The Courier-Journal, 1893-06-04

(Correspondence of the OsurlepJouraaU Chicago June 1 - Mrs gullivan of the Cliicago Herald is conceded to be the ablest woman journalist in the coun country - try country She cum&ands a salary of 85300 a year Her carter begun twenty years or jnore ago It came about in an in interesting - teresting interesting way The house in which she was staying In thorn early tentative days" had as another inmate the edito editorial - rial editorial writer of a leading Chicago dally In discussing current events with Marga Margaret - ret Margaret Buchanan (such waa her maiden name) the journalist recognised a woman of uncommon mental activity In her keen observations he found much " copy" Ho discovered too tluit her pen was no less incisive than her conversation So peering tliat her aspirations were lit literary - erary literary he jocosely suggested that she as assist - sist assist hka in tho preparation of his edito editorials - rials editorials a suggestion that Waa readaJkf readaJkf-graoped - graoped readaJkf-graoped by the ambitious young woman Gradually upon his M partner" as ho dubbed tlw young apprentice tho jour journalist' - nalist' journalist' became dependent foe the bulk of his matter He hinted at the office that ho had a collaborator Tha curiosity of tlw staff was roused " Bring your part partner - ner partner to tlio office" said vhis editor one day Let us have a' look at him I may want to use him" Miss Buchanan had never been In a newspaper office With trepidation she accompanied tho young man on the ap appointed - pointed appointed day Small plump rosy with short wavy hair parted at tho side ot a Senatorial brow' slw boro at this period a striking vesemblanco' to Bosa Bonlieur " Well where is year man ?" demand demanded - ed demanded tlw editor back ox a cloud of sauke " Here lw la" said the editorial waiter presenting his partner" "Hump! You write editorials?" ho said surveying tlw frightened girl " Sit down at that desk lw commanded u Do you know anything anout palates ?" A little" was tlw quavering asseht "Hjimp! Give mo a column on tlio tariff" Happily the tariff was tho subject of her latest reading Two hours she Kit t the desk her eyes riveted on the wall : the pad ox paper untouched At length tho spell broke The eopy" was nuide A perusal convinced the editor that it was no joke " Gan you turn out this kind of mat matter - ter matter doily V " Yes sir" v What money do you want ?" " Twenty-five dollars a week" ' You're not worth it" Although so reduced in funds -that ear-fare was a consideration tiie young woman journalist maintained her price and was dinniawd from tlw editorial pres presence - ence presence to he recalled liter at her own terms Ilia Buchanan continued with the inper until her marriage to Mr Alexander Sullivan a young lawyer ol her native city Detroit sulacquently Mr Sullivan returned to juiirnjlistfo woik and earned tlw i warty praire of Charles A Dana Henry Wattersun Whitts law Held Joseph Mcdill Her most brilliant work ha appeared iii the edi editorial - torial editorial column of tlw Chicago Tribune During tlw Bbrnell-Gladstoue controversy 'Mr Medill scut Mrs Sullivan to London Jen dot tiie sat in tlw House of Gom Gom-mous - mous Gom-mous and studied tlw M local coloring" and tho personnel of the memben Tlien she begin writing a series of letter that were not surpassed by any sent from England during that crisis in Irish affairs With tho intention to givo the Ameri American - can American people tlw moot eooiurtiwnsive ac account - count account of the Universal Exposition ot H89 tho Associated Press ant Margaret- hulllvsn go Jftm to describe In ton cablegram the opening ceremonies Beaching the French Capital shortly be before - fore before the inaugural day Mr Sullivan learned that ull pres mvors were ex exhausted - hausted exhausted Minister Keid und the United State Commissioners were powerless to scute her admittance to the dedicatory ceremonies Denied admission her jour journey - ney journey would be a failure She had yet to fail in ' a journalistic enterprise The American newspaper woman turned to the French Ministry Slw said u I sm ' representative of tlw Associated Pisa that lurnfolw tits telegraphic new to tiie -people of tlw United States It is imperative that I should he present at the opening ceremonies Will you not rrooure m a seat?" A consultation with tiie authorities in charge ensued lending to character istio denouement The Minister turned to her J Monsieur regrets his inability (to servo mnduin" M PSncr and pen" calmly demanded tiie now desperate representative Quickly two tclegrama were written one ad addressed - dressed addressed to Secretary of State Hon James G Blaine the otluv to the PresL dens of the Araotiated Preos Tlw first stated that tlw French Gov Government - ernment Government did not desire tlw patronage support of tlie United tifites in further furthering - ing furthering their Exposition- and advised that of officer - ficer officer to take measures tliat the wish of France in tlw matter ho respected The second telegram advised tlw Associated Frees that it was the puriwse of tlw Ex Exposition - position Exposition authorities to withhold from American readers the nows pertaining to the Exposition u Mon Dieu Madam I You will not send them ?" cried the Minister to whom Mrs Sullivan bravely read the telegrams " That i my purpose 1 Are tliey not facts T slw answered A volley of French vibrated over the telephone wirra and in ten minutes Mrs Sullivan