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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-11-16

575.
Last year was a record breaker in
this respect and it is doubtful il any
city in the country having double the
| population and area can boast OF such
| material growth for only twelve
months.
Every Year. Postmaster Read gets UP
! Gata showing the number Of new houses
erected and the territory covered in or
Ger 70 enable him to properly make "
his reports to the PoStotlce Depart
ncrt at Washington.
| OF course. the total number mentioned;
| includes houses Which We're started II,
the period OF twelve months prior to
November j. Most Of them have been
completed OF course. some are still
under WAY. EEt 5I1 houses and strucr-
urcs. for which building permits We're
required. We're started in the year and
must go on record FOR that period
| Yesterday marked the second anni-
| HerSarN of the Inaugural zion Of the Cree
delivery Of mails in Newport News.
| The growth of the postal business in
that time under the administration OF
Postmaster Fred Read has been re-
markable. Tho best feature is that the
| business continues to grow in larger
proportions all the time and at tho
present rate it will not be long bcfor.
the Newport News rnstoflice Will b.
placed in the 1rst-class.
! When the free delivery service was
started November Is. 1897. the Postof-
fee Department allowed Mr.. Read four
carriers to cover the entire city. At
| that time there We're three deliveries
d day only in the business section along
| Washington avenue and two deliveries
elsewhere.
Now Mr.. Read has seven carriers and
throughout the city there are three de-
!:NcricS of mail. Even the houses most
remote from the business center have
three deliveries if there is any mail go
! ing TO them. The carrie! service has
been put in splendid shape by Mr.. Read
and the deliveries and collections her.
are made with the same rcgularity
characteristic of the free delivery serv-
ice N the largest cities.
| The number Of carriers now is not
large enough, however. and MI. RcaC
will go UP to Washington shortly fol
the purpose of having another one III.
on. II the department will grant it. TIL.
seven regular carriers now have n
time Whatever for Office work. AS soor
| as they return from delivery trips They
| I'll! their big leather sacks and sra-1
out again. Mr.. Read hopes to get TIL.
lotter carrier before the Christmas hp!.
lC2y rush. If the department finds tina
lit cannot allow another man FOR this
work here until the beginning Of thl
next fiscal year it is probable that il
Will allow Mr.. Read the use Of an eStr.
carrier for thirty days.
In q short While, the postmaster ex-
reefs to secure a mounted carrier tc
deliver mail to the outlying districts
where the regular city carriers cannot
! so.
! The sales of stamps and stamped sta
tionery at the city postofIice now az
erage 500 daily.
In the past year the money order bus
| mess of the office has doubled and il
CONTINUES to increase.
| Postmaster Read has. forwarded tC
he department. 1T Washington bids for
putting down the posts for the new let
ter boxes. There are now twelve boxes
| in The office ready 10 be put out as soon
as the department authorizes the work
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-11-16
The Police BOARD.

The Board OF Police Commissioners
will meet tonight for the pur-
pose Of hearing charges against two
members of the forcc--OtIicers Roy w.
Charles and Station Keeper McCullom
The charge against the first named
is improper contact toward a prisonc,
under arrest and against the latter the
charge is intoxication,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-11-16
Planes Tuned by Factory Tuner
S91ieff IdE1OS
OF BALTIMORE. MD.
(EStahliShed In 1842l

Are furnished in San Domingo
Mahogany, Rosewood. Buried Walnut
and fancy hard wood cases. Every
piano contains their patent action regu-
lator, by which device all lost motion ia
prevented when using the pedals, an
Improvement that appeals to the fece
taste of every student OF tisa piano
It is found in no other make. WgaT eoa
get the best. Some OF the finest arflats
IN Norfolk, Hampton and Newport
News give us their hearty reconzssaeaaa-
ton. JOHN ]. FOSTER, HGaasaer.
Monticello Hotel, Norfolk. Va.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-11-16

\ Well known Ohio man is in New
nort News looking for investment. Ii
Is said that he has about 5000. OOO he
wants to put in good business property.
The person from whom this inform:,-
|tion was obtained would not allow the
mans n:lnle to be used as he wants to
stave the real estate mon Oft until he
has had his chance.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-11-16
Washington avenue Lo,. <heap.

