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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-12-21
WIZARD EDISON INvENTs WON
DERFUL STORAGE BATTERY.
Automobiles to Be Hun at TriHins
cost-Long Search for Metal
Essential to Success Of
Great; Discovery.

New York.-Thomas A. Edison has
accomplished a surprise for the world.
He has worked out successfully the
problem of cheap power. He promises
to put on the market within six
months new storage battery which
will enable every man to travel in his
own private carriage at about the
cost of car fare. Without danger,
without breakdowns, without COST al
most, a carriage, once supplied with
the new power for 5000, will travel
without repairs for Is years, for 100,-
600 miles if necessary, says the wizard
Mr.. Edison reiterates the declara-
ton that he has invented a storage
battery which will solve the problem
of congested traffic in the big cities
of the world as soon as he can manu-
facture enough of the batteries. He
is erecting two large factory build
ings, now nearly completed, and is in
stalling in them new machinery espe-
cially for the manufacture of the mo-
tor battery.
In Is years from now the horse
will be a curiosity; we shall be pay
ing so cents to look at him in side
shows" said Mr.. Edison to an inter-
viewer
Last year you were sure that you
had solved this problem?" he was re-
minded
eyes, last year l was sure,' replied
Mr.. Edison, "but now I am dead sure
There is a difference between the two.
It's one thing, for instance, to be sure,
and another thing to be-Wall street
sure"
For three years $4,000 storage bat
teries have been constantly at work
in the testshops of the Edison plant
at Orange, N. J.
II never believed that nature, so
prolific of resources, could provide
only lead as material ingredient of
the battery said Mr.. Edison. Il have
always found her ready for any emer-
gency, and based on this confidence
that she has never betrayed, 1 com
muned diligently with her. One day
I discovered that nickel rust was as
good as lead. Then I thought I had
accomplished the task"
But he hadn't, to the satisfaction OF
his commercial instinct. The ques
ton of the weight of the battery was
most important as was that of its
durability.
Nickel rust failed, other things
failed, everything the ingenious Edi
soa, with his trained, scientific mind
could conceive failed.
Then I tried cobalt" he said, and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-12-21
Sewing Up Stabbed Heart.

SV"h9 w 0kdObCO SbVoIIs
A recent dispatch from Milan de-
scribed a wonderful surgical opera
ton there by DR.. Media. A workman
had been murderously assaulted, z
knife in the hand of an assassin actu-
ally piercing his heart. He. was at
tended by surgeons who cut way
through his bressi II, l&ach tho
wounded heart. Three stitches were
required to close the wound, which
had almost entirely healed five days
after the operation.
To restore sight to the blind eyes OF
Wilton Heinard, of Washington, the
specialists at the Episcopal Eye, Ear
and Throat Hospital have grated the
transparent membrane of Belgian
hare's eyeballs to He1nard's eyes. The
most recent reports on this operation
indicate that it is going to be sue.
cess.
C. A. Mccartney, a young contractor
of Pasadena, has survived the unusual
experience of having his heart and
lungs exposed, washed, mended and
replaced. He was injured last June
by falling from bicycle upon the up
turned prongs of a hayrake. He is
almost as we'll as ever.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-12-21

reason Lena VOLTS brain was dull
and inactive was because the blood
was not feeding it as it should.
One of the principal duties of the
pancreas, situated just behind the
stomach, is to superintend the regular
feeding of the brain with good blood,
according to the theory Of the Ger
man surgeon. In the case of Lena
Wolff he believed the pancreas was
minus one very important digestive
essential, without which 1t could not
do it's work properly. That very i'm
portant essential had to be supplied
by grating portion of a ductless
gland from another living person. :. :.
The child's mother raadily offered
herself as a sacrifice. She was per-
pectly willing to undergo the neces-
sarily painful and tedious operation of
having part of her throat grated on
the body of her little daughter If only
it would give: Lena her reason.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-12-21
-. GEN. 4. w. GREELEY. s: =.
(Army Officer Who Will Take Charge
: Of Chicago Military Distriet)

