Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 73, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1904 — Page 22

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 1904.

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Human Nature as Observed on Street Cars Is Not Always to Be Admired Tendency is Toward a SelfisH Disregard o tHe rvig'Hts of OtKer Passengers... The Man on tHe End Seal, tHe Girl That Fidgets. tHe Woman -witK the MarKet BasKet as Illustrations

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mUMAN' nature In the street car may not really differ materially irom ii urnan n:iiure oinerwnere, but It 8fms always to be an aggravated (MM.. The street car, with its indiscriminate mingling of classes. Its enforced close comp hips coaxes into obviousness traits which in other circumstances might be unn ble. The woman who may be the pink of perfection in all mat U is ..f consieleratlon and courtesy in her own home reveals herself ss a little bunch f aKgre-ssive- snlppinesa when she crowds h rse If into a car. Why? Nobody knows. The time of year Is drawing near when the papers will begin to teem with sarcastic stnrie-s anent the struct car hog the man who establishes himself in the outward and rtetbie corner of the open trolley scat and stays there, leaving ail subsequent us-s-iiirers whi wish to get Into that seat to climb over his knees and trip over hts f.-t. ! of moving along and giving up the- litü cozy corner to the next comer. There is frequently the corner at the other side that he might have, but he'd rather not. Mow th re is no denying that the man who takes his corner and keeps it deserves all the harsh things that can be said about him. but there is another undeniable fact that should not be overlooked and that is that n t all the dingers to seat corners in the open street car are of masculine ge-nd. ; It is just as likely to b dimity knees and trim oxfords that one has to climb over in the good old sunm time, as it is to b er kind. Ost sweet young thing she really was sweet, too, if app iranc counts occupied the desired post in a trolley one afternoon last summer. The ar i - crowded and the only seat that had any vacant spaces was the one which was held by the sweet

Indianapolis BaKers' Bread Good as Mother Used to MaKe

Immense Number of Loaves from Local BaKeries Consumed Daily ...Process of Manufacture Very Interesting

NE of the largest andv most important industries In Indianapolis is that of the barkeries. The reason that this Hue of business thrives to such an extent here is that upon there are more people who depend bakers' bread to supply tht ir tables With the staff c! life, and more bread is eaten than In almost any other city in the United States. The people of this city have found by , ri- . that the bread made here by the local bakeries is of a very superior quality, and in many iastauces Is better thau can be prepared at home. The buying of bread elocs away with the oldfashioned bakiim day, which was formerly looked upon by the m n of the family with SjTssost the same dread as wash, lay or bouseeleaning time. Many Indianapolis people not only depend upon the bakers for the breud they use. but pies, cakes, crackers and rolls of various kinds are bought extensively. The bread that is made here Is not only superior in quality, but the loaves weigh mon- and the buyer gets more lor his money thau iu almost any other place In the country. This proves that there Is a great amount of nutrition In the local bresd. and It n c.-arily ef a higher taudard than people often make In th ir own kitchens, and for this reason Is a much healthier bread than g. in rally comes from the baker, There are three large bakeries here, namely those of Hits. Bryce and Parrott & Taggart. besides any number of smaller ones, and they all do a thriving busin The larger part of all of their trade is local. Of course the smaller cone- rns have no opportunity to ship their products, but the larger ones so manage their affairs that they furnish br- to all the surrounding towns, but In no Instan e does this trade form the bulk of their business. The local trade here Is so large that all of the baking establishments, both large and small, for the mo-t part confine the larger share of their business within the limits of the city. It is .-.i.i by leading bikers that their local demand tor ore.nl and lakes is Increasing all the time, and that the majority of people have quit doing their own baking and are now buying the things that they formerly made themselves. It is said the advantage in this Is that in pure basing a cake, for instance. i muc h bi tter than baking It. for the re Is no chance of spoiling it. and In making bread the sann thing can be said The woman of the house also avoids a great amount of trouble by depending on the bakers" pies, cakes and hr?ail and the i.ik-a.-. understanding the Bcaltar taste that home-made eatables have, are catering to this. They try to make their bread, cakes and rolls as near like the horn, -made arti lc ih It is possible to get them It us d to oe that everythtag In the bakers' line had a doughy, artlflcial taste about it. but in later years bakers have don, iw.ty with this and have brought their pro!a t- to ta.-t. so neirly Ilk those made in one's own kitchen that ft Is almiwt impossible to tell the difference. To ct r- dally bread supply t i ! r a city like Indianapolis is no small task. and a great amount of preparation U uccce-

