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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26

the ground, they employed under
ground cable above the surface. The
Bell engineers early discovered that
with the oozy soil of the crescent city
to contend with they must use, instead
of subways, elevated ducts of concrete.
Again, through the white sandstone
which underlies the streets of st. Paul.
Mimi, the telephone men, instead OF
laying ducts, simply dug tunnels, and
to the sides Of the tunnels they attach,
ed the telephone cables. These bor-
ings are reminiscent of the Roman
catacombs. Here and there the graf
ed doors that furnish light and air may
be seen in the face of the bluff upon
which the city stands.
In more ordinary circumstances the
work of spreading the copper meshes
of the national talking system pro-
ceedse according to an orderly rou-
tine. Into carefully dug hole the
big stick of timbere is swung by means
of a derrick or. in the more prim-
tive way, piked into position by a
small army of men each equipped
with a spiked pole. Along follow stout
fellows, who lamp the earth around
the base of the pole, others who nail
on the cross arms, and finally those
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26

times they relate to the condi-
tons of working out of doors and liv-
ing in tents, as the construction fell
lows are frequently required to do.
Thus the Bell men who are busy along
the New Jersey coast have from early
spring to late autumn some peculiar
trials and tribulations. The Jersey
"skeeter" is no myth. Pennyroyal is
standing article of expense among the
gangs at work in the sandy country.
1t together with strong tobacco and
thick stockings are things that the
clerk in charge of the supply depart
ment of the construction force must
not be without. Penryroyal would
hardly do for the horses, so these four
footed friends and assistants are wrap
ped up n burlap, as protection
against the Jersey pest.
But there are compensations in this
particular locality. The work is easier
in some ways than in most sections
The sandy New Jersey soil does not
trouble the telephone men. Aen they
come to place where pole is to e
set they simply elevate the big stick
and set a water-jack at work at the
foot of it. This water-jack is a device
that causes powerful stream to play
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26
OPPORTUNITIES.

Bill Simpkins never gifts along, an
folks is real surprised
A mighty smart young feller'' is tn
way they've got him sized,
An Bills uncommon likely, but he
materially falls fiat
Because he's sot on chances th't he
never kin git at
mind him talkin mighty big o
things th't he cd do,
If he cd git away from we're an put
his idees through;
Y see. this thing gifts on his mind an
sorter keeps him down,
Because he misses chances th't come
up right were in town.
He seems { have a special gift fel
spottin' every day.
A golden oppertoonity. six hundred
miles away;
An while he figgers millyuns in some
fur-off promise-land,
He overlooks tn chances th't is show
in right at hand.
An now he kinder sets aroun an
dreams o. findin' mines,
Err cleanin' up fortune in promotin
trolley lines;
He won't see nothin' here t hum, but
jes' lives off his dad,
Vile OF Jed Hanks, tn butcher
needs cuerk, alfred bad.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26
The English Sparrow.

Il remember said John Burroughs
to me recently, that first saw the
English sparrows in Jersey City about
1866. They were scratching around
in the streets, and | said to myself.
What in thunder are those birds?'
Soon they were in Washington. where
was then living. and l noticed a
boy one day with sling shooting
them. | wanted to call the police.
They'll be exterminated,' l thought,
and that'll be too bad But l didn't
know them. A few years ago friend
of mine shot sixey sparrows one after
the other from single nest, and the
survivor of the pair always found a
mate. AS the shooting continued the
birds got cautious, and would ske-
daddle as soon as they saw him; but
they finally raised brood in the
nest"
The sparrows do not now seem as
threatening nuisance as they did at
first Nature has furnished checks,
and there are probably less of the.
sparrows than there were decade or
two ago. They are essentially a town.
bird. The country does not furnish
sufficient food in winter and is too
cold. They are seed-eaters, and the
droppings of granted town horses
have been their chief dependence.
With the introduction of electric cars
and automobiles this source of food
has been diminished and has tended
to cut off the sparrows. Then, too,
the hawks have come to understand
them, and now often hover around the
cities in winter to pick them up
Clifton Johnson in Outing Magazine.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26

