Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-19
Magazine Review
A Greenhouse on Wheels.

! greenhouse or winter production, but
one grower has developed plan OF
transplanting his greenhouse instead
Of the plants. Five light tracks, plac-
ed on concrete foundations, were laid
length~ise of the carnation beds, and
a greenhouse ia It. long by IS it.
wide, consisting of four bays and Gov.
ering a total ground space of 24,360
SO. it., was built on wheels. Plants
are set out In the carnation beds in
the spring and the travelling green
house is moved into position over
them ir the fall, thus allowing the
! growing process to continue without
interruption. Pictures of this unus4
ual greenhouse appear in the July
| Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Moving a Railroad Six Thousand Miles
| The Secretary of the Interior favors
a trunk line, in Alaska. from tide
water at Resurrection Bay to the
valley Of the Yukon, connecting that
great interior waterway with the
| coast, and SO with the world. 1t will
| be a government railroad.
Secretary Fisher .alls attention to
the fact that coaling station has
already been established by the Navy
Department at Resurrection Bay, and
urges that the development of har-
Dor and the construction of railroad
starting from Seward as a southern
terminus, to pass northward through
the Matanuska coal fields, would be
justified by military and naval, as
we'll as commercial, considerations.
Incidentally, it would open up tle
great agricultural possibilities of
Alaska.
The most interesting suggestion he
makes, however, is that much of the
contemplated railroad and its equip
ment shall be transferred from the
1sthmus of Panama by water, dist
ance Of nearly six thousand miles, to
Resurrection Boy. For it appears
tiat, incidentally to the digging of the
ditch, the Canal Commission has had
to construct and operate many miles
of road for which there will be no
further use when the Job is finished.
An immense amount Of material and
equipment-rails, locomotives, cars,
etc.-will have to be sold at junk
prices unless it is utilized in the way
now proposed.
The canal-Mgging job is so nearly
finished that the surplus machinery
and material can be released at Pana.
is found in Alaska. 1t includes exca-
waiting and wrecking outfits, steam
drills, piledriving machines, ETC., we'll
adapted for the construction of the
proposed railroad. There are 25Q
miles of seventy-pound rails which
has been in service on the Isthmus
from three to four years, having orig !
inally cost $31 ton. Fifty miles of
this will be available for shipment by
the end of the present year.
The July Metropolitan.
In the July issue, the Metropolitan
declares editorially for Socialism and
publishes the first of series Of ar
ticles by Morris Hillquit setting forth
briefly and simply the doctrine and
aims of the Socialist movement. This
radical departure is further signalized
by new department of editorial
comment called "Tidings of the
Times" by William Mailly, a we'll
known Socialist writer. Poll ical doc
trine does not intrude on tie fiction
or other features of the magazine,
however, and the July number shows |
an unusually attractive AMI varied |
table of contents. "The Menace of |
the Broken Rail-" by Peter Clark |
Macfarlane, is a carefully-prepared
and interesting article which answers
satisfactorily the questions raised by |
every one as to this frequent cause
of railroad accidents. In Province |
town, the Heart of Cane Cod" Rob-
ert Haven Schaugler continues his
series on Romantic America" with |
g. rediscovery of the most pictures
que spot in New England. The text
is plentifully illustrated with draw
ings as well as frontispiece in COL
ors. Another bit of attractive writ
ing is "The Trainon Cafe Concert"
by Charles Belmont Davis, an &C.
count of an old-world music hall.
Other articles, all of distinctly
progressive" character are Behind
the Rail, the Story of Woman Lob
byist," by Leroy Scott; Angus Nc
Sween's account Of the origin of the
break between Taft and Roosevelt
and H. j. Smiths story Of Dean Sum-
mer's stirring campaign against vice
and disease in Chicago. "Water-fly-
ing-A New Sport" by Henry Wood
house tells of the recent development
of the hydro-aeroplane. The fiction
in the July issue is of the usual high
standard, including stories by John
Corbin, Cushing Stetson, Gouverneur
Morris and a one.act play "Tae Mer'
ry, Merry Cuckoo" by Jeanette
Marks.
As Hopkinson Smith Sees New York.
1t is a pleasure to read in the July
Worlds Work Mr. F. Hopkinson
Smiths Characterization Of certain
familiar aspects of New York City!
They are as deity toned as the char
coal sketches that accompany them,
and as suggestive of the author. Mr..
Smith finds the good old town rich
field for metaphor.
New York City, below its man.
piled coverings" he writes, lis a