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OPENTNG OF YACHT CLTTR

Thet formal opening of the Corin- thian Yacht club will be held this aft
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New Haven SloaHll|Oat TilR.
StarIn's N.Y.&N.H.LIne

DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY. PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE Leaves New Haven 500 p, m, Starin Pier. foot of Brown Street, Leaves Pier No. 13. N. R. Fare 76c, excursion tickets $1.25. Rooms $1 Take Chaps ell Street cars to Brewery Street. No passenger boats until further notice.
 0. H. FISHER, Agent.
 M New Haven C0nns
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Eton Suits of striped novel ty goods, charmingly finished with fine braid of contrasting colors, jackets satin lined. no two slike. SIS and $16.5O
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CALIFORNIA; Gc1DEN CROP.
Millions of Dollars From Yellow Fruit
Packing Oranges.

From Moody's Magazine.
The state of California secures an an
nual income from It's orchards Of more
than $35, 100000. 1t produces more than
one-half of the country's peach crop, a
third of the pear crop and seven-eighths of
what are termed subtropical fruits.
1t supplies practically all of the prunes,
apricots, lemons, figs and the bulk of the
oranges grown in America. Put into fig
ures, this means 175,o00 tons of prunes
alone, 100000 boxes of lemons, nearly
5000 tons of olives, 5000 tons of figs.
$50, 900 bushels of peaches and 10000 tons
of walnuts and almonds.
AS 50 per cent of the oranges and lemons
raised in the state distributed through
the fruit associations at Los Angeles, the
business done at this center Will give an
idea of the industry in southern Califor-
MIA.
1t aggregates 10000 cars with value OF
ST., coo, 900. An average Of 1900 carloads OF
fruit of all kinds have been sent daily
during the shipping season out Of the
thirteen counties of which Los Angeles is
the selling center.
In Fresno county, where so per cent of
the raisins cured In California are pro-
duced fully $1,000 tons will be the record
for 1906, the revenue from this fruit ag
not more than 25,oo0 orange trees We're in
bearing in the 500 miles of fruit belt
stretching from the foothills of Mount
Shasta south to San Diego
The orchards at the present time cover
more than 1900 acres, nearly all of them
being the seedess variety, raised from two
little shoots which were planted at River
side in 1873.
The area containing the great orchards
of California consists principally of the
Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, with
what is locally termed the Los Angeles
country, comprising the five counties of
southern California.
While irrigation is needed for a large
proportion of the orchards in southern
California, the yield in average year is
so large and the financial returns great
that many of the companies who control
the larger orchards could sell them at
price averaging $500 an acre, although
| this land prior to irrigation was not worth
IS an acre.
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recent conversation about the promise
OF his claims in this section.
THE first season 1 was in that country
thirty-ive miners lost their lives few
days ago--before 1 left Furnace Creek
ranch-seven men were found down the
valley with swollen tongues hanging out
of their mouths, dying from thirst An
hour more and they would all have cashed
in.
However experienced a man may be in
Death valley, he should never leave base
without two essentials canteen and a
compass. Also little rattlesnake medicine
comes in handy at times although in that
country gunpowder and knife are more
frequently used Cor snake bites. This Is
an Indian remedy which works pretty well,
and consists in applying the gunpowder
without loss of time, setting 1t off with a
match ard then going to work with a
sharp knife. A bit heroic, no doubt, but
promptly efhcacous.
"'Scotty' is probably the most mysterious
man in the United States today. Even his
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80 TEF PIuIAAl - UNCOMFORTABLE ANYWAY s5k

