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GALVESTON TRIBUNE :
SUNDAY,
NOVEMBER 15,
1896.
TO SPEND MILLIONS.
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IN THE SOCIAL REALM
ALL DEPARTMENTS BETTERED.
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ELEVATOR.
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THE WEATHER.
ARTESIAN WELL CONTRACTOR.
Galveston, Texas.
Huntsville
HEAVY BLIZZARD.
S-S-S-S-S. Sargent Sells Safes.
Flour
Increase
Improvements Under Way and
Contemplated by Santa Fe.
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF
MACHINERY, STEAM ENGINES AND BRASS AND IRON CASTINGS.
Mill Furnishings and Shafting a Specialty.
Asphalt Refiner
and Coal Tar Distiller.
New Ralls, Rolling StocK, Depots
and Eating Houses to Be Had.
President Rouse and Party.
Tills Will Make the Elevator Room
at the Port of Galveston
3,400,000 Bushels.
Sa off went they the sights to see
A couple of all most fair to be.
He saw no beauties but Hie fair one near,
JWhile the maid found hei’ happiness there.
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Chocolate.
DINNER.
Chicken Soup,
The Bessemer method of manufacturing
iron and steel was patented by Henry
Bessemer Oct. 17 and Dec. 5, 1855, and Feb.
12, 1856.
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* * *
Col. John D. Rogers left Friday for Mis-
souri, where he will join a party of friends
in fox hunting.
* * *
Miss Irene Cannon has returned from
Dallas, where she attended the Idlewild
ball.
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“ONE YEAR BORROWS ANOTHER YEAR’S FOOL.”
YOU DIDN’T USE
SAPOLIO
LAST YEAR. PERHAPS YOU WILL NOT THIS YEAR.
“Where are you going my pretty
“I’m going to the fair, kind sir,” s
“May I go with you, my pretty maid?”
■'‘You may, kind sir,” she demurely said.
LEE IRON WORKS,
The Well Known New York Merchant, David Hlrsch, Finds
Health In Paine’s Celery Compound.
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Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 14.—A heavy bliz-
zard has been raging in upper east Ten-
nessee. There are 14 inches of snow on
Roane mountain.
* * *
Mrs. Hamilton West and children re-
turned Friday from Kansas, where they
Jiave been visiting relatives.
, * * *
' Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Thornton will re-
turn Friday morning from their wedding
tour.
Judge and Mrs. A. H. Willie and Miss
Willie are expected on the 26th from
Europe.
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« * »
” Since the Quartette society has made
It known that all the audience occupying
£he first floor of the opera house on the
evening of Nordica’s appearance must
wear full dress, interest and exclamations
pf approval have been heard in society
circles. This will make the reception pre-
sent an air of appreciation of the event.
* * »
Mrs. Albert Weis and Miss Corine Weis
S,re visiting Mrs. M. C. Michael in Atlanta,
Ga,, but will return home this week.
* * *
Miss Eveline Levy will leave this eve-
ning for New York city, where she will
spend the winter attending school.
« * *
The event of the coming week will be a
'cotillion given Friday evening at the resi-
dence of Col. and Mrs. Walter Gresham to
the Debutante club, of which Miss Gresh-
am is a member. Fully sixty couples will
be in attendance, and those who have en-
joyed the hospitality heretofore of this
handsome residence, know what a charm-
ing evening awaits them.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. League and Miss
League returned last Tuesday from the
north.
FIREMEN’S BALL.
There were over 250 couples who attend-
ed last night the ball of the firemen. Har-
mony hall presented a beautiful scene. It
was decorated with festoons of ever-
greens and flags of every nation hung
from the ceiling. Some of the costumes
were elegant, others according to the
characters represented.
The fire laddies were clad n their best
Sunday clothes and zealously looked after
the comfort of their guests.
The dancing program was very neat
and each number was dedicated to a fore-
man of the department or to a friend of
the association.
Sc only the sequel remains to tell,
And it can be heard through the marriage
bell,
How the couple are called a happy pair,
Since their visit to the Texas coast fair.
* * *
These lines tell the story of the past
.■week, the one engrossing topic of conver-
sation being the fair held at Dickinson.
All the beaux and belles of this city were
present on Galveston day, and returned
enthusiastic over the races, above all
things. Many parties were arranged on
.Thursday among the society people, and
the trip made quite a social feature of the
week. Among the various coteries noticed
as representing Galveston’s social world
. were Mr. and Mrs. Julius Runge chaperon-
ing Misses Ray Hutchings, Edyth Prehn
and Julia Runge; Messrs. Henry Runge,
George Hutchings, Simpson and Dalglish.
Judge George E. Ma.nn, Mr. and Mrs.
Nicholas Weekes. and Lieutenant and Mrs.
