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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10
THE BURR-f1 ANIL TON DUEL i.
" ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
Tremendous Effect Produced BY the Tragedy at6Weshaw
>ken1history Of the Pistols Used Is an Interest,"
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One hundred years ago, exactly
one week after his active participa-
ton in the Fourth of July celebration
in New York city, Alexander Hamil-
ton was shot in that memorable duel
with Aaron Burr. Nothing now re-
mains of the fatal field which, more
than anything else, has made the
name of Weehawken historic in the
annals of America
It was on July II, 1904, that the
two brilliant men, separated only by
the murderous distance of ten PAGES,
leveled pistols at each other, await
ing the word to fire. Only one shot
was fired by each. Burr's, aimed d.
rectly at his antagonist, inflicted a
mortal wound, while Hamilton's, as
was ascertained the day after, passed
above Burr, the bullet lodging in the
branch of small cedar tree.
DR.. David Hosack, one of New
York's most eminent physicians, at
tended the dying man. Hamilton
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10
Cross Section of Refrioerator.

floor and cylinder should be some
what as shown in the drawing. Any
ordinary refrigerator with space over
nead can be made over according to
this plan. The top of the cylinder
should be two feet or more above the
ceiling OF the refrigerator, in order to
create current of the warmer air
from the top of the refrigerator I'D
through the space between cylinder
and wall, as shown by the arrows,
and down through the space sur
rounding the cylinder, thence out to
the refrigerator at the floor line. A
fairly good circulation can be ob-
tanned by this means, of cold, dry air
The ice for the cylinders should be.
broken up into pieces varying in size
from half pound down to powder.
and with each shovelful of ice rut
into the cylinder sprinkling of salt
should be added. A number of cylin-
ders in a row along the side of the
wall would be necessary, the number
depending upon the size of the re-
frlgerator and the temperature re-
CURED. This cannot be specified
here. Outside Of the row of cylinders
a thin partition is constructed six
inches below the ceiling of the re-
frigerator. These are shown in the
plan. Below the row of cylinders
trough sloping in one direction
should be placed for the purpose OF
carrying off the meltage. This trough
ing through the outside wall. An
ordinary trap in this pipe, constructed
as U-shaped bend, would prevent
the air from the outside from enter.
ing
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10
A Unique Power Plant Location.

Cost OF Water-pOwer DEVELOPMENT
depends in large measure, on the TO-
cation of the electric station that is
to be operated. The form of such a
station, it's cost, and the type of gene
rating apparatus to be employed are
much Influenced by the site selected.
This site may be exactly at, or far
removed from, the point where the
water used is diverted from its nat
ural course.
unique example of a location of
the former kind is to be found near
Burlington, VT, where the electric
power house itself forms the dam, be-
ing built entirely across the natural
bed of one arm of the Winooski river
at point where an island divides the
stream. The river at this point has
cut it's way down through solid rock,
leaving perpendicular walls on either
side. Up from the ledge that forms
the bed of the stream, and into the
rocky walls, the power station, about
ITO feet long, is built. The upstream
wall of this station is built after the
fashion of dam, and is reinforced by
the downstream wall, and the water
flows directly through the power sta
ton by way of the water Wheels A
construction Of this sort is all that
could be attained in the way of econo-
my, there being neither canal nor long
penstocks, and only one wall of the
power-house apart from the DAM On
the other hand. the location of sta
ton directly across the bed of a river
in this way makes it impossible to
protect the machinery if the dam.
should ever give way Again the Pc
culiar natural conditions favorable
to such a construction are seldom
found.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

tiser, occurs the first notice of the
affair:
I'VE stop the press to announce the
melancholy intelligence that General
Hamilton is dead. He expired about
$3.50 O'clock"
On the following day and for, sever
al days thereafter the newspapers an
peared with wide black borders on all
of their pages. The newspapers in
this city, Boston and other cities did
the same as soon as the news was re.
ceived, for, dependent upon stage
coaches for information, many of the
outlying towns did not hear Of Ham.
ilton's death until after the funeral
in New York.
The funeral was held on Saturday.
July IA, and Hamilton was buried
where his remains still lie, in Trinity
churchyard, New York.. Practically
the entire city went into mourning,
Business was suspended, for days the
flags were at halfmast, and hundreds
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10
!. AIR i IN a REFRIGERATOR.