Of mans life are the preparatory
years, the years of training and dis
cipline. A large part of this time ne
is laying the foundation-just getting
ready to rear the superstructure. Many
of us stumble around many years be-
fore We get into the right place, ana
then, for additional years, we make
many mistakes. Most men do not ge,
wise until they have passed forty.
They may get knowledge before this
but not much wisdom. Wisdom is a
ripening process. 1t takes time.
At the age when Dr. Osler thinks
men are becoming useless, lincoln
was trying to get an appointment as
land commissioner, and failed. At
the same age nobody outside of his
own little community knew Ulysses
S. Grant. He had not then accom-.
plished anything of note, and yet he
became the greatest military figure OF
his day.
Every man makes his own dead
line. Some reach it at thirty-fiye.
some at forty, some at fifty; some do
not reach it at eighty; some never
reach it, because they never cease 10
grow.-O. S. Marden in Success.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26
WHEAT WASTED.

During 1905" writes George Met
calfe, M. E., in the Technical World
Magazine, "the railroads Of the United
States ordered new locomotives to the
number of $500 together with $500
passenger cars and 100000 freight
cars. These last figures give good
idea of the relative Importance OF
passenger and freight traffic to large
railroad. The rail mills started the
new year with orders for 2,500,000 tons
on their books.
I'm spite of these great orders and
in spite of the best efforts of the rail.
road managers pile after pile of thous-
ands of bushels Of corn has been heap
ed UP on the ground in Iowa. Kansas,
and Nebraska for want OF storage
room or transportation facilities;
while in North Dakota alone, over a
million bushels of wheat has rotted on
the ground for want Of freight cars To
move It."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26
WEALTH OF LABRADOR.

Consular Report.--Labrador covers
larger area than France and Ger
many combined and Is intersected by
so many streams that 1t is possible to-
travel by canoe in any direction. On
the southern watershed the forest
growth of spruce and larch Is luxuri-
ant with trees of marketable size
virgin forests that await the wood
mans ak. Here lies a great wealth
of material for paper mills. The
mineral wealth is considerable. Sall
ver-bearing lead ore-galena-
in many areas, while auriferous veins
and placer beds have been discovered
at accessible points along navigable
rivers not over 100 miles from the
sea. The furs Of Labrador are a.
source OF wealth which exclusive COM
mercial corporations have. assiduously
kept concealed that they might en-
joy the rich monopoly The ocean
shores and inland waters contain
supplies for large cod and salmon
fisheries and not a single night need
be spent at sea along It's coast, for a
safe harbor can be made in ten miles
anywhere from Belle isle to Cape
Jhildley.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26

New York, April 2O.-Ever see a
telephone construction crew at work?
You probably have, for this is where
there's already telephone to every
twenty or thirty people in the land
and the orders for extensions are
pouring in upon the companies so fast
that their husky men who put up the
poles, string the wires and install the
instruments are working overtime
Crews of them are in sight about
everywhere as the season in which a
man may work outdoors without fear
OF pneumonia or frost-bite returns.
You've perhaps noticed some of the
difficult problems they have to solve in
order to make the useful wires reach
their destined stations. The telephone
men, particularly those employed in
the construction work, don't need TO
go out OF their way to find trouble.
1t is always waiting for them around
the corner, and 1t is up to them to
overcome it on the spot. What makes
1t worse is that each locality has it's
own peculiar perplexlues. Some
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26
DESTROY WILD HORSES.

La Crosse Chronicle-To people in
the old settled parts OF the country
wild horse would be a novelty, but
they seem to be plentiful up in
Oregon. The Oregonian states that
during the present month there Is to
be rounding" of about $4,000 wild
horses in Douglas county. They have
multiplied till they have become a
real pest, and it is proposed to en-
ploy four hundred cowboys to corral
them and rid the settlers of what is
a great evil. What seems still more
strange Is the further statement that
these animals are all to be killed.
They are a breed of horses that for
many years have run wild, constantly
deteriorating in quality untamed and
untamablc, and the object in view is
to rid the range of these droyes OF
grass consumers as work of neces-
sity We presume the hides will be
saved and that is all, but to us such
a slaughter of horses seems not only
cruel but wasteful. They are not
considered worth the trouble Of at
tempting 10 domesticate them and
viii he put out Of the way with as lit
tie delay as possible.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26
JAPANESE ADJUSTMENTS.
kite-Flying and Battledore and Shut
tlecock at New-Year's.

