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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-15

yesterday for visit with his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Erwin. II
Mrs. Ed ROCKWELL Of Harrington
was a Bonaparte visitor yesterday.
Floris Woodin of Cantril is. the guest
Of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Keasling,
and family.
George Grages was a Burlington vis-
itor Thursday and Friday.
Mrs. Ed Piott Of Moulton Is visiting
at the home of Mrs. Margaret Humph-
reys. ,s3l
Mr.. and Mrs. W. P. L. Muir were
the guests of relatives In Keosauqua
yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. q. Coolidge and
Misses Ollie Macklin, BERTHE Beck and
Grace Cummings were Keokuk visitors
today.
Miss Bertha Kisling. who is a teach
er in the Birmingham shool, is making
a short visit with her mother.
]. T. B. Cresap returned to his home
in Eldon yesterday, after a visit with
his son, Dr.. r. N. Cresap, and fam
ily
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started Wednesday evening for their
home. They will visit several places
on their way.
Leo Jackson is visiting in Keokuk
and Quincy this week.
Mrs. George Rambo of Douds-Lean-
do, was a business visitor here Mon
day.
Miss Ollie McGaffey of Pittsburg is
visiting relatives in Ottumwa this
week.
c.. l. Manning and Attorney McCoid
were in Des Moines several days on
business.
William Davidson went to Daven-
port Wednesday on business.
Mrs. Louis McMickle of Agency Wis
tied at the home of Oner Fellows the
past week.
Miss Rosa Gillespie is spending tho
week at Keokuk.
DR.. Harris departed Wednesday
evening for Quincy, ILL.,, to attand the
soldiers reunion of the s4rn regi-
n,ent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rolla Lawson are at
We elk.
Thomas Campbell, liviog west II
town is very ii with ty ohoid fever.
Walter Beer and family a.: visit
ing relatives In heokuk.
Mr. and MS. Samuel ClarS, Mrs.
Ca,lie Bell, Clarenc, Lindsay and Neil
S;ur" were street lair visitors ar e.
hu;:. leaving :,ere Wednesday evening
Charles Burns of Ottumwa visited
his parents in Des Moines township
| Wednesday,
Mrs ]. Lester Therme and little
daughter, spent Tuesday and Wednes-
day with relatives at Douds-L eando.
Rev. Copper Of Ottumwa visited in
| Keosauqua Thursday.
The Keosauqua high school football
team will play the Milton high school
team next Saturday at Milton.
H. B. Sloan is in Des Moines this
week on business.
Mrs. Author Platte of Ottumwa Wis
| tied relatives here the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs j. Henry Stricklins
are "at home to their many friends
at the residence formerly occupied
by Mrs. Dunlap.
Mrs. Isaac Boyer is a guest Of hel
sister, Mrs. Hanback,. at Bonaparte.
Henry Walton and Frank Davis OF
| Oskaloosa passed through this place
Wednesday evening going from Bona.
parte to their home.
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WINCHESTER,

Winchester-Mrs. Minerva Humbert
and Mrs Mary McCafferty Of near To-
peka, Kansas, are visiting their sis
ter. Mrs. Angie Mccall, here.
Mrs S. F. Hawbaker has returned
from her daughter. Mrs. w. G. Mckee,
west of Birmingham.
Miss Ethel Williams spent last week
with her sister, Mrs. Ernest McLain.
Mr.. McLain has ben to Mexica and has
secured home there, to which they
will soon move.
Mrs. Thomas Williams and daughter,
Ethel, spent last Thursday with the
family Of E. j. Williams.
Mrs. M. E. Ford visited at the home
of Ed Syfert last Sunday.
George Day of Keosauqua took a
large drove of sheep through town on
Wednesday.
Walter Syfert spent Sunday with
Ora Williams.
Fred Brown, who accidentally shot
himself, is able to go to town.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Mcpherson spent
Thursday with Mr.. and Mrs. Boyd neal
Birmingham.
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News of
Southern Iowa

