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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19
IN BUsr THIRD AVENUE.
a Lively scene Presented AFTER o Wight Alarm
OF Fire.

a Lively scene Presented AFTER . Wight Alarm
OF Fire.
The neighborhood Of Third avenue and Four
teenth street. never dull, Is perhaps at Its live
lest on Saturday nights; and II one should hap
pen along there on some Saturday night when
there was an alarm OF nre, say just up Third
avenue. he would witneas q scene OF animation
that would stir his blood.
Suppose he should halt right where he was. in
Fourteenth street. and stand on the curb to see
tho engines 60 by. He would hear them coming
from both directions ut once. He would see tho
engine from the east sweep around the corner
in among the pillars of the elevated road. fol-
lowed by a hook and ladder truck. A second or
two later he would see a water tower go by on
the jump up Third avenue.
Then he would turn to the engine coming
along Fourteenth street on his own side OF Third
avenue, three horses abreast. two big bays. with
q big white horse in the middle, q striking team
at any time. all the more 80 at night. and COM
ing on dead gallop with the glittering machine
behind them. As you start to follow the big red
wagon of the insurance patrol goes booming up
Third avenue. and you hear the gathering gong
Of the wagon Of a battalion chief.
crowd you turn aside for q moment at Fifteenth
street to look at the particular engine that you
Identical hydrent that il had ali the time been
heading for. horses not the least bit blown. but
standing there, the biz wheelhorse in the mid.
engine. for 1t was not 70 take water. and was
wai'ing only for the order to go home.
B ok o Third avenue and the crowd. Other
engines there. and the truck. and the water
tower, and the battalion chief and the insur.
Ance patrol. and n reRt crowd everywhere.
Where the arer ono stranger asks Of an.
reply, and that is correct But there's a lot OF
life and hustle. engines blowing off steam. bells
innglinR, trains on the elevated road rushing
back md forth over the engines and tho trucks
and all. and over the heads OF the crowd in tho
street below. Cable cars dashing up and down
the avenue with banging. gongs, and a rabble
and roar. Here goes ono whoopinR along with a
white mail car for n trailer. II there ever was n
lively scene. and one likely to impress the be-
holder with an idea OF the common use OF power
in these days In citics. II was tho scene here.
But there was no fire. Soon the engines
started for homo again. and the water tower al d
the rest went their, several ways; and the
crowd in the street dwindled and disappeared.
absorbed once more into the thronRs upon the
sidewalks, and then thore was. nothing left To
show that the engines had been there except the
stone, and those soon went out.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19
CATFISH AT THE AQUARIUM.
4 1IsatinE Playground OF Plants Provided Tor
the Little Onos.


Catfish hug tho bottom and dig In the mud.
and they like to creep under things. such as
plants and stones. There are now at the Aqua
rum q number of good-sized catfish that swim
about bravely and make q fne show. but when
they were first put into tho tank they all
huddled together in ono corner. and stayed
there. most OF time. In . heap. 1t may DO they
will cluster again when colder weather comes.
Among tho fishes taken lately in fishing tho
waters In tho city's parks for fresh-wate speci-
mems for the Aquarium there were = large mum
Der OF little catfish from tho Bronx R~iyer-hfty
or "a hundred OF them. When placed In a tank
all crowded together In a bunch. For their
greater comfort there was dropped into the
called water milfoil. Detached as IL was 1t
sank lightly to the bottom.
Tho little cats, which the Aquarium people
call kitten fish. made for tho water milfoil
promptly, squirming In and out under II. and
over and under one another under IT.. making
the water milfoil to dance with u sort of sober
iightness In the water, The presence OF tho
plant delights them. They managed to separate
the big clnmp soon after II VAS thrown in. and
sometimes involuptarily they work IL apart, and
then there is one lot OF the little fishes at play
| under ono part and another at play under the
other part, and then sometimes they work 1t
together again. In which condition 1t suits them
best
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19
GREAT TRO UT FISHING.
In Ono Week Two Men Got Thirty-Ase speckIed
Trout That weigh III I.0 PoMndn.

