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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-24
DEwEY,s GIFTS.
The AdmiraI's Cabin Has Been Turned
Into "a Museum.
Philadelphia Inquirer.

Admiral Dewey's cabin is beginning to
look like a museum or curiosity shop Every
mail brings bulky packages and little SOU
venirs from his enthusiastic admirers at
home and two typewriter operators are kept
busy acknowledging the receipt of presents.
Ihere are hats, caps, canes, medalnons'
flags, newspaper clippings and albums and
nearly everything else that will so by mail.
beautifully bound and illuminated album
came some time ago from prominent club
in Milwaukee, and is treasured as one of
the star features of the admiraPs colec-
ton. Each page is decorated with an ap-
propriate painting, the subjects bearing on
something associated with the admiral or
the battle of Manila Bay. On the last page
or breaking out" at the main truck of the
flagship the two-starred flag of the rear
admiral. The final bit of text in the book
ex presses the hope that sometime the adj
miral may be in Milwaukee, and that he
may take breakfast there A picture of
very pretty girl is constant ornament of
his desk. She is a Decatur (Ill) girl, and
sent the letter with the ingenious super
scrption "Our dear admiral, and ii won
the admiral's heart. In acknowledging the
receipt of the picture he wrote long and
very cordial letter-which is tip to other
pretty girls who have charming photo
graphs.
Another conspicuous ornament of his cabin
is a painting Of the battle of Manila Bay.
1t was made by a Chinese artist in Hong
Kong, after a drawing which appeared in
Harpers Weekly, and was presented to the
admiral by the junior officers of the Olym-
pia The artist is now working night and
day making more reproductions, as two or
three dozen orders have been sent to him
by officers of the fleet.
Admiral Dewey's shoemaker in Washing
ton sent him fine pair of white shoes. with
the modest request that the admiral give
him the pair he wore during the battle of
May /. The exact identity of the shoes in
question being uncertain, the admiral COM
promised by writing a letter of thanks A
steel watch. made of steel taken from the
Maine. is one interesting souvenir.
Some of the most beautiful things he has
are presents from Aguinaldo. The dictator
has the greatest admiration and respect for
Dewey, and has the singular habit of maxi
ing an elaborate gift to the admiral when
ever the latter calls him down" That ac-
counts largely for the number of Aguin-
aldos presents that adorn the cabin In all
the dealings Admiral Dewey has had with
Agunaldo he has treated him with the
greatest courtesy when courtesy was called
for, and the greatest severity when firm
ness was the thing; but in spite of the re-
bluffs Aguinaldo's notes accompanying the
presents invariably refer to the admiral as
my honorable and illustrious friend"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-24
HOBsON A QUEER PERSON.
His Mind as Well as His Methods De-
cfdedIy Original.

w. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record.
Lieutenant Hobson has telegraphed that
the newspaper reports of his Osculatory per-
formances have been very much exaggerated
and the telegram will go on record. HobsOn
is very queer person, and this kissing bust
ness, as well as Speech-making, is new
trick for him. He has never been a lady's
man. He has been credited with bashfulnes-.
He never seemed to find enjoyment in soci-
ETY., although his egotsm is so great that
when he once overcame his diffidence he al
ways insisted upon talking of himself He
is one of those geniuses who will not work
in harness.
the Merrimac affair which might have made
Lieutenant HObSon a defendant in court
martial proceedings but Secretary Long and
other of his superior officers have overlooked
in him what any other officer in the navy
would be held responsible for. He has been
sent to the Philippine islands to raise the
Spanish ships that Dewey sunk in the har-
Dor of Manila, because the secretary of the
navy did not know what else to do with
the ordinary duties of an officer on board q
man-of-war, and his originality and egotism
make him the object of constant surveil-
lance in the Construction Bureau. If Hob
son were instructed to draw the plans and
specifications for ship on certain lines
Commodore Hichborn. the head of the bu-
reau. would be compelled to keen an eve on
him constantly for fear he would introduce
some new feature or make some departure
from the conventional rules of ship building
that would cause great risk and much trou-
bic. HobsOn never did anything in the way
the same thing is done by other people. His
mind as we'll as his methods are decidedly
original and, while there is no more ques-
ton of his ability than there is of his cour-
age, his ideas are frequently impracticabe.
Another popularity of Hobsons is that
combined with boyish bashfulness, he has
absolutely no sense of fear, and therefore the
achievement with the Merrimac was not so
difficult for him as it would have been for
o man with a keener apprehension of danger
and its consequences. Hobson never made
a speech in his life until a meeting was held
in Carnegie Hall last summer to raise money
for the families of the soldiers killed at
Santiago. Those who had been intimately
associated with him all his life expected on
that occasion that he would simply get up
and make a bow and blush. But he spoke
for half an hour with great self-possession
a fine display of language and considerable
dramatic power. Since that time he has ac
cepted every invitation to speak that has
been offered him, and down in Atlanta the
other day he made three extemporaneous
speeches on the same day-morning, after
noon and evening-without repeating a sin
gle idea. Very few men of experience upon
the platform could have carried themselves
as well.
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MusT HAVE SATISFACTION.
An Enraged Missouri Husband Says
HObsOn Must Apologize.
Kansas City Special to Louisville Courier
Journal

