Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 7, 1890, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba daily free press Winnipeg not. 7. Riding on millions. It used to be the fashion and is now a current fad. Hyde Park London has for some time witnessed Pillion i think and Ward Mcallister has tried it in Central Park. How soon will it become general copyright by american press association. As we approach the end of the Century we revert in fashionable things to the styles of one Hundred years ago. To be sure we Call these fashions by another but they Are none the less re Pill Oij biding in the Good old dats. Rivals of Trigone ways. In London the exquisite is trying As fast As he dare to put on again the Graceful shoe buckle. He tears on his feet a pair of Brilliant Patent pumps which Are tied with a Black ribbon in a Broad Bow and he arranges his Trou Sers with a View to display this introduction of the Silver buckle. And outdoor exercise the same spirit of revival prevails in England and the Eastern coast of these United Stales. One form of this and perhaps the most romantic form is the incipient craze for Pillion already in Hyde Park mounted couples Are to be seen going up and Down Rotten Row at a gentle Canter the gentleman trying to do two different clings at his cob in the crowded Ca Ricole and fascinate the gentle creature behind him. She seated As easily and gracefully As if she were in a rocking chair or a Plush lined Victoria displays to the fall the elegance of her costume and both seem to enjoy the attention they naturally attract. In fact the Pillion has put the tricycle out of joint so to speak and the ladies who once awoke envy by their Graceful management of the wheels Are forced to frequent by paths. Pillion Riding cannot be said to be a estimated yet in new York s Central Park but you will not have to wait Long. Already in the country clubs the guests ride and what meets with favor out of town is sure to be taken up in Lille. But what is a Pillion somebody asks. It is a thick firm Well stuffed wide and level Cushion extending quite across the Broad est part of the horse with two deep flaps the Pillion of today. One on either Side. It is covered on outside with Fine drab Kersey Mere to save the lady s dress and this cover is generally quilted or embroidered and bound with ornamental braid. At the Back of the Pill Ion is a Strong leather handle which can be put up or Down working with a hinge. There is besides a comfortable Footstool or Long narrow Stirrup suspended by leather straps in suck a fashion As to afford support even should the lady wish to Rise to adjust her dress or the seat. It will be seen that the lady has a firm support for her feet and a rest like the Arm of a chair but in addition to these Safe guards there is another on which she Maer May not leather Girdle worn around the Waist of her companion in front which she May clutch at times of danger or when the horse is changing his gait. Partick Lurly at the latter moment the Pillion loses a portion of its vaunted Comfort and if there be no leather Girdle to cling to what is left but the Waist of her escort it is As Well before adopting the Pillion definitely to consider All its unfavourably As Well As those which recommend themselves. It sounds heretical but the real defect of the Pillion in the indispensability of a Man. In this joint partnership a Man must ride first unless a woman Friend will consent to ride astride and what horse would stand two sets of drawings and in tha present age woman has gone pretty far to Ward declaring that Man is absolutely necessary on but few occasions. Graceful and comfortable As the Pillion is it belongs to an age when women were demure slope shouldered and clinging. It is a question then at the very Start if the new fad can be of Long duration for our girls Are ath Letic Broad shouldered and Independent. There May be some shrinking maid afraid to ride alone who will be delighted to ride toe noise objects Lor Miles in the Parks and country under the Safe and close Protection of the Man she likes Best in the world and with every Opportunity to breathe her affection Down his but the greatest Aid to the Pill Ion will not be the style of the girl but the style of the horse. Everybody knows that cobs Are now in Square backed animals capable of carrying two or even More for Long distances without much fatigue. One girl or even one Man on these Large wide backed creatures looks rather isolated and forlorn and is this age is without argument utilitarian the statement advanced above is proved. High bred narrow shaped horses will be relegated while the fad endures to tha race track the arabian Courser to poetry and animals like those in Rosa Bonheur s horse with Broad backs the flatter toward the Tail the have everything their own Way in Central Park. And now As to the Pace required to in Comfort and safety. It has already been stated that the pleasure of the Pillion is dependent on first of which is the Pace of the animal the pair ride upon. He Mast not go with a Long launching gait or the poor woman would Roll like a boat in a rough sea. A quiet regular jog Trot never lifting the feet High above the ground. Is the gait the horse must Fravel. the next de Gree in swiftness to a walk a Pace into which horses naturally fall and which when their spirits Are not too High