davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-03
INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY.

Miss Maude Ludlow Hail. a daughter of Mrs.
Valentine @. Hall and sister of Mrs. Stanley Nor
timer Valentine @. Hall and the late Mrs Elliot
Roosevelt. 70 Lawrence Waterbury. the second son
of Mr. and Mrs. James NJ. Waterbury. OF Pleasance,
West Chester. y. Y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-03

Address all Communications and make
checks payable to The Tribune Sunshine So
ciety.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-03

Phillips Allan Clark The object OF the Wayside
outing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-03

A fashionable audience attended the entertain
ment given yesterday afternoon in Mendelssohn
Hail. which Miss Anna Vernon Dorsey. O-Nami-
Lii, the japanese dancer; Heinrich Meyn and
Arthur Edward StahIschmidt appeared Among the
patronesses. of whom were present. were
Mrs James speyer Mrs. ]. Pierpont Morgan. Mrs.
Richard NJ. Hunt Mrs. William Jay Schieffen.
Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins. Mrs E. c. Benedict. Mrs.
Temple Merritt Mrs. Charles II. Bergman, Mrs.
Lorlard Spencer, Mrs. Samuel Sloan. Mrs c. G
Worthington. Mrs BENJAMIN s Church Mrs Ed
Henry F. Dimock Miss Leary. Mrs. George r.
Schieffen and the Misses Agnew.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-03

The marriage OF Miss Ophea Meinhard a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Meinhard OF No.
IS East Seventieth-st. Albert Rudolph Strauss.
of Birmingham. England. took place $50 o'clock
last evening at Demonico's. The Rev. DR.. Gustav
Gottheil officiated at the ceremony, which fol-
lowed by a dinner Miss Alma 3. o. Lachen-
groom's best man. The ushers were the brides
brother, Morton II. Meinhard: Leo l. Meinhard.
cousin: Edwin NJ Frank. OF Savannah. Ga; Morton
H. NJ. LaChenbruch. Julian Mayer, Sydney Mayer.
Leon bronchial and Walter Friedenberg- Mr.. and
Mrs Strauss. after Southern trip, will sail for
their home in England April Is In the White
Star Line steamship Oceanic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-03

The members . the Junior Thursday Evening
Club will be entertained Thursday evening next.
April 3 at the enc Of Mrs. George r SchiefrsIin
No East FCrty-ffta-st
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-03

At ST Thomass Protestant Episcopal Church'
Fifth-ave and Fifty-third-st-. to-day Mrs George
r Walker whose first husband the British
Consul Charleston, s. c, viii be married 20 VIII
lam Gibbs Whaley. of Charleston. II will be a
small wedding and the reception, which will be
held the apartments Of the bride. Broadway and
Fifty third-st will be attended only by relatives
and few intimate friends.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-03

Mrs. Arthur NJ. Dodge, Of No. 125 East Thirty
nintb-st.. will give dinner this evening in honor
Of Miss Priscilla D. Barnes, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Henry 3. Barnes, the hancee OF Marshall
Jewell Dodge, the eldest of Mrs. Dodge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-03

The demand for tickets for the afternoon euchre
TO be given by the Ladies' Association OF the
Hahnenann Hospital has been great that The
committee In charge has found necessary 70 hold
the affair al sherry's FCrt5-soUrth-st. and Fifth
ave. tomorrow, al ?. instead OF az the Lor-
raine. as advertised Tickets can be purchased At
the door There ara many valuable przes. OF
which are a DOX at the Metropolitan opera House.
a box at theatre. and piano. The Entertain
ment Committee consists OF Mrs William Francis
Honan, Mrs. Samuel Duncan Miller. Mrs Samuel
Shipley Black. Mrs Arthur +. Root. Mrs Samuel
J. Drake and Mrs. Clinton L Bagg
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-03
ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS.
THEIR MANUFACTURE IN NETWORK
AFFECTING IMPORTATION

AN EXCELLENT TRADE FOR WOMEN AND ONE IN
WHICH THERE ~ AMPLE ROOM. FAIR PAY
AND PLEASANT WORK
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-03