New-Year's day begins the holiday
season with much rejoicing and pro
longed festivities in Japan. The fresh,
mild air OF January in that dreamland
OF the East brings out the boys with
their kites. 1t is favorite game.
The kites are made of all patterns and
fancy shapes, representing soldiers.
birds, fish and many kinds of animals.
For centuries the boys have been per
fecting themselves in the art of kite
flying, and are able to make their
toys perform wonderful feats aloft.
The art of flying kite is nothing
the art is to maneuver them at will
make the kites fight battles in their
flight.
Many devices are used to cut the
enenly's string; for example. steel
hooks and other attachments are
fastened to the strings, enabling the
boys by manipulating the cord to
wreck the enemy's kites. From the
housetops one can see thousands Of
miscellaneous kites, making the air
gay with their swift movements and
colors. Presently thzre are challenge
and acceptance. Then the battle be,
gins. High up in mid-air chicken
hawks, dragons, eagles are made to
dart hither and thither. ending after a
prolonged contest in victory for a few
of the most skillfully managed kites
All but the victors are broken and
sent tumbling to earth.
Nearly every boy Of any Importance
has from three to a dozen kites
Sometimes all will be destroyed in a
single combat. There are various
methods in challenging and accepting
the fight, often resulting in great de
struction of the beautiful floating
birds and monsters that dart 40 ways
during the fight as if they were living
creatures guided and propelled by
some magic power. This game is
played by boys in parks and open
fields.
Battledore and shuttlecock is the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26

who string the wires and aerial cables
which are unwound from ingeniously
contrived reel wagons.
Where the soil is soft the telephone
men use artificial foundations. In some
cases they fill the hole around a pole
with rubble consisting Of one part
cement, two parts sand and five parts
stone In other instances they brace
the poles in various ways. Where a
corner is to be turned, or where lna
lines are specially exposed to violent
weather, they are steadied with guys
which are generally attached to nearby
trees or anchored in rocky ground
Sometimes a pole is simply braced By
means of another pole sunk diagon.
ally to an equal depth in the ground.
An odd form of construction, where
the ground is particularly soft and
where guying or bracing is difficult.
is that of Two poles set in the form
Of letter A, or two poles set at 4
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26

upon the sand at the foot of the pole,
and in this way ten feet of pole can be
lowered in few minutes, the shaft
sinking of its own weight When it IS
set, IFS set to stay, for the sand flows
back around the base and makes a
foundation that is just as good as the
solid rock.
That's simple enough. When 2 pole
line is run over stretch of bare ledge,
involving blasts of dynamite, every
body in the gang has to work hard.
So. too, in most exceptional localities.
When the engineers have occasion to
stretch the long distance lines across
the sNamps which along the Gulf of
Mexico assume the shape OF shallow
but extensive lakes they resort TO the
ingenious arrangement of erecting the
poles upon RATS, building special
foundations for them and then saiiins
out across the water and dropping pole
after pole overheard, foundation AID
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26

all in the exact spots mapped out for
them.
Equal ingenuity has been displayed
In the first instance by men engaged in
the construction of long distance lines
through Rocky mountain passes in
Colorado. Here it was found that on
account of the wind and sleet the
poles wouldn't stay up. After many
setbacks the construction men hit
upon the plan of using submarine Bell
cable, which is so strongly armored
that the wear and tear from the ebb
and flow of tides has comparatively
little effect upon it. This cable was
laid at high attitudes in trenches, dug
just deep enough to preclude distui-
Dances from traffic or trouble above
ground. The result has been that dis
tant mining towns have had excellent
service, though often the wires that
connect them with the outer world
are buried under 80 feet of snow.
At NewOrleans the Rocky noun
tain arrangement was reversed. In
stead of using submarine cable in
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26
Building up Massachusetts.

