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Tribute to An Explorer]
Honors Ifcdt Hill Be Paid to tho Elaborate For Cele-
Discoverer of Lake Champlain on bralinj Famous So~.:. i s history,
tiie iliree i.o.idredth Anniversary President Tat: and Seu-iJ D'S*
of the historic Lvcnt. ->» tlnguished Men to Attend.
I
By JAMES A. LDCERTON.
THE centenaries in this year of
years are so thick it is hard to
keep track of them. Not only 1
notable births and deaths are
commemorated, but discoveries and
even inventions. Now it is tho tercen
tenary of the discovery of Lake Cham
plain, and a little later it will be tho
like anniversary ol' the discovery of
the Hudson river, coupled with which
will lie the centenary of Fulton's first
steamboat and its memorable trip on
the same river.
The discovery of Lake Champlain oc
curred on July -I prophetic day!—in
the year 1600. The discoverer was
Samuel de Champlain, a Frenchman
who had founded the city of Quebec
the previous year. These its are stat
ii not in an effort t > com: te with the
school historians, but only because
they fuiuisli the reason for the cele
bration. Lake Champlain Is rich not
only in beautiful scenery—mountains
>n both side-, rugged shores and
ibrupt island* but in historical asso
iations. As the •_ ate way t>i Canada
It became a battleground of the
French and r.uglish in faeir early
struggles to control t > eor'nont and
later between the A:.u -leans and the
English in the Hevolutii and the wai
of ISI2.
The celebration is meat, to c n-er all
of this. It is not a memo.'la! of the
discovery alone, but of the great events
that have occurred since the discov
ery. It includes Fthan Allen and Ticon-:
deroga, Benedi i. Arnold and his sunk- j
en ships, Macdonougli and his inspirit- !
iug victory. It is to be a panorama of |
three centuries. It carries the behold
er from savagery to twentieth cen
tury civilization, from the virgin wil
derness to the parked estates and the
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3LSCOVEKEK OF LA K K CHAM i'LAIN AND A MEW OF FOKX
TICONDKHO* i AS HKSTOHED.
grc: t summer lintels now .- .en on
Chainplaiu'a shores, from the trail
through the forest to the ruilroaii,
from the Indian's bin !i ea:i)e to the
ocean liner ami the aeroplane, three
centuries In time ami thirty centuries
in accomplishment—aye, more than
thirty nturie- measured by the rat 1
of progress prior i > liiO!)! For one !
cannot get over the marvel of living in
the present day. livery time 1 esplor
history 1 feel like putting myself on
the back for having hud the good
sense to be born when I was. l'ossibly
the citizen of the twenty-tirst century
may feel the same way about it. but
1 cannot afford o borrow trouble from
his prospective superiority
Tliree Hundred Years Ago.
When Champlain discovered the lake
that 1 tears his name, Shakespeare—or
was it Bacon?—was writing plays and
Oliver Cromwell was a boy of ten
paddling around in the fen country
about Huntingdon, all of which leads
us to wonder if we have the old times
beaten so badly after all. Notwith
standing our skyscrapers, twentieth
century fliers. Mauritania* and air
ships. vv a:v rather short Just now of
Shukespeat. T and Crom .veils. It is like
Tennyson's e:
But the Individual withers, and the mass
is more and mo:''
Certainly the mass is more in our
day—more in intelliger.ee, in initiative,
in ha pines sand in efficiency! As for
the i:. ividual, perhaps his genius tind
some tlier outlet than poetry and Pu
ritan i*voit. seeking its vent ill sei nee.
inven !on and sociology. We still have
our 1. teekeU. T ilstoys and Edisons
Cii. uplalu was not exactly looking
for I. Ices when he discovered the one
that has set his fame afloat down the
ages. Uather he had agreed with some
Algonquin Indians togo with them
and shoot a few muzzle loading buck
shot into the frames of their hated
foes, the Iroquois The Iroquois had
3een visiting the Aigonquins with in
glorious defeat for so long that the
Canadian redskins hailed Champlain
and his mysterious gun as agents sent
by the Great Spirit to help his children
get even with their enemies. And did
they Improve the opportunity? We \
Preparing For a Siege.
Wife —The last time I asked you to
give me some money you said you
couldn't because the cashier was sick, i
Now you say it's the treasurer. Has-1
band I know it. He caught It from i
the cashier, and now I'm afraid the
secretary will got it.—Life.
A Queer Attack.
