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^ /r: • •' V UNCLE SAM $500,000,000 1 WEALTHIER t= Western Extension of St. Paul Liar Ming Rapidly { By ELLIOTT D. YOUNG Treasury Officials Coin Great Amount of Emergency Currency. k F F I C I A L c u r r e n c y stretchers of the Uni­ ted States government have ready $500,000,000 m emergency notes, •eatedby the Aldrich- reeland law, which can be put out at an instant's notice to nip financial panics in the bud. Great progress was made by the treasury officials in getting the monster bun­ dles of notes into shape to be issued at a moment's notice. Hardly had the bill which created this emergency currency passed the gauntlet held up by congress when treasury officials were at work to put 1 Cash Must "Be "Ready for 'Distribution, \7nder Aldrich - Vr eel and Act, "By the Time Congress Meet's--Hobtt -the XOorK. of Getting Money in Shape Is Accomplished. In the meantime the dies were cast by the engraving bureau. This en­ graving required the greatest care for a single deviation in lines upon the copper plates- meant that the bill would be thrown out and the entire plate would necessarily have to be made over again. Dozens of experts were put to work upon the plates. The dies made, the work of testing and finally printing was entered into. It was perhaps a month after the measure was passed before the presses were set in mo­ tion in the printing offices turning out notes of great and small de­ nominations. An army of clerks was rendered necessary to keep tab on the plates, paper and invoice the notes to the treasury department. As fast as the bills were turned out by the department of printing Superintend­ ent Ralph, who is in charge of the .entire bureau, personally inspected samples and ordered them turned over to the treasury officials. They were then stored in the vaults in the treasury offices , and are now ready to be turned out to | banks enrolled in the emergency cur­ rency associations. MAN'S MYTHICAL REASON. After Several Hours He Remembered His Dinner Engagement. Dinner had been ready and waiting 20 minutes. The wife of the tardy guest was very much embarrassed. Just to think that her husband was so rude as to be late at a dinner en­ gagement and keep all the guests waiting! After a while the belated one arrival-;, redfaceti mul perspiring. the notes into such shape that they Slight be put upon the market. Acting Secretary Coolidge of th< treasury overlooked the work and the bureau of engraving and printing which put out the currency was ebarge of Superintendent Ralph. 1 Each day Superintendent Ralph de­ livered into the hands of the treasury officials between $2,000,000 and $4,000,- 000 in the new style notes. Before the end of summer there was over $100,- 000,000 ready for delivery to the banks on call. Congress meets again in December and then the legislators will be greeted by the great outlay of cash. If there should be a panic this fall, which fir from likely, officials declare, this great amount of emergency currency would be delivered to the strick­ en districts within a few hours and it is believed the trouble would end with the appearance of the cash. Up to August 1 only one emergency currency association had been formed, but soon organizations began to ma­ terialize all over the country and the interest in the new act was heightened to a great extent. The banks of the District of Columbia had their articles of association approved by the secre­ tary of the treasury about the middle of July and to them belongs the honor of being the first members of an or­ ganization authorized under the emer­ gency currency law. The banks in New York and other financial centers were not disposed to fully commit themselves pending a de­ termination of the question whether a bank join­ ing an association could withdraw from it after complying with all the requirements of the law. The treasury officials regarded this question as purely academic but they took the matter un­ der consideration and a decision was reached on this point in a very short time. The act itself is entirely silent on the subject. The proposition of putting out such a great amount of currency was one which held the bu­ reau of printing and engraving in its throes for many anxious months, for it was pointed out when the measure finaily passed congress after a long fight that while it was decidedly improb­ able that there would be a panic this fall was certainly necessary that the currency' ready for deliverance in case unsettled condi­ tions should introduce themselves into Wall street and other big financial centers of the country. But if the word of the framers of the Aldrich- Vreeland statute is to be believed no such con­ ditions can arise, simply because of the existence of the emergency currency act. Most