Funeral Services of Mr.. Myers Held.
Charlottesville funeral services of
the Dennis Myers of Rolla, Mo-, were
held at the Methodist Episcopal church
IN this city Saturday afternoon at $50
O'Clock, and were conducted by Rev.
w. S. McCullagh, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, assisted by Rev.
the auspices Of the Grand Army of the
Republic, and We're largely attended.
The floral tributes were profuse and
beautiful. Interment took place In the
Charlton cemetery.
Dr. and Mrs. F. H. Boynton have re-
turned from a ten days visit with rel
atives in Emporia and Newton,
Kansas
Mrs. G. w. Talbot is spending a
week in Des Moines with relatives.
Miss Rose Alderman, one of the eff
cient teachers of this place spent Sat
urday and Sunday with friends in AL
bta.
Mrs. Robert Darrah left the latter
part of last week for visit with rela
tives in Carman. Ill.
Miss Mary Moore visited over Sun
day at her home in Oskaloosa.
Mrs. A. c. Gregg has returned from
a few days visit with friends in Des
Moines.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Douglass mourn
the death Of their infant daughter,
who was but q few days old.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Johnson and
daughter. Hilma, of Lincoln township,
left Saturday for q weeks visit with
relatives in Mt Pleasant.
Mrs. Amanda Barnes and children
left Saturday for visit with relatives
in Knoxville.
Mrs. Ed Northcut and little son,
Waldo, left Saturday for Council
Bluffs, where Mr.. Northcutt is temper
arily located and where they will re-
side this winter.
Mrs. Bert Smith and Mrs. Mary
Reeves left Saturday for visit with
relatives in Corydon.
Rev. and Mrs. S. NJ. Clark and
daughter, Lille, visited over Sunday
In osceola with relatives.
Mrs. William Lyman went to st. Joe
Saturday to spend a few days with her
husband
Mrs. o. F. Tullis and children visit
ed over Sunday with relatives and
friends in Leon, where they formerly
resided
The football game Saturday between
the Charlton and Ottumwa teams re-
suited in a victory for the Charlton
team, the score standing 10 to 5. II
the evening the visitors from Ottumws
We're rendered a reception at the J. G
Copeland home, which was followed b!
q dance at the E. R. Croker residence
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BLAKE SeURG.

lBakesburg Mrs. VIM. Day has
been very sick for the past week.
Willard Cohagan and wife are ex-
pected home from Chillicothe, H., to-
day
Mrs. David Jay left this evening
for Ames to visit her son Albert, who
is in school there.
Walter Abege and wife were in
Ottumwa Thursday.
George Dorothy is contemplating
moving to Ottumwa soon.
Mrs Amelia Anderson of Golden
City, has gone to Red Oak to visit
her daughter, Mrs. Maggie Lee and
from there she goes to her home
Mrs. G. T. Slavins is visiting at
Coatsyi!le, Mo, this week.
Mrs. Carey, who was quite sick on
Wednesday is much better now.
Mrs. Ina Van Cleave went to Des
MONIES Wednesday evening to visit
at the home of her daughter, Mrs
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BONAPARTE.

