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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-09-17
REAMs OF IT.

''They have found a bit of unpub-
iished manuscript by Robert Louis
Stevenson. Only few pages, yet
worth their weight in gold"
"Only a few pages, eh3" unused
the unsuccessful author. sNWhen Pm
gone, what a lot of unpublished
manuscript they'll find"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-09-17

Mrs. Jack Johnson, white wife of
the negro prize fight champion,
killed herself in Chicago Friday.
She was formerly Mrs. Clarence
Duryea. wife of tie wealthy New
York club man. She got a divorce
in 1910, and two years ago married
Johnson in Pittsburg.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-09-17
LUCKY 30.

"This is the third time you have
been here for food" said the woman
at the kitchen door, to the tramp.
"Are you always out of wOrkS"
"Yes'm," replied the itinerant. IL
guess l was born under a lucky
star
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-09-17

Joseph Chamberlain, the London
statesman. who has suffered almost
complete paralysis for years. is sink
ing rapidly and the end is likely to
come at any moment.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-09-17

William j. Bryan wired the Demo-
cratic national committee that
he will take the trail of Colonel
Roosevelt. starting from Denver at
his own expense. He said he would
speak where Roosevelt had spoken
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-09-17

Beryl-Yes, Mrs. Orville Style
solved the servant problem immedi-
ately after her marriage.
Sibyl-Graciousl How?
"She found out her husband was
only making $50 weekp
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-09-17

A Chicago man. operated on for
appendicitis, was found to have a
pocket knife. a fountain pen and a
thimble in his stomach. But. in view
of the high cost of living, the poor
fellow had to have something to eat!
-Owensboro Messenger.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-09-17

1. M. P. .Cunius-Say, lend me
3 ten-spot, old man.
Z Mr.. GotrOx-~If you'd save your
own money you wouldn't have to
borrow from your friends.
/. NJ. P. Cunius-WeIl, it's be-
cause ] want to save my own money
that l borrow from my friends.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-09-17

Mayor Gaynor is making a big
mistake in trying to back up his
officers who have violated the
eleventh. commandment.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-09-17

Beef cattle went to $40 80 in Chi
cago one day last week. breaking the
record for high prices by Is cents.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-09-17
NO SUNDAY BUSINESS.

Church, see a London medical
Journal adv ates the better airing
Of banks over Sunday as a means
Of improving public sanitation.
Gotham Yes; but wouldn't it be
contrary to law for banks 10 take in
drafts on Sunday1" IS
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-09-17

Rev. DR.. Wade of Matteawan,
says Thaw is as sane as Roosevelt.
How much is that saying?
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-09-17
Beach BELLIES.

''sOme pretty bathing girls dow
here"
"SoY
ooh, beauties.S
(which is in the majority, ths
drys or the zstsa" 49, 80. :,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-09-17

through the west and northwest.
remaining on the colonel's trail ur-
til the election.
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prices for their dresses and are welcom-
ed and taken care of accordingly. How
ever, no buyer can treat these fash1on
exhibitions lightly; and should he view
out of curiosity and not buy. or should
he disregard the unwritten etiquette gov
erning these things. he may find the
doors closed to him next season.
Now there are really four seasons for
American buyers. and four sets of models
are generally made by the dressmakers
who cater for the American trade.
First of all are the two very early
seasons on a small scale, made for the
wholesale cloak and suit people, who
come over in midseason, choose their
models, and take them back to have
them copied and distributed over the
country. These do not, of course. get the
newest models. which are not yet Great
ed-as their models have to be bought
soon enough to allow of them being
copied in large quantities and distributed
in time for the early season trade. How
far these early models represent those or
the big fashion displays taking place
little later is largely matter of chance;
the difference may be great or 1t may be
very slight
Thirdly and fourthly. to speak of the
buyers sent over by American retail
houses to visit the authoritative fashion
displays which take place around the 1oth
of February for the spring season and
the 18th of August for the winter season.
these do get the best of everything Paris
has to show.
These buyers choose their models and
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ventors. and they stayed for two months
on the isthmus studying the problem and
trying to make new machines one OF
these men designed a spreader. which
locked all right upon paper, and We
ordered eight. When they came, We
found that they were still too weak. and
we had TO bring them into the shops and
strengthen most Of the parts"
"As a result of this kind OF work. :"
continued Mr.. Robinson. I'VE have here
on the isthmus machinery which had
never been used before we began build
ing the canal A great part of the ex-
cavation is rock. and the wear and tear
is enormous Take our steel cables which
are used on the LidgerwoOd cars. The
first we had would unload only about BOD
trains and then break. We then got the
manufacturers at work to developing
better ones. and we have now wire
cable that will unload 1900 trains, or six
times as many as used at the start
This last cable is expensive. 1t costs US
A cents a foot; but it does the work
We were walking through the car-re-
pairing shop when the above conversation
occurred and Mr.. Robinson stopped me
to show me one Of the new LidgerWood
cars. Those now used are creation OF
Panama The first sent down to the
isthmuS were like the common fiat cars.
and the heavy work here quickly re-
duced them to matchwood. Those now
employed are mighty trucks with beds OF
plank SO thick that they might almost
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- Mr. CARPENTER.AT RIGHT
~ Col DEvOL Ar LEFT

