The Wingham Advance, 1907-07-18, Page 3NEW YORK'S VERTICAL TRAVEL
Getting lip and Down Stairs a Serious
Problem.
(N. Y. Sun.)
"What about getting up and down
when forty etery buildings are us corn -
"mon AS ten story buildings are now?"
fnaid The mare who like e to ask questions
for other people to answer.
"Veil, it's not filch A email problem
now*" rnidicd the man with the bead
for figure*. "I have been making a few
calculations which might minim) you,"
And then he came back with this:
Could all the etairs ascended and de-
scended daily by residents in the city of
New York be grouped into one entire -tons
attar representing the total that stair
would be 20,000 miles in height. Great
as are the problems of horizontal travel,
those of vertical travel are hardly lens.
Whet with stair climbing to and from
the subway and the elevated, in the older
office buildings, and especially in hornets,
it Is a conservative estimate which fig-
ures that 6,000,000 stair trips of one
flight each are made in New York daily.
Allowing thirty second.s for each trip
this means that every day a total of
2,600,000 minutes, equal to 41,006 hours,
1,736 days, or almost five years, iPtspeat
by New Yorkers in ascending and des-
cending stairsnIn a year the total of the
time spent in -this way amounts to more
than 033,000 days or almost 1,750 years.
The energy wileh New Yorkers ex.
pend in. thus raising Themselves in the
world amounts to more than 1,000,000
horsepower every day, since a trin up
an average flight of stairs in half a
minute involves the expenditure of ener-
gy roughly equal to one-fifth of a horse.
power. This total, could it be applied,
would furnish power for all New York's
engines.
ne Five years of etair climbing tannin*.
T a rise of more than 20,000 Miles and call-
ing forth 1,000,000 horse -power; that is
the total not eof all New York's daily
vertical travel, but simply that which is
accomplished without- the aid of any lab-
or saving device. People have been. go-
ing to and fro upon the earth ever since
the example was set by a certain well
linown person, but since they quitted
trees as habitations they have been lit-
tle concerned with getting up and down.
Consemiently horizontal travel has re-
ceived all sorts of study and new appli-
ances, while vertical travel until within
a few years nag had little attention. Con-
sequently the great majority of New
York' population plods up end down
stairs in the old way ,a. means of verti-
cal travel which corresponds to the now
despised shank's mare method of pro-
gress on the level.
That the solution of the problems of
vertical travel is rapidly assuming grea-
ter importance cannot be doubted. The
saving of precious minutes and energy
for business men in all fields is daily
becoming more important.
As New York grows upward so does
vertical travel expand, and the compare-
tive neglect which thin field has re-
ceived in the past may be chiefly attri-
buted to the fact that the necessity for
subways, elevated lines and skyscrap-
ers Is a latter day growth. More and
more the New Yorker is coming to tra.-
vel in three dimensions instead of two,
as( as did his forefathers. As a result there
Is aptinging up the new profession of
elevating engineering.
That there is room for it is shown by
New York's stair climbing figures. Hori-
zontal travel has carriages, autos, trol-
ley cars, subways, elevated roads, steam
lines, moving sidewalks—a long array
of meelmnical devices for horizontal tra-
vel. But for the man who wants to get
up or down there are besides stairs, of
muse, just two helps, elevators and es-
calators.
There Is nothing, for instance, to cor-
respond to the auto, and if a parallel be
sought in the field of vertical travel for
the devices of horizontal progression. it
is generally not to be found, Are the
elevator and the escalator going to do
the work of -reducing New York's pres-
ent daily climb of 20,000 miles and of
taking cue of the increase that will
come with more scraping skyscrapers
or will the airship or something of that
sort be called into play with lines of
travel on various levels and landing
stages at various Coon?
Each of the two existing devices has
its particular sphere of usefulness. In
skyscrapers where the installation of an
* of that distance, and as compared with
them from a time saving standpoint
would take about ninety seconds more
for the traveller desiring to reach the
street,
A minute and a half seems of no great
consequence, but a hundred thousand of
thein—twenty-flve hundred hours, or 10
days, every day, does make a differ-
ence. Yet if a hundred thousand persons
eliould use the ramp each day it will in-
volve just that much extra time. It is
the very immensity of this vertical traf-
fic which makes these problems se inter-;
°sting to New York,
But the ramp, whatever its qualities,
should hardly be taken as an indication
of the final solution of the city's prob-
lem of vertical travel. Its adoption
would represent rather a return to prim-
itive conditions. It is probably the
great-grandfather of The present form of
inane, whose advent somewhere in the
early dawn of civilization may have
been hailed as a great improveemnt over
the ramp. There was a ramp in the
Tower of Babel, too, according to schol-
ars.
it -is perhaps in its physiological ef-
feet that the ramp is most interesting,
for anatomists are authority for the
statement that a race of men whose mus -
mire trained by generations a stair
climbing to accustom themselves to its
strain will rebel against a new form of
exercise—certainly a curious illustration
of the physical limitations of the human
frame.
