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The Washington times., 1905-07-30
FEVER SUSPECTS
TAKEN OFF SHIP
Rigid Quarantine Is OBJ
served in New York.
SEVENTEEN ARE DETAINED
Passengers and Crew of Steamship
sieuranca Supposed to Have
symptoms of Disease.
SEVENTEEN ARE DETAINED

NEW YORK. July 29.-Seventeen per
sons were taken on the Panama line
steamship Seguranc5, from Colon, To-
day when she arrived in port and placed
in quarantine. Two members Of the
crew, bedridden with fever, We're con-
veyed TO the pesthouse at SWinburne's
Island
The others, who showed only a sus-
picIouSIy high temperature. were sent
TO Honman's Island for observation.
Ten of the suspected cases We're mem
bers of the crew Seven were cabin
passengers. The two men who went to
Swinburne's Island were sailors.
Made Rigid Examination.
DR.. a. Il. Doty, health officer of the
port. who is determined TO keep New
York free from yellow fever infection,
made q rigid examination Of the Sc
guranca. His assistants took the tenn
perature OF every one on board from
the captain down, and all who showed
a temperature above normaI-the first
symptom OF yellow fever-Were quar-
antined for observation.
1.-The two men sent to Swinburne's 5
Island are not suffering from yellow
fever as I can tell said Dr. Doty,
but f am taking no chances. I sent
LIACin lu6IS bSCdUSe luGy aIS D6uA1uuGI1
and VIII have there proper care and Sc
elusion in case they develop yellow fe-
yer. The other fifteen showed rising
temperatures. At Honman's Island q
archaeological examination of their
blood VIII be made, and If that shows
they are suffering from malaria they
Will be released
Four Removed at Colon.
DR., Doty learned that four members
of the Seguranca's s crew, suffering from
yellow fever, were removed from the
ship just prior to her departure from
Colon. The Seguranca was released
from quarantine at noon and proceeded
TO her dock
Two more suspects We're added to the
Hist at Honman's Island when the Nor
gan line steamer Eldorado, which ar
rived today from New Orleans, reached
the quarantine station Both were
members of the crew, who were found
70 have abnormaIly high temperatures.
The E1dorddo brought no passengers
The Washington times., 1905-07-30
CHARGES DEsERTIoN.

Mrs. Olive /. Woodbury. has eommenc-
cd proceedings for maintenance in the
local courts against Charles B. Wood
bury. on the ground of desertion. They
were married at Hyattsvilie. Md. in
1901. Mrs. Woodbury. says her husband
deserted her in 1904. Keys & Forrest
are named as counsel for the petitioner
The Washington times., 1905-07-30
StGinWay Pianos

Square original cost $3.50
Square; original cost
Upright rosewood. been carefully $50
Upright ebouzed: original cost $50
Upright ebonzed; original cost 400
Upright Colonial; original cost $500 ~ mos.
Upright ebonzed; original 5000. S75
Baby Grand; used mos Russian Embassy. $50
Baby Grand; oct fine order 65o
Miniature Mahogany Grand, used mos; perfect
little gen. regular price $500 SIS
Grand. 100 good as neqg........... 725
Concert Grand; fine tone: just the piano for a sun
dayschocl hall-....- 800
other Stenways at equally reasonable prices.
The Washington times., 1905-07-30
Son of Veteran DraWs
Pension as Own Father
Modest Scion of Civil War Hero Was Bask-
ing in Soldiers Home When
Detected.

personating John Page as the man he
had done duty with and he made known
the deception.
An investigation uneaTthed the fraud.
Page was arrested anC was prosecuted
for executing 4 false voucher to obtain
his pension and is now In State prison.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-14

