery, ETC., to private
company on condition that the remain
ing 1920 miles of railway should be
completed within ten years. For this
the railway company was to receive
from the government $25,O00,OO0 in gold
and 25,000,0OO acres of agricultural land.
The two sections commenced by the
government (425 miles between Winne-
peg and Lake Superior and another 213
miles eastward from Pacific coast into
British Columbia, together with
branch line Of sixty-five miles in opera
tion from Winnepeg southwark to the
boundary line of the United States)
should be finished by the government
and given to the new company in addi-
tion to it's subsidies in money and lands,
and the entire railway when completed
was to become the property of the new
company.
THE WORK COMPLETED.
Consequently in 1881, the Canadian
Pacific Railway company was organ
lied and, accepting the conditions of
the government, set about its task Wig
orously from both ends of the line to-
ward each other and met at Craig Ella
Chic, in Eagle Pas in the gold range
of montains on November 7, 1885, when
the last rail was laid on the main line
and the present company, though not
yet five years old, came into possession
Of 4,315 miles. of railway, one of the
longest, If not the largest continuous
line in the world. Extending from Que
bee across the continent to the Pacific
Ocean.
This road was really constructed in
four sections, two by the company, and
two by the government. The Lake
Superior section was one Of the hardest
to build, rivaling in distractions and
requirement of skilful engineering that
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-29
HOW ABOUT SALARIES?
Wilkes-Barre Times.

w T
The moment the Wilkes-Barre and Wy
oming Valley Traction company is CON-
PEELED to accept silver coin worth just one
half its face the fares'will necessarily be
doubled: they would be bankrupted in
six months unless they did. Do the work
ingmen and clerks who patronize the diff
ferent branches by thousands every day
anticipate that ther salaries would be
correspondingly raised? Hardly.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-29

An atom of the power of Niagara was
transmitted over a wire to New York
during the recent electrical exposition
in that city and was used. to send q
message from Chauncey Depew around
the world. This was conveyed over an
ordinary telegraph line, but was what
the operators call a freak. 1t added q
great deal to the sentiment interest Of
the event, but was in no sense prac-
tical test.
1t may therefore be assumed that,
while the plan of "harnessing" the falls
of Niagara is successful so far as it has
ben attempted, there is no immediate
prospect of utilizing the 100000 horse
power which is estimated to be going
to waste there every second of time "to
turn the wheels of industry" any farther
away than the city of Buffalo. It may
be expected, however. that the beautiful
and elaborate plant that has been
erected here under Mr.. Tesla's direction
will attract many manufacturing en-
terprises.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-08
One Man Made Happy by the Election.

been seriously considered for the places
to which they pretend to aspire. 1t has
been understood on all sides that their
candidacy was absurd; that they never
would have been considered for the frac-
ton Of an instant by any convention rep
resenting a real party; that they We're
performing simplyas decoys to trap timid
and unwary Democrats and deliver them
to Mr. Hanna to swell the triumphal pro-
cession of Mckinley. Nobody has re-
garded them with respect. No one has
contributed to their fund except by means
of promoting the Republican cause. No
body wanted to elect them. Nobody has
offered them the poor travesty of rev
erence and honor. They have gone
through the country, couple of trans
parent mouItebanks and mummers
Robert Maca ire and Jacques Strop them
selves were not more impudeut ini-
posters. 1t seemed incredible that they
could have expected more than half con
temptuOus liberation, yet oftener than
once they have resented it with a fury
that made them only more ridiculous
They have, in fact, saddened us with the
thought that out of more than seventy
millions Of people they only have failed
to realize their pitiful predicament.
Mckinley will be elected, and he will
administer the affairs Of the government
as best he can under the conditions that
beset him. Bryan will be defeated, and
will return to private life, conscious of
having made the most gallant and most
brilliant tight that man ever made against
overwhelming and unconquerable odds.
Both will be shrined in the affection, the
confidence, and the respect of those who
have followed them throughout. Both
will be recognized by all their fellow citi-
zens as genuine gladiators in n genuine
arena. But these poor puppets, these
make-believe champions of tinsel cause
they will, along with their beggary
retinue of allies, the Bynums, the
Cockrans, and the sulking Hills, pass
from the stage without one cheering
word or plying tear, fortunate beyond
their best deserts if they be forgotten
utterly. The world forgives the man
who viii not vote against his conscience.
1t never forgives and it is seldom able to
forget the man who plays the huckster
with his dignity Washington Past
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-08
SOLVING THE MONEY QUESTION
The Puzzling Situation Explained Simp-
ly Enough.

