TONS OF TURTLES.
AN ARTICLE OF FOOD THAT EPI
CURES APPRECIATE.
Where New York's Supply of Turtles
Comes From and How the Animals
Are Transported— Catching: Tur
tles.
Many tons of turtles are consuinod in
New York every your in the shape or
soups and steuks. The smaller ones,
called the "babies," ure found to some ex
tent on the Jersey and Long Island cousts
and as far east as Massachusetts, but a
large quantity of the market supplies
comes from h lorida and the Indies. On
the Florida const the turtles' eggs are
also highly esteemed as a delicacy by the
bears in the neighborhood. A female
turtle will lay a pailful of eggs at a time.
The small turtles also become the prey
of fishes of all kinds. The large turtles
do not care for their young particularly
leaving them to shift for themselves.
Turtles thrive uuder confinement.
They are transported to New York with
their feet tied. If their feet were free,
they would kill themselves on the way.
Some years ago the question was agita
ted as to whether this method of trans
portation was not cruel, but it was shown
to the satisfaction of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that
it was the most humane way to prevent
them from tearing themselves to pieces.
TKS turtles, before starting on their
journey, are laid on their backs with saw
dust pillows to prevent their heads from
hanging down and to keep them in as
comfortable a position as possible. The
small turtles do not need the pillows. In
winter, turtles are kept in warm rooms
until they are wanted tor the market.
Most of the turtles that reach New
York go to Fulton Market, and their
prices range from 6 to 20 cents a pound,
according to their size and the demand
for them. Over one hundred pounds,
the price decreases in proportion to the
turtle's size. Some of the turtles sent to
New York weigh 300 or 400 pounds, and
these invariably go to the hotels and
Boupmakers to be canned. A turtle on
the way from Florida Keys to New York
will lose about three pounds in weight.
The hawkbill and loggerhead turtles
are often used in the place of the green
turtle, but they do not possess the same
quiet disposition. They are inclined to
be ugly and will bite viciously. A green
turtle, on the contrary, will not bite un
less one puts his finger in its mouth, and
then it will probably take the finger off.
In warm weather tho turtles feed on
marine growths, and gain from three to
six pounds a week. Some years ago the
experiment was tried of transporting
them to Now York in water tanks, but on
their arrival here they were so bruised
and sore from threshing around the ship
that they were unfit for consumption.
A great many turtles are caught by
men on board the small turtle schooners I
that are engaged in the coral and sponge j
industry in the West Indies. They arc
captured in various ways. One way is
to lie in wait on the shore on a moonlight
evening, and as the turtle crawls up out
of tho water to lay its eggs, it is rushed
upon and overturned before it can get
away. Once upon its back, the turtle is
perfectly helpless.
In trying to escape and reach the
water when pursued, the turtle will throw
vast quantities of sand with its hind flip
pers in tho faces of its pursuers, almost
blinding them.
Another way to capture a turtle is to
stretch a large net with large meshes
across some inlet, having a man on watch
with his hand on tho guy rope all the
time. Whenever a turtle becomes en
tangled in the net he can feel it strug
gling. A boat is then put out immediately,
and the ensnared turtle is tuken on
board.
Turtles nro also captured, but not fre
quently, bv men who dive for them from
the bow of a boat. A man is stationed
on tho lookout, and when ho sees a j
turtle asleep, either on the surface or a ;
few feet below, he dives and grasps it by
the foreflippers, presses it on his back
with his knees and elevates its head, :
causing it in its struggles to escapo to
riso to the surface. Holding tho turtle
in this position it is unable to dive, and
swims rapidly on tho surface until it is
tired out.
Still another way to catch turtles is to
spear them. This is done with a very
light harpoon-like instrument, which just
penetrates tho shell enough to hold the
turtle, but not to injure it.
The small turtle schooners take their
cargoes to tho nearest ports from which |
the turtles are shipped to tho United
States and Europe. New York's main
v supply comes from Key West, Florida,
although large numbers of turtles come
from Havana and Galveston,Texas. The
Key West turtles are in tho best condi
tion and ure tho most sought after.
During the cold winter months, un
less turtles ure well cared for on board a
steamship whole shipments will fre
quently die from exposure, us they
ure very sensitive to tho Northern
climate.
