Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-24

Cost Of The person injured OF
Fatal killed in an industrial ac-
Accidents cident is always worker.
an income producer. NO
helpless children, no feeble
old men, no idle women perish In these
disasters SO nearly every work acct
dent leaves a problem of poverty be-
hind. OF the 500 men killed in the
years accidents in Pittsburg. 25S, or
almost one-haif, We're married men
regularly supporting their tamihes
more than 40 children under ID we're
left fatherless by the fatalities of the
year, OF the single men and boys
killed. only 3S per cent were quite with
out dependents. Among the families
Of married men killed. one-half got
from the employer either no oompensa-
ton whatever, or merely FUNERAL eN-
penses Only one-fourth of these fam
lies got more than $500 Among the
families Of single men with dependents,
Sc per cent stood the whole loss and
only IL per cent got more than 800.
The share Of the burden born by en-
ployers as a whole can be batter under
stood from these figures: For the lSs
cases Of married men killed where we
learned both the yearly wages and the
conpensation, the total compensation
was S74,305: the total yearly wages
t109. 262. Thus the total compensation
paid 10 the dependent widows and chill
fONrfhR or their flTSt year = liAcblilf AoNHs
The following figures give some idea OF
what a work fatality means in the
home: Among 1872 families where "A hus-
band and father had been killed, % OF
the widows went 20 work, ~ children
were taken out of school and put 10
work. and 10 families moved to poorer
ouArters-all this within year after
the accident.-The Survey.
\ Vast The teh-inllloh uoiiai
Reservoir government irrigation
Project. project IN Wv ~ 49, 80
600 gallons Of water, and inundate
$50 square miles OF territory, is de-
scribed by L. w. Thavis. in the Octo-
Der number Of Popular Mechanics.
He says:
Having just completed the Roose-
welt dam of the Salt River irrigation
project in Arizona. the greatest en-
cheering feat OF the age, at cost
of nearly $4,000. 900. Uncle sam VIII
now turn his attention toward the con-
struction Of a similar project In New
Mexico II will be a great reservoir
al Engle, connecting two diversion
dams, one located AT Leasburg, and the
other 100 miles north of El Paso,
Tex. The Engle reservoir and Its d.
version dams are intended to harness
the waters OF the Rio Grande river
and be of far greater magnitude than
tho Assuan dam OF the Nile River,
Egypt. now reputed the greatest ir-
rigatlon project I'm the world. me
EngIe reservoir alone will hold twice
as much water as the Nile River pro-
iect. will be 40 miles in length ana
reach an average width of nearly
four miles. varying from three To SIX
miles. In II will be stored approx
matelv $50. 900, 600 gallons or e,O0O' 900
acre feet of water. The entire How OF
the Rio Grande for three years VIII be
reouired 10 FIJI the reservoir. The cost
90 ,be EngIe dam will reach far more
man $4,000, 900 when Completed
4 work The successful "steeple-
Recurring Jack" must possess deter,
Nerve. mlhauoh' PeIsrN eloi' 49, -, -,
Ingenuity He must solve
many a practical problem In hoisuhe
great bodies aloft He must know now
10 fasten a hook over the summit OF
skyscraping chimney. He must nave
the nerve TO paint a steeple that SWAPS
like a pendulum at the slender top,
He must be able to tear down. buiio
up. gild. paint. place electric wires.
and do many another task that would
he dIfficult enough on the solid earth.
There are many ways of getting up on
n steeple. and, when all others fail the
man win tie a rope round u. and then.
with a coil on his back. walk round
and round II until the entire steeple
a. covered with rope; and In such case
hc has probably been round u fuily
three hundred times. But steepiei