Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-08-28
AND FANClES
Written For The Sunday Leader BY
The Peripatetic Philosopher.


Two lawyers when hnotty cause was Ger,
Shoot; hands, although they wrangfd hard
before.
"zoupds,' said the client, who was cast, pray,
Can you he friends that were such foes just
now
"You fool" says one, "we lawyers, tho so
keen,
Like shears, ne'er cut ourselves,-but what's
between" OLD EPIGRAM.
Sampson and Schley have been well
coined home. The cheers OF vast
multitude, the crash of splendid mu-
sic, and the boom and roar of great
guns have told them in mighty Ian
guage of .--e honor in which nation
holds them. Their names and deeds
are written on the pages OF glorious
history and we'll and true have they
won their place.
But there is a hero, greater even
than they for whom the future holds
wonderful welcoming home. The
country is waiting for the return of
that Yankee Commodore, who in the
far-away bay of Manila first sent
laundering around the world the sig
nal Of the fastening end of Span
ish tyranny. When Admiral Dewey
comes home again the nation will
| greet him in manner such as the
! world will not soon forget.
| If the transportation of petroleum
were accomplished by means of bar
rel loaded wagons instead of by an i'm
mense system of pipe lines, those to
whom the oil business is an unknown
quantity would be able very quickly
to comprehend the vastness of the in
dustry. The monthly production of
the fields of the southwest for the
year past has averaged about $50, 900
barrels. Should it be necessary in the
absence of any other facilities, to car
ry this great product by wagon from
the wells to the railroads, the crack
of the teamster's whip would indeed
be continued sound throughout this
region. The pipe line, however, does
all this work quickly, quietly and Sc
cretly.
The construction of pipe line is a
very interesting operation. When the
route of proposed line has been de-
cded upon by the high officials of the
company, agents are sent out to Sc
of the land across which the line must
run. This work is identical with that
by which the right-of-way of rail-
road is secured, with the exception
that pipe line right-of-way does not,
as a rule, dodge surface distractions,
| but strikes out straight acros the
country, climbing the sides of steep
hills and plunging down through ra-
, vines, rivers and swamps.
Engineers to survey the line and
| brushers to blaze a slight trail, next
start out over the route and very soon
have the course of the line properly
Il, indicated for the men who are to fol-
| low.
Then a vast army of teams, loaded
with pipe, may be seen, from early
morning until night, hurrying from
unloading points on the railway, along
the roads leading to the route of the
line. These teams, however, do not
have the benefit of even rough roads
for part of their journey. In order
to reach the line with their loads, they
are obliged to leave the roads and
founder through fields, climb criss-
cross up steep hills and often follow
raods through forests that are cut out
by the teamsters themselves.
After the pipe has been loosely
strung along the course Of the line
or at least for part of the way-the
gangs employed N the actual work of
construction, begin their labor. The
first gang to start out is what is called
the right-Ofway gang. These men
clear a bread path for the line, follow
ing the stakes set out by the engineers
Rocks and stumps are blasted. out,
sharp bumps Of earth leveled and
trees and brush cut down and cleared
away. They work very rapidly, how
ever, covering as a rule about a mile