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CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER, JULY 22, 1000.' (iUAKWXG TUE TREASUBE TUE V UGHTS,, Of ,-! MESSKXGEUfi. Famous Instance la Which Eli; , len . I'mM . TtxHr Ouwt Tli Man With the Mawed-On" Hliotghtt , V Whore Black lUrt Failed Kuldled ' a Ca With Bullet Ieporatc Ite ";'' siHtance Made by Mtnm"iier Itob- '-,'Nw. York Suit , , Th hotgun messenger who guards J the treasure Intrusted to Wells Fargo (or ehlpment is on of the esrly In stitution of tn West that has not . been Improved upon or displaced by Inventive genius. Many clever echemea tn foil the road ae-ent were tried by the -express companies, and all of them nroved futile. The boua box, thrown out by the ' : stage driver, worked a few times, 'but the trick was too simple to last, , and a demand for "the other box" i-t wa enough to spoil It. The bum s'; In Iron box bothered stage robbers at ' - first, but it wa easy to send driver and passengers afoot down the road and break open the box with cold , chisels, and ms the robbers, incensed , at being put to so much trouble, us , '. ualy burned ttie coach and alole the horses, the expedient proved loo ex ' , pensive to the companies. '- " To James Gannon, in early days a Wells Purge detective and later a political boss In San Francisco, be ;' k longs, says the Haji Francisco Chronicle, the credit of first suggest, 'v. Ing that the best wsy to protect trras ."...ure would be to put on the seat be v side the driver a bis;, irascible man, 'j. armed with sawed off shetgun that , would scatter like a charge of bribery ;'' fired Into a t'tilifornla lglslat lire, v. uannon was u resourceful man When he began work for Wells Farro sisae r.,bbln was u uuasl-le- gltlmate branch of roinmercu on the Pacific "naM. and eminent merchunts Were not above going Into partner ship with be hold-op men, even us the merchant primes of nli New York grulndak-d the I'apluln Kldds, and Mm kbeard.i of their ln. When one of those thrifty trndvsnwn sniped treasure by express he notllled his "road-agent." ho stopped the stage and replevlned the treasure on c.iin mlsslon. The ounpany had to make good to the rnei haul, who doubled his money, minus the rnud agent's CommlsMmi, an.l f.Mind the operation more prntltii ti- timn tin- pnmuic bus iness of in. rely selling goods. Gannon's dev'cts to heat that game were various snl In genious, lie (omealed money In sacks of poiuiocH. anj one he drop- ped a bar of bullion Into a axk of molasses and got It ihrough safely. When the messengers to put n the stages It was Gannon who thought of a scheme to keep them uwuke dur ing the long night drives. He made it an Ironclad rule. (but the messenger ahould keep the muzzle of hlx nhot gun resting upon the toe of hi boot. It Is the boant of Wells Fargo that no robber ever got s box from a Mage rarrylhg a shotgun mesetiger. The boast Is almoxt. Inn not nolle, literally true. In 180 a noted mail agent named Hhurp did net a box from the Bodle and Aurora stage. Sharp and his partner. ltiwd. Infested the road for months and lobbed stages, pri vate conveyances uud even pedes trians with liioerit Impunity. Whilo they were lie in if traced by offli era and Piute tracker lli'-y ( In l l bin k to the road und held up a stage for mere bravado. . One day this audacious pair rubbed the stage going Into Hod I., und then laid In wait for the stage coming out, which carried Messenger Mike Tovey and a partner. Tovey got down and walked ahead of the stHge to ex amine the sceim of the llrst robbery and ran u; against a breast-work of rocks. Hharp and Dowd covered him with their guns und backed him alone the road to the stitge. The""" ."'"'r """ iwrn.,-is ounnm m.ht dark and when Tovev reached the stage he stepped buck of the lantern and whispered to his partner to pans down a gun Tovey. being in th durk and the light blinding the robber-, the pus Blng Of the gun was unw-i n. and To vey hlszeii wa,y anil killed Howd. He then run a round the st.ise to get a shot at Khsrp. hut Hbaip nr. d lirst and hit hlni In the arm and ilo-n mm 'into the woods. Th two messengers went lurk up th road tn a house to k I Tovev's; wound drees. . I I m t ' i ar ')' 'IiImt With the stage, uud a- sinii us llov were out of sight Khdip si. .p.d ot Of h woods ,ill'l robbed tin- "t .1 K . paying no attention to the lnih of lhiwj liowd's balikl k showing a considerable d' posit III Hie 1 1 1 1 I - nla Hunk, wus tb- in-- tb.it l.