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AUGUST 23. 1902
THE SUNNY SOUTH
NINTH PAGE
(America Elbowing John Bull in Steel and
Implement Trade
How the
British
Guard
T rade
d'ecrets.
frank g. carpenter.
FIND that the American
invasion has made its'
way into this the very
heart of industrial Eng
land. Our big steel trust
has frightened the factors
of Sheffield, and their
trade, not only in Eng
land, but ;>U the world
over, is being affected by
it. The English railroads
have begun importing
American locomotives and
American steel rails, and
here are wondering whether
not soon be sending them
Knives and razors ns well. The letting of
the contracts for the enormous bridges
in Africa and Burmah to American firms
astounded them, and they are worried as
to their foreign orders. Sheffield pro
duces agricultural machinery, but our
Amerie in tools are sold side by side with
those of English malte, and our biggest
machine companies have their agents at
every country fair to drum the trade.
Much of the business is done at the fairs
and our nu n sell direct to the farmers.
On.- of the greatest specialties of Shef
field is making machine tools, and the
American competition is cutting deep
into this branch of Its business. In a
recent article the editor of Fielden’s
Magazine, one of the best of England’s
industrial authorities, writes that there
is hardly a workshop of any Imfrrtanit’
in the United Kingdom which Is not
using American tools and labor-saving
devices He says he'knows of an estab
lish™ >nt which recently bought $100,000
v rth of new machinery, two-thirds of
V was American. Since the close of
the v r numerous articles have been pub
lish' d iu the papers here as to how tho
Am ■ ins are fast getting the monopoly
of the machinery sales for South Africa.
It is reported that our trade in the Brit
ish ■ denies is steadily increasing, and
1 ' complaint is made that the govern
in' i.!s >• the various British dependencies
ar. (.i . ing their most important orders to
the United States.
T' - condition makes it almost impossi
ble fc.r an American to have access to
the English mills. The managers look
upon every visitor as a
spy. They think he is
after their trade secrets,
and for this reason they
will not show him their
machinery. I have been
refused admission to a
number of f.-uotories and foundries on va
rious pretexts, although my letters of
Inin Auction, some of them from our gov-
emniT it departments, show that my mis
sion is simply that of news gathering,
and that T am Interested in no manu
facturing business whatsoever.
On tho other hand, the Britisher does
nut hesitate to borrow ideas and ma
chines from others, and as a usual thing
lie burrows without asking. He is quick
to taki what he can get, not only from
fore.-ton, but from his own people. A
notable "stance of this occurred here
at Sheffield ns far back as a generation
before the declaration of our in
dependence. It was the stealing
of tho secret of making cruci
ble or cast steel. The originator
■ I this process came from near Sheffield.
His name was Huntsman and ho lived
“t town, called Hands worth. He estab
lished a factory at Attercllff for tho
working of tills process, and his de
scendants still make steel on the same
spot. lie carefully guarded hiB secret for
a time, but at last one of his trade rivals
eto 'e It in the following underhand way:
n* disguised himself as a beggar, and
one stormy night came to the doors of
the factory seeking shelter and rest. lie
looked so rough that the men in charge
did r.ot think there could be any danger
from one of his class, and they com
passionately admitted him. He was told
he could lie down on the cinder heap. Ho
only pretended to bo asleep, however, and
through his half shut eyes took a men
tal photograph of the machinery and the
operations. He watched so closely that
" ’’ was able to reproduce the process,
and he used it to rival the work of
Huntsman. I understand that the de
scendants of this man still own one of
the largest iron and steel factories of
England, and that their business was
originally based on the work of that
bight.
If I were at the head of an American
manufacturing establishment I would bo
chary of showing my processes to Eng
lish visitors, especially to those of the
same business who are looking for points.
Everywhere I go I learn of Englishmen
who are being sent to the United States
to study our workshops, machinery and
methods. A year ago Arthur Keen, of
Guest, Keen & Co., and E. Windsor
Richards, a well known metallurgist,
made a thorough study of tho best Amer
ican steel plants. The works of Guest,
Keen & Co. have been long noted as
among tho best equipped in England, but
wliat Air. Keen saw led him to change
much of his machinery to American pat
terns.