QCEBEC, Sept. l6.-Some phenomenal catches
OF brook trout have been recorded by American
fishermen In Canada during the last few days.
Most remarkable OF all, because II establishes
a record for this part of Canada, Ia the catch
of A. Nelson Cheney, State Fish Culturist OF
New York. and his friend W. F. Rathbone. as
sistant attorney of tho Delaware and Hudson
Railway. Mr.. Cheney is an honorary mem
Der of the famous Triton Fish and Game Club,
which has over 800 square miles Of fishing and
hunting territory in the best part Of the Lake
st. John country. In Lake Noise on this terri
tory between Aug. 81 and Sept. 7, they caught
thirty-hve FISH. all ~speckied brook trout, that
weighed N.Y. pounds. or an average Of three
trout taken by Mr.. Cheney weighed jus. six
pounds. MI. Rathbonc caught one OF seven
pounds. There have been larger fish than these
caught In these watcrs, but never so high an
average. for 30 large a catch and never such
heavy fish B., By genuine fl. hyS-oS S;hsr:' Though oN w;
single. fish upon, this tract, on tIolled flies,
welehing on and sM pounds each, Az FISH
water olive. The best twenty-five ash Of tho
catch weighed lO1A pounds, thus averaging
twenty-five. Ten Of Mr.. cheneys fish aver.
early sssts H. Cheney had III three q his
away soon after the fish struck. and on the
stretcher he killed a six.pounder.
Mr.. Cheney did not succeed In taking any OF
but a specimen resembling tho now. marston
trout was brought TO town the other day by
friend, Mi. Graham Harris, from Lake George
on the Tourili tract. The trout flies that
this season have been tho Parmachenoo Belle
and a new fly tied by Graham Herris Of Chi.
friend. tho Mayor. with his Garter II. fly
Mossrs. Harrison and Harris made the remark
able record of a hundred nah In an hour each.
scarlet Ibis. body a very dark purple mOhair
which looks black except when held up TO the
light, wound with silver iinsol, nat. The hhckls
is a very light brown and the wing q breast
feather Of the teal, tied low down. 10 - TO ~
main separate In the water,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19
BLACK DEAF AND DUMB WoNDEh
CIaias 70 No . Hebrew and Writos the Lana
guage OF Moses. -, ,
From the Hartford Courant.

From the Hartford ourdnf. no
There has been In this city for tho last feV
days q young African negro who claims to DO Q
Hebrew. He 10 deaf and dumb and black. He
came here from New Haven, and is trying TO &C.
cumulate enough money to go back TO Africa
II he is what he represents himself to be and IL
what he claims Is true, he is quito an interesting
character. He carries q pad OF paper with him
and a pencil and answers all questions by writs
ing them In Hebrew and Losohen Khodish.
What incites the most wonder is that he writes
Loschen Khodish very rapidly. 1t is tho lane
guage OF the books OF Moses. and is made .
special study OF. spoken and written with case
only by tho rabbis ana highly educated Hebrews
This negro was sent to one OF the rabbis of
Hartford. who is perfectly satisfied that he is .
Hebrew. He says that he came from a large
town In Africa, whore there are a tribe OF about
10000 black Hebrews who speak Loschen
Khodish and are quite prosperous. He also says
that his father IL a rabbi In that town and that
ID why his father took the trouble to teach
him TO write these languages, which
account Of his being, deaf and dumb.
Ho says his people do not only write
Lo chen Koiisch, but IT is their speaking Ian.
guage MS well. He left home q few years ago.
and has seen a good deal OF tho world. In each
town he hunts up the Jewish section. and there
they give him clothes. food and money. He 10
now howesiok and intends to go back 10 Africa
as soon as no gets money enough, He showed
some money which they had collected for him
st New Haven. What surprises him. he writes.
Is that no Hebrew knows OF his countrymen lin
Africa,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19
Not q Bit superstitioun.

