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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20
VILLAGE OF CLAY HOUSES.
Novel Project Started in New Jersey to
Avert Fire Danger

An unusual undertaking, the building
of a fireproof village, is in progress at
Mountain station, on the border line be-
tween Orange and South Orange, n. j.
Six houses are well on the way to com
pletion already, and they are all made
of burned clay in the form of hollow
blocks. The roofs are of either asbestos
shingles or slate.
No where else in the country, ii is
said, are there so many tireproof dwell
ling houses in one group. The scheme
is the result of the study of improved
methods of construction within the last
few years.
The heirs of the Henry A. Page es
tate are carrying through the undertake
ing. One of the Page heirs who has been
interested, for several years, in develop
ing the properties of the estate, formerly
put up houses of reinforced concrete
Recently he retained an engineer TO
make special investigation of fireproof
materials and building methods, for the
purpose of comparison. The consequence
of the investigation was that terra Gotta
blocks. instead of concrete, were chosen
for the Jersey dwellings.
Each of the houses now being built
at Mountain Station has eight or ten
rooms. All partitions, as well as the
floors and outside walls, are of terra
Gotta, so that fire could not spread
from one room TO another. In one of
the houses is floor with span of Is
feet, the longest span ever made with
TINS tyne OF construction.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20
NEW POSTOFFlCE GRAFT
How a Sharper Made Himself Rich
on Small Invest
ment.

Uncle Sam is as proud and watehful
OF his maiis as farher of his favorite
child, yet it IS through the postof1ice
that the succulent sucker is so fire.
quently licked for, sometimes by thin
line of correspondence reeled out 5000
miles away, and he has been known to
snap at one book with ayidity while
at the time he had another in his gills.
One man engaged a small room in a
down town office building. New York,
installed single typewriter, which he
manipulated himself, and from an in
months cleared O. or $4,000. How did
he do it? Let US go back to the day thai
his office rent began.
First, he had his door adorned with
handsome gold lettering, as follows:
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20
HENRY HARTMAN
Watch and Diamond Merchant.


A capacious letter box was then at
tached to the door, and removing his
coat Henry Hartman, with a newspaper
directory at his elbow. struck off several
hundred typewriter letters to as many
different newspapers throughout the
country, enclosing in each letter 10 cents
IN stamps and asking that he be for
warded copy of the latest edition.
As fast as copies of these papers came
in he looked over the death columns
and, selecting one or two likely names
from each paper, sent the deceder Z
typewriter letter begging that he k .diy
remit the $40 balance due, and the 500
diamond ring which he had purchae- a
would go forward by express. A neat
bill was enclosed with the letter, made
out as though 800 in installments had
already been paid in on the diamond.
When this letter reached its destina-
ton land with it was sent an illustrated
folder of watch and diamond bargains
it was opened by the widow of the de-
cedent, and thirteen times out Of a
bakers dozen the $40 was RENTED in
haste by that surprised yet not less
pleased lady.
An early letter informed the widow
that her remittance had been received
and the diamond would go forward by
express within twenty days direct from
the importing house. Should she fail
to receive it, would she be good enough
to notify the firm. ETC., etc.
When the post-of1ce inspectors looked
into the matter some two months later
they found correspondence showing that
Henry Hartman, Watch and Diamond
Merchant had netted over $4,000, but
that gentleman had thoughtfully betaken
his person to greener felds.-Don Mark
Lemon, in The Bohemian Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20
PREVENTING FOREST FIRES.
Good Example Set by the National Gov.
eminent

Can nothing be done to prevent the re-
currence of such disasters in future
years? The best answer to the question
perhaps is that on the various United
States forest reservations a vigilant
force of able rangers has eliminated fires
and that similar measures would doub-,
less effect the same desirable end else
where. The difficulty outside the United
States reservations lies chiefly in the face
that most of the forested areas are in
private ownership, and that there is no
well organized public means of either
preventing the setting of fires or of stop
ping their spread where once set. Oh.
viously, the national government can do
little or nothing, except educational
work. outside the public lands. Few ST
the state governments have made auy
serious attempt to prevent forest fires,
and the private owners of forested areas
on whom timber fire losses primarily fail
have not as vet been farsighted enough
to see and act on the necessity for sys-
tematic fire prevention work.-Engineer-
ing News.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20
Where Gu. vegetables Originate.

