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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

Scherzo and finale from symphony No.
(TschaikowskD aria, Samson and
Delilah'' (Saint-Saens). Nine. Hulse;
Meditation from That's" violin solo
(Massenet), Nikolai SokolofD; ballet
music from THE Life OF the Gar
(Glinka), and Second Rhapsodie
O4szt). aria from Aida" (Verdf)
Nina Dimitrieff; AnGante Cantabilc
and Fairy Dolls (TschaikowsSD Pro
logue from II Pagliacci" Ueoncaval-
lo), Bertram Schwahn: quartet, Rig
oletto' (VerdiD. Mines. Dimitrlen,
Hulse. Messrs Ormsby, Schwahn;
march "Slav" (Tschaikowsky)
Evening at 8:15 o'clock-Symphony
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

talked over with him the details or
this, the most stupendous project for
irrigation and reclamation In the Uni
ted States. II not In the world.
The government was ready to 60
ahead with the building of the dam.
II found that most OF the land In the
valley was under private ownership
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18
WHAT FOLKS CAN CHOW IN
THE SALT RIVER VALLEY

Cotton OF the finest quality.
Tree-ripened oranges that get TO.
the eastern market six weeks soon-
er than the California product
Wheat. barley and oats OF the
dnest grades
Sugar beets Ca big factory has
already been established for hand
ling then)
All sorts OF garden truck" can-
taloupes In particular.
Four or five crops Of alfalfa pss
year.
Apples and pears.
olives.
Dates
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18
THE STAGE
Continued from pag. q

the Ocean" and "Cafe de Paris" aud
they are said 10 hs ricn in comedy.
There are several people In the cast
who have achieved con spicuous success
In their several lines OF work In other
productions. principal among whom
are. Lew Kelly, Who VIII lac rcinem-
bered as the dope nend" with the
Ward and Vokes company for several
seasons: Nanette Coulton. a dainty and
talented vocalist. and Grace Vinion,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18
LAD SAVES AGED MAN.

Rushes Into Burning Home and
Guides Him To Safety.
ANN ARBOR, Mich, March 49,
Benona Preyer, IL. saved David Dick
inson, so. from death last night, when
the farm home Of Richard Henry near
Webster burned to the ground.
Dickinson had gone upstairs to get
his trunk and became confused be-
cause OF the smoke. Guided by his
voice the youngster rushed into the
burning house and guided the aged
man to safety.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

When sewing en- the machine, II
the thread breaks easily, soak spool
land all in water for about two min
utes. This rule applies to any quality
of thread.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

Morley q Letter. THE Third Rail Girls. "
petite singers and dancers: Rita Lor-
aine e. Co, in the pantomimic novelty.
lie Mort: Jenkins a Flavin, vOcalists,
and Alvin & Kennedy, comedy ring per-
formers.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18
JOHN 3. HALEY DEAD.

SAGINAW, Mich. March 1s-John
B. Haley, lumberman and ex%heriff Of
Midland, is dead there OF heart ar
ease.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

II paint spots stick to window panes
do not use knife to loosen them. A
cloth wet in hot vinegar will clean
them perfectly.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18

Some folk will not be happy In heav-
en- because there are not funerals to
attend.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-18
sToRK FAR AHEAD OF REAPER.
Weeks Record Is 900 Births and 152
Deaths

Board of health statistics for the
week show 16 case of diphtheria and
81 cases of scarlet fever in Detroit.
There has been one death from each
disease this week. The births total
306-153 boys and thu same number
OF girls. There we're 1852 deaths. Of
which ~ we're under the age OF five
years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-20

