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EL PASO HERALD
Real Estate and Too Late To Classify
Real Estate and Too Late To Classify
SUFFBIEETS
TO
CAPITOL
STORM
Two Hundred Women Willi Science Produces Some Pre
March From New York to cious Stones as Perfectly
Washington.
EXPECT MNY TO
JOIN ALONG ROUTE
N'
EW YORK, N. T., Feb. 8. More
than 206 women will begin the
march of the suffragets to
Washington, -which leaves here on Feb
ruary 12. according to a statement made
at suffrage headquarters today.
Applications from residents in towns
and cities along the iine of anarch in
dicate that the total number of en
trants in the "hike" will approximate
-i 00 jn number. Among these will be a
number of male sympathizers with the
cause of equal rights, and nearly 1M
newspaper correspondents, assigned to
ihe story by their newspapers.
The marchers will be led by Gen.
T.osalie Jones. Col. Ida Craft, surgeon
iura Dock and private Sybil, tne only
omen lo finish the march from New
ork to Albany during the latter part
ft .December. Besides these veterans.
hikers from almost every state of the
nrth Atlantic seaboard have signi
ned their willingness to participate.
.mong the states which wilt be repre
m nted will be Sew York, Pennsylvania.
oncecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts
and Maryland.
Jn Philadelphia the first men will
join the marchers. Ernest Stevens and
i wo other numbers of the men's wolk
ng club have petitioned for the privi
i ge of marching. They were admitted
n the condition that they wear the pil
tnms cloak, a long brown garment of
liannel designed as the most comforta
ble dress for withstanding the var'-i-fcle
weather conditions that will mark
lie trip.
Local suffragete have manifested the
utmost interest in the coming march
and have hailed it as a means of car
rying on their warfare for the right to
ote without resorting to the militant
measures adopted by their English sis-
t'-rs. The interest shown by the puwie
in the Albany hike, they state, will be
far eclipsed' during the Washington
march.
Reach Washington March 1.
According to the present plans of
the hikers, they will arrive in Wash
ington on March 1, where, after a rest
in the hotels of the capital they will
lake part in the suffrage parade on
March 3, terminating their pilgrimage
by literally "carrying the word" to
president elect WBeon.
The route laid out by the hikers will
carry them over about 300 miles of
country road, in many places almost an
kle deep In mud. To prepare for the
rigors of the trip and to obviate as far
as possible desertions from the raaks
through fatigue. Gen. Rosalie Jones,
who is the nominal head of the move
ment, has prepared a series of general
orders, founded on the experience
gained through her-nike to Albany.
Important among these instructions is
the adjuration to bring large oboes
with rubber heels. The Albany army
lost most heavily through the failure
of some of the marchers to abide by
this primal law of walking. Woolen
stockings, absorbent cotton, adhesive
plaster, gauze and vaseline are other
articles included in the kit of the
pilgrim pedicures.
To Travel on ?2 a Bay.
The expenses of the trip are esti
mated at about SZ per, diem for meals
and lodging. The women expect to cov
er absut 10 miles a day. putting up for
the night at wayside inns or the homes
of sympathisers, where arrangements
will" have been made by the advance
ag-ent of the army, who will ride on
ahead with the baggage.
Though ball gowns and evening
clothes will be strictly tabooed during
the march, the army will be asked to
take part in a number of entertain
ments and ovations In the cities on
their Itinerary. In Elizabeth, Phila
delphia and Baltimore receptions have
been arranged for them, while at the
Mason and Dixon line the army wlH
be met by a delegation of Maryland
women, led by Mrs. R. F. Foster, Mrs.
Calvin Gabriel. Miss Doetsch, Mrs. Ber
that Mather, Miss Louise Freizer, Miss
Minnie Jackson and Mrs. Charles Kel
ler. This band will escort the pilgrims
to the capital. A movement to cross
the Delaware in small boats, after the
manner of Washington's famous ferry-
age or that Historic stream, is aiso bb
der way.
" TOO MUCH SLEEP
MAKES CRIMINALS
Clnelanaa Physician Says More Tfcan
Seven Eosni of SlHraber I Dan-
gerons to tbe Sodal Fabric
Do you enjoy a. long snooze between
the sheets on Sunday? Cut it out. Are
you sleeping more , than seven hours
nightly? Cut that tambien.
The sawbones have ordered it. -with
a penalty for non-observance. This
is to place the long time sleepers in
the criminal class, along with the
housebreakers, yeggmen and dips.
Home more or less eminent physician
in Cincinnati has announced a new
theory of criminology. It is that more
than seven hours' sleep makes a crimi
nal, bv deadening the brain cells and
producing the "don't care" habit, which
leads to crime. He says that much of
the disease is the result of too much
leep and that crime is the illegitimate
child of disease. "Seven hours is a
sufficient amount of sleep to revive the
brain and refresh, the body," old Doc
Cincinnati says so, and adds that more
makes the brain sluggish and the body
slothful. But that seven must be had
regularlv each night, or the good ef
fect will not be "forthcoming.