Another meeting Of the Helping Hand Sewing
Glass. whose members are at work fitting out the
battIeship that will be a feature Of the Cuban
Orphans Fair was held yesterday, at the home OF
Mrs John g Westervelt No. West Fhteth-st-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-03

The wedding Of Miss Harriette Wright daughter
Of Mrs Thomas Huger Pratt of this city. TO Count
Alexandra Mercat of Greece. Will be celebrated at
Cannes to-day. There will three ceremonies, a
civil one another according 70 the rites OF the
Greek Church. OF which the bridegroom is mem
Der. and a third according TO the rites OF the
Protestant Episcopal Church, OF which the bride is
a ember. Miss Wrights bridesmaids will be Miss
Alberta Sturgis Of this city and Miss Mercau. sis
of the bridegroom.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-03

Miss Nora Maynard Green, Of No. SOS Fifth-ave..
will give a reception with music this evening.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-03

The wedding of Miss. Florence B. Servoss, daugh-
Of Mr.. and Mrs Elias Boudinot Servoss, 70 Nor
gan Delano will be celebrated the home OF the
parents of the bride, No. 213 West One hundred
and wenty-uinth-st., Wednesday evening.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-11-30
Al Curious Russian Trade.

The Rostoy police have just succeed
ed in arresting a woman who has
been wanted for the past two years
for having driven alucratiye trade in
artificial mutilations. After her hus.
bands death the widow continued the
business, and by some want of caution
aroused the attention Of the police,
but she has long managed to evade
them, while continuing to perform her
operations. BY injecting under the
skin at the joints some preparation OF
petroleum, she produces 8 very nat
ural-looking contraction Of the joint
operated on. Her clients were those
among the common people who de-
sired, at as small an expense as pos
ssible, TO escape ,being taken for sol.
diers, among less deserving and
richer people, certain number Of
clever swindlers, who defrauded &C.
cident insurance companies by affect.
ing the same kind Of disfigurements
The last attempt, which led to the
capture, was on q young man who had
arranged to fall out OF q train, and 10
account for his ia uries to the insur:
ance company, besides HE po1ssibil.
ity 81 getting u sum Iof mo,niiey. IRON,
the railway conn ny Lond bn Stand:
ard
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-11-30
MISSING OF: GREAT THINGS.
People Who Have Stubbed Their Toes
Against Big Fortunes I'm.
Aw0FeO,

II dare say every great invention, be.
fore:it is finally hit upon;'' remarked a
New Orleans lawyer to Times-Demo.
crat man, ''has been within hands
reach of dozens of men who were un.
aware how near they stood to fortune.
There is nothing more singular in fact
than the way people can skate around
some huge idea without seeing it.
II had an experience of that kind
once myself. It occurred tome that a
revolving bookcase would be handy
thing for Office use, and I had one built
to order. 1t proved a success, and on
several occasions thought vaguely of
having the device patented, but dis
missed the scheme as mot worth WHILE
Nearly two years afterward a more in
telligcnt gentleman up in New Eng
land did what wouldn't do, and to-
day he is rolling in riches. have been
obliged to buy one of his cases since,
and never hated to give up money so
badly in my*il life. Several other in
stances. in the same line have come
under my personal observations - -
81 have friend, for. instance, who
stumbled upon the principle of theBell
telephone long before the war. He was
at college at the time, and he and
fellow student actually went so far as
to construct an experimental line, over
half a mile long They had it in sue
cessful operation for several weeks,
when it was discovered and destroyed
by cantankerous professor, and thus
vanished what might have been one of
the biggest fortunes in the world. The
incident had almost faded from nv
friends mind when Prof. Bell launched
his invention on the public.
another gentleman, who was for
merly client of mine, anticipated the
pneumatic tire years before somebody
else patented it. He is fond of horses.
and away back in the '7os he had a
light road cart made that was almost
the exact counterpart of the modern
pneumatic sulky. The big, clumsy
looking tires excited great merriment
among his friends. They dubbed them
sausage Wheels and he has told me
more than once that that foolish joke
was the thing that caused him to aban-
don the experiment. Pneumatic tires
have since made half a dozen big
syndicates rich. =
"Stin another acquaintance figured
out the exact mechanism Of the self
binding reaper nearly ten years before
the machine was covered by patents.
Not being farmer, he failed to appre-
ciate the Importance of the thing. It
impressed him as being chimerical, and
he pigeonholed his drawings to gather
dust until he; awakened to- the factthat
he had fortune by the. throat, only to
let go again. His comments on the in
cident wouldn't sound well at q prayer
meeting: ,.#; 8: 81
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-11-30

