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Amador ledger., 1906-05-18

in the already hardened shell that sur
rounds the inner mass. That shell
must give way at some point. Aside
from the contractions of the earth's
surface, another cause is given that
might affect the changing of the sur
face of given part of the world. This
cause is the accumulation of vast
weight of sedimentary deposit brought
down by rivers. For example, the Mis-
sissippi River is entirely made up of
the deposits of the streams washing
down from higher lands. The weight
of that deposit would be difficult to
calculate, and resting upon portion
of the earth's shell, might occasion it's
sinking. This theory is held by some
scientists in connection with the Cali
fornia disaster, for the Sacramento
River is the depositor of vast weights
Of sediment in the Pacific waters near
San Francisco.
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scuIptress Is Already Famous.

The best known work of Miss Long
man is the bronze figure of Victory .
which was carved for the Festival Hall
at the st. Louis Worlds Fair. For
this she was awarded a silver medal.
At the close of the fair the original
was brought to the Chicago Art Insti-
tute. A bronze reproduction has been
purchased by the Union League Club
and will adorn the entrance to the club
rooms.
Another one of Miss Longman's
works which has won commendation is
a bronze figure of Death" which she
recently completed, and which is to
be placed on the Story monument in
the cemetery at Lowell, Mass.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18
Work Progressing Rapidly.

Although the digging of the trenches
for the House Office building was be-
gun less than year ago. the structure
is now up to the first floor line. To
hasten the work Elliott Woods, Super
intendent of the Capitol, directed that
construction begin before all the speci-
fications and contracts were complete.
This was done through letting out the
stone contract first, by authority of the
House Building Commission. 1t is cal
culated that both buildings will be
ready for the Sixtieth Congress-
In accordance with Masonic tradE-
tions, the ceremony was conducted in
the open air, in a simple, unostenta-
tious manner. In every detail it CORE
sponded as nearly as practicable with
the historic ceremony in which Presf-
dent Washington participated. The
articles placed in the cornerstone were
largely identical in character with
those deposited in the original CapE-
tol stone by Federal Lodge, and. as
both President Roosevelt and Speaker
Cannon are members of the Masonic
order, the occasion in every way har
monized with the spirit of the cere
mony directed by the Virginia jurisdIe
tion in laying the cornerstone of the
Capitol.
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from the south wing of the Capitol,
with which it is to be connected by
an underground passageway, through
which members of Congress may pass
back and forth from the legislative
hall to their offices. There are 410
Office rooms, providing a room for each
representative in Congress and Dele
gate, and leaving vacant nineteen
rooms for future growth in the mem
bership of the House through a reap
portionment of districts or the admis-
sion of new States. The House annex
and the Senate Office building, also
under construction at the opposite end
of the plaza, are being put up to pro-
vide for the members of the National
Legislature, quarters absolutely needed
for the efficient transaction of public
business. The great growth in size
of both branches of Congress has
caused the Capitol building to be en-
larged but this was only sufficient to
provide the necessary space for the
assembly halls of House and Senate
and the committee rooms, the latter
in many cases being small and badly
ventilated. Under present conditions
individual members (unless they hap
pen to be chairmen of committees)
have no offices and a badly congested
condition exists. Realizing the need
of one great legislative centre where
Senators and Representative may
concentrate their activities and be
comfortably quartered. Congress three
years ago authorized the construction
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18
SUCCESSFUL SCULPTRESS.
Miss Evelyn Loneman of Chicago
Awarded Fifteen Thousand
Dollar Prize.
To Carve Bronze Doors at Annapolis
Naval lAcademy-Eias Attained Fame
Through Her Figure of "Victory"
at st. Louis Fair.

When the new bronze entrance doors
OF the Annapolis Naval Academy are
completed and hung in place there will
exist another monument to the skill
of American women. Colonel Robert
M. Thompson, who presented these
doors to the academy as memorial
of the class of '6S, stipulated in making
the offer that the design selected for
the doors should be awarded by compe-
tition, the winner to receive a prize of
$4,000. There were thirty-three COM
petitors for this prize, an unusually
large number, and the designs submit
ted are said to have been of a high
degree of excellence. The votes of all
five jurors were cast for the model pre-
sented by Miss Evelyn B. Longman, of
Chicago.
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from the effect of the Capitol, itself.
The exterior design for the buildings
is classic, suggesting in it's general di-
vision of parts the Garde Meuble in the
Place de Ia Concorde, Paris, while the
pavilions are modelled on those of the
Colonnade de Louvre Architecturally
the front is divided into two parts, the
lower corresponding to the first story
of the building constituting a ''rusti-
Gated" base, on which, extending
through the second and third stories,
is the colonnade, surmounted by it's
entablature and balustrade. 1t is be-
lieved that the effect of the two flank
ing buildings will be to give unity to
the whole scheme and to emphasize
architecturally the great beauty of the
Capitol, all of the lines leading up to
and centering in its dome.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18

