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ISLAND POND, VT., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1007.
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AWEY & HUNT,
Attorneys
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M M) "ONO, VT.
H. W. BLAKE,
Attorney
11 Wli ro.l, VT.
MAY & HILL,
Aiiiiru.' s & Counsellors at Law,
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i l.ihnshiiry. Vt.
Trolfe searles,
Attorney at Law.
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R. W. SIM0ND3,
Lawyer
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HOWE & HOVEY,
Attorneys at Law,
- 1 1 1 1 tl'HV, VT.
A. ELIE,
Physician and Surgeon
Cr Mm:, IsiuiiU t'ouU, Vt
h. il. SARGENT
P.iyioian and Surgeon
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l'unil. Vt.
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Lr. E. CLARKE,
Undertaker Funeral Supplies
Islunil t'onil, Vt
L, VV. STEVENS,
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Deputy Sheriff
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E, A. BEMIS.
Deputy Sheriff
Nland i'omt, Vt.
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Horse
We are just as particular about the
selection of this class of Goods as we
are about the rest of our stock and
have nothing but the best, which are
The 5-A Blankets
We have an extensive line lor both
Street and stable wear
If you need a serviceable Lap Robe
we can accommodate you
L. F. JONES,
Clothier and Furnisher, Opera House Block.
ISLAND r POND, VERMONT.
10 RECU1 EMPIRE
Irrigation Project In California
Is the World's Largest.
A TASK OF THIRTY YEARS.
United State, Government About to Be
gin In Sacramento and San Joaquin
Valley Work Involving Outlay of
$50,000,000 Much Can Be Raised.
Tlie luri'Wt of thr? world's irrigation
lirolects. uu tiiiiU'i't.iUiiii: so vast that
iiility years mid upward of s."ii,oiio,mpo
will Ue reiiuiivd to rarrj "lt out, Is
Hbout to 1h le.i;uu by the fi'deral Kv
eminent In the Sacramento and San
Joaquin valleys of California, says the
Chicago i'ost.
In this region, where it Is said the
range of climate and the natural fer
tility of the soil favor the growth of
every known species of plant life, the
ttoveninii'iit engineers purpose to dis
tribute the annual rainfall and the
flow from the snow beds in the Cas
cade over a vast territory.
In the Sacramento valley alone It Is
the ultimate plan to Irrigate 1",7ii,c"
acres, and, while the area to lie re
claimed in the San Joaquin valley has
not beeu measured accurately, it is es
timated roughly that It will he one
mid one-half times that area.
"None of us realizes the agricultural
possibilities of these valleys." said
Chief Hydrosraphcr M. ). I.eiuhton of
the United States geological survey in
outlining the government plans for
this region. "While the development
of this area has been m.yvelous in the
last few. years, its possibilities have
not as yet been touched upon.
"So great is the undertaking that the
government is unable to take it up as
a whole, but must take It up in see
tlous of sizes that can be completed
with the money avuilable. 'Hie first
of these will be the. Orlatid subproject,
comprising 30.0UII acres. The prcllai
lnary work lias been under way for
borne time. The work of construction
will be begun within a few mouths.
.Mr. Lelghton passed through Chica
go recently on his return to Washing
ton, where he will make a report to
the secretary of the interior of the re
sults of extended observa l ions In this
locality, which demonstrate the proj
ect to be entirely feasible.
"The preliminary work was begun
five years ago," continued the hydrofT
rapher. "The survey of the Orland
project was commenced live years ago.
This work has demonstrated that the
undertaking, aside from Us huge size,
will offer fewer engineering dilliculties
than many other projects now being
carried out by the government. While
the average cost of this reclamation
work averages $U5 au acre, this will be
much lower In this case on account of
the accessibility of the water supply.
The outlay will probably not be much
over $10 an acre.
