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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
LAYING AN OCEAN CABLE.
1t Is Always Put Down from West
to East Across Atlantic.

I'D EAST ACROSS Atlantic
The Commercial Cable Company's
Atlantic cable from Canso, n. S., to
Waterville, Ireland, was completed
and put in operation on Oct. 6, says
the Philadelphia Record This makes
seven transatlantic cables worked IN
direct connection with the lines of the
Postal Telegraph-Cable Company. All
OF them are dupleXed, so that their
combined capacity is fourteen mes
sages at one time
The Atlantic cables are always laid
from west to east because the pre-
valllng winds in the summer months
on the Atlantic are from west and
ships make much better weather going
eastward; consequently the CoIonia,
the steamer which had the cable
aboard, sailed direct from England TO
America, arriving off the coast of
Nova Scotia on Aug. 10, and landed
the heavy shore end Of the cable On
the morning Of Aug. Is. Moving out
from the shore, she struck a rock and
remained fast on it for four days. The
injuries she sustained compelled her
to go into dry dock at Halifax with
1890 miles of submarine cable aboard
Repairs were made and the Colonia
took the sea again. On Sept. % she
laid her course from Canso, y. S.,
paying out the cable
On Oct. she arrived. without mis-
hap, at point 1871 miles from the
splice was to be made between the
cable that she had paid out from the
American side and the 1877 miles Of
cable previously laid westward from
the Irish coast by the steamship Cam
bria in the month Of June. The
was compelled to heave to for several
days awaiting smoo,4er seas to enable
| her to make the final splice, which
was made on Oct. 6.
At some points the cable was laid
at depth of nealy three miles below
the surface Of the sea. The quanti-
ties Of the material used in the manu-
| facture OF the cable were 1,411, POO
pounds of copper, 799,68S pounds Of
gutta percha and 16,S45 pounds Of
brass, tape, jute, yarn, iron wire and
preservative compound.
The signaling speed of this cable is
Is per. cent greater than that Of any
other cable Of equal length in the At
lantic. The cost of the cable varied
from $1,000 a mile to $4,000 a mile,
according to the character Of the
ocean bed and depth Of water, the
greatest variation in cost being due to
the different diameters and weights Of
the sections of the cable, the cable
which is laid in the deepest water
being the lightest for the important
reason that it would be impossible to
retrieve a heavy cable from deep
water because of the enormous pres
sure. Cable in deep water is practi-
cally safe from mechanical injury, and
therefore does not need to be so
strong, so that the sections laid in
deep water are of small diameter and
less cost. The sections laid near shore
are Of massive construction and very
expensive.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
Street car PoIiteness.

THANK YOU" she said, as he finally
gave her his seat in the car. Its al
most impossible to stand on your feet
"That was because 1 kept pulling 'en
out of your way, madam" he replied,
"but you did manage to land on my
faverite corn couple of times. >
Philadelphia Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

