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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-01

Denver. Oct. 31.-The Denver & North
western Railway company operates cleo
trio lines between the terminus of the
Denver city tramway lines at Berkeley
and Leyden and Golden, Colo. 1t is also
the holding company for the entire tram
way system. Under the recent reorgani-
cation this holding company floated $20-
OOO, 600 of bonds and planned to retire the
former Indebtedness of 100000 the bonds
mentioned in the New York dispatch The
Denver. Northwestern & Pacific (the Moi
fat raiiroad) is in no manner connected
with this matter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-01

F. A Street, the legless man who is ac-
cused of having stolen ten chickens from
Mrs. Sarah Mansfield of 1860 South Ninth
East street pleaded not guilty in the
police court yesterday and his case was
set for trial on Saturday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-01

Sergeant Hempel yesterday recovered
So worth of tools which had been stolen
from ]. A. Head, a Wall street carpenter
They had been sold to a secondhand
deal by a man who has since vanished.
The police are looking for the thief.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-01

John Wilkinson was arrested yesterday
by Sergeant Hempel on the charge of
having stolen an overcoat belonging to
W. A. Wright from the Salt Lake the
atrp
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-01
EIks Have Goblin Party.

Mirth and pumpkins marked the Hal
loween sheet and pillow case" entertain
ment at the Elks club last night. The
guests. all in ghostly attire, danced until
10 O'Clock in costume and then unmasked.
After that the dance continued, but every
body knew everybody else. and the fun
was greater than ever. 1t was the most
successful entertainment of the kind ever
given at the club. Those who did not
dance amused themselves with card play
ing. music conversation. or large. succu-
lent slices of pumpkin pie.
Among those who enjoyed the evening
were Mr. and Mrs. L. NJ. Blackman, Mr..
and Mrs. T. L. Holiday, MIR. and Mrs. /.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13
TERRIBLE CREATURE WHICH
EASTERN MUSEUM is BUILDIN4
Exact Duplicate Of the Pestifsrous
Blood Sucker Being Constructed
Which Is 100000 Times Big
ger Than in Actual Life.


The king of pests, indeed. will be
the monster mosquito which is being
built out of wood and wax and cellu-
loid, and glass and paper and paint
and other things for the american
museum of natural history at New
York city. Think of creature 100000
times larger than the biggest buzzer
and borer which you ever had light
on your neck and extract your life's
blood and leave behind when he had
done an itch which you could not
reach after the most violent contor.
tions. But one good thing about the
monster creature which will tower
above man from its place in the mu-
scum will be that he. or rather they,
will be perfectly harmless, for there
are to be two of them. male and fe.
male, together with the larya and
pupa.
The building OF such creature has
never been attempted before. These
two mosquitoes have teen a year and
a half in the making. Each part has
been constructed with scientific ex.
actitude Of wood, wax, celluloid.
glass, paper and paint It has taken
all the work of five men to complete
them. The figures have not yet been
entirely put together. but the parts
are ready for assembling. BY the
time the mosquito season is really up
on us they will be ready and after
that the four forms of the common or
garden mosquito will be part of the
museums permanent exhibit.
The finished result will be a trl.
umph of applied microscopy. Every
one of the myriad of parts of the mos
quito has been studied under the mi.
croscope and then has been copied on
a scale 100000 times bigger, precisely
as the instrument has shown It, not
only in detail OF form, but in color and
texture.
DR.. b. T.. Dahlgren, assistant cura-
tor in the department of invertebrate
geology, has been in charge.
Now, this finished mosquito-400,- :
900 rolled into one-will enable any
body to see to perfection just exact
~ what the pest really is. His biting
apparatus-the business end of the
mosquito-is shown in all its wonder.
It is a gigantic, almost terrifying
sight, this Brobdingnaglan mosquito.
He is four and half feet long, and
,orrespondingly high. Were he alive
ne could whip a regiment of men with
ease.
Male and female are approximately
alike. The body is of wax, with its
@ing-frames of glass, over which oiled
paper has been stretched to produce
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13
"GARDEN OF ALLAH" !"