-d to the aptorc of Hhnrp Tovey whs wounded In I 'i 'j while guarding tbe stnKe from H.n AihIi.h to Hheep Hunch in I'abiMr.i- A rob ber fired Into the stag" without hihii lllg. w oiindltiga T.t .iii.I the driver mid killing :i . man pn. msi-r, but Ib d w In n Tovey leaied to the r. oho I mi. I di.l not rob the mt fit. A few e,,r- biter Tovey ujx killed near San Xndieas by a roml agent, who shot him In the back. Kveii Him k Marl ro ver -in .- b-l In pluud' ring it st.ig. u.ir.l .1 . a messeng-t but Mes. i.k loose it' I i knocked i,i wound ari.i brush and Messenger II attempted It ..i). ' ieiil(e H.l.kell I III 1 1 1 1 i.f till, kshot lit llllll Olid ib.UII Villi il Misfit t, - s. r.i m lib d Into t he ip.ed. I I i Ward was on the III I I V lieil full- d It up lie was lilt t'loverdale s'nic bers tried to h. In the hand l.y part of lead fired by i. lie lubO, from the ot her s i lite the brrnsi of 1,1- . ...it , hat. but Wr.l shot ..a. a 1o. id of si rap r .in. I a bullet i.ii- through Oil the , tiller's of III. robbers In the les; nnd lr"v Hietn ..rt A hair-1 i'Ik i i to. - nfc' t on in. Auburn and t Mm -in,-, killed a prominent . iz, n of ,i,.i,iii ,,n, night tunny i n , o. 'i in . immi nent I 1 1 le II slepH, II'1', I " load with a rifle In hand and before he could speak tin- messenger dropped him with a loud of biickshoi The gentb-msn's friends inplnlii.il ih.-.t he had Rone out to ssslst the in. ss. tiger t In protecting the ulage, but his tudg . meiit In volunteering lo protei i stages : without consulting the ine-scim. r Ms not generally commended , A rule It Is the ipjlllteftseni n of nwlsdoni for paseiigers on h,d. up ' Stages i make Hny objection t,, ,.- ?iroceedliig. The n.ad agent nlwu a the drop, and the safest pi,n for B passenger's un I- In Ms valise. ;, fome tnen who never have lo.,kd down Ihe barrels of shotgun whu, a desperado held the other end bring. ' In and boast that they would resist .and effect l look with e.,in upon etageloads of people w ho mei )jy sub mit to robbjrry under rnis. hm no ,,; sTtpertenc iTs- eufriclent to change their pvl"l of view and silence their foolish tongue. The drop Is the drop - and th hardest men of the frontier ,rcornir it. - Occaslonslly however, , rash, im . pulslv man or an obatinato fool pss ' senger has eerved the purpose o a ;" ahotgun messenger. Mllo Hoadley " wa on th Milton stage when a lone robber held it up, and he commented , sarcastically en th man cheek In stopping a teg carrying fiv men, Th robber retorted that Hoadly w cheekier still to argue the matter, and skd him If h bad any money. Hoadley seid he had a hundred rtol , tar In Matpeckat and asked, "What "Of II T" v '!- ' ., The robber erdr4 Mm (4 band It over, and Hoadley passed down hU pocketbook in such a way that tn man , had to shift hi gun' into ona hand and reach un with the other, Hoadley leaned forward and juat aa the man reached for the puree n reit upon him and bora him bodily to the (round. , Had the . other., passenger assisted" Hoadley, the robber couia have' been secured, but they remain ed pasalve and the man aoon'got th better of Hoadley. When . he let Hoadley up, the robber aald: "Tou are the cheekiest old man I ' ever aw," and then he .went away with th mall sack and Hoadley' money. He wee captured later, and he paid Hoadley' f 100 to a lawyer to defend him. Adam Hall, an obstlnat German, was an inside passenger on a held I up Milton stage and lit- refuted to get ! out when ordered to do so. One of the two robber reached In to drag him out and Hall gave him a terlfUc kick In the solar plexus that tumbled him Into the road. The other rob ber fired at Hall and missed him by an Inch, the horse ran away and the robbery was frustrated. When Hall was asked why he made so foolish a break he replied Indignantly: "That feller haf no right to get In der stage. 