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The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07

the south wall of $50 tons, and the north wall of 800 tons were carried on girders resting on steel stanchions running down into the earth into different lo- cality altogether from that which orig inally sustained the weight of the church.
 What is called the station booking hall, room f1fty-flve by forty feet, is under the street at the front of the church, and from it a passage leads to the station proper. which is directly be- meath the church and churchyard. The entrance and exit areas are separated by pit eighty feet deep, in which are five large elevators. From the church floor to the bottom of this pit is 100 feet, and the tunnels are further down, the deepest part of the work being 110 feet below the street level.
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How It Looks to Disinterested Tax
 Daycr md Cttizcn


 To the Editor of the Journal and Courier: The writer is not partisan of the administration of the public schools or of MT. Fox, but would like to make a few comments from the standpoint of a taxpayer and citizen who is entirely outside of the present controversy. It seems to me a disgrace to those con- cerned that any members of a commit tee which is appointed to examine care fully and dspassionately subject of great public moment, should allow themselves to be so influenced by pre- conceived opinions as that they should exhibit the rudeness and unfairness to any citizen that was exhibited toward Mir Fox. It seems to me essential to proper consideration of public matters that a decent degree of dignity and fairness should be maintained. It is a danger to our public welfare if those who are selected to occupy positions of trust and responsibility, degrade those positions by allowing petty prejudices and preconceived notions to prevent their considering with fairness the matters wich come before them.
 In this connection I wish to call at-
 
 been published in one of the New Ha ven papers, intended to ridicule and insult some of those who have appeared before the committee. This imitation of yellow journalism is to be deeply regretted. The writer Is no friend of those who were caricatured. Perhaps some of their utterances have been in judicious, but he has no doubt as to their honesty of purpose, and from the weapons used against them he is led to believe that they are probably mostly in the right on the merits of the ques- tion. It seems as though those mem- bers of the committee who have stoop- ed to gross discourtesy to citizens and those newspapers who have followed this policy with insult, ought to realize that the unprejudiced observer knows that abuse is not argument, but, on the contrary, usually betrays a lack of facts or arguments on the part of those who indulge in such abuse.
 OBSERVER.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07
USA BL F.

Aguinaldo seems to have reached that part in the play where if he Is dscov- cred he will be lost.-Milwaukee Sen- tinel.
 Will Soon Be Heard. --"Porter, call me cab with or without sir?" "Eh?" Horse or auto. sir?'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Robby-Pa, this book says Saint Peter has the keys of Heaven; has he? Pal believe so. Robby-Is he the janitor, pa ?--Harper's Bazaar.
 Blood Will Tell.-Father--So you want to get married, eh? Tell me why, pray? Daughter-Oh, I suppose it's one of the traits I inherited from my mother.--Chicago.
 When two members of the class of 1900 meet the greeting is: "Hullo old man."
 When two membeSs of the class of A meet the salutation is: "Hullo, old boy!"--Somervllle (Mass.) Journal.
 At the Front.-Editor (Podunk Her ald)-Heard anything from that war correspondent we hired at five a week to represent us in the Transvaal? Fore here's his despatch about the last batte-''There was a perfect hail of bullets, some of which were as big as hens eggs"-Puck.
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FOR fl BIG HERMAN y4Yy.

Germany is going to have big and
 efncient navy if the Navy League and
 Kindred associations can have their
 way They are vigorously at work. one of the most influential and ener- getic advocates Is the retired Vice Ad-
 mlral Werner, whom the Emperor re-
 gently thanked, by telegraph, for one
 Of his public addresses The Admiral
 however, is not convinced that forty
 new batteships are needed. He thinks
 thirty-one would be sufficient. not only
 10 meet the united fleets of Russia and
 trance, but also to hold in check that Of England. It must be borne in mind.
 he says, that France has always to keep ten or twelve battleshps in the Mediterranean, and that England, be- cause of her possessions over the sea. and for political reasons, will always be under the necessity of dividing her naval strength. Moreover, the English are in an unfavorable position, inas- much as they would have to meet sud- den German attack and might be taken at disadvantage. "We could,'' says the Admiral, select our own time and attack them with our whole sea power. with everything ready for action. with our crews fresh, our bunkers filled and with our machinery perfect. The Eng fish, on the other hand might have to face bad weather, and might therefore sustain damage to their machinery. while want of coal would soon comnel them to send part of their ships home to take in fresh supplies" According to the AdmiraPs ideas. the Germans ought to have three complete squadrons in readiness by 1910, with a number of coaling stations and submarine cables to match
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07
James Welsh's CRsr.

