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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-16
HENAoERs, 81; FIT. DOUGLAS. IL.

The He1ager basketball team defeated
the Fort Douglas company team at the
armory yesterday by a score of 81 to T.
The line-ups:
Fort
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MiSS0ULA FANS
ARE ALSO SHY
lNIissoulian.1

(MlSSOuiIan.l
The proposed intermOuntain league has
received d hard blow in the solar plexus
by the refusal OF the Helena and Great
Falls magnates to entertain any PROPOSE
ton looking toward the membership of
those towns in the league. The promoters
of baseball in both Helena and Great Falls
have looked into the financial details con-
nected with the operation Of the pet prop
ositiOn of Lucas and Grim. and have
failed utterly to see any satisfactory pos
sibility for remunerative returns from
such. circuit as proposed.
The Butte papers early in the week con-
tanned announcements to the effect that
Jack Grim. who is suggested as manager
of the MissOula team should a franchise
be accepted in the intermountain circuit,
left the Copper City for Missoula last sun
dav Grim was hunted for in every cor
ner of the city but If he was In Missoula
at all he remained carefully concealed and
none of the local baseball enthusiasts
could be found who has met the elusive
Grim. 1t is barely possible that Grim ar
rived in Missoula on Sunday night but he
evidently left Immediately. as the Butte
papers are now publishing q story of the
promoters presence in Spokane.
Missoula's attitude toward the inter-
mountain league is not one which would
inspire the belief that this city wants
membership in the league as the proposed
circuit does not appeal to the Garden city
bugs as a feasible one on account of the
excessive mileage tn be covered.
J. D. Miles. president of the Livingston
Baseball association. will be sent to the
meeting In Helena next Tuesday to rep
resent Livingston. and IL is thought that
Livingston will take berth in the state
league.
The LewistoWn fans are raising funds to
SUI port a team in the state league and eX-
pect to have representative at the Hell
ena meeting.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-16
Sox NO. 1 VICTORIOUS,

Sacramento, Cal. March 15-Sacramento
was defeated today by the Chicago White
Sox team No. l, S to 2. Score:
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The LewistoWn fans are raising funds to
SUI port a team in the state league and ex-
pect to have a representative at the Hell
ena meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-21

gentle slopes The soil is volcanic, free
from rocks. easily worked and rich In
the necessary mineral constituents. The
climate is delightful. the mean winter
temperature at Boise being about the
same as that Of Fredericksburg. Va. al
though occasionally the temperature falls
below zero for day or two. The sum-
mers are long and warm and with irriga-
ton promote the most rapid vegetable
growth. The lands produce from five to
seven tons of alfalfa per acre each year.
four to six tons of clover. fifty bushels OF
wheat and seventy-five bushels Of oats
areas of grazing lands. and alfalfa for
winter feeding is always In demand and
brings good prices. But 1t Is for its line
fruit that the section Is becoming famous
throughout the country. the apples pears
and prunes commanding the highest
prices in eastern markets.
X.
The lands under the project have prac-
tically all been filed upon. but many
settlers will be compelled to dispose OF
their excess lands, as no water right Will
be issued for more than 100 acres. II Is
no wonder that these lands are being
rapidly taken up. for the marvellous crop
yields are becoming widely known. In
1904 farmer who was brought up in one
of the humid states In the Mississippi
valley cleared $1,000 from a three-acre
apple orchard and in 1907 the same
orchard gave him a net profit OF $50 per
acre. One neighbor was clearing from
500 to 500 per acre on prune orchard,
while another was growing as high as
eighty-five bushels of wheat per acre
Last year a number OF his friends from
back home moved to Idaho.
The development of power incident to
the irrigation works will be OF vast I'M
portance to the industrial development
of the state. The dam on the Payette
river, which will be ninety feet high. and
we'll backed by storage in the Payette
lakes. will give practically unlimited
power. while the Boise dam, opened to-
day. will probably furnish power Tor
municipal works, electric railways and
industries of various kinds. The COM
pletion Of the project 1t is believed will
result in laying the foundation for such
an Industrial development as probably has
never been paralleed in the country. 1t
means the expenditure in that locality or
millions of dollars in a few years. the
intensive cultivation of 100000 acres or
fine land; it means thousands OF new set
tiers, the doubling Of the population OF
the cities and towns in that portion of the
state, an increased price for all agrlcui-
tural products, better roads, schools and
churches.
