Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 4

HANGING A BUILDING' WHERE THE DAtJ BEGINS' Burbles Things PUBLISHED DAILY ANO SEMI WEEKLY' DETROIT MICHIGAN MAY 23 I9S TWICE A WEEK One Year worry TELErnOXE NYMBEIU If very lit a the differences to and pajr LAfrtEJ irst Met projected like loose over lie answered I have our troops PERSONALS HIS i LPUC1C surrendered came to an Klondike and seal question building suspend it were building this had tunnel it The Detroits are evidently determined to get at the bottom of the Western League system of rating DETROIT KEE PRESS OICES Home Office 11 13 Iafa yette Aveuae what about the business conftr slammed the door and left' Ed I tor lai Room a Knhscrl ption Department Job Office It appears that the provision for the sal ary of the staff was in an ad vanced state of preparedness for an emer gency like the present i was en Dewey re agaln com a Imo st brown to get achfeve Spain to The person to be envied most In this eventful life Is not the one who counts his gains Afar from storm and strife Nor yet the potentate who wears A crown upon his brow' ir It is the man who stands aroundAnd tells the others how And If the project finds success The benefit share And if It fail simply say 'Twas none of his affair He joins the triumph every time And dodges every row The man who simply stands around 1 And tells the others how I would not be a warrior great Nor hold a sceptred sway: Iwould not be a bard to wake Emotions grave or gay If fate would graciously consent My choosing to allow be the man who stands around And tells the others how i Star Prospects are good for a Spanish victory Two members of the chamber of deputies at Madrid are to fight a duel That the Present Knows Little Of Gen Robert EI Lee war of the rebellion Increase In Detroit national bank hold ings Indicates that the crime of is pretty well covered up It is also hard to tell where the senate is on that war revenue measure A Discovery Alfonso the boy King of Spain When his subjects revolted again Said my full time I ween V4 MW R' VSV1V VL Philadelphia Noria Spanish cruiser that through it feels that it is such ment that it must hurry over to tell about it What What auxiharX cruiser? What is a monitor? A vapoicon or rinance see what you accomplish bybor rowlng' money from Jones to pay owe Brown" "Well you are stupid in about a month I can borrow from Brown again Jones" 4 2 72S 483 SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT That 1 where to send your complaint you do not get your paper delivered to you an time In the state All complaints will receive Attention itn ned lately ZZ The Meek Male "Considering the contempt the mule is treated" said the Coinfed PML osopher "who can blame him for turnioE his back on Indianapolis Jour nal i It is proposed that the under be set to work on our contro versies with Canada as a trial trip POO HATCHET AND BLOCK 2 Library Appliance Thnt Mr StoKKle by Will naveMlien He Uete Rich have been 'reading' lately" said Mr Stoggleby book that was? extremely In teresting and at tho same time very heavy I mean any pun or joke by that I mean that the volume was heavy It must have weighed about threw and a half pounds or four pounds This made the book hard to hold and reduced by so much the pleasure of reading it of the things that I shall do when I get rich will be to cut up books like this into parts of convenient weight for hold ing'! shall have what I Intend to call my book hatchet a hatchet with a thin blade and kept always very sharp and then I shall have a book block "Then when I get one those books weighing say three pounds and upward I shall open it and lay It firmly down upon the book block and take the book hatchet and chop it into sections that I can hold with comfort say of half to three quirt rs of a pound each shall put awhole copy in the library of course but the copy that I personally read I shall first chop up into handy sec New York Sun New York Room 41 Tluiea BuildingChicago Room 1320 Masonic TempleLondon 24 Bouvet 1c Street did the Rev Mr Hennypeck take orders?" me ree Ila was married in T9 and been taking ever amily Pride Said rhelim: are family Sure wan was raised throne of ould' "And that to the said Pat honor of his famllv When Great Britain and the United States get together on the pelagic sealing issue it will be time for the European powers to fear an Anglo Saxon alliance That southern railway has commenced aggressive operations without reference to the rainy season The Michigan bill posters stick to it that their convention in this city next month is to be a three colored success respec ting Not Running nn Almshouse Tho traveling man who had been royally entertained by the prosperous farmer in the outskirts of the little town where the only hotel had burned down a few days before was a little uncertain when about to de part whether he should simply return his thanks or risk offending his host by offer ing pay have placed ma under great ob ligations Mr he said I come in from a trip of this kind I am ac customed to turning in an expense account and it seems to me I ought to have put down in it something pretty handsome for the excellent entertainment! have had at your can turn in what you duin rMllisaps bill will be 316 vaw a AUUUV a di is a What is a What is a to th far th rvuven th? HiHi''l Ui AXJ3 4fLIl a raa raised to the hivens and made tion of him And there he is to thia Household Words A BACKWARD GLANCH A month of war has not brought peace but it has settled two points that were pro vocative jof much discussion prior to the breaking out of actual hostilities 1 The president was not too deliberate in substituting force for diplomacy The de lay was advantageous rather than danger ous saving rather than losing Our army is still waiting for equipments 2 The withholding of recognition of Cu ban