davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20
STYl01 ~z4E S7SIXL/6ULDT 10
IN GLIlk7NREIRG...
ENTERPRISE IN ALEXANDRIA
PROPOSED APARTMENT HOUSE
KNOWN AS "THE FAIRFAX"
Project Under Way and Will Be
Pushed to Completion by
Syndicate.

The syndicate which purchased the north
east corner of King and Columbus streets,
Alexandria, Va, has authorized the con-
struction of an apartment house on that
site, and the work Is being pushed as rapid
ly as possible. The task of tearing down
the old buildings which now occupy the
site will be completed in about two weeks.
1t is expected that the structure will be
completed about February 10 next.
The building will be known as the Fairfax
apartments. and will be of the most ap-
proved type of construction, and will be
equipped with modern appliances through
cut. 1t has frontage Of fifty feet on King
street and 100 feet on Columbus street.
II will be four stories high with basement.
Two commOdlouS stores are planned, facing
King street, and the rest of the building is
arranged for housekeeping apartments.
fourteen in number. consisting of five
rooms, kitchen and bath. Each apartment
Will be equipped with electric lights, electric
bells. speaking tubes, hot and cold water.
Gumb-waiter service. cold storage etc The
building Will be heated by hot water and
the basement affords every facility for
convenience and storage. also containing a
fully equipped laundry.
The facade is designed along the lines Of
the Spanish type of architecture; copper
bay windows and iron grilles forming ball
comics will be introduced. The entrance to
the apartments WILDE conspicuously
HANGED by an artistcally designed marquise. =
1t is intended to erect a pargola on the
roof that it may be used in summer as a
roof garden.
Award of Contract
The contract for the construction of the
building has been awarded to Mr.. J. D.
knight of this city. The architects are
Oscar G. Vogt and Milton Dana Morrill, as
ISOLATED. The officers and directors, who
are ali prominent Alexandrians, are A s.
Doniphan. president; w. A. Smoot, jr.,
vice president; Clarence c. Leadbeater sec
rotary and treasurer; John Leadbeater. F..
S. Leadbeater, w. a. Smoot, T. c. Smith.
NJ d. Morrill, J. =. Smoot and w. X.
Rucker.
Promoters of this enterprise feel that AL
exandria has great need of modern apart
ment house and this seems to be corrobo-
rated by the fact that the majority of the
apartments in this house have already
been spoken for. Only a few weeks ago the
company secured charter, and since then
time has been lost in pushing the plans
to completion 1t Is the intention of those
interested to have the work Of construction
pushed in the same energetic manner.
will be the first of several projects for
houses of a similar character in this city.
1t is also announced that there seem to
be splendid opportunities for the opening up
now of new subdivisions in and around the
city and also for the erection of medium
sized detached houses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20
FARMERS VS.. MINERS.
Hydraulic Mining and the Federal
Government In California.

From Mines and Minerals.
The richness of the gold fields of Cali
fornia. discovered a generation or more
ago, often seems almost fabulous. Scarcely
a stream Of the western slope of the Sier-
ras but held IN its gravel bed quantities
of this precious metal. When these
streams had been robbed of the treasure
by the early miners 1t was found that
enormous wealth could be extracted from
the old gravel beds of the rivers of the
tertiary period Thousands of men worked
for years washing this gravel, and hum
dreds of millions of cubic yards of these
ancient deposits were thus washed
through their sluice boxes into the
streams leading to the great rivers of
the state.
This mad rush for gold at the expense
of the future development of the in
dustrial conditions of the valleys was
aided In various ways by both the state
and national governments. and little or
no thought was then given to the in
juries which might be caused later by
these operations But as the population
of the valleys increased. and the agri-
culturists found that the accumulation of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20
HOUSES FLOODED.
Capitol Hill Sewers Failed to Garry
Off Water.

