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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-07
WILL ATTEMPT TO MAKE RAIN.
Prof. Myers Getting His Apparatus in
Ghapc 70 Operate on DR.. Webb's Preserve.

UTICA, June Arrangements have been
oompleted between Prof. Carl E. Myers,
.eronautic engineer OF Frankfort. and
Major E. NJ. Burns. representing DR.. w.
Seward Webb, whereby Prof. Myers on
Tuesday or Wednesday next will attempt
to induce a fall OF rain over DR.. Webb's
nreserve at Nehasane in the Adirondacks.
Prof. Myers and his corps OF assistants
are working night and day getting the rain
making apparatus in shape. The professor
is having constructed two balloon bombs,
one 10 feet and the other IL feet in diam
eter The smaller one will hold little over
200 cubic feet. and the large one about
! ON feet Of explosive gas. The twelve-fo OF
bomb is the size used in experiments
made for the Government.
d,,cine rain, Prof Myers said that lower al
tiiude in a billy country from which TO send
nm the balloons which carry the explosives
IL Il preferable The atmosphere is denser
and there is more opportunity Tor sue
cession OF conclusions IN wnat is commonly
IN Texas, where the earth's surface was
Aat and there was no echo or reboundlng OF
the air put in motion as compared with
other places which were mountainous or
hily For the same reason the noise pro
I,,c.d in Texas was much less than in
Washington with the same amount Of
explosive u s.xs that the area
ordinarily affected by the dsto o,an us rs
hard.to determine In Washington u was
sa,e miles square, while in the West it COW
ared three States Because one can never
.a,l when II is going to rain 1t ia difficult
te Jaw how much rain the detonations
produce But this he knew-thst rain
always followed the enSrts to prGaHese wsek
x-iil he watched with great interest, mas
much as many drought-stricken localities
viii give the professor jobs IL he produces
res,llts at DR. Webb's park
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-07
NO FIRES NEAR LAKE PLACID.
None Burning Within Five or Ten Miles
0f That Place.

STEVENS House. LAKE PLACID, N. Y,
June e.-Misleading reports are being
printed regarding the situation in the
Adirondack mountains. have been here
two days and can assure you that there are
no forest fires now burning within from
Eve to ten miles OF Lake Placid. The
Adirondack Lodge. which burned last
Wednesday, is ten miles from Lake Placid.
The mountains around Lake Placid arc
unframed. There is no feeling Of danger
In this section now. and am told that the
fires are receding in the entire Adirondack
region There was no wind here yesterday
and there is none to-day. Not building
In Lake Placid has been burned or seriously
threatened. GEORGE II. DANIELS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-07
Smoke Causes Railroad Wreck.

F1sHKILL LANDING, n. T.. June O.
Because Of the dense smoke prevailing here
there was a serious wreck. in the New Haven
Railroad yard this morning. Two heavy
freight, trains we're entering the yard from
the cast. One stood on the trestle. with
an engine AS pusher Another train with
the engine in the rear crashed into it. The
engineer and fireman on the standing train
jumped and saved their lives. Two cars
Of the moving train telescoped: The engine
of the first train was thrown into the river
to clear the track The engineer says he
could not see the signals on account Of the
thick smoke from the forest fires.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-07
COLLISION IN THE SMOKE.
Steamship Hits . Schooner At vineyard
Haven-Passengers Hurt.

H2ren-t'e8SenScrS huTt.
WOODS HOLE. Mass. June s.-The steam
ship Martha's Vineyard, which left Vine
yard Haven at $50 o'clock this morning
colided In coming out Of the harbor with
the fishing schooner Senator Salisbury, lying
at anchor. Many passengers had narrow
escapes, but only one was injured seriously.
A dense smoke prevailed and the steamer
was under half speed. The steamers
bow struck the schooner forward
The bowspnt Of the fisherman raked
the steamer, carrying away both the upper
and lower decks back to the paddle box.
The fore rigging Of the schooner be-
came entangled in the wreckage and was
carried away.
Russell Hancock Of Cdlmark. a passenger
on the steamer, was injured badly, and
other passengers, unable to escape the
sweep of the schooners bowspritt, were
wounded painfully. The vessels fell apart
almost Immediately after the collision and
the schooner drifted away in the smoke.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-07
NEW CARPATHIA HERE.
Ia, OOO.Ton Cunarder for Second and
Third Cabin Passengers Only.

