Elkhart Truth (Newspaper) - March 12, 1890, Elkhart, Indiana Second Third Fourth News up to 3 p. m. IO CENTS PER 3000 I. No. 151. ELKHART, WEDNESDAY MARCH 12. p. M Seven Times Publishing M. AND 423 Main Residence 309 South Main C. Office in Opera House 507 Office and residence No. iM Street Office hours 8 t* 9 a. u. and i to 4 and 6 to t r. u attended promptly in city an 1 C. A specialty of diseases of the and over drug orner Main aud 122 Clark W. 314 North Main Prompt to all professional A. H. jtz Main H. AND Cummins 114 N. Sec. office 43t Main 50S Third street hourt 10 to la a. 3 to 5 aud 7 to 8 P. W. M. PHYSICIAN AND Office over drug South Main Calls answered from day or corner Main and Division 310 Marion Cat of the Throat and Ears a A full set of both for exam and H. Office and All calls attended in city and Residence ati Mai ion 111 Harrison A. AND Office at 300 Division No 306 Division Chronic Diseases Diseases of Children and D. RN A W. Justice ot the Peace and Office opposite the Hotel T. RN Notary collections a i fire and life insurance corner Main and Jackson attention giuen to and zos Main at Notary Collections prompt attention Insurance im the best at the H. OF And Pension 207 So. Main BROS Meals and Oysters served at all No. 131 South Main h OF TBB or CITT TAXES FOR 1S89. city tax duplicate is in way hands for and I am ready to the 1 will be at the city corner of Second end High until March and after that data I will receive at St. Joseph Valley Corner Main and Pigeon Taxes become delinquent after the third Mo iday in and ere to a penalty of ten per cent after that The city tax levy is on each also 50 cents poll also on each mala doc and on each female Do not forget to ask for all your city both real and avoiding CAMPBELL 4^7 City CLUB CLUB TAKES THE STEWART Lofty Self Staircase and A. T. Stewart and tbe club house on the American finest in tlie is that now occupied aud by the Manhattan club of New York The lowest estimated coat of the bare construction is But this does not include the wonderful inlaid the mosaics and scroll or even the finest set of which are reported to have cost Verily club life is looking up when an association of private gentlemen can afford to maintain such an establishment as merely for leisure they did not build the It is the once noted Stewart mansion and possesses all the historic interest attached to the Stewart estate and its but altogether In it the visitor is shown the curious apartment merchant prince GRANT'S the modest room in which his quiet and almost unknown widow and the truly royal apartments which constructed and finished expressly for the entertainment of President and Gen. favored few who have been invited to see it say that it is a long and not very easy day's work to take even a general of the and a week would be scant time to study it. except in the top are laid in Polished gray marble everywhere lines the and were it not for the luxurious furnishings and fretted work and other the effect would but the building is now furnished in the most elaborate and luxurious three years after the death of Mrs. Stewart the mansion remained not even a curtained window was and even while Mr. Stewart was alive and while he opened his picture gallery to visitors the rest of the mansion was seen by but very No one knows just what the mansion cost but the lowest estimate of architects is above Every door frame and every window is of polished Italian and towering columns of it support the Seven years were consumed in building the as the workmen on several occasions had to wait some weeks for the arrival of pieces from There is no strict adherence to one style of constant changes were directed by Mr. Stewart as the building and as a result the structure presents very different appearances on its several Tlie grand entrance is on and the noble flight of steps considered the finest thing of in the Each step is thirty but the size of the the make them with Cannel 108 N. Main J. N. Author of Common Sense and teacher the shortest and most practical business methods known to Success is hereby guaranteed to all persons who diligently take most practical business at the lowest possible rates and limited time of two-hour For further information call on Prof. J. N. Hart at 604 South Main 3-13 of work at lowest prices guaranteed at this Call and see us before leaving orders At the foot of these stairs begins tlie about the a mere so to is a work of art in itself and cost The great white slab at the foot of the stairs is the largest single piece of marble ever quarried and is the result of the third Two slabs of the same size were broken by the workmen before they acquired the skill to set such a mass these steps and passing the elaborate doors one finds himself in the main of which tlie ceiling is twenty five feet with curiously ornamented supported by six pillars of the largest In