Residents of Southeast Washington in
the vicinity of 9th and B streets were
made aware very forcibly last Thursday
evening Of the inadequate sewerage facili-
ties in that section.
When the heavy rain of that evening
began to flood the streets and the water
poured into the sewers they We're sud-
denly dumfounded to witness the phe-
nomenon of sewer traps turned into out
let's for fountains of muddy water. Dur
ing the time the storm was at it's height
it was impossible to prevent easements
and cellars from being flooded to a depth
of several inches.
The water boiled from the sewer open
ings under high pressure from the con-
duits beneath the streets and the occu-
pants were forced to stand by and see
their property damaged without being able
to lift a hand to alter the conditions. The
sewers simply failed to carry off the water.
Several Easements were so flooded that 1t
will take weeks to dry them out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20
The Inheritance of Ability.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
Francis Cations researches into genius
a generation ago found little imitation until
recent years. Nowadays. however, no year
passes without the appearance of several
elaborate statistical studies in which the
endeavor Is made to learn whether intel
lectual ability and moral character are in
herited in the same way that physical
characteristics are inherited. Biologists
have determined the ratio in which certain
marked physical characteristics of one
generation appear among the members OF
the second generation. and sociologists and
psychologists hope to be able to show a.
similar ratio for the mental and moral
qualities.
Some of these studies have been made in
America. as. for instance. DIR. Woods in
vestigations into heredity in royalty. but
most of them come from England. Have
lock Ellis. for example. studied genius as
he could learn of it in the Dictionary OF
National Biography. and published his re-
suits in a volume three years ago Now
two students Of the University OF London,
one of them holding a Cation fellowship
in eugenics and the other Cation scholar
ship, have published the results of a SINH
lar study, their material being the heredity
shown among Oxford honor men. All OK
ford graduates from 1880 to 1872 were
taken and divided into three groups, each
covering a period Of about thirty years.
The graduates whose fathers had not been
educated at oxford were first excluded, and
then the others in each group were divided
into six divisions with reference to their
rank at degree time. Then the test was
made to see whether the fathers of the
men in each division had taken correspond
ing rank. Roughly stated. IL was found
that the fathers of trstclass honor men
had taken about three times many high
honors as the fathers of men In the lowest
rank. There were. however. material dif-
ferences in the percentage figures Tor thu
different generations studied.
The investigators believe themselves
justified in holding that physical and
psycfical characters are In general inher
tied in maO in about the same proportion
All investigators In this line come to the
same conclusion. but most of them admit ,
that they fully believed it before they
started in to work Their results are in
but they will not carry convic-
ton to the outside world until disturbing
factors are carefully eliminated The
vestgation described. for example. assumes y
that all Oxford men want to take honprs
equally, and that only their capacity Is be-
nS tested. AS a matter of fact there may
be great differences in the desire of DIFF
ferent classes Of men at different periods.
Until the variation in wants IS excluded,
The test OF capacity is far from perfect
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20
To Save Telegraphers' Nerves.
Technical World Magazine.

From the 1echnlcai " orld Magazine.
Although thousands of telegraph oper-
ators have been forced out of the profess
sion through paralysis of their hands and
fingers in the manipulation of the Morse
key. it is only within the past two years
that improvements in this crude instru-
ment have begun to be made.
Dynamos have been substituted in place
of the old chemical batteries in the max
ing of the Geographic currents, and with
the coming of dynamos a greater study
of mechanics on the part of telegraphers
who were ambitious to become chiefs of
staff.
With this study of mechanics came a
realization of the waste of energy in the
manipulation of the old fashioned Morse
lever Key. 1t was found that two motions
OF the hand We're required to mike the
single dot or the single dash and that the
morse letters. having an average of four
dot ana dash characters. required aver
arm IN their formation
A rapid sender-a sender who could
average as good as thirty words Der min
ute-it was found. was required I, move
his arm up and down at the rate of / 300
TO Loo times per minute Many men
were compelled to continue this ranid
sprins-ike movement for many hours at
stretch, and when the figures were CON
sidered electricians marveled that the
arms of fine operators held out as long as
they did. Many of the first-class men
have been known to maintain a speed of
nifty words minute for several consecu-
tive hours. This means that they oper-
ated their arms like delicately poised
springs at the rate of between 100 and
Z.I'D vibrations per minute, or nearly
forty strokes in a single second
Telegraphers throughout the country
recognized the advantages of device
that eliminated the making of dots by
hand The rise of automatic sending ma
chimes was, therefore. rapid. and the re-
suit has been that dozens of these inven-
tions now are on the market. all utilizing
the old mechanical principle of G vibra-
tor in some form or another
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20
Begin With the Big Smash.
rom the Editor and Publisher.

