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The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26
RAILROADS IN ORIENT
EUROPEAN /SYNDlCATES TAKE UP
WORK IN EARNEST.
Many Lines Being Laid and Others
Projected-American Devoted to
Other interests In the Vel
low Republic.

Unsettled as the Chinese govern
ment is, the building of railroads and
the development of other concessions
continue, the Indianapolis News OBJ
serves. The present movement is not
unlike that of the year 1898, known in
the history of the far East as that of
the battles of concessions Many
nations are participating in the pres
ent activity. Great Britain has en-
gagged itself to construct line start
ing from Shasi through Human to the
Kweichau, opening the latter province
for the first time to the commerce OF
the world. More important however,
are the plans of Russia and France.
On May 20, 1911. what was then the
-four power" syndicate, concluded
with the Chinese government the So
called Hukuang railway loan of 910,-
100000, which gave the syndicate the
power TO build 1,500 miles of line in
the provinces of Human and Hupeh,
with an eventual prolongation into
Szechuan. Then the revolution de-
veloped and all enterprise lay dor
mant. The Belgians were the first
foreigners to awaken. In September,
1912, they made a new railway loan
with China for 910,000,000. The Bel
gian company concerned was the so
ciety of Railways and Tramways Of
China, behind which stands the bet
ter known Banque Sino-Belge, an insti-
tuition which, ever since the days OF
King Leopold, has closely co-operated
with Russian diplomacy.
This introduces the Russian foreign
office into the Belgian transportation
schemes, and adds international inter
est to railway construction in China.
From that time on the Banque Sino-
Beige has obtained valuable conces-
sions. Were all the enterprises con-
trolled by Russian-Belgian interests to
be developed Immediately China would
experience a great revival. French
capital is to be found throughout
China and French engineers are oc-
cupied in surveying prospective lines
through provinces as yet untraversed
by any except caravans. The posts
and telegraphs in some of the prov
1nces are also in French hands Amer
lean interests are not so much con-
cerned with transportation as with
mineral products. The Standard Oil
company, having obtained the Chinese
oil concession, has a monopoly in com
parison with which some of the rail-
way enterprises appear cheap and in
significant
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26
DEMAND FOR NATIVE TIMBER.
Over 350,o00,ooo Feet Sold In the
Denver District the Past Year.

Denver.-That there has been a
marked increase in the demand for
national forest timber throughout
Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota,
during the past year is evidenced by
a report given out by the Denver Of
flee of the forest service. According
TO this report, over $50 million feet Of
timber, with value Of 1921, ,915,66,
was sold on the national forests com
ing under the jurisdiction of the Den
yer office. These figures show an in
crease of over PIT million feet, and a
value Of $761, ,404.45 over those Of the
preceding year ending June 80, 1913.
During the past fiscal year, 1.7S5
timber sales were made, of which num-
ber 1,702 were for amounts less than
$780, Included among these small
sales, 2,775,00O feet were disposed Of
by the forest service at the actual
cost of making the sales, or at a rate
of rs cents a thousand board feet for
saw timber, and rs cents cord for
fuel wood.
The two largest sales Of the year
were those in which the government
disposed of 153 million feet on the
Black Hills forest in South Dakota,
and another Of 125 million feet ON the
Bonneville forest in Wyoming.
In addition to the amount of timber
sold, the report also shows that more
than % million feet Of timber, valued
at $2S,144 was given away under free
use permits to 6,086 settlers and home
steaders living on and adjacent to the
national forests.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26
Kitten in Danger.

Fluff, little kitten belonging to the
refreshment department of the Mid
land station at Bath, recently had an
adventurous trip, relates London Tit
Bits. The guard of the early morning
Bath to BouTnemouth train heard new
ing after the departure of the train,
but search of the van revealed no
trace of the cat. At intervals during
the journey the mewing was renewed,
and at Bournemouth further search
proved unavailing. Continued cries
being heard throughout the return
journey a more thorough search was
made at Bath, when Fluff was found
sitting on a gas cylinder beneath the
guards van. Fluff had travelled about
$50 miles in this perilous position,
which it had occupied for twelve
hours.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26
LINES TO DEVELOP ALASKA
Construction of Two Railroads to Be
Begun At Once-Territory Through
Which They viii Pass.

