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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1901.
THE SUN IS
HARNESSED
60LAR BAYS CONVERTED INTO
REGULAR POWER.
Interesting Experiment Successfully
Terminated in Southern California
and Some of the Practical Conse
quences Outlined Means a New
Lease of Life to Western Civiliza
tion. Los Angeles, Feb. C "Hitch your
wagon to a star," wits the lofty coun
sel of the Concord Huge to an aspiring
youth. And lo! after moro than a gen
enitlon, practical farmers uru nrccpt
Ing this advice more literally than any
one could have Imagined. They uro
hitching their engines to the sun. The
ostriches at tlie farm near this city
surrendered one of their paddocks to
a mechanical engineer and a business
man from ltoston n fow weeks ago
and the newcomers proceeded to set
up a strange device which casual on
lookers huve variously considered a
mill-mill, u searchlight, a merry-go-round,
and a looking-glass of gigantic
size and fantastic design, but whlleh
prows to bo u now Invention oC ex
traordinary Interest and wide practical
usefulness. It Is the solar motor, and It
solves tho question ot applying' the
sun's ni.ys directly to the production
of steam power.
There were a good many attempts
during th past thirty years, and, In
deed, moro than a century ago, to
make a commercial proposition of sun
powcr. Some of tho mow recent of
those efforts have been announced in
it highly s nsutional way as likely to
lurnlsh power for moving trains and
.steamships, and oven for leveling down
great mountains. No such absurdities
have been ussocluted with the solar
motor which Is now attracting the at
tention of scientific men und popular
crowds at .South Pasadena.
SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
Indeed, nothing has been claimed for
It The devlco speaks for itself In
the modest but Impressive language of
actual dally performance. It drives a
ten-horso power engine from un hour
and a half hour after sunrlso to with
in half an hour of sunset. Its per
formance has gradually Increased
with each day's trial and tho perfect
ing of details and there Is no reason
to suppose that Its maximum has been
reached, nor that it will bo with the
present mudcl. At this writing Its
best record Is the raising of 1,400 gal
Jons per minute at u lift ot twelve
Wet. Tho average percentage of sun
shine in the arid region as a whole
Is 70 per cent, and this figure would
correctly represent the proportion of
the year In which sun-power could bo
relief upon. Making due allowance for
tile hours of Idlness after sunset, 1,100
gallons per minute, which equal l.'S
miners inches, would Irrigate about 200
acres of alfalfa, about S00 acres of
oranges, or about POO acres of decidu
ous trees. Although there are large
districts where water may be had at
Tbe Solar Motor, Sidk View.
Showing the Fixed Support and Mounting of Reflector.
a depth of twelve feet that Is by no
means an average lift, so that the ac
tual capacity of tho solar motor can
not fairly be set so high. Its capacity
will vary with the lift, with the char
acter of crops, and with differences of
soil.
ECONOMY INVOLVED.
The important consideration is that
tho new power effects a complete sav
ing of tho Item of fuel, since It gathers
all the heat for Its boiler directly from
the sun. Water-power might be Just
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ns gheap If It were as widely diffused
as tho sun-iowcr, which unfortunately
it Is not. Water power Is being moro
and more used to generate electricity
for pumping, but this con only bo sup
plied by companies which have mode
a. largo Investment and who then
charge tho Irrigator an unnual rent of
$50 per horse-power. In addition to
this, the Irrigator must supply his own
pumping plant, so that his cxpedlturo
for electricity Is practically u total
loss as compared with sun-power. The
natural comparison of the Solar Motor
la with the windmill, since both uro
automatic, being operated by tho ele
ments. "How does It run and how does It
look?" will naturally be asked. It looks
not tinlike a huge umbrella, although
this Illustration should not bo con
strued to mean that the Solar Motor Is
a frail structure. On the contrary, It
Is large and substantial, weighing 8,500
pounds. Hut In sjiupo It much resem
bles an umbrella, open nnd Inverted,
und Is so disposed us to catch tho sun's
rays on the mirrors which line Its In
side surface und to reflect both light
and heat with concentrated energy on
a long, slim boiler, which Is where tho
umbrella stick ought to be. It should
bii noted that no lenses nro used, but
that the heat Is icflected from plain
mirrors und so centered' upon tho
boiler.
