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FAMOUS STRUCTURE SOON TO BE TORN DOWN y1 S. '" v *1.*'iJ site will he erected five modern sky-scrapers. Madison Square Garden was opened in 1890 and has been the soeme of many notable affairs, but it is said to have been run at a loss during moat of the time. MONEY IN CHICKENS George W. Elkins Establishes Model Poultry Farm. Member of Millionaire Family Erects $5,000 Plant, All Under One Roof -Business is Now on a Pay Ing Basis. Philadelphia.--In Abingdon. one of the Old York road suburbs and clote to the famous Polly Parms on the ERI kin estate, young George W. Elkins, a member of the millionaire family, has succeeded in establishing a chick en farm that is really a model. Ten acres, upon which are built the most Improved types of shelters and feeding spaces for the chickens, com prise the farm. It cost, in addition :to the orignal purchase price of the land-some $20,000--the sum of $15, 000 more. Experts have said that the investment is a sound, paying business propesitlon and not simply the gratfiatmion of a millionaire's Mr. Elkins, business man, clubman, iboseman, golfer and motorist, is also en expert on chickens. The farm is -nder hbis ,personal supervision and , ea; l.eiry detail of its management .a been caresflly planned. Richard iMit. , the sup.rintepdent of the shlete fatrm, frequently goes to Mr. lks for advice and suggestions. m teaurm is built on a portion of the Ash property, which Mr. Elkins aegred ltrecently. I unique idea of ;Mr. nElsk was to have his whole plant ader .oue root. Builders told him this was Impracticable, but he euceseded in having his scheme car sled oat and it has proved extremely A buildng one story in height, 20 test widq and 498 feet long, was e .ted, facing the south. It was di vidd Inato 17 compartments, each cpable of aecommodating 125 chick e.a At the western end of the house o a brooder, 115 by 20 feet, fitted up ;with 33 brooders and capable of car ag for 4,800 lIttle chicks. At the extreme northern end is a large colony house for setting hens. In this end also are the feed rooms, the heating plant and the incubator ramts. One long psseuageway runs the entire length of the whole house, and the entire plant is thus under one reoo. This smplles construction. maces for economy and is a big saving -d time in handling the chickens, be sides being a sanitary arrangement. With the large acreage at his dis posal Mr. linp is not bothered with th question of runs. Five runs have beea. :mtrace. each about 80 by 290 :lft. These hale been set out o rpa ns as, and nearly 400 peach trei· a been planted. Wire net tinglsineoes thie rpm and the space pleag is ample or each batch of 7tAes tas ssa nests, lefts and an quNptpimt Is heept spotlessly cleKm. eaM e pieracs supervision and .entofl M ir. Ulk Is snlsasoe 4ree .ate, with M W Itt rg 4 *E Estaothses ings will be erected. I have found one peculiar thing since I took up the 'chicken game,' and that is that every raiser has his own peculiar ideas; no two follow precisely the same method. "I am deeply interested in chickens. I believe that, In chickens as well as horses, cattle or anything else, pick a good strain, get the best possible stock, use good common sense in treatment and development and you'll get results. It is possible that, after awhile, I'll confine my efforts to a couple of strains-possibly White Rocks and Leghorns." EVILS OF AMERICAN JAILS British Expert Declares United States Behind Times-Commends State Reformatories. London--The home office publishes the report of Sir Evelyn John Ruggles Brise, chairman of the English prison commission, and the British represent ative at the prison congress held at Washington last October. In his re port on American penal institutions Sir Evelyn commends state prisons and reformatories, but condemns the system in vogue in city and county jail. "Promiscuity, unsanitary conditons, the absence of supervision, 'idleness and corruption--these remain features of many places," says the report. After telling some of the etils he saw, Sir Evelyn concludes: "Until the abuses of the jail system are removed it is impossible for the United States to have assigned to her by general consent a place in the van guard of progress in the domain of 'La Science Penitentiarie.'" CHILDREN'S TEETH BAD Dentists Declare Thousands of Pupils Suffer in Health From Decayed Molars-Defect Serious. Chicago.