davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

Broadway and the avenue, and know as
little about the real New York all around
them, as a southern negro nanny
who has never left the old plantation.
Many visitors are eager to catch
gllmpses, feeling though they must neces-
sarily be, of the New York that is behind
closed doors, the New York that lies not
along the beaten paths, the New York
that Is hidden away in the by-ways,
close at hand but generally unnoticed.
Do you know anything about that Got
HAMS Have you ever been favored with
a chance to look into it, to get into it's
atmosphere to enjoy it's partly hidden
delights and oddities?
Thus reasoned our southern writer and
then came the idea that, having pro-
cured this knowledge for herself, she
could give it to others, and incidentally
profit thereby. And SO she Immediately
formed what is now known as 'The
Heart of New York company, which she
characterizes as "An exclusive, personal
service for discriminating people And
as a result visitors henceforth will have
an opportunity to see New York as they
have never seen it before. and the sue
cess of the idea, even at this early
stage, is remarkable.
Being clever writer, as I said, she is
able to tell you about the idea better
than ] can. Here is what she says of it:
Every great city has personality.
Boston made O. Henry feel as if he were
drinking cold tea with white, wet cloth
tied about his head. Chicago seemed TO
him a mixture of breeze, glitterihg prom
ises and potato salad. Pttsburg made
him think of "Othello" played in Russian
by a minstrel troup. And New York
well, how do you feel about New York?
"A city is a trinity of body, mind and
soul. The average visitor sees only the
physical wonders which express the men
tai genius of New York. Fifth avenue
and crowds in the mornings Riverside
Drive and scenery in the afternoon
Broadway and gayety at night-all I'M
mensely worth while, but-soulless
Beaten paths are for beaten men, some
one has cleverly said, but unusual re-
sponsive, heartful, thinking people reve
in the little journeys along the by-paths
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

result is that q proSpector outHC Is
much more costly than in the Rockies.
It should include a small boiler for steam
thawing with steam pipes, rubber hose,
steam points and steam fittings. One
needs a windlass, a cable and wooden
buckets to get the earth out after it is
thawed, and If he expects to prospect in
deep ground he should have steam en-
CINE as well. They have here a pros
pecting outfit which costs about 5000. 1t
consists of four horsepower boiler, n
hoisting engine, steam points, pipe and
fittings and buckets and cable. The out
fit is compact and can be carried on a
sled drawn by dogs. One Of the best
methods of prospecting is with drills,
but the freight rates have been so high
that few have come in. There is a churn
drill built here, which is sold for $1,000,
equipment.
From the figures I have given it will
be seen that it costs something to grub
stake a man in Alaska. Still much grub
stalking is DONE Outsiders will furnish
the provisions and outfit and the miners
will agree to prospect and work for half
what they find. Stock in some of the
mines is largely held in the states. and
there are many little propositions scat
tered here and there over the country
that are kept going that way. Most of
these are honestly managed. Now and
then one is not. They tell story here
about miner who was working away
in rtt xrr;k 1st , lin
put, which was practically nothing. He
had plenty of money and seemed happy.
Asked how he was doing he replied:
Fine! Fine!''
Then you have reached the pay
streak, l suppose?
Yes, I struck that at the start
But where is it? l don't see any
gold.'
Oh was the reply. "the paystrealS is
not here, the paystreaks in Chicago?"
How would you like to stub your toe
on gold mine? That is how the
Rhoades-Hil quartz mine in Bedrock
Creek valley was discovered. The mine
ground workings, and has netted it's
owners over 100000 The dscoverer was
L. B. Rhoads, prospector who was
mushing over the trail He. had made
some money placer mining, but fortune
had gone against him. and he turned
his attention to quartz. On his way
down the hill to the Bedrock Creek val
ley he stubbed his toe and fell head
long. As he got UP he looked for the
cause of his stumbling. and found it was
a rock spelled with coarse yellow bits of
gold. He marked the spot. got an outfit,
and dug down until he discovered a rich
vein of quartz. He took out a claim and
thawed shaft to the 5O-foot level, burn
ing the rock with wood fires. Every
week he crushed enough of the best rock
to give him gold for his supplies for the
week to come. In the winter he worked
underground. The next spring he tun-
neled in on the vein; and, 70 make a long
story short, he finally established a mill
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22
Weather and Business