banisters. not a trace of our visit did we
leave,
Had It in my head for long?" said
Raffies as we strolled through the streets
toward dawn, for all the world as though
we were returning from a dance. mo,
Bunny ! never thought of 1t till 1 saw
that upper part empty about a month ago.
and bought few things in the shop to
get the lie of the land. That reminds me
that I never paid for them; but. by jove,
1 will tomorrow, and II that isn't poetic
Justice, what is? One visit showed me
the possibilities of the place, but a second
convinced me of it's impossibilities without
a pal. So 1 had practically given up the
idea, when you came along on the very
night and in the very plight for It! But
here we are at the Albany, and I hope
there's some fire left; for 1 don't know
how you feel, Bunny but for my part I'm
as cold as Keats owl"
He could think Of Keats on his way from
a felony! He could banker for his fresidc
like another! Floodgates were loosed within
me, and the plain English of our adven-
ture rushed over me as cold as ice. Rar-
fes was a burglar. l had helped him 10
commit one burglary. therefore l was q
burglar, too. Yet l could stand and warn
myself by his fire, and watch him emptyinF
wonderful or wicked!
My blood froze; my heart sickened; m!
brain whirled. How had liked this villain
Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-14

How 1 had admired him! Now my liking
and admiration must turn to loathing and
disgust l waited for the change; longed
to feel It in my heart. Butt longed and
I waited in vain!
saw that he was emptying his pockets;
the table sparkled with their hoard-rngs
by the dozen. diamonds by the score
bracelets, pendants, aigrettes, necklaces,
pearls, rubies, amethysts, sapphires. and
diamonds always. diamonds in everything,
flashing bayonets of light dazzling me-
binding me-making me disbelieve because
I could no longer forget. Last of all came
no gem. indeed. but my own revolver from
an inner pocket, and that struck chord.
I suppose / had something-my hand flew
Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-14

out. I can see Raffes now as he looked
at me once more with high arch over each
clear eye. / can see him pick out the
cartridges, with his quiet, cynical smile, be-
fore he would give me back my pistol
again.
You mayn't believe it, Bunny" said
he, but l never carried a loaded
one before. On the whole, l think it
gives one confidence. Yet 1t would be
very awkward If anything went wrong; one
might use it, and that's not the game at
all, though l have often thought that the
murderer who has just done the trick must
have great sensations before things get too
hot for him. Don't look so distressed, my
dear chap. I've never had those sensations,
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-09-20
LAFAYETTE FREE
OF YELLOW fever


Lafayette is now free Of yellow
fever and no suspicious cases
reported up to yesterday even
ing.
OF the three last cases. all of
which occurred at the same time.
A. Hirsch has been up for
several days, I. B. Bendel was
discharged Monday and Aug.
Vigneaux, though still confined
to his bed on account of weak
ness, has been clear of fever
since last Thursday.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-09-20


An old darkey who sold some
hay to q white neighbor in town
one evening last week called for
his money very early next morn
ing, and when chided about being
in such hurry to collect his pay
replied: II lis had to hav it Boss,
Klaus you see 1 dun spent de las
dime in de hous last night. y
And this is the painful predica-
ment in which hundreds Of others
find themselves as the result Of
the restrictions of the parish
quarantine.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-09-20

John Stumpf's Magic HoodOo
ant paper, guaranteed, never falls
to drive away ants, at Moss
Pharmacy, next to Ruger's
jewelry store.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-09-20

Get your medicines at the
Lafayette Drug Co.-They sell
only the best and purest.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-09-20

If you want q comfortable
shoe that has splendid wearing
qualities, 90 to Schmu1en's.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-09-20

and is about the only good thing
which can be said about the
quarantine.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-09-20

Of the shotgun and blockade
quarantine in preventing the
spread Of the disease. and, there
fore, this harsh, unreliable and
burdensome form Of protection
cannot be defended upon any
equitable or humane grounds.
But new truths are always
very slow Of acceptance for the
reason that the masses Of the
people live and die in ignorance
OF them, and, sad to relate. a
great majority of the educated
class upon whom the unlettered
and uninformed masses must
depend for guidance, do not
themselves make any effort to
keep abreast of the times
through reading, study and OBJ
servation..
If this were not the case, the
people of Louisiana and other
States now affected by the pre-
valence Of yellow fever, would
not be blindly cropping in the
dark in combating q disease
which can positively be miti-
gated, controlled and prevented
BY the intelligent application Of
Il few simple rules or measures
based upon an absolute knowl-
edge Of the origin and mode Of
transmission Of the disease.
Nor would over 5000 innocent
and harmless men. women and
children in the town Of Lafa-
yette be sbottled up" right now,
by order Of their fellow -citisena
Ia the pArish, and be made t.
undergo untold mental. moral
and physical suffering, were i
not for the unenlightened condi.
| tion Of the public mind on this
question.
Al most severe arraignment O1
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-16
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IW1WIyeNWUDNFK


