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land bordering the two principal creeks
There is no doubt that the early citi-
zens strove hard to build the canal un-
der the first authorization from Con-
gress, and in the National Intelligencer
of Monday, September S. 1903, the RAM
bier found this:
The citizens and well-wishers of Washington
will be pleased to learn that Mr.. Law. now in
England. is engaged with great prospect Of
canal contemplated to unite the Potomac and
the Eastern branch. In 4 letter dated May 80
he says:
'.I am striving to raise $50, 900 for the canal
which am confident I shall obtain. did not
like to request subscriptions upon my own ipse
disinterested persons and supported thereby I
can easily raise the money"
In subsequent letter he states that the
prospect of success brightens and. that number
Of monted men are fully impressed with the GER
tainty of ample remuneration for the investiture
Of their money.
In the National Intelligencer of Fri
day, June Is, 1904, there appeared this:
In pursuance to an act Of Congress passed the
1st day Of May. 1902. entitled IAN act to abol-
Warrington, and for other purposes" We. the
undersigned. have opened a book at Rhodes's
Tavern. Pennsylvania avenue. for receiving sub
scriptions for opening the canal to communicate
from the Potomac river to the Eastern branch.
The report and plans Of Mr.. LAtrobe on the
subject are deposited at Mr.. Rhodes's for the In
spection Of those inclined to promote this useful
and beneficial work.
The undersigned" were Thomas Tin
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plan Of the city of Washington.
erect such locks and perform such other
works as they shall Judge necessary
for opening the canal Aforesaid. and the
forks thereof" One important provision
of the charter was this:
That If the nett profits shall in one year ex-
coed Is per cent on the sum actually expended
by the said company in opening the said canal
and completing the same the Is per centnm Of
the nett profits only shall be divided among the
stockholders and the excess shall be paid to the
mayor and city council OF the City Of Washing
ton for the use of said city.
Wharfage rates and tolls were fixed
by Congress with careful regard to
should pay Is cents. a barrel Of -four
2 cents. barrel of beef or pork, cents;
barrel of whiskey or brandy. 8 cents:
hogshead or pipe. cents, "and upon
all packages. articles and commodities.
one-sixth part of the amount Of tolls
allowed by law to be received by the
Potomac Company at the Great Falls
of the Potomac" The canal company
was to have the exclusive right "to
establish packet boat or boats upon
the canal for carrying passengers and
no other packet boat or boats. but such
as are established or permitted by them
shall be allowed to carry passengers
through the same for hire"
Even after this legislation and prep
aration the canal did not come into ex-
came upon the following in the Intelli-
gencer Of Tuesday, July 30, 1911:
Notice.-The subscribers for the stock Of the
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they make that state the great iron state
Of the Union. The available reserves are
over 1000. 900, 900 tons and the royalties
which WIN get from 1sem are
large part of its revenues from its
taxes on iron. 1t is shipping about
two-thirds of all the ore used In
Me-abi mountain range. where 1 am writ
ing. The remainder Is from the YER
million and the Cayuna ranges, at the
north and south. .'-.+ -,-
~
And now let US look at these mighty
deposits Of iron which lie here in the
Mesabi mountains They are on the
very apex of North America. on the
height of land half way between the
and on the roof of the continent east
of the Rockies. Here at Hibbing is the
parting Of the waters. OF the rain
that falls on the mountains, some flows
into Hudson Bay. some goes into the
Mississippi river and the Mexican gulf.
and some rushes down into Lake Su-
perior and out to the Atlantic over
Niagara Falls Hibbing Is 1000 feet
feet above the level of the ocean.
1t is In the top. Of these mountains
that the forces OF nature have created
what might be called river of iron.
southwest. 1t is about 120 miles long
and from a quarter Of d mile to three
miles in width. It narrows and widens.
In some places 1t rises to the surface
of the ground and in some 1t is 400
feet below. The deposit is not con-
tinuous nor OF an even thickness, but
altogether 1t contains hundreds Of mil
lions of tons. ft
The ore lies in great pockets which
might be compared to the golden crown
Of a decayed tooth with Jagged points
running down below and filing the
roots. A single crown may be several
hundred feet thick. 1t may cover 100
amount Of tens of millions of tons.
The Hall-Hurst mine. with the
Mahoning mine. which is really q part
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and vegetables. prepared for drying.
according to instructions. and pay 3
cents tray for the work. Those who
cannot afford this small sum have-H
done for cents. the Rotary Club o$
Lincoln making up the difference.
Every form of vegetable and fruit
finds its way to this community drfeE
/ saw tomatoes. orn. spinach. cault-
flower. beans. apples and many other
things brought in. 7 even saw for.
greens she had picked in the fields and
wished to save for her winter table"
r +
In Kansas. Mrs Wood explained. tie
women have made a great campaign I'D
registration and food conservation.
They held series of registration meet.
fngs in six of the largest cities. each of
them preceded by a ''manless parade"
In these professions. which found their
origin in Topeka. the bands were COM
posed of boy and girl players, Red
Cross women and girls wore the coy.
tunes of their order and the campfEe
Girls walked in uniform Posters sug-
geSted the object of the parade. "Sat6
the wheat" was 4 popular expression.
and one of the most original read,
Don't stuff your husband. but husbanu
Your stuff" Floats which demonstrate
plays of canned and preserved products.
A somewhat dramatic incident which
took place in Lincoln, mentioned by
Mrs. Wood. was one in which the chief
Justice of the supreme court Of Me- (
braska administered the oath of als
legiance to the state chairman and -
siNty-eight of the ninety-three county
chairmen of the womans committee az
the Nebraska Council of National DaS
Tense
Iowa is another of the states of he
middle west whose women have doaA
good work for the war. Mrs Wood
dwelt on great meeting of the women
which was held in the beautiful neJs
woman's building at the Des Moines
state. fair. which registers as many az
Ie.0oo visitors on some of its principal
days. There was one memorable
meeting in that beautiful building bs:
fore the women of the council" she
said. Octave Thanet. the authoress,
made splendid talk She has been
the leader in patriotic edu.
cation for the state. and none better
could have been chosen.
What / found most needful in my
tour of the middle west was full I'm
formation as to the meaning of the
war. The women have given their sons
loyalty because they have been asked
and the west gives literally and 9fs
ways of its best. But the bulk of tho.
people are quite uninformed as to the
esi issues ioF WhIch thlS country -
1 met one woman who had
sent four of her sons to war. but not
until I explained to her all that this
great conflict implies did she under
stand the full reason for their having
been taken. a
I'VE feel grateful for the splendid
club work that exists. making it possf-
Die to call on women everywhere for
that team work which alone makes
and cooperative effort
possible. We feel very keenly tHe
necessity Of all club programs being
focused directly on the great issues e
The day. This is not the time for the
study of Greek culture or BabyIoniiA
art. Every effort of every member OF
very organization should be expended
IN one subject, and that Is the wih- :
hing of the war" -
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He Must Drink Fair.

