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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-07-26

on the top floor are the three hand
soonest rooms In the club. They are
the library, music and ladies' retr-
ing rooms The two latter are finished
in birds eye maple, and furnished with
chairs and tables and settles OF that
same wood, wicker and gold. The H.
brary is Of Georgia pine, with forest
green stain The furniture, which Is
Flemish In the extreme, is dark oak,
upholstered In black leather
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The Golden Rule our motto true,
The days Of Aud Lang Syne."

The Golden Rule our motto true,
The days Of Aud Lang Syne."
Ritualistc Dedicatory Ceremonies,
Quartette.,. go, ...Grand Old ocean
First tenor, T. r.. Ashworth; second
tenor, Fred c, Graham; first bas-
So John Robinson; second basso,
j, W SCuires
Rltuallstic work.
Solo, (tenor) without Thee. -. Moreot
T. s. Ashworth.
Coronation hymn. e, q. ...,....
go. ~. S. Twelfth Infantry Band
Solo (barltone), % p. 49,. Friends"
H. S. Goddard,
Dedicatory address,. Lester d. Freed
Solo (tenoD e" e. o, o.. dreams"
Fred c. Graham.
}ltualistic work.
Closing ode Air, Home, Sweet Home"
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NEW ELks' HOME ON STATE STREET

guard, NJ, G, Allen; organist, II, A.
Leipsiger
BUILDING COMMITTEE.
Before the ceremonies will have be.
gun the contractors will have turned
the structure over to the building com.
mittee, composed of w. p. Lynn, chair
man. L. D. r. Thompson, c. o. Filing
wood, Fred A. Hale, l.. G, Ransohoff,
l.. f. Harr, l.. d, Freed c. S. Ford and
B. F, Redman. During the course Of
the dedicatory exercises the chairman
cf that committee win hand the keys
Of the building to the chairman of the
house committee, James Devine. His
two associates are D. s. Murray and A.
ll. Lyons They will have charge of
the building during the ensuing year,
until their successors are chosen at the
next annual election.
COMMITTEE ON RECEPTION.
The following ladies will act as the
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EMS Sw Club Building Be The Scene Of Impressive CenonhSpendd
Program Prepared fos The ccaSonDctYton Of M Club House.
Which Considered he Finest Of lis Kind in The United SaeS
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liar rltualistic work, as prescribed
!, ,bs constitution Of the order for
y occasions. The program will be
1o the more interesting and enter
..l.,rg by the interjectlon Of vocal Sc
'no,s by well known local singers,
...roi numbers by the Twelfth in
',,,, limited states band from Fort
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-07-26

10 Elks will dedicate
their club building
Monday evening, July
2S. The ceremonies.
which are very i'm
presslve, will be held
IN the new lodge room
at s o'clock. They will
consist chiefly Of the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-07-26

We've finished our labors, the parting
has come,
And each Of our brothers now goes to
his home:
And our voices blending. we now Will
depart,
In perfect love giving, each note from
the heart.
Each duty accomplished, each brother
content,
Oh, thus may we ever our friendship
cement
May charity, justice and brotherly love
AT last lead us all TO the grand lodge
above.
Benedictlon John p. Meakin, Chaplain.
Refreshments.
THE REGULAR OFFICERS.
The regular officers of the lodge will
preside. The personnel is as follows;
Exalted ruler, II. Il. Deardorff es-
teemed leading knight, F. l.. Gardner;
esteemed loyal knight, c o. Ellingwood;
esteemed lecturing knight, Ben d.
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Douglas. and the delivery Of the dedi
Lester D Freed, After the ceremonies
there viii be a reception, including the
ii7ng Of light refreshments and more
selections by the military band from
he Fort.
The services Of the evening will be
Under the supervision OF the dedica.
ten committee, composed OF the fol-
hvng members Of the lodge; Dir. VIM,
! Beer chairman; G. II. Brink, A. l.,
'soos j. D Hagman and H., A. Lelp-
ssf They have arranged the fol-
bEing
PROGRAMS:
lnumphal march D.. Grand Cosmporeia
United States 18th Infantry Band.
opening ode, Air, "Auld Lang Syne."
Great Ruler Of the Universe,
Al'seeng and benign,
LOOK Gown uDOn and bless our work,
Ahd be all glory Thine.
ana iel this be our sign, 0 Elks,
AND lei this be our sign;
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13

