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The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-09-04
For Sale.

The property and business known as
The Lakeside Bakery, is offered for
sale at bargain, in order to close up
the estate of the late Mrs. Milne.
Apply to c. C. Doty. Administrator.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-09-04
One Fare For Round Trip.

The Minnesota & International rail-
wav on account Of the Minnesota State
fair, sell tickets to Minneapolis and
St. Paul atlone fare for the round
trip.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-09-04
Notice.

School teachers wanted In DiStric
No. AZ, Beltrami Co., Mimi, for sew
ep months term to begin September
lst 1902. Apply TO
HENRY KLEMME,
Oakwood Po. MINI.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-09-04
Notice..

For the next 80 days I will give S1.0O
reduction on cabinet photographs from
former prices, at my gallery on 3rd
street. E. A. Sather. ...r % ~
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-09-04

w. A. Lambert, the cigar man OF
Duluth, was in the city Sunday.
The Bemidji pioneer., 1902-09-04

Ell. Willis has good renters for
houses. List at once.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13
THE GIANT SWING
ACROSS EAST RIVER

Never in the history of bridge build
eng have giant cables been hung so
suiftly as they were on New Yorks
new suspension bridge over the East
river. Seven months ago the first
strand of wire for them was still I'M
drawn. To-day the four mighty ca
HES are finished and the work of hang
ing the suspender cables from them is
well under way. Those four cables
contain 1895 wires, each 5000 feet long,
making 4,429 miles of wire. And the
seven months occupied in the work is
exactly three times as fast as any sim
liar work has ever been accomplished.
Through all those months men saw
the work grow apparently so slowly
that their senses became blunted, and
they did not realize what eyclopean
labor was being performed before
their eyes. Every day they saw in
Vulnerable tiny black specks plodding
IN and fro on in a tangle of wire ropes
that looked like fairy threads from
below. No serious accidents not a sin
ole interruption of the vast traffic of
The roaring strait that is called East
River, not a sound that could be
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

thousand tons seems child's play to u.s.
gazing down at them as the sweep IN
four glorious masses down and FAR out
over the river and then up again.
seeming to dart straight at the sky as
thew reach bravely for the top of the
NJey york tower. Four torrents of
metal, spouting out from steel en-
brasures! If architecture is frozen mu-
sic here. in this engineering feat, Is
Wagnerian opera transformed at the
moment of it's widest revelry into rigid
steel That giant swing, caught In
&c inward sweep, might, indeed, be
he thunder itself. caught and trans
Fixed to hang there. visible forever.
Hundreds Of wire ropes hang every
,,bare Footbridges, pIanks, rope lad
ders tackle, make tangle around us.
Rut as well might one expect the eye
70 note fly when looking at Niagara
se to see anything here except those
nobIe spans. hanging serene and beau
tifII high over the city's smoky at
Hung by such as this spare, shy,
smiling man who is leading US across!
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

Sehchorage just as the last wire was be-
, tL Drought across by the busy wheel
s nat mas carried all those miles Of 1t
-. i'nout an error or a break. The work
~. CARRYING the wires over was sim
tEL.i9eity itself, as indeed is almost every
tIiihg connected with the building of
e'ie bridge. On each shore of the river
i as reel of wire This was hitched
ny r'eo groove in the wheel, as a belt is
~ ~, around a flywheel Then the wheel
a. pulled over to the other side with
1o @ire cable, revolving all the way and
r 80 out the wire strand that it car
~. AT the other side another wire
has has harnessed to it, and it was sent
sF SA' So it Travelled to and fro dav
NJ WI DAY, laying the wires precisely
90 they were wanted. At intervals
nit d lew yards men with tongs and
T. rs stood ready to seize the wire as
if "a as delivered. lay it in place and tie
IN me rest with stout steel bands.
mo- anchorage, a pile of ganite. looks
Ace - ske a busy shipyard than an edi-
ranao the land. Diving into subter-
sn eaverns beneath the tons OF
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

