Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1910 — Page 3

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Forging the Big Panama Canal Gates

piTTSBURG, PA.—Mischievous boys dreaming of gates to be carried away and future Hallowe’en trophies would not in the wildest nightmares *®aglne such enormous gates as are *>®lng made In Pittsburg for the PahaIna canal. T^ ey will be the largest gates in the ’World. Any one of the 92 of them will be about as high as a six-story building, as wide as many city buildings are (65 feet), and seven feet deep or thick. The structural steel that wiU go to *nake them will weigh 66,000 tons, or more than eight times as much as ,was used to build the Eiffel tower in The mighty-portals, designed to admit a world’s commerce from one ocean to another, must withstand a tide of critlcisnLas well as a tremendous pressure ot water and possible convulsions of earth. For years the controversy over gates or no gates, locks or sea level, has been the dividing issue of the canal problem. In the face of fear in some quarters that the foundations on the isthmus are not sure enough for locks, that earthquakes or water pressure would dislodge them, and that an ene-

Tragic Fate Long Purses a Family

NEW YORK;—Another is likely to be added to the list of tragic deaths in the family of Miss Adelaide Cumming of this city. She Is now in Boston, summoned there by a peculiar accident to her sister who, on her thirtysecond birthday put on a new dress of the hobble-skirt variety, and as 'she was going downstairs, tripped and fell. Her hip bone was broken and various complications have set In which may cause her death. Miss Cumming is still a young woman, but misfortune has been with her all her life. Her grandfather was wrecked and drowned at sea; her father killed in a boiler explosion; one sister crushed by a trunk, another killed by a snowball and a third by gangrene; a nephew went down in the Maine, another was killed In the San Francisco earthquake, and their mother is now insane. James G. Cumming, grandfather of

Everybody Helps to Make City Clean

KANSAS CITY, KAN.—The Armourdale district has set the pace and now this city is going to be a spotless town. An idea, a circular letter and a few postage stamps did the work In Armourdale. Mr. Dean, commissioner of parks, selected the town-cleaning day and then mailed the letters to all of the business and professional men in that part of town, inviting them to meet, properly equipped with implements, st Shawnee park. As early as 7:30 the Shawnee park Ustrict looked like a brickyard district when a mad-dog alarm has been sounded. There were men of all sizes and wearing all sorts of working apparel and carrying many descriptions of implements. When all hands had gathered around the bandstand, It was found that the group Included lawyers, doctors, ministers and business men, and that they meant business. The party was divided into three

Refusal of Water May Cost His Life

Philadelphia, pa.— Lying in the Garretson hospital in a critical condition from a badl y lacerated scaln which he sustained when hit by a street car. Albert Maxwell, fiftyone years of age, steadfastly refuses to drink water in any form because he doesn’t like it. He declares he has been a total abstainer from nature’s beverage tor the last thirty years, and is willing to take a chance of giving up his life rather than touch water again. When Maxwell was taken to the hospital be was placed on the oper sting table while the physicians sewed

my s mines of accidental explosion might easily destroy them, the government has begun to build the gates. The cost will be $5,506,000, Of the 60,000 tons of steel required, the heaviest single pieces will weigh about eighteen tons. The thousands of individual pieces, numbered and fitted to go together as easily as children’s blocks, will be shipped by steamer via Baltimore and with them will go more than four hundred skilled structural steel builders from Pittsburg to set them. The advance guard of experts will leave here In December and the first work probably will begin early in 1911. The location of the 46 pairs of gates will be, 20 at the Gatun dam on the Pacific side, 12 at Pedro Miguel, and 14 at Miraflores, near, the Atlantic entrance. The gates are designed to hold back water 47.4 feet deep in a channel 110 feet wide, which means a pressure of- a million pounds.' The weight of a single gate will be about 600 tons, and the dimensions are 77 to 82 feet high, 60 to 75 feet wide and 7 feet thick. Each lock will be ample for a ship 50 per cent larger than any vessel afloat and it has been estimated that as many as a hundred ocean ships may be handled in a single day. There are no locks approaching these in size. The ramous Sues canal is a sea level affair aftdjthe few* great lock canals would have td-■com-bine their gates to equal the size and strength of the great doors of Panama.

