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eyes and leaned forward, and several OF
the true believers said 'Sh-h-h.' like
that. and we were off.
He started gently. I'll say that much
for him. First he leaned away over and
pushed two Of the trebles couple OF
gentle little nudges. tag oy-tappy.' like a
second-story man tiptoeirg across a tin
porch roof with soloshes on. and then
he swung south and bumrcd two of the
BASES bummery- bummcry.' away down
deep. like an indigestion symptom. But
then. without waiting to give the piano
a pepsin pellet or massage its abdominal
wires, ne came sliding in home from
third. tore off two hangnails on the mid
die key with a loud rending sound and
grabbed the poor thing by the upper lip
and tried to pull all her front teeth out
by the roots. l thought that was going
pretty far. but he'd only started. All IT
sudden he gave convulsive start, and
tore down to the corner and turned in
q call for the entire department. Almost
instantly intense excitement began to
reign. All you could hear was the ell
gines coming, and one OF the hook and
ladder trucks hit a milk wagon and
knocked it through tho window OF a
tinWare store, and lot of chemicals ex-
ploded in the basement, and at that
flames burst out from the windows. and
people began to jump out OF the upper
stories with cooking stoves in their arms
I counted no less than fifteen Charter
Oak ranges striking the sidewalk before
I lost tally-and a side wall fell, bury
irg many people in the ruins. and their
shrieks were pitifnl to hear. and one OF
the ambulances ran away and crippled
a dog. The program called 1t a Bach
fugue. But you can't fool me; 1 know
a third alarm when I hear one.
THE holocaust lasted for twenty
minutes. as near as could tell, and was
attended by great loss Of life and SUI
ferng. But after our Polack friend got
the ruins damped down he went back
behind the scenes to take off his slicker
and helmet and rut on his running
trunks to do a Mozart Marathon in the
second half. After the applause had
died out all was quiet except for the
gasps of the exhausted instrument,
which was leaning back on its launches.
painting like a lizard, and as l reached
for my hat the lady sitting next to me
leans over and says to me-she had
bad teeth and she'd undoubtedly been
doing up her hair with an egg beater,
but anybody could tell at a glance that
she had one of those temperaments you
could fry an egg on-she leans over and
she says:
Excuse me, sir, for addressing a
stranger. but I could tell that you also
moves one strangely
"'Yessum.' I says, 1t moves re
strangely. too. not to say rapidly AMI
IL you'll sit right still. ma am. and watch
me. you'll be able to see me moving
And then I came away.
II guess the trouble with me is, Larry,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-28
UP-TO-DATE CLOTHESLINE.
After the Wash It Can Be Folded
Up and Put Out of Sight.

A sensible clothes dryer. which will be
welcomed by the particular housewife.
is the recent invention OF a resident of
Port Angeles, Wash 1t does away
with the unsightly long lines OF clothes
usually associated with wash day. IN
stead the clothes lines are economically
arranged on one support. The latter con-
sists Of post. to which are pivoted five
or six bars. These support the clothes
line. which Is arranged in graduated
lengths between the bars. When thus
spread out there is thus probably 80
feet of clothes line. affordng considerable
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regulated. Contracts have been let for
the machinery and cement to be used In
the construction of the dams and locks
and two large vessels have been bought
to transport the material A change of
plan might be made now with little loss.
for the work done SD far would apply to
a sea-leyel waterway. but hereafter every
days work will turn TO a dead loss in
case the type of canal is altered.
The construction of the locks at Gatun,
Pedro Miguel and N1iraflores will COM
mence simultaneously, and will be push
ed with all possible speed. 1t is proposed
to consume about 5000 barrels of cement
a day. Half this amount will be used at
Gatun alone, where twenty mixers are to
be installed along the lines of the lock
walls. FORBES LINDSAY.
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The Unhonored Prophet.

