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ROONTON. N. j., May Z. = Death
came to Bill Hoar, diver, while he
was sixty-two feet. under water after
twenty-one hours of terrible agony. His
body was recovered after ninety-four
hours of strenuous effort. The at
tempts to save the mans life were
without avail, although everything
KAown to human ingenuity was used
to rescue him from his water tomb.
Hoarawas caught in the mouth of
pipe Monday afternoon at o'clock.
The last signal from him was received
at noon the next day. For four days
crews of men in relays kept a current
of air going down to the imprisoned
diver in the futile hope that some life
might still remain in the body. even
under such terrible strain. From the
signals it was believed that life was
still present twenty-one hours after
the divers last descent, although the
rough water may have caused what
was believed to have been the last sig
nal. The body was released Friday
after Diver Ride had gone down a
shaft under water sixty feet and re-
paired the original break in the pipe.
Difficult Piece of Work.
The Boonton dam is almost finished.
A few weeks ago a great company of
men and women, stockholders and off,
GERS of the Jersey City Water Supply
company, went out and celebrated it's
completion, little prematurely, to be
sure, but with the most elaborate fes-
tivities. Part of the fun was the lead
ing of the whole party Of merry makers,
including the women, through one of
the two 4-foot sluice pipes which runs
through the bottom of the dam. There
was no water in the dam then. of
course, and the party entered at the
bottom and walked out into the bed of
the great basin a third of mile wide
and mile and a half long, which is
now the bottom of lake held by the
dam. 1t is at that end of the pipe
from which the merry party emerged
that Bill Hoar was pinned
In the middle of the four-foot sluice
pipe at the bottom of shaft running
straight from the top of the dam to
the bottom is gate valve by which
the quantity of water-in the dam is to
be regulated
This valve got out of order more
than week ago, after the dam had
been filled up. 1t stuck SO that the
gates were eighteen inches apart and
could not be opened or closed.
An expert from the works in Troy.
where the valve was made, came out
here and worked over it for a week.
The valve could not be budged. 1t be-
came necessary to shut off the flow Of
water at the mouth Of the pipe. Now
the pipe does rot begin at the dam it
self. but runs out under water for 100
feet and opens on cement platform
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on the top of the dam yet, piling up
powders that weigh tons each. There
are spots where there is no foothold
between the lake on one side and the
ninety-foot stone slope on the other,
where man has to climb along hand
er-hand, digging his toes into crew
ices in the rocks. There is a 100-feot
ladder down the back of the dam. a
long railroad trestle over the overflow
stream and then hill to climb.
Special Train for Aid.
Out from the offices came George G.
Harness, the engineer in charge, a man
as red-headed as Bill Hoar himself,
but younger and of far less sturdy
build. He had been keenly worried
from the beginning by his responsibility
for sending diver down to the outlet
pipe With him were Superintendents
Blake and Lawrence, of the J. S.
Quayley Contracting company, who are
doing the stone work of the dam. Half
way up the ladder a messenger from the
float met them, shouting:
The diver says he needs another
diver to get loose.''
Back down the ladder went Mr.. Har-
ness and flying up the hill to the offices
where the telephones were. There were
no more divers nearer than New York
and he knew it, 1t was the work of but
a few minutes to get Mr.. Bundick on
the telephone in his South street office
in New York and tell him that his man
was in trouble under sixty-two feet of
water and wanted help.
All through the five long hours since
Hoar had signaled for another diver
Dobson had been talking to him by
twitches of the rope, saying Help
coming Hold on. Wen get you up"
STEADY" HOar's answers came back
without any impatience and with per-
feet faith. "All right" 'Tll hold out"
and now and then, TRY another haul"
But the haul was always in vain. Con-
ners and Keech, their backs nearly
breaking over the pump cranks, re-
fused to leave their places.
I'VE want to see Bill come up they
said when Mr.. Harness urged them to
go away and get rest and let some one
else take their places.
Caught by His Leg.
Let Olsen tell how he found Bill
Hoar:
He was down on the cement plat
form up against the wall, half leaning
over the pipe. 1t was SO dark couldn't
make out much, but I took hold of
him and put my helmet up close and
shouted, Hey, Bill. And then / shout
ed again, just that way, Hey, you,
Bill!' could hear that Bill was shout
in back, though / couldn't no more tell
what he was sayin' than he could tell
what / was sayin.' But / could see he
knew who / was and he put out his
hand and shook hands with me.
knew then he was glad to see me, un-
derstand. He put my hand down to
his left leg and it was sucked down
into the middle of slot Of sand bags.
He made motions to show he had
kicked 1T in, kickin' a sand bag into
place and tryin' to keep back out of
the suck. But the suck had caught
him and was holding him. l got him
around the stomach and pulled and he
braced his leg against that damn ball
and we both showed for all We knew
how. But it wasn't no go.
''Then / took my knife and slashed
into the sand bags. Thinkin', under
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David refasco,s Boyish Remark.