I know that a vast deal of American
shoe-making machinery is now being in
troduced into the shoe shops of Leicester
and other places.*English shoes are being
■made after our patterns, and American
leather is imported that they may be as
like American shoes as possible.
In a recent copy of The London Mall
I see that the Weardale Steel. Coal and
Coke Company, limited, another of the
biggest firms of England, has decided to
remodel its work on American lines at
the cost of $1,360,000. They wall adapt our
latest details in blast furnace construc
tion and steel manufacture as they have
learned them from America. The Mail
adds:
**By these and other means the com
pany is confident that it will bo able to
bold Its own against any competition,
either at home or abroad."
Another plant which 1TTTS been modern
ized is that of Bolekow, Vaughan & Co.,
hut the modernizing in this case has
been superintended by an American en
gineer, and the total cost has been more
than $2,600,000.
The English railroads are sending their
engineers to America to study our rail
way methods, and I understand that a
commission of English factory men will
shortly go from Liverpool to the United
States to make a careful investigation
of our plants along special lines.
In a recent letter to The London Times
J Lawrence, of the house of commons,
writes a long statement as to the causes
of England’s loss of trade, in which he
says that it is largely owing to the use
of antiquated machinery. He gives an
instance in his own factory, saying that
while on a visit to America he discover
ed that we had more economical machines
tnan his own, and that when he returned
he broke and threw upon the scrap heap
tools which had originally cost $185,000.
His associates objected at the time, but
they had since found he was right, for
owing to that change the company has
paid dividends amounting to over $8,000,-
000.
Indeed, it is fast becoming quite the
thing to send the graduates from the
technical schools here to the United
States for practical traIn-
British lng. Thfs is what the
Engineers Jritlsh Westing;house
Who • Company did with fifty
Graduate young Englishmen whom
’ n America, they are now using in
their Manchester works,
sent them to lPttsburg to learn
* v estinghouse methods and the mana-
Ufye Queer Tale of “Big Bill Devery*” He Has
Charmed Women of tl\e Masses
Sheffield town halt.
gers say that when so trained they be
come more efficient than the Simon-Pure
American.
In a speech at Wolverhampton Lord
Rosebery recently mentioned how a cer
tain factory had selected from the pal)lie
schools a number of young men having
some knowledge of electricity and engi
neering and, at its own expense, had
sent them to America for a two years’ ap
prenticeship in our workshops to qualify
them to be superintendents or foremen of
its shops la England.
In short, the English factors are now
doing what the Japanese government lias
been doing for twenty years with hun
dreds of Its. promising young men; that
is. sending them abroad to learn how to
do business. Tho Gorman manufacturers
have long been doing tho same tiling.
You find Germans everywhere studying
trado and trade methods. Indeed, it has
come to such a pass here that many of
the English shops refuse to employ Ger
mans. even though they can get them for
nothing.
As to sending men to the United States
up to tho present time, this has been done
by tho most enterprising firms. Tho aver
age British manufacturer is still in his
Rip Van Winkle sleep, although lie is be
ginning to stretch himself and dream of
waking up. Tho most of the class stick
to their old machinery and old methods.
They insist on dplng business their own
way and appoaT to think that they can
prosper with the old machinery that their
grandfathers used because their grand
fathers prospered. This is one of the chief
causes of the decline of British industry.
In a previous letter I referred to tho
difficulty which Mr. Stewart, the Ameri
can who built the Westlngliouse works,
had Insetting his bricklayers to lay more
than 450 bricks day. The same difficulty
exists os to all classes of English labor.
The factory men complain, that every
workman tries to do as little instead of
os much as possible In the time he works,
lie goes on the principle that there Is only
so much work to bo done and that what
is not done today will have to be done
tomorrow’, and also -that if ho does all tho
work there will bo none left for his
fellows. Tile amount of work expected
of each man In many cases, which is
ed by the state. There is but little work
done during Easter week, and in this
region especially little during the week
following Ascension day. Then there Is a
holiday time about midsummer, and also
at Christmas and New Year. The Amer
ican would celebrate such times in a
rational manner, but in a majority of
cases tho English laborer celebrates them
by getting drunk.
