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Cleveland County Leader.
VOL. J
LEXINGTON. OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, SATURDAY. Aldl ST ;>. 180H.
M'MBKR 31
GEN Ell \L NEWS
(ar.rullr Selrrtoil New, of Current
Breiita.
The paid attendance'at the world's
fair Friday was 8* ,:J77
The Indianapolis National bank
failed to open its do jr.4 yesterday
morning.
Owing to the cxtrem • heat the pof>e
hoe suspended for a time the granting
of audiences.
Abilene has a balance of £Q,."iOOin
the city treasury.
Announcements of harvest home pie*
nics are already beginning to appear.
Brady, the Kansas high diver, has
now dived from a height of seventy-
four feet, and keeps getting up higher.
The navy department Saturday
awarded contracts for supplying al out
a million pounds of steei gun forging
to the Mid vale and llcthlehem com-
panies, of lVnnsvivauia.
The s^eain yr Benton pa ed Jeffor- j Notice has been posted in the llales
son City on her down trip Thursday ; mills at Lewiston, Me., that the mills
having a cargo of 4,*00 sacks of wheat j will shut down August '• for Ave
and loo hogs. weeks. The mill employ* 1,900 peo-
The celebrated Davis will ease, in I J*' *lth " mo"lll,Jr W ™u "f ••
which Henry A. Root iscontestant, in- j
volving $10,000,000 was set for trial at i The ti. B. Ilodgman Manufacturing
Jlutte Mouday, ( ompuny manufacturers of cooperage
Governor Markham of. a.ifornla Las !
appointed cx-Uovernor Oeorgo C. Per-
kins United States senator to succeed
the late Lcland Standford.
I ant! wholesale dealers in lumber, at
Sandusky, 0.f has gone into the hands
of a receiver.
The Indiana editors visited the WnO nP,. 'T'. I''
world's fair in a body Monday. Bp-.- " ' (fct p-.sses-
eial arranpements have b *en niadc to 1^/, «' ,P. . ' "11 .V"
(five them a week of enjoyment. I ^ , r"e1!1 "/« ^ ' *
J : seum «>t such articles already collected
The office of the United States Ex- j and on exhibitidu.
press Company at iVrrvsville, O., was I .. . . . , .
entered by Inirjfliirs Motulav niplit ami ! , A ' J . meeting of the Omaha
about 82,500 of express fund. take. No ! \'f ,ra"' a"'1 1 """"ereial < Ink
cjll0 I yesterday a lengthy preamble, setting
| forth the panicky condition of affairs.
The court-martial that is inquiring j was read and resolutions were adopt-
into the loss of the battleship Victoria i ed calling for the repeal of the Slier-
met Saturday, but no evidence was j man law.
taken. The court adjourned until
Monday.
The parade of the commercial trav-
elers yesterday at C hicago, in honor
of the world's fair, was a notable one.
H is estimated that 5,00ft of them par-
ticipated.
The Vermont Marble Company, of;
The Independeute Beige say • that
in view of the disasterous effect of
the recent drouth the Height govern-
ment is making preparations on n
large scale in experiments for produc-
ing rainfall by artificial means.
I'iie broke out Sunday in the stable
, . . of Jones Si, South. Their wholesale
Rutland, cut l,r percent on August !. j house was completely destroyed, to-
gether with the ndjoining house of
.John Emmert and .1. S. Wishard. The
total loss is about C1 U.">,000, of which
.loncs & South lost 8100,000.
The company is the largest marble
concern in the world and employs
about 2,000 men.
The people of Detroit, Micli.. Mon-
day celebrated the 200th anniversary
of that city's oirth and of Autoine dc
l.aMottc Cadillac, the French explor-
er who first settled there.