William V. Judson had the following
young ladies with them: Misses McLe-
more, Sealy, League and the Misses Mann.
Mr. and Mrs. James Irwin were accom-
panied by Misses Lowe, Paine, Drewery,
Macgil, Dubois, Messrs. D. E. Wallis,
(Charles Macgil and several others.
Col. John D. Rogers had his niece, Miss
Allen, Miss Moore and a few of their
frieifSs with him.
The young men of the city, in conse-
quence of the day being a semi-holiday,
joined thir lady friends, upon the grounds,
and thus the day was made a society
,event.
“ * * *
Two weddings will take place in the
month of Yuletide, one at Grace church
.and the other at Trinity.
* * *
Many theater parties are being arranged
for Nordica, and upon that evening Mr.
and Mrs. Richard M. Wiliis will give a box
party.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. William Beverley West of
Port Worth will spend Thanksgiving’here
(with Mrs. West’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
G. H. Mensing, at 801 19th street.
.Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Knox will come
trom Houston to attend the Gresham ger-
man this week.
Miss Clara May Shannon will return on
the 19th from Dallas, where she has been
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsley. Miss
Shannon left here in company with Mrs.
P. T. Downs in a private car a few weeks
ago, for a stay in Fort Worth and Cle-
burne, remaining for several days in Dal-
las.
--1U V/AClcXlll,
Potato Chips,
Coffee.
LUNCH.
Cauliflower Salad,
Baked Apples,
Galveston is getting her elevator needs
attended to with surprising quickness. A
few days ago the Wharf company ac-
cepted plans for a 700,000 bushel elevator.
This, with the present elevator, will give
that company 1,700,000 bushels capacity.
That, with the 400,000 bushel elevator of
the Star flour mills, makes 2,100,000 bushels
room here. That is very good for such a
new wheat port as is Galveston, but that
isn’t all. Of course, the Wharf company
is expected to provide the elevator facili-
ties as fast as they are needed, and as
that corporation controls the available
water front, who else can put up an ele-
vator here?
Last night John Reymershoffer, presi-
dent of the Texas Star flour mills, au-
thorized the announcement that his com-
pany would enlarge their 400,000 bushel ele-
vator to 700,000 bushels, in effect erecting
an additional elevator of 300,000 bushels
capacity. This move is undertaken, Mr.
Reymershoffer says, for the reason that
he believes that a great deal more ele-
vator room will be needed here, and he
proposes fixing for his share of it at once.
This will make the elevator capacity of
Galveston 2,400,000 bushels, or nearly dou-
ble what it now is.
Work on the Star mill elevator will be
undertaken at once and pushed right
through to completion.
With the return of cool weather hosts
of men and women who relied on their
summer vacation to make them strong
and well came home still tired, with poor
appetites and depressed by the thought
of the months of hard wbrk ahead.
Their overwrought nerves and bodies to-
day demand something more than a mere
rest. Their blood needs to be swept of'
its impurities and the entire nervous or-
ganization reinforced and built up by a
genuine invigorator before good appetite
will wait on digestion and health on both.
The bracing weather of November, with
debilitating summer past, and the severity
of winter not yet arrived, is the very best
time for recruiting the strength and get-
ting rid of disease. Contrast the healthy,
well nourished appearance of persons who
have taken Paine’s celery compound with
their former bloodless, nerveless, drowsy
condition! Men and women getting along
in years find a remarkable increase in
vigor and a brighter, more cheerful state
of mind from the use of this great remedy.
Don’t mope along and submit to indiges-
tion, liver disorder, continual headaches
or rheumatism. Paine’s celery compound
will make you strong and keep you so. Its
nourishing, health making virtues have
been so carefully considered, and so ex-
actly fitted to the needs of the tired, ex-
hausted body, that its work does not have
to be done after it. It cures heart palpi-
tation and heart weakness, feeds the nerv-
ous organism so sleep becomes natural
and refreshing, promotes an increased ap-
petite, and furnishes the nervous force to
Although the different forms of iron are
almost innumerable, it is considered in the
arts, under three different names, wrought
iron, cast iron and steek
COMPARATIVE RECORDS.
Galveston weather record for Nov 14
1896, with corresponding dates of the last
three years:
Time— | Bar.| Tern.|Wind |Rain|Weather
.00 (Clear
.00 (Clear
Mr. Braxter Eastham of
Epent last week in the city.
* * *
Miss Lotta Finlay of Austin will be the
guest of Miss Alice Campbell this week.
* * *
Mr. R. D. Lauderdale and son, Master
Shelby, left last Tuesday for Central
America and Mexico, to be absent about a
month.
