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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-03-05
Central -Four to NIne Hours late.

Rochester, March AT midnight
the water in the Genesee river was
very slowly falling and II the pres
ont low temperature continues for 4
day or two and no more rain falls
in the Genesee valley, the danger
of additional damage by locd Is PROB
ably over. Several fire engines are
at work pumping out the Easements
of large buildings en- Main and EX-
chan-e streets. Al railroads are still
tiel m with the exception of the New
York Central. whose passenger trains
are getting through from four to nine
hours late.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-03-05
Rain Causes Rise.

Ogdensburg. n. Y. March (. The
water IN the Oswegatchie river rose
two feet during the night. caused by
a heavy rain. The lower floors CT
mills are flccded with water. The
docks are all under water and vaiu-
able lumber and timber Is being car.
ried away. An ice gorge was formed
at the bridge connecting Ford and
Lake streets and should the ice above
the dam give way heavy DAMAGE will
result
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-03-05
American Mules Bes..

London March A parliamentary
paper has been issued containing dis
patches and reports regarding the re-
mount department in South Africa.
It refers to the American mules as be-
ing the best received from any
source, magnificent workers and kept
in condition under the most adverse
circumstances" The American horses,
the report says, varied greatly, but
the majority were excellent.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-03-05
Significance of Ears.

A book on the ears as an index Of char
acter having been published by an English
author, a learned reviewer, DR.. A. Keith,
mentions his own elaborate study Of the
ears Of more than 10000 people, includ-
ing 800 criminals and 1000 insane per-
sons, besides those of 300 apes. He was
forced to conclude that the ears gave no
clew to personal traits.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-03-05
No Western Trains.

New York, March Mot a west
ern train entered the Grand Central
station Monday afternoon or evening
All were stalled somewhere along the
line or delayed by the floods. Moth
ing came down the Hudson river d.
vision except the local trains.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-03-05
To Abolish Slavery.

Berlin, March 4. - The Reichsan-
zeiger last evening published decrees
providing for the gradual abolition of
house slavery in the Cameroons and
Togo colonies.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-03-05
Smart & Si|berberg.
OIL CITY, PENNA.
Selling
Wall Paper
at Dry Goods Prices

Do you realize what this means! Do you know that
this department store system of brings the cost OF all grades
of wall paper down half what the regular stores charged
This may seem like eXaggeration were we not able
back up We the largest buyers Of wall paper within
radius of 100 miles We buy cheaper than dealers and
by selling at department store basis profit we can under
sell our competitors fully so percent
If you have any papering to do this spring it will pay
you down and get prices We railroad fare on
all purchases of $40 you trade here without
ira expense and enough pay for time thrice over
To Encourage Early Buying We Are
Now Selling.
A Lot of 5, and Sc papers at &c roll
A Lot of 10, II 1-2 & 15c papers at &c roll
A Lot of Is, 20 and 25c papers at lOc roll
We have under contract staff OF competent paper
hangers and prepared to give estimates all kinds of
work.
OarPeGS---The Opening Sale.
February brings the Carpetings, and prices with
parallel in the history Of this store Clearance time is
and done for and the choicest products the best Carpet
makers in America forward for first showing.
Over 200 New Patterns of Carpets
Quarter to Third Under Price.
We never had many patterns for choice at the sea-
sons beginning We had such rich and beautiful car
petngs Orders given months when prices were low
e and special concessions those low prices made
on account of the magnitude orders We have clipped
big slice from usual profits too to make the offerings for
this great opening SALE
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-03-05
OKLAHOMA & INDIAN TER,
BEAUMONT, TEX, OIL FIELD

