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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-29

took the stocking. He pulled forth his poke
and poured in enough gold dust and nuggets
to fill up the toe. Another miner poured in
more dust, and this kept on, the stocking
passing from hand to hand until it was
hlled. But all had not yet contributed. The
gold was then poured out of the stocking
onto the table, the miner who did so saving:
We'll dump this and start over again In
the end it was passed around the whole
camp, with the result that $4,000 worth Of
gold dust was collected and the money there
for sent to the widow"
United States Marshal Erwin has tho
unique distinction OF being the only man
who has ever driven flock of turkeys from
the Pacific ocean across the mountains into
the Klondike gold region. We had been
talking about old times in Dawson when he
told me the story. Said he
'My father lived near Danville, KY, in
one of the chief turkey and goose raising
sections of the United States. When I was
boy turkey raising was regular business
there, and we sometimes drove our turkeys
and geese as far as 90 miles to the markets.
We had to put shoes on them before start
ing out"
Thereupon I laughed "You need not
smile" said the marshal, that is the truth.
We made the shoes by driving the geese
through melted pitch, and then through
sand. The sand stuck to their feet and gave
them a pair of hard Shoes as it were Well,
when | came to the Klondike and saw tho
high prices they were getting for poultry, I
concluded to make fortune by bringing in
live stock from outside l left the camp
and went to Seattle, where l bought 600
chickens and "a turkeys. l took them on :,
steamer thousand miles northward to
Dyea, and from there sent the chickens by
wagon over the pass. The turkeys l drove.
1t was no trouble except they would persist
in stopping at night. You cannot prevent
turkey from going to roost when the sun
sets. | tried it, but the turkeys would jump
up on the rocks. You might push them off,
but they would go on few steps and then
get up again. To make long story short,
finally got them over the range, and down
to Lake Lebarge, where took them by boat
into Dawson"
"How did you succeed as to the sale."
Every well. But | had to learn how to
sell them. There was great competition
among the provision men as to having fresh
fowls, and every one wanted to corner the
market and crowd out the others. When
entered the first store and told them had
80 turkeys and 600 chickens, the dealers
face FELL for he saw that he could not mo-
nopolize such all enormous proposition as
that. | changed my plan, kept my mouth
shut about the supply, and began to pedde
them out in small numbers. l got $40
apiece for the turkeys, and from So to $40
for the chickens. | went from store to store
and restaurant to restaurant, until had sold
all but 20 turkeys and 90 chickens. These I
got rid of to one man at $40 per turkey and
S. per chicken. Altogether I got $4,000
out of my chickens and $1,000 from the tur-
keys, so that my gross receipts for the trip
were $5OO0"
FRANK G. CARPENTER
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-29
FRANK G.. CARPENTER
THE HANDLE PLANT.
(Wall Street JournaD


Knobs and crooks on the handles OF
umbrellas and canes, which are both
ornamental as we'll as convenient, are
not so entirely accidental as one might
think. The art of producing such
sticks to order constitutes serious
agricultural industry. there being for
instance nearly 500 acres of land de-
voted to this purpose in that division
of France known as Seine ct -Oise.
The principal trees for this purpose
are oak, ash, poplar or maple. They
are cut at the ground-level so that at
the foot of each trunk a number OF
saplings will sprout The following
year. preferably in the spring, the bark
of these sapilngs is cut in such a man.
ner as to inscribe varied designs, which
remain engraved on the wood. At the
end Of three years they are cut. strip
ped of branches dried in the sun. and
subjected to bath OF hot steam and
the bark stripped off.
The sticks are Strengthened by being
placed in an atmosphere of moist heat
and then cut to suitable lengths, and
are then ready to be polished, var
nished and supplied with proper
mountings.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-29

