People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — Page 3

INTERESTING EXHIBITS.

The Pueblos of the Aztecs in Min- ’ iature at the World’s Fair. Cariosities and Relics in the Anthropological Section The Colombian Chimes—The Probable Disposition of the Fair Buildings. (Special Chicago Correspondence 1

though somewhat removed from the central portion of the grounds this building is at all times thronged with visitors who seem loth to leave the decayed remnants of former members of early tribes of this country and the moldy skulls of hujnan beings who once lived and moved and had their being in all quarters of the globe. There seems to be a sort of fascination in these repulsive relics. The average person will stand and gaze into the sightless sockets of a grinning skull with as much interest as he will view a beautiful picture or a wonderful mechanism. Of course there are exceptions. Some people—and they are not only the timid, nervous women, either —steer clear of these exhibits and glance askance at them if they unintentionally happen upon them. One day recently a party of men were •trolling about among the mummies when one of them, a big, rough-look-ing fellow, turned away from the sight with an expression of mingled awe and 'sgust, and expectorating with some force, exclaimed: ‘‘Say, fellers, this is too dang much for me! Them things give me the fontags. Seems like I can taste ’em.” With a laugh the others followed the squeamish fellow from the building without going any further and thus missing many very interesting sights, among them being the pueblos of the Aztec& Ranged along in the central portion of the building are these primitive structures of the most ancient race of redmen in North America. They are

in miniature, of course, but they are so carefully modeled after the originals that they afford an accurate study of the building methods of a historic race. Five models of as many famous pueblos of Arizona and New Mexico occupy space in the main corridor of the building. The stone and adobe dwellings of the sedentary tribes which of all the Indians reached the highest mark of civilization are shown as they stand to-day. These sedentary tribes, so called in distinction from the nomadic tribes, lived in that part of the continent which is now included by the territories of New Mexico and Arizona. The very fact of the situation of the pueblos signifies a great deal to a student of ethnology. The advancement of the savage to a state where a tribe lived together all the time within the walls of a city and could be found at home at any time by a band of hostile Indians is in a measure accounted for by the proximity to the domains of the great Aztecs. The range of the civilization of the ancient inhabitants of Mexico was as far reaching as it was potent. One of the most remarkable of the pueblos is that of Bonito in the canyon of Chaco in New’ Mexico. This home of the Indian was built in the shape of a half circle and faced out on a yawning chasm. The high walls of the houses facing to the rear served the double purpose of a fortification against enemies and a protection against the elements. The buildings were all of stone and the masonry of the tribe, judged by the ruins of the towns that are left, was really marvelous. Their tools were much better than those of the other tribes of the time and the people more peaceful and industrious. The pueblo of Mnshongnivi was built by the Moqui. It is much larger than either the towns of Taos or Acoma and built entirely of stone. Altogether there are over two hundred dwellings, all connected with one spot, though running off in strings in five directions. It is uninhabited to-day and still remains as it stood untold centuries ago. A novel feature of the daily programme at the fair is the playing of the chime bells in the lower of Machinery hall. Visitors from the country who have never seen the operation of a chime of bells ore at a loss to under■stand ■ how. it is done. Some very

naturally suppose that it is don* by simply pounding upon the bells with a hammer, but then again that seems a little improbable when they hear some of their favorite tunes played and with such correctness as they are executed. A visit to the east gallery of the hall will enlighten the uninitiated on chime ringing. There the operator is at work. At first sight it would seem that he was engaged in running a double-geared combination pumping apparatus or in a spirited contest of human endurance against machinery, but a few momenta* observation will reveal the fact that he is engaged in playing the tune which at the moment is rolling through the corridors of the grand Court of Honor. Prof. C. E. Bred berg is the operator of the chimes at the fair and he manipulates the handles of the keyboard in a masterly manner. Through his skill the ears of the tired sightseer who sits upon the base of some statue, or any other base that will afford him a moment’s rest, are delighted with some old-time melody aa it goes ringing across the domes of the beautiful city of white. At stated intervals during the day Prof. Bred berg opens his music book to

UDGING from the interest manifested by those who view the exhibits in the building devoted to anthropology and ethnology at the fair it appears that the people are far from indifferent to the history of the abori gin al occupants of North America. A 1 -

a familiar tune and places it before him on his chiming stand. Then he commences a series of gymnastics that give him muscles like a blacksmith’s. It is not nearly so easy as it looks to the knot of visitors that always gathers around the railing when the professor begins. He dances up and down the line of handles, at times using one

MODELS OF PUEBLOS.