SsN ERMANYS mouth for conquestS
vi and annexations is as big as evef
it was" said an actor at q: luncheoH
in Los Angeles. Germany is like the
second heavy.
"A second heavy had a very, very
large mouth. One evening the com.
pany gave a party. and on toward the
small hours the refreshments began to
run out. It was long time between
drinks. Finally. though. a fresh pint
of whisky was brought In. sw
'What'n you haveT the chairman
asked the second heavy. u,
IA mouthful. of whisky said he W
No. you won't, son. said the CHAIR
man. You'll have just the same aa
the rest of u.s." =,
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Washington Canal Company are notified that the
ninth and tenth installments Of ten dollars each
on each share 10 called for. the 9th payable on
the 3rd and the 10th on the oath Of September
next to the Bank Of Washington to Samuel Eliot.
Jun. Treasurer. By order of the Board Of
Some of the history of the canal is to
be obtained by reading controversy
which broke into the print of the In
telligencer in 1877 and which shows
that the canal was a going concern
then and that it had been opened to
navigation with some little ceremony
in 1915. The discussion begins with
letter, signed &C" and addressed to
Messrs. Gales and Seaton, editors of the
Intelligencer. The writer asks permis-
sion "to call the attention Of the cfti-
zens to a subject in which all are inter-
ested. I allude." he says. ito the rate
of wharfage on wood recently estab-
lished by the. Washington Canal Com
pany. the exorbitant and illegal amount
of which raises the price of wood on the
citizens and is rapidly driving the
woodmen from the wharves." He says
that the legal rate of wharfage is 10
cents a cord, while the canal company
is charging II. The writer indignantly
says. Il am determined to let the sub
ject have a legal investigation by refus-
ing to pay my wharfage, II the agent
dare prosecute me-"
This drew from a writer signing him.
self .tStockholder" a letter which fills
more than a column of the fine type Of
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~ NE of the busiest and least known
III " women at the headquarters Of
" " the woman's committee OF the
~ Council Of National Defense is
the executive secretary Of that COM
mittee Mrs Ira Couch Wood Of Chicago.
OF the work at headquarters or Of that
in the field Mrs. Wood has always an in
teresting story to tell. and this is the
story of the field work
The selection Of Mrs. Wood for her
present position is in itself "a very pretty
story, and came about in this wise; Mrs.
Wood was at the head Of the women's
defense work in Illinois and drew up
many of the plans for the war campaign
which embraced a union Of all the exist
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bACCo&AVc 0CV4CA1HJ VI NmC "VunAn
committee of the Council of National
Defense.
part Of it to their own outline for the
national program, and. incidentally. Mrs.
Wood was invited to come to Washing
ton and serve with the committee.
After spending busy three months in
the office OF the woman's committee Mrs.
Wood was asked to take a field trip into
the states Of the middle west to find out
exactly what the women were doing
ito take the lid of and look in." was her
way Of expressing it. On her tour of a
month she visited eight states and brought
back to headquarters a report which held
many surprises for the committee.
Some states are far ahead of others
in their women's war work." she said
in a recent interview. THE best of
them are organized to the very last
point. Kentucky. for instance. has
done some very interesting things
away up in the mountains, where one
did not expect to find much knowledge
of things administrative.
There Is a reason for what did find.
due. and in this case it is. due largely
to the splendid work in home econom-
les which is being carried on by the
Department of Agriculture In cooper
alton with the state colleges. Those
woman extension workers had gone
up the Kentucky mountains on horse
back, carrying the food administration
cards with them. and explained their
meaning to the mountain women.
"One might think that they would
not be well received in such outlying
Businesses. but the contrary was act
ually the rule. The thing which
touched me most was the way the. ex-
tension workers managed to impress
upon the women that they each and
every one were now q. part OF the
government and were all asked per-
sonal1y by the President to help to win
the war. Tears actually ran down the
cheeks of one woman as she spoke to
me of her part in the governments
work. She was trying to do her small
bit for her country by saving lard and
using a substitute for this fat in light
ing her fires. as had been her custom
for years. The thought that had been
by saving the fat by eliminating its
ing to save the life Of a Belgian child.
Nothing was asked of those noun
tain women but what was best for
as well as for the great
cause, and I found that for the first
time in their. lives they were .conserv-
ing the wild berries which year after
year have gone to waste on the noun
tains. The method was worthy and has
proved mutually beneficial. One pa
triotics man In the state offered to ad
vance or to give outright II necessary
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Of 1t. Is great oval pit of more than
300 acres. out of which they took last
year almost 100000 tons Of excellent
ore. Before 1900 there was not an iron
mine in the world that was producing
one-tenth that amount of ore in one
year.
Today there are six mines in the
Lake Superior region. each of which
annually produces more than 1000. 900
tons. and within the past twenty years
the MISUNDERSTANDING mine alone
has had a product Of something like
60.o0o.000 tons. Sixty million tons of
iron ore! 1t is hard to appreciate what
that means. 1t is enough to make 3d.
100000 tons OF STEEL which at. the low
price Of $50 per. ton would be worth
$1,000. .00O.00 dollars A ton of steel
will make about 100 feet of rails of
sixty pounds to the yard. That ore. II
streak of steel 100000 miles long. or
enough to lay 100000 miles of track
1t could replace the iron in every rail-
road in Europe and Asia, with several
thousand miles to spare. II. could re-
and leave enough over for all the rail-
roads Of Africa and Australia. Alto
gether. the 100000 miles OF track
would reach from the earth to the
moon and traverse a tunnel through
the center of that luminous body and
leaye: enough over to twice girdle the
earth and make a track through 1t
from one. side to the, other. All the
ore needed to make that steel would
not be as much as has come from this
one pit. on the edge of which am
writing.
The methods Of mining here are diff
ferent from those Of other parts Of
the world. Everything is done scien-
tifically The prospecting is largely by
the aid Of a magnet. or magnetic nee
die. which dips as the prospector passes
over the ore bodies beneath. After the
ore Is found the operators ascertain
the exact quantity In each deposit and
how much pure iron 1t contains. They
also get an exact picture of how the
deposit lies,i and how thick or how
thin every part of 1t is. and how much
is lean and how much is, fat.
A large part Of this work is done
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The Reason.

