Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 September 1897 — Page 4

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TELEPHONE 72.

The mills appear to take it that the way lo resume is to resume.

What ex-Senator Hill is afraid of is that If he is found he will be lost.

Wilsoniies have no room to complain of flaws in the Dingley bill Their bill was ill flaw.

Ordinarily this country is very polite, but it must refuse to encourage Yellow Jack in his desire to get acquainted.

Mr. H-arrity of Pennsylvania is having a hard time getting hold of the fact that he recently fell off the band wagon.

•^"i&labama is feald to need more laboring men.-, than she now possesses. This is a natural development of 'these times.

Even in Nebraska Mr. Bryan sees the necessity of -getting everybody on his side that isn't anchored to a sound faith.

All the indications point to the conclusion that the Hon. William Jennings Bryan is much more useful at a railroad wreck than he is in politics.

•Peru has abolished the export duty on silver. Now that she is on the gold basis she does not care particularly what becomes of the cheaper metal.

Ricard Croker has stepped across the gangplank and is in New York. Now there is more reason why the opposition to Tammany should become unified.

Mary Ellen Lease announces that she will go to Che Klondyke to dig gold and" regullate politics. And thus one more terror will be added to the gold country.

It is a common mistake among many of the radical agitators that they suppose themselves constructed of the same kind of stuff that Patrick Henry -was made of.

There are same persons too stingy to allow the Republican party any credit for the improved times. But the chances are that 'the people will make due allowance in this particular.

Uncle Richard Bland admits that the returning prosperity is going to help the Repuiriiean party. And why shouldn't it? Is •there anybody -who can cite a reason WhyIt.should help the Popocratic party?

On next Saturday the campaign opens in Ohio,.! .The silver forces announce that they •will make a great fight. The hosts of sound mo&gaushould be duly thankful for jhis information Forewarned is forearmed.

The "Journal of Jeffersonville, Ind., has «s»ued"a. very fine edition giving "a pictorial and descriptive synopsis of the city's status in the world of industry, commerce and, manufacture." The literary and artistic features of the paper are alike excellent and the edition is a credit to the community whose interests it so charmingly sets forth.

The beloved Roekville Tribune wonders fif the Terre Haute Express still thinks President Andrews is not fit io be at the head of Brown University, since even Congressman Walker of Masachuseits has joined in begging the president not to resign" The Express has never thought it a matter of much importance to the financial interests of the country whether President Andrews did or did not insist upon resigning his position. Gold organs probably would faave had very little to say upon the subject tead net the silverites cried aloud against the idea that if President Andrews' views were unsatisfactory to Brown University [hat institution had a right to call his attention to the fact and if it saw fit to protest There are indications, anyhow, that when President Andrews is done modifying his silver views he will have modified the life out of them.

THE FIGHT INOHIO.

Tomorrow the great political struggle will begin in Ohio. It promises to be warm from the start to finish. The silverites have made preparations to wage vigorous *utk» and the sound money men understand the carious nature of the conflict. They will contest .every inch of the ground with an energy and determination never surpassed In this country. John R. McLean wants to succeed Mark Hanna in the United Stated •onate and he will knock both ends out of kis barrel in order to do all in his power to realize his ambition. Candidate Chapman, the whfce metallist aspirant for the governorship, has a few dollars of his own and he will let go of them in the interest ef his candidacy. All the resources of the popocratswill (be drawn upon ror tne purpose of making as strong a fight as they are capable 61.

In the grand ©peniag tomorrow some of best speakers in the Republican party

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will lift their voices for the cause of sound money, protection and a wise, economical an dhonest administration of state affairs. Foraker, Hanna, Thurston, Grosvenor and Governor Bushnell will fire the opening guns. They will speak in different parts of Ohio and doubtless to many thousands of people. The return fire will begin at once and then the battle will be worth seeing.