In 1885 the potato was introgHe"i
into Europe by the Spaniards, who TolaI
it in Chile At almost the same "Ats
it was introduced into England, but, saE
English. who had found it cultivate. M, ny
the Indians of North America As
sweet potato and the artichoke are a,s4
American vegetables. Satisfy IS tsah1
growing wild over Greece. Italy ana Az
geria. Turnips and radishes came eng
inally from Central Europe. Gamma.
which is of remote origin, is believed ~
he an European vegetable. AspaF --s
found its origin in temperate We ~
A STA Eggplant came to rs from ild.l On
The carrot grows wild tbrou- ..'-'
Europe. Asia Minor. Siberia, ..'
Abyssinia. North Africa and the "a
nary islands The tomato comes w w
Peru, the cucumber from India ana I-
pumpkin from Guinea.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

Among the changes which King Ed
ward has made ON his Scotch estate, ac-
cording to a recent cable message, has
been the removal of the statue of John
Brown from the conspicuous place where
Queen Victoria set it up in the grounds
to more retired position. An Ameri-
can headline writer introduces this an
nouncement to his readers under the cap
ton. LESS Conspicuous Place for Stat
'ue of Abolitionist." The John Brown,
who was Queen Victoria's faithful serv-
ant at Balmoral, and whom she COM
memorated in efIigy, was not even dis
family related to the hero of Harper's
Ferry who fastened the outbreak of the
American Civil War.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The recent assertion by lake insur-
anee man that the losses of the insur-
ance companies are generally heavy
when steel vessels go ashore is support
ed by the fact that the steamer Daniel
3. Meacham, which lately received a
bad humping on the rocks of the south
ern shore of Lake Superior, viii require
no less than eighty new bottom plates,
and repairs to a number of frames and
to her tank top. This will cost about
$4,000, or more than quarter of the
big ships value. Had the accident oc-
Cured in mid-season, the loss would
have been increased by a delay of a
month at the shipyard
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20
FORTUNES IN IRELAND's PEAT.
Its Use for Making Cheap Brown Paper
Virtually Is Demonstrated.

In view Of the increasing scarcity of
timber, from which almost all paper is
manufactured, it is of interest to know
that excellent brown paper is produced
from peat, and in all probability this can
De hleached. Peat is, in fact, wood put
through one process, that of partial dis
indignation.
There are 100000 acres of peat in
ireland. says the Chicago Inter Ocean
covering one-seventh of the entire sur
face, and averaging 10 feet In depth.
As an acre contains 1900 tons of solid
peat, and can be bought from I'll up
ward, while a ton of brown Wrapping
paper costs Is 10 f10, some idea may
thus be formed of the neglected wealth
of Ireland,
Probably half the wood used for pa
per-making is converted into brown pa
per. The use of peat wonld arrest the
destruction of forests.
Since the new and successful processes
for ,eoking peat and recovering the by-
products have been discovered. neat as a
fuel in manufacture will enter largely
into Irish industries.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The arrangement OF race between
Tom Longboat, the Canadian Indian
long-distance runner, and Dorando, the
Italian runner who collapsed almost a
winner in the Marathon race of the re-
cent Olympic games in London, takes both
runners out of the amateur field, which
Hayes, the winner of the Marathon race,
abandoned for professionalism upon the
first offer from that direction. These
runners will doubtless find the advertis-
ing they have received a useful asset
wherever races are arranged.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The October fire loss in the United
States and Canada footed up So, ~, $50.
For the first ten months of the present
year the aggregate has been sos, 1885,
750, which is within S7,O00,000 of the
total fire loss for the entire twelve
months of 1907. Last year the October
fire loss was only $13,350,250. A great
many of this years September and Octo-
Der fires were chargeable to the protract-
ed drought, which has left everything
combustible as dry as finder and in
flapinable by the slightest spark.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

