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New-York tribune., 1908-08-30
GRAND TRUNK DEVELOPMENT.
Plans of New Canadian Line for City and
Town Building-Prince Rupert Terminal.

Consul A g. Seyfert in writing from CongwOod
twentieth centur! for canada will be the compilation
Of the Dominon's second tTanScoHtiqehLaI 1 & raiis
way gives the following account OF the progress
of this enterprise
From Winnipeg to Edmonton the prairie section
of the Grand Trunk Pacific is practically com
pieted From Edmonton to the coast distance OF
seven hundred miles through & The MOUNTAINS; % ANS IL
exceedingly difficult and expensive much OF it pc
Of the Skeena River.
Experience of the past has led the railway COM
pany to % deal nv WIN a Ses TaG The Company proposes
10 control much as possible. not only the loea-
out o%i and building Of the future cities on the Prai-
RE section nesy @ "a h~ned @ few OF on the noffh s
Of the railway The main street of each town is to
All the lots are rectangular blocks Parallel with
the railway and adjoining the depot right Of way.
served by the company at each town site for the
purpose of planting trees and shrubs to beautify
The company win also impose building build restrici i
9pT 5 In M 1 eose to s Station ts %n on given e
no buildings Will he allowed to cost less than 900
asresabEe 9 sS businesses viii be allowed near the
ton All such win be grouped in one block in a
Prince rupert, the Pacific terminal of the Grand
built Ii on the slope Of mountain whose grade
gins a few hundred yards back from the shore line
no Is equal on the Pacific Coast it is sheltered
hs to M
quarter miles wide and extends inland distance
place on the coast. People who have business
there are not allowed to land The future city IS
yet ready to receive any one unless he Is di-
rectly connected with the railway company. The
government and the Grand Trunk Pacific own all
the waterfront. and arrangements are COM
eted for placing any prORery on the ,ban market , II
will take place In September next
The promoters OF Prince Rupert expect the town
TO become a great factor In the Pacific commerce.
They predict that In a quarter Of a century it will
be one of the leading seaports the Pacific Ocean
Prince Rupert will be a day and half nearer the
Orient than Vancouver and the steamship concern
now allied to the Grand Trunk Railway system has
announced that the moment the transcontinental
line Is completed 1t is ready to inauHurate Prince
Rupert-Hong- Kong steamship service the
Pacihc-Consular Report.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-30
BRITISH TRAVELLING INFORMATION.

c,onsul + Perry worden, writing from Bristol;
describes new form OF railway advertising TO alo
travellers In England:
bas long been the custom OF Engnsh railways
To DISPLAY Ia the stations and inside OF the railway
coaches a large and varied selection OF pictures,
usuaIlv photographs, showing the scenic attrac-
tons OF their respective lines. So acceptable have
these proved the public. and TO such an extent
has II undoubtedly contributed TO Increased travel
that the Midland Railway OF England has recently
introduced stiu another feature, designed 10 IN
form the traveller and to assist him in deter7nn-
routes
Fixed in frame. in the booking hall or passage
where the ticket ofiices located or In some
equally convenient place. are large ordnance maps
u the nelghborhortng country, drawn to the scale
OF one inch to the mile. Each map is composed
of 1-tnch ordnance sheets the entire area covered
being twenty-four miles from north TO south and
thsrfy-s4x miles from east to west, thus giving
some eight hundred and sixty-four square miles OF
territory in detail. The maps OF the contour
SERIES that 1t Is quite possible for intelligent
travellers locate The hills and dsles the
In most cases there 10 g note the map, fndicat-
ting tho exact height above level fordnance
dafunl) OF the railway tracts at the particular
tone.
These maps are attracting much attention, rince
they sre not only eervioesbe to persons travelling
by the railways. but cffen OF equal value to
cyclists and pedestrians Cyclists in par
ticular, frequently get their data for trip from
these advertising maps. often proceeding part
cf the way their bicycles and continuing re-
oR0p1ng by The railway trains.-Consular Report.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-30

