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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-11-05

Successful prize fighters get their
pay by the pound.
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BREAKS PLATES FOR A LIVING
The Ohd Ceremony Rabbi Performs
for n merchandising Sect.

A Pole on the East Side makes his living
by breaking plates He breaks con-
siderable number each week for applicants
and receives fee for so doing. The plate
TO be broken is usually furnished by him
self, but occasionally the customer pro-
vdes it,
Almost anybody might be expected to be
able to smash plate with an iron hammer,
which is the tool the old man uses, but the
curious thing about his method is that the
blow falls SO as to break the plate into
three pieces, two Of certain size and one
larger and differently shaped from the
others There are few chips and splinter
ings from his plate smashing, and never
more nor less than the three pieces.
The plates are mortuary plates and are
an important part of the burial ceremony
among certain orthodox Jews, The two
smaller pieces Of the potters ware are
applied to cover the dead persons eyes,
and the larger and longer piece is meant
to extend from eyebrow to mouth The
believers hold that such pieces of pottery
ware placed within the coffin assure pro-
lection to the soul when it makes it's exit
from the body stipulated time after
burial.
"Thy pillow shall be the earth" is con-
sr,ied as partial warrant for the custom.
The secret of this particular method of
platc-breaking has come down from rabbi
to rabbi through manygenerations. Origl-
nafly the plate was split with sword,
Later the breakage was effected with
trowel Now hammer answers. For
merly the plates for mOrtuary Use were
supposed to issue one and all from certain
potters kiln near Jerusalem, and some of
the plates were believed to be heirlooms
since King Solomons day. But with the
removal of the tribes from place to place.
and the stress Of poverty and strange con-
ditionS II has come to be that almost any
plate will do if il be potter's ware and not
tin or metal and II it IL broken by person
authorized to bless the ceremony.
So this weakened old rabbi of a peculiar
fast disappearing sect among all the other
orthodox Jews il called upon by many to
perform the ceremony. And he has steady
employment even though his constituents
be among the poorest Of the phetto's peo-
pie and able TO give only tithe of the fee
which used to be considered proper for
such service
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TEA re- Room 4 EOOk.
Some New YOrk women Puzzled 10y n Novel
Means of Advertising.

Many New Workers. have recently re-
ceved what appeared to he invitations
80 an afternoon tea given by person they
had never seen or heard of, although her
name bore some resemblance to TINT Of
an old New York family, On the card were
engraved the name and address of the
hostess and the date of her tea. while NJ
the top of the card was written IN quite
the accepted fashion, which requires il To
he in pen and ink, "Io meet Miss u"
Some of the problems raised by the card
we're as 10 who the hostess was, why abe
had thought Of giving a tea in the last week
in June and above all who Miss
was Some information on this point VA,
attanabic from the back Of the card, There
was also written in ink
you must meet Miss \ She is the
original of one of the characters in a. y
Here came the title of II book recently pub
ished,
There was pnly one thing ON the card that
seemed to indicate that the invitation was
not genuine An error was made in the
date Then some of tho recipients ~ cards
discovered that there wHa no such houFc
on the avenue as the number on the card
indicated.
II took some time for most Of the persons
who received this invitation through the
mails to realize that II was intended TO nd.
vertisc n novel recently published and
very much in need Of all the publicity pos
Sble
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FACES or MEN AND WOWEN.
Are the Former More Likely 10 Show de-
fecls Than the Latter