a. stamp design, although baked until
it is almost as hard as a diamond, is
never employed in the actual printing.
1t is much too precious for that, since,
were it destroyed, it would in all prob
ability be impossible to engrave a new
plate that would be an exact duplicate
in every delicate detail. Accordingly,
the original plate constitutes a steel
die, with which impressions are mace
on soft steel, and these latter, termed
replicas, are used after hardening Tor
the actual printing.
Postage stamps are printed in sheets
of four hundred, and all the printing
is done in one immense room, known
as the bee hive containing over three
hundred hand presses, each OF whlch
required for its manipulation the serV-
ices of two operatives-one an expert
plate printer and the other his woman
assistant, whose duty it is to feed 70
the press the blank sheets of paper ana
remove them after receiving impress
sion. The ink is applied by means of a.
hand roller, and inasmuch as the varied
hues inevitably tinge the hands ana
faces and clothing of the workers, the
immense press room presents plctur-
esoue spectacle of Kaleidoscope color,
Cumming the samples is an lmpor-
tant process, and those persons Who
never moisten a postage stamp without
nnomentary. uneasiness regarding the
possible presence of germs or otneI
evils would doubtless be assured coulu
they realize the innumerable pfecau-
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13

to get quite cold before he touched it,
while it consisted of the strongest and
most nourishing foods obtainable. For
two days in every week, however, he
tasted, and on these occasions only
drank large quantities of water. A
man who runs a close second to Mich
ael Soils was born in the parish of Boil
ton, in Yorkshire in the year 1900. This
was Henry Jenkins, who was brought
up to the business of a fisherman,
which employment he followed for
over 40 years. On the occasion of a
trial in York, involving the question
of a custom which had been followed
for years uncounted, Jenkins was call
ed, as being the oldest man in the par
ish TO give evidence. In addition to
hirn we're called two other men, both
or the verge of hundred. who both
declared on oath to the judge that
Jenkins was an old man when they
were little boys. The age of this mod
ern Methuselah was exactly 500 years
less than that of the real patriarch,
for he was laid to rest in Bolton
Church in the year 1863, when
he was 1853 years old. The interesting
things in history which this old man
saw happen were extraordinary. When
he was born, Popery was by law the
established religion. He saw the Papal
Supremacy thrown off. two Queens be-
headed, the monasteries dissolved, and
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13

When an old issue of postage stamps
is retired and a new series comes to
take its place there is a great confia-
grafton in specially prepared furnace
in the basement of the general postof-
fice at Washington, for here all the
left over stamps are cremated. Many
preliminaries are gone through with
before the burning can take place. The
chief task is, of course, the accounting.
Uncle Sam maintains a bookkeeping
account with every postmaster in her
service, and when an issue of stamps
is called in for retirement evry bit of
paper received at the postal headquar-
tiers must be counted and credited to
the postmaster who returned it. Oc-
casionaliy the government finds itself
with a heavy stock of superannuated
stamps on hand and no chance to get
red of them at a mark down" sale.
Thus, after the close of the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition the condemned
stamps which had been issued in COM
memoration of that show, but remain
ed unsold and were fed to the flames,
had a face value of over a million dol
lars. and had actually cost the gov
eminent fully $4,000.
Situated not many miles from Wash
ington and closely guarded is the man
ufactory of another kind of govern
ment stamps-the steel post-marking
stamps which are utilized in postof-
fees and on railway trains all over the
land to cancel the colored bits of pa
per which adorn missives of all kinds
For two-thirds of a century the con-
tract for making these ingenious steel
markers has been held by the Cham
bers, father and son. Originally their
plant was in Washington. but so many
attempts were made to discover their
secret process of making raised letters
on soft steel surface by hand and
machinery that they removed their
shop TO an isolated point of land jut-
ting out into the Potomac river near
it's mouth. For the stamps made in
this out-of-th-way place the govern
ment each year pays about $4,000.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13