the present Cumming generation, was a sailor of Salem, Mass., and went dpwn with his ship when Miss Cumming was a young girl. Her father was blown to death In a boiler explosion in Salem. He was a merchant and simply happened along when the boiler let loose. Only parts of his body were recovered. One sister was breaking wood over her knee when she fractured her kneecap. The leg was amputated but gangrene caused her death. Another was killed by a snowball in which a stone was Imbedded and a third was caught while packing a trunk. The lid crushed her head. The unhappy fate of the family seemed to descend to the branches, for one of Miss nephews waa lost in the San Francisco earthquake in one of the collapsed buildings which took fire. A brother of this Jad, Ensign Matthews, had perished on the Maine in Havana harbor. These tragedies so preyed on the mind of the mother, Miss Cumming's sister, that she became violently Insane and la now in a Massachusetts asylum. Now the last near' relative of Miss Cumming la fix a hospital, and it Is Impossible to say whether she will escape the family fate or not

sections. Wagons furnished by the city and by business firms were on hand to follow the workers and collect the results of their labor. Up one side of the street and down the other they worked, cleaning the street and parkings of weeds and papers and piling them for the wagons to collect and cart away. And school boys who had not been detained at home to clean yards followed the shovel and hoe brigade with brooms, sweeping up the dirt the shovelers had missed. And the women were working, too. While their husbands were cleaning the streets, they were sweeping the yards, picking up tin. cans and papers and cutting the dead weeds. In all parts of the city women could be seen, raking up leaves and trash and even repairing fences. The churches had men working cleaning and repairing the property and the school janitors were busy in the schoolhouse yar<js. , It is the intention before long to have the 14,000 school children of the city organized Into juvenile leagues for the purpose of assisting In t£ls work. , “This is only a starter,” Mr. Dean explained. "All of Kansas City, Kan., will be cleaned the same way.”

up his scalp, which had been almost completely torn off the skull. Maxwell stood the operation well. As he straightened up reagy to be assigned a bed Doctors Ross and Silk offeredhim a glass of water. “I never use it,” was Maxwell’s response to the proffered drink. The physicians and the nurses regarded the statement as a joke. Next morning the nurse offered Maxwell medicine In the form of pills. A glass of water was offered him to take with the medicine, but Maxwell refused it. He swallowed the pills without water. The white of an egg was prescribed in the evening, but after. Inspecting the food Maxwell declared he thought there was water in it and refused to take IL Hospital attaches are ln r a quandary as to what to feed the man. Mrs. Maxwell says It is useless to coax her husband to drink water.

Dress and Costume

THE first is a smart style for in or outdoor wear; It Is made up in. terra-cotta face cloth and has a plain skirt trimmed with two rows of Russia braid at about the knees and one at the top of hem. Silk ip used for the yoke which is cut in points on shoulders and at front and back; this is edged with braid and has a button sewn In each point. The chemisette is of ninon. The sleeves are cut in one with bodice; they are set to a band below elbow. Hat of black velvet trimmed with large white" wings, in the prevailing mode. Materials required: 5 yards cloth 46 Inches wide, 4 buttons, 1 dozen yards Russia braid.

TABLE LINEN FOR A BRIDE

Some Few Things Worth Remembering In Connection With the Dower Cheat. The girl who Is starting a dower chest will be particularly Interested In her table linen. She may well choose either Dresden or Irish linen or both, as both are said to wear indefinitely. Where one buys the napery in sets, these Include cloths of two yards wide by two and a half and three yards long, and napkins of breaklast and dinner size. If possible, buy these sets In their natural color, and bleach them In the sun. Chemicals used for whitening are likely to destroy the texture of the linen. Luncheon sets come In both Irish and Dresden woven napery in all white. The newest luncheon sets, however, are made from Austrian linen, and consist of a round cloth and 12 napkins. Each piece carries a damask thistle design in pale green, maize, blue or rose on a white ground.

Short Trains for Dinner Gowns.

While skirts continue to be very short In almost all day dresses, the couturleres have had to lend ear to the cry of the women who absolutely refuse to give up trains in their evening gowns. I have seen several.very smart dinner dresses lately cut with short, sllghtlfr pointed trains, and I have no doubt that there will be others before the winter Is over. One that was worn recently was of ochrecolored satin, but the rather vivid yellow was very much subdued by an overdress of dark alumlnlum-gray net. The satin underskirt had the short train I spoke of, but the tunic, of course, was short. It was gathered In a little at the' top and its waist line was raised somewhat above Its natural position. The bottom of the tunic dropped Into points at the sides and was hemmed with a deep band of the yellow satin, which drew it in a trifle without giving It any-appearance of awkwardness or constraint—The Delineator.

