The Alamance Gleaner 1
?. VOL. Liv; GRAHAM, IS, C., THURSDAY MARCH 29, 1928. NO. 8.
DOINGS OF THE WEEK I
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
Gigantic Combination of
Capital Announced at
New York.
THB New York World announced
that It regarded aa an accom
plished fact the biggest communlca
tlona merger on record. This, It stat
ed, was the combination of the Mackay
companies, operating 5,000 Postal tele
graph offices In the United States, and
the International Telephone and Tele
graph company.
The deal brings together companies
with combined assets of $225,000,000
and with abont 125,000 miles of
Joined cable, telephone and telegraph
wires In the United States, Canada,
Mexico, Cuba and Central and Sooth
America.
The merger aa outlined will see the
ascension of the Behn brothers?
Sosthenea Behn and Herman Behn?
whose family fortune was founded in
Porto Rico, oxer the Mackays, Cali
fornia forty-niners.
The Mackay fortune was founded
when John W. Mackay, father of the
present head of the* Mackay compa
nies, discovered the famous Comstock
lode In 1845. The elder Mackay later
started the Postal Telegraph company.
His son obtained control of commer
cial cables and last year the Federal
Telegraph system on the Pacific coast
Mr. Mackay's personal fortune Is es
timated at $50,000,000.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE believes
the United States can still be help
fol to Nicaragua by aasUting the peo
ple of thft country to (moose Its gov
'ernment, despite the action of the Nle
araguan house In rejecting the McOoy
bill providing for supervision of the
coming election by the marine corps.
This view was reflected by an an
nouncement from the Navy depart
ment that two additional battalions of
marines had been ordered to Nic
aragua to reinforce the 2,700 already
on duty there.
The two additional battalions will
bring the total of United States forces
in Nicaragua to 8,700, the greatest
number ever to operate in that conn
try at one time. Should the marine
force be unable to cope with the ait
nation, about 1,000 blue Jackets and
marines on board five cruisers A Nlc
araguan waters will be available for
shore doty. .
Secretary Wllbnr said the additional
marine forces were to be used prima
rily for overseeing tba coming elec
tions and not for action against Gen
eral Sandlno, rebel leader, although
the troops may be employed to fur
ther the general activities of the ma
rines in Nicaragua.
The probllm now confronting the
Washington government, in Mr. Oool
idge's opinion, is that of devising some
plan under which the United States
cam fulfill ita obligations under the
Stlmson agreement according to the
original spirit of that pact?one of
helpfulness to the Nicaraguan people
in the selection of its public offldala.
ADMISSION that "we may hare
overlooked something" by the
builder of the eetlapeed St. Trend*
dam featured the flret official Inquiry
to flx the dam blame at -Urn coroner's
Inquest over the bodies of SB of the
dam victims.
William MalheUand, seventy-two,
chief engineer of the Los Angeles mu
nicipal water board, who built the
dam, declared: "The only ones I now
envy are those that are dead."
Loss of life In the disaster Is now
competed at 4d# persons?272 known
dead and 177 missing and believed to
have perished. While search for dead
continued, more than 100 tractors be
ing used to tsar through big pflos of
debris, authorities In the stricken sons
decided te confine efforts only to re
claim able land. Debris an uareeia to
able afsa uuspled by the old bed of
the Santa CUT* river urftl be burned.
Authorities sold It,would b* Impose!
Ms to pot a largo enough force at
work to lecoeer bodies on unredalm
sMe laad within a reasonable time.
Evidence that a dynamite explosion
may have caused the eoUapae of the
dam aad released the flood of death
an the Santa Clara river valley was
Mid to be In the bonds of Investigat
ing authorities.
80 mach credence wis placed on the
finding* of deputy aberlffa assigned to
tba flood area tbat every reservoir
and dam In tbe entire Loo Angeles
water system was pnt nnder a heavy
gnard.
AN AMERICAN girl was married
March IT to one of tlte wealthiest
of Hindu princes In a ceremony mod
em In manner, medieval In splendor
and ancient ritual.
