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running the length of the vessel, to which
were attached endless ropes. BY referring
to figure 2 the buoyant chambers may be
seen inflated. Lincoln said:
THE tops Of the chamber may be made
Of plank or metal of suitable stiffness and
the flexible sides and ends of the chamber
may be composed of india rubber cloth
or other suitable waterproof fabric Sc
curely united to the edges and ends Of tops
and bottoms of the chambers
Just how far mechanics, steam contriv-
ances and electrical appliances had ad-
vanced at that date can be CLEANED from
the simple statement made by Lincoln in
his own handwriting that the main shaft
which would expand the air chambers
could be turned in one direction to open
them up and in the opposite direction
to deflate them, and that these operations
could be done either by hand power
or by steam power applied in some con-
venient way"
Lincoln desired to make his patent a
very broad one. covering the proposed de-
vice as it might later be applied to every
known manner of vessel, whether sail or
steam. He allowed for differences In the
hulls of all sorts Of ships, and he did 1t
in this way. referring to the mechanical
drawings
IT do not intend to limit myself to any
particular mechanical arrangement in
combining expansible buoyant chambers
with vessel, but shall vary the same as
I may deem expedient. whilst attain the
same ends by substantially the same
means.
What claim as my invention and de-
sire to secure by letters patent Is the
combination Of expansible buoyaflt cham
bers placed at the sides of vessel with
the main shaft or shafts Co by means OF
sliding spars or shafts CD which pass
through the buoyant chambers and are
made fast to their bottoms and the
series of ropes and pulleys or their equiva-
Tents in such a manner that by turning
the main shaft or shafts in one direction
the buoyant chambers will be forced
downward into the water and at the same
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To be flung over telegraph pole Bris-
tows men worked their way to the negro
and by steadily pushing him ahead forced
him next the open doorway OF bullding'
into which he was suddenly hauled
Brstow brandishing a penknife and hold
ing the door. Thus the black man was
saved and it was later proved not only
that he was innocent. but that the crime
itself was a; myth.
The young editor next bought a daily
at Ottawa and became private secretary
to the governor Soon he was secretary
Of his party's state central committee
and was ferreting out the lottery frauds
in Kansas, which exposures resulted in
the overthrow of the populist admins
tration. Mckinley now heard of him
and appointed him fourth assistant post
master general Three years later came
rumors of the extensive postal frauds in
Cuba, and Bristow was set to work to
ferret them out. Without favor to
friend or fear Of foe he traced the guilt
to high officials and landed the culprits
in jail. while powerful political influence
pust him. Forty inspectors were at
work under him in this undertaking,
WHICH nearly lost him his sight. For
some time he had to have all Of his cor
reSpOnOence read TO MIN. pressure was
brought to bear upon Roosevelt to oust
him, but the strenuous President found
Bristow to be a man after his own
heart.
He placed all Of the post Office in
spectors directly under Bristow and in
trusted him with g. renovation of the
department, which landed more men in
the penitentiary. In 1905 Roosevelt made
him special commissioner to untangle the
Panama railroad snarl and since his re-
turn home his neighbors have been boom
ing him for the Senate. After all OF
this strenuous career he is now but
forty-seven.
Another Of these precocious youths wa.
Albert B. Cummins. who as successor tC
the late William B. Allison now come:
as new senator from Iowa, where he ha!
made a national reputation as the voice
Of the Iowa idea" of tariff reduction OF
monopolized products: He was earning
good wages as a carpenter when only
twelve. That was back in Pennsylvania
and he learned the trade from his father
who still lives at the age Of eighty-six
Before he was twenty-three young Cum
minis had worked his way through col
lege, then served successfully as clerk
express messenger, self-taught surveyo
and chief engineer of two railways. A
twenty-three. however, this prodigy en-
tered Chicago law office and soon afte
being admitted to the bar went to De
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,Cepyrient. 1eos by John Elfrerh watkins)
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there is so little demand for them that
only the commissioner of patents the
chief clerk and one or two others in the
great force employed there know where
10 md them.
