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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
FAMOUS DE SOTO OAK DOOMED.
Parasite Attacks FIorida's Giant Tree,
Which Is Over 800 Years Old.

The famous great oak in the beau
tiful park surrounding the Tampa
Bay HotGi, and which is known as
the De Soto oak, for the reason that
DE Soto camped under it when he
landed on this coast, is doomed to
death. 1t has been attacked by par
asite which has killed whole forests
in Florida. g8
The parasite is sort of moss which
blows off other trees with the wind.
Whatever tree it lands on there it
sticks. The parasite burrows into the
tree. 1t breeds very fast. and the
moss it makes grows just as rapidly.
Whenever it lands on tree, the be-
ginning of the end for the life of that
tree is settled fact.
Strangely enough, too, 1t produces
a plant in the branches of the tree
very much like a water lily in ap-
pearance. 1t blooms and produces a
remarkable effect when the flowers
are on. In time the moss hangs down
dn great confusion from every branch
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27

On January 8, last. Bullard was q
big, husky fellow, a graduate of Cam
bridge Latin school, and an expert
electrician He started to learn tun-
neling, and decided to begin at the
bottom by becoming a sand hog"
He passed the examinations and went
to work on a Monday morning as a
hydraulic filter in the Pennsylvania
tunnel under the East river. When
he came to the. surface that night he
almost tainted with "the bends" The
physician took him back into the tun-
mel, put him in the medical airlock
at the foot of the shaft, and, as is
usually the case, "recompressed" him
that is, treated him under the pres
sure Of compressed air. The next
morning Bullard was unconscious. He
was sent to hospital, and died that
evening. In his case it was said that
he had Bright's disease which devel-
oped rapidly under air pressure.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
sRElAia]!ER5sAEea ElAia]!ER
'!lIfa4t%p7E9
SCIENCE VS.. LIQUOR.
The Former Placing the Latter In Dis
reputable Light.

An interesting address by DR.. E. o.
Taylor, of Boston, delivered before tne'
recent Anti-Saloon League convention
held at St. Louis, Mo-, gives the Key
note for American temperance re-
form. DR.. Taylor spoke on the SUD
ject: Science versus Liquor" and
said in part:
According to conservative esti-
mate, 100000 people are destroyed
every year in this country, directly
or indirectly, for lack of very little
and very simple knowledge touching
the nature of alcohol and its principal
effects upon the living human body.
1--WE have temperance sentiment
enough in this country, such as it is.
The brewer, distiller, drinker and
drunkard all alike believe in temper
ance, none of them believe in 1ntem-
perance, and that is temperance senti"
ment. The trouble is that it is not
intelligent, up-to-date, or scientific
sentiment.
1.-THE question with scientific men Is
not distinctively one of beer or Whls-
ky, but the question of alcohol, wher-
ever alcohol may be found. What is
this thing we call alcohol? Is it good
or bad in its nature? Does its char
acter, not it's abuse, sO-called, ade-
quately account for the badness of it's
fruitage? Let me refer to notable
fact. In Europe they have an inter-
national temperance congress. 1t
started out a few years ago to discuss
the abuse of beer and whisky-how
to dispose of such abuse. Quite re-
Gently that congress changed its name
to the International Anti-Alcohol con-
gress, which is now discussing the in
herent badness of alcohol-how to
dispose of its use for beverage pur-,
poses.
Just as long as the people-the
masses-consider liquor as good in
it's nature and it's abuse only bad,
will they go on drinking it in spite
of any restriction you may advise,
and just so long will voters and legis-
lators go on temporizing with the
traffic legislatively. l would not have
a whit less of prohobitory legislation,
but a thousand fold more of funda-
mental educational work by which to
sustain such legislation.
"Dr. Hadley, president of Yale uni
versity, recently said: AS soon as
the common people get into their pos
session the principal facts touching
the nature of alcohol, they will drive
every saloon out of the country To
impart that necessary knowledge is
consequently the first duty of the
hour-not the last. But such a
process implies education-scientifi
education, and that of a majority of
voters. Such education is only pos
sible ultimately through the medium
Of the public school system where
scientific instruction can be adequate
ly given, and where the majority of
the future voters are to be found.
"The inexorable logic of DR.. Had
ley's statement, then is that the faith
fui, systematic, progressive, scientific
teaching concerning the nature and
consequent effects of alcohol, begin
ming with the primary grades and con-
tinuing through the habit forming per-
iod of the intermediate to the high
school, is essential to the ultimate and
permanent overthrow of the drink
habit and traffic in this country"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27