are never caused by volcanoes, but by
faulting plains. This is particularly
true of both seaboards of the United
States. Mr.. Waleott and other scien-
lists of the Geological and Geodetic
Surveys agree that scientifically the
recent disturbances were caused by
conditions identical with those pertain
ing during the earthquake which de-
molished Charleston, S. c., on August
81, 1856. Volcanoes occasionally cause
shaking of the earth's crust but the
disturbances occasioned by pent-up
gases seeking to escape are felt only
locally.
The cause generally attributed to
earthquakes is the gradual cooling of
the earth, which is known to still be a
molten mass inside. When any object
cools it contracts, and so will the earth
as it grows colder. This contraction
would unavoidably cause a disturbance
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18

China of place in one of the corps of
engineers organized by that country
for the development of it's railroad
system. The offer came, too, from a
young Chinaman who was taking a
graduate course at Cornell while she
was there. The graduate student was
sent here, it is said, not only to in
crease his technical knowledge of en-
gineering, but to obtain for his coun-
try the best engineers to be had. He
watched Miss Blatch's work closely
and offered her a place.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18
WOMAN CIVIL ENGINEER.
Granddaughter of Mrs. Stanton Has
Offer to Go to China.

Miss Nora Stanton Blatch, grand
daughter Of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton, is now a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers. She is the
first woman admitted to membership,
and, it is said, there was not dissent
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18

An ostrich egg weighs about three
and half pounds. 1t is less delicate
in flavor than a hens egg, although
perfectly eatable. 1t is a curious fact
that ostrich eggs will keep fresh for
two or three months. The flesh of the
ostrich itself is edible, being not unlike
veal in flavor.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18

ing opinion offered when she was pro-
posed for membership.
Miss Blatch was the first woman to
get a degree of Bachelor of Science in
civil engineering at Cornell University.
She took a four years course, finish
ing among the first five of the class.
Since her graduation she has been
draughtsman in a big bridge concern.
She is now considering an offer from
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18

Miss Longman's design has two pan
els representing peace" and "War." On
the peace panel is a figure symbolizing
science, an old man in an attitude of
deep thought, explaining difficult
problem to two students of the acad-
emy. On the war panel patriotism is
represented by female figure, sym
bolical also of the home, the protection
Of which is assumed to be the reason
for the existence of the navy. Under
her draperies is ascoat of armor, and
with one hand on cannon she points
with the other to the distance, where
masts of ships show the destination of
the marching figures in the back
ground.
In the upper panels of the door are
festoons supported by shells-of oak
leaves over the war panel and olive
over that of peace. In the lower panels
wreaths of the same leaves inclose TIE
names of naval heroes. In the transom
is the dedication to the class of '6S,
and above the transom is group rep
resenting Fame-two laurel-crowned
figures on either side of an altar-like
pedestal, with an inscription to John
Paul Jones, whose bones are to rest
in the crypt of the chapel. The pedes-
tai is surmounted by a tripod, from
which issue flames, symboliZing endur-
ing fame.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18

Taft. She is rather proud of the fact
that she has never studied abroad, and
also that she has been able to meet
all the expenses of her artistic edu-
cation herself.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18
LAYING CORNERSTONE.
Impressive Ceremony Incident to
Construction of New Capt.
to1 Buildings.
President Roosevelt and Speaker
Cannon, Both Masons, Are Princi-
pal Actors-$1O,OOO,OOO for Sem
ate and House.

When President Roosevelt. on April
18th, laid the cornerstone of the new
office building for the House of Repre-
sentatives, it marked the beginning of
improvements on Capitol Hill which
will make that section of Washington
comparable with the ancient hills of
Rome and Greece crowned with mag
nificent buildings in which met the
solons of ages past.
This new building occupies square
and is about hundred yards distant
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18
San FRANCISCAN HORROR.
Terrible Destruction of the City
by Violent Earthquake
and Flames.
Fire Results in All Parts of Metrop-
Geological Scientists Say No
Connection Between Quake and
Vesuvian Eruption.

