The Daily soliphone., January 03, 1902, Image 1

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Subteranean Railways Exciting
Much Comment Among
the Engineers.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
The Anti-Tammany Mayor Names His
Appointees—Cornelius Vanderbilt
Stated for Congress.
Special Correspondence:
New York, Dec. 31st 1901—That
Seth Low will assume the Mayor’s
office and proceed to turn the Tam
many rascals out on Wednesday
next is the topic that interests New
York most just now. Mr. Low has
made unique preparations for taking
charge of the city government.
After he was elected, he rented a
suite of offices, taking an entire
floor of an office building on Madison
Square. This was fitted up with
desks, typewriters, etc., and a squad
of clerks and assistants were em
ployed. Then the Mayer-eloct was
rpariv fr»r business.
The business was to conduct a
city government in futurity. Each
department of the city government
was inquired into, and a man select
ed to succeed the present Tammany
incumbent at the head of that de
partment. The methods of the de
partment were investigated, and a
decision reached as to what changes
would be made in those methods
after January 1st.
The work was thoroughly done,
and all has now been fixed Nearlv
ail the appointments have been
announced—and they have been of a
conspicuously high order—and on
January 1st all that will be neces
sary will be for Mr. Low to sign a
number of papers making his desires
of legal effect.
^ Since Election day there has been
jj^txcitement a plenty in the City’s
mPolice Department. Detective
y^Glennon, known as a protege of
■ft Deputy Police.Commissioner Devery
f lias been found guilty of neglect of
• duty in failing to suppress a dis
^orderly house. During the trial,
III which has just ended, it was testified
that Glennon’s principal duty was
to stand on a certain corner and
keep tab on the evil doors of the
Tenderloin Precinct, and that he re
ceived a bribe from the keeper of
this particular resort.
I It is charged against the police
that they, or, their leaders, have
been making fortunes out of vice,
“Protection” as their offense is
termed, is defined as meaning a
state of affairs wherein any sort cf
an illegal or vicious business may be
carried on if the people manipulating
the business will only pay the police
enough money to insure immunity
, fromarrest. The DistrictAttorney
L elect, Mr. Jerome, has boasted that
> he can put a stop to police corruption
but there are many who believe that
utopiau dream to be impossible in
the present day and generation.
Whatever be the truth, Justice
Jerome’s career as the city’s pros
ecutor, will be watched with inter
est. He has plenty of experience.
-As Justice of the Court of Special
Sessions he secured the capture of
many gamblers and. prostitutes and
other law breakers, and during the
campaign no Fusion candidate was
more vilified than he, the Tammany
. canvassers dubbing him ‘‘Carrie
Nation,” because of his well known
fondness for assisting the officers oi
his court in smashing doors to il
licit resorts.
RAPID TRANSIT.
Problems of rapid transit in New
York have resolved themselves into
the questions of tunneling under the
streets and rivers. Elevated rail
roads and Surface electric lines are
regarded nowadays as having
reached about the limit of their de
velopment, and the universal Opinion
among engineers is that all future ad
vance in the facilities of passenger
traffic through the city and into the
suburbs must be in the line of under
ground roads.
The project of the Pennsylvania to
tunnel under the North River from
New Jersey is the latest topic of in
terest in engineering circles, as well
as to the travelling public in gen
eral. The bridge scheme has been
abandoned, probably for all time.
At a cost of betweeo $15,000,000 and
$20,000,000 the tunnel is to be built
within three years, if present plans
are caJried out, and the company
proposes to burrow so deep under
the surface of both the city streets
and the river bottom that no subway
ever planned for urban traffic in
future will be interfered with, though
the city decide to have undergroud
roads on every avenue from one side
to the other. These subways, which
will undoubtedly be built soma day,
can be excavated to run over the top
of Pennsylvania’s line, which will be
about 100 feet below the street
level.
ino siauou existing at present is
as large as the subterranean ter
minal stopping place of the Pesn
sylvania is to be. The. site is the
block between 32nd and 33rd streets
at Seventh Avenue. The size of the
station will be 1500 by 510 feet, and
there will be twenty tracks. Bag
gage rooms are to be equipped with
the most modern conveniences, and
enormous elevators, capable of hold
ing several scores of persons, will
take patrons of the road down from
the streets.
While the Pennsylvania’s tunnel
from Jersey will end at the great
station, the Long Island Railroad's
tunnel from the other side of the
East River will also have its ter
minal there, after traversing 33rd
Street at a depth sufficient to dodge
the existing subway and the line of
all similar roads that may be pro
jected iu time to come. The Long
Island-, as is well known, is practic
ally an adjunct of the Pennsylvania.
So to all Intents and purposes there
will be a single company that can
rffer its patrons passage from the
far corners of the Pennsylvania and
the west to the extreme end of Long
Island on the east, without the incon
veniences of the old ferries across
the north, or Hudson, River between
Jersey City and New York.