FIT EW YORK, April 15.-President
lEW Eliot of Harvard university, in a
recent address, called attention to
the fact that American cities are being
built only for today, and that of exist
ing construction little will be left to tell
in future centuries of the work of the
present. How long the towering sky
scrapers which now line city streets
will endure is a question over which
engineers and architects differ but all
agree that the life of these steel skele-
tons clothed in thin walls of brick and
stone will be short in comparison with
the enduring monuments of the old
world. But there is another side to the
picture. The modern Towers of Babel,
huge office buildings each sheltering
during the working hours of the day
people enough to populate a good sized
town, may rust and decay within so or
100 years, yet here and there American
builders are constructing great piles of
masonry which are likely to be longer
lived than the monumental buildings to
visit which thousands crowd the east
bound ocean steamers. The art of the
medieval builders in their chosen field
is surpassed by the scientific skill of
the very men who in compliance with
the needs of the day are erecting, for
the most part, structures which will
soon pass away.
The fact is that the abilities of the
architects and constructors of the mid
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-16
BIG BOOM is NOW ON I'M THE KILLING OF wHAlE ES

applied, and the crews. assisted by
coopers, will set about knocking great
oil barrels into hooks" for packing
in the hold; then. after being provi-
stoned and outfitted, the three craft
with histories of success on every sea
will drop out of the harbor for two
years or more cruising in the South
Atlantic and Indian oceans.
On the way to the port at the pres
ent time is an addition to the local fleet
in the brig Sullivan. formerly owned in
Boston, but late of Philadelphia, which
has been purchased by Capt William
Hegarty and a party of Connecticut
capitalists, who have been convinced
that the great whaling revival has be-
gun.
AS soon as the Sullivan ties up here
work will be Immediately begun on fit
ting her out for sperm oil and right
whaling voyage, and she will be COM
manded by Capt. Hegarty, himself a
notable addition to the long list of cap
tains hailing from this port.
Other vessels that are fitting out at
the present moment are the Daisy, the
Harry Smith and the Golden Bell. The
two latter vessels are preparing to take
out supplies to the New Bedford whal-
ers that are now on the grounds in the
Antarctic and will remain until the next
ice gives them the opportunity of re-
turning home to repair.
The big Harry Smith is provisioning
to go out TO Dominique and Martin
ique to carry supplies, but will first be
towed to Portland, and there take on
shocks and hoops for the making of
barrels among the fleet. While out there
she will call at the Windward Islands
and at the Azores to take on board the
catch that has been tried out by the
fleet and left for shipment to this port.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-16

