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T H E L O N G - I S L A N D F A R M E R . J A M A I C A , J A N U A R Y 11, 1901. CA NTEEN M UST GO. T h e S e n a t e Concur*! In t h e o u « P r o v i s i o n . Washington, Jan. 10.—The senate ye*: tex-fiay by a very decisive vote concurred in the house provision relative to the ar my canteen. Only 15 votes conld be mus tered in the senate in favor of the can* teen, while 34 were cast against it. Most of the time was occupied by 8>nators Teller of Colorado, Pettigrew of South Dakota and Bntler of North Carolina, who all opposed the adoption of the sen ate committee’s amendment, which pro vided for a continuance of the canteen. Beyond disposing finally of the canteen question the sennte accomplished little, and it seems doubtful whether a final vote upon the measure will he reached before Friday or Saturday. The house considered the river and har bor appropriation bill. Little progress was made. In a bill carrying such a vast sum for local improvements many are bound to he disappointed, and there is considerable soreness among the members who fail to get what they want. This soreness outcropped in several places, the disappointed members refusing to allow any, limit to be placed on the general de bate. It extended throughout the day, be ing seemingly no nearer conclusion a t ad journment than when it started. Mr. Bur ton, chairman of the committee on rivers and harbors, who is in charge of the bill, made an elaborate explanation of its pro visions. Several western members assail ed it for not containing provision for irri gation reservoirs, and Mr. Corliss of Michigan attacked it for not giving prop er recognition to the great lakes deep wa terway project. AT ALBANY. A p p o i n t m e n t * o f C le r k * I n S e n n t e a n d A fl«em b ly. Albany, Jan. 10.—The principal feature of the assembling of the two houses of the legislature last night was the appoint ment of committees and clerks. In the senate the principal appoint ments were: Assistant clerk, Lafayette B. Gleason; journal clerk, Ernest A. Fay; assistant, Lincoln G. Decant; index clerk, Miner Wellman; assistant, Frank G. Cunley; deputy clerks, George D. Emer son, Edward F. Andrews, William P. Belden, Charles A. Wilkins and R. B. Hockinsj librarian, D. A. Lawrence; - ^financial clerk, E. It. Ford; superintend ent of documents, Clayton T. Bagg. In the assembly these were the most important appointments: Assistant clerk, Ray B. Smith of Onondaga; journal clerk, Henry L. Gates of Oneida; assist ant journal clerk, Morton Cromwell of Queens; deputy clerks, John A. Ellwood of Erie, D. W. Evarts of Orleans, James J. Flannigan of the Twenty-first district, New York; W. S. Moore of Tioga, C. A. Sloane of Schuyler, George Dome of Monroe, Charles A. Barrow of Kings,, \ William V. Ross of Albany and John Glover of Chenango; deputy clerk to the committee on revisions, James O. Shel- do.x of Cattaraugus; index clerk, John A. Cole of Fulton; assistant index clerks, Amos H. Knapp of Nassau and William J. Kline of Montgomery; librarian, John R. Yale of Putnam; assistant librarian. B. V. Smith of Chemung; financial clerk, Frank N. Petrie of Herkimer; superin tendent of wrapping department Frank K. Bowers of New York. M n r r i a # e o f L i e u t e n a n t w h i t i l d e . Santiago, Cuba. Jan. 10.'—General Wlrtside anil his family have gone to Mai zanillo to attend the wedding of General Wliitside’s son, Lieutenant War ren Whitside. and Miss Lillian Itigney, X only daughter of Mr. Joseph Rigney, the * millionaire proprietor of Ceibahueea, near Manzanillo, the large .4 sugar plantation in the province. Several officers and their wives accompanied the WhitsidCs. The function will be a brilliant affair. The band of the Tenth United States cavalry, which has been stationed here for two mouths, has returned to Manzanillo for the ceremony. The Rigneys are well known Americans, famous for their hos pitality, and the plantation is one of the show places of the province. Lieutenant Whitside and his bride will go to New York for their honeymoon. I n a u g u r a l B a l l I n H a r t f o r d . Hartford, Jan. 10.—The inaugural ball given by the First company, Governor’s Foot guard, in honor of Governor Geovge P. McLean was the social event of the season in this city last night. The I\o t Guard armory was transformed to a com plete canopy, corise and white bunting completely hiding the walls and ceiling, and the relief decorations were very elaborate. Governor McLean was re ceived with military honors by the guard and afterward held a reception at which many hundreds of the best known people of the city and state were present. Ma jor Louis R. Cheney of the guard was master of ceremonies. Dancing followed the reception. E r i e ’* B o w l i n g D r o p * Off. Chicago, Jan. 10.