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Show ' A.d" in The Times . , SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SATURDAVENING APRIL 5, 18lio" NO 156. THE G0SS WEB PERFECT1NG PRESS NOW IN USE BY THE SALT LAKE DAILY TIMES. Machine Which IYints, 'fid Toms 12,000 Complete PoPer Hour. ttol of the Press Which Was ;,lt Fpresslv for the Salt Lake Daily Times. Secret Depths of , Into the Metropolitan Daily News-paper I Qffice. Instructed in the Art of Col-.-n- il rul.lfshiuff the Daily ' Ercnts of the World. Transformation that Ohanges 'ind Incidents into Cold Bright With frficiE6 Regularity. Muter as lie Ap. rsatall Points of His Domain Tom Early Dawn to Dusk. Visible in the Inky andMys-;- s Eealms Where Stereotyper and Pressman Eeign Supreme. With New Press, New Dress, Engine and New life, is now ii the Front Bank. Sin Lake Times, which M as a a?o changed from a four-pag- e ;eU?l,are paper, and which is to imlarsize from this day, is now "cm ;i (loss perfecting press a i:if tin' inventor's art. The paper '., b?mi thoroughly equipped with iiress of type, a new eugiuc, and appliances usually required by a .ulitan daily newspaper, which dies now claims to be. ost of these new improvements 315.0O0. and the enlargement of :iht, the adoption of new ' 4 and the employment of an ad-,- 1 force in all departments have tripled the expense of publishing 'DIES. THE TIMES OFFICE iied at No. 12 Commercial street, it iloor is divided into the count-,m- , editorial ami reportorial ami the composing room. The nt is used as the press room and yping room. - oW A NEWSPAPER IS MADE. printer waits with outstretched or the copy prepared for hiin by itor. The stereotyper chews his nervously aud expectantly while lit villi impatience the "form," Lien to him by the printer. . Tho and circulator stand at the end line, suggesting oil for this and ng on the press, hoping to goad living movements. The result of implicated interdependence is is well alongiu the day when the .au is able to get his' lingers on t stereotyped plates and rush mto the cylinders. His is an n task, and as the afternoon in and he thinks of trains that " made he waits impatiently with 'clock ticking off the secouds in liini. THKrniii'rMvn nnrivi coming thousands keeps iu time with the hub and throb of the new press, which combines all the latest improve-ments and turns off many more papers an hour to meet the growing demand thousands more than were even deemed possible a few years ago. The latest web perfecting press as manufactured by tho Goss Bros., of Chicago, which now goes through its daily convulsions iu The Times buildi-ng-, is the most vivid commentary on the fast time made by the. American public. More than all it is a pulsiug, sonorous epic ou the growth of a thriv-ing city, which strides along at such a magniticeut gait that nothiug else but the adaptable daily newspaper can keep pace with it and maintain tho stride. Most of the worthy inhabitants who enjoy a fresh-bake- d newspaper know little of the toil and trouble which its preparation entails. They see little aud hear less of the rush and rattle which makes a newspaper office a swarming, excited hive at all times of the day. They know nothing of the constant struggle maintained by the editor, the. printer, the pressman aud the circulator to get the clay's news scattered over miles, of country before the sun rises. To them a visit to The Times office would be a revelation. The departments mentioned herein arc sep-arate aud distinct. There must be a "come Jo time" feeling among each or the complicated mechanism is set askew and the evening paper becomes a night journal. MAKING IP FORMS. Now comes tho foreman or oue of his staff, and the type, after being soused with water, to prevent its falling apart, aud in the technical language, of the compositor getting pied, is placed iu the forms. These are great, steel chases of great strength, each mounted ou an iron carriage or turtle," in order that it can bo moved with ease. The process of making up a form is one that requires skill, as the paper i iust present a good division of heads aud a neat appear-ance. The. type must also be handled rapidly. As fast as each form is com- - furnace there is a large quantity of seetiiing molten stereotype metal. Two meu with big ladles swung on long ban dies dip out more than enough of the bright, heavy liqtiid to make a page form, and pouring it with a skillful dash into the casting