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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-17

want the furniture again, the man said. and asked
us to have 1t sold We're going 10 SEPARATE said the
woman, and that the end of 1t. The man looked
blue enough, but said nothing The woman talked
lots and before had the stuff all sold and the
money divided between the two we became posted
on where marriage was failure
"A woman came here the other day" said stor-
age house officer. land wanted TO know II her hus-
band had stored any furniture with us that day
or course. we would not tell her. and then she
wept and said that the bad man had gone away
and that every bit OF furniture had disappeared
during her short absence. At the other end OF the
counter stood "A woman who was making arrange
ments to have her goods stored She asked: What
Is she smiling about?
Lost her husband and her furniture, answered
a clerk.
We'll know man who will lose his wife and
furniture. so that's even.
In explanation of his refusal to give any informa-
ton as to the storage of goods what the lot con-
sists Of 10y whom stored. or anything pertaining to
H. Mr.. Wayne said: IF gave Information on
that should be put TO endless trouble. ana
We refuse information for selfproection Ii Is not
generally known that goods can be taken out OF
storage only by the people in whose name they
have been placed with warehouse company
cannot be made party to suit when others
claim the goods which are in storage. and people
who have claims for rent or who have judgments
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-17
IN A STORAGE WAREHOUSE.
CURIOUS FEATURES OF COMPARA-
lively NEW BUSINESS.

HOW DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS ARE CARED
FORA PLACE WHERE FAMILY sKEI.E
TONS COME INTO SIGHT.
What did we do without them? asked man.
sneakng of the storage warehouses young men
can remember when the first building Of the kind was
erected in New-York and II they gave the matter any
attention ri the time. they probably heard their
neighbors say that the venture must end In failure
Who will pa .ronize the places? Where Will the Gus
toners come from. and what would induce people 10
nut their goods in warehouses? were some OF the
questions asked by the sceptica New-Yorkcrs.
The storage warehouse so perfectly success
full that other and larger buildings were erected:
smaller cities followed the example of the metropolis
and to-day II is a firmly fixed institution. and TO the
thousands who make OF the warehouses they
have become so valuable that the question: wv hat
did we do without them Is perfectly natural.
MANY people who uniformed on the sub
jeci' said officer connected with one OF the large
storage places. think that the storage warehouses
are patronized only or chiefly by the people who
find 1t less expensive to move than TO pay rent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-17

Of great pile when the homeless man calls 10
handling 1t, and the % cents month becomes s.,
his visits to the trunk The trunks stored AZ 30
cents a month are 'get-at-abe,' and the ii class
usually contain silver and are placed In an extra
place. -
One Of the features Of the storage ware
hold effects to other cities and placing them In q
house. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS woodruff ieit
his home In Brooklyn a few days before his IN
auguration, and sent word to the warehouse com
pany to pack up and transport his furniture 10
his Albany home. .,
Two days later" said the warehouseman tine
Lieutenant Governor went % his Albany mouse
and the furniture which he had left I'm BROOK
lyn. all placed In position and he said that II
made him feel that he had not gone away FROM
but come to. home"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-17
THE AMERICAN FRENCH MI1DD'
,r,m Ths Washington Star,

From The washington StHr' =, A,,,..natl1
ln the manufacture Of candy sac aSus, SSt that
officer OF experience. there y u" Rm~rcan candies
America NOW "%y ones made Of sugar that ,css
sr bought IL TnSusns sy nS na SsIS"
led the world IN 'nlS 10 '' away With the af saiSs
n IN thsr Candies except whsss they !"
consumption IN Other nnone viii not buy coz
fseSn made Of SS ssF u 1S"r
sugar. ar, IA saving that sugar.
candy Is rarely eyer .o Sss y a ba, he Fps
YSrs s be r' Soeshs Two y, ws ssna Il
Sss !" s rsr.s s"S FAMOUS O candy mar.
leas, h1il "rse could buy any suE.F.naSs ~
ds could 81 h.Hd .sS , & sSs x
m mSMcwn y r. much the samA way"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-17
INSIDE ARRANGEMENTS.