A CORRESPONDENT was talking
"A about Wilbur and Orville Wright.
"1t is the usual case" he said. "of the
prophet without honor In his own coontry.
The Wrishts had to go abroad to be ap-
preciated.
country's indifference to them. They felt
it deeply. On the head Of 1t Wilbur
Wright told me something about Carlyle
"A visitor to Carlyles birthplace. back
in the '70s. said to a native:
"'Smart man that Thomas Carlyle
1.-The native grunted.
Him smart? Why, I went to skule
wi him."
Copyright. 1909, BY EstelIe Klauder.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-28

HE Gatun dam
has a well eStab-
lished position as
the bugaboo Of the
canal. The Chagres
used to be the
arch DOGGY. but
now the structure
which is designed
TO restrain that
yexatious stream
has uSurped the
first place In the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-28

who was staying up late TO hang the
quarantine sign or a promoter who had
the habit of invading the st. Reckless
of an evening and selling stock in
mining property warranted to contain
large quantities of gold. silver and ANAL
gam filings to unwary investors from
the middle west. Did some gladstone
social diversion claim you on your night
Off"
Nothing of the Sort" said the Hotel
Clerk 1T was recital. n plano re-
cital. if you must know the damninS
truth, have just returned from a
place called Odium Hall, or some such
name. and YOU behold me now in a state
bordering on nervous exhaustion. One
of those Little Sisters of the Hurried
Touch with a winning smile and
a way about her caught me with my
guard down the other day, and before
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-28
COULD GERMANY
WHIP ENGLAND

~NGLISHMEN-th usually calm
r. and placid individuals-are now and
- have been for q year all af1ame
over an alleged plot of Germany to sud-
denly land her superb army Of say 800,
600 Of the best drilled soldiers In the
world on the east shore of England. Any
number of special articles have been
written on the subject, the statesmen
have been questioned and bullied in par
lament about the matter, and a dozen
novels and half as many very popular
melodramas have been written on the
subject.
Sir John Fisher. who is generally con-
sdered the greatest of the fighting ad-
mirals of England of this day and gen.
Grafton, has evidently given much time
and attention to studying the possibility
and the feasibility Of Germany ever at
tempting to accomplish this tremendous
feat. Sir John says of the idea:
x y
pen far more easily than most people
think. With submarines by day and tor
pedo-boat destroyers sweeping the seas
at night. the North sea will be an i'm
possible place for battleships in war The
big fleets OF both parties will lie be-
hind booms and defenses at their bases
most of the time. each waiting to attack
the other, but unwilling to venture out
except on concerted plans of battle.
THE destroyers will fight one another
and every old cruiser and old-fashioned
gunboat will be sent out. There. will be
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Detachable Clothes Hanger.

