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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-09
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town for then the streets are unusually
crowded and the lights from the Ian
terms hung from the balconies add a
u,eirdaess TO the Oriental scene There
is the sQueaking OF the Chinese Violin
and the sound of the high pitched
voices OF children singing. and one has
an irresistible desire TO follow the
saund md ind out what IS behind
these doors. The guides who take
oarties through the town at night are
s,,-a 10 crafty this desire for they
aIways take the visitor down pair
~ steep steps into a basement where
lS.binafown's. most famous musician
lives concerts nightly. The Old China
nan nlays a number OF queer inStru-
ments and his music is delightful
The Joss house. too. Is at its best
at night. The houses OF worship have
NO external beauty, but once inside
ana reyels in gorgeous carvings. brass
bowls, splendid embroidered altar
ciotf,s and paraphernalia which makes
It a place OF wonder.
Theatre unique
The theatre is unique as all the
characters are taken by men and their
attempt to inapersonate women Ii a
perfect buriesque although they con-
slider It serious work There Ii no
scenery. A table viii serve for a
mountain and piece of wood for
forest. All plays have one character
ally comes in astride = broomstick-
Frequently one OF the cast is beheaded
after which he gets up and soieMnly
walks OF the stage. The play some
times continues for days and even
weeks The music which continues
from the beginning to the end OF the
show Is a ciatter OF brass and clang-
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-09
Safety First" Is Shown
In the Locking System
From Beginning
To End.

mart of the Canal where electricity can
:. ,,.ed hut In towers and heacons in
inaccessible places compressed aeety-
lene dissolved in acetone. Is used
white lights are used throughout ano
in order that there may be no con-
fusion OF lights with one another ana
with the lights on shore. the beacons.
buoSs and range lights viii have tnol-
v.dual characteristics by certain KINDS
of combinations Of flashes with DARK
intervals.
The range lights vary according -
the length of the range. from about
$500 to $4,000 candle power. the most
powerful being those marking the sea
channels al the Atlantic and Pactnc
entrances. which are visible at least
twelve miles.
AS vessels may pass through the
locks IN the night peculiar kind OF
illumination has 20 be used about the
locks. The giarinS brilliant unshaded
light would blind the vision OF the
pilot and be almost as bad as no, liEnt-
ing at all. After many tests of lamps
large TunSstin bulbs 600 Waltz were
selected. These are placed inside
concrete hood which serves both as
shade and reflector. Clustered under
the concrete hood the lamps are S'is-
pended from brackets Which are
placed near the tops of heavy con-
crete columns twelve sided and tap
erine from three and one-half feet at
the base to one foot at the top. Their
total height being about thirty-four
feet Including the two foot concrete
hall at the top. They are 50 arranged
that on moonlight nights they vii!
burn with only half their power.
Electric Driven Tools.
All the machinery at the big ma
chine shops will be operated by cleo
tricity and the oil pumps will have
this same motive power. Many OF the
levers used in the repair shops will
he driven by individual motors. Every
conccfya BILE kind of work IS being done
in these shops ranging from the hand
ling of a most delicate watch spring
to the overhauling o. locomotive
Two powerful floating cranes made
in Germany are to be used for Canal
requirements and general wrecl<inE
purposes. They each have capacity
of ESQ tons.
Rarres. lighters and harbor tugs
Will always be on hand when needed
A tender for passengers and mail Is
also contemplated. Big dry docks are
in the course Of construction. the main
one being large enough to accommo-
date any vessel which can pass
through the locks. Vharves and store
houses with all the necessary equip
ment for handling freight are already
in working order. Everything has
can be handled without loss Of time.
Nowhere else does one ind such 81
Rantic machinery yet so perfectly ar
ranged that accidents are practically
Impossible. SAFETY" is written all
over the mechanics of the Canal.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-09

