Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-04
The Lonely Eugenie.

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
The announcement of the death of
Emile Olivier at an age of IS years
comes like an echo from the past.
Few knew that the last of Napoleon
HIS premiers, and the man who be-
trayed the Constitutionalists into his
hands, was still living. Olivier was
a typical French statesman of the
Louis Napoleon period. He entered
upon the Franco-Prussian war with
light heart" as he expressed it,
and after the debaele following Sc
dan retired from public life. His
chronicles of the empire in which he
was a prominent figure occupied his
remaining years, AZ In number,
rather respectable twilight.
Ollivier's death leaves the Empress
Eugene to mourn alone the glory of
the second empire. This remarkable
woman still lives in retirement in
England. She was perhaps the great
est contributing cause of the fall of
Louis Napoleon. During his absence
from France she was regent. When
he was at Paris no voice was more
influential with the emperor. She
favored the ill-starred expedition of
Macmillan in Mexico, and it was
the lust of greater power within the
bosom of the daughter of Maria Kirk
patrick that led to the rout of Sc
dan and the fall of Paris.
Eugene presents lonely figure.
Her only son was killed as an Eng
fish soldier in the Zulu war. Olivier
was the last of the men who made
and unmade the second empire. But
she had her day and during it the
satisfaction of debating to her sis
tiers throughout the world. When Eu-
genie appeared In new creation on
the Champs Elysees within a few
months women of every nation were
duplicating her gown. Her power
was so great that for decade that
arch abomination. the hoop skirt, was
considered thing of beauty.
Business by Wireless.
From the Christian Herald
The plan of the trainers of the new
tariff law to levy tax upon the ia
miliar banana has unexpectedly
stirred UP vigorous protest from
all classes of consumers. The agita-
ton has served to draw attention to
the remarkable organization of the
| business of transporting bananas.
| The gathering and transportation of
| bananas present unusual difficulties
| The fruit is exceedingly perishab BILE
and must be picked while green, and
rushed thousands of miles to the con-
sumner in the few days which will
elapse before 1t ripens. A delay of a
few hours may make it necessary tc
throw overheard a large cargo at sea
Yet so carefully has this business oil
| transportation been organized thai
millions of bananas are brought from
the distant tropics and sold so cheap,
| ly as to be within the reach of all
AS an additional precaution sew.
eral high-powered wireless telegraph
stations have been installed about the
Caribbean Sea to stand guard ovel
these valuable cargoes. Every frui
vessel, in turn, has its wireless plant
so that the fruit is never out of toucf
with land. In the old days befor,
cargo of bananas was lost through
delay at sea- Today, if a frui
steamer be delayed from any cause
a wireless call Is quickly sent out fol
help. The operators in the grea
wireless Stations are constantly alert
on the lookout for such calls, and
few minutes later the owners of tn,
ship in New Orleans, or Baltimore
or New York are notified of the dan
ger. Assistance is rushed to the dis
abled steamer and the cargo is expe
dited in every way. All these prep
arations are made to save a day. or
perhaps, a few hours of valuable tim
In bringing the bananas to port. One
arrived, they are rushed upon rail
road trains to be hurried to their des
tination.
In the course of year about 40,
0O0, 900 punches of bananas were i'm
. ported; in other words, some 1850,
u 90 bananas. This makes an aver
|, age of about 20 for every man, woman
land child in the country.