Ei Paso physicians fail to agree with
the Cincinnati pillroller. They say
t! at eight hours is the best minimum
to set lor b. Kn. .i""o .--ule
One doctor who, if he was more
healthful would have to be hobbled,
says he is crazy about his sleep, and
if he has developed any criminal ten
dencies thereby, he has never noticed
them. He says he likes his eight
hours sleep on week nights and to
chase the clock around on Sunday.
BROOKS TeSTABLTSHBS
HBADaXIARTBRS AT DAM
Elephant Butte." N. M, Feb. 8. Pur
chasing agent Brooks, of the Kio
Grande project, has transferred his
headquarters to the dam, where he also
will act as manager of the warehouse
8 The resignation of Chester Wells,
who has been in charge of the ware
house and lumber yard and freight and
rxnress business, will take effect
March 1. 3" Wells is one of the
"oldest" men on the job.
q w. Burns castkeener, has re
signed and is to leave soon for Cali
fornia. Fred Teythmeyer takes Mr.
Burn's -nlace. and the position of in
spector of tools and furniture will be
lno'crd nfter hi Mr Herms, in conne
,,n " in ' i"- oit in th'- offici of the
'- , . - nt
, , ,. i --.n per r-i 1 ' n put up at
- ijT N f. e.
'
COSTLY OEMS
E
as Nature's Work.
DIAMOND AND OPAL
BAFFLE SCIENTISTS
(By Frederic J. Haskln.)
W
ASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 8.
Among the many evidences of
of mankind in ferretting out
the secrets of nature and doing in a
day in a manmade laboratory wat re
quires ages to do In nature, nose is
more striking than the success that
has attended the efforts of laboratory
experts in the making of artificial pre
cious stones. Nearly 4,000,000 cubic
yards of artificial stone were made at
Panama in the building of the locks,
stone which will serve its purpose
better than anything that nature it
self had to offer; great dams of man
made stone are built across the
mightiest rivers of the earth; great
structures made of concrete and steel,
scarcely cause wonder. But when the
Smithsonian institution publishes a pa
per on the production and identifica
tion of artificial precious stones, and
when one may walk through the shop
ning. The history of the world might
such stones exhibited in dozens of
jewelers' windows, he realizes that the
world is making progress.
The beauty and rarity of precious
stones has made them ihe prized pos
sessions of mankind since the begin
ning. The history of the wodld might
be told in the history of its jewels,
both as relates to its creation and to
the lives of the people -who in habit it.
Many Imitation Made.
With the natural stones of such rare
value, for centuries men have stteined
their ingenuity to solve the problems
that surround the origin of such
stones, in order that they might amass
great wealth by producing them at will
instead of gathering them by the lab
orious and chance taking process of
digging for them in the earth. There
have been colorable imitations of
precious stones for a great many years,
but today "the artificial precious stones
tnat may be turned out, are not close
imitations; they are exact duplicates
in ehemical composition and physical
constants, and differ from the natural
ones only in certain minute details in
cident to their laboratory origin. Imi
tation gems have flourished from the
time when the Romans made imita
tions of the transparent stones and of
agate, cornelian, lapis and porphyry.
The foisting of an Imitation stone
upon the laboratory expert today
would be a hard matter. He has a
whole bookful of tests which he can
PPlv to- it. He .tests Its color, its
cleavage, its lamination, its inclusions;
'with the refractometer he measures its
refractive power: -with the polarlscope
he measures its double refraction; with
the dichroscope he measures its
"pleochroism;" with the spectroscope
he measures its absorption or light.
And then he measures it for toughness,
tests it for hardness, for chemical com
position, for specific gravity, for its
power to conduce heat. And finally, if
still in doubt, he puts the xray on it.
Made thus to tell its pedigree in all its
shame faced fraud, the masquerading
imitation has but little chance to get
by the expert.
Diamond Baffles Scientist.
The diamond has successfully re
sisted attempts to produce it commer
cially by artificial methods, but as a
laboratory curiosity it hag been mada
for a number of years. The methodV
was discovered by Moissan. of Paris,
many -years ago. He satured iron with
carbon at the temperature of the elec
tric arc, and then plunged the molten
mass into cold -water. Thereafter he
dissolved the mass of iron in acid, and
laboriously, with 'the aid of a micro
scope, picked out the little diamonds.
At the same time that the remendous
heat is encountered, the fluid iron and
carbon would become gaseous instead
of liquid. Likewise, no air can be ad
mitted to tbe operation else the car
bon -would combine with the oxygen
of the air and "burn up." So far as the
artificial diamond, as distinguished
from the imitation one is concerned it
is admitted that we are as far from
being able to produce them as we were
in tne days of the alchemists.
Rubies Easy to Slake.
With the manufacture of artificial
rubies it is different. They are easily
made and on a commercial scale. The
first of all the precious stones to be
artifically reproduced was the ruby.
As far back as 1818. when the oxy
hydrogen blow pipe first came into use,
an experiment was made on two small
rubies, placed on a bed of charcoal and
exposed to the flame. On; being al
lowed to cool there was on -be in.
...stead of two rubies." Corundum is an
oxioe or aluminum, and alumina, its
amorphous equivalent, becomes a liquid
L """ -"" aegrees, contlgrade. and
it can be heated in air without under
going any change.
