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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08
BIRTH OF LONDON BRIDGE.
Story of It's Opening by William "
 and Queen Adelaide 71
 Years Ago.

< On August i, 1881, William ". and Queen Adelaide formally opened with much ceremony the famous LondoIf bridge; so that the structure now is aS little over Fl years old. Their majesJ ties went in grand procession from Buckingham palace to Somerset housei and thence by barge to the bridge4 The awnings of the royal barge were removed, that full view of the royaR pair could be had along the whole line. At London bridge a grand pal yiiion had been set up close to the site of Old Fishmongers' hall. It was con .structed of standards captured in a hundred fights, canopied in crimson and decorated with massive shields. When the king stepped ashore he said to two members of the London bridge committee: "Mr. Jones and MT. Routh, I am very glad to see you on London bridge. It is certainly a most beauti- ful edifice and the spectacle is the grandest and the most delightful in every respect that ever had the pleas ure to witness" This, of course, says the London News, was before anyone thought of building an annex to West minister abbey.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08
ONE OF THE ANClENT ARTS
As with Everything Else, America Has Captured the CooDehage
 Business of the World;

Cooperage is one of the ancient arts born, doubtless, of the necessity of having proper vessels for preserving wines. The London coopers we're in corporated into a guild in 1501i As usual, America has captured the coop craze business of the world. The Ma tional Barrel and Cooperage company declares that 2o0,oo0,oo0 barrels are used annually. I could mention. one company alone that turns out 4p,0o0 a day, or 12,5oo,0Oo year. Its pFod- uct includes casks, kegs, all sorts of barrels, butter tubs, pails, churns, |etc Our boundless forests gave us the( ad- vantage in cooperage. We supply nearly all the rest of the world with barrels, casks and slaves, our annual product being valued at more than $40,000,00o. For. casks to hold liquids oak is used, while for sugar and flour and other dry substances nothing has been found to equal elm. The maspu- lecturers have bought up millionsl of acres of forests to guard against a scarcity of barrel material. They are Eandals, like the rest of the timber users. Sufficient unto the day is the forest thereof. If they can make $1,0oo,o ,oooin a lifetime by utterly deyas- tating 10000, 100000 acres of precious woodland, why, they will make tbe S1 OOO .OOO
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08

Prof Charles Willard Hayes is about to issue . report which twill embody the results of the investigation of the Texas oil supply made by the geologi- cal survey. Prof Hayes, speaking of the fuel value of the Texas oil says that it has fuel value per barrel of s as compared with coal at $6.50 to ST per ton. Last year there were shipped from Texas 100000 barrels of oil at a cost ranging from 40 to 30 cents per ton, therefore the likelihood of oil coming into competition with coal as a widely used fuel is most promising. Up to date, however, there is no oil burner on the market which gives entire satisfaction. That this want will be supplied in the not distant future is probable. Messrs C. A. Snow &tCo, solicitors of patents in Washing ton, state that already the attention of large number of Inventors is turned in this direction, and they are almost daily in receipt of inquiries on the sub ject The inventor who succeeds in producing a burner which will meet the required demand has fortune before him. Prof Hayes states confidentially that the time Is not distant when oil will enter into genuine competition with coal, but there are already ru, mors of an effort on the part of the coal barons to secure a corner on the oil lands.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08

Either MT Roosevelt is developing into masterful politician or else he has some exceptionally clever advisers, is the verdict of the. democratic man. 5agers. His apparent desire to accom- plish control of the trusts was sur prise to the democrats, involving, as it did, a clever scheme for diverting pub lie attention from the one essential remedy, tariff revision, but he has car ried the game still farther and has sue ceeded in getting Senator Platt to an- nounce that he will not favor the in dorsement of MT Roosevelt in the New York republican state convention, and aided and abetted by the leading re- publican papers, has created the im- pression that Wall street is against him. With those persons who do not see through the ruse the scheme will prove successful The large majority of the people have come to regard Wall street as adverse to their interests, and rightly so and general impression that Wall street is opposed to MT Roosevelt will make, for his popularity on all sides.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08
MOST vERsA1ILE OF PEERS.
An English Noks1eman Who Is a Preacher and asehooImasteR @
 in ETurns.

