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sank deeper and deeper beneath the
liver bed until, when the workmen
were LOT feet below water level the
shifts had been reduced to two a DAY
~ AZ minutes each. The sand hogs
W were provided with dressing rooms n'.
hot baths steam elevators TO carry
them to the surface, and plenty Oh
hot coffee. Some of the men were
attacked by caisson disease, but none
of them ended fatally.
This great public work was NOT 10
he accomplished, however, without
the usual tribute of human life. inc
working force on the bridge varied
from 400 to 500 men. Twenty oil
them were killed, mostly by falls. AS
was the case with the Brooklyn
bridge. some of the escapes were
grotesque. some almost miraculous
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"Beauty Doctors" Copy Old Rome.

Beauty Doctors" Copy Old Rome"
Juvenal, the Roman satirist, writes
Indignantly of the absurd waste of
time given to the care of the complex
ion, OF the lotions and Jellies and pow.
ders for the preservation of the skin.
But anything oyerlaid with so many
oft-changed cosmetics, and poultice
with flour, both baked and boiled, shall
we call 1t face or a sore? This thing,
swollen and ridiculous, the unfortunate
husband has to contemplate-only for
her lovers does she wash her skin
clean" The modern beauty doctors,
writes Mrs. II. w. Nevinson in the
tortnightly Review. have plagiarized
their methods from ancient Rome
the massage, the stroking, the oiling
and would be willing to admit that
some of the most valuable secrets, in
GLIDING the Roman mask" which
eradicated wrinkles, are lost to them.
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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-
lshed a riveter slipped on an icy plat
form and fell $50 feet to the East
river. He turned several somersAults
on his way down, struck the water
with a great splash, and was fished
out almost uninjured Later a rivet-
ers apprentice stepped on greasy
sirder, 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 il
he was dead His only injuries were
broken arm and some bruises.
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nann.rs Of Compressed Air.

nj
with all precautions it 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 Charming Billiard
on January s, last Bullard was a
big. husky fellow, graduate OF cam
bridge Latin school, and an expert
electrician. He started to learn tun-
neling. and decided to begin at tne
bottom by becoming a sand hog
He passed the examinations and went
to work on Monday morning as
hydraulic filter in the pennsylvania
tunnel under the East river. When
he came to the surface that night ne
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
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NOTICE
OF Annual School Meeting and Eiec-
ton.

OF Annual School Meeting and Elec.
ton.
The registered voters residing In
Spanish Fork school district. Utah
county. Utah. are hereby notified
that the regular annual school meet
ing of said district will be held at
Central School in said district, Mon
day, July 9Th, 1907, commencing at
o'clock p. m.
The trustees annual financial and
statistical deports for the year end
ing June 80. 1907. will be presented,
also statement showing the manage
ment and condition of the schools of
the district during the past school
year AT the said annual meeting the
amount of compensation to be al
lowed to the trustees, or to either of
them, will be decided by a majority
vote of the taxpayers present.
There will also be an election OF
trustees In said district, on the same
day at the same place as follows:
One trustee to serve for a term OF
three years The polls will be kept
open for said election during four sue
cessive hours, to-wit: from o'clock
y. m. TO o'clock D. m. of said day.
G. w. BOOTH, Chairman.
QUIET JOHNSON, Clerk.
MARINUS LARSEN, Treas.
School Board, Spanish Fork Dis
trict, Utah county, Utah.
June 10Th, 1907.
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Lives Lost in Subway.

In the building of the subway
there have been nearly $50 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 Maj. 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 81. 1902
shattered the windows for blocks
around and killed five persons. four
OF them being in the Murray Hill
hotel. In October, 1908, another fall
of rock near Fort George killed ten
workmen.
IT was not these more serious acct
dents, however, that swelled the list
of dead in subway building to "A for
midable total Rather was it the
casualty to single workmen or to
some careless bystander-death in
the dark recesses of the East rive,
tunnels or Harlem bluff. 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, 81 workmen ant
eight outsiders were involved in acct
dents more or less serious. Con
structive work was in progress a
many points in 1901, and the numbe,
OF casualties was swelled to l76. o.
those killed or Injured, l56 wer,
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usually the case. .ecompressed" him
that is, treated him under the pres.
sure of compressed air. The next
morning Billiard 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.
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-.o-Imen three belonged to The en-
Dtnaorlnr stan, and II were persons
g., connected with the operations.
IN the two years the subway cost 10
,iras all but one of the victims being
workmen. Again in 1902 the hst was
formidable. Twenty-one lives were
lost and PA persons we're hurt lss
Of them being employees.
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williamsburg Bridge Fire.

