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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

to the title Of composer and poet.
His theatrical ventures were always
successful. Even the Olympia made
money for a time and then the tide
turned. The man who had learned to
handle millions, however did not falter.
Like Napoleon he faced his Waterloo
boldly and when he had fought and had
been driven back to the last trench he
accepted his defeat gracefully. II am
only fifty years of age he said, and I
am ready to begin again."
He was as good as his word and the
result is seen in the new Victoria Music
hall, on which a vast sun of money has
been expended. Yesterday he was a cap
italist. Day before yesterday he was a
labOrer working for small wages. But he
is a man whom adversely cannot dis
courage. He folds his arms complacently
and looks out calmly into the future. He
has no reprOaches, his financial disasters
were simply unpleasant incidents in an
~eventful career. Tomorrow he will be a
capitalist again. If that is not true hero
ism, what is il?
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

yeyOr of LIQUID refreshments and a CAPT.
talist. That such a man is entitled TO be
called great cannot be denied, but the
wise biographer will avoid the pitfall or
attempting to classify Oscar Hammer
stein under any particular type of great
ness.
When Oscar Hammerstein came to this
country in 1863 he had few dollars in his
pocket, but an illimitabie supply of cour-
age in his heart. A few weeks before he
had run away from his home IN Berlin
because he objected to the strict rules Of
life enforced by his father. The trip from
Germany to England was made in a cat
tie boat and the voyage from Hull to New
York in the steerage.
Once in this country he soon obtained
employment with a cigar maker. The
pay was small, something like 81 a week
at first, but the boy was an apt pupil
and was soon earning as much as $40 a
week. At this salary he saved money.
He had no bad habits but he spent his
evenings in his attic room writing, at first
for the German papers and later for
American publications, and in 1870 he es-
tablished a trade journal, The United
States Tobacco Journal and then the
struggle Of his fife commenced.
The story Of the experiences of the next
few years has never been told. Mr.. Ham
merstein admits that the task of placing
the paper upon a paying basis was by no
means an easy one. He had little money
and trade journals were an innovation
that We're not fully appreciated by the
people to whom they We're supposed to
appeal. He struggled on b~ravely, how
ever, although cold and hunger often
threatened to get the better of him, and
at last he had the satisfaction of owning
one of the most successful trade papers
in the country
AL this time Oscar Hammerstein was
making cigars. in his office, when he was
not otherwise engaged, and it was this
continuous sympathy with the active
woke that suggested the machine, the
invention of which laid the foundation Of
his fortune. At that time cigars were
made entirely by hand, just as Mr.. Ham
merstein makes them now, for while he
has long been in a financial condition to
enable him to purchase his tobacco in any
form he may desire he still prefers to
smoke his own hand made cigars.
He realized the need of a cigar machine
and at last he invented it. That inven-
ton revolutionized the manufacture of
cigars and it brought him one hundred
thousand dollars. That was the begln~
ming. From that day Mr.. Hammerstein's
time was devoted to his inventions, He
perfected nearly sixty, and the money
that he received from these inventions,
with his profits from his trade journal,
melted a very tidy sum
Oscar Hammerstein's life has been one
long romance-a romance of dollars and
cents, perhaps, but none the less roman
tic for that. AS his fortune grew he be-
gan to develop his versatility. At that
time Harlem was a waste of boulders
and squatter's shanties. To the real es-
, tate agent it was as thoroughly an I'M
explored country as IL it had been in the
W1lds Of Africa.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

group of the two faces of the sisters, az
they sat together. one sketching in char
coal, the other watching and giving c1iti-
clSlnS
You might think there Was some n1ys-
terry about this remarkable youth, but I
can assure you he had made nOne him.
self. He told us that he had been born
with a good fat silver spoon in his mouth,
twenty-five years before that his par
ents were dead. that he had neither
brothers nor sisters. had been educated
III England and Germany and had lust
come to the end of 4 years of travelling.
wanted to get some sense into my
head he said, before I finally made up
my mlnd to study art. I spent a good
deal Of time in India, and now my mind
IS about made up. l hope to take my first
lesson in drawing in Paris this fall
That was the most astonishing state
ment | ever heard him make. The idea
OF his having never taken a lesson in
drawing so far!
Before he left us Pelham gave us a
delightful little dinner at a restaurant
that you and L know well on Sixth ave-
nue.. At dessert he handed the girls two
keepsakcs in the shape of two rings
which he said he had designed himself
and had had made here; but the dark
nnaiden had a ruby on her finger and the
fair a sapphire. He made them wear the
rings on their forefingers.
II needn't tell you that when our
| Gem went away we We're all very dis
consulate. But I was curious to know
whether either of those two girls felt to-
wards him otherwise than as a friend.
All that I could ever conclude was that
both We're in love with him. for both of
them refused good offers in succeeding
years, and both are still old bachelor
maids. with two superbly jeweled rings
on their forefingers. AND mind, these
things happened more than ten years
ago.
But about that prediction of mine that
failed. I quite expected to hear of Pelham
in years to come as one of the foremost
artists Of the world. 1t was not merely
that he had the gift of dexterity of exc
cution, but when I talked to him about
art, as I often did if seemed to me that
art was all the world to him..
And so l waited and waited, often ask
ing people who l knew had recently been
in the Latin QUARTER if they had heard
or seen anything of this genius of ours.
Some knew of him and his genius, but I
never could hear of his having exhibited
anything.
AT last, two years ago. when I was in
FLORIDA on business, I recognized my man
standing on the platform of a small rail-
road station. I got off the train and let
my baggage go its way, losing twenty
four hours time, on purpose to talk to
him.
and what do you think he said?
"'Oh. yes, ] remember you quite Well
in New York. Painting never paint
now. There are so many things in life
that seem better worth while. I grow
oranges for fun. It's a more healthful
occupation, and it leaves one more time
to think, and the would enjoys oranges
much more than pictures, you know.
1.-The leaping boy Oh, yes. Those
two girls kept it, l believe. No doubt
they still have it, locked up among their
treasures"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