The Puzzling Situation Explained Simp-
ly Enough.
The politicians have been oratin and
speechifyin so frequent and promiscus
among the boys here lately till blamed
if the ground amt wore smooth and
sulick for miles around. Gold or silver
which? is still the mainest question.
The general confusionment iii regards
to gold and silver puts me in mind of the
riddle which Andy Lucas give BleY
Scroggins oncst upon time. All three Of
us was nothin more than chunks of boys
then. and goin to school together over at
the cross roads. Andy and Blev. they
had got into a mighty way of sayin rid
dies to one another. 1t was nip and tuck
as to which could turn the other down
with new riddle. Comm along home
from school one evenin Andy hit Bley.
with a new one, and it was a sumner.
There is lady over to our house, J"
says Andy, (which she is my mothers
sister, but she amt my aunt. How is
that, Blew"
Well, Bley couldn't cut through and
had to give it up, though Andy give him
till next mornin to work the sum if he
could.
So Blew he went home and told his
father, old man Jerry Scroggins, about it
and called for help. Naturally, of course,
the old man couldn't see through the
riddle and it pestered him powerful He
scratched his head and racked and ran
sacked his brain till bed time, but he
couldn't git the answer. And then when
we went TO bed he couldn't go to sleep
for thinkin about Andy Lucas and the
riddle. He rolled and tumbled till way
along towards midnight without a lick of
sleep and he couldn't stand it no longer.
He riz up and went out and saddled his
horse and rid over to old man Hiram
Lucases- which Andy at that time was n
! half orphant and him and his mother
was Twin there with his grandfather
and hollered him up and called him out
to the front gate.
Old man Hiram he come out snortin
and cussin about his neighbors calm him
at such ''hellatious" late hour, and con
sequently Jerry Scroggins went ON to the
mainest question.
THAT boy Andy give my boy Bley. a
riddle this evenin which he can't work
it and / can't work it," says he. And
what is more / couldn't sleep for thinkin
about it and so have come over here to
git the facts. Andy told Blev. that there
was a lady here which was his own moth
er's sister, but she wasn't his aunt. Now
/ want to know how to explain thatY
why, Jerry, that's as clear as glass
and easy as fallin off a wet log" says
old man Hiram. ANY simlin-headed
idiot ought to see through that"
Tell me how it is then" said Jerry,
"sa that | can gon on back home and rest
in peace and go to sleep"
''Well, Jerry" says old man Hiram,
you see that boy Andy just simply told
your boy Blev. a dadblamed lie"
Thus after hearin various and sundry
remarks on both sides of the money
question, am bound to think that some
one has told little white lie about it,
Rufus Sanders in Gaffney Ledger.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-08
THE FOOTBALL GAME.
You Must Mend the Foot-ba Game or
End It."

The football season has again opened,
and the list OF casualties is already as
Stunning formidable proportions. In a sin
gle game, the report of which recently
came under our notice, one prominent
player got a broken nose, and another
was nearly killed by a brutal kick on the
head. If such things had happened in a
scuffle among rowdies on the street, the
police would promptly and properly have
marched the offenders to the station
house. The time has come when civilized
people should insist that such savagery
among college students be punished by
law. To the Presidents and Professors
of our colleges and universities we wish
to say little more positively than ever
before: Gentlemen. you must mend the
game of football or end it," 1t will not cd
for you to assume an air of indifference to
criticism on this subject. AS the Editor
of a religious journal, we shall keep the
matter before you until you are COM
PEELED to take such action as is required
by good morals and good manners.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-08
A BOSTON OWL.