"a rumor which would be very interesting Tor
writing and drawing purposes If it were true AS
the two needed money, ii seemed more than worth
while TO make expedition in search of proof. and
to take notes and sketch types" The drawing
novice boy and the writing novice was a
girl
They had heard from reliable authority that
all those antique Russian brasses that We love 10
bargain in those dim little shops under the eIe-
waited road are genuine at all-in fact. never
see Russia. And another part Of the rumor was
that somewhere in Norfolk street was the shop
where all these antiques were daily being made.
There were number Of luncheons eaten in
smoky cafes to make plans. and finally certain
Saturday which the appointed day. For
tunately. they had remembered to take map of
the city with them. for the streets down there
terribly fussy and have names al every turn
First they had to go 10 the dim shops under the
elevated where the things sold and find out
there by sly questions where the truly brass foun-
dry
They found the shops. and they went into several
Of them and asked all kinds of SLY questions like
New-York tribune., 1908-08-30
GROUND DEALS DEATH.

..It seems to me-" he remarked one day to one OF
the designing engineers that If electricity will open
and close the proposed gates OF the great Gatun
locks and kill a man whom the law has ordered to
be out to death II ought to wipe out or at least
keep Off that miserable insect called the ant
Mr. Schildhauer went into his garden At Culebra
one morning armed with dozen batteries. few
yards of insulated wire and two nles. He had OBJ
served that the ant army entered his garden from
only one point, and he found the path He laid
across Il tvo parallel steel files and connected UP
each on the circuit. AS the ants stepped from one
d,e TO the other they were electrocuted but they
soon found out something was wrong ana tney ct
yerted their path. marching around SchildhausrS
electrical dam.
Schidhauer gave up the electrical destruction -
impractcabe, but his idea was mace enechVe oy
H. F. Tucker his associate, whose garden mas not
known an ant since he put up his electrical barriers.
Mr. fuckers plan on a larger scale he
emoothed the ground around bis garden ana made
a level path for about fifty yards OF copper wire,
and protected il from short circuits He connected
the wire with a powerful battery, and the moment
New-York tribune., 1908-08-30
WATERLOO OF
CULEBRA ANTS
GARDEN SIlTED BY ELEC-
TRICITT.
Panama Canal Engineer Protects
Vegetables acith Bdtteries-I'ens
of Thousands Of Mraders Slain.

few months ago visitor TO the Panama
Canal stood on the edge of the Culebra cut accom-
panied by one of the engineers Of the central di-
vision, and looked down upon small army of
laborers drilling blast holes and shifting track
for the steam shovels.
Surprising activity for in this climate
he remarked.
Get more work out of these hombres in one
day than they got out of the Italians that dug
the New York subway in two replied the
engineer.
Yes. have two active armies at work here
he continued. The army of construction and the
army of destruction The destroyers are little fel-
lows, but they here by the millions. Never
sleep. Toll all day long. Never do any good;
only undo things and destroy"
You mean the idle, plotting revoutonists,
suppose said the visitor.
No revolutionists here" laughed the engineer.
ANTS. There's thousand of them your feet
now
The visitor looked down and saw a thin. brown
irregular line thai began in the jungle and
tinued down the side of the cut till the eye could
no longer it.
That line goes clean across the cut" said the
engineer, land wends way for miles into the
jungle the other side Lord knows what they
are building there. but they certainly keep
at it"
The observations of the engineer prompted the
visitor TO look into the ant problem. and it was
found that all sorts of schemes fairly successful
had been undertaken keep the ant out of the
houses and truck gardens of the Isthmian Canal
Commission.
The abundance Of rain about l12 inches annual,
y) that falls the isthmus and the rich, red soil
that is everywhere afford an excellent opportunity
for the cultivation OF vegetables and landscape
plants. but the invasion of the ants has been a
handicap to the truck gardeners in the canal zone
in 1865 the Isthnlian Canal Commission made
three experimental truck and landscape gardens at
Ancon Corozal and Empire. Six acres are
under cultivation Empire, and a fourth garden
is contemplated for Pedro Miguel The gardens
irrigated during the dry by galvanized
iron pipes and various faucets about hundred
feet apart, with hose attachments. The stables Of
the zone contribute all the additional fertilize-
needed enrich the soil. Fungi and ants
the two great problems the gardeners had
tend with The fungous diseases were treated with
bordeaux mixture, and the ants and other leaf-eat
ing insects were combated with arsenate of lead
md
New-York tribune., 1908-08-30
ETHAN ALLEN AND ARNOLD.