young thing. A few squares above Washington street the car stopped for a woman who spied the vacancy and made for th" seat. She got as far as the running board and she tilted there for a moment and pn -pared to ;idvare further. A billow of organdie ruffles filled the space before her und the sweet young thing lo whom the ruffles were hung sat stolidly In ber corner with a far-away gase, offering neither to move nor to draw in a sufficient number of reefs In the ruffles to admit the newcomer. The Impatient conductor reached a han! for the bell rope. "All aboard!' he shouted warnlngly. Still no sign from the- oeganrik ruffled one. Whereupon the newcomer took the initiative, plowed Into th" ruffles with both feet and got herself triumphantly int the seat beyond the sweet young thing, who favored her with indignant thunder-cloud glances all the way up the street. "And you can Just believe I tramped on her ruffles as hard as I could and took all the time I could to doing it." was the proud assertion of the other woman later. Sometimes the woman who holds the end seat with all the deggedness with which Horatius of old looked after the bridge, favors you with an explanation as to why she keeps it. "I am going only a few squares," is frequently the apologetic remark of the end-seater, after she has forced a litt r comer to crawl over her. Why she thinks that It is any easier to have some one and frequently some two or three climb over her that she may be able to slip out at her Journey's end than it Is to move along, and at the end to do all the climbing hi r.-elf, is another of the things that nobody knows. But she has paid for her little street-car ticket and of course she has a right te choose her own place. ALL THE YEAR 'ROrND. The passengers of the Fummer cars are not the only ones who show strange characteristics, however. Funny little bits of warped human nature crop out in the closed cars of the winter time just about as often as they do In the summertlde chariots. Most people who ride In the big cars provided by a generous street-car management prefer the little crosswise seats to the lengthwise ones at the rear. They are so much more "cozy," and they are visually tilled up Ion before the other seats are full. In addition to tiie preferenc ; there Is another feeling about the seats that it Is safe to say nine out of every ten women have. "I don't mind a bit having somebody come in and drop down in the other half of my nice, cozy little seat when the car is getting full and all the little cross seats have been at least half taken." is one girl's declaration. "But," she adds," it fairly makes me Ix-il when there are some seats entirely vacant and some one comes and planks herself down beside me. I have a feeling somehow that that seat is just as much my castle as ever any Englishman's house is his until all the rest are taken, and it is all I can do to keep from asking the interloper what she means by it. The other day I was going downtown and the crowd in the car thinned out. of course, at Ohio street. I was looking out the window when I felt somebody drop into the o;it beside me. Instantly 1 thought 'the idea of that woman getting In here and sitting down with I Me! when there are all those seats vacant,' and I turned and fairly glared at her. You can imagine how I felt when I looked into the dancing eyes-of a woman whom I admire immensely and to whom I had been trying to be my charmingest for the past few months." There is one kind of woman who never closes the car door, if she happens to get out in front. , "My hilshand told me never to try to close that door because It is too dangerous," explains one woman. "He says that 1 am too likely to shut my skirt in with It. and fall down the steps." It J.s frequently a little awkward for a woman to swing the door shut behind her and though its dangerousncss may be a question with more than one side, she doesn't deserve much blame if she doesn't do It. T ut the woman who refuses to close the door when she gets in Is another matter. She is not numerous, but she Is not unknown. One of her class climbed up the front steps of a car one chilly, windy day not long ago and the blast of cold wind that came in with her made the passengers shiver. Insid" the car she paused, put out he hand to close the door but. with her fingers on the handle, iht) hesitated. "I'll let the conductor do that it's his business to," she remarked. Her remark was addressed

fcary. In the large establishments the first men go to work at 7 o'clock in the morning and "set sponge." Every woman who has ever done any bread making knows erbat this means, but instead of making the sponge up in a large tin pan, as is done in the ordinary kitchen, and setting it on the back of the stove to wait until it Is sufficiently developed to commence the bread making, in the bakeries it is made upon a much larger scale, and is mixed in ls.rge troughs which are about eight feet leng, three feet wide and about three or a little over in depth. The nun who t the sponge have nothing else to do, but there is another crowd that makes up the dough. Thus everything Is in readiness for the regular bakers, who come to work at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. When they commence their labor It is not long until hot bread Is coming from the large ovens In great quantities, and this Is kept up all night. Parrott & Taggarts bakery, which hi a branch of the National Plocult Company, is an Interesting place to visit to watch the bread, cakes and crackers in the different stages of making. A few years ago all tho dcugh was raised, divided and made ready to go In the ovens by hand, but now this process has all been done away with and the bread is hardly touched by human hand In the process of makirg. Everything at pr- st nt time is done by machinery, from the mixing of the dough to molding It into tho loaves. The men who mix the dough do not measure their quantities of flour by cupsful. as the housewife does, but so many large sacks and then a certain number of scoopsful the latter about as big as the ordinary shovelful--are put into the mixing machine. This makes the dough In much larger quantities than could formerly be made by hand and also makes it In a much shorter time. The action of this machine strikes the observer as wonderful, for It s, ems -impossible that such great quantities can be turned out in so .short time. When the dough is thoroughly mixed It is put into long troughs and sent down to the bakers. These are the men who begin their work late In the afternoon, and while other people sleep they are making bread for breakfast. When the bakers rct the dough It Is put through l machine in small quantities that divides It Into the riRht proportion for the loaves. This dough as yet Is not molded and Is simply In a lump which has no shape. These lumps of dough are th n run through the molding machine, which Is a rather complicated apparatus composed of small rollers and cog wheels. The dough is put In at one end of this machine In an unreeognizable mass and comes out at the ther a perfectly formed loaf. These loaves are put in halting pan? which are set on long-handled paddles and put in the ovens to come out in the next few minutes browned to perfection and made ready for the table. The rtrst of this bread begins coming out of the ovens shortly before H o clock in the evening. This 1 intended for shipment to tbe surrounding town. At 1:30 a. m. there i- no busier place than a bakery It reminds one more of noon than the early morning hours, everything U