The Paris Journal Official annouuers
Hint August 20 is the date fixed for
Hjj the election of members of the French
\ lie election of members of the I rendi . ,
chamber of deputies. The second bal- | 11 1 so,>M
\ ..peeial from Youiigstown, 0., avs
the failure of the American Tube and
Iron Company is not looked upon a<
serious by local manufacturers con-
versant with the facts. They believe
that it is only a temporary embarrass-
ment and that everything- will come
lot will be taken Scutember
Hank Examiner Lazar in an inter-
view states that he is convinced that
all of the six suspended Denver na-
tional banks have more than sufficient
assets and will resume in time
The naval officers at Portsmouth,
England, arc preparing to welcome
heartily the officer* of the United I
The American express train No. 'II,
1 on the Michigan Central railway, was
wrecked at, Springfield, Ontario, Sat
unlay afternoon. Seven coaches and
! the locomotive were derailed. Four
; of the coaches were badly wrecked.
No lives were lost. The engineer was
badly scalded.
The creditors < Foster . Co
ami
States cruiser Chicago, which is ex- ! ?'ha.r,C8 1'"8tfr lmv'\ 1,cld laiV'.v at;
pected to arrive at that po.-t short.'v. U',,,k'" s,:ul;ut i""1 employed
| nil expert to make an examination of
A dispatch from Uio (Jrand do Sul, ! the books of the bank. This will be
via Montevdeo, says: "An important 1 done in order to see whether there
battle with insurgents at .laguarao was any irregularities in reccut trans-
has resulted in the complete overthrow fers or real estate.
of the government troops. Soares. was ,,,, , . . , ,
killed.*' . department of state has been
officially advised that the Society of
Professor Vines, the well known me- ■ Fruit Culture of Russia will hold* an
teorological expert whose illness from international exhibition and congress
an affection of the heart was announ- of fruit culture at St. Petersburg in
ced some time ago, died at mid-night the fall of 1804. and that the Russian
Monday night at Havana, Cuba. He government will favor the amplest
was in priestly orders. display of foreign exhibits.
Rev. Charles \\. (lallagher, D. 1).. of
Appleion. Wis., was onFriday chosen
president of the Wesleyan seminary,
Kent's Hill, Me. F r four years he
has been president of Lawrence uni-
versity, at Appleton.
William Downey, a farmer living in
the neighborhood of Sugar Lake. Mo.,
who was badly cut by falling in front
•ji a reaper two wi elcs ago, has died
of his injuries. The de
large family of children.
Emperor William has changed the
plan of his vacation voyage. He will
not visit Bergen, Norway, with the
fleet, as smallpox is epidemic there,
tin August 7 In-and the empress will
disembark at Heligoland.
Robert II. Hartley, chief of the rail-
The I nited States steamship Dolphin
with Secretary of the Navy Herbert
on board, arrived at Boston from New-
port Sunday morning and anchored off'
l lie Charleston navy yard at 8:lf a. in.
The secretary was received with a sa-
lute of twenty-one guns and the Dol-
phin had eleven fired in her honor.
A mass meeting in the cause of sil-
ver was held in San Francisco Satur-
ased left a day night. There was a large attend-
ance. A series of resolutions were
adopted in which the "secret demone?
tization of silvc*" in 1873 is denounced
as "a crime which can never be expi-
ated, except in its complete rchabilitu
tion."
It is reported that federal offices in
New York will he tilled by President
«'ay mai service. Helena. Mont., has <'loveland as follows: For collector
been pr< m >tcd to the position of sup-
erintendent of the Tenth division
railway mail service, with headquar-
ters at St. Paul.
of the port of New York, John I). her-
i nan, of New York; for surveyor, Rob-
ert drier Monroe, of New York; for
i naval officer. William A. Foucher, of
1 Oswego, or Alfred C. Chapin, of Brook-
i b*n.
Two hundred and twenty-eight
thousand ounces of silver were ship- I flM . . , .
ped out from New York on one steam- , 1tota,1 'V","'"""."' °'"sl,\m'r? «"■
er Monday. Two hundred thousand ',Um' tl,e I1."1 'lu,le -J; 18fl.0' whV l,av';
dollars in gold arrived from liunVc >,et'n . J""— llc '
and 8:.'70,.)()() from Havana. the present administration that the
: payment of their pensions has been
The grand lodge of Theatrical Me-I suspended, is approximately If
chanics* Association of the United j the same ratio is maintained through-
States and Canada began a three days out the entire list about 7r ,ooo will
session in cleveland, o., Monday morn- j have 'w-ccn suspended.
