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Show BIG TELEPHONE UNDERTAKING. British Government Proposes to Drive a Aonopoly Out of Business. Londea U getting ready for a big fight, and thirty miles of street are torn np for tbs conflict, which a littla army of a thousand men U bunging on as rapidly as possible In all probability no blood will be fhed, but a heap of gold la at stake After the struggle Is over we shall know more than we do now about the vexed question as to whether U proflt-et- k a people to run their own tele-- p hones. Incidentally, the contest will put a large sum of money Into Amert-ea- a pockets, for it brought to an American company the largest telephone eontraet ever given in Europe The strangest feature of the fight Is that It will be a struggle for trails between the Dilllsb guverumeul and sons e its own most respected elti-ae- a wfco form the National Telephone Some of the company's dieons party rectors of sums and the are of stockholders ths peers U the realm Bat government going to erowd them out of business If M oaa, aad parliament has granted 110.000.900 with which to begin this queer competition. The national Telephone Company is tke biggest thing of its kind in England. It Is practically a monopoly, rich and powerful. It has given a phenomenally bad telephone service to Loudon. Consequently fewer telephones per capita ate lit utw lu ths world's metropolis today than In any American elty of 50,000 inhabitants. Oomplainta were Ineffectual until suddenly a bill popped up In parliament authorising the postofflee department to establish a rival service. The telephone people in th house of commons were bowled over, and now. before e London folk fairly realiiS It, the Is laying its wires In mile after mile of streets, and the existing monopoly Is preparing to battle for Us f the th po commissioner to compromH ted bo asauranoc 1 the probable aeuoa should If &u ottfr It of the co in mb Insnrce lives, delstlu gevernment mads, hut wbe the Individual is igVision of law aad bonds, manages a messenger service, norant of his ap;eal ftw clenj-ae-y and spends $36,090,000 a year in sala- dsslrt to lOak 1 Provided it Is tee ries alone. His telegraph monopoly is to give hiss suit- i un at a net loss of about half a milduty of th it ( DO( instruction, U1. ou an average, hut able lion dollars a year, i the loss Is due largely to the sums deratbod frOti bribing contained la that any statement of the spent in extending the service; ths this circular say to the postofflee for the telephone, then charge users four cents aad divide the proceeds with the government At present the gteat digging operations are following the jhbin of th Thames pretty doeely, for naturally ths crowded business section of London will be provided with Its new telephone first of all The postoffic people drew a t.wo mile circle around St. Haul's cathedral and proceeded to survey it To do that they had to explore every street court, and alley In all that great section, a job that took a little over nineteen month i Then they began digging Underground London la already such a vui network ef various "plants." old and new. that It has been no easy task to flud a piece is every street where tbe telephone wires could be laid Perhaps tbe contractors had their pleasantest time In Cheap-aid- e, where In digging they found a curious hollowed tree system of trunks through which, one hundred and more fifty or age years a part of London got lu water supply. The trunks were black with age, but most of them soimd as a nut, and were promptly pounced upon by Londoners eager for souvenirs The new experiment in paternalism will make the British postmaster gen- oisl mure nearly than ...r ths father of his people. The responsibilities of his department are already astonishing. Aside from his regular postal business of handling two billion letters a year, he runs the entire tel- graph system of the country, eoodueU the biggest savings bank In the world. mm In woks bjfll mandant, William T. Sampson. In all 33 commandants have commanded at the yard. Irr Brook for m Am;. Is urged In the aunual report of Major General John R Brooke, com- It manding the department of the east, at New York, which was made public at the war department recently, that a pressing necessity exists for the reorganisation of the army on modern lines. He says: "For man; year past the general officer of the army hive shown the necessity for an Increase which will place the army 09' an efficient baaia and enable It perform Its duties with credit to Itself and to th satisfaction of the nation, Tbe events since the eommenevnient of tbe Spanish war have demonstrated beyond doubt, th necessity for a reorganisation wtloh Bill enable this nation to main- -, tain the position fn Which It. now finds Itself placed, so that, in case of war,t the army may form th bulwark be- -' hind which the volunteer army may be. Created, a has always been done la our country, by organising the Perhaps you have Juat returned