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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-24

sayer in it's gay life. Never Rave there
been more amusements progress; never
has the weather been more to our lili-
ing. and never have there beer more ma
tives and visitors hanging around en-
joying the whole situation, including, ir
many cases, even the so-caled troubles
which bcset us.
II there is playhouse that is dark in
Manhattan tonight. it is simply because
it is getting ready to open with new
production tomorrow night and already
the list of plays is so long, and 50 In
tercsting. that the people are discussing
them animatedly, even over the very
heads of tho marvellous movies" that
confront us upon every block.
The cabaret and white light restaurants
and hotels are all doing a business that
will never pauperize their owners on
earth, and recently it has seemed to me
that the bright lights along Broadway
have grown so numerous that it would
be difficult to find space for the install
lation of any more of them.
A brief walk through Times Square
any OF these fine evenings would convince
any sane and sober person that New
York. though she may be having her
troubles, too, is unquestionably at play
after nlghtfall, as always, and If these
troubles do weigh upon Father Knick-
erbocker's mind in the day time. they
are certainly forgotten when the white
lights of Broadway are flashed on.
Terrible riot said the newspaperS
when a bunch of striking car men at;
tackled motorman or SO down around
street the other evening.
But what was 1t in reality? The theatre
crowds were just pouring out of the
brightly lighted playhouses into the even
brighter illumination along Alba Via.
they beheld disturbance in progress,
and almost without exception they poured
toward It; 1t represented little further
diversion before going in for their after
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flows into the Tanana and stonned at
tho ,,os+off;oo ,,.;.,, =. -
oA - WIZ oas0 -
'iuo sdiFahiAeo IRON store oulldlng De-
longing to the Northern Commercial COM
pany. We were now in town of sew
eral hundred inhabitants The bouses
owe X,,o.+,., -,
ios Saoi'' anu 'nie 1>iiei
ieah liaes' lioatins from nlgn pores
above them, showed the patriotism of the
inhabitants Not far from the postoffice
was tho ruins of bo+e, which was n
A'ee o summer ie'oit uii'i ~ was
burned short time ago. The hotel had
great bathing and swimming tanks and
its ruins show that if was of consider
.b,. av+Ar+ IA u,o. MINI of ,o.s .rd
~
COSY |. IS saio' more thah sfoOo,. louas
.nere Is oi'iy one palhihs taik lel.. ms
Is covered ny caoiii. anu the water IN
sue - proush. ,nrousn an IRON pipe lro ,,l
Tue springs whicn low Que Oh ,he hi,ss
apout q naiI Allie away. testeu ,the
IAN win d eiioi iiioiiioeo, anu A. "os Juo.
liz ueslees fahrehheie. IL was not
enough 70 paint MY shih scarie' "heii
neaNins .he runs, waineo w. Wy
ms ~ Visi' ~. me splihes, passs ,r5'
iarHl oi ooV acres on me way. iHe
loao - tnrousii On oats lieiu' Will, i@S
now perhaps oV acres reauy ior ou,uns'
III Inc center Vi .nis ieiu 10 "a.
ho.nouse tnat was erected 10 supply .ue
no'ei anu .ne niiles WIN Iuooiil ~ o. "
nhatoes anu other Vesesapies. me no,-
mouse IS 10" grass Duisoi , L ~, y
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M0Ew York. September 2a-(spe-
I'M cla)-Manhattan cannot be cor
rectly gauged except by those
Eho live In Manhattan. doubt If its real
self is known at all south of Ocean
Parkway, Brooklyn. Newspapers. If
the name means anything, are pub
lished for the purpose of giving the news
10 the people, yet nothing could give the
Inhabitants of other sections of the coun-
try more incorrect idea of what is
going on here at this time, than our
rwn big metropolitan dailies with their
Elaring headlines, featuring every disas-
ter. magnifyin to the limit Of part truth,
our troubles, cur ailments, our inconye-
nicnces and our tragedies yet giving to
pur many joys. anusementS and pas
lines only such coldly critical mention
Is caustic reviewer, weary sport
writer. or bored society editor may
ieem necessary.
Perhaps 1t is our own fault. The pub
ic still loves the sensational in it's news
papers; it will '.eat up" a narrowing
murder story and pass up" an ar
icle on happiness, though. the latter is
always about 10 times as brief. Only
his week a we'll known New York critic
wrote of a new play which deals in hap
2iness to such an extent that it has
Deen called THE Glad Play."-'too much
optimism ferments--it is too cloying.''
