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erected with an eye to It's rentals. but a
few years ago II was proposed to build
O skyscraper TO cost at least 500. OOO, 900
IA Getty within city"-with residence
flats, a church, theater, offices, art gal
lery, etc, and to combine utility with
structural beauty in large degree
This scheme has not materialIzed, but
another building to exceed the Syndl-
cate structure has been proposed by the
Etna Real Estate company to stand at
the corner Of Broadway and Thirty
third street on a lot about 100 feet
square, This structure. 10 be known as
the Obelisk, is archIteoturally harmor
nious IN every feature, more resembling
monumental dwelling than an ord-
nary Office building, and ~ projected TO
contain thirty stories and TO be 455 feet
In height The total cost of land and
building is placed at siOOOOOO, The lat
est Improvements In rapid elevators, re-
frigerating plants a water service from
arteslan wells etc, are 10 be incorpor-
ated In this up to date structure OF the
skyscraping period,
one Of the most unique Of skyscrap-
ers almost abnormal I'm its peculiarI-
ties, is the so called 1atiron structure
at the intersection Of Broadway. Fifth
avenue and Twenty-third street, New
York, Viewed from the front II APP
pears like the bow Of an immense ship,
being just wide enough at It's edge for a
narrow window yet Il is twenty-one
stories high, rising 2S5 feet above the
street, and each floor OF this stone and
steel structure contains 5000 square
feet OF space 1t cost 100000. one OF
Chicago's latest and finest structures is
Montgomery, Ward & Co.'s building. 1t
contains twenty-one stories and meas
ures 800 feet to the top Of the weather
yane and was built not only with an
eye to its utility, but as an ornament
to the city
One Of the most sumptuously fitted OF
office buildings Is said TO be the Frlck
skyscraper in Pittsburg recently erect
ed, which Is twenty-five stories, covers
an entire block, has a floor area of $780,
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the right combination OF soil and eli
mate for producing apples Of the finest
fayor, high color and good keeping
qualities: but the northern grown
American apple also owes It's fame
abroad to the great care taken IN pack
ing 1t for market. Rapid transit, low
rates for freight and, above ALL ample
facilities for cold storage (by means OF
which fruit may be kept until well into
the winter and toward spring, when
prices are highosO-all have combined
to make apple culture very profitable Of
late.
The apple gathering season is now at
Its height and the growers are being
visited by the agents OF city packers,
who are In the orchards as soon as the
extent Of the crop has been determined
and ready 20 contract for the best fruit
on the trees, 1t must be hand picked,
ripe and sound. but not mellow. Sc
lectlng the grade contracted for, the
packers expert first lays two courses
Of apples at the bottom OF a barrel, his
assistant emptying in a bushe slowly
without brulslng, shaking them up
smartly, another bushel and another
shaking succeeding, until the barrel is
two-thirds full
The last and third bushel is packed In
by hand two courses being left above
the top Of the barrel. The problem then
Is to fit In the head IN spite OF the heaped
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attitudes.

II was thought the limit had been
reached In the Park Row or Syndicate
building, which. though nominally 1882
feet in height, * iiI feet from the street
to the tops Of the flagstalts on its twin
towers and col from the base of It's
foundations. 1t is called the tallest Of
fee building in the world, It's cupolas
being 100 feet higher than the dome of
the capitol at Washington and almost
as high as the apex of the great pyra.
mid. And yet this great structure,
with its $50 rooms and accommodation
for nearly 1000 occupants stands upon
a foundation Of sand. Its total esti-
mated weight of 10000 tons is supported
upon forest Of $1,000 piles driven into
the sand by the blows Of twenty ton
driver. 1t cost $4,000 900 and is said to
be paying investment--in fact, there
is hardly skyscraper In New York,
Chicago or any other city whore real
ties are vastly valuable that is not re-
turning good rate of interest from its
rentals. II IL Is not then there is some
thing the matter, the experts say, with
Its management,
The Park Row building Is probably
the largest structure that has been
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mated especially In view Of the fact
that the British government is laying
It's own cable across the Pacific In order
TO secure an exclusive control OF tele.
graphic communication all around the
world
The all American cable will cross the
all British at point about two-thirds
the distance between San Francisco and
Honolulu. The average depth between
these two points is said to be about 5000
fathoms, the deepest soundlngs I'm the
Pacific having been found near Guam,
of nearly five miles To span the sub
marine valleys and withstand the ter
rife tension a cable OF great strength
was necessary. II will be orly an inch
or so IN thickness however, In The deep
sea portion and about two and half
inches thick In the shore and shallow
water stretches. More copper will be
used than IN the old cables, the weight
Of copper wire being 800 pounds per
knot as against 800 pounds in the old
styles by the relatively greater use Of
this metal the efficiency Of the cable is
increased and also Its durability The
process Of manufacture, however, r. the
same as heretofore, the copper wires for
the conductor being twisted together by
machinery covered with an insulating
material, as gutta percha or india rub
be3. and this core inclosed within a
water and air proof envelope Of jute
yarn steel wire and bitumen. The COM
pletc cable Is coiled away In vast tanks
In ,hs hold OF the cable ship and Is run
out over a large pulley at the stern. on
lis way overheard It passes over and
under several "retardlng wheels" then
around a brake wheel. by means Of
which the speed Is regulated, and then
under a dynamometer which indicates
the amount Of strain. The cable must
be continually taut IN order 20 take ~
the kinks and Stacks, yet not subject to
strain approaching the breaking
point II II happens that a break oc-
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HOW HE SAVED HIS MONEY.