THE REFLECTOR.
This reilector measures 311 feet across
its diameter at the top and 15 feet at
tho bottom. It contains exactly 1.7SS
mlrroM :V2 by HI Inches In size. Tho
reilector Is set In meridian like a tele
scope, the axis being due North und
South and the movement from East to
West. The boiler is tubular, 13 feet 6
Inchon long, with n capacity for 100
gallons of water, and ,S ruhlu feet, ad
ditional steam space. It is made of
lire-box steel, covered with lump-black
and other absorptive material. lioforc
this boiler is thrown into focus Its
black cylinder Is but an Inconspicuous
feature of the novel mechanism which
stands face to face with the sun. But
when with u few turns of tho crank, It
swings Into tho concentrated rays rc
llected from hundreds of mirrors, It
suddenly assumes the appearance of
shining silver, or perhaps of a great,
gleaming Icicle, and becomes the Irre
sistible cynosure of all eyes. Here, at
last, Is the sun harnessed. A long polo
Is reached to tho glltteilng boiler, and
soon begins to smoke und then takes
tiro and bursts Into flame. Evidently
It Is hot up there, and this simple test
curries conviction on that point to tho
most unscientific: mind.
In ubout one hour the intense heat
has raised the cold water to a high
temperature, evaporated It into steam,
and it pressure of ISO pounds is shown
on the gage In the engine room. For,
be it understood, the solar motor is not
a sun engine In the sense that It Is
operated without the Intervention of
steam power, as tho water wheel Is
turned by the fallng stream. Tho sun
strikes the mirrors; the mirrors rolled
the heat upon the boiler; the heat
turns the water within tho boiler Into
steam; the steam pasnes from the head
of tho boiler through a flexible metal
lie pipe into tho engine cylinders; and
from that point the process is the fa
miliar operation of the compound en
gine and the centrifugal pump. There
m7 i'Y7!'Xx
is nothing occult, nothing new. Every
boy has felt the concentrated heat of
the sun gathered In the burnlg glass
held by ,v mischievous neighbor, or
had his eyes momentarily blinded by
tho rellected light cast from a hand
mirror. These principles are old and
known to us all. In the solar motor
they uru applied on a larger scale and
muile to perform useful work In con
nection with the steam engine and the
pump.
Now that the thing Is accomplished,
that wo havo found a way to apply a
llttlo of the sun's enormous heat to
actual economic uses. It marks but
one more step in the apportion of man's
control over tho forces of nature. Long
ago wo harnessed the winds and tho
waters, making them bear our burdens
and perform our tasks. More recently
and far moro wonderfully, It seems to
me, we made the subtle currents ot
electricity tho docile servants of our
will. Science long since demonstrated
that tho solar heat falling normally
upon four square feet of surface dur
ing one minute Is ectivalent to one
horse power. Professor Lungley, of
Smithsonian Institution, recalls tho
fact, In his Interesting work on "Tho
New Astronomy," that In tho eight
eenth century Uerineres, a Frenchman,
and nn English optician named Parker,
each constructed burning glusses of
great sire and power under tho Influ
ence or which "Iron, gold nnd other
metals ran like melted butter." One
of those glat-ses were presented to the
emperor of China who was so much
ularined at Is performances that ho
had It burled In tho ground where It
could work no sinister miracle.
The latest efforts of Mouchot and of
Ericsson are well known. The former
exhibited a sun engine which operated
lull II ,iww$11 "SBKft iNJf
l H IlllmwPi
Tub Soi,An Motoii, Fnosrr Vimt.
Shoving tho Sun's Bays Concentrated on Holler,
a printing press at the Paris exposi
tion of 1ST0, while tho architect of the
famous .Monitor brought his device so
near jiurfeutlon that selentllle men be
gan to build serious hopes upon It in
ISM. Hut none of these Inventions were
able to stand the test of implication
to actual commercial uses. They con
centrated tho rays of the sun. They
made steam. They even drove engines.
Hut when brought to the crucial tost
of practical, every-day uses cheap
manufacture, economical and continu
ous operatlon-thoy failed. And so It
has been with many other less cele
brated efforts.
