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the advent of the splendid new silver
! savel, which Vice-president Stevenson
| so gently welded, came the disappear
| ance of the massive silver snuff-b box
| that had adorned the desk since away
back in the days of Webster, Clay and
Calhoun. What became of the historic
| relic nobody seems to knew. The mod
ern match box that was substituted
comes about as near to filling its place
in the public eye as do some of the latter
day statesmen to filing the places left
vacant by Conkling, Morton and other
lights of past generations. The old
fashioned galleries that formerly sur
rounded the senate chamber were en-
tirely demolished in the recent over
hauling, and handsome balconies SUBJ
stituted, like those of our best up-to-
date theaters. The sntique wooden
benches of other days were replaced by
richly cushioned opera chairs, rising tier.
above tier to the level of the tile-paved,
picture-lined corridors of the second
fioor-each chair, like those of the law
makers below, supplied with the new
tangled ventilating device. In the old
days, when something great was goieg
on, the benches were frequently made
to seat as many as 1900 people; but there
can be no more cramming or jamming
of that sort, because every one of the
700 new chairs is equal to a reserved
seat, and when all are filled the limit OF
capacity cannot be stretched.
THE REPORTERS GALLERY
The section directly over the vice.
presidents head, separated from the
rest by network of wire, is the report
ers gallery. provided with forty desks
and seats for as many more; and thus
the makers and unmakers of statesmen
the censora of the press--look down
upon and directly into the faces of their
victims on the floor below. Opposite
the reporters gallery, on the other side
of the hall, is the small space, furnished
with an extra touch of luxuriousness.
reserved for the diplomatic corps, when
ever, at rare intervals, any of those
foreigners desire to honor the United
States senate by their presence for
few minutes-generally to criticise our
precious institutions" Sometimes. OF
field days, when there is an enormous
pressure for seats, and hardly one in
ten of the eager crowd of would-be
spectators can gain admittance to the
galleries, because all the other chairs
are occupiedr-it goes a little hard to
see plenty of vacant seats in this sacred
stall; for even in the highest house OF
our boasted republic. in the very heart
of the holes, 1t is not always Ameri-
ca for Americans" Next to the diplo-
matte gallery is generous slice reserv-
ed exclusively for the senatorial fami-
lies; and the rest of the space on both
sides Is free to the public-that is, to the
few who can squeeze in when red-tape
rules and vigilant doorkeepers grant
them admission and executive session
does not turn them out Back Of the re-
porters' gallery are commodious writing
rooms and telegraph Offices: and be-
hind the ladies' gallery are retiring rooms
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The Express will have as an armament
one 12-pounder quick-firing gun, five
and 3-pounder quck-firing guns, and
two Whitehead torpedoes.
While 1t is not known with certainty
how th' machinery will be arranged.
or the exact dimensions thereof, it is un-
derstood they will be as follows: Each
set of engines will have four cylinders,
the diameters of which will be: High
pressure, 1S% inches; intermediate, 321a
inches; two low pressure OF 1914 inches.
Each engine is of the three stage combi-
nation type the stroke for all cylinders
being Is inches. The most noticeable
point about the engine lies in the ar
rangement of the valves. The high and
intermediate pressure cranks are SIM
ilarly located. although at right angles
to the high and intermediate cranks.
The arrangement described renders
the design of valves adpoted possible.
All the valves are combined in pairs,
one above another in one chamber, each
pair having common valve rod. The
result of this is reduction of the num-
ber' of moving parts. and renders pos
sible that very desirable ARRANGEMENT
of placing the engine In less fore and
aft space. The air pump is worked di-
rect from the main crank shaft, a coup
ling joining the two. The diameter of
the pump is 10 inches and its length of
stroke inches. The material used rs
such as to render breakages necessarily
rare. for both piston and top cylinder
covers are made of forged steel.
A cylindrical copper condenser each
with 929 5-S inch tubes is attached to
n In Av,~vs
surface IS 5Os0 square feet and the total
heains surface $500 square feet The
grave surface is 176 square feet In from.