Lncoln's patent papers would not gain
him much today. His specifications in
some instances were almost generaliza-
tions. annd the present day keen-eyed
examiners would send them back to
Springfield. ILL.,. with curt note asking
the inventor to be more explicit.
In brief, Lncoln's idea was to attach
beIlows-like compartments to the outside
of vessels and expand them when 1t be-
came necessary by means of long shaft
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any, ILL.,, he came into the world father
less. his mother being widow but three
days when he arrived TO compensate Tor
her loss. She sent him to the district
school and to college. where he made such
reputation as an orator that he was
enlisted as a spellbnder for the Blaine
campaign in 1894. He was then but
twenty-one. Then he read law in Chi
cago. but got the far western fever and
moved to Washington just before its ad-
mission. He got a job in a real estate
Office, which kept him and his young wife
going until he could start law practice.
Since that of Blaine he has been an ora
tor in every campaign. He has been
representative at large from Washington
for the past ten years.
There Is one other new seantOr from the
Pacific slope-George E. Chamberlain. who
has been democratic governor Of Oregon
for the past six years and who resigns
with two years still coming to him on his
last term. He is a southerner. born in
Natchez and educated at Washington and
Lee University. Immediately after gradu-
alton he hiked out to Oregon, going to
the legislature at twenty-six, becoming
district attorney at thirty. attorney gen.
trict attorney again. and then governor.
He was fifty-four New Year day. His
election to the Senate has been one Of the
great anomalies Of American politics, the
people having chosen him by direct vote
and the republican legislature being COM
PEELED to elect him, instead of a man OF
their own faith. Thus has the demo.
cratic legislature Of Kentucky sent a re-
publican to the Senate. and the Tepubli-
can legislature of Oregon a democrat
and thus are the political accounts Of the
two parties balanced.
North Dakota's new senator, Martin
l. johnson. was born hfty-nine years ags
in Wisconsin, whence he was carried tt
Iowa when an infant in arms, and after
being graduated at the state university
there he was schoolmaster two years
in California. Then he returned to Iowa
studied law and served q term In both
houses Of the legislature Next he pulled
out for Dakota territory, took up a
homestead claim. tackled up his shingle
and got right into politics, becoming
district attorney for two terms and rep
resentative in Congress for four terms
South Dakota and Florida give their
new togas to ex-governors. Coe Isaac
Crawford. sent by the former state. is
one more OF these many Iowa products
After studying Latin and mathematics
under private tutors, and graduating in
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ings began to take their place. short
while ago Congress had the models taken
to the Smithsonian Institution; and the
little one that Lincoln made to illustrate
his invention is there now, kept care
fully locked in a case Of its own.
IIincolns claim that "buoyant cham
bers'' for vessels were new and hitherto
unknown must have been true, for the
books of the patent Office show that May
D. 1S49, patent number 6469 was grantee
him Copies of the mechanical drawings
in connection with the patent, which Lin
coin refers to all through the six hand
written pages of specifications, are sold
to the public for ) cents apiece, but
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W. L. JONES.

an academic education got early into
politics. being elected to the Legislature
when only twenty-six and elevated To
the state senate when thirty-one. Next
he became state inspector OF finance and
finally governor. That was back In 'ao.
He is the oldest Of this years new mem
bers of the upper house.
Hughes built up his big fortune In the
great southwest, and, like the many other
millionaires Of that prolific section. is a
self-made man. He was a country boy.
born on q farm out in Caldwell county.
Mo. although a Virginian by descent.
When a youth he used to shoot prairie
chickens on the site of the present Troost
Park. Kansas City. which was then a
town of only 1900 people. Then he
went to school at Richmond. No. where
he fell in love with the girl whom he
afterward married. Next. after taking a
year Of law at the state university, he
went to Denver and finished in the Office
of his uncle, Gen. Bella NJ. Hughes. one
OF the Denver pioneers. who had built up
large mining practice back In tho
sixties. When his uncle died young
Hughes succeeded to the practice, which
he made the largest in the state. and
so highly was he esteemed as an au-
thorty on his speciality that Harvard
gave him the chair Of mining law six
years ago. He is a slender blond. fifty
six years old and slightly lame He
succeeds the venerable Henry NJ. Teller.
who declined reelection, after repre-
1t became state, save only for the
three years that he was Secretary OF
the Interior
BY far the most widely known OF all
these new senators is Elhu Root, sue
cessor to Thomas c. Platt of New York.
