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ROCKEFELLER’S “PLAY” COMES HIGH
Rockefeller plays golf in the morning, and In the afternoon he plays with his
estate. It is hi'; pleasure to walk over it, select views, mark out drives or to
change the scenery. If he stands on a hill and a certain clump of trees ob
struct a particular view of the river that is pleasing to his eye, he orders the
trees transplanted.
On his estate he employs 700 men and sixty teams. His pay roll amounts
to $30,000 a month. His men work ten hours a day from March to Octo
bed, and nine hours a day for the rest of the year. Formerly Mr. Rockefeller
employed mostly foreigners, but when the “Black Hand” society made so
much trouble for his workmen last fall he gave orders to gradually weed them
out, and today fewer than twenty are employed, and these are the old and
faithful ones. In their places he is employing young men from the villages.
SAYRE HEADS WELFARE BUREAU
Francis B. Sayre, w’hose engage
ment to Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter
of President Wilson, was announced
some time ago, was appointed head
of the abandonment bureau in Dis
trict Attorney Whitman’s office In
New York city the other day. He
formerly was in the complaint bureau.
"You’ll hear some harrowing sto
ries,” said Joseph O. Skinner, former
head of the bureau, as he turned over
the office to his successor. "I hope it
won’t discourage you regarding mar
riage nor make a misogynist out of
you.”
“Nothing could do that now,” was
the response.
Mr. Sayre is greatly interested in
the study of sociology and entered the
district attorney’s office with the idea
of getting first hand information of
other people’s troubles under more
favorable conditions than in a settle
ment.
It also developed that Mrs. Robert
H. Sayre, Mr. Sayre's mother, is planning to build a home where expectant
mothers will receive care. She has signed a lease for property at Oak Beach,
L. 1., and the home will be built in the fall.
Mr. Sayre, after his honeymoon trip in November, will assume the du
ties of assistant president of Williams college.
ROBERT BACON MADE SPECIAL ENVOY
Announcement has been made by
_ the Carnegie Foundation for Interna-
tional Peace, a $10,009,000 organiza
tion. that Robert Bacon, former secre-
Jg&gg tary of state and ambassador to Paris,
will tour South America as the rep
; IffraKß resentative of the Carnegie Founda-
raOjL-i tion.
SglraF Part of the work which the Car-
Wb negie Foundation has taken to itself
foWL ‘ C ” W is the promotion of better relation-
U W ships between the United States and
W iW other countries by means’of unofficial
x I W emissaries and exchanges of uni-
W versity professors. Mr. Bacon was se-
t lected as being one of the most dis-
tinguished men of the United States
Ji an d his task will be to further the
- jßr mutual understandings between the
j Latins and the North Americans. He
aßh| will tour all of South America, visit-
BMmm ing every country except Colombia,
X” and will meet most of the public men
country. It is expected that
— he probably will deliver many lectures
in Latin-American capitals and other large cities during his trip.
Mr. Bacon is now on a tour around the world, going east. He will sail
from Europe next fall for Rio de Janeiro, there to begin his tour of South
America.
STEPS INTO HIS BOSS’ JOB ,
Representative John A. Key of
Marion, Ohio, is not the first private
secretary to a congressman to step
into his boss’ job in the house, but it
Is a rare enough thing when it does
happen. John Key was secretary of
the ’.ate Representative Carl Ander
son for four years, and learned
enough of the practical side of politics
to get twice as many votes as his
Republican opponent last fall.
Key takes his place now with a
fine and distinguished line of former
secretaries. For instance, Senator
Morris Sheppard of Texas, who went
to the upper house March 4, was once
secretary to his father in the house of
representatives. Governor Cox of
Ohio, once a representative, started
in to do big things when he was sec
retary to P. J. Sorg, the tobacco man.
Representative A. T. Smith of Idaho
walked out of the late Senator Hey
burn’s office right into his seat in the
house. He had been secretary to the
senator for years. Representative Lever of South Carolina was secretary
to Dr. Stokes of that state. Wyatt Aiken of South Carolina was secretary to
his father, who was in congress before him. Representative Crisp of Georgia
was secretary of his famous father, once speaker of the house, and Repre
sentative Robertson of Louisiana succeeded his father after acting as seers
tary to him.