for these inverted box plaits are every
where, and are one of the very few
things in which fashion really seems
inclined to dictate. A woman may
wear almost any kind Of q gown that
suits her fancy, but if she wishes to be
considered in with the prevailing mode
her skirt must have the inverted box
plait. <S.. II
We have had the plated skirt in all
its forms. There have been ordinary
box plaits, and the dou..e and triple
box plaits, all Of which had a short ca
sreer OF usefulness and popular favor,
but now all have given way to the much
more graceful in-turning plaits which
seem destined to reign throughoutathe
winter. @ss !. NJ.
Many Of the skirts with these In
verted plaits have the plaits stitched
down for few inches below the waist
and then allowed to flare. In this way
is secured almost the effect Of the habit
back skirt at the top. I,
would not attempt to say that the
inverted plaits will drive the other
styles Of plated skirts out entirely,
for many Of them,will be worn. Even
at this late day dressmakers tell me
they have q few orders which call for
the double and triple plaits II place 81
i the more popular inverted style, iput
such orders abe the exception rather
than the rule. 80 one wishes to be sure
sof being ght II. - amuch asfer 10 order.
tthe inverted p1aiitt than aiy other Style
80ts finish for the back of the skirt.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-11-30

L
Merritt does not retire until after the
date on which Gen. Otis will sever his
connection with the army it is hardly
probable that his military duties will
again take him from Chicago.
Gen. Otis is not the first of the great
American soldiers to command the de-
partment of the lakes. It is a duty
that has devo.yed upon many historic
men within the past few years, and it
has always been considered a good
berth: Just at present there are but
few soldiers in the department, but it's
Importance as a. military department
remains just the same. Through this
department is purchased many Of the
supplies for the army in Cuba, the
Philippines, Porto Rico and the differ
ent posts in the United States, and for
that reason army headquarters in Chi
cago is at all times busy place.
OF the various general officers who
have served at Chicago none have been
more popular than was Gen. Sheridan,
because of his democratic ways. :Itwas
Sheridan who made famous q little
back-door, restaurant on Madison
street. BY patronizing it he attracted
to. it many; of the wealthy and infiuen-
tial men of the city. Gen. Sheridan has
long since passed away, but the little
restaurant still holds the patronage
which he gave. it. and the wealthiest
men in the city take their luncheon
there of pine-topped tables and from
cracked and broken dishes, just as Gen.
Sheridan did.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-11-30

taking almost Is days in the journey.
This was very satisfactory time in
those days. sss. s. ,5..s & 81
The completion Of the Union Pa
chic, in 1860. marks the final epoch
in railroad building, and on July 81,
1870, the first through car from the
Pacific reached New York. A won
derful engineering feat is at present
in course Of construction. It is the
+ Siberian railway, running from ST.
Petersburg through the steppes Of
Siberia, throught northern China to
Vladivostock. When completed it will
be more than s 1000 miles long, and the
longest continuous line in existence.
In writing of the progress made in
American railroading, q brief COM
parison with foreign countries, Of
mileage and other equipment at the
present time may not be uninterest.
ing. @
The total mileage of the world in
1897, the latest year for which reliable
figures are obtainable, amounted to
454, 73O miles. over two-fifths Of which
was in the United States. The total
mileage in 1899 amounted to 1S9, 295
miles, over 10000 miles more than the
combined mileage of five of the Lead
ing railroading countries of the rest
of the world, Germany, France. Russia
lin Europe), Great Britain and Brit
ish India.
From this it would seem that the
United States far outclassed any 9TH
er country in this industry, but other
facts must be taken into considera.
ton in figuring the relative inn
portance of railways, such as amount
of equipment, in way of engines and
cars, number of trains run, number
Of passengers and amount of freight
carried. When all these features are
considered we have not such com.
manding lead. -,
In the number of locomotives the
| United States is first, with 36,746, in
1899, to her credit. Great Britain is
next, with 1862, or little over one
half. In this, though, the disparity is
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-11-30

