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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
Star Bureau,
Metropolitan National Bank Bldg,
WASHINGTON Sent. O.

Star Bureau,
Metropolitan National Bank Bldg.
WASHINGTON, Sept. @.
After several years of talk and
opposition the House has passed the
famous bill giving the city of San
Francisco the right to build a great
dam and reservoir and obtain a water
supply in the Hetch- Hetchy valley.
The city will build a conduit nearly
a hundred miles long to carry it's
supply from the reservoir in the San
Joaquin valley. 1t is estimated that
the total cost of the vast works to
be built will be about $77,O0O,OOO. In
the storing of the water of the valley
and the building of the works there
will be developed something like
lis, 0O0- horsepower of hydro-electric
power, which is to belong to the city.
There are ten cities and municipali-
ties on and near the bay of San Fran
cisco, which are expected, sooner or
later, to join with the larger city in
this enterprise. The value of the
water power alone is placed at $780,
000, 900. 1t is planned that the entire
big project, when completed, will give
all the cities on the bay an abundant
supply of pure water derived from
the melted snow that flows down the
sides of the Sierras, and Will furnish
light, heat and power for this entire
section, at a cost so low as to revo-
lutionize the prices now charged by
private companies.
Hetch -Hetchy is an almost mac
cessible, but very beautiful valley at
present. 1t is government land and
part of a national park and forest
reserve. Private water and electric
companies on the coast have for years
secretly and indirectly opposed the
proposition for allowing San Fran
cisco to build reservoirs there.
1t has not been the corporation in
fiuence, however, which has made the
open fight against the grant by Con-
eress. Many well-known men and
women have fought the reservoir
proposal on the plea that the dam
and conduit would destroy the beauty
of the scenery in the valley. These
sentimentalists, undoubtedly sincere,
have lobbied against the grant In
Congress and written miles of news
paper and magazine articles protest.
ing against the Dissertation of the
scenery.
Engineers and others familiar with
the plans have finally been able to
prove to Congress that instead of
spelling the scenery, the waterworlSs
will add three beautiful lakes to the
valley and actually make it more
beautiful, while the city is to spend
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
drives and roads which will make the
scenery more accessible.
Under the terms of the bill passed
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
loRTIFICATIoN IN ADMINISTRATION POLICY.

THE PARSIMONY of the department in providing
transportation of Americans of Mexico offering them
accommodations with the thrifty ideas
secretary and with the dignity of the
ment this meanhess compromises 1t Huera the
opportunity reflect the Washington administration by
provide of transportation and
American refugees Mexican Our
policy in Mexico regard the protection of
interests giving much pride to
the nation but the shabby treatment of the Americans ordered
Mexico won't be responsible for
their safety is Notifying.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
TUBERCULOSIS COWS ARE
DANGER TO MANKIND

Three things have become quite
plain in the course of a world wide
study of the relation between human
and bovine tuberculosis ~ That
tuberculosis is a common disease
among cattle. (2) That there are con-
.stant opportunities for transfer of any
possible infection from cattle to peo-
pie. (3) that man is at least suscepti-
BILE to bovine infection.
There can be no reasonable ques-
ton now that the most serious source
of human tuberculosis, particularly
for older children and adults, is the
advanced case of human tuberculosis
in the home. 1t has been satisfac-
torily shown, however, that man is
at least susceptible to tuberculosis
infection from cattle and that tuber
culosis among young children, due to
germs from cows, is sufficiently COM
man and serious TO make it-neces-
sary to recognize the tuberculosis
cow as an important element of dan
ger.-W. H. Reynolds, Veterinarian,
Minnesota University Farm.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
GOING HIGHER UP FOR THE MANAGERS.

INVESTIG ALTON OF the Wallingford wreck by the IN
tersate Commerce Commission promises TO set new precedent
The commission proposes go behind the ralnmen ana set
at the managers the responsible parties for this wholesale
company has had repeated warnings well
&c xaence TO induce to adopt for operating the
road with safety all the evidence far is that they were
wholly dregarded of 20s7 in by the company
only thirtyseven of steel The equipment otherwise
family and the discipline the ranmen that engineers
do exhaustng double duty danger signals passed in logs
and green men are employed brakemen If there is not e
na responsibility all this then railroad management IS
licensed for possible manslaughter.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
WASHINGTON LETTER
BY HB. .l (l4a;.EA STAR STAFF
WALKER fEflf1gasl2RE SP0NDENT
HETcH-HETcHY DAM SURE