"Some people can stand on the top t
of a high building and look down," 1
said Mrs. Lapsing, "but I can't. It al
ways gives me an attack of verdigris." i
—Chicago Tribune.
you should read Chatnplaiu's narrative, i
I'erlmps you have already perused it
iu your school hist >ries. At any rate, j
it Is a fearful and wonderful tale, and j
were It for the fa t that Champlain dls
covered that hike and that he stands j
so high in other ways lie would lay ,
himself open to the charge of trying
ito rival Munchausen. According to |
his thrilling account, he loaded that J
blunderbuss with a lot of bullets and j
at the first shot killed—oh, I don't :
know how many chiefs, but It was ;
either three or four.
The Iroquois were naturally stupe
tied by this new kind of boom-lire
weapon that slaughtered all their !
chiefs at one bang as much surprised,
no doubt, as are those African animals 1
at tho shooting of Bwana Tumbo-and
after one of Cliamplala's companions
had also let elf Ills gun the noble red
man ignobly turned tail and broke
down the brush iu his mad stampede.
It was a glorious victory for the Al- |
gonqulns, but not for the Fren. h, as
after events went to prove. The pow
erful Iroquois i.evor forgot that day.
and their hatred for the French en- |
tin red forever. They became allies of
the Fnglisli and assisted materially in
keeping t:, Fiv i h from capturing
what is now New York and portions
of Now England and eventually aiut-d
the British i;i their struggle with the j
French for control <>f the continent.
On that eventful trip champlain not j
only discovered a lake for whi h he
was not looking, but set in motion
i causes that changed the current of
! history. The unconscious agents have
I done more in writing the annals of tho
human race than those who planned
their own way carefully beforehand
When Julius Caesar whipped "all Gaul
that Is divided Into three parts" he |
did not know that lie was carrying civi- '
ligation to a clime that would outdi - '
tance Ron e \nr did Christopher Co- j
lumbus expe : to a new continent i
when he bumped into one of the i- j
lauds of the West Indies.
The President to Attend.
We can forgive Champlain for lU-- in
adveru at aid t ■ ii. gli.-ii asct'tiden y in
North Anuii -a and can even forgive I
him for that story about killing so
many chiefs at one shot. He discov
ered our la'<e, and, even if he did not j
do it Intentionally, his is the honor. 1
So we are to hold a week's celebration j
iti his name and are to erect to him a ;
heroic statue on the face of a great 1
lighthouse, which will be placed on
isle Laraotte. where he first landed, i
It would do ids old French soul good j
to know just what a lot of fuss we '
are making about him nearly 30' i :
years after lie i - dead. There will I
be presidents governors, governor
generals, prime ministers, cardinals, j
bishops, poets, . rators and all kinds of ,
great men lifting his name to the skies.
Greatest glory of all, the New York j
legislature will attend in a body. If I
Champ'*''a could only know that, lie |
would certainly be overwhelmed by j
his posthumous splendor. It is much \
for a mere mortal to have a president I
of the United States and a governor
general of Canada do honor to his j
ashes, but to have the New York legis
lature Journey in u body to his shrine— j
sure!, that is the acme of fame! Who
ever th' ught of that dazzling and tin- :
paralleled feature should have lived in
the •' «ef I'hlncas T. I'.arnum, t'.io
only >ib!o of rating si'li gei'in a
as It de-ervos.
Nor ; the only honors that
will be pa <! i the discoverer, although
no other single feature can be quite so j
transcendent and refulgent as that of
the attendance of the Now York legis- 1
lature. At Piattslmrg, N. Y.. Senator ,
Sllhu Boot will be tho orator and
l'rofessor Henry van Dyke tho poet
of tho day, while across the lake at !
But lington. Vt., Sir Wilfrid l.auriev. j
the premier of Canada, will deliver d, j
oration ami Bliss Canaan, the Cana j
dian poet, will give the poem There '
will also be a floating island, covered j
Air3h!p Traveling Trunk.
German ingenuity lias lost no time
la devising special equipments for air 112
ship passengers. One offering Is an ox t
tremely light airship traveling trunli j 112
made of aluminium, with cunnin. ,
leather attachments for fastening t" : t
the airship <'<ir. The "malle aero," ti> (
give it Its international name, has no !
comportment for the large, fashionable
feminine hit .vet, but it contains,
ainotother things, a small medicine j
chest illleil with medicaments that !
may b" uvio'ui I T a sojourn in high!
altitudes. 1
with rocks and trees hi the most real- j
Istie fashion, on which the Indian tight
will take place, Champlain partlclpat- j
Ing, even killing his four chiefs at one '
shot. These Indians are to be de- j
scondauts of the very ones that sailed j
on the original expedition. The Indian j
version of "Hiawatha" is also to be re- j
enacted. The island is to be towed
about from place to place during tho .