Into the female trees, and the same is now being done in our fig orchards.
 As to the introduction of the insect into California, this was attempted 21 years ago, but it was not successful. During the eight or nine years following other attempts were made and failed, and then Professor Swingle, having spent a long time in the study of the insect and it's methods of working sent some capri figs, whose cut stems had been waxed end which were wrapped in tin fol, to California. The wasps came out, but it was not the right time of year for the female blossom, and another attempt was made in 1899. This was successful and to make a long story short, the blasto- phaga began to breed by the millions a year. They are now to be found in the male trees of all the fig orchards, and we are raising fruit that will compete with that of Smyrna in the worlds markets.
 Breeding New Figs
 At the same time the Smyrna fig is be. ing bred and new figs created. the very best figs are being married, and new va rieties are coming into being. one of these has gum drop in It's mouth, which seals up the place where the rain IS lia- ble to go in and rot the fig. This IS known as the Rixford fig It Is Fruit which practically cans itself, and therefore may be guaranteed clean, without and within. Another self-sealing variety was discov- cred three years ago. after two soaking rains had spoiled the figs on the adjoining trees of a different variety. Cuttings of these varieties are being distributed 10 all who will plant three seeding trees for every cutting received.
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speed enter them in any number of stake affairs. At least, they did, before racing was put under a ban in New York and other places The earnings, if the horse won a few stakes, would pay for all the entries and a lot more, especially if the stake races were turf classics. But if the horse broke down, as many do, or proved a failure, a nondescript. a morning glory, as the majority do, the total forfeits in these stake races would cut deep into the owners bank account
 MT. Lamar, being of lively and sanguine temperament, was sure he had a star or two in his collection. One of his youngsters was a dashing look ing lilly by Imp. Ben Strome, dam The Humber. Then he had a colt by Ehser. dam Feiseen, and a lot of oth- CTS almost equally well bred.
 But the spring racing season of 1904 had not been under way before MT. Lamar began to have worries about the thoroughbreds. This one coughed; that one went lame; the other threw a splint; another split a hoof. One after another had trouble, until it seemed that the bird of i'll omen had settled permanently above Lamar's stable door. Not only that, but MT. Lamar was be- ing bothered by things around his of flee The market was not going right; people were winning money from him. Then, too, things were not looking so bright out in the frozen northwest out In the Alaska country. In Ohio also his affairs were not progressing we'll The stock market situation tn mining affair and complications that had arisen in the trolley building in Ohio were much more important { than recreation and the turf that MT Lamar dismissed his racing ambitions temporarily from consideration.
 For some reason best known to him self he did not race under his own name, but under that of the National Stables-truly a world flavor to that! Upon the books of the Jockey club his horses were entered al owned by Miss Smith, an employe in his of flee
 For his formal advent on the turf he chose rather sinister day-a Friday. the 18th of May. 1904 Possibly he did not select the day. It is more likely Ter, his trainer. This is probable, be- cause Lamar was known to be super stitious. Trainers are superstititious, of various races without particular re- gard to the day or date, with an eye principally to what is most fitting for the horses they have to enter.
 Thus it happened that on the first day the colors of Alfred M. Lamar were shown on the turf the National stables had horses represented in two of the six races st Morris park. In the first race Wall Street made a pretty nice showing The race was at six and a half furlongs, and
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the famous Ort Wells. owned by John w. Gates particular friend John A. Drake. on in impressive style with his stable companion. Rapid Water, second MT. Gates Wagered enough on Ort Wells to make the boolxmakers weep. In the sec ond race the Californians had an inning, N. L. Haymans De Reszke winning q seven-furlong dash at good odds The third race, the New Rochelle handicap.
 was won by R. T. Wilson's Dolly Spanllcr. The fourth race was for maidens, fillies and geldingS. It was only four and a half furlongs down the Eclipse course. and among the lot of skittish things that were entered was the Ally by Ben Strom- The Humber that Lamar had christened Belle Strome. The lilly was in at 105 pounds and the clever but comparatively little known stable jockey, Higgins, was
