The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-25

made, and Mir. Young started in to
 make good his asseHion. In about a
 week, working now and then for about
 fifteen minutes at a time, he had ac- complished the task, and, true to his
 statement. found room enough left on
 the pinhead to add his name, Young. '
 in one corner.
 Even by the experts of the bureau the engraving on the pin was consider
 ed as an exceptionally fine and diff
 cult piece of work. and it was regard ed by his friends and those not familiar
 with the engravers art as curiosity.
 Recently there was a renewal of dis
 cussiOn at the bureau concerning the delicate work that could be done with the engraVer's tools. Some of the eX-
 perts-and there are some very clever
 men in Uncle Sam's money factory
 asserted that they could duplicate MT.
 Young's performance, and one or two did engraVe the alphabet on the pin heads. Then M-. Young looked at the matter seriously for the first time. He decided that if there was to be any
 real rivalry on the subject and any att tempt to duplicate his feat he would
 set mark for his fellow workmen
 that would make them sit up and take notice in earnest.
 His experience in engraving the first pinhead had convinced him that with more care, mere delicate tools and even more time, he could excel his first per- formance by a good deal. So he se- cured very small pin-less than an an inch across, and began his task, | taking half day off for the purpose. He worked just one afternoon, and when he put his tools away that night he had engraved a total of siXty-one letters on the surface of the tiny pin head. Since thea none of MT. Young's colleagues has talked of attempting to l duplicate his feat.
 To the naked eye the pinhead bearing i the double alphbet, the date and the name looks but little different from an ordinary pinhead. Its surface is a | trifle rough and that is all. Even with ordinary magnifying glass very little can be seen. The outlines of the letters are jumbled and the surface of the pin head simply appears to be badly scratched. But with a powerful glass the letters stand out by themselves and sep arate. Each one is at approximately the same distance from it., neighbor, the lines are clear and distinct and the letters are perfectly formed. One alpha bet and the date occupy one half of the surface of the pinhead. and another al" phabet and the name Young" the oth- CT half.
 T1oro ie o,.h oA a glance at the pinhead with the nak- ed eye and then a glimpse of it through Ia powerful magnifying glass cannot fail to impress the wonderful degree of proficiency and skill, the keenness of vision and the steadiness of hand nec- essary to the successful performance of so remarkable and unique a feat.
 MT. Young, in engraving the first pin, had to solve the problem of how to hold the delicate bit of metal while working on it. He tried almost every way, and finally found that by pushing the pin far down into a piece of cork and plac- l ing the cork on his work table he could hold it steadier and work more swiftly and accurately than in any other way. This method he also followed in engraving the second pin few weeks ago. D.
 MT. Young doesn't know what would happen to an engraver who made a business of inscribing alphabets- single or double-5on pinheads, but
 thinks he wolud either go blind or,crazy and perhaps, both. He found that the work, while hard on the nerves and | the hand n1a vad nartic11lar havoc with his eyes, Ali of it was done of course, while the pin was held under a powerful magnifying glass and with the smallest tool that could possibly be used for the purpose. MT. Young considers his work as more of curiosity than as piece of perfect lettering, as the surface of the pin was so rough and uneven that perfection in the latter respect could not possibly be arlington Star.