men in charge be present, It being nee
essary for, each to manipulate a lock
of which he alone knows the combina-
ton.
Strange as 1t may appear, Uncle
Sam, in the case of stamp manufacture
has installed an official whose duty it is
to see to it that one department of the
government performs properly the
work entrusted to it by another branch
of the government. This official is
known as the stamp agent and the
United States stamp Agency is prob
ably. in so far as the public is con-
cerned, the least known of all the
great bureaus of the national govern
ment.
With his assistants, he exercises con-
slant supervision to insure the proper
performance of the Treasury Depart
ment of the big job printing entrusted
to it by the Postoffice Department. lie
sees to 1t that the paper used is of the
proper quality, that the mucilage has
not been spread on too thinly, that the
perforations are straight, and that the
dress of each new consignment Of
stamps is of exactly the same tint as
those which have gone before. Finally
an army of clerks in this institution at
tend to dispatching consignments OF
stamps to the American postoffices not
only In every nook and corner of the
United States, but also in Alaska,
Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam and the
Philippines.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13

usually more than keep pace with the
transient demand, but the law requires
that there shall be kept on hand in the
storage vaults at the bureau one
hundred million one-cent stamps and
twice as many of the two-cent denom-
ination, and some care is required to
see to it that this reserve is not de-
pleted.
Elaborate Precautions.
The same manifold precautions sur
round the manufacture of postage
stamps that characterize the printing
of currency. Each sheet of stamps is
counted dozens of times during the
process of manufacture, and if a sin
gle sheet be missing when the hour ar
rives for ceasing work, every employee
of the division where it has disap-
peared IS compelled to remain in the
building until the misplaced bit of pa
per is found. At night the plates from
which the stamps are printed are care
fully checked off and locked up in
great vaults fitted with time locks, the
doors of which can not be opened the
next morning unless all three of the
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13

harIsa thousand, and apparently the
s s~nk- note companies which formerly
tbarpa stamps have concluded that
actior would be no profit in the trans
'on at such a price.
p"rlng for n "Stamp Opening
ha. IS in the Postoffice Department
the me me hrst step is taken looking to
SIAM u guration of a new series of
Of M; Ihls is the important work
desiosSsi 9, in a general way, upon the
p arts, OF the new stamps, and more
traits airy the selection of the por-
was winch are to adorn them. It
|that Ueclded in the present instance
the me nrst postage stamp series of
dist,reW century should possesses a
the 1--we element of novelty, and SO
ers pVStal officials asked the design
Enc. the Bureau of Printing and
desi,1ls ~ not only to prepare new
sha5a"S LOT borders. and employ new
SIAM VI color, but to make the new
|frnn, OF different size and shape
new ne Ile old, and procure. if possible,
The npoltralts for their adornment.
Tissue n posal to indicate the date of
|"seri by imprinting the words.
stion iSo2' marked another innova-
|placine so also does the plan of
denon9i. oeheath the portrait on each
with tba tion the name of the subject
Tho N1e cate of birth and death.
'of its new series of stamps, like each
chsnsa. predecessors. makes some
SOM 50 IN the circle of historical per-
whose memory is perpetuated
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13

wealth. Parr was living at the same
time as Jenkins, having been born in
1888, and he died in 1886, which makes
his age 152 years. He was husband
man, and followed this calling stead
lily for 1870 years. He was twice mar
ried, the second time when he ought
to have known better-that is, when
he was aged 120 years. The offspring
of this marriage was a son, who APP
parently inherited his fathers recipe
for longevity, for he managed to keep
alive for 10 years, and had a son who
made a good attempt to emulate his
grandfather, by living to the age of l2T
years.
Women have their share of longevity,
just as men have, but they do not at
tain to nearly the same ages as their
worse halves. The oldest woman hv-
ing at present, that is the Oldest
known, is probably Mrs. Nancy Holli-
field She is a lady of color, and has
attained to the age of 121 years. Her
case was investigated by the Rev. C.
Lee some six years ago, and he then
round her age to be one hundred and
fifteen years. The gentleman, who
died in his ninetieth year, remembered
Mrs. Hollifeld as his nurse, and that
she had at that time several children.
50 that the estimate cannot be far
short of the mark. She lives near FL
lenborOugh, North Carolina. A lady
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13
INSTANCES OF LONGEVITY.
Modern Cases in Which Extreme
Old Age Has Been Reached.

