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VOL. LIV. f GRAHAM, IS, C., THURSDAY OCTOBER 11, 1928. NO. 36.
WHAT'S GOING ON 1
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
New York Democrats Draft
Roosevelt?Religion in
National Campaign.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
NO BETTER Illustration of the Im
personal cruelty of politics could
be found than the nomination of
franklin D. Roosevelt for governor
of New York by the Democrats of
that state. Those who have seen Mr.
Roosevelt In recent years and know
sf his dpgged struggle to recover from
his physical disability realize that the
requirements of the campaign and the
fulfillment of his official duties If he
Is elected are likely to retard seriously
Us recovery. The New York Democrat
ic leaders knew this, for Ur. Roosevelt
had told Governor Smith of It In seek
ing to avoid the nomination, but his
popularity and high character are such
that they Insisted on drafting him In
order to give strength to their ticket
8mlth himself told the convention
managers to go ahead and nominate
Roosevelt, and then, defending him
self against the charge of unfeellng
aess, said to the reporters:
"There la a story going around that
I want you to get right on?to the
effect that Roosevelt as governor,,
would not have to do the work. Of
course, that Is on Its face an absurdity,
the real fact Is this: Prank Roose
velt today, mentally, IS as good as be
ever was In his life. Phyglcally, he's
as food as he ever was In his life. His
whole trouble Is In his lack of mus
cular control of bis lower limbs, owing
to the Infantile paralysis ha caught
In an epidemic. Pat the answer to
that Is that a governor does not have
to be an acrobat We do not elect
blm for his ability to do a double-back
(lip or a handspring.
r "Politically, I mean physically, the
work of the governorship Is brain
work. Ninety-flve per cent of It Is ac
complished sitting at a desk. There
la no donbt about Frank's ability to
do It"
Senator Royal Oopeland was renom
inated without much oppoeltlon. His
Republican opponent Is Alanson B.
Houghton, former ambassador to
Great Britain. The G. O. P. nominee
for governor la Albert Ottlnger, now
attorney general of the state.
DESPITE the more or leas genuine
efforts of campaign managers and
the earnest protests of liberal-minded
gentlemen of both parties, the relig
ious Issue Is being pushed more and
more to the front Indeed, In many
localities It has become the chief Issue
of the political battle. This Is notably
true In Texas, where Protestants and
Catholics are violently and openly de
nouncing each other and circulating
the ridlculohs and fanciful stories that
always originate tn such religious
quarrels. In most other parts of the
country this Issue is kept somewhat
under cover but It Is becoming none
the less potent However, It works
both ways and so Its ultimate effect
on the result at the polls Is highly
nwthlnmaHoal Dnlh UP Uaauww
Governor Smith have reiterated their
plena for religion* tolerance, and they
have been ably seconded by the em
inent Dr. Henry van Dyke, former
moderator of the general aaaemMy of
the Prabyterian chare h. Doctor van
Dyke aaaerta that the election of lfr.
Hoover, even In part, by antl-OathoUc
vote*, would be a mlafortnne for him
and a calamity tor the country, and
then be take* a whack at Mabel Wllle
brandt
Following Ma epeech at Elisabeth,
Tenn., on Satnrday, Mr. Hoover will
make Ave addressee before leaving for
California to vote Among hla dates
are Boston, October IS, and New Tort,
October 22. It was thought he might
also speak In Baltimore. Senator
Castle cruising through the Middle
West, spoke on the tariff in Chicago
and then toured Indiana. Senator
Borah continued to attack Smith on
the farm relief Issue, and the gov
ernor retaliated in kind In Interview*.
Later on A1 plans a speaking trip In
the Rant and Into the Southern border
statea.
TAMES JOSEPH TUNNKT, better
J known u "Gene," and Josephine
Lauder, helrees, were duly married In
a hotel In Borne, aad In the process
the retired champion heavyweight did
not add anything to hla popularity. ? 80
much public Intarest attached to the
pair that the news photographers were
on hand by the score, but Mr. Tunney
absolutely refused to permit any pic
tures to be made, nor would he let
any reporters witness the ceremony.
