Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1901 — Page 9

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Part Two Pages 9 to 16 Ä l'RICK FIVE CENTS INDIANAPOLIS, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. i

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X Easter Gl&Ves J -A Windotvful at 98c J They arc French made, of real kid, and come in all the

2 wanted shades of brown, tan

-, mode, red, ray, parl and opera

shades; also white or black.

h Thcy have two-clasp fasteners, i and are altogether the greatest c tflove value of recent years, 98c i a pair. Of standard brands you may choose jS from: ? Dent's, Reynler's. Jouvin's, Foster's or Foane's Dress Kids at Jl.50. J Reynler's Suedes at 51.50. Dent's Mannish Glove at $2. Jouvln's finest Black Suede at 2. Fowne's Street Glove, in colors, at $2. J"? Men's Gloves, Fowne's or Dent's Z make, U.W to $2.23 a rair. If Old Sol does his duty j The Easter Va.ra.dc Yl of Parasols

Will reveal much that is both new in design and color. Our showing- equals in variety and exceeds in elegance that of last season. Among the smart styles 13 "The London Club," which we show in various stripes and all fashionable plain colors. Parasols for children have also been given more attention than heretofore. Early selections are wisest many of the handsomer Parasols are limited to one of a style. Fluffs and 33oas Liberty Silk and Chenille

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up of this surprisingly pretty assembly of Easter Neckwear. As to color, white and black, of J course, are conspicuous, but J you'll also see much in gray, light blue, pink and tan.

L'Aiglon Military Stocks, made with ties, have trimmings of cold. Lace Collars are also here in the east aisle. Also many new forms of Wash Stocks und Ties, from the least expensive to the most elaborate.

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A year and a week now since the Ayres Store introduced to your notice the Shoe that is now known a,s the perfection of footwear at a moderate price

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it to ourselves for the carefulties3 with which we have seen

J to providing at all times variety

in sizes and styles, but, after all, this great and growing Shoe Store owes more to the splendid Shoe that it champions and to the man who was responsible for its selection Mr. Frank Merl, the well-known manager of the department. Make a point of seeing some

one of these new spring styles: 0

Tatcnt Kid Oxford Has military heel, single sole and Tuxedo toe, a stylish and thoroughly handsome Oxford. Suitable for allround wear 6a00 MannUh Oxford Tuxedo style, made of Box Calf, with double sole, welted, the best early sprins Oxford yet designed. iä. CS O The TarUienne Made of Tatent Kid. with kid top and medium heel or cloth top and Louis XIV heel. Spanish opera shape, an Ideal Dress Boot, modeled on lines absolutely correct. The "Bitte" Hoot Kibo Kid tip, with toe the width of silver half dollar. Medium sole, square edge. Medium low heel. Suitable for both house and street wear, 53. Ja rd in ic res You'll have a new plant for Eastertide, whether you buy it yourself or depend on your best

friend.' If the plant demands a J? new Jardiniere, take advantage ?' of our closing season's prices:

Dollar Jardinieres now Jardinieres at

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K.erscy Cloths The demand for a mediumpriced good-weight coating is met here by a Kersey Cloth of unusual merit for the price. Kersey Cloth, 51 Inches wide, in cardinal, garnet, navy blue, cadet, brown, gray or mode; proper weight for coats and Jackets, the yard.iü, BO G o tj n Maimers you May Urtut McsdamesPhe.ps and Wright are too well known by what they have done to warrant more than a passing notice that their departments of dressmaking are open for the season. In Women's tailoring you'll be greeted by a new manager and a busy one. Mr. Bouschelle was not unknown to many of you previous to his engagement by us. Perhaps that accounts for the cordial reception he has received at the hands of Indianapolitans. But just a word: Your gown should be spoken for at once. Women's tailoring requires time, and orders must take their turn. Tattern Hobes The spring season seldom brings so many and varied nov-

h elties as are now shown at th

dress goods counters.

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zj&Jd& for the Smart Frocli Here's where extremes meet. What you take to your tailor is heavy and firm; .what goes to your dressmaker is neither. Crepes, Voiles, Eoliennes, Batistes, Challies and Nuns' Veilings not only predominate but dwarf all other showings. Even Etamines have been revived to satisfy the demand for the thin and airy in dress fabrics. Tailoring woolens show little change. Weights and weaves are just about what has been. In embellishment the tailored gown has changed materially, but that is another story."

