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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-21
GOOD ROADS IN THE EAST.
Assistant Director Eldridge Says They
Are the Best in the United States.

For the last ten years the question Of
road improvement has received a good deal
of attention from the legislators In the
eastern states, notably in Massachusetts,
and New Jersey. Careful study Of the road
question in these states soon developed the
fact that the counties and towns were doing
little and in many cases nothing, and that
the roads were gradually becoming worse
instead of better. In Massachusetts the idea
was first conceived of having the state and
civil subdivisions thereof cooperate in the
improvement of the roads.
A state law embodying this principle was
adopted in New Jersey about the same time
as in Massachusetts,. and for the last ten
years remarkable progress has been made
In these two states. Indeed the principle Of
state aid has become so popular within the
last few years that this same principle has
been enacted into law in the states OF
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont. Rhode
Island, Connecticut New York, Delaware,
and Pennsylvania, and the idea is being
carefully considered by the legislatures of
many Of the southern and western states.
Mr.. M. o. Eldridge, assistant director.
office of public road inquiries of the United
States Department of Agriculture. recently
made an inspection trip through the states
of Maine. Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-21

| Connecticut and New York. In an interview
| Mr. Eldridge had the following to say in
regard to the road conditions in these
| states:
Il am fully convinced from nv recent
! trip that the roads which have been built
| in the east through the aid of the states
and under the direction of highway COM
i missions are the best roads in the United
States. and are equal. If not superior, to the
best roads in the world. This Is due to the
| fact that these roads have been built under
intelligent supervision, by Skillful workmen,
out of the very best materials and with
American road building machinery; where
as most of the roads that l have seen in the
old country We're built by hand. and have
since been maintained in the same way.
In spite of the long drought which prevail
ed throughout the New England states dur
ing the spring and summer the state roads
were firm and smooth and although / per-
sonally inspected over 500 miles of improv-
ed roads l did not see single one which
had raveled or which had signs of wear
from the recent dry weather. In the SOUTH
eastern part of Massachusetts and along
Cape Cod bay and in the southern part of
Connecticut. the old roads were composed
entirely of sand, but in spite of the dry
weather the state roads built Oh these sand
foundations are remarkably hard and
smooth"
Mr.. Eldridge was asked If he thought that
the people of the eastern states who had
already built some good roads, and who
have organized to continue the work along
the present lines. would be willing to accept
assistance from the general government in
building roads provided for in the
Brownlow bill?
Il believe" replied Mr.. Eldridge. that
the people of the eastern states are so en-
thusiastic on the subject of good roads that
they would be glad to accept the co-opera-
ton of the government. They have been
building good roads for the past ten years;
yet the work of completing the system has
Just fairly started. Even if the present
plans and liberal appropriations are contin-
ued it will take many years to improve all
the important highways in these states and
consequently the people anxious to Sc
cure any additional aid possible. The state
highway commissioners of Massachusetts,,
Connecticut New York and New Jersey ex-
pressed themselves as being in favor of ma
tional aid and 1 believe that all the good
roads people in the eastern states are in
favor of it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-21