box, return the ladle, open the damps, withdraw the hot cast and place it upon the horse of the sawing machine, where it is automatically clamped, and with one hand tho opera-tor with a few quick turns, trims off both ends of the cast to exact length aud proper level. It is then dropped into a lap of a shaving machiue. in which a knife reduces the thickness to the standard, leaving the east with perfect inner sur-face. From the machine it is moved and put upon another horse, upon which its sicles are planed straight, and any largo open spaces quickly cut away to greater depth. Hot as it is, it is rushed to the press. The entire time of making the matrix and casting tho plate is less than fifteen minutes. The plate is three-eighth- s of an inch in thickness and for one page of The Times a plate weighs nearly fifty pounds. THE GREAT WEB PERFECTING PRESS. As great inventions progress they become more compact useless parts are eliminated, and useful parts are made more delicate aud at the same time more true and faithful. Where The Times' old press threw off twenty-fiv- e hundred, copies an hour, the new and the latest turns out twelve thousand copies of an eight page paper. The rise of the press from the time of Guttenberg to the great metropolitan daily is a history of civilization iu Itself. The rough, cumbersome machine of 100 years ago, bears no more resemblance to the most modern apparatus now iu The Times office than does the eight-da- y clock of that time to the or-molu ornament of a timepiece now found on the mantle of a lady's bou-doir. The whole involved ami compli-cated process, from the time the copy leaves the editor's hand until the news-boys aud carriers take the sheets, is oue out.. ,,. l. ,1 ...i of a large cylinder around which re-volved iu contact ten to adoen smaller ones, and with this tho discovery of the stereotyping process brought on the Hoe double cylinder, with a capacity of 1000 to 1500 an hour. Modem presses print both sides ou ono journey. The cylinders, printed only one side, and necessitated sending the sheet through once more. The real perfecting press camo in about twenty-liv- e years ago. The tirst machine was put on tho mar-ket by Bullock. His tragic death stained the early annals of this im-provement. Bullock was running i'ue tirst press iu the Philadelphia Ledger office when, in some way, his foot be-came entangled in the machinery. Ho was drawn in, his leg crushed to a formless mass, blood poisouiug set in and Bullock died a martyr to the d march of progressive genius. Still Bullock's machine did not incor-porate a folder. The folding was done on a separate machiue. The next im-provement was the addition of a folder to tho press itself. Tlds allowed a rapidity of 4000 or 5000 eijfnplete papers an hour. Hoe and Scott presses ap-peared, improving tho original Bullock, the inventor of which still retains tho priority in the fact of haviug been the tirst to use the web or continuous sheet of paper, rolled on a core and from two and a half to three miles long. Now the press itself is ready for a description. Esseutiully a perfecting press for an eight-pag- taper consist of a roll of pa)r sewral miles in length, termed the "web;" and a train of cylinders placed in pairs oue above the other; a pair of cutting cylinders; aud last of all, a foldiug machiue. These essential parts are arranged as follows: At the end of the press is a roll of paper; next comes a pair of cylinders 12Jx;)0 inches in siie; the upper one is the plate cylinder, upon the surface of which arc , pages four, live, two aud seveu of the newspaper. Just below this cylinder and in dose contact with the surface of the type cylinder, (just like tho rolls of a clothes wringer) is another cylinder covered i fi'lt. These cylinders, of course. same way as for any other kind of press. It is only after the type is placed aud locked up in the form that a differ-ent process is adopted. The slower presses employed iu many country offi-ces take their impressions from the type Itself, which is placed two or iuoi'0 pages at a time on a lieay bed of iron, which Is made to move forward aud back with each im-pression or the printing of one-hal- f of a paper. Every schoolboy who ha studied natural philosophy kuows there is a limit to this kind of motiou, with its weight of throe-quarter- of a tou, with-out some purl of tho press giving way under tho straiu. On the other Iwml, that same boy well kuows that there Is practically