belllgerencyor independence was most wise and fortunate The status of the in surgents is not such as to justify recog nition A single month of war has vindicated the policy of the president and brought con fusion upon his critics He was right in being slow to set the machinery of war in motion He was right in refusing to regard the revolutionists as a belligerent power or to give them the status of an organized government' girls are taking a mean of the horrors of in they look so deuced teary ful when they hear thnt a fe Ho to the front that he can help himself to them engaged to seven nu Plain Dealer 728 ft the telephone number to call If you do sot get your paper on time in the city I bicycle runs Ilka a thing of life thia mornintr" said Air Hunker to Miss ima "That Is because you have pumped Ita tires full of Hits bracing air" replied the young lady It line Escaped it odd that the peach crop i been destroyed this "That is easily accounted for The able ss journalists have all been occupied with the war and minor matters have been left to like a bicycle he THE DETROIT EREE PRESS: MONDAY MAY 23 189? The blockade must be effective for the manages an ONE MONTH AVAR proclamation the American Spanish war began April 21 The first gun was fired riday April 22 and it caused the surrender of tho Spanish merchantman Buena entura Since then our navy has captured' some score of vessels and de stroyed eleven The Spaniards have cap tured or destroyed no American craft The first action of the ar was on April 27 when the New York Puritan and Cin '5 cinnati silenced the forts at Matanzas Other minor engagements took place at Cardenas and Cienfucgos and Admiral Sampson attacked the batteries at San Juan but the only decisive naval encounter of the war up to date is Dewey's magnifi cent victory at Manila The Spanish loss at that engagement was over 3Kl killed and several hundred wound ed The enemy must have suffered losses At Matanzas: Cardenas and Cienfuegos but the exact number cannot be given The American loss for the first month is seven five at Cardenas one at Cienfuegos and one on board the New York during the bombardment of San Juan Tho beginning of the second month "finds over 100000 volunteers mustered In and the regular army rapidly approaching its war footing of 610u0 The troops are mobilizing at Tampa Chickamauga and cisco A cowboy regiment of 'rough riders is nearly ready for action and ten regiments of yellow fever immunes are being raised' in the south When all troops regular and volunteer are prop Crly equipped and organized the govern ment will have a landfforce of 200000 men for the invasion of Cuba the occupation of the Philippines and Porto Rico and de fense duty at home The first movement by the military is jet to bo made The government hopes for an early en counter between the Cape Verde squad ron and the American fleets feeling con fident that our ships will bo able to ad minister such a blow to naval force that the necessity of further con tinuance of hostilities will be done away with To the soda fountain clerk it was the one striking incident of the day Since in the morning he had served homely girls and pretty girls light girls and dark girls but him theyvhad all been just girls So at about 5:30 in the: afternoon it was with a sigh of relief that he saw her push through the Screen door ami hobble over ta the counter Se was poor very poor The clerk deduced that from her garments which were so old that they seemed to have grown on her for she was old too S3 at least thought the clerk' dler face was deep lined with the wrinkles of care and and her hair gray and smoothly back from her furrowed brow was concealed by the coarse threadbare shawl she wore about her head and held to gether at the throat by a long calloused hand like a claw The fingers Of that hand the clerk noticed were very long and bony and cracked at the tips'llke those of a person who works much in water The old eyes were blue and kindly and they twinkled brightly as she straight ened her bowed shoulders and looked at the young man there behind the counter so fresh and cool in his white coat and long white apron She laid one of those thin hands on counter and moved her lips as though about to speak The: clerk "took her to be one of those women who now and then enter the down? town stores and ask for a nickel or a dime" So he said before she spoke have no change to day" The little old lady's eyes took on a brighter twinkle ut's not change thot she said with a Kilkenny dialect that was delicious "Oi wor ask she went on "av yez'd me a glass thot chaeklet sudy The heart was touched The Idea of a poor old lady begging with pleading eyes and tears iii Tier voice for one little glass of soda water was so new to him that without a word he drew the drink and placed it before her guess I can afford to be charitable" said the young man to himself The old lady ate the ice cream floated In the glass with a relish most apparent Like every perfect relisher of ice cream she chewed it When she1 had finished with it she drank the liquid remaining in the tumbler: Then she wiped her lips on a cor ner of the faded shawl and rising from the the A Strange Experiment in Birming ham of the hundreds wJiQ' daily pass up or down lane are aware how little separates them from the Great Western Railway If a hole were dug Lut three feet deep im thr roadways the pedestrlaji might drop through direct on to the line for only some eighteen inches of earth covers the eighteen inches of brick work of which tiretunnel consists and separates the passer above from the train below The shallow ness of this tunnel has frequently been a source of trouble for when the cable tram conduits were laid in Colmore Row a spe cial form had to be devised to meet the difficulty Again a large and imposing frontage In lane is nothing but a huge sham of