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About The news. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1901-1901 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1901)
The Constitution _Well Built. The New Method of Construction Adds Strength and Saves Weight. The Constitution, the yacht built for the defense of the America’* Cup hy the Herreahoff Manufacturing Com- Dauy.is probably the lightest construct CONSTITUTION ON HE It TRIAL SAIL OFF BRISTOL. ed vessel of her size ever built, and It is largely on the lightness of her con struction that those interested In the yacht expect she will make her great grains. In model there is very little (difference between her and the Colum bia. The slight differences made are expected to enable her to carry ten per cent, more canvas than the cham pion of 1890, which alone should make her very much faster than the older yacht, hut with the great gains made In the construction of the hull these gains will be much more than they fI'HE CONSTITUTION’S LONOITUD INAL PLAN. SHOWING POSITION ( OF MAST STEP AND LEAD. "would otherwise be. Those who are Interested in the yaeht think there is o doubt of her beating the Independ ence. and they argue that even if the models are the same and each yacht lias the same amount of driving power the Constitution, with less weight to lrlve, will go through the water faster than the Independence, and every one concedes that in the hull the Constitu tion saves tons in weight over the In dependence. The Scientific American gives some detailed drawings of the const ruction of the Constitution, and shows where the great gains in weight saving are made. • , NEW SPORT FROM ANTIPODES. Ax and Saw Content* Are Witnessed by Shouting Thousand*. Tasmania may justly cluirn the credit <of having given the world a new’ sport. In that far-off land, among the men of brawn and might, whose swinging axes have felled the towering forests and converted their trackless depths iuto flourishing farm lands, has arisen a contest fit for kings; a form of ath letic exercise calculated to bring the "thrill of delight to all who have an honest admiration for good rod blood and the display of mighty muscle sys tematically trained to do useful "work. The new sport may be designated as *‘axmanship,” and although it is of but recent origin it has already taken the premiership over all other sports. A HANDICAP CHOPPING CONTEST IN FULL SWING. "What the bull fighter is to Spain and Mexico, the cricketer to England, the swordsman to France, the hockey player to Canada, and the football and baseball hero to the United States the champion axman has become to the brawn loving Australians. The championship contest or carni val is held yearly in Ulverstone, Tas mania, some time during the first two months of the year, under the auspices of an organization specially formed for the purpose, bearing the title of the “United Australian Axemen’s Associa tion.” The entries to the yearly competition Are not confined to Tasmania, but come also from Victoria, New South Wales and New Zealand. Each dis trict has Sts champion, and among the adherents of these various stars there Is the most heated controversy as to the respective merits of each. For months before the great coutest these brawny uxmon spend nil their spare time practicing, until they develop u speed and strength that Is little short of marvelous. This year's carnival is conceded to'have been the most suc cessful since the yearly meeting was inaugurated. In the championship chopping con- tests there were six trials and the final. Eight men participated in each of the trials, and the winners fought out the finals. As this contest Is designed pri marily to test a man’s skill in felling a tree, the log, a great piece of tough wood, six l’ect four iuches in girth, is placed firmly in the ground, as though It were a growing tree. Five minutes before the beginning of the heat the referee’s whistle sum mons the contestants into the inclos ure. They are all splendid specimens of physical prowess—thick set, deep chested, iron muscled and bronzed from exposure. Each carries his fa vorite ux, the fullest latitude being al lowed in the matter of selection. It is a significant fact that several of tho THOMAS PETTITT, WHO WON THE CHAM PIONSHIP. saws and axes used this year were the product of American firms. When all is ready the pistol shot sounds and the contest is on. Scarcely less exciting is the srnving contest. The log used is the same size as that employed in the chopping con test, but the time made is much more rapid, for the great saw cats through the w’ood much more quickly than the axe can go. This year for the first time the ax men’s and saw'yers’ championships were won by the same man—Thomas Pettitt, of Sprint, Tasmania. Not only did he win borh events, but he also broke the record for each. In some Italian towns, instead of giving books as prizes in public schools they give savitgs bank books, with a small sum ente-ed to the credit ®f the prize winner. THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERS v iLLE, GA. Hospital For Sick Wheat i.rrat Cereal lufirmary at Port Ar thur on l.ake Superior Won derful Cure* Effected. The latest thing in the hospital line is an infirmary for sick wheat, where various ailments of the kernel are treated and in many cases u perfect cure is effected. There is an immense animal loss re sultlng from wet or diseased wheat. The loss from loose smut alone is at least $18,000,000 a year. The Depart ment of Agriculture has disseminated a great deal of information among the farmer* in regard to the diseases of wheat and the means for bringing