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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-04-22

commence operation, as he found help very
scarce In Carbond Your secretary spent two
or three days will, him, and finally found floor
space In the annex OF the Mcas building, AZ
temporary quarters, while the large new SILK
mill Of Kots silk company, on Poplar street and
Mcnsey avenue, was being erected.
In 1900. the Thco. A. White Manufacturing
company moved from Bingliamton to Scranton
and located over the Gould Carriagc factory en-
Linden street. The same yeas, a committee of
ore was sent to bridgeport. Connecticut, to
look into the affairs OF the Keller Piano com.
pany, which resulted in the removal Ct tho plant
to Sctanton, where IL Is now located IN the
hnl,ng formerly occupied by the Collins
Hale company. and has since been enlarged, and
is one Of scranton's most prosperous industries.
THE SPIKE MILL.
In i,C0 your secretary called on Mr.. John
Timmcs. of Brooklyn. New York. who operated
small spkc mill IN that city. After considerable
correspondence on the subject. Mr. Timmes de.
ciied to locate in Scranton. lie associated with
him Mr.. II. r. Hccht, OF Lebanon. practical
rolliny.mll man, forming co.partncrshp
known as rimmcs & lIccht. They erected
rolling and spike mill in the Kcyser Valley ard
began operations the latter part Of 1901. In
1901. we also secured the scranton Cut Glass
company, now occupying the old Wightman
plant, on Washington avenue.
In 1901. Graf g. Co. manufacturers of hot air
furnaces. were induced to move their pant from
Elinlbethport, y. J. They erected large foe.
tory lust beyond the city line in Dickson Dor.
ough. Negotiations with this concern were car
rcd on by Mr.. George Brown. of the Green
Riduc Lumber company, who is an active mem.
Der OF the board OF tiade.
This completes the list. 50 far as know. No
doubt the hoard was interested indirectly in the
establishment OF other concerns Il, any rate. we
can safely say that all manufacturing industries
IN the city, without an exception are repre-.
scntcd IT, the board OF trade and vitality inter.
cs,cd in the growth and development II the
city.
Summarized we have the following list, all Sc.
cured through the iNtl,cnce Of this organizations
lsSj, Button factory: leSI. international Text
Book company, I.ackawanna Knitting mills.
Scranton Drop Forging company; 1881 Sctan.
ton Lace Curtain company; 1897. Scranton Axe
company. Scranton Iron Fence company; 1895.
American Saict. Lamp company. Scranton Cara.
mel company; 1904, Eureka Cash Register com.
pany; 1895. simpson Il Company. Collins & Hale
Manufacturing company; 1896. Bliss silk mill.
Scranton Soap works; 1897, Rciliny. David Il
Schocn: 1sOS, Scranton Bolt and Nut company,
Kots silk company; 1899, Thec. A. White Manu-.
featuring company, Keller Il Van Dyke Piano
| company; l0OO. Timines & lccht. Scranton Cut
Glass company: 1901. Graf Company. very
crettablc record, You will all agree.
Respectfully submitted,
d. Is. Atlerton, Secretary.
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Elevator

ment in the work of the Division ct
photography of the United States Geo
logical Survey Is the study of the tlojv
of water underground. In many locall-
ties the water which finds its way be-
meath the surface-as for example in
the sands and gravels of dry river beds,
or the seepage from irrigated lands In
the VESTS of considerable economic
value, but little has hitherto been
known regarding its speed and the
manner of its flow. During the last
season the Geological Survey has been
engaged i'm Il series of preliminary
studies under Prof. c. $. Slichter, OF
the University of Wisconsin, of the un-
derhow in the sands of the Arkansas
river. The method of Investigation Is
entirely new; two test wells are driven
and electrically connected Into the
upstream well Is placed an electrolyte'
or dissolvable substance, which az
fects the electric current. This cleo
trolyte enters the underground water
at the first we'll and gradually passes
down stream to the second. In the
electrical circuit between the two wells
the needle of an instrument records its
approach, and is strongly affected by
it's final arrival. BY watching the in
creasing detection of the needle it is
possible to trace the movement of the
water from the beginning OF the eX-
pertinent and to study the variations
of its flow. In the experiments ON the
Arkansas river the rate of the under
flow was found to be from to 10 feet
per day.
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Three Women and a Man
Bu 6. H. Page.

