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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-07
THE ASTORIA'S SPLENDORS.
LUXTRIOG1S ARRANGEMENTS AND MAG
NIFlCENT DECORATIONS OF
THE NEW HOTEL

THE NEW bOlEl
y VAST CARhVANSArY ~ WHICH EVERY DETAIL
TO MINISTER To THE COMFORT ANu PLEAS
IRE OF GUESTS HAS HEEN THOUGHT
OTTO rE MHEGEp WITH THE
WALDORF IL ONE HUGE
ESTABLISHMENT.
The new Astoria. merged with the famous
Waldorf into one huge. magnificent establish
mcnt viii without the shadow 90 Il doubt have
its fame and glory carried in due course of time
from one end of the earth to the other 1t has
been designed IL every particular 10 meet the
tastes and requirements not only Of the rich
fastidious men and women Of this city ana
country bat those Of every foreign cline
Standing at the corner of Fifth-ave. and Thirty
fourth-st. IT forms magnificent structure
towering up to the skies and covers "A plot of
ground measuring - feet by 800 feet. Butt
upon a steel interior structure, it prosents an
exterior composed of stone, mobile and brIck
i'm the style of the German Renaissance. The
materials used are all frcproof. There are SIX
teen floors. and the height of the building is
go feet above the pavement. The floor of the
sub-basement goes down thirty-two feet below
the level Of the sidewalk. The architect Of the
Astoria is Henry J. Hardenbcrch, who also de-
siglcd the Waldorf the Dakota apartment
house on Central Park West; the Manhattan
Hotel ana the home Of the Fine Arts Society. in
West Fifty-seVcnth-st. George {. Bodt who
has made success Of the management of the
Waldorf will have the management also Of the
Astoria As compared with the Waldorf the
Astoria has - public rooms and 800 guest
rooms. while in the Waldorf there are only IL
public rooms and 40 guest rooms. Taking the
two hotels together. there will be literally miles
Of corri1 prs vestbues and halls
The driveway entrance. which will always be
open is on Thirty -fourth-st 1t forms Il great
square 10 feet 10y 10 feet, and il all under cover
The ladies' recopton-room is at the left of the
driveway From this room one walks out into
the main corridor. which runs east ana west
the entire length of the building. Al the Fifth
ave end of this corridor is the dining-room the
dimensions II which are - feet 10y % feet with
q ceiling II feet high The style Of the room
is Italian Renaissance The marble columns
are from Russia. The hangings are rose ponpa-
dour silk while the hardwood floor is covered
with rich. rcd carpet This dining room CON
taius a series Of mural paintings. the work Of
Charlie Y Turner. who painted The Triumph
Of Manhattan" There are twcnty-scv"n Of
these paintings representing male and icmal"
figures holding in their hands fruits. flowers.
birds and musical instr mcnts.
Opening at the right Of the main corridor az
one walks out of the diningro room is the garden
Evening journal., 1897-10-07

OMEALEY.-On October 8, 1897. at
Glen Riddle. Pa, Ann O'Msaley, aged
IS years.
O'NEIL.--On the Cd instant, Peter
O'Neil. of Clayton, formerly of Will
mington.
SHARPLEY.--On the 1st instant, Eliz,
Jane Sharpley.
TURNER.-On October 5, 1897. Flor
ence, daughter of e. l.. and Mary A..
Turner, aged / year, 6 months and 22
days.
Evening journal., 1897-10-07
DIED

CLAVEY.-On October 8. 1897, Jane
widow of Christian Clavey, in her
72d year.
DONAIIUE.-In this city, on the 3rd
instant, Cornelius Donahue, son Of
the late John and Catharine Donahue
aged 10 years.
BARNES.-At New Castle, Del, Octo-
Der 5, 1897, Eliza Barnes, aged Ga
years.
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral, from her
late residence, DCbbinsyille, on Friday
afternoon, October s. Services at the
house at 3 o'clock. Interment Presby-
terian Cemetery, New Castle, Del.
HERsCHER.-At ST. Mary's, Pa, on
October 4, 1897, Clara, wife of John
B. Herscher, aged 70 years.
Relatives and friends are invited to
attend the funeral from her late resi-
dence, No. 3O1 Broome street. on Friday
morning, October s, 1897. Solemn re-
QUEEN mass at Sacred Heart Church al
$3.50 o'clock. Interment at Cathedral
Cemetery.
KEEGAN.-In this city, on the 2nd in
stant, Peter Keegan.
BAPIERB.-fn this city, on October z
Fannie Lapiere.
Relatives and friends are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral, OF
Saturday morning. at o'clock. from
her mothers residence No. 1923 Lin
coin street. High mass at ST. Annl
Church. lnterment at Cathedral Gene
terry.
MULROONEY.-In this city, on the 6tl
instant, Thomas Mulrooney.
Relatives and friends are respectful,
invited to attend the funeral on Satur
day, October 9, at a. m, from his lat
residence, No 800 West Fifth street
High mass at st. Peters Cathedral
Interment at Cathedral Cemetery.
Evening journal., 1897-10-07
MARRIED

