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on one side Conduit road and on an
other Chain Bridge road" The road to
the right leads to the high land north OF
the river. In the northeast angle of the
two roads there is a small pebbleda Sh
church with a black sign lettered in gilt
telling that it is St Davids Chapel. ST.
Adams parish. At this road junction is
modern dwelling in fiower-planted
grounds and also an old and comfortable
house that has stood there since before
the civil war
On the left of the Conduit road a this
point one will notice path bordered by
cedar trees that leads down toward the
river. The distance between the lines of
cedars is the width of a road. but only
footpath runs between them. 1t is a
stony way. washed by many rains. This
and then tumbles down long and steep
hill so washed that the basic rocks have
been barred. Finally it enters the Canal
road.
This little stretch of old and worndown
way is what is left of the early Chain
Bridge road. the road by which people
from the upper parts of Virginia tray
eled into Georgetown or into the old
Maryland highways leading to the north,
west and east.
This road led from the Chain bridge.
or from the wooden bridges preceding
Chain bridge, or from that point on the
river where the crossing was made by
ferry, and, passing through the valley to
the west of the present Chain bridge
road. entered the Rockville or old Fred
erick road at Tenleytown. Travellers
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follos. After the meeting has broken up
the Secretaries viii drive off ia their Of
fetal carriages to their respective offices,
and Mr.. Wilson will not feel in honor
bound to take the advice of any of them
The order in which the cabinet enters a
room, is seated at table or stands I'm a
receiving line on formal occasions is
known as the order of precedence" and
is determined by the order of succession
to the presidential office; and this order
OF succession was fixed according 70 the
respective ages of the departments i'm
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HELPED to build
this fort-worked a
week at spading
up the clay from
these bitches to
this parapet.' The
man who spoke
stood among the
scrub oak I n at
overgrows the ru-
ms of Fort Rich
ardsOn, a heap of
tumbled mounds on
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of the same or not. for the sum OF
$2G.0CO'' 1t was enacted that the con-
veyance should be agreed to.
1t was further enacted that upon the
execution of such conveyance by the
said company the President of the United
States be. and he is hereby. authorized to
cause to be erected upon the site cf the
present bridge a good and sufficient bridge
across the Potomac river of such mate
rails and upon such plan of construction
as he shall approve and direct, and for
such a purpose Congress appropriated
$4,000 There was Il long controversy as
to what kind of bridge should be erected.
There was one plan for an iron bridge on
stone piers which would cost Sl,2nU.stD.
A plan for wooden bridge was drawn,
and this structure it was estimated would
cost 100000. Various plans Were pre-
pared by Col James kearney of the en-
gineers and by George G. Gratiot PreSi-
dent jackson was strongly in favor of a
wooden bridge. In 1883 Congress appro-
priated 100000. and directed that the
Secretary of the Treasury should call for
bids for a bridge with stone abutments
and piers and arches Of stone.
There was good deal of talk that a
bridge of this description would cost
S2.5o0.O00, but 0. H. Dibble. a big con-
tractor on the Chesapeake and ONO
canal. offered 10 build this masonry
bridge for S1.:Go,oGo. One may read a
great deal of this conflict between those
mae and those who thought such a bridge
would be extravaganza. Plans for a
great and strong bridge were presented
to Congress in 1898 by Louis McLane
Secretary of the Treasury.
X x
June 30. 1894. was passed an act au-
thoriZing the construction Of bridge
across the Potomac and '.repealing all
acts already passed in relation thereto.
BY that act all acts We're repealed. eX-
cept so much of the former as authorized
the purchase of the rights of the Wash
ington Bridge Company. The Secretary,
of the Treasury was authorized and re-
quired to contract for the reconstruction.
on the site of the existing damaged and
rickety bridge. of a bridge on the plan
of that originally constructed by the
Washington Bridge Company. 1t proyid-
ed that the draw at the southern channel
should be not less than siXty-siX feet
and at the northern channel not less than
thirty-five feet: that space not exceed
ing 1850 feet of the shoal or shoals lover
which the present bridge passes may be
filled up by u solid embankment in part
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CBLIC interest i'll
MIR. Wilson is TO-
cused now upon his
cabinet selections.
He will have nine.
and perhaps ten,
official n d v | sers,
whereas Washing :
ton had but five.
and their salaries
will be $4,000 per
annum-half again
as much as the
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north end by a party of British. a de-
tachment of the Ross-Cockburn army
was sent to the arsenal to destroy prop
erty there and a part of this force was
no doubt dispatched to the great bridge
over the Potomac to prevent the inVad-
ers being taken by surprise from the VIZ
ginia side of the river. The Eastern
Branch bridge had been fired by the
Americans to block the British advance
it being believed. and reasonably, that
the march of the British was aimed to
make crossing of the Eastern branch
on the east side of the city. Perhaps 1t
was the partial destruction of those
bridges which caused the invaders to
change their march to the northward and
effect the crossing at Bladensburg AT
any rate, party of British set fire to the
Washington end of the Long bridge,
wrecking that part which crossed the
Washington channel.
1t was no doubt reported to them that
American troops were at the other end
of the bridge which was a fact At the
south end party of Americans set fire
to the bridge there, it having been report
ed to them that British were at the other
end and probably meant an invasion OF
the Virginia side of the District the
bridge was burning at both ends at the
same time. but the fire did not extend
to the long stretch of bridgework across
the shoals over which the famous cause
way was later built.
The bridge next prominently appears In
the annals in the winter Of 1881. There
was a disastrous freshet and on February
% in that year several spans were car
ried away by ice and flood. This was one
of the many disbursements which the
stockholders seem to have met with. and
the agitation became strong that the
United States government should take
over the bridge and make 1t free. There
was approved July IA, 1882, an act of
Congress providing for the purchase ny
the United States of the rights of the
Washington Bridge Company in the Dis
trict of Columbia and for the erection of
a public bridge on the site thereof rms
act recites in part that:
Whereas it is represented TO the pres
ent Congress that the Washington Bridge
Company are willing and DESTROYS to sell,
convey and transfer to the United States
the bridge by them owned, in its present
condition, with all their rights, property
and privileges a company, under the
existing law. including their lands. piers.
abutements, roads and ways, as we'll as
all the materials by them owned at the
site of the said bridge, whether worked
up in the construction or reconstruction
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the Conduit road may he seen a trace Of
the old road. blt the only part obvious IN
me casual observer is the edar-hordered
path which leads from the conduit road
to the Canal road.
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-\ h,,ildine the new driveway around
tho southeast section, or the unlHi-
proved part, of Potomac Park work
mon fore away bulk of masonry
,ba+ had been an abutment or the
,;aya Under the east side OF the
railroad embankment, covered WIN i's
=. 81 frostdried vines and bordered ny
,ou retaining wall of granite. and close
~ ,ou drive where autos will skim
next spring. is section of ROADWAY ctiss
,.,.,,.soa with rotting railroad ties from
which the rails were removed se'erai
-, 900 Here is the ruin of the rail-
road track that led on to the Long bridge
Standing there while trains roar across
the new railroad bridge and mixed tranic
..,,,,,hl.s over the Highway bridge, with
the broad. wild, winter cold and WIND
,,,onnoa river to the front and muddy
wilderness. soon to be laced with sfhootn
ar;,.os and PLANTED with lawns and flow
OPS on the left. one may fall to thinking
90 tho old Long bridge, a bridge which
has left it's mark in the annals OF the
capital Many references 10 TINS priose
.re slowed away in the modest and
dinsiest of records. and 1T may he thought
hv MANY dry and dusty labor TO dlS
them out, but the result OF such ulssll!S
is interesting or not according 10 iildh
mental slant.
:; :;
The story of this bridge goes BACK 10
the selection of the site we live on as the
federal territory. The project of bridging
the Potomac at this wide point was talk
cd of as early as there was talk OF SUI
perseding with bridges the ferries OF tne
Eastern branch. 1t was a greater I'M
dertaking. than the construction OF
bridge at Benning or at the foot of Ken.
lucky avenue, and did not take TORN tlil
about ten years after those bridges were
in operation.
II was by act OF Congress, approved by
President Thomas Jefferson, FEBRUARY ,,
1SnS. that Robert Brent. Daniel Carroli
of Duddington Thomas Monroe. James u
Barry. Frederick May, Samuel Harrison
smith Jonah Thompson, Jonathan swift.
Thomas Vowel. Cuthbert Powell, Elisha
Jannev and Charles Alexander were CON
stituted a board OF commissioners with
full power and authority to open or cause
TO be opened books for receiving ana
entering subscriptions for raising capltal
stock not exceeding 100000 in shares OF
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Early Chain Bridge Road.

