Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 September 1886 — Page 9
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A NEW ELDORADO.
THE FAMOUS GOGEBIC IRON REGION NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR.
The Most Remarkable Iron Ore Deposit In the World—Ore Shoveled from the Surface of the Ground—The Latest Big 5 Bonanza.
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Eighteen months ago the now famous Gogebic iron mines had scarcely been heard of. In this short time four or five towns have sprung up in the region, and $40,000,000 of stock have heen placed on the market. Where deer, bears and wolves roamed at their own sweet will a yeai *nd a half ago is now a bustling mining region, with throe towns within a radius of six miles and a permanent population of over 10,000 souls.
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The Gogebic range is situated near Lake Superior at the point where the states of Wisconsin and Michigan join. The black blocks in above map represent mining claims. Iron ore was first discovered at a point where the mining town of Bessemer is now located. This place is S50 miles north of Milwaukee and fifty miles south of Ashland, which is on Lake Superior. It is reached directly by the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western railway, but two or three other roads are rapidly building branches to this bonanza region. The discovery of iron was made by Captain N. C. Moore, a poor man, who brought to light the famous Colby mine. This discovery led others to the region, arid now there are fifty-five fully or partially developed mines and as many more that are merely "mines on paper" or stock-jobbing snaps. -v
THE RANGE A TEAR AGO.
The leading mining towns are Hurley, Bessemer and Ironwood. They have sprung up in the midst of trackless forests, have all the airs of big cities—fine hotels, electric lights, theatres, saloons innumerable, and all the other good and bad things of a miniature metropolis. The iron ore on this range seems to be simply inexhaustible. It runs in two great parallel veins, each several hundred feet in width, apparently as deep as the hills themselves. The deepest prospecting shafts have failed to find bottom. The ore is of the finest Bessemer hemitite and contains an average of 63 per cent, of pure iron. In many respects it is the most remarkable mineral discovery in the world. In the first place the ore is the finest grade Bessemer, it is the richest ever discovered and can be mined cheaper and quicker than anywhere else. The Colby mine turns out daily more ore than any other mine in the world. In no place else is the ore oimd practically on the surface in a soft state. The Colby and One or two of the other big mines resemble great sand pits.
A SURFACE MINE.
The surface earth is scraped off, cars are backed up to the pit and the ore shoveled in just as if it was sand or gravel An ordinary pick loosens the rich ore and that is all the mining that is necessary. The ore looks like coarsely grained red clay. It is worth $5 a ton and can be mined in the surface shafts for less than ten cents a ton. The output of the Colby is 2,000 tons a day, a few others are surface mines. The rest are shaft mines, and the ore is taken out of the ground at depths varying from fifty to 300 feet. It costs about «1 a ton to mine the deep ore.
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In the whole region were shipping ore now some twenty-five or more are doing so, and the number is constantly increasing. The grand total this season will be something like 750,000 tons from a camp which shipped its first ton last August The ore is shipped by rail to Ashland and there loaded on steamers for Cleveland and Ashtabula, O., and Pittsburg and Chicago. At Ashland the Lake Shore railway has erected the largest ore dock in the world. It is a half mile long and ten big ships can load at it simultaneounJy. An average of 5,000 tons of ore reach this dock daily. Two other docks even larger than the present one are under way, to be completed before navigation opens next spring. Vast fortunes have been made by individuals or companies purchasing small tracts of land, developing a sight of ore and then stocking a company for $1,000,000 or more.
There are now about fifty mines with a commercial standing, and these have placed 660,000,000 worth of shares on the market.
JAMES G. BLAINE, JR., AND BRIDE.
A Marriage—Obstacles .to til* Ceremony—Forgiveness.
James G. Blaine, Jr., the youngest son of ex-Senator James G. Blaine, is bent on cutting an independent figure in the world. He has been a source of much anxiety to his father, who has endeavored to provide him with the best moral and mental training possible to fit him for life's battle. With this end in view he was taken from the public school and sent to the strictest and most select schools to be found in the country. In all of these he achieved a reputation for exceptional vivacity, to say the least.
While at a school in Washington it was said that he started out one afternoon with the intention of painting the whole Capitol red, and would have gilded the
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great dome only that he was taken care of in time. His father then put him in the hands of a private tutor, from whose care he is reported to have graduated several times. He was last year at Wesleyan university. It was Mr. Blaine's intention to enter this favorite son of his either at Harvard or at John Hopkins university this month, but young James has an idea he is best fitted for a mercantile career. So to shut off any possibility of further college training and begin at once as a solid business man, he hits on the brilliant idea of taking unto him a wife. Then to prevent, what he considered, idle discussion, of his plans with his parents, he determines that his marriage shall be a secret one. He met and had been captivated by a lively young lady during his vacation at Augusta. He proposed the matter to her and she consented to become the future merchant's wife and save him from being sent to a horrid college.
