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. 44 1 4 1 4 4 14 4 •44,4,414.41e4 THE LUMP CITY MINER: LUMP CITY, MONTANA: A CHILEAN WIDOW WHOSE WEALTH NOW AGGRE- GATES $200,000,000 May t'orne to America to Reside—The Magnificent Estates of Senora du tousino—The Country Route at Lota— Weislangton Excited. (Washington Correspondence.) NTENSE Interest has been aroused among the Chil- eans and other South Americans in this . country by the report that the Sen- ora de Cousin() in- , tends to come to /// New York. take a r// / house in Fifth ay- / 1/j enue, and entertain In lavish style. The Widow Cousin°, as she is popularly known in Chile, is probably the richest woman in the world, her wealth being estimated at $200,000,000. Her estates In Chile are the show places of the country, and her entertainments are given on a scale that would take a New Yorker's breath away. The industries controlled by the wid- ow are varied. Besides owning all the copper mines in Peru and Chile. she owns a large fleet of ships to transport the ore to the smelting works at Lota. There are also the rich silver mines at Copiapo, the great stock farm and vineyards at Macul, eight miles from Santiago, and the whole town of Lota. Every house, every mill, and every bit of land is owned by the widow, and everyone in the place is deperldent on 2 jet • t' SENORA DE COUSINO. her industries for a living. Thià town was practically begun by the Senora's father, and from a sleepy little Spanish village it became one of the chief man- ufacturing centers of Chile, and the va- rious industries in 1876, when Lady Brassey visited the town in the yacht Sunbeam, employed over 5,000 men. While the industries controlled by this woman are startling in their mag- nitude, the woman herself and her houses—palaces, rather—are even more Interesting. Senor Cousino died about 1875. leaving six children, three sons and three daughters. These are all grown and married, and have estab- lishments of their own. The widow has three principal establishments—one at Lota, one in Santiago, and the other at Macul. The one at Lota is the moat magnificent. The town is on a land- locked bay, surrounded by high hills. On one side are the park and residence of Senora Cousin°. The park is of enormous extent, perfectly fitted by nature for the purpose to which It is devoted. The house In on the summit of the hill, surrounded on all sides by gardens, whiob are under the constant care of eighty gardeners, who are under the direction of experienced Scotchmen. These gardens are bewildering in their beauty. Plants brought from all parts of the world grow there in lux- uriance. There ure, fantastic grottoes, terraces, ferneries, flights of marble stairs leading down toward the beach and up to the sylvan nooks. Every lit- tle promontory is crowned with a sum- mer house of quaint fashion, and there are arcades, arched over with bamboos, containing trellis work from Derby- shire and Minton tiles from Stafford- shire. The house Itself is a huge affair built of brick aad stucco. It is but two stor- ies high, after the fashion of Chilean houses, on account of thé frequent earthquakes. Its walls are massive, and in general appearance it resembles some of the Elizabethan houses in Eng- land. The interior is as gorgeous .in Its way as ere the gardens. Rarest ihd eostlleet woods and the most ex- quisite marbles and tiles are used In the finishing of It. The furniture was all imported from England, and there are pictures, statuary, and bronzes the Hite of which would be hard to find. A horde of servants, under military dis- cipline nrrn ...1 in gorgeous liveriee, . •Í *IT • / ear - •••••‘,.£:È COUNTRY JUJUBE A vTA. are required to keep the ..0 ,te or- der and whether or not the mistress le th‘e-e. there Is never any diminutIon'of the force or change in the mariner In se/11 , h the househoild affairs are carried on Ti town hence in Santiago is • grunt marble peace, which, with Its oeetiplea a whole square in the h‘oirt of the city. Its gardens are a small reproduction of thome at Lota. wilthout. of courer. the varied q, o nnr v This hems, sis..i tilt ts . ., q'., rios hie\ , loses in altitude. Its furnishings a., as elaborate and expensive as those in the Lota house. What the cost was may he calculated from the fact that the portieres alone cost $250,000 It also is filled with works of art of all kinds, and there is one Meissonier there for which the French government has re- peatedly offered $25,000. To describe the park and house a% Macul would be to repeat in substance the description of Lota, except that the former is on even a larger scale. Over 200 gardeners are kept at work constantly in the gardens, and every- thing is on a scale of magnificence un- known in this country, where rich peo- ple and fine estates are not unknown. Senora Cousino, the owner of all this splendor, is a woman between 30 and 40 years old. She