While tho present successful motor
has been developed In the fullest light
n existing scientific knowledge, the
solution of the problem Is a triumph
of American genius, which has built a
successful device on the ushes of past
failures.
.SAVING OP FUEL.
The most obvious advantage of the
Solar Motor is tho saving of fuel. It
will be used over wide districts whete
the cost of fuel is prohibitive and will
even supersede all other power huthe
uses for which it is adapted In local
ities where fuel is most abundant since
it is plain that no tuel Is cheaper than
u.ny .fuel. The. saving is effected not
merely In tho purchase price of coal or
wood, oil or gasoline, but also in the
Item of handling these materials. The
solar rays are not only furnished with
out cost, but, by 11 convenient provls
Ion of nature, are freely transported to
the place of use, which Is wherever the
reflector may happen to be erected.
The usefulness of sun power will bo
by no means limited to Irrigation, nor
should it be Inferred by the size of the
present engine that ten horse-power
bounds its possibilities. Tho now motor
will bo used for various Industrial pur
poses nnd probably quite largely In
connection with mining. Plants of 100
horse-power, with several reflectors
grouped about a central engine, uro al
ready feasible and It Is quite within
reason to expect that with the Im
provements which will naturally be
added as time goes on tho present
maximum will bo much increased.
It Is In its relation to Iri'Iirutlmv
however, that the successful utiliza
tion ot sun power will exclto the widest
public Interest. Mining Is an industry
which flourishes In spite of all ob
stacles. There Is no country so far
nor climate so severe there Is no peril
and no expense, which can discourage
mining because the possible reward Is
so great ami the hope of sudden wealth
mi alluring. It may be sad and deplor
able, but It Is none the less true, that
a man will risk less for u home than
for a fortune. There are certain heroic
exceptions to the rule, but the fact re
mains that the conquest of the desert
must be made easily If made at all.
Ilfio lies the chief significance of the
new power, since its operations are
necessarily limited, for tho present at
least, to the sunshine regions of tho
earth.
Hull" of our own continent, most oC
Australia and Now Zealand, must of
Afilca and South America, o vast por
tion of Asia, Including India, belong
distinctly to the sunshine regions.
Here solar power Is bound to be ex-.leifs'lvply-
employed lu lifting wuter
from under the ground iind 1'ioiu tho
deeply eroded channels of Inuuuieialilo
livers.
Exact information concerning the
underground wuter supplies is some
what meagre since both public and
private enterprise were naturally ilrst
directed to the diversion of streams
and tho employment of the smaller
class of reservoirs. Hut during the
past live years pumping has become
the most aggressive feature of the Irri
gation Industry In tho West nnd tho
urea of Its operalluns has been iiiplclly
widening, A largo portion of the pre
cipitation Is "run off" which Is curried
Into tho streams. A portion Is lost lu
evaporation, pome Is absorbed by the
ground and remains to moisten vege
tation, but a considerable part finds
ltf way through porous soil and tho
stums lu the rarth far below the leaeli
of all growldg things to subterranean
reservoirs. A portion of these under
ground livers and lakes exist beneath
tho crust of the earth and that they
cio regularly , reinforced by falling
rains and melting snows. Then there
uro numerous western streams that
may bo suld to flow upside down
the gound on tho lop and tho moving
current underneath. A notable In
stance Is the Platte, which Hill Nye
has described us "one mile wide and
one inch thick," and to which hu us-
erlbcd, "a wide circulation but very
llttlo Influence."
UTILITY OF SUN POWEIt,
Tho utility or sun power will bo
strikingly Illustrated on the Great
Plains. Hero tho government has
made extensive Investigations of tho
underground supplies. It was found
that water could bo had In narrow
(trips along the rivers notably along
tho Platte nnd Arkansas, at an aver
age depth of ten feet. Outsldo of this
belt Is another nnd wider one, where
water Is found at u depth or ten to
fifty feet. Still further out is another
district, enormously greater than thoso
already mentioned, where water may
bo had at a depth 00 to 100 feet. These
three divisions cover the larger pro
portion of the areas which will be Ir
rigated, but there are smaller districts
within this area where the under
ground reservoirs lie at various depths
from 1(0 to yPO feet.
