PAGE TWELVE. "~ THE DATLY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY: JUNE 25, 1910. I D Made in a new way--80 its cleanand pure--- not sometimes, but always! Ask your Grocer for it. A WATER SUPPL TO SECURE IT. As Great an Undertaking as Panama Canal--Greatest Engineering Feat of Recent Years, New York, June 22.--A hundred years after the &dvent of Christ, the great engineers of Rome constructed an agueduct, to bripg pure water into the Eternal City, over mighty arches of masonry, which still stand ad me ts to their genius and skill. Soon Rome boasted fourteen of these aerial waterways, running miles and miles over hill and dale. The imperial city of America is bor- An Unprecedented Offer For $5.00 we will sell, during a limited pevicd, our $40.00 ectric Belt, » This offer is made 10 any man or women who hort a ! rey This Electric Belt a the best ic belt on the market. It is fully guarantee with it will convince you, and DOCTOR MCDONALD ing into the earth for the same pur- pose that Rome build aloft. A dozen miles bez of the sleepy Hudson val- {ley town of Kingston, the city of New {York has begun to build the greatést artificial reservoir in the world. Te bring its billions of gallons of water, into the city, modern engineers are digging out a tunnel which will cost hall, a much as the Panama canal -and which it will rival in mechanical com- plications. : New York is preparing to furnish water to a "ten million ¢ity." To say that the new Ashokan reservoir, when completed, will hold 127,000,000,000 gallons of water means little to the average man. But when you realize that this single reservoir, when com- pleted, will be a great lake among the hills, twelve miles long and two miles wide; that the filling of it will take the mountain rivers a whole year, then you begin to get '\a measure ol the task. And when you realize further that this great body of water, once cooped up in this reservoir, is to be brought into the city and distributed, | you gather the full significance of the job the engineers have set for themselves. To-day more than 42,000 laborers are working on the monster project. Late in 1914 the water is to be turn- ed into the two basins of the reser- voir. The ninety-two mile long acqu- duct, under mountains and great rivers, will. be completed by the same time--and New York may fill her cup to overflowing. fn 1905 a commission was appointed to plan a water supply for a "ten million eity."" The water supply had to be secured in New York state--to get water from another state would have caused! endless litigation. The Catskills lookéd best. It- was found that a total watershed of 900 square miles, capable of supplying 750,000,000 gallons of water daily, was avail- able. 11 was ninety-two miles to New York's door--ninety-two niiles in "an air line, across a mountain ridge, deep valléys, and a great river, But the engineers said. it could be done, and it is being done. | The Ashokan reservoir will be the !zaain impounding 'station for the sys- | tem. So ingeniously is it lanned that 'the natural - hills will make up nine-tenths 'of its walls, The remain: ing" dykes, save for the heystone of Cray Hair to iis Natural Color 2nd Beauty. Nomatier how long it has been gra: or fadad, Promotes a luxuriant of healthy hair, Stops its falli © 34 positively removes €:0®. 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They have their clubs, their banks, their homes, their} police force, their churches. When you pass through Brown's station you oome to 'the edge of the gorge of Edopus Creek and peer down the side of Te growing dam. Itis a gorge, wide as well as deep--it is near ly a mile across. The dam will rise 240 feet above the water level of the creek." At its base it will be 190 feet thick. At its orest it will earry a thirtyfoot roadway. The engi- $3.50 Recipe Cures Weak Men --- Frag Send Name and Address Today-- You Can Have It Free and Be neers tell you it containg eight . times more material than the great J mid of kgypt. You do not oubt them. The dam is built of cytlepean stones, blasted from neighboring hills, imbedded in solid concrete. The struc- ture is lined with an even masonry vonstructed of giant concrete blocks: The wall against which the water will beat 'is perpendicular, while the out- - wall slopes away at a 45-degree an- gle. Any masonry dam, -no matter how solidly constructed, is bound to crack nnd leaks Nervous people below might get scared andumove away, fearing g words the dam ®as lin advance. Small carry away the seepage. Through the centre of the reservoir will run a dividing weir 2,000 feet long, on each side of which will be built the flood Be. through which the water will into the tun nel that is to it down to the bath-rooms and kitchens and fire hydrants. = 2 ing will Lor {and smaller tube} is thrust. | tween pipich drills os Mard as stone. v « { th MILLIONS ARE BEING EXPENDED 4,d Ashokan dam | the two is poured concrete, ts Then tubing is forced forward, more cortrete poured. Jn cross section the tunnel is shaped like a { horse-shoe, 174 feet wide and 17 feet thigh. "Through this tubing will come | bounding eighty cubic feet