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CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-04-21

gun yet, hardly. They're gittin' the
machinery in place. l heard Eph say
they'd begin to bore-dig. mean.
ma'am; l meant to say dig He
stopped. utterly confused and unhap-
by, and she understood his manly pur
pose and kuew him for gentleman
whom she liked.
.'You mustn't be too much surprised"
she said, but in spite of my ignorance
about such things l mean to devote a
good deal of space to the oil company.
1t may come to be of great importance
to Carlow. We won't 90 into it in to-
morrow's paper beyond an item or so
but do you think you could possibly
find Mr.. Watts and ask him for some
Information as to their progress and il
it would be too much trouble for him TO
call here tomorrow afternoon or the
day aftcrT ! want him to give me an
interview If lie will. Tell him. please.
he viii very greatly obllge u.s.
"Oh, he'll come all right" answered
her companion quickly IN take ribbs
buggy and 80 down there right on
Eph won't lose no time gittln' here
And with this encouraging assurance
he was flying forth when he Ike The
Others was detained by her soltciiotis
care She was Il born mother. He pro-
tested that in the buggy he would be
perfectly sheltered Besides, there
wasn't another umbrella about the
place. He liked to get wet anyway,
had always loved rain. The end OF It
was that he went away in sort Of
treInOr wearing her rain cloak over his
..1,r o
cred its owner completely when she
wore IT, hung almost TO his knees. He
dnrted around a corner. and there,
breathing deeply, tcndcrly removed It,
then borrowing paper aud cord AZ a
nelGhboring store wrapped IL neatly
and stole back to the printing odicc. on
the ground floor Of the Herald building,
and left the package In the bands Of
Bud Tipworthy, charging him to care
for II as for his own life and not To
open II, but If the lady SO much as set
one foot out of doors before his return
to hand II 10 her with the message.
"He borrowed another OF j. Hanklns'
Left alone. the lady went TO the desk
and stood for time looking grnvely at
Harkless' chair. She touched 1t gently.
as she had touched 1t once before that
morning. and then she spoke to It as II
he were sitting there and as she would
not have spoken had he been sitting
there.
You didn't want gratitude, did
your she whispered. with sad lips.
Soon she smiled at the blue ribbon.
patted the chair gayly on the back and.
seizing upon pencil and pad. dashed
bent low over the desk. her pencil NOV
ing rapidly. She seemed loath topause
for breath. She had covered many
sheets when Fisbee returned, and a.
he came in softly In order not to dis
turb her she was SO deeply engrossed
that she did not hear him, nor did she
look up when Parker entered. but pur-
sued the formulation of her fast flying
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-04-21

4
ET=sss'ss tered chairs in the Herald edi.
~ torial room with blue satin
ribbon, the purchase of which at the
Dry Goods Emporium had been direct
ed by a sudden Inspiration of his supe-
rior, Mr. Parker Of the composing
force. 1t was Ross Intention to gar
nish each chair with an clabOrately
tied bow, but as he was no sailor and
understood only the ntricacics of Il
hard knot he confined himself to that
species of commentator. leaving how
ever very long ends Of ribbon hanging
down after the manner Of the pendants
of rosettes Mr.. SchodcId was alone at
his labor his two confrerCs having be-
taken themselves to the station 10 meet
the train from Rouen.
1t was wet. gray day. The wide
country lay dripping under formlcss
wraps of thin mist. and the warm, driz-
zling rain blackened the weather beat
en- shingles of the station, made clear
rejecting puddles on the unevenly
worn planks Of the platform and damp
ened the packing cases too thoroughly
for occupation by the station lounger.
The bus driver. Mr. Bennett, and the
proprietors of two attendant "cut un-
ders" and three or four other worthless
whom business or the lack of it called
to that locality availed themselves of
the shelter of the waiting room, but the
gentlemen of the Herald were too agi-
tated to be confined save by the limits
of the horizon
They had reached the station half an
hour before train time and consumed
the interval In pacing the platform un-
der a big cotton umbrella. addressing
each other only in monoSyllables Those
in the waiting room gossiDed eagerly
and for the thousnndth time about the
late events and particularly about the
tremendous news Of Fisboc Judd Ben
nett looked out through the rainy door
way at the latter with reverence and n
fine pride of townsmanshp He de-
clared it TO be his belief that Fisbee
and Parker We're waiting for her now
For all Carlow knew why Flsbee had
gone to meet the strange lady at the
station when she had come TO visit
the Briscoes, why he had come with
her to the lecture, why he had taken
supper at the Briscoes' three times AMI
dinner twice when she was there. F'is-
bee had told the story to Parker on a
melancholy afternoon as they sat to-
gether in the Herald office, and Parker
had told the town. 1t was simple
enough indeed and Fisbee's past was
a mystery no longer 1t might have
been revealed years before had there
been anything in particular to reveal
and if it had ever occurred to Fisbee
to talk OF himself and his affairs.
Things had habit of not occurring to
Fisbee.
Mr.. Parker, very nervous himself,
felt his companions elbow trembling
against his own as the great engine,
reeking in the mist and sending great
clouds of white vapor up to the sky,
swooped down the track, rushed by
them and came to standstill beyond
the platform. Fisbee and the foreman
made haste to the nearest vestibule
and were gazing blankly at its barred
approaches when they heard silvery
laugh behind them and an exclamation.
"Upstairs and downstairs and in my
lady's chamber! Just behind you.
dearv
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-04-21

