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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-18
DESPERATE
SEEN AGAIN

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
COLFAX, Aug. 1S-After keep
ing out of sight several days, the
freckle-faced desperate, appeared
yesterday near Emido, Idaho,
where, at the point of revolver,
he forced settler to feed him.
He had attempted a disguise by
making a beard from bearskin. A
posse is on his trail today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-18

County Commissioner w. H.
Dickson, L. r. Manning and Chas.
Hyde, representing the Tacoma
Chamber of Commerce, left tor
San Francisco today to join the
representatives of seven other
chambers of commerce of the Pa
cific coast on a tour of China for
the purpose of advancing CONNER
cial relations.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-18
REACH SUMMIT
OF MOUNT
TACOMA

After a hard climb OF thirteen
hours a party of seven Tacoma
and Seattle men, guided by Jules
Btampher, reached the summit OF
Mt. Tacoma Tuesday afternoon at
Q o'clock. In the party was Y.
shigematsu, who is a representa-
tive of the Japanese government
studying forestry and numbering
here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-18
AT TILE PANTAGES.

Bob" Fitzsimmons and his
sweet singing wife are the big at
fractions at the Pantages this
week. Singing, bag punching, act
ing and a short talk on the Reno
fight are all combined in Fitz-
simmons act.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-18

Ex-Mayor John w. Linck leaves
for a months visit in the middle
west today. He will attend the
grand aerie of Eagles at st. Louis
August 22 to 81, and the grand
council of Redmen at Toledo, o.,
from September to 9.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-18
At the Stadium.

Under the direction of Olof
Bull, the Tacoma stadium band
will give a scored concert at the
High school stadium Sunday, Aug
ust 81 at 2:45 p. m. There will
be no reserved seats or charge for
admission.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-18
TACOMA ROTAR|AN
ON PEACE MISSION

(By United Press Leased Wire
SEATTLB, Aug. 1S.-H. P.
Pratt, of the Tacoma Rotary club,
was In Seattle last night in the in
terest of the inter-city conference
between Tacoma and Seattle
which will take place next We'd
nesday. Pratt urged harmony in
stead of harmful rivalry between
the two cities.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-18
FIRES RAGING
IN IDAHO

SPOKANE, Aug. 18.-Late re-
ports indicate that the forest fires
In the Clearwater forest reserve,
Idaho, are gaining Roadway.
Fire in the lower district ex-
tends nine miles, while fire ON the
hills extends twenty miles.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-18

F. w. Nyland was placed under
peace bond of $500 yesterday af-
ternon by Judge Arntson follow
ing a complaint by his divorced
wife that he was threatening her
with bodily injury.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-18
AT THE GRAND.

The Fassios Trio, equilibrists of
great excellence, are holding the
boards at the Grand this week.
Several other good numbers make
up an evenly balanced bill.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-18

Judge yesterday yesterday
granted a divorce to Horace G..
Herold from Victoria R. Herold.
Mrs. Herold was granted the Gus
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-18
Little Things That
Happen Around Town

Itody of their child for the first
three years, after which the ia
ther will have charge of it.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-18
SCOTS Studio. Fidelity Bldg. -

Tacoma Ice Cream Co., only ex-
riusive ice cream company in Ia
soma. Phones A2sos: Ma. 2s2o.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-18

DRESS LAWNS-35c Fancy
Lawns, in a wide range of
colors. A snap IN
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NOV THEN, LOOK PLEASANT AND DON
MOVE A MUSCLE! I WANT THIS TO
A GOOD ONE BECAUSE IN GONG I
HAVE IT PUBLISHED IN ALL THE
SUMNER RESORT ADVERTISE nENTS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-01

that is a good deal of job. One hundred
million cubic yards of rock and dirt 10
be exact One can hardly realize the mag
nitude of the work without seeing 1t with
his own eyes.
'The French made a deep, narrow cut
at Culebra and took out some N,Vo,Uo
cubic yards of material When the Amerf-
cans took hold their operations weren't
quite SO spectacular. Before going any
deeper they extended the cut to practically
its full width. That took several years
Then they started down. They won't make
any official statements on the isthmus now
as to any probable dates Of completion
but the unofficial statements-and they are
usually accurate-give only four years
for the entire completion of the Culebra
work And that and the Gatun dam and
lock work are the two points which Will
be finished last.
Between the cut and the Gatun dam
there will have to be little excavation
merely the looping off of few knobs here
and there near the rise of the continental
slope. For the first eight miles in from Ga
tun there will be no digging at all; in and
near Bias Obispo, at the foot of the hills,
the French did a good deal of excavating
which will prove most useful. But for all
of the tWenty-three miles of what Will be
open lake the work is to all intentS FIN
ished The hardest digging here was sim
pier even than the work on several canals
which have been built in the Eastern
States There were a couple of rivers to
control, rivers which would rise higher
than the canal excavations, but It was
only a matter of two or three feet, and
that was simple.
THE key pieces of the whole canal
the dams and locks-the dam and double
flight at MiTaflores, the twin single-lft lock
at Pedro Miguel and. more than both of
these, the great dam and triple flight of
locks at Gatun. The locks throughout the
line of the waterway will be uniform: the
two minor dams are but little out of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-01