To the Editor of the Journal and Courier: I was interested by an editorial in
 your paper headed Wants a Wife Who
 those ''lovely and efficient beings" re-
 fused to marry James Welsh or wheth-
 CT he refused to marry them Of course
 it does not tax the brain so much to inn
 agine that they refused him, as it does
 to imagine that he refused them. But
 even though it is not probable that a
 man would refuse to pay the board of
 and be talked to by any one of these
 numerous and loauacious beings. 1t is
 within the range of possibility. If you
 wish us to believe that there is man so ounappreciativeo unalloyed happiness
 as not to marry the first woman who
 is self sacrificing enough to give up her pure, innocent uncalculating. delicate. artistic, esthetic, and refined life and do him the honor of allowing him to work for her, we can't believe it. It may be that the reason we say 1t is possible, yet can't believe it, is that we have in mind the polite, zephyr-like creatures that trail their long gowns about our clean streets and look at us through a pair of glasses attached to the end of a pole, as they move their beautiful heads and twist So graciously their wasp-lke and 1.-the figures? You see we are really not inconsistent, when we say it is possible that James Welsh refused those lovely and efficient be- ings," yet don't believe he did. When we think Of the angelic creatures upon whom we are privileged to look, and who help to make our beautiful city "historical' with these beautiful, beings with their perfectly exquisite" figures around us,how im- possible it is to imagine man so un- sound in his mind as to dream of re- fusing to allow one of them to bestow lasting happiness upon him by sitting at the breakfast table with him and talking to him. C.
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SUPERANNUATED SHIPS.

Why are Vessels Permitted to Keep the l Seas Until They Actually Sink.
 That ll-too-little-read Blue Book dealing with shipping casualties con-
 tains, hidden within its covers, facts
 which amply repay one for the trouble of digging them out. One of these
 more salient features is especially un- pleasant reading, namely, the analysis of
 the shipping loss roll of the year termin-
 ating with June 30, 1898. In plain
 English, the returns show that there is an unmstakably tendency for old ves-
 sels to meet with disaster. In fact, 1t would seem that the older vessel gets the greater are the chances that she will encounter loss. This Is borne out, not only from the list of missing and foundered vessels. but what is far more remarkable in the case of vessels which come to grief through stranding If we take, first, the case of the vessels listed as missing" then out of 31 craft tabulated in this melancholy category six only were under 5 years of age. while no fewer than 15 were either 20 or up- ward of 20 years of age. The average age of these missing vessels works out at just upon IS years. Eight of them were steamers. One of them was a new steel bark of 1,490 tons, bound from Liverpool to San Francisco. Eight of the missing ships had coal cargoes and four carried grain. Missing is of course, but one form of "foundering," as it figures in the casualty returns the only difference being, of course, that %y or,t Jnp behind to tell the story of the final dis aster, Of the vessels which met their fate by laundering, there were 34 which
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07
LA RGE WORK YONnOy