Charles e. Whitaker, Cyrus w. Pomroy,
Clarence C. Frost, defendants above
named.
You are hereby required to appear be-
fore me in my office at Al West Granite
street, in the City of Butte, township and
county Of Silver Bow, and state of Mon
tana, the Goth day of March, A.. D. 1899, at
10 o'clock a. M, and answer the complaint
of plaintiff on file in an action to recover
of you the sum of one hundred dollars
and interest thereon from the 25th day
of August, 1896, due for money had and
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

received, to the use and benefit of plain
tiff.
And O are hereby notified, that if you
fail to appear and answer the said COM
plant as above required, Judgment will
be taken against you according to the
complaint and costs of this suit.
Given under my hand this 18th day of
February, A. D., 1899.
e. A.. NICHOLS,
Justice of the Peace.
Shropshire & Gilchrist, attorneys for
plaintiff. j..
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
REMARKABLE FIREWORKS,

In Nagasaki, Japan, there is a fire.
works maker who manufactures pyro-
technic birds of great size, that, when
exploded, sail in a lifelike manner
through the air, and perform many
movements exactly like those of living
birds. The secret of making these Won
derful things has been in the possession
of the eldest child of the family of each
generation for more han 400 years.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
SUMMONS.

In the Justices Court. Township and
of Silver Bow. State Of Montana.
E. A. Nichols, Justice of the Peace.
Arthur A. Wenham. plaintiff. Tvs.
E. Whitaker, Cyrus w. Porrroy,
Clarence c. Frost, defendants.
The State Of Montana sends greeting to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-28

a move has at last been made toward the
full development of the parks BEAUTIES,
which ought to bring about the desired re-
suits. Commissioner Beach has undertaken.
as executive officer of the park, to expend
the money granted by Congress at the last
session TO open up such thoroughfares as
will permit the public to appreciate in a
measure the beautiful possibilities of this
reservation. These roads, following what
seem to be the natural courses, will doubt
less fit well into any scheme of landscape
work which may later be undertaken after
expert consideration. They will enable
members of Congress to inspect the park
and SO to legislate intelligently upon it's
needs. They will grant larger degree of
public use and will thus enable the people
to judge as to the rare value of this in
vestment- 1t is of course to be expected
that in all the projects connected with this
park due consideration will be accorded
to its peculiar character as n natural land
scape and that the most skillful assistance
VIII be invoked in the preparation Of the
ultimate plans for its development. When
properly opened to the public use and pre-
served from disfiguring constructions or
distinctions this park will soon become re-
nCwned one of the finest reservations
attached to any city in the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-28

it Is for Luzon that we now are fighting.
Our engagements elsewhere have been
trivial. 1t is in Luzon that Aguinaldo's
power exists. When we succeed In besting
him there as we shall do, he will cease to
give us serious trouble.
So far as AguinaIdo is concerned there
fore we added nothing to our difficulties by
asserting a general sovereignty. His
scheme of independent government included
Luzcn. with Manila as the capital. He
would not have been satisfied with less.
And at the very least we could never have
granted that. The most conservative Amer
lean demand went as far as retaining sub
stantial foothold in the archipelago for the
purposes of a trading base and a coaling
station.
But all this is beside the real question
row. We have taken our stand, and can
not with dignity or self-respect recede from
it Whatever the difficulties may be they
must be surmounted. Whatever the cost
it must be paid. And it will not be forgot
ten that those who added to those difficult
ties and to that cost were American cti-
zens who in a grave crisis elected to play
ward politics instead of acting for the
whole country. The opponents of the treaty
with Spain in the Senate gave Aguinaldo
his cue, and applause from the same source
has helped to give him hope ever since he
took the field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-28
A Larger Army To he Formed.