Evidently, however, the future will
demand something entirely different. A
city which spends five years of time and
1,000,000 horse -power every day in Its
vertical travel by stair or ramp affords
such a field for economy of time and
energy as to make it attractive to in-
ventors.
New York half a century hence with
a population of 50,000,000 will hardly
be willing or able to spend fifty years
and 10,000,000 horse -power every day in
stair climbing with time and energy so
valuable. At that rate in the year 1900
Now Yorkers would spend 17,500 years
annually getting up and down stairs!
Figuring the value of every one's' time
as forth only 20 cents an hour for 300
eight-hour dann a year, that would
,mean an annnual sacrifice of nearly $10,-
000,000.
Just how the new era of vertical
travel is to be accomplished Is diffioult
to tell, but with buildings growing high-
er and the streets more crowded, neces-
sitating the removal above or below
them of the traction lines, it is certain
that it must conie. The first advances
will doubtless be by means of such
equipment as will save time at the ex-
pense of energy, or vice versa—working
finally into some solution which will
minimize both.
The day of wireless telegraphy, two-
mile a minute autos and a thousand
and one other Wonders has shown that
almost nothing is impossible, and it is
no great stretch of the imagination to
picture 4 complete arrangement of mov-
ing sidewalks and stairways; individual,
independent automobile elevators, air
shoes, or something else equally un-
dreamed of now.
But with tho total of five years and
one million horse -power now expended
daily by her citizens in vertical travel,
and far greater totals coming, it is cer-
tain that New York will have to consid-
er this problem seriously.
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SUMMER COMPLAINTS.
At the first sign of illness during
the hot weather give the little on
Baby's Own Tablets, or in a few
hours the trouble may be beyond
cure. Baby's Own Tablets is the best
medicine in the world to prevent sum-
mer complaints if given occasionally to
well children, and will as promptly cure
these troubles if they come unexpected-
ly. But the prudent mother will not wait
until trouble comes—she will keep her
childrenewell through art occasional dose
of this medicine. The Tablets ought,
therefore, be kept in the house at all
times. Mrs. Chas, Warren, Nevin, Sask.,
says: 'My little boy was greatly troub-
led with hit stomach and newels, but a
few doses of Baby's Own Tablets wrought
escalator on each floor is not desirable a great chorine In him, I would not be
without the ablets in the house." Sold
by all medicine dealers .or by mail at
25 cents a box from Tim Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Breekville, Ont.
the elevator or rather battery of elevat-
ors, furnishes the desired service. At
elevated stations, in departmental stores
and generally at terminal points where
travel Is congested the escalator gives
fax better results because of its more
rapid seavice.
As compared with an elevator, even
one to accommodate fifty persons, it can
handle ten times as many passengers.
There is no delay similar to that which
decors when an elevator is at another
floor or when, its doors are being opened
or closed.
The latter point is an important one,
too, where women ere concerned, since
observation has proved that they take
about two seconds more, or almost twice
as long as men in getting on or off an
elevator. Two seconds less ocurring
hundred thousand times or more a day
mounts up into quite a. total.
These, then, are the two mechanical
means of treed in the third dimension.
Stairs, of course, are always with us, but
that this antiquated metals of getting up
and down Is becoming more and more
, unpopular is evidenced by the growing
"-demand for apartment houses with ele-
vatore, mid, for example, the agitation
now going- on for the installation of es -
(Water% at the extension of the Brook-
lyn Bridge terminals.
That Is the field as it is at preemat,
and it would deem to be up to the elevat-
ing engineer to take are of the prob-
lems that arise as the New Yorker in his
daily life gets further and further away
from the ground. He may experiment -
with balloons, airships, moving ladders
or anything else, slime the two devices
mentioued are practically the only de-
parture from the teak of stair climbing.
The only recent experiment of late has
been the trial and abandonment of the
inclieed plane or taint in one railway
station and proposals for its installs. -
tion in another, But the ramp is nothing
new, and neither the construction nor
the history of this form of vertical tree
vel is :molt as to make it seem probable
that it Will offer the desired solution or,
Indeed, Mark any advance in the field
Which it semis.
It does not move, so that it Will work
no saving of allergy, and on account of
its emistructien it will neceasitete the
expenditure
of nearly two minutes, as
ACCOMPLISHED POLLY,
Some years ago we were presented
with a young green parrot. The bird
can only have been a few months old, as
she gave no sign of her ned tail. This,
however, quickly appeared, amd. Polly
soon gave evidences that she was listen-
ing to sounds and learning to reproduce
them. We now began to give her talk-
ing lessons by continually repeating
over and over again set words or phrases
and were son repaid for our pains. Polly
began to talk and soon mastered a good
many of her lessons. She added a geed
many self -acquired accomplishments,
such as cab calls, milkmen's and paper
boys' cries, and the cawing of rooks. Her
plotting whistle wo,uld often cause the
milkman to stop and look around, think-
ing the "call" was for him.