The immediate construction OF two
railroad lines, one running from Cor
dova to Fairbanks and the other from
Seward through Susitna to the kus-
kokwim river, with several branch
lines to coal fields, has been recon-
mended by the commission appointed
to determine the best location for the
railroads in Alaska, authorized by the
recent act of congress. This act gives
the president authority to build not
more than 1000 miles of railroads con-
Meeting ports on the southern coast
with navigable waters and coal fields
of the interior, the cost Of which is
not to exceed $4,000 A network
Of railroads to develop the district
south of the Yukon river and touching
that river at three points has been
proposed, but some of these lines have
been found on investigation to be i'm
practicable on account of the noun
famous nature of the country. The
two lines now proposed will reach a
section rich in agricultural and miner
al resources Mechanics.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26
GOLDEN YEAR FOR FARMERS.
Total Value of Crops for Year Ia
$4,352, 100000.

Chicago.-This is the golden year
for the American farIer. His leading
crops for 1914 were worth $4,352 00O,-
600 Sept. 1, leading grain men estt.
mated, using the government Septem-
Der crop report as basis. This Is
$6S2 100000 more than the farmer re-
ceived last year for the same five
crops-wheat corn, oats. barley and
hay-and forecasts the richest returns
to the soil tillers in the history OF the
United States. This years record
breaking wheat crop alone is valued
at $S36,000,0O0. compared to yalua-
ticn of $5SS,000 900 in 1913. This total
value is computed at an estimated
farm value Of 933 cents per bushel
Sept for an estimated total Of $780,
100000 bushels.
Since Sept the price of wheat has
advanced steadily.
Ordinarily huge wheat crop means
low prices per bushel to the farmers.
This year, despite the enormous crop,
the European war has boosted wheat
prices.
Eventually, grain men point out,
this mere than $4,000,000 in farm
prosperity" must trickle through until
general business conditions reflect the
increase in crop values.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26

in the East. This device has been
recommended by the American safety
congress. 1t is the invention of a Los
Angeles trainman.
The device, commonly called the
"wig-wag signal, consists of 26-inch
red disk, swung, pendulum-fashion, at
right angles to the crossing highway.
1t is operated automatically by cleo
tricity, through an arc of three feet.
at the speed of from twenty to fifty
oscillations per minute In the center
of the disk on both sides is a ruby
lens five inches in diameter while
just below the lens is the word stop
outlined with white glass jewels. Two
incandescent lamps fixed within the
disk are lighted on the approach of a
train and thus illuminate the ruby
lens and the word stop" A bell also
rings. Each function of the mechan-
ical hagman operates independently
of the others, so that, in case one part
becomes temporarily disabled. 1t does
not affect the working of the rest
Popular Electricity.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26
The Human Element.

In these days of scientific manage
ment there is tendency to ignore
the human element in humanity to
create industrial machines which shall
turn out their products at maximum
speed and at minimum cost To be
sure, the attempt is made to remuner-
ate the workers handsomely for their
labor with the purpose Of furnishing
them the wherewithal to live more
comfortably So far as such a process
is mechanical, however, it cannot
yield the best results. Man is not a
machine and he does not live by
bread alone" no matter how much of
it he gets. A prime requisite for pro-
motion to positions of authority should
be the possession of those distinctly
human qualities which will inspire af-
fection as well as respect. We are
all attracted to the organization in
which the manager is referred to as
"the chief" "the boss, the mogul, y
or some such human term.-Electrit
Railway Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26
Motor Cars Replace Steam.

Motor cars have displaced steam
trains on the Central New York South
ern railroad, a 39-mile line extending
between Ithaca and Auburn. The cars
are of the gasoline type, with q 200
horsepower engine mounted on the
leading truck and driving the front
axle direct Cor through gears for slow
speed and are 70 feet long. The cars
were built in Omaha
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26
Average Twenty Years of Life.

1t is estimated by the Pennsylvania
company that passenger cars and loco
motives have a useful life of twenty
years, at the end of which time their
value as scrap will be only about 20
per cent of their original cost. An
allowance of three per cent for depre-
citation and renewal is made for
freight cars and Of four per cent for
locomotive and passenger cars. Be
cause of the absence of sufficiently
long experience in steel cars, an al
lowance of four per cent is made for
depreciation and renewal.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26
HOW WATER WRECKS TRAINS
Subject of Such Importance that Rail
road Engineers Are Giving 1t
Serious Consideration.