The new Cunarder Carpathia. twin
screw measuring 1855 tons and carrying
only second and third class passengers,
arrived yesterday from Liverpool anchor
ing outside the bar in the mist and smoke.
She recently made a trip TO Boston. This
is her first appearance in this port. Feat
ures Of the third-class compartment are
smoking and ladies' rooms and four-berth
and two-berth rooms, with conveniences
usually found in the second cabins OF ordi-
nary liners. The Carpathia will sail for
Queenstown and Liverpool on Tuesday
afternoon.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-07
MARRIED..

CHOATE-OLIVER.-- st. Peters Church. Al.
bany. y. Y, on Saturday. June 8, by the Fight
Rev. william Croswell Doane. Bishop OF Albany.
assisted by the Rev. Walton ". Battershall,
d. D.. Cora Lyman Oliver. daughter Of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Shaw oliver. TO Joseph Hodges
Choatc, Jr.. Of New York city.
PEASE--H oRToN.-on Wednesday. June s. in
Midde,own. N. Y. BY the Rev. David Evans,
Mary Adelaide. daughter OF Mrs. Gordon 3.
Horton. Of Brooklyn. N. Y, to Henry Hamilton
Pcasc Of Rochester. N. Y.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-07
The weather.

II began 70 ram little at 10 O'Clock last
night The low pressure area from the Gulf
central over the Ohio Valley was attended by
cloudy and rainy conditions In the Ohio and
Tennessee valleys. the sections around the lower
Lake regions. parts Of tho Adirondack region and
parts OF the Middle Atlantic and New England
States The prospects are fair for showers to day
In the Middle Atlantic and New England States
md in sections OF eastern Ohio. Pcnnsyy anin
and northern New York, In the Southern States
And west Of Ohio the weather was fair. There was
a slight rise OF temperature in nearly all districts
In this city the day was cloudy. with a contin :
nance Of smoky conditions and shower al night;
winds. light and variable: average humidity. II per
cent: barometer corrected to read 10 sea level at
A. NJ so 20: 8 p. Nj. $3.50
The temperature yesterday. as recorded by the
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SOFT COAL MINERS TO STRIKE
About A. OO viii BE Called Ont In Somerset
County, Pa.


INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June Civilian B.
Wilson. secretary and treasurer OF the
United Mine Workers Of America, said
to-day that strike OF the soft coal miners
of Somerset county. Pa, would be called
in few days. He said that the Merchants
Coal Company has refused to pay tie scale
and its employees naxs nen S On Companv
called a meeting Of the operators OF the
other operators agreed to make cut Of
between and 10 per cent. 70 az 20 equal
the scale that was offered by the Merchants
company, the company would raise the
price Of pickwork beyond the reach OF the
Az almost all Of the mining In the Mer-
chants mines Is done by machine work.
and as II is one q the l.rsss. comp nr dn's se
az, their scale TO what had been offered
By the Merchants company. About 400
\ mon aIe involved.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-07
WILL EMPLOY NON.UNION LABOR.
$1,000, OOO Trolley Company In Southern
California to Fight Shy OF Unions.


Los ANGELES. Cal, June 8.-Extensive
preparations are being made by Henry E.
Huntington and his associates to extend
their interurban lines out Of Los Angeles
into new fields in southern California, and
to. this end there has been incorporated
a new corporation under the name OF the
Los Angeles 1nterurban Railroad Com
pany, with capital stock of so, 900 900.
1t Ia said $4,000 900 will be spent in the
development of this road, which will
gridiron Los Angeles and the surrounding
country. 1t will be an absolutely inde-
pendent line. and it is said that Mr.. Hunt
ington will employ only non-union men. as
he is strongly opposed to labor unions. On
his present roads he makes no distinction
In the employment Of men and has always
refused to make any concessions to union
labor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-07
Forest Fires Close to Syracuse.