A story comes from South Africa OF
how an elderly English miner saved
his little fortune from the hands Of the
Beers. When the war was on the verge
OF breaking out, he made up his mind
to leave the Transvaal for Natal.
He had TO carry all his money with
him and knew that the Beers would
certainly take every penny they could
find from him. So he hammered his
gold into clasps and clamps for his
box. nailed them on and gave them
good coating OF paint. AS he expected,
he fell into the hands Of the enemy, and
his box was thoroughly searched. But
the trick was never suspected, and be
got his 1880 worth OF gold In safety
to British territory.
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Freightage across the ocean. say from
New York TO Liverpool varies from 10
to 10 cents per barrel, to which must be
added the cost Of commissions and Incl
dentals
The first American apples are said to
have gone across the Atlantic with rare
old Ben Franklin In li5S and their fla
vor so appealed to the British taste
that they were In great demand at four.
pence each, More than fifty years ago
the famous Newtown Pippins sold in
London at S2l per barrel, the nobility
scrambllng for them at a guinea a doz-
en- Just at present the full Favored
Baldwins and Ben Davis varieties are
in high favor, foreign tastes running TO
color and shape as much as TO fine eat
Ing qualities. In foreign shipments,
above all, the keeping quality of the
fruit is to be considered, az 1t is well
known that single 'mushy" apple will
spoil whole barrel full.
The man with an apple orchard is in
great luck this year, for from all over
the country come reports Of full crops,
which mean small fortunes to those
who have thousands OF trees. From the
long established orchards of the New
England and middle states, from the
middle west and the north Pacific
coast--all through the great and ever
extending apple belt In fact-the cry
goes up for barrels and boxes for the
abundant yield
When the American apple growers
hold their congress at st. Louis next
month, famous old Johnny Appleseed,'
who scattered blessings and prosperity
in his wake over a large portion OF the
country now teeming with its wealth Of
luscious fruit, should have a monument
voted to his memory.
EBERT o. WOODsON.
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UTILIZING CHIMNEY SMOKE.

In Brussels, Malnes and other BEL
gian towns q novel method Of not only
getting rid Of smoke but OF turning II
to good account. has recently been EN-
ployed. The smoke Is driven BY ven
tilating fan into filter filled with po-
rous material, over which a continuous
stream OF petroleum. benzine, alcon'l
or some liquid hydrocarbon flows. Inc
result is that the smoke Is entirely sup.
pressed. While the filter yields gas q
great heating power. which can be usea
for domestic purposes ans for driving
gas engines. The iilterlng material "
self also becomes a good combushoT
during the process.
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up apples. and this Is accomplished by
means OF press, a simple but powerful
afralr constructed Of two uprights made
Of one and q quarter inch steel bent at
the ends to TT under the bottom of the
barrel and resist the pressure which
comes from a screw head fastened TO
the other end. At the bottom Of the
screw is a movable pressure bar the ex-
act diameter Of the barrel at the top
and beneath this the head Is arranged
above the apples. Gentle but persistent
pressure Is then applied until the fruit
Is forced inside the barrel and the head
In place. when It Is firmly nailed, and
the apples are ready for storage.
For two or three months after pack
Ing there Is sufficient resistance from
within the barrel to hold the head In
place, but after that the apples shrink,
and at the end Of six months, If still In
storage, the packer opens the barrel and
fills II as in the first instance. Expert
packing makes the difference between a
full and slack" barrel, which is also
the difference between profit and loss
when the fruit is auctioned off abroad,
say at Liverpool for the "saoks" bring
only one.fourth to one.eighth the price
OF full ones.
The longer apples can be kept, other
things being normal the higher the
price they bring. Six months is gener-
ally the limit, and in the interval be-
tween packing and reaching the con-
sumner they are preserved in cold stor-
age The largest packers. who are at
the same time wholesale dealers In
fruits, own or control cold storage
plants and In good year like this rent
additional space, usually In the cities or
centers OF distribution and at points
widely distributed Storehouses are
prpgtpd In the produptnp districts On
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and Colonia, which are AT present en-
gagged in laying the all British Pacific
cable between Vancouver and Australia.
The British cable, which is a few miles
longer than the American, win doubt
less be the first completed, as II Is al
ready laid To or beyond Tanning island.
which lies TO the southeast Of Hawaii,
As 10 is Intended 90 establish cable sta
tions only on islands belonging to Great
Britain, the first straightaway stretch
of this cable exceeds $3.50 miles. the
distance between Vancouver and Fam
ming, from which latter point 1t Is 2O9O
miles more 90 the Fills. and thence
ljul miles TO New Zealand which is $50
miles from Queensland So 1t will be
seen that the an American line has a
distinct advantage iu point of short re-
lays Midway island being only 1900
miles from Hawaii Guam 2Gl0 miles
farther westward ana 1870 from the
Philippines
The length Of the first section Of the
all American cable Is just about the
same as lHe shortest transatlantic. and
as no peculiarly difficult problems pre-
sent themselves 90 be solved Il is not
expected that there win be any obstruc.
tlon 20 The continuous progress OF the
work. great as ltis
10 was an American. as all the world
knows, who conceived and brought 10 a
successful contamination the first
Transatlantic cable. and It Is an Amer
lean company Though with English az
fliatinnsl the Commercial Pacific ca
blc-tho. has undertaken the gigantic
task OF spanning the Pacific gap In the
telcgraphic belt around the globe. Al
though the cable is constructed and laid
by a private company az a total ex-
pense OF from $4,000 900 to 81. 900 OOO.
the United States government has all
the benefits OF the service at low rates
and exclusive use and censorship OF dis
patches In time OF war This is an ad-
vantage which can hardly be overesti-
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CALIFORNIA.