was the re' cipient of profound aiwhigies and every facility was at her ditimral "Up to this point" smiled the diplomat "I have been a representative of tlw press Now I am a woman May I have a tea? for my escort?" Th Minister smiled smut smut-ed - ed smut-ed lkit excepting i'retiileut and Mad Madame - ame Madame Carnot no officer of Fran- e occu occupied - pied occupied more conspicuous srate at that im imposing - posing imposing ceremony than Margaret Sullivan and her friend In national political conventions Mar Margaret - garet Margaret Sullivan nas long been an effective farce In the reporters' gull ry During tlw Miuneapoli Convent im she wrote daily a page of tho Herald Her ac accent - cent accent of the opening ration - one of tlie dullest event in imliticul history - was tlie almlrution and the despair or her brother journalist Her prophecy of tlw defeat of the Fliimvd Kniglit waa suggested bv a chance mental picture from Defoe that- flarind across lier mem memory - ory memory tiie looked (Jpalringly into tlw dome of the'grrat auditorium and won wondered - dered wondered what It were possible to make Jn Jn-b - b Jn-b resr:ng out of tlr barren facts at hand Mrs Sullivan docs her editorial work at lionr Her library and workshop are In the second story of lier comfortable house within tiiort walking distance of tlie lake front- She keep all the files of the great dailies in ready reach Site thinks out lier matter befoe cettliug down to' her typewriter rarely making a correct' on in tlw manuscript for whlou tlw prlntem' devil call in due season So rompnet I hrr thought so finished lier paragraph that an article may lw broken up without detracting from the general complete? Marsaret Sullivan is '4 he champion of her rex on round cmrervative lines It whs lier personol efforts togetlwr wkh her editorial showing how richly wom women - en women had endowed men' college and routing them to turn their efforts and tlieir ducats to fhe advancemmt of tlw higher education of women tliat led tlw Woman's C'lub of Chicago fa raise 8350 8350-090 - 090 8350-090 t eduhlioh a Woman's Dormitory at the Chicago University When tha splend d monument I completed ft will h chriate wd u Tlw Margaret Sullivan Dormitory" Mrs Sullivan has a Dante das com composed - posed composed exclusively of vounr girls To read Dante in the original Italian is her recreation She is tlie originator and presiding officer of tlw " Foreign Bode nub" which was snegeated by Harriet Monroe tlw author of the World's Fair Ode who brought to Mrs Sullivan an English publication on some phase of

' (OopyriM IMS by file on man of all men who eould haws told thla tala and lived ha long ainoe cod to hia place and there la no apology for thorn that would follow in the footsteps of Lawrence Stern In a xufmele city of ft land that ahall ho nameless rich nan lived alone Hia wealth had bought him a luxurious flat on thefifth door of a red-brick man- Sion whom grilles wore of hammered iron add whom hall were -of inlaid mar marble - ble marble When ho needed attendance coals bis letters a meal a messenger or a car carriage - riage carriage he pressed an electric button and his wants were satisfied almost as swiftly as oven petulant wealth eould expect An exceedingly swift lift bore him to and from 'hi rooms and in hia moms he had gathered about him all tliat his eye de desired - - sired - desired - books in rich oasea with felted hinges ivories from all the world rugs lamps cushiony couches engravings and rings with engravings upon them miniatures of pretty women scientiHo toys and china from Persia He hid friends and acquaintances a many an ho eould befriend or know: and acme mid that more than one woman had given Mm 4wr whole love Therefore he eould have lacked nothing whatever One day a hot sickness touched him with its linger end he became no more than a siok man alone among his posses possessions - sions possessions thei sport of dreamt and devils and shadows sometimes a log and son son-times - times son-times a lunatic crying In delirium Be Before - fore Before hia frlenda forsook him altogether as healthy brutes will forsake the wounded they saw that he was efficiently doctored and the expensive physician who called upon him at first three times a day and later only onoe caused him to be nursed by a nun "Science is fcood"' said the physician " but for steady continuous muting with no scion oe in it religion is better--and I know Sister Ursula'' So (Ms sick man wai nursed by a bun young and fairly pretty but alxrae all Skillful When he got better he would give the convent and net Sister Ursula a thankoffering which would he spent among tho poor whom Sister Ursula chiefly attended At first the man knfew nothing of tho nun's existence - he waa in the country beyond all creeds - bat later a white coifed face came and went across his vision and at last spent and broken he awoke to ce a very quiet young woman in black moving about Ms room He was too weak to speak too weak almost to cling to life any more In bis despair he thought that it was not worth flinging to but tho woman was at least a worn in sad alive The touch of hor Angora in his as she gave him the medicine was warm She testified to the existence of a world full of women also alive - the world ho was beginning to disbeliovo In He witched her tit-tlng- in the sunshine by the window and Counted the light creeping down from beau to bead of the roeiry at her wai s They then moved his bed to tjie window that he might look down upon the