SYRACUSE, June e,-The forest fires have
come close to this city The woods near
Const anita are afire, and fierce fire IL re-
ported at West Munroe, The sun has not
been seen for two days owing to the smoke,
and haze Is over everything. At the local
Wcefher station to-day II was said there
vac no indications Of rain
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-07
Died While Paying for a Life INSURANCE,
Policy.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. June e-while in
dorsing a check to pay the premium on a
life insurance policy for $4,000, which he
had just taken ont. j, s. Farri,r dropped
dead here Yesterday in the Farley Bank
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AMERICAN HUNTER LOST.
skeleton OF . Man Found In the Burned
District Of Canada.

ST.. JOHN. N. B., June o.-While fighting
forest Ares last night, crow Of men in the
employ Of the Todd Lumber Company OF
Charlotte county found the skeleton OF a
man in the woods near Cranberry Brook on
the Canadian side Of the border.
The pockets Of the coat contained large
sum OF money In IS and SO notes. 1t was
evidently the skeleton of an American
SPORTSMAN
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-07
WORK on THE SCHOOLS.

District Attorney Jerome Will Try to Have
II Resumed This Week.
District Attorney Jerome said last even
ing that he will probably try to have work
resumed on the schools this week in accord
ance with a suggestion made by him in his
recent letter to School Commissioner Sam
uel B. Donnelly
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$1,000 for starvink Chinese.

WASHINGTON, June o.-The Chrstidn
Herald Of New York sent to the State De-
partment to-day q donation OF $4,000 for
the relief Of the famine sufferer IN the
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Chinese province Of Kwangsi. This is the
Chrisidn Herdld's second contribution for
this purpose. onsul-General McWade at
Canton was notified by telegraph to dsav
on the Department for tbs AnousA
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Died In the Street OF Heart Disease.
Albert Scudder. 20 years old, of 1919 Bed.
ford avenue. Brooklyn, was taken Ill with
heart disease at Clarkson street and Glove
road. Flat bush, yesterday afternoon and
died before medical aid arrived
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The temperature yesterday. as recorded by the
oocih Is shown In the An ne ed table:
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6aka & Gu1t1pat1y
Have Arranged an Important Sale Of
Seasonable Wash Fabrics

Fer Monday and Tuesday, June Eighth and Ninth
Six Thousand Five Hundred Yards Of White Lace
Cheviots, Satin Striped Madras, White Corded Bas-
ket Cloth, fancy colored Striped Madras, Printed
Canvas Cheviots and other Woven Fabrics in gen.
erous assortment Of designs and patterns which are
specially adapted for shirt waists shirtwast SUITS
summer house dresses and negli3ee shirts for men,
Value o. 35 and 4Oc At sc per yard
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-31
Go to Beach Park. Westpoint Excur-
sion and Picnic GrOunds.-Only
30 Miles, One Hours Ride From
Richmond, via Southern nv.

A great many excursions have already
been booked for Beach Park" for June
and July. The various attractions and
improvements at this popular resort
gives it more prominence each season;
To close proximity TO Richmond, and
the unlimited supply of the most whole
fsome artesian water, together with
many other natural advantages, places
| 1t second to none as a pleasure and
health resort for Richmond people.
King William Pier, a substantial
structure, extending $50 feet in length
and 20 feet wide over the York River,
with waterproof roofing as protection
from sun and rain, adds considerably to
] the beauty and convenience for picnic
and other outing parties.
In addition to the new Beach Park
Hotel, now being erected, you will find
| other hotels and many nice boarding
| houses, furnishing cheap rates and good
| hrst-class accommodations.
The principal attractions are such as
| fine fishing, boating, sailing, merry GO
| round, shooting galleries, steam and
| naptha launches, q large dancing pavil-
ION with band of music day and night
several wells of fine artesian water on
| the grounds, and various other attrac-
tions to suit the older people as well as
the little ones.
For any other information apply at OF
| write to the Southern Ry. office, 800 E.
Main ST.. Richmond. Va
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-31

miles long, stretching as far up as
Korosko. The depth Of the lake will
begin, at its deepest end, with 67 feet,
and 1t will hold 1000, oOo, 900 tons of
water. The water will always be run
ming out of it. In the lean months
before mentioned it will be doled out at
rate, as we have said, equal to the
double flow of the Thames in Novem-
Der or February. When the Nile is in
flood the water will pour through the
sluices of the dams at the rate of Is
miles an hour and $4,000 tons a second.
AS the flood subsidies the sluices will be
shut one by one, or ten by ten, until
the flow is harnessed and curbed to its
proper speed, and until the water has
risen within few feet of the top of
the dam.
In appearance the dam is a solid wall
built across the river. 1t is a wall with
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-31
LIGHT AT EVENTIDE.