progress of the fete. Benedict Ar
nold's old ship Revenge has been j
raised out of the water where it has
been resting since he sunk it after the 1
tight with tho British and will be 1
added t > the pageant. Fort. Tleonder
oga, which Ethan Allen took "in the
name of the (Jrojit Jehovah and the
Continental congress," is to be re
stored. at least partially ■'and will fig
ure iu the celebration. Maedonough's
victory over the British In ISI4 will
play its part, and on Isle Lam >tto the
cornerstone of the lighthouse al
ready mentioned will laid.
The Week's Program.
Tho celebration is the result of the ;
joint "actions of the states of New
York and Vermont, and its official pro
gram will bo something as follows:
Tho fete commences at Burlington,
Vt., on the 4th with special religious
observance. Champlain was a devout
adherent of the Catholic faith. In
view of tills, the religious services will j
be under the supervision of that
church. Cardinal Gibbons and a large
body of tho clergy. Including n delega
tion from the Canadian hierarchy, will
participate in the elaborate < bsorv
ances.
The holiday proper will begin at
Crown Point Monday, July Ilcre
are tlie ruins of a fort which figures in
the history of tho French and Indian
wars and the Revolutionary war. At
this point there will' lie literary exer
cises. and tho pageant will be present
ed in tho afternoon and again at night
During the week there w ill be present
ed at these various points twenty-four
pageants, or tableaux, nine represent
ing the history of the Iroquois confed
eracy down to the arrival of the Dutch
iu this section of the country and fif
teen illustrating the religious ceremo
nies and social customs of the Iroquois
a lid Al.onquins in war and peace. The
most Interesting of the subjects to be
depicted are perhaps the two chief in
i idents in the progress of the explorer
—namely, his discovery of the lake
which bears Ids name and the battle
between th • Huron-Algonquin allies ,
and the fighting Iroquois, In which ho
had a hand.
The Indian pageant of the Indian
drama, written specially for the event,
will be repeated on the floating island
at Ticonderoga, the island being tow
cd from Crown Feint to "Old Ti."
about twenty miles couth. Here the
Fells, multimillionaires of New York,
are r constructing from ancient cuts
and documents the famous fort that
was tho scone of bravo old Ethan Al
ien's memorable coup in 177.Y The
governor of New York and the Now
York legislature and the governor of
Vermont will be present at this event.
Plattsbuig and Burlington.
Wednesday, July 7. is I'latt.-burg's
day. Near that city Benedict Arnold
fought and lost the fast naval action
of the American Itovolution. His fla ■
ship, lis' Keyal Savage, has been lying
where she sank In that tight for 13U
years. "What remains of the old tighter
I- in a fair state of preservation. It Is
ti part of the program to raise tho hulk
•ind rig It'ii ' o as to give it a place i:
the show T! :• large Uovoaao, of
" ti i t. i. . "t: rai ed and w ill bo
i.the pageant. It v.\ at Flatt-burg
that Met'onll) on in''' and M tod n
ough on water won Ir vi tory Scjit.
11. 1 SI4. which can d 1 "n the than!.-
of eotigr.i -sand the ■ e'il n edal of tho
nation. I'resident I'. , : d his party
and the French anib ■ < r aad Sir
Wilfrid Laurier w ill lei lined at
a hotel on the 7th. A bam -t. water
-ports, fireworks and ilint-.i its will
occur iu conjunction villi other
events of the ix-ca.-ion.
Tho ! eanf. with tilt <1" Its in iden
tal attractions, will be repealed at
Burlington, \ t.. on Thursday July S.
\ . : oilt's old home v. t k will bo <!•
served at the same time.
Friday. July 0. the <• i i raii :i wl'l
be continued at Isle La- uitte. i: air tic
head of the lake. This p! i o is where
Champlain first encamped eld th
pageant nt this point, t will bo
patriotic exercises coins d by tho
Daughters of tho Amen. . Uevolu:i<>n
and Colonial Dames. " h -e < xei isos
will ' elude the ileili i n • i' a i >wl
dor to me: lory • :' tlio IJovolutlon
ary heroes cilotiel S'. t'i Waruer and
Captain Itcineniher I: • L -r. Warner
was second in command under Allen
in the taking ■ 112 TI ndoriga, and in
the day folio. v ing ho took* rown Feint
lie was als t with Montgomery i:i Can
ada. Bal ir was a scout and was killed
while doing duty.