After they had held down a bench on
Riverside Drive for an hour, during which
time 500 people had pas7cd, one Of them
wound up his disconnected comments
with this;
Have you ever noticed how few women
you see with any deformity in their faces?
You may watch the crowd in any street
and every tenth man will ha We a broken
nose or disfgured mouth, or deformed
chin, or some mark which indicates n mis-
fortune But not one woman in fifty is so
marked.
You see ugly women, women with tell
tale lines in their faces and plenty of good
looking women but as say, not one in
ffty--I have made the count frequently
and that IL the avnrage-haS a scar or an
abnormal mark on her face"
II asked a doctor about il, and his expla-
nation was that women being out Of doors
less than men, are more protected from
accidents. But that il not satisfactory
II you study the proposition
"lou may stand at the Manhattan end
Of the Brooklyn Bridge in the rush hour,
IA l have done, and take 100 women and
then take the first twenty men after
ward that pass along, men and women
who you know come and go to work daily,
hLNi SOu Will HlItl IIloIt Illeti III
the face than you will find women | am
not talking about women who go shopping,
but women who work in stores and shops.
IL used to be night worker, and went
home on the early morning trains which
carry an army Of night workers of both
sexes-the women in such cases being
from the bakeshops and cafes and places
where women ire as much in danger as
men, and rarely did ever gee woman
whose face was marred by any natural
deformity, or by anything that would indi-
cate an accident
"The only conclusion | ever reached
was that women are more careful of their
faces than men, but that applies only to
accidents. How about those who have
been favored from birth? Why are they,
Proportionately, more fortunate than
mem"
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cut of bet een Ogden and Lucin These
men each earn, on an average, $3.50 day
which msa MS a monthly payroll of S2250OO
For the past six months there has been
about the sa mo number of men employed
steadily. Figuring at this rate, the Southern
Pacific has in the past six months paid out
for labor alone 81, 10000
This great army of men live in bunk
houses erected on the trcstle and on the
shore. All told, there are about forty
seven Of these camps, which quarter from
20 to 200 men each.
A camp dining room is furnished with
two tables about 30 feet long, with benches
on either side. The food furnished the
men is said to be of a good quality and
we'll cooked.
Two carloads of provisions are consumed
on the lake daily, not counting the fresh
meat. which constitutes the ma or portion
OF each meal. These stores are supplied
from general company store at Promon-
tory, which keeps on hand all the time a
stock of provisions valued at S25 600.
Many serious difficulties have confronted
the engineers experimenting the con-
struction Of this enterprise. The two
sinks of which so much has been published
have caused more trouble than anything
else.
The first of these, known M the BOTTOM
less pit" n stretch of fill about 300 feet long,
occurred about a mile out from the east
shore of the lake There seems to have
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-05
PHONES FOOL THE BIRDS.
yellow Hammers Hone! comb Poles In
Search OF BuZylng Insects.


EAST EDDINaToN, Me-, July 4.-Owing
TO the ravages Of the yellow hammers, or
flickers, workmen have been kept busy
in repairing and replacing the posts of the
new telephone line here ever since the
birds arrived in the spring.
While the posts Of the telephone and tee-
graph wires were confined TO the cleared
land away from the woods there was no
trouble in keeping them in good condition
for fifteen or twenty years, but when private
and public enterprise extended the tele-
phone to remote sporting camps and fishing
grounds the hickers began to peck holes in
the soft arbor Vita wood, digging galleries
far into the heart and making the sticks
80 weak that they broke off in high winds
Until the white cedar, or arbor vitae. poles
began to he employed for holding the wires
aloft, the fckers did not disturb this species
of trees. Most Of the work performed by
these birds is done upon trunks OF white
birch, which is soft and very easy to pene-
trate and upon such other aged trees as
had partly rotted, the decaying wood
furnishing homes for the insects upon which
the fickers subsist.
One may search the woods all day and
never find flicker nest in any arbor vitae,
spruce or pine No sooner. however had
the cedar trees been feled and set up along
the sides of the roads to hold the wires than
every one became the target for industrious
birds, which not only dug holes for their
nests in the soft trunks, but tunnelled the
wood in every direction.
Men who have observed fiickers at work
on the telephone lines say the birds mis-
take the constant cumming kept up by
the wires for the sounds of insects inside
the wood, and that the poles are ruined
out of misdirected zeal in pursuit of grubs
which do not exist
A flicker on alighting on the side of
pole will give a few taps with his bill against
the dry wood and then cock his head on
one side TO listen for borers Hearing the
wires singing and humming in the breeze
and feeling the pole tremble slightly from
the pulsing sound, the flicker reasons that
the whole stick is filed with toothsome
grubs and at once begins to cut away
the wood
After working until he its tired, the bird
stops to listen again. and finding the sound
is AZ loud as ever and apparently deeper
in the wood, he resumes his labor, pene-
trating deeper and deeper, until he has
bored hole clear through the stick.
In this manner the flickers have worked
day after day, until there is not whole
pole left on any telephone line which runs
through he woods. As a new pole ia worth
So, and as the cost OF carriage and setting is
81 or more, the expense of keeping back
woods line in repair is more than the COM
panies can stand, and double rates ara
charged to patrons who desire telephone
communications from resorts that are far
from open fields
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-05

There are two styles of pile drivers en-
ployed. In the language of the men who
work them they are spoken of as scow
drivers and overhanging drivers.
The former are ninety feet high and are
built on pontoons and are towed about
the lake. The latter are built for use on top
Of the bents.
Where the water is deepest the longest
pile TO be had is not long enough TO reach
a solid bottom For this reason piece s
spliced on to make the length about 40
feet.
Few persons are aware OF the fact that
there ia a navy on Great Salt Lake, There
ir, and quite an extensive one nevertheless.
II is called the Southern Pacific navy and
consists Of more than one hundred craft.
The greatest part of the feet are small
boats used by the men to come and go to
work. There are ten powerful towboats,
built in San Francisco especially for use
on this lake. The flagship Of the feet is
the steamer Promontory. She is large
craft, designed from a stern wheeler river
boat and was built on the lake last year.
The Promontory plays a very important
part in the construction OF the cutoff.
Besides doing considerable towing she
makes trip every day from one side
Of the lake 10 the other, carrying provisions,
water and the mail to each camp.
There are at the present time in the neigh
borhood of 5000 men employed on the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-05
THIEF Uses THE POST OFFICE.
A Sort OF Hair Kindness In Practice for
the BENEFIT or the Robbed.