A Muff Holder.

Reverse the wires of a coat hanger, making them curve upward Instead of downward. (One can get wire and press It into shape if no hanger Is available.) Make a long casing of satin ribbon and slip it over the wires until it Is gathered neatly, then fasten with ribbons. This will conveniently hold the muff and keep It In shape, and the fur collar can be thrown over the other side/ -

Newest Letter-Paper.

Borne Of the prettiest note paper has a very narrow border of blue, pink, gray, lavender or red, and one Initial at the top set In a ring of color the exact Shade as the border. Correspondence cards also are thus bordered and are very pretty.

The second would look well In serge; the skirt is made with a slanting wrapped seam down front on upper part; the lower Is quite plain and is joined to the upper under a material strap. The semi-fitting coat has the fronts arranged in two parts; the inner or side front is braided at the edge, the center fronts then wrap over one another in a slant and are continued to panel at back, this forming the lower edge of sides. Satin forms collar and revers; a bow is worn where fastening comes. Hat of silk with a large rose at the side. Materials required: 6 yards serge 46 inches wide, 3 buttons, % dozen yards braid, % yard satin.

SMART FOR THE AFTERNOON

Blue Eolinne the Best Material for This Exceedingly Effective Dress. A very smart little afternoon dress In nattier blue eolinne Is shown here. The skirt has a panel front and a plain piece round the lower part of sides and back; this is headed by a band of embroidery, the slight fullness of the upper part being gathered to .it The bodice Is cut round at the neck, the opening continued with a deep

point In front to show a yoke of lace embroidery, and buttons with cord loops form the trimming. „Tbe binder sleeves are of lace to match the yoke. Tagal hat to match the dress, trimmed with velvet and feathers. Materials required for the dress: six yards 46 inches wide, one and onehalf yard lace, about four and one-half yards- trimming.

For Paper Patterns.

Get a large Japanese lantern, hang It in the sewing room or any other convenient place and use It to hold light paper patterns. A lantern M durable and will hold a great many pattern*

A Comer in Ancestors

Tilden is one of those names taken "from the face of nature,” as the derivation books says, and originally signified a tiller of the soil. There are several forms of name—Tilden, Tildan, Tilding, Tlldren, Tilden and Tillidon; Telton is also found once In a whiles •, The English family from which the American family branched spelled the name Tylden. .It Is of great antiquity and has been noble for generations. Away back in the times of Henry H., the first king of the Plantagenet line, who came to the throne of England in 1154, there are records of a Sir Richard Tylden. Henry’s son, Richard Coeur de Lion, with Philip n„ of France, led the third crusade to the

holy land in 1190, and one of his companions was either Sir Richard Tylden himself or Sir Richard’s son. The first Tilden In this country came to Plymouth by the America In

Bancroft may be a name derived from bane or baynes, meaning white, or fair, and croft, an Anglo-Saxon word for a small enclosed field. In some parts of Scotland, and the Orkney and Shetland Isles, crofters are small holders of land. The term is now almost wholly confined to the western highlands. Bancroft may mean a small, white field, as Ashcroft means a close where ash trees grow, and Allcroft or Hallcroft an enclosure by the halt Croft is a common termination of surnames. About the only variations of Bancroft are Bancraft and Bancreaft We have no records of any of the family crossing the channel from France. To boasts made of the antiquity of prominent families and that their ancestors came over with the Conqueror, John Bright, most sarcastic of men where the nobility was concerned, used to reply promptly, “I never heard that they did anything else.” We, however, are not going back on the Conqueror's knights because the Bancroft name is not on Battle abbey roll. The family Is doubtless of Anglo-Saxon origin. They flourished In Lancashire, where Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury, or primate of England, was born. In 1544. He was “chief overseer,” as he was called, of the authorized version of the Bible, published 1812. We are more concerned at present, however, with those hardy pioneers of the new world, of the Bancroft name and lineage; men who bravely grappled with the dangers and endured the hardships incident to the new settlement. Men of stout arms and courageous hearts, who were part of that life, where every man had to make his own way, and the devil take the hindmost One pilgrim father was John Bancroft of Warston-on-Trent, Derby, of whom we know that he was married in England before 1622; that about 1682, with wife Jane and son Thomas, he was living In Lynn, or Lynnfield, or Reading. Mass., and that he died in 1637. He bad another son, his namesake, John. Thomas was In the Indian wars, with the rank of ensign, and afterward he was “lieutenant of the Foot company of Lynn.” Lieutenant Thomas was one who believed It not good for man to be alone and when his first wife, Allee Bacon, of Dedham, died, or as soon after as the proprieties permitted, he married Elibazeth Metcalf, bora In England. Among the Bancrofts who bore arms in the Continental army and were officers may be mentioned Lieutenant Samuel of Connecticut: of