—Crowds of enthusi astic bowlers filled the Welsbach build ing yesterday afterno/'M o watch the progress of the bowli- jj&umament, and in the evening, des\^iFone of the most severe storms thaC^nave visited Chicago for a year, the attendance was in no way diminished. The interstate club of Brie, Pa., which led at the conclusion of Tues day night’s playing, had dropped to third place by the time the third rounds was completed, the Standards and Crescents, both of Chicago, being first and second respectively. M o v e m e n t* o f G o v e r n m e n t V e u a e l*. Washington, Jan. 10.—The Hartford has left La Guayra for Trinidad in pur suance of the navy department’s instruc tions to proceed on her cruise with the landsmen brought over to Venezuela by the Buffalo. The Vicksburg, en route to the Asiatic station, has left Colombo for Singapore. The Saturn t«is arrived at Cavite. The submarine boat Holland, in tow of the Standish, has left Annapolis for Norfolk. L i n d C e l e b r a t e s R e t i r e m e n t . St. Paul, Jan. 10.—Governor John Lind retired from office at noon yesterday. At 3 o’cloek in the afternoon he visited the office of the St. Paul Dispatch, which had criticised him bitterly during his term, said to Managing Editor Harry T. Black, “I am now a private citizen,” and struck Mr. Black between the eyes. The men clinched, hut were immediately separat ed, and Governor Lind left the office. FINE LAND FOR BOOMERS Thousands Awaiting Opening of Kiowa and Comanche Country. WILD EAOE FOE FEEE HOMESTEADS B l o o d P o i s o n P r o m B r o k e n T o o t k . ' Watertown, N. Y., .Tan. 10.™Miss Ma- aie Farrell, aged 21, living near this city, is dead from blood poisoning. Last July she had a tooth extracted, and s-ev- era! pieces of the tooth which were bro ken off a t that time had since given her considerable pain, and a few days ago Mood poisoning set In, W h e n th e G o v e r n m e n t G ive* t h e S i s - n a l , L i v e l y S c r a m b l e W i l l B e g in . M i l lio n a n d a H a l f A c re* to B e D i v i d e d A m o n g W h i t e Settlers*—-In d i a n * G e t t h e C h o ic e s t . When the date for opening the Kiowa and Comanche country was originally fixed by congress for the 0th of June, or as m ich earlier as the work could be accomplished, there was a case in the United States supreme court which might have been decided iu favor of the Indians, and If it had been so de cided it would have delayed the open ing at least three years, and possibly much longer. The case was one in which the Choc taw and Chickasaw Indians claimed pay for the surplus lands in the Wichi ta reservation. The supreme court de cided the case against the Indians, the decision giving the United States all the reservation after making provision for the Indians now on the land, says a dispatch from Oklahoma City to the Kansas City Times. This decision is accepted by white men as a precedent in the Kiowa and Comanche country, and there will probably be no legal steps taken to prevent the opening of the Wichita country or the Kiowa country, and both will very likely be opened on the same date. A glance at the map will vliow the Wichita country to have an urea of about 36 miles east and west by an average cf 23 miles north and south. It is known as “County I ” on the map. and is east of Washita county and south of Blaine and Canadian coun ties. Before tbe Wichita country is opened up four sections in each town ship will doubtless be specified and set apart for schools and public buildings; county seats -will be located and the Indians will have been settled on their allotments. Nobody can tell where the Indians will take their lands, but the Indian agents say that where allot ments have been made the Indians have used fine judgment in selecting the best. The Kiowa and Comanche country has an area of about 60 miles north and south by 60 to 65 miles east and west. The boundary lines on the west and south are very crooked, and the acre age is estimated at 2,560,000 to 3,000,- 000 acres. If the tract contains 3,000,- 000 acres, there are set aside sections 16 and 36 in each township for school purposes and sections 13 and 33' in each township for public buildings. These four sectio n s c o n s t i t u t e o n e - n in th of the township and for all the terri tory would constitute 333,333 acres which are not subject to entry. Then the Indians are to have 480,000 acres in severalty and 480,000 more in com mon, making 960,000 acres which must be deducted. Then the mountain range will take 200,000 acres more out of the list of arable lands. There are in acres; Amount of land to be opened.... 3,000,990 Less school and public buildings. 333,333 Less rese.ved for Indians ............... 960,000 Less mountain range 200,000 1,493,333 Leaving tor the white settler.... 