KEYBOARD OF THE CHIMES.

hand and at others both. When he grasps a handle he gives it a vigorous push downward, and without an instant’s hesitation goes on to the next. It is the big bells that have hardened Prof. Bredberg’s biceps. It is no trick at all to ring the little ones, but the deep-toned monsters with heavy clappers are harder. To ring them an amount of strength such as the ordinary man does not possess must be put into the stroke. There must be a certain amount of delicacy in each stroke, too, for any discord, however slight it might be in an ordinary instrument, produces a grating jar when it appears in a chime. Prof. Bred berg is too old at the business to make any mistakes now, and when he pushes a handle he is certain that it is the right one. His practiced ear catches the sound from the tower high above him even when the machinery hums its loudest If anybody wants to know whether or not the professor earns his salary let him try to pump ten church organs at once and he will have some idea of it The chime now on exhibition is composed of ten bells in the major scale of D, and includes the flat seventh note. They grade in weight from D, the heaviest weighing 3,190 pounds, to E, the smallest one in the collection, 330 pounds. The aggregate weight is 11,820 pounds, exclusive of the attachments, of with all the attachments about 16,000 pounds. The bells rest on a heavy oak frame with the big bell on top and the smaller ones beneath it They were taken up to the tower separately and hung in place without having been tested in any manner before leaving the factory. The tongues of the bells are connected by means of wires, straps and pulleys to the levers of the chiming stand one hundred feet below.

The subject of salvage on the fair buildings is already under discussion. In a few weeks more steps will be taken to dispose of the material of which the great buildings are composed. Much of it will of necessity be wasted, but there will be a great deal of it that can be utilized for building purposes. A great deal of the timber will be just as good as new and will doubtless go at half price or less, and it is quite likely that a great demand will arise for it to be used in th* construction of dwellings near th* grounds.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Jake Press y, a farmer living four miles north of Petersburg, in Knox county,was burned to death. By some unknown means Pressy’s meadow hay eaught on fire and he left his house to fight the flames, and not returning within a reasonable time, search was made for him by members of the family. In one corner of the field the body was found, the clothes burned off and the flesh having fallen from the body in places. Charles Lambert, of Union City, was killed by a boiler explosion near that place the other day. Jos. Trusty, a farmer, accidentally shot himself the other day with a shotgun while attempting to climb a fence, near Pittsburgh. John Martin, aged 56, was killed in the Mecca coal mine, Rockville. A large rock weighing several tons, fell on him crushing him to death. He waft, married and leaves a large family. One of the quickest deaths on record was that of Andrew Luark, at Wabash, the other day. He was helping load cabinets on a dray at the Underwood factory, in the best of spirits and apparent good health, and without a sign or a word of warning he sank in his tracks lifeless, in an instant The supposed cause was heart disease. Luark was about 86 years old and married.

Miss Maria Thompson was very seriously, but not fatally burned, at Noblesville, by her clothing catching from a bonfire. Her clothing was entirely burned from her body. Dr T. W. Gronendyke, a prominent physician of Newcastle, while driving over a road crossing of the L. E. & W. railroad, was struck by a passenger train, which instantly killed the horse, smashed the buggy and hurled the doctor to the ground with great force, breaking his leg and otherwise injuring him. Early the other morning, as Ray Dinkins, driver of the United States mail wagon, was returning to the post office at Terre Haute, he was attacked by three men and robbed of the three mail pouches. The robbers jumped in front of the horses and leveled their pistols at the driver, compelling him to Btqp. They then tied his hands behind his back and put a small mail bag over his head. The men drove to the outskirts of town and escaped, taking the mail pouehes with them. No clew. James Conners, head roller of the American roll mills, of Anderson, was fatally injured in a runaway accident. His horse became frightened, and Conners was thrown thirty feet, alighting oh his head, which fractured the skulk The bolt works at Anderson will resume under a twenty per cent reduction.

