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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06

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 tile paralysis, halted transpor- tation and bloody war upon Manhattans streets. trembling skyscrapers, high rec ord humidity and Jersey mosquitoes enough to sting the Kaiser's army into early submission. what safer. saner pleas ure could offer you than a seat in the fiivver. and a quick fliv hence, away?
 Let those who will fight with the Tickle golden goddess of Wall street, and dispense her favors to those suave gentle men at whose hands the unhappy lobster meets terrible and oft untimely end for us. we shall serenely sail away into the softer Fights and shadows of the fair. New England hills.
 So familiar are we with Manhattan now that we chat merrily as we glide by It's uptown architecture, and think little of the surroundings until we are out and away from it's farthest echoes. In fact, It Is not until we reach the northern city line that we realize how much ground we have covered. Here, however, we ire awakened to a realization that we are saying good-by to Greater New York. In the center of the road blue clad health officer raises his right hand we halt at the command and he approaches md peers into all corners of the car. lust as we are tempted to draw forth from its hiding place a bit of refresh ment for the apparently furnishing off ger. he signals us that all is well and that, since there are no children in the car, we may proceed. -4.
 Once again I utter fervent apprecia- lion of the state of single blessedness- think of the narrow escape we have just had; had the matrimonial yoke overbur- lened the neck of any of us. 1t is quite possible that this delightful trip could not be taken. But. childless, we are of again. ,nfe and happy nonconductors of infan-
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this part of the world, and such meat keeps until spring.
 At the same camp I visited the sta- bles of the Yukon Gold company. They have stalls for 80 horses and are about the largest in this part of the world. The stables are of wood, having doubla walls lined with paper to keep out the cold. Long rows of steam pipes run back and forth over the heads of the horses and these are kept hot throughout the winter. The horses stand upon board floors well above the ground, and every care is taken to give them the most healthy conditions. They have electric lights that are turned on a part of the day in winter.
 Next to the stables is warehouse in which the feed for the horses is kept They have now something like $5o. .OO0 worth of baled hay on hand and like quantity of oats. Hay sells from s70 to $100 a ton and oats bring little bit more, The most of the supplies come from the outside, the native hay not being considered as good as that from the states.
 The miners and other employees of these big dredging companies are well treated. The lowest wages are $6 a day, or $4 a day and board. There are many men who receive from 70 to 90 cents an hour, and the foremen and superintendents get excellent salaries. There is great compe- tition for the best men, and each com pany treats it's laborers much better than similar organizations in the United States. The labor is scattered over the territory where the different parts of the dredging is done Each little center has its own camp with bunkhouses as sleep ing quarters nearby.
 In my trip over the works with Jo- seph w. Boyle I visited several of his camps. The houses are lighted by cleo tricity and heated by steam, and eacA has its shower bath and other convent ences. The camps have clubrooms with billiards, card tables and plenty of read ing material. Each has it's own mess room with Japanese cook, and the kicks come very quickly if the food is not good.
 MT. Boyle brides himself on serving fresh vegetables to his men throughout the greater part of the year. He has hothouses and gardens connected with the camp, and he raises all sorts of things under glass. In the summer he has po- tatoes, turnips, carrots, lettuce, peas and beans growing out in the open, and all so long lines of celery, late and early. Many of the plants are started in hot beds or cold frames and then set out in the ground
 The hothouse gardens are especially in-
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urable thrill upon beholding any large body of water.
 Port Chester next, and we are out of the state of New York very short while after leaving 1t, but there Is no decrease in the beauty of the country about us, no indication that the roadways of Con- necticut are not as we'll made and as carefully kept up as are those of the state of New York.
 Along the way there are historic old houses; one church bears the date of 1880. and as we gaze at it we can but wonder if those who worshipped in its ancient pews are enjoying a heaven more beau- tiful than the grand old world we are now rolling over. In our party Is a wag-- if you know what T mean-who enjoys automobiling better than church services, and he shocks us a bit by declaring, Well. I'm sure don't know where their souls may be, but heaven, or any other country would have to go some to beat this.'
 Indeed. the historic atmosphere around us Is so strong that finally our knowl- edge of history, aided by flaring sign, tells us that we are traversing the Wash ington route of 1775. The route of Wash irgton An, much as he accomplished. we cannot but wonder how much more he might have done. had he had our present day roadways, and our modern means of travel on both land and water. Then comes the thought that, in such case. we might never have seen those ar tistic pictures of the great general as he stood in the brow of the little rowboat as 1t pushed it's crude nose through the icy waters of the Delaware. No. 1t would never have done-he could not pos- sibly have looked SO inspiring if pie tured as seated comfortably in the stern of a chugging motorboat, or reviewing his troops from tho tonneau of fiv- yer.
 Westport, Southport Greenwich-ah. here Ia q city both historic and beauti- full. Along it's thoroughfares are great
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Y~ 1HE wonders of the ancient world were seven in number |=zEsSl and they were all within a g12EaLD short distance of the eastern end of the Mediterranean sea. They were the Pillar of Pharos, on which the light burned near Alexan- aria; the Pyramids at Cairo, the Colos- gus on the Island of Rhodes, the statue or Jupiter at Olympia, Greece; the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, not far from where smyrna now stands; the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, on the same coast not far away, and the gar- dens of Semiramis at Babylon, in Meso- potamia, the land for which the Turks and the warning nations of Europe are now fighting.
