Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-26

initial cost of duct capable of carry
ing to New York 1000, 100000 gallons
OF water daily, or twice the capacity
OF the plant now under construction,
would, ii is estimated amount to
about $l50.000.000. The elevation of
Lake Erie. however, is 553- feet greater
than that of New York, so that the
water could be brought to the city
principally by gravity. The advocates
of this plan also argue in it's behalf
that when the water reached it's desti-
nation it would be under sufficient
pressure to run dynamos, with which
among other things salt water could
be pumped to flush the streets. 1t is
further claimed that power might be
sold here and in towns and cities
along the line of the proposed duct in
sufficient quantities not only to en-
able New York to get its water sup
ply free, but actually to show a profit
on il. Already the value OF the land
necessary for watershed purposes in
the supplying OF the present popula-
ton is estimated conservatively at
$l25,000,0oO. What 1t will amount to
in fifty years can only be represented
tv 9 figure 50 vast that lie plans to
even more distant points must be
considered as practical problems and
not impossible dreams
While owners Of stocks had no
caues to rejoice last weef, owners Of
guinea pigs! rabbits and mice did, for
the demand for these animals sent
their price up several points to the
profit Of juvenile New Workers A
temporary scarcity of these rodents
made it necessary for the health de-
partment to 1 advertise for several
thousands OF them to be used in the
city hospital where contagious dis
eases are treated. Here each wear
many thousands of these creatures
are used to save the lives of little
tots ill with diphtheria, scarlet fever
and other diseases. When an obscure
case, no far enough developed for
certain diagnosis reaches the hospital.
4 test is made on an animal, since the
disease develops more rapidly in them
than in human beings. With the ad-
vance information thus secured the
doctors are enabled to combat the
disease with far greater certainty.
The results thus obtained are one of
the strongest arguments of health Of
fcials against the restriction of the
use of animals for purposes of test
and research. Incidentally the adj
vertisement set mouse traps to work.
ing overtime and many youngster
visited the hospital with the results of
his catch. all unconscious that they
may syet be instrumental in preserving
his own health. or even saving his life.
One Of the strangest fires in the his
tory of the city occurred here this
week when the Holy Trinity cemetery
was the scene of conflagration
which not only taxed the efforts of
the fire department but also consumed
several rows of tombstones. The
trouble was discovered by a small boy
who hurried excitedly to the nearest
policeman with the startling informa-
ton that de grave yards burnin' up
Never having seen such a fire the Of
ficer was skeptical until his youthful
guide piloted him to the cemetery wall
beyond which flames could be seen
leaping from headstone to headstone
BY the time the astonished policeman
had turned n an alarm and the fire
department had arrived, several dozen
of the memorials had been consumed.
After the fire was extinguished by
copious doses of water AN investiga-
ton was made of the stone which
burned so readily As result it was
discovered that the monuments were
not stone9at talk1 but atonly wooden
frames which ,thad been 'sreated with
whichGlookedahke marble
and granite, leaving the whole affair
in reality only pine. Four hundred
dollars worth of tombstones were
consumed and if the person from
whom they we're purchased can be To-
Gated he is likely,sto find the matter
serious one. Ss LONGACRE.
The prizes now being contested for by
aviators number 3S and are valued at $780,