Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 September 1886 — Page 9

WHITNEY'S WORKSHOP.,

FINISHING VESSELS BEGUN BY JOHN ROACH AT CHESTER, PA.

Progress of the Work on the New Steel Cruisers for the United States Navy. The Puritan, Boston, Chicago and

Atlanta.

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At Chester, Pa., on the Delaware river, a short distance below Philadelphia, the far famed shipyard of John Roach ?'s situated. In this yard the Dolphin was constructed and was subsequently refused by the new administration as unfit for the United States navy, for which she had been built by Roach under a contract with the former administration. The original contract caHed for the construction of five powerful steel cruisers, or gunboats, designed to replace some of the old crpft in the navy that had become unfit for use. The Puritan was built first, and upon the plan of a monitor. After her the Atlanta. Then followed the ill-fated Dolphin, whose build was more in the nature of a dispatch boat, though she was armored and proTided with fighting gear.

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The new secretary of the navy, Whitney, had scarcely assumed the duties of the office when he found, as he claimed, just reason to .reject the Dolphin for alleged serious faults in her hull and works. Inspection of the three other vessels by a board of naval officers, under his direction, brought on almost similar results. It looked for a time, too, as if in addition to this, the government meant to prosecute Roach with a view to forcing a return of all money paid out of the treasury by the former administration on acoount of these boats. By some understanding Roach made an assignment and the new secretary stepped in with the naval advisory board and a number of engineers from the United States navy to complete the work that Roach had commenced. The enormous workshops which had remained idle during the controversy between Roach and Whitney, were again set in jnotion, and a great force of men are now busily engaged in all the departments pushing the work to a finish as rapidly as possible.

In the center of the big foundry a dozen inolders had built, of brick and clay, an immense star-shaped mold, and into this on the Friday following, which is the day the furnaees are set to .melting iron, an enormous pot of white hot iron was tilted. When this cooled oft the great mold was torn down, and ^Jike the fins of a whale the big flukes of the Chicago's propeller appeared in the midst of the steaming black sand. It took at least twenty CASTING THE

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horses to pull this

propeller across to where the Chicago lay. The first move in building one of these great cruisers is to lay a string of large oak blocks, at given distances, along a pitched "way." Upon '•hese a line is stretched, and when the blocks have been brought up to the level of the line, the pig steel bars that form the keel are placed in position on these blocks. Then the drawings are brought from the draughting department, in a well arranged building near the entrance to the yards, down to the pattern shop. Here tbe scale of feet is laid out, on a very long, polished oak floor, with ehalk lines of various colors, these lines give the shape of the vessel's hull, and from them wooden "skeleton" patterns are made of each (section of the vessel's hull. The wooden patterns are now taken into the main yard .and laid out on large sheets of iron or steel, and after marking the metal it is cut to the line by -enormous and powerful shears.

OUTTDFFF THE PLATES.

These plates, of which there are many hundreds, are numbered where they join together. On their ira4v to where the vessel lays, upon which they go, they are punched along the edges with holes where they will be riveted together. Thus, plate after plate is set in position and the everlasting clatter and clank of the riveter's hammer begins. The little hot rivets scarcely appear outside th«r small holes iu the plates, whence they art pushed from the inside by another "team," when their ends are flattened and trimmed by the bright steel hammers of those on the outside. It is curious to watch these daring workmen, as the great shell grows to a height, as they perch upon the very edge of the "ticklish" scaffolding and batter—

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reached and the deck is on the vessel, it is slid softly down into the water and towed around to the "Shears," as the great fitting out wharf is termed. Here the engines and boilers are placed in position and the deck work finished.

Their armament is of the latest pattern. One peculiar feature of these vessels is the turrets which bulge out from. the sides, two forward and two aft. These turrets are furnished with long range guns, which can be fired, to cross either bow or stern, at a distance of 400 feet ahead or astern of the boat

If engaged in either running from or chasing an enemy the advantages of this particular part of her gear are plainly apparent.