stately avenue that mn by the Hit-house and watch the leopto going to and fro about their business But the lange instead of cheering cast him iuto a deeper uclincliuly Tt was nearly 0 feet sheer drop to those healthy people walking so last and tlie mere distance depressed him unutterably He played with scores of vioitina cards that his frlcir1 hud left lor him and lie tried to plar with tlio knobs of the desk close to tlw held of his bed and he was very very wretched One morning he turned his face aWay from the sunlight and took no interest in anything while the hand turned heok apun the dial so swiftly diet it almost farmed die doctor fie said to himself : Bored eh ? Yes You're just the kind of wereducsted over refined man tliat would drop his hold on life through sheer boredom - You've been a most in interesting - teresting interesting esse eo Sat r and I won't loss you" He said to Sister Ursula that he would mod sn entirely fresh prescription by his boy and that- Sister Ursula must give it to tiie invalid every twenty min minutes - utes minutes without fail Also if gie man re responded - sponded responded it might be well to talk So him a little " He needs Cheering up There is nothing the matter with him now but be won't -pick up" There con he few point of sympathy between a man born bred trained end sold for end to the world end a good nun made for the service 'of other things Sister Ursula's voice waa very sweet but the matter of her speech did not fei fei-tereet - tereet fei-tereet Tlw invalid toy still looking out of the window upon (lie street AU dressed in it Sunday afternoon empti empti-nere - nere empti-nere Then he shut ty eye The doc doctor's - tor's doctor's boy rang at the door Sister Ursula stepped out into the hall not to disturb tlie sleeper and took the medi medicine - cine medicine from the boy's bend Then the bn shot down again and shut evens a she turned the wind of At descent puffed up and Mew the spring-lock door of tho zoom with a click only a Write more louder tnua the leap of her terrilfed heart Sister Ursula tried the ttoor softly but rich torn with many hundred pounrir worth of bric-a-hrac buy themselves very well marl doors that fasffih with singu singularly - larly singularly cunning locks Then the lift re returned - turned returned with the hoy in charge and so soon as his Sunday and rati ter u intruded attention was drawn to the state of af affairs - fairs affairs ho suggested flint Sister Ursula should go down to the basement and speak to the care-taker who doubt lorn had a duplicate key To tlie haraent therefore Sister Ursula went with tiie medicine bottle clasped to hey breast and there among mops and brooms and sinks ami heating pipes srififfta termini of all th electric communications of that many-storied warren she found not the cure-taker but his wire read reading - ing reading a paper with her fret on a box of soap The caretaker's wife was Irish and a Catholic reverencing the Church In all its manifestations She was not only sympathetic hut pnllt? Her hus husband - band husband bad gone out and being a pruddnt guardian of the interests conflidd to him h'vi locked up all the duplicate keys - " An' tlie Mints only know whin Mike'll be back av a Sunday" she con concluded - cluded concluded cheerfully after a history or Mike's peon liarfTl ok " lie bo "aft her hav havin' - in' havin' supper wid friends" "Tne medicine!" wild Sister Ursula looking at the inscription on the bottle t must Twain at twenty minutes past fi- I here are only ten minutes now There must - oh! tlsere must be a way!" " Give him a double dose next time The doctor won't know the differ" Tlie convent of Sister Ursula is not modeled after Irish fdral and the present duty lief ore ita nun was to return to the locked room with thn medicine Mean Meantime - time Meantime the minutes flew hridldes and Sister UrsuhV eyes were full of tears " I mii!t get to the room" she Insisted "Oh surely there is a wav any wuy !" " There's wan way" said tho care caretaker's - taker's caretaker's wife stuns to profitable thought by the other's distress " And tha' tho way tho tenant would go in rare aw fire lob sure now I might rend the lift boy" " It would frighten film to death H must ' not see strangers What is th Wav ?" "If we wlnt into the oeUar an out

Into the area wtftl find the ground ends av tho firoraheepes that take to all tho rooms Go slay dear" Sister Ursula had gone down the base basement - ment basement stems through the cellar into the area and with clenchod teeth waa look looking - ing looking up the monstrous sheer of red brick walls cut Into long strips by tlie lessen lessening - ing lessening perspective of perpendicular iron lad ladders - ders ladders Under each window each laditer opened out into m little a very little balcony The real waa straiglier than a ship's mast Tlie care-taker's wife followed pant panting: - ing: panting: canvi out into the sunshine and hading her eyes took stock of the ground " be'U be No 42 on the fifth Thin this ladder' goes up to- it Bad luck to thim tliey've 'the esh capes front an" ha ok spoil in' the look av a fine house but it's all paid for in the tint Glory be to God the avenue's empty all but But it should ha' Men the back it should ha been the back!" Two children were playing In the gut gutter - ter gutter But for these the avenue was de deserted - serted deserted and the hush of a Sabbath after afternoon - noon afternoon hung over it mlL Sister Ursula put tlie medioine bottle carefully into the