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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-18
LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

The senate was in session for TWEEN
tv-fye minutes Yesterday. Fiyebills were
presented three of them by Senator
Anderson. One was of Importance to
the State at large. 1t is to allow the
construction of telegraph lines chartedl
bv this or other States along the lines OF
railroads doing business in Virginia.
The law now allows telegraph companies
to construct telegraph lines along public
roads and on private lands, but prohlollts
such work along railroads, unless the
consent of the railroad is first obtained.
The bill seeks to place the lands OF rail-
roads ON the same footing as private
lands for the purpose indicated.
Among the bills passed were:
To prevent live stock from running at
large upon the highways of the Com
monwealth.
To provide for the construction OF
the corporate limits of cities and towns
To amend the Code granting peremp-
tory light of plaintiff and defendant
in civil cases to challenge jurors.
To provide for the corporate limits OF
towns.
The first bill to become a law was
that introduced by Senator Barksdale
providing for extending the time for
filing and paying of pension claims. II
came from the House with an amend
ment extending the privilege to cities
as well as counties, and it was concurred
in.
HOUSE.
After few preliminaries the House
took up the calendar and passed the fol-
lowing bills:
To provide for the payment OF pen
sioners under the pension act of April z,
1902. whose claims were not approved
and filed in the Office of the auditor o.
public accounts prior to September l.
1902.
To authorize the Home of Needy Con
federate Women to use for the purpose
of enlarging its present buildings a
Richmond, or for purchasing land or fol
erecting new buildings on a new site, the
sum of IS, 900, which was appropriated
to it by act approved April 2, 1902:
To provide for the payment OF pen
sioners under act of March 7, 1900, whose
claims were not approved under pro
visions of act of April 2, 1902, and fileC
in the Office of the auditor of public ac
counts prior to September /, 1902.
Bills were introduced to amend thu
law in relation to tax sales.
For the election Of circuit Judges.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-18
The Market.

Georgetown. Nov. ls.-wheat 7Oa70.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-18
THE CORPORATIONS COMMISSION.

Sold by al Druggists, 15c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
New-York tribune., 1902-11-16

Only those who were considered fit by Mrs. Ting
ley admitted to these mysteries Of mysteries
Thus, her former bookkeeper told how he had been
admitted to the Esoteric Society of TheOsophy
while his wife debarred Every one joining
this inner circle must give up all secular ties.
Purple. according TO this bookkeeper, was the
color Of highest honor and only Mrs. Tingley
purple. Thus she called by some the Purple
Mother" Her gown described as a Grecian
affair. loose and flowing. White ranked next and
15I ol 5op Sst Iah Wa REQ An OF te unlVeTsa
Hill TO greet the sunrise. The Esoteric Society
Of Theosophy had still other rites. in which Mrs.
Tingley was the central and most mysterious fig
ure These ceremonies arc performed in what is
According TO some witnesses brought forward by
Mr.. Davis, husbands and wives are often separated
by Mrs Tingey. and their children taken from
them 10 be cared for at the RaJa Yoga school.
was compelled TO get his children back by habeas
corpus proceedings and found them when they
Green the grandmother OF the children, tells fur
sleep together in tents. Thus twenty boys and
girls sleep in single tent. she says where their
hands are tied together around their necks by a
fourteen-yesr-old girl; who goes around at night
teps tS dg T We GtefR al % seSaa six weeks
Ny daughter. Mrs. Bohn. was either crazed or
tssre RaPefne nsey S IS regardee eO0a hish
priestess. and all her followers bow down and
are guarded. Great secrecy prevails. Mrs Ting
g ys ss IN eoTe My sy G% the sa
starved when they were rescued. while my daugh-
eaten with them or ever put them TO bed Instead
she used 10 march past them once a day, bare
foot and in white robe, 10 greet the sunrise
More grotesque than anything else which has
been said about the Point Iona scnool is the story
OF the favorite dog Of Mrs. Tingey. IL is a King
Charles spaniel and in cold weather wears a
blanket- His name is Spots, because as one OF the
ioIIner followers OF the creed rather coloquially
expressed II, ''he could spot a TheosOphist at
sight, The spaniel is said TO have been given to
Mrs. fingley by William q. Judge. When Mr.
spos. Aceordingly. the dog Is said 10 be regarded
- - an OBJECT or reverence at Point Iona and Mrs
fingey is once reported 20 have said OF the epanie
Know that Mr.. Judges spirit is in Spots dl-
~ stflking contrast with such statements is the
1erssnSe 9i MRS Tlngley by DR., Van Peit, the su-
petlnteIaent or her school. She calls the school
internationaL where IN time IL is hoped 10 have
.t{lsISsehtaL,ses from every country. Such COM
fninshns' she says. viii bring out broader IDEAS
New-York tribune., 1902-11-16