Already the Popocrats Tealize that they assumed doufbtful ground when they cut loose from everything else in order to emphasize their devotion to 16 to 1. In Cincinnati and Cleveland the managers are endeavoring to bring local issues into prominence for the purpose of dividing the Republican vote and thus aiding the chances of a free silverite for the United States senate. But in the main the campaign will turn upon the money question. The white methallists have boldly challenged the sound money people to a definite conflict and that is what they are going to get.

Not a Republican in Ohio, not a sound money man anywhere, but that realizes th* seriousness of this battle. It is second in importance only to the fight of last year. The free coinage heresy is again to the front and must be knocked out. A victory for Chapman and McLean would go a long way toward disturbing tthe confidence now prevailing in this country and Europe on the Bubject of the financial policy of the United States and would do the greatest harm. All the circumstances favor the sound money cause and nothing could be more certain than that it will be given the benefit of the ablest and most determined championship.

WISDOM FOR CAPE COD. What beautiful wisdom is contained in these thoughts and suggestions upon the habit of reading in its relation to the use of 'books! We quote from a letter written a few days ago by a distinguished statesman not now in office to the chairman of the board of trustees of a circulating library! recently opened on Cape Cod, in a town not far from Buzzard's Bay: "I hope I may be allowed to suggest that the advantages of the new library can onlv be gained through a cultivation of the'habit of reading by those for whom it is intended."

Observe the profundity of the thought so modestly advanced. The idea is amplified in the next sentence: "While it is true that reading begets reading, it is also true that the custom of satisfying the desire to read, by app!ication to the circulating library, may be acquired by any community with very great profit."

And with the precision and stateliness of irresistible logic the process of reasoning reaches its conclusion: "It, seems to me, therefore, that it is most important, in order to complete the beneficent mission of the new library, that those 'for whose benefit it is founded should not only stimulate this habit of profitable reading, but should also be accustomed to avail themselves of the privileges which this circulating library freely affords."

Who is the author of these daring suggestions, penetrating thoughts, and marvellous variations of the great central idea tha no library is useful 'unless its boolt3 are used? Wild horses shall not draw his name from us.—New York Sun.

CURRENT EVENTS.

There is no loger any doubt that Star Pointer day will bring one of the largest crowds ever seen at the track. There is a general belief that Pointer will break the record and people want to see him do it. The exciiem-entt of the two minutes will be far greater than could be experienced in a half dozen heats between horses one of which was a sure winner.

In 1894 when John MoBride, then at the 'head of the United Mine Workers and by long odds the ablest labor leader in the country, saw that the sitrike could not win he called It off in 6hort order rather lhan prolong the agony. Of course it was disastrous to him for the miners are "last ditchers" as a rule and though they may not have a comprehensive view of the situation on which they might form an opinion, they are none the less positive. They went after McBride and the state presidents and other officials who had joined him in declaring the strike off. In this state they summarily removed President Dunkerly from office and continued the strike on their own account.

It looks as if the present officials of the mine workers are trying to let themselves out with a sort of compromise settlement which directly affects the Pittsburg district alone and which will have to 'be accepted toy the operators of other states before it can be adopted wi.hout plainly convincing Raltchford with putting the interests of the Pittsburg and Ohio districts before all else.

The Sullivan Union says the race for the judgeship in that circuit was begun when former Judge John Briggs gave a banquet to the bar a few nights ago. The Union says: "While it is generally understood that Sullivan will be entilUed to Judge Moffett's successor yet it is by no means certain that Greep^county will acquiesce for it is already hinted Lhat Greene will have a candidate and that his name is W. W. Moffett. Judge Moffett has made a good many friends during his service as judge, and only last week a prominent Democrat stated to the Unidb that he was for Moffett. It depends to some extent how the primaries are held. If they nominate the judge by a joint primary in'both counties it will be difficult to tell how it will end But if the primaries are held simply to select delegates Sullivan county being the stronger will dictate the nominee. It promises to become an interesting fight and to the knowing ones there is no surprise that the sparring has already commenced.

Mayor Brattin of Brazil has been making comparisons to show that Brazil has a low tax levy and is a good place for manufacturing enterprises. He says the tax levy of $1 per $100 on a valuation of $L,500,000 is the lowest in the state.

