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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-11-25
Notes From Denmark.

Mr.. Charlier OF Red River, Wis,
was here for the week end visiting rel
atives after which he left for Coleman
for brief stay enroute home.
Miss Sophia Tome left for Manitowoc
where she expects to stay during the
coming season and where she will be
employed.
Miss Charlotte Wanesh returned
home last week from Marathon City
where she enjoyed few pleasant weeks
at the home Of her sister, Mrs. a. Sod
den
After few days pleasantly spent at
Green Bay as guest Of her niece Mrs
r.. Smith, Mrs d, Bradel returned
home Saturday.
Mr. WIN. Stueps OF Depere and
brother Emil Of Ladysmith were guests
OF the knuth family Sunday.
Among local men who went north on
hunting trip were John Kapitz, Vic.
Suster, Howard Larsen, and John Cash.
man. The latter three have already
returned each bringing a deer.
The burial Of Mrs. NJ. Hale Morrison
OF College Wow, Neb., WAS held from
the Lutheran church here Saturday.
Decedant was before her marriage
Miss Godiriedsen and lived here the
earlier part OF her life. She was form
erly the wife of DR.. j. }, Hale a dentist
at Green Bay, who died many years
ago. Later she was married TO MIR.
Morrison and lived at College View
ever since. She is survived by two
sons, Wallace and Clyde, three sisters,
Mrs Augustine Merritt Of Oakland,
Cal, Mrs. Jennie Anderson OF Suamico
and Mrs. Lauraine Thompson OF this
place, and three brothers, Lawrence
Godirledsen Of Green Bay, Benjamin
GodirIedSen Of Detroit and Helbert
God'riedsen Of Lincoln, Neb.
Miss Marie Kapitz departed for Lens
Wednesday where she will spend some
time with relatives after which she
will visit at Menominie, Mich, before
returning home.
The marriage OF Miss Emma Ander.
son and Arthur Seidl OF Glenmore was
solemnized on Wednesday a recep
ton was given 10 friends and relatives
and wedding dance was held at Shir.
legs hall In the evening The CORE.
spondent is joined by the many friends
OF the young couple in wishing them a
long and happy married life.
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NEWS FROM COUNTY
Notes From SChleSWig.

Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Strassman and
Charles Karstedt OF Sturgeon Bay are
visiting with relatives and friends
here. They are all former residents
from here.
The opening ball at Haarmann &
Beduhn at Louis Corners last Saturday
evening was record breaker. Al!
present reported good time.
Greve & Bahr sold their cheese fac
tory at Meggers 10 a. M. Scott OF wal
do, Wis. For the past two seasons the
factory has stood idle, the people send
ing their milk to the condensary at Chill
ton. 1t seems good to haul milk to the
cheese factory again.
Mr.. Scott has had 30 years experience
as a cheese maker His son will oper-
ate the factory.
Mr.. Theodore Schneider who sold his
cheese factory t, Edward Voigt bought
a 40 acre farai and cheese factory near
Sherwood for $4,000. Mr.. Schneider
will take possession Dec. LIST.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Wieting return
ed from weeks visit with relatives
and friends at La Crosse.
Mrs. Henry Luedke who has been
living with her daughter, Mrs. George
Sievers, at Mascow, Idaho, for the past
three years, is here on visit to her
son August and relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wriedt and
Mr. and Mrs. Chas Ninmer attended .
silver wedding at Plymouth, Nov. -,
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Mr.. Amos Wagner OF Fisher Mimi,
10 here for an extended visit with rela.
tives and friends
MIR. VIM. TVslker announces dance
at his hall on Sunday Nov. 18th for the
old folks. Tango and hesitation. will
not be allowed Young folks are sup.
posed to stay at home like good kids
for once, to let the married people have
the time OF their lives. Go to it!
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Statue of Liberty.

