The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-05-19

New York, May with the prob
lem Of accommodating population of
100000 twenty Ave years hence
staring him In the face. Father Knick-
erbccker is planning to rob Father
Neptune OF more than two square
miles Of territory In an effort to pro-
vide additional room. AS in the case
OF many smaller cities the plan in
question simply proposes reclamation,
In this case the reclamation will 5e
from the ocean involving an amount
Of land which will be worth something
like q billion dollars. The idea orig
mated with en- engineer who has acted
in q consulting capacity in the erec-
ton OF some Of the largest buildings
In the city, and has made a special
ty Of foundation and caisson work. His
Idea in brief Is to lengthen Manhattan
island nearly four miles by the erec-
ton OF sea walls, behind which the
space could be filled in by pumping
sand from the channel Exactly the
same thing, as matter of fact. has
been accomplished on Governors is
land, and chimericaI as the scheme
may sound at first hearing, there an
nears to be no reasons why it should
not be carried out; since the value of
the made land will far exceed the
cost Of it's creation. OF course until
horings and surveys have been made
Ii Is impossible to do more than
roughly estimate the cost OF such an
undertaking, but 1t is believed that it
would not only pay for itself, but
would leave handsome profit besides.
AS result of his growing population.
and the need for improved docking
facilities, IT Is evedient that Father
Knickerbocker must soon begin TO con-
vert aqueous territory into dry land
and to steal from the domain OF Father
Neptune in the endeavor to maintain
the position of New York as the
worlds greatest port,
Ais men In this city are much in
terested in the epoch marking proposal
which Is to be brought forward at the
dinner to be given by the Aeronautical
society on April 81. for the endow-
n1ent and establishment Of a perman-
emit aeronautical laboratory. AS such
a laboratory would be a national in
stitution, such as the Smithsonian in
stitution. President Taft, who is to be
present at the dinner will be asked to
make the formal announcement of the
details, according to the plans as an
nounced by the president of the So
ciety, The laboratory will be the first
OF its kind ever organized in the world
and according to reports will be en-
dowed by one Of the most conspicuous
philanthropfBts In America. The
nanoeuvres along the Mexican border
have served to illustrate some Of the
uses OF the aeroplane in actual war
fare in such significant manner that
there Is no doubt that the country will
soon add another branch to its war
machinery, that Is, of air service. That
President Taft Is expected to make the
announcement of the establishment of
the proposed aeronauticaI laboratory
lends added significance to the report,
While perhaps not one person in
ten thousand felt any personal inter
est In the recent announcement of the
death here of Sam Lloyd, he was never
theless known through impersonal
channels to millions of people not only
in this country but all over the world.
That impersonal channel was furn-
ished by his puzzles, which after two
generations gained for their author the
title of puzzle king" Most of the
more popular puzzles over which the
public has added its brains were tn.
products of n4oyd's ingenuity. The
two which were probably the best
known were Pigs in Glover and the
fifteen puzzle. The facility with which
his brain could turn out puzzles of
such kind as to battle the keenest
mind and give half the world head
aches was shown when he turned out
the ''pony puzzle" 1t was produced
on bet made by governor Of Penn
sylvania while returning on the same
steamer from Europe with the puzzle
maker In 1868. The governor. had
challenged Lloyd to produce o new pug
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