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Evening star., 1896-01-29
THE THURSTON INCIDENT
Mr.. Lands Makes Statement From Sec
retary Greshan's Standpoint
Minister Hatch Declines to BE Inter-
to the State Department.

"Lorin A. ThurSton begged Secretary
Gresham not to forward his letter of recall
to Honolulu" said r. NJ. Lands, who was
the private secretary of the dead Secretary
of S-ate, last week, at Chicago.
Mr.. Lands had just read the charges of
Mr.. Thurston against Gresham and Presi-
dent Cleveland, as published recently in
The Star. AS the private secretary and
confidant of Gresham during the last years
of his life he said:
Long prior to the recall of Thurston it
was known that he was maintaining in the
Hawaiian delegation at Washington press
bureau. This was known to the members
of the diplomatic corps and the best posted
newspaper men of Newspaper Row. The
object of this bureau was to secure the
publication of matter abusive to the ad-
ministration.
An original draft of an article coming
from Mr.. Thurston was secured and SUBJ
mitted to Secretary Gresham. he delayed
several days in considering 1t, but finally
Mr. Thurston was called to the State De-
partrnent and the original shown to MIN.
Thurston said that he had been indiscreet
and regretted that the matter had taken
that turn. .
HE left the office apologizing for the mat
ter and promised it should not occur AGAIN.
AS matter OF TACT, IL WdS
ward sby the State Department that TINS
attack on the administration which Thurs
ton permitted newspaper correspondents 10
CODY in his office came, on the statefheht oi
Thurston, not from himself, but from thelr
minister of foreign affairs of Hawaii
Hatch-who is now the minister 10 inns
country AS l understand it, Hatch MN
self prepared the matter and it was for
warded to Thurston for dissemination.
Il regret the whole discussion from the
one point of view that Secretary Gresham
is dead 1 cannot speak for the White
House But from all that l can uncer-
stand and learn Mr.. Thurston occupied
the unpleasant position of being In pad
odor in his own country. He was per-
soma non grata with them as with u.s.
"No state official of this government
was bound by any code of diplomacy to
endure perpetually the press attacks Whlcn
Mr.. Thurston authorized from the leea-
ton of which he was the head. Mr.
Thurston does not deny the origin of these
attacks and he knew why he was recalled
through Secretary Gresham, long before
his government did,
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Re.oiation Aue,roxed.

The President ras approved the joint
resolution authorizing the employment Of
skilled architect to assist the supervising
architect in the construction Of the public
building at Chicago.
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Mr, Hatch Declines 10 Talk.

When MI. Landis' statement was shown
today to Mr. Hatch, the minister from
Hawaii to this government, he declined
to say anything in regard to the matter.
II do not wish to speak in this matter
I think the State Department should be
permitted first TO give out whatever IN
formation it desires in regard to it. 1t is
undoubtedly IN possession of all the facts
in the case, and the newspapers must look
there for any further light at this time
on this matter.
When 1t was called to Mr. Hatch's at
tention that there was direct issue OF
veracity between Mr.. Lands and Mr.
Tnurston, he SAID: "Mr. Thurston is no
longer a part of the Hawaiian government,
and it is entirely a question between one
private individual and another, far as
Mr. Landis' statement is concerned. L
have nothing to say in regard TO 1t, nor
have 1 at present anything to say In re-
gard to the statements Mr.. Lands makes
about me-"
A Contradiction.
Among those who have kept close watch
of Hawaiian affairs it is said that Mr..
Landis' statement, If correctly reported, is
not entirely ingenious. The phrase IAN
original draft of an article coming from
Mr., Thurston' seems to be an expression
intended to deceive. 1t leads one to Sup
pose that the article in question may have
been in Mr. Thurstous handwriting, and
thus it would appear that the State De-
partment, having this document in its pos
session. had caught Mr.. Thurston in cor
Eer from which there was no escape. Fur
ther on in the paragraph Mr.. Lands seems
to contradict himself by making state
ment that this original draft. whatever 1t
was, came from the Hawaiian minister of
foreign affairs, Mr.. Hatch, who had him.
self prepared 1t and sent 1t to Thurston TO
dis seminate in the American newspapers.
Until Mr. Lands can use plain English it
will be difficult, in the opinion of those
who know the inside history of this mat
ter to consider anything that he may say
as OF any Importance.
Reflection On Mr.. Gresham.
One thing however, appears In his state
ment which is probably true. This is the
unavoidable Inference that Mr.. Lands, act
ing for Secretary Gresham, undertook lit
tie detective scheme in the hope of en-
taEgling Mr.. Thurston so as to bring about
bis disgrace and recall. He uses the words,
was secured and submitted to Secretary
Gresham" which implies an active course
on the part of the State Department Off
cials in securing the original draft, which
was made the preteXt of Thurston's re-
call. Friends of Hawaii insist that this
betrays the truth in the affair. They assert
that Mr.. Gresham, through his private
Secretary, Lendis made use Of Washing
ton newspaper man as a go-between to
decoy Mr.. Thurston into trap.
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To be Reinstatcd.