Polly also learned to imitate the song
of the canary. She would look up at her
little yellow mate in her cage above and
pall her "Sweet, sweet, pretty little
Dick, pretty little Dick." On one occa-
sion the dressmaker was ushered into
the dining room and was startled by the
bird exclaiming: "Hullo! What's your
name? What do you want?" She stir -
prised a lady visitor on one occasion
with the rather unusual inquiry: "Are
you nice" About thia time I was suf-
fering from a very painful emnplaint,
and it would seem almost as if my suffer-
ing drew out the bird's sympathy, for on
etnen drepped tido aa too trouble:some.
However, after a tone we tried her
again. Now she drops out the "bleu"
and solemnly exhorts us to "Count your
count your—eine." .A few weeha age a
servant was engaged polishing braeswork
near Polly'e cage, and the bird immedi-
ately started talking to her. "null°,
Polly, What do you want? What's the
matter with you? Are you quite well?
De you feel told? Where have you bechr
and much snore. Eliciting no reply, she
shouted out: "Why don't you talk?"' and
drew the retort from the woman: "Be-
cause I am too busy, Polly." Polly re-
plied: "How shocking!"—London Specta-
tor,
STATION AGENT'S TROUBLES,
••••••••••.?1,
Urgent Celli for Help Along the Line Of
the Uganda Railway.
The Uganda Railway has, always im-
pressed us us being one which, to do
it -
full justice, should be dealt with in comic
opera, says the Colonizer. Named after
a colony through which it does riot run,
starting from a terminus carefully
placed as far away aa possible from the
port it serves, though reaching the island
on which that port is situated by a
bridge built at great expense, running
for a long extent through natural game
preserves, with the result that its trains ti
are held up from me to time by ob-
jecting animals, every mile on the line
has a more or less humorous tale attach-
ed to it.
In the early days, while construction
was still proceeding and while only a
part of the line was qpen for traffic—in
fact until quite recently, life on the line
must always have been interesting and
occasionally very exciting, In August,
1905, for instance, the traffic manager
at Mombasa received from the 13abu
station master at Simbtt the following
telegram marked urgent: "Lion is on the
platform. Please instruct guard and
driver to proceed carefully and without
signal in yard. Guard to advise passen-
gers not to get out hero, and be careful
when coming into booking office."
The touching piece of advice included
seems somewhat superfluous. However,
one bold sportsman did get out, and,
ascending a convenient tree, managed to
"get" a lionese and a lion within a, few
minutes. He further wounded another
lion, the one waiting on the platform.
However, the latter after being wounded
disappeared, and could not be found, so
the sportsman went along the siding to
look for him. He found him—suddenly
—but owing to his swiftness in getting
in a blow from, the shoulder on the lion's
jaw after an exciting rough and tumble
he found himself on top when the lion
bolted into the bush.
A. little later Iii the day the traffic
received further wire from the station-
master, who appeared to be somewhat
recovering confidence, as it was not
marked urgent: "One African injured
again by a Hon Please send cartridges
by next train certain." The same after
noon this was followed by a eseeond
touching telegram: "Pointsman is sur-
rounded by two lions while returning
from distant signals, and the pointsman
went on top of telegraph post, near
water tanks. Train to stop there and
take him on train and then proceed.
Please arrange necessary steps."
It is not "big game" alone, however,
that causes annoyance, for from a eta -
tion close to Nairobi about five years
ago the following report was received:
"flato running about like h—,. eating
man's toes. Sendrattra.pe,"
4,
A Child's Laughter.
An the bells of heav n may ring,
All the birds of heaven may sing,
All the walls on earth may spring,
AU the winds on earth may bring
All sweet sounds together;
Sweter far than all things hear;
Hand of harper, tone of bird,
Sounds of woods at sunde.wn stirred,
Welling water's winsome word,
Wind. of warm, wan weather.
One thing yet there is that none
Hearing ere its chime be done,
Knows not well the sweetest one,
Heard of man beneath the sun,
Hoped, in heaven hereafter;
Soft and strong and loud and. light,
Very sound of very light.
Heard from morning's rosiest height,
When the soul of all delight
Fills a child's clear laughter.
Golden belle of welcome rolled I
Never forth such notes nor told
Houle so blithe in tones so bold '
As the radiant month of gold
• Here that rings forth heaven. '
If the golden -crested wren
Were a nightingale, why, then,
Something seen and heard of men
Might be half as sweet as when
Laughs a child of seven.
—Algernon Oharles Swinburne.
Freaks of an Oklahoma Storm,
Here are some of the freak incidents
of the tornado in Day county, near
Grand.
A. large number of chickens were kill-
ed, and most of them had alI the feathers
pulled off, excepting the wing feathers.