over O,UUU,UUO OF the women OF the
United States are wage earners.
About 100000 of the number are en-
ployed in industrial pursuits, and near
~ 100000, most of them negresses,
are agricultural laborers. The club
women Of the country have started
movement to secure a thorough inves-
tigation into the conditions under
which working women earn their
bread Women in the United States
do not do much Of the heavy work
performed by those in other countries.
They do not harness themselves to
carts, or complete with navvies on rail
roads, or toll in bog pits, or carry
hods hare as they often do in Europe.
Here and there may be found the
wives and daughters Of foreigners who
so into the fields and pitch hay and
grain as they did at home. The agri-
cultural work done by women in this
country is chiefly cotton picking. 1t
is the opinion Of Robert Hunter, how
ever, that searching inquiry into wo-
mems pursuits in the United States
will reveal the existence of a worse
state Of affairs than is generally sus-
pected. Much Of the work they do, he
says, is extremely injurious to their
health, and the work done by mothers
or women about to become mothers
has especially deplOrable consequences
to the workers themselves and also to
their offspring and to society. There
are nearly 100000 married women,
more than 100000 widows, and about
$4,000 divorced women in the United
States engaged in gainful occupations.
Many Of them have young children
who are much neglected while their
mothers are away from the home
making the living. These children
will largely constitute the ignorant
and criminal portion of the next gen
Grafton Of citizens The need and pro-
priety Of legislation by the States
regulating the conditions of the en-
pioyment Of women, and especially Of
those Of factory workers, are now gen
orally recognized. Mr.. Hunter would
go still farther and entirely prohibit
A4OAAC1o Will JOO11S N4lI4O1Ch 4AOl1
working outside their homes. He
would relieve married women from
the necessity of outside work by send
ing drunken or lazy husbands and
fathers to penal institutions, where
they would be compelled to labor for
the support of their families. Widows
or women with disabled husbands he
would pension until their children
were educated and were old enough
to help them. 1t would be easy to
cast ridicule upon Mr.. Hunters scheme
or to brush it aside as "paternaIistic"
or "sociaIistic," and therefore I'M
worthy attention. 1t would be bet
ter and more profitable to look care
fully into the facts and ascertain
whether the remedy he proposes OF
any remedy the lawmaker can apply
is needed to deal with a growing evil.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

Her ability to give herself whole
heartedly to an undertaking holding
back nothing, neither mind nor body
nor life itself-is what makes her
of value as the nurse and the mother
OF the world. Mr.. Carnegie complains
that a woman does not take proper
nourishment at a proper time, and
that she permits herself to overwork.
But how many little children owe
their lives to the very capacity for
physical self-forgetfulnes which sus-
tains mother through nights Of
watching and days Of unf1agging care
while her child battles with some
desperate illness? The truth which
Mr.. Carnegie is seeking lies deeper
than his observation. 1t is not in a
womans capacity for complete alb
sorption that her danger lies. 1t is
rather in her lack Of that fine sense
Of proportion which shall determine
for her when she may be moderate and
when immoderate in the expenditure
Of her strength. The woman who rObs
herself Of sleep or food for the sake
of solving a mathematical problem is
not wise; but she who does the same
thing for the sake Of saving her sick
baby is a wise mother. To adjust and
weigh with nice precision the rela-
tive Importance Of the calls upon them
is the most difficult task for women
in modern life Skill in knowing the
small duty from the great one will
never dampen enthusiasm or kill de-
votion. But any development Of wo-
men which exalts moderation for its
own sake and under all circumstances
will leave the world poorer in the best
wives and mothers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
Why He Laughed.

Here's a story of an actress who
lost her diamonds that amuses me very
much"
I don't see anything In it to laugh
att
''It's phoney story, isn't it?"-Kan-
sas City Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
Strongly Recommended

"And what recommendations has
this man whom you are pushing so
vigorously for the presidency of our
insurance company"
''He is an unmarried orphan, with
no brothers or sisters. "-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

The opinion Of the average Ameri-
can man was doubtless expressed b.
Andrew Carnegie in his address to the
women students Of Dundee University
College, when he said that the chief
danger of a woman lay in the fact
that she could do nothing in modera-
ton. She was all or nothing. He
might have added that in this same
characteristic lies her chief power.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
A NEW CAN OPENER.
VIII Not slip and Endanger the
Hand of the User.

" III MOI SIP ana EnUanBer the
Hand of the User.
SO many different kinds OF can
openers are manufactured that per-
lection in their design would seem to
have been reached. Such does not
seem to be the case, as a New York
man has patented still another, which
he claims is superior to any now used.
His invention appertains more partic-
ularly to the construction Of the head
of the can opener with relation to its
cooperating parts, and it's object, in
addition to providing a can opener
wherein the head may be made of
sheet metal stamped or formed up, is
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

A man who was held up and robbed
by two highwaymen a few days ago
supposed that they were college stu
dents out on lark. Of course the
joke was on him, but doesn't it re-
dound rather forcibly against those
colleges in which hazing and rushing
are winked at as things that are I'M
worthy Of serious attention?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

