Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1911 — Page 3

HAPPLNINGS IN THE CITIES

Plan 100-Story Building for Gotham

MEW YORK. —At the recent meetM tag of the National association of Building Owners and Managers in Cleveland, 0., the statement was made that skyscrapers over 30 stories in height are monaments of uselessness. To show the absurdity of the statement George T. Mortimer, vicepresident ofithe United States Realty and Improvement company, of New T ork . stated that there are. now in his office plans for a 100-story building. He claims that from an engineering standpoint the plans are practical and there is no reason why the building could not be constructed. s, A few years ago, when it was believed the building code wotfld be amended to prevent the erection of buildings hlghed than 20 stories, the Equitable Life Insurance company filed plans for a 60-story building, but that was little more than a dream of the late Paul Morton, then president of the company. ’ When the Metropolitan tower was built two years ago it was thought

Aged Churchman Charged With Arson

Newark, n. j.— eiiis Appleby, of Old Bridge, N. J., 60 years old, deacon 1n the Baptist church, wealthy and well known, was recently arrested on a charge of arson. Action comes after an inquiry of six years, in which the whole county of Middlesex has been terrorised by Incendiary fires. Daring the reign of terror murder followed arson. The Specific.accusation is made by an insurance company in the case of tbe burning of tbe home of Mrs. Jessie Brown on August 31. In six years the residents of Old Bridge have been strangely murdered and more than a dozen fires occurred Six years ago Mrs. Jane Wright, an octogenarian, was found dead in bed one morning in her house, where she lived alone, across from thd Baptist church of which Appleby is 6ne of the elders. Every effort was made by the authorities to find the murderer, but the case baffled the cleverest detectives. One of, those who threatened to bring tbe murderer to justice waß George Whiteman Jr., son of tbe keeper of the Rooster Inn, two miles from Old Bridge. A few days later young Whiteman and his father were murdered in the inn, both having been shot by some unknown assailant

Pretty Girl Thief Gets $600 by Ruse

Philadelphia, p».— wh&t the police declare to be one of the boldest and most carefully planned robberies perpetrated here in recent years was committed by a beautiful 21-year-old girl, who, Impersonating an inspector In the John Wanamaker store, collected S6OO in cash from five cashiers.. Thar the girl did not succeed In getting away with several thousand dollars was due to the young woman cashier in the suit and cloak department, who refused to turn over the day's prooeeds to the “inspector." The only clew to the girl’s Identity that the store detectives have found Is the signature she used In signing receipts for the money she collected. On each of the live receipts turned over to the cashiers she signed in a bold, firm hand the initials “M. R. C.” That the robbery was carefully

Cowboy Shopper Is One Real Spender

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—When the fop of the Bar-Clrcle-X and the Bar Y ranches cornea up to the city to buy hia winter wardrobe, about the aante time bla more effete brother, the fop of the towns, goes to St. Louis, Chicago or New York to lay tai hia winter wardrobe, so there is little chance of them meeting and comparing notes. With his supercilious air. the effete one might look in scorn upon hia sun-tanned confrere, while the bronco-bustin’ dude of the southwest undoubtedly would break into a guffaw if he saw the ether in a Prince Albert coat and top hat So perhaps it la well that each makes his annual eastern migration about the same time of the year. For the difference between them, at bottom, is very . small, after all. When the one comes back with his new fall suit and his fussy hat and , his spats and gloves and all the rest of it he probably will think be has been something of a spender: Be probably would be iutpHsed to know that the other would look unor him

the limit in height had been reached.; That structure of 49 stories, towers • 700 feet above the ground. But at the present time a 55-story building is in course of construction which, when; completetd, will be 750 feet high. So it will be seen that the 100-story I building, like the 100-foot boat, is j really not a dream but actually ta{ sight as a practical realization. According to Mr. Mortimer, the erection of a 100-story building Will not offer any more serious engineering problems than are to be found in putting up one of 45 or 50 stories. The foundations will not have to be any deeper, for the solid rock below the surface of Manhattan would support ble to build one. ? The building, of course, will be of* steel construction, more than 40,000 i tons h e ta£ required, not to mention, 22,600,000 common brick, 2,700,0001 face brick, 60,000 cubic feet of Indiana limestone, 6,000 cubic feet of granite' and 9,000 tons of ornamental terra cotta. The outer materials are in equally stupendous quantities. For instance, 1,350,000, square feet of partition tile will be heeded, 2,400,000 feet of pine boards for floor covering, 6,900 windows, 18,000 square feet .of glass and 840,000 pounds of window weights. Ninety elevators will be housed in it

