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ington which need to prove my point are
not available, but / have the statistics
of another city, Fall River, Mass. There
the infant mortality in the tenement sec
ton of the city Is five times as great pro-
portionately as the infant mortality In
the better sections of the town. or
course. among the very poor in Fall River,
as in Washington. the doctors will tell
YOU that marasmus or malnutrition, or,
to speak more plainly, starvation. is one
of the great causes of infant mortality
among the very poor-that is. diseases
that might be cured by the check book,
as Samuel Hopkins Adams has said.
But 1t is also true that dense, rank ig-
norance on the part Of the mothers as to
the care of the infants is also a very
great cause of mortality among the poor
infants.
Out at Camp Good VIII the mothers
with infants are not only given two weeks
of fresh air. plenty of good food and alb
solute absence of present cares and duties.
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but they also learn things which that
much overrated instinct never taught
them in regard to the care Of the young
sters.
And then the benign effects of cleanli-
ness is borne in upon the consciences of
the mothers and children likewise. and
thereby a very good work is accom-
plished in behalf Of both physical and
moral health. l have belief, and have
never heard any evidence to the con-
trary. that there is a long list of crimes.
not one of which has ever been commit
ted by man or woman within an hour
OF bathing and putting on clean linen. I
believe the resistance to crime impulses
is weakened, and the softening of the
moral fiber goes on very rapidly when
one begins to lose the first, fresh, moral
invigoration of absolute cleanliness.
So while the doctors and the nurses at
Camp Good VIII are teaching mothers q
few homely but essential facts about the
care of infants. at the same time these
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GOVERNMENT TGyR REFRIGERATION