Old Age Has Been Reached.
From the London Standard.
The average duration of human life
seems, at first, to have been abnorm-
ally high, and then to have sunk quite
low, only to be raised again. OF
course,n no one is ever likely to equal the
969 years attributed to Methuselah or
the 962 years of Jared. but there seems
to be no good reason why the age of
ITO or SO should not be reached in the
future great deal more often than
it now is. In the SEVENTEEN century
the average age to which mankind
lived was only just over IS, but then
they had to contend against war, fam
inc, and pestilence, as we'll as doctors.
The average at present is about SO,
which includes, Of course, infant NOR
tality. Further, it is computed that in
England, at the present time, out of
LOCO people over 100 reach the age of
rs, IS reach IS, and two attain to 95,
while one person in about every 5000
becomes a centenarian. In former
times, however, a man of so was con-
sidered old, and resident of 100 made
a town or village famous. We do
not, however, propose here to deal with
mere centenarians, but with men who
have lived to ages of 120 and upwards.
The record probably is held by Michael
Soils, who, according to the Lancet,
was living in Bogota in 1878. He
claimed to be at that time 1874 years
old, and DR.. Louis Hernandez, a man
of over eighty years of age, who inves-
tigated the case, knew him as a CEN
tenarian when he himself was a boy.
But the signature of Michael Soils, who
is a half-breed, is eXtant on a docu-
ment referring to the building of q.
Franciscan convent at San Salvador,
under the date 1I12, so that he was not
quite so young as he would wish people
to believe. There is very little doubt
about the authenticity of this remark
able case. The Lancet investigated it
thoroughly in 1878, and came to the
conclusion that the man was at least
1870 years old then. 1t was in 1896 that
DIR. Hernandez made his inquiries,
and in 1895 he was still alive.
so that his age, if he died in that year,
was only two years short of two CEN
turtles. Michael Soils attributed his
extraordinary longevity to his regular
mode of living. He used to eat but
one meal a day, and that he allowed
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13

stamps to the public, it is estimated
that fully one hundred thousand per-
sons have hand in preparing for a
postage stamp opening"
For upward of a decade the national
government has been printing it's own
postage stamps-that is, the work has
been done az the big institution at
Washington known as the Bureau OF
Printing and Engraving, which is a
branch of the Treasury Department,
and designed primarily for the print
ing Of national currency-but the gil
gantic task may at any time revert to
private individuals or a corporation if
a disposition is shown to do the work
cheaper than the government can do
it.
Every year the Postoffice Depart
ment advertises for bids for furnish
ing the postage stamps, and the
Treasury Department submits a prop
osltion in exactly the same manner as
Inc other bidders, but the plant of
Inc big money factories at the nation
al capital is so prefectly equipped that
Inc manufacture of stamps can be
carried on at a cost of less than five
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13
1.TING POSTAGE STAMPS
SERIES OF THESE USEFUL
Me- LITTLE PORTRAITS.

:. the List of Great Men
ena atnred-work of a Dozen Differ
snt Engravers ON E"eh Design
en- of Gum on the Back
81 -FOUR Times Year to
90 ,tmosphericl conditiops-one
stamps Would Girdle the
l,.,e Four Timcs-The Curious
IL of the stamp Agent.
lexington. April 11.-For some time
TrrcIa sam has been busily en-
p'. s.d in preparing a new series Of
gas' stamps. OF late years the
p0s.s a9 states has dropped into the
~, s,on Of changing the designs of its
iA' l,0a franks more frequently than
n ,ast any nation, and gradually the
ann. 4 renublic of the New World has
~. TO the proud position of possess
~ ~ hostage stamps that are more arts
ne han those sent out from any other
country
.rse amount of work is necessitat-
:, Nv the advent of new styles in this
..tal currency. What with the men
r,bo manufacture the paper, the two or
...oe thousand men and women who
..sst in printing and cumming the
..omns the toilers who help in trans
s,Sin the new products of the print
~, PRESSES and the eighty thousand
mnHss,masters and clerks who sell the
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13

