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crets to the other companies. They
took Mr.. Grafton away from the gov
eminent, set him up as the confdant
OF each of them. and then instructed
him to give out to all producers those
facts that he thinks will not be in
furious to the respective companies. In
other words. each company tells Mr..
Grafton its secrets. and he tells the
other companies the general facts OF
the copper industry. as based on these
secret reports.
Recently the Southern Pacific railroad
obtained three experts from the survey.
They were men trained I'm the lanl slas-
sifcation work: that is, in determining
the mineral value OF the public lands.
The Southern Pacific needed them TO 60
over its big land holdings. and offered
them attrat tons that the government
could not duplicate.
We do not object to training men for
private work or for foreign countries"
says DR.. Hayes. chief geoloyst. 1T Is
a duty We owe to the science % geology,
and is the means OF advancing the sci
ence throughout he world Our work
is to certain extent theoretical. bit
tine government becomes the great grad
uate university in practical geology wbe n
its men put their knowledge an1 study
into practical operation.
Another division Of the government that
has become distinctly a graduate school
for tie Cu,,l rsS wOrr.s Is trc eNam.n iiS
division Of the patent office. Ii is a
well known fact that large percent
age OF the young men who go into this
division are carrying on law courses with
the idea Of becoming patent lawyers a.
soon as their training is complete.
A technical education is demanded for
this work. The graduate of a technical
school will enter the patent ONCE. draw
a good salary as an examined. carry on
a law course at one OF Washington's nu-
n.crous law schools. AMI in three or
four years step out into a patent law
firm at a salary of 5000 or 5000. From
that beginning his rise to larger income
is usually steady and rapid. because OF
his expert training. Efforts have been
made to hold these examiners by fncreas-
ing salaries. but dozens OF them leave
the government each year
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tails. rich in their plain Doric grace, up
hold wall of marble. around which
runs a frieze of exquisite carvings. and
you have the skeleton of the building.
The interior contains other columns.
which uphold the roof. the whole forming
a temple which was regarded as the most
beautiful of the known world.
Today the Parthenon is visible for miles
around Athens. 1t is the first thing seen
on approaching the Piraeus. and it stands
out far above the plain upon which Ath-
ems lies. A great part Of the build
ing has been carried away. and its most
beautiful carvings are in the British
Museum at London. They were taken
there many years ago by Lord Eagin.
who got a permit from the sultan author
izing him ito remove few blocks OF
stone from Athens to England" The cost
Of the transportation of those few blocks
was $4,000. from which you can see
that shiploads must have been carried
away.
The columns Of the Parthenon were
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in the bureau OF chemistry. is another
sugar man now holding an important post
in commercial work. He was selected by
the sugar companies to take charge of a
general testing laboratory at New York
maintained for all sugar importers. Here
all samples are analysed and adjustments
made as to price. His laboratory has be-
come a bureau of standards for the
sugar-importing trade Of the United
States.
One government expert in sugar dis
eases receiving $3.50 from the United
States has recently taken charge of a
commercial sugar station in Porto Rico
at 5000.
James B. Rorer. son. of the domestic
science expert. recently left an eighteen
hundred-dollar scientific post at Wash
work Of studying crop diseases for the
government of Trinidad. Walter Fischer.
connected with the work of plant and
seed Introduction for the United States,
has taken charge Of similar work in
Para, Brazil, at a trebled salary.
The rapid development of fruit lands
in the United States has caused a steady
demand for experts in fruit diseases and
in scientific management OF fruit lands
and their product. The government sent
p. J. O'Gara, Nebraska man, into the
Rogue River valley in Oregon a couple OF
years ago to study the pear blight which
threatened the orchards there His work
was Of such importance to the fruit in
terests Of Oregon that when federal du-
ties threatened to call him elsewhere the
fruit raisers combined and took him away
from the government at q salary of 5000
a year. He had been getting $1,sOO from
the Agricultural Department.
Another fruit expert went to California
a year ago to become packing house
manager for a group Of about 500 raisers
in a certain section. They gave him UNI
limited control Of the fruit. from the tree
to the market, and in one year he in
creased their profits $4,000.
