The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1906-09-15

Is constructing. is near competition.
The mighty tunnel of the Pennsylvania
railroad is so nearly Hnis1ed as 10 the
bore across the bottom of the North
river that the.two ends Of the hortng
! VIII come together on the 18th uf fi,e
present month, only three days or 81
accurate have been the estimates ann
the surveying and calculating of tha
ensiheers In charge OF the work that
! II the TWO ends differ an inch. only 4
single inch, from the exact level an
which they set their ends to meat To-
gether, 1t will be a bitter disannoi,t.
'lnent to the engineers, and one which
they Will find it almost impossihla Ia
believe or comprehend. Such Is tho
perfection of engineering science in
these days that man can figure evact-
ny now lines will run under a river and
through the mud at the bottom ~ tba+
river, and, after months and wears ~.
hard work with pick and snada ond
explosives, they will come ont inst
where they started, by hairbreadth.
WIN scientific talent like this, with
oceans OF money, with push and per-
severance the industrial giants of to-
day are outrivalling the Titans of the
past, who built pyramids that for
many centuries were the wonders of
the world and are yet puzzling the
world as to the methods of their con-
struction. But today is greater than
yesterday, and the Egyptians will have
to ketoff their hats to the engineers
| of the Pennsylvania railroad. Soon
we of New York will be able to saw to
those Of you who read this, "come and
see us. and be sure to come under the
river, that bears on its surface MANY
feet above the commerce of a Me-
tropolis" BY such works as these
mankind is brought together very
close, and the element of distance is
fast disappearing.
There is one place in the city where
girls haven't the advantage over men
| in the way of wearing short waists.
and that is on the bride path In Gem
trail Park. There the shirtwaist man
with tanned skin and the jolly air
which marks one who finds New York
good enough for him at any time of the
year, is just as much in evidence as
the shirtwaist girl. In fact the man
with a conventional riding coat has
been the exception rather than the rule
this summer. Several years ago the
question whether man might ride
in a public park without a coat in
tropical weather resulted in the pop
ular verdict, that he could If he was
an exercise boy taking out the horses
and didn't care for appearances. That
settled 1t then. Now, however. the
man who rides in negligee shirt is
an accepted fact-perfaps he will try
a peekaboo effect next summer.
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When the Hebrews have holiday
the whole town knows it. 1t shows
most with the telegraph offices, which
are so short of boys for the delivery
of messages that the office force OF
clerks, and sometimes heads of de-
partments are sent around with tele-
grams. The holiday for the Hebrews
that occurs on the Goth Of Septenbet
has made such an impression that the
postmaster has sent out an appeal and
posted it also in the postoffice buiId-
ing, asking Hebrews to post their notes
of congTatulation to each other on the
18th instant so that the Hebrew clerks
may have day off without causing a
congestion of the mails. There is a
flood of these missives on that holt
day and if the people win only mail
them a few days ahead the poor clerks
can have a much easier time The
postoffice, by the way, is taking the
public into it's confidence lately in a
way never dreamed of few years ago.
1t has the public do a portion of its
letter sorting when they deposit their
mail, and the sending of a city letter
up in the country is almost unheard
of nowadays. Carriers now also ask
everybody in a building for the Local
tion of unknown addresses and often
letters reach their addresses in that
way, although imperfectly or incor-
rectly addressed.
The visitors at the Central Park me-
nagerie are wonderfully attracted by
the performances Of handsome buck
of the axis family, who is very fond of
roasted peanuts. He reaches out
through the bars for them and them
when the keeper calls out to him to
show what he can do for the dainties,
he gets up on his hind feet and moves
around In his stall in rough imitation
of dancing. His forefeet hang down,
being bent at the knees. He seems to
have no trouble in maintaining the
erect position for a few moments while
performing his dance step. The ani-
NAL is four years old and was born in
Central Park, and is the only deer
known that dances He always comes
to the bars for payment after per-
Torrance; he doesn't propose to give
la free show and he never does, as
there are plenty of people to look at
him, and all have peanuts for him.
1t is asserted that there were heav-
Ter sales of real estate on Labor Day
in the suburbs than on any other day
this season. Thousands of working
men and their families went into the
country on the holiday, and looked
around very particularly. It was
very smart agent that distributed tick
cts among them on that day. as they
surely sold many lots.
This years campaign will be an ex+
citing one, The lawyers have jump