L I had rather speak five words with
my understanding than 10000 in an
unknown tongue. II. Co. xiv. -.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-12-21


lem of Cheap Power for Autos.)
plan of getting cobalt out of the ore
cheaply within ratio of cost already
calculated for the price of each CELL
And you have succeeded?"
"Completely. I can positively prom
Use that the new battery will be on
the market in the spring. The factory
buildings are ready and the machin-
cry is being installed"
But there may be some surprise
that nature is holding back that will
interfere?"
absolutely none. I haven't kept
$4,000 batteries working for three
years without discounting all chances
of failure"
The actual cost of recharging the
new battery is matter of few cents
per cell, the greatest achievement be-
ing in making it light in weight, in
compact shape and above all, durable.
The new storage battery is not de-
signed for fast automobiles.
"But I am not an automobile manu-
facturer, and I have thought only of
solving the problem of street traffic,
which is serious in all the great cities
of the world" says Edison.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-12-21
SOL YES CHEAP, POWER.


punctuated tbs statement with broad
smile. = 49, - l. ..
tAnd 1t worked?"
ut certainly: did, but cobalt, being
one of the rare metals, the problem
was not solved. secured the coun-
try to find cobalt in sufficient quanti-
ties to warrant it's use, and discovered
lots of it in Canada, in Wisconsin, in
Oregon and in Kentucky. Then I
knew that I was all right.
What are you working at now in
connection with this phasefof the dis
covery?'' 49, rs ~ Il
"One of the most difficult problems
in metallurgy is to separate cobalt
from the ores with which, it is asso-
ciated. At present it is done only at
great expense, and so for the last
few months we have. been sdevising a
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-12-21

an 1nctsiOn5 In the cOrnea made at the
top. Pushing the points down through
the pupil, with the sharp blade he:
=punctured the Opaque membrane Of
the lens capsule and cut it squarely
in two. The task of. the surgeon was
to cut so delicately and precisely as
to divide the obstruction and let the
light into the eye again.
The operation was entirely success
full. The dead lens matter remains in
the eye and on either side of the pupil
a speck of the opaque substance can
yet: be seen. This in time may be alb
sorbed.
Some Surgical MarveIs.
Philadelphia and Toledo, Ohio, have
recently contributed to the list of
marvels of surgery through operations
on the brains of incorrigible and men,
tally defective boys. A still more re-
cent case is that of Carl Fredericks,
aged nine years, of No. 200 Clinton
street, Hoboken. He is under observa-
ton at the Railway Reformatory prep
aratory to the practical reconstruction
Of his brain.
The doctors say the boys brain is
so peculiarly constructed that it pre-
vents him from being good for more
than an hour at time. The head is
OF abnormal shape, the skull coming
to point. The ears are small and
protruding, and the eyes are as sharp
as ferret's.
Tests made a few days ago showed
that the boy had no sense of right or
wrong. This is attributed to an alb
normal brain growth AS q result of
the operation, which includes the cut
ting out Of certain parts of the brain,
it is expected to relieve the boy of his
wicked tendencies and transform him
into model youth.
Scientific surgery is gradually solv-
ing the problem of making us over
piecemeal. Raymond Moore, aged 20,
of Baltimore, lost the sixth and sew
enth ribs on the right side., DR.. Ham,
ilton Brown replaced them with ar
tific1al ribs of hard rubber tubing.
By an operation at Fordham Hos.
pital, Joseph Reicher was supplied
with silver windpipe to replace the
original, which bad been damaged be-
yond repair by a hard fall.
DR.. Kaintsky, the famous Russian
surgeon, recently astonish the medi-
cal world by furnishing man with
artificial arteries. The operation took
place in DR.. Kaintsky's private lab
oratory at St. Petersburg. The pa
tent, very rich farmer and cattle
raiser, Ivan Poitinkask by name, had
collided violently with a stump while
driving in a sleigh. He was hurled
out and impaled upon broken branch.
The Jagged piece of wood struck him
below the hip joint and ranged down
for about four inches. The wound
was an exceedingly ugly one. 1t was
directly over and in line with the fe-
moral artery, which supplies the en-
tire leg with blood. DR.. Kaintsky
saved Poitinkask's life by removing
the injured part of the femoral artery
and replacing it with an artificial one.
The Berlin surgeon, DR.. Seyfried,
has succeeded in giving man new
top for his skull, made from the skull
of an OK.
Restored to Nationality.
At Stamford, Conn, unique opera
ton on the skull of the two-year-old
son of Michael Gunther has given the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-12-21