The young lady who thus offered to see him over his trials was Miss Marie Nevins, daughter of Col. Richard Nevins, of Columbus, O., and granddaughter of the late Samuel Medary, editor of The Ohio Statesman Col. Nevins is the present editor of The Statesman and a prominent Democrat. Miss Nevins had been very carefully educated and inherited beauty from her mother, who was famous in that respect.
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Two winters ago Miss Nevins took the leading role in an amateur performance of "Paul and Virginia" at Washington, and MRS. J. G. BLAINE, JR. the ability she displayed led to many flattering' offers from.theatrical managers to induce her to go on the stage.
The Nevins family were stopping at aNew York hotel when Mr. Blaine came to carry away his bride. They drove around to one of the swell Catholic churches of that city, but the pastor, Father Ducey, refused to marry them without permission from the archbishop, which would require a couple of days' time to secure. So the marriage was postponed until then, and they met their first disappointment. On their appearance before Father Ducey they were informed that permission was refused on account of their youth, Mr. Blaine being 20 and his bride 19. After a hasty consultation between the young couple the lady suggested that if she was allowed to plead her case with the prelate in person, -and her intended could bring some of his inherent magnetism to bear, she was positive the archbishop would relent. So, inducing Father Ducey to accompany them, they sought out his eminence. This mild-mannered prelate gave them the usual lecture about the importance of the step and the advantage of their parents' blessing, etc. Miss Nevins asserted her woman's right of having the last word, and stated, in her frank Ohio way, that they were determined on being married, and if her own church would not marry them she would go elsewhere. The archbishop laughed, complimented her on her grit, gave his permission, and the two were made one. So carefully was the marriage planned that the press did not learn of it for a week. In the meantime the parents on both sides had forgiven the rash young couple.
Our engraving of the bride is made from a very excellent photograph Ify Baker, of Columbus, O.
The chief priest at Panadine to Edwin Arnold: Life will condense, by means of death, into its essence. Your wise men are not wise to speak even here of five senses. There is a sixth sense—the chitta, the mind. It is that which truly sees, hears, smells, tastes and touches: not the organs. When eye and ear and nostrils and tongue and limbs are laid aside, the master sense becomes all the more free and opened. It is in this as with the chemical elements. To-day they seem to be many making up the world—hereafter it will appear that all can be concentrated into one which takes many forms.
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W. K. VANDERBEFS YACHT
SKETCHES OF A MILLIONAIRE'S PLEASURE STEAMER.
The Splendid Three-Masted Steam Yacht Alva, the Largest in the World—A Library and Nursery—White and Gold an4
Mahogany—Swinging Dining Tables.,/
Exaggerated stories have been printed in some of the newspapers about the barbaric and oriental splendor of Mr. W. K. Vanderbuilt's yacht Alva. It probably is about the best craft of the kind that can be made, but inside or out it makes no display of the tawdry gorgeousness with which it has been credited. From the first its internal arrangement have been under the direct supervision of Mrs. Vanderbilt, a lady of exquisite taste who would go in for anything rather than vulgar display.
The Alva is just completed at the shipyards of Wilmington, DeL
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That is to say it has ostensibly been built there. As a matter of fact the Alva is more British than American. She was designed in England. The Alva's hull is of mild steel, and she was built under the inspection of the British Lloyds.
She is the largest pleasure Steamer In America, being 285 feet long. If the Vanderbilts were ever to be ruined in their fortunes they could sell the Alva for a regular ocean steamer and get enough for her to keep them out of the poorhouse.
The Alva, they say, cost half a million of money. They say, too, that the total cost of running her, added to the interest of the first cost, will amount to nearly $10,000 a month. That is more money than the average citizen of the world owns in his whole life.
The Alva is a three-master, regular ocean steamer pattern. She is lighted by electricity and steered by steam. The cylinders are 42 and 45 inches, with 42-inch stroke. The propeller is of phosphor-bronze and is IS feet in diameter, cast in Glasgow.
In interior arrangements the Alva is about on a level with a seven-dollar-a-day hotel. The great abundance of bath rooms is one of the most extravagant luxuries indulged in. There area dozen or more of these.