From the Editor and Publisher
In the meantime. venture to offer som& +.
fundamental things to those who are not
confident of their ability to write a ney><>'
story:
An event or series of events. mSE be re-
lated in two styles viz from the bottom
up. or from the TOP .'0r
The cumulative that used by the
novelists. The ps softly and
crescendoes up To Pns. tn. climax
at near the end
The journalistic style begins with the
climax. the big smash
The first question a reporter assigned 10
a story should ask is: WAIT IL tho most
important single thing here. the thing the
public wants to know first of alp When he 4.
finds that let him write ii thu begin
ming of his story. Then he will ask what IS
the next most important thing. and he MI
write that second And on down to the
least important which he will write Lasts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20
Houses for Legislators

The firm has been favored with a number
OF letters from representatives in Congress
who desire furnished residences. AS the
coming session of Congress is to be lengthy.
many OF the members of both houses want
to bring their families and In order to
reap all of the possible benefits of home
life and comforts do not care to spend
the time In the hotels. In many of these
lnqul-les the desire is expressed that large
and hntly furnished residences are desired
while others are more modest in their
desires as To- their temporary homes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20
Hawk That Never Fails to Get It's Prey

From the Hartford Courant.
persistent hawk has taken more than
a hundred chickens from the premises of
Walter Wade In Bloomfield. The bird Is of
the pigeon species. swift of wing and seem
ingly of It's prize every time.
The people about the house have endeav-
ored to scare 1t away but 1t invariably gets
it's prey. Once 1t starts on its upward
flight all the small birds in the vicinity set
sail for it. endeavoring to force ii to release
its victim. but the hawk soon outstrips
them and gets away with Its tender morsel.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-04

longer than absolutely necessary rather
than subject il to the risk Of having "A re-
lapse. A relapse il often more dangerous
thar the first attack. But over and over
again, because the baby seems brighter
and is a good deal better. his mother will
insist on carrying him home.
In the month Of July we treated about
eighty sick babies in the dormitories for
periods ranging from tw%enty-four hours
to thirty days, and at least twenty of that
aid and careful nursing we ave them.
So far our death list is six, and had those
six been brought to us a day or two sooner
they might have been saved. Overfeed-
ing. careless feeding and unclean nursing
bottles are prolific of more misery for
tenement house babes than extreme heat
or lack of fresh air.
THE baby likes tea, a mother told one
OF our visiting nurses who noticed hat the
nursing bottle held a queer looking liquid
She noticed also n two-year-old eating q
decayed banana.
-In connection with Junior Sea Breeze
we employ twenty visiting trained nurses
who in uniform pay house to house visits
in the tenement districts in the interests
Of babies. and perhaps | will not be be-
lieved when / say that already they nave
called on 5000 families and before the
end OF the season they will have doubled
this record. No, there is no woman with
q baby who objects to talking about it
to one in the uniform of a nurse, no matter
whether the baby is sick or well, and these
talks do much toward~ preventing serious
attacks OF illness in whole families"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-04