readers of congressional news in the daily papers remember well and followed closely the struggle which took place in both the house and senate coincident to the passage of the bill. The senate refused to accept the Vreeland bill, manu­ factured in the lower branch, while the house of representatives could see nothing but evil things in the Aldrich measure--that is, the majority. Speaker Cannon of the house paid several visits to President Roosevelt at the White House. The executive insisted upon work being done by con­ gress, if it were only this law. Finally the opposition forces met in caucus and then there was another caucus, most of the points in dispute being settled. The bill passed the house with much acclaim from those who had aided in ellect- the compromise. Then came the struggle in the senate with Sen­ ator LaFollette, Senator Gore, the blind legisla- Gr I A RUTi OIYA. 3J1NK. WHlCIf, IT16 HOPED, WSJ, ££ AVOWED Tfoe merry clatter of spike driving en the western extension of the St. Paul line is. being heard not only through Montana, but all through the western states through which the rail­ road is to travel. The company la making strenuous efforts to get iti rails connected and its line completed in as short a time as possible, as Is Indicated by the following clipped from the Spokane Chronicle of recent date: "Amazing progress in the laying of steel through the Kittitas country has been made during the summer by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail­ road. The company is employing an army of men, and a big tracklaying machine is laying Steel at the rate of 2*£ miles a day between Murdock, a short distance from Ellensburg, to Clealum. The machine has been in operation nearly a month, and the rails are all down nearly to Clealum. "The work of laying steel is being pushed along east of Murdock also, but, because it Is being done by hand, progress is slow compared with the taster machine construction. Fourteen miJes of rails have been spiked to the sleepers east of the new town of Mur­ dock. % "In parts of the country, however, the work has gone forward a little more slowly because the bridge and trestle construction has not yet been finished, and the 2,000-foot tunnel through Johnson creek summit has not been completed. Between Ellensburg and the Columbia river the tracks pass over 18 trestles and small bridges, most of which span canyons. Frame­ work trestles, which will be filled in later, support the steel in most cases. The road passes over a trestle 120 feet high at a point known as the Narrows, however, and the wood construction at that place will be supplanted at a later date by a steel bridge. "The Milwaukee right of way crosses the Northern Pacific track twice in this county, and the road crosses Yak­ ima river five times. Bridge crews have nearly completed the piling and falsework for these structures, and in the material yards at Murdock the company has stored enough steel for the construction of the entire five bridges. The abutments and piers for j the long bridge across the Columbia river have been finished. The steel I will be brought up from Lind, on the Northern Pacific, as soon as the Mil­ waukee road is completed from that point to Beverly, on the Columbia river."--Daily Missoulian. JOHN riCNBY i ON 1 RAPID TRANSIT BY GEO. V. HOB ART, ("HUGH M'HUGH.") Dear Bunch: Every time I hop Into one of those roomy, comfortable street cars in a city of the second, third or even fourth class, I immediately con­ trast it with the wood boxes we use in New York, and I find myself growing red in the face and biting my nails. Those squeezer cars that prowl the Btreets of New York are surely the breathless limit, aren't they?" The squeezer car is the best gen­ teel imitation of a rough-house that has ever been invented. The are called squeezers because the conductor has to let the passen­ gers out with a can-opener. Brave and strong men climb into a street car, and they are full of health and life and vigor, but a few blocks up the road they fall out backward and inquire feebly for a sanitarium. To ride on a Broadway street car, for instance, about eight o'clock of an WOULD LEARN FROM AMERICA. Germany 8eeks Knowledge Cleaning of Cars. as to General Passenger Agent Miller of the Milwaukee & St. Paul railway has been asked by the German emperor for Information about this road's sys­ tem of cleaning passenger cars and sleepers. The request of the kaiser comes through a letter from F. W.! free, like a Japanese flag on a Gutbrod, technical attache of the Ger- day. Leaves the Rebellious Standing on a Corner. evening, brings out all that is in a man, including a lot of loud words he didn't know he had. The last census shows us that the street cars of New York have more ways of producing nervous prostration