Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Senator Quay's plum tree responded hand
somely to the shaking.
The curfew bell now rings in st. Louis al
9 p. m. Hobby riders have no regard fol
the comfort of a slumbering people.
Advices from Kansas City indicate that
Jesse James was vindicated at the polls
last Tuesday. His party friends won out.
One Of Boston's gas companies purposes
furnishing coal gas for furnace use at sc
cents per 1000 feet. Yet there are experts
who claim gas cannot be manufactured fol
that price.
A Chicago crook who advertised for q
female companion" for his family about to
take a trip, had 200 peaches Of various
sizes and ages to pick from. Before he
could make a selection a wrathfIl woman
dashed into the room. exclaimiug, "You
villain, you scoundrel, ! will not let you
dupe these women" The sporty fellow fled
through the coal chute. saving the spray OF
hair that wreathed his barren dome.
The establishment caused by the discovery
that Harold Frederick, the noted London
correspondent of American papers, was a
victim of q faith healer Is intensified by
the finding of a skeleton in the family closet.
Frederick maintained two domestic estab-
lishments and died at the home Of wife No.
2. The latter appears to have had hypnotic
power over the author and so welded it as
to secure the bulk of Frederick's property,
practically disinheriting his family.
Cornelius Westbrook Van Santvoord of AL
bany, whose death Is announced, was a class
mate of Admiral Dewey at Annapolis. He
was born in Canastota sixty years ago, and
is survived by a widow and three sons. His
~ --I NJ. -,,nIs w. Co..
voord Of Kingston, are still alive, each nearly
80 years old. Mr.. Van Santvoord spent
twenty years of his life as editor OF
Schenectady newspapers, and was connected
with the secretary Of states office during
the administration of Homer Nelson.
The bro1ze gu d ign by Macmonnies, which
is to urmount the Memorial arch at the
entrance to Prospect park. Brooklyn. is now
being placed in position. This is one of the
most important pieces Of monumental sculp-
ture ever modelled by an American. 1t repre-
sents the triumphal pr gress Of Columbia.
which forms the central figure, standing in
a Roman chariot and bearing the palms Of
victory. The chariot Is drawn by four pranc-
ing horses. The outer figures OF the group
are winged heralds trumpeting the nations
fame. Two side groups for the arch, which
are not yet finished, will be emblematic Of
naval and military achievements. The entire
work is very beautiful and impressive.
Among the newspapers Of the east which
dealt generously with the Transmississippi
Exposition. the Boston Transcript deserves
special commentator. Its news columns
were frequently graced with letters descrip-
tive of the buildings and exhibits and crit
zeal reviews OF the more strikingly meri-
torious features. More appreciative still
were the editorial comments on the OPEN
Ing, progress and close OF the exposition.
These were marked with broad spirit and
friendly tone. and that nation wide grasp
of industrial movements. which Is regret
tably rare in the eastern press. 1t is scarcely
necessary to add that the Transcript is the
model newspaper OF Boston. Az evidence of
appreciation the great west tenders cordial
salutations.