of water a | second, While it is expected that the tunnel will be kept only half full, the water can be raised to within fifteen inches of the tog. It is when the tunnel reaches {| Hudson river that the greatest feat {must be accomplished and already the engineers' preliminary work has shown: that they will succesl. The Hilson has halted many gn ambitious railroad project. The aqueduct en- gineers called in their old friends, the geolcgists, who speak of sthe" Lauren- tian age as if it came just a few years ago. Tue geologists said the bed of the river was solid rock; toe engineers set. out ®o prove it. he geologiety were correct. On oppo- site sides of the Palisades enginors sunk shafts' hundreds of feet deep. One shaft went down ut the foot of historic Storm Kinz mountain, the #ther peross the river at the foot of Breakneck mountain. Deep in the earth through these shafts, the en- gineers took diamond drills--they ate set with $500 worth of diamonds each--and sent them straight through the bed of the river until they met in midstream. They went all the way thopugh bed rock. So the tunnel will follow them through the solid rock, 1,000 feet below the level . of the river. Under the stream the water will flow to the east bank, and thence, by gradual sloping, to New York City. (Gravity and siphon system control the water throughout, Undér u deép valley, where the tunnel must take a sudden dip, it is made in "U"" shape--an inverted, siphon, the engineers call this structure. The coucrete-lined artificial river will force itself both up and down, with never a bit of pumping the whole length of Gotham. The water penned up in the kan reservoir would. cover' the surface of Manhattun lsland to a depth of 28 feet. The great work (was planned to cost $12,670,000. So great an undertaking was it that the contractors spent $1,000,000 in pre: liminary work fefore a pick was stuck in the earth. It is estimated that when the first water comes from this new eystem' into the pity, more - than $200,000 .- 000 will have been expended. Alonz the 92 miles of the aqueduct, the army of lajorers is working day and nic it costs nearly $100,000 a day to pay their wages. Two hundred and sseven- ty policemen guard the work and pro- tect the lives and property of the vm- ploves. The city of New York weekly sénds thousands of hooks from iis public library to" the vaiious camns for the benefit of the laborers. : An even 3,000 persons lived in the towrs and farms which will soon iw submerGed 100 fet beneath he waters of the Ashokan reservoir. Two thousand eight hundred graves had to be removed before the work' could begin. «When the tunnel enters New York it will run through the center if the city from one end 0 the other, At ne point will it be less than 175 fect below the surface. It will dive under, the East river aud supply Brooklyn; at the Battery it will plunge far under the waters of the Upper bay, and make its way to Staten Island, to furnish Catskill mountain wales' to the inhabitants of the Borough of Richmond. The gigantic work ill end in the Silve: Lake reservoir away down in the wilde of Staten Islan. WITH BABY ON HER BACK e steel the Asho- entire An Eskimo Woman Will Accomplish Great Deal of Work. It is surprising what work an [s- kimo woman will undertake with a baby on her back, writes W. W. Per- ntt in the Wide World Magazine. It is 8 common gecurrence to se them tent down skinning seals or "leaving sealsking; it often mgkes one feel a- fraid the baby will roll out, but no such thing happens. Baby sits in its cosy quarters lookin round and tak- ing notice of all that is going on or sleeps on quite unconcerned. The wo- men even carry children of two or three years old in_their hoods, and al- ways have their"hands free for other work, It is very amusing to watch the operation of taking a *child from the hood. The little mortal is shaken round till it occupies a favorable pos- sidon behind the mother's left shoul. der. Another shake and a couple of jerks, and up comes baby on to the shoulder, where it looks like a bundle of rags. Overbalancing, it takes plunge, head first, towards its moth: er's lap. Before arrival there, howev- er, the infant turns a somersault and lands safely on its mother's knee, to be fondled 'and carressed and talked s0- in the way usual to mothers the wide world over. Re Reformed Too Soon. Newark Star. An eminent speaker at the Congre- ghtionalist meeting in the First Con- gregational church, Fast Orange was telling the other day of a west erner's opinion of the east. | "This man," said the speaker, 'was a prominent churchman and had oe: casion to visit New York, where he ree mained {for a few days) In writin: of His eXperience to his | wife in the west he had this to say :| 2 " New York is a great city, but 1 do not Wish I had come here before 1 was converted.' "" - i p------------ A solder to substantially fasten pie- ces of glass together may He made by together 95 paris of tin and Be! a CLEANING OF CITY TO BE LOOKED AFTER. Scavengers' Work Arduous in Busy Streets--=Steam and Motor s'race tion Water Carts, London, June 22.