The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 39, Saturday, June 12, 1897 Page: 3 of 8
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of audience and the pearl mcque The
last of these buildings is a tiny threedomed
marble jewe), called by one the
daintiest little building in all India,
and which, as another has said, "should
be kept in a jewel-case "
The hall of public audience is a red
sandstone structure, richly inlaid with
marble, open on three sides and supported
by beautiful colonades The emperor's
throne and canopy made of
white marble and adorned with bads,
flowers and fruits in semi-precious
stones, stood in the center of the back
wall of this court of audience But the
crowning glory of the palace was the
Diwan-i-Khas, or private hall of audience,
an open, white-marble building,
richly adorned by inlaid work, formerlv
decorated in gold, and the ceiling
plated with silver In the center of
this superb hall still stands the white
marble dais on which was formerly
placed the world-famous peacock
throne, whose value-for Americans
like to know the cost of things-was
fiom $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 Shah
Jehan employed the services ot a
French jeweler, Austin de Bordeaux, to
construct this matchless royal seal,
which was decorated with the figures
of two immense peacocks, whose spread
tails were inlaid with emeralds, pearls
and various colored gems, while between
them perched a parrot, said to
have been carved out of a single emerald
The throne itself was six feet long
and stood on six golden legs, encrusted
with all kinds of precious jewels The
Kohinoor itself was probably set at one
time in Shah Jehan's imperial chair
No one acquainted with human cupidity
wvrould expect that a throne into
which had been worked a carload cf
jewels would last forever, especially in
a land of changing military dynasties
As I sat on the marble dais, where all
this splendor once gleamed, and summoned
before my imagination the gorgeous
scenes on which the proud empelor
gazed, and as I thought of the
Persian inscription on the north and
south arches of the halltestimony,
which an interpreter made
intelligible, to this form of Christian
organization and effort. It was a very
pretty scene--the girls, with their
white saris, or heaa noverings, seated
on the rug-covereO ?',or in the center
of the room, with vno young men and
teachers occupying seats around the
sides. The peacock throne was a tawdry
bit of workmanship compared with
the human jewels gathered by the missionaries
out of the homeless,darkened
and terribly degraded lives of the Delhi
population. The Jumma Musjid,
which we next visited, is deemed the
finest mosque in Asia. An elevated
court reached by staircases, surrounded
by walls, with a domed sanctuary on
the western side, facing toward Mecca,
with an area large enough for 25,000
worshipers, who sometimes are gathered
here--such is the Jumma Musjid.
It would have been an inspiring spectacle
to have seen on some Fitday in
the feast of Ramidan the army of worshipers
going through their devotions
with military and even mechanical precision.
In this land of polytheism and
idolatry it is not to be forgotten that
there ale more than 5,000,000 stern
monotheists ready to fight beneath the
banner which caiies the words
"There Is but One God and Mohammed
Is His Prophet "
JOHN HENRY BARROWS.
WEDDED ON A RAINY DAY.
And the Husband Wore Buckskin
Trousern St. Louis and
later from the Hahenmann College in
Chicago She is a wonderful traveler
and went to the Pacific coast long betore
the railroads made travel easy
and a pleasure. The Woman's Medical
Club organized in 1894 in Dr Seymour's
office in Certral Music Hall.
Its platform provided that all legally
qualified women physicians in Chicago,
no matter what their school,
/MARR!"DR. MARY A SEYMOUR
might unite with it Dr Gertrude Gadj
Wellington was elected president, and
served continuously until the recent
election Dr Wellington remains
president of the board of the proposed
new city hospital, which is the most
cherished object of the club. In addition
to the scheme for a city hospital,
the club proposes to establish a new
hospital, for emergency purposes, in
the "downtown" section of the city.
It is urged that death often results
from long trips in ambulances over
rough streets. The club takes an active
interest in all matters of public
sanitation and offers exceptional social
privileges to women physicians
Dr. Seymour is popular among her associates
She is a native of Aubuii,
N Y., spent her girlhood at Albion,
Mich, and was educated at Albion
College.A1 Destructive Fire.
San Francisco, Cal, June 7 -A firs
in the southern part of the city at
noon yesterday cost three firemen their
lives and entailed a property loss of
$100,000
The killed,
John Mahoney of chemical engine
No 6.
Frank Keller, steward of hose cart
No. 2.
James Hallihan, driver of truck
No. 1.
The fire started mysteriously in the
four-story brick block owned by
Schroth
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Ezzell, Frank. The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 39, Saturday, June 12, 1897, newspaper, June 12, 1897; Ferris, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18837/m1/3/: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ferris Public Library.