Eve have, you know many unsuccessful
men," the marshal continued Mining is to
large extent gambling, and where one man
succeeds there are hundreds who fail.
remember an instance of a man who came
to Fairbanks to make his fortune. leaving
his wife and family outside. He found no
gold and finally fell sick and died in cabin
on /one of the creeks. When the miners
looked over his papers they found a letter
that had just come from his wife, who lived
in little town in Massachusetts. The let
ter was full'of news about the baby that had
been born since the father had left and inside
it was one of the babys stockings. The
miners stood around the dead body in the
cabin as the letter was read. and when the
stocking was shown the tears ran down
their faces. One of them reached out and
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-29

gets are turned into bricks for shipment out
side You see these gold bricks on the bank
counters Some are as small as a cake of
sweet chocolate and others are so large that
if one fell on your toes it would crush them
to jelly
The assaying and melting is usually done
outside the bank. Mr. Berauds shop is a
rude zinc shed not much better than the
portable houses used for automobiles. 1t
contains little furnace and the various i'm
plements of the assayer, including molds,
bone-ash and scales The scales are so deli
cate that they will weigh pencil mark on 4
sheet OF fine tissue paper or a single silky
hair of baby.
The gold dust is brought in to the banks
by the miners in bags of buckskin 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 to its
actual value after it has beer turned into bull
lion The gold dust is of different values.
Some is mixed with silver and is not worth
more than $l3 an ounce. Other gold dust
may be worth $50 an ounce. When the dust
comes to Mr. Beraud it is assayed-that is,
it is melted and its gold contents tested.
The assay is made after the gold is cast
into bricks. From each brick corner is cut
off with chisel, the amount taken being
about the size of a marrowfat pea. This IS
hammered out on an anvil and run through
rollers until it is as thin as the newspaper
on which this letter is printed. little strip
of this gold leaf is then taken off and weigh
ed on the fine scales above spoken OF. 1t is
so treated by melting in furnace that the
impurities are taken out and little button
OF pure gold is left. This button is weighed
and its weight is subtracted from the weight
of the strip before it was melted. The result
shows the amount of pure gold in the brick;
and there arc tables giving its value in dol
lars and cents.
covet the metal he handled. He replied:
81 never think of the value / have been
working in gold so long that the stuff seems
to me just like corn or oats in the hands OF
farmer. 1t is like the raw material used in
machinery. | was different when first be-
gan to assay at Dawson / had never seen
gold dust and nuggets in quantity before and
almost went crazy liked the look of the
gold and bought nuggets and had gold pins
and chains made of them. wore nugget
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-29

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 S. or
So ton, and this will represent heating
value for which they are now paying from
$50 to $32. 1t will give them a clean saving
of SIS 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 20 feet in
thickness, and there is one that shows by
actual measure 90 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 outcroppings have not yet been
tested and no one has estimated how much
coal there may be. The Nenana coal is not
as good as that which comes from Matanu-
SKA but it is Ignite with good steaming
qualities, and it will be OF great value to the
gold miners.
Travelling through gold country like this
makes one covetous. Everyone thinks gold,
talks gold, and, considering the prices at the
restaurants, l might almost say, eats and
drinks gold You see so much gold in the
mines and the banks, that you feel like the
beggar boy with his nose flattened 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, l have handled gold mug
gets as one handles shelled corn, and at the
assay Offices have held up $4,000 worth OF
pure gold in one brick. While at Dawson
saw 100000 worth of bricks wheeled about
on truck, such as you find at country rail-
road station. The gold bricks were heavy.
They were worth from ST 5000 to $4,000
apiece At the same place l saw a ton of
amalgam, consisting OF quicksilver mixe1
with gold, which will be shipped out to be
reduced to gold bullion. The amalgam is
put into furnace, a gallon or SO at a time.
An intense heat is turned on. This melts the
amalgam 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.
/ met here at Fairbanks a man who has
melted more than $50,O00,OOO worth of gold
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-29

to generate the steam needed to thaw the
mass of frozen gravel and ice in which the
gold lies. The gold may be so, 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 will un-
lock the door and let the gold out.
In the mines about Fairbanks they have
been paying SIS and upward cord for the
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-29

dust and nuggets, and who is now making
bullion to the amount of 100000 year
This is G. E. Beraud, the assayer of the First
National bank He is chemist and metal
lurgist of note, and was the government as
sayer 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 mug
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-29

