OCR Text |
Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES, WEDNESDAY EVENING. MAY 21, 1890. 6 - Tlia Century Club. v No other club in New York is lit all like tho Century. It is not swell or fashionable; it is not furaous for its cuis-ine, its furniture or its entertainments; but it is delightful by reason of the artis-ti- c and literary atmosphere that prevaeles the place. Half the excellent pictures on the walls were painted by members of the club, half the books in the library were written by members. The rooms are all large, and most of them a little dark. Open wood fires make the place cosy. The dining room has one great table, where all who come dine and chat. The man next you may be a literary personage, a professor from Yale, or an artist with white hair and a reputation. Itichard Henry Stoddard comes iu and speaks in a voice that no other man dare use in' tho clubhouse. At the luncheon there is a brazier at command, and the members may, it they will, and as they often do, concoct what dish they choose. There is no show, no fuss, no array of servants. Scores of members are almost in rebellion at the prospect of leaving the old house. - Some have threatened in angry moments to organize a new club and stay, but nothing of the sort will happen, and the quietdignity of tho Cen-tury will be transferred to tho splendors of an uptown club house. Now York Letter. Dr. Tillman, IDentist. Centrally; Located at 172 Main St.. over Raybould's. All s peilalniiKC to Dentistry skill-fully performed und special atten-tion given to CROWN AND BUI DUE WOllK. Ether and Vegetable Anesthetio Administered, Consultation free. The only Exclusive Hatters In Salt Lake Younmn's Celebrated Hats. Iiest in tlie world Mwclully manufactured for Noble, Wood &Co Kalt Lane City, Utah. C3Z.SA.Xt TXTX.X REAL ESTATE AGENCY Real EsT.ri.'MiNiNO Stocks, Dixvia Branch. Court Uoute, Deuvcr.Col, ' ET . WHT --lE'Sr Ylieii You Can Buy 4 Lots iniss Davis,, Sharp & Stringers " CORNER OF SECOND WEST A;D TENTH SOUTH, On small Cash Payment, and within 30 days after Electric Car Line, already commenced,' on Second West, is completed, sell 3 Lots, for Profit sufficient to build nn remaining Lot. ' If you prefer to move into your own home today, We have Six New Modern Style Houses just com- - ; pletcd, six Large Rooms, Fine Closets, Three " Verandas, City Water, Elegrant Location, close in, splendid view;; near electric car line, ONLY $3800 EACH and Five Years to pay out at only 6 per - cent interest. ' .i Don't Fail to see Watkins' Addition ' Liberty Faxln on. tb.e Sotitla.. DAVIS & STRINGER, Ttao5aucp Io!l.ot 23 West Second South. AGENCY WARWICK HIGH-GRAD- E SAFETY BICYCLE. I nory a ittoek of HA PET V MCV4'!.E9 at $85.00, $35.00, $40.00, $III.OO, $75.00, $115.00, $11)5.00, TUICYCLKS uml In purchasing from me yon have a stock to select from and do not h;ivu tu wait. Largest Stark nntl Lowe!, Tricei on Sport-ing (jioofU, (iuiis. Cutlery, etc, SHOT-GUN- S AT COST. Bicycle and Gun Repairing. Agent CALlliKAPH W KITING MAC'HINK Carbons, Ribbons and Paper. M.. EVANS 233 W. 2d South street, Salt Lake City Price Sc Clark, Dealers In , Poultry and all Kinds of Game Fruits, Vegetables, etc., in season. Xo. 58 AVest Y'irt Snnlli Htreet, oniioftlle Klmlmll lllo.k. --J COAL K The Frank Foote Coal Co. are prepared to Q f"" furnish coal on short notice for family use. Try ZTTL their coal and you will have no other. J Main Office 153 South Main. O. L. BROWN, Manager, f SOUTH LAI ADDITION. i. .!,.. Nona On the Market. LOCATION: Cor. Tenth South and Ninth East. ON 'T1IJS": CITY, LIMITS, TWO MILKS FROM P. 0. LOTS FROM $400 TO $600. THE SITUATION IS GRAND. Overlooking the Valley. Call Early and Get Choice of Lots. CHOICE RESIDENCE. BUSINESS AND ACREAGE PROPERTY. BMTON, GROESBECR & CO., Sole Agents, 269 S. Main St. Dr. M. I. C. Inman, ' Electro-Therapeat- Vapor Baths. Treatment of all Female and Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Oitick Houhs to IS a.m. ; 3 to 5 p.m. Hoom 14, building street, Suit Luke. TAKE the MiimuKm M1MVAUKEE & St. PAIL FOR ALL POINTS EAST. It Is the only lino luiinliift solid Vestibule. Klertrlr l.tn'iteil. Steam fleiitort trains letweeii fhlt'HKo. Milwaukee und council Bluffs. Oma-ha. St. Joseph, Kunsus City und Souix City. All trains composed of Pullman rmiKiiltioeut sleeping rars and The Finest Dining Cars in the World. For further information apply to tho nearest ticket office, or ALEX. MITHELL, CommpiTlal Ay;eut. south Main street, Salt Luke City. Geo. M. Scott, 3As. Glendennino, H.S.Bohei i President. Vice-Preside- Secretary. GEO. M. SCOTT & CO., - (INCORPORATED.) --DEALERS IN-- Hardware and Metal Stoves, Tinware, Mill Findings,' Etc. AGENTS FOR the Dodge Wood Pulley, Eoebling's Steele Wire M Vacuum Cylinder and Engine Oils, Hercules Powder, Atlas Engines ana ers, Mack Injectors, Buffalo Scales, Jefferson Horse Whim, Blake Miners' and Blacksmiths' Tools, Etc. 168 MAIN STREET, Salt Lake City, - . Uta W. H. McOLURE & CO., IRE-A-L- i ESTATE, SMALL fKOFITS AND SUIE RETURNS. 