apartments on the east and west wings
n Of which In fitted up in moss green
plush and white woodwork ~ "A drawing
room. Tho other room IL to be used az
a cafe when tho weather In cooler.
The second fioor OF the west wing is
given over TO two suites, one for the Gov
ernor m the other for the commissioners
The rooms over the east wing are for the
employees Of the building. The large
porches forming a part Of both floors add
greatly to the comfort and fine appearance
of the building.
The State flag. which il draped over the
main entrance to the hall. is the same
that waved over the arsenal at Albany
when Roosevelt was installed as Governor
of New York. There IL a bureau Of in
formation and a room where wraps and
grips can be checked. both of which add
to the comfort and convenience Of visitors.
From the opening day the Empire State
has been we'll represented. Many New
Workers. are directly interested in the yacht
ing and motor boat caTnivals, the aero
nautio contests and athletic events. .
The New York building contains no
exhibits. but in used solely for entertain
ment purposes. The policy Of New York
at the various big sypositions has been 10
entertain deliberately and that is to Ire the
Iolicy at the Jamestown exposition. The
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-04
THE OYSTER FUNGUS.
Superstition. Art and Poetry Inspired at
Times by II.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-Prof. Albert +.
Woods Of the bureau OF plant industry
thinks it was the oyster fungus (~Pleurotus)
that caused a religious commotion in Bel
GUM some months ago. The news de-
spatches at the time said that n wave Of
religious enthusiasm was sweeping over
Borgherhout. a suburb Of Antwerp. where
a fungus growth OF an old plank had TAX en-
the form Of a statuette of the Virgin and
Child. IL was said hat the population was
greatly alarmed and hat politicians were
pointing 10 the attitude Of the peasants
as an argument in favor Of compulsory
education TO free them from superstition.
The oyster fungus Is a very common
species in this country and Continental
Europe. IL is found usually in high alti-
tudes. There are many varieties. khs
On hemlock trees he back or shell OF the
fungus il frequently OF a boiled lobster
red. The under surface or face IL covered
with a soft fuzzy substance. very delicate
and easily bruised. In many specimens
it is pure white or cream colored.
This soft surface hardens a few days
after the removal Of the fungus from the
tree. While IL Ia still soft 10 can be etched
upon with any sharp pointed instrument.
such as a knife blade or hat pin. Upon
scratching the surface a beautiful sepia
shade il produced.
Many etchings are thus made. Some
artists wait until the fungus hardens and
then paint sketches on the white surface.
Etched or painted fungi make odd mantel
or desk ornaments. Appropriate verses are
etched on them also. The fact that the
fungus lives upon the dying tree suggested
this:
Reincarnation here you see
Life born Of death. A noble tree
OF tow'ring top, ma iestlc girth,
Falls. dies, to give this fungus birth.
Another verse etched upon the surface
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-04
FRESH AIR CURE FOR BABIES
JUNIOR SEA BREEZE ND IRIS
LIFE SAVING PiIILIONS.

sleeping Quarters Buiit without windows
and the sufferers Oct n lsrceze From
the East River hay and Night Tea
and Coffee on the List rs Infants Wet.
what is that" asked curiously one of
the nurses at the junior Sea Breeze.
She was looking at a baby's bottle filled
with an ecru colored liquid. held by a young,
poor locn,ng woman wha hushed a wailing
baby in her arr a.
Its weak coffee and milk. ma'am,"
the woman, attempting To put
tbs bottle TO the baby's mouth.
Dexterously the nurse interviewed, re-
marking pleasantly:
Il will get him "A fresher drink" The
woman watched anxiously as nurse and
bottle disappeared and continued trying
to hush the fretful little bundle in her arms
In a moment the nurse came back with a
bottle containing n small quantity of white
fluid. The baby drank it all.
sHe can take more. think, ma'am." said
the mother with an intopation which meant
what a stingy meal thai isl
But the nurse shook her read. II isn't
safe to give him moro Just now she said.
He is too i'll. II two N,lis ne shall have
moro. How often ha 20 you bosn feeding
himy"
ooh, whenever he crisr'
The nurse did not ,.ok si. prised even.
IL was evident that she had asked the same
question and got the same answer often.
The mother looked more anxious than ever
but said nothing. What could she say?
Her baby was certainly i'll; she had brought
him TO this place by advice of a neighbor;
abe must not therefore find fault with short
rations.
Starting homo two hours later. she carried
only the clothing her baby had worn and
the rejected bottle. There we're tears in
her eyes. but a hopeful look on her face:
for. clhd In fresh linen. her baby was fast
asleep In q tiny white crib cooled by breezes
blowing In from the bay n up the East
River. Il WED her a little to think that a
nurse would be on duty near thai crib all
night long.
Hurrytng to her baby's side early the
nert morning the anxious mother noticed
thas his face was less waxen. his cry not 20
peevish. He was better. she was told
In . few days be would have recovered
from theacuteStage OF his ailment, which
va likely to recur II the weather. was hot
and great care was not taken with his diet.
But the mother beard only tho nrst part OF
the nurse1B speech M wal Tor taking her
baby home with her atonce.
This Is theeort OF thing that goes on at
the Junior Sea Breeze all day long and
which has been going On every day since
the last week inJune. when the Thermometer
began TO soar and the~babies Of the -tene>
ments began TO droop.
The Junior Sea Breeze is unique among
the babies hospitals Of the country. No.
one would suspect il or being O hospital at
all. That is it's cl.,. charm to many q
mother.
When the Association for Improving the
Condition Of tho Poor opened an anNev y,
Sea Breeze at Coney Island for the rcoei il,
Of small sufferers from bono t|uhcrcl,o,i.
there was rejoicing in many a tenement
which housed an afflicted boy or girl whose
one chance VI even a partial cure was fresh
cir q bealthful surroundings. Thes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-04