they elem to prefer to any other. Provided these conditions we preserved also that the horse is Strong enough for the weight of two persons both animal and rider can travel in this jog Trot Way for an immense distance without actually offering from fatigue. Pushed beyond this Pace spurred Inu a brisk Trot or worse into a Gallop both horse and riders present a spectacle As grotesque As Tom and Bis Gray Mare Meg with the witches behind them. The woman on the Pillion Baa no Power whatever to accommodate herself to such extraordinary Circum stances. Off Falls her hat. Down streams her hair. She screams and clasps her escort around the neck and both no doubt end by heartily wishing the Pil Ion Rele gated to the oblivion of the rest of the an Tique trappings of the last Century. How to mount the Pillion there must be an upping Yon will see these still standing at the Gates of some of the churches and in front of some doors in the old towns of new York and Massachusetts. But if you have 110 upping Stone a chair or Stepladder will serve the Pur pose although it is hardly orthodox. A sight that Muy be termed picturesque and which turned the imaginations of the Park they have to 1800, might have been witnessed As Early us 6 o clock one Fine october morning. There were three actors in this pretty drama one furtive and yet Jaunty look ing Man under any circumstances in truth or. Ward Mcallister who found society the second a very pretty Young lady perhaps a relative who thoroughly enjoyed the situation and the last a horse big enough almost to be of the Percheron Breed who took part against his will. Time As sail. 6 in the morning place the drinking Fountain in Central Park just Back of the general Grant Bridge. Prom the Edge of this Fountain the Young lady climbed to her place while or. Mcallister buckled even tighter Bis Belt. No sooner was she in place and smoothing Down her plumage than the horse began to plunge and kick. A policeman ran to assist but the horseman waved him off and sawed on the reins while he cautioned his partner to hold tight to the handles. She obeyed and after a few circles around the fount Ain the animal quieted Down and the couple Rode northward out of sight. This was the rehearsal conducted As secretly As possible. When will the Public representation occur Francis Livingston. In memory of Polumbus. Detrion for a Monument to be erected at Chicago. Monuments to the great discoverer Are now in order. A Tablet on a Little old Stone House in Valladolid Spain reads Here died his Birthplace Genoa honors him with a bust and a collection of autograph letters displayed in the Hall of the town Council. A Spanish sculptor Sunal has designed a splendid statue to be set up in Central Park new York. The Chicago world s fair committee will con Idder a project to establish a permanent memorial in Honor of the great Celebration of 1883. A sketch has already been prepared by artist Julins Gelert and the Chicago Herald says of the proposal it is hoped that the directors will deem it necessary to recognize in Home such Way the object of the great exposition and so Honor the memory of the discoverer. We owe a Monument to this Man who opened a continent to us who worked and prayed and battled with terrible dangers that he might a Columbus mos Brest. Achieve stupendous the design of or. Gelert is for a Monument seventy five feet in height. The base is to be of Granite and sustain four groups and a statue. The groups Are to consist of Fig ures twelve feet High and the statue of the discoverer is to be Twenty one feet High. The figure of Columbus will Wear a Loose Blouse and a Spanish cloak blown from the form by the wind and he will be rep resented As standing on the deck of a ves Sel whose prow and Stern will be Hen from the Granite base of the Structure. The feet of the navigator will stand apart As though the figure supported by them were swaying with the ship s motion and the attitude of the figure will Sug Gest the daring voyager in action Glass in hand watching and expecting develop merits ahead. The groups at the Corners of the base arc to represent peace and brotherhood the latter symbolized by the White and Black races clasping hands enlightenment the education of the masses science with the Muse Urania bearing up the starry Hemi sphere for astronomy and geography to study and the Fine arts with Apollo and his Lyre and sculpture and painting on either hand. An overtaxed american. Mrs. Suppose you Are de lighted to get Back to the United states mrs. Yes it s a great re Lief to talk to nobodies after conversing with the crowned Heads of Europe so Long. Weekly. Two of a kind. He slightly called because i thought you were out. She do you know 1 thought i was out too. The maid must have thought you were some one Harper s Bazar. Committed u Misdemeanour a Matrimony. Notice that Man Over Ner Vous he appears constantly looking around to see if anybody is watching him. I la bet he s a yes or a Monsey s weekly. To has arrived. I read in a scent inc article today that the coming Man will have neither Teeth nor then the coming Man is Here. That de scribes my baby York Sun. The Indiana. Officials of the Indian Bureau missionaries and others Surprise us with the state ment that the rapid extinction of the to often mentioned is a myth. At any rate several tribes of indians have actually increased in the