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THE CITIZEN. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 191a.
GEOGRAPHERS OF WORLD
TOURING UNITED STATES
Eminent Mapmakers of Two Months Will Be Spent
Europe Now In This
, Country.
AMERICA Is now harboring tho
most distinguished body of gc
L. ogrnphers that over gathered In
tills country. Thirty-seven learn
ed men from twelve foreign lands make
tip the party. They arc here ns guests
of the American Geographical society,
which Is celebrating Its sixtieth anni
versary and the completion of Its new
building In Now York, the finest and
largest possessed by nny geographical
society hi the world, by piloting the
foreign savnnts on n transcontinental
tour and showing them all the geo
graphical sights between the Atlantic
and the Pacific coasts.
They started from New York Thurs
day, Aug. i!2, to be gone until tho mid
dle of October. Then, nfter a round of
banquets nnd other entertainments, the
visiting professors will sail to their
various fnroff homes filled, presumably,
with a thorough knowledge of Amor
lean geography obtained on the spot
so that they will be able to give their
students n clearer Idea of the New
World than could bo obtained from any
other source.
In the party nre some of the most fa
mous of contemporary geographers,
men who have devoted their lives to
tho science and written books on Its
various branches thnt are considered
the last word on the subject. The coun
tries which they represent are Great
Britain, France, Germany, Austria
Hungary, Italy, Denmark, Russia, Nor
way, Holland, Belgium and Switzer
land. No less distinguished nre tho
American geographers who are acting
as their guides on the transcontinental
excursion. Practically every one of
tho leading American uulvcrsltles and
colleges are represented among those
who do honor to the foreigners on the
Ions Journey nnd nt tho entertainments
that aro one of Its features. Professor
William Morris Davis of Ilarvnrd, one
of America's foremost geographical au
thorities, Is director of the tour.
Expects to Pilot Party.
One of Its most striking features will
be that the foreigners will have what
Is Interesting geographically In each
section of the United States pointed
out to them by local experts to whom
these fights aro ns an open book. In
this way they will have an unexam
pled opportunity of really getting to
know the country. In tho case of
learned men like themselves, quick to
grasp the essential features of a geo
graphical landscape, there Is no doubt
thnt they will easily assimilate all that
Is told them and will bo able on their
return to describe It In nccurato terms,
thus spreading through Europe a cor
rect idea not only of our geography,
but of our mineral, agricultural and
other natural resources.
The American members of the party,
some of whom will take the whole trip,
while others will accompany the for
eigners only through certain sections,
realize that their principal task will bo
to Impart to tho visitors this clear un
derstanding of what they see. There
fore none but those thoroughly ac
quainted with each of tho different sec
tions of the country will bo delegated
to give a description of it These ex
perts will give field talks, which may
be amplified while the party is en
route, for tho speclnl train which will
transport the geographers will be pro
vided with a geographical reference li
brary and a complete outfit of topo
graphical and geological maps of tho
districts traversed. By means of all
this It Is confidently expected that by
the time the Europeans return to New
York next October and turn their faces
toward home they will be chock full
of the most reliable data concerning
Amerlcn thnt have ever been presented
to foreigners since tho days of Colum
bus. One of the first special trips arrang
ed for the foreign delegates Is from
Syracuse to the Green lakes, those
curious little bodies of water which
originated in the glnclal period and
arouso tho deepest interest among sci
entists. Another elaborate side trip has l)oen
urnnged nt St. Paul and Minneapolis.
The geographers will 1k met at St.
Paul by a committee of citizens, who,
nfter entertaining them nt luncheon,
will tnko them in automobiles to Tort
Suelllng, where n delegation of citi
zens of Minneapolis will meet them.
Under this double escort tho visitors
will be piloted through tho gorgo of
the Mississippi.
Duluth will also provide several sido
trips, on which tho visitors will bo
looked after by a special delegation of
citizens.
To Visit Glacier National Park.
From Scattlo or Tncoma, if time per
mits, tho visiting scientists will bo
taken to tho beautiful Glacier Nation
al park and Introduced to that splen
did monarch, Mount Italnler, which
they will partly scalo by means of tho
road that runs up Us slopes to Para
dise park.
Still another excursion is iKdng nr
rangod nt Memphis. Under tho au
spices of tbo Memphis Business Men's
club tho foreigners and their Amerlcnn
hosts will bo taken down tho Missis
sippi river In a boat especially char-
Visiting Points of
Interest
trcd for tho purpose from Memphis
to Helena, Ark. This trip, whloh will
Inst nbout seven hours, Is regarded ns
a most vnlunble adjunct to tho trans
continental excursion, ns It Is felt by
tho Amorlcnns acting as guides that
altogether too mnny foreign visitors
pee the greatest of our rivers only
while crossing It on a railroad bridge.
