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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-11

The more they reveal of that ben
zoate case the worse Il looks for the
man who mixed the labels.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-11

Another honorary degree has been
conferred on DR.. Eliot. They will
soon fill his five-foot bookshelf.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-11

Former President Simon of Hayti,
it appears, has gone to Jamaica, doubt
less to ginger up.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-11

"Madero Uses Iron Hand" says a
correspondent. Perhaps Mexico will
learn not to miss Diaz so much, after
all.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-11
JULY CIRCULATION.
1881

state of Nebraska, County OF Douglas, S..
Dwight Williams, circulation manager Of
Inc Bee Publishing company being duly
sworn, says that the average daily crcu-
IAton, less spoiled, unused and returned
copies, for the month OF July 1911 was
H'Ss DWIGHT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager.
subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this I'd day of August, 1911
NSealD ROBERT HUNTER.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-11

Boost for Omaha and Omaha will
boost for all of US.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-11

1t seems that those sheriffs have no
rule against a third term presidency,
nor any prejudice against it, either.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-11

A st. Louis man killed himself be-
cause his wife loved him too ardently.
A case of being loved to death?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-11

Now it's up to Mike" to snow that
he can come back.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-11

Run along, Mr.. Perkins, you need
not answer those embarrassing ques-
lions.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-11

Remember that old song, THE Sun
Will Ever Sinner"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-11

Wisconsin Probation Law Called a
Serious Blunder. Headline. What,
Wisconsin's?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-11

entertaining myself in your sbsence.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Chitina leader., 1911-08-05

so large a wave acme down the river
that the caisson was washed off the
cribs and carried Is feet inshore anG
six feet down stream. The cables
by which it was anchored prevented
it from going further down stream
and a derrick which it wrecked, pre-
vented it from going farther inshore
After this it was lacked into position
and sunk without special incident or
difficulty.
A second rock crusher and con-
crete mixing plant was set up on
the north bank of the river. to sup
ply material for pier No. 8. and for
abutment No. 2. A trestle was built
from the north shore to the pier, and
the necessary material handled over
that.
We began sinking the caisson for
pier No. 8 on July 29th and landed
it August oath. with the cutting
edge so feet below the surface of
the bar and on boulders and gravel
At the time the caisson was landed
the cutting edge was 90 feet below
the water surface, and the air pres
sure required was 265 pounds per
square inch. or practically the hy-
drostatic head. This pier was COM
pleted on September 18th.
At the site of pier No. 2, an ar
tificial island was built in l 4 feet OF
water, by taking out over the cable
way. ship loads of gravel in coal
sacks and dumping them at the
proper place. This was begun on the
1st of September. and fortunately the
The Chitina leader., 1911-08-05

conditions were available. Mr.. John,
son was also instructed to make a
careful profile of the river. make test
borings with a Davis Calyx power
drill, and measure out base lines
and set permanent monuments on
them. The drill and 16 horse pow
er boiler were hauled by team from
mile 8, the end of the track at that
time to the lower end of Childs gla-
cier mile 46. and from this point
taken 21a miles to the bridge site
the drill.
The borings subsequently made
showed nothing but boulders and
cemented sand and gravel in the bed
of the river, after the first 20 feet
in depth. The first 20 feet. the
sand and gravel being loose. The
boulders ranged in size from l cubic
foot to 20 cubic yards.
The flow of icebergs from Miles
glacier made any construction in
the main channels of the river an
impossibility during the season of
glacial activity, i. e., from June 1st
to November LIST, and inadvisable at
any time. In 1907, icebergs were
observed passing the bridge site, that
were 20 feet out of the water. and in
nhcnr,-Al i,,r tho oh
mel, under the location of the $50
foot span. 5Ox10O feet s feet out of
the water, and moving at the rate
of 70 miles per hour, notwithstand-
ing the fact that they were dragging
on the bottom.
The Chitina leader., 1911-08-05

