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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
A Visit to Gold Mines Near Nome With Man Who
 Discovered Them
FORTUNES FOUND IN
 SANDS OF THE OCEAN
The Beach Mines and What They Paid-GOld Won by Hydraulic Lifts-New Methods
 of Mining
nr rRANK C. cARrENTER
Copyright, 1916, by Frank G. Car
 penter.)

Copyright, 1916, by Frank G Car
 penterD
 Nome. Alaska.
 I have just returned from a trip with Jafet Lindeberg through the greatest gold mines of the Seward peninsula. These mines belong to the Pioneer Mining company, which was founded by Lindeberg, Brynteson and Lindbloom, the three lucky swedes who made the first discovery at Anvil creek, near Nome. Since then more than $6,000000 worth of gold has been taken out of that creek, and tens of millions have come from the coastal plain through which it runs. TheAPio- neer Mining company was fouhded shortly after the discovery, and it has been mining gold almost continuously since then. It now owns about 5000 acres of gold bearing earth and is cap italized at $5,00G.000. When gold was discovered Lindeberg and his partners washed out the first dust by hand, melting the frozen earth with hot wa ter. Today the washing is done with the finest of mining machinery. Rivers of water have been carried over the mountains to supply the hydraulic giants, and the gold bearing earth is forced up through pipes to a height of 50 feet into sluice boxes, which take out the gold. Some of the land is phenomenally rich. Three hundred acres or about one-tenth of it will run. so MT. Lindeberg tells me. from $75,o00 to $100,000 of gold to the acre, or in all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
Washington Gossip Says HObSOn Has Gone From
 NdtiDe Stdte 'EFOr Keeps,
By HUGH w. ROBERTS

The Record was looked up. Substantl- tally, the story follows;
 To a large concourse of prohibitionists and suffragettes, Captain Hobson and Morris Sheppard of Texas, were talking from the capitol steps. Following the conclusion of the addresses, the con- course swooped into the House galleries. Captain Hobson, obtaining the floor in the psychological moment gave notice that he would address the House on the following day for two hours on the sub ject of prohibition.
 Jerry Donovan of Connecticut, playing on the fact that Hobson was always ab- sent from House sessions, and shrewdly stating his objection to a two-hour s speech on prohibition, observed:
 MT, Speaker. I thought the rights of this floor were reserved for members. Who is this strange man who would ad- dress us?''
 Captain Hobson is reputed to have made reply: MT Speaker, who am I, the world-known lecturer, the immaculate hero of the Merrifnac, thus taunted by this barkeep from Connecticut?"
 Mir. Donovan immediately responded: "Ah, MT. Speaker, l now recognize the gentleman. Sixteen years ago he was a hero. He's been d. nuisance ever since"
 Whereupon, Mr. Donovan, reading the oath taken by members or the house and alleging that Captain Hobson, through his repeated absence had violated his obligations, offered a resolution in behalf of the citizens of Alabama, calling upon the captain to resign.
 The two, following the episode, almost came to blows. But the clouds eventually cleared away Thereafter, neither Hob son nor Donovan long graeed the rhalls of Congress. Donovan went down before a republican in normally republican district, while Hobson lost his seat in a vain effort to retire oscar w. Underwood to the ranks of private citizenship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31

| Washington, December 29.--(Special)
 Since Captain Hobson has taken such pains to make it certain that he is now
 a bona fide resident of the state of IIli-
 nois, the consensus of opinion in Wash ingtQn is that Alabama, for once and for all, has lost him.
 While it was thought probable when the captain first announced himself a. citizen of Evanston that at the psycholog- ical moment. he would again show up"
 in Alabama. that hope is now abandoned.
 He has asked the secretary of state of Illinois for certificate of citizenship. of Alabama that he has turned his back on his native soil, and has informed the
 mayor of Jasper that his name must be
 expugned from the roll of that city S residents. Having burned all his bridges behind him. it is pointed out by his friends in Washington, that he would
 have difficult time assuring the populace 1 in the future that he was entitled to a certificate from any Alabama district to represent such district in the Congress of the United States.
 Among House members, the most recent action of Hobson has cASsed interest and speculation. It is thought that In all probability he will try as prohibitionist, rather than democrat or republican, to come to Congress from an Illinois dis trict. It is also guessed in some quar- ters that he has ambition to attain the nomination for the presidency on the national prohibition ticket
 A number of House members were dis cussng Hobson yesterday.
 Look up the facts in the Congress sional Record" one of them said, and you will find the most humorous incident that ever happened in the House"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
Millions for Medical Research