Florida land companies decided that 1t
would cost too much to carry on individ-
ually the great drainage work necessary
to clear and make tillable some Of their
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he was to give this to the prettiest of
the ladies. In the meantime, each of
them, just like a woman, slipped Paris
aside. and tried to bribe him to decide
in her favor. Minerva got him off in the
bushes and offered him wisdom. Juno
walked him up the side of a mountain
and promised him power. while Venus
slyly whispered, Decide for me and you
shall have the prettiest girl of the whole
world for your wife That fixed Paris.
He at once decided for Venus, and she
gave him Helen. the wife of Meme
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while he told the story. I did so, and
he continued. as follows:
Long. long ago. before the poet Homer
lived. and when Greece had just begun
to be great, there were three goddesses,
Minerva, Juno and Venus playing about
all proud and all beautiful Each thought
she was the prettest, and they quar-
relied as they looked over each other
and compared the points of their beauty.
Juno showed her ankles. Venus her legs
and Minerva boosted of her muscles and
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ptRN1EN1 SCIENTISTS M M&: GONE |N1o BUSINESS

MANY Trained Men Leave
wi Service of Uncle Sam
Accept Positions With
Higher Salaries-How Men
Are Trained to Demand
Large Salaries-Other Coun-
tries Demand Skilled Scien-
lists of Various Fields, Pay
ing Large Salaries Large
Corporations Take Their
Share of Employees From
Government-What Various
Experts Have Accomplished.
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THE New Statue of Paris,
i and the Modern Version
of the Story of Helen-Me-
dallions and Portraits From
Life-Gold Cups and Jewels
Found in the Tombs-Was
the Parthenon a Graft?-How
Its Ruins Look in 1911
Archeologists Backed by a
Lottery-The Americans at
Corinth, and the Fraud of
the Priests.
Copyright, 1911. by Frank G. Carpenter)
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ATHENS,
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biological survey, who has undertaken
the monumental study of North Ameri-
can animals provided for under the en-
dowment of Mrs E. H. Hartman.
this research. which is the most impor-
tant since the work Of Audubon he still
retains enough affiliation with the bio
logical survey to give his work something
Of an official character.
DR.. Merriam has undertaken a study
that will place him in the foremost rank
Of American naturalists. He is proceed
ing upon study of North American ami
mails and Of their geographical distribu-
ton which will take years to complete.
AS head of the biological work for the
government he could not give his full
time to the work that Is now made posi-
BILE under the Hartman endowment.
Considerable attention was drawn
year or two ago to the scientific work OF
DR.. Allerton c. Cushman, a chemist of
the Department Of Agriculture. His dis
coveries In the field of prevention Of iron
rust were regarded as Immensely Valu-
able. A few months ago he left the
governments three-thousand-dollar job.
took charge Of the Institute of Industrial
Research, and is credited by his friends
with an income Of So. 900 a year.
I'VE are looking now for twenty-five
or thirty capable scientific men," says
DR.. G. Willard Hayes Of the geological
survey. and the same condition applies to
several bureaus Of the Department OF
Agriculture. Capable scientific men are
in demand. and the government virtually
becomes the finishing school for them In
their progress toward big positions.
Mr. Powell, whose loss Is keenly felt
by the Agricultural Department, is never.
theless in a position to continue i'm.
portant work for the whole citrus fruit
I'M - <ho Y,ul<ad C4ofoc Tba "a l.
ifornia growers. embraced In the Citrus
Protective League. represent most Of the
producers of the west.
Working as a government expert Mr.
Powell studied their problems, and de-
vised methods to improve conditions
Oranges were rotting in transit and stor-
age. He showed growers how to pick
without bruising: he studied transporta-
ton problems and worked them out. He
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made in sections. which were placed one
on top Of the other. Some of these sec
tons are scattered over the Acropolis
and not few stand on the platform.
1 photographed an American girl sitting
on one. which gives a fair idea of the
diameter, and made also a picture of my
self as l measured the circumference.
The Parthenon was begun about 400
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Every one has read of it, but it is i'm
possible to comprehend it just as it is.
Imagine a forest of marble columns
which rise from marble floor. the area
of which is nearly an acre Let each col
umn be as big as a cartwheel and let it
rise to the height of a three-story house
in the most symmetrical forms of artistic
beauty. Let it be fluted and let the CAPT.
