People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1897 — Page 7

PALACE ON KYKOUT HILL.

4«ha D. Rockefeller's Plaaa For m *1,000,000 «, Boxwood. I* is reported on good authority that John D. Rockefeller, the multimillionaire, will positively erect, daring next Spring, • magnifioent residence on his country seat, Boxwood, at Pocantioo bills. Boxwood oovers an estate of near- j ly 800 acres. The highest point of the property is known as the Kykout hill end is a historical spot because Washington once stood there and from its height made a foray upon the British. This summit Mr. Rockefeller has selected as the site for his new manor house. During the past six months upward of SOO men mid 60 teams have been busy lowering the top of the Kykout so as to fcave sufficient room for the foundation and landscaping the slopes around about, under the direction of Engineer Hemingway, who was engaged as superintendent of the gigantio undertaking. Mr. Rockefeller has so far spent probably f 250,000 in thißWork. Aooording to the stories told by the contractors, the new manor house will cost over $1,000,000. An architect who is a relative of the Rookefeller family is drawing the plans. The style of architecture will be after French olassio designs, with a Greek finish. It will be built of highly polished granite, will be nearly 800 feet in length and will have a depth of something like 76 feet. The ornamentation will be of marble. The building will stand on suoh a high point that there will be a magnifioent View of the American Rhine for miles both north and south. The interior deoorations will be of pure Frenoh and Italian designs. There will be a grand salon, tapestry 4 ball, drawing rooms, parlors, reception and dining rooms and library, each finished in a different oolor. In addition to this building a large training stable, a conservatory, cottages for the superintendent, gardener and coaohman and a lodge will also be built. One of the features of the Rookefeller country house will be the private park surrounding it, which will be made as beautiful as landscapes can make it. A walled garden space of several acres will be devoted to grouping horticultural produots, suoh as orchids, chrysanthemums and roses, for which Mr. and Mrs. Rookefeller have a special hobby. Mrs. Rookefeller recently told a friend that she is in love with the charming scenery about Pocantioo hills, and when the new residence is completed she intends spending the entire year there instead of residing in the oity in the winter. The weekly pay roll of the laborers employed in landscaping the Rockefeller grounds and preparing the foundations averages from $2,000 to SB,OOO. —New York Journal.

WONDERFUL INVENTION.

Professor Rowland's Multiplex Printing Telegraph Soon to Be on the Market. The multiplex printing telegraph, invented by Professor Henry A. Rowland of the Johns Hopkins university, will sootn be put upon the market By this instrument an operator oan transmit a telegram written upon a typewriter and have it reproduced in typewritten form at the receiving end. In addition to the typewriting part of the invention Dr. Rowland, with his new maohine, can send over the same wire five or Bix different messages at the same time in one direction, which, in duplex, makes 10 or 12 messages that can be transmitted on the same wire at the same time. Thus with five operators at each end of a line sending each an average of 80 words a minute 800 words can be transmitted each minute. . Dr. Rowland inquired at the patent office in Washington and was informed that no suoh invention has ever been received there, typewriting telegraphy having been attempted before, but upon entirely different principles. He has used a synchronous device in his invention, and in the mechanical arrangement of the typewriter has used but , eight signals, the letters being produced by combinationa The current of electricity transmitting the message can be relayed, and in this manner the invention oah be operated for great distances. When completed, Dr. Rowland says, the new instrument will be as convenient and as easily operated a» the ordinary telegraphic dispatching and receiving apparatua—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat.

One Penny Annually.

Benjamin C. Jones, living near the Whitley county (Ind.) line, has secured several thousand signers to his petition for assistance. Jones is a veteran of the late war and poor. He believes that the citizens of the republic owe him « debt for services rendered his country, and for a month Jones has been circulating a petition, the signers of which pledge themselves to pay the sum of 1 cent annually for his support, his estate to be divided at death among his heirs. Jones is tramping from place to plaoe obtaining signers and is meeting with success. The money i 9 to be mailed to Jones during the month of December in eaoh year, when, if his subscribers are prompt, the mails will be flooded with penny contributions for the veteran’s support.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.

Will Cost $10,000,000.

