Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 265, 1 August 1909 — Page 4
THE RICHMOND PAWLADIU3I AND SUN-TEI,EGRAM. SUNDAY, AtTQTJST 1," 1909.
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Obligation or "Concession."
Obviously If the new mala is not needed, then the company may Justly claim that they ought to be given ; other Tights and privileges to balance the granting of a mere whim of the people or a "bogey" raised by the Insurance companies. A pipe line will cost somewhere near $40,000. Naturally the Company would rather not build it. ' We are of the opinion that another main is a part of the obligation which the company owes to the community. We think it only fair that it should give fire protection to the town which will insure it perfectly from destruction or imminent peril at the most dangerous time. For a public service corporation has other duties to the community in which it operates than the wholesaling and retailing of water. One of its duties is to furnish water to the" city at the time when there is the most danger.
Any Danger?
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DR. ELIOT AND HIS NEW RLLIG10N. A religion without dogma, without
supernaturalism and without authority. That seems to be the sum and sub-
etnace of the .'new religion of Dr. Eliot - For' years this man has held the highest place in the country as a
thinker, as a leader of other men into
new paths of thought.. He is gentle.
He has none of . the characteristics
which sometimes mark college pro
feasors-like others, as ' seeking after notoriety. He has often raised his voice for the higher and truer things
of life when it was not' altogether politic to do so. r It has been his custom and his natural inclination by virtue of his intellectual vigor and acquired knowledge to make incursions and excur
sions into things' as they are and ought to be. But his latest the 'new religion, seems somewhat footless or a thing that were better speculated on with kindred souls than shouted from
the roof tops. In this wise he formulates his relig Ion: ,: . i ;
As a rule, j the .j older Christian
churches have relied on authority. But there is now a tendency toward liberty and progress, -: and among v educated men this feeling is irresistible. In the
new religion there will be no personi
fication of natural objects; there will be no deification of remarkable human
beings, and the faith will not be racial
or tribal, v" : - . The new religion will admit no sac
raments, except natural, hallowed
customs, and it will deal with natural
interpretations of such rites. Its priests will strive rto, improve social
and inudstrial conditions. Preven
tion will be the watchword of the new religion and a skillful surgeon will be
one of its ministers.
The love of God and service to men are the most virile parts of his new
creed. . ; -. - 1 But is that new?
The gentle Man of Nazareth expressed that idea in its highest form nineteen centuries ago. And with many imperfect, misunderstandings, that is
in most cases the basis of all religion
Distorted though the conception of God may be, and ill considered as the relation of self to others, that is old
too. . .
It seems to the casual observer that,
as the French say,, Pr. Eliot has been
to a deal, of trouble to smash in win
dows that were, already open! And
this is particularly true in America. ' In the field, of "the supernaturalmuch that religion would lose by fol
lowing i Eliot. Without the superna
tural whether it be fate, or nature, or
God, where is man? It is the instinct
lve dread of being thrown on his own resources that makes him a believer
In the supernatural. Rely on pure
reason of things and you haul up a"
ter wandering in v a circle-exactly
where you started.
The Why is always staring you in
the face,
Therefore to most persons the relig
ion of Doctor Eliot seems good only in those things which are his main
:'. tenets.
A Roman priest in New Jersey re
marks that the 'new religion Is great piece of superstition.
Another writer smartly says that it Is as unsatisfactory as his five foot book shelf from which Shakespeare and the Bible were omitted. Alto
gether it. seems that what there is of
religion in the new doctrine Is some
hundreds of years old. v
Alas, He Cannot Talk!
Opposition to scientific - research is
sure to end as soon as It is recog
nlzed that the cad Is good. ". Uncle
Ezra's remark in the Washington Star
Is to the point on this subject
"I don't see much use in de scientls' folks studyln' monkey talk. he said.
"but a study of boss talk dat nd let
da animal teU all about hlase'f befo'
a trade) comes off 'ud save heap o
hard faeita'a : N
ANOTHER MAIN. Is another main from the punning station to the city necessary? " If It is, necessary. Is it a debt owed by the Water Works Company to the citizens of Richmond, or is it a "concession?" . That seems a matter to be discussed.