In the summer months dealers usually
keep their turtles in large IR# crawls,
which are in the Eust River directly
behind Fulton Murket, and feed them on
watermelon rinds, cubbugo leaves, etc.
In tho winter the turtles require special
core, and their warm room is kept heated
day and night. Turtles will frequently
live out of water from four to six weeks.
Three-hundred-pound turtles aro not
rarities in Fulton Market, but they are
not desirable, as very few hotels or
restaurants can handle one of that size.
Tho most desirable size weighs any
where from 25 to 80 pounds.—[New York
News.
Romance of a Photograph.
Apropos of boarded doors and windows,
there is a romance uttached to one in
Philadelphia. It seems that after reaching
Bar Harbor, Madame remembered some
thing which had been left behind in that
darkened house. She wanted it, but her
husband was travelling, so she could not
ask him to go to tho houso for it. She
had a nephew from the South visiting
her. 11c offered to go to her home and
get it for her.
His aunt lived in ono of the row in
which every houso is like its neighbor
He had always recognized hers by its
double row of black tiling across tho
house, and took but little notice of the
number.
Alas ! when he reached Philadelphia
• he had forgotten tho number, and there
were two houses with painted bricks and
next but one to each other. Which was
the ono for which ho had tho koys ?
He finally decided on ono—his keys fit
ted, so ho felt safe. lie entered and
went immediately to tho second floor.
He now discovered that ho was not in tho
right houso—it being furnished in a style
entirely different from that which
stamped his aunt's npartments.
As he looked uroQnd his eyes rested
upon a portrait of a girl. He gazed
fascinated; it was the face of his ideal
realized. He took it up, studied it, heh
it oil at arm's length, drew it near, am
at lust took his unknown from thedaintj
frame und swore he would find the origi
nal.
Luckily, he got out of the house and
no one saw him. He returned to Bar
Harbor; he could get no information
there; his aunt's neighbors were travel
ling in Europe, but they had no daughter.
He sought for her at all the summer ro
sorts; at last he found her, und—well,
the engagement is announced.—[Phila
delphia Music and Drama.
"CORN CUTTIN'."
A Character Sketch from the Back
woods of Eastern Kentucky.
A few weeks ago I was traveling on
horseback through Elliot County, East
ern Kentucky, when emerging from a
long stretch of unbroken forest, I sud
denly came upon a field of weeds and
corn at the left of the road. Riding on
a little distance, I observed, sitting on
the top rail of tho budly crippled fence,
an old man. He had a long beard,which
would have been white had not a constant
bath of amber kept it colored a brown
ish yellow. His nose was loug and
humped itself into a high thin position,
separating his small eyes that seemed
trying persistently to get together. He
had an old white wool hut that rested its
rear section on tho occipital division of
his cranium, while the right side of it
sank down und took rest on his fan-like
ear. From numerous mouth-liko rents in
all departments of his old hat, the bristly
hair protruded like the brushes of a sign
painter. His heels rested on the third
ruil from tho top, thus throwing his knees
up to tho neighborhood of his chest. On
his knee rested his elbow, and in his long,
bony palm, hung his chin. Two hounds
sat beneath him, and gazed up at their
lord and master with worshipful eyes.
"How do you do, old geutleman?" was
my greeting, delivered in a tone of smil
ing suavity.
"Do jis' about az I please this 'ere
week, stranger."
"Don't you do as you pleaso all tho
time?" I returned, laughing.
"Not of the ole woman knows herself,
and I rather jedge she do."
"Where übouts do you live?"
"On top o' this fence at the present
writin'."
"Is that your corn ovor there?"
"Part uv it iz, also a part o' tho
woods."
"Who does the other part belong to?"
"Thur's several other parts."
"Well, who do they belong to?"
"Mostly to tho hogs—cain't keep the
dud burn erectors ter wait fer their part
till it's gathered."
"I see a lady cutting up corn over
there."
"No, yc don't."
"Why, my eyes deceive mo very
much if I don't see a lady cuttiug up
corn."
"Wal, yer eyes decebo ye thin; thar's
a gal over thar cuttin' oft* corn stalks."
"Well, ha, ha! it's all the same."
"No, tain't. A lady's er lady, a gal's
a gal, corn's corn, an' corn stalks iz corn
stalks."
"What 'gal' is it, as you call her?
" Don't know thout she's mine uu' me
old woman's."