Miss Daisy Goggan left yesterday morn-
ing for Crockett, where she will attend
the wedding of Miss Mary Wooters and
JRev. R. E. Morris, on the 18th instant.
* * *
Miss Morton Campbell and Mrs. James
Jg. Galbraith left Wednesday for St. Louis
BREAKFAST.
Fruit.
Wheatlet, Sugar and Cream,
Beauregard Eggs,
Muffins.
BELINDA LEE.
Along the country lane she comes,
Belinda, young an’ fair;
The breezes kiss her glowin’ cheeks
An’ toss her sunny hair.
Belinda Lee, at sight of thee,
My heart beats fast enough for three!
Along the country lane she comes,
Belinda, gay an’ sweet;
The birds make music fer her ears,
The grasses kiss her feet.
Belinda Lee, Belinda Lee,
My heart will get the best of me!
Along the country lane she comes,
A merry, winsome miss;
She comes to hear her lover’s voice
And meet her lover’s kiss.
Belinda Lee, Belinda Lee,
Wish’t I wuz him an’ he wuz me!
—New York World.
MEALS FOR TOMORROW.
investors can operate safely and where
the farmer can secure and pay for a home.
The time has come when a special effort
on the part of all interested, especially the
transportation companies, will move thou-
sands of these people to Texas, where
thousands upon thousands of acres of rich
prairie land but awaits the tilling to pro-
duce abundantly and satisfy the ambitions
of those who are anxious to own and oper-
ate their own farms.
“Realizing the importance and fully ap-
preciating the efforts of the Texas coast
association in what it has already accom-
plished, I trust it may succeed in securing
better rates and inducements on the part
of the railroads, and it will be but a short
time until the Texas coast country will be
settled by an intelligent, thrifty class of
people who will make those beautiful
prairies bloom and yield in such profusion
and abundance as to make it the garden
spot of the world.’.’
of his debut greeted and widely acknowl-
edged as a leading tenor of his period in
concert and oratorio in America. He was
exactly the singer of whom the public
stood in need,- rich voiced, commanding a
large repertory, and always reliable. To
enter minutely into a description of the
great beauty and value of Mr. Rieger’s
voice as an instrument, aside altogether-
from his finished development in the art
of song, would be to repeat a tale made
familiar to musicians and a music loving
public all over the states of America. Un-
like many other successful artists Mr.
Rieger was not called upon to make any
slow climbing at the start. The splendid
vigor and musical beauty of his voice, its
immense range and apparently inexhaust-
ible resources, to which were added a su-
preme ease and sympathetic intelligence
in delivery, at once won for him from
critics and public an unqualified praise on
the highest plane. The quality of Mr.
Rieger’s voice is silvery and vibrant, the
range is unusually wide and the quality
throughout absolutely .pure and even. In
the abundance of its volume the impres-
sion is produced that the tenor’s powers
could never by any possibility be over-
taxed. After the obvious strain displayed
by many tenors to reach a certain spot in
the upper register, a strain in which the
audience is called upon to participate, and
which it well knows could not directly be
compassed by the singer a second time,
the superb ease- of Mr. Rieger’s delivery
is a genuine delight and rest to hear. Full
and musical up to the very top limit of its
compass Mr. Rieger never needs to force
his voice, but uses it even under the stress
of powerful climax with admirable reserve
and repose. In this way his dramatic ef-
fects are particularly telling and always
purely musical, the color of the tone never
becoming impaired by the pushing and
forcing which so many tenors feel obliged
to resort to in order to be heard as prom-
inently as they desire.
The holders of tickets purchased from
members of the Quartette society can ex-
change them for reserved seats on Tues-
day next, Nov. 17, after 9 a. m., at Goggan
Bros.’ music store.
The box office sheet will be on sale on
Wednesday, Nov. 18, at-the same time and
place.
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Office—212 Tremont St., bet Strand and Mechanic.
Factory—Avenue A, between 18th and 19th.
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At a recent gathering of young society
men and maidens, the latter discussed
styles and talked of the prevailing fash-
ions so constantly that the young men
present voted an evening to be set apart
for this pleasure. Now and henceforth a
society sewing party will be chronicled
among the week’s pleasures.
* * *
Mr. William Mann Selkirk and Miss Lola
Andress will be married Wednesday even-
ing at 6 o’clock at Trinity church. Brides-
maids and groomsmen will be in attend-
anace. After the ceremony a reception at
the home of the bride will be tendered the
bridal party. The young couple will leave
the same evening for a trip through the
state, returning on the 1st, and making
their home with the bride’s mother,. 1818
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LAWRENCE V. ELDER,
--SUCCESSOR TO J. W. BYRNES--
Manufacturer of Roofing and Paving Pitch,
Benzole, Creosote or Dead Oil, Roofing and
Building Felt, Shell and Gravel Roofing and
Sanitary Flooring. Wood and Asphalt Pav-
ing for Streets and Sidewalks.