The view in the illustratioii is that which would be obtained by slicing off the deck horizontally. The section*,^ marked A, in the bow," is the forecastle. Here are the crew's quarters. Immediately back of that coines the steward's pantry.^" Then follow the private apartments and'^'5 living rooms of the Vanderbilts and theirj^ guests. The spacef^'? marked in the dia-®* gram indicates some-/' thing that, so far asVfe known, never was a fixture Oft any ship before, whether for business or pleasure— is a nursery. Wil-^ liam EL and his wifegj®* have arranged to takegnj the whole family along. is the dining room and saloon.^
The wood is dark mahogany and gold. TheV, chair and sofa cover-
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ings and the portieres1 are of figured silk "J upon a white ground.'
The saloon contains'^1the novelty of an open fireplace. What will
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become of the red hotr^ coals when the Alva .i pitches into the trough of a 30-foot wave is not stated. Swinging tables, a^l large and a small one, together seating seventeen persons, will* dine Mr. Vanderbilt,', and his friends. The/ tables are fixed upon a balancing pedestal,? "j so that whichever way',/ the ship tips they will1-- ,• still hold the soup and coffee level. PLAN BETWEEN DECKS.
The Alva is very slim, with a sharp bow. Back of compartment is D, where the steamer's boilers ore, directly amidships. Each side of these are the coal bunkers, which store 800 tons of fuel. Space E is where the engines are. On the starboard side, leading past the boilers and engines, is a long, narnow passage way which connects the dining saloon with the library. In this sacred passage way only the Vanderbilt or his guest may set foot.
DINING ROOM.
The library is directly aft of the engines. Opposite them is left an open space and in it is a sofa. There the guest may sit and watch in a strictly amateurish and aristocratic way the working of the engines. Since steamer building began, it is said there never was a ship constructed in which so much pains were
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to have everything of the best material, as is the case with the Alva. Extraordinary precautions have beea exercised with every bit of metal, wood, glass and porcelain that went into her. What an irony of fate it would be if, after all, there were left some vulnerable spot, ever so small, unnoticed by her workmen, which would prove at last her destruction. Such things have been.
The library is marked in the diagram. The smoking room is near by. Adjoining are more staterooms for guests. The library is finished in French walnut. About it again are no end of baths, hot, cold, salt and fresh: There is a vapor bath upon the upper deck.
Last of all, in compartment marked in the diagram, directly over the screw, are the officers' quarters, mess rooms, pantry, beds, lockers, etc. Each compartment has its own entrance and egress passage, otherwise called companion way, fenced off to itself. The width of the Alva is thirty-two feet. /i
Henry Erasciuniinu.
An association recently met in Cincinnati called the National Kriegerfest. The word is German, and means a warrior's festival.
The association is made up of Germans who fought the battles .of their country in Europe, when Prussia was their country. After fighting in such great battles as Koenigratz, Gravelotte, Sedan, eta, and ending up the varioiis wars with credit to the German arms, these doughty soldiers migrated to America to become conquerors in the victories of peace, and to grow up with the country.
The association, J^NRY BUSCHMANN. many thousand strong, was entertained at Cincinnati by the German local military society, called in Fatherland vernacular the Landwehr Verein. The president of this local union is Mr. Henry Buschmann, whose portrait is here given. He is one of the younger heroes of many battles, having seen service in the Franco-Prussian war. After that war he laid his weapons down and became a peaceful citizen of Cincinnati.* At the recent meeting he was elected president of the National Kriegerfest. He was educated at the university of Goettingen.
Every man in the German empire is liable for military service twelve years. He must go into the standing army three years, then serve in the reserves four years, and finally in the "landwehr" or militia five years. At the expiration of all this time he may starl out nnd begin life for himself. Many hasten out of Germany at the expiration of the military service and come to America.
ALBERT GRIFFIN,
The Leader of the Anti-Saloon ltepnbllcan Movement.
The most active worker, in faiit the chief promoter, of the Anti-Saloon Republican movement, which met in convention in Chicago recently, was
Albert Griffin. He is the editor of the Nationalist at Manhattan, Kan. This paper represents his views. Kansas is a stronghold of Republicanism and Prohibition, and it was in that state
ALBERT GRIFFIX that this movement began. Mr. Griffin was chosen chairman of the organizing committee. He traveled through the eastern states seeking the cooperation of prominent Republicans, and the result of his work was the gathering at Chicago. i-H "Y For Governor of Connecticut.^
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Fhineas C. Lounsbury, the recently nominated Republican candidate for governor of Connecticut, is the son of a farmer' and was born in Ridgefield, Fairfield county,Ct, wnere he still resides He was educated in the common schools and when 15 years of age, became a clerk in a store in New York. Five years later he re- JLJfcfiS'N. turned to Connecticut and formed a copartnership with his brother, under the name of Lounsbury Bros, for the manufacture of boots and shoes, PHINEAS C. LOUNSBURY. Phineas C. retired from the firm five years ago. Mr. Lounsbury represented his town in the legislature in 1874. He served four months as a private in the Sevesteenth Connecticut volunteers. In 1885 he was elected president of the Exchange bank, of New York, and is also a director of the American Bank Note company. In the last state convention, Mr. Lounsbury received 195 votes, the present governor receiving the number necessary for a choice.