Now, thousands of windmills have
I been set up on the Plains, largely for
irrigation purposes during tho past ten
: years, but their efficiency Is prur.tlciil
I ly limited lo tho watering of ten aero
plots In tho narrow strips along tho
rivers where water may bo had at
ten feet. The comlrg of tho new
power, far more potent than that
which Is gnined by harnessing tho
wind, though at no more cost of oper
ation, means the extension of Irriga
tion to tho wider belts of upland,
..I, (,!.. iviiini- l ilminer. This means 111
' turn more Intense cultivation, smaller
farms, denser population. Therefore
J the Influences which uro sure to fol-
! low the Introduction of solar power
upon the Plains must be great and
far-reaching This remark applies not
merely to Kansas and Nebraska, but
i.i (in. uvn n.-ikotus and to the Im
perial domain of Texas. Potentially
one of tho most fertile, yet actually
one of the most barren tracts on the
continent is that known us tho Staked
Plains of Western Texas. It Is bar
ren because its two most valuable re
sources have not been utilized. These
un the sun which shines above then
and the sheet of water which lies be
neath. TO ItEDEE.U WASTE PLAGES.
What Is true of the wide-stretch-Inir
nliillis- ls imietlrallv true of all
i the arid regions of the world. Cheap
mollve power is tne iiunspensuoie con
dition of the existence of civilization.
And power demands either falling
water or abundant fuel. Itelutlvely to
the needs of 11 dense population, there
Is little of either water power or fuel,
but upon every four square feet of th"!
surface of these regions there falls a
degree of snhnf heat, according to the
best selentllle information, to produce
one horse power If it can only be util
ized. The Solar Motor solves tho
problem of its utilization. Its far
reaclng Influence muy be left to tho
Imagination of the reader until future
events shall have written tho great
stoiy in their own Indelible characters
upon the face of the earth.
It may be well to remark upon one
economic result that is plainly fore
shadowed. This Is tho fact that the
use of solar powers In tho Industrial
life of arid regions must make for the
Independence of Individuals and com
munities. It Is conceivably possible
for some one to make a monopoly of
(lowing streams and natural water
powers. Hut the sunshine may no
more 1 .' "cornered" than the tun face
of the earth itself. This' great source
of power belongs to all alike. For
tunately, the cost of the mechanical
j..uiils roqiilred for Its utilization Is
Uh!n the reach of average people,
Tho cost of large plonts Is not beyond
th' means of small co-operative eom
paiilts. Tr If sun-power sterns ilkely
t prow an Influence of enormous mo
ni'iit In sharing the future civilization.
Professor S. I. I.angley, of the
Smithsonian Institution, placed the
following prediction on record us long
as fouii-en years ago:
"Future ages may see tho scat of
empire transferred to regions of the
earth now barren and desoluted and
under Intense solar heat countries,
which from that very cause, will not
Improbably become tho Feat of me
chanical and thence political power.
Whoever finds the way to make Indus
trially useful the vast sun-power now
wasted oil the deserts of North Af
rica or tin shores of the Head sea,
will effect a greater change lu men's
affairs than utiy conqueror In history
bus done; for ho will once more people
those vast places with tho life that
swarmed there in the best days or
(.'arthase und of old Egypt, but under
another civilization, where man shall
no longer worship tho tun as a god,
but shall have lenrned to mako It his
servant.'' William E. Smythc.
Improved Train Service to Florida
via Southern Railway.
Kllectlw Fib. ll, Southern railway
fiit mall train, No, 35, which leaves
Washington at ll.l.'i a. in., canned lug
train leaves Ibo.id street station, Phil
adelphia, at 7.W a. in., will arrive Jack
sonville, Fin., at 7.:'0 tho next morn
ing, shortening the tlmo between
eastern cities nnd Florida polnlH two
hours und flvo minutes.
This train curries through Pullman
drawing room sleeping cars and din
ing car.
lu addition to the abovo the South
ern railway operates two olhrr fast
through trains to Florida. Tho Flor
ida Limited leaves Uruad street B'a
tlon, Philadelphia, at 3.1G p. m. and
tho Florida Express at 0.03 p, m.
Charles L. Hopkins, District Passenger
I Agent, Southern Hallway, S2S Chestnut
I street, Philadelphia, will take pleasure
1 lu furnishing ull information.