For the ac ,ommodatIon Of customers the sections
are divided into smaller rooms. and In most OF the
large Warehouses a fire might be started in any OF
these smaller rooms without endangcrins the other
part OF the building Great elevators. capable Of
lifting a whole vanodd OF goods weighing ten tons.
carry the furniture. pictures. or whatever IL to
be stored. to the floor where they are 10 remain.
and each piece is handled separately and placed
carefully in the room which has been assigned for
the lot and there the goods remain until called for
The storage warehouse builder not satisfied
with dry and airy rooms for furniture He built
with skylighis for paintings. rooms es-
pecally adapted for the storage OF pianos and
musical Instruments and made provision for the
reception and housing Of anything in the way OF
merchandise. except such comes under the head
Of pcrishable. one Of the newest and probably the
most complete storage warehouse Is that Of the
brooklyn Warehouse and Storage Company. In
brooklyn.
In speaking Of he increase In business, William
H. Wayne. the manager OF the company. saidl
THE demand for storage room IL growing larger
because greater facilities being offered snd
storage Is being made casy And then the praiudin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-17
RoTI-NDA BROOKLYN WAREHOUSE COMPANY

against the owners Of the stored property can get
neither the property nor information as to where
1t IL stored This prevents a levy being made
because the law officers must locate and identity
goods before they lew
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-17

~ axn,anation II was said that hundreds OF people
,,,o formerly rented house by the year now Keep
,ho,r bousehold goods in a storage warehouse four
-. .,x roon,hs AZ a time and money by do
ing so.
.Vher they had their house" said the storage
ax,ert ",hev went away for a month in the sum-
NOR I'm. the rent went on. Now they rent their fiat
bv The month ana in June they give it up. store
,ha furniture for less the rent. and with the
difference they pay part OF their summer hotel bills
vben the season Is over they come back 10 town,
take their furniture out Of the warehouse ana move
into another fiat
The list Of customers in the large concerns shows
tha, among the best customers those whose be
longings may be, and usually are. packed In a
trunk-ihe men and women who have no homes, but
.xst in that condition which is known boarding.
The large floating population adds its mite, ana the
commercial traveller the actor. the man-waiting-
for-somcthing -turn-up and in fact. all classes,
all conditions help make business for the storers
OF goods
The storage business owes its success. according
to the statements OF those who should know, to the
facts that the warehous' are as safe and secure
a. they can be made and that the expense for
storage is not high The storage rooms are dry.
clean wholesome. well lighted and perfectly $50
lated by heavy hrebrick partitions and iron doors.
Only carefully trained and trustworthy employees
are permitted to handle the goods which are placed
ON storage The warehouses are built In sections.
each one Of which is really separate storehousc.
These sections are divided by heavy walls. and the
ceilings and floors covered with concrete and
terra Gotta arches. formed 20 enveop The
rolled iron fioor beams.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-17

which once existed against storing goods Is wear
irr off IL Is nothing unusual now to near people
como here and leave their keys ana tell us 10 pack
and store their goods. We pack the crockery gi"ss
and china and everything that must DE p"cAeu
and then take II with the furniture TO room OF u
several rooms and few days before our cus'o'hers
return from their trip everything Is put back again
lust where we took II from. ana the Ha'e'e'S
would not know that their goods and FURNITURE hau
been disturbed II we did not send tfem niue o'
for our trouble Between March 10 and July 10 'ne'c
is n constant flow OF furniture into the Warehouse
and people go away into the country ana 40 ho'
worry as TO what will happen to their goods whi'e
they are gone.
GIJMPSES INTO FAMILY AFFAIRS.
But the pc ople who store with us frequently sNc
us trouble before we get through with them ~
storage warehouse IL probably one OF the best places
TO Get glimpscs into family matters which are UNI
known TO the world and have known many IN
stances where the well-guarded skeleton prahcen
about our Office floor. remember one case IN par
ticular which happened last sumper young
connie came here and arranged to have their furni-
turc stored while they were away In the country.
We sent for il and found II dainty lot all new
and any one could that II WAS composed chieny
of wedding presents. Only few weeks later they
returned from the country. and 1t was evident that
their trip had wrought a change They did not
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-09
The Voices of Bullets,