" Who helps her cut ? do you ? "
"Sartinlj', 1 hep by my influeuce.
Sah, I keep braggine on her, tell her ef
she keeps improvin' she'll bo sarchod
artor by all the most likely young fellers
in the county that knows what a kind uv
gals makes tho best wives."
"Old man, to be serious with you, I
think it mighty strange that a young girl
should be put out to such hard work as
that."
" It do look a leetle strange formostof
'em iz too luzy ter do it. Ye wouldn't
expect ter see er man liko ine, er true
gentleman, at sich work hissef, wudye?"
• " Well, I don't think it tho proper
thing for a young girl to be at such work,
I'm quite sure."
" Wal, thot may be, stranger, but see
bur, lookeo how it iz: The gal must do
it, 'cose it's this er way, strangor; the old
woman's down at the house, both legs
broke, un' can't git out jist now ter cut
it hcrsef."—[Epoch.
A Hen Twelve Days Without Food.
The editor recently had a load of hay
thrown into n crib on top of soino other
hay, and without knowing it a chicken
hen wus caught aud covered up by it,
supposed to have been on her nest. .lust
twelve days later she was discovered in
there, softly singing some chicken melo
dies. Her voice was low, und wo iinagino
had a pathetic sadness uhout it, though
what the lines she was singing wero will
never be known, as we have not studiod
tho chicken dialect. She was a fine game
hen, however, and wo could'not dis
cover that there was anything in her
language or tone that indicated her wil
lingness to "go back on" her blood. She
wus rescued, and after drinking water
for about two hours she joined her
friends, and has since been as cheerful
us ever.—[Eutaw (Ala.) Mirror.
Hats Off !
One of the simplest instincts of good
manners would seem to bo that a man
should uncover his head while
eating his dinner with his family;
yet it is pretty certain that the |
first gentlemen of England two centuries
ago habitually wore their hats during
that ceremony, nor is it known just when
or why the practice was changed. In
Pepys' famous Diary, which is the best
manual of manners for its period, we
read, under date of September 22, IGG4:
"Home to bed, having got a strange cold
in my head, by Hinging off iny hat at
dinner, and sitting with the wind in my
neck." In Lord Clarendon's essay on
the decay of respect paid to ago ho says
that in his young days he never kept his
hat on before those older than himself
except at dinner. Lord Clarendon died
in 1G74. That the English members of
Parliament sit with their huts on during
the session is well known, and the same
practice prevailed at the early town
meetings in New England. The pres
ence or absence of the hat is, therefore,
simply a conventionality, and so it is
with a thousand practices which are held,
so long as they exist, to be the most un
changeable and matter-of-course atfuirs.
[Harper's Bazar.
Hypnotism in Medicine.
The medical profession of England
seems to be taking an interest in the
possibilities of hypnotism as a medical
agent. It is reported that an audience
of 2000 physiciuns recently ussembledat
the Westminster Aquarium, London, to
witness some experiments in hypnotism,
and that an American professor and a
German wero appointed a committee to
arrange for making experiments at a
number of hospitals to test the value of
hypnotism as an anaesthetic. —[Picayune.
THE LADIES.
SHE'S SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
Miss Sadie E. Webber, County Super
intendent of Schools for Ward couuty,
North Dukota, is a Pennsylvania girl
who wout West with her brother six years
ugo. and took up land twelve miles from
any neighbors, and 1,200 miles from
home. In 1888 she was elected County
Superintendent of Schools for Ward
county without one opposing vote, and |
iu 1890 was re-elected by a lurge ma- j
jority over a strong opponent. Miss
Webber is a graduate of the Pennsylva
nia Stute Normal School at Edinboro,
and begau to teach at sixteen.—[Pitts
burg Post.
A CHEAP VEIL IS INTOLERABLE.
A cheap veil is a veil that is intolerable;
in order to blind one's self in peace and
while making A fashionable appearance,
good material, fine, elastic and strong,
must be chosen; three-quarters of a yard
is a good length. Let the veil rest light
ly outhe curls on the forehead, not fiat
tening the hair but supported by the
brim of the bonnet and the tip of the
nose. Let its firm even edge come well
above or well below the upper lip and
then gradually rise in its passage across
the choek till it is neatly and daintily
tucked away under the bonnet and above
the hair. So shall even the oculist ac
knowledge the skill and the beauty of the
misdemeanor.—[Chicago News.