other than sand has ever been found that
will accomplish the same results. The
sand, too, it is explained, must be clean
and sharp, angular, and the grains must
not be too fine BY this process turbd
water containing as many $4,000 harmful
bacteria per cubic centimeter has been
made perfectly clear and the germs re-
duced in number to so 100.
The Cleansing Process.
After time the sand becomes clogged
and then the bed must be shut off from
the collecting pipes and the top layer care
fully scraped to depth of about three
inches. After this amount of clean sand
has been added the water is again turned
on, but, until a good top layer is again
formed, it is allowed to run to waste into
the sewer. This cleaning is done about
every three weeks, and to do this without
interrupting the whole process the system
is separated into twenty-nine distinct di-
visions, so that at least twenty-five Will be
operating at one time.
Even ordinary sand would become very
expensive article if it had to be purchased
in large enough quantities to supply abso-
lutely new sand for every cleaning.
So an elaborate system of Sand-waShing
apparatus will be installed in large open
court extending under 1st street west. By
this means the polluted sand covered with
the particles of clay and the millions OF
bacteria collected from the water will be
washed clean and dried ready for use
again. Thus very little new sand will have
to be bought.
Another interesting feature Of the plant
is the pressure by which means the flow of
water through the beds be regulated
so that when the Potomac water is parti-
cularly muddy the flow can be made slower
in order to secure a perfectly clear water
at all times.
In connection with this plant there will
also be a completely equipped chemical and
meteorological laboratory in charge of COM
petent men who will be continually testing
the water as it issues from each filter bed.
Thus any irregularity will be at once de-
tected and the bed on which it occurs shut
off from the clear water reservoir before
any dangerous water enters.
When this system is placed in active ope-
ration it Is claimed on the experience gain
ed in the many cities where a similar meth
cd is employed that the terrible typhoid
fever menace will be entirely removed, as
far as the Potomac water is concerned;
and this fact. in connection with the clear
and clean character of the filtered water,
will make the filtration plant of inestima-
BILE value to the residents Of the national
capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-21

Open until s, including Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-21
ARMY OFFICER DIsGRACED.
Lieut.. Hamilton Foley May Be Cashier
ed From the Service.

The New York American today says:
Lieut.. Hamilton Foley. the son of John P.
Foley of this city. and a nephew OF the
late John Russell Young. has been found
guilty. by a court-marital. of having en-
bezzled soldiers money. He was convicted
also OF other financial irregularities. The
court sentenced him to dismissal from the
army.
The findings have been sent to President
Roosevelt for final action. Prominent men
in New York. who recommended Foley to
President Mckinley for appointment to the
army, are intercedins IN his behalf.
Lieut. Foley has been In the Philippines
with the 9th Cavalry. There the court
martial was held The lieutenant was
aboard the transport Thomas, and was
about to sail for San Francisco, when the
charges were made agaisnt him
Major Gen. Davis ordered that he be a,
pnce taken of the boat and detained pend
cng the investigation. The result Of thai
has just been announced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-21

Lieut.. Foley entered West Point in 1893,
but failed in his examinations two years
later. During the war with Spain he served
as second lieutenant of the 14th New York
Infantry. and first lieutenant and ad-
jutant of the 203d New York In
fantry. He was recommended strongly
to President Mckinley for appointment to
the regular army. and his papers were in
dorsed by prominent citizens of New York,
as well as by many regular army officers
In 1899 Foley was commissioned a second
lieutenant ard was assigned to the 9th
Cavalry. Two years later he was promoted
to first lieutenant.
Several times before he went to the Phil
ippines Lieut.. Foley's conduct with regard
to financial matters was brought to the at
tention Of the War Department. 1t was
said that he was deeply in debt and that
his creditors were pressing him closely for
settlement. Upon these former occasions
his wealthy relatives in New York city are
said to have come to his assistance and to
have paid his obligations.
Though the court-rnarital findings have
been approved by the War Department.
which forwarded the papers to President
Roosevelt yesterday. no further details con-
corning the case have been made public
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-21