no limit to the motiou, or number of revolutions that can be ap-plied to an evenly balanced cj Under, To get this page of type, with lis thousands of letters, points, and spaces, into the form of a cylinder, was the problem before the invention of a web press. kxcei.uu uv none. The press formerly used by The Times, and still in operation in slower form in many daily newspaper offices in the country, could not be made to acquire a speed of nioro than 2.W0 an hourvvith-ou- t detriment to its liner parts. The new press prints 12000 papers with ease iu the same time. Tho spraying machine, by which the paper is dampeuod, presents a remarkable improvement. All other "sprays" for web presses fall from above and the eousoqueticelstbattho center of the roll is soaked whilst the edges remain dry. Iu the Gnss machine the water is forced from below onto a splash board over which the paper passes and Im thus evenly wet throughout its whole width. The Times' new press comprises uearly 81)00 separate and distinct pieces. After its construction it was set up in tho shops of its Chicago builders and operated with a view of ascertaining if its bearings were at fault and if the multitudinous pai ls properly discharged their several functions. After passing a severe mechanical lest and a careful inspection, the machine was taken apart, boxed and shipped to this city, u'lii.i'n il n nveil l'isl week and bassilice been in course of pulling up. An machinist, one of Ihelioss Brothers, lias performed the task of conl ruction, and tho machine operates faultlessly. Tho first of these presses was set up ill December, three years ago, for tin-us-of the Telegram-Herald- , of Grand Itapids, Mich. U has been wonderfully improved sinco that time, and now there are nearly lilly of them iu use, Iu a short time a day will bo set apart for the public lo visit this office and in-spect the tiew press while in operation. At present everything is new, and it w ill naturally require several more days be-fore everything is vvorkiug to tin; per-fection which Tut. Times expect to attain. pletect anil jockcci up u is wneuieu on to an elevator and sent down stairs to the foundry to undergo the stereotyping process, for, although it may seem strauge to many people, the type, never goes into the press. THE STEREOTYPING FOUNDRY. ""The elevator running to the basement is provided with improved safety catches to protect in case of accident. The car-riage containing the form of type hay-ing been wheeled to tho elevator, it descends to the basement. Here it is taken iu chargo and wheeled rapidly across the press room to the stereotyp-ing foundry. The process of stereotyping is very interesting. Once iu the foundry tho form is taken by a stereotyper and rapidly put through tho process, which docs not occupy longer than twelve or fifteen minutes. To make a stereotype plate of the form, or page,' tho mold of the type must be had. Two sheets of matrix paper, which is soft like blotting paper, although much stronger, are pasted together for tho back of the matrix, and on oue side, to produce a face for the mold, arc pasted three or four thicknesses of very tough tissue paper, one above the other. Matrices cau be made a day or two ahead and kept well soaked with water in a vat sup-plied for that purpose until they are needed for use, when, wet, but tough as they are, a green matrix is quickly Ollt Olll; IU1UI.I ,1L1WH tH, wuw ........ combines more features of constant change and constant rush than any other business under the sun. The transformation of news from the hiero-glyphics of the reporters or editors to a neatly printed page, iu the course of a few short hours, is one of the modern mental wonders. It is an index of the rush of the ago. In this, no account is taken of what necessarily must (ill up tho larger portion of the time, the col-lection of the informatiofi aud data. When this is accomplished the secret of the daily newspaper life is to get Into the mails and tho hands of the newsboy without a moment's delay, without any pondering rumiuation or muscular rest. DEFINITION OF A. "PEIiFKCTOIt." A perfecting press is, as its name im-plies, an apparatus by which papers are prepared ready for sale without manual operations after the work of finishing the typo matter is done. A perfecting press is furthermore tho embodiment of the inventive genius of tho mechanicsof 300 years; it, represents a wonderful evolu-tion from the crude germ of a printing