---Two and Three-Ply Felt for Ready Roofing, of Best Quality-------
and at Lowest Market Prices.
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LOCAL TEMPERATURE.
Yesterday’s temperature record at Gal-
veston as shown by the thermograph on
the roof of the cotton exchange was as
follows:
Time—
7 a. m.
9 a. m.
11 a. m.
* * *
Mrs. P. S. Wren will move from 17th and
Postoffice to the P. J. Willis residence on
Tremont and Broadway.
The fair was well patronized yesterday.
The following young people were en evi-
dence with balloons, whistles and pop
corn: Misses Kennison, Helen Rice, Evy
Waters, Mary and Alberta Van Alstyne,
Laura Bondies, Laura Painter, Lucy Ken-
nison, Louise Ferrier, Ann Peebles, Kath-
leen and Nan Weekes, Annette Polk, Paul-
ine Adoue, Ruth Paine, Caroline and Re-
becca Sealy, May Thompson, Laura Paint-
er; Messrs. Judge Archer, Peter Erehard,
William Pope, George Sealy and Harry
Trueheart.
Miss Emily Woolverton of this city and
Miss Mabel Sweeney of Houston spent
several days last week with Mr. and Mrs.
Barnes at the Dickinson home.
Mrs. L. V. Elder of Dickinson, as super-
intendent of the woman’s fancy work ex-
hibit at the Texas coast fair, compliment-
ed the Galveston ladies’ work very highly.
Those sending work from here were Mmes.
Blunt, Settle, Bondies, Maston, L. S.
Downs, W. B. Moore and Sheldon; Misses
Laura Bondies, Sadie and Blanche Ad-
ams. Many beautiful pieces of work came
from the hands of the aged ladies at the
Old Woman’s home. Mrs. Elder had Mrs.
F. H. McMahan and Miss Pettit of Dick-
inson assisting her, also Miss cummings of
Houston.
In the art department the following tal-
ented artists of this city had some speci-
men of their work hung:
Miss Virginia Stowe Hutches, a carved
cabinet, which challenged the admiration
of all, and was the finest example of wood
carving at the fair.
Miss Mabel Ketchum, had hung a very
meritorious painting.
Mrs. J. P. McAuley, an artist recently
moved here and who now has her studio
here, had in line many samples of her ex-
cellent work.
The Comtess de Calcinara, nee Marie
Roussel, had two fine paintings on exhi-
bition.
Julius Stockfleth of this city also had an
exhibit in the art department.
That, ended the list of Galvestonians rep-
resenting their work.
The Wheeler fruit farm exhibit chal-
lenged all, by its artistic arrangement.
Here people from this city found a ready
welcome. Conspicuous among the fruit
here shown were large bunches of dates
grown in Mr. Waters S. Davis’ yard here,
24th and E? Mrs. Thomas Keats had
palms, oleanders, green oranges and many
bunches of bananas and bolls of cotton all
artistically grouped, and plainly proclaim-
ing this sub-tropical region.
* * #
Among the distinguished artists who
will appear with Mme. Nordica in the
grand concert to be given by the Galves-
ton quartette society at the Grand opera
house, Monday, Nov. 23, is Mr. William H.
Rieger, who is conceded by musical critics
the American concert stage.
Speaking of him, the Musical Courier of
Nov. 4, 1896, says:
In the ranks of America’s singers no
name stands forth with more distinguished
prominence and favor than that of the
tenor, William H. Rieger. An artist of
superb voice, rare musical intelligence,
abundant feeling and dramatic power,
William H. Rieger was from the very date
GALVESTON CYCLE CLUB.
Some of the Doings of the Popular Wheel-
men’s Organization.
Hereafter the Galveston cycle club will
give regular weekly runs on Wednesday
evenings at 7 o’clock. On the first and
third Wednesdays in each month there
will be runs out of town, weather permit-
ting; on the second and fourth Wednes-
days the cyclists will return to the club
house, where refreshments will be served
by the ladies accompanying, and a mu-
sical program will be rendered.
In the future no postal card will be sent
out by the secretary announcing runs. In-
idvidual members desiring to get up runs
will hand their requests to the secretary,
who will post same on the blackboard at
the club rooms.
The various committees will be appoint-
ed at a directors’ meeting on Tuesday for
the Thanksgiving celebration. It is ex-
pected to make this the event of the year.
* * *
Mrs. James Waters, son and maid have
returned from their summer trip.
* *
Mr. John Goggan left last Friday eve-
ning for San Antonio, where he will join
Mrs. Goggan, now visiting here. They
will visit Austin, Fort Worth and several
cities in the state before returning.