MAN!
What a queer combination of cheek and perversity, Insolence, pride, gab, impudence, vanity, Jealousy, hate, scorn, baseness, insanity, "Honor, truth, wisdom, virtue, urbanity,
Is that whimsical biped called man!
Who can fathom the depths of his innate depravity? To-day he's all gayety, to-morrow all gravity. For blowing liis own horn, he has a propensity, Even under clouds of singular density.
Oh, mystical clay-bank called man!
He can be the source of beastly brutality, Be modest and meek, or indulge in hilarity, Don airs and graces of saintly totality, Or equal the devil in daring rascality,
This curious enigma sailed man. yrVt' —W. J. O'Reardonin Life. *W:V.•C-
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A Naughty-cal Pan.
The Mayflower has won, and Capt. Henn's pretty wife, with her cutter, is beaten. Let as drop the gal a tear and pass on.—Macon Telegraph.
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PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.
HE BREAKS THROUGH ETIQUETTE AND GOES FISHING.
The Cottage Where He and His Bride and Mother-ln-I*w Folsom Dwelt on Saranao Lake Shore—The Car In Which
They Jonrneyed.
President Cleveland has about succeeded In breaking through all precedents established for the behavior of presidents. That ought to be a consolation to him. even if he shouldn't get elected a second term. He was married in the White House, which no president ever was before he has got a beautiful »nd gontle wife, which some presidents have jct had, and he has done about as he pleased in office, which precious few have been able to da
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Finally, instead of spending the summer at that stupid "president's cottage," at the Soldiers' Home at Washington, and staying there through the heat and malaria, he just bundled his lovely wife under his arm, invited his mother-in-law along, and like John the Baptist of old, went into the wilderness. It is to be hoped that, like the seers and prophets, he got inspiration there, and he certainly got fish.' We hope he lias
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from the Adirondacks full of spirit and pluck to make obnoxious persons stand around, and we hope he has not gained in flesh,, any. At any rate he is to be thanked for breaking up that solemn old humbug about the president spending the summer at Washington, as though the country couldn't run itself a few weeks without him. That notion was getting to be so inground into the boarding house keepers and the old cats of both sexes, who dictate to society at the capital, that shortly it would have been crystalized into apart of that iron ramrod—Washington etiquette. Then there would have been no hope for any president getting away in summer any more. Therefore heaven be praised that Grover went fishing.
The first illustration shows the cottage in which the president and his wife and mother-in-law stayed on Saranac lake shore. It is of logs, boarded over the outside, and carved like a Swiss chalet. It belongs to W. R. Dutton, of Philadelphia. A glorious view of lake and sky and mountain unfolds before it.
On their return from the Adirondacks, as on the way thither, the presidential party used the directors' car of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad company. It had been used only once before it was put at the service of Mr. Cleveland. It is seventy-five feet long, built of mahogany, and as fine in its way as a millionaire's pleasure steamer.
The parlor, where the president and his wife sat during the journey, is at the rear end of the car. It is richly carpeted, has four graceful willow-work easy chairs and a sofa covered with green figured leather. The sleeping room has a brass bedstead and silken draperies.
In this pretty car the president's bride traveled home. When she got back to the White House she found everything arranged spic and span for her. The old White House had been tinkered at so much that the only wonder is it does not begin to loqk like a crazy quilt.
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fiut tkey say it appears really elegant now. When the house cleaners began operations they found that about twenty of the pendents from the gas chandeliers were missing through the house. They had been stolen by relic hunters. These have been replaced. A new skylight has been cut above the corridor on the second floor. All has been arranged just as Mrs. Cleveland would like it, bless the dear girl.
Martha Washington's is the first woman's head that was ever engraved on a banknote. The next one ought to be Francis Cleveland's.
