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into the machine and pulled in two and
the point of breakage accurately noted
These are. of course, the more spec
tacular parts of the work There are
many matters taken up that are less
striking, but which reveal current mis-
takes of builders. The government con-
tracts for cement. for instance until
very recently carried stipulation that
when mixed with water the cement
should generate only a certain heat.
There is a chemical action between the
cement and water that generates heat.
1t was currently believed that no great
amount OF heat should be generated A
ever. that the better the cement the
higher the temperature it produces in tho
mixing. 1t is thereby shown that gov
eminent specifications in this respect have
been enforcing the use Of an inferior
cement.
An investigation is now being made to
ascertain whether or not steel gets tired
slant strain. To determine this the sci
entists are studying the strings Of pianos
Here they find an experiment ready pre-
pared for them. A string on a piano
twenty years old has been under a strain
of some 100 pounds for that twenty
strain? This is the question as yet unde-
cided There are scores of others. Prog
ress Is, however, being made toward solv-
ing them. There is now established an
authority whose business it is to work
out all these problems OF the builders.
In the course of the next few years there
is promised a setting forth of such an
array of practical facts as will very ma
terially affect the building of those struc-
lures that put roofs over the heads Of
every man and every woman. Uncle Sam
is after the facts.
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more and more money. While this work
was being literally supported by a half
dozen organizations including the board
of health, in the traditional tenement sec
tions of Manhattan and Brooklyn, the
northern part of the city was left to
struggle mainly by itself.
Miss Parker labored early and late
without thought Of salary. Gradually she
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Nor can any visitor at the little mix
station doubt the value of Miss Parker
self-denying work or fail to sympathize
with it. Here is an anxious motner
whose baby is fretful, and she imagines
if is growing thin. He is placed on the
scales. Miss Parker has "A record of his
weight of the week before. and shows the
mother that her fears are ungrounded.
She is told, however, that she is dressing
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One of her pet plans is a babies pavfl-
ion. to be established somewhere between.
145th and aDOth streets. With this end
in view, she is planning to hold three
benefit entertainments during the course
of the season. -
Yet, wrapped up as she is in this work
and busy as she is supporting herself at
the same time, Miss Parker is Interested
in other things. She is a member of the
Art OF Right Living Club and is &C
lively interested in work for improving
the condition of shop girls.
She is also greatly interested in the.
peace movement. When she first began
nursing one of her grown-up patients
was a descendant of one of the garde-
du-corps of Napoleon L. He presented
her with square Of linen taken from
cut the linen into strips and had them
autographed by celebrated jurists. states
men, generals and rulers the world over.
1t took five years to complete the col
lection of names. These she mounted on
two flags, the French and the American.
and used them as the covering OF a
peace pillow" This was exhibited at
the peace conferences at The Hague and
St. Louis-at the latter place il was val
ued at $4,000 She presented 1t to An
drew Carnegie at his last birthday.
behalf of peace. and partly-just because
he is a Scotchman, she explained.
THE Little Reformer some call her
But she prefers the title given her by the
Harlem mothers. The Good Angel Of the
Babies.
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A Puzzler.
From the Milwaukee, sentinel.

Two Minneapolis youths have been SEN
fenced to ten days in Jail for calling a
woman a chicken. What would have hap
pened to them II they had called her
hen?
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MISS MABEL PARKER

~ Voluntarily ExlIed Her
self From Wealth and Aristo-
cratic Environment to Save
the Infants of Harlem-Her
Babies Aid Association and
Its Great Wcrk-Has Strug-
gled Against Almost Over
whelming Odds to Carry Out
Her Social Service Ideals
Does the Bulk of the Work
Unaided.
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architects will say that its basement has
settled or some such thing Cracks in
the walls are usually from an entirely
different thing, however. The bureau or
standards has go found, and it has gone
sufficiently into the causes OF cracked
buildings to know. Buildings usually
crack because there is more weight on
one portion Of the wall than upon others,
and because brick and mortar are COM
pressable just as rubber is, but to a less
extent.
