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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11

for the main line. this block is raised
mechanically from the roadbed and
placed i'll position on the rail, so that
II by any possible chance a motorman
should misread his signals and attempt
to pass up the grade with the soma
phOre against him the wheels of the
car would run up TO the iron block,
where the fiange of the wheels would
follow the outward curvature and the
trucks be thrown completely off the
track
For the sole purpose of giving the
new motormen a thorough training In
the work before they are assigned TO
position in the regular service, a
special car has been constructed con-
tanning in plain view all the various
kinds of apparatus employed in the
handling of train. This is called the
school car, and here the new motor
man. in addition TO being given prac-
tice in the actual running of n train,
also receives instruction from one eX-
perienced engineer on the inside work
ings of the electrical and mechanical
devices. The course in this motor
mans school lasts from eighteen to
twenty days. at the conclusion of
which the student must pass severe
examination before he can qualify for
the position.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11
HOW A BIG TRANSIT COMPANY
PROTECTS ITS PASSENGERS

In the matter of safeguarding the
public on the Brooklyn elevated lines
there are three main branches in the
general scheme of the system which
receive the continuous attention of the
management. These three main branch
Is consist in a constant and thorough
inspection OF the rolling stock every
forty weight hours, the installation and
maintenance of as perfect system of
signals and safety devices as is posi-
BILE under the prevailing conditions and
the careful training of every motor
man for his position before he is given
the charge of train.
In regard to the first of these-the
Overhauling of the cars-a thorough in
spectiOn Of all the rolling stock is made
possible by the difference between the
demand for cars during the periods of
ordinary traffic and the demand at the
rush hours at the beginning and end
of each day. At half past in the
morning the rush hour presumably
ceases. Thereafter the amount of traf
fic decreases so rapidly and to such an
extent that the number of cars sent out
over the road on the schedule trains
cars which are then taken off the road
are sidetracked at either the Culver
depot or in the train yards at the Thir-
ty-sixth street station. Here each car
is thoroughly inspected. The wheels
are sounded and examined for any
sign of flaws, fiattening or lossening
tires, and the trucks are carefully over
hauled ghe motors, controllers and
the other electrical mechanism are
tested. the packing of the wheel boxes
Is renewed if necessary, and the air
pump and the triple valve air brake are
examined for leakages or defects. In
places I'm the yards special sections of
track have been constructed called pit
tracks These are dug out underneath
between the rails, SO when a train is |
run in over the pit the inspectors have |
easy access 10 the underside mechanism |
OF the cars.
AS soon as a car enters the yard it |
passes out of the Jurisdiction of the /
train dispatcher and enters the in
spector's department. where it remains
until IL goes through the examinat ton |
whereby it is qualified to be sent out
again on the road. Before and during
the examination red flag is hung on
the front end OF the car, and until this
red flag has been removed the car is
not permitted to 90 out on its travels
again By this means the inspection
OF every car in the yard is insured.
At eight minutes past in the after
noon the first heavy train is sent out of
the Thirty-sixth street station 10 han
die the Increased traffic OF the evening
rush hour. By the time this evening
rush service is fully under way the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11
Hand Painted Glove. In vogue.

The short sleeve. now the fashion,
has led to startling innovations in
gloves. Instead of the conventional
one color glove the new covering for
the hand and arm is delicately shaded
at the top In an almost imperceptible
mauve, with a slightly embossed and
indefinitely traced pattern upon it of
lilies of the valley or ivy leaves. says
a London cable dispatch to the New
York American and Journal. Emboss-
ed patterns of the same indefinite and
picturesque nature appear on the up
per arm of white gloves shaded a faint
shell pink or faint sea green. 1t is
claimed for these tinted gloves that
they round arms naturally angular.
and by blending with the color of the
dress the spectrum effect is artistic
Evening gloves inset with lace brace
lets and gloves into which hand paint
ed plaques have been introduced are
being offered, but owing to the great
expense large sale is not expected.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11
New ship Canal For the 500.