A Boston bank has closed its doors,
and the announcement is made that the
creditors will not lose anything. If
this proves to be true, it is likely to
cause an epidemic Of heart disease.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

Peary is supposed to be pushing on
to the North. The insurance presidents
will probably wonder why any man
has to so away off like that in search
Of trouble.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

Somebody remarks that the trouble
with the country is too much prosper
ity for the rich and too much poster
ity for the poor. This comes perilously
near being pert paragraph.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

One trouble with ". t. Stead's
remedies for national ills is that he
does not bottle them and put on a stiff
price. Nothing people despise so much
as free advice.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

From his own viewpoint Gar
Nicholas can see clearly that car
without a lot Of land would be a
whole lot nicer than a lot of land
without a car.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

The Russian name for the League
of Leagues is Obstchestyo Profess
sionalnikh Obstchestv. Is it any Won
der that this organization has terroriz-
ed the government?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
After a Taste.

WELL" demanded Hiss Starvem at
the back door, what do you wantY''
why" replied the tramp. 81 seen
you advertised table board in this
mornings paper"
"Well?"
well, 1 thought, mebbe, yer wuz
given out some samples -Philadel-
phia Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

A man with a microscope and an
Investigating turn Of mind has discov-
cred a new variety of mosquito. He
Is in mighty small business.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
He Was Good.

Miss Askham-And do you paint
nothing but animal pictures every
day?
Mr.. D'Auber-Well, on Fridays
paint fish.-CIeyeland Leader.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

Gotham people are sending letters
to precinct police stations addressed
to Senator Chauncey Depew. Such i'm
patience is not good FORM.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
Popularity.

rs this what you'd call a popular
song?"
''Oh, no; nobody is tired of it YETI
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

Sometimes the task of holding the
world in it's orbit becomes arduous
and discouraging even for Prof. e.
Benjamin Andrews.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

However, if the railways were I'M
der government ownership nobody
would feel under the slightest obliga-
ton to fee the porter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

1t is no uncommon thing to see the
stork work overtime delivering little
white bundles at homes where neither
parent has enough intelligence to take
care Of 4 rag doll.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
neal Eewirning OF Educatfon.

When young man begins to know
how much less he knows than he
thinks lie knows then he knows some
thing that is really worth knowing
st. Joseph Gazette.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

Thus far the life insurance presi-
dents do not seem to have felt COM
PEELED to fall back on technicalities.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
Renax-HIade Money.

''Snobbs says he would never wear
ready-made Clothes
Possibly. But he spends ready
made dollars. If his father hadn't
left them to him he wouldn't have
enough to buy a secondhand suit
Detroit Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

II carried cut, the proposition to
shoot automobilists would extend the
cunning season we'll around the year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

The life of the Gar is as hazardous
as that Of a football quarterback.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

Funny, isn't it, how often a Wall
street lamb has to be sheared before
it can be called a sheep.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

The Isle of Pines also seems to pro-
duce a considerable crop of revolu-
tionary timber
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

Some people think they have done
their duty if they express a willing
ness to do It
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

What is a sign of age in others is
VI course, a sign of sense in you
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

Most people have a horror OF a
Jolly man.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-08
GIVEN WATER CURE
AS PERsUADER.
Y.Marn Y Dung, a Korean,
Accuses Hawaiian Of
ficer of Great Brutality
NECK STRETCHED
sprnA1 p1sParcH no rHE cAL1.