to nobody, but it was audible to most of the people In the car. She seemed to be unaware that she had spoken and passed down to a seat utterly unconscious that she had revealed a very mean little bit of humn nature. The fussy girl on the street car is always a source of amusement to every one except herself. She is a serious matter to herself. t'sually the fussy girl is of the type that has obvious hairpins and a big bunch of telle, not too fresh, at the back of her neck. When she settles herself in her seat she appears to be carefully. If somewhat over-ostentatiously finished, in the matter of dressing. One knows to a Oral certainty that each hairpin was put in carefully, the tulle was fluffed up and the hat was pinned on painstakingly before the girl left the house. But she hasn't been settled a moment before her hands go up to feel her hair. She fingers it carefully, but she succeeds in displacing a loose lock, of which she is blissfully unaware. Then she takes out a hairpin and runs it in agaiu. For a momeut her hands are still, then they steal up to the tulle bow to find if it is still there, and being satisfied as to Its presence she proceeds to straighten it at least she thinks she does; but straighteneing without the aid of a mirror being a ticklish proceeding she usually succeeds in getting it at a most conspicuously unbecoming angle. Then her hat begins to bother her. She wonders if It really is on straight "the world-old question." She knows it was when she left the house but walking rapidly for the car perhaps it has become tilted. So she carefully removes a pin, crushes her hat agtinst her head with her left hand and with the right jabs in the pin again securing the chapeau to her head with a tilt that would drive her mad if she could see it. Then in a moment her attention is claimed by her hair again and she goes through the hairpin process again. By the time she leaves the ear she has reduced herself to a disheveled condition which drives her to distraction when she encounters a mirror. thi: MARKET basket lad v. The lady with the market basket is another street car character. Sometimes it is a fancy basket, sometimes it is just a plain old splint basket, but in either case it is a big basket, and its owner doesn't care about being bothered with it on her ray down town. So she deposits it in the Sl it in front of her and pays no more at Dread-Mixing in a hurry and bustle, as it is at this time that large numbers of wagons back up to the doors and are loaded for the express oftites. To people who are on the streets late at night the bakery wagons are a familiar sight as they go about delivering the bread. The wagons that cover the city start on their routes at 2:30 in the morning, just an hour after the bread of out-of-town places is hauled away. The city growers and bakers are all furnished by 6 o'clock so that their customers can have fresh bread every morning for breakfast. Then at 10 o'clock another delivery is made, and on this round the drivers take the grocers' orders for what they want the next morning In the room where the wagons are kept each driver has a large locker which is spotl ssly dean, and on the door each day he posts an order of what kind of bread he wants and the quantity that will be necessary to furnish to his customers ihe next morning. These lockers are tilled at night before he goes to work, BO that when he is ready to start he has simply to back his wagon up to the door of the locker and nil it. One single wagon will lake out about I') loaves; of bread day. This establishment has fourteen wagons, and altogtlvr sells about mo.ooo loaves of bread per weak. This all goes for local consumption aid besld I this there are about 30.000 logvei sent to the surrounding towns. Mr. Aiexan.hr Taggart. a member of the firm, in speakingxof the local consumption of bread, said: "Indianapolis is one of the greatest breadconsuming citbs in the Tinted States. That i. so far as bakers' On ad is concerned, and th reason for this is that bread Is old much t in aper 1 re than In most places. Also, in the bresd that is made here a much b, tter grade of flour is used than formerly. It used to be that the bakers used a flour that w is known ;ls bakers' flour, and it was of a very poor quality, but now the very best that can be bought is used in the ; i male in this city. The consumers have found this out. and are buying bakers" !r .ol now instead of making It themselves, as many formerly did. "itighl now is the dull season for the baker. I suppose many people think that the baker has no dull season, but his is r.o exception to other lines of business. During the summer months Is when the baker orospers. for then people do not eat so much f. bread, such as biscuits and batter cakes, and, as such eating is not so healthy and the women do not like to be over the cooking stoves when the weather is warm, they then depend on the baker, and the trade increases immensely " A large baking establishment Is quite a benefit to a city In the way of charity because ull bread thai U laavu lo the gioccrt