Bonaparte.- Bonaparte Alumni
gave reception at the Presbyterian
church Friday evening in honor of the
teachers in the public school and the
board Of directors and families.
Miss Lizzie Meek of Milwaukee, Wis.
has recently ben visiting her mother,
Mrs. Mary Meek, who Is seriously Ill.
Mrs. Katherine Kavanaugh, who has
been making an extended visit at the
o. J. Coolidge home. went to Eldon
yesterday for a short visit before re-
turning to her home in Cloquet, Mimi
Miss Halle Steadman has gone to
Los Angeles. Cal, where she expects
to make her future home.
John Erwin of Omaha, Neb.. arrived
Harry Gilbert and Louis Ballieu have
gone to Ell Reno, Oklahoma. where they
have employment.
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east of Cantril, consisting Of 1853 acres
at $65 per acre.
Mrs Renfro of Milton is visiting
this week at the homes Of T. s. Stone
breaker and e. H. Rider.
DR.. Carpenter has rented the Maui
kin house and will move his family
from Keokuk.
John Tharp and wife are visiting
at the home Of William Miller's.
Mrs. Susie Solice Of Palisade. Neb.,
is visiting at the home of her par
ents, Joseph Davis and wife.
Mrs. Sorton and daughter of Mt.
Sterling, were in town Monday.
Otto Huffam has moved from Keo-
sauqua to the George Hull farm.
Joseph Nicholson returned from his
visit in New Mexico and reports a
pleasant trip and witnessed the mar
rage of his daughter, Miss Gertrude
Cochran to Mr.. Coffey at Elida, New
Mexico.
Mrs. Charles John is visiting her
son Chauncey and other relatives 1t
Chillicothe Mo.
William Teter and Wall Fritz re-
turned from Omaha Thursday with G
train load of Wyoming sheep
A large number of people from
here attended the street fair at Keo-
kuk last week.
Mrs. George B. Creath and daugh.
ter, Mary were in Pennington Thurs
day.
Ned Harrison and family visited al
Ed Harrison's Tuesday
Tom Wilson of Ellensburg, Wash.
is visiting his brother, George Will
son.
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IOWA MONKS HAVE LOSS.
Trappists Lose Barns and Corn Crib,
Full Of Grain, by Con-
flanrafion

Dubuque, Oct IA 100000 firs
DESTROYED two barns and the corr
crib of the Trappist monastery here
yesterday. Eighteen thousand bushela
Of corn were lost. There was no In,
surance.
1t is believed the fire resulted from
a spark from threshing machine
The monks formed fireman's bril-
gade and put out the fire. The loss
is unusually severe to the monks, who
have just freed themselves of an
enormous debt.
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few mutual friends Of .Auld Lang

rev mutual friends OF Aud Lang
Syne."
Miss Ethel Grimes Legg Of ottumwa
is at the Emanuel Grimes home and Is
i'll. Her husband came up Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Newcomb
went to Ottumwa Saturday morning
for a week or ten days visit with old
friends. They came here from Ottum-
wa couple Of years ago.
Mrs. j. H. Hoffman and Mrs. E. j.
Horton have gone to Guernsey, Iowa,
each to visit her daughter and family.
Mrs. Louisa Kilgore went to Wash
ington. Iowa, Saturday for weeks
visit.
j. o. Ruggles of Steady Run town
ship, and Levi Dawson and son Of near
Hayesville, and Louis Kleinschmidt
and son of South Dakota, were in town
Friday, transacting business. Mr..
Kleinschmidt closed up the sale Of the
Mrs. Frank Schlitz farm south Of
Keota.
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SEYMOUR.

Seymour.-Mary Lynch departed IN
Wednesday noon via the G. Nj. & st.
P. Ry. for Oklahoma where she was
called by the serious Illness of her
sister, Mrs. Henry Long. She will be
Joined at Kansas City by another sis
ter, Mrs. Dillon of Auburn, Neb.. and
they will make the remainder of the
journey together.
John Brown and wife arrived We'd
nesday from Pleasant Plains, Kansas,
where they have been visiting the
past month
Hiram Gates has bought the Rock
well and Gunter restaurant and took
possession of the same on last Mon
day evening.
E. A. Rea has sold ais stock Ct
hardware to William Wilson, who
had formerly clerked for the Seymour
Hardware Co.
John Wilkes Of Centerville, agent
for the New York Life Insurance Co.
Is working the town this week.
Bartlett and Sheppard shipped two
cars of hogs to Ottumwa Thursday.
DR.. Hull Of Plano was in town last
Wednesday,
Mrs. L. M. Beebe attended the P
E. o. convention at Brookfeld last
week.
Mrs. j. c. Calhoun went to Center.
vile Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey of Shelby coun
ty, Mo, are visiting Isaac Condra's
| and other relatives in this vicinity
Mrs Susan Condra, who was taken
severely i'll while visiting in Salina
Kansas, this summer has returned
| and is quite sick at the home of hel
| niece. Mrs. Sam Bonner.
R. A. Wragley returned from Hum
eston Thursday where he has beer
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RENTS Fine If Man Leaves Town.