Scott, Hamilton and Zachary Taylor
were all portrayed on postagestamps
at one time or another, but have had
to give way to statesmen of more re-
cent prominence. Nor indeed, will the
changes end here, for it is expected
that as soon as the new Mckinley pos
tai card has served the usual period of
usefulness and been retired, his por-
trait will supplant that of either Sher-
man or Webster. So, too, there have
been changes in denominations. For
the 30 and 90-cent stamps of some
years since the 50-cent and 81 denomi-
nations of the present day have been
substituted, and the 81 and SIS values
are comparative newcomers.
Engraving the plates which are used
in the production of postage stamps is
a delicate operation. Perhaps a dozen
different engravers, each an expert in
his particular line, contributes to a de-
sign for a stamp that is not an inch
square. One supplies the vignette, a
second cuts the delicate scroll work, a
third furnishes the artistic lettering,
and so on. The original plate bearing
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13

tons surrounding the preparation and
application of the sticky stun most ia
miliar to the American tongue. The
cumming it done by an electrical ma
chine. and each sheet of stamps. after
receiving the baptism of mucilage, is
carried by an endless chain, operating
like miniature moving sidewalk,
through long wooden tunnel, where
the temperature is 1870 degrees Fahren-
heit and from which the sheets emerge
with the mucilage perfectly dry.
To meet the different conditions of
the seasons of the year the quality of
the gum is changed quarterly. In win
ter soft gum is used, while in summer
harder grade is applied to the postage
stamps. and it is highly important al
ways to keep a sharp watch on the
mucilage to insure quality least like
ly to cause the sheets to stick together
by reason of the dampness in the at
mosphere. The mucilage is prepared in
accordance with a time-honored form
ula, and for boiling the strange con-
coction there are installed in the base
ment of the Bureau of Printing and En-
craving three giant kettles, each of
which will hold fully one hundred gall
Ions.
If placed end to end, the stamps
printed for the use of the American
people each year would girdle the
globe nearly four times. Under nor
NAL conditions between ten million
and twenty million stamps are printed
at the Bureau of Printing and En-
craving during an ordinary working
day of eight hours, but under stress
of unusual conditions, when the great
print shop has been in operation night
and day, an average of more than
forty million stamps has been pro-
duced every twenty-four hours. In
asmuch as the average consumption OF
stamps at the present time is about
fifteen million day. the bureau can
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13

who was living in 1894 in Hungary
Hollifield very close. Besides, she
holds a unique record-the fact that
she and her husband celebrated in 1894
their century of married life. Her hus-
band at the time was 100, and the
couple had for many years been in the
receipt of a pension granted them In
recognition of their mutual fidelity.
This marriage centenary is perfectly
authenticated, as the record of the
marriage is entered in the register of
Zsombolzi as having taken place in
May, 1894, when both Jean Szathmary
and his wife had reached the mar
riageable age. So far as we know
there is only one case where a man and
a woman have gone through the mar
riage ceremony after having reached
the age of one hundred years. Such
wedding took place, as recorded in the
parish register of Dublin in the year
1772, between Pat Stephens, aged 100
years, and Mrs. Berry, who had attain
ed to the respectable age of 102 years.
The profession of soldier seems, Curl
ously enough, to swell the ranks of the
long-lived. One would think that the
hardehips of one or several campaigns
would not tend to prolong life, but to
diminish its length. so prODdDly IL
does in the ma jority of cases, yet there
are soldier centenarians in most of
our warehouses, and retired officers
frequently live to be eighty
or ninety. There is a case, however,
of a man having been a soldier for one
hundred and ten years. This was John
Cheossick, who died at the hospital
at Murano, near Venice. When only
eight years old he entered as a fifer in
the Austrian regiment of Stahrenberg.
He fought under the Emperor Charles
VI, against the Turks during the reign
of Maria Theresa; in 1741 against Prus-
STA: against the French, in Bohemia in
1742; and in 1744 he served in the wars
of the Low Countries. In 1744 or 1745
he quilted the Austrian army and en-
tered the service of the republic of
Venice. In this service he was en-
gagged in several naval expeditions
particularly in that against the Turks
when the command was in the hands
of Gen. Emo: and on May I, 1897, he
entered the hospital for invalids at
Murano. where he died in 1920, aged
one hundred and seventeen years, hav-
ing seen eighty-seven years of active
service. If to these we add the TWEEN
ty-three years which he spent in his
retirement before he died, but during
which he was still a soldier. though
not on the active list, il amounts 10