DY Unique Cold Weather
- Cannerie s-Based on
Tests Now Being Made by
Government - Fighting Hot
Weather With Fire = The
More Coal Burned the More
Cold Prod u C e d Rooms
Chilled by Snowclad Radia-
tors-Unique Cooling Plant
Devised to Make Taft Com
Portable Capitol Now to
Have Seventy-two-thousand-
dollar Plant-No More Extra
Summer Session Terrors-
Cold Waves Always on Tap
Application to Office Build
ings, Hospitals, Theaters and
Private Residences-Experi-
ments Explained by Physicist
in Charge.
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asbestos packing. had in reality. snow
covering just as bona fide as that which
Peary negotiated" upon the utmost tip
top of this old spinning top upon which
we buzz and hustle through celestial
space.
It's like going down into the furnace
room to freeze ice cream for Christmas
dinner-this cool weather Manufacture
but as / said. 1t is the only way 1t can
be done to finish for wheels must go
around to churn either ice cream or
artificial cool weather, only in the latter
process the machinery is so bulky that
IT takes a steam engine to run 1t. and
you can't make steam without fre-or
If you can, II requires heat as not as
fire!
1t is far too hot for me to describe.
or you to ponder over, the details or this
machinery. for neither you nor | sit en-
sconced amid the salubrity OF manufac-
tured autumn breeZes or mountain
Zephyrs In the good old days when
you watched Dinah salt the ice cream
freezer and wondered why, you went to
sound the paternal oracle and learned
some elementary phySicS-a among other
things the law that a solution Of salt and
water requires much greater cold to freeze
il than just plain water out or the olu
pump. And this little simple law is very
lnlDOrtant IN all tn1S HlUueII art VI
manufa cturing cool weather indoors.
Substitute cold water for hot water in
the radiators of your house and you
cool your house instead OF heating IT.
But to get your water cold enough to
make a rerceptible chill during this sum-
mer weather you must cool il down be-
low It's natural freezing point-a de-
lightfuI prospect for that superman. the
plumber. If you used plain, everyday
water, for the pipes would freeze up and
burst before you would have any cool
weather on tap. Salt your water. then.
and II won't freeze till far colder than
would even be needed to give grand
mother a touch of "rheumatiz'' or pneu-
monia That is simple enough, to be
sure. But you do not pile table salt or
rock salt into your modern cool weather
plant Calcium chloride is the salt used
here, and IL you do not know what that
Is you will have TO go TO the cyclopedfa.
Beneath the floor Of the cooi-wave
maker which I saw was big tank. am
pie enough for Mother Hippo. out at the
Zoo, to take her daily soak in. And In
this great receptacle the brine Is mixed
to the proper proportions.
Over against the wall is big cylinder
Of ammonia water, such as you use to
clean your clothes, and this is being sub
jected to heat, which drives off the am
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slum children. Through the interest they
aroused in me j came TO know good
deal about the vastly important problem
involved, and Ii is for that reason that |
gladly accepted Mr.. Parkers invitation
10 visit Camp Good VIII. He is an en-
thusiast in the work, and fortunately 50,
for il takes a great amount of enthusiasm
to carry through such an undertaking.
I found there practically two camps,
one for the boys and one for the mothers
and the girls, and they are real camps,
too, the soldier cot beds being protected
by soldier hospital tents, all put UP and
arranged in a very Soldier-camp like man
ner. with reference to both convenience
and camp hygiene.
The life is as Ii should be, very much
out of doors, the situation OF the camp
in pretty grove lending itself TO this
desirable end. You will find if YOU will
give children entertainment out of doors
you need no effort TO keep them there,
The boys have their base ball field, their
daily trip to the swimming pool. their
croquet and various other enterprises of
sport. and the girls all of these recrea-
tons, except base ball, and to make up
for that they have an open-sided pavilion
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monia gas, which in another cylinder is
condensed under pressure into pure liquid
ammonia. And in third cylinder this
condensed ammonia is rapidly evaporat-
ing. which process produces chill. such
as your skin feels when alcohol evaporates
against 1t, for it is a law of nature that
evaporation produces cold, as you per
ceive whenever the electric fan evapo-
rates the sweat of your brow these tor
rid August days.
Now the brine is pumped by the steam
engine into coil Of pipe which winds
around inside the ammonia cylinder
where the evaporation draws the heat
out of the brine through the metal OF
the pipe. And that is just how the brine
is cooled. Another steam pump sends
this chilled brine up through the building
and by way of tunnel, into the neigh-
boring building as well. 1t rushes through
big pipes which have thick jackets vi
cork, the material which serves best in
keeping the cold from leaking out. Wh1le
l was watching the operation the brine
was going up into the two buildings az
a temperature, by your household ther-
mometer, of "a degrees below freezing.
and after giving off its cold in the va
rious rooms. was coming back warmed
up 10 Is degrees below freezing. from
which it was being cooled again ana
pumped back through the radiators dis
tributed about the various rooms
How did the snow get on the radiators?
1t is the same process by which the Ice