HONOLULU. Aug. 7.-Y. Marn
Young, a Korean. who is awaiting trial
on charge of assault with intent to
kill, has brought counter charges
against Henry Vida. assistant sheriff
of the. County of Oahu. claiming that
vida administered to him the famous
riety in the Philippines IN order to
his alleged crime.
The Koreans attorneys have pub
lished an affidavit. in which he gives
the details of Vida's alleged inhuman
treatment. Vida is said to have left
the prisoner for over two days with
out food or water; laterato have stood
him against the wall and pointed a
pistol at him for several minutes, and
subsequently. with two assistants, TO
have tied a rope around Young's neck,
each pulling on the rope until Young
became unconscious.
or the water cure Young says in his
affidavit that the policeman procured
a large bucket of water and smaller
tin or pot, and "as affiant lay helpless
on said box or bench, bound or
gagged as aforesaid. the said police
man dipped the small tin into the
bucket and poured the contents of said
tin over the face of af1ant, causing
the water to go into his mouth. eyes,
nose and ears, affant being forced TO
swallow large quantities of water, and,
being unable to breathe, suffered terri
BILE torture"
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-08
PROPERTY OWNERS SEEKING
TO IMPROVE THOROUGHFARE
Residents of DevisaderO Street Are
Working Together for Benefit
of Their NefEhbOrhoOd.

The business men and property own
ers of Devisadero street are working
enthusiastically for the Improvement
of the street, it's lights, stores and
other things of vital interest to that
section. At a meeting held last Mon
day night thirty new members Joined
the association, and others slgnified
their intention of joining. Ways and
means of lighting and Illuminating the
street. securing better and larger stores
and particularly the extension of the
United Railroads tracks to the Mission
district were discussed.
An active. campaign for new mem
bers is now being made, and author
lied agents and solicitors for the asso-
citation are now in the field and meet
ing with success in increasing the
membership.
Mayor Schmitz has accepted the in
vitation Of the association to aodress
the next meeting, to be held at Oak
wood Hall, 1905 Devisadero street,
next Tuesday evening, August IA. when
there will be a grand rally of all per-
sons interested in the objects to be at
tanned by the association.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-08
BURGLAR. visit saloons.

Thomas NJ. Sterling reported to the
police yesterday that his saloon at Fell
and Hayes streets was entered by bur
glars early yesterday morning, they
having broken the glass in a side door.
Five bottles of liquor and quantity
of tobacco were stolen besides the
cash register. which was found in a
vacant lot adjoining. The register had
contained $4.45, and the burglars had
taken 1925.
j. F. Seike of S22 Sixth street re-
ported that his saloon had been en-
tered on Monday night. Three bottles
of liquor, 200 cigars. a dozen bottles of
ginger ale and quantity of tobacco
were stolen.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-08
NEW FERRY ROUTE
IS PROPOSED.
Boats to Leave Sixteenth
Street for Oakland
and Touch at Market
FACILITY NEEDED

A ferry line from the foot of Six
teenth street, near the Union Iron
Works, to Oakland, with stopping
place at the foot of Market street,
is among the plans of the wholesalers
and manufacturers OF the Potrero.
Recognizing the growing needs of
the district, the members of the Po-
trero Commercial and Manufacturers
Association, at its meeting yesterday
afternoon at the California Canneries.
decided to give the scheme careful
consideration. The streetcar and team
ing problem was discussed and the
building of a viaduct suggested.
The meeting, which was held at
Eighteenth and Minnesota streets, was
presided over by George FrederickS
of the Union Iron Works, w. j. Bar
rett acting as secretary. The mer-'
chants of the Potrero, realizing that
the growing number of warehouses
of the wholesalers must receive an
outlet, will actively endeavor to Sc
cure both the ferry route and other
transportation facilities. A commit
tee was appointed to appear before
the Board of Supervisors and present
the needs of the district and to ad-
vocate the granting of spurtrack priv
ileges wherever commerce will be
benefited.
A resolution was adopted calling on
the press of San Francisco to give
more prominence and publicity to the
development of the city, especially
with reference to the improvement of
the water front and the interchange
able railroad and belt line facilities.
In urging the spur track privilege, the
association declares the needs of the
merchants and suggests the safe
guards that may be interposed by the
Supervisors
A resolution was adopted recon-
mending to the Relief Corporation the
advisability of locating a large num-
Der of the ho,Ises which it has planned
to build for the shelter of the home
less in the Potrero, accessible to the
manufacturing section.
It was also decided to establish a
permanent commercial and savings
bank in the district.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-08
HE BORE A PATRONYMIC
THAT PUZZLED THE CLERK
Long Experience Had Not Prepared the
Court for This Combination of
VoyyeIs and COnsOnantS.