The weddlna which united MJss
Nancy Aon Milter of Seattle with Sir
TMkooJIrao Hoik a r, former mahara
tab of Indore, was witnessed by thou
sands of Hindus, dressed like true
princes and princesses and wearing
tbe costliest Jewels money can buy.
After the ceremony, which ended
ten days of ritual whereby Miss Mil
ler became a Hindu, princess and a
member of the Holkar family, bride
and groom were hosts at a banquet
to 10,000 guests
FEDERAL supervision of the coal In
dustry, as tentatively suggested by
Senator Ooodlng (Rep., Idaho), was
Indorsed on behalf of the United Mine
Workers by John L. Lewis, president.
Lewis, who baa Informed the senate
Investigating committee tbat his or
ganisation Is ready to meet with op
erators to suggest legislation to sta
bilise the Industry, declared that the
union would be "practically unan
imous" in supporting federal control of
coal production' and marketing, be
cause the flooding proposal Is the most
constructive made to date. The coal
commlsaion idea has been Indorsed also
by Mveral coal operators during the
inquiry, but otbera refused to commit
themselves.
ONE of the most pitiful tragedies to
the annals of the American navy
was re reeled in the Cbarlestown
(Mass.) navy yard. Eight remaining
bodies were taken from the submarine
8-4, now it dry dock there At the
same time it was made clear what oc
curred inside that vessel after It was
rammed and sunk by the coast guard
destroyer Pauling, on rum chasing
duty, near Prorlncetown December 27.
Conditions sbown as the water was
pumped out of the 8-4 made It evident
that every one of the 40 men In the
submarine bad found temporary safety
in locked compartments and had died
many hours later either suffocated by
deadly gases or smothered by the
exhaustion of the air.
Thirty-four men had lived for an'
undetermined number of bours in the
motor and engine room compartments
Five .or six men who had lived ap
proximately three days in the forward
torpedo room bad died. It was indi
cated. sleeping peacefully In their
bunks. Some of them bad partly un
dressed to make themselves more com
fortable.
COL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH Is
now a congressional medal of
honor man. Presldant Coolldge pinned
the coveted emblem, the highest dec
oration of the American government,
npon the blushing trans-Atlantic hero
daring a brief, Impressive ceremony
March 21, on the White Home
(Toon da.
?lea Prealdent Dawee, Speaker Long
worth (Rep., Ohio), member* of the
cabinet, and high officer* of the army
and navy witnessed the prevention
THE Bank of the SoTlet Union ha*
engaged the New Tork law Arm
of Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett to
light the Bank of France's attempt to
replevin $6,210000 In gold sent here
by the Russian Institution snd Is pre
pAsd to bring a counter-claim for
losses It may sustain through the
French action.
It Is estiasaledthat the Russian bank
Is losing from $700 to $1,000 In Inter
est dally an the metal, which lias In
tha vaults of the Chsse Notional bank
and tha Equitable Trust company.
Had It net bean for tha French action
tha gold might have been out of the
cauntiy by now or else used ss tha
basts ef credits with private American
interests.
Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett are
scrutinising the French-Soviet treaty
to determine whether the Bank of
Franco's action Is la accordance with
Its terms. Under the treaty, all claims
by Freoch nationals against tba Soviet
government are subject to diplomatic
adjustment. A spokesman for the
Bank af the Soviet Union said that.
although the treaty bee been In force
for eome rears, the Bank of France
has nerer Bled a claim for the gold
nntll the present action.
ACTING upon the Instruction of the
Canadian cabinet. Got. Gen. Will
lngdon of Ontario approred orders In
council commuting to life Imprison
ment the death sentence passed on
Dorris McDonald and confirming the
death sentence passed on George Mc
Donald, her husband, both Americans.
They were found guilty of the murder
of Adelsrd Bouchard, Lachlne (Que
bec) taxi drlrer.