From Leslies
 Generousi The recent appropriation by
 the Rockefeller boards of $2.00O, 600 for the
 establishment of a medical department
 at the University of Chicago brings up the total of MT. Rockefellers gifts to the university to s37,0O0,0O0 Never before in history has an institution of learning been so richly endowed by an individual. The university will take over the Presbyterian hospital, valued at s3,000,000. This with an appropriation of s-,000OO0 from the university funds and private donations. added to the Rockefeller gift, will make possible a postgraduate medical school and hospital plant representing an invest
 nent of $10.00o000. The entire teaching
 staff, clinical as well as laboratory, will give it's whole time to teaching and re- search in the hospital and medical school. 1 The Johns Hopkins Medical school and the medical department of Washington university are the only medical institu- tions where this is now done. The new institution will have ample funds and every modern facility for instructions and research so that graduate students will | be able to get at home what formerly re- l quired a trip to Vienna or Berlin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31

came between me and the sun and the
 md gravel and water composing it took on all the colors of the rainbow,
 I stood for awhile and watched the men working. They were clad in slickers and white rubber boots that reached to
 their waist One man directed the pipe from which the stream came. This Was so hung on a pivot that it could be moved with the touch of a finger, and made to carry the gold-bearing earth where the man willed. The water boiled and foamed as it struck the glacial ice Dl which the golden gravel is bedded It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31

melted the ice and tore the earth away from it and carried the mass of earth and gravel to the hydraulic lifts. In one place I saw such streams moving moun- tains of gravel, and everywhere they were forcing the gold. sand and gravel up the pipes into the sluice-boxes.
 The most of the mining here is done with hydraulic lifts. The sluice-boXes are great troughs about as wide as a wagon bed and perhaps 150 feet long. Their sides are two feet in height, and in the bottom are steel gratings, known as riff hes, which catch the gold as the stream of gravel and water runs over them. Ihese sluice-boXes are made of steel. They are inclined an an angle of about 30 degrees, and are supported on a trestle-Work the top being at an altitude of 50 feet or more above the ground. At the upper end of the suice-box there is steel pipe, as big around as the chest of prize fighter, which extends from there to the ground This is connected with the hy- draulic stream, and the water sent rom the pipes I have described forces the gold-bearing earth, gravel and rock up through this pipe into the slulce-boX inc gold is so heavy that 1t drops to the pot tom of the box within the first 90 or Al feet and is caught in the rifles. and
 