Only a few of the men who write the
reviews Of plays here. dare to enthuse
Wer anything. Though they know it not.
hey are themselves playing a role. and
+ is not the role of an enthusiasts or
in optimist. i3,
However the idea underlying this pre-
lmble is this: In spite of the fact that
Ileports are going throughout the coun-
~ to the effect that New York is al
most in a state OF siege. panic or what
high prices, etc.. it is quite true that
wonderful old Manhattan was never
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This has fought me a lesson. | shall attend
anuher meeting of artists and geniuses unless am
sure the akoosticks air alrte. If necessary will
send plummer round myself and have them In
spected Tho idear of going to a lot Of expense for
swell affair and have it all shot to peeses just be-
cawse the akoosticks air not working.
Also excuse me frum folks who have temperaments
guess its arite amung artists, but If had a cat
with temperament, If it couldn't be amputated 1
would ruff rats | knew Teller onse who
possessed to marked degree. temperament He was
temperan- entail that his wife had to snrve his
breawfast in bed for him. and keep the reguler
boarders waiting while she did Also he couldn't
stand work Employment of emmy kind ruffed him
he entirely out of tune with himself and the
world.
He had that poor little he was tied to
fooled to fareyou-well. She thought he was reel
1S-karre y lius, and / guess he was. But 1t must
have beel at hypnotism, and she the goat. I
had rathltr have stock in defunct gold mine Gov
eered up with watur and unpaid assessments than
all the temperament you could pack in a furniture
car, believe me.
Yours trooly,
BILL VINES.
Washington, D. C.
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theatre suppers. and some of them be-
cams so enthused over the little riotlet
that they took part in it, ard afterward
they discussed 1t as the real feature of
the evening.
Later the subway, the 81" and even
many OF the surface lines took them to
their homes-that is, those OF them who
did not have cars Of their own, or prefer
to takes chances with our taxi-bandits
These things also give New York some-
thing to talk about a littc We see so
many wonders here that really we are at
a loss for a subject for conversation,
unless we chance TO be of those who are
in love, either with a sweetheart, our
own wife. or the wife Of some other, and.
Of course, the sex may be changed to
suit your convenience, in the foregoing
statement.
High prices appear to worry some of
us a whole lot. yet we bring that little
trouble upon ourselves In most cases.
For instance, If lot of us would only
consent to live in Brooklyn. or the
Bronx, or commute from Yonkers, or
some Jersey township, prices here would
begin dropping in order to bring us
back again. But no--most of us would
much prefer paying SIS for Ave little by
4 rooms in Manhattan to living in 10.
or 12-room detached house in any of the
places named.
All Of which brings us back to the fact
that Manhattan is gay. not sad or trou-
bled; 1t Is always gay, and was never
gayer than 1t is now, and If this has
even the semblance of truth, how gay
will 1t be when the season is on in full
swing? This will not occur until after
the November opening of the Metropoii-
tan opera house, but in the meantime
we are getting along very nicely even
without Geraldine and Enrico.
AS this Is decidedly popular visiting
time; q tirac when many OF you come up
here for amusement. perhaps you would
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HOT SPRINGS OF ALASKA

planted farther away. When the hotel
was running five acres were devoted TO
vegetables, chiefly turnips lettuce cab
bage and carrots, and 80 were planted
in potatoes, the yield being seven or eight
tons to the acre.
A little beyond the big chicken coop
l stopped at the foot of a hill where
the springs are. The warm water flows
out at the rate of $50 gallons to the
minute. 1t is as clear as crystal, but
it is steaming and that at temperature
of 125 degrees Fahrenheit / watched
Mr.. Warning. the hot springs expert, as
flow. He says it is hot enough to sole
boil eggs in 10 minutes
Walking down the stream 30 or 40 feet,
l found another brook flowing into it,
and supposed this would be of about the
same temperature as the one We had
tested. 1 put in my hand. The water
was icy cold. The junction of the two
streams was such that l was able to
stand on the fork and put one hand in
the hot water and the other in the cold
While doing so l had a photograph made
In stepping back to pose properly, l in
advertently put my foot up to the ankle
in the hot creek. l jerked it out quickly,
for l thought l was burned.