Not n BIT Superstition.
No, I am not superstltious.
1 consider IL pcrniciLus
II not absolutely vicious
In a man
To admit himself so small that he must seen
Every little sign and omen
As the menace OF q foeman.
stll, I'm free to say that Friday
Never. never would bs my day
For q venture. for Irm sure 'twould never HIT
Though l am not superstitiouS. not q bit.
Really. I've no federation
OF that nervous hesitation
And that irksome perturbation
Which I've seen.
when q dinner party CHANGED to DO thirtee1.
Why. I've seen that arrant folly
Make . whole crowd me ancholy,
with their whining and their nimsy,
Foolish reasons for the whimsoy.
Still. I own I hate to be the last to sit.
Though l am not superstitious, not . bic.
Certain things may be propitious.
Though they seem but adventitious,
And It's hardly superstitious
To perceive
Which Is which. and so. accordingly. believe.
Now there's nothing makes me sadder
Than to walk beneath n ladder;
But | grow n good deal oolder
when the moon IL at my shoulder.
And to spill the salt, 1t takes away my Cit,
Though l am not superstitious. not q bit.
Surely nothing can be clearer
Than that evil marches nearer
By tho breaking Of a mirror.
And it's true
That q bowling dog in nighttime makes me blue.
For his keen scent makes no erron
And he smells the King OF Terrora.
Here's another thing. Take heed. air.
II your nose should start to bleed. sir.
And should only bleed three drops and then should
quiti
Though l I'M not superutitious. not . bit-
1t Il odd to see what uses
/ Some folks make OF vain excuses
Rather than admit abuses
or the mind.
When they're rather superstitiously inclined.
Just TO put Il in plain English;
1t would seem they can't distinguish
Between false and foolish cases
And the few which have q basis
In experience. which even I admit.
Though | am not superstitious, not q whit
J. EDMUND V. COOKE.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19
vyA,susa Between stations.
From the Aav.vtN Kv., Mirror,

The whistle valve Of the midnight cannon ball
train got 50 II would not CLOSE Saturday night.
and there was a continued whistle from Fulton
train came In whistling and left whistlinR.. The
citizens here, those who had not been put into q
by the loud and long drawn.out whistling. and
were Mt frat alarmed for fear II was a fire sig.
nal. Under this idea many jumped out OF bod
there 10 "a fire IN town. The same thing hap.
pened TO one of tho trains Friday. The whistle
valve got out OF hK at Boaz and the whistlinR
continued till steam went down, when the On.
gineSr munled II with . rag.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19

Jacob Z. Solomon ID q candidate for the TAmmany
Hall nomination for the Assembly in the ThirtJ'third
district, and Alfred A. Farley is q candidate for tho
Republican nomination In the Twenty.seventh. Tho
Thirty. third district at last years election was ono OF
the closest in tho city. Gov. Black carried II by ia
votes in . total of 5000. The twenty seventh dis
tict 10 overwhelmingly Republican,; In fact, the most
strongly Republican district OF tho city In some re-
specta. 1t " az the one last yoar In which the Demo.
cratic candidate for Governor, Mr.. Porter, polled the
smallest vote.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19

From the Cleveland Leader.
"Let us walk In the cleaning.
Sweet maiden" he cried,
And then they went roaming
Along, side by side,
And the cleaning gloAmod on,
As they stTolled DER the lea,
And the lovers were pensiye,
As lovers will be.
And ~ they were roaming
The lover ossAyed
To sing I'm the Rloaming ~
Then halted the maid:
"Let the cleaning gloAm on,
II IL wants TO-" said abe,
"Dut I'll run II you dAro, sIF.
To sing IL 70 mel"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19

All. each man besrs his Dome Of Dreams
A picture dome
whereon arc painted homely cares,
Defeats and triumphs aud despair,
gallery thronged with wider themes
Than those Of Romo.
The pictures on this Dome of Dreams
Arc memories.
Young Barefoot wandering through the dew,
Through daisiod neids when life was new,
By woodland paths, By lilied streams
And blossomed trees.
The picture OF a maid at school
with floating hair:
TransnRured in tho mist II che
On that dim shore Of memory,
Life's dewiness about her, cool
And pure and fair.
Tho picture Of q road that leads
From an old home;
boy that from q wooded swell
Looks through his tears and waves farewell
Then down through unknown hills and meads
Afar to roam.
The pictures of the long. long way
He travelled far;
Fair fruited hillsides s~ianting south.
Baked herbiess uplands smit with drouth.
And night paths with no CLEAN Of day
without . star.
And pictures of wido-sleepins wales
And storm.tossed waves;
OF valleys bathed in MONDAY poaoo.
or sheltered harbors of release.
Blue inlets specked with sunlit sailsi
OF open graves.
And pictures OF fair islands set
In golden foam;
And pictures Of black wrecks upcase
On barren crags by many a blast
But oni Life paints moro pictures yet
Upon that dome. SAN wALTEn FOES.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19
POEMS WORTH READING,


In I. uWs hons. t,.s I piotvr-. ,-u.p.-s.aI II :, nc, . Urea
houss,
II 10 ronnd, II 10 emily = rev inches from one tide 70 the o,hsrj
Yet behold, II has rsol for ali the shows OF the world, all
msmorie,t
H,rs the t,a,su. Of life and here ts. grouping, Of d,s,s.
WALT wHrTnAN.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19
POLITICAL +