pocket of her gown Her- face waa aa white as her coif "'Tis not for me" Mid the care caretaker's - taker's caretaker's wife shaking her head sadly M I'm so's to he round or I'd go wid ye Those ladders do be ruminr powerful straight up an' down Tis scandalous to think hut In a fire an' runain1 wid their night-clothes they'd not stop to think Go away ye two little imps there! The bottle's in your pocket? You'll not lose hold of the irons What is nt - oh!" - Sister Ursula retreated Into the eellrtr dropped on her knees and was praying praying aa Lady Gcdive prayed before lie mounted her palfrey The care caretaker's - taker's caretaker's wife had barely time to cress herself and follow her example when she was on her feet again ana her feet were on the lowest rungs of the ladder " Hold tight" Mid the care-taker's wifd "Oh darlint wait till Alike 6XSTEH URSULA HELD UP ? Come down now I - the good an angels - gels angels be wid you There should have been a way at the back Walk tindetiy am1 houla tight Heaven above tin a there'll tie no wind! Oh wiiy wasn't bis ugly rooms at the buck -where 'tie only yards an' bedroom windows!" The voice grew fainter end stopped Sister Ursula wot at tiie level of the fimt-floor windows when the two children caught eight of her raising together a shrill shout Tlie devil tluit delights la torturing good nuns inspired them next to separate and run Che one tip and the ot-iier down tlie avenue yelling " O - oh ! Thera's a dun up the fire escape! A nun on tiie fire eaonpe!" affU since one word at least wee familiar a score of heeds camo to windows in the avenue and were much interested In spite of lior prayer Sister Ursula was nt happy The medicine bottle banged and bumped In tier pocket os sJie gripped -the iron ben hand over hand ena toiled aloft " It la for the sake ol a life" she panted to hersetf M It is a good work lie might- die if I did not come Ah! it is terrible" A ileke of rust from t he long disused Irons hod fallen on her nose The rungs were eluding Iter hinds and the minute were flying The round red face of tiio care caretakers - takers caretakers wife grow smaller and smaller be below - low below her ana there was rumbling of wiietis in tiie avenue - An idle coach coachman - man coachman drawn by the shouts of the children had turned the comer to see whet was to be seen And Sister Ursula climbed in agony of spirit the heelless black cloth shoes that nuns wear dipping on tiie rungs of the ladder end all earth reding a hundred tiiouswid feet below She passed one set of apartments and they were empty of people but the fire the books on tlie fable and the child's toy cast on the hearthrug showed it was drew ted only for a minute Sister Ursula drew breath on the balcony end then hurried upward There was iron rusted red on both her bends the Irons of her gown was epeckled with it end a reflection in tiie stately double window showed a stainless stiff fold of her bead bead-gear - gear bead-gear battered down wer hr eye Her shoe yes- the mended one had buret trt the tide near the toe in e generous bulge of white stocking Slie climbed on wcsrily for tiie bottle woe swinging egain and In her oars there came un unbidden - bidden unbidden the nursery refrain that she used to sing to the little sick children in the hospital t Quebec : "Tbls Is the cow with th crumpled horn" Between earth and heaven it is Mid tlie soul on if upwffrd journey must pas the buffeting nf mahy evil spirit There fleshed into riiater Ursula's mind the remembrance of a picture of a man gating from tlie load down to tlie side of a house - a wonderful piece of fore foreshortening - shortening foreshortening that made one dix7y to are Wliere had she wen that picture I Mem Memory - ory Memory that works indifferently on earth or in vacuo told her of a Imok read lw stealth in her novUitio uclt a lxk u peril body and soul juci Sister Ursula Mushed redder than the brickwork a foot before her nose kveiytuinc that ho had read in or thought about that book raced through her mind as ull his put life doe rffifc race through tho oul of a drowning man It was horri horrible - ble horrible most horrible Tlien rose a fierce wave of rage anti Indignation that site a sister of irreproachable life and ilcmean ilcmean-pr - pr ilcmean-pr rthe hook had been an indiscretion long since bitterly repented of) should bo tingled out for these humiliating cx cx-erdres - erdres cx-erdres There were other nuns of lwr acquaintance proud haughty and over overbearing - bearing overbearing flier foot slipped hive as a re re-minder - minder re-minder ngainft in ana hasty judgment anr she felt- tliat it ws a small and niggling jntfre tR?- oonnfod ofTwiww at such a crfns) and - and thinking too much of their holiness to whom thl merrlflcntfrn with all trie rust- flakes in bosom and kerchief would have been salutary and wholesome But that tiie Sister (Trsnlu who only desired a quiet- life should climb fire escapes in tw face of tlie hamifla sun and a watching population ! fa was too terri terrible - ble terrible None the lew site did not come oonrn leaving to b delivered from evil ihon-rhf raring that the swinging bottle would not smash itself tgainri the Iron 1-idiler she tolled on The second and Third flat wem empty and he heard a murmur in the street : a hum of en en-roniaging - roniaging en-roniaging tumult cheerful outcries bid bidding - ding bidding her to go up higher and ciisp fa