J. Al. Jenkins, the defaulting treasurer of Clark county, was arrested in Louisville and taken to the Jeffersonville jail. For several months he has been in hiding in Louisville, and at one time it was reported that he was dying of consumption. Jpnkins’ crime was the theft of $29,000 from the county treasurer. Wm. Poor, an ex-soldier, seventythree years of age, died at his home in Newport, the other afternoon, and was buried next day. The circumstances connected with his death are peculiar. He was drawing a pension of twelve dollars per month under the new law, for double rupture. Two weeks before tye received word that his pension had been suspended, and ordering him to report for re-examination at Williamsport He reported for examation the following Wednesday, and one week from that date he died. Of course, the suspension of his quarterly* allowance was not the only cause of his death, but it was the chief one. He worried about his pension being stopped until his mind became jmbalanced, and for several days was a raving maniac. At Huntington Ervin Dean was attacked by footpads and robbed of a valise containing ovt-r SIOO. The empty valise was found later. The robbers escaped.

At an early hour the other morning the dead body of George Reichler, a baker, recently employed at Fairmount, was found in Riverside park, in Anderson. Reichler was out of employment, and in a fit of despondency had suicided by taking chloroform. He was forty-five years old. His relatives live in Aurora. Dick Campbell, aged 70 years, dropped dead a few miles east of Albion the other day of heart disease. This makes the fifth one of the family to die suddenly. At Bolton, Samuel Hanner, aged twenty-five, single, was shot and killed by Jacob Lambert, aged seventeen, the other afternoon. The boys lived on neighboring farms, and for some time had been quarreling over a line fence. Lambert had been hunting, and.trespassed on Hanner’s farm. They quarreled for some time, and when Hanner advanced toward Lambert as if to strike, the latter emptied both barrels into Hanner’s body, killing him instantly. Lambert then went to Versailles, the county seat, and gave himself up. Some unknown person made an attempt to poison the family of Henry Page, living on a farm near Brooklyn, by placing the contents of a box of rough on rats wrapped in a piece of newspaper, and as a consequence Mr. Page’s daughter Rosa is not expected to recover. Other members of the family are sick. Several chickens died from the effects of drinking the poisoned water.

Dan Mahone, a bar-tender, fatally shot John Reynolds, a porter, during a quarrel at Indianapolis. Wesley Lee, sr., aged eighty, and Sarah Richardson, aged sixty-bight, were granted a license to marry at Connersville the other day. Mr. Lee lived with his son, Wesley, jr., and said as his son would not marry he just got tired of washing dishes and scrubbing ardund the house and thought he would take a partner to help him. Mbs. M. Thomas, of Kelso, in Huntington county, was taken sick the other morning while making arrangements to go to Huntington, and died before assistance could be procured.

GONDOLA AGAINST CANOE.

Tke Indiana Were No Match for the Gay Gondoliers. The peaceful routine of world’s fair life was interrupted one morning lately by an incident which sent a ripple of excitement over the grounds. On the shore of the south pond, which connects on the north with the lagoon, there is encamped a colony of the Haidah, or Quakuhl Indians from Queen Charlotte’s and Vancouver islands. They have their massive cabin, dance house, tall totem poles and canoes conspicuously located along the shore. Some of the canoes, which are very large, and are fashioned from trunks of huge trees indigenous in those islands, bear resemblance in form to the Venetian gondolas. The resemblance, however, is confined to contour, for while the gondolas are gorgeous with paint and plush upholstery, the Quakuhl canoes are rude, weather-beaten craft On the morning above mentioned, Hawmissati, chief of the Quakahls, had gone out in his canoe, for a constitutional along the lagoon. Paddling leisurely along with Hisynish, his nephew, in the bow, the chieftain viewed with surprise the majestic buildings around him and bowed reverentially to the golden statue of the republic as he entered the great basin, probably thinking it an idol. Presently, at the west end of the basin, a gondola, manipulated by two athletic gondoliers, named Giuseppe Martin and Enrico Salino, shot out from beneath the bridge and glided swiftly past the dreaming Quakuhls. Their gay appearance roused the patriotic pride of the Hawmissati. Grasping his paddle firmly he made a sign to his nephew, and soon the black craft went up to the gondola. The Venetians saw the movement and a race ensued which enlisted the atten-, tion of thousands along the basin. For a time the two were nose and nose on an easterly course. It was curious to note the different action of the rowers. The gondoliers made strong, steady strokes with their oars, feathering them in the water, while the Indians, on their knees, used their short paddles nervously until the scam rippled in white streaks from the bow of the canoe. The Venetians in their gorgeous costumes shouted excitedly, but the Indians, stolid as a totem pole, uttered not a word. Several electric launches and gondolas followed in the wake of the racers.