St. Albans and other towns in the
Champ' In v lley will also <.l>serve the j
occasion. Tho lake has water eonuec
tton wi 1:' ie Hudson, and two torp- ii
boats are to be sent through the con
nection to take part iu the events, and
the war d -parimen t will exhibit Its
dirigible : >i's at Burlington.
Artillery Aoainst Air Craft.
"The bail, ins and airships have
made It lie, os>ary 112 ir artillerymen to
work out i< new set of mathematical
tables 112 >r i ring at air craft," write;
Newton 1" tost in Harper's Weekly.
In the de?cji«o : sail, t aerial attach
the firing of tho gun must iv essarll.v
be of the high eagle kind, and tho I
wenp >n must be < npabte of rapid i
tralui'ig in a v.: , Such a weapon
has been desigr 1 :.ud manufactured
by the Krupp v. i;s at Essen, says the
author, and has been placed at the dls
posal of the German war office. Tho
fleldpiece is of o-_. caliber and fires a
nine pound shell with a velocity of l
2,000 feet per second, and there Is r.'rn i
a weapon designed for fortifications or
shipboard.
Shaving,
When asked whether Napoleon sha\
fd himself Talleyrand replied: "Yes
One born to be a kin • lias some one to '
shave him, but they who acquire king
doms shave themselves." Dlonyslus.
the tyrant of Syraeti- in>t daring to
commit himself to a barber's hands, is
said lo have singed his own beard Willi
glowing walnut shells.
rieasure once taste I satisfies lo -
than the d' lire experienced for Iv t :•
meats.
A STORY WITH TEETH
1 Introducing a Mysterious Woman
With a Strange Mission. >
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By M. QUAD.
[Copyright, IJO9. by Associated Literary
l'ress.J
The village of Brinkly was and is
i today a place of about 1,200 Inhabit
l ants, and tho country is thickly set
tled with fanners for seven miles
around before coming to another vil
lage, Imt only one dentist has ever
made it pay there since the place was
> founded. He didn't stay but a couple
of months, but be carried away a roll
of money as large as a log.
It wouldn't be polite to say that the
villager and the farmer do not give
proper attention to their teeth, but
j they are never in a great hurry about
j it. They hate to part with the old
roots and snags and keep putting off
the evil day when they have got to
get into the executioner's chair. It
might have been said of Brinkly and
the surrounding country that not an
adult had ajj.'od set of teeth and that
! up to a certain <1 ly n < one was giving
dentistry any serious thought. Then
on a Mi i.day morning a change to< k
place. A travi ing dentist who had
Ills oflire in a van drove into town
' and opened shop For two days no
one vent near ir:n, although he hung
out a sign of the most painless kind
of painful dentistry.
Then a strange woman arrived. She
was dark complcxloued, dressed like
a gypsy ai d passed for one. She was
a mysterious woman on a mysterious
errand. She had come to that localltj
to search for a great buried treasure
She couldn't search for it by her lore
some, ns the spirits guarding it bad
put a ban on her. but the gold wast..
be found t!:r u.h some one e! e. Th t
some one else must have a tooth draw:?
to propitiate the spirits. Then lie
would be li d to the treasure and wouh
whack up with her. The hours fur
finding the treasure were between mid
night and o'clock in the
and the searcher must on no en-id
i era Hon say a word to any one nl.ou:
what he was after. If not finding t ■
THF.IIB WElil'. A TICI.Ii ANI> A lit' :!
treasure the first night In? mti-t have
ase ond tooth pulled He iiav ■
to lose three, but that w uld be the
t nd.
i Had the woman gone about among
the woint :i telling this yarn she wm ! !
. have been laughed < ut of their house*
She did i'. lotiy the contrary She i
ten lowed the men. Her very firs'
victim was known as the hardest h ad
ed old chap ft r fifteen miles around
was 8 mtingy and mean that wbe i
he had the mumps he refused to let
any of his neighbors catch them free
ef cost. 11 bit at once. If there wa
any hurled treasure around ther- h •
wanted his half if It. Indeed, be
wanted it ail if he could get It II •
had b<-ird I;bout the traveling dentist,
and within two hours of Ids talk vit'i
, the woman he was at the van. It was
r.O cents a pull, and the dentist sc
i lected a front tooth that might ha v
continued business for several yeir~
long. r. Tfie j ulllng hurt like blazes,
but as the man carried the molar away
in his pocket he felt that the treasure
was his. On a Sunday night, which
was a week ahead, he was to stand
n!oti£sid"_o!' an elni_.tree nnj. watch
i for the flash of a firefly. Two feet
under ground beneath the flash tho
box of gold would be found.