The Dominion government is consid-
ering the construction of another ship
canal at Sault Ste. Marie. and the On
tario government has been asked to
donate fifty acres of land, says To-
ronto correspondent of the Milwaukee
Sentinel. This fact developed few
days ago during a conference between
the Hon Mr.. Cochrane and delega-
ton from the 500 and Steelton about
the water power at the 500. The new
canal will be 1 400 feet long and so feet
wide, or 20 feet wider than the present
channel
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11

Joseph Wartscher. practical hare
head aeronaut who wants to fly across
the Atlantic ocean, has sent Il letter Il
the Aero Club of America Offering t.
hy from New York to Europe If i
will only find him $4,000 To build anC
equip his balloon, says the New Yorl
World.
Herr Wartscher was born in the
Tyrol twenty eight years ago and was
graduated from the Municipal Indus
trial school at Innsbruck. 1t that city
he experimental with motor balloon
in 1902 and was highly commended
by the government officials. Ia 1902
he was an assistant of Surcouf. the
Partisan ballooniSt. and in 1904 and
1905 he managed the captive balloons
for the wireless service maintained by
Berlin's military aer0nautic battalion.
Herr Wartscher declares that q
transoceanic trip is not only practical,
but can be accomplished without much
risk. He would depend upon the coun-
ter trade wind, which blows to the
eastward $500 meters above the trade
wind and reverses. roughly speaking.
From four TO five days will be re-
Quired 10 make the trip. Herr Wart-
scher thinks. but he will rig his bal
loon to run for ten days without dis
comfort to himself or the five passen-
gers he wishes to carry. In ordinary
balloons the great trouble IL that the
aerOnaut, in order TO descend, has to
throw away his hydrogen gas. Herr
Wartscher has plan TO obviate this
He writes:
I'm the interior of the balloon are
a number of smaller balloons made of
particularly strong material. which.
under normal conditions, are filed
with gas. like the balloon. In the car
is an eXhauster. operated by a small
explosion motor. The eXhauster is con-
nected with the balloon and smaller
balloons by tubes. This enables me,
when the temperature rises and the
gas expands, to pass part of the gas
into the smaller balloons. There il is
under compression and in it's create
density the gas becomes heavier, loses
its lifting power and is not TO be taken
into consideration as an agency of
buoyancy. BY this means l am able
TO meet the differences of temperature
without loss of gas or ballast, because
the gas compressed into the smaller
balloons is always at my disposal for
bringing it back TO the big balloon.
1.-The progress of chemistry enables
us 10 secure to a certain degree a
supplementary filling of the balloon
during the trip. AS we can produce
liquid air we can also produce trans
portable liquid hydrogen. L intend to
take along, instead of the usual sand
ballast, ballast in the form of liquid
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11

Miriam Nicholson. author of "In the
Bishops Carriage" contributes to Har-
per's Weekly d remarkable dramatic
and Illuminating account of the de-
struction of San Francisco. One of the
most striking passages in her article is
that In which she describes the pathetic
and unforgetable sight presented by
the procession of refugees who were
forced from their homes by the resist
less advance of the flames
''All through that long night she
says, I'VE heard the fleeing footsteps.
1t was horrible sound, that continu-
Gus, hurried, struggling exodus. The
stricken people did not run-they We're
too exhausted by the time they had
reached our quarter-but they toiled
doggedly on, on out toward the west,
toward the cool eucalyptus forests in
the Preside, out toward the edge Of
the bay. One man l saw carried with
care a brand new pair of tan shoes.
He had absolutely nothing else. but
these he bore on stick over his Shout
der. Women carried their babies, their
canary birds in cages, their parrots.
Next to man who trundled all his
household possessions on lawn mower
rode n group of negresses in a CHASTITY
hearse, pulled by stalwart negroes.
"a chattering crowd of Cinnamon
carried pathetic little bundles of rice.
their brightly clad little wives and
babies dragging miserably on behind.
A man and his wife harnessed them
selves with ropes to trunk and, with
bowed backs and blistered feet, went
on. 1t was a fearful procession. And
what did they go to? A sleepiess,
earth racked night in the open. with
mothers seeking their children. with
aged parents separated from their
families. y man / knew wandered
through the Preside five hours that
night, calling his wife's name. There
was no light. there was nothing to dis
tinguish one huddled mass of refugees
from another. My friend called and
called till he was hoarse. When he
dragged himself back to town on
Thursday april 19D he had the search
10 begin over again.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11
CHALLENGE TO THE WORLD
Chairman FOss Meaning of Our
Proposed Great BattIeship.


