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from the effect of the Capltoljtself.
The exterior design for the 'buildings
Is classic, suggesting in its general di
vision of parts the Qarde Meuble in the
Place de la Concorde, Paris, while the
pavilions are modeled on those of the
Colonnade de Louvre. Architecturally
the front Is divided into two pairts, the
Work Progressing Rapidly.
Although the digging of the trenches
for the House office building was be
gun less than a year ago the structure
is now up to the first floor line. To
hasten the work Elliott Woods, Super
intendent of the Capitol, directed that,
construction begin before all the speci
fications and contracts were complete.
This was done through letting out the
stone contract first, by authority of the
House Building Commission. It Is cal
culated that both buildings will be
ready for the Sixtieth Congress.
In accordance with Masonic tradi
tions, the ceremony was conducted In
the open air. In a simple, unostenta
tious manner. In every detail It corre
sponded as nearly as practicable with
the historic ceremony in which Presi
dent Washington participated. The
articles placed In the cornerstone were
largely Identical In character with
those deposited in the original Capi
tol stone by Federal Lodge, and, as
both President Roosevelt and Speaker
Cannon are members of the Masonic
order, the occasion In every way har
monized with the spirit of the cere-
moqy directed by the Virginia Jurisdic
tion In laying the cornerstone of the
Capitol.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
What Is known to modern dentists
as bridge work was familiar to the
Etruscans, as extant specimens attest,
according to an interesting article In
the British Medlcar Journal. Plaster
ears, noses and lips were common
among the Indians, where the cutting
off of these features was a punishment
much In use, and Creek and Roman
veterans who had lost a leg or an arm
In war tried to make good tho de
ficiency by artificial substitutes. It Is
stated further;
“What Is said to be the oldest artifi
cial leg In existence Is now In the mu
seum of the Royal College of Surgeons
of England. It was found In a tomb
at Capua. Pliny speaks of a Roman
warrior who, a century and a half be
fore the birth of Christ, wore an arti-
mantpulate a sword. In tho Middle
Ages artificial limbs sometimes re
paired tbe disablements of war. The
‘Iron hand’ of Ooetz von Berllchlngen
was an Ingenious piece of mechanism
made for that famous knight In 1604.
A century later an artificial hand was
Let this "1900” Gravity
Washing Machine do
yonr Washing Free. •
THE CAPITOL PLAZ^l AS IT WILL APPEAR WHEN NEW BUILDINGS ARE COMPLETED.
China of a place In one of the corps of
engineers organized by that country
for the development of Its railroad
system. The offer came, too, from a
young Chinaman who was taking a
graduate course at Cornell while she
was there. The graduate student was
sent, here, It Is said, not only to In
crease his technical knowledge of en
gineering, but to obtain for his coun
try the best engineers to be had. He
watched Miss BlstctTs work closely
and offered her a place.
are never caused by volcanoes, but by
faulting plains, This la particularly
true of both seaboards of the United
States. Mr. Walcott and other scien
tists of the Geological and Geodetic
Surveys agree that scientifically the
recent disturbances were caused by
conditions Identical with those pertain
ing during the earthquake which de
molished Charleston, 8. C„ on August
31, 1886. Volcanoes occasionally cause
shaking of the earth’s crust, but the
disturbances occasioned by pent-up
gases seeking to escape are felt only
locally. !!•:
Tbe cause generally attributed to
earthquakes Is the gradual cooling of
the earth, which Is known to still be a
molten mass inside. When any object
cools It contracts, and so will the earth
as -it grows colder. This contraction
would unavoidably cause a disturbance
worn by Christian, Duke of Brunswick.
Ambrose Pare devised artificial limbs
with movable Joints, which were made
for him bv artificers, of whom Lor
raine, a locksmith, was tbe moat
famous. Pare devotes a special chap
ter to the means of repairing or sup
plying natural or accidental defects
In the human body. He describes ar
tificial eyes and noses, an artificial
tongue and an artificial palate. At a
later period Father Sebastian, Car
mclite monk, made movable arms and
hands, in the earlier part of the sev
enteenth century Peter Lowe, In his
‘Discourses on the Whole Art of
Chlrurgery,’ gives representations of
artificial legs. About the middle of
the same century Fkldnelli, a Floren
tine surgeon, mentions tbe use of ar
tlflclal dyes of sliver, gold and crystal
of the House and Senate office
buildings.
