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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24
BIGGEST BANK OF ALL.
Chicago National Passes Two Rivals
in New York-Deposits
$34, 294,o71.
Chicago, May "a

Chicago May "a
Deposits.
First National Bank of Chi
cagO $S4s zS4sOi1
National Park bank Of New
York .....-...:......-...::... 1886, 900
National City bank of New
YORK 1878 1OO
Illinois Trust and Savings
bank of Chicago ............ 30,649, 406
National Bank of Philadel-
phia Observation-Disclosures. II, All. 900
Boston ....................... 6,s6s, 900
Orleans ...................... 4,51e.6o
First National Bank of Cincin-
natl Observation-Disclosures. 1858, 26O
This is the standing of the four big
gest banks in the country on May IA,
1897, when the comptroller issued a call
for statements from the banking in
situations The First National bank of
Chicago has ecIipsed in the race for
business the two banks of New York
and second place as the institutions
doing the biggest business in the Unit
ed States.
Though the amount of deposits is la
bic to huctuatiOn every day, the First
National bank of Chicago has been Civ
ing the other banks a hard race for
first place for the last six months. Six
days before the call was issued the
First National jumped ahead of its ri
walls for the first time and was still
ahead on the day the statement was
drawn up for the comptroller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24
FITTING OUT THE CONCORD
Western Gunboat Being Prepared for
the PACIFIC Snuadron.

vallejo, Cal. May 24-The gunboat,
Concord, has been placed in commits
sion and is now being fitted out with
stores for service She will be at the
navy yards for two weeks and then will
go out with an inspection board for a
trial trip. The Concord IS to be as
signed for the present to the Pacific
squadron.
The old coast survey ship Thetis is
being dismattled and will soon go out of
commission and probalY sold as unfit
for further service Work on the old
wooden frigate, Hartford which has
been rebuilding for several years at the
navy yard has been resumed and a
gang of ship carpenters is at work on
her hull.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24

Inc WestneIu FIno-l News prints the
following in regard to an old resident
of that place: Frank McAvoy. for
many years in the employ of the L.
N A. & c. Ry. here. says: 7 have used
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhOea Remedy for ten years or longer
am never without it in my family. I
consider it the best remedy of the kind
manufactured. take pleasure III rec
ommending it 1t is a specific for
all bowel disorders. For sale by drug
gistss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24
Nashville's Successful Week.

Nashville, Tenn, May 24.-Saturday
closed most successful week for the
especially was the attendance large at
night Official figures are not obtain
able. but competent judges give the
nights attendace as the largest yet
experienced. Fully 90 900 people visited
the grounds Saturday and the week s
ATTENDANCE foots UP over so. 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24
GREATLY REDUCED RATES
To San Francisco via the Rock Island
Route.

Tickets sold June % to July 8 in
-stop-Over given.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24
Mineral Water
The Westfield sIndl Newe nrir+s 49,

The finest In the west. Come and try It.
J. W. PHILLIPS. 612 w Eighth Ave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24

Not how cheap but how good is the
way we try to do our work. Peerless
Steam Laundry. 112 and ia West Sth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24

AS Wse PILE fKjzsy or drOwsy talAe BEECH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24

Ottawa Chatauqua Assembly, June II
to %. One fare via Santa Fee
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-15
FUy FOR sLEIoHRIDERs.
Many Fine Tsrnouss o. the Upper Fart OF
iowa BroasoH's Afishsp.