Forty-four years after he began his career
as a schoolmaster up in New York state
Mr. Root now at the age of sfxty-four.
enters the Senate with the reputation or
being a constructive statesman second to
none in America today. While he was In
his thirties President Arthur recognized
his ability by appointing him United
States attorney for the southern district
of New York. the most lucrative berth In
the gift of the administration. Less than
a decade after leaving this office he was
the leading legal factor in the revamping
of the New York constitution. for he was
chairman Of the conventions judiciary
committee And since then, as Secretary
of War and of State. he has remodeled
the army, has laid the groundwork for
the reconstruction of our insular posses
with six countries. has made arbitration
treaties with twelve nations. has sum
moned Great Britain to trial for forcing
opium upon China and has concluded a
peace pact with the mikado. And in
between these frequent periods OF public
service this son OF a poor college pro-
fessor has managed to accumulate a for
tune from his private law practice. 1t Is
somewhat paradOXical that Mr.. Root re-
signs as premier of the cabinet to become
senator and that Mr.. Knox resigns az
senator to become premier, each feeling
satisfied that, through this exchange or
exalted stations, he has been promoted
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law. he pulled out for the west when
twenty-four. and. like Senator elect
johnson, hung out his shingle in Dakota
territory He also lost no time IN Climb
ing up the political ladder, nrst as coun-
general and governor. He is ffty-one.
Just a year older than Gov. Duncan Up
shaw Fletcher Florida's choice. who
was born in Georgia, where his rather.
Of a Virginia family. was an ante-bel-
l,1m cotton planter and Confederate cap
tain. The senator-elect's mother died
while his father was fighting. and he
was reared by relatives on the planta-
ton He went through Vanderbilt Uni
showed his fitness for political leader
ship. His gift Of oratory Is said to
have been inherited from his paternal
grandfather. Baptist preacher Study
ing law also at Vanderbilt. he covered
two years in one Then he moved to
Jacksonville and built up one Of the
richest practices in the state. He was
elected to the legislature, and was twice
mayor of Jacksonville before being elect
ed governor.
=
A former Hoosier schoolmaster who
studied law after entering Congress Is
Benjamin F. Shively. the man who has
Just flched Indiana's senatorial toga
from the disappointed Mr.. Kern After
teaching four years in Indiana he go'
into Journalism. became greenbacker
and at twenty seven was elected to Con
gress to fill out an unexpired term Dur
ing the following Congress he wen
through law school in Washington. hur
rying home that summer to get anothel
nomination to the national House. He wa
victorious, and sat in Congress for th'
next six years, getting on the ways ant
means committee. Since then. Tor neafl!
twenty years, he has practiced law a
south Pend. having received one nomina
tion for governor and the democratic vot
OF the legislature for senator In 1903 ant
1905
AS the Moses OF the cotton planters o
South Carolina, who in all parts or TN
state has preached to them the doctrln
of holding their product for their owl
prices and controlling the market lnstea'
Of submitting to It. E. D. Smith has wol
his way to the Senate without any pre-
yious record or experience In pubic NE
He is the son of Methodist preacher
the brother of a Methodist bishop and
graduate of Vanderbilt. the Metho
dist university which was the anna mate
also Of Senator-elect Fletcher.
