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1 TITE OMAHA SUNDAY HKE: MARCH 20, 1010. CITY OF COLD AND SILVER IS A POET CLUB WOMAN Sitting Officers of Omaha Lodge No. 39, B. P. O.

E. Day that Can Never Come Back to Virginia City. HEYDAY OF THE COMSTOCK MINES flt Unlit In the 1iifbruh on a Moantaln Whftr People Lived In I.aanry anil tiamlna; Wmt On TnnlJ-Konr Honrs a Hay. Miss Irwin Tells How London Meet? a Heal Need. GOTHAM TO HAVE A NEW ORDER One Organisation Which Gives th Yannar Poet a hanrr qnaU Ifled for Membership Porta Fancy Dress Dinner.

"I don't know anything about the merits nf the scheme to consolidate nil the old trill on the mother lode out In Vlrglnl I "It raii an oll inlt.fr. "hut It fllil rny fi tyM good Just to read th other day the old mime that 01 ce made music In our MrM'un Virginia. Ophlr, Crown Point, Yellow Jacket, Gould furry and the other Mg producer of the good old day. I can remember the time hack In San r'ranclscn when the name of any one of those stock called In the blf exchange In Pine street, or the little change In Lcldesdorff atrret we all knew tl at as Pauper Alley would create a riot on the floor when men were bidding for aha re ut a price that would have been too high If the 1.500 feet of the lode the aharea covered had been solid gold." For It was a wonder city, provided by nature with no Inducement whatever fir the settlement of men. Yet It hod In It daya a population of about IIQOOO and from It mines there war whipped bullion of gold and silver of the value of 1300,000,000.

The city was located there for the one reason that It was there by accident that the great lode was discovered, and the first few cabins having been built around the first shaft that was funk; thosa who followed In quest of other mines settled there also, thinking they were but making a temporary home and therefore not seeking a better town location which could have been found within reasonnbl distance at the foot of the canyons east of the lode. Wave In the Ranansa Daya. So the city grew by thousands, the commonest iinhkllled labor being paid Si a day In gold for every day In th year, skilled labor of all kinds receiving from to 7 a day, and those engaged In superintendence, that Is, the shift bosses, level bosses, engineers, foremen, machinists, as-aiiyers, mill horses and superintendents bring paid from $10 a day up to 1.000 a month. With the precious metals coming out of the ground to pay these and salaries, and there seemed to be no end of the ore from which these metals were extracted, a city of luxury and extravagance grew up. The site of the city was the rather steep sagebrui covered side of a mountain without water or wood or any modern means of transportation.

But with the gold mines supplied wooden flumes soon brought streams of water from mountain lakes, a railroad was built from the Central Pacific at Reno, which, winding In and out of canons, climbed In and over the lobe itself to the heart of the mining camp, and then the golden age Indeed of Virginia City had Its beginning. There soon grew a class of men who were accustomed to comfortable If not luxurious living raining engineers graduates of Eastern and European schools of mining, assayern, superintendents and soon these organized themselves Into a social club, the famous Washoe club of the Corn-stock. Following th completion of the railroad hundreds of visitors came to town, mining experts, speculators, salesmen, and for accommodation there was built a hotel which even today in a much larger city could Justly be rated as first class, and across street from the hotel a San Francisco French restaurant keeper opened a restaurant where he saved what he had been accustomed to serve in San Francisco; that is to say, the best meals to be found In America. l.lfe Ip to the I.liult. The necessities of this shifting population of well to do people prompted the railroad to run a fast express dally between the Comstock and San Francisco, and each day that express In leaving San Francisco carried from its wonderful markets the best of the fresh meats, game, poultry, fish, fruits and vegetables.

When the population in this sagebrush desert town found that it could done there as It was accustomed to dine at the Madison Doree or the Poodle Dog in San Francisco, then it wanted the theater after dinner. The demand created the supply. There was built on Hie corner of street and Union street Piper's Opera house. The land lay so steep there that while you entered at 11 street on the sidewalk level, th sidewalk level of A street at the back ran along at about the height of th paint bridge. That Is, the back wall on the stage was build up for thirty feet or so against a rocky cut.