Miss Liberty" is 10 feet tall from
the heel to the top of the head. From
the base to the top Of the torch the
height is 1852 feet. The statue Is con-
structed OF copper sheets about one
tenth of an inch in thickness. The
total weight OF 100000 pounds. and
the cost was million francs, or
100000.
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Notes From Quarry

Mr. Barney DePalma left for Eden,
Fond du Lac Co., last Tuesday TO be
married 10 young lady OF that place.
A baby girl made its appearance one
day lasr week, at the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Torrison. Congratula-
tivns.
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Prefers to Sleep Some Other Wsy

Take this medicine according to
the directions. said the physician,
and you will sleep like baby" You
will have to excuse me, doctor" mod.
estly replied Miss Fortysmith. My
married sisters baby sleeps with its
big toe In III mouth
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Monnulto's ADVANTAGE

But said the young mosquito. "is
not man much stronger than WEI"
"Be is, replied the fond parent, but
We may venture TO attack him on &C.
count OF our superior mobility
Puck.
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Prick the Apples

FNFF'ISs
When baking apples prick the skin
With Q fork and they will not burst
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Patent Office Fires.

A CITATION over the fire danger IN
3A the patent office brought to the
Rambler recollections of the great fires
of September "a, 1877. and December
Is, 1886. In recent report to the
House of Representatives the commits
sioner of patents said that the
crowded condition of the patent office,
which has been called to the attention
of Congress, is steadily growing worse
and the danger of fire is very serious"
Only few days after that report
was sent to Congress fire broke out in
a storage room in the subbasement
on the G street side Of the building.
The blaze, which was discovered soon
after ! o'clock on the morning of Feb
ruary "a, was due, it was believed, to
crossed electric wires
The Rambler. to refresh his memory
of the historic fires and to reproduce
in these columns the known facts con-
corning them, wrote to the commits
sioner Of patents for informat ton. The
letter found it's way to the chief clerk,
and through his stenographer who is
also an enthusiastic walker. the Ram
bier secured the loan of a valuable
pamphlet entitled IAN Account of the
Destruction by Fire of the North and
West Halls of the Model Room in the
United States Patent Office Building on
the gath of September, 1877, Together
with History of the Patent Office
from 1890 to 1877. Illustrated This
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The Attraction.