KEEFER- WARRIOR Tuesday morn
ing. October 8, 1897, by Rev. Dr.
George l.. Wolfe. Harry S. Keefer, OF
birmingham, Pa, and Miss Frances
M. Ward of this city.
REUTER- ~ sMITH.-On September
30. 1897, at the residence of the
brides parents, No. $40 Poplar street,
by Rev John France, Martin J. Reut-
ter and Virginia S. Smith.
STEIGERS-LEE. Eat Asbury parson
age. No. 222 Walnut street, on Sep
tember 30, by Rev. Ezra Tinker, LII
d., George NJ. Steigers to Miss Sarah
o. Ice all of Wilmington, Del. -
Evening journal., 1897-10-07
VIM. B. SHARP
SO .J[ >
tourth and Marker 81

The second sbipmeni Of a.
early purchase of thoS.- iln,. IS
and SIS 50 White Bl,ohee ,n.
arrived and will be pu' on sic;
Saturday for S. 50 and S. os
per pair. The are big, g"n-
erouS Blankets. hands ,rnely
bordered IN red, blue and pink
Goo more pairs of White,
Gray or Tan colored Blankets.
weave and material perfect for
2sc each. 1t would make the
ordinary sheep green with
envy to see how closely his
fleece is initiated in these
goods
1000 yards 2oc. grade
Feather Ticking, al! ma row
blue aud white stripe Tor
I2Hc per yard
Evening journal., 1897-10-07
MEFT1NG FoR MFN oNLY.

At 800 o'clock, in Asbury Church.
Sunday afternoon, there will be a meet
ing for men only. Mrs. Van Cott will
speak. AT the same hour there VIII be
meeting for women only in the lecture
room.
Evening journal., 1897-10-07
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD LOW
RATE EXCURSION TO BALTl-
MORE NEXT SUNDAY

Two special trains to Baltimore next
Sunday, October TO- first at 4.3S a. m;
second. a. m. Tickets also good on
regular trains leaving French street
station at 1918 a. m. and 1905 p. m.
Round-trip rate, so cents.
Evening journal., 1897-10-07

Stocking bargains for men
and boys.
500 pairs Mems Mixed
Seamless Stockings extra
heavy, I2Hc. per pair.
500 pairs Mems plain col
ored seamless Stockings, black
and tans-I2Hc. per pair.
SEQ pairs Boys extra heavy
seamless fast black Stockings
5 pairs for soc. or 25c
single pats.
All these stockings are
much under regular prices for
the qualities and are very
worthy OF a look.
Evening journal., 1897-10-07
PURE LINEN TABLE C,OIH9.

All-Linen Table Damask,
special for Saturday, 2sc.
grade for 100.
800 yards fine Cream DIm-
ask Table Linen, SO inches
wide, for 25c per yard
800 yards extra fine beach
ed Damask Table Linen, 70
inches wide, at S3c. per yard
regular 81 grade with hand
some ga Napkins to match
for So per dozen.
Pure linen Damask Doylies
red, blue, gold or all-white
borders-5c. each.
Evening journal., 1897-10-07

VERY LOW RATE EXCURSION TO
PHILADELPHIA VIA THE PENN
SYLVANIA LINE, NEXT SUNDAY,
OCTOBER 10.
Don't forget the date. Special train
leaves Wilmington at $40 a. m. Tickets
good on regular trains leaving at 707
and $40 a. m. Round-trip rate only
fifty cents. =
Evening journal., 1897-10-07

Boys shoes should be heavy for Fall
and Winter. Cleland sells them.
Evening journal., 1897-10-07

You wouldn't take counterfeit money
in change, would you? But you take
counterfeit goods very often when you
ask in the store for one thing and lie
the dealer sell you something different
Get what you ask for and you will be
right
Evening journal., 1897-10-07

Heavy Black or Russet Shoes for the
boys at Clelands.
Evening journal., 1897-10-07