HONOLULU, Aug. 7.-"what is your
full name?" asked Clerk Simonton, in
the usual formal manner of a Circuit
Court clerk addressing a witness just
sworn.
Observation-Disclosures olonoikamakahikika-
puakalani." said the witness, without a
tremor
Simenton for some reason or other
wanted it again. He is not hard Of
hearing nor slow in making court min
utes, but for some mysterious motive
he asked the witness to say it again
and try to say it slow. Then with de-
liberation the witness repeated his
name.
Observation-Disclosures
puakalani."
OF course any competent clerk ought
to have been able to get 1t on the jump,
but Simonton couldn't. And even the
court interpreter seemed puzzled over
it.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-08
FIVE YEARS WILL
WORK WONDERS.
Theodore Starrett, of Big
Contracting Concern,
Confident of Future
AMAZING STRIDES

Theodore Starrett, president OF the
Thompson -Starrett Construction Com
pany of New York, with a branch in
this city, who recently returned from a
trip throughout the East, propheses a
remarkable future for San Francisco.
He says that the strides made since
he left here thirty days ago are Won
derful. Baltimore" he said, never
made such rapid progress during the
first three months after the fire as has
this city. Now is the time for San
Francisco to widen her streets, before
the construction of permanent build
ings is begun"
Starrett says that Eastern capital
has great faith in the future of San
Francisco and predicts that at the end
of fiye years the town will be so re-
built that but 25 per cent of the build
ings will be temporary structures. He
believes that the proposition advanced
by some of the business men of this
city to bring Architect Burnham here
as special advisor on the erection of
buildings would be an excellent thing
for San Francisco and insure the erec-
tion of first-class permanent buildings.
He said:
To my eye the progress made in
ing. You folks who expected to have
it all cleaned UP in a jiffy were un-
reasonable and have no cause to be
months to put in the foundations of an
average city skyscraper and anywhere
from eight months TO a year and a half
more to finish it undernormal conditions.
To rebuild a burned-out skyscraper is
just as hard a task and takes almost
as much time as to build a new one.
Experience in Baltimore proves this.
So those who expected to have all
signs of the wreckags cleaned UP at
this time expected too much;
tits all very well for artistic souls
ito protest against the rebuilding in a
hasty manner with "hideous wooden
shacks," but the towns natural in
vailed San Francisco after the fire
was like soul without body. That
was the tragedy of it. Unlike the
human creature, it could still maintain
its existence. but not for too long. To
attempt to. hold it in a state of sus.-
more perfect body was being designed
for its reinhabitance was something &
impossible. What San Francisco needs
TO do and must do is what she is doing.
the old sites as fast as she can. She is
giving the life blood chance to circu-
late, even though it be in temporary
arteries.
! The bulk of the immediate re-
habilitation. in fact df it is indeed i'm
Inediate). all OF the first restoration,
will be of the cheapest, perhaps you
may say. of the sfHoddiest kind. But
at intervals you will find a permanent
Improvement that will be erected in
These permanent buildings will be
ready in, say. a year from now. They
will be occupied by concerns that will
move from shacks. They will COM
shacks and replacing them with per-
manent structures
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-08
Has Employment for Boys.

Chief Dinan received the following
letter yesterday from J. v. O'Brien.
manager of the Western Union ~ele-
graph Company:
riencing great difficulty in securing
boys TO deliver messages. l understand
from our agents who are about the city
seeking messengers that there are a
number of young men and boys idle at
the present time, but they do not care
to work. For your information might
say that boys can make between $40
and $50 month delivering kilograms
without being in the least overworked.
Should any of the unemployed come
under your notice 1 should thank you
to have them call on us at me ferry
building, north end. second floor, where
they will be given immediate employ
ment"