A f«w weeks later a laborer who was thought to have, some knowledge of the crime was found murdered in the road on the outskirts of Old Bridge. The murder of the 'laborer was followed by the finding of the body, In a deserted part of the town, of Thomas Collins, a prominent citizen of Old Bridge, who had made the statement that tie would spend every' cent he possessed to bring the murderer to justice. ’ In the meantime the insurance companies, the county board of freeholders and the townspeople had detectives working. So baffling was the series of crimes that two well-known detective agencies gave' up the work. It was a private detective, employed by an insurance company, that finally placed the blame at tbe door of the Baptist church elder. The Appleby family is one of the best known in New Jersey.

planned is evidenced by the fact the gir’ preceded the regular Inspector, who dally collects the cash, by but a few minutes. So close was her calculation that while she was getting cash from one cashier the regular inspector was collecting from a cash register only a few feet away. She told the cashier that the regular Inspector has been discharged and she would in future make daily collections. Without a word the cashier turned over about SSO In bills of small denominations, which the collector put in a small tin box—a duplicate of the one carried by the regular Inspector. The same performance was repeated at one of the counters On the main floor. Emboldened by her success, the girl madesher way to the suit and cloak department, but the cashier there became suspicious and refused to turn over the day's cash, which amounted to more than $4,000. The girl did not remonstrate, but saying she would take along the schedule of the day's business went to another counter on the same floor and was successful in making collections.

as a cheap -sport, a piker, a T-wad, who didn’t know how to turn good money loose when he had It. * For your cowboy dude la the origlhal turner-loose of money when it comes to buying adornments. He will spend S4O for a pair of boots. $lO for a pair of gloves, S2O for a hat and $75 for a saddle without turning a hair. Through all the lonesome days and nights when be la "out on the range" he is thinking of the trip he will take to Kansas Q|ty the first time he gets a chance. And when finally be does drift into town, he goes right over to Blank’s and buys hia outfit before be starts to taka in the town, sample the brands of wet roodsqr hunt up » Poker im|

THE officials of the federal bureau of mines are being heartily congratulated on the success of the tests Iff explosions and rescue work made at Pittsburgh. The work of the rescue corps, which is seen in the photograph adjusting its equipment before entering the mine, was declared to be excellent

PERIL OF COAL DUST

Expert Demonstrates Contention of Explosion. Pennsylvania Mine Is Wrecked by Touching Off Badiy Placed Charge of Ordinary Black Powder—'Test la Object Lesson. Pittsburg. Pa. —“No , amount of writing or talking could be so forcible in the teaching. of great lessons,” said Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, director of the bureau of mines, when he returned the other night from the demonstration at the government experimental mine at Bruceton, Pa. Covered with mud and looking almost like a veritable miner. Or. Holmes was most enthusiastic over the experiment, notwithstanding many delays In the preparations. It was not until after dark that this first’ “made-to-order” mine explosion took place. < Standing alone in his laboratory, back in the hills of Allegheny county, a chemist twice touched an Innocentappearing button. The explosion failed to materialize. Investigation found the source of trouble, which was readily remedied. The last shot was touched off by Dr. Holmes. Instantly there was a dull nimble far down in the bowels of the earth. Flames burst from the drift and spurted from the air shaft. The fanhouse went dpwn with a crash. Dense volumes of black smoke poured into the open and the heavens were ablaze. It was terrifying to the laymen. Fire bosses, mine foremen and superintendents who had heretofore escaped those things unexpected saw what they, believed they would some day experience, but would never be able to tell—a real mine explosion. The government effort bad apparently been successful. It was a test of the explosive properties of the “deadly” coal dust So enthusiastic was Dr. Holmes, the gov-

APT AS SMUGGLERS

Women Show Remarkable Ingenuity in Getting Pets Through. One Was Detected When “Baby" Barked and Another Was Caught Giving Animal Drug to Prevents Its Making Noise. Dover. —The days when bold, bad smugglers ran their boatloads of rum and brandy and tobacco Into secret coves and caves on the seashore are gone. The smugglers of'today are women, aqd their cargo is often dogs. The devices which they are now adopting to evade the customs officers and the quarantine law of the land are as ingenious as they are amasing. Twice women hafi boon charged here With attempting to smuggle dogs in by concealing them in pockets in their underclothing. They would have succeeded in their intentions,’ too, but for the dogs having yelped and betrayed their mistresses. But popular—and often successful — aa is this hidden pocket dodge. It la commonplace beside some of the methods of dog smugglers which have recently been attempted at Dover. "A woman, a nurse and ant Infant In long clothes," said a customs officer, “boarded the steamer at Calais. They immediately abut themselves in a cabin, and were not seen again till Dover was reached, except by the customs men on board, who wars quite

