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r . j "v V v w . r . i 1 j! H THE MORNING POST. MAY 28 1899. ' v t 1 4 w i'vV''- w 'v. ..a i 5 '. '- 't j I! ! . A Is 'i 4 1 ;1 ii i: I Variations of Spelling In Official Records. Reasons Assigned for the Differ enceWork of the Board on 6eo craphlc Names Tendencies and Examples. 1 p Washington, May 27. ! It is a remarkable circumstance .that the names of postofflces, as published in the "Postal Guide," do not in all Instances conform to the names used in the official records of tlie depart ment. In the bonding division, the name of a small pos'toffice will often be spelled in one way, and in the "Postal Guide" in another. Tfais Is because .the Fourth Assistant Post master General names tihe fourth class offices as they are established, and it is in tihis class that nearly all the differences occur, while the "Postal Guide" in widen these names are pub lished is edited in the office of the chief clerk of the department. Be tween the editor of the "Guide" and the clerks of the FourtJh Assistant's division there is little harmony ,and hence we have in so many instances two sets of postoffice names, i In 1891, President Harrison estab lished a Board on Geographic Karnes, as it was called, for the purpose of the spelling of geograipihiic names in the publications of the government. This, board is istill in existence, and do ing excellent work. If its decisions were respected there would be no such confusion in the Postoffice Depart ment as that already alluded to. The other departments are generally ad hering to the findings of the board, and publishing their maps and charts accordingly, but -tihe Postoffice Depart ment, in one part of it at least, has seen fit to "hoe its own row." The most notable case of late As that of Puerto Rico. Eight years ago, before there was any thought of annexing the island, the Board on Geographic Names decided without controversy upon this spelling. The Postoffice De partment, without consulting the board is now spelling it Porto Rico. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Brtis tow, wihen asked today liow this hap pened, replied: "We spell here in the common-sense English way P-o-r-t-o Porto, and. do not put in any u-e-r. What nonsense that is! We take the accepted spellings. I suppose our clerks look in Webster's dictionary whenever they want to find the spell ing of a word whSen it is desired to use as the name of a postoffice. We have no connection with the Board on Geographical Names." The "comnion-isense English way" of which the Fourth Assistant speaks with such assurance is, unfortunately, something much in douWt, and it was to .secure uniformity as well as sim plicity in the interpretation of a half dozen different "common-sense Eng lish wiays" often proposed that the Board Geographic Names was estab lished. Its work ha$ been misunder stood, and . in consequence has . fallen into considerable disfavor by reason of a too mechanical interpretation of the principles which it has lalid down. For example, the board decided as the .seventh of its principles not rules that, wherever possible, names con sisting of more than ofae iword should be combined into one 'word, provided no serious offence to public taste wiis involved. The. tendency toward sim plification in this way has long been marked. "La Fayette" is now almost universally written "Lafayette," as is "Eldorado," and hundreds o other words are simiilarly treated. Applied in moderation the principle is clearly a good one. But some clerks in 'the 'Postal Guide' office carried it to such an exitreme a few years ago as to dis credit the .principle an!d to throw rid icule upon the .board. Of all the indi vidual cases criticised, in the newspa pers aft the time, it said that not one was a decision of .the board itself, and they had made thousands of decision but all were applicaitSons of a princi ple by the department. The board did recommend, to be sure, .such consoli- 5 t!2ns "TenPund Island," in piace of "Ten Pound Island," or '-Ten-pound island as it has been variously spell ed. They called a certain postoffice in Missouri "Tenmile." But absurd? ties of consolidation have been c Wed to the board. Several years a-o thet-P was demand for a nlw toffice short dlistaiice. from Palm-Beach Fla People in the neighborhood wanted H named "West Palm Beach." Ti,e de partment objected to a threeSrord oeacn Thls aroused so much rea sonable objection that the latent edi tions of the 'Guide' have Celled rt West Palmbeach." spelled it The consolidation of Words sa, to be wholly a question of how S are accustomed to look at them ,P New Hampshire was written in the consti tutional papers as one word, and vet no one would think of recommendfng tha$t consolidation now. People do not ate the looks of "Westpofnt," as the department tried to spell it ami yet "Newton" for "New Town" Sis become perfectly familiar and accen table. Naples, which means S has lon,g been 7ord' ;Mt would never be posle to -write "New York" JL..V uie 5 0ther: Pciples of" the 7tt,u "c -mat, as rar as nrartipihio the possessive form nf Vi . r AU1S namie was oriefi nally Wood's Hole, Dut haf 0fn 'u,er residents to ...vuuouvu. j. jug cliange hiad 1ppti accepted in official ...