is tall and dark, and a very handsome woman. She exer- cises a direct supervision over all her premises, and by a system of reports received by her every day knows what is going on. She is most active in the social world and her entertainments are mag- nificent. When she travels it is al- ways with a score of secretaries and a horde of servants of all kinds. It will be seen from this that if Sen- ora Cousin() should decide to come to America to live, even for a short time, it would be a great event for society, for she would undoubtedly entertain in the same style she does at home. The Chilean minister here was asked. if he knew anything of her coming, and said he did not, although it might be pos- sible. \If she cornea,\ he added, \I don't know what she'll do, for there's no house in New York as large or as fine as any of hers. Maybe she will build a new one.\ MRS. JOHN JACOB ASTOR. She Will Lead the \Athletic Set\ at Newport This Season. (Specit) Correspondence.) Mrs. John Jacob Astor, or as she is moat familiarly called, Mrs. \Jack\ As- tor, is the best all-round sportwoman either in or out of society's realm. She fences, rides, rows, shoots, bowls, plays tennis, billiards, swims, can man- age a bicycle with the most skillful as well as a yacht, and her latest accom- plishment is golf. From a child she has always been particularly fond of all outdoor sports. Philadelphians remem- ber well the pretty, rosy -faced Ava Willing, who in a severe black habit, her satiny hair caught up under her riding cap with a black ribbon, galloped through Fairmount Park every pleas- ant winter afternoon. Last summer her feats in the water excited the envy of many a timid belle at Newport. She Is a most accomplished and fearless swimmer, and when in the water wears black silk tights under her skirt, be- cause they give her unrestricted liberty of limb. Another accomplishment which few women possess is her cleverness with the cue. She learned as a child, being familiar with billiards almost from her infancy. To -day Mrs. Astor plays as well if not better than any woman in this country. Perhaps there is nothing this clever little lady does so well an shoot. A story told of Mrs. Astor In the Adirondacks by Ross Hayes, one ot the guides, is interesting, and shows that with all her sporting zest she is still a woman, and a very womanly woman at that. She and her husband MRS. JOHN JACOB ASTOR. with a party were hunting several yearn ago below Saranac. They had followed the trail of a wounded deer, which had escaped. Finally, after tracing it for an hour, it was cornered. A shok in the throat ended the stag's misery. As it 'fell its eye. seemed to fall beseechingly on Mrs. Astor. As the anxious dogs flew at its throat she burst into tears and begged that the dogs be called off. Up to that time she had been as much of a sportsman as any of them, but the sight of misery aroused all her wom- anly feeling. In hunting costume of brown velvet, with buckskin leggins, alpine hat, game bag, and a gun over her shoulder. Mrs. Astor could not look better In the most exquisite importation from Paris. The Literary iitsbuision. Miss Reider—I am tired and sick of Ibsen and Tolstol, and all the other writers of Merles moralm Have you anything new? looltateller- Here, madame. Is one of the most popular novels of the day—just started In its twentieth .edition. \Is there any moral to It?\ \I'll guarantee, madame, that you won't VI the least suggestion of morals from beginning to end.\ Ftwilnova Mr Grumps (hotly) -You must he crazy Mre (trumps (ii -Ily) ---Just what everybody geld when I married you tioyer think that 4.-1 e delay. tiro 'RIM Hold on. hold fast, hold out 4 II THE SCOTCH PATTI. EARLIER STRUGGLES OF' MME. NELLIE MEL BA. She Made Her First Appearance as a Sieger in Australia and Sulegequently Went to Parle—Then Followed sit Years or Unequaled Sneeess, ME. MELBA (Mrs. Armstrong), wife of Captain Francis Armstrong, of England, has won, within the last six years, the highest distinction in Paria, Brussels, London, Milan and the chief American citie s. She is of Scotch de- scent and was born in Australia. At a very early age she began the study of the pianoforte with her mother, who was an amateur of ability. Later she continued her stu- dies under professional teachers, taking a course on the organ and also in har- mony and composition, thus securing the groundwork of a thorough musical education, which must have proved of inestimable value after she began her career as a singer. When about twelve years old it was discovered that nature had endowed her with a voice of unus- ual beauty, and after having taken it few vocal lessons In Australia she ac- cepted the advice of friends and went to Paris, where she placed herself un- der the tuition of the famous Mme. Marchest. Notwithstanding the objec- tions interposed by her father, Mr. Mitchell (who was one of the