The Secretary Of the Treasury. has direct
ed the reinstatement Of George w. Harbin-
son In the customs service at the port Of
San Francisco. ~
Evening star., 1896-01-29

Military Reservation Transferred.
The President has directed the transfer
of the military reservation OIL Fort STAN
ton, N. NJ, to the Secretary Of the Interior
for disposition under the law.
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Continued On Ninth Page.)
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It you want today's
news today you can find
It only in The Star.
Evening star., 1896-01-29

committee to which has been referred a
resolution inquiring as to the order of the
Commissioners in regard to spaces allotted
to small farmers around the Center Mar
ket Mr. Martin, chairman Of the subcom-
ferred, was present, as also was Mr.. Gal
lnger. The first speaker was Mr.. Birney,
attorney for the Center Market Company,
who made lengthy address on the sub
ject going over the entire ground of the
controversy and arguing against the re-
moval of the farmers, his reasons having
been heretofore published in The Star.
Among others present were A. W. Smith
of Wheaton, Nd; Washington 3onifant Of
Maryland, Mr.. Bryan Of Anacostia, Mr..
Sherman of Falls Church, Va.
The Mail Bag Repair Shop.
Mr. Kyle called up his resolution for an
investigation into the alleged irregularities
in mail bag contracts, and in the mail bag
repair shop, in the Senate today. The reso-
luton was opposed by Mr.. Wolcott, chair
man of the committee on post offices and
post roads, as being unnecessary He did
not believe that any useful purpose could
be served in having the committee on post
offices and post roads make this investiga-
ton.
Mr. Faulkner said he thought the charges
were very serious, and that his own per-
sonal relations with the Postmaster General
| were such that he felt it his duty to look
| into the matter further, and, perhaps to
| get some official statement regarding the
| charges before any action on the resolution
| was taken. He, therefore, asked that the
| resolution, without losing it's place on the
| calendar, should so over until tomorrow
and to this Mr.. Kyle consented. The reso-
lution will again be taken up tomorrow.
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it. The boats are therefore able to carry
the weight of three men with safety. and
on account of said rigid connection it is
practically impossible for the boats to be
overturned.
The steering wheel is between the bows
Of the boats, and is webbed between the
spokes, thus becoming the rudder for the
water craft. The driving wheels are pro-
vided with paddles, which are attached to
hoop, so arranged that the spokes of the
wheels both aid in holding The paddles
in place and also in holding them in the
water. These attachments may also be
removed from the wheel very readily.
The wheels are driven by treadles form
ing a chain and sprocket wheel gearing
the same as now used on bicycles. Thus
1t will be seen that this device is propelled
and managed with the same mechanism
whether it moves in one element or the
other.
In this vehicle the traveller NAV carry
his baggage and travel regardless of floods
of bridgeless streams, and the sportsman
may take his hunting or fishing tackle
and select his shady hooks Or pools where
the willy tinnies most congregate and in
vite them to his tempting bait, or the
fowler may secure his game within the
hold of his capacious boat and derive ad.
vantages and pleasures which no other
single mechanism has yet offered.
The whole device when completely
rugged, without load, weighs from sixty to
eighty pounds, and is capable of consider
able reduction from this weight.
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Various Notes.