Secretary Whitney has ordered the Puritan to the League Island navy yard, a few miles further np the Delaware. The Boston goes to Brooklyn navy yard for her guns and spars.

The Chicago is still at the yard putting in her machinery.

PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS

Nominate Chauneey Forward Black for Governor. Chauneey F. Black, the Democratic candidate for gov eraor of Pennsylvania, is the son of the late Jeremiah

S. Black, the noted judge. Mr. Black was born in Pennsylvania forty-two years ago. He was a student for a time with Garfield at Hiram college, Ohio. He afterward read law in his father's office and was admitted to the bar in 1861. Mr. Black, however, has not con­

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fined his talents to the law, but has written much upon political subjects. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination, for congress in York in 1874, but was defeated by Levi Marsh, who 'nominated him in the recent convention to be governor. He attended the Democratic national convention as a delegate in 1880, and two years later he was chosen lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania by a plurality of 39,028 votes over William T. Da vies. Mr. Black is one of the younger and bolder and more progressive leaders of the Democracy of his native state, and has the proud distinction of being recognized by men on both sides as a thoroughly clean politician.

HONORED AT LAST.

A Monument to De Kalb—Ordered by Congress 106 Yean Ago. The statue unveiled at Annapolis recently is a tardy fulfillment of an order of the conof the confederation of 106 years ago, which directed that a monument should be erected to him bearing this epitaph: "Sacred to the memory of the Baron De Kalb, Knight of the Royal Order of Military Merit, Brigadier of the Armies of France, and Major General in the service of the United States of America. Having served with honor and reputation for three years, he gave a last and glorious proof of his attachment to the liberties of mankind and the cause of America in the action near Camden, South Carolina, on the the lGth of August, 1780, where, leading on the troops of the Maryland and Delaware lines against superior numbers, and animating them by his example to deeds of valor, he was pierced with many wounds and on the 10th following expired in the 48th year of his age. The Congress of the United States of America, in gratitude to his zeal, service, and merit, have erected this monument."

STATUE TO DB KALB.

The sculptor, Mr. Keyser, of Baltimore, has represented De Kalb waving a sword above his head, as if in the act of rallying the America|i troops against the enemy.

WASHINGTON C. DE PAUW.

The Patron of the Methodist University, of Indiana. Washington C. De Pauw, of New Albany, Ind., is credited with having been the greatest of American plate glass manufacturers. However that may be, he will be longest known as the great patron of the In^..diana Asbury university at a time when it was in dire necessity. This university was founded in 1837, and for forty-seven years thereafter it rew. c. DE PAUW. piained but a university in name.

A few years ago Mi1. De Pauw, the president of the board of trustees, came to the rescue by meeting the university's immediate wants and providing for its future on a magnificent scale. Under his patronage the college was at once reorganized and expanded into a university, tbe trustees voting that it should hereafter bear its benefactor's name. Besides his liberal donations during life Mr. De Pauw has provided that 45 per cent, of his vast estate shall go to the university on his death.

A colored woman was heard this morning informing a neighbor that last night's storm frightened her so that she "shook like an ash pan."—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.

Printers have much to endure. A morning paper that had sub-edited a cheap "ad." received the following lucid complaint: "Please insurt the abuve as it is roate down, not alter it as it ware last week pleas." This is how it was "roate": "a respectbl woman age 47 as -good place cook trustworthy to eldy or small ai»ely good reference, address," etc. It

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remains to add that the writing of this •was fully/is original as the spelling.—Wiltning Howe Weekly.

THE ANARCHIST "TRIAL.

SEVEN OF THE CONSPIRATORS CONDEMNED TO DIE ON THE GALLOWS.

Portraits of the Principal Figures in This Celebrated Case—The Judge, Prosecuting Attorney, Counsel for Defense and the Brave Police Detective.