 in the saddle.
 The field was not large, but the private reputation of some of the youngsters in this race was such that Belle Strome and two or three others were considered to have no chance. In the betting Belle Strome opened at 80 to 1. Somebody will. always toke a shot at the moon, not with the idea of hitting the orb of night so much as in the hope it will fall and hit the shot. So somebody bet a few dollars on Belle Strome. MT. Lamar did not. N stable connections. They had inside infor- nation. Belle Strome had not shown any
 thing in her trials that would warrant a person risking Confederate money on her. | If she had not been a lady she would l have been called loafer. She didn't like to move fast; at least it seemed so. But when Chris Fitzgerald dropped the flag in | that particular race on that 18th day of May on that Friday in the year 1904 some of the blue blood in the veins of Belle Strome stirred her to effort. Maybe it was pride of ancestry or maybe pride Of conquest. At any rate. those who saw the race will remember that coming down that hill she hit only the high spots. The others didn't have a chance to see any | thing but her hoofs and her tail. She won in gallop by something like six lengths. It might just as well have been no or F.
 Men who had the best of stable in | formation and had staked their money
 accordingly, were shocked. It was not
 understandable how a lilly that had | shown so poorly in her work should perform so well in public. Nobody
 was happy but the bookmakers Thou
 sands and tens of thousands of dol
 lars that had been wagered on the
 race stayed right with them, all but q
 comparatively few dollars
 After the first few gasps the crowd
 turned it's attention to the entries for
 the fifth race. This race was for maiden | colts It was at five furlongs and was
 down the same Eclipse course along which Belle Strome had just shown
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the way to the others. Belle Strome's stable companion, Invader, was among the entries. Being a colt Invader had to carry little more than had been as- signed to Belle Strome. He was in at 1OS pounds. The stable jockey, Hig- gins. had the mount on him, too.
 Some people who looked at the pro gramme and saw that Invader was owned by the same stable that owned Belle Strome, was trained by the same man and was to be ridden by the same jockey, took all this "hunch." 9th CTS who made inquiry as to Invaders s trials, discovered that he was of no account and had shown nothing to in spire confidence. There were half a dozen highly tried youngsters in the race. among them Tommy Waddel. The crush of money went on these highly tried ones, and Invader opened at 60 to l. People who expect lightning to strike twice in the same place took chance on Invader and the price against the colt shortened a little. But he went to the post a rank outsider
 When Fitzgerald dropped his flag in this race, about the same spectacle that was enacted in the previous contest was reproduced. The despised outsider galloped to the front and did nothing but throw dust and clods of earth in the eyes of his more fashionably con- sidered rivals. What Invader did to Tommy Waddell in that race was a sin and a shame. He made a show of him. Invader won. pulling up, by half dozen lengths.
 Such a roar went up when he passed the wire probably never was heard be- fore or since at Morris Park It beat anything known on Metropolitan Handi- oap day Here was a case of an S0-to-1 shot and a 60-to-1 shot, owned by the same man, trained by the same man, rid den by the same boy, winning on the same day in consecutive races and com paratively few people betting on them.
 few dollars bet on Belle Strome and parlayed on Incader meant a fortune. Ten dollars put on Belle Strome would means s610. The $610 bet on Invader, at $50 to l, would mean 31,110. It was an opportunity of life time. Everybody wanted to know how much Lamar, the man who owned the horses, had won. the betting ring. But there was no sad ness noted in the betting ring. None of the bookmakers wore mourning
 Soon it became known that Lamar had not put a penny on either horse. It was inconoeivable, but it was a fact The papers the next day told the story of the two remarkable races. That closed the Incident, and 1t wasn't long before the sensation about Belle Strome and Inyad- CT subsided. Belle Strome was heard of again, and in good company In fact. she developed into a cracking good lilly, Sydney Paset buying her later for James B. HaSin. But Invader never was worth
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a continental from that day to this. He was race horse that first day on the turf. but he had hard work keeping
 out of his own way thereafter. Once
 after that he did manage to stagger in third in a race, but it was against lot of no-accounts, and his sole claim
