The Cairo bulletin., 1909-05-29
WATERPROOF JORDAN
Proved to Be a Drug on New
York Market.
Famous River Liquid Poured Into
Gatters-Picturesqu Project OF
Col. Nadaud CT Kentucky
Is Recalled.


New York-Three thousand gallon.
of water from the River Jordan wa,
emptied the other day into the gut
ter along North Moore street out OF
ten enormous casks covered with
Turkish seals. while a crowd of small
boys watched il flow in a turbid stream
into the Greenwich street sewer. No
water. which looked little muddy
and had a slight color
There were no ceremonies while
! part Of the sacred river was flowing
through the gutter down into the
sewer. but later in the day colonel
Col Clin Nadaud of kentucky, sir
dropped into the Mayo & Campbell
warehouse. AT 3S7 Greenwich street.
and asked when the rest OF that Jor-
| dan water would be thrown out.
William II Taylor, secretary of the
| pany, said he didn't know, but that
| the 10 casks that were left were taxi.
, ing up a lot of room and that they'd
have TO be getting them out every
day or two until it was all gone And
| as for those bottles made in the shape
of a cross that the colonel had had
manufactured TO be emptied into the
baptismal fonts OF this country and
Europe, he really didn't know what to
do with them. and they were taking q
lot OF room, too.
The international River Jordan
Company (which was the colonel.
largely Is busted, so the colonel ad
mitted That was one reason why the
water was thrown out The company
was formed in 1905 by the colonel
who then was on Gov Beckhams
STAFF, to import the water and sell It
for baptisms
The colonel, who doesn't look more
than 35 aud once ran for congress ir
Kentucky, had reached the Jordan II
the course OF many wanderines auC
there conceived the scheme to casl
the sacred stream and bottle it here
Everybody told the colonel when h
got back with his idea and broached
TO the people of CuvinEtun that il Wa.
the greatest commercial scheme of tn.
aga-'thcres millions in it: there
millions in it"-only the water mus
be properly attested
Now it was easy enough to take
bottle or barrel down TO the Jordan
and ill II, as the colonel admitted. bn
II wasn't a bit easy to send barrels O
it way without first getting the con
sent Of the recently-deposed Abdu
ilamid and likewise proper proofs fo
selling purposes that you had reall,
gone to the Jordan and not to tht
kitchen tap.
But the colonel wasn't daunted. III
got letters from Secretary Root an,
others here and went to CONSTANT
nople. Even Ambassador LeishmdT
thought II great scheme and secured
an audience Tor the colonel with the
minister OF the interior at the sub
lime porte. The sublime porte gave
him letter to the governor OF Jeru
salem. Then from one official to an
other went the colonel until he
reached the Jordan with a caravan
only 10 find he couldn't buy any cask,
there nor any wagons suitable to take
the water over the mountains Of Judes
to Jerusalem.
Undoubtedly the inhabitants OF |
Jericho still remember the colonel |
Attired In his uniform as a Kentucky |
colonel, he had his picture taken fill |
ing casks at every stage of the iour |
ney to show the people that were 20. |
ing to buy the water for their babies IL |
was the real thing. AS fast as the
water was taken out of the Jordan It |
was boiled in big caldrons. the casks |
were cleansed with disinfectant. arG |
then the boiled water poured into
them in the presence of a great crowd |
in the middle OF which stood the |
colonel In his uniform, while above !
him waved the Turkish and American
flags
Each of the Sc casks was solemnlv
sealed then by the head of the monas-
terry of St John, near the Jordan, the
American consul and Ali Ria, the
Turkish governor Of Jericho.
10 transport the enormous casks
over the mountains to jerusalem sDe.
cial wagons had to be made In an
the caravan comp Sod 10 horses, six
wagons and seven men.
Wherever the casks had to be trans
shipped the colonel was careful to get
a certificate from tho man who did
the work. From Jerusalem the casks
were taken to JaiYa and thence out
in small boats to a steamer, while the
colonel took more pictures of the
crowds and himself as they watched
this Decentralization. Finally. on
Christmas eve. in 1906 the casks
reached New York to be taken to the
whence the water has
flowed.