A new part which the Post Office plays
in robbery cases was revealed to New
York girl last week when she received
to call for an unaddressed package be-
lievrd to belong to her, Several days
before this the young woman had lost her
pocketbook. The purse contained money,
several keys, "A pocket piece, II number
of her cards and some small trinkes.
Presenting the official notice AT the Post
Office, she was asked if she had lost small
satchel, and when told that she had been
robbed of one, the clerk asked for descrip-
ton Of It's contents
"A fve-dollar bill. two fve-dollar gold
pieces, ten-dollar bill. =
Hold on minute, said the clerk. There
isn't any money in this bag What else
did you have in IT."
oh, l guess it isnl mine then she
Never mind" interrupted the clerk,
glancing down the line of applicants.
What else did you have in III"
Three keys, a medal pocket piece,
some of my cards, some stamps and samples
and things" said the girl. go,
"Oh, guess it's yours, said the clerk,
delivering over the identified property,
"If IL hadn't been for the cards, however,
Won probably would never have found IL
Bit where in my money! asked the
girl.
"Oh, that is common occurrence, was
explained "Yor see thief knows il
isn't safe to carry around some easily
identified possession of some other person,
He only wants the money SO he takes
that and then drops anything which might
lead 10 detection in The A rst post office
parcel box he reaches And Won get what
Ia left Of your property after the thief has
had his pick"
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been a gulch of unusual depth here at some
time II has become filed with soft mud
from the Bear River and this continues to
ooze out from beneath the great quantity
OF rock and earth that has been dumped
i'm upon It, allowing the fill to sink
Tie engineers believe the hole il about
allied, and that but little trouble Will be
accustomed by il from now on, when
once filed, they say. this piece OF track
will he az solid AZ any other,
The other sink occurred about two miles i,
west OF Promontory II IL similar TO the
frst, but IL il not thought to he AZ bad. ,
storms on the lake last winter caused
trouble by washing materia out OF the
booms and wrecking boats and pile-drlv"rs
II il estimated that material and equipment
To the value Of 500 ,OOO have been lost dur.
inp these gales. There Is scarcely mile OF
beach anywhere about the lake that IL
not virtually covered with piles, 'imb"rs
and wreckage, .
On one occasion storm came mp curing
IN. night. accompanied with high winds
Several bunk houses built on pontoonS
n,oored out quite distance from shore
broke away from their moorings and we're
blown down the lake thirty or forty miles
The occupants we're badly frightened, but
w,rc rescued bv A launch.
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army of men TO the shores of the sail sea,
where, one by one, they have been driven
through the mud to solid rock
The fill is a stupendous piece OF work.
II is appro ximate yfourtosR miles ip length,
reaching from the east rhcre Of me lake,
at a point near Little Mountain. directly
fast for distance of eight miles. to Pro-
m0shDry point,
This point ia Of a rock formation and
i, four miles vide. The I'll starts again
on the cast side Of it and extends three
miles out into the lake, TO where the water
rpache. depth Of twenty-eight feet,
From the west side OF the lake the fill
Is built east three miles, where he water
Is Of depth too great TO permit of further
ring, For the entire fourteen miles
the Ill rises above the surface of the water
TO height of from fourteen to sixteen
feet. II is from twenty TO sixty feet wide
on top, and slopes away easily to the water
line
., The quantity of rock and earth used for
nulng is MT known No accurate estimate
can b" nlde, because OF the variation in the
likes bottom
The lake bottom away below the mud
Is rough and rugged Valleys and gorHes
ana chasms are there just MS they are TO
ne seen all over this intermountain region.
MUD has settled in them in ages past, 30
,ha' sounding Of the lake records level
bottom s!oping gently from the shores:
When boulders weighing az much as
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Yen tons each are dumped from tESe trains,
.ney DO not stop 81 the mud bottom, but
continue downward TO solid earth, pushing
,ne mud to the side, How deep they go
no one can say. The dirt trains continue
10 lump until the fill reaches the required
e'eVallon and then move on.
II Is Tor this reason that an attempt
10 calculate the amount of earth and rock
,Hat has gone down beneath the surface
W. me brine would be useless. Certain il
~ mat veriable mountains have been built
"emnsath the waters of the lake
% ms work has required the operation
G, sven great steam sh0vels, each of which
'"I u, tvo yards of earth at time
49, me construction of the trestle work
"" w me gu, of is the next greatest feature
VI VIII me work. Twentyeight miles Of plIing
o WI nave been driven when the CUTOFF is
iUHpeted. More than fifteen miles of this
now standing
d me distance across the lake is twenty
,hs nl miles For fifteen miles Of the way
~ "at"r is too deep to permit tn" nae
earth and rock filing The remaining
,rILr,e'n mIIes is over portion of the lake
r"te me water ranges in depth from a
inches 70 twPnfy-eigAt feet.
IL IN N" deep part Of the lake the depth Of
wafer ranges from twenty eight feet
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-05

