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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08

In that land of mystery, of lost
races and hoary ruins, in warm and
sunny valley of Southern Arizona,
stands the town of Roosevelt. To-day
Il is a thriving, busting community
Of 1000 inhabitants. with electric
lights, waterworks, sewerage, schools,
and churches. Two years from now
Il will Ne at the bottom of lake
200 feet beneath the surface OF the
water.
The town of Roosevelt came into
being because of the Roosevelt dam
project 1t is fitting, perhaps, that
completion Of the dam will be toe
signal for the towns destruction, and
that the very ground upon which 1t
stands will be forever buried from the
sight Of man. Pompeii and Herculan-
cum were covered by the ashes of
Vesuvius; Nineveh and Babylon were
abandoned to the deserts drifting
sands; there are legends of beauti-
ful cities in the tabled continent of
Atlantis, many leagues under the
oceans waves; but Roosevelt stands
oiohe, proDdDly; as the only Town
which man has contrived deliberately
70 bury beneath the food.
Roosevelt Must Perish.
Roosevelt must perish that a desert
may be made to bloom. Already the
marvellous engineering work is well
under way. The walls of the narrow
canyon through which Salt River
rushes on edge are being locked by a
massive monolith of solid masonry,
Inc highest arch dam in the world
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08

r. the unintiated multitude outside
Of washington making Uncle Sans
money" has always appeared almost
,rcredibly simple, and entailing rather
1oss Of actual labor than any other
form of daily bread winning in which
tho American people are forced to en-
Gage To the ones inside the sacred
confines. however, it Is known that OF
oil the women in Washington who
draw their salaries from Uncle Sam,
the ones who work the hardest are the
ones who literally make his money"
In the government Bureau of En-.
craving and Printing, where every
hin current in the United States has
been made, there is group Of young
women known as plate printers as
sistants," whose daily wage is $l.50,
and whose duties consist in standing
opoosite the plate printers and feeding
into the presses the white paper,
fresh from the mills. which later will
reach the American people as treas
ury notes, silver certificates, and other
forms of paper currency.
The plate printer covers the en-
gayed steel plate with the maloior-
Gus ink by means of a roller, and af.
Ter each impression wipes the plate
with heavy rag, which, after the
first hours use, becomes simply an
ink.satnrated mon. Sometimes TO
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08

Gated in valley which has been the
lived there when Caesar sat upon mis-
throne. In an age forgotten the cliff
jewellers built their eyrielike homes
along the canyons of this stream, and
in the narrow Valleys the lines of
their irrigation canals may yet be
traced. Centuries later the Apaches
came and for many years their
tepees dotted the basin. Then
came the white man, who sought to
reconQuer the desert. which had re-
-sumed its sway after the cliff dwellers
vanished.
Battle With Nature.
The battle with unfriendly nature
proved too much for the pioneer, and
Uncle Sam took hand in the
fight. No problems could daunt his
engineers. They la.ghed at floods
and Knocked at deso:ation. A dam
site was discovered sixty-tro miles
from railroad, and they proceeded
to connect it with civilizat on by a
marvellous road which winds its way
for forty miles through deep canyons
along the face of frowning precipices,
over foaming cataracts, and across
broad areas of treeless desert. 1t
opens up to the transcontinental
traveller new region of compelling
interest and of splendid scenery.
More than that. it provides an easy
thoroughfare for the transportation
of heavy machinery of all kinds and
supplies for the new community
which sprang into life almost at a
word.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08