1 puy for mine seat, und I get owut when 1 mlneself ready am. Any fel ler tell me, to gt owut- when I pay for mine ride I kick him In Uer stoma he efery time, you betchcr life " From the stago coach the shotgun messenger was transferred to the rallwuy express car, where b now rides hm guardian of the treasure and sometimes hus to defend his charge against bands of robber whom tin cannot see. Charles ('. Haswell, now In charge of Wulla Far go's olllie at the Hnnta Fe depot In lxe -Ahgeles, In one of ihe men who havo successfully de- fended their cars against train i bers. His adventure was with ro li the notorious Imlton gang near A 1 1 In. In the Kan Joaquin Valley, on the night of February 6, 1891. tlHMwell was silting at hi desk making up packages of money before turning In for the i night when the air wits' applied suddenly and the train was brought to a stop with a Jerk that threw him from his high stool to the floor. Tim suddenness of the stop told Haswell thut something wrong, us the engineer, (Jeorge Thorne intended It should, und he went to the door nnd looked ahead. He saw live men get down from the engine and start along the track, and he quickly closed und fastened tho door, turned out tli light and got hln gun reaily. in a moment the engineer knocked ion the rear door of the ear and filli ed "((pen the door; I want to get a j link." Hut Haswell heard another VoUe say: 'And open It damned lulek!" und he knew that the engi neer wilm acting under rompuUlon. The robbers had the engineer and firemen under their gun. and n brjkeman with a l;intern stood l-sMn the car, making It easy for Maxwell to ' through the glass top of the side door what wuh going on. ! Maxwell put his fine to the glass to peer out and look' d Into the liar relx of a shotgun. He dodged back just in time to eecspe th- run cnurge , Mvl.k ,,,, wnllB (n the other thru Hob Dulton fired at lil hem! p(.tn the mills sought the railroads, one buckshot struck hlni Just over u ,..mse.,uence ruM not tak the leM eye with force enough to H,)v:uitge of the available water spin him around like a top As he whirled back, fating the door. Has well showed his revolver through the shuttered frame and shot Hob liulton In the shoulder. Million j 1 1 1 1 and mil. und Haswell seined a shot-Kun, puked It out and HreiC but ml-M,'i Itulton called to his partners: "iii-'s not me: make lilin K t out " 1 Haswell luy down on the Moor and the gang riddled the car wllh bul lets while he replied, shooting thruuglt' the slil" of the i ar by guess A shot fired by one of the robbers to rake the floor went too low. glanced from a pleer of Iron : end killed the llremun on the other "'" ",r " robbers gave It up It Slid went uwiiy with the wounded man, who IIioukM himself hurt worse than In was lloli alton had dyna mlle, but after li wus shot he made no attempt to use It The gung was traced to S.in I.uls I liblspo, where Hill Dsllou pretended,'''1"1'"' "'" wl(ri fullest success, to pruetice law and schemed out 'nntiy things must be borne In mind. marauding expeditions for the rHt i of the family, Hiid drat was srrested and taken to Isull. After his trial ami conviction Ural was rescued from Kill Jail by the xang. probably with the llSMlsfUIK'e of the KvnilS mill iw outfit, which was not suspeit- i ni thut time of being In the train l.lbbllllC bllH.'SS. Ii.. I. and Urut Dulton. Hill powers sn.l I ib k Itroadwell were killed and Kitinii I llnlton was severely wounded b i stable keeper lit 'offey e. Km. i r I. r they Its. I shot up th" ton n an roblifil a hank. The l-'.taris und Honing gang up etiite.l In the H.i ii .louqulil Yullcy In I Hie I. it lint I' ll '" In eii a I His und early '!i0s. but were oKiilfed. In one of their hold ii 1 l.nio, old mull Kvsns kill illr.iMd detective, who Jumped frimi Die Ituln to luke u hand In the Mxlil and oil another m i aslon one of (lie K.lllll killed u till tllp. who left Ills 1. 