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OWNSVILLE
VOL. XIV, NO. 151.
BROWNSVUXB. TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1905.
SINGLE COPIES, 5 GENTS.
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DAILY
HERALD.
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A Are You
FAMOUS
Critical? .2
Know exactly what you want when
buying clothes? Come here with your
mind set on what you want and your
desires will be satisfied. To dress well
is a matter of judgmentas Avell as price.
It requires judgment to select reliable
values at prices in keeping with the
qualities. Our clothing "is made right
at the right price." It bears the 'S.
it. & S," label. Prices range from $10
to 20. You should' see our splendid
assortments.
Suit Cases and Valises, a splendid as
sortment for the traveler, also a very
useful holiday present, from..;$l to 10
Boys' suits from $1 to $6. Overcoats for the boys, ages & to 15, $4 up
Stetson, Roelofs, and Young Bros. Hats, prices $3, $5, $6 and $7
It matters not what shape you prefer, we have it, in soft or stiff hajs
Also Young Bros.' Silk Hats ....$7.50
Gold and Silver Brand Shirts $1 up
cA SPERO
COMBE BUILDING, NEXT TO P. O.
A i T5 Home of Good Clothes for Man and Boy ,
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ELKINS -& COLE
ATTO RNE YS-AT-LA W
Will practice in all courts. State and Federal.
special attention gives to land and at- '
stract business. Will do collecting
Office-Ovpr Botica del Acuila. Combes Dpi? Store
DR. C. H. THORN
BerrList.
JSS"OflTce opposite The Herald. -
- TELEPHONE 51
- t Texas.
Brownsville.
F. W. Seabury
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
- Rio Grande City, Texas
Will practice in the District Courts of
Starr, Hidalgo, Zapata and
Webb Counties.
HOW GUNS
ARE MADE
TOLD BY A VISITOR TO FAC-
. TORY AT SPRINGFIELD.
E. H. GOODRICH Sb SON
....MANAGERS....
Cameron County
Abstract Company
Real Estate and Mortgage Loans.
For Quality, Quantity, And
Delivered Prices
WRITEi
C E. H. CALDWELL 3 i
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CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Hardware, Machinery S upplies
Fordyce & Rio Grande City Transfer Co
Stage leaves Fordyce on arrival of train, except Sunday, and ar
rives at Rio Grande City same night taking just four hours.
Leaves Rio Grande Oty daily at 2 p. m., except Sunday, and arrives at
Fordyce same day at 6 p. m.
Makes the rip n four hours and connects at Fordyce with trains for
Brownsville, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Texas; Monterey and other
cities in Mexico.
FARE ONE WAY $2.50; ROUND TRIP $4.00
Passengers will find along the route first-class hacks and teams, thus
r-aveling with case and convenience. Drivers are the best to be found.
ExtJa hacks will be furnished either way, if desired, at reasonable rates.
GUERRA & SliELY, Proprietors
R. B. CPEAGER,
Attorney and .
Counsellor-at-Law
Office, over Yturria Bank, Eliza
beth Street.
Union Bakery
John Thielen, Manager
Bread, Biscuit, Cakes, Etc., Made
From Choicest Brands of Flour
Elizabeth Street, Brownsville, Tex
Burt E. Hinkley
Notary Public
Brownsville Undertaking Comp'riy
Phone 123
WHITE ELEPHANT
SALOON
V. 1 CRIXELL. Prerrirtor.
First-class Liquors, Wines,
Cigars. Polite Attention.
Market Square Brownsville, Texas
Wholesale
Groceries
Cheap for Cosh
Frank Alcedo
Celaya Building.
D. B. CHAPIN
ATTORNEYS LAW
HIDALGO, TEXAS
It Makes a Big Difference to You
Whether the goods you buy are of the right quality cr
not. If they are not and you have to have them, then
you have to pay first for poor goods and pay again
for good goods, which you should have had in the
first place. To pay twice for the same thing or the
same purpose is unprrofitahle. WILLMAN CAR
RIES A LINE oF DRUGS, MEDICINES, AND
TOILET ARTICLES OF THE FIRST QUALITY.
Come personally, phone or send us your mail orders
1E 40. WILIMAN'S PHARMACY
Constantine Hotel
W. A. FITCH, Proprietor
Traveling men's trade solicited.
Free sample rooms are provided
Nothing too good for our guests
if to be found in the market..!?
Corp tu Qu'!.
Texas
JAMES B. WELLS
cAttorney
at Law
Successor to Powers & Maxan,
Towers & Wells, Wells & Eeutfro
Wells, Rentfro & Hicks, Wells &
Hicks, Wells, Stayton & XIherg
I buy and sell R'bu Estate and
investigate land titles. A complete
abstract . . all itles of record in
Cameron County, Texas.