At Henry MeQuigg's it took a
wheat -
binder and carried it over two fences
and put it down wrong side up The
fences were not injured, but the Milder
vets badly damaged. At Mr. Wells' it
pulled up the posts in a two -wire fence
and carried some of the posts a long
distance, but left some of then in the
ground where the fence stood. The .two
wires were carried into field a long
distance away amid stretched mit straight
on the ground close together.
One of the most peculiar events was
with reference to Mrs. Wells' window
curtains. 'When the storm struck the
holm she had a lace curtain over a win.
dow. Immediately after the storm she
found this lace curtain. tied in a bow
knot round a fence post. This seems
incomprehensible, and we will not at-
tempt to explain it.—Grand Progress.
• * •
Vermont Bear Hunter.
Allot Briggs, jun., of Searsbutg, Is
making 4 record this season as a bear
hunter, having brought into town two
one occasion she said to mei "Hullol specimens within the last- ten days. Both
what's the wetter with, you'? Are you were bears that in the fall Would weigh
quite well?" I replied: "IsTot quite well, nearly 200 pounds.
Polly." Whereupon sho replied: "Not At this season the animals are thin in
quite well?" She was once tu. the room flesh, having been out of their winter
where a member of the family was prim- quarters but a short time, but they are
tieing singing, mid presently made the hunted and trapped at this time for the
remark, emphasizing the last word: reason that the fur is in its best eondi-
"'What's the matter with you?" When thin, While the bears are in their dens
signs of going out for a walk are appar- for the winter the fur has an opporture
emit we are invariably and repeatedly ity groW to its full length, and. if the
bade "Good -by, good -by," with the ea- Animal. it taught soon lifter it makes its
compastiment of showers of kisses. Upon first appearance in the spring, before it
our return Polly inquires: "Where have has had oportunitiee to travel through
you been?" and upon being informed the brush and wear off its emit, the skin
usually replica: "Glad to see you. back." will be more valuable than at any othet
tomptred to the 'thirty eeeonde news. During last. winter my wife was one time in the year.
morning putting up an oil stove for oe•
'Y earl to ecomplish the same climb by Since the Legislature removed the SIO
eoMMOri
stairs. On account of its ton- „PollY's benefit stoat' her cage. On the bouety on bears, four years ago, the an-
iteeetkee for its rise will be one foot in mar hrdifig the bird watched her with heals Ione inertimea in the mountain:me
the or eleven, a sufficiently steep hill to great interest and presently said: "Do sections of Verniont.—IlennIngton eor-
Velk up, ton, it will have to twist about you feel told?" ecount your blesa- reepondenee Boston Herald.
almost two hundred -feet to seem. lugs" Was a phrase Polly found greet di!- .--a-aaaaaPlith the ea/316 vertioal rise'whichcould flculty in mastering. 'Count your bless" Tho beet betting evolve isn't made
at4ttne4 by Altos 1* tbout 0, twit beat an the *weeded fa uttering, and ky the ht11 eleatoit who goes on s. bate
Choice Gift
of Nature.
Ithe-e-e-e-e-e-e-aseelese+sheaseeleesease-
lVietoria, B. Ce Colonist.)
Cities, like human beings, have char-
acteristics. There arc cities which boast -
of industries, the :lin and confusion of
forges, furnaces.. shops and factories;
there are others boastful of incomparable
climate, a maximum amount of sunshine,
a minimuin amount of cloud and gloom,
Sonic boast of the progress made in city
building, and sonic of the wealth of
nature's resources near at hand. Not a
few glory in their transportation full,
it -lea, their deep -water harbors, or net.
work of railways, and indeed a, city
without municipal pride in Its advantages
and boastfulness of its glory is verging
the border land of stagnation, and stag-
nation means ruin.
Beautiful Vietoria, thrice blest by
nature's bountiful gifts, has its city
gates swinging inward in token of wen.
Tome to the incoming stranger, be he
Prospective settler whose destiny will be
linked to the city's future, of merely a
varfarer, here to -day ----gone to -morrow
--and swinging outward, that its com-
merce may scatter blessings an hundred
fold hi the farthermost corners of the
earth, To the stranger on this outpost
of the empire, Victoria extends a right
royal welcome, arid bide him visit its
beauty spots and participate in the
pleasures which are gathered in a day's
outing to the natural parks, the rushing
waters rind the scenic attractions sur-
rounding this city set down in nature's
Eden. Among its pleasure grounds not
the least of them is the Gorge, a mag-
nificent area of native forest, and glen,
and nook and cove, where the peaceful
stillness is only broken by the caw of
the crow, the twitter of the songbird,
the merry laughter of pleasure -seekers
or the beating of oars upon the blue
waters of the finger of the sea that
seems to point the way to this glorious
retreat where a dual sensation takes
possession of the visitor. "So near and
and yet so far," so near to the great
city, and yet so peaceful, so impressive;
the majesty of nature is around and
about one; the, lofty pine, the tender
fern, the carpet of moss, the clinging
'tendril, form a composite picture of sub.
lime beauty and grandeur that will linger
in one's memory through all the years.
