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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-06-14
Rink Talk.

Violet wonder if Charley Gayboy
is a good skater.
Rose-Oh, yes, think he must be.
At least, heard my brother say that
he is an awfully high roller-Detroit
Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-06-14

NAhbAS OOOU OOuAIEJ AOAOSs
A community Is known by its roads.
Real estate depreciates in market
value when bounded by bad high
ways. Cities, towns and counties
owe much to good roads. Those so
fortunate as to enjoy good roads do
not realize their value until they To-
cate in vicinity that has poorly con-
structed roads. The annual visit of
the supervisor Is not always appreci-
ated by the farmer or by the man who
Is compelled by law to work his re-
CURED time on the roads. Too often
1t Is looked upon as useless burden.
Oftentimes it is SO, for the work is
really thrown away. Supervisors get
in their time and draw their pay. The
real service Of a good road is often for
gotten by officers, as well as by the
men working under them. A general
public opinion demanding good road
making Is the first ESSENTIAL. Too
much time is wasted and too much
money is spent on good roads and bad
roads. The graft has worked its way
into the maintenance of the public
highways.
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Drainage.

Every roadbed must have good
drainage. Dirt roads become impass
able and ethe rock or graveled roads
soon lose their identity. When side
bitches hold water many weeks during
the year 1t is a clear indication of bad
drainage. Such roads cut up badly
and are filled with deep ruts. Often
times the side bitches are higher than
the main roadway, and not only have
no standing water in them, but they
shed all the running water into the
wagon tracks. Side bitches that are
serviceable must lower the water table
in the roadbed and carry off all the
surface water that would otherwise
food the roadway.
The graveled or rocked road usually
is graded before the hard material is
spread upon 1t, and for a short time, at
least the drainage is good. Since
water is the worst enemy to good
roads 1t Is likely to make anattack any
day in the year, it would seem that the
annual woodworking season would not
altogether fill the bill with any kind
OF road, whether it be gravel, rock or
dirt. Roads to be at their best need
attention every time it rains; especial
ly Is this true Of dirt roads.
The grader is excellent for opening
up side bitches and for filling the road
center, but in many instances the
work the grader cannot do is left un-
done. Bridges are not properly filled.
The ends Of bitches are never opened
with the shovel. Even the roadway Is
left hollow because Of ignorance in
handling a grader.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-06-14

The fakir must have great contempt
for the people he rObs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-06-14

Your ship Is not likely to come in
unless you so after it.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
Acoustical Mirror Dimmed.

We thus have the great acoustical
mirror of the Hall of Statues now dim
med by the coffering which breaks the
formerly smooth surface. To this arsu-
ment it may be-in fact, it has been
objected that while the waves OF sound
of mans voice are several 1eet N
length, this coffering is OF but .eT
inches in depth and therefore lnsqca
Gent. The answer to this IS that VILE
the full rounded tones of = man $ volcn
and. fer that matter, though TO a les~
degree, of a woman's voice, are OF long
wave length, a whisper by either man or
woman is of Il very different character.
The component tones of whisper are
very high and of very short wave length,
so that irregularities that would not dis
tnrb the focusing of the fun tones of the
voice will utterly ruin whispering gal
lery.
of course. only the loss OF an architec-
turaI curiosity 1t was. however, re-
markably perfect and so interesting and
even famous as to be we'll worth the
weIl-intentioned but misdirected Efforts
for its preservation.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
Pumping Station, 1t IS Said, Will Have the
Greatest Capacity of Any in the
World, Nearly Billion
Gallons Day.
Gallons a Day.