hODBOm MUST APOLOGIZE.
Kansas City Special to Louisville Courier
Journal.
While it is true that Lieutenant Hobson
succeeded in kissing a greater number of
women and young girls in Kansas City than
in any other place he has visited sinde his
name became famous, he at the same time
succeeded in mourning the wrath and hatred
of George L. Dewinter, a business man OF
Kansas City, whose wife, II seems, was
kissed by the gallant hero at the reception
held at the Coates last Monday afternoon.
Mrs Dewinter called at the hotel to visit
woman friend and before her departure
found herself in the line of the vast throng
of women and young girls filling the parlOr
and Railways of the hotel. She was pushed
along with the crowd, and when she reached
lieutenant threw his arm around her waist
and drew her face to his. She struggled, but
was kissed, nevertheless, in the same man
ner as hundreds of others had been during
the afternoon.
Flushed with Indignation and anger she
entered her carriage and was driven to her
home, where she related her story of the
stolen. kiss to her husband upon his return
from business
Dewinter is proud of his handsome wife,
but his friends have never noticed that he
ever exhibited any signs of jealousy. How
ever, he left his home during the evening
and called at the hotel to demand satisfac-
tion from the hero of the hour The banquet
was in progress, and when he glanced at
the brilliantly lighted rooms Hobson was on
his feet relating the story of the Merrimac.
The enraged man was on the point of break
ing up the pleasure of the evening by max
ing a rush for the man who kissed his wife
in a public place and against her consent,
but as he stood in the doorway one or two
friends seeing his excited state succeeded
in getting him away before scene was en-
acted.
Dewinter declares that he win yet compel
Hobson to make due apologies for his in
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valescence. The disease extends rapidly and
affects large numbers of people, because of
the lack of definite diagnosis, and any at
tempt at isolation of patients or disinfection
of discharges.
AN attack of grip produces temporary in
susceptibility. as is the case in most infec-
tious and contagious diseases, so that when
an epidemic has passed through city or
over a country there is comparative free
dom from the disease for a certain period
until the insusceptibility is lost. Then,
when infection is again introduced the dis
ease takes again an epidemic form.
DR.. Crosby refused to make public his plan
or prescription for treatment of the dis
ease.
1T would be unfair to the practicing
brethren of my profession to give such a
prescription" he said. When asked how
the health department proposed TO prevent
an increase of the disease, he replied
BY warning people through the press TO
be very careful, to keep their feet perfectly
dry, to take every possible precaution
against colds to avoid unnecessary expos
ure. to keep warm and wear good, warm
clothes. Persons attacked should remain
indoors and consult a physician immedi-
ately. Grip is caused by overwork and ex-
posture. 1t is not dangerous unless those
who have it are careless and do not attend
to it at once In such cases 1t often devel-
ops into pneumonia and proves fatal"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-24