But the significance of the celebrate ton
Monday is not purely local In character
The completion Of a unit OF this great
project only marks another milestone in
the development Of the west, and heralds
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head Of this interesting little principality.
which has been established about 600
years. William the Conqueror gave the
duchy to his half brother. In those early
days Cornwall was the principal place in
Europe from which tin was obtained
Even earlier than 600 years ago the Phoe-
nicianS traded to Cornwall from Medi-
terranean ports. exchanging cloth for tin.
The duchy at later period Of its ex-
istence broadened out to include not Only
all of Cornwall, but mine parks, fifty
three manors, ten castles and eighteen
boroughs and towns in various parts OF
southern and western England. This is
how the London property came to be
portion of the duchy.
The duchy enjoys what has been face
tiously called Tin constitution being
ruled differently from any other part OF
the United Kingdom. 1t was. in early
times, divided into '.stanneries," each
stannery sending six members TO a par
Lament belonging exclusively to the
duchy. The stanners' parliament had its
own speaker and passed its own laws In
1888 these bodies were done away with
and the lord warden was vested with
their powers, subservient however to the
Prince of Wales. Occasionally the Duke
of Cornwall. in his official capacity. CON
veneS a council of his warden and Off
Gals, but these meetings are few and far
between. and the only interest the prince
really takes in the property is directed to-
ward the annual balance sheet.
Copyright, 1909. by Curtis BROWN
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Home Chat.
Copyright. 1909. by Estelle KIauder.)

Copyright. 1909. by Estelle Klauder.)
7 ORD NORTHCLIFFE. Eng Iand's
- greatest newspaper man, entered the
publishing field at twenty-four with a
penny weekly called Answers. He fol-
lowed Answers up with Heartsease, Pansy
and other penny weeklies of a similar
type-the type is indicated by the name
Then came Home Chat, a great success
Discussing Home Chat at the recent
Munsey dinner in New York, Lord North
cliffe said:
Il had fears about the name at first
When / mentioned the name to a famous
Liverpool humorist, he frowned and
shook his head
Home Chat--oh. that will never do
said he. Think. Alfred of the unpleasant
topics 1t suggests, Home Chat" Doesn't
1t call to mind string of such phrases as
these:
Are you going to buy me a motor
car or not? Sitting up with a sick friend,
eh--dont you think that story is getting Il
little stale? Jimmy's boots are worn out.
Id love to go abroad next summer. Do
you think I'm made of money: Well.
you needn't expect champagne and pleas
ant on wash day. The Goals all gone.
Mother says she will spend the winter
with us If we put a gas heater in the
spare bedroom. The baker won't wait an
other day"
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cial Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Corresponding or The STAR
NEW YORK, February 30. 1909.
-HE Pennsylvania railroad has COM
pleted the 9Th avenue granite
l. facade Of its New York station.
This will be the main place of entrance
and exit for the public. although there
will be others on 31st street and on Sth
avenue. AS this part of the station will
be the most conspicuous feature of its
exterior aspect. its completion marks d
most important step in the progress OF
this monumental work.
Approximating IN height the Bourse of
Paris. with Roman Doric columns re-
sembling those OF the ellptical colonnade
which partially surrounds the plaza of
ST. Peters in Rome, this great extent of
Milford pink granite which has now been
erected reaches for 43O feet inches be-
tween 31st and 33d streets on 9TH avenue.
Nisibly from Broadway through 32d
street IS the great central pavilion, 102
feet wide and nearly rs feet high. fronted
by a double row of ten columns, each
4 feet inches in diameter and 30 feet
high. Above the columns is an entabla-
ture. surmounted by a stepped parapet
and sculptured group supporting clock
with a dial feet in diameter. The center
of this clock will be on the axial line of
sd street and 81 feet above the sidewalk.
