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the Goa st survey work ever since. It's
commander is Capt. c. T. Quillian. a
native of Georgia, who has been con-
nected with the coast survey since
1902. 1t was beside him that I watched
them charting the ocean.
In the coast survey work it is neceS-
sary to ascertain the exact depth and
character of every foot of the channel
over which the ships are to sail. This
is done by dropping heavy pieces of
lead. to which piano wire is attached,
down to the bottom. The wire runs
around reel or drum on board ship,
and 1t is so fine that it moves out like
a thread as the lead sinks quickly to
the bed of the sea. The drum has ma
chfnery connected with the engine, and
the lead can be drawn up and the ex-
act depth automatically registered.
The work goes so fast that from ten
to twenty soundings are taken in an
hour. the lead rising and falling like
clockwork. The boat has to stop for
two minutes when each sounding is
taken. 1 took out my watch and timed
the lead as 1t rose and fell. 1t took
only one minute and half to go from
the boat to the bed of the sea and
pack When it returned it brought
with it gravel and shells, showing the
character of the bottom of the ocean,
500 feet below. The lead is smeared
with grease in order that 1t may catch
the gravel.
The depths of the ocean vary greatly,
and the coast survey ships make many
soundings that are 1000 and upward of
feet in depth. They often explore wa
ters mile deep. and just off the shore
of our Island of Guam they have made
deep-sea soundings as far below the
level of the ocean as Mount Everest Is
high above 1t. All of the soundings
taken have to be corrected for the rise
and fall of the tides. On board the
Macarthur che surveyors used sextants
and took observations to determine
Just where they were and to aid them
in surveying the waters.
Surveying like this has been already
done in the Alaskan waters over a ter
ritorY as big as the state of Missouri
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the ordinary drum major" with his
bearskin hat and ornate baton. as the
band he leads is from the quartet of
itinerant musicians from the father
land which play on American street
corners. Before the war. as n member
of "A volunteer regiment. he did his
drum majoring outside his "office
hours" but when Arma geddon burst
forth he enlisted as a member OF the
regular army. and. with the exception
of "A few months at the beginning. has
been quartered at the tower ever since.
The Artists" whose first and second
battalions have been at the front for
many months. are one of the two
regiments now quartered at the tower.
the other one being the Welsh Guards.
The Artists Rifles, which was one
of the many volunteer regiments raised
when Napoleon was threatening Eng
land with invasion, takes its name
from the fact that it's membership was
at first limited to members of the
artistic professions. Sir John Millais,
Brock. the sculptor. and many other
famous men OF the brush and scalpel
having worn it's uniform in times past.
Standing alongside the two old
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tower. Many were the fighting men
who went out from the tower to tight
in France and Spain and the low coun-
tries" and many were the sieges which
the tower withstood tand to watch. III
some cases, it capitulate), in the long
gone days when crown rested too
securely on the head of it's wearer. But
il is not the purpose of the writer to
rehash well known history, nor to de-
scribe what so many thousands OF
American visitors have seen for them
selves at the Tower of London; rather
to endeavor to picture for you the old
place as seen under the guidance of a
martial friend at the beginning of this
year of world war, 1916.
Rather. one should say, to tell as
much about the tower today as would
have the remotest chance of getting
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the shape of pyramid. and II rises
from the bottom of the channel to
height of 500 feet, or almost fifty feet
above that of the Washington Monu-
ment. 1t comes within seventeen feet
of the surface of the water, and Is sur
rounded by deep water on all Sides The
channel had been charted by the coast
survey, but this rock was not marked
If the lead struck the rock it proba bly,
slipped off into deep water, at the side,
or it may have come in between two
soundings and have been missed alto
gether.