Sigourney-Fred Aroutt, an Eng
lishman who has been working with
the paving gang, was fined SIS for as
seult an dbatterv on John Fauney, an
other worker in the gang. Thursday
noon. Aroutt was taken before the
mayor, who after imposing the fine
and delivering a free lecture offered
to remit $40 of the fine If he would
pay the IS and get out of town the
same day. which he agreed to- Not
much damage was done in the fight,
as the men were soon parted 1t is
reported that this fellow has been try
ing to make trouble in order that he
might be fired from the job.
The Salamagundi club met Wednes-
day at the home of Mrs. Stockman A
biography of Robert Burns (by War
ner) was read by Miss Elizabeth wy
ant, she having visited the home and
haunts of the Scotch bard, made the
lesson unusually interesting and in
structive
Mrs. /. J. Wemer sister of Mrs. D.
T. Stockman, after visiting a few days
here, has returned to her home in
Keswick. She and her family will
start for Pasadena. California, the last
of this week to make their home there.
The case of James Williams in the
district court VS. the c., M. & st. P
Railroad company for damages was
taken from the jury and dismisse.
G. s. James went to What Cheer on
Thursday on business
Fred Burns started Wednesday to
his homestead west of Pierre, 8. D.
where he will make his future home
Cashier E. d. Baird of North Eng
fish was transacting business in Sig
Quincy Tuesday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Lin,
nenkamp, Wednesday, a daughter.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Neu.
| man, Wednesday. a son.
r. S. Martin Of the Hedrick Jour.
nal and R. B. Jackson, merchant o
Hedrick, were in town Wednesday.
Cap e. Miller county superintendent
| is visiting the schools in the countr,
and will continue until Oct. %, "a ant
25 when the next teachers examina
ton will be held in Sigourney.
Sigourney.-Mr. and Mrs. w. G
~Schnitzlein, of New York City, wer
entertained at the hospitable home 0
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G. O.. Porter. She was accompanied
by Mr.. Van Cleave who will go from
there to Ottumwa s. D.
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cANTRIL.

Cantril-Wm. B. Smith bought the
Milton Linn farm. three miles north
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Sigourney.-Mr. and Mrs. W. G..
,Schnitzlein, Of New York City, were
entertained at the hospltable home of
Edwin Franklin Friday evening, also
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-01-25
Fooled the HOIdup Men.

A west end man had an experience
recently that made his hair stand on
end and had it not been for his quick
wit in devising a means of getting out
of the difficulty it might have cost him
dearly. He is the treasurer of a local
lodge and was returning home from a
meeting with a considerable amount of
money in his possession, fortunately
the greater part of which was In cur
rency.
He got off car quite a distance out
in the west end and turned off a side
street toward his home, when he no.
ticed thai he was being followed by
two suspicious looking men. Quick as
a flash he pulled an envelope out Of his
pocket, addressed it to himself, stamp
ed it, put the currency inside 1t and
dropped it in the mail box. Then he
started on brisk walk.
Suddenly there came a command
from behind him.
Hands up!"
Up went his hands and the robbers
went through lis pOShCIS' Lac
grimly as the holdups secured only a
few dollars in silver and he thought
with pleasure of the money he had put
in the mail box in Uncle Sans care.
The robbers went away complaining Of
the small amount they secured and the
treasurer went home. Next day the
letter containing the money was deliv-
cred safely to his office.-Duluth News
Tribune.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-01-25

