Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-21

900 per year. Other stars, Modjeska,
Clara Morris, Mary Anderson, Law
renee Barrett, Rose Eytinge, Robson and
Crane, etc., are uncertain. but play
enough successful engagements to bring
them out at the end of year with
good profit
Of these prominent artists many Of
ten share after expenses, the sum de-
Quoted by the manager varying from
5000 to $500 in different cities. JEFF
ferson gets half of the gross receipts up
to $1,000, and rs per cent. beyond
that. Lester Wallack commands at the
lowest $500, while the Florences and
others who travel with their own COM
panions make and lose here and there,
but usually come out far ahead of ex-
penses. Of the fortunes made by these
ladies and gentlemen some are very
large Sothern owned, two years ago,
three quarters of a million, but pays
heavy taxes on unremunerative real es-
tate. Nelson owns real estate at $780,
900. Owens has property Of about
100000. and is specialist like
Jefferson, Booth, etc. Jeferson's pro-
perty is about $l,OOO,O0O; Barney
Williams left S25O,0Oo, and the others
have property at nearly these figures.
Just at this time New York is the
center of several engineering works of
vast Importance and universal interest.
The East River Bridge, which was
looked upon as the chimera of crazy
mans brain only few years ago-as
were the Atlantic cable and the Pacific
Railroad in their time-is now nearly
completed. 1t is the largest suspension
bridge (as to length of span) in the
world. Beneath the Hudson River a
tunnel that Is slowly but surely con-
Meeting New York with its New Jersey
dependencies, and forming another link
in the chain that must one of these days
end in annexation or consolidation, is
creeping onward At the northern end
of the island the ship canal that is to
connect the Hudson and East rivers,
and restore to the Harlem its lost pres
tige as factor in New York's CONNER
cial success, is soon to be begun. In
the same region the Harlem River is
being spanned with one of the largest
drawbridges in the country. In the
harbor distractions that have endan.
gered the lives of mariners and the pro-
perty of merchants since the days Of
Heinrich Hudson are rapidly disappear
ing. thanks to modern engineering skill
Add to this the system of artesian we'll,
that is being spread throughout tn,
city, and it is not difficult to conced,
that New York is not behind in tn,
great race for improvement.
When artesian wells were first in
troduced people were skeptical, ant
when shown the practicability of thi
system of obtaining water, were as mucI
astonished as the children of Israe
| were when Moses touched the rock
Now it is an established medium
g With the introduction of water meter
into hotels and charge of certain
sum per gallon for water used, Croto
I became rather an extensive item in tn
running expense account of a large es
tablishment. Preferring copsiderabl
q present outlay to a continual drair
q many of the proprietors of large hotel
: have bored artesian wells on their prem
!. Uses, from which they obtain an unlin
:, tied supply of clear, cool water, that
: said to be infinitely purer and sweete
e than Croton. At downtown hotels Wa
# ter was struck within a reasonable di
e tance-at French's in less than fft
e feet-but uptown the wells had to pei
d citrate much deeper. The we'll now b.
u ing bored under the Fifth Avenue HI,
}. tel has reached the depth of betwee
g twelve hundred and thirteen hundre
IS feet, and as yet there is no positive sig
J. of water. The process of boring is p
e. culiar and worthy Of short description
N The drill proper is a steel pipe on
h quarter of an inch in thickness, two an
n one-half inches in diameter and elevt
al feet long. In its cutting end fiftet
diamonds, from one to three and a ha
d carats each. are set. These cut circ
IS into the rock, the score" going into Il
le pipe and being forced upward by ne
ne accessions from below. The pipe is
st sections, screwed together To reno,
d. the core each section must be unscrewe
re and to resume work all must be screw,
Id together and lowered into the we
OF Thus far the drillers have encounter,
ID principally granite and gneiss, viii,
f. are easily bored, the granite being
IS soft, chippy, useless stone exceeding
or plenty on this island. At one poll
n they struck stratum of quartz liz
n feet deep, which forced them to repla
~ their drill about every nine feet.
y sandstone boring single drill will
an through 900 feet; in this we'll t
average wear of drills has been one