The Avery Stamping works, at
ing. There ar; thirty-eight lodges
holding allegiance to the grand lodge.
Joseph Midoc. of Little Rock. Ark.,
was shot dead Monday morning in
Chicago by Louis Diilon. Midoc was
fumbling about Dillon's room, who,
awaking, pulled a revolver from under
a pillow and fired, striking Miooc in
the temple.
Ex-Marshal Myers, of Findlay, ().,is '
missing. lie was a guard on the
THE TWO TERRITORIES.
rond^niril N«w« of Oklahoma and tfca
Itiillan Tafrltorf*
El Reno is making desperate effort*
to capture the Oklahoma City land
pftlce.
About 50C members of the Christian
Wheal iu the vicinity of shcrl Ian is
; averaging twcnty-tivi b.ishebi per
IC.'O.
[ Til? county seat of R county is on a
beautiful e :nence near the present
station of barton, and tint of h
■^ount. near Uilhov' '.ng .
I AT THK WORLD'S FAIR*
The Arkansas City Traveler says hav
w M haulers arc putting in full time haul-
Kndcavor Societies of Harvey county ^iaV out of e ' ip before the sol-
• .. . . ' . . nmlua ...1 ... fctOp tO tlieir
held a reunion at Ha stead last week.
Tho Kingfisher Times thinks Mar-
shal Nix slighted that town by ap-
pointing only ono deputy.
**Dick Turpin," alias Tom Ivinjf,
otherwise known as the femarc horse-
thief, was captured in (Suthrie Satur-
day.
The negroes who caused the death
of W. II. Meyers at CJuthric last week
have been arrested and have enough
testimony to convict.
The person who lias commuted or re-
linquished his claim since Feb. 13,
1891, is not eligible to take land in the
Cherokee atrip. Commissioner Lamor-
caux so ruled on April 10.
The canteen at Fort Reno lias been
closed for the past two weeks, but is ls .t|
running again. The new commander ! ue<
at tiie post is said to be in favor of
abolishing the canteen.
1 The territorial equalization board
worked on the railraod assessment
Friday. On account of the indisposi-
tion of Governor Renfrow the board
adjourned without completing its la-
bors.
iicrs arrive ami put
work.
Obi Oklahoma has thtw land offices,
the strip is to be provided with four,
and the Cheyenne country still pegs
1 along without any. It is an outrage
| which shall be righted.
! Why, ask Will Divcn, should the In-
j dian officer be • so anxious to assigu
, Lieutenant Hatch to the*iieyenne and
Arapahoe agency ? lie adds that thcr.'
are Indians euought without trying to
Hatch them.
The assessor's book of Harrison
township for 1S'.i:i is now being re vis
ed by Thomas n'Toole, county clerk.
The total valuation of real estate and
improvements in the township ;s
4; the value of improvements alone
4J,SSI: the persoua! property is val-
If. (i. ID air, United States geological
surveyor, was arrested in the Wichita
Judge Durant, one of the leading
Choctaws, gives utterance to the fol-
lowing sound sense: 4 I believe it to
be the part of wisdom for the Choc-
taws to allot their land now prorata
and seek udmission as citizens of the
union, under a form of government
supported by taxation, whose burden
all who enjoy the benefit will bear an
equal part."