actual motion OF the locomotive on
the track. The mules when towing
operate over center coSs and chmp
from lock TO lock on rack rails. When
the gates swing open the vessel IS
towed into the lock and the gate closed
behind It The water is then let in
lifting the vessel to the level OF the
lock above.
Ca. Machinery.
The machine used for opening and
closing the gates Is simple and pow
erful machine. It is the invention OF
one of the mechanical engineers in the
employ of the commission. who de-
scribes IT in the following manner:
TT consists essentially of crank
gear TO which IS fastened one end or
a strut or connecting rod, the other
end of which Is fastened TO lock gate.
The wheel moves through an arc OF
117 degrees. closes or opens the gate
leaf, according to the direction in
which il Is turned. One operation
takes two minutes. The crank gear Is
a combination of gear and crank. is
constructed of cast steel. is 10 feet. :
inches in diameter. and weighs ap-
proximateIy $4,000 pounds Il is
mounted in a horizontal position on
the lock wall, turns on a large center
hin and is supported at the rim in four
places by rollers. The center pin Is
KEYED into a heavy casting anchored
securely 10 the concrete The crank
gear has gear teeth on its rim and is
driven through a train OF gears and
pinions by an electric motor in a con-
tisuous room. The motor is remotely
controlled by an operator who is sta
toned at a center control house near
the lower end of the upper locks A
simple pull of a small switch IS SUI
hcient to either close or open $50
ton gate. the operation being perfectly
automatic"
A strut anchor connects this with
the lock gate at the top The great
gates weighing from $50 to $50 tons
are opened and closed with as much
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-09
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American Women Interesting.

American Women Interesting
No write-up of Chinatown. either
the old or the new, would be complete
without the mention of Mrs. Wong sun
Yue Clemens, the American woman
who married a Chinanan several years
ago while she was doing missionary
work in the old Chinatown the wF..eS
met this LADY a few days after the
earthquake and fire of 1906 she wa
a fair haired, well educated woman OK
refined tastes and a sister OF katneFille
Clemens who was at one tune the 80
~ Houard Gould. She did excellent
worr during those dark days. for had
II not been for her good offices many
Of the Chinese would have starved 70
death. They have a remarRaoAe cor
lection of relics OF the San -
ciSo ere The collection, many OF them
freaks of the fire. forms an tntereseins
study of the effect OF the various
rrees of heat on different oo1ecea-
one of them IS \ milk bottie-ene o JIG
delivered at the door on the morning
~ the IRE II sat on the doorstep
61ted with milk and became q. prey
10 the flames. Somehow the milk ano
glass mixed during the great hear ano
Il came out OF the IRE per1ecS Spec
men OF Tnany glass
The new Chinatown. built At the
cost of millions of dollars, IS pracnc4Aly
complete. The structures while ereceeo
on modern American plans SUI pre-
serve all the features of Chinese arcni-
lure in their queer shaped roofs, eaIus-
trades and lantern lined balconies
The underground passages and the
opium, dens of the old town seem 70
have vanished OF course. gambling
goes on TO a certain extent. but the
sitting subterranean dens OF the o!o
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-09
copyr.sht. 1915. Dy The International
Syndicate
How Ships WILDE Lifted
Through the CanalBy
the Aid of Elec-
tricity.

DIE Panama Canal is finished. The
creates. engineering project Of
history IS an accomplished fact
- The predictions OF the pessimtst
have not Tnaterislized and the hopes
of the opfirnist are about TO be realized
in the success Of one OF. the creates
commercial time and money savers OF
modern times. The climate and phys
zeal dsHi-u,ties were overcome through
me erc.y. de-er;on and SIKH OF che
enG:neIrs- Tne gigantic n.ashiEery
used was IN keeping with the huge
ness Of the task and although a casual
observer might marvel at the appar-
ent ease with which this machinery
worked and at the tremendous results
Il accomplished. Yet a proper appre-
cation of its usefulness could only
be had by knowing something abou;
the mechanism Of the great tools ana
implements. and the obstacles which
lay hidden in the pathway of their
work. But the day OF the machine is
part in the operation of the waterway
and the mechanics of the Canal Is an
Interesting subject even to those who
may not know or appreciate the SCI
entifc principles underlying their ap-
plicadon-
Gigantic Fender Chains
No vessel will be allowed to enter
or pass through the locks ander It's
own steam When a ship arrives at
either the Gatun or Miraflores locks.
it is taken in charge by the Canal
authorities who at once send two rep
resentatives on board 70 remain. one
on the bridge, and the other in the
engine room. until the ship has passed
out of the locks. The first safety de-
vice is the huge chains which stretch
across the locks. They are placed
there for the purpose of preventing a
vessel which might enter the locks too
rapidly from jamminS the gates The
chain weighs 24.oes pounds and IS cap
able Of stopping n 10000 ton ship
miles per hour. The chain is operated
by hydraulic machinery in the walls
and plays out slowly by automatic re-
lease until the vessel is brought to a
stop. When a ship is ready to enter
the locks and has come to a stop. the
chain is dropped into its groove In
the bottom of the Canal. In case the
ship should by some means break the
chain. the first gate might be jammed.
but this would not affect the lock as
the first gate is merely n safety device
Electric Mules"
When all is ready for passage. the
electric towing locomotives. known as
electric mules" are attached TO the
ship; two in front. one on each wall
10 pull the vessel. and two astern to
keep It in a central position and to
bring it to rest in the lock chamber
The powerful machines are equipped
with slip drum towing windlass and
hawser which permits the towing line
TO be paid out or taken in without
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-09

