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The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
w. G. IRWIN, ARGUS. MOHI-
CAN. SPARTAN AND OTHER
WINDJAMMERS COMING IN.

building was dropped exactly at noon to-day
I. e. noon of the 120th meridian, at 8
p. m, Greenwich time. J. c. BURNETT,
Lieutenant u. S. N, in charge.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
CALIFORNIA NORTHWESTERN RY. co.
LESSEE
SAN FRANCISCO AM NORTH PACIFIC

Tiburon Ferry. Foot Of Market Street.
SAN FRANCISCO TO SAN RAFAEL.
WEEK DAYS-7:3O. 900. HOO a m; II IS.
$3.50. $40. $50 p. m. Thursdays-Extra trip
at IL 80 o. m.
saturdays-Extra trip at so and IL 80 pm
SUNDAYS-S.OO. $3.50. 11:O0 a. m; 1870.
SAN RAFAEL TO SAN FRANCISCO.
WEEK DAYS-6:O5 7:35. 1850. 9:2O. HIS
a. m: II so. $40, 500 $40 D. N.
Saturdays-Extra trip at POS and 6:35 .. m.
sUNDAYS-S:OO, 9;40. 11:15 a. m. 1:40. S:4O.
4:55 sos. 6.25 D. N.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
CONSULTATION rnrr
AND tKE
X-RAYEXAMRATTONE I'LL

epec1a-laes - Consumption. Cata-rh
Ero1eaas1a. Asthma. Cancers. Tunors.
Dea1ness' Head ana Ear Noises, Rheuma
tlsn. Paralysis. Neuralgia, piles M
eases of the Stomach. Liver, Kidncvs .-a
Bowels. Special Diseases OF Men ana W.
men All chronic diseases.
HOME TREATMENT you live ~ , a.,
tsfice, try 20 come Tor a personal examination
y you can't come. write for Instructions So-
home examination and treatment.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08

STAGES connect at Green Brae Tor san
Quentin; at Santa Rosa for White sulphur
Springs: at Fulton for Altruria and Mark West
Springs; at Lytton for Lytton Springs; at Gey-
serville for Skaggs Springs; at Cloverdale for
the Geysers, Booneville and Greenwood: at
Hopland for Duncan Springs. Highland Springs.
Kelseyville. Carlsbad Springs. Soda Bay. Lake
port and Bartlett Springs; at Uxiah for Nichy
Springs. Saratoga Springs. Blue Lakes. Laurel
Dell Lake. Witter Springs. Upper Lake. Pomo,
Potter Valley John Days. Riverside, Lierly' 8
BuckneWs. Sanhedrin Heights. Hullville, Orr's
Hot Springs, Halfway House. Comptche, Camp
Stevens. Hop kins, MendocinO City. Fort Bragg
Westport. USals at Willis Tor Fort Bragg,
Westport Sherwood. Cahto. covello Layton
Vile Cummings. Bells Springs. Harris. Oh
sens. Dyer. Garberville. Pepperwood. Scotia
and Eureka.
Saturday to Sunday round-trip tickets az rs-
duced rates.
On Sunday round-trip tickets to All points
beyond San Rafael at half rates
Ticket office. $50 Market street. Chronicles
building
II. G. WHITING. r. x RYAN,
Gen Manager. Gen. Pass. Agt
Evening star., 1903-08-15

Commodore Stevens took hold of his wood
en- leg Che had lost his leg at the battle
of Waterloo To keep him from falling over
board. The old gentleman was looking
most eagerly for that propeller.
The Illusion was dispelled a few days
later when the America was drydocked at
Portsmouth. and close scrutiny failed to
find the propeller.
Mrs. Stevens Expensive Joke.
Commodore John c. Stevens. founder of
the New York Yacht Club and chief owner
and director of the destinies of the schooner
America. was partial to a glass of fine old
Madeira He happened TO have in his cell
lar couple OF dozen bottles of rare vim
tage more than half century old. These
he slowed away in his own private locker
in his state room on the America.
Before the vessel sailed his wife went
aboard the America to straighten out the
commodore's cabin. as was the custom OF
the wives and sweethearts of sailormen the
wide world over in those primitive days.
She happened to come across the wine, and
just for fun ordered the carpenter to nail
the bottles up In part of the yacht where
they could not be detected easily.
On the day when the America won the
cup Commodore Stevens sang out 10 the
Evening star., 1903-08-15
Women in the Trades.
rom the Boston Trans ript.