--Declaring that in some districts of Chicago 97 per cent, of the school children have decayed teeth and that bad teeth cause criminal in stincts, a research committee of the Chicago Dental society today made an appeal for the establishment of a fund of $25,000 to establish dental clinics in the schools and for the school children of Chicago. The report of the committee chars acterizes the condition as alarming and dangerous. Attention of city of ficials, as well as dentists and philan thropic citiens, Is urged to start a city-wide movement to have the school children given dental treatment 'This means," says the report, "that unless something Is done to ameliorate the condition there are ninety-seven out of every 100 school children who are to be handicapped in their efforts to make for themselves an honorable pla.n In the wordL" Several well-known Chicago philan s already have pledged sums ran' from A$1,4 t60 to 4600 6toward Omlan.lg, the report eas: "School at. et Chaias are sfaeng seri on disablty thronugh nas ct of their teet. In one district to the souther prt of the car wherean examlastion ,* wem e has beet made it s reema tht etat are is need o lustie u .ab u Ithd defective ry VOW ý ,a V, No I D AM'~·l~. · .-Y. PREACHERS' PAY IS POOREST Average Salary of Methodist Minister $573 Year, or Half That of Skilled New York Laborer. New York.-A comparison of the wages paid in various trades and oo cupations, with the salary of the aver age preacher, prepared for the New York Methodist Episcopal conference, now in session, shows that the preach er receives about half as much as the average skilled laborer. "Outside of 100 of the largest cities," the report says, "the average salary of the Methodist minister Is $573 a year. "Beside this, it might be cited that 100,000 locomotive engineers receive an average of $1,200 a year. The average policeman gets $1,000 a year, so that more is paid for those who watch over the transgressor than is paid to him who is working for trans formation of the human soul." RAZE OLD M'AULEY MISSIOh Work Commenced for Construction of New Building to Cost $100,000 Founded by Pirate. New York.-Workmen have begun demolishing the old Jerry McAuley mission, an institution where thou sands of the underworld have been converted, A new $100,000 structure in which to carry on the work on a more extensive scale will be erected. The mission was established by Jerry McAuley, an ex-river pirate, shortly after his release from the state prison in 1871. He had been converted and mixed with his old associates only to tell them of the better life. The final services yesterday were attended by a score of men high in the business world, who credit their salvation to the little mission in Water street. he is not given a fair chance in the world. He drifts into truancy and this leads to criminality of all kinds. "I'The members of the Chicago Den tal society stand ready to devote their time and energy to carry out this work, but they are not in a position to bear the financial burden which It entails. A fund of $25,000 is needed to equip and maintain the dispensaries for one year, by which time it is ex pected that the city council will reoog nize the fact that this is a civic econ omy and will make appropriations a, cordingly." CHAMPION EATERS MAY MEET 8tate' Island Man Wants to Wrest Title From "Hungry" 8am Miller of Pennsylvania. Wilkesbarre, Pa.-John F. McKay, of 81 Sherman avenue, Tompkinsvlle~ S. I, wants to meet Hungry Sam Miller, of Strawberry Ridge, near here, the champion eater of Pennsyl vanta, in an eating contest for the championship of the eastern section of the United States. George W. Will iamsx Miller's manager, received a letter from McKay, in which he says .that he is willing to meet Miller for $500 a side or more. McKay says: "My reputation as an eater is local, having not been in any contest oat side of New York city. I won the beetf-eatng contest of the Forty-sec. end Street Country club recently, having saten I pounds of .-beef, x Ieas of bread and havi.a drank. 1 arb at miEk." McKay ads hi wmllag to deposit $U WXK a New erak aewepeper to z 4i be glad S. sahe theº ut=Ia IFOR TRACK GRADIi G MECHANICAL DEVICE THAT DOEa AWAY WITH LABOR. Idea of Duluth Man Means Great Sav Ing in Expense of Building Rail roads-Method Is Simple, but Highly Efficient. While machines have been stead Ily taking the place of ordinary labor ers in most - branches of work, *; the man with the ) shovel has held his position un challenged in the work of grading and ballasting rail road track. Now, however, a rail road builder of Du luth, Minn., has devised a ma chine that he be lieves is destined to do the work of e. ,, lifting jacks and `" . the gangs of shov :,e: elers and tamp ers. It consists of a self-propelled car, from one end of which extends a 34 foot trussed boom carrying the track lifting device and a carriage on which are the shovel arms. The track lift ing device consists of two traveling grappling arms which engage the rails at the joints and midpoints, and lift them until there is sufficient clear space beneath the ties for the shovels to operate. A battery of shovel arms is provided on each side. The bat tery on one side, or even the individ ual shovels in each battery, may be operated independently. The shovel arms have both a lateral and vertical motion, and a joint at the point where the shovels are connected with the arms makes It possible to move them at any desired angle with the arms. This is to provide a horizontal