From 11.30 onward for two hours
the Turks did their very best. Their
fire was incessant, like the "independ-
ent firing" which is so comforting Il
business just before the enjoyable
charge on big Aldershot field day.
We kept constant watch, and fired
when possible, but as we were against
the skyline, the enemy had much
better sight of us than we had of them.
However, from behind our little wall
we could laugh and say "Kale oral''
("Good morning to you'' as the bull
let's howled past.
By the way, the voice of bullet
varies. There is the thin high whistle,
to which no one pays any attention
after the first half-hour. Thereyis the
prolonged moan, "the cry of lost
spirit" as a novelist might say. There
is the wolfish howl, which for some
reason always seems to be taking one
on the flank instead of fairly in front;
and last of all there is the low, ill-tem-
pered buzz, as though the nasty thing
had got out of bed the wrong side, as
children say. 1t is far the most terri
flying, especially if it suddenly stops
as the bullet strikes something close
at hand. 1t was to those bullets only
that we politely wished "Good morn.
ing. War correspondence London
Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-09
DR.. webb's Locomotive searchlisht

DF. " eDU Locomotive SearCnnRnt
Persons who happened to be in the
Union Station yard last night about
1890 were struck with the unusua
brilliancy of the place The reason FOL
this was that the private engine Of DIR
Seward Webb, the Nehasene, was II
the yard with new searchlight on its
pilot, which threw very powerful
light on the track and the objects with
in it's range. The searchlight Is about
the size of the ordiuary light carried
on the pilots OF locomotives, only it i
many times more brilliant. The power
for the light is generated in u small dy
namo operated Independent of the
mechanism of the engine. The engine
was In charge of Engineer McFadden
who was kept busy explaining the light
to a curious and interested crowd OF
railroad men. The engine was ordered
to Utica, and left on its run at 1920
The light is able to allow the engineer
to discern objects distinctly at the dis
tance of mile.-Albany Argus
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-09
Business Vicissitudes.

The annals of commerce are not en-
tirely without spice OF romance.
There Is a little retributive justice
that sayors of the novelist's art In the
way the spoiler is sometimes spoiled in
business relations. In an article en-
titled Made In Japan" the Pail Mall
Gazette shows how nations have en-.
croached upon one another's business,
and reaped for time rich harvest,
only to see the same tactics employed
by rival people, and be forced to
stand aside while the trade slipped
from their hands into the keeping Of
another nation.
In old times the Dutch, by importing
English clay. made a good profit out Of
limitations Of Chinese porcelain and
presently the Dutch product became
world as Delft ware.
But the Dutchman was no more Sc
cure In his profitable trade than had
been his predecessor, the Chinaman.
The English potters took to copying
the Dutch patterns, and sold their pot.
terry much cheaper. and the north of
England became headquarters for the
Delft china.
Again, however, the spoiler has been
spoiled. OF late the Japanese have
made themselves masters of the art of
reproducing the patterns best liked in
England, and have begun to encroach
on the domain long monopolized by
the English potter. The Japanese prod
uct Is finer and stronger, and above
all cheaper than the best English
ware, and Japan is providing the mar
kets with goods which were originally
q Chinese monopoly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-09

Mrs. Mckinley wrote to her modiste
for an ideal house robe, and in reply
received design that had been made
for young woman upon her GONZALES
cence from fever.
The material was ladies' cloth of a
woolen texture. 1t was in one piece
and belted below the waist, with n
loose girdle of passementerie.
Over the gown was a long robe of
ladies' cloth edged with passementerie
and provided with sleeves long enough
to slip down over the hands on a cold
morning. 1t was lined with thinnest
pink flannel for warmth.
Such a dress could be worn in ones
room nicely over the thinnest cambric
slips. Or it is pretty enough for call
ers.-St Louis Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-09

Yellow appears on light gray anG
mauve on dark blue.
Navy blue is frightened by cerise.
light green, scarlet or white.
Golden and chestnut brown shades
are worn with mauve and bright green.
Pink and white is trimmed with
black velvet and white mot creamy
lace.
Gray and cerise, peacock green and
mauve are striking combinations when
rightly managed.
Pale violet is worn in silk gown
with vest of pink chiffon, large collar
of white satin and lace and belt of
black velvet.
Every one is sure of red for the fall
--cerise, scarlet, purplish, red, deep
pink-the whole scale of shades com.
ing under this head.
A chnngeable pink and green taffeta
is lovely with yellowish embroidered
batiste and a deep mauve velvet belt,
each being inst the correct shade.
The new waists and jacket bodices
grow more and more Frenchy and
elaborate as the season advances, and
each novel Partisan conceit in the way
of decoration seems little prettier
than the last, and the art of making
the tucked, pleated, slashed Vandyked,
shired, velvet or ribbon trimmed
chition-frilled combination notable
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-09
THE CROOKED sPEcTAcLEs.