weather ana DusiHeSS
There is an article in the November
American Magazine which tells how
weather helps or hurts business The
writer says:
"Seasonable weather is good for almost
every line of business where something
is sold over counter. Cold weather
boosts more lines of trade than hot
weather. 1t is an old aging that cold
weather helps everything except the ice
and hammock business. Rain may do
harm or good, according to what one
has to sell. And it makes a big diff
ference in certain lines whether rain
comes on one day or another-whether in
the morning or afternoon. Moreover. the
effect on a small town store is not the
same as on a city store.
In large city. the business OF a
department store is seriously hurt by a
rain in the forenoon. but rain in the
early AFTERNOON Is usually a big help.
Most customers Of big city department
store are women. and nearly all of them
live out some distance from the store
at the edge of the city, or in the suburbs.
II it rains along about or o'clock in
the morning the woman who had planned
to go shopping that day is quite likely
to change her mind, even though she did
not intend to go until afternoon The
rain not only suggests discomfort in get
ONg about, but diminishes her desire or
Immediate need for certain articles and
drives the shopping idea out of her head.
On the other hand, if it is bright and
clear in the morning. but clouds up about
noon for a heavy downpour which lasts
most of the afternoon, it is the best thing
that could happen for the department
store, because shoppers get in, and cam
not comfortably get out They shop all
over the store. buy lu,ch there and shop
some more.
While the rain is thus b>Iping the de.
partment stores, it may hurt the smaller
shops. because many customers who
would otherwise look around are obliged
to do their buying all under one roof"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

valley is covered with layer of moss
and muck, under which is thick layer
Of gravel, and below that the bedrock
in which the gold is. The muck and
the gravel are frozen. The cold of some
thousands of years ago has turned them
into one mass of ice rock and sand
as solid as stone. The moss on the top
has proved an almost perfect noncon-
ductor of heat, and the only way to get
at the gold is to strip off the moss and,
by means of steam, to thaw and then
dig your way down to where the gold
lies. This may be so, 60, so or even 100
feet, the gold strata itself being still
frozen.
In the Nolan mine they were working
at S4 feet from the surface. We got INTO
a bucket, and were lowered down a well
of that depth. From the bottom tunnels
had been dug off into the ice-frozen gold
bearing rock. We left the bucket and
walked through the Turner's, stopping
now and then to watch the miners thaw
out the strata. The work is done with
steam points, or steel pipes, through
which steam is driven into the ice. The
pipes are three-quarters of an inch in
diameter. They have heads of solid
steel, and below them connections with
steam. The pipes are driven into the
the steam through rubber hose into the
steel pipes. These end in points Of steel
in which are small holes to- let out the
steam The pipes AIRED riven into the
frozen rock with steel hammers, work
ing their way on inch by inch as the
steam thaws out the ice. 1t melts the
gravel for several feet about the pipe
The thawed stuff can then be dug down
and thrown into wheelbarrows, which
carry it to the shaft and the hoists.
We saw the gold bearing earth going
out of the mine in the same bucket we
came down in. A steam engine did the
work raising the bucket by steel
cable high. above the shaft whence it
slid on a pulley to the dump over the
sluice box. The work of getting out
the ore goes on winter and summer. but
the sluicing or washing out of the gold
can be done only when the weather is
warm.
At the Nolan mine they have a clean
up once a week. BY this is meant that
they wash out the gold at that time
We were fortunate In being there when
one of the clean-ups occurred. The gold
is washed through trough which is per-
haps a yard wide. a yard high and
several hundred feet long. This box is
the sluice box. 1t is made of rough plank
and is set up at an angle of 10 or 20 de-
grees SO that it runs from the high
crib containing the dump to the ground
When the time for the cleanup occurs.
door is opened in the dump. and the
gold-bearing gravel pours down into the
sluice box. A stream of water flows
over it forcing it onward and washing
the dirt and gravel away. In the bottom
of the sluice box are rifles or crates Of
steel which catch the gold. The gold is
heavier than the rock. sand and earth,
and it falls into the rifles as the stream
washes the debris away.
At first the water comes in flood. 1t
carries the stone. gravel and sand down
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22
EIGHTY MILLIONS I'M PLACER GLD--By Frank c. Carpenter