DaUfd FeiGScO's Boyish Remark
g PEAKING of Gillette naturally brings
~ to mind another distinguished play
wright whose name is not infre-
ouently heard even in these days when
theatrical managers are prone to keep
their own identities mostly in the back
ground.
1t has been said Of David Belasco that
almost more quickly than any other man
of modern times, save possibly Mr.. Beer
bohm Tree, he can discern the value in the
work of others, no matter how hopeless at
first glance. that work may be. OF the
truth of this, not being myself critic of
plays and being unwilling to array my
self either for or against proposition, l
do not care to give an opinion but it in
terested me much to hear the assertion
made by one who may be said te have
known whereof he spoke. for had keen
recollection of an evening quite forty
years age when Mr.. Belasco was an in=
fant-ene might -almest say In arms.
He was somewhat elder than that, but
not much more ses and had been able te
talk fer few months only: Nevertheless,
this trait of which mention has been made
showed itself very plainly upon this oe=
casien 1t was night. Baby Belasco was
presumably dying In his crib, and some
one-I forget whether 1t was his nurse or
maiden ennt-had just finished reading
Hamlet" aloud.
us It hot q fine bit of work." she said
as she laid the volume aside.
"You bet your lifet'' cried the infant
enthusiastically.
There is material in that for good
play"
may add that I have heard the
child in later years give voice to the same
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his body in two could counteraet the sue
tion which was holding the lower part
of his left leg against the opening of the
pipe. 1t was certain that it was of no use
to send divers down to try to pry him
away from the grip of the tons of water
that were pressing upon him Every rea-
sonable suggestion that was made was
listened to an acted upon.
There was just one way Of relieving
from the overwhelming suction Hoars
body and the great wooden ball which
he went down to adjust to the opening
in the pipe. 1t was to close the broken
valve in the middle Of the dam which
made all the trouble. This valve at the
bottom of a seventy-fOot well through
the middle of the, dam is used to regulate
the flow of waste water through the pipe
of which it is a part. The spindle or
bronze shaft which opens and shuts the
valve was broken inside Of the beIllike
cover of the valve. The object of stopping
the water at the inlet of the pipe was to
make it possible for a machinist to go
down into the well and replace the broken
parts of the valve
Diver Ride was secured from New York
who went down, and a new valve was put
in place and the suction removed from
the body Of the pinioned man and the big
wooden ball with its leaden core was
hauled away after the water was cut
off.
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the racing waters tugged mighty hard
at everything within reach. He thought
that three more bags would close them.
At about 2 o'clock he started on the
trip from which he never returned. He
went down from slipshod raft which
fioated on the top, of the reservoir,
forty feet or more from the top of the
dam. He-'wore the ponderous clothing
which story tellers call divers ar
NOR" The suit weighs 180 pounds
In all. There is a helmet, a globular
brass arrangement, with a glass win
dow In front and arrangements for air
supply from a pump constantly rotated
by two men on the raft. There is a
watertight overall suit to which the
headpiece is crewed so that no water
can reach the man inside of it. On the
feet are divers shoes weighted with
eighteen pounds Of lead each.
On the raft there were two men at
the pumps, Jim Conners and Bill
Keech, a negro. Charley DobsOn, who
has worked with Hoar for years and
with whom the diver had a code of
signals which allowed them to under
stand one another by jerks of the rope
almost as clearly as though they were
face to face on dry land, speaking, held
the lifeline.
Bill Hoar had not been down more
than fifteen minutes before he signaled
over the lifeline with three jerks of
the rope
Sends for Diver.
Haul away" was Dobson's interpre-
tation of the signal He knew some
thing must have gone wrong, for Hoar
had not been down nearly long enough
to put in place all of the sand bags he
had with him. He hauled on the rope.
1t tightened. But he could not bring
the diver up an inch He pulled with
all his might. Bill Keeeh left Conners
to run the pump for a moment and
grabbed the lifeline. 1t did not bulge
an inch
wait bit" signaled Dobson with
one twitch of the rope
"All right said the diver, .Tll wait"
twitching the rope once in reply. Then
again, moment later. he signaled with
three twitches, Haul away!"
For half an hour the signals passed
back and forth. Every few minutes
the men on the raft would haul with all
their might and main. until they We're
afraid Of breaking the rope. They could
not move it. Then came a steady
twitehing of the rope.
Bill says he wants a diver down
there to help him." shouted Dobson
Now, just how Dobson knew this it is
not for any layman to undertake to ex-
plain. No such signal had been pre-
arranged between them. But the
ed Charley Dobson knew exactly what
they meant.
BY this time word had been sent
over to the office of the construction
engineers and contractors that the div
er was in trouble. The road from the
top Of the dam to the Offices is not
easy. There are three derrieks at work
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sion to which refer, he replied instantly.
but with rare TACT
We'll, my name in full is Albert Ed
ward George Henry Fitznhorris, continued
In our next Wattin, but my best friends
call me Pete for short
1t was predicted by the Platinum Stick
in Waiting at that time that the young
prince would prove the most diplomatic
monarch in history, a prophecy which was
10 doubt in the mind of Punch's editor,
who said that Edward would not consent
TO reign until all his subjects were pro-
Vided with umbrellas.
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G c c
Boyhood of William N

