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collisions due to operating blunders
the risk of travel ought to be nil.
Many Tunnels to be Dug.
It having been proved practicable
to tunnel beneath the Hudson river,
the Pennsylvania Railroad undertak¬
ing will be pushed rapidly, and it may
be expected that in course of time ev¬
ery trunk line coming into Jersey City
will have its own tunnel. The Bast
river piercings do not present much
of a problem. In less than five years
trains ought to be running from Phil¬
adelphia to Boston with no water to
be crossed.
It is believed that within ten years
electric trains will make the trip from
Philadelphia to New York in one hour.
XO TURKEY STUFFIXG?
Christmas Dinner Incomplete With¬
out This OI d-Fashioned Addition.
The latest and most obnoxious
omnk in tb gastronomic line is that
GIANT RIVER TUNNELS.
TAKE PLACE OF BRIDGES IS COX.
XECTIXG SEW JERSEY aXD
XE FT YORK.
Completion of Borings Under Hudson
River—One of Greatest of Engineer¬
ing Feats
After half a century of speculation
on the practicability of tunneling the
Hudson river from New Jersey to the
island of Manhattan, it is now possi¬
ble to walk dry-shod from Jersey to
New York. The twin bores have been
completed; that is, they have been cut
through and cased in, though of course
some finishing touches are yet to be
put upon them. It was a few days
ago that in the presence of the engi¬
neers, the directors and a dozen re¬
porters, W. G. Oakman, president of
the Hudson Companies, split an old
brick bulkhead with a hydraulic jack
and completed the first Manhattan
J siiflScn ersev .tu na-el -ayatcnr.' There was a
gap in the wall. A gang of
“ground hogs” rammed the breach a
little wider, and the party crawled
through into New York city.
The old wall that was cut through
was seven feet thick. It is the relic
of a former failure to tunnel the
Hudson. Twenty-three years ago the
engineers of the old Hudson Company,
after cutting a considerable distance
tinder the river, abandoned the enter¬
prise and walled in the unfinished
work with this brick bulkhead.
Two tube-tunnels run parallel be¬
neath the Hudson river, the work of
boring them being done under direc¬
tion of the New York and New Jer¬
sey Railroad Company, but this com¬
pany entrusted the actual performance
of the work to the Hudson Companies.
The present tube has been two
years in the course of construction.
The tubes will cost when completed
about $13,000,000, and the entire work
will cost about $30,000,000.
Fifteen Feet in Diameter.
The tubes are 5,700 feet long, 15 14
feet in diameter and are intended for
one track each, with a sidewalk for
workmen. Two tubeB have been start¬
ed on the New Jersey shore, to run
under the river to Cortlandt and
Church streets. These tubes will be
16y 4 feet in diameter. The tubes just
completed will connect on the New
Jersey shore with the Pennsylvania
and the Lackawanna terminals. In
Manhattan with one branch will connect
tfie subway _ under Fourth ave¬
nue at Astor Place. Another branch
will run to Sixth avenue and Thirty
third street. A trip through the entire
length of the tunnel from the subway
to Hoboken will cost only five cents.
About six hundred men have been em¬
ployed in the tunnels.
Cars will be running through these
tube-tunnels in eighteen months. The
safety of transportation in the tunnel
needs no demonstratiofi, for trains will
run in a steel tube the strength of
which to resist pressure has been care¬
fully worked out. Being laid from
fifteen to fifty feet below the
bed, it cannot be affected by the ac¬
tion of tidewater. The tube is a steel-
deluded epicure who
1 Christmas turkey must be served
without “stuffing.” He says it is an
anomaly, a thing without reason, an
insult to the completeness of the
bird. He even declares that it de¬
tracts from the sweet flavor and delk
cate aroma of the king of fowls.
Thus be thrusts himself into the pub¬
lic arena, a most unwelcome “butter
in,” striving to accomplish the down¬
fall of an historic institution. He is
not a true American. He has never
tasted “stuffing as mother made it”
—the real Simon-pure article, spooned
out of the deep recesses of the royal
bird iu great crumbly masses that fill
the room with rich arom„ and the
heart of man, woman and child with
joy unconfined.