with rush. Five miners, clad in rough
stand in the current and stir as the water
pours down. They throw out the big boul-
ders and pitch fork over the mortar and
sand. They stop it here and there with
their shovels, so that every bit Of gold
dust is washed Off After a time bits of
the bottom are visible. In some places
the box has turned yellow: the gold dust
has piled Up and coated the boards. The
rifles become filled with black sand.
This is mixed with the yellow and now
and then small nugget is to be seem.
The rifles are lifted out and the black
sand containing the gold is washed over.
This is carefully done.
The water now flows slowly and the
men agitate it with brushes of seaweed
2 of about the size of whisk-brooin.
With these they separate most of the
sand from the dust and the yellow flour
and grains are caught in a scoop and
thrown into a pan. 1t covers the bot
tom of the pan like coarse cornmeal
and looks somewhat as though it were
yellow corn ground. The cleanup of
this week amounted to about three quarts
of gold. 1t is worth over $4,000 and the
gold contens will average 81 per ounce.
After getting the gold out Of the box
we took it into the office cabin nearby
and dried it over fire. 1t was then
tossed up by the miners to blow out
the bits of sand that were left. They
did this. throwing the gold into the
-
chickens. blowing the black sand away
and catching every bit of the gold in
the pan. At the end the sand was all
out and the yellow gold only was left.
This was the cleanup of a small mine.
Larger clean-ups sometimes run into
the tens of thousands of dollars.
Cleary creek has many excellent
claims. 1 am told there are places
where you can walk up the valley and
every foot under you will be worth
$500. The creek altogether has pro-
duced about s24OoO,0Oo worth of gold,
and it is estimated that there is more
gold in the ground than has yet been
taken out. They are now working over
some Of the claims for a second time
and, with cheap coal, better transpor-
tation and modern dredging machinery,
the most Of the ground will be handled
again. Senator Gaustad, a member of
the territorial legislature, estimates
the values left in Cleary at something
like $50 600, or $40, 600 more than has
yet been washed out.
There are dozen or mores creeks
about Fairbanks that are producing
gold. The biggest output so far has
been from Cleary; but large amounts
have been obtained from Fairbanks
creek, Dome creek. Gold stream and
Ester creek. The product of Ester is
large at this writing. one of the clean
ups last week having realized over
$4,000. In 1912 Fairbanks creek had all
ready produced more than 5000, 900. and
in Dome creek values of Sc and more to
the square foot have been found. BY
1910 Ester had produced about S. 900 900 and
Little Eldorado more than $5,O00,000. The
gold in the several creeks varies in value
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