"Our measurements show ample wa
ter supplies both In the Sierra and the
Cascade ranges. The largest reservoirs
will be located at Clear lake, I?ig val
ley, Iron canyon ami Warm Springs
valley. i
"A conservative estimate of the sup
porting capacity of these valleys is
L'S.IHXMXIO ieople. There is not it prod
uct of the soil that cannnt vt raiseu
there, tropical or other. Oranges,
grapes, dates, figs, almonds, as well as
flax, tobacco,-grains and the crops fa
miliar in this part of the country (Illi
nois), all (lourlsli there. Kxperinients
lu growing strange fruits and vegeta
bles have demonstrated wonderful pos
sibilities. "We were especially interested in the
tobacco growing that Is now being ac
complished there both experimentally
and commercially. The smokers in
our party were agreed that the cured
product far surpassed in flavor and
tone any other grown in this country
that we had ever tried.
"For the completion of this big proj
ect at least thirty years will be re
quired under the present state of avail
able funds. The work of the govern
ment is limited to the money received
from the sale of Indian lands, on
yhicJj to the firesent time about $40,-
Clofliing
BB
timi.oiKi has been realized. Most of
this has already Ix'eu put In the vari
ous otiier projects being carried on In
the West.
"Under the system that the govern
ment follows this money Is eventually
letnrjied to the United States treasury
by the fanners whose lauds are U'ne
lited Jiy the Irrigation works, and as It
comes In It can lie used over again.
There Is enough money now available
for the pushing of the Orland sub
pro.iect. As soon as specifications and
contracts can lie made dirt will fly.
"It has Iteen but a few years since
the government lirat took up the prob
lem of Irrigation. 1'revlotis to that
time the vast areas of rich soil, need
ing only water to make them fertile,
were regarded as waste spots of the
earth's surface, where nothing that
man can subsist on could l grown.
The work Is now regarded as one of
the most Important phases of the gov
ernment's activities.
"Aside from the difficulties occasion
ally encountered of tunneling through
hills and constructing dams of huge
size, the work offers no tuore erplex
Ing problem than that of equalizing
the rainfall, storing up the surplus In
the wet season to be used In the dry
and carrying It through long canals
to the places where It will be most
useful. Itig as Is the Initial outlay. It
Is generally regarded as a rare Invest
ment In every sense."
KITE'S GREAT FLIGHT.
All Record In Thi Country Broken at
Virginia Weather Station.
The highest altitude ever reached by
a kit in this country, according to
Professor Henry of the weather bu
reau, was that recorded recently at the
Mount Weather station, In Virginia,
when an altitude of slightly over 2.V
Out) feet was attained. At that height
a temperature of 5 degrees below zero
F. was recorded. It Is Professor Hen
ry's belief tkut the kite will yet attain
a higher flight.
The Mount Weather bureau has been
conducting experiments In kiteflying
with a view to determining the weath
er conditions at various altitudes. For
instance, a temperature of 40 degrees
was recorded at the top of the moun
tains at a height of 1,000 feet, while at
a height of 3,000 fet the temperature
was 8 degrees warmer.
The Best Food to Make Hen Lay.
The extremely high prices that have
prevailed for eggs during the past few
years have emphasized more than ever
the need of some food to make hen
lay in cold weather. The best is none
too good, especially when It can be ob
tained at a moderate price. O. H. Why
land of Valcour, N. V., expresses hl
ideas ou the subject in the following
letter. He says: "I think 'Page's Per
fected Poultry Food' Is the bestood to
make hens lay that is on the market."
Any one sending his address on a
postal card to O. S. Page, Hyde Park,
Vt., and mentioning this paper, will re
ceive by mail, free, postpaid, a sample
package of "Page's Perfected Poultry
Food."
SCHOOL FOR JANITORS.
Etiquette Will Be Among Subject
Taught In 'Brooklyn Institution.