1t was during the repose of early
morning; the Spring-time sun was
casting it's golden rays over the Sierra
Nevadas and striking down into the
peaceful, slumbering valley of the
Sacramento. All the Western Hemi-
sphere was at peace with the elements.
Suddenly there came an awful growl-
ing and crashing beneath the very cen
tire of San Francisco. and in tenth Of
the space of time required to describe
the event, falling walls and fire COM
bined to work on the metropolis of the
Pacific the most appalling natural ca
lamity which has occurred on this
continent since the landing of the Pill
grims. The destruction that has been
accomplished is almost incalculable.
The inferno of flames which burst forth
simultaneously in various parts of the
city was rendered still more terrible
by the repeated quakings of the earth,
by which the rescuers were in mo-
mentary danger of being buried with
the dead beneath the falling structures
The very earth itself-our own mother
earth-proved as treacherous as a
deadly snake, and the usual ocean
breeze, by strange perversion of ma
ture. hauled around to point where it
famed the flames to intensity and
became a deadly agent of destruction.
The general dismay of the populace
was augmented by the constant roar
of dynamite explosions, made in vain
effort to check the progress of the
flames. The vast pail of smoke that
blotted out the sky did not tend to allie
viate the general anxiety. Yet, in such
surroundings, calculated to inspire uni
versal panic and madness, there were
performed numberless feats of heroism
that will remain on the scroll of time
as illustrious proofs of the nobility
which is hidden beneath the surface of
ordinary life. Cool heads and brave
hands, with stout hearts behind them,
performed their work of rescue in the
very face of death, and even the indie
scribable horror of the. earthquake was
overcome
San Francisco, rich and proud city,
has been swept by fires before and
has, phoenix like, arisen from her
ashes. Moreover, she has more than
once experienced earthquake tremors
which were, to say the least injurious
and menacing. But America is a
cemented nation. The disasters of one
section bring together in one grand
sympathetic bond the inhabitants of
the others. all anxious and insistent
upon holding out the helping hand and
voicing words of sympathy to the af-
flicted sister. States, cities and towns
throughout the entire Union have Of
fered unstinted assistance in the way
of money, food, clothing and medical
attendance, with which to relieve the
want, not only of San Francisco, but
also the other California cities
and towns which have suffered with
the metropolis of the State.
No Connection With Vesuvius.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18
Award to Woman Unprecedented

The award of this prize to a woman
is said to be an unprecedented event in
the artistic history of the country, and
a bright future is predicted for the
young sculptress
81 consider Miss Longman to be one
OF the most promising of our younger
sculptors," said Mr.. Daniel G.. French,
whose assistant she has been for the
last four years.
Miss Longman was born in Win
chester, Ohio, her father, Edwin H
Longman, being musician and an ar
tist. Drawing was one of her childish
amusements, and she began modelling
without instruction in the art depart
ment of Olivet College. Her work there
attracted the attention of dorado Taft,
who invited her to enter the Chicago
Art Institute as his pupil. She did so,
and during the first year paid her ex-
penses by doing library work. Then
she was made an assistant instructor
in the school, and a year or two later
she came to New York, where she
soon after became an assistant to Mr.
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No Connection With Vesuvius.

Coming as this disaster did, practi-
cally coincident with the Vesuvian ca
lamity in Italy, many persons suppose
that there was a direct relation be-
tween the two. This idea. however,
is logically contradicted by Director
Charles D. Walcott. of the Geological
Survey. Mr.. Walcott holds that there
is no possibility of a connection be-
tween the earthquake and the Italian
volcano, for these two are entirely diff
ferent scientific phenomena respon-
sible for such earthquakes and vol
canic disturbances.
Great earthquakes, says Mr.. Walcott,
Amador ledger., 1906-05-18
Senate Ceremony Next Fall.

of the House and Senate Office
buildings.
Senate Ceremony Next Fall.
The House annex was started first
and is in a more advanced stage of
construction than the Senate building,
though the cornerstone of the latter
may be ready to put in place next Fall.
1t is estimated that the two buildings
together will involve VII outlay of
about ten million dollars. In size and
design they are identical; they occupy
positions balanced in their relation to
the Capitol and are planned to fit into
a general architectural scheme. The
height of the buildings has been re-
stricted that they may not overpower
the Capitol, and they have been kept
simple in design, without pediments,
domes or other accentuated points to
prevent their detracting in any way
New-York tribune., 1906-04-03
FIND TWO INDICTMENTS?
Report of True Bills against Cen
tr0I and Sugar Trust.

