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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23

gets all its power from these central sta
lions located at great mines and water
power sites long stride will have been
made toward reach ng Spotless Town.
And the tenden les OF the times are 50
strongly in that direction that the time
of is becoming reality seems not far
distant
1t may surprise the average man to
know that such great central power
plants may readily be erected on the
prairies of the Dakotas, In the hills OF
Mon ana or the wastes of Texas and the
fuel be found ready a hand for their use
There are 10000 square miles of Ignite
land in the United States Ligni.e Is a
sort of dried out peat that exists I'm al
most unlimited quantities in this country.
1t contains about Co per cent moisture.
and upon being DIR ed out turns to dust
and blows away Ii will not. as a conse-
quence, stand transportation In the native
state But ii would furnish unlimited fuel
TO a central power plant located In Its
midst. Such plant might pull the
freight of nation back and forth across
the great plains.
And now, finally the bureau OF mines
has succeeded in reducing Ignite to a
briquette. in which form II may be ship
ped anywhere. Also, il is announo ed. this
process is so inexpensive that the scheme
is economically practicable. II Is neces-
The only element necessary is pressure,
and a machine has been devised that will
administer the necessary great pressure
to the native Ignite. convert IL into
form where ii resembles dark brown
cakes of soap, and thrust these into the
commerce of the world The horsepower
locked up in 900 square miles Of Lg-
mite has not as yet been figured. but 10
will doubtless be of sufficient amount to
cut some figure in the power problems Of
the nation.
So ii develops that the very maturing
of the germ of conservation planted half
a decade ago has had the effect with ref
erence to fuel that basis of industry that
is threatening exhaustion. of doubling its
power producing capa ity. The same
amount of coal burned in the light Of the
new methods will produce twice the
amount of power it would have five years
ago. Half the amount of coal VIII pro-
duce the same amount of power. Incl
dentally the amount of coal has been
many times doubled by making ii possible
to util re the lower grade materials.
So have wonders been worked I'm this
particular field of conservation. There
are attendant acr omplishments in the I'M
provement of mining conditions and the
added safety to those who go below
ground to toll There are steps of equal
Importance in almost every other phase
of conservation For the theories of yes
terday have been shown to be the sound
business methods of today and prom Sc 10
be the household platitudes of tomorrow.
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80 AS 2 u Tons foR1ER1Y WENT

various cities. For the present the COM
pany will endeavor to supply power to a
limited area In Pennsylvania having a
population Of 100000 persons. II this is
q success, and 1t gives every promise, no
one can prOphesy to what extent the plan
may be carried. The mountain of waste
fuel. Of course, cannot last all time. but
when it is gone the company will have
learned whether or not 1t will pay to turn
the high-grade coal from the mine into
power right at the mouth of the mine.
Engineers in commenting upon this rev.
dictionary scheme declare there is no
reason why it should not be extended to
the low-grade bituminous coal mines Of
the middle west and even to the vast
Ignite beds which exist in some Of the
northwestern states With such great
power plants located in d fferent parts Of
the country furnishing power for hun
dreds Of miles around some idea may be
gained Of the enormous saving of fuel
over the present wasteful methods of con-
sumption. The fact that most Of these
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
A Bit Brutal.
THEODORE P. sHoNTs. at a

THEODORE P. SHONTS. at a dinner
in New York, said Of the subway
fight:
"At least this fight has been conducted
with politeness and gentleness and re-
finement. There has been none of that
brutality about it which used to be i'm
puted to Cecil Rhodes.
Il heard. just recently, story of
Rhodes brutality. He was entertaining
some guests at Groote Schuur. and after
luncheon he took them over the grounds,
pointing out to them a son Of Loben-
gula, who was one of his gardeners.
This led. naturally. to a talk about
the Matabele rebellion, and a visitor
asked Rhodes when 1t took place.
Rhodes scratched his head. then beck
onsd the young native to his side.
Look here he said. In what year
did kill your father2'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
From Penniless Wait
to a Royal Nurse