1,506,667 To be deducted from this will be the government reservation at Fort Sill, which compiises about 10,000 to 12,000 acres, and all the lands which are now occupied by schools and missions and all of which will be set aside for town sites. This will leave much less than a million and a half acres and some of this will, of course, be unfit for use. It Is estimated that there will be from 3,000 to 5,000 mineral claims in the Wichita mountains and that at least 20,000 town lots will be taken in the great rush. Allowing 12,000 farm claims, 3.0Q0 mining claims and 10,000 town lot settlers, this would give homes to 25,000 people in the Kiowa country alone in addition to the Indians al ready there, and there is evidence for the belief that on the opening day there will be enough people to make the run to take up every claim that can be found, The rush >.411 prob ably be greater than any-ever made, as all realize that it will be the last. People should take a reasonable warning and stay away from the bor der till next summer. It is hardly pos sible to open the country on the date set—Aug. &-and it may be delayed two or three months after that date. The probability is that everybody will be given full notice of the exact hour. The run will be made from any and •every point outside the boundaries. Some will go in wagons, some horse back, some on foot and many by rail road. The Rock Island road extends along the eastern border of “County I ” and also along the eastern border of the Kiowa country. It also has a line along and just inside the northern boundary of tbe Kiowa country and has a branch from Anadarko to Fort Sill. The Choctaw runs along inside the north boundary of “County I.” It is about 18 miles from Fort Sill east to the border, and a good horse :ould make tbe trip from tbe border to Fort Sill about as quick as the railroad could make it from Chiekasha, the lat ter distance being nearly 40 miles. Hundreds of young men who are lo cated and doing a good business in tbe towns of Oklahoma will make the run, get claims If possible and sell out at the first good offer and return to their business. The lands are good. “Coun ty I ” is now almost surrounded by Ok lahoma counties, and the soil is as good *8 there is in the counties. The Kio wa country is called the ideal of a beautiful and fertile country. But he who gets a claim in either country su it expect to *ndur» *ornslxard»hip*. BEES TO HUM AT BUFFALO. L iv e C o lo n le* TY111 I l l u s t r a t e T h e i r I n d u s t r y n t P a n - .V tn e r l c a n F a i r . The busy bee will be in big business at the Pan-Amoriten expe.-ition the coming summer, says the New York Journal. It has bten decided to con struct a special building for rhe proper display of tbe working colonies of bees and .the great variety of beekeepers* supplies which w ill ecu'-tituu* this ex hibit. This will undoubtedly be the most extensive bee exhibit ever pre pared in this or any other part of the world. None but students of bee eul ture will realize fully the great impor tance of this industry. It is estimated that there are 30fV\’6 persons engaged in bee culture in the United States alone and that the pres ent annual value of honey aud wax is in exotvs of 820,000.000. There are 110 f-.'cictics devoted to the study and pro motion of beekeeping. Eight jourtals are sustained by this industry. Fifteen steam power factories are producing supplies of various kinds for the use of beekeepers. American honey finds a market in many distant countries. The United States produces more honey than any other nation. The bee exhibits a t the Pan-American exposition will be so arranged that the bees may enter their hives from the exterior of the building and carry on their work of honey collection undis turbed by visitors, yet in full view through the glass sides of their hives. The successful management of an apiary requires a knowledge of botany as well as familiarity with the habits and requirements of the bees them selves. The bee exhibit will illustrate the operation of an apiary and will show the common honey producing flora in a way to b“ understood by all. The re lation -»f bees to horticulture and agri culture will be clearly shown and the many it«es of honey illustrated. Honey is extensively used in the manufacture of bakestuffs and in mak ing medicines and candles. Beeswax is a commercial article much used by dentists and manufacturers of wax goods. Actual demonstration will show what economics may be practiced by beekeepers to increase their profits. The m u vahie frame hive was invent ed in 1N51 by Langstrotli, and since that time the application of labor sav ing, honey saving and bee saving de vices has been very interesting and im portant. Experiments in crossiug yarities of bees have been carried on with .surprising success. New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont and other New England states are large producers of comb honey. Any locality In which white clover, bass wood and buckwheat are plentiful is adapted to the successful culture of bees. In California and Arizona the keeping of