The borough conventions OF the Republicans will
be held on oct. 1t thcse Of Tainmsny Will be held on
Oct, I. The Republicans will hold their primaries
on Sept. 20, Tsmmhny viii hold its primaries on
Sept, 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19

The present appropriation for public drinking
ydrants 10 o., 900, aud tho sum OF $4,000, twice as
much, Il asked for 1898 by the Department OF Public
Works. the claim being made that the hydrant have
deteriorated and require TO DO put in order.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19
lKlona,Les within Our s.rasp.

Half the effort required of q man before he
can get gold out OF the Klondike." said o phil
osophsI, would bring. him comfort and soma .
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19

The salary account in Ludlow stroat Jail now er.
seeds $1,000 a year. and eel 1000 is asked for next
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-19

There is no state election In Illinois this year, the
terms of the Treasurer and superintendent OF Public
Instruction not expiring until January, 1909. and
those OF the Governor and other State officials con.
tinuing until January, 1901; but in Morgan county,
the capital seat OF which Ia Jacksonville, and which
adjoins Springfield. Gov. Tanner has issued a call for
special election for County Judge on Nov. 2 to elect
n successor to Richard Yates. resigned. The Gov.
errors term in Illinois Is four years. The Governors
salary ia 81. 900; the Lieuteuant.Governor receives
nj. 900 only.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-24

mad that l didn't waste any more time
or breath on MIN, but lifted the cover
off my pit, jumped into it without
stopping to use the ladder, and pulled
the cover on again.
By this time the cyclone was max
ing itself heard. First there was low,
rumbling sort of sound, like railroad
train makes when ii is a good way off
1t grew, louder and louder. till it got to
be kind of shrieking roar. like hum
dred big church organs mixed up with
a dozen or so steam whistles. 1t was
as black as night in that pit, except
when the lightning flashed, for there
is always more or less lightning play
ing around the funnel of a cyclone. 1t
seems as if no expense was spared in
making a cyclone as various. and en-
tertaining as possible. Just when the
roaring was at it's loudest there came
an awful crash that made the earth
shake, and then the sound began TO
weaken, and in a few minutes it had
died away, and the place was as still
as a mans house when he comes back
to il from his wife's funeral
SO far, so gOod,' saws l to myself
Now I'll Chamber out and see if there
is anything left of my house and the
mules and the Norwegian But when
l tried to lift up the cover of the pit /
could stir it only a few inches, and
that didn't let in any light. 1 couldn't
understand what this meant but being
a smoker, of course ] had my matches
with me, so l struck a light and in
vestigated l found that there was a
sort of board flooring above the cover
of the pit which prevented me from
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-24
A WINTER SCENE ALONG THE GLOUCESTER wHARvEs.

A few weeks ago a hurricane swept
over the north Atlantic ocean. AS I
stood on the fish wharVes. the huri-
cane still at its height, there were
many fishermen under the lee of the
maekerel sheds. Deering anxiouslv be-
yond the lines of snow white breakers
dashing over the bar. A weather-beaten
little schooner, with topmast gone and
colors at half mast, beat up the en-
trance to the harbor. and, as she Sc
cured her last line at her wharf. a
tall, hardy, fishermen stepped or shore.
'Holloa, there, Bill! What's UP"
was the greeting from those on the
wharf
Bill shrugged his shoulders and
could see tears in his eyes as he an
swered: We'll, boys Gus is gone. We
tried TO save him, but it was no use.
We rrn IS long es twas safe. and
then we tried ter heave her to. Gus wuz
at the wheel, and as she swung roun'
d big sea come aboard sweepin' the
decks clean. He waren't lashed Well.
boys, you know the rest. Here's the
paper. Some Nv you take it" In a
rear tenement in Rogers street sat a
woman by the bedside of her sick child.
occasionally she would peer out
through her window and gaze anx-
lously down the street. She was look
ing for some one. Trouble was de-
plcted on her face. Would he never
Gomez" she had asked for the nun
dredth time, when there was a loud
knock at the door. The door being
opened IN walked hardy fisherman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-24
DRYING THE FISH.