touched her. and she took her back and
listened to her story.
She sounded genuine, and as she ex-
pressed her wish TO become Roman
Catholic, the matron sent her down 10
the priest who attended the college. lie
was so convinced of her good faith that
he offered to advance her training ices
so the next day saw the happy Frances
installed among the babies at st. Mary
COLLEGE. She attended convent little
way off for religious instruction several
times a week, and in due tine was CON
frrned in her new faith. From that time
forth there was no more assiduous stu
dent in the home; when she was not
studying the Baby Book II was the
catechism, and so her six months train
ing drew to a close and she looked for
ward to taking UP life's battle again. but
with assurance tbs time, her weapons to
her hand.
About this time the matron, who often
had appiicati. rs from continental royal
ties for nurs es for their children. SO many
of the European courts being Roman
Catholic received one from the Arch
duchess Elizabeth Of Austria, who wanted
for her little girl a trained nurse who
must be forty. The os-tion seemed made
for Frances. and the matron replied, for
ward.ng her qualifications and her pho-
tosraph The archduchess sent a tele-
gram requesting that the woman should
come at unce, and so impatient did she
become that TWO more kilograms followed
before Frances was we'll on her way.
She has one little girl to look after.
three nurses under her, a French mad
to wait ON her and a salary of 500
wear to begin with. She out with her
little charge in a sumptuous motor car,
attended by a tootman and mounted
escort; the princess walks with her in
the garden, and her every word is abso-
lutte law in her domint1ns. She can hard
Iy believe herself to be the same g.rl who
dragged cut an existence as mothers
help, with five children to look after and
any other job that cropped up put on her
TO be done besides, often miseraby paid,
and that ever present haunting fear OF
age always in her mind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
10000 SQUARE NILES Or IGNITE MAY BE
CONVERTED INTO THESE BR1QUETTES.

where the coke is burned off, leaving
nuggets of iron, which are once more
sent through the blast furnaces and
comes out valuable product. The saw
ing through all these processes amounts
to millions OF dollars d year.
The work of the United Steel Corpora
ton at Gary, Ind. is but typical Of the
direction that conservation is taking
among the big industries the country
over They are finding out the long en-
phasized fact that conservation is the
biggest payer that is conceivable. They
are akng seriously the often repeated
statement that there is no spending
money for fuel when fuel in plenty is be-
ing given off by the very blast furnaces
that form the center of their plants
Those gases are taking the place of many
carloads of coal every day at this plant.
They are doing the same thing at scores
of other plants. and the time is short I'M
til they will be so utilized In all the
plants of the country. Competitive econ
omy will allow no other course.
Half the state of Pennsylvania, to say
nothing of other coal fields. is laboring
under burden of waste coal. This coal
is the refuse from the many mines. the
coal that does not grade high enough to
pay to ship it to market. There are
mountains Of it near all the old mines.
There are other mountains of 1t just un-
der the surface that has never been mined
because of its low grade. But the coal
conservat onists have found a way to
use all this coal on the spot, convert 1t
into power and carry that power away
on electric wires to nearby cities.
This is now being done on a monster
scale with promises Of still further
growth. A gigantic central power plant
has already been built in Pennsylvania
for the express purpose of burning the
waste coal, converting 1t into electricity
and utilizing 1t In the industries of the
region or carrying 1t even to Philadel-
phia and New York. The problem Of de-
termin ng whether it is cheaper to haul
coal, burn 1t and produce power or to
burn the coal at the time and transmit
the power in the form Of electricity Is
here to be worked out. There seems lit
tie doubt as to the answer when low
grade ooals are considered.
The power plant. which cost 5000, O0O
according to present plans, and which
will ultimately cost $4,000 600 or more. Is
located at the mines of the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Company in Luzerne
county, Pa, and uses as fuel 1.-THE noun
tains of waste anthracite coal tculm) that
disfigures the entire landscape Of the an
thrac'te region. 1t is estimated there are
rectly at the mines Of this company, none
of it valuable enough to pay the cost OF
transportation.
The plan is to turn the power into cleo
tricity and transmit 1t over wires to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23