* * *
Eastham
j and Chicago, returning the latter part of
I the month.
* *
Mrs. Joel Wolfe, accompanied by Master
Reeves and Miss Hettie May, have re-
turned from Virginia, where they spent
jSeveral months with Mrs. Wolfe’s pa-
rents, Judge and»Mrs. Reeves of Charlotts-
.Ville. Miss Sallie Wolfe remains in Vir-
ginia to attend school.
* * *
! Miss Elizabeth Focke entertained the
Debutantes’ club last Monday evening at
the Garten verein, the form of the divers-
ion being a bowling party. Mr. and Mrs.
John Focke and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wil-
jkins chaperoned. The guests, Misses Al-
len, Campbell, Gresham, Prehn, Macgill,
Moore, Rice, Runge, Shannon, Wilkens,
Margaret Focke, Anna Wilkens, Messrs.
Flint, Peek, Runge, Hulen, McAlpine,
Hawley, Hutches, Desel, Jockush, Alex
Shannon, Eichlitz, Burcke, Taylor and
Focke, assembled in the bowling alley at
8 p. m., and for three hours had a lively
game. The party then proceeded to the
qlub house, where caterer Ritter had an
elegant supper prepared. The table was
beautiful in finest damask and cystal, with
jardineres of La France roses and red
carnations placed at intervals upon the
board. Before the guests arose from the
.table, the bowls of flowers were passed
aroujtd, the ladies receiving roses and the
gentlemen carnations. Another novel and
^eautiful device was that at each end of
the table tall palms were placed, above
(Which were suspended large tissue chrys-
anthemum balls. The guests thought
these spheres to be only for ornamenta-
tion, and exclamations of surprise and
'delight were heard when at a given signal
two young men arose and touched the
artificial chysanthemums and they blos-
somed wide and showered down upon the
guests dainty little souvenirs in the shape
of various whistles, horns and other
musical instruments. They came between
the cream and coffee, and added a holiday
sound to the environments, as each tried
to excel his neighbor in proficiency in the
musical art. About half an hour after
midnight the guests boarded the electric
cars chartered for the occasion. The
homeward ride was made a gay one, and
as yet the guests can not cease to recount
■What an evening of unalloyed pleasure the
debutantes’ initial bowling party was.
* * *
Mr. Will Rogers landed in New York
last week from his European trip of two
years, and is now expected home at any
Illinois Farmers Anxious to Come—Rail-
roads Must Make Lower Rates.
Immigration from the great farming
state of Illinois to Texas is certainly de-
sirable. The following letter from Mr. M.
E. Scott of Freeport, JU., to Secretary
Tom Richardson of the Ttexas coast asso-
ciation will be read with interest:
“Being engaged inEmigration work for
the Texas coast country, I thought it
might be of interestjto. you to know what
the prospects are for inducing people from
this section to come^to Texas. I find an
earnest interest among all classes, espe--r
dally investors, winter tourists and farm-
ers, who have been reading of the advan- ;
tages offered in the Texafe coast country.
I. have been supplying reading matter to .
them for the past twQ( ye^rs, and I seldom *
approach a man who has not heard or !
read of Texas, and Ij-Jind them anxious to
learn more. Hundreds have expressed
their intention of visiting that land of sun- :
shine and flowers. No wonder they are '
anxious to make a change, for here it re- ■
quires persistent toil‘and economic man-
agement during four or five months’ grow-
ing season to prepare for the long, cold •
winters. Farmers especially ’ are very
much dissatisfied, as it requires all they
can produce on their farms to live and
feed their stock through the long winter
months. The results' are farming is no
longer profitable to the land owner, and
then renters who pay $3.’5O to $5 per acre
rent find at the end of the year they have
labored hard for a scant living, and many
of them have not been able to pay their ;
rent for the past two years. Owing to the
high valuation of lands—$80 to $100 per
acre—they are unable to buy and pay for
a farm, hence they are anxious to know of
the country where lands are cheap and
climate better adapted to their vocation.
With the interest inaugurated and the co-
operation of the many railroads entering
that section by offering special induce- .
ments, I believe thousands of these people |
will be induced to go to Texas, where the j
Fricassee, Baked Parsnips,
Celery Fritters,
Cold Slgw,
Floating Island.
Coffee.
enable the body to convert the food into
solid flesh and blood.
- Of all the means that medical skill has
ever discovered for recruiting the exhaust-
ed energy of the worn out system, Paine’s
celery compound is far in advance. The
pallid face, the pinched features, the
growing thinness and the nerveless move-
ments that tell the story of badly impov-
erished nerves and brain—all these fore-
bodings of approaching disease disappear
with the profound nourishing that Paine’s
celery compound always provides through-
out the body, even to the minutest nerve
fllaments and blood capillaries.