06 West Second South street, Salt Lake City. WE HANDLE Business, Residence anfl Country Property, Improved and. TJnlmproved. Parties wishinu' to buy or sell Realty had better sec Profits and hs. Our motto: "Small quirk Turns." 1'orrespondcuce Solicited. W. L BARRET & CO., 207 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, Vtah. Pabst Brewing Coj . (Formerly PHILIP BEST) . I ' JJLTJTJliSZEl, WIS-- !': Export, Bohemian, Hoffbrau and Select Blue Keg and Bottled Beers shipped immediately " upon order. ' THE FAMlLYTR.im SOLICITED I FREE DELIVERY! TELEPHONE 3f B. K. BLOCH a d Co., ? 15.i;cohiebci4l st. ' Mali ana Montana Mainery Company CP. MASON, Manager. Headquarters for all Glasses qf . Machinery. Engines and Boilers from power and upwards iu stock for imme ' ate defray, steam Pumps Injectors, Horse Whims, Hoisting Euaines ; Kock Breakers, A all's Rolls, Ingcrsoll Air Compressors and Drill Lubri ; eating Oils, Mine, Mill and Smeller Supplies, Silver, Gold and Cou'centrat-- ! if g Mills erected and delivered in runninc order. Maine Office and farerom 259 S. Main Street, Salt Late D. S. i. AGENCY. BUTTE. MONTANA. AFTER MAN)' DAYST A Neatly Laid Plot to Secure $10,000 That Was 'filially Exposed, SECRET OF BUENS' EEAFPEAEAN0E. After He Had Been Mourned For by His Best Girl The Doctor and Ma-tilda too Sanguine. Chicago Herald. About eight years ago a man living In Pecatonica, Ills., who may be called Burns for short, injured his life in the Provident Savings Life Assurance com-pany of New York for 8,000. lie made the policy payable to a young lady for whom he had developed a singular de-gree of fondness, but had never married. Shortly afterward he took out an addi-tional $4,000 policy iu another company, nd proceeded thereafter about his regu-lar business. He was in.good health, and one day in December he went to the river for a season of skating, declining any company. He went skimming over the smooth surface of the river till he reached point three miles from town, where lie passed a group of men loading wood, shouted a greeting to them, and passed out of sight. They recognized him, and remarked on his grace as a skater, but they never saw him again. A CLEAR CASE. Burns never came back to town. His rcoatonica friends never saw him again and his loss was mourned bitterly. In a day or two a group of boys came up from the country along tho river, four mile3 from town, and said they saw a man whoso description answered that of Burna come skating toward them the morning of his disappearance while they were at-tending to some musk rat' traps; that he was performing some marvelous gyra-tions and that lie suddenly disappeared in an opening in the ice. Burns' friends found the marks of his skates from the Tory point whero he had put them on down to within 200 yards of Where the youthful trappers had treed a muslirat. Here they found a hole about ten feet across, formed by a spring, which, pre-vented the water from freezing. Tho vuaie inarms leu to uie very euge oi uio hole, and there were lost. It looked liko accidental death, and Miss. Matilda, the charming beueliciary under the policies of life insurance, asked that the money be paid her. But until the body was produced and identification fixed beyond a doubt the soulless corpor-ation declined to contribute. Along in April the ice was well out of the river, and the bed was dragged for tho body of Burns. Tho body of a man was found some distance down the river. He had on Burns' clothes. Burns' skates were on his feet, and in one of the pockets was found Burns' open faced watch. The identification seemed complete. But chief among those who examined and identified tho body was Dr. Pills, who had passed upon Burns' application for insurance. He seemed exceedingly interested in the case, making many trips to Pecatonica and comforting Ma-tilda by almost daily visits. He cheered her so effectually that on the Fourth of July they were married, and the girl laid aside ber weeds the day she was wed. For some reason the company still ob-jected to ' paying the insurance money, and suit wbb brought to compel them. They found Burns had made a will by which the doctor inherited all his little worldly wealth,, and