Morris tribune., 1906-09-22
Baltimore's Jubilee Week.

| The Monumental City celebrated last
week it's complete recovery from the
great fire which destroyed its business
section two years and seven months
ago. Baltimores streets have been so
! widened and Strengthened that eight
/ acres have been added to the public
| street area In addition it has estab-
| lished a new modern dock system hav-
ing 10000 feet of water frontage. The
city has gained much beauty, as build
ings have been restricted to 175 feet in
! height and builders have endeavored to
harmonic all structures in the same
block. There have been enormous
| parades, assemblies, congra tulatory
| speeches, music and fireworks, while
the people kept open house to visiting
thousands.
Street Car Safety Device.
At Columbus, O., the street cars have
been testing new device to prevent
accidents to" passengers in alighting
while the car is in motion. 1t consists
of a metal shield so attached to the
front side of the car handles as to pre-
vent passenger from alighting back
ward. Finding that the handle bel.j"1
her is out of reach, woman inst -
lively will turn to the forward han e.
thus getting off with face toward The
front. AT the same time the SHE.
serves to prevent men from getting O.
the car while in rapid motion, as the
ic Of
between the handle and the shield o.
of missing the handle altogether.
Growth of American Industries.
A census bulletin of manufacturing
Industries for the calendar year 1896,
makes possible an interesting compaT-
ison between that year and the year
1900. The number of manufacturing
establishments in operation last year
was 216,262, an increase of 4 per cent
over 1900. Capital increased during the
five years from $S,978, 900 to S12,-
$50, 1865, 673, or Al per cent. In the same
period the total value of products in
creased from $11,411, 121, 122 to $14,SO2,-
147,OS7 gain of 80 per cent.
Pipe Lines Span lsthmus.
The Union Oil company of San
Francisco has completed an oil pipe
line across the isthmus of Panama with
the capacity of 1000 barrels an hour
and steel receiving tanks of enormous
capacity at Colon and Panama are near
completion. The line is to be in oDer-
alton by November and the Union
Steamship company will add ten or
twelve steamers to it's fleet. There are
three taps to each mile to facilitate the
use of the oil by the canal commission
and it is expected that oil burning loco
motives will be substituted along the
line of the canal.
First Hudson Tunnel Done.
A party Of engineers and contractors
walked from Jersey City to New York,
Sept II, under the bed of the Hudson
river, making thus the first trip through
the new Pennsylvania tube. The tun-
mel was started from each shore, and
SO carefully was the work done that
when the two shields met under the
middle of the great river they were
only one-siXteenth Of an inch out of
alignment. The pedestrians found the
tube dry and the air considerably cool
er than above ground. At the dividing
line between New York and New Jer-
sey the walls were decorated with the
flags of the two states. The trip occu
pied about one hour and fifteen min
utes. The mate to this tube will be
completed in about a month. These
twin tunnels are 5000 feet long under
the water and about twenty-five feet
in diameter. Each will be used for
traffic in one direction, thus keeping
the currents of air constantly in mo-
ton. There are to be walks on each
side of the tracks so that when trains
are stalled passengers can get out and
walk to either end of the tunnel with
out danger.
Rushing the Western Pacific.
The Goulds have decided to reduce
the time for completing their new West
ern Pacific line from Salt Lake to San
Francisco SO that it will be in opera
ton by Jan. 1, 1909, with through pas
senger and freight trains from San
Francisco to Baltimore. Work is now
in progress in Nevada and California, |
and forty-seven miles of track have
been laid west of Salt Lake.
To Control Wireless Teegraphy.
Nineteen nations have accepted the |
invitation of Germany to send dele
gates to the international wireless |
telegraphy convention to be held in
Berlin next month. One Of the prob
lens to be solved is how to check the
of private stations with
public or governmental messages.