Senate Ceremony Next Pall.
The House annex was started first
and Is In a more advanced stage of
construction than the Senate-building,
though the cornerstone of the latter
may be ready to put In place next Fall.
It Is estimated that tbe two buildings
together will Involve on outlay of
about ten million dollars- In size and
Miss Longman was born In Win
chester, Ohio, her father; Edwin H.
Longman, being a musician and an ar- 1
tlsL Drawing was one of her childish i
amusements, and she began modeling '
without instruction In the art depart
ment of Olivet College. Her work there i
attracted tbe attention of Lorado Taft,
who invited her to enter tbe Chicago
Art Institute as his pupil. She did. so,' i
and during the first year paid her ex- |
ponses by doing library work.' Then )
she was made an assistant instructor l
in the school, and a year or two later i
she came to New Tork, where She i
soon after became an assistant to, Mr. i
An ostrich egg weighs about .three
and a half pounds. It Is less delicate
in flavor than a hen’s egg, although
perfectly eatable. Tt Is a curious fact
that ostrich eggs will keep fresh for
two or three months. The flesh, of the
ostrich itself is edible, being not unlike
MAGAZINE SECTION.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY,
MAY # i t, iyofi'
SUCCESSFUL SCULPTRESS.
Miss Evelyn Longman of Chicago
Awarded Fifteen Thousand
. Dollar Prize.
To Carve Bronze Doors at Annapolis
Naval Academy—Has Attainsd Fame
_ Through Her Figure of ••Victory"
at St. Louie Fnlr.
When the new bronxe entrance doors
of the Annapolis Naval Academy are
completed and hung in place there will
exist another monument to the skill
of American women. Colonel Robert
M. Thompson, who presented these
doors to the academy as a memorial
of the class of ’68, stipulated In making
tbe offer that the design selected for
tbe doors should be awarded by compe
tition, tbe winner to receive a prize of
315,000. There were thirty-three com
petitors for this prize, an unusually
large number, and the designs submit
ted are said to have been of a high
degree of excellence. Tbe votes of all
live Jurors were cast for the'model pre
sented by Mies Evelyn B. Longman, of
Chicago.
Taft She is rather proud of tbe fact
that she has never studied abroad, and
also that she has been able to meet
all tbe expenses of her artistic edu
cation herself.
Sculptress Is Alresdy Fsmous.
The best known work of Miss Long
man 1b the bronze figure of "Victory,”
which was carved for the Festival Hall
at the St. Louis World’s Fair. For
this she was awarded a silver medal.
At the close of the fair tbe original
was brought to the Chicago Art Insti
tute. A bronze reproduction has been
purchased by the Union League Club
and will adorn the entrance to the club-
rooms.
Another one of Miss Longman’s
works which has won commendation Is
a bronze figure of “Death,” which she
recently completed, and which Is to
be placed on the Story monument In
the cemetery at Lowell, Mass.
WOMAN CIVIL ENGINEER.
Granddaughter of Mr*. Stanton Has
Oiler to Go to Chinn.
Miss Nora Stanton Blatch, grand
daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton, Is now a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers. She Is the
first woman admitted to membership,
and. It Is said, there was not a dissent-
SAN FRANCISCAN HORROR.
Terrible Destruction of the City
by Violent Earthquake
and Flames.
Fire Results in All Part* of Metrop
olis-Geological Scientists Say No
Connection Between Quake and
Vesuvlaa Eruption.
AT THE
loss LONGMAN’S STATUE OF "VICTORY
CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
Min Longman’s design has two pan-
ala representing "Peace” and “War.” On
the peace panel Is a figure eymbolizlng
science, an old man In an attitude of
deep thought, explaining a difficult
problem to two students of the acad-
- emy. On tbe war panel patriotism Is
represented by a. female figure, sym
bolical also of the home, the protection
et which Is assumed to bo the reason
for the existence of the navy. Under
her draperies Is a coat of armor, and
with one hand on a cannon she points
with the other to the distance, where
masts of ships sbow the destination of
the marching figures In the back
ground.
In the tipper panels of the door ars
festoons supported by shells—of oak
leaves over the war panel and olive
over that of peace. In the lower panels
wreaths of the same leaves Inclose tie
names ofTiaval heroes. In the transom
is the dedication to the class of ’68,
and above the transom Is a group rep
resenting Fame—two laurel-crowned
figures on either side of an altar-Uke
pedestal, with an inscription to John
Paul Jones, whose bones are to rest
in tbe crypt of the chapel. The pedes
tal Is surmounted by a tripod, from
which issue flames, symbolizing endur
ing fame.
