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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-10-19
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OPENED UP BANK.
St Francis Instftutisn Launched BY
Bank Commissioners ROFce.

John @ Royce, state bank commits
sioner. was in GOodland Monday on
his way to St Francis to open up new
bank in that town. which starts with
a capital stock OF $4,000. r D.
HenssIey IS cashier and 4 e Harri-
son president OF the new financial in
stitution-
This IS the second bank for that
place and there Is business enough in
Cheyenne county to make both pros
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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-10-19

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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-10-19
ANOTHER NEW BRICK.
Shaw & Williams to Put Up Building
North OF Keeran Corner

North OF heeran COrner.
Shaw & Williams have commenced
the erection of a double brick on lots
north Of the Keeran building. It has
been laid out for so feet front by 100
deep, and, possibly, two stories. Part
Of the brick are already on the ground
and an excavation for a cellar in rear,
4OX5O feet, has been begun.
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j. 7. WINDHORST, OWnel
GEO BRADLEY, Auctioneer.
Democratic Commune ~ No.

The democratic county central com
n-ttee VII meet at the court house fu
Goodland, October %. Full attend
ance S. desired
% S. COLEMAN, Chairman.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-10-19

Have your eyes examined by L P.
H Hatch, the optician-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-09

Three considerable alterations nave been
line az Port Morris for about a mile in order
10 avoid crossing at grade, the change
in the line in the neighborhood Of Marble
Hill along the Harlem River and the addi-
ton to the tunnel at Sing Sing. which will
be enlarged so that it will carry four tracks
instead Of two. The Marble Hill improve
ment Includes a tuunel through Rock Hill,
which when completed will have the widest
opening of any tunnel of a similar kind
ever projected by a railway.
II will cost S ,25l,O0J and will shorten
the line between Spuyten Duyvil and Kings
bridge and materially reduce the curves
in that neighborhooi. The tunnel will
be 68l feet long and will carry four tracks.
Two great power houses have been built,
one at Port Norris and the other at Yonkers,
which are so connected that they constit ute
practically one installation. Each one
of these stations has an ultimate capacity
Of 5000 kilowatts.
The coal handling capacity is eighty
tons an hour, and the ash handling, TWENTY
FIVE tons an hour. The maximum coal
consumption at the stations will be 20
tons a day. The power in each station
will be generated by six Curtis turbines,
each IS feet in diameter at the base and
IS feet high.
When the new station here is built special
tracks and buildings will be provided
for the express companies and the United
States mail service. II Is expected thst
the work OF Improvement will be far enough
advanced in 1888 to allow the tearing down
Of the present station and the building
Of the new Grand Central.
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confusion which now prevail on account
the same train shed.
Another great benefit to the city at large
which will result from the change will be
the restoration of eleven streets to ordinary
vehicular traffic. At the present time
the surface OF the terminal yard Is about
on a level with the public highways cross
ing it. with only a footbridge here and there
for passage. With the sinking Of the whole
terminal it will be possible to restore all
these streets for general traffic.
The new station will be erected on the
site OF the present structure. but it will be
much larger. as the area for building pur-
poses has been greatly increased. To the
east will be erected another large building
for Office purposes.
The station building proper will be
divided into three parts. the train shed,
the concourse and the Hobbies, although
upon the street level floor a gallery around
the exterior provides baggage room. On
the suburban level the arrangement is
