Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-09-03

ing down perpetrators of crimes. Po-
lice dogs were first employed In
Client, Belgium, and they have been
much more successful than even the
fondest dreamer hoped they would be
when the idea first sprang into
being. They have outlived ridicule,
which was at first unchecked, and
gradually one after the other OF fhe
European cities, taking their cue from
Ghent, have employed the dog police.
The expense of maintaining them is
almost nothing. In Paris, LIE Chen
Sayateur, the dog which drags would
be suicides from the waters Of the
Seine, is already a familiar figure.
There is now, and there has been for
three weeks, a training school for
dogs in a city upstate which contains
about 10000 inhabitants where blood
hounds are being tried out daily.
Should the scheme work out we'll in
practice the dog police will soon be
adopted. Already one young blood
hound with little training has proved
picking up a trail several hours old
and running down the man who had
made 1t.
With a terrific crash, the greatest
cantilever bridge in the world, under
course of construction across the st.
Lawrence river five miles below Que
bee, collapsed late Thursday after
noon. Scores of workmen were car
ried down with the bridge into the
river 400 feet below, many Of them to
their death. The bridge had been un-
der construction for about six years
and was almost completed, the work.
men being engaged in putting on the
finishing touches when the crash
came. Nearly half Of the gigantic
structure, which was mile and half
long, beginning at the south shore, Is
in the river. The bridge collapsed
without a moments warning. Mingled
with the deafening grinding of steel
as great bolts were torn from their
sockets and massive girders were
wrenched and bent under the strain,
the cries of the victims were heard by
their fellow-workers as they stood on
the undamaged section of the bridge or
on the cliffs unable to assist their COM
panions Section by section the gigan-
tic structure tumbled into the river,
each successive section ripping out an
other until the entire south half was
1aff nf xpI OF
was reputed to be one Of the greatest
triumphs of engineering skill. The
bridge was being built by the Phoenix
Bridge company OF Phoenixville, Pa,
and was to be the longest cantilever
bridge In the world. The central span
was 1900 feet long, 205 feet longer
than the longest span Of the Brooklyn
bridge, and was to cost $4,000,000. II
was being built entirely of rolled steel
and strength was the one aim Of its
designers and builders. More than
eighty men lost their lives, most OF
them being skilled workmen from
Pennsylvania. Many of the bodies
are held down by portions of the
bridge and will never be recovered
Mr.. Theodore Cooper. of New York,
consulting engineer in charge Of the
work, who had not visited the bridge
in two years on account Of i'll health,
said Friday: Thursday morning my
inspector came down to my office and
told me that things did not look well
for the bridge. He thought that II
ought to be looked into Immediately.
wired the man in charge of the work
there to get off the bridge at once and
stay off until 1t could be examined"
AS to whether or not the telegram of
Mr. Cooper was delivered is uncer-
tain. The bridge was insured for $4,-
100000.
- Charlotte Chronicle: 1t Is a fact of
much interest to church people of all
probability the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian church will establish
near Black Mountain a religious con-
ference, or Chautauqua. That portion
of the state is becoming more and more
popular for religious meetings of this
kind, and the A. r. P.'s will be the
third denomination to establish an en-
terprise of this kind at that point
thus adding to the Northfield atmos-
phere of the Black Mountain section
which is growing more distinct with
the coming of every summer. The
Southern Presbyterians were the first
to become thoroughly identified with
this kind of work when they purchas-
ed the grounds belonging to Mr.. John
S. Huyler and established the Noun.
tain Retreat association. which has
already fully justified the purchase
Then at the meeting Of the Baptist
state convention held in Greensboro
last winter a movement was started to
lish a place of rest and recreation fol
the summer months similar, some
what to the Montreal enterprise. The
tract of ground which they subse-
quently purchased joins that of the
Presbyterians. So rapidly has inter
est grown among the Baptists in this
movement that announcement has
been made that Rev. w. B. Spillman
so long identified with the Sunday
school department of the Southern
Baptist convention, as field secretary
has resigned his position on the Sun
day school board to take the position
of director of the Baptist Assembly
Grounds. He will give his entire time
to the development of this enterprise
and his leadership will no doubt has
ten rapidly the early success Of the
movement. Mr.. Spillman is one ot
the most prominent and successful
workers in the Baptist denomination
and the success he has attained in the
Sunday school department of his de-
nomination has rarely, If ever, beer
surpassed. He is a thoughtful and
entertaining speaker, and a man OF