n HAVE just returned from a two
day automobile trip through some
~ of the richest of the collaborating
regions of interior Alaska. Fair
banks has produced almost one-third of
all the gold we have gotten out of the
territory. The sum is more than 10 times
the amount of Uncle Sans purchase
price 1t is about $780, 100000 and the geolo-
gists say there are many millions to
come. The amount taken out last year
was two or three millions, and with the
cheap fuel from Uncle Sans railroad,
this output will be greatly increased.
This enormous quantity of gold has
been washed from creeks and their val
leys are streaked with bed rock which
lies far down under the earth. The gold
bearing strata is five or six feet in
thickness, and it has an average value
of more than S. per cubic yard. There
is so much of it that if it were confined
TO one strip about five times as wide as
a country road the strip would reach as
far as from New York to Philadelphia,
and every mile of it would contain values
to the amount of one and one-third mil
lion dollars. That amount is known to
exist. Prospecting is going on every
where to find more, and new strikes
are bound to occur.
The miners are still working the
oldest of the creeks although In places
they are almost deserted. We rode by
log hotels and dance halls now empty
and silent, and passed great masses of
gravel, the monuments of the work of
the past Leaving Fairbanks we mo-
tored up one stream and down another,
passed pile after pile of these tailings.
We passed through villages, which were
once almost cities, now going to ruin,
and after traversing the valleys of Fox.
creek, Pedro creek, Engineer creek,
Quennie creek, Ester creek and other
creeks named after the dance ladies'"
OF earlier days, stopped for the night
at Chatanika on Cleary. Cleary is one
of the richest of all the creeks Of the
Fairbanks district and today it Is being
mined along the greater part of its
course. This is true Of most Of the creeks.
The old tailings are being worked over,
and the poorer ground, as yet untouched,
is being exploited. There are now about
100 plants busy getting out gold. and
something IKE low men are employed.
The values produced in 1918 and in 1914
amounted to about $7,500,00O, and the year
before that the output was $4,000, 000 New
methods of mining are coming in. The
open cut is much used, and there Is
a new scraper invented by Fairbanks
miner that proves very valuable There
is an underground scraper which digs
and dumps automatically, and there are
surface scrapers which lift the earth
to a cable by which it is carried to the
sluice boxes. Among the most active of
the plants are those on Chatanika flats,
where something like 500 miners are now
employed.
During my stay at Chatanika, went
into some of the mines. The gold does
Mot lie ON the surface Of the earth. 1t
is seldom found in the gravel of the
streams, and it cannot be clawed out
with the grass roots The most of the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

ing the miners at work. short distance
from the surface we came into slopes. or
chambers of rock. They were as cold as
ice, their walls being frosted like the
pipes of cold storake chamber The
rock is cut out of the ice. 1t is a part
of the great bed of prehistoric frost.
which underlies this whole region.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

of five stamps, out of which he and his
brother-in-law. Hill, have already
cleared almost quarter of million
dollars.
In company with one of the foremen
went into the mine and strolled about
through one tunnel after another watch
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

never the sole charm of the Divine sa-
rah.
Jim Grow, Of Gadsden. who used to
be assistant art editor for the Morning
Sun. is now A full fledged dramatic critic.
If there is any Gadsden talent desiring
a tryout here 1t may look for mercy, at
lea st
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22
The Wrong Place

From the Literary Digest.
Durins the rush hour middle-aged
woman entered subway car aecompa-
MED by her lS-year-old daughter Both
the mother and daughter were forced to
stand for awhile opposite row of men
busily intent on chewing gum.
virginia" said the matron with cut
ting emphasis and loud enough for the
men to hear, Judging from appearances
we have made mistake. This is presum-
ably the dining car of the chew-chew
train"
No wonder that fiustered citizen began
reading his evening paper upside down.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

Military training is compulsory on all
male citizens between the ages Of Il and
rs in New Zealand.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

At first the water comes in flood. 1t
carries the stone. gravel and sand down
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

During my stay at Chatanika, went
into some of the mines. The gold does
Mot lie on the surface Of the earth. 1t
is seldom found in the gravel of the
streams, and it cannot be clawed out
with the grass roots. The most OF the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

And Madame Bernhardt is also on hand.
though she had to be carried off the YES
sci in which she made the voyage. The
loss of a leg does not seem to have Grip
pied her ability materially. Unlike many
other French actresses, her legs were
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

Since Caruso has returned to us-brng-
ing moustache, by the way, the season
may be said to be we'll under way.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-11-29

The Eelair company is presenting
the leading attraction at the Dixie
theater today. Edna Payne and Nor
bert Myles are playing the leads.
The title is 1.-THE Eternal Chal-
lenge." a powerful love drama In
two acts. Betty Compson with an
all star cast is playing a Cub comedy.
Nearly a Hero" The other reel is
See America First" with the Mu-
tual traveller and Pm Insured" a
cartoon comedy by Harry Palmer.
Tomorrow the Dixie will have an ex-
ira Thanksgiving offering, Pauline
Frederick in Mary Johnston's cele-
brated novel, Audrey" Daniel
Frohman production for the Para
mount program by the Famous Play
ers company.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-11-29

FOR RENT-Two. large unfinished
housekeeping rooms. close In, mod
ern convenienccs. See George Craw-
ford, or phone Ss7.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-11-29
AN AGED COUPLE
Say They Owe Their Good Health to
Vino!.

