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HERO OF THE AMERICAN NAVY |
late William C. Whitney, then secretary of the navy under President Cleve
land, picked Melville as the man to take charge of the construction of the
new navy of the United States and appointed him engineer-in-chief. To this
post Melville was reappointed in 1892 and again in 1896.
As a naval engineer and designer Rear Admiral Melville has combined
progressiveness with caution. He has been quick to give practical tests to
new designs and appliances, but careful not to adopt them generally until they
had been thoroughly tried out and approved. The magnificent showing made
by our navy in the war with Spain is no doubt attributable in a large degree
to this policy of his.
PREACHER ELECTED MAYOR
One of the most notable political
changes in New York at the recent
election was that in the city and coun
ty of Schenectady, where certain Re
publican and Democratic factions
united with the Socialists and elect
ed all the city officers, except one
and gained a majority of the county
offices, beside electing an assembly
man. The leader of these mixed
forces was Rev. Dr. George R. Lunn,
their candidate for mayor, whose por
trait is shown, and who polled prac
tically two-thirds of the entire vote.
Rev. Dr. Lunn was at one time pas
tor of the First Reformed church, one
of the most aristocratic in the city.
Three years ago his advanced polit
ical views, some of them in harmony
with Socialistic principles, forced his
resignation from the First Reformed
pulpit and he then organized the Unit
ed People’s Congregation, which re
cently united with the First Congre-
gationalist. Dr. Lunn edits a weekly
paper called the Citizen in which he expresses his political and sociological
views and frequently conducts Sunday evening meetings in theaters for the
same purpose.
The Socialistic vote in Schenectady at the last preceding election was
2,240. The town has a population of 81,000, with an assessed valuation of
$51,000,000. Dr. Lunn's plurality was 1,999.
HEADS RELiGSOUS MOVEMENT
Charles Stelzle of the New York Labor Temple and Dr. I. J. Lansing discussed
••The Church and Labor.” The audience at this mass meeting included men
of every social station and of almost every occupation. Laborers and capital
ists, professional men and merchants, artisans and factory operatives sat el
bow to elbow, evincing the utmost interest.
Mr. Cannon is enthusiastic over the apparent success of the campaign
of which he is the head.
IS FIRST WOMAN OFFICIAL
Miss Edith Campbell is the lady
who has been elected a member of
the Board of Education for the city of
Cincinnati. President Taft in a pub
lic speech heartily endorsed her can
didacy and though she was not on his
ticket he voted for her. She is a
brilliant woman with marked execu
tive ability and wide educational ex
perience. President Taft says he be
lieves that every city Board of Edu
cation would be the better for women
in its membership and doubtless his
endorsement had much to do with
Miss Campbell’s election.
Her election gives her a three-fold
distinction. She is the first woman
elected to any public office in Cin
cinnati, though several have been
candidates before. She 1$ the first
candidate ever elected to the Board
of Education in Cincinnati who ran as
an independent, and she goes on last
ing record as the first woman in the
United States for whom a president
of the United States cast his vote.
Miss Campbell, who is thirty-five years of age, is of medium height, slen
der, with dark eyes and hair. “It isn’t that lam elected, it is the fact that a
woman has been elected to the Board of Education,” she said. “Moreover,
the registration showed that the men of Cincinnati have decided that ufomeii
should have a chance to demonstrate their efficiency in this direction
Though but few women voted, the way that they were organized, end worket
showed what women can do in politics if given a chance.”
Rear Admiral Melville had won
fame for heroism in Arctic explora
tion as a naval engineer and’construc
tion as a naval engineerandconstruc
tor. He was a member of De Long’s,
party, which sailed for the Arctic re
gions from San Francisco in 1879 in
the ill-fated Jeanette, and he com
manded the boat's crew which es
caped from the icy wastes of the Lena
Delta after the wreck of the expedi
tion. He afterwards commanded the
expeditions which recovered De
Long’s body r and the records of the
Jeanette, for which services he re
ceived a gold medal by special act of
congress. But that is another story.