Ben T. Gable, former Congressman Of
Illinois, son of President Gable, of the
Rock Island railroad, and graduate Of
Harvard, makes his headquarters at the
University club when in New York. He
stopped there the other evening, en- route
from the Adirondacks to his western
home He had been dividing his cares
and doubling his joys mountaineering
with John Paul, the writer and poet,
John Paul is a waggish wit, and is the
hero of the following story now going the
rounds of the University club. Inspired
by the beauties of nature in the noun
tain Businesses, he wrote:
II Wooed in the wood
And the birds understood.
When l said I'll be true
Forever to you
An old owl said:
tn whOoY
He took the effusion to the Century. 1t
was refused because "the last line was
not grammar Mr.. Paul, who, not un-
like few other geniuses, shutters a bit,
said, "Why,it isn't a B-B-os-ton O. owlr'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-08
No. to every No. to every
100 Snnnrp 1000 of
miles. population

With an increase of population natur-
ally an increase Of business must come
to the railroads of the South and IN
time this trouble viii have been removed.
The Atlanta Constitution, writing on
this subject, cites the fact that in the
State of Massachusetts there are twenty
six miles of railway to every 100 miles
of territory, and n similar ratio prevails
in the other New England States. 1t is,
therefore, says our contemporary, appar-
ent that railway enterprise in the South
is not 0yerdone, and that one of the great
est needs of this section at the present
time is increased facilities of transporta-
ton.
The trouble with this section, it says,
and it is right, has been the extreme
scarcity of money, due to adverse finan.
cial conditions With the volume Of cur
rency which the South ought to have at
this time, there is no reason why double
the number of railways now in existence
could not be easily sustained.
What the South needs is a greater vol
ume Of currency and an increase of popu-
lation, and with these success will come
not only to railroad, but to all other en-
terprises.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-08
PALMER AND BUCKNER.

Fortunate Beyond Their Best Deserts,
If They Be Forgotten Utterly.
When, some weeks ago, Hon. John NJ.
Palmer and Hon. Simon Bolivar Buckner
were nominated for President and Vice
president, respectively, by the boiling
Democrats at indianapolis. we ventured
the prediction that by the close of the
campaign they would be objects of almost
universal contempt and ridicule. We
think we may say this morning that our
prophecy has been fulfilled.
At no time during the contest have they
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-08
RAILWAY MILEAGE IN THE
SOUTH.

The theory advanced from certain
quarters that the failures of so many
railroads in the South should be placed on
the ground that railroad enterprises have
been carried too far. is an error. A recent
report of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission shows that one of the reasons
why the growth of the Southern country
has been retarded during the past few
years is owing to the lack of proper trans
portation facilities. fact which goes to
prove that we have not too many rail-
roads. Ihe following table shows the
railway mileage for every one hundred
miles in the States named, and its perusal
will clearly demonstrate that railroad en-
terprises have not been oyerdoue:
No to every No. to every
100 SQUARE 10 0O 0F
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-08
MORALS OF THE BATHTuB.
It's Important Bearing Upon a Mans
Morality and Business Success.

at is very easy to find direct connec-
ton between the cleanliness of a people
and their moral standard writes Edward
w. Box, editorially of, 1.-THE Morals of
the Bathtub," in the November Ladies
Home Journal. OF all the external aids
to a moral life none is so potent as tidi-
ness. An untidy man or woman soon be-
comes a moral sloven. Let a man be
careless Of his surroundings, of his com
Partnerships, of his dress, his general
appearance and of his bodily habits, and
it is not long before the same careless
ness extends into the realm of his NOR
ais. We are all creatures Of our surround
ings, and we work and act as we feel
Ii a man lives in a home where care
lessness or untidiness in his dress is
overlooked, he very soon goes from one
inactitude to another. He very quickly
losses himself The moral fibre of a man,
fine of itself, can soon become coarse if
the influence Of his external surround
ings is coarse ] believe thoroughly in
the effect of a mans dress and habits
of person upon his moral character. | do
say that neatness of appearance and
cleanliness of person constitute the gen
tleman or the man of honor. But / do
say that they are potent helps. And
would like to emphasize the Importance of
this belief upon the women of our homes.
For it is given them to be an important
factor in these helps TO the betterment
of the worlds morality. The
man who makes a point of keeping him
self clean, whose clothes look neat. no
matter how moderate of cost they may be.
works better, feels better, and is in every
sense better business men than his fell
low worker, who is disregardful Of both
his body and dress or either. He works
distinct advantage. The external man
l would give far more for the work done
by man who has the invgorating NOR
al tonic of a morning bath and the feel
ing of clean linen than / would for the
work done by a man who scarcely wash
es, and rushes into his clothes. =
The time spent upon our bodies is never
wasted; on the contrary it is time well
invested. A machine of metal and steel
must be clean before it can do good work.
So too, the human machine A disregard
of the body and disorder in dress soon
grows into moral slovenness."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-08
ABSENT MINDEDNESs
From Tit-Bits.