ideas with the same single purpose
and abandon. SO the two men sat and
waited while their chlefninrss wrote
absorbcdly. AT last she glanced up
and made little startled exclamation
at seeing them there and then gave
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-04-21

them CHEEKY greeting. Each placed
several scribbled sheets before her. and
she. having first assured herself that
Fisbee had bought his overshoes. and
having expressed fear that Mr.. Par.
ker had found her umbrella too small.
us he looked damp land indeed he was
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-04-21

The young ladies composing the sun
day School class of Mrs. W. F. Curry,
were delightfully entertained at the
home OF the latter last Thursday even
ing II i-the custom OF Mr.. Curry to
give a social 10 her class once month
and Thursday evening" gathering was
in line with a plan established nearly
year rgo. The guest- wer- provided
with games OF various kinds for their
amusement and jolly time was had
By all. Reireshment Of delicious
character were served and the company
yot d MIR. Curry charming enter
tainer. Miss Stay Crosby wA. awarded
the prize for answering the greatest
nomber Of questions relating 20 the
Sunday School lessons during the las,
quarter
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-04-21
The Gentleman
From Indiana
nv R00fh T0rkinr<0r
By Booth Harrington.

r. ROSS SCHOFIELD was en-
gagged in decorating the bat-
tered chairs in the Herald edi.
torial room with blue satin
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-04-21

aaair@qxe r9d 90 iiia srJioel s'llpV
20 nj rclliofer rayos ID; rri7nh
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-29

made by milkman for all his customers without regard to the quantity of milk delivered
 All this time the inevitable progress of telephone engineering has been to- wards universal service. The public has not seen 1t. but the telephone engineer and the telephone manager have seen 1t. and have been weglkins with this great problem constantly in view. There are greater mountains to be crossed with pole lines, greater perfection of apparatus
 to be achieved, better organization of
 various systems to be established before
 q universal telephone system can become
 a reality. The financial promlem con
 nected with telephone system perfectly adapted to the purposes of the 90.0o0.00Oo
 American people is a weighty one
 When that condition approaches there will be no question of competing lines or of opposition companies. Every user of a telephone will want to be in touch with every other user of a telephone through a single system which will be adequate and complete When such a system is realized and 1t win be. the engineers says. before another generation, 1t will be the most comprehensive business utility
 the country has ever seen, and for lis
 completion the force of telephone en- l gineers. trained by the most carfeul and thorough methods of modern technical education. must be largely increased year l by year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-29