"she is we'll informed"
while I. you know, am such per-
feet little ignoramus.'
II know nothing of the sort. In your
| own way you are immensely clever,
| too"
But what a commonplace way that
is. can keep house, certainly, and out
| of debt, and I could make my own
| clothes and cook my own dinner If 1t
| were necessary, but then any woman
can sew and cook
II wish to heaven any woman could!
| wish my landlady could"
But l can't read Greek as Miss
Whelan does. She carries II pocket
| 'Aristophanes' with her up the river
and we could see her now and again
ENJOYING silent laughter as she read
It's being uncommonly clever to enjoy
Greek Jokes, isn't it? But then, OF
course, you and she could enjoy them
| together"
! 20, as to my Greek" said Holt, and
with IA shake of his head he flung his
last memories of it afar. Margaret
you see. studied at Vassar.'
Gould | fail to see it? Nassar Is
written all over her in indellble ink. II
exudes from her manner, which is an
impressive manner, an overwhelming
one. A manner which puts me alto
| gether into the shade in spite of the
fact that I'm widow with gray hairs >
| Have you gray hairs ?" asked Holt
much interested. II don't see any. It's
q mere calumny.'
'There was certainly one there yes
terday. Well, at least Miss Whelar
need never fear gray hairs; her hair Is
too pale-colored to show any"
| "She has curiously coloress hair,
admit" said Holt. 1T would almost
justify the use of hair dye. Kitty Red
ferns hair is much prettier."
80 the other one is Kitty? Deal
little Kitty! l like Kitty. Every one
likes her. 1t would be impossible moi
to do so, for she agrees with everyone
and is of your own opinion even be,
fore you've expressed it. She like the
finest, the most plastic clay, the whitesl
unwritten page"
| "On which you write all you wish
but the writing dries off Immediately
| leaving the surface white as before
| while her placticity Is OF the kind which
takes but cannot retain AN impression
I The moment the pressure Is removed
her mind springs back to ils origina
| form--carelessness."
1T Is true that her innocence of amy
opinions Is sometimes perturbing-"
For while Echo is charming i'm the
fable you hardly want her seated by
your fireside?"
"And l shouldn't wish my wife to bt
| q mere mush of concessions"
"You are too intelligent. There are
many men for whom Kitty Redferr
would be ideal; for the man who mere
ly requires presentable mistress fol
his house, a healthy mother for hi.
children. But you need something
more than this; you need a compan
ion"
with whom can enjoy Greek Jokes
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COT HAVE something on my mind
which is perplexing rather than
unpleasant, but which does pre-
occupy me a good DEAL
IF you are woman remarked
Mrs. Eden, 81 should say you had just
received a proposal and didn't know
how to answer it,"
"But being mere man I'm in the far
more difficult position of having pro-
posal to make"
Mrs. Eden looked at him with her
small and lustrous head on one side.
"Yet of not being able to make up my
mind to whom"
His hostess rose.
The sun is in our eyes, isn't it? No,
don't stir; 1 never allow anyone to ar
range my blinds but myself; other peo-
pie only disarrange them
She stood with her back to Holt While
she lowered an inch or two the silken
and lace flounced blind.
"There. that's better
She returned to her corner of the
sofa.
do you mean TO tell me that You
have a vague desire to propose to wom-
an in general or to some indefinite yet
to-be-met-Wlth She!
II ought to have said to which, For
there are two girls
"Ah, two girls" repeated Mrs. Eden.
"Who are both so charming that
can't decide between them, and so
come to you. as usual, to help me out
of my difficulty"
"Then know these highly fortunate
young women, one of whom you intend
thus to distinguish"
ooh, it's easy TO laugh But you've
so often advised me to get married that