I spent some timo in going through the winery and the brandy vaults Every Everything - thing Everything U managed In the moot economical and most scientific way and the Senator t trying to prove that California will produce the beat brandy in tlio wTld He has opened a- warehouse in the East and he ships his wine and brandies away by the ear loads During tlie month prior to my visit lie sent away 130000 gallons of brandy and he believe tliat this part of California is better adapted to tho making of brandy than of wine Capt McIntyre falls mo that tho secret of mak making - ing making good brandy is to take out the fusel oils but to leave tlie essential oils and parts necessary to be oxidixerl to make it age properly and the macliineiy hove is - adapted to that purpose I wish I could describe it I walked in and out among great hogsheads each of which would hold ai much as 35000 gallons nd I saw vats in wldch ton and twelve thousand were stored In one room the brandy was run through coll after coil of pipes and in another I found tliat it was vaporised again and again eaeli time losing some of its fusel oils Seven great Vats 'holding $000 gallons of brandy are used for this purpose and outside 'the winery I saw hundreds of great barrels connected with pipes into which the wine and brandy was run during a part of the processes The cost of the buildings of this brandy factory is more than 8150000 nnd they are lighted by electricity The coopor-shop of tliis establishment is worth notice The cooperage and the storage vaults alone will hold a million and a half of gallons and the casks of tliere vaults are so tall that if Beniamin Harrison eould stand o Grover Cleveland' head he could not more than reach to the top of them In the fermenting room there ere barrels which hold 800000 gallons and in the bonded warehouse are bar barrel - rel barrel containing more than half a million gallons The brandy in the bonded warehouse is guarded night and day tar United States Government ofilnor A Government ganger is here most of the time and there is a Government officer alwiys ln charge of it When any of thl brandy is taken out for sale tlie money for the tax liu to be put down before it can be gotten It is like the buying of postage stamps There is no credit in the united States and you have to pay cash During the last month 817833 was given to the Gov- MAKING BRANDY eminent for taxes and something like 8100000 worth of taxes ha vet I am told been paid for brandy wliioh is still un unshipped - shipped unshipped and in addition to thl as £ have said before Mr Morse the Govern Government - ment Government storekeeper tells me tliere 1 due Uncle Sam at least 8350000 worth of brandy tax Tlio owner of the brandy hare a right to leave it in the warehouse from three to five year hut they are not allowed to move a barrel until the tax is paid This bonded warehouse is aid to be the largest in the world It is lighted by electricity and in walklni through it between the thousand ol barrels Sfru seem to- be in tlie veiy'oati veiy'oati-couibs - couibs veiy'oati-couibs of barrels Hit big vinejarn embraces aliout six square miles of territory 'i he whole is laid off with perfect regularity into block ' of uniform size and tirceta of regular width it is in fact K city of grapes 14a ch Mock contains about 1 400 vines end tlie main streets which run through from east to west are forty-eight feet wide and they are out up ry avenue sixteen fact in width liiflre axe "about 9H0 vine to the acre and 1 was urpfZe9 to Anil that tlio vinos wore trimmed fawn almost dose to tlie earth every year Some of the vinet are very ola and others have jifet been planted T he grapes are ripe about the lost of July ana the picking of the grapes begin almut trie first of August They are picked in boxes holding fifty pound each and there arc 13000 of there boxes ready for use The picking Is done by gangs of men and boys ana at it height about 1000 men are em employee! - ployee! employee! Tlie vineyard are plowed reg regularly - ularly regularly and their cultivation la carefully watched with line and harrow Capt McJntyi has been for years engaged in vine growing and evwything in man managed - aged managed on a scientific KasI Even in the picking of the grapes the greatest care i (J & BONDED WAREHOUSE used: The grape arc sorted a they are picked ilio men gather tlio grapes in pairs each man carrying a box Aa they go from vine to vine they put tlie bad grapes in one box and tim hert onoa in the other and tliere are ue6 for dif different - ferent different grade ot wme or brandy Tlie picking always begins early in the day and il tlie weather la very hot it is sus sus-pwided - pwided sus-pwided and rcHUincg only late in the afternoon and carried on into the night to that tlio pickers work tiie usual num num-her - her num-her of-houra A good picker ought to average forty boxe or a ton of grapes a cay and some men can pick as much as a ton and a half ' It may interest you to know what men eat in one of there big farm boarding boardinghouse - house boardinghouse Hie cooks have to make ou orders for just w-liat thvy want ami every item has to lie specified From a monthly order liefnre mo I nee that- tiiey consumed Ini- month three barrels of sugar one barrel of relied oats and largo quanti quantities - ties quantities of corn starch macaroni beans peas sausage rice sugo tea and coffee ana meat- Nearly til '( lie meat and vegetables come from tlw farm and all of the luittae nd milk Tlie men have their breakfasts at 5 a w and are allowed forty minutes to eat At 9 they go out to work with their