press worked by a ponderous screw with which Guttenberg printed his biblo iu 1470, or thereabouts, to tho marvel of mechanical aud inventive skill seen in every large newspaper office at the present day. The really fundamental idea of a perfecting press was conceived in 1T!)0 VjV Nicholson, but his ingenuity failed to reach the point of practica-bility and it was fully fifty years before tho idea of attaching type, to a moving cylinder was made practical. Iu the meantime, the Columbian press and revolve in opposite directions. In the secoud pair of cylinders, ono contains pages one, eight, three ami six-- of the newspaper and the other is a "blanket" cylinder, as in tho lirst pair of cylin-ders.. The sheet of paper is unrolled from tho "web" reel and passes belwenu the first set of cylinders, (just as a sheet passes between tho rolls of a clothes wringer) and lo! pages four, live, two aud seven aic printed. It then passe through the second pair of cylinders, and pages one, eight, three and six ap-pear in black aud white. After both sides of tho sheet are printed it passes into a pair of cutting cylinders which separate the web into sheets. This cut-ting arrangement consists of two iron cylinders, one bearing a projecting logitudinul knife and tho other a longi-tudinal slot, which interacting as the. cylinders revolve shear the paper as effectually as a pair of scissors, but as rapidly as the wiuk of an eye. The papers, printed and out, nro carried at once to the next ingenious arrangement, the folder, aud emerge at the end of tho press folded and counted ready for de-livery and sale ou the street, This is, in all essential operations, the mechan-ical part of the newspaper making after the form leaves the. composing room. Previous to printing npou it the paper is dampened by a line spray of water beneath the web, a slight moistening being necessary to the best work. With such a press as this 13.000 impressions, 12.000 complete eight-pag-papers, printed, folded and counted are made in an hour! Yes. this is a f;i.t realm of the printer. The raat-- t tlm paper emanates from two ;the husiuess office and the edi-ni- l reportorial rooms. The runs his eye over a lot of matter that has just been ill. places upon it tho marks to liow much space il. is (o occupy l"iig il is lo appear. But the. tin- matter comes from, the The reporters, having tlm results of their searches in shape, hand them to the city who, satisfying himself as to tho ilical correctness, policy aud of the copy, sends it to the if? liiioii. Here it is cut tip "alt sections, each called a lliese are hung on a hook, upositor, haviug completed his te," takes the piece of matter itetou the hook, and in this way " article is frequently cut up ''itlwl among leu or twelve being numbered so "utlic type is dumped ou a gal-i- s in ils proper order. A juvc-aw- n as the galley boy, thou :e galley, or brass tray, in which Tj.v set type, has been placed, and 'ton a, proof press takes an ini-- " This goes to the proof-reade-lan hod for errors. Hiiro the f the compositor is shown, "' vho makes tho fewer r f errors escapes the ill "it proof-reade- r and the task of 'H the work or his follow ' After the proof-shee- t has fwgli the hands of the proof- - sometimes resembles a Chiuesc llien it is corrected by the coiu-?- - and, if necessary, a revise TMs is also searched for errors "ably another revise is taken, aphical errors having been tod the tiual reviso goes to the "? editor, aud if satisfactory, is with an "O. K." mark. The B0,v ready to be locked up iu the ft'iPABIN-- TOE MATTER. '"Ilc-ttio- of the day's news is the preparation of it for tho 011 of the public is another. hut a few hours iu which lo :';!in this herculean task, and 'tniug an encyclopaedic grist of U"U and new matter is turned in book form, would present "taiik-- appearance. With the nf The Times' circulation by "hustle" becomes a vital ration. A few .moments' delay 'position, make up. stereoty-pes work may mean a train lost ,N disappointed. Willi the - It Lake that of The Times Curate, and the bustle of the spread over the face; of a page ot typo and with a fine bristle brush is sharply pounded. By this beating tho paper is forced into every depression of the face, of the type, making au intaglio or mat-rix, in which the eutire contents of the form cau bo read from left to right. The form, with its matrix still g to tho face of the type, is then put ou a big , steam table aud covered