MINE DISASTER RESCUE EXPERIMENTS

RESCUE TEAM PREPARING TO EMTER THE MINE

ernment’s expert, that be made this public statement: “The great value of this experiment to the mining Industry was In demonstrating to more than 1,500 coal operators and mine managers from every coal mining district of the United States the fact: “That ordinary bituminous or soft coal dust will explode from a charge of black powder badly placed in a mine; “That dest will explode with a violence sufficient to wreck the mine and kill every person working in the mine, and “That poisonous gases are giVen off from such an explosion in sufficient quantity to suffocate and poison any persons in the mine who may have escaped the violence of the explosion. “The fact that the explosion did

Successor of Famous Garden to Be Mammoth Affair—To Be Known ? as “Broadway Gardena.” New York.—4‘Broadway Gardens" Is to take the place of Madison Square Gardens, which has been sold, and shortly will be razed and replaced with business structures. Afanouncement has been made by the archie tects for the new arena that the company organized to built It will be Incorporated next week with $1,500,000 capital. The mammoth structure will occupy the entire block on Broadway between Forty-seventh and Fortyeighth streets, and will extend back to within 100 feet of Eighth avenue.' In every way it will be larger than Madison Square Garden. The main entrance will be on Broadway, and the rest of the Broadway frontage will be occupied by a store and office building six stories in height On the For-ty-seventh street side will be a theater on tbs ground floor, With a seat-

satisfied that they had no contraband with them. “At Dover, however, when the party was coming, ashore, the ‘infant,’ whose head was completely muffled In lace and muslin, barked. Here 1b another stqry, the would-be smuggler in this Instance being a man: “A traveling rug on his arm excited suspicion. He was stopped and the rug examined, and found te contain three little pockets* In each of which was a valuable tiny dog. "He was fined $75 and the dogs were put In quarantine." The sailor to whom I spoke once happened to glance inside a cabin, occupied by two women passengers t,o Dover, Just before the customs men entered ft. One woman was giving a little dog a t-hlff of something out of a bottle—probably chloroform; the other was busy making up a “parcei" of wraps, etc. A cushion was thrown carelessly over the Insensible dog, and the officers did not trouble to look underneath it When the women, left the boat they had the dog concealed In the parcel, which had been "passed." And these by no means exhaust the means which women employ to smuggle their pets. . They suspend them In bags from their necks. Women who do this always wear well buttoned up coats or else plenty of furs. They put them In big pockets of loose "overcoats." They carry them In their muffs, one

TO OUTDO MADISON SQUARE

not take place until after dark was a disappointment to the photographers and many of the visitors; but the effect 'Of the explosion with the enormous flame which penetrated and rose above the forest trees of this region was so much more imprlpsive at night than it possibly ’could have been during the daytime that it was held to be fortunate that it had occurred at night rather than during the day. ‘The explosion at the experimental mine means further that, having been actually witnessed by so many coal mine operators and managers from the different coal mining states, these men will return to their respective mines impressed not only with the fact that dust will explode from the improper use of black powder, but that many of the explpsions that have already occurred in the mines in other regions have been dust explosions and ’not gas explosions, as they were formerly supposed to be. It, therefore, opens up new lines of treatment looking to the prevention of such mine i explosions in the future.”

tag capacity of 1,100. Two theaters, a winter garden and a covered garden will occupy the roof. The arena will seat about 20,000 persons. It will be 250 feet in length by 166 feet in width. Underneath the arena will be another one of the *° m f size, available for show purposes. The sides will be constructed, as far as feasible, of glass and steel.

Praises American Army.

Copenhagen.—Lieutenant Becker, o< the Royal Danish Life Guards, has returned from a visit to the United States full of praise for the American army. In company with Admiral Togo. the lieutenant watched the arm s maneuvers at West Point, and he was delighted with the trailing of the American forces. At the Danish autumn maneuvers a new military bridge Invented by Lieutenant Von der Maase win receive its first test The bridge Is designed to enabje infantry to cram streams quickly and noiselessly.

hand holding the dog inside the This is a frequently tried trick at te»sons when muffs can be worn without exciting suspicion. "We catch about one a month," another customs officer said, "but far every one we do ‘spot’ twenty or thirty must escape us. ‘‘lf a dog does not bark or wriggle at the wrong moment and if It is so skillfully tucked away as not to impede movement, a woman who has her pet hidden somewhere in her dress Is practically certain to pf us scot free. Women, it seems, rarely trust to the smuggling powers of their men where dogs are concerned. 11118, aft first sight, may seem curious, for a man could very often get a dog*safely through In one of his big pockets. But perhaps the reason lies deeper. The following Shavian dictum is regarded as a truism by the customs officers: ■■■„ "A man Is generally more honest than a woman; if you challenge him. and he has contraband, he usually owns up.”