Every one who owned n vehicle which could
by any possibility be called sleigh and q bit OF
horse flesh to draw It, hitched the two together
yesterday and made n bee line for the quiet
roads In the annexed district where Col.
Warnings white angels" had left the snow
undisturbed. Tho sun tried TO discourage them.
but the many bare spots which lay between
city and country roads did not. and nothing
else could, and the bells rang rs merrily as II
the ~sleighing had been better.
The horses liked It and the snow seemed TO
put new life into them. 1t put too much life
into some Of the beasts. notably into one which
drew George Bronson and William Black from
Fordhsm to fremont in q cutter. They drove
down Third avenue. where the snow lay thick
on the roadway, to the east OF the elevated
structure and the trolley tracks, tbs snow from
both having been piled on tho road on
either side.
Near 10th street q horse lay dead. Now. 1.-Two
horses DO not like dead ones as q rule. and
Bron sons horse was badly frightened. lie
SHE'D violently, swung In q half circle under
the structure, ana back again across the
10th street. The lot is Ave feet below the
which keeps the Sidewalk from seeking The
level OF the lot has tumbied down. leaving
4 steep and rough roadway to the lot Bronson
tried to turn the horse on n safer course. The
frightened animal refused TO stop or turn. He
never stopped until he landed cutter and &C.
cupants In the lot with the dash board OF the
cutter split on, He reached tho middle OF the
lot unhurt and gave the driver. y chance to
jump out aud hold him down In the snow until
his temper cooled. Tho cutter was wrecked,
Neither horse nor man was hurt.
There were many more pretentlous turnouts
along Riverside Drive. where sleighlng was
very good. West Chester roads gave good
sleighing. and hundreds Of sleighs. big and lit.
tie. made the roads merry. The snow gave the
inhabitants another chance to c~ritictse New
York methods OF dealing with tho snow. When
West Chester was out In the cold Of westches-
ter county the town authorities qsed to clean
the walks with q primitive but edectuAl snow
scraper or plough.
"Since ws were annexed" the West Chester
ties complain. all the money Ia spent In cleaning
Now York roadways for the benefit Of horses
and trucks, and the people are left TO plough
through the snow around West Chester a. best
we can. It's we'll enough to ask New Workers
to clean tho walk. but private Individuals can't
clean the boundaries OF ton-acre lots, aud there
are lots Of such stretches for us to walk over"
they say.
Van Cortlandt Park was well patroniyed by
eleiRhing parties. and Broad way all tho way 10
Yonkers was gay with handsome turnouts.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-15

ID. V. Gwilym. who recently announced his
withdrawal from the passionate OF the Mae
dougal Street Baptist Church and from tho
Baptist denomination, is now acting as a lay
reader In the Protestant Episcopal Church In
this city. In preparation for his reordination as
q minister in that Church. Soon after his re-
tiremont from the Baptist Church he made
application to Bishop Littlejohn OF Long
Island, In, accordance with the canon
covering the case, to be received back
John granted his request. There was Al tho
time no opening in the diocese OF Long Island,
but, At Bishop littlejohn's suggestion, bishop
Potter granted MIR. dwilym q license to ~oficiato
rs q lay reader In the diocese OF New YORK. and
as the Rey. Dr. g.. ,Walpole Warren, rector OF
East Seventy-frst street, was In need OF q lay
reader In his parish, the opportunity to act In
that capacity there was offered to Mr.. Gwilym,
and ho accepted II.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-15

value Of the piece work systcm Of remunera-
tion in Its shops at Altoona. a. compared with
the "day's-work' plan formerly In vogue.
It Is stated that, before the Introduction nj
the new system fifty new locomotives per an
mum represented the capacity OF the shops.
Since that change the output-with substan-
TALLY the same tools and appliances-bss dou-
blcd. THE coat NJ days work IN the erect
ing shops of what are known m Class /. en-
aines was $500. The same amount OF work.
IN engines Of the same general class, but about
fifteen tons heavier. now costs so5.75 and Is
done In one-half the time. By days
work It took three days TO build . box car.
This work IL now done In fifteen hours.
The pipe work on q locomotive formerly
cost s137. and now costs S3e."
Figures are vi, en- showing that. while the
output has been doubled and cost Of labor re-
ducod one-hnif. wages have been raised moro
than 25 par cent. under the new system.
The value Of this ,haase may be better ap-
prociatod whom It is stated that the cost Of
equipment on the Pennsylvania Railroad last
year was %, 500 900, Of which about "a, $780,
900 was labor.
1r conclusion. I may repeat What I have said
on q former occasion that the introduction of
labor-saving machinery has enormously In
creased the output for each workman. and this
introduces a new element into the ethics Of the
question Of wages. and also into the practical
question OF cost. II II can be shown that .
skilled workman. at q slight increase Of labor
and attention.. csn enormously increase tho
OUTPUT Of q machine, he should be encouI aged
to make the effort by an increase of Day.
An Increase Of output must logically and
necessarily involve a fall increase of wages.
ara. in Ia properly conducted business. this In
crease OF wages. following increased output,
must mean increased profit.
This Is = proft-sharlnG scheme to which
there can be no practical objection.
While the brief statements here given nre in
tended merely az indications OF the present and
prospective condition Of manufacturing Indus
tries IN America. they seem to point clearly to
the encouraging fact that this :ountrY 10
about to enter upon an era OF Industrial pros
perity through growing expansion OF It's CON-
merce and manufactures,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-15