bees ranks as one of the most important in d u s t r i e s , aud from , those states are annually shipped vast quantities of liquid honey. PROJECTED GULF CANAL. S c h e m e F o r .a C h a n n e l F r o m t h e M is s i s s i p p i to th e R i o G r a n d e . Plans for the light draft suction dredge for the Texas district have ar rived at the office of Captain Riche, United States engineer for the Galves ton district, who is preparing specifica tions preparatory to letting the con tract for the new boat. The plans were prepared by Captain Patrick, United States engineer and secretary of the Mississippi river commission at St. Louis. The new dredge is to cost $65,- 000, for which an appropriation has been made, and will prove a most valu able acquisition to the fleet of govern ment engineering boats a t Galveston. The dredge will be of the latest de sign and equipped with all modern im provements aud appliances for a self propelling steam dredge. I t will be used in the work of constructing the light draft canal along the Texas coast, as it will draw but 4 feet of water, while the big dredge General Comstock draws 17 feet. The ultimate plan is to provide light draft navigation along the coast coun try of the gulf of Mexico from the Mis sissippi river to the Rio Grande, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The present plan, however, Is to construct this canal a distance of about 1,300 miles from the Sabine riven on the east to Corpus Christi on tbe west. The Unit ed States engineer's office has complet ed plans and specifications for this ca nal, and from the surveys it is estimat ed that the dredging of 100 miles of soft land will open np 1,300 miles of light d raft navigation. The cost is esti mated at $1,300,000, or $1,000 a mile. The amount of land to be excavated is estimated at 20,000,000 cubic yards. The canal is to be formed by connect ing numerous streams and waterways and removing bars from mouths of sev eral rivers. The government engineers' estimate that for $2,500,000 the canal could be extended to connect Morgan City, La„ on Atchafalaya river, which would give direct connection with the Mississippi river. This would admit of small stern wheel steamers plying between Texas points and tbe Mississippi river as far west as Corpus Christi. For $3,000,000 navigation can be secured frdm the Mississippi to tbe Rio Grande through the land protected canal. It is further estimated that the cost of maintenance of this navigable waterway would be not to exceed $100,000 a year. This in cludes cost of maintenance of three dredges, which it is figured can do all the work n e c t a r y to keep the mouths of the streams clear. O a e H o p e D o o m e d t o D ie. Hugh M, Smith, United States fish commission ' expert, declares that among the fishery developments ear nestly desired by many people which will not be achieved in the new century is the boneless shad and that we shall have to content ourselves with a fish that Is already good enough for mortal mi®. CAMPAIGNING IN AFRICA. Canadian Officer T ells of a Loot ing and Burning Raid. EFFECT OF KITCHENER'S IRON HAND L i e u t e n a n t M o r r i s o n o f O t t a w a D e s c r i b e * t h e M a r c h T h v o n f l i th e S t e t l p o o r t „ V a l l e y —S a e k ln s r o f th e T o w n o f B n llstT o o m —L i k i n a o f S o l d i e r * F o r A l a r m C lock*. The Canadian troops in Sontli Afri ca, according to recent reports, are evidently not much in sympathy with the harsh measures now being enfore- *ed against the Boers by Lord Kitch ener. In a letter from Belfast, South Africa, Lieutenant Morrison of Otta wa, editor of the Ottawa Citizen, who is with the Canadian artillery there and has been recently mentioned in dispatches for gallant conduct in ac tion, describes the march through Steil- poort valley, north of Belfast. He says in part: “Bright and early we marched off. The Canadians, as usual, were in the advanced guard, with the Fifth lan cers and two pompoms. Colonel-King commanded the advance and General Smith-Dorlen the main body. During the trek, which lasted four days, our progress was like the old time forays In the highlands of Scotland tw cen turies ago. The country is very like Scotland, and we moved ou from val ley to valley, lifting cattle and sheep, burning, looting and turning out the women and ehildr n to sit and weep n despair and utt-*r misery beside the ruins of their once beautiful farm steads. It was the first touch of Kitchener’s iron hand, a terrible thing 'o witness, and I don't know that I want to see another trip of the sort It rariier revolted the most of r /. “We burned a track about six miles wide through these fertiL valleys and completely destroyed the village of Wilpoort and the flourishing town of Dullstroom. The column left a trail of fire and smoke behind It that could be seen at Belfast. Many of the houses were surrounded by beautiful