Given four-story building, the weight
Of the floors above will fall largely upon
certain pillars or sections of the walls.
These sections are built thicker and
heavier to stand the strain But they
are built of exactly the same brick and
mortar as are the walls nearby, which
bare comparatively little weight. The re-
suit is that the weight congresses the pill
lars while the nearby walls are not so
This causes strain and
probably a crack.
Now, if this building had been rightly
constructed there would have been
stronger resistant material used in the
pillars than in the ordinary wal. There
should have been more cement and less
sand in the mortar But there are few
builders who know anything of this prin-
ciple.
And here is the proof of the correctness
of the principle. A pillar of ordinary
brick and martar is built up in a machine
specially prepared for placing it under
great pressure and measuring that pres
sure and its result. There but two
or three machines in existence that Will
do this, and there are no others that
will record results like that newly in
stale at the bureau of standards
Tais machine Is capable of putting on
a pressure of two million pounds. a con-
siderable weight. 1t is SO delicately ad-
justed that ii takes the exact measure of
the column before the pressure Is APP
piled. Then, when there is upon 1t a
load such as the column in an ordinary
building would have TO bear. another
reading is taken and the compression is
known. This compression is compared
with that which would result from the
weight the other portions of the wall
would have to carry, and lack of align
ment is definitely known.
But this il an unimportant part Of
the work of the great compress. It's
primal purpose is to test the strength
Of materials There is the pillar under
a big building that gives away, for in
stance. That pillar gave way because
the architect who erected it did not
know what load its material would
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family have received society in baronial
halls. She may be found seven days In
the week in a dingy little basement room
in 125th street. New York, from . IN the
morning till noon, bottling and dealing
out milk to mothers and teaching them
10 take proper care of their little ones
In the afternoon she makes and sells
jelly to support herself. for she has spent
all OF her own money in this work and.
unlike many social workers. she has sell
dom seen a salary.
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a tiny girl made a deep impression
the baby mind. which grew stronger
with the passing years. She became a
young woman believing that her family
owed great debt of human life to the
world and that she was the one to dis
charge ii.
The belief that her family was under
a curse seemed not without foundation in
view of conditions in her Immediate
household. Her father. James Boyd Par
ker. a native of England. was educated
at Trinity and brought up in the unos-
tentatious luxury of younger son. in
a family of wealth.
But he was man of democratic ideals
and love of adventure. He fought
through the Crimean war and then mi
grated TO America. When our civil war
broke out he again became a soldier
After the war he settled in New York,
where he was received by the best fami-
lies of that day He married young
woman of good Quaker family. and
rev years later this child of queer ideas"
as the family said was born Soon after
ward the family curse manifested itself
James Boyd Parker lost most of his for
tune.
The knowledge of this only added to the
girls passion to he of use in the world
she took her slender allowance and used
II Tor the needy. She soon outdistanced
ner father in democratic impulses Her
1amily We're ashamed of her ideas
About this time an Australian noble
man Wooed her. He had the parental
favor, but she would not give up her
ideals for him. She left her home and
became a trained nurse. This was the
last blow to the family pride. Though
her father went into business and ac-
culnmuiated another fortune before he
died. she was cut off without a cent
At first she did general nursing she
found Harlem's growing tenement sec
tion and It's. need of beip. however, and
began spending all her spare time and.
incidentally. her meager savings in that
field She became the first independent
social worker In the region. She began
her activities among the newly arrived
foreigners, employing as an interpreter
an Italian boy lent her by the industrial
school.
But all this time her interest I'm babies
was becoming her ruling passion She
believed the most effective way to help
people was to take them at BIRTH The
milk station movement was then In its
infancy in this city. There was no such
institution in Harlem the Bronx. She
believed the milk station. starting as it
did with the most elementary needs of a
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safely carry. He is not largely to blame,
because he had no way Of Knowing.