Underground railroad builders .ra
 doing some large work in London. One
 of the notable feats Is at the site of
 the Church of St. Mary, Woolnoth. The
 railroad company desired to purchase the church property, but this being inn
 possible plan was devised whereby
 the church might be preserved and a
 station constructed underneath. In pur- suance of this plan it was necessary
 to remove the massive foundations of the old building and to provide an ade- quate substitute. Seven massive box girders of steel, fifty-three feet long. were set on steel legs carried on suit able foundations below the new station floor. Two pairs of girders were ar ranged longitudinally alongside the foundation piers and arches, and were then saddled with steel needle girders let through the bases of the columns of the church and they were again sad dled by smaller needles, thus relieving the old piers and arches from the weight which they had so long car red. The work of underpinning, which is always difficult, was in this case ren- dered more than usually so by the fact that the old piers were merely Portland shells from six inches to twelve inches thick, filled in with inferior patchwork. Thus the central structure of 300 tons
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07
4S<, { Constipation. REEGHAM'S { 2 indigestion, RITZ nSsSc { 2 3lliousness, TaLkS 4 C;~k Ho.dace,~ Getthegenuineifyo f oscM siCe""~uCs want to be cured. f m men, women or 70 cents & 25 cents. .I < children, curedby at drug stores. G . 7T' -r' aes-s.-sssa.3
A NOVEL BRIDGE.
It Is an Elevator Which Spans the
 Seine at Rouen, France.

It Is an Elevator Which Spans the
 Seine at Rouen, France.
 Communications has just been estab- lished between the two banks of the Seine at Rouen. France, by means of a novel bridge. The river traffic Is great at this point, and the problem was to connect the banks without interfering with the passage of vessels. The orig inal idea was to build drawbridge, but this was given up In favor of the structure which has just been put in operation.
 The work of construction began with the erection on each bank of the river of steel pillar 200 feet in height. These pillars were designed to appear light and graceful, while being in fact mass i've and strong In every part.
 Between the pillars at height to ad- init of the passage beneath of the lar gest vessels, sort of suspension bridge was built. consisting of horizontal platform, supported by strong stee. cables, stretched between the summita of the pillars on shore. says the Phila- dephia Record The platform or base of this overhead bridge is 155 feet above the water, Upon 1t are several steel tracks, along which roll the wheels
 (Continued on Seventh Page.)
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07
ONE WAY TO DO IT.

There are different ways of seeking office. One way is to seek it as if you were trying to meet want that has long been felt by the office you seek and also by your admring fellow citizens. A man in Shelby county, Missouri, wants an office and he also feels that the office and his fellow citizens need him. So he has had his photograph taken representing himself spurred and mounted for the race. En- plazoned on his banner is the declara ton: T am willing, am ready I am suitable, I can fill the place with ease. grace, dignity and distinction, I can fill a long felt want can head the procession and lead to victory or I can get behind and drive to success: am public necessity-clear the track and push me along.''
 This is certainly frank but it may De Just as well to seek office in this way as 1t is to have some subservient newspaper say: After much urging our distinguished fellow citizen. Mr.
 haa reluctantly consented to become candidate for the office of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07

lent amount of kilogram metres. The enormous increase in the amount of oxygen absorbed and carbonic acid giv- en out must necessarily act to strain the organs, and Dr. Foxwell believes that the lungs and the right ventricle of the heart bear the brunt of the extra labor involved in short strenuous eXer- tions
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07

As an example of the way in which diamonds are increasing in market val ue, big New York jeweler said the other day that few weeks ago he had sold some diamonds at the rate of sS5 karat One of the stones was sent back to him because of some slight de feet. He sent it to the diamond GU tei who removed the flaw by cutting away a little of it and by that time, the mat ter of a week or so, the price had in- creased to $85 karat. At this time the same stones are worth S1OO a karat. He has number of diamonds put away, and he will not offer them for sale for considerable time, because he knows the price will be much greater in few months He might be tempt ed to sell some at an advance of 10 or 12 per cent, and, to make sure that he will not do so, he has deposited them in safe deposit vault, where he can not get at them easily. Diamonds are scarce, he says, and the big syndicate, of which Cecil Rhodes is the head. will take care that they never become plen- tiful again.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07

To Georgia inquiry about the work tngs of prohibition in Kansas ex-Sena- tor Ingalls replies: "The temperance people have all the law and the drink to be satisfied"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07
----------------------- FASHION NOTES.
Novelty in LoungiDg Attire.