IN the right of the Conduit road YOU
~ will come upon square guide post
set vertically in the ground and inscribed
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lines of the civil war defensas in the
enVirons of Washington.
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Roosevelt cabinet received when they
took their oaths. Washingtons cabinet
received only a fourth of this figure, or
$1,000 "a year, excepting Jefferson, his
Secretary OF State. who was allowed
$500. But dollar went farther in
those days, as Evarts explained after
showing the incredulous Lord Coleridge
where Washington threw a coin of that
denomination across the Potomac.
The perquisites of the Wilson cabinet
Will be few. The government also fur
nishes each cabinet officer several car
riaces for winter and summer use and
enough spanking horses 10 keep these GO
ing night and day, as needed. The pur-
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Sometimes il is a patent for pressing
sunshine into hot bricks. crystallizins
moonbeams into pearls and necklaces or
an engine which will occupy no space
and use no fuel. but will do the work Of
forty-seyen men and eleven oxen in one
seventeenth of the time.
Sometimes it is an advertising scheme
that will make newspapers sell their
presses for junk and put electric signs on
the blink. Everything is perfected except
getting the required capital, and some
times even that is promised.
They are "A smooth lot ana they keep
to the style in hats and neckties and they
look Well fed They seem to get three
meals day, but they don't eat EN- AT
this hotel. They are remarkably friendly
gentlemen ana very affable with all
strangers who have a promising look.
They lay for newcomers to Washington
and they land enough of them to keep
from getting emaciated, but they don't
often pull down that million.
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n building the new driveway a'o.iN
the southeast section, or the uhlih-
proved part, of Potomac Farh WI
men tore away bulk OF hidsoh''
that had been an abutmeht vi '9
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Thei. Various Schemes.