An elf lived in buttercnp,
And walking after dawn,
He donned his golden spectacles
And stepped out on the lawn.
Dear me" said he,
81 scarce can see,
The sunbeams shine so crookedlyl"
He met merry humble bee
Within the clover gay,
Who buzzed Good morningl" in his ear.
1T is pleasant day"
Don't speak to me,
Sir Bumble- bee
Until you trim your wingsl" cried he.
He met gallant grasshopper,
And thus accosted him;
"Why don't you wear your green coat
straight,
And look In better trim?
1t frets me quite,
In such a plight,
To have you field folk in my sight"
He saw an airy dragon fly
Float DER the meadow rail.
"Pray, stop, Sir Dragonfiy!' he cried.
80 upside down you sail;
The sight will make \
My poor head ache;
Fly straight. or rest within the brake.'
Then n wise owl upon the tree
Blinked his great, staring eye;
'1o folk In crooked spectacles
The whole world lookssawry,
So whatl To whee!
To whool' said he.
"lfany such folk I've lived to see."
Susan H. Sweet, in Won ans Edition Ban
gor (Me.) Commercial.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-09
Wars Growing Shorter

With the exception Of the Franco
Prussian war, the greatest war which
Europe has seen since the days of Ma,
polean was the Crimean war. which
took place more than forty years ago
and lasted about two years. The cam
paigns OF Napoleon, of course whdae they
were considered short as compared
with some previous wars In Europe
were certainly long as compared With
the wars of the past few decades.
distinct movement in the direction OF
the shorter duration of wars Is 10 be
noticed in the past few centuries.
The campaign in the Spanish Neither
lands lasted forty-two years. Then
followed the thirty-yea war I'm Eu.
rope. ending In the peace OF West
phalia. Civil war In England lasted
from 1642 to 1860, although hostih
ties We're not In progress all that time
The wars of the Spanish Succession
OF the Austrian Succession, the Swed
ish-Russian war. and the Seven
Years war followed, averaging about
ten years apiece. The Napoleonic cam
paigns covered nearly fifteen years
The Crimean war lasted from 1854 to
1856. III the war of the rebellion, In
this country, the world saw the latest
war which extended over four years of
time.
Since 1865, with the general lntroduc.
ton of the telegraph, the electric cable
and the modern system of railways
war has become a matter of a few
months at most. In 1866 Prussia de.
feated Austria In seven weeks. Prus
sia defeated France In about two
months. The war between Russia and
Turkey began in April, 1877, and was
practically finished by the close Of tina,
year. The war between China and Ja.
pan began about midsummer, 1894, and
ended in March, 1895. The present wa,
between Turkey and Greece seems to
be practically ended in about -four
weeks from the outbreak of formal hos.
tilties. 1t seems to be shown by expe.
rience that two important civilized na.
tions in these days of telegraph and
railway cannot conduct wars for any
length of time unless the contendLnp
countries are separated by the ocean
or some other natural barrier.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-09
Victoria weeps for ireland.

According to an absolutely unim-
peachable authority" writer in the
Westminster Gazette relates how the
Irish song, "The Wearing of the
Green" was very recently sung in
Windsor Castle. Queen Victoria, it
appears. requested young Irish lady
who was visiting the castle to sing an
Irish song. She went to the piano and
sang "The Wearing of the Green, :"
and, according to the story told, Her
Majesty was touched by the pathos of
the song and burst into tears. The
writer continues: "Ahp said my en-
lnent informant, 'yon little know the
depth OF the Queens sympathy for the
Irish and the tenderness of her
heart. >"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-09
An Old-Time Watch,

Charles H. Mueller, a matchmaker,
has an interesting watch in his posses
sion. 1t is an heirloom and belongs
to Paul H. Krauss, to whom it comes
from great great-granduncle. "This
watch" says Mr.. Mueller, opening the
quaint, old-fashioned case, sis the
Oldest repeater / have come across in
thirty-seven years experience. 1t was
made by Rose & Son, London, 1898,
and was the virge escapement 1t is a
good watch yet. The first watch made
at that great old town, Nuremburg,
and called the Nuremberg egg,' be.
cause of its shape, had this same kind
of escapement.
The bells in the watch chimed the
hours and quarter-hours clearly and
musically. indianapolis News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-09