The stage lt-self was laid over a foundation of this ame country rock, as it was called. Everyone had money and plenty of It, and the theater was crowded from the night of its opening. News of this reaching the San Francisco managers, they got into the habit of switching oft New York companies at Reno and running them up to this new and wonderful mining camp for a week's profitable business. Thus Edwin Booth's company was dated for Virginia City. The stage manager was Informed that Booth would play one night at least "Hamlet," so he directed the stuge carpenters to cut through the stage for a space the slxe of a grave and then hired some miners who dug what is perhaps the first and only real grave ever used by a Hamlet.

When Booth arrived and the situation was explained to him he was delighted, and before Hamlet Jumped Into Ophelia's grave he had seen the gravedlggers throw out some shovelfuls of loose natural rock the miners had left when they quit work. KIuk Faro's Hole. Before the French reaiaurunt started, street, the Broadway of that mining camp, pretty well lined on both sides with saloons and gambling resorts. It was not until the fortunes of Virginia City began to wane that a stale law was passed requiring faro tables and other gambling outfits to be placed one floor above the street level. For many years In nearly all of the saloons at least one faro table was run.

In one famous saloon, Omdorff McGre's, nearly every known gambling device was luu twenty-four hums a day to crowded tables. There were half a dozen faro layouts, roulette, chuek-a-luck, keno, three-caid inuiiie. Something of the hours of labor must be told to explain why these gambling establishments were patronised every one of the twenty-four hours. The army at K.OtiO miners was divided Into 'three shifts. One shift went to work ut 7 o'clock In the morning and knocked 'off at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the second shift went on.

and that second shlfl knocked oft at 11 o'clock at night, when the third shift of S.ooo men or so went on for their eight hours labor under ground. Once In two weeks a shift w'ould W'ork a time and a half. Their places were then taken by another shift that worked time and a half, and so it fell out that without losing a day In the year once In two weeks a shift would have twenty-four hours off. Under this arrangement It Is seen that S.ou0 men and more were released for play at 7 In th morning. 3 la the afternoon and at at nil hi.

At whatever hour they quit work enough of them would go to their lodgings, change to street clothes and then promptly euek a gaming table, and thus krep busy at all times. On the other hand. Virginia City had a set of men and women whose social activities were of as polite and refined a nature as one would find in a New England town of the same population. There were the educated men concerned with the mines, that Is, the mining engineers, superintendents, assayers and their wives, the lawyers, ministers, brokers and mer- chants and their wives, who had their dances and teas and cotillons, fairs and bazars, their callings, riding and driving parties, rather more extensively than one would find In a village of that size in New England. And It was curious to note that on that desolate sagebrush mountainside these peopl of education and refinement almost invariably found something at first attractive, then thoroughly charming, In the- natural surroundings.

The view from any Btreet corner led away through the steep sides of Seven-Mile canyon out across miles of flat sage brush, then the sandy expanse of the sink of the Carson river where the river mysteriously disappeared Into the earth and far beyond to the snow capped mountains of the mighty Humboldt range. But to see the beauty in that sort of a scene was an acquired taste. Strangers refused to recognize It. Charles Goodwin, a gentleman and a scholar, was the editor of a dally morning paper, 'he Virginia City Enterprise. He frequently entertained strangers visiting there and they Borcly tried his good nature and hospitable instincts by their failure at onco to rejoice in the grandeur of the view.

A classmate of Goodwin's went up to Virginia City to visit hlrn and took lunch with the editor. In departing he tarried on the veranda of the editor's home and looked off toward the distant Humboldt range and turned pityingly and said: "Good Lord, Charley, I should think the dreariness and desolation of this outlook would drive you mad," Charley Goodwin's Answer. Goodwin had been tried Just once too often. With a big sweep of his arm, comprehending all that lay below In the canyon, the desert, the sink and farther on to the purple mountains, tipped with white, he replied: "Sir, the good Lord has made It possible for a man blind to all the beauties of this earth to dig his way through a college. You, sir, standing there, are an evidence of what I have said.