1 ,i ke-lie.i m when the trail) Stop ped Mini irswleij inn to see what was the mutter He Moliert was the nie.srnger I ill a al nil liked by KvnilS ami Hn'l - I tiK. Hill Unit v el he hlni the toughest lis-lit pllt Up to one of Well I l-'arito li-.l f. i Me S, Ke men rts lefllseil o open Up the I IT i ibbeis and .li piileil I . r a II. h.!lll hulll U ,, III, ,lie hlllli ts nn d through tile S,e. , -nr. i;.it down on the floor wlHi I. i-t. ,r tin Ills gtl'IS Mlil llIK tile l.l M itiimunllloti, after hid . part of the treasure liof the Southern forest. In som eo uti l waited for ti oulil. i Hons the .lniiir-r of this destruction his . horu I be llaiu hus ml an em b.i ik mi til , briiising llo- II.... i of Hi.. ii,i- nboe tin. ev-l of the Iie,, of a in. i sfind Ing beside no- tin. K . and on " nip ii . . ly th- i..l,U.s i ..old ie,l r-il,- 1 1 ll'inr with th.li til. All III. 1 1 inilli t Link an upard uiisl'i Uir. passed II bo e I fie llieHSetlg, To g I a shot al Hie l ibbers 1 !, cits pin. ell (he llllly.le .,r hi. ,,vt. KHII "lose to Ihe side of tile I .1 r III, I bbw ii bole through It and then Kept up throiiKh I h hole ii nr.' that pro bit.. I the door. ; The battle lasted nu hour and n - hull mi, I more than I'lbl shot i were llted Into Ihe car The loir ns sprinkled with empty shells Pom (he messenger's guns und ihe car was so till. . I wllli powder smoke Hist Hob ,els oil Id br. utile only ly pilling .Ills mouth i losv to the hole ha had ln:i,le III Ihe Hide Klnnltv Ihe robb rs place. I lunvv ilnnie of dynuinlte oiiib r lb.- cur nnd e,odid it. The -ur was shattered un. I I'.ol.erts wss hurle I c,. ,r p, n,n roof and completely disabled. livens j and Hi- Hontaga enter -d tho car and i secured the coin which Huberts could I not hide, but fulM-d to ilinl a rge Minouiit uf paper money. l'v'IIIN ; would hiive killed the v,iiindn, mes i ""tiger, but was prevent.-1 v one of ths Kontags. Messenger Huberts wi so bmlly In. lured by the dvnnniii- .0.1 11..1 he did not recover t ir .oir He went to Hellevuw Jlosplnl. Srw York, where surgnms opened blin and re arranged Imernul oigans that had been misplaced by (ha shock. , - hvans and th, "iintg wer de. Incted after dot her r bl ere. lorge t"S!?. rrewed. rut Kvn aid John Honing esespe,) f , t, mnuns tain, after a battl. wttli bftHer ,i . A"" t'lf. h"Hu defied tap. lure. They killed litre oiiicef and on Hlsen. wounded tilt other, and kept 1 h Htt n an. uproar ttiiHI they were finally defsNte t in l.attlo with Oeorg Owd g "pw. Vontug waa killed In the fight and Kvan lost an eye and one hand. ' ' Whll awaiting trial Kvan escap ed from rresno Jail, shot, down the city marshal on tne street ana too: to th mountain.. Ha waa recap tured and sent to , Folaom for Mti About two year ago th old villa la asked th Governor to let htm out on parole, In hi petition he) said hi crime wero "error of the head not of th heart" and poed a th champion of misused settler against th wicked Southern Paelfle Railroad, "I permitted my sympathies for the victim of corpora'tlon greed," td Kvans, "to overcom my judgment, but If I have sinned .1 havo mirrored. I lost my right ey and left hand. and have been separated for ' over eleven year from-my wlf and child rem who love m dearly." Thl tender-hearted old gentleman error of the head consisted of an un known number of robberies,! : rtv known murder and th wounding of at least eight men. And yet the cold blooded law persist In keeping him from th bosom of hi loving famllv. Charles Hmlth I a messenger wno had bad luck with train robber, who caught hi in twice down' In Arizona not far from Benson. Th first time th train wa stopped In a cut, and the robber on th bank got th drop on Kmllh through th glaxed upper section of the car ana compel led him to open. Smith saved 140, 000 by throwing It Into tha stov when the train stopped. The serond time he waa nld up Smith stood off the gang until th side of the car wa shattered uy dy namite, and then ha opened the door only under orders from the route agent, his superior officr, who wnrj In the car and had no relish for dynamite. KT.fXTiuc rowEn ix the soctji Its Iniortance to.tfifl Manufacturer of That KiloiH-Eoiulltlon Vastly Different .From ThtMte In New Eng land, Where Jlallroads Bought tho Mills. New York Kverilng Tost Tho importance of electric pnwr " the manufacturer of tho South wis the subject of a paper read at be leeent meeting of the American was-tOtton Manufacturer' Association at I Ashevllle. N. C, by W. P., Lee. Jr., chief engineer of the Houthern Power ' 'empsny. Commenting upon It Th ' Klectrlcut Review suys: "A striking plmsn of this problem has been th 'apparent neglect of the many and Important water-power In that sec- lion up to this time. This is explained not only by