Early in October British soap manu-
facturers formed a combination like
what we know in America as a trust.
Six weeks later the members Of the
combination announced that "the work
ing arrangement entered into by the
leading soap makers of the United
Kingdom has been received with such
disfavor by the trade and the public
as to make it unavoidable, and 1t has
been decided to terminate the arrange
ment." Newspapers, tradesmen and
consumers had united to defeat the
combination. One need not approve
the methods of boycott resorted to by
the retailers, or the favors shown by
newspapers to independent" soap MAX
ers in the matter of advertising, which
contributed to make the allied firms
dissolve their agreement. But it may
be noted with satisfaction that the chief
power against the trust was the public,
and that the combination was undone
not by legal or political measures, or
by any ethical principle, but simply by
the fact that popular opposition made
it unavoidable" The people did not
like the combination, and they made
the manufacturers feel their strong dis
approval of it. Wherever organized
and artificial evil shows itself and is
recognized in time, spontaneous oppo-
sition on the part of public opinion can
often, If not always, break it up, al
though politics, law and mere ethics
fail Even where the consumer has not
the weapon of competition, as in the
case of railroad companies with unique
franchises, the people can force atten-
ton to their just demands if they will.
Cartoonists are still representing the
common people as a sorry, wizened lit
tie man. In this country as in Eng
land, his arm and voice are mighty if
he but use them.
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A LABRADOR MAIL-CARRIER.
~~~Aoo@

The mail carrier of the Labrador
coast is a man of endurance who does
not fear the worst of weather. There
Is no road at all. There are no bridges
and no ferries. In some parts of the
country the houses are as much as
twenty miles apart. There are noun
tains to climb and rivers to cross, boys
to pass, impenetrable barren upianos
and large lakes. In loft the ROCKS"
DR.. Grenfell tells of one mail-carrler
whose route is about 100 miles long,
and who receives as compensation $40
a trip.
We were plying ourselves one night
as we turned into our comfortable
sleeping-b bags on the floor of our hosts
tilt-pitying ourselves because it had
been a heavy day on our dogs, and 1t
was nearly 10 o'clock before we reach
ed shelter. When | aWoke in the morn
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must use his own brains and energies
to take care of it, or it soon slips away.
And it is a fact, which the rich man
quoted seems to have noticed, that not
all, nor most, children of the rich have
ability even to hold wealth dumped in
their laps A few children of rich men
have notably made their inherited
wealth great blessing to themselves
and mankind-but they are precious
few. Call the roll Of the men and
women who have achieved the highest
fortune or fame In this country, and
an overwhelming majority will be
found to have come up from the Flower
walks" Of life and to owe their devel-
opment Of character to struggle and
self-denial. 1t is of these twin bless
ings in disguise that we gain strength,
skill, sympathy, purpose. The child
pampered in idleness and luxury knows
little Of these vital things, and when
he meets in contest the uncouth but
toughened boy from the farm or the
side street, he has poor chance Of hold
ing his own. We are accustomed to
think Of the advantages of the chill
dren of the rich. But all the history
of human life since the world began
proves that the real advantages" are
on the other side.
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ing. as the gray dawn was stealing in
through the little window, thought
heard a movement by the stove. There
seemed something almost uncanny
about it until l made out what it was,
and could distinguish tiny, erect fig
ure, sitting bolt upright where none
had been overnight.
1t proved to be Peter Wright. He
had arrived about in the morning,
noiselessly stationed himself by the
stove, and gone straight off to sleep,
sitting on the settle, without a word to
any one. as satisfied as if he were in a
feather bed.
Now this place was where three car
riers meet The one from the west
ward was late, and Pete did not get
his mails handed over until in the
evening. He had thirty miles to his
