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Peril In the Naval Plunger.

From the Boston Transcript
In deciding that United States submarine
boats, with inexperienced crews. shall not
be allowed to plunge in water deeper than
eight fathoms, and that a convoy must be
on hand with lifting apparatus the naval
board has sought to prevent any such ter
rible disasters as overcame the French SUBJ
marine boat of Algiers recently. In spite
of the fact that submarine boats are no
new thing and that they were invented a.
long ago as our civil war. when a confed--
crate submarine destroyed a Union boat.
Incidentally killing all of its own crew. the
submarine has not yet reached q stage
where 1t can be operated safely by any but
experts. and even then accidents may hap
pen. with the most serious consequences.
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AS the case stands now a great many To-
calities are cut of from the railways during
the rainy season and in the winter. and the
result Is that the railroads are congested in
the hauling season and frequently cannot
get enough cars to handle the produce that
is brought to them. OF coruse, they do not
hesitate to raise their rates in the busy
season. but they realize the benefit that
good roads are to them, and though the
railroads are not in business from any phi
lanthropic motives, they are glad to haul
the men and machinery of the roadmakng
division free of charge wherever they are
wanted.
The makers Of steam rollers and other
machinery Of that sort also recognize the
work that the division is doing and gladly
furnish steam rollers and the like free OF
charge wherever they are wanted. This
enables the department to make its small
appropriation go much further than it
otherwise would.
The question of labor the roads is al
ways pressing, but 1t has been found in
many places that the convicts can be prof
itably utilized. Their labor is cheap, is q
benefit to the community, and their work
on the roads, it is considered, does not in
terfere with free labor in the markets OF
the country. Also, it may be observed, the
steady, hard work to which they can thus
be subjected makes the jails anything but
pleasure resorts.
The division feels that 1t is only starting
on it's work Of educating the people as t
the necessity of good roads. but its effort:
are meeting with the heartiest respons'
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CITING OUT
MATERSIkL'
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more air to get in than would have been
the case in burning charcoal. The clay
was baked along the whole length of the
road so that there was no hauling 1t to the
spot, and all the expense involved was Tor
the wood and labor, both of which were
cheap
The result has been noted in number or
letters to the department from competent
observers on the spot. The baked clay road
has stood the weather admirably, and 1t
looks as though the problem of roads for
that section has been solved for some time
to come. OF course there probably will be
improvements, cheaper burning of the clay
and that sort of thing, but the main ques-
ton of making a passable road through the
hitherto impossible region has been solved
and the people are enthusiastic over It's sue
cess. Baked clay roads are being put in by
a number of counties in that region, and
the division is called on by more and more
sections for local object lessons.
There are any number of sorts of roads
that the department suggests for different
localities OF course, If locality Is rich
1t can put in macadam roads or telford
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SANE ROAD KETER;
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are being gathered now as to the amount
expended for roads in the whole country.
and though it is said that America has
scarcely decent road from the Atlantic to
the Pacific 1t is surprising to learn that
there is expended in this country about
$50, 600 600 annually on building and repair
ing roads. This is simply for country roads
and does not touch the problem or road
making and paving in cities or villages.
1t has been frequently asked why It is
that America is much behind the rest
of the world is roadmaking. In the past
fifty years the development of the rail-
roads has been SO swift and laterly the
trolley has done SO much for interurban
travel that 1t seemed for a while that the
problem of transportation was to be en-
tirely solved by these agencies Now it is
found, however, that the road is a neces-
sity even to the railroad. and the railroads
recognize this. The good county roads act
as feeders to the railroad and allow the
transportation Of farm produce at any sea-
son.
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the past of the gentle-mannered host with
fascinating gifts and of lavish generosity :?