THE TIME WHEN A MAIN PIPELINE IS MOST LIKELY TO BREAK IS WHEN. THERE IS A LARGE FIRE AND ALL THE PRESSURE IS TURNED ON. THAT IS, "PUMPING DIRECT." THEREFORE THE GREATER THE NECESSITY, THE GREATER THE DANGER. "Pumping direct." is the system in use here at times of danger by fire. The connection is severed from the reservoir and the gravity flow is stopped. The pumping then begins directly into the main line of pipe from a containing well. The direct pressure is as strong as the engineer allows it to become. Let a careless engineer take his hand from the throttle when it is running at a dangerous rate or let him fail to keep his attention on the indicator the main is in danger. And once the main breaks that means twenty-four hours before it can be fixed. Richmond can burn up in twenty-four hours.
It Did.
It did happen one Thanksgiving Eve about fifteen years ago that a blow-out did occur near the Hawkins pond just beyond the second run. It blew forty cart loads of dirt out of the ground. Also it required twen-
ty-four hours to fix it in. ,
But there was no fire that time else we would have had the double main years ago. Public sentiment would have forced it .The time when yon need a second main is when the main has blown out. The main is most apt to blow out when pumping direct . A main is one of the uncertain things that no one knows about It may never blow out again. It might not It may. But if it does blow out It will blow out at a most inconvenient time. THE POINT WE MAKE IS THAT IT CAN BLOW OUT. IT DID.
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The above picture show the one main pipeline of the Richmond City Water Works Company dangerously exposed near the second run in the neighborhood of the Hawkins Pond just north of Glen Miller. The reader will notice that the' pipe Is out of line causing a strain at the, joint under which the water hae completely hollowed a cavity. The cavity means an added strain. . The proper remedy for this condition is exactly what the Water Works Company has done in other Instances along its main line and from its reservoir. It needs a concrete enforcement. The imminent danger of a break In this line is certainly worth considering. The reason it is introduced at this place, Is primarily to bring home to the citizens of Richmond in what jeopardy their water supply is with one main. The danger is not only on the surface as the fact of the blowout about fifteen years ago will attest. That was safely buried. vOn July 22nd, tha' Palladium called the attention of the authorities of the Water Works Company to thia place. The Company's representative said he would attend to it the next day. An employe of the company inform us that nothing ha been done as yet. - The above photograph is not many feet distant from the blowout of fifteen, years ago, and is just over the ridge which appears in the back ground.
orally a break occurs at the weakest point This being the case we leave as a fair question whether or not there is perfect safety In the present system? Approximately perfect safety is what the town Is entitled to.
TO GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING, WHAT SHOULD THE PIPELINE BE CONSIDERED A "CONCESSION" OR AN OBLIGATION? IF THE COMPANY HAS ITS WAY IT WILL BE CLAIMED THAT THE PIPELINE IS A MERE WHIM OF THE CITIZENS WHICH IT WILL GRANT AT THE EXPENSE OF REAL CONCESSIONS IN RATES, OR TERM OF CONTRACT ON THE PART OF THE CITY.
Editor's Note Of the matter as to whether or not the financial condition of the company will warrant such an expenditure without "getting their money back" somehow that is a subject which the Palladium will take up later.
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Perfect Safety?
As we are credibly informed the danger Is not so much of one of the
pipes bursting though that is conceivable the danger is centered at the "bells" or joints which are cemented by leaden fillers. At every joint of the twelve-foot pipes which compose the main there is a possible danger. The natural wear and tear of time certainly has no tendency to increase the efficiency of the joints of the one pipe line which furnishes an the water that Richmond uses. A rough estimate of the number of such joints is about L200. Nat-
SIGNING THE DECLARATION. Editor Palladium: Tomorrow, August 2d is the 133d anniversary of the first signature attached to the Declaration of Independence. There is a prevailing belief that when the members of congress adopted this revered document they tumbled over each other in their raste to sign it. This is a great mistake. After a bitter discussion, lasting "the greater part of three days" the perfected declaration was adopted on the evening of the 4th of July. No one thought then of signing it. But on the 19th of July a member of con
gress moved a committee be appointed to prepare a cony of s the Declaration of Independence, engrossed on parchment, and that it then be signed by all the members.