have only temporary homes in GlOuces-
ter and have, naturally, but little in
:erest in the welfare and good name of
the city. 1t is to them more or less
like a foreign town. Their lives are
lives OF constant peril, continuous hard
ship, and absolute slavery TO discom-
fort. If there is one class Of men on
earth to whom life means little that
we can imagine as pleasant, TO whom
hardship and danger have no terror. it
Is the fishermen class. and especially
those who go "a bankin.' His quar-
tiers are cramped, stuffy and wretched;
his bunk is hard, cold and narrow, his
hours are long and his work heavy,
dirty and dangerous Frozen, raw faces.
torn and festered hands and poisoned
blood are ills not uncommon nor IN
expected among them.
Bank fishing, especially for cod, is
done nowadays almost exclusively With
travis. The old style ii hand line
fishing is sometimes adhered TO in bad
weather, but it is TOO slow and tedious
under ordinary circumstances.
1t is in trawling that the poor fisher
man meets the greatest dangers. The
man who goes a bankin" never sets
nor hauls his travis without taking
risks. Except in settled weather. he
must be constantly on the qui vive,
that he is not caught in fog, blown
oy b. some sudden squaU or over
taken in a snow storm. And there is
little settled weather on the banks.
When the fishing vessel arrives at the
banks she is anchored and the little
dories IN which the fishermen do the
tIawling. are put overheard.
Each dory is manned by two men
and carries about eight travis, that
number constituting string" The
travis are set on the bottom in from
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-24

lifting it. and consequently knew that
the cyclone had dropped something
just over my head.
Luckily, there was a crowbar among
the tools standing in the corner of the
pit, and l hunted it up and go to work
as well as | could in the dark 1t didn't
take me very long to burst hole in
the flooring that / spoke of, and after
l had made an opening, and let in the
light, l saw that there was a house on
top of me. l set to work again with
the crowbar, and presently l was able
to climb out, and found myself in a
small bedroom. l didn't stop to eX-
anime it, but opened the first door
came to, and there l was in Captain
Martins sitting-room, face to face with
the old man. The furniture was all
upset, and the sides of the house were
slanting one way and another, but
there was no MISLEADING that it was a
house, and that Captain Martin was
there, looking none the worse for hay
is been through a cyclone.
SO you've been and broke into my
house with crowbar, have you? he
asked Perhaps you don't know, my
man, that you've committed burglary,
and | can have you arrested for it.
Perhaps you don't know that
you're trespassing on my land. said |,
1 never gave you no permission to put
no shanty on my land, and if you don't
take it off mighty sudden there's a
prospect that therell be more or less
shooting
You don't know much about law
saws the captain. I never put my
house on your land. II was done by
what the underwriters call 'act of God
or public enemies and if you was a
sailor, you'd know that nobody can be
held responsible for such occurrences
Just then he saw me looking out of
the window towards where my house
had been, and he said, The last l saw
of your house she was scudding before
the wind. and heading about ou'east.
or mebbe, a little east of that. She
was making, as 1 should judge, about
80 knots an hour. It'll take you con-
siderable time to overhaul her, and
you'd better give chase at once.
II amt anxious to stay in your
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-24

hard, cruel and immoral. Soldiers
coming out of a hard campaign, SUI
fering and facing danger and death
daily, though il he done in a righteous
and patriotic cause, will suffer warp
ing of the morals. will lose much of the
gentleness and qualities of true man
hood they may nave possessed. giving
way to brutal passions when the ten
sion is relaxed. Remembering, then,
that the Gloucester fishermen are for
the most part foreigners, the hardshipS
and dangers TO which they are exposed,
the discomfOrts of their daily lives,
the absence Of home ties, it would not
be remarkable to see crew
just arrived from trip 60
the banks run riot when they
get on shore. After many trips
through Duncan and Rogers streets,
| began 20 realize that my impressions
of the fishermen had changed. How
different these men really We're from
what ! had expected they were. 1 be-
gan to investigate. Though the town
has no liquor saloons. / was impressed
by the remarkably small number of
drunken men ! saw. One can expect
to see many such in any seaport town.
Here l saw three. excluding Labor day,
in two months. l have spent hours on
the fish WharVes. and have heard pro-
family, but never vulgarity. l have
been most politely treated on board
of these trim little vessels, in which
these brave men wage LIES battle,
shown over them from truck to keel
had my many questions promptly an
swered, and while there are, of course,
many rough and hard characters
among them, there have been. are now,
and ever will be many strong, brave.
generous and noble characters among
the Gloucester fishermen.