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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-05

flsANSio W.. DlSAiNc T.
eral times passed resolutions to enable him
to accept medals and decorations from 9th
er governments. He was in charge of the
Duke of Veragua When he visited this
country in 1898, and has since commanded
tho Monongahela, the Essex and the Con-
ISOLATION and the Newport training sta
ton. OF course if the head CT the bureau
is busy so arc his assistants, and the eff
fcient manner in which they responded
has earned them compliments from high
quarters. Notable among Commander
Dickins' assistants is Lieutenant Com
mander John NJ. Hawley. who has tho
care of all enlisted men and who has Seen
overwhelmed with appeals from all aver
the country fer detailed information OF che
crew of the Maine. Lieutenant Command
er Hawley was executive of the Nipsic, the
only American ship saved at Samoa in
March, 1SS9-the most terrible disaster
that preceded that of the Maine. Tho navi-
gator of that ship was Lieutenant Com
mander Davenport, who is now a SO in the
navigation bureau in charged officers de-
tails, and it was be who piloted the Nipsic
through the reef to safety in Apia harbor.
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for eight years. 1t was there that he irsa
entered the diplomatic, service, being sent
as an attache in 1878. In 1875 he wal
promoted to the office of third secretary
and held that position until 1881, when be
was transferred to the foreign Office al
Madrid.
Senior Bernabe was born in Madrid. HI
comes of a family whose members hays
frequently figured in Spanish diplomacy,
his father, Admiral Polo, having been
minister to the United States in 1872.
In 1889 he was appointed second secre,
tary to Holland, from which post he, in
1886 returned to tho foreign Office at Mad.
rid, His elevation to the rank of min.
lister followed shortly after, when, from
minister to Egypt and later to Brazil, be
returned to become chief of the CONNER.
cial section of the foreign office of Spain.
At the time of his recent appointment az
minister HI was engaged in a special de-
p~art1nent of the foreign ministry at Mad
rid dealing with commercial matters and
consulates.
The minister s marriage to Sonora Mem
dez de Vigo, daughter of the present en-
bassador of Spain to Germany, d woman
of great cha rnl and beauty of person, oc.
Cured a few years ago.
Senior Polo de Bernabe is a man OF
many accomplishments, with a great store
of knowledge on commercial relations. He
il a Iinguist, speaking English fuently,
and has written a number OF valuable
treatises on commercial subjects.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-05

in the playground was tossing backward
and forward in tho blast, with the irons
creaking and grooming like the chains of
an old time gibbet. Tho storm was howl
ing through the trees, and in and about
the swaying swings were gliding two
white clad figures. They were human in
form, and they tossed their arms wildly
about their heads.
Officer McCarty pulled himself together
and ran forward as rapidly as he could in
the teeth of the blast and jumped the
fence into the. playground. He made q
+ dash at the ghostly visitors, who wero out
doing in mad FRANKS the COLLINS of Ga
briel Grubb. At McCarty's approach the
figures fled, and it is moro thar probable
the officer was not half sorry. He followed
them as rapidly as tho deep snow and the
rushing wind would let him. They glided
before him through the trees, across the
ice OF the pond, past the Franklin statue.
Officer Blaul, one of tho hravcst Of the
brave, reports a remarkable experience.
In ono OF theImost secluded spots in the
park ho saw tho figure OF a man, tall and
commanding and wrapped in Mexican
style in a mantle which fell from neck to
knee. Aboyoa pale face was family OUT
lined. Tho two eyes were like sparks, and
the head was crowned with a black SOM
brero. The man was leaning against one
of the posts of the chain fence. Blaul
called to him:
What are you doing here at this hour
of tho night
There was no answer, no moyeme nt of
the mantle, no sign that the question was
heard. Blaul walked toward the dark Wis
itor, feeling tho while perhaps u triho IN
comfortable. Once more the officer asked
the strnngcs 5 business. Once more there
was 10 reply This angerod Blaul. and he
reached forward his hand to lay it on the
intrudcr's shoulder. The mantlcd figure
drew back, Il hand came out from under
the loose garment and was raised threaten
ingly, whilo something CLEANED below tho
clasped fingers. The officer jumped back
and drew his revolver. The figure adj
yanced and made a movement as if to
strike with tho uplifted weapon. The Off
GER fired point blank. There was ~ iron
ical laugh. More shots followed st less
than three feet distance. To miss was inn
possible, yet the stranger only laughed at
the rain OF lead, and at the last discharge
melted away into the gloom of the night.
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CAFE SATANIC.
Walters Dressed as Demons Serve Drinks
on Collins.