The trial of the Anarchists has lasted well on towards three months. It has excelled in importance the celebrated Broadway railroad case in New York. It has been watched by the country with an interest even somewhat akin to that with which the Garfield trial was followed. The lawyers on both sides have made a national reputation. So has the judge. So has the dauntless police captain who acted as a detective in ferreting out the bomb throwers. The mayor of Chicago occupied the witness stand during this celebrated case. Eight men were tried variously on the two charges of conspiracy and murder.

The trial took place before the judge of the superior court, Joseph E. Gary. He has a clear, direct eye, a fine face and a nose like that of Senator Edmunds, of

Vermont. He treated both sides with great courtesy during the Anarchist law proceedings, and the legal profession generally have approved his rulings. One feature of the proceedings was striking. Every

JUDGE J. E. OARY. day the court room was crowded. Many ladies attended. There was sometimes not room for them in the ordinary seats provided for spectators. At such times gallant Judge Gary invited several of them to sit beside him on the bench. Day after day these fair associate judges took the places offered them and listened with grave faces to the testimony. The scene was a pretty one.

Judge Gary is 65 years old. It is comforting to those who are younger to know that a man can reach thus the borderland of old age with intellect undimmed, with physique indeed not yet a prey to that repulsive decay whereby the body wears itself out. The judge is a native of New York state and has practiced law forty-two years. Thirty of them have been spent in Chicago. It was in the criminal room of the Cook county court that the Anarchists were tried.

The case against the prisoners was conducted by State's Attorney Julius S. GrinnelL He is a shrewd, pluckylooking man, with a dimple in his chin. He closest the case for the prosecution in a strong summing up speech. In the course of it he remarked that the indictment was for murder, and the' penalty could be a sentence to the state penitentiary for any number of years over fourteen. or the extreme pen-

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alty—death. While the indictment specified the murder of one man, it covered the murder of seven police officers. If the jury acquitted the defendants, that acquitted them of the murder of all these men. The state had no appoal, and no one of the defendants could be again indicted and tried for any of the offenses covered in the present indictment The defense could appeal, however.

He believed, however, that the jury would bring in a verdict that he could hand down to his children with pride—if Anarchy spared them.

ItwasCapt. Black, however, the lawyer for the eight indicted prisoners, who made for himself the widest reputation. He did this by the remarkable and ingenious way in which he pleaded their cause.

Capt. Black has more the look of an enthusiast than of a dry, hard lawyer. He appeared indeed to believe every word he said while he was defending the prisoners. Rather oddly, during the trial his wife attended most of the time and took notes of the proceedings.

She appeared to be almost a Socialist herself, in the deep interest she took in the prisoners. She sat close to them, now and then whis­

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pering to them to be of good courage and keep their spirits up. Black defended Socialism according to his idea of it, and declared that Jesus Christ, "the great Socialist of Judea, was the founder of its tenets." He said: Until you can blot out Jesus Christ from the world's history, until you can obliterate his teachings, until you can seal up his doctrine of fellowship, brotherhood and love within some casket, set upon it some seal of absolute despotism and cast it into some sea of oblivion whose waves will never stir, until then you cannot drive Socialism out of the world until then you cannot make men stop thinking until then, when men see wrong, oppression, injustice, poverty, crime, death, they will think, advise and hope for a brighter to-morrow."

Capt. Michael Scbaak, the police detective, is a brave and powerful man. He is bluff and burly, but good humored withal. He it was who unearthed the dynamite factory. The man Lingg, a young fellow, made the stuff. The bomb was thrown on the night of May 4. Thel morning after, byj direction of Lingg, a man named Lehmann carried a ouantitv of tbe ex-

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plosive out in the prairie before daylight and buried it. He afterward led a detective to the spot, where the officer found it.

Spies was the prisoner who gave the bomb to Schnaubelt, the man who threw it. Schnaubelt escaped in disguise and has not been captured. Spies, Parsons, Schwab, lingg and Fielden are the principal prisoners.

A feature of the case is the number of Anarchists who turned informers. On being arrested they weakened at once and gave the plot away. Five of them were found willing thus to save themselves by betraying their comrades, though not all of them were allowed to testify. They should at least have had the courage and strength to hang together. As it is, they present a picture that is little heroic.