The complaints at Frankfort over tbe wide-open character of the fair caused Judge! Kent to call the attention of the grand :ury to the alleged violations of the law.

The Evansville Courier says that Judge Foster will hear the answer of Mr. Mackey to the complaint of the People's Savings Bank next Monday. The bank asks for possession of St. George's Hotel under foreclosure of a mortgage. The Courier says: "It is stated by a person interested in the case that the defense will seek to hold the property on the ground that a mortgage given toy a wife on her property for the benefit of her husband is not valid in law. and that to make valid a foreclosure af a mortgage given by a wife it must be shown that the money obtained on the mortgage was for her own use and benefit. In the event that Messrs Rusion and Xcipp do

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not secure possession of the property through the People's bank* it was learned yesterday that two of Evansville's wealthy and enterprising citizens would, "with three other persons, organize a company for the purpose of 'buying the property. Their offer it is said would be $45,000 cash, 'with the intention of spending $15,000 more in improvements.

The Evansville Journal says there is a rumor tha many members .of the Eighth Street Methodist Church are displeased with their pastor, the Rev. Joseph JI. Black, because he introduced Debs at- the meeting in that city last Saturday and that he will ask the conference to be sent elsewhere. The Journal says: "All he did was to introduce Mr. Debs and none can say that he did it in other but a gentlemanly and devout manner. It is customary at such meetings to call upon some one of the ministerial force to either open with an invocation, close with a benediction or take some part in the proceedings, and for Mr. Black to have refused would have been worse than for Mr. Black to have accepted, especially when the gentleman's heart sympathized with the movement, as he informed his hearers it did.

The Newport Hoosicr State is "forninst" the civil service law end says so in this fashion: "The biggest fraud law in this country is the civil service law. It should be repealed at the next session of congress. The men who fill the minor ofHees of this government should be in harmony with the administration. Nearly one-half of the clerks in the United States pension office are a class of Democrats who are prejudiced against the Union soldiers and will resort to every scheme possible to prevent an increase being granted all worthy and deserving pensioners. They should all be kicked out and made to swim the Potomac river."

Dr. W. W. Wilson and Dr. I. N. Sheppard of Paris have a new cure for alcoholism, the tobacco and opium habits and will establish'a sanitarium in that city.

The Hon. Robert S. Taylor of Ft. Wayne is now formally in the race for the senatorshlp to succeed Senator i"urpie. The Ft. Wayne Gazette makes the announcement In an editorial. The Gazette says: "The Republicans of Allen county, and we may say, we believe, of the entire district, have nothing to ask of the state of addition to this high honor. It is due the Twelfth district, which, in 1894, gave a Republican plurality, and in 1896 piled high the state's magnificent majority for McKinley and sound money, for a! Republican legislature and Fairbanks, and for Mount and the best legislation that the state has enacted in many years. This district bore a distinctive and honorable part in these great victories, and the splendid talent and powerful energies of Judge Taylor were a factor in the result. By all^that enters into politics—which is merely the sum of what is politic—the district deserves the honor and Judge Taylor merits the trust which the next general assembly of Indiana has to bestow."

STEINEtR HANGS HIMSELF.

His Wife Dreamed of the Suicide on Monday ... Night. ,• Piqua, O., Sept. 9.—Frank Steiner, a member of the board of water works trustees and a .popular citizen, hanged himself in his hayloft yesterday. The body was not found for several hours, when his unusual absence from home aroused suspicion. There is no cause assigned for the deed.' He was long a leading member of the St. Paul German Lutheran Church. He was also a member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Red Men.

In connection with the suicide his widow" relates a remarkable dream. 'Monday night she dreamed that the body of her husband had been found hanging in the barn. The recollection of this dream remained fixed in her mind, and when her husband did not return yesterday her fears were excited by the thought of the probable realization of the dream.

WYOMING FOREST FIRES.