about a cure, but not much benefit lias resulted from the information. Iu the large wheat sections of Manitoba and the Northwest the same conditions prevail, and It was with the object of reducing the loss to a minimum that the wheat hospital has been estab lished at Fort Arthur, at the north west end of Lake Superior. Here an elaborate system is lu use for restor ing diseased wheat to a healthy state. The building is in the form of a large elevator, very similar to the common grain elevators of the United States and Canada. It is supported out in the lake upon crib work, so that vessels may come alongside and carry the cured wheat directly to the East or foreign ports. About 2,000,000 bushels of wheat are treated iu the hospital every year. Where the disease of the wheat is of a very virulent type, it is impossi ble to improve it tu health. Diseases known as “stlukiug smut” or “bunt” “ WHEAT HOSPITAL,” PORT ARTHUR ’ f CANADA. are beyond all help. In the advanced stages of those diseases the whole ker nel is infected with the germ and be comes a mass of spores, which have consumed all the nutritive parts of the kernel, leaving only a thin shell on the outside. When this breaks there is a countless number of germs released, which have a fetid odor and are ruin ous to flour with which they come in contact. Kernels that are intact in side the brown skin can be successful ly treated, even though they are so black with smut as to be irrecogniza ble as wheat. In addition to this un sanitary or dirty wheat, there are ker nels that get the dropsy; that is, they become saturated with water, and are unfit for anything except stock fodder. Sometimes an entire crop will be af fected in this way, and it usually proves to be a total loss. The drying plant of the hospital Is capable of treating (JoOO bushels per hour. The plant includes a series of frames of perforated metal, through which hot air is forced until the wet wheat is completely dried. The wheat is divided into three classes, depending upon the amount of water it contains, and this condition corresponds to the stage of the disease. “Tough” wheat contains about five per cent, of water, “damp” wheat about eight per cent., and “wet” wheat about fifteen per cent. Normal wheat contains about four per cent, of water. After wheat in any of the stages of the disease re ceives the treatment given at the hos pital, it comes out in a normal condi tion and ready for the market as first class wheat. Scouring is the treatment given for smut. The dirty wheat is passed through rapidly ievolving machines of metal and the dirt is removed by fric tion. In one stage of the treatment the wheat is thrown from the top of the elevator to the bottom floor, and the erosion is such that in a few months pine planks, two and a half inches iu thickness, will be completely worn out. Asa great amount of dust is thrown off from the smutty wheat in this treatment, the employes in the hospitals are compelled to wear face masks. These are made of hard white ATTENDANT IN A WHEAT HOSPITAL, SHOWING FACE PKOTECTOR. rubber, with holes in the sides, in which are placed small pieces of dampened sponge that absorb the dust as the workmen inhale the aia Over their eyes are worn a large pair of close-fitting glasses. With this head dress they look almost like div ers. It is said that wheat passing through this treatment is better for milling pur poses than the normal wheat, from the fact that a part of the coat, which has to be removed in milling, is removed hy the treatment. There is none of it used in the flour mills of this coun try. however, most of it being shipped to Europe and Eastern Canada, Discovery of Extraordinary Plant. What is probably the most extra ordinary plant ever discovered lia3 now been found by E. A. Suverkrop, of Philadelphia, who, during trips to South America, has for some years been contributing to the collection of his friend, Professor N. E. Brown, ol the Herbarium, Kew Gardens, Lon don. The amazing plant which Mr. Suverkrop has now found is an orchid that takes a drink whenever it feels thirsty hy letting down a tube into the water, the tube, when not in use, being coiled up on top of the plant. “One hot afternoon,” says Mr. Su verkrop, “I sat down under some brush -wood at the side of a lagoon on the Rio de la Plata. Near at hand was a forest of dead shorn trees, which had actually been choked to death by or chids and climbing cacti. In front of me, and stretching over the water of the lagoon and about a foot afove it. was a branch of one of these dead trees. Here and there clusters of com mon ‘planta del ayre’ grew on it, and a network of green cacti twined around It. “Among the orchids I noted one dif ferent from the rest, the leaves, sharp laneehead shaped, growing all round the root and radiating from it. From the centre or axis of the plant hung a long slender stem about one-eighth of an inch thick by one-fourth inch wide, the lower end of which was in the water to a depth of about four inches. “I at once "went over to examine my discovery. Imagine my surprise when I touched the plant to see this centre stem gradually contract and convul sively roll itself up in a spiral like a roll of tape. “But more surprising yet was the ob ject and construction of this stem. I found on close examination and dissec tion that it was a long slender flat tube, the walls about 1-32 of an infch thick, cellular in construction, open at the outer end and connected at the in ner end to the roots by a series of hair like tubes. “By subsequent observation I found that when the plant was in want of ■water this tube would gradually un wind till it dipped into the