February 14th, 1910. and the vibra
ton was not worth considering.
Owing TO damage to the temporary
track in the delta by the flood o.
February, 1909. we did not reach
the bridge site until April 1st and re-
ceived the last material for one Gals
son on the ground April Gath, 1909,
The river at this time showed signs
of beginning to break up, and it was
deemed unwise to attempt to erect
more than one caisson on the ice. it
the river after the glacial ice began
to move, unless it was several feet
in the ground.
On May 4th. we completed erect
ing caisson No. l, and although the
working cham Der was not entirely
caulked, we Immediately lowered the
caisson to the bottom of the river,
and began sinking At first it was
necessary to run three of the COM
pressors to lower the water in the
working chamber to within one foot
of the cutting edge. We continued
calking while the caisson was being
sunk and in about two weeks had the
working chamber so tight that one
compressor would supply the air.
The river began breaking up May
free of ice, but there was no flow
of glacial ice until June 16, when We
had the cutting edge 10 feet below
the bed of the river, and the ice did
no damage of any consequence
Previous to the breaking up of the
The Chitina leader., 1911-08-05

From our observations the range
from low to high water was found
to be "a feet. and we were unable
10 find any drift to show the water
had ever been any higher than oh
served by us. In 1908, the break
UP of the ice in the river took place
on June 18th. On February 19, 1909,
some unknown disturbance took
place in Miles Glacier, and although
the weather was cold. the river rose
30 feet. taking the ice out COM
pletely, and doing some damage to
the temporary track across the delta
below. Inc ice that froze up after
this flood, was not as thick as it
had been before. and the river was
open on May 9Th.
After observing the ice flow for
the entire summer of 1908, the fol
lowing span lengths numbered from
the south side of the river, We're
decided upon. Span No. /. 400 feet,
span NJ oVp ItCl, span NJ. u, =
feet and span No. 4 400 feet This
arrangement places each of the piers
on a bar, and out of the path of the
heaviest flow of ice. In fact, during
1908 no icebergs crossed the site of
either of the piers during daylight.
We decided that we could safe
/ " NA ha
tween April 1st when the wind and
general weather conditions would
not be very severe. and the break
ing up or the river. Span No. 8
could possibly be erected in the same
way, but it was uncertain. Span No.
could be erected on falsework at
any time, except during high water.
AS it was important that the bridge
be completed during 1910, span No.
3 was designed to erect as a can't
lever, using spans No. 2 and No. 4
as anchor arms. These two last arms
We're to be connected by temporary
members from the top end post pins,
to the same pins in the $50 foot
span, with adjusting wedges, in con-
nection with wedges between the end
shoes at the expansion end and cast
| iron blocks at the fixed end of the
$50 foot span, to hold the outer end
of each half of span No. 3 sufficient
ly high, to be able to make the con-
nection at the center span. The fix
ed ends of spans No. 2 and No. are
next to span No. 8. It was necessary
for spans No 2 and No. each to
have rigid lower chords if they were
to be used, as anchor spans. and span
No. to be erected cantilever would
The Chitina leader., 1911-08-05

water in the river had fallen so that
the velocity of the current in the
channel had decreased from 90 miles
per hour to nearly ! miles per hour,
and ) miles per hour over the pier
site. or this method would have been
impossible Also the falling of the
river had made it impossible for
icebergs OF any size to come in here.
in fact only TWO or three small ones
struck the island during its construc-
ton and the amount Of damage was
small. The island was completed
September 18TH.
Caisson No. was erected and W.
began sinking September 27th. land
ing it November End, with the cut
ting edge at practically the same ele-
walton as that of caisson No. / o.
elevation of S1.95. The material
gone through after the first 10 feet
of boulders and loose gravel, lin the
river bed proper, not the island) was
cemented sand, gravel and boulders.
Freezing weather had begun by
the time We We're ready to start
concreting the pier proper. so 2
house was built entirely enclosing
space outside of The concrete forms
and over the top of the pier. A 2
inch pipe was lain spirally around
the pier approximately 6 feet YER
lical!y between The coils and two 90
n. boilers uSeG 10 supply steam
in order to prevent the concrete
f:om freezing. The water for mix
tag concrete was heated TO 10 de-
grtes Fair, and the sand AMI rock
to about 100 degrees Fair. In this
way Us the concrete was taken out
over the galloway in buckets hold
ing ga of cubic yard, it was put
i2to the pier at temperature of
about 20 degrees Fair.
The material was taken out for the
abutment foundations by open eXca-
walton. There We're so many boul-
ders in the ground that to drive
CCffer dam first and eXcavate inside
OF it was impossible: therefore, The
excavation was started ana a Golfer
dam of 4x10 linen fir pianks was
driven as the excavation was carried
down but at no fine w5s the bottom
of the Golfer dam below the eXca-
walton. The only objection to this
plan was that it necessitated quite
a large pumping plant. We had, for
keeping the water out of these eXca-
vations, two S-inch, two 6-inch and
one 5-inch centrifugal pumps, besides
The Chitina leader., 1911-08-05