by the House, the city of San Fran
cisco is to pay the government $780,
900 year for the water rights, which
money is to be expended in maintain
ing the roads and drives in the valley
and about the reservoirs, of which
there are to be three.
Only a small part of the water
stored in the valley will be needed by
the cities for potable water supply,
and the additional water will be
used for irrigating thousands of
acres of land, while the cheap electric
power developed will be sold to
irrigation companies and water users,
in part, for pumping the water onto
their lands for irrigating purposes.
This San Francisco project will be
one of the biggest municipal under
takings ever attempted in this coun-
try. While Los Angeles has a large
waterworks project from which a
vast quantity of cheap electricity
is being developed, most of the great
waterpower developments in the West
have been carried through by pri-
vate companies. 1t is estimated by
the Census Bureau that the poten-
tial waterpowers of California are
over 100000 horsepower. Census fig
ures show that nearly one-half of
this possible power is already in pri-
vate ownership and that of the wa
terpower SO far developed, two COM
panies own rs per cent of the wa
terpower in the State.
1t is probably not well known that
waterpower furnishes practically all
the light and power for the city of
Mexico. This power is developed at
the falls .of Necaxa, about 100 miles
from the city, where a small noun
tain stream drops off a plateau to
the plain below with a sheer fall of
1000 feet, or about ten times as
high as the falls of Niagara. En-
gineers, a few years ago, built a
series of reservoirs on the top of
the mountain, which are filled by
this stream. The water from these
reservoirs is dropped through four
thirty-inch pipes with 1900 feet fall
through turbines which generate so,
900 horsepower of electricity, and this
power runs virtually all OF the mills
factories, elevators and trolley cars
in the city besides lighting the entire
city and supplying miscellaneous
power for a hundred other uses. A
single engineer, by manipulating a
few switches, controls the light and
power for the entire city.
In the Hetch- Hetchy grant, the
public utilities commission of Cali
fornia is to have the power to regu-
late the prices charged by San Fran
cisco for the sale of power developed
from the waterworks.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
GREAT AMERICAN INVENTORS
oneTh
NO. 6-THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Copyright 1913 By oiated School, Inc

other end of my wire for more than
| two hours and a half. I'm proud to
know you"
This little story of Thomas Alva
Edison shows that even as a young
man he exhibited unusual ability. He
was born on February II, 1S47, at Mi
Ian, Erie county, o. His family
moved TO Port Huron, Mich, when
the boy was seven, and when he was
only twelve years old Edison became
a train newsboy on the railway to
he rugged up apparatus0in the bag
gage car and experimental with
chemistry and telegraphy
He was but 10 when he became a
telegraph operator. But his studies
and experiments interfered SO much
with his duties that he was dis
charged many times. He worked in
number of cities in the United
States and Canada. At the age of Il
he had built an automatic repeater
by which a Geographic message could
be transferred from one wire to an
other without the aid of an operator.
BY means of this messages could be
sent direct to a much greater distance
than formerly.
Edison finally went to Boston, as
related above, and thence to New
York in 1869. There he invented an
improved printing telegraph for stock
uuotations-the ticker. For this he
received $4,000.
Then he built laboratory at New
ark, N. J., but four years later moved
to Menlo Park, and later to West Or
ange, N. J. All the time he continued
his experiments and invention> He
lives now at Orange, and he is as
hard a worker at sc as he was when
a young man.
Among Edison's more important in
ventions are his system of multiplex
biography; the carbon telephone
transmitter; the monograph; the in
candescent lamp and light system;
the kaleidoscope, and his invention of
this year, the talking moving picture.
In all he has had 700 patents granted
to him.
In 1878 Edison was made chevalier
and afterward commander of the Lee
gion of Honor by the French govern
ment.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06

a New York sender, who was one of
the most rapid in the telegraph bust
ness at that time, called up. All the
operators were busy.
Let that new fellow try him. said
the chief.
Edison sat down and for four and
one-half hours took the speedy mes
sages. The faster the instrument
clicked, the faster he wrote the words.
At the end New York called:
"Hello!"
Hello, yourself" Edison flashed
back.
who the dickens are you?" asked
the New York operator.
Tom Edison"
You are the first man in the coun-
try that could ever take me at my
fastest" clicked out New York, land
the only one who could ever sit at the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
PETRIFIED WOOD QUARRY
PRODUCT FOR BUILDING

