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On 6 Part Second THIS ISSUE CONSISTS. OF 24 PAGES Part 2 Pages 9 to 16. THI3 PART CONTAINS IS- VOI KO. 238. CHICAGO, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17.

1889 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. WHOIiE NU3IBEB, 6,595. COXFUGRiTIOX JOJiES ABROAD Tne Disappointments Ho Met witn at tne Paris A Touching Story ot Bruised Heels A Scneme tnat uian Worlc tne Eiffel Tower Afoot Con. tldenced by a Slot TINDIR HEELS, PaJtis, Nov. 2.

Special Corretpondtnc. By the torn these aw remark are printed the Paris Exposition will no mora, tb Eiffel Towr will bar ita lower front logs covered with "To Let signs, and 1 oa taU tb truth about things witboat hurting th business of tbe abow. I bar bad it oa my conscience some time to confess all, aad lat tba thandarbolt fall wbara'ar it mar, bat I bar stayed my mouth. to speak io tbo metopher of tba melodrama, la tba tntaraat of andiminishod gat receipts and a pleasant tima generally. Bat it la no longer oar as to keep back tba fearful truth.

Tbo great fair la not what it baa been cracked np to be. Kot that I wish to bo sever in my strict me, but, although it maana wall, it ear. tainly baa iU faulta, Ton may not bsliev it bat tbo management of tne bow failed to provide erea a crab bono raos, and what, I oak, ia fair without a free-for-all on tbo laet day. File and I bar boon wandering band and hand orer tbo ground for nearly three weeka looking in Tain for a welled pumpkin department or for rutabagas with warta and tumor, on their facades, a ther ear hero. We miaeed the two- headed eaif and tba man with a pen foil of bog who kicks beeanee the cash premiame are nut paid aa aoonras awarded.

In murr other reapeeta the fa" ia anwnrtny of the name. It pain ma to admit that there waa no crazy quilt eompetiuon ancr no old laav or ninety-tare who had on exhibition a log 'cabin bedspread containing upward of twenty thousand -pieces or wnicn ah waa tne sols antnoresa. Oh. these French are way behind the times. and don't know what constitutes a truly pop- alar entertainment instead of catering to popular taste and elevating the breed of bogs simultaneously aod at ones.

they spend time shinning np the Eiffel Tower, whien they don't even know bow to pronounce correctly, calling it Toor-I-felL" la act this tower is worse tnaa the nrst baoy. it is aara to get awav from it if there ia a Frenchman within blowing distance. To confess yon bsve not been to the top of it, leaned over the rail and Stopped your tobacco quids oa bald beads a quarter of a mile below yoo. i simpiy social ostracism, Tbo person who freely admits sever having been to tbo summit is aa object of suspicion and pouce surveillance. and came to tne conclusion mat mere mast ba something la it and yesterday started oat with two light hearts, two confident ami Jc.

a onantitv of buoyant steps, and four lungs full or wma. wmca tatter was saueesea oat or as while standing in una. we were each oue link In a large human accordion, which waa pumped witb great vigor oy aa anxious contingent in the rear which took that method of expressing Ita disapproval of tbe old world slowness of tba zamato ia Uia oox-omoa, sargea oacg ana forth with a concertina tremolo movement and put in the time asking the pardon of the person in front or as in a tooe or voice wblca plainly indicated we would give dollars to punch' his bead. Talk about the rush oa aa American circus ticket wagoa! It was coy reluctance ia comparison. We had selected a day wbea we thought ww could pay our dollar and go to tbe top.

otter the exclamenoo "magnifiquer while scratching ocr ears with our shoulder blades, and come oowa like gentlemen who had done their whole duty, but it waa fated otherwise. After stand ins ia line three quarters of aa hour im Droving each golden minute by kicking stone bru.sea oa each other's heels ws reached tbe window, where a young woman takes the money and consumes much valuable time bv biting each piece to If it is genuine. I asked ber in a pleasant wav bow she liked Eiffel Tower diet, bat she vouchsafed mo no reply, being aa igno rant persoa who could not talk English well aa a 3-year-old boy in America, I was shocked, however, to find that it was only possible to bay a ticket for the first landing, and although I deserved better treatment aod my heels were already raw and i Jury on the chire of oslug deadly weapon I win consider bis scheme a suoceea We reached tbo brat landing la an elevator abonr an boor and a half after getting in Una. The first landing la a largo, promising bone, which aeema to have a great future before it Bumneea waa Rood. and tuo aiorea no tnere would do credit to Tillages of much oluar growth.