cal phase. 1t is the power welded by the
heads of the church. in secular affairs
against which the burden of complaint is
laid.
With an influential proportion Of the pop
ulation imbued with the idea that Joseph
Smith, his two counsellors and twelve other
intercourse with the Supreme Being through
visions and communicating to mankind the
wishes of the Almighty; with great secret,
oath-bound organization of intensely reig-
fous character presided over by President
Smith. his councillors and twelve other
men who are invested with the attributes of
apostles, the Gentiles realize that they are
surrounded by power which can be wieio-
ed for good or evil, according to the caprice
or for the personal ends of a few men,
Mormon influence.
Mormon influence in the state does not
work for progress, the Gentiles claim UP
to a few years ago, and while the Mormons
had complete control of the city. there were
no pavements, no sewers, no water. Dis
ease was rampant. Property on business
streets worth 1000 front foot was faced
by mud holes and boys The Gentiles, by a
Immediately plunged in improvements
Property was assessed for water, sewers,
pavements. electric lights.
1t was a long, uphill pull and the Nor
mons held back in the traces at every eff
fort to bulge. The city now Is controlled
by the Mormons, and they are imbibing
some of the spirit of progress of their hust-
ling Yankee neighbors; but the Gentiles say
that 1t is still like pulling eye teeth to get
progressive ordinances out of the Mormon
city council.
The Mormons delight to pose as martyrs
of Gentle persecution. They constantly
complain Of being misrepresented. The
trouble is they are intOlerant of criticism
and are self-complacent to degree The
king can do no harm. The MOrmons are
the chosen people of God.
At the present time great crusade is
being made against the Mormon Church on
the alleged score of it's being an unpatriOtic
organization and distinctly inimical to the
republic. There is no question that in the
past the Mormon Church stood in attitude
OF hostility to the United States govern
ment. and placed its tenets above all ma
t1onai laws. Environment inevitably is
changing that sentiment. 1t Is impossible
for the children to grow up in the clear at
mosphere OF intense patriotism which per-
vades this country and not breathe some of
II. Even the ignorant Americans, from
whom the church is recruited, are patriotic,
and in time the ignorant foreigners will be-
come so.
United States Senator Reed Smoot, one of
the twelve apostles, has taken without
mental reservation the oath to support the
government, and every Mormon who enters
once does the same. When the Senate COM
m1ttee takes up the charges brought against
him he will be asked If opportunity Is
given. the direct question whether any
thing in his church doctrine places the
church superior to the laws of the land
N. o. M.
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Idaho and Colorado and the territory Of
Arizona, where the Mormon vote holds the
balance Of political power.
Given q compact, secret organization
bound together by religious fanaticism, the
bulk of whose membership are to a degree
superstitious. absolutely dominated by a
handful of astute, able men, and the posi-
bilities of political influence are lmitless.
The church deals with parties as you deal
with your butcher. The party which Is left
out of the compact utters loud cries of pro-
test and indignation. Just now it is the
democratic party which feels outraged. Not
long ago the republicans were complaining,
and SO it goes
My belief is that the rank and file of the
Mormons are a Christian. law-abiding peo-
pie, worshiping God in sincerity after their
own ideas. 1t is not for any one else to saw
that those ideas are erroneous as long as
they do not conflict win the laws of the
land.
But there are wolves in the fold, in whose
eyes is the CLEAN of the devourer, and they
lick their chops in the hope that some day
polygamy will be restored and the tender
lambs released from the protection which
| the laws OF the United States now afford.
Polygamy.
That polygamy exists in Utah no one de-
MES. or course. there are the older men.
heads of the church. who live with their
plural wives by common consent the claim
being made and recognized that they should
not be compelled to cast of the obligations
they assumed when 1t was lawful for them
to do SO. But 1t is also a fact, according to
Gentle testimony. that secret polygamous
relations are entered into from time to time,
notwithstanding he prohibition Of the law.
But it Is not polygamy that the Gen.
| tiles complain of with reference to their
Mormon neighbors. Polygamy lies under
l the surface and Ia regarded az sociology
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-21
HOTEL DE oRIENTE BOUGHT.
Government in Manila Will Use Build
ing for Offices,

A dispatch from Manila announces that
the United States government has just COM
pleted the purchase Of the Hotel de Oriente
on the plaza de Calderon de la Barca.
The building. one of the best Of the kind
in the city, will now be adapted to the re-
quirements of the federal authorities with
suites of rooms arranged as Offices for the
various departments. In this respect 1t is
admirably located in the immediate prox-'
unity to the customs house and other Of
the more important offices of the govern
ment.
The price paid for the property is said to
have been $3130O0
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Coming Trip Of the Missouri

The Navy Department has been notified
that the battleship Missouri. being built
by the Newport News Shipbuilding Com
pany. will be ready for her official trial
trip by the middle of next month. Capt.
w. 8. Cowles the Presidents brother-in-
law, now assistant chief of the bureau OF
navigation. viii te the first commander of
the Missouri
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-21
Cadets Sentenced to Suspension.