Through Sleeping Car rom Chicago
without change and through Sleeping
Car reservations from Cincinnati via
Memphis, Tenn, to
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many boxes OF the latter, all OF the best
quality.
For the dinner to the prince the week be
fore last the special feature was the pro
cession of ices" each waiter marching with
a fancy preparation raised high over his
head. Oscar lined them up in the hallway
first. Then he poked his head inside the
door and nodded to the orchestra in the top
balcony. The music-a march-began, and
the walters started forward. They circled
in and out among the tables and finally
placed each ice in its proper place. This
feature, though more elaborate than those
arranged for previous dinners, was yet sim,
liar to many seen in the hotel before, and
the way it was managed was the same as
In former cases.
The hotel makes 1t a rule never to take
contracts for menus. Generally there are
from four to twelve men on the committee
that is to arrange for the decorative cards
or printed silken ribbons, the latter having
been the form Of the menus at the first din
ner to the prince. Once Oscar undertook to
arrange for the printing. but there was dis
satisfaction on the part of the committee.
and since then he and Proprietor Boldt have
decided that they will have nothing to do
with this feature Of the dinner. The COM
mittee must fight II out, and the menus are
turned over to the chef just before the
banquet begins, and later distributed to
the tables according to instruction.
Throughout these dinners in the grand
ball room there is plenty of music, generally
furnished by one of the best orchestras OF
the city. The room is a blaze Of light,
hundreds of fancy electric bulbs sending
their rays from column, ceiling and walls,
For ordinary occasions, such as banquets Of
state societies or other patriotic organiza-
lions, It Is not considered necessary to pre-.
pare much extra decorations in the way OF
draperies or ~festoons of evergreens, but the
affairs in honor OF the prince were distin-
guished by so many additional embellish.
ments that the fixed gorgeousness of the
room was well nigh hidden under them.
The room, as It is every day, is decorative
enough for most people, and one would
think that ordinarily there was enough
of gold paint and enough mural paintings
to satisfy the most extravagant taste.
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Practical Value of Little Economies in Modern Business