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tention to it. no matter how rapidly the car rills up. She is Indeed utterly oblivious to its existence until somebody insists upon claiming the seat, simply because there is no other seat left to claim. The newcomer usually hesitates beside the seat, casts an inquiring glance or two at the woman behind, who finally wakes up to existing conditions, reaches forward and removes the basket, generally with an aggrieved air. That is not always the order of things, however. One market day last week a prim, long-nosed woman entered into a southbound car and swept up the aisle as effectively as her straight draperies would allow. Far up in the car a market-bound woman had deposited her basket on the seat before her and sat In happy oblivion. Just behind her there was another vacant seat, but the long-nosed woman heeded It not. She moved straight as an arrow to the seat In front, where the basket sat. There was no hesitation, no doubtful glances in her method. She reached in, picked up the big basket, hoisted it u r the back of the seat and plunked it down in the lap of the surjrised woman behind, who sat for the rest of the Journey down town with the expression of the bad little girl who has been caught in mischief. Hut lhe women haven't all the funny, trying little ways of street-car travel. There Is the baby who takes the seat behind you, aided and abetted by a grown-up accomplice. Babies anywhere else in the street car are fascinating bits of humanitv. usually, but a baby just behind vmi is never anything but a bore. If it Is ä big babv three or four years old it always hangs over the back of your seat, bumping your back hair with its big hat that kind of baby always wears a big hat-putting sticky lingers indiscriminately on the rattan back of the seat or your own silk shoulders. If it is a tiny baby which is carried in the arms of its doting parent, It Is always an enthusiastic baby, one of the kind that bobs up and down and pok I its head forward frantically in an effort to show how glad It is that It is alive and on that particular street car. Of course, the bobs land against your hat brim and usually the baby gets interested in your straylocks and you are lucky indeed if you escape without getting mixed up with its clutching fingers. It Is of no use to glare; nobody ever knew a baby to wilt before a glare and the parent usually takes any notice whatever for admiration, and if you glared he or she would merely thipk that you had an unfortunate face, but a kind heart. The two most obnoxious tvpes of masculine street-car travelers are the men who lean and the men who read newspapers. All the men who read newspapers are not obnoxiousfar be it from a newspaper writer to make such an assertion; but some of them are. The "some" includes all those men who, when they read newspapers on the car. do so with a total disregard for passengers In the seat in front. That kind of reader opens his paper to Its fullest . xtent. usually spreading it wide with his two hands. Its edges strike his neighbor nny where about the face or head and while a blow with the edge of a newspaper isn't likely to cause concussion of the brain it is a serious menace to veils and coiffures The only thing that the unfortunate in front can do Is to crook her neck forward at an aching angle or get off the cor. As in the case of the baby, glares are of no use for the one laudable thing about the offender Is that he is really absorbed in his paper. The other man, perhaps, isn't so much to be blamed, for one can almost forgive any offense If the offender is driven to it because he has to stand in a crowded car. But it is scarcely a pleasant thing, if one occupies the outside half of a seat to have some large and "hefty" man take a notion to lean on one's shoulder rather than on the edge of the seat. Shoulders as leaning places ore well enough in their way, but one prefers to discriminate in the matter of leaners. To move would be a serious matter; the resulting conditions might be even worse than the existing one. So if the passenger happens to be a weak woman she sits meekly with the weight of a twohundred pounder against her fragile shoulder and longs for home and mother. AN OBJECTIONABLE MAN. But the very meanest phase of human nature as represented lu street car travels is found lit none of these types. Neither is it found In that oft-berated helng, the man who keeps his seat in the car while women stand. Of course, a man who gives up his seat In the car to a woman jhst because

Machine and not sold is carried back by the wagon drivers to the bakery, and is sold to the poor people two loaves for 5 cents. It is said that when adverse business conditions exist in the city and the various inanulacturing concerns begin to lay off their men it can be told immediately at the bakery by the swuirms of people who come to purchase the stale bread. When Uk conditions change these people quit buying, and it la an exceedingly hard matter to get rid of this bread that is a day old. Men about the establishment of the National Biscuit Company say that It is quite an interesting sight to see these poor people swarming into the bakery on the cold mornings waiting to get the stale bread. These people come from all parts of town ftBd are in an conditions of poverty. Iargc establishments, of course, use immense quantities of flour every year and no matter what the price of It is It has to be bought so that the bak ry can keep running. The buyer of flour, how vn, has to be very shrewd so that when it is at bottom prices he can take advantage of th-an and lay in his supply. To do this the markets have to be watched very closely by him. To turn out the bread that is necessary for a large establishment it takes appr urinate ly L"6.tXO barrels of flour a year. According to this it requires about 5du barrel a W . So. besides the baking establishment a large storehouse has to be maintained where this supply of flour can be kept on hand at all times for immediate use. The ovens that are now used are quite different from the ones that were employed some years ago. The ovens. In fact, like everything In baking, has undergone a decided change In Ihe last two or three decades and instead of the old-fashioned ovens, where the 'oread was baked directly on the Bra, there are later ones which are built on the order of thoue of cooking stove, and no tire gets inside of them. The largest ones are called reel ovens and ire made similar to the wheel of a sternuhteled steamboat. One of these o,n? is capable of holdin? l.lBS iQglres of bread at one time. The others, which do not ; rotve. hold about 250 loaves at one t'ine. The reel ovens turn round, and in this wav are , ;lv. tly filled. In luge baking establishments very nearly 4.oi loaves of bread can be baked at one time, so it is easily seen that it does not take many fillings of the oVena to turn out the dally supply. The heat in the ovens Is very hot and steady. There are men In the engine room who keep the fires going continually and flres that resemble the furnaces in a foundry. No pies are made in the largv bakeries, as this is considered another branch of the business, but all kinds of fancy cakes aM rolls are made. To go into this department of the National Biscuit Company wo ild remind one of the kitchen at home during Christmas season, only it is a great many times larger. Girls are uiploved prl icipally In this department, us the work