o'clock left Detroit that night and was
back in Minneapolis Tuesday morning. L
left Minneapolis that night, made Aber-
deem next day and was in Mitchell, S d.
the same evening.
In an opposition fight to gain time nave
breakfasted in one town, lunched in an
other. taken my supper in third ana step,
in a fourth Once I made five cities in one
day and slept in a sixth. l thus gained
three weeks time. putting in the extra
time where we had opposition. In making
this time left it to the car porter to deliver
the specified cuts at the newspaper offices
where ] had made contracts.
The circus press agents experience must
necessarily differ from that of the COM
mercial drummer or other traveller. He
covers all sorts of towns in every secuoh
and travels in all sorts of ways.
With this store of personal experience
on our own and foreign railways, am
tempted to make some odious comparisons
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with the train, but are attached only for q
short run to some intermediate station.
where they make the trip back with the
through train going the other way, putting
another set of passengers under the same
pressure. The European dining car goes
through with the train. Between meals it
is sort of cafe, where those who have
dined may sit and smoke and drink wine
at their leisure.
1 know that 1t is the general impression
among us that we are first in everything.
Many there are who truly imagine that
the railroad had it's birth in this country
and they don't like to think that our first
locomotive came from England; that tho
fastest trains in the world are run in
France; that the first underground trolley
cars were in operation in Budapest, Hun
gary, before we though of trying them
here; that the French are ahead of us in
passenger car improvement and engine
building; that the automobile was first per-
fected in France as practical road ve-
hicle; that our street paving system origi-
mated abroad, so far asphalt and wooden
Edison our uses of electricity are mostly
copies; that telegraphing by signal was
invented in France; that wireless telegraphy
was invented in Italy; that in the sciences
and arts, as we'll as in literature. England
France and Germany are greatly our SUI
periors; that while we are the greatest
foodstuff producers in the world of most
prepared condiments fruits, &C., the for
eign article Is preferred by our own people
at much higher price.
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been used to some extent for years in Ger
many, Switzerland and France These are
the corridor cars" or combination of the
ridor car is a long car with a corridor
lavatory and toilet.
This corridor is not in the center of the
car. but one side; all the rest of the
space is divided into compartments which
open into the corridor instead of outside.
People are not locked in, though the occu-
pants of any compartment may be as pri-
vate as any Englshman could wish by
keeping the door shut. They may leave the
door open and thus have command of the
scenery on both sides, if it pleases them.
The bell cord is always in sight and the
railway officials are within reach in any
emergency. One may get out and stretch
his legs up and down the corridor and
smoke without interfering with anybody
else's comfort or periling his own ribs while
en- route. They are also steam-heated,
after our system in winter.
For the whole of a Journey too, one
may be comfortably seated in the foreign
compartment, with a high back and arm
rests that permit the traveller to go to
sleep. This is in compartments of any
class.
Even the third-cass cars on the French
and Italian roads, in which the partitions
that separate the cars into compartments
do not reach to the ceiling, have a backing
that shields a traveller from the annoy
ance Of his next-seat neighbor. 1t can't be
seen over without standing on the seat
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Shortest Trolley Line
Is Here in Washington