T Irant' or the Bank of New York: .Josenb
 LOW, merchant; William schieffe,in 1Is, Davlu M' Turnure, broker; George "
 Wlngate, lawyer; Lewis s. Deio ecId banker; J. Lawrence Hutton. of Rro"S street; John E. Alexander of tbe shIr- ping nrm; Cornelius R. Asnew p,,1i'a ?. andrews George Blount, Fl. s. Rlood. good' Peter Bennett, George BavIes inc papcock boys. Gerald Beekman. inc po- serts' W. G. Beckw1th, B. Colgate. R9n. stable N "'-"' Con-
 Later came Henry and Samuel ,~aro,, Henry Clapp. H. A. Crosby. I,evvIs SS Sheesman. Robert c. Cornell. B r. no FOrrest, W. Butler Duncan. I. Asbtor 6o Feyster and his brother. W. T. Dorero ,s Juhen J. Davies. J. Coleman Dravto' Jacob R. Cunning, half a dozen oS tho Fellows family. c. W. Francis win, ,ns n: Gunther. the Graffs, the GavIordS tho Silespies. Peter Gilsey, Gaspar GrIswo,d 1. De F. Frant. the Hoyts, Henry E 1y1e' the Howells. the Huntinztons ami Iy,4O' Henry E. Rowland, Dr. Cb,s 'i.r-ncock, .t;.s, John E. Jessup and brothers .ho oturges' the merchant, was lne @ hFst man to join the Rymnasi,,r, other members were Edward T,ee S,'r Iern' Rutherford Stuyvesant. Peter u sweeney Anson Phelps Stokes. the Ro,, Dr' Ihomas T. Sabine, who ravo +ho name of the Little Church Around the Corner to pr. Houghton's church Fdwsrd 10. Schermerhorn. W. W. sbor,'...' Campbell Stewart. Edward T. sneiii1n physician; Rhinelander W. Stewart anS so on, with hundreds of other pron,I- nent citizens. Pi
 Tn more modern days came vouns Theodore Roosevelt. now President of the United States, to train his muscle ''
 Mr. Wood added: Whatever may he sai1 or nay success extending through a half century. in training the busi,'.ss young men of New York fin athletics. if Is fact that our enviabIe record i,, healthy sports and achievements dates back to Woods Gymnasium. Out Inf if has grown the New York Athletic C,lub the Knickerbocker. the gymnasiums at Columbia, the Berkeley. Cutler and other schools. which. with the CharIIcr, then in East Twenty-fourth Street, sent aII their boys in a body to practice in my gymnasium.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-29

training at the various schools and col leres that have followed the Institutes example in establishing courses in what is perhaps the most important of the modern commercial professions"
 The subject of telephony has grown to such proportions in the past decade that the idea of devoting department of study entirely to telephone engineering has been more or less discussed in some quarters but such an independent depart ment could hardly be conducted satisfac- torily. owing to the unavoidably close connection between the telephone and several branches of applied science. As a prominent telephone man has put 1t, "A good telephone service encounters prob lems that belong to the mechanical en- gineer as we'll as others that embrace every branch of electrical engineering.
 The basis of the telephone engineers training Is such a knowledge of the high est mathematics as will enable him to make the endless computations necessary to the production of any plan, whether for a small induction coil or for the wires of transcontinentaI system. He must know the length and breadth of theoreti- cal electricity; he must understand the general phenomena and laws of sound especially as they relate to speech and hearing; and of course he must be ex- pertly familiar with the various details OI LelepnOnlC communication ana the ln- stallation and management of great sys- tems. These things the technical school teaches him in lecture rooms and labora- tories, by endless experiments. by obser- vation and finally by actual working ex- perience. As he advances, his work as- sumes much the character of professional talks with electrical experts, for men who are closely associated with the practical branches of applied science lecture at the Institute on the latest developments of their special subject, and the laboratory equipment includes miniature telephone system complete to the most minute de- tail.
 The engineer foresees the time when telephone communication will be a mat ter of course in every community; when not only will telephones be used more frequently then the malls or the tele- graph. but when people will carry on long distant conversations as naturally and with as little effort as they would talk face to face. In the light of prog ress in the last quarter-century 1t is not dimcult to imagine such things, but the average telephone user of today has no more idea what the building up of such universal system involves than he has or the tremendous engineering accom- plishment which is placed at his service every time he talks over the wire There are now something like 5000 900 people in the United States who have access to a telephone and from their own locality they can talk over two-thirds oF tbis country. But telephone developnent
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-29