In London theater colored incandes-
cent lights operated from the prompter's
box are used to give the signals for the
cues.
The Westminster Gazette says: Yester-
day in Liverpool an inquest was held on a
laborer named Hayman, who had been en-
gagged in painting the tanks of the steam
ship Servia with bituminous paint. The
men had to work alternately at the job in
consequence of the foul air or fumes from
the paint in the tanks. Hayman had a
naked candle, and by some means the
fumes from the paint became ignited and
he was badly burned. The foreman took
steps TO rescue him, but an hour and a
half elapsed before this was effected.
Hayman was terribly burned and delir-
lous. Several men gave evidence as to the
effect of the fumes given off by the solu-
ton, which made them drunk or delirious,
and unless man was accustomed to it he
could not tolerate the fumes more than a
few minutes. The jury found that Hay
man died from burns accidentally re-
ceived, and added that lights used in SINH
lar tanks should be protected
1t is expected that Sir William Martin
Conway's expedition to Spitzbergen will
occupy altogether about three months
The arrangements are not settled yet, but
1T is probable that the party will leave
England early in June, and return at the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-17
Done on BICYCLES,

Last year it was stated that a trick
bicyclist had ridden his wheel backward
from London to Brighton. He did not
turn the machine around but sat with his
face toward the rear wheel and the handle
bars accordingly behind him.
In 1887 couple of Englishmen. AMI.
mated by queer mania for the odd, rode
their wheels down to Dover and then took
a boat over to Goodwin Sands at low tide
They then proceeded to ride their wheels
along the sand as close to the waters ed pe
as possible and after thus riding on a nor
ton of the earth where no one had ridden
before, calmly went back and had tea.
In the early days of the wheel one man
made two or three trips on a 96-inch wheel.
A Coventry cyclist eclipsed that feat.
however, by appearing on a machine
about twelve feet in height. He appeared
so constantly that he grew to be no nov
city and people soon tired of him and his
tower-like machine.
In the year 1884 trick-rider ATTEMPTED
to ride down the steps of the main en-
trance on the east side of the Capitol
Washington. his first essay was to at
tempt the descent upon an ordinary bicy-
Gle, and this was accomplished with COM
parative ease. Next, he detached the
saddle, backD bone and rear wheel, prepar-
ing to ride down on the front wheel only.
This, however, was a trick that had been
the subject OF no previous practice, and he
commenced by taking the steps in sec
tons. He had ridden down the last two
sections and was about to ESSAY the COM
plete descent from top to bottom when he
was stopped by the Capitol police. An
enormous crowd had assembled TO watch
this feat, and being disappointed, they
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-17
Niagara Power ENGAGEMENTS.