 The wonders of the modern world are seventy times seven, and they are to be found on almost every part of the globe from the diamond pipes be- low the. equator in southern Africa to the gold workings in the perpetual ice of the Klondike, under the shadow of the north pole. I have already writ ten something of how the icy strata are thawed by steam points and how the sprinkling of gold scattered through them is saved by the dredges. have shown you how a great river valley is being lifted up and turned over to a depth equal to the height of 8 three or four-story house and how from the icy wastes which the indi- vidual gold miners had thrown away as worthless is now pouring a stream of gold into the rivers of commerce. This is the work in a nutshell. The story of the work in it's details is even more wonderful. I shall mention a few of them in this letter.
 First, let us look at the great ditch gouged out of the ice-frozen strata by the Yukon Gold company. When the Guggenheims bought what were SUD- posed to be the exhausted creeks of the Klondike from which the miners had already taken out millions, they found they had to have water to work them and that with fall so great that it would tear the earth to pieces when it came through the pipes. There was none available excepting in the Tomb stone mountains, seventy-odd miles away The work of getting it meant the carrying of this river over pre- cipitous peaks across frozen morasses,
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trees whose branches meet over our heads, hospitably welcoming us, and at the same time shielding us from the warm rays of sun that gleams from a cloudless sky. Up and down It's cross many more homes as beautiful as those by which we pass
 Darien is pretty, too, and Stamford, the most pretentiops of the cities we pass through en route, reminds us more of some thriving southern city; there is something about it's general arrangement that strongly suggests life in Dixie township.
 Just beyond Stamford we turn into a large public park At our right a mild surf is swishing, and there are bathers ln the water who seem to have thoughts very far removed from shark dangers under the trees, bit inland we find an ideal spot for lunching, and in a few mo- ments we are upon the grass in Stam- lords pretty park, regaling ourselves with we'll you know about what one takes along for lunch on such occasions.
 In the midst of our open air repast. we hear the sounds of loud laughter; it has a ring to it that carries me swiftly back to Alabama, Tennessee and Dixie gener. ally recognize unmistakably a very familiar note in it--or is 1t the fortissi- mo? A brief step or so. and I gave over the little knowl into the happy faces of about 20 mixed members of the colored population of Stamford We'll, 1t is a pretty park. just the same. and, more- over-up here we don't set aside one space for the white, and another for the colored race-no, sir. promise you Stam- ford's park Is just as glad to welcome us as it is to entertain the larger and darker party just over the knoll from our own little spread.
 For an hour after lunching we loll, reminisce, and roam about on our own side of the knoll. Then, parking the fliv- ver within easy range of our vision, we find the bathing pavilion. unclasp our bathing suit cases, and are soon in the
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make any one feel at home among them.
 A friend who has lived among them for nearly 10 years says: T had heard of them as cold and hard, and for a while I probably assumed that attitude toward them. but when I unbent at last I found them more than willing to meet me half way. Today I am convinced that the hearts of these New Englanders are just as warm as the hearts that beat in Dixie They have bit more of reserve, perhaps, but once you get to them, you will find as generous, as warm-hearted and as hospitable a people as is to be found anywhere else on earth"
 At Bridgeport, we are but 19 miles from New Haven, and we can almost hear the echoes of cheering from the party put it. When one is at Bridge port one is not far from any place in Connecticut.
 Throughout the trip. we had been stopped at every city by officers of their boards of health. and our car had been searched for children. Such is the dread and spread of nfantile paralysis that every possible precaution is taken. and we saw not few cars halted and turned back because children were among the occupants. Children. it is said. have been hidden in every part of automobiles ex- cept, perhaps. the gasoline tank. and the officers no longer content themselves with casual glance at the seats. They make a thorough search and are often rewarded for their thoroughness.
 But the day wanes, and New York lies about 50 miles away. There are other ways of returning, but darkness has a knack of making known objects seem unfamiliar. and besides one does not see great deal while riding through the country at night, and so we start back over the same route Along a great part of the way 1t lies along the Boston post road. connecting New York with Bean- town. And though there are other
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ice. How did Joe Boyle solve the prob lem? He did it by marrying the com mon horse sense for which he is noted to his genius for practical invention. He knew that the waters of the Yukon and the Klondike flow under the ice all winter long and that there is a space between the water and the ice oyer- head.
 MT. Boyle concluded that it was this dead air space that kept the running water from freezing. It was on the principle of the double walls of an ice. house or of the thermos bottle. Tho only thing necessary was to make na. ture furnish the bottle. This Joe Bovla does. He fills his ditch to the ton and allows nature to freeze a sheet of ice q loot or so thick upon it. He then drops the water for a depth of two feet and has still running stream of four feet or more further down. The dead air space above keeps off most of the frost, and in order to add to the heat he in- stalls electric heaters in the bed of the stream, which aid in Keeping the water from freezing. These heaters each rep resent units equaling about 100-horse power. There are comparatively few of them in the six miles of ditch. They do not raise the temperature of the wa ter, but they aid in holding 1t just
 