it's only kind to help me to put your
advice into practice. ! think you knoy
Margaret Whelan?"
Intimately. Did not see her for n
whole day in the country last summer?
And / approve your taste. She Is good
to look att
Holt appeared pleased.
"Yes, is she not handsome? Such a
fine figure and so tall"
"That's her one fault. She's almost
too tall. She's taller than YOU"
Dear lady. You're quite mistaken.
She is three inches at least shorter than
| am. She is certainly not more than
five feet eight
.What are inches?" cried his hostess
"a woman is as tall as she looks, and
Miss Whelan looks taller than you."
There was silence.
Then, II suppose it's her long frocks, u
observed Mrs. Eden in conciliatory
voice, but Holt had abandoned the ar
gument.
"Do you like her as we'll as you ad-
mire her?" he wanted to know.
II adore her. Women never do less
than adore each other on so short an
acquaintanceship. But l should have
got on with her better had l not been
so dreadfully afraid of her."
why on earth should you be afraid
of her?"
"oh, she's SO clever, so we'll inf"rm-
ed"
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Which seems to bring me back to Mat|
garet Whelan, does it nOt?"
"Oh, but a companion who is also J
good comrade. Someone who can al
preciate your own little things as wei
as those of Aristophanes. Now.
should scarcely venture to try any jok]
on Miss Whelan which was less thai
a thousand years old. On the whol1
don't consider her any more suitabl|
| than Kitty. Less so, in fact. For
one doesn't want too much concessio|
in a woman, neither does one want
too strenuous opposition. And Mis-
! Whelan can be strenuous. I've hear'
her.
80 have T." murmured Holt reminisj
| cent.
| Mrs. Eden laughed.
you're eXhilarating." she told him
I'm glad l eXhilarating!" she TOY
him.
| I'm glad ! eXhilarate you, for II
much depressed myself" said he.
seem unable to pull this affair off. "
! tell me to get married and try to OBJ
YOU, vet my suggestions don't find nj
favor in your eyes. Perhaps you W
make suggestion yOurself""
| my suggestion would be such an e
ceedingly obvious one
(Which is actually the reason CAM
see it for myself"
| 1T Is merely that you should ma
an effort to obtain the woman you
| in love with"
| "But surely I'm more or less in lQ.
with Margaret and Kitty. too"
"Beleve me. very much less ratf
than more"
Dear lady! BY what signs do y
judge me""
"By these signs" Mrs. Eden told hi
when you are really in love with
woman you don't weigh her in the b.
| ance with anyone else. She sta
above every one, unique and alone.
don't ask other women their opny
of her; you force your opinion on then
You are in her society as often as yo
can manage it, and you are filled wit
solicitude for her welfare whenever sh
is out of your sight. You joke with hel
laugh with her, discuss with her, an
disagree with her. You quarrel wit
her and make it up again. You lay ope
to her the subject you have neares
your heart. and in any difficulty you
|
but there's no woman In the worl
toward whom feel like that but you,
J said Holt with sincerity. "And-and-
but why-Lord. What Il fool you mus
think mel"
He moved close beside Mrs Eden o
the sofa and took her hand between hi
own.
"Dear-my dear'-he asked her per
suasively, ''do you think you coul
ever get to love me the least bit?'
Mrs. Eden turned away To hide he
smiles, and, having subdued then
turned back with histrionic word
surprise upon her tongue tip, but, look
ing straight into his eyes, she sudden
ly threw away play-acting and CAV
him the warm and happy truth.
"You dear and foolish person" sh
murmured, "could you not see ! hay
loved you for long"
Now Holt, who hid some wisdom be
meath much apparent folly, was wis
enough to let this query fall.-Chicag
Tribune.
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The BOARD
OUTLINED IN A PAPER COM
PILED BY CAPT. ATHERToN.