New Orleans, Boston, and Chicago, all
Of which have sewage jumping stations,
have to do with stern water but not
as distinguished from ordinary sewage
With them storm watsr is treated as
sewage; 1t goes through the same pipes.
enters the same sediment or screen
chambers, and is disposed of by the
same pumps
The bio 1s-foot sewer which drains
the west portion of the city through the
low land and has the most to do with
storm water. is SO constructed that all
the sewage drained through it runs IN
a groove IN the bottom of it and on
nearing the station is finally diverted
into a separate pipe TO enter the sewage
section OF the building. BY virtue of
this arranSement-an entirely original
one with Mr.. Philli,s-the storm ysiter
in this big sewer will be forced to run,
after the sewer has separated into two
large twin sewers. directly into the
west half of the plant, where it will
pass through separate screen and sedi-
ment chambers to be sucked up by the
storm water pumps Eight runs ending
with sixteen automatic tide gates at the
river lead off from. this portion Of the
building as an extra precaution against
floods
In the construction of its sediment
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
New Ceiling Differs.

The above. written before any changes
were contemplated. exactly covers the
case. The new ceiling differs from the
old in two respects. Instead of being
of wood it is OF plaster on iron sup
ports This alone would produce no
deterioration in the whispering gallery
for plaster on iron is an even better
reflector than wood. But plaster as now
handled admits of an architectural treat
ment TO which it did not formerly so
readily lend itself, and the cofferiug
which was but painted on the old cell
ing is copied in relief on the new, with
the result that it ceases to be in any
way a remarkable whispering gallery.
So far from being a disproof OF the pos
sihility OF prediction in architectural
acoustics il is, as far as a single case
can be, n confirmation of its reasona BILE
accuracy. and in this particular case OF
its entire accuracy.
1t is not difficult to explain the basis
for the prediction that coffering the
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
In the Pump Room.

Interest naturally centers on the pump
room, and it is by an inspection of this
room, 80 by 10 feet, that the oper
atlons of the plant are best understood.
The room is divided into an east and
west section. The floor of the west sec
tiOn is eight feet below the level of the
river; that on the east side is fourteen
feet below. There are twelve giant
pumps, with massive iron circular cas-
ings that look like the shells of huge
snails, already set up on these floors,
eight on the west side, and four on the
east. Those on the west side have to
do with pumping out the storm water
that comes down to the station; those
on the east side deal with the sewage.
To get an idea of the immensely of
this pumping plant and the size of the
pumps IL must be understood that any
one of eleven Of these pumps is in ordi-
nary weather sufficient to take care of
the entire sewage Of the city, and that
any one of the eleven has the capacity
Of pumping loo cubic inches a second.
or 1900 600 gallons a day. The twelfth
pump has "a capacity of 2000O.OO0 gallons
more. 1t will be seen by this that the
aggregate capacity of all these pumps
is Si5,0J0,000 gallons.
Is it any wonder then. that it is
claimed that this pumping plant has Il
capacity far beyond that of any other
plant in The world? And after under
standing that it is, have Washington
ians any fear that they will witness
another flood in the city? Ina gine all
these giant pumps in operation hurting
the storm water into the river directly
or casting it under Eastern Branch and
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

permit of an additional substructure of
solid masonry in order to make suf-
ticient foundation for the heavy walls
that form the first story of the building,
with its catacombs and big pump room.
1t must be remembered that of the en-
tire cost of the sewage system, sum
of 100000 or $1,000. 900. over $780, 900 goes
into the erection of the pumping station
proper
To get Il clear idea of what this pump
ing station means, to see wherein 1t is
vast and an original affair. and to real
ize what herculean efforts have been eX-
pended upon it, 1t is almost necessary to
30 to where it is building. walk over
it as ii now stands, and investigate its
labrynthaI cellars In a short time it
Will be TOO late to do this, as the work
IS being pushed rapidly to completion,
and most OF the station below ground
VIII soon be walled in and out cs view.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