Proposed Great BattIeship.
The naval appropriation bill. which
carries nearly n hundred million dol
lars, was taken up by the house of rep
resentatives the other day, says n
Washington special dispatch to the
New York World.
I'VE have provided in this bill for Il
battleship more powerful than any
afioat." said Chairman Foss, explain
ing the bill. 1T will be greater than
the English Dreadnought."
How many American harbors could
the Dreadnought enterT asked Mr..
Underwood of Alabama.
ut could easily enter New York. re-
piled Mr. Foss. land possibly some
other harbors. 1t has twenty-eight feet
draft, and 1 think the New York har-
Dor is about forty feet
Well" said Mr. Underwood. lit
couldn't enter any harbor in the south
ern or gulf states. The proposed Amer
lean ship must necessarily have a
large base of supplies
ut would not he necessary for such
a ship TO enter any harbor," replied
Mr.. Foss lit would protect the coast
by meeting the enemy at sea. The
building of this great battleship gives
notice to all the world that we propose
to look after our interests here or on
another continent"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11

| that they would have to move, but
some one said. IF we stay here and
keep quiet. the rubberneckS will get
tired and leave us alone" So 1t hap
pened. Coppa's was a theme for the
little gossip" weeklies for months;
then 1t got to be an old story, the out
siders ceased from troubling, and Cop
pas went on as ever.
On the fifth day after the earthquake,
when the fires had cooled little and
people were crawling back into the
town. three or four of the people of the
central table met and went to see the
ruins of their old stamping ground.
That part of San Francisco had been
swept by the fire; it was supposed that
there was not one brick standing on
another, but through the haze which
hung over Montgomery street they
came upon an island of about a block
which a freak of the fire had missed,
and, behold. the Montgomery block,
blackened, but untouched! On the
steps of his restaurant sat Coppa, as
though he had never left
Coppa broke into his cellar and found
case of claret which the soldiers had
ton The people of the center table
went out and rustled bread line pro-
visions, and the proprietor sat down
with them to dinner in celebration of
the escape of the place. The next day
Coppa managed to find a way to buy
supplies. and the restaurant resumed
business. 1t is the only restaurant:
standing within mile, and it did not
lose even q napkin. In the island
spared by the fire stood unframed the
studio of Xavier Martinez, from which
he had escaped on the morning of the
earthquake when it seemed as though
the building was about to fall on him.
On the second floor of the Montgom-
cry block was stored part of the Sutro
library. or, as has been said, it was I'M
til q few months ago. There were
perhaps $4,000 volumes stored in this
Montgomery street division. among
them the most valuable single books.
The other division, which must have
gone with the Payot-Upham building
early in the fire, was the larger and.
owing to its sources of purchase. was
an undiscovered country.
Members of the Bohemian club
saved Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson's
house. That was not threatened until
the fourth day. when the returning
trade wind blew the fire back from
Van Ness avenue to sweep Russian
bill. Members of the club managed
to pass the word to gather and make
stand to save this house. Near at
hand was a reservoir which had been
drained for the purposes of the fire
engines. but had still little water
IN tha bottom
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11
Freak of frisco Earthaaahe..

H. E. Poor. son OF A. ]. Poor of
1000 Park avenue, Kansas City, Is a
student of the Leland Stanford uni
versity in California, says the Kansas
City Star. He sent to Kansas City a
picture of Il statue which was displaced
from its base by the earthquake. The
statue fell from the Stanford zoology
building and struck headforemost on
the tile paving in front of the building.
The force of the fall crushed IL hole in
the paving, ana the statue remained
fixed in that position.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11
Man who Behended Charles 1.

The mysterious masked man who be-
headed Charles l. remains British ana
logue for the Man With the Iron Mask.
Lilly, the lying astrologer, denounced
Cornet Joyce at the restoration, but
Joyce on the fatal Both of January was
not in favor with Cromwell. The par
ish register of Whitechapel records the
burial in 1649 of Richard Brandon, the
common hangman. and opposite the en-
try contemporary hand wrote that
The cut off the head of Charles the
First" Brandon himself asserted that
-'they made him do it for ESQ., with
which he drank himself to death. Dun
dee Advertiser.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11
A Ground Hog Case.