LARGE BUTTONS IX STYLE.
The tailors and modistes are using
very large buttons, but ofteuer as orna
ments than means of fustening. A tight
fitting basque bodice of rich green cloth 1
is cut from tho neck to far below the j
waist in ono length On each side tho in
visible doublo-breastod opening aro sewn
very lurge buttons, six on each. The
sleeves to the elbow are green velvet.
The cuffs, collur and deep fiap-pockets
are grocn and gold brocade. Among the
now buttons are those showing copies of
old coins of Henry VII., Queen Elizabeth
and William the Conqueror's day. There
are also reproductions of old Paris guild
medals and medallions in copper amalgam
and mixed gold and bronze; also St.
Nicholas pinks are cut on Paris buttons
designed for Louis XVI. coats. Silver
and gold buttons are of dull effect, and
are used with garnitures, to which they
correspond. The new reds and browns
of fashion havo their counterparts of
color iu shaded buttons made of bronze
metal.—[Chicago Post.
HOME FOR GIRL STUDENTS.
One of tho wisest of late Boston en
terprises, and one that meets a long-felt
need, is the new home for girl students
which has just been fitted up on the cor
ner of Huntington avenue and Gainsboro
street by Mr. Albert L. Murdock. The
home is called "The Burtol," after Bos
ton's eminent and widely popular clergy
man. The purpose of "The Burtol" is
to give to girl students who have no home
in Boston or vicinity all possible com
forts, and oven many luxuries, at an ox
ponso less than is necessary now to pro
vide them uncomfortable and inadequate
quarters in private houses. Girls can
have rooms at an oxpense runging from
11.50 to $3.50 per week, and wholesomo,
substantial meals will be served at 19i
cents. The dining a cheerful
apartment overlooking Back Buy Purk.
In tho middle of tho day lunches will be
served at 9| cents each, and luncheons
put up for girls, wishing to ho away at
noontime, at the same price. Laundry
work will cost only three-fourths of the
usual rates. The Burtol will be co-oper
ative for all who remain a year. The
girls will havo the use of an elegant pur
lor, a music room, reading room, sitting
rooms and a spacious veranda on the
roof. —[New Orleans Times-Democrat.
BEAUTY DRESS FOR CHANDELIERS.
How many women know that thcro is
one little tell-tale in her drawing room
that will number her years as accurately
us the family Bible? Let her light tho
gus iu the upper chandeliers and, stuml
ing directly under it. look into the mir
ror. She will see every sharp line in her
face accentuated, every hollow in .her
cheeks, every lino under hor eyes graven
deeper. Tin? unshaded light from the
chandelier fulling directly upon her face
is what does it. When women design
and build their homes, as well as live
and sutler in them, there will be no upper
lights to make them old before their
years do. But until that time comes they
will havo to compromise with the evil,
but still endure it with what mitigations
thev can devise. Not long ago an in
genious woman put tho globes in her
drawing room in what she called "petti
coats" of pale pink silk, and saw ten
years slip away us she stood under them
for the first" trial. This is the
way she fashioned these beauty
fietticoats. Sewing the ends of a
ong straight piece of the silk together
she ran a narrow pink ribbon through it
at top and bottom, leaving a tiny ruffle
at the top. Putting the silk upon the
globe she drew it closely above (fortu
nately the globe had a slight flaring edge
at the top, muking a neck übout which to
tie the ribbon) and then gathering it
smoothly she brought tho lower part
down not only to the lower part of the
globo hilt clear down to tho brass bracket
und tied it closely just above the stop
cock. This is the trick. It is the un
shaded light that comes down through
the open circle at the lowor part of the
globe that works the mischief in a wo
man's luce. By gathering the silk down
to the bracket below the globe, tho harsh
light is cut off and the rose pink rays
that fall softly down only round out
and tint and freshen. Pink and deep
yellow are the most satisfactory colors to
use. Let any woman beware how she
experiments with blue or bright red or
green.—[New York Advertiser.
HOME LIFE OF TURKISH WOMEN.
People in general have an idea that
Turkish women absolutely do nothing
that is either useful or ornamental aside
from the decoration of their own persons,
but that is not altogether true, as my
residence of over a year in their country
taught me, for they are really dexterous
witli the needle und do work which is as
line as that done by the Sisters in the
convonts or that of the wives of the feudal
noblemen of olden times.