present time the pacific governorship
of the Transvaal is by no means a
sinecure, and to bring about lasting
peace will be hard task.
Gen. Maxwell has seen considerable
exciting service in the Al years of his
life. He entered the army after grad
uating at Cheltenham in 1881 as a lieu.
tenant in the Royal Highlanders. AL.
most Immediately he was ordered with
the Black Watch to Egypt, to take part
in the campaign against the Egyptian
rebels. He was present at the battle
of Tel-el-Kebir; served as staff cap.
tain during the Nile expedition, and
in 1886 with the Egyptian field force
as aide de camp to Maj. Gen. Grenfell.
In 1896 he was breveted lieutenant
colonel and served with Kitchener in
the fierce fighting that finally recon.
quered the Soudan for Egypt, com
handing the Egyptian brigade at the
battle of Omdurman. He is compan.
ion of the Distinguished Service order.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-11-30

.lt - ---
hAd performed the same task for the
ecprpulent senator yrhen he was but
stripping of s. youth and lived with his
[pazentsain Franklinville, N. Y. -.czt. "
The two met quite by accident. They
were both travelling in the same Pull
man car. When the senator saw the
lady he recognized in her, despite her
gray hairs, the young woman who had
first "trounced" him at school. twas
but few moments before they were
Obvious of all surroundings and were
living over again the happy days in
Frank.inyille when the youthful Mason
wasfmastering his first school lessons
and laying the foundation for8the ca
reer that landed him in the United
States senate, while the young lady
teacher was 'boarding round in the
community. .~
"And do you see any resemblance in
me TO the boy you taught in Franklin-
ville?" asked the.senator. -
mo, not great DEAL" replied the
lady; 'but then you are washed now,
and that makes a great difference. I
remember quite well the first night I
stayed at your. fathers house. We were
sitting about the fireplace inthe front
room when he came in. and the first
thing he asked me was if noticed any
reduction in the size of the family, and
then he explained that they had had
the annual wash-up that day, that the
children. had all been given a bath, and
that they had found two of their neigh
bor's children had been Living with
them all winter.''
@tAnd don't look something like l
did that night 2" asked the senator.
''When I look at you closely believe
that you do" replied the Lady, and the
laugh that went around the car was at
Senator Mason's expense.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-11-30
.vx1ONDERFIJL as the nineteenth
Wv century has been, in no other

"a
VY century has been, in no other
4 line has such progress BEEN
SHOWN SHOWN aY in the employment of steam
power to the transportation problem.
Inc industry of railroad building in
al lands is less than three-fourths Of
4 century old. In this country even
a. late as 1880 the railroad mileage Of
D America could almost be counted up-
D on ones fingers, and that would in
clude not only steam roads, but those
on which the motive power was horses
and mules as well. The first railway
in this country was constructed in
1925. at one of the grant quarries at
Quincy, Mass. and connected that
town with Milton. It was only two
or three miles long, and was operated
oy horse power. Some months later
q similar road, about nine miles long.
was operated from the coal mines Of
Mauch Chunk, Pa, to the Lehigh
river. -
1t was not until the year 1929 that
the country could boast of railway
locomotive. Up to that time all over
iand ]ourneying was done by means
b OF the stage coach, and was long and
laborious.
. Although we have far outdistanced
all foreign countries in the manufac-
ture OF locomotives, to England must
be given the credit for it's invention.
At New York city, three locomotives,
shipped from England, were unloaded
in May, 1929, but none of these were
made by George Stephenson, whose
locomotive, the Rocket, caused such
a sensation in that country some
months after. One of these was taken
to Honesdale, Pa, where it ran be-
tween that city and Prompton, in the
service of the canal company. This
was the first locomotive used in the
United States. The engineer was
Horatio Allen, who died at South Or
ange, N. j.. in 1890.
To the Baltimore & Ohio belongs
the honor of building the first pas
senger railway in America, finished
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-11-30