Both Ambassador Fletcher and the
Italian ministry of the Interior re
quested conalderstlon Dor the camera
men, bqt Gene was adamant. The
civil marriage service was performed
by Commend* tor Brofferlo, represent
ing the governor of Rome, and the re
ligious ceremony was conducted by"
Mgr. Breslln, vice rector of the Amer
ican Ecclesiastical college and one
time Tunney'a parish priest In New
York. The bride and groom departed
for a honeymoon In the vicinity of
Florence
GERMANY'S new dirigible, the
Count Zeppelin, largest airship In
the world, completed Its- teit flights
last week In preparation for the. flight
across the Atlantic to the United
States, the start of which was acbsd
uled for October B. The brige ehlp?
It la nearly three city blocgs long?
made a most successful flight over
Holland and England, remAlntng In
the air 86 houra and carrying 70 pas
sengers.
PROGRESS made by naval .avia
tion since the pessage of the five
year air expansion bill In 182$ was
outlined in a statement made public
by Rear Admiral W. A. Moffett, chief
of the bureau of aeronautics. Some of
the principal accomplishments listed
are replacement of obsolete planes
with modern equipment, doubting of
the facilities for training aviators at
Psnsacola, use of a greater nsmber
of airplanes with the fleet, winning of
1$ world's records by service type
planes and the Improvement tf the air
cooled engine.
rMBLD MARSHAL VISCOUNT ALr
r LBNBT, who conquered the Turks
Id Palestine In the World war, has
come to America to bo th* caeet of
honor of the American Legion at its
convention hi San Antonio. He Is ac
companied by Lady AHenby. New
York gave the famous British soldier
a great reception In Oaraegte hall.
After he had listened to modi.praise
of his military achievements, hp said:
"I hope that the move that yoe
here hare made tor peace?the Kel
logg pact?grows into faith whkb will
do away with the mlseruM* myth
which we new hare of ending disputes
by cutting each other's throats. There
is no reason why nations should be
allowed to behave more brutally to
each other than Individuals are al
lowed to behave. I am not a pacifist,
for I do believe that to Insure oar own
protection we must trust to ourselves
for our own defense. That doesn't
mean that If we see a man looking st
us we have to shoot him."
Foreign minister briand, with
the approve! of Premier Polncare
and the rent of the Preach oablnet,
hai set forth Prance's position con
cerning the eracnatlon of the Rhine
land and related questions. She In
ready to fix ten billions of dollars as
the reparations total which Germany
most pay as compensation for prelim
inary evacuation of the Rhlseiand, If
the relch mobilizes the debt Prance
Insists on obtaining 47,800,000,000,
and experts figure tha other aulas'
c|nims can be compressed Into Ike re
milnlng f2JBOOflQOfi<n. In rtew of
Great Britain's pronouncement; that It
only claims snfldent payments to
meet ltd obligations to the United
States.
M. Brian d announces that a finance
conference is scheduled to meat la
Paris early In December, iftth Prance,
Great Britain. Belgium, Italy, Japan
and Germany represented, to draft a
plan tor fiscal liquidation of war In
demnities and debts as a preliminary
to withdrawing the allied garrison en
the Rhine. Experts believe the debt
can be mobilised within six er eight
years through taternatloeal leans la
annnal sections of tBOOjOOOjOOO to IV
200,000,000.
Representative Pied Britten of Illi
nois, chairman of tha bonis naval af
fairs committee, en Us return from
Europe predicted that'feotb the tend
ud naval disarmament a (ream ants
reached by Great Britain and France
would fall thronfh because the United
States had refused to'be "entrapped"
Into approving the naval compromise
plan. That scheme, Kfc asserted, would
have left France supreme ashore and
England supreme afloat.
FORMAL notice that the United
States urill not participate In the
selection of a permanent central
board to Investigate whys and means
of controlling the traffic In narcotic
drags baa been transmitted to the
secretary general of the League of
nations,
KING ZOGirS newly crowned head
Is not being permitted to lie easy
In Albania. Dispatches that have
leaked across the border say that an
uprising started recently In the north
ern part of the country as the result
of the assassination of a mountain
chieftain. The killing was attributed
to the king and a blood feud against
htm was declared. The country Is in
a state of alarm. Eleven persons were
executed In one day at Duraxso and
200 others arrested. Zogu, It Is stated.