4- , , v. *i t is Lightning struck Mr. Kefahver's
country a few days afro by the Indian hou8*c, n^ mWes ivrst of messer.
police, lhe Indians have In some way Mi>llliav mnrninir about„-ciock, u„d
l,u,,«- iuo JUUIHUB imrciuBuuic wuj Mondftv mnrnimr
become impressed with the belief that took f nff <U(, him ., t
their country is to be opened to settle- , o{ u h:lt was s(rhB
ment in about a month, and are jeal- , ut th(. sfr,llie ,vas tl>.- liffhtni..^
msly truardinpr it. Die affent finally | runninjr down the wall ofthehor.se
Cleveland, yesterday passed into the
hands of a receiver, to avoid making
an assignment. The concern is per-
fectly solvent, but is unable to get)
further accommodations from th«j
banks, which already hold $100 ooo of
! its paper. Assets are estimated at j
! 8100,000, and liabilities at 8300,000.
The plant of the Clinton, Mo., water
ompany was sold there Saturday un-
ler foreclosure. The plant was bid
gave Mr. ISlair a permit to prosecute
his search.
The Indian sometimes goes at things
backwards, but he gets there just the
6am**. The other day two of the red
brethren, dressed in their finest array,
rode into Guthrie on Washington avc.,
and espying the well at John Pat ton's
corner, stopped and dismounted
Drawing a bucket of water, they wat-
ered their horses out of the well buck-
et, drew another bucket and washed
their hands and faces in it, and final-
Ij' drew a third bucket and took a
drink therefrom. The ladies of the
neighborhood looked on in disgust
and have been busy ever since scrub- i
biug the bucket.
Special Agent Swincford, of the in
terior department, having completed
his work in the Cherokee Strip has
left for Washington. lie will recom-
mend that there bo only seven coun-
ties upon tho Strip instead of nine,
making the western counties very
large, as he found at the extreme
western end of the Strip over 1,000,000
acrcs of land wholly unfit for agri-
cultural purposes. County seats were
located at Pawnee agency, north of
Wharton. Kildare, Pond Creek, Euid,
Alva, Woodwaid, on range 12, town-
ship 22 West and one fourteen miles
northwest of Fort Supply. Land offi-
ces were located positively at Wood-
ward and Alva, and probably at Enid
and Ki dare or Willow Springs.
For the past two months the Great
Rock Island railroad company have
had an experienced man looking over
the country around Okarche to see if
there was any hidden wealth under
the surface of our fertile land. We
are not at liberty to state all he found
but will be sufficient to state that he
has found a vein of cement that i.s
eight foot thick, which underlays a
track of land 100 acres in extent. This
lind is just southwest of town and but
a milo and a half from the main line,
and another, but a few miles distant
that embraces hundreds of acres. This
cement has been put to a severe test
and is found equal, if not superior, to
the best Portland cement it can be
easily mined, and Monday morning
the engineers commenced work on a
spur which will be run from the main
track to the find and the track will be
laid as soon as possible. The material
and massive machinery will soon be
I laced on the grounds.
United States Marshal Nix has in his
possession about fifty head of cattle,
which he has confiscated from the
gang of horse and cattle thieves who
were captured the first of last week.
The cattle arc of a dozen different
brands and were undoubtedly stolen
from the large pastures in the Creek
nation. It is now known that the men
captured are only a part of a regular-
ly organized baud of thieves who have
been operating in the two territories.
Tneir plan has been to steal horses in
Oklahoma and drive them through the
and under the bed where the family
were sleeping, without hurting any-
body.
A remarkable discovery has been
made by a man residing near Oklaho-
ma City, while excavating for sand in
the bed of the river, and wliil the
subject has not been removed from its
position, sufficient was seen to demon-
strate the existence of a petrified man
of gigantic status. The body lies on
its ha 'k, one limb protruding by means
of which an effort was made to turn it
over, but the limb br ke. and was se-
cured and taken to the Times-.lnurnal
office by the discoverer,where it is now
oil exhibition. The existence of pecu-
liar minerals in the soil of Oklahoma
has long been suspected, and the dis-
covery seems to confirm the theory.
An attempt will be made to raise the
body from its bed.