Man and nature have gone hand in
hand in the transformation of the Gorge,
from an unkept forest to a magnificent
park. At the eery gateway a great arch
has been erected, draped and festooned
in national colors by day, at night
iridescent in a blaze of light from hun-
dreds of electric candles that shine and
sparkle like the noonday sun In his
glory. Hero is the beginning of the
radiation of a myriadof footpaths or
walks cut into the hillside or leaping
over ravines and gullies by the aid of
rustle bridges. Cosy seats are provided,
suitably tucked away in careless disre-
gard. for the puritanism of our fore-
fathers; others overhanging the waters
of the sea's finger; while still there are
other seats in which close proximity to
the puths that occupants may ever be
"in the public eye."
In the very midst of all this wealth
of nature's bounty there is a tinge of
Irony in a. conspicuously displayed notice
that: "Persons moving plants or shrubs
will be prosecuted." The desire to "re-
move," or take, without the consent of
the owner grows out of the desire to
have, to retain some real or imaginary
want, or because the thing desired is
rare, scarce or valuable. Al? these rea-
sons considered, the notice referred to is
a "redundancy of matter," for not only
is the Gorge clothed in such a wealth of
foliage as to snake it invaluable, but the
city of Victoria is robed in nature's. gor-
geous splendor. There are most invit-
ing bits of landscape which so lend them-
selves to the artist's fancy that in nooks
and corners the disciple of the brush
and palette may be seen vainly endeav-
oring to counterfeit the harmony of
blends • in nature's coloring. It is a de-
lightful though impossible task, and yet
it affords opportunity for development
and study. The student finds here the
retirement and solitude he seeks, to
ponder o'er some weighty volume on
science, sociology, religion or politica, or
revel in the delightful ward -painting of
some novelist, whose vivid imagination
pictures the story of life on realistio
lines, or perchance creates a new char.
actor, with new thoughts, new ambitions
— an idea for the world to emulate.
In the midst of all thie charming
scene is a miniature japan transport.
ed from the Orient, enclosed by a
typical Japanese fence composed of
bamboo arid board palings, within are
found Many evidences of Japanese life,
a Japanese pavilion where tea and cake
from the empire of the Mikado is serv-
ed to the Curious and adventurous, cur-
ios from the Orient aro on eale, and neat -
at hand is a Japanese maze that af-
fords rare amusement to the rashly dar-
ing who would venture 'within its gates.
A "kuriukimon" of rare beauty support-
ing dainty cedars is the centre of ad-
miring groups who marvel and wOnder
at the ingenuity of japaneeo are cre-
ation. The utilization of bamboo in
the construction of summer houses,
boothae, kieelts and pavilion show e a
remarkable aptitude of the Japanese
in the use of the native building ma-
terial and rare genius in shaping it
Into curious end attractive design
Messrs. Xiehido and Takata, two en-
terprising representatives of the land
of the Rising Sun, are the proprietors
of this miniature kingdom, having se-
cured 4 concession from the B. 0. Me-
tric Railway company, the owners of
The Gorge.
A novel and interesting feature of this
great pleasure resort is the reversible
falls, produced by the rise and fall of
the tide, from which the eppollation of
"rushing waters" bee been wined.
At night the illuminations are pre -
aimed by thousands of electric lights
;peening thnongli the dense foliage,
outlining roan° builainge and casting
shadows that play about the feet of
pedestrians seeking pleasure, of **maces
building airoaetlen .A picnic ground Is an
attraetiOnr for till these weary of the
hunt of the city, whence they may go
I
athin he
With their leneheibel mid the little Mite) ,
au d enjoy a holidaon the moss carted
of the merest, eurniounted by the canopy
of a clowilees sky. A bath house and
b .
Adventures of Brigands
terraces beneath the eliade of the g rmite
g aeI is a special t traction,
and the apostles of Izaalt Walton find
their sport ideal on this finger of the
sea, Ian
• It IS the one spot that will linger long-
est and greenest in the memory of all
tourists and visitors, and is therefore
one of the city's meet valuable Assets..
Now that the tourist season approaches
it is fief° to say that nowhere on the
continent could one find a more charin-
ing spot or more delightful weather con-
ditions for a summer holiday than at -
Victoria during this season usually so
hot and enervating elsewhere.
Orchestral concerts amid moving pic-
tures are provided among the other at-
tractions for the pleasure of the visi-
tor, while there have been provided
swings, games, giant strides, Aunt
Sallies, etc., for the youngsters, that
their day out may he one long to be
remembered and talked about as an
event in their young lives.
When first purchased by the Brit-
ish Columbia Electric Railway CA.,
Ltd., it was heavily timbered, there
was a dense undergrowth so thick it was
quite impenetrable; this is being rapidly
cleared away, leaving the timber end ev-
erything else pleasing to the eye. Ten
acres have now been carefully gone
over; the 'transformation is complete.