The next day the dentist pulled teeth
for no less than live different men
Some of them met each other nt 111 •
van and made all sorts of excuses 112 ir
being there I»caeon Spool er said he
had been thinking of parting with u
tooth' for the last lifteen years, a-n
Elder T mpkii - s: id that he had a
loos • tooth that had prevented him
from eating boiled dinners ever since
lie been me a widower Each had a
slight suspl : .m of the other, but trie.!
to act care! --My and gave no informa
j tlon. The dentist numbered farmer
as well as villa ers among the caiiers
and when Saturday night came h •
could figure that he had performed >
forty-eight men. On Sunday night be
tween the hours named those forty
eight men were looking for elm !'• . ••
and fireflies. The village was pr-'i'.
well shaded by elms, but there -> • T
not enough togo round. In somt in
stances two men found themselves un
der the same elm. Then they lied tt
each other like troopers fs they
watched for fireflies. The firefly Is
seen only on a certain night, when
the weather has some quality about it 1
that calls them out. and this was one '
of the months when they are never '
seen nt all. None of the searchers took .
! this into consideration, but waited and '
watched and grew nervous as they j
, thought of the treasure.
Before 10 o'clock Monday forenoon j
| the dentist had men waiting while
! others were being served. There were i
| some among them that had come to !
i lose their first tooth and others to lose I
i their second The fellow was a light- '
nlng puller, but there wore two or
i three patients left over when darkness
| fell and he closed his van. The new
1 ones on this day had by the
; woman to stand under tieffch trees,
i There was just as big a crowd on
> Tuesday, and it was not fairly dis
| posed of until Thursday. Of course it
i had got noised around the village that
] there was something up, but not a j
j man peached. There was something I
i more than suspicion* among them j
now, and the only way was to lie to j
each other. They did He. Men who
had always scorned the slightest eva
sion now came out and lied as easily
as If they had always made it a busi
ness. They lied to each other and to
their wives, and some of them had
three teeth drawn all at once, so as j
to have the-bulge on the one and two .
tooth fellows.
Half a mile west of the village was
a beech grove. Outside of that there ;
wasn't a beech tree within two miles. |
On Sunday night more than 100 men
were In that grove before the clocks j
were through striking midnight. They 1
rubbed elbows and they crowded each j
other. Some pretended that they were !
walking in their sleep and others that i
they were looking for stray iiogs or ;
cows. When an hour had gone by
some one saw or thought he saw a
llsht moving about beyond the creek
that skirled one side of the grove.
There were a yell and n rush. As men
ran they punched and kicked each
other. They even jumped upon each
other's back. Fifty men fell into tho ,
! creek and fifty more on top of them.
It was a gra; d battle royal, from which
no one e- 'aped scnthless. Next day
some of (he crowd wanted to consult
the woman and get closer particulars;
but, though tliev drove all over the'
country, she was not to be found.
And then arose another complication.
Fifty nt' 'i. disregarding Sunday nights
and elm and beech trees, began a day
time hunt for the treasure. They even
went so far as to spade up each oth
er's garden It was three days before
the sear h ended and tlie excitement
died away, and then the bamboozled
began to think of their teeth, though,
strangely enough, they did not connect
tho gypsy woman with tho loss of
them. The dentist was ready. He
could replace teeth as well as displace
them. He sent for an assistant and
had all th • work he could do for two
months, ami his prices were just dou
ble those charged In the city. He
didn't Ket quite all he had operated on
before, but it is still contended in
Brinkly that, he went to Europe,
bought nil i d castle and is still revel
ing in 1 1- v rand luxury. Now and
then in the tiretly s as >-. i a man goes
out at id- 'ht and leans against an
elm or ls-iv-h tree, but if guided to
any certain spit the most he finds by
digging is a . ..id oys!,T«can or the
skull of a dead and 112 ile horse.
THE MUSTACHE.
Ridiculed In England V/hen It First
Crnie Into Fashion.
The custom of wearing mustaches
did not prevail in France until tlie
reign of Louis Philippe, when it be
came obligatory in the whole French
array. In England the mustache was
worn by hussars after tho peace of
1815, and i: was not until the close
of the C'rln can war that English civil
ians as well as English soldiers in gen
eral wore hair on the lip.