You are within sight of, yet you are blind to, the grandest, the must ennobling panorama of nature God has ever spread upon His beloved footstool. "There nature In her most glorious mood has painted a canvas for the eyes of the soul but damn, you, Jack, you never could see anything pretty outside of Central park! I tell you, sir, that you are Incapable of distinguishing between somberness and sublimity 'in nature; I tell you, sir, that a man whose soul is refined above a longing for the frou-frou of silks on Fifth avenue cannot without a trembling at his own UttloiiesB and insignificance view so mighty, so glorious Must you go, Jack?" Jack was sprinting It for the train and Goodwin put his views, for which Jack would not wait to listen, Into an editorial that was a prose poem. One of Charles Goodwin's reporters was a clever cub named Sam Clemens, who was already beginlng to sign his special articles "Mark Twain." Another one was a man named Wright, known only to the Inhabitants of sagebrush land by his beloved pen name of "Dan de Qullle," and a third was a rollicking young Irishman, Dennis McCarthy, who later on his own evening newspaper, the Virginia City Chronicle, trained many a newspaper men now writing in shops far removed from the Comstock. Happy Day for Reporters. These four chums on Sundays took long rambles over the hills and down through the canons of the sagebrush.

Down In Seven Mile canon a ilermun had started a little brewery. An artesian well supplied his brewery with water and gave him an excess, which he used to demonstrate that land, once cleared of Its sagebrush and irrigated, would grow almost any vegetable of the temperate zone. Wherever they walked on Sundays the four newspaptr chums would bring up at this brewery, hot, dusty, tired, thirsty and hungry. Mark Twain would Jolly the brewery man Into drawing from his best keg foaming wooden beakers of lager, Goodwin would Jolly the brewer's wife Into getting fresh onions from that garden surrounded by sagebrush, while Kan de Qullle and Dennis McCarthy would construct sandwiches of rye bread and sausages. "And then," as Mark Twain has often told slnco, "we would go uptown and call on our fashionable friends with breaths smelling 11k buuuuds, but oh, so happy." ill 'esteimed r-1 Omaha Elks In Their New Home tContinued from Page One.) low and the lodge found Itself Jli.OOO in arrears.

However, the faithful did not lose heart. A hustling committee was chosen consisting of George F. Mills, David Bennlson and Edward O. Brandt. To these men No.

39 owes a great debt for putting the club on its feet and restoring Its strength. By the sale of furniture and collection of debts and the sacrifice of the lodge rooms in Continental block for small quarters on Farnam street the present site of the Postal Telegraph com-pan's offices, the financial standing of th lodge was made solid. From that time the lodge has prospered. For their efforts Messrs. Mills, Bennlson and Brandt were made life members of the order.

From the dwarfed quarters on Farnam street the lodge moved in 1S97 to the third floor of the Ware block. Rooms were maintained there thirteen years, or until the Granite block had been remodeled. With the purchase of the Granite block the Elks planned their new home. The financing of this deal was ione through a stock company of corporate form. The When the big bonanza was discovered, a vast body of IJOO a ton ore which seemed Inexhaustible, the Comstock began a career of riotous extravagance.

The ore of the Comstock la what miners know as free milling, requiring no furnace or other expensive work for the extraction of the metal. Stamp mills pounded the ore to a fine sand and that was ground to a pulp in grinding pans while mixed with water; salt and bluestone were added, quick-silver was poured-Into the mass, the temperature was raised until the quicksilver permeated the mass thoroughly, then the temperature was lowered until the quicksilver was precipitated to the bottom of the pan holding the metal. That amalgam was drawn off, the quicksilver retorted out of It and a brick of gold and silver remained. There would probably have been a big profit in the milling at $1 a ton, but the stockholders paid $6 a ton. So it was with timber for timbering the mines and holding up the stopes, for cord wood fuel, for freight transportation.

For all these and all other supplies three, four or five prices were charged, and every one had pockets full of money. High class theater companies could not wait for a date at Piper's Opera house and showed In a National Guard armory. Men who were profiting by the extravagant prices paid for everything neglected the product of the little brewery down In Mile canon and drank champagne for lunch ss well as for dinner; special trains brought capitalists and investigators dally. The prices of shares soared to monstrous figures and suddenly It was discovered that Just below and Just beyond the points where the Investigating diamond drills had bored through tho bonanza there was nothing but country rock, barren por-phyy. The collapse was so unexpected that it took heat out not only of the Investing public but even the experts.

Since then there has been no extensive and systematic prospecting of that wonderful lode. But even If modern pumping plants. uMi.g th Sutro tunnel as an outlet, drain the long submerged lower levels, and scientific research ahall disclose riches In th lower unupenvd depths wf In lode, th old I yf I WAX xJZ'f company was organized with a capitalization of $100,000 and stock sold with Interest guaranteed at 6 per cent on the Invest Virginia City will never come agnin Into its romance of life. You can organize mining, but not romance. Career of General Morton (Continued from Page Three.) engagement left Captain Morton In command.

