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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-04-17
PUSHING The CANAL
ENGINEER WALLACE TALKS OF
CONDITIONS.
Practically five Thousand Men En-.
gagged In Construction and En-.
qineering WOrk-LabOrerS From
Costa RIGA, Jamaica and Bar.
BADGES.

Washington, April 12.-John F.
Wallace, chief engineer of the 18th.
milan canal and new member Of the
canal commission, said yesterday that
there are now practically five thousand
men engaged under his direction on
the engineering and construction work
of the canal. When Mr.. Wallace left
there were six American steam shovels
at work in the Culebra excavation,
and arrangements have been made to
install additional machines at the rate
Of two month.
During the last ninety days laborers
have been coming in freely from Costa
RIGA, Jamaica and the Barbados.
The health of the young Americans
on the isthmus Is particularly good.
There has been very little sickness and
comparatively few fatalities have re-
suited
Sanitary Department.
The work of the sanitary depart
ment is beginning to show very posi-
tive results. The water supply for the
city Of Panama will be available by
July /. Several large hotels for the
accommodation of the Americans are
nearly completed. The employees are
becoming more and more contented as
conditions are improved.
Mr.. Wallace says that every addi-
tional month he is permitted to con-
tinue his investigation and expert
mental work the more reliable will be
the data available for use in deciding
on plan for the canal. He takes the
ground that no plan should be adopted
which would prevent the ultimate and
economical construction of sea level
canal, should such be decided Oh at
any stage of the work, or even after
the canal has been constructed.
Mr.. Wallace places himself on rec
ord as in favor of the most complete
and thorough investigation possible be-
fore final plans shall be adopted. In
the meantime, he says, the work will
be so prosecuted as not to delay final
completion of the canal.
In his report to the former commits
sion Mr.. Wallace did not actuallry rec
ommend sea level canal, but held
the same views then as now. As to
the necessity of a tidal lock in u sea
level canal, Mr.. Wallace said it was an
undetermined question as to the real
effect of tidal action in the operation
of the canal and one difficult to estab-
lish theoretically. In any case one
would be required-on the Panama
side-several miles inland from the
mouth of the canal
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but the Government realizes this and has provided
literally for them. The quarters of the men, as
well as those of the officers, are finished in hard
wood, with floors of rubber tile. The state-roonls
have large hunks amply supplied with blankets and
mattresses Hot and cold water is conveyed by
piping to each state-room, also to bathrooms in
the officers and sailors quarters Steam radiators
keep the marine household comfortable during the
long winter nights when the spray freezes it flies
the decks and coats the ship in icy mantle.
To pass away the hours when off duty a library of
books of travel, history and fiction IS available;
but it is notable that few of the works have refer
to the sea- for strange to say the average sailor
seems to have little taste for stories of this kind
On the long tables in the mess-rooms after supper
arranged the checker and chess boards, as well
as dominoes. Card playing also is permitted by
the Government although the Captain of the ship
has orders to stop it if games played for
money.
The routine of duty this vessel IS that observed
other craft of the same kind An officer and
two watch at all tmes-one of the
seamen night service being responsible for
the lighting system. The watches are of four
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE for APRIL z. 1905