pitcher "sweats." If the pitcher were
filed with brine as cold as this 1t. too,
would be snow-covered instead of merely
clad IN foggy vapor. But the pitcher
does not sweat" as do you. today,
through its pores. Whenever air comes
in contact with som ething very cold the
moisture is "precipitated' out Of 1t and
deposited upon that body. whether 1t be q
pitcher of ice water or q radiator filled
with brine chilled below the freezing
point So the snow upon the engine
cylinder and the radiators is the moisture
that has been squeezed out of the sur
rounding air. And this brings us down
to brief mention Of how this system is
banishing from these rooms not only
Mr.. Sizzard, but his boon companion and
our other arch foe, old General Humidity.
OF whom you are reading SO much in
the papers these days. but Of whose
pedigree you. perhaps, know but little
Mr. SizZard is not such bad fellow IL
he does not bring his friend General
Humidity along with him. And outside
such arid regions as our southwest the
two are as inseparable as Damon and
Pythias. But the system being perfected
by Prof. Rosa vanquishes the two to-
gether. While Mr.. Szzard is being skin
ned alive the generals white hide Is
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ing heat with fame-are burning coal TO
produce cold And. unfortunately. they
are discovering that it requires more
coal to cool rooms than TO heat them
Paradoxical as all this may sound, 1t
IL none the less true. i have just spent
Q half day with the men who are doing
this interesting work-developing the fine
art of keeping cool.
NY attention had been called to this
enterprise by the announcement that
$4,000 was to be expended in cooling the
Senate and House wings of the Capitol
by a system under Investigation at the
national bureau Of standards. and to this
great institution I hied myself. to be re-
ceived by DR.. Samuel w. Stratton. the
director Immediately he had me ush-
cred In to Prof. Edward b. Rosa, the
chief physicist of the bureau.
Beads of perspiration stood out upon my
brow when / entered Prof. Rosa's do
main. and my collar was wilted, while
my cuffs were fast melting But the
physicist invited me into a room where
the climate was salubrious as
balmy day in mid October. Here l pro-
ceeded TO wax cool and inquisitive.
An ermine mantle of snow covered
radiator against the wall, and against
this coil of pipes-like the steam radiator
which heats us in winter-an electric fan
was blowing its breath. which came of
chill and bracng. The windows were
down TO keep out the draught-the hot
draft. be it known. the enervating. de-
biitating fumes Of midsummer.
A big cooling stove set up in another
room was, with contented purrings. COB
bling UP heat and breathing out cold at
q rate which would make a polar bear
dance with glee. In still another room
saw a young physicist watching hy-
drometer and thermometer that were re-
ceiving the air which an electric fan was
pumping over two huge cakes of ice that
stood in a big metallic tub.
And from here / went into the sitting
hot room where they actually manufac-
ture this cool weather that is kept on tap
IN the rooms above.
You would think that this work Of
churning up indoor blzzards was a cool
task. and comfortable one this sizzling
weather. But you are wrong; dead
wrong. Old Horny himself cannot occupy
q sanctum much more uncomfortable than
this modern cave of Aeolus, whence is
distributed the cool weather, which puts
vigor in the bone. blood and sinew Of
Prof. Strattons staff of scientific assist
ants Tor, at least, into such Of them as
are fortunate enough to be engaged in
work requiring a cool atmosphere; for. re-
member. the system Is intended to bene-
Ar the work. not the workers.)
And yet while my collar and cuffs were
again welting. down there in this
shadowy tophet, Prof. Rosa did nothing
less than step up to the engine cylinder.
scrape off some pure and virgin snow,
roll it into ball, and proceed to MUNICH
II with the satisfaction of an urchin who
tastes winters first layer of good SLED
ding So this white engine cylinder.
which masqueraded In the guise of an
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dreds of pounds of ice would be needed
per day, depending on the size of the
room, and although you might suppose
that this air, coming over the melting
ice. would be charged with increased
humidity, as matter Of fact. the ice
greatly reduces the humidity and the pa
tient receives air that is not only cooler
deliver were the ice not In the path of
the breeze"
It was at this point that ! was ushered
into the room where the tests were being
made with the fan and ice. Here are in
progress careful measurements to de-
termine the exact amount Of ice needed
for given amounts of cooling and drying
of the air, and the apparatus measuring
the fall of temperature and humidity re-
bands.
President Taft cools himself by this
system, somewhat elaborated. Directly
under his office room there is an ice box
twelve feet square and eight feet deep.
Into this two or three tons Of Ice are
placed. on racks, each summer day that
he works in this room. A big electric
blower carries the outside air through
this chest, where the heat and humidity
ducts to registers opening into the room
where the chief executive does his work
For hospital wards the ideal device Is
what / termed the cooling Stove'-a
sheet-iron cylinder about four and one
half feet high, grated about the top and
bottom. Inside is 10O-foot coil of one
inch iron pipe, up through which an cleo
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The Versatile Angler.