The administration has decided that 1t is
advisable 10 prepare now for possible needs
in the Philippines when active campaigning
Is resumed at the close Of the rainy season.
Accordingly IL adopts the plan of eniisting
troops up to the full limit of the provisional
army law by first recruiting the regular
army to the full legal strength and then
forming provisional regiments of volunteers.
In pursuance of this plan it appears to be
decided not to call upon :he states for
troops, as was done in the main during the
war with Spain, but for the government to
recruit the volunteer army direct through
its own officers. thus forming regiments Of
United States volunteers. such as those or
CARNATIONS which in the late war were err
roreously given the popular name Of i'm
munes.
From all accounts of the recruiting for the
expansion of the regular army to the full
provisional strength there will be no diff
Guilty in securing the additional soldiers.
This is pleasing assurance. in view of the
calamity croaks of the anti-expansionists,
who have steadfastly insisted that the gov
eminent would find itself unable to obtain
the men necessary to pacify the Philippines.
Indeed this enlistment will afford an excel
lent opportunity TO prove the falsity of the
assertion which has come so often from
Boston and elsewhere that the country at
large is opposed to the Administrations
policy in the Philippines and In favor of
American withdrawal.
1T was clearly the hope of the administra-
tiOn that the insuTrection would be sup
pressed before the advent of the rainy
sen. The overtures for peace were accepted
at the time evidence that this hope would
be fulfilled They served later to reveal the
dissensions of the insurgents and the i'm
practicability of dealing directly with them
in negotiation. They disclosed the necessity
of pursuing them in a relentless campaign
to the end that American sovereignty might
be established throughout Luzon. Mean
willie the government had been measuring
the military situation by means of the vari-
Gus expeditions sent out against the in
sUrgents and had found that its difficulties
were greater than were at first anticipated.
The President is now in close touch with
the actual conditions. He realizes that there
must be more fighting to establish American
authority and maintain peace and that,
judging from all known circumstances, the
Filipinos are incapable of Iong-sustained re-
siStance If the American commander is
given an army of thirty-five or forty thous-
and men. He has tested public sentiment
and found it TO be strongly in favor of
pushing the war to a quick and vigorous
finish. The preliminary recruiting of the
army reveals no apathy on the part of the
fighters of the country. The campaign in
LuzOn will be theoretically pressed as soon
as the climate permits and the recruits ar
rive, and Aguinaldo will be speedily sup
there is but one possible result of the strug-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-28
Society and Divorce Reform.

1t is reported that Newport society, rep
resenting the highest metropolitan circles
is beginning to consider the advisability of
taking up the cudgels for divorce reform, in
behalf of higher standard of private NOR
ais. This is gratifying suggestion. Min
listers may preach and reformers agitate to
their hearts content. but without actual
legislation they will not accomplish as
much for good in years as will an aroused
smart SET in a single season toward the
encouragement of this form of immortality.
The ban or the approval of society is d
powerful factor in any public movement af-
fec ting the personal status. In this par
ticular case it unfortunately happens that
some of the most offensive Instances of i'm
proper divOrcing and remarrying occur in
the highest circles of social life. There is
the marest shadow of disapproval, how
ever fragrant may be the circumstances,
provided the persons concerned are of pre-
vious good standing in the upper strata.
Wealth and social prestige cover a multi
tude of sins. 1t remains true, however,
that the real remedy for this growing evil
is to he found in the state capitols. Uni
form legislation based, for instance, upon
the New York law, which grants divorce
for but a single reason and prohibits the
remarriage of the guilty party, would OBJ
viate the necessity of arousing society on
this score.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-28

Thu belief obtains here and there that IL
the President had decided to take only Lu-
zon, leaving the other Philippine Islands
in the possession of Spain. we should have
escaped the difficult task that now con-
fronts us.
That, clearly. Is founded on mistake
Such proposition was eanvassed at the
time and met with a good deal of favor
There were many misgivings about taking
on the whole archipelago. Its size, its un-
developed state, its mixed and immature
population. all promised trouble for us. The
problem was one well calculated to make
the President and many of his warmest
supporters pause.
Suppose that course had been taken
That would not have rid us Of Aguinaldo
He is the man We have been reckoning with
and have still to reckon with. He would
have objected as positively to that as he
has done to the course that was taken. We
should have been obliged to fight for Luzon
as single quantity. As matter of fact
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-28
In Old Kentucky.