stone are great fifteen-foot links-link
bolted to link with bolts as thick as a
mans arm. This immense chain of
tempered steel, held in place by the SUI
perlncumbent mass of rock, a veritable
anchor, only one of enormous size, holds
the cables proper. which themselves
cease some distance away from the an
chor. Their correction with the chain
is made by simply passing the endless
strands of wire around the outer links
The individual wires in the cable are
not as thick as a lead pencil But out
OF them have been spun cables that
are nineteen inches in diameter.
Although the anchorage itself rises
high over surrounding buildings the
senses refuse to give the impression of
height, for just ahead there springs the
vast tower over which the cables are
hung. Up, up, rising to it's top with a
swing so abrupt and great that one
feels as if they were actually climbing
visibly before one, go the four great
cables. To climb up the tiny foot
bridge. slippery with months of oil
drippings Qor every wire that went
across the bridge passed through an
oil bath before it started), seemed
quite impossible of achievement. "a
most ridicuolously inadequate thing to
carry Caesar and his fortunes" said
a visiting engineer. who was one of
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

In relative strength the new one
will not outdo the oldy But its actual
strength will be far greater. Where
the old bridge has only eighty-five feet
width of roadway, the new one will
have lis feet. The old one carries only
two railroad tracks that were built
for it, although two additional tracks
have been laid, one on each carriage
way. The new bridge will have two
lines of track for regular railroad traf-
fic and four tracks for trolley service
Instead of one sidewalk. 1t will have
two. In addition, it will have two
bicycle paths.
In general construction and design
il does not differ metarially in most
respects from the present bridge. its
span is /. 600 feet between towers, and
it's approaches win make it's total
length between terminals 1900 feet. eco
feet more than the old bridge. The
hight of the roadway over the river
will be the same as that of the old,
1876 feet at the center of the span. But
the towers of the old bridge are only
27S feet high, against the 1872 feet of
the new bridge. j. w. Muller.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

Now he is pointing downward. Advanc-
ing to the edge of the tower, where it
drops sheer into the deep water so far
away that it's rolling waves look like
rfpples, We see a warship just leaving
the Brooklyn navy yard that lies just
below. Other warships, one of them a
mighty battleship. lie in berths there.
While we are looking, the engineer
raises his hand to warn us of a dan
gerous spot in the path. And instantan-
eously all the picture is gone. So high
are we that his hand sufffces to blot
out navy yard and all it's ships
ferryboat passes under us. Beauti-
fully distinct. like the image in the
camera obscura, are it's passengers,
EhSith the hats of the women making
gaudy patches of color in it, We count
ninety-four persons on the forward
deck and four big, two-horse teams
and trucks. But 1 hold out my out
spread hand over the gulf, and. To-!
my thumb alone serves to hide them
all.
over the River.
Now we are descending the foot
bridge toward the center of the span,
over the middle of the river. We have
to grip the guy rope with power and
lean backward, as if we were trying to
haul something UP the incline. Be sure
that none of us has the least desire to
let his momentum start him to hurry
ing down that swinging aerial way.
Tug-boats and side wheelers, lines of
lows, ocean steamers, mass
below miserable little TOW
boats. Some of them cough
spitefully, trying to puff their black
smoke at us. But it dissipates miles
and miles below. Miles and miles be-
low floats a triple row of excursion
oarges, dashed together and crowded
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13
BRIDE SAID oNo" AT THE ALTAR.
Marriage Ceremony Abruptly Comes
to nm End i'm Washington.

Marriage Ceremony Abruptly Comes
to nm End I'm Washington.
From the New York SUN.
Washington, July 1O.-A story Of
half completed marriage ceremony
came to light to-day in which the prin-
cipals are Frank Mitchell, a clerk in
the car department of the Southern
Railway offices in this city. and Theo-
dora H. Van Wyck, daughter of the
late Senator Van Wyck of Nebraska,
and said to have an income of $4,000
a year The affair occurred on July 2.
On the evening of that day couple
appeared before the Rev. DR.. Radcliffe,
pastor of the New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church, and said they desired
to get married. The man, who said
his name was Frank Mitchell. showed
DIR. Radcliffe marriage license made
out in due form, and the minister,
after calling two of his household as
witnesses, proceeded with the ceremony.
He had read a portion of the ceremony
when he noticed that Miss Van Wyck
was very nervous and when he asked
the question, do you take this man to
be your lawful welded husband" he
was much astonished when the pros
pective bride promptly answered, mo,
l don't"
"Why not?" asked DR.. Radcliffe.
Because" Miss Van Wyck answered,
"this is too serious. I've got to think
| 1t over"
Mitchell endeavored to persuade Miss
Van Wyck to continue with the cere-
| mony. but she fatty refused to do so,
| and after more entreaties, which like
wise proved of no avail, Miss Van Wyck
| is said to have turned to DR.. Radcliffe
and astonished him by suggesting that
the three ''go down and have good
| supper and forget all this foolishness.
DIR. Radcliffe, when seen to-day re-
fused to discuss the matter, saying that
| he had hoped to suppress all mention
of the affair He admitted however.
| that a pair giving the names mention
ed above had called on him to get mar
ried on the evening of July 2, but had
! left without having the knot tied. He
I refused to go into details.
Inquiry at the Southern Railway Of
flee developed the fact that Frank
Mitchell who had been employed for
some time in the car department at
small salary. obtained leave of absence
about ten days ago with the expressed
intention of getting married. He is
said to have told several of his fellow
clerks that he was going to marry a
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