From Outing.
Concisely. you will do well not 10 be-
come a slave to the theories OF any one
school, of fy-fshing; you will fish with
both the wet and dry ny: you will fish
either up or down stream as the occasion
warrants: your fly book will contain a
generous amount OF flies of varying form.
coloration and size; your rod racx will
hold fy-rods in both the lighter and
heavier weights. and always, when fish
ing a stream new TO you, you VIII listen
to the advice and adopt the methods or
the local ny-casters OF experience
Evening star., 1911-08-13
Author "mm Fadn Visits Camp Good WILL Where the Poor Children Forget Their Poverty

much else 1t was interesting to hear. but
what was more instructive as TO the
work accomplished there was just the tone
in which the children were laughing 1t
was the kind Of laugh that bubbles from
the lips of child when it is unafraid,
innocently happy. and has been recently
washed and cleaned
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being hung upon the coid-distributing
radiators.
In hot weather we generally want our
rooms about degrees cooler and 10 per
cent drier than the air outside Prof
Rosa explained. "If one would. even on a
very hot day, come indoors to remain in
a room as much as II degrees cooler and
20 per cent drier than the outdoor eli
mate he would probably take cold. So
there is no absolute standard OF artificial
indoor climate to be maintained day
after day. IL the temperature outside Us
So degrees it should be reduced indoors
to so degrees, or If it is so degrees out
side 1t should be made S5 degrees with
in. But the chief object, to get comfort,
is to reduce the humidity which. If low
enough to evaporate perspfration, means
comfort. The ideal humidity in which 10
live these days is somewhere between a
and 20 per cent. Above % means dis
comfort, and above 90 suffering. chill
ed brine plant such as this Is self-regu-
latng and cannot go to extremes Of low
temperature and humidity"
Within fifteen minutes after the chilled
brine was turned into one radiator the
humidity in the room had fallen per
cent and accumulated In a crust of dry
snow an eighth OF an inch deep. When it
had reached a thickness of a half inch it
commenced to look glazed and wet. The
fall In humidity had now reached 10 per
cent. Then the melting snow began to
drip into a large stationary pan under
meath. from which pipe carried 1T out
Of the room. And thus was the oppres-
sive humidity taken out Of the room
Meanwhile, the electric fan blowing
against the radiator was driving back
into the room the air which was being
thus dried by contact with the frosted
coil Of pipes. BY the time the humidity
had dropped 10 per cent the temperature
had fallen about five degrees, and this
balance was then maintained throughout
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mothers and their children are seeing and
feeling the amazingly good effects Of
cleanliness. and thereby their morality Is
being aided quite as much as their health.
Sadly enough, some Of the good things
the mothers learn there about the care
of the children cannot be practiced when
they return to their homes. For instance,
they see their children bloom in smiling
content under the influence OF three
hearty meals day in the fresh. clear
air, and they know that three hearty
meals a day are not to be had when
Camp Good Will is left behind; yet it is
the observation of those who watch the
homes of these people after they have
left the camp that there is then a more
intelligent, economical and cleanly use
OF such food as the very poor have.
/ spoke about the pavilion on which the
little girls play and the mothers sit about
in luxurious idleness for two whole weeks.
Just as a boy under fourteen has his
moral fiber enormously toned up by
plenty of proper food and violent out
door exercise, SO girl under fourteen is
endowed with desire for moral cleanli-
ness II romance and poetry can be
brought into her life. I tell you it is
mighty affecting thing to sec q score of
little girls gathered from the homes of
the very poor Of Washington. their eager
eyes lighted up with joy as they are in
troduced to the soul-satisfying delight
OF being taught to dance the mnuet by
one gentleman. while another gentleman
plays the stately measure Tor the udnce
on that piano'in the pavilion You cannot
understand what l have In mind without
seeing II.
After very little association with these
gentlemen these girls lose all their
fright, all timidity, and very soon all
awkardness. They literally bathe in the
pure delight of the music and the dane
ing music, where there are no squalid
surroundings to detract from the meas
ure, no pangs of hunger or fear of
whippings; where 1t seems at last 10
these children that the world Is made for
them, and that IL is a very beautiful
world. very kindly, serene and poetic
world And when a girl OF twelve or SO
has given herself completely to the joys
Of such an experience under such condi-
tons. the genuewomen who have TO look
after her soul will not find they have as
sumed heavy burden.
Mr. Parker supplied me with many in
teresting details about Camp Good VIII,
and Of how the contributions for the work
had increased from about ZOO in 1908
70 considerably over 5000 in 1910. He
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told me with other things the almost
unbelievable quantity of clean and pas
teurized milk which the children drink
and they can drink all they want-of how
some refrain from going to the camp
because their poor rags will not hold to-
gether at all, and they are dressed by
some subsidiary association. All this and
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By JOHN ELFRErH WATKINS.