Shortly after the mustache came in
to favor among gentlemen Horace
Maybew was passing through an Eng
lish country town and was immediate
ly noted and followed by a small army
J of children, who pointed to his Hp and
| "He's go* whisk r< under his -n nit!
i He's got whiskers und r Ills snout!"
| For a long time the mustache was
the subject of raillery, even after it
was becoming common, and the fa
mous caricaturist Leech printed in
Punch a picture of two old fashioned
women wh. when they were spoken
to by bearded railway guards, fell on
i their knees and cried out:
j "Take all that we hive, gentlemen,
but spare our lives!"— Westminster
Gazette.
The Intelligent Censor.
Son • years ago a young man of s*.
; Petersburg. Ivan Fedowski. quarreled
with his sweetheart and then took his
grief out of the country. Abdnt a year
after he wrote to the girl asking her to
"make up" and telling her If she for
gave him to insert a "personal" to that
effect In a S:. Petersburg pap r nor
I later than a certain date. The girl was
I repentant, too. and she promptly got
| the "personal" ready, and all would
j hove been well had It not been for the
j lynx eyed censor, who believed It to be
some sort of nihilist message and re
j fused to allow its publication. After
' awhile, however, the stern official was
I convinced that the "personal" was
harmless, and it was printed four days
late. It was a little while after when
The girl received word that her lover,
having failed to see tho message In
print on the day he had set, had shot
himself two davs before It saw the
Ugh l :.
Greatness Net Free From Shame.
The transcendent power and fame
with which great genius has at differ
- ent periods endowed various men do
j not always insure them from after
i misery and shame. This was striklng
; ly exemplified in the cases of the four
i greatest of military conquerors—Alex
! nnder, Hannibal, Caesar aud Napoleon
The general judgment < 112 mankind ha«
conceded them the first place in the
lines of action for which they were
; severally distinguished. Vet they all
j met with melancholy deaths. Two of
i them suffered for years the keenest
| humiliations which a total destruction
! of their hopes could bring. Two per
! ished at tho zenith of their power, just
| as they might have expected a long
1 enjoyment of the fruits of their tre
mendous achievements.—Exchange.
Tho Greatest Wealth.
Is there any compensation in money
for a starved, stunted, dwarfed mind?
; Can lands and houses, stocks und
j bonds, pay a man for living a narrow,
j rutty, sordid life? How much money
would match the wealth of a trained
| mind, of unfolded possibilities? is the
; capacity for the appreciation of the
j meaning of life, of the lessons of clvi-
I lization, worth no more than one's
! bread and butter and roof? Can any
I one conceive of greater possessions
| than an intellect well trained and dis
j ciplined, than a broad, deep, full orbed
j mind responsive to all beauty, all
I good?— Orison gwett Marden in Sue- j
cess Magazine.
BIGGESTGERMANSHiP
! Georga Washington a Falatial
i Vessel With Mar.y Innovations.
THU THIRD LARGEST AFLOAT.
j New North German Lloyd Liner Ha 3
Thirty-one Cabins With Baths At
1 tached—Style of Decoration Simple.
but Elegant—Several Safety Device;
Installed.
1 The new North G trman I.loyd liner
. Georg'* Washington, which t' 'ntlyar
-1 rived at New Vork on her maiden vny- |
| ag« from Bremen, in addition to being I
j the largest Gorman ship and the third :
| largest vessel afloat, is different in i
j every way in her Interior decorations \
j from any liner that lias ever been in j
j New York. The roomiue.ss of the j
| cabins and saloons harmonizes with ;
j the colonial style of the decorations. !
i The dining saloon, which lias a seat- 1
i Ing capacity of 330 persons, is dee
-1 orated In white and gold. with red
morocco chairs and a gilded dome,
i while the sides are adorned with floral
I designs on i blue background. Each
i table has In■>•:» arranged to scat from
two t i six persons, and the < hairs are
l roomy and movable. On either side of
i the s i! ion there are a number of white
j painted colonial pillars that give it
more the appearance of a southern
1 hotel dining room rather than that of
j a saloon of an Atantic liner. A cold
I buffet at one end Is another of the
numerous innovations on board.