the fact that the Kouth has been an agricultural rather than it manufacturing section, hut be cause when the railroads were, being built there, ther were practically no factories to' Influence the location of the lines, so- that they were built merely with respect to the best loca tion from the railroad engineer' vlowpolnt, which was along the high lands, and not In tho valleys. This, us was pointed out, is diametrically opposite to the condition In New Knglanil, where (he factories were well developed before the railroads wen. lmllt Urol the lnfter were fhrred 'Th- rondlllon ha been changed now by the application of the electric drive, which, by means of a station placed ut the water-power, supplies cheap power to the mills already lo- : ciiteil on high nnd healthy ground closi- to the railroads. This new de velopment has thus given the South ern mills hii additional advantage over those in New Kngland. besides that of being In Ihe cotton country, and If full benefit be taken of these i opportunities, and If the labor prob lems do not upset the forecasts. It I difficult, as Mr. I-e believes, to see what Is to prevent that section of the .country from becoming th main cotton manufacturing centre of the world. "With sur-h opportunities the manu facturers nnd engineer of the Houth have Kic'it responsibilities put upon ""'" development I to be A bu ge wu tT-power Is a valuable a set, but It ran only lie made to pay If the power produced from it can i bn sold. There must be a market or a f.tlr prospect of creating one hefor the owners uro Justified In developing i their property. On the olher hand. the ability to secure cheap power i nles ona district a decided ad ' unit. me over another not so favorably dtiuited; et it must not be forgotten Hi. 1 1 in most manufacturing pro I i-e-e the rnete rout of power is a 1 minor Item The great success of the eleitile drive cannot he attributed I., th h feature alone. It la th other benefits ui-criilng from Its use which have put It In the lead. These water- powers iii list therefore he developed Inleliiaently and with a view to In ducing insnufHi'tui-er to build near tin in. Moreover, as undoubtedly a good deal of the capital required for this work niut be drawn from other pails of th,. country, there should be no ni.rrhasiy running Into hydro electric const i in i ion. Hurh a policy would mieK- ,1, f..t lis nun an. Is l, elldei Inif eiii.tlil miaidelnna It la iiiiii Ii belter to go slowly, developing first 11 i hose points where ther I ulieadv n iiiurktit. and not rushing lieedli ssly Into ii hydro-electric boom. "Them sr a number of other problems now presented to the Houth u hlili urn Minted "to this develop ment, one Is the preservation of the waterfalls bv stopping the destruction Is alieudy understood. but ther should be 11 greater effort to imoresa the public with the Importance of this mutter Then, too, the Mnulhern Htates should nrovlde bettr fOPltttle for triilnlng their engineer. While nt the present time there are a num ber of schools in the KoAith wher a good eiectrbnl training can be had. In most of the college th courses oflered In electrical engineering. Judging from the catalogue descrip tion, ure far from adequate. While It Is true that the determined atudant can get his education by going, other Pints, there are muny who are hot able to do I hi, and there ahould lie 110 such nocesslt. . Thre'l n the same neglect In Other branches of technical Instruction, and If. aa tin been iredloted, electricity U be the power behind th Mouth, th colleges should to Jt that properly trained men ore p.ovl.led to bring abmit this much-tr-b-deflred rull.M A llumorou l'ailcnt. ' Imdnn Mull. Bitrgery ha mnch to gain from spinal cocalmMtlon, ay Robert Jones, a Uv. eruiMd surgeon, In The Medical Pre, He advocates tills prims In cases where patients rsnnol er will not tak other neslstk, The resulting Insensibili ty lo tailn lasts more thnn an hour, but Ihe patient often develops abnormal lo- " sir. Jons tell of an operation In which he eorulnlaed th pin. It wa that of a glib num. who as soon ss he had taken Iwo or Hue wrhtrTs vf chloroform jump ed off Hi operating table and campered r.i This happened telre, a nil Mr. Jones tried nuealntsstlon. Injecting