Is barricaded In the old Presidential
palace at Tirana.
JAMES A. GARFIELD, president of
the Roosevelt Memorial associa
tion, announces tMlf the Roosevelt
medals tor distinguished service tills
year are to be presented on October
27 to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh,
Charles Evans Hughes and Dr. Frank
M. Chapman, ornithologist Lindbergh
Is to be honored fOk the example he
haa given American youth; Mr. Hughes
tor his work In adnflnlsterlnf public
office and In developing public and In
ternational law, and Doctor Chapman
for studies of American blrdjlfs.
PAH AMERICA honored the memory
of the late Gen. William C. Gor
faa I ait week on the aerenty-fourtb
anntreraary of bla birth. la the cap
Itala of 21 American republlca the are
nnee and boulerardk were tar w-itb
flowera and Sat*, and In Waahlngtoo
there waa a great banquet at which
the principal goeeta were diplomatic
repreeentatlvea of theee republlca
The adentiflc board of the Gorgar
Memorial Inatltuta waa buay through
out the week arranging for the eetab
llehment of the Oorgai Memorial lah
oratory In Panama tor the ttudy ol
tropical dlaeaaea, which wai created
hp congreea. The oongi eeelonal act
granta an annuity of .400.000 tor Ita
maintenance, and the ether 20 Ameri
can republlca together forlde $37.f>0C
annually. The laboratory will be a
laating monument to the man whoec
work in dleeeee control brought him
bonora from many gorernmenta and
made poealMe the building of the Pan
ama canal.
r-OB two hendred ;ttn the Ancient
" and Honorable Artplery Company
of Haaaacboaetta baa fathered annual
ly for a feaat at which the mem hen
drank In port wine the health of the
king of England and, atnce the Revo
lotion, of the President of the United
States. Tbla year the* company held
Ite banquet In Toronto, and peraoaded
Sir Henry Drayton, liquor commie
at oner, to lift 0018110% liquor restrtc
tlona so they coold contlnoe their old
cnatom. But Premier Pergnaon heard
of It and countermanded the order.
Said he: "They'll hare to drink the
k1ng*e health In water. I am not al
lowed to hare wlnee at my banqneta."
So the Ancient and Honorablee drank
the toaata In aoda wafer, with many
a wry face. And theft friends back
home had a good laogh.
TWO new air audi routes from Chi
cago wars spaaed last week. One
la to Mexico City by way of Kansas
City, Dallas aad Laredo. The other Is
to Montreal eta Clersland and New
York city. 8eretee started almoltaae
oosly from both ends of the routes
and will ha dally.
MAS WEST, actress and play
wright, seems determined to
fares HI thy plays on New York dty.
Not long ago she served a abort term
la prison for the offense, and last
week she pat on the stage another and
dirtier play. Mae aad all the mem
bare of the east won arrested twice
and Mayer Walker ordered the shew
permanently dosed.
Aviators Working to
Solo* Monaco of Fog
The latest plan (Or sol ring aviation's
(of menaca, the establishment of a
laboratory la tba air, calls (or two
planes and a BO-mils at retch of airway.
The Daniel Osffenheim Fund (or
the Promotion of Aeronastlcs, !nc_ aa
nenncae the details.
The location will be a section. 80 to
?8 anas long, of ana of the main air
ways eC the United States. It win be
sSllttld SrHsh| recerd and
ability to ranearth laboratoriae la tar
anted la maiatiaa, aaefa aa tha amy
and navy, tndnatrlal orgaalsattaia and
nnlreraJtlaa Cot. Chnriaa A. Lind
bergh. apodal addaor (or tha Ogggaa
halm rand, baa baaa atodylag aralt
abla location*. ? ,
Tha dying laboratory la daatgnod to
Moat taare than half way aoon of tha
rlaka Involrad la amklng teata of
hitherto imtried tarantl?a rar aa
ample. It will be paaalhla to he* Ma
pllottt oaa haaaad whan ba oan an
n d^Ugh^ ami tta thar .