Marriage is No Handicap.

Ottawa, Kan.—To pvove that being married is no handicap to eduoatkxa or social life in school, the married students of Ottawa university have perfected the organisation of a benedicts’ club, and. In violation of a recent order to segregate the •mm at chapel exercises, marched in with their wives and took their seats in a body. As they same in they gave U|e)r yell: "Pink and white; pink and white. Oh, benedicts, they're all right." There are ten couples in the deb and eleven children. The hrttw are honorary members of the deb.

HOW TO INDUCE SLEEP

AVOID ALL OPIATBft AND OTHKIf FORMS OF -DOPE." Light Meal Followed by Exercise, Well Aired Room and Warm Feet Usually Will Bring Peaceful Slumber. ■'■ljjsjm ”4 1 ' ■ —— There are sound hygienic methods by which sleep may be induced. Incursions into the realms Of patent medicines, opiates, and all sorts of slumber elixirs which are summed up as “dope,” should be avoided. But the merql of this lesson has bee* pointed ever and over, yet Httie hak| been said about natural methods of wooing sleep. Under this head does not come the various mental contrhr? 1 ances such as “counting sheep” or citing the multiplication table. Oxygen Is as necessary to the ho4lY cells during the hoars of sleep as at any other time. Perhaps in the case ) of childrOji it is even more necessary. For them sleep means the time of anabolism, growth and repair. The old prejudice against open windows still exist*, in spite of the campaigns of education in the newspapers anfrin the schools.. Dust in the room*, an Imaginary draft, the fear of colds, and many other stupid reasons are advanced in excuse of this pernicious prejudice. The organs of the body also should be considered, and no excessive work should he given the heart or digestive organs before retiring to rest High pillows lead to an increase in the heart’s force at a time when the heart should have the lightest wpjh. Pillows that are too low may cktise headaches, and even sleeplessness, through, an excess of blood being in the brain. Heavy late suppers am unwise, but a light meal, followed by such moderate exqrclae as a- short walk, is generally conducive to sound sleep. The light meal ciuses a withdrawal of blood from the head Into the stomach area and the body generally. The body is therefor* warmed, and this is Important Cold extremities, particularly cold feet, cause sensory stimulations, which produce sleeplessness, often for hours. People who suffer In this way should take means to keep tbeif feet warn artificially by using sleeping socks, or slipper baths, or by the use of hot water bottles, and by sleeping between blankets. * It is, of course,- fatal to sound Meep to go to bbd "with apything on* tbe mind.” In these sensational and pleasure-loving days we often retire to rest after receiving a long series of vivid sensations which often account for hours of sleepless tossing. Sometimes this may be relieved by a gentle friction of the head with a medium hard brush. t fering,' grief, responsibility* uid (last, but by no means least) mast find their place In his life at some time or other. Life without these would be at best a mere existence, and so we must pay the bin at such times. And even then fatisrue must cause sleep ere long. ■ / It may he wise not to be too particular about noises when little children are asldep. At some future time they may be thankful for learning to sleep while a certain amount of noise is gooing on. For instance, there is no reason why they should not be accustomed to sleep while, a piano is being played in another room in the house —Spokane Spokesman-Review.

Veneered Furniture.

In these days of the veneered furniture, when the buyer chooses only that piece of quartered oak that shows the most flake in the cnt. it is well to make ft a point to never allow water or liquid long Co remain on tfc* surfaces, this especially of tables, for It Is liable to reach the glue beneath this paper-like surface, and- later when drying out make it lift and bulge, to repair which only an expert Is capable. Dampness ciu? easily reach it almost unknowingly by plaolng on It A vase or Jar which has fa It some cool substance that might make moisture effect oa the outer side and leak to the table top. This should be guarded against,, as varnish, ed surfaces become opaque arid this more often than the vender bulging, which happening hi verily a’ calamity.

Child of Genius.

An actor was talking at the Players’ Club in New York about David Belasco’s akill as a Stage manager. "Belasco," said the actor, "has a*i superhuman sense of the harmonies, the fitnesses of things. This enables him to carry out a stage scene to such small details as no man ever dreamed of before. “Belasco, even hi his childhood, possessed this unique sense of harmony. An Uncle once gave him a couple of dmcolate cigars, then mid to the little boy: ’“What are you going to do with them, David?’ “ ‘lll go and eat them in the smoking room,” was the prompt reply.* >;

Old Not Fill the Bill.

Old Lady—There Is one thing I notice particularly about that young man who calls to see you. He seems to have an Inborn, instinctive respect for women. He treats every, woman as though she were a being, from a higher sphere, to be approached only With the utmost. delicacy and deference; Granddaughter (sweet Yes. he’s horridly bashfuL-Now Torfk . w«ur