This wonderful structure OF sand
height from foundation to parapet,
1G2 feet long, and ITO feet wide at
base, and 700 feet long on top. Its
cubical contents will be 100000 cubic
yards. and In its construction 100000
barrels of cement will be required.
Placed along side of an eighteen story
skyscraper, this dam would rise ten
feet above it. while its length on top
would be more than two city blocks.
A turbulent stream with it's enormous
foods. will beat itself into stiffness
against the masonry monster, its
foam and spume lost in. deep lake.
twenty-five miles long and two miles
wide.
Work Day and Night.
BY day and by night the dull roar
of dynamite breaks the desert still
ress, and the canyon walls go
crashing down to furnish material
for this structure. On the hill far
above the rock crushers never stop
grinding the limestone, and great
kilns, white hot, are burning daily
hundreds of barrels of cement.
When night comes myriads of cleo
trio lights burst forth, weirdly illumin-
ating a busy army of toilers gnome-
like working in shadowy canyon.
A star-gemmed heaven looks down
upon a wondrous scene, unreal, awe
some and inspiring.
This great work of the government
roccoccac ruucua1 offra lions for fna
engineer and the layman. It is To-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08

just across the river the tepees oil
the swarthy Apaches dot the plain
The warriors of old Geronimo, now
Uncle Sans faithful laborers dwell
in. peace and harmony with his once
deadly enemy, the white man, each
doing his full share of labor in con
structing the engineering marvel OF
the age.
And yet this city is doomed. Every
stone that Is laid in the narrow arch
which is to restrain the foamina
river now rushing through the canyon
lbrings nearer and nearer the day
when Roosevelt shall vanish beneath
an inland sea. When the great dam
is completed, in 1908, and its massive
gates of steel, weighing 100000
pounds, are shut down. rising
food will cover the site of the city
with 200 feet of water.
The ingenuity of man has been
taxed in this work. It's isolated posi-
ton, the difficult physical conditions.
the tremendous and unexpected
floods, have tried the metal of the en-
gineers. The enormous amount of
cement required was in itself prob
lem which forced Uncle Sam to turn
manufacturer in order to solve it.
Nature having kindly furnished an
ideal site for dam, was thoughtful
enough to provide materials near at
hand for making cement. A cement
mill was quickly erected at cost of
100000. The downward rush of the
river was utilized for electric power
to operate the mill, and many thou
sand barrels of first-class cement
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08

before has not left the room when the
assistant comes in at o'clock to be-
gin her days work, and If her cour.
age be ever SO high as she leaves The
pure air outside, it GIBBS soon enough
as her lungs become filed with the
enervating ink-fouled atmosphere.
h The day workers are second in line
OF promotion, the night assistant be.
ing the least paid in the department.
She is given $125 till her olfactory
senses are sufficiently benumbered
and her unruly impulses to throw
the job up and leave" sufficiently chas-
tened to admit of uninterrupted work.
Tourists Interested.
Tourists who are interested in
watching the bright green bills as
they slip through the deft fingers of
the employees, are taken to a little
elevated bridge in the center of the
room, and from this vantage ground
are shown the rows of men and wo-
men at their monotonous tasks.
The ink-smudged women are never
moved to laughter. except when some
particularly uncommon looking tour
list comes 'snooping" around, awed
into an evidently reluctant silence by
the sight of such unlimited money, or
Cabling to her companions in the un-
mistakable vernacular of the back
woods, or wondering and murmuring
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08

And this community affords al
most story in itself, for it is diff
ent from others, which, ephemeral-
like, spring up in the far West. 1t
is located in a great basin trimmed
by high mountains. Through the
Bottom of it flows the waters of Salt
River and Tonic Creek, the stream
meeting at the southern end of the
basin, and emerging from it through
canyon 700 feet deep in the Salt
River Mountains. This canyon is
the only outlet of the basin. If one,
would emerge by another route, it
must be by that of mountain roads
and trails. Although this was once
the favored rendezvous of the old-tim9
outlaw and cattle thief, offering safe
refuge from pursuit, the bustling
little city of Roosevelt is strangely
unlike the average new town of
the west. There are no saloons, no
gambling and the bad man with
ready six-shooter and bowie knife is
conspicuously absent.
A Government Town.
1t is a government town, and the
rules laid down are simple and eff
fective. Uncle Sam owns the ground
upon which the town is erected and
the people there are merely by suf-
ferance. No one may occupy a town
lot which faces the main street I'M
less he is engaged in a legitimate
business, and his continuous posses
sion of the property depends
upon his own conduct. The
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08
have already been used in the
works.
Government E,rp,e