Through this pavilion will be the main
entrance for pedestrians. 1t embraces a
vestibule Al feet by 10 feet In area reach
ing height of nearly 81 feet to the apex
of its vaulted ceiling. Its walls are to be
pilastered and paneled in pink granite
and its entablature carved from the same
material. The pavement OF the VeStlbule
is to be of large blocks of marble laid in
pattern. To the right and left of this YES
tibule will be corridors. containing stairs
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hind these intermediate colonnades Is to
be allotted to shops. the special design
being to have such stores as will sell ar
ticles particularly suited to the needs of
travellers. The front windows of these
shops will be some IL feet behind the col
umns the intermediate pavement being
of marble The shops will be ~ feet deep
and will be lighted in the rear by court
Beyond these colonnades are two other
pavilions, each about GO feet wide.
fronted by double columns and pedi-
ments. Within these pavi.ions are vesti-
carriage drives, which lead to the level
of the general waiting room. the con-
course and baggage rooms These vesti-
bules. and also the inclined carriage
drives. are to be paved with brick laid
in pattern. and the walls will disclose a
granite base with piasters and cornices
of similar material. the fat intermediate
wall being panels of light colored press
ed brick.
Special attention is to be paid to light
ing the colonnades and pavilions. Arts
tically designed posts. sustaining groups
Of electric lights, will emphasize the
three principal entrances. while similar
posts, set some 30 feet apart, will
Back of the colonnades and directly be-
low their coffered ceilings large electric
lamps will be suspended. The central
vestibule will be illuminated by eight
large bronze standards. CARRYING clus-
ters of electric lights. Each of the car
riage drive vestibYles will be lighted by
bracket-like electric fixtures of ample
capacity
In addition to having completed the
9TH avenue facade. the company Is pro-
ceeding as rapidly as possible with the
granite work along the 31st and SD
street sides and the Sth avenue front. as
we'll as with the steel and marble work
and pIastering OF the interior OF the
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semblance to that article owing to the
encruStation of the CRIME of years.
Restrictions as to the number of per-
sons allowed in these houses are OK
tremely elastic, and consequently from
nine to twelve persons per room is
nothing unusual Though only the
very poorest occupy Salutation court,
the rents are extremely high. AS there
are no legal restrictions as to the num-
Der of persons who may occupy the rooms,
the proprietor of d Shanty gets the
rent somehow. Several OF the rooms in
these houses have even double sets of
tenants, that is, those who occupy the
rooms in the day time. and those who
sleep there at night and, of course, for
these excellent conveniences high rents
have to be charged.
Besides Salutation court. another choice
spot on the Prince of Wales Lon
don estate is Cornwall place. Here one
is struck with the peculiar fact that all
the houses face on a little space COM
pletely inclosed by big factories and
woodyards, stacked high with timber.
Gustave Dore would have delighted to
draw Cornwall place as an illustration
for Dantes Inferno. Hosts of anemic
wretched shoeless and almost naked chill
dren play in the filth and garbage that
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occur here Monday, February -
In the presence Of large number of
settlers and residents of the valley the
big headgates Of the newly constructed
government dam in the Boise river will
be opened and the pent-up waters will
gush into the broad canal.
For months the settlers on the south
side OF the project have been watching
with deep interest the progress of work
on this structure, for upon its compile
ton rested their hopes of an early and
abundant supply of water. The dam is
located eight miles southeast of Boise
where the river energies from its cam
yon. 1t is Of cyclopean concrete founded
on compact gravel. The spillway, or
dam proper. is ZIG feet long, 80 feet wide
at the base and 81 feet high Along the
downstream toe of the dam and securely
fastened to 1t is timber apron. This
apron Is 80 feet wide and - feet deep on
the lower side. 1t IS built up of l. by Il
timbers bolted together and the spaces
between the timbers are filled with rock
and gravel At the west end of the spill
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SOME TENANTS OF CORNWALL PLACE

block the entrance to the narrow passage
way leading down into this den of human
misery.
All the so-called buldlngs-or rather
hovels-in Cornwall place are twO-storied
affairs, built more than a hundred years
ago. If possible. they are even in a
worse stage of dilapidation than those
of Salutation court Most of the cot
tages are fronted by little broken down
wooden fences, surrounding patches of
ground that We're once two-by-four gar
dens. Instead Of gardens now, however.
each fence incloses a stone paved space
devoted to the offices of the washtub. On
a cold raw winter day when The Star
correspondent visited this place half-clad
babies were sitting on the stones of these
little inclosed spaces. crying from cold.