FROM the Boston transcript
According to all the statistics which are
issued from time to time there are no un-
suitable trades for women. At least there
are very few with which they are not iden-
tifed and this fact rather makes the ques-
ton of suitability an idle one If any one
wants to offer it. General confirmation of
this fact will be found in the report of the
statistics of manufacture which the COM
monwealth of Massachusetts issues today.
And particularly convincing of womans
adaptability to trades of all kinds or of
their suitability for her will be found in the
information that the handling of lumber
and the manufacture of bricks and of drain
pipe are among her accomplishments Add
ing this bit of news to that which says the
per cent of increase in female employees
was greater the past year than was that of
male employees sets one to wondering what
revelations will be forthcoming In similar
statistics a decade hence. We think that
the time is approaching when statistics will
not be the dry and uninteresting things
they have been called In the past
Evening star., 1903-08-15
Creatures Span of Life.
rom the Detroit News Tribune.

From the Detroit News Tribune
Elephants live 100 years and upward
rhinoceros twenty, camel one hundred lion
twenty-five to seventy, tigers, leopards
jasuars and hyenas lin confinemenD about
twenty-five, beaver fifty, deer twenty, wolf
twenty, fox fourteen to sixteen, llamas fif-
teen. chamois twenty-five, monkeys and
balloons sixteen to eighteen, hare eight,
squirrel seven, rabbit seven, swine twenty
five, stag under thirty, horse thirty, ass
thirty, sheep under ten, COW twenty. OK
thirty, swans, parrots and ravens two hun
dred, eagle one hundred, geese eighty hens
and pigeons ten to sixteen, hawks thirty
to forty. crane twenty-four, blackbird ten
to twelve, peacock twenty, pelican forty to
nifty, thrush eight to ten, wren two to three
nightingale fifteen, blackcap fifteen, linnet
fourteen to twenty-five, goldfinch twenty to
twenty-four, redbreast ten to twelve sky
lark ten to thirty-fve, titlark five to six
chamnch twenty to twenty-four starting
ten to twelve, cary seventy to one hundred
and fifty. pike thirty to forty, salmon six
teen, Goldfish fourteen to seventeen eel ten
crocodile one hundred tortoise one hum
dred to two hundred, whale estimated one
thousand; queen bees live four years drone
four months, worker bees six months
Evening star., 1903-08-15
BIG FILTRATION PLANT
Foundation for Washington's
Supply Of Pure Water.
PROGRESS OF THE WORK
THE POWERFUL MACHINES EN-
PLoYED ON CONTRACT.
Great Shovels Used Which Handle
Yards of Earth-The Dunn
my Engines.

1t is hardly possible that there lives with
in the limits of the District of Columbia a
man. woman or child who has not seen at
filter, guaranteed to turn muddy Potomac
water in the twinkling of an eye to the
clearest of beverages. All kinds and condi-
uons of filters have been placed in the most
conspicuous places in the District In de-
partment stores, hardware stores plumbers
shops. timers establishments and in shops
and stores and offices devoted solely to the
sale of filters. these necessary articles of
hygiene have been displayed with the in
tenuon OF displaying all the merits of the
various machines. Every variety of filter
from those that require all the space in a
large department store show window to
condensed milk and are simply fastened to
the ordinary faucet. all these have had their
day and all have the strong Endorsements
Of the users. But the great exhibition of
the filter. like the grand concert after the
big show, is yet to come. What will be the
biggest one ever exhibited in this section
will be in place where all can see it by the
1st of January. 1895. 1t is to be known as
the filtration plant of the Washington aque-
space. 1t will be able to filter 5000 600 gal
Ions of water per day, and will supply all
Washington with a beverage clear and
as sparkling as any spring water to be
found The plant has been building three
months and 1t will require seventeen more
months of the hardest kind of work to COM
plete it. When it is once in place, however
it will be one of the finest plants of the
kind in the world, as well as one of the
largest. 1t will be a simple, natural sand
Evening star., 1903-08-15

won $500 in match race against the
Utania, the owners of the America actual
ly made profit of s17o0 in their venture
Cost Of Cup Yacht.
In contrast with these figures take the
case of the Boston ninety-foot Independ-
ence, built by Thomas w. Lawson, as a.
candidate for cup defense. Mr.. Lawson
made public an itemized account of the cost
of the Independence. AS she was built re-
gardless of expense the cost of other cup
defenders may be estimated from the fig
ures given.
Stories of the fabulous expense attached
TO the building and running of ninety
foot yacht have been published, and errone-
Gus conclusions reached as result
1t is interesting to note that the total
amount expended by Mr.. Lawson for build
ing and racing the Independence was $685.
o34.0S. This includes every item. even the
expense of breaking up the vessel after her
brief career of three months,
The cost to the syndicate of the New York
Yacht Club of Vigilant. Defender and Con-
stitution has been variously estimated at
amounts ranging from $500. 600 to 81 600 600
Judging from the experience Of Mr.. Law
son. who used his money lavishly. extrava-
CANT ideas prevail concerning ths cost Of
Evening star., 1903-08-15