Special vnlue will bo ndded to this
river trip by the presence on tho bont
of members of the Mississippi river
commission, with full sets of river
mnps, which show tho Mississippi to
the minutest detnll.
Tho trip will end the middle of Oc
tober In Washington. There tho party
will spend n day In Inspecting the In
teresting points nround the city. On
Oct. 17 tho ppeclnl train will start for
Now York, where tho mcnilers of tho
party will nttend several meetings of
a more formnl character, at which pa
pers will bo read and discussed by
those present
As will 1k readily understood, these
nre busy days Indeed up nt the new
building of tho Amerlcnn Ooogrnphlcnl
society, the completion of which Inst
year has caused this round of Instruc
tion nnd pleasure. It Is quite worthy
of stnrtlng such a commotion, for, ns
hns been said, no geographical society
anywhere else can boast of such n
home.
American Geographical Society.
It forms one of a beautiful group of
buildings Just west of Broadway and
occupies part of the old Audubon park,
New York. It is In tho style of the Ital
ian rennissnnce and is built entirely
of Iudlnnn limestone. It has four sto
ries and a basement which nffords am
ple space for the storing of geographi
cal books, maps, etc.
The floors on which tho book stneks
stand nre of plate glass nnd the stneks
nre of enst Iron with silver finish, the
shelves of corrugated steel. No wood
enters Into nny pnrt of the construc
tion. The first, third nnd fifth stnek floors
nre connected by metnl doorways with
tho office, editorial and map floors, re
spectively, of tho main building. Tho
second, fourth nnd sixth stack floors
are mezzanine floors or entresols, which
have connection with tho floors of the
main building by the stairways that
lead from tho bottom to the top of tho
stack floors.
A largo metal book lift, operated by
electricity, connects the basement with
each of the six stack floors and nlso
with the first, second nnd third floors
of the mnln building. If the lift Is to
bo moved to nny one of these floors n
button Is pressed, nnd tho lift stops nt
the floor deslgnntcd, nnd not till It
stops enn the doors to the lift be open
ed. If the buttons on two or more
floors nre slmultnneously pressed the
lift does not move.
Tho rending room Is ample for lay
ing out tho latest Issues of all ex
changes from foreign societies. The
mnp floor, occupying the third story,
hns immense storage cnpaclty for mnps
and ntlases. Bows of dust proof cases
extending across tho map room con
tain maps in sheets. The collection of
historical nnd other ntlnses is in the
ntlns room. On tho fourth floor Is n
mnp drawing depnrtment
Tho Amerlcnn Geographical society
was founded nearly slxty-ono years
ngo. At its second meeting, held in
1852 sixty years ago a manuscript
was read from tho renowned explorer,
David Livingstone, dcscrll ft' his dis
coveries In South Afrlcn. of tho 115
geographical societies now in existence
it was tho eighth to be organized. Ar
cher M. nuntlngton' Is Its president.
Among his predecessors were George
Bancroft, tho historian; Seth Low and
Bobert E. Peary.
BEQUEST OF $2,000,000
REPAYS ACT OF KINDNESS
HE SLEEPS ON A PLANK.
Soap Boxes Support His Bed In House
Office Building.
Judgo William Charles Adamson,
congressman from tho Fourth district
of Georgia, is tho only man in congress
who has his Washington residence lu
tho house office building.
Tho solons in providing for tho house
building mndo a point of excluding
beds or lounges. Sofas nnd other couch
es aro permitted in the sennte ofllco
building, but not on tho houso side.
Judgo Admnson, now chairman of
tho lnterstnto and foreign commerce
committee, wna not satisfied with this
arrangement. IIo had been used to
taking a nap overy day in his law ofllco
at Carrollton nnd declared that com
ing to congress would not deprlvo him
of his siesta.
IIo ma do a still hunt through tho
houso ofllco building for n room In n
retired nook where ho could take his
nap. IIo found it nnd In tho coureo
of a few days secured n broad, thick
plnnk cut from n Georgia turpentine
tree, which ho supported on two soap
boxes nnd covered with nn nrmy
blanket and mndo a snug couch with a
natural spring in tho middle That bo.
camo the "Washington rcsldcnco of
William Charles Adamson of Georgia,"
as tho Congressional Directory pute It.
Poor Knoxvllle Man Heir of Man He
8taked For an Alaska Trip.
Joo Harris of Knoxville, Tcnn., aged
sixty-two, who years ago was a pros
perous auctioneer, but Is now poor,
has cnuso to remember that twenty
four years ngo on a winter morning
ho befriended a poor stranger, a man
of twenty-eight, Just from Scotland,
whoso Bweethcart had Jilted him.