the intervals between the pillars arc four notable At the back of the hall is what architects consider the masterpiece of the the supporting of polished gray It winds along the wall of a rotunda is lighted by a to tlie third and with some thirty steps to each Before this stairway was accepted from the contractor 100 tons of iron were piled on tJie to test it. Its cost was two attract most interest are the one in which Mr. Stewart best loved to family that in which Mrs. Stewart so occupies the entire Fifth avenue front of the third but Gen. Grant himself never occupied it. The Manhattan as is well is a with a fixed income of over * owning rental property and other one cent stamp in the new United States postal series is the object of artistic It is said that profile portrait on the stam is a faced personification of seni and a libel on the good old printer memory all Americans delight If OF EX-GOVERNOR In and Preferment death of Edward of New Haven removes from the scene of worldly activity a pronAient in political contests of former He reputed to be the wealthiest in At the time of his death Mr. English was 78 years having been born in New Haven March 13, 1812. He began life as a carpenter and but laid the of his large fortune in the lumber He first appeared in politics as a member of the New Haven com- ex-GOVERNOR ENGLISH mon he went to the to the state in war to although a he supported the policy of President In 1867 he became governor of and was re-elected the succeeding and again in 1870. In 1871 the gubernatorial contest was very so in that Mr. English refused to take the man can afford to hold an the title to which is in the slightest degree tainted with In 1S75 he was appointed to fill the vacancy in the United States senate caused by the death of Mr. O. S. After the expiration of his term he lived the life of a wealthy man of leisure and Ho leaves a widow and one Southern Fc western lumbermen are turning their attention to the southern and the southern forests will hare to In some sections of Louisiana and western capitalists have bought big tracts of timber land at prices that make the cost average in many leis than an is a fashionable way to leave a said a lady who conforms to all the fads of must never lean getting your head out The properly trained woman her teat till one foot is the carriage slightly sinks her weight upon it and glides easily and gracefully to the Room for A well furnished front sleeping warmed and Apply at 510 Fifth you burn Black Diamond or a red hot stove will be the Try it. 108 N. Main New house of eight rooms and a near L. S. M. S. Ry. per L. to this office for neat and artistic job Satisfaction IN ASTOR'S OF THE NOTED Tast and 17iiostntatIoas n to at His of tilo lied as he had like a was the of the physician who stood by the bedside of head of the house of listened for his latest and closed his eyes when life's battle had carefully considerate of the owner of millions greeted death with as grave and gentle dignity as he ever did a welcome guest at hia stately For sixty-seven from the date of his birth until the hour his life John Jacob Astor was a resident of New York and his doings and surroundings have been matters of interest and greatest personal of real estate in the largest city of the he had many responsibilities as a landlord outside the main duties ot keeping his property in repair and collecting hia That he fulfilled them is shown by the fact that when he walked from his home on Fifth avenue to his office on Twenty-sixth as was his daily no one received more greetings of a cordial and friendly The policeman and the car driver knew him as well as the and bis vast wealth seemed to create no envy or hatred in the minds even of the for all recognized that hia fortune was legitimately JOHN JACOB acquired and and that tha man regarded his immense resources as a trust to be administered uprightly and pedestrian habits often him in queer sometimes of a disagreeable and sometimes of an amusing On one about two years the ruddy faced old gentleman was walking home in the early evening when a loquacious stranger buttonholed The man was poorly dressed and also slightly under the influence of He sketched to Mr. Astor the contrast between their he unlimited money and I'm without a cent. You are an honest man and I'm a rather i for I'm just out of the Under the would you object to making a small loan to aid me in reaching Astor was moved by the appeal to the extent of contributing a twenty-five cent He tendered the silver coin but the recipient accepted it with an air of you'd give up a at he But his protest went no for Policeman Kelley of the Broadway who regarded himself as one of Mr. Astors friends and suddenly bore down upon the beggar and placed him in custody after an exciting The well meant friendliness of the officer caused the millionaire more annoyance than anything