water. Then it would slowly coil round and wind up, carrying with it the amount of water that that part of the tube which had been immersed contained, until when the final coil was taken the water was dumped, as it were, direct into the roots of the plant. The coil re mained iu this position until the plant required more water. Should the plant, however, be touched while the tube is extended, the orchid acts like the sensitive plant (mimosa) and the coiling action is much moi-e rapid. “I found many of these plants, all directly over the water or over where the water had been. In the latter case it was almost pitiful to see how this tube would work its way over the ground iu search of the water that was not.” Little Known About Morocco. Nobody knows what the population of Morocco is. Estimates place it all the way from 2,500,000 to 9,400,000, says a correspondent of the New York Press. A large part of the country is totally unexplored. The French lately have gone in behind Morocco and ex tended the boundaries of Algiers, so as to take in the Tuat region, a chain of fertile oases through which run the caravan rotes. The Sultan has expos tulated and is still expostulating, but with no effect so far as can be seen. Morocco is sometimes called the “sick man of the West,” but those best in formed believe that it is a pretty lively sick man. i England Fears Timber Famine. If it were not for the foreign sup plies England receives a timber fam ine would have overtaken the country long ago, because the home-grown sup ply has not been able to meet a tithe of the demand for long enough, and that only of inferior kinds of timber, says a British agricultural journal, if the foreign supply of fir alone was to fall off sensibly now the whole building trade of the country would come to a partial standstill and the wagon com panies would be next to idle. The steeple of the Cathedral of Ant werp, Belgium, is 476 feet in height, w r hich makes it the highest church steeple la the world. - FROM HIGH TRESTLE Seaboard Train Takes Frightfnl Plunge Into a Pond. I ALL ON BOARD WERE INJURED Two Will Probably Die From Wounds P.eceived—Acts of Noble Hero ism Displayed By the T rainmen. i Sunday night, about 10 o’clock, the northbound Seaboard Air Line Atlanta special train turned broadside off a trestle into a pond, about a mile north of Rockingham, N. C. There were on board about twenty five or thirty passengers, all of whom were more or less injured, several very seriously, and two, a white man and a negro, probably fatally. There were three ladies and some children aboard, none of whom were seriously hurt. The engine and two mail cars pass ed over in safety, but the combination baggage and second, first-class and two Pullmans turned over. On ac count of the rains the piers of the trestle gave way on the left side. At the first crash all lights were out and water rushed in waist-deep through the windows. Baggage Master Smith, though se riously hurt himself, at once thought of the freight following close behind. He crawled out. and seizing a lantern, hobbled down the track and flagged the freight, thereby preventing a sec ond catastrophe. When the freight stopped he was lying on the ground, unable to rise, but still waving his lan tern. He fell time and again before he succeeded in getting far enough back to flag the train, xie had to be carried back on a stretcher. The newsboy also did heroic work, crawling through the cars helping the almost drowned passengers to escape through the transom over a door. INHUMAN TREATMENT OF BOERS Fearful Mortality of Women and Babies In “Concentration Camps” of the British in South Africa. A London special says: Replying to questions in the house of commons Monday, Mr. Broderick, the war secre tary, said there were 40,229 persons in the “concentration camps” of the Transvaal and Orange River colony. The deaths in these camps for the month of May number 98 men and wo men and 318 children. The announce ment of the mortality was received with groans from the Irish members and cries of “Scandalous.” Mr. Brod erick added that the authorities were arranging for the release of the wo men and children who had friends to receive them, but the government could not undertake to feed them in isolated positions. The division in the house of com mons on the motion made by Mr. Lloyd-George, Welsh nationalist, to adjourn the house on the question of the treatment of Boer women and children, which was rejected by a vote of 253 to 134, served to accentuate the split in the liberal party on the govern ment’s war policy. Sir Henry Camp bell-Bannerman, the liberal leader, supported Mr. Lloyd-George in de nouncing the policy of concentrating women and children in camps, and with Sir William Vernon-Harcourt, lib eral, and the Rt. Hon. William Bryce, liberal, voted in the minority on Mr. Lloyd-George’s motion. About fifty liberal imperialists, led by the Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith, advanced liberal, and Sir Edward Grey, liberal, abstained from voting, as a protest against the Bannerman-Harcourt-Morley section of the house of commons identifying themselves so closely with the ex treme pro-Boers. The Daily News and The Chronicle, respectively the organs of the pro- Boer and imperialist sections, display the greatest irritation at ibis open split in the liberal party. Lord Kitchener has not yet cabled the detailrs of the reverse of the 250 Victorian mounted rifles of General Beatson’s column at Steenkoelspruit, June 12th. ZINC ENTERPRISE COLLAPSES. Receiver Appointed at Knoxville For Large Tennessee Concern. T. H. Heald, of Knoxville, Tenn., filed a general creditors’ bill in that city Monday against the Eades, Mix ter & Heald Company for his one fourui interest in the firm, which is the largest zinc enterprise in the sec tion. The capital stock of the firm is $200,000. J. Fisher Chumbley was appointed receiver to close up the af fairs of the company and distribute its assets among the stockholders. GUESTS ESCAPE DEATH, Large Hotel In West Baden, Ind., De stroyed uy .