The newest use to which sawdust has
been put is as feed for cattle. For this
purpose 1t Is declared to be far superior
to straw, and 1t is probable that in a few
years sawdust will be almost as valuable
as the sound lumber. The mills which were
the first to realize the value Of what had
for so many years been thrown ava have
reaped a golden harvest, while those which
have failed to look after the sawdust and
allowed it to continue going to waste have
either barely escaped bankruptcy or have
sold out to their more successful rivals.
Economics in Watch-MakIng.
Then years ago the watch trade of the
United States was not only in its infancy,
but was practically monopolized by two
firms. Swiss and German watches were
largely sold in this country in competition
with the American-made article and in
spite of a heavy protective duty. At the
present day American watches are sold
all around the world and have contributed
so prominently to the American inva-
sion" Of Europe that 1t was announced only
a short time ago that a single firm in
this city had contracted to deliver 2,00O,-
900 watches in London within a year.
The secret Of American success in watch
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for export contained a large proportion OF
water. This water added to the weight,
and consequently to the cost Of transpor-
tation, without In the least increasing the
value of the article. After much study
and experiment a new process was devised,
and now pulp is produced in a much drier
state and the waste Of money In freight
charges is saved.
Visitors Excluded.
A few years ago 1t was a very common
practice for the managers of mills and
factories to show visitors over their prem
Uses. Very often an employe was detailed
to take the strangers about and point
out the different features OF interest. 1t
was thought good advertising and well
worth the incidental trouble. Now that
is all changed. Hardly a factory Of i'm
portance in the country permits visitors
to gain entrance to its works, and signs
to that effect are displayed conspicuously
on the gates outside.
The reason is not that 1t is desired to
maintain secrecy regarding the machinery
and the plant. but simply hat 1t is a
waste OF time. II wastes the time OF the
manager or superintendent and 1t causes a
waste OF time among the men. The en-
trance Of a party Of strangers to a factory
is the signal for the employees to turn
about and look at them. The lost time
may amount to only a minute or two for
each employe, or even a great deal less
than that, but repeated two or three times
a day, and in every department, the loss
mounts up to a very definite quantity. And
lost time means diminished output.
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back toward Fifth Avenue from the grand
ballroom. None of the regular walters Of
the hotel participated. The extras were
men on Oscars special list.
Il have their names in a book" he ex-
plains. Most of them work down town in
the daytime, and at night they are ready
for special dinners here, or at Sherry's, or
at Delmonico's. But in this case, and in
all cases where there are more than 500
guests to be served, l have to go beyond
my selected list. / have to pick up men
that I don't want particularly. There are
not enough Al walters among the extras
to fill the bill for as big a dinner as this
one, yet the additional hundred or so are
fairly good, and they have been pressed
into service often enough to know how to
behave themselves
Arranging for the Feast.
Preparations for such an affair as this
begin forty-eight hours ahead of time. On
the previous day the hotel marketers go
out and get all the necessary provisions. A
brigade of decorators begins to festoon the
balconies and gilded columns Of the BALL
room with whatever decorations the hosts
have arranged to display. Scrubwomen
and scrubmen start to polish up the brass
ratings. Sweepers and busters clean the
chairs in the boxes and on the main floor,
and make the carpets and canopies and
curtains look spick and span.
Early in the morning of the day set for
the dinner the tables are carried to the ball
room and two score of walters are busy
all day setting them, polishing up the silver
and redusting the chairs. In the Afternoon,
about three hours before the hour OF the
dinner, the rest Of the extra walters make
their appearance. They are assigned tc
their places, one table man" to every
eight guests, and one wine man. to every
twelve. Some are stationed at the carving
tables, each with his particular duty. Oscar
and his head assistants scurry about this
way and that, seeing to it that there is nc
place uncovered, no detail unprepared, nc
dish or piece of silverware lacking.
Just before 5 o'clock the flower men come
They have had to wait until late for theii
share in the arrangements, because th'
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roses must look fresh and the leaves wildly
green. Thu tracing Of delicate blossoms
and evergreens along the cloth Of the
guests table must not have time to wither,
and the specially decorative bouquet In
front Of the guest of honor, whether he be
the prince or some other distinguished man,
must seem to have come straight from the
greenhouse.
Meanwhile the kitchen has been a scene
of great activity. There are no extra cooks,
but those regularly on duty have to move
around much more rapidly than on other
days. They get the food ready between
PUSHES" in the morning and afternoon,
leaving the most delicate viands to the
last. BY the time 6 o'clock has come
everything is ready, and a squad of men
cooks or waiters-are in their places near
the ovens, all on the alert for the signal
that means they are to transfer the food
to a special elevator and send it upstairs
to Oscar. The grand ballroom Is on the
second floor, the kitchens in the basement.