 carries away the refuse, stones and other material.
 During my visit to the mines I walked with MT. Lindeberg up the steps that led to these sluices, and looked down upon the foaming, muddy rivers which were thus carrying these fortunes in gold. The strea ms are at work day and night, ana the gold drops down into the rifles at II, of nor. dnN ahOIlt Sl0l = GOO per month, throughout the open sea son, when the weather is so warm that the water can flow.
 I stood at the foot of the pipe and saw the terrible force with which the gold bearing flood was borne onward. This is so enormous that if one should fall into it he would be crushed to d jelly and if caught near the bottom of the pipe would be drawn into it by the suction. Such an accident hap pened not long ago. A miner fell and was sucked into the hole. Every bit of blood was taken out of his body and his arms and legs were torn off. At one of the sluice boxes we visited the water had been turned off for the moment to repair some part of the ma chinery, and MT. Iindeberg and walked up through the bottom of the box and examined the gravel and gold left in the rifles At the extreme top of the box the first gold was caught by square blocks of wood set into the sluice- way Just below this could see specl1s and bits of free gold while a little farther down the rifles had been imbedded in quicksilver This quicksil- yer was already loaded with gold. It had lost it's volatile quality and was like a heavy sand or hard putty. I took up some of it and squeezed it in my
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
NEWEST BOOKS AT
 . THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Carl H. Milan. director of the public library, announces the following as among the newest books at the library; Bacon; Clothing for Women," Baldt; Animal Secrets Told" Bearley; Amer jeans of Royal Descent" Browning; Shape Book" Carnegie Steel company; ''Kongskinder," Chapin; "Ore Mining Methods" Crane; "Coal-Its Economical and smokeless Combusion," Cosgrove; "Foundations of Expression Curry Arithmetic for Carpenters and Build ers," Dale; "The Way of the Cross" Doroshevitch; "A Manual of Fire Preven- tion and Fire Protection for Hospitals Eichel; Modern High Explosives" Eis- Ter. Elements of Physics Henderson;
 Shape Book" Illinois Steel company;
 Forms of English Poetry Johnson;
 Complete Guide to the Game of Draughts," Lees; "A Book About the Theatre" Johnson; "The Vest Pocket As trology In a Nutshell'' Partridge; "Se- lect Notes On the International Sunday School Lessons" Peloubet; Gentlemen Rovers," Powell: "The Ambitious Woman In Business" Rosenblatt; 'The Mother and Her Child" Sadler; "Use of Leisure, Scott; Five Little Plays Sutro; Teachers Guide to the International Sunday School Lessons" Tarbell; Mod ern Housing Law" Veiller; The Pres ident of the United States Wilson: Canning of Fruits and Vegetables" za- valla.
 MUSIC
 Gift of Birmingham Music Study club:
 Song Primer" Bentley Piano Duets for Two Young Pupils Bilbro; Violin Technic Simplifed.' Bryant; Popular Classics; Anthems From Best Known Works of Famous Musicians;' Part Songs for Mixed Voices" Stepping Stones to Music Land'' two parts, (Skin- ner); ''Witmark Class and Club Instructor for Mandolin and Guitar and Banjo, Trinkans.
 Carl H. Milan, director of the public library, announces that the library will be open on Monday at the usual hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
He Learned

From Judge.
 Do you know why the bridegroom $ attendant at the wedding is called the best man'?''
 T did not know before I was mar ried, replied skinny little MT. Meek, but very soon afterward I began to sus- pect.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
Enough

TOIH IfLV.
 Henshaw-I hear he was operated on. What did he have?
 Gee Whiz-Money
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-14
improvements Slow Pace.

TO the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: January was the anniversary OF one
Of the most outrageous accidents which has
over occurred in our subway system. At this
time last year every paper in New York City
was clamoring for immediate retirement from
active service in the subway of the abomina-
bio wooden cars.
Ia the Investigations which followed the
accident Mr. Hcdey stated that it was impos-
slblc TO substitute steel cars for wooden ears
before November. 1915. The papers all de-
nounced this attitude. ard said that IL the
Peterborough wanted 10 it could make the
change Immediately. The clamor is charac-
tcrlstc. After the first Juror 10 has died
away. In riding ~ the subway yesterday
noticed that practically every ten-car train
now running over its lines has at least one,
and often two, wooden cars of the obsolete
inadequate and dangerous type.
Is the press going TO permit this situation
TO continue unnoticed until another. and pos
sibly much more disastrous, accident again
calls for its attention? ".
New York, Jan. 10, 1916
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-14

ishment of this evil, and then TO enforce H.
Fortunately the enlightened manufact-
urers are not arrayed against tins Dill
any more than they have been arrayed
recently against up-todate labor legislation
in the various states. They have come to
realize that child labor is not cheap-that
il is bad for them as well as bad for the
individuals and the community Instead OF
being cheap it is costly in the long run
for tho man who hires the children. and
it is more costly for the community than
modern conditions warrant. llumanita-
rianism jibes with economies in this case.
When handled by Representative Palmer
LIST year this measure passed the House
by large majority. There seems no good
reason why it should not have equally
strong support in both branches Of Con-
gross this year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-14
Blsckmail Under the Mann Act.