from over the eights Paris, enthusiastic there. Here are tome of the thing rou didnt see: Seven great forts about the cltr. eight miles away from its walls. Nineteen smaller forts, four miles out, each containing thrae acres guns. Great aad mounting two melinite shells, tacks of Twenty-oready for these guns to hurl. ne miles of continuous fortifications about the town earthwork walls 160 feet thick at tke bae aud fronted moats. .Three hundred emby placements along this giant wall foe n as many cannou, kept free from rust in the Champe Je Mare arsenal, and ready to be swung Into place at any time. So cleverly are the forts masked by long slopes of green turf, and the walls by trees and bushes, that one can pass in and out of Paris a dozen times and see scarcely r Wan.' ' Sip The range Ye of Its famous fortifications of War, that ride the waves. ships n of the guns Is over ten mile And strike with spurs of steel. some say fourteen. Beneath their, at Your coureers quiver neath the curb, present, untenanted beds on tbe ramBut head ths. Iran heel ammunlr for casemates part are stone You bear our hearts and hopea abroad. tion, with small transfer wagons. Aero tee shoreless sea. These casemates open Upon the Inner, on your prows While, storm-defyinof set rails, 'base of the wall, tnd a Stand tbundrietYtory! standard gauge, runs ffotn the door-- l . . - way to the top of the fortification. What though the eastern aky be black You must look for thesr rails In th With death tor those that rove. grass, the general Aaff la o modest Though darkness of tbe damned inJOHN OAVEY, Suppose war oomes aftd the 309 guns gulfs Chief Engineer of British PBStoffies Deyartmeit) must be mouuted. WelLJthe atatLbaa Palm and palmetto grove, thought of that." Tbe rails standard Your fires Sash along tbe shore, 'if, efforts 04 the part of officers necessary gauge that He ready for the ammuniYour searchlights flood the bay, ' to the protection at the interim of tion wagons can be linked with the And Liberty can enter where V'"""1 Your great guna blase the way. the government, the collection' of tramway system .of Paris. To work taxes, or ths vigorous pro ecu t Ion of these guns, were every roan of the garUte. rison drafted away, Paris has 50,000 When your trackless paths prove Iona willful violations of law Is to be perThe eontraet for the enormous quanamong her reAnd j$ must be understood that trained artillerymen mitted. And friends are tar aad few, ' tity of electrical apparatus required by could 'niarf every gun servists. She office will no't tolerate practices this the government was awarded to the Or In all the waste of waters with her all forte which .aye itnanlfsetly. inconsistent twice over, garrison Western Electric company of ChicaNone' hut the Lord and you, a doten and put reservists, With aad welInfantry th IWJiw and dignity go. For the central exchange alone fare of th public service. Written cavalry regiments into the field for To Him who shields and saves ns alii 15,000 telephones will I be required, Prayers rise from maid and man. Evefy reservist, confessions and admission! of violascouting purposes. "while many more Instruments are beFor you bear the nations banner; law secured under duress by whether Parteianf hflfvpr provincial of tions You are tbe nation's van. ing made for the suburban districts. internal revenue officers, and offers of Immigrant, has a book containing hla No single factory could hope td have hla service, and ff number, particulars obtained solicitation Compromise by Advance. y steel-cla- d Ships of War, all the work done on time, and so the tef threats, wlH be held by this office a memorandum . of. the . , barrack to doubts and fears'L,' Dispelling the apparatus is being made in the ahops must he calling repair upon ip be void, u4 officers who are Instru- which Your bosoms hold a precious freight of the Western Electric company Is mental or concerned in securing such of the reserves. In ears 6t war Unas The fates 6f future yean, -j . , : switch-0- d three cltted Olmultaneeusly, the .fcaywould be Confessions and offers of compromise carefully malptalncd oer r High your, conning conquering boards aad their attachments la Chithe traifiway system Into use, and by the mums Indicated will be held tower sago ths rabies in ' North WoOlwkfl) t would be In communication with the to have tbe of regulations Tbe d'yarded pennants fly unfurled; and Ths telephones in Antwerp. Paris the enormous roods efficJ .ad will be dealt wltjj .depute, pf, thjf At the postoffice they estimate that but The Start and Stripes above you are ' termlnL. Not. rolling stock only. . Kv-sTh Vest hopa a tbe, worts. the whole district of 640 square miles vi horseflesh would bs requisi tioned. James Eugene lu tbe , cannot he completed for live years, but horse over four yesrs' old Is regisChopping ' Bookman. with owner, his will probsome of the new telephones type, 'If' Work at Which Ism Warns tered. together and probable utility. . Tbe general staff ably be la use in about two years. The 1 Mate Goad Camailaataaa. . ' A Giaat Navy lint, could choose from some $20,000 horse. man lr charge of the whole vast opA Vpme a (nlarge cities succeed Tbe oldest structure is Charlestown of Paris are tores The eration Is John Gavey, assistant chief military In earning a good, living and frequentboundless. In' a day she Could clothe navy yard la the long white brick engineer of the postofflee, and under ly something besides by shopping tot 450,000 fighting men. with bnlldlng at the main entrance, tbe lokirn the worn Is being handled by tee retail drygoods houses in ths vicin- and arm rounds of melinite car- cation of many offices and the naval . 