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The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-06
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will be especially interesting. The canal channel will be 300 feet wide and the hills will rise high above the steamer, reaching in the center a maximum of over 55o sset. The sides will be planted with earth holding grasses and bushes, and there Will be but little evidence of the mighty work we have done In making the cut
 Entering the locks al Pedro Miguel, the steamer will drop 30 feet into Mira flores lake, a beautiful sheet of silvery water, and will travel there a mile and half before it reaches the locks of the same name, where 1t will make It's two great steps to the channel at the level of tho Pacific.
 Prom the foot Of the locks the ride to Balboa will be only three miles. and to deep water In the ocean about five miles farther The land there Is low. with hills in the background covered with green. On the left going out will be the great wharves and repair shops of Balboa, and in the distance one may see the little archipelago of Perico, Cnlebra and Fla menco. on which the fortifcations will be.
 "The trip throughout will be wonder fully beautiful and intensely interesting. It will embrace views of mountain and valley. of river and lake. of tropical plants and flowers. and of mighty trees laden with orchids As far as canal trips are concerned. 1t will be more beautiful than any other on earth"
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At this point Admiral Rousseau stopped monument to show me some maps snd then. tracing the course of the ship with his finger. he contineud:
 Emerging from the locks at Gatun, the course of the steamer will be prac- tlcally south for three and one-half miles. It will pass through a lo00-foot channel, with the water extending beyond t, and tie tops of the trees and islands will take away the idea of a canal and make one think that he Is passing through a large and deep lake. A little father on his ves- se will take a sharp turn to the left and then go in a straight course for four and one half miles to a point about one mile below where Boho now Is. From that point on the right the opening ex- cavated by the French for their locks may be seen, and a little farther on the vessel will pass over the sites of Frijoles and other villages which have been sub merged by the waters of Gatun lake.
 After journey of 15 miles the l0)o-feet channel begins to narrow It is reduced to SC0 feet and the canal has now the appearance of a wide river with hills on each side. It is the valley of the Chagres. Still farther on the channel is reduced to 500 feet and the vessel passes on into tho Culebra cut and sails through it for distance of nine miles to the locks of Pedro Miguel. This part of the journey
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friends of her rare ability. Orders came to her, slow at first. but gradually in larger numbers Soon she had all she could attend to with her own hands. She did not undervalue herself She charged we'll for what she did. Within six months she had to have assistance. It was diffi- cult to find as accomplished needle woman as herself. but she got one. Every bit of lace and every stocking that came to her for mending got the greatest of care She gave no reason for complaint to those who employed her. Then she had to get more assistance. Her little shop became crowded She could get no more room in that building. and she hired space in the building next door. Her patrons were well pleased with her work for them that they asked her to do other things for them. Some of them wanted her to make the daintiest of negllgees for them She did Then they wanted indoor gowns. bed room fiocks and variety of garments that it is hard for man to describe. Her chief difficulty at this time was in dis covering women of the refinement of taste and touch to make the flmy charm ing confections with all the exquisiteness of detail that would win the highest ap- prcciation of the purchasers.
 There are so many women of unlimited means in this city who can afford to- sin- dulge their fancy for exquisite things that they know no other woman will possess and that cannot very well be duplicated that Mrs. Hilton felt she had a field all to herself if she gave distinction To every thing she turned out of her shop. She is an artist-an artist with her needle-and in order to safeguard her business sine would employ no woman Wlo did not measure up to her requirements.
 Her business grew so that 1t embarrass- ed her. She had to have more room or she would drive many of her patrons away. So she did thing that was daring. thing she never would have thought of few years before She leased the whole building next to the one in which she started repairing stockings. It was one of those old-fashioned' brownstone dwell- ings. four stories high. She had the front torn out and a Colonial front built in it's place, simple, ehaste and beautiful.
 The ground floor she had fitted up for
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ways keeps a bowl of milk close to nor roof garden for her pensioners. These pensioners are the waifs and strays of does not want poor little deserted moth- CT cat to go hungry.
 In her love for helpless animals she is good deal like Cora Dow of Cincin- natl. Mrs. Hilton does not tell. but her friends do tell. of how she has bought poor, overworked, broSendown horses. that she saw struggling with heavy loads in the street, and how she has sent them away to spend the rest of their days at her country place.
 Not long ago the husband who deserted her died. IL Is eight years since she was deserted. IL is four years since she start ed In business for herself She attended his funeral at the Little Church Around the Corner--the church where actors wed and In which the funeral services of many of them are held.
 Mrs. Hilton has today the first pho tograph she saw of her husband-the pie ture with which she fell in love before she met the man who became her hus- band. She has all the pictures of him she ever gathered. They are her treas rres. He is. to her. today the same as he was the day they met. She thinks of him as the handsomest man and the most talented actor the world has known. At the funeral she saw the woman who won him from her and she saw their child There Is no bitterness in her heart against that second woman. for she can think un- kindly of no one who loved Harry Hilton.