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How to Maintain Constant and Even,
:, ...;I,>4..5. Circulation. .,.<Ig:
Constant }Subscriber.-Please de-
scribe how to- ventilate refrigerator
that is used for storing meat in large
quantities. + =
1t is impossible to ventilate a re-
1rlgerator and maintain conditions
suitable for preserving meat. Venti-
lation, of course, means a change of
air, and to bring the warm outside air
into refrigerator would be to make.
it anything but a refrigerator. Prob
ably the correspondent means, in
stead of ventilating, maintaining a
circulation Of air through the refrig-
orator., This is done in various ways.
For keeping meat, a cold and dry air
is necessary, and this can be done
best by means of the following plan,
a drawing of which is herewith sub
mitted.
In order to have room sufficiently
cold, it will be necessary to use salt
and ice in iron cylinders The ar
rangement of refrigerator, smashing
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

Maj. Richard Church & of s Rochester.
/ He is q grandson OF John B. Church,
to whose house the body of Hamilton
was taken from Mr.. Bayard's home ii
Greenwich village. &. .2; z :a|5, .: ,.s=s5
4 The history of the pistols is inter
#esting. Mr.. Church purchased them
lin London, and it is said they were
made by a celebrated gunsmith. w.
H. Mortimer, gunmaker to George III.
They were used in the duel between
Aaron Burr and Mr.. Church in 1899.
and it is stated that they next figured
in the fatal meeting between Philip
H. Hamilton, the eldest son of Alex
ander' Hamilton, and George I: Fac
ker, who fought at Weehawken on
Nov. %, 1901, young Hamilton being
shot in the right side and dying the
next day.
AS Alexander Hamilton was the
challenged party, he had the choice
of weapons, and it is but natural that
his brother-in-law's famous pistols
were used again. After the duel they
were returned to Mr.. Church and
have been carefully preserved in the
family ever since.
When the railroad was cut through
in the early seventies the last vestige
of the old dueling ground was oblit-
Grated. A large red sandstone boul-
der had up to that time stood near
the spot, and it was said that upon
this boulder the head Of Hamilton
rested after he was shot. This Origi.
nal boulder may still be seen in the
little Enclosure on the high cliff, over
100 feet above the old fighting place.
Efforts have from time to time,
been made to erect a suitable monu'
ment near the site to Hamilton, but
nothing except a very modest monu.
ment stands there to-day. A small
semi-circular plat of ground has been
set apart in the locality now known
as Highwood, and which may be
reached in about ten minutes from
the ferry landing at Weehawken, and
here is to be seen the only memorial
of the duel.
The red sandstone boulder stands
upon a granite pedestal, and the boul-
der is surmOunted by an ancient bust
of Hamilton, done by Riordan, the
sculptor. In 1894 a number of resi-
dents in the neighborhood had
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10
The Life of Machinery.

Although the rapid improvement in
electrical devices makes apparatus ap-
Yarently out of date in very short
time, good deal of electrical ma
chinery is still in use and giving a
good account of itself after prolonged
years of operation. Some of the early
Edison dynamos are still doing good
work, and the material of the origi-
nal Siemens-Halske electrical road is
still used for trolley line near Chill
Ion, Switzerland, though it was de-
vised twenty-three years ago.
!, On the other hand, great deal of
old machinery has been worked over.
The managers of a steel plant at
Hamilton, Ontario, say that they have
worked over into steel the iron Of the
original Niagara suspension bridge,
that of the Victoria bridge at Mon
treal, the hull of the once-famous At
lantic steamship City of Rome, and
the framework of the Great Eastern.
Foundation for Machinery.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

was rowed at once across the river
and taken to the spacious home of
William Bayard, in old Greenwich vii
lage, where he died about q o'clock
on the following day, July II, 1904.
The prominence of the combatants
and the tragic ending of the meeting
directed public attention not only to
this duel, but to dueling in general,
as had never been done before in the
United States. The practice was
common a century ago. Alexander
Hamilton's eldest son, young man
but 20 years of age, was killed upon
the same field three years before his
father received his death wound.
The pulpit and, to some extent, the
press inveighed against the custom as
unworthy of civilized community,
but it remained for the Burr-Hamil-
ton duel to arouse public sentiment
so strongly against this method of
avenging insults that the practice was
never afterwards regarded in so hon
orable light.
1t is difficult to imagine at the pres
ent day the effect produced by the
duel, not only in New York city, but
throughout the entire country. Polit-
ical feeling in those years was in
tensely bitter, but Hamilton's serv-
ices for his country had been of such
recognized value that his death and
the manner of it occasioned wide
spread mourning. A wave of almost
universal execration burst over Burr.
Although vice president of the
United States, he had been out of
election of Jefferson, late in 1900.
Jefferson and Burr each received sew
enty-three ballots in the original elec-
toral vote. For over week the
house of representatives balloted
upon the question, and Burr was &C.
crsed Of intriguing to defeat Jeffer-
son, the logical candidate of his
party.
To repair his waning political pres
tige, Burr secured the nomination for
governor of New York in 1904. Op-
posed to- him was Morgan Lewis, the
candidate of the Federalists. 1t was
a bitter fight, for Burr realized that
defeat meant political extinction.
Hamilton was a strong supporter of
Lewis, and when the latter won,
Burr, after an interchange Of letters
regarding certain statements made
by Hamilton, sent a formal challenge.
The fact that the two men were to
meet on the Weehawken sdueling field
was known to but few in New York.
It was about Z o'clock in the morning
of July II that the duel was fought,
and, although Hamilton was i'm
mediately brought back to New York,
! the afternoon papers Of that date
ma!se NJ mention Of the occurrence
on July 10. in the Commercial Adser-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