--Afcustomied as we are to the many advantages be- longing to the organization of modern cities we may be prone to forget how much we really owe to systematic street cleaning. One of the Lest ways, perhaps, to overcome this forgetfal- ness would be to visit some part of the world where people have still to learn the benefit of well-kept thorough- fares, to go to some town where in winter great pools of mud make the crossing of each street a problem, and in summer the heaps of drifting dust serve well 1g remind the traveller how it is that the ruins of ancient cities, no longer inhabited and cared. for, in course of time disappear amidst the sand. At all times and under all ¢on- dition it is good to appreciate benefits we have, and if we pause for one moment to reflect as to what the state of our own town or city would be were all methods of street cleaning, scavenging, and so forth, to cease for a year, nay for a single month, we may feel better able to give this sub- ject the place that its relative im- portance may justly demand among the things of every day. : London, which no doubt may claim a larger acea of rondway to maintain than any other city we know of, forms an interesting and instructive illustration, not only of the methods used in dealing with this question in modern times, but as showing the vast strides that have been made com- paratively of recent years in this di- rection. Take, as our example this the city of London alone, which of course represents but a gection of the entire capital and which statistics | something like forty- gtreets as at present tell us contain eight miles of constructed. A hundred years ago we find 'that the city possessed but twelve regular scavengers, and although it would appear probable that the 'street area may have 'considerably increased dur- ing the interveming period, at the same time The 600 scavengers em- ployed in 'the city to-day would point to a very great inereage proportion- ately in that particular branch of the "erty gervice. Then, too, it is in- teresting to learn that as much as 71,000,000 gallons of water were used for street cleansing in the same city area in a single year, and that the amount of street sweepings removed for the same period was over 28,000 van loads. And let us not forget that these figures apply to part of London only. There are few figures more familiar to, Londoners than that of the street scavenger, His wide-brimmed felt hat, somewhat cavalierly looped back over one ear, lends quite a distinguish- ed appearance to workmanlike looking blue fustian jacket and brown corduroy {irousers. He is 'equally a¢ home on the top of his great Ina qermg water cart, driv- ing a roaring rattling steam van that containg a sea of liquid mud, or'dar- ting here and there arsid the throng of traffic, and dexterously using his broom or shovel as opportunity . of- fers, when a momentgry lull 'occurs in the string of ever-passing vehicles. The vans and water carts employed for this work are driven some steam and some by motor traction, and some still by horse draft," while as well as this a large number of small hand trucks are used to fulfil minor duties. In no city, however, excellent its organization, can sweep ings, refuse, dust and other rubbish be disposed of locally for many ob- vious reasons and the only other al- ternative seems to be that of trans porting it to same locality outside and yet within easy nccess. Of course the presence of a great waterway much facilitates this, and the Thames has proved most advantageous in the case of London for this purpose. The vans and carts that may be seen about the streets any day, collecting the mud and dust, as hay be, that the sweepers in their turn have gath- ered in smaller lots, each belong to some peculiar depot. a CATS ARE TO BLAME For the Breaking Up of a Doctor's Home. Boston Magazine. sbert A, Pierce, of Worcester, Mass., says that cats have broken up his home mod is suing his wife for sep- aration. Mrs. Pierce, the owner of thirty-two cats, complained of, is well known in New York and Boston as an exhibitor. of blue ribbon angoras. 'Aecording to the story told in court by Mr. Pierce, they erawled mewing about the rooms and halls. They slept in the bath tub during the day. They crept into coat pockets and took up quarters in hats and other wearing apparel. Numerous cat autopsies were held to discover, the causes of death in the broods. Ome part of the house was turned into a laboratory and phar- macy, where cat medicine was kept. Litters: of kittens turned up in the most unexpected places--in his hat, for instance--and yowls and fights enliv- ened the evening and sleeping hpurs. Dr. Pierce testified that the limit was reached when various members of the cat colony began to appear regularly af the table ta dine with him and Mrs, Pierce. Therefore, last October, after rauch disagreement on the subject, the Pierces agreed to break up their home. . The young daughter of the widow will surely dest Ake il and 4 go letely deran the mother's consent to lead the girl to the altar, but he blunder- at the very oufset. : "] have come, madem," he began in ignores the act a Voice that was agitated and <b ugh- ful