Near Mumford, in the southwest
ern corner of Monroe County, New
York" said a native of that locality,
sis stone quarry that perhaps has
no counterpart in this State or else
where.
"A dense growth of cedars north
east of the village grows on a wide
and long level of blush gray muck
down into which the prevailing lime
rock dips out of sight. The grove and
the muck land are on thick deposit
of what appears to be a white rock
mottled or streaked with mixture
of green, its appearance having been
described as that of huge slices of
Roquefort cheese.
when the idea was advanced that
this rock would make a novel build.
ing stone and blocks of it were re-
moved from the beneath the muck it
was found that 1t came to the sur
face soft and with a tendency to
crumble, thus presenting additional
resemblance to Roquefort cheese and
apparently destroying its availability.
After a few hours in the sun and
wind, however, the rock became
hardened to a fiintlike consistency, a
solidity and toughness not exceeded
by the hardest granite.
1.-THE discovery was then made that
there was not particle of basic rock
in the deposit at ALL 1t was all made
up of fossil vegetable fibres, petri-
fed cedar leaves, branches, twigs,
broken bark and even whole stumps
and knets, welded and knit together
into one dense tangle.
1.-THE theory is that as those parts
of cedar trees. the growth of an I'M
known past, fell one layer upon an
other into muck depths, once the
bed of a prehistoric lake, they were
saturated with the dampness of the
swamp and with the lime held in
solution. AS the vegetable matter de-
cayed and the water evaporated
every line, fibre and grain was pre-
served by the lime sediment, in time
to be turned into the fiintiest of lime
stone THE Sun
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
Opinions and Views
from The Exchanges
Pass 1t Now,
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
No one should be deceived by the
movement developing in the Senate
to put over the currency bill to an
other time. It is not for the purpose
of perfecting the legislation, but the
purpose of defeating 1t. More time
is wanted not so much to enlighten
senators as to enable hostile bankers
to bend the legislation to their ex-
elusive demands.
This bill is already the product of
extended public hearing and many
perfecting changes. 1t is broadly
based on a plan which has the "un-
qualified approval" of the American
Bankers Association. 1t differs from
that plan mainly in substituting a
federated reserve system for GEN.
trail reserve bank and limited govern
ment control for exclusive banking
control. But these are divergences
which public sentiment imperatively
demands and which no end of sena-
torial delay and discussion can over
come.
The country wants action in pro-
lection against further bank-bred
panics. The banks were demanding
action until it appeared they could
not dictate altogether what 1t should
be. Congress is as well prepared now
to take action as it ever will be.
We have had long season of I'M
certainty over the tariff. We do not
want another long season of uncer-
tainty over the currency. AS the one
period of suspense is about to end
why not end the other? Give trade
and industry a chance. AS their
tariff shackles are broken, why not
knock off also the shack1es of a
panic breeding bank and currency
system?
Delay in continued uncertainty may
be worse than definite defeat. The
time for currency reform is now.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
THE VETERAN FIRE HORSE.

NOT ONLY has sentiment of affection for the
dags apparatus to the fire and quick and
respond alarm the refghters, but the whole
regards this trained and faithful animal
with admiration. The horse in only when
the old hand engine of the volunteer
department than fifty and he is grad
uay being displaced by engine but after he dis
appears his tradition will long survive for he has done splendid
work for man. parade New York yesterday
feature attention and the oudest
twelve old horses that had responded
from Could anybody fail to pay
tribute o those veterans?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06

THE scene-the Boston office of a
L great telegraph company. The
time-a half century ago. Enter a
tall young man., wearing a slouehy
broad brimmed hat and wet buster
clinging to his legs, who marched
into the superintendent's office and
said:
Here 1 am"
The superintendent gazed at him.
"Who are you?" he finally asked.
tom Edison"
"And who ON earth might Tom Edi-
son be?"
The young man explained that he
had been ordered to report for duty at
the Boston office. He was told to sit
down and wait A little while later
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
TURNDOWN OF DIPLOMAT
WHITE CAUSES SURPRISE

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-The APP
pointment of John Ewing, of Loui-
siana,t as minister to Honduras, sent
to the Senate yesterday by President
Wilson, caused some surprise 1t was
expected in some quarters that
Charles d. White, whom Mr.. Ewing
replaces, would be reappointed. Mr..
White is brother of Israel G. White.
of Summit, N. j., a graduate of
Princeton Seminary and strong sup
porter of President Wilson and his
policies.
Charles d. White has been in the
diplomatic service for fifteen years.
Strenuous pressure from New Jersey,
it was said, was brought to bear on
the President to reappoint Mr.. White.
Israel G.. White is an editorial
writer on a Newark newspaper.
H. b. w,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
CANADA HOLDS THAW.