The first method of making artificial
rubies was the one, stumbled over
nearly a century ago making large
ones together. With the blow-pipe the
manufacture of reconstructed rubies
?EL.lS.mI,l P.woerJ stone is not
difficult Another method of manufac
ture is to use pure ammonium alum,
the, ammonia and sulphuric add pass
ing off in gas, and leaving a residue
Lma- 1!tt,e crome alum is
tl$St f rUby ls the result- Other
i ? tones are Produced by ad
ding other colors.
Sapphire are Difficult.
Tw,F2hil0ns. time U was ond im-
a Sfc? PPMre. One method
arter another was tried out with indif-
hnC'?Bel F,BaI,v somTscienlist
Pt try "ntam oxide, and
h-tfl11 was a oeautiful sapphire,
stoe ry Prop" of the natural
nritwLCOn,p,eted the Problem of
producing stones with colors ranging
sto ?..tne expert may mae a
fi eJhat yrm answer everv one of
;2f ordinary tests of composition and
the
"" yet owins to the r-nHr.ui
fi n?& of !ts structure it can be dis
tinguished from the natural stone. In
e. nMally formed stone any foreign
iS V ,Trh,ch mav be Present Is coerced
into following the lines of the growth
ot the crystal, and the bubbles of gas
were distorted from their natural to
accord with the symmetrical growth.
J the other hand, when thev occur in
the artificial stones this is not In evi
dence. Detecting the Artificial.
Ordinarily the average jeweler is
a to determine between the natural
and the artificial stones by the use
f a microscoi..-. At other times he
may be under the necessity of placing
the stone in a little cell of some highly
refractory liquid and examining it
there by transmitte.l light. Emeralds
nave not ' T lf-,-n mmlf Which ntuwc?
n:e uouhl
The op
rrs, tinir
fn tor
qualiti-
" -ft it
tiw li i innn
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AE MAD
TO ORDER
New York May Entertain
People in Unique 'Theater
at Minimum Cost.
GREAT TERMINAL
CITY IS OPENED
EW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 8. A huge
art building and public audi
torium, to float In the waters
of Kew York harbor, is the next won
der which is in store for Kew York, if
the plans are carried out which have
met with remarkable approval here
during the exhibition of the Archi
tectural league. On a huge circular
raft or scow of concrete the designer
would erect a building of circular form,
with graceful Doric columns of con
crete and steel, and inside he would
have, besides ample space for art ex
hibitions and schools of arts and crafts,
an auditorium -which would outclass
anything now standing in this coun
try. Its seating capacity would be
8000 persons and provision would be
made to use it for public meetings,
great concerts or operatic perform
ances. By a system of screens, the size ot
the auditorium would be capable of be
ing reduced to suit a theatrical per
formance. Performances would be giv
en by municipa actors, according to
the designer's plan, and prices would
be kept at tUe lowest possible level.
Especial emp.iasis would be laid, how
ever, upon the use of the building for
SSVf OTrteandhe hShef craftst
scnooi oi me arts ana tne nigner craiis.
By floating in the harbor. It would save
entirely the cost of land, and could
be moored where most convenient.
Engineers say, according to the de
signer, that such a structure is en
tirely feasible. Watertight compart
ments in the "hull" would provide pro
tection against possible leaks. In view
of the- designers plan to anchor his
floating art palace off the Battery, it
is interesting to remember that for
years New York's great auditorium and
ccacert hall was a mammoth circular
structure surrounded by the waters of
the harbor. Castle Garden, an old fort
with 20 foot stone -walls, which is now
surrounded by the made land of Bat
tery park and used for the aquarium.
Cigarct War Starts.
New York, which has seen about
every possible wind of commercial and
financial "war" start within its bor
ders, from the stamp act struggles of
colonial times to the gambling war
of last year, is now the stom center of
a "cigaret way," whose field of opera
tions covers the whole United States.
The fight is raging between several of
the leading tobacco companies, and the J
uiBiirifiuisming itaiures just now are
the "souvenirs" -which each side is giv
ing away with packs of its cigarets.
Pictures of actresses, of fishes, of
baseball piajers, of buildings, and about
everything under the sun, scraps of silk
with college emblems stenciled on them,
playing cards, coupons redeemable for
a toothbrush or an automobile when
you have smoked a few thousand dol
lars worth of the cigarets, all is grist
that comes to the premium mill. Evi-
dently the souvenir plan works, or it
wouia not a raw tne nunareas oi inou
sands of dollars -which the -tobacco peo
ple pour into H.
"DIssoIvlnK" a Socar Company.
Another step in the progress of
"painless" trust dissolution which is
going on here rapidly at present was
marked this week by the announcement
that the American Sugar Refining com
pany, Gtherwise known as the Sugar
trust, was about to rid itself of its
holdings of stock in the National Sugar
Refining company by the simple pro
cess of. distributing these holdings pro
rata among its own stockholders. This
is the same kind of dissolution that has
worked so satisfactorily to the owners
of Standard Oil and Tobacco. Legally it
seems to answer every requirement for
it reduces the Trust's share in the total
output of refined cane sugar to less
than one-half. In view of the continu
ance of the common ownership of the
two companies It is not likely, how
ever, that there will be any acute com
petition between them.