timber and plaster especial ly devised to present an very im front without stability and with out weight engineer to the Great Western Railway will not allow an ounce ft weight to rest upon his tunnel and nowadays the city surveyor will not allow sofiimsy a structure to be erected as that referred to This has been the cause that for years has kept open that piece of land near Carr's Lane at one time the resting place of ghost shows and circuses lite price demanded for the land seemed moderate enough and deposits have been paid and plans prepared only to be con demned alike by the city surveyor and railway engineer Architects and others of recognized ability have tackled the prob lem only to give it up The difficulty has been that the whole of the street frontage is over the tunnel and at an awkward angle varying from four feet to twenty five hut not a particle: of would the company allow to rest upon the tun nel and cross girders could not bo used on account of the shallow depth hat tile landowner wanted to do was to viirci a cure story building with tie indeed to rest it upon and it dent that the twenty five feet of over the tunnel would have to bo held out at length as in other words as the proposed was forty five feet deep and from to be dedueterl i 11 ILillliLlp it lett but nineteen: feet of solid foundation to carry an erection forty live feet wile ee high To overcome this difficulty the architect W'ho had the work in hand devised an ingenious system of huge cantilevers six in number running to nine feet deep and estimated to carry weights varying from 100 to 400 tons and the buiid tng wijl soon bo completed The A cantilever supports the greatest weight estimated atlou tons and calculated to support a strain ot tons may perhaps render the more Intelligible by taking as typi cal he cantilever known to th? architect as Al whten projects over the tunnel twen ty live feet and or will Its duo share 3i3 tons) of the building while only nineteen feet of it under tho building will rest upon a solid foundation lo add to the safety from this hangs a huge mass of concrete some sixteen fcet and weighing some 1G0 tons suspended Sby steel bars vfeet Tbs matter welblnff of a leg of mut ton on the butcher tho canti lever nr ts no tha niL ij ui L4TLH15 ware and shops arc supported at the longnd and the Riantic weight of concrete talin tlle acting in somo manner as a counterpoise while the canti lever rests unon a bed ot concrete It has been suggestedithat a vigorous sneeze in a font portion of tho premises or the slht ultaneous entrance into the premises of customers might tho whole thino liri Tin 1 4 xuv Lux? uxawnjgs oi a building constructed on such novel lines have naturally examined with the utmost care both by Mr Englia the engi neer of the Great and the citv surveyor and one or two minor objections have been successfully met so that the building is now in course of progress Vv hen the girders are covered In it will present no features to the eve and will have little to distinguish it from its fellows All the same It will be a monument of architectural Bir mingham Dailv Mall THE WAY THE WORLD The song' of the sleepless what is its theme throughout these fate freighted days? Its wondrous lay relates to all the earth and all the children of men It sings the whole marvelous range of human ex hopes trials defeats ful fillments sorrows it has been since the world began The song of the sleepless press how varied and enthralling the numbers flung from the singing press ilt tells of hopeless love and glory won of the victories ot peace and Mood bought triumphs of heroes silent and unsung and (anta ana garlanded of simple homely scenes and garish spectacles of tragedies Individual and International of SOME COMMON WARJ TERMS i if Generation BORDER CONTROVER SIES It is a good thing for continental neigh bors to dwell together in peace and har mony and It is announced that negotia tions are about to begin looking to the realization of such a desirable relation by the United States and the Dominion ofCan nda The preliminaries of a convention or treaty covering all the standing sources of contention between the two countries will be taken up this week by our state de partment the British ambassador Sir Ju lian Pauncefote and the Canadian minis ter of marine Sir Louis Davies Each side will select a commission to go over all the long standing controversies and endeavor to come to a basis of agree ment Tt is not settled definitely who will comprise the American commission The commissioners for Great Britain and Can ada will be Sir 'Julian Pauncefote Sir Louis Davies and probably Sir Richard Cartwright The matters to be embracedby the proposed pact are the protection of in the great lakes the north Atlanticfishing question dating from' 1818 the troubles arising from the alien labor laws of the two countries border immigration mining regulations in the elsewhere the Bering Sea and reciprocity Here are several points of adjust and the good feeling between the United States and Great Britain which is thought to make the present negotiations opportune will be put to a test before an agreement on all the points at issue is reached Previous efforts to find a common ground of have proved una vailing and It must be admitted that our high tariff legislation and of pas bills have not been to promote closer relations between this gov A rnment and its neighbors on the north? But the present era of good feeling between the two leading nations of the world may witness a happier conclusion of the nego tiations looking to a settlement of all mat 1 ters In controversy All thoughtful citizens will hope for such an outcome of the effort anyway That it would be both becoming and beneficial for this country and the Dominion to be neigh hors commercially and socially as well as geographically is too patent