-be6a and all the board saw fit to do waX drop the apostrophe, as it had at an earlier date been dropped in Buzzards Bay. This principle is intended mere ly to hasten a little aHendency which ...cjo Vi,cinve. -j.ne apostnoiph o i iiocicsss iniuiiruieat in a , oroner uamc i" uuie, Dy popular con sent, sloughs off. The board also re commended the dropping of the final "1" of the termination "hiiro-h t-,o DVLTg is a good example. The city SOI IS OF POST hkb was chartered, in 1816, its .name, being spelled without the "h," and . its offi cial form -is still ."Pittsburg." The "h" appears to have been added by the Postoffice Department, and through that action local usage became divided A majority of the local newspapers print Jit wilthout the "h. When the department attempted to cut off the "h" from Newburgh, N. Y., a loud protest was made. All the historic as sociatlions of the town were connected with the . ampler spelling, and so the department has put back the letter which it tried to lop off. Another ab breviation recommended was the spell ing of "borough" as "toorO." This has not occasioned much difficulty as the tendency had already strongly set in in favor of tihe simoler form. Be tween the forms "center" and "cen tre" popular usage appeared to be about equally divided, when the board began its investigtations. It decided upon the old -English spelling in the interests of uniformity, and that may now be said to be official. No one ob jects to this at the Postoffice Depart ment. The dlscoritftuance of hyphens in connecting parts of names was also recommended, as well as the dropping of the diacritic characters. Wherever practicable the letters "C. H." (court house) have been dropped. This prac tice grew up in the South, where often a court-house would be established in the center of a county, with no village about it. The postoffice would bear the countv name with the word "court house" attached. But in time villages have grown up at these court-houses, so that the descriptive term is no longer necessary. "Appomattox Court House" is now generally spoken of as "Appomattox." It is .the same with the words "city" and "fawn"; as parts of names they have been in many cases dropped. Ther use was merely a complication, growing in most cases out of an optimistic spirit on the part of the promoters of a place. Boise Crty is now Boise. Spokane Falls is simply Spokane, and all along the line the tendency is toward simplioilty, uni formity and abbreviation. The board desires to have it distinctly under stood that it is . not reforming the lan guage, not writing words necessarily as they ought to be written, but ralther getting ait the consensus of local opinion, and weighing those differences in the light of the general tendencies which seem to have become very marked. It is to be regretted that the work of the board is not given more support. It should have an appropria tion for printing Its decisions, and the Postoffice Department should - act more in harmony with it. The board meets once a month, but will not meet again this year until October, on account of the necessary absence of its secretary from a June meeting which would ordinarily have been held. Capt. George W. Goethalls, the representative of the Corps of En gineers, has been transferred to West Point, ana nis place on ttne ooara na-s been filled by the assignment of Maj. James J. Lusk.At each meeting the cases for consideration are presented on cards. Each card contains a list of all the possible spelling's of a name, and on one side is the recommenda tion of the examining committee and tliedr reasons for It. "Toleston," a place near Chicago, was once decided at the last meeting. It was sometimes spelled with two l's and sometimes without an "e." There seems to be no reason in local tradition for the two l'is, and so the shorter and simpler form was adopted as more in analogy with our language. JAPANESE IN HAWAII. Immloratlon to the Island Has Increased Very Rapidly In Recent Years. Washington, May 26. The rapid in crease of Japanese immigration into Hawaii has attracted the serious -attention of the authorities here of late. The reports received by'Vthe immigra tion authorities are in line with press dispatches stating that the Influx is steadily increasing. One official report from a United" States inspector sta tioned at Honolulu states that 12,000 Japanese have arrived since the ishinds were annexed to the United States. He also reports that, in his opiniion, the total population oi the Asiatics by the end of the present year will exceed the total population of all other