OF the large profit derived from the trans
portstion OF cowry shells to West Africa that
supply became greater than the demand.
Naturally the price Of cowry money was thus
reduced ard West Africa passed through
financial crisis which was never adequately
reported In the newspapers.
Cowry money became so cheap that there
was little temptation even TO steal it. This
state Of affairs put an end to the importa-
tion Of the cowry shells and no more were
shipped until equilibrium had been restored
between supply and demand.
This chapter in the history of cowry
money is very similar to that Of silver
money in recent years when the over sup
ply Of silver cut in two the price of silver
bullion and led to great fluctuations in
the value Of silver coin
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another six months it is expected that the
actual running time between Ogden and
San Francisco will be shortened by more
than two hours.
Instead of spending more than four hours
in covering the l48 miles OF mountainous
rad around the north end Of the lake from
Ogden to Lucn, trains will reach the same
destination over a railroad built straight
across the lake, forty miles shorter. almost
level and nearly straight,
In order TO run this railroad across the
lake Mr. Hartman has built great caiise-
way through water from ten to fifty feet
deep. Great piles sixty feet long have been
driven into the bed of the lake, spliced four
on top of one another in order to get through
the false bottom.
One great sinkhole, know as the bot
tomless pit, was overcome by dumping
a mountain of rock into it President Har-
riman's army of 5000 workmen have con-
quered in their fight with mysterious Salt
Lake, but the enterprise was a difficult
one.
The immensely Of the undsrta king ma Y be
indicated by aging that mo untans of rock
and earth have bee used to fiji in he cause
way across the lake. Forests of tall pines
that for centuries had bee growing in
Oregon and Texas have been hewn down
by an army Of aIemen, stripped Of their
limbs and bark, and transported by another
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-05
OTiY N TIE MAINE WOODS.


KINro, Me, July A. Miles D.. Arbo, one
Of the proprietors of the sporting camps at
which Senator NJ s. Quay and his party Of
Pennsylvanans have been quartered for a
month, passed through here this week and
talked Of Senator Quays life in the woods
Senator Quay is one Of the easiest guests
To get along with that we have" said he
THAT don't mean thar We don't do every
thing We can 10 make his stay pleasant
but the unavoidable will happen and never
a complaint comes,
Then again, he is the best tramper for
n man Of his age ever seen. Not long
ago met him M the end Of 4 seven-mie
trail and he was the least fatigued Of the
party.
He Is fond If NY fishing and likes to ex-
plorr the country, spending most Of his
time ont Of doors in the canoe or on the
rail- hut be comes mainly for rNst, and II
s apparent that he is henefiting by his
stay.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-05
GIT RATES OS BEER.


Whom most of the Harlem saloonkeepers
put up he price Of beer from 10 to is cent :
"A pinl a! the time the cost Of the liquor
tax certificate was raised. one particular
dispenser of thirst-quenching mixtures
didn't think bis patrons would pay the
extra nickel and kept 10 the old standard.
II brought so largo an increase Of trade that
he decided 10 20 further still.
When warm weather hogan few days
ago this sign appeared in front Of the salocn
entrance:
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LuCin Cutoff Almost Built.
Trains To Run Across Great Salt Lake In Six Months.

GAIT LAKE CITY, July A.-The 1905 miles
, roNrosd known as the Lucin CUTOFF
.nhicb is being built across Great Salt Lake
w., president f. H. Hartman of the South
", Pacific at an estimated cost of $1,000
nm ia rapidly nearing completion. Within
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to fifty feet, Here permanent treste ia
being built. Over the other portion the
trestle was merely temporary. that is to say,
II has since been entirely buried with the
I'LL. It's sole purpose was to allow a track
to be built that the trains could run out on
and dump.
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There was strnghtway such rush ~
patrons 10 buy beer NJ cut rates that the
proprietor had n hire an extra bartender
Tho saloon man vowed thar the trade Wa
profitable and saws he will surely keep down
'ho price
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-05

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