Concrete has become one of the most
important elements OF constructive work,
and its experimental use in shipbuild-
ing in Italy is not the only utilization of
cement in work Of this kind. In the
wrecking operations on the cruiser Yam
kee. on the rocks in Buzzard's bay,
Massachusetts, the compartments over
the rocks which pierce the plates and
project within the hull are filled with
compressed air while workers cast con-
crete over the rocks and brace the mass,
so that when it hardens the water will be
kept out. In this way it is expected that
the ship will be made tight and fioated
into deep water.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The report of the Geological Survey
shows that there five items in the list
which yield upward of $100000,000 a
year. They include coal, $614, ZOO, 900;
iron, $529,o00,000; copper, $l73,0o0,000;
clay products, $15S,000,000; petroleum,
$120,000000, Every one of these, be it
noted, gives richer returns than gold,
the annual output Of which is $9o,000,-
600
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The coal stove with closed draft and
open doors has claimed three victims in
Washington, d. c., anl warned house
holders who use stoves to look well to
the flues when they are checking down
their fires. Most of these cases are due
to carelessness in regard to the stove
pipes and the chimneys, which should
always be kept clean.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The rumnr that Great Britain will
send out battleship fleet to encircle the
globe is further evidence that the great
voyage of the American fleet now head
ing for the Indian ocean has deeply
impressed foreign nations.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The outcome of the Morse trial in
New York will have salutatary in
fiuence upon wildcat bankers. He has
been convi ted Of frauds for which the
minimum penalty under the national
banking law is seven years.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The flower of the football season is
the chrysanthemum. 1t is beautiful
fiower-not as lovely as the rose, and
scentless withal-but highly decorative,
and it lasts long time when cut and
placed in a vase The chrysanthemum
belongs in the list Of gifts for which the
Western world is indebted to Japan.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The expenditure of million dollars
by the Chinese in entertaining the Amer
lean feet at Annoy is a pretty good an
swer to those who allege that there ex-
lists in China an irreconcilable GOODNESS
toward the United States.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

1t is likely that the United States may
he represented by Dixie ii. at the am
nual motor boat regatta on the Mediter-
ranean, at Monaco. The Dixie is the
fastest racing motor boat in the world,
and although she will probably be Amer
ica's only representative, as against two
and three from some Of the foreign coun-
tries, she win be heard from lin the
running"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20
The Savages.

Many stories have been told of the lu-
dicrous mistakes Of negro orators. Here
Is one for which Gov. Claude Swanson of
Virginia is responsible.
In a small Virginia town pompous
negro was delivering Fourth Of July
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

Nat Herreshoff's announcement that
he is ready to build another cup defend
er was hardly necessary. Yachting en-
thusiasts are always confident that he
has the lines of another world-beater
on his designing board. But the supple
mental statement that the lines of the
proposed new sloop will not deyiate very
much from those Of the fast schooner
Queen gives added interest TO report
of few days ago that a New York
yaehtsman is about to give an order for
laurels.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

Yellow fever is said to be creating
havoc among the Yaqui Indians who are
corralled in Yucatan by the Mexican
government. This liability to disease in
the hotter climate Of Yucatan is what
made the Yaquis resist shipment to that
part of the republic. The yellow fever
is said to be claiming many victims
among Spanish immigrants.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The man who is cautious about going
up in balloon escapes good deal of
worry over the problem of safely getting
dewn
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The reported success of a French met
allurgist in Welding film of copper onto
steel is of vast Importance to shipbuild-
ers. If way can be found by which
ships plates can be completely sur
faced with copper, the bottoms of war
and commercial vessels can be made
proof against marine growths which pit
steel plates and rust and coat the bot
toms of ships so thiekly that speed is re-
tarded.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The dispatch practically giving up ms
lost the Chinese junk Whang- Ho, which
sailed from San Francisco for New York.
last January, because she has not been
heard from since the Sth of March last.
Is followed by the announcement that
the long-overdue British bark Inyerclyde.
has reached the Royal Roads. British
Columbia. one hundred and seventeen
days out from Santos Brazil. Finding
it impossible to round the Horn. the
captain turned tair' and went to the
Pacific ocean by way of the Cape of
Good Hope and the Indian ocean. When
modern European ships can have ex-
periences of this kind with the elements.
there ought to be wide latitude for a
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