During my stay in Alaska have met
G. D. Schofeld of Seattle, the owner of
some of the largest springs on the Sew
ard peninsula. These are more wonder
full than the springs here They are sit
uated about 70 miles north of Nome. at
the foot of the Saw-Tooth mountains just
about 50 feet above sea level. There are
number of them which boil out Of the
ground at a temperature of 100 degrees
Fahrenheit, maintaining the same heat
winter and summer. The springs form
a stream called Hot creek that runs
through a farm of 500 acres and the heat
so affects the temperature of the land
that a great part of it Is cultivated. In
my talk with Mr., Schofield l asked him
as to his farm at the springs. He re-
piled:
1--WE have 40 acres under cultivation,
and 60 more that could be put into
crops. The whole of this hundred acres
is kept warm by the springs and the
hot water under the ground. If you dig
down anywhere inside this tract you will
find hot earth, and the lower you go the
hotter it gets. At depth of six feet
you cannot hold the earth in your hands.
There seems to be a strata of hot water
under the whole hundred acres. On the
other hand the land outside that area
is rfozen solid to depth the extent of
which no one knows. 1t is a vat of hot
water or rather hot eaMh in a basin
of ice" o ,s -
What do you grown"
1--WE raise potatoes, ruta bagas, beets,
carrots. turnips, satisfy and the finest
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out town with the idea that it may
be a resort. They have surveyed the land
about the springs and are putting in cot
tages and boardwalks over the muskeg.
The springs belong to the forest reserve.
There are nine of them flowing out of
the side of a>hill almost on the edge of
the sea- The water is now piped into
wooden lighthouses in which there are
bathtubs of wood. In the same region
there are other springs not far from
Fish bay which may also be developed
A little north of Cape Edward. on the
ocean side of Chicago are the Hoona
warm springs, which are right on the
sea, only 10 or Is feet from high tide;
and there are other springs on the islands
close to the ocean. l do not know that
YOU can catch fish in the ocean and by
giving twist of your line drop them
In the the springs to be cooked; but the
springs 81 ,s,s an SO close to the water that
are fish everywhere about the warm
springs of the islands, and fine crabs and
CLAIMS where the fresh waters flow into
Tehakee inlet. About all of these springs
are deer and other wild game, including
bear, black and brown! which one is not
prohibited from killing
Coming north to the Yukon, there are
springs here and there scattered along
it, There is one about IS miles west of
Circle, where the prospectors and miners
sometimes go, and there are hot springs
on the Cinema river, 65 miles out from
Fairbanks. There are hot springs on the
Seward peninsula, not far from Nome,
and there are other hot springs that have
been reported but have not yet been
investigated by the biologists.
The Baker Hot Springs lie on the
Tanana river about IL hours by steamer
from where it flows into the Yukon.
They are on the winter trail from Fair
banks to Tanana, and are just about 100
miles across country from the northern
terminus of the railway Uncle Sam is
now building. They lie about three miles
from the banks of the Tanana river, and
upon landing / was able to get hay
wagon to carry me across to the town
near the springs There is fairly good
corduroy road covered with sawdust and
muck that crosses the lowlands and goes
up to the springs This land is now COW
cred with grass as high as my knee. with
patches of bushes running here and there
through it. Some of the grass is in tas-
sci, and the land is sprinkled with wild
flowers, white, yellow and red, whose
names i know not There are Nova
Scotia apples growing on some of the
bushes, and, as we came to the hills, we
saw raspberries growing wild
Nearing the town we drove over a cor
duroy bridge, crossing a creek that
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A Cripple Who Made Good

From Worlds Work.
An interesting case that came before
the federal employment agency of the
United States. was that OF cripple who
applied at the New York Office for a
position as barn man on a dairy farm.
The governments labor agent sent him
to a dairy farmer who had applied for
help. When the cripple arrived at the
dairy farm, the farmer, greatly incensed
at the mans infirmity, refused to let
him go to work, and Immediately COM
municated to the agent his indignation at
being supplied with "a poor excuse for
man." The agent insisted that the
farmer give the cripple chance to show
his ability. Also, he made the PROPOSE
ton that instead of the SIS a month
Iamed as wages in the former agreement.
the cripple should be allowed to work
at the rate of a dollar a COW per month.
he to milk all the cows he could handle.
The farmer took the agent up on this
offer, with the result that the cripple
has been getting $50 a month for his
work.