C>ur people who 'have not visited the fac
tory centers of England can have no idea
of the terrible condition of tho working
classes as regards the use of Intoxicating
liquors. Women and girls patronize the
saloons almost as much as the men, and
you cannot go into a public house without
finding front one to a dozen women drink
ing. There are saloons near all the fac
tories, and at the meal hours the hun
dreds of factory girls rush for them and
sit down with the men and have their
beer, gin or Whisky With their meals.
They drink at noon and at night, and
many drink too much.
The average man, when he receives his
wages, lays aside a certain amount for bis
drink over Sunday. If ho makes $10 a
week he may give his wife $5 for tho
household expenses and reserve the other
$6 for the public house where he sits and
guzzles. In many cases he prolongs his
spree till Monday, and the factory’ then
looks for him In vain. This fact makes
English labor very unreliable. The com
panies dare not contract to finish their
jobs in a fixed time, and ns a result much
of ‘their business is going out of the coun
try.
Again, when the American capitalist has
a big job his workmen will turn in and
work nights to help him. Here, I am told,
the average man works rather against
than for his employer, and the more skill
ful a man is the slower he works.
For fear what I have said about Eng
lish drunkenness may’ be disputed. T have
looked np the national drink bill for one
year and I find that It ex-
Engltnd’ii coeds that of any other
Big nation. It amounts to
more than $SOO,000,000 an-
Exceeds nually, or almost a hun-
Oura. dred dollars per year, for
each family of five.
The amount spent for liquors in loan was
more than the government revenue of that
Sheff eld cutlers at work.
fixed by trade combinations, Is the
amount possible for the weakest and lazi
est. The minimum wage—that is, that all
members of a certain trade shall receive
a fixed amount per day’ without regard
to the relative value of their labor—is
upheld, and the rule of one man to a
machine is fought for.
Strikes and lockouts are common, and
hundreds of thousands of people are af
fected by them every year. I have before
me the figures of such strikes for the
year 1900. They numbered CIS and 1S8.000
people were Involved in them. The total
loss of work amounted to more than three
miHion days, or. in round numbers, cut
ting out the Sundays, to the work of one
man for about ton thousand years. Reck
oning tho days at eight hours and the
wages at only G pence or 12 cents an
hour, the loss in money amounted to more
than $3.ooo,ooo.
The principal causes of strik-s were
against the reduction of or for the ad
vancement of wages, nfnty-three of them
arose from the employ ment of people out
side the unions, or contrary to the rules
of tho unions, and only six were for a
reduction of hours.
All of these strikes were connected with
the trades unions, which are very strong
in Great Britain. There are thirty-two
unions here which have altogether a
membership of S93.000, and In addition. 517
others, the members of which make a to
tal of almost 1,400.000 trades unionists. The
men contribute liberally to the unions,
and the union funds on hand in 1000
amounted, it is estlaiated. to about $18,-
000,000, or to the income of the members
of the union for almost two years.
One thing that tends to the Injury of
the English manufacturing industries is
what is known as the week ends and also
the numerous holidays. The week end is
the Saturday half holiday’ which is com
mon all over this country. No one
works after 1 o’clock on that day. and a
large proportion of the men, and of the
women as well, celebrate the time by
going on a drunk, which in many cases
lasts until Monday. The holidays of the
English workmen amount to very nearly
a month every year. I speak of those
taken voluntarily as well as those allow-
year and more than the rents of all the
houses and farms of the country. Taking
out the people who it is estimated abstain
from the use of intoxicants, it amount
ed to about $35 per head, and two-thirds
of the whyle was drunk by the Working
classes. These figures are taken from
the London Mail Year Book, which also
adds that of ail the nations of the world
the English drink the most and the Amer
icans the least.
But let mo tell you something about
this city of Sheffield, in which I am now
writing. It is the typical English steel
manufacturing town, and is the chief cut
lery town of the whole world. It is a
city of the rich and poor, of many capi
talists and tens of thousands of work
men. Its workmen have been doing the
same class of work for generations, and
they are among the most skilled of their
kind. A vast amount of the work is
done by hand. I went through one of
the largest cutlery establishments and
found in it hundreds of blacksmiths
pounding out knife blades and razor
blades upon anvils, fashioning them just
as the country blacksmith does his work
at home. 1 saw the grinding done b'-
hand, and In other little shops the han
dles were made and the knives and ra
zors put together in the same way. Much
of the work It seemed to me could have
been equally well and more rapidly done
by machinery.