David Hirsch, the well known Broadway
merchant, New York city, writes as fol-
lows to Wells, Richardson & Co.:
“I am advocating Paine’s celery com-
pound among my many friends, because
it has done me so much good in a very
short space of time. I have been suffering
for years from indigestion and all its con-
sequent ills, sleeplessness included. I had
lost about 30 pounds in weight, and was
getting weaker and more nervous every
day. I was unable to stand exertions of
any kind, and I used conveyances for
every short distance.
“After taking two bottles of Paine’s
celery compound I feel in every respect
better, stronger, more cheerful and willing
to live. I will certainly never forget the
effects of Paine’s celery compound upon
my system, and I wish to state that I am
now past 6S years of age. I have traveled
most all over the world, and now I feel I
can keep on doing it and also enjoy it.”
Paine’s celery compound has done as
much for thousands of others.
Globe-Democrat.
Some talk is coming from a few poli-
ticians and newspapers these days which
must have -a bad effect on business, if it
has any effect at all. We do not refer here
to the ravings of Jones, Butler, Bryan,
Tillman, Altgeld and the other ex-chiefs
of the late Popocratic party about the al-
leged “intimidation” and ‘coercion” in the
recent election, their vaporings about the
“bartering away of the nation’s independ-
ence,” their silly threats to keep up their
“warfare on the gold standard until 1900,”
and the publication of this stale rubbish in
big type in their fool organs. The busi-
ness boom which the crushing of this gang
of featherheads and knaves has brought
will keep the country too busy to find time
to listen to the howls and lamentations of
these persons in the future.
But the demands at this time for an ex-
tra session of congress to overhaul the
tariff and revenue laws which come from
various quarters is talk to which the peo-
ple will listen, and in the degree in which
it is listened to, it is calculated to obstruct
the busines revival now rapidly under
way. On the surface of things these de-
mands look reasonable. In the four months
recently ended of the fiscal year the gov-
ernment’s income fell $32,885,000 short of
meeting its outgo, which would mean a de-
ficit of about $98,000,000 in the fiscal year if
the shortage continued at this rate. Obvi-
ously it would be the duty of congress, at
the earliest practicable moment, to
change the laws that this gap between
revenue and expenditure should be bridged
over, and a small surplus instead of a
large deficit be had.
No reasonable person, however, believes
that the deficit is going to continue at any-
thing like the recent rate. The possibility
of the success of the Popocratic party
caused the business stagnation from
which the country is now escaping, and
this, of course, diminished the consump-
tion of imported as well as other goods,
including those on which internal taxes
are levied. The decline which this Popo-
cratic menace has caused in importations
has helped to increase the favorable trade
balance, but it has cut down the treasury
receipts, while at the same time expendi-
tures were growing. The business im-
provement which Bryan’s overthrow has
brought will quickly reflect itself in in-
creased importations, and this will enlarge
the revenues and diminish the deficit. This
improvement will be, or ought to be, con-
tinuous, and it will not surprise us if a
boom comes in 1897 like that which set in
in 1879, after the resumption of gold pay-
ments, which had been suspended for sev-
enteen years. Such a trade revival would,
to such an extent, increase the consump-
tion of goods on which external and in-
ternal taxes are imposed that the. deficit
under the present act would go down close
to the vanishing point, if it did not dis-
appear altogether. There are inequalities
and abnormalities in the tariff act of 1894—
some duties are too low and others too
high—but let us give it a chance to reveal
itself under normal conditions. These con-
ditions will be here soon after President
McKinley’s inauguaration if the people
who are now demanding an extra session
subside in the interval. As the gold scare
has ended, and as the yellow metal is
pouring into the treasury, bond sales will
not hereafter be needed, and one of the
reasons for higher revenues thus disap-
pears. Next spring and summer the coun-
try will have a chance to learn in whict
parts the present tariff law can be ad
vantageously altered, and the work of al
teration can be done leisurely and intelli
gently in the regular session which opens,
a little over 12 months hence. In the mean-
time let us give business a rest.
* * *
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock Mrs.
James Irwin entertained a few friends at
cards. The cozy home of the young host-
ess was beautiful with bowls of roses and
chrysanthemums, refreshments were
served, and the shades of evening closed
around ere the guests departed. The
prize, an exquisite Delf heart shaped jew-
el case, was captured by Miss Mary Davis.
Among the guests present, who hour af-
ter hour the cards fairly shuffled at seven
hand euchre, enjoying the afternoon to its
fullest extent were: Misses Gresham,
Paine, Lowe, Sealy, Van Benthuysen,
Mary and Emma Davis.
* * *
Miss Embery of Virginia arrived Friday
and is visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. J. McRae.