From excellent authority we arc ad-
vised that the sooner law will be ap-
plied with much more strictness than
heretofore, and that any one who
enters the strip and inspects the land
after March .'I, 1803, will be held a
sooner. There wiil be booths estab-
lished along the bonier at which be-
fore the hour of opening prospective,
set lers may make oath that th v
have not been in the outlet for the
purpose of familiarizing themselves
with the land subsequent to the pass-
age of the act of March IS'.'!!. This
has been determined on, and of course
shows that all persons who enter tho
strip after that date will not be per-
mitted to take that oath, and will be
regarded as soouers.
It is leportcd by parties who claim
to know, that there is a camping out-
tit on the territory line close by the
road where the hay haulers come out,
who are photographing everything
that crosses the line. The photograph
instrument is concealed in a tent back
of an opening in the canvas, with a
curtain to hide it when not in use.
Whenever a hay hauler crosses the
line the curtain is lifted and the. out-
tit photographed. Our informant re-
ports that it is the opinion among
tho c who have watched the proceed-
ings that some person or persons are
taking these pictures to keep as an
evidence against all who enter the
strip, in case such are to be barred
out from taking claims. We are in-
formed that there is considerable in-
dignation against such proceeding
among those who know of it.
Ex-Govorner A. P. Swincford of
Alaska, tho newly appointed agent of
the interior department to locate the
land offices, county boundaries and
county seats in the strip and Kicka-
poo lands soon to be opened to settle-
ment, says "the strip is to be divided
into nine counties and the department
thought it advisable to establish four
land offices. My mission is to select
the locations of the county seats and
land offices, and if possible to have my
work completed and a report sent
unsettled country east of here to the ,„.fore Al|pllst The last eountv to
markets in the eastern parts of the I n-!,1(, miIned oklnhonut vva- 1 'the
dian Territory, then dispose of them. Wichita country, not opened f. settle-
world's fair grounds and has not, been ; hl for the stockholders, who will r.
heard of since the tire. His friends j or^aI1iZe the company with a capital
think that lie perished m t h** flames, of 3100,000. under the corporate name
children iu -Clinton Water Works Company."
: This system of water works was built
in 198S and bonded for ?57.">,000. The
old corporation defaulted in the in-
terest on its bonds.
The entire business portion of Kdg-
erton, a small town of 1,20(1, iu Wil-
lie has a wife and three
Findlay.
The Ateliison Patriot has recovered
from its financial difficulties. The
principal attachment suit against it
having been dissolved the other cases
will be settled, an I the Typographic-
al uuion has given the printers per-! liams county, O., was destroyed Fri-
mission to return to work. j day night by tire. The flames started
i in a vacant building in the middle of
the town and had assumed large pro-
Thc Donaldson line steamship A1
cades ran ashore Sunday night six
miles east of Heath Point, Anticosti,
and it is feared she will be a total loss.
Her passengers were landed safely at
Heath Point The Alcades is a vessel
of 3,400 tons and runs between Mon-
treal and tilascow
portions before the citizens had realiz-
ed their extent. Bryan, the county
seat, sent an engine ami hose cart in
response to a telegram for assistance,
but these were not adequate to cope
with the blaze. The loss is about SI00,•
000. with about two-thirds insurance.
and on the return trip steal cattle from ! ment. ()n account of the similarity in
the letters it was decided to skip .1 and
begin with K in the northeast corner
of the strip. West there will he L,
M. N;Owill be locatcdsouth of N. and
east will come P. *). II, with the fiat
iron country named S. The land offi-
ces will be located at Woodward near
Fort Supply; \lva. on lhe Southern
Kansas road; Skeleton, on tli • Rock
Islan*4 road a few miles north of the
Kingfisher county line, and at Perry
or Red Rock on the Santa Fe Tt i*>
desired to have the opening take place
arly as September 1. Everything
the Indian pastures and market them
n Oklahoma. In this way they have
stolen over #1,000 worth of stock iu a
few months, and it was only by acci-
dent that the marshal got on their
t rail and caj tured seven of the gang.