It is the soul of the turkey, is stuff¬
ing. With the bird itself one is al¬
ways bothered about what part lie
will have—whether white meat or
dark; whether a wing, a thigh, or a
drumstick; whether the wish-bone,
the liver, or “the part that went over
the fence last;” but for -the universal. stuffing,
American 'Sentiment is
The only question is: How much does
one dare to eat? And then that en¬
trancing, sagey odor, from the mys¬
terious “yarbs” that enter into the mak¬
ing—as sweet as the summer breezes
over new mown bay—as delicate as
the fragrance of orange blossoms on
a wedding day. And perchance, in
addition, we shall catch the sublime
suggestion of an onion, wafted into
our quivering nostrils, maternal and
some dear departed
who ministered to our boyish wants
in days of yore.
Turkey straight, without stuffing?
Not while there is breath to sound a
protest. It is the mission of civiliza¬
tion to mix With naked nature the
toothsome miscellany of tradition; to
blend the work of nature and man;
to sweeten with our best endeavor
the plain blessings of an all-wise
Trovidenee. That's what gave us
“stuffing;” and until the heart loses of man its
grows cold,—until the race
teeth and lives on pills and tablets
and predigested pap, its multitudes
will insist on turkey as mother served
it. Down with theories. Give us
stuffing or take the turkey back.
THE UNCONVENTIONAL SARAH.
It was Thomas Carlyle who said
that all genius was akin to savagery.
Sarah Bernhardt exemplifL-.. this in
the buodoir of her chateau in Paris.
Mme. Bernhardt is a perfect barbarian
in her defiance of all the convention¬
alities regarding color schemes. Her
sleeping room is hung in royal purple,
decorated with peacock plumes. Over
her Louis XVI. bed is a canopy made
of unspun silk taken directly splash from the of
silkworm cocoon. A great
crimson satin, in the form of a shield,
adorns the center. The walls are hung
in old tanestries, and in the interstices
CRAWFORDVILLE, GA , FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1905.
FORTUNE FOR A ROSE.
A WONl, ",RFUL NEW
wai a BR1XGS THIRTY
TL )USAXD DOLLARS.
Is a Ravisi ittg Pink and Crimson
—One to Two Hundred
Dollars! epected Profit—Other Huge
Figures or Flowers.
A Was Jngton gardener has origi¬
nated wh, t is believed by expert flor¬
ists to be Ue finest rose ever grown—
the Queen Beatrice. It is a tea of a
peculiar s! sde of pink with a touch,
in the bur of light crimson. Its par¬
ticular me ft 1 the lies beauty probably in the coloring
that none < of its
is destroy i either in natural or arti¬
ficial lighi Added to this it has a
fragrance qual to. if not superior to
that of th American straight Beauty. The
nwe grows on , and Stur¬
dy pMPntJhj ik *. .. . V-M**-two to three f.'ft* long,
its the two well-known
rieties, Liberty and Madam Cliatenay,
the former, one of the most popular
crimson varieties, but uncertain Queen in the
production of perfect blooms.
Beatrice has none of tlie faults of its
parents and combines all of their good
qualities; it is resistant to insect and
mildew attacks, and capable of forc¬
ing on the hothouse bench.
Grown at Gardiner Hubbard Mansion
It was originated by Peter P.issett,
and will be put on tlie market by
Florist F, II. Kramer, of Washington.
Bissett is the head gardener of Mrs.
Gardiner Hubbard, the widow of the
late Gardiner Hubbard, at one time
president of the National Geographic
Society. She is tlie mother-in-law of
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor
of the telephone. The new rose was
produced at her beautiful suburban
residence, Twin Oaks, just outside of
tlie national capital.
The leading florists of the country
have known of the existence of this
rose fLr a yenr and have made varioun
tempting offers for it, but it remained
for Florist Kramer to offer $30,000
and finally secure the beauty.'
