The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-20

riodicals, magazines and newspapers for articles concerning his trips, all of which he has written with a master hand Tn ner.
 Captain Carson is certainly very great addition not only to the commercial life of Birmingham, but to the social life or the community, his broad culture, refine ment and elegance making him a striking happens to be thrown.
 In chatting with him a few days ago about his trip to Palestine, he said among other things:
 The American Red Cross commission left New York under the leadership ot Col Finley on the eighth of February. 1918, making our first stop at Cape Town.
 From there we took the eastern coast of ! Africa, stopping at Durban; thence tc Johannesburg, purchasing supplies for the in Johannesburg aud it was during my stay in Africa that I went for the first time into a diamond mine. I must tel
 you just here that the people of Africa are absolutely out of the world as fal | as any news of other peoples is con
 cerned; all their news is censored and we
 carried them the first information tha America was in the war, that they had
 After ninety days hard travelling, Captain Carson said, i've landed at Por
 Said, and from there we went to Kan tara, from which place we were trans
 ferred by rail two hundred miles across
 the desert. The British had built thu
 railway as they advanced, an average O.
 about mile and a half a day. The mill tary railway line to Haifa on the Medi
 terranean had been constructed but as tn
 British army had not yet advanced t
 Haifa when we arrived we transferre at Ludd, and went from there by rail t
 Jerusalem. arriving there on June tn , tenth We were assigned to the Rus sian Compound which comprises seve buildings surrounded by a stone wal , | The buildings were filthy and SC we ha
 to clean them up before they were haoita l ble. We then realized the importance O , bringing our own supplies and I want |
 say right here that the success of tn commission was largely due to Dr. Ward < foresight in providing these supple: : IThere was little timber or wood there B we had taken with us water purihcatio . outfits, hospital equipments, piping I pumps, engines, plumbing, and fixture 1 l&o fAaA chn q were the first ever seen in Jerusaler t and they aroused great curiosity anon d the natives, some of whom could be 1T e duced to take baths, but not all of thei e by any means"
 Il Captain Carson had charge of the CT
 gineering unit of the commission and tai $ ing care of the purchasing. also takin |; the supplies into Jerusalem and natura $ ly turned his attention to sanitary col g oitions and in speaking of the 'wat'
 supply at Jerusalem, he said:
 "The British had already developed
 water supply. The system began 10 mil'
 lsouth of Jerusalem at large sprin
 from which the water was pumped in
 A reservoir having capacity of 4,ooo,C a gallons The reservoir is just above u pools of Solomon.
 "The British system joined the mo
 ancient Solomon supply. the water floN ,rr ing through an aqueduct to the cit s. The water was pumped from the spril aa to the reservoir, from which it flow st by gravity the 16 miles to Jerusale Is giving a daily supply of soo.ooo gallons ly There had been no good water " Jerusalem up to this time. the city IS supply being carried in jugs and oth i'd containers by the people. with the res' 'n that there was always suffering in t 1s dry season. usually lasting from abo ie May to December. They now have mo he water in one day than they formerly h. 2, ,r- in a month, and it is free to the people y- The construction of the native a, s. r Roman water systems was of consids m- able interest to me during my visit ey Palestine" said Captain Carson, ''al O. the building of the cisterns. The wor : men employed are very skillful in ma