It did not eeem to ba a prombinon town, though: but this ia not strange, for ths prohibition tnorement in Paris ia nothing to boast of. There were a good mauy people in the place when we were there. In fact, the tower will accommodate 10.0OO people at once, of which nine thousand several hundred and odd were in iioe lromedi-' aiely in froot of us. Io the prenone eruh I bad been flattened ont thin enough to snuffle, aad I stopped here a while to get shaped np for another eontoet Besides. I considered it an opportune moment get a quantity of revenge which ia my dne.

M. Flies had been for some time past trifling with xue. aeU evening be- JaDO lUTtgTlgBCX. fore retiring we thrust oar sucye, ont into the bosom or the night and fiod some one else's nicely polished at our door to tbe morning I never do this witboat a feeling tnat we may do it oooe too often aod linger over them in what may be a last farewell. 1 eooke to M.

Flies about my feverish douota and prognosticated evil. I noticed the next morning be arose without being dragged over the tail-board of the bed by the bind leg. and otherwise chided for slothf uUiesa. aa ia my matitudinal custom. When I subsequently arose I found my previous haunting foars realized.

My sboea were not blocking tne ball-way, and Mr. Flies was nowhere to be seen. That forenoon I paced tbe floor ia my stocking feet lite a caged boness. It did no good. I found, to raise thunder au English with nothing bnt a Kronen audience to work on.

Besides M. Flies given it oat that I was having one of my spells, and people who were careful of tn ir health were recommended to keep away en til I ahoold quiet down and become docile once more. This is riies idea or amor, nave neeo Bleeping in my shoes and meditating revenge ever since. Witlathe latter end in view I had a letter prepared in French, aa nglish tranale-tian of which ia as followst Dear Jones I can not stand tbe pressure say longer, and wbea you ret this I will be no more. I sin bred of life.

I lump from tbe top of the tower, if I ever live to see the top. ttcraps sue off the jagged corners of the same, and bury me without flowers. Bnirards to the folk at home. Forgive me for what I am about to do. bat life bo longer has any charms, lours, Mrs, I simulated intense ezcitemect.

rushed up to a man ia uniform, and thrust the letter in his hand. Ue immediately woke up and talked to me with great volubility. Itseeme that although tiie tower isn't good for much else, the management has a roca-rooted prajodice againat its being naed aa a mere playthiug for suicides. As 1 foresaw the official was profoundly moved. I then, plainly ss I supposed, pointed ont Files, who was leaning against a piliar looking gentle as a lamb aod thinking of Wisconsin, wiiere he bails from, in a pensive way.

aad wishing himaolf there. I failed to notice that there waa a pale and distraught yoang Englishman right beyond him, who was laboring under the excitement incident to the discovery that the national pork pie which he was carrying in hi a eiotnee had bunt In the crowd and Its works were frescoing h.s pockets and also sticking through. Tne mistake waa bnt natural, bnt I did not folly realize ita import until lie waa aiesed by three poiicemea and dragged to an elevator, all the time protesting bis innoceoce. threatening to write to the Iioodou Tana about tbe outrage, and effervescing at the month generally. Flios escaped on this occasion, bnt a oay of doom will ooma.

f- aatcw.c V. bleeding. I would be obliged to repeat the Xiffel I thb blot VACHms, Tower lock-step twice more if I expected to I I I will pass over another hour and three-qnir-reach tba summit Tbis can not be considered I tern' standing in line to ret to the box-oflioe for Other than aa outrage by any gsnUemaa whose I tickets to the second blading. But we got our TOTifT Tension witn him. and he fortified the pro-tnbeant points -of bis soatomv with small but sinister thumb-tacks with the offensive and out His sudden unpopularity wita the French pwalaee became marked, it fee escapes being ui dieted by ths Paris grand tickets, and.