most liberal and progressive men of their
age. To confuse them with the Puritans
who came to Salem and Boston later and
who were quite dogmatic as their perse-
cutors in England is one of the injustices
of history. But even the Puritans who
came to New England were not, as a class.
hypocritea, as a speaker said az the dinner.
They came to New England because they
could not have their way in England, con-
sequently when they came to a land of their
own they adopted the arbitrary methods of
the period. They had their faults. They
would not be pleasant neighbors to-day, but
without them we would not have the Re-
public of to-day. Their system of local
town government was the best ever devised
by man. and here in Indiana it is proposed
to adopt some of its features.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-24
BRYAN and Carnegie.
washington Special to Chicago Reco

washington SpeclaI TO chicago RECORD.
Mr. Bryan made no impression in Wash
ington, and left last night for his old home
at Salem, ILL.,, to spend Christmas with reia-
tives. The Democrats in Congress do not
have very high opinion of his judgment
or his ability as an expOunder of the Con-
stitution. They think they know quite as
much about it as he. Mr.. Bryan and his
friends are very proud of what they call a
tribute paid him by Andrew Carnegie while
he was in New York the other day. Moth
ing has happened of late that pleased Mr..
Bryan so much as personal assurance that
the presidency against William Mckinley in
1860. Mr.. Carnegie volunteered this prom
Use. He wrote letter to the silver-tongued
Nebraskan, and sent it by the hands of his
private secretary to be delivered in person
at the Bartholdi Hotel The letter read:
Dear Mr.. Bryant want you to come and
see me. / would go to see you, but / am
sick and unable to leave my house. l be-
lieve you to be the only man in the country
to-day who save US from the twin evils
of Imperialism and mflitarism," and so on.
Mr.. Bryan responded promptly to the invi-
tation, and spent hour with Mr.. Car
negie that day. He reports Mr. Carnegie
as being in most respondent state of mind
concerning the future of the Republic, and
quotes him as declaring that the first act in
when the United States commissioners
signed the treaty of peace at Paris last
week He urged Mr.. Bryan to continue his
opposition to the policy of the administra-
ton promised to furnish him all the funds
that were necessary to pay his expenses
and finally promised to support him for
President in 1900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-24
Three vacant Presidencies.

washington Post.
A number of good positions, offices OF
great responsibility and high Importance,
are now vacant. If any of the statesmen
whose lights were extinguished by the vot-
ers on the Sth of November desire to get
into place in which the right man can al
ways do good work for his fellow-men. the
way is open. No Pendleton civil-service law,
no competitive examination, nor yet any
boss bars the path that leads TO these OFF,
Three great New England institutions OF
learning-Yale, Amherst and Brown-are
looking for presidents. The presidency OF
Brown University has been vacant for some
months. Or. Andrews retired from that
Office to become superintendent of Chicago's
public schools.
The Post violates no confidence I'm stating
as a fact that the good doctors successor
will not be an advocate of free coinage. Ha
will be a goid-standard man. because the
men who have that institution in charge
are satisfied that its financial interests de-
mand president whose views on the ques-
ton of standards are in harmony with the
dominant sentiment In that part of the
country.
For each and all of these presidencies
sound piety and much learning will be re-
quired. Administrative ability attested by
experience. will also be an essential reaui-
site. TO these qualifications must be added
a pleasing address and--what generally fol-
lows such neutrality-suspicious. popular
ity.
we think il would be easier to find fifty
men who, IL elected 10 the presidency az
he United States. would al that great
Office credltabiy. than 20 end the ideal col-
lege president FOR either Of these vacancies
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-24
A CRITICAL SITUATION.