this, with some other facts, still induced them to ques-tion tho validity of, the claim. The case did not come to trial until the following winter, and then the defendants' attor-ney asked for an adjournment until the following day. Was he going to offer a compromise? Next morning the court room was filled and every one was on tiptoe to see how much of the $10,000 Matilda secur-ed. Bill Evans, a barber, was placed in the witness chair by the defense. Wore you acquainted with John Burns?" he was asked. "I was," he replied, "Is he living?" "He is." ' . "How do you know?" "Because I am looking right at him taowl" WHY BURNS TURNED UP. All eyes followed the barber's keen glance.' Judge, jury, lawyers, witnesses, every boy rose up and gazed in horrified interest at an apparition near the door. There stood John Burns Bound and well. The barber was discharged and he took the stand. His identification was in-stantaneous, complete, unquestioned. Even Matilda broke down and wept, though something mora than joy at see-ing him may have moved her. The doc tor grew white and red and white again,' then fainted outright. Burns told his story. He and the girl Bnd the ddctor formed the scheme to get $10,000 from, the insurance companies. He was young and careless, and willing to take some risks. The doctor was to take $3,000, the girl $3,000, and he was to have the balance. Then he was to marry Matilda, and with her leave the country. Ha passed the wood haulers no the ice, and almost immediately after took off his skates, wont ashore and struck off through tho woods, which were bare of snow, and got a train at a station ten miles from home, and went to Chicago. Then he went up to Wis-consin and found work in a sawmill. He corresponded with the doctor, taking an assumed name. When the company de-manded the body the doctor wrote ask-ing for his skates, watch and the clothes ho wore on that fatal morning. He sent them, but saved the letter, which was now produced in court, and in which the statement was made: "I have a good 'stiff about your size which I can use." Burns accidentally learned that Dr. Pills and Matilda were married, and he at once returned to Pecatonica. He said that he would not have cared if his girl hadn't married, but her weakness and the doctor's evident treachery led them to overreach. The sequel was that the doctor spent two years in prison for his share in the fraud. Burns got off lighter, and the woman was not prosecuted. But Jiow about tho man whom the toys saw skate into a sink hole in the river? . Well, they simply lied.-''"!V- W SLreeU mid Sidewalk! Iu ISm'lhi. The smoothness of the pavements In Berlin affords immense relief in dimin-ishing the confusing noise and jar of the streets. Waking early in the morning at a hotel iu the center of the business section, one perceives no rattling of wagons, only the clatter of the horses' hoofs, so that it seems as if cavalry regi-ments wero continually passing. The smooth streets have also made cycling very popular, and tricycles are exten-sively used for business purposes. The broad sidewalks are laid with flagging in the center, and between that and the curbstone are paved with small, mosaic like stones that form a smooth surface, ii ml are easily removed and replaced. Beneath this space are laid the gas pipes, telegraph and electric light wires, pneu-matic tubes, etc., so that in laying or re-pairing these tho street pavement is not disturbed. Tho wires of the aro lights, as well as of the incandescent, all are carried, underground, and iu Berlin there are not to be seen tho unsightly poles that so disfigure tho streets in Mexican cities. Cor. Mexican Financier. The Home nf the Telephone. We remember well a number of lead-ing Brantford gentlemen being guests of Professor Bell at his residence on Tutello Heights to experiment with a very crude telephone which Graham Bell, then teach-ing visible speech (an invention, by the way, of Melville Bell's in Boston), had been working at. It answered tho pur-pose, of course, but was not nearly as handy or effective as the present instru-ment. It was here, too, that the first telephone line was strung from Professor Bell's to the city, some two miles, so that Brantford may very justly be designated the birthplace of the telephone, if not the birthplace of the inventor, who came from Scotland as a young man with his father. It was the development of the telephone system and tho prospect of the uiuniticent returns which followed which induced Professor Melville Bell, himself a man of wealth and endowed with high mental and inventive gifts, to leave here, much to