commis- sioners of the Melbourne exposition), a lyric career became inevitable, and upon the completion of her studies with ?dime. Marchent she made her debut on register and her vocalizatlen, In the purest Italian style, is almost unrivaled in fluency and may safely said to be faultless. ON RAFTING LOGS. A Third 1 , :aperlinent Is to Be Attempted at !delta, Wash. Despite previous failures Pacific coast lumbermen are still trying to raft logs in the Pacific ocean It in stated that a raft IS now nearing completion at Stella, Wash., which will be started down the Columbia river en route to the sea about the middle of June, when the favorable weather common to that period is expected to permit the enter- prise to terminate successfully. The raft will contain 400,000 lineal feet, or 6,000,000 feet board measure. It will be 525 feet in length, 52 feet wide, 30 feet in depth and will draw between 20 and 21 feet of wat-u-. The two previous ex- reriments with log rafts, costing $40,- 000, were failures, the rafts going to pieces before they had fairly cleared the mouth of the Columbia river, and their floating debris proved a menace to shipping, and if the present experi- ment does not succeed steps will prob- ably be taken to prevent repetition. Could logs be rafted to mills down the coast it would be a great thing, but the chances are so great against the plan that it will probably never be a common method of log transportation on the Pacific coast. THOMAS C. PLATT. The Man Who Is Said to Make and Un- make Governors and Presidents. Thomas Collier Plattt, New York's famous republican politician, was born in Owego, that state, in 1833. He ma- triculated at Yale college, but on ac- count of failing health left there before graduation to enter upon a commercial career. He became conspicuous as a MME. MELBA Oct. 16, 1887, under the name of Melba, as Glide in \Rigoletto\ at the Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels. So immediate and brilliant was her success that the Intendant, who had arranged for a sin- gle performance only, engaged her for a term, and she appeared as Lakme, Violetta, Ophelle and Lucia. Subse- quently Sir Augustus Harris engaged her for Covent Garden, and in the sea- son of 1888 eh» made her debut In•Eng- land In \Lucia with a success well remembered by all opera -going Lon- doners. Then followed another long engagement in Brussels, after which she returned to Paris, and having studied under the composer the part of the heroine in Ambrose Thomas' \Ham- let,\ she made her appearance at the Grand Opera in the character of Ophe- lie, which was successfully repeated eight times and enthusiastically praised by the French critics. Mme. Melba next studied In the role of Jul- iette, with the assistance of Gounod, and appeared in that character in London In June, 1889, with Jean de Remake in his favorite part of Romeo. In the winter of that year she Was the favorite prima donna of the Grand Opera at Paris, where she sang the roles of Marguerite, Juliette, Ophelle, Lucia and Gild*. - \The latest assump- tions of birfle. Melba have been the parts of Esmeralda la Goring Thomas' opera of that Mime. Elsa in Wagner's \Lohengrin.\ ad the title role In coin t ,..1 by M Bern berg expressly for h..r te whom, by the way. and to Jean de itr , e7ke, the work Is ded- icated. Mention should also be made of Mme. Melba', heeetitul interpreta- tion of the part Mlehaela in \Car- men.\ Mme. Melba q phenomenal suc- cess at the Metropolitan Opera Hou», New York. end in Roston and Chicago during the last two is too well known to require more Ihnn a word of mention, lier triumphs on the concert stage hayo fully e.jun 1,1 In the opera lier voice im of a r.rrotrkribly pure. hr•anitiful gud evinnat huit, 'vital Ity with a ....te.nuivn ranie the tone being , r‘mtrillIne In Its , •learneas It is perfeolv even throughout the successful operator In banking and lumber enterprises. In 1872 and 1874 he was elected to congress from Owego. In 1881 he was chosen to succeed Fran- cis Kernan In the United States sen- ate. His service in the senate was, however, of short duration. He at once fell into the friendship of Roncoe Conk' ling. When President Garfield saw fit to rebuke Senator Conkling by giving the New York patronage to the anti- Conkling republicans, both New York senators resigned their seats, but not without hope of being re-elected by the legislature then in session. They were disappointed, however, for the legisla- ture chose their succestrors shortly aft- erward. Conkling, broken-hearted, re- tired to private life and four years later THOMAS C. PLATT. died. Not so with Platt. He became president of the United States Express Co., and has managed to cut a wide \swath In ‚trite politics. He managed r‘mpalgn tor Levi P. m e h . t .,„ 1, 4 .1 1 , , fir nul now has charge of the praeldr‘tillal boom of the governor of New York It Is maid that Melba le to wed Ada, rnoweky. the young violinist. BIRDS LIKE TO TRAVEL. And This la t h.: Reason Why They Annually Lea... NortliMm Climates. 