I'D IsHoP CoLTELT Of Troy said at
~ dinner recently:
'The reason why some people get mo-
comfort out Of their religion ON SUM
day is that nobody else. gets any couSS
fort out of It during the week"
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ing organizations Of the state. These
plans were completed at about the time
National Defense was organized.
Some one sent the Illinois plan to the
national headquarters in Washington and
the women found it SO simple. compre-
the councils idea of co-ordinating or
ganizations that they adapted large
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land legislature were held and there is
record in the chronicles Of the time that
tickets emitting the holders to prizes. OF
$20, 900, $40. 900 and 81, 900 were drawn. but
there seems to have been no surplus for
the canal and no work was done on the
waterway. The act of Congress. in 1902.
chartering company to build the canal
from the Potomac to the Eastern branch,
utilizing as far as possible Tiber and st.
James creek, was reviewed last week.
Nothing was done toward the building of
lapsed; in fact, it would appear that the
company authorized by Congress was not
even organized. SO many were the handi-
caps and the discouragements under
which the first citizens Of Washington
labored.
A'*
However, the matter was not dropped.
The canal was an important feature in
the design of Washington, drawn by
LEnfant and approved by George
1t would also promote the
commerce of the city by bringing the
trade Of the upper Potomac and the
region to Washington.
being a link in that grand scheme
which had made the Potomac river nav
igable for barges from the foot of the
Alleghenies to tidewater by the re-
moval of distractions at Harpers Ferry
and Senaca and the cutting Of canals
around Great Falls and Little Falls. 1t
would promote the health of the new
federal ic ty by draining the marsh
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front and the girdle Is merely n bias
length Of the silk, hemmed at the
edges and draped about the waist. 1t
fastens at one side.
The skirt Is IN excellent pattern for
slender figure, and all the elnbora'
ton that the design boasts Is to be
found in 1t. 1t has Il pialted front
panel set on TO yoke, The panel
overlaps the full side pieces that are
tucked near the top and shirred to the
yoke. There Is plated panel at the
buck also and the skirt fastens at the
left side Of the front panel with snap
fasteners set uHder the group Of three
buttons,
Nothing quite rivals georgette crepe
f6r blouses Of all kinds. The texture
Of the material Is so exquisite and re-
fined that It tones down the boldest
of the new colors to the point OF max
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blues and in crOssbars and inconspicu-
Gus checks and stripes.
These dresses are just the sort that
the everyday average woman likes to
own, to slip on for dinner at home and
to wear for all sorts of informal dress.
A very quiet model is shown in the
picture Of gray taffeta, with sleeves Of
georgette crepe and hemstitched col
lar of white geOrgette. The sleeves
have deep cuffs Of the talfeta and
when satin or the softer silks are used,
the entire sleeve is made Of the same
material as the dress. The bodice is
plain with diagonal opening at the
The Harrison times., 1917-03-24