They Are Still Spreading and Great Damage Has Been Done, •Buffalo, Wyo., Sept. 9.—The' forest fire which has been burning for two or three weeks in the Blackhorn country continues unabated, and is spreading rapidly, fanned by a high gale. Already about twenty miles square are reported covered* and millions of feet of timber destroyed. Th^settlers have fought the fire constantly until forced to give up. There is no prospect of rain, and unless something is done by the government there is no limit to the loss which may be sustained. Another fire is reported over the divide in Big Horn county.

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ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mrs. J. A. Hayes, the daughter of Jefferson Davis, lives at Colorado Springs. She has two sons, the elder of whom, fey an act of the Mississippi legislature, Is to bear the name of Jefferson Hayes Davis.

Johnnie Daly is the name of a 9-year-old boy jockey, who rides at fifty pounds. He is the youngest jockey to ride on a recognized race course ajid has been managing a horse since he was 3 years oW. When he was 5 he was trusted alone on the road with horses.

Brigadier General Anson Mills, TT. S. A. retired, and his family have left Washington for a trip through Nova Scotia and the St. Lawrence valley. General "Mi3s will return to the capital next month and will then resume his duties on the Mexican boundary commission.

Professor Goldwin Smith discusses, ttie questioner, "Are Our School Histories Ang'.ophobe?" The influence of American school histories in stimulating international ill-will has been, Professor Smith asserts, overstated, the spec ia3 fault he is inclined to find with thesis books being their want of literary art.

Harry Mayham Keator, captain of Tale university base baJ! team last year, ha® accepted service in Willistoh" seminary, at Easthampton, Mass., as direpter of physical education and assistant in science for the coming year. Mr. Keator was prepared for college at Wlll!sion, entering Yale in 1893. Casper Whitney, in making his All American college team, put Mr. Keator in center field and made 9»im captain of the team.

A monument to the memory of Raphael, In his native city of Urbino, Italy, was dedicated a few days ago. It is the work of the sculpturer Belli, now professor at. the Academy of Turin, Raphael, who died in 1520, has waited nearly 400 years for this mark of recognition on the part of his fellow townsmen. The erection of such a memorial to the immortal painter was recommended In lSfiS by Victor Emmanuel, but has only just been accomplished.

ONE OF THE FINEST

THAT IS CERTAINLY WHAT THE MEW THKATER IS GOING TO BE

It la An Ideal Play House and la Destined to Become a Source of Pride to All Loyal Terre Hauteaos. *^7

By tlie Iast'day of next month It is expected that the new Terre Haute theater will be finished and ready for the opening night. Yesterday the plasterers began their part of the work and after them will come the frescoers. The roof will be completed within -the next week or two and the finishing touches will be put on during the latter part of October. The management states that the theater "Will surely be opened on the night of November 1st.

Many people in the city have supposed that this new playhouse was going to fall short of tlje first rank. They have imagined that neither inside nor out would it prove the source of satisfaction and pride that was hoped. Only a few comparatively have yet been allowed to get a glinipse of the interior, but everybody within the past two or three weeks has been forced to the admission that the building from an exterior point of view is not to be surpassed by anything in Terre Haute. As soon as the public is admitted to the inside of the playhouse it will find there abundant cause for gratification and surprise.

The outside of the structure is of Connersville pressed brick, with Portage red sand stone trimmings. The style is that of the classic Renaissance. Wherever any carving is shown it is given the best possible display and the effect of the whole is most pleasing to the eye. The building looks thoroughly modern and metropolitan. Together with the Terre Haute House it completes a handsome block and adds wonderfully to the good appearance of that part of the city.