The verdict of this jury, that seven of the Anarchist conspirators be punished with death, and that the remaining prisoner, Neebe, be imprisoned for fifteen years, will, it is expected, discourage future dynamiters.

Collector of the Port of New TorK. Daniel Magone, the new collector of the port of New York, was born in Ogdensburg and is about 55 years old, his parents being natives of Ireland. He adopted the law as his profession. Mr. Magone's success in his profession has been signal, his income being fully $25,000 a year, which is very large for a country attorney. He is a self-made man. It is related that he once worked as a stable boy for F. T. Haskell, of Chicago, whose grand-

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son a few years ago married Mr. Magone's daughter. He now lives in a handsome residence in Ogdensburg on the fruits of his professional labors.

He is also one of the ablest of politicians, but being in a Republican district was never elected to the state legislature or congress. He has great influence in state politics though. Repeatedly he has been a delegate to the Democratic state and national conventions, and for several years served on the Democratic state committee. In 1875 and again in 1876 he was chairman of that committee. In 1875, when Governor Tilden began his vigorous attack on the corrupt canal ring hoYnade Mr. Magone a member of th9 now famous canal commission. This is the only public office Of importance that he has held. Mr. Magone was one of the pallbearers at Tilden's funeral, and there met the president and Secretary Manning. With the latter Mr. Magone has also acted in many state conventions. Mr. Magone was also a warm supporter of Cleveland, both for governor and president, and is said to enjoy his personal friendship and confidence. He is a firm believer in civil service reform and will earnestly support the president's efforts to carry it into the administration of the New Ydrk custom house.

The New Minister to Persia. Dr. Edwin Spencer Pratt was recently appointed to succeed Mr. Frederick H. Winston, of Chicago, who it will be remembered resigned the post soon after reaching Teheran and making the grand salaam to the shah. Dr. Pratt is a native of Alabama and but 35 years of age. Tbe greatest portion of his life has been spent in Europe, where he was taken when but 5 years of old. After receiving a literary. and scientific train-' ing in French colleges he returned to the United States in 1874 and studied medicine in New York city. He continued his studies in the Charity hospital, New Orleans, and in English hospitals. After two years more of scientific study in Paris he returned to this country in 1880 and engaged with his father in commercial pursuits until the death of the latter through a railroad accident on a railroad of which he was vice-president.

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E. S. PRATT.

Tor Governor of Vermont. The present Republican governor of Vermont received 42,000 votes to his Democratic opponent's 19,000 never heless, against such odds a minority candidate is always easily found, in fact there is considerable of a scramble for the honor connected with the nomination. The candidate for governor to be voted for by the Democrats of Vermont on Sept. 7 is S. C. Shurtleff, who is a Green mountain boy by birth. He is now in his 48th year. His education was received in the common schools and as a teacher therein. He has practised law since 1863. In 1874 he was elected a member of the general assembly, and in 1884 he was the nominee of his party for judge of the supreme court.

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It is rumored that The Congressional Record is to suspend. This comes of trying to publish a funziy paper without any advertisements.

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I MEETING OF THE A. C. A.

CAMP OF THE CANOEISTS IN THE ..THOUSAND ISLANDS.

They Meet Every August at Grindstone Island, St. Lawrence River—Canoeing the Popular Summer Recreation—Sails

Instead of Paddles the Fashion Now.

HIS year for the third summer the A. C. A. holds its August meet among the Thousand islands of the St. Lawrence. What does A. C. A. meant It means the American Canoe associa­

tion. It is composed of the various canoe clubs all over the country. In August each year they load their canoes upon baggage cars and speed to the beautiful Thousand islands of the St Lawrence river. They camp out upon some of the islands. They remain there two or three weeks, hunting, paddling, sailing, fishing, loafing aud eating. There is preliminary skirmishing in the way of racing during the whole time, and the meet breaks up in a grand race to see which club and which man shall be the champion for next yearr

This year some Englishmen participated in the race, bringing their canoes across the ocean for the purpose. Most prominent among them was Mr. Warrington Baden Powell, the father of canoe sailing in this country as well as England. Be it known that canoe sailing is now the rage. Paddles there are still, for times when there is not a capful of wind but whenever there is breath enough to lift a hair, your canoeist hoists his little sheet and scorns what boatmen call a "white ash breeze."