for he had to appear in the police court the next morning and furnish testimony on which the ex-convict was sent to prison for three more pleasing instance of hia contact with and for the poor has to do with the founding of the Skin and Cancer Ann Corrigan was a servant in the Astor She developed a and despite best attendance Thus the subject of suffering from this disease was brought to the notice of the head of the for his pity was roused when he saw a faithful tortured by sink into her grave despite all that money and skill could do for at once consulted with expert medical and they told him that under conditions favorable for close observation and a successful treatment ior the disease might be fixtures and paper at Marchesseau to Jere Heath's for robes and cheapest place in Elkhart to buy furniture is at O. G. 120 Jackson for the the best evening all local general news and the best serial the You can get the begining by applying at the attend Mme. Kellogg's school of French Call for Fashion 211 Third employed physicians and architects to plan the hospital now in and made a model building in every conceivable The matter of among received special and admirable To this charity Mrs. Astor contributed as well as her the lady's donation being by death of Mrs. by the took the recently deceased millionaire almost entirely out of He was always more of a home man than a devotee of and the blow which deprived him of an honored wife practically closed hia modest career as a giver of dinners and Exceptionally happy in their Mr. and Mrs. Astor had one peculiar bond of Both were constantly and judiciously Their annual expenditures in the relief of suffering aud want were and it was said of Mrs. Astor that she was more often to be found among the tenements of Avenue A than in the palaces of Fifth Her husband's WALDORF after and for a long time a guard watched by her tomb that profane hand desecrate her last resting policy of the Astors has been never to sell any real buy and always keep is the family Only once was this rule That was in 1SS7, when John Jacob and William disposed of a block of Mount Morris park and Sixth for The reason for the sale was that the property was owned jointly by the and they to keep their interests The after Mr. Astor's death flags were displayed at half mast on the two buildings in New York which have chiefly aided by their existence in making the family name a household Astor house and the Astor the better conservation and management of their immense property tha Astors practically accept and follow tha rules of so that John Jacob's son is now the chief of the family and the possessor of the bulk of its William Waldorf Astor is now something over 40 years of and is the first of his name to take any position in publio has been a member of the York an unsuccessful candidate for congress and United States minister to As a diplomate he acquitted himself with and took advantage of his residence abroad to collect material for two which were recently published and have been by the public with moderate He is married and the father of several Caller Knew What to is the fashion of some women to keep visitors waiting an unconscionable time for no reason at all but to satisfy a caprice or fad of Heaven knows where they got the but some of the dear creatures imagine that it is a canon of high bred etiquette to let cool his or her heels in the parlor for half an hour or so the servant brings up the This Impertinence is most often offered by women to superb young who had high birth plenty of saucily told a girl in her set recently that always kept callers waiting twenty minutes before sho The girl who received this valuable piece of news called upon the golden calf a few days Sho sent up her card and the footman returned with the bo down in a few The caller took oat her and when seven minutes had expired wrote upon one of her have been gona just thirteen this card on the tha young lady took her with Lafarga stood on New nearly opposite Bond was destroyed by fire Jan. 8, Tripler also known as cost about and was the scene of the triumphs of Mme. Anna Jenny Catharine and Mme. Is was built by Mr. Tripler and first opened to the public Oct. 1850, and could 4,000 or five active to whom good wages will be Call at the Singer sewing machine 305 Main street for Done In every 301 Aspinwald Bertha Fitch teacher of pipe instrumentation and also voice In Elkhart and Goshen from Tuesday until Friday every Royal Far a Great states and territories in the western half of the United States in the last twenty-five gone beyond all previous experience in the rapidity of dam and reservoir and it is a matter of sincere congratulation that the disasters have been fewer in proportion than in any other part of the recent calamity on the river in comes with the horror of a novelty in that In magnitude it falls far bulow the as the