Colonel Cary F. Bpenecr, tho Knox
vllle postmaster, recently read to Har
ris n letter which stated that William
Boblnson hnd died In Brisbane, leav
ing his fortune of $2,000,000 to Joo
Harris, who hnd staked him on n trip
to Alaska, where ho had "struck It
rich."
Tho letter was written by A. D.
Smytho from New York city, Smytho
stating that ho had Just landed from
Brisbane on his way to England. Ho
hnd learned of tho will nnd wrote to
tho postmnster of Nnshvllle, who for
wnrded tho letter to Colonel Spencer.
Tho will mentioned Hnrrls ns hnvlng
been n member of tho Tennessee leg
lslnturo In 1SS8.
Fivo yenrs nfter Hnrrls hnd staked
Robinson n letter camo from Nome,
inclosing J500 nnd stntlng thnt Bob
lnson hnd made n fortune. As this
more thnn rcpnld Hnrrls for his stake,
ho was not surprised that ho did not
again hear from tho young Scotch
man. Spencer had to read the letter sev
eral times to the excited auctioneer,
who could scarcely bellevo Its contents.
PASS SHERMAN'S TROUSERS.
Treasury Pays For Motoring Garments
Vice President Bought.
Vice President Sherman's trousers
nro a legal charge against tho govern
ment Tho senate committee on nudit
nnd control decided so, nnd tho govern,
nient of tho United Stntes promptly
pnid $20 for them, with n cont thrown
In. Another J5 got the vice president
n mbber coat, nil three garments being
for motoring, and under a general np
proprintlon act that bill hns nlso been
paid out of tho treasury. Both items
go with the provision of law granting
nn nutomoblle, a chnuffeur nnd the
mnintenance of both to tho vice presi
dent nnd to tho speaker. Cabinet offi
cers nnd Justices of the supremo court
hnvo carriages.
Tho vice president has been scrupu
lous in the nccounts he sent in. Ono
Item for 10 cents tells how ho bought
twenty Cotter pins one inch long. At
ono time he was forced by local con
ditions to buy gasoline for 18 cents a
gallon. That wns In November, nnd
he bought only two gallons In that"
market but in December, when ho
could get oil at 12Mi cents, ho bought
n largo supply. Fivo feet of priming
wire for the motor cost the govern
ment 30 cents. Tho chauffeur's salary.
$1,000, wns fixed by n sennto resolu
tion of July 27, 1011.
ARTILLERYMAN IS NEW CHIEF.
Colonel Townsley First of His Branch
to Superintend Vest Point.
For the first time in its history the
United Stntes MUItnry ncaderay has as
Its superintendent nn officer of the
coast artillery arm of tho service. En
gineers, cavalrymen, infantrymen and
field artillerymen have occupied tho
chair of Lee, Cullom, Scholleld, Mer-
rltt, Delnflold, Mills, Scott nud Bnrry,
but Colonel O. P. Townsley, the new
superintendent, Is the first of tho const
defenso service to hold tho position.
Colonel Townsley, who wns relieved
of command of the artillery district of
Portland, Mo., Is tho successor of Ma
jor General Thomas II. Barry, who as
suined command of tho eastern divi
sion, with headquarters on Governors
Island.
Tho new superintendent is a gradu-
nte of the ncademy of the clnss of 1831.
Ho has been n colonel of artillery since
last April. IIo Is nlso a grndunte of
the nrtlllery school of tho clnss of 18S-1.
Ho Is fifty-seven years old.
ALSOP CLAIMS TO BE PAID.
Chile Pays In $906,666 to State Depart
ment. After more than fifty years the 100
or more heirs of the members of tho
firm of Alsop & Co., operating in Chile,
Bolivia nnd Peru, nro to receive their
shares of tho claims for which they
have fought during all this time nnd
which were ndjudlcnted by King
George of Englnnd.
Acknowledging tho decision of tho
British king, the Chilean government
has paid over to tho state department
the sum of 5!K)0,GC0.70, the amount
awarded, nnd this hns been turned into
tho treasury. Acting Secretary of Stnto
Wilson hns notified nil the heirs of tho
awards, and certificates will bo issued
to them immediately after they sign
their vouchers nnd return them.
Jest a-tayin' Round.
Jest ez lazy cz kin be.
Don't kcer for nothln' ner nobuddy;
Don't keer If skulo keeps er not.
Weather's Jest too gosh blamed hot
Ruther lay here on th' nround.
Coziest spot I've ever found,
Work don't suit me I wuz mado
Jest for lay In' in th' shade.
Kleocy clouds a-sallln' high;
Bumblebees a-dronln' by;
Robins twltterln' to their broodj
Redheads peckfn' fer their food;
Violets bloomln' here an' thero
Put a perfume in th' air.
Everything Jest seems to say;
t Come an' loaf. Don't work today."
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