He immediately advanced upon the enemy, drove them back and seized a Btrong, commanding position that was the key-point of the seige. Showered with a cross-fire from both artillery and rifles and unsupported on either flank or from the rear, he persistently held tho position. Twice he received an order to abandon the position as untenable, but he continued to hold It, the order coming from a general so far back behind the hills and out of the zone of fire that Morton did not believe that the vital Importance of the position or the conditions were understood. At the close of hostilities in Cuba he returned to Monlauk Point, N. where he received his promotion to be major of the Fourth cavalry, a part of which regiment was then In the Philippines.

In the spring of 1S9 he was on duty with his reslment In the Coeur d'Alene district In Iduho, and being the senior officer on the ground In that much-dlstracled min ing region following the dynamiting of the Bunker Hill-Sullivan Reduction works, going there from Fort Walla Walla, Major Morton was put at the head of the military forces upon the district being plai-ed under martial MJor Morton began at once a systematic arrest of the miners charged with fomenting the disturbance and committing the depredations and rounded up about IM1 of rhem. In the midst of this disagreeable work Major Morton was ordered to the Philippines, sailing from Hun Francirc n. June, lhW. in command of thu troo on the ill-fated steamer Valencia, that after-warda was stranded with terrible suffering and loss of life on the coast of Vancouver. On his arrival In Manila General Lawton placed Major Morton in charge of the safety and aeourlty of the city.

He later commanded his squadron on General Lw-ton's expedition north, and with ten officers and sixty men. volunteers from tii ment. The Elks" building committee consisted of J. B. McPherson.

D. B. Welpton. H. F.

Metz, Rome Miller, E. A. Benson, W. I. Kler- slead and C.

L. Saunders. An advisory committee for the new home was composed of Lysle I. Abbott, Frank T. Ransom, Arthur C.

Wakeley, A. H. Burnett and Frank Crawford, and a hustling com Fourth cavalry, he penetrated, following a force of insurrectos, tne alleged Impenetrable stronghold or Biacn-a-Bota and Inflicted the severest punishment upon the Insurrectos, scattering them badly. After two years' service in the Philippines he was promoted to the lieutenant colonelcy of th Eighth cavalry, then serving In Cuba. He at once Joined his new regiment and remained with It during Us stay In Cuba, Lieutenant Colonel Morton was commanding at Fort Sill in 1W3 when he was advanced to the graj'e of colonel of the Eleventh cavalry, then serving In the Philippines.

Owing to his previous service in the Philippines he was transferred to the Seventh cavalry, of which regiment he was the commander for four years. Colonel Morton commanded the cavalry brigades at the army maneuvers at West Point, in Mi, and at Manasses, in 1WM. He returned to Manila In the summer of 1905 in command of the forces being transported on the army transport Logan, and was assigned to duty at Camp McGrath, Batangas, where he remained for two years, and built there one of the finest military posts In the islands. While in commund of Camp McGrath, Colonel Morton was notified by cuble on April 19, 1S07, from Washington of his promotion to be brigadier general. In the summer of I'M he was assigned to the command of the Department of the Missouri, succeeding the late Brigadier General E.

S. Godfrey, October 11(07. General Morton's first duty upon taking command of the department was to conduct the fifleen-mll test ride for the field oificers of the department, which required him to visit each of the ten posts of the department, and embraced total test ride of i.u That autumn raw three Indian troubles in South Dakota and General Morion managed the military expedition aent to quell them. The following year two large maneuver camps of instruction were held in the department, one at Camp Emmet Crawford, near Fort D. A.

Ruasell, Wyoming, and the other at Fort Kiley, Kansas. All of the arrangements for these maneuver camp wero mad by General Mutton, and mute to sell stock was composed of H. B. Peters, Gould Diets, D. B.

O. A. Renze, John E. O'Hearn, T. F.

Swift, John C. Drexel, G. F. Brucker, frrank A. Furay, Frank Simpson, C.

H. Withnell and A. J. Stors. Through the work of these committees, with whom the officers and members of tho lodge co-operated, the purchase of the building.