Sheffield makes me think of Pittsburg.
It is about as big as Pittsburg, and it
lies in a nest in the hills at the junction
of two rivers. It has hundreds of foun
dries and factories, and the foundjry chim
neys rise through the smoke which filings
over it like the ghosts of a dead forest
vielng in height with the spires of tho
churches.
The city has good streets, some of which
have been recently widened at the cost
of the corporation'. It has an excellent
car system, which will give von rides for
one or two cents a trip. It lias a mag
nificent town hall, which cost $800,OUG, and
other fine buildings.
The business blocks would do credit to
Pittsburg itself, and In one of the best
of them Is the American consulate, with
the good old American flag Hying from
the windows.
The United States consul, by the way,
is Major Church Howe, a business man
from Nebraska. He has brought the
consulate out of the chaos in which It
formerly was and is now pushing Ameri
can Ideas in a most respectable way.
By ANNA S. RICHARDSON.
F William S. Devery carries
the primaries and wins the
Tammany leadership in the
ninth assembly district on
September 1G, he will owe
his success to tho women,
of his district.”
"Why?” asked the wom
an reporter.
“Go and see for your
self.”
And she went.
The door leading into
the “Big Chief’s” sanctum
in the Four Corners’ Club rooms at
Twenty-eighth street and Eighth avenue
had been left open—quite inadvertently.
Three of his lieutenants, who wore sort
ing papers, half arose and looked dis
tinctly disagreeable. The “Big Chief,”
who was signing checks, glanced up, his
pen poised in mid-air, his face absolutely
expressionless.
“Well?”
“Do you approve of women in poli
tics?”
The lieutenants frowned. Mr. Devery
smiled—an encouraging, comforting
smile.
“Sure!" .
•Then you believe in equal suffrage?”
Mr. Devery’s smile underwent a change,
humor giving way to shrewdness.
“Well, I wasn’t just thinking of say
ing so—today.”
One of the lieutenants tapped his
fingers nervously on the long, narrow
table round which they were grouped.
Devery glanced at him, then leaned back
in his chair. The tattoo ceased abruptly.
“But if they can’t vote, of what polit
ical value are they?”
“When I am through here, come down
to nty headquarters and find out.”
For ten minutes—silence, save for the
scratching of his pen, the faint rustle
of paper and an occasional word spoken
in an undertone. Silhouetted against the
wide window—and it takes a generous
window to silhouette Mr. Devery’s ample
proportions—the most picturesque figure
in New York politics today presented it
self for study—a study in contrasts.
He is of more than average height,
but looks shorter because so stout. You
wish he had gone into training to rescue
a superb physique from
A Graphic the evil effects of high
Pen living or lack of exercise.
Picture His face is too florid, his
of “De double chin too pro-
Chief.” nounced, but his Iron-
gray hair lends dignity,
almost an aristocratic quality to his gen
eral bearing—so long as he remains seat
ed. lie is awkward and ‘heavy on his
feet, but his hands are deft and not
badly groomed. H-e may repel at times
with the abruptness of his speech, but
he woos with certain pleasant curves that
form about Ills mouth, and a dash of
humor and raillery in his eyes.
Though noted for the facility with
which he can murder tho king’s English,
he did not drop his "g's” or employ the
double negative- once during the two
hours which I -spent with him that after
noon. (Query: When is Devery posing—
Before the woman interviewer w’hen he
chooses his words with care? or before
the masses when he drops so reudilv into
the vernacular of “de gang?”) At times
he appears as simple and guileless as the
central figure of a bucolic novel. Again
lie moves suddenly beyond your reach;
his face as inscrutable as that of tho
Sphinx. 1 et always there is fearlessness
in his eye, mastery in his voice and mag
netism in his hand. He dominates men
and wins women. Children idolize him
and reform politicians say he is the most
dangerous element hi metropolitan poli
tics. j, |
One of. the lieutenants escorted mo to
the W. S. Devery headquarters five
blocks farther south on Eighth avenue.