the party, as he balanced on the mar
row planks and looked through the
wide spaces at his feet down into the
street far below.
Half way up the ascent to the tower
top the climb became scramble. Mo-
lasses-like masses of oil made the feet
slip--and one does not enjoy slipping,
when the nearest place to land is $50
feet below Gripping the oily guy rope
the only means of support, we climbed
and climbed, with the threatening mass
of the cable hanging just over our
heads.
On the Towers Top.
At last we emerged and stood on a
tiny landing place before the tower.
A dive through an opening that seem
ed to lead straight into the sky, and
we had gained the top of the Brooklyn
tower-332 feet above high water, high
er by twenty-four feet than the gigan-
tic st. Paul building, and seeming as
high as a snow-caDped mountain to
US as we stood on the unfenced, un-
guarded summit, with all New York
Long Island, the Sound, the rivers and
the bay at our feet like a neat map.
And now look forward and backward,
and behold the vast work that this
little creature, man, has done. HUI
man hands, not as big by many inches
is any one of hundreds of rivets around
us, have hurled this mass of iron and
steel across an arm of sea. Before
these tiny two-legged animals that are
hanging like flies to dizzy place all
around us are through they will have
hung 10000 tons to these cables that
they have spun.
The engineer is saying that the total
weight of the bridge, when completed,
will be $4,000 tons with the live load
that it is designed to carry. But, he
says, that will be play for the cables,
for their total strength is expressed in
$4,000 tons.
Ninety-six thousand times ninety-six
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

heard, marked the work. Yet those
black atoms, looking more like insects
than men from below, threw $500 tons
or cable through the air in that time.
So high in air hang those great ropes
or iron, so airy and lovely in outline
are those vast towers, that no man
gazing upward from river or shore
can realize the monstrous dimensions
of everything connected with that
giant swing. Somehow, despite the
fact that all about it is so motionless
and still, the sight of those beautiful
ly true and perfectly sweeping cables
gives one an impression as if he were
looking at the swoop of a bird sud-
denly fixed miraculously in midair in
all its grace. Standing deep in the
rushing green water, the two steel
towers stand sturdy and powerful, like
men at arms in metal harness. From
every aspect one sees the blue sky
shine through their open grillage
work softening their mighty
trusses and girders and making them
look, not as if they were dead tons of
weight but as if they might be swayed
by the lightest airs.
Overwhelming Proportions.
1t is only when one is high on the
structure itself and can look downward
from the towers that the true proper
tons of the great roadway become APP
parent. But then they become appar-
ent Overwhelmingly.
Your correspondent was fortunate
enough to receive an invitation from
Assistant Chief Engineer Hildenbrandt
to accompany him over the entire
structure just before the dizzy foot
bridges that had been swung for the
work of cable laying were torn away,
and thus we were possibly the last
party to cross under conditions fitted
exceptionally to bring out the stipend
Gus sizes of everything connected with
the work.
We began our climb at the Brooklyn
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