Walters Dressed as Demons Serve Drinks
on Collins.
The Burning Throat of He'll is the
name of a Paris cafe in which the sur
~roundings do not belio the title. A recent
visitor relates that ranges of gloomy look
ing walnut collins, reposing on ~trestles,
filled a room whose walls were decorated
with frescoos OF various scenes. more or
less tragic in their nature, Of which suicide
and murder were perhaps the least abnor-
nal and lighted by chandeliers composed
Of skulls, tibias and other portions of the
human skeleton. The coffins were covered
for the most part with beer glasses, whose
owners, seated on benches on either side
these pleasing objects. were obviously
highly delighted with the situation.
Various stalwart demons, clad for the
most part in long, red hose and black vel
vet doublets, were occupied coming and
going among the tables, serving the glass
es of beer or other beverages required.
chatting the guests and from time to time
haranguing the assembly.
sob, scum from the rubbish heap Of the
universe, advance to the table of heli!'i
shouted one of these amiable individuals,
in stentorian tones, at the same time indi-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-05

HARBOR WATCHDOGS
Double Turreted Monitors
Which Guard Our
seaboard.
MATCH FOR A BATTLEsHIP
Floating Forts Can Throw a Ton of
Steel prWectiIes Every Three
Minutes and Are I'm
pregnable.
FOR A BATTLESHIP