That part of the building which fronts on Seventh street is to be occupied by store rooms and offices. It rises to a height of five stories and contains six store rooms, 18x46 feet, one entrance 18x46 feet, fiftythree office r»oms and one large hall 46x66 feet. This business part of the theater building has what is known as the "independent construction." That is to say, there are no wooden partitions in it that serve as a support and that must remain in a particular place. The structure is held up entirely by iron columns and the partitions may be built at any place suggested by convenience. The fifth floor is given up to the hall and nine office rooms. All the offices .will be fitted up with steam heat, electric lights and washstands, so that they will be strictly up to date. This part of the building, as well as every other part, is constructed according to the building laws of the city of New York and cannof be surpassed for security. In no quarter, of the entire bmlding is any weight upheld by wooden .partitions all the supports are of iron. So carefully are collapse and fire guarded against that the insurance rates will be at the lowest notch. Immediately over the stage on the roof is a tank containing 6,000 gallons of 'water—200 barrels— and from this a three-Inch pipe runs down to all parts of the stage £yid had hose attachments for immediate use in case of an emergency. Great precaution has been exercised in the selection of the material for the house and in making the strength of all parts of the structure as much or more than is necessary. For example, where a column is calculated to be demanded twelve inches in diameter, with half an inch of metal, a column* has been put up twelve inches in diameter with one and one-half inches of metal. Besides this all the brick piers are built about Iron columns, making the support of the building absolutely proof against the possibility of collapse.

SOME OF THE CONVENIENCES Back of the store rooms occupying the south part of the building are situated the dressing rooms, of which there are two tiers. These rooms will be finished and furnished almost as handsomely as a parlor. They will be more comfortable than any similar quarters in almost any theater in the country. The dressing room for the chorus is in the basement just back of the stage and under what is known as the scene dock. It is also supplied with all the conveniences of a modern a,part mem t. Just off the main entrance from Seventh street is the ticket office. It communicates with the' manager's office, south of the entrance, and the manager's office communicates in turn with both the auditorium and the stage. Themaanger can walk through a door and be out of his room into the auditorium, onto the stage or into the ticket office. A hailway leading south from the entrance conducts one to the men's toilet. The construction in this quarter oR the building, as indeed in every quarter, is exceedingly compact. .Not a inch of space goes to waste.

Entering the 'theater from Seventh street one fiflds himself in the stair hall. Thence he may ascend by a nine-foot stairway to the balcony or by a seven-foot stairway to the gallery. These flights of stairs are entirely separte if one starts to tbe gallery he cannot wind up any place else and if he starts to the balcony there is where he will land. There is a gallery entrance on Cherry street and also a ticket office. On big nights the gallery crowd will enter the building from Cherry street and not come in contact with tbe rest of the audience a*, any time. On ordinary nights all the people will go into the theater by way of the Seventh street entrance in order to enable one man to take the tickets for all the floors, ©ut after the show is over the gallery will empty i'tsel-f into Cherry street and only the first floor and balcony Into Seventh street. SPLENDIDLY DESIGNED AUDITORIUM.

Leaving the stair hall and entering the first floor of the theater one finds himself in a large and handsome foyer, 20x56 feet, capable of accommodating 400 persons standing. Oft the foyer to the east are the ladies' parlor and toilet. The floor of the audi'orium sweeps in gradual incline to the stage. There are no sudden stepoffs, nor is there apy demarcation whatever among the. seats. One cannot tell where the parquette begins or ends. 'He simply sees an unbroken body of chairs. The seating capaacity is 560 nnd •the chairs are extra wide and upholstered in leather in both back and seat. They are also set unusually wide opart, so that one person can pass in front of another without the latter being compelled to rise. The aisles are five feet wide at the start and 'dimmish to two and one-half feet at the orchestra, the gradual narrowing being In recognition of the requirements of the situation. The necessity for space In the aisle decreases as the stage is approached.

The pitch off she floor is sufficiently steep to allow of everybody seeing well. On either side there is a box, furnished with easy chairs and draperies and designed to accommodate from six to twelve people without crowding.

The stage is of standard dimensions—40x 68 feet—and is large enough for the mounting in complete form of the largest shows on the road, including the spectacular pieces. The distance to the gridiron is unusually high and admits any scenery employed anywhere. Off the 6tage to the south is the scene dock—a room 17x27 feet—where all the scenery will be kept. By means of this room the stage hands will be able to

keep the stage entirely free of obstruction. No scenery will be found standing up against the wall or cluttered about In the way. The stage is furnished with all up-to-date scenery and appliances. There are three rows of footlights, red green and white. The whole house will be lighted by electricity. There will be 1,300 of them in the theater proper and they will all be under the control of an electrician who can manipulate them in any manner desired.