power plants will use coal Of such low
grade that 1t cannot stand the cost Of
transportation indicates the great practical
conservat on of the movement With the
operators and owners of anthracite mines
in the vicinity of Scranton predicting the
end of mining in their district through
exhaustion of the supply in thirty years
and operators in the Connellsville district
declaring that at the present increasing
rate of consumption the finest coke-mak-
ing coal in the United States will be ex-
hausted in twenty-seven years. the full
import of such a plan becomes apparent.
1t may not be long before the great trans
continental railroads are obtaining their
power from these central stations and
sending their trains across the country,
without smore or dirt to fill the eyes and
nostrils of the passengers. American men
Of science are slowly. but surely solving
the problems of the ages before 1t be-
comes too late.
The Connellsvi1le district nearby is the
center of the coke industry of the ma.
ton. Here for fifty years has the coal
of the region been placed in the old
fashioned beehive ovens and roasted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
All for Effect.
uDooR CARRIE NATION" ga

tIDOOR CARRIE NATION" said a
Leavenworth editor, had many a
story to back up her "laim that men
drink not for the taste, but for the eff
feet alone-that they all drink like the
Chinaman who said, Me no drinkee for
drinkee me drinkee for drunkee.'
.'One Of Mrs. Nations stories was about
a Nola Chucky hackman. An angler. as
he rode toward the Nola Chucky canal
in a hack. unscrewed the glass from the
bottom Of his flask. filled it and gave
1t to the hackman.
THE hackman tossed Off the drink and
returned the empty glass
That's good whisky. Wash, isn't it?'
said the angler.
Wall, sab, the hackman chuckled. as
he wiped his lips with the sleeve of his
ragged coat toe tell yo' the truth, sab,
All clean fol got toe taste it,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23

getting down in the thick of things for a
bit of romp.
For routine, you see. really Is no part
Of us. Nature never imposed the method
cal habit upon U.S. That we did for our
selves And it Is only when we break
away from the monotony OF existence
(said monotony being quite as depressing
in its effects upon the millionaire as 1t Is
upon the spirits of the very average In
dividuaD that we discover how keen our
need is for change. for shift OF the
kaleidoscope, for turn OF the panoramic
wheel.
To put the matter in it's most succinct
form, can remember when life In Wash
ington was very dull. There were trees:
yes there was beautiful LEAKAGE. flowers,
the inspiration of artistic marble. the ap-
peal of W de streets, but man (and Wom-
am cannot live by the sight Of heritage
ture alone. He and she must and should
have other glimpses. The other glimpses
are not afforded. 1 am glad. 1 am SO
glad that 1 am going to make 1t a fire.
Washington just as often as ! can. by
any possible method, snag the price Of the
trip.
But to progress: Washington folk are
vastly better dressed than they used to be
and FUSED to be- means for me any
time from 1880, say up to about 1905,
when 1 went away from here. Any body
can remember when Washington girls
and women were quite the prettiest and
most wholesome girls and women in all
this broad land. / don't know why it
should have been SO, as 1t Is today, but
it was so. And also anybody who has
done bit Of going up and down the
world can remember when these pretty
WashintOn girls and women were dis
tinctly not we'll dressed. Neatly and sea-
sonably dressed. yes; appealing clad, yes;
appareled according to their lights, GER
tainment: but not we'll dressed. Not SO
very long ago it was possible for one to
drop down here from New York and find
the rls and women wearing the modes
that had been abandoned In New 70 at
least one year land yea! occasionally two
years. previously. Now I d scover that
there must be some wireless method of
transmitting the New York idea of fem-
nine cosiuming down this way; for GER
tatnIy the girls and women one sees now
differ In no whit from the rls and wom-
en- one sees on Broadway. as to their
habil ments. The spunk. the style, the lit
tie catchy. nifty, kapoo ideas in Dress all
are now adopted Immediately. IL not in
stantly. by the femininity of Wash ngton.
/ am not writing now Of the expensive
toys. but of the little simple summary
dresses that they wear when they drop
downtown merely to match q bit Of baby
ribbon. Washington femininity now pos
sesSes the genius Of simple ty In making
the merest trivial white dress stamp its
artistic effect upon the beholder; the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23