1t is interesting to see how the wire
drag works. The chief boat has a
windlass operated by the engine. About
this windlass is the telephone wire
which is to be let down and stretched
across between the boats far below the
depths at which ships sail. This wire
out according to the width of the chan
mel which is to be tested. The wire
used here is stretched across a channel
up to two miles in width. The hori-
zontal dragging wire is supported by
vertical wires which fall from large
buoys, and it is held at the proper
depths by sinkers and floats. The buoys
are really galvanized iron buckets of
perhaps ten gallons capacity. The
buckets are sealed, and. being full of
air. they float while supporting the
weight of the wire beneath. The floats
are of cedar. They look like the roll
ingpins with which bread is made.
They hang to the wire and aid in keep
ing it at the right level.
1t takes boats of about forty horse
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attack. and a lot of other we'll known
folk, including one or two American
actresses, supposedly guilty of espion-
age.
But it is no fiction that spies to the
number of dozen or more have been
shot at the tower, and it is possible to
give one or two interesting details as
to how such executions are carried out.
They always take place in the early
morning, and the shooting parties, it
appears. invariably are composed OF
men who have been to the front and
been wounded, and who. therefore. may
be expected to have no compunction
against letting daylight through
Hun"
There are always two shooting par
ties in readiness, each numbering
twelve men. and, contrary to what used
to be the invariably rule. every rifle is
loaded. The condemned spy is seated
in q chair, is blindfolded and has his
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look at you blankly if you asked at
the gate for the 'sergeant-drummer' of
the Artists though they would di-
rect you to me quickly enough If you
asked for our drum major"
He vouchsafed. too, the interesting
information that the fife originally
came to England from Germany,
though so far back in the past that
the date has been lost track of. Prior
to that time the music in the British
army had been confined entirely to
that which was obtained from drums
Chen mere wooden shells) and trum
pets. Also, in explaining about the diff
ferent calls" sounded in the British
the word tattoo" as used in connection
with drumming.
I'VE have four principal calls In the
British army" said the sergeant drum
mer. 1.-The reveille, the retreat the tattoo
and the last post The first, Of course.
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ravens. the writer listened while the
band of the Artists" led by its aristo-
cratic drum major, marched up and
down the tower parade ground. few
afternoons ago, and played "Ye Banks
and Rraes of Bonnie Doone." Played
it just as Justify as if there were a
thousand people to hear instead of no
body but us three and the venerable
towers, which have seen so many
strangely contrssted episodes in Eng
lands history.
An acquaintance with imagination
who is a member of the Artists" had
bade the writer come and have a look
at the tower in war time, promising
interesting sights. The Tower of
London in war time: what thoughts
are conjured up by that phrase! How
many war times' has this grim old
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Sergt Drummer G.. EnCuell. to give his
official designation. is one of the many
millions of BritonS who are doing their
bit for their king and country. His
pay as drum major of the band of the
Artists Rifles" is the princely sum of
twelve and tenpence week. about
S3.23 in American money. and in ex-
change for this he has surrendered the
goodly stipend of $4,000 year which
he drew as a highly responsible official
in the railway clearing house. gov
eminent department which deals with
the affairs of all the railway lines of
the country.
Sergt. Drummer Enguell. who is
straight the proverbial ramrod and
aged probably about forty. has led the
band of the Artists" for something like
ten years, and, being anAaccomplished
musician, is about as far removed from
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probably is one of the best authorities
on band music to be found in England.
1t was noticed that throughout he
beat the time for his musicians, and
he was asked If 1t was customary for
British army drum major to be a
musician himself.
The leader of the band of the Art
lists" replied that it is rare in the Brit
ish army for drum major not to be a
skilled musician, though in some few
British regiments this functionary is
still chosen for his inches. Then he
explained that he himself is not
drum major really. and that his must
clans are not band" There aren't
any military drum majors in Great
since 1881. AS for the band since the
Instruments 1t uses consist only of
flies, drums and bugles, 1t is officially
the drums" of the regiment mill
tary band in England being a band"
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ears and nostrils filled with cotton
wool. He is allowed to smoke up to
the next to the last moment, when his
cigarette is taken from his lips, and his
mouth, too, is filled with cotton wool to
prevent him from crying out. Mean
while an ordinary paper target is af-
fixed just over his heart, the firing
party take aim and the command to
fire is given. A soldier who had seen
one of these targets after it had been
used told me that it contained only
one large hole, straight through the
center. Death must be practically in
Simultaneous.