the regret of the people of Brantford and, wo believe, to his own. Brantford Expositor, SiipertUHou. Hailrnuil Men. Another tragio point on the Houston and Texas railrood is Elm creek bridge. It is iu a creek bottom, a few miles south of Corsicana, where a convict employed in the construction of the road was kill-ed while attempting to escape. The tra-dition is that the unfortunate man was crammed in a water barrel, head down, and buried in scandalous haste. The su-perstitious think they can see his misty ghost as it flits across tho track in front of the engine; ominous of evil. Here ac-cident after accident has occurred; many engineers and firemen have lost their lives or been crippled for good, and thousands of dollars worth of rolling stock and merchandise has been destroy-ed. The train men have therefore changed the name of the place to Bad Medicine, and declare that these calami-ties will be perpetual until the convict is exhumed and buried horizontally, so as to destroy his chances to kick at the road which cost liirn his life here below. Houston Letter in St. Louis t. What He Did. One would say that Shakespeare, at least, must be the one exceptional prophet to be honored in his own country, but, widely spread as we know his fame to be, at least one Englishman had no very clear idea of its cause. Some years ago, while passing through Stratforcl-on-Avon- ,' Mr. Toole, the En-glish comedian, saw a rustic sitting on a fence. " ! "That is Shakespeare's house, isn't it?" he asked, pointing to the building. "Yes." "Ever been there?" "No." "Brought up here?" ... "Yes." ' "Did he write anything?" . "Oh yes, ho writ." "What was it?" "Well," said the rustic, "1 think h writ for the Bible. "Youth's Companion. What Did the Man Want? A man went into a pancake restaurant on Griswold street and said to the waiter girl: . "Bring ino an order of hot cakes, one at a time, and hurry tip." The girl brought a plate of hot cakes, and as he atq, them had another one ready. This she did six or eight times, ?ach relay being dispatched with relish. At the last he threw down hia knifo and fork. "Look here," he thundered in a deep bass; "bring me something to eat. I don't want to swallow batter and syrup all day. Anytudyd' think I was stuck on tan:akes."--Detv- oit Free Press. Rio Grands Western Ry. SCENIC LINE OF THE WORLD Current Time table In ell eel from mid arter Mai 4, 11)0. EAST BOUND TRAINS, NoTtS NoTi Atlantic Atlantic Mall. Express Lpiivo Ojjilen 9M a.m. 5:40 p. m Arrive Suit Lake Il(l:4ft a.m. 7:u p.m Lphvo Salt lMke 0M a.m. 7:lh p.m Arrive Pmvo p in. t:IH p.m Leave I'rovo 18:4.1 p.m. 0:W p.m Arrive (Jreeii River H:S0 p.m. 4:ST u.m Lea ve Green River 7:1(1 p.m. 4:1. a.tn Arrive Pueblo ;i:(fi p.m. j:IU ft.m Arrive Denver. 7:45 p.m. i:V a.m WEST BOUND TRAINS. Ntl "No7s Paclrto lwitlo Mall. Express Leave Denver :() a.m. 8:W p.m. Leave Pueblo 1:SI) p.m. 1S:40 a.m. Arrive tlreen River ::) a,m. 11 :4ft p.m. Leave Green River 10:10 a.m. ll:1fp.ni. Arrive I'rovo 4:S0 p.m. H:fi5 a.m. Leave Provo h.tfi p.m. 7:lft a.m. Arrive Salt Lake fl:IW p.m. H:SI n.m Leave Salt Lake 7:0 p.m. 11:05 a.m. Ainvepgileli.. ...... .... 8:3Q p.m. )0:,'W a.m. LOCAL TRAINS. SALT I.AKK ANI OttDUN. Leave Salt Lake: Arrive Sail Lake: S:aOa.m. W:o." a.m. lo:4ft a.m. K.I0 p.jn 4:;i)ij.m. 7:(Fip.m. J:ik"p.m. S:ip.m SALT I.AKK TO HINCMAM ANIUVAKVO H. Lv Salt Lake. .7:10 a.m Lv WaVatrh.. 10:00 a.m Air HuiRham. ::tf a.m Lv HlnnUain. '.'.. p. m Ait VasaU'h..8:15a.m'Arr Sail. Lake 4:wip.m Trains vim to vasateh only oil Macdnyd, Wednesday ami Saturdays. , ! v .;' P. V. DOIH4K, J. ft, HSNIVKTT, lien. Manager. . liirn, I'a, Agl It is a mmewlut curious fact that there aro now three Duchesses of Manchester. The second of those, who became dow-ager duchess by the death of the duko in Naples, iu March, is a remarkablo wo-man. She is the daughter of a Hano-verian nobleman, beautiful, witty, high-ly accomplished, and uu able aud astute politician. Few men iu English affairs have been more influential in inviting or postponing a governmental crisis than he, while Iit social sway was undis-puted. To his devoted friendship foi this brilliant la4y tho London gossips ascribe tho celibacy of the Marquis cf Hartpfftoii-- But nn bresth of reproach has evr abided Uev grace's name-- - i - The Safer Stjle.. ' There have been so many instances of fnctoiy girls gettimj their hair entangled iu machinery that most of those in New Eujjlajd e returned to the old ani safer etyle of wearing it a la young man. "Woman's glory is her hs.ir, but she doesn't vaiit her head pulled oif in ordor to re-tain fc.ir glory. Detroit Free Press. |