It was the mechanical triumph of the
time. Yet throughout the country today
the junk piles are laden down with these
engines. In their stead are the gas-pro-
ducing machines. These engines burn
the coal in such q way aa to convert it
into gas. Then the gas is burned and
produces the power. Each ton OF coal
SO used gives up as much energy as did
two and a half tons under the great en-
gines of few years back The coal Of
the nations would do the same amount
of work and last two and half times as
long if burned in this way. So is the
first great step made toward the con-
Servation of the coal supply of the nation
But the matter does not end here. The
gas engine need not burn coal at all. 1t
may burn gas from any source. That
gas may be captured as a by-product of
some industry in which ii has formerly
been escaping. n most striking example
of this sort of conservation is to be
found in the great iron works at Gary,
Ind. There are the great blast furnaces
where iron ore is turned into pig iron.
These seething. roaring caldrons of in
dustry that flare so fitfully across the
evening sky and pour their noXious fumes
in seas over city and hamlet have at last
been conquered. The waste gases. that a
few years ago polluted the atmosphere
and Sti1ed the city dwellers, are now
being captured and compelled to do their
share of work. These gases are today
used as fuel to operate gas engines with
total of more than quarter OF a mil
lion horsepower the gas engines fur
nishing the power at steel and cement
plants. This one triumph in conservation
represents the displacing or saving of ap-
proximately 1.GT, 600 tons of coal each
year, for Ii takes that much coal to run
engines of that aggregate capacity.
But this is not the only saving at the
blast furnaces. The molten Stag that
poured from the furnaces and was carted
away to dump piles, used as ballast
for railroads. is now being turned into
cement. Plants now in operation or un-
der construction will use 800 900 tons of
Stag each year, with limestone, to pro-
duce 100000 barrels of Portland ce-
ment. And each plant will derive it's
power from gas engines whose fuel will
come from the waste gases of the blast
furnaces. 1t will take 10000 horsepower
to operate these plants. Thus, one waste
product that formerly poisoned the air
we breathe is now converting another
waste product into valuable and useful
commodity.
But the conservation at the blast fur
naces does not stop here. The ore dust
from these furnaces, which aggregates
more than 100000 tons each year and
which was thrown away Or used for fill
ing, is now being made into valuable
iron. The dust. containing 40 per cent
metallic iron, is passed through kilns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
We're All Police.

MAYOR GAYNOR, in one of those
INA humorous letters that are making
his administration memorable, told .
New York man that every citizen has Q
right to arrest malefactors.
The mayor, commenting on this state
ment at banquet in Brooklyn. said
gravely:
The public, any way, always uncon-
sciously exercises a policing influence on
the community's morals. But IL does this
not much by running evildoers ia al
by running them down"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23