a hundred years old. 1t burned down in
l72l and again In 1902.
Coal oil for fuel has come so generally
into use in San Francisco that two in
coming ships bringing coal In ballast
recently were Obliged to sell II at a loss.
A church census OF Chicago shows
that IL per cent OF the adult male resi-
dents attend church on Sunday.
The grounds of coffee after using the
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sleeping accommodations provided for
sailors that IS per cent Of all deaths In
German marine hospitals are caused By
tuberculosis.
IN southwest Missouri on a single
peach farm there were employed $500
ficgcrs this year There are l3i 900
trees On the farm. which yielded about
tive bushels TO the tree. The box ma
teriai purchased TOT '1s ornp cost
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AMiie deep

crops in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska
and Iowa, and the indirect loss was
probably as much more.
The hair on the heads OF most OF the
hundreds OF thousands Of dolls exhibit
ed in shop windows Is made from that
Of the Angora goat.
The cathedral at Gothenburg. "the
Swedish Venice" which threatens to
share the fate Of the canpanile. is only
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$4,000 About 500 cars were shipped
from this one farm this year.
Eagles fly at height Of 1000 feet,
crows up 10 $500 feet; the lark rises
5000 feet.
There are 10000 more children OF
school age than seats in the New York
schools.
The Rocky mountain locust or grass
hopper In ls7i destroyed 3loo0Q0, 900 OF
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LIQUID are excellent TO mix with m
earth used In fowerpots They ~
the earth moist and II Is claimed "
cllitate blossoming.
There is an authenticated RECORD
nlnety-six sheep being killed by q w
gle lightning stroke In Colorado a..
AccordinH to the census OF 1901,
population Of British India amount"
above 2ss1 h,oo0 parsons.
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SHORT AND TO THE POINT.

Russia win send her Siberian exhibit
10 the worlds fair al ST. Louis through
the agency Of the East Chinese rail-
road.
At Hammerfest. Norway, the sun does
cot set for twenty-eight times twenty
four hours. During that time the ma
lives have only about four hours Of
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statistics for this year. The total cost
Of new buildings erected and In con-
temptation filed with the bureau OF con-
struction In New York, and the major
ity TO consist OF skyscrapers, amounts
to more than S030O0OOO.
The tallest office buildings in the
world are to be found in this city Of
skyscrapers, and here are the heights
Of a dozen In the order OF attitudes.
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INCUBATION EkTRAORDlNApv