chambers, also. and in It's bypass and
screen rooms this plant-thanks to Mr..
Phillips-is an improvement on those
of other cities. These improvements viii
permit rapid work, while making it easy
to clean out the plant. and to hoist the
sediment and heavy material to the up
per floors. where it will be carried to
barges and taken down the river.
The laying Of the drains of this sewer
system is now almost completed OF the
pumping plant there yet remains the
building of another story or two, the
erection of smoke stack, which Will
have a base OF 80 feet square and a
height of so feet, and the installation
Of twelve engines-one over each pump,
and joined to it by a great piston rod.
Before these things are done, however,
the five-foot twin siphon pipes beneath
the river bed and along the far shore
TO Magazine Point will be laid. The
hydraulic dredge Dewey has, with
it's long length Of tubing through which
the mud is forced to the opposite shore.
been worming out a bed for the siphon
pipes for months and has almost COM
pleted its Iabors.
When all is done Washington will be-
come sanitary city and owe many
thanks to the genius Of the man who
planned and built this wonderful sew
age system, Asa E. Phillips.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

surface of a sphere whose center is near
the floor. Standing at the center OF this
sphere one can hear his own whisper re
turned to him. Standing at one side of
this point he can whisper, especially if
he turns his face toward the ceiling, to
p person standing at q great distance on
the other side OF the center. For any
position of the speaker there is a cor
responding point at which the whis- er
is more or less accurately focused. The
ceiling, painted so that 1t appears deep
" paueled, is smooth. Had the ceiling
been paneled, the reflection would have
been irregular, and the effect very much
reduced. The most accurate form for Il
whispering gallery is that in which the
rejecting surface is very considerable
portion of the surface of an ellipsoid.
that has for ats foci the two points be-
tween which there is to be communica-
tiOn -
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
!: ABOUT WHISPERING GALLERIES ::

ceiling would have this effect. The
focusing of the sound by the concave
ceiling is in every respect similar to
the focusing of light by concave mir
ror. Just as scratching the mirror dims
the image of light, so paneling the re-
fiecting wall dimS the focused whisper,
for a panel. a pilaSter, or a column on
a wall surface is to sound what g
scratch on the surface OF a mirror is
to light That in the case Of light the
scratches may be so fine, while in the
other cases the scratches must be of
the dimension of columns and pilasters,
IS because of the relative wave lengths
of light and sound. The wave length.
that which corresponds to the distance
from crest TO crest in Il water wave. is
in the case of light about one fifty-thou-
sandth part of an inch, while in the
case OF sound it is for the ordinary
tones of a mans voice several feet. For
this reason a column or a pilaster OF
vast magnitude bears TO the sound OF q
nan voice the same relation that me
merest scratch bears to light.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
rs MILLION
GALLON EMERGENCY
=. PUMPS WHICH AXE USED
DURING. STORMS 10 HR[YfNI
A SACK up INTO The STR[EJ
AND. CHARS OF TIE. CITY

four and one-half miles down to the
Potomac!
In time Of storm the entire east, west,
and north portion of the pump room
will be surrounded with the food of
water that is drained from every quar-
ter, though especially from the low area
of the city; this water will be sucked
up through great pipes that lead from
the main conduits inward to the pumps,
thence into the snailshaped pump cas-
ings. where it is forced by great iron
rotary fans through pipes five feet in
diameter, past discharge valves into
wide conduits that lead out into the
river or into the high siphon chamber.
The west section of the entire plant,
as is the west section OF the pump
room. viii be devoted exclusively to the
storm water that is drained from the
western portion of the city through the
low area. The east section will be de-
voted, in dry weather, to sewage, and IN
storm weather to both storm water and
sewage.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
SOME VALUABLE HORNS