touch here and there Of an artistic art
lessness. No longer does one find any
tagging behind in the matter Of the lit
tie up-to-the-m minute kinks.
Today 1 rode in a street car with girl
who the last time 1 saw her had her
hair in two pigtails. said hair being
brushed SO foolishly austerely back from
her forehead that she scarce could bat
her eyes without pain (as / used to
think. She was then about twelve years
of age. Today she was quite the most
betwitching young creature OF nineteen,
in the simplest little white slip of dress.
that 1 have seen in something like 1000
years Studying her. l tried to analyze
her simple clothing so we'll / felt that a
dozen years ago. even as girl OF nine
teen. she would have looked dowdy. The
conclusion l reached was that she. like
all the rest Of womankind in Washington,
now keeps in touch with the dial that
registers the new thing. Her raiment
was not expensive, but it was perfect. 1t
would have looked almost as we'll on a
less perfect girl
The wonder is not great, therefore, that
so many commercial travellers say to
the undersigned in the smoking COM
partments of sleepers or parlor cars:
Those Washington girls-um- mi" The
commercial travellers speak very truly.
One feels. dropping in here and seeing
such wonders in the realm feminine. that
1t Is a pity he has got to the grisly age
OF forty and must act up to that grisly
age.
And now. since one happens to be in a
perfectly veracious boosting humor. a
word for the marked Improvement In the
dress of WASHINGTON men,
I do not say there is any disgrace in
herently attaching to detached cuffs:
certainly not. A man can be a perfectly
good citizen and taxpayer and still wear
detached cuffs. But If he do that he must
in these plungeful days deliberately as
sumo the responsibility Of a certain pro-
vincialism. l freely say that it was a
matter Of sorrow and grief, even so late
ly as three or four years ago. to find so
many of my old cherished friends cling
ing with certain desperation visible IN
their eyes to detached cuffs; clinging,
too. to the habit of wearing a pair OF
clingine to hot white vests of duck in the
summer time. and all OF those sad, scam
dalous things of gone time.
. Now l fit in and find the same boys,
the 'old"-that is, fellers border ng upon
forty. all logged out to the mines snap
ping their fingers in the teeth of Wash
ington convention as 1t used to be. and
wearing clio hes, and the appurtenances
OF clothes, that would stand the test at
the Hotel Kni kerbocker at 5 o'clock in
the afternoon, than which there could be
no greater or more severe test.
Wash ngton men now are extremely
well dressed, and 1t is test Of a mans
dressing If he contrive to look neat In the
Washington climate, which, as a Wash
ing. oman who loves and idOlizes Wash
ington, 1 deliberately pronounce to be the
most vicious, not to say the most vftri-
Oltc, climate in all the world.
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industry. gases which formerly accom-
plshod nothing more than the pollution OF
the air roundabout. are being harnessed
md made to do the work of hundreds of
thousands of horsepower Today the re-
fuse coal that has cluttered up the land
scape of Pennsylvania in mounds that
lsve mounted ever higher, is being burn
d at the mines mouth and the power
that 1t generates is being sent scurrying
over electric wires to towns hundred
miles away. Today the ammonia which
formerly escaped from the coke ovens
Of the nation is being captured and
promises 10 furnish the fertilizer that will
make the WORKOUT lands of the nation
fertile. Today the right burning OF coal
is removing the pail OF smoke that former
~ hung over the cities of the nation and
damaged each man to an amount that
exceeded his property tax. Today the
theories of yesterday are being coined
into golden dollars and a nation is max
ing conservation a reality.
All this is the measure of but a narrow
span of the broad plan of conservation
for these things are realized In taking
thought as to the right method of doing
one thing. burning coal.
For. when few years back, man be-
gan to take thought of getting all pos
sible out of the resource in hand, coal
being the basis of much of the industry
or the nation. was early given consdera-
ton. 1t was found that of the power
locked UP in a given ton of COAL but
per cent actually did work. when burned
in the ordinary steam engine Most of
the power escaped through the smoke
stack. There was the theoretical % yer
cent of power Yet TO be harnessed. Great
advance has been made toward capturing
additional percentages of this energy
All the St. Louis exposition In 1904 the
highest type of power producer was a
monster 1000 horsepower steam engine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23

ODAY the great
e en- e "a t ors of
power are using the
gas engine I'M
known five years
ago. and in it one
ton Of coal is doing
the work that two
and a half tons
formerly did. To-
day the gases from
the great blast fur
naces in the iron