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Something about Knight* Ancient aud
Modern.
IHpeclal Washington Lettor.1
HE GREAT TR1EM-
nial conclave of the
'* Knights Templars is
fended. Was bing-
• t<>n has been "enacting
jthe role of entertainer
a role in which she
has become rather ex-
port. Not less than a
hundred national con-
ventions - of parties,
secret societies, and
guilds—are held here
every year, and, while
they bring us u part of
our income, tht experience t a lies us the
rites and graces of hospitality.
Seldom in its history has the town had so
many visitors as were hero this week. From
every point of the compass they gathered
and a good proportion were from 111« South,
where the order of Knights Templar* nour-
ishes and where (in Charleston a hundred
years ago) the lirst ooiumaiidery was planted.
Pennsylvania avenue was quite Ualcl< -
scopic and pyrotechnic night anil day, the
bright colors which festooned tin ImildingM
all the way from the capitol to tin- White
House presenting something of the ell'ective
ness of sky roc kets, pin wheels, roinan can
dies, and bengal lights, even at high noon
and under the garish sun. All gay lorswere
blent in these profuse decoration hut red,
black, and yellow formed the mo-' frequent
combination. Black and red or black and
yellow, draped all down the front of a large
facade and mingled with ticry red eros-.s,
I^atin and Maltese, are tremendously ef-
fective. It seemed as if the Crusades were
upoii us again.
The hosts
of the occa-
sion were the
four Wash-
ington com-
mander ies,
whose com-
bined ban-
ners and in-
signia are pre-l
sen ted here-
with, and a
lively time
the duties of
hospit a 1 i t y
have i in •
posed upon
them. Head-
ed by the
m agnifioent
Marine band
in red coats
and white
helmets, they have marched to and fro at all
hours of the day and night, r. " iving arriv-
ing com manderies and making the streets
brilliant and martial with th«•;• < \ parade.
The Knights Templars are all Masons;
none hut those who eli in U1 up the my ie
ladder into the capitular de o . between
the 3d and 33d—being eligible. They arc
also Americans, at least 8f>,000 to 100,tmo be-
ing residents of our States to ft,imo in all tho
earth besides.
They are also Christians—and it is on this
point that t'/ey diverge from ordinary Ma-
sonry; and they are almost nil Protestants.
The exclusion of Catholics, however, it may
be said, is by the pope and tho canons of the
church, rather than by the knights.
So highly is the order esteemed that the
princo of Wales, grand mashr of England,
founded a few years ago the " Grand Cross of
tlie Temple," to which only grand masters,
or those of equal rank, can be admitted to
membership. Most Eminent Sir John Q. A.
Fellows, of Louisiana, while grand master
of the United States, was admitted thereto.
Unlike the Knights Templars of old, these
are mostly pedestrian. Out of four com-
manderies in Washington only one is
mounted. Not half a dosen mounted cotn-
tnanderies appeared in the great parade,
but there were many mounted officers and
orderlies. The knights of the Crusades were
horsemen, and they were not always partic-
ular whose horses they rode. It is to be re-
marked, also, among the curious reflections
which the occasion suggests, that the Knights
Templars of old were exclusively Roman
Catholic—in fact, the ritual of the church
constituted most of the ritual of the order.
pipment and presented to
i ieial report during the s- s-
ng may be taken asa rough
%ii it rthe Knights in the different juris-
d'Cti >1 <dk resented in the grand conclave of
the triennial year:
Alabama, 280; Arkansas, 300; California,
2,50": Colorado, 750, I'onneclicut, 1,600, Da-
kota, .710; Ueorgia, 400; Illinois, ti,500; Indi*
ana,2.Ann I >w a..'1,500; Kansas, 2,000; Kentucky
l,5uo; Louisiana. 3"0; Maine, 2,000; Mary-
land, 7r n; Massachusetts and Rhode Island,
7,000; Michigan,4,000; Minnesota I.ftllO; Miss-
issippi, .r>uO; Missouri, 3,000; Montana, 500;
Nebraska, 1,000; New Hampshire, 1,500; New
Jersey. 1,'3>0; New York, 7,600; North Caro-
lina 2.V); ()hio, <1.000; Oregon, 500; Pennsyl-
vania, 7,ft00; Tennessee. 750; Texas, 1,000;
Vermont, 1,000; Virginia, 900: Washington
Territory, .'*>0; West Virginia, 600; Wiscon-
sin, 2,000; Wyoming, 500; chartered by grand
encampment, including District "f Columbia,
2,000.