|. quite different since. the. .cQncoUrse space
is removed TO the southern end of the build
ing and takes the form Of a great circular
plateau un0rokeD except for two stairways
and elevators.
The structure will be but one story above
the street level except over the baggage
room. where there will be several stories
for Offices. The exits and entrances will
be so arranged that the two kinds Of traffic
will never come in contact with each other,
and there will be direct connection for the
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development of electric transportation on
city and suburban lines.
The locomotives to be- used by the New
York Central in the electric zone differ
from others already in use in that they are
to be used for high speed passenger service
rather than for freight service. They are
also noteworthy IN regard to the design
and construction of the electrical equip
ment.
They are so built that each Of them is
capable of making two regular successive
trips Of one hour each between the Grand
Central Station and Croton. a distance Of
thirty-four miles. with a total train weight
of $50 tons. "A single stop in each direction
and a layover not exceeding twenty min-
utes. With a total train weight of AS tons
these engines can make the run to Croton
without stop in forty-four minutes This
is the running time of the Empire State
Express, a somewhat lighter train.
The equipment and operation Of the
road within the electric zone will entail
a vast amount Of construction work other
than tha mentioned. and the erection Of
power houses. terminals at Croton and
White Plains and the like. The main line,
after leaving Mott Haven, will nave four
tracks, two for the passage Of express trains
and two for locals.
In addition TO this there will be two tracks
between Spuyten Duyvil and Yonkers for
freight. AT Croton and at North White
Plains will be terminals for suburban trains
somewhat resembling that at the Grand
Central Station.
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suburban division with the marlborough
subway. The train shed will he enormous
and win accommodate more than double
the number OF trains that are now in use.
When all these improvements are COM
pleted nothing but electricity will be
used as "a motive power for passenger trains
on the New York Central to and from
Croton and on the Harlem 10 and from White
Plains. and no longer will the passengers be
choked in the Park avenue tunnel with
dust, smoke. gas and steam
In order to accomplish this Improvement
the line will be equipped throughout the
entire electric zone with 100 pound rails
Of a special pattern, and the third rail will
be so protected that it will be impossible to
touch it without making a special effort.
Protection will thus be afforded 10 the
trackmen and trainmen against tho dangers
Of the heavy current.
The electric locomotives to be used are
being built at the Schenectady plants of
the General Electric Company and the
American Locomotive Company. A num-
Der OF them have been in operation for
some time and all the tests that nave been
made ave proved to the railroad officials
the superiority Of the machine. for this par
ticular kind Of work at least, over the
steam engine.
electric locomotive has an advantage that
has long been recognized, but up to a few
years ago it presented a phase of the trans
portation problem that had not had an ex-
tensive development as compared with the
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necessary to tea down about two hundred
buildings. and the total Of the excavation
Of rock and earth has reached something
like 100000 cubic yards.
This deep digging has been made neces-
sary by the plans. which call for q double
dscked tunnel into the new station, one
level for express trains and the other for
the suburban traffic. The construction
Of one tunnel over the other will. it is esti-
mated. greatly increase the facilities for
handling the traffic. as the through passen-
gers and the suburban travellers will be
entirely separated, and will nave separate
stations so as to avoid the crowding and
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-09
THE CLUB BEAT.
He Pays His Dues and Debts bat Gets
More Than His share OF BENEFITS.