parte living trees Relic of a circle it casts tall,
black shadows across the section of soth-st New
York city, where the Jumel mansion once sheltered
culture and dispensed hospitality When saplings
these natives of Egypt caught the fancy of Napoleon
and he brought them back to France, where he
presented them to his friend Jumel, who was an
ardent admrer of trees.
Elms dedicated to liberty many in the Revo-
lutionary days, the most notable being located at
Boston, Providence, Newport and New-York. The
giant growth in Providence the of especial
celebration in 1868, when and in the presence of
multitude it consecrated formally to the Sons
of Liberty Washington selected elm under
which to take command of his army. Dorothy
Dudley describes the as follows: Zone
the majestic figure of the General mounted upon
his horse beneath the wide-spreading branches of
wide old elm Protected by the inhabitants of
Cambridge, and venerated by every American pa
triot this relic of glorious epoch shades the
roadway it did in 1875.
I he famous elm in Philadelphia which was called
the Penn Treaty Tree, felled by gale in 1870,
at the ripe age of two hundred and eghty-three.
Writers differ to whether PENIS treaty with the
Indians made under this particular growth;
but we prone to doubt the doubters and believe
the auring tale of how the splendid Quaker and his
friends with love in their hearts, laden with
gifts to the copse at Shackamaxon for the purpose
of honorably purchasing the land and giving the
hand of fellowship to the American savage and
ofttines treacherous though he was. We
willing to credit the statement that the worthy
Friend INDUCED in such seeming piece of frivol1ty
''sky-blue SASH" but emphatically object
to accepting the obese and aging figure of the man
whom Benjamin West has portrayed in his famous
painting, when remember that at the time of the
treaty Penn was only thirty eight years of age How
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symbol of tears Montezuma spent his last sad
night beneath the one preserved in his by the
Government of Mexico. When we view this scion
of royal stock Chapultepec we apt to sigh
for the lost beauty of that porphyry hill where
hanging gardens hourished, where fish water
fowl in fresh or salt pools nurtured carefully,
and where the sculptor's chisel never was idle. AS
Cortes the conqueror of the great Aztec in his turn
wept with rage and despair beneath another cypress
still growing Popotla he doubtless remembered
the many specimens of this family that still shade
the castles and monasteries of his beloved Spain;
although in most instances to-day the castle walls
are crunbling and the monastery bells long have
been silent.
The Sultana's cypress leans heavily on the stone
wall of orange court in the Generalife gardens of
Granada. When Ferdinand and Isabella, with fly
ing banners and bare of trumpets entered the city
on that fatefu1 second of January 1902, the wife
of the Moorish Sultan Boabd fled from her balcony
to the court and there hid in the trunk of the cypress
which only generation before had served a
devious for the swarthy Abencerrage and Zaraya,
"Star of the Morning." The tree bears it's six
hundred years bravely, and doubt informs the
tall sons that have sprung from its roots of the
strifes and cruelties, the broken faith and fierce
delights that have SCARED the palace from
trance-gate to garden limit. But although pagan
and Christian have possessed the tree in turn its
care has been assured throughout.
The Difference shown to trees specialized parent
growths is praiseworthy. The two famous 1arches
belonging to the Duke of Atho1 at Dunkeld, Scot
land which are the ancestors of all the larcheS in
that country were brought from Switzerland in
small pots early in the eighteenth century, and
were set near the cathedral, where to-day they
ceive as many visitors does the good Bishop
himself At Neustadt in Wurtemburg is another
honored parent, a linden of uncertain age Its
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one hundred and eight branches are heavy to
need equal number of pillars for their support.
pavilion has been erected in the head of the tree,
and gooseberry-bushes have been planted in the
depressions where the enormous limbs join the
trunk This pretentious growth has caused the
town to be mentioned jocularly "Neustadt by
the Linden
A queer but united family is preserved in Corn
wall, where one day witch-em blown down
and fell across small stream. Being used for
natural bridge, it was permitted to remain, and
accordingly it sent up trunks either side
of the stream In time, the groups united by the
bridge trunk covered al large of ground. Among
important parent groves the horse-chestnuts of
Hampton Court, visited in the spring by all Lon
doners: the architectural beeches at Schonbrunn,
Austria so loved by the youthful Marie Antoinette;
the aged peppers at Riverside, California; well
the wonderful groups of cherry and plurn-trees
familiar to tourists in that country of gardens,
Japan. There a certain Colonel Jackson of
Athens Georgia. who attached to the tree
of his boyhood days that he had deed recorded
giving the possession of the tree to itself and
curing the adjacent ground necessary for the further
progress of its root growth
History records many instances of the attraction
that trees have for leaders among men. Herodotus
is responsible for the statement that the defeat of
Xerxes army in Greece due largely to delay
caused by halt in the vicinity of plane tree of
unusual beauty. The Persian became so enam-
CURED with it that he caused medal with the tree
in relief to be struck, commanded attendant to
give it special care and as last token of his ardor
casped jeweled collar about the trunk of this
favorite Tuckwe1l says that Napoleon DETECTED
his way over the Smplon Pass, that the army might
not inure the Soma Cypress, favorte of Francis l.
and goody specimen before the birth of Christ.
half-moon of expresses is memorial of Bona
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apparatus.
The Tght-ship is supplied with triple-expansion
engine operating single propeller wheel for motive
power In addition to steam power she also is fitted
with mainsail and foresail and two jibs. 1t is
not calculated that these will be used for motive
power, but. may be of advantage in assisting to
keep her head to the waves In heavy weather.
For such purpose, however, the vessel IS provided
with a kedge- anchor weighing three hundred and
fifty pounds, which acts sort of automatic
rudder. The principal mooring tackle consists of
a harbor-anchor weighing two thousand pounds
attached to a chain of links and oneeighth
inches thick and eight hundred feet in length, in
order to afford ample room for swinging in high
seas To the stem of the ship, also fastened by
chain of the same size, is a mushroom anchor,
which like the Others is raised and lowered by
steam windlasses designed especially for the
purpose.
While the Government for the ship is No.
IL, her actual title is Diamond Shoal; for she is
anchored above this spot, which has been the
graveyard of many "a vessel. 1t is supposed that
she is located not far from where the Inflated
Monitor went down
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
By Day Allen WILEY