Rear Admiral Melville entered the
navy as an assistant engineer’ at the
beginning of the Civil war. A New
Yorker by birth, he had received his
education at the Brooklyn Polytechnic
institute. He served throughout the
war and was subsequently stationed
at various navy yards. In 1887 the
Although the active efforts in the
men and religion forward movement
were begun only a shori time ago,
practically all of the seventy-six cities
participating have reported complete
organizations and campaigns under
way. The general headquarters in
New York city is being kept in close
touch with the work all over the coun
try.
The general interest which has
been, manifested by the leading busi
ness and professional men. is espe
cially encouraging to the men in
charge of the movement. James G.
Cannon, who is here pictured, presi
dent of the Fourth National Bank of
New York, is chairman of the general
campaign committee and he believes
the effort will be the most significant
made by the church in the religious
history of America.
One of the extraordinary incidents
of the campaign in Grand Rapids, oc
curred at a mass meeting where Rev.
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NAILING MACHINE IS HANDY
Obviates Necessity of Holding Nails in
the Mouth and Prevents
> Bruised Fingers.
This machine, which is specially de
signed for nailing shingles, relieves a
workman from practically all trouble
except that of hitting the nail on the
head and of moving the machine into
the next position. The nails are
dumped into the hopper, in the bottom
of which are three parallel slits. The
vibration of the machine in use causes
the nails to drop point downwards into
the slits and hang by their heads.
Thence they pass into a similar slit in
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An Improved Nailing Machine,
the incline, and slide, still hanging by
their heads, down to the catch spring.
This spring holds the nail under the
plunger which sets the nail in the ma
terial.
The machine can be used with the
hands protected by gloves or mittens,
and It obviates the necessity of hold
ing nails in the mouth, and prevents
bruised fingers.
WEIGHING SCOOP SAVES TIME
Grocer Can See at Glance the Weight
of Tea or Sugar Without Re
sorting to Scales.
A weighing scoop that is scoop and
scales in one has been designed by a
Philadelphia man. At a glance the gro
cer can see the weight of the sugar or
tea or whatever he may have in the
scoop without resorting to the scales
and losing that much time. The handle
of the implement has a downwardly
projecting arm running parallel to the
back of the scoop, which is hinged to
the bottom of this arm and fastened
by a spring to the upper portion. A
tape with weight divisions on it con-
A Weighing Scoop.
nects the handle and the scoop, and
when the latter has anything in it the
tape will be drawn out to the point
which indicates the weight of its con
tents. With an implement of this kind
the grocer can go ahead and fill bags
by simply dipping the goods out of
a bin and consulting the tape, instead
of first shoveling into the scales scoop
and juggling with a set of weights.
INCREASED USE OF CEMENT
More Used in the Year 1909 Than in
Any Other in History—Also
Price Was Lower.
More cement was used in the United
States in 1909 than in any other one
year in its history, and the price by
the barrel was lower. In 1908 the pro
duction was 52,910.925 barrels, valued
at $44,547,679; in 1909 the production
was 64,196,386 barrels, worth $51,232,
979 at the mills. In 1908 the average
price of a barrel of Portland cement
was 85 cents; in 1909 the price aver
aged 81 cents produced at 103 plants
in the country. Twenty-one plants
were in Pennsylvania, twelve in Michi
gan, ten in Kansas, eight in Ohio,
seven in New York, six in Indiana, five
in Illinois and five in California.
In 1880 a barrel of Portland cement
brought three dollars, due to the scar
city of the material whose production
devolved upon slow, crude processes
Today it is manufactured to sell at 80
cents a barrel and show a profit. Most
of the cement produced is consumed
in the United States, the export prod
uct ranging from one to three per cent,
annually. With the Immense natural
resources for Its manufacture, how
ever, it is anticipated by government
authorities that in the near future the
foreign trade in cements will show
large in the sum of the nation's export
trade.
Depths of the Sea.
The greatest ocean depth recorded
is at Nero Deep, In the north Pacific—
-5,269 fathoms.
WAY OF DOCTORING MASONRY
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Germans Adopt Method That Entirely
Obviates Necessity of Tearing
Down Cracked Walls.
Ingenious Germans of Hamburg re
cently have adopted a method of doc
toring masonry, that entirely obviates
the necessity of tearing down cracked
and decaying walls.