One of the most peculiar of English dignitaries is. Lord N ormanby, who is a clergyman living in a castle, who. not only attends strictly to the duties of his ecclesiastical office, but runs a school as well. Many sons of noblemen have been trained at Lord Normanby's beautiful Mullgrave. castle, overlooking the North sea- near Whitby, and the marquis, who is at once proprietoran and headmaster of the sehaol, has won for it a lasting reputation. His boys are perhaps the only boys in England to call the.holder of five titles of peerage "headmaster." It is said that Lord Normandy gently wields an iron rod and that his discipline is of the, strict est kind, but no boy has ever left him, it is said, with anything but the hap piest of recollections
 A story which ought to be true has been told of the marquis, who is, more over, a canon of Windsor and a friend 1.-the king. The wife of millionaire, the story goes, wrote to Lord Norman by proposing to send her son to his school and asking if his lordship was careful about the social position of his pupils. She must have been aston ished by Lord Normanby's answer, which ran: Madam: For so long as your son conducts himself we'll and pays due attention to his worl-I shall make no inquiries as to the antece- dents of his paEents.n
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08
SCIENTIFIC AGRIcULTURE.
Not Enough Attention Paid to It by Young Men in the Colleges
 of To-Day.

Secret tary Wilson believes that not enough attention is paid to scientific agriculture by the colleges of to-day. and he has taken up the agitation of this matter as hobby, reports the Brooklyn Eagle Wherever hesmakes a speech he tells his hearers that his department utilizes the services of every young man it can find who has had athorough a training in some branch of scientific agriculture There is great demand for this kind of serv- ice, and the department has the utmost difficulty in holding on to it's experts because of the growing outside calls that are being made on them. There are about 2,ooo people in the depart ment of agriculture who are engaged on scientific agricultural work, yet hardly one of them came into the gov ernment service fully equipped. Sec retary Wilson calls attention to this fact to emphasize his statement that the colleges should give more thought and attention to the development of agricultural sciences. There. are some 50 agricultural colleges in the country calling for competent teachers, and some 60 or 70 agrieal ltural experiment stations, where there is always an opening for a trained scientist. There is money insbecoming an agricultural expert, and Secretary Wilson thinks that our young men would do well to choose such profession rather than the overerowded fields of law md med iCine
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08
FIVE FREIGHT wREcks.
Pennsylvania Railroad Has That
 Number In One Day.

Pennsylvania Railroad Has That
 Number In One Day.
 ALTOONA, Pa, Sept. S.-Five freight wrecks occurred yesterday between Johnstown and Harrisburg on the Pennsylvania railroad system. The first occurred at 2 o'clock in the morning and was caused by a runaway freight train crashing into another freight train at McGarvey's station, three miles west of Altoona. Ten cars and the locomotive of the runaway train were derailed and broken. Fireman William G. Allison broke his left arm jumping from the engine, but no one else was hurt
 A short time later freight train on the Cresson and Clearf1eld road parted near Frugality, and the two sections came together again with great force wrecking several cars. Brakeman ] E, Gutschall was taken from under tht cars dead, and Brakeman c. L. Steel died on his way to the Altoona hos pitaI. Later there was wreck at Per Royal caused by burned journa Nine cars loaded with valuable meI chandise are said to have been de stroyed. Shortly afterward there wG a wreck at Millerstown, and five load ed cars are said to have been broke to pieces, the result of broken whee Another wreck occurred at, Ryde, all, several cars were broken u9-
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08
HEARD Ia PASSING


 Small talk is the loose change O gsaZ- versation. Intellectual capitalists dom have much of it, but then they are not as common as financial capitalists. We are glad to see that w. K. Van. derbilt, 1T, is going to confine his high speed experiments to his railroad We recommend that all automobile fends buy railroad and follow his example. A German scientist suggests that in- asmuch as mosquitoes are the prey of dragon flies, and as they avoid that in sect, the bodies of dead dragon-fio bung up as scare-crows- scare-mos- quftoes.
 Cleveland, O., is the latest city to adopt the travelling library plan fol shops and factories which has proved so successful whenever tried The public library must be brought to the workers if they are to get full benefit from 1t.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08
THE BRITISH LOAD LINE.
Vessels Are. Not Permitted to Garry .i.y surplus Gargoes in English st Waters

5 A short time since the captain of a Dutch vessel here took the singular step of making application to one of the bodies satIthnrized to fassignt the load line to have fhes line marked on the side of the vessel, says London < Fairplay. This was carried out and
 the vessel was then loaded The , captain found that the disk was sub merged, and in the coolest way possi- .4ble appears to have waited on sthe board of trade officials and to have asked them for permission for hisves- sel to sail in her overloaded condi- tion. To his great surprise he was told by the officials that his vessel would be detained until, the surplus cargo was taken out of her. He urged that the load line act applied to British ships only and that consequently his vessel could not be interfered with. It was explained to him that the act referred to foreign as well as British ships and that at any rate, he had ..giv- en himself away" by actually adopting the British loadline
 The officials visited the Dutch yes- sel when it was discovered that the disk had been incorrectly. assigned, being .trife higher up the ships side than it should have been so that in fact she was more overloaded than she even appeared to be. A quanti- ty of cargo was ordered to be dis charged-four times the quantity that brought the vessel to her incorrectly assigned loadhnFs The Dutch captain sailed a sadder man.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08
Roosevelt and the Cowboy Race

DEADWOOD, $. D, Sept. s. Presf- dent Roosevelt has placed himself on record as opposed to any inhuman use of horses in the coming cowboy race from Deadwoodi to Omaha. Captain Seth Bullock has received from Secre- tary Cortelyou message containing a request from the president in which he asks Captain Bullock to exercise great caution to see that horses used in the contest are properly cared for en route and their strength not oyertaxed. Much interest is being taken in the contest, which will be one of the greatest of its kind since the race to Chicago during the Worlds fair.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08
Aluminium for Paper

It is stated that experiments with aluminium asa substitute for paper are now under way in France. It is now possible to roll aluminium into sheets four-thousandths of an inch in thickness, in which form if weighs less than paper. By the adoption of suitable machinery these sheets can. be made even thinner and cant be used for ck9tahd writing paper. The metal will not oxidize, is practically fire, and water proof, and is inde- structible by worms
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1902:
Our facetious and at times sarcastic

Our facetious and at times sarcastic contemporary, the Washington Post, says: After showing what a fine thing the trusts are for the public, the makers of the republican campaign text book. proceed to demonstrate how the administration is going to smash them." But bless the Posts innocent soul, the administration has no idea of smashing them. They are in the main responsible for the administration $ existence, and the creature will not De so unnatural as to destroy its creator: And of the facts in the case no one is better nor more fully informed than the Post.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08
The Daily Work

 It's the daily work of the little conqueror. The workings right here at home. Lifting burdens from helpless backs, Bringing sunshine to many home. It's deeds that count
 That bring the never-ceasing sounds of praise. The public are learning fast
 Learning to appreciate merit,
 Learning to distinguish between claims and proof Home proof IS the best proof DOANs KIDNEY PILLS are indorsedby Waterbury Read what a Waterbury citizen says:
 MT William street T ID many hard days but of late years nave no backache nau attacks of it accompanying it there was urinary remedies, but all efforts useless until Pills accounts about similar and de ermnng at H. w. Lakes drug store This box cured backache" s1s .{ All druggists sell DOANs KIDNEY PILLS. Don't accept substitute Foster A1ilburn Co.,. Buffalo, N. x.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08
The rxaiser,s American stocks.

The German emperor is reputed to have nearly s3,ooo,ooo invested in Union Pacific and other American railway stocks, lately acquired; his experiences in German investments under the recent collapse of specula- tion and industry having proved cost ly to hiIn
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08
NATIONAL DE OF PRUSSIA.
In 1900 It Amour ed to About s,z0O,- 100000 Mar How It Waa
 Chiefly incurred.

An article on tI National Debts of the World' appd rs in the North
 American Review It is on ssThe Public Debt of Prussia, nd is from the pen of Dr. Adolph Wagner, professor of political economy @n Berlin university. Prussia appears be in very happy case. Summing his description of her financial obl @ations, which were czainly incurred purchasing or con- structing railway Dr. Wagner says:
 "Prussia's state 51ebt, including her share in the i1mpN8 rial debt, amounted for the year 19od Q about 8,2oo,000,oo0 marks, entailing| an outlay of about 821,000,000 mark (not reckoning the sinking fund of the imperial debt). That is to- say, Nit represents about 244 marks of caIE bal and 9.5 marks of annual charges p r head of the popula-. .tion, against 314 E1arks and 12.5 marks in Great. Britaina and 629 marks and 21.2- marks in F rnce. But, in these latter countries, Doth the interest and the repayment the debt have ito come almost ent@ @.eIy out of the pock cts of the people, whereas in Prussia, as in the whole q Germany, this isen- tirely achieved b the surplus from the state railways a dv other government gproperty-a surI@ @us so large that it suffices besides P cover nearly balf the expenditures bfthe army and navy, so that only the8 other half and the charges of the Hivil administration have to be provided for .out of the taxes.''
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-23