Many New Workers will recall Tue
splendid spectacle one night early IN
November, 1902. when burning oil ana
woodwork atop the Manhattan tower
of the bridge shone over the city IKE
a blazing meteor. Then the firemen,
powerless 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
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between 1870 and 1888 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
jary received while at work on the
bridge. His eldest son, Col W. A.
Roebling, succeeded him, but the
bridge was still in It's early stages
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JULY EXCURSIONS VIA COLORADO
MIDLAND.

To Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha,
Kansas City and intermediate points
also Colorado points. One fare plus
two dollars for round trip Return
limit October 3lst. One sale July 18th,
and 25th. Write l.. H. Harding Salt
Lake for full particulars.
l.. II. HARDING,
General Agent.
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Search World for "lmmunes."


The necessity of obtaining sand
hogs" with these peculiar physical
qualifications, with tunnel building in
this city to an extent hitherto I'M
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
ana 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.
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posure, overwork and anxiety.
The Deadly Blends"
The centers of interest in this great
engineering feat were the caissons-
huge wooden boxes sunk 40 feet be-
low the water line to hold the founda-
tions-and in these cais5on disease,
or the bends" caused endless anxiety.
The disease is the more dangerous be-
cause the physicians have not made
up their minds precisely what 1t 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 jackknives. Not infrequently
paralysis and death follow. The re-
ports of the building of the Brooklyn
bridge show that there were 2S cases
of the bends" three of them ending
in death.
While the caisson work was under
way disastrous fire occurred in the
box on the Brooklyn side in Deem
Der, 1870. The chamber was flooded,
and the damage cost weeks of labor
and delay. On the day of the fire Col.
Roebling spent seven hours in the
caisson. When he returned to the
surface he was partially paralyzed.
This was one of the causes of his i'll
health
There were between 80 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.
iuries.
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though as many as $50 men worked
at once under compressed air in the
caissons, not 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 eight.hour
shifts. The working periods were
gradually reduced as the caissons
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Chief Cause Of Danger.

Chief Cause Of Danger.
Inc 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 tho
North river the tunnels must he
urlVen through masses of soft sill
varying from oozing mud to treacher
Gus quicksands, The compressed air
must De maintained at higher pres.
sure 10 Keep out the water. The dan.
ger is greatest from a "blowoutn or
a leak, with its sudden inrusb 30
water. indeed, the old heading of tho
tunnel which crosses the North river
at Morton street was abandoned -,
one time because so many lives wo.o
lost by "blowouts." - "e'e
Last January eight sand bogsn
fought for their lives in caiseo.
nearly 100 feet under ground Al tha
'iuusoh companies terminal at E,,tos
ana church streets. There was .
blowout and sudden inrn.I q
water The eight men Scrambled 60. ~.
lne ladder reaching up to the door
ol the airlock. The opening was onII,
large enough for one man 70 10y
through at time. and the l,ar ,oiI' -sa
%" 'ne ladder to be the first to reach Oh
H. Two OF them fell back into t tSn
ma'er IN struggling heap. A tb,rS
sot MS mead through the door ara 'n''u
fell 9 on O@ to by two others. All three
i io', On r, fourth and all had a dncE.
Lug, Lug. FINALLY the rescuers in the nh
lock hoistt" them from their trS v "iS
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Border on Humorous.

6OroeT 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. He 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, 104 feet below, was a
pool of water with an empty cement
barrel floating around in it, The fall
ing man landed on the barrel and
rolled off into the water He was
only slightly hurt.
An unprecedented record was made
when the Williamsburg bridge was
built between 1897 and 1904 AL.
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Hairhreadth Escapes.