Doubtless the royal owner of these dis
reputable slums would plead ignorance OF
the conditions If directly charged with re-
sponsbility, but he is surely not ignorant
of the fact that every year an enormous
fund is poured into his private purse from
the London property belonging to the
duchy Of Cornwall.
BY a curious msapplication of charity
splendid hospital has been raised on
this property at the corner of Waterloo
road and Stamford street. The Prince of
Wales is one Of the patrons of this noble
institution. One of the local doctors-a
county council public health inspector
who recently showed the Star correspon-
dent over the duchy property, said
1T Is all very well for the prince to give
money to the Royal Waterloo Hospital.
but 1t seems to me his first duty should
be directed toward graduating the terrible
evils of the districts which he owns and
which keep the hospital full of patients.
The children brought into the hospital are
usually in a most pitiable condition. The
Prince Of Wales occasionally visits them.
and there is no doubt he sincerely SYM
pathzes with their condition. There is.
however. peculiar blindness which
makes it difficult for one to look behind
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$2p.OoO per annum which his royal high
ness receives simply for being prince or
OF the S1S0,OOO year which his children
receive for having him as their father. o.
or the SoOUO a year which the Princess
of Wales gets for being his wife The
total annual revenue of the Prince of
Wales and his family, including that of
the duchy of Cornwall, comes to the neat
little sum of $1,125, 900 a year
The slums of the Prince of Wales are
just across Waterloo bridge-the famous
Bridge of Signs immortalized by Hood
ana only about ten minutes walk from
the Strand. 1t Is owing to its nearness to
the center or Londons throbbing activity
that this property brings comparatively
nigh rents. though there are peculiar rea-
sons attached to the estate itself which
make 1t even geater money maker than
most other London real estate. Most
OF me LONDON property belonging to the
duchy of Cornwall is what Is known in
England as unrestricted" That is 1t can
De let TO any one, quite regardless of
character Houses are let at exorbitant
rents for the reason that no references
are required, mo questions asked" Rent
is mostly paid in advance. and there is
considerable competition for the houses
Though police raids do occasionally figure
IN the local magistrates court, they are
OF perfunctory nature.
The Duke of Cornwall-or. in other
words, the Prince of Wales-owns
nearly all the houses in this unsavory
nelghbOrhoOd. Out Of fairness to tina
royal house, however, 1t must be men
toned that several Of the houses in the
district are held on long leases. over
which he is said to be unable to exer-
else control. and, therefore, royal re-
spJnsibility does not apply in those
particular cases. On the other hand. it
must not be forgotten that no Prince of
wales has ever raised any strenuous
KICK over the condition of his slum
property or striven seriously to bring
ABOUT change for the better.
Travellers acquainted with such cities
as Naples and Marseille-where the
Sums are said to be practically "the
limit"-say that certain hooks and cor
ners of the Prince of Wales London
property are as bad, If not worse For
instance, there is one spot called Salu-
tation court, which. as a slum, pure
and simple, ranks with the most terri
BILE. 1t is narrow, dingy, dirty, rat-in-
tested and inSanitary. Most of the
houses are two-Storied shanties, built
about 100 years ago. They are totally
destitute of any of those Convent
ences'' which make life worth living.
The rooms are lighted by little square
panes of what appears at one time to
have been glass, but which has lost all
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worst In the world. Eermin-fnfested, dis
ease-ridden and yielding a death rate In
excess Of the rest of the great city, the
houses Of this quarter are totally unit
for human habitation. Their counterparts
would not be countenanced for a moment
in any American city and anything APP
preaching them would be the signal for
a public outcry and would endanger the
life of the government in power Rents
are excessive and in order to obtain them
eight ten and twelve people are crowded
into single rooms. Men. women and
children are proniscuously herded to-
gether.