Down the basin and past the golden statue went Indians and Venetians. The gondola reached the tunnel first and went through ahead. The boats then entered the south pond and made for the Quakuhl village. The gondola crept steadily ahead, for the roughhewn canoe could not be forced through the water like the painted craft of Venice. When the village was reached the gondola made, a dozen lengths in advance. The time from the middle of the north end of the Agricultural building to the village was seven minutes for the gondola and seven minutes and thirty seconds for the canoe. When Hawmissati landed he walked along to the gondola and looked at it attentively for some time. But he is understood to declare emphatically that he has another canoe, bearing the poetical name of Foam of the Sea, which no gondola can pass!

DON’T LIKE THE CITY.

Farmers Get Footsore and Weary and Lose Their Nerve. At certain hours of theda.y the groups around the judges’ stand in the live stock pavilion remind one ol scenes at a Kentucky sale of blooded stock. The farmers size up the sleek animals shown ip the ring, discuss their fine points and exchange critical opinions. They draw comparisons between the world’s fair exhibit and that last held by some state agricultural society whose meeting they attended, and discover features of excellence here which they never before witnessed. Then during a lull their conversation will run from horses and cattle to the price of a square meal at the fair, or the wearing effect on the nerves of the excitement incident to life in Chicago. It was «uch a time the other day that Farmer Ramsey, of Nebraska, stood in the midst of a group of choice agricultural spirits and said: “I never suffered from sore feet as I do now—not even in the middle of harvest. ” “Mebbe it’s’cause you walk ’round the fair ground on the gravel too much; ’tain’t this tanbark in the ring that does it,” said another. “Yes; I s’pose that's it,” returned Farmer Ramsey. “I ain’t used to gravel. I’d hire one o’ them blue-coated fellows to roll me ’round in a chair at four bits an hour if I had the money.” The reservation about the money caused everyone to laugh. They knew Farmer Ramsey to be worth «100,000. But he went on:

‘‘l’ve been here two weeks and bought several square meals, so I can’t afford no chairs, ’specially when I’ve got to stay two weeks longer and buy more meals.” Farmer Miller, of Minnesota, spoke up: ‘‘The tremendous crowds,” he said, ‘‘and the walking and sightseeing have done more than make my feet sore. They have knocked out my nervous system. I never saw such tremendous crowds. Life is too rapid for me in Chicago. I’ve been here several weeks and I know I could never stand it. It must be something fearful—the tension to which a Chicago business man is* kept strung up all the time. Since I’ve been here I found my nerves going to pieces so fast that I ran up to sha to get a little quiet and rest. ‘‘lt’s all right to come and seethe fair, but as for me I have no desire to stay here after seeing it. I want to go back to the country where people live easier and longer and die easier when their time comes.—Chicago Inter Ocean. When a visitor to the fair announce* that he did not see the Plaisance you may take it for granted that his wife Was with, him.

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The Injustice of a Just Verdict.—A bung from a beer barrel blew out aud instantly killed a Harrisburg man who stood in its way. The coroner can hardly escape the verdict that the man died from the effects of liquor.—Boston Herald.

Cheap Excursions to the West.

An exceptionally favorable opportunity for visiting the richest and most productive sections of the west and northwest will be afforded by the aeries of low rate harvest excursions which have been arranged by the North-Western Line. Tickets for these excursions will be sold on August 22d, September 12th and October 10th, 1893, to points in Northwestern lowa, Western Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Manitoba, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, and will be good for return passage within twenty days from date of sale. Stop-over privileges will be allowed on going trip in territory to which ths tickets are sold. For further information call on or address Ticket Agents of connecting lines. Circulars giving rates and detailed information will be mailed free, uoon application to W. A. Thrall, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago & North-Western Railway, Chicago. —1 1 "• “Mt hair," murmured Van Arndt sadly, as he strove carefully to conceal the bald spot on his head, “reminds me of a fool and bls money.’’—Puck.

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