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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-11-11
cAISsON WORK.
How Foundations Of Great Steel
Structure Are Built.

How Foundations Of Great Steel
Structures Are Built.
The foundations for the great steel
structures are built by means Of Gals
sons in which the men can work under
interesting sight to watch them, and
the best of it is that any one may see
them at close range from an adjoining
sidewalk. The caisson is a hollow steel
cylinder open at the bottom and just
large enough to permit man to work
The workman climbs down a ladder in
this tube and digs away the earth at
the bottom AS the earth is taken
away the steel tube is gradually low
cred. The earth is taken out by a
bucket, which is lowered and raised by
q tall derrick at one side. AS the
caisson sinks, air is pumped into the
compartment containing the man. This
is to force back any water or dirt that
might fill the hole from the outside as
fast as the workman removes it from
within. The pressure of this air is Of
ten so great that man can work but
an hour or SO at time. At the top
of the caisson is steel cylinder with
an air tight door at either end. which
serves as kind Of vestibule to the
tube below.
When one Of the caisson workers
starts to go to work he opens the door
or lid at the top and climbs in, when
the opening is once more tightly clos
ed. This door or lid is air tight Aft
err the opening to the outer air has
been closed the workman opens the
door at the bottom of this steel com,
partment and lets in compressed all
from the caiSson below. 1t takes q
few minutes to become accustomed tC
breathing this atmosphere, for the
! heavy air makes the head ring. AS
! soon as the workman can do so he
| climbs down into the funnel below
| closing the lower door of the stee
| anteroom as he does so. All this mus
| be done in the dark. If the workman
| wishes to signal the outer world ht
! may do so by striking the steel side:
| of his narrow prison with his shovel
| He usually signals in this way whel
| the bucket is to be raised or lowered
Frances Arnold Collins in st. Nicholas
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-11-11
OUR NEXT PRESIDENT TOLD
in BRIEF

Il
William Howard Taft, born Septem-
Der Is, 1857. Cincinnati. Ohio.
| Ancestry-New England stock for
several generations, on both sides.
Father Judge Alphonso Taft,
born in Townshend, VT, 1910. and
died in Cincinnati, 1891. A lawyer,
jurist, prominent in local politics,
Judge of superio. court. Cincinnati
secretary of war. 9Th March-22d May,
1874, succeeding Belknap under Grants
second administration: then attorney
general until March 4, 1877: minister
to Prussia 18e2-1884, to Austria 1884,
1885 under President Arthur.
Mother - Louisa Maria Torrey,
daughter Of retired West India
merchant of Boston; born 1927 died
December.7, 1907.
Half brother--Charles Phelps Taft,
son of Alphonso and first wife, Fanny
Phelps Taft, ex-congres sman from
Ohio; proprietor Cincinnati :. Times
Star.
Brothers-Henry Waters Taft, New
York, lawyer; Horace Dutton Taft,
teacher. Millbury, Mass.
Sister-Fannie Louise, wife OF DR..
William A. Edwards, Los Angeles,
Cal.
.sWife- Married, 1886, Helen Heron,
daughter of ex-District Attorney John
w. Heron ofaCincinnati, law partner
Of President Hayes.
Children Robert Alphonso Taft,
student at Yale college. Helen Taft,
schoolgirl in Washington. Charles
P. Taft. lad at home, Washington.
ducation-Public schools and Wood
ward high : school, Cincinnati; Yale
college. class of 1878; salutatorian
and class orator, standing second in
class of 1905 Cincinnati law school,
graduated 1880, dividing first prize.
Career-Admitted to bar 1886, law
. : reporter, Cincinnati Times and Com.
mercial. 1880-81. Assistant prose
cutting attorney Of Hamilton county
1881: collector of internal revenue
first Ohio district, 1928; assistant
county solicitor, 1885; judge. supreme
court of Ohio. succeeding Judge Har
mon. 1887, reelected 1888; solicitor
general, United States, 1890; United
States circuit judge. sixth district
Judge court of appeals, 1892; L. L. D.
Yale, 1898; dean and professor in Law
department., University of Cincinnati
1896; resigned from bench, March Is
1900, to become president of Philip
pines commission and civil governor O
the Philippines; mission to Rome t.
f negotiate settlement of the friar
land question, January-August, 1902
, returned to United States and becam
secretary of war under Roosevelt Feb
ruary l 1904; mission to Panama. No
vember 1904; elected president of tn
G Red Cross society. February 8; mis-
sion to Philippines, Japan and China
July l, October 2, Panama October q
November IA, 1905; mission to Cuba
:, September 16; proclaims intervention
!. September 20, returns October II 1906
: Panama, Cuba and Porto Rico. March
April; und-the-world trip-Seattle
: September r. Yokohama, Septembe
%, Toxic, October l, Shanghai, Octo
:, Der 8, Manila, October Is, st. Peters
: burg, December 8, New York, Decem
;, Der 20, 1907. Nominated for the pres
;. idency at the republican national cor
vention, Chicago, June Is, 1908; re
signed as secretary of war June Is
elected president Of the Unite
1908 States November 3, 1908.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-11-11