and palpitation of the brain to the square inch than the combined popu­ lation of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Tinkersdam and Gotterdammerung. To get in some of the street cars about six o'clock is a problem, and to get out again is an assassination. One evenin'g I rode from Forty-sec­ ond street to Fifty-ninth Without once touching the floor with my feet. Part of the time I used the out­ posts of a stout gentleman to come between me and the ground, and dur­ ing the rest of the occasion I hung from a strap and swung out wild and windy man consulate in' Chicago. In his communication Mr. Gutbrod says: . "I have had the pleasure of seeing the new car cleaning apparatus work­ ing in your Western avenue yards, Chicago. As I think this might be a very important matter to the German State railway department in Berlin, I would be pleased to get from you some pictures, descriptions or litera­ ture you might have regarding the apparatus." The system has. since been thorough­ ly explained to Mr. Gutbrod, and the information has been sent to Emperor William, who is said to have mani­ fested a personal interest in clean cars. tor, and their aides in the role of the opposing minority. Everyone fa­ miliar with parliamen­ tary rules of congress knows that speeches are limited in the house, but in the senate a man may hold the floor for months, providing he has something to talk about. Senator La Follette, the man who takes but little rest Irom his labors, spoke for 18 hours. It was a memorable speech because of its length. Then Senator Gore took his place and spoke for quite a while longer. All this was done to keep Senator Aldrich and his friends from putting on passage the compro­ mise measure. It was regarded as a certainty that the bill would pass and so the opposition's idea in the beginning was to keep on talking until midnight March 3, 1909, in shifts of eight hours each. Whether it was by prearrangement or by acci­ dent, few will ever know, but the fact remains that when one of the filibuster aides neglected his cue, an Aldrich supporter j.umped into the breach, secured the floor and made the motion to put the bill on passage. It passed and ended one of the most spectacular filibusters which legisla­ tive circles of the country have ever recorded. For that reason the United States now has $500,- 000,000 in emergency currency ready to put out at an instant's notice to stem the tide which, a panic would bring upon the country. Then came the work of engraving bills of every denomination in the offices of the bureau of en­ graving and printing. First the rough paper was received, It was cut up into strips upon machines which cut many thousands of notes at one time. jmzroR ?TJ?LJOffW. ULLRICH "So sorry to keep you waiting," he said. "But I was detained at the office with an out-of-town customer. Just couldn't get away." The excuse sounded all right and was accepted by the hostess, but it was a myth. The truth was: Preoccupied, he had gone home from the office at the usual time and found the house locked, much to his surprise. Where in the mischief were his wife and children? he wondered. Why didn't they tell him they were going away? He went all around the house and tried the doors, but they were locked. Then he found a piece of iron in the backyard and broke open a window and crowded in. He crowded out through the window for the evening paper and crowded back. He read the paper, and still the wife and children didn't re­ turn. At 6:03 o'clock he remembered the dinner en­ gagement. While he dressed and rode 20 blocks the guests waited. But others have made the same blunder.--Kansas City Star. WHO BURNED MOSCOW CITY? Confession of the Incendiary as Sequel to a Story of Love and Hate. Historians of Napoleon's invasion of Russia have for more than a century b0ea trying to discover whose hand it was which applied the torch to Mos­ cow or gave the order for the confla­ gration which precipitated the French efifperor's retreat, says the Washington Post. At the time Count Theodore Rostopchine was said to have been the incendiary. In 1823, however, he pub­ lished a pamphlet, "The Truth Con­ cerning the Great Fire of Moscow," in which the blame was laid at the door of French soldiers made mad with vod­ ka. Now, however, the granddaughter of the- governor-general, Countess Lydie Rostopchine, in a biography of her grandfather, substantiates the original charge against hi mand ^ys his denial was due to influence exert­ ed oVer him by his beautiful wife. Just before the city was taken he had sent her to a distant province for safety and on the evacuation by the French he had implored her to come back "to a husband who worships you and who respects you beyond all oth­ ers." At the time the count was 47 and the countess 35. In his