nounced weakness only $50 years after
they were built. and had to be wedged
by porch built into the center arch
TO half its height. The tower of the
same cathedral had to be taken down
and rebuilt after standing a hundred
years or so. Again in 1885 Il required
reconstruction. The foundation was
then discovered to be very poor. The
great piers, eleven feet in diameter, had
a skin of cut and cemented stone only
nine inches thick, and a core of un-
cemented fragments which were moth
ing but rubbish.
The central tower of Ely cathedral
fell about 200 years after it was built,
while one of the towers of Gloucester
stood only 20 years. The piers and the
walls of the same tower, as il now is,
are eleven inches out of the -perpendic-
ular. The tower of York cathedral
jammed its angle piers seven inches
into the ground during its first century
or two. so that they no longer stood
exactly erect, and the adjacent walls
and arches were dislocated also. The
damage has been partly concealed by
repairs, but il is still almost alarmingly
evident. In 1861 the tower of Chiches-
ter cathedral suddenly fell fat, causing
great damage.
In view of these facts, il is not too
much to say that American architects
are perfectly capable of surprising the
old builders in securing absolute solid
ity and enduring strength. What they
can accomplish when occasion demands,
and they are free from the limitations
imposed upon them by employers who
look only TO profit, is abundantly shown
In the Cathedral Of ST John the Divine,
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die ages were not nearly so great as we
moderns in our worship of the past
have humbled ourselves by thinking.
AS artists they have never since had
their equals; but as structural engi-
neers they seem to have gone by guess
and by gorry" as the old Yankee farm
er said when he built his barn.
Instances of the failure of the old
time builders are numerous. Recent
dispatches from Venice bring the news
that the beautiful Church of st. Mark,
the towering pile whose bronze horses
look down on the plaza where the cir
cling doves allght to eat the crumbs
scattered by American tourists is in
danger of collapse. The recent fall of
the Campanile in the same city is a
practical proof that these fears have a
better foundation than St. Marks has.
Perhaps st. Marks, built on the
treacherouS foundation afforded by the
Islands of Venice, is not a fair exam
pie of the failures of the oldtime
plenty. The history of English cathe-
drals is full of such cases. Years ago
the English professor, Willis, remarked
in a lecture on the Gloucester cathe-
dral: Whatever may be said of the
science of the medieval cathedral
builders as shown in their masonry,
believe they had none. They worked
eXperimentally. II their buildings were
strong enough, they stood; if they were
too strong they also stood; but If they
were too weak they gave way; and
they put up props and made the next
stronger"
The great arches of the western front
of Peterborough cathedral showed pro-
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-16

on Morningside heights in this city.
This magnificent church, which Is to
be one of the largest in the world, will
have for its central feature a tower
and spire $50 feet high, weighing
136,OO0,000 pounds. To support such an
enormous load four massive piers con-
nected and supported by arches will be
provided: and each Of these piers must
bear the burden Of $4,000 900 pounds
Foundations for such masonry are
harder to construct properly than the
masonry itself, but the architects,
Helms and Lafarge, had at their COM
mand knowledge and appliances not
possessed by the men who built the
old world cathedrals.
Geology played its part In the enter
prise, and when the operation known
10 builders as stripping the ground
was completed, a careful study of its
formation was made. 1t was then dis
covered that there was anything but
plain sailing ahead Some time in the
alone can penetrate, the process which
created the palisades of the west bank
of the Hudson had presumably dis
turbed the east bank as we'll, pushing
one stratum of rock upon another and
crumbling all together. The result was
a mixture of firm rock suitable to sus-
tain anything, and .treacherous areas
where the action of water had eaten
into the rock through the course of
centuries until in some places 1t could
be dug away readily with an ordinary
pick and shovel.
Here came an illustration of the ad-
vantages possessed by the builders of
today over those of several centuries
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ago. First. a diamond drill was called
into service. This machine, which may
De compared 10 an enormous apple
corer, has at one end a row of refuse
diamonds which cut through the rock.
When the drill has been sunk to the
requisite depth, the core of rock within
1t can be drawn to the surface and ex-
amined at leisure. The conditions dis
closed by the drill We're regarded as
rendering the laying of adequate foun-
dations difficult but not impossible.
rock of the most solid character being
found at varying depths below the sur
race. For the spots on which the chief
supports of the cathedral were to rest
q minimum requirement of twenty feet
OF first class rock was fixed, and to OBJ
tain this II was necessary to excavate
In one place to the depth of fifty feet.
When solid rock of sufficient thick
ness was exposed, 1t was smoothed and
prepared for the concrete, of which
enormous masses were used to bring
the foundations for the columns from
six to eight feet below the level of the
ground.
Today one of the great arches, with
its two completed piers, two others
partly built and eight pillars. each
made up of two huge monoliths, the
largest ever quarried in this country
are standing as nearly eternal as any
thing made by human hands can be-
The work so far accomplished repre-
sents an expenditure of about
$2,OO0,000, including $750,000 for the
land, and twelve years of hard labor
1t marks the beginning, however, of
only portion of the great edifice; the
long and lofty nave has not been begun
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-16