? second Mt of controls. Oa i dear
dap the pilot Inside tm make the ex
perl Beat of handltnpbls plane bp to
atmrawita under eoodttlone aa Mind
aa the want tag. while the outside
pilot la aaaaraaea of hatatp.
la the laboratories tog haa been
dispersed hp beat hp elailrtdwl par
ades of aaad or other aabatancea In
the air and hp ahaoipMoa.
Wotnaa booae palntera aad decora
tora are planning a atna la Britain
aa thep km hikaaa da mngapna.
wwwownwn' -Mxeeeee*
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<B trr D. J. W.Uh.)
Millie mabvin ut with her
liandi folded, (Uiing at
Elon'a picture on the oppo
alte wall. Ber occupation
each day dnce Elon'a death two
months before was to sit with empty
bands staring at his picture, and each
day ber little, delicate body grew
finer and Oner like a copper wire
which Is being drawn ont to Its last
dimension of tennlty. Any day the
wire might snap and MlWIe's son)
would go forth to find ber hnsband'n
Now Elon Marvin had been a good
man?all the Man-Ins were steady
and good and perfectly dependable?
but It was only In his widow's sight
that be had been anything bat or
dinary and stupid. As for bis picture,
It was like him, the ugly likeness of
a man who bad had to go on wearing
whiskers when other men discarded
them just because he looked better
with half his fhce covered up. Elon
was not easy to look at Even his
sister, Mrs. Todbunter, conld say no
more of him than he bad "a dreadful
good look."
But Elon had been Millie's only
husband and she had been very grate
ful to htm for marrying her and
making her as happy as she had been.
She had become his wife at eighteen
when be had rescued her from her
position as drudge In the overflowing
household of her aunt. Hat Bawklna
To be transported to a home of her
own with every comfort In life and
some opportunity for having her own
way had seemed little short of
heaven to poor little Millie and she
bad outgrown the surprise and
thankfulness. Now with Eton gone
ah* felt that her future life waa of
no account save aa abe apent It In
adoration of hta memory. The fart
that he bad been twenty years older
than ahe and had suffered terribly
from rheumatism toward the last
made no difference in her feelings.
Aa abe sal there with bar eyes fixed
In sad obligation upon hla ugly coon
teniince the door opened and a worn
and looked at her from the threshold ?
a tall woman In dark blue with a
thick suitcase In her hand.
"When you dldnt hear the bell,"
the woman said, "I decided thai the
only thing left for me was to walk
right In?"
"Why, Adelaide Draper H Millie
said faintly and uncurlously. Then
she began to cry. "Eton's gone
Eton's gone."
"Oh, I know that." Miss Draper
set down her suitcase and begnn lo
remove her coat and hat "l.ucy Tod
hunter wrote me. I've come to stay
with you a spell. Millie. Aren't you
glad to see met*
"Eton's gone," Millie sobbed.
Adelaide cast her eyes up and sighed.
Then she aat down and walled for
something more. Nothing more came.
Millie was ao absorbed by her grief
that she paid no heed to the guest.
As a matter of fact Mrs. Todhunier,
Eton's sister, had written to Ade
lald a few days before:
"Do come and see If you can do
anything with her. I can't do a thing
and I'm afraid unless she can be
aroused she will go Into s decline,
maybe lose her mind, ton are one
of her oldest friends, you knew her
when she was a little girl, and you
may be able to get liei out of this
dreadful state she Is In."
"Well. Millie." Adelaide said after
a balf hour's silence, "It Is getting
teatlme and I'm hungry. It Is quite
a Journey from Wellsport Will you
get supper or shall IT
"I don't care?I don't care," sighed
Millie. Later when Adelaide came In
from the kitchen ahe said: "I don't
want a mouthful of anything, riease
let me alone."
And Adelaide had to eat unaccom
panied the meal ahe herself had pre
pared.
Things were little better next day.
Millie ate little, (aid almost nothing
and aat (taring disconsolately at her
beloved's crude countenance. Bat an
hoar after the midday meal she be
came aware of aonnd overhead. Draw
ere opened and dosed, doors creaked,
steps patted everywhere. Adelaide
now I What was she doing upstairs?