HE public prints have been SO fun Of
Il anecdotes of the youthful days of
the German emperor that it is al
most impossible to find anywhere a story
of this wonderful potentate that has not
already been told That he was precocious
goes without saying. for he still is At
the age of three he could speak German
fuently and had given material evidence
of the possession of those qualities which
go to the making of a ruler of men,
A little episode which l do not remem-
ber ever to have seen in print, and which
l know from my own experience to have
actually occurred, took place in 1864, when
the child was about five years old. Climb
ing on his grandfather's knee at the pal
ace in Potsdam one night he begged that
monarch, who was then King of Prussia.
to have every man in the German States
whose name was Hoch imprisoned
'Und for vat, mein leedle Prinz?" asked
the king who always spoke with a
marked TeutOnic accent tsa
For lese majesty said the child Il
had dream of the future last night, and
in looking ahead some thirty years | find
every one speaking Of Hoch der Kaiser,
and as that will be about my date, I wish
to have the duffer headed off, @
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Eternity.

''Etern1ty!
The voice of the preacher sank into
Mortified whisper
An eternity of torment he repeated.
do you bethink you what eternity is? L
tell you, it is as long as it would seem to
you if you were going to the theater, and
were waiting for your wife to get ready
and she had eight OF nine heads instead Of
one?'
Here several men rose, haggard and
tottered forward to the anxious seat
Puck.
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lake THE LID OFF He SAID

drawing room, library, dining room. nur-
sery and kitchen were all one The occa-
sion that 1 recall found the infant Rich
ard toddling about this family room, while
over the fire the pot containing the pota-
toes was swinging on the crane.
Suddenly perceiving this, the future
boss, scarcely as yet able to walk, crept
near to the hearth and raising himself to
his feet and pointing at the pot spoke
his first words:
Take the lid off," he said
The significance of such request in
the light of his subsequent career I leave
without comment to the readers own dis
cernuoent
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Genius of William Gillette.

r T has been said that all great actors in
the very earliest stages of existence
give evidence of the talents which
later carry them on to success. For in
stance, Irving as a child of year had
most peculiar gait-the half stumble, half
totter-upon which he has since walked to
the very forefront of his profession.
Mansfield at the age of four, while
playing theater with certain of his com
rades, is said to have thrown one of the
supers and his leading lady, child of six
with almost superhuman strength out of
the nursery window. John Drew, in his
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Other Examples Of Precocity