Mr. Sam Mcllheny of Houston will be in
attendance upon the Debutantes’ cotillion
Friday evening.
Mrs. F. W. H. Whitaker and Mrs. Wal-
ter F. Ayres and child will return this
week from Bostoif.
Mrs. Walter Gresham and little son,
Philip, attended the Coast fair last Tues-
day. Mrs. Gresham was selected as one
of the judges in the art department, being
an artist of much ability and a member
of the Corcoran art class.
Now that the season of the sere and
yellow leaf is here, bowling becomes a
favorite pastime. This phrase, the sere
leaf, is but a metaphor here, yet fashion
decrees that the most popular of winter
pastimes shall be this throwing of balls
and pins, and accordingly we find the
august command obeyed. The Garten
verein is at its best now, and though the
season of its concerts are over and it bears
the word “Closed,” yet all through the
winter it holds many informal gatherings,
and is the scene of much merriment, such
as last Wednesday evening were assem-
bled in the bowling alley under the chap-
eronage of Mr. and Mrs. James Irwin. At
the conclusion of the game the guests
partook-of a bounteous spread, served in
the private dining room of the-club house.
Those attending.were Misses Bettye Shan-
non, Josie Gresham, Mary Lowe, Erin
Paine, Margaret Sealy, Mary Davis, Mary
Templeton, May Van Benthuysen and
Fanny Blum; Messrs. Dan Wallis, Dugald
McAlpine I. H. Kempner, Templeton,
Will Hutches, George Hutchings, Harry
Stone, R. H. Gardner, Eichlitz, John
Sealy, H. Hawley and C. Peek.
* * *
The chysanthemum show held in Hous-
ton last Thursday was attended by many
ladies from here, all of whom speak
glowingly of the beauties displayed.
* * *
Miss Pond of Denison is expected soon to
visit Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Groce. A cotillion
will be given in her honor the first week
in December.
A million and a half dollars for physical
improvements is a whole lot of money for
a railroad to spend nowadays. In fact,
such an amount would scarcely be reck-
oned a bagatelle at any time. But large
as it is, that amount about, represents
what the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
will spend in Texas during the remaining
months of this fiscal year.
The officials of the company have not
made any noise about this thing. In fact,
those high in authority, while they do not
deny the truth of the statement, take on
an air of “I’d rather not talk about it”
when they are approached. But enough
has been learned through several sources
to confirm the truth of this story.
To begin with, large gangs of men, prin-
cipally convicts, have been at work bal-
lasting the main line with gravel and
shell. This work is being done in a most
thorough manner and- costs a pot of money
in itself. It is the intention to ballast ail
of the main line and the Dallas branch
and to do the work just as rapidly as it
can be done. As fast as this ballasting is
completed new steel rail will be laid over
it. Over 40 miles of this rail is now on
hand, as related in The Tribune several
rays ago, and 185 miles more will be pur-
chased as rapidly as it is needed or can be
used to advantage..
In addition to ballasting the present
road bed and laying new rails, a .large
number of heavy grades are being re-
duced and some acute curves will be
straightened out. At present there are
several grades up which the heaviest loco-
motives in the service of the company now
require a “helper” to haul 16 loaded cars.
It is the intention to reduce the grades so
that the same locomotive can haul 18 loads
un the grades without any assistance.
This improvement will decrease very ma-
terially the cost of handling traffic and
has long been needed. But heretofore the
company has never been in a financial
condition to spare the money necessary.
Shortly after Col. Polk took charge of
the Santa Fe as acting general manager,
he closed a deal whereby that company
became actual owner instead of lessee of
a large amount of rolling stock, both loco-
motives. and passenger equipment, for
which it paid the Atchison a heavy rental.
As a consequence;^the company is well
fixed in the way of rolling stock.
Other improvements which will cpst a
big lot of money and go to make up that
million and a half, are the new depots
which the road will buijdj Work is now
being pushed on a passenger station and
eating house at Temple; which will cost
about $10,000. This work was urgent and
the force in the5 chief clerk’s office,
which for some time has been working on
plans for a. combined general office build-
ing and passenger-,station for Galveston,
laid aside the Galveston plans in order to
rush through the Temple plans. Now
that these are out of the way work has
been resumed on the Galveston plans. As
soon as they are cathpleted and approved,
bids will be invited and the actual work
of construction commenced. The com-
pany has also decifled to go it alone on
the passenger sta?tion question in both
Fort Worth and Dallas. At Fort Worth
the old rookery which did service as a
union station for so many years, burned
down some time ago. Since that time the
roads at interest have been unable to de-
cide upon a site, and the Santa Fe will
cut loose and paddle its own canoe. At
Dallas the Santa Fe ftsed an old ram-
shackle shed for a passenger station. This
has been an eye sore to Dallas and a
shame to the road for years. But at Dai-
Jas, like at Fort Worth, the roads have
been unable to find a site for a new sta-
tion upon which they could mutually
agree. It does not seem that any such
agreement could ever be reached, so a
handsome passenger station for Dallas
has been reckoned in with the other im-
provements to be made by the Santa Fe
this year.