Government Farms.
In acquiring the reservoir site Up
Gle Sam bought a ranch Or two anZ
has gone to farming. A lot of hay
is put up for the horses. and vege-
TABLES and garden sass" are fur.
nlshed the camps of the government.
So it is easy to see that the engi-
neer, who bosses the job has got ID
have clear brain, broad grasp and
a ready adaptability to meet all
kinds OF conditions and dificurties.
But while the city of Roosevelt
with the homes of its 1000 inhabi.
tants, is doomed, a fair valley is ia
be redeemed, in which the agricul.
tural possibilities are not exceeded
anywhere in the world Under al
most tropical skies, with soil OF
wonderful fertility, the farmer in
Salt River Valley will cultivate his
orange groves, his fig trees and his
broad meadows will yield him heavy
Harvests Of alfalfa six and seven
times year.
The great lake which will bs
created by the Roosevelt dam is to be
tapped by canals hundreds of miles
long and extending all over the broad
valley around Phenix. Vast areas
row absolutely worthless will be
transformed quickly into blossoming
orchards and purpling vineyards, and
hundreds of happy homes will dot
a plain where now the giant sahuarro
rears its spiny head and the gila
monster roamS at will.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08

results are in marked contrast with
new towns on other projects where
the govel Ilnei1 could not exercise,
any supervisory control. The labor
ers are contented. Tile are deposit
ing a large part of their earnings
with the disbursing officer Of the Re
clamation Service, who banks il for
them in Fbenix.
To-day the baker, the banker, the
druggist, and general merchandise
dealer are represented A knight OF
the razor is on hand to lay waste TO
the abundant hirsute adOrnments OF
males. He is an enterprising chap,
and has sequestered a bot spring
flowing out of a canyon near by,
and the inhabitants now enjoy the
luxury of hot bath. 1t is an in
teresting spectacle to view the popu-
lation on Sunday morning, each
equipped with towel. patiently wait
ing the call of next"
Plenty of Amusements.
Amusements are not wholly lack
ing: baseball and Quoits are popular,
and in the evenings the town hall,
ablaze with lights, is given up to
dancing. Males predominant, SO there
are no lady wall flowers. Notwith-
standing this disparity no personal
encounters have resulted, the slo-
gan of the camp being fair play"
and the rules of department are
rigidly observed. Each male is given
a tag, and number / to 20 are ac-
corded the first dance, those from
20 to 40 the next, and SO on.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08
Character
- ENJAMIN IDE WHEELER, presi-
= IL 4 L.. Il Ill

n ENJAMIN IDE WHEELER, presi-
ID dent Of the University of Call
fornia, at the commencement ex.
ercises at Dartmouth college last year,
said: abundance of goods cannot in
sure either to a people or to an indi-
vidual that quality of existence which
we are justified in associating with the
notion of richness, fuIlness, abundance
Of life. A man lives abundantIy accord
ing as he opens his life to the oppor-
tunities of the world he lives in both
to be and to do. We need national laws
for divorce, for the oversight Of irsur-
snee, for the regulation of the traffic Of
the great national system Of railways.
We are nation and must have ma
tionai laws for national concerns. u
behooves US while holding fast to local
safeguards for local interests TO court
the inspiration of the fuller, richer NJ.
tionaI life and be Americans"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08
JAMES HuRRILL ANGEL, pre-.