 Copyright. 1912. by Richard Spllane.)
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a store. The building was so close to Fifth avenue that this store brought a handsome rental She took the rest of the building for her own business. The entrance to her establishment had an old 1 style knocker in keeping with the Colonial | scheme of the exterior of the structure. | The front bedroom on the second floor she made private office. The great front room on the second floor. which | had been the parlor, she transformed into her business reception room She lined one of the walls with bookcases, and mir
 TOTS of the old style The frames of these
 mirrors are decorated in Colonial form
 with picturesque pastoral scenes. in which charming ladies in costumes now quaint. but none the less charming, ap- pear. She had great od-time fire place built in with an inglenook. There were deep lounging seats on either side of the fireplace. She had flowers through out the room. growing plants in copper jardinieres. a grand piano and a variety of pictures The furniture was artistic and old. Most of it came down to her from her ancestors. On the first floor
 there was an extension which probably
 was used as kitchen in the days when the house was a private residence. Mrs. Hilton used the roof of this extension for a roof garden and an open air tearoom in
 the daytime It was inclosed in lattice.
 work and had an awning cover which
 could be rolled up when not in use. At
 night in summer she uses this roof gar
 den as an open air bedroom
 Everything about the establishment
 speaks refinement, elegance, good taste.
 Everything is in keeping. from the old
 style door plate 10 the simplest detail
 of the leaded glass of the bookcases.
 There is little show of the business of
 the proprietor. The people who go there do not appear as purchasers in a shop but
 as callers to consult artist upon some
 work. There is, of course. a show room
 in which they see some of the delicate
 fabrics which delight their hearts
 It took lot of courage for Mrs. Hil- ton to risk so large an expenditure as she did in this building. but her judg- n,ent has been vindicated Her business has grown and she has made money un-
 tli now she is in easy circumstances. She
 has her own automobile and she has Ter
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She was living In a New York hotel when this blow fell. Of money she had only 65 cents. She never had earned a dollar in her life, except the little that
 had come, to her from her work on the stage. She knew she could not earn her living as an actress. She had no one to turn to in this extremity. She had
 to earn her bread or starve.
 There is one thing a. home loving wo- man always considers first as a means of livelihood when she is fin such pre- dicament as Mrs. Hilton was placed. A boarding house appears to her to be the one thing she is best qualified to con- duct. It offers refuge to her. and there is promise of profit. Mrs. Hilton had some old furniture from her childhood home. She had some jewelry, too. She pawned the jewelry paid her bill at the hotel, rented small house, brought her furniture to town and opened boarding house. It was desperately hard. Good servants are scagce. They are rare. in- deed, in New York. Boarders are fin icky and hard to please. Some are dis
 honest and do not pay their bills.
 The year that Mrs. Hilton conducted
 her boarding house was like a night mare She had desperate time pay ing the accounts of the bu :cher, the
 baker and the landlord Then, in de- spair, she gave it up. She was poorer than when she started She had only one recourse fletcher needle She had been taught to sew and she sewed very well. She knew Mrs. Osborn, the dress maker, who for season or two ran a playhouse in New York She went to her and got work. Mrs. Osborn gave S10 week to her and she toiied with the other dressmakers in the workroom in East Forty-sixth street. The s1o a week was barely enough to keep body and soul together. but she was earning living. and that was something to re- lieve the dreariness of her existence. It was long. long time before there was ray of sunshine for her. But when it came she was overjoyed. She got a raise. Her weekly wage was increased to s15 Week.
 That increase in pay was a great and stimulating Influence in her life It was an evidence of success the first she ever bad received. She worked with more
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energy after that and then she began to dream She worked so hard and proved herself of so much value that more re- ward came to her. She got S20 week and then she got s25. She husbanded a fair share of her earnings, for she was planning for the future. When she had been with Mrs. Osborn three years she resigned. She had met many of her em- ployer's patrons. and had come to know something of their needs. She thought she had an opportunity to branch out for herself. She rented one room in a slde street off Fifth avenue and she opened shop of her own. It was a shop the like of which there was not another in all the city of New York
 One day she sent out to nearly. 1000 of the rich women of the metropolis an an- nouncement of her undertaking It took nearly year of her savings to pay for the beautifully engraved stationery she ordered. Her announcement told those to whom it was addressed that she would do repairing of silk stockings and of torn or injured lacework She was to do art work and mending The most artistic mending that human hand could accom- plish would be her speciality
 There are lot of extravagant women in New York. There are many prudent ones. too. even among the very rich. Some women spend fabulous prices for stockings and remarkable sums for lace work with which they garnish their dresses. What these lace accessories to the dresses cost may be imagined when 1t is said that many of the stockings that came to Mrs Hilton for treatment" cost from $50 to s75 pair. They had inlets of the finest of real thread lace. of cob web like texture. and most difficult to handle. Exquisitely hand embroidered silk stockings of the very sheerest mesh and most exquisite sheen were handled by her with skill that amazed and de- lighted the owners. Thread lace hand kerchiefs. wedding wells. rose point lace. some of them heirlooms for many gene rations. were made almost as good as new by her delicate touch and expert knowledge offthe mending needle.