In boudoir robes, which call room is at present a noticeable degree of originality. The reason is, perhaps. that there is great similarity between
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07

In the Bradshaw lecture before the Royal College of Physicians of London Dr. A. Foxwell states that the first re- suit of exercise is to increase the rate and depth of respiration. The respira- tory quotient-that is, the amount of carbonic acid divided by the oxygen-is not increased with exercise, as the tis- sues are as rich, if not richer, as when at rest. This necessitates an increase in the amount ot oxygen absorbed, since a man gives off more carbonic acid when undergoing exertion than when at rest. It is a strange fact that arm work per unit of work done requires a greater absorption of oxygen than climbing, while climbing takes more than walking on the level. If the amount of oxygen absorbed during sleep Is 100 grams per minute, then there would be absorbed 800 grams by a man walking at three miles per hour on the level; and 5000 grams in climb ing yard high, and in turning a wheel with the arm 1000 grams for an equiya-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07
Helen zimmern in the October Leisure

Helen Zimmern in the October Leisure Hour gives some interesting facts about modern and ancient" statuary especially the manufacture of bogus antiques. She says: First the statue Is made complete, then broken. some- times buried for while, and finally colored. The workman mixes soft sandstone with water, and with this he smooths the statue. Afterwards he rubs it down with pumice stone. then with substance called English stone. a very hard material that does not scratch the marble, but closes it's pores. This treatment gives that polish to the marble which imparts to it the look that comes from age" A liuuid con- sisting of tobacco, coffee and two or three other ingredients boiled together is painted over the whole surface and allowed to remain ten or fifteen min utes, one minute for each supposed century of life, then the statue is wash ed. The color sinks into the stone and becomes more mellow with time. These "doctored" statues are shipped to every part of the globe.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07

Consul Ridgely of Geneva reports to the State department that, according to the best estimates, from January to October 31 no less than 2,500,000 tour they have each left in the country an average of sOf. (s15.4D, or total of $3S, ,6OO, 900.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07
 ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each in' sertlon. Five Cents Word for full week tseven times).
 Display advertisements. per inch, one in- sertion, $1.20; each subsequent insertion, 4O cents; one week, $3.20: one month, Sl0; one year. $40.
 Obituary Notices, in prose or verse; 10 cents per llne Notices of Births, Mar rAges, Deaths, and Funerals. 50 cents eacn. Local Notices, 10 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to tenlr own immediate business (all matter to pc unobjectionable), and their contracts do hot Include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07

The Rt. Rev. Louis de Goasbriand, bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Vermont, who died recently, left an es- tate amounting to exactly $212. The bishop was once a very rich man. but it was his avowed wish to die a poor one. It is supposed that his money has that have been given the diocese.
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Many of the English officers in the South African war have taken their bi- cycles with them, and the war office has facilitated the taking of machines. The Sudan campaign last year was the first occasion on which bicycles were war artist, found a bicycle admirable in skipping from place to place to watch the conflicts.
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(Continued on Seventh Page.)
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-02-04
HIT Win A ROCK.
Dog Catcher George Has hurt Franklin
Arrest.a for Assauit


Dog Catcher George Has Hurt Franklin
Arrested FOR Assault.
Officers Lane aud MARTINEZ were called
TO the northeastern part OF town at about
4 o'clock this morning TO arrest Burt
franklin, the cook at the Indian school,
who was making things rather unpleas
ant for some of the neighbors In general
and George Smith, colored, better known
as DOG Catcher George" In particular.
" hen the officers arrived they found the
latter nursing badly swollen head and
the regularity OF his features 70 marred
that they could hardly Identify him.
George explained that the accident had
happened while he was using his head ss
u back stop for stone which Franklin
had hurled with terrific force. He ex.
pressed himself deeply grateful that the
rock struck him where II did and not on
the shins, where II might easily have
proven fatal.
In telling the officers the story OF the
difficulty Smith said that Franklin and
wife were AT his place raising a distur-
bance. His patience becoming exhausted
he put them out of the house, Then II
was that Franklin picked up stone and
threw II at him.
Franklin was arrested and taken 10
the city jail. This morning he was TO
have had hearing before Justice Craw-
ford but the complaining witness failed
10 put In an appearance and the case was
adjourned until Monday.
Franklin claims that Smith pulled q
revolver on him before he threw the
stone. This the latter denies.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-02-04

DEATH IN FLAMES.
Three Persons Lose Their Lives
in a Springfield, ILL.,, Fire.
Mrs. Wlthey, a Well-KuOwn Mem
Der Of the Rebekshs, a Victim
John Mcradieu. an Am .rican, Inearcer-
ated 10 a Mexican JAN.
COLD WEATHER CONTINUES.