next station, and the temperature was
20 below zero. At 10 he rose to go.
What, Pete, never going to leave at
this time of night, are you?"
"Why, sure he replied. with a
moon like this tbs better in the woods
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the nearest settlement, wrapped him.
self IN as best he could, told the dogs
YEARLY to start up and went to Sleep
When he woke up the fires OF a thou
sand white-hot needles prickled In his.
veins. and he found that his team, true
TO the trust that he had placed IN II,
had followed the guidance of the WOLF
ish leader and brought him to where
rough-handed rescue waited him.
Some Of Mr.. Cameron's trips clrcllng
from Nome up along the bleak nortn
shore and back down the Yukon inquire
up $500 miles, and among the eXperl-
ences that have been his is a 2,oUo-
mile chase after the worst hootchmaker
who ever distilled illicit spirits TOT
the sodden Indians or the reckless
whites. Charles Williams, the mans
name was, and his photograph IS one
of the ornaments of the rogues' gal
lery of the Northwest mounted ponce
at Dawson.
Cameron had heard of him, ana
found some of the hootch distilled Dy
him. With patient carefulness, ne
traced it to it's source, found ana oe-
stroyed the still, then set to work TO
track the man down. Williams neu
toward the British possessions in the
Northwest The mounted police, warn
ed by Cameron, were watching 1or
him and captured him at once. On Ills
release from Imprisonment last year
Williams decided to stay away from
Alaska, for there was the old charge
of Illicit distilling against him, and
man who never forgot awaiting MIN
with eagerness.
Cameron sees to it that all the laws
and all the regulations promulgated by
the Treasury Department that he serves
are observed to the letter, and In the
farthest mining camps the united
States dog team is we'll known. The
winters zero weather does not hinder
him. Snow, blown before cold winds,
that piles in drifts and changes all the
face of nature in night, delays per-
haps. but through the hardships that
are part and parcel of winter travel IN
Alaska he mushes on, sleeps out in
wastes of snow where there is not the
slightest trace of life.
His journeyings are ceaseless. The
end of one trip sees but the beginning
of the next and, while the winter
binds the land with ice and zero tenn
perature is pleasant warmth, he travels
east and west and north and south,
beating the path before Lis dogs where
SHOWS are light and travel hindering,
thinking perhaps of his coy house at
Nome, but bound by his oath CT Office
and duty driven across unending seas
of snow.
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urn a 12,OOO-ton steamship into

To turn a 12,O00-ton steamship into
huge steel bubble by pumping her full
OF compressed air, and float her off
rocks on which she had been impaled
for more than year, is a feat which
has been accomplished in the wrecked
Allan liner Bavarian, at the suggestion
of Captain Leslie, the well-known
wrecking expert of Kingston, Ont.
With full passenger list and valua-
bic cargo, the Bavarian ran on Wye
Rock, thirty eight miles below Quebec,
on the night of Nov. 3, 1905. Many of
the Bavarian's compartments filled
with water, and the ship settled down
on the rocks The ships bottom plates
were badly torn, and when the wreck
ers made an examination it was declar-
cd that the floating of the vessel would
be a most difficult job.
After the Allans had worked for sew
eral weeks to get the vessel off she was
turned over to Lloyds, and the under
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writer's set to work to save their
money. All the old methods for rails
ing vessels We're employed, and failed.
At last the underwriters gave it up.
The big liner lay ON the rocks
throughout the whole Of the winter,
and when spring came, and it was seen
that the vessel had not suffered from
the winter storms, hopes began to re-
vive that perhaps she might yet be
saved. Captain Leslie visited the
wreck and after a careful examination
gave it as his opinion that the big YES
sci could be successfully fioated. He
proposed to employ compressed air to
do the work. Such a thing had never
been done before, but Captain Leslie
succeeded in interesting Canadian and
United States capitalists and engineers
il the enterprise.
All the ships compartments were
made as nearly air tight as possible.
Hatch after hatch was closed by plat