The Northwest Settlement. the newborn
province Of Canada, took him, as was the
way of the frontier, for what he appeared
to be. The intimate friend of the provin-
cial ministers of the crown, of the judi
ciary, of the officers of the military and Of
the better class of professional men, he
was also the comrade of the half-breeds
and Indians on many buffalo hunt or
canoe trip into the untraveled north
Copies of Debret and Burke. the chron-
iclers Of the British peerage, were not on
the book shelves Of the then isolated set
Element, and it was easy to convince the
recipients of the generous hospitality Of an
MISUNDERSTANDING young man of refined
and scholarly tastes that he was Scottish
lord who had escaped from the meshes Of
net set by an INSCRIPTIONS Wall street
operator
While Gordon was the guest of guberna-
torial dinners and the host of great hunt
Ing parties Jay Gould had not been idle.
Several attempts had been made on hunting
trips to inveigle the youth across the bor-
der to spot where he could be arrested on
a criminal charge. The crime of obtaining
money under false pretenses was not ex-
traditable under the Ashburton treaty, and
various were the schemes which Gould tire
lessly set in motion to bring Gordon with
In the clutches of United States law.
kidnapping was attempted twice, and once
was almost successful. In the dead of night
the chief of police of st. Paul. with two
United States constables, handcuffed Cor
don in his bed at Silver Heights. and on
swift horses bore him toward the United
States border The body servant of Cor
don. his foster brother, it was said, young
Highlander who was believed to be the sole
repository of the secret of his mysterious
life, aroused the town OF Winnipeg. a few
miles away. An armed rescue party was at
once dispatched in pursuit. The attorney
general wired Pembina, the border town
toward which the kidnapers had ridden,
and great was the jubilation along the Red
river when the news came that the men
of Pembna had forced the release of Cor
don from the quasi-offlcial kidnapers at
the point of the revolver
The breakers of international law were
taken prisoners and prosecuted by Attorney
General Clark, and were sentenced to terms
Of imprisonment. Representations were
submitted to the British government and a
long and serious correspondence took place
between London and Washington regarding
the matter.
Fooled In his attempt detectives were
sent to Great Britain by Gould to ferret out
the career of Gordon in Scotland That
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STORY OF THE MYSTERIOUS
LORD WHO OUTWITTED JAY GOULD
Young Aristocrat Who Called Himself Lord Gordon
Managed to Get Off With Some of Gouds Millions, But
Was Finally Brought Low by the Financer

regarding the account was removed by the
card handed by the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
purchaser which read Lord Gordon Cor
don'-the family name of at least three of
the noblest families in Britain-and a ref
erence to one of the best-known divines of
the Scottish capital. His appearance in the
same shop with this clergyman a few days
afterward completely allayed any doubts Of
Mr.. Marshall regarding payment for the ex-
tensive purchase.
The next the world knew OF Lord Cor
don Gordon was his appearance in London
as guest of a well-known corporation So
licitor. From this shrewd adviser of flnan-
cial investment the records show that Lord
Gordon Gordon borrowed over 10000.
Shortly afterward he was heard OF In New
York at the Astor House, then the fashion
able hotel of the United States metropolis.
At this time the financial world was agi-
tated by the colossal schemes Of Jay Gould
and Jim Fisk among which the wreckng
of the Erie railway, then one of the chief
railways OF the continent, was a consid-
cradle factor.
There is a mystery surrounding the origin
of report which soon spread through Wall
street and into the counting houses Of the
wealthy and speculative, that the good
looking, young titled Britisher, registered
as Lord Gordon Gordon at the Astor House,
was the representative of the British bond
holders of the Erie railway. These inter-
ests were great. and were presumably hos
tile to the Gould plans.
The story was told in the newspapers of
the time that Lord Gordon Gordon was the
only man Of the day In the financial world
of the United States who dared treat Jay
Gould cavalierly. The American million
aire, so runs the account, was kept kicking
his heels day after day in the ante-room OF
Lord Gordon's apartments while awaiting
an opportunity to confer with the supposed
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representa- tive of the British interests in
the Erie railway. The first interview re-
suited in the great American capitalist
being abruptly shown the door by the ap-
parently insulted young aristocrat. The
last resulted in the deposit by Gould of ne
gotiable securities amounting to several
millions OF dollars in the hands of Lord
on the part of-Gould in a transa ction where
by the British investors were to be outwit-
ted through the breach of faith of their
supposed agent.