Wagons-Lits made an offer to pur.
chase the garden as soon as Count
Landon's desire to sell 1t became
known. but the count fatty refused to
consider a proposition coming from
company whose interests are diamet-
rically opposed to the ideals which
have actuated the proprietor in his
labor of love.
Within the last fortnight inquiries
with a view to a possible eventual pur-
chase of the garden were made by an
American. a member of wealthy
family of Wheeling, w. Va, who has
been travelling in northern Africa. and
who was entranced by this earthly
paradise.
In the fervor of the enthusiasm
awakened by the sight of the beauties
OF the garden. he was anxious to buy
1t outright, but a consideration of the
conditions which Count Landon's rep.
resentative informed him were essen.
tial to the sale gave his ardor time
to cool.
A friend who had travelled to Biskra
with him. said that he would be sur.
prised IL, when once Count Landon's
desire TO sell the garden became
known. he had much difliculty in find.
Ing purchaser.
For a millionaire bridegroom who
desires seclusion and is able to pay
for It amid surroundings of beauty
which IL Is impossible TO exaggerate.
there is nothing in the world to equal
this enchanted gardea.
Kitchens descriptions" said one,
"are far below the truth. Expert
as is his pen, no writing could do
justice to the marvellous garden. 1t
covers about ~ acres, every foot
of which reveals a new beauty. The
house within the garden Is exactly as
the novelist described 1t, and admir-.
ably suited to the purpose for which
1t was designed.
THE garden is kept with such ex.
treme care by an army of employees
whose labors are not merely those of
skilled workmen, but are inspired by
an almost religious cult of beauty, that
hardly leaf falls that is not marked.
Count Landon must have spent
considerable sum in the realization OF
his dream, for to obtain the supply
OF water for purposes of irrigation
alone cost him $4,000"
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13
oorder on Humorous.

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 1t. lie 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 well holes in the Brooklyn tower
At the bottom, l04 feet below, was a
pool of water with an empty cement
barrel floating around in 1t. The fall
ing man landed on the barrel and
rolled of into the water. lie was
only slightly hurt.
An unprecedented record was made
when the Williamsburg bridge was
built between 1897 and 1904. AL.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13
DANGERS Of Compressed Air.

With all precautions II is apparent.
ly impossible to prevent the bends"
claiming its 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 Bullard
on January s. last Bullard was "A
big, husky fellow. a graduate Of Cam
brclge Latin school, and an expert
electrician. He started to learn tun-
neling, and decided to begin at the
bottom by becoming a sand hog"
lie passed the examinations and went
to work on Monday morning as
hydraulic litter 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
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13

sank deepor and deeper beneath the
rivor bed. until, when the workmen
were 1O7 feet below water level, the
shifts had been reduced to two n day
Of 10 minutes each. The sand hogs"
were provided with dressing rooms,
hot baths, steam elevators TO carry
them TO the surface, and plenty Of
hot coffee. Some OF the men were
attacked by caisson disease, but none
OF them ended fatally.
This greet public work was not to
be accomplished, however, without
the usual tribute Of human life. The
working force on the bridge varied
from 400 10 500 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 daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13
MONSTER MOSQUITO.

the translucent effect The feather
like scales along the veins of the
wings are of celluloid They are nu-
merically exact. Collections Of the
scales make the spotted appearance
of the wings under the ordinary mi
croscope.
The leg of the mosquito is of wood,
jointed. Each leg is covered with tho
same scales as are on the wings.
This has been one of the most la
bcSous details Of the construction.
Fer each scale tiny hole must be
bored in the wooden leg and the scale
inserted by hand One man working
all day long can cover only about
three inches.
The making Of the eyes has been a
tremendous job. The mosquito has
two eyes. each made up of $50 min
utter eyes. You can imagine how
small these $50 eyes are in the ordl-
nary mosquito when in the mammoth
replica each one is about the size Of
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13