me Spanish evacuation of Cuba is likely
to prove difficult operation and may be
productive of serious disturbances before it
is finally accomplished This is not surpris-
ing when 1t is remembered how long Spain
has governed the island, what a large force
she still has there. and how bitter are the
feelings between the Cubans and Spaniards
Several outbreaks have already occurred,
and more are likely to. The agreement of
the evacuation commissioners that Spanish
evacuation and surrender of power should
date from Jan. l was probably the wisest
that could have been made, it was neces-
sary to fix a date for the ending Of Spanish
authority and the beginning of American.
Yet it is said there will be fully fifty thou
sand Spanish troops who will he unable to
leave before Jan. 1 and who will have to
wait for transports to take them. These
troops will he armed, and as they are still
Spanish soldiers and not prisoners of war
the Americans will have no authority to
disarm them In addition to these there are
the Cuban volunteers in Havana, still armed
large number of armed insurgents and
an excited and vindictive popuace. These
conditions contain the elements of trouble.
In the event of a serious outbreak the
United States land forces in the vicinity of
Havana would scarcely be adequate to it's
suppression, but the presence of three Amer
lean war ships in the harbor, the Texas, the
Brooklyn and the Topeka, should have a
quieting effect. The greatest danger is in
the days Immediately preceding and i'm
mediately following the date of Spanish
evacuation, when the Cubans are likely to
make conspicuous demonstrations of delight
and perhaps of exultation over their late
rulers and now vanquished enemies. 1t was
the intention of the Cubans to have great
demonstrations of rejoicing in Havana on
Christmas eve and Christmas day,
but Captain General Castellanos has
issued an order forbidding this AS
Spanish authority has not yet expired
he had a right to do this, and as a pre-
cautionary measure it was probably wise
TO do so. The Cubans will have a long time
to rejoice after the Spaniards are gone, and
should see the propriety of restraining them
selves. 1t is said they are preparing mon
ster fetes TO celebrate the forthcoming Off
cial announcement that the control of the
island has been taken over by the Ameri-
cans. AS this will be on or after Jan. they
will have right to celebrate, but with fifty
thousand armed Spanish troops still in the
city it may prove costly celebration. I'm
der the circumstances it should be the policy
of our evacuation commissioners and mill
tary authorities to treat the retiring Span
iards with as much consideration as posi-
bic, to protect them from Insult by the Gu
bans and restrain the latter as far as pos
sible from offensive demonstrations until
after the Spaniards have left.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-24
The New Volcano.
Tacoma Lett.

IaCOma Letter.
Further information of the active volcano
discovered in the Atlin gold district in Brit
ish Columbia is to the effect that the vol
cano furnishes the miners light by which
to work their claims during the long dark
ness of the arctic winter.
The glare from the spoutfng lava, reflected
back against the sky, gives an almost con-
tinuous twilight to the upper end of the
Atlin district
All the passengers of the steamer Cottage
City arriving from Alaska have stories to
tell of the volcano, but from DIR. w. E.
Kinslowe and T. H. James, mining Tlen Of
Denver, who have been making dn eXamina-
ton of the Atlin country. comes the best and
apparently most authentic description of Tie
Alaskan VeSuVluS.
THE mountain in eruption" said Dr. Kins-
lowe, lis the second in the range IF four
towering peaks, lying about fifty miles cue
south of Lake Gladies. and slightly shorter
distance from Atlin City. These mountains
are ali of at least 14O00 feet altitude the
crater resting tribe below its three ortther
peaks
1T was in the early part of October that
the smoke was first seen issuing from the
mountain. With the thought of a volcano
furthest from their minds the miners at
tributed these first signs of eruption to
clouds hanging about the peak. So con-
slant however was the cloud that it became
object of daily observation from Attn
.'irhen. on Nov 8. the mountain burst forth
in flames. Through the smoke cloud there
shot a stream of molten lava, powders ana
ashes that Frightened the sky for a radius
of nearly forty miles and sent its reflected
light through the darkness down upon the
men working on Birch,~ Discovery, Mckee
Pine and other creeks the sides If whose
banks face toward the volcano.
"A panic ensued among the miners when
the ashes began falling down upon them.
The ashes fell TO a depth of several inches
and the stream down the mountain side in
creased in magnitude. The fall of ashes
later stopped and the men returned to work.
When we left the miners were working
nights, gladly protitlng by the mellow twl-
light caused by the volcanoes glare, which
turned night into day.
mo name has yet been given the noun
tain but when we left the Canadian Off
cials at Atlin were preparing for an expedi-
ton to the volcano and will undoubtedly
christen it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-24