Mr.. Smith is an eloquent orator. and !
is predicted that while in the Senate n
VIII either kill the New York Cotton Elk
change or the exchange will Kill him.
y
Two millionaires among these nev
senator's are Carroll Smalley Page o
Vermont ana Charles James Hughes, jr.
of Colorado. Both are said to be mil
lionaires Page, who Is the largest deale
in green calfskins in the world, wa
born up in Vermont country tow
sixty-six years ago and after securing
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n RADLEY A PHENOMENON OF PRECOCITY-
= UNION SOLDIER AT FOURTEEN; ADMITTED
TO BAR AT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. WHO GAVE
UP MINISTRY FOR POLITICAL REFORM-UN-
LETTERED UNTIL AFTER MARRIAGE-rHOW HE
HALTED A LYNCHING-CUMMINS A CARPEN-
TER AT TWELVE AND CHIEF ENGINEER OF
TWO RAILWAYS BEFORE TWENTY-THREE-
BURTON THE BOY ORACLE OF HIS VILLAGE
YAKIMA" JONEs-CHAMBERLA1N THE YOUNG
EST OF THE LOT-SHIVELY THE HOOSIER
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES THE MOSES OF THE
COTTON PLANTERS-PAGE AND HUGHES, TWO
MILLIONAIRES.
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BOUT every SHduc
of sturdy Ameri-
canism is to be
found in the fifteen
new solons who
will take their
oaths Inauguration
day in the Senate
when that body
meets to await Mr..
Taft's appoi 1 n t.
ments.
The most pic
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y ABRAHAM LINCOLN ONCE PATENTED AN INVENTION

TENT No. $3.50;
granted to A. Lin
coin. Springfield,
ILL.," Thus runs
the record at the
patent office In
Washington, for
be 1t known that
Abraham Lincoln
was once an in
ventor, and the
device which he
patented accord
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-11
SALT LAKERS IN GOTHAM.

for Boston on Tuesday next for a two
days trip to get material for his west
ern history work.
at toduy's services. President VIM
r. DredGe of the East Pennsylvania
conference. was a visitor, having como
| over to attend the New York confer
cnce. Mr., Miles Romney of z. c. NJ. l.
was also present, he having been called
homo from here a short time ago by
i serious Illness In his family, and having
! just returned to finish up his business.
Mr.. and Mrs, Charles w. Meakin and
| their new baby were visitors at church
services. the baby being blessed by
| President Ben E Rich and given the
name of Charles Wolcott Meakn. Tho
\ little youngster is grandson OF Mr.. and
Mrs, John P Meakin and Mr.. and Mrs.
]. L. Eldredgc. all of Salt Lake City:
he is certainly n great credit to the
houses of Pratt and Mcakin. Mr.
Meakin Is just arrived from the west.
where he has been managing the "Pn-
risian Model" company. and is already
engaged on another trip for the road
Friday evening Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Goulding entertained n few of their
friends at their new home on upper
Broadway, music being the principal
amusement OF the evening, Mrs. Could
Ing and Mr. Easton singing several
duets. while each rendered solos in their
own delightful way.
Mr.. William Mickey has accepted a
part in '"fhe Girl from Rectors." and
Is busy rchearsing for 1t: he may also
take part in the Ferguson matinee,
which comes off at the Waldorf Dec.
II; Mrs. Mickey Is still in Chicago |
with her aunt
Mr. Hamilton Park, now with the |
Morrison Faust" company, Is PLAYING |
in Paterson. n. j., the coming week,
and later goes on to Boston Mr.. Park
was at church services today
The six-day bicycle race is on at
Madison Square Garden. and the Nor
mon team Is headed by liver Lawson
and Walter de Mara, This years race
IS the biggest known, II teams having
and the Garden IS packed day
and night,
At the Park Avenue hotel Mr. F. Irv-
ing OF salt Lake Is registered
Conference sessions. which began at
IL O'Clock today in Newark o'clock
at Hawthorne hall In New York, and
i'"o p m at Brooklyn. were largely at
tended In all three places. President
Rich called on the elders of the mission,
each giving few minutes talk. There
was an abundance of singing: Frank
Foster in sacred song. Miss Elma
Young, soloist, and the new quartet
we are all rejoicing in. Mrs Beal. Miss
Elma Young and Elders Dinwoody and
lSeatie; these, with r. c. E,nston, ma
King up musical program of excel
lent merit. and combined with the fine
sermon Of President Rich at the close.
in making an afternoon of real pleas
ure to all. JANET
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-11

Another hardy old timer in the pony
express business was Harry Richard
son, who rode on the western slope
through country infested with hos
tiles.