Who would have thought it, Yet
it has been shown by recent investi-
cations of the interstate commerce
commission that railroad wrecks are
very often caused by a few gallons
of water.
You see, it is like this; Water, for
use by the locomotive. is carried in g
tank on the tender. When train is
travelling at high speed and goes
around curve, all the water in the
tank is violently thrown by centrif-
ugal force against one side Of the
receptacle containing it. This is liza
Bile to throw the tender off the track,
and the result may be the derailment
of part or the whole of the train.
There have been, it appears, many
bad accidents due to this cause The
question is: What shall be done
about it.
Two ways are suggested for getting
over the difficulty. One is to divide
the water tank into a series of length
wise compartments. If this were done,
the water, Of course, could not be
thrown in a body to one side in the
manner described
The other plan proposed is that the
tank, instead of being made with a
fiat bottom, shall have a bottC in the
shape of Y. 1t is easy to see how
this would work, and that it would
have the effect of preventing in large
degree such dangerous movement OF
the Water-Chicago American.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26
SKIN TROUBLE ON LIMBS

Moclips, Wash.-"My trouble first
started on my arms and soon it ex-
tended to my body and legs. The first
I noticed of it was red spots, itching
spots some larger than a pin head. My
clothing irritated them and l scratched
My sleep was disturbed by the clothes
scratching. 1t had bothered me for
about ten days and I began to use
the Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
only purchased one cake of Cuticura
Soap and one box of Cuticura Oint-
ment and they effected cure
(Signed) Sid Strawn, May 10, 1914. Z
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample Of each
free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. ADV
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26
Mark Twain's War Prayer.

o Lord, help US to tear the soldiers
Of the foe to bloody shreds with our
shells; help us to cover their smiling
fields with the pale forms of their pa
triot dead help us to lay waste their
humble homes with a hurricane OF
fire; help us to wiring the hearts of
their unoffending widows with un-
availing grief. Blast their hopes,
blight their lives, water their way with
their tears.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26
Tramp Was Curious to Know

A tramp got off a train at a Central
Branch station long enough to chalk
the following on the side of the
freighthouse: Your rails are bad.
your ties are worse SO where in hells
your Safety First kansas City Star.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26
Wilson Buys $50 WAR" Cotton Bale.

Washington. = President Wilson
Joined the Buy Bale Of Cotton"
Club, by ordering from the head OF
the organization in Georgia $50 worth
Of cotton. Senator Hoke Smith told
him that people throughout the South
were joining the movement to take UP
the cotton crop left over by the Euro
pean war. Senator Smith also told
the President that next year the cot
ton crop would be cut in half and that
wheat and other products would be
substituted.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26
FLAGMAN ALWAYS ON DUTY
Automatic Device Warranted to Re
Constantly on the Alert and
In Order.

The accompanying illustration shows
an automatic railroad flagman which
is being used quite extensively by
many of the electric and steam rail
roads on the Pacific coast and in the
Southwest, as we'll az in a few places
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26

The nude truth sometimes needs an
Immunity bath.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26

Makes the laundress happy-that's Red
Cross Bag Blue Makes beautiful. clear
white clothes. All good grocers. ADV.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26

YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU
Fry Murine Bye Remedy for Red, Weak, Watery
lust Eve Comfort Write for Book of the Eye
~ mail Free Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26

What married man isn't fond Of his
Wife's husband?
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26

1t takes a strong-minded woman to
hold her tongue.
The Winslow mail., 1914-09-26

No real hustler is satisfied with the
things that come to those who wait
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-04
POLY WINS, Blu T
SPOILS TRADITION
Boys High Defeated, but Makes
Its First Touch
down.

