Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-04-01
NOTES AND COMMENTS

Good Roads since il was formed by
General Roy Stone and his associates,
in the opinion of the New York sun, lis
the best proof that there was need for its
formation, and that there is widespread
and deep public interest in the benehcent
reform which it has undertaken TO pro-
mote. There are already branches OF II
in a majority of the States and in hun
dreds of countries; it has already
prompted several of these branches TO
begin the work of road improvement; 1t
has secured the co operation of sundry
influential agencies which have never
before acted together; piles OF letters oil
inquiry are received at the office OF Its
secretary, and its expenses have been /
covered by voluntary subscriptions. Ii |
Is the purpose of the League to influence
the State and county authorities IN the |
matter of road reform, so that desirable |
laws upon the subject may be adopted |
by the legislatures of the several States.
Its method of procedure Is yet to be
drawn up. 1t must, after ALL strive TO
secure the adoption of systematic and
economical measures of legislation. Inc
expenditures, including the cost OF labor,
in roadmaking by local bodies are enor,
nous, running up to at least hundred
millions of dollars annually for thewhole
country; yet there is hardly State OF
the Union in which there is any method
ical road making, or in which there Is
any large stretch of decent country road.
With good country roads the marketing
of farm produce would be facilitated;
the waste of horse power and OF vehicles
would be reduced; the attractions of
rural life would be increased; the bust
ness of railroaders and shippers would
be benefited, and hundreds of Others
desirable public objects would be sub
served"
WooL-soRTrNG in California has been
done largely by Chinese in the past. The
California Wool depot has now set the
fashion of employing girls only to do
this work. The concern has hitherto
| had white men on its pay rolls, but
could not continue its regular rate OF
wages in the face of Chinese competition.
Announcing a reduction, it lost the serv-
ices of the white laborers, aud advertised
for GIRLS to take their places There was
no trouble about filling them. The girls
are succeeding very creditaby as sorters
and grinders, and they promise in course
of time to be more nimbe fingered than
the Chinese, if not quite as industrious
"Of course" says the manager, "Inotice
the loss of the men when it comes to the
work of bailing and trucking the wool
TO different parts of the warehouse, and
it will require the employment of assist
ants to the girls to do this work. How
ever it is not difficult matter While
would much prefer the men to do this
work, am better pleased that the girls
have been given the opportunity to go
to work instead of Chinese
A COMPANY has been formed in Taco
ma. Wash, to extract gold by secret
process from the sands of the Pacific
Ocean. Gold has been found in the SAND
of the ocean beach at many places along
the Pacific coast from the Straits OF JuaI
de Fuca to Southern California, but onl,
in small and widely separated stretches
, does it exist in sufficient quantities t
pay for working it by processes so in
. known. 1t is believed the gold so foun'
, does not come from the land, but /
, washed in from some hidden reef in tn
, ocean bed. The company has secured
0 exclusive right to work many stretche
( of the beach in Washington, Oregon, an'
I Southern California At one Of thes
places, Boards Hollow, there are believes
to be two gold bearing stratos, on
8 thirteen inches below the surface an
: nine inches thick, and the other thrt
: inches below and thirteen inches thick
g Platinum and rhodium have also bee
4 found in paying quantities in the ocea
i sand at this point.
: sIF YOU could stand on the moon,
J. saws an astronomer, "the earth woul
Z appear to you to be siXty-four TIM
larger than the sun appears to the resiC
ents of this mundane sphere; this becau
the earth has eight times the diamet
of the moon, therefore she must nece
sarily show the moonites sixty-four tim
g as much surface as the moon shows u
Il The sun. on the other hand, won
& appear no larger to you from your 0
n servatory on the moon than 1t does fro
le our globe The carths atmosphere beit
blue it has been decided that the ear
70 must appear as blue ball to all outslC
n onlookers. What glorious sight 1t mu
n be to our lunarian neighbors to look up'
IS bright blue swift-reyolving ball sixt.
;e four times larger than the SUM-"
"a ONLY twenty-five miles Of the Panar
70 Canal remain to be dug, if faith may
u nut in the statement made by officers
le the original company Intelligent Anne
y cans who have been employed on t
ne canal saw that there are forty-seyen mil
a AZ to be completed, the whole distance FRO
y, ocean to ocean, not mile Of the car
VI having been actually finished. i
u drcdges threw up the dirt on either sid
N and when the pile reached a certo
ie height it fell into the ditch. This "
IS the case all along the canal as far as
:. work progressed. One Of the workm
20 saws that not twenty five feet can
w called finished work.
=, A MoNUMENr Of coal, fifty feet hil
III ten feet square at the base, and four /
Isl square at the top aud Of unique
10 strustion, is to be exhibited at the {
IL IL cago Fair, by q leading coal company
es' PENNSYLVANIA. It will be constructed
~ sections sixteen feet long, and put
sW pether al Chicago Pieces OF coal y
eo be selected that will show, when pla'
~ in position, all the connecting miner