MOT to go further into the details of
~ precociOusness in the boyhp0ds Of
famous men, Father Time concludes,
l must content myself with noting the
fact that at the age of three Paderewskf
and his sisters played upon the piano with
facility, confining themselves, however, to
such games as muggins, marbles and hide
and seek under it; Senator Tillman at
the age of two was an expert handler Of
the pitchfOrk; DR.. Johnson, when only
four, could pronounce the word 'propin-
guilty. with ease; Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge at seven could recite whole vol
umes of "Cyelopedia Britannica" back
ward; Mr. William j. Bryan was a famous
runner at six. and Mr. William Travers
Jerome was a champion hoOple chaser
from three up-the hoople being the near
est approach to wheel known to the
children Of his time.
Methusaleh, Father Time adds, did not
begin to be precocious until his second
childhood and as for Adam-there is no
telling how precocious he would have been
if he had had one
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il VAS SNOKUNG A BIG BLACK ClGAp!

opinion so many times that it has always
been a matter of surprise to me that he
has not written it,
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HOW DIVER BILL HOAR
DIED AT BOONTON DAM

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Southern Pacific Company.

Train No. II leaves Nogales. 4:35 d m ., daily. arriving at Benson,7 :35 q. m, and at Tucson. 9:5O q. m.
 Train No. l2 leaves Tucson, 3:O5 p. m daily, arriving at Benson, 4.55 D. m. and at Nogales, S:2o D. m.
 Sunset Limited east tbound, passes Benson, 7:50 m.
 Golden State Limited eastbound, passes Benson. 1:02 n. m.
 Sunset Limited westbound, passes Benson. $40 D. m.
 Golden state Limited westbound, passes Benson. 9:24 D. m.
 Close connection is made at Fair bank with El Paso x Southwestern By. for Tombstone. Bisbee, Naco. Douglas, and other points on that line, and close connection is also made at Naco for Cananea.
 Tickets on sale to all important points in U. s., and we especially call attention to the trip Via New Orleans to New York. by steamer
 This cOmpany's new 5000 ton steam ships "Comus'' and "Proteus' leave New Orleans at noon every Wednesday, and make the voyage to New York in about five and one half days; they are equal to the modern ocean liners in every respect.
 Saloon and second cabin passage have to be reserved in advance.
 H. JORDAN. AGENT.
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Notice of Hearing Petition.

In the Probate Court of the County of
 Santa Cruz, Territory of Arizona. In the Matter of the Estate of John H. Ing, deceased.
 Notice is hereby given that Sofia Levin has filed in this Court her peti- ton praying that Letters of Adminis- tration with will annexed be sgran ted Henry Levin of the Estate of said de cedent and that the same will be heard on Monday the 11th day of April A. D.. 1904, at 10 clock in the forenoon of said day, at the Court room of said Court, in Nogales. County of Santa Cruz, Territory of Arizona, and all per- sons interested in said estate are not flied then and there to appear and show cause. if any they have, why the prayer of said petitioner should not be gran ted. Dated March 30, 1904.
 w. A. O'CONNOR.
 2-t Clerk
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Notice of Sale Of Real Estate at Public
 Auction.

Tn the Probate Court of the County of
 Santa Cruz, Territory of Arizona.
 In the Matter of tue Estates and Guardianship of Robert Drayton Rosa, Wells, and Charles Wells, minors.
 Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of an order of sale made and entered by the Probate Court of the County of Santa Cruz. Territory of Arizona, on the 26th day of March, A D.. l904. iu the matter of the Estates and Guardianship of said minors, the undersigned, Guardian of the Estates of said minors will sell at public auc- tion. subject to confirmation of said Court, the following descri bed real property. belonging to the Estates of said minors. Lot Number Five (5.) in Seven (1.) in the Town of Nogales, County of Santa Cruz, Territory of Ari- zona: sald sale will be made on Monday the 18th day of April. A D.. 1904, at 10 o clock a. m-. at the Court House door, in said Santa Cruz County. Ari zona Territory: and the terms of said sale to be fifty per cent cash at the time of said sale and the balance on con frmation thereof by the Probate Court.
 A. J. CARPENTER,
 Guardian of the persons and estates of Robert Drayton, Rosa Wells. and Charles Wells. minors.
 Dated March 26th A. D.. 1901.
 First publication April ?, 1904. St.
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Order to Show Cause.