as if to reach the key from the rack
For moment he was out of sight O.
Mr.. Johnson"
Then to Mr.. Johnson's" dismay hi
was quietly seized by two men, who
seemed to come up from the floor OF
either side of him and who asked him
very politely, but with firmness, tt
leave the hotel at once.
1t was then that the manager ap
peared from behind a pillar and ex
planned.
A few moments later, when they
were drinking the bottle, the cha
grined loser said:
We'll, that's a wonderful thing
How the deuce do they remember
everybody they see?"
Easy enough said the manager
"and in this. particular case there
isn't room in the house nambered
below 1O0"
The loser bought another bottle or
himself without being asked.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27

A number of Danish physicians
have recently become alarmed at the
gravity of the drink evil in their land.
and have adopted the British method
Of temperance campaign in causing
large posters to be placed in all rail-
way stations throughout the country
proclaiming alcohol as a stupefying
and dangerous poison, and the cause
of most of the insanity and crimes in
Denmark.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27

In the b1risb dusk of the mild, swIcee
May evening the suburbanite squirted
the hose gravely.
Look here" said florist, mo won
der your grass and shrubbery don't
thrive. That is no way to water them
Hold the hose high. Don't aim it at
them like a gun, man."
"No?" said the other. why not?"
Because" said the florist, grass
and flowers must be watered as nature
does it. You must initiate rain with
your hose. That's the idea. Up in the
air with it. Point it toward the sky
Let the spray descend gently in a
shower. Now you'll get results"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
smalIast Church

At Penon,' Mex, a suburb OF Mexico
City, may be seen what is perhaps the
smallest church in the world. It
nestles under the shadow of small
volcano. The church is about ten
feet high and twelve feet wide. When
ever couple is married at the little
altar of the church there is barely
room for the bride and bridegroom to
turn around at the same time.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27

those killed or injured, 1856 were
workmen, three belonged To the en-
gineering stan, and IL were persons
not connected with the operations.
In the two years the subway cost 16
lives, all but one of the victims being
workmen. Again in 1902 the list was
formidable. Twenty-one lives we're
lost and 214 persons were hurt 1879
Of them being employees.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
Panama,a Meed-

In January last Rev. J. ]. Kipliu
Fletcher was sent out by the Pres
byterian board of home missions to
the Panama canal zone to report ON
moral conditions there and the need
for mission work. He found a total
white population of about 5000 and
constantly increasing; the colored pom
ulation was about $4,000 and also in
creasing about One-half of them are
English-speaklng negroes.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27

accidents in the streets-one victim
for every sunset.
A hint of the sacrifice of life in pub
lie works was found in the records of
the board of coroners in Manhattan
Last year there were 2,160 deaths by
violence in the boroughs, and 6S4, or
nearly one-third, were caused by falls.
explosions, the collapse of earth in ex-
cavations, premature blasts, and fall
ing rocks and timbers. The river tun-
nels were pushed forward at the cost
of GS lives, or 43 in the Pennsylvania
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
Williamsburg Bridge Fire.

Many New Workers will recall the
splendid spectacle one night early in
November, 1902, when burning oil and
woodwork atop the Manhattan tower
of the bridge shone over the city like
a blazing meteor. Then the firemen,
powerless to fight the blaze 100 feet
in the air. watched the flames spread
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27

sons had been well learned. At first
the sand hogs" worked in eight-hour
shifts. The working periods were
gradually reduced as the caissons
sank deeper and deeper beneath the
river bed, until, when the workmen
were 107 feet below water level, the
shifts had been reduced to two day
of As minutes each. The sand hogs"
were provided with dressing rooms,
not baths, steam elevators to carry
them to the surface, and plenty of
hot coffee. Some of the men were
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
The Foe Of Labor

"The foe of labor is not capital but
ignorance and vice. In the whole Eng.
disappearing world, at least, its worst
enemy is drink. More than a corbina-
tion of all the employers, the saloon
has the power to impoverish and de-
grade the workingmen. - Bishop
Spalding of Peoria, Essay on Labor
and Capital"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
Gov. FOLK on Home ,Tr.d.