not earing to wait for the elevator. started to walk to the next stopping point It is not ay cheaper to walk, but it gives a man, be fore ne gets in, a deep sense or ma general ehumpinees. which is good, for tba soaL Oa tue way up we ran acrosa IL Eiffel, who tinkering np bia promisee. we bad been very anxious to meet him that ws might submit a scheme for utilizing tbe struct- are this winter aod making something out of it Flies conceived the idea of converting it into a toboczan slide, and believed himself wed fitted for baainese manager of the earns, Ws presented the idea aa elegantly as possible con sidering onr general exhaustion and ahortm of wind, and at. Eiffel promised to think over tbe matter and write ns Jus daemon, have not yet heard from him.

It was at the second stage, after being three Hours aod a ban tnat ws diaoovered we wero hungry. Host people make this discovery before they get down and tbe next painful shock comes wbea it is learned that the price of board harmonizes with tne altitude. A piece of plebeao. battle- Boarred me. which at the base costs Are cents.

whsn offered for sale at tbe first platform finds eager takers at fifteen, Tbe earns pie on the second landing becomes a luxury at a quarter a Dioco. ana toe Diecos are eat aown to oue nair tue regulation sice, it may only be careworn prune pie. which had been carried to Koecow wita Xapoleon and brought back br mil vaae, naa pasaea also tnrougu the aiege and the commune unscathed and with its escutcheon untarnished it may be pie which would wear a man's gizzard to the bone, yet it would make no difftreoce. If it once reaches tbe summit it is Lnculliao dish. neeis wera raised as peta.

1 am sensitive about princes and American millionaires. We aaw too social Btanaing or the oeonla wha wsla- an 1 baw thin" war croinr and hourhi nijta of i 7 Tnlfr mixed garlio-eating cake on the second platform, of which I saved a crowd Indulging in promiaonona rapine on my piece, and am passing it off aa a chunk of tba beele baa saddsned a once bright spirit The ironwork of the tower with immense success, next time 1 stand in line I aha 11 wear those long, I then est down and wrote horns for a quick and bristling, fretful cavalry spurs. M. Flies Doing lanre remittance. an artist, had a lot of the implements of bis pro- There is no nso dwelling on tbe way we pasned the two nours stanain- in line trviog to trade our last two francs for a ride to the top.

We got there, of course, although it seemed that there was an unusually large number of people interested la balking us. The final ride was taken la a big-wiudvwed aisyator coalaia- lug about fifty victims. As it slowly moved Upward the whole fifty looked out and said In chorus, "Ahl" I was the only oue who had the presence of mind to complete the eentimoot by ejaculating. "There!" We found a good many of the people at- the eummit whom we had made life-long enemies oa the way np. but this did not mar the happioeee of tba occasion.

There are about thirty slot mscmoeo np there, and what yon can not get by deposit-tns ten eent.mee la the viscera of the baecuie ia not worth yearning for. I don't remember tnnob about ue prospect or tne view, because Files and 1 bad to try the machines. They are tne chief attraction of tba summit. We labored under soma disadvantage, not understanding tue language, aod SL Flioa put a coin in a we.gliiua macbiae and waited saroe-ouertera ot an hour for it to give np a lump of chocolate, lie gave up, very angry at what be believed waa a mean, low-down confidence game. Beside working the slot machine, peo ple occupied tnemeeivee la buying poets! cards and writing small secunus ot deviling idiocy to loug-sufforintf friends at home.

Throe thousand people bnv cards every day and commence: uI.tr Jack I write this from the top or the Eiffel Tower." Get stack for something else to say. and after a long spell of meditation wind up with. Mow are Ibe folks are I have seen thousands sitting down trying to persoad tlieir neighbors to apell "altitude" for them. I don't know wny people should go a quarter of a mile np into the awaoaonere to work slot ma culosa and write postal cards, bat they do pay a dollar eaen lor tue privilege. old oa tbe advance.