The Thin Wools

Crepe and Albatross weaves of strictly all Wool and 23 inches wide, come in rose, tan, gray, navy, cadet, cardinal, reseda and cream, the yard SOc A pretty Etamine, 42 inches wide, may be had in gray, tan, rose, reseda, cadet or cream, at 7 Sc A new Crepe weave in gray, castor, brown, reseda or rose, is 40 inches wide, also 7 5c Granite Suiting, thin, but with more firmness and strength than other popular weaves, comes in a range of twelve handsome shades, 44 Inches

wiue, me yara 713c

Lansdowne, in every shade listed by the

maker and a few dyed to our special order, the yard $.2S

French Crepes, in a beautiful range of

new colorings and several qualities, the yard, SI.73, and 3I.OO

French Challies 'Tisn't likely there's a broader assortment than this of ours between Chicago and New York City. Then the qualities are the choicest, and the designs, of which we show to exceed two hundred, all our own personal selections. Of plain color Satin-striped French Challies we show 6 shades, at, the yard tTCSc Of French Challies, In Oriental colorings a number of new designs are just opened. They Include 'patterns whose predominating colors are variously heliotrope, cardinal, navy, light blue, gray or Nile green, the yard 05c Other French Challtes, covering the range of style, in dots, scrolls, stripes and floral effects, at, OCSc, SOcand SOc

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Crepe de Chine, Eolienne, Panne Satin and varied embroidered Voiles range in orice from 15 to $43.

An affair of contradictions. 'Tis

flat that is originally but its flatness frequently ends when the trimming begins.

Most likely the skeleton of straw becomes

only the foundation upon which billows of tulle

are rolled and mounted, then one side gets a coquetish tilt, braced by an immense rose or

two enmeshed in more tulle. Such is the hat that boasts the approval of Virot and Lugunne,

likewise is it the hat of Francois and the hat

of L. S. Ayres & Co. Cases are now well filled with models, or

what we might better designate as suggestions. We prefer to make a hat for you individually, but the suggestions of what it

will be are always here for your seeing.

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What Maf(esJxJx . your Home

Three floors we devote to your personal adornmentt one to the decoration of your home. Perhaps even that is an unfair division. Anyhow we find this rug and drapery floor crowded

And with home beautifiers that need only to be

seen tobe wished for. Take Bed Draperies, for instance. Among an assortment of Applique Net Spreads there are one or two styles in which empire wreaths of cerise pink are outlined with black, an effect charmingly unique and pretty. Arabian laces are also shown in these spreads. Some of the handsomest sell for less than $20 the set.

to its capacity.

Henctving TimeWorn Fxtrnitxxrc The facilities, the workman, the goods that insure best results, are here. We do a lot of this refinishing, reupolstering, rejuvenating. Perhaps in another month, if you wait, you'll have to take your turn among numerous house-cleaning neighbors. Wisdom suggests you send down that decrepit chair or worn couch now. It'll come back like new, or prettier. Some handsome Upholstering Tapestries at 11.00 and $1.50 a :'ard, worth a fourth more. Velvet Velours at $3.50 and $i. usually priced a dollar more on the yard. We never had a more pleasing collection.

Lace Curtains Easter week Curtain buyers

Her Majesty9 s Corset A Stay XV e Can "Recommend We would hardly give our ap-

PtiJlflcd Curtains Selling begins with buying.

win save bv investigating the We let no opportunity slip that

most economically priced line of will save you a dime on a pair of jproval to any article that we

window hangings we have ) these popular Bedroom Curtains, were not sure was thorougiy

ever gathered. Many groups? We sell cheaply because we've

are special small lots that wills bought cheaply. The materials

disappear quickly when once ) and finish are much above the

average at the same prices.

Examples:

seen.

Real Scotch Net Curtains at, a pair au.e Irish Foint Laces at $150 and.j:3.30 New design Brussels Curtains aoo Arabian Laces at 14.73 and...$O SO Novelty Point Curtains at $6.50 and CO Renaissance and Battrnburff Curtains of surprising beauty at upward

from O Odd rairs of Laces HALF PRICE.

Colored Muslin Curtains, pretty ones, at igH.O Handsomer ones at, a pair, 1 7."5. and $& SO Colored, Striped Curtains upward-

White Muslin

Curtains, a

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Dotted, striped and figured Curtains of White Ruffled Muslin, upward from RuRled Bobblnet and Point d'Esprlt Curtains for as much as $7.50 and as little as SI C50

good, and

when we say so much in favor of Her Majesty's Corset, you can rest assured that it has extraordinary merit,

and is a Corset it will pay you to buy and wear. Trices begin at $2.73. N Princess of Wales Corset much like Her Majesty's $1.50. The new gored model straight front, $2.50 and $5.00.