-ire. Of 268 persons who were in a fire in the Mineral Springs Hotel at West Baden, Ind., Friday morning It is now believed that every one escaped with his life. The loss on the hotel building is es timated at $250,000, with insurance ag gregating SIIO,OOO. In addiuon to this, the loss in diamonds, jewelry and clothing belonging to the guests will, it is estimated, reach $50,000. The ho tel will oe rebuilt as soon as possible. EX-GOVERNOR PINGREE DEAD. Former Chief Executive of Michigan Dies In London While on Tour of Continent. Ex-Governor H. S. Pingree, of Mich igan, died in London Tuesday night at 11:35 o’clock. His son was the only one present at the time. The attending physician left Mr. Pingree’s bedside about 11:15 o’clock, promising to return shortly. H. S. Pingree, Jr., who had been watching at his father’s side for four days and who had not removed his clothes during that time, noticed a sud den change in his father’s condition. He had hardly reached the patient's bedside when his father i..ed peaceful ly without warning and without speak ing a word. Young Mr. Pingree wired his moth er and his uncle in the United States not to come to London. The body will be embalmed and brought to his home. The diagnosis made by London spe cialists of the cancerous affection of the intestines from which Mr. Pingree suffered left practically no hope for the patient's recovery. Toward the end of his illness Mr. Pingree suffered great pain and weak ened rapidly. Hazen Senter Pingree was born at Denmark, Me., in 1840. In 1862 he en listed in the First Massachusetts heavy artillery and served until the end of the war, when he located in. Detroit, embarking in the manufacture of shoes. In 1889 the republican par ty nominated Mr. Pingree for mayor of Detroit and he was elected. He was re-elected in 1891, 1893 and 1805. In 1896 Mr. Pingree was elected governor of Michigan by 83,000 plurality, run ning ahead of the national, ticket by 26,000 votes. He was re-elected gover nor in 1898 by about 100,000 plurality and served out his term, which expired in 1900. Last March he started on the trip to South Africa which resulted in his death in London. Ex-Governor Pingree, while he was mayor, accomplished many municipal reforms, among others forcing the gas company to lower their rates 50 cents per thousand; establishing the public lighting plant; organizing the Detroit railway on a 3 cent fare basis; lower ing telephone rates and breaking up a number of sewer and paving rings that were thriving when he came into office. His potato patch scheme for relief of the poor of the city was ex tensively copied and brought him much fame. While governor Mr. Pin gree devoted his energies toward se curing a law taxing railroads and oth er corporate property on an ad valo rem basis instead of specifically on their earnings. His efforts resulted in the passage of a law along these lines by the last legislature. ROADS ADVANCE THEIR RATES Classification ef Goods Is So Changed that Merchants Will Be Forced to Pay More. Again the southern merchants have cause to complain because of their treatment by the railroads in fixing their schedule of rates. Cotton fabrics, which are said to have been for the past twelve or fif teen years classed as fifth class goods, with a rate of 60 cents per 100 pounds for the haul frem New York to At lanta, are now classed as fourth class goods, and the haul per .100 pounds will cost 73 cents. This is an increase of about 17 3-4 per cent in the price of hauling cottorr fabrics from New York to Atlanta, and the merchants of Atlanta declare that it will increase the cost of the goods to them about 1 per cent on the entire cost of every 100 pounds of the goods. The merchants announce that the burden of this practical increase in the rate will fall upon them, as the in crease is not sufficient to justify an increase in the price to the trade, al though in the end it will amount to considerable to them. Mormons After Lands In Mexico. A Mormon agent, James M. Cannon, is in Mexico City for the purpose of securing lrom the government a con cession for settling a thousand Mor mon families in Sonora, on the lands from which the laqui Indians have been driven. HOT ROAST HOR JULGE. Tarvin Says Decision of United States Court Was Based on Fraud. Judge Tarvin rendered a sensation al decision in the Kenton county cir cuit court at Covington, Ky., Tuesday in the Strieker contempt case. In the decision Judge Tarvin attacks and crit icises the federal court, Judge Walter Evans presiding. He says that the decision of the United States court was renderea on records that had been forged. Judge Tarvin points out how the forgeries were made. He says the decision is without precedent and without foundation of truth. He says that the decision was a vindictive use of the power. Conger Goes Back to China. Hon. Edwin H. Conger. United States minister to China, is in Washington for the purpose of calling on the presi dent preparatory to his return to Pe kin. He expects to sail for China from San Francisco July 17th or earlier. Students Take Strikers’ Places. The places of the striking machin ists in Detroit and Chicago will be par tially filled by mechanical engineering students of the University of Michigan.