she Is a woman is nicer than the man who doeaat, no matter what may be the reason of the latter for clinging to his resting place. But in this day. when women bays forced a condition of things in which they are on common ground with men in all respects, it isn't odd that men should be inclined to deny them the privileges that in old times more than made up for the "rights" they now claim: so it is a little unfair to judge a man harshly for refusing to yield his seat in a street car. But it is the m;ui who gives it up grudgingly who is worse than the man who doesn't give it up at all. He makes the woman to whom he proffers it feel like the heavy villain in a melodrama, and surely no feeling could be worse. One specimen of this kind of cheerful giver an exaggerated type, be it added thankfully -gave up his seat in a crowded car a few nights ago. Two or three young girls got into the car and clung to the straps, laughing and talking together it is practically impossible when one is billow, d about on the surges of street car movement to avoid catching the eyes of other, passengers now and then, and perhaps once or twice one of the girls had inadvertantly happened to glance at this particular man. After four squares he rose and gave her his seat, paying no attention to her words of acknowledgment. Ahother man iu tbe aisle happened to be an acquaintance and made some Inaudible remark, evidently about the giving-up process. The reply of the generous man was perfectly audible, however, to all the pea seiiger about him. "Tea, I did ha a Beat, bat I had to give it up. I,ooked out of it." The girl blushed indignantly, and it is safe to say that the poor little creature will stare painstakingly into space the next time she is forced to stand in a street car. One of the funniest things in street-ear travel ef the present day is the affectionate streot-corner parting to which bate rur ban travel gives roe. At the station one feels no surprise to see a woman fall upon the n i k of her nearest and dearest and bid him a fond farewell. That is a taken-for-granted mattir with outward-bound trains tinning and whistling all about, and it seems a perfectly proper proceeding. But it takes one's breath to s- e some woman on a quiet up-town street corner, guaranteed to be perfectly respectable, fling her arms about a man and kiss him frantically and then skip to the Sidewalk, while the man boards a str et car an interurban car, lo be sure, bound for miles of travel but just a street car. Perhaps the Increasing frequency of Interurban travel may in time take away the seeming impropriety of the ardent leave-takings, hut at present it invariably brings a shock to the innocent bystander. is of a dainty nature and just the kind that is suited for feminine bände. Everything here works on the end s-chaln system. From th" time the cake uough is made until it is put in the oven and baked it is on an endless chain, which moves very slowly, and gives each person to whose care the cakes must come In being perfected a chance to do his part ol the work. There is one kind of little tea cake made Which e about as long and as wide as one's two flngera These are made In the rtrst place iu long strings, which are st.i.ii yards iu length. The icing is put on them in the same manner as it they wen painted. This is don" before the takes are put in the oven, as Is tin cutting of them, which is done by a man who has a peculiar-looking knife made specially for this kind of work. He is able to cut the long strands ol (loii'ih into several dozen cakes by just ueing the knife once. When the cakes are bakd. howe ver, t!.y have to be cut again, but girts cut them the second time as they go by them on the endless chain on their way to the packing room. , The small round tea cakes are handled somewhat differently. The icing is put on aihT they arc baked. A i the cakes come from th oveni tiny are put on an endless chain which is wide enough to hold several oi a rack. The icing is ntade In large vats about two feet tie ep and not QUitC so wide. This raek. o:i which the- cakes are' held. Is construe-ted of pronged win s and the cake s are simply stuck on these As they come to the icing vats there are two girls who keep their hands continually In the Icing and take the cakes off and dip each one in the vat. This work has to be done very quickly, for the chain ne ver stepü moving. At tea each irirl has dipped a cake It is put back in It piaee all dripping with icing. The cakes then pass on to two more girls, whosi duty i is '. take any ol' the icing that is dropping and to remove the rough place.-. Iq this way the cakes arc made perfectly round and smooth. They then pass o.i and two moie gins. Alio have' a large quantity of shreddsd coeoanut In a tray, get them. The cakes are again taken from the racks and covered with the cocoanut, placed back in position and carried to the packing rooms, where they are put in cans and made ready for the customers. There- is another room in which it is said the cake-s "like mother as d to make" are made. These are all made by hand and in the old-fashionel round eukepans. such as were used some years ago. It is said that there are r. certain number of people who demand this kind of cake, und so the baker still ke. ps on making them for these particular customers. The small cakes which have fancy Icing tops with English walnuts in then, have io be handled a little more carefully and cannot be put on the endless chains. The fancy teps are put on by a moid vhlch somewhat reeetublei a nozzle. It is worked by holding It close . to ihe cake and squeezing lt. vh n the icing drops out in th- de -md shape the- akis then passe d ever to a girl who puts the walnut in the center of the icing. The- eracki r Industry is also palte an imporunt branch iu the Parrott i Imjjgmrt establishment, ano as to how many of thi-ie is turned out in a day it would be la ibis to say. Th re may be some count kept of them, but by the quantities th it come from the ovens It would seem quite a task to ascertain just how many are made in a day, When they come from the stamping machine they are taken by men who have l urge paddles, which are very thin at the ends. As the unbaked crackers erneri;e th y run along on a sort of table- arrangements; these men shove the paddles under them and tht n turn and put th m In ovens, sliding the paddle from unde r the ei acke rs. Tin- manipulation of the pa-idles is an Interesting ;ug!it. Bach cracker Ii s upon tbe paddle in its proper place and when It is put in the oven e ach slides off In Its place and not one Is disturbed. When the eracners are baked they are pulled out of the oven by a long rake anl In falling they come to an endless chain which carries th in to the packer, who puts the-m in bsi I liSI In another cracker room an old-fashioned cracker is made, entirely by hand, from the mixing- of the dough to putting it In the stamping niachtne. This cracker is so peculiar in qpneiructl n that no machine has e ver been Invented that can mix the dough. In this depart m nt, of course-, not BUCh great (luantlties can b. made, but about 15m barrels a flour is used in a week. The mn who make these crackers are aii experienced, for It tak"s some time to learn this trade. The oldest men In the establlshme-nt .ir. SBSDloyed in this harei- . raeker room, for the produc t is something that has almost gon out of d its and few men now learn the trade of making these crav:kviö.

picked up the trail. Volborth shambled on. i and. passing into the poorer quarter of the city, dived at length down a dark alley.