The most formidable looking ships in
our new navy arc the double turreted
monitors. They are as long and low and
rakish as the traditional pirate craft. They
arc just as ugly as they look, too, il not
more so. Indeed 1t is hard for a civilian
to comprehend tho tremendous power for
destruction centered in their big guns.
Their muzzles, into whose openings an or
binary sized man could crawl without diff
ficulty, peer grimly out from the turrets
like bulldogs held in leash.
Tho tall sided battlesnip, with her masts,
high decks, bridge and fluttering awnings,
looks SO much like an ordinary steamship
that we forget the engines of death hidden
under canvas masks and behind closed
ports. But the monitor always shows its
teeth. You see at q glance that its bust
ness is fighting. The two p%rotruding guns
of the forward turret remind you of the
savage lecr of a prizefghter. The after
tarrot looks sinister, and the whole appear
ance of the craft is calculated to inspire
and respect.
The monitors are the watchdogs of our
seaboard cities. That is the purpose for
which they were designed and for which
they will be used in case of war. They are
really floating forts, immense. movable
fighting machines which can steam from
harhor to harbor, but which must stay
close to coaiing ports and keep out of
stormy seas. They are the only kind of
war craft which has the advantage of the
modern arfrored battleship. They may
not mount bigger and lNeyier guns than
tho latter, but their gu1s are as big, and
they have more of them.
The little scheesebox on a raft which
disabled the Merrilnae was the original of
this type of fighting machine. But since
Ericsson built his monitor there has been
a great advance in naval architecture along
this lire. His idea has been improved
upon until the grim ~destroyers of today
have been evolved. The English admiralty
eagerly seized upon the idea and appropri-
ated it. The British navy today might
lave bcen largely composed of monitors
had not their i'll fated Captain, with its
big guns, heavy ar1nor and low hull, be-
some q steel coffin for 500 British tars.
After that disaster all the world looked
askance at monitors for awhile. Then it
was decided that the monitor was all right
in its place, and of late years the type has
been revived.
We have no less than six monitors in our
navy-o,e for each of our big seaports
from Boston to New Orleans. They are
the Terror, Amphitrite, Miantonomoh,
Monadnock. Puritan and Monterey. The
-keels of these vessels have been laid down
at different periods, those of the Amphi-
trite, Miantononioh, Monadnock and Ter
Tor starting in 1874. 1t gas just % years
after her keel plate was laid that the Ter
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where he was born. His mother was @
Seneca of the tribe of Red Jacket and
KioutwogEy.
On the university books this dusky
student signed his name Howard Edwards
Gansworth, but his Tuscarora ancestors
called his grandfather REIMBURSEMENT,
which means "newscarrier. His father
also bore this name and it is still applied
to the son when he returns to the reserva-
ton. The first Rho w~has-ne-uh was one
of the original pony express men of west
ern New York and a famous rider of those
days.
Howard Gansworth is an earnest young
man of 81 years. He is remarkably intel
ligent, and speaks English without a tinge
of brogue. Most of his education he re-
ceived at the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian school.
While there he was a hard student and be-
came a great reader, history and biogra-
ply being of particular interest to him.
The diploma of the Indian school was
conferred upon him in 1894, and soon
thereafter he entered the Dickinson college
preparatory school at Carlisle. Last year
he took a special course in Dickinson coll
lege. He speaks with great enthusiasm of
tho work of the Carlisle Indian school and
feels greet pride in the progress of his ma
tive people.
He entered Princeton because he intends
to be a lawyer and because, as he puts it,
he wants to be among tho whites that he
may learn from them the things which
his own people could not teach him. He
is making his own way through the uni
versity. being helped a little by the $50 a
year which he gets from the fond for the
higher education of Indians. He also won
- = n
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FORWARD TgaRET OF MONITOR PURITAN.
ror wentinto commission. That was April
10, 1896. But in tho 20 years of her build
ing changes and additions were made in
her plans, effectively undermining what
would otherwise have been an obsolete and
useless warsbip.
Each one Of these ships is $50 feet 8 inches
long, 90 feet 10 inches beam and with
mean draft of IS feet 0 inches. This shall
low draft permits them to maneuyer in
waters where a battlcship would be unable
to 1oat. and in tho defense of harhors.
The displacement of the Terror is 8, 800
tons, her indicated horsepower is / 800 and
she is capable Of tealning about 10 knots
an hour. Her, al capacity is $50 tons, a
supply sufficient for Ter to steam 1880
miles at ten knots an hour. This coal ca
pacity is low compared with the cruising
typo of warship, but as the Terror is not
designed to leave the coast, large bunker
room Is not necessary.
The engines of the Terror, while not Of
The latest type, are efficient. They are OF
@sho inclined compound type and have al
rays worked witt reasonable smoothness.
On her turrets tho arinor is 11.5 inches.
1Ae side armor is Z inches thick.
These turrets Of the Terror are virtually
~inpregnablo. Both arc alike and each is
formed of five haryeyized nickel steel
plates. A popularity of these plates is
that the fifth, through which the guns
protrude, is an inch thicker than the other
plates, thus being 1875 inches through.
The inside diameter of each turret is ~
feet 59s inches, and each is surmounted by
q conical top z feet 2 inches high at the
apex. Altogether tho plates of the turrets
-1s-f. 400 pDa -n,7,,1c md ooct C1r0 A40
Tho armament of the Terror consists of
-four 10 inch rifles, two in each turrot; W.
(6 FOUNDER md two 3 FOUNDER rapid firing
guns, two / FOUNDER revolving annon and
two gatling guns
The four big guns rest upon parallel
carriages that rise or fall by pneumatic
power, somewhat after the manner OF the
Sandy Hook gun, which was tested last
week. The turrets, too, are movable.
Two pneumatic cylinders lie parallel
with tho gun under each barrel. By these
the gun is forced cut OF tho turrot to the
firing position, and by these the recoil is
received as tho gun slides buck into the
taryss aftee the shot. Tho ferco OF these
rcuoits * SO great that the deck OF tho MI
a~.touoinoh Is sent undclNwater after each
shot from her batteries.
When the uns are loaded, the same air
cosnprcssors supply powor to revoise the
tnract. and SO to bring the enemy's ship
in ange. An elevation OF FIVE degrees in
tho gun Is possible. This is attained by
tho same powor. Beth turrets and both
guns in each turret can be thus operated
at the same time, so that four 10 inch
guns. THROWING a ton OF shot, can be
trained upon ; vessel at long range. They
ean he discharged with absolute accuracy
81 he same instant, ard within three min
tbereBfter the four Jul can be low
ga. loaded, raised and fired.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-05

FIGHT TO A FINISH
How Father benedict Bat
tied With a Monster
Eagle.
FISTS AGAINST BE8K AND CLAWS
Fierce YalOr Of the Monarch OF the
sky-A Yeritable Priest "All
Tattered and Torn"
AGAINST BEsK AND CLAWS