"It sounds as If she were In my
room," Millie thought Tea, that was
It I Adelaide wag In ber room. The
Idaa I She arose and went upstairs
Just In time to meet Adelelde In the
upper halt
Neither spoke, and MlUle went Into
ber room. Nothing was disturbed, but
still she was sure Adelaide had bean
there.
Now that she was upstairs she
thought she might as well lie down
and take a title rest. 8be bad stent
so little Inst alghi.
She had not lain there long when
she beard Adelaide creep upstairs.
She did not go Into ber room but
ascended further, to tbfc attic. Millie
lying there could bear her prying and
poking (or a full hupr.
For yeara Ulllle'a honaa had been
her own, with no handa (are here to
dlaturb certain parta of It, and to
hora a woman, who, howeTer friend
ly, had no Inialneaa to do eo. pecking
Into her precious belonging* at I reed
her with resentment
At aupper ahe aaked Adelaide:
"What were yon doing In the attic
thia afternoon T"
Adelaide lifted her atrong brow*.
"Attic I Did you think yon heard
something V
"I heard you."
"My I" waa all Adelaide commented.
The following morning Adelaide
stole away down cellar. Down cellar
now! Glasa tinkled as she rummaged
In the frntt closet. Millie twisted
uncomfortably In har chair and then
trotted down cellar, only to find Ade
laide coming up Innocently with a
basket of potatoes.
Rut that afternoon she wns at It
again, this time Id. Millie's room
again. Click went a lock, bump went
a drawer. This time Millie flew up
stairs, and caught sight of the tall
of Adelaide's dark skirt as she
whisked Into her own room.
It eras the very next day that Mil
lie, taking a peep through her bu
reau, missed her pearl brooch. It wns
gone from the pincushion where she
always pinned It when she look It
off. Her heart fluttered as she
searched for It. Her pearl brooch
that she had had so long, almost her
only good ornament I. Where could It
bet At that moment she made an
other discovery. Her white silk
blouse was gone? and a little bead
purse that she suddenly remembered
she thought s great deal of. She
turned pale with apprehension. Could
Adelaide have taken the thlngsT
But If not Adelaide then who?
Breathlessly she ran from the room
downstairs, calling Adelaide's name.
But Adelaide did not answer. Ade
laide was gone! She had vanished
from the house as If she had never
And bow Millie wbi wild Indeed.
For the (Iret time la two month* she
forgot ber Elon and hi* demlte. Bhe
wa* atirred to the depth* by the nb
scondlng of her frlentC Ye*, abscond
ing wa* the word. Adelaide had rum
maged. taken what *be wanted and
gone I Adelaide, the upright, the log
all What had come orer her? Millie
began to ponder, worry, try to And
an excuse for her old friend. 8he
wept for Adelaide, and then she re
membered that ahe wa* hungry. She
prepared a good meal and ate lb
Then ahe did whnt she had not
done In two month*; she dressed and
started for Mrs. Todhunter's. It was
a mile there?a good long walk, hut
Millie sped along. 8he had to hare
counsel from one she could trust.
As ahe opened Mrs. Todhunter's
living room door the Drat thing she
saw was Adelaide sitting quietly
there sewing.
"Hello Millie P she said unconcern
edly.
Millie stared.
"Oh, Adelaide I I thought?I feared
Mrs. Todhunter was at her side.
"I'm glad to see you, Millie. Ade
lalde's making me ? little visit before
she goes home. Take off your things
and stay to supper."
Millie stayed. Other guests dropi>ed
In and they had n eoxy rime. After
ward Mrs. Todhunter said;
"It Is storming quite a hit, Millie.
Yon better stay here toolghL"
That night Adelaide and Millie
slept together.
"Adelaide, I think the world ot
you," Millie said. She was beginning
to understand.
But she did not understand folly
until she unwrapped Hie tittle parcel
which Mrs. Todliunter gave her to
take home. In It were the blouse,
the brooch and the bend pure*.
And now Millie knew of n certainty
what a great kindness Adelaide, the
keen-witted, had done for her.
Charged Agaiiut Aviation
The atreel car rood at the end ol
(he line while (he motorman bn>ke In
a freah "chew** and (he condoclor'e
thonghta (nmed to the rawneea of the
weather.