stt hihp
In 1850, / visited Edison's laboratory at
Menlo Park to inspect his new system of in.
candescent electric lighting. I wGs then much
Impressed with the novel methods Of making.
In considerable numbers. the delicate lamps
and tilaments. and regarded them as maryels
OF mechanical ingenuity.
understood ut that time that Mr.. Edison
had succeeded by his methods In reducing the
cost Of. manufacture OF the little lamps one
half. e.. from about 81 to 81. SO each.
To-day lamps far superior to the earlier
forms made 10 1850 are sold In large lots At
less than 20 cents each! 4 single factory of
the General Electric Company turns out o.
000. 900 \ year. and the output OF all the fac
tories combined is about 20. 0O0, 900 lam DIS per
year.
1t Is interesting. In view OF the present low
cost OF the lamps, TO know that the carbon fla
ment is estimated 10 be. weight for weight,
the most valuable substance known.
Filamehts Tor the ordinary sixteen CANDLE
power lamps are worth $40 a thousand, and
$4,000 are required to weigh one pound.
The nlaments In the tiny bulb lamps used
for surgical and dental purposes are very much
smaller, and are three times more valuable, II
estimated by weight, or more than S4O0, 900
per pound,
Formerly 1t was customary TO estimate APP
proximately the coat OF a locomotive at 81 900
per ton weight. Thus an engine weighing
10000 pounds would cost about SEQ, 600. To-
day. a frstclass locomotive. weighing about
100000 pounds, costs about So. 600, or less
than VA cents per pound. Labor-savinR ma
chinery and piece work" systems Of pay are
largely accountable for these results.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has made an
interesting, almost startling. discovery Of the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-15

Magistrate Kudiich Helps Mullen
Change His Mad About Brewn.

Magistrate Kudiich Helps Mullen 10
Change HI. Mind About brown.
1t cost Mr.. Mullen IS to search In his poke
for a lead pencil yesterday morning. His wife
was before Magistrate Kudlich In the Yorkville
Police Court charged with intoIication. Police
man Brown Of the East Twenty-second street
station had found her asleep on q stoop In East
Twenty-frst street on Saturday night. Her
husband appeared In court to protest against
her arrest, and although the case was clear tho
Magistrate was going to let her 60 with . warn
Ing. Just before he did so Mullen stepped up to
Brown and asked for his number, and then be-
gan to search Cor . pencil.
Are you going to make charges against this
policeman ~ asked the Magistrate In surprise.
Well.er-yes-l was" began Mullep. very red
TN that case III nne your wife IS. was
going to let her 20. but II you are going to make
charges We must have = record to Justify tho
action OF the policeman. who was undoubtedly
In the right" said the Magistrate.
Mullen paid tho 81 with n long face and took
his wife out OF court.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-15

She Was Hts wife Not Mis Dog. .aa Grow
Was Sure He Coaid Punish Her.

buo Nuu = Jul WIG NOT HIS hog. and Crow
Was sure He Cosid Punish Her.
Patrick J. Crow is the man. Ellen is his wife.
The two OF them live at 243 East Thlrtieth
street. Crow took his wife to a ball at Tam
many Hall on Saturday night, and because che
allowed q couple OF mon to be too attentive to
her Crow took her home. On Fourteenth street
they Quarrelled. and when they got into q cable
car Patrick let 70 his right and landed on
Ellen's nose. Then the conductor came up and
landed on Patrick's nose. Then Crow called
Policeman Burns OF tho East Twenty second
street station, and told him TO arrest the con-
duotor; but Burns arrested Crow. When tho
case came up before Magistrate Kudlioh at
Yorkvillo yesterday Crow was very wroth.
shes mo. wife" said he. and IL 1 can't
strike her. who can p
Not In q street car" said the Magistrate.
III you strike -FOUR dog on q street car you're
In danger OF arrest"
But shs wasn't me dog. She's me wife,"
Ten dollars" said the Magistrate. ITS q
pity the conductor didn't hit you harder"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-15