have become dried the line and supports
can be folded up and placed out of sight
by operating small lever on the main
post. The upper part of the framework
being thus detachable, II can be quickly
removed or replaced when needed. There
are thus no disfiguring clothes posts to
mar the lawn.
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concrete spilway and locks will have
foundations of solid rock.
Now, as TO the recent occurrence at
Gatun. which has led to so much agita
ton, Few days on the spot were more
than sufficient to disclose the fact that it
was positively insignificant. 1t could not
in justice be described as an accident
FOR II was no more than slight slump Of
material, such as engineers always look
for in a large fill. On the line they fully
expected something of the kind and an
tic1pate more than one recurrence of the
same thing before the dam is completed
1t should be understood that there has
been no Gazing in nor falling down OF
the Gatun dam, as stated in several SEN
sational published accounts of the affair
The Gatun dam is not in existence If 1t
We're. We should be very near the end of
our task. The preliminary work upon it
has but just begun. and it was in con-
nection with this that the little slide oc-
CURED, whose rumble is still echoing
throughout the states, although on the
isthmus it hardly caused the turning of a
head.
AS has been said. 1t Is proposed to sup
port the dam at its front and back with
walls of rock. The material for these has
been dumped during the past few months.
as 1t was taken out of the excavation at
Bas Obispo. At the close of last summer
mound of this rock was made on the
west bank of the old French canal. which
runs through the dam site and will
eventually be covered by the structure
This portion Of the rock wall was 80 feet
high in one place and sloped toward the
channel. 1t stood for three months with
out any movement. In November the en-
gineers began to pump the water out OF
the old canal in order to remove from its
bed the soft material which has accumu-
lated since the cut was made and which
would be undesirable TO leave beneath
the dam. Just at this time unusually
heavy rains caused floods along the line
and temporary lake was formed on the
side of the rock mound. opposite to that
on which the canal ran. AS result
great pressure was exerted against the
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that I've been having too much music
lately. II l go into a regular restaurant.
they insist on backing me up SO close 20
the orchestra leader that we're both
wearing practically the same pair af
suspenders. and the clarinet instr1-
mentalist blows down my neck until I'm
like those Bohemian eating places.
where. If 1 spill some OF the red wine
on my shirt, 1 can wait until It dries and
then brush 1t off. without leaving any
stain. But as sure as I go out into one
OF them troupe of bushy Italian ban
dts In green velvet costs and wide red
abdominal bandages issue forth from
behind the potted palms. armed with
their national weapon. the guitar. and,
ecr, they render that famous Sicilian BAL
lad, Come Into the Garlic, Maud until
I'm gibbering maniac.
Now, on the other hand, II a good
looking girl comes out in white dress
and a rose in her hair and sings In the
Cleaning Just dry so, can get a lump
in my throat that makes me remind my
self Of blue racer trying to swallow
q china darning egg. But I don't care
deeply for male quartets that rest their
heads on one another's shoulders and an
nounce that My Lady Sleeps in a tone
OF voice which makes it a dead moral
certainty that my lacy won't sleep a
Wink unless she's lucky enough to be in
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many small battles. partial actions and
SO FORTH and at any time Germany might
succeed In rushing an invading army
across the channel. These might meet
destroyers. but Germany has many more
of these particular craft than Eng and
But the real danger lies in the fact
that Germany might come from the Cux-
haven direction or just as probably go
around inside the Baltic and come out at
the north of Denmark. British ships
which could watch one direction coulo
not do SO in the other.
"A remedy is imperative and the only
way to safety lies on the water. There
must be many new boats built TO watch
the exits from Germanys ports. Ihey
do not have to be very fast or extremely
POWERFUL but they must be built and
kept on the watch. for as sure as Great
Britain and Germany ever go to war the
latter country will attempt to invade
England and capture London.
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could cover up she'd sawed of couple
OF tickets on me. So, forgetting that
the only way to get your money back
lovers. is to stay carefully away from it.
Put OF my Young Prince Charming to-
light and walked foolishly into my fate,
just the same as moolly cow going
through a slaughter-house door.
ANY man ought to be able to find all
side of his nature might crave without
going out hunting it. He can stay ut
home and it'll come looking for him.
Most of our music is now punched out
for us by machinery; also buttonholes,
animal crackers and musical comedies.
of persin gum or it may mean national
air by Williams and Walker.
when you bump into foolish-loo OK
ing, brass-bound machine with pipes
and things curving around all over it.
and you touch it off, it's liable either to
blow your eyebrows off your face with
a sudden blast of compressed air or
hand you the opening bars of The March
of the Tuskegee Cadets on the drum IF
the ear, because it's a wise father these
days that knows his automatic player
from his vacuum cleaner. 1t used to be
that after the youngest female child IN
the family had spent four hard years
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mass of material on one side. whilst the
resistance was decreased on the other
by the removal of the water from the
cut. In consequence. the heap of rock
slid a few feet into the old canal and at
the same time a small portion of it sank
into it's foundation to depth of some
what less than seven feet. 1t was this
trivial occurrence. which an engineer
would hardly deem of sufficient impor-
tance to include in his annual report. that
furnished the text for columns of alarm
ing criticism.
The question will naturally arise to the
mind of the reader: why, If there was
no greater cause for anxiety. did Mr..
Taft go to the isthmus accompanied by
a special investigating commissions" AS
to that. 1t can only be said that the
President chose a somewhat cumbersome
and indirect method of quoting the
clamor and easing the public mind. He
was fully satisfied with the explanation
of the affair Immediately advanced by
the commission and the chief engineer.
and they were given to understand that
such was the case 1t was clearly under
stood on the zone that the purpose OF
appointing the special board OF engineers
was solely to restore public confidence,
and none knew better than the men en-
gagged in the work that the visiting COM
mission could not make any sort of eff
fective investigation in the time allowed
to 1t. A month or two would have
been necessary for the accomplishment
of such task. AS ii was it was COM
PEELED to rely upon the statements of the
engineers on the line, which there is no
reason to believe were in the slightest
degree perversions of the facts.
Il *
The work on the canal is proceeding
with admirable smoothness and dispatch
The men on whom the chief responsibility
rests are proving themselves to be quite
equal to the task, and. if allowed to pro-
coed without unnecessary Interruptions.
such as the recent investigation" will
complete it in the time set by them-that
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depth will range from 43 to 40 feet. so
That very little excavation will be needed.
The canal course across Gatun lake will
he % miles in length. or more than half
the entire distance from shore to shore.
Along this stretch ships will have the
advantage of open and unrestricted navi-
CATION.
Gatun dam will stretch across the
valley In length approximating one and
a half miles. Its crest will be 135 feet
above sea level and from that 1t will
slope down TO 90 feet, the distance from
face to toe being half mile. 1t will be
composed of selected material impervious
to water and reinforced along its front
and back by heavy walls of rock. The
dam Will exert weight upon its founda-
tons of one ton to every 10 feet OF
height. so that under the crest the pres
sure Will be nearly seven tons TO the
square foot. The safety of such a struc-
ture depends upon its composition and
the nature of it's foundation. AS to the
former. engineers are inclined to think
that unnecessary trouble Is being taken
In the selection of the material to be used
and that ordinary soil from the excava-
tons would answer the purpose adequate
ly. Sand and clay in fluid state will be
pumped In between the rock walls and
when the water drains of will leave d
compact mass proof against seepage.
The substructure of the dam site has
been thoroughly ascertained. 1t is ques-
tionable whether any area OF the same
extent has ever been subjected to such
careful and extensive tests. The first
borings were made about five years ago
in connection with Investigations relating
TO a sea level waterway. The behring's
have been practically continuous ever
since and number many hundreds seat
tered all over the ground TO be covered
by the dam. In addition several test pits
have been sunk on the site to a depth OF
100 feet or more. which Is about half the
distance down reached by the borings.
The engineers know the character Of the
strata underlying the site of the dam as
well as they do that exposed on the
naked hillside in the CMebra cut The
dam will rest on watertight clay and the
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Exz2vaIo1 zar
ezsNz2wU &IN7