Probably the shortest overhead trolley
street car line In the country may be found
in Washington at Maryland avenue and 18th
street southwest said observing citi
zen, land l watched the operation of its
eighty feet of line the other day with much
interest.
The little overhead trolley line at Mary
land avenue and 1th street is, Of course,
operated by special dspensation of the city
authorities. and Is made necessary by the
railroad excavations at this point From
the double wires above stretching from
pole TO pole bangles an insulated wire
which Is handled by a man wearing thick
rubber gloves. When a car comes along
and the disconnection OF the pillow has
taken place In the pit. this man inserts the
connecting ends OF the hanging wire into
little cup-like receivers on the side of the
car, establishes the electrical connection
jumps on the running board, and holding
the hanging wire In his hand. makes his
eighty-foOt slide for life several hundred
times a day, and thus far without serious
accident II he should happen TO bring the
two connecting points of the hanging wire
together while holding them in his bare
hands, such contact would mark his fin
ish right on the spot. and were he to bring
the two ends together even with his rubber
gloves on, there would be a fusing and re-
sultant shock which would. in all prob
ability, put him out Of business for some
time especially in damp weather and when
the wires are wet.
1T has always been a mystery to me,
and l believe it is also to most city car
riders. what takes place in the pit when a
change of the electric current is made
from the underground TO the overhead
vic Of he
pants OF a street car envies the man In the
pit who effects this change beneath their
feet, and more than one will look backward
from force OF habit to see II the mans
head energies from the pit after the con-
nectOn has been made and the car is on its
way; IL the head hobs up, II means that
the man IS all right. and If IT doesn't, the
more apprehensive of US in the car wonders
II he felt IT when the electric current made
the fatal connection with his hand
The operation of changing the current
however is very simple, though very dan
gerOus 10 the operator unless he Is exceed
ingly careful. 1t consists simply OF de-
taching the electric pillow from the car
when II Is sought to break the under
ground current, and attaching 1t when 1t
IL sought to restore II. Thus the man in
the pit detaches a plow from the south
bound car, and shifting it to the north
bound track. has It In readnessNto attach
TO the north bound car when II comes
along. This process Is kept up all day, and
since these plows weigh sixty pounds each
the occupation is as laborious IS Il is dan
gerous. The latter element is lessened by
the wearing of rubber gloves by the oper-
ator though in some instances | have seen
these safeguards discarded by the more
reckless"
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world and see stakes of s1oCGo lost on one
turn Of a roulette wheel. An interesting
local type at Beatty, in its earlier days, was
Hicks. tall, raw-boned old-timer who
carried half a dozen notches on his gun
Hicks had quiet. persuasive way about
him which was vastly effective in dealing
with toughs who were inclined to do up
the town. In accordance with Hicks
method the offenders were corralled by the
nape Of the neck and chained to the wheels
of large freighters until they sobered up.
The freighters constituted the only jail
which Beatty then boosted.
at Furnace Creek ranch, the one post
of standardization in Death valley, I eX-
perienced the novelty of sleeping 200 feet
below the level of the sea. This will be
another attraction for tourists. Every
thing Is on the move in the Bullfrog dis
trict Skidoo' is the name Bob Mont
gomery has given to his new camp IN the
Panamint mountains, where $4,000 is
being expended for a water pipe line. Gov.
Micklejohn, former assistant secretary nj
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limbs for want of space. To ride few
hours in an unnatural position leaves a
man as tired as if he had done day s
work.
And the smoking car on local lines!
Usually it is next to the baggage car. often
on branch lines 1t is part of the baggage
car Generally it is crowded with emf
grants and laborers who are smoking short
pipes or the vilest Of vile cigars, and often
some of the passengers are drunk, bolster
ous dirty and odorous. The aisles OF the
car are slippery with tobacco juice.
No third-class carriage in Europe is as
filthy and objectionable, and those who
ride in our smoking car pay first-class fare
more than they would have to pay for
the greatest and most comfortable &C
commodatons abroad.
In some of our through trains man may
have a place to smoke in the Pullman IN
which he occupies a seat, but a special
smoker or buffet car is now used on the
fast trains. 1t is usually next to the en-
CINE, while the dining is near the rear
of the train.
To eat you must walk through from five
to seven cars, and to smoke you must
walk the same distance back. Many stay
right there and breathe tobacco smoke
rather than make the trip to and fro.
Mind you, these are our fastest and best
modern trains
In five years of travel abroad 1 never
saw the sign NO smoking, either in rail-
way cars or other places. The railway
compartments specially set aside 1or
smokers have the sign Smoking on the
outside. But you may smoke anywhere
where it is unobjectonable to other travel
ers. You may be in a compartment alone
or with two or three other men who want
to smoke, or who at least have no objection
to tobacco. Having ascertaned TINS by
inquiry, you smoke, that's ALL
In short, the railway service is conducted
for the comfort and pleasure of the pa
irons, not to suit man or woman who Is
not abroad. A shilling wisely bestowed in
England will often secure whole COM
partment to yourself or for a couple Of
gentlemen or for a family party, where
you can smoke, lie down or sleep without
annoyance. You have to pay that to
negro porter of Pullman to get brushed
off after riding a couple of hours
Perhaps there are honest people who
really prefer our railway system to the
best afforded in other parts of the world.
l will not dispute that. l have seen men
who never smoke riding in an ''accommo-
dation" smoking car among the crowd
and filth and breathing its fetid atmosphere
for hours, though they might have gone in
one of the other cars with ladies and gen.
tlemen. Apparently they felt more at home
in such surroundings.
To my mind the best cars are yet to find
a place our roads, though they have
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best friends-and he has many-know little
about him and his gold mine. He has
plenty of money with him at all times.
and at least one sack Of very rich ore has
been seen in his possession recently.
"'Scotty' travels a good deal at night
He never carries revolver but instead. a
long-range rifle Of foreign make. intended
to dispense those who may be inclined to
follow and spy upon his movements.
MANY a miner has attempted to shadow
him on his trips through Death valley,
but so far the most inquisitive has failed
to locate his mine--if one really exists.
Some miners say that an old Indian brings
in ore to .Scotty' regularly. and others as
sert that his mine consists of cached or
buried treasure which belonged originally
to train robbers and which he was for
tunate enough to run to earth. The most
complete mystery envelops the man, whose
right name, by the way, Is Walter Scott,
and he is scarcely the person to stand much
questioning.
'Scotty's' outfit consists of five mules
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Mai. c. S. Walton Tells Of
the Country Of Alka1i,
Heat and Gold as
J. He Saw II.