The shops of the company are not to be
forgotten while the good things are going
round. The increased business has nat-
urally brought increased demands upon
the facilities of the company for making
repairs quickly and economically, very
year improvements are made in machinery
used in railroad shops and it is the inten-
tion of the company to bring the Galves-
ton shops especially and the shops of the
road in general up to date in every partic-
ular. Thousands of dollars will be spen?
in this direction. Requisitions >a-ve been
made and approved for the necessary ma-
chinery, and it will be in position here just
as soon as possible.
All along the lines the depots and build-
ings of the company are being overhauled
and put in shape and the forces of the
chief engineer are as busy as bees. But
the whole thing is being done so quietly
and with such perfect system that but
few outside of the officials of the companjr
knew that any extensive improvements
were even contemplated. The successful
era through which the Santa Fe is now
passing has encouraged and rendered pos-
sible these betterments.. Only a few years
ago that road ran but one passenger train
daily over its main line. Fast double daily
service was tried more for an experiment
than anything else. The service offered
was first class and the inovation paid
from the start. Now the betterment of
the physical condition of. the road will
render possible a further improvement in
the already excellent passenger service,
and the time when the Santa Fe will be
reckoned one of the best, if not the best,
pieces of railway property in the south.
Mr. W. J. Orthwein of New Orleans, a
member of the grain exporting firm of
Chas. F. Orthwein & Sons of St. Louis, is
also in Galveston. When asked last evening
what the prospects are for grain ship-
ments through Galveston this season he
said they'were very good. He looks for
very little wheat to be exported from this
on, but the corn exporting season has real-
ly not opened, although Galveston has
handled about as much of that cereal as
she did during the whole of the preceding
season. New corn is not yet ready for
export, but about the first of December
the movement will open up in good shape.
The movement of grain thus far has been
sudden and phenomenal, really a pick up
on the season’s-business. Galveston’s fa-
cilities for handling grain, he said, are
all right, except that more of the same
kind are needed.
Messrs. Orthwein & Sons export exclu-
sively through the gulf ports, New Or-
leans getting about two-thirds of their
business and Galveston one-third. They
are now making arrangements for the ex-
ports of corn this season.
GRAIN EXPORTERS.
Mr. E. B. White of St. Louis, president
of the E. B. White grain export company,
arrived in this city yesterday-from New
Orleans. He was kept quite busy from the
time he arrived until late in the evening,
and when a reporter from The Tribune
called at his offices, the Galveston man-
ager, Mr. Hundley, said it would be im-
possible for Mr. White to see reporters
until Monday.
Referring to the statement made in
Thursday’s Times-Democrat to the effect
that Mr. White intended transferring a
large portion of his business from Galves-
ton to New Orleans, Mr. Hundley said he
had conversed with Mr. White upon the
subject and found that what he (Mr. Hun-
dley) had said for The Tribune on Friday
was correct; that is, Mr. White has no in-
tention of diverting his trade from Galves-
ton.
“Does he intend increasing his business
through New Orleans?” the reporter
asked.
“Only so far as it may increase through
the regular channels of trade.”
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* * *
A euchre party will be given Wednes-
day evening at 8 o’clock by Mr. and Mrg.
W. L. Moody, jr., Mrs. Sealy Hutchings
and Mrs. Frank P. Moody at the home of
Col. and Mrs. W. L. Moody, 1304 Tremont
street.
Miss Alice Campbell will give the De-
butantes’ club a box party tomorrow
evening to witness Louis James in “Spar-
tacus.” The first four lower boxes will be
occupied, and a supper at the Grand will
follow.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ballinger en-
tertained a few friends at cards last Fri-
day evening.
Miss Clara Mae Clegg of New Y’ork city
will be the guest of Miss Margaret Sealy
this week.
The presentation of the spectacular en-
tertainment “America,” which will occur
Tuesday evening at Harmony hall, prom-
ises to be well received, as the interest and
enthusiasm of those participating is un-
bounded.
Mrs. P. T. Downs will return this week
from the interior.
C. B. Lee & Co., ProprsM
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Normal temperature, 63.
Deficiency for the day, 1.
Accumulated excess since Jan. 1, 58
Normal precipitation for Nev. 14, 1896, .15
Deficiency for the day, .15.
Deficiency since Jan. 1, 22.11.
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