ALASKA THE
WONDERFUL
IT IS UNCLE SAM'S GREATEST
POSSESSION.
The Most Beautiful Scenery in the
World Can Be Found Along the
Yukon River What the Govern
ment Is Doing in tho Way of Es
tablishing Military Forts and Tele
graph Lines Way the Cities Havo
Grown Where Gold Was Found in
Large Quantities. )
The following was written for The
Tribune by Thomas E. Shamp, for
merly of Olonburn.who Is now a mem
ber of the United States Signal corps
at Eagle City, Alaska:
Englo Cllty, Alaska. Alaska Is a
great territory: a great undeveloped,
silver-lined, gold-rmbroldered country.
There Is no acquisition of the United
States that, In future, will do more to
enhance tho value, commercial and In
ternational, of the United States than
A Is ska.
Tho most beautiful scenery In the
world can be found along the Yukon
river. Ureal snow-capped peaks rising
out of a b'd of silken moss and wild
llowers; tho mighty Yukon, touring Its
w-ay through mighty canyons, all tend
to Inspire one with the Idea that they
are In .Switzerland or Colorado. And
upnroachlng the Aleutian coast of
Alaska from the North P.iclllc, scenery
Is far more grand.
Expansionists talk about the com
mercial and international Importance
and value of our new acquisitions,
Hawaii. Porto Hlco, (iuain, etc., but
they do not stop to compare the rela
tive national values of these with tho
almost forgotten territory of Alaska.
There Is where they make a mistake,
as do all others who Interest them
selves In the momentous question or
expansion.
THEY PRETENDED.
Nearly forty years aso, when Sew
ard, then secretary of state, paid Ji,
:00,0C(J to HiiKsIa for the barren waste
of Iaid called Alaska, those same ex
pansionists (und their forefathers)
raised their voices In protest against
Seward's nollcy, but those who havo
been fortunute enough to live to the
present time are, 1 dare say, very
much astonished to see this vast, wild
glacier change and tb'Velop into the
great country that It Is at the present
time. And, you ask, what wrought this
great change? To this there can be
but one answer to the American love
of adventure and exploration.
What Daniel Hoone was to Ken
tucky and Missouri, and Davy Crockett
and the Howies were to Texas and tho
great West, Chirk, McDonald and
Mayo arc to Alaska. They, hardy plo
neers of Montana nnd Washington,
bucanie. as all such men do In the
course of time, disgusted with the in
justice of their fellow settlors, and
boldly struck out farther into the
great Northwest. In time, other bold
adventurers followed these tried mid
experienced men and established the
first settlements of note In tho wild
regions of Alaska.
"Cook's Inlet, a small bay on tho
south coast of Alaska, about six hun
dred miles from the then fishing and
fur-trading post of Vancouver, H. C,
and St. Michael's Island, lying at the
mouth of the mighty Yukon river.
were the first permanent settlements
established In the country. Clark set
tled at St. Michael's Island, depending
upon tramp whalers for his supplies,
and McDonald and Mayo went Into
the Interior after having settledfook'.i
Inlet. These Intrepid nun little knew
that In time to come the vast, un
settled region they were then explor
ing would be one of the fore
most possessions of the foremost na
tion In the world. As the territory
gradually developed tho Ameilcan In
terest deepened also, nnd the territory
gradually acquired nn approximate
population of two thousand souls.
STEAMEHS BEGAN TO PLY.
A few years later the first steam
boat and trading company's stations
wcie established along the Yukon, and
steamers began to ply upon the river,
trading with the Indians and carry
ing supplies Into the country. Their
headquarters were .it St. Michael's
Island, a small, barren Island In tho
Pehrlng yea about sixty miles Ironi
tho mouth of the Yukon. Tho sup
plies were transported to the teland
by ocean steamer from the United
States and there transferred to the
river steamers.
This state of affulm continued until
the yeais 1SU7 and ISO.', when a great
gold rush was mad) Into the country.
Places where none but the foot m" the
Indian had eer stepped gold in Im
mense quantities was found, thous
ands and thousands of dollars worth
of gold was found In tho small rreelts
and gulches feeding tho upper ukon.