although Involving a problem of constant ly increasing difficulty, has proceeded along the lines of least resistance; the first exchanges have been established m the larger cities and towns because acre the demand was most imperative. The linking together of these centres or popu- lation and the gsaturations Of the inter mediate country districts by means or telephone connections. has been graduei- iy going on at the same time with the steady Improvement of the service ot- fered by the great controlling Bell Com pany; SO two distinct sets of problems have required simultaneous solution.
 The telephone receiver used today with all It's increased efficiency Is practically as simple as the one Alexander Graham Bell exhibited at the Centennial Exhibit tion in Philadelphia in 1876: but in the 'transmitter that stands on the 20th-cen- tury mans desk or hangs on the wall In his house a wonderful improvement has been made and in the development of the present well-night perfect mechanism millions of instruments have been thrown away to make room for better ones.
 Today the current Is sent out on a wire of copper Instead of wire of iron and is brought back on duplicate cop per wire instead of finding its way through the earth, which is generally charged with other electric currents. A wonderful economy of space has been secured by enclosing the insulated copper wires in cables, whether the lines are intended for overhead or underground structures; and the extent to which this economy has been carried appears in the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-29

Boston, Feb 27.--When person says "heIlo" in Boston and another hears and echoes the word In Chicago or New Orleans, the process, simple as 1t seems to the modern man of business, has in- volyed several hundred other people, each with specially trained intelligence. The greatest marvel of the modern tele- phone is not that telephony is possible of operating can be looked after so suc- cessfully. To accomplish all this enorm- ous task, to keep the lines open, and the apparatus in order. and to meet the endless problems that arise in the in- stallation of new services. the last two decades have seen the development of an entirely new profession into which hundreds of young Americans have en- tered, that of the telephone engineer.
 The complexity of all work that has to do with electricity and the rapidity with which the use of the mysterious and seemingly miraculous current has become part and parcel of modern industrial and municipal life has made a thorough pre- liminary training the first necessity to the young man who enters any of the various departments of electrical en- gineering. At the Massachusetts insti- tute of Technology, for example, there were two graduates in electrical,engineer- ing in 1884, while today there are some 200 young men studying this one general subject and among them at least one in every six is especially interested in telephony. Yet these students, of course, represent only a fraction of the num- Der of future telephone engineers now
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-29

use of telephones increased many fold the cost of the instruments themselves has decreased, but the investment re- quired for the ''centrar' plant has grown tremendously larger. Few people realize that the switchboard through which their daily communications are made costs many hundred thousand dollars. or even in a city like New York, several mill lions. They do not realize that 1t is a very elaborate piece of mechanism made up of millions of small mechanical parts all of which must be adjusted with the most painstaking exactness, nor that In talking 1.5OO miles, say from Boston to Kansas City, they are given exclusive use of property which has cost probably half a million and the assistance of twenty-five operators, and that no one else can use for the time being the 5000 miles of wire which If melted into one ingot would
 weigh over 600 tons.
 All the work of the engineer and me chanic which is at the immedite service of anybody anywhere merely for the ring ing of a bell, cost enormously. The hundreds of millions of poles must be frequently renewed at great expense and the switchboards costing fortunes are hardly installed before they must be re- modelled to include some new invention or thrown on the scrap heap to make way Apt d more perfect anu eluClGht SyStSiA No price Is too high to pay for the best possible service is demanded quite as vigorously by the Bell Company which has already covered so large an area with It's wires and which leases It's apparatus rather than sell 1t so as to make sure that 1t shall be properly maintained and kept up to the standard, as by the cus- tomer Competing companies organized on the theory that wires and equipment would be unaffected by storms or accl- dent. that switchboard once installed would become a permanent source of revenue have often come to grief bes cause they have not correctly gauged the requirements of the telephone using pubic or the expense of maintaining and developing a satisfactory system.
 me problem of charges in itself is one which has been worked out only by slow degrees. When telephones were in an experimental stage a fiat charge for the tH.e use oi an instrument was made. but as tne business has increased such charge has come to appear alrnot as unfair Isd lmpFaeticable as If a nat .eharre vera
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-29
WOODS GYMNASIUM.