 tC fame will ever rest on the fact that
 he won that first day at Morris Park at long odds.
 In the rooms of Alfred M. Lamar in
 the old Consolidated Exchange building,
 there was great joy the morning after
 the race, but only for short time. When Mir. Lamar arrived there was nothing but deep gloom The clerks
 who had got there early had the idea, of course, that Mir. Lamar had won a fortune. It was not long after MT La
 mar arrived that they knew the truth.
 And from that day on MT. Lamar's
 troubles increased. His horses could
 not win. or did not win The mining
 situation in Alaska became worse and
 worse. Trouble in Ohio became more
 acute. The stock market, too, seemed to become easier and easier-to the public.
 Whatever possessed MT. Lamar to let | those two horses go by without a bet just for sentiments sake never has
 been explained. There are various per
 sons who date his Ill fortune from
 that very Friday, the 18th of May 1904. Day after day and week after week from that Friday he went deeper and deeper into the financial hole. He re- sorted to various efforts and tried hard to breast the tide that was carrying him | down, but it was no use. In November | he failed for several hundred thousand dollars. The offices in Harlem, Forty second street and Twenty-thi street. | and those on the second floor of the l Consolidated Exchange were mobbed | by women and by men, They were right on the market, but wrong as to
 cash. They were winners, but they
 couldn't collect. And they were eager
 to get hold of MT. Lamar in the hope
 of extracting something from him. He | had disappeared and was not seen | again for a year and a half or so. He I went to Mexico and to other places | When he came back he was arrested.
 The Consolidated Stock Exchange ex-
 pelled him on technical charge of
 falling to appear to be tried for obvious
 fraud A national bank official pre- | ferred charges against him in the
 criminal courts of making way with | United States Steel shares, and a wo-
 man customer accused him of hypothe- eating 600 shares of American Malt | He managed somehow to get out of
 this trouble, but everything tangible he
 were sold and he became only a memory,
 ghost on the turf and in Wall street
 There are lots more like him Probably 1t
 would not have made any difference to ] him eventually if he never had ventured
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trees begin to fruit in three years, and the dates sell at retail at from 10 to 50 cents a pound, according to quality. The average yield of a Deglet Moor palm Is put at from sS to 132 pounds and an estimate of $50 profit per acre a year is not out of the way. Even counting only 75 pounds to a tree. an acre should yield 4000 or 5000 pounds a year.
 There is no doubt but that the demand fol dates can be greatly increased. The California Fruit Growers association has by advertising and marketing added B per cent to the demand for oranges in Iowa, and it Is spending s100.090 thls year to in crease the sale of that fruit in Illinois, Wisconsin and other states. The same may be done with the date. This fruit Is the great dessert food of France. and box of fine dates forms the chief Christ mas present there. The agricultural de- partment believes that the time will come when dates will be consumed by our peo- pl much as oranges are now, and they tell me that we have the soil and climate which can supply any demand.
 Another tropical fruit which is now af fe cting California, Arizona and Texas, as we'll as other parts of the west is the Smyrna fig. This fruit can be raised over a great area, and there is no doubt but that we could produce all we con- sume Nevertheless, nine-tenths of our figs still come from abroad, and we are in porting 100000 pounds every year. Cal ifornia has long realized the money that might be made out of the business, and it has tried again and again to go into 1t. l. did not succeed, however, until MT. Swingle brought here from Asia Minor the blastophagas and trained 1t to work in the harness of the horticulturist.
 I wonder if you have ever heard of the blastophagas. It is a little insect which
 looks like a wasp, only much smaller. Its chief job in life is carrying the pollen from the male fig tree to the female fig tree and thereby fertilizng the fruit Without 1t Is fertilized the fruit is not good. It will not stay on the tree and is of no commercial value whatever.
 Now the blastophagas is like the boil weevil in that 1t will feed upon only one crop. The boil weevil will eat nothing but cotton. The blastophagas can live on nothing but the Smyrna fig It can be born only in the capri fig, which is the male variety of the Smyrna fig. and the figs of the male tree are seemingly good for nothing else but to serve as breed. inE ground for this insect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-20
BIG MONEY IN DATES-Bv Frnnk c