with a thick felt; the platen is brought down with a heavy pressure aud held there from six to thirteen minutes, while the matrix is baked hard at a tempera-ture of about three hundred degrees. After being trimmed square and to size with a pair of shears it is then almost ready for casting, but tirst any great depressions iu the reverse side of the matrix are generally reinforced with felt backing pieces to cuahle such places to withstand the pressure of the hot metal. The reinforced matrix constitutes a tough, llcxible mold, which is then dusted with French chalk and uext bent around the concave side of the casting box, the outer and inner shells of which are brought to-- 1 gether and clamped firm, so as to leave a space about three-eighth- s of au inch between the face of the matrix and the core of the box. The casting box is balanced upon trunnions, so that it can be readily handled. In a. huge metal Hoe's great cylinder press were pio-- d need, but they could not keep pace with the ever rapidly moving world, aud as is always the case, when the, world was ripe for rapid work iu newspaper making, then came the perfecting press. The invention which overcame the ob-stacle poor Nicholson stumbled against iu 1700, was the artof stereotyping, i. e., the casting of plates of type metal in a paper matrix. . The crudity of tho early years of the century was the hand press, known as the Washington, in general use iifty years' ago. In this the roller was pulled over tho form by hand, and 200 papers au hour was considered very rapid work. Tho next development, which introduced the cylinder o much studied after, was the drum cylinder press, of which the Potter, Hoe and Tavlor were the best examples. In" these a drum traveled over the form. The secret uf accommoda-ting the form itself to a cylinder was still undiscovered. A speed of 300 pa-pers an hour was accomplished by this. This was improved by the introduction 41 S MECHANICAL DETAILS. It remains to give a few facts, relative to the dimensions of the now perfecting press.and its great advati gages over the old stylo "cylinder presses." It Is 12 feet long by 8 feet in width over all. and weighs eleven tons; the cylinders arc 121 inches in diameter and 40 inches long; the roll of paper ou tho "web" coutaius three miles of paper in one continuous roll, 4 iuches wide .tad weighs betweeu 400 and 510 pounds. The type cylinder is inked by a series of gelatine rollers iu contact at all times with the "plates" and fed automatic-ally from ink reservoirs. The requirements of the web perfect-ing prc.--s do not produce any greater strain upon the minds of the cihiukcj " of the newspaper olliic than an old Guttenberg press, as might fairly bo imagined. It deals almost entirely with the manual part of the operation, and more especially to that pail of it which is carried on below stairs. The lyie for the reading matter aud advertisements has to be set up ly componitors in the i SIGHTS ra M How the Visitor to I'tnVi Capital can Occupy His Time to the Best Advantage. BATHING AT GARFIELD BEACH. The Great Temple taxi Taliernacls Brigham Young'i Houses Othar Pleasant Scenes. Salt Lake City at the present lime is attracting more attention In the world at large than any other town in this Union, and every day letter nro re-ceived from all poluts of the compass, Inquiring as to the resource of this growing metropolis. It is for the pur-pose of replying to all these epistle at one time that this article is written. In the tirst place, gentle reader. Salt Lake is a city of 50.000 inhabitants, composed of men, women and children, and the population Is being added to daily, Immigration and nature being tho leading causes of Increase. ' The city is laid out ill blocks uilli streets running north, south, east aud west. The streets aforetaid are oixj hundred and thirty-tw- feet In width aud all sidewalks are thirty feet from the lot line to the curb. No in at tor how lovely a session may have occurred at tho lodge, a man can nW'ars get home if he makes an honest effort. The street ear sysleni is second Id none in the world. It Is a dual affair, the major portion being electric line, Hie ears on which run around tnwn like a bug on a hot gridiron. A man can ride out to Buena Vista addition on an electric car and enjoy his simple meal in less time than it takes a hash-hous- e waller to bring an order of ham ami eggs. The other part of the tent is a relic of by gone days when a man had to call the loll to ascertain if I I. i t .,!..... I If.., I' I.