The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-11-27

and the two topics combined In an uRly
way; and all for What7-tO thWart 1
good. hearted young fellow In philan.
throplcal crotChet, which, after all, d Id
him honor, and would never be lmI
tated by any other master In Hills.
borough, And 90, for once, this Ma.
Chlyael sided with Henry, not from the
puteBt, motives, yet, mind you, moi
Ing and humanity.
On the Sunday Henry dlned with
him and his party, Ut 'Savags's Hotel,
and the said dinner rather surprised
Henry the meats were simple, but oil
good quality, and the wines, which
were all brought ont by Gotralt were
excellent. The old Saw. who retalled
ale and spirits TO Ills customers, would
serve nothing less 10 his guests than
champagne and burgundy. And, II
the cheer was generous, The host was
admirable; he showed, at the head oil
bis genial board, those qualities which,
coupled with his fanatiClBm, has made
him the Dodge OF the Marlborough
trades. He was prlmed on every sub
eot that could interest his guests, and
knew something about nearly every.
thing else. he kept the ball alWays
goinRs but did mt monologuize, except
when lie was appealed 10 ne q Judge,
and then did II with a mellow grace
that no man can learn without Natures
aid. There Ia no society, however dis.
tingulshed, In which GotraIt would not
have been accepted as a polished and
admirable controVerser.
Add tothls, that he had an art, which
was never quite common, bat is now
becoming rare, OF making his guests
feel his frlends-for the time, at al
events. |
Young Little Rat amazed, and drank
In hlS words. With delight, and could
not realize that this genial phIlosopher
was the person who had launched A
band Of rnfllAns at him, Yet, in hIa
secret heart, he could not doubt IL: and
30 be looked and listened with mar.
vellous mixture Of feelings, on which
one could easily write pages OF an.
alysls, very curious, and equally tedI-
ous. -....-,.... ,..rr.-..
They dlned at three; and, ut five. thew
got up, az agreed beforehand, and went
to Inspect the reservoir In course of
con struCtlon. A more COmpendlous
work OF art WAS never protected; The
contractors had taken Tor their basis a
mountain gorge, with stream flowing
through It down toward HlllsborouRh:
all they had TO do was 10 throw an EN-.
bankment across the lower end of the
gorge, and turn II TO n mighty basin
open to receive the stream, and tha
drainage from four thousand sacres of
hill. From this lake u sixty foot weir
was to deal ont the water supply 10 the
mlll>Owners below, and the surplus 10
the people OF Hillsborough, dlsta Mt
about eight miles on an easy decline,
Now, as the reservoir must be full al
Startling, and would then be eighty feet
deep In the centre, and mile long, and
n quarter OF q mile broad on the ave-
rage, an embankment Of uncommon
strength was required 10 restrain 40
great mass OF water; and this was
what the Marlborough WORTHLESS were
curious about. They strolled out 10 the
works, and then tea was to come out
after them, the weather being warm
and 1ne. Close 10 the works thew
found q foreman OF engineers smoking
his pipe; and Intercepted him. He
showed them rising wall, five hun
dred feet Wide al the base, and told
them II was to be ninety feet high, mar
rowing, gradually 10 u summit twelve
fest broad. As the whole embankmeut
was TO be twelve hundred feet long at
the top, this gave some idea OF the bulk
OF the materials 10 be used; those ina.
terlalS were clay, shale, milestone, and
sandstone OF looser texture. The en- .
Gineer knew Grotait, and brought him
q drawing OF the mighty cone to be
erected. why, 1t will be u noun.
tain = said Little.
Not far from that, sir; and yet you'll
never see half the work. Why we had
an army OF navvles on It last autumn,
and laid foundation sixty feet deep;
and these first courses are all bonded
In TO The foundation, aud bonded to-
gelher, as you ses. WeAre down to
solid rock. and no water can get to un.
dermine US. The puddlewall Is sixteen
feet Wide Al starting, and dimtnishes to
TOUR feet At the top; 80 no water can
creep IN through our Jacket
But what are these Apertures p en-
quired GrOtaIt.
oh, those are the waste pipes. They
pass through the embankment oblidue.
ly, 10 The weir.dam. they can be OPEN
ell or shat, by valves. and run Off ten
thousand cubic feet of water minute
but WON'T that prove hole In your
armor? Why, these pipes must be in
twenty iolnta, at least
Say tifty-lVe; you'll be nearer the
mark sud-.
And suppose one or two of these Or.
ty-hve joints should leak ? You'll have
an everlasting solvent in the heart OF
your pile. and you can't get at them,
you know, TO mend them.'
'Ot course not; but they are double as
thick as ever were used before; and have
been severely tested before laying lem
down: besides, don't you zee each OF
them has got his great coat on?
eighteen inches OF puddle all the way.'
'Ah,' said GotraIt, 'all the better, But
Il Is astonishing what big embank.
ments will sometimes burst II a leaky
pipe runs through them. don't think
it 10 the water, altogether; water seems
TO make air inside them, and that
proves as bad for them rs wind in a
mans stomach
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