"A ground hog case" is n case OF
absolute necessity-one i'm which the
reward OF perseverance is certain and
the necessity for perseverance is Inn
perative. Its origin is told i'm this sto-
ry: 4 boy was. seen digging vigorously
with Il grub hoe at the mouth OF a hole
I'm which n ground hog had taken ref
uge. He was asked IL he thought he
would get the ground hog. to which hs
replied with scorn: Catch him? Why,
yes; I'm bound 10 catch him: we're out
OF meat."-St. louis Republic. i.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11
Washington Gossip

| General Bates gave a dinner the 9th
er night at the Country club, saws the
| Washington correspondent of the ST
Louis Republic. Senator Bacon of
Georgia was invited. The senator went
to the Chevy Chase Golf club by mis-
| take. 1t was then fifteen minutes to S
| O'Clock, and the dinner was set for s
p. IN. Mr.. Bacon learned that the
Country club could be reached most
! quickly by cutting across the golf
course and fields on foot
1t was dark. He walked out on the
golf course. As soon as he got outside
the circle of lights of the clubhouse
he fell over bunker He took another
tack and fell over another bunker.
Then he ran into n sand trap and for
half an hour wandered around the golf
course, falling over every bunker there
was and over some of them twice
He came to a barb wire fence, climb
ed 1T. tore one leg of his trousers and
promptly fell into water hazard that
was not very deep. but that had much
mud on the bottom. BY this time he
was wet. nsslddy. disheveled. He final
ly got off the golf course and plunged
through two or three marshy fields to
the club
rs General Bates giving dinner
here?" he asked of a club attendant
Yes, SIR" said the attendant looking
at the muddy senator suspiciously, "but
/. / do not think Ire can be disturbed"
Senator Bacon fairly snorted at this.
Tell him Senator Bacon of Georgia is
out here" he commanded.
General Bates came out
"Why. senator" he exclaimed, what
is the matter?"
"Matter-' shouted Bacon Nothing
at all: nothing; of course. nothing. only
/ have been falling over series of
hills and into valleys out there
Come i'm to dinner said General
Bates soothingly.
mo, sir" said Bacon al cannot.
am too muddy Please let me have a
sandwich and will go home-
Speaker Cannon appeared on the
floor of the house the other day after
adjournment wearing brand new tan
colored campaign hat. says the St
Louis Republics Washington repre-
sentative. 1t was a very becoming af-
fair, presented to Uncle Joe by Repre-
sentative Aiken of South Carolina, and
the speaker was as pleased as a boy
with his first pair of red boots. He
demonstrated that it could be turned
into many shapes and knocked about
generally without showing rough us
age. Several members of the Illinois
delegation were on hand and insisted
on trying on the speakers Bonnet,
Its fine hat. Uncle Joe" said Rep
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11

which to occupy themselves -Tnore IS
a laundry in the camp, and when the
mother is not busy with her children
she can wash clothes and assist in the
kitchens. The children, of course. are
having the time of their lives; for
Ihem camp life means one prolonged
picnic. 1t is all wonderfully well or
dered and cheerful, and every one is
eontent to walt for the better timeS.'
1t is the authorities who are anxious,
wondering how long they will be able
10 continue the relief
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11

| resentative Madden after trying on
but it's awfully unbecOming."
p, oh" replied the speaker. YOU'RE
Just mad because you haven't one"
NO, I'm not mad, but I'm Madden"
! "That looks like n senatorial hat
volunteered Billy Lorimer. ITS time
you We're moving"
I've heard mighty uncomplimentaryg
things about some men over there" re-
piled the sage of Danville in the drolp
way his friends most like, "and don't
know that want to move"
Representative Vreeland OF New
York had up his bill recently prohibit
ing the stamping OF silver or gold ar
ticles with false assay marks. says the
Cleveland Plain Dealers washlngtonl
correspondent To illustrate his speech
he had dozen or more of watches. sill
YER spoons. forks, plated wear and ar
ticles OF jewelry spread out on the top
Of his desk. Unknown to Mr.. ,Vree-
land, Representative McMorran ofI
Michigan ranged on the desk behind
him three big oranges in the shape OF
a pawnbroker's sign.
"Whatll you advance on my watch?"
asked Mr.. Longworth as he walked by
and saw the oranges
This Is no pawnbroker's Office" Mr..
Vreeland said
Then take in your sign Mr. Long
worth advised
AS Elliott Woods, the superintendent
Of the capitol, was walking with Uncle
Joe Cannon from the street cars TO the
capitol the other day Mr.. Woods no.
ticed several pairs OF crows that were
building their nests up I'm the carvings
Of the columns around the dome. says
the New York Worlds Washington
representative.
He pointed them out to Uncle Joe
and remarked: IL think those crows are
getting too familiar. l will send n man
up there and drive them out"
"Oh. NO: let them alone" said the
speaker. gazing interestedly at the
intruders. that were cawlng ~ one an
other. I'VE must concede something
to our Democratic. brethren
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11
10y pipe smokcrrs Lengue.