A FRIDAY AFTERNOON MEETING.
On Friday afternoon Mrs. Van Cott
will tell how God several times healed
her body, and that before she had
heard Of the so-called faith cure.
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1897-08-27

sized fortune was taken out of a claim
that was found to have cracks in the
bedrock which were filed with gold
and the miner made stake by dig
ging the gold out with tablespoon.
AS compared with the output of the
new fields in Alaska the output of Mon
tana was wonderfully large during the
first years of the gold era. For the
first five years. from 1862 until 1867,
the yield of Montana gold was 1866.
i000 900, and then in the succeeding
years until 1880 it was 1868, $l5, 900, :
OOO 1869 SO, 900. 900; 1870; 50, 100, 900
1871, 50, O5O, 900; 1872, So, 06S. 900; 1878.
$5, 1877, 900; 1874. $3, S44, 900; 1870, $3, :
573, 0)0; 1876. $3,01S, 900; 1877. So
300, COD; 1873, So, 26O, 900; 1879, 81, 800, :
loo; 1890, 50, 400, 900. The total out
put for placer mines for the time from
1862 until today amounts to in the
neighborhood of 1926, 900, 900.
The country, wherever it is, that is
more truly land of gold, than Mon
tana, will be rich indeed.
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1897-08-27

down and they joined me i'll half an
hour. No one would believe after
ward that | had come through the
canyon in loat, but my partners,
and they only hocausc they witnessed
it from the banks. But we lost every
thing we had in the boat save little
pemmlcan which we had tied to the
seat.
II was a sight when / reached the
first point where there We're any peo-
pie. Ny pantalnous were torn oif'up
to my knees. hld no hat, nor sleeves
to my shirt We did not have IL quar-
ter OF IL dolia;. Lew Burt had just
come in with pack train. aud he
gave us Il piece of bacon. | cnt off n
piece and was preparing to cook 1t on
a sh y Ell when an Indian dog stole it.
He too, it to an Indian camp. ard
soon rcturncd. As he had stolen my
bacon, ! caught him. and soon we were
eating dog instead OF bacon,
Speaking of the gold finds, Mr.. San
ford sad he had pretty fair luck.
"But | made more money trading.
While | was in that country he' said,
II carried the mail an express. That
was at the beginning of the war and
used to carry newspapers and sell them
for 50 to $40 each. They cost me 81. so,
| got &5 for carrying letter. l see
that about the same conditions pre-
vail up in the Klondike country. /
had little claim out of which useG
to take 5000 or $500 each season, as a
result of a few days work. 81 under
stand that some men are going to
drive stock up through the Northwest
Territory and into TIE Klondike coun-
try. l know that t." country has not
changed in the la til rty-1ive years.
| was through Atht ''aSc' and the coun-
try it will be necessary 10 cross to take
stocks through and tell you if a man
starts with 1000 he will have few left
when he gets to Klondike. The moss
in that country is above your knees
and it is worse to travel through than
snow. Then, in addition the country
is thickly timbered. There are no
roads, and the only way to get through
some sections for miles is by slowly
pushing through the trees. which are
very thick. Why, when l ran pack
trains up there. we used to feed the
horses -four and water. 1t was the
only food we could get to them, and
the pasturage was the pine bough.
The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1897-08-27

1t is always gratifying to receive
testimonials for Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and
when the endorsement is from ply.
sician it is especially SO. "There is
no more satisfactory or effective rem
edy than Chamberlain Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy" writes DR..
r. f. Robey. physician aud pharma-
cist. of Olney, Mo. And as he has
used the remedy in his own family and
sold it in his drug store for six years.
he should certainly know. For sale by
M. E. Doe & Co.. Druggists.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-12-31
Some Standard Ana rcbisss.

some one has been attempting a COL
lection of the poets utterances on law,
IN view of the plutocratic exhortation
10 revere the law. But any dictionary
OF quotations would reveal the fact
that nearly all the great poets are
rank anarchists. Says Goldsmith:
Laws grind the poor and rich men
rule the law"
This incontestable truth is from the
Traveller" although in all his poems
Goldsmith is more or less or a Debs
and an Altgeld. Thus we read in "The
Deserted Village:
Where then, ah! where shall poverty
reside
To 'scape the pressure of contiguous
pride?
Ii to- some commons fenceless limits
strayed,
He drives his focks to pick the scanty
blade
Those fenceless fields the sons of
wealth divide
AND cen the worn common Is denied"
Says Otway in "Venice Preserved"
and he wrote in a spirit of criticism of
universal application:
Justice is lame as well as blind
amongst us:
The laws, corrupted to their ends that
make them,
Serve but for instruments of some new
tyranny,
That every day starts up t'enslave us
deeper"
Pope pitches into the judges:
Your plea is good, but still say: Be-
Laws are explained by men: so have
care"
In a word, it is impossible to go
through any collection of fine senti-
ments from the poets without being
profoundly impressed by their very So
cialistic and anarchistic bend of mind.
Duluth Labor World.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-12-31
NATCH1TOCHES, La, DECEMBER 81.

