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column of dust is seen in same direction.
Nothing from Lowell. WALTER CUTTING,
Major and Aide-de Camp.
Another dispatch sent by Maj. Cutting
from Tenleytown--or Tennallytown as it
is spelled in the civil war records-and
which was received by Gen. Augur at
$40 on the morning of July IL. says:
Of Rockville Have met a force of the enemy.
Will try and ascertain his strength"
Following is still. another dispatch bear
ing on the skirmishing along the road to
Rockville:
Headquarters aardin's Division. July IL.
Mai. Raymond:
The bearer was sent by Col. Lowell with
the information that considerable force of the
enemy a mile two in front of our line.
4. CHANDLER,
Assistant Adjutant General.
While these messages were going back
and forth hundreds of others were being
sent by visible signals, by telegraph and
courers. AS illustrative of the fear and
uncertainty which prevailed in Official
Washington. the Rambler inserts the fol-
lowing. copied from the Records of the
Rebellion:
Headquarters Department Of Washington,
22nd Army Corps, July II, 1864.
Commanding Officer of the Guard of Bennings
Bridge:
The major general commanding directs that
you be on the alert tonight and use every pre-
caution TO prevent any movement Of the enemys
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cavalry across the bridge. Seize all boats in
your vicinity.
The cavalry of Lowell, which opened
the ball on July II. was still busy in
the country traversed by the George
wn-Rockville road and the River road
on the 18th. A dispatch sent by Brig
Cen NJ. D. Hardin from Fort Reno on
July IL to Gen. Augur. and received by
Augur at S:35 am, said: "a cavalry
reconnaissance is gust sent out on the
River road under Col. Lowell" A few
minutes later the following message
was received:
Headquarters Department of Washington.
22nd Army Corps.
Gen. Hardin, Commanding at Fort Reno:
Send Lowell in as soon as he arrives in from
scouting. Are there any Indication of the en-
envy having broken ground in your front?
@. G. AUGUR.
Frequent references to Col. Lowell
and Maj. Fry are to be found in the dis
patches of July IL.
Among the rebellion records Is the fol-
lowing order calling for the issue of
ammunition and forage for Fry's
squadron of LowelTs cavalry:
Tennallytown July II, 1854.
tReceived Il M
Mai. Gen. Augur:
Send for Second Massachusetts, Cavalry 6,000
rounds of ammunition for Sharp's carbine and
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AMERICANS AS INVENTORS
OF MACHINES USED I'm WAR

N1OW comes the claim that the Brit
NN ism tank" the invincible and
invulnerable war chariot. is an
American invention. The claim is
made-and 1t appears to have the
backing of strong evidence--that the
armed and armored gasoline caterpillar
tractor which the British are using
with effect in France was born in the
United States
Nearly all the weapons that are
being used in the greatest of all wars
trace their ancestry back to American
brains. The submarine boat was de-
vised and first built in the United
States. In reading the history of this
undersea monster one may find that
the idea of such a thing was born
Centuries ago, but that the realization
OF the idea did not come until Ameri-
can genius applied itself to the solu-
ton of the problem. 1t is perfectly
fair to claim that the United States was
the birthplace of the submarine.
Then. there Is the flying machine
The idea of human flight may be traced
back to the days of the ancients, but
the working out of the plans and the
building of a model for navigating the
sky with heavier-than-air machine
did not begin in earnest until that
problem was attacked by Prof Lang
ley of the Smithsonian Institution. and
when the gasoline engine had been
we'll developed it remained for two
American brothers to make the thing
fly. So the flying machine is IN Amer
lean invention. 1t may be &rue, as
many authorities say. that Europeans
have surpassed Americans in the build
ing of submarine boats and flying ma
chimes. but America IL the homo Of
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Fry of Lowell's cavalry, met the en-
emy's cavalry skirmishers short dis
lance beyond the picket line on the
Georgetown pike. before noon. and
forced them back on their reserve. He
in turn was forced back by the enemy.
who fired a few shots from a battery of
light artillery" The Evening Star in
an extra issue said: THE point where
the fighting is in progress is in the
vicinity of Rabbits Creek Post Office,
between Tenleytown and Rockville
Digging into the rebellion records the
Rambler found this:
Tennailytown, July II. 1854. 2:30 am.