The favorite pastime of the Turkish
women is the bath, which brings together
the wives and slaves of ull the well-to-do
Turks, and is like a picnic of school
children.
Those wives, most of them very young
—some, indeed, not over twelve and four
teen years old—take their lunch along,
and they oat und steam, plunge and
splash, and play pranks upon each other
in the wildest glee the whole day long.
No fear of an angry husband haunts
their minds, for they are not expected to
do anything, and their husbands very
rarely enter the harems before 0 o'clock
By this time they are all back, rosy and
tweet from their bath.
At tho baths there is often an old
woman who has the faculty of reluting
stories, and she is eagerly listened to by
tho grown-up children; and these stories
are generally of the " Arabian Nights "
order, full of genii, beautiful ladies, and
charming youths and jealous husbunds.
Many a lesson is given as to how to out
wit the most jealous of men—a lesson
they are neither slow to leurn nor
practice
The way they were watched and con
fined always made ine think of the wo
man who cautioned her innocent children
not to put blue beans in their noses while
she was out. The magic lantern enter
tainments amuse these ignorant caged
birds. Dancing girls, singing and play
ing the lute, playing with the buDies,
and occasionally quarrelling with each
other, take up some of their time; a
weekly tour of the bazaars, and once in
a while a visit to the harem of some
other Turk, still leave much time on
their hands that the rare calls of their
husbands, the eating of sweetmeats or
smoking of cigarettes cannot fill, and so
they give their poor little minds to fancy
work. They very seldom learn how to
read, or perhaps books would help them
through, and they never make their own
clothes, though they do sometimes deco
rate them elaborately after others hav#
made them.
They have frames mude on which th*ir
embroidery is worked, and on velvet,
satin, or that beautiful and durable
Broussa gauze they embroider with ex
quisite fineness und taste. The most of
their embroidery is done in durable and
udmirably arranged colors, in subdued
tones, which seem to me remarkable ill
women who are so fond of brilliant pri
mary colors and ill-assorted contrasts.
They have no patterns, but work out
graceful and beautiful fantasies, and all
done with the most extreme care and
fineness, requiring patience and extra
good eyesight.—[Pittsburg Bulletin.
FASHION NOTES.
Military capes are made of fur.
Fichus of "real" lace are stylish.
English coats of box cloth are worn
The girls are wearing the Alpine hat.
Jewelled toe pieces and heels are made
for evening shoes.
The chatelaine watch now hangs pen
dent near the shoulder.
A new thing for the neck of tho fair
is a collarette of crane's feathers.
Silver-gilt spoons with enamel bpwls,
and silver-gilt bowls with enamel han
dles, come in the same sets.
Little racks are sumptuous in brass,
Dresden china, Berlin faience and sil
ver. They arc large, useful and orna
mental.
Silver cornucopias with perforated
borders hold silken bags that close with
cords and tassels. They are intended for
bonbons.
White satin ribbon is a great deal used
on elaborate hats and bonnets of black
or colored velvet. It forms rosette clus
ters, square bows, a torsade around tho
crown, high loops and strings that lap
under the chin und arc pinned high ut
the back.
Now does the wise virgin freshen up
her last year's silk skirts with exquisite
millinery in the way of dinner bodices or
concert waist. They pnuy be made of
any rich gleaming stuff and decorated ac
cording to the vagaries of the most fan
tastic caprice.
The newest evening gowns for young
women are black chiffon or inoussoline
do soie. embroidered with a color and
trimmed with velvet the shade of the
color. These dresses may be lined with
black or a tint, according to the fancy of
the purchaser.
There are still some dresses made with
foundation skirts, in spite of the popu
larity of the fin-dc-siecle or bell skirt.
Many of the bell skirts, however, are ar
ranged over a foundation skirt, though
this is not the orthodox manner of mak
ing them. Some dressmakers fancy they
hang better mounted in this way, rather
than when simply lined.
Black satin bonnets are among the re
cent importations. They are faced with
white, edged with jet, and trimmed with
white applique lace, Russian sable and
feather aigrettes. They come in small
shapes, and also in the new flaring direc
toire bonnets, with rosettes of almond
green satin inside the brim, or with trim
mings of white satin ribbon.