JAMES BURRIlL ANGEL, presi.
dent Of the University Of Michigan,
told this story to a class in inter-
national law: "Some years ago, when !
was minister to Turkey, Greece was
visited by famine. A wave Of SYM
pathy swept over the Union, affecting
the women particularly. They raised
hundreds Of de.:>-s. With true Yankee
husbandry they did not send the money,
but spent it in buying quantities Of
dresses for the women. One entire ship
was loaded by this outpourins OF char
ity. Shortly after the ship arrived
made trip through Greece. II was
in the days when our ladies wore ex-
tremely large sleeves, but the style in
Greece was not the same. Imagine my
surprise when saw that the women
had not known what the garments
were and had put them on their hus-
bands for trousers.s
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08

JACOB GOULD scHURMAN, presi-
dent Of Cornell, university, self
made scholar and political econo-
mist, is the author Of the folIowins:
Gust here 10 the danger Of the TWEEN
tieth century. The retired, secluded,
semimonastic idealisrn Of the old col
Iese is menaeed in it's own historic
horne by the modern. professional and
utiIitarian studies and interesto which
encompass IL. The educational prob
lem Of the next generation 10 50 to
maintain the practical and useful that
we shall not lot 90 Of what 10 ideal and
spiritual. In the insane desire OF
wealth by all classes and its mad pur-
suit by so many of our ahlsst young
men lies the greatest danger to our in
situations. Knowledge, culture and even
scientific efficiency in ones calling are
in themselves not only desirahle ends,
but the supreme ends Of life"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08

polish the surface OF the plate. he
uses powdered pumice, applying il
with the palm of the hand.
On the other side Of the roller the
assistant is selecting the sheets of pa
Per, dampening them that the impress
sion shall be the more easily made
and standing ready to take them from
the press when they have been print
ed.
Tiresome Work.
The work requires very little actual
strength, and the assistant has only
to stand and deal out the fresh white
sheets, but after the first day or two
her eyes begin to droop with the foul
heavy odor of the ink, and her move
ments grow to be purely mechanical
her listless, tired expression being
evidence that she desires merely
strength enough to stand by her post
till the day is done.
The room where she works she
shares with 900 men and women, work
ing so close together that oftentimes
the ink from one press spoils the
dress Of its assistants neighbor. Her
hours are from o'clock in the morn
ing till in the afternoon, though the
presses are whirring till II each night
with the night printers, who go on at
4 o'clock.
The odor of the ink from the nigh.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08

audibly "how them young women kir
be KEEP frum stealth Is a myst'ry o,
me-"
The assistants seldom speak to ore
another. they often do not know Their
nearest neighbours name, and If they
are inclined to flippant conversation
they are definitely discouraged by the
plate printers.
The printer is paid by the amount
of work he does, his wage running
from Sc to $40 per day, and out OF
this he must pay his assistant, so it is
easy to see that she is not allowed to
do any frivoling. Once Or twice a
new recruit will break into "a little
song, but it is generally lost in the
hum of the rollers, if she doesn't be-
come too scared to continue it when
she sees the surprised faces Of her
comrades, and the grim visages of
the printers.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08

nAvID STARR JORDAN, presi-
- dent Of Leland Stanford, Jr, uni
Versity, once said of crime and
punishment: "The law of crime is the
direction Of cause and effect, but
msre Is no such thing as punishment
VI nature. Any one who sins gets the
punishment. We punish but few Of
we criminals that exist. II seems to
NC 20 be one of the greatest elements
" me philosophy of punishment to
animate all desire for revenge. An
..ae'ern'inate system Of imprisonment
ssems to be better than the present
vs'sm. lt'seems to me that when any
rs,son IS dependent upon society he
LIQUID be restrained and not allowed
- ,eproduce his kind. The point in the
phnosophy Of punishment 10 to find out
~na' should be done and then how we
d Get"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08
! NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER,
N president of Columbia university,