Maj. Gen. Augur:
Col. Lowell will start at dawn with squad
ron of cavalry the Frederick pike toward
Rockville. He will also send squadron
the River road. Cavalry pickets are five
miles out River road. VIII also send
squadron road to Brookevflle. Mai. Fry is
on Frederick pike, two miles out, as reserve.
Rifle pits are manned from Kearney to Simmons.
Two regiments in reserve at Fort Reno; one in
reserve at Fort Simmons.
WALTER CUTTING,
Major and Aid-de-Camp.
Following that dispatch was another
dated at "Tennallytown" July II, and
marked as received by the officer to
whom sent at $40 am. 1t follows:
Mai Gen. Augur:
Rapid firing is heard in the direction of Rock
Vile, estimated at i've miles distance. large
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were far to the west and to the east
of the roads named. Apprehension was
so tense that the garrisons of the forts
beyond the Eastern branch were
strengthened and the draw of the Ben
ming bridge and that of the Navy
Yard bridge were kept up all night,
and all small boats on the Eastern
branch were seized by the military
through fear that the Confederates
would attempt to take Washington
from that direction.
Gen. Jubal A. Early, writing of the
campaign, of which the demonstration
in front of Washington was one fea-
ture. and after describing the battle of
the Monocacy. has said: "On the 10th
the march was resumed at daylight and
we bivouacked four miles from Rock
vile on the Georgetown pike. having
marched twenty miles. McCausland,
moving in front, drove a body of the
enemy's cavalry before him and had a
brisk engagement at Rockville, where
he encanlped after driving off the en-
envy"
William V Cox in his work on 'The
Defenses of Washington, Gen. Early's
Advance on the Capital and the Battle
of Fort Stevens a work which was
prepared for the benefit of the Fort
Stevens preservation fund. wrote: "On
the morning of July II Gen. Early left
his camp near Rockville, McCausland
taking the Georgetown pike; the infan-
fantry, preceded and flanked by caval-
ry. taking the It'll Street pike. Maj.
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at Dawson I saw 100000 worth of
bricks wheeled about on truck, such
as you find at a country railroad sta
ton. The gold bricks We're heavy. They
were worth from $4,000 to 100000
apiece AT the same place ] saw a ton
of amalgam, consisting of quicksilver
mixed with gold, which will De ship
ped out to be reduced to gold bullion.
The amalgam is put into a furnace, d
gallon or so at a time. An intense heat
is turned on. This melts the anal gam
and turns the quicksilver to a vapor,
which passes off into a coil where it
condenses and runs out as quicksilver
again. The pure gold alone remains in
the furnace.
l met here at Fairbanks a man who
has melted more than $4,000, 900 worth
of gold dust and nuggets, and who is
now making bullion to the amount OF
100000 year. This is Mr.. G. E.
Beraud, the assayer of the First Ma
metallurgist of note, and was the gov
eminent assayer at Dawson when they
were getting out gold by the millions.
All of the banks here buy gold, and
each has its melting pots where the
dust and nuggets are turned into bricks
for shipment outside You see these
gold bricks on the bank counters. Some
are as small as a cake of sweet choco-
late and others are SO large that if one
fell on your toes it would crush them.
The assaying and melting is usually
done outside the bank Mr.. Berauds
shop is a rude zinc shed not much bet
ter than the portable houses used for
1t contains little fur
mace and the various implements of the
assayer, including molds, bone-ash and
scales The scales are SO delicate that
they will weigh a pencil mark on a
sheet of fine tissue paper or single
silky hair of a baby.
The gold dust is brought in to the
banks by the miners in bags of buck
skin as big around as your arm and
about foot long. Such bags are called
pokes. The banker takes the poke and
pours the metal out on the scales, and
then either pays cash outright for the
gold according to weight or gives the
miner credit slip which entities him
turned into bullion. The gold dust is
Of different values. Some Is mixed with
silver and is not worth more than s13
An ounce. Other gold dust may BE-
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Redhead. J. L. Randall. G. F. Hane. r.