ordinary. And so a general description OF
the work and progress at Gatun should give
a fair idea of the whole work.
"Gatun is the Atlantic water gateway OF
the jsthrnus Here 1t is that two or three
good sized rivers--the Chagres and the
GatunciIla and several others-pour In to-
gether and swirl out between two low
living ranges of hills into the Caribbean
Back of Gatun the country spreads out Tor
miles of bog and swamp and soggy morass,
the territory which will form the bed Of
the new lake. Nature could hardly have
designed a better place for a gigantic dam
and spillway and fight of locks.
Across the 1850 feet between those two
low ranges the dam is being thrown-a dam
lis feet high and over third of a mile
thick at it's base-nothing more or less than
big easy hill squarely across the valley
1t is neither the largest nor the most spec
tacular dam ever constructed. but when
you stand there and look 1t over il seems
like q pretty big proposition. That pile Of
rock and earth will have a head of only
IS feet of water against 1t, and that for but
about 800 feet of its length, but it will hold
a lake the area Of which will be over 164
square miles.
Fright in the middle of the valley and,
incidentally, of the dam, rises a small hill
of rock-spillway Hill, they call it, be-
cause here a concrete lined rock cut will
take care of the surplus water which the
rivers pour down during the rainy season.
The spillway Is to have channel 800 reet
wide, designed for a run-off capacity OF
10000 cubic feet a second. That is about
finished: the cut has been completed, the
concrete floor is down and the walls them
selves are well under way.
West of spflIway Hill little work on the
actual dam construction has been done;
that's because there has got to be some
place for the rivers to run until they can
be turned through the spillway itself. But
on the east side a good deal IS going on.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-01
TO Help Lame Ducks

ont Of the next block. Should train fol
lowing attempt 10 go too close, the tripper
will come in contact with a light device
attached to the forward truck of the first
car. and this will automatically put on the
brakes and bring the train TO a standstlll
Have you been able to keep UP the head
way of one minute and forty-eight seconds
prescribed by the latest order OF the PUBIC
Service Commission asked the visitor
Yes, We have. We are doing 1t every
day or practically SO. For instance, to-day
we sent a hundred trains past 4 given
point in the three morning rush hours.
We lost four minutes in the whole period
That means an average loss of less than
two and q half seconds q train. To dc
this we have to adopt q fast schedule
The running time between 95th street, where
the congested district begins, and the
BROOKLYN Bridge, d distance of six and a
half miles. is sixteen minutes This means
a run of twenty-five miles an hour, iuciud-
ing stops.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-01
CLEANED AFTER 1000 MILE RUN.

ITO provide against any accident we
have adopted the system of having the
brakes Of each car and all the mechan-
ism cleaned up after every l,vyj-nllie
run. We have TO do this during the work
ing hours. A man at the 9eth street sta
ton. where the heavy traffic comes in
from tte two branches, keeps what Is
called the mileage sheet showing just how
many miles each car has travelled. 1t is
rnanifestIy impossible for us TO pull a car
ont OF q row OF d couple hundred cars
when they are laid UP for the night. We
therefore take them off service in the day
tim. and get them cleaned thoroughly and
fabricated and put back into service Thus
il Is that We have SO very few accidents
due 90 the failure OF brake to work.
Even supposing the motorman should
not apply the brakes as the signals de-
nand. We are still safeguarded, for we
have the automatic speed control system.
This Is a system of improved block signals
which allows trains 10 come III much more
closely together than they could under the
old systems. Should the InotorInan fail to
amply brakes the train would be stopped
Nv ,he tripper This Is j ContriVance which
rises from The track a. train goes by ana
goes down gan VIXEN. the train passes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-01
HOW TIME is LOST.