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few years ago who spent a month UP
here and then came back and mentioned
the names of 60 plays he had attended.
1t is easy to see that old Broadway
is gay enough, isn't it? All the plays
mentioned are doing good business, and
all have possibilities of long runs. The
strikefand other troubles, of which you
read more in the papers. have not put
quietus on Gotham's gaiety, and prob
ably never will. 1t is true that the Shu-
berts offered free transportation to those
holding tickets for several preniers, but
the premier. in each case. was well at
tended, and the free transportation We
hicles were not overworked either
No, the only thing that threw scare
into Manhattan was infantile paralysis
and though that Is not altogether con-
quered, New York has proved itself cold
blooded enough to become hardened and
thoroughly accustomed to It, and Broad
way is as merry as ever as l believe it
would be If the world war came as close
as the Jersey bank of the Hudson river
Thomas H. Ince, the famous moving
picture genius, has now discovered a
supernatural organ. and has installed it
at the Park theatre, where his great
spectacle CIVILIZATION has been show
Ing daily and nightly since last June
The new instrument is called a choral
cello, and really seems to have tones be-
fore unobtained except by human or
animal voices The organ cost $4,000,
and is creating lot Of Gotham COM
ment.
die Walkuere" was sung in the open
air recently in the stadium of City col
lege. Met fellow who was on strike
going in that direction. and heard him
ask someone else about it. When told
that it was to be the first part of
Nibelung's drama proper. he said dis
sustedlv. "Oh. hell l thought 1t was
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BY FRANK G. CARPENTER

Copyrighted, 1916, by Frank G. Car
penter)
Baker Hot Springs, Tanana River.
+ II OF springs in Alaska? Boiling
IDl water bubbling out of the
beds of glaciers Steam rising
from the earth on the edge of
rehistoric ice several hundred
) eet deep Scalding baths in nat
Iral water almost on the edge of the
forth pole! These are some of the
wonders of our great territory whose
Z md Rerin-s sea
| have heard of hot springs ever
dnce I came to Alaska. They are to
re found from he islands at the south
astern part Of the territory to the
'ery shores of the Arctic. Fifty miles
North Of Ketchillan, the first port at
which the steamers stop, are the Belle
sland hot springs, where the water is
81 degrees Fahrenheit, or hot enough
o cook eggs. A little farther north are
he, Sitka hot springs, which are 1856
legrees above zero, and, on Chicha-
,off Island, between Sitka and Juneau
ire the Tenakee hot springs, where the
postmaster is building cottages and
rylngs to make the place summer and
Tinter resort. The Tenakee springs are
natural forest, and the forestry
ervice is putting in boardwalks and
uher improvements.
The Sitka hot springs are 16 miles
puth of Sitka. They are now building
! hotel there and a score or so or
cottages have been already erected
The water contains sulphur and is good
or drinking and bathing. 1t is espe-
tally fitted to cure rheumatism and
Till, it is said, drive alcohol out OF
ne system and give one distaste for
rink. The Belle Island hot springs also
re winter resort.
AS I travelled north through the is
hnds of southeastern Alaska 1 met
lr. j. F. Waring, one of the geological
prvey experts. who has come north
his summer to investigate some Of
he hot springs of the territory. He
hs already visited many and is now
esting these here on the Tanana river.
.Ee have together explored the Baker
ot springs Of which write at leangth
nrter on.
Mr.. Wartng tells me that the geo.
bgical survey has discovered many hot
brings In different parts of Alaska
Fhers is one northwest of Belle Island,
nown as the: Bailey hot springs. The
later there is close to boiling, and one
the springs is an incipient geyser,
Eh:ch spurts to q height of so inches
r more Its temperature Is 1871 degrees
fahrenheit On the east side of Baranof
sbland is Warm Springs bay, where the
'pvernment is now considering laying
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his ticket, but l doubt if he sat through
it all.
Notice that New York is rapidly reach
ing the conclusion that the man who fails
has himself alone to blame for it. II the
feeling grows We'll probably have no
bread lines here this winter, and those
bread lines have always given fellow
such comfortable feelng-as if he had
something certain to fall back on, you
know.
Gotham can justly claim a lot over
other cities, but there's one thing she
cant claim, and that is beautiful scenery
in the subway-that is unless you keep
your eyes on the scenery worn by the
passengers.