gardens abloom with roses, lilies and holly hocks and embowered in fruit trees, and with my glasses I could see the women and children bundled out, their bedding thrown through the windows after them. The cavalry would ride rapidly away, and the poor women and children, utterly confounded by the sudden visitation, would remain standing lu the yard or garden watch ing helplessly their homes disappear In fire and smoke.” -Describing the sack of Dullstroom, Lieutenant Morrison proceeds: “On tbe following morning the troops were up long before daylight and marched off a t 4 o’clock. IVe had no trouble In getting np \at the right hour. You could hear alarm clock bells ringing from nearly every heap of blankets upon tbe camp ground, and the veldt hummed like a telephone office. When a soldier loots a house the first thing he grabs is the clock. In the dim, early dawn the column, nearly all mounted men, moved swiftly north. We were going to sack and burn the town of Dullstroom. “Nobody who was there will ever for get that day’s work. About 7 o’clock In the morning our force seized the town after a little fight The Boers went into the surrounding hills, and there was nobody in the town except women and children. We seized a kopje overlooking the main street and placed all the guns on it, while the cavalry galloped through and skir mished up the hills beyond. The Boers drove in our outposts on the flank and began sniping tbe guns, and amid the row of the cannonade and the crackle of rifle fire the sacking of the place began. “First there was an ominous bluish haze over the town, and then the smoke roiled up In volumes that conld be seen for 50 miles away. The Boers on the hills seemed paralyzed by the sight and stopped shooting. When the lull came, General Smith-Dorlen in vited the artillery officers to go down into the pltoe with him on a sort of official appearance. The town was very quiet, save for the roaring and crackle of the flames. On tbe steps of the church a group of women aud children were huddled. The women’s faces were very white, but some of them had roots of red on either cheek, and tL*\ir eyes were blazing. “The troops were systematically looking the place over, and as they got quite through with each house they burned it. You should have seen the Royal Irish on the loot. They helped the people out with their stuff by heaving bureaus bodily through the windows, putting pickaxes through melodeons and such like wantonness, t heard one yell: ‘Begorry, Tim, here’s i nice carpet. 01 think 01*11 take it home for tbe ould woman. Lind a hand here.’ R-r-r-rip! Up came a handsome pile carpet in strips. And to the work went on, the officers stand ing by laughing a t tbe costly fun their men were having. “As I stood looking a woman, the owner of a very pretty little cottage standing in a rose garden on a side street which was being destroyed, turned to me and pathetically exclaim ed, ‘Ob, how can you be so cruel?’ r sympathized with her and explained that it was an order and had to be obeyed. But all tbe same It was an Intensely sad sight to see the little homes burning and the rosebushes withering up in the pretty gardens and the pathetic groups of homeless and distressed women and little children weeping in abject misery aud despair imoBg the smokiffft ruin* «e we rode iway.” j AMERICAN MARKET. ABROAD. G r e a t Opportunities I s E«ro»e For O u r G o o d * . Sny* a N u i f a e t a r c r . An American manufacturer of steel aud iron has just returned from a yKH to the Paris exposition and a business tour of western Europe im pressed with the immense future of this country’s export trade In manu factured articles, especially machinery, tools and implements, says the New York Sun. He found competition in his own special manufactures not only iu England, but also in France, Hol land, Germany and Denmark. In all these countries the wages paid are much lower than his workmen receive. In Copenhagen, for example, he found that men received less than one-fifth of what he pays his workmen, yet he came away convinced that he could un dersell all the European manufactur ers, including thpse of Denmark, iu their home market and elsewhere. His observation leil him to believe that American manufacturers In many other lines, perhaps in most others, could undersell European manufactur ers, provided the conditions of time could be met by the American com petitor and he could ascertain exactly the kind of article needed. As to Eng lish competition, he declares that it need not be feared by American manu facturers until the English employer is ready to pay better wages for short er hours of work. In other words, the relations between employer and em ployed will then be.such that men will work more effectively than they now work and reduce the cost of pro duction. This observer finds that the sale of American manufactures is hampered in Europe by some of the faults of