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IL Greece is one
great museum,"
said my native
& u ! d e, Constan-
tine, as We walk
ed through the
wonderful collec-
lions at Athens.
Go down into the
e a T I h anywhere
and you may find
choice marbles,
graceful pottery
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FEW weeks ago a
man who had con-
Quoted one Of the
most import an t
commercial investi-
cations and reor-
ganizations ever un-
dertaken by the
governme nt. re-
signed q high post
in the Department
of Agriculture and
went to California.
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bust. They quarreled a long time, but
could come to no understanding. when
Juno up and said: I am willing to leave
II to any Judge you other girls may pick
out that i am the beautifulest" Me. too
said Venus, and Moi Aussi and Ich
auch,,' cried the goddess Minerva. After
some discussion they picked out this
young Paris, whose bronze we have here.
and left the decision to him. Paris was
the son of Priam, one of the kings of
this region. He had golden apple, and
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service. few years ago. before business
had been centralized, as at present, pri-
vate capital could not pay the salaries
that these scientists are drawing today
large corporations.
Recently the asphalt combination wanted
an expert to investigate the asphaltum
deposits Of Venezuela. 1t looked for the
man in the geological survey. and found
him in the person Of Arthur c. Veatch,
head of the corps Of experts who classify
American mineral lands.
Mr.. Veatch was getting $500 from Un-
Gle Sam. The asphalt magnates multi
piled that by five, and Mr.. Veatch sue
cumfed
Another geologist now in private work.
Josiah E. Spur earning big money as a
consulting geologist. went to Turkey at
the request of the Turkish government,
at a salary Of $4,000. to act as personal
adviser to the sultan in certain mineral
Investigations. In Turkey mineral de-
posts are sort Of private concession to
the sultan, and Mr.. Spur sat at his right
what bad of the many things that came
up for consideration. He was one OF the
biologists whom the Guggenheim and
other mineral interests tried to employ.
but who stayed for several years after he
could have bettered himself outside
When the University Of Minnesota want
ed man for the head Of Its agricultural
college last year it came to the Depart
ment Of Agriculture for him. 1t doubled
the salary Of Albert r. Woods. acting
chief of the bureau Of plant industry. and
drew him out into a wider but still a pub
lie field Of action.
''Mr. Woods has left the government
service. but he has not left the practical
service Of the Department Of Agricul-
ture," says Acting Chief Taylor Of the
bureau Of plant industry. HE is now
training the young men from whom we
may draw our future scientists and ex-
perts.''
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His work had made him a well known
figure in every nook and corner OF the
orange and lemon raising country OF the
west. He was regarded as one Of the
most valuable men in the department;
had been advanced to the post of as
sistant chief Of the bureau Of plant in
dustry, and for some time had been act
ing chief.
The government paid this man, G. Har-
old Powell. a maximum salary Of 5000
. year. When he left public office early
this year he took a place especially Gre
ated for him in the California fruit
raisers' organization at more than a treb-
led salary. $4,000
He is one Of the many brilliant men.
trained in one Of several important lines
Of science and research, who are going
out of the governments technical and
scientific bureaus every year to lucrative
and attractive positions in every corner
of the globe. His immediate predecessor
in the same executive position in the De-
partment Of Agriculture, Albert F.
Woods. stepped out Of government service
about a year ago to become dean OF
the Minnesota Agricultural College, at a
salary of $4,000.
Mr.. Powell was given the task Of re-
organizing and readjusting the citrus
fruit raising industry of California. He
accomplished marvellous results. It IL
estimated that his changes and improve
ments in the conditions surrounding the
handling and marketing of the California
fruits is saving $4,000 annually to the
growers.