E. Burgess, H. T. Newcomb. e. R.
Magic. Capt. William B. Baker, Cyrus
Keiser and others.
Passing Alta Vista, where the Ram
bier stopped two weeks ago, the way
farer plods northward in a region of
fine farms. and some of the people liv-
ing along this part of the road are
J. P. Keiser, o.. W. Harmon, w. n.
Larmon, w. A. Pate. A. Fl. Bean, F. c.
Weber, c. w. Kisner, F. ]. Norris, I. 5.
Hendry, o. A. L.. Jungstedt of the geo
logical survey, W. V. Magruder and D.
P. Morgan, and one of the fine places is
Mr.. Stellwagen's Edland farm.
Leaving behind the crossroad at Will
sons store and the old frame house
which was Rabbits store, the Rambler
climbed to those high levels which he
had selected as the fields over which
Lowell's cavalry met the Confederate
advance. These fields once belonged
to Isaac Riley. who died in 1850, at
the age of seventy-six years, and who,
with his wife, Matilda Middleton Riley,
sleeps in the burying ground Of Mount
Zion Church close by. During the civil
war these fields were owned by Sam
uel Clark Viers, who died in 1898, and
the Viers house, relic of the war, is
still standing, but is without tenants.
still rich with fragrant
flowers, climbs over the back of the
house. and in the abandoned garden
the Rambler gathered a handful of
roses. In a new house across the road
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those things. and there can be no
ooubt they can be built in the United
states, or soon will be built in the
united States. better, faster and
stronger than they can be built in any
other part of the world.
1t has been claimed that the asphyxi-
atins gas which the Germans used first
In their onrush toward Paris was in
vented in America, though it is most
likely that when invented there was no
thought that it would be used as an
agency in war
The revolver, repeating rife. machine
gun and quick-ffring br.eech-l loading
cannon We're of American origin. In
gong through the things which the
contending armies and peoples of Eu-
rope are using against each other to-
ia =, one VIII find on many of them the
hdiinlark OF American inventive genius.
IN the matter of the tanks" which
recently made their debut on the Eu-
Iopean battlefelds and caused such
sensation ON the Somme, it Is reported
that the Idea of using them in war took
shape In the mind of a South Dakota
farmer who watching the caterpillar
tractor at work in his fields, noticed
lhat the huge engine paid no heed to
deep burrows, big holes in the ground
or dltches, but walked over all of them
without Inconvenience OF arrangement
OF machinery 1t is set forth that this
farmer. early in 1915, wrote to David
nloyd george, minister OF munitions OF
the brlush empire, and presented to
MIN the plan for using the tractor as
an armored car ~
Americans are n peaceful people, but
when it comes to the production of big
ana QUICK results by means or ma
cnlnery, they have ideas and the ability
OF putting them Into practical shape.
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spR1NGHoUsE ON THE v1ERs FARM.

10000 rounds for Burnside carbine and forage
for 4S0 horses-Major Fry's command. Send to
Fort Reno.
NJ D. HARDIN. Brig Gen. Com'd'g.
In the effort to gather facts and
"reminiscences of the preliminary fight
ing in the attack on Washington the
Rambler found himself again strolling
along the old Georgetown road, which
strikes off from the much-traveled
Rockville pike at Edgemoor, and leads
past several parklike villages. among
which are Woodmont, Northwest Park,
Sonoma and Alta Vista. After pass
ing the homes of e. H: Condor. c. E.
Bowdle, H. c. Torbert, Mrs. R. Coyle
and H. G.. Moore. the road crosses low
ridge. Far off to the left is an old
house which the Rambler noted in his
previous walk, but which on this ram
BILE he visited. 1t is the home of Jed
Cuttings. This ancient house. with its
dormer windows, overlooks wide
stretch Of country. The Rambler has
been told that the house is about 10
years old. 1t was once much larger
than it is now, but Its proportions still
are ample. Near the Cuttings place is
a narrow road. bearing the suggestive
name of Cedar lane, which leads west
to the Orndorff mill, later called Bealls
mill, one of the very old water. mills
of the Washington region.
Soon after passing this lane one comes
to Sonoma, where. among fine oaks and
on high ground, are the homes of J.