We have for sale several splcndidly
located Washington avenue lots 1T
very low prices.If you arc now doing
business in q rented store call to sec us;
and make arrangements for a business
house OF your own on the avenue COT
TfEI1L REAL ESTATE co. 11-1t-3t.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-11-16
Church, Fsnytynl.

There will be a Church Festival IL
Mcsic's Hall tonight given by Ladies
Aid Society of Chestnut avenue NJ. T.
church. Public cordially invited
l1-16-1t
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-11-16
over 10000.

We have filled over 10000 perscrp-
tons since we began business This
branch Of our business has increased
100 per cent. during the past year
Why? TIIE IDEAL PHARMACY
1l1J-tf
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-11-16
Description Of the Beauetfnl Red
D Liner Maracibo.
HANDSOMEST in THE TRADE
A>"s"ese" This County and South Africa
Painted White and Finished in Harn
Oak ard Maple. Upholstered
Like "a Palace.

d. 'oi'e%ue'' ''.''e UP !"
- Soal pier yesterday, alter lying
sa~r turn in the slip. She is loading
-FOUR hundred tons of camel coal in
sacks, consigned to a gas company in
Saracas This. with four hundred tons
boy y. j.. will constitute her first car
ass for the South American port.
'Fhe iMaracaibo has just been turned
out from the yard Of Hnr,an = HI!
ilngsworth Company. Wilmington. ana
is the h;sndsomest ship in the South
American trade. She is Il combination
yacht and pullman palace carr .cri-
table floating dream Of comfort and
elegance; American frcrr end to enc
ana worthy to carry the proud rag
which droors from her gracefully mold
60 stern,
n representative Of the DAILY Press
yesterday visited The ship and "as
shown over her by her master. Captain
Hopkins. who has been With the Rel
y company since 1877 and is corr:c-
dorc OF the feet Captain EOpki ms VAS
been With the company since its ~
EaniZTtton. Fer three years prior 20
aSsi he Commanded the bark II ornat
Wbich piled between Philadelphia AMI
Ncnczeu!a When the company put
steamers on the line. lie took command
OF tne first one of them and since :hen
l.as taken out each rev ship as sEn mas
gone into commission. He is one Of he
best known masters in the business
and as skii'ful navigator. probably
ranks as high as any man Oh this side
~ Inc sllEa!lt!:;
Ane Alaracaln" IS small vessel nar
gross TONNAGE BENG but III: nst ton
sNiSt. Ao.'o draft ~ lees MN a
margin OF two more: length over al!
20 feet. s inches: length between
!erpeI'aacu:ars 266 feet: beam m2i1ed,
.. iect: denlh or noe IN ieet men $;
chPacl.S or lower ho.d. 45.69s cubic let.
spaEe Det"teh Meths. 4i.'l cus!c tee:
'o III calarltS H'1'' cuni5 ie"..
hs sh.p Is nrGi'ci!ed D! t"!n screws
tlEh. .cel IN dianctcE' "l>a pltcn 81
asa tsst. Her ensln.s are OF IN. slp:e
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(.nmnjct,,v fnrn,shn, 80
Tho main saloon i a beautiful ,,a,t
,,,c,t 6,;.l,al7 -, ,.h;,a Ill ~ Sis..'s,,
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}. PEYsER. National Bank R.lding.

Go to e. #. Freeman's FOR fresh Oy;-
terS, 222 Iyllirty-first street. 11-16-2t
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13
SAILORS MORE INTELLIGENT.
The Jolly Tar of OtherDays Has Been
Replaced by an Up-to-Date
Seaman.