Massachusetts is devoting a great
deal of effort, and considerable money
TO advertising the unimproved oppor
tunities for manufacturing and Other
enterprises in over three hundred
and fifty of her towns; the idea being
Of course. TO draw additional capita
and population to those towns. Bette
far devote the same means to The bull
ing up Of farming communities on he
unimproyed acres Intensive cultivs
ton and irrigation would render man
now neglected or balf-tilled areas II
the "old bay state" capable Of supper
Ing a considerable population, witt
none Of the narrowing and life bf
lifting features inseparable from o
crowded existence in Factory town"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26

Take care of portion OF the Miss
lssipp floods in the region where
they originate, by storing them IA res
ervoirs and distributing them through
irrigation canals. Then the problem
of dealing with high water on the
lower stretches Of the river will be re
duced TO half It's present dimensions
It may be even discovered that the an
nual overlooking of the lowlands to a
moderate depth will carry with 1t
gifts Of fertility like those which the
Nile annually bestows on the lowlands
81 Egypt; so that such overlooking,
instead OF being prevented should be
welcomed
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26
THE PRIME OF LIFE.

The larger part Of the great fortune
X this country have been accumulate
lfter their amassers have passer
forty. In fact, the first forty years
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-26
Out With the
Line Builders

Now Is the lime When the Telephone Construction. Men
Begin Their Yearly HustleTrias and fluctuations of
the Engineer and How He Gets Around Them---Moun-
tain Lines Built With Submarine Cable and Underground
Conduits Eevatedl Above Ground
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-16
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
PLANT FOR ORANGE

ORANGE, July City Engineer
Crane will have completed today work
on the maps of the city showing the
location of electric lights to be run
in connection with the city electric
light and power works.
The new plant is designed to sup
ply current to private consumers and
power to Il the pumping machinery
at the sewer and water works and
light the streets all at a figure consid-
erably under the amount charged for
years by the Public Service Corpora
ton. There now seems no doubt but
that the plant will be in full opera
tion in a few months. A contract
which the Public Service has tried to
get through the West Orange town
council is now held up, and it is like
ly that West Orange, and probably
South Orange, will operate the plant
Jointly with Orange. If this plan is
carried out it will probably put the
electric light department of the Pub
lie Service Corporation out of bust
ness as far as the Oranges are con-
cerned.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-16
LOEB is POSITIVE.
President RooseveIt's Secretary
Says He Will Not Run Again.

NEW YORK, July l6.-John Sharp
Williams, minority leader of the house.
and Congressman I. Il. Burton sailed
on the American line steamship st.
Paul. They are going abroad to at
tend the interparliamentary congress,
which will open in London on July %.
Mr.. Williams said he thought Presi-
dent Roosevelt would consent to run
again and pointed out some of the
shortcomings of the Republican party.
Il rather think that President Roose-
welt will be forced to run again." said
Mr.. Williams. 81 think the president is
planning it so that he will be forced to
make the running. The president rath,
err reminds me of the old lady of Sara
gossh. who hung about asking when
the gentlemen were going to begin the
kissing. as she wanted to be there
Some one told Mr.. Williams that
there had beer a report in circulation
that he had refused to serve OIL the
Bryan reception committee. On hear
ing this he became indignant.
Il never refused to go on the recep-
ton committee" he said. Then he
added, Bryan is the logical candidate
of the Democratic party"
Concerning the Republican party Mr..
Williams said:
"The Republican party has fallen be-
hind the mark. Profuse in promises. it
has not lived up to what it promised.
For II thing the party refused to go
into the question of tariff revision, as
was promised. There is a feeling of
unrest throughout this country. and it
is growing. Now. a feeling of unrest
always acts to the disadvantage of the
party in power"
A dispatch from Oyster Bay says
that when the interview with John
Sharp Williams was shown to Mr..
Loeb, secretary to the president. Mr..
Loeb said:
'The president meant exactly whit
he said on the night of his election
hat he would not he n candidate again
for the office. That statement is ir-
rnVocahlc."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-16
ABANDON SCHEME TO PAVE
COUNTRY ROADS ....d ASPHALT