situated along the river banks. Now there is moth
ing but bare earth, with now and then tree crowned
hillocks. which win be islands soon Surveyors
marks stand like monuments. marking the death
of communities Villages. factories, homes groves
and fields, and even the surface of the ground,
gone. that Boston and her neghbors may have
pure water and plenty OF il. Nearly $50 GEO. 900 has
been expended since the work began and before it
is finished the cost of this reservoir with its
aqueduct, will not be less than S60,OO0.000
The basin occupies the broad valley OF the Nashua
River and lies partly in the towns Of Boylston
West Boyston Clinton and Sterling. The town of
West BoyIston has been the greatest sufferer from
the wholesale taking Of land by the Commonwealth
The village-the centre it is called-lay in
the lower part of the valley. a thriving factory
town, with pleasant streets and well built houses
1t has been entirely destroyed. that to-day there
is scarcely anything 10 mark the place. Mills
churches. schools, residences have all been torn
down, and the ground on which they stood de-
nuded OF trees and stripped OF all vegetable mat
ter 10 the depth of two feet. West Boylston
of the old villages OF Central Massachusetts,
and houses that had stood for centuries and from
whose roofs had gone men to four wars have been
demolished. and the people who were born there
and heard their grandparents tell stories of mus
ter day on the common have been driven away TO
seek new homes Among the last go two
old women one eighty-seven and the other ninety
three. whose parents and grandparents had lived
in the house from which they driven. The
Rev. Joseph Warren Cross. the Oldest living grad
uate OF Harvard College, who called West Boylston
his home and preached in the Stone Congregational
compelled TO go away and to give up those things
he held most dear
Great and important is the work and willing
and able pay is the State the people who
have give up their homes feel that there is a
form of peace as horrible as war and none are sat
New-York tribune., 1902-11-16
IT WILL BE A LAKE.
WACRUSETT BASIN TO COW
Err 4,I95 ACRES.
WITH A CAPACITY OF SIXTY-THREE
BILLION GALLONS-TO SUPPLY BOS-
TON AND NEARBY TOWNS.

Riding from Worcester. Mass. to the town OF
Clinton by electric passes, and, II inter
ested in big things, stops AT. the eastern side of
the great Wachusett Basin OF the metropolitan
Vater system the largest reservoir in the world
and Of the most important works ever at
tempted By the commonw ealth. Seven years ago
the work begun this basin, which. when
completed will 62O6S 9Oo OO1 gallons Of water
and will supply Boston and the towns within a ten
mile radius OF the State House. To-day the en-
Eineers beginning to look forward 10 the time
when the water viii I'LL the hollow of 4l95 acres
and splendid lake. eight and half miles long
and two miles wide. viii take the place OF the bare
dusty ground where thousands OF laborers and
hundreds Of horses have been at work so long
The Wachusett Basin is only part of the system
started years ago. though II is to be the larger
part, and il gets it's from the mountain which
is in the background rides from
Worcester TO Clinton, and marks the western limit
Of the watershed Fiye years ago this was one Of
the most thriving valleys IN Central Massachusetts,
with fertile fields Natered by the Nashua River
and it's tributary streams. and providing some Of
the best farm land I'm all New England Old farm
houses were scattered here and there, and several
pretty and busy villages and large mills were
New-York tribune., 1902-11-16