Appellate Diyision-supreme Court-Reces, untn
supreme coury-sprcial T%erm-Part i.--Motloa
calendar called a. 1880 A. d, Part LEX parto
inester Water Company vs.. Central trust COMPANY.
Part N.--casc unfinished. Law ana fnct-Not
sfsss.. s n7tsSs ssssssi. s sSs s asts' s s,nt' 49, wv y. p ,Sa4 :.
Clear; Cases from Par. ~. Fart vI,;,case un'
El.xa,ed railrosa eases. Trial Term Par! iI,Scs,:
lO1O6. al6l. lu4ls. lOoy7, iOssi. iOBV6. lOHU4.
1857. i 1888. g ,vyio ,0i iisss .'i iSso1 10' Fsi, iq ni'.
clear Ms; sass. '.ese; iIss. $3.50 sIs5. 9eoe.
SSCS.. gpsS.' siSs.. TISs,. SsS5. SSSs. ST Inaus sxs-:
Nos. 35iv. 55io. Part .iv.-caso unfinished. Case.
iii. Part yi.-oasc diminished. Cases from rars
IL Part Vu;ESiess:i No;; i5a9, ooe!, lave.
sSss.. ss;sss,, ssss.. Mos.. mas. ' is!... 5 1852 SsSs.
% yea. ' Sna;nl. .nSn''tSs Cases ,rc Sn't Pas e1g VI. Par; yII:
cclsar; GaAes from rsrt vi. Part x:-ciear.
Gaze, from Part II. Part xn.-olear. SSsss rroa
rrIsSri;s at 1910 a. NJ. chamssrs- MsnriS Sn .S %s,
Govern. Henry Altheimer at II A.. u. Chamber
a. ns',y, Gso, Hn,, >: Easo; John cTnroy. John 4:
Gonuenc!p, Leopold wsitsfelder at 1880 A. MI
W c,rS c%o asnoHrn Il r. rmnMouon.. rr,a, Term
Part lease unfinished. Nos. itt5. 4ole, 1874.
iiss, Ioo5. ioo7. 1855, 1905. 1907, $50 iTiss.,
:sSSSS.. i7Ss. III. 'iTvi. i9ss. itSss.. sai'. ssss:.
1882. lOis, 1918: 1857, ISIS. isi., 1890, Part II.
sac, via. 1887. 1915. l43l .:Vga. 1871. ei77. 1860.
lsUl,s. 1879, b7b. o78, az. $40. 100, 1908, iOys.
1925. ofs. 1914. sol. 6D7. ves. yno. uiS. 1913. 67l.
Az. l7oi, i7as, ssl; 4 os .:ors. ~. sos. TOY. 1913.
Clear. snort causes; NoS. 1921, asst. aaso. a.es.
SOT0. BiaO. Sigi. 8l23. $3.50, HI.2, 4tl6, 444o.
i447, Si0s. iaii, 42Io, itTs, 4say, 4lso, 43oS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-15
Deserted His wiz. aud Chnd-e.,

Moses A. Wilkinson Of .: Seneca street.
Utica, was arrAigned In the Centre Street Police
Court yesterday by Detective Downing OF the
Central Once. WILT asked MAGISTRATE Cornell. 10
turn hun over TO a Utica policeman. who wa.
also In court. Downing Explained that Wilkin-
son had deserted hrs wife and four children in
Utica. ana that u warrant had been issued for
him there. Wilkinson was arrested just Ms he
WAS about to sail for Poland. Magistrate Cor
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-15

The Journeymen BARRIERS Progressive Union
sent q letter to the Central Labor Union yester-
day applying for representation In that body.
L. named AZ delegates II. u. Hartman, X, L.
Weber. and August Graf. Tho letter was re-
ferred TO the miscellaneous section.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-15
AN IMPRESSIVE FORECAST.
THE FT1 IRE or our CHEAT IN
UUsTRIES FROM AN ECOkO-
MIs7's POINT or VIEW.