ISE VERY man who hangs around this
IL office has a scheme for making
million dollars ii he can find somebody
with enough capital TO push il along
said the cigar clerk at an uptown hotel.
IF it's mining scheme the land Is al
ways a long way off but enough develop
ment work has been done TO expose the;
golden fieece-with an ACCENT on th.
fleece. If he could Just find some enter
prising man. OF easy mark. To put in
some money for a reduction plant.
stamp mill. a cyanide tank. a smelter Or
something of that kind, there would be-
gold enough turned out To shrink the
purchasing power OF all the other gold
one-half. The Standard oil Company
the Amalgamated Copper Company.
which owns the adjoining property, has
offered l9.Uoo,ojD for the claim. but H.
wants to save the property and make all
his friends rich. sometimes this gold
mine is a copper mine and sometimes IL
is in Alaska and sometimes I'm Mexico
Sometimes il is a rubber plantation on
the Amazon and sometimes coffee
ranch in Honduras and sometimes ONLY
an orange grove or pineapple field in
Florida Cuba, where the trees
growing wild and all that has to be don.
is to stretch the rubber or squeeze tn
oranges.
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BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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Continued on Sixth Page
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-09-19

P. A. Clemmer, Cresco
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-09-19
Climate Failed;
Medicine Effective

1t has been absolutely shown that rest,
fresh air and good food do help many
it must be admitted that the disease is
seldom more than ARRESTED" Something
more is needed.
'Eckman's Alternative is medicine made
conquered this disease again and again
Often these benefits have been effected
where the surroundings were not ideal
yet recoveries resulted. Now we argue
in every case of Tuberculosis. in addition
to good. nourishing food and fresh air
which we all need. A remarkable case
follows: Weldon. ILL.,
"Gentlemen: Through Eckman's Altera
tive | have been saved from premature
grave. On December A. 1904, | WIS taken
with Typhoid Pneumonia. My lungs be-
came very, much AFFECTED; my sRntum
were found. On February p, 1905, was
advised to go to Fort Worth. Texas.
While there an ahscess in my right lung
broke and discharged. grew worse, and
clan Informed me that | must go tc
Texas June. 81 and. arrived in Canon
there two weeks, my physician informed
me that my case was hopeless Three
weeks later ] returned home, weighing
1o3 pounds. the doctor having given Inc
"On July IA. 1905, ! began taking
Eckmans wonderful remedy for Con-
sumption. Today I weigh 15S pounds.
am stout and we'll and can do any kind
Of work about my grain elevator | have
not an ache nor pain in my lungs. eat
well, sleep well, and never felt hetter.'
(Sworn affidavit) ARTHUR WEBB.
rEckman's Alternative is effective in Bron--
chitis, Asthma, Hay Fever. Throat and
Lung Troubles, and In upbuilding the
system. Does not contain poisons opates
or habit forming drugs. Ask for booklet
telling Of recoveries, and write to Eckman
Laboratory, Philadelphia, Pa, for more evil
dence For sale by all leading druggists
PA. Clemmer- Cresc0
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-09-19