The above enumerated Kniglits are en-
rolled in about 750 subordinate comman-
der ies, the three principal of each becoming
members of the State grand conimanderies,
and forming a body from which the four
principal oflhMjrs are selected to act as rep-
resentatives in the grand encampment, as al-
ready described in what constitutes tho aug-
ust and sovereign organizations.
The grand parade on Tuesday. October, 8th,
was a niugnificient display, both in point of
mem tiers and brilliancy of regalia. It would
be hard to get together a liner looking body
of men than these 20,000 Knights Templars
of the United States. It wiu a great column
of white, black, and gold; a wilderness of
plumes [and banners; and all tendencv to
monotony in the white plumes, the prim
sashes and red crosses, was broken by the
numerous gaily uniformed bands, and the
hundreds of magnificent banners carried in
line. It would seem, moreover, that the ex-
ample of tfie half dozen commanderies ar-
raigned and tried a few years ago for wearing
a garb not in accord with the ritual, had
proved contagious, for gold ami red belts,
white ca|H>s and green facings, and various
tricks of color, were not uncommon, and
gave cheerful variety to the show.
Taken altogether, the parade was one of the
finest ever witnessed in Washington. The
day was perfect. The clouds and threatened
rain of the previous day cleared away in the
)m«t obliging manner, and the cheerful
warmth of the sun dispelled the cold north-
west blasts that had made us all shiver for a
week past. Pennsylvania avenue never
looked finer, the crowds were never greater,
tho colored population was never more num-
erous, and enthusiastic, and every body voted
the Knights a success, and passed an inde-
pendent personal resolution of thanks for
their visit and the shaking up they gave the
dullness and lettiurgy of our town.
Among the events of tho occasion was the
visit to Mount Vernon by the commanderies
of Illinois, and the holding of memorial ser-
vices at the tomb of Washington. 1'lie occa-
sion was full of reminiscent interest to many
of the Western Knights, who returned East
after vuitiy years. Among them was Sir
Knight Thomas M. Patton, of Portland, Ore.,
who was one of the old-timers who struck
across the wilderness for the Pacific slope,
and who said to a reporter:
"I left Chicago in '50, and started west
with an ox team. Ittook me just six months
and eighteen days to get to Dallas, Ore., where
1 settled. It seemed strange to make the re-
| THE GUKAT Shi: I H E IT II is JIES
! VBUED DI HI V(i THE PAS! YEAH.
I What of its Future? A Movement to In-
create iu Elitedeucjr— it* Organization
and llUtory.
'S|>eclal Boston letter. 1
The friend r4h#. Iifa savingservi^ ♦ ongh*
out the c untry are in a hopeful bnt rather
expectant attitude. What will con press do
for the service this winter? One of the chief
champions oil tho Moor of the house is dead,
in the.'person of Saiu lelb. Cox; in fiict, he had,
by common oouient, ' iken the ]<>sitioii of
its champion on the floor of Com rest, and
there is considerable curiosity us to who is to
be his succee >r.
The uipreoedented series of disastrous
storms luring the past sesstn has given to
all dwellers along t ur storm-swept coast a ro-
iiewed interest in the ! te-saving service. This
is part i.Milarly true of New England, whose
coast is one of the most dangerous known,
and who probably h:.> n ore citizens engaged
in sea-faring in j r< portion to Ltr |*>pulatioii
UiNM any otlMf poi u . tu* w* lory.