G 1SCE his appearance before the in
~ dustrial relations commission the
Junior John .. Rockefellers life, in
deed, has been made almost a burden
to him of late by petitioners-petition-
ers with lofty aims, of course, but bur-
densome for all that.
They are chuckling at 40 Broadway"
over young man who visited Mr..
Rockefeller last week. This young
man. a graduate Of i western uni
versity. said:
Mr.. Rockefeller, it is plain that you
have been greatly misunderstood. Now
that your philanthropical ideas are bet
ter known, / venture to ask you
And the young man explained, in very
high flown language. that he would
like Standard Oil job wherein he
could grow rich quick sd that he. too,
might aid in uplifting the downtrodden
Mr.. Rockefeller, regarding the young
man in his calm manner, said:
you want some way of growing rich
rapidly. It's not a bad idea. And you
don't want riches for their own sake.
but for the sake of what you can ac-
complish with them, Ell: In other
words"
Here Mr. Rockefeller permitted him.
self q dry little smile.
I'm other words" he ended. its the
spending that attracts YOU"
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such evidences of property in patented
inventions as the destruction of the
models and drawings may have rem
dered necessary for is security. The
committee made its report January 9,
1887, and a brief extract from that re-
port follows:
The patent ONCE contained the largest eolec-
ton of models In the world. II object
Of just pride to every American able 10 appre-
cfate its value as an item In the estimate Of ma
tional character or the advantages and BENEFITS
deriyable from high improvement In the useful
arts-a pride which must now stand rebuked by
the mprovidence which exposed many me-
MORALS and evidences of the superiority of
American genius to the destruction which has
The number OF models was about 1000. Many
Of them displayed great talent. ingenuity and me-
tons, pertaining to the Spinning of cotton and
wool and the manufacture of fabrics. in many
exceed those Of any 1hep an
the British manufacturers were reluctantly
obliged at the expense of no little national pride,
to lay aside their own machinery aud adopt our
Improvements to prevent our undertaking them
even In their home market. In this department
were the inventions OF Browne Thorpe, Danforth.
tiful operative model of Wilkinson's machine for
manufacturing weayers reeds by one operation
chanical combinations ever invented. OF this
character was whittemore's celebrated machine
models Of valuable improvements in shearing and
mapping cloth, patented to Swift, stoweli, Dewey.
Parsons, Daniels and others.
In another department were several models
Of machines for manufacturing cut and wrought
nails The machinery for this purpose, which
has reduced much the price Of that important
article, was Of purely American origin and wa.
invented by Briggs, Perkins, Reed, odiorne and
several others.
That report tells of other models
those OF American Inventions in the
use Of steam and of agricultural ma
chinery and implements-which were
lost. 1t is interesting to note that the
model of Fultons steamboat was not
in the patent office, the report setting
forth that THE name of Fulton Is as
ISOLATED with one of the noble efforts
Of genius and science. 1t has often
been regretted that no model was pre-
served of his steamboat, which was the
first to demonstrate the practicability
Of making steam subservient to the pur-
poses of useful navigation. There was
however, deposited in the patent Office
a volume of drawings. elegantly exc
cuted by his own hand. delineating the
various parts of the machinery he en-
ployed. and embracing three beautiful
representations of his steamer making
its first triumphant struggle against
the opposing current of the Hudson.
It contained also an account of
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military value of camp sanitation and
preventive medicine it had never
been demonstrated by any army before.
And Kitchener, whose insistence on
long training of green troops in Eng
land before he will send them to the
continent is a matter of general COM
ment, is concentrating that training
really on just two things: how to take
care of ones self and how to shoot,
the first, of course, involving that es-
sential subject of camp sanitation.
In all great wars, as Gen. Gorgas or
any other student will tell you. the
one problem of taking care Of the
wounded always swamps the medical
corps. Not yet has any army got to
the point of possessing an adequate
organization for this one job. Hence,
as Irving Cobb and other European
war observers have said, the theater
Of the war in Europe Is one vast
stencil. which means inadequate facil-
titles for treating the wounded and
taking care of the dead. Epidemic is
the certain result.
But-and here is the ideal of the
medical department of the American
army teach INCREASINGLY the lessons
of military sanitation and personal
hygiene until the resulting practices
become habit, and strive to build the
department to the point where, in the
event of war. it will be able to dis
prove history and fail to break down
under the strain.
Fortunately the mobile American
mind in the rank and file of the army
has grasped the modern idea, perhaps
more comprehensively than it has
been grasped in any other present-day