Out Of these sinks Of human misery the
prince through the duchy of Cornwall re-
ceives yearly income approaching
S35OOOO. The amount was less in former
wears when the district was fairer place
and more suited to human habitation,
but as conditions grew worse, buildings
older and more dilapidated and sunshine
more scarce as the result of the encrOach-
ing of immense factories, rents increased
and the amount OF money Wrung from me
inmates grew by leaps and bounds. Today
It enables its recipient to live in unlimited
luxury. without care In the world, with
q hundred servants to dance attendance
upon him and without the suspicion OF
duties except to submit to being enter
tanned by social climbers" who have
reached the charmed royal circle. or the
greater number who are on the way and
Rave the wherewith to pave the way with
gold.
His gross revenues from the duchy
amounts to the enormous sum of $685., 600
a year. half Of which goes into his private
pocket, and though all of this does not
come from London slums, they materially
help to swell the exchequer. His duchy
of Cornwall revenue is quite outside the
soyernment grant from the civil list Of
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such an enormous rent roll as the prince
enjoys from their misery"
1t is a significant fact that for some
years rents from the district brought in
only about two-thirdS of their present
sum. but when King Edward was Duke
of Cornwall-before the death of Queen
Victoria--he managed the property so well
that he brought it up from 100000 to
SGG0,OO0 year, and sin-e the coronation
rents from the duchy have again jumped
up to S695. 900.
Local housing authorities have frequent
ly called attention to conditions of over
crowd.ng in this district. : For instance,
there are 1874 houses per acre. whereas
sanitary experts claim that fifty-four per
acre should be the limit. Within the area
of about one and half square miles there
are 2OS, 500 people, and the average Eek
pectation of life'' is from eight to sixteen
years shorter than in the healthy section
of London.
In Southwark. where the slum property
of the duchy of Cornwall Is situated, the
death rate is more than 20 per cent.
whereas in Hampstead and the West End
of London generally it averages from
10 to II per cent. Infant mortality here.
according to the London county council
physicians, is something like 219 per
1.COO. while nompally infant mortality in
a healthy residential section is only 81
per 1000.
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EXCELLENT CLOTHES DRIER.
Arms Projecting From All Sides Of
Stovepipe to Support Clothes.

PIE clothes drier for use in the home
where stoves are employed has been de-
Sised by a Chicago man. AS shown in
the illustration below. 1t Is formed of an
adjustable band which encrcles the
stovepipe. The ends Of the band over
lap, being Joined by forcing a wedge
shaped key between projections on the
edges. Numerous arms equal distances
apart project from the arm on which the
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way is a logway four feet lower than the
spillway crest, and just west of the log
way and forming the west abutment of
the dam Is the fish ladder. This is of
concrete. as are the tunnels. which We're
built for the purpose of diverting the
river during the construction of the dam
proper. These tunnels are closed by
two by foot cast iron gates, and will
be used when need arises for sluicing
the silt from the reservoir. The main
canal, with a capacity of LOO second
feet heads at the extreme west end of
the dam, and the water is taken through
eight 3 by 8 foot cast iron controlling
gates. supported by concrete piers and
abutmentS.
AS the big headgates will open and the
life-giving waters gush into the canal,
the scene will be viewed with varying
emotion by the throngs gathered there.
The engineers Will gaze with satisfac-
ton at the beautifully finished structure;
the farmers will see an abundance of
water in their canals, orchards laden
with fruit and enormous yields of grain
and alfalfa. But to the statesmen Will
come visions of a new Idaho. an Idaho
with possibilities unsurpassed by any
state in all the golden west.
They will see home on every forty
acres of the project, d rural population
of not less than $1,000 people. and $4,000
more people living in the cities and towns,
which have been growing by leaps and
bounds since the initiation of the gov
eminent system gave assurance OF an
ample water supply. From conservative
estimates of decade ago on the value of
irrigated land and crops it took no COM
plicated calculation to figure out that
more than $1S,OOO.OOO worth of taxable
property in land values alone will be
added to the wealth OF the state upon the
completion OF the project. and that crops
worth not less than S6.OOO.00O Will be
grown annually. Already new railroad
lines are being built through the agricul-
tural area, new mines are being opened,
and the stock raising industry ncrea sed
Follow the progress of the water taken
from the Boise dam. The canal extends
for twenty-four miles TO a point on Indian
creek above Kuna. This creek then car
ries the water for eight miles, when an