The Mann white slave" act may or
may not have been the acme of reform. II
is hard to see how the recent discovery by
the Department of Justice that extensive
Matchmaking operations have been con-
Quoted by professional criminals who have
taken advantage of its provisions has any
particular bearing on that issue. Black
mail has taken place before now under
perfectly good laws. of the wisdom Of
which there was no question, and undoubt-
eddy will take place many times in the
future.
If individuals moved by their own lusts
or made victims of some clever plot have
placed themselves in such unenviable posi-
ton that blackmai became feasible, they
ere 70 blame rather than the law. The
BADGER game worked under New York
State laws and those of other states has
not generally resulted in outcry for the
amendment or repeal of those laws. The
individual who can be blaclmaled is the
brand of being who cannot come into court
with clean hands. 1t seems idle to waste
much sympathy on him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-14
A Meaningless Victory.

To the Editor o. The Tribune.
Sir: What strange delusion has com,
upon the American people with the second
note from Austria on the Ancona incident,
Austria, we are told, has Welded to Wilson
on every point, and the newspapers shout
approval, while fcstal wreaths deck the fstu-
Gus front of our President. What is it that
Austria has yielded? She has disayowed the
act. Well. the at is done. What does an ex
post facto dssvcwal amount TO unless ac-
companied with the promise Of an altered
purpose? And that she has by no mean.
promised.
She has agreed 20 pay an Indemnity That
is to say. she is willing at some future time
TO submit the indemnity proposition 20 arbi-
tration. She has punished the submarine
commander, What is his punishment? Is IT
promotion IN rank and a title Of nobility
One sinister feature of tho Austrian note il
that il pleases Berlin. | should think that
that would max, the President sit up for a
moment and feign life. And when Austria
talks generously about humanity" a person
on the other side of the Garth can see her
tongue in her check with A. implication OF
malicious contempt. Austr.c is making a
monkey of Us That is what this diplomatic
triumph comes 10. Wait enc week and We
shall sec. 4. STUART VI. CHISHOLM.
Bennington. ". Jan. -. 19it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-14
Cheap Lunch Rooms for Workers

60 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Where 70 get lunch IS great prob
lcm to most working girls, especially those
working near Fifth Avenue between Thirty
fourth and Fftieth Streets. Of course, there
are expensive hotels and tea rooms BY the
score, but for one earning from $40 10 S24
a week these are wild dreams, for there one
can get nothing for less than 90 cents day
~ the very least. There are two or three
cafeterias. 20 be sure. where one can get a
lignt lunch for 25 cents, but these are Sd
crowded that it is next 10 impossible TO ge;
waited on, and, as a rule, the food is second
rate and very poorly cooked.
One can always resort to sandwich. d
cup of coffee or chocolate and perhaps d
piece of cake or doughnut, but that Is no,
enough to keep one in condition 10 work well
and by the middle Of the afternoon one Is
worn out.
Does the general public ever stop TO think
what vital question this is TO hundreds o;
rir.s who work hard eight or more hours a
day and who need the best and most nour-
lshing food? J. ". /.
New York. Jan. :. 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-14
Legal Insanity"

T., t,,,o,land as IN this country. LAWYERS
ord rbvs;ciars have for some time been
ordoavorino TO clear up the many perplex-
tics and absnrditics associated with the
concontion Of legal insanity. Last sum
mon. a subcommittee Of the British Medi
col Association undertook to modify the
,~n,. ao.ontod d.6rir;o, or responsibility
,onliod in the NcNaughtcn rule by adopt
ina, o. s,,,,.,o.ti,p orioinallv nut forward by
tho DISTINGUISHED psvchiatrist. Dr.. c. 4.
lIercior This was ;he revised definition
,rcoeetod.
q.
40 S 49, - .f,o V,', ,aJc, # = done nrovcntod
either by defective mental power or by any
disease affecting his mind (0) from showing
ana pPPfcc ."t"t9 ''' nature anu gu",''! u
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sha. the act is wrong. or Cc) from control
ling his own conduct unI' IS INC absence OF
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f.n~I o.,;It,. s. ,,,.dor:ao his
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-14
The Murphys' Inheritance.