Nov, We run mucn faster than that at
tines-even forty miles an hour. If you
have ever stood at the forward end of
train YOU must have remarked at places
along the route a row OF three yellow
lights. That means that there is q curve
ahead. and the train must be slowed down
There are some sharp curves, too. and
this means loss Of time. The time Of
stops at a station is another important ele-
rlent in the making of a schedule or In op-
Grating trains UP TO schedule time With
the addition of more side doors, and the
addition of more automatic starting sig
nails, which We are now installing in side
door trains, we will make even better time
at stations This system consists in Civ
ing the starting signal by an electric flash,
instead of by bell from car TO car for
ward AS soon as the last door is closed
the flash is given and the train starts.
The people could help US. too, if they
would exercise more patience. OF course
everybody wants TO get home or 10 the
office as fast as possible. If they would
only stop and consider that by waiting
few seconds they might get less crowded
train. or that they might get a seat by
walking a lew car lengths, there would bo
less crowding The ordinary express tram
however. is the length Of two city blocks
and many people would rather be crushed
in crowded car than walk block ON
boarding or leaving a train
do you hear complaints that the local
trains leave the stations just as an express
comes in, thus causing people to waltz?
inquired The Tribune representative.
Yes, L have frequently had that com
plant made" replied Mr.. Hedley. I'VE
cannot help that, however We run our
express and local trains on absolutely in
dependent schedules
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-01

the Atlantic division, by dredging through
the swamps and boys Of the coast low
lands On both ends together, however,
between twelve and fourteen dredges are
still at work, some Of them old French
machines and two Of the present suction
form-big ocean steamers, they look like
now in use in New York Harbor.
"a four-niIe breakwater is being thrown
out to one of the small offshore islands,
not on account of storms, for they seldom
blow on this coast and never with any
violence, but to prevent shoaling of the
channel from silt carrying cross currents
That breakwater is we'll toward completion.
'rrhe most peculiar thing of all about
the Pacific end of the canal, as compared
with the Atlantic, is that here the tide has
a daily rise and fall of from twenty to
twenty-five feet, eleven feet above and
eleven feet below mean water. That means
nothing, as far a lock canal is con-
cerned. except that the 5o0-foot channel
will be given a depth four feet greater
than that of the Atlantic entrance, to allow
for the passage of deeply laden vessels at
ebb tide.
1.-The real ditch digging part of the work
is at what has come to be known as the
Culebra cut. extending for the nine mlleS
from Bas Obispo to Pedro Miguel. Here
the range of the Cordilleras, which is the
connecting link between the Andes and the
Rockies, runs down to only little more
than three hundred feet above sea level.
On the Pacific side the slope is sudden, on
the Atlantic rather more gentle; but in
the nine-mile thickness of the range there
was in the first place a whole lot of ma
terial to be taken.
1.-The proposition of taking a three-hun-
dred-foot hill and cutting pie shaped
piece out of it down TO forty feet above
the seattle water surface is to be at
eighty-five feet, but the canal will be forty
five feet deep-and to have the bottom of
that slice a full three hundred feet wide,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-01

They started out by dumping two pdIdl'0
lines OF rock about twelve hundred I00'
apart. from the lock site at Gatun over 10
the hill In the centre Of the valley vi mo
outside of the rock was dumped lnolS-
crir,juate stone and dirt. They got those
two lines pretty we'll up, like two separate
dams and then began filing in the space
between with irnpervious material punlped
in by dredges The rock toes or the east
ern half OF the dam are about Up 10 theII
full height, but the pumping work Is stlii
going on-continuous streams OF "ateIy
mud pouring in day and night Inc water
drains off and the sandy clay settles drS-
ing slowly and packing itself SO hard py
its own weight that it becomes almost as
solid as concrete
when they get that fnished-and IL
won't be long-they'u level things OF and
riprap the surface where wave action VIII
come and then the work viii be ready
for business. The dam will stand 80 feeS
above water. Its top will be 100 feet wide.
At the lake surface it will be 39S feet thick.
and down at the bottom more than 2.NO
feet through. The slopes are so gentle that
the water pressure will practically all be
down. not out
why said one OF the engineers, that
won De q udLIl- II II NC q SHA0AA
tain
Although the dam at Gatun is no par
ticular record breaker, except in the one
point of being safer and more heavily
built for the work it will be called upon
to do than any similar construction ever
attempted, the locks-and they are the
same throughout the canal-are the largest
ever designed. The work on these Gatun
lifts. which is the most complicated on
the whole canal. is well under way The
excavation, most OF it rock cut, has prac-
tically been completed-S0 per cent at the
end of January-and Il per cent of the
concrete work on the upper lock had also
been put in at that time. That means that
at the present rate the locks should be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-01
Robbin6 the Cratic
One of fbe Peculiar Otffes
Thar X eep q -SubsSoV
MANAGER on fbe Jump.