A TWO MILLION DOLLAR trades
school as a memorial to his fa
ther, John Wanamaker, Is provided ia
the will of Rodman Wanamaker, Phil
adelphia merchant. The document
disposes of an estate of from $75,000,
000 to $100,000,000. instead of $50,000,
000, which was the first estimate of
Its value.
THE London Dally Experss says
Lerd Butfour, lord president of the
council, former prime minister and one
of the outstanding British statesmen
of the present generation. Is suffering
from heart trouble and has canceled
all his engagements. He has been 111
tor some time. In January he suffered
a severe attack of laryngitis.
THE $274,000,000 new warship con
struction program was approved by
the house and sent to the senate. The
vote was 287 to 57.
In passing the Butler bill, the house
voted for the construction of 15 cruis
ers of 10,000 tons displacement each
and one aircraft carrier of 18,800 tons.
Tbe measure carries a provision re
questing the President to "urge the
necessity" of another International
conference for the limitation of naval
armaments and gives him authority
either In whole or In part In the
event of a limitation agreement.
DECEIPTS from the March 15 in
come tax returns reported to the
Treasury department to the close of
business March 17, aggregated $215,
550,008. On the same date a year ago
the returns aggregated $197,000,898,
an Increase this year ot $17,858,009.
Should this proportion hold good for
the entire collection on Income for the
last calendar year, the treasury would
receive about $100,000,000 above Its
estimate.
Twenty-two of the 25 countries
represented on the preparatory
committee for a league of Nations
disarmament conference lined up
agninst the Soviet plan for Immediate
complete disarmament
Hugh 8. Gibson, the United States;
David Whltmarsh, Cuba; Baron Rolln
Jacquemyns, Belgium; Jonkeer Rut
gers. Holland; E. Heening, Sweden;
M. Sokal, Poland, and M. Markovltch,
Yugo-Slavia, added their criticisms to
others, making the Russian defeat
overwhelming.
NORA Bayes, comedienne who de
lighted audiences In Broadway
and London theaters for more than a
score of years and cheered many per
sons privately by her generous acts,
died at a Brooklyn hospital. ?
She had gone almost directly from
singing at two benefits to the hospital
for an abdominal operation. She was
apparently welt on the way to recov
ery when a relapse came.
Miss Bayes once wrote that she was
born In Jollet. III., and other sources
fixed the date as 1880. Her real name
was Leonora Goldberg. She Is sur
vived by her husband. Benjamin L.
Friedland. whom she married three
yearn ago on the steamship Leviathan,
and by three yoong children she had
adopted.
An investigation of it* lrcs
Presidential and congressional
campaign by a special senate commlt
taa baa b??n proposed from twe
sources.
Senator Nye (Hap.) of Nortk Da
kota. chairman of the Teapot Dome
committee, which has been Inquiring
Into post campaign funds, safe that. If
no one else proposes a resolution to
bare a committee check op on the or
ganisation of the two parties, ha srlll
do so.
In a format statement Senator Cap
per (Rep.) of Kansas gore notice that
be would seek to hare the senate pre
side the machinery to Inquire Into ex
oendlturea In the ???mine csmoelm
Mile of Ribbon
It la reported that there It a proceee
employed to England for making me
talllc ribbon at the rata of half a mile
a mlonte. The molten metal le eaneed
to flow through 00V or mora noailea In
a thin abeam opon the periphery of
a rapidly rotating water-cooled dram.
The metal aoddlSaa Immediately and
I thrown of from the aatfaoa of the
uniform xMhoa, It m p?tth If ?
said, to obtain metal aa thin as one
thousandth of an Inch and half a mile
to a mile of ribbon can readily be ob
tained from each nozzle par minute.
Ribbons of aluminum, lead, sine, tin.
eoppar, stiver, gold, etc.. bars been
obtained.
Mother*, Attention!
A alp appearing In a doctor's offlce
is at Loots reads: "1 treat all <B?
tmm. tndndtac children.-?The (tat
And th? Chiggert
"Men Is slowljr winnlnc Id* wsr no
the Insect world." s*n s noted rhrm
1st. Let's post this news where llir
boll wear lis, corn borers, potsto hup
snd mosquitoes ess use It.