Signals to walters.
It is announced to the chef that the
guests are ready to sit down. Through a
tube he transfers the information down
stairs. Then he rings a bell, and in two
minutes the oysters are on the tables,
having been prepared at the carving ia
bles. The walters stand like statues,
each at his post. The guests file into the
imitation fairyland, perhaps cheer the hon
ored visitor, stand until he is seated, and
then proceed to make way with the first
course. Meanwhile the wine men" have
placed on each table the beverage pre-
scribed for this stage of the feast. and
the diners find their glasses filled before
they have had time to unfold their nap
kins.
The bell that Oscar rings is just outside
the door between the hall Of carving tables
and the ballroom. He himself never goes
into the dining room. He walks up and
down the long, canvas-covered halls and
every time he gets to the end nearest the
ballroom he pokes his head about two
riches inside the door to see how far The
eating of the course has advanced. At th'
right moment, when all or a majority o
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the diners seem to have finished their oys-
tiers, he touches an electric button. The
bell rings-so loudly that everybody on the
floor can hear it. On the instant the wait
ers begin to take away the oyster plates,
with which they file out, and the wine
men" replace the first wine with the sec
ond.
In less than four minutes after the ring
ing of the bell the same walters who carried
out the oyster plates return with the soup.
Tie oyster dishes have been deposited in
ships" and hustled down to the kitchen on
the elevator. At this point the guests begin
to wonder, IL they have never had the
question answered for them, why the soup
is hot, how more than 1900 plates can
possibly be brought to the tables steaming
as though they were transferred from a
stove a dozen feet away.
"Of course it's hot" says Oscar. Just
before they finish their oysters | call down
to the kitchen. Up comes the soup. Into
the heaters on the carving tables 1t goes.
1t stays there until it is very hot. Then the
oysters come out. While they are coming
the soup is being poured into plates and
just as soon as it's in the walters are ready
to take 1t to the guests"
In this way the dinner proceeds. Each
course is brought from the kitchen just in
time, then heated until the diners are ready
to consume 1t. There is no colliding of
waiters-except very rarely. They march
in regular lines. Each one knows where
his place is and who is the one he must
follow in and out of the ball room.
For 1,72O diners-the number served last
Saturday night-the quantity Of champagne
used is approximately $50 quarts. OF
sauternes and clarets and other side wines
about 573 quarts of each is needed,
Serving ON the side.
While the diners on the main floor are
being supplied the women in the boxes ar,
served with what the chef designates as
"collation." This consists of bouillon
chicken salad, ices, claret punch and wines
Everybody gets coffee and the men on tn
main floor can have cigarettes or cigars a
any time during the dinner. Hundreds o
packages of the former are consumed an
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1.-TWO HUNDRED quarts Of soup,
1900 oysters, 500 chickens, $50
~ pounds of fish, 1000 pounds Of
beef, 900 ducks, besides innumer-
- able gallons of coffee and scores
Of freezers of ice cream, were needed
to serve the guests at Saturday
nights dinner to Prince Henry. The
banquet was the largest ever pre-
pared in the Waldorf Astoria, relates
the New York Times. Twelve hundred
guests were accommodated in the grand
ballroom and adjoining apartments, 120
singers in the Astor gallery adjoining and
more than 400 women in the two tiers of
boxes.
How Oscar manage to serve such an
enormous dinner and yet have every portion
of food as hot as though it were specially
prepared for a particular guest is a ques-
ton that has puzzled many a patron of the
hotel. Oscar explains that it is a very
simple problem. He is the chef of the
hotel and his last name is Tschirky, but
he says he does not care for anybody to
use it in addressing him., as the front name
has been of so much more service to him
professionally. If you ask him how he
manipulates the thousands Of dishes at
such a great dinner, how he keeps his walt
ers in line, how he signals from carving
table to kitchen and how, in short, he eff
fects a rigid following of a prearranged
schedule, he will tell you that it is mill
tary training"
Just Like an Army.
"Just like the army" he says. Walters
all trained. New recruits handled by ex-
perienced men. Signals for every move.
orders obeyed on the double quicken
there's trouble. Every dish hot-or there's
more trouble. Easy enough"
The dinner given to the prince the week
before last by the New Yorker Stats
Zeitung was the second largest banquet
Oscar ever superintendent, and the way he
went about arranging for that was similar
to his methods of last Saturday night, when
the hosts were the members of the German
Society Of New York. For this last ban
quet, for instance, he had 47O extra walters
including those at the carving tables, which
were placed in the long hallway leading
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ton against the owners of the mills. Laws
were passed making it compulsory to dis
pose of the sawdust in some other way, and
for a time the mil owners resorted to the
expedient of burning the waste product.
Utilizing
Now sawdust is made into a great many
articles of considerable commercial value.
Compressed woodenware, panels and pave
ment blocks are among the more familiar
Of these products, and the industry is
steadily increasing. By a process of dry
distillation, too, gas, alcohol, acetic acid,
tar and oils are obtained from the saw
dust. These in turn are made into still