Safely guide my steps, Saviour mine,
Guide my slender bark, with love Divine.
Fierce the tempest beating Ger my soul.
Wave after wave, with restless tossings
roll,
But list: His promise brings me delight,
For 1 know at evening time it shall be
light.
Lies bitter sorrows dim our mortal eyes,
We see the cloud that with such nearness
lies,
Forgetting the golden edge in wisdom
given,
To bespeak beyond a cloudiess Heaven
Where ends the Gardening shadows Of the
night,
And brings with Joy at evening time the
light.
Cistrustful heart with doubts and fears
that blight,
That smother with It's power the vision
bright
Giving no comfort where sweet hope still
hves
Yelling In mist His glorious promises,
o. cease thy doubling, look beyond the
night.
For well thou knowest at evening time 1,
shall be light.
M. A Goodman, in N. Y. Observer.
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it. He was to bait the hook and take
off the fish as caught 'em. All that
expected to do was to just haul 'em in.
Well, sir, we must have struck reg
ular school of 'em, and a mighty big
one, for the first thing / knew 1 was
catching 'em so fast the man couldn't
keep up with me, and / had TO help
him take 'em off the hook an put on
bait till / didn't get time to do any
thing else"
"Who hauled in the fish then?"
"Who hauled 'em in? Bless your
soul, they didn't need any haulin' in.
I'll tell you what's fact. They
must have been sheepsheads, for they
acted just like flock of sheep. Once
they got started comm into that boat
they commenced to jump over the
gunwales an first knew the boat was
so full that she was about TO sink. Me
an the man had to drop everything
else an go to THROWN EN- owes boards
fast as we could sling EN- We threw
over more'n two ton an as soon as
we could get up sail we put in to shore.
put up 40 barrel of what we had
left" 80" iss~FL a--a@s;-'y
"How did you know that you threw
more than two tons overboard?" he
was asked, says the New York Times.
SLOW could you tell that?"
"Tell2 Why, coDfound it, weighed
them with their own scales!"
Just as Rad
She-Do you believe automobiles are
as dangerous as they're said to be?
He-Oh, sure A fellow can get en-
gagged in one of them as easily as he
used to in the old-fashioned buggies.--
Puck.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-31

this year. But the unfailing support of
Lord Cromer, the ability of Sir Benja-
min Baker and the other official en-
gineers; and, above all, the grit of the
contractors, have finished the task
months before the allotted time.
At times as many as II 900 wcrImen
have been employed upon the works
at Assouan and Assiout The rough
work has been done by natives, the
stone dressing largely by italian
workmen; all the responsible work of
supervision by English foremen.
In addition 10 the work at Assiout,
the task at Assouan has been increase
by the building of a navigation chan
mel of locks. The navigation channels
approach the dam both up and down
stream by cuttings half a mile long.
and boats are lifted up or lowered
down stream by ladder of
four locks, each of which is 26O feet
long and 80 feet wide. The total left
over the 1,040 feet of their combined
length is, of course, the difference be-
tween the water levels, 67 feet. There
are five lock gates 30 feet wide, and
varying in height up to 60 feet. They
are of an entirely different type from
ordinary folding lock gates, being
hung from the top on rollers, and NOV
ing like sliding door. This arrange
ment was adopted for safety, owing
to the enormous pressure of water.
and each of the two upper gates is
made strong enough to hold up the
water assuming the four other gates
to be DESTROYED.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-31
The Shoe ON the Other Foot.