Whether the death of Mr.. Payson ends the
negotiation for the water works or not. any
deal that may be agreed upon should not
be rushed through with the haste which was
proposed. There should be time for the
whole transaction to be considered by the
people The people desire to know all about
the matter. The board of appraisal may be
SO made up that its award will be twice the
value of the water works. With the park
experience so fresh in the public mind, il is
well to go slow. Furthermore, the people
viii wish to know to whom the first large
cash payment Of $4,000 win go-to the com
pany or the promoters of the scheme. This
anxiety to hurry the matter causes suspi-
eion. OF course, some plan of extended pay
ment must be adopted if the purchase shall
be made, but such plan should not involve
the payment of twice as much as it would
cost 70 build better system. 1t is evident
that the company wishes to sell, so that the
representation that it's offer to trade will be
recalled after Jan. 1 is probably without
basis Besides. there is no danger that the
water works viii get away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-24
GRIP is CoNTAGIoUs.
So Declared by the New York Health
Commissioner.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
Hereafter physicians practicing in Greater
New York will be required to report all
cases of grip or influenza which come I'M
der their observation to the bureau of con-
tagious diseases of the Health Department
The commissioners of health met early this
forenoon and after a long consultation with
the several heads of departments decided
that grip is now prevalent in this city that
1t is an infectious and contagious disease
and that physicians must hereafter report
all cases TO the department. Subsequently
DR.. John b. Cosby, medical commissioner
of the department. issued the subjoined
statement, bearing his signature:
Influenza Is an infectious and contagious
disease, due to the influenza bacillus. In
cases of influenza or grip this organism is
present in all the secretions of the nose
throat and bronchial tubes. The disease is
transmitted from person to person through
the taking in of these organisms either from
direct contact or after the secretions have
been dried and pulverized and inhaled in
the form of dust.
THE disease cannot be produced by any
other cause thano1the influenza bacillus
There are many catarrhal affections of the
respiratory tract which arel improperly
called grip, and the distinction between
these and true grip is extremely difficult,
and often impossible in the milder forms
Grip. however. is a much more serious af-
lection, produces much greater depression
and is followed by much more tedious con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-24

1t is said that Major General Merritt de-
ciinsd the offer of the military governorship
Of Cuba on the ground that the office was
not vested with sufficient authority and that
the first six months of American occupation
was sure to result in little except trouble for
the commanding officer. This recalls the
fact that when General Merritt was offered
the command of the Philippines expedition
he suggested the making of certain changes
before he accepted. In some countries SOL
diers receive orders without being asked
whether they are agreeable or not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-24

Hon. John w. Bookwalter, ex-congress-
man from Ohio. may or may not be right in
his prediction of an alliance between Russia,
England and China for the partition of
Asia, but there can be no question as to the
correctness of his view as to the duty of the
United States to cultivate friendly rela-
tions with Russia. Russia is one of the
growing powers of the world, and growing
powers should stand together.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-24

II is said that the candidacy of ex-Gov.
Altgeld for mayor of Chicago is intended to
promote the contest which, as the friend of
Bryan, Senator Jones. of Arkansas, and ex-
Governor Stone, he will make to get 16-to-1
delegation for 1900. 1t is based upon the as
sumption that Mayor Harrison and Croker
are leading a campaign to get delegations
IN Illinois and other States opposed 10
Bryan and 16 to ]. Mayor Taggart, s. E.
Morss and other prominent Indiana Demo-
Gratis are said to be in the Croker Harrison
combination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-24

Colonel Bryan's plan for the army. which
is in the form of bill of the minority of
the House military committee is to increase
the regular army to $4,000 and raise $4,000
volunteers for two years for service in the
islands acquired of Spain. This proposition
is made upon the assumption that the peo-
pie of the United States are opposed to a
much larger regular army than we now
have From what data we have upon which
to form a judgment of the time it will be
necessary to occupy the islands before they
can be prepared for self-government, two
years is not sufficient. The estimate of Gen.
Miles, one soldier to each 1000 population,
does not seem too large basis for an army
al the present time