en est i Into the eereUro-splnat fliibl. By lid mean a troublesome operation of cuttlna out bona In the leg wa safely curried out. The man, an old poseher, mean time regl4 th doctor wltir sto ries of- III art. only one interrupting, when the suraentt we chiseling bou, to ek, "What is that knocking!" ' A pelmlt I a maa who think olher mn ar a cranky a h I. PERFECTING T1TE . THOSE fX)XQ TALKS ON A ' SnOltT UXE . . :., , -. r - . IloVr Fncluccr Aro Itannlng tho ., IVIcphone (tystem of To-lorrow A liilquo laboratory That Doe It Work All Over tho United Htatcsr , Kxirluiputn and lnvcstlgmtlous That Look Twcuty Tear Ahead. , . Correspondenc of Tit Observer.- .' . .' ' Boston,' July S0.In a. kyscraper office building In thl city I one of tho busiest e and . infest Interesting taboratorle In the wold. It la th placo wher the problem of telephony aro worked out. and wher are devised th mean of improving and develop ing th national talking ytem to meet tha demand the future will make upon it ;:v . ,. - Here, any day, you may ee two men In room 1& Or 20 feet wide and two or thre time that length, talk ing with acb other over circuit a thousand mile long. The equivalent of 10 miles of cab! la contained In a i box ho bigger than an ordinary travel- j ) jsr',S,rFg i laaBiiiii , l jggifiiii..., i Mx-IIuiMlrod-Mlle Unci In Right Sqnar Fert Tle Small Box at tl Ift of tlift Trlrplione I tho Kqulvalcnt of the Clrrnlt From the Sub scriber to the Kxclunnge Ttx Hound levlce on the Wall and the Three ttoils) at the Klght Hqiresent "Centrals" In the Mkldle Are. Two Similar 11 octs of Equipment I nder Tent, With a Mercury riwltch Be4ween Tliem Holow tho SlK-lf I 6U0 Mile of "Artificial" Polo Mnr The Storage I lattery and llie Rotvnd Hurm-rlbrr'a Telrplione Are Within a Few Tarda. Ing bag, and 600 miles of polo line la represented by the contends of another box not as large as a dress suit case, while the entire apparatus at the cen trul office, so far as it affects the In dividual subscriber's telephone line, ra compressed Into u, couple of square feet. ' With this equipment and two stand ardised telephone Instruments con versations over hundreds of miles are carried on within the four walla of thla laboratory one of the workshops of the central engineering foroo ot the Hell system. Kvcry detail of a long distance circuit from the ub- scrlber's telephone at one end of the line to that at the other end. with all the central office and overhead and underground construction that con nects them, 1 reproduced with scien tific exactness. 11. v these mean new devices and apparatus are tested, pro posed improvement investigated, and the scientific theories involved In transmission and operation worked out. This may be done for the pur pose of studying some minor bit of mechanism, of determining, for In stance, the relative merit of two forms of the relay colls which auto matically worked the signals on the switchboard, or of learning the effect on a conversation of having one sort of equipment at one end of the line A Wire Testing Machine Uteri Flnge r tlrasp Uie Wire ami Pull While lh Mechanism I leu -orris tho Amount of (strain to' Which the Material I Nubjm tod lloavr Wrl Gay Wire as Well a Lighter Vopirr Wire Are TcsIihI With tlteAleU'liliim of Thl Kind. . , and another sort at the other end, or for any of a hundred other purposes. The wy In which tests'of thl sort are made I curious.. At one Tnd of the laboratory of a telephone Instru ment that Is kept at an abaolut standard. Halt way down the room la a sound-proof booth In which a almllarly perfect Instrument I Install ed. The telephon In the open room ha practically th surrounding of the ordinary subscriber' premises; th other Is secluded m to give a nearly absolute quiet a possible and How Ihe trslned ear to, Judge cor. rettiy the sound that com over the wire. Oil a shelf beside each tele phone stands a device which, by shift ing It key and changing It electric al resistance, can be mad to repre sent the loop, aa 11 I called, between the subscriber's "station" and the cen tral office. Fastened to the Wall are repeating coils, relay, and condenser exactly Ilk thnsr attached to every unscribcr un v in : a regular p ensnge, . . ;... '.4 Th device that