army The result is the hearty CO.
operation throughout the service
mentioned by Gen. Gorgas in the words
quoted above.
But, with all due respect to Gen.
Gorgas' modesty, the fact remains that
the present low ineffective rate In the
American army, the high health rate,
the new respect for disease preventive
measures, all are due directly to the
activities of the medical department of
the army, and, in a very large meas
ure, to the activities of Gen. Gorgas
himself
What Gorgas did in Cuba pointed the
way to what might be accomplished.
He went into Cuba in 1893 as a major
and surgeon He remained. He cleaned
mn Havana. and then he cleaned up
Cuba He eliminated yellow fever.
4
Now, back in 1863 the British cap
tured Cuba. They whipped the Span
ish and took possession. But yellow
fever and other tropical diseases
whipped the British and whipped them
soundly. Old Yellow Jack made Ha-
vana too hot to hold them. They had
to surrender to him and get out. Were
the Americans, the succeeding foreign
invaders. 1875 years after, also to be
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Panama canal began, Gorgas, VINO mad
leaped to the front as an authority on
tropical diseases, went down there anu
made the Canal Zone lilvable for the
white man. Never had Sucn d tnins
been done before.
Meantime, the lessons OF Havana ana
Cuba which Gorgas and his colleagues
in the medical department had dem
onstrated impressed themselves on tne
army. Camp sanitation and military
hygiene became to the fighting officer
and man something more than ABSTRACT
phrases. The results were before their
eyes, Respect for medical officers went
up tremendously.
Theretofore the attitude of the average
fighting man toward the army surgeon
was much the same as his attitude
toward the regfmental chaplain me
surgeon and the chaplain were nancy
to have around when one was sick or
wounded, but SO far as the surgeon
having any real military value-why,
the idea was absurd. The surgeons
discourses on camp sanitation were
listened to tolerantly. His suggestions
as to camp sites and water and dis
posal of refuse and filth were Needed
only when it was easy to heed them.
At other times ''the exigencies OF the
military situation" were the only
things considered.
If the Spanish-American war and It's
resulting other tropical campaigns
taught the American army nothing
else, however. 1t taught the value OF
camp sanitation by deadly. direfuI ex-
ample. When the boys from nome IN
the volunteer regiments died IKE sneep
in camps at Chickamaugua and else
where in the United States. as well as
abroad the country was horrihed.
AS a result of it all. and primarily
as the result of what Gorgas and other
medical officers demonstrated pract1-
cally there was a swift readJustment
of military organization which brought
the medical officers into greater power
and authority.
Today the selection Of camp site is
not left to the engineer or the quarter
master as 1t once was. The medical
man must be consulted. Today the
commissary is not the whole thing in
determining what the men shall eat
and drink and wear. Again the medi-
cal man is respectfully consulted He
has q military status he never had be-
fore.
And the medical man shows results.
Camps on the Texas border prove this.
1t is a demonstrable fact that never in
the worlds history did so many SOL
diers remain SO long in camp with
such a low non effective rate. The
camp no longer Is a disease breeder.
To the increased military power and
is due the introduction OF compulsory
incubation to immunize against ey-
phoid. Voluntary incubation intro
duced in 1909 produced striking re-
suits; compulsory incubation came in
1911. Since then this great foe of
humanity. which annually causes some
$4,000 deaths and about 26e,ooo cases
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impressed with the value of sanitation
in the field. They and the regular Of
ficers and older soldiers will quickly
instruct the new men In the habits SO
essential to health in camp. There eX-
lists. then, a yeast to leaven the whole
that was absent in 1898
Some of the things most needed are
described by Gen. Gorgas as follows:
The reorganization of the hospital
corps is essential if its efficiency is to
be preserved. The organization of Sow
eral new field hospitals and ambulance
companies in 1914 only in part rem
edtes the glazing defect observed in
the shortage of mobile sanitary units.
Our present personnel permits only
one-half of the regular army in the
field to be served by the sanitary
units prescribed by the field service
regulations. In view of the great bat
tie losses to be expected in modern
wars, it is a serious responsibility to
rely upon improyiSed units that must
serve at the front
1T seems time that a comprehensive
scheme was adopted to keep medical
officers trained and abreast of the times
in both their medico- military and
strictly professional duties.
For some years IL has been ncces-
sary to employ constantly from 80 to
loo members or the Medical Reserve
Corps with troops. 1t is desirable that
the Medical Corps be large enough to
perform all the duties required in peace
and any reserve of trained medical
officers be effected in other ways. In
time of war there will be demands for
medical officers that the corps will be
unable to meet. A sufficient number to