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 were escapes by the workmen
engaged on them that would seem
grotesque and improbable if put into
a novel A man may die for every day
of the year during the construction
of casslon or river tunnel, but the
men who escape tell stories that
would enhance the fame of Hugo, Poe,
or Eugene Sue. The sacrifice of life
in 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. 1t takes no count of the
men, 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 2.160 deaths by
violence In the boroughs, and 6S4, 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 &8 in the Pennsylvania
terminal works, 20 in the Belmont
tunnel, two In the subway borings un-
der the Eas, river, and three in the
Hudson company's terminal at Church
and Dey streets.
The erection of the Brooklyn bridge
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New York.-Not millions of dollars
alone nor the skill of designers, nor
the cunning of craftsmen enter into
the making of great city. Sky
scrapers, bridges. tunnels and sub
ways must be purchased at heavy
cost of human life. Few realize how
many men die that 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 esti-
mate, there is one man killed in them,
on an average, for every day Of the
year. A well-known engineer has es-
timated that every floor of modern
building of pretentious size has cost
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 superstructures that rise
lacelike to the sky.
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HOME MISSIONARY LIST.

Arranged by the Stake Presidency
for Sunday. June 30, 1907.
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Spanning Wide Rivers, Erecting Skyscrapers,
Boring Tunnels and Subways, Not Done
Without Many Fatalities.
Tales of Herosm Relieve Rectal Of Appalling Disasters
Hairbreadh Escapes and Startling Adventures Form
Part of the Blu lding Up OF the Great City of the
Future "Im,nuaes Sought All Over Earth.

when he became an invalid from ex
posure, overwork and anxiety.
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What's the maiteT0
with | D A H 0 !:

Thousands OF acres Of land
been reclaimed to cultivate
irrigation in that State dul
the past 10 years IhOa y
more will be reclaimed vi
the next 10 years. THIS ~
an opening for many thOu''
of homes.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-14

disturbed Aunt Puma, for she called to us,
saying that it was high time we were last
asleep.
:, Little good did that do. Still we talked:
1t was very dark in our room, for there was
but one small window in it.
But what was that? l saw something that
seemed to come slowly out of the darkness,
and it looked like long, thin arm Ihat
was all could see.
The walls of our room were simply, pias-
tered. Slowly, in letters of dull, droWsy
fame, l saw these words take shape upon the
wall. near the door:
Stop talking and go to sleep"
1 fancied that faint blue smoke rose from
those letters, but there they were.
Phil was frightened and SO was L. we
stopped talking at once, but it was long
time before We could get to sleep. We thought
of the fingers of mans hand that came forth
and wrote upon the plaster of the wall of the
kings palace and we were terribly frightened
Who could tell but the same fingers had just
written on the wall of our room, "Stop talk
ing and go to sleep!
When we appeared at the breakfast table,
the next morning, we told Aunt Pluma what
we had seen, and asked her if she thought
spirit from the other world had really written
on the wall of our bedroom.
She did not give us her opinion on the sub
iect, but at morning devotlons she read the
fifth chapter of Daniel-the one that con-
tanned the text preached from the Sunday
DreVlOub. Liz hich 'S,cSJ soAN ~~ONS
The fingers of mans hand, she read very
slowly, and she read it twice.
Years after my fright at the handwriting
ON the wall visited Aunt Pluma again. She
was delighted to see me, and asked if l had
forpotten the night when Phil and l SO dis
turbed her with our talking.
No. | had not forgotten it, and | told her
that / wished Phil were home today.
$50 do To- said Aunt Puma. "He was
dear boy and he is good man now. He is
coming home, with his family, to spend
Thanksgiving with me-"
Nov" said l, "Aunt Puma, please tell me
inst how that writing on our bedroom wall
was done, for, though l suspected no human
being at the time, ! ! verify believe you-were
eyes, was" said she, with hearty laugh.
'Finding that by speaking as Aunt Pluma I
could no more stop your tongues than could
have stopped the wind, ! thought / would ap-
peal to the supernatural for so | knew you
would consider it. / took four matches,
dampened the sulphur ends little, SO that
they would not ignite when scratched; then
1 thrust my arm into your room and scrawled,
in halfluminous letters, ON the wall Stop
talking and 60 to Sleep Now you have found
out at last what frightened you, and I told
Phil about it years ago. But was not the
lesson good one for you"
eyes, dear aunt, it was, for it stopped my
talking and set me to thinking"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-14
The Timely Apple