The committee was appointed and
on the second day of August reported the parchment copy of the Declaration which has been so sacredly pre
served among the archives of the gov
ernment at Washington. A few of the
most patriotic members signed it on
that day, but the greater portion hesi-1 tated and asked for time to think ! about it. Some members flatly refused to sign and resigned their seats in congress rather than do so. John
Dickinson and four others of the Pennsylvania delegation went out in
a body. Then the work of persuasion
began. Outside pressure was brought to bear and Bome members yielded
only to instructions from their consti
tuents. It was not until the 14th of
November that the last signature was
obtained.' .
Nearly one third of the signatures
finally attached to the Declaration of Independence were of men who came into congress after that document had been adopted by congress and publish
ed to the world. Sanderson in his
Life of George Clymer, one of the signers, says: "Clymer in conjunction with Dr. Benjamin Rush, James Wil
son, George Ross and George Taylor,
were appointed to seat3 in congress,
on the 20th day of July, 1776, to succeed those members of the Pennsylvania delegation, who had refused their assent to the Declaration of In
dependence and abandoned their seats in congress." Others like R. R. Livingston of New York, refused to sign
or resign and did neither. Dr. Mat
thew Thornton of New Hampshire, entered congress for the first time on
the 4th of November and signed the
Declaration on the 14th, completing the list The first signature was ob
tained on the 2d day of August and
the last, three months and a half later. This does not imply hasty action.
ISAAC JENKINSON.
by nature or by training to trickery
and savagery. They were just dogs.
There was honesty in their eyes and
there was heartiness in the wag of
their tails. They wanted to be of service to men, they were friendly to all men, and that was what condemned them. They could not learn, as humans must that some men are to be despised or feared, that some men are to be chased and attacked, and that some men are to be caged or destroyed because they are not fit to be at large or to live. Infinite pains were taken with them, but they would not unlearn the lore of the dog and accept that of the man.
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TWINKLES
The Universal Mark. A man in mournful mood was heard Out in the twilight dim; The leaves in minor measures stirred. Accompanying him. He sang in tones both deep and long A lay of joy bereft; This was the burden of his song: "I always get what's left! "I'm the consumer," he replied To questioning forthwith; "My right to be is e'en denied I have been called a myth. Whate'er I need is handed me Reduced in bulk and helf. That other men may richer be; I merely get what's left
Though with my fellow-man I'm wroth. He does not get it all.
The cutworm and the brown-tailed
moth And other creatures small
Rush in and beat me to each prize
With methods vile but deft
I wait with unavailing sighs
And only get what's left"
(By Philander Johnson. A Decorative Essential. "I guess we'd better sell that cow,'
said Mrs. Corntossel. "She doesn't
give any milk."
"No," answered her husband. "But
we dasn't sell her. Every summer
boarder asks if we, keen a cow an'
world, affording the maximum amount
of entrance and exit facilities possible. The Seventh Avenue facade is composed principally of a Roman Doric colonnade, double at the carriage entrances at the street ends and at the main front entrance for pedestrians in the center, each of the columns being 4 feet 6 inches in diameter and 35 feet high. Above the central colonnade is an entablature surmounted by
a clock with a dial 7 feet in diameter. The center of this clock is on the axial line of 32nd Street and 61 feet above the sidewalk. Monumental Gateway. This Seventh Avenue facade was conceived especially to express in largest posible fashion a monumental gateway. It may be compared in a greatly magnified manner to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, through which passes so much of the traffic of that city. The main body of the building approximates in height the Bourse of Paris, reaching feet above the street level. With entrances through each of the two corners of the station on Seventh Avenue there are carriage drives, each about 63 feet wide, or the width of a standard New York City street, fronted by double columns and
pediments. The frontage on 31st and 33rd streets are similar. The walls of the exterior of the carriage drives are of pilaster treatment for a dis
tance of some 279 feet.
Midway along the sides of the building, signalizing the entrances on 31st and 33rd Streets, are series of columns .of the same dimensions as those on the Seventh and Eighth Avenue facade, for a distance of 117 feet Above these colonnades there are also sculptured groups supporting large ornamental clocks. For 116 feet beyond there are interrupted colonnades, after which the walls are of pilaster treatment to Eighth Avenue, with the exception of 45 ft colonnades marking entrances to the concourse. Eighth Avenue Frontage. The Eighth Avenue frontage is treated on the plan of pilasters ex
cept for 44 feet. 6 inches, which are
broken by columns into Intervals of
three spaces to mark another spacious
entrance to the main floor of the con
course.
One of the distinctive features of
this building is the waiting-room.
which extends from 31st to 33rd Streets, its walls parallel to Seventh and Eighth Avenues, for a distance of 314 feet 4 inches. The height of
this room is 150 feet . and Its width 108 feet 8 inches. The walls of the
waiting-room above the main body of
the building contain on each side
three semi-circular windows of a rad
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I've sot to be able to say 'Yes. I'm
blest if I see what city people find sojius of 33 feet 4 Inches and 66 feet 8 oAnfnnnHoii nm a mental in a cow." inches wide at the base. There is
also a window of like size at each en of the waiting-room. The dignified design of the Interior of the general waiting-room, while
fully adapted to modern Ideas, wa suggested by the great halls and basilicas of Rome, such as the baths of Caracalla, Titus and Diocletian, and the basilica of Constantine, which are
perhaps the greatest examples In his
tory of large roofed-in areas treated la , a monumental manner.
While the facades of the station 1
were Intended to suggest the Imposing
character of these ancient Romr.n temples and baths, the impression t-
tended to be made upon the layman approaching the station, in full view of the exterior of the general waiting-
room with Its huge semicircular win
dows, is that of one of the leading railway station of the world.
Among Autocrata. "Mr. Cumrox used to say he wanted to get rich so that he could be bis own
boss." '
"Well, ho succeeded. "Not entirely. He's rich; bat ho doesn't dare take a chance on talking back to his chauffeur or the man In charge of hie steam yacht"
Avoiding Explanation. "It strike me you aro reading a groat deal of humorous literature," said the confidential friend. "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum; "I am reading all the funny stories I can find." . "You are in a merry mood?" "No. But I've got to hare something to tell my constituent when. I get home."
Items Gathered in From Far and Near
Passing of the Cobblestone. From the Baltimore American.
Baltimore has made such strides since the great fire find the city has
been congratulating itself . so on its progress that the application for an injunction to restrain the mayor, city council ; and and city engineer from
paving a street with cobblestones comes as a jolt to municipal pride to remind us that we are not free from
some of the trammels of antiquity. And of these the worst is the cobblestone. -Appropriately enough, in the last year of the nineteenth century 1889 an ordinance was passed that cobblestones should not be used in future In paving streets of the city. So the twentieth century began in the gladsome hope that this anomaly in a modern community would no longer
be extended, and that what was left of it to afflict the sight and make sore the feet would be removed by the gradual process of elimination. Hence the jolt when it is announced that the city is preparing to pave a street with the unsightly cobbles, and hence the injunction of patriotic citizens and disgusted property owners to prevent a resurrection of past-century methods. Smooth, well paved streets are among the prime requisites of a modern up-to-date city, and the cobblestones have absolutely nothing to serve the mass an excuse for being They are an unsightly blot on civic beauty; they lose time and create labor In travel; they are a source of ridicule to visitors and of mortification and discomfort to natives altogether they belong to the past with Its watchmen, its lanterns, its horse cars and it other evidences of a prlmt; tlve village period.
Just Plain Dog. From the New York World. From all accounts the police dogs recently disposed of in New York went cheaply. When it was supposed that they could be used to advantage in the service they were valued at 40 to $50 apiece. When they were found to be incompetent they were sold at price ranging from $3.50 to $6. They were well worth the money to anybody who wanted a dog. The trouble with these animals in the police headquarters view was that they were not Inclined
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