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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.
Mounted Policeman Saves Woman
Il Shot Out Of Auto.

4
Mounted Policeman Elmer Roth Of
the New York force was q very handy
man to rich sMrs. Paul Putnam when
q Forty-second street crosstown car
hit her big automobile and catapulted
her headlong toward the pavement.
If OficeF Roth hadn't caught her on
the wing In transit toward the hard
cement she would not be thanking her
lucky stars now that he was present
and has quick brain that some day
ought to make him q police commits
sfoner.
Mrs. Putnam, who lives with her
husband at the exclusive Fife Arms
apartment hotel at 251 West Eighty
seventh street, went out for alride In
Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-12
EVAPORATION IF SALTON SEA
 4 STUDY
Government to Carry On Most Extensive Experiment On Record for the Benefit of Science.

WASHINGTON. D. C. May 11.-- Preliminary arrangements have been made by which the most extensive and useful study of evaporation and allied phenomena ever made will be carried on in the Salton Sea, under cooperative arrangement made and entered into by the United States Geological Survey, the United states Weather Bureau and the United States Reclamation Service.
 The breaking in of the Colorado River to the Saltnn Sink in Southern California and the great engineering conquest that has been waged to drive the waters back into their old channel are matters quite familiar to the general public. The flooulng Of the Salton Basin to a depth of about 50 feet. has caused great loss to prop erty and Improvements. There are, however. a few favorable features connected with it, not the least of which in importance is the opportu- uity afforded for studying oFaPoTa- ton. Here is an inland sea suuuen- iy placed in an old basin, in warm
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for evaporation. It will be appreci- ated that the evaporation from reser-
 voir surfaces is an import matter.
 and anything that can be done to
 provide decisive data by which the engineer can make accurate compu- tations will eventually mean saving
 of enormous sums of money.
 A conference committee from the
 three bureaus Teprdsented, consist ing of Mir. c. F. Marvin. for une weather bureau, and MT. c. E. Gruns- ky, for the Reclamation service, have recently made a proposal for the evaporation work that has been ap- proved by the various bureaus, and the work will be carried on under
 the direction of Prof Bigelow, of the weather bureau. and Dr. It. K. Gilbert, of the Geological Survey. The recommendations, in brief are that the observations be continued over several years. and that they be undertaken as soon as possible after the summer floods of 1907, provided the protective structures which have been built to force the Colorado riv- CT into its normal channel withstand these floods. and thereby indicate that evaporation studies will not be interrupted by further extensive in flux of Colorado river waters. Since the results are primarily a contribu- tion to meteorology, although of the greatest value to engineers, the ob- seryations will be made by trained representatives of the weather hT- reau. Supplementary studies of the character Of the basin, inflow or sur face waters and sub-surface waters. and of engineering and geologic ques- tions that may arise will be carried on by the geological survey. The expense of installing new, unusual and expensive equipment that may be found to be necessary will be borne by the three cooperating bureaus. Professor Bigelow and pr. Gilbert will meet for conference at Yuma, on or about May 10, and will proceed to the Salton Basin to detcrS mine upon the details of the invests- gation.
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climate, where evaporation Is great.
 and without any important water
 supply running in in the future. The
 restoration of the Colorado river to
 its old channel practically cut off all
 Influx to the sea The water which
 remains can readily be measured and
 accounted for, and it will be merely
 necessary to observe the rate of re-
 cession of this great lake ana 10 raAs
 account of the attendant climatalog-
 teal phenomena. In fact, the chance
 for decisive work along this line is
 one that could hardly be expected to
 occur in the passage of a millennium.
 The rate of evaporation from water
 surfaces in the arid country especial ly. is exceedingly important. because 1t Is a large factor to be taken into consideration in connection with the determination of the amount of wa ter available for irrigation A reser- yOir of large surface extent, constant ly exposed to sun and wind, will lose by evaporation sufficient water to fir rigate many acres. So far. the meas. urements that have been made are unsatisfactory and when the hydraul- ic engineer desires to know the rate of evaporation, he has at hand only the old data that may or may not be suitable for his purpose. Neverthe- less, iii determining the number of acres that can be irrigated from a cer- tain reservoir, the engineer must make some allowance for the amount of evaporation, and must decrease the of acres to be irrigated by that amount. In the case of the new Roosevelt reser toir in Arizona. it has been estimated that the eTapora- ton will amount to about 6 feeI per year. Inasmuch as the total area of the reservoir will be 1632o acres, the amount Of waterslost will be 97,- 920 acre-feet, sufficient to irrigate 4S,S60 acres, assuming a duty of wa ter equivalent to 24 inches per an num-. Therefore, in estimating the number of acres that can be irrigat- cd from the Roosevelt TeseTyoir it Is necessary to exclude nearly 5U,UO0 acres that might be served were not
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after weeks absence with rheuma tism.
 Josie Roach has been ill all week threatened with typhoid fever. Archie Lewis has been i'll and ab sent all week.
 John Koehler has withdrawn and moved to Mexico.
 