can be dynamited on the cars if they are
too large to 60 through the door open
ing.
All sorts of repairs are made on cars
and locomotives here at Gorgona. me
shop has a record of having repaired
1900 cars in ten months, and at the
same time having made heavy repairs on
about 500 unloaders, 500 spreaders and
40 track shifters. It builds new track
shifters as well. and it is fully equipped
for repairing locomotives and all other
rolling stock. The locomotives as they
come into the shops are stripped of their
rods and other outside equipment. Ihe
next operation is to take out the driving
wheels.
The shops have no large overhead
cranes. such as we use in the states, SO
they have an invention of their own
consisting of drop pit above which
the locomotives stand and the Wneels
are removed by compressed air 1t used
to be that the engines had to be lacked
up. and it took several hours to get
the wheels out from one engine. AS 1t
is now, a full set of wheels can be re-
moved in thirty minutes. There are
other arrangements for recutting the
wheels, including great lathes which will
gouge off one-fourth of an inch of metal
at time, the steel rolling off in curls
like those of excelsior.
Indeed, the iron-working machinery at
Gorgona is wonderful. You can see every
form of iron and steel creation. They
have an iron foundry here, where they
make about 10000 pounds of casting IN
a month The work is done by Jamaica
negroes, under the superintendent OF
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service in the Culebra cut, and use
nearly eighteen months, until replaced b
& steam shovel.