The prevalence of cigarette smoking
among boys has induced number of
Dover (England) lads to form a pipe
league says a London dispatch. They
bind themselves to only smoke pipes.
Any member of the league found ciga-
rette smoking is to be fined.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-05-11
Big Colonial Fair.

A great colonial exposition will be
opened in Marsellles this spring and
continued throughout the summer. 1t
will mark the first attempt to organize
comprehensive manifestation Of
French colonial work and is arousing
much interest.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-01-18
0uin's Public Sale.

The undersigned will sell at
the RedmondQ uin farm a miles
west of Magnolia and 5 miles
southeast Mondamin, the fol
lowing property on Monday,
Jan. 80, 1906.
8 head Of horses, one bay
mare II years old, weight l175;
l bay mare ID years, weight
1850; l bay mare 8 years old
weight 1850; l gray mare 10
years old, weight 1850; gray
colt 3 years old weight 1000;
| bay colt 4 years old, weight
1000; l black colt 4 years old,
weight 1900.
50 head Of cattle consisting
of 26 head of cows, Z head Civ
ing milk, 10 head fresh soon, 1
Shorthorn bull, Z steer calves,
II heifer calves.
Is head of shoats.
Miscellaneous articles, 8 doz-
en- chickens, 2 good shepherd
dogs, 36 tons Of hay, 2 riding
cultivators, | walking cultiva-
tor, l disc cultivator, one
disc, one three row goodwill,
| sulky pillow, l walking pillow,
| riding lister, 2 stalk cutters
one three section harrow, one
2-section harrow, 2 hay rakes,
l mower, 3 bobsleds, 8 wagons,
one 6 inch tire truck wagon,
| carriage, l single buggy, l
road wagon, 2 sets double har-
ness, feed grinder, | tanning
mill, l corn shelter, l King
cream separator, l De Leval
cream separator, household
goods, 9 dozen glass fruit jars,
and other articles to numerous
to mention. Sale at 10 a. m.
Free lunch at noon.
Terms All sums of $40 and
under cash; sums over $40 one
years time, purchaser giving
note with approved security at
8 per cent interest from date
or will give 2 per cent discount
for cash.
Upper Bros, Auctioneers.
j. B. Barrett, Clerk.
Bridget Quinn
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-01-18
157 MILES IN l57 MINUTES
Illinois Central Train Makes Re.
cord Run From hlatoon 70
kenSlnHtCn

Kankakee, ILL.,, Jan. 15.-The
Nashville special, Chicago
bound on the Illinois Central,
established a new record for
fast time by going 157 miles in
157 minutes, including thirteen
minutes in stops. Fourty-four
miles between Nation and
Champ aign were made in thir-
ty-nine minutes. Leaving Mat
toon fifty-three minutes late,
the train went into Kensington
on time. The run was made
with engine 1895 of the Pacific
type IN charge of Engineer
John Holly and Fireman w. w.
Huggans, both of Chicago.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-01-18
The Mems Club

of the Presbyterian church has
arranged for two lectures this
week, both of which will be
great. On Thursday night at
8:15 the Hon. w. d. cambridge,
who was assistant secretary to.
the American legation during
the seige of Pekin, will tell the
remarkable story of the awful
days of the Boxer seige of the
legation until deliverance came
by the allied armies. Every
body should know this strange
chapter Of worlds history in
our own time.
On Friday night Rev. DR..
McFadden, of Sioux City, lee
lures also under the auspices
Of the Mems Club. His theme
is General Grant and his Mes
sage to the Men of the Twen-
tieth Century"
These lecturers are both de-
servedly popular men and
should be met by large aud
fences. Holders of the night
school and lee ure course tick
cts will be admitted free and
all others for ten cents. These.
are fifty cent lectures offered
at a popular price. Let our
citizens show that they appre-
ciate talent.