~HE Panama Canal is finished. The
greatest engineering project OF
history IS an accomplished fact
- The predictions OF the pessinist
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-09

"a 2: IT, :: z: r.: :. :, :: $;
(" Chinatown so completely that
many people declared this bit Of the
orient was gone forever. These proph-
cts were from the East. for the native
of San Francisco will never acknowi-
edge himself beaten no matter how
x-eat the calamity. Nor was he beat
en- in this instance. for Chinatown was
rebuilt on the same spot and on
much Srander scale. Yet without losing
any of the exotic coioring for which
the old town was 50 noted. Always
mysterious. with its weird sounds com
ing from behind closed doors. il pos
sesses a charm for the tourist not to
be found elsewhere in this country
There Is. an inexplicable fascination
about this odd corner Of the California
metropolis : where several thousand
Chinese live Just as they did IN far
away Canton or Shanghai
Banks, Telephone Exchanges and
stores.
They have their own banks which
have connections with ;hc banks IN
China. and the reports of these insti-
tutions show them 10 be IN excellent
financial condition. Their telephone
exchange is one OF the most artistic
buildings in san Francisco. 1t Is typi-
cafly Cantonese both IN structure and
workings for the Switchboards are OPP
Grated exclusively by Chinese girls
who speak English as Huently as they
do their own language About ten
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-09

~ RHEN the disaster OF 1906
Il swept over the City of the
Golden Gate il wiped out
. Chinatown so completely that
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-09
Street Scenes Interesting.

II is not the business of Chinatown.
however. which attracts the visitor
1t is the Chinese themselves the
writer has sat for hours At the win
dow of one OF the quaint tea houses
of the town and watched the endless
throng of celestials with 4 never end
ing delight The women and children
are, as usual the most Interesting
Few of them have adopted American
clothes and with their loose Iolack
pantaIoons showing below the shiny
black gown. the effect IS rather start
ling at first but one soon becomes used
10 the garb. The Chinese nation Is
usually a roly-poly sort OF person who
wears her shiny black hair brushed
back over the tops of her ears and
neatly rolled up in a knot at the back
of her head and fastened with gold
pin or jade ornament
The children. many OF whom look
as II they belong TO the colored picture
books of The days OF Aladdin. play in
the streets just like little Americans
and learn slang and bad words" with
the same alacrity as do our street
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-09

pages OF the San Ftancisco telephone
book is given over to the Chinatown
Exchange. the names and addresses
being printed in Chinese characters
Four Chinese newspapers are print
ed in the town. and they put out bull
Ietins several times a day-queer strips
% yellow paper covered with Chinese
letters. resembling huge laundry &c
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-19
Harry Nutting Shot His
Children While They Slept
at GrOtOn, Mass.
WIFE TOOK RIFLE
FROM MURDERER
Neighbors Say That Nutting Had
Been Slightly Deranged for Some
Time-Refused to Make Statement
and Case Was Continued a Week.