Termlnnl City Completed.
With the opening of the new Grand
Central station, New York now has
the "Terminal City" in 'its midst." as
the builders of the new terminal call
their astonishing group of buildings.
The name is not badly chosen, for the
terminal covers 79 acres and has a ca
pacity of 1652 cars. The mere fig
ures regarding the new station give
some notion of its stupendous dimen
sions. It took 500,000 barrels of ce
ment to build it, and 118.600 tons of
steel. Forty -two tracks enter its upper
level wHere express or through trains
arrive and depart, and the lower or
local traffic level has 25 tracks a to
tal of 33.6 miles of raMroad track with
in -the terminal. The largest interlock
ing switch and signal tower jn the
world controls the tracks, with 400
levers for the express tracks and 360
for the local.
The cost of the whole work was
SISO.OOO.OOti or more than the national
debt of Sweden. It is only natural to
compare the terminal with the Penn
sylvania station which was opened a
couple of years ago. and the builders
of the rival structures emphasize the
contrast at every turn.
While the new structure is widely ad
vertised as the Grand Central terminal,
the Pennsylvania railroad especially re
quested that its station should be called
simply a "station." The Pennsylvania's
structure is a monumental example of
tbe finest classic architecture, and is
now finished. While the terminal nn
have a 23 story business building plied
on top of it by continuing the steel
work already in place. The decora
tions of the Pennsylvania's enormous
concourse are huge map-like pictures
of the country tributary to the system
while the new terminal puts into its
ceiling a section of the night sky, with
the stars In their real places 2500 being
shown, the largest of them being il
luminated by electric lights.
N.-,?.ETLY2rkTMov,B':: Northward.
Northward New York is still moving,
jasd the march is emphasized Jiwt now
by the sale at auction of onTof the old
est and most historic of the city's
amusement structures. Another also
In the part of town below 34th str
ndtKT thC "ovies" which
thatV !? 0?rVl?l
third downtown theater will h. 5!iLa
at is announced. Jrtbrt&'Snly'
a question of time befnrL ti!L rii-Z
,ethheeeat4 ?"ce bu"
the thought that the "movies" nt iast
Pndn!fhaatimePWJ nd Untinlin" I
end of a time-honored house.
YO UTHFCL ' ARCIIbrs lsRI) Zftm
PORTRA1T p.ou v vkgKT.
London. Eng Feb. 8. "This Gains
borough portrait was used as a target
by youthful archers." was the state
ment made b an attorney in account
ing for marks of restoration on a
painting, the possession of which forms
the subject of a lawsuit The portrait
was recently sold for $12,000
The lawyer said th, ,,ictur. hi- b . -i
nuiip: on tn. wall ,f a i.itor
th.it ih' tuo sons of th, i.i.t
w ih i. a-, ml - u - )i,l
ai -1
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IS SMALLEST
OF WORLD'S
NATIONS
San Marno Cannot Fire Its
Only Cannon For Fear of
StrikingAnother Country.
HAS A STANDING
ARMY OF 12 MEN
PARI
ARIS, France. Feb. 8. San Mari
no, tne smallest independent state
Europe the confines of the
country are so restricted 'that the army
has never fired. Its one piece of ar
tillery, for the reason that the pro
jectile would invade foreign soil has
just elected its rulers for the next
constitutional period. The election took
place about the same time that France
elected M Poincare to succeed M. Fal
lieres to the presidency ef France, but
it was attended with no excitement, no
campaigning and practically no uncer
tainty, and San Marino will now con
tinue with its new regents for a space
of six months, when the next election
tiiJccs Dlace.
The grand council of San Marino,
composed of 60 members xelect the two
ruTers who preside over the destinies
of the state unuer the titl of captains
regent. The regents are chosen by the
council without their having evn to go
throuegh th formality o fannouncing
their candidature
San Marino has existed as a sov
ereign independent state since the first
of modern history. Its army will
. ... twi.hi.- th iwsn of Kurone. con-
1 fl??!"?? ",S "SS-hlS-
iers and a few customs house examiVi
ers. The state, which lies between two
provinces of Italy, has a population of
about 10.000 people and an are of 3S
square miles. The car-on which is
never fired for fear ol international
complications, ersts in peace in the
courtyard of the government house.
PolHcare to Break Precedent.
M. Poincare, the president elect of
France, will depart from the customary
seclusion of French presidents and ac
cept freely such private invitations as
he may desire.
The etiquette has been that the presi
dent confi nsihseocilfia. .France,- wzo
dent confine his social life to a small
circle of intimate personal friends and
to vast official entertainments given by
hlmself and paid for out of the $120,003
allowed for that purpose by the gov
ernment. M. Poincare sees no reason,
he says, to ive the secluded life of a
monarch or to deprive himself of In
structive and pleasant social inter
course with his fellow men. and he will
do neither.
War Hurts Paris Trade.