Il Was Read at the Meeting Of the
Board Held Yesterday-Tells Of the
Force the Board Has Been in
Bringing About Needed Public I'm
provements and of the Industries
That It Has Been Instrumental In
Bringing to the City-First Step in
That Direction Taken in 1875.
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HERE Is A NEW IDEA.
Measuring the Speed of Under
ground Water by Electricity.

A recent and interesting develop
New-York tribune., 1902-01-12
OUR STREET TRAFFIC.

New-York suffers greatly from the over
crowded condition Of her streets, and especially
of those great arteries which run north and
south So heavy is the traffic that slight con-
gestion at once produces confusion and delay.
Yet the simple road rule of always driving to
the right, rigidly carried out, would obviously
facilitate travel and diminish the danger of
accidents. In European cities the road rule is
impartially and even implacably enforced.
Europe has been longer in the business OF
handling crowded streets than We have, and
can give us valuable pointers. The strict en-
forcement of the road rule is one Of these.
At corners where great arterial streets cross
each other there is room for vast Improvement
in the police management. The American sys-
tenn is largely go as you please one, and car
riages and pedestrians generally cross these
functions as best they may. 1t would be wiser,
safer and quicker If the police would allow
first one streets traffic and then the others TO
cross alternately In European cities too half
way across the streets are placed safety reserva-
tions on which those on foot can pause for
breath and bide their time in getting across.
In NewYork once loose from the curb on
crowded street, no vantage spot short of the
other curb exists, and TO reach that goal fire.
quently calls for athletic feats that would put
a professional gymnast his mettle. These
safety oases serve another good turn, for they
divide traffic and do much to keep vehicles on
the right side of the street and thus prevent
collisions.
Another thing would enormously relieve the
downtown congestion. Compel the Rapid Tran
sit contractors to close up as speedily as pos
sible the many nearly finished blocks of their
work on Elm-st; then pave them and throw
them open Has not the public waited long
enough for the Elm-st. opening for which it has
paid so dear2
New-York tribune., 1902-01-12
EVERY DAY MIRACLES.

In one of the cross streets of lower New York
there might have been observed the other day
an incident with far wider implications than,
we fear, would ordinarily be attributed to it,.
We say might have been" advisedly; for as a
matter of fact, the incident was of nature so
familiar to NEWCOMERS that few would con-
slider it worth while to pause for more than the
most hurried glance at it, The uppermost
stories of one of the new skyscrapers were be-
ing carried to completion. The workmen
seemed almost pygmies as they stood, some two
hundred feet above the narrow street, around
spidery apparatus used for hosting heavy
bodies of material. Midway between them and
their fellows on the pavement there swung
gigantic section OF some metal tube, a cumbrous
piece of steel weighing several tons. chain
around 1t was fastened to q cable that seemed
threadlike in its tenuity; and as the machine up
at the top OF things did its work, and the men
down below manipulated the ropes that kept
this mighty mass from humping against the
facade, 1t rose as though it had no weight at ALL
and was dropped into the hands of the me-
chanics on their dizzy perch as swiftly and as
deftly as bird drops into its nest. We see this
sort of thing every day; we have come to taking
1t for granted as an ordinary feat of engineer
ing skill. Yet how can it fail TO communicate
TO the thoughtful and imaginative spectator
something of the thrill which he might be ex-
pected to feel in the presence of a miracle?
1t is unnecessary to dwell however upon the
miraculous aspect Of our modern civilization
What this quite ordinary incident seemed to
suggest, rather was the error into which we so
easily drift when we begin to distinguish be-
tween things of the mind and things of the spirit
When famous author dies we are told that "the
great men dying OUT and 1t is argued that
as they 90 the world Is sinking deeper and
deeper into the mire OF materialism Does the
spirit manifest itself only in terms Of poetry or
us every day. If the reader suspects that he
has heard this before we can assure him that he
is quite right. The tremendous spiritual energy
OF our time is obvious TO any one who is not
crassly superficial. But 1t is just obvious
that there is a strong tendency nowadays to
gard all men engaged in mechanical and money
making pursuits as necessarily bearing no share
In the higher development of mankind Yet
these very men are dealing with forces as fasci-
mating and as suggestive to the imagination as
any Of which history gives the record
The huge piece of metal moving so impress
sively in the air calls to mind the great Gokteik
viaduct, which was made by American hands.
carried thousands of miles, and put in place
amid the mountains of India by our mechanics
The British commentator, snorting with disgust
because firm in his own country did not get
the contract, talks disdainfully of yankee
New-York tribune., 1902-01-12
AT THE WHITE HOUSE