The recent popularity of American
seamen and the preference for them in
the merchant marine have sound eX-
PLANTATION. The seaman of other days,
the rollicking, hornpipe dancing, unso-
phisticated mariner, was well enough
in his way, but the conditions which
made possible his employment have so
greatly changed that up-todate sail
ors are required, and, naturally enough.
when up-to-date sailors are needed.
American jack tars are right in it. An
authority on life on the ocean wave has
recently described the changes in work
on board ship as follows: The modern
ship differs very much from the ship of
years ago. Her rigging is of steel and
the sails are hoisted and the capstan is
turned 10y steam. There are various
mechanical contrivances, patent hal
lizards ami blocks, unknown until re-
Gently TO handle ship rightly re-
quires more intelligence than former
~ in u sailor. 1t takes less than one
half as many men to handle ship of
1000 tons as ii did 25 years ago. but
they must be good men. And all cap
tains agree that the American sailor
can do the work in modern ship as no
other sailor can.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13
PRODUCT AND PRICES.
Chief of Bureau of Industrial sta
tistics' Annual Report Gives
Few Facts.

There is no place where the tremen-
dous jump in the production of iron
and steel is made so manifest as in the
Forthcoming report of Capt. james NJ
Clark, chief of the bureau of indus
trial statistics of Pennsylvania. The
comparisons are all with the year 1897,
and they show the great upward move-
ment not only in production, but in
prices.
Last year there was produced in that
state 5.S61,979 gross tons of pig iron, as
against 4,6l7,634 tons the year before
The value of the pig iron was $53, 1881
22S. as against $4S,Ss4s54 in 1897. In
this industry there were employed al
most l2.000 men, who worked an aver
age of 1856 days. Their average yearly
earnings were $442.32, an increase of
nearly seven per cent.
The total production of steel was
5,s75,9S4 tons, an increase of 957,3f2
tons as compared with 1897. The total
production of iron and steel rolled in
finished form last year was 5.537, 249
tons, as against 4,714,333 tons the wear
before. Its value was $136, S20,4 as
against $123,900,771 in 1897.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13
DISCOURAGING HER SUITOR.
HOW Lovely Young Washington
Widow Revenged Herself for
an Impertinent Present

A story that people are laughing
about concerns young state depart
ment man, says the Washington Post.
He is a self-made man and there is
nothing about him to disturb in the
slightest degree ones conviction that
gentlemen are born, not made OF late
he has been markedly attentive to a
lovely young widow. The widows we'll
bred encouragement of his addresses
has been wholly lost on him. and re-
Gently, hearing from ar acquaintance
that she was to celebrate her birthday
at such time, he had the impertinence
TO send her an expensive present of
an exceedingly impertinent kind. 1t,
or rather they, were III a satin box.
and their buckles CLEANED with gems.
The widow wrote a note of thanks and
before she sent it she showed it to
somebody, who told the story. This is
what she said:
MY Dear Mr.. B,ash," she began.
THANK you ever so much for remem-
bering Fido's birthday. He needed a
new collar and the one you sent him
looks so well on him. 1t was so
thoughtful of you 10 send two, for
Fido is so bad about losing things"
And then that vindictive woman
signed herself "Yours sincerely"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13
WASPS BROKE UP THE SHOW.
4 Performance In Texas Brought TO n
sIdden End by an Unexpected
Demons ration.

An actor tells of tragic experience
he had recently while playing to an
audience in a little town in southern
Texas. reports the Pittsburgh Dis
patch. In one of the scenes of the
play. in which he acts the villain, he
hides himself in a barrel, that he may
listen to a conversation between the
hero and heroine. whose future we'll
being he is trying TO destroy. In the
town hall there was little ii any prop
ertv material \ barrel would do 10
conceal himself in, SO hired hand"
was sent out to find one. He succeed ed.
The time came for the actor to do mis-
part, He slipped in the barrel with
ease. The man and the woman ar-
peared, and whRe they were in the
midst of an animated conversation
there came howl from the barrel that
fairly shook the rafters. This was fol-
lowed by the eavesdropper crawling
out with his hands to his face, and
he In turn was followed by swarm of
wasps. The wasps got among the stage
+ people and then among the audience,
which created so much confusion that
4 the show was broken up.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13
RIOTS GAS MAINS.
Indiana Cities Fear Explosions May
Follow the Decomposition of
Pipes by ElectrOIysis.