boy nationality. The child was born
with normal mental and physical en-
dowments and began to show, when
a year old, signs of general deficiency
in all his senses. It was finally deter
mined by the surgeons interested in
the case to explore the child's skull.
DR.. j.. T. Higgins, OF New York, as
sisted by Drs. Whitehorn and Hogan,
Eof New York, and Howell and Loeb,
of Stamford, performed the operation
at. Stamford Hospital few months
ago. They removed a. strip of bone
from the skull three inches long and
one-half inch wide, to give the brain Z
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-12-21
RIVER NAVIGATION REVIVED:

tation. This is especially true where
the government owns the railroads
and rates are high and Interchangeable.
It is stated that freight can be car
ried so per cent. cheaper by water
than by rail.
The steamer Lora made the voyage
from St. Louis to Kansas City in a
little more than eight days. The cap
tain says the journey can be made in
three and half days. He tied up at
night because the channel was not de-
fined.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-12-21
To Keep Alive coronado's March.

Several thousand dollars: have been
raised by public subscription for q
monument to commemorate the march
of Coronado into New Mexico. It will;
consist of a huge granite bowlde,
from the. Glorieta mountains, to be
polished on four sides and suitably in.
scribed. It will be erected q. Tar
Vegas: j y @.. ::.- - IT, ~, sss r
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-12-21
TO RULE CHICAGO DISTRICT.
Gen. Greedy to Be Transferred by
War Department.

Washington.-Gen. Adolphus Wash
ington Greedy, who soon will take
command of the Chicago military dis
trict, has Won fame as a soldier and
as an arctic explorer. He was the
first private soldier of the civil war
to reach the grade of brigadier gen.
eral in the regular army. Gen. Greely's
most recent command was at San
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-12-21

At the: Harper Hospital, Detroit, DR..
H. O. Walker5has succeeded in giving
a 12-year-old boy a new shin bone
taken from the leg of a dog. s.. !. I: =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-12-21
Traffic on the Missouri to Kansas City
Is Resumed.

Kansas City The business men
of this city have started in to revive
navigation on the Missouri river for
New-York tribune., 1906-05-08

the surrender Of space for Office purposes. The
museum was originally expected, on the com
pletion OF the Capitol, TO ind ample accom-
modation In the State Hall, but tho growth OF
the Finance Department has prevented this,
and instead its space in that building has been
reduced almost TO nothing So the collections
in increasing volume find their way to the
malthOuse, while heavy fossils and other large
mineral specimens repose In an Albany stone
yard!
Such treatment Of its educational and scien-
tific institutions is utterly unworthy of the En-
pire State. It's library, founded in 1918, is the
fifth in size and importance in the country
being surpassed only by the Library of Con
gress, the New York Public Library, the BOs
ton Public Library and the Harvard University
Library. 1t can neither display, adequately usS
nor properly protect its treasures, and in conse
quence gifts are diverted from it and its growth
Is arrested. The State Museum was started sew
enty years ago. New York was a pioneer in
scientific Investigation and the work done by
it has been of great industrial and economic
Importance, and II the state is to live up to its
reputation and continue to serve the interests
Of its people by scientific work it must provide
a suitable place for its investigators and its
collections The scattered quarters now Occu
pied by these educational agencies are all
needed for other departments Especially are
is scarcely public department which has room
enough for the proper transaction Of its bust
ness
The bill to relieve this situation seems ad.
mirably devised for the purpose. 1t provides
for the purchase Of a site costing not more than
100000 including incidental expenses Then
it calls for competitive plans for a library
museum and educational Office building, so de-
signed as to be capable of extension when more
stack room is needed. 1t fixes a price limit
on the structure of $3,5OO,OOO, and provides for
erection by contract so that the work may be
done for a fixed sum and within a fixed time
1t also prescribes a building 'Of modern fire
proof construction" Thus a large, handsome
quickly erected and reasonably cheap build
ing with a steel skeleton, can be secured by
present day methods, instead of wasting time
and money on mere piles Of brick and stone.
This sensible departure from the usual plan of
putting up public buildings which are extrava.
gantly massive and elaborate is greatly to be
commended. With good designing the steel
framed structure can be made as pleasing and
appropriate as any other. AS the bill carries
an appropriation of only 100000, there would
seem TO be no financial reason why it should
not be signed The Governor will doubtless
scrutinize with care all measures which involve
the expenditure Of money, but this enterprise
manifestly must be undertaken and ought not
to be longer delayed. The state has a surplus
year So it's finances appear to warrant the un-
dertaking, especially as the cost will not be
great in any one year.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-08
ALERT POLTCEMEy.