The pony express mail service was
established in 1860 to run between st.
Joseph, Mo, and San Francisco, In
those days the greater part Of the mail
between the east and west was sent to
Panama, but as 1t took % days for a
letter to go from New York to San
Francisco by this route, the demand
for more rapid mail service led to the
establishment of n pony express. The
trst pony express left on April 8. 1860.
st, Joseph and San Francisco, between
which places the schedule allowed
eight days, The system was rather
elaborate. There were 100 sthtions.
200 station keepers, 200 assistant sta
tion-keeDers, so riders and 500 horses
The company charged at first IS for
each half-ounce carried. but later this
tariff was cut In half. The most
notable feat in the annals of the serv-
ice was the delivery of President Lin
coins inaugural address. when the trip
between st. Joseph and Sacramento. a
distance of 1850 miles. was made in
seven days and II hours.-Rochestcr
Post-Express.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-11
THE PONY EXPRESS
MAIL SERVICE

Recalling the ride of so miles in nine
hours made by General Miles and the
recent 9S-mile ride in II hours, made by
President Roosevelt, the Nevada Min
ing News says that the real horse
back riders of America were the men
Of the pony express. who rode between
the Mississippi and the Pacific slope.
According to The News the two most
famous pony riders were Johnny Moore
and Bill Cody buffalo BID, with the
record for the most wonderful per-
Torrance in pony express annals held
by the latter. Cody's daily ride was
from Red Butte. on the Platte. to Three
Crossings, on the Sweetwater. and his
schedule required him to ride Is miles
an hour. through a country filled with
hostile Indians, Cody once rode from
Three Crossings to Red Butte and,
there being no rider at the latter place
TO take the budget, he continued on
for another So miles, and then rode
back to Three Crossings. covering a
total distance of 800 miles on schedule
time and without being out of tho
saddle except to change mounts. The
second best record In the history of
the pony express is a continuous trip
of $50 miles in II hours and 40 minutes.
Another famous rider of the pony eX-
press was Sam Hamilton, whose Sched-
ule required him to ride between Sac
ramcnto and Fort Churchill, distance
of lS5 miles, In 10 hours and 20 minutes.
Part Of this route was over the Sierra
and on the Nevada desert
One of the bravest OF the riders was
Bob Haslam. who rode daily between
Fort Churchill and Smiths Creek, n
distance of 120 miles. The distance was
not remarkable. but the route lay
through a country Swarming with hos
tile Indians. and hardly a day went
by but Haslam experienced miracu-
lous escape from death or capture. In
deed, the soldiers at Fort Churchill
used to make a book on the chances
of Haslam coming out alive, Just as
gamblers make a book on horse races.
1t Is related that Haslam used fire.
quently to bet against himself. and
doubtless he was disappointed, when
he arrived at the fort safe and sound
and was obliged to settle his losses.
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DIDN'T NEED A SELECTION

A Kansas man tells of a music hall
In a town of that state which bore the
unenVtaible reputation of possessing
absolutely the worst band anywhere.
On one occasion a "headlner" from
Chicago had been promised by the
management for a turn" and conse-
quently the hall was packed to the
doors. When. however. the time had
come for the "headliner' to appear in
stead of that eagerly awaited attrac-
ton the audience was astounded to
see the agitated manager como before
the curtin holding a telegrm In his
hand.
Ladies' and gentlemen" said he, II
very much regret to inform you that
the Great Stewart cannot (hisses and
catcalls) possibly arrive for at least
another half hour. Great applause.)
In the meantime the band will play you
a selection"
At this dead silence followed, which
was finally broken by q man in the
gallery.
"smitty. Smitty," he shriekcd, don't
let the band play. Well be quiet, hon-
est We wtll!'