It costs John D. Rockefeller $1,000,-
000 every year to “play” with his
6,000-acre estate at Pocantico Hills,
and he thoroughly enjoys the game in
spite of the high cost of living. His
land is to him what a pile of sand is
to a child. In fact, he has changed
old Mother Earth’s face so much ev
ery year that the inhabitants have to
come around to get acquainted. Mr.
Rockefeller removes hills or fills val
leys just as it pleases his whim.
Mr. Rockefeller also “plays” with
his houses. He has just finished
spending $1,000,000 on his own home
to add ten bedrooms, and was looking
around for something new to play
with when his stable was burned. Now
it is said he was not satisfied with it,
and when it is rebuilt it will have an
extra story. It is also hinted that his
son's home does not quite suit him.
and he intends this fall to add another
story to it.
When at Pocantico Hills Mr.
THE BULLETIN, IRWINTON, GEORGIA.
DRUGS FORCED INTO SYSTEM
Electric Current Now Being Exten
sively Used In England for Treat- '
ment of Skin Diseases.
Forcing drugs into the system
along the path of an electric current
is a novel form of treatment for skin
diseases, which is now being exten
sively used at St. Bartholomew’s hos
pital, says the London Daily Mail.
First introduced by Professor Le
duc of Paris in 1903, it has only re
cently emerged from its experimental
stages. The treatment consists of
passing an electric current through
the diseased part, one of the elec
trodes being covered with a pad
soaked in a solution containing a drug
or chemical. The electricity breaks
up the solution into “ions,” which
penetrate the tissue cells along with
the current.
The disease for which ionic medica
tion has proved most successful so
far, according to Dr. Lewis Jones, is
rodent ulcer —treated with zinc ions. i
Here a pad of lint soaked in a one per
cent, solution of zinc sulphate is
placed over the ulcer. A zinc electrode :
padded with lint, also soaked in the
solution and connected with the posi
tive pole of an ordinary continuous
current battery, is then applied over
this. The current is applied for ten
or fifteen minutes at a time.
As the process is sometimes painful
the part may be first cocainised by
ionisation, a one jier cent, solution of
cocaine hydrochloride being applied
and the current passed for a few min
utes. (
IMPROVEMENT ON TELEPHONE
Attachment Intended for Purpose of
Detecting Interference With ;
Party Lines. i
In describing a telephone attach
ment, invented by A. Schlosser, Dodge, ,
Neb., the Scientific American says:
This invention pertains to improve
ments in telephone attachments, and :
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Telephone Attachment.
has particular reference to devices of
this character devised for the purpose
of detecting the interference with
party lines due to unauthorized par
ties listening to a conversation. An
object of the improvement is to pro
vide a detector of the nature indicat
ed which will be simpler and more ef
fective than those heretofore ordi
narily proposed.
ELECTRIFICATION IN SWEDEN
Work on State Lines Between Kiruna
and Riksgransen Nearing Com
pletion—Other Plans.
Electrification of the lines of the
Swedish state railroads from Kiruna
to Kiksgransen is nearing completion
and the government is now planning
the electrification of the large trunk
lines from Stockholm to Malmo and
from Stockholm to Gothenburg. The
cost of the lines at present under con
sideration will be nearly $30,000,000.
The transmission lines, transformer
stations and locomotives will cost ap
proximately $20,000,000 and the new
generating station will cost in the
neighborhood of $10,000;000.
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The ancient city of Smyrna is to
have an electric street railway.
Fifty species of fish possess organs
capable of imparting electric shocks.
Berlin is experimenting with small
electric automobiles for the rapid dis
tribution of mail.
Electrical apparatus for permanent
ly curling women’s hair is a German
scientist’s invention.
Paris’ underground electric railroads
are now carrying more than 400,000,-
000 passengers a year.
Electric heaters have been specially
designed in England for state rooms
and saloons on shipboard.
Electrical machinery worth more
than $23,000,000 was exported from
the United States last year.
It requires more than a century for
a cedar tree to grow large enough to
yield a 30-foot telephone pole.