LIZARDS, like his
satanic majesty.
can best be fought
with fire.
This the ply
sicists of Uncle
Sam ere proving
by a series Of ex-
periuents ] u 8 I
now most season :
able, timely and
apropos.
They are Danish
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from their bath M the swimming pool Of
rhe creek nearby you will find an excel
lent purpose IS being we'll served. 1t IS
Camp Good VIII, where. when l went 70
call one morning recently with Mr.. An
drew Parker. treasurer OF the slmmer
outing committee, for my guide, i found
about leo inmates OF the camp. less than
q score Of whom were poor mothers, anu
the rest poor children all under twelve
years of age.
have seen much of this class of char
ity work. and it has always impressed me
az not only the most interesting, but as
the most effective work that can be done
among the poor. The results, which even
the inexperienced can observe-that is.
tho Immediate good effects upon the
health and spirits OF the inmates OF Camp
Good Wiu-are not the only results. and
perhaps not tho most important. except
that IL is important TO save the lives OF
the youngsters before you can start saw
ing their souls The results not TO be oh
served at once by the inexperienced are
the ones which have always interested
me. because, I suppose. of my consider-
able study OF the conditions of the very
poor In New York city.
-
In one OF my novels, In which some OF
the scenes are laid In the homes OF the
very poor. a character remarks, in effect:
..If you can keep thesa children morally
and physically clean until they are four
teen years old you are not only saving
their lives. but YOU are saving their
souls" TEns View of the problem I have
found to be held by the wisest and most
exportenced men and women working for
the salvation Of the bodies and souls Of
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By Edward w. Townsend.

. top of one OF the
hills in Rock Creek
Park a little way
off Military road
there Is an en-
caInpment of boys
and girls and the
mothers of some
of them, and If
you will visit it
some m o T n / n g
after the kiddies
have come back
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asbestos packing had, in reality, a snow
covering Just as bona fide as that which
Peary negotiated upon the utmost tip
top of this old spinning top upon which
We buzz and hustle through celestial
space.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-01

TN Rooms fo- light house
HeeplnS at 415 Eighteenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-01
Executors Notice.

Estate OF Harry GalerHan. deceased.
The uuG erssEu6d having been ap-
pointed exvcEt:4x Of me last - III and
testament Of harry GaLlernan. 4ate OF
the county Of Rock Island slate 81 III
uCis. deceased. hereby gives uoLISs mat
she VIII appear before Hon ben amin
Bel Judge OF the probate court OF hOSk
Island county, al the probate court
room in the city Of Rock Island. at the
gece n Der term. or the IrsL Monday ~
Decen Der next. al winch tine all per
sons having claITss against said estate
are notified and rUq uesLso 70 attend Tor
the purpose OF having tue same ADJUST
ed All persons indebted TO said estate
are requested 10 make immediate pay
neut L. tie u1deTsig ned
Dated third Day Of October A. D 1911
JENNIE GALLERMAN, ExecutTIG
Marion Z SHe eHey. attorney.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-01

u Ia. RE:NT---Nodern furnished room at
9S9- foHfth avenue. old phone west
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-01
No,ice Of Final Settlement.

Estate Of Jacob Hauck, deceased.
Public notice IS hereby given that the
undersI gned, Central Trust q Savings
Bank, executor Of the last viii and
testament Of Jacob Hauck. deceased
has his day filed its final report aad 81 Z
temeut a. sucn II the probate court Of
Rock Island county, and hearing on said
report has been set for Nov. %. 1914, at
o'Cock a. IL. al which time persons
interested may appear and make ObjeC-
lions thereto. and II no objections are
FLED, said report Will be approved at tnat
time, and the Undersigned viii ask Tor
an order Of distribution, and Will also
ask to be discharged
CENTRAL TRUST < SAVINGS BANK,
Executor Of the LSsl VIII and Iesta-
n.eut OF Jacob Eauck, deceased
Hugh z. Curtis, attorney.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-01
Administrator,s NotIce.

Estate OF Elizabeth Runge. deceased
The undersigned having been aD-
pointed administrator Of the estate OF
Elizabeth RunEe late OF the county OF
Rock Island state Of Illinois. deceased.
hereby gives notice that ne viii appear
before the probate court of Rock Island
county. at the probate court room, IN
the city Of Rock Island. at the January
term, on the hTst Monday IN January
next. at which time al persons having
claims against SAID estate are notIIlsd
and requested 10 attend for the pErpOse
Of having the same adjusted. All per
sons Indebted 20 said estate are re-
ouested TO make immediate payment TO
the uuders4 gHed-
DATED 2sth day Of October. A D.
1901 &. r. RCEGE.
admin Is .Ea.Jr.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-01

y kEN I--Furnished rooms for light
'-''iSe keeping a 307 Third street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-01

WANTED VIII take six horses for
winter keep on my farm. Inquire OF
George Wagner. Phone I452 west