in stead of radial motion of the shovels while under the ties. In operating the car is run out to a point where the boom overhangs a depressed portion of the track. The gripping devices are then attached to the track and raise a section of it. The shovels are pushed out, the sashes lowered until the shovels engage with New Rival to the Track Gang. the earth, and then are raised again, the shovels pushing the earth beneath the ties, thus completing the first stages of the operation. The empty shovels may then be operated back and forth to tamp the earth. This operation is repeated continually, the grader moving forward on the battery length of track it has just finished. The machine builds embankments without the use of trestle, and with but five men composing its crew, is said to be capable of doing the work of a hundred men with shovels.-Popu lar Mechanics. Pensions for Horses. The highly original will of an ec centric bachelor, Emil von Bizony, is reported from Vienna. The deceased; the brother of a well-known Hungar Ian deputy, was 65 years old, detested women and lived on a war footing with all his relations. In his will he bequeathed all his *real and personal estate, worth about £20,000, to his twelve draft horses. As executors of the will he named the Society for the Protection of Animals at Budapest, stipulating that the in terest on his property should be de voted to the care of these twelve ani mals, and that upon the death of one of them another aged horse was to be taken in and cared for, so that the number of twelve might always be maintained. Herr von Bizony's relations were naturally amazed at the contents of the will, and the deputy, Herr Alusius Bizony, will dispute it. Negotiations have been commenced with the above mentioned society, and £4,000 was of fered it, but refused. "Sheep-Nose" Cars. An interesting type of car is in use on the electric railroad running from Indianapolis to Toledo. This car is provided with a parabolic front end, commonly called a "sheep-nose.'t The object of this arrangement is to re duce wind resistance when the cars are running at high speed, also to make it easier for the car to force its way through snow drifts. The frame of the car is very strongly built, and is arranged to carry a steel sheathed pilot which serves as a snow plow. Naval Dream. Mr. Recentmarrie-Mary, I do hope you will never have navy beans for supper again; those we had last night gave me a horrible dream. Mrs. Recentmarrie-Oh, John, I am so sorry! What was the dream? Mr. Recentmarrie-I dreamed I was captured by Captain Kidd and made to walk the plank. Belgian Government Lines. The total mileage of the Belgian government railroads on January 1, 1910, was 1,368 miles of double track md L410 mdles oat sinaI track . TRAIN LOSES ITS WHISTLE Odd Incident That Is Believed to Marl' a Record, at Least on This Par. ticular Line. It occurred one day recently, and the passengers on the Big Sandy train are smiling yet when they think of the oddest incident that has happened on that branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio in years. The train bound for Ashland lost its whistle while still many miles up the valley, and was forced to stop and back up almost thi entire distance, looking for that whis tle, which was eventually found miles away from where it was missed. The loss delayed the train five hours. It was due at Catlettsburg at five o'clock in the evening, but didn't reach that point until ten o'clock that night. Trains have been known to lose their switchmen, their cabooses and some times a whole cut of cars, but never before has a Big Sandy train been known to lose its whistle. Under the law, a train may not operate without a whistle, and it was this fact that caused the conductor of this train to run back over many miles of track to locate the lost object.-PikesvillE Advocate. PROTECTION FOR THE CARS Wind Gauge Used on English Railroad to Prevent Accident While Cross ing Over Viaduct. A singular device for the protection of railroad train trains crossing a via duct exposed to heavy winds has been employed in England. It consists of a wind gauge fixed at the west end of the Levens viaduct. When the wind pressure reaches 32 pounds to the square foot an electrical contact is made automatically, and bells ring in the signal cabins on each side of the viaduct. Upon this all trains are detained until the force of the wind abates. The interruption is telegraphed along the line. In the month of February one year a veloc ity of 65 miles an hour was recorded. The danger of very high winds to trains on an exposed bridge or via duct has been more than once trag Ically demonstrated both in England and in this country. Railroading by Sails. Many of the small towns along the coast of Chili are being connected by sail railways. These railways are the idea of an engineer engaged on coast improvement work. Finding the time spend by workmen in carrying mate rials from the town to