"8ay, Bill, d'yoo think It's evei
gonna get epiingT" he finally queried
"Wa-a-ll." aald Hill, after expecto
rating coplonaly throogti the rerlbule
window, "aa long aa we're gonna hare
then alrplanea op there agHalln* the
hearena, we're gonna hare boated up
eenanna, and I for one doobt If we'll
ever hare aprlng and aomner and fall
and winter on time any more."
BaU Ringers
What la aald to be the older tx II
rloglng aodety In exiafene*, the An
dent Society of College Teethe, wet
founded In 1687 and haa membra
throughout tflh world. Twelta mem
ten of thla aodety wane reeently
granted permlaalon to ring oa the 12
bella of St. Paol'a cathedral (London)
a peal of "Stedtaan Clnqnea"?a
method of ringing cmapnaed by ra
Man Stedman of Cambridge. England.
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HANDLING
KPN QBE
Mechanical Unloadera Removing Ore From Lake Steamer.
(Prepartd bjr th? National Uaofraphlc
Society. Washington. O. CI
MINING the ore that make*
moat of America'* steel I* a
vastly different procedure
from the burrowing In dark
tunnels that la usually associated with
mining. Approximately five-sixths of
the ore that gives the Untied States
Its age of steel comes from the Uesaba
range of Minnesota, much of It from
the single great Hull Itusl mine near
Bibbing.
To get time Idea of this mine, im
aglne a great terraced amphitheater
cut out of rolling ground, half a mile
wide and nearly two miles long. Dump
Qatuu dam Into It and there would
still be a yawning chasm unfilled. Put
a ten-story office building Into the
deepest trench and the top of the
flagpole would barely reach to the
line of. the original surface.
Ordinarily one thinks of mining as
an occupation for human moles that.
burrow In the ground and bring out
bard ores from cavernous depths But
wheo nature laid down the Lake Su
perior ore ranges she made borrowing
and blasting unnecessary for the most
part. In the Meenba range?and, by
the way, there are aa many ways of
spelling thai word as there are of pro
nouncing Salonlkl?the ore has largely
the consistency of sand, and Ilea so
dose to the surface that It would be
aa foolish to burrow Instead of dig
ging as it would be to tunnel Instead
of cutting In building a railroad
through a' small knott.
And how they do make hay when
the sun rhlnea up on the Iron ranges!
Panama hnd Its rainy season, but the
Iron ranges bare their snowy season,
beginning In December and ending
with Easter, when that festival bap
pens to be late enough. They bare
only eight months In which to meet
the vast demand for Iron and steel,
and that demand baa run aa blgb as
00.000.000 tons of ore.
How do they do It? They do It with
the most wonderful lot of man-ellm
Inatlng, time-saving, obstacle-conquer
Ing machinery ever put to a thousand
mile purpose. The Hull Rust mine, to
begin with the ore In the ground, la
a series of terraces, or benches, as
the engineers call them, from the
banks to the bottom. On each of these
Brnbdlngnaglan steps there la room
enough to maneuver a steamshovel
and a railroad train, and up and down
the line go the shovels, shifting their
positions as they est Into the bank,
and loading a big ore train In less
time than a child with a toy shovel
takes to fill a little red express wagoo
From Mlno to Lake.
Tlie ore care on the Iron ranges are
of the regolailon preened eteel, bottom
damping. SO-too coal-car type, aad
they ran In tralne a third of a mile
long. The rallroade from the mlnea
down to Dululh, Superior, and Two
Unrbora are of the Mat conetruction.
The haul from Hlbhlog to Dalath la
gtiudd mi lea. Just before the traloa
reach Dolutb they come to Proctor,
the biggest ore yard In the wort A
Here they ran across a scales unlqM
In the history of tbe art of weighing.
There would be as endless congestion
and a consequent shortage In steel
were II necessary to stop each car on
a scales and weigh It; so a weighing
mechanism has been derlaed which
permits tbe tonnage of cara In motion
to be registered. A train stowra down
as It approaches and passes orer the
platform at the rate of from dee to
eight miles an hoar, the arelght of
eerfe car being automatically recorded
From Proctor the trains ran down
to the bugs nnloedlng piers at Dalnth
Theee piers ate east platforms belli
out over the lake, nearly half a mile
long and wide enough to accommodate
two tracks, which are at tbe height ol
a eli-etory building a bo re the water.