CANADIAN LAW has Unexpectedly interviewed TO save
Thaw from expectation haw which had seemed
70 he ended as far concerned by the action OF the
Quebec court releasing murderer to the immigration officers
lis indefinitely prolonged and problem for Canaolan
courts lawyers trick played at the last moment
defeated the for transporting Thaw across the
opened for legal entangements that may de-
any year and may carry the case TO
Supreme Court and even to England by pos
way out of Matteawan Thaw has not only become an IN
character has been erected into cause
ceebre tribute to the of the ThaW millions
and also to that the law which Lord Hadne euo
-sgzed, that loses slght OF right JUSTICE anu '0 ~ " "
~refned techncalitiesi
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
FIRE DESTRUCTION AT HOT SPRINGS.

\ CONFLAGRATI0N, starting in negro shanty in Hot
Springs Ark the Western health resort has wiped
millions of property and caused almost rreparabe loss Hot
Springs of federal reservation which includes four
mountains sevenyfour thermal springs owned by the
federal government that of high medicinal value The
drought prepared the conditions for this calamity
but evidently the town was lily equipped for fire emergency
while of the buildings insured for at time
the overlook other cities that permitted the general
for construction lesson dearly learned usually
needed and Hot Springs has dear enough lesson.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
Children and tuberculosis.

Germany fought the potato beetle
by teaching her school children before
the plague came just what it looked
like, and just how hungry it would
make peasant children if allowed to
gain foothold in the empire.
American educators are fighting an
immeasurably greater plague in a
similar way. They are teaching
school children the meaning and the
menace of tuberculosis. They are
telling. the lads and lassies in thou
sand schools how the white plague is
spread, how it can be avoided, and
how, when taken in time, it can be
cured.
When the children thus taught
grow to manhood and womanhood it
will be less easy to rent deathtrap
rooms and sell milk from tuberculosis
cows than it is today.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
Her First Words.

The late Duke of Sutherland, who
was the largest landowner in Europe.
had at Dunrobin Castle small pri-
vate railway line, and often amused
by driving the engine. &.
There is little story that illus
'trates the reverence in which his
Highland tenants held the duke
He was driving his train one after
noon when he ran down an old wom-
an. She was not seriously hurt, the
amateur engineer never went very
fast, and after ten or fifteen minutes
she came too.
Her first words were these:
els the duke very angry?'- To-
ronto Mail and Express.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
Softening Light for Invalid.

When any one is i'll electric light
in the room, If very strong, will tend
to hurt the eyes and probably induce
headache and cause rise of tenn
perature. A little bag made of green
silk, large enough to slip easily right
over the light, shade and all, can be
fitted on and will look dainty and
pretty. Run a drawstring in so as to
tie it on quickly otherwise the pa
tent will object to the fuss.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
Just His Job.

Joakley-Now there's a fellow who
doesn't do anything but pick up pins
all the time.
Coakley-Well, well; that's queer
superstition.
Joakley-Oh, no; it's not supersh-
tion hut an occupation. He's en-
nIoyed in a bowling alley.-Catholic
Standard and Times.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
AMERICAS RIFLEMEN ON TRIAL.

CANADA WINS the worlds individual championship with
the army rife distinction well earned from American
petitors Monday the Palma match for the rife teams of
the will be shot at Camp Perry The prospects for the
American team faerng formerly but the
can reman that he knows how snatch victory
from apparent defeat when the emergency arises.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
An Egotist.

Hokus-Flubdub seems to have a
wonderful opinion of his knowledge.
Pokus-I should say he has. Why,
I have actually heard him attempt to
argue with his son, who is in his
freshman year at college.-Lippin-
colts.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
Saving Electric Current.

, Repeatedly interrupting the current
for infinitesimal fractions of time.
permitting the filament to cool but
not interfering with the light as per-
ceived by the human eye, a French
electrician has invented lamp which
he claims uses but one two-hundredth
of fine current of ordinary lamps.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
Hard to Get Right Course.

Playfulness is a good means of soft
ening social distances. A stiff, grave
man is always in danger of being
feared too much. On the other hand,
as the self-love of many people is
suspicious in the extreme, you must
expect that your innocent playfulness
will often be mistaken for ridicule.-
Sir Arthur Helps.
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"Jarndyce and Jarndyce.'

Seven years ago a New York real
estate operator left $4,000 to "the
cause of charity" Recently the
court decided the will valid. but now
there is no estate to distribute-the
lawyers have it. The purpose of the
will has been accomplished.-New
York Herald.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06

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Try This--For a Laugh.

How many ribs have you,
johnny" asked the teacher.
II don't know, ma'am," giggled
Johnny. squirting around on one
foot. Pm so awful ticklish l never
could count Public Ledger.