ufactorles OF the United States in a
single corporation with capital of
SlOO,OO0,000." No secret is made of the
intention Of the separate concerns now
engaged in manufacturing wire to sur
render their independence for the sole
purpose of evading the antitrust laws,
The promoters of the combine see no
reason why they should attempt any
concealment. They have right to as
sumo that the congress which protect
ed them against foreign competition
and by duties ranging from Sc to IS
per cent meant that they should get
the full benefit of the duties. They
have right to assume that the ad-
ministration which favored them CIV
Ing them this protection will not go
out OF its way to apply existing law
to them OF to procure the passage of
more effective law. These benefciaries
OF Dingley-McKinley legislation mean
to get all the prosperity they can out
OF 1t, and they feel quite secure in do
ing so. Nobody is going to hurt them
while the Republican party remains in
power and they mean to make every
preparation for keeping it in power if
money will do the business. They are
armed by government with the taxing
power and they mean so to exercise It
as 10 secure the wherewithal to retain
1t.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-12-31
The Popullst View of Money.

The Populists demand the coinage
OF all the gold and the silver that NAV
come to our mints at the ratio of 16
to l. and the issuance of paper certifi-
Gates thereon, in order that it may not
be necessary to circulate the metal in
specie. If this furnishes a sufficient
volume OF currency, then we shall
have no paper money not based on
coin. If there is not sufficient metallic
money to meet the demands OF trade
and there never has been-then we
demand that sufficient paper money be
issued by the government, receivable
by it for all dues and full legal tender
for all debts. public or private, which
may thereafter be incurred. This pa-
per money shall not be subjected to a
forced redemption in coin or any re-
demption except as the output of the
mines automatically supplant it with
gold or silver coin. If these principles
are wrong, then the Populist party is
wrong. II this party is wrong, then
the overwhelming majority of political
economists have always been wrong
for we are in harmony with the great
thinkers and writer's on governmental
monetary science. We are not in har-
mony with the great bankers. They
are mere specialists in so organizing
financial systems and in so handling
ready money as to make the largest
possible private gains for themselves,
The real conflict is not between gold
and silver, but between a national cur
rency issued and controlled by the gov
ernment for the equal benefit of all the
people and bank currency issued and
controlled by the banks for their spe-
cial selfish interests. The bankers
well know that gold is so scare that
they can always keep it cornered in
their vaults, then expand and contract
their bank currency just as their In
terests demand. and thereby control
the value OF their investments and the
destiny of the world in their interests
Congressman Bell in illustrated
American.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-12-31
PROSPERITY TRUSTS.
How the Sewer Pipe Robbers Intended
to Swindle the Public.

How the sewer Pipe Robbers Intended
to swindle the Public.
Chicago Chronicle: The signs
OF prosperity under the Ding
ley tariff and due to its beneticent
force do multiply and abound exceed
ingly. A dispatch from Pittsburg
printed Monday morning stated that
preliminary. steps had been taken to
form colossal combine of sewer pine
and terra Gotta ware manufacturers
with a capital Of $11. 100000. It ia ex-
pected that this combine will control
the business and that all who are in
terested in it will prosper and wax fat
and mighty. The beneflcent Dinglev
law encourages these people and as
sists them in making their prosperity
arrangements by putting duty OF IS
per cent upon such articles as thew
produce when they are imported into
the United States. II earthen sewer
pipe and terra Gotta were admitted free
of duty combine would not helm
American producers materially unless
1t was extended so as to take In for
eign producers so situated as to be
able to compete. And even as It ia the
only use for combine is to stifIe COM
petition among American producers
and rake in nearly all Of the IS per
cent advantage which the Dingley tar
III gives them over foreign producers
They need to combine only because
they can afford to produce and sell
sewer pipe and ter.a Gotta
for less than the price Of
the foreign product laid down In our
markets with the duty added.
The Pittsburg dispatch printed Mon
day morning was followed Tuesday
morning by one from New York an
nouncing that "there IL movement
cp foot to consolidate oil the wire man.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-12-31
NO BRIGHT OUTLOOK.
MARKETS AGAIN NEAR THE
COLLAPSING POINT,
a Resumption of the Gold Standard
Tendency to Lower and Lower
Prices and Closing Factories Pre-
dicted.