Xotal sales, 61. TM bags. m. LOKwvjLQKxnov Jo: BOARD OF TEaDE GOSSlf. Tbo War Bear aad CoOTew Trade Cottoei ad Stocks Lotwl Markwta.

Yesterday's closing prices for the leading op tions were ss follows: atoeember whemC OTHe: Iecanib eora. December oats. SoHo: November pork. JU: January lard, si-at: January snort ribs. S4.T7 Aa compared wlin Friday's dosing price, wheat declined Ho; corn advanced fce: oats advanced te pork da- eunaa i laxu aua no ascunea Hutchinson bought wheat oa tbe decline and December wheat closed on tbo eurb yester day veniug at 62 cents, seller's prion.

It is reported that farmer are borrowing money to carry their erope oatu prioee axe higher. Henry dew, said: Tha backbone of tight money ia broken and it la going to gradually grow easier. Trading ia provisions waa fair. Armour and Hutch in son sold pork Bald win-Faro am and tba Angio-Amorioaa Company were bayera. Stocks ia New York were fairly active and higher, except Cotton Oil, which deolibsd 7a.

ba rallied point. Total aales war 133,239 abarea. Cabn Co. wired from New York with coffee quotations the folio ring: "Coffee firm and active. Bevolution in Bio is only polltioal, and does not delay November Iiecember Jauuary.

kt arch Opening. Highest. Zjoweit. Closing. I5.M ...14.

as .14.60 lS.ti 14 TO 14.7 JAM MM Is. 14 lAse lf.ca 14. so Williams, Black A Co. wired from New York, quoting the oottoo market as Opeelng. Highest Lowest Closing.

latsj lo.il lu.oi ia.10 lecenbor lcuoe 1U.10 lu.i 10.07 li.o iaT lo.oT February 10.18 KUs lu.lt 10.1s atarkst dosed steady. Total aales. 44. 100 bales. W.

a XeCormick A Co. said: "The weak features of the stock market tbis morning were Cotton Seed Oil and Hissoori Paoifia, bnt the gr rngers wers generally strong. Bock Island advancing sharply to 100 Tba trading in it was very largo, and it was reported that the di rector, ware again large buyers. Ml Paul de clined a point from the high price touched oa tbe day previous, but on tbe drop waa bought heavily for London account The bank state ment showed aa important gaia ia the reserve. which operated to causa a closing rally.

The sentiment of the street is inclined to be bail. lsa, sud if tbe money market holds fairly easy somewhat higher prioee may ba expected," Local speculators ia coffee were excited over tbe Brazilian war news, and the pri rate-wire houses that keep tab oa New York market bad many inquirios to answer. A number of buying orders were filled for Chicago parties, but as New York took the revolution very quietly Chicago followed sait, and resolved to await developments. While it was thought sarly that perhaps the entire story was a canard invented to help tbe New York market manipulators, the very lifeless oess of that market in the face of such important news was proof to the contrary. Had a cliqos wished to scar the shvrts it undoubtedly could bav done so.

That fluctuations were not extremely great, and tba advance not such as the gravity of tbe situation seemed to call for, was taken aa proof that no one was interested ia working the market Those coffee fellows lack, saad." said a grain speculator. "Imagine, such a chanoe for fin work on the board! What would ws mak of it? Say rather, what wouldn't we make of it" PERISHED IN THB SHOW. Cwtorado aad New Mexico KueksMS vT Mavw Aost Ttoolr Livm. DKnrxB, CoL, Not. After aa almost aa precedes ted etruggle with aoow and wind for two weeks the Denver aad Fort Worth Boad la once more open, The company succeeded ia releasing the imprisoned travelers and freight the first of th only to bar the line dosed again in afsw Lours, It is now believed that the backbone of th torribl storm is broken and that traffio will bo uninterrupted.

Stories from tbe bi lzxard-stri ken section eon. tiuoe to arrtve. lu th Mors Valley. New Mexico, th enow has been from three to four feel aeep, Tbia section is thinly settled, but the Mexican I ami lies tne re ars to a desutut condition, and owing to tn heavy snow are un able to mora a ranenmaa liviug near Uoroaa bprings, CoL, left three young children in bis cabin ons day last week, and atarted with an other man for town after food. They have not been seen since, mea rxom las Vegas have been missing several days, sad they hava doubtless penahed.