The contrast between to -day and yester-
day tells the story of expended, energy
to provide a pleasing retreat for all who
would seek the beauteous forest, the
cool waters of a perfect bathing beach
the exhileretion of a pull on the quiet
waters of Victoria, arms, a stroll °Ogre -
yelled walks winding hither and, yon-
der or a seat. on some rustic bench upon
which the ever-changing panorama of
youth and beauty is ever passing in re-
view.
Such is the Gorge park, the property
of the British -Columbia Electric Railway
Company, but in its glories it has enter-
ed into partnership with Victoria, it has
become an asset to the city, for it is
the pleasure ground of its people and
the stranger within its gates,
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LURE OF HIDDEN TREASURES.
Great Wealth of Various Eldorados Peri-
odically Excites Adventurers.
The hidden treasures of gold and sil-
ver, of jewelry, diamonds and precious
stones for whirl; periodical search is
made in various parts of the world are
computed to be worth several hundred
million dollars. A bare statement of
these various Eldorados is calculated to
make the eyes of the avaricioua
At the bottom of the Lake of Guata- '
vita, in Colombia, there lies, it is said,
treasure in gold, silver and jewels to !
the value of at least $600,000,000. Pirates' ,
loot worth many millions is buried on
Cocos Island in the Pacific. Spanish gold
to the tune of $15,000,000 reposes in the
Armada galleon Admiral of Florence,
which was sunk in "o armory Bay, off
the Island of Mull. Spanish vessels are
lying at the bottom of Vigo Bay laden
with $140,000,000 in gold, silver and
precious stones.
Thirty million dollars worth of the
"buried treasure of the Incas" has yet
to be unearthed in Bolivia. Untold •
wealth hes m the bed of Father Tiber,
into whose bosom the Romans cast their
priceless possessions. The ancient re-
galia of England, many Norman jewels,
the crown of Xing Alfred and other
valuables are burled in the Wash.
Private hoards estimated at $150,000,-
000 are hidden in the Black River Moun-
tain, Maurititts. Off the coast of St.
John's, Cape Colony, lies the wrecked
East Indiaman Grosvenor, bulging with
$5,000 in specie. A British man-of-war,
the Black Prince, sunk by Russian gun-
fire at Sebastopol, has a cargo of over
$30,000,000 in gold and valuables.
Jewels and gold worth $6,000,000 are
tantalizingly ,hidden on the Mediterra-
nean Island of Alboran. Stores of gold
and precious stones are believed to exist
in certain oases of the Libyan desert.
The ill-gotten hoard of Captain Melville,
a famous bushranger who robbed hun-
dreds of gold diggers between Melbourne
and Ballarat, lies carefully concealed in
the Australian bush.
1
A DANGER SIGNAL.
In a public school the other day
the teacher asked the pupils what they
intended to do when they grew up. One
little girl replied that she intended to
get married. In reporting the incident
to her parents on her return home the
little girl said inaignantly: "They all
laughed when I said I was going to get
married When I grow up, Why did they
do that?"
Could anything be more natural and
proper than that a girl should look for-
ward to marriage as her manifest des-
tiny? Why should, her teacher and
sehoolmtries laugh at lier for confessing
such an ambition? Her answer was ad-
mirable and the should have been ap-
plauded. for it and not made to /eel ash-
amed.
En thle incident is revealed one of the
tendencies of our time much to be de-
plored. If modern civilization means a
decline in motherhood, then something is
gravely at fault. In France the reduc-
tion in the birth-rate has become a seri-
ous condition. There it is due in part to
the military service imposed upon young
men, but it is also due in part to the
growth of materialistic philosophy, and
to that selfishness which seeks to es-
cape from the burdens of parentage. In
this country the problet has not meth-
od that ,,degree of seriousness. Never-
theletia it is certainly true that the highs
en post of living, the greater industrial
competition, the eager desire for luxury
and display, and in some walks of note
ety a breaking /may :from (yodel re,
strafntii have resulted In a detline of the
esteem in which the marriage state has
been held. Women, as never before, are
rushing into business, adopting meaty of
the pursuits of mon. The thigh cost of
living and tlikluxurions demands of to.
clay are keeping beck many of our
young men front nuirrying, while the
alarming growth of divorces diselonee A.
lowering standard of morality. Add to
all this the fact that the more extreme
of the agitators for social revolution
Seek to overthrow merriage and the
hohit,
as well us religion, a condition is
revealed that calls for 60110U8 thought.
When even the teachers in our public
weel," returned the bailie, "p
maim gang to prison. If ye luidna
danger signal.shillings or seven &eve."
linge in the wOrld."
Irate to the prisoner before him. "Five
was an Irish 'woman, "I have only 2 shill -
hairs
vain!" aid. a. Stottith magle.