Any fool may hand out advice to
wise man. who never knows (which
proves his wisdom.
The man who thinks all the girls are
crazy about him is mistaken only in
imputing the mental condition to the
wrong person.
1t surely would be a monotonous
world if everybody kept his place.
A woman's idea Of paradise is
place where every day is bargain day.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-11-11
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Health

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Gray Hair to it's Natural
Color and Beauty.
No matter how long it has been gray
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of healthy hair. Stops its falling out,
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81 and Soc. bottles, at druggists
Send &c for free book The Care of the HAIR
Philo Hay Spec. Co., Newark, N. J..
Hays Har1In0 Soap cures Pimp1es,
red, rough and chapped hands, and all skin dis
eases Keeps skin fine and soft 25c. druggists.
Send &c for free book 'sThe Care of the Skin %
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-11-11

Many an unan-
swerable argu-
ment is so by
reason of its In
coherency..
we don't mind
how q mans tenn
per is as long as
BE doesn't try t
on Us
Evening journal., 1908-01-16
Social and
Personal

Clement n. Egner has been the
guest OF Lawrence A. Bowers at Lam
denberg, Pa.
Ernest Hetherington is spending
some time with friends at I.andonberg.
Mrs. c. w. Passmore, OF Landen-
berg. is the guest Of friends in this
city.
Mrs. William Childs has been visiting
her sister, Mrs John Gillingham, near
Lincoln.
Miss Mary Cilingham has isturned
60 her home at Lincoln, after spend
ing a month with friends In this city
and Conshohocl1en.
Henry r. Guss, of West Chester, has
been spending a few days in this city.
Miss Gertrude Williams has been
visiting friends in Philadelphia.
William Simmons has returned from
q visit to relatives at Onancock, Va
Mrs. Henry Olmstead, Of Dover, has
been Wishing friends here.
Harry Willin. Of Bridgeville, was a
Wilmington visitor yesterday.
Clarence Prettyman has been spend
ing a few days at Seaford.
The Rev. Frederick v. Campbell, OF
New Castle. was a recent visitor in
this city.
Mrs. r. NJ. Munson and Miss Gene
We've Mtmson have been visiting Mrs
John il. Rodney at New Castle.
J. Marion Emerson, editor and pro-
prietor of the Ansonia, Conn. Daily
Sentinel was a visitor in this city
yesterday.
Mrs. NJ. T. FooiSs. Of Baltimore. is
visiting the Rev. and Mrs. S. n. Pill
chard.
Mrs. Louisa Corbit Duer Of Philadel-
phia. daughter of Daniel w. Corbit, Of
this state. is ill with typhoid fever.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lee were guests
ut a dinner recently given by Mr.. and
Mrs William c. Mullen, OF No. 55O2
Angora avenue, West Philadelphia. to
celebrate their second wedding anni-
versary.
Mrs James Powers Robinson, OF Bal
timore. spent the week end with her
mother in this city.
George =. Hynson. Of Milford, was a
visitor in this city yesterday.
Mrs. Oliver A. Newton, OF Bridgeville.
Is the guest OF Mrs c. A. Blizzard.
Charles Newton, OF Brooklyn. n. Y.
Is visiting his sister. Mrs. c. A. Biz
zard.
Mrs. Morris Smith and Mrs. II. IL
Polk. Of ilennett Square. spent yester-
day wi tn friends in this city
Evening journal., 1908-01-16
MUST
BE WRITTEN ONE
Otherwise Catholic Church
Will Not Recognize
Engagements

