Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 213, 19 July 1917 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1917.

Dirt Taken Out At New Pennsy Yards Would Fill Main Street ! For Mare Than Mile and Quarter

BY R08COE FLEMING ' A great team-sbovel flopped its ' big square bucket down with a movement curiously human, the engine panted as the bucket ploughed upward through the twelve-foot bank of dirt, and the load was swung ; easily over a - waiting dirt-car. The bottom opened, the dirt flowed out, and the shorel swung back toward the bank. It took less than twenty seconds, "

yet every time the shovel swung, two and ope-half cubic yards two and onehalf big wagonloads of Wayne county's top were moved. It looks to an observer as it just about one-half of Wayne county is having its top chewed off for fifteen feet down. The tanned engineer grinned at the reporter's astonishment. "This shovel's not nearly so big as some they used in Panama, and those fellow 8 handled stone." Happens at New Yards. . It all happened out at the big new yards the Pennsylvania is building east of the city. It happens every working day, and will until the 650.000 cubic yards of Wayne county soli that the railroad is moving are all put where they belong and not where Dame Nature mistakenly put them. Six hundred and fifty thousand cubic yards! That's quite a pile, Isn't it? If you were to build a wall one yard thick with that amount, it would.

be well over a half mile long, and

would reach almost half a mile into the sky. Slapped down , suddenly , in Main street, it would fill the street to the fourth-story ; windows, for ; more than a mile and & quarter. In a cubic pile, it would be roughly 250 feet high, by 250 feet long, and wide. Such a pile would cover two-thirds of a city block. There are valleys out there, a matter of a hundred yards or so across and forty or fifty feet deep, which will be filled up level. Most of the eastern part of the fill, about a mile long, and fifteen to forty feet deep, already is made. The big fills take more dirt than is in the hill-top to be cut off for the yards and the shovels will have to go on working after they've completed the two wide gashes for the yard, to fill them up. Work About Half Done. Yet the moving of the dirt for the new yards is only part of the task

which the railroad began last August and which, Engineer Wolfe, in charge, says Is roughly half-done. There are two tunnels out there, both twenty-three feet wide and nearly

that high, which are to lead the water

from Glen Miller park, and to be usea for a driveway, if the city ever wants them for that purpose. One of them is 400 feet long, and eleven thousand yards of concrete were used In building the two.

The excavation work is about two-

thirds done, and the concrete work is finished. The laying or the rails, and the putting up of all the massive and intricate equipment which a modern railroad yard needs, is about one-fifth done. " . ' ?' The new yard which will extend for about a mile and a half east of Richmond, will be of the most modern type, eond will be so arranged that eastbound trains and freight have one section, westbound another, and there will 'not be any crossing or confusion. The yard will have two "humps," up to which the cars will be pushed, and from which they will roll by gravity down to the track to which they are assigned. ' Forced to Take Hills. The Job Is an unusually difficult one in yard-building, because railroads usually pick a big level field, which does not require much grading, for their yards. In this case, however, the company was forced to take hills and smooth them down. Engineer Wolfe couldn't give any exact time1 when the job would be done. Uncertainty of labor and the weather make the time of finishing uncertain. Fifteen days a month this

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 19. The United States government will establish within two weeks somewhere in California a large factory for the manufacture of potash and iodine, according to., announcement today by J. W. Turrentine, ; scientist of the department of agriculture. '.The potash will be made from kelp , harvested in the Pacific ocean and is to be used by the United' States army. - - ' '

spring have been "soft" days, five more only partly good for, working, and only the remaining ten good.: T Two hundred men is the full force which is supposed to be on the work, but only half that number, or so, are working this summer. Many of the men are transients, and began leaving early this spring, most of them going

west, where they knew farmers were willing to stake them to ; food for a month or so before harvest, to have their labor at harvest time. The labor camp is a little village in Itself, " consisting of eighteen cars, eleven of which are used for sleeping and the rest for cooking, commissary and dining cars. , It's a big job, all right, perhaps the biggest ever put through around Richmond. But it's not -very big to the Pennsy. The regular division engineers are in charge, and it is being conducted as a division affair, instead of a special -job.

Court Records

Suit for divorce was filed In circuit court today by v. Harry J. Eliason against Isadora Eliason on a' statutory charge. The Eliasons were married In 189S and have been separated for about two months. Articles for a continuation of the Incorporation of the Richmond Amusement association were filed for recording in the office of the county recorder today. The association was Incorporated for fifty years, following the expiration of the old incorporation which was for fifteen years. The association was organized by a number of local men when the Coliseum was built and controls the Coliseum.

BELGIANS GREETED WARMLY DENVER, Col., July 19. The Belgian war mission was enthusiastic today at the warmth of the welcome extended them by this city. The program today included a tour of the city in motor cars, and at noon the mission was to leave for Pueblo, where the plant of the Colorado fuel and iron company is to be inspected. Growth of the large central stations and suppression of the small has been the feature of the development of the electrical industry in the last year.

Suspect Plasters For Tetanus Germs

KANSAS CITY, Ma, July 19. Federal chemists and bacteriologists prepared today to inoculate guinea pigs with cultures obtained from specimens of court plaster, believed to be impregnated with tetanus germs and alleged by the authorities to have been distributed in Kansas by peddlers as part of a plot to plunge the state into an epidemic of disease. Whether the alleged plot was believed to be the work of enemies of the nation has not been disclosed by Fred Robertson, United States district attorney for Kansas, in charge of the investigation. Identity of the men has not been disclosed nor have the places of their detention been announced. , PHILADELPHIAN PICKED WASHINGTON. July 19. Roland S. Morris, of Philadelphia, has been chosen for appointment as ' ambassador to Japan to succeed the late Ambassador Guthrie. It is understood the nomination " will go to the senate shortly.

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1 WASHINGTON, July 19. Opposition from a small group of senators of both' parties upset plans Wednesday for having the senate pass after brief debate the $640,000,000 aviation MILAn hour of discussion demonstrated the futility of attempting to put the.

measure tnrough in a few hours as was done In the house, so the food control bill, , temporarily laid aside, was taken up again. C. ' ", ;

SAVE FLOUR IN ENGLAND

WASHINGTON, July 19. A . decrease of ten percent in the COIlSUmpHrtn ft flMll" in V.nvlartA In Tuna (s thft

claim made by the National War Savings committee as a result of the "Eat Less Bread" inaugurated to conserve food,, according to a report received by Herbert Hoover today.

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