The result of the democratic convention
in Kentucky is the nomination of State
Senator William Goebel for governor That
embraces all and explains all. A full week
was spent in rioting rather than in DELHI
GRAFTON. and il does not appear inappropri-
ate that the winner should be the man
whose iron resolution encouraged and di-
rected the turmoil from first TO last. He
simply in the end came into possession of
his own. and by methods which he repre-
sents and Of which he makes no conceal
ment
The platform. which was given to the
public several days ago. indorses the Chi
cago platform. and declares for the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Bryan for President and for
the return of Mr.. Blackburn TO the Senate
In place Of Judge Lindsay. The document,
while commonplace in form, is clear
enough. and commits the party in the state
unequivocally to silver. There is no room
to read between the lines. or to read both
ways. as was the case four years ago
The man who votes for Mr.. GoebeI votes
TO send solid delegation from the state.
with probably Mr.. Goebei at its head. to
the next democratic national convention
to assist there in the preparation of the
national program now indorsed
But the thing of most interest is the
nomination of Mr. Goebel. And that has a
national aspect inasmuch as his ultimate
object is d seat in the United States SEN
ate He Is a new type of political leader
in Kentucky. He bears not the slightest in
tellectual or temperamental resemblance to
the men who have made the state famous
He is entirely without geniaIity or elo-
quence- His reliance is not upon the moving
methods of the stump and the hypnotism
of the hearty handshake, but upon the
operations of a machine we'll constructed
and skillfully operated. He has introduced
Ii into the old commonwealth, and of course
will work it in this race for all there may
D. in il for himself.
There will be many heartburnings as the
result of this contest. which, ordinarily
would be worth something to the opposi-
ton But the republicans have troubles of
their own. and it remains to be seen
whether they are able. even under the spur
Of this encouragement, to pull themselves
together for a frst-class fight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-28
Public Building Methods,

The announcement that a change has
been effected in an important subordinate
position of the supervising architects bu-
reau a result of the disclosures of the
character of the steam heating work in the
city post office building is of interest to
those who have followed the course of that
construction and believe that it stands as
a serious Indictment of the building meth
DDS of the government. Unfortunately the
officials of the Treasury Department with
hold from the public inspection a document
which is credited with forming the real
basis of this clerical change and so prevent
full understanding of the mistakes which
have been committed by the public build
ing bureau. That document, the report
filed by engineering experts of the navy
and revenue marine service as to the
troversy between the architects office and
the contractor for steam heating, is be-
lieved to prove that the bureaus processes
in the drawing of specifications are seri-
ously inadequate. The Star has from time
to time during the past few years pub
lished matter serving to show that of
the most serious causes for the notorious
delays in public construction is the fact
that the details for these great construc-
tons are loosely prepared, involving much
confusion in the work and often consider
able replacing. Apart from other reasons
it is clear that building enterprise can
not advance rapidly and economically
if the contractors are constantly hampered
by orders for changes as when they are
permitted to proceed without interruption
to work out the plans furnished to them.
If those plans are poorly drawn in the be-
ginning, if there is lack of sufficient tai
ent in the governments bureau to insure
accurate provision for the details, or of
the capacity to foresee necessities, there
Will inevitably be many changes as the
work progresses. and. when it is finished,
many demands for alterations in the con-
struction and repairs before the building
is occupied, as in the case with the local
post office. 1t is of acute public interest
that the suppressed report be made public.
in view of the announcement that 1t has
been found advisable under its terms to
practically remove a responsible official.
This building stands here as a type of what
the government does in its construction en-
terprises elsewhere. 1t ought to be re-
garded as a favorable sample, being under
the close inspection of Congress and of
the officials of the department to insure a
maximum of good work. There must be
serious flaw in the system if it is possible
to commit plumbers under these circum-
stances such as are confidently charged
against this construction, and it is to the
interest of the government that the docu-
mentary evidence in the case be promul-
gated. as token of the good faith of the
Treasury Department in its presumed de-
sire TO reform the methods and secure
more satisfactory working of this important
establishment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-28
Rock Creek Park.

IL Is the opinion of experts in landscape
gardening that the area enclosed within
the limits of the Rock Creek Park is an
exceptionally beautiful bit OF territory. The
SCrges Of the valley, the sturdy growths
OF forest trees on the hillsides. the waters
OF the creek and the rocks all combine 10
FORM a succession of picturesque views
which cannot be exceeded in this portion
oil the country 1t has long been held by
ths majority OF citizens that the most sat-
isfaetory treatment of the park would be 10
permit as many as possible of the natural
features To remain without change. while
furnishing access into and through the
park at such places as the Topography
suggests. There is little or no need of arti-
fetal gardening in the midst of such a
prCfusion of natural beauty. In this view
there has been rather more patience with
Congress in proceeding slowly toward the
exploitation and development of the mark
than would have been the case had thera
been need of expenditures involving elab-
crate construction and requiring years of
labor 1t has been recognized that careful
study Of the situation by high authorities
in such matters would serve a far better
purpose than hasty performances intended
solely to transform the park into semi
artificial picnic ground or flower garden.
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