Cheap Coal and the Gold Output at SIG
Ton-A Chat With an Assayer. How the
Gold Is Marketed Miners Extravagances-
Only Babys Stocking, but It Brought 5000
Big Speculation in Turkeys.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-29
FAIRBANKS.

he completion of Uncle
Sans railway will be the
beginning OF a new era i'll
the mining camps of Alas
ka. The road will give easy
access to many thousand
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-21
BISHOP BREWSTER WILL BEGIN HIS
 MISSION | I TONIGHT
Weekly Meeting and Sermons for Bridgeport Planned by
 Episcopal Head.

With the cooperation of the rectors of the parishes of the Episcopal churchc in the city, Bishop Brewster of Gonneeticut will hold ae service and preach assermon on the Tuesday even ings in Lent in St. Johns churchfat 8 o'clock The series will begin tonight
 It is Bishop Brewster's desire to give special attention this Lent to the church in Bridgeport, following up the very successful mission which has just been held in most of the parishes. His services are primarily for the bishops own people, of course. of whom there are S,2Q0 comm uh1c ants in the, city: but members Of other ccfr1rd1lin rd1lin sons will be perfectly welcome, up to the ca pacity of St. Johns church.
 The bishops sermons will be on Christianity as personal and cor porate religion. The services will be chiefly singing and prayer, the choir being composed of men from the sev- seral parishes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-21

it leaves up to the building commits sioners the, right to say whether or not the conditions under which such buildings may be remodeIed.
 Alderman Vincent s. Whitney, chairman of the, ordinance committee after the meeting last evening sought out the reporters and explained at great length the time and attention the members of his committee had given to changing the ordinance. He was very anxious that no criticism should be made of the amendment the committee recommended and which the council passed.
 Yet he could not explain why his committee had by it's act nulliied the purpose of the recent ordinance which had the endorsement of many large property holders and manufa cturers, the Good Housing association and
 many kindred organizations.
 Alderman Har-igah of the Eighth district renewed the request he made on Jan. 31 for a report on the man ner in which $2,OOO was expended in grading Parrott avenue. Alderman MacFayden, presiding in the absence of Mayor Wilson, said he had no re- port to offer. Alderman Harrigan said unless a report was forthcoming by next week he would make one him. self. The alderman claims that fill was wasted in both Parrott avenue and Anson street and that the city did not get the proper return for the sum expended in either street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-21
PULMOTOR, TWO YEARS
 .OED, FAILS IN FIRST
 TRYOUT IN TORRINGTON


 Torrington, March 21-Mrs. Chas Nod1ne committed suicide at 4:3O o'clock yesterday afternoon at her home on Main street by inhaIing H. Illuminating gas She was about 50 for several months because of the death of her daughter, Edith Moline. last July. She had threatened to take her life some time ago. and for that reason had been carefully watch ed by the members of the family Within the last few weeks, her men, tai condition had seemed to be i'm proving, and she was left at home in care of one of her younger daughters She leaves a husband. c. H. Moline, and three daughters, Ethel, Isabel and Madeline Nodine. A puln otor, pur- chased by the town two years ago had its first tryout on a human be- ing. but failed to operate when ap- piled to the body of Mrs. Nodine.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-21
CECIL SPOONER IS
 BRIGHT STAR OF A BRAND NEW DRAMA
Ashes Waif of Sums, Be- comes StartlingIy Real
 Through Her Work.