The island of Juan Fernandez, made
famous by the story of Robinson Cru
soe, is to have a wireless station.
A company has been formed in
Copenhagen that will make it a busi
ness to clean and disinfect telephones.
TIRES' VULCANIZED ON ROAD
Repair of Cuts and Tears Made Easy
Matter by Use of Portable
Electrical Outfit.
A portable electrical outfit which
makes the vulcanizing of cuts and
tears in the Inner tube, and of blisters
and cuts in the outer casing, a com
paratively simple matter wherever
electric current is available, is on the
market, says the Popular Mechanics.
The heating element, which is insu
lated between the two vulcanizing
plates, gives a uniform temperature
over the entire surface of the plates,
one of which has a flat surface, for
use on the clamping board when re
pairing inner tubes. The other plate
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Electric Vulcanizer Applied on -the
Outer Tire While on the Wheel.
has a concave surface, for use in re
pairing the casing while the tire is on
the wheel. The complete outfit con
sists of the vulcanizer, 15 feet of flex
ible wiring, a rheostat attached to a
clamping board, two canvas attach
ment straps, and a thermometer.
LIGHTS FOR EMERGENCY USE
Storage Batteries Installed on Lake
Vessels in Case Water Reaches
Steamer’s Dynamos.
To add to the horrors of a steam
ship collision at night, it often hap
pens that the water reaches the dy
namos, putting the lighting system
out of commission, and marking it im
possible for the terrified passengers
to find their way about. In order to
prevent such an occurrence, one of
the lake steamers has recently in
stalled an emergency electric lighting
system, connected with a storage bat
tery which is placed on one of the
upper decks. The batteries are
charged during the day, when the
regular lighting system is not in use.
In this connection it is Interesting to
note thqt some of the theaters in Eu
rope are using storage batteries to
furnish the power for the lights at
the exits and that a Chicago theater
has just installed a similar system.
In this way a more reliable lighting
system is assured, the necessity of
which was very forcibly shown in
the Iroquois disaster some years ago.
NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT FITTING
Gives Brilliant Light Without Eye
Strain by Use of New Principle
of Distribution.
The new Indra electric light fitting
is claimed to give a brilliant light
without eye strain by the use of a
new principle of scientific distribution
with no loss of light. It is a combi
nation of a specially designed upper
reflector and a lower stepped plate or
distributor, says the Popular Electric
ity. The upper reflector is of opal
glass or it can be of aluminium,
where all the light is wanted below.
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Light Fitting Embodying a New . rin
ciple of Distribution.
The lower plate is made up of parts
of clear and frosted glass, most of
the light being reflected through the
clear glass rings while the source of
light cannot be seen.
Musical Safe.
A London electrician has invented
a safe that is unlocked by a tuning
fork, the vibrations of which cause a
wire within the safe to vibrate in
harmony with them and operate the
mechanism electrically.
Substitute for Gasoline.
A prize of SIOO,OOO has been hung
up by an international association of
automobile clubs for the best substi
tute for gasoline that is available in
large quantities and cannot be monop
olized
Telephones for Mines.
Telephones in which conversation
is transmitted from the outside of the
throat have been invented for use
when the wearing of an oxygen hel
met in rescue work would cover a
man’s mouth.
Electric Room Heater.
An electric room heater designed in
England throws the warmed air di
rectly toward the floor by utilizing a
movable parabolic mirror above the
lamp.
Largest Chandeliers.
\ The largest four-gas chandeliers
ever built have been installed in an
auditorium at Atlanta, each giving
10,680 candle power of light from sis
teen lamps.
| LATEST EFFECTS IN PARISIAN GOWNS
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Models of black charmeuse and white lace, both featuring the draped
skirt and transparent waists.
FOR DAY OR EVENING WEAR
Smart Coat That May Be Made Up in
Black Satin or Other Materials
to Suit the Taste,
This is an extremely smart coat of
black satin; the style is one, however,
that may be copied quite well in pop
lin, Shantung or fine cloth, and is
suitable for day or evening wear. Our
model is lined throughout with black
merve, which has the advantage over
a colored lining that it looks well with
a dress of any color, and is really bet
ter style for day wear. 5 The right
front is braided at edge with silk
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braid, and is lightly draped up at low
er part under a handsome passemen
terie ornament. The collar and cuffs
are both at edge.