DAM Will Fill the Gap in
Il the Hills Inclosing the
Valley of the Chagres-Care-
full and Extensive Tests Made
To Be Supported Front and
Back With Walls of Rock
Only Reason for Appoint
ment of Special Corps of Con-
sulting Engineers, and Mr..
Taft's Trip to Panama Was
to Restore Public Confidence
in the Undertaking - Men
Now in Charge of the Ac-
tual Work Understand Their
Business.
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BY IRWIN s. COBB.

HELP me, never
again. said the
Hotel Clerk weari-
~ as he came in
about 10, wearing
h s graniteware
shirt. his pearl
studs and the rest
of his after-8-
o'clock clothes.
w h ere you
been?" asked the
House Detective.
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interest and apprehension OF the public.
The criticism and suspicious that have
,een directed against the great dam can
,nly be accounted for by the fact that 1t
the key to the whole plan and the
most essential feature of 1t. Any dis
.redit that can be cast upon II affects
he entire lock level project, and so the
opponents Of the canal concentrate their
attacks on what they consider the most
vulnerable quarter. The average indtvid-
,ai. lacking technical knowledge of the
;ubject. is prone TO accept these stric-
lures. To him the mere size of the huge
mound involves a menace. But this Is
mistaken view. AS matter of fact, a
considerable degree of Its safety lies In
IL enormous bulk and weight.
The Gatun dam will AL the gap in the
Hills inciosing the Valley OF the Chagres.
through which that river passes on it's
way TO the Atlantic ocean. The obstruc-
ION Of It's course will force the stream
md Its tributaries to empty on the upper
tide OF the dam and to form a lake about
90 miles In extent. The water In this
immense reservoir will stand at an eleva-
DON OF IS feet above sea level and its
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-11
IOWA $50 STRONG.