our business methods. The element of time In contracts is more strictly re garded in Europe than in the United States, and where an American mann faeturer’s agent contracts to deliver articles a t a specified time and actually delivers them a week or a month later than the time agreed upon the Euro pean buyer thinks the agent or his principal dishonest. A delay in deliv ery is looked upon as almost as dis reputable as an attempt to advance the contract price or a failure to come up to the contract requirements a* to quality. This traveler notes, too, that the con temptuous attitude of the American sales agent toward European preju dices and old fashioned European tools and machinery tends to prevent the in troduction of American goods In parts of Europe where they are unknown. The Yankee is too well pleased with what he has to sell and too critical of his competitors. Again, the American manufacturer must study the exact needs, the whims even, of the European buyer. There is a singular conservatism among Euro peans xhat Americans find it difficult to understand. The European mechanic often prefers the familiar tool to a bet ter one of u n f a m i l i a r form, a n d if American tools are to be sold largely in Europe some regard must be paid to this peculiarity of European feeling. CO S T L IEST OF LOG CABINS. I t I* B e i n g E r e c t e d o n a n In l a n d on t h e M a in e C o n s t. What will be the most costly log cab in in Maine, if not In tbe whole world, is now being erected on Warren’s is land, which lies just outside the mouth of Gilkey’s harbor in the town of Uses- boro on the Maine coast, says a Ban gor dispatch to the New York World. The cabin will cost, when completed, in round figures, $75,000. It was begun by the late W. H. For- well of Philadelphia and is being com pleted by his son, Nathan P. Forwell, to whom the property was willed with the express request that the house be finished according to the plans decided upon by Mr. Forwell, Sr. The cabin is 100 by 105 feet on tbe ground, Is made of unpeeled spruce logs cut upon tbe island and is made after the style of the old time bouses of Virginia by an expert log cabin builder, Fred Heald, from the Old Dominion. The first floor is 12 foot posted, the second 10 foot. The house will contain when completed<22 sleeping rooms, a living hall 30 by 60 feet, a dining room 20 by 30 feet, kitchen 20 by 25 feet, laundry 20 by 25 feet and a storeroom 15 by 25 feet. There will be a private dining room 20 by 15 feet and a bath room 20 by23 feet. There will bel23 win dows to furnish light for the place dur ing the day. Of these there will Jbe 17 dormer windows, six bay windows and 100 ordinary windows. A large number of windows will be fitted with lights of glass 4 by 5 feet in size. The roo: is of the old fashioned gabled style, and the whole effect of the place is most pic turesque. Man’* Day* to Be Lengthened. The American will be taller by from one to two Inches in the next hundred years, says The American Cider and Vinegar Maker. His increase of stature will result from better health, due to vast reform in medicine, sanitation, food and athletics. He will live 50 years Instead of 35, as a t present, for he will reside in the suburbs. The city house will practically be no more. Bnilding in blocks will ne illegal. The trip from suburban home to office will require a few minutes only. A penny will pay the fare. Cycling In New Zealand. Cyclists In New Zealand are strenu ously agitating to have cycling paths laid down along the principal thorough fares in the colony, especially in the vicinity of cities, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Many of the roads of the colony are roughly made and in Aome instances only partially formed, *nd the majority of them are lndiffer- ?nt roads for cycling. Tbe scheme of the cyclists Is that all cycles and cycle jwners should be taxed, the proceeds ’o 'b e utilized In laying down cinder Iraeks. NOVELTY IN CIRCUSES. Old Style of Show Must Go, Says James A. Bailey. MANY IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED, S p e c i a l A t t e n t i o n to B e P a i d to th e C o m f o r t o f S p e c t a t o r * I n F o t i n i n g X e x t S u m m e r 's S h o w - N e w A n im a l* Coming—Tiger Hunt to Be *t Special Fcntnre. “It is high time for the old circus to go,” said Mr. James A. Bailey, the big circus magnate of the firm-of Barnum & Bailey, ivlxo spent a few days recent ly iu Washington. Mr. Bailey has just returned from Germany, where his Greatest Show ou Earth has been tour ing the past summer. The year before that it was in England. The Greatest Show on Earth Is to remain permanent ly in Europe, under Mr. Bailey’s di rection, says the Washington Post, but for America he Is to establish even a greater circus, on more advanced lines, than hitherto, and he promises that next summer this twentieth century circus will prove that