hours from onc-fourth " the population Of
tho country. There are eight railroads and
many steamship lines running into and out
of Norfolk. One can go direct by sel or
rail or by Washington and the Potomac
River or Baltimore and the Chesapeake
Bay. There is plenty of room for every
one and the cost Of living can he regulated
portation from Norfolk to the exposition
grounds by the most direct trolley route
costs 10 cents. The round trip by boat is
rs cents. There in water everywhere and
the visitor can spend much time upon H..
II so inclined
The jamestown Exposition has four
months yet before it's final close.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-04
GOOD HUNTING IN MONTANA.
Came wardens Report q Fin Lookout for
Bic Came.


HELENA. Mon. July 81 .-According to
the reports Of the deputy game wardens.
who have been in Helena in conference with
Game Warden Scott, In every part Of the
State the finest hunting in years Ii promised
during the open season next September.
The prospects are not quite 30 suspicious
sage hens as Tor big game. The late spring
and the wet weather in many places created
havoc among the chicks. and it il feared
that il the wet weather continues II will de-
duck shooting is splendid. and according
to the reports Of the deputies is nowhere
better han at Lake Hauser M Lake Sewell
on the Missouri River. a few miles north OF
Helena. b is the first year the ducks
have nested on the lakes in any great num-.
Der, and the duoklings ave been hatched
and are doing well.
The best big game shooting to be found in
the country to-day is said to be on the Flat
head and Lewis and Clark forest reserves.
AFFORD a fine haven for the big game. Not
enough hunting has been don on the re-
serves to spoil 1t. Among the big am
animals which are plentiful are elk. black
family. from the little brown and black bear
TO the grizzly and silvertip. Tho deputies
say that elk shooting this year should be
particularly good. The streams are full OF
trout ana all varieties OF small game are to
be found.
1t is not generally known that moose
are to be found In Montana. but the depu-
ties reported their presence in fair numbers
on the He'll Gate River in western Mon
tana, on the north fork OF the Flathead
In north western Montana and in the Yak
basin, In the same district. There are
also caribou in the Yah basin.
Some idea OF the plentifulness OF elk In
northwestern Montana may be gained
from the fact hat the fruit growers are
complaining that the animals are destroy
ing the fruit trees. Ex-Gov. Robert B.
Smith, who Is here from Sunset. where he
has a fine fruit ranch, said that only Last week
he saw three big bucks in the orchard
eighty yards from his house. They played
and leaped and romped with one another
and did not pay any attention : the Cover
nor, standing. only q few yards Oh. Nc
damage wa done to the trees. However,
other fruit growers have not been 90 for
tunate, the animals coming into the orchards
and rubbing the velvet of their horns
and the bark on the trees at the same dime.
Deer seem to be particularly plentiful
this year, and IL is to these animals hat
most OF the hunters will give their attention.
A number OF these animals have bees
killed on the railroad tracks around here
by trains striking them. and almost every
day, passengers report having seen numbers
OF them between this place and Strvker.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-04

interest to be found In the many State
buildings. The social life which pertains
to these buildings has u great attraction
for those who like 70 meet PEOPLE from
their home town or State,
OF the exhibits, that Of the Government
surpasses all previous Efforts and 10 very
popular. 1t is an exposition in itself and
Of educational value.
The State exhibits are also Thorough and
we'll arranged. Any one wishing a COM
prehensive view OF exactly what each State
il or can do or produce will find an epitome
at the jamestown Exposition. The other