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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-18

For 30 years lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has hecn the sta ntlard remedy for fe-
male ills. No sick with wOmans ailments
does Justice to herself who will not try this fa-
la0.is medicine, made from roots and herbs. it
has restored SO many suffering women tohealth.
un.Write to LYDIA f. PINkHAM MEDiCiNECO.
&dzsf' stG0NEI ENTIALl LYNN, MASS, for advice.
Your letter will he opened, read and answered
hv s. woman and held in strict confidence.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-18
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Hugh ]. Chisholm of Portland was
elected a director Of the Maine Cen
trail Railroad to i'll the vacancy eans-
ed by the death of Former Governor
John r. Hill, III Il meeting Of the di-
rsetors IN Boston, Tuesday
At a meeting Of the organized ear
penters of Bangor. Tuesday uisht, a
committee WAS appointed 10 confer
with the contractors on raise OF
wages. Carpenters there are paid from
$3.50 to IS for eight hours and the city
is practically open sii2p Tie union
carpenters viii make a request fer a
minimum wage of 81 cents an hour,
or $3.50 for an eight-hour day.
William Gasne. a paia1er, living at
80 Rartlett street Lewiston WAS
drowned in the canal near the bnidsa
on Lincoln street, early Tuesday
morning. Several police officers heard
shouts from the canal a little after
o'clock and running to tho place
found a man struggling in the water,
Eefore they could reach him he sank
Gaene was "a years old. \ Wife, an
adopted daughter and. brother, A1I-
rele of Lewiston. survive.
The aHnonnt @lnent was mace, IueS-
day afternoon. by Pres. Hyde of
Bowdoin college that in response to
tkc request OF % students in the three
lower classes, who arc not members
of any fraternity, the finance commit
tee has offered and the faculty has
accepted one Of the college houses to
be- used for a society house. All tile
non-fraterrifH men in college will be-
invited TO ion. but membership will
not prevent ii nam from joining Il fra
tGrnitN.
Peaks Island, Tuesday afternoon
was apparently the center Of a con-
siderable electrical disturbance.
thunder shower hung over the island
nearly an ,heur and several large
trees We're uprooted. Lightning struck
the lasrole If the Oceanic House,
passed on through the rooms and set
The building on fire. y bolt also took
Il corner from the house of Harvey
Trefethen and Mrs. Trefethen was
severely shocked. The summer home
OF ]. a. Seammon was set on fire and
considerably damaged.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-18
Madam ! Ii You Don't Feel Right
Take Delicious "Syrup Of Figs

morning when the sour bile. clagged
up waste and poisonous matter have
been gently but thoroughly moved on
and out of your system, without
nausea gripping or weakness. Your
head will be clear, complexion rosy.
breath sweet. stomach regulated: no
more constipation, gases. pains and
aches.
1t is simply matter of keeping
your stomach, liver and bowels clean
and regular. Then YOU will always be
weIl-always look and feel your best.
But get the genuine-the old. reli-
able Ask your druggist for syrup
of Figs and Elixir of Senna." Refuse,
with contempt the so-called Fig Syr-
ups sometimes substituted to fool YOU.
The TRUE, genuine. bears the name
California Fig Syrup Company. look
for this on the label.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-18

| The Hebron club has orsaBiaed
with the Following oHieeTs: Presi-
cent, l. r. shae;ferd. IS, South
Portiand;sy Vice Pres. j. f. Fhitoon,
II. Auburn Sec, G. \. Brown, H.,
Portland 4 committee #as appointed
Ia Graw up the constitution and BY
laws
rhc Jouscher Verein met recently
at the homo of PROT Roscoe J. Ham
OF tAa German department. Resides
tire rcsala members there WAS pres
ont Nh. Wilmington, tie new instrnc-
tor la English, literature, who is sub
shutting Tor Prof. II. c. Chapman,
this semester. Professor Ham gave
ar interesting talk on the German
school system" 1t was decided to
hold lha nest nieetmg Nav Q, at the
home of frof George 7. Files.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-18
SAGNt}SfItut
eCWUOlN.