His motto has been to Put Science
Into Business" The motto that might
be placed above the Agricultural Depart
ment itself. and above the geological sur
vey, the bureau of mines. the reclama-
ton service and a few other scientific
bureaus Of the government might well be:
Putting Scientists Into Business"
The men who are leaving these big
graduate schools are taking a foremost
part In the development Of commercial
science, and in the carrying on of pri-
vate research, in many countries. They
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laus. He carried her home, and the fuss
that Menelaus made brought about the
great Trojan war;
The statues Of the Athens Museum are
wonderfully lifelike They seem to be
portraits, and were evidently posed for
by the models of the time. There 10 now
a museum on the AcrOpolis, which COM
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organized the growers into cooperative
handling selling agencies: he even de-
vised a plan for having all their rail-
road losses and damage claims handled
by one man.
Now. as head Of the Citrus Protective
League, he stands as the Waterman over
the orange-growing region If there is
a wet season, if growers are inclined to
speed up their operations and run the
risk of bruising fruit; if any one OF q
hundred contingencies arise. Mr.. Powell
stands as a solemn warming OF what
should or should not be done.
Powell and B. D. White were two OF
the greatest agents of cooperation
among the farmers that the Agricul-
tural Department has had" said a lead
Ing officer Of the department.
Mr.. White recently left the dairy divi-
sion at a trebled salary to 60 with a
Baltimore business firm. He is an ex-
pert In dairy matters, and his work IN
promoting cooperative creamecies In The
farming regions has been Of great value
to the entire dairying industry Of the
country.
Tobacco specialists are particularly
hard to hold in the government service
when their training and research become
such as to attract attention. Their serv-
ices are In constant demand among the
growers of tobacco. who have more than
their share OF troubles. Many of these
men go out on salary and percentage
basis.
One tobacco expert who had made a
study OF Connecticut tobacco-growing
conditions left salary of 5000 In the
department and in one year made $4,000
in salary and commissions in the Con-
necticut field.
Sugar experts likewise find lucrative
employment outside. DR.. c. o. Townsend,
Michigan man, after having done valu-
able work for the government in beet
sugar studies. left the department not
long ago to become consulting argfcul-
turalist for large beet sugar company
in Kansas. His work is not to raise
beets but to steer the beet growing, look
after the diseases that may threaten the
crop, devise more satisfactory methods
OF culture and act as general scientific
adviser.
c. A. Brown, trained under DR.. Wiley
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and carved golden jewelry, which were
used in the days Of Homer and Hesiod
Every time a foundation is dug some
thing new is discovered, and many of
the great finds have originated by ac-
ctdent- The whole country is a treas
ure house. whose vaults need only the
pick and spade TO unlock them
! was struck with this fact as l walked
through the National Museum today
At its entrance is corridor filed with
broken statues of beauty eaten by salt
water and half covered with shells. They
were taken from the sea near the Island
of kythera, only short time ago. The
Greeks were diving for sponges when
they came upon the wreck Of an ancient
vessel lying one hundred feet below the
surface. 1t was filed with bronzes, mar
BILE statues and other objects Of art, dat
Ing back to some years before Christ.
Where the marble was exposed to the
water water, IT had, had been eaten away and its
cred with sand Il was as beautiful as
when the ship was lost. There is one
head, for instance, which is perfect
while the body is a honeycomb Of mold
and decay.
Among the bronzes taken from that
vessel is statue of Paris, of more than
life size. which has been allotted the
place of honor in the bronze room of
the museum. 1t represents the nude
figure Of a youth who is stretching out
his right hand. and evidently giving a
Grimes Golden apple to the goddess
whom he has picked out as most beauti-
full The bronze Is Of a rich old green,
and il stands on a pedestal. The statue
came up broken. but ii has been re-
stored by artists from Paris at a cost
Of 1000. and il Is now esteemed one of
the greatest Of the new finds from the
ancient world.
AS we looked at this, Constantine, who
makes mis- living in explaining archeolog-
3DaS subjects to tourists, asked me to sit
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One Of the notable losses Of the De-
partment of Agriculture recently was
that Of c. Hart Merriam, chief Of the
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ATHENS.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-17
BIC BATTLE IS
PLANNED NEAR
TEXAN BORDER
Especial from United Press.)

Especial from United Press.)
Ell Paso, Tex, Feb. 17-Francisco /.
Madero. provisional president of the
Mexican revolutionary government
will be in personal command when the
insurgents at ack Ciudadi Chihuahua.
according to a courier who arrived
here todayefrom Guadalupe. the tenn
porary headquarters of the insurgents.