very rich girl and that he did not in
tend to work any more.
The marriage license appears on the
books in the clerks Office made out in
the names of Frank p Mitchell, age
26, and Theodore H. Van Wyck, age
20. Miss Van Wyck's residence is
given as Washington. She spent the
winter here with her mother at the
Hotel Normandie. Miss Van Wyck
was named Happy . because she was
born on New Years Day, and is known
to her intimate friends by that name.
She adopted the name of Theodora.
Miss Van Wyck left Washington sew
eral days ago for Far Rockaway.
Mitchell also left town hurriedly, first
having resigned his place by mail, and
it is not known where he now is.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

ing that we care about at the time,
mentions that the men are so proud CT
having completed the work of cable
spinning that they have begun already
to take the iron trusses off our meager
roadway. That, he explains with the
satisfaction of science, is what makes
the footbridge swing so. He stops quite
unnecessarily to explain it.
Then we begin the ascent toward the
New York, or rather, Manhattan tow
err, though nobody ever calls it that.
even by accident If the climb from
the Brooklyn anchorage to the tower
was hard. now. in the light of present
trouble, it seems as If it had been
pleasant morning walk.
Hight seems more appalling here,
too. To look down and see Manhat.
tan's Immense buildings, dwarf-like
under us, tells us suddenly that there
is such a thing as dizziness. If we
thought that we had experienced it be-
fore this, we learn now that we did not
know what the real thing was. In
spots here the spaces between the
planks of the foot bridge are wide
enough so that one whole leg would
go through if there were a slip. 1t
would be entirely impossible for ones
body to follow, but-every man holds
his breath as he steps over the terri
BILE yawning ehasm Of seven inches.
When we arrive at the top of the
tower at last we find that there is
gap over which one must take long
half step, half jump. And to make
matters more delightful, a wire IS pc
ing paid out with alarming velocity
right through that gap, level with our
feet. Standing at the brink, we can
see little bugs scurrying around on
the street. o are they men? No
body looks long enough to ascertain.
They are too far away to De
worth while. Every man, as he finally
launches himself across, has vivid
realization of what would happen II
his foot slipped and that demoniac wire
caught him. What a bolt he would
make for that catapult!
Looking downward from the sum
nit here a wonderful sight is unroll-
ed To accommodate the long APP
proach to the bridge a mighty cash
has been torn in the city. Right
through what was, only short while
ago. the most crowded part Of the
world. more crowded even than the
most popuIous part of Canton in China,
the bridge builders have cut. What
thew have left looks actually like a
vast. bleeding wound. More tnan
thirteen solidly built up blocks have
been RACED. They held enough popu-
latfon to make town of Importance.
But the mere destruction of town
seems only a little thing to US, stand
ing on the monstrous thing that has
been reared in its place.
Both Bridges Compared.
Will the new bridge be as imposing
archfcteurally as the old? The old one
has beautiful granite towers, and the
new one will lack the grandeur that
they give. But the new one will be
the more graceful, owing to the open
steelwork that Is used throughout.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

with people from stem to stern. We
see a futtering of white. 1t is as if
one saw the wind stir a daisy studded
field far away Those are hundreds Of
handkercniefs that are being waved at
US black srecks that crawl on the cob
web filament far above them.
In the center of the span the wind
catches us. Back and forth, up and
down. rolling like ship in a gentle
seaway, sways the footbridge. The en-
gineer cheerfully and apropos of moth
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13
Both Bridges Compared.

Will the new bridge be as imposing
archicteurally as the old? The old one
has beautiful granite towers. and the
new one will lack the grandeur that
they give. But the new one will be
the more graceful, owing to the open
steelwork that is used throughout.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-06-12
SANFORD WILL AID MERRITT

The official returns received bear out
the announcement of the nomination
for state school commissioner of Prof.
W. B. Merritt, of Valdosta. There is
now no question that he will be named
on the first ballot.
Professor Merritt has expressed the
greatest confidence in the result
throughout. Some weeks ago he offer
ed to Professor Steadman V. Sanford
superintendent of the public schools of
Marietta, the position of assistant state
school commissioner in the event of
his election, and the tender was CRATE
fully accepted.
Professor Sanford, who will be asso-
ciated with Mr.. Merritt in the school
commissioner office, was reared in
Copyers, Ga, where he received his
preparatory education. He subse-
quently graduated from Mercer with
distinction. He is grandson, of Pro-
lessor Shelton p Sanford one of the
most famous teachers Georgia has ever
produced.
Professor Sanford's teaching career
began in the Marietta public schools,
and when Professor J. S. Stewart was
made president of the North Georgia
Agricultural college at Dahlonega some
four years ago Professor Sanford was
made superintendent of the Marietta
city system, which position he has fill
ed with great distinction. His access
ion to the Office of assistant state
school commissioner will be most
valuable acquisition to the public sys-
tenn Of the state.-Atlanta Constitu-
ton. Prof, Sanford tells US that he
has not decided whether he will accept
the place or not.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-06-12
DEATH OF MRS. YORK.