The W. q. n t. VII hold a meeting
THURSDAY alteraooa with Mrs. c. F.
Goth.
Mlss /. q. Caombs fran lndia has
arlivol in Nee- York. After a short
stay there sjt Nill return 20 her nome
here.
Mrs. Maria GRADY is improving from
her late illness
Mrs. Everett Small IS Suffering from
a throat trouiale,
Mrs. fieunett has moved back to the
Mrs. Charles Johnson farm.
1t is reported lha. George staples is
very ill.,
r W Nelson is ha1ing some very
mueh needed 5pfl deae on the high
way IN This settion II tie town.
f'rarl; Wrhhet has bnnaat lhe Mar
shall @cfiimi1h fatu}.
FIank fatta Is very ii ana is fail
ing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-18

All women get bilious, headachy
and constipated-simp because they
don't exercise enough They don't eat
coarse food or enough fruit and green
vegetables. Those are natures ways
Of keeping fhe liver and thirty feet
Of bowels active: but Very few women.
employ them. The next best way is
delightful, fruity Syrup of Figs.
Nearly all ills of women can be
overcome with SYRUP Of Figs alone.
There Is no need to have sick head
ache backache. dizziness, stomach
sour and full of gases. bilious spells,
saliowness. coated tongue, bad breath.
had complexion. nervousness and de-
preston. The surest and safest rem
edy is one or two teaspoonfnls Of de-
iicious Syrup of Figs. Try this to-
night+-you'll feel splendid In the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-18
HERE Is HER OWN STATEMENT

Paw Paw, Mich" Two years ago / suffered
very severely with displacement : / could not
be on my feet for long time. My physician
treated me for several months without much re-
lief. and at last sent me to Ann 4Arbor for OPP
Grafton. L was. there four weeks and came home
suffering worse than before My mother advised
me to try Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and | did To-day am well and strong
and do all my own Homework. / owe my health
to Lydia +. Pnkham's Vegetable Compound and
advise every woman who is afflicted with any
female complaint to try it, Mrs ORyILLE Rock,
X. r. No. g. Paw Paw Mich. rst5tst
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-18
.THEEE NEVER WAS A WORSE CASE"

Ind"Ihere OF WomenS ills
than nine tell what suffered For
two years able do anything in bed for month
and said nothing but operation would My
father suggested Lydia inkams Vegetable Compound;
please InpGoyed wonderfully so able
travel ride horseback take long rides and never feel any Ill effects
other suffering Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound trial before submitting operation"
Mrs MARGARET MEREpTH K f. ID. No 3, Rockport, Ind.
will handsome reward who will
and trafulor that either of these
paid their testimonials that the
inaf did entirely unsolicited.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-18

There has been great industrial de-
velopinent in Austria in the last eight
Years aud the standard OF living has
been raised materially,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-12

pay was increased fast enough even to satisfy her. She remained with MT. Peek worth more than eight years. Then she determined to branch out for herself. | Possibly she had some qualms about an- nouncing herself to the world as a con | tractor, so at first she screened herself | behind the anonymity of a company name. She had experience and courage and had proved herself to her own satisfaction. She believed that she was able to handle any job that even this great city to handle York had to offer. One of the big pieces of work that she bid on soon after she started out for1herself was in connection with tho New York public library, that magnificent structure that represents more 1 than S1l, ,G00o00. There were 12 bidders on the contract. Miss DurlIn did not get | 1t, but she came mighty close. Her bid was within s70e0 of that of the Norcross l Brothers, the men to whom the contract was awarded
 But if she failed in the public library contract, she had more success in other cases. She got the contract for public school No. d9, in the. Bronx. She got the contracts. too. for public schools Nos 132 and l3S in Brooklyn. One of these contracts ran to more than $20000o. As | it Manhattan and the Bronx didn't offer enough opportunity for her activities, she
 
 built public school costing s23Ae00. She built the Convent of Notre Dame on I Staten Island, and for S25o.000 she built the Nurses Home in Brooklyn. few | days ago the contract to build public school No. 30 in I-ongworth avenue, in the | Bronx, was awared to her by the board of education. The structures she has built in the four years she has been in business for herself represent a building | cost of more than s2,000C0o. That is an average business of more than sl500 a day l for every work day since she has become | a contractor.
 | Ii hasn't been all plain sailing for this bright clever little woman. If she had not sturdy common sense and unusual | l<eenness she probably would have met 1 disaster The first year she was in bus l iress she had one experience that illus tratss her extreme care. With the fond expectation that he was doing her a good turn, a friend brought her to the atten- l ton of a man who was planning to put | up 12-story structure costing s1,e00, GOO in the heart of the city up town. There was to be a theatre in the building, and this structure was to be onfy the beginning Of vast building operations this promoter was to undertake
 | Y takes a lot Of time ana energy to es- Il timate on such q piece of work that is. to estimate with the thorouehness that | Miss Durkin believes should he given to it. She had confidence in the judgment of the friend who was endeavoring to get the contract for her. but she believes In her own investigations and her own in quiries She sent to the financial agen-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-12
THE FRENCH SCRAP-By Frank C. Carpenter