Its remodeling and the present beautiful home of the Omaha lodge was made possible. The general publlo Is familiar with the benevolent and protective features of the Elks' lodge. It Is primarily a lodge of brotherly love, of fidelity and devotion to oue another and to other men. The Elk himself need expect no pecuniary aid from the lodge by reason of his membership. The work of the Elk Is on the outside, among the needy, the unfortunate and the helpless.

When the city of San Francisco was stricken by earthquake and fir In April, 1906, the Elks did not await a cry for help, but within a few days after the seriousness of the holocast was apparent $10,003 In cash was forwarded to the sufferers at the Golden Gate. Omaha shared in. the work of benevolence, the local lodge appropriating tr00 Immediately toward the relief fund. The Oakland and San Francisco lodges of Elks led In the relief work In the stricken city, with Robert W. Brown, the grand exalted ruler of the order, on the ground.

In works of charity and benevolence in every city In the country where there are lodges of Elks the same spirit of brotherly love Inspires deeds of kindness. In affairs of the grand lodg No. 89 has borne a prominent part. In 1897 the local Elks went to Minneapolis 100 strong In hopes of capturing the next convention, but lost out in the race. The Omaha lodge, however, came back with the prize banner for the best representation.

Memorial services of the Elks, held in every city In the country on the first Sunday In December, are publlo. The beauty of the Elks' ritual Is patent in this annual observance. Each year the lodge of sorrow Is held to commemorate the virtues of the dead whose names have been written upon another roll. And in life and In death Elks have this motto: The faults of our brothers we write upon the sands, Their virtues upon the tablets of love and memory. he commanded Camp Emmet Crawford in At the close of tins encampment he conducted a ninety-mile test ride for all the field officers on duty at the camp.

Upon his return from Camp Emmet Crawford he went immediately to Fort Riley, where he took command of th provisional division, 'which had been organized upon the termination of that camp, and marched It to St. Joseph, where a great military tournament was held under his command. This was the largest body of troops on so long a march In the United States since the civil war, and was up to the time, the largest military tournament ever held In the United States. In September, 1909, General Morton commanded the big military tournament at iJes Moines, which was even larger than the one held In St. Joseph the previous year.

During the Des Moines tournament President Taft visited that city and reviewed the great parade. At the conclusion of the Des Moines tournament 6.000 of the troops par-tlclpating were marched to Omaha and took part In the Ak-Sar-Ben parades. In October, 1909, General Morton again conducted the ninety-mile test ride for staff officers of the Department of the Missouri. General Morton has been one of the most popular department commanders ever serving in that capacity In Omaha. His host of Omaha friends will note his retirement with the keenest regret.

He has been especially popular with the board of governors of the Ak-Sar-Uen, and It was largely thiough his efforts that the last two( fall festivals have been so eminently successful. It Is not yet definitely known where General and Mrs. Morton will make their home for the future. There is some probability of their selecting the Vlrglna seuboard, but In any event General and Mrs. Morton will make an extended tour of Europe before settling down permanently.

Hanking la a Bottle. While tearing down a partition In a house formerly occupied by R. T. McMlllln, a miser of Chattanooga. who died two yeara ago, J.

W. Owena, a carpenter, found suspended between the walls a half-pint flaak In which the miser had placed McMlllln was an eccentric man who for yeara tarried his fortun about with him In a basket. NEW YORK, March 19-Stock In th recently formed Poetry club thus Innocently named, though charter members thentaelves do not deny corporation possibilities bid fair to rise rapidly. With the acquisition of a genuine English poet club woman who not only has seen but has participated In the activities of a similar society in London what should prevent skyward booming? Miss Beatrice Irwin, whom Ben Greet brought over to take th leading part In his revival of "Everyman," can speak with authority on how these little bits of Mount Parnaaus brought to earth should be conducted. For in addition to being an actress Miss Irwin Is also a poet and no mean one.

Judging from th London Poets' club's action In electing her an honorary member and inviting her to read verses to which It might listen. "I did th "Peacock," says the actress-poet, "a very barbaric sort of thing. The members were very kind, lilod It, and nominated me a member of the club." So It seems in London it Is not every one who may belong to a poets" club; the aspirant must make good. "It was at the annual meeting In April," goes on Miss Irwin, "last April the club Is only two years old, you know. Thcr was a big dinner first at the United Arts club the Poets' club is affiliated with th United Arts club.