Our policemen get so many more kicks than
ha'pennies that it is pleasure to commend the
alertness and initiative of the members Of the
force who saved the man who fell into the Park
avenue tunnel early yesterday morning. little
stupidity or a little red tape would have been
sufficient for the crushing of the unfortunate
fellow beneath the wheels Of one OF the trains
which every few minutes go dashing through
the tunnel. The citizen who noticed the fall
had his wits about him, too, and Immediately
telephOned to Police Headquarters. The readi-
ness of the operator to deal with an emergency
was manifest in his instant communication with
the train dispatcher, so that trains might be
stopped, even before telephOning to the station
nearest the tunnel to send relief The relief also
was alert and resourceful and stopped in time
the one train which had got beyond the reach of
orders.
1t is in emergencies Of this kind that the New
York policeman is at his best. He often lacks
discipline. Our atmosphere is not favorable to
obedience. He will talk on post and beat his
tour" Sometimes, he will practise extOrtiOn or
treat citizens roughly. But he generally thinks
quickly when the necessity arises. He shares
the virtues as well as the vices of the society
of which he forms part.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-08
THE SPEAKHR.

The whole country joins in the congratulations
shOwered on Speaker Cannon yesterday in Wash
ington on the arrival of his SEVENTEEN birthday.
The Speaker has won for himself an esteem and
affection which few public men enjoy in the
rOugh-andtumble life of politics Among his as
sOciates, both party friends and party opponents,
his integrity and ability are as much respected
as his humOr is relished and his geniality priced.
In thirty-twO years of public service Mr.. Cannon
has seen much and learned much. His wisdom
is ripe, but in simplicity and sincerity of char
acter he is still unspOiled.
The Speaker has long had an Important share
in shaping legislation and regulating admins
tratiOn. His bent has always been toward eau
tiOn and economy, toward intelligent, reasoned
conservatism. His influence in politics has been
eminently sane and helpful, because his judg-
ments have been guided by plain common sense,
reinforced by wholesome American humOr Best
Of all, he has retained freshness of feeling and
warmth Of heart which make men trust him
and love him, and which keep him still youth
full in spite of his threescOre years and ten.
The cOuntry's best wishes will follow him into
the new decade of an enviable public career.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-08
RETAIN OLD CEMETERY
Fund Raised to Perpetuate Marble
Burning Ground.

The New York Marble Cemetery is TO be per-
petuated At an adjourned meeting OF the 80
1orat,on Yesterday at No Il Battery Place. II Wa
arrouDced that the $4,000 endowment runo' tne
+oras+ from which is 20 pay for continuing the Olu
,,'r,,7e, Mace was not only completed. but over
subscribed by $3.50 .,N,,.t,o1
The New York Marble Cemetery was es'" ~
.bou+ seve1tv-five years ago, and IS no" IA @ 'Io
,tre NJ the block at Second avenue the bO"eIs'
o. oDd al streets Here are the vaults OF many
-ror,iDsDt and wealthy New York fanlhes' IN,
ol,,7iDe Depevy. Hegeman Lord. keTnocnall ei.~ .~
sIHi.te For the last few years the aesceAO1 s
- 49,, or,eIDal owners have shown httle ln'elesN
- 49, Cemetery Daniel Parish, 1r., the OllS Sur =.
,'o tr,,stee having the cost OF maintenance
~ a question Of either selling the PIOpeANS
- ,.otr4arrfng the bodies in announcer .S,.t. !.
90 lI-,,. on endowment fund Of $2O,ON 70 per
the cemetery -. 49,. Wasting Yesterday.
rIsrr1, N Tiff presided at the mee.lHS S - 1
No. l,-,tttee in charge Of the COLLECTION Oh eo-,
Inc -. tta fund received $65S5 OF the an sllO tbS
Iost two weeks. Clrcule[S 1Lej heen
sI4,otion and asking for cOnII. scattered
sn1t 70 the descendants OF Vauls STAASA9'
@ SoorIv every part or Jhe WOLlO, hank se-
over hellS LII be Invested in savings ps.l o,,5
ttio from the interest OF WIslCn - csnoeterv
nrSn1en will be paid to care tI ttT,,stee presented
Dsniel Parish, IT,, the survlVlnS survteS the meeting
J ms q vote Of thanks TO MI Ee.IaSs Es-ssoS ~ the
PSlSro0csd 81 $40 for the running ~ ~ contrib
orV- OF This Indebtedness 70 Ln LSSo-ofion
SytnT Sf 60O TO the endowment 1uhI- ~ 80
uteO $1OOV fy,brse him for the balance OF
Trred0rick KernOChans w IMAM - - q Parish
y, 81 XntbOnv Dey Nichols anu T. S.....,5snf
I-ore elected trustees. ana VIII ocro4ar az the
Mo will also be the treasurer ana seo''''' -
New-York tribune., 1906-05-08
SAYING THE LOBSTER.