Ait th* Oifftrmr*
Prudence should not be confounded
with wisdom. which often likes lu
squander. Prudence is the result nt
fear; wisdom at eonrsfs.?Plsln Talk
i AROUND |
f THE DARK f
I CORNER |
(? kr D. J. Walsh.)
II ITT THO nextr Mid At Fraiar
\ Y / u be tilted beck hie chelr
VV 104 Cat up hie feet oo the
porch rellloK of the Pal
ace hotel at Carter Center.
"The Judge la the laat one 1 ever
thought would be a quitter 1" com
mented Ed Strong, with an uncovered
yawn. "Why, he and tble here town
grew up together from the time tbey
both wore rompers."
"He ain't to blame." drawled Fatty
Knight, the third member of the group
on the hotel veranda. "It'a bla wife's
doings. Caroline Slmpsoo baa the old
man trained to eat out of her hand
and she declares that all the folks, up
and leaving has got on her nerves."
"Funny how a black little hole In
the ground kfeps things gein'," rumi
nated Strong. "Before the Jumping
Frog shut down?and the drought set
In?Carter Center was as prosperous
s burg us they make 'em. Three
movie theaters, 'leven resorts on
Main street alone and clerks at the
Golden Rule Bazaar fallln' over each
other to wait on the throngln' custo
mers. It was a live town, all right"
"Well, It's a dead town, all right,
now," grunted Al Frarer, "and as
cheerful for the survivors as sitting
up with any corpse. "Hello, doc;
trunk packed?" he called In greeting
to a tall, broad-shouldered but weath
er-beaten looking man with grizzled
hair and close-clipped heard getting
out of a car that bad drawn np at the
curb.
"How could 1 leave town witn
Knight In hla present precarious con
dition?" answered Doc Sanderson, sa
with a sly wink at Fatty's direction
lie mounted the veranda steps.
There were guffaws of laughter,
with Fatty's own plump chuckle on
the outer edges; then, with the eager
ness of the old-maid male gossip, Ed
Strong Importantly announced:
"Well, the Simpsons are leavin' the
flrat of the month, anyhow."
"Yon're not serious?" Incredulously
exclaimed the doctor.
"Sure, It's straight goods that I'm
glvin' you, and no aand In the sugar!
Their Carrie told our Opal."
"Who next?" repeated Al Fraxer.
This time Doc Sanderson made no
Jocular reply. Instead, he stood a mo
ment lost In thought, then, slowly
entered the hotel lopby and hegan to
climb the stairs to his patient on the
third floor, for the elevator was out of
order, and as there were only seven
guests, all told. In the house, the ex
pense of having It repaired did not
seem to he Justified.
His visit at the Palace and two oth
er calls made, Doc Sanderson's tofrn
rases for the day were disposed of,
and In the chugging little flivver he
started off to see a sick woman at
Pine Ridge, adtoe fifteen miles beyond
the shutdown mine.
It was a day of late autnmn when
the earlier glorified gold and crimson
foliage had passed and the trees by
the roadside rose dark and forbidding
?with sear, bumt-out leaves falling
to the ground like a man's desd hopes.
Isabel bad been right, thought the
doctor, broodlngly, as be drove under
the lowering sky of dull gun-metal, a
cutting wind lashing In his face, ne
ought to have left Carter Center nine
years ago when the opening at Glen
brook presented Itself. Now It was
too late. In hla profession, a man
over sixty could not begin to build up
a new practice In a new place.
A sudden dyosmic change shot
luruugii mr ?*??'?<? ?' ??>?
wheel. The drooping shoulders
straightened. Bod wen: op. fn the
doll eyee glowed kindled Area. Doc
Saodermn wee fighting mod.