From this not too cheerful subject,
however, let US return to the band.
At the close of its afternoon perform
ance the writer had a chat with the
ten thousand dollar drum major, who
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stronghold seen since the first of its
many qualifications was built by the
Thames by order of William the Con-
queror? Legend says that one of
Caesars camps had occupied the very
spot. but the Conqueror's time is FAR
enough back to start with.
Here the kings and queens of Eng
land lived in regal state, sometimes,
as in the case of Lady Jane Grey. to
come to the tower in splendor one day,
and. less than a fortnight later to
be brought back there again as a
doomed prisoner, guarded by soldiers
armed to the teeth, and brought in
through the traitors gate. up the Shiny
steps that lead down to the water
edge. and lodged I'm the Beauchamp or
the Bloody" Tower to await trial, fol-
lowed by the executioner and the block.
Here the enemies of the realm" suf-
fered the rack and the thumbscrew, and
frequently starved to death In the grim
dungeons in>the bowels Of the white
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only when it consists of brass instru-
ments. 1t was, accordingly, not play
ing it was drumming least,
technically.
AS for the erstwhile drum major"
of King Georges forces, he is now
officially the Sergeant drummer" The
change in title. it appears. is all the
result of bit of jealousy. Every
British regiment the sergeant-drum-
mer explained, has, of course, SER
geant ma jor, who is the real boss of
the men, with more real authority than
the colonel himself, and there wasn't
room in the messroom, it proved. for
two ma jors.' Accordingly. in 1881 all
the military drum majors became ser
geant-drummerS.' but this new title
has never really been adopted. Nine
out of ten men here, I expect, would
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in our neXt'-when the war
is over,
Goodness knows how many illustrious
folk have been imprisoned at the tower,
if not actually shot there. by popular
rumor 1t would be hard, even now, to
convince some folk that Prince Louis
of Battenberg, who, when the war
started. was first sea lord, is not a state
prisoner there, and others, who have
reputedly h.aen undergoing confinement
within the towers walls include the
Duke of Connaught. Grahame- White,
the British aviator (who was obliged
to deny publicly that he had been
killed while leading the last Zeppelin
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more safe in order that the territory
may be opened to traffic.
Have YOU any idea of the extent of
the Alaska coast line? The shores Of
the territory are washed by three great
oceans. These are the Arctic ocean on
the north. Boring on the west and
the Pacific on the south. The Aleutian
Islands, off the Alaska Peninsula, are
separated from each other and the
mainland by a network of rocky
straits, and much of southwestern and
southeastern Alaska is made up of
mountainous islands that have rocks of
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g could imagine takes place in
London. The scene of it is the
rather bleak parade ground of the Tower
OF London, and the band is that of the
territorial regiment known as the art
lists Rifles" A fine band it is, too, every
one of its twenty-six musicians being
a real artist. and the concerts it gives
daily are well worth hearing, If only
there were anybody 10 listen to them.
But there isn't. Nobody. that is. ex-
cept two ancient and decrepit ravens.
of evil aspect. which are believed to be
well over 100 years old. Every day.
rain or shine. the band plays there in
the square. between the ancient White
Tower. with its grim history, and the
more modern Waterloo barracks-an
uuheard. save for some soldier or mem
her or the tower staff who may be
crossing the square, or possibly some
stray visitor from America or the
colonies, who. with special permit
'difhcult to obtain now that the tower
IS once more a military garrison), is
Cot7g over the ancient fortress, palace
and prison. These are the only au-
dttors, except occasionally, the melo-
d'ous strains reach distant cells, where
there are Imprisoned spies. who have
sentenced 10 death
Or there may be a stray cat to keep
the ravens company. Feeble as these
two ancient birds are (they can no
longer fly UP to the giided crown on
top of the white Tower, where they
used TO build their nest). there must
he music in their old souls yet. for no
sooner does the band strike up than
they both begin to dance in time and
Keep IT up until the concert is over
or until their venerable legs will stand
the strain no longer. when they sink
down with despairing croak. 1t is a
quaint and amusing sight.