In the Probate Court of the County of
 Santa Cruz. Territory of Arizona.
 In the Matter of the Estate of Mar tin A. Bartleson deceased
 It appearing to this Court, by the petition this day presented and filed by H. Tui per Sanders, the adminis- tor of the Estate of Martin A. Bartle- son, deceased that 1t Is neces -ary to sell tine whole of the real estate Of said decsdent to pay the debts of the de- cedent, and the expenses and charges of administrator. It is therefore or dered by this Court that all persons interested in the estate of said deceas sed appear before the said Probate Court on Monday the 25th day of April, A D., 1904, at the hour of 10 o'clock of said day, at Court Room of said Court. at the Court House in the City of No gales, Territory of Arizona, to show cause why an order should not be granted to said Administrators to sell the real estate described in said peti- tion and belonging to the estate of the said deceased, and that copy of this order be published in TIE BORDER VIDETTE news paper printed and pu blished in the said County and Territory; for four successive weeks.
 Dated March. 2lst 1904.
 w. A. O'CoNSoR, Probate Judge.
 First pub. April, }, 1904 1t.
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New Mexican Terlfs.

The new Mexican tariff goes Into effect today. The new tariff is con- siderably higher than the old one. and will make a great difference in the cost of railroad or other supplies in Mexico. For several days previous to the coming into effect of this new tariff the Nacozari railroad company had been rushing supplies over the line as fast as possible, and as much as they could bring to Douglas i'll time. One of the customs brokers of this city is reported to have paid S2,OOO duty yesterday. - Douglas International, April 1
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PATENTS

PA PArENTS-Hazard X Harpham Les Angeles Send for free hook patents. <
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Deep Sinking Makes Big Mines.

The west is dotted here and there, with old mining camps which, in their early history, were productive of i'm mense quantities of ore from the grass roos, but nj h. al the present time. are ldie and practically deserted, and their old time producers, eglected and abandoned, are so wrecked by the hand of time that they appeal in vain to the capitalists and promoter for re- surrection and renewed life. The causes which led to this abandonment are many, and yet no good reason exists why mines which have produced their hundreds of thousands or even millions, at no greater depth than 200 feet, should be closed and unproductive during this era of mining prosperity and wonderful production
 A miner or prospector will go wild over a good surface showing of pay ore, and he will use every effort to trans form his prospect into bonanza; into a mine that will maintain a produc tion of hundred tons of ore day for an indefinite period. And, more, he must know that property that has been developed for few hundred feet or more is not mine, but that 1t is still prospect. He must know, also. that instances are few of record where the ore bodies, strong on the surface, fail to go to the deep, even though barren spots are encountered in the vein It is true that the character of the ore may change with depth, but 1t Is a general rule that the greater the depth, the larger the ore channels, while values are usually well main talned.
 The life Of mine depends upon depth To insure a big and regular tonnage, the mine must be thoroughly opened, levels must be run, upraises made, and the workings must be con nected in order that many men can be employed in ore extraction; so that development can be kept ahead of pro duction. This condition cannot be maintained by keeping up mere surface workings, and yet many rich mines have been abandoned after only a few hundred feet of tunnels or inclines have been run, that would be heavy producers today were they but subject ed to system of deep mining. And yet these old mines are much better than prospects, as surface working have demonstrated the existence of large and rich ore bodies which, with out doubt, can be follow ed to the deep more successfully than can work be prosecuted in the development of mere prospect whose value IS still an unknown quantity.
 Deep sinking makes big mines, but mere surface scrat chlag will lead to failure unless the veins exist in what Is known as "blanket formation"
 Many of the old and abandoned mines alluded to, although having pro duced their hundreds of thousands at the grass roots, are still in their in fancy, as far as their real worth is concerned; and, what they have pro duced at or near their surface in the l past is but an index of what they are capable of producing were they to pass into the hands of those possessing the | capital and nerve to de velop them to | greater depths.-Salt Lake Mining | Review