The Ut'e-saving service,in its pre:k.~. w^ciivc
condition, is of comparatively recent origin,
though the first steps taken for its establish
merit were as far back us 1S47, when con
gross made an appropriation of IO.OUO '• fo
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TIIK PARADE PASSING TilK OAPITOL AT
STItKKT.—SKETCHED BY OKDNF.V.
turn trip in three days, a? I did on my way
to Washington. On our way West our ox-
train stopped at the spot on which Omaha
city is now located. We waited there three
weeks for the grass to grow so that our cattle
might be fed, and then went on. There
wasn't anything along the river there except
Pawnee Indians in those days, and they were
In one of the local papers I see an attempt | thicker than hairs on a dog, but it wouldn't
to bridge the chasm of centuries that inter
vencs between the first of the modern Temp-
lars of a century ago and that harried Knight
DeMolay, w|io, executed in 1312, was the
last of the ancient Templars. A fanciful
bridge is constructed complete, to till the bill,
but it is a preposterous piece of carpenter^.
Historical research shows that there was no
relation whatever between them. There is
no line of descent, and there is no line of re-
semblance. If there really was a line of do-
scent, and if something more were known
about the ancient Knights, their purposes,
their cond ; t and their vows, the mystery
would be diminished, and so I suppose they
would be less attractive. The interest which
the TempL s. «*cite is akin to the awe ex-
cited by the impenetrable darkness. Let us
not light a caudle—it isor meet to oe thrilled!
have been a bad idea if I had stopped there.
The entire town site wasn't worth a bag of
beans then. 1 almost feel as if I am dream-
ing when 1 think ofthegreat territory I passed
over nearly forty years ago, inhabited only
by Indians, and now go over the same
ground and find great cities and wealthy and
prosperous communities every few miles."
W. A. CKOFFUT.
most eminent sir OnATll.EH roomr, ORANO
MASTSR OK TIIK. UNITKD STATES.
The entire order in this omit y is under
the command of Most Eminent Sir Charles
Konme, of New York city, i rand master of
the United States. His headquarters, on
Pennsylvania avenue, have been the central
point of the conclave.
The estimated number of enrolled mem-
bers attached to the " Religious and Military
Order of Knights Templars" holding alleg-
iance to the grand encampment of the United
States is about 7ft,000. Added to the • may
|je mentioned fully one-third more of Knights
errant—tf lose who .have taken the vow of the
order, but who are not now aitiliated with
any ooiumaiidery. "'his would make a total
of about 100,000 Kr/ghts in this country
Alone, Vj say nothing of those who belong to
the Tp-ious preceptories of Cr at liritaiu and
tlis Dominion of Canada. The exact figures
of tl>t £*:tailed membership in.the United
States will be collated the grand record#*
Linn Y PRISON Ad AlN.
The llemnval of the Hlntorlc Edifice to
Chicago.
It is announced that the scheme long since
mooted to remove Libby Prison to Chicago,
is now being consummated. The transaction
is a purely commercial one, as it is believed
the old brick tobacco warehouse will prove a
paying attraction to a curious public, on ac-
count of its historic associations. It appeared
the owners were willing to set a value upon
it, and Western enterprise stood ready to
furnish the capital to remove the old build-
ing brick by brick, and set it up in Chicago
exactly as it stood during the war on Main
street, Richmond.
There is a protest against the preservation
of this rather gloomy memorial of the civil
war, hut perhaps it is more sentimental than
sensible. The removal can do no harm, al-
though the object cannot be raised above the
level of mercenary vulgarity. Tho ralations
of amity now happily restored between North
arid South cannot be effected by the preser-
vation of any monument of the internecine
struggle.
Libby Prison Is a Very ordinary red brick
structure, such as was used in ante-bellum
days for the storage of tobacco. It is in no-
wise different from a dozen other houses like
it in Richmond. It was used daring tho civil
war as a central oflice for the registration of
Federal prisoners, utid in this way perhaps
50,000 nu n crossed its threshhold on their
way to Andersonville and other prisons. It
was also used us a place of confinement lor
commissioned officers. One of the events of
its hitsory was the esca|>e. in February, 1001,
of Colonel Straight and 100 fellow prisoners,
through a tunnel dug under the wall to the
river. It was use 1 after the war for the man-
ufacture of fertilisers.
The ninth cargo of material for the Nic-
aragua canal has been shipped from New
York. It inultitled sixty miles of telegraph
wire, steel water pipe, and railroad material.