The regular gold basis program Of
constantly reducing prices and harder
and harder times having been varied
oy better prices for wheat, the i'm
proVement, though slight, was at once
telt throughout the country, thus prov
ing the Populist proposition, that the
farmer Is the basis of the market, and
that no class, except small class of
monopolists, can be prosperous unless
Che farmer is prosperous. But the
~neat crop has been sold and the
thoney spent. What of the future?
everything indicates another disas-
'rouS run OF gold standard low prices,
WIN closing factories and foreclosed
.arms' Wharton Barker says: There
Is no reason to look for an increased
aemand or better prices for manufac-
tured goods in the immediate future.
IN tne contrary, there is reason to look
tor lower with the approach of next
year harVests, for there is no reason
suppose that the crops in Europe
next year will be below the normal,
there is every reason to expect that the
crops IN Argentine and Australia to
'oe garnered in the coming winter will
oe oountlful and with such crops prices
TOR agricultural products will fall,
farmers will suffer in credit, will not
uSre to increase purchases even If they
could; then will come lessened con-
sumption of manufactured products on
the tarm and plantation and hence
'oUer prices for such products.
And In this connection let us say that
our farmers. even the most favored
with bountiful wheat crops, have not
mad money to reduce their indebted
ness by the great sums of which we
are told. Thus we are told of the
farmers of Nebraska paying off mil
lions OF mortgages. Millions Of mort
cages have indeed been cancelled but
tney have been cancelled by the mort
gage companies foreclosing the mort
cages. On investigation we find that
more new mortgages have been made
IN Nebraska during the present year
than have been paid off. The mort
gage Indebtedness of Nebraska is $31S,-
O0O greater today than it was year
ago. So we see there has been no re-
auction OF farm Indebtedness in Ne
oraska save by foreclosures. And re-
duction Of Indebtedness in this way in
dicates anything but farming pros
perity. Farmers who have lost their
all by foreclosure sale are not promis-
ing purchasers for manufactured
goods. OF course these foreclosure
sales are the results of defaults not in
This year but during the last three or
four.
SO, to recapitulate, the great rise in
agricultural prices during the past
quarter has resulted from crop failures
abroad, yet it is doubtful if our farm
ers will realize more money this year
than last, because Of shortage in some
crops. And further, with the approach
of the new harvest year, agricultural
prices are likely to fall. This is a
plain, unvarnished fact, as concerning
the probability of a general and sus-
tanned advance in prices for manufac-
tured goods. In short, the probability
Of an increased consumption Of manu-
factured goods by our agricultural
population and Of increased prices from
this cause Is slim.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-12-31
CURRENT NOTES.

Hoke Smith has been elected presi-
dent Of the Atlanta school board. It
is not an exalted Office, but it is the
only Office any ex-member Of Cleve-
lands cabinet has succeeded in Sc
curing, and Hoke's resignation from
the cabinet is probably what has saved
him to this extent
The Omaha Bee says: "New York
banks are complaining of too much
gold and too little currency and at the
same time joining in the chorus for,
the retirement of the greenback.'
When the retirement Of the green,
backs has been made, the keystone Of
Republican partyism, the Omaha Bee
will talk in very different style. The
Bee has advocated, at some time, the
popular side of every issue, but has
never failed to obey the party lash
when the test came.
The Chicago Inter Ocean,a thick-and.
tently shows the real character of the
present wave of prosperity: AT pres
ent every city is full of unemployed
men, only too glad to work on the
street cars, at the same, or lower
wages There are too many men out
of work for reasonable expectation Of
the successful termination of any
strike of unskilled wage earners."
Prices on watches have been adj
vanced during the recent ten days by
the manufacturers. No reason is as
signed for the advance, but 1t is pre-
sumably on account Of prosperity. The
advance on movements is $1.5O, and on
case from so cents to $1.-Amboy Her.
aid.
They are merely gathering in their
share of Dingley prosperity. Wilson
tariff on watches, Is per cent. Ding
ley tariff, IS, so, IS cents, $1.25 and So
each, according to the number of jew
els, in addition to Is per cent ad val
orem. On cases. 40 per cent.--Globe.
Plutocratic prices are constantly re-
duced prices for farm products, and
tariff enhanced prices for things far
mers have to buy. This putting of !he
cart before the horse cannot result in
prosperity for anybody except few
monopolists and wall street wolves.
Real eras Of prosperity have. always
been caused by general advances IN
the prices of farm products.