OF the poilers are air bulkheads, the air
met doors OF which close automatically
whenever bursting tube or other acci-
cent causes an escape Of steam and q
resulting pressure on the boiler side Of
the spulkhead. The construction of the
boat with regard to safety, IL the plans
are carried out, will be as remarkable
as her capacity for speed. She will have
all the compartments her size will per-
NIT, and although the ordinary torpejc
boat can be smashed like an egg shell
this destroyer will be armed with .
ram tnat could pierce the sides of a bat
tleship. AS far as daG1er to herself is
concerned, If battleship, or any other
armored craft, should strike her a fair
blow, she would be more likely to turn
turtle than to sink. Her steering appa-
ratus is Of such nature that it VIII act
much more quickly than that of the or
dinary craft. If she answers her helm
perfectly, 1t will be possible to turn the
boat almost as quickly and easily as one
would rein horse to either side oc the
road, or turn about.
The accommodations for officers and
crew'iwill be superior to those in any
torpedo Loaf destroyer alloa.. The
probiem Of air to the people who live be-
tween deckF has alwayd been very I'M
satisfactory In point OF solution. No mat
ter how perfect the apparatus Tor giving
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torrid midsummer this chamber Is the

torrid midsummer this chamber Is the
coolest place in Washington.
Whether cooler for summer, or warm
er for winter, In the steam-heating coils,
the supply of pure air from "all out
doors" Is forced under the flooring Of
the senate chamber and its galleries,
through desks and chairs; while the foul
or consumed air escapes through venti-
lators in the ceiling, drawn thence to the
outside by electric fans placed in hid
den angle of the roof. The legs Of all
the desks and chairs are full of tiny
apertures connecting with the apparatus
underneath, so that an equable current
of fresh air, heated or cooled to just the
right temperature, is diffused around
the clothing and body of the occupant
the even pressure of air controlled by
patent regulators, which can be easily
adjusted by the foot or hand. An i'm
mense improvement is all this over
the old system, which had been in use
nearly half century. At all times and
seasons the personal comfort and we'll
being of Uncle Samueps lawmakers will
be promoted by the best modern agen-
cies that money can buy, and affords
greater inducements than ever to as
piring statesmen to "break Into" the
senate. Before these changes the room
used to get so terribly hot at times that
the galleries were drenched in per-
spiration, especially those odorous cor
ners sacred to "the colored man and
brother" the senator's linen visibly wilt
ed and nobody wondered when one day
n grave and reverend seignior deliberate
ly removed his shoes during session
when the galleries were crowded, and
stretched his long legs over the tops OF
two or three desks, so that his suffering
toes were turned up directly beneath a
colleagues nose.
ARRANGEMENT OF THE CHAMBER
The vice-president sits aloft in lonely
state on a raised dais, his august back
in a deep niche, and In front of him a
broad, elaborately carved mahogany
desk Immediately below, on either side,
are the seats of the sergeant at arms
and the doorkeeper; at the lower desk
in front sit the secretary of the senate
the legislative clerk, chief clerk and min
ute clerk; while yet lower, on the level
of the floor, are the desks of the Off
cial reporters. And still the march oi
progress goes on. simultaneously with
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terested. There have never been any
more constant and devoted listeners
than the family of Senator German
when he is scheduled for a speech, or
the wives of Senators Blanchard, Thurs
ton, Hale, Brice, Aldridge and others.