So numerous will be the practical
results of the new tunnel that it
would take a volume to catalogue
them and a prophetic mind even to
guess at them. Hitherto the steam
ship companies have had their ter
minals in and about New York,
which is now reached by all the
great eastern railroads, either by
ferries or directly. It has been
pointed out that, if these companies
should establish their docks at Mon
tauk Point, the easterly end of Long
Island Railroad, but to reach that
road’s nearest terminal the most
dilapidated and dirtiest of ferries
must be patronized. With a chain
of tunnels, completing fast con
nections with the Long Island, the
Pennsylvania can send its passengers
to Montauk as easily as to New
York.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPAY.
Prof. M. I. Pupin, the famous
electrician of Columbia Uuiversity
and Thomas A. Edison, as well as
all the rest of the electricians of
New York, are enthusiastic in the
comments on the great achievements
of Guglielmo Marconi in establish
ing between the coasts of Newfound
land and those of England by wire
less telegraphy, receiving messages
without the aid of any visible con
ductor through 1800 miles of space.
Prof. Pupin says: “One point
that is of the greatest value to the
scientific world is that Marconi has
proved conclusively that the curva
ture of the earth is no obstacle to the
system of wireless telegraphy. The
various other people that are claim
ing to have developed nearer systems
of wireless telegraphy have f?een
simply modifying Marconi’s de
ductions and evading his prior right
to the invention on technicalities.
He deserves the whole credit.’’
The statement that a cable com
pany having the rights of comu
nication between Newfoundland and
England will sue the Italian in
ventor is now made. Whether or
not the company has any case is a
matter for the future to decide, but
public opinion seems to differentiate
between cable rights and the right
to manipulate this new system - that
appears too much like magic to the
unskilled mind.
Mr. Marconi has been in New
York often and is especially well
known to the local newspaper men,
who have had occasion to pursue him
relentlessly for the news that he is
always qualified to impart. He is
only twenty-seven years old, Light
of statue, with blond hair and mous
tache, very large blue eyes, he looks
the typical theorist, and until he
talks ms dreamy, wondering look
might lead you to believe that you
had found a student of alchemy or
other sort of vague guesser on scien
tific subjects. But a few words will
show you that Marconi knows as
much of practice as he does of
theories—which, by the way, is no
longer a deduction of physiognomical
observation,since he has talked with
Eagland through nearly 2000 miles
of empty air.
VANDERBILT IN POLITICS.
New Yorkers, from the slums to
Fifth Avenue, are generally in
terested in the entrance of Cornelius
Vanderbilt into local politics.
Mayor-elect Seth Low has already
made him a Civil Service Commis
sioner of the city, and the Republic
ans of his district tried to persuade
him that he ought to run for Con
gress to succeed Nicholas Muller,
the Democrat who resigned the
other day. Mr. Vanderbilt de
clined this, however.
Mr. Vanderbilt is the eldest son
of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Because he married a young woman
who was not his father’s choice, he
was cutoff in the will with $1,000,000,
while his brother Alfred inherited
about $-10,000,000, and his other
brothers aad sisters got about $7,
000,000, each. Not long after the
will was filed, however, it was an
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dental agent of the Vanderbilt
family, that Alfred, “through
brotherly affection,” had agreed that
Cornelius should have $7,000,000,
like the rest of the heirs. What
caused this was the subject of popu
lar gossip, and it was said that
Cornelius had threatened to cutest
the will. This was not verified.
This young mau is a mechan cal
engineer and has invented sev.-ral
railway appliances that have bees
adopted by the New York Centr 1
railroad. He is a graduate of Yale,
where he was extremely popular on
account of his democratic habits.
Very recently he was elected a
Second Lieutenant of the 12th Regi
ment, New York National Guard,
and there has been much talk of his
intention to enter politics, although
this is the first office he has ever
received. He is a member of various
clubs in thejeity, including the New
York Yacht, Metropolitan (called
the “Millionaires) Yale and En
gineers’ Clubs.
An astonishing character of Pisca
taway, New Jersev, has come into
prominence once more. He is Noah
Raby, inmate of the poorbouse at
New Brunswick. He is known to
be at least 125 years old and says he
can remember having heard his
mother tell of Santa Claus 120 years
ago. This mother, he elaims, was a
South Carolinian, his father being an
American Indian. He learned to
smoke at the age of sdven, and even
now the habit hangs to him. His
food has for years consisted largely
of turnips and sausage, things whioh
much younger stomachs than bis,
find troi bl“ in digesting.
The strangest thing about Noah
is that his wrinkles, which were
deep enough to hide nails in several
years ago, are beginning to disap
pear and his face is rapidly Rooming
as smooth as a baby’s. His figure
is stil almost bent double, but he
seems not to age at all, as the years
go by. To visitors at the poorhouse
he tells the story of a meeting he
once had with George Washington.
His prophecy is that he will die
at the age of 150, after having been
completely rejuvenated. It is his
hope that his body will begin to un
bend as soon as the smoothening of
his face is completed.
George North.
Miss Amberg Entertains.