70,000,000 three separate forces the contractors ity of their homes. Almost every big the army bakdrles ahe museum and library. Tbe next oldest At on all are will lay the ducts, which establishment' , has one sometimes tridges. stores Of grain- - In cast la the present commandant's 'resireserve large the American pattern; the Western more than one-- of thtees shoppers, who staff has a censor- dence, The land and buildings at the the cengeneral of the siege will Electric company equip are really detectives ft) their way. The yard were assessed a few yeara ago of prices ready 1st the Paris muniter from cellar to gairet and lay the shopper Is provided with handsome ship time fixes the by tbs Boston assessors at nearly all at which . cipality. tbe rroun-Irnd postofflee wires to ths gowns and hats by the firm employing escaped tbelr search, but these of bread and would flo so of other force will take up the woik there aud her, so that she "may ha vs the appear- prioe - Paris has an Invisible defense were all scented out by tour dogs,, staplescables. and wires the ance of a customer who would be apt lay the submarine boats that patrol tbe which, on a repetition of the expert--mer- it, The postofflee will give a much to buy largely. Her duties are to maks Mved eighteen who would from Asnleres and Ivry. Boston Seine a daily tour of rival establishments, ascheaper service than tbe National otherwise have had no help. Th dogs Post. The Telephone company has given. certaining the novelties In stock and are provided with a little box full ot tbs price, and especially to become present price for unlimited use of a and a packet of bandrefreshment War. of Dog a 17 is year, (about $85) . telephone cognisant of all bargain sales and resre an to aestlned ages. They seems tralneij to wait tlU play Tbe exdog ductions in the different departmenta while the postofflee telephones are man has uhed These, and wounded the Th warfare In future Tbe danger In the work of the shopper Important part pected to rent for less than $50. The If he is too lll to do 0 to run Lack with new ie provided army German In use many of Ues in her probable detection. toll system will be In Once soldiers. and fetch an ambulance officer. , The of she becomes known clerks and floor- a large number the shop modeled on the Swiss plan. i are taken Jt$. train other service for which the dogs are pains The greatest OF will THE GOVERNMENT CENTRAL $15, OFFICE TELEPHONE SYSTEM. walkers are combined against her and pay By this ths tradesman and eooutA' ita usefulness was trained are as sentinels her usefulness Is done. She is treated the animal, and at last ammunition-cmanmore as Important and, still, year's with teant courtesy and the salespeo- quite established ts employed arriers between tbe wagong and It Coblens. near actual receipts are Increasing rapidly, euvers ple are Instructed to deny her informadespite the fact that a telegram of tion and to refute to show goods. She In three ways Us Intelligence and tbe firing line. It appears that thft twelve words costs the sender only la frozen out and must seek other keep scent are utlllxed for discovering German troops sent out to China took St. Bernard would with them a nnmberOf these faithful twelve cents. fields. One of the cleverest and most wounded men. Th recruits. London for Samaritan and chosen If bs manages his new telephone successful of these, naturally be shoppers Is absoNews Ja kind ths object hut of Ibis business as well as be doe the tele- lutely duties unsuspected. She travels In a are lest which smaller dog, graphs, London will get a service at brougham and purchases largely, be- to choose man, The AatemoMl la Wan , cheap rates that may tempt American ing, to all Intents 'and purposes, s le- likely to be shot During the A recent application to our war decities to try tbe experiment, too, the gitimate and desirable customer. ?he euver 200 soldiers were ordered to of experience of Stockholm to ths con- keeps rigid watch on the different fill wounded In different parte or- partment for exper.mentt with miliambulance hundred Five tary automobiles was answered with forest. stores and enables her own house to trary notwithstanding. Instructed to find thent. a prompt refusal on the ground The present postmaster general la undersell the firms rivals at all