BEAUTIFUL. PROSCENIUM ARCH. One of tiie handsomest features of the house is the proscenium arch. It is a con* tinuation of the boxes, of which there are four—two on the first floor and two in the balcony—end is sixteen feet deep. .It looks like a vast funnel wrth the smaller end terminating at tbe stage. It is so devised for the purpose of promoting the acoustics of the theater and it is thought that these properties will be so perfect that a whisper on the stage will be distinctly audible in any part of the house. The proscenium arch will be illuminated with incandescents and will present a most beautiful appearance.' Its beauty will be reinforced by that of the curved ceiling, where a large central panel and two smaller ones—one on either side—will be defined by squares of incandescent bulbs. This ceiling or dome will be as fine as anything of tbe kind in the West. Its structure is especially graceful and the frescoing promises to be of a very beautiful design.

It will be remembered that the length of Naylor's opera hojse was curtailed by the office rooms. No such condition as this is found at the new theater. It occupies the rear of the building and stands north and ^south, so that its extent is from the wall on Cherry street to the wall adjoining the Terre Haute House. The whole suggestion of the interior is" one of roomiueas ani grandeur. The seating capacity of the house is 400 more than was that of Naylor's and the provisions for the comfort of the patrons are as complete and luxurious as could be desired. There is convenience on every hand—convenience for the people, for the attaches of the theater and for the players. The stage floor is on a level with a wagon standing in the alley, so that there will be no hoisting of scenery such as must be done at so many of the playhouses of the country.

With the steam heating and lightiug plants several blocks away it can be readily understood that every precaution is being taken to guard against fire. Every point about the structure has been safeguarded but no where so closely as oa the stage. An asbestos curtain will shut the stage completely off from the theater. The roof over the stage will be constructed of pannelled glass set in hinged frames, 'like skylights. These are held in place by soft metallic strips which, at a certain temperature, meet and the frames drop down. Should a fire break out on the stage the asbestos curtain would be lowered, the flames won" 1 soon be shooting where the melted skylights had made an opening, and no one in the auditorium need know a fire is raging or be disturbed. BALCONY AND GALUERY ENTRANCES.

Returning to the stair hall one may observe that all tihe stairways are wholly outside of the theater proper. They reach the balcony and gallery without taking up any more room than is absolutely necessary and without in the lea^t marring the outline of the theater. Climbing to the gallery the observer finds it a very inviting place, commanding a perfect view of the stage and being furnished with upholstered chairs. It has a foyer with a standing room capacity of 300 people and its auditorium seats 400 inupholstered chairs. Tfiere is a box on either side similar to those below and with accommodation for from six to twelve people. (Following another stairway one gets into the gallery, which pitches steeply down from a large floor space. It also commands a good view of the stage. Instead of chairs on this floor there are nice benches. From both the gallery and balcony two large flro escapes open in the east wall. The gallery seats 700 people. The emergency exits on tbe first floor are three large doors opening onto Cherry street.

NO POSTS OBSTRUCT VIEW. Balcony and gallery are supported by means of the cantilever system and no posts obscure the stage for anybody in any part of the house. Two iron columns rising 'rom the very last row of seats on the" first floor support a large iron beam across which the bklcony is balanced. These iron Columns are continued through to che ga'ielry. where they are surmounted by a second, iron beam similar to the first and this supports the top floor. It i£ not an easy matter to explain this cantilever system, or principle, to one wholly unacquainted with it. It is one of the most ingenious and useful things known to mechanics. Its vital feature consists in the fact that it takrs advantage of the weight imposed to augment the security of the support. The balcony and gallery at the new th?ater stand cut thirty-seven feet from the Clierry street wall, in which they are anchored. Twtntyone feet from the wall they rest upon the supporting beam, so that the remaining projection is sixteen feet. The probiem is to prevent this sixteen-foot projection, when loaded with people, from tipping up that portion of the floor which is ba:k of the supporting beam.