They will follow with the inglorious retreat OF
the inefficient Abercrombie and the coming of the
victorious Amherst. who took Fort Carlton the
coming year, the name then being changed TO Fort
Ticonderoga, this event marking the turn of the
tide which rapidly ebbed. till a short time later,
on the plains of Abraham, the final struggle be-
tween the glorious Wolfe and the gallant Mont
calm marked the ending Of French power in the
New World
Then the daring Ethan Allen, with Benedict Ar
mold disputing for precedence. appears, and from
DE la Place, the English officer in command, de-
mands the surrender Of the fortress in the name
of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Gen.
gress Then, two years later. comes the invest
ment of the fort by Burgoyne, whose engineers
fortified the heights Of Mount Defiance. which COM
manded completely the defences of Fort Ticon-
deroga that St Clair, the officer in charge had no
option but 10 eracuate and save, if possible, the
army of occupation, which difficult feat he sue
cessfully accomplished. though losing in his de-
parture the first American flag ever flung TO the
breeze in an actual engagement.
Now old Fort Ticonderoga stands deserted and
neglected, the prey of the ruthless relic hunters
and the thoughtless boy, its greatness in the past
its grandeur in the days that were. Its mute ap-
peal for protection and preservation falls deaf
and needless ears
1t is the prime object OF the Ticonderoga His
torcal Society to obtain through federal action the
purchase and naturalization Of the battlefelds of
Ticonderoga and its environs in just recogni-
fion of the far-reaching character and influence Of
the memorable events that have occurred during
the lasI three hundred years what Parkman has
so aptly named 'the school ground OF The Reyolu-
fon.'
II is the plan of this society obtain the pas
sage of the necessary legislation the coming
session of Congress, If possible, to the end that
these battlefields may be dedicated at the coming
tercentenary celebration next July as national
battlefieds park in memory Of the gallant heroes,
TO the number of many thousands who lie buried
on these historic grounds where they fell TO main
tain the lilies Of France, plant the cross of St
George. to establish the flag Of the free-the
Stars and Stripes-wich unfurled for the first
time in actual battle at Fort Tjconderoga.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-30
CHEMICALS OF NO AVAIL.

The ants destroyed by the thousands. but
they always back with stronger reinforce
ments and a new method of attack was planned
by their human enemies. The gardeners hit upon
a scheme of putting carbon bisulphide in the in
sects' formicaries, setting it fire and causing
a subterraneous explosion. The fumes destroyed
the ants, and they kept away for q while, but
the truck gardens took a semblance of pros
perity the ants returned twentyfold. The army OF
destroyers seemed TO have passed the word along
TO their neghbors in remote parts, for great files
moved the truck gardens from all points of the
compass.
the ant army attempted 10 take. They invaded the
sacred precincts of the home and caused the blush
of humiliation to come the cheek OF a matron
of Empire who had made great preparations to
tertain at dinner a party of guests from the
states
There were only four in the wonans family-her
husband herself and two -Four visitors had
come for dinner, and she remembered that two
extra leaves must be put into the table that all
might have room TO dine The maid did not know
how the leaves were inserted. and the woman Of
Empire undertook the task. A servant brought out
a thin iron crate that held the unused leaves, and
much to the chagin of the hostess, the two heavy
mission oak table leaves fell into crumbled mass
when she tried to remove them from the crate The
leaves were of the hardest oak. and had been on
the isthmus only two years, but the ants had cut
them up probably during the first year
II remained Edward Schildhauer. an electrical
and mechanical engineer of Colonel Goethals's de-
signing staff to stem the tide of ant invasion by
electricity He had given much time to the study
NJ ant destruction by the of chemical mixtures
hut he abandoned it hopeless task and turned
,,,s attention TO electrical destruction.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-30
A NATURAL SETTING.