But with the big testing machine it is
easy to determine just what load any
given kind and size of pillar will carry.
A pillar of ordinary brick and NOR
tar will carry given load. Its carry
ing strength may be increased to a GER
tain point by making the percentage Of
cement greater In the mortar Then
there is the concrete pillar that is sub
1ect to the same conditions. Concrete
Is made of cement. sand and broken
rock: The more cement, the more ex-
pensive the pillar, but the stronger 1t
Is. With the pressure machine 1t will
be possible to prescribe just the size
of pillar and proportion of ingredients
needed to carry a building of a given
weight.
The same machine may be used in
testing the resistance of any sort Of
building material. There are different
stones for instance. builder does not
know whether a certain sandstone Is
strong enough for a basement for a
given building. He knows, however,
what is the weight it will have to
carry. The bureau of standards is test
ready to report on the stone in ques-
ton just now, it will be in the near
future.
The bureau has installed two Of these
pressure machines. One of them is
comparatively a toy. 1t is of but 2OO,-
600 tons capacity, as against the 2OOO.-
600 tons Of the other one The machines
are hydraulic. controlled by water pres
sure. which is the method Of getting
the greatest pressure of them all. The
machine is capable of most delicate ad-
1ustment. and as a consequence may be
set TO register automatically just what
pressure Is being applied This pres
sure may be increased gradually to the
breaking point and observations taken
at all stages of the operation. When a
test is completed record is to be had
of the given material, its resistance it's
compressibility. it's breaking point and
all. This is the data that is to be given
to the public.
The great steel beams that go into the
making Of monster bridges may be tested
on these machines. Just the strength Of.
one of these beams has always been
hard to get at because nothing was to be
had strong enough to test them. The
strain on these beams may be in a score
Of ways depending on the purpose they
are to serve and their strength in these
different directions should be known.
Likewise, by reversing the machine. 1t is
possible to test the strength of great
cables, such as go into the making of
suspension bridges. These may be put
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GROUP OF MOTHER AND BABIES
WHO ARE BENEFITED.
tering stations, infant deaths had steadily
increased with the rapidly growing popu-
lation.
So again she began her appeal for help.
Some OF the churches gave her little
money. She got a milk company to sell
her milk at cost. With 500 on hand and
boundless faith that the rest would come
from somewhere. she rented her little
basement room and went at it. Two
friends who work down town all day got
up with her at 5 o'clock in the morning
and helped her bottle her milk. Dr. Ar
thur r. Green, who had been with the
Strauss laboratories for many years. vol
unteered his services whenever she should
need a physician. But most of the time
the work Of the station devolved on her
alone, as it still does. And in the after
noon she went on with her jelly making.
But before the hundred dollars was
gone, little by little more came in. The
New York Letter Carriers Band gave a
benefit concert for the Harlem babies
Last month the Corse Payton Stock Com
pany gave a benefit, and Miss Parker
stood on the street corner and sold tick
cts for 1t. Mrs. Straus sent her a check
She also interested the men and religion
forward movement and the League for
Social Service and the Harlem Board of
Trade.
But again the demand for the work is
fast outgrowing the supply of funds
There are now nearly two hundred babies
enrolled at the little station, and Miss
Parker is looking for larger quarters,
with her usual faith that somehow the
rent money will be forthcoming
At the same time there are coming to
her ears insistent calls from two other
neighborhoods that realize the need of
this work, one farther north in Harlem
and one across the river in the Bronx
in the region of 155th street, where a
vast Italian population has sprung up
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her baby too warmly for this hot wealth
err The little clothes are readjusted and
mother and baby go away happy.
Your little girl is running down. III
try to get a place for YOU both in the
country for two weeks" she tells another
woman.
Here is an olive-skinned Italian girl
whose first baby has just been barely res
cued from death. Behind her is an III
clad, overworked Jewish mother. with
the youngest of ten children in her arms.