to call for elu cidatlon The border fence Is maintained at too pronounced and disagreeable a itight and is too thickly provided with prickly and irritating barbs TO SETTLE Rev Mr Stringer and wife and the Mr Young missionaries on Herschel is land are the most northerly white resi dents of the world It is said that Emperor William intends to send to the sultan a handsome and well trained war dog at present attached to a regiment of the garrison in Berlin s' Senator Perkins of California is the practical sailor of congress He was the master of a New England ship and is the head of a firm of ship owners and has' been alL his life identified with and marine interests Mlsst Pearl Listebargcr a former Mis souri girl has been chosen as the most beautiful girl in Iowa to represent the state at the Omaha exposition Her por trait will be on a state souvenir which win bo distributed at the exposition After three successive failures in a cost ly experiment one of Mr asso ciates worn out with the strain asked "Why don you worry a little about Mr should replied th Inventor are worrying enough for Tho Prince of Wales when annoyed Winks his left eye rapidly the emperor of Austria putts out his cheeks the czar lavs his hand flat on the top of his head Mr Gladstone turned swiftly on his heels us if executing a volte face and the sultan of Turkey grasps his throat tightly with nls nand Rr Harrington fellow in zoology and Dr Hunt Instructor In physiolo gy have been sent to the Calibar coast of Vest Africa in search of the various stages of development of several very remarkable fishes to be found: only in those waters The expedition Is one of the greatest im he world an an parts of stool reached back and down into pocket of her shabby skirt how did you like asked clerk as he removed the glass and sozzled it once or twice in the tub of water on the floor that was placed there each morning for that purpose Oi loiked ut well thot Ol did" said the old lady Ol a kuowed Oi wuz a to Oi a asted yez fur With that she hand from her pocket and tendered the clerk a ten dol lar bill Ho turned white and reached for the corner of the cigar stand to support himself He was completely dazed Hard ly knowing what he did he took the bill rang up five cents on the cash register and gave back to the old lady her change he said thought you asked me to give you the soda Oi she replied as she turned to leave store did yez rink Oi didn't intend t' pay for ut' Young mpp nfvir be desaved by ap pearances agin Oi hov shablt spend nte good money fur its gratification Good And the clerk recovered or weeks Willie Andrews had cried for a bicycle He had arrived at the age when safety stationary engines are warranted not to blow up and spoil the carpet had ceased to amuse him The wooden fort with its ark soldiers and even the sling shot' with which he had once managed to break every one of the cellar windows no longer possessed any attraction for The other fellows had bicycles he was wont to say and he didn't see why he shouldn't havo one He was nine years old and Tommy Green across the street had had one'for two years and he was sixo months younger than Willie at that Mrs had always been a Hittie afraid of asking Mr Andrews to get one of the baby wheels for lllie for he had been complaining all the spring of the tightness of the market and she knew that to suggest the spending of $25 for a wheel for Willie would mean a slight hurricane in the Andrews household But 'when night before last Mr An drews camo In to his supper with a smile on his countenance Mrs Andrews broached the subject to him He scowl at all He even said it might be a gool thing now that vacation was so near at hand They talked it over a little while and then Andrews went out on the front porch and called Willie you said eyes coat buttons one like Tommy Ills is one or tne bestest Willie I don't know but TIT tell you what you can do come in now and pray for one then go to sleep and maybe in the morning the Lord will have brought you Tt took Willie about five minutes to get to his room take his clothes off and slip into his Then he fell down on his kness at the side of the bed Mr and Mrs Andrews listened just outside the door said Willie "please brung me a bicycle I want one with a big sprocket a chain guard a soft saddle and that's all The father and mother went down stairs snickering and Mr Andrews put on his hat to go back down town for the wheel He visited every store in the city that he remembered ever having passed but not a wheel was shown him that he'1 thought would Willie All of them looked too large He didn't know what to do Then sud denly it occurred to hint to buy a tricyCie He purchased the machine and lugged it home His wife was a little disannointefl that he had been unable to secure wheel like Tommy but she said nothing The next morning at about 5 Wil awoket He sat up in bed and rubbed his eyes and looked around There as no wheel In sight Then slipping out of his cot he scampered into the hall There stood the tricycle He took one look at it That was all Then he darted back into his room and falling upon his knees at the foot of the bed clasped his hands and look ed up at the molding and said Lord you know the difference between bicycle what little hoys rides and a trtev cle what littlo? girls rides I want that thing Come and take it back I a girl And that afternoon Mr Andrew's return ed the tricycle and ordered direct from the factory a bicycle with all the mprove ments KENNETH HERnnr "4W Latin vm Shaving Sir John Sinclair once asked Cochran Johnstone whether he meant to havo on of his then a littlo boy taught lAtt0 said Mr Johnstone do something a great deal better for nun "What is asked Sir John said the other him to shave win cold waler and without a glass niut thought you were going to the wan I was but the heartless recruiting