The game was gigantic one; for a boy
only out of his teens was seeking to outWit
on their own ground the shrewdest finan-
ciers of the American continent He sue
ceeded after "A certain amount of vexatious
litigation in New York. He escaped sue
cessful criminal prosecution through the
dubious character of the original transac.
ton and the alleged completely of Gould in
his scheme against the British investors.
Lord Gordon Gordon was next heard OF
IN 81 Paul, MINI. 1t was the time of the
construction of the great transcontinenta
railway, the Northern Pacific. then being
built under great financial difficulties The
arrival of millionaire and British lord
in one and the same person could near
only one thing-inveS tment in the wild
prairie lands of the embarrassed railway
He was treated royalty by the officials ex.
curSloNS were maze 10 prospective town
sites, a great buffalo hunt was arranged
and on many site of a now prosperous
Minnesota and Dakota town the historic
banner of the Grand Gordons of Scotland
and the stars and stripes futtered before
the marquee of youth who was befooline
a continent to the fullest.
But the implacable Jay Gould still had
his emissaries on the trail of the young ad.
venturer. and Gordon knew it. In conse.
quence one day the people of st. Pau
learned that buffalo hunt had culmina tee
In the arrival of Lord Gordon Gordon al
Fort Garry. then forming the nucleus OF
the city of Winnipeg.
The life of Lord Gordon Gordon Is vel
known to the Winnipeggers Of the early
days. He occupied the home on the estate
at Silver Heights owned by the governor
OF the Hudson Bay Company. who is now
known as Lord stratcona, Canadian com.
missioner In London. Lord Gordon Cor
don's hospitality was a byword from Lake
Superior to the Rocky mountains. Silver
Heights was the center of the social life
Of the little settlement on the banks of thu
Req river. What If there was cloud ovsl
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roads. The division has put in shell roads
all along the coast and in localities where
that material is cheaper than rock The
"sand-c clay" of the southern states makes
very decent road if 1t is treated properly.
There is just as much in keeping road
in proper repair as there is In properly car
ing for house or any other structure. A
road. no matter how good, will not remain
in good condition season after season with
out attention, and the division shows the
local authorities how to keep their ROADS
as well as how to build them. Statistics
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Copyright, 1905, by Curtis Brown9
epacial Correspondence OF The Star

Copyright, 1905 by Curtis Brown)
Special Correspondence OF The Star
LONDON, August 10, 1908.
Chief Justice Bain's recent death in Man
itoba recalls this story to one who knew
the facts at first hand. and is now at liberty
TO recount them for the first time. The
late Judge was merely link in a chain OF
events that had It's beginning in Princess
street tewelry shop. Edinburgh, and ended
at Winnipeg The whole story is buried In
khe archives of one OF Scotland's noblest
)houses, In the grave with Scotch Episco-
paltan clergyman. In the vaults of an Edin-
burgh firm of solicitors, IN the private
papers Of the late Chief Justice Balm and in
an unmarked mound on the banks of the
Rcd river where the city of Winnipeg now
stands.
What follows is merely sequel to an in
cident connected with the life OF one of the
most mysterious criminals of modern times
the man who outwitted Jay Gould in the
zenith of his financial career out of millions
and caused the relations between the gov
ernments OF the two great branches of the
English-speaking race TO become strained.