Such a fabulous sum for a rose
seems insignificant, however, few’ when it
is remembered that but a years
ago Thomas Lawson of “Frenzied Fi
nance” fame paid $30,000 for a mer.
carnation, while the greater amount
of $125,000 was expended for the “Fi
anceo” carnation. It is hinted that
Mr. Lawson cleaned up over $100,000
out of the Lawson pink and the buy¬
ers of the “Fiancee” carnation easily
doubled the amount expended.
Origin of the American Beauty.
And yet the “American Beauty” of
whom every flower lover is fond has
a very, very sad history. A number
of years ago a Washington gardener;
who made only a specialty of garden i
roses, received from abroad a ship |
mint of plants, among which was a
“mongrel.” This, with out-of-door eul
tnre produced very large and fragrani
blooms. It attracted the attention of
Thomas Fields, a Washington florist.
Nothing was known by him of the
forcing qualities of this rose in the
greenhouse, but ns he rather liked its
color and general appearance, one af¬
ternoon while her husband was ab¬
sent, he purchased the single plant
from Mrs Ready for five dollars.
Ready, wher. lie retured and was told
of the sale, tudieved that his wife had
asked too tm h for the flower. Fields
experimented vith the plant and found
that it exee' b-d even his fondest
hopes. He named it the “American
Beauty” arid probably cleared $25,000
on this one deal. To-day Ready Is
still a gardener, town—spading doing odd jobs for peo
pie around up
supplying rich earth and nlantine dantim. 1 b
shrubs.
of the hangings are row after row of
tiny monkey skulls, the eye sockets of
which are illumined with electric
lights. with
The “divine Sarah” has parted
her pet tiger, and now has for a com¬
panion a large and ugly baboon, whose
ears have been pierced so that they
may carry huge rings of solid gold.
Bernhardt is said to look as young as
she did twenty years ago. Her face
is without wrinkles, and her step is as
spry and her manner as vivacious ns
when she first electrified her native
city as an actress.
Mr, Kramer is a Washington florist
lie, pth many large new experience and interesting in the flower
, uov
. |>uses. Kies having originated in his green
. ises Among the popular garden
• which he produced are the
■ 'limbing Meteor,” a climbing varie-
1 with large red blooms; “Champion
1 (he World,” "Robert 10. Lee.'' “F.
Kramer,” and many sold' other sorts
inch have been to catalogue
uses and named by them, lie has
*t originated the “Climbing Arneri
i '. Beauty” which will probably be
i fed H’fitly by exhibited flower-sellers in Washington next spring. He
1 the
“ H. Kramer” carnation—a deep
k sort—which many well-known
! sts have declared to be the equal
'idler the “Lawson” or “Fiancee.”
states ibat no plants of the
' sen Beatrice" rose will be ready
distribution before the spring of
i during which time a large sum
c noney will be expended in the
e 0 1 ct hothouses and the euliiva
ane growing of hundred*- - <?£
of young plants. The
I f i-s made that probably $150,Out)
THE NEW QUEEN BEa RICE ROSE.
The homestead entryman, who, un¬
der the law, must reside continuously
on bis claim, erected a slab, one-room
shanty, 10x12 feet ,and during a per¬
iod of fourteen months slept in it just
five times. This was the extent of
bis home making. Then he, too, made
oath of what he had not done, offered
the required payments to the.
The timber entryman went into the
finest timber section of the United
States—the d use forests of the far
northwest—and under the timber and
stone net, selected 160 acres of land,
the tirnlier standing upon which was
worth $75 an acre, and swearing that
he wanted it for his own government personal use,
purchased it from the at
the fixed price of $2.50 an acre and
Immediately disposed of It. So
within fourteen months these three
men had secured from Uncle Sam an
aggregate of one square mile of gov¬
ernment land for their own
and use as homes, and sold it out
or $ 00,000 will be made from this
flowW.
Attempted Graftings.