represent th out side line of th telephone system, whthr abl under city atreota. or open wire on pole lines, ar th most interesting of all. They tooK iik boxes two' or three feet long and six Inches wide,' with a double line of electrical switches on the top. In Id each box 1 a aerie of contriv ance each with th electrical resist anc and capacity of o much cable or wire, a th case may be; and by manipulating the twltche any dealr d number of the ection of,. "arti ficial lino," aa. they ar called, can be put in to, the circuit under teat, (The artificial ' lino are mad by taking the resistance of the size of wire they are to represent,: allowing for' th inevitable lekkeag ' of current under aom condition and for th Influence of Induction under others, and then embodying the result In a slngl com pact, devic which will Produc - on any current that I passed through It tne combined effect oi au tneae van ou Influence. ,v ' . ? : , When the engineer wish' to com pare the efficiency of two piece of apparatus, each I connectod with the same i. wire--" through . .a ."mer- cury awltch." The switch can be worked ao fts to put first one of the aamplea under ex amination and then .the other Into the test circuit. One observer talk into the Instrument at the open end of the line, rocking th switch back and forth, whll th other listen In the sound-proof booth, noting the differences in transmission caused by each change of connection dif ference which to tha untrained ear would be hardly perceptible. Some time an- actual operating plant I compared with standard equipment, like that used In the laboratory, by mean of. one of these engineer' "layouts," and so skilful doe th expert become that he can deter mine with practically absolute accu racy the percentage of efficiency of the line or piece of apparatus he la examining. , Thl labor try and another one near by, which 1 devoted to mechani cal tests, are Important adjuncts of the engineering department of the Bell' telephone system. Th profes sion of the telephone engineer has seen more progressive change than have taken place in any other pro fession In the same length of time. The number of men whom experience has qualified as experts In the highest sense is probably smaller to-day in this than any other profession. So at it headquarter here the Bell sys- tern maintain for- the benefit of all lta SI organization, big and little, an engineering force of IRQ 'men to whom are referred the puxxllng diftl cullle which require for their solu tion a greater expenditure of time and money, and wider resource, than any lesser organisation could afford. The are the men who have made the telephone ths wonderfully effi cient thing It I to-day and are mak ing the telephone of the future still more wonderful. ; .... .... ';..' " ;., ;? Each aubsldary company; he It own englneerlng"rorc which handle all ordinary -matter "on the, spot." Hut thing come up In the , day's work everywhere which can bvst be dealt with by the trained Investiga tor who has specialised for yr. and these matter are referred to th sky scraper laboratory. It may be some difficulty in transmission for which no caun can be found. . It may be a demand for a new kind of telephone aervlcei requiring" a modification of the ordinary Instrument. It may be the. laying out of an Intricate under ground system, or planning a group of central office In aom distant city to provide for th growth of year ', ' ''''" , ''.'.'i ', ''.,' 1 ' "' to coma, for In making their plan to day tha Bell engineers look 20 year ahead, l'erhaps it Is a now schema of operation, which promise to lop off a socond or two from the , time It take to get subscriber Into com municatlon. . ; On specialist studies method of timber preservation a matter' of great Importance, -since the demand for polea by the various Industries using electrical . current la , devour ing tree of the proper all at -hast five time as fast as nature, can re place them. . Another devote, himself to underground . conduita, 1 weighing by laboratory test and by actual use the merit of different aorta of mat ferial for different surrounding, con sidering ' such question - as ,- where ereoaoted -wood J beat, ' where tiles are preferable, whether a - manhole in