An .Illinois clergyman who has smemnlzed
1,000 marriages is wittily described by the
New Voir Sun as having made 2,000 hearts
beat as 1,000.
station AT cedar reach.
furnishing tlie light houses on the Atlantic
coast with means of rendering Os^'stniice to
Shipwrecked mariners." An extemporized
ervic e was already organized, but so poor
was its management, that this sum lay in tho
treasury two years before it was utilized.
After a time the money was used in erect-
ing a few mud huts on the New England
coa-1, and this formed the nucleus around
whieh tho life saving service was developed.
Matters went on in a shiftless ort of way
until 18 M, in which year ti fri htful disaster
occurred on the coast of New Jersey, involv-
ing the wreck of the ship Powhatan, ami tho
loss of over .".on lives. A bill was immediate-
ly introduced in congress providing for the
appointment of a superintendent at a salary
ofil,ft00per anum; a kecjier was assigned
each station at a salary of $200; the stations
and their equipments were made serviceable,
and bonded custodians were secured for tho
life boats. Partial improvement resulted:
but the absence of drilled and disciplined
crews of regulations of any kind for the gov-
ernment of those concerned, and above all of
energetic central administration of its affairs,
were radical defects, and the record continued
to be one of meager benefits checkered by
the saddest failures.
A thorough permanent organization, with
regularly employed crews and fixed stations,
was imperatively needed, and in 1S70 the
bill granting the appropriation for this pur-
pose was after a hard struggle passed. Two
hundred thousand dollars was appropriated
to be bjHiiit in improving the service under
tho supervision of the secretary of ti>« treas-
ury. Mr. Sumner I. Kimball was appointed
superintendent of the bureau. The whole
service was reorganized and put in its present
effective condition.
Tfiere are now upon the sea and lake coasts
of the United States nearly 200 life-saving
stations. The plan of organization of the
service is simple but effective. The coast
line of the country is divided into twelve dis-
tricts, there bcihg eight on the Atlantic,
three on the great lakes, and only one on the
calm Pacific. Each district is under the im-
mediate charge of u superintendent who
must boa resident thereof and familiar with
the character and peculiarities of the strip of
coast under his charge. He nominates the
keepers of the stations, makes requisitions
for supplies, and pays the crew their wages.
To each district is also assigned an inspector,
who is a commanding officer of the revenue
cutter whose cruising grounds embrace the
limits of the district. The buildings occu-
pied by the employes are, for the most part,
plain, yet picturesque. The main building
lias below a boat-room and a mess room,
which are provided with convenient lockers
and closets, and above two sleeping-rooms
and a store-room. The boat-room contains
the surf-boat, which is used on flat beaches
and in shoal water. It is mounted on a light
carriage, which may be hauled by the crew
when horses are unavailable. In the same
ft™ jSfa s
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LIFK BOAT STATION ON LAKE MICHIGAN
room is also the mortar cart loaded with the
wreck ordnance, lines, and various appa
rat us, while projterly bestowed throughout
the apartment are various articles, most of
which come in use in the manner to be de-
scribed. Tho kitchen and sleeping-rooms
are provided with only necessary furniture,
while the slore-Doins are provided with
medicines, provisions, cordage, and other ar-
ticles. The keeper and crew live during the
active season in the building, the construc-
tion of which varies with the climate in
which it is situated.
The general features of the lake md Pa-
cific coasts admit of the use of the elf-rsight-
hig and self-bailing boat, while on the stormy
waters of the Atlantic the other contrivances
have to be used. The boat is a marvel of
inventive thought which has been developed
by a icnturv of study ami experiment.
Tnere are many appliances auxiliary to the
principal means employed in the operations
of theservite of which space will not |>ermit
notice. The life sav ng dress, however, which
lias been made familiar to the public through
the exploits of Captain Paul Hoy ton, is one
of considerable importance, and on several
occasion* has been u*ed with great advan
tage. Clad in the suit, which is made of
cork and so as not to interfere with the use
of the limbs, men have been known to reach
wrecks whan even the life-boat could not.