service in the Culebra cut. and used
nearly eighteen months, until replaced by
& steam shovel.
+
Shortly after that time the government
decided to make this its chief shop. and
since then it has been doing the most OF
the repairs with the exception of that on
the steam shovels and some of that on
the dredges. During this trip saw men
at work on the heaviest of the canal
equipment. handling the masses Of iron
and steel which weigh many tons and
can only be lifted by steam cranes. |
saw them also working on clocks.
watches. adding machines. typewrters
and water gauges. and doing the finest of
jewelry repairing under the same roof.
In addition to fixing the old tools OF the
canal they were making new ones, and
were also adding to the strength of the
machinery just sent down from the states
l went through the Works with the
superintendent, Mr.. A. l.. Robinson, who
has under him something like $500 me-
chanics. He talked with me az to the
strengthening of the machines. Said he:
Nearly every part OF these big tools
sent to the isthmus has had to be remade
or strengthened, as the most of them
are not strong enough to do the heavy
work here Take, for instance, the spread
ers which smooth out the dumps, each
doing the work of hundreds of men. We
ordered the strongest, but those which
came were not sufficiently strong for the
work. We then brought down the in
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in a few weeks they are in America, al
the disposition of their clients, and d
flying trip over to Paris would hnd the
same things in the French salons as M
the best of the American stores.
'The idea that the Paris dressmak-
ers prepare two sets of models, one
for the French trade and one for the
American, Is absolutely erroneous. 1t
would cost far too much. and many
people will perhaps hardly believe
that at the beginning of the season
the dressmakers themselves scarcely
know what the coming fashions Will
be. Each house knows Its own mod
els, and has it's own ideas as to what
new styles are likely to be adopted,
but as to what their competitors are
preparing behind their carefully
guarded doors. they know very little.
Even in Paris fashions vary. One
house favors one style and another some
thing different, but at the same time
there are certain ideas which are eX-
pressed by all in a certain number of
their models. Exactly like those five
hats which all three buyers. English, VI
ennese and American. at once agreed on.
Now, do you see, dear madame?
You have only to be cautious and avoid
eccentricities in order to be better posted
than your average Paris sister.
The Paris buyers of the great Ameri-
can department stores and other high
retailers regularly stand between you and
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and hurried off with their hats and vari-
Gus memoranda Each "memoran-
DUN" is made up of lists. descriptions
and addresses. 1t is the pedigree OF the
hat 1t tells where the duplicate form
may be bought wholesale, and each detail
of trimming, with its name, quantity ana
wholesale price. So each buyer fastened
to his addresses, and bought enough ma
terial to reproduce each hat fifty times.
Each did the same at the other big es-
Establishments. 49,
Do they imagine that all Of them will
be an equal success in Paris? Certainly
not. They know that half their purchases
will fall more or less dead in Paris. But
those five hats which all agreed upon
will likely make hit. The eye of the
trade sees 1t, the temperament OF the
trade feels it.
Two other hats the miliiner forced On
them All accepted, but the London man.
One of these buyers, who knows all about
it, but expresses himself clumsily, said
| will quote his exact words:
"A peculiar characteristic of the French
merchant is his obstinacy i'll perslsting
that YOU buy what he thinks you ought to
want rather than what you do want;
and IL you persist in having your own
way, he regards you with pity and scorn.
In dong business he has much more pro-
fessional pride. thinking more of obtain
ing an artistic result and less of making
money than the average Anslo-SaXon.
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ugly" models. which often deceive tour
lists.
Yes, but what about failures ana
'has-beens'?
You have only to follow carefully the
foremost Paris illustrated and comic
weeklies-not the fashion papers or the
fashion pages, but the pictured costumes
I'm designs of the illustrators of Paris
life in rIllustration. the Vie Parisienne,
the Rire and Sourire.
These amiable illustrators have no
task to illustrate fashions-so their prod
ucts are the more precious. They Illus
trate Paris life of the moment, in Its
gay, sparkling and elegant sides. They
absorb unconsciously those certain
ideas expressed by alP' great dressmak-
ers-the very ones which you desire to
pick up in American retail trade.
Then, being sure you're right buy, buy,
with both hands. right and left.
How to get the money for II l viii
tell in a later article.
STERLING HELLO.
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in the slides, but nevertheless nave been
taken out and repaired. This was so with
shovel No. 2o3. which weighed ninety-fve
tons. 1t was a complete wreck when IL
was pulled out of the slide at cucuracha.
and the trucks were not recovered until
weeks after the main part of the machine
had been brought TO the shops Never
theless all the parts were brought finally
together and the whole was overhauled
and rebuilt and again put to work.
Among the interesting features of En-
pire are the air compressors which are
supplying about three hundred million Gu
bic feet of pure air every month. There
are three of these plants. one at Las
Cascades. one at Rio Grande and another
at Empire. They feed huge pipe which
runs from one end Of the Culebra cut to
the other and through other pipes sup
plies the air for the drills and other
pneumatic tools hoists and also the
shops. They are now working 13o drills.
This compressed air is taken through
complicated system Of pipes, much
of which has to be taken up and re-
laid every month. The main pipes or
both air and water run along each side
of the cut, and they are carried across
the cut from one bank to the other on
a bridge not far from Empire. u takes
about 200 men to keep the piping and
water service in order. and the pipes
have to be watched night and day for
leaks and breaks.
And just here l must tell you how
near a very small thing came 20 delay
ing the canal construction, and there
by costing Uncle Sam many thousands
of dollars. You may have heard of the
white ant. 1t is not as long as your
finger nail. but IL came within an ace
of holding back this work and laying
off for a time thousands of men. 1t
did this in connection with the suspen-
sion bridge which crosses the gorge
from one side to the other. The air
and water mains are carried across on
this bridge, and had 1t fallen they
would have broken and 1t would have
taken weeks to have repaired the dam
age
strong The piers at its sides were
made of a combination OF steel and
wood. and the parts which upheld the
cables were of oak in order that they
might be the stronger. The oak tim
bers formed, in fact. the key to the
work. Not long ago it was thought
they had best be examined. and man
climbed to the top. He found that the
white ants had been eating the oak; a
wood OF which they are especially
fond, and that they had gotten so far
that within n few weeks longer the
timbers would have crumbled to dust
allowing the bridge and pipes to fall
into the cut. 1t is needless to say that
repairs were Immediately made and
that in such way to prevent any
danger from these insects in the fu-
ture.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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is the most chic just because the deal
er is trying not to sell 1t"
do you pretend that no great dress
maker or milliner of Paris ever forces
failures or has-beens on the innocent?'
Never, in Styles" he answered. In
materials. perhaps. now and then they
may try to place a piece of expensive
stuff that has not taken but not
often"
Now we are getting down to tacks.
l began by promising great tip
how to tell the new styles as surely as
Paris ladies on the spot, who have SO
much trouble.
Who first sees the new gowns? Why.
indisputably the wholesale American
BUYERS who reside in Paris or come
periodically expressly to select new
models for duplication in big or eX-
elusive American establishments Ihese
wholesale buyers-oftenest men-see
the new tailor made and dressmaker
gowns long before the most privileged
and elegant women of Paris.
::
I quote the exact words of one of
these men:
During the period of the creation
and preparation of the new models,
he says, leach couturier guards Jeai-
ously his doors against all outsiders.
When the collection is ready. the first
to view same are the buyers from
America. for as their purchases have to
cross the Atlantic they need to buy
earlier than the buyers from France
and other countries in Europe Also
the dressmakers are not so afraid that
gowns sold to Americans will be quick
" copied and sold in Europe. For this
reason. no gown is sold and delivered
to a French or other European Gus
TONER within a certain period, SO that
the first TO the new
= things.
ers. ,
Can an American dressmaker or mil
liner on her nrSt trip TO HdTls get ILLS
inside view?
| have met several such. Hundreds
cross before each season Each gfea'
American city sees tense. lone WON
on the pilgrimage of styles. to Wres'
the right things from Kaleidoscope
Paris. Do they succeed? Yes. 1t Is
admirable how well they succeed Theli
is to employ a high class. expensive
.commissionaire." or technical fasnlor
guide and agent. Listen to my ex
perienced wholesale friend:
However TO gain admittance to we"
the display OF new models the Ameri'
can buyer must possess certain
standing or be represented by a We'll
known commissionnalre, ana sucl
buyers stand much better chance e
see the best things, and see them early
than any private customer, eltnel
French or American.
Another thing in our favor:
I'm creating their models and making vi
their collection the majority of the grea
couturiers have the American buyer il
mind; and the object is to produce
range Of models to suit all tastes, and Z
meet the demands of the different coun
tries which send buyers to Paris. while
impressing the French stamp. taste ant
elegance on all. Americans are among
; their best customers. pay the bigges
Evening star., 1912-07-21