Boys High School scored its frs,
points since 1912 when it tailed a
touchdown in its annual football game
witt the Polytechnic Preparatory
School, played at Washington Park.
Brooklyn, yesterday. In winning BY
score of Is to "Poly" found Il
harder JOB than il had anticipated.
As defeat was expected by the BOYS
High supporters. they made much Of
the opportunity to rejoice in the break
ing Of their long scoring hoodoo Sher-
man and Bloch, who engineered thu
final forward pass that carried with r,
a touchdown in the final five minute
Of play, were borne off the field on the
shoulders of the Boys F'gh students.
James f. Wilson. coach OF the Red and
Black eleven, who took up tn, work
only a week ago and has worked Won
ders with the team, was happy man.
The game was less than two r1inute q,
old. when a freak field goal kicked BY
"Pen" Pendleton, who starred in the
victory of POLY" put 3oys' High on
the defensive. TIE latter school kicked
off to start the contest, but or the very
first play fumblcd.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-04
Wiley Sent Back to Centre,
Where He Shows Up
Well - Ends Big
Problem.
Nv TcIerraph 10 Tic Tribune. ]

New Haven. Nov. 3.--The work for
the Yale varsity football team to-day
emphasized defensive play, and the
regulars. under the coaching Of Tom
Shevlin and Frank Hinkey, held the
scrub better than they have done be
fore this season.
Two shifts were made at the centre
Of the line. Jack Wiley. VINO was hrst
choice I'D 10 last week, was moved back
to centre. and Farrar played bessie
him at right guard, replacing Walden.
Wilev's play was first class. lie was
strong on the defence and was par
ticularly good in breaking through and
getting down the field with the ends.
Red Brann and Stillman seem 70 be
in ;he lead for the end positions, but
neither can be said to have q clear lead
over Schram. Church and Higgin>
botham. The end problem has been
the hardest that Frank Hinkey has
faced. Stillman's good showing against
Colgate makes him -avorite, but the
big fellow is notably weak in handling
passes and is slow in sizing up the OPP
posing attack.
Brann. on the contrary, is an aggres-
sive and experienced end. but rather
light for the place. In the Washington
and jefferson game he was jostled out
of the play by the Pennsylvanians in
reference. and long gains were made
around him.
Except for the end places, the team
ha apparently been settled upon with
"Chub" Sheldon and Talbot at tackle,
Conrov. White and Walden in the cen
TIRE of the line and Wilson. Ainsworth,
Knowles and lie Gore IN the backheid.
Knowles was slightly hurt in the
scrimmage to-day, and Easton took his
plaC. Talbot, lie Gore and Alec Will
son stayed out Of the battle with the
g b, in which the varsity made two
touchdowns. Fife Waite. who Is press
ing Ainsworth hard for left halfback,
played a smashing offensive game. On
the kickoff he caught the ball ard tore
sixty yards through a broken field be-
fore he was stopped. He was con-
sistent gamer on end runs and scored
tn 'varsity's second touchdown,
Knowles tallying the first.
Knowles made forty-iive yards on a
play through tackle, and while he was
in the game ripped through the line
for ten and fifteen yard advances. The
scrub held well. however. when the
varsity got near its goal line, and got
the ball on downs when the regulars
had hammered through to the tive-yard
mark.
Henry Wiser gained the most ground
for the scrub and had one try for a
Feld goal, but missed. Scovil was AT
quarterback during the entire scrim-
mage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-04
SPOTS JUST CAN'T MISS
Trapshooting Champion Does
Well at Travers Island.

Ralph J.. Spots, holder Of the anna
teur trapshooting championship OF the
United States, made his debut OF the
season al the Travers Island traps OF
the New York Athletic Club yesterday:
and proved that his eye was still good
bv winning the majority Of the events.
He started his good work by annex
ing the first leg on the monthly cup
I hen he took leg on the Acccumula-
ton Cup. In both events he made 20
straight targets from scratch. He also
was the high scratch gunner Of the
dav. with e6 out OF q possible 100 tar
gets.
W. E. Ogden was the only other gun
nor "a win more than one event. After
two shoot-ofrs he took the Trsvers ISL
and Trophy, with a straight score OF
q targets. He also won the Distance
Handicap. The first leg on the club
Gun went 10 A. ". Currie and a. l..
Purns won the Variety Cup. After a
ehoot-off against r. J. Held, the high
handicap prize was taken by K. Il.
Debachcr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-04
PRINCETON FACES
HARVARD PLAYS
Coaches Work Tigers Hard in
Preparation for Game with
Crimson.
IB. relograph % ID TcLbure. J