II. H. Brownell, an expert on cleo
trolysis, called to make an investiga-
ton in gas belt cities and made SEN
sational report in which he states that
the natural gas mains in Anderson
Muncie, Marion and other gas belt
cities of Indiana have been completely
eaten away in many places and that
the situation is serious at points. 1t is
claimed that the pipes along the gas
belt electric railway, both in the cities
and out have been badly decomposed
and that an explosion is liable to occur
at any time.
The city of Muncie has taken steps
TO change the route of the electric rail
way which is being built into that city
1t Will pass over streets where there
are no large mains. Brownell claims
the entire pipe service of these cities
will have to be gone over and that most
of the pipes will be found in very
dangerous condition.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13
ARE VALUABLE BONES
Skeleton of an Entelodon Magnum
Discovered in Oregon
Party from University Of California
Have Dug Ii Ont of the Rock in
Eastern OreROn-Head In
Coed Condition

About six weeks ago a party from
the University of California went into
Eastern Oregon in search of fossils.
The party consisted of Prof. Merriam,
Rev DR.. Hatch. of Berkeley, and two
students Miller and Frank Calkins.
While on Bulge creek young Calkins
made find worth the trouble of the
whole trip. 1t was the skull and jaw
of an entelodon, an animal allied to the
hog, with head about three feet long.
In a letter from Mitchell, Ore. to a rel
alive in this city Calkins describes his
discovery:
II found it by single tusk sticking
out of the cliff. We set to work to dig
it out, and after a few days of desul-
tory picking decided that it could best
be done by pulling down the mass of
rock from above it, nearly twenty feet
high and five feet square. We found
the head in good condition, with the
lower jaw beside it, and good many
other bones near by. This is the sec
ond head of this genus that has been
found, at least, in this region
ne tWO-tOeu eHtelOIOn, also SpeileQ
entolodon, has not been very infinitely
described by natural historians, owing
chiefly, IT is supposed, to a lack of pos
tive knowledge. The entelodon mag
mum is species of swine dating from
the early miocene period. 1t is CLASH
fed scientifically as a mammal of the
order ungulata, suborder artiodactyla.
The entelodon was huge hog, with
great tusks or prolongations of canine
teeth. 1t is believed to have been ON
nivorous. The specimen just found will
supply scientists with information
which they lack concerning this great
extinct hog.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13

In that time rs people lost their lives
by this cause, or an average of seven
for each million of population. In
diana shows the second highest death
rate from lightning, and the highest
average to the million population. In
that state in three years ~ people lost
their lives by lightning, and the aver
age to the million population was IL.
Illinois and Iowa, seemingly with the
same meteorological conditions, show
a wide difference in the death rate from
this cause. In the three years Iowa had
so people killed by lightning, or an
average of nine to the million of popu-
only an average of four TO the million
of population. The lowest death rate
for any number of states is shown in
New England, where the average to the
million of population is only two. OF
these states Vermont shows the larg
est average, being five TO the million.
OF the upper Mississippi valley states,
comprising Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Michigan, the average death rate for
the last three years was 80 for each
state. OF these Minnesota reports
"a deaths in the three years, Wis
consin 25 and Michigan Al, the
average to the million of population
being six in Minnesota and Wisconsin
and seven in Michigan. Missouri re-
ports 43 deaths in the three years, or an
average to the million of five OF tho
gulf states Texas reports the largest
death list, it being GO in three years, or
an average of nine TO the million.
The table given below, compiled by
the United States weather bureau,
shows the number of deaths in each
month of each year between 1890 and
1898;
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13
VVVVVVVVVVVVS

dating back to the later years,of the last
century, it has been found that light
ming rarely strikes beech tree. Sci
entists have often been at variance as
to the reason for this, but the fact re-
mains that beech tree is for some rea-
son practically proof against light
ming On the other hand, the elm the
chestnut, all species of the oak and
pine are often struck by lightning.
A series of observations taken in
Germany and covering a period OF
eight years shows that in one large
forest in that time 159 oak trees
were struck by lightning 81 beech trees,
90 pine trees, SO fir trees, A birch trees,
1arch trees and ash tres.
Still these observations are open to the
criticism that the numbers of the diff
ferent species of trees were not evenly
divided, but it is a notable fact that this
particular forest contained more oak
and beech trees than any other species.
If, then, these observations show
nothing else, they do show that the oak
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13
AUTOGRAPH VANDALS.
Mutilate Register at War Depart
ment How the Thief May
BE Fooled.