Ho gave me to understand that he did
not care much about the press. It does
not take Mr. I lev. ry with sufficient se
riousness. Neither do his enemies. There
they sometimes make a mistake, and wake
up with a jolt to fir l that instead of nurs
ing the outside sli 't of a comic supple
ment they have been hugging a night
mare.
When Devery was retired by the reform
administration, unthinking ones checked
off his name as a "dead one.” Not so tho
loyal “Ninth.” To its.40,000 or 43,000 in
habitants he was still “de chief.” Ac
cording to West . Side, rumor, among the
unthinking ones w re John C. Sheehan,
representing the Greater New York de
mocracy, and Frank Goodwin, guarding
the Tammany Interests, both of whom
have been elevated to leadership through j
the influence of the erstw’hile powerful
chief. t
But when Devery decided to resume
the reins of leadership in his own district,
t lie re was no talk of personal Ingrati
tude. ITe merely dropped a few choice
expressions like "My People” and "Our
Young Men.” Where were the so-called
leaders? Why were honest men in “de
Ninth” looking tor work that was not
forthcoming? And what are political
leaders for, If not to secure Jobs for their
voters? And when at last, but not until
popular curiosity was at fever hea^Dev-
ery boldly strolled into the ring as the
champion of “My People” there was a
demonstration that put subway explosions
to shame.
The ranks of the Sheehanites and the
Goodwinites quivered with unholy mirth.
Here was a great joke, for did they not
hold the organization? Then their laugh
ter suddenly ceased. Devery laid down
his hand, and it was all face cards—the
faces of women and children.
Now your West Side man of family
may beat his wife, but he has the prop
er respect and. incidentally, a dependable
vote for the leader who treats her as if
she were the first lady of the land. This
same voter may consider it his right, to
set his family out on the doorstep of a
winter night while he sleeps oif a spree,
but In summer he will shout for the
man who hires a barge and sends those
long suffering infants on an outing.
The West Side woman may have occa
sion to curse the political pow-wows where
the golden brew flows without money and
without price, but she has a lively regard
for the man who tenders the blowout.
provided he can give her husband a job
under a city contractor and can stand
between herself and an Inconvenient land
lord in the matter of a dispossess no
tice.
Ail this and more Devery could and
would do. The women of his district did
not stop to question how or why he could
accomplish it. They simply accepted the
fact gladly, and there was a general feel
ing of safety among the heads of fami
lies in “de Ninth,” a general clearing of
domestic atmospheres. The king was
coming into his own. and the land would
once more flow with milk and honey.
This is not Just what was told the re
porter on that short walk between Dev-
ery’s old and new headquarters. Most of
it was read between the lines. In a gen
uine Tammany campaign there is always
more fun In reading between the lines
than in following the straight copy.
In the big club room of the second floor,
about fifty people were waiting for him
and every one had a favor to ask. In
fact, it looked more like
How Dew- the room of a charity or-
ery Grant* ganlzation society than
Favors and the headquarters of a po-
Makes litical leader.
Friends. Devery paused in the
doorway. Seven of those
waiting for him were women. ITe ad
dressed them first. And he addressed each
one separately, permitting her to draw
him aside. He knew beforehand how he
would answer in each case—-"File your
application with my clerk and we will
see what can be done for you.” But he
also knew that each woman hated to
think the others could hear her tale of
woe. ' She wanted a little private inter
view of her own—and she got it. That is
another way Devery has. He knows
women.
Most of the men who greeted him want
ed jobs. They, too, wore referred to the
proper clerk. But they knew that when
Devery referred them to another he did
not lorget, and woe to the henchman who
failed to carry out the behests of his
leader in the matter of “job.” He has a
employed, his face radiant, his big dog
strutting proudly ahead, as if realizing
that he had been complimented by the
“De Chief.” Nor does the chap begrudge
the price of the gaudy blanket, for Dev
ery In a few hearty words and by a mag
netic hand pressure has given him the
idea that the outcome of this campaign
may depend to a certain extent upon the
vote-getting properties of himself and—
his pup. That is another of Devery’*
little ways.
