Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-07-24
United States Will Have to Pay
Dearly for Dirt.
MEN As M0fORMEN
Suggestion for the Use Of the
Havana Dry Dock.
AGAIN ST MR.. CIR Q X E r
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.


NEW YORK, July %, 1901
The United States government will soon
have to pay dearly for just such dirt as
it has been dumping into the sea for the
past four months Thousands of dollars
worth OF earth taken from the site of the
new. custom house have been wasted, and
now Uncle Sam wishes he had saved it In
order to use It in forming new island
near Ellis Island on which i government
hospital is to be erected. After long
controversy. in which many politicians
took a hand. Isaac a. Hopper. Tam many
ite. was on December 90 last AWARDED the
contract for making the excavation for the
new custom house and building the foun-
dation- About the time the contract was
awarded the government had decided to
construct new island upon which to erect
a marine hospital Such a hospital in the
upper bay has long been needed by the
government. Consequently Uncle Sans
agents arrar ged with Contractor Hopper to
transport the dirt taken from the custom
house site 10 Ellis Island.
1t not until after the excavation OF
the new site was under way that the gov
eminent became aware that it had made no
arrangements for the reception of the dirt
upon Ellis Island. Several scow loads
were emptied there and then lack of space
prevented the unloading of more, and as
no bulkhead had been erected for the new
island IL was found necessary to take the
dirt TO sea. The estimated value of the
dirt per CARLOAD is about $l2b. Several
thousand carloads of this dirt were taken
from the excavation and lowed about
twenty miles outside of Sandy Hook and
there dumped. Tn, expense of the towing
of one of these scows is about $D each
scOw carrying about $40 worth of dirt
As soon as the government makes an ap-
preparation for the building of the new is
land dirt will have to be bought for 40
cents per cubic yard
CoIIegians rs Motormen.
Scores of college men. forced to depend
upon their own exertions during the sum-
mer vacation if they desire to again take
up their studies at the opening of the
school terms in this and other states have
sought and found employment this season
as motOrmen. conductors and machinists
with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
The Collegians receive good wages, are well
liked by the railroad officials and travelling
public. and have already been found to be
thoroughly efficient and honest Honesty
counts for much, too. nowadays with con-
ductors the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company has lost ard IS StiH losing nun
dreds of dollars every week by reason OF
the peculations of fare collectors. many of
whom are from distant towns and cities.
given employment because OF the siren
UpUS need of men to man the thousands of
surface cars running from and through the
borough of Brooklyn.
Many of the college men who are study
ing electrical engineering are to be found
these days working in the machine shops
Of the railroad company. Others are en-
ployed in clerical capacity. But by far
the greater part are to be seen standing
on the front and rear platforms of the
trolley cars, CARRIED in the official blue
uniforms and visored caps of the Brooklyn
rapid transit.
The Havana Dry Dock.
Naval officers in this city are of the opin-
ion that the government could not make
any h..-- g,f.L ~, a.
dock. just bought from the Spanish gov
eminent for S1s5Oo0 than by towing 1t to
Manila There seems to be no other point
in our possessions where docking facilities
are much needed. There is at Cavite,
they say, q sort of makeshlft dry dock, in
the shape OF ways on which small ves-
sci. under 1000 tons, can be drawn out of
9he water that her hull may be overhauled
For the large vessels. however the near
est accommodation Is at Hong Kong. Cuba
would not be Inconvenience by the re-
moval Of the dry dock, as the docks on the
mainland are available. land the necessity
for a separate establishment no longer ex-
lists as it did under Spanish rule" Hawaii.
II was added, is so near to the Pacific
coast that it does not need the dock. either
To tow the great steel dock 10000 miles to
the Philippines, 1t is asserted. would not
be task Of extraordinary difficulty. II
was lowed TO Cuba from England. A float
ing uoCk behaves. when at sea, about like
heavily loaded collier II the dock does
90 70 Manila. II Is expected that the army
transports. which have hitherto made their
own arrangements for docking, both here
and abroad. will have the use of it.
Against Mr.. Croker.
The most pretentious campaign document
that has been issued yet by any of the
anti-Tammany bodies that are going TO
fight the tiger this year is entitled Some
Things Richard Croker Has Said and
Done and it will be issued for general
circulation by the City Club this week 1t
is pamphlet of thirty-two pages. and in
IL are given some of the most conspicuous
statements that have been made by the
man who IS known the "eX-sient |
leader" since he became laxative. The
introduction to the pamphlet says:
Mr. Croker is only the result of causes
more powerful than he. The enemy to the
public veal Is not Mr.. Croker, il IS the
system which he represents. The men who
contribute money to that system and who
have the power IL they had the courage to
overthrow the power and the system are
much more truly responsible for IL than Ia
any temporary boss"
As further Introductory matter, the his
tory OF Mr.. Croker by Gustavus Myers
which appeared in "A History of Tam
many Hail. is quoted. Then the remarks
of Mr. Croker in regard to the renomina-
ton OF Joseph F. DAILY for the supreme
court are quoted. and great deal of mat
ter 10 show that the Tammany chieftain is
very rich man. The rest Of the pamph-
let is made up of quotations from Mr.
Cookers many interviews
Doctors to Tour the World.
A number of the leading physicians and
surgeons of this country have started to-
gether on tour of the world. In the party
are Drs- Nicholas Sem. Jacob Frank. D. R.
Brewer. all of Chicago. and William Nc
Dowell Mastin OF Mobile Ala
They expect to visit nearly all the prin-
c!pal cities Of the world and to hold clinics
in many places before their tour is ended
There are some important medical con-
crosses 10 be held in foreign countries be-
FORE their return to this country and il is
thought they will be present at these con-
crosses. In order that they might be able to
report 70 medical colleges and associations
here any adyancements in medical science
revealed at the meetings In the minds of
many medical practitioners here this tour
around the world may have considerable
weight In placing the practitioner abroad
with a medical diploma from a reputable
American college on a higher plane. and IN
obtaining for him the recognition which he