require a rigid lower chord except
the middle panel, so span No. l was
designed the same way as spans No
and No. for the sake of uniform
ity. On account of the extremely
high winds from September to April,
these spans were designed for a wind
pressure of 40 pounds per square
foot on the loaded structure. and for
60 pounds per square foot on the
unloaded structure.
The piers were designed with the
top at elevation 16S.02. which would
place bottom of the lower chords
practically 80 feet above extreme
high water, and is ample to clear all
icebergs passing under the bridge.
The great flow of icebergs made
detached icebreakers necessary at
piers No. l and No. 2, pier No. be
ing located out of the heavy ice flow
at any stage of the river. The ice
breakers and all of the piers are ar
mored with Sc pound rails placed
with the ball out and flush with the
outside of the concrete the rails
being anchored in the concrete with
Johnson corrugated bars feet
long. passed through holes in the
web of the rails at intervals of "a
inches and bent inward to the flange.
Designing caiSSOnS large enough
to allow ample room for the base of
the piers, gave a total load per
square foot on the foundation of pier
No. of 4.0S tons, by assuming the
almost impossible conditions of two
maximum loaded trains meeting on
The Chitina leader., 1911-08-05

ice We had put across the river g
! l2 inch steel wire cable, supported
by towers 100 feet high on each
bank, to deliver concrete and other
supplies to the piers and across the
river by cable trolley. The carrier
was designed and made on the works
after being advised by two firms
that no carrier was manufactured
which would operate over our length
of span, viz. 1900 feet. The heav-
lest load carried On OFT galloway
was the man lock, which weighed
5000 pounds.
We also put across the river twc
1-inch steel cables resting on sixty
foot towers on each bank. and on
sixty foot double tower on the edges
of the crib above caisson No |. Sus-
pended from these latter cables. We
carried an s inch. double rivited
Hanged end steel pipe, tested for 125
pounds pressure, for supplying COM
pressed air to the caissons, and a
foot bridge of l inch by IL inch
planking. We supplied air through
the eight inch pipe to pier No. 3,
distance of 1900 feet from the
power house, and on the south bank
of the river with loss of only one
pound from the indicated pressure
at the power house.
Caisson No. l was landed on July
18th. on boulders and gravel, with
the cutting edge Sc feet below the
bed of the river.
Pier No. l was completed August
oath, without any serious accidents
from the ice, although it at one time
broke part of the forms out, and at
another time took out the tower on
the crib, which had been supporting
the cables for carrying our air supply
pipe, just few minutes after we
had transferred the cables to new
tower of 12X12 inch timbers, sup
ported by cables slung over the UNI
finished pier.
Caisson No. 3 was erected in June,
on the pier site, on a bar, before the
river rose. Before the working
chamber was completely caulked the
water in the river began to rise and
the glaciers became active. The Gals
son was anchored to the shore by
long cables reaching as far up the
stream as possible, and in a couple
OF days the calking was completed
the air was turned on and we be-
gan lowering. Just as we commenc-
ed to lower, an iceberg broke from
Miles glacier, three miles away, and
The Chitina leader., 1911-08-05