 Wayne Montgomery returned Mon. day after being absent four weeks on account of scarlet fever. Newell Sheppard was sick and ab- sent on Monday and Tuesday. Joel Reese of the sixth has been ill and absent all week. Josephine Water has been III and absent for the past two days.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-12

Jose Davila has withdrawn from school and gone to work in the rail road office. Hattie Cummings and Rosy Webb have withdrawn from the fourth grade at Seventh street school. Leon Thompson and Susie Sperry are absent from Miss Albright's third grade. .....
 James Frost is absent on account of scarlet fever.
 
 Archie Koehler left Monday for old Mexico.
 Henry Mcclure has entered the first grade. ... Grace Mckinney, May Watkins, Will lie Askine. Delbert Biglow, Howard Graham, Willie Miller and Nellie
Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-12
} DOUGLAS SCHOOL NOTES. , p~~~%%~%>.%~@ .
(specLal Correspondence.l )

tSpeclal CorreSpondence.) Douglas, May II. Rovena Deming has been i'll and absent from the high school nearly all week.
 Milton Murray. Ed. Leahy, Fay Lane and Lester Glenn were all absent from the seventh grade a part of the week.
 May Cummings has withdrawn from the seventh grade.
 Horace Kenyon was i'll and absent on Monday and Tuesday.
 Florence Bell was absent from the eighth grade on Thursday
 It has been a difficult matter to gain sn entrance into the high school build ing the past week on account of the cement walks which are being placed in the patio and at the front and west entrances.
 At last the new clocks have arrived and will be placed in position by Mon- day morning. There are eleven clocks in all for the various class rooms which are to be set and regulated by electric mechanism, with two master clock controllers for the office. There are also two large cathedral toned gongs. This about finishes the fur nishing of the high school building and every school patron should feel proud of having the best equipped school in Arizona.
 
 Nellie Cummings of the fifth has 
 Wilhelmena Spencer has moved to Fl Page.
 Vertie Shuitz Pe-entered Wednesday
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1t Mil Grow

From the Kansas City Journal.
 Bantam weight children seem to be pretty numerous these days, but since James Pound and Aattie Eng were married down in Duck Creek township near La EoHtaiae, an entire family consists of but two pounds. But this is g situation which time will remedy.
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See the big special atfracs:ce at the Imperial Theater tonight
Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-12

Dowd have been absent all week.
 May Lockhart has returned after al weeks absence.
 The engagement is announced ofl Miss Bess Fox, daughter of Mir andl i Mrs. J. D. Fox to MT. Fred Nichols| of this city. The wedding will takel place some time in June.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-12
The Under Muslin Sale Continues This We
 Offering Irresistible Bargains

$T74E UndemusHn At the close left depleted ConGton tact entirely closed For this weeks selling the broken lines will sengtd
 sold will with New Clean Fresh from the Surplus Stocks carried
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after a weeks absence with rheuma-
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Jose Davila has withdrawn from school and gone to work in the rail
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,f Pattern Hats, embracing all hats worth )n saleat one.fourth less than regular prices. nd best models are included in this offering
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-25
A LOYAL DONNA.