1‘ , hy do the birds Mt sobthward each autumn and return again with every epring? No one knowe, but science, in the person of Prof. Wang, the emi- nent Austrian ornithologist, has Just disclosed that the usual flippant an- swer to thib question, \Because they like to travel,\ is not far out of the way after all, says the New York World. in a lecture Belt Prof. Wang recently delivered in Vienna he gave some extremely interesting details re- garding the migrations of birds, all of which migrations resemble one au - other In two respects: they follow the most direct line southward and are made with almost incredible raplalty. Numerous observations have been mad , ' at Heligoland, which is the princit halting place ot birds of passage fr northern countries, and in Fg 3 . which is the winter home of ma , and these observations have establie ..1 some facts hitherto unknown. 't% o blue birds traverse the 400 naut'..1 miles which separate Egypt I'. or. Heligoland in a single night, which I• at the rate of more than fort: geographical miles per hour. The swallow's speed is over two and one- half miles per minute, or nearly three times that of the fastest railway train. Even the younger birds, 6 or 8 week4 old, accompany the others in their long journey. Prof. Wang asks himself what is the impulse which causes the birds after the brooding and moulting season is over, to quit our northern climate. He does not think it is fear of cold—for many species quite as deli- cate as those which migrate southward easily withstand the rigors of the win- ter but they have an irresistible humor for traveling. This is his idea of the fact but he can give no explanation. HUNT FOR A HUSBAND. W. at Robert Grant\Says of the Old Aristocratic Theory of Woman. There are thousands of daughters of well-to-do mothers in this country who are brought up in the old aristocratic theory that a woman should study moderately hard until she is 18, then look as pretty as she can and devote herself until she is married to having what is called on this side of the At- lantic a good time, writes Robert Grant in Scribner's. To be sure, in France the good dude does not come until after marriage, and there are other differences, but the well-bred lady of social graces is the well-bred lady, whether it be in London. Paris, Vienna, or New York, and a ball -room In one capital is essentially the same as in all the others, unless it be that over here the very young people are allowed to crowd out everybody else. There are thousands of mothers who are content that this should be the limit of their daughter's experience, a reasonably good education, perfect manners, four years of whirl and then a husband, or no husband and a con- servative afternoon tea drinking spin- sterhood—and they are thankful on the whole when their girls put their necks meekly beneath the yoke of convention and do as past generations of women all over the civilized world have done. The reign of the unconventional society , young woman is over. She shocks now her own countrywoman even more than foreigners; and though, like the buffalo, she is still extant, she is dis- appearing even more rapidly than that Illustrious quadruped. • How Electricity Kills. The very interesting and valuable experiments which Dr. A. M. Bleile, of the Ohio State university, has been making with regard to the effects ot electric shocks upon animal organism have reached a stage where a working theory can be predicated upon the re- sults obtained, says the Cleveland Leader. This theory Is a complete de- parture from that most commonly ac- cepted. It has been suppoeed that the cause of death in electrocution was the breaking down of the tissues. But the elaborate experiments which Prof. Bletle has made during the last month or more leave no doubt in his mind that death results from a very different cause. He has found' by experiment- ing with a large number of 'dogs that an electric shock of sufficient intensity to cause death reetilts In a contraction ot the arteries so that they refuse to perform tbeir functions. This throws the blood from the veins, upon the heart, and virtually drowns the opera- tion of that organ. Keep Au Food Covered. levery article of food should be kept covered until It appears/on the table. Milk and butter should be kept in air- tight.covered veeeela. They take up every odor flying In the air, and are positively harmful to the stomach after standing uncovered for an hour or two. Not only odors, but the malculao that fill the air are attracted to milk add butter. Uncovered jelly Is a menace to family health, yet in two-thirds of the pantries in the city will be found half -used dishes of jelly standing un- covered. I ' ballet dancer depends for success more upon her agility than ad -dress. .4Mm.