- After a person tskes a plunite in the salt w ater he feuh like a nw man sort of bora yesterday expression of thought sweeping orrr his rejuvenated frame TIib crowds at the beach are composed of good looking girt from various tious tf the country, and affable young men. A baud plays sweet m;uio all the time, and one can late his person to the tune of "Atiuln Lauriu" and several olhr melodi. The sight eer io Salt Lake city can occupy his time In many ways. He can stand and i at thc.vi grand old mountain prak coterud with snow, even In July, or watch the bricklayers aud rarpntrt s they rreel the hand-some Im-h- ir. blocks that are going up all over town. If he llk, ha ran vivit Knit IMiikI.m at ilreu parade time aod listen to the adjutant a he command "Hear open oidfth! March!" And if military ladles bo not to his liking. h ran go over and ask to look at th Temple, which was begun iu IM3, aud which has cost M WO.OoOup to date, and Is not yet complete The Temple U d.tudy building, aud knock Solomon's ouk IioI'sc affair cold. The three men now working ou it rvpret lo eompletit it liisldo Ihu next ten years, and then they w ill be ready for the wludUig Of (Jabrlepg trumpet Alongside thu Tcirpl' on the west, Is the Tabcnusl. whh'lt has a pipe oigan. ami a etlatf capacity of lJ.ooo popl. It lo has the lurged unsupported arch trxjf iu the wet 1'u the sunt u( tlix Trm pie U Iho old tithing office, where In the hnlcymi days of long gu tho chief tl the s lots of iic' rwot tluitt for omileutli of everybody! income, which was applied to iho spread of llinitiii trili' sof Joseph Smith, deceased. A One meanders east ard b will notice the Lion house and the Itee Hi v the resilience of tho lain Itriljhaiii Young. Al ios the street Is the palatial residence of his f.ttil spouse, Amelia. It I a daisy, and If the defuiK't piophefi affection for hrr was expiessrd In that building she must have very solid with him V, est of the Tabernacle I a b&lh house called tin) lialalol iuin, ntutm tor a quarter, one cau sIkik how u a greaoeu plank ordivii from a Irapcfo bar Into pool of m.iiiu sulphur chared water, and li.-t- more fun trun soy. iM'dy. In the south part of the tow n the tsl lor t ail see the several smelting work wlieie the men mold iler Into bar Hold Into Ijiieks and lead into plgi. This is a great slithl Down at Gal Held t'ily is lot of buf-falo and other w ild animal that aoort, cHort, and paw Ihe tjinuud for t'wi upeclator'ii cdiil, alioii. They ate very amusing. The old papa blf)B Will rli.i the calves, and the big lk girU-hol- s w ilh the kid antelope. The grUlly lieai' and the mountain lion frolic with each other and Ime xood times. Young mothers, liowcvi-r- . should berareful U"(. to drop their babies in til pit, as both thew beasts are v cry partial toward ted-der sileetib lit Infall's On the return trip, which occurs about 4 n i io. k. the siht can vlttt lilt TlMM office, aud efl the ed.lots edit, tho reporters n pott, the printer print, the piesotieu pn--, and the car-rier boysiairv. In addition to thi. thev can lock at the big perli;iiug prc Ml off l.'.oou jap.-- r per hour Then ther van g" to 'tT. atel ifterward the theater or uk a . alk or drive eqt to the Hot .Sulpfiiir ."springs. When till is ovi-r- . the rrsl of th-- ' nlbt iiould be spent in allowing tin-i- t nature' we restorer ! get a' eit cw-- or e!h hours' W'uii ao-- l liied.iy U vi r an nis laiuiiy wem ui i power Is furnished by descen-dants of the quadruped that carried the holy family down into I'gypl These last, however, will be retired from circulation us soon as the new dynamos for the power boiiso are put in position. Since the above paragraph was writ-ten, the mules have disappeared, hav-ing been kuoehed out by elecll icily. It was a quite a shock lo them. 'I his is another evidence of llui progressive spirit of Salt Lake. While a new spaper man is writing a paragraph about a pro posed improvement, the improvement Is accomplished almost before lie puts the period at the cud of his last sen-tence. There are four newspaper in theriiy, of which the one you are now perusing Is a good sample. It's a young journal, but it' getting there lit great shape. Keep your eye on TllK TlMM The climate here is superb The sun shines every day in the year, including Sundays, and the weather ss a rule is very mild. The lowest point the mercury ever registered was zero, which occurred two years ago w hen E!ialielh Cvly Slanton protmsed to charter the Tabernacle, to d liver a lecture ou the subject of "Ono Hus-band, One Wife." The soil is exceedingly fertile, ami nearly all known vegetable-,- , fruit and grain grow here in rich abundance. The human ia e doe very well h!m. A m an boasted in the writer's arlng it day or two since that ho was the father of thirty-si- children, lour of whom were born on the same da v. 