There is no center where the disap
pearance of the war cloud would be re
ceived with greater pleasure than In
Paris. 15ver since September the shad
ow of the Balkan complications, and
then the actual operatios of war, have
influenced trade and commerce ad
versely. The reason is the sensitive
ness of the market, inseparab e from
furs and furbelows, feathers, suks. sat
ins and jewelry, which constitute the
basis of French industry. Prosperity
is great, but it is a prosperity depend
ent on tashion and its changes, ana
hence is subject to constant fluctua
tions. A sign of better times, however, is
the immense amount of rebuilding now
going on In the city. Old houses are
coming down to give place to showy,
new business premises, overlaid with
ornamentation.
This activity in bricks and mortar in
the center of the town is proof of the
Parisian's reluctance to inhabit tbe
suburbs. There Is practically no
building going on in the districts out
side the city walls. Until the great new
avenues are pierced, uniting central
with external Paris, the Parisian re
fuses to leave the light and warmth of
the city. Versailles, St. Germain, St.
Cloud and other suburban centers
make little progress In population,
whilst Paris grows denser every day by
reason of the tendency to build up
ward In the American style- If it were
not for the building laws Paris would
grow skyscrapers of its own as high as
the Eiffel tower. The desire is there.
as well as the temperament to tear
down the old; but for the moment au
thority still restrains the extreme ef
forts of the innovators. But if sky
scrapers have not come In the Ameri
can sense of the word. American
building methods have been implanted,
and-will assuredly flourish.
Explosive to Cure Sea Sickness.
Acceptin the definition that seasick
ness is due to a vascular vaso-motor
spasm and anemia of the nervous sys
tem, a Dr. BHrwinkel has tried the use
of nitro-glycerine as a specific against
the illness.
While at sea recently he adminis
tered to a number of people suffering
from seasickness a tablespoonful of a
solution composed of 20 drops of nitro
glycerine in alcohol and distilled water.
The unpleasant symptoms vanished
rapidly and completely. It must be
admitted, however, that the beneficial
effects did not last for very long, and
it became necessary to take several
doses during the day.
Czar's Engineer Dies.
There has Just died in Switzerland
the engineer whose duty It had been to
drive the special imperial train that
carried emperor Nicholas on his jour
neying9 In Russia. He was possessed of
a considerable fortune, a result of the
largess of his master.
Although a Swiss, Dominique Hof
had been in 'the service of the Russian
railways for 40 years. During the last
fifteen of them he had driven the em
peror's private trains from Moscow to
Odessa and to other places in Russia.
Hof. who retired a few months ago,
wculd never say more of his experience
man nine at singular dangers he had
risked, and the immense bribes that he
had refused .from revolutionists and
from members of the secret police in
their desire to test his uprightness.
Complaints of
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Distinguished Prelates to
Attend Celebration of the
400th ChurchAnniversary. j
OLDEST DIOCESE
IN THE AMERICAS
S
AN JUAN. PORTO RICO, Feb. 8.
In order to participate intthe 400th
anniversary of the creation of the
first Catholic diocese in the new world
and the same anniversary of the arrival
of the first Catholic bishop in the
Americas, cardinal Farley, of New
j York, and archbishop Blenk, of New
Orleans, who was formerly bishop of
Porto Rico, are among the prelates
from the United States who will come
to Porto Rico for the church celebra
tion, which will be from February 23
to 27.
Together with bishop Norris, of Lit
tle Rock, Ark., and bishop Gunn, of
Natchez, Miss., cardinal Farley and
archbishop Blenk will sail from New
York Saturday. Feb. 15. An invita
tion has been extended to all Catholic
bishops in the United States to attend
the anniversary ceremonies. The last
day of the anniversary there will be a
public demonstration in connection with
the Third Insular fair.
Oldest la America.
The diocese of Porto Rico is the old
est Catholic diocese in the Americas
and was erected by pope Julius II. in
l 1511. BishoD Alonso M-so the "first
bishop to reach the new world disco v
ered by Columbus, reached Porto Rico
in 1513. He died in 1539 and his body
was buried in the cathedral in San
Juan, where the remains of many of the
56 bishops of the diocese have been de
posited. This cathedral marks the site
oflhe mother church in the Americas,
and while much of the present building
is modern, parts of it date back fo early
in 1600.
Cardinal Farley will officiate at the
first of the anniversary services, a sol
emn high mass to be celebrated Sunday
morning, Feb. 23. The following day.
Monday, archbishop Blenk will officiate
at a special service, when the remains
of Ponce de Leon, the first governor
of Porto Rico, who died in his' quest
for the fountain of youth, will be placed
In a crypt in an elaborate monument
erected in the cathedral.
Many Charchmen Expected.
Many churchmen from other coun
tries are to participate in the anni
versary ceremonies, including cardinal
Almarez. of Seville. Spain, who was
elevated to the cardinalate with car
dinal Farley a little more than a year
ago: bisbop Estrada, of Havana. Cuba;
archbishop Bernada, of Santiago, Cuba;
bishop Ruiz, of Pinal del Rio. and bish
op Aurelio, of Cienfuegos, Cuba.