mill PRIVILEGES on the streams revoked The s cues
9 M pta Of the S e much 9 of the
attention of the board and land was taken in Ian
caster and filter beds established and pipe lines
built, and now these two towns have complete
and nearly. perfect a system of sewage disp9-
connection with this. i might be We'll to state state
was united with the Metropolitan Sewage Board
the two commissions becoming one , -,
sachusetts Railroad was recently begun. Six miles
of this track is along the Nashua River. through
let in will be nearly one hundred feet below the
surface. Half dozen surveys were made for the
new line and about three months ago work
begun along the line OF the new location Between
seven and eight miles OF track will be rebuilt
partly by the Commonwealth and partly by the
Boston and Maine Railroad The new stations
VIII oe made ana one or the Ola ones abollshed-
OF the highways that have been relocated and
towns ard some WeTe private r@adwaVs The
new roads have all been constructed as State
banSfited Pretfier drives th5n tbese viii ha xgben
the basin is filed scarcely be imagined. with
wooded hills on one side and a broad. clear lake
In the town OF Clinton it has been necessary to
build two huge dikes with cutoffs to defect the
ponds and to form protecting division lines in the
reservoir itself Roadways viii be built along the
TOP ot these dikeS to FORM short cuts across the
AS has been already stated the land TO be flooded
been cut down and the stumps removed Brushland
and from the whole area OF the basin the soil to a
depth OF two feet or more either has been renewed
for contamination by decaying organic matter. An
idea OF the magnitude of this work alone be
gained when II Is known that the water surface Of
the reservoir will be 4.195 acres SIS square
miles. Not tree. bush blade OF grass IS to be
left to be covered by the water. For this part OF
the work negroes have been generally employed
with their accompaniment. mules. This Is the first
time this combination has been used TO any extent
in Massachusetts. The larger part of the abOrers
employed Italians. however.
The wachusett Reservoir; when flooded. will con-
tain So 0Ss 00O0 gallons Of water. Its shore line
exclusive Of islands Is 354O miles. The watershed
covers OF 3 square miles. In its con-
struction four churches four schools six mills
"a dwellings have been destroyed. and In per-
driven from their homes Six and hfty-six
hundredths miles Of railroad will be flooded and
70 Il miles Of highway. This does not take into
account the factories closed along the tributary
streams. nor the changes necessary on account OF
consequential damages. The property owners with
in the limits OF the basin have been reimbursed by
tho State fun for their land, and also those
whose property has been actually taken for works
outside the basin. Damages have been awarded
to individuals throughout the entire area OF the
watershed and the towns OF Clinton, BOylston
West Boylston and Sterling have been awarded
damages for injury done to business and on ac-
count Of decreased tax value of property in the
towns.
New-York tribune., 1902-11-16

isfed with the result OF Boston's call for help
In the town of Clinton it found that ST.
Johns Catholic Cemetery lay below the level Of the
water and would have TO he moved A piece of land
In another part OF the town was taken and prepa-
rations made 10 have the bodies removed to the
new cemetery. Here the commission struck snag
that delaying the work for months
Two factions arose in the parishes represented In
the cemetery and for some time there were inter
nal chickering's and threats OF litigation, until the
Bishop Of Springfield settled the matter one side
wished the commission to take charge OF the re-
moval Of the bodies, and the other insisted that
the work oS changing the graves he done by the
parishes. 1t was finally settled by a committee
being selected by the parishes TO assist the com
mission. The work OF removal began with the
work of excavation. and the workmen engaged in
clearing the ground for the reservoir worked for
a time surrounded by monuments and tombstones
The Wachusett Basin lies in the broad part OF
the Nashua Valley. between the hills OF Princeton
and Rutland side and range OF hills run
ming north OF Worcester the other. At point
In Clinton the valley narrOws 10 ravine OF ESQ
feet. and 1t IS here that the dam which is to hold
back the is being built and IS now nearing
completion. The first stone laid June ., 1901
and to-day the masonry walls are about thirty
feet above ground. This dam is 10 be- OF solid
masonry. twenty eight feet thick at the bottom
and nineteen feet at the top. When completed II
will be lA feet from the bed rock TO the surface OF
the water and It's top VIII De $50 teet above ths
level Of tide water at Boston Stone for its con-
slructon is furnished BY quarres in the immediate
cable conveyOrs directly to the work
From the dam an aQueduet VIII convey the wa
ter TO the Sudbury Reservoir, eleven miles a"ay
through two miles OF tunnel, seven Of covered ma
sonry and three miles OF open channel The sud
bury reservoirs were constructed ny lht CltE OF
Boston in 1875 and are now part Of the metropolitan
system and the property OF me comm9nweatth-
commission in looking into the purity Of the
shed of IS-2 square miles has been surveyed
and where necessary property mas ueen taken ana
New-York tribune., 1902-11-16