a manufacturer who is said to be
very agreeable with his employees tells
good story about himself.
A Quaker who had just arrived from
England called on him to ask for
work.
Have you any recommendation ?"
asked the merchant.
NO" replied the man, "but I have
friends who will give me one"
He put his bundle on the floor and
left. In the course of an hour he re-
turned, took up his bundle and was
leaving the Office without a word.
Didn't you get your character ?"
asked the merchant. sP's -a
Without halting moment or rails
ing his eyes the man answered: NAV.
master, but / got thine.
Telegraph.
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side of the river is nile and a quar-
ter; but this length embraces, per-
haps, a quarter of mile of ap-
proaehes. Its greatest height above
the dam and below it is calculated at
81 feet. 1t has been built of granite,
all of which has come from the old
quarries of Old Egypt, and much of
which bears the chisel marks of the
workers in stone who labored for Jo-
seph in the days of Pharaoh.
One of the greatest features of the
dam is its system of sluices. The dam
is pierced by $50 of these openings,
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-31

finger to feel the points. They seemed
to be set about right - in fact,
were set so nicely tina when ne tried to
withdraw his finger he was in Mr..
'Coon's plight exactly. One of the
barbs entered his finger and almost
before he knew it all had him tight.
The more he struggled the deeper his
barbs sung into his flesh. This was
anything but laughing matter to ST.
las. His old knife was too dull to max e
any Roadway in cutting the nails, so
after thinking the matter over he
started his little boy home with light
ed lantern to get the pincers to pull out
the nails. The boy made his way up
the cliff, lost his way, fell over the
rocks and logs and extinguished the
lantern. Unable to get his bearing,
the lad slept under a ledge of rock and
came near freezing. Meanwhile Silas
sat astride the log in a pouring rain
and thought Sunday school words.
But a real danger began to threaten
him. The river began rising rapidly.
1t crept up until it reached the lower
end of the log.
AS daylight approached it began to
rock slightly and Silas knew an end
was floating. Higher and higher rose
the water and Silas knew that if he
washed into the current with the log
death was certain. In his desperation
he pulled his dull barlow and literally
sawed his finger off above the middle
joint and the log fioated away. In
five minutes afterward another trap
per came along and found him. He
was so chilled that he was unable to
walk home alone.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-31
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

A lie is a loan on which YOU will
Rams Horn.
Be not discouraged at broken and
spilled resolutions; but to it and to
it again!-S. Rutherford.
Many a man prates about freedom
who is bound hand and foot by evil
habits.-United Presbyterian.
Anyone can love. That is the
beauty of it. Not everyone can be
eloquent or rich or strong or wise
or famous; but anyone can be low
ing. That is one reason why love is
the greatest thing in the world. Only
a few can possess these other good
things; but everyone of us can pos
sess and display the greater thing in
the world, which is MISUNDERSTANDING.
If we would reassure our restless
hearts that our future is in the hands
of God we have but to scan our past.
Can any man that is not altogether
blind look over the way he has trav-
ersed without surprise and awe as
he sees it marked everywhere by
mysterious footprints other than his
| own-even the footprints of the Iiv-
ing God? We thought we were GO
ing a way of our own and all the
1 time we have been on the Kings high.
way. f. McFadden.
A Scheme
/ "He says he's bound to have his maya
.. zine read"
Flows he going to do it?"
"He's going to put the reading mat
ter where the advertising usually is"
Detroit Free Press, -
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14o of which are about 2e feet
high and six feet six inches
wide, and 40 of which are little more
than half the height. These sluices are
arranged at different levels, so as to
regulate the outflow of banked-up
water; and they are grouped in
punches of Fights or tours, with solid
buttresses between them for strength.
The great work of building this dam
over island and channel and on rock
foundation, good and bad, was to have
taken five years. The contract was
signed in February, 1898; the work
was to have been opened in July of
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-31

suit of perfect manly strength and vigor
for life
The doctor wants all suffering men to
share with him the knowledge he has
personally attained. He sende the re-
celpt free, and all the reader need do is
to send his name and address to DR..
Knapp Medical Co, S25 Hull Building,
Detroit Mitch requesting the free re-
celpt as reported in this paper. 1t is
generous offer, and all men ought TO be
glad to have such an opportunity.