One Of the most important effects
of the new ruling Of the Catholic
Church on the marriage and engage
meht laws will be the binding effect
Of a written assent to an engagement.
1t will make a remarkable change in
the present law.
AS the church law now stands, there
are two impedimonts to mauimony-
first, an illicit attachment, and second,
when the marriage is Invalid. In re-
gard to the latter case a couple may
become engaged, but should one or
the other of theln break the engage
ment and contract marriage with a
near relative of the other, the mar
riage would be null and void in the
eyes Of The church, unless a disrensa-
tion were obtained.
Under the new law the marriage Of
such couples will not be rendered in
valid. unless the couple have made the
contract in writing, and signed it in
the presence Of two responsible Wit
nesses. If no written engagement be
made, then there will exist no binding
engagement, and one or the other Of
the parties will be free to break the
engagement and marry a near relative
of the other
Evening journal., 1908-01-16
GEORGETOWN


Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
GEORGETOWN. Jan. 16.-Luther T.
Calhoun, of Ocean City, Nd, is the
guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. c.
=. Calhoun.
Miss Lena Willin. of Seaford, is the
guest OF Mr. and Mrs. e. Harley Ryon,
A. J.. Polk is visiting in Wilmington
and Philadelphia
Miss Maggie Conaway IS visiting
relatives and friends in Delmar.
Great interest is being manifested in
the revival services now in progress in
Wesley nj. r. Church and good
crowds are in attendance nightly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Leisure, Of
Baltimore, are the guests of the lat
ter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Green's
bury Short
Plans are being made by William J.
Thoroughbred for the erection in the
spring Of a large brick building on the
site now occupied by the buildings
tenanted by Messrs Melvin. Ruddell
and Calhoun. IL is said the third floor
will be used for dance hall and skat-
ing rink.
The new storehouse being erected by
j. u. Wagoman is nearing completion.
-,ReadeTIa JOURNAL.
Evening journal., 1908-01-16
SEEK CHANGES IN
INSURANCE LAWS

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-That the life
insurance interests of New York state
intend TO make a vigorous effort to
have some notifications in existing
laws of the State passed at the pres
ent session of the Legislature, Is en-
phasized by the text of the advertise
ment which the New York Life lnsur-
ance Company published today.
This advertisement is out OF the
common. in that IL deals largely with
questions of legislation, instead OF with
the usual dry facts and figures 1t is
addressed to the companys policy
holders and tells them t1at as they
succeeded two years ago in purifying
life insurance through public opinion,
so now. for their own protection, they
must. in the same way, repeal and
modify legislation. The policy holders
are told that the reforms OF two years
ago were necessary, but that reforms
discredit and endanger their own
achievements when they write vicious
and dangerous principles into the
statutes Of the State.
The advertisement calls for the mod
hcation or repeal of four sections Of
the New York State Insurance laws,
and probably foreshadows 10 some ex-
tent what the insurance companies
desire.
Following directly upon the fight
begun on the insurance laws at Al
bany this week. the statement Of the
New York Life Insurance Company is
especially interesting. The resolution
Of Assemblyman George NJ. Palmer,
minority leader, asking for the ap-
pointment of a committee to invest-
gate the Armstrong insurance laws
appears 10 have been inspired by stat
istics presented by President Kings
ley OF the New York Life Insurance
Company. These figures show a de-
crease Of so per cent in the business
Of the principal life insurance COM
panies I'm this State.
Evening journal., 1908-01-16
Einan-Cnnnnr.