One of the most attractive parts of
. the first cabin accommodation is the
smoking room, which is divided in two
sections, upper and lower, which are
connected by a broad staircase. A full
' length oil painting of George Washlng
-1 ton occupies the colter of the upper
I smoking room, which leads out to the
: open cafe on the awning deck. This
; cafe is equipped with small tables and
1 , chairs for passengers to' take their
! after dinner coffee. The gymnasium
is nn the same deck, forward on the
sun deck Is the solarium, a luxurious
lounge seventy feet long by fifty feet
wide, decorated with green and gold
' | tapestry and palms and flowers of all
I kinds, which have a cool and refresh
-1 lug effect to the eye. '
Perfect in Its beauty, the great read
ing r oni repr - tit-s ton nicety the
' thoughtful creation of l'rofessor I'ruuo
Paul. It i- located on the utter prom
-1 enade de<!c. which I- entirely given
' over t ) the piddle assembly rooms ex
: cept for a few cabins of the first class
' i There uli;ig room is in subdued tones,
■ without external ornamentation, (riv
ing an air < 112 distinguished rest fuluess.
I'.y r.-1-• ■ i . 112 i:s simplicity the idea of
spaelou no- is mu h enhanced. An
i Ingenious arrangement of the furnl
tur. adds to the architectural effect.
! The bookcases are let into the wails
between the permanently Used wrlt
-1 ing tables, utilizing every nook and
; corner to the best advantage.
For those who wish the very a :ae
: of luxury while traveling are two iin
j perlal suites, as they are technically
known. These consist of drawing
! room, breakfast and dining room, be.!-
j room titled with brass beds and bath,
j together with nil toilet accessories
j There are thirty-one cabins with
! baths attached, and all the saloons and
dc 1. <• ■ ! I'.s have been lilted with lav: •
windows The loftiness of the line;-
. betw en deckv and tln* large tri
fat-sin nil the .-alootis combine i > I; ■
the ship well ventilated.
Nearly all " the tirst < l •• -
are so high nb ••.••• the v.-.iter line ti at
the windows miiy be left open eve.
in tie- rough -s' weather. insuring an
abundance : f:v-h :.l: aial I hi.
The ves- •! is divided into thirteen
water tight compart meets, a:.; tw-<
stairways arc pr--vid« 1 t r every cn:-i
--pariinent ' -low the a loon del.. :
that all v ati r tight doors , m 'cm
during a 112 . without cutting off cos
muni. at ion with the n: her i arcs .•' t'e •
ship.
The second at (i tlll:d chus and steer
a-re tic dati-e-. . a the Ge< :v •
■
'. the -• eomfor a'• ■: • >r as t! -•
firs; cnM: a . rdi' g t.» t ■: - 'peetlv ■
t
the 1 re:; . tl. .: tli • -'; oUt till' '.
will feel tin- i-e i;i a t"g iff the banks
i < ' Ncwi nndlanil -r til i i : 1 •
t.tan I elew in the crow's nest by the
foretop.
I The George Washington was bi; :; '
the yards of the Stettin.»r Vulcan com
, pany in Bremen. Her dimensions ar-
I.engt'a 722 feet •" inches, be :;n 7 ; 112 ■
depth from owning dec!; si feet. -;>eed
18.3 knots, displacement at thtri; -tbn
| feet draft 37,000 tons, gross rcgl<: -red
tonnage 27,000, horsepower 20,000 and
cargo capacity 13,000 tons.
The liner has seven decks and i
i equipped with Marconi wireless appa
j ratus, submarine signaling, Stone-Lloyd
| for closing the water tight bulkhead
doors. This device enables the doors
to be closed by the simple turning of a
wheel on Ihe bridge deck. These doors
| may be closed and the ship practically
' hermetically sealed within fifteen sec
onds. Another safeguard i< a bell sy>-
i tein for tire extinguishing purposes.
Some of the innovations of the
George Washington are the clitnl
. tion in the cabins of the first class 1'
upper berths, children's pi t. room, tv
| electrically worked elevators for p.;s
sengcrs, complete electrical equipment,
very wide berths, hot and cold ft li
| and salt water, running water in j
rooms, dark room for the use rf ania I
i tour photographers, and on the boat 1
deck are twenty specially constructed |
I dog kennels, in charge of a competent |
; kennel master, where the pets of pas
| sengcrs may be placed ilurinu the trip]
i anil receive the best of care.
Britain's Greatest Precipice.
Writing to the Newcastle Journal in
| regard to the drowning of three bird i
catchers at St. Kllda, a correspondent!
says the wild fowls of St. Kilda find j
nesting places that enable them to bid |
defiance to the sportsman and to the 1
most daring of bird catchers. There j
is, for example, the precipice called |
Conagher, the same being far and
away the greatest precipice in the
British Isles, the deepest perpendlcu-;
lar precipice. It rises from the sea i
level to a clear height of 1,220 feet, j
Consider that a man might jump from j
! the top of Conngher into the sea with- !
out getting a scratch by the way.
