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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
BATTLE AGAINST
WHITE SLAVERY
Committee of Fourteen Is Try
ing To Break Up Vice
BONDING COMPANY SCORED
Only One Bonding Concern Is Found
That Stands Security for the
Raines Law Hotels in
New York.

New York, January 1.-lSpecial.) An
other battle against white slavery in New
York city will be begun next week by
the committee of fourteen, which is COM
posed of men and women already we'll
known for their activity In civic and So
cial reforms. The committee Is to hold a
special meeting within the next few days
to decide on legislation for closing un-
lawful resorts where liquor is sold.
At its conference the committee will
consider a plan to break up a bonding
monopoly which took advantage of the
anti-Ra:nes law hotel crusade of the four
teen last year to force the dives to pay
an additional tribute of nearly $4,000
The men behind this monopoly are the
directors of the Bankers Surety company
of Cleveland.
Again and again the Rev. Dr. John P.
Peters, chairman of the fourteen, ap-
pealed to the directors there to abandon
the business of bonding New York dives
for extortionate sums, but in vain.
The story OF how a group of lawyers
and financiers. holding high social and
business positions in distant city, reaped
a rich harvest from bonding vice in New
York is now made public for the first
time.
For the purpose Of shutting the doors
Of drinking resorts freqnented BY GER
tain men and women the fourteen drew up
a blacklist of about 800 hotels, cafes and
restaurants. 1t asked all the surety COM
panies not to bond the blacklisted re-
sorts. At first all agreed to the request.
Then suddenly a few days before October
1, 1903. the beginning of the excise war;
the Bankers Surety broke away and be-
gan bonding the dives. Its agent. James
Maginnty, gave as an excuse that small
Scranton company was after that kind
of business.
The Scranton company, soon after DR..
Peters appealed to the officials to refuse
to take the money from the divekeepers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
LOSES SPEECH.
Augers III for the Opponents Of the
Budget.

London, January 1.-(Special.)- AT a re-
cent political dinner, an unusual incident
occurred which to superstitious persons
augers i'll for the opponents of the bud
get.
Sir Herewald was making vigorous
speech, attacking the financial policy OF
the government, when he suddenly lost
the power of speech He remained stand
ing looking hxedly before him, for sew
eral minutes, and then overcome by
faintness, he was assisted to his seat.
After an interval he endeavored to re-
sumo his speech, but he was again over
come, and walked from the room. A doc
tor was summoned, and under his care
Sir Herewald seemed to recover.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Lees Granddaughter WEEDS.

London, January 1.-(Special,)- 1.-THE
English church and the Confederate army
were brought together by the wedding of
Aurel Lee, the actress. to Frederick Will
liam Lloyd, which took place in Christ
church, Mayfair yesterday. The bride
is the daughter of Robert Edward Lee
of Virginia and the granddaughter of
Gen. Robert e. Lee, commander in chief
of the Confederate army. The bride
groom is the nephew of the bishop of
New Castle. The guests at the wedding
included the Duke of Abercorn, Lord
Howard Dewalden and many other cele-
brated persons.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
BARRETT PLANS TO
KEEP Up FIGHT

Atlanta, Ca, January Ito wage an
organized and determined fight" against
the methods of dealing In cotton IN vogue
at the New York cotton exchange. Pres
ident Charles B. Barrett Of the National
Farmers Union, has issued a call for
meeting of the officers and leading MEM
bers of the union to take place in Wash
ing during the present month.
In the call Mr.. Barrett announced the
determination of representative TO re-
main In Washington until congress takes
some definite action In the matter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Mercer Student Suicides.

Lawrenceville. Ga, January 1.-(Spe-
cial. ED Freeman, former Mercer
student, who had been typhoid fe-
yer patient, committed suicide today
at the residence of his father, at Da-
culah, Ga. He was In his room alone
when he shot himself. His brother,
DR.. Ralph Freeman, found him lying in
pool of blood. He was the son Of
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Freeman, we'll
known in this county, and had several
brothers and sisters.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Burned With Acid.

London, January IA woman, be-
lieved to be suffragette, attempted TO
destroy a quantity of campaign lftera-
ture at the political headquarters OF
john Burns, at Battersea. with acid
today, and the clerk in charge was Sc
riouslv burned about the face and
hands by the acid before he could pre-
vent her design.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Kills Wife and Himself.

Pittsburg, Pa, January Winfield
Gibson, aged 40 years. of Munhall, a
suburb of Pittsburg, tonight shot and
killed his wife, seriously wounded a
son, fired three shots at his fleeing
daughter, and then sent bullet into
his brain, dying instantly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Hoppe VIII Play sutton.

Chicago, January 1.-George Sutton.
holder Of the worlds 1871 balk line billiard
championship, and Willie Hoppe were
matched here today to play for the title
in Chicago next March. The men will
play 1900 points under the revised rules
for the diamond emblem.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
prIsoner Suicides With Razor.