lead It is owing to this care that we have been able to use so much of the stuff.
 Take. for instance. the dredges. There are French machines working at both ends of the canal. This is so of one of the best dredges of the Balboa channel, which has been remade and equipped with modern appliances. Another dredge, which lay for twenty years sunk in the mud near the Pacific was taken up, cleaned and repaired, and is 1t now gouging out and loading all the sand used for the Pacific end of the canal Two big dredges were taken out of the mud on the west bank of the Ghagres and foated down to the dry docks at Cristobal. Here they were repaired and they are now at work in Limon bay.
 We have even used the old dredges of the ladder type, consisting of an endless chain of 10 steel brackets which scoop the mud from the bottom of the canal and carry it out to a chute at the side into a barge. These dredges had good boilers and the machinery was found in excellent condition on account of it's careful oilins and painting before it was abandoned.
 Those dredges cost tens of thousands of dellars. They were brought here in 1885 and they remained in the mud much more than 20 years. Their tenders were Slllel over DA lHb Day anu Ntit tAo9tQ III by a bank of sand six feet high. in which tree 40 feet tall was growing. Our en- glneers had to cut a channel 10 feet wide into the dredges ands then take them out and repair them. It is wonder that they could have been used at all, but l am told that they have done excellent work
 There were four other ladder dredges near by which have been put into use and on the Pacific side the hull of lad der dredge was raised and prepared for work. The same is true of excavators of one kind and another and also of locomo- tiyes and cars.
 The French Railroad Material
 vast amount of the French railroad material has been used. and some of this machinery is still working. Many of the locomotives left were worth SSe00 and upward apiece, and there were 267 loco motive cranes. each of which, if we would have had to buy them, would have cost SG000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-12

went with the engInees over the build ings, machine works and warehouses, and saw just what there was. According to the French books the value of the whole was twenty-nine millions dollars. The above statement accounts for two mill lions, but l doubt not but that Uncle sam has realized much more than twice that out of the vast equipment which was then on hand As to the twenty-nine million dollars estimate, that was all down on the French books Of account. They were fine b0okkeepers and among the volumes of canal records arc 19 great ledgers, each as tall as 6 table, as thick as q big family Bible and as heavy as a ten-year-old boy. I am told that some of these ledgers will be shown at the San Francisco exposition.
 l iiGys looked carefully over these books and find them wonders of account keep ing. The writing is like eooper-plate en- craving, and they are 0 mass of figures from one end to the other. In the IS volumes there are about 90.000 pages, and in them every item of expense was put down, even to the cost of the horses, the building of pig pens and the goods in the storehouse. The engineers have told me that they found the supplies to tally with the accounts so kept.
 The French Balance Sheet
 Among other things there a was balance sheet the items of which alone would fill e page of this newspaper. I can give only few of them. There was 57 barges, 3S yawls and q cranes. 40 steam winches, 800 big pumps of various kinds 190 rock drills and 150 punching machines. There was a floating drill which, l believe, Is now in use, which was valued by the French at sS0,000, and other dredges and d s.a{1I fFt1kt were 34 American locomotives, valued at S200, GOO, and more than 200 Belgian loco- motives, together with hundreds of small CT engines. There were steel rails enough to build over 200 miles of track and $500 dump cars.
 Of this machinery vast amount of it was as good as when it was made, all though some had been left in the jungle and has rusted away. The French watch ee out for their supplies. They coated the machinery with paraffine and other oils, and painted some parts of 1t with white
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-12

per piece, the officials getting a rake-of. In the basement of the administration building at Panama we found two car loads of the finest drawing paper in sheets, each the size of a bed spread. There was more of that paper than could possibly be used for a dozen canals, but our draftsmen consumed what they need ed. In the same warehouse there were six tons of steel pens, so rusty that they had to be shoveled out into the ocean. There were also bolts made of wood and painted black. to give the impression that they were iron or steel. These were made according to sample, but the model sent was of wood. and the bolts and screws came in that form painted black. Need less to say they were useless.
 All along the line of the canal are mon- ument to the fortunes made by the build ing contractors. Take the concrete work It was paid for by the cubic yard and lit tie two and four room cottages were erected on costly cement foundations, while warehouses had great concrete walls under them. The monuments of these buildings, the wood having routed away, are still to be seen all along the line of the canal I counted 200 cement posts in one place.
 Cement Baths for Horses
 Among the other costly concrete con struetion was that connected with the
 