Almost every big club in New York has
its proportion of Improbable members.
These men are of all sorts, from old mem
oers Of reduced fortune to men who rank
not very high above that despised thing,
the club beat.
The club beat is the man who takes all
he car get ont of the club and pays moth
ing that he can evade. He is ~scrupulous TO
pay his dues promptly and to meet his
other small club bills. These things he does
because it is necessary for his purposes
that he be a member in good and regular
standing.
He comes daily to the clubhouse, and il
he be a man of leisure with a small income
he makes il his loafing place. Here he reads,
writes and surreptitiously takes maps.
He is sure TO attend any club occasion
that carries with it a free feed, and he lin
gers long about the free punch bowl on
New Years Day. He never dimes at the
club except upon invitation as the guest Of
a fellow member. He drinks nothing in the
cafe, though IL he he a drinking man he
buys his whiskey of the club at the lowest
rates. He is sure TO get oil the tickets that
are coming to him for club exhibitions or
other public occasions.
1t is an edifying spectacle to see the
club beat disport himself in the drawing
rooms late in the afternoon when the house
begins TO fill against the dinner hour. He
is sure to have read the evening papers at
the clubs expense and to have handy two
or three Of the clubs magazines.
Seated in a comfortable chair in front Of
the hearth fire he enjoys now the spectacle
Of the hurrying crowd in the street, now
the cheerful gayety indoors. He Is careful
TO catch the eye of any incoming acquaint-
ance, and il he is a very low form of club
beat he manages to be conspicuously pres
ent when such an acquaintance asks any
other man 10 take a drink.
II the club beats business is Of a kind
that may be transacted in whole or in part
away from his Office and the club rules
are liberal about visitors he almost daily
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~sectTiSsl zone is just beginning to dawn
III the casual observer. OF course every
body interested, INCLUDING commuters who
suffer great Inconvenience daily under the
present system and occasional travellers,
knew in a vague way that the motive power
~ the road vas TO be changed to eleCtriCi-
~ from the Grand Central Station to Gro
ron IN the New York Central and to White
Plains on the Harlem division. but just
what a tremendous undertaking IL would
be was known only TO onicialdom Of the
railroad world.
The excavation along Lexington avenue,
out of which hundreds of tons Of rock and
earth have been taken. has attracted most
attention generally from the public be-
cause it, more than any other part OF the
enterprise, is within the view OF all. and it
is impressive on account of the great size
Of the hole that has been dug. This. how
ever, is only a small part comparatively Of
what has been characterized by practical
railroad men as the most daring change in
the established practice of one OF the larg-
est railroads in the world.
The change involves not only an eX-
penditure of something like 200, 600, but
it embraces, according TO experts, every
hSRdTlILtllt Ol TdlTObl CIOTIs MlClluulk tue
Improvement OF schedules, the organiza-
tion Of train crews, the method Of handling
trains, the design of equipment, and last.
and probably the most important Of all.
the abandonment on train service Of steam
propulsion, after seventy years Of success
full application. for electricity.
In the beginning. of course, il was neces-
sary to organize for this work. This was
accomplished by the organization OF a
commission on identification. .
Al it's head sits W. J. Wlgus. a dis
tinguished engineer and one of the vice.
presidents of the Central. Associated with
him are men either particularly engaged in
consultation upon this work or regularly
as officers of the line.
This commission is advisory and the
construction committee, composed Of the
principal officers in charge OF construction
together with the advisory members from
the operating department, meet weekly
and consider the main features of the work.
70 this organization ia attributed the regl-
lar progress that has obtained and the
certainty with which the operations are
conducted
What makes the work on the Park avenue
tunnel particularly difficult. dangerous and
costly is the fact that it has to be pushed in
face of a tremendous ira ffic. which includes
more than a thousand rains a day. many
Of which in the rush hours run on a Roadway
Ut less than three minutes. To take care Of
this traffic alone is in itself an operating
feat, but. to-, carry it on while, the whole.
system Of operation is being changed re-
quires great courage and readiness Of
resource.
Few changes have been found necessary
In the steel visduct that extends from the
Harlem River south or in the tunnel in Park
avenue. except those incidental to the in
stallation of the third rail, but from Fifty
seventh street TO the Grand Central Station
the entire system is being changed. In
order TO carry through the plans il was
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-09
DARING or THE DYNAMITE NAN.
ThawinS Out the Explosive the Dangerous
Part % His Work.