officer wouldn't allow me to take jny bi cycle Philadelphia North Amer can 7 illmore "Wonder what baa com over Nell Handel? A week ago she woman look at Nat Tyres and nqw she is with "Yes he swapped 05 his wheel for one the same make as hen Transcript "Good gracious Maud it cannot be pos sible that you are going to marry news paper man a mere salaried person To must not breathe it to a soul but I in tend to break the engagement ae ooon I get all my poetry printed Indianapolis ournal "Haven't you anything to send to th newDipcrs? JnQUlrwl 1 Iscutcnant In on of Gen Blanco's troop of rough type writers was the thoughtful re ply 'T have several suggestions that I like to get past the blockade for insertion in the 'help columns ashing? ton Star a good deal of human nature la a remarked the philosopher calm ly watching ido tearing hie bet hat to pieces "Almost as destructive one my little Mrs professor you see he got jour The proressor "Thunder! so he has 4 thought tt was one of the crhL Take that you Transcript 1 1 When and the end there were few adults In the United States who could not give a definition for ordinary military terms Uniformed men formed a part of every 1 gathering' and children were able to tell tin ianx of an officer by his shoulder straps But with the disbandment of the volunteer army apd the resumption of peaceful occupations in terest in military matters became less and the generation which witnesses the present conduct of active warfare has little knowl edge as to the meaning of military terms: This fact was demonstrated recently by a correspondent who asked: "What is an army corps? What is vision? Wliut is a brigade? regiment? What is a battalion? company? What is a troop? are lieutenants and what uu uucj oxewoo: wnat is a fleet IS What is a AVhat is a cruiser? What a auxiliary cruiser? What is a monitor? nat is a torpedo boat? Wiiat is a torpedo An army corps is made up of a number of divisions of infantry with a proper propor tion artillery and cavalry An army corps is commanded by a major general and is in all respects a compieta army be ing the largest ot the sub divisions of the nnliiary forces: During times of peace there could be no army corps in the United States because the 28000 men were ocattered all over the country and concen tration was impracticable ami almost ini possible An army corps is divided into di visions hich terms is applied to the next tactical unit below an army corps Brigades are to divisions what divisions are to army corps A division differs from a corps in so far that while the larger bodyncludes every arm of the service a division may be composed of only one of these arms Thus there may be a cavalry artillery or infantry division or there may be a divis ion which includes all these The number of men for a division depends upon cir cumstances Three brigades may be formed into a division but there is notning to pre vent its being twice as large A division Is commanded by a major general A nrigade commanded bv a brigadier general is composed of three four or live regiments and may be made up from one arm of the service or it may include regi ments of infantry and cavalry and bat teries ot artillery together engineers and signal corps A regiment is commanded bvv a colonel and is a permanent tactical uriit with Ils own distinct individuality regi according to the new regulations have three battalions each and each bat talion has four compaaiies The second of ficer in a regiment is the lieutenant colonel WilO ill 11 ft flhetATM'A rtf tho rvAniTnunrima officer takes command Tho battalion commanders are of the rank ot major The platoon is to the company what the battalion is to the regiment and as the major Is in command of a battalion under the colonel so are the first and second lieutenants in command of their respec tive platoons under the captain irst lieutenants have been described as holding the places of vice captains The title is purely rench When company for mation is made the first platoon is com maded by the first lieutenant Each com pany also a first sergeant a quarter master sergeant four sergeants and six corporals two musicians one artificer one engraver and sixty five privates In the cavalry arm of the service: companies are known as troops and in the artillery as batteries Other non commissioned officers in a regi ment are one sergeant major one quarter master sergeant one chief musician two principal musicians and three hnsnital ards The terms and are elastic in their nature They each designate a number of vessels under a single commander but is a term superior to and stands for more than The term mav be properly applied to an aggregation of vnuai uvais nnu it is not unusual to Hear of a flotilla of oyster boats or racing But at this time one couples the terms with the navy and according to established usage the word means a'large num ber of vessels under command of an ad miral or other high naval officer While it is believed by some authorities that a fleet must contain at least six ships others be Kiu liihl tt biiiuutjr nunioer oi vessels may under certain circumstances be termed a fleet There are countries whose whole navy consists of only four or five ships hut these could be spoken of as a fleet with all propriety Technically a fleet has been de scribed as composed of thirteen two squadrons of six ships each and a flag ship But this technicality seems to be en tirely disregarded in practice A squadron is a division of a fleet a de tachment of war vessels employed upon a particlar service or station and Is al ways under the command of a flag officer A flag officer is one who has the privilege to display a flag denoting his an ad miral vice admiral rear admiral or com modore A flotilla is a term applied' either to a fleet of small vessels or to a small fleet of larger craft The difference between a battleship and an armored cruiser is technical and ex perts have stumbled over the matter A battleship is supposed to have heavier guns and armor and to be better fitted to with stand hard knocks from an opposing force But this does not always hold good as may be seen in the case of the Maine as compared? with the Brooklyn The Maine was a battleship but she was not so large nor so heavily armored as the armored cruiser Brooklyn On one point there seems to be no dispute and that is the fact that the cruisers are faster than the battleships and it is conceded also that in most in stances the battleships are better pro tected Auxiliary cruisers are vessels which were hullt for the merchant service but with a view of being armed in case of need When the vessels were built the government had an understanding with the constructors and owners by which provisions for arm ing were made A similar agreement exists between the English government and the owners of tho large ocean liners which sail under her flag The cruisers St Paul st Louis New York and Paris would not bo recognized by the people who traveled across the ocean in them when thev were luxuriously appointed passenger 'boats Superfluous furniture has been removed and the vessels In their war paint look as though they had been built for war pur POS6S A monitor Is a peculiar battleship hav ing a low freeboard light draft and flqsh deck and guns mounted In heavily armored revolving turrets placed on the deck A monitor is a floating battery more a ship and derives Its name from the first of the class ever constructed which battled with the Confederate ss ironclad Merrimac in Hampton Roads The original monitor was described as resembling a great cheese box on a plank but it did valuable service and revolutionized naval warfare Torpedo boats are the racers among the war vessels They are swift small craft designed to launch torpedoes near large vessels In order to do this work properly the torpedo boat must go close to the ob ject of its destructive designs and having placed the instrument of destruction in position its next object is to get away an! out of the reach of the enemy A torpedo boat must be small and the men who form its small crew must be absolutely fearless A torpedo boat catcher is designed ex pressly to catch or to destroy torpedo boats In order to be fitted for the work the boats are larger than the torpedo boats they can make better time and carry heav ier New York Tribune i Anecdote anK The following is said to be altogether characteristic of Miss rench who is described as being ami ability and sweetness itself On one occa sion an individual in common garb came up the elevator to her apart ments and presented himself at her study door some freight for you jest come in nn the steamer mum" he said "Why what is Miss rench inquired "Two crates of Mexican pottery I ordered expos tulated but some friend is sending It most like and I come to ax fur the job haul ing it up for said the man 1 shall be very glad to give you the job my man and pray be careful in handling Miss rench answered kind ly I will mum sure and $8 freight charges before the stuff can leave the yard take it along if give me the change and bring the crates right All this happened more than a year ago and to this day Miss rench is wondering what has become of the man the $6 and the Mexican Philadelphia Times A OR A It II ITU ATI If the railway arbitration bill which has passed both houses of congress and now awaits the approval of: the president con firms the expectations of its advocates and friends the costly destructive and demor alizing railroad strike will be a violent thing of the past The bill l)ns the ap proval of the labor organizations inter ested which have labored? for its 'passage for years 'and is pronounced by Labor Commissioner Wright as the greatest piece of legislation ever enacted by the govern ment in behalf of labor? It is indeed the first recognition' of the legality of labor organizations in the history of the coun try The measure was drafted by Mr QIney when ho was attorney general assisted by Mr 'Wright and John Kernan Amend ments were made by representatives of the interstate commerce commission and of the railway1 brotherhoods The bill has passed the house three times and lias been twice reported favorably by the senate pom ml tee on labor The following infor mation concerning the bill has been sent out irom Washington: It provides a mode of conciliation: me nlatlpn and arbitration in the disputes be tween railroad corporations and their em ployes Hie arbitration provided for is wholly voluntary and great care has been exercised to any involuntary per formance of personal service absolutely impossible An amendment covering this point was made in the senate On motion Hoar of Massachusetts who said that it was unnecessary 'but in order to meet criticism on this point the change was made 'Receivers of railroads appoint ed by federal courts are forbidden by the pill to reduce the wages of anv class of employes without the direct order of the court and such order is not to be issued until after notice of the intention of the receiver to apply for Its issue has been posted on the bulletin board in everv sta tion on the road for twenty days and op portunity given by the court for the rep resentatives of the employes to be affect ed to be fully heard It is made a misde meaner for railroad officials to discriminate against employes because they belong to labor unions blacklisting of discharged employes is forbidden and no employe can be compelled to contribute to a relief or ganization nor to make an agreement that in case of Injury ihls damages shall' be measured by the amount of money that is to his credit in such relief organization Corporations their employes and the pub lic are' to be congratulated upon the in