Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-08-07

in the Brooklyn navy yard will be
twenty-five pole two-phase alternat-
ing current machine, giving 1876 revo-
lutioms with 5000 alterations per min
ute Six large cranes will be used.
one 40, one 25 and Al tons.
New York capitalists are taking
great interest in the coal possibilities
of New Brunswick. An engineer
who has gone over the ground says
that 300,000,OO0 tons of coal are in
sight A company with capital of
S1,O00,000 will soon be shipping 5000
tons per day.
Among a few recent export ship
ments may be mentioned eighteen
pound sledge hammer for Siberia, hay
rakes to Belgium, railroad supplies to
Copenhagen, six car loads of crane
material to Liege, soap to England
incubators to Mexico and safes to West
Indies.
In a new railway signal for night use
a metallic tube is fitted with handle
at one end, the other end being left
open for the insertion of torch, hay-
ing an igniter which engages the
tubing to light it when thrown forcibly
out by swinging the tube, the rear end
sticking in the ground.
Street cars are to be fitted with an
annunciator to enable the motorman
to call out the names of the streets, a
mouthpiece being placed on the plat
form in position to receive the sounds
and transfer them through pipes to
the interior of the car, where a bell
aids in their distribution.
Either one or two persons can use a
new piano stool, the main seat being
curved arm, the latter being held in
place by a screw clamp, to be released
for dropping the back into a horizon
tai position, when a hinged rod drops
down and forms an auxiliary leg.
A new plan for a cooperative colony
on a large scale has been announced.
The location is to be in Ohio, on the
shores of Lake Erie, near Toledo. The
scheme calls for the building of large
commercial city, where all the profits
arising from trade are to be equally
divided among the members of the
colony.
Yale's recent reverses in athletics
to regain her old-time prestige has re-
vived the proposition to create a
chair of athletics in the Yale faculty,
and to have this chair filled by Walter
Camp, Yale, 80. The idea is to have
Mr.. Camp become the head of all of
the university's athletic interests. The
endowment of such chair would
mean the raising of from $4,000 to
$4,000
The growth of the Christian En-
deavor societies is without precedent
in the history of church work. In
1882 the few societies then in ex-
istence had 481 members, and in 1883
the number enrolled had advanced to
2,87O. Then the membership increased
from 8,905 in 1884 to 1000 in 1885, to
$4,000 in 1886, to 100000 in 1887, to
100000 in 1888, to 100000 in 1889, to
100000 in 1890, until now it has 3d.
813 societies and a total membership
of more than 100000.
Under the provisions of the Ahearn
law, which was railroaded through the
New York legislature during the clos
ing hours of the last session, suits are
now brought for counsel fees and ex-
penses by New York city officials
against whom charges were brought,
but not proved President Clausen of
the park board wants $4,000, Police
Captain Price $500 and Henry Schell,
the captains former ward man, $500.
This means of course that every time
the city accuses an official and fails to
prove it's accusations it will have to
foot up the bills and, to judge from the
result of such cases in the past, it will
probably cost the municipality mil
lions if prosecutions are continued.