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A woman's tailor who has J(

grown old and garrulous at the business, and whose English is more expressive than elegant, recently designated them 'Christmas- tree Suits," because, said he, one hangs so many gew-gaws on them. However the fad the fact remains the Trimmed Christmas-tree" Suit is the Easter Suit of 1901. A lace collar, a fancy vest, an unnecessary amount of braiding or an undue fullness of

the smart frock from its old-

time rival the gown of tailored j a mi j T- i ?

severuy. i ne xuion or ixnero rj 1 a , -

is ine popular coai or douicc, the flare-flounced skirt the acme of good style. Such Suits start in price at $14.73 and range upward through $13.73, $25, $29.50 to $150. fictvest SilKs This week's arrivals have not been so numerous as the are notable. Here's rare value: Twenty-five new shades of regular S5c Taffetas will be opened for sale at 75c Yard-wide Black Taffeta Silk, another lot like last month's offer, at sll.OO All colors In a new line of Panne Velvets, the yard $1,50

And Foulards! Wc couldn't improve

a hundred new patterns at 73c and $1 a

yard.

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Among 'Baby Caps 5? . it ' A A 1 A K.'T

ire many pretty conceits tuat are as dainty in style as they

are economical in price. A neat little cap of tucked . lawn, trimmed with lace, sells at noc Another style, tucked, hemstitched and corded, at 5c Still another of tucks and embroidery, with footing about the face. ijjll.rcJ Among the expensive ones you'll prize a Christening Cap of handmade lace, silk-lined and trimmed with ribbon. Its price, $3.75, is manifestly reasonable. A -number of sample and 4Kld Caps, worth from 75c to $1.50; choice... flOc (Children's Department, Second Floor.)

Oriental Cashmeres Ss

The richest fabric, in both softness and coloring, for house

gowns, waists and dressing At'

sacques.

The season's first Importation in these

desirable designs and colorings Is here,

30 Inches wide, the j'ard 55c 3 ig flight Shirts For a Little Trice The broad-out" men have failed to get their share of fine

slumber robes," but they ought

to line up for these Monday morning at the new price. Night Shirts of finest materials, amply long and generously wide, no collars, but for men who require 16 to 19 sizes; Shirts that are regularly $1.25, $1.50 and $1.75 each, choice &1.00 Ohio Ceramics

One-Third nder Trice The reputation of these dark

rich, underglazed potteries has (t i i ,i i , vr 4 Z

the three best known, Aurelian, 5

Rook wood and Louwelsa, wc J

are agenus lur iwu. x nis special discount sale places them within easy reach of the economical. Aurelian Tottery in finely blended greens and browns, upward from Sj-UJ.Ol Louwelsa Pottery, slightly different in color blending, but in a range of rare and exclusive designs, $i, $1.67, $G and upward. All a third under list prices.

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UNCLE SAM'S CLOCKS

HOW Tim GOVKIl2UnXT IIKRULATCS tiic coiTitvs Ti3ii:rii.:ci:s.

A Proceeding 3Iale Posaible Only by the Adoption of a I'niform HtanOard Time System.

SIGNAL SEHT AUTOMATICALLY

THE SCR VICC IS FLItMSHED 11 Y THE IV AVAL OIISIUVATORY.

Elaborate' and Accurate 51achlncry for Measuring Time Time-Hall and Operator's Duties.

Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, March 20. There are 7U.000 clocks set by the government every day when the noon hour strikes in Washington. In every large city throughout the United States time balls at the same minute Indicate the time to hundreds watching for their fall and hundreds of watches are regulated to correspond with the signal. This time service comes from the naval observatory in Washington and its original design was to furnish mariners at seaboard cities with the means of regulating their chronometers. Like a great many othtr government institutions it has strayed from its original purpose and now it serves another of more general usefulness. There 1 a strong national feeling against paternalism in the United States, but therms are many small ways in which paternalism nourishes without hindrance. Th's time service is ostensibly free; actually it is not free, but costs the owner of each clock $13 a year. The government furnises the signal free but the government does not deliver it. If you want to string a wire to the Naval Observatory from your office in New York or Chicago, or San Francisco the Navy Department will furnish you the signal every day without money and without price. Hut the stringing of wires is costly and attended with great difficulties. So you necessarily turn to the Western- Union Telegraph Company, with Its C50,(j3 miles of wire; and this company puts a wire into j-our office and conects it with its great system which has a wire running to the observatory. No one knows what the Western Union Company receives from its time service, but reckoned on a basis of $13 a clock each year and 70,000 clocks, the amount should be more than a million dollars. This sum it receives for suspending all business on the wires from 1J:57 to 12 o'clock, Washington time, each day and giving the operator at the Naval Observatory full control of them. Actually the operator there does not send the signalit is sent automatically by a remarkable clock and so far as the time balls are concerned the preliminary work is done by a man in charge of each, who hoists it to position and throws its machinery into the circuit just before the final signal goes out. STANDARD TIME. The national time signal is made practicable by the standard time system which has been adopted in almost every city in the United States. This system divides the country into four parts along the lines of longitude. Each division represents approximately one hour of the sun's course. One of these divisions begins at th seaboard and ends at a line which passes through the city of Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania. If you are traveling wept on the famous Chicago Limited, when you get to Pittsburg you will set your watch back one hour. Continuing west, when you reach North Platte, in Nebraska, you will put your watch back another hour, and at Ogden you will find that it has gained an hour more. These divisions are known as Iastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific time. When it Is noon in Washington it is an even hour in each of these other divisions. Not every city has adopted this system, and there are those in which "standard time," "railroad time" and "local time" aro all to be reckoned with. The Naval Observatory contains a great many fine instruments. It holds what was for a time the largest telescope in the United States the twenty-six-inch Clark equatorial which cost J46.000 and was erected in 1S73. The Lick telescope, in California, thirty-six Inches, soon took from the government the distinction of owning the greatest telescope,' and that, in a few years, was exceeded by the Yerkes telescope, forty inches. With the Ciark telescope Professor Hall discovered the satellites of Mars, and there are other discoveries to Its credit in astronomical history. The big telescope has nothing to do with the time signal. The telescope used in the business of measuring time is the transit instrument, which is much smaller. Here, on each clear night, an observer watches the movement of the stars, and by their aid corrects the big Frodsham clock, which stands in the signal room. In the making of the observations the web of the spider plays an important part. Threads of cobwebs are not only fine, but wonderfully strong for their fineness. They also possess a remarkable stability, not being affected by moisture, and neither expanding nor contracting with changes In the temperature. These threads are used to make cross lines extending at right angles across the field of view, so as to divide It Into mathematical spaces. For this purpose it is found that spiders' webs gathered near Washington are more efficacious than those which can be obtained elsewhere. Some years ago the directors of the observatory sent to China for webs, thinking that the large spider of that country would produce an especially desirable web. liut It was found that in their peculiar field the American spiders were superior to the foreign another triumph for home Industries. The Washington spiders are obtained by expeditions sent out in June of each year. They collect from barns and fences the cocoons of big "turtle-back" spiders. Each cocoon is wound with a single filament, and this is reeled off and used to divide the telescope's field of view. By their aid the observer measures the movements of the stars and determines exactly the time. The big clock is regulated to the minutest measureable fraction of a second and left to feel its measured way through the hours till morning. It Is not affected by any movements that Jar tall buildings and shaKe smaller ones, for It Is secure on" a deep sunk pedestal of granite. MANY CHRONOMETERS. All through the signal room, as the dy cbserver enters, there Is a buzz as of grasc-

hoDoers In the field on a warm summer day.

This is the voice of the chronometers, which fill long wooden cases. All the navy's chronometers are sent hore to be regulated. Opposite the FroJshnm clock are two costly timepiece., which contain the mechanism for sending out the time signal. These timepieces cost between J7'V and JW apiece. There Is, by the way, another clock In the observatory for which Congress vaiJ J10.O. It was invented by Dr. John Locke, of Cincinnati. In 1"5., and was the first apparatus for transmitting time' automatically. It is running now, tut its only use is to measure time. The Frodsham clock is set for sidereal time. Between this ani standard Eastern time there is a differencd of 8 minutes 12. w seconds. The other clocks, when they are regulated by the Frodsham, must bo made to vary just S minutes 12.(3 seconds from it. This is accomplished by an ingenious recording device. A cylinder standing on an adjacent tablo Is made to revolve at a fixed rnte of speed. A stationary pen loaded with red Ink makes a straight mark on the paper which is fastened around this cylinder. In each of ths two clocks is a cogged wheel. Just behind the dial, which turns sith the second hand. Each of tha cogs in turn touches a brass spring which closes the circuit of a battery. An electric impulse from this battery passes through the pen, and by a mechanical arrangement causes it to make a horizontal mark on the cylinder. Thu$ every second is permanently recorded. The Frodsham clock is also in circuit with this pen. A cup of mercury rests in the clock. It is connected with one pole of the battery. The pendulum Is connected with the other. As the pendulum swings it touches tha mercury m the cup. closing the circuit and sending an electric impulse through the pen. This impulse also causes the pen to be defected and to leave a mark on the cylinder. It is easy enough to set either of the. other clocks within a second of the Frodsham to set the minute hand at the eightminute variation and the second hand twelve seconds more. But the fraction of the remaining second must be me.asured with great nicety. This is done by measuring the space between the marks on the cylinder with a prepared graduated scale, which shows the difference between the two beats to hundredths of a second. Tha operator doing this accelerates or retards the clock to be regulated by touching the pendulum with his finger till the spac measured shows that the fractional difference is Just nine-hundredths of a second. Then the clock is ready for the day's work. HOW THE SIONAL WORKS. All this takes place not too long befora the noon hour, so as to give the clock a little-time to lose or gain. There is a sounder on top of the clock, which steadily ticks off the seconds loud enough to be heard in the adjoining room. At three and a quarter