At teachers examination at De.
catur, Ind, the other day, before the
County Superintendent, Rovillo
Shearer, the twelve-year-old son OF
William Shearer, successfully passed
the examination, and was awarded a
license. He is conceded BY instrue.
tors to be the Youngest teacher in the
State of Indiana, if not in the United
States. He has always shown excep-
tional educational abilities, and will
no doubt become a successful teacher,
even at the early age.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-09
A Woman With u Record.

The case of Mrs. Addie w. Buzzell.
young woman of Clinton, has set all
Eastern Maine astir. Although but
thirty -four years of age she has been
married and divorced five times. In
each case she has been the libelant.
Her five ex-husbands are still living.
and are most of them neighbors of
Mrs. Buzzell. She is now in sole pos
session of large farm that she tills
with the aid of a hired man. Mrs.
Buzzell is very advanced type of an
independent woman, and frankly states
that when she has found that hus-
band has not come up to her ideas of
industry, thrift and congeniality, she
has promptly set him aside. She also
says that she is still looking for the
right man to handle her farm and make
her happy.
A statement to this effect appeared
in local paper recently, and since
then the woman farmer has been sub
Ject to singular siege. From radius
OF fifty miles suitors have focked to
Clinton. One man who rode up to
her door was a prominent Canaan man,
worth about $4,000, and he urged Mrs.
Buzzell to go home with him and take
care of his property. He is also di-
vorced man, and explained to the Clin-
ton woman that u married experience
of seventeen years he had found that
his wife too slack" around the house.
Mrs. BuzZell's neatness attracted him.
Other applicants have come in teams,
on foot and by trains. Many are
cranks, who wanted to work on the
farm two OF three months on trial with
out pay. Some brought their ward
robe in extra valises and parcels
others came in light marching order.
This week the woman has been so
pestered by attention from suitors that
she has hitched her yellow watch dog
just outside the door. If man braves
the dog Mrs Buzzell lifts shotgun
across her arm and, with the self
reliance of Maine farmer women,
threatens to ''let daylight through the
persistent suitor unless he leaves the
premises. so far the woman has
driven away all suitors, and has an
swered no letters. She secured di-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-09
Mrs. McKinley's Health improved,

Living at the White House and
continually meeting different people
has acted like tonic upon Mrs. Nc
klnley, said member of the Presi-
dents official household, ''and the
change has been of the most gratifying
character to her husband and to the
members of her family. 1t is q pleas
ure for the President to have his wife
with him whenever he goes off on a
recreation trip, and the effect of the
change from Canton to Washington
has been frequently commented upon
by all who have met Mrs Mckinley
since Inauguration day. She is not
so easily fatigued as was formerly the
case, and whether it is the knowledge
that she is indeed the first lady in the
land or change of climate that has
brought about such beneficial results,
one thing is certain, all her friends
and well-wishers are sincere in the
hope that this benefit to her health
may continue. 1t was remarked at
Philadelphia how CHEEKY and bright
Mrs. Mckinley appeared, and she did
not seem to mind the fatigue incident
to her travel of the last two days in
the least. When the President and
Mrs. Mckinley arrived at the White
House this afternoon the mistress of
the Executive Mansion declared she
had never felt i'll better health or
spirits, and her sole regret was that
her stay in Philadelphia had been so
short. - Washington correspondence
to the Chicago Tribune. .,r;
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-09
Why smokestacks Escape Lightnin,

why SnokestAckb ESCAPE lightning
Statistics show that Of 10000 smoke
stacks only three are struck by light
ming each year, while of 10000 church
spires sixty-seven, and Of 10000 wind,
mills eighty-nine are struck by light,
ming annually. An endeavor has been
made to explain this condition by the
fact that the smoke discharged from
the smokestacks takes the electricity
assembled around the building along
and distributes it in the air, whereby
the source of attraction for the electric
spark Of lightning is not only dimin.
ished, but almost disappears. This
fact also explains, 1t is said, why peo-
pie in the country kindle n large fire
In the fireplace when a thunderstorm
is apDroaching.