Every year events show how the world of New York is changing. The recent auction sale of the athletic machinery and apparatus of Woods Gymnasium brought to light many curious facts in the history of the city's marvellous growth.
 John Wood came over from Scotland when Is years old, and got work as a boy in gymnasium at No. 59S Broadway. kept by Frenchman named Mourquin. In that establishment young Wood learn- ed enough of the business in two yeas to secure better position with the Cros- by Street Gymnasium, in which Charles Ottignon, famous boxing master of those days. was the teacher of athletics. MT. Wood remained there as director In- til 1856, five years before the civil war.
 The young man had now become ac- quainted with the prominent people of the town and was encouraged to start in the business for himself
 + T believed could make a success, g said MT. Wood yesterday, "and opened Woods Gymnasium at Nos. and East Twenty-eighth Street. The venture was considered hazardous by many, but my friends were enthusiastic. At that time theie were but few scattering build AiAc dpOuc AWCHLy-tHlEu street. IL IS Cu- rious now to recall the condition of the metropolis as 1t appeared when opened my gymnasium, just off Fifth Avenue. Madison Square was not the beautiful place 1t is now. The Square was sur rounded by country looking wooden fence, with only now and then a building around 1t. and the Fifth Avenue Hotel had not been erected. I well remember how people called the proprietor crazy when its walls began to rise from the open lots west of the Square.
 Our entire property of three lots and the four story gymnasium building cost but $25.OO0. The same property today is worth a half million or more
 "The aristocratic young men who pat ronized the gymnasium didn't mind the distance a bit, and were only too glad of a chance to exercise their muscles by walking from their downtown residences into the suburbs of Twenty-eighth Street, where the new gymnasium was estab- lished
 T succeeded beyond expectation and soon had list of 800 members on Iny books. Among them were the first peo- pie in town-william Waldorf Astor, Ed ward w. Taller. the importer and man of society and affairs; Henry T. Morgan, broker and banker. Frederick White, of Wall, Street; John Brooks, of Brool-s Brothers; the sloans. csrpet manufactur- CTS; young William B. Dodge, H. l..
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-29

"On these very desks here were draftod the rules and bylaws for these gymna- siums, and here was the beginning of the New York Athletic Club. which has grown to be great institution, with an enormous membership of men of wealth and fashion.
 Among the young New Workers who were almost daily exercising in my gym nasium besides the Astors were Hermann Gel 5chs. Dr. Austin Flint. Dr. John Per ry. the Rhinelanders. Sloanes, William Potter the architect and brother of the Bishop, and Mir McKim. now among the famous architects of the world, whoi was reserved by the President to enlarge and beaqtify the White House,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-29
Tn Memory of the Author of "Rock
 of Ages"

From the London Press.
 brass tablet has been placed in the chan eel of Farnham Parish Church to the memory of the Rev. Augustus Montagu Toplady. au- thor of the hymn. Rock of Ages" who was a native of that town.
 The inscription states that the Rev. Augus- tus N. Toplady was born November 4. I740 died in London, August IL. l779. and was buried in Tottenham Court Chapel. London. August V. i77e.
 Toplady, who was a strong defender of Cal vinism, great controversial, and author of many poems on sacred subjects. was at one time vicar of BroGSl Hembury, in Devonshire, and in i775 preached in a chapel near Lei- cester. Fields London
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-29

fact that it Is usual to have 400 pairs of wires fin one lead-enclosed cable. The hanging of thousands of tons of copper in the form of thousands of miles of wire year after year is comparatively easy to understand. but in the exchange-the clearing house where the copper nerves reaching thousands of different points are under instant control-a multitude of intricate and absorbing problems has been worked out,
 As telephony has progressed and the,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-29
They Kept a Bible for Luck.

From Chicago Tribune
 At Sycamore. Iil.. well known business firm makes it a practice to keep a Bible in time ago. and the big steel box Is never locked up unless it contains the book. It is kept in the money drawer of the safe. IL is found necessary to remove it occasionally but 1t is always carefully replaced.