Although the federal grand jury did not meet
yesterday il is understood that while il has not as
vet completed investigation into the alleged re-
batting practices Of the so-caled Sugar Trust and
the railways. that two indictments have not only
indictments which, it is understood, name the
Sugar Trust and the New York Central Railroad
Company. are 10 be the forerunners of others
which will name. according the same authority
q number OF trunk lines carrying westbound
freight Not alone is there lklihood of other
indictments against the and railways. as cor
porations but every probability that indictments
will be returned against the officials Of the various
companies. as individuals the Elkins Antitrust
laws providing for such findings.
The two indictments thus far decided on will be
handed down in all probability within the next
few davs Then as what action the federal
authorities will take in the case is one that Is
decidedly interesting 10 lawyers, because OF the
peculiar provisions of the Elkns law ana tne
further fact that corporations are not as a rue
ndictabe. Exactly how United States District AZ
torney Henry /. StiTnson proposes TO arrest cor
pors ton is matter neither he nor Unlteo Stdtes
Marshal Henkel will discuss
The penalty fixed by the Elkns law PROVIDES a
fine on conviction OF not less than sl0oo. more
than $1,000 the traffic of the Sugar Trust alone.
experts have testified before the federal grand jury
II is said during the present invesugation, repre-
bound freight carried by the westbound trunk line
associations. IL is not improbable lawyers not 1e-
tanned oN corporations point out. that the railways
If convicted. will not seriously regard even the
maximum fine. The law states with great partlcu-
larity that Imprisonment shall be inflicted
How United States Marshal Henkel will serve a
Indictments finally handed in. he will then
be called Of to do is a question
New-York tribune., 1906-04-03
SUIT AGAINST FITZGERALD BEGINS
Morris c. Mengis Brings Action to Recover
S1.OO0.OO0-A Retrial.

After many delays the suit of Morris c.
Mengis against General Louis Fitzgerald for
81 600 600 began yesterday in the Supreme
Court. Brooklyn. Mengs declares that this sum
is due him pay for information which he pro-
vided and which enabled a syndicate. headed by
Mr. Fitzgerald TO get possession OF the Western
Maryland Railroad Mengis was on the stand
most of the hearing. He his suit in the
Supreme Court. with S1125l0 Il additional as
interest and costs. some time ago After Fitz-
gerald had appealed the case the Appellate Di-
vision ordered a retral
Mengis testified that he learned in 1879
through an accountant that Mayor Hayes of
Baltimore was anxious 10 get rid of the citys
interest in the road He went 10 General F1tZ-
gerald and contracted. he said, TO furnish him
with information for 81 .00O0OO
New-York tribune., 1906-04-03
DRYDEN LEAVES P. S. C. BOARD.
Gives as His Reason Too Much Other Busi'
ness-Essex and Hudson Election.

United States Senator John F. Dryden retired as
director of the Public Service Corporation yes
terdsy. giving as the cause too much other bust
ness James P. nusenberry. treasurer Of the COM
pany. was elected 10 AIr- Dryden's place.
Other directors who reelected are Albert
B Carlton. Thomas Dolan. Judge George G. Gray,
Anthony R. Kuser. Thomas y McCarter. Randall
Morgan and John 1 Waterbury.
No mention made at the meeting Of the pro-
posed issue Of stock and the division Of in
terests Of the company by apportionmert of more
securities J. Pierpont Morgan & Co and the
United Gas Improvement Company Of Philadelphia.
The stockholders of the Essex and Hudson Gas
Company reelected the old board of directors,
consisting of John T. Stanley. president; Judge
GRAY, wee president; Lewis Lille, treasurer;
Thomas \. McCarter, DR.. Leslie n Ward, Uzal
II McCarter. Walton Clark, James Smith Sd,
James P Dusenberry. Randall Morgan Halsey NJ;
George Spottiswoode
New-York tribune., 1906-04-03
TRADE IN CHICAGO.