When a vessel is driven ashore in a storm ,
the )Nitrohuan,who is ever on the lookout, is
the first to discover, her and takes the iuitia-
•• «t.*p«« in the operation of rescue. He i
trries at night, besides his lantern, a signal
• Inch ignited emits a red tlame, He burns
> signal and leaving the crimson streak '
"king far out at sea, hurries to the station
:d hastily informs his comrades of
lis discovery. The boat is brought
ut and hauled to the point nearest
he vessel, is launched with much labor and
-teered by the long oar, in the hands of the
keeper, makes for the wreck. Despite every
The Accepted Design for the Grant Monu-
ment The League Champions.
Gotham is at last stirred up over the Grant
monument matter. The whole country has
been jibing at her, and the newspaj>er wits
have made the seeming. delay the sub-
ject of innumerable pungent hits in the pa«t
few months. Ye!, after all, the delay is no
great matter. Grant has been dead only four
years. TI.is is a short time in which to ar-
range the details for the erection ol what will
probably prove the most magnificent monu-
ment to any American.
Resides, New York feels that in this matter
the whole burden should not rest upon her.
Grunt belonged to the country. It was the
personal affair of the surviving members of
SKLF-RIOHTINO LIFE BOAT.
precaution a suddenly leaping sea may break
md fill the boat, tumbling the occupants into
the sea and compelling a return to the shore.
And should they succeed in reaching the ves-
sel the most careful maneuvering is neces-
sary to prevent collision of their light craft
against the hull of the wrecked vessel, r
fatal injury from falling spars or 11 oating
wreckage, Taking off as many passengers us
the boat will accommodate the keeper now
decides which of the several methods he will
use in landing his passengers. Should it bo
seen that the sea is too rough for the use of
the boat the mortar cart is ordered out. Kach
rnau is well trained to his duties, and simul-
taneously the different members of the crew
load the gun, place the shot line in position,
dispose the lines and hawser for instant use,
attach the breeches buoy, and diga trench for
the sand anchor, while the light of the beach
lantern lights up the scene. It is a strange !
picture, the raging ocean, the wrecked ship j
in the orting, and the excited men on the
lieach hurrying to and fro in their work oi
rescue.
The gun booms out above the roar of the
sea, ami the ball and attached line goes fly in?
against the gale on over the wreck and talis
into the sea beyond. The line falling over
some friendly spar or rope is seized by the
sailors and they draw the endless line and
tally aboard the ship. They make fast the
block which is attached, and wave a signal
to the snrfmen who fasten the shore end to a
temporary pier, thus raising the line above
the waves. The breeches buoy is then fast-
ened to this endless line, which is worked by
a system of ropes by the men on shore, and
one after another the shipwrecked erew are
brought safely to snore. This work is all done
with much labor and sometimes it is hours
before success crowns the efforts of the res-
cuers. The breeches buoy, though working
quite well in small wrecks, does not come
into requisition when a large number are to
be taken from a stranded ship, and especially
if there are invalids, women or children. To
meet the requirements of this class a life car
is used, and with the great improvements
which have been made since its introduction,
it is now the means of saving large numbers
of people. It is about 200 pounds heavier
than the breeches buoy, but to make up for
this difference, in handling, it has a capacity
for five or *ix acults, and has carried as many
as nine half-grown children at a single trip.
It is made of galvanized iron and has much
the appearance of a covered boat, and is con-
nected with the hawser by a simple device,
in such a manner as to permit it to float upon
the water, while preventing it from drifting
in strong currents too far from the direct
course by the hauling lines. The apparatus
is practically water-tight, but provided with
means for supplying air, its passengers are
landed in the urne condition in which they
Ll
AT WORK ON A WRECK.
embarked. The occasions for its use have
been numerous, and in the first notable in-
stance, the wreck of the Ayreshire, an emi-
grant ship, off the coast of New Jersey, 201
persons wore rescued by its use when other
means could not have availed. Silks, jew-
elry, and other valuable goods have often
been saved by its use, and from one vessel
the car took ashore thousands of dollars worth
of gold bullion belonging to the United States,
and the mails have been saved repeatedly.