and higher type of manhood and wOmanhoOd"
The education" she adds. lis laid out on the
fled with nothing less than the best. The forcing
system does not exist for the whole aim Is to draw
tory Tor instance. he Is taught TO study the law
OF cause and effect. the reason FOR the rise and
mass OF hfeless facts. Besides this. the children
are taught music. dramatic art, drawing, painting
according to their aptitudes- They also learn
botany astronomy geology and the other sciences
me CiiIdSter Is also deVelopeu me chd must
become self-reiiant earnest and capable of assum-
As the dog Spots she says:
of the ordinary in taking the trouble
10 deny the grotesque statements about a little
dog made by some Of our malgners were IL not
thdi some regarded intelligent have apparently
made these statements seriously. There is, to be
sure, lttle dog at the Point named Spots-a great
pet with every body, and it is just possible that
some may have been heard to say in fun (for even
very earnest people may relax into baby talk)
that Spots is very wise, and knows a good The
ps9pnlst at slght or that he, knows al that is
people. But | should be sorry for any one who
could not discriminate between fun and serious
ments which have been made about him are the
results OF imaginatons which are 10 say the least
unnecessary: ana as said before 10 the person
Of average intelligence it is unnecessary TO deny
Mrs. Tingley holds that the best moral and in
tellectual results cannot be obtained without a
sound physical basis, so it is considered duty to
guard ana improve the children's health l should
like 10 contradict the statement that they are ever
allowed TO go out improperly clothed. But il must
fornia is very mild and that rarely rains there
The wonderful climate helps in this but its effect
propriate physical exercises and other means Two
physicians at least are always call. in case OF
Mrs. Tingley first married in 1861 to r. II
Cook. Some years later he about 10 sue for
remarked While living in this CITY. at No la
West Sixty-eghth-st; in 1892. Mrs. Tingley ac-
cording 10 DR.. II. H. Resethin, who lived next door
known maSSeuSe and hypnOtiSt
New-York tribune., 1902-11-16

an active canvass is being made among new
members of the House. On the latter the Can
non supporters depending for the basis az
his strength. Among those who are conducting
the campaign for Cannon the claim Is made
that he has a lead OF about seventy votes
pledged to him, which makes formidable show
ing when it is considered that it is still earIv
in the campaign and that it takes 1O4 votes to
make majority in the House. In Congress
circles at Washington it is the opinion that the
estimate of seventy for Cannon is a little too
big. but it is conceded that he is in the lead
By some 1t is claimed that the West is NOT
united in the support of the Illinois man, be-
cause Hull. of Iowa. is not for Cannon. al
though he will be guided by the decision Of the
majority Of his delegation Then, too. it is as
serted that Indiana is divided on the Speaker
ship question though the party press in the
HOosier State is generally for Cannon. With
the probabilities that the now wide open game
will become a complicated situation later on
when the contest is fairly at the national
capital, when Congress meets, the friends Of
Uncle Joe" Cannon are sanguine OF success
Cook County. of which Chicago is the county
seat. has an official regarding whom little is
known. except by the owners of vacant lots
who pay taxes thereon. This otherwise obscure
place holder manages to break into the news
papers once year. ard it IS then that the gem
eral public becomes aware or is reminded OF the
existence Of the thistle detective" II is. when
he makes his annual report 10 the County Treas
urer. detailing the years hunt for the Canadian
thistle in Cook County and the efforts to rid
vacant lands Of the pest. On his urging and
notification the owners Of unimproved property
are moved to take steps to clear the premises
belonging to them of the thstes- The means Of
doing so successfully are best known to the
detective who is an expert in his line and for
his services the landowner is taxed certain
sum in addition to a monetary penalty to the
County Treasurer so long as the nuisance ex-
lists So, in compelling some landowners to COM
ply with the law we'll getting after those
who fail To do so. the thistle detective man
ages to get good thing out Of his little county
job From the report just made TO the Treas
urer ii looks as II the thistle man will reap big
harvest OF dollars, as according to his estimate,
there are some hundred thousand property
owners with whom he is in official cOmmunica-
tion regarding the removal of the Canadian
agricultural pest.
New-York tribune., 1902-11-16
ELECTRICITY IN MINES.
POWER BROUGHT To THE COMSTOCE
LODE THIRTY MILES