In St. Pauls r. c. Church yesterday
Afternoon, Miss Mamie Connor daugh-
ter Of Edward Connor Of No. 423
Broome street, became the bride OF
James Finan. The Rev e. c. Higgins
.performd the ceremony w. NJ s.
Brown played the marches.
The bride was attended by her sister
Miss Margaret Connor and Peter ].
Finan, brother Of the groom was best
man. After the ceremony a reception
was held az the home Of the bride.
The bride wore a gown of white silk
mousseline over white taffeta, trimmed
with. princess lace and wore a veil
She also carried a shower bouquet Of
bride roses and lilies Of the valley
The bridesmaid wore a gown of white
hatiste, trimmed with medalions and
lace and carried sweet peas and maiden
Evening journal., 1908-01-16
Want First Floors Only.

From house to house a young couple
passed, looking at fats.
ITS funny they can't end anything
IN this whole block that suits them, p
said an interested observer Of their
progress. What is the matterg
There are plenty Of vac3Rt fats" !"
said an agent but they wo1NdR't suit
those people. They are not ON the first
floor. That couple is just from the
country. Like all other people who
never have lived in an apartment,
they are afraid OF fire and on that ac-
count can't be persuaded Il 90 above
the ground floor. A year from now
they win cheerfully climb to the fourth
or maybe the fifth story, but until they
get broken IN nothing but the drsi
noor win do.''zS SeW2Y York Press
Evening journal., 1908-01-16
Weddinn Aniversarv.

Mr.. and Mrs, Alfred Larrimore. Of
No 1923 East Twentieth street enter
tanned yesterday in honor of the eigh-
teenth anniversary of their wedding
Congratulations were received from a
large number Of friends.
Evening journal., 1908-01-16
Rector Entertains Choir.

The Rev. kinsey j. Hammond enter
tanned the choir of Emmanuel Church
at dinner last evening. 1t was the
usual annual reception by the rector TO
he church choir, and Ike the former
receptions was a delightful social
eNent
Evening journal., 1908-01-16
churehman-Tyson.

At the parsonage OF Asbury M. ~,
Church. on Tuesday evening, Samuel
James Churchman and Miss Lulu May
Tyson both Of Cecil county, Maryland,
were marrieg by the Rev. II. A. q Wes-
terheld. Mr.. and Mrs. Churchman viii
live at No. 9O2 Nandever avenue.
Evening journal., 1908-01-16
Lam Year Dance.

Titus and Ritchie gave a leap year
dance in the MoVey Building last
evening. The dance was largely at
tended and because Wits novel nature
provd one Of the most interesting af-
fairs of the season. st
Evening journal., 1908-01-16

Mr.. and Mrs Harry Cox have been
visiting relatives at Kennett SQUIRE.
Mrs. James Robinson is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Herbert PlanlSinton,
east of ISennett Square.
Misses Maud Freck and Sylvia Bare
ley. of xennett, were recent visitors
here
Evening journal., 1908-01-16
cominq Wedding.

E Frank Adams. Of Boston, and
Miss Lola f. Nesslein, Of this city, will
be married in this city on Saturday.
Evening journal., 1908-01-16
cards on His Birthday.