It is thought that when the snow melts ago the remains of nearly loo yioums will be exposed. riTTSBURff CONSPIRATORS. Thro Aldermen and tbo Bandar ftataet Ives Coavtetod of fe'rawd. PrrrsBCsQ, Nor. 10.

Alderman CaUsa, Dougherty, and llaneese aad ths member, of tbe Bander Detective Agency were convicted ia tbe County Court to-day of conspiracy to defraud in settling cases illegally. It was proved that members of the "gang" would institute two suits strains! their victims one for a criminal aod the other a civil information for selling liquor without license. On payment of the $50 penalty, which went to them, in the civil case, they would not appear as witnesses in ths criminal charge. Ths victims would be Ia this manner it was hoped the fact of ths civil C'Bos would never be beard of bv ths proper authorities, sud th aldermen Bud gang pocketed tbe proceeds. Th highest penalty would be nine years' imprisonment in ths penitentiary and $3,000 fin, Th aldsrmsa are all well-to-do.

riLLIXe IX II 5 g. Fremont Xeicti Ons by on th great "cities of th West are falling 4in lins and indorsing Chicago for the world's fa la 1S3X Cm mystsrioas key be eond? FOUB STEEL (DRUISEKS. Tne United States Squadron ot Evolution Ordered to Euro-' pean Waters. Description of tne Chicago, Bos-ton, Atlanta, and Yorktown-Olticers and Crews. Tne Host Powerful American Fleet Ever Sent to European Waters.

CAR YIN OLD OtORY ABROAD. WazxraoTOX, Mot. IS. The squadron of ero- Wtioo, Acting Bear Admiral John Q. 'Walker, commanaing, lie ia readlneea to Hear Xew York Moo- day next All thU week baa been occupied la tbe final inspection Bear Admiral Jooett and bis board.

5 Secretary Tracy will aes tbe squadron off from tba decks of tba Dolphin, which will ooawoooBS Waxxza. ocompany the Ou- can naval maneuver, oh a modern basis will eommeooa. On the com plotion of the ma- neavera the squadron of evolution will bo broken up, or else sent back intact to Europe. This, at least, aeema to be the general plan oappeaoutaaesAi. Uy tbe time the squadron of evolution returns the two new gunboats, Conoord and Benoing-ton, should ba in commission; so should the Baltimore, the Philadelphia, the Vesuvius, possibly tba Newark, and the new torpedo boat No.

1. The Petrel, nnleee ordered awsy. will be available, aa will tbe Dolphin, which Utter vessel will now remain oa the home station for a tour of duty. Tbe Charleston and baa Francisco on tne Paeifle coast should also ba in oom-miaaioo. bat both vessels will unquestionably remain for tbe present oa tbe other aide of the continent A description of the cruiser, and tba personnel of the squadron is aa The Chicago ia a protected steel frigate, built by John Boaob.

at Chester, of 4.0OO tona-dispiaoeroent. 334 feet long. 48 feet extreme beau, aod 19 feet mean draught of water. Tbe motive power is famished by two compound overhead beam engines of indicated norma powerr the average speed attained daring the last trial was 15 3-lt knots, and the xi-mum speed for any one hour about 16 2-10 knots. The Chicago can a team for twenty days at IO knots and make about S.O00 miles, the capacity of tbe coal bunkers being about 840 tone.

Of bark rig, she osa spread 14.880 square feet of sail to economise coal, or for ordinary cruising purposes. The ventilation, drainage aad sanitary systems are very complete; and the many water-tight com part ensu ts are connected witu powerful at earn and band pumps. The ahip internally ia illuminated by Ediaon'a electric aystem, which extend, ta ail departments, and powerful search lights and deck, side and maat- 1 Carpenter M. Griffiths, Pay Clerk F. IL Kamsay.

