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Huge machines for cutting and press

Huge machines for cutting and press
ing covered the first floor, while cooling
watts extending three stories high were
placed along the sides. A row of some
40 tallow barrels lay over steam coils
and the melted tallow was slowly rum
ming through a pipe into a so-ca,.ed
boiling vat. Until few years ago the
cumbrous process of dumping the con-
tents of each barrel into the vat pre-
vailed.
When the melted tallow has all flown
into the vat lye is added. The mixture
is thoroughly boiled. sometimes for sew
eral days. The lye finally breaks the
skin surrounding each g!obule of fat
and the chemical union, the saponifica-
ton, takes place. This should be per
feet" that is, every particle of fat
should combine with every particle of
I've. the one neutralizing the other. If
there is an excess of fat the mixture
will in time become rancid. while rem
nant of free alkali would bite the skin
and make the soap unfit for any but
laundry purposes. The superintendent
dipped a stick into the boiling mixture,
and after it had cooled off touched it to
his tongue.
THE soap must boil several hours
longer" he said; sit is not yet neutral.
for can taste the free alkali."
Just then one of the employees dipped
a pail into the vat. There was great
commotion.
That's the tallow pail" some one
cried. The men began to stir the brew
ing mass with violence and extra stea m
| was turned on.
There are 7H tons of soap in that
vat" cried the superintendent, land
every bit of it may spoil You see he
| took the tallow pail and said: There's
| always a few ounces of grease sticking
on it, and that is enough to spoil the
whole lot. II a small corner becomes
| rancid it will contaminate all the rest"
The addition Of an improper per-
| of certain oils under certain circum-
stances may likewise cause a chemical
reaction which will spoil a whole vat
of soap.
When the lye and fat are thoroughly
| saponified a crane is opened and the
| liquid runs into cooling cham bers. Here
it remains for several weeks. The inn
purities settle at the bottom. and often
one-third of the whole must be re-
melted. Some of the foreign substance,
especially iron salt. settles in streaks
through the soap. thus forming the So
called notified CASTLE.
| To produce a white or evenly-colored
soap the streaks are cut away and the
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derness of underground, within half a
mile of the capitol building. 1t is only
since 1872 that the city has grown up
and spread out in accordance with the
plans of the civil engineer. Even now,
with population of nearly 100000 peo-
pie, the capital city is practically in it's
infancy. although it has fully assumed
the forms and outlines intended by the
brainy man who thought it all out SO
many years ago.
Pennsylvania avenue cuts diagonally
across the city from Georgetown to the
navy yard. a distance of more than
three miles. If it were continued in
direct line il would go directly through
the center of the capitol. But the
grounds around the capitol are very
large. They are well cared for, and
have been developed by the best land
scape gardeners in the world.
The great avenue passes around the
capitol and runs along B street, past
the new congressional library building,
and then resumes its diagonal course
eastward to the eastern branch of the
Potomac rivera stream which is no
longer navigable and over which the
government will ultimately build
arches and convert it into a sewer, just
as Tiber was long since hidden from
view. There are many thousands of
people here to-day who never saw the
Tiber and who never even heard of it.
Westward from the capitol, at Fiji
teenth street. the avenue defects from
its course and passes around the treas
ury building and the executive man.
sion. At Seventeenth street it resumes
its diagonal course to Georgetown.
crossing Rock creek. stream which d.
vides Washington city from ancient
Georgetown. This stream will also
soon be arched over. and will live only
in history.
East of the capitol Pennsylvania ave-
nue. amounts to almost nothing 1t will
be many years-say so years. at least
before the great thoroughfare will be
attractive in that section. 1t was the
intention of the founders of the city
to have it built up east of the capitol.
But real estate dealers were as avari-
eious then as they are now. They held
up prices so that home builders went
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the lowest kind of saloons were main.
tained and where vile thea ter fer vile
men and vicious women was a promi.
nent feature, public building has been
erected. 1t is beautiful piece of ar.
chitecture and is the only building on
the entire avenue which is worthy of a
place there.
The congressional mail is annually
increasing, and hence the business of
the Washington city post office is con-
stantly increasing. Five years ago the
congress made an appropriation for
new public building for the city
post office. With wisdom unusual
for congressional committee, this site
was chosen. The building is now al
most completed and will soon be occu-
pied.
Senator's, representatives, visitors
and residents here are proud of this
building. Moreover, it is going to be a
landmark for the future. 1t marks the
beginning of an era. Every thinking
man and woman. looking at this build
ing. entertains and expresses the
thought: pennsylvania avenue should
be beautified with such buildings all
along its line"
This thought will crystalline into ac-
ton. On the corner of Fourteenth
street. three blocks west of this new
building. there is block of vacant
ground. upon which the secretary of
agriculture is looking longingly. A
new building is needed for the depart
ment of agriculture. There is a splen-
did site only one block from the treas
ury, and only three blocks from the
white house. It is just the place for a
grand edifice for the new departments
OF the people. We cannot expect the
congress to make an appropriation for
this purpose at once; for the TREASURY
is poor. But it is now simply a cues
ton OF little time when there will
be erected building on Pennsylyania
avenue for the department. of agricuI-
ture; and that will emphasize the me-
cessity for the improvement of the Az
cnue. by the erection of public build
ings. in place of the unsiehtly ana
crime-stained rookeries which now dis
grace the place.
SMITH D. FRY.
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Feather Buster Cover.