In view of the fact that the third
Douma was practically packed" for
the government, It's pledge of loyalty
to the Gear in the address to Nicholas
from the lower house of Parliament is
not surprising, and is probably sincere.
But expressions of gratitude for ''the
right of popular representation have
n queer sound from liner who know
that popular representation in Russia
is rather a farce when their own selec-
ton was a matter of official choice and
steering, and not the free-will election
by a free people.
Nevertheless. the prospect of accom-
plishing something is better than in the
case of either of it's predecessors, be-
cause the Parliament and the Crown
will not be working at cross purposes
as they were before. Nicholas will feel
less apprehension with a loyal" Douma
that will work peacefully for what it
can get and will not be likely to press
for too radical measures.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-25
FED ON HORRORS.

When staid, old-fashioned and quiet
Burlington is shocked to the depths by
two murders and a suicide in two days,
the news of 1t is an extra shock to the
entire community. Grimes of violence
in great centres OF population, in
wicked" cities are more frequent thar
the conditions should warrant, but such
an outbreak in the sedate and we'll
behaved old South Jersey town comes
Ike a bolt out of a clear sky.
Crimes beget crimes; the public has
been fed on details of wickedness until
it is fairly slutted with horrors, and it
seems as &c there must be a contagion
in tharu, that one crime suggests an
other to the minds of the weak and the
vicious. The public is getting toe
graphic pictures of the vice and villainy
of the world, too much of the disgust
ing details. Some order should be
taken with this.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-25
THE suFFRAGErrE.

Woman suffrage as it is now being
exhibited in England is a historical
movement that is calculated to make
every sane Euglishman blush. Not
long g the halls of Parliament were
besieged by mobs of frenzied
many of whom fought like wildcats.
They wanted to intimidate Parliament
into voting suffrage for women, suf-
fraGefor these half-demented creatures,
whose idea of legislation and govern
ment were so singularly demonstrated
Throughout England now public meet
ings are disordered by shrieking "suf-
fragettes," who also invade the courts
of Justice during the trials of female
criminals and make indecent manifes-
tations of sympathy for the criminals
on the plea that women should not be
made subject to the man-made laws. In
this country we have all kinds OF
cranks and ~agitators, and there is also
a female suffrage party, which. how
ever, acts with proper decorum.
Slch scenes as those Witnessed IL
England would hardly be possible here
We are accused by Englishmen of do.
ing extravagunt things, hut we draw
the line on the demented ~suffragett,
and her actions.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-25
MONDAY, NOVEMBER rs. 1907.
A coMM1ssIoN sNuFFEp our.

The old Fish and Cana Commission
finally snuffs out of existence today
like a bad candle. The fight to drive
this m~alodorous State commission out
of office was begun by THE STAR and
carried on by THE STAR. The mail
administration of the commission nal
agement was very fully exposed in
these columns before the Hahn COM
mittee began its investigation.
We showed that the commission was
run by one man, who was its president,
secretary n treasurer: that s140,00
had been squandered in three years
without any visible results; that game
purchased at a cost of thousands of
dollars a year had been principally dis
posed of as gifts to office-holders and
politicians; that there was nc check
against the expenditures and no audit
of bills; that the commission main
tained a costly launch in salt waters,
where the commission claimed to have
no Jurisdiction, and that the launch
was regularly used for junketing at the
expense of the State.
There were other we'll sustained
eIaurges against this commission, and it
is n fact that not a few members of
the Legislature and some State office
holders knew about the state of affairs.
The distribution of wardenship sine
cures, of presents of quail n fish and
other favors closed the mouths of
men who should have protested. But
publicity did the work that they were
recreant in. The commission is legally
no more.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-25
IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION.