Imrie. ]. c. Adkins, E. n. Bales. G. A.
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tolls are forever ended still shows there
its devotion to work of love-"
Frequently rebinding shortens the
life of a book. and the edges of an old
volume should not be retrimmed. Often
they will be found already cut near
the letter press in places. Each book
suggests innumerable details peculiar
to itself Economy must play an i'm
portant part, too, on account of the APP
preparations. OF the appropriation
made by Congress for printing and
Library of Congress. The appropria-
ton has not been increased in the last
few years, although the printing and
binding have shown a steady increase,
and the printing, being a necessity. nat
urally some of the binding must wait.
These problems must be decided by
the binding division. The book is
marked according to the kind of leath-
or to be used, the color and style of
binding. and records are kept of all
vision then sends the book on its jour-
ney through the bindery, which takes
from four to six weeks. This does not
seem long when one considers the
many stages 1t must pass through.
The leather. thread, paper. everything
used in the construction of the book, Is
first tested by the. bureau of standards
and must meet ali requirements.
The most important step in the proc
ess of binding" says Mr.. kimball, us
perhaps the sewing. for as long as the
sewing remains sound the book may
usually be recovered indefinitely, thus
extending its life limit"
Twenty-seven women are employed in
the bindery in the separation, COLA
ton and sewing of the books Very
strong thread and unbleached linen are
used in sewing. After the sections are
sewed together, they are laced in the
boards The front and back covers,
by means of bands or cords at the back,
are made ready for the covering of
leather or duck
After the leather, buckram or duck
covering Is added the final process that
takes place is the finishing" says Mr..
kimbail. and the chief part of this
work is the addition of gilt lettering
ana OF tooling,' the marks indented in
the leather by way of finish or orna-
ment. Even apart from considerations
OF the cost, however, We think il ad
visable TO cut down the amount of gilt
ofnamentation and to depend chiefly on
the beauty OF the leather and quality
OF the workmanship for the effect.
Inc only gilt work absolutely neces-
sary Is the lettering; the rest may be
done by blind teooling-by polished
creases On the leather, Usually the
brass type used by binders is set In a
pallet and an entire line lettered at a
singie strike. but for the really fine
btAding the title II siIded letter by
letter, each an independent impression,
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live several Of the children OF Samuel
Clark viers and his wife, Hestsr W.
Viers. They are Charles viers, MisD
Lutte viers, Miss Blanche viers and
Miss Juliana viers. Visiting them
was their sister, Mrs. J. Frank Brown.
who was Ida viers. All these were
too young to remember when gray
coated and blue-coated men swarmed
through that part of the country.
Holding to his way, the Rambler
came to a road leading from the Old
Georgetown road to the Rockville pike.
and in q frame house nearly hidden
by giant lockwood and big yew trees
he found one of tho old residents OF
that part Of Montgomery county. Lu-
cinda Connor. who was born Lucinda
Wilson. and who not long ago observed
her ninety-second birthday.
Tho soldiers of 1864 were very fresh
In her memory. She had lived In the
house in which the Rambler found her
since 1863. There was SO much excite
ment in that part Of the country that she
did not know where the first skirnnish
occurred. Soldiers were everywhere.
First they were rebels ana than they
were 1anke6S- isaac h8OOltts VINO kopI
store in 1854 near Mount Zion church.
was the son of old Harry Rabbit. who
lived on the pike about two miles this
side Of Rockville There was once q
post office on the Rockville pike kept b.
Tom Rabbit. and that place Is now own
ed by the Flack family.
The F1ack farm. during tia owl war,
was owned by Francis Flack. whose son
Joseph married Miss Bean. daughter OF
Henson Bean. and who. a widow. lives on
fhn rNlo TODD Tha anlv far xhHt.
the old lady could recall as having been
along that part Of the pike in 1854 was
one that had been kept by Osman Sprisg
Wilson, which until recent date was
is standing today on the pike. about half
a mile west from Garrett Park. She re-
membered that soldiers were particularly
thick on Isaac Riley's land.