where he entere'd a wretched house tnai was little be tter than a hovel. He remained but a short time within, for the house was only 'eine of several lairs he kept in different parts of the city for the purpose of changing his disguises when on hia way to or from the bureau When he came out it was by a back exit leading into another alley behind, and now it was la the garb of a petty shopkeeper that he retraced his way to more aristocratic regietns. So much store did he set on preserving the secret of his connection with officialdom that he always took the- pre-cautlon of a double change before aopreiaching the bureau. His own residence, where he lived openly the life of Paul Volborth man of birth, man of fashion and man of b-tters was on the Michael Strasse, ami eve-n here he went through the- pantomime of ringing the bei and parleying with the confidential se rvant himself an agent of police who opened to him. Had watchful eyes been on the ma'ster of the house they would have sen nothing but a shabby tradesman applying for an admission that was tardily granted. Once Inside. Volborth hastened to his dressing roum and set about metamorpho- I ing himself Into his own proper prson preparateery to the- last look round" suggested by the chief of the Third 8ection While 1 eionning the clothes of a Kussian gentleman, he busied his brain with mapping out the few hours at his disposal. 'Yes." he thought, as he surveyed himself In the glass, "the fair Palitsin must have a visit, if some seemingly more important ones are left unpaid. I am due to offer her my. respects socially, even were there no other reason. Bah! is Isn't a reason, and yet I don't know. There is sentthing vague and shadowy about that womanan atmosphere, shall I call it? that stimulates my instincts, and my instincts have yielded reasons before now. Tarasch," he added aloud to the grav man servant who was aiding his change of attire, "did you take that note to Captain Dubrowski of th Imperial Guard?" "I did. monsieur, and the captain begged you to excuse him. was the reply. "Ke was too presseel to write a note, being up to the eyes in preparations for his departure with their Majesties to-morrow. He desired me to say that he was engaged to dine at the Princess Olga Palitzin s to-night." "To ascertain that, my Tarasch. was the object of my invitation to htm," said Volborth to himself. He trusted this man impliclty, but it was characteristic of him that not till an hour before he started would he confide the fact of his own approaching departure. He placed a sprig of gardenia in his button-hole, flicked a speck of dust frem the silken lapel of his frock coat, and, taking his hat and cane from Tarasch, descended into the street. Xo one would have dreamed that the well-groomed Russian gentleman of tho modern 'Frene-hlfled" type was the most trusteed agent of the secret police, starting on the' first stage of the most terrible responsibility ever confided to man. In age', perhaps nearing forty, clean-shaven, save for a caret ully-trimm'd mustache-, and with a face- showing, to a marke! de--gr , whe-n in repose, the impassive coldness of his ra"?. he would never hav been credited with his most deadly attribute's an alertness that never slumbered, a swiftness that struck sure, and an inexorable disregard for fe'eling that never spared. In a word, Paul Volborth's succe-ss had hither ton bee-n du to a derotion to dutie-s for which, by te-mperameait and choice, he was pe-e-minently ntt-d. Had he love-d his wirk less, he would still have done his work well from sher ability; wedded to it as he was, he be-ame the most potent factor in the councils of the Nihilists, who had to make allowance In all their schemes for an unseen force that seemed ever in their midst penetrating their secret souls and yet utterly untraceable. To such a man the sensation of being "all at se-a." and that at such a crisis as the present, with the- EmpeTor's life depending en his knowing the set of every undercurrent, came as a bracing nerve tonic. Whiledressing, he had rapidly surveyed the revolutionary combinations in the capital, and he had decided not to fritter away his fw hours in fishing waters alnjady well explored. Rather wejuld he act m the thory which he had imparted to Granovitch. and try for a thre'ad to the "new grouping" which a growing convict-ion told him existed. "Take me to the house of the Princess Palitzin." was the instruction he gave to the droschki driver, who drew up in response to his hail. A few minutes later h was mounting the staircase of a splendid mansion on the Great Morskaia, escorted by two Swiss Uu keys in tin canary and red Palitsin liveries. Arrived n th first landing, he was conducted some' way down a corHiflor hung with priceless art gems to a curtained door which the senior servant flung w'de. at the same time announcing the visitor. "Ah. Monsieur Volborth, truant and man of bad faith. So at last. aftr many eiays. ym deign to visit poor me?" was the playful greeting accorded to him by a lady who e-ame- forward with outstr'te hed hand. "Only live days, princess, said Volborth, raising the hand to his lips with i-asy gallantry. "But you are right 1 me, at any rat', the eiays hav- seemed as years." Here be became' conscious that the room had aneither occupant a man standing at one of the windows gazing down into the stree t. Volborth had the knack of seeing without looking, and he- added quite- naturally, and withe ut allowing his hostess to perceivethat the sight of the sih-nt figure was the cause of the- addition. "I have be-en very busy, and 1 am only here now because I am come to make my adieus." "You are leaving Petersburg, then? Ah! gay one', for Paris, without doubt?" said the princess with no more- se-mblance of interest than politeness reiuird. "For Paris latr; but to-merrow for Vienna in the train of their imjerial Maj ties," said Vtdborth. spe aking rapidly, so as to gain the- advantage- of surprise-. "Congratulate me, my dear princess; I have been appointed recorder of their Majesties' wanderings, and am to travel en suite." For the fraction of a second a gleam blazed Up in the fine eyes of the princess, though it might well have- been due to what was, as it stod, an interesting announcement. Then she' broke- into a ripple of merry laughter. "Vou are one of fortune's spoilee children." she said gaily. "I do. Indeed, congratulate you, and their Majesties also With such a bright butterfly as our own Paul for Its historian, the Journey will surely yield no tragic records. Hut I am forgetting my duties. Let me pr-se-nt to you a friend of mine from America, travelling fer Pleasure. Colonel DeieeaL come hen- and make the acquaintance of one already distinguished and abeiut to add to his laurels. This is Monsieur Volborth, who is about to accompany the Emperor on his tour." She had been conversing with Volborth in French the language of polite Petersburg, But in addressing the man at the windowshe spoke in Russian, and In obedience to her behest he turned towards the room, presenting the broad, florid face of the American who. not two hours before, on the steps of the Third Section bureau, had accosted the seeming Russian moujlk in English. "Deep waters," thought Volborth. who had recognized his fellow-visitor the moment he entered. "If he knew our language, why did h" not use it then? It is curious, too, for an American to sneak Russian and not 'r nch." The two men bowed, and were soon In the thick of an animated conversation on th" Tsar's tour, the- American evincing a natural but exceedingly ill-informed eurlosity about the topic of the hour, and the princess chiming in with light persiflage. She was a striking jwrsonality the Princess Olga Palitzin, daughter of one of Russia's noblest houses. Te-ough she must have been fully twenty-seven years of age. she hai kept a rare, almost child-like-, freshness of ceirnpk-xlon. Her features were fine and clearly cut, and her face knew how to vary its expression aee-eirding to the feelings t-hc Wanted to show. She had soft, full li:s and steel blue eyes that gased intently and yet gave no tign of how much the y could comprehend. All her movement were graceful, and she had a singularly even voice-, that produced a strange impression. It was exceedingly s ft and melodious, but at the same time so quiet and indifferent that it .med as if its owner could never love or hate, or, Indeed, fel any Intense emotion. The prineeia, being to the manner bom, noted In the ve ry highest t lrcP- of Pe-tersburg society, and she- was etually at home- in Paris and Vienna. "Yiu will have to he-have yourself, you naughy Paul." said she In her Parisian manner, but still speaking in Russian. "They tell me that the tour will belittle better than a prnr-st of "olleenn-n. with our august sovereigns as a centerpiece. The name of the Third Sectlon man In e-harge has bee-n kept very dark, but a little turd whispers me that it Is Re-stofskl who goes In command of the- army of spies." Volborth mdd-d a care-less assent. "I knv It to my cst already," he- said, with a grimace- of amused disgust. "I was no sooner sele-t-l for my literary mission than I was hauled before cir-moviwh io have all my antecedent turned inside out in the presence of this Re-stofski How. wr loyal one is, one cannot know a policeman.