Etiquette of janitor service Is some
thing new under the sun, and whoever
It was who hit upon the plan of estab
lishing a school for Instruction for Jan
itors deserves the thanks of every flat
dweller. This long felt want will be
met now by nu educational institution,
and very shortly we shall behold mod
el janitors turned out by the hundred,
says the New York Herald. It is
needless to say that they will be in de
mand. This latest Innovation in the broad
Held of culture was started In Brook
lyn. Ills majesty King Janitor has
been monarch of all he surveyed long
enough. At least that Is the conclu
sion arrived at by the educational de
partment of the Pedford branch of
the Voting Men's Christian association
o Brooklyn, which will shortly Insti
tute a "practical school for Janitors,"
where the science of scrubbing, dust
ing, polishing and etiquette will be
taught.
The Instruction to Janitors will be
conducted by William Mantell, suit-
Inteudent of building at the Pratt In
stitute end up In all Janitorial prob
lems. Mr. Mantell will t-ouduct these
classes ou Wednesday night from half
past 7 to half past !. Fifteen week
will I consumed befora Mr. Mantell
can turn out an "advanced'' Janitor.
Although he will not be given a diplo
ma, the finished product will carry
with hiiu a paper to allow that he bus
taken a course in the cIhbh.
In plea for this sort of Instruction
the argument is advanced that apart
lueut bouses, hotels, otltce und build
ings of all kinds are increasing at an
astonishing rate. The rare of these
prtiiertles calls for the expenditure of
many thousands of dollars annually.
In this work brain count a well as
muscle in keeping a building clean and
In good repair, and there are many
waste about jaulturlal work that may
be saved by the exereiae i f Intelligence
and care. Skill and knowledge, is the
contention, command a preiuitm In
this Hue a In any other.
TO DRIFT ACROSS POLE.
Baldwin Plans to Float With the Ice In
Well Built Ship.
Determined to make another "try",
for the north pole, Evelyn Brlggs Bald
win, arctic explorer, commauder of the
Baldwin Ziegler expedition lu WO 1-02.
member of the Perry expedition in
1S1K! and of the Walter Wellman expe
dition in 1MIS, announced here that he
expected to make another trip Into the
Icy regions In three or four years, says
an Annapolis scc!itl to the New York
Press. He said he was organizing his
expedition, but beyond explaining the
route which he purposed to take would
not go Into details.
He said he would go to the Bering
strait and would drift toward the pole
with the natural ice. He said Mint the
expeditions of lie Long, In which the
Jeanuette was lost, and of Lr. Nausea
lu the I'f.'iiii had furnished much valu
able Information which convinced hlin
If a stauchly built vessel got Into the
Ice pack at therlght point Is-yond the
ftralt It would drift over the pole.
"Nansen's vessel," he said, "would
undoubtedly have drifted In precisely
that course had Nansen succeeded in
placing her within the lee pack at the
point where the Jeannctte was crush
ed In lsvt. The time is at hand for the
reaching of the north pole and the first
crossing of the Arctic sea. I do not let
an hour pass without thinking heart
and soul over my plan. Now, I do not
mean to say that my plan of making a
polar 'dash' from the northern coast
of Franz Josef Land In ltl was
faulty, but that plan was for ii 'dash'
for the o!e pure and simple, and nec
essarily It could not endure longer
than a slir.'le season and would not
have permitted scientific observations.
With a ship, however, siecially built
for a drift, say. of three or four years,
from Bering strait, material of very
great value would be obtained. Neces
sarily sui-h a plan 1 contrary to the
airship route proposed by Walter Well
man and to the polar 'dashes' of Com
mander Peary."
How to Feed Poultry Foed.
We will send free, postpaid, to any
farmer or poult ryuiau who will write
us, nientlouing this paper, our direc
tions for feeding "Page's Perfected
Poultry Food." These directions rep
resent the combined experience of
some of the best poultrymen In New
England who have used our food suc
cessfully. There are also given many
suggestions as to the proper care to be
given bens to produce the best results.
Carroll S. Page, Hyde Park, Vt
Church Ventures In Junk.
The Washburn Congregational La
dles' Aid society of Washburn, Minn.,
which announced recently that It had
engaged in the junk business, Is meet
ing with great success In the venture
and Is being flooded with orders from
all over the country for old scrap Iron,
rags, waste paper, etc., says the St.
Paul Pioneer Press. One concern has
even written to the ladies quoting
prices paid for champagne bottles, but
the society promptly turned down this
request. The money derived from the
plan is used for missionary work and
for running the church.
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VEGETABLE FOOTBALL
Meatless Diet to Be Tried on
Chicago Varsity Players.
WILL EAT BEANS AND NUTS.
Meat May Be Cut Out of Pigskin
Kicker' Menu at the Midway Coach
Stagg and Some of the Star Behave
In the Experiment.
Football a la vegetable has arrived.
Instead of Ihe traditional rare roast
beef, tlie fiercest gridiron warriors of
the future will prefer Ix'an-apple-uut
cutlets, in the opinion of the University
of Chicago athletes. "Squirrel food"
and the luseleti-s product of the garden
will hold sway at the Midway this sea
son, says the Chicago Record Herald.
Coach Stagg is an anient believer In
the coming meatless era, and Captain
Leo He Tray and his Maroons have al
ready forsworn their old Ideas of diet
in pursuance of the director's recom
mendations. The "reform" professors,
In addition to viewing the total down
fall of the training table, with Its
gladiatorial surroundings, may have
the pleasure of witnessing a champion
ship vegetarian eleven as the climax
of tlie antlcruelty movement.
The Maroon director Is himself a
vegetarian of standing. For two years
he has eaten practically no meat, and
he ascribes his present healthy condi
tion to his change of diet. According
to the coach, wonderful athletic feats
may be accomplished by flesh abstain
ers which rival the accomplishments
of athletes In an omnivorous state.
lnirlng his stay at Battle Creek,
Mich., Coach Stagg witnessed a tri
umph of vegetarianism which he hopes
to repeat in the Midway camp. He
saw (irauger, a Michigan expouent of
the faith, I -eat all squatting records.
According to Coach Stagg. Granger
squatted 5.KI2 times without stopping,
each time lowering his body close to
the ground and straightening himself
out, without fatigue. The performance
confirmed his strong belief lu the pos
sibilities of football a la vegetable.
The Midway football players could
subsist at the start of the practice
season on 2,000 grains of vegetable
food divided properly lu protelds, fats
and carbohydrates, according to Coach
Stagg. This Is the amount the coach
himself consumes dally, and the 2.000
calories of heat generated by this has
sufficed to put hliu In the best physical
shape he has been lu for years. He
declared the other day that his rheu
matism had left hi in before he went
to Battle Creek, and he believes he Is
entirely rid of It.
"I was greatly surprised at the enor
mous strength exhibited by Glaser."
said Stagg. "He squatted exactly 5,002
times. I saw him do It 2.000 times,
then I had to exercise myself while he
did It 3.000 times more.
"I have eaten very little meat for
several years and practically none for
two years. To work properly a man's
food should be one-tenth protelds, four
tenths fats and the rest carbohydrates.
The athletes might have to take a
course In domestic science, but they
could get on to It without much trou
ble." Captain Pe Tray has been a partial
vegetarian for years, as in? thinks he
can tear up Chicago's opponents bet
ter without too much roast beef. As
sistant Coach Hugo Bezdek and Coach
Fred Spelk of the freshman team also
like the Idea. Coach Bpeik declares
that entering freshmen may take their
choice of nn tine and meat this fall.
Harold Iddlngs, De Tray's running
mate In the bnck field, believes lu the
"squirrel food" training and declares
he has often preached it to the football
players of Merrllvllle, Ind., where he
spends his summers. If Walter Steffeu
can be prevailed upon to become her
bivorous, the Maroon back field will
be a great advertisement for the vege
table gridiron game, Iddlngs declares.
With the new order lu diet neces
sarlly will come a series of brand new
yells. The yell composers at the Mid
way have already set themselves to
the task and have produced the follow
ing: Sweet potatoes, riitahagaa. sauerkraut,
squash.
Run your leps oft, Cap'n De Tray I
Sure, our milk fed men, by gosh,
Will lick 'em bad today!
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i diet offlgs, rice, peaiiuV. peas, beans
and cheese will lie a rlskNu experiment
and Insist that they will eat real food
this season despite the new ideas In
camp. Captain lie Tray has Informed
the knockers that Pythagoras and
Plato were both vegetarians, however,
and Slopes this will have the desired
effect.
"personally, I don't see the use of
having teeth If we can't eat meat,"
said Jimmy Meigs, who will try for a
place in Stagg's line. "From all I can
learn, Plato never played football. He
probably thought It was wrong to kill
animals, and of course It was only
natural for him to eat nntlne Instead
of beef. I think Stagg will have a
hard time Introducing his vegetable
football."
"High Altitude" Parties.
The latest fad of the fashionable
crowd which yearly flocks at this time
of the year to cool and tkdlghtful Swit
zerland Is "high altitude dinners and
luncheon parties." The fashion was
first set by Prince Pie of Savoy, who
entertained the Prince and Princess
Nicholas of Greece at a height of
.?" feet at the Berulna .hospice, St.
Moritz. The fad quickly took on. ami
soon parties were arranged to take
place on the topmast peaks of the Pi
latus at Lucerne, the Uochers de Nave
at Montreux and the Uothborn at
Thnn, but the most venturesome of all
was that arranged by Mr. and Mrs.
Murray of Chicago, who entertained
their f rends on the top of the Brevent.
8.2So feet above Chauiouulx and In full
view of the stately Mont Blanc.
Theater In Railroad Station.
When the new Pennsylvania railroad
station at New York Is completed
Pittsburgers will be afforded an oppor
tunity to see an act or two of vaude
ville while awaiting their trains, says
the New York correspondent of the
Pittsburg Dispatch. A handsouie thea
ter will be built Inside the station. It
will have a seating capacity of 2.200
and a model roof garden, a feature of
which will be a stage that can be low
ered, full set, to the theater below, for
the new roof will not have any cover
ing to obstruct the summer night
breezes. Mortimer M. Thelse. who will
establish the theater, proposes to give
vaudeville ou Hues that are new. He
says that the traveling public will con
tribute greatly toward making the
playhouse a success.
Contribution of Uncle Sam to the
Exposition.
STRUCTURE A GREAT SIGHT.
Cost of Construction Nearly Half a
Million Magnitude of the Work,
Wonderful View From Dome Illu
mination a Magnificent Display.
The great government pier which
was recently completed at Jamestown
Is the great centerpiece of the exposi
tion, its completion'" fills the great
vacuum in the appearance of the show
ou Hampton Itoads.
This contribution of the general gov
ernment to the use and beauty of the
tercentennial celebration represents one
f the glgautic tasks of modern times,
eays a Jamestown dispatch to the New
York World. The government appro
priated the sum of .$400,000 for its con
struction. The plans called for a total
of about 13,000 piles, considerably over
a mile of sea wall, about 300.000 yards
of fill and about (JoO yards of dredging.
The pier Is a double one, inclosing a
water basis of 1,280,000 square feet.
Its feature Is a l."0 foot re-enforced
concrete arch at the outer end. This
arch, placed ou a mud bottom, relying
entirely upon the bearing powers of
the piles driven for Its abutments, was
the principal engineering task of the
whole work, as It Is the longest sin
gle span bridge of the kind In this
country, measuring 151 feet and f
Inches from spring line to spring Hue.
In order to place this arch more than
200 piles were driven In each nbut
nient and the concrete placed nine feet
below the water line In two large cof
ferdams. Fourteen pile driving machines were
used in the pile driving.. Nine dredg
ers, seven tugs and twelve scows, all
manned with at least two and some
times three crews, working either six
teen or twenty-four hours, were used
BIG JAMESTOWN PIER
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on the dredging. In operating and
handling the material for this under
taking three locomotives were used,
and two and a half miles of track were
laid to connect the various parts of
the work with the exposition compa
ny's tracks.
In handling the concrete two s'pa
rate concrete plants w ere built. ( iun
of the hardest obstacles in eojupleiiug
the pier was found to lie d'vd -riu..
The bottom instead of lieluj: sandy, as
shown on the drawings of the oi!:i::.il
plans, proved to be a combination of
clay, sand and sandstone. wNi a large
quantity of cobblestones and small
bowlders, which defied the best c:ions
of anything but the largest ilrc(!'-" s.
By day the view from the dome of
the mammoth arch Is sublime. High
above the waters of Hatnpto-i l:.i,,,!s
the perspective includes the vessels of
every klud and clnie as they co:ue
and go. the historic Fort Monroe just
beyond and the men-of-war lying at
peaceful anchor. Turning the gaw
landward, the view takes In the Grand
Thiza. the beautiful buildings and
grounds of the Colonial City, but it h
nt night that the grandeur of the hand
iwork of man becomes apparent, (in
the pier 22,tKK) lamps beam and spar
kle, turning night Into day and Tuiriy
illuminating the heavens with their
radiance. The two great towers, wii'.i
3,000 lamps each: the area and ap
proaches, with .1.000 lamps; tlie sixteen
pylons, with sixteen lamps each: ."no
standards, with ten lamps each, and
four exedras. with 500 lamps, create a
scene of illumination never before
equaled. To perfect this feature more
thau l.Oort horsepower of energy is re
quired, producing lu technical Terms
"00,000 watts.
LAST MAN'S CLUB DINIO.
Masonic Organization Presented Its
President With Silver Pitcher.
At the recent annual dinner of the
Last Mail's club, an organization com
posed of proniineut Masons. C. T. Top
pin, the president, was presented with
a silver pitcher In honor of his lii'tictli
birthday, says a Wilmington (liel.i
dispatch to the Philadelphia Prow's'.
There- are twenty-two members of
the club, and each year a dinner is
held, and the seats of deceased mem
bers are left vacant and draped In
black until there Is but one survivor,
who will dine in state surrounded by
the twenty-one empty chairs.
Most of the members are men of
advanced years, and it will be but a
short time before the annual banquets
will find many empty places.
DEAN BOVEY AGAINST IT.
The Eminent Canadian Opposrs the M.
O. Gas Scheme In Montreal.
While in Washington recently Pr.
Henry F. Bovey, dean of McGili uni
versity, Montreal, said In the course
of a discussion of the proposed opera
tion of the Montreal gas works by the
municipality:
"I am of course opposed to any such
proposition. Any one who under
stands the engineering aspects of such
a plan can readily see that to turn
over a lighting undertaking to munici
pal authorities would be equivalent to
making it a tool of polit'cians who
would not operate for the good of any
one but themselves. In your own coun
try the experience of Philadelphia
should be enough to make any city
hesitate ou embarking in an enter
prise calling for a large number of
minor employees who would heTiothin
but political appointees and chosen be
cause of their allegiance to the party
in power.
"From the standpoint of economy
any .one can see that It Is more costly
for a city tc operate Its lighting plant
than for Individuals who have been
trained In their respective departments
for years and whose tenure of otiice
doesn't derTbnd on political exigencies."
Taxpayer Turned Down.
Calvin Btcln of Nlles appeared there tip
fore the boRid of public soi-vk,; on Tues
day night and demanded nn examination
of the city's books to lenrn whether tlie.
city's officials are pnylnK for the bum and
water which they draw from the munici
pally owned plants. 4Hla demand was
turned down. Warren (O.) Chronicle.
Nlles, O., has been advertised as an
example of successful municipal own
ership by a small city. Its plants were
installed In 1891 at a cost of $50,(100,
bonds for all of which are still out
standing. Meanwhile the tax rate has
risen to $3.50, the highest In that
county. .
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