Paterson, N. j.. January 1,-Complain-
ing that it hurt to have the county Jail
barber shave him. julius Mortleighem in
duced the barber to give him the razor
today. The prisoner. who was In custody
for shooting his mother-in-law, prompt
" cut his throat and died.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Marble Plant Burned.

Atlanta, January 1.-The plant of the
Kennesaw Marble company, located at
Marietta, 20 miles from this city, was
destroyed by fire this afternoon. The loss
is estimated at $4,000 partly covered by
insurance. The plant was located some
distance outside of the town and was
without fire protection.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Cjncinnatl's New Mayor.

Cincinnati, January DIR. Louis
Schwab, elected mayor of Cincinnati at
the November election, took the oath
of office today. Retiring Mayor John
Calvin administered the oath, after
which he himself was sworn in as vice
mayor and president of council.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Divorce Is Granted.

Boulder, Col, January 1.-Jessamy
Harte-Steele, daughter of Bret Harte,
was today granted divorce from Henry
Milford Steele, formerly prominent in
Denver financial circles, and given the
right to assume her maiden name. Steele
charged his wife with desertion. Counter
accusations of extreme cruelty were fled
by Mrs. Steele. Judge Ingram sustained
the allegations of this cross-complaint.
Mrs. Steeles evidence was presented in
a deposition made at Yonkers. n. Y.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Trask Funeral Arrangements.

Saratoga. N. Y, January 1.-The fu-
neral of Spencer Trask, the New York
banker, who was killed at Croton yes
terday in train wreck, will be held
here Monday morning at the Bethea
Episcopal church. The body will be
taken to Troy for cremation and the
ashes will be inferred in the Trask
family plot in Greenwood cemetery, in
Brooklyn.
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
viii Make Good Soldiers.

without exception the Americans men,
toned in this dispatch declare that tho
Nicaraguan natives have in them the
making OF soldiers the peer of any They
can live on almost nothing and they can
carry the burdens OF Chinese coolie
through country which would put the
average coolie, hardy as he is, out of
commission. And they do not finch at
hand to hand combat. Greater discipline
in concerted movements and rifle prac-
tice are all that Is needed. AS It Is they
are prone to over-excltement and conse-
quent bad shooting. To the fact that
most of the firing. was done at close range
when they ran into each other in tho
brush is due the large number Of CASUAL
ties now reported-600 dead and an equal
number wounded on both sides.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-03
WAITING ROOM.
| GENERAL WEW.

South Africa, England and America
and who now are doubtless looking TOT
other subterranean regions to conquer.
All the excitement was taken out OF
one novices visit back of tunnel
shield by finding Tom Brown, the old
est foreman on the contractors stan
seated on a pile of river bed silt grave
ly squeezing mud balls for the pur-
pose OF finding how much water the
sand carried at that spot. That moth
ing but the air pressure kept the whole
of the river from descending on his
head worried him not the least.
But the dangers of the work? Dan
gers there We're, or certain FISK OF
| injury, but not enough to worry man
| in good health who observed the rules
| that stared him In the face from every
| wall
| To make it as safe under the bed Of
the river as it is on the lands surface
was the aim Of the Pennsylvania tun-
mel builders The old Hudson river
| tunnel which crosses the Hudson at
Merton street was abandoned at one
time because SO many lives were lost.
The main difficulty was to keep the
| river from coming into the tube and
! drowning the workmen. The air under
| the heavy pressure required to keep
the water from sweeping in sometimes
blew out through the river bottom,
and then the water poured In in such
volume that there was little or no time
for escape.
/ In the Pennsylvania railroad tunnels
the life of the sand hog was almost
i as safe as that of the surface worker.
Emergency locks air curtains and
emergency platforms or walks near the
roof of the tunnel were provided SO
that In case Of a blowout and conse-
quent flooding of the tunnel the men
would have a chance to escape through
the air held in the top of the tunnel.
The most important of the rules en-
forced while the Pennsylvania tunnels
were being built was one requiring the
men to go slowly through the air locks.
The rule was to take a minute for
about two pounds of pressure-tn 9TH
er words, in coming out of pressure
of thirty-four pounds man should
spend not less than fifteen minutes In
the lock. Finding that this rule was
/ ignored, Henry Japp. managing en-
gineer of the contractors who built the
! East river tubes, devised a valve
, which enabled the lock tender to regu-
late the change OF pressure with me-
, chanical exactness.
l Before a man was permitted to wori
: In the underriver tunnels he was put
' through a severe examination for hear
i and lung troubles and general condi-
$ ton. If he passed the medical inspec
I ton he was sent down In the air. fol
v an hour or two and then re-examined
e If the second examination was salts
factorily passed he was put on
short shift for week and then II HI
n showed no Ill effects was given {
e steady job.
e Men of all nationalities built thu
v Pennsylvania tunnels, negroes doing {
g large part of the job. Laziness wa!
: something the contractors never had t
: contend with. They say there must b.
v something about the compressed al
n which generates energy and enthusi
/. asm, for the "muckers
n known as sand hogs"--vied with on
t, another to make the greatest progress.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-03