OIL u V1CeTOy OF In.
dia, and of this Baron Curzon has
served but two, but during that two
years he has given to India one OF
the most brilliant administrations the
country has known. Bad as the fam.
inc conditions have been they might
have been a hundred per cent. worse
but for the relief measures which the
viceroy has carried through. AS for
the social features of his reign in In.
dia, even the spectacle-loving natives
could have asked for nothing more
brilliant than the regal splendor OF
the Indian court under. the rule OF
Baron and Lady Curzon.
When Miss Mary Victoria Letter be.
came the wife of the now Baron Cur
zon he was under secretary of state
for foreign affairs of England and a
member of parliament. That was in
1895, and since then his promotions
have been rapid. When he was sent
to India he was created Baron of Cur
zon, and this title he will continue
to hold until the death of his father.
when he will succeed to the title OF
Baron Scarsdale and become eligible
to seat in the house of lords.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-11-30

greater than it seems, the horse pow
er of the American. engine averaging
much higher than the British. Then,
too, England has few of the massive.
high-power locomotives so much in
evidence in this country in recent
years.
The United States has an, enormous
lead in number of freight cars in use.
but stands only third in the list in
number of passenger, the figures of
the former being: United States,
1,284,807; Great Britain, 656,735, or
about one-half; France ranks third
with Germany fourth. Besides lead
ins in number, the capacity of the
American car is much larger than the
European, averaging three to four
times that of the English goods
wagon" In number of coaches, Great
Britain has 62,252; Germany, 34,59O, to
33,s03 of the United States. Although
with little over half the number. of
English coaches, we are probably able
to carry larger number of pas
engers, as the capacity of the modern
American article is from 30 to 50 per
ce nt..more than the old-fashioned Eu-
ropean coach. American methods in
the carrying line have. been intro
dilced in England, and have: proven
very popular with the people.
In number of passengers carried
yearly, England leads by a consider
able margin, carrying about 1862 ,911,-
900, to the United States Cos, 342 900;
Germany being close third. After
reading this we wonder how it is that
such small country, in point of area,
will carry more passengers annually
than we do. This may be partly ex-
planned away by the fact that a con-
siderable portion of the British traf-
fic is suburban, many workmen living
far from the business districts of the
large cities, and using the trains in
&C ing to and from their work. It is
also known that Americans, as a
whole, travel greater distances, and if
the figures for the total number Of
miles travelled could be obtained we
We uld no doubt lead. As the leading
freight-carrying country we have no
rival, carrying annually; 913,0O0, 900
tons to 437,0O0,O00 Of Great Britain,
and 276,ooo,o0o of Germany. =. F
The foregoing facts will serve to
briefly illustrate the wonderful adj
vances made in railroading since the
invention of the first locomotive, and
we can hardly look for the same rate
OF progress in the future. The limit
seems almost to have been reached. -,
a. 81 Eyt#- $Z IR r. Il
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-11-30
OUR COAL PRODUCTION.
America Has Mining ADVANTAGES
Not Possessed by Great
Britain.

~ After the lapse of century of ac-
tive mining, hundreds of millions of
tons of coal have been extracted from
the limited areas of Great Britain,
and it has come to such a pass that
the high prices hitherto prevailing
are absolutely required to meet the
expenses of production and transpor-
tation, for now it is necessary to go
deeper into the ground for the coal.
Thinner seams have been worked, the
more attractive deposits having been
exhausted. All the entries now are
long, comparatively few new mines
having been opened in Great Britain
in the last ten years, says writer in
the Engineering Magazine.
A moments thought will make it
plain that undergo ound haulage and
hosting are enormously expensive
methods Of transportation. and that a
certainty that the factors will increase
in Importance every day., as the coal
industry grows older. makes it plain
that the United States coal fields, al
most untouched as many of them are,
grow steadily in advantage as re-
CARDS the supply of the world. Gen
orally speaking, there is not . coal
mine in the seaboard bituminous re-
gions from which coil has to. be hoist
ed. 1t can in every case be drawn out
in cars. sometimes up grade. It il
true, but quite as often the cars run
down grade. Then, too, the Amer
lean mines are generally new. All
devices are contrived with the view of
handling large tonnage as economi-
cally as possible; and the present
shipper of kituminous coal is not
hampered by arrangements made years
ago when trade requirements were
less important. Very notable, too,
have been the arrangements for the
TRANSPORTATION of coal. g..