Careful housekeepers slip long
round cover. open at both ends, over the
feathers of good buster. and keep it
standing, brush uppermost, when not
ia use. The cover is simply narrow
deep cuff of ticking. hemmed top ano
bottom. This not only keeps the dus-
ter from getting dusty, but preserves
the spring and life of the feathers. 1t
is the care and not the use of utensils
that determines their length of service.
N. Y. Post.
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remainder is remelted with the proper
perfumes and colors. A "cold water"
soap is produced without the expensive
remelting process. by boiling I've and
fat wish the ingredients gently enough
to prevent the evaporation of he latter.
The finer grades of perfumed soap are
"milled." When the boiled mass comes
out of the cooler it is cut into fine shaw
ings and dried. Ground perfume and
coloring matter are then added and the
whole is put through series of iron
rollers which mix and grind the COM
pound into a homogeneous mass. Near
ly all the inc grades of soap are pro-
duced in this way.
The final stage is the shaping of the
cakes. A big block is put upon table
and a wire netting run through in all
directions, so as to cut the block into
cakes. With single stroke of the cut
ting machine. thousands of cakes are
thus turned out.
Mlled soaps are pressed in dies. The
cakes are put upon a belt. which car
ries them to the stamping machine. and
there they are pressed into the desired
shape. with suitable design and letter.
ing. by means of two pistonlike rods,
one pressing downward and the other
upward.
While the general method of saponi-
fication remains the same, certain soaps
are made by peculiar processes. Thus
the creamy lather of shaving soaps is
obtained by the addition of chemicals
whose nature is known only to a few
men in the United States. Although it
is the height of every soap makers am
bition to produce the most delicate
article, first-class shaving soap, few
factories in the world have met with
success. Transparent soaps. dissolved
in alcohol, which is subsequently evap-
grated, are also made by secret proc
ess. and many of the other toilet soaps
possess peculiar virtues which cannot
he initiated. Floating soap. for i'm
stance. was first made in 1879. by an
American firm. and it took ten years
before competition realized that the
whole secret consisted in mixing air
with the soap by means of a revolving
spiral. E. T. GUNDLACH.
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MANUFACTURE OF SOAP.
The Processes Employed in Great
Modern Establishments.
GauIs and TcutOns the First to Use
SSponnceOus Substances - But
Now America Produces
the Finest Soaps.
Especial Boston Letter.

Soap and civilization. the celebrated
DR.. Justuc ven Liebig once remarked.
go hand in hand; the quantity of soap
consumed by people being directly
proportional to their intellectual and
moral advancement.
This is not complimentary to the an
cient civilizations of Rome and Greece.
nor TO the classic period of good Queen
hess in England. In fact. it is not un-
Ill the time of DR.. Liebig, at the begin
ming of the nineteenth century. that
the manufacture of soap became great
industry.
The Greeks washed themselves in
running water. and if the dirt was very
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He Was Accepted.

Ma;ilda-Have you spoken TO papa?
Bertie-Yes; asked him through the
telephone. and he answered.: Il don't
know who you are, but it's all right"
Pick Me p.
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The summer coat of the polar fox
is dark, almost black. In winter it is
so white that the animal can hardly be
seen as it runs over the snow.
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Instances of extreme old age are
more common among those who exer-
else themselves with gardening than in
any other employ ment-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-23
rooK s1,1oo FROM 4 STAMP JERK.
NYoung Woman Clerk in the Cleveland
PostNOnice Robbed of That Sum.