Died, in McRae, Ga, June 5th, at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
w. J. Barton, Mrs. Sallie j. York,
aged 81 years. Mrs. York was the
beloved wife of the late A. w. York,
who died here in 1894. She leaves three
children, Mrs. w. J. Barton, of McRae,
Ga. Mrs. f. H. Jackson, of Atlanta
and A. w. York, of Havana, Cuba, be-
sides six grandchildren to mourn their
loss. She lived in Marietta and was
member of the Baptist church here for
several years, and lived a consistent
christian to the end of her life, when
she passed peacefully ard quietly away,
surrounded by her daughters family
and many loving friends. The inter
ment was at McRae, and the funeral
services were conducted by Rev. j. @.
Brewton.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-06-12
HON. N. A. MORRIS.

The nomination of Hon. n. A. Morris
for the third time to the legislature
from this county is quite compliment
to him. He was Speaker pro tenn. of
the last House. and will be candidate
for Speaker at the next session of the
legislature. The defeat of Hon. Roland
Ellis IN Bibb county removes MIR. Nor
ris' strongest opponent, and gives him
increased strength for the honor sought.
Mr.. Morris is q fine parliamentarian
understands the rules thoroughly, and
made quite a reputation in the last leg
lature. Ifhe should be elected Speaker
of the next House he will prove to be
one Of the best Speakers the House has
ever had. He is a man of keen discern
ment, quick to catch the main points
and to decide with good judgment.
His chances are most excellent to be
elevated to the speakers chair. His
many friends wish him success in his
laudable ambition.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-06-12
SIGN OF PROSPERITY.

Newspaper advertising is admittedly
a sign of business prosperity, the Their
mometer that records the business tenn
perature. The most successful mer-
chants have been the largest newspaper
advertisers. The size of merchants
business, however need not necessarily
determine the amount of his advertising
appropriation. The point is to advertise
and keep on advertising. People who
read newspapers read advertisements.
because when in want of anything the
surest, handiest and quickest way to
find it is through the columns of the pa
per- Banks, churches, libraries and
other institutions have awakened to the
benefits ofnew spaper advertising. The
cards of physicians OF all schools are
seen in the papers, a practice formerly
considered at variance with professional
ethics. All lines of trade and all pro-
LESSONS are represented in the news
paper advertising of today. The trend
of advertising is newspaperward, =
Printers Ink.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-06-12
ADVERSE DECISION.

The three suits against S. A. Ander-
son, 7. M. Brumby, and Joseph Paige,
ct al, securities on the bonds of r. f.
Lawhon, city clerk, to make good an
alleged shortage of about IS 900. which
should have beer paid to the Treasurer
of the school board, has just been
heard before the Supreme Court, re-
versing Judge Lumpkin's ruling of the
liability of the bondsmen. Some of
the bonds were taken in the name of
I. NJ. Brumby, Mayor, when the char
ter requires that they should have
been taken in behalf of the mayor
and Council of the city of Marietta. !"
The decision is as follows:
sos Anderson ct al. V. Brumby, may
or, for use, etc. (Three cases. Suits
on bonds. Before Judge Lumpkin
Cobb Superior court.
Iumpkin, 2. Jan official bond
which fails to meet the requirements
of statue, in that it is given to an
officer other than the one to whom it
should have been payable, is not en-
forceable at the suit of successor ia
office of the obligee nor can an action
thereon be maintained by such obi
gee if he be not an official authorized
by law to institute and prosecute legal
proceedings in his representative ca
pacity.
Judgment in each case reversed.
Sessions & Moss, for plaintiffs in
error.
D. w Blair and j. E. Mozeley, contra.
When the full opinion is obtained
Messrs, Motley & Blair will decide as
to future action in the matter.