Steubenyille, Ohio.-"My husband
lis 70 years old and | am rs years Of
age and we owe our good health to
Vinol, the greatest strength creator
and medicine there is. When either
one OF us get into a weakened, run
down condition, Vinol has never
failed to build US up and restore
strength. We have often said we
would not be living now were Il not
for Vinol Mary A. Lee.
We guarantee Vinol because it
contains beef and cod liver peptones,
iron and manganese peptones and
glyeerophosphates, the most success
full tonics known.
Curlin's Two Drug Stores, north
side square, west side square, Wax
ahachie. Also at the leading drug
store in all Texas towns.-(advD
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-11-29
LIKE CIOCK-WORK.
lBy n. u. Cook, Nj. D.

The machinery OF the body needs
to be oiled. kept in good condition
Just as the automobile or bicycle.
Why should the human neglect his
own machinery more than that of
his horse or his engine? Yet most
people do neglect themselves. Their
tongue has dark brown color. skin
sallow, breath bad, yet they fall to
see that their machinery needs at
tention. Everybody should take a
mild laxative at least once a week
A pleasant way to clear the tongue
and the highly coIored water no
ticed in The morning is to take a lax
alive which will cure the inactive
liver and biliousness.
A pleasant vegetable pill Is made
up of May-apple, leaves of aloes, and
ialap. made into tiny pellet and
coated with sugar. First put up by
DR.. Pierce nearly so years ago. Drug
gists sell these vegetable pellets In
walls, simply ask for DIR. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets.
II backache, scalding urine or fire.
quent urination bother or distress
you, or If uric acid In the blood has
caused rhumatiam. govt or sciatica.
if you suspect that that you have
kidney or bladder trouble. write DR..
Pierce. att Invalids' Hotel. Buffalo,
n. Y. send a sample of urine, and
describe symptoms. A physician and
chemist will examine 1t without
charge and you will be under no OBJ
legation whatever. DR.. Pierce's An
uric tablets cannot fail to help you,
because their action flushes the kid
neys of impurities and puts strength
into them.
Obtain a 50-cent box of these pei
lets today from your druggist here
in town. From personal observation
in large hospital practice, Anuric will
give you speedy relief. - fadv.)
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-11-29
VILLA AGAIN DISPLAYS
HIS MILITARY GENIUS
THROUGH A BOLD TRICK HIS
MEN ENTERED CHIHUAHUA
CITY UNDETECTED.
Obtained Carranza Password and
Sent His Own Men In 10 Re
licve the DE FMcfO Goy-
crninent OutpoAts.

CIUDAD JuAREz, Mex. Nov. 20.
military genius and trickory OF Villa
that has gained for him the name or
.'the fox Of the Sierras" ST being
told here today by refugees from the
south.
On the night of his attack upon
chihuahua he utilized a bold trick
to enable his men to enter the city
undetocted Learning through spies
that thousands Of achievements had
arrived from Monterey and had been
put upon guard duty. he evolved
this strategem. When he arrived In
the outskirts he sent forward small
details of his own men with instruc-
tions to relieve the Carranzistas on
outpost duty. They marched up,
gave the password and an officer In
formed the guard he had been de-
tailed to relieve them. Deluded In
to the belief the newcomers were
members OF the garrison. the out
posts marched away, leaving Villas
own men to guard" the town.
1t was VILLA who first put into
practice the idea of driving herds of
cattle over ground believed to be
planted with mines. Since 1t has been
picked up by commanders in the Eu-
ropean war. He also used herds of
cattle as living barricades when at
lacking entrenched positions. His
up before the trenches using them
as cover