'Ibis rec-ord is pointed to w;th pride by hi-- ai being excelled only by tin; hah df petia. The city is located ou the shore of America's Dead Sea. the Great Salt Lake, which is a body of water 100 m!! ' long and sixty miles wide, dotted w .tli j uiiuieioiis pictuicque island of rare j uic beauty. Salt Lake is urroiifjH. d j bv numerous bathing leitise, ! where for two bit one can leave his clothe with a p"r but ' honest young man, who furnishes a broad belt to tic arouad one waist w hile ho floats on the briny bosom of j this vast expanvi of natur:.! pickle 'fU f water supply of this lake i ti.o river j Jordan, aud its outlet i the evapor vj tioau produced by the sun. The w altr i is eighty-fou- percent aqua pura and sixteen per cent salt. Anybody can! w ini ill the lake, for it i irnpoM.bk- - M i sink, nnle.s you tie a mill stone around j 'your neck. A person cau get in) mou'.h full cf brine and make all the j lluswhe please, but he cannot drown. Everybody bathes in summer, and iu j consequence the people here are a fair j and pure aggregation of human being. J 4 TOM OCIIILTKF.K IM It X I.V.K II, Cslsrcr (.liauiberllii Tnki-f- In I'ngan Hull With a Jnk on 1 mti lies. New Yol k Press. John Cliambeiliu, the Wasiiiugloti caterer, has within two weeks broken ground for his new hotel at Old Point Comfort, and it is to be completed in about a year. He had come out of the Hoffman house w ith his face wreathed in smiles when I met him. His smiles were, duo to an encounter be had inside, with Colonel Bob lugeisoll. "I presume you have heard what i happened to your old friend. Colonel i Tom Ochiltree?" inquired CMiaiiiberliu, ' gravely of tl..! colonel. i - "Another accident?" asked Colonel Iiigersoll, excitedly. "Oh. I hope not. that would be too bad. But speak out, man. What is if" "He's paralyzed in his h ft eruKh," said C'hanilierlin. "Pictty b id. too " The genial seffer laughed until his rotnud sides shook, and within an hour had told forty differeul acquaintance how Chambcrlin had sold him. Tho jokowas so good that John S. Wise of Virginia got nit on it twice in ten min-utes, and thereupon declared that if ho heard that Ochiltree was with McGinly he would ask uo more q iestious alioul him. A lit I t. Af AHI. Tan owSIr Who l.rl tut at'M.nou a Sijf Im Silting . .New York l The two swell gaaibh r tl Nef York in the obi !.y were Feuibone and Cleveland. The latter vest a Fhlladcl phiau, w hile Fetttboue ca.uc front Tes nes.e..-- They had faro due! one pigdt. They had been partners ia Phlla-tetph- ia ia li and quit as enemies. Thev met at Kf . Barclay street. "I'll seUi with you," said fettiboo to Civt.!and. who w a tall. raw-bone-elegant specimen physically, "taagsuw iA ilW.OwU at a si,:g' aitfiug " ' ( owe cT' OveUott replied Th-- ! greeu baize was cleared aad th lig-- had bo combatant ia Sight but th two mi'M.e agmt gambler. At it they wi-nt- . Petiibouc was a heavy loser in the tirst tin-- deal, and bgan to grow white arouad The nevt deal h- -j vas lo-e--r to the tuu of 0 0W, for I her.- - was uu limit, fhj eveutn deal fie uwrw Teuitessceaa made a cai! for Ijuoti tU woo. picking up35.. nt by midnight he had woo every dollar of . ( levelaad money. Thev "parted as friends and were afterward partners at Hot springs, Arkansas They soon, liuughl ibs Blue Pig. a faniooj faro tax tag-- ; at Caps) 11a j . I April Knol Jufcwi. I Denver News: Cornelius FcrrU is I moie. firmly convinced of iho value of advertising iu the News than ever bo-- fore. Sonic unknown individual in-serted an unobtrusive little notice iu yesterday's iue, as follows- "Wanted A lady typewriter. Ap-pi-to Cornelius Kerris, Itf-'- i Seventeenth street." When he leached his office yesterday morning lie was rather n prised to .) a iiunilM-- r of handsome young ladies awaiting his arrival. During the dav alwjut "SMI more called in. and lat night he had aged visibly. Hois no engaged in looking for the smart chap w ho toyed with him to such an unwarranted ex-tent, and if he is discovered there will be an able row. i |