letters to her he had frankly admitted that he had given orders to fire the city. .When he was accused of the deed by the French officers she Implored him to deny the accusation. The secret might have been buried with hftn but for a subsequent discovery that his wife had repudiated the orthodox re­ ligion and had become a Roman Cath­ olic. He became embittered and mo­ rose under the shock, cut her off in his will and left a sealed package con­ taining the truth about the Moscow fire only to be opened and made public a century after the date of his mar­ riage. This duty has fallen to Count­ ess Lydie. Rostopchine to carry out Boiler the Sensitive Spot. It is in her boilers that the locomo­ tive is most sensitive. The lungs of ane of these great machines of the Pa­ cific type carries within her boiler 3hell 302 tubes, each of which, under the fierce heat of the firebox, must be absolutely water-tight. How much this tightness figures may be seen in the blacksmith shop where, in the ren­ ovation of cords of these tubes, it is necessary to weld to each of them a few inches of new tubing- Perfect as the work may seem as the weld comes from the automatic welding machine, this welded end is thrust just under water at one end of a. long trough and from the other end of the tube a tester turns in a jet of air at 100 pounds pressure. If so much as a pinhead bubble appears on the surface of the water the weld is rejected. Taxes Skill of Engineers. The boring of an artesian well is not an easy task. The well of Grenelle (France) required from December 24, 1833, to February 26, 1841, for comple­ tion. The one at Passy of the same depth took only two years to make. Our engineers now count upon one year in which to complete the well of Maisons-Laffitte. This well is already at a depth of 460 meters. It will go to a depth of 550 meters.---De Dion- Bouton Journal. Some of the New York street cars lead a double life, because they are used all winter to act the part of a refrigerator. It is a cold day when we cannot find it colder in the street cars. In Germany we find Germans in the cars, but in America we find germs. That is because this country Is young and impulsive. The germs in the street cars are extremely sociable, and will folldw a Btranger all the way home. Often while riding in the New York street cars I have felt a germ rubbing against my ankle like a kitten, but, being a gentleman, I did not reach down and kick it away because the law says we must not be disrespectful to the dumb brutes of the field. Many of those street cars are built on the same general plan as a can of condensed milk. The only difference is that tho street cars have a sour taste, like a lemon-squeezer. When you get out you cannot get in, and when you get in you cannot those squeezers feeling just like • two-year-old, full of health and happi­ ness. The thought of it makes me feel quite- Tennysonsque! From Cortland street he proudly strode at suppertime that day to take the elevated road which goes up Har­ lem way. He shook and shivered like the deuce, and then he sadly sighed, because the path was long and loose which led to Morningslde. He kissed the down-town girl ho rushed, and said: "I know you'll miss me! but don't start weeping if I'm crushed: just kiss me, sweet­ heart; kiss me! 'TIB miles to go, long miles to go to where I do reside, and boogie men are in the cars that run to Morningslde!" Her eyes were like two stars that shine and sparkle through the rain; she sobbed: "Good-by, sweetheart of mine!"--he kissed his love again. "And should I not return some day to claim my blushing bride, you'll find me on the right of way twixt here and Morningside! { "Oh, Phyllis, I must pull up stakes' this awful trip to make--hark! do you hear the broken brakes refuse to make a brake? Good-by, my love; good-by, ®y dove! on this I do decide; when airships come in use I'll take you up to Morningside." He found a car well loaded down with 50 souls or more to take the pathway through the town he'd taken eft before. The guard unto his voice &ave vent: "Ooftgooftenooftenvide!" then closed the gates and off they went, bound for Morningside. Fat men sat down in ladies' laps they'd never met before; and sad and solemn-looking chaps exploded some and swore. Some used the air to stand upon, the floor was occupied by 27,000 feet bound out for Morningside. "I want my hat!" a small man cried in accents full Of heat; and when to reach for it he tried, somebody swiped his seat. Ten thousand souls hung onto straps and did the slide-thc- slide; the human laundry which at night hangs out for Morningside. Beneath the car the third rail snaps Genteel Imitation Rough-House. 