This beautiful promontory, with its commanding
elevation. its beautifully wooded slopes its wave
washed shores three sides. its fsr-reaching
looks covering the east the fair hills and green
mountains of Vermont: the north the valley Of
the Champlain; on the west the peaks and passes
of the Adirondacks, and on the south the valleys
and mountains that make the eastern setting for
Lake George is already national battlefields park
in every detail, except the ownership and main
renance OF the national government
Stretching away from the crescent shaped hill
side that forms the northeast slope Of the prom
ontory which Fort Ticonderoga stands is level
plain, practically smooth as lawn, covering
an area Of two hundred acres more. which Cen
eral Grant when a visit TO the ruins years ago,
pronounced Of the finest natural parade grounds
he had ever seen.
Still another object of the historical society IS
the preparation OF the town and people not only
themselves to enjoy the approaching tercentenary
celebration, but to aid the stranger within their
gates in obtaining intelligent appreciation OF
what Fort Ticonderoga and its environments stand
for in American history and a real knowledge of
what was here determined IN the establishing of
freedom shores.
The efforts of the historical society in this drec-
tion will cover the appropriate marking of the To-
calties where the important events took place and
the indicating Of the old military roads and trails
from one point TO another
The society's campaign TO attain these objects
will begin with clanbake for The press of the
t.hsrrnlain, Mohawk and Hudson River valleys at
old Fort Ticonderoga on "Wednesday. September 2.
ar which able historians, competent TO speak with
authority on the nlomentous events that have oc-
c,,-red ON these historic grounds, will be present
The guests of society viii be taken over this III
teresting ground and the spots that have made the
Mare famous will be shown TO them. salute from
The crensdier Battery will welcome them to the
rround as they come in over the old French lines.
The music Will be furnished by the Colonial Drum
Corns while q male quartet will render old patri-
81. .s-s including 1.-The Sword Of Bunker HILL
,T- vii, follow the historical address, and then
the sunset gun. The town Of Tfconderoga has ever
fell a tust pride in her history, pride that has
,o, KENT alive and fostered by Joseph Cook, whose
summer home at Cliff Seat in the beautfui trout
Brook Valley. contains the recoros oi nhas ~ -
-tt, b,sto-ical happenings in this vicinity, ur-
so-5bed bv him on his frequent trips abroad
New-York tribune., 1908-08-30
PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL RANKINGS.

New York University. with So students main
tains the largest law school Michigan Lankltls 4I
second, Harvard third and Minnesota fourth, mar
ward being the only one of the four to demand d
baccaiaureate degree for admission
The largest medical registration C5N) is found at
PENNSYLVANIA, Northwestern being second ana rev
York University third. AS for the gradua re
schools Columbia with 938 students. has by far
the largest attendance her nearest competitors be
ing Harvard with 442. Chicago with 3sl and Wiscon-
sin with 353 students. , r
Minnesota has the largest number of students of
agriculture a27 enrolling than twice as many
as Illinois, closest numerical competitor. wnle
the latter in students of architecture, lJ0 be-
ing followed by Columbia. 49,,
New York University has the largest school Of
commerce. s75; Pennsylvania the greatest number
of dental students, 2S9 Northwestern still leads IN
divinity with 227 students and Yale In forestry, b
although some of the state universities may actu-
ally teach forestry to greater number OF stu
dents Syracuse has the largest school OF music,
Ss7. and Columbia the largest teachers eSege zee SOL
dents is closely followed by the New York school
afiliated with Columbia--Yale Alumni Weekly
New-York tribune., 1908-08-30
OLYMPIA REVIVED.
Story of the Re-Establishment of the Inter.
national Athletic Contests.