She has been persuaded that she still has
something to learn about the care OF her,
young.
There is a frail little girl of thirteen.
who has the care of two baby sisters
while mother works. She Is beginning the
study OF mothercraft early. NOT the
least interesting is a small boy. not more
than twelve who plays the part of combi-
nation little father and mother to a tiny
baby brother and with Miss Parkers
help is playing ii well.
Not q few of those who gather daily
have been given bread when money and
credit were gone. To some she has pro-
vided money for rent day. to others the
price of moving.
Miss Parker's dream is to maze her
Babies Aid Association q permanent and
well financed organization to look after
the needs of the Bronx and Harlem. In
cooperation with the Babies Welfare
Association. which includes all the or
ganizations in the greater city interested
in infant welfare, among them the board
of health. -
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Not a very attractive place 10 an IN
sympathetic onlooker. Yet IL is to the
needy an oasis in that great desert OF the
Harlem tenement section, which mas
grown so rapidly in the last few years
that the great social service organizations
have hardly yet awakened to its needs.
This pioneer in the social service world
of northern New York city is Miss Mabel
Parker head and soul and most OF the
body of the Babies Aid Association. guide
and friend of 900 ignorant mothers and
caretaker of their babies.
She Is frail. slender. fair-hairad lit
fIe woman full of pent-up enthusiasm
and firm determination. She is not more
than five feet tall, yet the quiet dignity
yerging on shyness that Is ners gives the
impression of strength The intense. lever
glance of her clear blue eyes indicates the
fervor. balanced by good judgment, with
which she works.
Search for the motive OF Miss Parker
life of self-sacrifice brings out a strange
tals, of a bot on the family eScutcheon-
At least II has always seemed blot TO
the sensitive-souled little woman IN the
nurses uniform. though 1t involves only
the heartlessness of one man. IL reminds
one Of the cure of blood in Hawthorne
weird tale of The House of Seven Ga
bIes.'
Two generations ago one OF her family
owned a great landed estate in Ireland.
The name she does not give, for il Is her
lifelong shame. 1t may have been one
of the Boyds. the NcCrearys, the Tates.
or the Grubbs. for the blood of all those
aristocratic families flows in her veins.
4 i
ON this estate was a prosperous and
happy little village. But on an evil day
an epidemic of cholera broke out. The
simple villagers We're not prepared to
cope with it. They needed medical aid,
They needed money for competent nurs-
ing and better food. The landlord was
appealed to, but he shut himself in his
great house and refused TO help them.
The plague spread unchecked till IT had
wiped out the little village. At least, so
runs the family tradition.
This tale told to Miss Parker when she
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she attacked it undaunted. She was more
than ever convinced of the value of this
work and of the need Of Harlem and the
Bronx. In those parts of Manhattan
where milk stations had been most thor
oughly organized and equipped the death
rate among babies had been greatly low
cred in 1911. In the region to the north.
except in the little areas affected by scat
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The Lord sends only few like Miss
Parker fervently exclaimed worn and
anxious mother as she departed. carrying
a milk bottle under one arm and a
sickly baby on the other
The visitor passed in through a group
of other mothers and little mothers
awaiting their turn In the window was
a plain little sign reading, Babies Aid
Milk Station" Unless one looked sharp
it would be passed by unnoticed by a
stranger. though all the poor mothers
of that section know the place Well
Going down the stone steps. one is in
a little bare room. furnished with less
than two dozen implanted chairs and a
small wooden table. There is one win
dow, through which one may catch
glimpses of shoes, usually much worn,
as the people of that crowded section
pass up and down the street.
In the window. on the ledge, is pair
of scales, used for noting Improvement
in the little visitors. At the rear Is an
other room of the same size, though
darker 1t has only one little window.
which looks out on nothing at all. The
furnishings are just milk bottles.
counter. improvised from small wooden
table, the twin of the one in front, stands
in the doorway between the two rooms
Here Miss Parker presdes.
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