The peculiarity of this kind of travel is that the canoe takes two sails. One is forward, rather a largo one, and it is callcd the Tnn.ins.ii]. The smaller is aft, and it is callcd the mizzen. It is likewise known as the jigger, or dandy. Sail may be hoisted also in a paddling canoe, but in that case there is only cne, and it is placed astern. The A. C. A. canoes are all sailers.

Although Mr. Baden Powell started canoe sailing both in England and America, yet the model of craft has differentiated widely in the two countries in the course of five years. Stripped of technical terms, it may be said that the Englishman lies down in the hole in the middle of his canoe, with only a little of his head showing above the deck. The American, on the contrary, sits upon the upper railing of the central hole and hangs out over the windward rail. Mr. Baden Powell was much surprised at this difference, but tried the American plan of sitting on top instead of down in the canoe. He liked it after awhile, though at first he declared the cano# wobbled horribly.

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The A. C. A. camp is at the foot of Grindstone island, on the shore of Eel bay. Canoes were drawn up on tbe beach here, tents dotted all around, and the smoke of little camp fireis ascended all day. It was very free and easy and very jolly. That person is no man or woman at all who does not enjoy now and then the freedom of the wild woods. There were about 500 canoeists present at the meet. Tbe camp was a place of great interest to the people of the surrounding islands. The association chartered a propeller, which made four trips a day,'touching at the neighboring islands. She brought large numbers of visitors, lio inspected the great canoe camp as curiously as if it had been Barnum's circus or the Wild We6t show.

A canoe is an unsociable affair, an old bachelor or old maid's boat, for both men and women sail therein. It only holds one, or, In a great pinch, two persons. The approved shape has only the hole in the middle, as you see in the illustration. All the rest is decked lightly over and full of air. This adds to the lightness of the craft. It weighs so little and is so buoyant that it will run in six inches of water readily, and a foot is ample depth.

Mr. Baden Powell is the champion canoeist of Great Britain. Mr. C. Bowyer Vaux, of the New York Canoe club, is the champion of America. His racing canoe is the Lassie, the fastest one known. The Lassie is very light. She carries ninety-two feet of sail and less than seventy-five pounds ballast. She has two center boards and a deck tiller. When there is very slight wind she carries a spinnaker to give her additional sail. Underneath the covered deck are packed tent, bedding, cooking utensfls and all things needed for camping out. The Englishman's canoe, like everything else English, is heavier and broader than the Americah one. Even it is not so very wide, however, being only thirty inches across. It carries 150 pounds of shot bags for ballast.

OFF FOB A PADDLE RACE.

We may expect canoeing to become more and more popular in the next few years, it is on exhilarating recreation that can be pursued in our shallow, crooked waters throughout all North America. The Indians understood this before us, and constructed elferywhere the light bark boats that shot in and out and up and down streams like darting fish They had war canoes and neace canoes.

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The lightest CTJIOCS can bo onrr':d over rapids or swamps just as the Indians used to carry theirs. In camping out, a canvas called a canoe tent, is stretched above the cockpit, and beneath it, inside his craft, the pleasure seeker may unroll his blankets and sleep like a top, with his boat either drawn upon the shore or anchored out.

Mr. John Habberton is an enthusiastic c&noeist. He writes: The canoe is absolutely the only "aUaround" small boat in the .rorld that is, tbe only boat that can be easil and safely used with either paddle or sail- ar oars, if a man is depraved enough to p* rvert things from their proper uses. I It is the only boat moved by hand power in which the occupant can always look ahead,

A lady can sail a canoe, handling both sail and rudder without any straining and twisting that threatens to part the shoulder of her dress.