FIRE FIGHTERS' 1.
Timber Crui?ers Plan Wireless
Telegraph System.
STEP TO SAVE THE FGBESTS.
Signal Method Expected to Make
Standing Timber Last For Centuries.
Proposed to Teach Forest Rangers
Wireless Cede to Quickly Locate
Fire and Summon Help
Wireless telegraphy as a means of
giving alarm in the event of fire is the
' plan advocated by timber cruisers In
Spokane. Wash., to protect the forests
In Washington, Idaho, Montana, Ne
j vada, California and Hriiish Columbia,
which contain approximately 700,000,-
i 000 acres of standing timber. Experl
j enced cruisers in Spokane believe this
: Is the solution of a problem of sclen
! title tire fighting, which costs lumber
I companies and the United States for
est service hundreds of thousands of
dollars every year, in addition to tlie
enormous expense Involved in con
structing and maintaining telephone
and telegraph lines by the government.
The plan outlined by It. 11. Arm
strong, an expert operator. is to estab
lish a system of wireless signal boxes
and teach the forest rangers the code,
so that at the first alarm they enn lo
cate the tire and summon assistance
before the tlames gain much headway.
This would eliminate the danger of
cutting off communication bv fires de
stroying the pol< sand trees falling
across wires. I'robablj the most Im
portant thing is the saving of life,
livery year since Wo :l ii average of
fifty persons have been burned to death
in the United States in forest fires,
making a total of nearly 'J.fiOO lives
sacrificed to thimes which might have
been prevented.
Armstrong maintains thai the chief
reason for the big conflagrations is
, after a small fire is discovered a long
time elapses before the alarm can be
' sounded and aid summoned to fight
the flames. Many of the large lumber
concerns of the l'acillc northwest have
considered using telephone lines for
connecting camps of forest ranger*,
but this was given up for the reason
that the tires would burn the poles or
the wind would blow them down so
often that they would bo useless most
of the time. Then, too. it was found
that in many timber trae.s the coun
try is so rugged and the standing tlm
' her so heavy it would be almost Im
' possil le to stretch a telephone line.
However, the forest service has built
hundreds of miles of telephone lines
i and cut trails through the big govern
ment forests iu Idaho. Washington.
Montana and other western states
where it als • maintains patrols These
were found of gi >d lis" during tho
tires In liioT and 1008, but large areas
were burned • vcr as the result of the
tires gni 1. . ;. t > I mlwav before
j they i tild be I.;' cd ! . e riders.
[ One thuti ml : re.;' vir.ri i timber
In we 'era Wit; biugton were destroyed
i last jvir. when the - ,c > v. is a ootii
parativeiy light one for tire losses, and
j the losses in eastern (<ivgon, northern
i Idaho, western Montana, northeastern
Washington. California and southeast
ern British Columbia were also heavy.
This enormous loss,of property and
sometimes the tires of homesteaders
can be prevented to a large extent. It
is believed, by the employment of the
wlrelc-s tc'c.rapli for reporting fires
as son as they start and calling for
assistance from til! sides
There are more than 350,000,000
acres of standing timber in Washing
ton, Idah >. Oregon. California, Nevada
and SP alalia and about 100.0' M.OOO
acres in British Columbia Of the
timber lands in the six western states
about 140,0 :O.(>X) acres are owned by
pri\ ite corporations and Individuals,
who maintain expensive organizations
to protect them.
The problem of forest protect i >:i is
one of vital interest to the western
■ lumbermen, as well as those who are
onl\ indirectly connected wi:li the ln
j dustry. The chief payroll of the I'a
' cific aiid northwestern stales ' omes
! from lumbering, as is evidenced by the
1 fact that $73,000,000 is paid in v.ages
i annually in the mills, yards and camps
in Washington, whl h give employ
, mit t-> fr i i 170.0t.i0 i i isjo.i«it) men,
whi. • ti 1 lnuiber concerns in Oregon,
Idaho, Montana and California pay as
i much mor ■.
Experienced lumbermen say that
1 more timber is destroyed annually by
1 tires than is cut and add if some ade
. quite protection could be devised the
, standing limber in the northwest
| would last for centuries.
Most of the big tracts are situated
far from the centers > 112 population, and
commuuloirtion between these distant
points, except along railroads, ancot
be had quickly, owing to, the rugged
noss of the country. Many forest own
ers believe the subtsiiution of the
wireless telegraph will be the means
of averting at least part of tbi heavy
I losses that follow in the flames started
through carelessness and neglect every
I summer.
warn BV I
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