We are proud of oGr splendid cities
and we want them to increase in
wealth and population and we also
want our country town to grow. We
wish the city merchants to build uf
Dut we also desire the country mer.
chants to prosper. do not believe in
the mail order citizen. If a place is
good enough for man to live in and
make his money in, it is good enough
TOR him to spend his money In"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
Search World for wmmunes."

The necessity of obtaining sand
hogs" with these peculiar physical
qualifications, with tunnel building in
this city to an extent hitherto un-
precedented for tunnel workers, and
not little difficulty in obtaining the
required number. The Pennsylvania
railroad, for instance, literally
searched the world for men of ex-
perience to build the tunnels. On
the crosstown shafts they have scores
of Austrians who get their experience
in the Simplon tunnel. The engineers
and foremen include men who have
tunneled in Egypt, South Africa and
England. AS many as 5000 men have
been employed at one time on the Nc
Adoo tunnel project. On account of
the constant menace to life and limb,
their wages are proportionately large.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
AduIterated Eoodstuffs.

Recently a number of samples OF
coffee, extracts and canned goods
sent out by a premium giving concern
were examined by chemists in Mis-.
souri, and in South Dakota and found
to be greatly adulterated. These goods
were sold at prices as high as the
local grocers charge for the best class
of articles. Those who are careful of
health should not buy foodstuff that
comes from the mail order houses, or
from the premium giving concerns.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
KiIIinq the Small Towns.

1t is impossible to build up towns
without there being business to EN-
ploy the people who reside in them
The mail order system of doing busi
ness is killing off the small town, and
as result the farmers residing neal
them suffer by having poor market
and poor schools and other blessings
of the kind that go with the 1--WE town
Not alone this but farm values are
kept down.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
Must Do the Work.

A new regulation in Victoria, Aus
tralia. makes It an offense for sub
stance to be sold in that state as a
disinfectant unless it will, when used
as directed, kill the germs Of disease,
and the explicit direction for its use
must appear on each bottle or wrap
per. The total imports of disinfect-
ants into the commonwealth of Aus.
tralia amounts to abou. s250,0OO per
year.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27

attacked by caisson disease. but none
of them ended fatally.
This great public work was not to
be accomplished, however, without
the usual tribute Of human life. The
working force on the bridge varied
from 400 to 500 men. Twenty Of
them were killed, mostly by falls. AS
was the case with the Brooklyn
bridge, some of the escapes were
grotesque, some almost miraculous.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
Dancers Of cempresssd Air.

With all precautions it is apparent
ly impossible to prevent "the bends"
claiming it's victims. Two sand
hogs died in one day last October,
for instance, because, as the doctors
believed, they had passed too quickly
from the compressed airlocks to the
surface. A conspicuous example was
the death of young Claiming Bunard
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
Swiss Anainst Ahsinth.

The Swiss government has been
asked by 16S,341 persons to suppress
the manufacture and sale of absinthe
in that country. That subtle green
spirit is held responsible for much hu-
man wretchedness wherever it is free
ly used, so this wholesale prohibition
is to be submitted to a vote of the
whole Swiss people. r.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
Mlsfts in Sonus.

I'm going to see new American
play tonight" she was saying. ITS
by an English author. All the best
American plays these days are written
by English authors"
II hope they are more apropos than
the songs they write" remarked her
friend. Have you forgotten the Eng
lish song that had a chorus about the
Cotton fields way down in Old New
Jersey p
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27

In Berlin, Germany, a system of
hand-carts has recently been estab.
llshed in the streets in the interests
Of temperance. These carts supply,
in sarupulously acceptable mahiief.
milk, tea, coffee, mineral drinks and
light eatables at very low prices. An
especially good business is done in
the neighborhood of cab-stands, rail-
way-stations and factories, and as a
means of combating alcohol the carts
are found to be most successful.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
Heard Him.