times. derlies were one-ha- lf the total they appear to be the conclusion'" the rich and powerful Marquis of Lon- Having Ingratiated herself with some 000,000, moreU.than S. property In Boston, all abroad, where France and Germany of value Indonderry, one of the great coal mine of the salespeople, she even receives In the harbor. This are experimenting with them. . The owners of England. Ha was put into formation a week ahead sometimes of including the forte of th machinery and question has been in the hands of a exclusive was same the place at the beginning of the contemplated. Mies, and on the the building since erected. The naval technical commission .a Franc sine day her firm will make a similar Transvaal war. valuation of the yard before any of October, 1897, and eight automobile the present Improvements started was were tested In Germany during th Cm f th Fan WkMl NO SWEAT BOXES more than $12,000,000, the second highgrand maneuver of $899 and the GerFerris big wheel as a locomotive est of any yard. Tbe Argus was th man emperor has offered a prize of Xatarael Karan a la the round house for some enterprising rail- first ship fitted up at the yard; the $20,000 for tbe best military automo(7 aela Sam. road company la the latest novel pur- next work In tbl? line was th repairbile. In Italy after trial, a number of which automobiles have been assigned to the Sweat boxes are not popular la ths pose proposed for th disposition of ing of the famous Chesapeake, Internal revenue branch of the treas- that piece of was soon after captured on Lawrences army for the transportation of baggigantic machinery. Th ury department A recent circular originator of the idea would tew it death. The first ship built was the gage. Austria uses tbe D&nier. Autocapfrom this bureau says: It has come laid on Its r Frolic, which-w- as mobiles are used for army transportaroofed over In regulato the knowledge of this office that In tion found side, 1814 by th British, after a In tured bouse fashion, and yet keep tion, carrying a load of 11,000 pounds some Instances write confessions of to ltn buslneea moet successful though brief career. on a slope of 1 In 10 at the rate of of turning, thus receivbattle ship from three to seven miles an boar. Violator of law are ssntredfrom aiv ing The next was tbe Seventy --two locomotives. If neces" launched cased persons under duress, while in sary, from one Independence, Belgium "I havmgr one of Its army track leading to at the as ehlp receiving other instance delinquents are In- Its periphery. single In service s, wagons for tbe transportation of sup-- pi and util Frogs, California. The Cumber-landuced by solicitation or by threats to switches Island, Mere lee transformed into an automobile- -. would he dans away with. make an offer in compromise under Chlaago tbs Merrfmac, the Hartford, th The new wagon weighs 4,400 pounds, Tribuna n section of the revised statutes, which Minnesota, were among th more fa and its maxlum speed Is ten miles six A P alaha Mti 1 Pariah. antborissa the commissioner of Internal moui of th old wooden ship built at hour. Thr is London parish which, the yard, while the double turreted revenue, with the advice and consent of the secretary, of the treasury, to though lu electoral Hit must always monitor Monadnoek, rebuilt and now Admiral Kap- - Mystamatla Kaaards. at Manila, and th single turreted compromise civil and criminal cases be duly signed, does not contain a sinAdmiral Bradford, who la at presenl This Is the ancient monitor Nahant, Nantucket and Can chief of the Bureau of Equipment knit arising under Internal revenue laws. gle inhabitant anlcu were iron ship built there. Th Neither the ends of Justice nor the pariah- - of St Chriatopher-le-SWeSupplies la the navy department. Is statutes call for such proceedings. wbieh extends over the open spaov in laet eblp launched at the yard was th known as a man of system, la hla 1873. commandants In The, front Vsndolie. of the Mansion house and the They art wholly unwarranted by law private office he has banging on the aad the regulations of tlrta office, and Royal exchange, and includes the cor- of th yard have all been famous men, wall a bulletin showing th exact Geneand Included Hull, BelnbrtdgeJDowaea, must ssase at onoa. A treasury de- ner of tbe Rank of England. amount of coal available for purchase cision says: "No collet tntios yt an rations have elapsed since the parish Park. Parrottr Strlngham, Hudson, at the different porta Spice, Kimberly, by tbe aavy world. Btedman, wee offer should be made and no delinanything more than th shadow Rodgers.Howteon tbe THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY. throughout and the present com pyffe, quent should he iaduoed by threats to of 1 name. al at the Heed of the Radical Movemeat) 'Fowta 35-t- to 100-pou- 46-fo-ot 95-to- ce 95-to- g, j I 1 post-offic- 1 t, . ' ry fqr stores. ' fr ' j j four-foot- ed -- wall-train- ibt sloop-of-wa- 74-g- turn-table- d. k, prlUsh aster-Gener- t, V , - i |