which are musty?
These combs, if not too badly mold
ed, can be used again by the bees, as
they will clean them up just as good
as new. If they are in very bad con-
dition l would advise rendering them
into wax and using full sheets of
foundation in their place. The bees
will clean up combs that are in quite
bad condition from mold. Care should
be exercised in giving them to the
bees, especially young swarms, as
they are likely to leave such combs.
I always hive the swarm on a single
frame of clean comb or foundation.
and give the bees the balance of their
combs just at nightfall, and by morn
ing they are cleaned and the bees
prepared to accept them. You can
give an old colony two or three dirty
combs at any time, and if they have
bees to cover them they will at once
clean them without difficulty. BY fol-
lowing either plan you can get rid of
your old combs without danger of
losing bees by abscondinga -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10
Foundation for Machinery.

Making the foundations for ma
minerX elastic so as to minimize or
prevent the vibration present when it
is operated is a subject which has at
tracted considerable attention of late
A felt is now being used in many
parts of Germany for this purpose.
This felt comes in sheets of ranging
tnicknesses- 3s inch to IL
inches-and is impregnated with min
eral fat to make it moisture proof. 1t
was intended for insertion beneath
rails, girders and machine beds, but
its use has been extended to steam
hammers, railway cars, stationary en-
gines, and it has even found a place
on shipboard to separate the machine
~ from the decks and bulkhe4ds. S
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

OF citizens wore crepe for thirty days.
Services commemorative Of Hamil-
ton we're held all over the country
Scores of orations were delivered
upon his character, and it was truly
ington had such universal mourning
been seen.
William P. Van Ness, who later be-
came judge of the Southern district
OF New York, by appointment of Pres
ident Madison, acted as Burr's Sec
ond, and he afterward published a de-
tailed statement of the duel, in which
he claimed that Hamilton fired first.
His statement was really a protest
against the widespread disapproval
of Burr, amounting to ostracism.
Burr himself was amazed at the
opprobrium heaped upon him. Never
before had the popular i'll will been
so denunciatory for the surviving
duelist. Burr himself had fought
duel on the same spot in 1899 with
John B. Church, Neither was injured,
although Burr received bullet
through his coat. ..
For few days Burr continued to
go about his business in his, usual
way and received his friends at his
famous home, Richmond Hill, now
totally obliterated, but which stood
for years at about the junction of
Varick and Charlton streets, New
York. Finally he left the city.
Burr was indicted for the murder
of Hamilton, but the indictment was
quashed about three years later:
The pistols with which the fatal
duel was fought are now owned sal,y:
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

The man in St. Louis who has cured
himself of dyspepsia by adopting a
diet of fruit, nuts and whole-wheat
bread, and incidentally reduced his
living expenses to Is cents a day, is
going to get married now. That's
always the way. AS soon as man
finds that he is saving money by
economy he rushes headlong into
some new extravaganza.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10
bronze tablet placed upon the boul
der, and the inscription on it reads
Upon.
this stone
rested the head of the
Patriot, Soldier,
Statesman and Jurist,
Alexander Hamilton,
after the duel with
Aaron Burr,
fought July II, 1904.

Beneath this inscription are two ex.
planatory lines, as follows:
sThe duel took place on the bank
of the river near this spot, and the
stone was moved here when the rail-
road was built"
In the rear of this modest little
monument is tall Flagstaff, and the
Hamilton Memorial association Of
fleetwood will commemorate the an
niversary of the fatal duel in an Ap.
propriate manner. - Phlladelphla
Ledger.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10
Extends Vertically to the Windows.

Extends Vertically to the Windows.
shows a new use for the automobile
as applied to the fire service, trans
porting an extensible fire escape
through the streets to the scene of
the fire: This apparatus is designed
to be elevated to a considerable
height and brought into contact with
the windows to permit persons in
the threatened building to step on
any of the platforms and make their
way in safety to the ground. At each
corner of the carriage is a bracing
post. which is dropped to the ground
as soon as the truck is in position
to prevent the apparatus from weav-
ing about on the spring trucks.
Victor Jetley of London, England,
as the designer of this apparatus.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10
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Automo bile Fire Escape.