In the city of Hamburg two crumb
ling railway bridges were used in the
experiments. They were 51 feet in the
arch spans, and cracks had appeared
everywhere, so that the structures
barely hung together. Holes were
bored through the masonry to get to
the depths of the cracks and a watery
cement mortar was pumped in under a
pressure of five atmospheres until all
the crevices were filled. When this
had hardened it was found that the
bridges were as firm under all tests as
new masonry, and were not even dis
figured by the process.
To the antiquary as well as the
practical engineer, this should appear
as a boon, for ancient stone structures
with historical associations, which be
come dangerously weak can be given a
renewed youth without rebuilding or
destroying any of the marks of vener
able age. In this country more bridges
and other stone structures are torn
away because they no longer accom
modate their needs, than because they
are outworn, but there may come a
time in America when we shall have
occasion to do a little patching, and
the German methods will serve ex
cellently.
PUTTY KNIFE IS IMPROVED
Scraper Attachment Leaves Blade
Free for Spreading—Advantage
Over Old Style.
Painters and glaziers will find a
great convenience in the improved
putty knife designed by a New York
man. The invention Is a small one
Improved Putty Knife.
and the need it fills could scarcely be
called a crying one, but it has distinct
advantages over the old-style knife.
The new knife has a slot running
across It near the end and in the slot
a scraper blade is pivoted on a hinge.
When not in use the scraper lies flat
along the knife blade, but it can be
opened to abut the blade at right an
gles. The putty is placed on the end
of the knife and, with the thumb
pressed against it, is laid along the
edge of a window frame, or wherever
it is to go, as in the old method. In
scraping off the superfluous putty,
however, it is not necessary to remove
that from the knife blade and use the
edge of this blade, as was formerly
the case. The scraper attachment on
the new type does this work even more
effectively and the end of the knife is
kept clean.
Age of Fish.
Until within recent years there had
been ascertained no trustworthy way
of finding out the age of fish. It has
been shown that mere size does not
indicate the age. Reibisch, Heincke
and others have discovered that many
of the bones, scales and otoliths of
fishes have annual age rings, resem
bling those in tree trunks.
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MECHANICAL
Im NOTES Bl
The art of manufacturing nails by
machinery was first practiced in 1790.
The cotton industry of England
employs many more women than
men.
Artificial wood for matches, made
from straw, has been invented by a
Frenchman.
The Amsterdam diamond trade is
in the hands of ten firms employing
ten thousand workhmen.
A species of stiff grass which grows
abundantly in that country is used
for match sticks in India.
The value of the Rand gold indus
try to South Africa is estimated at
half a million dollars a day.
A room will look both larger and
higher by the use of wall paper con
taining designs in vertical lines.
Rubber boots are now made with a
leather inner heel which greatly in
creases the boot’s period of usefulness
In Austria, where the production
of kerosene is a great industry, a large
government refinery Is under contem
plation.
The manufacture of wood pulp pa
per involves 28 separate operations
from cutting down the trees to sewing
the product.
Nova Scotia claims to have th<
largest gypsum deposits In the world
They vary from a few feet to hundreds
of feet in thickness.
NECKLACE IN THE LIMELIGHT
Famous String of Leeds' Pearls Comes
Before the United States Su-
preme Court.
Washington.—The famous $220,000
pearl necklace of Mrs. William B.
Leeds of New York and Newport was
in the limelight the other day at the
Supreme Court of the United States.
A case to determine whether the
United States was entitled to only 10
per cent, duty on the gems, considered
as “pearls in their natural state, not
strung or set,” or whether the govern
ment was entitled to 60 per cent, on
them, as' “pearls set or strung,” was
up for. argument. i
Mrs. William B. Leeds of New iork
and Newport, is shown here wearing
her famous necklace, which was the
Mrs. W. B. Leeds.
subject of the suit. The pearls were
imported as “unstrung” by Bernard
Citroen in 1906. He therefore paid
10 per cent, of their value. The gov
ernment alleged that the pearls were
really “set or strung” and that it is
entitled to the higher duty. In its
brief the government says the neck
lace was purchased in Paris in 1906.