No other service in this country has been
so effective as that of the life-savers. The
number of lives lost from wrecks along the
coasts has been reduced from thousands each
year to a few score. ^ Last year, the propor-
tion of lives lost to lives imperilled, aid not
amount to 1 in 200.
tne accepted dbston foit orant monl'mext.
his family, and particularly of his widow,
that his remains now lie in Riverside park.
He had on his death bed expressed a favor-
able opinion of N uw York as his resting place,
and, as his family were to reside lu re, they
wanted his remains placed where they could
conveniently visit his touib.
We are moving at last, however. The com-
mittee has made choice of a design for
the monument, the estimated cost of which
is $470,000. The description accompanying
the design gives the dimensions of the pro-
posed structure to be 215 feet high, and 12ft
feet square at the base. The entire device is
to be surmounted, as shown by the accom-
panying cut, with an immense funereal urn.
The material of which the monument is to
be built is granite.
Prizes were awarded to-four other designs,
among sixty-nine sent in for competition,
but none of them bear comparison in com-
bined strength and beauty with the ace pted
design. There will be a vault or mausoleum
below the ground, above this a central hall,
with the sacophagus above it, and crowning
all the memorial hall and shaft.
* *
#
Perhaps no recent event here has caused
more general rejoicing than the winning fi>r
the second time of the League pennant by
the New York baseball club. Thi.k is a base-
ball town. $250,000 was recently offered and
refused for the franchise of the New York
club. The contest this year hud all the more
interest on account of the close light between
New York and Boston. The teams were >0
evenly matched thac there were but tw>
points in a thousand difference between their
scores when the deciding games w ere played.
Well, baseball is a healthy sport, and ;t is
fairly played in these times. The New York
team wo.i by each member observing the
rules of health and temperance, and perhaps
Mike Kellev's little spree at Cleveland, O.,
lost the Bostons the pennant. A game that
requires temperance and virtue as the foun-
dations of success cannot injure the country.
Jerome.
A Large Machine Shop.
For several years the Pennsylvania Rail-
road has beenunuch In need of larger repair
shops. This want has become so pressing
that an order has been lately given for the
construction of a large car repair and ma-
chine shop at Wall's station on the Pitts-
burg branch, and for one of the largest loco-
motive plants in the country to be built near
A1 toon a. At the new repair shops there will
be a circular building subdivided into circles.
The outer circle will have a circumference of !
about 432 feet, the second of 530 feet and the j
third or court of 100 feet. It will be built of
brick, sandstone and iron. Resides the car
repair shops a number of other shops are to
be built, on on * them being a machine shop,
a blacksmith shop and a planing mill. The
wo.ks will give employment to over one
thousand men, and will be completed by
next February. The locomotive works are
well under way, and will have, when com-
pleted a capacity for building 60o locomo-
tives a year. The buildings will be,however,
of such a nature that they can easily be en-
larges 1 ami the capacity'run up to 1,500 a
year if necessary.
The Great Northwest Railroad of England
h^s adopted the latest " penny-in-the-slot"
apparatus. It is in the form of electric read-
ing lamps in the railway carriages of this
company. It consists of a clockwork appa-
ratus contained in a box five inches by five
inches and throe laches. By dropping a
penny in the slot and pressing a knob the
mechanism is set in motion and an c'.octric
V'ght obtained, which after burning for ex-
actly half an hour is automatically extin-
guished. The lamps are lighted from an ac-
cumulator, which, placed in one of the com-
partments, will supply all the lamps in that
carriage. The strange and novel part of the
. hole thing is that should the lamp refuse to
act the coin deposited by the confiding tour-
ist is automatically returned to him.
l'OUNO .MRS. BLAISE.
She Will Yet Get Well and Go Upon the
Stage.
[Special New York Letter.!
Young Mrs. Jim Blaine is getting well. She
was very sick, and at one time her life was
despaired of; but she has the luck that
would make another Gharlette Cusliman of
her. Sh . is going on the stage. Don't think
for a moment she will not. And -he has the
brains, beauty, and application to win there.
Frohman, her
manager,lias spent
several thousand
dollars in this faith.