Among the gifts that he carried
home" said Mr.. Douglas. were four
horses and handsome English car
riage. When he got back to Barotsie
Land he preferred the native method of
travel, and the last 1 heard of his car
riage was that 1t was serving the pur-
poses of chicken coop very sauisfac-
torily"
To hunters who are familiar with the
North American deer, the heads and
horns of the African species obtained
by Mr.. Douglas present Interesting
comparisons. Many of tho horns OF
these animals are most gracefully pro-
poruoned, some twisting round and
round many times like n corkscreW,
while others. after showing q number
OF concentric circles, run down sudden
ly to a smooth, sharp point. There
were 13l varieties OF the African deer
family, the most complete collection
is said, every known specimen with the
exception of Il new variety which was
discovered last year by q woman Sin
gular to relate, the value of these horns
seems TO be in inverse proportion to
their size. The smallest pai.. OF the lot
commands the highest price $50, while
the more snowy horns of the koodoo.
the sprlngbok, the Gland, and the beisa
may be had from SO to $40.
This small pair of deer horns are
those of the blue buck, now perhaps
the rarest of African deer, as they are
almost extinct. The horns are barely
one inch long. being the tiniest Of
sharp-pointed spikes protruding from
the skull. The animal, when full grown
is never over eighteen inches long, and
rarely weighs more than six pounds
They are almost like rabbits, and their
extinction is due both to the inroads Of
civilization and the ferocity Of other
animals, who find these little deer an
easy prey.
The Gland, which is the largest known
antelope in the world, is still plentiful.
and It's meat is acknowledged to be
the best n the world. There is a fine
specimen OF the Gland in ti5e Bronx zoo
logical gardens. The horns average
about three feet in length, possessing
graceful spiral formations. The horns
Of the great koodoo are the largest of
any game animal In Africa. They are
of the corkscrew variety, making sew
eral wide curves and frequently grow
ing to n length of five or six feet. They
are of a dark black color and taper off
to n sharp point. The koodoo. within
recent years, has Joined the ranks of
those game animals known to be al
most extinct, ana is only found now in
the most inaccessible quarters.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

Of pumping power the greatest in the
world-that is to do the work gravity
did before and relieve the city of all
its sewage and storm water. 1t will
receive the great flood, pump it out of
the bowels of the earth. and, if storm
water, force it up and into the river, or
if sewage. hurl 1t, by means Of siphon
thirty feet below water line, through
twin siphcn pipes. across Eastern
branch to a place called Shepherd s
Point; along the shore to Magazine
Point. where 1t will enter a swift cur
rent Of the Potomac, a distance alto
gether OF four and one-half miles
1t was easy enough to shut off the
old outfows of the city, to dyke up the
river and keep out the overflow, and,
even, to build the great sewers that run
down below water line; but the fnstalla-
ton of a plant capable Of lifting the
sewage high enough to force it down
to Magazine Point was a task of no
mean proportions.
To get an idea of what this huge
pumping station is, 1t must be remem-
bered that it covers, together with the
necessary sewer and pipe connections.
nearly five acres of ground; it must be
remembered that, IN the beginning Of
possible, il was necessary to build a
great Golfer dam around the inlet to
keep out the -iver, to pump the water
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
Asa E. Phillips.

Asa e. Phillips, the engineer in charge
Of the plans and construction of the
sewage system, and David e. McComb,
superintendent of sewers, are the men
who finally overcame the difficulties. To
Asa Z. Phillips, mainly, credit for this
original sewage system, and especially
Its pumping station, is due. He is the
man who, though hitherto a practically
unknown employe of the District has.
with that poise, originality and genius
for detail which would make him a
great leader in war, worked it out, step
by step, the plans for the enterprise
While others have been sleeping eat
Ing and taking life easy a gigantic
monster Of the shape of an octopus,
with great round tentacles reaching out
everywhere, has, for the last five years,
been burrowing its way, down under
the streets and avenues in every direc-
tion, under and through the downtown
district, under the parks, to the subter-
ranean channels in the southeastern por-
ton of the city, along the Eastern
Branch water front, known by the name
of Bloody Field"-a place once noted
for the desperate character of its in
habitants and the numerous fights and
murders which occurred there
The point Of conyergence of the last
great tentacles Of this monster octopus,
one Of which is eighteen feet in diane
ter. is just south of n street southeast,
at what would be the intersection OF
New Jersey avenue and Second street
southeast, one-half mile from any car
line, and in what was once an inlet or
cove of Eastern Branch.
In this inlet or cove rises what may
be termed the head Of this monster,
vast half-submerged labyrinthal struc-
ture known as the pumping station OF
the sewage disposal plant-a half-built
but even now a most wonderful struc-
ture with its great catacombs Of screen,
tidal and sediment chambers, its runs,
its reservoirs. and it's vast pumping
room.
It Is this immense plant-in capacity
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