Advertise in this paper, and make your
wants known to your home people, an6
stimulate enterprise in our vicinity.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The reduction of Fort Hamilton be-
cause of the disclosures incident to the
Hams Annis tragedy makes it impossi-
BILE for other officers to be involved in
trouble through too close contact with
the social whirl of great city. The
army post is sometimes pictured as n
lonely place where men and women are
cooped up and made surly and quarrel
some, but the isolated post is safer than
one where the allurements of society
are too close at hand
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

Although the Wrights have the record
for long flights. and doubtless have the
most practical aeroplane yet produced
Farman, the French aeronaut, has cap
iured the honor of the first and longest
flight between two points, which sug-
gests a practical use of the flying ma
chane. lie few rom Mourmelon to
Rheims, distance of twenty miles,
keeping his aeroplane at an average
height of three hundred feet.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The play that is roasted is likely "
prove a frost.-Town Topics.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20
Separated.

A regiment of soldiers were recent
" dfawn I'd one Sunday for church pa
rade, but the church was being repaired
and could hold only half of them.
Ssrgeant-major," shouted the colonel.
tell all the men who don't want 10 20
TO church TO fan out on the reverse
flank"
OF course. large number quickly aud
gladly awaited themselves of the privi-
lege.
Nov. sergeant-majOr," said the coll
fall out and march the others to church
they need it most. Philadelphia In
quirer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

Chinese junk on voyage such as that
around Cape Horn.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

Wilbur Wright's assertion that cross
country trips such as that made by
Henry Farman ars quite useless runs
contrary to the general desire, which
has been to see one of the aeroplanes
demonstrate its ability to get between
distant points. The statement that a
monument is to be erected at the place
where Farman alighted is evidence that
the French public regard the flight as
evidence of the practical value of the
aeroplane.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

Advertise in Your Home Paper.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

The average length of life Of the
Ieelander is a little over 81 years.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

We've not exactly made friends said
The Washington herald., 1908-08-07
CAMMACK WILL SETTLED.
Widow and Daughter Reach Agree
ment without Contest.

BY an agreement reached yesterday by
Mrs. Elizabeth Nay Cammack and Mrs.
Anne s. Hardesty. the widow and daugh-
ter. respectively. Of John Cammack. there
Will be no contest over the estate OF the
latter. According TO the original terms
Of the viii. Mrs Hardesty was 10 receive
only the income or tAe trust fund Of
5000. but the compromise yesterday
gives her an additional $4,000 worth Of
securities
In the bill Of agreement fled yester-
dav the following securities are TO go to
Mrs Hardesty- Fifteen thousand dollars
Metropolitan Railroad bonds. $1,000 Co
Iuubla Railroad bonds. 10 shares Riggs
National Bank stock. % shares Washing
ton Market Company, $50 shares Colum-
bfa Title Insurance Company. . shares
Home Savings Bank. 10 shares Arlington
Fire Insurance Company. % shares Lin
coin Hall Association. > shares Franklin
Insurance Company. 125 shares Washing
ton Loan and Trust Company. 30 shares
! Columbia National Bank. 10 shares
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank.
I 50 shares Greene Copper. 4 shares Nor
folk and Washington Steamboat Com
pauv. Is shares Real Estate Title IN
/ surance Company. > shares Capital Trac-
I ton Company. 10 shares American Sc
curity and Trust Company, shares
] Craphophone Company. and 100 share:
/ Washington Gaslight Company
I Il is understood the compromise was
I completed 10 avoid the nOtoriety inciden
TO litigation
The Washington herald., 1908-08-07
HOUSE BRINGS $4,000.
Clarke Home in Massachusetts Ave-
nue. Passes TO Harry Wardman-