the place of operations a costly item he decided to take advantage of the trade winds, which blow in that region with clock like regularity, and accordingly, he had a number of fair-sized box cars build and provided each with a large sail. These cars not only accommo date the men going and coming from work, but proved amply sufficient to transport the material needed in the construction of the works. The aver age speed attained by these cars is from 30 to 40 miles an hour. Tragedy Narrowly Averted. What might have been a serious railroad accident was narrowly avert ed at Junee, Australia, recently. A goods train from Junee was stationary at Bethungra railway station, and slightly in advance of her usual rest ing place, when the Sydney express to Melbourne, which does not stop at Bethunga, dashed past, striking the' stationary engine of the goods train, cutting the buffer off and portion of the front of the engine woodwork was splinteredd to matchwood. The pass engers naturally were greatly alarm ed, and there was much rejoicing at the narrow escape from a dreadful death. Kitten's Adventurous Ride. Crawling unnoticed onto the pilot of the Pennsylvania flier a black and white kitten clung to its perilous posi tion all the way from Indianapolis to Columbus, O., the other afternoon, and has been christened mascot at the Columbus Union station. When the train pulled into Columbus after its run from Indianapolis the kitten jump ed from the pilot and ran to shelter in an empty box car near the station yard. - It had been exposed to the rain and wind and was soaked and bedrag gled after the ride of 188 miles with out a stop. Telephone on Trains. It is reported that the Pennsylvania railroad is experimenting with the use of the telephone for communica tion between the locomotive cab and the caboose of long freight trains.. This will do away with the necessity of signaling by means of lamps, hand signals and whistles. In foggy weath er and at night such a means of com munication would expedite the han dling of freight A Weak Explanation. "I thought you wrote me that you had a beard while you were in France?" "I did, and it was a beauty. But the customs officials claimed that it was a foreign product, and I had to shave beftqe, they'd let me come ashore. They're getting awfully par ticular these days." Modern Magic. "Jiggs Ls the most resourceful man I have ever met" "What does he do in a crisis?" "He simply flashes a big roll of bills." I Japanese Railroads. The Japanese railroads at the close of their last fiscal year had i,029 miles of line, of which more than nine-tenths belmur to the state. ANXIETY WAS FOR THE KEB Overcharge a Small Matter, but C-as tomer Did Hate to See Good Material Hurt. Every nail-keg in the store had Its occupant, the checker-board was work. ing overtime, and mittens and mud Sers were stuffed in bulgy pockets, as their owners drew closer round the big, rusty stove. The door opened nosatly, letting in a blast of the storm raging outside, and In its wake followed Rufe Blevins, a giant wood-chopper, whose good na ture and ready wit made him a wet come addition to the store circle. The loafers moved a little closer to gether to make room for Rufe on a soap-box, but he marched past the friendly circle, plumped an empty molasses-keg down on the counter, and drew a stained bill from his pocket, which he held out to the pro prietor of the store. An expectant grin went round the circle, for Storekeeper Jones had the reputation of never wronging himself by overweighing or undercharging. The merchant adjusted his glasses and looked expectantly from the bill to the wood-chopper. "Notice you charged me for five gal ions o' molasses last time I had this four-gallon keg filled," drawled Rufe. "I don't mind payin' for the extra gal Ion, Mr. Jones, but I do kinder hate to have a good keg strained to pieoes." -Youth's Companion, SUFFERED TERRIBLY. Kidney Trouble and Rheumatik Palms Made Life Miserable. M. R. Wilson, Humboldt, Nebr. sayst RI had kidney disease in a very aggra vated form. Kidney secretions cea was so stiff I could hardly move. My back ached terribly. I had nervous and dissy spells, my limbs were swollen and mornings on arising I felt weary and depressed. I do tored and tried numerous remedies but steadily grew worse until almost helpless. I began to improve under the use of Doan's Kidney Pills and it was only a short time before I was entirely well" Remember the name--Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cets a boa. Foster-Milburn Co., Bufflo N. Y. Her Way. Mrs. Woggs-So you keep your hus band home evenings? I suppose you put his slippers where he can bnd 'em? Mrs. Boggs-No; I put his oes shoes where he can't--Puck You are not responsible for the di position you were born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.--Babcock. Men have more temptationl than women, because they know -Where--- look for them. 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