THE crews of steamships bound north I'D
and south along the Atlantic coast I'D
sometimes able to pass closely
enough to the dreaded Cape Hatteras to
communicate with the little band of mari
who give warning by manning the
1ightship which is stationed off it. No. IL,
as she is termed, rides at anchor in of
the most dangerous spots in the world-a
place where it has been impossible far
to construct lighthouse owing to the
quicksand on the bottom, the strength of the
currents, and the storms which are raging
continually in this portion of the Atlantic.
Consequently, the Government decided to e
provide floating lighthouse, and No. Il -
built especially for the purpose II
Numerous schemes have been devised to ~
erect stationary lighthouses at this hazard
Gus point but all have proved to be failures. l.
However, man from Maine recently has -
appeared with entirely new proposal,
which the Government is said to be con-
sidering favorably He is so confident of
the feasibility of his enterprise that he is
willing to construct the lighthouse entirely
at his own expense, and wait five years fol
his pay If the structure should maintain its po
sition for that period he is to be paid five hundred
thousand dollars with five per cent. interest iron
the time the lighthouse is completed.
When work was begun ship No. IL, orders were
given to make her hull and framework of the best
steel, to withstand the force of the Atlantic
To prevent her from sinking, should any part Of
the hull be pierced, five metal partitions, or bulk
heads built from side to side and from deck tc
keel. Even if three of the spaces made by these
should fill with water, the others would keep he1
afoat The ship is the home of a crew of fifteen
men, who frequently are shut out from the rest Of
the world for a month at time getting only ar
occasional glimpse of even the low sand beach
known Cape Hatteras and the of white
breakers which mark the rocky ledge upon which
SO many vessels have been wrecked. Day after
day they are tossed to and fro in the "cross sea-
the mariners term it, that is created by the
northeast southeast gales and the swift currents
that circle around the Cape For many hours at
time cannot remain deck without danger
of being washed overheard.
The crew then literally are in a floating prison
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Continued on page I'D

hours each. One of the three engineers also
is on duty at all times. as steam is kept up
constantly in order to operate the electri-
cal apparatus at night and machinery
that may be needed at other times,
while during gale everything is made
ready to get the vessel under way in case
she should be forced from her anchors.
The lighting system consists of two sets
of three electric l. ash-lights, each sup
ported on steel masts at height of fifty
feet above the water-line. The lamps
are calculated to throw rays which may
be seen at distance of twenty miles on
an ordinary night and from six to eight
miles in thick weather The flash is pro-
duced by special device operated by
belt from the shaft which drives the cleo
trio dynamo furnishing the illumination
The dynamo is driven by a steam engine,
and is of sufficient capacity to supply
series of incandescent lamps for illumina-
ting the cabins as well as the mast
headlights A set of oil lamps also is
provided for the masts in case any
accident should happen to the electric
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-24
AS BARRACKS AND THE APARTMENTS