The hat has a crown of dark mauve
straw, with a brim of lighter shade;
it is trimmed with a wreath of mixed
flowers.
Hessonite.
Hessonite might be a new disease
or a new fad, but it’s simply a new
shade and it’s named for the Grand
Duke of Hesse. The shade, which is
neither distinctly rose nor amethyst,
but a blending of the two, is found
chiefly in the semi-precious stones of
translucent composition and brilliant
luster such as are used for necklaces,
chains and lorgnette holders, as well
as for hatpin tops and toilet pins of
a minor character. Hessonite, con
sidered as a color, somewhat partakes
of the futurists’ idea of shade blend
ing, for the rose and the amethyst
tones so melt into each other that it
is impossible to say which one has the
stronger characteristic.
Silks for Wraps.
Moire silks are one of the accepted
novelties for wraps, combination pur
poses and for garnitures. Brocades
and matelasses in variety are being
largely used for outer garments, com
binations, trimmings, and confidence
Is expressed in an increased distribu
tion during the forthcoming fall sea
son. Plain and printed. chiffons are
staples.
COLORED FOOTWEAR IN VOGUE
Black and White Combinatio/is Stjlf
Popular, Though Not In the
Latest Style.
Great attention is paid to footwear
by well dressed women at present.
The most dressy styles are the sandal
effects with and without buttons. High
button boots have sandal strap open
ings, and low shoes in sandal strap
style are in the button form.
Low-cut slippers are laced in sandal
fashion with ribbons or leather straps
across the instep, and fasten around
the angles. Sometimes the strapping
is simulated by an openwork design.
This gives to the slipper a more per
manent shape and outline than if the
straps were fastened at will when the
shoe is worn.
Lace shoes in English style have the
vamp of the shoe in black leather,
with a tan or biege cloth top, which
is trimmed with strips of brown leath
er. These strips cover the instep and
the back seams of the gaiters. If
a shoe is made in a brown leather
with a brown cloth top these little
strips or bands are in black to afford
a contrast.
Black and white combinations in
footwear continue to be popular, in
spite of the fact that colors are the
newest feature in costumes. Black
patent leathers with white undressed
leather tops, both in high button and
in low button shoes, are much worn.
A very smart model has a gaiter inset
of white silk rubber, over which the
instep piece of white leather fastens
with impression snap buttons.
ARTISTIC EFFECT IN FLOWERS
Each Woman Must Study for Herself
How Best to Achieve the De
sired Results.
Roses are best for evening wear.
Even if they are buds do not wear
three or four of them, as that would
spoil the artistic effect. Select one
bull-blown crimson rose, or a delicate
yellow one if you are dark haired, and
tuck it into the coil of your hair, allow
ing it to nestle close to the ear. A
pink rose will look well in the golden
hair of the blonde girl. Some blondes
may wear a yellow rose with good
effect.
The smart way to wear flowers on
the tailored suit it is to attach them to
the left lapel of the tailored coat. Vio
lets look best worn near the waist line
just a little to the left side, and tied
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• ribbon.
The girl who is just now wearing
i quaint fischus and has a fancy for
parting her hair in the middle and*
i dressing in a picturesque style may
■ wear old-time garden flowers with ar
■ tistic effect. They should be made
into small bouquets and fastened tc
the chiffon scarf or the dainty mul
’ fischu, or a bunch of loose flowers
’ may be worn at the corsage. Yellow
daisies gracefully arranged, make ar
. attractive corsage bouquet.
A pretty custom is to wear one
flower which > becomes associatec
, with your personality. Not even
girl can afford expensive jewelry, bu
she can always have flowers.
Rich Ribbons.
The characteristics of the new rit
bons are richness of coloring and ver;
large, bold patterns. Large designs
poppies and orchids and roses ar<
typical. In the velour ribbons dari f
floral effects will be especially in fs
vor. Moire brocaded ribbons, wit;
। floral backgrounds In rich tonee, toe .
will be used for millinery.