 that furnishes the electricity. Indeed, the water warns itself. It makes me think a man standing out in the open and violently swinging his arms to keep himself warm.
 I went out yesterday in an automo- bile with MT. Boyle to North Fork, 30 miles up the Klondike valley, to where this electric plant is situated. The ditch is 30 feet wide, about six feet in depth and six miles Tn length. The water flows through the ditch and drops down through great pipes, with a fall of 220 feet on the turbines, and 1t keeps the latter moving all the year through. As we looked at the ditch, I asked MT. Boyle how he got the idea of cleo trically heating the ditch. He replied:
 "The idea came to me one morning at breakfast. We had toast and eggs. and were browning the bread on an electric toaster. As I looked at 1t thought that we might employ tho same principle in keeping the water. from freezing. then got my mon to take lot of telephone wire and make gigantic toaster something like woven wire bed spring. We had this properly insulated, and dropped 1t into the ditch. It was connected with the electric plant and the problem was solved" FRANK G. CARPENTER.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY--By Allen Griffin Johnson

tile paralysis, still basking in the wan smile of the unhealthy looking health of- ficer.
 Water to right of us, meadows to left of us, we seem to float over roadway as smooth and highly polished as a sum mer parlor floor. In the south there are good roads; there are some. perhaps. in every southern state. but there are also stretches that would endanger the glass contents of any lunch basket In New York, and in New England, however. the system of highways is as nearly perfect as such things have yet come to be on earth. Ger hill. through vale, along the waters edge-it is always much the same; not jolt nor jar; only the steady song of the wheels upon asphalt. macadam, or whatever the best road building substance on earth may be- It is a wonderful result, and it Is main tained perfectly.
 Oddly enough, the surrounding country through which we now glide seems to have prepared itself for just such road ways; that is, realizing. apparently. that such roadways would one day lie there. the scenery is at It's best. The towns we flash through are little gems of modern municipal beauty, and the country lying between them Is nowhere unpleasing to the eye that knows and loves nature at her best.
 Through the rich residence section Of New Rochelle we speed. then on to Larchmont and through that as we'll. Handsome residences greet us on all sides; homes of wealth invested. to all appearances. not so much for display. as for solid comfort and enjoyment.
 This little hamlet through which we are now going Is called Mamaroneck. It is not the equal of the two towns just mentioned. but Is unique in it's own pe- culiar way. and the sight of the water gives it an added fascination. Just why 1t is am unable to tell you, but the average human being experiences . pleas-
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through vast ravines, down stupendous valleys and then lifting 1t again over mountains and delivering it by a great inverted siphon over the Klondike river to the once famous gold dig gings. That is one of the things the Guggenheims did. It took them four years to make the ditch. and it cost them millions of dollars. The ditch is now in operation. It consists of about 20 miles of Hume, 12h miles of steel and stave pipes and 3S miles of ditch. It varies at every few miles in its method of construction. according to the nature of the ground which 1t crosses, but at the end the water is delivered at 125 cubic feet per second under working pressure of from 400 to 800 feet. It comes with such force that it can be thrown against the icy hills at a pressure of over 400 pounds to the square inch, washing down the sands containing the sprinkling of gold dust and adding thereby great treas ure to the wealth of the world.
 The making of such ditch in a country like Panama would be easy compared with the work here where Jack Frost is king. Much of the ditch
 