But nowadays the senate has fallen in
to the bad habit of spending most of
its time in executive session, from
which, of course, outsiders-even such
dear ones as the wives of their bosoms-
must be excluded. In point of fact moth
ing of especial interest is being dis
cussed in the private sessions-perhaps
something as enlivening to the general
public as technical questions on the
arbitration treaty; yet the galleries
must be instantly vacated and curious
throngs stand outside the doors, eager to
catch the faintest rumor of what is 60
ing on inside. Yesterday the handsome
Mrs. .Cushman Kellogg Davis, wife of
the senator from Minnesota, came to the
reserve gallery with a gay group OF
fashionably-dres friends, because it
had been announced in the morning pa
pers that her husband would that day
make a noteworthy argument on the ar
bitration treaty. But hardly were the
ladies seated and their furbelows set
tied when along came a ruthless door
keeper and turned them all out, just be-
cause the senate desired to discuss the
treaty or maybe to treat 1t minus the
first syllable of that word-in executive
session. The senator did make his speech
and magnificent and able effort it was,
but unfortunately nobody heard it but a
selfish lot Of senators who shut every
body else out and were very properly
characterized by the ladies of Mrs. Da-
Wis party as Just too mean for any
thing"
Speaking of executive sessions, a vet
eran journalist told me this story:
A STICKLER FOR PROPRIETY.
There used to be a man in the senate
who was q regular crank for executive
secrecy. So straight-laced was he that
he could hardly breathe. One day I
wanted some information about an ex-
tradition treaty, and I knew that this
senator was in the opposition. So
1 summoned up all my courage auc
went to see him. Young man. said he ir
the sternest voice, DO you know that
this is executive business, and that ]
am bound by my obligation to reveal
not a word of it?' reluctantly admitted
that was well aware of it, But you are
also newspaper man. he continued
Now, If l were you, I would say'-and
with that he went on and talked for half
an hour, telling me all wanted to know,
but referring to everything in a sup
posititious manner. When he got through
he looked me straight in the eye and
said, Now, young man, remember that
you act very wrongly when you ask
senator to tell you anything about ex-
ecutive sessions and haven't told you
q thing" BRIGHAM.
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equipped with every modern luxury and
convenience. attended by matron en-
ployed by the senate.
E-PRESIDENT HOBART
The new central figure in all this
ence-Vice-President Hobart,
genial, od-natured, with a face as
round and beaming as the full moon In
harvest time, is catching on" slowly to
the ways of the senate; but any page in
the room could give him points about ex-
pediting business. For example, on
some ordinary resolution, which Is not
of much account anyway, he religiously
goes through the whole tedious routine
of reading for the first time, ana the
second time, and considering as conf
mittee OF the whole, and ordering TO be
engrossed, and reading the third time'
and finally asking vote on Its passage
His predecessor would simply have said'
agreed to without objection" and the
resolution would have given place TO
more important business. Aged arc
white-haired senators, like the vener-
able Mr.. Morrill, of Vermont, who oc-
cupied a seat in the chamber for thirty
years, complain that Mr.. Hobart does
not show proper reverence for time
honored traditions of the august body
II there Is one thing more than another
for which senators are sticklers 1t Is
that they should never be addressed by
name on the floor. 1t Is considered as
bad form and as utterly irreverent az
to address a lady by her given name in
a. street car or other public place. Mr..
Hobart. however. goes right ahead IL
a delightful off-hand way, with Mr..
Morrill," "Mr. Pettigrew," or whoever
may be in question, exactly as II ne
were speaking to company OF "direc-
tors" around corporation table. The
little lapsus linguae of parliamentary
usage, is not a crime; but 1t does SOUND
odd.
INTERESTED LISTENERS.
1t has always been quite the thing fol
the wives and daughters Of the senators
to go to the capitol on the afternoons
when their husbands and fathers are tt
when their husbands or fathers are K
make orations; and certainly it Is no
strange that the female relations or th'
new members should be conspicuousl!
in evidence in the reserved gallery t.
thrill with pride under the eloquenc'
of those in whom they are especially in
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devices and conveniences which are not
only fully abreast of the day, but con-
| siderably in advance of it.
THE SENATE CHAMBER.