week.
Mrs. J. w. Mellecker of johnson
county is the champion Rooseveltlan
mother of the country. She won the
prize at the fair on the closing day
by bringing ten children to the fair.
There are nine boys and one girl IN
her roster, ranging from babe IN
arms to young man of Is.
The Edwards fine home at Creston
was destroyed by fire when a gaso-
line stove exploded and threw the
burning liquid in every direction.
Some of the burning stuff was thrown
on Mrs. Edwards and her arm was
terribly burned. It is thought, how
ever, that the arm can be saved.
The Pinkerton detective agency IS
trying to locate the heirs of Mrs.
Marienna Louise Neckle Flick, who
with her husband, Conrad Andreas
Frederick Wilhelm Flick, settled IN
lama county with their children IN
1869. In 1900 relative died in Ger
many, leaving an estate. The heirs
are wanted that they may receive the
property left.
Announcement is made by Wood
worth Clum, president of the Greater
Davenport committee, and also pub
Usher of the Clinton Advertiser, that
he has purchased outright the con-
trolling interest in the stock of The
Moline Mail and Journal from its
present holder, Otto Huber of Rock
Island, and will assume change of the
property October l.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-09-19

To admire, to love, to regret, is to
live, said great writer. Do rot let the
regret be brought on by a cough or cold,
which if treated when it first appeared
would have easily been controlled. Aliens
Cough Balsam brings welcomed relief in such
cases. Contains no harmful Ingredients.
25c., Soc. and $1.O0 bottles at all dealers.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-09-19
EMERGENCY BILL IS PASSED
Measure Provides 100000 to Bring
Americans Out of Mexico,

Washington, Sept. 16.-Waiving any
reference to committee on the ground
that it was an emergency measure
the senate passed the house resolution
appropriating 100000 to meet the ex-
penses of bringing destitute Ameri.
cans out OF Mexico.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-09-19

chronic diseases. He has devoted twenty
years Of his life to the study and treat
ment of diseases of the Stomach, Liver,
Bowels and Kidneys; Indigestion, Dyspep,,
Nerve Troubles, Rheumatism, Chronic Ca.
tarrh in all its forms-in fact all Chronic
Diseases.
DIR. sT0CKDALE has a system of tr
ment which he believes is the best J.
for chronic diseases. He is able re
many cases that have resisted OF eat
ments-that are considered liner
HE HAS A SPECIAL TREA r FOR
NERVOUS AND PHYSICAL ', IAKNESS
OF MEN, WHICH HE WOULD LIKE TO
EXPLAIN IN PERSON. CALL AND GET
his OPINION AND ADVICE FREE OF
CHARGE.
If for any reason you cannot call or visit
him personally, write him for an examina-
ton blank at his home Office.
address
2. DR.. 3. A. sToCKDALE,
Utica Building, Des Moines, Iowa.
fDTThe Doctor can he seen in his OFFS
in Des Moines. on Mondays, Fridays an
saturdays or by special appointment.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-09-19

Man PIunges From the Lower Steel
Arch Bridge.

Niagara Falls, N. Y, Sept. ia
man believed to be John Hawkins,
eixty-eight years old, of Erie, Pa.
committed suicide by jumping into the
Niagara river from the lower steel
arch bridge.
The bridge spans the river just above
the start of the whirlpool rapids and
is 200 feet above the surface of the
water.
Hawkins was pulled from the bridge
railing Saturday night, but convinced
his captors then that he was not bent
on suicide.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-09-19
Notice Of Time Given.