nationalities. Another official report comes from an inspector sta tioned on the Pacific coast, who was sent on a special mission to investi gate the causes of this influx. He visit ed Japan as well as Hawaii. His pre liminary report bears out the previous reports as to the extent of this immi gration and the menacing results which may arise from it. The inspector at Honolulu states that one of the ef fects of rne heavy increase of Japanese is to bring on race conflicts between the Chinese and Japanese, the former being gradually outnumbered as the dominant Asiatic force in Hawaii. In a recent clash, it is stated by the re-, port, several Chineses were killed and! a number wounded. At the Japanese legation an official salid: "Japanese labor is almost essen tial in operating the large plantations in -Hawaii, and it is naturally in much demand. But this is a condition in herent to Hawaii, and the Japanese gorernment and Japanese people can not control dt. Our government in no way assists or encourages emigratiou to Hawaii. There are immigration brokers and companies which carry on a flourishing business, but thee have no government status. The only action of the government in the matter is to license the brokers, in order to insure the protection of the immigrants against imposition. Some of the Jap anese have urged that the oonulatlon of Japan was so dense that there ought to toe some outlet. But the government has never taken up that idea, and there is no official system of deport ing .Japanese. "Since the islands were annexed to the UnitecL States, Hawaiian affairs anectmg Japan come under the-lega tion Isere. But we have had no recent reports showing an alarming increase in the immigration. An Influx of Jap anese can have no political significance whatever, and it would amount to nothing if the reports were true that they would outnumber other national! ties. They have no vote, so that their influence is not exerted in shaping the affairs of the Islands.' THE HYSIERTOF HlOt What Become of the Aero nuat's Passenger? Story of Wash Donaldson, Circus Aeronaut Recalled by One Whc Barely Escaped His Last Ascen sion, 1875 Was His. Companion Thrown Out the Balloon? The balloon scene in a play running in New York prompted a man who witnessed it to tell thef following ex perience: "I came very near being thrown out of a balloon once myself. Did you ever hear of Wash Donaldson? He was the balloonist for the Barnum and Bailey show more than twenty years ago. Donaldson was an ath lete. He was of perfect physique and had a face which maxle women crazv. He was a man of travel and a capti vating talker. He was the hero of more thana hundred trips to the skies. The ascensions took place Just before the afternoon performance. He open ed the season in the summer of '75 on the lake front in Chicago. I was in vtted to go up with him. There were three others. The basket party con sisted of four persons. Donaldson took his place on the bur between the 1ms ket and the neck of the balloon. The day was hot. Donaldson was in his shirt sleeves. Part of the time he was bareheaded. The day was perfect. As we took our flight auid saMed out over the lake, reaching an altitude of nearly a mile, the Intrepid pilot, looking down upon his passengers, chatted about his travels and experiences while the air ship above turned slowly and at times seemed to stand still. "This, my first ascension, was acci dental. The arrangement for my trip was for the second day. But two other persons, also invited to go up on the second da appeared on the first day and asked to make the ascension then. This occasioned a parley. II was settled by the toss of a coin. By this I won. The two who lost then threw for the ascension next day, for Donaldson had said that after the first ascension he would take only one per son. "This first ascension was without In cident, save for the novelty of It to those who had never before been up In the air. The ship landed about where the Auditorium Hotel now stands. Af ter we had left the basket I went wltli Donaldson to his hotel and dined with him. A woman at the table, one of the profession, was Donaldson's affi anced bride. She had become infatu ated with Donaldson, ami became n circus woman. They were to have been married at the close of that; sea son. He had promised her to onaTce no more ascensions after their mar riage. "I asked him what he would do if, in an ascension with only one person," it becairQ necessary in order to escape in safety to unload the Uisket. He said, in a matter-of-fact way, that the law of self -preservation was the same in midair as It was on the earth. " 'Would you throw a man out of the basket of your balloon?' asked the wo man, to whom the possibility of such a thing had occurred, apparently, for the first time. Donaldson replied tliat he would be justified in such an act. where his own life was involved, anil haUold me afterward that he had con