One Of Riley's daughters married
Franklin Mace They are dead. but two
children Of Franklin Mace. Charles and
Arthur, are living on the old Georgetown
road. Mrs Connor at length recalled
another tavern on the pike. 1t was
Balls store and tavern. and 1t stood
on the place now owned by Daniel Kraft.
who married a Miss Rabbit. and ad
joins the estate Of Charles l. Corby. One
of the landholders in this skirmish sec
ton was Philip Sherer. whose place ex-
Old Georgetown road His son William
owns the place today. He married
daughter of Thomas Curtin. whose wife
was a Miss Crane. Two daughters Of
Thomas Curtin survive. They are Mrs.
Rainey of Kensington and Mrs. Carr
of Washington Other landholders in
that section before and during the civil
war were the Clement. Glover and Lyd-
dane families.
Another resident of that section
whom the Rambler met and whose MEM
DRY goes back to 1864. was Frank
Maught, who was ten years old in 1864.
He thought the opening skirmish might
have taken place where Tom Rabbit
kept post Office on the F'lack place. or on
the place Of old Harry Rabbit. who
lived on the pike something over a mile
nearer Rockville.
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and the little tools only are used.
wherewith, out of simple elementary
strokes. the workman builds up his de-
sign Such work has sparkle and live
illness and even displays the individual
ity of the workers hand"
Sometimes the edges of the book are
to be "colored" or "marbled" and bur
nished, and this is done just before the
leather or buckram is put on. the
"marhling" being accomplished by
means Of water color. which is placed
on bed of soft gum.
The leaves of Chinese books are fas-
tended loosely together. then put into
boxlike binding of buckram. which
is securely fastened with little ivory
spike This is done to carry out, as
closely possible, the customs of the
country to which the book belongs.
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The gold may be fifty, or even $50 feet
below the surface. 1t has been held
there in its frozen vault for thousands
OF years, and heat is the only key that
viii unlock the door and let the gold
out.
In the mines about Fairbanks they
have been paying SIS and upward a
cord for the wood from the spruce,
birch and cottonwood trees nearby
This wood is soft and of small heating
value, two cords of it being equal to
only one ton of soft coal. When the
railroad is finished the miners will get
coal for SIS or Sc ton, and this viii
represent a heating value for which
they are now pas ing from $50 to So.
1t will give them clean saving of x2o
in the cost of their fuel This saving
alone means big dividends to many
mines that are now wavering between
profit and loss.
The coal for the Fairbanks mines Will
come from the Nenana coal fields,
through which the railroad will pass.
These are the largest in the basin of
the Yukon. They have many veins
which run up to twenty feet in thick
ness, and there is one that shows by
actual measure sixty feet of coal. There
is an area Of more than 10000 acres
that is known to be underlaid by this
coal, and coal is found here and there
over $4,000 acres. Many of the out
groupings have not yet been tested, and
no one has estimated how much coal
as good as that which comes from Ma
tanuska: but it is Ignite with good
steaming qualities, and it will be of
great value to the gold miners.
Travelling through a gold country
like this makes one covetous. Every
one thinks gold, talks gold. and, con-
sidering the prices at the restaurants,
1 might almost say. eats and drinks
g5,ines and the banks. that YOU feel like
the beggar boy with his nose fiattened
against the glass window of the candy
store. There is plenty to be had were
it not for the barrier between you and
the taking. At the clean-ups of the
camps, 1 have handled gold nuggets as
one handles shelled corn, and at the
assay Offices I have held up $4,000
worth Of pure gold in one brick. While
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Mr. Kimball says: The repair and
restoration of ancient documents and
papers preparatory to their binding, is
so variable and individual in it's char
acter as scarcely to admit of generaIiz-
ed description. Great individual skill
is attained in the work of fine re-
pairs. Paper may be washed, resized
and pressed but bleaching chemicals
should generally be avoided Paper
may be grated onto paper. and by use
OF semi-liduid paper pulp missing
parts of a fragmentary sheet built on
SO as scarcely to be distinguishable
from the old. Fragile sheets are
strengthen by an almost invisible
gauze Crepe laine) sized and pressed
on There are sixty-nine employees in
the bindery and they handle from
10000 to $4,000 books a year"