FTO" ~ huHSuS JuU oar.
Some day l guess twill get me. We
never know"
J. B. Boone, professional powder man.
dynamite and nitrOglycerin handler, moved
cautiously nbout a Are as he talked. Al mis-
feet lay hfty pounds Of dynamite-frozen.
Three feet away was a roaring fire. He was
at a stone quarry at Courtney, Mo, where
the night before 500 pounds Of his materials
had exploded. Aud no had built the Ore to
thaw out more,
This IS the dangerous part of the work -
he said, The jar Of a cinder popping from
the fire, striking this dynamite, would make
IL explode. A twig snapped against III or
some object dropped upon IL would bring
the end. Dynamite Is not exploded by heat
u requires some iar-some friction, When
IL is frozen-and II freezes sooner than water
it Is fairly safe to handle. But in thawing
the " armer II becomes the more sensitiy "
II Is. When these sticks are warm a dimc
dropped upon them will make them explode.
It's n dangerous business"
No screen was between the dynamite and
the fire where the powder man" worked,
II he feared that fatal cinder popping from
the dry sticks In the fire he did not show N.
In a methodical. careful way this grave.
quiet man worked swiftly and silently by
the fire
4 began it with my father when I was
10 years old. he said. More than twenty
years now I've been a powder man, and
well, I'm here to-day, anyhow
But he would venture no prediction for
the morrow
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ABC,ACB, BAG, BOA, CB A and C A B.
As there are six orders there will be five
against any one selected. Hence the odds
of 5 to 1.
II any one is curious enough to learn in
how many ways races of larger fields can
finish, the processes of comb nation and
FORMULATION in simple arithmetic will show
interesting results.
Speaking OF being wise to sporting
arithmetic" said an old tins racetraCk
regular the other day, reminds me of an
experience | had while on a trip up the
they had what they called a combination
SYou picked a horse in each race and
they laid some kind OF odds that the horses
you picked would not all win. 1t was one
Of those weeks that Jockey Mitchell was
riding in good form, and as | wanted to
nave an interest in the proceedings | just
selected bis mounts in all Of the six races OF
the day.
The man at the window scanned the list
that | had made out and passed IL back 70
me with zoo to l. written across the bottom
Of the paper. | put IS on It and then went
out to attend TO some business, for l wasn't
there exclusively to play the races.
The remote possibility OF winning 81 900
popped into my mind several times during
the afternoon, and at a few minutes after
4 O'Clock l went pack to see IL such an in
III NSuAN Agoby 10Y AN OAh
Mitchell had won the first five rae s.
-1he rings were around bis mounts the
whole length OF the board and the horses
we're at the post in the sixth and last race
with Mitchell on the ~favorita at even monev.
He had only 70 win the last race TO complete
the killing.
They're or shouted the operator. but
my nervous strain was much too tense and
went out 10 buy a cigar, fearing even %
hear the race described. Just as | suspected,
Mitchell's mount was beaten a head.
Il r~eproached nv self in different ways.
Perhaps I had tried 70 do too mich. Why
didn't put only Mitchells first five mounts
i'm the combination instead Of trying to
skin the whole card?
Il related the story 20 a friend whom
/ had mel on the train going back TO G
York and then lapsed into my normal frame
of mind, SIS loser on the day.
There were only three horses in that
last race said my friend, who had come
into ME dining car to look for me- You
had 81 COS coming 10 gov IL Mitchell won
and the other two horses in that race were
at good odds. Why didn't you back both
of those to win? guess you're an amateur
speculator.''
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has business appointments at the club
house. There he writes a large part OF his
business letters.
In warm weather you may see him toll
ing away by the hour at sheet after sheet
of the club paper, with a pitcher of the
clubs free ice water at his elbow. In cold
weather he has the library fire lighted for
his own special benefit in order that he
may write his letters or talk busine IS with
greater comfort.
II he is a very mean and also an i'm
polite beat he contributes little or nothing
to the servants Christmas box, but he is
usually too wise to do aught that shall
increase his ~unpopularity with the servants,
because they have il in their power TO
make him uncomfortable.
II he has the luck to hold on for ten years
he may easily represent at least a net loss
TO the club OF 81 900. The house COMMITTEES
thinks worse Of him than of the member
who gets into the clubs debt and, being
unable 10 pay, simply deserts the place.
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PITIFCL RONAN SPORT.
War Waged by "sportsmen" Against Sons
Birds Or the Campagna.