meet requirements in peace is the best
preparation to meet the demands upon
the medical department in mobilization
and war
And this statement is illustrative OF
the habit of mind of Gen. Gorgas. IL IS
not the accomplishments of the past.
but the needs of the future, that
gage his attention. He is building
health insurance in the army. He has
IL now where. in his belief, epidemics
of disease in any army the nation may
be called upon to put in the field will
not occur as they did in 1898.
ASHMrN BROWN
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some time this part of the history of
the place will come out. Mr.. Stacks
said that some of the women interested
in neihgborhood history had told him
that the house was built about hun
bred and sixty years ago and it's gray
stone walls seem to support that esti-
mate.
Leaving the Posey place and contin-
uing westward you pass a great tract
of land on the right of the road posted
over the name Hardy. He is a farmer
and dairyman and lives in village
like cluster of white buildings far back
from the road. These Hardy lands
formerly belonged to the Counselman
family, and on the road near the end
of the walk which led to the cars at
Cabin John, the Rambler came up with
a nephew of the Counselman who at
one time owned those long stretches of
fields and woods.
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a story of trip through the country
west of the American University and
over the fields through which no roads
at that time led. On that trip he came
upon little cemetery, fenced in with
iron pickets. but upgrown with tan
gle of vines. 1t was a Shoemaker
burying ground and he copied num-
Der OF the epitaphs. Last Sunday, when
Mrs. Willett said that her mother was
Rachel Shoemaker of that neighbor-
cemetery which he had come upon long
before. Mrs. Willett knew all about it.
The people sleeping there were her
people. Rachel Shoemaker was the
daughter of Samuel Shoemaker. and d
good many years ago the Shoemaker
family owned a number of farms in
that territory, their land extending
from the Rockville pike to the receiv-
ing reservoir near the District line.
There were the farms of Samuel Shoe
maker and of his brothers, Isaac,
David, Charles and Jonathan.
The Willetts have several children.
and one of the sons. with his wife and
children. lives in a house back from
the River road and few hundred
yards distant from the Spinning Wheel
Tavern. The Rambler invited the whole
family to stand before his camera.
After saying farewell to the Spinning
Wheel Tavern and it's folks the Ram
bier resumed his westward way along
the River road. crossing another
branch and climbing another hill you
see near the top of this hill, and on the
left of the way, a high bank, matted
with brambles and honeysuckle. and
growing on top of the bank is a big
cedar tree. There is a swinging gate
and long lane leading back to
house with steep roof. stone walls
and dormer windows, and feeling that
something interesting lay that way the
Rambler pushed open the creaking
gate and trudged down that long lane.
Living there now Is W. B. Stacks. He
has been there about twenty-five years.
and living there before him was
James H Daley, whose daughter be-
came Mrs. Stacks. Before it came to
be known as the Daley place it was
the Posey place, and was in possession
of branch of that old southern Mary
land family for many years. just how
many the Rambler could not find out.
because in that locality the old settlers
the Rambler met with do not seem to
preserve a very distinct remembrance
of the Poseys who lived there. but
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pamphlet was issued at Washington.
presumably by the patent office. Octo-
Der %, 1877. and the copy before the
Rambler appears to have been loaned
to him by U. E. McElroy.
In the matter of the earlier disaster
to the patent office this old record
gives the information that on the
morning of the 18th of December. 1896,
the post office building was discovered
to be on fire, and although many of the
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archives of the general Post Office De-
partment were saved, not thing was
preserved in the patent office. save one
volume from the library. of little value
to any one. There is no graphic de-
scription and very little on record Of
interest in reference to this important
event.
1t is related in this old publication
that MIR. William Steiger. who is liv-
ing 1S7D and was a clerk in the Of
flee and resided on f street, directly
opposite the patent office, says that he
was awakened about half-past 3
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defeated by Yellow Jack? They were
no better prepared than the British
were. AS Gen. Gorgas has set forth
the situation:
I'VE were handicapped by lack of
training and experience. We had had
practically no experience in the tropics.
While we had gone into Mexico in 1876,
there was little of the knowledge then
existing of tropical diseases that has
since been accumulated in India, At
lea. Nor did the memory Of what we
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Amphes Wonder
History Has
Military Defensive Forces Better Prepared Than Ever
Enemy Any War That
May Well Distinct Function of the Medical Depart
Of the United States Since the Spanish American War