Recently the third 000-horsepower
generator has been erected in the central
station of the Niagara Falls Power Com
pany, making the total capacity of the
power-house at the present time about 15,-
000- hors epower. This is to be increased
by the addition of seven more generators,
each of 5000-horsepower capacity, which
will bring UP the total capacity 10 $4,000.
or one-half the total capacity OF the tail
race tunnel. 1t is believed that means
will be adopted of placing the additional
generators to be erected down in the big
wheel pits instead of the surface power
house, as at present. This method of
erection would save the expense of the 13S-
feet shafts which now connect the turbines
with the generators.
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strong fellow, much larger and stronger
than the ants we are accustomed to seeing
here. They have particularly large and
strong mandibles, which make them Of
value TO the surgeons, who use them in
holding together the sides of an incised
wound.
The Levantine surgeon never goes out to
attend an ordinary case without having
q few ants tucked away snugly in some
safe place about his person. He produces
his knife and his ants at the same time,
and the patient regards the knife with
horror and the ants with satisfaction.
Having made the cut, the surgeon next
selects an ant from his collection. These
ants are vicious fellows and are fierce
fighters among their kind. For that reason
the surgeon handles them with pair Of
forceps. When the forceps close over the
ant he begins to struggle at once. As he
fights with his mandibles they are thrown
wide open. The ant will close them on
the first object with which he comes in
contact With his disengageu hand the
surgeon draws the edges of the wound to-
gether. When they have been properly
arranged he places the ant near the cut.
The ant, eager for fight, is ready to seize
anything. The surgeon holds it down
close to the edges of the wound, and the
powerful mandibles grip it on either side
The surgeon holds the ant thus for a
couple of minutes, while the insect, hav.
ing at last found something upon which to
vent his anger, gets firmer grip. When
it has secured good, strong hold it gives
up its life for science, because the surgeon
very promptly cuts off its head. When
the head of the ant is removed the mandi-
bles do not relax the grip they secured in
the edges of the wound before death.
Wounds so treated heal rapidly and with
out any further difficulty to either patient
or surgeon Chicago Chronicle.
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had nothing left but to howl at the police
for having interrupted the sport. Some
years Overwhelmingly, in October,
lSe1-he rode down the full length of the
same steps on a solid-tired bicycle.
Another freak was accomplished for a
small bet and might easily have cost the
rider his life. During October. 1887, a
mem Der of an Amer can team of bicyclists
then making the tour of England rode the
front wheel Of his bicycle along the wall of
the north pier, Aberdeen. This wall was
twenty-five feet in height and twenty
inches in breadth. The feat was one Of
exceptional daring and skill and was GER
tainiy of character to endanger the life
of the adventurous rider. There was a
boat in attendance below ready to render
any assistance in case of need. Luckily,
however, there was no hitch of any kind
and the adventurous feat was accomplished
in very short space of time. On the fol-
lowing day the same rider repeated the
performance in the presence of about 300
people. Evidently he was prepared for
failure, because he dressed him selfin light
racing costume, which would have in
commoded him but little had he obtained
an involuntary immersion. This daring
freak had its origin in wager of f5.
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for motor delivery wagon with prospects
OF further orders, and would like to CORE
spond with manufacturers of motors and
gears for transmitting power.
J. c. and Patrick Calhoun, two we'll
known New York capitalists who are
largely interested in the Euclid Heights
property, fine suburban allotment near
Cleveland. OHIO, are about to introduce a
line of motor stages to run from the center
OF the city to the suburban site. The We
hicles, which will be six in mum Der. will
he Of the Roger type, specially constructed
Tor the purpose, snd viii carry from ten to
fourteen persons each.
James a. Hockett, Sterling, Rice County,
hans., has built motor thrashing
machine, propelled and operated by 16-
horsepower gasolene motor. This machine
IS built upon much the same plan as an
ordinary steam thrashing machine. The
motor is under and between the large
drive wheels, and motion is transmitted
from a coewheel to the outside machinery
by chain and sprocket. 1t does not re-
quire as many hands to operate this
machine successfully as steam thrasher
does, and the great saving of fuel is
another strong point in its favor. 1t has
been thoroughly tested in practical opera
tions this fall, and a company has been