war; and ex-member of Congress, is operat-
ing in Gold Gulch, near Beatty"
Two railroads have already been conf
pleted in this country. The first was
Senator Clark's road and the second is the
Goldfield railroad. Maj. Walton presided
at the exercises which celebrated the ad-
vent OF the latter and used a prospecting
hammer for a gavel. 1t was a great oc-
casion, for which band was brought from
Los Angeles, and the celebration wound up
with the driving of gold spike.
A third railroad is now in process of
building. 1t is the enterprise Of "Borax
Smith" and will go through lower. Death
valley.
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In doing so I am aware that 1 risk the
eminent dspleasure of those who claim
everything for the United States I shall
have to dispute this claim, not only in ref
erence to railway accommodation, but in
many other things. We have much to be
thankful. for, but the sun Of things ter
restrial does not rise and set in America.
There are other pebbles on the world S
beach.
l have often heard men speaking Of the
superiority of our railroads. Whatever
else we are deficient in, our railroads, they
say. are Incompatible. Many of these
critics are men who have been abroad and
they have access to the newspapers and
magazines and other means of spreading
their opinions.
The difficulty with most Americans abroad
is their limited knowledge of their own
affairs. They have perhaps been from New
York to Chicago over the superb lines of
the Pennsylvania or New York Central,
travelling by the limited, always in a Pull
man vestibule train, without the slightest
idea of that horrible day car or the
awful annoyances of the accommodation"
or local trains.
They have rarely been off the great
trunk lines or far separated from the chair
car of the Pullman. So when they dis
cover the third-class car of Italy or France
| it makes their flesh creep. They return
from the mountain roads of Switzerland
and southern France and welcome the
Twentieth Century train for Chicago with
a noble burst of patriotic pride. These
fellows make me tired.
The simple truth is that, once off the
main lines, railway travel in this country
is a hardship. There is often nothing
but local trains, often but one a day each
way, and that sometimes really is freight
with a single passenger coach.
There is only one official guide" con-
tanning the time tables of all railroads,
printed in small type and figures, and as
heavy as the unabridged dictionary. 1t is
| rarely on sale except in big cities.
| In Europe there are several railway guide
| books and they can be found everywhere
! where books or papers are sold. They con-
| tain, besides the time tables, a valuable
| list of hotels. rates of meals, price of
| rooms, &c, of all the cities on the lines of
! the roads running into such cities.
! We have hotel booA but it is to be
| found only in Pullman cars and in some
| hotels. AS no traveller with hand baggage
| could lug these two books along, each one
| must make out his own itinerary, or go, as
| most Americans do, haphazard.
The Pullman and the chair car are never
| found except on trunk lines, and then
| mostly only on through trains, but the
| Pullman is most uncomfortable anyway.
| You cant lean back or even sit upright,
| without hitting the persons behind you,
| and you can't lie down or stretch your
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Why Saddle Horses Are Poor Drivers.

fEpiH tue putlnS
In harness only shall we find the thor
oughly trained high school horse not likely
10 be useful. His balance, acquired with
much effort after diligent rehearsal and
maintained by constant practice, has al
ways been accomplished with the bits IN
his mouth, which forced response to the
efforts OF the headquarters guided by the
Indications of the riders legs and heels
When now he is thus bridled and finds no
demands upon the hind legs by any signal
which he has already been taught he is
quite at sea and fails TO answer pleasantly
TO his drivers demands When, furthermore,
he is required TO oyerbalance himself by
pulling from his shoulders at from GOO to
1.2VO pounds Of weight in the shape OF We
hicle and occupants. he is further con-
fused, and makes usually a most inferior
beast for the purpose. while, through miss
Ing the guidance of the riders legs, he wan
ders about in the most awkward fashion
ouc' E~ Is between the shaftsH
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Vermont Bee Tree.

From the st. Adams Messenger.
From tree which Hubbard Fisher of
East Concord started to cut down in the
woods recently Mr.. Fisher took runaway
swarm of bees and from the hollow trunk
three twelve-quart pals of delicious honey.
Mr. Fisher had started to cut down a tree
when he discovered that 1t was badly de-
cayed and probably hollow, and therefore
not fit for his use Happening to notice at
the same time however that there were
many bees flying around 1t he investigated,
with the result already told.