GROTON, Mass, July 19.-Everett
Nutting and his sister, Louise, were shot
and killed while they slept early today
Mrs. Nutting, their mother, awakened
by the shots, met her husband, Harry, in
the hall armed with repeating rife
After wrestling with her husband for
some time Mrs. Nutting succeeded in get
ting the gun away from him and called
the police.
Neighbors stated that Nutting had been
considered slightly deranged for some
time Everett was 21 years old and
worked for his father His sister, school
teacher, was 10
Mrs. Nutting was awakened about 40
this morning by the report of a gun in
an adjoining room, followed almost imme-
diately by second shot She rushed out
of her room and met her husband in the
hall with rife in his hands, according to
her statement to the police
After a time she succeeded in getting
the gun away from him. Going into the
other room Mrs. Nutting found the son
with bullet wound over his eye, while
his sister had been shot in the ear.
Nutting was taken to jail in Aver, re
fusing to make statement Shortly be-
fore noon Nuttipg was taken into the dis
trict court at Aver and at the request of
the prosecution and the defence the case
was continued for a week He was held
for a week and sent to the county jail at
| East Cambridge
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-19
SUES PHYSICIANS
FOR $4,000 DAMAGES
Mrs. M. P. Benson of Newfane Charges
that Rutland Doctors Did Poor
Job Setting Broken Leg

DIR. NJ. f. Grain and DR. Edmund NJ
Pond, both of Rutland, are defendants in
suit for $1,000 brought by Inez J. Ben
son of Newfane, which was filed this morn
ing in the office of the county clerk. The
papers allege that on Sept. 13, 1914, the
two physicians were employed to set a
rbroken leg for her and that it was i'm
properly set and that because they had
negigently and improperly done their
work, the ends of the bones being left to
overlap, the leg is now one inch shorter
than the other and that she has been dis
abled since the accident The papers are
from the Office of II. G. & F. E. Barber
Mrs Benson is the wife of NJ p Ben
son, jailer at Newfane She broke her leg
about two years ago near Manchester on
/ the Rutland railroad The train carried
her past the station and she was put off
and received the injury in the darkness
She sued the railroad and received several
/ hundred dollars in settlement
Judge E. L. Waterman signed an order
this morning upon petition of Georgianna
] l.. Rose, ordering Frank w Rose to pay
$3.50 week beginning next Monday as
stemporary alimony towards the support oil
fthe petitioner and minor children, unit
further order of the court.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-19
L. BART CROSS DEAD.
Widely Known Baker and Ex- Repre-
sentative of Montpelier.

MONTPELIER, July 19. = L. Bart
Cross, &c, died suddenly about 8 o clock
last night at his home here He re-
turned from 50-mile automobile ride,
and, feeling tired, went to bed. He
died of heart disease. Mr.. Cross was
born in Montpelier, and with his faith
Ter, Charles II. Gross, pioneer cracker
manufacturer, the firm became the old
est bakers in the state. He was a del
egate to the Republican national con-
Ivention which nominated Garfield.
He represented Montpelier in the
in 1890. He was vice pres
ident of the Montpelier Savings bank
and Trust company. His wife, Lucia
Ann Chaplin, died several years ago. His
! son, Charles II. Cross, is secretary o1
the Regal Shoe company of Boston, ano
! he also leaves one daughter, Carrie L.
'of Montpelier.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-19
POSTOFFICE NOW
EAST NORTHFIELD
Name South Vernon Hereafter Applies
Only to Freight Station-Change
Made to Avoid Confusion.

Announcement is made of a change in
the name of the railroad station on the
Boston & Maine railroad from South Yer
non to East Mortified. This is the result
of a long campaign by the officials of the
schools and conference and is expected to
end great inconveniences that have been
put upon strangers by the old name of the
station. The freight station, which is just
north Of the Vermont line, will retain the
name of South Vernon, Vt
The action of the railroad comes as the
result of a decree of the public service
commission of Massachusetts, made after
a hearing earlier in the summer. The de-
cree is as follows: "Aftcr notice and hear
| ing and full consideration, it appearing
that the station called South Vernon is a
joint station of the Boston & Maine rail
road and the Central Vermont railway
and is the railroad station for the North
| field seminary and also for the summer as
semblies, which have an attendance OF
many thousands from all over the country
Gthat the station is within the limits of the
ltown of Northfeld, the name of the post
Office being East Northfeld; that there Is
Ino town in Massachusetts, bearing the
name South Vernon and that great em
barrassment and inconvenience is caused
: by the present name of the station, it il
lordered that the name of the station nov
called South Vernon on the Boston 6
Maine railroad and the Central Vernon
lrailway be hereby changed to East North
field
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-19
PERSONAL.