organized to put the "Hockett gasolene
traction engine" upon the market.-The
Horseshoe Age.
On Land or Water.
Thore ]. Olsen of Chicago has entered
the field OF invention by producing a
vehicle adapted to both land and water
travel, says the Horseless Age. The land
mechanism consists of three wheels, a.
ranged in the usual tricycle. form, slightly
modified, however, in the connection and
construction OF its wheels. Suspended
from the axle OF the driving wheels is a
pair OF twin boats, of which the forward
end is carried by yoke from the steering
post of the front wheel. These boats are
connected together rigidly, but may be
detached from the tricycle. in a moment
by opening CLASPS which secure the boats
to the axle.
BY means of the said rigid connection of
the boats great stability and thereby
safety upon the water is obtained, either
boat being large and strong enough to
require the full weight of two men to sink
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the floor On the outside of this tank is
spring mechanism that must be wound up
before the machine will work 1t connects
with a shaft that has cogwheel fixed to
it and is arranged to rotate series of
brushes under the tank.
That portion OF the shaft that passes
through the tank is made to move a num-
Der of mops arranged on an endless
belt. They pass under the shaft and
then upward through a set of wiring
From there they pass over shaft and
down to the floor behind the brushes and
sop up the water they have left. The
mops then pass into the tank again, and
are rinsed then under the shaft and
through the wringers again indefinitely.
To use the machine ii is only necessary to
I'll the tank wind up the spring, open the
faucet and push it across the floor.
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the craft. One is in the center and the
sides, respectively.
Within the center W ell the main center
board is located. This is arranged to carry
two ether centerboards that are tongued
into it fore and aft. so that they can all
three be used at one time or they can be
used independently. The port and star
board nterboards are so arranged that
they can be used independe ntly or in con-
junction with the others in the center well.
There are enough ratchets, pawls, pulleys
and cranks about the contrivance to drive
even a sailor to distraction. These center
boards can be put into any form of boat
and can be steered by any sort of rudder.
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lis weight is about s. pounds,
and the pressure employed furnishes one
horsepower. 1t makes considerable noise,
but the inventor hopes to overcome this
objection.
The National Capital Streetcar Motor
Company, Washington, D. c., is building
a streetcar motor to run by gas COM
pressed in tanks, and will be manufac-
turing motor-wagons by March of this
year
Harry z. Dey of the Dey -Griswold Com
pany, los Fulton street, New York, in
ventor OF the Dey electric system of pro-
polling vehicles, is at work upon an en-
tirely new gas motor, TO be used for charg-
ing the batteries of his system at home or
taken on long Journeys. He states that
his two-horse motor will weigh about
twenty pounds and will run with any hy-
drocarbon oil or Illuminating gas
Barnum e. Bailey's Greatest Show on
Earth is to exhibit Duryea motor wagon
through the country rext season.
James Fancher, an expressman doing
business between Bridgeport and West
port, Conn, wants to substitute motor
wagon for his present equipment.
George w. Miller & Co., of 1855 West
Farms road, New York City, have an order
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To sprav Trees and Plants.

The invention of Joseph H. Potter of
Batavia, N. Y, should prove of the great
est value to all tree and plant growers. 1t
is a combination machine adapted to all
kinds of work. Its construction is such
that it puts the spraying compound just
where it is wanted without wasting any.
The machine is simplicity itself.
Mounted on a two-wheel truck is tank
for holding the sprinkling compound. In
the rear OF the tank is pump that can be
used to get Up pressure and also to force
the spray directly on the trees. In front
of the tank is a handle on the end of which
the spraying nozzles are attached. The
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supply pipe runs along the top of the ham
die and is so arranged that the nozzles can
be changed and adjusted without inter-
tering with it in any way.
This machine can be used to throw the
spray on the trees by handling like an
ordinary hose. By taking hold OF the
handle the operator can direct the stream
in any direction, as the two wheels of the
truck will roll around behind him.
The machine can also be used to spray
small plants. To do this it is only neces-
sary to set the end of the handle on the
ground and roll the truck between the
rows Of plants. The front end of the han
die is in toe form of a shoe that will slide
easily through the soil, and the nozzles
can be adjusted to throw the spray out
toward the sides and in any quantity de-
sired