By ELEANOR LEXINGTON

Tilden Family (Copyright by McClure Syndicate)

1628. He had a wife and children with him. But four years later when a division of cattle was made and all the colonists were mentioned in a list, his name is lacking. As no deaths had occurred in the meantime, it is supposed that he and his family returned to England. Nathaniel Tilden, Sir Richard’s descendant, was in New England before 1628. The family from which he came had lived for several centuries in Tenterden, County Kerit; about the time he came it separated into three distinct branches. One branch went to Sussex, one settled at Ifleld, and one came to America. It is not known just when' Nathaniel came over. But he is mentioned as a property holder at Scituate, Mass., in the first official records of the place, dated-1628; the record is a sale by Henry Merritt to Nathaniel Tilden “of all that "land which Ijmd of Goodman Byrd lying within the fence at the north end of the third cliffe, unto the land of Nathaniel Tilden.” He was among the earliest settlers there, called the “men of Kent,” because of their birthplace; some of the others were Thomas Bird, Edward Foster, Henry Rowler, Anthony Annable and William Gillson. Nathaniel’s youngest son, Stephen, married, in 1662, Hannah, granddaughter of Richard Little, who had come to America in the “Mayflower.” They had 12 children. Throughout its history the Tilden family has married into other historic families. The late William Smith Tilden, member of the Massachusetts legislature ip 1879, married Olive, a descendant of Robert-Babcock, one of the first settlers of Dorchester, Mass. His father and grandfather had married, respectively, Catherine Smith and Hannah Perry, both descended from men of importance in ante-revo-lutionary days. The late Samuel J. Elam was a son of John, who came from Lebanon, Conn., tn New Lebanon, Tilden, governor of New York 1875-6, and unsuccessful candidate for the presidency in 1876, was the son of Elam Tilden and Polly Y. Jones, a married a sister of Oliver Cromwell, the French war. His father was Isaac, son of Stephen and Hannah, whose grandfather, as mentioned above, came over In the “Mayflower.” The arms Illustrated, which’are the only arms borne by the Tildens of this family, are blazoned: Azure, a salture, ermine, between four pheons, or. Crest: A battle-axe, erect, entwined with a snake; all proper. Motto: Truth and Liberty.

Bancroft Family

Massachusetts, Ensign William, Captain James, who died 1831; Lieutenants Edmund, Lemuel and James and Captain Ebenezer, wounded at Bunker hill. The Rev. Aaron Bancroft of Massachusetts, a Harvard graduate, a minute man at Lexington and Bunker hill.

is not only remembered fbr Ms patriotic services, but also because he wrote a “Life of Washington,” and he was the father of George Bancroft, the historian. This line traces directly back to Lieutenant Thomas the first. His son, Thomas, being the great-great-grandfather of George. Thomas has always been a favorite name, a name which seemed to bestow good luck, for all bearing it made their mark in. the world and are making it George Bancroft was not only the historian of his country but a statesman as well. He was representative at both the courts of St James and Berlin, where he was a persona grata. The coat of arms Illustrated is ascribed to John Bancroft, the Lynn pilgrim of 1682. It Is blazoned, or; on a bend between six cross-crosslets, azure, three garbs (or wheat sheaves) of the first Crest, a garb, between two wings expanded, or. Motto: Dat Deus Incrementum. Arms nearly identical, is blazoned, by Burke, as granted 1604.