V: ious artifices have been tried by
clev r but unscrupulous people to ob
tain peeimens of “Queen Beat
rice rose, many coming into tlie
Kra ier establishment whore a huge
bou ..lot. of the blooms was on exhibi¬
tion, offering to purchase at boutou- large
pric - a single flower for a
ni: Others have gone so far as to
or- 1 luborato funeral designs with
tl wiso that nothing but this par¬
ti ,r kind of rose be used. These
w oily dodges to obtain the healthy
w for slipping and growing, for
iest time to make rose cuttings
eiUiw just before or immediately after
tb plant conies Into bloom.
One Washington florist who origi¬
nated the “Ivory” rose—-a handsome “Golden
white flower, and a sport of
G le’ was unwise enough to ell cut
| floovers, thereby enabling the pureha
props gate- the variety 0 ) riff
Washington Florists' I 1 » ,,
* tlv awarded the new “Queen Beat
ri ose a certificate of merit,, the
fir,: of tlie kind ever given by the
< !i The new flower is so striking
and beautiful that every member of
li club consented to the uwurd.
Comfort on Uncle Sum a"
Ample Breast.
ip!d is one of the liest re suiting
officers that Uncle Sam has,” < tnfided
on of the sergeants attached to the
tiling headquarters. “R .ek of
rly every enlistment the- - Is n
e a lot of fine lads Into t/ie serv
Your romantic youth e nvitat.es
he recruiting office after > serious
1 tk with bis sweetheart as aturally
a duck takes to water. t seems
to 0 him the most fitting way in which
sacrifice himself when lov 's young
d:earn is apparently dispell d. Way
down In his heart he nurse- the Idea
of making his erstwhile namorata
sad, and it’s the army or nivy, with
the possibility of death attb, for
him. Again, other first da material
Is recruited by the desire of young
fellows to sport a unifom tefore their
girls. In such eases Cupi l does bis
recruiting through vanity, tut in both
ways he manages to fill 11 1 big gaps
In the ranks of Uncle Sam’ fighters.
One of the richest boys i th' world
13 the adopted son of the te lilllon
aire, Zeigler. He is fourte n years old
and will inherit nearly $2< 000,000.
Edwin Edwin , Booth T4ftrit Booth v for for a a „ 1nT1 long ion , time time Hrn( . aTpr av. .
aged twenty-five cigars each day.
PAGES 1 TO 4.
THE PUBLIC LAND FRAUDS.
PRESIDENTS PUBLIC LAND COMMISSION RECOM
ML DS RADICAL CHANGES INLAWS.
Richard Hamilton Byrd.
No nation lias ever been so reckless
or lias been so mercilessly robbed of its
public land resources as has the United
States. Since the early history of
the republic, laud iu vast tracts hag
been granted to individuals and cor¬
porations, and iu spite of the public
attention which of late years has been
directed to the matter, the absorption
goes on at an alarming rate. It
seems dillicult for the man who hag
lived in the west for years to realize
that there is any good reason why he
should not debauch ami buy out hun¬
dreds of others who are willing to sell
their birthright him as American citizens,
thus enabling to acquire a do¬
main which would have been princely
in tlia days of feudalism.
The three men above cited count
Ihoir holdings to-day by the hundreds
of thousands of acres, but there are
western corporations , id Individuals
whose figures mount w even into mil¬
lions of acres. One cl 11 ride or drive
all day through their! territory, the
Three men went out west to seek
their fortunes. One located in the
Middle West—not the Middle West,
perhaps, as it is generally known,
but tlie central section of the west¬
ern half of the United States—in the
desert country. lie started his suc¬
cessful career by taking up a govern¬
ment claim under the desert-land act.
He was In the cattle country—the
cow country—and he made his strike
in cattle.
Ilis friend went further north, still
In the desert area, close to the Cana¬
dian line—iu the sheep country. He
took up a government homestead
claim and commuted it.
■ The third man went into the far
northwest—the " " ‘ Oregon ~ country of
Lewis and Clarke—and he took up n
government timber claim. He located
in a land where lumbering was done.