sovereign is Mary a the | of | his exceedingly | DIDN'T KNOW HE RESIGNED, | Office. eien Relieved a Russian of His FORTY-EIGHT MILES OF STREETS | : 1 { The czar recently mecepted the res. | I i i {ignatjon of M. Veritelnikoff, covernor | | of {surprise, as the governor was a thor- The event excited some | jough paced reactionary and noted for | his zeal in crushing out any manifes- tations of progressive life in the-gov- ernment over which he ruled. No reason for his resignation could { be adduced, and it remained a mystery. {The riddle is now solved. It appears that. M. Veritenikoff was so oveupied ithat he often sizned documents hrought {to him by his subordinates without i troubling to read them. Taking ad- | vantage of this, one of his enemies se cured his signature to a letter, which { was despatched to the ministry of the | interior, and caused such astonishment | that a telegram was sent to Kostroma | ordering the governor to come imme {diately to St. Petersburg. ! When M. Verielnikoff arrived the let- iter was handed to him. To his utter | surprise it contained his resignation. {He read with amazement such pas- sages as: "I am absolutely no use, and {incapable of ruling the sovernment i confided to me," followed bv a confes- ision of failure and the statements: "1 {have made a mass of blunders," But { he wauld not dispute that the signa j ture at the end of the letter wae his. | He owned that he often sirned . pa {pers without knowing their contents, {and had sufficient sense of Luter to tender his resignation on the spot | Under the circumstances M. Stolypin { could do nothing but advise the ezar {to aceept it. Descendant of British Royal Family on Both Sides. {London Chronicle The new queen is the first British {queen to share the throne of .the em { pire, for she is not only descended on her mother's side . from the British iroyal family, but is a direct descend lent -of George 11 on her father's side |The queen-mother, Princess Mary Ade: laide, Duchess of Teck, was the daugh ter of the first Duke of Cambridge, who 'was the second son of George [11 and. grandson of George 11. i The queen's descent from George "11 is from his daughter Anne, who mar ried William of Orange. Their daugh ter Caroline, marrying the Duke of Nassau, had issue Henriette, who be came the wile of Louis of Wurtem berg. It was their son Alexander | Wurtemberg, who . married Countess Claudine of Rhedel, who was. the fatl jer ofthe Duke of Teck. The queen's (father, it will be seen, was an issue of | the morganatic marriage of Duke Alex iander, who forfetted thereby his claim tto the throne of Wurtemberg. He {eeived his title of Teck from .an anci ent castle near the Danube, The Transylvanian family from which the | ENGLAND'S NEW QUEEN. of re- of Rhedel, queen's father was descended on the mother's side, is . a very old and illustrious one, having been founded early in the eleventh cen- tury: When the Duke of Teek's grand. father, the last but one of the male line, died, the Rhedel estates passed 1to a cousin, on whose death,:in 1569, jhe counts of Rhedel came to an end i mp ------------ Japan Women in the Mines. { Marie C, Stopes, the author of "A | Journal From Japan," went to Japan {for . purely scientific purposes--io | search for fossils in coal mines. She | was something of a curiosity, but the iJapanese scholars treated her with a courtesy and in a spirit of comrade- ship that made her work delightful. | Miss Stopes is a scientist, but she has also. an eye for beauty and a keen sense of the ridiculous. Her diary an unconventional record which gives jan intimate idea of life in Japan. Among other things she gives an ac- count of a visit to a mine near which a beautiful house with templelike porch, gate, outhouses and servants' dwellings were being built. "When we came to the mine," she says, "we found the owner to be a eommon workingman and we saw his is wife going into the mine to work like | the rest of the peasant women. A case habits while built. In the mines I have often come across women naked to the waist and up to the knee working undergroumd with the men." ---------- Pottery and Secrecy. In the royal manufactory of pottery at Meissen, Saxony, the work was for merly carried on with the utmost se crecy to prevent the processes from becoming known elsewhere. The es fablishment was a complete fortress, the porteullis of which was not raised day or night, no stranger being per mitted to enter for any purpose what ever. Every workman, even the chief inspdttor, was sworn to silence. This injunction was formally repeated every month to the superior officers employ od. while the workmen had constantly before their eyes in large letters the warning motto, "Be 'Secret Unto Death." It was well known that any person divulging the process would be imprisoned for life in the eastle of Koenigstein. Even the king himself when he took surangersiof distinction to visit the works was enjoined to se crecy. One of the foremen, however, escaped and assisted in establishing a manufactory in Vienna, from which the secrets spread all over Germany. 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