is proposed that the tanks or beds shall
hold about three feet of sand and the same
amount of water. They will be practically
vaults of concrete constructed with steel
pillars and girders to give the necessary
strength and rigidity. The water will flow
into these beds. or chambers, or tanks
whatever it suits best to call them-from
the top and will pass through the sand and
out through filter drains to a reservoir that
will be capable of holding about 20,OOO,OOO
gallons, or about one-third of the capacity
OF the plant; This reservoir will be in the
center or the plant, at the easternmost
point of the Washington reservoir. 1t Is
built so that there will be an even flow
through the pipes into the city.
AS stated, the tops of the beds will be
above the street in some places and in
some places below. The top will be covered
with concrete, and this will be filed with
about two feet of earth, which will be
sodded, and will give the place every ap-
pearance of park. except that there will
be no walks in it. and about every twenty
eight feet along the surface will be man
holes to let light into the beds for cleaning
purposes. Whenever it Is desired to clean
the beds they will be taken one at a time
the water cut off and man will be sent
down into the bed by means of an alley
which will run along the ends of the cham.
bers. He will scrape all the accumulations
OH OF the top of the sand. 1t is estimated
that but five inches of sand will be lost in
year by this process Of cleaning.
The Flow of Water.
The water will be received into the FL
tration plant through the gates at the east
end of the Washington reservoir, which
now regulates the flow to the new pump
ing station. The water that comes into
the reservoir flows In through the Wash
ington aqucduct to the reservoir wall and
through a nine-foot concrete main to the
northwest corner of the structure. This
main is practically a continuation of the
aQueduct. The water flows from the res
ervoir from the eastern corner, where the
outgoing gates are constructed, and where
the filtration plant is in course of construc-
ton. The water flows out through four
fQrty-eight-inch mains to the pumping sta
ton. which is situated at the southern ex-
tremity of the reservoir.
All that will be necessary to put the fl
tration plant in connection with the reser-
voir will be to connect the outgoing gates
with the filter chambers. These gates are
so arranged that this can be done without
stopping the water supply. The Washing
ton reservoir has a capacity of 800. 600 600
gallons of water, so there will be no danger
of the city ever running out of supply Of
the clearest. purest water to be found any.
where in the country-after the filtration
plant is completed In December. 1904.
Evening star., 1903-08-15

only takes up the soft mud and muck from
under water. When the signal is given to
the engineer he lowers the shovel to 4 level
with the ground. The power is then re-
versed and the shovel is raised, and as IL
ascends 1t digs into the bank for it's entire
length. One shovel does the work of from
90 to 10 men, according to the size of .he
scoop. 1t can be filled and unlradei three
times per minute thus giving tn largest
shovel in use the filtration plant a
capacity of six and three-quarter yards per
minute, more than four hundred yards per
hour. or about twenty-four hundred yards
per day of eight hours. or course. this
estimate relates to the very be.t condi-
tiOns. with long string of wagons or cars
waiting for the dirt so that there will be
no delay in emptying the scoop and getting
1t back against the embankmeEt. As a
usual thing the ordinary steam shovel mas
a capacity of about thousand square
yards of earth per day.
The Dummy Engines.
In order to get the best possible results
from their use OF steam shovels the con.
tractors at the filtration plant have con-
structed several lengths of track to the
places where the ground must be filled ana
by means of dummy engines and long
trains of dirt cars are able to accomplish
two jobs-that Of excavating and filling-at
one and the same time. doing away with
the employment of many men and wagons.
There are number of wagons employed
on the works at the filtration plant but
not nearly so many would be needed
were it not for the train loads of dirt that
are pulled away from the excavations every
ten minutes or 50 by the little dummy en-.
gines. There are four or five of these en-
gineS and any number of cars. Each train
includes ten or twelve cars, as occasion
demands, and as fast as one train La filled
another is showed into its place. It re-
quires but five men to operate one Ct the
shovels and two can handle the engine and
train of cars. AS fast as the excavation is
made the shovel is moved UP on tracks to
better place and set to digging again.
The same holds true with the filling. As
soon Is space has been filled the ira ks
are moved nearer the edge and the dumping
started again.
Messrs. May & Jekyll have the CO.
tract for laying the foundations and all the
cement and concrete work Of the new
plant. AS concrete is to be used almost
exclusively in the construction, except 20
far relates to the girders and bsauss
that will support the top of the beds these
contractors have charge of almost all the
work.
TwentyF Five Separate Beds.
The twenty-n acres in the plant Will
be divided into twenty-five compartments
of one acre each, to be known as beds.
Each bed will hold about three million gall
Ions of water. and it is proposed that but
twenty-five beds shall be used at a time
The shape of the site of the plant will
make 1t necessary to have the beds made
in different shapes, but they will all con-
tain about the same amount of space. u
Evening star., 1903-08-15
SIR THOMAS WATCHING HES TWO YACHTS.