Madero. commanding six hundred
troops. including one company of AZ
American soldiers Of fortune under a
former sergeant of the Philippine
Scouts. with two machine guns. was
scheduled to leave Guadalupe at
o'clock this morning for Chihuahua.
The forces of Generals Blanco. Orozco
and Casillas, he courier reported. eff
fected a junction at Ascension last
night. and today proceeded towards
Chihuahua. 1.C00 strong.
That General Navarro. at Juarez, is
considerably aroused over the proposed
insurgent movement against Chihua-
hua, was shown by the fact that he
sent a force of 600 men wi h ma
chire gun early today with orders to
capture Guadalupe at all hazards
The force was met by a courier an
nouncing Madero's intention to depart,
prac ically abandoning Guadalupe to
the Federals.
Madero is reported as expressing
great qualification over the acau 81
ion to the insurgent ranks OF his
American company. The insurgents
declare they are all picked men who
have seen fighting in the Philippines
and elsewhere. They will be depend
ed upon to handle the insurgent ar
tillery.
General Jose Duncan. u 8. A,
reached here last night to take rer-
sonal command of the United States
troops patrolling the border.
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GERMANY DiMANDED
RETRACTION FROM JOHN
BULLS LORD ADMIRALTY

London, Feb. 17-It developed, to-
day, that First Lord Of the Admiralty
McKenna's explanation in the Com.
mons, yesterday, that his statement of
two years ago regarding Germany's
activity in naval building, had been
greatly exaggerated was made in re-
Spouse to a demand from Germany
for a retraction of this statement.
In her demand Germany stated that
she understood McKenna had said
that her naval policy was directed
against England. McKenna answered
that he had merely sa that Germany
was building warships faster than she
officially admitted.
The Evening News says. that Nc
Kenna made his explanation "under
German pressure" getting a friend
ly member to raise the question so
that his answer might occasion the
least embarrassment.
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DIED.


MOSs.-In this city, Feb. 18th. 1911,
walter Z. Moss, youngest son OF
Mrs. Martha E. Edwards and the
late Arthur J. Moss, aged 22 years,
months, II days.
Funeral notice in Saturdays
issue asp
GORMAN.-In this city, Feb. IS.
1911, Annie, widow OF John Cor
Friends are invited to attend
the funeral from the residence of
her daughter, Mrs. Tyer. 1247 How
ard avenue. on Saturday, Feb. Is,
at $3.50 a. m, and from st. Pat
rick's church at a. m
-Interment at St Michael
cemetery. a.
O'HARA.-In Danbury, Feb. 10. Win
nifred j., wife of Thomas O'Hara,
aged 81 years
WOOD-In Bethel, Feb. IL, Leonard
s. Wood, aged 21 years.
NELSON-In East Norwalk, Feb. IL,
Della A, wife of Nicholas P. Nell
Mrs Sarah Donnelly, aged 81 years.
CURTIS.-In Shelton, Feb. Z. Sarah
J.. widow of Cornelius A. Curtis,
aged Sc years.
PULVER--In New Haven, Feb. 8,
Mrs. Stanley Pulver of Torrington.
zWASKY.-In New Canaan Feb. Z,
Charles Zwasky. aged 81 years.
MABIE.-In Danbury, Feb. IL, Mar
tin A. Mabie, in the 18th year of
his age
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-17
PASSION PLAY
PICTURES ARE
FINE INDEED

Those Bridgeporters who visited Park
Theatre last night to see the p ctures
Of the Passion Play were not disap-
10Th 90. IAe lecture ard the pictures
were of a high grade and conveyed a
true idea of the wonderful work being
done by the villagers of Oberammer-
gau. where the Passion Play has been
given since early in the sixteenth CEN
fury, at intervals of ten years. in
obedience to a vow then made tn t If
the town should be spared the further
ravages of The plague the Passion
Play would ever after be repeated
The Passion Play is the only act
uaIly living example Of type of plays
once universal. which included the
Miracle play and the Morality. The
pictures will be exhibited again to-
night. and the lecture will be repeated.
The music is the actual music of the
Passion Play. which has been taken
from he production as given in Ober-
ammergau.