The question. Where do all the Smiths
come from. or the Browns. or the JOneses
is still fayorite with some folk, there
being little danger of an answer But no
che asks. Where DO all the Murphys come
from? because every one knows. though
how SO small an island could have been
the cradle of such a mighty race will re-
main a mystery.
But the fact that it has been and still IS
vas no doubt powerful factor in deter
mining the late William s. Murphy, a
Harvard graduate and member OF the
Custom House force at Boston. to leave to
Harvard University fund of $4,000 to
assist deserving boys named Murphy to an
education. Murphys multiply, but they do
not lose their kinship; they spread, but
each with his own map of Old Erin IN
oelibly engraved upon his countenance'
No matter how long may be the way to
~-'.sperary, the common bond is never sew
cred. as Mr.. Murphy has so generously
attested.
It seems a pity the Smiths and the
Browns and the Joneses have no such com
mon ancestry or distinctive origin. Other
wise some proud sons among them might
he inspired to follow Mr.. Murphy's eX-
ample. to establish funds for the higher
education of all deserving Smiths and
Prowns and Joncses. which would come
reasonably near, together with the Murphy
foundation. to providing for all the youths
Of the nation.
Can YOU still ask, What's in name?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-14
A National Child Labor Bill.

One of the faVOrite ways TO beat bllI
restricting child labor in a state lcgis
lature is to assemble all the manufactur-
ers to protest against the injustice OF
making them compete against manufact-
urers of other states who may use child
labor. No such specious argument can be
brought against the Keating-Owen bill
row before Congress. That would practi-
cally abolish child labor in all states, by
excluding from interstate commerce arti-
cles manufactured by the labor of any
child under fourteen years, or ON which
any child under fifteen had worked more
than eight hours a day, or on which any
child under fifteen had been employed at
night.
This is a sweeping bill. 1t has incurred
enmity. But. as Booth Harrington recent
~ said regarding this bit of legislation.
Two ways of looking at the child labor
evil are like two ways Of looking at mas
sacre." The only thing to do with it is
to make law broad enough and drastic
enough TO accomplish the practical abol-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-14
Speaking in Billions.
.rrom rlc FRO --d.acc Iomnel


A billion units arc believed 70 he beyond
the capacity Of any human mind 20 grasp.
But We are becoming accustomed to speaking
Of money in terms Of tho billion. with billion
dollar Congresses. exports Of billion and
the immensely Of war finance.
y French newspaper, the better 20 impress
its readers with the magnitude Of the loan
oc rictory." exceeding H.O00.00o00O francs
nd our money S2SOO.OOO,OO0 reminds them
that "only .OO7 ,212,OOO minutes have elapsed
aucc the death Of Christ That is certainly
g. ..riking allusion. Even counted in our
money. the aggregate Of dollars poured out
If the "woolicn stocking OF France IS more
than twice the number OF minute I'm the
centuries since the dawn OF the Christian
era.
The Imperial German Treasurer has stated
that the war debt for his country amount.
already to $lG0OO,OOO.0O0 and is being added
TO at the rate OF half billion a month. And
wth all the bcllGcreuts the debt is piirc
up 50 that it is counted in billions. while a
billion itself cannot be counted or scarcely
comprehcnded.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-14
America s Music Bill.
lFr0n INC Philadelphia Lcdgcr.I


Americans pay for music IN one nhase or
another, s225,O00.0OO year. according 20 the
findings OF the National Music Association.
This seems like large sum till it IS pitted
against the war bill. Each Of the quartet of
principal beligerents is dsposing OF sum
rs large as that within about wees fer the
.hinGs that would crowd music and al ideal.
istic pursuits of the cmbattled stage Of the
world There is 10 sign yet that too much is
spent on art that is the autithesis cf blood
and hate We must have the war>hips aad
we must secure our borders agains' malice
domestic. foreign levy; but the soul cannot
live by saltpetre and nitroglyccrin alone. tn"
musicians and those engaged in the cogaatc
artistic calling were never so valuable M
the life of nation a. they are to-day. Ono
of the grea. sources of relief 10 nervous over
strain and mental tcnseness is in such music
as that OF the orchestra or the body o.
singers or the individual performer filled
with the sense Of healing mission TO per
form for tired bodies and worn, exa speratcG
souls.