minutes before noon, approximately, the big clock is switched Into tile telegraph circuit.

This signal clock has a toothed wheel di

rectly behind the wheel which marks the

seconds. The wheel is divided Into sixty spaces, but the tooth representing the

twenty-ninth second is missing, and so are

those representing tho thirty-fifth, fifty-

sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth and fiftyninth seconds. As thl wheel revolves tho

teeth come in contact with a spring which

is in connection with the current, closing the circuit and causing the sounder to respond. The twenty-ninth :ignal drops out, and that intermission indicates the approach of the half minute. In the same way an Intermission of five beats indicates

tho approach of the nd-al the .minute.

This arbitrary arrangement is designed to

warn operators all over the country when they cut In at just what point they have come on the circuit. Before the final signal there will be a lapse of twenty seconds. Thi3 is brought about by tho action of the operator at the observatory and is not

automatic like the other intermissions. It

is produced by the operator moving the switch key, which throws out of the circuit the wheel marking the seconds and throws into the circuit the wheel that marks the minutes. If an operator comes in on the circuit and the first intermission he notes is

a single second he knows that he has come

In on the half minute. If the intermission is five seconds, he knows he has come ia just before the minute, but not the final minute. If he counts more than five second?:, he knows that it is the final Intermission before the noon hour, and he acts accordingly. What this operator and what all operators have to do In regulating the time ball is to turn a switch between the sounding of the fortieth second and the signal which marks the final minute. As soon as the operator lias counted more than live seconds in the intermission he knows that the next signal will mark the exact Lour of noon. The time ball has been hoisted to its position at the top of the pole. These poles are in conspicuous places in every large city in tho United States, usually on the top of the Western Union Telegraph building. The ball is of canvas over a globular form. There is a mechanical device by which a single impulse sent over the wire when the time ball Is In the circuit pulls the trigger and releases the ball so that It falls to the bottom of the pole. In the intermission which he knows precedes the final signal, the operator throws the switch and In this way all the time balls in the country are brought into the circuit with the Naval Observatory. SIMULTANEOUS ACTION. In the last hundredth of the last second of the fifty-ninth minute of the eleventh hour at Washington the tooth of the minute wheel touches the spring which closes the circuit and simultaneously the time balls all over the country drop. When I say simultaneously, of course, I make no allowance for the fraction of a second during which the electric Impulse is going out from Washington. Such an Impulse has been sent from Washington to San Francisco in 1-3 of a second. The dropping nf the time ball sets the clocks on Governor's Island, one of the military posts at New York, through the Intermediary of the bugle call. Just before noon of each day two enlisted men are stationed at a point commanding a vlw of the tower of the Western Union building. One of these is a signalman with a powerful field glass. The other Is the po?t bugler. The signalman motions to the bugler at the moment of the time ball's drop and the bugler sounds the call for noon. All over the island watches and clocks are adjusted, and though they da not achieve correct time to that fraction of a second which marks the electrically controlled clock, they become accurate enough for all military purposes. The dock regulation is done by 'another piece of mechanism. The same fclgnal which drops the time balls throws a lever in the thousands of clocks all over the country. This lever strikes a cam which governs the second, minute and hour hands, and with one motion the lever throws these hands to the perpendicular, making the clock mark the exact hour, mlnut and second of noon. Ofliclal time governs the departments in Washington, while hundreds of clocks are set by this electrical impulse; it governs the operation of 124.. CaA miles of railway and reduces the pc

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