sulted a well-known criminal lawyer in New York on that very question, and that the informatkm was in ac cordance with what he had said in re ply to the woman. "The next day I went to the grounds to see Donaldson make his second as cension of that enjswgement. The sky Avas threatening. The lake was a ca of whitecaps. A storm came up out of the southwest. The two men who had tossed with me the dav before were at the side of the lwsket. The younger, who toad won the toss for the second day's ascension, wrts a mere lad from an Interior town of Illinois. His name was (Jriiuwood. The other was a Scotchman. He want ed the young man to toss over again, but the young man replied bv quoting the old adage about a bird in hand. Donaldson said to me, in an aside: " 'I hate to take that boy today, for this balloon, which is not the one we had yesterday, Is patched, and not as safe as the other, and, besides, It looks dark overhead. How would you like to take his place?' "I do not know what my answer might have been. There was no occa sion to reply, for the vouncr mnn. nri. dently afraid he might lose his 'place. uau jumpeu into the basket before I could speak. Knowing Donaldson as I did, with faith In his courage and admiring his intrepidity, I think I should have gone with him In his sec ond flight. "Donaldson followed Grlmwood and called to cut the rope. The balloon went up in the midst of lightning and thunder. Not a cheer followed Its stormy flight. The spectators looked upword from under their umbrellas In silent awe. The balloon crossed the lake in a northwesterly direction and was soon lost from sight bv interven ing clouds. The afternoon was stormv and the fury of the gale increased dur ing toe night. No tidings were re ceived of the voyagers on the follow ing morning. That afternoon the first balloon was inflated on the eircn- grounds and an ascension ff1 ,5 nounced. None took place. Donald son had not returned. Mesages S?il sent out to towns in the nortwIS asking for'any news of ft? bSSS? the circus management offeringo1 lvberally for such information. Noif rrs were received. Tht now .7" ana the next and every siKveedin,, , 1 while the circus remained? VX, in whlch we mnrl th balloon was inflated, but, the rope, v,er n cut. There were no Zkll re nevp "For vrks Zl?r a-nslons. conflicting stories wre jpi? 3e balloon seen In rarfou J of a times in the air. with hanging ld downward? flwi jrcus nad the ropes, followed by birds: some times of the balloon In the waters of the lake; sometimes In the branches f a forest; sometimes In the camps of .oggers m the pineries of that region Hut none proved true. People quit talking about It, until one day tt wis recalled by a story, well written, to the eirect that Donaldson had been een alive In London. The circus peo nle and Donaldson's friends denied this. A little later a similar Ktory locating him in Africa was printed and this was denied. To give these stories a shading of truth, for a num ber were printed later on, they con Mined the statement, which was true that the woman in this case hail left the circus and had gone to meet her lover. She had left the circus. Finally the stories about Donaldson being alive, like the ones alnnit J. Wilkes Booth being alive, ceased. A long time after, several montlLs, I think iortlons of a human body were found in the sands on the Wisconsin shore :f I-akc Michigan. There was nofh lng Ho Identify the remains except a piece of Jeyelry which a young woman who knew Grlmwood ffald she had given to him. Ts. with a few bits of material found near by, thought by some to be parts of the balloon can vas, led to the belief in some quarters that Grlmwood was thrown from the basket by Donaldson. Every man or the two ascensions, except myself. Is dead, and each one died in a peculiar way. The Scotchman who lost the toss on the second day went mad n few years ago and escaped from the asylum. His body was found 6ome time after In a creek. "Donaldson's fate remains a mys tery. Did he throw Grlmwood out of the basket? Would he hare thrown me out, I wonder?" ONE OP POUTER'S BEST SPEECHES. lie Says So nimself. So It Must Be True. Phttntfephla Saturday Post. One of the youngest-looking men of his years In public life Is Geu. Horace IVnter, our Amltissador to France. In spite of lit irwessunt activity. General Porter, while the hrid In New York of the Pullman Ialnee Ctir Com pany, was among the mwt accessible of men. He always seitned to have plenty of lei-sure time. One day a re porter was sent to l&ni to collect some after-dinner Ktories whdeh lad never before bevn piOnted, awl never have been printed up to the present rme. The General laid aside Ids correspond ence and entered whole-heartedly Into his caller s mission. "I don't know,' said he. that I can tell you any new story of mine, but I will tell you whatl Iregnrd as mv 'best piece cf repartee at least. It was the most entlms!aftfcally received. It