New Jersey, attaining maximum !
depth of ninety-seven feet below mean
high water and built for heavy and
high speed traffic of great volume, was
an undertaking with little or no prece-
dent. To accomplish this work was
most puzzling engineering problem on
account of the soft mud through which
the tunnels were driven under the
Hudson river.
The tunnels or tubes themselves con-
sist of series of iron rings, and the
installation of every ring meant an adj
vance of two and a half feet. Eleven
! plates and key piece at the top COM
| plete the circumference, and an entire
| ring weighs about fifteen tons. The
cast iron plates, or sections Of the
| ring, have fianges at right angles to
/ the surface, and it is through these
| that the successive rings are held to-
/ gether with bolts The record progress
in one day of eight hours was five of
these rings, or twelve and one-half
feet. Hydraulic rams, placed against
the fanges every few inches around
the tube, were used to push forward
the huge shields with which the tun
nels were bored. Each shield weighed
1874 tons. 1t had nine doors in 1T, and
through these came the rock or sand
or silt or whatever the material the
tube penetrated.
If the tunnel project was to be a sue
cess the courses of the east and west
bound shields had to be kept so true
that they would meet exactly. To in
sure this the engineers calculated the
difficulties closely, and really remark
able system of reports was in effect
from the first day work was started.
Every morning they knew the progress
made in the tunnels the day before to
, the very inch and the amount of rock
and soil excavated to the cubic foot
The Pennsylvania railroad officers and
the engineers hold this perfect system
and the thoroughness of each days
work chiefly responsible for the
promptness of the meeting OF the
? tubes. Engineers say, too. that nc
project was ever carried out where
the emphasis was so entirely upon the
: results rather than upon the money ii
cost to attain them.
The shields in the north tube under
the Hudson river met on Sept. IL, 1906
Each had travelled some 1000 fee
: through treacherous river bed, ye
n the meeting was perfect. About {
d month later the shields in the south
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-03

tube met in the same way. To fill In
the gap where the shields met In the
south tube tunnel section that had
been on exhibition at the st. Louis
worlds fair was used. 1t consisted of
eight rings, The shields in the four
East river tunnels met as perfectly as
those in the Hudson tubes, and all
were completed at about the same time.
When the tubes were through from
end to end the work of putting In the
re- enforced concrete lining was started
Immediately, This lining is twenty
two inches thick On each side of the
| tunnel there is so called bench three
| feet wide, which serves as walk.
while within will be carried conduits
for telegraph, telephone. signal and
power wires.
| In the construction of the tunnels
nothing was left undone by the rail-
road company to protect the lives and
health OF the workmen No engineer
ing problem connected with the entire
New York tunnel extension received
more attention than the many precau-
] lions to protect the hundreds of men
who. day and night. week days and
Sundays and holidays bored the under
river tunnels. Down under many
fathoms of mud and rock the stee
tubes which are to land passengers
from the east and west into the heart
OF New York city were pushed steadily
forward with no more waste of time
than II took to change shifts"
Underwater work has a fearsomt
sound--to those who have never seer
1t going on. Talk to men who hav,
been engaged in 1t for years, and on,
gets another idea. There are plent,
who can speak with authority, for tn,
world was searched for men of expe
} rience to build the Pennsylvania tun
nels On the cross town shafts sixt.
j Austrians who got their training ii
: the Simplon tunnel were employed
2 There were engineers and foreme,
E here who had tunneled in Egypt
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-03
l;!5E1!.