Tho greatest strikes wore made at
Eagle' City. Circle City and Htnnpart,
all of which were, previous to this,
small trading posts and stear.ilioat
stations along the Yukon. A large
tunount of gold wis taken from the
bed of the Klondike liver, a smnll
tiibutuiy of tho Yukon, lying In tho
Dominion of Canada, about thlrty-flvo
miles east ot the now famous city
of Dawson, u modern city, hlch owes
Us existence to the Immense qujntltlus
of gold found in that section of the
country.
Tlie Alaskan and Canadian bound
ary dispute U of long standing, and
very well known. Some of tho oldest
settler. of the country claim that the
original Itusslun line extended far be.
yond the Klondike, which, if true,
would make us possessors of th.U
rich gold bolt. Others claim that tho
prcfput boundary line Is tho correct
one, and wo have all of tho country
that wo are entitled to. This Is, how
ever, an International matter, and will
b3 settled in time.
ANOTHEH SimPHISE.
Another great surprise for the Amer
ican public, no doubt, is tho fact that
grain and gui-den products of ull kinds
can be successfully raised In Alaska.
The Hermosllla ranch at Eagle City
has proven the fact. The winters In
Alaska aie long and severe, but, tak
ing plunts that ara adapted particular
ly to cold climates, nnd they can bo
produced very nicely In Alaska.
AVIth tho great gold rush Into tho
country oumu Major I. II. lluy, I S,
A., In tho Interests of the war de
partment. His object was. If neces
sary, to maintain law tuul discipline,
to establish military posts at which
thero wero to bo stationed small bodies
of United States troops. Major Hoy
was an officer of rare and exceptional
ability and forethought, and the war
department, acting upon his recom
mendations, sent ainall bodies of troops
BETTER THAN YEARS
OF D0CT0RIN6
Only Paines' Celery Compound Did Her
Any Lasting Good. -
It can bj truthfully said of no other
remedy In the world what Is so often
said of Palne's Celery Compound, that
In no single Instance has It fulled to
benefit nnd, benefit permanently and
there's the point that no sufferer
should lose sight of.
The whole stock-in-trade of the ordi
nary, plauRlble-soundlng, but wholly
Irresponsible remedies is to bring
about the appearance of health, to cov
er up symptoms and to stavo oft
break-downs, making the permanent
cure nil the more ilifllcult.
Other remedies, because they can ef
fect, no lusting cure, do harm.
The same words that fairly and ne
curately descilbe Palne's Celery Com
pound, n remedy that every day proves
Its worth, are boldly used to exploit
concoctions that can by no possibility
do anything but harm, More brains
and Ingenuity Is expended on the label
and wrapper than what Is put Into the
bottles. Persons who try this remedy
and that, In the foolish hope that they
may hit on the right on by chance,
and at any rate It can do them no
harm, should know that they are doing
their system Incalculable mischief and
putting off the day of complete recov
ery by such experimenting.
Palne's Celery Compound must not
be Judged by the standard of any of
these superficial medicines, it Is a
great, responsible, selentllle discovery,
singularly unlike any remedial agent
that ever aimed to effect a similar pur
pose to make people well. It Is not an
ordinary remedy. The results from It
have been so extraordinary and so
gratifying that busy men and women
have gone out of their way to send
letters of thanks and allow their names
to vouch for every statement they havo
made In praise of It.
The following acknowledgment from
Mrs. George F. House, of Green Hay,
Wis., of the surprising benefit slu' has
received from the use of Palne's I Wry
Compound is too valuable to be with
held from the public, Mrs, House's
Into tin; country. The following year
(1899) owing to the Increase and rapid
development of the country, two largo
military posts were established. Fort
Gibson, at the mouth of the Tunnna
liver, about halfway up the Yukon,
and Fort Egbert, at Eagle City, also
on the Yukon, about twelve miles from
the International boundary line.
On tho twenty-Ufth day of June,
1S99. three companies of the Seventh
United States Infantrj. set sail from
San Francisco for Alaska. .After an
uneventful voyage they transferred on
liver steamers at St. Michael's Island
for the posts along the Yukon, two
companies lo Fort Gibson and the
other company pruce'dlng on up the
iiwr to Fort Egbert.