Perhaps the greatest beauty of thu
senate chamber is its ceiling-of cast
iron paneled with stained glass. the
panes bearing the arms of the different
states, symbols of the army and navy,
and other patriotic devices, bound by
ornate mouldings, bronzed and gilded.
| By day a mellow light comes through
this gorgeous ceiling by means of sky
light in the roof and at night softened
| illumination Is diffused by a multitude
Of incandescent electric lights, set in
clusters above the colored glass. Be-
fore the recent improvements there were
hundreds Of gas lamps, which at all
times made the heat intolerable and un~
less carefully watched, those close up
under the ceiling would raise the tenn
perature of the chamber 10 degrees in as
, many minutes; and sometimes the sud-
den heat would shatter the glass, to
the imminent peril of bald pates below
The walls are superbly painted and laid
Off in panels, with sunken inches for
statutes and doors of bird's-eye maple,
elaborately finished with foliated
bronze ornaments The floor has been
entirely renewed-first an iron one laid,
to carry out the ingenious ventilating
scheme, and this topped by wooden one
of cherry. beautifully carpeted with
crimson velvet. There are seats for 81
senators, arranged in four concentric
semi-circles facing the vice-president's
elevated perch. the aisles diverging like
radii from center. Each senator sits
behind small desk of highly polished
old mahogany, which long ago took on
the rich wine tints of age, in an armed
chair luxuriously upholstered in red
leather.
VENTILATING DEVICES.
These new chairs deserve special at
tention, not only as models of comfort
but as parts of unique and elaborate
ventilating system which has lately
been carried out in accordance with
scientific plans prepared by Prof. S. H.
Woodbridge, Of the Boston Institute Of
Technology. I am not scientist enough
to give you more than general outline
of the scheme. First. a cold-storage
plant was established, at the cost OF
$4,000; in the terrace of the west front of
the capitol. 1t is operated by the usual
ammonia procesc and includes a re-
frigerating machine. tank insulator and
engine. Associated with this are fresh
air and steam heating systems, with au-,
tomatic fans. driven by electric motors.
From the picturesque stone tower in the
northwest section of the capitol grounds,
which has excited so much curiosity in
the minds Of tourists. fresh air is brought
in, through the shafts. to be regulated
In temperature by automatic devices, to
the exact degree required at any season.
Exceedingly cold brine Is supplied in the
system Of air ducts reaching from the
terrace to the distributing shaft. and
can be 80 controlled that in the most
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devices and conveniences which are NOT
only fully abreast of the day, but con-
siderably in advance of it.
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Gobbling Shops

There is no country in the world where
the restaurant is carried to such perfec-
ton as in this. Europeans have cafes
where the patrons may dawdle on the
sidewalk partaking of slight refresh
ment or quenching slight thirst. But
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BE May Have An opportunitx

During the sixty years of Queen Vic
toria's reign the English debt has been
reduced nearly a billion dollars. But
more than three billions are left to test
the financial skill Of Albert Edward.-St.
Louis lobe-Democrat.
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To Cure : Cold 10 Ono Dsy

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money ie Il
fails to cure. SIC.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-22
MINOR NEWS NOTES.


The Tuesday Afternoon Card club en-
joyed an outing at Nay Aug on Tues
day afternoon.
126 North Main. ~
William Davis, of Snyder avenue, an
nounces his candidacy for delegate to
the Republican county convention from
the Third district of the Sixth ward.
James Brown, of Dunmore, will be
found the next ten days at the county
Jail, by grace of Alderman Kellow.
Brown was asked to pay fine yes
terday morning for being drunk and
disorderly Tuesday night Thomas
Lowry. of Meridian street, keeps Brown
company for the same cause.
new dental Office will be opened on
this side on or about August 1. DIR.
Albert Eynon will then be ready to re-
ceive his patrons.
The Columbia Hose company has de-
cided on new uniforms. Tailor John
Ross gets the order. The suits will be
somewhat upon the order of the Hook $
uniforms.
This evening at the Scranton Street
Baptist church a tithing meeting will
be held. followed by a social. The
llllllllS- -DOOkS given out 10 De Illeu Dy
the members will be called in. Ice
cream will be served at the social. A
large gathering and good time is ex-
pected.
Last evenings shower caused some
damage midway on Hyde Park avenue,
| between Jackson and Washburn
streets. The sewer basin became
| blocked and the water rose above the
sidewalk level. After a little effort
some of the neighbors succeeded in
| opening the basin UP.