Cadets J. G. Steese and William A. Canoe
Of the Military Academy have been SEN
fenced to suspension as result of court
martial proceedings and their cases will be
submitted to the President for action. It
Is alleged that the young men absented
themselves without leave.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-21

Again ask your kind indulgence until improvements
completed and to overlook slight inconvenience caused by
the rebuilding operations
The special prices, will
tor and confusion caused by the workngmen
Alter through with the improvements will have
than double facies-and largest Cloak
and Suit Department in Washington.
We showing the identical styles that New
wearlng-suits and coats ST. $Ioo; coats $40
waists, ST. to $40; skirts, S. $40
Through New York W. 23d St, kept in
constant touch with the changing fashions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-21

If you want work read the want columns
Of The Star.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-30
{ M l A!,W S) 4'
 a
EACH sEEN EVERY DAY.

amples, for it tells us that if man has indeed few fashions, there are many changes that he can ring upon those styles that are permitted to him. And each such change is in reality fash ion" in itself.
 In further proof of this argument these1 various types of trouser fash ions are rendered. From Gal to (e) we have styles that may severally be termed the military" "crumpled on boots," turned up but hanging full length" well above boots," and ''well turned up." the latter a cool summer style. Each of these different mod els" may be- said to be "in'' or s.out" as wefplease, just according to the To- cality where, for the time being, it is or is not in favor. In. the background we note on the left the "wide cut over boots," and on the right the 'sm oder ate peg top" shape, each of which pat terms, in one quarter or another, is likewise always with us.
 Purposely we have as yet omitted reference to style (f), which is in its way a curiosity. The fashion, like many others, came from England, and is said to have originated there when the finer qualities of American shoes were introduced in London. The idea being to display the Yankee shoe.
 Coats, like other items of mems wear, continue to demonstrate that
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-30
pLUTocRAcY OF p1TTsBURG.
purse-PrOud Younger Generation Forget What Their Fathers
 Might Have Been.

Pride is feature of the younger generation of Pittsburgers of wealth. Things of which some of them think they cannot be proud-such as the way in which their hard-working fathers got their start in life-they try to forget. That the fathers are sometimes proud of this same low ly start is responsible for this incl dent:
 Do you know, young man, that I once was very envious of your father?" said one of the steel kings to the son of man whose wealth, while great could be written with one less figure, says a writer in the New York Tribune.
 And when was that?" asked the young man, pleased to think that there had ever been time when the "king" envied his father.
 "It was this way" returned the old man.. "I was working in ditch for $1.50 day"
 ''I didn't know you started that way" interrupted the youth.
 That's the way. I was working in this ditch for $1.5o a day, and your father was working in the same ditch.. He got SITS because he was stronger, and I enyied him the extra uuarter'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-30
AMERICAN SHOE INDUSTRY.
xho Output of Footwear in This Country Is Something
 EnOrmOus.

The books, shoes and slippers made by machinery in the United States every year would provide pair of some kind for more than one-seventh of the inhabitants of the earth. If they were arranged by pairs, heels and toes touching, they would make 2 belt that would encircle the globe, with enough to spare to stretch across the North American continent from New York to San Francisco. Placed singly, heel and toe, they would go around the world two and . half times. If placed on the tracks of our great trunk railroads. the rights on one rail and the lefts on the other, they would cover the irons from the Atlantic to the Pacific of all the continental lines that now cross our country, says shoe journal.
 The hides and skins used to form this immense quantity of shoes come from all over the world, but chiefly from the East Indies, South America. and Europe, and if they were sewed together in one sheet they would make tent large enough to cover Manhattan island.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-30
TALL MEN ARE FREAKS.
Learned Authority Upon Giants Saym They Have Small Brain
 Cavities.