but he struck me as being fit for his work if prying impertinence is a qualification." The American was listening with the air of the knowledge-gathering foreigner. "But surely. he chlme'd in, "these precautions of your officialdom are somewhat stagey and superfluous? Thi Restofski now. and his myrmidons they are- m-re for the purpose of imperial show . I take lt than for any real services they are llktly to render?" Volborth laugh-d gaily. "Vou must not expect me to disparsge) the most cherished f our Institution!. Col, Delaval. " said he. with Just enough latent sarcasm in his tone to hint at no great fonelness for the police "Seriously, though, the answe r to your question muit depend on two contingencies whether any need for Restofski service will occur, and. secondly, whethe-r he will be competent to deal with it !f it does. I am not competent to offe r an opinion on either point." He laid the faintest iossible stress on the personal pronoun so feint that It would not be noticed but by one conscious of a merited inuendo. This scarcely perceptible emphasis was one of those baits which he habitually threw out in the course of hin wily fishing: big,, keenly as he watched, he could detect no M cither that the American r the princess roee to it Hot by the ejtttver Of an eyelid did they show that tr-y possessed the knowledge whi- h Volborth disclaimed, much P-. th-.t they suspected him of Implying that th -j had it Olga Palitzin was toyi.ig with a jeweled paper knife, and with it she stabbed playfully at Volborth. "Of course you know nothing of such things. Paul." she laughed. "How should you. when Colonel Delaval is probably right, and there 1$ nothing to know? Hut come-, let us discuss something more int resting than vulgar fry like Nihilists and police agnts. What fun you will have on the Journey. Paul! Yu should gather materials for a comedy in watching the pr-tt-idyll between those fondest of betrotln-il lovers, Itoris Dubrowski and his maid of honor. Was there ever such luek as foe them both to be of the suite? No parting, no tears, no possible cause- of jealousy. " Volborth raised his eyebrows and regarded hT with a slgnlt cant smile. N social rumor escaped him, and well he knew that the fair lima Vassili had found her cause- of jealousy already in the beautiful woman who -poke thus lightly of her betrothal te the Tsar's handsome aid tie- camp. The- imminemt breach between the two affianced members of the royal household, owing to Dubrowski'a sudden Infatuation for Olga Palitzin. was on every lip. Volborth had already taken steps to test tho depth of that infatuation by ascertaining that the captain was to spend his last evening in Petersburg under that roef "To some natures the idyllic state Is not