And those three men became great
cattle and Sheep and limber kings,
and incidentally landlords; and their
operations while widely different
were singularly similar. They filed on
their government claims and at the
earliest possible moment each man
“proved up and sold out” for cash to
larger land grabbers. And so they
learned the mode and got their stnrt
toward land grabbing themselves.
The desert entryman was supposed
under the law to live at least three
years on his 320 acres and to expend
during that period $000 in construct¬
ing irrigation ditches and other im¬
provements. and make it his home.
This was what was promised for the
law when it was slipped through
Congress. As a matter of fact, tills
man fake spent a day with a team making
a Irrigation reservoir and then
another day running a couple of fur¬
rows around the laud, making oath
that ibis constituted an irrigation
system for its reclamation. Then
within six months he “proved up,"
made the required payments to the
government., uud secured a patent to
his land.
HOMESTEAD 1 I RY IN EASTERN OB EGON OF JOHN J. MURPHY.
Multi to he* ure Vttli.. file T ' f Lure] Entrynpm *- cook '' ■ U ‘ ' ' ' n f> * umber ( roio
wen*
such claims and then went looking for
further speculation.
Typical Cases of Fraud.
These three cases are cited simply
because they are typical of thousands
and hundreds of thousands of instan¬
ces which could be related of the
great west where the government land,
still owns half a billion acres of
although another half billion have
passed into private ownership under
tlie various loose and really fraudu¬
lent land laws with which tlie statute
book is defiled.
68 tth Congress, t SENATE 1 Docuven
jd Session ( I Mu 154.
PUBLIC LANDS COMMISSION
M ESS AGE
FROM THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
SUBMITTING
THE SECOND PARTIAL REPORT OF THE PUBLIC LANDS COM¬
MISSION, APPOINTED OCTOBER 22, 1903, TO REPORT UPON
THE CONDITION, OPERATION, AND EFFECT OF THE PRESENT
LAND LAWS.
To the Senate and House of second Representatives; partial report of the Public Lands , Com¬ _ _
1 submit herewith the tlie condition,
mission, appointed by me October 22, 1903, to report upon recommend such
operation, and effect of the present land laws and to
change* as are needed to effect the largest practical disposition of the pub¬
lic lands to actual settlers who will build homes upon them and to secure
have concluded to submit this second partial report bearing upon some of
in permanence the fullest and most effective use of the resources of the
public lauds. The subject Is one of such magnitude and Importance that 1
the larger features which require immediate attention without waiting for
110N. W. A. RICHARDS.
Chairman Public Lancia Comiuiaaion.
only signs of civilization being barbed
wire fences and roaming herds, where
should be hundreds and thousands of
prosperous farm homes.
When President Roosevelt came in¬
to office la* found government aid to
irrigation a question of growing popu¬
larity. He recommended its consider¬
ation by Congress. A national irri¬
gation law' was enacted. In fils fol¬
nized lowing message in* officially recog¬
the basic fraud of land laws
and Mi. menace wiuVit ' y afforded
a ih ue* 1 year he apIrmTueu a 1 a*> of
lie Land Commission composed
three eminent public men, well quali¬
fied to investigate the land conditions
iu the west.
Need for Land Laws Legislation.
These officials were W. A. Richards,
Commissioner of the General Laud Of¬
fice*; Gifford Piuefiot, Chief of the
Bureau of Forestry, and Frederick H.
Newell, Chief Engineer of the Nation¬
al Irrigation or Reclamation Service.
And this commission after a year
and a half of field Investigation made
a short official report to Congress,
which was published as Senate fid Session.
ment 154, 58th Congress, in part,
It Is herewith published the necessity for
showing as It does
energetic action by Congress on one of
the most vital questions of the day,
namely, the correction of the national
abuse which Is taking away from the
American homoseeker the opportunity
to acquire a piece of land anil rear
thereon a home for himself and Ills
family. This subject will be further
considered In next week’s issue, which
will include an additional section of
lliis report.