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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-09-25
THE NEW YORKER"
An Account OF the Most Powerful Float
ing firc- Engine in the World.


In the series of articles on New
York's fire department by Charles l.
Hill. another article Is devoted 20
FLOATING Fire Engines. and APP
pears in ST Nicholas. In describing
New York's feet of fire-boats, Mr..
Hill saws:
Foremost among these vessels stands
fire-boat New York Officially known
as Engine Co. No 81, as she Is with
out doubt the most powerful iire-bOat
afoat. The New Workers. berth Is at
the Battery. where she hes beside
tasteful building erected by the fire
department as "a housing for her crew
or company. This building Is fitted
up with all the requirements IF an en-
CINE house bunk-room upstairs. slid
ing-poles to make quick descent 10
the ground floor, and a complete set of
telegraph instruments. TO inform the
company Of all alarms throughout the
city. She lies with steam mp. at all
times ready TO respond IN an instant
20 any alarm. whethor II be by tele-
graph or cry for assistance from a
burning boat IN mid-riveE. She Will
dash up the river 10 attack n burning
pier or warehouse, or down the bay 10
meet an incoming steamship with It's
cargo atre. with the same activity.
Her powerful pumps make her almost
invincible IN any kind of marine fire,
and she Is also a valuable assistant TO
the land forces.
As she lies at her berth by the Bat
terv she attracts great deal OF atten-
tion from all new arrivals In the har-
Dor. and ON account Of her formidable
appearance she Is usually put down a
some new-fangled torpedo-throwing
addition 10 our navy, for with tn,
rows of brass headed hose-connection'
along the side OF the deck house. and
the vicious looking standpipes OIL
monitor nozzles' a they are called
mounted fore and aft, she certalnl.
has n defiant and business-hke appear
anCe.
In build she looks like a rathe
p handsome tug. She is 125 feet long
Pc feet wide. aud draws about - fee
Of water. She Is built Of steel an
iron throughout, making her thorough
" fireproof. even the top Of the whee
house aud cabin being made {
a kind of cement as hard a. ston,
i There Is little woodwork about her
: ignite. and she Is thus enabled 20 al
proach very close 20 fire and delivt
her powerful streams az short range
She has two very large boilers an
four sets eight in all of vertlca
l. double-acting steam pumps, and OF
= additional small direct-actIng pump.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-09-25

A reward was once offered In one OF
the Indian states of rupee for each
foot Of crocodile killed. If seven
teen-foot crocodile was killed. the kill
Ter got II rupees. Some 80. 900 ru-
pees were paid for crocodiles while
the offer OF the reward held good
this meant nearly six miles of croco.
diles. Then il was found that croco-
dies were being imported from vari-
ons states, and reward paying was
stopped.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-09-25
Clock. That Turn Out the Lights.

In these Gays of electricity it is not
essential TO have somebody turn ont
the lights. Time switches are made
which can be attached to clock and
made TO turn out electric lights at any
desired hour. suppose, for instance.
the lights are in show window, and
it is desired 10 put them out at mid
/ night. At that hour the clock closes
circuit, permitting the passing Of an
electric current to the switch, which,
| thus released, cuts of the electric
light current, and so puts out the
jhghts-New York Sun. -.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-09-25
Most Wonderful Cave in the world.


The most wonderful cave IN the
world is in the island Of Tonga, IN the
South Pacific Byron called II a
chapel Of the seas. IL l. formed in
a rock that il almost surrounded by
the ocean. This rock Is about sixty
feet high and broad proportionately v.
Many wears ago boy, the son OF a
native chief, was chasing huge tur-
tie, when his game seemed To sink
into the rock The lad watched and
waited until the tide fell, disclosing a
small opening In the rock about SIX
feet under low water mark
Diving boldly, the young hunter
entered the aperture, aud, TO his sur
prise. came &c the surface inside the
rock. The rock was hollow, and It's
interior was found afterward, when
the natives explored it with torches,
to contain many beautiful stalactites.
When attacked and followed b,
enemies the natives, who know th'
secret, leave their canoes, plunge int
/ the water and disappear. Their foe
linger, astonished a, their disappear
ance, for no person not acquainte'
with it, would suspect that the roe
was hollow. London Telegraph.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-09-25