Archbishop Adojfo Nouel, of Santo
Demingo, who recently was chosen
president of that country, has sent
word to bishop Jones, of Porto Rico,
i Tent njm t rom coming to San Juan.
"wi uuira as presiuenc will pre
I Through one of his nriestsf nriHnt
1 Nouel, who still remains head of the
church in Santo Dominsro. he has id.
vised bishop Jones that if he left Do
minican soil for eight days there would
be another revolutionary outbreak.
Older Than St. Augustine.
None of the dioceses in the United
States can compare in age with, the dio
cese of Porto Rico. While St. Augustine.
Fla., was an established community
and had a church in 1565, yet it did not
become a diocese until 1870. The first
diocese in the United States was that
of Baltimore, which was created in
1789. New Orleans became the next
diocese in 1793, while New York. Bos
ton and Philadelphia were created as
sees in 1808. and are the next oldest.
With the coming of this anniversary
celebration many interesting bits of
church history have been dug up from
wi iccvras.
High Cost of Living.
As far back as 1533 the high cost of
living seems to nave been a problem
that the first bishop In the Americas
reckoned with, for old records show
that he ordered prepared a report "on
the sin of usury and of buying and
selling at inordinate prices." At the
same time, records show that "bishop
Manso commanded that a decree 'be read
in the cathedral In San Juan exhorting
usurers to go to confession within a
certain period of time, that they might
receive from the bishop or his vicar
provisor salutary medicine for their
spiritual malady. Should any be rebel
lious, ne must De reported."
And only a little later the church
records show that there was a sugar
tariff that bishop Rodrigo Bastldas.
who succeeded bishop Manso, thought
needed revising so badly that he wrote
to the Spanish crown, saying:
"The new impost upon sugar will
cause depression in business, which
is already suffering. Let the impost be
suppressed." This was in 1544.
In the same letter to the Spanish
sovereign bishop Batidas wrote:
"It would be convenient to estab
lish in this bishopric a school of gram
mar." He reported other affeirs In Porto
Rico to the crown indicating a finan
cial depression about that period. He
wrote:
"Work on the cathedral has been sus
pended owing to the scarcity of funds
and we beg you to give an alms.
"The employes of the treasury attend.
I believe to their work well, but there
i so nine to uo mat tour are too many
and two would suffice, viz.: The treas
urer and the auditor.
"I have inspected the Fortaleza and
Morro Castle. They are good forts,
but there is need of some artillery."
The Fortaleza is the present resi
dence of the governor of Porto Rico,
while Morro Castle was one of the for
tifications fired on by admiral Samp
son in 1898. It still stands In an excel
lent state of preservation. v
Many Old Crypts Fonnd.
Records recently found give the lo
cation of many old crypts under the
cathedral in San Juan. One of these
proved to be the burial place of bishop
de Soils. wo died in 1641. Of this
bishop the records say that he entered
the priesthood after the death of his
wife and that he had "both performed
and received all the sacraments of the
church." His death followed a pilgrim
age through the diocese during which
It Is recorded he baptized 10,000 In
dians: Old church documents show that the
present bishop's palace was purchased
in 1738 by bishop Sebastian Lorenzo Pi
zarro. who "spent 4000 pesos in re
pairs. CHOIirs GIRT. SKKKS SEPARATION'
PKOM MII.I.IO.XAIRK'S SOX.
New York, N. Y.. Feb. 8. Mrs. Ethel
Lorraine Belmont, a chorus. girl bri.l.-.
bas filed suit here asking a s para
tlon from her young husband, l:i
niond. son of August Belmont. i'..
narges him with deseiliun and failure
proMdo for her maintenance. Fiftv
doliar m.n her during the horn -rnM-ii
-.u. .i" was .ill th. provision
no in., 1, f r hi r support
" -1 - M - -. i:, I- i,nt s i . iht mi -
SALT AN
QUANTITIES
Chamber of Commerce May Bring Them to Attention of
Manufacturers and Develop Them New Method of
Mining Sulphur by Steam Is Big Step in Devel
oping Sulphur and May Aid in Developing
the El Paso County Sulphur Field.
M1
INING sulphur by steam the
newest method and said to be
cheaper and more successful
than the old one Is of particular in
terest to El Pasoans, inasmuch as the
biggest known deposit of sulphur fn
the United States lies in Kl Paso coun
ty. The reason it has not been mined
in the past is Its remoteness from
transportation and the difficulty and
high cost of freighting the crude pro
duct to the nearest station.
By the new method, it is said that
the operations would be less costly and
that the mining can be carried on at a
big profit. It only remains for the
chamber of commerce or individual El
Pasoans to interest the sulphur pro
ducers in the matter, if this latest
method of mining is the real success
that it is- said to be. The existence of
the tremendous sulphur deposit in EI
Paso and Culberson counties is not
generally known and its exploitation
with a view to development is one of
the things that the chamber of com
merce may undertake with its new
budget; at least, the matter has been
mentioned.
This deposit is said to be of an
extremely high grade and in tremen
dous quantities, sufficient to furnish
the world's entire supply for many
years, according to the expert report
made upon it for the Manufacturer's
Record some years ago.
KI Paso's Salt deposits.