Boarder Ito landlady)-Did you
hear me come home last night?
Landlady-Did /? heard you COM
ing home for several hours! Trans
lated for Transatlantic Tales from
Tliegende BIatter.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
Lives Lost in Subway.

|
In the building of the subway
there have been nearly 75O accidents,
costing 80 lives, or four victims for
every mile of track. Hardly had the
work been started, in 1900 when fall
ing rock in the south heading of the
One Hundred and Sixty-eighth street
tunnel killed five workmen and in
jured two others.
The explosion of dynamite in the
same section of the work, near Forty
second sereet, on January 27, 1902,
shattered the windows for blocks
around and killed five persons, four
Of them being in the Murray Hill
hotel. In October, 1908, another fall
of rock near Fort George killed ten
workmen.
1t was not these more serious acci-
dents, however, that swelled the list
of dead in subway building to a for
midable total. Rather was it the
casualty to single workmen or to
some careless bystander-death in
the dark recesses of the East river
tunnels or a Harlem bluff, the re-
suits of a misstep that sent a work
man crashing into the depths of an
open trench, injuries from falling
timbers, or lives snuffed out by mis-
calculated blasts, or an avalanche of
soggy soil. In 1900, when the sub
way was started, 27 workmen and
eight outsiders were involved in acci-
dents more or less serious. Con-
structive work was in progress at
many points in 1901, and the number
of casualties was swelled to 176. OF
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
Chief Cause of Danger.

The large number Of casualties on
the North river works is explained
by the peculiar difficulties of the
work. The East river tunnels were
driven largely through rock. In the
North river the tunnels must be
driven through masses of soft silt,
varying from oozing mud to treacher.
Gus quicksands. The compressed air
must be maintained at higher pres.
sure to keep out the water. The dan
ger is greatest from blowout" or
leak, with its sudden thrush of
water. Indeed, the old heading of the
tunnel which crosses the North river
at Morton street was abandoned at
one time because so many lives were
lost by "blowouts"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
Its Only salvation.

Landlady--I had my strength al
taken away once by hypnctism.
Boarder- Somebody ought to hyp
notize this butter.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
Border on Humorous.

bOTueT OF T1uT1OTOuSs
Some of the escapes, miraculous as
they seemed to be, were not without
their suggestions of humor. One
workman fell from the Manhattan
anchorage to the ground, so feet be-
low, struck pile of lumber, and lived
to tell of it. He struck the lumber
with such force that he broke one Of
the planks neatly in the middle. An
other workman plunged into one Of
the we'll holes in the Brooklyn tower.
At the bottom, 104 feet below, was a
pool of water with an empty cement
barrel floating around in it. The fall
ing man landed on the barrel and
rolled off into the water. He was
only slightly hurt.
An unprecedented record was made
when the Williamsburg bridge was
built between 1897 and 1904. AL
though as many as $50 men worked
at once under compressed air in the
caissons, not single death from the
bends was reported. The hard
lessons of the Brooklyn bridge cais-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27

They who grow in grace surely will
grow more gracious.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27

terminal works, 20 in the Belmont
tunnel two in the subway borings un-
der the East river, and three in the
Hudson company's terminal at Church
and Dey streets.
The erection of the Brooklyn bridge
between 1870 and 1888 advanced to
the accompaniment of casualty and
death. John A. Roebling, the first en-
gineer in chief, lost his life as the re-
suit of his responsibilities and an in
jury received while at work on the
bridge. His eldest son, Col. w. A..
Roebling, succeeded him, but the
bridge was still in its early stages
when he became an invalid from ex-
posure, overwork and anxiety.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
Hairhreadth Escapes.