always satisfying." re-marke-d Volborth "Possibly our friend, the junir aid camp, having the moon with him on travels, may cry for the absent sun." "Ah. you have heard? They talk at the clubs?" said Olga, cbarly not ill-please el with the hint at her conquest "He- 1 a foolish fe-llow, ur dear Beiria, to com' dangling here so often. Were he not leaving with their Majesties to-morrow I should have- had to drive- him away. It would W et t do for it to be said at court that 1 was luring th- bet rot h'd of the Tsarina's favorlto rr aid of henor to break faith. Boris is suc h an impetuous boy." "Captain Dubrowski. of the Imperial Guard!" announced a lackey, throwing o n the eioor. With jingle of spurs and clank of sword the subject of th-Ir small talk entered, gorgeous In the glltte-ring uniform of the House-hold troop- That the- prim-ess wa. not expecting him was plain to the ceasi -less vigilance of Volborth. Equally plain was it that she was ready for the- emer-ge-ncy, for even as she rose to greet her latest visitor she tossed the American a side glance which distinctly said "Oo!" and to Volborth hirns !f aec-rdei a d-pi -eatory shrug suggestive of compulsory adieus. Colonl Delaval obediently bow d himself out. but Volborth, noehiing with friendly familiarity te the newcomer, held his ground. He did not Intend to be hampered with a companion on leaving tho room. The young officer's usually bright and handsome- face was clouded as he grasped the hand of his hostess. "I am desolated my dear princes?." ho began. "I have enly ten mlnutea at your disposal, and, alas! I must use them ( r saying fan-well." "Wh.it! you do not dine with me tonight?" exclaimed Olga, and for once Volborth thought he could catch a metalio snap in her generally even temea. "1'nfortunately. no." replied Dubrowski rue-fully. "His Mai sty has commanded the attendance of an extra aid de camp this e vening, and I am next for duty. I canret help myse-lf In such a case, as you know. I 1 an only obey and hate my luck." Polite usage offcreel only one course Volborth. He rose- and took leave of th princess, with a chee-ry an revoir to Dubreewski. who was. however, far too perturbed to care about or understand his meaning. Olga's adieus were- abundant lv civil. but the-y were spoke'n with a rapidity that scarcely veiled the satisfaction she felt at his- departure-. "I must take advantage of this change of plans." Volborth aaid to himself aa ha closed the door behind him. "Whatever ob-je-ct she had in asking him to dinner tonight she will endeavor to gain now in the next few mlnutea. He cast a o.uiek glance up and down the eorridor. anel afte-r taking half a doaen st-p- toward the head of the !talrcase, quie-tly we-r.t back on the tips of his patent leather shoes to the door. It waa veiled with a heavy portiere, and. gliding behind the fel'.et folds, he applied his ear to the panel. "I te-11 you. Olga. I am mlaerable ab-je-ctly miserable -at the prospect of this long separation, " the young aid de camp was saying imis-tuously. "And all the mejre he-cause- l can get nothing definite from you as to your real fee-ling for m'. You are a perfect mystery a sphinx. Though you have made' me care for you almost against my will. I know no more than I uld a month ago whether you care for me. 1 ffould risk eve-rything my career, th- Emperor's favor, the respect f my frlend. I Weald break with lima if only" "It is my urgent command that you do nothing of the kind yet." Interrupted '.lie musical voir.' of the- princess. "You mn.-t not be fooliah and rash. Boris at any rat . till I have given you a definite- re-ply The-f". are reasons why I cannot do so at present! Let ua do what we can to make the pain of aeparation less; say. by corresondiiiK frequent I v. by letter and telcgram-every day. if vou like." Oh! butthat will be aplendld'" cried Dubrowski. jumping at tho proposal. "Listen, then." Olga proeeeded. and h r tone was unusually lmpresalve. "You must write me' a full account of each day's doings during the imperial tour, remembering that In a matter 0 intimately aff.-etlng yourself the minutest details will. intenst me. No love letters, mind. Incident! what I want, and deacrlptlona of th inttme of the journey-whether the C ess Vassili Is particularly silly. Ra-st are vie .-ki particularly edlous. and s on. All the scandal of the trip, in fact, with unconshbr. 1 trifles in the way of Nihilist scarce snd such-like thrown in." "How delightful' It will add a e st to my fatiguing duties to write you thus dally." cri-d the young guardsman with enthusiasm. But that is not all." the princes. went on. with increasing earn tneaa. "This is eri aaore important. Where prsti able, without drawing atte-ntion. you must telegraph to me her- in Petersburg. er elsewhere-, if I move, the programme of the next day's fetes and engagementa. se that drop my hand, fooliah boy- I ma b- with vou in spirit through all your junketings at the tail of royalty.' Like .1 :-ike at a gudgeon. I u Or- k I ' s:iapjM'd at the prop"!. promising to ke-p th princess informed of his move mer.ts past and future especially future j he drifted Into the commonplaces of s. wild flirtation. V dborth kept hi station I behind th porth re- till sounds e.f flnal fare well warnen mm mat n wa nme u go. "It all tits in. ' he saUl to himself aa he deaceneb-d the- broad staircase to the street. "If I am right In my views, she- i uli.g him as s tool as an int. nt re porter f th imperial mv-m-nt. I should le JustlBjed in making a repre sentation to Granuvlteh which would cancel thla love-lck f o's h ptwdntment as aid de camp, and whhh would he dge the- f ur Olga with aw cordon of ipi;s from the Section 1 thing that would be a false moveplot, it has gone too far to laying hand on the princlpj nut women sr- probably en in Austria. eJermany. Kne where they an- to strike ,tre ence- now might alter their would not hinder the attemot. tf be its. xtlflcd by The nn n y. Interf rns. but It Reaching the stree't. he walked some wsy In such deep thought that it Was fortunate that he met no e.ne- who knew him. ' N .' was hi last d-clslon. as he hailed s droschki and gsve the word for on'of his changing den in the- city "1 will no heck them hr The dear Boris ahall go this trip I will tight the- thing out on the spot, and kill the snake once far all I BSSMltd only scotch them by striking premature!) now.

ITo be Continued To-morrow.)

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