In few industries has electricity been utilized 70
such advantage as in mining Operations are there
conducted a general thing. in a mountainous
region where the cost of fuel is exceptionally high
owing to the difficulties Of transportation II
power be taken from the adjacent streams and be
converted into electricity by dynamos it can be
transmitted economically for long distances and Up
grades that would be impossible 10 railways. Once
obtained. matter from what source, power -
needed for many purposes in and nine
Drills must he driven into the rock. water pumped
out, ore hoisted and ground. and other work done
which calls for mechanical energy.
One Of the best Illustrations of this modern prae-
tce is furnished by the mines Of the famous COM
stock Lode, I'm Nevada. That vein of gold ana
silver starts at an angle of about 45 degrees
from vertical plane Shafts sunk at dinereh1
points in the neighbOrhood tapped il at depths
varying from 1000 to 3500 feet In the period oe-
tween 1872 and 1SSe one single company took ont
about $5o0C0000. The whole lode has yielded nearly
$50000O00O most of that amount being produced IN
the decade just indicated Owing TO the exhaustion
of the richer in 1852 and trouble in properly
draining the mines. work was abandoned on theW'
and an accumulation Of water permitted Evehtu
ally the Sutro Tunnel four and a haI hllieS
long. opened up an outlet for much or thls'
Within a few years mining has been resumed
capitalists being satisfied with ores OF lower Valuo
than those which created such sensation more
than quarter of century ago These ss are mines S
are now worked at reasonable pront. +. ~. ola
some idea of the cost OF power mere y. ttiS 80
days may be gathered from the fact that I1e % -
was carted nfteen mixes from NINE - ~ ~
that the latter was run by water brought to - p
fume forty miles in length Io-dsy pTTws pTT,zS-kss
brought all the way the mine from tls +1s~r+ion
River thirty miles of. AT the Senerauns $3.50.
two 900 horsepower water wheels OF Il6 w.
type have been installed and these as,tS gov
dynamos The turbines are autonlaucS1llS ,s7fs--
erned Merely for transmission over tne s---
veninc countTv a pressure Of 22.G00 volts IS ens
ployed The current is generated az 80 votss' .-,sI
BY step-up transformers to the agu[s Jus. Fans
and reduced at the mines BY step-dcNH ssss,lr,
formers 10 40 volts II Is at the latter sc
pressing motors run. 50 eneaR = az Sn,ors
thus supplied that work can ue uVN
economically than ever before
New-York tribune., 1902-11-16

became contagious in the Chinese quarter
where all conditions were favorable to its
spread. The whole trouble grew out of a false
diagnosis by a federal official. whose reports
were accepted by his superior officers in Wash
ingtOn.
General Chaffee was warmly welcomed on
his return from Manila but it is doubtful
whether the veteran enjoyed this hospitality
At least one feature of it must have been bur-
, densOme. The Merchants Association on
Wednesday night gave a fine dinner for General
Chaffee. but the chief entertainment furnished
was discussion whether the Geary-st. cable
road franchise should revert to the city or
should be renewed General Chaffee's interest
in this purely local topic could not have been
keen.
Heavy rains have fallen this week, bringing
the rainfall to date much above the average.
These rains have been we'll distributed, so that
they have done the utmost good to farmers
stock growers and miners The result has been
to give a great impetus to business in all parts
Of the State, nothing so stimulates activity
as the removal OF fear of dry winter" The
complaint everywhere is of the lack of labor to
carry out work both in the trades and In gen.
eral farming. Much building is at a stendstiu
in this city because OF failure to secure car
penters. masons and other mechanics. although
these artisans are receiving nearly double the
usual scale of wages. Carpenters are getting
as high as So day. bricklayers SIS, and i'm
some cases plasterers have commanded S12 a
day.
The number of persons who came to California
In September and October on cheap colonist
rates TO investigate opportunities for settlement
in this State was 24,135 by the Southern Pacific
and probably 5000 by the Santa Fe although
the latter company had not yet compiled re-
real bacillus of bubonic plague And the proof
turns large percentage of these people made
careful inquiries, and many bought land for
development and viii remove to their. new homes