there has been evolution in the circus business as in ather things. According to Mr. Bailey, who has perfected his plans for the new style rireus, everything has been revolution ized, from the tents, seats, side shows, rings and animal cages down to the individual star performances, and even to ticket boxes, lemonade and fruit stands. AU of the Innumerable objec tionable features that have invariably made circus going a torture and a bore to every one except the small boy have been done away with, and the grown up population will no longer be stretched forth on a blue and red paint ed rack, with weary backs and over hanging legs, roasting in a close and hot atmosphere, stuffing their ears with cotton to keep out the crazy rack- and din, and vainly upholding the oisy young offspring above the heads the people in front, who never will “Sit down, please.” There will be seats that are seats. They will have backs which will not be wabbly or addicted to perpetual mo tion. Furthermore, they will have, in addition, footstools, upon which the feet may rest in security, and they will not be marked by any “No Trespass” sign or card, “Reserved.” The reserved portion will be all—nay, more than the money’s worth, for there will be boxes as good as any in the auditorium of Madison Square Garden. If it is ab normally hot, there will be electric fans to make It cool, while on the cheap seat sides there will be palm leaf fans chained to every seat, for the use of which the public will have to drop no nickel anywhere. In fact, in the new kid phraseology, everything about the new circus will be “all skinkey, all skye.” In the way of general comfort evex-y- thing that can be thought of or devised has been adopted. The new tents will be a vast improvement on the old ones. They will no not only bigger and kept cleaner, but they will be perfectly ven tilated. There will be more room in the passageways, and if the spectators follow posted instructions and walk in the right directions the overwhelming crush that has always been a part of the circus routine will be avoided. There will be ice water “free of charge” and handed around by neatly elad per sonages, while the sickening scarlet concoction known as “circus lemonade” will be entirely discarded, and a bever age sanely mixed and normally colored and in the hands of responsible parties will be administered. A special soda water,-or, rather, several of them, will also be an adjunct to the public com fort in the epicurean line, while a reg ular corps of waiters will serve ices and ice cream, all, of course, for con siderations. One of the particular new features will be the little crackerjack boys, two dozen of them, all clad in the most striking and picturesque uniforms, wli.,. with knapsacks filled with “good” pea nuts, popcorn, chewing gum and choc olate drops, will make their rounds with the gayest whistles they can whis tle. Then there will be some genuine old Virginia darky women, red ban dannas around their heads, and large checkered aprons, who will travel with tbe show and set up some of the “eatable stands,” while there will be what circuses have never had before, excellently fitted dressing rooms, each in charge of a maid, where there will be lounges, clean towels and plenty of soap and water, which during the intervals of a hot and dusty circus per formance will be an exceedingly de sirable feature. So much for the physical comforts of the new circus. The other new features are almost too numerous to mention. In the first place there will be a larger and more representative collection of animals than ever before. Mr. Bailey, says he has had animal catchers in Asia and Africa during the entire past year, and they have obtained a large number of the wild jungle beasts a t the greatest risks and through a continu ous series of hairbreadth escapes. A famous man eating Bengal tiger, which had ravaged the northwestern part of India for the last ten years and carried off natives, has been secured, and is the most magnificent specimen ever caught. There will be many more ele phants, superbly trained and of larger and more imposing size, than a show has had during recent years. Among them are a number of the trained workers of India, which have been bought a t great expense, and they will exhibit the systems of labor through- which they are put in their native country. One of the be»».aL ”t features is a tiger bunt, a r a a l|H f e ^ . Qy after the feel tfciag^p try, with trained tigers, which Wifit be turned loose in a great wired All of the gorgeous trappings, native cos tumes, cte., will he reproduced here, and the elephants and tigers will be fn charge of genuine natives. Another feature of particular interest Is the c ollection of tropical birds, Which will he placed in beautiful and ‘elabo rate cages, in which are placed a num ber of tropical plants, huge ferns and wonderfully colored flowers, trans planted