Allah-which Robert Hichens describ.
ed in his well-known novel, and which
all visitors to Biskra are unanimous
in calling one of the wonders OF the
world. would pass into American
hands.
In fact, one American who has just
returned from a trip to Algeria has
been making inquiries with a view to
purchase, and, although as it stands
for the present, he has decided not to
buy, 1t is not beyond the bounds OF
probability that he may rescind that
determination.
The garden is the property OF Count
Landon, who figures in Hichen's book
under the name of Simeons. The count
is now well on in years and wishes to
place the beauty spot, on which he
has expended many years Of affection
ate toll and large sum of money, be-
yond the reach Of the speculator who
might turn it to what the proprietor
considers base uses.
The price the count asks is not high,
only $4,000, but the condition he fixes
for the sale is that the garden must
become the property of a private in.
dividual and maintained with all its
present characteristics, and not be
turned into an attraction for the Phil.
dtine Gheap-tripper.
The Compagnie Inte-nationale des
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13
The Deadly "Bends."

The Deadly "Bends"
The ccntcrs OF interest In this great
engineering feat were the caissons-
huge wooden boxes sunk 80 feet be-
low the water line, to hold the foundl.
tious and In these caisson disease.
or 'thc bonds, caused endless anxiety.
Tho disease is the more dangerous be-
cause the physicians have not made
up their minds precisely what It is.
Men who work under compressed air
in tunnels or caissons are seized with
cramps severe pains in the joints,
and dizziness, and are doubled up
like iackknlves. Not infrequently
paralysis and death follow. The re-
ports Of the building of the Brooklyn
bridge show that there were 2S cases
of the beads" three OF them ending
in death.
While the caisson work was under
way n disastrous fire occurred In the
box on the Brooklyn side in Decem-
ber 1870 The chamber was flooded.
and the damage cost weeks of labor
and delay On the day of the fire Col.
Roebllng spent seven hours In the
caisson. When he returned to the
surface he was partially paralyzed.
This was one of the causes OF his Ill
health
There were between 30 and 40 fatal
accidents while the towers and super
structure of the bridge were building.
Three of the workmen were killed by
falling derricks on the Brooklyn
tower. Two more fell from the Man
haitian tower and received fatal in.
jurles.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13

a pinhead. Can anyone conceive OF
anything 100000 times smaller than a
pinhead?
The eyes have a peculiar iri-
descence, something like that seen on
coal tar. Each of the little eyes has
been put into the big eye independ-
entity, a distinct piece. part of har-
monious whole.
The biting apparatus will interest
the average beholder most of all.
Here you may see plainly and dis
tinctly just why the mosquito bite is
painful and how 1t bites. The adult
mosquito has a genuine armory that
does as much damage as any standing
army does to the lives of men. 1t is
responsible for much of the disease in
the world. Minute as the sting is, 1t is
a deadly thing
The armory comprises two saws
and two lances. These are in tubu-
lar sheath, in the giant mosquito about
a foot long.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13

New YorE-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 a heavy
cost of human lIio Fow 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 estl-
mate. there Is one man killed In them.
ON an average, for every day of the
year. A wellknown engineer has es-
umated that every floor OF a modern
building of pretcntious 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 superstructuros that rise
lacelike TO the sky.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13
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,
poworless to fight the blaze 100 feet
in the air, watched the flames spread
TO the swaying foot bridges until they
became great festoons Of running
fire
Several men were on the bridge at
the time. but they all escaped. one
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13

workmen. three belonged 70 the en-
glneering STAFF, and II 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 were
lost and pa persons were hurt, 199
of them being employees.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13
halrbreadth Eseapes.