To Whom 1t May Concern -
l have this day given my minor son,
Carl Berenthard Qveel, aged Is, his
time and will not be responsible for
any debts or contracts he may make,
and will claim none of his earnings.
o. L. QvEEL.
Dated. Cresco, Iowa, Aug. 80, 1918.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-09-19
DR.. B. A. Stockdale
HOTEL STROLLER, CRESCO
Tuesday, September Is
Office Hours 9 a. m. to Z p. m.
WILL BE AT

DIR. SToCKDALE
wants every person
who suffers from a
chronic disease-it
makes no difference
how bad the case, or
how long they have
suffered, to call and
consult him. He will
make a thorough ex-
animation of their
case, tell exactly what
Fcan be done, whether
they are durable or
not, how long it will
require and all about
The Delta independent., 1913-10-24
Cattlemen Make
Sales This Week

The stockmen OF this county are
just as busy this week as are growers
in other lines. as can be noted by ship
ping records at the local depot, and
this activity is doing much to increase
the exchange and circulation of real
coin.
Among the sales of cattle this week
was that of Musser Son. los head
one carload going TO Tom Mostyn, the
we'll nnown stock and market men Of
Ouray. and two cars to the markets in
Denver.
Thornel & Son shipped eight cars TO
Kansas City and the f. ]. NJ. company
sold las fine COWS. calves and young
steers-the cows and calves and
young steers going to +. II. Grub at
Carbondale and the rest to Denver
markets.
The Delta independent., 1913-10-24
DELTA MAN NOT IDENTIFIED,
ACCORDING TO NEWSPAPERS

A little story has been going the
rounds of the newspapers in this part
OF the state recently to the effect that
Marshall Moffat the Delta man re-
Gently injured in the motor car acci-
dent In which George Baker of this city
lost his life had never been identified
and that he was mourned for dead by
his family and friends in this city; but
this sort OF thing is certainly beyond
the limit when IL comes to making sto-
ries for a newspaper.
Marshall Moffat is well known in
Delta. Il was well known here that he
was badly injured in the wreck above
mentioned. that he was unconscious
when picked up on the railroad track
west OF this city. and that he was
taken to the railroad hospital in Sail
da. His family nnew all these things.
and they also knew that he was re-
ported better day or two after being
taken to the hospital. and that he
would recover.
Just to give the reader some idea of
the reports referred to. we quote as
follows:
'Mourned by his family as dead,
Marshall Moffat of Delta, his mind a
blank. Is in the Rio Grande hospital
here. slowly recovering from injuries
sustained in the wrecking of motor
handcar. which occurred some miles
out OF Delta two weeks ago. Instead
of being killed. us was Mt first sup
posed. Moffat was hurled some dis
tance from the tracks. and an incom-
ing passenger train found him and
brought him to the local company hos
pital. The man had been injured about
the head and his memory was so COM
pletely unbalanced that 1t was AT first
impossible to identify him. In the
wreck his companion. Frank Baker OF
Delta. IVES killed instantly.
ION his failure to return home the
members OF his family had at first
supposed him to be lost, They had
been unaware of the fact that he had
ridden on a handcar. When Bakers
body was located and no trace of Moi
fat could be found, the supposition was
that Moffat's body he'd been complete
ly demolished"
The Delta independent., 1913-10-24
Delta Will Get
$75O,OOO Plant

Colorado Springs, Oct, 20-A special
meeting OF the stockholders of the
Western Sugar and Land company,
controlled by ]. r Mckinnie. r. p.
Davie and associates OF this city. will
be held on Tuesday. October 2s. for
the purpose of deciding on the pur-
chase OF the property OF the South
western Sugar and Land company at
Glendale. Arizona This property.
which is also controlled by the Nc
Kinnie. Davie group. is valued at over
1900. 900 and improvements will be
made costing several hundred ,hous'
and dollars new sugar factory Will
also be built at Delta, Colo, to cost
about s750.0o0. The company also
owns the sugar factory operating at
Grand Junction. The capacity of the
latter plant will not be cut down. ac-
cording to reports. and will continue
to have as large or larger an output
of sugar.
The stockholders of the Western
company will be asked TO vote on the
question OF increasing the capital
stock from 50 2.oO0. 900 to 100000 of
which half shall be preferred and half
common stock.
A statement covering the operations
of the holdings and prospects has been
issued to stockholders OF the Western
company by ]. r. McKinnie. president
and L. c. Sharer. secretary OF the com
pany.