There's church at one end Of Wall
street anc cold deep river at the other.
and the distance between the two ends
is but few blocks--draw your own con-
illusions.
And now 1 have to go out and buy my
new overcoat.
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The Minimum
the Washington Star

From the Washington Star.
There are two sides to every argu-
ment
Two sides represent the minimum.
Some arguments sound as IL there were
as many sides there are speakers"
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Ruined the Ruin

Ruined the KUN
From the Boston Transcript
An English nobleman was about to
set out for India, and fearing that In
his absence vandals might destroy a
Picturesque ruin on his estate, he said
TO his steward: Il want you to build
a wall here"--he drew tiny furrow
with his stick around the ruin--"a
stone wall five feet high"
On his return home the nobleman
started for the spot. When he reached
it he rubbed his eyes in amazement
There was the new stone wall, but he
could see nothing towering up inside
of it, lie turned excitedly to his stew
ard.
Look here, where's the ruin, man ?"
Tho ruin, my lord?" replied. the
steward "Oh. that ould thing. Sure
1 used it to build the wall with"
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out on the grocery scales. The latter
price was received for 1000 pounds only.
I got it at Gold Run. where 1 peddled
the hay out to packers and the men who
had saddle horses"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-04-07

'But my clothes! What will the
girls Think" demurred Hazel
Clothes. You will wear sackcloth
and ashes for the next six months,
believe me, you wicked sinner"
And then the machine and it's oc-
cupants flashed down the beach, and
Dudley Warner had to rub his head
and blink his eyes to convince him
self that it was not all a dream, so
quickly had it all happened, so
strange the happening.
A youth in an outing suit came
strolling down a bluff path. He
grinned at Warner and looked ex-
cited.
81 was too late" he observed. 81
saw you tumble, but that sprite was
ahead of me-"
''Who is she?" asked Warner.
Miss Hazel Grey"
And the lady in the automObiIe?"
81 fancy an aunt, an old maid rela-
tive who has adopted Hazel l only
guess that from what pick up. You
see, Hazel and eleven of her friends
are putting in a weeks vacation over
on Rainbow island. Us fellows have
tried to scare them night, lowering
around as sheeted ghosts and with
hollow, awesome cries, but you can't
faze Hazel She has stuck it out ::
Her aunt lives about so miles from
here. She must have heard of Ha-
zeTs last exploit and it scandalized
her so she has marched her home in
a jiffy."
"And where does this ogre of an
aunt HVe?" asked Warner thought
fully.
cat Wadham. She's a distressing
ly over-particular person, I hear, and
likes no fun or frolic, and all that.
Poor Hazel, she's the life of the place. |
Him." said Warner refectively.
Stirred up more than he could ever
Iroor,oH oyyaTs IS
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quilted neck deep in the adventure of
his life. He saw the mOUrnful group
of girls on the island tearfully aban-
don their camp, bereft of the soul Of
their enterprise, their doughty leader.
Then Warner went to Wadham and
hung around"
Yes, sentence had been passed on
the pretty sinner, and Hazel was in
deed among sackcloth and ashes.
The residence of Aunt Mary well ac-
corded with her stern and severe
bearing. The old house was prim
and uninviting, the grounds sur
rounded by a high brick wall. Only
twice in two days, Warner observed,
was Hazel allowed to walk in the gar
den. He located her room. She
slept with the window open. There
after for a week, getting up at day
light, Warner, secured the daintiest,
rarest bouquet money could buy,
scaled the wall and when Hazel
awoke the lovely floral offering lay
on the floor. Then a note was en-
closed in a cluster of lilies of the val
ley and Hazel knew the identity Of
her ardent knight Grant.
Love laughs at lOcksmiths, brick
walls and IynX-eyed Jailers. NowDud-.
ley Warner was making of the grand
passion a business, systematic and
progressive. It was a delightful two
weeks. Four ecstatic secret inter
views in a sequestered part of the
garden brought two harmonious
souls together, and again Hazel
saved" Warmers life by not sending
him away hopeless, he declared!
Dudley Warner was a VenturesOme
young man and Hazel a confiding and
determined girl There was a hurried
ladder climb over the garden wall one
dark evening, an hours swift dash in
an automobile, a return, kisses and
promises and the next morning War
ner appeared before the dreaded Miss
Maria.
L L