IN president Of Columbia university,
in his inaugural address June 20,
1902, uttered the following words:
scholarship and service are the true
university's ideal. The university of
today is not the home of lost causes
and forsaken beliefs and unpopular
names and impossible Ioyaities.' II
keeps step with the march Of progress,
widens its sympathies with growing
knowledge and among q democratic
people seeks only to instruct, to upIift
and to serve, in order that the cause
of religion and learning and Of human
freedom and opportunity may be con-
tinuaIIy advanced from century to GEN.
fury and from age to age. With sehoI-
arship and hearty and united service
a university need fear nothing. II may
face any difficulty with the assurance
that time and opportunity will come"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08

sponsibIe for this classic yarn:
IAN elderly minister appeared before a
board to be examined for some post.
The first branch to be taken up was
Latin. what is the Latin for gooseT
the examiner asked. The poor old min
lister was stumped. II was pitiful to
gee him, and young man seated near
could not resist helping him out. An
SER he whispered. But the minister
continued silent. 'Anser,' whispered
{. young man in Iorder tone. The
minister turned his head and looked at
his prompter oddly. Poor old chap!
He almost heard. He wants me to try
again. the young man thought. 'An-
SER he repeated. The minister turned
and shook his forefinger At the youth.
Answer yourself, you young jack.
anapesp he shouted"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08
WILLIAM ELIOT,
nr>e;derf Of Harvard ,,n;vsre ;<v

u president OF harvard university,
spoke these words at the close OF
his inaugural address in 1869: ~ hear
in your voice the voice of the alumni,
welcoming me to high honors and ar.
dueus Iabors, charging me to be faith
full to the duties of this consecrated
office. ! take up this weighty charge
with a sense of insufsiciency, but yet
with hope and good courage. High
examples will tighten the way. Deep
prayers of devoted living and sainted
dead will further every right effort,
every good intention. The university
is strong in the ardor of its teachers,
in the visor of the corporation and in
the public spirit of the community.
Above all, devote myself to this sacred
work, in the firm faith that the God
Of the fathers will be also with the
children"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08
pretty clothes ON s1a5 per day.

pretty clothes on $1JZ5 per day.
1t is no unusual sight to observe
from the tourists little bridge, wan
faced assistant, with struggling hair
and ink-stalned face and hands, twist
ing impatiently at gaudy beads while
she waits for the roller to make the
impression on the bills, Or pushing
further toward her elbow a sleeve
heavy laden with laces and ribbons.
The printers and their assistants
work under bright blue electric light
all the time, whether the light outside
Is dim or not, and from the roof to the
tables on which the rollers rest run
strings of little flags. If every other
emotion loses its grip in the swelter.
ing, vile-smelling room, the fires of
patriotism must be famed by the fiut-
tering little silk emblems.
Social Position.
In Washington's social structure tine
plate printers assistants" occupy a
place all to themselves. They are too
i'll paid to permit of social intercourse
with the average government en-
ployee, and they must seek the hum
bier portions of the city for residences
if they would meet the monthly rental
with the government stipend, and
something, half recognized and whole
ly influential, in the nature of a dis
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08

ply the business proposition of get,
ting this work done, enough of it to
feed and clothe my children, before
the sounding of that gong"
And it is the plate printers who
rule in the printing room, so the as
sistants turn listlessly to the piles of
PAPER, and wait for the day to pass.
Although the strictest regulations
are enforced, regarding the safety of
the money. there is little or no temp
tation to steal from the Bureau of
Printing and Engraving, as the money
does not receive the seal which makes
it valuable till it reaches the treas
ury.
But even the deadening influences
of business-like printers cannot who'll
ly stamp out the essentially feminine
instincts of woman, wherever she Is
and the love of finery, perhaps the
strongest of these evinces itself even
in the ink-spattered printing room.
Useless Vanity.
A per dem income of S1.25 is not,
to ordinary understandings, conducive
to much extravaganza in dress, and
amazement at their foolishness in
wearing new dresses to be stained
and spotted by the ink, changes to adj
mirat.on at the financial generalst ip
which enables them to live and buy
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-08
Six Hundred Workers.

Six hundred men and women moving
continually, shoulder to shoulder, each
head bowed resolutely to the task
waiting for the big gong to- sound
that is what the tourists see, and those
are the men and women who are
making Uncle Sans money.
cit is certainly not social occa:
sion," the printer admits. 1T is sim