There used to be three of these ra-
vens. which. on account of their great
age. are one OF the sights of the tower.
bus quite recently one OF them. for rea-
sons known only to himself. succeeded
IN worminG his way into the muzZle
OF one Of the ancient guns that are ex-
hibited by the side of the White Tower
and. not. being able TO get out again.
died a melancholy and humiliating
death therein. And then there were
two. OF course. the great age of these
particular birds may be fable. al
though their species is noted for it's
beefeaters will point out Harrison
-ainsworth. in his famous novel, The
Tower OF London which was writ
ten seventy-five years ago. explicitly
mentioned that there were three ra-
yens there. and il is practically certain
that these ancient music lovers are the
same ones. Obviously evil spirits, they
mostly hang around the old place OF
execution, where so many folk OF high
and iowly station lost their heads, and
they are officially fed on Jumps of meat
twice a day. Unofiicially, they feed
themselves whenever tffe opportunity
occurs by pouncinS on one of the
numerous tower pigeons and straight
way devourinR il.
We are getting away. however. from
sc band ~ the tower which possesses.
among its claims to special notice,
4 drum major who is probably the
most remarkable one in the world.
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copyrighted 1916. by Frank C.. Carpenter
KETCHIKAN
q ROSE at O'Clock this morning to
go out with one of the wire drag
crews that are exploring the main
q channels of southern Alaska for pin
nacle rocks Our boat was the steamer
Equator. the tiny craft upon which Robert
Louis Stevenson made his tour through
the South Sea Islands. and We had
second vessel. little tug called the
Roosevelt. to carry the other end of tire
wire IL takes two boats to operate the
wire drag They move along on each
side of the channel and carry with them.
far down under the water. so far that
the deepest ship that sails the course
could not he caught by it. Il taut strand
of telephone wire. This wire sweeps the
channel 1t is so balanced by weights
and buoys that it moves through the
water as the boats go onward until 1t
catches some rock that reaches above the
depth for which it is gagged. The depth
we used today about fifty feet, and
our boats steamed slowly along without
striking pinnacle.
But before | describe the wonderful
workings of our coast survey ships let
me give ycu some idea of the seas of
Alaska which our Department of Com
merce is trying to make safe for the
hundreds OF ships that go north and
south every season. These waters are
sometimes called the graveyard of the
Pacific. They are among the most
dangerous parts of the ocean. Within
the past sixty years three hundred ves-
SeIs have gone down upon their rocks,
and cargoes and lives are lost every sea-
son. have before me Il list of fifty ves-
se.s. ranging in value up to 100000,
which have been sunk since we took pos
session of the territory. and there are
many others that have suffered great
damage. but have still gone on their way.
The California which was lost in 1913,
carried down with her thirty-one men
and cargo of 100000.
The Tahoma. revenue cutter lost in
1871, was worth quarter of million
dollars. and within recent years the
losses in property alone are estimated
at more than $4,000. 900. The loss in
lives has been more than five hundred,
all told.
Nevertheless, the travellers increase in
number every season. Last year they
were about 10000 and they will soon
be doubled and trebled. The cargoes
are worth more from year to year.
There are ships now going by Ketch-
kan that have each more than half
million dollahs' worth of copper ore on
board. and single cargoes worth a mil
lion dollars are brought down every
season. When the new government
railroad from Seward to Fairbanks is
completed there viii be a caravan of
tourists moving back and forth from
Alaska. and the seas must be made
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LONDON. Januar

LONDON. January s. 1916.
| VERY morning, and on two aft
crnoons IN the week, the oldest
, kind of band concert that one
could imagine takes place in
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Continued in our next"-when the wa
is over,
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