This is another mistake made by un
thinking enemies who crow over the fact
that the big chief “talks too much.”
They forget that his hand
evqj in his pocket. If
Heady be lives up to his reputa-
end tion of spoilsman, they
Tactful forget that he also dl-
Giver. vides his spoils with a
free hand among ’ those
who he sincerely believes—and perhaps
not without reason—are hopelessly unfit
ted to work out the financial problem
for themselves. If he has a "pull” tha^
is questionable as viewed from a strict
ly elevated municipal standpoint, he gives
his people the full benefit of his "pull,”
if lie thinks it Is well for them to share it.
Here 1s an incident in point.
A few nights ago he was holding a con
ference of special moment In tho Four
Corners' Club room. Men with anxious
faces wqre gathered about him. Sud
denly there came a timid rap and the door
opened to reveal a wide-eyed, white
faced woman. The man who had opened
the door-started to shut It.
"I want to see Mr. Devery,” she began.
The sentinel scowled. "Come to my head
quarters tomorrow. Mr. Devery is busy.”
"Tomorrow will be too late,” she sob
bed. The big chief rapped on the table.
“Let her come. Well, what’s wrong?”
"My baby is dying at Bellevue. It's
past visitin' hour. They won't let me
in—and f must see him again. Won’t
you—”
Devery rapped at the portable tele
phone. When he got through talking to
Deveryism draws no social lines. His admirers waiting for a glimpse of
the “Big Chief.”
A characteristic pose of "Big Bill."
pleasant faculty, too, of dropping into
the free ice depots and ascertaining
whether his people are getting what he
has ordered, without question or cavil.
In time, Devery reached his desk and
gathered up his mail. Most of it was
turned over to those whose duty it is to
investigate claims and dispense charities.
A characteristic letter opened up with
tho announcement that the writer there
of had learned through the press of
Devery’s kindness to the poor, and would
he please look into the case of a poor
woman at — street? After a detailed
descriptoa of her tribulations, the writer
wound un something like this:
“Hoping you will do what you’can for
her, and God will give you the credit
that man cannot give. Hoping you will
have success and that you will win, and
don't stop until you get to the top, for
you're deserving of it, hoping you will
not give this woman’s name to the public,
I remain, , etc.”
And the inspector detailed on the case
marched forth with a little “hope” like
this on his Ups: “Here's hopin’ there'll
'be a vote or two in the house if not in
tho family.”
Those who know tho ropes file their
petitions with any clerk who happens to
be in the office, for after nil, work of
this sort must be done by routine. The
uninitiated insist upon remaining until
Devery arrives. For each of these he lias
a brief but comforting word, and they are
convinced that hack of the word is the
will for the deed
There approached a young man, lead
ing a huge St. Bernard dog. The latter
wore a blanket, bearing this legend, “Cur
choice for leader, W. S. Devery.” Any
one unacquainted w’itli Devery’s methods
would naturally expect to see the leader
offer a cigar or perhaps a dollar or so
for treats. But he simply patted the
dog’s head thoughtfully, then turned to
its owner:
“You’ve got a great dog there. Sport.
Never saw his match In the ninth. Gnlr g
to have him in the parade tonight? That’s
right. Help the good work along. Good-
day.”
They shook hands, and the voting fel
low went back to the stables where he is
the superintendent at Bellevue, he said
tersely to one of his men:
"Get .a cab and move quick. Tell the
driver .to take her there as fast as he
can.’’ .. *
He wa@ right. There was not a minute
to spare. She reached the hospital just
■before the little eyes closed. Others
might have sent her money for useless
flowers, but the big chief could and did
give her what she hungered for most and
had pleaded elsewhere for in vain, the
last moment with her baby.
The justice of Devery’a “pull” with a
municipal institution might be question
ed, his sympathy with that suffering moth
er never. And among the west side wom
en sympathy outweighs municipal disci
pline every time. That mother does not
have to go out and electioneer for Dev
ery. Her story has passed from one end
of the district to the other, and the wom
en all say: “Now ain't that just like the
•big chief?"