NuEW BEDFORD, Mass, April Is
tM A great revival is on in the whal-
- Ing industry, and return to the
prosperity of the rich whaling days of
long ago is expected.
The boom is the great topic OF the
whaling men who gather along the
wharves on the "Brightman's" as the
veteran "slop chest outfitters' store is
called.
All talk of a bright outlook for a re-
-vival in the whaling industry that
made this port in the past one of the
busiest on the American continent, be-
fore the advent of the steam whalers,
which, to large degree, drove the sail
ing shippers to a home and fireside
The revival is, to large extent, due
to the reported great success in the
number OF sperm whales in the south
Atlantic and Indian oceans. and the
followers of whaling records among the
local sharps are now predicting for
New Bedford a return in part of the
great money making days of one and
two score years ago.
Nineteen of the New Bedford whaling
fleet, all of them sailing vessels, are
now in the south Atlantic, and on the
Pacific, chasing bowhead, sperm and
right whales for oil and bone, and in
port are five of the most noted record
makers of the past, which are being
fitted out for try at the sperm whales
and sea elephants that are said to be
swarming in the Antarctic.
Half a dozen years ago the sperm
whaling industry reached the lowest
point In the history of the business,
when the oil was not worth more than
40 cents gallon on the market, and
the few vessels that remained in the
pursuit of the whales were bringing
in or sending home less than 5000
gallons yearly.
A year ago this time came the first
notes of the revival of interest among
skippers of this section, but this spring
the rush to the whaling grounds is be-
ginning with sharp squirt in the way
of outfitting for long voyages.
The market price given for sperm oil
today is about 60 cents a gallon, and as
there is a good profit in the oil for the
whalemen at so cents a gallon, this and
the heavy reported increase in the
whales that produce this oil are given
as reasons for the renewal OF interest
in the industry.
Those of the vessels in port now and
making ready for the voyage are the
bark Wanderer, Capt. Timothy Allen,
agent; bark Bertha, Capt Avery, agent
and master, and the bark Canton,
whose agents are j. & w. r. Wing
These three vessels are among the best
known whaling vessels on the high
seas, and have made some of the most
notable voyages in the history of New
Bedford shipping.
During this month yards Will be
siung, rigging set, final coats of paint
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also leave for Frisco to take a mates
berth on the Monterey of this port.
After being away for more than two
years the bark A. r. Tucker is expect
ed back in the course of month. Her
late voyage has been particularly sue
cessful inasmuch that she secured S25
barrels of sperm in a year, while the
bark Greyhound, out year and a half,
sent home SIS barrels. Almost rec
ord breaker among the home vessels
was the bark Josephine, which on her
last voyage of fourteen months out
sent home 1,400 barrels of sperm and
500 Of whale taken from bow heads.
These bare facts will give the reader
an excellent idea of the remarkable
boom in the Industry, especially when
one takes into consideration the condi-
tions that existed five and ten years
ago, when the returns from south At
lantic voyages of four years duration
would not exceed 1000 or 1.200 barrels.
In those days New Bedford had on
the oceans, searching for the sperm
producing whales, nearly 100 vessels.
Some of them never will return to port,
others are spending their last days
competing with the steam whalers Of
the Pacific, while a few have been
broken up or allowed to rot at the local
wharves- Yet that the quarter OF a
hundred that are left will have all they
can ndnQle IN the way OF WOrk Tor
few years to come is the opinion OF the
retired but highly interested whalemen
of this port.
The twentieth century appliances
that the whalemen Of today employ in
capturing the whales have none Of this
risk and effects the result far more
quickly, with less exertion and waste
of labor. and in manner much more
humane toward men and the whales.
The old picture of the harpooner,
standing in the bow OF q great boat
holding the typical primitive harpoon
with fixed head and two barbs, was a
familiar figure.
In those days after the harpoon was
hurled the cry came, stern ALL" and
the oarsmen backed water. The line
ran out and as II was turned about the
loggerhead the boat began to fly
through the water, while the harpooner
and officer In the stern changed places
stem for stern, oftentimes q risky at
tempt for the pair OF them.
After firing out the whale IN a long
chase. the headsman as he was called,
used to churn his lance in the body Of
the now helpless whale and in this
manner. as the whalemen used to be-