Among the wonderfully varied show
ings of pretty frocks for afternoon
wear, there is TO be discovered this
spring, line of plain silk dresses Of
very simple design. They are of taf-
feta or satin or crepe, as unpretentiouS
as to trimming as a cotton house dress.
Mostly neat effects appear in such
adornment as is allowed them, as
tuckS or folds in the goods and plain,
hemsttched collars of organdie or
crepe geOrgette. They are made In
gray, sand color, JOffre and other
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embroidered and beaded with silk In
Joffre blue. The same model, shown
in sand color, is frightened with en-
broidery in coral pink. The tiny but
tons used are usually satin covered
and Of the same color as the embroid-
cry.
Sleeves continue long; collars open
at the throat and have more or less
of cape at the back. Some Of them
are convertible and there are models
specially designed for thin women
with satin vest fronts extended into a
narrow panel at the front Of stand
ing collar. Seams are hemstitched.
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ink them wearable. The surface Of
this silk, like that of crepe de chine,
is as soft and yelvety as a rose petal,
and added to this IS its SheerneSS,
Even pumpkin and orange color are
delicate in it, with sulphur yellow and
the most brilliant rose shades at their
lovelieSt.
Very small beads and silk embrold'
cry, rather Sparingly used. set Off the
latest arrivals I'm waists, with Orna-
mentation In contrasting color, In
the picture waist in sulphur color is
The Harrison times., 1917-03-24