1 "Some were In fancy dress, some n'ltl Almost every nationality was represented. It was really a most cosmopolitan affair. "After the dinner came th poetry and discussions. Mr. Bernard Shaw spoke on the censor for about thirty minutes very witty and amusing, of course.

Then th poets got up and spouted their poems" her very words. The atmosphere was so very cosmopolitan that the varying languages in which th poems were spouted does not seem to have been a drawback. There were those who could understand and appreciate on and all. "At the time of tho annual meeting," resumed Miss Irwin, the 'Album of Poems' comes out. It is something Ilk th 'Yellow Book'; contains special contributions ty members asked.

Which reminds me that I have not yet sent In my contribution," she continues modestly. "This big annual meeting is not, however, typical of the life of the club. It meets fortnightly, sometime at the United Arts club, but most often at the houses of the different members. "The meetings are very Informal. Original poems are read and discussed.

A most interesting feature is the reading of Impromptu poems In response to given subjects. Member So-and-So has a subject assigned to him, he retires, and reappears with the poem, which Bounds rather cold blooded to th laymen's conception ot poetlo frenzy and its workings, but perhaps it is the effect of the rartfled Parnassian atmosphere. "Th purpose of such a club Is not ele vating, of course; It could not be. That would be so painfully educational. It simply furnishes th leaven of romance and fancy which this prosaic era of ours Is so frightfully In need of.

And It serves to bring: forth th young poet and give him a chance. 'Th movement Is a good one; ther Is need of It. And most of all ther Is need of a journal for poetry, on periodical devoted exclusively to poetry, where poetry lovers might go to find what they want. America is a big field and I hop th club here will be instrumental In filling this need." "How many members don th London club have?" the visiting member was asked. "Oh, I don't know exactly," she replied.

'Two hundred or three hundred, perhaps," which, considering that only the qualified and demonstrated may belong, speaks well for the condition of the art abroad. Miss Irwin admits that much Mm has been begged off from her professional duties recently to get in readiness for April publication a volume of poems of her own. The versos are chiefly lyrical, songs of different lands, for the young woman has been once and a half around th world. But though Miss Irwin has jaunted to the ends of the world she confesses herself under the spell of New York. 'I love America, and I love New York," she says.

"I like the bigness, the big feel about It. It Is Just th place to Inspire poetry." 1 And New York if It could would take off Its hat at the tribute; It is not often accused of being poetry inspiring. TRANSITION IN STRIPED POLES Oatward Symbol of Tonsorlal Art lias Taken on Nevr Shapes. Electricity within recent yeara has been applied to the barber pole. The electric or revolving barber pole has" for a middle section a glass cylinder that la two feet or more in height by about eight Inches in diameter, this section being supported on an ornamental base or on a stout brass rod rising from the sidewalk.

The glass section of the pole Is surmounted by an ornamentul cap. Within the glass section of th pola Is another cylinder made of a thin, lightweight, tranaucent material, upon which are painted the traditional spiral stripe of red, white nnd blue, the familiar algn ot the barber. This Inner syllnder Is pivoted top and bottom and made to revolve by means of a tiny electric motor attached at the top. Current Is carried to this motor on a wire leading from an electric light fixture within the building and up out of sight inside the pole's base. Within th Inner cylinder of the electric revolving barber pole are two Incandescent electrlo lights which the pole can be illuminated at night.

The electric barber pole, without a baa support. Is also made In the form of a bracket pole which can be attached to the front of a building; and both these styles of revolving barber poles are also made to be wind driven. Instead of a motor within It, with wires connecting, the wind driven revolving pole has surmounting Its unnamerital cap a glided wind ball In form not unlike a globe shaped ventilating fan. The wind ball Is attached to th pole'a Inner striped cylinder, and when the breezes turn the ball it turns the Inner cylinder. Formerly all barber poles were jle of wood, as still great numbers are! If a wooden barber pole Is made of aound timber and set where Its base will keep dry It will last for many years, but If the pole is set where water collects at its foot It will rot there.

A few years aro ther waa produced a barber pola of latticed Iron construction. Th very latest thing In an all metal barber pole Is one that which has Its ryllndrlctl column section formed of sheet steel, with, bas ud cap of cast Iron. Nw York sun,.