Run OVER BY A TRAIN.-L'nwood
Beck. q en.yesr-old colored boy,
fell under the wheels OF train at $40
O'Clock yesterday morning at Maryland
avenue and Ninth street, Washington,
and suffered the loss of his lett hand
and part of hls right foot, besides
fracture OF the left shoulder and severe
bruises about the head ADD body. Beck
was on his way from bis home In Coar'
iottesyille to Wsshinstop. He had no
funds 30 he resolved to steal ride on o
Southern freight train some distance
out OF Chsrlott esville, and passed
through this city shortly after s'x
O'Clock. When he reached the Mary
land avenue and Ninth street crossing
he jumped, but the train was moving
faster than be thought, and be was
thrown heavily. He could not prevent
rolling toward the ack, and his left
hand and right foot we're caught. he
struck upon his shoulder. fracturine 1t,
and be was badly stunned by striking
his head upon the pavement. he was
removed TO The Emergency Hospital
where he will be operated upon. The
accident gave currency to rumor 10
this city that Beck was a colored man
ADD that he had been killed outright by
q G., g. o. passenger train.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-23

WANT THE LooP.-Presidert Abbot
OF the electric railway company last
night petitioned the City Council for
permission to connect the Fairfax and
ROYAL streets tracks by building one
ga ,re OF track on Prince, In order to
form g loop around the block. The OBJ
jsct Is TO abolish the operations at the
dangerous Y at the intersection OF King
and Royal streets. The company offers
to put down granite curbing from
Primers alley on Fairfax street to
ROYAL and pave the roadway from
the former to the latter point with vitri
fied brick should the permission be
granted. The two boards OF Council
sdopted a recommendation OF the COM
mjttee on streets directing the Corpora
ton Attorney to prepare an ordinance
embodying the terms Of the petition
The preliminsriss for paving with vitri-
f,ed brick from Lee to Fairfax on
Prince have been made, and should
Council grant the petition OF the rail-
wsy company the work will be brought
to Royal street, and property-owneIr,ss
on the west of that thoroughiare Will
want il extended.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-23

ODD FELLOWS ENTERTAINMENT -
The Sarepta Lodge of Odd Fellows
will give go entertainment at the-Opera
House on Friday evening, April 25, and
a most enjoyable evening msy be spent
there, as an excellent programme has
been arranged. Among the features
will be the favorlte artists. w. 81. Con-
ley and J. Il. Ostbell, who are great
favorites 10 Alexandria. Another spe
cial feature Is q series of magnificent
pictures in high oolors of the late Pan
American Exposition and President
McKtnlsy's visit there, assassination,
death bed and funeral 10 Buffalo,
Washington and Canton, Ohio. Still
another will be the beautiful illustrated
songs, the latest songs of the day, sung
by some of the best Alexandra talent,
and q number OF other features In the
programme that 60 toward making up
a very pleasant evening, besides help
ing worthy Alexandria institution.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-23

WEDDING. - Miss Anna Augusta
Moore, daughter of Mr.. VIM. A Moore,
o. this city, and Mr.. Walter N. Plser,
of New York, we're married 10 the
Second Presbyterian Church at 1l.SO
O'Clock this morning. Rev. DR.. +. J.
Brooke performed the ceremony. The
church bad been tastefully decorated
for the occasion. The auditorium was
filed with friends and acqusir tarcss OF
the families represented. At the ap'
pointed hour the contracting parties
and attendar t. entered the church as
the soft strains OF the wedding march
rose upou the air. Upon reaching the
front OF the pulpit and after the music
from the organ had ceased, the happy
couple we're pronounced man and vile
according t. the Impressive ceremony
of the Presbyterian Church. Toe ushers
were: T. Fl. Piser. B ,stori Ralph Piser,
Shushsn. n. ", and Arthur Plssr, Bal.
timore, Nd, brothers of the gro m, and
Messrs. A. O. Saymsker, Il. p. Dem
ares, and w. A. Moore, jr. Mr.. and
Mrs. Piser left at IL Is o'clock on a
bridal trip for New York. They will
reside ct Shushap, New York. The
piits were numerous and embraced
many useful and costly articles.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-23