the main colonnade, with sculptured
groups above them supporting large
ornamental clocks.
One of the impressive features of the
great waiting room is the window
treatment On each side above the
main body of the building are three
semicircular windows of radius of 33
feet inches and &c feet inches wide
at the base There is also at each end
of the waiting room a window of like
size The high ceiling of the waiting
room is carried above the general roof
| level of the station by a domelike ele-
walton which relieves the building of
any suggestion of squattiness. The in
terror of the waiting room was sug-
gested by the great halls and basilicas
| of Rome, such as the baths of Caracal-
la, Titus and Diocletian and the basilica
of Constantine.
The length of the tracks inside the
station area of twenty-eight acres is
| sixteen miles There are twenty-one
standing tracks in the station. with
eleven passenger platforms.
4 To clear the ground for excavating
i about 500 buildings were removed from
the terminal area, for the site is in the
HlluSl VI ~ lully buill UP SitS dlSlIlCt
Three billion cubic yards of excavatine
were necessary. Streets crossing the
terminal area are carried over by
! bridging In fact the whole area, ex-
/ elusive of the station itself, is simply
t bridged over excavation, SO that the
{ casual observer is unaware of the won
derful weave of trackage underneath.
For the first time when the Penn.
: sylvania trains use the tunnels and tn,
e New York connecting railroad bridg,
a there will be a through service from
v points west and south to New England
$ by way of New York without chang
e of train.
The Pennsylvania railroad in con
structing this great Improvement ha
built not alone for the present, but TO
; the future. Included within a radiu
of nineteen miles from the city hall o
: New York, near the lower end of Man
" haitian Island, there was in 1890 a pop
: ulation of 3,326,99s. BY 1900 it ha
I. grown to 4.612,153 Five years later 1
=, y was 5,404.63S. In ten years 1t had ir
: creased 3S per cent. 1t is estimate
y that by 1913 the population Of this ter
: ritory will be about 100000 people an
y by 1920 approximately 100000.
d Reasons For Improvement.
o The enormous increase of railroa
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-03

traffic in and out Of New York city
within the past twenty years prompted
the Pennsylvania railroad to undertake
and carry to it's successful elimination
this great work The reasons for the
undertaking are thus expressed official
ly:
First.-To provide for the future by
enlarging the present facilities for
freight and passenger traffic because
of the continuous growth in this traf-
fic and to accomplish it before the cost
became almost prohibitive or the task
| impossible because of the construction
Of other underground transportation
| lines.
| Second-To run its passenger trains
into central location in the city of
New York instead of a station on the
west bank of the Hudson river
Third.-To open to the people in the
thickly populated borough of Manhat-
tan the residential sections of Long
err populous towns in New Jersey d.
rect and quick access to the resorts on
Long Island beaches.
! Fourth.-To provide an all rail con-
nection between the south and west or
the one Idilu anu NEW EIilS idllu ttHt
the east on the other
4 Fifth.-To give the boroughs Of
Brooklyn and Queens, with their popu-
lation of over 100000 direct railroad
connections to and from the New Eng
land, southern and western states ano
to supply freight facilities with similar
connections in these boroughs, thereb,
properly serving the entire area o
, Greater New York through freight sta
tions suitably located to develop it
commercial interests.
Sixth.-To provide additional freigh
, facilities and shorten the water trans
portation trip for the New England
: traffic across New York harbor iron
) about twelve miles to three and four
r tenths miles
5 Seventh.-To make it's Long islam
( railroad investment remunerative with
in comparatively short period.
: Eighth,-To obtain a proper share O
l the golden future by judicious expendt
I lures in territory having abundan
: promise, whether viewed from tn
growth of traffic in the past or the out
: look for the future.
j How the Tunnels Were Built
The construction of the Pennsylva
MIA railroad tunnels under the Mort
j and East rivers into New York an
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SOME FIGURES SHOWING MILE
AGE AND CAPACITY OF
IMPROVEMENTS:

Maximum capacity of all tunnels per hour.
IA trains.
Storage capacity of station yard tracks. $50
cars.
Proposed initial daily service of Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad trains, 400.
Proposed initial daily service of Long Island
Railroad trains, 600
Length of river tube tunnels, single track
miles, 6.S.
Length of land tunnels, single track miles,
6.8.
Length of run, Bergen Portal to Long Island
Portal, 5.3 miles.
Total length of track in tunnels, exclusive
of yard tracks in station, l6.5 miles.
Length of run, Harrison, N. j., to ter
minal station, SO miles.
Length of run, Jamaica, L. l.. to terminal
station, II IS miles.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-06
Thornton News of Interest.

Special to I1meS-RepuDllcan.
Thornton, Sept. 6--The high school
students and other young people of our
community are quite we'll distributed
over the state. Eva Chase, Edna and
Eva Hopley are at Story City. Lora
Parish is at Tolands, Mason City; Ell
mer Moore is in the high school there
and Ha rriet Patterson and Nina F'anr-
ham will enter Morningside College next
week Ella Bowen and Eta Hansen
will teach school south of town. Cora
Hemming Is at Plymouth studying
art and painting.
Sunday at the Peter Petersen grove
and had a picnic dinner.
Mrs. J. L. James returned Saturday
night from her trip in Colorado.
Mr.. Nesbit. vino purchased the
George Allen farm, was here last week
looking over the place and picked out
a building spot. He will erect a fine
residence on the place in the near flu
ture.
Two cases Of diphtheria are reported
at the Maurice F'loy home, southwest
Of here
Mr.. and Mrs William Watson last
week were called upon to part with
their 9-nlonths-old baby. This is the
third death in this family.
Rev. Mr. Walker will preach his
farewell sermon next Sunday and de-
part the first Of the week for Spencer
to attend the annual conference. He