8teepest Railroad in the World. What claims to be the steepest rail­ road line in the world is that re­ cently opened near Bozen, in the Ty­ rol. The Mendel railway, with a gradient of 64 in 100, and the Vesu- vian, with 63, have hitherto held the record. But the new line in its steep­ est part rises 70 in 100 and in other parts 66. It leads up the mountainside to Vir­ gil Terrace, on the River Eisach. The system employed is that of the elec­ trical wire rope and the ascent Is made at the rate of five feet a second, or five minutes for the whole distance. Thenar of four compartments carries 32 passengers. Like a Boy's Pocket. On killing a Plymouth Rock fowl at Charlton, in Kent county, England, Mr. Charles Downs found the follow­ ing extraordinary collection in its crop: About 20 pieces of glass, one cartridge, six nails, one tin tack, a 1%-lnch screw, a 1%-inch copper riv­ et, one bone collar stud, one shirt button, six trouser buttons, one brass stud, one piece of, coal, one clock aorew and one boot' button. Tha Germs Will Follow a Stranger All the Way Home. get out, because you hate to disturb the strange gentleman that is using your knee to lean over. Between the seats there is a space of two feet, but in that space you will always find four feet, and their own­ ers, unless one of them happens to have a wooden leg. Under ordinary circumstances four into two won't go, but the squeezer cars defy the laws of gravitation. A squeezer conductor can put 26 Into nine and still have four to carry. The ladies of New York have start­ ed a rebellion against the squeezer pars, but every time they start it the conductor pulls the bell, and leaves the rebellious standing on the corner. We are very nervous and careless people in New York. To prove how careless we are, I will cite the fact that Manhattan island is called after £ cocktail. This nervousness is our undoing because we are always in such a hurry to get somewhere that we would rather take the first car and get squeezed into breathlessness than wait (or the next, which *. would likely squeeze us into insensibility. Breathlessness can be cured, but insensibility is dangerous without an alarm-clock. For a man with a small dining-room, the squeezer car has its advantage, but when a stout man rides in them, he finds himself supporting a lot of strangers he never met before. One evening I jumped on one of and barks and tries to bite while those who hang around on straps turn over then turn white. It sighs for those and cries for those who in the coaches ride, and makes them wish they did not live far out at Morning1 side. Where does the fat director ride who owns the iron road? With human sardines does he hide while homeward he is towed? Not on your life! a squeeze like that would surely hurt his pride; he takes the benzine buggy when he goes to Morningside. The cars will crowded be to-night; there'll be another crush; for hunger waits on appetite and all must home­ ward rush, and stand like men to pay the debt monopolies provide on any road, on every road--including Morn­ ingside! How about it! (Copyright, 1908, by G. W. Dillingham Co.) WHIPPING POST AND STOCKS. Stood in the Raleigh Courthouse Land Until End of Civil War. Up until the end of the war and a little while after the whipping post and stocks stood not far from the northwest corner of the courthouse and between that building and the present post office, and there the last v hipping took place, though as it be­ gan it was sought to be stopped by a federal officer. The sheriff was, how­ ever, simply carrying out the mandate of the old court of pleas and quarter sessions. In those days the stocks and the whipping post too were special attrac­ tions, notably to boys. The latter were allowed to ridicule people who sal in the stocks, which held their hands and feet, but not to throw any­ thing at them. Of course this deprived the boys of some degree of pleasure, yet they contrived to get a good deal of fun out of the thing anyway. It seems odd now even to think of such scenes as these must have been. Figure to your­ self passing by the courthouse green at. Charlotte or Raleigh and seeing & gentleman held by the ankles and wrists by wooden bars, sitting there in the sunshine for all the world to look at. Those were the days of the brand­ ing iron too. A set of gyves of iron, in use for holding the ankles ,or wrists, are on exhibition here, but of b'anding irons there are none. These were used here in January, 1865, for the last time.--Raleigh correspond­ ence Charlotte Obsprver. Dishonest Heroines. The steady increase of crime among stage heroines is beginning to get serious. It used to be the men who did all, or most of the dreadful things in plays--I mean the picking and steal­ ing, the forging and embezzling, and offenses of that kind. Now It is the women--and it is all the fault of the late Henrl^ Ibsen. Heaven reet his soul, notwithstanding.--M. A. P.