Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-01

SpeaBAn or hot weather" said the Oldest In
habitant reported by the Brooklyn Eagle, as
he unburloDed his ulster and laid his plush cap
on the talble II don't regard it as even pleas
ahtiy warm; I've been out into the sun all day
uymg.to yet some heat into my system, and
Ell you s MT eme In confidence, I'm bit chilly
yit.n
Ever seen it any warmer at this season Of
the year" asked the Eagle reporter.
NuIsf- L seen IL in the spring of 1914 so
hoI that you'd think this weather was an ice
Do& UaS building a telegraph line in South
anerlca, and what do you think we used for
lion perhaps
IRON iron wouldn't stand minute Why,
the WOE In my watch melted and ran down
ny leg, and IL felt cool, too, cause 1t was
LIQUID, No Sir, iron wasn't no more use than
Ice. We couldn't use wood cause ft caught fire
as soon us exposed, SO we used salt. We just
~ r.ts stream OF salt water straight up
Ine SAT- water and left a fuSt class column
OF ralt: Then we made 1t the right height by
cu.'lng 70 on su1ii1ienly at the bottom"
Eu how would you run your Wire?"
DldGT; we J1St ptnted 1t the way we wanted
IL 10 go from the top OF a hill. and the expan-
SSh ini lt right along from column to column
lnals what call warm weather. that isl
" How fast Old the wire seem to yo?r
Abcut eighty miles an hour. We built
nOon."
How did you keep up with It? How could
YOU Keep ahead and get your salt columns up
fast enough?"
"Wen. Sir. that was the simplest continuance
ever was. We had two parallel bars OF Railroad
IRON and wagon that just tit the bars We
Ifeted cross piece TO the fur'ard ones. and
fastened the wagon TO It. Them bands expanded
nans at the rate of hundred and fifty
miles an hour and carried the wagon right
al hg On its own tracks. We could head Off the
wire, get up pole, and hitch On a wire and
he,tn up Win the END ia no time. I'm sayiG',
gentlemen, it was hot In that vicinity"
But the men couldn't climb one OF these col
umDs?"
.ot course they couldn't-wouldnt hold
How did they take the half hitch around the
stIeam?"
Not We You can't squirt a man up that
way; beside the water was bilIn' hot We had
-four thousand tons OF quicksilver, and we put
little on the ground under a man, and it'd
raise mant to the top OF one Of them poles a.
the rate OF thousand miles a second. That's
what call hot. Now, Pm Just shlverin'."
You must have gauged the quantity OF
mercury pretty close to stop In the right
placer
"Oh. we got it after awhile. The first five
men went up five or six hundred miles, and one
OF them had to w8tt until the following winter
70 get tack: We sent him grub and things By
The quicksilver communication until he was
ILGIe Gown, and We paid him double wages
while he was gone
Didn't the wire melt?r
MELT, OF course it did,"
Then the line didn stay up"
Deed IL did, and that's jtot what made 1t
stay up. You know heat rises. Now when we
took bitches around the insulatorS. we left the
wires slack, SO when 1t melted 1t arched up In
stead OF bellyih' down, and it couldn't fall any
NOR n bridge. The funniest thing In the whole
business was that when we got through we had
railroad. Them bars OF iron make a sinashln'
got d road-for sun mer travel
" Not for winter, tOO?'
wasn't worth a nickel for winter. When
COOL weather came On they contracted so there
wasn't morn yard and half OF the road
left.n
didn't the telegraph wire contract. too?n
Some, but not much. 1t frightened good
deal, but stayed where it was"
Didn't it break?'
couldn't. That wire was melted. You can't
break stream OF water, and that wire was
liquid"
Look here, old man, objected the Eagle re-
porter, If he winter was cold enough to con-
Ilact the railroad it was cold enough to freeze
the wire solid"
"Why didn't it do it then ? Look here, young
man, you want to speculate. Now. l got nothtn'
to do with speculations; deal In facts, and the
Oldest fnnabitant buttOned up his ulster aa-
Justed his plush cap and walked Off In disgust.
Effects of Colorado Climate.
IL is singular fact that almost everybody
loses flesh on coming here from the east. The
AVERAGE frhf OH to