GBy Telegraph The Tribune
Chicago April 2-Business in the wheat market
light to-day. but there were considerations in
connection with the trade that prompted some buy
ing and checked operations for short account
There will be no session tomorrow. and with a
threat from the weather Of playing some pranks
before Wednesday with the alleged fine crop pros
poets. the market closed with an advance OF nc
Corn gained sc. and from 116c for July 10 lac
for Nav Provisions held most Of an early ad-
vance. with pork in the end 7l2c higher lard M
from 2iac 70 &c and ribs 2lsc higher. Packers were
the best buyers. and the only sellers were longs
taking profits previous purchases.
The wheat market active at improved prices
for few minutes at the opening. The decrease
in the worlds shipments, the heavy movement in
the Northwest and the sprnglike weather stimu-
lated buying and uneasy local shorts covered in a
lively way at the opening Later. however. the
trade dull and sluggish Local receipts were
insignificant. Estimate of to-morrow's local re-
ceipts. four cars Nav wheat closed at 77ssc after
selling high 77S4c
The corn market dull, and largely Influenced
hv the action Of wheat There was .Considera bl ls
early liquidation. prompted by the fine weather and
the prospect OF larger movement The cash de-
mand was slow. Local receipts were 2sO cars. with
900 cars estimated for tomorrow Shipments hence
were 20.000 bushels May opened at 44i4c
eased of to 437sc. and then reacted TO 44l4c 44c
losses Patten gave his support to the an market
when prices were breaking, ana this caused a halt
in offerings Commission houses and cash inter
were the best sellers Local receipts were lg5
cars. with 26s estimated for tomorrow, shipments
hence We're 1900 bushels, The close was at the
highest point of the day for May. and within 1-lSc
of the best for July. MAY closed 3O7sc and July
a 293sc
Provisions, were quiet but firm The light run of
hogs and substantial gains reported in prices the
Yards stimulated bullsl sentiment There wa
considerable covering by shorts In evidence ana
brokers thought 10 be acting for the packers were
active on the buying side. Cash trade was said 10
be good. May pork sol, from Sl6 35 off to sl6 52ts
May lard sold from IS IS OF To IS 30 to S 4ois and
reacted to s. f2i2 MAY ribs sold from IS 73I off -,
IS 67i2 and reacted to s. 6ia IS 90 Hog receipt
l0c higher. - ~
New-York tribune., 1906-04-03
TO REVIVE OYSTER INDUSTRY
tBv Telegraph 10 The 7

TBv Telegraph The Tribune
Baltimore. April 2--The great oyster industry
of Maryland. which has been on the decline is
70 he revived and increased by cultivation Of
the bivalve on some 250.OO0 acres of barren bot
toms in the Chesa peake Bay and IT'S tributaries.
The bill finally passed the Legislature to-day.
For more than twelve years a fight has been
waged for oyster culture. Thousands Of oyster
men and their representatives in the Legislat-
ure from the tdewater counties have opposed
leasing or planting. the ground that il would
prevent free dredging.
New-York tribune., 1906-04-03
BIG INCREASE IN IMPoRTATIoNs.
All Records Broken by Precious Stones and
Automobiles.

Appraiser Whitehead states that the total ap-
praised value Of importations at the port of New
YORK in the month of March was $50 12.S34 93.
Increase Of approximately $4,000 in comparison
with the same month last year.
The imports Of precious stones was the highest
for any one month in the history Of the port
g, ,7sa 925 o5
One hundred and nine automobiles. valued a.
$40 COO approXima teY. were imported in March this
wear. as compared with forty-nne cars in the same
month of 1906 Three hundred cars, valued at ST.
90 600 have been imported at New York since
January !. In the same period last year i12 cars
New-York tribune., 1906-04-03
TO SELL CITY LANDS TO RAILROAD

IBv Telegraph Z The Tribune
Albany. April 2-Senator Grady introduced TO-
night bill authorizing the city to sell TO the New
York and Harlem Railroad lands in Putnam Coun-
~ where the reservoir is being built and other
lands held ~ he acquired by the city necessary
the work Of the railroad. He explained that the
Hill intended 10 permit the road TO extend the
electrihcation of its system. which operation the
lands at Croton Falls and Brewster,s were reces-
ssry. He SAID the Mayor approved the bill.
New-York tribune., 1906-04-03
SECURITIES VALUES ADVANCE.
: DAYS DEALINGS IND SHARP g.
REPORTED
Reading Copper Shares Features Money Goes to 10 Per Cent
Without, affecting Stock Values

vestment account. owing 70 the fact that at
current quotations these issues return 10 'n7
buyer relatively small income Investors VINO
have idle money use it more prohtaoiy III
the loan market at present than they can an III IL
buying high class stocks. and II Is not hkeIS
that there will be much of movement on a.
count of actual investors the Stock Excnahse
until quotations have declined 70 more AZ
tractive buying level