The marshal aid his force are trying
to break up the wholesale stealing of
timber from the government and In-
dian lands i i this territory. Four men
were brought in and jailed Thursday
who have cut nearly tf.>,000 worth of
tine walnut timber in the Osige reser-
vation, and a posse is after men wh
have been operating in the strip. Sev- j,.ls been accomplished in the way of
eral men were also captured in the preliminary work with the exception
Kiowa reservat on. with r,0,000 feet of of approving the seventy-one allot-
valuable timber in their possession, j ments and that which I am detailed
which they were moving toward Tex-; lo perform The proclamation open-
as. Most of the men captured are ing the country to settlement has been
common laborers, and were only j written and is now in Commissioner
working for some prominent men who , Lamcroux hands awaiting for the de-
are engineering the steal on a gigantic i bcription of the land to be incorporat-
scale. Arrests of some prominent cit-1 ed therein and the additional reser-
izens are likely to follow and cause a rations for school purposes should
bier scandal any be decided upon.
A WALK THROUGH THF GOVERN
MLNT BUILDING
Interr*! iiir Olijrrln TfuU I lr t At true I
Attention lloiv Our Money |« Coined
Hank Note I'rliitlng T!i© 1 4I1I
House Nerii«e.
O Ml eli t | !v
terest centers about
each of the bureaus ;
represented in 1 he I
disp lay o f the
Treasury Depart-
ment in the< Jovern
ment Building at j
the World's Fair,
that the difficulty
of grouping all to-
ki«t<'niJ) getlier js great.
J]l UJv Whether it be m
the coin collection of tho I nited States •
mint, the exhibits of quarantine and
hospital methods, the money of tin-
country, the instruments and charts of j
the United Mates const and geodetic
survey, or lhe great lamps that will,
some day shine forth as the '.>ea ons on
liirht houses, ti e very heart of the eiti-
zen is touchc I. Kaeli bureau offers, j
through tli' objects displayed, the lit-
erature prepared, and the «ourtesy of
those iu charge, an object lesson in
good government. As the money of a
nation is the touchstone of its pros- j
erity, the exhibits of the Bureau of j
Engraving and Printing and the United
Doable eagle, eagle, $10; half
eagle, f.*.
Three dollar piece, the coinage of
which, authorized in 18* 3, was discon-
inucd under an act of 1800. This coin
> a novelty. Its obverse is an Indian's
head, its reverse a wreLth of corn,
wheat, cotton ami tobacco.
Quarter-eagle, If?.50—This piece is
rarely circulated, but common enough
to need no description.
Dollar There have been few
changes iu the features of this piece
from t c time its coinage was first au-
thorized, IS 40.
Of t he silver coins there is the dollar,
dating from 170' with many changes
in design during the intervening
years.
Trade dollar—Now obsolete.
Half-dollar First coined under the
art of iT1.:".
Quarter-dollar, dime aud half-dime—•
Of the same date as the half dollar.
Tho .'l-cent piece was authorized 'n
Coinage was discontinued under
the act of 1 m;:i.
Ti.ere is a splendid collection of
ancient coins. Of those of the OrceU
republics, P.. « . Tuo-.ie, the index says:
"The highest point of excellence iu
the art of engraving or die sinking,
either in ancient or modern times, was
about the liiue o the fourth century
before Christ. The coins generally re-
lict t, the ; rt of the period and the
places from which tlicy were issued. It
was considered sacrilege for any hu-
man head to be on a coiu, and the main
object of the coin-typo or obverse was
t<3 place before the people an Ideal
representation of the divinitv most
honored in the districts in which the
coiu was destined to circulate. The
f r 1 rj
£3 d
RKOISTRARS OFFICK, I NITED STATKS TREASURY.
States mint at Philadelphia will first
be commented upon.
Adjoining the light house exhibit is
that of tin* Bureau of Printing and F.n-
graving of the Treasury department.