Fourteen years ago. that is 10 say. in May. 1894,
men greatly Interested in all forms OF atneucsm,
says The LonGOn Globe" These enthusiasts.
initiative OF Pierre CouneTtIn. the general
secretary OF the French Athietlc Union. ana Wno
were presided over oy Baron de Colrcsi. Iornsr IoS
representative of France in this country, were SaIh-
together TO consider the expeulency of re-es-
tablshing the Oymkfc games as an mlernatlonu
athletic meeting. and inter ALA. to ina uslrdle IN
sporting centres of IEe world The result Of their
deliberations has at various times been wltnesSed
in sports bearing the trade mark olympic, nel1
at Athens in 1880. Paris IN lsH. Chicago IN ls4 dh1'
OF cYdrse tne TelnaT kaoe AtHenldn Iese'a al lrsre
who had as guests our King and queen IN APrl'
When four summers ago the Olympic ganles were
held at St. Louis during that city exnlotlon ye;
that the international committee were deslrous tnat
all sports held under the auspices or the LoulSa I
Purchase Exposition should bear the name ,yeIg
pic. with the result that IN addition 10 tne pHIsS
athletic events witnessed in the Stadium, chd5h-
pionships in divers other sporting eVenuS NJ Sarv ~
cided- This precedent-a glance az tne aL1iS ~, -,
May to October indicates-has IN great measuLIs S ~
followed in the present year OF gracs anu
though We have gone TO the length OF lhsttJa ~
ing an Olympic championship Tor nSnlhe - -
Thames. as was done IN Paris ns IN t the descrip-
ton games could scarcely be more cohg Ia, Shoor-
Ing and motor boating among other Psstimes. ,.s
Apart from the games held at lIs Asnens Second m 10
those of America. the Brton has not uphetu 10 ths @
reputation of his nation as u tn9 ac So Far as the
quadrennal games at least are eoncetisu' eo.i on ina
part OF the athletic authorities in This c9unty an
olympic game committee OF the Unitsu %, ss,r-
the other hand have been most asSlduIS 0.sn TsIss
ms, canablss representatives. How the brusii
natronlzed the corresponding American rafsIy cSTaI
EastivaI heId AZ St Louis In 1904 can pc aSJus
snsed from the fact that J. j. Daily. the a.. Sr.
Who won the mile handicap and ran secou ~ ~ tbs
~ metreS run was the only repreSentasNe - t,rss
RrIttsh Isles 10 secure place out OF ~ ~ many
events Individual initiative Is eAeeaen ntandard OF
amateurism but Il is certainly noo G IN fhe four
Establishing British sporting supreiiaSs i'' W.
Ir the fact that the official invitation br 20 isS
In the snorts OF April s. 1896, dated DecenJS ,whi,
nnrv reached England the following Ma .su days
the detailed programmes merely arfre nv NAV be
20 rdad ss extenuatng circumstances ~ same ex-
49, or success twelve years ago. ING .nc,,ess
cur lack ot 81 nrged 70 explain the modest Ssid
cusT ,S T nnr way in 1900 when the sports sntente
Soipns sight years ago. however sn,ns .nS nut
IN III, ,aa, england and France was ansnntei any for
eerdias and this fact 1sf n the ehief
e,lants EnS,niu as compared to seventeen %
nth
New-York tribune., 1908-08-30
NATIONAL PARK
At TICONDEROhA
APPEAL FOR GOPERN-
MENT PURCHASE.
Historical Society Working for Tins
Object TO Shoe Clambake Guests
Orcr Erentfm Battlefield.

cvritten The Tribune by an officer OF me
Historical Society,"
II one we're to ask the average grown-up
-, Fort Triconderoga and its environs stand
Co.. historically he would probably answer that
,bav had To- do with Ethan Allen the Conuneh'ai
Congress- and the Great Jehovah. but the schoolboy
ar girl fresh from his or her history would tell
,,o,, and correctly that from the early discovery
,f ,l,e country by Samuel de Champlain. in July
$500 aoun TO the close of the struggle for lherty
g., she last quarter of the ices they were meas
,,rad by the memorable events that occurred IN
them
They would tell you of Champlain's part in that
,tas took place on this historic ground in July,
1soa They would also tell you that on the great
wafer highway between the north and south no
roint was so vital as the bold promontory on which
tbe ruins of Fort Ticonderoga now stand, COM
rnapding as it does the Narrows of Lake Cham
plain and the Ticonderoga River. which lead to
the beginning of the grand portage from the foot
of the first faIl to Lake George.
They VIII tell you how Abercrombe, with the
csllant Lord Howe. against it with the
flower of the English regulars and Colonial troops
from the head of Lake George, the one TO meet
an untimely death in skirnlish at the junction
of Trout Brook and the Lake George outlet. the
other 10 suffer defeat bitter than death at
the hands of Montcalm and his sturdy band of
less than one-third their number at the French
li,,ar ,I,ax he fog-t