Mrs. Inogene Paul Of Chicago was
for three wears sanitary Inspector Of
tie Civic Federation She recently
took al examination for the place IF
v ard and street Inspector. and out OF
81 >'eligihles" she made the best
mark, her paper showing 9>-O6.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-09-25

The foilosing is the latest English
dictun ON mourning gsrb. The Ameri-
en- custom follows il very closely.
ssRor > widow. the regulstion period
- prescribed by cnstom 10 tvo yssxs
Daring the first year and nine month";
nrpoe = worn, and for the last three
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-09-25
B.b,e. and Bicycles Checked at Church

Here is a progressive minister. He
is the Rev. DIR. Hancher of the Grand
Avenue Methodist Episcopal church
OF Kansas City, aud he has established
not only a bicycle checkroom in the
basement Of his church, but also q
room where mothers may check their
babies while they attend divine ser.
vice.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-09-04
1.-THE ADVANCE AGENT"

For several months after McKinley'S
election the Democrats and Populists
had no small amount of amusement
over the advance Agent of Prosper
ity." Their sarcasms, wit and pungent
humor flowed on in endless variation
and there was exceeding great joy
among them. But change has come.
Mckinley is no longer the advance
agent. Prosperity has caught up with
him, overtaken, and is now marching
on in advance. Mckinley has actual
lY fallen behind the procession. Now,
our friends, the Democrats and Pop
ulists, are lashlng their brains to ex-
plain how McKinley's election had
nothing to do with the "wave" of pros
perity that has finally struck the coun.
try. They say it is due to natural
causes, an act of God, etc, etc. Well,
perhaps that is so, but, after all, it
must be a pretty good party that re-
ceives such distinguished consideration
from Nature and Natures God. If the
Lord is with the Republican party,
possibly the rest of US may as well be
with it. Itwould be foolhardy to buck
a combination like that. However,
prosperity is actually abroad in the
land. The dark cloud of depression
which hung like the pail of night over
the country for four long years, is being
swiftly dissipated. Bright riffs appear
in every quarter. The light of heaven
is breaking through in thousands of
places and there is joy and hope
throughout. Perhaps the election of
William Mckinley had nothing to do
with this happy change, perhaps not.
But is it not, at least, a remarkable
coincidence? Is it not passing strange
that the election of Mckinley should be
followed by such utterly different con-
ditions from those which followed the
election of Grover Cleveland and the
triumph of Democracy?
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-09-04

yet they never perform an important
act without dislocating reason and
numbering the equities. We don't know
what, in such extremities, the Hon.
Board ought to do. They might try
prayer and fasting: they might take
something for their liyers: they should,
at least, experiment with some sort of
piety or physic. They need spiritual
light and mental robustness. We don't
know whether they could reach their
ventricles through their livers or not,
but they might Nevertheless and
Notwithstanding, THE TRIBUNE is free
to express a sincere and lively compass
sion for the misfortunes of the Board.
We are immersed in pathos when
ever we contemplate the perversities
which attend and persecute them. A
Board that never does right by accident
nor wrong by design, is at once the
most unique and sOrrOwful figure
imaginable. It is really distressing.
Excuse these sobs. We express our
emotions in a napkin.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-09-04
A WORD 70 sHEgPMEN.