Practice in all state and federal
courts, when especially employed.
Land Irrigation and corporation
practice.
How Uncle Sam Does the Vork Odd
Contrasts al the Arsenal at Spring
field Every Gun Tested.
It- would be hard to find aii ' inH
stitution as dramatic in its contrast
as -the United States: arsenal- at
Springfield, Capable as it is of
turning out thousands of murder-
t
ous weapons in a single day, it is
as peaceful and as pleasant to look
upon asv if. it were an oldIadies'
home. ' " -
The buildings.are scattered over
twenty-five acres or . more, With
their perfect quiet, , their green
lawns and fine old elms, they are
like an almost forgotten park in
the very heart of the city. Beau
tiful homes surround the arse
nal grounds. Church towers look
down into them. Nine cows graz
ed under the windows when the
Sun representative visited theestab
lishment the other day.
Yet in some of those quiet brown
buildings stacked with long boxes!
suggestive of coffins are 150,000
of the most up""to date man killing
instruments. And in the other
buildings men work unremittingly,
making yet more and more thou
sands. Our very young Government
began manufacturing guns at
Springfield back in 1791, and has
been at it, on practically the same
sities, ever since. Early in the
Nineteenth century the water
shops" were started, nearer the
river than the main arsenal, for
forging the heavier pieces, 'and as
the "water shops" they are known
to this day.
In the two places 1,000 men are
employed, and 1,000 magazine
rifles can be' turned out in a day
If there were any extraordinary
pressure, necessitating double
shifts, or even two and a half
shifts, as in war time, the output
would be correspondingly greater
Up to 1892 the rifle known as
the Springfield was the regulation
gun used in the army. At that
time a change was made to the
Krag-Jorgensen, which was man'
ufactured at Springfield continous
ly from that date to within the
past year or so. Now a new model
has superseded theKrag-Jorgensen.
It is officially known as the United
States rifle of 1903, and is suppos
ed to incorporate all the best fea
tures of the most improved army
rifles the world over.
There is no particular necessity
for secrecy in the manufacture of
small arms. Any Government
can easily get specimens of those
made in other countries. Col.
Phipps' the commanding officer at
Springfield, secures foreignjmade
rifles and has the experts, at the
armory take them to pieces and
report on the details of their con
struction.
Of course other countries do the
same with our rifles, so that there
is not much danger of spies at
Sprh.field; or, rather, not much
of an excuse for spying. Never
theless, permits to visit the armory
are not issued to foreigners, and
th law requires that every employe
shall be a citizen of the United
States.
Exceptions of course, are some
times made to the rule against ad
mitting foreigners. Some time
ago a number of Japanese visited
Japanese have been buying quan
1 tities of American black walnut for
gunstocks. Because of its greater
density black walnut is the prefer
red wood every where for this pur
.pose, but the American product is
not as good as the European. Im
ported black walnut is denser than
the American, but the price is also
considerably more solid. For the
square, unturned stock . as it . is
bought by the Government, Uncle
Sam pays 55 " cents for American
black walnut and from 95 cents to
Si or more for the imported wbod.
Most of the domestic"wood .comes
from the Indian Territory, Mis
souri and Arkansas. There has
been a good deal of talk for several
years about the supply of black
walnutgiving out, but unless we
or the Japs get into another war
there will probably be enough' to
last for some, time to come.
Apparently the. Springfield en-
ployes like to work for Uncle Sam,
for one is struck with the number
of gray haired men in the shops.
One of the foremen has been there
more-than fifty years. Almost all
of the work is piece work, so that
unless there is extraordinary pres
sure a man can be kept on, even
after his earning capacity has be
come less. He gets what he can
make. Every machine, however,
is supposed to have a certain ouc
put and in case of haste in turn
ing out a big consignment the
machines must be made to do
their full work or the man is laid
off.
The employes are not under mil
itary discipline of any sort. One
would expect to find" the place
heavily guarded; for no particular
reason, of course, since no one is
likely to try to lug off a case of
rifles. Still, the ordinary civilian
would not oe surprised to and a
soldier camped down at every door
and peering watchfully from" every
window.
It is therefore a surprise to find
that there are exactly" forty-three
soldiers stationed there. A sentry
at each gate seemed perfectly ad
equate for the protection of a lot of
rifles which nobody wants.
Another surprise for the un
thinking outsider is the activity of
the arsenal in times of peace. That
about 1,800 men should be assidu
ousiy manufacturing nnes tor a
country which hasn't a shred of
war cloud in sight seems to the
thrifty but thoughtless civilian an
extravagance. It is with rifles,
however, as it is with some other
things: they don't have a chance
to wear-out, perhaps, before they
go out of style. And if there came
a war, an army with old-fashioned
equipment would be as handicap
ped against an army with up to
date guns as a women in old clothes
at a "tea fight." It is considered
good policy to change the fashion
in rifles about everv eight or ten
years, lne Krag-Jorgensen reign
ed from 1892 to 1903. Now the
new style is being furnished the
army.