The 8-indi guos are mounted ia naif turrets oa the spar deck, twenty-four aod one-balf feet above water. Toe forward guos train from 3 degrees across tba bow to 60 degrees abaft tbe beam, and tbe after guns from 3 degrees acrosa the a tern to OO dogreee forward the beam. Uix tf-wch gana are mounted ia broadside ports on tbe gun deck, with a train of 12U degrees. A U-incb gun is mounted oa either bsw and two 5-inch guos are oa the gun deck aft The secondary battery consist of six revolving cannon for nse in firing at torpedo boats. Tbe Admiral's flagship is what ia technically known aa a coal protected steel frigala.

clho is not aa armored vessel, having only a PKOTXCTIVS DSCK OF STKaX an inch an a half tuLik over her machinery and steering gear, and bar outsids plating is a scant five-eighths of an inch in thickness, but ber coal is so arranged that it constitutes a very good belt of armor. Cruisers of tliia class are not intended to fight the big ironclads carrying lOO-toa guns. They are commerce destroyers, and in ease of war with a power like Great Britain, having an immense carrying trade, the way they would capture merchant vessels would be a cannon. Tbe Atlanta and Boston, twin ships, built at Boaoh'a ship-yard. Cheater, are aingle-decked eteel cruisers, with a centrai-bouse or superstructure am Ida hips, leaving trie two ends of the ahip clear for forward aod stern firing.

The engines are of the compound horizontal back-acting type, aggregating 3.5O0 horse power, developing a speed of fifteen knots, and capable of steaming about 3,400 miles in fourteen days at ten knots. Length. 283 feet; beam. 42 feet: mean drauirht 17 feet; displacement. 3,189 toos, and spread of sail 10,400 square feet The balls are divided into numerous Naval authorities agree that if they had tbe Boston to build over again they would not put the 8-incb guns so close to the water aa in caso of a heavy aea there ia soma doubt as to whether those guns can be worked.

In smooth water, however, the gune of tba Boston would bo as effective as those of the Chicago. Hull tue re ars several vessels ia European navies not Bp to her standard. The Atlanta is officered as follows: Captain John A Howell, commanding. Lieutenant Commander A Cooden, Executive Officer. Lieutenants N.

E. Niles (navigator), (A A Calhoun, and G. H. Peters. Lieutenant (Junior Grade) S.

Knapp, Ensigns A L. Key and J. BL Pover. Nsval Cadets J. U.

Keid. a B. Bradshaw, O. W. Danfortn.

I B. de Steigner. W. K. Harrison, a Lucas, W.

V. Pratt, aad W. Ter-buna, SUSGEOW JC. a Passed Assist Dt gargaoo JL Diokaoa, Paymaster E. Putnam.

Chief Engineer W. H. Harris. Passed Assistant Engineer W. P.

Werthias- toa. Assistant Engineer A VeADister. Captain of Marines 9amuel Maroac. Gunner Frank C. Uaeaenses, Carpenter E.

W. Craig. Pay Clerk it. A Chester, The Boston as follows: Captain James CKane, commanding. Lieotenent Commander UarryKaex, sxaoo-tive officer.

Lieatenants Walnwright Xallogg (navintcwt and Hamilton Hatch ins Lieutenaata (iunior grade WW. S. Snah' uJ Edward Lloyd. l. Hissslsr, JL, A.

Eyre, and W. Edar. Naval Cadets A Brand, B. V. Hslahia- eago, Boston, Atlanta, and! Yorktewa down the Uy I VI The four new United (States steel cruisers.

ita Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, and Yorktown, constituting the evolution." or dered to European watsf will be the moat powerful fleet of warshipeiovor mobilized under the American flag, and tea European station, which has for so long bees accustomed to ths sight of American mod era sraft, will now bar assigned to it tbe cream of tba United Btates Navy. Bear Admiral i John a Walker commands, with Captain 11 B. Bobe- Cbief of buff. and Lieutenant Eta un ton. First Lieutenant Unless something unforeseen occurs tbe fleet of cruisers will sail ia company, and for th first year abroad will remain as Intact aa xJ-eaeiss ill permit If th, floet remain abroad three years during th second aad third years It is thought that several vessels will gives dif ferent duties; that ons eraiaar will detailed to eraise several months ia ths Baltic; that another on will have assigned to her the Levant and Grecian Archipelago, while tba third will either keep in company with the flagship or be sent down tne weet coaai ot arrica aa lar aa et Panl de Lo ndo.