Ashes" an irresistible little com edy won much success at it's first production on any stage at the Lyric theatre last night by Miss Cecil Spooner and her Stock company. A capacity house which laughed much and applauded often witnessed the performance Maude Eleanor Crane wrote the play which is produced under the direction of T. Daniel Frawley.
 While the theme of the play is a very old one, that of the poor but beautiful maiden and the handsome, wealthy young man, the incidents of it's development are new and inter- esting It is the charming and un- usual character of Ashes" the girl, which makes the play.
 Ashes is a, little wisif who has been found in an ash can and raised by a drunken pair in the s1ums of New York. She is seen by an artist and brought from her intoxicated step-parents by him to be his model In a bidding match in his studio, a lawyer friend whoh as fallen in love with her, wins the girl and takes her to the home of his maiden aunt. His society loving mother inpresses Ashes with the idea that she has hurt her son and makes her promise to go away and neve~ see him again. Several years later he discoverers her in a famous dancer and of course there is the inevitable reconciliation.
 The character of Ashes seems to have been written for Miss Spooner,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-21
Th BOARD
 MUST GIVE AID TO TUBERGULARS
.ComIey Finds That Department Should Cooperate With
 Charities.

M That it comes within the jurisdic- tion of the board of health to help care for tubercular patients is the gist < of letter from City Attorney William H. Conley, IT,. which was displayed by Spencer R. R.gGprdon. superfntendent of charities, yesterday.
 Gordon asked the city attorney for his opinion as a result of a battle between the board of health and Cor tdon last week. This is the way the letter reads, as dated March IT, and signed by Comley;
 ss This is a question under our char ter which is outside the province of the board of charities and must be met by the health board. Just how far they should go is a question which in- wolves not only medical science but ways and means as we'll
 s.In tubercu1ar cases it calls for de- tention and islation, that dangers may be minimized as far as possible. The problem lies outside the board of Charities as defined by charter.
 ssAs I understand the situation from you, (Gordon) the city is confronted with a very grave danger because of the large number of cases of tubercu- lar diseases, in which no adequate provision can be made to safeguard the community from infection.
 sI can offer no other suggestion in ssuch an emergency than that it would be well for the public service if both boards would cooperate, with one board using it's available funds to re- 1ieve the immediate needs of the in dividual, and the other board voting such means as it may have for that purpose to prevent the spread of di- sease through infection
 Gordon then made the following statement concerning the matter of handling tubercular patients:
 < ia inf he ff charities that the problem of equip ping or maintaining an isolation hos pIta1 for such diseases as tuberculosis is entirely outside it's province, but the board is willing to assist the board of health with such funds as may be of health to assume full responsibil- ity and charge of any plans. The board of charities has instructed me to write to the board of apportionment calling attention to the fact that state sanatoriums are overcrowded and that there is no Likelihood of betterment against the policy of the State Tuberculosis commission to pro vide space for patients who will un- doubtedly die.
 There are a number of patients in this city with tuberculosis for whom the board of charities cannot find acconEn odat1on and this letter cites the opinion of the city attorney to the effect that detention and fso- lation of tnbercular cases is a. prob lem foHe etfe board Of health and re- quests the board Of superintendent to transfer all the board of charities de- fciency account, amounting to about $15,000 on all Appropriations, and all balances remaining under various ap- propriationS for '16-'17 (a.bout $3,- 00O,) in .defency and general fund.- from which the board of chari- ties may pay any deficiency bills in- cured and utilize any balance as it deems wise. to assist the board of health in equipping temp orary shel- ter for tubercu1Sr patfents.' =
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-21
ORDINANCE AGAINST THREE>
 DECKEO HOUSES CRIPPLED IN
 SESSION OF COMMON COUNCIL
Building Protective Measure Inute-Nullifes Efforts of Property Holders
 