Miss Irene Amberg entertained
the members of the Qui Vive Club
last night at her home, the hotel
Amberg. Games of various kinds
were indulged in, and witl4 the
usual conversation, the evening
wasenjoyably spent. The Misses
Amberg are indeed charming en
tertainers, the fact being proven
on numerous occasions, similar to
this one. At 10:30 the guests were
invited down to the dining room
where a splendid supper was served.
There were present: Misses Ava
Hammond, Lillie Conwell, Frances
Bowers, Ola Trice, Ula McAfee,
Ella McPherson, Anne Stedman,
Bell Whitsitt; Emra Ellis, Warren
Hill, Ed Tatum, Conrad Hampton,
Clarence Courtney, Tom Johnson,
Will Bradford, Walter Ellis.
Misses Ola Trice and Ava Ham
mond carried off the prizes, which
were a silver handle tooth brush,
and silver pencil, and Tom Johnson
won the booby.
Will Leave Paragould.
J. W. Brown the piano and sewing
machine man is closing out his busi
ness with a view to leaving Para
gould to accept a flattering offer
made him by his brother, Eld.
Brown of Louisville, Ky., who is
editor of the Christian Guide. Mr.
Brown has been a citizen of Para
gould about eight years and has
engaged in various enterprises and
nas nuuitJiuus uieuus woo win
regret to see him leave. He hopes
to get away in a few weeks and will
do so if he can finish closing out his
business. His brother, Joe Brown,
will also go to Louisville to work on
the Guide, which is a strong church
paper with a wide circulation
throughout the country, especially
in the south. The editor is writing
a book which will be a historical
review of the church, the prospectus
of which has already been issued.
Several thousand copies have been
subscribed for in advance of the
publication.
Mrs. W. A. Maywood Dead.
After av. illnese of many months
Mrs. W. A. Maywood died Sunday
at her home in this city, and was
buried Monday afternoon. Services
were conducted by Rev. Francis
Bozeman at the Baptist church, she
being a member of that church.
Mrs. Maywood leaves besides her
husband three children, twe boys
and a baby girl. She was an excel
lent lady, loved by all who knew
her, and one of Jonesboro’s most
prominent church workers.—Jones
boro Sun.
Marm aduke.
E. P. Holt ha& been on the sick
list for several days suffering from
,a derangement in his neck.
C. E. Waddell, ex-sheriff, now
collector for Bertig Brothers, and
withal, one of the best men in
Greene County, was in Marmaduke
to-day on business for his firm.
Some of these years in the future
it would come mighty handy
to say, “Sheriff;Waddell.”
Mrs. Williams, wife of James
Williams, living between this
place and Gainesville was buried
to-day. She was a sister of Chris
and Emmet Culver, and was much
loved by all who knew her. Mr.
Williams and the children have
the sympathy of everybody.
Lately some things have hap
pened on the surface that indicate
this community is in sore distress
on account of a cutaneous malady
having, leach-like, fastened itself
upon the anatomy of several of our
leading citizens. The ability of
the M D’s and the druggists have
been severely put to the test, re
cently to invent or discover an a
gent that will lay a quietus on the
inclination to scratch. The follow
ing letter handed us by W. J. Le-,
Roy, of the drng firm of LeRoy &
i^o., sigmues mac a certain genue
man living nearkMarmaduke is hav
ing fourteen pecks of trouble along
this line, and would be glad to
have relief at the earliest moment.
Here it goes: “Mr. W. J. LeRoy;
Dear Sir: Please send me one
pound of sulphur, also, any. other
old thing you have that will cause
this everlasting itch t® dissapear
like mists before an August sun.
Such would be Considered the high
est of favors^ and bountifully ap
preciated by a victim" And by
prescribing an unfailing remedy
you will certainly add many lau
rels to your fame and many shek
els to your purse. Thanking you
in advance, uutil you are better
paid and I am more comfortable, I
am yours for scratching, A.
Blank.”
The above scratcber miy console
himself in the familiar phrase,
“misery loves company” fo? the
county is hearing tie wjuis. of
many other gentleness singing the
same song of woe. ^
Unity.
Mrs. Dyer is quite low at this
writing with consumption.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis received for
a Christmas present, a fine girl
baby; while Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert
boast of a boy.
Mr. Curtis is adding to the looks
of his farm by building a good
barn. Mr. Johnson is having
erected a new dwelling. He says
some of his children may marry
some day, and blieves strongly in
“preparing for war in time of
peace."
^he young people were given a
musicale at the home of Mr. Ver
hines on Christmas night.
Last Sunday we elected the
following offioers ia our Sunday
school: A. J. Lawless, superin
tendent; Lou Stats, secretary P.
M. Hagood, teacher advanoed
class; Mary Cole, teacher inter
mediate class; Ellen Hagood,
teacher primary class. Everybody
is invited to come and take part in
our Sunday school.
We have prayer meeting every
Sunday evening, and church ser
vices every third Saturday and
Sunday of each month, with the
pastor, Rev. J. N. Robertson.