the pier. This without taking into
consideration the skin friction OF
bouyancy of the portion below water
AS pier No 3 would have to sustain
the greatest load the matter OF sus-
tanning power of the foundation was
not further considered.
The track reached this bridge site
in October 1908, but for a distance
of approximately miles on the del
ia was lain temporarily on the sur
face of the ground and the severe
weather conditions prevented the con
struction of the grade that season.
The power house equipment con-
sisted of 6, $50 h. z. Erie City, Glass
B. horizontal boilers, 4. 14x16 dup
lex compressors manufactured by the
Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co.. each
capable of furnishing 1900 cubic feet
of free air per minute and compress
sing to 80 pounds, l Chicago Pneu-
matte Tool Co., 10x12X10 compressor
capable of COMPRISING to 125 lbs,
l Cochrane feed water heater and l
Schaife filter. each capable of sup
plying boilers aggregating 1000 h.
p, and l, 80 kilowatt Ridgeway dyn-
amo with direct connected so h. p.
McEWen engine. The filter for the
power house being necessary by the
reason of having to take our water
supply from the Copper river which
carries great quantities of fine silt
in suspension.
We expected to he able to reach
the bridge site March 1st., 1909. in
time to erect caissons No. l and No.
2 on the ice and sink them stimuli
taneously, and if conditions had
had been such that we could have
reached there when we expected TO
do so, this would have been done
and the disagreeable and expensive
winter work of 1909 and 1910 would
have been avoided.
All the equipment was purchased
self contained in so far as possible,
so as to avoid the delay necessary
to build substantial foundations for
the machines. All the machines were
operated on a foundation consisting
of II inch by II inch timbers drift
bolted together and resting on the
surface of the ground, which con-
sists of gravel and boulders. The
only precaution taken was that the
timbers were not allowed to rest
on filled ground, or in other words,
the ground was eXcavated level. The
compressors We're operated almost
continuously from May 4th, 1909, tc
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-10-26
How to Boil Rice.

When properly boiled rice should be
snowy white, perfectly dry and smooth
and every grain separate and distinct.
To attain this end put a quart Of wa
ter on the fire and let it boil well, with
a ~teaspoonful of salt. Wash a cupful
Of rice well in cold water. When the
water commences to boil we'll add the
rice. Stir occasionally and gently with
a wooden spoon. The boiling water
will toss the grains of rice and pre-
vent them from clingirg together. AS
soon as the grains commence to soften
do not under any circumstances stir
or touch the rice again. Let it con-
tinue to boil rapidly for about twenty
minutes or until the grains begin to
swell out and it appears to thicken.
This is easily ascertained by touching
one of the grains With your finger.
When it has reached this stage take
the cover off and pour of the water
and set the pot in the oven so that the
rice may swell Up. Let it stand in the
oven about ten minutes. Do not let it
brown. but simply dry-that is. let the
water which rises dry out of the rice.
Take it Off and let it stand q few min
utes. Then pour out into q dish. Ev-
cry grain will be white and beautiful
and stand apart, because the drying
in the oven will have evaporated the
moisture, leaving the rice soft. snowy
white and perfectly dry.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-10-26
HINTS FOR THE
BUSY HOUSEWIFE
Folding Wall Rack For Dry
ing Clothes.
CLOTHES RACK.

During the winter months the house
wife often finds it very difficult to dry
the wash during inclement weather.
This problem can be easily solved by
constructing a folding wall rack, as
4hown in illustration.
A square form is built of two inch
wide lumber. This should be the
length you wish the rack and about
eighteen inches wide. 1t is built to
hang against the kitchen wall. where
it can be securely fastened with screws
at the height desired. Now cut twelve
pieces one inch square and seventeen
inches long and four pieces one inch
square and nine and one-half inches
long. Bore one-half inch holes in each
end of these four pieces about three
fourths inch from the end. Bore three
holes of the same diameter in each one
of the seventeen inch strips, placing
| one hole at each end and one in the
| center Of each strip.
The rack is assembled by using round
sticks of wood one-half inch in diam
eter. AS these serve to hold the fold
ing strips together and also to hang
the clothes upon, they must be the
length of the entire rack. The manner
Of assembling is exhibited in the illus.
tration, which shows the drier partly
opened. By simply drawing out hor1.
zontally it can be extended to hold the
entire wash and when not in use can
hn Ducha6 hack orainSt tho wall on
tirely out of the way.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-10-26
AT LANGDON two DAYS ONLY
New Columbia Hotel Saturday Nov.
4th 1907 p. m. to 8 p. m. Sunday
Nov. 5th 9 a. m. to IL m.
FREE MEDICAL SERVICES GIVEN
Comprising Full Staff of Specialists
Treating Diseases Scientifically
Without Operation