Tee re ego when he bed flret come
to Carter Center with bis yonng wife
and baby girl he was a compere tire
greenhorn In hie profession. Bot since
then be had been both general prac
titioner and aorgeon. with all aorta
of cases and emergencies to test bis
ability. Ter. ea keen of mind as ever,
as skilled of band?with all that the
years bad broogbt him of laraloable
experience?now by an Irony of fata
be wa* a boot to be laid on the shelf
The road grew rougher; the wind
whipped colder.
Tea, ha had made the mistake of
hie life by not heeding Isabel's adr!ce.
As I be car laboriously climbed the
rough, mounting road ha went orer
again that boor of decision sine years
before.
The offer from the Olenbrook doc
tor about to retire had com a few
weeks after a terrible ^tester at tbe
mine. A time when, modest-minded
as was his habit of I bought. Sander
son knew that Us skill and devoted
rare alooe bad saved tbe lives of two
of tbe badly hort men. and prevented
three others from being crippled for
lift Com la the midst of a small
pox epidemic when Harrington, tbe
yellow-struaked doctor at Plna Ridge,
bad run away to save hit precious
J skin. No doubt be bad boss a sent!
mental fool, but It had aeeiued to 8ab
deraon then that whatever advantage
a change might bring no other place
needed him aa much aa Carter Center.
The kindled Dree lo Doc Sanderson's
eyes amoldered lo* and a defeated
look crept ont npon hla face.
Well, there was nothing to do bnt
take hie medicine, and keep a atllf
upper lip. Thank heaven, ha vonlil
be the only one to auffer from hla
mletaken Judgment I laabel'e practice
might not be very lucrative, for after
having taken her poatgradunte train
ing aa an Interne at the Mlddletown
City and County hospital from choice,
his daughter had opened an office In
the city's poorer district, but It gave
a living, nnd all the work her eager,
energetic nature craved.
And suddenly at the thought of
Isabel's bright, vital personality, there
came over Doc 8anderson so home
sick a longing for hla daughter's pres
ence, for the cheer of her smile, the
comfort of her loving arms about hla
neck, that the ache In bis heart was
a physical pain. For alnoe hla wife's
death, when Isabel was only fourteen,
hla love for the girl bad been tittle
abort of worship, and It seemed aa
tliongb be would never get used to
living without her.
From ont the gun-metal sky pelted
stinging needles of cold rain, and at
the same Instant came a sound like
the sharp report of a pistol.
In the midst of the driving ruin,
on a stretch of road where the mud
was ankle deep. Doc Sanderson got
out and put on a new tire.
The early soaked darkness was set
tling down over Carter Center when,
on his return late that afternoon. Doc
8anderson drew up before the one
story little house where he bad bached
ever since Isabel had gone away.
A forlorn, lonesome-looking house It
was for a forlorn, lonesome man to
come borne to on such a night.
"And I bet a dollar," the doctor
mattered to himself as he opened the
creaky front gate, "that the kitchen
Ore's out."
But half way up the walk he gave
a start?a stare In at "the front win
dow.
To Ills utter astonishment me living
room floor was pooled with light. It*
walls bright snd Jumpy with reflected
fltraes from hlnxlng logs In the big
open flreplnce.
Whnt happened next was like going
arouod a dark corner and suddenly
finding hlmselMn heaven.
A heaven of brightness and warmth
and Isabel's dear loving arms.
"nut, child, how did yon get off at
this season of the year?" questioned
Doc Sanderson In a voice still dazed.
"Chubby Alvord la taking care of
my patients," with an amused siulle nl
Chnbby's exiiense. "There's really no
one seriously III, and I hnd to come
and talk things over with yon t
wasn't going to risk having you turn
my letter down the way you did Ihe
Glenbrook doctor's that time. Oh.
dad." she beamed up at hlin. "the
most wonderful thing has happened!
They've offered me the appointment of
bacteriologist In the City and County
hospital's new laboratory. Just th*
kind of work thai I've been pining
for! But I won't, I can't accept, un
less you'll agree to come to the city
and take over my practice."