-. 49,. m. r. a.. $1,000. ~
b,r,c-st.r,upr Pro~r.s. In Prset,e.,
Eeouo-ies-Tendsrey Of Iron I-terest-.
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"a. J,n,,.,.U.a ~ pSnn,,,,onta
purpose On ia ocoas'on 'a'.'np.
tno horoscope OIL manui'uI,ns lnous.rie. III
america ior the OPENING Oh inc new ccn.uiS.
IN ooo'nR'' WIN venture ooAp.ees soino '."s
"h'cn may not U cons,usreu e".r'S o''nouo
iFo" ny 'ieWpo'hs " ~ r'u 80"
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-15

CnDF Weak backs, painful Kidneys,
QUILL aching muscles, uterine pains,
LUNGS ] ss;;;::: ; 81 Z s; $; ;:; ;;::;.::
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-20
1T OBJECTS.

The Los Angeles Express" objects
to annexation because the country is
large enough No. it is not. SO long
as a people at our very threshold beg
to be endowed with the privileges we
enjoy. 1t objects that we are not pre-
pared to absorb an inferior race. But
we are. The Sandwich Islander is
rapidly disappearing; in two more gem
erations he will not number a paltry
5000. But he is not to be absorbed
except by nature. He is to remain as
he is precisely, but protected from cap
ture by England or reduction to the
subsection of Japan.
But, says the Express" according
to the most sacred spirit of our Gov
eminent" we may not take a people
into a new State or Territory, and de-
bar them from the rights and duties of
citizenship" But it is not necessary
that Hawaii shall become a State, nor
viii it until it is wholly and thoroughly
Americanzed. There has been no
trouble with the natives of Alaska, nor
have they disturbed our political sys-
tenn. Moreover the Kanaka is not,
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-20
LET Us BE THANKFUL.

The Des Moines state Register"
has a leader editorial warning the
people to get their storm caves ready, ="
as the June heat and sultriness indicate
that the season of great winds and
transforms is at hand, and because the
meteorological reports show that the
storm center under which such devas-
tation has recently been wrought in
the South is slowly moving northward
In perfect seriousness-we can dis
cover nothing satirical in the article
the Register" says:
The Registers family storm cave
has been cleaned out, and will be kept
in readiness for sudden occupation un-
til the storm season has passed, when
it will be ready for its usual service in
the winter. Storm caves can be thus
made useful throughout the years, and
there is no other expenditure which can
and does add so much to the safety and
comfortable feeling of the families as
the small expenditure necessary to con-
struct a storm cave. They are nearly
as necessary in the cities and towns as
on the wind-swept prairies, and every
storm cave built viii more than pay
for itself each year, in the preservation
of meats and vegetables at all seasons,
in addition to providing an absolutely
safe refuge from all the storms for all
the members of the families. Many
needed the warnings of past years and
escaped the fury of the storms by build
ing their caves before the storms ar
who have
hitherto escaped whose lives will be in
danger this year unless they proceed to
provide a safe refuge for all the mem
bers of the family.
That is a delightful country of alarms,
of sudden peril and of mighty disturb
ances to live in, to be sure. Californians
need to make no such preparations. The
year round sturdy man may here live
out of doors with no other shelter than
the most ordinary and ever present.
Time was when the great East was full
of commiseration and overfiowed with
pity for California because We have oc-
casional seismic disturbances of a COM
paratively trivial character. But even
our earthquakes appear to have left US,
and to have moved East. There have
been more temblors in Eastern States
in the last two years than all that his
tory records in known time against the
Pacific Coast of the country.
Cyclones are here unknown, and the
conditions that give US atmospheric
currents, say the meteorologists, abso-
lutely negative the idea that we shall
have cyclones or great whirlwinds.
Billiards are out of tune with our cli-
mate. and even floods here could not,
because of the lay of the land and the
streams, prove even proportionately SO
severe and devastating as is common
among our brethren at the East. Let
Californians with bowed heads and
thankful hearts acknowledge the provi-
dence of nature that blesses them in
their habitations.