About a w'eek after the stones were
imported and after a duty of 10 per
cent, had been collected the govern
ment made a demand for an addi
tic lal duty of 50 per cent, amounting
to SIIO,OOO. Citroen came to Wash
ington, it is said, protested against
the additional duty and asked for a
refund of the duty already paid and
that he be permitted to return the
pearls to France. The request was
not granted. The additional duty was
paid and the pearls turned over to
Mrs. Leeds.
The Circuit Court of Appeals for the
second circuit held that the pearls
were dutiable at only 10 per cent. In
its brief in the case the government
quotes Mrs. Leeds as saying she wore
the pearls a great deal in Paris in
1906; that the purchase was made
there, but they were to be delivered
in America. She placed the purchase
price at $340,000 and explained that
she turned over in Paris as part pay
ment another necklace of pearls for
which she ha’d paid $52,000.
GREWSOME BATTLE MEMORIAL
Ghastly Reminder of the Defeat of the
Badjok Hordes on West Af
rica Plains.
London. —On the plains of West
Central Africa stands the ghostly
memorial of the battle of Diola, shown
in the accompanying illustration. Os
it Norman Hardy, a recent English
traveler in that region, says:
“The Badjok are the greatest war
riors of West Central Africa. Intrepid
hunters, their expeditions in pursuit
of game take them many hundred
miles from their home. If on his jour
ney a Badjok is offered an insult by a
man of some other race, the whole
tribe will rise to revenge him. From
the west coast to the Great lakes no
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Grewsome Battle Memorial.
tribe could resist them. Finally the
people of the Kwilu valley rose
against their domination. The natives,
only armed with bows and arrows, de
feated, under the leadership of Yengo,
the Badjok hordes, armed with flnit
lock, in the great battle of Diloa. On
the battlefield a memorial of skulls
was erected.”
Comb Teeth Fracture Skull.
Hornell, N. Y. —Miss Emma Charles
worth, 54, is dead from a peculiai
cause. In passing out of a drug store
she slipped on a cement step and fell
backward. She sustained a fractured
skull and the teeth of a comb she
was wearing in her hair penetrated
the wound and entered her brain. Sb*
■lied shortly afterward.
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The Agent —Do you believe in ad
vertising?
The Merchant —Yes, sir. It’s better
to be a live man in a dead town than
a dead man in a live town.
Accurately Informed.
“How is it that woman eeems to
know so much more about Europe than
most of us?” said the frank and out
spoken lady.
“Because,” replied Miss Cayenne,
“she stayed at home and read guide
books instead of squandering her time
in travel.”
A Natural Error.
“How did that story pan out about
the man up in the Bronx who found
the big hailstone on his back stoop
this morning?” asked the city editor.
“Nothing in it,” replied the re
porter. “He discovered it wasn’t a
hailstone, after all. The iceman left
it there.” —Woman’s Home Compan
ion. _
WORKS WITHOUT FAITH
Faith Came After the Works Had Laid
the Foundation.
A Bay State belle talks thus about
coffee:
“While a coffee drinker I was a suf
ferer from indigestion and intensely
painful nervous headaches, from child
hood.
“Seven years ago my health gave
out entirely. I grew so weak that
the exertion of walking, if only a few
feet, made it necessary for me to lie
down. My friends thought I was
marked for consumption—weak, thin
and pale.
“I realized the danger I was in and
tried faithfully to get relief from med
icines, till, at last, after having em
ployed all kinds of drugs, the doctor
acknowledged that he did not believe
it was in his power to cure me.
“While in this condition a friend in
duced me to quit coffee and try Post
um, and I did so without the least
hope that it would do me any good. I
did not like it at first, but when it was
properly made I found it was a most
delicious and refreshing beverage. I
am especially fond of it served at din
ner ice-cold, with cream.
“In a month’s time I began to im
prove, and in a few weeks my indiges
tion ceased to trouble me, and my
headache stopped entirely. I am so
perfectly well now that I do not look
like the same person, and I have so
gained in flesh that I am 15 pounds
heavier than ever before.
“This is what Postum has done for
me. I still use it and shall always do
so.” Name given by Postum Co., Bat
tle Creek, Mich.
“There’s a reason,” and it is ex
plained in the little book, “The Road
to Wellville,” in pkgs.
Ever rend the above letter! A new
■ne appears from time to time. They
re genuine, true, and full of human
a tereat.