The layman can
afford to believe i i i
the woman who
dared to break with
the wife of the sec-
retary of state
Mrs. Blaine had
signed' contracts
with Mine. Mod-
j e s k a and Mr.
Frohman for four
years' work on the
stage before she
was married. That mrs. james blaine, jr.
was the reason of the hasty marriage She
had only known her husband three weeks
when she married, and it was because he ob-
jected to her going on the stage and knew of
no other way to annul the contracts only by
marrying her and refusing to allow her to
fulfil them. Mr. Froman very kindly released
her when he learned the circumstances. "It
was a great relief to me," said Mrs. Blaine,
recently, "tofeel that 1 was not expected to
have a profession, a career, or to work for a
name and fame, but could settle down in a
little home of my own, and live a simple,
quiet woman's life. We were very happy,
too, though we lived quietly. 1 know there
has been ti great deal said of my extravagance,
but Mr. Blaine only allowed his son $1,500 a
year instead of $o000, as has been reported,
and this, together with a salary lie received
from a positfnn I got for him in a stock
broker s oflice, was all we had to be extrava-
gant. with. We were happy, good comrades
together. When I went lo the theater or any-
where, he went with me. When ho wrote
on a paper in Pittsburgh I took his place for
a week while he went home for a visit, be-
cause 1 didn't feel that we could afford to lose
his week's salary. The managing editor re-
tained me, too, on my husband's return, and
we worked together. I had no thought of
the theater then, and the footlights had no
glamour for mo. We were getting on nicely
and happily when the break up came, and as I
hail myself and my bab; to take careof, na-
turally 1 tnr cd to the stage as my best occu-
pation. home of my Sri
go into opt ra, but my voh
I could only sing boy's pji
to the costume. It is one t
•'s play
hing t
s advised n;ie to
so jv. uU:.r that
and 1 objected
g to wear tights
and another ami ft
ar them i : o comic
iu 8hakt'
very dilft
0|« r.i. Thru, too, 1 di.ln't psirc to think that
I must alv. iys sing in light Ofera, and with
my tenor voice 1 feiire*! Hint ! nilglit be
nblijHil lo .1. io, am) so 1 ihrthuutricnl
life instead."
it is now thy hope that Mrs. Blaine will r<
cover in time to make her debut in Jammn
ki,an.
Shirts of chain armor worth £*i00oae
worn bv many European nabob* .vlr>
fearful of their lives.
DISCOVERED^ LAST.
DAVE MdFFAVS HOBIRR rROVBB
TO It B A WELL-KNOW; CKOOK..
11^ Tell* on Bis Death lied What He
Known of the Affair- A Runarkable
Crime Boldly Carried Out Suihutlonal
in the Extreme.
ISpecial Denver Le tter. J
Every hotly remembers the sUirtlaig rob-
bery of Dave Moffatt in the First National
bank here last spring.
He is in a fair way to be caught. That C. T.
Wells, is the man who held up President Mof-
fat of the First National Bank is certain, and
it is now a question of only a few (lays before
he will be landed behind the bat? of the city
jail for his crime. Evidence which has been
obtained proves conclusively that Prank
Pine, the noted confidence man now lying at
the point of death in this city, is the man
who engineered the daring robbery, and that
it was through his shrewdness tho money
was obtained, and owing to the manner in
which he laid !iis plans there could be no
failure 011 the part of Wells, who followed in-
structions to the letter.
One balmy May day, as Moffat sat at his
desk 111 his sumptuous private offloe, a slen-
der, wiry man, apparently 3S years old, en-
tered unannounced, lie took a seat at the op-
posite side of the desk.
"Mr. Moffat," he said, "I want 120,000.
Give me your cheek for that amount or >0U
are a dead man."
Here he drew a re-
volver.
" But," said Moffat,
who is a gamy man.
"You wouldn't live
an hour if you shot
mo."
"I don't want to. I
should take the con
tents of this bottle as
soon as 1 could lay
WELLS TIIK ItOMBKH. dOWJl this gUU," Slid
he held tip a bottle markMd 44 Poison."