defending the Americas cup. At any rate
the syndicate of great capitalists organized
to build the Reliance can afford easily to
apportion the cost among them. Never be-
fore were SO many opUlent men banded to-
gether for sporting event.
Formerly the yachts-nen OF New York and
Boston bore all the cost of defending the
Americas cup. In this year the moneyed
interests of the whole country, including
bankers, railway rlagu3teS, Standard oil,
steel trust and other nlagnates have
tered into a powerful combination to pre-
vent Sir Thomas from lifting" the cup.
But still, in spite cf all, they bear much
good will and regard for the challenger that
they would rather he won it than anybody
ole
Evening star., 1903-08-15
Examples of Terseness.

Perhaps the tersest and most effective
election speech ever made was that of Mr.
John Peel at Accrington, when at last and
after the most urgent solicitation The was
induced to address there the electors of
northeast Lancashire. Men 4sf Accring-
ton, if you are so backward N coming for
ward, we shall all be behind as we were be-
fore" The only deiverance comparable
with this in terseness and effectiveness was
the sermon of Dean Swift's which, taking
as it's text He that giveth to the poor
lendeth to the Lord" began and ended
thus: Brethren. if you like the security,
down with the dust!'
Evening star., 1903-08-15
Loves Blossoming.
From Blackwood's.

From BlackwoOds
Beloved, in the ganden Of my heart
There fell one night a solitary seed,
knew not whence 1t came nor what its part,
Nor of what nourishment 1t might have need.
Wearied with wandering through the ether wide,
1t slept, and when its weariness was gone,
Said, "In this pleasure spot will abide,
And With the fairest claim comparison"
Startled, watched with keen and constant eyes
The growth to bud and blossom Of my guest,
Like one to whom tits very Paradise
10 see her infant drain her ample breasts
And loi found. cne happy evening hour,
Evening star., 1903-08-15
Early Depravity.

From the Chicago Tribune
Kitty said the governess, reproach-
fully. to the spoiled child whose art stud
les she was supervising, "why do you mix
your blues and yellows in that wasteful
manner?'
"Oh. just for green's" replied Kitty.
Evening star., 1903-08-15

First Citizen-"we are coming rapidly to
an age of trusts"
Second Citizen (mournfully)-"Yes. But
not Of trust."-LAfe.
Evening star., 1903-08-15
WILL 0'-.I#!!-W |! W|sPs
d ,
West India Treasure Still
Acts as. Magnet.
PARTIES NEVER TIRE
SENT OUT FROM AMERICAN AND
FOREIGN PORTS.
Stories of Lucky Finds Of and Strange
Adventures After Pirate
Goid.

Copyright. 1903, by e. B. warner)
Written for The Evening Star by Bassett Staines.
The new worlds -wisp-pirate
gold-is still Turing many a man to mad
ness and death, many fine ship to de-
struction. Expeditions are continually be-
ing fitted out at ports along the Atlantic
seabOard to search the palm covered is
lands and coral Gays of the West Indies
for the boards of old Spanish gold and
pirate booty which are supposed to be
hidden there. At this moment several ex-
petitions are searching for them, and ev-
cry year expeditions search. as they have
searched for many generations.
Not long ago private yacht was secretly
fitted out in New York for a West Indian
treasure hunt. Other expeditions have
started recently from Philadelphia, Boston.
Newport News. New Orleans and other
ports. Nor is the hunt confined to Ameri-
cans. year does not pass without ex-
petitions leaving London. Glasgow, Liver
pool or other British ports, while the West
Indians themselves living in an atmos-
phere of treasure stories, are naturally the
keenest of all the hunters of phantom gold.
Sometimes these expeditions never re-
turn. The ship is reported missing, and
another is added to the long roll of ocean
tragedies of which the public hears little
ed bones on remote islet or a dereIict
floating in the track of shipping tells
grim tale of shipwreck mutiny or death
by those diseases most dreaded by seafar-
ing men-yellow fever and beriberi
Five Rival Expeditions.
Some months ago no fewer than five
treasure hunting expeditions were reported
at Kingston, Jamaica. The Earl of Craw-
ford and Balcarres had brought his mag
nificent yacht into the harbor on a West
Indian cruise. and it was said that he was
combining business with pleasure and
meant to search for a pirate treasure re-
ported to be buried on the tiny island of
Anegada, in the Virgin group His lord
ship apparently had no luck
The second expedition was headed by an
English gentleman, who hoped to find the
secret hoard left by King ChristoDhe of
Hayu. The third was a small affair got
up by Jamaican planter who aimed at
locating the treasure OF that buccaneer
king. Sir Henry Morgan. This is said to
be buried in a cave in Gun Hill. Trelawny
Jamaica, and to be guarded, like Captain
kidd's by the devil in person-hoofs, horns,
tail. pitchfork and all 10
The other two expeditions were working
in Santo Domingo ana the Cayman Islands
This was a period of special activity in
the treasure hunting ,ine,1 but such enter
pr1ses are so familiar to the Creoles that
they hardly excite comment. Some men
waste their lives and fortunes fitting all
over the Caribbean sea from one reported
pirate haunt to anothervand digging for
buried gold When the mania once gets
hold of a man it never seems to leave him
until it has coured his temper and ruined
Evening star., 1903-08-15
Work Done by Machinery.