A German living in Italy writes 10 q
Bernese newspaper giving a painful a.
oun Of the Romans as hunters. Nol
have only to step outside the gates OF Rom"
TO see them, he says. There they are ca
foot, in carriages and in automobiles. bang
ing away right and left. Shooting Wit
the Romans is almost as consuming pt,-
sion as playing lotto.
But what are these hundreds Of peop's
shooting at? The most energetic explore
Of the C~ampagna has never seen a viii.
animal abroad in il. There is nothiuE
visible that any adult man of any othe-
nation would dream of shooting at. WHY.
then do men. who ought to be busy, shu'
up their shops or play hockey from ther
Offices and go forth 10 shoot with a couplr
Of dogs in leash, a double barrelled shot
gun under their arm and a belt full of car
tridges-some of the more expert carrying
besides a deooy in the shape of a tiny
wooden flying machine with headpleoe
decorated with spangles?
The writer found it out one day when
he saw the son of his boarding house mistrc-,
go on morning thus equip ed.
"ThereH be game for su1rer," she to'1
him, for my son has gone hunting"
He beloved her the 6rst time. After
that he was always careful 10 due ont
on such occasions, for the game" rathrr
moved him 20 tears thar to hunger. 1h"
n time when be partook OF the feast p.
had set before him a great dishful Of ~,
songbirds, roasted on skewers over lh.
fire. Many a time after that he saw 'u
days bag as h son brought IL IN
oourle Of dozen little Feathered thing.
The passion TO discharge firearms an.
kill things seems to Affect the whole peorit
When the supply of birds runs short th,v
bang way at lizards, butterflies, Jun,
bugs and living things that they see r
the fields with almost equal sa~tisfaction.
This passion for killing, the incen~e
German points out. has a very serious sidt
Not only does it rob the Italian landsca.
OF much of its living charm; Il also Do
move h natural check 10 the swarms g.
mosquitoes. gnats and other insects VIII,
are now known TO be the means OF ON
municating the malarial fevers % No.
kind. What the country needs, he Sd
il a law OF the utmost strin geucy for
protection OF all sorts NJ birds: but he foIr
II impossible - get the Roman $. p. & y
b take the least interest in the mate
as it considered that its sphere Of infuc-
embraced only domestic animals.
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will win it, he added with all the assurance
IN the world.
-Four to 81 exclaimed the bettor. "I'l
now and he turned to count out the money
with an air of satisfaction.
You evidently took that for a bargain, +"
ventured q friend ear by.
Bargain said the player. Outside of
stopping stages it's the easiest money I
ever saw.
That's the way with these bookmakers.
They don't, know A B C about the betting
business. and they beat you in the long
run at that.
"The point OF that transaction is that
il il was even money against one Of the
horses and 3 to 1 against the other it mus I
have been less than 4 to 5 against the pair.
or course it Is possible for me to lose, as
neither horse may win, but I've got far
the best Of the odds. and that never does
sny harm"
But how do you make il less han 4 to 5
against the pair2" inquired the friend.
Easily enough" continued the mathe-
NAUTICAL player. Even money is the price
you lay when you think u horse has 80
chances in 100 to win. Three 20 Is the
price when a horse has Is.
The philosophy Of it is that il one has
so in 100 and the other rs, together they
must nave IS. Thus the odds indicate
rs chances for the pair TO win against rs
20 lose.
that's in the pror portion Of , to 1 they
win or I TO 3 they don't, instead OF 4 TO 5.
take those bargains right along
Occasions. however. where players find
In advantage over the bookies arc always
the exception. Against calling a race, or
rather trying to tell what the result will be
respecting the first three horses. the true
odds are surprisingly large and far greater
than can ever he obtained in practice.
A race made up OF only seven horses a
have thiry-nve different sets OF three in the
money, and the odds are 200 to 1 that a
layer cannot name the winning set of three
In the order that they will finish. even
in a three horse race, where there can bc
no betting against naming the first three,
the odds are 5 to l that a player cannot
name the order in which the three will
finish.
Three horses, A, b, c, can pass under
the wire in any one Of the following orders: