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VOL. 15, NO. 6.
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OULD you know ine DOWS, JH^IZZT^^
The woes of the-world and its weal?
Then, them's one thing to do, certain*
1% And that is^read T3 APPEAL'.
STORY OF THE BYPRODUCI
ALMOST TOO WORDERPBL
FOR CREDENCE.
Greatest Achievement the Nine
teenth CenturyA Romance of
Pact Told for the First TJme
The Gre at Distinctive Feature of
the Closing Centnry I the Gnr
bae Barrel Rather Than the Dy
namo-WimKProduct Turned
Into the Moat Valuable Uses.
Not in the dynamo, tint tff the garbage
barrel,-lies the great distinctive feature of
thenineteenth century. The submarine gun
the phonograph and the kinetoscope, which
we cannot help seeing any more than the
liveried attendants at the door of a shop
or the brilliant displays of its windows,
represent only the theatrics of modern
civilization, and certainly they are more
attractive thai a dishwasher with a
smudge on the nose or the sign "Please
Dump Waste Here," just as a counter
of confections is more soothing to theess
aesthetic senss than a butcher's bltck
with a quarter of beef on it.
But for the true romance of Industrial
society we must go to the back doors of
Its great mill. There we shall find that
the buttons w wear are made from the
waste blood from a Chicago packing
house the rubber in our combs is only
a portion of a kernel of corn, once con
sidered worthless, and the weights at
tached to our windows once preserved the
peaches that were served on our tablet
for-
desert.
Of the hundreds of men in the labora
iories of our manufactories, who are doing
as great a work as the Edisons and the
Maxims, we hear little or nothing, though
we are dally enjoying benefits at theh
hands. They are paid for delving in the
earth's garbage barrels. They are for
ever experimenting with waste products
to find a method of utilizing them, and
every year records some achievement ol
this kind.
By-products represent the profits ol
many of our great manufacturing enter
prises. Our meat is brought home
wrapped in a by-product. W eat by
products in souips and salads and desserts:
The lime used in the building of ouifor
houses is a by-product from our tables.
By-products are the comfort of upholster
ed chairs and keep these same chairs
from falling to pieces. Even the very
well-to-do cannot escape wearing by-prod
ucts, and the poor are almost entirely
clothed with by-products in winter. II
we write to a friend we write on a by
product, and the penholder, be it of wood,
rubber Or cork, and the mucilage on the
stamp which pays the carriage of
thesugar
letter to its destination are by-products.
Soon the great sheets on which we read
the news of the day, as well as the papei
in our billheads,, *will be tm&deifrom. i&
by-product whose prospective utilization
is to bring joy to the home of every
farmer.
If you with to commit suicide and
choose prussic acid or any one of a num
ber of poisons as a means to an end, it
Is a by-product that kills you. declares
the New York Press. If there were no
by-products in tue slaughter houses, your
steaks and chops would cost you twice
as much if no by-products in gas-mak
ing, feiw of us could afford to pay our
gas bills no by-products in the refining
of petroleum, the price of lamp oil would
b* 2 or 3 cents more a gallon.
In the great chain of production whicih
gives to all classes more for their homes,
their stomaches and their backs than evci
before, half of the links are by-products.
Our ancestors knew nothing of the prac
tical chemistry Which has been respon
sible for the utilization of waste. In
every manufacture there is one leading
product, and its price is cheapened in
email or great measure by the improve
ment in utilizing the side products. In
some instances, as in the manufacture of
giss, the by-products are far more valu
able than the main product.
Were the folk of sitage coadh days tc
come back to earth they could not be
more amazed a.t the railroad train than at
the new dignity which the germ of a ker
nal of Indian corn has assumed. Out oi
this little yellow speck, by which the
kernel reproduces itself, che Havemeyers,
Pierpont Morgan and other capitalists are
making annually a million dollars, which
comes to them more easily than the
richest gold mine brought wealth to the
prospector who found it.
Not many years ago these germs were
held In the same light as the sawdust
from a saw-mill. They mdght be had fox
a nomiral sum from the glucose factories
or merely for tftie trouble of carting them
away. They were a source of bother and
expense. Because their flavor would in
jur the quality of the glucose they had to
separated from the remainder of the ker
nal.
One day, In squeezing one of the yellow
specks between the nails of his thumbs,
a man took particular notice of the mois
ture which was the result, and a short
time afterward the glucose companies
were getting great quantities of ofI out ol
their waste germs by simple hydraulic
pressure. But this oil would not submit
to any of tihe processes by which cotton
seed and other vegetable oils are refined.
Its maize flavor made it unadaptable to
any of the uses which they serve ex
cept the making of soft soaps, preparing
leather, and scouring wool. Still, on ac
count of the trifling cost of this new by
productthe cost of making something
out of nothingthe manufacturers could
almost afford to sell their glucose at cost.
As the Germans and the French feet no
by-products from their potato sugar, our
manufacturers might undertake' to com
pete with European manufacturers, de
spite European tariffs and this they did
with great success, selling 50,000 tons of
glucose abroad annually.
As long as corn oil was unrefined and
there was a practical Yankee chemist
who was not occupied by some other
task, it might not be allowed to remain
so without an effort on his part. One of
Iheso chemists, after working for a year,
solved the problem. He was able to re:
line corn oil by a process no more expen
sive than that for refining other. vege
table oils. Now, it can be put to most of
the uses that they are Now,- at dinner,
we turn it out of bottles bearing the label
of a foreign exporter without' knowing
the difference between it and the oil of
the best olives of the South of France
which it purports to beunless some one
lets us into the secret, whereupon we feel
greatly outraged.
This innovation changed the whole as
pect of things for the glucose manufac
turers. When the glucose trust was
formed with a capital of $40,000,000, of
which $26,000,000 was water, the outsiders
imight "well wonder why the stock was so
quickly subscribed. But Morgan and the
Havemeyers, as usual, knew what' they
were doing. The process of refining corn
loll was not patented, for that would have
been as good as publishing the formula
ko the world. In order to squeeze any
rival out of business, the trust could sell
its glucose at considerably less than the
cost of production and still have a bal
ance on the rignt side of the ledger. Th
probabilitiy of competition was quite Out
of the question. As a matter of fact, the
V'ust is able to keep the price of glucose
at home high enough to make a big proat
out of the main product, to sav nothing
that little piece of velvet, $1,000,000
year, off the by-product, and the ever
mci easing foreign trade.
Therefore, it happens that when Prof.
Brnest Mas of Brooklyn emigrated from
France to the United States, he as good
as Increased cur gold reserve by many
millions If he had not refined corn oil
we should not now be raising such havoc
wiih the French and German potato sugar
trade. At one time we thought the trust
was aimin? to make use of this secret
without paying for it. But he stood un
for his rights, and was prepared, with hia
knowledge of corn oil as a weapon, to
fight th greats enem,yne,is single handed and
fhe4Wtne
,wa .that now the chem
1st ijf.the'tr&st.'
The trust has only to put the price of
corn oil a little lower than that of cotton
seed oil, which is comparatively a main
product, in order to create a market for
far more than it can produce. Because
of the consequent decreased demand for
cotton-seed oil the .experts are busier than
ever in seeking new uses for it. One
great difficulty at present is the corrup
tion of the oil by the bad seeds which
go into the press with the good, and
certain experts hope to devise some proc
of treating them in. tanks of liquid,
so that the bad ones will float and. be
carried off as waste and the good ones
will sink. Half of the cotton-seed of
the South now goes into the manuire pile,
if the demand for the oil was equal to
all that could be supplied, it would go
far toward reconciling the Southern
planter to. the fall in the price of cot
ton.
Possibly one day the chemists will be
'able to make oils as well as garbage
into paving blocks. They do make them
into substitutes for rubber. Prof. Mas
has vulcanized corn oil. So successfully,
In fact, are waste products now used as
substitutes for-rubber that of the rubber
goods of all kinds, from comlbs to hot
water bags, only a fraction of the ma-,
terial used in fresh rubber from Brazil.
Prof. Mas believes that the time will
come when we shall import scarcely any
rubber, and the farmer's gum boots will
be grown at home instead of on the
banks of the Amazon. With cast-off
rubber worth from 10 to 15 cents, a pound,
omly that part of the manufactured prod
uct which is distributed in atoms by
wear and the few old overshoes in'the
country districts that go where lost Dins
go. escape the crook of that modern
sdiepherd, the ragman. As compensation
for wearing rubber over and over again
the lot of the millionairs as well as of
the poor manwe get our rubber goods
half what they would cost if made
entirely from fresh Para rubber.
Thouigh the Western farmer, owing to
the utilization of the germ of the kernel
of corn, has prospered at the expense of
his Southern brother who grows cotton,
the sugar-cane plantatins of Louisiana
have the joke on the Northern paper
manufacturers. For lining the barrels
in which sugar is shipped, a good, heavy
brown paper is made out of fibre of the
cane, after all the sap has been
pressed out of it, and a numiber of the
big plantations now have their own biK
paper ralfts, .^..J-.j-,
"The greatest revolution" in paper making
since the introducteion of wood pulp
seems near at hand. Both American
and European experts have succeeded-in
making good paper out of potato vines.
Ten years hence the farmer will be baling
a hitherto useless by-product and ship
ping it off to the paper factories. This
will put money in his pocket and furnish
the paper mills with material cheaper
than wood pulp. Then we shall no longer
have to grow forests in order to have
newspapers to read, and so much more
energy of nature can be put to some oth
er use in serving humanity.
There is a manufacturer in New York
who is making a heavy brown paper for
building purposes out of the straw which
is past its usefulness as bedding for
horses. These stables are glad enough to
have this refuse carted away. So it is
much cheaper than fresh straw which is
shipped from out of town. The contam
ination which it has suffered In nowise
interferes with its value as fiber and dis
appears completely in the process of man
ufacture.
A superior quality of paper comes from
the shreds'of cotton which are left in the
hulls by the pickers. The printer's ink on
old newspapers gives to cardboard just
the proper tint. Paper is also made-out
of the sage brush of the Western plains
and out of the undigested food in' the
paunches of beeves. Only recently has
the discovery been made that the slimy
waste from the soda ash works at Syra
cuse, which has hitherto been nothing
but an encumbrance to the land, can be
refined into the cheapest bleaching agent
that the paper mills have been able to
obtain.
No parts, except their bleats and
squeals, of the hogs and steers which
meet their fate in the slaughter house of
Chicago- and Kansas City now escape
utilization In some form or other. But the
chemists and experts are still working to
obtain better results. Among these is
Mr. Duff, the chemist of the National
Proyisloner of New Ybrk.
Oleomargarine is the best known of "the
by-products of the packing houses of this
generation. On account of the high tem
perature to which the fats are subjected,
oleoanargine must be free from tubercu
losis. There is nothing in the process
of making butter from cream to kill
germs and next to her lungs a cow's
bag is the great breeding place for them.
Oleomargarine has not only cheapened
meat, but it has given to the poorsome
of whom could not affbrd buttera sub
stitute, for butter which, if not as palata
ble, is purer often than the real article.
Aside from using the contents of the
paunch for the manufacture of paper, it
is also pressed into bricks of fuel for
frying the steer's fat. The chips and the
refuse from making knife handles, but
tons and combs from the horns goes to
the fertilizer worksa maw whiqn gets
every atom of a carcass that cannot be
otherwise utilized. The hoofs are sorted
nto two kinds, black and white, the white
hoofs being shipped in large quantities
to China, where they are made into so
called ivory ornamental articles.
The Germans, who are cleverer than the
Chinese in the tricks of manufacture and
Imitation, and can paint a piece of
wrought iron with gilt and sell it for.
steel in competition with the real Ameri
can product over the counters^of New
York hardware stores, take great quan
tities of'bones (which have been boiled
and stripped) from the packing houses,
from which they make knife handles,
piano keys and other substitutes for
Ivory. The raw bone is used in making
bone-black, which is an important item
In the refining of sugar.
Not all of the sinews go Into glue, gela
tine and neat's-foot oil, but the best of
them are treated by a process which
transforms them into a good substitute
for whalebone. Those of the Intestines
that are not used for sausage casings are
made into fertilizer. Brewers use many
oi the bullocks' weasands,. and the re
mainder are made into casings for fancy
sausages and croquettes. Blood is cooked
and pressed into buttons, and liquid blood,
whipped free of its coagulatory principle,
febrlne, is shipped in casks to the sugar
refineries. The digestive juices of the
steer have not yet been utilized, but
experts have them on the run. and expect
that they will soon be made a source of
profit.
Armour has a factory for making felt
out of the refuse of his packing house,
and turning tufts of the-tails into a-lrbih-
grade curled hair. The hair of the steer
also serves its old-time purpose for mak
ing plaster, and the bristles of the hog
serve theirs, only tlhey. are now found
useful as'well for the softer and cheaper
giades of curled hair. Out of washing
the wool of the sheep is secured a fatty
substance, suint de gras, which, in its
highest state of purity, becomes the
pharmaceutical compound known as lan
olinea favorite remedy for chapping and
sunburn.
The Germans like to pack tfheir putty,
snuff and lard in the bladders of hoss
and steers better than we do, so a few
hundred thousand bladders are shlpned
from Chicago to Hamburg for this pur
pose every year. The very water which
is used in rendering the various products
irs. cue VCGL IS e-vapoi'uxwx, cuuunivin^tm
and used as a fertilizer. The by-products
of the steer's pelt which the tannery can
not use are shipped to the glue factory,
and a great tanning establishment re
gards the check that it gets once a year
fro the glue factory as a Christmas
present, for the number of scraps of the
pelt that cannot be utilized is extreme]^.'
small.
Refuse of great cittes has probably baf
fled more experts in the utilization of
waste products than anything else. There
is -enough nitrogen in the sewage of New
York alone to increase the wheat-rais
in capacity of Dakota, Minnesota and
Kansas by 20 per cent. It is all. going
'to waste. There is nor process known
by which it can be saved at an outlay
less tihan the value of the recovered prod
uct.
i Several years ago an experiment was
made by irrigating land in the neighbor
hood of Paris with sewage. The sewage
jfarms are still in operation, though it
has not been found worth while to add
to their area. Your Parisian is not sup
Iposed to be so squeamish as a New York
er about what he eats, but he did ob
ject a little to the sentiment of eating
Vegetables which were manured in this
fway. The sewage farms near Berlin have
'"'m
m&?
ioeert more BUVCCCBTUI necause in raiio
there is low-lying and sandy, and is more
(readily permeated by irrigation, but no
addition to them is to be made.
It is generally conceded now by scien
tists that the world's population will have
to increase greatly, the applicable stock
of nitrogen to decrease greatly and the
price of vegetables and grains to be en
hanced greatly before it will be worth
while to recover the nitrogen that is in
sewage. Five years ago there was talk
that a million dollars a year could be
made out of the garbage of New York
alone. Naphtha was the agent which
most of the enthusiasts on the subject
had in view to accomplish this end but
the naphtha experts have given up the
fight. They could recover a million dol
lars a year from the garbage of New
York, perhaps, but it would cost them a
million and a half to do it.
For the present the amount recoverable
from the city's waste seems to be limited
to $125,000. This is paid by a contractor
for the privilege of "trimming" the scows
which go out to sea laden with the ripest
fruit of the world of destruction and de
cay. N bottle, no button, no rag, no
scr"ap of iron, leather, or wire is allowed
to escape the professional picker's hands,
which have become as mechanical as
grappling hooks and detect their prey as
a hound scents the trail.
The rags of New York, before they are
finally utilized, are separated into forty
different classes. Some go abroad and
some remain at home to be made into
paper. We send enough rags to England
and Germany every year to furnish 200,-
000 people with clothes.
In the Yorkshire district of the mother
.country ^the manufacturers make fairly
[good cloth out of rags which were spun
{from fresh wool, and out of second-hand
fshoddjrv .they make felts and very thick
textiles, which have a strong warp, of
cotton to hold the fragments of wool to
gethp, ..The Englishman who first spun
woor rags into'cloth was made a baronet
and established as great an industrial
town as Pullman, which bears his name.
[His follower who went him one better and
jspun cloth out of the rags of his cloth,
{became many times a millionaire, while
the success of another man, Lord Ma
{sham, who is at tho head of a mill for
making silk out of silk rags, was elevated
to a peerage of the realm.
'T?e can spin anything .that has two
(ends," is-ihe*motto-of the textile experts
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ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.j SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 11: 1899.
'mettocd with: soj^'snweess, and it may
evehtnaliy^re^^^ther. utilization of our
old tin cans. '-.',.*1
There is one thing,''"fiowever, that no
Yorkshireman. Germander Dutchman car
do. Shoddy leather cashnot be spun oui
of the cracked and bulging uppers and
the thin soles of the cast-off footwear oi
our body politic. They^an be turned intc
prussiaite of potash ahjjl that Is the be
ginning and end of their usefulness, ex
cept as the hobo purloins them from the
garbage barrel and makes them do serv
ice until luck brings hiijl a better pair.
The most successful process of treating
garbage after it has bjeen "trimmed"
the contractor is in operation at Hounds
ditch, London. Therevigarbage is driec
and used for fuel. After utilizing the
heat for creating poweV for lighting oi
other municipal purposes. 21 cents a tor
is realized from the residue, a dry, ho
mogeneous powder, which is sold for pav
ing blocks and the manufacture of con
crete slabs. No odor d^saifirreeable to the
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
surrounding community is generated by
the escaping gases. The cost of trans
porting the garbage to the furnaces is, oi
course, less than that of taking it out tc
sea. By trying the simplest plan of dis
posal, Instead of endeavoring to make a
bonanza out of garbage, the English have
succeeded in getting rid of it with the
least possible expense and at the same
time realizing better returns from it thar
in any previous experiment. Certainly,
a municipality that can make paving
stones of the garbage that litters pave
ments cannot be called wasteful. If the
Houndsditch plan were adopted by Lon
don. Paris, Berlin, New York, Chicago.
Philadelphia and St. Louis it would mear
a combined saving in municipal expense
of about $5,000,000 a year, it is estimated.
Even canning companies and brewers
have valuable by-products. The pits from
peaches end plums go to the chemist
the" core of the apple to the making oi
apple jelly the skin and i^eellngs info
fertilizer: and of late certain enterprising
souls have been making the peelings and
cores of apples into champagne, which is
sold as an importation from France. In
canning fish, a portion of the waste mat
ter goes to fertilizer factories, and a por
tion to glue factories.
From the vats of the breweries a" great
deal of carbonic acid gas has always es
caped. But not until the last year did
a manufacturer of carbonated waters
show the brewers a way to the sale of a
profitable by-product. Nbw all breweries
that have a production of over 600,000
barrels'" of beer a year are having ap
paratus put into their plants for the col
lecting and liquidizing of the gas from
their vats in steel tubes for transporta
tion to the carbonated water factories.
What, in the variety of products, the
steer Is to the animal kingdom, coal is to
the mlnerail kingdom. In' making coke
now it is a question whether the coke
itself, the coal tar or the illumlnattag
gas is to be considered the main product
Before Illuminating gas, which belongs
entirely to this' century, was used, coal
tar was manufactured as a main product
for coating iron castings, for smith work,
for making an Inferior, lamp Mack, and
as a source of solvent oil. Now it is
mixed with sawdust and coal dust and
used for heating patent fuel, distilled for
making a certain patent fuel, distilled
for a series of hydro-carbon oils, heavy
tars and pitch for fuel by being made
into a spray and the spray kindled for
preserving building materials^ such as
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and shoddy, mungo, anq an oxner ny-proa
ucts in textiles have cof^duced to give the.
inhnbitaants of the earth more, which
most of them need in winter, if not better
clothing.
The commercial value of Iron scraps is
known to every farinefs boy in Europa
and America. Al new "iron has somenaphthalene
~-u.i-., in iu con^ujiujji. i is iuoei,...A,
in smeltinga.
Thus far the millions upon millions ol
old tin cans which can be had for the
asking have not been utilized in the Unit
ed States. The cost of labor stands ir
the way of this as in the way- of man
other enterprises which are carried or
successfully abroad. Therefore, the tir
scraps from cur factories are shipped tc
the Netherlands, where some clevej
Dutchmeri extract the tin from them
and, because sheet 'romcannot be worker?
again with success, thy. make the iron
from them into weights for window
pashes. The Russians' have devised
process for extracting the tin from scraps
by the joint action of electricity and a
bath of causticvsoda. .^e'have tried this
,w,,
porous stone ana ^Dn^5K ror mramg wim
natural asphalt to make asphalt, for
making creosote oil, naphtiholene and
light oils for preserving woods from de
cay, and for paraffin for candles, not to
mention other things. The heavy oil from
coal tar gives us the aniline dyes, and
also gives us two beautiful
and highly useful coloring substances.
The most successful and remarkable gas
and coke plant in the country is that of
the New England Gas and Coke company
at Everett, Mass., where the neiw Otto
Hoffmann ovens, which save a great deal
of gas that was heretofore wasted, arc
now operation. A. M. Whitney, brother
of W. C. Whitney, is at the head of this
company. and his associates have
found a Comstock I.ode in Nova Scotia,
for they are also the body and soul of the
Dominion Coal company of Cape Breton,
where they have groat beds of slack, s
easily mined and so plentiful that.they
can pay the tarifif on it and transport it
to Bost for one-halt of the cost of any
United States coal in Boston. This slack
is of little value for. any other purpose,'
but it is just the thing for making coke
and gas The Whitneys are going to
furnish Boston with both heating and il
luminating gas as a by-product, and the
price they get for that does not represent
all their profits, by any means.
I is their plan to induce railroads to
use~coke~instead "of "coal.
jn, fK V-V
Coke" has~the
advantage of throwing off no cinders.
They ra sell the coke so cheaply that
the rail.' .a is can afford to make the
change, and tho New York, New Haven
and Hartford is already introducing it.
Ary one who lives ner a Standard-Oil
refinery knows by comparing the amount
of waste and smells with the greater
amount of waste and the greater smell of
ten years ago what wonders its chemists
have accomplished in the utilization of its
tar, its sludge acid and tts other side
products. To-day it can &ell all, where
ten years ago it could not sell half, of
its naphtha.
A aueer ooint about this Standard Oil
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company affair is that only a few years
ago the taxpayers living In the neighbor
hood of the works spent thousands of dol
lars to force the company to cease dump
ing its waste Into the Kill von Kull, and
the company spent enormous sums fight
ing the necessary legislation. State and
federal authority had to be invoked to
force It to do what has turned out to be
one of the most profitable things that
ecid and other material which now is
turned into' by-products,
it ever didto cease wasting its sludge
WHEfRB TIN IS BEING MINED.
Sources- From Which the Desirable
Product I Obtained.
Yale Review: The tin used In the tin plate
industry comes from several sources. The best
of these is found In Australia and the straits
settlements. The latter furnish the most fle
sh-able tin, known as Banca tin. This is re
garded as the purest, and is in consequence
more sought after by the manufacturers of
tin plate. The Cornwell mines were discovered
about 65 B. C, and for twelve centuries were
the one source of this mineral. In 1240 tin
was found In Bohemia. Five hundred years
later. In 1T60, the Banca mines were opened.
In the following century Australia became a
producer of Mock- tin on a large, scale. From
1872 tin lias been found In commercial quanti
ties in New South Wales, Queensland and
Tasmania^
The United States have not been so fortunate
although many attempts have been made from
time to time to find tin. Tin was discovered
in California as early as 1888. Only for a short
time were the mines operated they were then
closed down, and remained so until 1888. In
this year an American company bought the
property with the intention of operating, but
it was sold to an English syndicate before two
years had passed. Something like $800,000 was
spent, but no special results were secured. The
total product of the mine was 269,000 *ound
of tin, valued at $56,000. The Harney Peak
mine is the story of another futile attempt
to get tin in commercial quantities. The Har
ney Peak, as it Is familiarly called, is situated
near Caster City S. D. A great deal of money
has been spent in the development of this
cfcie, but It is doubtful if more than ten tons
of metal have been taken out of the ground.
The Kngllsh capitalists were also heavily in
erested in this attempt. In Alabama, North
Carolina, and- Virginia tin bearing rock has
been found. In no sense can the United States
oe regarded as a tin producing country.
How the Bowery Got Jim Name^
The famous Bowery in New York warn
originally the road through the bottwerle, or
farm, of Governor Stuyvesant of the Dutch
colony pf Amsterdam. It was the post route to
TORfCAL
SOCIETY.
AUSTRALIA'S WEALTHIEST IS THE
ONE COXCERKE-IK
James Tyson Dies a Bachelor Worth
Twenty-five Million Dollars After
Cherishing for Fifty Years the
Memory of a Romantic Yonthfal
PassionThe Memory of the Pret-,
Girl Who Once Succored Hinn
When StarvingUnusual Example'
.of Constancy.
There died in Sydney, Australia, the|
pther day a man worth $25,000,000, who1
had the name of being a woman-hater.
Eccentric James Tyson was woman-hater
he was not, for in his shy heart he car-j
ried for fifty years the sweetest of. ro
mances for half a century he dreamed
of the woman who had won his love in
youth, but to whom he never spoke of hisj
regard.
If he had spoken all might have beenl
different, but with a shyness rare in those)
whom fate has destined for vast wealth
and unlimited power, he deemed himself
unworthy to woo where his erraat lovej
had flown.
Tyson was literally born in the bushj
and worked as a farm hand, doing won
derful feats with his gigantic strength.
He saved his money and went to a hIVI
station to herd bullccks, in constant dan
ger of his life from black fellows.
was grimly determined to succeed.
After some years of toil he '"set up"
for himself on the Billybong river with
his savings. Drought killed his herd and
drove him to desperation, and he had to
give up the experiment and go to cattle
keeping "on thirds" for others, a system
which gives all the risk and most of the
profit to the capitalist.
Evert this required some capital, how
ever, and to secure the money he needed
Tyson set out across 200 miles of wild
scrub to get 5 which Sir John Hay owed
him. He had one shilling and food for
three days. This was his fortune,
Then the food failed, but Tyson was not
ore of these who, "in the faith of little
children, laid down and died." Feeding
his great hunger upon grass and- roots,
he forced. himself along. In the wastes
he babbled of green fields. He grew light
headed, sang hoarsely, played strange
pranks all by himself.' At- last, as much
by luck as maangement, he crossed the
range and found water. Sane once more,
when he began to fear that ha might
never see Hay's house, fate wilied yiat
he should see a cottage in the bush and
an old man just entering.
Tyson approached, intending to ask his
way. but somewhat embarrassed bv the
constitutional shyness which all his life
made it hard for him to talk to strangers,
he hesitated. At that moment a girl came
out of the cottage.
What Tyson saw was a beautiful young"
bushrreared girl, dark, rosy..- and well.
grown.
What the girl saw was a stark young
fellow of barely twenty-one. six feet four
irches tall and mighty of form, worn al
most to a skeleton and grimed with the
dust of the waterless waste he had'granite
rlragged himself across, but with some
trir.g in his face which told her that he
was good and that under better conditions
the man would be beautiful.
"I wish, miss." he began diffidently,
"to inquire the way to"
"But you are hungry.' cried the girl
"come in and eat." N wonder she
looked to the starving man like an angel
of mercy.
Tyson drew back, but the girl put her
hand upon his arm. and in the s.imrl
manner of the women of the wilderness,
drew him into the hut.' She called to
her sister to come and help, and in a
Arw minutes Tyson was sitting before a
good breakfast.
The young bushman was in the house
but fifteen minutes at most. So shy was
he that he scarcely-spoke to the rrirl he
had at first seen, but he turned upon
her eyes that were eloquent. could
not have told what her sister looked
like. He never knew afterward whether
the father came into the room. He was
like one in a dream.
And in a dream he went away with
mumbled inarticulate thanks and a look
in his honest eyes that the girl for years
remembered.
For some reason Tyson did not get
his 5 from Sir John Hay he traveled
400 miles for fifty years of heartache
instead. That was all.
Back to his station Tyson went, catch
ing fish for food and using his one shil
ling as a ferry fee to cross a river.
was enabled to begin herding "on
thirds'" by his brother, who had 12.
So the Murrumbridge range began. The
cattle throve. That was the whole story
for five years so far as concerned Ty
son's finances. But there was another
side of his life.
In the pursuit of a dream of happiness!
he crossed the burned range again and
again, until every dry-burned mile of
plain was familiar to him, not to see ori
speak of his love, but to be near her, to
know that she was well.
She did not marry. If the truth were
known, a pair of appealing eyes looked
at her when others spoke of love, a
shadowy, great form raised itself in mute
appeal of manliness and strength, as she
had seen it but once, gaunt from the
fight with dry death, between her and
those who would have wooed her.
There were many of themfor in the
backwoods pretty girls are scarcebut
never a man like Tyson.
Then came the gold fever. Tyson did
not dig. fed the diggers with meat,
and there was money In that. a did
not, like other stockmen, sell short in
the belief that the market was only tern
porary. He had faith that the diggings
would last, and so was able to sell more
largely every year, and to buy big cattle
ranges near the gold fields. sunk
wells to get never-failing water.
throve uselessly, piled up money that he
could not enjoy, and learned, as the years
rolled by, to look on wealth as a hollow
mockery.
From a youth of twenty-one Tyson had
grown to a man of forty before the blow
fell.
The girl he loved was probably thirty
five or tMrtyrsix. If waiting it was. she
had waited long had sent away many
suitors, had seen her sister wed and her
father dead, until at last, left alone in
the world, she came to see more and more
imly the appealing eyes and hesitant
form of the gigantic bushman who had
touched her heart.
One day when Tyson made his custom
ary trip across the range, which for twen
ty ears he had traveled until he had al
most worn a path in the wilderness, he
learned upon inquiry that the woman of
heart was married. never came
near her again. For twenty years he had
not seen her. For thirty years to come
he would not even see again the scene of
one encounter with Cupid. would
stay away and forget.
It was about this time that Tyson be
gan to be known as an eccentric. Though
a millionaire, he lived and dressed like
one of his cattle punchers.
He had no use for money. "The little
game," he used to say, "that Is the fun.
Fighting the desert has been my work. I
have been fighting the desert all my life,
nd I have won! I have put water where
was no water, and beef wh*ra no
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MILLIONAIRE'S LOVE STORY
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wri. i nava put fences where there was
fences and roads where there were no
icads. Nothing can undo what I have
done, and millions wili^be happier for it
after I aim long dead and forgotten."
His life was lived In the open air.
never entered a church or a theater or
a public house, he never tasted beer, wine
or spirits, he never swore and never
washed with soaphe used sand instead
nor wore a white shirt or a glove.
Though he never entered a church he
built one, and when asked to give $100 for
lightning rods Tyson replied: "That'I
will not. I have given a church to Al
mighty God, and if He can't take care of
it he doesn't deserve to have it."
Tyson was seventy-one when he died, a
bachelor worth $25,000,000, the richest of
all Australians. Sometimes in his old age
he would speak of his life philosophically.
Then he would say, as if .mtising, with
long pauses between his sentences, as
usual with one who talks but seldom:
"Religion ain't my business. I do what
I think right and I stand to take my
chance. Every man has a chance. That's
enough for me.
"Yes, they call me a woman-hater, but
I ain't. I don't think much of most of
the women there are now. They scold
and they think too much of dress and
they are spiteful toward each other.
Their minds are full of small things.
Dear, dear, there's a deal for husbands
to bear!
"Maybe it's as well I never married. I
have been happy sufficiently so. If a
woman'd been kind to me she'd have
work wouldn't have been done. A wife
would have wanted me to settle down
like other men.
"Ther was a womana long time ago,
when I was a young fellow. She was
good and kind, and I thought she was
beautiful, though maybe you wouldn't,
Shewell, she was the only woman I
ever thought of marrying."
That was the life story of James Ty
son, millionaire.
The London Times, from whose col
umns most of the facts about Tyson
were obtained, does not state what dis
position the lonely old bachelor made of
his vast fortune.
NEEDS A NEW TOMB-
Abraham Lincoln's Burial Place is Fast
Going to Decay.
Lincoln's fame is more enduring in the
hearts of his countrymen than the granite pile
reared to his memory at Springfield, 111., which
was intended as a permanent memorial to the
martyred emancipator. While the deeds and
glories of Abraham Lincoln Ere still fresh in
the minds of all peoples, the massive monu
ment and crypt is crumbling to decay.
Not only is the memorial itself in bad shape,
but the vault which contains the remain^ of
Lincoln, his wife, and three sons is in dangpr
of collapse, and the relic chamber, in the bass
of the monument, is also falling to pieces.
Only thirty years have elcpsed since the
structure was reared, but its outer walls are
disintegrating. The seams in its masonry are
gaping. The frosts and snows and rains have
eaten into the.joints of its granite veneer.
-Unless-."steps-are taken soon toward resetting
the facing, the entire monument will be eoon
in ruins. In some places, especially the south
east and northeast corners, the gap9 between
the granite slabs are two inches wide. The
base appears to have suffered most. Many
blocks are dangerously out of plumb,
and tbe brick work of the base is also demor
alized.
The question of repairing the Lincoln monu
ment has been a matter of controversy among
state legislators for a long time. An appro
priation of 30,000 was made for that purpose
during the administration of Governor Alt
geld, but the sum was deemed insufficient and
has never been used. It is claimed that any
thing le3s than tearing down the whole gran
ite facing and resetting it would be a waste of
money. This job.would cost $100,000. The
monument, as it stanJs, was erected at an
expense of $270,000. Proposals for appropri
ating money to repair the monument are al
ways met by counter-propositions to teat
down the present structure and rebuild it en
somewhat different lines. No memorial was
ever erected but that many people thought it
should have been designed differently. This
has been the case with the massive Lincoln
memorial at Springfield, and it is over this
feature that a lively debate is expected.
Erection of the Monument.
The movement for the erection of a na
tional Lincoln monument was begun immedi
ately after the assassination of President Lin
coln, but it was not until Oct. 15, 1874, that
the Springfield memorial was dedicated, that
city being chosen because it was Lincoln's
home when be was elected to the Presidency.
The monument stands in the middle of six
acres of high ground in Oak Ridge cemetery.
It is of massive proportions, of bronze and
granite, and was designed Larkin G. Mead,
Jr., an American artist. Thirty-one artists
of national repute competed for the design,
among them being Leonard Volk, Harriet
Hosmer, and Vinnie Ream. Some of the de
signs submitted would have cost $5,000,000,
but all were adjudged as being of artistic
merit, and it was only after considerable dif
ficulty in making a choice that the design
submitted by Larkin G. Mead of Brattleboro,
Vt., was accepted. Whatever may be said in
criticism, it cannot be denied that the Lin
coln monument is an imposing structure. It
consists of a central granite shaft, or obelisk,
rising from a massive, square base to a height
of ninety-eight feet. Allegorical figures in
bronze crown the four corners of the pedestal.
A bronze statue of Lincoln standing in relief
against the shining granite forms the central
figure of the groups of statuary. The monu
ment is located on probably the highest
ground in Springfield, overlooking the capi
tal and wide stretches of Illinois prairie. The
atatue of Lincoln has been commended as
one of the most natural and lifelike repre
sentations of the martyred President. He is
represented in the attitude of making a public
address, grasping the emancipation procla
mation in one hand. He stoops a little, he is
angular, his cheeks are thin, his forehead
deeply wrinkled. Old Illinoisans who had
known Lincoln from his boyhood pronounced
it an excellent likeness. The front of the
pedestal on which the statue rests bears the
coat of arms of the United- States in bronze.
The American eagle on the shield is repre
sented as having broken tbe chain of slavery,
some of the links being grasped in his talons,
and the rest held aloft in his beak.' An olive
branch, spurned, is thrust aside at bis feet,
Relics Memorial Hall.
Memorial hall, in the base of the monument.
Is filled with various Lincoln relics and
souvenirs. One of the most interesting of
these is a stone from the wall of Servius
Tulllus, presented to President Lincoln by
citizens of Rome in 1865. It is a large, irregu
lar slab of sandstone, on which is carved the
following inscription: in Latin:
"To Abraham Lincoln, President for the
second .time of the American republic, citi
zens of Rome present this stone from the
walls of Servius Tullius, by which the mem
ory of each of those brave asserters of lib
erty may be associated. Anno, 1865."
After Lincoln's death'thls stone was found
in the basement of the,capltol at Washington.
It is supposed that the President, not caring
to have a furore raised over the incident,
had ordered the stone stored away without
saying anything about receiving it. The body
rf Lincoln was remved to the crypt In the
monument from a temporary tomb in th*
public vault Oct. 9, 1874. The marble sar
lophagus bears the inscription: "With malice
toward none, with charity for all.Lincoln."
The bodi ts of Mrs. Lincoln and the three sons.
William, Edward, and Thomas (Tad), have
also been placed- in the monument. Two
crypts are left for tbe two remaining mem
bers of the family. ?*$&*?* *$L
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