The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-08

cigar smokes ike a snap 5 tunnel. But
he is as irresistible as the gunshOt credited
to him Already Jim Hickeys are selling
like hot cakes. The pictures are large
Autographs, and each one bears some
touching inscription such as the following;
Let's shoot off broadside
And bang the big bass drum
Cause now FIVE hundred Spaniards
Have shipped for Kingdom Come.
Jim Hickey,
U. S. S. Olympia,
Manila Bay.
Or these:
You will, will you?
Sneak off in the dark
With your electric spark,
And blow up our battleship Maine,
But in a square, open fight
You took water" all right,
When we did up your fleets of Spain.
Jim Hickey,
No 2 Gun, Forr' ad Turret, U. s. S. Olmy
pia.
Our Only Sorrow.
Spanish prize money to burn and ten
thousand miles from the Bowery.
Jim Hickey.
A Dead Sure Thing.
Say, there is one Spanish feet of eleven
ships that the board" can easily locate,
an I know just where to go and put me
thumb right on it,
Q5 Deg. North Lat, 100 Deg. West. Long)
Jim Hickey.
Dewey Lesson.
On Modern Naval Architecture)
I SEE, Commodore, I've shot away that
there Maria Castillyers mizzenmast and
made a brig out of her" +4
"Al right" he SEE. Jim, now give her
biff in the mainmast and Wen make
sloop out of her."
And finally:
Three cheers for Farragut Dewey,
Our gallant Commodore,
Who sunk the Spanish cruisers
And made them "scorch" ashore.
Jim Hickey.
But Jim Hickey, Respondent and elo-
Quent though he be, is not the only pic
toral appeal to the patriotism of the pub
lie War pictures are being turned out as
fast as quick brains can. invent them
artists paint them, and presses print them.
The one firm referred TO is filling orders
which run into the millions. OF course,
the Maine disaster and the Manila vic
tory form the theme in some way or an
other, of most of these pictures. few
weeks ago Gen Fitzhugh Lees picture
was in the greatest demand among the
portraits. Now it Is Admiral Dewey who
leads the list. After him come Lee, Samp-
son, Sigsbee and the others.
The latest device is a sort of double
back action picture which represents one
thing when viewed by a surface of light,
transparency. For instance, you appar-
entity have in your hand a picture repre-
senting the Maine gayly entering Havana
harbor. Hold 1t up to the light and you
have picture of the explosion. None of
the details is omitted. Floating torpedoes
or mines are shown under the ship, and
one of them, connected with the shore by
long and very large cable, is going off
In a very destructive fashion This is
called ''the battleship Maine, as she APP
peared before and during the explosion"
1t also bears the inscriptions:
Hold this up to the light and see the game
The Spaniards worked to destroy the
Feb. Is, 1898
Dewey remembered the Maine?
Like thieves in the dark, with electric
spark,
They destroyed our battleship Maine,
But in Manila Bay, on the First of May.
We demolished the fleets of Spain
May /. 1885,
Another similar picture bears a similar
sentiment:
trio spark,
Ana blew up our battleship Maine,
But in an open fight, in broad daylight,
We conquered the fleets of Spain.
Another of these transparent pictures
represents a 'life-sized sailor cap floating
on the water" The lettering ~. S. S.
Maine on the band, gives rise TO the
inference that 1t belonged to one of the
victims of the explosion. In a star-shaped
space IN the crown is one of the transpar-
emf pictures of the explosion, and across
the clouds, in large letters is the now
familiar word Remember" Below the
picture are the lines:
The cap remains, but the wearer was slain
By the merciless act of treacherous Spain.
Another popular picture represents the
same cap, but with the lettering ~. S. S.
olympia" while a picture of Dewey oc-
cupies the star-shaped space This is
called THE Percussion Cap that caused
the Destruction Of the Spanish Fleet"
one very touching arrangement of the
transparency variety is called THE Chal-
lenge." 1t represents the two fleets fac
ing each other in Manila bay. When held
to the light the ships appear at the very
hight of battle, while in the clouds over
mead one sees the sailors of the unfortu-
nat Maine looking down at the fight. This
is such late design that it Is not vet on
me market, but Commander Tobin, whose
genius conceived the idea, thinks il will be
great.
sun another touching example of patri-
QUO art Us called "Columbias Tribute" II
represents Columbia in a very precsrious
position on lone rock in the middle of
the water. She holds a flag and a laurel
wreath. The rock is a little bit crowded
1or various Invaluable Maine relics are