other products. From the tar there is OBJ
tanned benzole, p~arafin, naphthalene and
hydrocarbons, which are used in the manu-
facture of aniline dyes. Carbolic acid and
c~reosote are also obtained.
From the artificial wood a number OF
valuable articles besides the pals, panels
and blocks mentioned are likewise OBJ
tanned. From the plastic mass which re-
suits from sitting out the coarser particles
and mixing the remainder with various
filters and agglutinants, there are manu-
featured slabs for parquet floors, bas-reliefs,
art castings and dinner plates.
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making lies in the small economies effected
by American machinery. A rival to the
two concerns which monopollzed the man
u~facture ten years ago had at its head a
young man whose early days had been
passed in considerable privation. 1t may
have been the training in economy which
his early experiences had thus given him
that led him to examine with special care
all the little details of the establishment
and to be continually watchful for means
and methods that would prevent wasteful-
ness.
The following story is told: One day,
soon after taking over the management of
the concern, he noticed that a workgirl
stopped during working hours to curl her
bangs" He promptly issued an order
tabooing bangs. On another occasion he
noticed a workman discarding a screw. He
made inquiries and discovered that In allot-
ting materials to the hands In the factory
fourteen screws were counted as a dozen,
In order to allow for variations in size.
Each screw cost approximately about the
Tooth part of a cent. But the new man
ager set about celebrating a machine that
should make every screw to one standard
guage. The result of these and other sim
liar small economies was not long In pro-
ducing its results. other managers found
themselves Obliged to be economical, too,
and American matchmaking machinery
and American methods scored their trl-
umph in competition with the cheaper labor
and ~costlier output of the rest OF the
world.
TI~me-Saving Devices.
The way in which little economies have
contributed to the success Of one of the
greatest tea blending and importing houses
OF the world was described in a recent
publication. 81 saw" said the writer.
SCALES that would weigh by electricity TO
within the Tooth part of an ounce; girls
wearing brown Holland overalls, envelop-
ing them from head to foot. that not the
smallest bit Of tea dust even might adhere
to their dresses and be carried away and
wasted; a marvellous time-keeping ma
chine that recorded automatically the loss
of even a single second OF time by any one
Of the hundreds of employees and dozens OF
other similar money-saving and time-econ-
omizing contrivances, and / ceased to won
der that such a business as l saw before
me had been built up by two comparatively
young men in less than five years"
One of the greatest Industrial centers Of
the world has sprung up within the short
space Of half a dozen years at the hitherto
little known town OF Sault Ste. Marie,
where the waters OF Lake Superior empty
into Lake Huron. The success OF this vast
enterprise, where the enormous sum Of
Sill, 900. 900 is being spent in a plant for
the manufacture Of an almost unlimited va
riety Of articles or iron, steel, nickel and
wood. with various chemical products as
we'll, Is due solely to the inventive genius
and new economies OF one man.
The FIRST striking innovation which was
at the 800" bad to d. with the
manufacture Of wood pulp. By the methods
previously employed the pulp as turned out
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workings of the big industrial enterprises Of
the present day. To the giant United States
Steel corporation, for instance, with Its
profits, as recently announced, Of $1,000 600
a day, it might appear that such trifiing
matters as the saving of stray screws and
waste iron dust would hardly appear worth
while. AS a matter Of fact, however, such
savings are very we'll worth while, and it
is largely to the care with which provision
is made against possible waste that the
large profits are due.
A few years ago sawdust used to be
thrown away. 1t was dumped from the big
lumber mills of Maine and Michigan into
the river streams and allowed to settle In
great banks, which not only obstructed
navigation, but proved detrimental to fish
life. Explosions caused by the generation
of gas in the wet sawdust were frequent
and caused many accidents.
So great a nuisance did the sawdust in
the rivers finally become that city and
town corporations were obliged to take ac-
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wv persons who are not them
selves actively engaged in trade
and manufacture realize how i'm
portant a role the practice Of
small economies plays in the
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70 HUNDRED quarts Of soup,
1900 oysters, 500 chickens, $50
pounds of fish, 1000 pounds Of
beef, 600 ducks, besides innumer-
able gallons Of coffee and scores
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-03-05
Pneumonia and Bronchitis.

In this season when Pneumonia,
Bronchitis, sore throat and other all
ments OF the respiratory tract become
prevalent it is the duty of everyone to
rid himself of the sickness in a most
thorough and and radical way in order
TO leave lung tissue in he althy state7
VI the various systems employed for
the cure Of these diseases there is none
so we'll adapted TO the nature of the d.
sease as Homeopathy. II is thorough
and searching in its curative effect.
1t leaves the lungs in a sound condi-
ton; fortifies it In future against the
inroads of more serious lung trouble
which is apt to follow incomplete cure
of Pneumonia without leaving bad eff
fects of strong medicines In the system.
Try it, by applying to DR.. S. kociell.