Rip"i Awakening
ft la 108 years since Washington
Irving** creation. Itlp Van Wlnkl*.
stepped ont of a 25-page story to be
come a citizen of the world. Rip was
Included In an unassuming volume
called "The Sketch Book," modestly
publlrhed under the pseudonym. "Geof
frey Crayon." The first printer of
"Th* Sketch Book" In America was
C. S. Van Winkle of Sew York city,
but says James O'Donnell Bennett. In
"Much l-oved Books: Beat Seller* of
the Ages," that Is an odd. though
meaningless coincident*.
Eleven year* after "The Sketch
Book" was published In England. Irv
ing went to Oxford to receive th* d*
free of doctor of laws given him by
the university. On* of the cries that
greeted him from th* students who
were present at tbe Installation, was:
"Has Rip Van Wlokl* waked op
yet r
I ?????????
American Archer
Whit tlx arch wm to Rome the
Hlllof Mitlon If to America. When
(hi Via Appla was Mill ? highway to
ba bragged about and the young Ro
man gentlemen aped from Venuala to
Tarantma at 13 mlllla an hour, arcbea
flood along the road to mark (be ad
vancing frontier* of the Roman alale.
BMory rraa written there. For each
arch marked a new outpoat and a new
foothold for Roman culture. We are
not Roman*. hut we hart marked our
own hlghwaya with appropriate aym
boia.?From "The Greet American
Band Wagon." by Chartei Men.
Limited Liability
A company limited la a company In
which the liability of each aharehold
er la limited to the amount of bla
atock or abaree. or to the amount teed
by a guarantee. It I* generally re
quired (bat the wood limited be the
If ft word In the cotapany'a name,
thoogb there are occasional excep
tion to thla rule
Croton Dam of tho Now York City Wator System.
in<H-uie<j bv tn? National uaograpnio
Society. Wat hi nut on. D. C >
WH1I.K New York If a great
city In many way*, completi
on* above every other phme
of It* greatness I* It* rule a*
an International trade center. In re
cent year* New Tork ha* been han
dling approximately one-third of the
export* of the United State*, roea*
uretl In vnlue, and altnut one-half of
the Import*.
For *tirb operation* *? these, New
Tork. |>erforce. mini be a great me
tropoll*. In popolutlon It outrank*
any one of half the nation* of the
earth, surpasses that of the entire
continent of Australia, and alnmat
mutche* the combined atrongth of the
?Ik westernmost itate* of the Amert
ran Union. In annual expenditure* It
exceed* ino*t of the nation* on the
map. It* water system maid ittpply
the whole earth with drinking wnter,
and It* storage reservoir* hold enough
to slake civilization's thirst for more
than ? >ear. It* electric transport*
lion line* carry nearly twice a* mnny
p**aengera In 12 month* *? nil the
steam railroad* of the United Slates.
They could give every ntnn. woman
and child living a ride every ten
months?so much for the yardstick of
comparison.
New York I* of all cltle* the one
where the majesty of small things I*
regarded a* well ns the greatness of
large ones.
Who count* n nickel? Yet the great
est transportation system of the *ges
wa* built hy nickel* prospective, nnd
live* on nickel* realized. Who reckon*
* dime, which even the waiter In *
quick-lunch room scarcely deems
worth * "Tliank you?" Yet the world"*
loftiest building. It* crowning csthe
dral of commerre. wn* hullt out of the
small margin of profit In ten-cent
transactions. Wh# consider* the dust
In the street? New York has hullt up
sixty-live acre* of ground, valued at
several million dollar*, out of street
sweeping*. Who feels the dust and
dirt flust adhere to his shoes? How
ever, more than seven tons of the
housewife's er.emy I* carried by
tramping feel Into the subway* erery
24 hour*.
?'-?* Coral/tw D/tntilitlfln
Any story of Now Yurk begins with
lis people. and la lis vast aggregation
of haruanlly (bore Is a wealth of lo
ts reM.