Iteneatb tbe tracks- Is a series of
pockets, holding some two or three
hundred mm of one each. The 'ore Is
autocratically damped Into then*
pockets and the train starts back la
Bibbing.
Even while the train* are damping
their turden shlpa are alongside with
tinge apqots In. every batch and ?,
hatch every i2 feet, with ore flowing
(iown on! of ibp pocket* like arater
out of a funnel, at the rate of aonw
80 ton* a minute, as a rale, and an
much a* 800 too* as Urn exception.
Some or them are more than 000
net long with only DO feet beam.
With officers' quarter* end kildge In
the bow and crew's quarters and en
gine room In the stern, and all of the
rest of the ship without superstructure
of any kind, and with a flat deck with
hatches spaced six feet apart, s aait
wslfr sailor might well regard theas
as uncanny apparltloos of the nnsalted
seas. eo.f
Modern Ore Carriers.
These ships. In spite of the fact that
they ara able to work ooly eight
months and Dot withstanding the won
derfully low ton-mile freight rate they
offer, ere veritable gold mines. With
the progress la the-art of both freight
er construction that a quarter of a
century be* brought' forth, miracles of
efficiency have been wrought. Vessels
of the largest type are operated today
with engines of the same pattern and
poorer a* were fltted Into shlpa of one
third their tonnage two decades ago.
Indeed, so economical In operation am
the big ore carriers of today that they
use only a shade mora than half an
ounce of coal la carrying a ton a(
freight a ml)e-*-a statement so re
markable that one could not believe it
except upon (he authority of K. D.
Williams editor of the Marine Review.
Another authority pots the cost of
operating encb a ship at between S200
and S3U0 a day.
Even at tlie latter figure and ten
days to the trip, with cargo ooly ooe
way, the cent of a Crip to the owners
Is only 8WIQ0. while, the receipts may
reach 16,000. Bat even at a dollar a
ton, moving Utt * thousand miles In
Ibese vessels costs only baesixtb as
much per ton-mile as moving It an
the railroads.
When the big ore carriers arrive at
the lower lake porta?Lorain. Cleve
land. Ashtabula, Conneeut, Erie and
Buffalo?they hasten ap to the ore
handling plants every hatch open and
ready far the unloading Gravity may
load a ship, but II baa never yet en
loaded ooe, and so machinery does the
work. Instead of the old way of hoist
ing shovel-lltled buckets by horse-pow
er end dumping them into the wheel
barrows of picturesque longshoremen,
a method by which It cost SO cents n
too to get the ore from hold to car or
pile, today gigantic onloaders, the moot
modem of them grabbing op IT toon
at a mouthful, aava so much labor that
It coats to some eases lent than Ave
cents to take a too of ore out of the
hold and pat .It on the small mountain
the ore folk call the stock pile, or In
empty railroad car* walling on the
truck hard by.
?, Unloading the Vassal.
The Hulett unionder reminds one of
a (lorlfled walking bean of tba si da
wheel steamboat variety, with ooe at
the lega left oC. bistead of tba other
leg connect log with a crank abaft, tt
baa a wonderful aet of daws at tba
lower end, and above them an ankle
of atartllag agility. These great daws
open and shot by electricity, and thar ?
take op IT tooa^with as much ease, >f
as yoo might dose yoar hand od an '
appia. Tba operator Is statlooed tw' '*
side the leg just above the dawa sad --
gets all the sensations of riding a
roller coaster, as be Jumps In and oat
of tba ship boor after boor.
When the dawa are fan, tba oper
ator turns a lever; tba walking beam
aaesaws back to the opposite position;
the load comes oft of tba bold and Is
damped lota a bin. From this bin It
flows by gravity Into big coal and ore
earn ta be banled to tbe furnaces, or
elae la dailvered to tbe buckets of tho
great caotilavar bridge, which carry It
acrdba to tba big atoek pile Once It
tooT# weak, with a regiment of man,
to onload a small Okip. whereas now
bait a day and a corporal's guard can
asnd tbe biggest, era carrier afloat m
Its ysj amply.
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