corporation of the principle of arbitration in a 'legislative enactment If the expec tations of the promoters of this bill are realized the extension of the' game method of adjustment of differences to other fields of labor is bound to follow THE DAILY AND REE PRES is delivered by carriers in Detroit and in all town throughout the state every day in the year for IS cents per Meek: THE REE PRESS for io cents rcr week By mail pottage free in the United States and Canada DAILY One Month 4Io DAILY and SUNDAY' One Month OOo DAILY and SUNDAY One 3200 3100 Proof That There is Such a Place in I World Is Here Submit 7 I Seeing that as one moves westward: 'the I time gets earlier and earlier so that when it is Monday noon in London it is somo time on Monday morning in America it follows that if this nrincinln were continued with out limit all the way round the world at I Old Cale lives on BeaubUn the same moment that it was Monday noon I hcv hsnnin Wt in London it would be also twenty four nC happier than when telling pjant hours later 1 Tuesday noon in London ePrienee before the war mana As this is a reductio ad absurduni we have I one way and another to BS to look for the limit which does in tact I these stirring al news ef exist to tho principle that as one moves ns Hmes and when he westward Hie time gets earlier and as onelna day that a certain moves eastward gets later tieman had received a 'commiata? Before the circumnavigation of the globe president Cale went nn 'SWn there wag no difficulty When on a Mon 1 an ecstacy day Yhe sun stood over London it was I Kno'wcd it sah" he fhouted Monday noon in London As the sun clapped his knotted bands moved (to use the popular phrase) west Anvbody dat eber sei ward and stood a little later over Dublin 1 coer seed de majah on a few 1 it became Monday noon in Dublin and so I nun Knowed dat de Would on until he reached the western limit ot dat he lead de in Cuh the known world When the sun passed I aftah de wah sah when over that limit that was the end of noon I en majah uaB for that Monday and nobody knew what I no tho bred boss ent'afn the sun was dnlne until ha rear neared on i like he did Aa 5 2 eber Yes in de de mnjahwould blow dat tin dlnnah 'to call de hosin' S1 hftVC OU us IO Waka DlAilt A Bing gib tongue and de majah one dem dar grinnin' red foxes a straight run he let out a vaJi YT make dat dinnah Tl Mrtftrt UY the whls'le an' he jes' humps heejt line saddle an' he goes be I 'Wes sah: an' von 1 As the sun crosses this remarkable take a fence wld ri te time jumps twenty four hours on I dat ole roan hehabaftu from noon on one day to noon the I ae van xurst he gib a wah whoop to cm ay The situation of the line has heh Den he makes spu's dat would punch holes in a i'on chi Di) fr rrt'Art nm moL unhonored average lives and ovortowering careers of battles sieges fortunes passed on tented fields and the mirth amusements and employments of peace' As far as the cast is from the west ranges the ceaseless chant of the watchful singer of Christen dom 5 inger of the press toll us of the day and what its developments are! There abide at sea girt Luzon a valorous conqueror made illustrious in a half day There awaits the narrow house at Hawar den the clay of one of the century's im mortals gone to his death in the fullness of years and the glory of the hom age There are armies on the move and death dealing ships seeking the foe while this hero of peace rests from his century long labors 'While jtll about is the sound of going down? to battle the war depart ment puts aside its grim duties for a space io Huger in the tranquil luxuriance and tender glow of the nuptial bower Death and desolation ride In the western storms transports are setting forth with soldierj' for the Philippines men and women are meeting in peaceful councils of church and state the wartime is bearing honors upon the favored and stern duties upon all trade and commerce drive on ands the fullness of spring Wesses the land Then turn to the its tccmipg sheets survey iJch with the wonders of each passing day At the Old Stand: The man who used to stand around xvhflC war should be begunTh4ied fur Ion before The evil to the Maine was done here is he now or prythee say? Has he gone out to meet the foe? with those who marched away To Jay the hated Spaniards low?" he was not among the men Who shouldered arms and hurried out 1th vows to come home only when The trlckj foe Is put to rout The man who wanted blood to run Is hero and howling as before It seems 'the fools at Washington' Ignore his plans for making 7 Chicago News Lilt SfLAJJ tlLilile UilLla the eastern llmir of the bringing with him Tuesday morning It is evident therefore that while the sun was in the unknown abvss between uA st and A 4 1 4 1 I Cl ut Ul liits CLLLI lUUlU LA LA I Cl KL I DO tii ixiiiu nt ttii pitueN uirwuy uuuer i rays Monday noon and took to himself the I People in a ginny aitrinute ot making it Tucsttay noon As the confines of the world were pushed lunner eastward ana westward lively the unknown abyss wherehange of attribute had to be made narrower and narrower until when globe was circumnavigated the place change became simply a line This exists and is the pla'ce where the days gin snot the from noon on one day next nav been located quite fortuitously namely by hn i wt 1 a was first reached by civilized man journey Hatv roan couldn make no jumsa fng from the east or from the west The I but she would chawge dey would discoverer brought with him the almanac crash an' da aih would from whence he came and if ho came from 'le aH1 would be full of spMntehs the west the time in the new country would an fence wah took pe majah would be later and if he came from the east it ride plum dem Spaniel 4 rty ht Ume lhecoun would aa't git 'Ipng wldout America was reached by civilized man I an 1 knowed voyaging westward