Hairbreadth Escapes.
Yet the spirit of adventure walks
hand in hand with death. While many
lives were lost that the Brooklyn and
Williamsburg bridges might be built
there were escapes by the workmen
engaged on them that would seem
grotesque and improbable if put into
novel A man may die for every day
of the year during the construction
of a cassion or river tunnel, but the
men who escape tell stories that
would enhance the fame of Hugo, Poe,
or Eugene Sue. The sacrifice of life
in public works, too, is a story apart
from the record of seven lives ended
by violence in this city for every day
in the year. 1t takes no count of the
men, women and children killed by
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-06-27
GREAT WORKS AND THEIR
COST IN HUMAN LIVES
Spanning Wide Rivers, Erecting Skyscrapers,
Boring Tunnels and Subways, Not Done
Without Many Fatalities.
Tales of Herosm Relieve Recital of Appalling Disasters
Hairbreadth Escapes and Startling Adventures Form
Part of the Building Up of the Great City of the
Future-"Immunes" Sought All Over Earth.

New York.-Not millions of dollars
alone nor the skill of designers, nor
the cunning of craftsmen enter into
the making of a great city. Sky
sCrapers, bridges, tunnels and sub
ways must be purchased at heavy
cost of human life. Few realize how
many men die that a great public
work may be created. Engineers and
builders say that the sacrifice is in
evitable. Six tunnel systems are be-
ing constructed under the North and
East rivers. According to one esti-
mate, there is one man killed in them,
on an average, for every day of the
year. A well-known engineer has es-
timated that every floor of modern
building of pretentious size has cost
a life, either in the forests where the
timber has been cut, in the coal and
iron mines, and stone quarries, the
steel mills, the CaissOns sunk deep in
the earth for the foundations, or in
the steel superstructures that rise
laCelike to the sky. .
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

~ :
The nrst street to be lighted BY gas was
rnll Mall. This was in January, 1907.
new washboiler has sectional lid
which greatly facilitates the laundry work.
Needle makers and fle-cutters seem to be
the occupations most susceptible TO the raw
ages of consumption,
The work of serecting the superstructure
% the Manhattan Bridge across the East
River has been begun
The ranks Of the miners and charcoal
burners are less affected by consumption
than any other occupation.
Gently cut off his private stables to correct
a deficit of sl25.ooo in his budget
| Tho London Taller wants to know who
| is to look after the British West Indies
\ and what Is to become OF them IL We
4 whole American feet Is sent to the pacihc
] Horato w, Seymour. formerly editor-ln.
chief of tho Chicago Chronicle, has assumed
charge of the ST. Louis Post Dispatch In
the same capacity,
J w. Beers, Of West View. Pa Is said
| 70 have one of the most valuable short,
/ hand libraries In the world. II includes
! practically all the systems invented sincc
\ tbs year 1900
The average life OF an American ship II
only eighteen years, while that OF Brit
! ISL vessel Is twenty-sIx years Tho Scandi
navian average Is the best, II Is thitt,
4 years
Father Erasmus Herring. the worlds great
v es |insuists died recently NJ I.andeshu
Monastery. In Germany. AT tho age of 10
Ha had been monk In the monastery fo
mere than so years, and he had nbsolut,
command OF SO ancient and modern Ian
II guaSes.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-19
RESEARCHES INTO
ALL ANIMAL LIFE
Noteworthy Reports Will be Pre-
sented to Geological Inter
national Congress.


BOSTON. MASS. August 1s.-som,
of the most noteworthy reports of re.
searches into all branches of animal
life VIII be presented at the Geological
International Congress. which Will be-
gin here Tomorrow.
The congress will last six days in
this city. and the meetings will con-
tinue at New York. Philadelphia and
Washington. the congress closing Sep.
tember 6th at New York. There WEI
be a number of general sessions. and
at these three delegates representing
Germany. Great Britain and the
United States will be heard. Profess
sor Richard Hertwig. of Munich.
comes as a delegate of the German
Diet.
Professor Hertwg has distinguished
himself in the study of the develop
ment of protozoa, and he will discuss
this subject. Sir John Marcy. presi-
dent of the Scottish Natural History
Society. Is the delegate of the ROYAL
Society of Edinburgh. and Is known
the world over as the editor OF the
publica lions of the challenger expedi-
ton The subject of his address on
Wednesday will be "Oceanography."
The representative Of American
Science will be DIR. W. Is. Brooks. OF
Johns Hopkins University. who VIII
be heard on Friday on "Ahe Heredity
and ariation Facts2"