Johnny is four-year-old. and very bright
one at that. Lately he has developed GER
tain love for apples which his parents are
afraid will be carried too far. The other
morning, after having eaten two before break
fast Johnny appeared in the dining room
with another large one well under way to dem
johnny said his father. "where did you
ooh, 1 just met it in the hail." replied the
And he proceeded with his repast, which,
it is needless to say was not denied.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-14

Cne mllS, Is now DIS CohpneIcy
covered with pleasant memories as Its low
sides once were with clambering woodbine.
1t was one of those primitive houses seen
in these days only in pictures or on the from
tier that used to be the home of content
ment and of large families of rosy-cheeked
children.
A visit to Aunt Puma was one of the priv
ileges that l could only win by good be-
havior. There never was such bread and
butter as she made; there will never be any
more like it for me, for ! shall not be a child
fancy l shall lack the appetite that made
Aunt Pluma's bread and butter so delicious.
She had son named Philip, and he and l
were the best of friends. He was the only
cousin | had within visiting distance, and
it was not at all strange that greatly enjoy
ed being with him.
/ well remember going to Aunt Pluma's on
one occasion to stay over Sunday, and during
that visit an impression was made upon my
susceptible mind that will never be affaced.
Phil and / went to church with Aunt Pluma
on Sunday morning, as all children of
church-going parents used to do in those
days.
After church we went into the Sunday
school and recited from memory seven verses
from some chapter in the New Testiment.
remember well the text the minister preach
ed from that morning; it was the fifth
verse of the fifth chapter of Daniel
In JHe IOur cdIue LOTCn Une nnRerS
of a mans hand, and wrote over against
the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall
of the kings palace; and the king saw the
part of the hand that wrote"
The descriptive powers of the man who
preached that morning were of high order,
and long after that day / could see the weird
hand coming, no one knew from whence, and
writing upon the wall the doom of wicked
king and the downfall Of his, kingdom.
The impression made by that sermon was
sadaIihlu GYpd in, vour mind hx hip0 hot
occurred on the following Monday night.
Sunday evening at sunset Phil and were
free to play, for it was Aunt Pluma's custom
to make observance of the Sabbath begin
on Saturday evening at sunset. Philip and
I were ready for business, for We had been
silently watching the lengthening shadows a
good while. We hunted in every nook and
corner of the barn for hens eggs. Phil had
been on the watch for over week. and we
both wished to secure as many eggs as pos
sible.
"Be very careful, now," said Aunt Puma
to u.s. after dinner, as we started out with
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-14

a. large basket of eggs, each boy taking hold
Of the handle of the basket, so to divide
the weight equally between us.
little hamlet three miles distant, where there
was grocery, and Phil and l were to have
the proceeds of one dozen eggs each for our
selves The balance was to be paid for in
brown sugar, which we were to bring home
IN the basket, for delivery-wagon was un'
known in that little place
Eggs were then worth just cent apiece.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-14

Then the priest, with prayers and praises,
Oswald's hand, in fervent hold
Seizing gave fond benediction,
Never may this hand grow old!"
Long the righteous ruler fourished,
Conquering many mighty foe,
But at last, while bravely fighting,
Fell he meath a pagan's blow.
Heartlessly his heathen victors
Cut his corpse with ak and knife,
And on stakes the parts impaling,
Left them on the, field of strife.
But when waste and wind and weather
Had removed all signs beside,
There remained hand as perfect
As the day the good king died
Twas the one that holy Aidan
: His prophetic blessing gave,
When the king left regal banquet
Starving serfs to serve and save.
All, all else may pass and perish
Pomp and power and earthly need
But nor death nor dissolution
Can destroy a worthy deed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-14

Twelve cents for Phil and twelve for me-
How rich we felt and how much we enjoyed
before leaving the grocery. 1 bought fish
ing line, some hooks and pair of yellow
wooden pocket combs.
Phil bought jewsharp and few marbles,
and lead-pencl and some candy. Do you
robbed on the way home?
Bedtime came. We went to bed, but were
too full of talk to go to Sleep l suppose we
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-14
Quite True

A class Of Norwich, Conn.,. primary scholars
were given language lesson in which the
word "organic" was to govern the sense of
the sentence. One little fellow wrote better
than he knew when he indited: "The Italian
is the most organic man on the face of the
earth!"