"A two-rnnute delay 10 Z Brooklyn bound
subway train at the I'D street station IS
selt an hour ahead of the train This
,asradoxicaI statement of Frank Hedley,
general manager of the 1nterboroush Rapid
Transit Company, Was only one OF several
made 10 a Tribune reporter in the course
Of a recent conversation on the operation
.f subway trains
"A tp-o-rninute delay at that stauon-and
the same applies to almost any station
snears that tho train Will be seven. or elgnt
minutes late getting 10 Atlantic avenues
continued the manager. Everybody knows
that when q train once gets late IL upsets
rbe schedule and further delays are inevi-
liable. To overcome this We nave 70 TAKE
measures To rob the traffic
This was another poser for the Tribune
man and he asked: what do you mean by
arobbing the trafic2''
The managers blue eyes tHinkied as he
pointed to the extra telephone on his desk
ss5e- 4tat2" he said. 1.-The moment anything
occurs on the line IL is reported here at
once I get busy with the Atlantic avenue
station and have them slow up the trains
leaving there II We let the lame duck
,rain go on st would mean that at some
-7oint there would be an interval OF seven
or eight minutes without train at all.
Tho result would be big crowd and lot
of kicking, perhaps q complaint TO the
Public Service Commission. and we don't
want any more trouble with that body
To prevent the long delay the dispatcher
81 Atlantic avenue starts the trains then
ready 10 go north at an interval of two
minutes. say. instead of minute ana
sorty-eight seconds. II the trouble occurs
during the rush hours Then we take q
roI,riss IF trains bound for Brooklyn ana
-uru them back at South Ferry, and thus
s7Ii- m. gap: but IL means that fewer trains
go over the route and the traffic is robbed
sf so much. AS soon as the train which
caused the delay gets by We begin shorten
ing ND the interval again, TO restore the
regular schedule. but that takes some more
tiD,c. go that il takes en- hour and a quar-
ter and sometimes two hours hetore Inc
ocular schedule is re-establishe0.
.s9ut cant YOU run trains faster than
,,ou do now on the express routes?' asked
The Tribune man.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-01
KING LEOPOLD AND MUSIC.

Leopold III, we are told, had a dislike 20
music His first lesson as a child was his
last Until his later days, from the time
Theodore Solvan essayed to instruct him.
the King hated the sight of instruments
and kept as far away from these objects
Of dislike as possible. Toward the end OF
his life the King relented somewhat, and az
the palace at Laeken sometimes received
pupils from the ConServatOire and enter
tanned them at tea AT these gatherings
they played light pieces or selections from
operas or ballets- A Paris contemporary
from which we take the foregoing suggests
that this tardy conversion must not be
attributed TO love OF music, but the fac
was the King had too much plano under
the late Queen.-London Globe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-01

go ahead on tracks by discovering the
proportion of weight the locomotive should
bear to the driving power. That Cornish
mine superintendent was the granduncle OF
Frank Hedley, and the locomotive. built
twelve years before Stephenson applied his
steam engine to the transportation OF pas
sengers, was in use in the Wyiand col
lieries In that year it was placed IN the
Kensington Museum. in London, where 1t
is still on exhibition.
Railway work has been the vogue in the
Hedley family since that early period and
Frank Hedley was apprenttced at an early
age to learn the trade of mechanical en-
cheering They are very thorough In such
matters in England. and the young man
had to put in seven years before ne re-
ceived his certificate. He came TO thls
country in 1882, and went to work as a
rnachinist at the Erie shops in Hobokeh.
He came to New York and entered the
service of the Elevated Railway Company
III 1884, and became master mechanic OF
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company in
the course of the construction of the ele-
waited lines in 1889. Later he became SUI
perintendent and remained there until 1898.
when he went to Chicago as manager or
construction for the various elevated lines
Of that city. In 1903 he came back to New
York and became general manager of the
Interborough's subway and elevated lines
He enjoys the work and does not shrink
before the criticism which attaches to his
place.
I've hope TO do better when the plat
forms are heightened" he said In the
course, of his talk with The Tribune re-
porter I'VE must remember, though, that
the subway was built to carry four hundred
thousand passengers'a day, and now we are
carrying nearly million. We must get
some kind OF relief soon, but that is UP TO
the Public Service Commission. They are
making strong efforts to cope with the
question, but trembe when ] think what
conditions will be like before the proposed
slhways are built II the increase keeps on
at the present rapid rate.
I'VE are doing the best we can under
present conditions. and really believe that
a large proportion of the public is begin
ming 10 regard Ine A. n decent citizen
after all." were Mr. lledley's parting
words.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-01

ternine Just how closely we can run our
trains together at a reasona bic speed
When We have found Just how closely
we can run trains under ideal conditions we
add fifteen seconds for 2 margin Of safe
~, and thus We fix q minute and forty
eight seconds as the margin between
trains, or the headway- OF course, some
times we send trains out at an interval or
a minute and e half. but that is when con-
ditions are even better than usual. but so
far we could not undertake 10 run service
on that schedule. It will come. though we
are adding more side door cars all the time.
We have TO convert some of our old cars.
We are using our cars nearly TO the limit
now. so that at the rush hours we have
10 put on cars that have not yet been
fitted with the mechanism to move the
centre doors That explains the sign,
This door not work ng.' which is found
on 50 many cars. That Will soon come TO
an end.