CLEVELAND. O., Nov. 22.-Eleven hundred
dollars in bills WAS stolen from the desk OF one
OF the stamp clerks In the Cleveland Post Office
shortly before 10 o'clock this forenoon. Miss
Marian A. Barry, the stamp clerk. stepped from
her cage to the office OF the Superintendent OF
Mails. thirty feet away. in full view Of her
window. When she returned to her cage after
an absence Of less than two minutes she glanced
at her left and discovered that 81, 100 in bills
which had been lying on the window ledge was
gone. She at once gave the alarm. Miss Barry
only a few minutes before had taken the
money from the safe. TWAS in 500 packages.
with a rubber band around each package. She
intended to buy stamps with the money from
the wholesale stamp department and, placed
the money on the window ledge IN plain sight
from the lobby to wait on quite a large mum Der
Of persons who were crowding about the win:
dow. Thu money could not have been reached
from the window.
The thief must have gone around into the
door, which Miss Barry left open, boldly
grabbed the packages and disappeared 50
quickly that he was not seen by anybody.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-23
MR.. roDD MUST G1vE THE REAIrE.
wife of Amherrt's Professor of Astronomy
Loses a Suit DYER n Piece of Lind.

bObcb ~ cuit ONoA #
AMHERST, Mass, Nov. 22.-Word was re-
ceiyed here to-day that the Massachusetts
Supreme Court has sustained the decision OF
the lower court in the suit brought by MISS
Lavlnia N. Dickinson against Mrs. Mabel
Loomis Todd. wife OF Pro-, David II. Todd OF
Amherst College. overrulinG Mrs. Todd's ap-
peal. The court orders tnat she reconvey to
Miss Dickinson real estate which, 1t is held.
was obtained by fraudulent means.
This is the end OF a long and bitter legal fight
which has long divided Amherst into tvo, war
ring camps, all. the parties, In the case LYING
here, Prof. and Mrs, Todd's home. the deeas
Of which were In Mr. SSsch T SSs sw na%eSi y H Mas
DICK NJ s'VMaii Miss % Dickinson Intended to build
o house on this lot, and the. Todds oblected 50
s%trenuously that she. promised not to, nnild;
One day. Miss Dickinson save, she invited
Mrs. Todd to her house to talk the mater
over. Mrs. Todd gave her q paper to sign.
leading her to believe that IL was q promise
not to build the house. Later che discovered
that It was a deed transferring the lot to Mrs.
Mrs. Todd's defence was that Miss Dickin-
son was fully aware of the character OF the
paper when she signed It. and that In payment
Mrs Im, T1dd was m,I 2 hMsl gs. Mis- Dieni p1omp n
" bfom lssTas suit vG feE the si retu RIeo 81 The ppcperty.
Prof. Todd Ia o well-known astronomy, and
he and his wife made the noted trip to Japan
on board the yacht Coronet last year 70 view
a solar eclipse. Mrs. Todd lectnred and wrote
about the Journey. Miss Dickinson's sister
was Emily Dickinson. the poet,
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sanman. Charles H. Tweed, \. 7, wilson Gen.
Benjamin. p. Tracy. and Charles A. Peabody,
While Col. h9oseyelt wns hpstlipg around
party leaders, The fifth Avenue, Hotel was
The state. Tfeasurer:elect Jacket, secre-
tary OF State.eiect McDonough, Attorney.
General-elect Davies. and State Enginesr;elect
Bond were there. SENATOR Ford; ElSSerg.
Wilcox, and Krums AssemblSmen Coughtry.
and Nixon, and Congressman Ray and
s!horman were in the hotel William J:
YounRs, who IL to be the Governors
private secretary; Leroy Jacobs. a candidate
for Warden Of Sing Sing; ]. Spencer Whipplle,
Clerk OF the Senate; Superintendent OF Public
Buildings Frederick East9n and many others
election and its results with each other, II be-
came known that q. A. WietinR. Commissioner
Of Agriculture, Is likely to succeed himself.
One o.. the ,contests for, places OF, Assembly
Cities COMMITTEES. DE Graw and Brennan OF
Kings county. Mazet OF. the Nineteenth district
Of this county, Lewis. OF Rochester and Hill Of
Erie are aspirants for the place. II was said
yesterday that Lewis's chances Of landing were
good.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-23
Tho Weather.