And the sulphur deposit is not the
only valuable deposit of this character
mense salt deposit'ln thl northeastern
in jsx Paso county, -.mere is an lm-
section of the country, almost directly
north of Fabens. that is said to be as
valuable as any in the country save
that at Salt Lake City. Utah. These
salt lakes -were worked many years
ago, an' the salt -was freighted into
Mexico when transportation charges
were much higher than it would now
cost to bring tbe salt to the nearest
railroad. At one time the "salt -war"
was fought at San Elizario over these
deposits and several people were
killed. Now the deposits, deserted and
untouched, are doing nobody any good.
There is salt enough there to keep a
large part of the United States sup
plied, and engineers have declared that
It would not be at all difficult to in
terest capitalists in the development of
the deposit if its existence was only
brought to their attention.
Aot Far to Salt Lakes.
It is not 3. great distance across
country from the salt lakes to the rail
road at Fabens, though at present the
road is rather bad because of the sand.
The road from Hueco tanks to the salt
deposits is said to be in splendid shape
and. with a good road from El Paso to
Hueco, excursions from El Paso to El
Paso county's great Salt lake would
be possible, even easy, in automobiles,
but as a commercial proposition, a road
from Fabens to the bikes would be the
nearest and the beat.
As for the sulphur deposits and the
new method of mining by steam, it ls
stated that the system is already in
operation in Louisiana and in the sul
phur fields near the mouth of the
I Brazos river in Texas.
I New Mini
New Mining Method.
i . Instead of sinking shafts and min
intr the sulnhur in a. wav that is usu
ally applied to other mineral sub
stances and which is the method em
ployed in Sicily, for many years the
greatest sulphur producing country in
the world, the modern plan of bring
ing the valuable! product to the sur
face is to force steam into the de
posit and by means of the same pres
sure bring the molten sulphur to the
surface.
No longer ago than 1902 the United
States was dependent upon Sicily for
much of its sulphur supply. In that
year the total Importations of the pro
duct aggregated 171.380 tons, valued at
$3,357,650. No longer is this country
dependent uoon foreism lnmortation of
(sulphur. On the contrary it has be
come an exporter of the product, and
with the rapidly increasing production
it will not be many years, it is claimed
until Louisiana and Texas alone will
be able to supply an enormous foreign
trade. The El Paso field ls counted
upon as supplying a great deal of this.
Brines in New Fields.
Not until there was devised the new
and economical mechanical method of
bringing the product to the surface
were the Louisiana or Brazos (Texas)
fields operated. One producing sul
phur -well has already been put down
at Bryan Heights. Texas, and prepa
rations are being made by the syndi
RESOURCES EXPOSniON
WITH MEXICO AS AN ATTRACTION
URGED BY BUSINESS MEN
m Paso and the Great Sonthwesfa i
resources exposition in 1915 is catching
on like the measles. At the chamber
of commerce business men were dis
cussing the suggestion for having a
big show to attract the tourists to the
San Francisco exposition. Everyone
agreed that the plan was a splendid
oce for attracting attention to El Paso
3nd for advertising the resources of
the southwest Immediate action is
being urged to get a permanent com
mittee at work arranging the details
tiT the oxnosltion and for having it
advertised throughout the east and
nortb- . ,. ,
Claiborne Adams, vice president of
tiu Khmkr nt commerce, says he ls
strong for the scheme, and believes it
will mean more than anything that
has ever been done to show the people
of the country what El Paso really has
to offer to the home seekers. "Have a
permanent exhibit of the resources ot
the southwest including Arizona. New
Mexico and northern Mexico." he says.
"Let these be arranged attractirely
so that the people who stop over here
with the primary purpose of seeing
Mexico, will be impressed with the pos
sibilities of this city and Its surround
ing territory and will carry away with
them a lasting impression, not only of
quaint Mexico, with its ancient cus
toms, but of a modern city and a fer
tile and prosperous country. Lse Mex
ico as an inducement for these tour
ists to come the southern route, and
- win s-et our share of the travel.
one here. will be easy to impress
upon thorn the importance of El Paso
, commercial city and also the
ana came rw-'-e- - .- ou.iuuuuiuk
us. I am for it and now is the time
to get busy on it. I believe."
Thinks Mexico a Rig Show.
Burt Orndorff. retiring vice presi
dent of the chamber of commerce,
agrees that Metico is the big show and
that bv advertising It properly every
one will want to come through 1U
Paso to visit Mexico and its battle
fields anil mission-. But Mr Orndorft
h heits that no effort shcihl b.- made
1 . iw ,mv vcr .Mtion i' K' I'm
r . .. -lainr- AAllnrrv iiikaiJIi.i.
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SULPHUR IN CREAT
IN THIS COUNTY
cate that owns the property to bore
several other wells and to constantly
enlarge its mining operations. This
syndicate is composed of men of
wealth, among them being S. M. S wen
son Sc Sons, bankers, of New York;
John Hays Hammond, and a large num
ber of others -who are prominent in
financial and Industrial affairs of the
country. To these men's attention, the
-existence of an SI Paso field may. be
brought.
11 ringing Up the Sulphar.