CANTILEVER PRINCIPLE APPLIED. To solve this problem the construction is made in the form of a bracket. Joists extend from the edge of the balcony cr gallery to a point some feet above the iron beam upon which the structure re-srs. From the top of these joists others, secu.ely fartened to them, descend to the twenty-one-inch wall and are there so secur?ly anchori-d as to stand as long as thp wall stands. From the apex of these joists otbeis run back to the wall horizontally for the purpose of supporting the level p?rt of ihe floor. From the iron beam jo'sts extend la the wall and are made fast to those descending to the same point. Upon these horizontal joists, which rest upon tbe furporting beam, the inclined ones, to which the sloping gallery floor is nailed, are fattened. The result of the construction is that weight placed beyond the supposing beam pulls outward at the apex of the structure and presses Inward on the horizontal joists. These latter are fastened the former and so the harder the weight pulls outward the harder also w'll it press inward and tfco support is made perfect. The balcony and gallery have been tested with twice as much weight as they will ever be called upon to support. All the •train comes upon the tensile strength of the wood and wood thus tested is more substantial than iron. Architects Floyd & Stone say that no other theater in the country has the cantilever principle been so practically employed.

The building is steam heated and plumbed1, throughout. In the theater radiators are set "back in the walls so as not to take up any room. A row of Incandescent lights will be placed in the balcony and gil-ery rails in such a manner that they will not annoy the eyes of either those above o~ below. Persons in the gallery will not be able to see the footlights as they were in the Naylor opera house. In that thener it was impossible for people in the gallery and in certain parts of the balcony to see the orchestra. In the new theater everybody will be able to see the orchestra with case and an act on the stage will be visible from any seat in the building. The entire r.'ructure was designed by the well known architects, Floyd & Stone, and it is as creuisable t« them as it will- be gratifying to the people of Terre Haute.

IN THE COURTS OF LUROPE.

Be|Und tbe Scene* With tbe Nobility of the «».: World. The count of Turin, n«ifcew of Kins Huntfbert of Italy, and who lus hitherto figured as honorary captain of :*r.e Piussitin crack regiment of cuirassiers of the guard, has just been promoted by Emperor WlilUm to the rank of lieutenant jolonel of that corps, writes the Marquise de Fcutenoy in tb«» Chicago Record. The emperor elected' this peculiar method of expressing his satisfaction of the count's conduct ia lighting Prince Henry of Orleans.

It is an exceedingly unfortunate noiniuatiiD, frcm an Italian point of view, and calculated to annoy the Italian cabinet, for ii has ssrvod to revJvo the unjust rucvors current in the French press, to the effect tluvt the couut tad worn a thin mail vest beneath his white shirt. The assertion that Prince Henry's rapier bad it* pc-int so badly bent and twiatid sy a mere trousers button of the count's is treated as ridiculously incrcd.ble. The French cewapapest unite In excleimlag tn&t in view of the suspicions that prevail the count's appoi*Jtm«£ as a MeuiiJiant co'.w-al of a regiment of cuirassirrs :s ptoulUrf? StUng. ""ftjur high oxcelieney" bein the official form of address eoji!o i.d at St. Petersburg by the court and goveitunent of the czar in its intercourse with Prrcideat Faura during his recent visit to Rueia. The matter is wormy of note since it serves for tha first time to determine the predicate conceded to presidents of republics. Hitherto there has always been a doubt upon tfco gu'bject, and it was felt that the style of "your excellency" was Inadequate to rne?t the requirements of the case, since, uot only cabinet ministers on the continent, ambassadors and ministers of plenipotentiary, but likewise privy councilors, lieutenant generals and generals and the wearers at certain orders and decoration? are entitled to precisely the same forms of address. "Your high exoellenoy" is something, however, that is entirely new. has never been used before, and is designated for the special purpose of meeting -the requirements cf a president cf a republic. Consequently the state department at Washington will do well to inscribe titk predicate on their official hard book of etiquette, and to insist that the chief magistrate of the United States should. In all future relations with foreign powers, be addressed as "your high excellency." For from the point of view of etiquette he occupies, with regard to the governments of Europe, identically the eamo position a3 docs President Faure.