After voting to insert a fine little joker in the recently revised building code and to extend the White Way from State to Gilbert street in Main street the common council passed a. few routine matters and adjourned last night.
 N For more than 10 years public spirited citizens, property owners and others who have been interested in a better Bridgeport have been endeav- bring to get a building code that would prevent congested conditions and bring about an arrangement that would place Bridgeport fire insurance rates at a figure equal to that of other cities in New England. A code was recently adopted but some property owners have found that under the new code they could mot remodel wooden houses originally built for two families, into houses which would house six families.
 Pressure was brought to bear on the ordinance committee and hence the change. The change in the Ordi- nance permits raising wooden houses and building brick or so-ca1led fire proof construction underneath provid- ed the building is not remode1ed to house more than four families and the lower floors are designed for business purposes only. The amendment to the ordinance calls for brick or fire proof construction'' on the lower floors only. There is another loop hole in the change in the ordinance in that
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-21

On recommendation of the Ordi- nance committee the council adopted an ordinance fixing penalty for tres pass on property owned by a factory where notices are posted, even if this property is not properly fenced. The ordinance is intended to give protec- ton to plants making war munitions
 The report of the lamps committee extending the White Way from State street to Gilbert street in Main street was adopted unanimously.
 Bernard J. Mckelvey and Andrew F. Owens were elected assistant build ing inspectors for three year terms Each is to receive a salary of $1,2OO per year with $24O for car fare. Nc Ke1vey, who has been an assistant, will look after mason work as he has been doing. Owens will inspect plumbing.
 Nobody appeared either for or against the following petitions on which public hearings were held:
 N. Y, N. H. & H. R. k. for discon- tinuance of part of Dewey street for the purpose of extending tracks and freight yard to increase West End fla ciities.
 tinuance of six-foot building line in Jones avenue a distance of 75 feet northwest.
 E. L. Sullivan for the establishment of a grade in Park street from Spring to Huntington road.
 A. Werner and others for esta blish- ment of grade in Hastings street be- tween RockIand and Ccgswen street.
 Establishment of grade on York street, entire length.
 H. L. Blackman & Son for construc-
 T of sewer in Sterling street, the entire length.
 N H. FrankeI for construction of sewer in Lorraine street, the entire length.
 J. B. Bell for construction of sewer in Herl1imer street, entire length.
 Frank Yaps and others for con- struction of sewer in Garfield avenue from Madison avenue westerly 50 feet.
 Remington Arms-U. M. c. Co.,, for construction of sewers in Boston ave- nue, Boston terrace to Bishop avenue to Barnum, and storm sewer in Bos-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-21

for who else could have brought to it such substantial wholesomeness as enabled her in the, first act to sue cessfully thrash the big bully who is
 more than twice her size, or to have been so charmingly innocent, so de- lightfully interesting in the other scenes of the play. "Ashes has heard a fairy tale about a baby princess who was stolen and brought up by poor people and she likes to think that perhaps she may have been a princess. Her funny but pathetic question, Did you ever loose a little baby?'' is put to every woman whom she meets. There are many artistic little touches to the character which make it a most delightful one.
 The part of Shepard, created by Pell Trenton, is naturally less inter esting and less original than that of Ashes but it has many good points. A premature love scene in the studio act deters from the character and would add to the play by being eli minated.
 Marion Me1rose, a small girl who has appeared several times before, with the company, does some splendid acting in the part of little lame Jim mie." Several small boys and s1g2s
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-21

appear in the last act as crippled children. Beulah Monroe has the un- sympathetic part of Shepard's mother; Marquita Dwight, a well known mo tion picture actress, is La Bonita, the Spanish dancer, Edna May Spooner is Lola Benson, a society girl; Elsie Suthern, is Carolyn Townsend, also e. society girl. Mrs. Gilchrist is Shep-. ards aunt, and Rita Villers has the part of an old Irish woman in the first act and of an Irish maid in the third Clarence Doty is the artist, and Frederick Clayton, Edward Da- vidson, Darrel V1nton and J. Lewis Ungerer his friends.