441 thought my life was worth more than
$20,000," said Moffat afterwards, and hedrew
his check payable to bearer, got up and
walked down the length of tho bank (0 the
paying teller's wicket, where he directed its
payment. The robber walked close behind
him, his right hand grasping his revolver in
his coat pocket. The check was paid, and
the robber departed, gett'ng half a block's
start before Moffat dared give the alarm.
This robber was C. T. Wells, son of an old
friend of Moffut'sandapalof Frank l'.ne, the
noted confidence man.
That Pine was connected with the robbery
there i3 not the slightest doubt. When tho
bank was robbed Pine had not a dollar in
the world he could call his own, and now he
offers to pay back the $20,000, t< 'ther with
the $2,000 expended in the employment ol
detectives, in order to hush the matter up.
Pine was horn in France, and made his
appearance in Denver for the first time in
1876 in company with a man of the name 01
George Berry, who, taught him what he
knows. Pine is the king of confidence men,
but Berry was the power behind'the throne.
The lirst deed in which he was mixed up
was the selling of twelve cars of ore at $1,000
per ton, to Charles Leichenring. At that
time he was known us a gambler who seldom
lost any money and who made considerable
at the green-clothed table. He disappeared
after that and was absent two years, when
he returned and opened his oflice on law-
rence street, lit? had u desk and a safe made
of tin, which looked large enough to require
a locomotive to budge it. As a mining ex-
pert he turned ma iy thousand of dollar , to '
the sorrow of others.
At the same time he met and formed the
acquaintance of a man named Wells, who
was an employe of a Denver bank. Wells
had a son, a scoundrel at heart, who led a
yery fast life, and he at once saw in the
young man a good confederate. Shortly after
their acquaintance the father robbed the
bank with which he was connected of $10,-
000 and fled the country, and died a few
months aflerwaid. Pine took an interestin
young Wells ami engaged him to ilo his sec-
ond work. Once he did wrong it was held
over his head, and 011 threats to send hini to
the penitentiary Pine managed to get bin: to
do anything he desired. The two men lived
in close relationship and worked together for
years and last spring stranded in Denver, and
in urgent .need of money, without ore sam-
ples to work his old game, and in desperate
straits, Pine conceived the idea of making a
quick turn by robbing the First National
Hank,' and the man who robbed David Mof-
fat was the son of the man who defaulted '
from the same institution thirteen years ago.
Pine has confessed his intimacy with
Wells, and has even located hini. He is
dying, that he realizes, and he has resolved
to make a clean breast of the entire affair be-
fore death. lie does this w ith an object in
view. First, one of the men who was for-
merly a capper for him betrayed him five
years ago and refused to give him what
money lie had, and going to Iowa, turned a
new leaf, leads a respectable life now, is im-
mensely wealthy, and one of the most es-
H.ti N UNO MOP PAZ TO tk11ms.
teemed citizens of Iowa! Pine swore ven
gcance, and now that he is about to die he
proposes toa'one for his own sins by expos-
ing his old ti me confederate, w ill lay bare an
enormous robbery, and have him sentenced
to a term in jail.
If everything is favorable, a woman, who
knows almost as niu -ti as Pine, will appear
in the affair in a few days' tin e. she, it is
expected, wiil substantiate evt ,-y statement
made so far, and in ease Pine and his teacher
fail to agree she will condescend to tell the
whole story, which Implicates prominent
people with I he working of the gang, and
will bring out spicy and sensational Tories
iU the i.ublic lias never dreamed of. There
is an undc "iirreut lo the scheme and the
inevitable woman < •.-noecUvl with this af-
fair, not is an adveaturess by 01,v means,
but a relative -.vho w i'l stake he; life rather
'nans . Imo injured. She is in the city'at
the present time iu company with Pine
Louis Ski bold. j.
I- arther Deiuien (kn >v as (ftp leyr mar-
tyr), attributed his I pro^y to the inoccula-^
tion by flies of an abrasion on his scalp. 1
James K. Polk was the only speaker of the
national house of representatives who ever
became President. Thirty men have filled
the speaker's chair since 17S9.
M. Eiffel makes $3,000 a day out of his
tower.
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