The doges or presidents of che republics of Venice and of Genoa tsed to be addressed as "Jtiossirs" or "Mr" Doge, and were aecorded the predicate of "Your Magnificence," or "Your Sareno Highness," both of which are obviously inappropriate for the presideuts of nineteenth century republics. Until ,two centuries ago tho pope was not "You? •Holiness," but "Your Beatitude," a form of courtesy which is still used in intercourse with the patriarchs of the oriental Christian churches. Bishops and archbishops have been spoken to as "Monseigneur" only since the last century—a form of speech, however, which has never been employed by the chief of the state. The kiuga and emperors of France, as well as the presidents of the French republic, invariably address the members of tbe episcopacy as "Monsieur l'Archeveque," or "Mr. Bishop." The papal nuncios, by the bye, although invariably full-fledged archbishops, are nri styled "Monsiegneur,' but "Your Excellency," ranking as ambasaador=.

In addressing a king or emptror in English you use the word "sir," or in French "sire," end "sir" is likewise used in English for all royal princes, though not for princes.who do not belong, strictly, speaking, to the blood—such a^. for instan*. Prince Alexander of Teck and his -brother, who are merely styled prince.

tPerhaps the prettiest form of address that used by Russians in speaking with their emperor. They address him ea "batouschka," which may be interpreted as "little father." The queen of England an all her daughters are addressa-l as •m-'ein." no matter if the rinoises be only S :-e?rs old and the person who addresses them be a white-haired dowager.. The queen regent of Spain in "senora," while the king is "Don Alphonse." The Greeks address their queen as "kokona," which is the Hellenio for "madame." The German emperor and kipga, as well as the ruler of Austria, are addressed as "majestaet," while the king afid! queen of Iitaly are invariably addressed as "mae5ta," The sultan of Turkey is addressed as "effendim," while of the French language 1S used, one does not employ the Svprds "your majesty" but "votre hautesse." The.khedive of Egypt is addressed by orientals as "efflndina," while his predicate is that of mere "highness."

There is no end to the information that it is needful for people to know who propose to spend any time in Europe and to mlcgio in society there, and it may be useful therefore to offer these remarks on tha subject in connection w&h the fact that President McKinley has now been advanced from a plain "excellency" to the infinitely superior grade of "your high excellency.'

Kaiser William has just been appointed by Emperor Francis Joseph as colonel of the crack Austrian regiment of 14th dragoons, and the question now arises in military circles as to whether the young monarch will sacrifice those fierce looking mustaches, of whici he is so inordinately proud, and upon which he lavishes so much attention. Tha 14th or Latour dragoons are the oae regiment of the entire Austrian army, every man ar.d officer of whom is required to b« clean. shaven.

Tha origin of this peculiarity dates bacli to the seven-years' war. At the battle Kolin, which terminated so disastrously foi the Prussians, the fate of the -battle was al one moment in doubt, whereupon the colonel of this particular dragoon regiment re-, quested permission. of Field Marshal Daui to charge tbe Prussians.

The grim old field marshal glanced at thi dragoons, noticed that there was scarcelj one of them who was over 20, and that ii fact the entire corps was composed of men lads without any military experience. Th oflicerjs were mostly members of nobli French and Belgian families, being but little better off in this respect. After a moment's hesitation he exclaimed: "Well, charge if you like, but I doub whether you will ewer be abie to achiev anything with your youngsters, who looi like mere milk sops."

The regiment charged, decided the batth in favor of the Austrians and covercd itsel. with such glory that a special gold medi was struck by the order of the Empresi Marie Therese, which is attached to thu day to the regimental standard.

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