The most important thing for a fire.
man to do in case of an alarm is: to
get his apparatus on the ground and
working just as soon as he can. No
matter whether he has chemical ex-
tlnguisher, hose cart, steamer, water
tower or a hook and ladder, his par
tlcular apparatus may come into play
just as soon as, it can be got into
service. In the case of the hook and
ladder truck it may be that even in
the .lncipiency of the blaze some per-
sons have been cut off from escape
and unless the apparatus arrives
early they are forced to lump from
the building or are suftoc.sted in the
smoke and flames. The illustration
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

!" The Columbus young man who for"
got his own name and the girls when
it came to getting the marriage H.
cense must have been intoxicated
with the outlook for a useful and
happy life. At least, that's the chart
table view. III. " .s~-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

The fashion editor, describing the
new styles, one after another, OBJ
serves that ''the third and last sleeve
lis a simple, dropping puff" Now,
who needs third and last sleeve,
even if it is simple, droopy and puff
fiferOus?
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

The Bigerian potentate,, the Alake
of Abeokuta, capital of the kingdom
of Yerrike, in the sunbaked blight
of Benin, seems to be decidedly on
the strenuous order. Nothing Lhas.
satudinous about him.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

Seven thousand Thibetans fought
for a whole day against about 200
English troops and killed one man.
Going through Thibet seems to be
less dangerous than penetrating the
New Jersey mosquito district.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

You should have no difficulty at all
in getting rid of the three weeds you
mention, for they are all large, grow
ing conspicuous biennials, or two
year plants, and if hoed up the first
year, or kept from seeding the second
year you should have no trouble in
getting rid of them: The most diff
cult of the three is the carraway, be-
cause it is more easily overlooked, and
is more apt to grow among grass.
Close moving, however, for couple
of years should eradicate it entirely
and without trouble.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

The president of Brown University
said in his baccalaureate sermon:
"The American people are bound
nowhere under full SAIL" Um-m-m
we'll, this is the vacation season,
isn't it?
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

After severe fight, Gen. MacDon.
aid has defeated the Thibetans at the
Naini monastery, and has entered Gy
ang-Tse. It begins to look as if civ.
ilization were inevitable over there.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10
Buda-Pesth's Noted Crank.

Buda-Pesth has lost one of it's best
known cranks, man who always
went barefoot and. 4bareheaded: His
favorite occupation was to offer medi.
cal advice. to famous persons who
were i'll. This 5 being rejected he
wrote long diatTibes against human
folly and printed them. s S ,s5Ss
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

The people of Kansas have $103,
100000 deposited in their savings
banks. This looks as if they are get
ting into pretty good trim to lift their
mortgages without asking outsiders to
give them a boost.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

A supposed crook has been arrested
note every time he bought cigar.
We must be careful when we buy our
stogies.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

The postoffice at Bokescreek has
been discontinued because the post
master has resigned and no one else
will take the job. And Bokescreek is
in Ohio!
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

With Jersey COWS lunching on dyna-
mite and a Passaic cat sent through
the mails, we are doing our share
toward relieving the tedium of these
long summer days.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

The fashion editor sees danger that
the collarless styles in gowns will
be run to the ground. We agree that
this would be much too low, even in
the hottest weather.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

It is quite probable, that the bird
has caught cold in the eye from hang
ing in a draught. All that is necessary
is to battle the ailing members with
a weak solution OF boracic acid much
in the proportion Of one part boracie
acid to 50 parts az water. s. .s..S
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

Lord Curzon's new job carries a
big salary and requires no great exer-
ton. It's a sort of cinQuch, as it
were.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

A noted German physician now in
forms us that appendicitis is catch
ing. The only safe course seems to be
to keep out of high society,"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

Anti-Christian riots have broken
out in China, but it is said that for
eigners are not in danger. Evidently
the Christianity of foreigners is in
doubt.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

However and in spite of Great Brit
aims success in squeezing promises
out OF the portev we should hate to be
an Armenian.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

All the airship inventors are per-
fectly confident they've got the prob
lem solved, if only enough people will
come forward and buy the stock.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

There are still few septuagena-
rian senators who are not married
off, but this is leap year, and, no one
can read the future.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

1.-THE old fashioned farm dinner is
Disappearing laments the Chicago
Tribune. Maybe, but it is the disap-
pearance of the old fashioned farm
appetite that hurts.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

Chicago has policeman whose
name is Lyonnaise, but it's oxly an
other form of Murphy.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

The Alpha Omega fraternity finds
there's another of the same name.
That's strange. One would natural
]y think it was the first and the last.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

Speak well of your town. advises
the Syracuse Post-Standard. OF course.
We can't do anything else.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

With an automobile case going to
the Supreme court it looks as it a
few precedents might be run over.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10

What I want is the POLE" modestly
says Capt. Peary. Most men are
after the persimmons.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10
Weeds.

Z.-Kindly tell me what will kill
burdock, carraway and mullen; they
are growing in my garden?
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-09-10
Sore Eye in Canary.

B. LA canary has gone blind in:
the right eye within the last few days.
The lids are swollen and white.