At the war department there is a
large blank book where officers coming
TO Washington register. This register
is kept in the hall opposite the Office
of the adiutant general. Some one has
raided the book and cut out the names
of prominent officers, particularly those
who made themselves famous during
the Spanish war. Among the many
signatures which have been taken are
thoss of Generals Shafter, Wood. Fitz-
hugh Lee, Wade, Merritt. Butler and
several Others. 1t so happens that
oftentimes the signatures were written
by the aides of the generals, so that
all the names extracted are not the
real autographs of the men.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13

IT T In a safe statemen. to say that
more people, especially women and
Il children, are frightened by light
ming than by the thought of perishing
In Are, and vet there is only an'average
of FIVE people in each million OF the pop
ulation killed by lightning in this coun-
try in each year. Compare that with
the fire mortality and the comparison
between the two would be so great that
there would be practically no compar-
ison at all.
This fear of lightning is greater In
the cities than in the country, and yet
1t has been conclusively shown that it
is the farmer or those engaged in out
door pursuits that are most liable to
meet death in this form. Indeed, com
petent authority has shown that dan
ger from lightning strokes is reduced
TO a mere minimum in the large cities
and thickly populated districts.
During the past three years of the
different states in the union Ohio shows
the largest death list from lightning.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13
Four Thousand MiIIionatre..

An article in Ainslie's magazine states
that there are to-day in America 1900
millionaires, ! 400 of whom are in New
York city. OF this number 1860 are
simple, ordinary millionaires, six are
worth $4,000, 900, one is worth $4,000
900, one is worth S15,000,000, and three
are worth over S100,000.000 each. The
same authority states that in 1867 New
and that the richest of these, William
Aston, wa worth only $4,000, 0o0.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13
.Not used In computing the average

Much time has been devoted to the
study of the effect of lightning on the
different species of trees. AT different
times the subject has been discussed
by many men prominent in scientific
circles But these studies and discus
sions have never resulted in much that
was practical.
This question of the effect of light
ming on trees has an interest for every
householder in a practical way, for he
may use trees as natural lightning con-
ductors if there is any assurance that
they will be effective. If certain classes
of trees will attract lightning and so
draw ii away from the house they are a
good species TO plant in the yards and
a good species to avoid during thun-
derstorm.
Through observation and experiment
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13
POISON IN PURE WATER.
Seeming Paradox Explained by q
German Scfentist-A Remark
able Spring.

| There is considerable danger, accord
4 ing to a German medical newspaper,
which recently discussed the effect of
drinking chemically pure water-that
| is, water containing no dissolved salts
or gases. The action of pure distilled
water withdraws salts from the tissues,
which swell up by inhibition, and is
dangerous protoplasmic poison.
When swallowed it causes a swelling
up of the superficial layers of the gas
tric epithelium, which die and are ex-
foliated. That washing out of the stom-
acb with distilled water has a bad eff
feet is proved Really pure water would
be worse still. Waters occur in nature
purer than ordinary distilled water,
and hence the practical importance
of the subject to medicine. Water OBJ
tanned from clear, natural ice NAV
cause gastric catarrh and vomiting
when given to patients to suck Ar
officially made ice never produces such
pure water on melting, and is therefore
safer. Guide books usually warn trav-
elers not to drink water from snow.
glaciers or clear mountain torrents.
which, instead of quenching thirst, of
ten produces gastritis. The most re-
markable instance is that of spring
at Gastein, which has been known for
centuries as the Poison Spring" and
no one will drink its water, though no
poison has ever been found in it. The
simple fact is that the Gastein water
is purer than distilled water, and has
IN consequence the same injurious eff
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13

tree is probably the best of all species
of trees as a lightning conductor.
From observations taken in this
country it has been found that not only
the beech but the birch and maple as
we'll, are seldom struck Walnut trees
are not often struck, and when they are
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13
NRisin2 Mushrooms /.

Mushroom raising is a profitable
business. DR.. William Watson. of Ches-
ter, Pa, produced 1000 pounds of the
vegetable in his dollhouse during the
past winter, the bulk of the plant being
sold in New York and Washington at
about so cents pound