The government Of the Punjab prov.
lnee of India, under Sh Charles Rlya,
H. G. $. J., has just undertaken what
may be described as the biggest b,cto.
biological enterprise the world has No,
seen Convinced that incubation is Inc
only effectual means of fighting The
plague it has undertaken the gigantic
task of inoculating 100000 Of the peo.
pie during the next Ave months.
Surgeon Major Bannerman, superin.
tendent of the government Laboratory
at Bombay has received instructions 10
be ready to supply plague serum at the
rate Of $4,000 doses a day.
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company, who has been connected with
cable laying for more than thirty years.
that the rate for messages TO Honolulu
will be about so cents per word, and II
there are people in the United States
who wish to send Christmas messages
to the Sandwich Islands next December
they will be enabled to do so at this
tariff. TRUMAN l.. ELTON
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sleep out Of twenty-four and do not
seem 10 want more.
In 1856 every child in the public
schools cost Prussia s. a year. Today
the cost is Sl2. The total sum expended
last year on public schools was 269 si2. o.
S7l marks (SC5,7Ssl60).
1t Is probably owing TO the wretched
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MEXICAN apples took
the highest prize at
the last Paris EXPOSE
ton, and the great SUI
perlorlty OF our fruit
over any raised in Eu-
rope has long been adj
mitted, We have, es-
peclally in our north
etp tior ~ statoS inst
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points to be in communication by next
Christmas; the second the completion
OF n transpacifc cable TO the Philip
pines, promised for July I, 1903 Eight
thousand miles Of cable are being woy-
en- in England al the rate OF 900 miles
a week, and at the present writing the
good ship Siyertown Is on her way TO
San Francisco via Cape Horn with TO-
600 tons aboard for the Hawaiian Sec
tion-2,4l3 milos--coiled within It's 81
gantlc tanks and all ready for laying
This cable is wound around three i'm
mense spools. each thirty feet in diam
eter, and the unwinding process Is exc
pected TO begin early IN December, inn
mediately after the arrival Of the ST.
vertown at San Francisco whore con
neotion will be made with the shore APP
proach. seven miles In length, and fin
ished within two weeks thereafter OW-
ing 10 the improved machinery adopted
and the recent inventions for paying
out and regulating the tension on the
cable II Is said that the steamer will be
able to proceed at the rate OF six or
seven miles an hour
The distance between the California
coast at or near San Francisco and
Honolulu Is given as about 2,l00 miles,
but some allowance must be made for
Stacks" estimated at about Is per
cent. The entire distance is estimated
at about 5000 miles, with all allowances
for stacks" and the two remaining
sections. to cover the distance between
the Hawaiian Islands and the Philip
zines via Midway island and Guam, Will
he taken out in the cable ships Anglia
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in California, both fruits are packed in
boxes, but the same care Is used,
whether put up in this shape or in bar
rels The apple crop is 80 large this
year that there Is promise of a dearth
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rel costs the packer about IS cents de-
livered at the orchard, the fruit to I'LL
it 81 for No. | grade, the cost Of
sorting. packing, freight from orchard
to storage and other incidentals bring
ing the total up to quite 81 per barrel.
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6gN!IT|i|5,fiA

mUU By.1TIE skscraper IS an eyo'
!. !. !. !. !. !. !.
RZMTXNf luton, and a very re-
MAMlflMI cent one, from the
lMMJIf1 comparatively modest
Nv MSS,Nl structures Of an ear.
MIA llI9.i ller period. II Is only
Ec0i1bfs%Cl fifteen years since the
X-SSI first OF the type was
planned, and II orig
mated IN Chicago
which city claims the Tacoma building,
completed In 1889. as the first American
skyscraper In all our large cities,
where foot front values are enormous
,and constantly enhancing, the Chicago
construction" idea, or the modern
bridge built skyscraper, with its skele-
ton Of steel and outer covering OF stone,
brick and glass land which Is riveted
together so firmly that the Cyclops
might roll II down hill like a bird cage,
II they chose. without injury to its
structural parts), at once leaped into
favor. Other cities, notably New York.
seized upon the idea, expanded and
elaborated It, and then began a race as
70 which should build the tallest struc-
lures, the tendency ever upward and
with excelsior as the motto.
Without any intended disparagement
OF other cities, It may be safely assert
ed that Manhattan now possesses more
ana larger skyscrapers than any other
city In the world a decade or so ago !
Chicago was In the lead. but now it is (
the great metropolis OF the Empire I
State with rs structures Of steel tow Z
crlng skyward by the score 1t has /
gone so far In this respect that any one /
who knew the city fifteen years ago |
would hardly recognize II now, especial Z
~ It's lower portion from the Battery 4
northward II he We're returning 70 Il 4
after an absence Of that length Of time. /
The sky line Of New York In fact has I
changed most wonderfully In the past /
decade and has become as famous az
the serrate outline Of the Alps or the
Pyrennees. And the wonderful work Is
still going on as shown by the building
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miles to and from the cold storage
plant where II was kept until taken out
for market.
Pears are packed and held in the same
manner as apples, but cannot be kept
so long in storage, In some sections, as
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that the fruit may be shipped ms d.
rectly as possible, yet 1t often happens
that a city consumer near the apple
growing districts will receive fruit
raised within a short distance Of his
home which has Travelled many hundred
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rs year and next will
witness at least two
great events for which
the world has long
been waiting. The first
is the laying Of a tele-
graph cable between
San Francisco and
ITnra.1tIu tbn fu,