!>>l lliose who have lieen pessimis
tic about our Immigration stody New
York. It seems unbelievable; but If
every resident whose parents were
bom In America were to leave the
city Its standing as the most populous
renter Id the world would not he af
fected. In other words, the number
of Immigrants and their children real
dent In New York Is almost equal to
the combined populations of Pais and
Philadelphia and greater than the
combined populations of Chicago and
Berlin.
Three people ont of every four In
the great metropolis were born under
alien flags or are the children of the
foreign-born. Bat who thnt has stud
ied the sltoatlon can gainsay New
York's Americanism?
Along with many other cities, New
York long since learned that a vast
majority of the children who attend
public schools do not go to college af
terward. From this realisation came
the vocational schools. A day spent
In visiting New York's prevocatlnosl
1 and vocational schools gives one much
> heart and hope. Go to the lower Bast
- side, where the tenement flourishes In
< all Jtf tabled glory, and visit a pre
Torminnai srnrau. Here yon win we
children studying (he thine* an older
generation siadled In the little red
(chnolhouae. with touehet of nature
added here and there. There I* a con
?taut effort to grade the hoy* end
girl*, *o that each child flnde rail
scope for hi* capabilities.
Next to the edttrntlon of It* chil
dren for their life work and 'lie main
tenance of order, it community'* most
Important tark I* to care for the pub
lic health. And here again the big
city ahlue*.
If there ever will a city on the fare
of the glehe which to aupertidul Judg
ment would leere ? parudlne for ell
the germ* In the catalogue that city
I* New York.
One of Heafthlett Cities.
Hut In spite of there condllluos.
New York I* one of the healthiest
cities In Ainerii-n. Nowhere else I*
there to lie found u more rpleudlil
tribute to the surer** of preventive
medicine In combating "ralchlng" dis
eases than In the metropolis.
There are enough ladder horn In
New York city every year to populate
four cities like Charlotte. N. C; iHh
kosli, Wis.; Itunnoke. Vs.; Hamilton
Ohio, or Springfield. Mo. A* many
lieuple In New York die annually as
lire In four clllei like Klkhart. Ind.;
l-eavonworth. Kan.; Ileverly, Mass..
or Italelgh, N. C
In every phase of Its development
New York city I* like an adolescent
liny who t? always outgrowing his
clothes; the city fa titers are kept on
tenter hooks to inert Its expansion.
It* schools are always overcrowded
bersnse, rich as li I*, the munlclpslltv ?
ran not huy alios and hulld school*
fast enough to keep up with the ever
growing child army. It* transport a
lion lines are always choked with pas
sengers because one subway cannot
be completed before another Is need
ed. Its bridges sod tunnels are al
ways pressed to capacity because the
Interval between the realisation of a
new need and the opening of facilities,
to meet It Is long enough In New
York's rate of expansion for s sue
eroding need to be born.
But at I act the city baa found one
place where engineering conatruction
la able to ootatrip human expnnalon
and prepare for tlecadea ahead. If
liaa built a water' system thai will
take care of half a century of growth
and form a unit In the bigger system
that may lie beyond that period.
Water Supply Now Adequate.
For generation* Gotham baa had a
hand-to-mouth water supply, aa la the
caae with other municipal require
ments. The gaunt apecter of water
famine, with all of Ita attendant train
of gnomen?dlaenae. urn-leanness. crip
pled Industries, beggnred home*?erer
lurked In the ahadowa of the Immedi
ate future.
The slognn became 'New tork must
have an adequate water supply." One
by one aupporter* were woo to the
Idea?now the Manufacturer*' associa
tion. oow the Merchant*' aaaodatlon,
now the mayor, oow the governor of
the state. now the leglalature Itself.
All dIBIcultle* were overridden, and
today there flow* down to New Tork
from the Catsklll* an underground
river deep enough and wide enough to
carry drinking water for the whole
world. In aire. In length. In the vel
um* of water It will carry, a* well aa
In the coat of construction and the en
gineering problem* Involved. It makes
every other -.queduct of ancient and
modern time* look Ilka a pigmy pca|