and China by man I traveling eastward and the result Is that I Disaatrous the line that marks where the days begin Two Detroit merchants were slttin lies licfw ren these two In the PcicHlc ocean acijnceiit and taRinv a and instead of being a straight line zig 1 5 5 zags about dividing islands 7 which hap I 11 when one asked the other If pened to be discovered from the east from I consulted his wife in his buslnesa affairs those which happened to be discovered I do it was tho rem nl from the west There must still be many 2 response Tv islands in that ocean wh ere it is not vct tHed it a dozen times a month fot yearr decided to which side of the line thev be but it always winds up just about I asked her if she thought to morrow or yesterday There must also I discuss a little matter of bull be many islands there which never having ness calmly and dispassionately She lld 3 Permanently occupied by civilized peo I she could tint had never known me to be pie change their day from time to time oe so that a ship calling there coming from I sole tc do so complimented her area China might arrive on Tuesday while an I tically on her temper and ehe at At21eri pliP calling at the same time from I once accused me of being angry I toldther America would arrive on Monday There I must be people living so near this line that "av 1 was regarded among men as haw a by going a few miles they can leave to Ing a very equable disposition and that my day and get into to morrow or by going emploj es called me Suavity? Bh back can find yesterday xxow convenient I for troublesome anolntments! I called attention to the fact that her pet Many other curious considerations occur dog that weighs about a pound was called to one but I have said enough 1 think to Danger' Then I told her straight from what everyone does not perhaps A realize that there is a place in the world I shoulder that I declined to be made where the days St James Gazette angry by her taunts and odious compart Isons but served pointed notice that Ii n7Te Vop to have the respect due the head of Capt Isaiah II Grant keeper of the Lnit I the hous? sho laugheti cheerily and de ed States lighthouse department store Jared hat was to( touch riAllCA ran tre I tVhn rf 1 1 1 I au uut teresting anecdote that is particularly ap I propriate at this time and goes to show I IMU aiuu VL WlllUU LHO JllUtiHJiXH llttvy 1st rrtmnrtfixi1 fJrant la Hpai kar I si William Grant the keeper of the light I on Matinicus Rock and of the latter tells this story: I Tt XVrt ftp If frt 1 Ri I Dewey was then executive officer on board I tne unitea tcates vessel cjoioraao william tirant was a seaman on tne same ship and is naturally well posted ns to our gallant fighting qualities The Colorado was steaming into Hampton Roads Va towing a large boatload of sailors relates the Portland (Me) Ex press It was a windy day and the waves were running high In some manner the boat capsized and In a moment everyone was struggling in the water All but one how ever succeeded in getting on its bottom One sailor who could not swim sank to the bottom A boat was at once lowered from the Colorado William Grant beimr one of the men assigned to It The men rowed with a will and soon reached the overturned boat and the sail ors clinging to its bottom They had so much headway that the boat shot over the place where the unfortunate man went down Mr Grant was in the bow keeping a sharp lookout for him when he came to the surface As boat moved "along he looked down into the water which was clear and plainly saw the man near the surface Like a flash he scrambled to the stern of the boat and without hesitating a second' dove over the head for the drowning man He calculated just right and in a moment had him by the collar and succeeded in bringing him to the men were taken into the boat and after hard work the half drowned sailor was revived He owed his life to Mr bravery and prompt action The next day Dewey as executive offi cer called Mr Grant up on to the quar terdeck and before everyondjthanked him cordially for his bravery in rescuing the sailor A few years ago when Dewey then com modore visited the Maine coast and called upon Nir Grant at Matinicus the incident was recanea ana a tong taiK poyea ny tne men commoaore called the matter Instantly and plimented? Mr Grant How Joseph Chnmberlnin Ilia Wife The speech of Joseph ad vocating an alliance between Great Brit ain and the United States has attracted so much attention that many persons in discussing the subject recall the visit which Ntr to Wash ington in 1S87 as chairman' of the fish eries commission He was the social lion of the hour A Baltimore lady who met him tells the following story to the Sun: 'He was a big burly man caring so little for his appearance that at one of the most fashionable dinners of the sea son his cravat got turned to almost under nls jear nls shirt stud came unfast ened ana he? sat calmlv oblivious either accident His brains and charm in conversation won him friends wherever he went day he called on a lady who hap pened to be giving a luncheon She went out at once to see him and laugh ingly said that if ha did not mind being prpAeit he wouid be de lighted if he would come in the dining room and take the vacant place of one of her young friends who did He was not afraid to face a lot of lean so he accepted the vacant place happened to be t4 of Miss Endicott daughter of Secrotnrt War William Endicott of Ma cits a dove like slender girl one of the greatest belles of the day of the th'IPnrtlb "IT thl3 waa marrlage of lhe Eng llsh statesman and the 'Puritan as she was often called his ne gh bor at an entertainment to which he hadpnly been bidden by that 'fate whlch shapes our ends rough hew them as we win RW' A' 7 v1 1 i 1 'j fe 2 Zj 2 S' ahrJrtrc XAk 1KA ci? 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