TRENTON July 16.-Automobil-
lists will learn with regret that the
scheme tooadopt asphalt in place of
macadami for the paving of country
roads has been abandoned, at least
for the pFesentu State Road Commits
missioner Hutchinson was one of the
most ehthtisiastic adherents of the
new pavement, claiming that it had
many Advantages over macadam.
The reason for the abandonment
seems to have been the failure of the
Philadelphia concern that proposed
to make the experiment to secure the
necessary financial backing. When
the plan was presented to Commits
sioner Hutchinson he consented to
having a sample mile of the new road
built in Mercer county and the work
was to have been done this summer.
The Philadelphians were willing to
guarantee that the asphalt road
would not cost more than $4,000 a
mile, a trife less than the cost of
good macadam.
Had the experiment proved sue
cessful it was the intention of Com
missioner Hutchinson to have roads
of this kind built cross the state, es-
pecially those most Travelled by auto
mobilists and where the complaints
of dust have been the most numer-
Gus.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-16
GILLETTE Is
!. CAP D.
Companion Of Grace Brown Ar
rested at Eagle Bay Girls
Body Bore Marks.

UTICA, N. Y, July 16.-Chester Gill
lette of Cortland, n. V, arrested at the
Arrowhead, Eagle Bay, on Fourth lake,
charged with the murder of Grace
Brown of South Otselic. ON Big Moose
lake, was brought to Fulton Chain and
there was met by the manager of the
hotel ut Big Moose, where Miss Brown
and the man, who signed his name
Carl Graham, Albany, registered on
Wednesday and was at once fully iden-
titled as the man who accompanied
Miss Brown on her trip upon the lake.
Gillette said he was with the Brown
girl in this city Monday night and that
they went to Upper Lake on Tuesday
and remained there a night. Then they
came back TO Big Moose and went out
en- the lake, sending her trunk to Old
Forge.
He says that while they were in the
boat he arose to get his hat and that
the boat tipped over. He kept as far
away from Miss Brown as possible,
he says, fearing that she would carry
him down with her, and shouted to her
" CutCn hOlu " IN OOett. fAC
failed to do and sank.
He does not explain why he did not
give the alarm, and he says that his
grip was left ON the shore Mt another
point.
1t is explained that he did not at
tempt to leave the district because he
was out of money. He had written
~ fuianH In (opt1and fn Gnnn him ~
at Eagle Bay and is understood to have
also telephoned for money.
Gillette worked in the same factory
with Miss Brown in Cortland. He
went there about two years ago from
Seattle, Wash. He is a nephew of the
proprietor of the factory. He had been
attentive to the girl. and she had told
her parents that they were to be mar
ried. When she was III her vacation
to her home in South Otselic Gillette
wrote her several letters, and once she
went to the village and held a long
conversation with him over the tele-
phone. She was heard to accuse him
of being false to her, said he had de-
ceived her and that she should look to
him to keep his promise.
The drowning caused great excite
ment in the nelghborhood where it
occurred. The postmortem eXamina-
ton of the body of Miss Brown cstab-
fishes the fact that she was alive whea
the body entered the water.
=. The autopsy revealed. it IS stated,
that Miss Brown had been struck in
the eye and mouth and pounded on the
top of the head before she went into
the water.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-16
Mlsslng cnild rouna IN woods.

NEW LONDON, Conn, July 49,
Solomon Lefkowlch. three years old.
the New York lad who strayed away in
Montville on Tuesday and for whom
search has been made ever since, was
found in the woods about a mile from
his home by Everett Chapman, II of
the party of searchers. The child was
entirely naked and very weak from
exposure. He was taken to a nearby
house and given something to eat and
then carried home to his mother. In
spite of his lack of food and exposure
the little boy seems likely to have no
permanent harm from the experience.