teams and at 11 :80 they stop for din dinner - ner dinner and lay off until a quarter of one They rtop work at 9 and have supper at 7 As far ms I could see tiiey seemed To enjoy themselves ana he a sort of huppy-go-lucky crowd Tlier have a hastsioill dub of their own and there is a dancing dub which tiiey keep up Some of them are good boxers but they nenrly all belong to that- class of workmen which you find in California who will drift along from place to place working all along tlie coo1 from Los Angelra to Seattle and not seeming to care for a home of their own Thera are 388 lino horses here that- were Wrought in special cars from the Falo Alto ranoh and there i a race tra:k here of a mile In length for the training of them ILiO kindergarten is a little pen containing a circular track perhaps a quarter of a mile in length and t-iie trainer stands in the center of this with a whip and crack this at the colt a they run about it Sena'or Stanford told me on day his theory as to this mod of training Said he: " I believe there ore certain muscles

Two Things For Which Senator Stanford's North California Banoh la Distinguished The Largest Vineyard In the WerlN and It Eneraeu Wine Iriiicl A Horae Establishment Almost Ai Large A( the Famoui One At Polo Alto Bow the Yttioui Departments of a Vast California Bench Are Profita Profitably - bly Profitably Conducted HORSES FOR THE CZAR (Correspondence of the Courier-Journal) Vina Cel Hay 81 - I write this let letter - ter letter on Senator Stanford's famous North California- ranch I have visited Palo Alto sad the hone farm near Ban Fran Francisco - cisco Francisco but they are nothing as compared with this great estate Tlie Vina ranoh lies in the Heart of tha Sacramento val valley - ley valley It is about two hundred miles north of San Francisco and it comprises miles of the finest soil in California It con contains - tains contains mare than 59000 acre and it has upon it the biggest vineyard of the world Its wins and brandy production are so grqpt that Uncle Sam has hod to put up a bonded warehouse upon it to ooU lect his taxes and thla warehouse covers mors than two acres of space In it to today - day today there la stored more than a million dollars' worth of brandy and before this can be sold the United States Govern Government - ment Government must reoeiv from It the enormous sum of 8900000 In revenue taxes The winery of tills vast estate is more likn a great factory than a collection of farm building It briok structures cover acres and from wliere I writs the great vine cover the earth almost ss xar aa I can see You can tide for days over this ranch and not see tiie half of its wonders On one part of it 90 90-000 - 000 90-000 sheep are nibbling at the sw grass ana- the lamb among three which were born this spring number more than even thousand In another place there is a herd of nearly two thousand liogs end it has dairies which are supplied by the finest of llolsteiu registered oattl and the horse department' touts Ins hun hundred - dred hundred of valuable horses some of ' which are worth fortunes In riding this morning with Capt Mclintyre tlio man manager - ager manager of tho ranch I happened to say something about fruit trees and he told me that there were thirty miles of such trees along tho irrigating ditches and he said: "we have just put out a little patch of 9000 trees this spring" Six thoiiMinlOfirees?" said 1 Do you 'flail tliat a little patch ? Host me Wotird consider it an lPHnCfte orchard " Oh" said he u we Lave just planted 7000 more in the other end of the ranch and our fruit nop is a very profitable one We had Just year over 11000 tons of trapes and it takes an army to pick IENA7QH STANFORD'S HANAGER the Iruit There are in xuun6 numbers about 9000000 grape vines on tho estate sad when tiiej are in full bearing we ought to have a produdt of about 40000000 pound per year" This estate it a part of the property which Senator Stanford has presented to the Leland Stanford Jr University It is worth millions and he U spending a gtait deal of money from his private fortune upon it and thus increating its value every year Just below here is ranch of 30000 acre more which is also given to the unTYeisity and hU Hilo Alto ranch whffij the college is loafed contains 5000 scree of valuable land It takes an army of men to manage sn estate like this utl on this Vina ranch alone the employes range from 359 to 1500 In number It cost last month more than 81000 to Toard tlie -hands upon it and the board hfil of the work workmen - men workmen often runs up to 84000 a month It Is interesting to know just how auoh a farm is handled Everything is systematic and business-like The ranch ft divided up into doirtments each of which has its head and these brads take care of the men under them and report daily to Capt McIntyre The hands ate parceled out just like the soldier of on army end the forces are put wliere they will do the most good There are shout 150 farm horses and a like number of mules almost constantly at work and the Irrigation department alone requires the riding of ks foreman a distance of nearly twenty-five miles every day There are more than 800 miles of irrigating eanals on the place and there are fifty miles of such canal through the vine vineyards - yards vineyards alone In addition fa this nuinp her of work-horses and mules are the saddle-horses of the foremen and tlio men the carriage-horses and the high-bred homes which ere brought here in hun hundreds - dreds hundreds from Palo