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 we're escapes by the workmen
engaged on them that would seem
grotesQue and improbable II put into
u novel A man may die for evory day
Of the year during the construction
OF a Cassion or river tunnel. but the
mon who escape tell stories that
would enhance the fame OF Hugo. Poe,
or Eugene Sue. The sacrifice of life
I'm 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. II takes no count of the
mon. women and children killed by
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 21G0 deaths by
violence in the boroughs and GS4, 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 6S lives, or 43 In the Pennsylvania
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
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13

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 daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13

between 1870 and 1883 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.
Roebllng. succeeded him, but the
bridge was still In !ts early stages
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13
A Model Report.

During the sugaring season w. II
Harrison of Pittsfield. VT. sent his
man Hi" TO find out how the SAP
buckets had been filling. "Hi" in
vestigated and then submitted this re
port; Some is full, some half full,
and some rgIa!a' over.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13
MAY BE PURCHASED BY SOME
WEALTHY AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Beautiful Sahara Garden Made Fa-
nous by Roberts Hchen's Novel
to Be Sold by Its Owner,
Count Landon.

1t is quite the fad among American
men of unlimited wealth to acquire
foreign holdings which are distin-
gulshed for historic services or for
rare beauty, and 1t would not be sur
prising If the wonderful garden on the
edge OF the Sahara-the Garden of
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13

though as many as $50 men worked
at once under compressed air in the
caissons. not a single death from "the
bends" was reported. The hard
lessons of the Brooklyn bridge Gals
sons had been well learned. At first
the sand hogs" worked in elght-hour
shifts. The working periods We're
gradually reduced as the caissons
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13

OF them crossed the traverse platform
from one blazing foot bridge to the
other just as the burning structure
fell For awhile he hung there over
the river swaying to and fro like a
spider whose web is torn by the
wind. Then he climbed to the big
cable overhead and crawled slowly to
the Brooklyn tower
When the bridge was nearly fin
ished a riveter slipped on an icy plat
form and fell $50 feet to the East
river. He turned several somersaults
on his way dowE, struck the water
with great splash, and was fished
out almost uninjured. Later a rivet
er's apprentice stepped on a greasy
girder. slipped and fell to the ground.
100 feet beneath. He landed in a
heap of sand, got up and looked
around, as he said later, ito see II
he was dead" His only injuries were
a broken arm and some bruises.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13
Livns Lost in Subway.

IlNfS LOST IN SUBWAY.
L. the building of the subway
there have been nearly 750 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. A similar accident
in one of the Murray Hill tunnels cost
the life of Mai. Ira A. Shaler, a sub
contractor. Chief Engineer William
b. Parsons, who was with him, had a
narrow escape.
The explosion of dynamite in the
same section of the work, near Forty
second sereet on January %, 1909,
shattered the windows for blocks
around and killed Ave persons, four
OF them being in the Murray Hill
hotel. In October. 1908. another fall
of rock near Fort George killed ten
workmen.
II was not these more serious acci-
dents, however. that swelled the list
OF dead in subway building to for.
midable total Rather was 1t the
casualty to single workmen or to
some careless ystander-death in
the dark recesses of the East river
tunnels or a Harlem BLUM, 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 acct
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
those killed or injured. iSs were
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13
Search World for almmunes."


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 daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13
Chief Cause OF Danger.

Cnlef 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 a higher pres
sure to keep out the water. The dam
ger is greatest from a 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"
Last January eight sand hogs"
fought for their lives in a caisson
nearly 100 feet under ground at the
Hudson companies terminal at Fulton
and Church streets There was a
blowout and a sudden thrush of
water. The eight men scrambled for
the ladder reaching up to the door
Of the airlock. The opening was only
large enough for one man TO pass
through at time, and the men fought
on the ladder to be the first 10 reach
1t. Two Of them fell back into the
water In a struggling heap. A third
got his head through the door and was
dragged back by two others. All three
fell on a fourth. and all had a duck.
ing. Finally the rescuers in the air
lock hoisted them from thar trap.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-13
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 Dsastero
Hairbreadth Escapes and Startling Adventures Form
Part of the Building Up of the Great City of the
Future-"I "Immunes" Sought All Over Earth.
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whom he became an invalid from OK
ro3ure, oyotwogk and anxiety