The palm of Observation-Disclosures is
probably taken by a learned German,
whom a Berlin comic paper calls Prof.
Dusel, of Bonn. One day the Professor
noticed his wife placing a large bouquet
on his desk. what does that meanY he
asked.
why" she exclaimed, don't you
know that this is the anniversary of your
marriage?"
''Ah, indeed, is itY' said the Professor
politely. Kindly let me know when yours
comes round, and l will reciprocate the
favor"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-08

Tom Grogan, il you are the sort of a
woman / like, you could no more be dis
honest than you could be immodest. You'd
be ashamed to face the book. That's the
way the books affects Bah.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-02-06
THE HOUSE WHERE JAMES GIL
LESPIE BLAINE WAS BORN.

THE HOUSE WHERE JAMES GIL
LESPIE BLAINE WAS BORN.
hen mothers. Once. remember, James
fell into one of these informal bath
tubs, and a spluttering time of it they
had before they could get him out. Wee
boy that he was, although I remember
a younger brother still, he was already
an infant athlete. 1t was to develop
his book education amid scenes less
favorable to outdoor indulgence that he
was packed away when very young into
Ohio, near GAINESVILLE, I believe, on a
long visit to his cousins, the Ewings.
General Sherman's wife, as is known,
was Ewing, and a cousin of James G.
Blaine.
OF deep historic appeal to the many
admirers of James G. Blaine, the pic
ture has become in the past few days
! invested with even a greater value, be-
cause the ancient landmark depicted,
and which dates back probably a CEN
fury and a half, has just been doomed
TO demolition, as sets forth the follow
ing from the Brownsville Clipper,
weekly paper now in its forty-second
year, in an article headed, Our Town
Eighty-Four Years Ago. and subhead-
ed, "Blaine's birthplace going; the ia
nous mansion succumbs to the ravages
of time:
THE familiar landmark, the old
Blaine mansion and the birthplace of
James G. Blaine, will soon be a thing
of the past, and only the memory of it
will remain to the good people of West
Brownsville. For years it has been an
object of interest to visitors and was
pointed out by the people over there
with the pride of ownership, as some
thing that was part of them.
But its days are numbered. For a
long time it has been in danger Of col
lapsing, and recently notice was served
on the owner, Mr.. James L. Bowman,
by the West Brownsville authorities to
the effect that the building was in
dangerous condition. and that he would
be liable for any injury that would
result from collapse The building is
too fan gone to be repaired. and Mr.
Bowman has contracted With Aubrey
& Son TO tear the old structure Sgxn-D
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-02-06

Benefits family were fellow townsmen
and friends of the Blaines, and while
the quaint old mansion, in it's main
outlines. is reproduced from a photo
graph, much of the coloring, as also the
environment, come from personal recol-
lection on the part of the artists elder
sister. Mrs. Louise Bennett-C Croker,
with whom Miss Bennett makes her
home, on Rhodes avenue, and who was
an intimate friend and schoolmate of
of the eldest daughter, now deceased, of
the Blaine household, Eliza, who after
ward became Mrs. Walker of Helena,
Mont, and whose funeral at Baltimore
was attended by James G. Blaine, by a
singular coincidence, on that March
when Cleveland was inaugurated, forty
miles away, to the great Office for which
the "Plumed Knight had been de-
feated. In honor of this sister, Mrs.
Walker, was named James G. Blaine's
fayorite son, Walker Blaine, who was
his prop and support as Secretary of
State, and whose sudden end fastened
the decline of the great statesman.
Said Mrs. Croker to the writer who
called at her pretty home the other day:
with my most intimate recollections. I
played in that house, on the top of that
house, scaling it by the attic ladder. I
played under those trees and in that
wide reaching orchard, where shower
of purple plums and golden cherries re-
warded each vigorous shake of the tree
trunk or muscular throw of a corn-cob.
1t is all as sacred to me as my own old
home, because ever since I can remem-
Der I can see the two houses standing
there, their hospitabl southern roofs
signaling one another in friendship. 1t
is right on the bank of the Mononga-
hela, with back of it a high hill, and
locust trees all about it, while on a lower
level in front passed the horn-equipped
stage coach, and far below flowed the
deep, wide river. You see down by the
fowlhouse even the sunken barrels, on
whose little lakes of yore the ducklings
made sail, to the cackled terror of their
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-02-06
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