This Intelligent act on the part of
tho war department did much toward
the rapid military mid civil formation
of the country. Th- following year
(11)00) the following large posts wer)
established: Fort DavU. at Cupo
Nome, Fort St. Michael, at St. Mich
ttel's Island and Fort Vuldev: at, Vuldes
bay,- on tho south coast of Alaska.
The headquarters of tho depuiim -nt of
Alaska were established nt Fort St.
Michael.
TELEGHAPH LINE'.
The same year Hiigadlcr-Goneial
Greely, tlu fainouf Anile exploior
nnd chief signal officer of the United
States army, made a tour of Alaska to
note tho feasibility of i onstructlng a
military telegraph line tluoiiRli the
territory, following tho Yukon river
and connecting with nil thy military
posts and towns of importance along
the river, and of also laying a cable
from Fort St. Michael to Fort Davis.
A largo number of tho signal co.-ps, J
United States army were sent Into the
country, following General Grenjey's
report, and began tho construction of !
tho telegraph lino and the cable, Tho I
cable was a failure, owing to tho cable- I
ship sinking, and not being able to
rulHo It before the It'A-jam set In for
the whiter. However tho work will bo
resumed In the summer of litul.
The Fort Egbert telegraph lino was
completed, ruuuln,r to and connecting
at the International Houudary line
with tho Dominion Government tele
graph lino running via Dawson and
connecting at Lake Hennet, with the
White Puss Huilroad company's lino
to Sltagway on tho south coast of
Alasku.
The United States military telegraph
lino Is open to tho general public for
tho transmission of all legitimate
messages. The line Is operated by the
United States Signal Corps, their otllco
being In the Administration building
at tho Fori. Thero uro sevorul mem
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Wells, Hlchardson A- Company.
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bers of tho signal corps at thl. station,
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THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY.
Europe, Once Derisive, No Longer
Laughs at William.
Sjilnrj' l!iook In tlie Woiltl' WoiK.
The outsldo world saw In him anil
continued for many years lo see In
him only a prancing German edition
of Harry Hotspur, dashing, wilful, with
an instinct for flashy and Inopportuii"
display, nnd terribly fond of beating
the war-drum not at all tho sort of
prlnco whose accession to the dominant
throne of Europe could be hulled by
foreign powers with warmth. It
Bfcinetl to ii. his poso to stand out as
1'enfant terrible among sovereigns.
The world watched his manifold
changes with laughter, amazement and
lialf-scundullzod applause. William
tlu Traveler, William the Orator, Wil
liam passionately propounding Iho
doctrine of divine light, William scold
ing his nobles and citizen subjects and
glorifying his army. William devising
now uniforms and court dresses, Wil
liam "dashing to pieces all who oppose
inc." William the Colonizer, William,
building a fleet, William painting pic
tures. William dismissing lilsmurek:
and becoming In truth William th
Second to None in all his characters
he amused, mystllled, shocked, or dis
turbed the wondering world,
Hut wo liuvo piown us 'd to the kais
er now. The world has come to seo
the man beneath tho trappings. Ho
Is laughed at no longer a man who
can 11m down laughter can live down
anything: or If v are forced to an oi -caslonal
smile, ll embraces not tho
man, but only somo odd way ho has of
displaying hluJelf. I havo always
thought that those amazing "mnlloil
list" speeches at Kiel, followed by the
seizure of Klao-Chou, wero typical ot
tho Imperial methods. First the bom
bast and dramatic and Inflated rhetorlo
that beguiled tho whole world with
merriment, and then the sharp and
supremo stroko of policy that brought
Its merriment to a sudden stop. It
was a coup worthy of tho man who
has studies statesmanship tinder HIs
marek, strategy under Moltke, and
craft of kings under William,
Young Calls Meeting,
ll.v i;vluh Wiiv frmn The A-HUtnl f'ro,
Ymililtigtun, Pili. Ii'.-rrmlikiu Vounir, of iM
N'uiIoimI Iism' tiall If. ism, today Mill nut a i.iil
tor tho Kprlnir imvllnc of llu l mjih-. 'Inn
mivlluir' will K" Iwlil In Niw VerU Mowlty mil- '
luf, l;tl. 0.
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