Robert Altman, one of the most ex.
tensive and pro sperous sheeprnen in
this section, was in town Thursday and
gave expression to some views which
the sheepmen generally should heed
and act upon. Mr.. Aikman said that
conditions are SO changed under the
Republican administration that the in
dustry of sheep raising has become
prosperous. Sheep and wool are com
manding good and profitable prices.
1t is now incumbent on the sheepme,t
to share their prosperity with the far
mers by resOrting to winter feeding.
Besides it pays to winter feed. Mr..
Altman says that his experience,
which has been extensive, demonstrates
that the increase in quantity and quail
ity of wool on fed sheep more than
pays for the hay required to feed and
feed well. He said that the sheepmen
could well afford to pay 81 per ton for
Alfalfa hay in the stack. There are
numerous other advantages to the
sheepmen themselves. First, the per-
centage of loss is reduced to nothing
and the sheep are in condition for the
early spring market which always
rules high. These statements coming
from such authority should arrest the
attention of every sheepman in the
country. Again, we might add, being
that it is profitable to feed sheep, it,
in sense, is the duty of owners to
feed. The market thus expanded for
products of the farm would add large
ly to the general prosperity of the
country; would enable farmers to pur-
chase more wooden clothes and would
engender in them a cordial feeling to.
wards the sheepmen generally. We
advise sheepmen to study this ques.
tion in all its bearings and then deter.
mine to drive their sheep into the val
legs and consume all the surplus hay.
There is large amount of hay in this
valley which if sold for 81 per ton
would relieve the farmers and enable
them to enjoy the wave of prosperity
which has immersed the sheepmen.
Come in gentlemen and buy the far
mers' hay and your prosperity will be
more firmly established and more en-
during.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-09-04
THE IDAHO AND ALASKA CO.

The Idaho and Alaska Gold Mining
Company recently incorporated in this
town. it seems to us. is an organization
promising much good The incorpor-
ators are all business men of high stan
ding and unqustioned integrity. They
have ability and capital to carry out
their project on large and profitable
scale. Their connections and represen-
tatives in the Klondyke country enable
them to discover and take advantage
of opportunities of which the individual
with bat limited means could never
avail himself. 1t seems to us that if
this enterprise ba conducted honestly,
and we certainly think it will be. it
presents an opportunity for investors
far superior to anything that could be
reasonably expected by going to Alaska
in person and attempting to engage in
the actual work of mining. AS more
extensive and accurate information is
gained, the hardships connected with
mining, or even living in Alaska be.
comes more apparent, and some of the
most fortunate declare that year or
two spent in the Klondyke country
is a sacrifice for which scarce
ly any fortune can compensate.
A man who recently returned from
there, writing in the Sunday Salt
Lake Tribune, says that he ex-
poets that fully one third of those who
go, or attempt to go, to the gold fields
will never return. These are desperate
chances to take. Therefore it seems to
us that possibly small investment in
a company like the Idaho and Alaska
Gold Mining Company might in the
main be much safer and more profitable.
This company is equipped for the work.
1t has at command every convenience
and facility and is prepared to do min
ing on an immense scale for the bene-
fit of its stock holders.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-09-04
THE FAIR.

Boise is going to have big fair.
They call it the Idaho Intermountain
Fair. That is right. We rejoice in
Bosses vim and enterprise. For long
time the business men of Boise have
shown most commendable energy in
entertaining visitors and making things
generally pleasant and attractive to the
stranger within their gates. There has
been vast change in the character of
the business elements of Boise during
the past five or six years and altogether
a change for the better. The right
good will and cordially with which
visitors have been treated has warmed
the heart of the whole State towards
Boise. A few years ago, every man.
woman and child that lived outside of
Boise hated it, and Boise re.
ciprocated by detesting every
body and everything that was not per-
meated with the odor of the capital.
The old stitfS in business had formed
themselves into a sort of oligarchv
They aimed to corral and control everv-
thing. In the luxurience of their anti
que egotism they imagined that thew
were Idaho in all its entirity. Thew
felt that they had an inherent right to
run the capital and all pertaining there
to, and they regarded with suspicion
and hatred anyone who ventured to in.
wade the citidel of their somber domin.
ion. But all that is changed and even
change has been wrought in those
gloomy old barOns. They have lin.
bered up ond grown affable and ur
bane. Oh, yes, Boise is all changed
about and they are going to have a big
fair and the whole State must unite
and help to make it a great success
ThesState must do honor to itself. II
must come out of its she'll and 90 right
in to show to the world that Idaho is
great after all.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-09-04
THE COMMISSIONERS.