quiring the people to remain indoors
The tension, which was somewhat re-
lieved In the morning, continued to in
crease during the day. Conditions ap-
peared to be ominous when, shortly al
ter dark, the workmen in two electric
light plants walked out, refusing triple
pay to remain and plunging half the
city into utter darkness, including the
Nevsky Prospect, which is in the fash
ionable residence quarter The water
supply also was cut off, and veritable
panic ensued.
Tales that dynamite was in the pos
session of the strikers and that 1T was
the purpose to sack and burn the town
had been in circulation and many peo-
pie were terror stricken. Reserve
troops were called out to guard the
darkened portion of the city. The peo-
pie still in the streets, except few
strikers and roughs. fed to their
homes. Police officers visited every
house and store, ordering all not to
venture out, at their peril, and to turn
out the lights in their front windows.
Shopkeepers and even private house
owners boarded or barred their win
dows and doors.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-24

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 23.-It was
reported tonight, upon authority re-
guarded as reliable, that Emperor
Nicholas, in making the decision at
the extraordinary meeting OF the
Council of the Empire at Tsarskoe-
Selo to-day to declare st. Pc
tersburg in state of siege, an
nounced that he had resolved to issue
a manifesto to the people with view
of calming them, promising to create
a mixed commission of workmen and
officials to investigate and decide the
questions of-the demands of the strik-
ers, especially the one affecting hours
of labor, which Russian law fixes at
eleven. The representatives of the
workmen, according to this report. are
not to be appointed, but selected by
the laboring men themselves. This
would be the first concession to the
representative principle.
According to reports, the Emperor
will endeavor to investigate yesterdays
events in ST. Petersburg.
SACKING OF CITY FEARED.
The military everywhere to-day had
q Arm grip on the situation and the
police used every precaution. such as
forbidding the sale of petroleum and re-
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-24

MOSCOW, Jan. 23-The people of Moscow greatly
cited the from St Petersburg which received
the telephone from private spread like wldfre
through the city Last night only topic
on The worken here greatly Social Dem
ocras resolved to make the best of the opportunity The fac
tory and mill owners also excited general suspension of
work expected January 26 The the authorities
conferng regard the to meet disturbances
Many shop purchasing to protect their property
Employees of the Bromley Metal Works to the number of
80 o'clock this afternoon declared that they
fused continue work because their ST. Petersburg comrades
had asked them strike They Immediately left the works form,
procession marched through the and begged ,eir
fellow worlen all industrial establishments to oin in the
majority Of those who thus requested quit
work complied Afterwad the strikers visited the Syn Printing
Works. the largest of the kind in Moscow and belonging to he
millionaire publisher Sy and induced the employed there
to strike. The works closed at S clock
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-24
Worknen Marching Upon St. Petersburg Are
Fired Upon by Imperial Troops

3-Ad TC Company Says
kdp public
tn me severe measures W e opnd in
am--Anp h g yum M striker
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whohad dsnrtd st Petersburg Join the stopped b
tho enumk wounded dm
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to-day nyrhs,b ,b for Il represent are mere p
theses gvn c 1t hprhb W e found "a
aeknounh efgusnm Meanwhile m HTi
omncs sconhdu Ina thousands w p the charging
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noh thu works. d tn hwho IN in
bytumpmg ofue whdow Energetic p flames
drew undrc control x he se fire s.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-24
OARS ADVISERS FAVOR FIRM POLICY.

The situation appears grave from every standpoint but the
authorities although somewhat bewdeed declare their purpose
stand firm They maintain that is their first duty
order and the idea revolution Seemingly the Min
most concerned the effect OF the situation
abroad where they declare exaggerated reports false
impression.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-24

Continued to Page 2. Column ..
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-24
THE rHEArhRs.

ALcAzAR-"The Conquerors.
cALIFoRNIA-"Shaun Rhue."
CoLUMBIA-"A Country Mouse
CENTRAL-"Jerusalem.''
CHUTES-vaudeville
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
GRAND-"The Silver Slipper.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
TIvOLI-Grand opera.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-24

According private reports the worknen in several other
big cities, notably Khao where large locomotive works 10
Gated already have completed plans for general of
work Moreover reports that the wormen who 9th
would be forced back the shops have
received of financial support FROM the which
hitherto have supplied the sinews of for the Liberal and
tionary agitation but have before been in touch with the
labor If the strike becomes general throughout Rus
and especially if the railroads drawn in might ned
atey force the nation make peace with Japan.
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1905-06-15
UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS
PROSPECT.