a general rule the flagship on the European atatioa winters about Nice aad Ytllefrsucb, and daring the rest of th year eraisee between tbe Btraita of Gibraltar and tba Dardanelles, it baa not been customary to do much raising in Irish and beoteb waters, and now that th Enterprise has Just completed a tour of this part of tbe European atatioa it ia not thought likely that Admiral Walker will pay the same a visit THB gUmOPgiW BTATTOX com prises all the waters ef Europe, extending from tt Petersburg, th Baltic, North boa, Encliah Channel, tbe Atlantic bordering Fraaoa. hp un, and Portugal, the Mediterranean aad the Black Sea. th wast coast of Africa, as far south aa St Panl de Loando, tao Snea. aod the eaat coast of Africa, as far soata from Adea as Mad agascar. Alter tne nrst year innno wita ins see, it will be the aim of Admiral Walker to apoortioa bis different vessels over as much of th above-named waters ss is possible, bnt ia order to effioientlv patrol the same there will necessarily be a demand for continued cruising.

But is is only in continual cruising that tbe steel cruisers can hope to keep th rust from forming on their bottoms; and one let there be mnoh of a deposit the expense for continuous docking, to say nothing of tue injury done to the life of the ahip, will far exceed the coal bills lor cruising. The squadron will comprise ia sll abo-t officers, seamen, aod marines. As far as possibls our native Americans ars being taken oa tbe cruisers, and it Is estimated that the native element will average as high as 75 per THE CHICAGO THg FLAG SBTP. i i vn head lights complete tbe lighting arrangement The armament consists of main battery of fenr eignt-ineh breech-loading rifles in hi If turrets on tbpar -dock, and eight aix-inch aod two five-inch guns on ths gna deck, and tuo secondary battery consists of six revolving cannon, and Getting guns on rail mou-ta. Ths Chicago is a vessel of distinctly an Americaa type, aad is not in any sense a copy of soy foreign She carries the heaviest armament, ia proportion to her tonnage, of anv cruiser afloat, and ia Very favorably spoken ot by ofOosrs of foreign nations who have visited hsr.

TMM CBJCAOOta omcniD as follows: Captain B. Bobeson, commanding. Lieutenant Commander M. Macksnzie. Executive Officer.

Lieutenants R. P. Bodgers (navigator). K. Bohrer, J.

A Bv Nickels, Jobs Hubbard, W. water-tight compartments throughout the length of tbe machinery specs an inner bottom extends. divided into twelve water-tight compartments, and powerful steam aod. hand-pumps connect with th bilges. Electric lizhts illuminate the interior of the ships, and both vessels bar powerful search lights, Th macuaaexy.

magazine, and ahelt-room spaces are protected by a-atsel deck above, aud aa upper and lower tier of bankers of eight feet thickness of coal, wbea the bookers are filled protect tbe engine and boiler spaces on th broadsides. Tbe maia battery consists of two eight-inch and six six-inch high -powdered breech-loading rifles ths eight-inch being mounted hi barbettes, oa tba forward and after enda. just out-aide tbe ouperstraetare, while th six-inch rifle are mounted two oa each broadside and one io the starboard forward angle and on ia the port after angle, on tbe battery deck, inaid Schuetze, and A Knight Ensigns A P. Ni black. O.

Evans. O. 9. Hawk, and E. T.

Witherwoooo. Naval Cadets H. K. Beaham. B.

P. Hobson, A B. Hoff, tt E. Eittella, kt Nulton, N. Offley.

G. H. Bock, aad W. Twining. Medical Inspector T.

Walioa, Passed Assistant Sarguon J. Byrnstv Assistant Surgeon A D. MoCormiok. TJ. B.