Already there have landed in the
United States for the ten months of
this year more than 1000. 900 immi-
grants, breaking oil previous records,
New York having received II per cent.
of this great thrush of aliens. One
svnuid'h3rtQY expect in the face of this
tremendous tide of incoming humanity
that there could he any labor famine,
but the unsatisfied demand for labor
in the South and in the West, and even
nearer at home, amounts to just that.
Thus the country is absorbing more
than a million immigrants a year, and
yet nearly everywhere they are clamor-
ing for hands, particularly in the agri-
ciiliurul sections.
In addition to this, industrial centres
must soon, ut least temporarily, feel the
drain frotn the return Of immigrants to
tlieir former homes. There is more or
less Of this return tide every year. but
this year it has been very large and
is stu going on. officials calculate that
II will lie enormous. Statistics show
that in August alone 22,246 returned
home. and sincr the financial panic
outgoing steaiucrs have been crowded
with them. For a while this must ap-
preciably retarl the restoration Of the
good times that received q black eye
fruln "frenzied finance" so recently.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-25
KAHN ART FOR NEW YORK.

New York is to he congratulated on
the fact that the most desirable part
OF the great Kann art collection. re-
Gently bought in Paris for $1,000. 900 and
resold, will come to the metropolis. The
most valuable New York purchase in
cludes seversl uemhrandts, notably the
great painting "Pilate Washing His
Hands" To be sure. these art oh
jects have come into the hands of pri-
yate owners and are not public possess
sious. but, nevertheless. New York will
feel the benefit.
There viii be opportunities for the
people to see these great masterpieces
Of art. no doubt. Artists @wIn
have access to them and they viii
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-25
ROOSEVELT GIVES WARNING.

President R~oosevelt's order to the
heads of federal departments, to the eff
feet that he. would regard as an act of
official improperly and d~iscourtesy the
2 act of any federal off1ce-holder who
should attend a political convention In
his State and urge the Endorsement Of
Roosevelt for the Presidential nominal
ton, ought to give a quietus to the
charge that Roosevelt and his friends
contemplate the use of the machinery
of the government for a denomination.
The objection to a third term is based
upon the fact that a President in office
can use the vast powers which he ex-
ercises and the patronage he yields to
reflect himself.
President Roosevelt has had only one
elective term as President, his first
term being an accident, and during that
term he carried out the policies OF
President Mckinley. 1t Is contended,
however, by his party opponents that
if he should be renominated 1t would
be for a third term. Logically the OBJ
lection to a third term holds good
against a second term. But evidently
the President has decided to set at res
the talk about his ambition for another
Presidential nomination. His order Il
federal office-holders will doubtless b'
respected.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-25

world-it Is the darkey who to a grea'
extent populates the alleys. OF the 90
900 inhabitants of these byways about
5000 are colored.
Snow alley has $50 black men, women
and children to help it belle its name
But the charity workers in the alleys
occupied by whites say thai ever
when the Caucasian families make an
effort to climb out of Sodom alley infiu-
enees seem to drag them back.
The alleys are found all over the city,
Bassett's alley, with a h~alf-concealed
entrance only three feet wide, is but a
few minutes walk from the Capitol. II
is full of families having only one room
apiece in wretched old shacks, with
floors a foot below ground level, and
with almost no windows at all.
The Senators can find Bassett's alley
easily. 1t is only a block from their
new office building. There is no water
or sewerage in the alley, although the
| office building is a modern marvel of
plumbing.
The blind alleys are, of course, the
worst of the lot. Some of these enter
from a single street, bore their way
into the block, turn and double and
finally end in a cul-de-sac. Others are
the arms of alleys which are open at
each end
In 1892 a law was passed prohibiting
any more building of alleged habita-
tions in Washington alleys. Since n a
time some of the rotten spots have
been cut away and a few have withered
of themselves; that is, the shacks
which formed them fell into ruin abso-
Lutte. But the 10000 human beings are
still herded in the houses that remain.
In his message three years ago the
President called the ally slums of
Washington by name and urged their
elimination. But Congress has not been
fired with similar zeal.
Everybody who has investigated he
alley slums says that there is only one
way of reforming those conditions.
places of residence.
Some of them have so much LAND
abutting on them that it seems rather
wasteful to close them entirely to resi-
dents. But in these cases the remedy
would be to widen and straighten the
alleys, making them into small streets.
The Presidents Homes Commission
attempted to carry out his work with
the cooperation of the District Com
missioners. The opening of twelve such
streets was recommended, n two of
these were confirmed by the courts.
But a decision by the United States
Supreme Court has checked the fur
ther carrying out of these plans, and
again the only hope is in help from
Congress.
If the wives of members once grasp
the fact that they themselves are
rather intimately in touch with these
same hidden alleys. the activity OF
Congress is likely to be hvened UP by
q few heart-to-heart home sessions. 1t
is an actual fact that many of the
servants in well-to-do households come
from alley shanties n go home and
sleep there every night.
AS for the servants in many of the
hotels, no man knoweth where they
come from. Many colored women liv-
ing in alley houses of the most unclean
and insanitary condition make their
living by taking in washing.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-25