last ten or Twenty years. Though their former decrease May have been As i amt As alleged the tide has turned at any rate it is stationary. The number of indians in the United states has remained remarkably constant for Sev eral years in the neighbourhood of perhaps to May yet have a real aboriginal state in the True Oklahoma. Young lovers after having a dime split in half each take a portion and get their jew Eler to mount it in any Peculiar manner that appeals to their fancy. Many curious Scarf pins and Bracelet bangles Are the re enslaving the Ocean. Making High sees subservient to Man s service Model flan to make Tidewater t Rodunce motive of Power now a Tamatea to be i so Fol for hit work. Mate the Ocean lids service Noble to Man the idea seems so preposterously colossal that Many at first Glanca will be inclined to ridicule it still More erratic plans of tors have succeeded Erb this and c. M. Bart Lett of Chicago thinks he has in accomplishing tha task. Briefly stated or. Harriett s Idaa is upon the Law of gravitation Incontro veritable fact that fal of a body produces Force. Hence to has come to the conclusion that the Power of the can lit mails useful. This into to accomplished by a compound system of reservoirs to he in Ocean Bays and inlets More or less co if Ned by promontories of land. The Par tidal operation of this plan inc Judas to us it Turbine water wheel stripped of All its a Linary attachments Anil nearly turned in Side out. Such a plan. Or. Bartlett claims is practicable and so simple in its construction that Ordinary intelligence can readily comprehend it while on the other hand in attracts the attention of to Hydraulic Engin Eer on account Jpn its ingenuity. Or. Bartlett claims that there Are along the coast Between Boston and new Yorac a Largo number of that contain Ali the Way from a thousand to ten thousand horse Power Force it the latter were developed by his sys tem of compound Remer voids that that Section of the country can be run by the invention and that the returns from the capital required for practical operation will double yearly. In Brief or. Bartlett i plan is As follows a dam two feet above High water Mark is first constructed across a tidal Inlet Between two land promontories in rach a Way As to enclose As Large an area of water As possible within the predetermined Cost of construction. This space is then divided by a parti Tion dam or crib work into two reservoirs of nearly like capacity As possible on account of the Topography. In each of these two reservoirs in the Rig it Angle Junction of main and partition dam a Small Reservoir is then constructed As indicated in the. Dia Gram. The Small Reservoir is designed to increase tha capacity of toe Large one adjacent to it by 35 per cent. It is used Only at High water supplies the machinery directly from the Ocean and reserves the water m the main Reservoir until the tid9 has Low ered to the standing head of water upon which the basis of Power has originally been figured. At this time the Gates Between the Ocean and the Small Reservoir Are closed and the Gates Between the latter and the Large Reservoir Are opened at Low water. The out line Cut beneath the diagram shows this sys tem reversed. The explanation of the diagram is a Marks the Ocean a the sat of reservoirs which Are kept As full As possible a too reservoirs kept As empty As possible known in engineering As Tail d Marks the float a the Siphon pipe of the inverted tur Bine wheel a the care a the crib work. For such an arrangement or. Bartlett claims a combination of reservoirs insuring a constant fall of water in one direction. A combined float and Siphon adjusting it self automatically to the Rise and fall of water utilizing every Inch of head and with the use of stationary Gates and turbines. The automatic Al balancing of the Turbin by placing it in an inverted position in the upward flow of the Siphon thus opposing the Force of the Stream to the Gravity of the wheel and Shaft and avoiding a percentage of the friction and Wear that constitutes the Beta noir of Hydraulic engineering in placing turbines where Gravity and the Force of the Stream act in tse same direction. I the inventor is willing for the purpose of a practical test in a Large scale to give the first offer for a Plant not preceding horse Power the right to operate the same during the lifetime of the Patent for provided the Plant is completed within one year. La Glit Rev. Or. 6 Connar. The consecration of the very Rev. Denis o Connor of Assumption College Sandwich As Bishop of London on sunday 10th oct., was a very imposing and interest Ling ceremony. The bight Rev. Or. O co kor was consecrated by his lordship archbishop Walsh of Toronto in this pre ency of Ecclesias ical dignitaries from All sections of the pro Vince St Peter s Cathedral being crowded upon the occasion. After Bishop o Connor bad been installed the laity of London pre wanted him with no affectionate address promising fealty to him. He made a Brief re ply thanking All for their Kindrew in attend ing and especially the people of Lon _. For their i sought promises of Aid. A compliment. President daughter How did they enjoy my lecture Gladys very much in deed some of your freshmen were telling the funniest stories you Ever heard All through the Bazar. The Opo aed. 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