Mr. Arlo Bates tells, in The Proviienco Journal, a story illustrating the extremes to which the worship of literary greatness has at time3 gone in Boston, whatever may be itspresent state. In the latter part ot Mr. Emerson's life, when his mind
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failed somewhat, his daughter came into his library one morning, ana found him entertaining a stranger, a Boston woman. As Miss Ellen entered, the sage looked up with an expression of hopeles bewilderment. "Ellen," he said, "1 wish you would attend to this lady sh* wants some of my clothes." Trained by long experience to the vagaries of the lion hunting female, Miss Emerson was yet rather taken aback by this somewhat startling announcement but the visitor proceeded to a voluble explanation that she was a making a "drawn-m" rug, "a poets' rug," made of poets' cast off clothing. Mr. Longfellow had given her an old shirt, and "if Mr. Emerson had a pair of worn-out pants Whether she got the trousers report sayeth not, but surely such ingenuity of tm per tine noe deserves seme reward. ./
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DEATH OF A WESTERN PIONEER.1
The Career of G. S. Hubbard, Chicago's Oldest Settler. Gurden S. Hubbard, who died in Chicago on the 14th inst, at the age of 84. was the oldest Chicago settler. From Vermont he went at the age of 16 and engaged 'with the American
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BOLDIERS AND SAILORS' MONUMENT. The memorial arch to the soldier and sailor dead recently dedicated at Hartford, Conn., is one of the unique monuments of tjie coontry. It is out of the regulation style. It is built across the end of a stone bridge that leads into the city park and to the state capitol. The arch is 30 feet span and springs from two massive round towers, each of which is 67 feet in circumference and 60 feet high. Above the archway, about '40 feet from the ground, a sculptured frieze about 175 feet in length arxl feet 6 inches in breadth runs around monument. Of these towers it has been said: "They seem like two huge sentinels guarding the bridge, or mighty standardbearers holding aloft a mighty banuer on.which is emblazoned the deeds of the men of Hartford who died for their country on land and sea in the war which kept the Union whole.
The memorial is executed in Connecticut /J brown stone, similar to that of the old stone bridge with which it is connected. The general surface is rock-faced, in keeping with ^5 the simplicity of the design, but relieved by buff-colored Ohio stone dressings and the frieze, which is of light-colored teira cotta, j* matches the color of the Ohio stone. fae Champion Grand Army Story Teller. "I suppose you were in the war, comrade?" said a prominent speaker as he sat down again at a "post' banquet after telling a few dozen of select "war incidents" with great applause. "Oh, yes," remarked his neighbor, whtfhod industriously been putting away the shrimp salad and champagne during the speech making. "I was a member of the Michigan 'Big Foots.'" "What regiment was that?""Why, the Forty-fourth Michigan regiment, you know. The men were selected exclusively on account of their big feet. I wear No. 26*8 myself." "Do, eh?" "Yes. You see the peculiarity of our fellows was thejr had such big feet they couldn't fall down when they were shot. After an action the officers went round calling the roll. When a man didn't answer they knew he had been promoted to a happier land than purs so they just dug a grave right behind him, and flopped him over and filled him in."
And solemnly handing their badges over to the champion incidenter the members put out the camp fire and went home.—San Francisco
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Two friends, after long separation, meet each other. "Well,'how are you getting along, Tom!" "So, so, Jim can't complain." I "Do you have any trouble nfbetiug youi monthly billsf "Oh, no. I meet them at every turn but paying them might give me trouble."—Arkansaw Traveler. E
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Fur company, of which John Jacob Astor was president, for the term of five years as a clerk. Their head- ,, quarters were at Mackinaw, from which he made "'if several trips down Pjg to what is now Chi- IS! cago. It was then
GURDEN s. HUBBARD. Fort Dearborn and contained two white families. Of early Chicago Mr. Hubbard would affectionately speak. Some time before his death he said of that section: "Up to 1837 there were no signs of civilization on the west shore of Lake Michigan. One schooner made a yearly trip to carry supplies to Fort Dearborn. The first steamer came to Chicago in 18SS, bringing Gen. Scott and troops for the Black Hawk war. Up to that time the country north and west of Chicago was almost a wilderness. I went from Chicago to Detroit on horseback without meeting a white person until reaching Ypsilanti, where there were a few log cabins. In the summer of 1833 I erected on the corner of South and La Salle streets, Chicago, the largest brick building then in the state. It was 60x150 feet and two stories high, and the shrewd ones of that day thought I was crazy and called the building 'Hubbard's folly.' I was the first packer of beef and pork, opened the first store, was the first insurance agent and issued the first policy in Chicago."
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In 1833 a village was organized on the marsh where Chicago now stands. In 1847 the first railroad was begun near Chicago, and so timid were its projectors that they had a clause inserted in their charter to the effect that in case of a failure of the railroad they could use the land for a turnpike. Mr. Hubbard lived to see the site of the little Fort Dearborn covered by one of the busiest cities on the globe. He was identified with 0% 4 ,i its growth and profited thereby. V*
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The Handsome Monument Dedicated Recently in Hartford.
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