A series Of transaction in real estate
aggregating about $4,000. was announced
yesterday by z. c. Brainerd The resi-
dence built. and formerly owned, by Capt.
George E. Lemon, was sold for the heirs
to the estate Of the late Daniel B. Clarke.
10 Harry Wardman. for S9o.o00-
The Clarke heirs have purchased from
Mr. warduan two apartment houses-the
Nantucket and the Juniata, both in W
street. between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets northwest, for $4,000
The residence at 1a92 Massachusetts ave
nue. was erected about twelve years ago
by Capt. George E. Lemon, at a cost. it
is said. Of $4,000
The front is Of brown stone. beautifully
carved. The interior is well treated. q
| feature being the stairway. Of handsome
" carved hardwood. and elaborate stone
lmantels, and various hardwOOds Jhrougout
! the house The house was decorated bJ
Architect Harvey L Page The property
/ has a frontage in Massachusetts avenue
Of thirty-five feet. and runs through 4
/ NJ street.
This section Of Massachusetts avenue h
now almost entirely built Up with cOstll
/ residences notably those recently bull
in Scott circle. and the new mansion o
/ Clarence Moore. a little farther west. an'
the German embassy, directly opposite
/ leaves but little ground TO build furthe
improvements or this beautiful thorough
| fare. unless one goes considerably De
vond Sheridan Circle.
/ The apartment houses involved IN thes
transactions were recently constructed b
r. Wardman-
The Washington herald., 1908-08-07
DISEASE CONDITIONS BETTER.
one Hundred and Sixteen Persons
MED in CnnItaI Last Week

Fer the most part there was a con
siderable improvement IN the disease con-
dlrions OF the city in The week Wnlcn
ended Saturday last according 10 the re-
port OF the health officer. submitted yes
terday. Among the causes Of death pull
nonary consumption leads, with % fatal
ties Intestinal diseases caused l. OF
which IS were children under two years
~ ars- and kidney troubles killed 2
In all rs deaths were reported OF
which number 81 were among the White
race and IS cOlored- six deaths due 10
typhoid fever. as noted by the depart
r,ent Is an unusual rate for this city
one hundred and nineteen births were
reported TO the department in the seven
day period, - being white and 42 colored-
[ Il is. believed by the authorities that only
| a small percentage Of births IN the Dis
| trfct are reported 10 the health ofncer- Al
INVESTIGATION Of the matter Is being made
/ by an expert staJistician from the Census
once.
The Washington herald., 1908-08-07
HEARS RAILROAD CONTENTION
Justice Barnard Defers Decision on
Union Station Balance.
Attorney for Road Attacks Commits
Counsel Thomas Defends Them

After hearing the argument Of Corpora.
ton Counsel Thomas IN defense Of the
Commissioners action in refusing 10 pay
the claim Of the Philadelphia, Baltmor5
and Washington Railroad Company for
its part II. the construction Of the Union
Station. Justice Barnard yesterday took
the matter under consideration, and VII
announce his decision later
Frederick D. McKenney, representing
the railroad company. an his argument
declared that the Commissioners were at
tempting TO force his client TO erect the
South Washington sUbststIon or site
approved by them, and widely separated
from the original site He said the Dis
trict authorities, by holding up the pay
ment Of the Sl.509,ooo due the COMPANY
have sought 10 have the substation erected
in Maryland avenue. instead Of az tho
foot Of Fourteenth street southwest
In closing his address 10 the court. Alr.
afcKenny said that all the requirements
Of the act Of Congress. providing for the
construction OF the terminal had been
complied with by the railroad company.
CORPORATION Counsel Thomas contended
that it would have been bad adminisJra-
ton for the Commissioners 10 have issued
the certificate. because the company could
then take its tine about building the SUD
station. and the superstructure OF the New
Jersey. avenue bridge Until these things
! were completed. Mr.. Thomas was Of the
opinion that the court ought not 70 COM
Del the issuance Of the certificate by the
/ Commissioners
/ In conclusion. Mr.. Thomas said the
! Commissioners had acted. as board, in a
fadicious manner. and insisted that the
/ court could not review the action