 She Is a remarkable neediewoman and she did the very best within her power cfl this work. She pleased her patrons so we'll that they were glad to tell their
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rial will be reinforced concrete. and the docks will have railroad tracks. moving cranes and all sorts of machinery for handling freight of every description. They will accommodate any steamer now aioat and should be sufficient for the traffic of the canal
 But has. Congress yet made any ap- nrorriation for the building of these docks?'
 No: but the demand for them Is great, and we are fortunate in being able to construct the first of them through tha resources of the Panama railroad. That railroad Is one of Uncle Sams best pay ing enterprises. Through it's commercial business it has already earned several million dollars above it's net expenses and this might be used for dock construc- ton. As 1t is, the present facilities do not accommodate the traffic. This is so as to our own steamers--I mean those belonging to the Panama railroad-and United Fruit company and of ott.er lines which are now sending their vessels to Colon, but which would gladly change to the more sheltered and better an. chorage that we could provide When our docks are completed our ships will land in United States territory. and the other vessels berthed there will be on the same territory.
 How about your warehouses and coal ing arrangements?n
 We are now planning a type of ware house to be built here and are consider ing all sorts of dock structures and freight-handlng appliances. The engi- neers think that these things should be settled at as early a date as possible, and the matter will soon come before Con- grcss. The reason for this is that the government is using a vast amount of machinery in the building of the canal which can be applied to various things In conrectino with the terminals. We shall have to build dry docks and repair shops. snd there is no reason why the govern iaent should not have establishments here which would repair any kind of shipping employed in the canal traffic. The ma chinery Is already here, and 1t will have to be disposed of when the canal Is com pleted. There will be shops at both ends of the waterway. although the repair shops at Balboa will probably be the larger. We have now small repair shop
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important branches of the canal work under him.
 It was fin the administration building here at Culebra that I looked over the maps of the proposed terminals and talk ed with MT. Rousseau about them. Said he:
 The arrangements for the terminals of the canal are by no means complete
 We have made our plans. but so far many of them have not been passed upon by Congress, and much will depend upon the policy of the government as to the treatment of canal traffic. Other mat ters have been definitely settled and we are already working them out. You have seen the great breakwaters which we are building at both ends of the canal. On the Atlantic ships will pass in by Toro point. where the lighthouse stands. From that point we are putting in a break water II, 600 feet long to shut out the prevailing storms from the western side of the harbor. That breakwater has q width of 15 feet at the top. and it will rise 10 feet above the mean level of the sea. It will contain altogether in the neighborhood of 100000 cubic yards of rock, some of which Is coming from the auarries of Porto Bello.
 At the Pacific end.' continued Admiral Rousseau. we are making. an even great CT breaxwater. This is to join the port of Balboa with Naos Island. distance of more than three miles. It will run nearly parallel with the axis of the canal prism. and Is to keep the current which sweeps up that shore from affecting the canal. That breakwater will contain about 1s,o0o00o cubic yards of earth and rock, which is equal to a block 300 feet wide 300 feet high and more than a mile in length. The most of this is already in place, and 1t consists of the spoil which has been brought down from the Culebra cut. We began work upon it in May. 19OS."
 Big Docks on the Atlantic
 Tell me something more about your plans for the Atlantic end of the canal"
 According to those we have already made" said MT. Rousseau. we shall. if Congress consents. build five great. docks at Cristobai. each of which will be 1o1o feet long and l50 feet wide. There will be 300 feet between each two of the docks. and at the head of each dock will be ann pie landings for small boats. The mate
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1 own country place. and she has private l secretary. Whatever spare time sine has
 she employs in hunting the country over | for additional decorations for her rooms. | She loves old things. She has a splnnet, i an old four-posterbed, a clock that Is | more than a century old. pewter and
 brass ware over which a collector would 1 go in ecstasies, mirrors that were ancient when our great-grandmothers were young | china of the rarest make, chairs and wii-
 low ware of a former age, and multitudes
 of things that connlsseurs go into raptures | over.