Alto Tliere is a horse department here which has an estab establishment - lishment establishment almost- as large as that of the Pnlo Alto ranch It lias its training training-school - school training-school and its kindergarten few the colts and it takes a- number of groom and of skilled horsemen to manage them During pxy visit to it to-day I saw some of the most famous of the Senators horeea and took pictures of two which re to be shipped to the Cxar of Russia in exchange for tome Orloff stallion which the Cxar Is going to send to Sen Senator - ator Senator Stanford In tlie hone department a in every other the work goes on by the dock and according to rule The horses are fed at 4 o'clock in the morn ing and the young colts are worked every day Six quarts of oats a day is considered enough for a horse though the feed is graduated according to their work and strength The colt are put into the kindergarten for fast training at six months They are never sworn st nor whipped and they are as friendly as dogs and as gentle as kittens Nearly all the employes on this es estate - tate estate ere bachelors They are divided up into camp and the buildings of one of the chief camps cover about two acres and can accommodate five hundred men The vineyard camp rontiini a colony of about seventy Frenchmen who manage their own hoard and who receive so much wage and an allowance for eating They do all tlmir own cooking and like wine with their mesls They use about COO gallon a month and prefer red wine whfen they mix with water Here and there scattered over the mtste are otlier ramps the most of which are furnislied with Chineo cook by the manager and where they live and board at- the expense of the tarm They have comfortable rooms end good food and their waff run from a dollar a day and board up

nr THE yiNEYARD ' Senator has two magnifioent ooach horses at Washington which are as black as jet nd which are made venr much after tho stylo of tlie Orloff I do not know as to their breed but they are one of tlio most valuable coach teams in the United States Senator Stanford believes that no greater thing an be done for tlio farming interests of tlio United Stale than in tho improvement of tlio breed of horses Ifo once told me that he thought the kind of horses he is raising here would make far superior farm horses to the heavier variety such as the Nor Normans - mans Normans and tho Fercnerona He thinks they -have more erduranre cost less to keep and tliat they will do more work In a given time than the heavier variety llis nones here as well as those at Falo Alto will' be given to the University estate if he should die and it is J think liis idea that- his breeding establishment 'will bo continued His liorses I am told are a paying investment and of a hun hundred - dred hundred colt which he lias every year it is rare to find one which will not bring 85Q0 at birth FRANK G CAKFKXTEB BABY INCUBATORS II ow Sclenee la a Great Hospital Helps Helpless latitat (New York Herald i It has been suppqpcd up to tha iree iree-ent - ent iree-ent date that seknoe had nothing what whatever - ever whatever to do with women and babies A woman's will was thought to be like the wind - a thing unmanageable and impoa impoa-sible - sible impoa-sible to deul with Likewise the un unknown - known unknown tontue cry and action of babies has hem in' mystery as far as the quir quirting - ting quirting talent of the scientist appear Novi everything' i different The lesraeA professors and engineer have knocked at tlie door of that enigma Bakylanri and got suffiefent knowledge of ita inhaliitantt and their wants to create an incubator THE INCUBATOR A biVy Incubator where Iitfle tots with only half a breath In the world may be nurtured and brought almost back to lifts ecuxtd by aerated sir warmed hv steam and soft eusliions and stuffed with curious but tuccemful medi medi-cims - cims medi-cims 'Hie idea wri 'created by a woman rientlfit I am told and I could Testily believe this news because who dm know anything about babies So with this rare eomliiuation - a woman's skill and a aotantiai't reason - tlw iww wom woman's - an's woman's infirmary at No 5 Livingston place boosts- a number of hnhy incubatory and consequently a swelling of the cen census - sus census When the truly great thing done ly these incubators ahall have lieaome known we will probably hear of no babies dying Tammany Hall particu particularly - larly particularly will liecnnie an unusually -large or organization - ganization organization and the birth rate of the me metropolis - tropolis metropolis will give that of London a doso chase The incubator ward in tlie new in infirmary - firmary infirmary is oa cleanly end perfumed a a flower garden und indeed tJtewee pink little fairies lying peacefully in tho Flora-topped machines look like some something - thing something straight from ' Flora's kingdom q-iite too beautiful and tiny to be alive and hav -human fiinolions 1 There are three avenues with bed on each side wliere cards are tied to the white Iwlport designating tlw name ng and time of birth of tlie occupant The babies are all dressed alike in white pcroule long gowns with little train and mly different bit of ribbon to irtent'gy th when tlwy are in the n lire's arms They have all absorbed nun of t-lw dignified atmosphere of tlw 1insii1alv and when I inspected them tliey politely ci ml modestly turned their farra to the wnllfc Even " little Diefah hahy in the frouhntor seemed to have sense enough to wonder why he