The Rev. Father Benedict of Roberts
dale, Ind, recently left his cottage for
a mornings sport in the marshes. The
Chicago Chsonicle relates that he carried a
shotgun and was we'll supplied with am
munitinn. He had expected to go two or
three miles into the country, but lad
not proceeded half a mile across tn
ow when he saw a sight astonishi-
for Indiana. Out from a hummoo
yards ahead of him darted a rabbit.
little creature was plainly in a pan.
fear, and the priestly hunter was at first
at loss to account for its terror. He knew
that he cocld not he the cause.
Suddenly a small cloud seemed to travel
over him and to intercept the cours Of the
rabbit. Father Benedict looked up into
the sky and perceived that the cloud was
thrown by a monster bird which was pre-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-05
ANNEXED BY one NAN
AYankee Sailor Claims Clip.
perton Island for
Uncle Sam.
NARROWED ON A CORAL REEF
How Gussmann Jumped Into the
Sea From a Mexican Cruiser
to Save His Charge.
NARROWED ON A CORAL REEF

Theodore Gussmann has marooned him
self On Clipporton island, a bleak coral
roef In the middle of the Pacific ocean, and
is doing his level best to hold it for the
United States and incidentally for his EN-
ployers, the Oceanic Phosphate company.
Gussmann, says the San Francisco Call,
was one of a party sent to Clipperton is
land by the Oceanic Phosphate company
on the steamer Navarro. The party re-
manned on the island somo weeks putting
up buildings and collecting guano and
then departed for San Francisco, leaving
Gussmann and two companions, named
Nelson and Smith, behind to take care of
the place. The title to the land and build
ings was given into G~ussrnann's custody.
A few weeks after the departure OF the
Navarro the Mexican cruiser Democratic
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rove in sight and after great difficulty
landed a party of marines, who pulled
down tho American flag flying at the time,
boisted the Mexican colors and took pos
session of the place. Guss.nann and his
companions We're invited on board the
Mexican cruiser and told they must re-
main. Smith and Nelson, yielding to the
seductive influences of certain beverages,
readily agreed to leave the island. In fact,
it is most likely they were tired of being
there. Gussmann. however, demanded to
be put back on shore. This was refused,
and he was ordered to give up the letter
and other papers pertaining to the owner
ship of The island.
Seeing that argument was useless and
that he would soon be seized by the Next
cans, Gussinann jumped overheard before
anybody could reach him. 1t was a most
dangerous thing to do, and the Mexican
officers, thinking no would surely drown,
allowed him to swim toward shore and he
was soon lost to sight in the breakers.
But Gussmann did not drown. Instead
he made the swim of his life, battling for
hours in the breakers and eventually land
ing on tho beach in an almost wIifeless con-
dition. He did not attempt to stand up,
for fear the. Mexicans would see him
through their glasses and sond back for
him. Instead he lay fat on the beach I'M
til darkness came, when ho mustered up
strength enough to crawl to his cabin. In
the morning tho Mexican cruiser was gone
and Gussmann was alono on the reef.
There is no more d~esolate spot on the
face of tho water than Clipperton island.
Strictly speaking, it isa circular coral reef,
without any particular outlet to the sea.
There is. OF course, some seepage through
the c~reyices of the reef when the tide rises
and falls, but not enough to have any par
ticular effect on tho waters in the lagoon
forming the center of the island. AS a
consequence they arc dead and stagnant
and ball filled with guano. During the
RAINY part of tho year. when the weather
is stormy. the lagoon is stirred up occa-
sionally by the waves washing over the
reef. but during the dry season the water
and guano simnIy cook.
On one side of the reef there is a fat
sand spit q few feet above the ocean. On
the onuosite there is a Jagged rock that
rises probably SO feet. The buildings of
the nhosphate COMPANY are on the sand spit
and it is here that Gussmann makes his
home.
On this desolate reef there are only two
green things visible. They are palm trees
hat have been coaxod into existence by
auano collectors. To save them it was nee
essarv to nlant them in boxes with sides
about Is inches high. Besides these two
little palms there is not even a spear of
green on the island. The enemy to yego-
tation on the reef is the terrible voracious
land crab. This creature is very offensive
in many ways. 1t is little larger than the
crabs sold in the San Francisco markets,
but it has longer and stronger claws and
can travel over the land at a lively rate.
Nothing eatable escapes it's yoracious nav
If it once gets a hold on it. 1t devours ey-
orvtb;no that yuarbes mn m the reef excent
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Printing In tho Dark.