It was instructive to watch Devery on
the day of his big excursion. He stood
by the gang plank for an hour and a
half while .tifeen thousand or more of
his guests went on board. He helped
many, perhaps half, the women u.p the
plank. A mere touch of- the finger tips
or a word of caution to the gaping boy
at his mother's side, or a kindly word to
"granny” walking behind her, and that
mother of three stalwart sons (voters,
every one of them), was a Deveryite,
through and through. Now men may \
withstand oratory, parades and even the
purchase price of their vote when times
are dull, but they will not stand out
against domestic nagging three hundred
and sixty-five days In the year. The
democrat voter who doPS not vote for
Devery at the primaries in "the ninth”
this year will have to “explain” matters
to his wife. Moreover, the explanation
will have to hold water, and it is more
apt to look like a sieve to tho woman
who has come out for Devqry. A wom
an may not vote, she may not electioneer
even, but she can turn a west Ride flat
house into a tower of Babel for the man
who fails to see Devery through her
glasses.
Little Stories from Beyond the Sky Line
The tunnel for the New York subway at
the present time is half cut. Only thir
teen months more will be required for the
excavation. The cost so far has been
$13,750,000. More than $2,500,000 has been
spent in removing and changing sew
ers.
Lord George Goshen, former English
chancellor of the exchequer, heretofore
best known as an authority on finance, is
at work on a biography of Goethe, of
whose writings he is a groat admirer.
Years of research are said to have re
sulted lend George’s gathering together
a mass of new’ material.
Russia has decided to found an ar
cheological museum in Sebastopol. Tho
building is to be erected in the style
of an old Christian Iwisilica, and to bo
arranged for three departments, one de
voted to tho Greek, one to the Roman
and a third to the Byzantine period.
The whole project has been intrusted to
thd management of Grand Duke Alex
ander Michailovltch.
The one hundredth anniversary of the
admission of Ohio to statehood will be
celebrated on March 1, 1903, the State
Archeological and Historical S.oeiefy
having decided that that is the proper
day to observe. As a matter of fact,
March 1, 1803, was the date of the assem
blage of the first Ohio legislature, but
the formal act of admission of Ohio to
the union was proclaimed on February 19.
1803.
Dr. Karl Wessely, the Australian papy
rus expert, has found in n Vienna papy
rus some new sayings of Diogenes, the
cynic. Although the papyrus, as a whole,
is in a wretched condition, several col
umns are still legible. It contains, be
sides the proverbs, a number of tales
about the philosopher. Dr. Wessely
thinks that the roll must have formerly
contained about 300 of these stories.
Miss Hannah B. Clark has accepted the
position of dean of women of Knox col
lege, Galesburg, Ills. Miss Clark was
graduated from Smith college, Massachu
setts, In 1887, and then taught for five
years in Dearborn college. Chicago. She
next took a three years’ course in the
University of Chicago. For the last three
years she has been dean of women in
West Virginia university. She is a mem
ber of the Chicago Women's Club. She
will teach sociology In addition to her
duties as dean. At the present moment
she is traveling in Scotland.
A Paris physician reports the case of a
Physician suffering from tuberculosis
whom he sent to Switzerland with in
junctions to take care not to expose him
self. Tlie patient climbed a mountain,
was caught in a severe storm, altogether
unprotected, lost in the snow, lived for
three days and nights in the open and
was at last found and sent b#-k to
France, since which time he lias con
tinued to improve and is now pronounced
cured.
The work of tunneling the Simplon and
thus giving the shortest railroad route
between western, eastern and southern
Europe, as well as to the Indies and
Orient, had been going on slowly, on ac
count of inundations, but has now re
sumed Its former activity, and the <jon-
tractors think that the tunnel will be com
pleted''in the fixed period. May 13, 1904.
The work was begun on August 9. 1898,
with the understanding that the con
tractors should pay 5,000 francs for every
day of delay, and that they should re
ceive the same amount for every day in
advance of the date fixed for the com
pletion of the tunnel. The company of
the Jura-Simplon, the promoter of the
work, is already studying the best means
to render as comfortable as possible to
the railroad passengers the run through
this tunnel of 19,731 meters—about 12 miles.
The great trouble to- meet is the ab
sence of sufficient ventilation. This will
be obviated, It is said, la the Simplon tun
nel by the use of gin American patented
ventilating system, though with some
modifications.
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