diould he famous enough to figure in tho Herald and lie half twisted on his hark with gesture of expressive disgut hut a tiny whiff of wind from tlw ventilator on the end of the incubator made him resume his old position j The incubator make me think of little coffin? hut that 1 the only objec objectionable - tionable objectionable thing about tlieni orluvwise a woman wouldn't mind one about tlio house at all I shouldn't advise her fa set it on tlw mantel piece as a new bit of brle-a-brao to entertain her friends nor anything of that sort but if she needs a rpretak4r for lier offspring next to being trestql in this delightful new in in-ilrmarv - ilrmarv in-ilrmarv an incubator at home woQkl he tlw best possible thing to own Only very small babies - new ones in fart - re allowed the pleasure of paying the rent or being entertained in tlie incu incubators - bators incubators It is considered a royal pleas pleasure - ure pleasure tlw light oak-finlslied boxes stand on graceful fnnr-lcggtil table way above tlw heads of the ordinary patients and have cut-glass tops to reflect the loveli loveliness - ness loveliness of the inmates There are strain pipra pasting beneath and all the dainty luxuries are found in them fa make the bahv patients healthy happy and content

ONE HAND WARNINGLT ueatJi and a voice - tlie voice of fear - cried hoarsely M Where is it ? Where is it?" Then went up to the roofs the roaring and laughter of a great crowd yells oot-caiis ki-yis and bootings many time multiplied Her saint hod heard her at lux- and caused SbtUrsula to disregard the pains of goTng through tho window Her - one desire now was to reach tliat haven to jump dive leap-frog through it if necessary and gfrut ou: the unfortunate maniac It was a short race but swift and Bister Ursula took care of tho bottle A king course of afternoon calls with refreshments st clubs In tho intervals is not such good training as the care of the tick in all weathers for print printing - ing printing over a course laid at 00 degrees Nor again can tlie best of athlete go swiftly up a ladder if he carries an etiually price priceless - less priceless bow in his teeth and handicaps him him-relf - relf him-relf with burnished leatirk buttoned hoots They climbed the one below tiie other Hie window at the foot of the Invalid's ld was opbn At the next window was the white face ot the invalid Sister Ursula reached the sash threw it up went through - lot no man ask how - shut it gently but with amazing quickness and Mtnlir panting at the foot of tho bed one hand on the bottle M There was no other way" she panted " Tho door was locked I eould not help Oh! Ho fa here!" ' Tho face of Terror in the top hat lose to tlw window-level inch hr inch The violin bow was between his tenth and his hat hung over one eye in the fashion of early dawn It's Got! van Cott" said the invalid slowly and critically " He looks quite an old man Cott and hia Strad How very had for the Strad!" "Open the window Whre is It ? I there a way? Open the window!" roared Cott without removing his violin bow Sister Ursula held up one hand warn warn-ingly - ingly warn-ingly as tiio stooped over the invalid For the second time did Cott van Cott misinterpret tlie gesture and lieaved liim self upward the violin and the bow click clicking - ing clicking and rattling at every stride He wm fleeing to tho loads to save his life and his violin from death by fire - fire in the liasement - and tho crowd in the street roared Mow him with the roar of a full full-fed - fed full-fed conflagration The Invalid fell back on the pillows and wiped his eyes The hands of the closk were on the hour appointed for tlie medicine lacking only the thirty vmnrts necessary for pouring it into a wineglass He took it from bister Ursu Ursula's - la's Ursula's hand still shaking with helpless laughter - God men you Sister Ursula" ho aid a You've saved my life" u The medicine was to 'he given" she answered simply " I - I eould not help coming tliat way" " If you only knew" said the invalid " It you only know I I saw it from out of the windows Good heaven I tiie dear old world is just tlie mm e -as ever 1 must set buck to i& I must postil wly get well mid get back And Sister Ursula do you mind telling me when lou'ro quite comikised everything that happened between tho time the door eliut- and - end you came in that way?" After a little-Sister Ursula told and the invalid laughed himself faint unco moie When Sinter Crtula resettled the pillow her hand fall on the butt of a revolver that hud come from tlie desk by the head ot the bed Slie did not understand whal it was but the sight pained her " Wait a minute" Mid the invalid and lie took one little brass thimble-like thing from its Intide I - I wanted to use it for Something heft you went out but I mw you come up and I don't want it any moie £ must certainly ? back to the world again Hear old world! Nice old world! And Mr Cassidy prayed with you In tlie cellar did she? And Van Colt thought it won a fire? Bo you know SUter Ursula that all those things would have been impossible on any other planet? I'm go going - ing going to get well Sister Ursula" Tn the leng night Sister Urhida bintil bintiling - ing bintiling all over nnd the eyes of the night night-light - light night-light heard him laughing softly in his sleep ROfiTON STTPLTR8 A LONft FELT WANT (RnlUmoro Amcrlciu) Boftton't 1feRt phrase for on oM arid is M mU1dk-cM young lady" That Is good even frr Botn

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