Anyone conversant with facts and
figures of the Breeze's phenomenal
growth and development within the
past four seasons would ulhesitating-
1y state that IL has gained volume
and force to as great an extent as is
possible and that to expect even as
successful season this year is pre-
sumption. And yet we not only ex-
pect as prosperous a series of issues
but are overjoyed with the assurance
OF far superior business during the
coming thirteen weeks than ever fort.
une favored US with heretofore. or our
most optimistic plans had considered.
One week ago our first paper for
the summer months Of 1905 came from
the press, bright and breezy as IL al
ways is and was given glad welcome
by much augmented list OF subscrib-
ers. We we're very agreeably sur
prised by the number who have al
ready sent in their subscription for
the year and the per copy sale was
as large as 1t ever was even when
We issued our popular souvenir edi-
ton. This great demand for an
initial number guarantees us that the
Breeze will be purchased and read
this summer as never before. This
fact also assures us OF Increased
patronage OF advertisers. since We
can thus be Of greater service I'm in
Producing them and their bargains to
people of the Casco Bay district.
Speaking OF adve.tisers-we must
not forget to acquaint our readers with
the fact that the amount OF patronage.
which We were last season able to
turn In the direction Of such business
houses as described their wa-es in our
columns, was 80 considerable that
these advertisers and others who
learned a lesson from their expert.
ences are seeking the Breeze with a
renewal cf their contracts for space
IN our Journal The now know that
the Breeze ~ the recognized medium
OF Casco Bav and that to- have their
cards found In our columns IS IN H..
self the highest recommendation. as
we exercise a restrictive right and
refuse to print advertisements for any
house which We are not thoroughly
persuaded is reliable and square deal
Ing with patrons. We insist that every
advertisement shall mean Just what
IL saws. We protect our readers and
thus best serve our own interests.
Another cause to which we attri
butte this seasons monster stride tow.
ard unprecedented success, is the
popular guessing contest" which
starts with tbs issue. We have been
tcsieged with INQUIRIES as to what It's
prfYpCqc and condfffono aro-t <~s... -
tell lou the secret and We have long
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1905-06-15
UNCOVERED TELEPHONE FIELD.

The fact that Long Island. Great
Chebeague and two o. three other isl
ands adjacent are still lacking in tele-
phone service does not speak well for
either the enterprise OF the telephone
companies, or the eaergy OF the island
Inhabitants, who should have made
their demand for this now almost in.
dispensable necessity SO strong that
the cables would now be laid to their
island shores and the poles set that
would give them this last and most
important advantage. According to the
plan already discussed in these col
umns, the extension OF telephone SER
vice to Great and Little ChebeaSue
will only come through Long Island
probably, as when the length of Ca
BILE is considered, wherein lies the
greatest bugbear Of expense to the
telephone company, this is the most
economical route. Peaks Island being
already served in this respect, 1t re-
mains only to cross the half mile
channel to Long Island by cable.
thence by poles and wires to the east
end of the island where only about
ohS thooSoho ACSt ok SooiS oS
required to reach Little Chebeague.
This is all the cable that would be
used probably as the bar from Little
to Great Chebeague Is entirely uncov-
cred at low tide and teams often go
across, so that poles could be easily
set there.
When we consider the large resi-
dent population of these islands which
is of itself sufficient to warrant the
extension, at least in a few years,
as the habit Of using the telephone
increases, and then add the summer
resident contingent. which more than
doubles the population during the
summer months. IL seems an assured
TACT that the telephone revenues from
public pay stations alone would be a
greater percentage on the invest
ment by the telephone company which
first grasps the field, than the amount
received now from many other rural
localities where telephones have been
recently placed.
We are sure this service will come
soon; the question is. how soon. TIE
more the matter is agitated now the
quicker will the telephones at Che
beague and Long Island become an
assured fact