partment stores often have a feeling of
what will take.
Would you be almost as well posted as
these Paris women
Here goes.
have been much of late with Amer
lean wholesale buyers, in and out the
great exhibitions which the most ia
nous ladies' tailors, dressmakers and mil
liners hold for them-behind closed doors.
l have seen experienced ones laugh at a
new buyer for loading up with ugly
styles and trial balloons.
But first of all keep posted on the New
York styles. There is an American taste,
which may not be disregarded. And the
Frenchest of Paris gowns loses some of
it's atmosphere when transplanted. The
successful American. buyers know this.
Three such wholesale buyers from vi
emma. New York and London were at one
establishment. OF five particular hats
each bought all FIVE: there was no doubt
Concerning ten others they laughed. dis
puted and ''kidded'' one another's choice
When their bills We're made out each
had a lot of different hats. They naid
the highest retail l,rice-from SIS To $50
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ly informed here, man has right TO
use a patented machine as long as hit
Of the original machine is left. He could
build up the whole invention provided he
used bar bolt or a nut of the patented
article he bought and provided he did not
have a greater number of such patented
machines than he had actually purchased
OF course it would not be possible to tear
up one machine and make a lot of new
ones in this way. but one has the right to
build up old machines provided he uses
some Of the original parts and does not
create a greater number of complete ma
chimes than his purchases show. Uncle
Sam finds 1t cheaper to make these new
parts and repair the old machines rather
than buy new ones or new parts. More
over, 1t takes long time to get ma
terial from the states. and he can manu-
facture his supply parts more quickly
than he could get them from home. The
ordinary time for the fulfllment of an
order is ninety days, while the same ma
chinery can usually be manufactured here
in less than half that time:
But let us take the train and ride down
to Empire. We can get there in twenty
minutes and see the shop where the
steam shovels and their parts are made
new We shall first enter the quarter
masters warehouse. There are eighteen
OF these on the isthmus. and each Gov
ers acres. The one here at Empire Is
right near the shops. and is well worth
a visit. 1t is divided up like depart
ment store. being walled with shelves
and cut up by aisles. 1t has hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of ma
terials, embracing twenty thousand diff
ferent items ranging all the way from
nut the size of your little finger TO q
completed 95-ton steam shovel as tall a:
a hay stack.
The yards outside Of it are full of cal
wheels and Of steam shovels being re-
paired. l stand beside one OF the grea
shovel buckets to show you Its height. Il
will hold five tons Of rock. Nearby are
rolls of wire cable and heavy machinery
barrels of insula tors. for electrical use
and great piles of poles, used for tamp
ing the dynamite. The steam shovels nov
on hand are worth something like $4OO
600. and their repair parts are as dell
cately made as the pivots and wheels OF
watch. They must be exact to preven
the great machines from destroylnl
themselves.
We have now on the isthmus more thai
one hundred shovels and from ten t
twelve are sent in for repairs ever
month They are mighty machines Whicl
will take up from five to ten tons Of eartl
and rock at bite, and each represent
the work of 500 men. Ten steam shovel
are equal to 5000 men, and you can there
fore see how necessary 1t Is that the re
pairs be made upon time Each shove
cost many thousands of dollars, and tn
destruction of one means great loss
Some have been ruined by being caugh
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intell.gences are not satisfied. They buy
one gown from a great Rue Royale es
tabnshment. in order to see twenty mod
els. Yet they are not sure They rub
ber'' through the Acacias at the fashion,
able noon hour. when rich and elegant
women try the newest things. But which
OF the new things will take? They
stand meditative before the beautifully
dressed wax mannequins Of the depart
fnent stores show windows. and compare
their Judgment with that of big sec
ondary Paris commerce. The Paris de-
Evening star., 1912-07-21
STEAM SHOVEL AT EMPIRE