The severe Western storm became intensified yes
terdAy and moved eastward with the CO aoyer the
northern part OF the upper lake region It was at
tended by dangerous gales of IS to 90 miles an hour.
the wind blowing from all directions toward the
storm centre and covering the country from the Da-
kotas eastward to western New York and from Can
ada to the Tennessee Valley.
Snow was tallin /! in Minnesota. Michigan, Ind lana
Illinois. Iowa. Ohio and Missouri. and rain in the
eastern section of Ohio, Pennsylvania and south
over the Tennessee Valley.
The storm will spread into this section to-day, pre-
coded by rain and high ~easterly winds. then by
snow and colder weather and high northwest winds.
probably clearing by Thanksgiving morning.
A decided cold wave with temperatures below zero
covers all tle Northwest. Tho limo OF freezing tenn.
peratures extended southwark yesterday into the
Gulf OF Mexico over Texas. In the Atlantic States
the weather was generally fair. but was becoming
threatening toward night.
In this city the day was fair and warmer, highest
temperature 52s. lowest 400; averages humidity 10
per cent; wind ~easterly. average velocity IA miles
an hour; barometer, corrected to read to sea level,
ats A. NJ, 1929. 3P. n, 40. H.,
Tho temperature rs recorded by the ofAclal Their.
mometer and also by The SUMS thermometer at the
street level ia shown in the annexed table:
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soaffoId Aare on the Bridge.

Police Sergeant Harkins OF the Fulton street
station. Brooklyn, while looking from the rear
window of the station house shortly before
l o'clock yesterday afternoon. discovered that
a rigger's scafIold On the bridge was on fire.
He telephoned the fact to the bridge police
station. and sergt. Phillips and a squad OF men
soon reached the scene OF the fire. The scaffold
had been erected under tho north road
way. near the Brooklyn tower. There was
q quantity OF cotton waste and shavines on the
IN n passing trolley ear carelessly threw a
lighted cigarette into the waste. and, as the
ringers were at dinner. the waste was soon
the large water tank near the Brooklyn tower
to the burning scaffold, and then passed buckets
ing the movements Of the bridge fire brigade.
In n few minutes the flames were eXtinGuished.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-23
SENIOR MENDoNcA,s RECALL.
Case of the Brazilian Minister In Washing
ton who Was Sent TO Lisbon.

Case of the Brazilian Minister In Washing
ton Who Was Sent to Lisbon.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 22.-It is reported that
Senior Salvador de Mendonca, former Bra
lillian Minister to the United States, has
been recalled from his present post at Lisbon
to answer grave charges preferred against him
by the State Department OF Brazil.
About six months ago Senior Mendonca was
taken from Washington and transferred to the
Court OF Lisbon. and Senior Auses do Brazil.
the present Minister. was appointed in his
place. The post at Lisbon and the post at
Washington are considered In the same class
by the Brazilian Government. and It was not
thought at the time that there was anything of
Importance in thertransfer.
Now it Is stated that there were at the time
part OF Senior Mendonca. and his transfer was
made to allow an investigation which, should
1t not be productive Of any revelations. would
not impair the standing. Of the Minister or
cause any reflection upon him.
1t Is now said that such a state of affairs has
been developed that when President Moraes
sent the name OF Senior Mendonca to the
Cortes asking that he be confirmed ms Minister
to Portugalthe nomination was rejected.
During Senior Mendonna's residence In
Washington his home was the scene Of many
lures. Senior Auses de Brazil. the present
Minister to Washington. declines to discuss
the matter of the recall OF his predecessor from
the court at Lisbon or his affairs while in
Washington.
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and conhscats my nulee and captured Spanish
cavalry horses. Then / would have 70 go TO
work and start my train all over again"