The University Doctors hre duly organ
lied and licensed by the state for the
purpose of treating diseases, deform-
iii = and all durable ailments without
surgict operations. All that is asked
in return for these valuable services
is that very terson treated will state
.he result obtained to their friends and
thus prove to the sick and afflicted in
this locality, that at last treatments
have been discovered that are absolute
iy sure and certain in their effect
By their developed system no more
operations for all endicitis. gall stones,
tumors, goiter, piles or cancer They
We're among the first in America to
do away with the knife, blood and pain
in the successful treatment and cure
of these dangerous diseases.
Diseases of the stomach, intestines,
liver, skin,..nerves, heart, spleen, kid
neys and bladder, rheumatism, scia-
tica, dab, ties, bedwetling, leg ulcers,
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gratifying success. Consumption, asth-
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absolutely cured with o combination of
medicine, hygiene, diet, exercise and
the important uses and advantages of
clothes, occupations, etc. Many cases
of deafness are frequently cured in
sixty days. Cataract, graduated lids
and old, weak, watery, sore eyes treated
after a fashion that knows no fail. In
long standing, deep.seated. chronic
diseases of men and women, and slow
growths and undeveloped chlldren's
diseases, a treatment that is absolute
ly certain in it's effects c-n be had
and depended upon. Thousands of
patients throughout the Northwes, at
test the ability Of the University Doc
tors to cure these dread diseases.
No matter what your ailment may
be, no matter what Others have told
you, no matter what experience you
have had with other physicians, it
Will be to your advantage to treat with
the University Doctors Specialists.
Even if your case is incurable they
will give you such advice that will re-
lieve you and stay the diseases. There
is no string tied to this proposition,
they mean just what they say and will
do to your advantage what they con
tend. Every specialist is prominent in
his line and stands at the head of the
profession.
If you have kidney or bladder trou-
BILE, bring a two-ounce bottle of your
urine for chemical analysis and mi.
croscopic examination.
Remember this free offer is for this
trip only.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-10-26


Photo by American Press Association,
LARRY 1AJoIE, c1EvELAND's GREAT BAT
TER AND INFIELDER.
painful because I wasted so much en-
ergy on the blamed thing and because
the best I got was the hawhaw.
"It was way back in the days when
I was on the old Philadelphia team,
which, as you will remember, was
some aggregation of swatsmiths. AL
though I was rather new to the big
league in those days, l seemed to fit
in with that bunch all right and was
hitting along with the rest of the tribe.
"In those days the right field fence
in Philadelphia was close, and the
fielders used to play to take them on
the bound as they came back from
the fence. In one game, if I emem-
Der rightly, three men were thrown
out at first on what should have been
the safest kind Of hits. But that is
another story.
"The afternoon l made my great hit
was one of good, husky batting. Life
| was miserable for all the pitchers and
| especially for our performers. When
| the last half of the ninth arrived we
| were to the bad something like 8 to 7.
There were a hit, an out, a base on balls
and a pop fly. I came up, with men on
first and second, two gone and the
| chance to tie or win before me.
1.-THE ball came over kissing hot. l
grazed it, and that was all. The next
one must have been intended simply as
a teaser, for it drifted over so slow and
easy that q baby could have hit it with
a wire. I thought the hurler never
meant to get it near the pan, but was
playing wide to get a possible fall out
of the runner, who was leading off sec
ond. Anyhow, it came over the size Of
a balloon. oh, joy!' said 1, and !
leaned the bat against that ball with
all my weight and muscle.
"To the best of my recollection !
never before or since hit a ball so hard
as that one. 1 could almost feel the
leather being driven into the core of
the yarn and rubber by the force of
that tremendous drive, and the sting
ran up the bat. The ball went out,
not whizzing, not sailing, but faster,
more terrifcally speedy than anything
I ever laid the wood against in all my
life.
'sThere was a glad o from the
multitude, and I went down to first,
bent for a home run, while two men
few along ahead of me. Round first
/ went and steamed for the middle cor
ner. Suddenly a man rose up in my
tracks and stuck the ball into my dia-
phragm-it was the third out, and the
game was over.
"How and whyfore? Only this: l
had hit the ball so fearfully hard that
1t rebounded back from the right field
wall like a snapped piece of rubber
band. 1t shot straight back all the
way to the diamond and leaped right
into the second baseman's hands for a
sure trap and the last one Of the after
noon. And that is the story OF the
hardest ball ! ever hit. Do you won
der that the memory gives me q painT'