Sulphate of ~quinine has some very Curl
GUS properties. one of them being its
power to impress an image of itself on a
sheet of sensitive paper in the dark. I If
a design be drawn on a sheet of paper
with ~sulphate Of quinine, exposed for a
few minutes to the sun. then placed on
a sheet of sensitive paper, put in a book,
and left for a few hours. a perfect image
of the drawing will be found impressed
on the sheet of paper. Writing may be
copied on sensitive Npaper in this way,
but it must be reversed. or the writing
will be reversed on the sensitive paper
Harper's Round Table.
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A BUSY OFFICER.
why the Chief of the Bureau of Naviga-
tion Works Overtime.

why INC inner Oh tse cufcau - VIZ
tion Works Overtime.
Ever since the Maine disaster most OF
the officers of the navy department have
been doing more work in a day than they
had previously accomplished in a month,
but probably the hardest worked man
among them has been Commander Francis
w. Dickins, acting chief of the bureau of
navigation. During the. first week or SO OF
the excitement he was on duty fully 20
hours a day.
He is Secretary Longs right hand man
and his bureau Is the one through which
all orders to the feet as well as to indiyid-
ual officers must pass. 1t transmits all
code or cipher dispatches, receives all re-
ports and has complete control over the
personnel of the service, including the en-
listed men.
Commander Diokins is from Duchess
scounty, n. Y. He was graduated from the
Naval academy in 1864 and while.a mere
boy had his baptism of fire." He has had
an unusually active career, has been COM
plimented for bravery by the department.
on several occasions and congress has sew
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ssThe Eel.

They call him THE Eel on The boats Of
the Fulton Ferry. and all the commuters
know him. He is ragged, stunted in
growth. half way between babyhood and
childhood, begrimed of face and hands,
alert elusive and a mystery. In the busy
hours Of the morning he will appear
suddenly in the women's cabizs as the
boat is starting for the Brooklyn side,
and, taking his stand just outside the
passage back of the paddle box. he viii
sing Sweet Rosy O'Grady" or "A
Mothers Farewell Then s%natching his
cap from his tousled head will hurry
through the cabin reaping a little harvest
of nickels and eoDDers from the kindly
disposed, but always furtivcly on the
lookout for the deck hands. He sings
only once on a "trip. n then, as the
crowds move up the gangway 70 the shore
same or some other returning boat. Most
Of the employees of the ferry know him
well by reputation. though few Of them
have ever seen him and none know who
he is.-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
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GHOSTLY

Park Is Haunted.
Chicago policemen report weird encoun-
tiers with ghosts in Lincoln park. One
dark night recently, when a winter storm
was at it's height and the wind driven
snow was forming great drifts about the
dens Of the bowling wolves, Officer Nc
Carly rounded the eagles cago and struck
out In tho direction Of the little Enclosure
where arc suspended the swings. the sum
mer time playthings Of the children. just
before no reached the inclosing fence some
thing caught his eye which made him stop
short in tho path. In another his
hand was reaching for his cap, which his
hair, standing on end like the proyerbial
porcupine quilts, threatened to force from
his head. just ahead Of him every swing
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x-Queen of Hanover.

One of the remarkable women of this
century is the venerable ex-Queen Of
Hanover. now celebrating her sOth birth
She is mother of the Duke of Cum
berland, and the Princess Fredericke'of
hanover. Baroness Won Pawel-Ramming-
ton. This lady is q close friend of the
royal family
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INDIAN AT PRINCETON.

First Red Man to Enter the University Is
a Full Blooded Iroquois.
The first full blooded Indian to enter
Princeton university is Reimbursement
and he is a member of the Irquois tribe Of
tho old Six Nations. The home of the
survivors of this once powerful people is
on the reservation at Sanborn, n. Y.
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(. Mascagni, as director of the Conserva-
tory at Pesaro. the heir of Rosini, wants
the Italian Parliament to pass a law ex-
empting the BARRIER of Seville the
copyright Of which has just expired, from
the operation Of the copyright law.
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HE is NO STRANGER.

Senior Bernabe Eas Already Spent Eight
Years In wsss1pEton-
Senior Polo de Bernabe, the new Spanish
minister who has been appointed to re.
place De LONE, will be no stranger in
Washington, as he was attached to tbs
Spanish legation in our national capital
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A Diplomat.

Thin Boarder--.I don't see how You manage
to fare so well at this boarding house. 1 have
industriovsly courted the landlady and all the
daughters, but I'm half starved"
Fat Boarder-sI courted the cook."-New
yarlx Weekly.
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An lanpossfbsiIty.

"Now. If / give you twopence you won't go
and get drunk on it,"
h no. mem. / couldn't do such a thing