1t has recently come to the writer's
attention that one of the most curious
and in its way famous architectural fea-
lures of Washington, the whispering
gallery in the old House of Representa-
tives, now the Hall Of Statues, has been
unintentionally destroyed, says Wallace
C. Sabine in the Scientific American. 1t
became necessary to replace the OLD
ceiling, which was of wood, by new
ceiling In order to preserve the Whis-
pering gallery, a feature which always
interested visitors, the superintendent OF
the building who was IN charge OF the
reconstruction, had measurements made
OF the dimensions of the old ceiling ana
reproduced them as accurately as pos
sible in the new Notwithstanding this
care the whispering-gallery property OF
the room almost entirely disappeared,
and since then the fact has been fire.
cuentlv cited as another of the myS-
teries of architectural acoustics and
disproof of the possibility of predicting
such phenomena. So far, however, from
being either a mystery or a diSproof or
the accuracy of the scienut1c consldera-
tions in dealing with architectural acous-
tics. this disappearance of the whisper
ing gallery is exactly the opposite, ana
was. in fact, predicted by the writer two
years before in the American Dictionary
of Architecture. Under the head OF
whispering Galleries" the dictionary
being published in 1899. is the following
para graph:
Whispering galleries are usually ac-
cidental, but may without difilcuity be
Predetermined There are two general
types-focusing and conducting. In the
one the sound diverging from the source
Is received upon some concaVe reflectnS
surface, and Is concentrated again at the
coniugate focus. One of the best and
most accessible examples OF this type Is
the Hall of Statues, the old chamber
of the House of Representatives, i'll the
Capitol at Washington. The ceiling or
this Is a eyry considerable portion OF the
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

~ Ot + Eft OIL Sf,Vvu, probably InS
" largest value ever placed on a
n pair Of animals horns, was
made at the Sportsnens Show
in Madison Square Garden, New York,
recently, for pair of magnificent horns
that once were proudly borne by one
OF the largest bullocks ever seen in
South Africa. The offer was refused,
the fact illustrating the growing inter
est that is being taken in mounted
heads and horns of wild animals. Many
members of the Camp Fire Club in New
York, whose objects are To influence
proper game laws and to prevent the
determination Of Americas wild ami
mails, have admirable collections of
horns, some of which are now almost
impossible to duplicate. n record moose
head with wide-spreading antlers, a
trophy of the Canadian woods, was also
shown In the Sportsmen's Show. for
which 81 900 was asked, and that was
not considered excessive by those who
Know the extreme difficulty In securing
unusual specimens.
The South African bullock horns that
were the object Of so much interest
formed the star attraction in the most
unique exhibit Of African curiosities and
horns that has ever been seen in this
country.
They were mounted on the original
head. Richard Douglas, a Bostonian, but
a traveller hunter. and explorer in Afrf-
ca for the last sixteen years, secured
them by the use of persuasive eloquence
and fetching articles Of trade from King
LewaniBa, who, by the grace and advice
of the English, is still ruling over his
dusky subjects Of Barotsie Land. now a
portion Of Western Rhodesia. Lewanika
was loath to part with the horns, as he
had owned the bullocks for over eight
years, but the allurements of barter
were finally too strong and they became
the white mans property. The horns
have spread from tip to tip Of seven
feet nine inches. They are twenty-one
inches in circumference where they
came out from the head, and are ten
feet nine and one-quarter inches long.
Experts pronounce them to be the finest
specimen Of their kind in the world.
Lewanika, within the last few years,
has made himself very popular with the
English. and in return for his good Of
fees has received many honors. He was
q guest of the British government at
the coronation OK King Edward.