=
In the early seventies slight, aristo-
cratic-looking young man stepped from
carriage into the tewelry establishment OF
Mr. Marshall. the most fashionable jeweler
Of his day In Edinburgh. There was evil
dent taste In his selection of various ar
ticles of jswslry. and particular interest
was shown by him In a small silver casket
of Venetian workmanship. He instructed
that his purchases be sent to a fashionable
hotel. with the bill. Whatever hesitation
Mr.. MarshAu o. Ids people might have had
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| of construction, but the man with technical
education, experience and broad enough
| education to make a competent administra-
| tive man is hard to find There are several
| places at good salaries now open to such
| men If they can be found, and the bureau
is in receipt of further applications Of the
| same sort from different localities.
| One plan to supply this want has been re-
Gently tried. Five graduates Of technical
| schools are taken into the department and
| given a years graduate course with the
| actual workers on the .cc5. They are palo
| $50 a month while they are working and
| leorning in the department, and they are
| helping to FIJI the places now vacant. The
proposition t. pay them was fought con-
siderably when the matter was before a
committee in Congress. and 1t was char
acterzed as savoring too much OF pater-
nalism Mr.. Page put the matter very
simply however, saying that the govern
ment had for many years been maintain
ing two expensive schools where young
men were taught the most approved meth
DDS Of destroying life and property. and he
did not think that the small expenditure
involved in teaching few competent men
one of the most necessary arts In this coun-
try would be esta blishing any dangerous
precedent.
The division has recently completed one
experiment in the 'gumbo' region of Mis-
sissippi that bids fair to be sufficient ex-
cuse for the creation Of the division II 1t
never does any other work. This section of
the country is completely tied up from the
beginning of the rainy season to long after
its close when the roads dry up and be-
come passable. There is not a rock nor
pebble in the country out of which to build
a road, and the gumbo mud. when 1t once
gets wet simply mires a wagon up to the
hubs and there is getting out of It.
The only thing that is plentiful in the
gumbo- clay latitude Is wood, and there
have been corduroy roads in that region for
long time, though the very term "cordu-
roy Is obsolete in most sections. and where
1t survives is simply synonym for discom
fort. Mr.. Page had the experiment with
the gumbo in mind for some time, and
when he was called on for advice as to
road making in one of the counties in Mis-
sissippi he put the idea into execution.
If clay is heated to a cherry red It loses
its plastic qualities and does not regain
them. That was the basis of the idea. The
division built a mile of road out of baked
clay in the section requiring aid. There
was an abundance of wood, and the wood
and clay were laid along the line of the
road in alternate layers. with the neces-
sary flues and draft holes. like a succession
of charcoal pits, but with chance for
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=" HE TranscontInental highway. ac-
cording to the officials of the de-
partment Of public roads in the Ag-
ricultural Department, Is a near
relative OF the Aryan solar myth.
AT any rate the government is not in
terested in 1t, and. though 1t Is pic
turesque scheme and one that appeals to
the imagination, 1t is not considered as O.
practicable undertaking, and not at all in
line with the work that the department.
under serious drawbacks. is trying to do in
different parts OF the country
The department Of public roads has re-
Gently been reorganized. 1t is compare
lively small division of the big Department
OF Agriculture. but It Is trying to do
much-needed work In this country. and Is
succeeding In a quiet way Possibly in
few years 1t will be allowed by the gov
eminent to extend Its work, for 1t Is said
that people In the outlying districts are TAX
Ing more real interest in it than in any
thing that the government has attempted
since the Introduction of rural free deliy-
cry in the post office.
There Is good deal of misunderstanding
on the part of people all over the country,
and especially among city jewellers, as to
the functions of this bureau. The bureau
does not build roads except as object les
sons to the communities that are willing
to build roads themselves. For instance. a
mile of road will be built in a county and
the local authorities will be given every
sistance In the way of instruction and skill
ed supervision. But they must complete
the road themselves. Also any locality that
wants TO put IN road is welcome to sen1
the materials for road-making available m
that locality to the bureaus laboratory in
Washington. and the material will be test
ed for strength and cementing qualities, and
the experienced workers in the bureau will
give advice as to cost and the character OF
road that 1t is advisable to build.
1t is impossible to say offhand how much
a mile of a certain sort of road will cost
for the expense varies with the distance
building material has to be hauled, the cost
of labor. amount of grading and other To-
cal conditions. Thus each road is a prob.
lem by itself.
