El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-14
The Spectator.
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in the following clipping from the
Washington Star; Watch repairers
have horror of touching a clock that
has been tinkered by amateurs. ex-
planned watch repairer to a
Star reporter, land they would
rather get out of such q job if they can
do so, for the loss of one of the small
more work than the gen.
eral customer expects or wants
to pay for. They try to get rid of such
job when they can, for in nine cases
out of ten the result is not entirely
satisfactory. People who have q good
clock, unless they know something
about the way clocks are made and how
wise thing to let it alone when it gets
out of order. Experimenting with it
often means the ruin of the clock. 1t
is absolutely dangerous to try to I'M
| wind q handspring, rs men have dis
| covered for themselves, unless the pro.
per tools are handy. Now,
. clock repairer has
continuance known al a spring control.
Ter, which Rrasps the spring and holds
it while being taken out and put into
the clock, SO that there is no danger.
The spring for an eight day clock is
often two yards long, and when sud-
denly let freet 1t flies out with nearly
the force of q charge of shot from a
gun. Some time ago an officer of the
| signal corps though he would tinker his
clock. He did tinker it, and in taking
out the handspring it got away from
him. In its flight it took off S5 lamp
from q parlor table and crushed in the
glass of a $40 mirror, besides doing 9TH
err damage. The 50 clock cost him in
damage exactly S25, besides cutting his
hand Seriously
Col. Geo. E. Warning, who de-
signed the sewerage system Of Ell PasO
aud who died from yellow fever con-
tracted while investigating the sani-
tary condition of Havana, is to have q
suitable memorial Col. Waring dur
ing his life performed a greater service
dents thereof than any man
of his generation. He gave
them sewer systems that were We II
nigh perfection and by his system of
drainage the death rate was lowered
/ wonderfully and the general health of
the Inhabitants improved. Memphis,
Tennessee, was the favorite lur6ing
place of the yellow fever germ and
was periodically visited by yellow
jack and thousands slain at each visit
until Col. Warnings skill as an engineer
was resorted to. He gave that city q
sewerage system that has since freed
the city from the dreaded enemy and
no epidemic has occurred
there since Col. Waring laid the sew
ers. He was benefactor of mankind
and deserves to be rated as such by
posterity. A recent dispatch from New
York saysj~It has been decided
appointed by the cham Der
OF commerce to provide a fitting
memorial of Col. Geo. E. Waring,
that an endowment fund of 500, 600
shall be raised with which to establish
in Colum bia college the Warning chair
of mnnicipal affsirs--Fhe amount will
be raised by subscription and during
her lifetime the income from the fund
will be paid to Mrs. Waring.
In reference so the recent decline OF
the price of admission to first class
theatrical attractions, such as the
Spooner Dramatic company, the Mem.
phis @ Commercial Appeal has the follow.
ing editorial Inference: T. T. T; ten
twenty, thirty. These used to be
J terms of reproach until the Hispano.
American war came, when many ira
yelling theatrical attractions were tax.
ed off the road. Formerly the class OF
attractions that played for less than 81
was considered to be composed of barn.
! stormers, while those who charged 10,
20 and 80 cents for admission
were worse than highway.
men. All this is changed. The
change was coming and the war tax
hastened it. High-priced attractions
with few exceptions, were falling in.
to disfavOr. The distinguished artists
who had, according to the bills, en-.
tertsined the crowned heads of Europe
and escaped from their msjesties by q
clever ruse for the purpose of enter.
tanning American audiences, played to
empty benches, while the Punch Rob.