and connscate my mules and captured Spanish
cavalry horses, Then 1 WOULD have 70 Goto
uAMPgRED B1 HEADQUARTERS.
who we're they ~ asked Gen, Wilson.
"OGcers netting under Gen, Skaters orders;
I supP2sc, for Officers Would , come tp ALONG Hj saS :
YOU arc So mot mot o%nltitieSd 20 mules and on they'd
90, taking the mules with them
Have You any more s,SaFeestiOns to make as
=, Ssiy s ,Sls; thai IS,tS y ,Ss a, I.sS you 81 a f g &C. my N.
Col, Roosevelt then retired, and the commit
tee. at 5:l5 o'clock, went into q short executive
session.
TESTIMONY OF OTHER WITNESSES.
Tho other witnesses examined, yesterday
we're; Mrs, susan Powell OF 80 Lafayette
place; Joseph Gurke q ,YenkerS. a Corporal u
RRYl Kim 3 BAN. k. 81 tsS Et GsIoi, s SsHr sSTsi tor: a q =:
eral OF the United States Army sidney '. LOW
s 81 q 1s4 G%Giis ss Mssy H :, foTsl RrG tSs REV.. a Hen hls
b. Bryan Of Garden City; First Lieut.. Hidden
olin' Company go Il ssysn " II wa assl FIftTtiS Snd
Mrs. Powell denied that any officer OF the
srnnn had s sSe To osISs sot 70 p smPIISy h SsF 20 ss SSlTHSSTTs se
what she might sec In the camps. She said that
i was on pnicer, Of the auxiliary OF the Red I
such al promise,, She refused and therefore
was not accepted. .Corporal, Gurke said there
VI SfS 81 Plenty ngo 0t lG0 for a t6 Ssi %en did not Ps Always snSs
Col. Kimball testified that contracts In stand
ard articles were invariably let, to the lowest
bidder. and that on other articles the quality
OF the sampled and the capacity OF responsible
bidders to fulfil the orders on. time guided in
the selection. At no time did. he deal with
middlemen In the purchase or charter Of ships.
No personal favoritism was ever permitted in
the award OF contracts. Col. Ktmball left with
the commission n complete record OF the
$4,000 . worth OF contracts let at tho New
York depot after the usual advertisement for
Mr.. Lowell testified that he heard nc. COM
plants among tho men at Camp Wikoff. but he
thought that there should have been more
houses and fewer tents.
Miss Lowell. his daughter. testified that the
sound OF hammers in building whatfew houses
were built annoyed the patients in the tents. /,
The Rev. Mr.. Bryan, said he had observed
that some bodies, were buried without clothes
before the attention OF Major. Brown was called
to the derelictlon on the part OF the subordi-
Lieut.. Olin denied that the officers Of his
company had ever used hospital tents to the
exclusion OF sick soldiers.
Mrs. Woodhouse corroborated the testimony
Of other women who aasisted In nursing the
soldiers at Montauk. She had not heard any
soldiers complain.
The commission decided yesterday that IL
would consume too much time TO have, the
whole commission go to. Montauk, especially as
the soldiers had all left there, so only one or
two members will visit that camp site. while
the others remain to take thu, testimony OF
anybody who. can throw any light upon the
subject OF the inquiry.
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TolBERTs WANT TO GO HOME
No Federal Action in South Carolina-In'
dictments in North Carolina.

dictments in North Carolina.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 22.-The refugees from
South Carolina have practically abandoned
hope Of Federal interference In their cases.
and are engaged in an attempt to make peace
with their neighbors. II successful they will
return to their homes. All OF those who came
to assist the Tolbert family In pleading their
case before the Department OF Justice have
returned. with the exception of E. H. Deas OF
Darlington. r.. R. and J. W. Tolbert and their
relatives. Henderson and Collins, are still
here. awaiting a favorable opportunity to return
to South Carolina. Realizing that the Gov
eminent has no grounds on which to prose-
cute the people who drove them from home.
and no warrant for sending troops to protect
them In tho future. they wilt be glad to return
and live down the trouble. They will not agree
to leave politics alone In the future, but will
doubtless be more discreet in their utter
ances and actions.
It is said that the Department Of Justice. at
the December term OF the District. Court at
Raleigh, N, g. will present bills against those
sioner Burning from Wilmington, N. c.. The
action will be based on the ground that Bun
ming, as United States Commissioner Of Deeds,
Is o UnitedsStates Official. and was and Is pre-
vented from attending to the duties devolying
on him as q Federal officer. 1t is understood
that the indictments have already been drawn.
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The Church OF the Holy Trinity. Montague
and Clinton streets. Brooklyn. was the scene OF
a quiet but very pretty wedding yesterday at
noon-that OF Mr.. Wilmot Woodward Burritt.
formerly of Brooklyn Heights. now a resident
OF Englewood. N J.. and Miss Elizabeth Brad
bury, Gardner Of ,203 Washington avenue.
Mr.. George Herbert Burrltt, a brother Of the
groom. was best man. and Miss Anne Gard
RE- RE- q Fsi ulster e. The bride, was maid Of h9nor.
well were bridesmaids.. Mr.. Charles B, Denny
apd Mr.. Edwin Holden Smith. both Of Brooklyn
Heights. were the ushers. A reception. ex-
tended TO only n limited number Of friends. was
held at the home OF the brIde's mother. 2H3
Washington nycnue; After q soJourn in the
residence in Englewood. n. J..