Springfield, ILL.,, Feb 4.-In a boarding
house fire this morning three persons
were burned TO death. The dead are.
Mrs. Eva X. Withey. the proprietress Of
the boarding house; Miss Helen Rose
and j. @. Hail.
When the 6re was discovered Mrs.
Withey hurried through the house awak
ening the boarders, VINO left their rooms,
mostly In nightr0bes. Mrs. Withey after
getting her tour children out went back
into the house 10 assist j. q. Hall, eighty
years old, who occupied room on the
second floor. She groped her way
through the smoke up the stairway. Her
charred body was removed few hours
later from the ruins.
Mrs. Withey was well.known through
the state, having been state secretary OF
the Daughters OF Rebekah, |. o. D. H.,
for five years.
Miss Helen Rose was a sister Of Mira.
John McCreery, proprietress OF the 81.
Nichols hotel.
J G. Hall was a retired grocer. The
origin Of the fire is supposed to have been
defective lue.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-02-04

A telephone line from this city to
Peralta, in Valencia county. is an i'm
pr0yement soon 10 be put In operation.
Abraham Kempenich, the well-knOwn
and popular general merch ant OF Peralta,
IL In the city today making final
arrangements for the construction OF the
"long distance" telephone line. and II
IL his desire that the enterprise be ready
for business In the next thirty days. II
will cost between 800 and $500.
Ladies hsndkerchiefs, hemstitched, en-
broidered. or fancy colOred, only cents
each. at b. Ilfeld u Co.'S.
Corsets, all sizes In white or drab, only
20 cents, at llfeld's.
Art squares and rugs In all sizes al
May X Faber's.
Steel ranges. whitney Co.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-02-04
A Brutal Attack,

The people OF Albuquerque, irrespec.
tive OF party affiliations, II tbs.e ~ any
politics In II, are indignant at lhe week.
ly News, published by X. W.
Spencer, for the insult that malicious,
cowardly sheet showered this week upon
Hon. Felipe Chaves and children. Of
BeleD, over the recent death OF a beloved
wife and devoted mother. The News.
aspiring no doubt TO be humorous, C lassi
ties the death and funeral OF Mrs. Josetita
Chayes, one OF the best Spanish Amer
lean ladies In the territory, with that OF
a cooking main In this city and the
governors reception In Santa Fe, and
comments as follows: 1T seems TO be
the opinion that what one lacked In
style II made up In refreshments and
vice versa. II may be safely said OF the
Albuquerque contingent that were en-
abled TO attend both functions, that IL
WAS a matter OF indifference 10 them
who attended the funeral whether the
governor had anything to eat or drink or
not"
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-02-04

fAVORS EXPANSION.
ES.MiniSter 10 Siam Urges Reten.
lion Of the Philippines.
Colorado Railroads Hope TO Break
Snow Blockade Tomorrow.
Woman Murderess Sentenced 10 Death In
New York.
OHIO PosIoFFIcE ROBBED.

Hong Kong, Feb. i.--John Barrett,
former United States minister 10 Siam.
who IL returning TO the United States,
delivered an address yesterday 20 an
audience OF British officials and business
men, Americans and tilipinos. Regard
ing the Philippines. Barrett urged the
necessity OF the United States forming
an independent protectorate until the
ability OF the Filipinos to stand alone IL
demonstrated. the United States resery.
ing strategic naval base, like Subig
bay. giving her control Of the situation
and strengthening her throughout the
far east. Barrett declared that the diff
flculties ahead OF the United Slates had
been grossly exaggerated for the pur.
pose OF defeating the ratification Of the
treaty OF ppace