Prof. Cunningham, who has been appointed to succeed and serve under his old teacher, Sir William Turner, in the chair of anatomy in the Uni versity of Edinburgh, is the greatest authority upon giants, says a London paper. He is at present occupied in elaborating the proofs of his belief that giant is morbid phenomenon. A man or woman who is more than six feet five inches, or, at the outside, six feet six inches, cannot be regard ed as merely abnormal, the professor thinks. He has shown that the men, tai characteristics of giants-easy good nature, sloth and poor intelli- gence-are those shown by victims of rare disease of overgrowth called acromegaly. This is due to en- largement of an appendage of the brain, and Prof. Cunningham ha3 personally examined every giant skeleton in the British and continen- tai museums, and found that the lit- tie cavity in the skull corresponding to this part of the brain is enlarged in all of them.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-30

band perched lightly on his head; the next decrees that such headgear shah have wide band and shall be worn, as also depicted, we'll rammed on. The "bowler" may be a very diminutive af- fair indeed, as seen on the left, or of the more ample proportions of the other example of the pair. The hat re- mains identical; only the pattern varies.
 Reference has already been made not only to clothes" but also to stthe man. ner of wearing them" These two heads tell us something as to this latter point. Remark the two hats-which we pre- sume may here be regarded as clothes" Each, as the dotted lines Ga, b) Show, is worn at the same angle. and yet the heads beneath them ire re- versed. Sometimes the fieeting style of the hour stipulates that headgear, to be correct shall be so mampula,t- ed. either down-over or up-from the face, just as the fashion whim of the moment has 1t. MAY OWEN.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-30
LIGHTNING STRIKES UP.
The Earth Becomes Charged with Negative Current Which
 Bushes Upward.

The cause of death by lightning is the sudden absorption of the electric current. When thundercloud, which is highly charged with positive elec- tricity, hangs over any certain place, the earth beneath 1t becomes abnor- mally charged with the negative cleo tric current, and man, animal or other object standing or lying directly beneath also partakes of the last mentioned influence, says scientific authority. If, while the man, animal or other object is in this condition, a discharge takes place from the cloud above, the rest'ora tion of the equilib- rum will be sudden and violent, or, h language that we can all under stand, the negative current from the earth will rush up to join the positive cloud current, and in passing through the object which separates the two currents, if it be an animate thing, will do so with such force as to almost in- variably produce instant death. A person is really struck by the ground current, and not by the forked Snry frorn above.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-30
WATERT0WN J0TTINGS
Agent of Housatonic Power Go in
 Town for Few Days. |

Agent of Housatonic Power Go in
 Town for Few Days. {
 Howard Nj. Hickcox will build an ex- tension to his house on Cutler street in the near future.
 John Shields of Yale was in town Sunday.
 A large amount of grading about the Methodist church will be commenced in few days.
 E. o. Lumm, an agent of the Housa- tonic Power Go, which will build a dam in the Housatonic river for the purpose of supplying power all over the state, was in town few days ago, and, in company with the selectmen, looked over the ground where the poles are to be placed in this section.
 The tenement house owned by A. N. Woolson on Cutler street is being re- modelled and will soon be ready for oc- cupancy.
 Both masses at St Johns church were we'll attended yesterday. Tn the afternoon at 3:3O the blessing of the statue of St Anne took place and the church was crowded to the doors. A large number of French parishioners were in attendance at the afternoon services.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-30

Then as soon as they get money enough to pay the government entry fee, buy a team of horses and a blow they start for themselves. The first year or so they just about pay expenses and then as the land gets broken in they begin to turn profit. Some who have been there for only few years are said now to be worth several thousand dol lars.
 Last year the coIonists turned out 16o,O0O bushels. They also raised 40, ,oOO bushels of oats and barley and large quantities of potatoes and vegetables. Grazing and the production of live stock also are carried on extensively.
 These people make excellent citi- zens in their new homes, and show no desire to return to their mother coun- try. Honesty and industry are their great characteristic and it is but to be supposed that as such they make excel lent husbands and fathers.
 MAURICE CLIFTON.