John T. DAILY celebrated his thirtieth
birthday anniversary yesterday Ills
friends show cred him With postal
cards.
Evening journal., 1908-01-16

went to see a play last night that made
me laugh and cry;
That took me back to childhoods days,
so many years gone by.
The actors played their parts so we'll it
seemed so real and true,
1 thought I was a boy again, among the
boys 7 knew
Forgotten sights and sounds and smells
came back across the years,
And Quincy Adams Sawyer" was the
play that brought the tears.
It may be said with sincerity that no
play seen in many months has more Of
the qualities which appeal to the popular
fancy, without in the least diverging from
what is wholesome and good, than
Quincy Adams Sawyer" now running at
the Grand Opera House. There was
good house at yesterdays matinee. The
play VIII be seen here the balance Of the
week with another matinee on Saturday.
The show at the Garrick Theatre this
week illustrates the wide range Of en-
tertainment which vaudeville covers. For
instance, Mr.. and Mrs. Jex in their com
Guy sketch Johnny NO. 23." and Gus
Edwards presentation of George Homan
and THE kounty Kids" are far apart
in a sense and totally different. ISIara
Pyn's Chansons Nivante, or songs with
living pictures, is about as far from the
monkeys, bears and dogs of Prof Worm
wood as day is from night Both are en-
tertaining Arthur Rigby, the black face
monologuist and Hallan and Hayes are
widely different in character and yet both
are typical vaudeville sketches. This is
vaudeville, the sort that goes the country
over, and It holds its own to-day in the
face Of the depression that affects all
lines OF business.
Charles X. Blaney's production young
Buffalo, King Of the Wild West" win be
presented at the Lyceum Theatre for
three nights beginning tonight While
the melodramatic features are many. the
comedy element is strong. and many
iaughable situations are presented. Tho
scenic equipment is elaborate. The COM
pany numbers thirty people among whom
arc many favorites. A band OF real IN
dians and number Of frontier charac-
ters.
Evening journal., 1908-01-16
Given Handkerchief Shower.

Mrs. Truitt. of No. a24 East Fourth
street. was given a handkerchief show
er on Tuesday in honor Of her birth
day. ...4 -
Evening journal., 1908-01-16

INVEST your time-it is
better than to merely SPEND
il. A little Of it INVESTED
every few days in answering
want ads. will often lead to
dividends for life.
Evening journal., 1908-01-16

and impertinent; tried to appear polite
ly unconscious at the pier for half an
hour, while a staring crowd circled
around them, and at the end emerged
snff.ins and cheerful
Evening journal., 1908-01-16

photographers and individually and
collectively posed before cameras no
fewer than thirty-seven times, submit
ted to allsorts of questions, pertinent
Evening journal., 1908-01-16

hair fern. The couple left for a South
ern tour and viii be at home after
January 25, at No. 423 Broome street
Evening journal., 1908-01-16

FNU at Ar
line. to attending the wedding Of Miss
Gladys Vanderbilt to the nobleman on
January o.
They yielded to the opportunities Of
Evening journal., 1908-01-16

,Read-THE-EyENINa JOURNAL.
Evening journal., 1908-01-16

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-17
Plain Fruit Cake.

Cream together one cup butter and two
of sugar. Add cupful milk and four we'll
beaten eggs. Sift two teaspoonfuls cream
Of tartar, one teaspoonful ground cloves
and two teaspoonfuls each cinnamon and
mace with two cups -four. Add pound
currants thoroughly cleaned. one pound
raisins seeded and chopped. one-quarter
cup citron sliced fine and a cup chopped
almonds. all these dredged thickly with
-four Dissolve teaspoonfu soda in a
little warm milk or water, add to the
milk and eggs, then pour all gradually on
-four and fruit. Turn into we'll creased
pans and bake in a slow steady oven for
at least two hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-17
Knock-About Hab,
From Vogue.