Washington, jan II (speciaD.-At luncheon with
the President to-day were Admiral II. c. Taylor
who is to succeed Admiral Crowninshield as cnier
Of the Bureau Of Navigation. and me or TWO otner
friends Among the callers at the White House
were Civil Service Commissioner Foulke, Dennis
Flvnn Delegate from Oklahoma. VINO presented a
delegation of fifteen of his constituents; Senator
Deboe Representative Boreing. Commissioner
Yerkes J. s Browning, ex-Representative fost, or
Virginia; Senator Burton and Representative Miller
of Kansas; Senators Foraker, Nelson and NC
Laurin, of Mississippi.
Senator Quay. who has just returned from Flor
ida where he went for the benefit or his health
called on the President to-day He said his health
was much improved and denied that he contem-
plated retiring from the Senate Il shall serve out
my term" he said.
NJ. Cambon the French Ambassador. to-day pre-
sentcd TO the President Lazon WELLER and Maurice
de I.agotellerie. The former is a member or the
Foreign Commerce Council of France They wera
received in the library of the White House.
Speaker Henderson called at the White House to-
day and talked with the President about Legislative
matters.
Edward S. Hosmer, OF 1.-The Joplin C1o) News
Herald" called on the President by appointment
Representatives BrownlOw and Gibson, or TenneS-
see to-day introduced the President ex-Repre-
sentative John f. Mccall, the newly appointed Col
lector of Internal Revenue for the Ntn tennessee
The Amoskeag Veterans a well known social and
semi-military organization OF Manchester. n. H. s
coming to Washington about February 20 on one
of its annual pilgrmages. Senators Gallinger and
Burnham, of NewHampshire, to-day arranged with
the President to have the members received az the
White House In 1854 President Pierce received the
organization. and two of those who were present
then are still among its members
New-York tribune., 1902-01-12
TIE CANAL TERMINAL.

The present prospect is that some compre.
hensire and efficient scheme of canal improve
ment will soon be undertaken In and by this
State. That raises the question of the tide
water terminal Of the canal system, a question
scarcely less urgent than that of enlarging the
canals themselves. The terminal must of
course be in this city. But in what part of the
much crowded waters of NewYork? 1t is an
interesting fact that, although New-York has
for three-quarters of a century been the terminal
Of the great inland waterway to which the
greatness OF this city is largely due, there
has never yet been prepared here a suitable
terminal for canal traffic. Canalboats have
come hither and been tied UP here, there and
yonder, in happy -go-lrcky fashion, without
ever a thought of establishing general termi-
nal in some place designated by convenience
safety and the requirements of commerce.
Such terminal should be, above all else, at a
point accessible TO ocean going vessels, since
large proportion of canal freight is designed for
direct expectation. If it can be in proximity TO
the railroad terminals and also to the manu-
featuring districts of the city, so much the bet
ter. Also. for the sake of safety and con-
yenience, ii should be so placed not to add to
the already too great congestion of certain parts
OF the harbOr and waterfront. 1t is of course
desirable that it should be in this city, and not
en- the New-Jersey shore of the harbor In that
case it must be elsewhere than on the North
River side of Manhattan Island For that
waterfront below Seventy y-second-st. is already
crowded, and above that point is topographcaI-
~ unavailable for any such purpose The
waterfront Of Richmond is too remote from the
centre of the city. That of Brooklyn is annie
and not Ill placed. But to both of these the
strong objection is offered that they are reached
only by running the gantlet of the already
dangerously crowded waters of the lower North
River and the upper part Of the Upper Bay
There remains. then, the fine deep water
frontage Of The Bronx, and especially that
stretch OF il between the mouths of the Harlem
and Bronx rivers. There is some Of the best
deep water of the whole harbor. 1t is near the
industrial heart of the city. 1t is In direct touch
with some Of the chief railroad systems centring
here II is, above ali, most safely and readily
accessible. without traversing any Of the
crowded parts Of the harbor. The fleets Of canal
boats would turn into Spuyten DuyviI Creek
and pass Gown the Harlem River and Harlem
Ship Canal They are, too, precisely the kind
of vessels which should traverse these latter
waters for they can pass under the bridges
without opening the draws, and therefore with
out iDterrupting railroad and other traffic AS
fo< the availability OF Port Morris for ocean
commerce 1T needs only to be recalled that
New-York tribune., 1902-01-12

when last the Great Eastern visited this port
it was deemed safer and easier TO bring her in
through the Sound TO the waters off Port Morris
than to bring her through the Sandy Hook
channels.
The availa bility Of this site for great canal
terminal depends, however, upon the compile
ton of the Harlem River and Harlem Kills i'm
provements. That job has now been dragging
on for many a weary year, with no fulflment
yet in sight The delay has seemed inexplicable
and discredtable but perhaps there are some
occult reasons for it which none but adopts can
understand. Even so, 1t really ought to be pos
sible for the whole United States Government
to complete that work as soon as the one State
of New-York can complete the apparently much
greater work of enIarging the Erie and other
canals