Award to Woman Unprecedented.
The award of this prize to a woman
le said to be an unprecedented event In
the artistic history of the country, and
a bright fnture la predicted for the
young scnlptrese.
“I consider Miss Longman to he one
of the most promising of our younger
sculptors,” said Mr. Daniel C. French,
whose aeeletant she has been for the
last four years.
ing opinion offered when she was pro
posed for membership.
Miss Blatch was the first woman to
get a degree of Bachelor of Science In
civil engineering at Cdrnell University.
She took a four years’ course, finish
ing among the first five of the class.
Since her graduation she has been
draughtsman In a big bridge concern.
She Is now considering an offer from
It was during the repose of early
morning; the Spring-time sun was
casting Its golden rays over the Sierra
Novadas and striking down Into the
peaceful, slumbering valley of the
Sacramento. All the Western Hemi
sphere was at peace with the elements,
Suddenly there came au awful growl
ing and crashing beneath tho very cen
tre of San Francisco, and In a tenth of
the space of time required to describe
the event, falling walls and fire com
bined to work on the metropolis of the
Pacific the most appalling natural ca
lamity which has occurred on this
continent since tho landing of the Pil
grims. The destruction that haa been
accomplished Is almost incalculable,
Tho Inferno of flames which burst forth
simultaneously In various parts of the
city was rendered still more terrible
by the repeated quaklngs of the earth,
by which the rescuers were In mo
mentary danger of being buried with
the dead beneath the falling structures
The very earth Itself—our own mother
earth—proved as treacherous as a
deadly snake, and the usual ocean
breeze, by a strange perversion of na
ture, h’aitled around to a point where it
fanned the llames to intensity and
became a deadly agent of destruction.
Tho general dismay of the populace
was augmented by the constant roar
of dynamite explosions, made in a vain
effort to check the progress of the
flames. The vast pall of smoke that
blotted out the sky did not tend to alle
viate tbe general anxiety. Yet, in such
surroundings, calculated to Inspire uni
versal panic and madness, there were
performed numberless feats of heroism
that will remain on the scroll of time
as illustrious proofs of the nobility
which is hidden beneath tbe surface of
ordinary life. Cool heads and brave
hands, with stout hearts behind them,
performed their work of rescue In the
very face of death, and even the Inde
scribable horror of the earthquake was
overcome. ■
San Francisco, a rich and proud city,
has been swept by fires heforo and
has, phoenix like, arisen from her
ashes. Moreover, she has more than
once experienced earthquake tremors
which were, to say the least, Injurious
and menacing. But America Is a
cemented nation. The disasters of one
section bring together In one grand
sympathetic bond the Inhabitants of
the others, all anxious and Insistent
upon holding out the helping hand and
voicing words of sympathy to the af
flicted, sister. States, cities and towns
throughout tho entire Union have of
fered unstinted assistance In the way
of money, food, clothing and medical
attendance, with which to relievo tho
want, not only of San Francisco, but
also tbe other California cities
and towns which have suffered with
the metropolis of the State.
In the already hardened shell that sur
rounds - the Inner mass. That shell
must give way at some point. Aside
from the contractions of the earth’s
surface, another cause Is given that
might affect Jthe changing of the sur
face of a given part of the world. This
cause is the accumulation of a vast
weight of sedimentary deposit brought
down by rivers. For example, the Mis
sissippi River Is entirely made up of
the deposits of the streams washing
down from higher lands. The weight
of that deposit would be difficult to
calculate, and resting upon a portion
of the earth’s shell, might occasion Its
sinking. This theory is held by some
scientists in connection with the Cali
fornia disaster, for the Sacramemto
River Is the depositor of vast weights
of sediment In the Pacific waters near
San Francisco.
LATINS CORNERSTONE,
Impressive Ceremony Incident to
Construction of New Capi
tol Buildings.
^
No Connection With Vesuvius.