 She mends laces and she mends silk
 stockings just as she did in the little room where she started. but the mending makes
 only a very small portion of her work 1 today. The bulk of her labor Is in the creation of the charming intimate gar | ments that women wear only in the pri- vacy of their rooms. She has made T | business all for herself. Everything she turns out Is hand made and of the finest
 of needlework. Everything she makes costs a lot of money-but the people who 1 buy have no need to count their dollars Now she is crowded for space again. She | needs more room. Maybe she will buy the house next door and use that as an
 annex. She finds the greatest difficulty | today, as she did soon after. she started ! in obtaining help of the highest class. She wants no one who is not her equal as a needlewoman, and they seem to be extremely scarce She tries to employ
 only. gentlewomen--women who have known luxury and who have become re- duced in circumstances. She realizes
 that women who have been happy and who nave known affiuence have tfie best realization of the desires of those wealthy women who patronize the establishment. I As she has known prlvation and strug- | gle and sorrow she has deep sympathy | for all who are suffering or sorrowing | She has great love for animals One
 of her pets is a brindle bull-a thorough | bred--who Is devoted to her. She has I trained him not to bother cats. She has a black cat, Mig. whose favorite resting | place is on her neck. He climbs up on her
 and stretches out with hls forepaws down one side of her neck and his hind paws down the other until 1t seems as if she
 was wearing black neckpieee, She al
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ary Hilton always was impression e. She is as much so today as she when, as country girl, she fell in with the photograph of Harry Hil- When she went to the theatre and him act she was not disillusioned. thought he was the handsomest man | he world. and she thought he was a Rderful actor. He was fairly good look but he was only an ordinary player. |pt of girls fall in love with actors think they do. It is a disease with tn-like the measles--and lasts about as l. It was not so with Mary Hilton. ! 3e met her aetor-hero. and a year or later they married. For time their was ideal--or so it seemed to Mrs. on. Actors. as a rule, do not make ! husbands. Hilton was no exception. ! wife was mild and kindly and home .ng. He was. blithe. gay, care free nan of thes stage. if he is handsome attractive. has many admirers and a lot of flattery. He has to have unusual amount of sense or the flat will turn his head. Absence makes home ties looser. The actor on the
 must be very constant. or he is y to slight the wife at home.
 ben Mrs. Hilton had been married or four years she thought it pru- to go on the stage. She wanted to pear her husband Long absences ly broke her heart. She studied in fanatic school for a while and then small part in the company in h her husband was engaged. For a
 she was happy, but not for long. was not suited for the stage. She intelligent, graceful. good looking he lacked the dramatic spirit. She ot act. She simply tried to act If
 d not been for her husband, she
 bly pever would have been engaged.
 y played together a few seasons, biting a fair salary and she getting minal sum. Then she discovered
 all her friends had known for
 time. The marital ties were irk-
 to the actor. After each season
 Hilton remained home. Her hus-
 affection was dead. Another wo-
 engaged his attention. For few
 Mrs. Hilton suffered all the sor-
 and bitterness of a neglected wife.
 came the crowning disaster of her
 s was deserted Left with
 lpportl
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Copyright. 1912. by Frank c. Carpenter) K E CULEBRA, Canal Zone, Panama. MY investigations this week have
 VI been devoted to the terminals
 of our great canal at Panama. What kind of cities are we to have at the Atlantic and Pacific ends of Uncle sams famous waterway? How shall We take care of the shipping. and what will be the accommodations for passengers going from one part of the isthmus to the other?
 These and other questions of terminal facilities will soon bulk large in the minds of the public The digging is fast approaching completion and the endless river of earth which is flowing from Culebra down to Balboa will finally shrink and then stop. l have already gone in from the Pacific end of the canal almost to the Miraflores locks The dredges are Sill at work there. but within a few months the channel could be made ready lor ships.
 The dredging on the Atlantic side is rapidly approaching completion. The dam which crossed the canal at Mindi uas been cut through and the salt water, bl the Caribbean sea are now against the locks and within stone's throw of the eatun dam.
 rne work of building up the founda hons for the terminals of the future i, already under way and docks and break waters are rising on both sides of the isthmus. So far there is much yet to be decided, but the plans of the engineers have been carefully made. and as soon as Congress gives it's orders this part of she canal construction will rapidly move. A Talk With Rear Admiral Rousseau
 The canal commissioner who has spe- rial charge of the terminals is MT. H. H. Rousseau, one of the most expert en- pfn Of fI.fa TT.,f4 Is still young man, but he has had long experience in work of this kind, and he was chief of our great naval bureau of yards and docks when he was ap- pointed one of the engineer commission ers of the canal. He was a civil engineer by profession at the time he passed competitive examination for similar work n the navy, with the rank of lieu tenant, and he did so we'll there that now, at the age of 42, he has become ! rear admiral and under Commissioner Soethals as chief has some of the most