lives lost do not exceed forty and the total damage is probably but little over but the nature and cause of the two calamities were almost exactly the Hassayampa located about forty miles by the shortest trail from had been completed for eighteen months and was a matter of pride to the From bluff to bluff the dam was 145 feet long at the bottom and 410 feet at the its width was 10 feet at the top and 110 feet at the and its height was 110 The lake Hius formed covered some 800 acres and was supposed to contain 3,000,000,000 DAM cubic feet of its depth being 100 At the bottom of the dam was a 5 by 5 in the dam proper there was no waste but one 40 by 8 feet had been cut around the end of the solid granite of the canyon say the officials of the the disaster could not have occurred if the attendants had done their duty in opening these passages for the surplus say that the work was The Grove Storage has its headquarters in New and the design of its dam was to save the winter floods of the Hassayampa for summer use in or mining if occasion should the stream going dry in The dam was built in 1887 and 1888, the construction having been pushed with wonderful Everything to begin with had to be hauled some sixty miles over desert and and a dozen new industries created on the On worth of cement the freight was lumber was worth ten times as much as in New wages and the cost of living were a little more than twice as and the cost of the dam was near It was an object of national interest from the and by a strange was fully described in Scribner's Magazine for January and classed as one of the four great dams which were to test effectually the plan of water storage on a large plan if is destined DAM AT WALNUT change 300,000 square miles of American desert into the most fertile region on The others are the great Merced dam of which forms a reservoir of 5,500,000,000 gallons and supplies a canal seventy-five miles the Bear Valley San Bernardino which forms a reservoir covering 2,250 acres and holding 10,000,-000,000 and the Sweetwater dam near San which ia ninety feet and forms a reservoir of 6.000.000.000 from which sixty miles of iron piping convey good men to sell for either on Salary or May Bros N. Y. 3-24 Weekly Truth is the largest and best paper in the State of per stock in Excelsior Loan and Saving A good An excellent way to get a as borrowers only pay interest on money actually Dues 80 cents per month per W. is issuing stock to the as western men the the of these and many hundred smaller but still reservoirs the far west had not hit herto of note to while the of New England and the middle with dams for manufacturing hundreds of disasters and aji ap palling Swedes have taken an interest ia the development of the Congo and too Norse artisans have signed a three to live and labor in the Nyanza CATS SOLD AT Novel In a Merchant Twain ones that on the railway to Cairo mummies were used for and that an bad baen scene at the cat SAUL to pay to his plebeians don't burn worth a pass out a This flight of imagination has been equaled by actual for recently a Liverpool merchant created some excitement and a great deal of by offering for sale at auction an assorted of 180,000 mummified from Benl Hassan to The sale called out a large of the auctioneer declared that its head was a perfect study for a Bweet 8d. Of another it was asserted though not it than it was animal went for 4e. 6d. Mummified oats bring about a ton in the country where they are and are used as a The Liverpool merchant netted a large profit by his curious and no English home no matter how need be without an Egyptian cat of perfectly quiet a Does Not are several things always absent ta a true lady which will do well to and for will never ignore in a that she Ikas a right to push her way the time of people who can ill spare on the street a dress t* the house or loudly in a torn giovo when a needle mad thread and a few stit ches would maka it all in answering Ie or unless she is ill or in t about the heat or the the con or the the air or tho lack of an and then not be oa of her or affairs believe the worst rather than the best side of a lady does not do any other than make the best of weather and She believes Jvi the goldwe rule and endeavors far as to lira up to and that's you and I ought to promise every ng that we will try aud do during tha Home of the famous twenty years ago as a circus now in retirement at Long He is a hearty old man who delights to talk about the palmy of his He attributes the decadence of the clown to tho fact that the of today is monopolized by the professional humorist aud newspaper and picture O. G. 120 Jackson office is prepared to do all kind of printing and binding on the very shortest you want the best coal in the market burn Beacock or Black at 108 N. Main Heath sells trunks and bags at a discount for the next 30 dress suits Shackman