 perpetual ice. New methods of road building had to be devised for the swamps, and men and machinery had to be assembled far in the interior of a country which until lately was thought inaccessible to all but the most daring arctic explorers. The supplies from the United States had to come 1000 miles over the ocean, and then be car ried 500 miles more over the noun tains and down the Yukon to Dawson. At Panama they could have been landed by ships almost within sight of the works. Here the machinery had to be taken in pieces and dragged by horses and dogs through almost in- accessible wilds.
 People who have never done work in Alaska or along the upper Yukon can not appreciate the difficulties under which these men are successfully labor ing in getting from 30 to 60 cents worth of gold out of each two-horse wagon load of ice frozen earth. That it is done at all is a wonder; but it Is a greater won der that it has been done at a profit which runs high into the millions. AL together, in the neighborhood of $200, ,0OO,- 00O worth of gold has come out of the valley of the Klondike and the beds of the creeks that flow into it; and of this almost half has been won by this sort of mining.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06
Perfuming and Cooling Air

From the Popular Science Monthly.
 A clever and useful attachment for the electric fan, designed by a Los Angeles inventor, consists of a tin wheel which can be hooked on any electric fan, and which will increase it's cooling capacity many fold.
 The spokes or propellers of this wheel are made of fine mesh screen. The lower part of the wheel whirls in a tank which is filled with cold water. The electric fan causes the screen pro- pellers to revolve, and they dip into the little tank, throwing up a small amount of water on the upward turn.
 The air is sent through the water and is cooled. purified and cleaned. Perfume. disinfectant. or a medicat- ed liquid may be used instead oe water.
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 SyJ4 up that is quite as inturresting as polyticks. - In all its fases poyticks carries with it
 soopreem exsitement and novvel situasions. know membur of Congress heer who started into poytcks accfdenty and who enturtained quite lofty 1oeais consuming statemanship. He broke into Congress while was looking and he liked the 1ob AS mattur of fact he would have stood about as much chanse of getting into Congress as quart or Ice creem would stand on round trip thro that region constnty held up to wayward sinners bad phase to go to- had the reguer guys not overlooked good bet It was an off in his district and the opposison party had been in so long that no one eVver dreemed of them getting beet and the local
 ward heelers of his party looking for sumone to hand the nomminasion to- and he happened along at the rite time So they wished it on him. He was honored and all that of thing and much to the amazement of everybody he walked home with the bacun, and blosomed out full fledged winner Of corse rite off the bat most all of his constituents cum to him without enny delay to speek about and enghten him in grate detail consuming the idennty of the persuns to whom he owed his eectsion He
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By FRANK G. CARPENTER (Copyrighted, 1916, by Frank G.
 Carpenter.)

Dawson, Yukon Territory. HE wonders of the ancient world were seven in number and they were all within a short distance of the eastern
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ISTUR EDDITUR: Beyond enny doubt
 theere is no vocasion that man can take up that is quite as inturresting as polyticks. In all its fases polyticks carries with it
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cW YORK, August 5.-(Special.)
 In these dreamy days of early
 morning detonations of high explosives, unprecedented infan-
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There are many electric plants of this kind in the world, but none which is moved by water in such temperatures as freeze the soil and gravel every where to seven feet deep, or where the rivers run above strata of perpetual
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-06-22
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-06-22
VICTIM OF THIEF
PLAYS DETECTIVE
AND GETS CUlPRlT

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-06-22
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