1t is probable that there has never been
an excavation made in Washington by SO
few men as is the one that is being made at
the site of the filtration plant. Indeed, per-
sons whose curiosity attract them to the
place have far outnumbered the workmen
almost every day since the work was be-
gun, and there are usually not enough peo-
pie on the ground to make a showing even
then. Every foot of the excavation has
been made with steam shovels. gigantic ma
chimes operated by powerful engines, which
literally rip the earth into strips and dump
1t where the man at the throttle directs.
There are three steam shovels employed ct
the filtration plant site. They are of DIFF
ferent sizes, running from the smallest,
with capacity Of one and one-quarter
yards, to one with a shovel that will hold
two and quarter yards. The three ma
chimes are kept busy all day long and the
largest Is run at night also. The shovels
operate on the same principle as a dredge.
A long cranelike arm extends from the end
of the engine house. Through wide slot
at the end Of this is extended another arm.
or beam, ON the end OF which Is the shovel.
The shovel is shaped like the one on
dfet1ge, and has the same operative prin-
ciple, except that It is heavier and digs out
hard gravel and clay. whereas the dredge
Evening star., 1903-08-15
filter and will be very easy to control and
keep in condition.
Site of the Plant

lllteT anu Will Dc very easy " COHlTOl anu
keep in condition;
Site of the Plant.
The site of the filtration plant is just east
of the Washington city reservoir, back of
Howard University. and just south of the
Soldiers Home. About two and a half
blocks will be covered by the plant, which
will be divided by 1st street northwest.
Four months ago this land was as barren a
waste of building lots as is to be found in
the District Some of these lots lowered
above the street level to the height of from
ten to twenty-five feet. Other portions of
the ground were below the level of the
street as much as twenty-five feet.
The contractors in charge of the work,
Messrs. May and Jekyll, had hard prob
The street itself is on a very pronounced
grade, but the filtration plant could not be.
Therefore it was necessary to excavate
some of the ground and fill in other parts,
so that it will all be level. None of it will
be level with the street, however, some
parts of the completed structure being
planned to rise to a height of ten feet above
the sidewalk and other parts as much
below.
The filling and excavating of the site COM
menced three months ago and is still going
on. There were 100000 square yards of
earth to be removed, altogether, and the
contractors had limited time in which to
perform the work. The time was regarded
sufficient by the men who had the work
to do, however. and they set about employ
ing the most modern means of accomplish
Evening star., 1903-08-15
Barbados a .Favccite Haunt.

Barbados is "A favor1tefresort of the treas
ure seekers Several caches of doubloons
and p:eces-of-eight have been found there
in digging among old ruins. Captain Kidd
once ran his ship ashore at Barbados when
chased by cruiser. He left paper af er
his death describing SPOT in small wood
near Bridgetown. the island capital where
he said he had buried an immense treasure
Whether this was a post-mor;en joke or
not. Ii is Impossible to say. IF It was, it
succeeded TO perfection For acres round
the spot Indicted" says Hesketh Bell a
colonial official. "tEe soil has been per-
fectiy honeycomhed by the excavations of
treasure seekers. No one knows whether
The booty was secured not as the fin Ter
would in all probability have been most
careful to keep his success a secret so as
not to have to share with the government
and the owner of the land besides. Even
now, when any ona is noticed to become
suddenly we'll off and flush OF money, he is
at once set down to have discovered i
buried jar of gold, when, perhaps, the rea-
son of his afiiuence may be much more
questionable -