At a special meeting of the executive committee of the T Square club, at the office of the president, David Knickerbocker Boyd, resolutions proposed by A. Kelsey that the competition for plans for new buildings for the University of California, which are to be erected on a site overlooking the Golden Gate, be restricted to American architects; that a committee of representative architects be invited to confer with the regents of the university to prepare the programme of the competition, and that a restricted paid competition will bring forth more carefully studied designs than any form of open competition. The proposed new buildings will oost, it is said, in the neighborhood of $10,000),000. — Philadelphia Press. j

ADVANCE IN SURGERY

HOW IT DIFFERS NOW FROM WHAT IT WAB FIFTY YEARS AGO. *he Bum* Of Mm Knife Cp to the Dfe. martaj of AsuMtbeate—Danger as Well M Ymtn In the Operation—First Use of BUmt by B*. William T. O. Morton. One at the most Interesting papers lead at the celebration In Boston of the fiftieth anniversary of the first administration of ether in a surgical operation, says the Philadelphia Record, was that by Dr. John Ashhnrst of this city on “Surgery Before the Days of Aneesthetfos. M It vividly reoalls the horrors of those days when the surgeon's knife was ftn object of far greater terror than now and inflicted untold -tortures upon the Conscious patient. “A study of the condition of surgery before the days of anesthesia, “said Dr. Ashhnrst, “reveals on the one hand a picture of heroic boldness and masterly Sell control on the part of the surgeon, and on the other a ghastly panorama, sometimes of stole fortitude and endurance, sometimes of abject terror and humiliation—but always of agonizing Wretchedness and pain—on the part of the unhappy victim who required the surgeon’s aid. ‘*The *pitilessness* which Ceicus urged as an essential trait in the operative surgeon was, before the days of anaesthesia, a feature in the surgeon's career which Impressed very strongly the pnblio generally as well as those Immediately connected with the operation. It Is interesting to recall that Sir James Simpson of Edinburgh, shortly after beginning his professional studies, was so affected by 'seeing the terrible agony of a poor Highland woman under amputation of the breast’ that he resolved to abandon ft medical career and seek other occupation. Happily his intention was reconsidered, ana he returned to his studies, asking himself, ‘Oan anything be done* to make operations less painful?’ and, as every one knows, in less than 20 years he became a high priest of anesthesia and the Introduoer into surgical and obstetrical practice of ether’s great rival, chloroform. “No braver or more gallant gentleman ever lived than Admiral Viscount Nelson, and,after his right elbow had been shattered by a Frenoh bullet in the assault at Tenerife he manifested the Utmost courage, refusing to be taken to the nearest ship lest the sight of his injury should alarm the wife of a fellow officer whose own fate was uncertain, and when his own ship was reached he climbed up its side without assistance, Saying: 'Tell the surgeon to make haste and get his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it is off the better.’ ‘He underwent the amputation, ’ we learn from a private letter of one of his midshipmen, 'with the same firmness and courage that have always marked his character. ’ And yet so painfully was he affected by the coldness of the operator’s knife that when next going into action at the famous battle of the Nile he gave standing orders to his Burgeons that hot water should always be kept in readiness during an engagement, so that if another operation should be required he might at least have the poor comfort of being cut with warm instruments. “On the side of the surgeon we find throughout the ages a constant effort to diminish the terrors of operations and a continuous reprobation of the distressful, not to say cruel, modes of practice adopted by preceding generations. And yet the time is not very far distant from ours when they lopped off a limb by striking it violently with a heavy knife; that time when they knew neither how to stop nor how to prevent hemorrhage bnt by burning the part whence the blood jetted with boiling oil or the redhot iron; that time when surgeons armed themselves at every moment with pinchers, with burning cauteries and with instruments the representations even of which cause terror. “But the presence of pain was not the only evil dreaded by our predecessors in attempting important operations. The great risk of fatal accident from some involuntary movement of the patient was constantly present to the mind of the conscientious surgeon. ‘How often, ’ says Dr, Valentine Mott, ‘when operating in some deep, dark wound, along the course of some great vein, with thin walls alternately distended and flaccid with the vital current—how often have I dreaded that some unfortunate struggle of the patient would deviate the kuife a little from its proper course and that I, who fain would be the deliverer, should involuntarily become the executioner, seeing my patient perish in my hands by the most appalling form of death! Had be been insensible I should have felt no alarm. ’ “Coming down to the days more immediately preceding the date of the great discovery, we find that opium and alcohol were the only agents which continued to be regarded as of practical value in diminishing the pain of operations, though the attendant disadvantages of their employment were of course recognized. Meanwhile facts were accumulating the significance of which we now plainly recognize, but which excited no attention. “Sir Humphry Davy, in the early days of the nineteenth century, suggested the use of nitrous oxide gas as an anaesthetic in minor operations, and it was the custom at some of our medical sobools—at the University of Pennsylvania, for one—for students to breathe ‘laughing gas, ’ as it was then called, for diversion. But yet—and yet—surgeons went on, in every country, cutting and burning, and patients went on writhing and screaming, until on the 16th day of October, in tbs year 1846, in the Massachusetts General hospital, Dr. John G. Warren painlessly removed a tumor from a man who had previously been etherized by Dr. William T. G. Morton, and surgical anaesthesia became the priceless heritage of the civilized world.”

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, JtND., TRURSBAY. JANUARY 14. 1897

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