"Och, ehute," said the prisoner, who
8cOttisli
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6410014 make sport of a little girl who
thinks that merriage is her proper anibi.
thin hi life, it is thee to theme out a
tiet drunk wi' your money, ye wad he
rid quite enough to pay he fiet.wea
Titetite.
Two Meet Tragic Dam
Three brigands have been the subjec
ofumoreaorevllfipa
less intheoemanticlust
moat
iseemint
Elopennto
two on ac -count of their epotaeular
dweintlihis:vhtlielhe htheillialibesvoausfaer obaf
f the
e8 kilt
police.
Ono of the three was a Magyar, one
Soviiiiyou Seska, and his field of epere-
tions long ago Was the Carpathian
Mountain dietriet with its vague,. lonely
roads and inaccessible retreats. Twenty-
nive years ago he was the scourge of
the country.
No traveller was safe, mid when trev-
ellen were too scarce rich farmed and
even Judea estate owners in the stir -
rounding region were hie prey. • One of
his pleasant habits was to seize people
and Iola them
mfor ransom. If his de-
ende were not satisfied he did, not kill
hie prisoners, but usually sent them
house minus their ears or a couple of
fingers or even a hand,.
Ile became such a nuisance at last
that a small army was sent out to hunt
him. He fell into their hands by acci-
dent, and was sentenced to imprisonment
for life. In prison he because softened
in spirit. Ile turned religious and his re-
pentance was so sincere that the Bishop
of the district at last interceded with
the Emperor enemas Joseph in his be-
1141Ir.
10 was released after twenty-one
years' confinement and returned to his
native village, where he started to make
his livelihood as a herdsman for his
brother. His wild career as a robber
had been made the subject of a while li-
brary of stories and memoirs of the dime
novel kind in German and Hungarian.
Ho at once made a collection of these
and read them over and over with avidi-
ty, commenting on their literary merits
hi his friends and correcting their histor-
ical inaccuracies. He plainly regarded
himself as a great public figure and re-
velled in his glory.
After a ‚while, however, his fame be-
gan to pall on him. He lost interest in
peaceful pursuits, grew morose and de-
spondent and spent his time roaming
among the rocks and forests where his
early exploits were performed.
At last he was missing for several
days. Search was made and he was
found dead in one of his favorite hiding
places, with the best of the books about
him neatly stacked at his side and the
big cavalry pistol, with -which he had
blown the top off his head, still grasped
in his nand.
The second brigand who has just met
a tragic end was Francesco Parisi, who
flourished and died in the *neighborhood
of Salerno, Italy. He a -as an intelligent
and very robust peasant of the better
class and led a peaceful life until some
time ago he became the victim of an ac -
emotion which he declared to be false,
and was convicted and sentenced- on
what he declared was perjured testi-
mony. As he was taken to prison he
swore that he would devote his life to
revenge when he was released.
In the last six months he established
a reign of terror in the country around
Salerno. He robbed nobody, but devot-
ed himself absolutely to his vendetta.
He hiclan the woods and fields and only
emerged front time to time to shoot at
some one who was concerned in his trial.
Some he missed, several he wounded
more or less seriously. One man he
maimed for life only a. week before Ins
own end came, because he believed him
to be a spy of the carabinieri.
Parisi was so skilful and had so much
sympathy from the country people that
the authorities could get no trace of
him, although they picketed a forest
known as the Patella, in -which he was
supposed to lurk, by day and night. Fin-
ally it was by tracking women who were
supposed to be his sweethearts and ad-
mit -era that they located him. Incident-
ally, they found that there were several
of these and. they carried all his supplies
of food and ammunition to him.
Finally it was arranged to keep watch
on all the women on a certain night.
The carabiniere officers let it leak out,
as if Informally and by accident, than
they and their men were worn out with
watching and would have to take a few
nights' rest. As was expected, one of
the women left her home at midnight
and was followed to Panel's hiding place.
The next morning the carabinieri formed
three parties and, closed in on him from
the only three lines of approach to his
lair.
A. pitched battle was the result, and
Parisi is said to have fired sixty-one
shot!, from guns and pistols before he
was killed. None of the soldiers was hit,
but they say the bullets whistled close
to them, and they had to keep well cov-
ered to save their lives. The brigand's
body, when they took it to Salerno, was
found to have no less than twenty-nine
bullets in it.
Giuseppe Salomon° is a Sicilian, He is
stiil at large, though a hundred cant-
binieri are looking for lie also
proclaims himself a victim of the law's
injustice, seeking revenge. He says lie
was the victim. of political Spite.
It is truo that he was accused of steal-
ing about $10 front two fish dealers in
Caltanisettta, though there had never
before been the least reason to doubt
his honesty. A. local official, Whom he
im id fought politically, pushed the prose -
"The good God," he screamed to the
years' imprisonment.