To guard against imperfections
every gun made at Springfield is
fired five times. A charge one and
a "half times the usual one is used,
in order to develop possible seams,
formed by a blow hele drawn out
in the making of the barrel. An
inclosure,, 60 J by 600 feet in size,
serves as a range, where all gnus
are tested as to their aim. a process
known as targeting. Expert matks
ir.en are constantly employed at
this work.
The firing quality of
of a gun; a
a velocity of
the vertical accuracy
loss, for instance, of
eighty feet per second requiring a
higher aim than what ,might be
called the normal one. -
As for the man behind the gini,
one may sight a thirty-second of
an inch higher in the V than an
other; a scarcely appreciable dis
tance to the ordinary -gunner him
self, but in" rifles of the present
length of range, enough to cause
them to fall short or to overshoot.
When all precautions hare been
taken the guns are packed in cases
and stored, perhaps in the very
building of which Longfellow wrote
after he and his wife had visited
the arsenal in company with
Charles Sumner, on their wedding-
journey in 1843. . Sumner talked, a
good deal of how much better it
would have been for the world if
the money which had gone to the
making of all those guns could
have been put into libraries, and
Mrs. Longfellow said that the bur
nished gun barrels, ranged in rows
from floor to ceiling, reminded her
of the pipes of a great organ.
"We grew quite warlike against
war," sue said atterward, and I
urged H. to write a peace poem."
When Longfellow followed out
the suggestion a few months later.
his wife's fanciful simile was" the
keynote of the verses beginning.
This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceil
ing,
Like a huge organ, rise the burnished
arms,
But from their silent pipes no anthem
pealing . , I
Startles the villages with strange alarms.
r. GAP CLOSED.
Brownsville and Bay City TiedBy-'BindV
voUteeitTaTnWas Run
Tuesday.
"Apress dispatch of December 24,
from Houston has the following:
regarding a subject which is of in
terest to the Brownsville Country:
Mr. Jeff N. Miller, general man
ager of the St. Louis, ' Brownsville
& Mexico Railroad, stated today
that the gap between Bay City and'
Brownsville was connected up iast
night. The steel contact was made
at just 6 o'clock. The first traits
will run over the entire line be
tween those po'"ts on next Tues
day. The first tiafhvTr commer-
rc :it itM---wX. t, t
February. This delay is occasion
ed by the terms of the- contract
with the builders.
There remains the gap- betweetr.
Bay City and where the line
touches the Santa Fe a short dis
tance below Alvin, which; will re
quire sixty of seventy days to
complete, then trains will be
operated into Houston and Galves
ton. This gap has required a;
longer time on account of tfre?
heavy character of construction
work at several points. Some
heavy draw bridges have to be
built, and it takes time to complete
this work.
, Mr. Miller said there is nothing;
in the statement published of
headquarters being in-Fort Worth
for the Yoakum lines. Plans lor
headquarters are not mature yet.
He said that Mr. Yoakum will
be in Texas this week. He will
spend Christmas with is family.
which is now in San Antonio.
Quaint.
Superitendent John Flynn of the
Indian schools at Chamberlain. S.
D.. has at is tongue's end many
qaiint stories of Indian children.
Rafael Gutierrez
...CARPENTER...
WQlirork by the day, week month or by
Contract.
Orders may be left t John W. JHoyt
a rifle is. i Anent fatigue he said one day:
somewhat variable; depending on) "A little redstin, Black Eagle,
the arsenal in a sort of "coutiau-1 the cartridge, the atmosphere and I accompanied me on a tramp- off
ed story" manner. The first one the man behind the gun.- AH jrui (sixteen miles.
had a special request to study up j shoot better in warm weather than j "The boy walked well for his
the subject of gun stocks. The.in cold, owing to the effect of hVat'a-je, but thelast twoor three-miles
second was interested in the barrel. on the explosive force of powder, i went hard with him. He gave
Another was investigating the -. A temperature of more than 70 de- i pretty plain evidences of fatigue.''
magazine; and soon. By the time grees rapidly increases the initial! "Tired? said I.
the continued story was concluded velocity of a discharged jbnllet. " No he answered; 'I am not
the Japs had studied the whole, itfaile lower temperatures a$ rapidly ; tired, but I'd be glad if I could
gun, "lock, stock and barrel." jd crease it. The f,. nation of lem ionlj take off my legs and cnrr
One of tht results was that the i perature, th-refore, directlv affects :hem under my arms a while' -'