Shop windows have begun to a k on
a Thanksgiving and holiday appear
ance. The holiday season may be said
to begin at Thanksgiving. The Thanks
giving turkey is a foretaste of the
Christmas fowl. We are gradually ex-
tending the terms of our statutory holi-
days. Thanksgiving is stretched over
from Thursday to Monday, Christmas
from Christmas Day to New Years,
and other holidays take in the end OF
the week when they happen to fall on
Friday. Our holidays are few and far
between in the course of a year. and
the tendency is to stretch them out.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-25
20, 900 HUMAN BEINGS LIVE
IN SLUMS OF WASHINGTON

The national capital, with all. its
avenues and green circles, is neverthe-
less declared to be 'rotten to the core
says a Washington correspondent OF
the Philadelphia North American. The
phrase is Jacob Riis's. He turned
Washington inside out" a few years
/ ago and went back to New York's East
| Side for a breath of fresh air.
Things have taken a turf for the
better since then, but the whited
sepulchre is still a likely metaphor to
be used in connection with the nations
City Beautiful. Last spring President
Roosevelt got so stirred up over some
reports of the Washington alleys h a
he appointed a commission to devise
a way of removing the literal and
moral stencil from the peoples nostrils.
These alleys are without a parallel
In any other city. There r 286 OF
them, and they harbor a population of
over 10000 persons. When Jacob Riis
declared that Washington had a rot
ten spot at the core he added:
II mean that, for 1 have in mind
the bidder back alleys, so well hidden
that 1 passed them day after day,
pleased with the fine front the block
was making, and without the least
suspicion of what 1t harbored within"
But the name is not an unfailing
guide. Otherwise Snow alley would not
be the tortuous, filthy lane which it
really is. And as for Queens court
not two blocks from the British En-
bassy, by the way-it would scarcely
I@..o -L1~- ltnA14 - The Ghnnknd in.
vestigators, as 1t did for years, a laby-
rinth of dirt, disease and immortality.
1.-THE alleys says Charles F. Weller,
of the Associated Charities of wash
ington, are hidden inner worlds.
standing often In close proximity to
the chief centres of the city's wealth
and culture. Chinch row, not seven
blocks from the White House and IL
three blocks from Dupont Circle, was
indescribably bad"
Chinch row was an arm of Queens
court only, and 1t was recently that
after years of war upon 1t, its novels
were torn down. Some of the deplora-
BILE houses remain, however, so close to
the fashionable centre of the city that
the contrast is startling.
Prior to 1903 the Government Bureau
of Labor collected for several years
official statistics of cities. In its bulle-
tin for 1902 Washington was shown
having the highest death rate among
the thirty-nine largest cities in the
country.
It was particularly strong in typhoid
fever, tuberculosis, grip and malaria.
Some of the causes certainly are not
far to seek, no farther, in fact, than
the inside of many fair-appearing city
blocks.
In most towns an alley is a straight
line between two streets. and is for the
use of delivery men, stable men and
the alley cat. In Washington the pc
culiar plan of the city has resulted in
the greatest assortment of blocks of
all shapes and sizes, from h little
three-sided scrap of land, with room
for only one house, to squares that
measure about 600 feet on each of their
four sides.
Of course. in Washington, with it's
100, 900 colored inhabitants-which
it the largest negro. city in the