The method employed in bringing;
the sulphur to the surface' is to force
steam from a battery of boilers hav
ing a combined capacity of abc it
6.000 horsepower into the well thaC
penetrates the deposit. The steam.
pressure is about 70 pounds. The heat
of the steam liquifies the sulphur, and,
through a pipe in the well the molten
product is forced to the surface. Dur
ing the run, as it is ealled. the liquid
sulphur pours Into a vat, where it
hardens. It is necessary to break the
congealed sulphur into pieces by means
of picks in order to make it available
for shipment. The deposit at Bryan'
Heights is at a depth of about 800 feet..
The El Paso deposit is much. shal-.
lower.
U. 3- to Supply the World.
With the promised wonderful in-
erease in the production of this pro-tl
duct in this country through not only,
the development that is la progress!
at Bryan Heights and in Calcasietai
Parish. La., but with the opening od
the enormous beds in this county, tneraj
are strong hopes that it will be founr
practical and economical to use theJ
product for the treatment of phosphates
rock and other uses incident to the
production of commercial fertilizers. H3
the price is brought down to a basis
that would justify such uses it would"!
largely take the place, it is said. oC
pyrites of iron which is now imported,
into the United States la enormous
quantities.
The 1 Paso Deposit. I
Dr. W. B. Phillips, director of the
bureau of economic geology of thtvi
university of Texas, has investigated
the sulphur deposits in El Paso countvJ
Referring to these deposits dr. PhaiJ
lips says:
"The depth to which the workable
sulphur may extend has sot been de '
termined, but it is known that ma
terial carrying 46 percent of sulphuc
was found at the bottom of a pit 41
feet deep and that the pit left off ia
this material without penetrating it.
"Two attempts have been made to
prodnce sulphur here. The first was
made by some St. Louis neonle aho.it-
I the year 1896. and it is said that two
canoaas or excellent sulphur were
shipped. Samples of this material now
in my possession show a good grade
of sulphur. Several years later some
Austin people extracted about 1200
pounds of sulphur. In these two at
tempts superheated steam was used
and there was no difficulty in dis
solving the sulphur out.
Transportation Question.
"Nearly all questions affecting the
development of these sulphur deposit 3
are subsidiary to the question of trans
portation to tidewater. We may grant
that the sulphur exists there in work
able quantities, and there seems to be
no reasonable doubt of this, but if the
cost of getting the product to market
is prohibitory, practical operations are
likelv to be postponed for the present
"The state lands on which the CI
Paso county sulphur deposits are found,
may be acquired through the commis
sioner of the general land office at
Austin by filing an application to buy
one section. 640 acres, and the pay
ment of one-tenth of the purchase
price In cash, the remainder in nine)
annual instalments with interest at
percent. The purchase price is not less
than $15 an acre if the land ls within?
10 miles of a railroad. j
Prospectinjr the Land. '
"Upon the approval of the applica-
tlon and the payment of one-tenth o1
the purchase price the laad is with-c
drawn from market for 12 months,
during which time no other person is
priruegea 10 prospect on it. in otner
words, the payment of one-tenth off
the purchase price empowers one toi
prospect the land and to remove mln-d
eral products for one vear. One morez
section may be acquired upon proofa
that $5000 has been spent on the sec-g
tlon already secured, but no tndJvid-M
ual or coporation may own more than;
two sections. These terms seem to boi
liberal enough, but they have not in-j
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railroads. 3fr. Oradorff says tfee -peo-w:
pie would come this way and stop off ;
my u awe jaexico ami they would see
so much bigger show at Saa Francisco
and San Diego that they would forgett,
El Pasos smaller one. D. C. Collier.
Kles.!de,,t ?' the ?n Meso exposition. ;
hit the ball when he said that Mexico J
was our biggest asset, and that we are
not making half enough of it in an
advertising way.
Robert Krakauer, another director
or the chamber of commerce, -says KJ
Paso will be the only city of the soutn
wfat to have such a chance, as this
will be the only city to get 3topo er
privileges on all of the railroads for
the fair tickets. "I believe that we
should harvest the benefits of the pub
licity we would cot hv 9iwi.ti.,n.
Mexico, by having a display of our
natural resources." Mr. Krakauer sa.,
the agricultural and cattle exhibits
could be changed frequently to allow
the Tarious districts and different crops
to be shown. The mining exhibit couil
be made a permanent one. with all of
the mineral districts of the southwest
included. When there would be a spe
cial train party through El Paso we
could arrange special stunts, paradts
and concerts for them, with trips oer
the Juarez battlefield and visits to
the old mission as a part of the enter
tainment. Tnere will be many conven
tions in San Francisco during the fair
and bv working for them we could get
them all to come back the wav nt ri
??",-',:e-w2S? - a PPOitIon to
range with the north... ZZLJrZ?'
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for them on the return trtaiT
the tourists going out "' We Set
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committees organized and El Palo w"lL
not onl be benefited com Mercian
but the get together spirit whfch ,
Br?deY "fr. wffl bTdevepedV3
a good" u? YS that this wua he,
a gooo time to revive the tilan : -
gested several years ago by f7S M M
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