The mistakes and misfortunes of the
County Commissioners of this County
would disarm their most vindictlve
enemy. Being kindly disposed toward
them, THE TRIBUNE is filed with a
compassion which is quite inexpressible
in cold type. We cannot imagine
what evil genius has possessed them,
nor why delusion and error directs
and controls all their proceedings.
There is a fatality attending them that
turns their best efforts to shame and
gives tinge of villainy to their most
innocent acts. 1t is too bad. 1t is pitt
ful. Now those are good men, aye,
honorable men, but note the disgrace
they brought upon themselves in the
trifing matter of letting the County
printing. Note the enormous amounts
that printing is now costing, nearly $500
per quarter. Then recall the unfortu-
nate circumstances surrounding the
letting of the contract. 1t is all very
sorrOwful. Then came along the Pos.
ton contract to repair the Parma bridge.
That was most untoward and pathetic
thing. After the contract was let,
the Commissioners, in moment of
extreme mental alteration, repented
themselves, called Off the contract and
paid Mr. POston some $1,000 to quit.
The motive behind that proceeding
was pure as the driven snow, but it
cast wOad like shadow on the SHIN
mering fame of the fair Commission
ers. 1t is melancholy. Then came the
Equalization business. The Hon. Board
glinting with a red hot desire to do
make a record-and
scintillating with patriotic hope ana
intellectuality-the Hon. Board, after
ten days of wandering around in
labyrinth of supposed accomplishment,
walked up to find that they had been
lost in the mazes of their own faulty
and were obliged to rest just where
they started from, except in few in
stances where they succeed in bungling
matters up. The Board meant well;
they actually wanted to perform a
good and creditable work, but the
same fatality which has from the be.
attended them interposed. 1t
is all very pensive. Then came the
Gillette Herzog business and the special
election and the money it cost. All of
which emanated from the very best
and purest of intentions, but, dear me,
how unhappily it all turned out. Was
ever anything more pathematic, more |
IacrimOse. Our heart goes out to the
Hon. Board. They are victims of a
wicked and sinister fate. We know |
they want to do the right thing-Mr. |
Peterson frankly confessed as much
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-09-04
THERE WAS PARTrsANsHlP.

1t is charged on the Republicans
that they made party issue Of the
election last Wednesday, To that indict.
ment the Republicans may consistently
and meritoriously plead guilty. It is
the established policy of the Republi.
can party to protect the people from all
sorts of impositions, whether in the
form of special tax levies for favorite
interests, or the attempt of outside cor
porations to dictate unjust methods of
validating avoided and unconstitution-
al claims against the County. The
Republican party probably felt that an
occasion had arisen for the exercise of
its mission in politics and it promptly
and effectively asserted itself. How.
ever, upon the occasion in question, a
considerable number of sensible Popu-
lists and unfettered Democrats worked
shoulder to shoulder with the Repub.
licans against system of preferred
credits and compounded interests and
Tor the vindication of that sacred Rgis
of popular rights-our State Constitu-
ton. The number of Democrats who
had sufficient independence of spirit to
openly espouse he righteous iside of
OF the contest was, we suspect, COM
paratively small, and there was potent
reason for il. The Hon. Thomas Her.
odotas Galloway d. Il. and Represen
tatiYe in Aggregate of the Democracy
of Idaho, in its state aud Expansive
character, deserted the State Capitol
and come here to direct and control in
the interest of Gillette Herzog Co
In the countenauce of the Hon. Thomas
Herodotous Galloway d. e., with
the odor of the State House fresh on
his Vestment and the living, eoncentra-
ted essence of all Democracy in his elo.
quent right hand, the Democrats of
of Canyon County, with few notable
exceptions, wilted like poplar leaves be-
fore the hot breath of an African ST.
moon. We have not the heart to re-
proach the Democrats of Canyon Coun.
~ for their utter capitulation. The
master hand was raised alOft in ges
regulatory menace, and the voice of the
oracle pierced the ethereal deep. Under
the spell of that mighty presence the
Stoutest heart might well quake and
the strongest Democratic constitution
cave. And behind it all was the appal-
ling apprehension, that, as the Hon.
Thoman HerOdotous Galloway d. G.
reposed in the bosom of the Chief Elk,
ecutiye of the State, he gave
voice to the estab-
lished polity Of the Admins
tration. That every Democrat in the
county was not enthralled by the con-
Iurations of the Hon. Thomas Herodo
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-09-04

0Yesterday's Statesman reported that
Judge Stewart had held the Anti-Uamb.
ling law invalid, on the same proInds
that the Supreme Court Knocked ont
the fee law. Gambling in Boise is in
full blast. 40 4"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-09-04
SOCIETIES.