"The god God," lie screamed to the
spectators in court on his conviction,
"ought to make the earth open and swal-
low up these false witnesses,"
However, he took his punishment
tha—One Foc1s Purouers.
t He is said to be A most tiering follow.
e Ho meets in deoguise the earabinieri who
are chasing him andearoucese with
A Mem; then he semle them off on wild
goose eluteee to look for him fifty milee
trom where he is going to be, Ile has
scraped acquaintance with Judges and
other .public officiels, shaken bands with
eoinnuesaries of police, stopped at the
best hotels and frequented tee theatre,
His crowning exploit was to Write his
own memoirs and have them published
in a Sicilian newspaper.
toe te
Another Taxing Power.
(Toronto Saturday Night.)
To take the case of a ma -ion with which
an editor is brought into those contact-,
that of the printers, It may be said that -
they have been for the last couple of
years paying from two to ten per cent.
of all their earning* into a alien, fund
in order to fight out the eight-hour day
contest. That means that the Tomato
printer who has been earning $20 per
week has, in the last twenty-four
months, been paying a tax that was this -
tog a part of the time at the rate of
$104 per year.
Ten per cent. of a man's annual earn-
ings is a heavy tax, If the municipal,
Provincial or Dominion Gay 55t
should undertake to levy such a tax on
the workingman of Terento, there would,
be a rebellion. A 414.11who owns a
$7,000 house will not pay into the muni-
cipal treasury a larger tax than that
which luta been, levied by the union on
the printers of Toronto, and hi fact some
of the more expert workmen have been
paying as much 46 $160 per year, Men
who for one reason or another fell be.
hind in their payments have been drive
out of their calling, and it is interesting
to notice that while the capitalist, the
tax collector and the policeman are open
to a certain amount of argument, the
official of a union cannot be argued with
in regard to these duet. He has Power
of life and death. The law restrains
the bailiff from seizing certain household
goods that are necessary to a family,
but the agent of a union can stop in and
deprive 4 420.41 of his livelihood. Unless
he pays the amounts demanded of him
he can be blacklisted and deprived of
the right to follow his trade. Among the
printers of the city are some who have
been. put out of business owing to their
failure to pay one-tenth of their earn-
ings into this union fund.
When men talk about the power of
capital they do not pause to consider
that there is scarcely anywhere a. power
of capital greater than that of the Mier -
national union that can tax almost with-
out limit tens of thousands of raechanies
and collect their money by means of a
pressure as direct amid unescapable as
that of the bailiff. In England the un-
ions have grown almost too strong, even
from their own standpoint, with the re-
sult that the industries of the nation
are weakened in their competition with
other countries because of the fact that
a limit is put on the amount of labor
that any one man is supposed to do in
a day. The energy of the individual is
discouraged. In this country some of
the unions are moving in the same direc-
tion, and many onlookers believe that
the tendency is a bad one, for it tends
to keep workingmen fenced off for life
In the particular field of employment in
which they began their work. They are
neither to do more nor better work than
others among whom they are placed, and
the man with superior aptitudes is not
given a chance to benefit by his ability.
He is supposed to keep in step with the
regiment.
quietly. When liberated he showed no
signs of bitterness. But when he reach-
ed home he found that his mother had
died on the previous
After the funeral ho took to the
wood. His very first act was to shoot
dead the official whom he held respon-
sible for his prosecution.
When the man died at once, Salonione
bewailed the fact. Ire had hoped he
would linger for some time its the toy.
meets of remorse and the fear of judg-
ment.
Since then Salomone's life has been
the ordinary one of a brigand. He robs
and levies blackmail on the villages and
even the town e of Sicily. Ire has the
sympathy of the very poor, who keep
hint posted on the plans meek to catch
him.
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HOW ALBATROSS FLIES.
Snapshot photographs are constantly
adding valuable facts to the stores of
science. They are able to detect and
analyze motions too quick for the eye
to follow. A. recent instance of the ap-
plication of photography to a disputed
question in natural history, says the
Philadelphia Recorder, is an experiment
made on a vessel from British Columbia
to Sau Francisco, one of the passengers
thereon being a. seientist in the employ
of Uncle Sam.
A large albatross had been following
the steam& and keeping pace with it fox
several hours, and the wonder grew
among the watchers OA shipboard as to
how the bird was able to fly so swiftly
while apphrently keeping its wings ex-
tended without flapping them. As this .
is a common manner of flight with the '
albatross, the explanation has been of- '
fered that the bird takes advantage of
slight winds and air eta -rents, and en is
able to glide upon what might be celled
atmospheric elopes.
As the albatross tailed alongside of
the ship about fifteen feet away, the sci-
entist snapped his eat:tore, at it and ob-
tained a photograph whioh astonished
him and his fellow passengers.
The photograph revealed what no eye
had caught, the winos of the albatrees,
each some five feet long, raised high
above its back in the act of making a
downward etroke. The explanation nat-
urally suggested is that more or hat
frequently the bird must have made ct
stroke of this kind with its wings, al-
though the eye could not detect- the mo.
tion, and that the camera chanced to be
snapped just at the right moment.
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