Coming as this disaster did, practi
cally coincident with the Vesuvlan ca
lamity In July, many persons suppose
that there was a direct relation' be
tween the two. This Idea, however,
is logically contradicted by Director
Charles D. Walcott, of the Geological
Survey. Mr. Walcott holds that there
Is no possibility of a connection be
tween the earthquake and the Italian
volcano, for these two are entirely dif
ferent sclentlfio phenomena respon
sible for such earthquakes and vol
canic disturbances.
Great earthquakes, cays Mr. Walcott,
Greatest Natural Disasters of
History. _
Pompeii and Herculaneum de
stroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius
A. D. 79; more than 20,000 lives lost.
Earthquake in Constantinople, thou
sands killed; year 567.
Catania, Sicily, 15,000 persons killed
by earthquake; year 1137.
Syria, 20,000 killed by earthquake;
year 1158.
Cilicia. 20,000 killed by earthquake;
year 1268.
Palermo, earthquake, 6,000 lost; year
1726.
Canton, China, 1,000,000 lost by
earthquake; November 30, 1731.
Kuclian, North Persia, 40,000 lost;
earthquake; year 1765.
Lisbon, city ruined by earthquake,
25.000 killed; November. 1765.
Aleppo, destroyed by earthquake,
thousands killed; year 1822.
Canton, earthquake, 6,000 lost; May
27. 1830.
Calabria, earthquako, 10,000 lost;
year 1857.
Island of Krakatoa, volcanic erup
tion, 36,380 lives lost; May 27, 1883.
.Eruption of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, 79
killed; year 1880.
Isle of Ischia, earthquake, 2,000 lost;
year 1883.
Charleston, S. C., earthquako, 41
lives lost; August 31,1886. -
Bamlalsan, volcanic eruption 1,000
killed, July, 1888.
Island of Hondo. Japan, earthquake,
10.000 killed; October, 1891.
Venezuela, earthquake, 3,000 killed;
April 24. 1894.
Gautomala, earthquake, great loss of
lift; April, 1902.
St. Pierre. Martinique, Mont Pelee.
May, 1903: loss of life, 40,000.
Vesuvlan towns destroyed by erup
tion of volcaiio, April, 1906; 400 or
more killed,
San Francisco, April 18, 1906. earth
quake, followed by flee- _
President Roosevelt and 5peak*r
Cannon, Both Masons, Are Princi
pal Actors—$10,000,000 for Sen
ate and House.
When President Roosevelt on April
14th, laid the cornerstone or the new
office building for the House of Repre
sentatives, It marked the beginning of
improvements on Capitol Hill which
will’ make that section of Washington
comparable with the ancient hills of
Rome and Greece crowned with mag
nificent buildings In which met the
solons of ages past.
ThiB new building occupies a square
and Is about a hundred yards distant
lower corresponding to the first- story
of the building constituting a “rusti
cated” base, on which, extending
through the second and third stories,
Is the colonnade surmounted by Its
entablature and balustrade. It Is be
lieved that the effect of the two flank
ing buildings will be to give unity to,
the whole scheme and to emphasize
architecturally the great beauty of the
Capitol, all of the lines leading up to
and centering in its dome.
THE SURGERY OF THE AN-
CIENTS.
from the south wing of the Capitol,
with which it Is to be connected by
an underground passageway, through
which members of Congress may pass
back and forth from the legislative
hall to their offices. There are 410
office rooms, providing a room for each
Representative In Congress and Dele;
gate, and leaving vacant nineteen
rooms for a future growth In the mem
bership of the House through a reap-
pnrtlonmont of districts or the admis
sion of new States. The House annex
and the Senate office building, arao
under construction at the opposite end
of the plaza, aro being put up to pro
vide for the members of the National
Legislature, quarters absolutely needed
for the efficient transaction of public
business. The great ipowth In size
of both branches of Congress has
caused the Capitol building to be en
larged, but thls-waa only sufficient to
provide the necessary spaqe for the
assembly halls of House and Senate
and the committee rooms the latter
in many cases being small and badly
ventilated. Under present condition*
Individual mombers (unless they hap
pen to be chairmen of committees)
have no offices and a badly congested
condition exists. Realizing tbe need
of one great legislative centre where
Senators and Representatives may
concentrate their activities and be
comfortably quartered, Congress three
years ago authorized the construction
petitions balanced In their
the Capitol and an planned tq fit Into
a general architectural scheme. The
height of the buildings has been re
stricted that they may not overpower
the Capitol and they have been kept
simple In design, without pediments,
domes or other accentuated points to
prevent their detracting In any
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