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Tips.

From Books OF Today.
Every one is rushing off TO Scotland, a
place where, above all Others one pays the
wages of another mans servants in &C.
cursed tips. There used to be a hotel where
every threepenny-worth of brandy-and-so-
da you were charged for ''plate-glass and
linen" and where an apple was charged
sixpence, on the ground that they never
charge less than siXpence for anything"
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from all sections. Highway engineers are
being trained each season, and as soon as
local authorities get educated as to the best
way OF spending their money to bring re-
suits 1t is hoped that the reproach OF hav-
ing no good roads will pass away from
America.
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New York's Great Free Hospitals.

From Lesle's Weekly.
Bellevue and it's allied hospitals are not
the only ones provided by New York city.
These four are for emergencies. the tempo
rary abiding places for the sick or In
jured. On Blackwell's Island are the City
and Metropolitan hospitals. to which the
city's patients are taken after they have
been given first aid at Bellevue, and are
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The bureau at present can command only
five gangs to send out on road-buildng OK
petitions, and, as 1t takes from six weeks
to two months to build mile of good mod
ern highway, these gangs can do only a
certain amount of work In season. Even
with this small force the division has so
far put IN about eighty pieces of roads of
q mile each. the work covering almost all
of the states and territories. There are
applications now in for a hundred more
such pieces of road. but with the present
force 1t Will take a long time to catch up
with the demand. And the worst or rather
the best feature. of 1t Is that the demand
Is increasing all the time.
Mr.. Page, the chief OF the division, says
that there is a great scarcity OF competent
highway engineers in this country. The
department can get a good many expe-
rienced men who would make good foremen
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career, SO far as they could learn, began
in the Princes street jewelry shop of Mr.
Marshall in Edinburgh. Beyond that moth
ing could be discovered But pertinacity
time and money do much, and the agents
persuaded Mr.. Marshall to take trip to
Toronto, and there on Canadian soil lay
an Information against one styling himself
Lord Gordon Gordon. charging him with
obtaining jewelry under false pretenses,
specifically mentioning Venetian casket
of antique workmanship.
In the depths of winter the journey OF
the Canadian police officers was made, and
the arrest consummated one night when a
northern blizzard made the trail between
Silver Heights and Winnipeg almost i'm
passabe. Gordon took his arrest with the
cool insouciance that was his distinguishing
characteristic. He sent for his solicitor,
John F. Balm. principal lawyer Of the prov
ince, who had been his personal friend and
professional adviser throughout the many
complications of his short life in the Cana
dian west.
This is an action on the part of the
crown apd on the part Of the Canadian
government and 1 have to inform you,'
said Mr.. Balm reluctantly, that 1t will be
impossible for me to act for you. l have
been the adviser of the crown for several
instructed In this case on its behalf"
Gordon looked Thoughtful for minute.
and the silence in the little house grew OPP
pressive.
you can go thus far and retain your
standard of professional honor. Bain.' said
Gordon quietly You can tell me II those
legal papers carried by these men are any
good and If they are sufficient to compel
me to appear In Toronto court"
They are" answered the lawyer. DO
you notice that they specifically describe
that Venetian casket in which is the love
letter Of Mary Queen of Scots to Adam
Gordon? You know seevral people have
seen it. That will be sufficient to compel
you to appear for trial."
Strange fatality said Gordon almost
dreamily as he exchanged look with his
servant, who stood in the doorway of his
adjoining bedroom. from adam Gordon.
the page Of Mary's court in Holyrood.
three hundred years ago. who died for his
devotion to one who lived to win mems
hearts. that letter has brought nothing but
ruin to his race. But, hetgho! that's an
old. old story. And this means Journey
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and Oil 1t. or use tar surfacing. and that
sort of expensive and luxurious highway.
But If a locality & poor and has not the
material for roadmaking there are good
many makeshifts that produce very good