 stables of the officials. Here at Aneon they made bathtub of cement for the horses. It was 15 feet wide, 75 feet long and four feet In depth and was connected with the water supply. The French en- gineers had their racing ponies washed off instead of currying them.
 I remember a pigeon that l saw when looked at that horse bath. It has dis appeared now, but I was told that 1t must have cost at least $15.OO00 to make. 1t covered about half an acre and was roofed with galvanized iron. The bed of the building was of concrete, divided into pens, each of which had its cement trough, and it was supposed to accommo- date about 200 hogs.
 How He Made $100,000
 hear many stories from the old stag CTS at Panama of how money flowed in the first days of the French canal The isthmus was flooded with gold common engineers took contracts and got rich, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-12

she steps out of her automobile at one of her buildings she puts 8 huge maeEin. tosh around her Paris gown. The only thing she takes clances with is that big frilly white hat
 She is boss of her work in every in- stance. from the foundation to the roof She never sublets a contract. She elm ploys the steel workers, the stone nlasons, the carpenters, the electricians the plumbers, the decorators-every one through her foreman At various times she has been threatened with labor troubles, but she is bright girl, and she knows how to handle men. One thing that is highly in her favor is that she has established her reputation for never prtting off her labor bills From this fact she has been able to gather about her force of men who know their money Is certain and who know they will be em- ploYed steadily. The men who usually make trouble in the building trade are the walking delegates. Nine contractors out Of ten look upon the walking dele gate as a person of small intelligencc. coarse and brutal, and, perhaps, a graft CT II the contractor is a person with a hair-trigger temper he is likely to re- fuse to see the walking delegate, or, if he does see him, is likely to threaten him or use profanity
 
 Miss DurlSin has different plan. At the first suggestion of strife she sends for the walking delegates, treats them as friends rather than possible foes and molliiies them. She explains that she is friend of union labor. and then says something that she has seen has led her to think that there is some disconteat. She asks one of them to tell her what it iS and she will be governed by his advice, f anything is wrong. Usually she finds the walking delegate when approached in that way, will do lot for her and even will strain the rules to help out in an emergency.
 Knowledge of construction and ability to handle labor are reauisite to success ir the contracting business. but there Is another element that is just as important, and that is the financing of a job. A piece ot work may promise a great bis profit, but unless the contractor can get money to handle things properly he may go to the wall. Payment on contract is gauged according to the amount of work done. There is a certain proportion of money coming at each stage of progress. When the foundation is completed the coptracfcr gets the estimated cost of that work, less certain amount which is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-12

withheld Then, when the steel is up for the first and second tiers, another in stallment is paid and another amount withheld. It is so on to the roof. When the building is completed the contractor gets the amount that has been withheld if everything Is all right.
 Meanwhile a lot of his money has been tied up. Not only that, but the contrac- tor has to put up certified check for a stiff amount to guarantee the faithful and good performance of his work. He prac- tically has to pay cash for lot of his material. If his credit is good the steel companies may extend 30 days credit But those 30 days begin with the day the steel leaves the mill. Occasionally the con tractor does not get his steel until the 30 days limit has expired. In a lesser way this credit system runs through the whole list of building materials
 Miss Durkin has been just as thorough just as careful in finance as she has been in figuring on a contract. She has not tried to spread out too fast. She never has exceeded her ability to pay promptly
 Her bankers watched her closely on her first contract They saw that she did not overextend herself. They watched her closely for a year. and the more they watched her the more they were satisfied with her methods. She has won their con- 1dence to such an extent that she now Is called in frequently by bankers who want her opinion or advice regarding other builders. Miss Durl5in has reached po- sition where she now is able occasionally tc. take advantage of the discounts ot- fered for cash in the purchase of ma terial. In some cases she saves 7, or 9 per cent in this way.
 Every one has an aim in life. Without an objective existence would be a very dreary thing indeed Miss Durkin Is in love with her work, just as she was when she started II years ago. The great idea the one idea that animates her life, that she will cling to until she brings it to fiuition-s to build hospital such ras the world does not know today. She not only wants to build this hospital herself, hut to run 1t herself She wants to be there everyday. She Has not worked out all the details yet, but this in general is her plan:
 There are a great number of women
 in a city like New York who are widowed or are deserted, and are left without means and with one or more infant chil- dren. These women have to go out to work whether they are strong or weak some are ptifully weak There are day nurseries which open at o'clock fin the morning. to which these women may take their children and then proceed to their work. When their work is done they can get their children again and take them home.
 The hospital that Miss Durkin wants to build and conduct will take rot only the child, but the mother and look after them UniN the mother is physically able
 ta'c roTe nf herself and her child She believes the world does not know the sufferngs of women and the needs of children in cases of this sort
 Until she can satisfy her ambition she