70. 0. F.-CALDWELL LODGE NO. 10. Hall
new brick building. Regular meeting We'd
.naeday evening each week. Visiting Brethren
a n EJJpsoT LORAN TOBPKINs,
n - Secretary. Noble Grand.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-09-04

as the sentiment and wisdom of the
honest and patriotic people of Canyon
County may elect.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-10-07
FORTY IN THE RUINS
Big Hotel at Charlevoix, Mich,
Totally Wrecked During a
Wind Storm.
Two of the UnfortunateS Taken
Out Dead and Ten Seri-
ouSly Injured.
Prairie Fires i'm Chicago SUBJ
urbS Doing Much Damage
to Property.

CHARLEvoIX, Mich, Oct. 6.-Two
men are dead and 10 injured as the re-
suit of the blowing down of big new
hotel at Lindsay park during the after
noon. The structure had been all en-
closed and partly plastered. About 40
men were in and around the building
when the crash came. 1t appeared as
though all were buried in the ruins, but
after all the rescued were counted it
was found that but two had lost their
ives-Pierce Kendall of Charlevoix and
Guy Hamilton of Grand Rapids.
The building is 440 feet long. When
the storm was at its height the south
end began to sway, the roof seemed to
lift and the whole structure careened
and crashed, the ruin following like a
tidal wave to the north end. The build
ing is total wreck and the loss will be
many thousands of dollars.
The hotel was four stories high and
44O feet long. 1t was owned by the
Chicago and West Michigan Railway
company and it is doubtful whether it
will be rebuilt at present In order to
finish it befose winter the contractors
were allowed to plaster the upper two
stories before the lower floors were
properly placed, and this, it is supposed,
was the cause of the collapse. the
weight at the top weakening the whole
building.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-10-07
THE INDIANA DROUGHT.

In Many Sections of the State Great Dis
tress Is Resulting to Farmers.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 6.-The most de-
structive drought that has been expe-
rienced in Indiana for years prevails in
all parts of the state and in many Sec
tons great distress is resulting to
farmers by reason of the lack of rain.
In parts of Southern Indiana no rain
has fallen for nearly two months
and farmers are driving their stock
four or five miles to water and many of
them are hauling water long distances
for drinking. The deepest wells have
gone dry, the fall pastures have been
burned by the sun and farmers are
feeding the new crop of hay to their
stock.
The late corn has been much affected
by the same conditions and much that
promised large yield has failed to de-
velop in stock and the crop will fall
short in many localities.
In such sections the new ground that
is intended for next years wheat crop
is as dry as finder and no grain can be
sown till it rains, many fields having
been abandoned because too dry to be
plowed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-10-07
WATERWAYS IMPROVEMENT

Convention at Davenport, Ia, Attended
by Many Delegates.
DAVENPORT, Ia, Oct. 6.-The conven.
ton of the Society for the Improvement
of Western Waterways opened at the
Grand Opera House during the morn
ing. About $50 delegate from outside
cities are present, representing the
states of Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee,
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri.
Hon. S. F. Smith, mayor of Davenport,
delivered an address of welcome, which
was responded to by George Fl. Ander-
son of Pittsburg. Permanent officers
were elected as follows: Chairman, T..
G. Catchings, Mississippi; secretary,
Charles Francis, Iowa. 1t was decided
that all resolutions be referred to the
resolutions committee without reading.
A brief, felicitious talk by Chairman
Catchings was followed by adjourn
ment.