In cases and frames are specimens of
the paper money of the country. In
revolving frames at the entrance, with
specimens from the Register's office,
are Continent il notes. Loan Office cer-
tificates dating back to 1779, per cent
stock of 170. , certificates of indebted-
ness, etc. There are old treasury notes
running up to 81,000. \ crtiticates of de-
posit running up to Slo.ooo, gold certi-
ficates of value up to Slu.ouo, National
bank notes of from to S100, and
specimens of all the United States cou-
pon bonds.
In a large frame are specimen^ of
the line work of the bureau. Bills,
bonds and vignettes are displayed. A
dollar bill is shown iu its various
stages of development, starting from
the blank sheet, the development in
printing being back of note, face num-
bered, face sealed and notes separated.
In another large frame are shown
United States notes and silver ce:tifi-
cates of all denominations. Iu the
center of the frame is a sample of the
4 per cent consols of the L nited States.
sh( ONO-onDKK MftHTHOl SI
A third frame contains portraits of
officials of ihe United states govern-
ment, all h1 Presidents beinggroupt d
together in a shield in the center. An
other revolving" frame <ontains Con-
federate uotcs and bonds, and United
Stat s District of Columbia coupon
I bonds. I11 a fr mic near the mint's cx-
I hi bit arj specimens of internal reve-
nue s amps, documentary aud propr-
ietary ofi> ■ oleje issu 1 Other frames
I eon ain*l nited States tutorial reve-
nue stamps, while on an easel are
frames contain ng obsolete stamp-.
Following are t ie gold coins of the
I Uniteu States from the most \aluable
' *:\er minted to that «-f t !]•.• leaw ■ ,
head of Alexander the Great was the
first to appeir on a coin, as son of
Zeus Amnion, and. as one after another
of iiis generals assumed the title of
king, each in turn was emboldened to
place his own portrait on his money.'*
Specimens of these coins arc, per-
haps the most highly prized of all by
collectors.
Adjoining the exhibit of the Bureau
of Printing and Engraving is that of
the sub-department of lighthouses.
Not all the articles sent by the gov-
ernment arc vet in place, but enough
is shown to prove the value of the
whole. The most striking of all the
articles is what is known as the hyper-
radiant lantern, nine feet, in diameter
and twenty feet high This is larger
than any lantern now in actual use.
its value, with lamp, being£17,003. It
comes from France, as do the others
that are shown. It is mounted on a
pedestal. It is made of a series of
ringsof glass, arranged concentrically,
so united that lines of union are con-
cealed. When the work is completed
a glass basket encircles the lamp,
which in 'his particular case is of OOn-
candle power. By using rings of
glass joined together the effect of
great convex lenses is obtained with-
out the excessive thickening—leading
to obscurity—which o In rwise would
be necessary. Other lenses of lesser
magnitude and various patterns arc
shown. Two model light houses are
exhibited, one of masonry, the other
being arranged on lion pillars. A third
model is in proecss of erection. An
electric buoy is shown with lantern
and lamp attached. An interesting
exhibit is that of the whistling buoy.
The action of the air by varying the
degree of compression of a column of
air contained in the buoy, causes a
whistle of pattern similar to those of
locomotive-, to ^und.
That comparison with the great lan-
terns may be made, Mississippi River
lights are represented by model".
1'hese arc simple kerosene lamps
pi iccd on poles In front of reflectors.
One of the most interesting of the
various articles is a model of a light
hip. with specimens of the lamps and
lantern These ships are anchored
, outside of harbors and near danger
ous reefs The service is arduous, the
constant t >- ng of the little vessels in
wild wate and the loneliness and ex
posure producing hardships of greater
moment than those to which the light-
keepcrs of the coast arc subjected. The
men find recreation in literature,
books being provided by the govern-
ment. Kach boat and lighthouse is
upplied with a case containing an at>-
ortment ot' standard works, which
• re changed as often as necessary. Tho
\ isits of the inspectors are hailed with
delight, for fresh books and news
papers are there forthcoming as well
as the sight of strange faces —an event
in each of the«e isolated worlds.
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