form the logs for a cabin. The trucks
are nine feet wide and forty feet long,
with a heavy plank wall as high as your
waist running along one side OF them.
The wall Is backed by supports OF hard
wood and iron, and it is against it that
the plows work when dragged by the
cable to throw off the loads. Each car
will hold forty tons. and some OF the
rocks which drop down upon them from
the steam shovels weigh eight or ten
tons each.
Others are so heavy that it is lmpOssi-
BILE to move them after they. are. on the
car, and they are broken off there with
charges of dynamite. 1t takes heavy ma
terial and good workmanship to with
stand such traffic. and the cars must be
strong throughout. As l looked | saw
some men laying a floor upon one OF
them. They used sixty penny spikes. and
drove them into the wood with sledge.
A little farther on they We're repairing
the steel cars which are dumped by com
pressed air. These have air tanks be-
meath them, which are connected with the
compressor on the locomotive. The en-
gineer touches a button and the air
shoyes up one side of the car, and the
great masses of earth and rock roll out
on the ground. The doors of the steel
cars are another improvement made
down here at Panama. The wear
and tear is so great that they have to ne
reinforced with seventy-pound steel rails.
The cars are so strong that the rocks
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HIS is not a fash
ion article. But.
madame, would you
be posted on new
styles? 1t is a great
problem, and l Of
fer you a "cinch.
| see fair women
on the spot in Par
is eagerly study
through the special
fashion Quarterlies,
yet their hearts and