Miss Bernice Perry is visiting in her
home in Putney two weeks.
Miss Marjorie Baker left Saturday to
visit relatives in Meriden, Conn.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. d. Stowell, Miss
Ruth Stowell and Hugh Stowell return
ed last night from trip to ST. Johns
bury.
John Baker, Leslie Dimes, Bernard
Haus and Bernard Dunlevy went to
Spofford lake yesterday to camp two
weeks.
Miss Ada NJ. Holder of the Hol-
stein-Friesian Office went Saturday to
New Rochelle, n. Y, on a vacation of
two weeks.
Oscar T. Benson, president of the
Valley Fair association, was in Spring
field, Mass, Saturday at the Short Ship
circuit meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Whitney and
daughter, Miss Irene Whitney of
Springfield (Vt.) were, guests yester-
day at r. L. Coane's.
f. L. Hildreth and family have
closed their home on Oak street and
gone to Ames hill to spend the summer
at their summer home.
Fred c.. Adams, teller in the Peoples
National bank, is spending a vacation
of two weeks with his family in the
Green cottage at Spofford lake.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-19
RAILROAD POINTS OUT
BOUNDARY TO CHURCH
Makes Same Claim as it Did During
Litigation with Mr.. Averill Because
of Retaining Wall.

The trustees of the Centre Congre-
gationa1 church have received from
Thornton Alexander of Boston, solicitor
for the Boston & Maine railroad. lessee
of the Vermont Valley road, a letter
calling attention to the railroad line
with relation to the Goodhue property
on Maine street, owned by the church
Recently the trustees gave permission
to Wantastiquet lodge of Odd Fellows
to dispose of the dirt excaVatcd al the
Odd Fellows temple site at the corner
of Green and High streets bv dumping
1T on the rear part of the Goodhue lot
This dirt is not being dumped on the
property or on land claimed by the roll
Iroad, but the solicitor thought it might
fbe desirable to call attention to the loca-
tion of the line and he writes that he
has requested the local engineer to
drive a stake to indicate railroad own
ership.
All this is interesting because the So
licitor enclosed a blue print showing
what the railroad claims is the present
line between the railroad property ON
the east and the church property and
George G. AveriH property on the west
The line was in litigation between Mr.
Averill and the railroad at the last
term of county court and was settled
after the jury returned verdict for
Mr.. Averill although the railroad in
tended to appeal to the supreme court
The blue print sent by Mr.. Alexander
claims the line to be just where the
railroad claimed it TO be at the time OF
the trial, which located Mr.. AycriH 5
cement retaining wall 80 feet over or
railroad land. From this it would not
lappear that the railroad in entering
Into an agreement made any concession
so far as it affected the location of Its
boundary.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-19
The Next Communication to
Germany Will Be of a
Definite Character
PRESIDENT AND
SECRETARY CONFER
American Demand to Be In Accordance
with International Law-No Discus
sion of the Principles Already Treat
ed at Length in other Notes.

WASHINGTON, July 19.-President
Wilson returned from Cornish, N H., this
morning His train was on time and he
drove at once to the White House to be-
gin conference with Secretary Lansing and
other officials preparatory to tomorrow's s
cabinet meeting, which viii take up the
American reply to Germanys latest note
on submarine warfare.
President Wilson and Secretary Lansing
today discussed in detail a draft of the
note to be sent to Germany this week, in
forming the imperial government what the
United States will do if there is another
violation of American rights on the high
seas
The return of President Wilson from
Cornish, n. H, gave Secretary Lansing his
first opportunity to confer on the policy
to be followed as the result of Germany 5
failure to satisfy the American demands
made in the note of June g.
| 1t was understood that the President
and Mr. Lansing found that they had
teached about the same conclusion, that
! the next communication to Germany will
be of a definite character, making it I'M
mistakeably clear that the United States
cannot be expected to remain passive in
the event Of another attack on an unarmed
and unresisting ship with the loss of
! American lives.
| The note, it is now practically agreed,
Twill announce to Germany the intention
of the United States to assert its rights
on the high seas III accordance with inter-
national law.
| There probably will be little or no dis
cussion Of the principles already treated at
length in previous notes.
Prompt action in despatching the note
was generally forecast.
Tomorrow it viii be submitted by the
President to the cabinet and possibly may
be revised again at Fridays meeting.
In official quarters it was agreed that
the communication would be on its way
to Berlin by Sunday