FOUNDER OF THE LAND LEAGUE

The Magnetic Michael Davitt—How He Became a Leader The man who moved his people most at the' recent convention of the Irish N attend league, held at Chicago, was undoubtedly MichaeT Davitt. He was there not as a delegate, but' coming to this country on a mission for tbe relief of the destitute fishermen on the west coast of Ireland. He stopped at the Chicago convention, and the reception he received could be equaled only by Parnell, the "uncrowned king of Ireland."

Davitt's career is a wonderful one. He is on Irishman born, and but 40 years old. When a child he was put to work iu a mill, where he lost his arm. At the age of 26 he was arrested in London as a sua* pect, tried and sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment. Not being able to perform the hard labor assigned to him, owing to the loss of his arm, he was often punished severely. After

MICHAEL .DAVITT. seven years he was released on a ticket-of-leave, to'be again imprisoned in 1880 for urging just the measures which Gladstone advocated recently. When he was again released he was taken up by the people as a hero, and his career as an agitator for land reform began, though he had organized the first national land leaguo in 1879. This is Mr. Davitt's second visit to America. He considers the battle for honi9 rule as prao*tically won. He thinks the policy for ParneQt. to follow now is to agitate among the English, Scotch and Welsh peasantry the necessity of land reform, and when these people make a demand the greater injustices to Ire»land will be removed. ..I I. ..... i.' 'Vjf -THE TAYLORS OF TENNESSEE.

One of Thejn is Bound to be Governor of the State. The, gubernatorial contest in Tennessee is one likely without prece '3ut in the history off electoral contests. Alfred A. Taylor was nominated some time since by the Republicans for governor. Since then his brother, Robert L. Taylor, w#s ehosep by the Democrats as their candidate, and it is now thought that their father may accept the nomination of the Prohibitionists, so that the governorship is not likely to escape^ the Taylor family this year. "Bob"ii Taylor, as he familiarly known throughout Tonnessce, is ut present the pension agent ROBERT L. TAYLOR. at Knoxvillo, in that state. It was on this accohnt that he was unable to attend the convention that nominated him, as he received a dispatch from Washington which read: "In. pursuance to the instructions of the honorable tho secretary of the interior it is better for you not to attend the nominating convention." "Bob" is one of six brothers. He studied law, and has a natural vein of humor which ho caif use to good advantage either before a jury or on the stump. In 1S76 he made his memorable canvass in which he beat his able opponent, Pettibone, for congress with a fiddle. In Tennessee it is customary for the rival candidates to stump the state together. On this occasion Maj. Pettibone would first address the audience in one of his grandiloquent speeches. Taylor, on rising to reply, would say: "Ladies and gentlemen, you have heard enough hifalutia speechifying for one occasion. Supposing I give you a tune on the fiddle." And fiddle away he would until the audience would be "jigging" and singing and howling with enthusiasm sufficient to grant him anything. In this way he "fiddled" himself into congress. Back of Mr. Taylor's love of humor he pos--asses solid acquirements that will enable him to fill any position within the gift of his state.

The Ferocious Editor.

The Texas editor stabbed his pen into a dish of fresh, warm, lurid blood and wrote: "Texas cries for vengeance 1 The Lena Star state demands blood and she will have it! Let us teach these soulless Mexicans their place, let us exterminate the damnable race! For our part we are in favor of immediately raising a regiment and marching ." "Great blankety blank I" he suddenly yelled, as he jumped over the desk and fell onto chair, "what in dashity dash was that?" "That wan't nothin' but a rat gnawing on the other side of the pertition," replied the boy. "Oh, blank dash it, I didnt know what it was— here set this up, Pve got to go over and get something to steady my nerves before I can finish it"—Estelline (p. T.) BelL

Evidence of Delirium.

Doctor—But, honored madam, why did you not let me before be called? Your husband lies indeed in highest delirium.

Madam—Yes, see you, so long as my husband by his understanding was, would he nothing to do with a doctor have!—(Fliegende Blaetter.

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