Hats of straw. smaller both In sire ana
In the width Of the straw braids, turn up
in the back close to the crown, and din
In front over the hair. as college men
have been wearing both felt ana straw
hats for the past two summers The
straw edge of the brim Is bound with
narrow black silk ribbon. while tho
center of the crown has a circular bit Of
SILK embroidered in long white silk stitch
cries. A bowl-shaped hat OF very coarse
glossy straw braid In ochre yellows OF
various grades has the charm Of novelty
as knockabout style for forenoon wear.
and will be liked for motoring. It ia
large in Its brim circumference, which
makes it cool. as the veil drapery Is thus
kept away from the face comfortably.
while the turned-down brim insures shade
to the eyes. Scarf drapery In white, with
cross stripes Of color in silk on the ends.
Is more popular this year than ever. On
all-white hats they are most attractive In
this effect
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-17
kfns, Mr.. and Mrs. John r Anderson and
Mr.. and Mrs. Churchill Young.

Miss Louisa Leonard Taylor Of Norfolk
and Mr. John Letcher OF Lexington. Va.
were quietly married Thursday at noon
In the beautiful homo OF the bride at
Client. Norfolk. Only relatives and q few
intimate friends were present at the cere-
mony. which was performed by the Rt
deacon John Lloyd assisting. Mr.. and
Mrs. Letcher left at once for the north.
They will sail from New York May 90 to
spend the summer in England. The bride
and religious life of Norfolk, and the
groom is a graduate of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute and a son OF former Gov.
John Letcher. the war governor" OF Wiz.
ginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-17
AROUND THE CITY

A cloud of bees had settled on tree
limb at a 18th street corner. The tree
shaded a side yard. and along a line of
inner fencing stood row OF hives.
Taking bees is not an everyday oc-
currence on 18th street and a crowd OF
onlookers hung around TO watch the man
who owned them as he first stood a
table under the tree ard reached up
carefully to cover the swarm with
cloth. and then jumped down and held a
box directly under the limb while he sent
tiny spirals OF smoke up into its
branches.
One spectator who knew more than
the law allows" accounted for the bee
mans various performances. and when
somebody In the crowd asked somebody
else how the swarm happened TO be on
the tree instead Of in the hive. where
they belonged. IL volunteered the eX-
PLANTATION:
"A new king been came in and drove he
old king out. He flew to the tree and
his crowd followed. Soon they are
taken they'll start another hive over
there making six in all"
OF course. he must have meant queen
bees but what's a small matter like
that?
Il don't see how bees can make honey
in the city" put In woman who must
have had old-time ideas Of clover and
honeysuck!e There are not enough
flowers"
The spectator who knew more than the
law allows recaptured the conversation
"Ali the flowers they want in the yards.
ma'am But bees don't fy around like
they used TO. Prepared food and ready
made paraffin combs are making them
lazy There's no such thing as busy
bee these days. Why, over in England
they're even making honey by machinery
good honey. too"
The spectator kept up his explanations
to the crowds that came and went. and
the bee man continued 10 send smoke
spirals up into the branches.
But the woman who knew only about
country bees drifted up the street And
as she went maybe she was wondering II
the day was not at hand TO curtail that
hitherto reliable old doctrine:
God made man and man made money:
God made bees and bees made honey
Eight women were riding along the
avenue in wagonette. Anybody with
half an eye could tell that they were
tourists by the way they twisted and
turned and craned their nccks along the
way 10 get better view.
The driver had halted near the Sherman
statue and the tourists were having their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-17
Morning Muslins.

Morning muslins are smart In severe
styles with broad Elton collar and wide
soft tie. The cuffs should match the
collar. Tucks or box plaits In the waist
and the same in the skirt is as far toward
elaboration as such gowns should go. One
can put all the daintiness OF handworlg
that one wishes or can afford into thS
collar and cuffs. THIS style frock Is worn
Interchangeable with duck skirts and
separate waists, and Is as much as IL re.
quisite at even the most fashionable re-
sort for the morning. Cross-barred dimi.
ties or plain ginghams are lovely made In
this fashion. as are also some OF the
striped and figured batistes. Two or three
at most is an ample supply. The half low
collar leaves the throat cool and free and
is a fad with well-dressed women, as II
gives a change from the high turn-ovee.
which has been almost done to death.