with great care, which giive an aspect of marked reality and the true atmosphere of the birds. An extensive collection of fishes has also been secured, and Mr. Balky has had divers at work even down in the waters of tbe south seas securing specimens of fishes never before ob tained. He has, of course, sustained great loss, as almost five out of every ten have perished. There will thus be corals and strange fishes as well as birds and wild and domestic animals of every country on the globe, and a* a zoological study the twentieth csmtury slrcus will be a marvel. Particular attention will be paid to the ponies and horses this year and to the bareback riders. A young Arabian girl who has hau a most remarkable history on the Arabian plains and who is the most skilled rider of the women of her tribe has been induced to join the show, as well as two Kansas girls who were brought up on a western ranch and are experts on the ponies. The horses will be superb and will be from every country. A little company of particuh* r «r- ?st will be “the Sioux pap< \ ’ -*■ band of little Indian boys wL 1 ex hibit methods of erecting r . ure wigwams, of making bows and ’3, ind will also perform various tn nf Interest to children. It has beau - served that “little folks” draw other little folks much more than the most remarkable feats of grown up experts. 3o in the new circus tkero- wliL be -A wonderful gathering of all the little people of the various nations of Die world. The most glaringly fool “freAk things” will be done away with. Ab normally large giants on stilts will.be back numbers; so will wild men of Borneo. Another heretofore regular feature will also be discarded. That is the 10 cent concert, that/dismal, pathetic af fair which lias al vays wound up the show and from which the suffering a u dience usually v ithdraw. There Will be more than one band, and they will be stationed both outside of the tent and on the central platform. For a half hour preceding the opening of the performance and while the people toe being seated they will play a pro gramme of well selected popular music. The clowns have been reorganized for the new show and will be funnier than ever, both in eostume and “n e ^ jokes,” for the public has become rath er weary of the chestnuts that have been played off for the past 100 years. > The monkeys will be as prominent as ever, and what with the clowns and the erackerjaelis, who will take ex traordinary parts in the general enter tainment with their acrobatic as wq<i as peanut selling feats, the new eir^ will excel in fun. and liveliness preceding one as well as be of fap'nhj* genuine interest from every point view and certainly of unequaled cor fort to the spectators. Indeed eomfor of the spectators will be the great ob ject, says Mr. Bailey. OCEAN GOING HOUSEBOAT. M e m b e r o£ N e w Y o r k Y a c h t C I*b I* H a v in g ; I t B u i l t . An ocean going houseboat, the first af its kind, is being built a t the ship yard of a firm in Nyaek, N. Y. It 1)411 be owned by Joseph M. Macdonough, a millionaire member of the New York Yacht club, who formerly resided in San Francisco. The houseboat will be capable’^of crossing the Atlantic, and. b'x owner expects to piake the trip in her, says the New Tork World. The dimen sions of the boat will be: One hundred feet long, 23 feet beam and 6 feet draft. She will have machinery which will propel her eight knots an hour. Thex’e will be'eight staterooms, and her gs and appointments will be lnx- ixx\ .s. The boat will. in. fact, have ill the comforts of a millionaire’s home. The owner expects to make a cruise aext September, and the boat will be Inislxed by that time. New Paper Devoted to Charities. Co-operation is the name of a new japer devoted to the interests of chari ty, the first number of which appeared the other day, says‘the Chicago Trib- me. It is published by the Chicago 'aureau of charities and will be issued jvery week. The paper has eight small pages and will be enlarged as its needs demand. Frank R. \White a graduate if tbe University of Chicago, is the ed itor. M iuourian* X* C k h u . Horses belonging to tbe fox^gn ar mies in China are dying off by hun dreds, but the Missouri mule, says the Kansas City Times, is reported to ea* jvery'tim e he gets a chance and to show no signs o f knocking under. F r e e L tm c b e * F o r S h o p p e r * . One of Oakland’s progressive mer chants, according ta the Los Angel** rimes, is considering the advisability yf establishing a free lunch counter for members of the fair sex when they tome a-shopping. ics- A p p e n d i c i t l * I n u I n f a n t . A child 6 weeks old died with final symptoms a few days ago iuYon iters, says The Medical Record, in d Ilk* iutopsy revealed extensive gangreno** xppendicUls. There are mow 3S forect rewnrattea* ,n this country, embracing an a n a a t id,772.12ft acre* In 18 dtffincat n ta ttt wd t^rritorfe*. ^ ’%