s. Members of the Iowa delegation
numbering $50, were led by Mike Nc
Donald :. Il ran away from home II
wears ago TO go to the war" said the
proud old commander. and Il got
plenty of fighting and then some. but
{today5I am proud 10 say am leading
the finest body of men in the world. :
3 There We're 60 members in the
company, headed by Lyman
Banks. In this delegation was S. J..
Robertson of Fort Dodge, He was
Ia rnong the scouts under Capt, Yeomaa
and was one of the men who par
{ticipated IN the capture of jeff Davis,
For this service the government gave
hin, the sum of 1915 and handsome
medal
The famous Cook drum corps, with
a membership of 10. from Denver
formed behind the Michiganders and
then came $50 from Kansas. Comman-
der joel n sRickel leading and all
the past commanders mounted on
horses. John w. sWinSate led the
Colorado Wyoming soldiers and there
were 400 of them. Twenty five from
Idaho in. charge of u w. Shields.
Mingled with the soldiers was an old
fcolored man named It. y. Dtckerson
who saw active service and was in
tho fight on Lookout mountain
He was with the Twelfth regiment. l.
company, heavy artillery of Kentucky.
He IS a member of the Colorado dele
cation led by Judge j. G. Denny OF.
Cripple Creek Judge Denny met to-
day for the first time since he was;
mustered out in 1866 his first sergeant,
w. Taylor, residing at 551 south
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N s. 81
women whose pleasant task was to,
tserse coffee and sandwiches and cool
drinks to already tired old soldiers.
Il Following the musicians came car
riages with prominent citizens and c.
A. r. officials. N 81
IS The first Departmental form and get
into line from State street was New
York, 500 strong, headed by the Park
City hand. The department was in
command of NJ. j.. Cummings. Penn
S3sylvania followed with T, Mahon in
command and then came Illinois, 500,
lied by Department Commander Charles
HI Partridge II. f. Grinnell led 100
Wisconsin heroes.
& In the New York department there
were 20 members of Young's post of
Amsterdam, N. Y, whose expenses
We're paid by Hon Steven Sanford,
Nebraska, in command of L. ". Rich
ards, was 800 strong.
FL Rhode Island had IL in line led by
g. ellison. and following this COM
mand came the Ladies G. A r, band
5Of Utah, attired in handsome uni
forms
The Caiifornia-Nevada delegation,
numbering 200, made an attractive
appearance The command was in
charge of w. S. Daubenspeck, The
Michigan delegation proudly exhibited
"a rooster in a box and which was
claimed to have been captured
by the Fourth Michigan cavalry. In
diana was there with 100 members led
|5sby o. A SomerS.
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EVERYBODY CAME
TO SEE THE DOINGS

Z w
Many hours before the big parade
ttie=orowds from the country began TO
find their way to the city Every con-
Eceiyable sort of Il conveyance was
pressed into service to carry the anx-
ious sishtseers to points OF vantage
along the line of march One of these
presented the elevation of n vast hay
rack. decorated with flags and bunting,
with the bottom covered with straw FOR.
seats for the occupants. Another mot
ley crowd Was being drawn into town
on an antiduated equipage behind a
horse and a mule for q team But no
matter: they saw the parade, and thar
was what they came for.
People from all parts OF the city came
In street cars as far IS that was pos
sible. The cars all stopped block
from Main street and the people, many
OF whom had baby carriages. came In
TO Main from all sections. The police
Officers along the line of march COM
PEELED all baby carriages to he removed
from the streets 10 the sidewalks. e;ius-
ing considera bic Stir among the crowds
in the walks. Those Who came In from
the country as a general thing hrougflt
their lunch along. Sand many n pack
age of inoiasses cake and bacon were
produced on the street for the satisfac-
ton of tho furnished inner man after
Watching. the big parade for more than
two hours. 1t VAS a great crowd and
one the Ike of which Salt Lake vii! not
in long time see again.
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FIRST TARIFF
SQUABBLEs is OVER ZINC

Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. ia tariff
law issue has arisen in Kansas city
over a consignment Of 81 car loads of
zinc ore that reached here from Mexico
yesterday.
The shipments crossed the Mexican
frontier five hours before the tariff bill
was signed by President Taft The
importers claim that it should ba adj
nlitted' free. as the Dingley law called
for no duty.
C. w. Clarke, surveyor of the pore
here. declares he has no official knowl-
edge of the presence fGtl1e ore in this
country until the law had become oper-
alive and demands Il duty of one cent
pound
ton.