The man who has done more for date culture in the United States than any other. however, is MT. Walter T. Swinge, who as a botanist and plant breeder ranks as high as Luther Burbank, the so-called wizard of California. Mir Swim gle has bred new dates, new figs and new citrus fruits, including oranges which can be grown as far north as central Geor- gia. He has been largely instrumental in introducing the date and the fig into our country, and has also given us the pistacho and other valuable plants of tho Mediterranean region. He has been connected with the department of agri- culture for more than 20 years, and became interested in the introduction of dates and figs during his stay at Naples. where he went to study tropical agri- culture about decade or so ago. He then travelled through Asia Minor and crossed over into Africa, going down into the Sahara. Prior to his visit to the date regions there some seeding date trees had been grown in California and Ari- zcna, and there had been attempts by the department to import shoots or suckers from the date trees of Africa.
 The chief way of starting a date grove in the Sahara is to take up the suckers, which sprout out from about the trunk o1 the palm, and plant them. The meth od of shipping them to the United States was to set them out in tubs near the trees from which they were taken and to allow them to grow for one year. At the end of that time the plant in the tub was sent to New York and thence to the west This method was costly. The stes nships did not like to handle the tubs, and they charged freight at the rate of one ton per tub. The expense was almost prohibitive.
 Mir Swingle conceived the idea of send ing the shoots fresh from the tree. He sent to Paris for bale of special kind os moss and with this, after it had been well wet, he wrapped the ends of the suckers. He then tied each up in straw and packed them in ordinary shoe boxes which he was able to ship at the regular freight rates 1t was found that the shoots arrived in Arizona and Cali fcrnia in excellent condition. They were transplanted in the @date gardens there and grew rapidly.
 Where Our Date Farms Are
 During his second visit to Algeria, MT. Swingc made one shipment of over 20 of these suckers, three-fourths of which became trees, and since then we have had
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other lmportat1onS made the same way Some of the suckers were set out at Tempe, Arizona, not far from Phoenix. Theodore Roosevelt while President feast ed on dates from those trees and thou sands of pounds were harvested from them this year. Others of the suckers went to California, and some have been sent to an extensive date region which is now being tested near Laredo Tex Not few so imported are growing in the Imperial valley of southern California MT Swngle tells me that dates may he grown in California as far north as Sac ramento, but that the finest varieties will succeed best about Yuma, Ariz.. and on the southernmost edge of California There is no use attempting to grow them where the temperature falls below 65 Fahrenheit, and the hotter the better There are some regions in Nevada where dates might grow, and this is so also In New Mexico and all along the hot Rip Grande river in Texas with the excep- ton of short distance near the mouth where the moist winds from the Gulf of Mexico make the summer too cold to ripen the fruit.
 It is singular thing that the fruit seems to thrive on an alkali soil Tn some of the orchards which are now growing the land is so salty that weeds will not spring up on 1t and nothing but desert plants can be grown.
 Breeding Fine Dates
 MT Swingle expects that the United States will some day produce dates su- perior to any now grown. The Arabs have tried to perpetuate the old varieties, using the shoot or suckers of the date trees rather than seedlings for planting new Grcves. This has been the same in Per sia and elsewhere. It Is different in our date gardens of the west. The scientists there are taking the best of the old va rieties and breeding new ones They have hundreds of different kinds and are producing others each year. The trees are male and female and Uncle Sam matchmakers are marrying the best specimens of each variety with an idea that the children that come from the seeds will have the best qualities of each parent With this view the de- partment of agriculture is sending out thousands of seeds and urging the farm CTS of those hot. arid regions to set out date gardens. This is comparatively cheap when the trees are grown from tho seeds and the date orchards once in bearing prove enormously profitable. The