B. BOSTON THM ATLANTA SAaTS PATTERN, ths supers trnoture, THB nOHTWO CRZWS of the large guus are protected by steel shield, extending over the -guns. Tne secondary battery consists of two Bix-ponndsr rapid-fire Hotchkias guns, mounted ia broad sids ports, and revolviug cannon tn towers at each corner of the superstructure, sad two Galling guns on rail mounts, cent This will far exoeed any fleet or single ship showing since the days of the rebellion. According to the programme mapped out for next year the squadron of volution will return borne from Europe sod be joiued on tbe coast by all the available old and new ahip, that can be com missioned. a division of the combined fleets will take place, and the first Amcr- U.

8. GUNBOAT YORKTOWN. Pavniaeter N'. Wnitebouse, Chief Engineer Edward Farmer. Passed Assistant Engineers Leitch sad y.

IL Bailoy. AssistanswEDgmeer Q. Salisbury. Chaplain A A McAlister. Captain of Marines G.

Laid, Qunasr feha Vi estfaik In the language of th, naval constructors, tb Boston ie a central superstructure, single deok steel cruiser. Over half of ber length amidships is something which looks very much like a big steel cigar box. This box arrangement covers the broadside guna and also ths captain's cabin and quarters for the men, bhe has two masts, wita a spread of 10,400 feet of canvas. son. a W.

Kirk. a Long. Lowndes, a Q. Mitchell, and B. a Neuman, Surseon W.

Dixon. Passed Assistant Sarveoa CL P. Lumaden, Paymaster H. T. B.

Harris. Chief Engineer Henry XA McEwan, Passed Assistant Engineer A F. DtXOBV Assistant E9ginser BL bam peon- First Lieutenant of Marines L. J. Galiok.

Gunner J. Erana Carpentor Johx W. Burnhant Pay Clerk G. W. Tan Brunt The Yorktown.

tmilt by William Cramp Sons, Philadelphia. Pa, is aa uaarmored steel gunboat of 1.703 tone displacement, 229 feet in length. 3(1 feet beam, and 14 feet mean draught of water. Two engines of th triple expansion type. in separate wator-tight som-pirtmenta.

aggreeating 2,200 horse power with nominal and 3.300 with forced draught form the motive power; and ths average apeed at- taioed was sixteen and seven-tenths kaota, Thb bunkers, Bourjro 400 roica OF COAX are eonstrneted so aa to afford protection to tba boilers and machinery against Hostile shot There is also a curved protective eteel deek, wita its top at the water line. The ship could tram 69 days at 10 knots, 20 davs at 12 knots. U2 day at 8 knots, and. to assist motiTs power, she spread, 0.332 square feat of sail, being rigged as a three-masted schooner. Buit with many water-tight compartments, there is excellent ventilation, and the two electric search lights ars of 25.000 candle power.

The main battery consists of six six-inch breech-loading rifles, two being mounted forward, two art, and two amidship, th fighting crew of the guns being protected by stent shields three inches thick. Ths secondary battery consists of eight rapid-firing machine guna, and there is an outfit of eight torpedo tubes. In action a steel tower pro tec ta tb commanding Officer and helmsman. Tbe Yorktown is officered as follows! Commander F. Chad wick, commanding.

1 Lieutenant H. G. O. Colby, executive officer. Lieutenants, CL A Bradbury (navigator) and a Col well.

Lieuteoanta (junior grade), F. W. Fullam, A Ca, Wmterhalter. and IL timitb. Ensigns, R.

Stocker and Jt. M. BuasslL fcurgeon, John Bord, Paymaster, W. Littlefield. Chief Engineer, Andrade.

Passed Assistant Engineer, A B. Willi ta. Assistant Eogitieer. George Burd, Pay Clerk, W. Bay Patterson, Tbo I5DICTME3T OF CgAHBERS.

Slayer of T-awrywr Boirmia Hold Murder la tbo Ftret Uacrew. for bx, Louis, Nov. Special TtUgram. It has been an open secret that th grand jury of St Louis County has been considering lb ease of B. M.

Chambers, who shot and killed Lawyer Frank J. Bo wma u. To day an indict, men for murder in the first degre was returned. Catarrh originate, la scrofulous taint in th blood. Hood', SarsaparUla eradicate, every 1m.

purity from ths blood, snd thus promptly end. psrmansnUy sore, catarrh, tjiive it a trial..