Charmingly effective is black lace over
white. Dresses of this description are,
as a rule, demi-trained and much nar
rower than formerly. They are mude
without draping and so nrrangod that tho
skirt and bodice are separate. Homo of
them have the flouncing on tho front and
sides put on as a double skirt with one
bounce much deeper than the other.
Tho latest "sheath" skirt is several de
grees more absurd and uncoinfortuble
looking than any of the models that have
yet appeared, handing the figure tightly
with not an inch to spare. A gored seuin
goes up the front, and there are gores at
the sides, which remove every particle of
fullness in the skirt front. At the ex
treme back a few inches of fullness ter
inntes in a short train. This skirt has
even narrower gores than the bell-skirt,
favored of Dame Fashion.
Artificial Gents,
The progress of chemistry bids fair to
lower the value of nearly every article of
jewelry, elementary substances not al
ways excepted, if it is true that diamonds
consist of pure carbon. Rubies have
been produced in away that can no
longer be called imitation, being an al
most perfect equivalent of Nature's
handiwork. Emeralds, too, have been
compounded by a variety of artificial
methods, and several European special
ists uppeur to be on the close track of a
secret for the artificial production of
pearls. A jeweller of Berne, Switzer
land, tells his experience with two stran
gers who asked the favor of a private in
terview, and then handed him three good
sized pearls, with a request to point out
the one they had reason to consider a
counterfeit. After a close and careful
inspection, the expert admitted his in
ability to distingush the three specimens,
except by a slight difference in shupe.
One of his visitors then produced an
electric pocket apparatus emitting u
brilliant light, and by means of a micro
scopic test convinced the lapidary that
one of tho pearls was really nothing but
a clever imitation—not a glass bulb with
a pearly lining, but a small ball of some
unknown, but apparently homogeneous,
substance. The strangers then left
without explaining thfe ultimate purpose
of their visit. Tho glass variety of arti
ficial pearls, too, have boon marvellously
improved by a process which removes tho
vitreous appearance and consists in ex
posing the glass bulbs for a short time to
the vapor of hydroHuoric acid.—[New
York Voice.
AUTUMN LEAVES.
Simply m Chemical Change In Che Coloring
Matter.
Donald Mitchell, in one of his de
lightful essays, has characterized the
brilliant display which marks the
progress of fall as the "Autumn
miracle." Certainly there is much
about this transformation of the
foliage, this lavish spread and swing
of color, that stamps it as such. The
touches of this mysterical painter for
this year are already seen on the
neighboring hills and wood. The
pale greens., and yellows, usually the
first in order, have appeared, and the
flush of the pinks in many places be
gin to deepen to a dead red. Science,
with its learned explanations, has
never been able to efface all the ro
mance which surrounds this change.
There is something interesting, to be
sure, in the relations between the
fruit and the leaf. They are really
twin brothers, it seems, only the one
has been given better opportunities
than the other, and so makes the
earlier show in the world. Their
course in life, however, is the same.
They mature, change color, and then
fall, alike. This fancied touch of the
painter is only a chemical change in
the coloring matter of the chloro
phyl. and the flush on the cheek ot
the peach is not at ail different from
that on the autumn leaf. This is
science, but it does not afford half
the pleasure that did the thought
that all wa9 due to the sturdy breath
of the north wind. Ilowever, cold
weather has little to do with this
work of transformation. One of the
most brilliant autumnal displays in
the White Mountains was that ol
some dozen years ago. The whole
sides of many of the hills seemed to
have been converted into sheets ot
llame. Heightening the effect waß a
ground covered lightly with the fall
of first snow, the scarlet hues of the
foliage flashing within this chaste
setting. The explanation was that
the cold woaMier had set in unusually
early, while lie leaves had been late
in ripening. Leaves are attached to
their stems by a series of thickened
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the loaf is released and thus falls.
Oak leaves, however, are not subject
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membersof the Appalachian Mountain
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made for the fall pilgrimage.—Boston
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Corrosion of Girder* In Tunnels.
A number of steel girders in the
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from Collowhill street to Parish, in
Philadelphia, have corroded to such
an extent during the five years in
which they have been exposed to the
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tunnel, that it has been found neces
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ing thoroughly scraped and all of the
rust has been removed, and is being
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hermetically sealed from any outside
agency which would tend to corrode
them. This work is being carried on
without interfering with the usual
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