Father they hike for the zoo just as
soon as they're off the train.
Nowadays, Of course, neither
Apaches nor Navajos wear feathers,
even In their festivals. Just the same
they seem to have a mania for col
lecting them.
The zoo gives the crafty old boys
a great opportunity. Out there is a
fin string of ostrlches which wander
along the wire fence all unsuspecting,
and it Is no trick for a quick hand to
crrnh cornrnl nlnnnns Thn nnannnlE 9
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park easily puckd and the
their tail feathers project through
wire
the ostches
and the about the
looking probably rejoicing back
in Arizona the nextw though.
with Superintendent Holster that they
delegation
keepers o follow them.
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bar Of the grating above his head Then he climbed
adjusted the guttapercha his and listened
his held his and
hand tiny bit That completed he took the
his unlocked the wires the grating and remared
be losing time. just the Arlington meash
from the Arlington wireless
thereye those iron bars aerial Pretty nifty
Isn't It."
Wilson told the rest Of the
year planned clock the house office
building depends clock which regulates the
and
to
catch without building expensive aerial.
gazing toward the level he tho
he idea He got Of rubber propped
slipped the under for nsuo Then
and enough worked
though deprecated Mr. Wilson "If had treesandy
nail aerial That's
work. though the grating is handler"
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above his head. Geography must In
tervene for moment. Mr.. Wilson's
office is below the street level. One Of
his office windows opens out upon a
small areaway, built upon the side
walk. A long grating prevents the
passer-by from tumbling into Wilson's
iight-and-air shaft.
That grating is about eight feet
above the windowsill Of Wilson's
office, so at II :55 o'clock Mr.. Wilson
took the two wires Of his wireless set,
climbed ont his office window and hung
The Harrison times., 1917-03-24
Guinnes.

Appealing to feminine fancy are
dainty guImpes Of plated silk chlf'
fon. These come in lovely pastel
shades and are trimmed with tiny self
colored or pearl buttons and fnIsheo
with hcmstltching.
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wrong. He Is Simply government
employee who has a watch attached to
one chain and a pass to his office at
the end of the other chain.
This is one of the results of "pre-
cautiOnary measures which the war
scare has given birth to.
The employees Of Uncle Sam are
not taking any chances. They have
learned that the possibility of a war
is as serious a business as war itself.
Listen to the experience of several
clerks: In the state, war and navy
The Harrison times., 1917-03-24

properly limestone which have
high humidity The cheese is kept in these
carefully watched possible
Roquefort by in other
experts dairy working Chief BacteriOOgt L.
special refgea
French obsolete They found that the refg
better than the
cheese they confronted with the
prices milk which the French insisted
milk special and they
just good better ROquefOrt with it.
been made experimental laboratories here 1t
the department and cheese
turned to all American
manufacturers who want it,
little while probably Oquefort cheese will drop to 70 30 cents
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building the his Although well
doomen and building he admitted work
The brought his with the result
he suspended from work 80 days
In the building another clerk had the misfortune He
suspended service weeks
he should careless again he would be dis
for the good of the service"
the thousands Of
employees they this what
must be
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eEoRegrrg uNRlvALEp IN SPRING eLousEs.

HemstItchng, long sleeves and collars
similar to that shown in the picture
are common to all sorts Of blouses,
whether tailored or dressy or made
for all.round wear.
For the most vivid colors, very little
embroidery is used, but little buttons
covered with black satin are used by
the dozens on them.
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Uses Sidewalk Grating for His Wireless Aerial

At other Rudolf Wilson, chief electrician Of
"A together
glanced toward the sidewalk grating
The Harrison times., 1917-03-24
Ostriches at Zoo Desire No More Indian Visitors

r the sight of Indians
about the local
delegation to the Great White
The Harrison times., 1917-03-24
Uncle Sam Discovers Mystery Of Roqusfort Cheese

ID Roquefort Washington today than its
ID Experts dairy division of the department of agr
oarY milk that Whereas French
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Federal Employees Are "Chained' to Their Jobs

UrASNGToN happen walking along the streets
w don't the
and carries watches because you are