Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-09-01


state. Commander-in-C Chief Clarkson
ruled that he was out of order, but Mr..
Picker insisted.
On vote the ruling of the command.
er-in-chief was sustained.
Mr.. Picker yielded with great reluc-
lance.
DR.. David Mackay of Dallas. Tex,
veteran of the Seventy-ninth New York
Highlanders, was elected, unanimously,
surgeOn-general of the Grand Army.
The first ballot for Junior vice-com-
mander did not result in a choice, but
later the acknowledgement was instructed
to cast the vote of the encampment for
Francis B. Allen of Hartford, the candi-
date of the Naval Veterans association.
Rev. Frank G.. Bruner, pastor of the
First Methodist church of Chicago, was
unanimously elected chaplain in chief Of
the Grand Army.
Commander-in-C Chief Shaw of the de-
partment of New York offered a resolu-
ton providing that the last Sunday in
May be observed as Memorial day and
spoke at length in support of it.
The resolution was defeated.
At the session late yesterday after
noon nominations for commander-in-chief
were made as follows: Isaac T. Mack
of Sandusky, o., was nominated by Dele
gate Brown of Ohio; J. p. S. Goblin Of
Lebanon, Pa, was nominated by Dele
gate Stewart of Pennsylvania; George
H. Innis of Boston by Delegate Wether-
bee of Massachusetts, and John G. Line
han of New Hampshire by Delegate
Coggswell of New Hampshire. Mr..
Wetherbee later withdrew the name Of
Mr. Innis.
The first ballot resulted: Mack, 253;
Linehan, 1871; Goblin, 296-no choice.
The vote on the second ballot was new
er announced officially, but as cast it
RpfO hn no
announced by the tellers, the ten Mis-
souri, delegates votes that had been cast
for Mack were withdrawn and were Or
dered changed to Goblin, who had re-
ceived the other twelve of the twenty
two votes belonging to the state. This
gave Goblin 36S votes and enough to
elect. Illinois aud other states began
to order their votes changed, but while
this was in progress, r. B. Brown of
Ohio, who nominated Mr.. Mack, asked
unanimous consent thau the adjutant-gen-
eral be instructed to cast the vote of the
encampment for MIR. Goblin, making his
election unanimous.
Brew Brighten. John p. S. Goblin of
Lebanon, the new commander-in-chief,
was born at Sunbury, Pa, in 1888, and.
now lives at Lebanon, Pa. He gained
his education in the public schools of his
native town. He was admitted to the
bar just before the war began, and he
entered the service as captain. He en-
listed in the Eleventh Pennsylvania in
fantry in 1861 for three months, and at
the end of the enlistment his company re-
enlisted and was merged into the Forty
eighth Pennsylvania regiment. He was
soon appointed to the command of the
regiment and fought with the Nineteenth
army corps in the Red River campaign
and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah
valley. He was provost judge of South
Carolina during the early reconstruction
II InI OF Lob W
and organized Post AZ. He has been
prominent in Pennsylvania politics, hav-
ing been state senator for sixteen years,
and for several years president of the
Senate. He has also long been promi-
nent in Masonic and Grand Army circles.
Water Can hit Hard.
Landsmen who are slow to realize the
tremendous force of the sea had an OBJ
ject lesson ashore in this city the other
day when FIVE large tanks, built to con-
tain 100000 pounds of soap, but tempo
rarily filled with water and situated on
the fourth floor of q large building on
West Fifty-second street, this city, col!
lapsed and completely wrecked the whole
structure, killing three men and doing
large amount of damage. The tanks
were each 10 feet high and about Is feet
diameter, and contained 161, TO3 pounds
beams proved altogether inadequate to
stand the strain. A wave of the dimen-
siOns of one of these tanks is rot at all
unusual at sea, and when such a wave
breaks on a vessels deck the force of
the blow can only be estimated by the
amount of damage it does in spite Of the
elasticity of the water beneath the yes
sci to ease her in receiving the shock.
When the city fremen state that a
stream from a hose under fifty pounds
pressure will cut through any ordinary
brick wall, the force of the sea in a gale
may be, perhaps, better imagined.-Ma-
rine Journal.
Electricity Affecting sailors Eyes.
Owing to the intensity of the electric
light used on board of men-of-war men
are frequently affected with eye COM
plants, which in some cases have led to
total blindness, says a French military
journal. It has been observed that eyes
in which the iris is not heavily charged
with pigments, that is to say, gray and
blue eyes, are more likely to be,injurious,
ly affected than brown eyes. These eve
troubles are ascribed to two causes, viz,
the intensity of the light and the action
of the ultraviolet rays. Oculists recon-
mend the interposition between the eye
and any powerful light of a transpar-
ent substance, which will intercept the
ultraviolet rays, such as, for instance,
uranium glass, which is yellow The
French naval authorities supply dark
blue glasses for the use of those who
have to do with 'search-lights, etc, and
the cases in twhieho injury has been
caused to the te4es were those of men
who, had neglected to use these spec
tacles, Which, however, do not appear to
aff6rd1 any protection against the ultra
violet rays ,1a Ila1L2iL
!! Girl StulKJBTGMlss are queer; often be-
fore a young Woman falls in love she
thinks more of dog than of anything
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