Well grounded fears were vigorously ex-
pressed a few years ago that the lobster would
soon be eXterminated if it was not protected by
law. In spite of the measures adopted in cOnse-
quence of that belief. the danger has apparently
not been removed. The result of neglect has ut
least been deferred but doubts are still expressed
from time to time about it's having been averted.
Professor Francis II. Herrick, of the Western
Reserve University, insisting in the current num-
ber of Science" that the lobster fisheries con-
tinue to suffer a decline, recommends rather
radical change of policy, though he claims no
credit for originality so far as its fundamental
Idea is concerned. This he says, was suggested
in 1901 by DIR. George w. Field in a report to
the Fish Commissioners of Massachusetts.
The theory Of past legislation has been that
the young lobster is in greater need of protec-
ton than the old one. Hence it was made un-
lawful to retain (after catching) Holsters below
given limit in size. Some states fixed the di-
viding line at ten and half inches and others
at nine. These standards have been adopted by
most Of the Canadian provinces, though one or
more place it at eight inches. This regulation
is usually supplemented by a second which pro-
hIbits marketing female Holsters that are spawn
Ing Professor Herrick would reverse the first
Of these rules and thus make the second nm
necessary. One. of his reasons for proposing the
change is that it would protect the female lob
ster more enectually Inan existing laws do for
these can be and are often evaded 1t is possi
BILE for dishonest fisherman to remove the evi-
dence that he ls violating the statutes. Forbid
him to have or sell lobster which is more than
nine or ten inches long, whether it is snawnIno
or not and detection and punishment will h
easier than they are now.
There is no uniformity in the size at which
Holsters reach maturity. Some begin spawning
when not more than seven inches in length brt
these are exceptions 10 the rule. Furthermore
the first brood is very much smaller than tho
later ones, and, generally speaking. the loropr
the lobster the more numerous the nrocany
Professor Herriek says that the average nm
ber OF eggs laid by lobsters eight inches long is
1000, at ten inches 10000, at twelve inches
@ooOO ana at "a inches nearly 10000. 1t is
impossible. therefore, to insure inmunitv 81 az
breeding Holsters without placing the limit nj or
New-York tribune., 1906-05-08
NI5W.YoRK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY, MAY s. 1906

below seven inches, and that Is not even sus-
gested. If the dividing line were fixed at nine OF
ten inches, almost equally good results would be
secured. Besides 1t will not do TO lose sight
altogether Of the demands Of the market. IL IS
doubtful IL Holsters less than seven inches long
would find a ready sale.
1t is greatly to be wished that practical test
OF Professor Herrick's plan might be made.
Four New England states. Canada and New
York have a common interest in this matter.
They need not all act at once and together.
Concert Of action at the outset indeed, would
be inadvisable. If, however, one single COM
monwealth- Massachusetts. for instance-were
to try It and establish its expediency the others
would doubtless follow suit in short ORDER II
it proved disappointment the new usage could
be abandoned. Something Of Importance would
have been learned In the mean time, however;
and If there is too much delay the occasion
and the lobster, toO-lnay disappear forever.