DIR. e. Y. Harrison, Dentist, Mears
Hall. 113 S. Main avenue.
Mrs. f. p Doty, accompanied by her
children, Edith and Howard, are visit
ing friends in New York state.
| Evan Zachariah, of South Main ave.
nue., the young man who was injured
at the oxford mines Tuesday by run
away car. Is much improved. Dr.
Beach is in attendance and no serious
results are entertained.
The funeral services of Thomas En-
erson, of Jackson street, will be held
at the home of his son, Horace En-
merson, in Scott, this afternoon. Rev
F. p. Doty, of Hampton Street Metho-
dist Episcopal church. will officiate and
preach the sermon at 1.30 O'Clock.
We laundry stiff collars with soft
button holes. Crystal Laundry. ~
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SOUTH SIDE.

1t is probable the Century Hose COM
pany will carry out its intention of taxi
ing summer jaunt by going to Middle
town, N. Y. The invitation to use the OPEN
ing date of a new park at that place and
many inducements are offered. They will
arrange for an excursion to be held some
time next month. A committee may be
sent to look over the grounds.
The tenth anniversary of the Schwaeb-
ishen Beneficial association will occur on
August %. This year the event will be
celebrated by holding a real old-fashioned
German picnic with all its attendant fea-
lures. Arrangements for the day are al
ready under way and the committee pro-
poses to exceed all expectations. The
event will be held at the Central garden
and parade will take place in the morn
Ing. Pole climbing, drinking sour milk,
ETC., are among the many contests. A
Suabian village school and a Suabian
horse chase are special features. Profess
sor Drummer will be schoolmaster.
Miss Lena Miller, a guest of Miss Bes-
sic Meyers, of Pittston avenue, was ten-
dered a farewell party on Tuesday by the
hostess.
Miss Margaret Roche, of Cherry street
has returned from visit with friends at
Uniondale.
Misses Sarah and Ella Dougherty, Of
Irving avenue, are sojourning with friends
In Connecticut
Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew Malta, of Pros
pect avenue, are entertaining Mrs Cooper
and daughter. Miss Madeline, and sister,
in-law, Miss Bessie Cooper, all of Pitts
burg.
We laundry stiff collars with soft but
ton holes. Crystal Laundry. ~
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HAVE THE GOLD FEVER.

The reputed millions of gold to be
had for the picking up in the Klondike
region in Alaska has excited many
West Siders. From Alaska to the West
Side is a far cry, but good news goes
anywhere and there promises to be an
exodus to the gold fields upon the bor-
ders of the Yukon river Here and
there you will notice a group of men,
some young and others middle-aged,
and their conversation is all upon the
gold find. If some man who had been
to Alaska and had returned with any
gold or news of a reliable sort, should
arrive in Hyde Park he would be a
much-sought after individual. The rig
ors of the climate. the necessary $1,000
and a few minor details will, however,
soon cool the general enthusiasm.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-22
THEY WERE GOOD FRIENDS.
Until Morgan Bought a Carriage and
Harness from Evans.

A dramatic scene was enacted in AL
derman Moses office last evening at
the continued hearing of Evans VS..
Morgan. George Evans and John
Morgan are both residents of Sack
street and were until recently good
friends. Now they are somewhat es-
tranged. The cause of the present in
difference is directly traceable to the
sale of a carriage and harness by EV-
ans to Morgans some time during Ap-
ril. Being such good friends the bar
gain was made that the new owner
should get the goods for So and pay
few dollars on each pay day. But 1t
seems that Mr.. Morgan was so
wrapped up in the enjoyment of his
newly acquired property that pay
ments became a minor issue.
Mr.. Evans. after repeated requests,
appealed to the alderman as a last re-
sort and succeeded i'm getting judg-
ment for the full amount. The wives
of the two men appeared in behalf
of their respective husbands and
proved to be veritable modern Portias.
At least the many witnesses who re-
ceived .scathing cross-examination
at their hands are willing to testify.