OyFrorAI, VIsITATIoN.-There was @
large gathering of members OF the
ROYAL Arcanum at the regular NEE ting
OF Alexandris Council last night, and
one of the pleassntest evenings Ia
connection with the history OF that or
der was spent. The occasion was the
official visit OF Grand Regent Robert
W. Arnold. After the transaction OF
some business the members and WIS.,
itors repaired to the banquet hall 10
McBurney's building where splendid
collation. had been spread. After 1t had
been duly discussed, Mr.. ]. E SbinD,
90 Regent. called the sssemblage 10 or
der and introduced Mr.. A. G. Uhler,
the Oldest living Past Regent Of Alex.
andris Couucil, who delivered suit
able address OF welcome to Grand Re.
gent Arnold. The latter responded In
en- appropriate aud happy manner, and
at the conclusion OF his speech present.
ed Regent shiDn with Past Regents
Jewel as q token Of appreciation OF his
services. Past Regent Uhler acted as
toastm sster during the evening and
successfully introduced Grand Regent
w. II. Brigham, Of the District OF CO.
lumbis; Past Grand Regent Charles o.
Berry, OF Stauntop; Grand Orator
Biddis, of the District OF Columbia, and
Grand Secretary J. B. Blanks. A num-
Der OF Wasbingtonians we're present,
most of whom were to make speeches,
but on account OF the late hour they
were compelled to leave In order to
take the last train for their homes.
Mrs. A. Rsmmel 81 Sons were the
caterers. The bills of fare were printed
by Markell & 90. They we're artistic
and reflected credit upon the pritters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-23
LOCAL RREYITIES.

A horse attached to one OF the wagons
belonging to the Alexandria Brick
Works became exhausted yesterday at
the intersection of Lee and Wolfe
streets.
Mr.. James McCuen has been award
ed the col tract for furnishing the gov
ernment with all the broken stone re.
Quired for work at the Washington
navy yard.
Tho excursion steamer Samuel J.
Pepiz will undergo her annual inspec-
ion OF the bands of the United States
steamboat inspectors tomorrow or
Thursday. She had recently under
zone repairs 10 Washington and yes.
day made a trial tip down the river.
Chairman M. 1. Weller. OF the CON-
mittee on public comfort OF the Grand
Army OF the Republic encsmpment. will
shortly communicets With The proprie.
tors Of hot ale 10 Alexandria, and other
oeighboriDg cities, witha view Of OBJ
talning information relative to their
rates and ommodations.
Some of the 6neit tomatoes and
spring onions seen 10 this city for q
oug time are being sold by M, B. II.
Jenkins OF his store, southwest corner
of Duke and Fairfax streets.
Mr.. Robert Travers will have fine roe
sbsd and other varieties of fresh fish IL
market tomorrow.
1t has been learned that John Paul Jonc
iined with Lafayette 10 this city in the sprin
Of 1897. They met by accident on thei
| way from Georgetown, 8 c., and Lafayett
was so much pleased with Jones that he in
listed that the latter stop in Alexhn dris an
dine with him.
The committee on public property, jail IL
| spectors and the City Engineer TO-DAY In
| spected the jail 30 see what repairs and In
| provements are necessary. TIE committe
1 will meet this week and prepare a report
be submitted to Council on the subject.
In the Corporation Court today in the oas
| G. II. MeKerney w. J. Il Beach the report
Commissioner Valshsn was Confirmed and
decree was entered appointing J. &. Cato
special commissioner 10 execute necessar
deeds, &c.
Mr.. 6, L. Monroe of the city gas works Ia
dsy mailed TO elk gas construction compsnie
the plans aud specifications for improvin
the city gas pant and asked that bids for th
work be submitted.
Ger. Egbert L. viele died suddenly 81 hl
home in New York yesterday, aged seventy
Igx, During the early portion OF the civ
war the deceased was military governor
this city.
A number of Alexsndrisns went 10 Wsst
ington today to witness tho game OF baseba
between the Boston and Washington clubs
Joseph Hens, formerly Of this city, dIs
in Providence, 3. J., LAST Monday, aged -?
years.
Water was turned Into the ehesspeal