was at n big Iwnquet. the chairman of which was an orator. His Introductions were labored, and mo of thetn failed to score. When he introduced me, he said : 4 You all know General Porter With him all you have to do is to drop a dinner In the slot and up comes a speech.' " You nil know the presiding of ficer, I retorted. aml Judging from the sickly tone of his f-peevhes, all you linve to do Is to drop tone of thecx In the dot and up comes your dinner. "From that itlme on I had things vay own way at the dinner." WHERE THE DIFFERENCE LIES Catholic Standard. Brown I hear youTe bought a pro perty at IiOnesomawootf. How does j-our land lie? Green Not nearly so wea as the agent who. soldvIt to me. WANTED. Ten first-class men to make aeency contracts with the Fa cific Mutual Life Insurance Company, one of th best old line companies. Liberal terms to ene'getic business produc ers. Age and stability, com bined with new policies (life and accident) and modern methods, make this the op portunity cf a I'fe-time to the right parties. Address A. E. S. LINDSEY, State Agent, Box 264. Raleigh, N. C. EASTER LILIES ROSES. CARNATIONS AND OTHER CHOICE CUT FLOWERS. FLO RAL DESIGNS TASTEFUL LY ARRANGED AT SHORT NOTICE. WEDDING DECORATIONS Talms, Ferns and all other decora tive plants for house culture. For or namental gardening at lowest figure. All sorts of bedding plants: Roses, Geraniums, Heliotropes,- Colest, etc. Chrysanthemums in the best and la cst varieties. Vines for the veranda. Tomato plants once transplanted in lipst sorts. Cablwze. iennr nmi Tt. crown E?s Plants. Celery at proper ii : . Mt;iuu. --i-xi wan uiucis iiriTnipiiy ai tended to. H. STEINMETZ, FLORIST. Ralelffh. N. C. 'Phone 113. Ill tt Expert Engineers and Machinists IUleioh, N. C. We do all kinds of repair work In first-class manner and on short notice Plans and estimates furnished on ap plication. Valves, pipes and fittings always on hand. WIS. hand and tripod Cameras All prices from S2.J0 Up j : , Photographic Supplies of All Kinds. We with to announce the addition fee above line of goods and invite- jo? Miextlon and Patronage. H. MAHLER'S SONS, WfrTSON'S PICTURE AMD ART STORE, 212 Fayetteville Street, Ratdgb, N. C Carries in stock a beautiful line of framed and unframed Pictures. Picture Frames in stock and mad: to order. Window Shades in stock and made to order. Orders have prompt attention. Our dellTery wagons dellrer Ice each week-day, morning and erenlng.to all regnlar cmtomers who will get tickets and giTe us their names and places half a daj In adTance. Wagon drirers will sell Ice and tickets for cash at same old low prices, n We should hare all orders for special lots before wagons leaTe factory. Those who may want small lots quick ly can send to cellar under our oflce, 107 FaycttCYllIe street. Ice well packed for shipment by ex. press COc per 100 lbs., f. o. b. here. Price Tery low by car load. Not less than 5 tons can be shlppe J unpacked. Jones & Powell. Raleigh. N. C, April 14. ISW. CE MUM It. L. YRsojr, Tuxd C. Sixain, GUY L. BUNCH, ChZioletN.a Ciufeh,N.C Renair Man ouestions. 109 West Martin Stre:t Third VP. & Oca. Man. Traf. Mgr. Bell 'Phone No. 13. W&2 D.V" BobbittWynne i "Tar heel Mites and Uce j Cholera Specific' On Your Poultry.' Cholera or money refunded. world. Drug Company. Thone IO9. Prescription Druggists. I - j THE P m 1 11 1 , (INCOBPOOATEO 1075.) 346. Broadway. .... jcw York EDWARD W. SCOTT, President PROOF OF CONSTANT GROWTH. NO DECREASES. -:- " ALL INCREASES. Figures From Official Records Cf YerenSIni ri4 to rol icy-holder. $16,942.69 38,14038 7S2,461.91 1,328,7S3.25 1,432,012.37 . 31. Jncotn. 1378 15,224.52 188) 84,294.51 1888 1,163.625.21 S93 2,133,147.18 1898 2,717.906.24 Paid Policy. h olden to dite - . Death Losses Dot and Unpaid - -Ratio of Assets to Liabilities . . Seed Irish Potatoes! In great variety and quantity. The best stock only to se lect from. My new store is ad mirablv adapted for the grocery businpsc and my patrons and .the public can alwavs aiuu me Dest and choicest groceries. I A cordial welcome .awaits all. Prompt jand efficient service, hos. Pescud THE GROCER. THE STANDARD RAILWAY The Direct Line to All Points. TEXAS, CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, CUBA and PORTO RICO Travel bjlthe Southern and m r H rm m you are assured a bale, com fortable and Expeditious Journej ! Strictly FIRST-CLASS Equlpaest oa all Through and Local Tralaa. Pclla Talace Bleeping Cars oa all Night Trails. Unequalea dining car serrlce on through trains. Fast and Safe Bche4aiet. Apply to ticket agents for tlao-ua.e rates and general Information, or xi. II SOCIETY. the Insnrance Department Am rase ta torvt. $2,055.93." 7,020,3 4 6X0 51, 012,2 S6XO 83,10! ,434.0: 92,592.1)7X0 A wri t. $118,664.36 149.797.6S 552,978.64 1,423,140.91 2,850,211.38 O Phoned. i ii 1 SI5,240,G45.4! None - - 132 1-2 per cent )
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