Princeton, \. j., Nov 3.-None Of
the minutest details which could pos
sibly help Princeton toward victory
over Harvard next Saturday is being
overlooked by the coaches in the Tiger
camp. The latest move in reproducing
as nearly as possible conditions as
they may be in the Harvard stadium
was made to-day. The men were forced
to face the western sun during thor
ough drill in receiving punts and
passes and in covering kicks.
Some of the graduate coaches who
have seen Harvard play in the stadium
this year maintain that the result of
a close game might easily hinge on the
unfamiliarity of the Crimson's Oppo-
nents with the afternoon light in the
structure.
Most of the men Who are possible
substitutes for the Harvard contest
we're taken in tow privately b. grad
uate coaches until they received the
call to engage in the battle with The
scrub. that lasted for an hour.
After the usual preliminary practice
the varsity took the field against the
scrub. which had been trained in Har-
ward plays. It required twentythree
minutes of hard fighting for the regu-
lars 70 score the first of their two
touchdowns. The men we're a little
slow in grasping the defence for some
of the Harvard formations. but after
they got warmed up 20 the task the
scrubs advances became rare.
Ames lodged through from the five
ward line for the first score, and Dick
erman kicked the goal. The regulars
we're sent back seventy-hve yards 20
begin their second successful march 10
the goal line. By that time, Moore,
briggs and Dickerman were working
more smoothly and The line was afford
ing better openings, so the second
touchdown p'as q matter of only few
minutes. and was completed on a beau
tiful catch by Highley of pass over
the goal line.
CYRIL Balm. Eddie Hart and Jim
Mccormick kept Brown. Highly and
Rahill. all end candidates, long after
the other men had been dismissed and
drilled them in charging ard blocking
Law and Dickerman had O short drill
in drop kicking from The 25-yard line
from scrimmage formation. Law was
badly of form, but Dickcrman was
successful in three out Of four at
tempts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-04
0UIRK'S GOAL WINS
FOR CLINTON TEAM
Stuyvesant Beaten by One
Point Margin When
Maurer'S Kick Fails.

The margin of difference between
Clinton and Stuyvcsant at Manhattan
Field yesterday Was a goal from touch
down. Each side crossed the goal line
once. but Quirk, of Clinton. put the
ball squarely over the cross bars fol-
lowing the touchdown, while Maurer, in
the third quarter. with one point need
ed to tie. failed by inches to put his
kick between the uprightS, so the score
was to 6.
In the last period the goal line Of
Clinton was in danger and StuyveSant
turned loose a volley of forward passes.
Few were successful. With seconds
left TO play, Bergind. of StuyveSant,
attempted a goal from placement, but
the Clinton forwards were through so
fast that he had to hurry his kick. and
II was wide of the marx.
After a first quarter, in which the
honors were about even, Clinton took
the aggressive. Taking the ball at
midfeld early in the second quarter,
Clinton gained one first down by line
plunging. and then Power opened up
the attack with a long forward pass
TO ZcSler. which put the ball on Stuy-
vesant's 20-yard line A line plunge
was bent back. but Clinton had unre-
vealed tricks. and Power showed one
which worked so neatly that a touch
down was the result.
Raimondo, "a substitute end, who had
been called in only few moments pre-
viously. scored the touchdown. I'm
mcdiately afterward he was taken out
again. but his work lived after him \
feint was delivered at Stuyvesant's left
end and the defensive team. in its
eagerness TO check the phantom play,
quickly modified in the spot where the
ball was not. Power thereupon turned
and flung lateral pass TO his own
left end, RaimondO who had clear
path across the goal line
In The third quarter, Dillon, left half
back of Stuyyesant. put the ball into
Clinton territory with a forty-yard
run back of p punt With the ball on
ClintOn's 11-yard line Stuyvesant found
stiff opposition and was at last forced
to try a forward pass on the fourth
down. The pass was grounded and the
bail went 70 Clinton. but short punt
again put StUyvesant in a position 10
score.
A forward pass to Webster M. the
VAL OF lHe lo-!dIu llne, ana tnIee
rlunges made it first down on the D.
yard inc. Two more plays sufiiced 20
shove the ball over. McGuiness scored
the touchdown on q straight buck
through centre. Naurer took careful
aim and Gcliberated long before he
swung his Toe TO make the point that
would tie the score. The ball sailed
Just l,-,e askew and flicked the
rightbard upright deviatinQ TO the
right for q Miss.
For Stuyvesant, Berglnd was con-
spicuous for his broken field running.
while the purting Of Rittner was n
strong factor IN the defence Of Clinton.