a given . kind of o!L ahould. be concreted or bricked, what kind, of construction u oeat lor city - ana what - for . country, . what difference; hould b made whore -the", frost come early ana sink deep . ' and where' frost la unknown. - A - third I .making hi llf work the study of Insulation most Important of all to good transmission, which means good service, since If perfect . insula tion could- be devtaed a tremenaou loss of current would be aaved. Btill other are aeeklng means ot : over' coming the ton In transmission now Inevitable by finding way of buna Ing' up 'the current -or maintaining rts atrenrth In aolte of all obataclea. An important work I done, too, in keeping every Item added to the tele phone Plant "ud to the standard."! Cable, ' wire, . Instruments, switch- board, everything. In fact, that goes Into the ' ystem. jnust ; pas muster before It can be delivered to the construction or equipment men. - The manufacturer make their own tests and are expected to deliver - their Dfoduct In perfect condition, of course, but It is all re-examined by the telephone -company's Inspector. Each of th 0.000 Mil teiepnonee distributed - last year wa - testea out twice once by the maker and once by the engineer before It waa sent along to tak It place In a busy metropolis or on a far distant, isolat ed farm. Evry Inch of wire In the Bell svstem and there are . 000.000 mile of It already in u overhead and underground, and thousand Of mile are added each day passe under th hand of aa expert who feel" it for nicks and flaws that might weaken lta tensile strength, and samples from every lot made are tested for both strength and con ductivity. As much as 4.000; miles of wtr ar tested In a alngl day, the work Involving els -distant opera tions la the handling of each of the 4S0 sample colls. WOMA IS ADVERTISING. Some Sample of Invalid Copy That Need iter nursing. Stella George" Stern In Printers' Ink. This 1 neither apology nor explana tion. The time ha passed when woman' position In th advertising field had to come with Its hat In if hand and Its right-to-be on lta lips. This la new for tho who nd it of how much more profitable aom advertising copy would be If .-women wrote tt. Woman." says the poet, "Is not undevelopt man. but diver" as true a word the necessity for di vision of labor. Yet, while one ad vertising agency sends a man to Cuba to study tobacco before letting him write cigar copy, another sets a bewildered bachelor, who thinks a medallion is always Jewelry and every gore a wound to descending feminine lingerie or corset. . I know how that bachelor rei-- th rule work both way. On ot the first advertisement I had to write was for a sarety rator. ,Tna nearest neighbor to a safety rasor. In mv la-norance. wa a lawn mower. I therefore wrote that the rasor wa smooth running. I don't do that any more? I've been warned not to; but. to this day, 1 ao not quite Know whr. Bv the nam token on of th cleverest masculine writer of adver tising copy one made an advertise ment for a corset that every women love for its pliant comfort. The advertisement represented a heavy Iron chain, and proceeded to say that the corset wa a strong as that. But than are extreme case. ' I want to make th point that much fairly good copy could b excellent, remunerative, compelling copy If the writer were a woman Instead of a man, If the argument came from one who must Inevitably know her subject better and sympathise with her audience. Here la a typical, . sensible reason why shirt waist advertisement, a a man writes It: v IS SHIRTWAISTS AT $3.78. A leading maker wa closing out hi seaaon'a business. It paid him to have u tak th whole of his' re maining supply In' one purchase even at a reduction so great that we can now offer you beautiful, pew shirt waists at a saving of $1.11. The shirt waists are of excellent materials lawn or batiste careful ly mad, brand new, and In a very good range of stseo and style. $1.75 each: worth $. The prospective customer reads that advertisement and ' is probably interested. But, nine times out. of ten, she waits to ask these questions of some woman who has been shop ping: "Did you see the sal of waist at Blank'? What are they like? DO you think I'd like them? are the style nw7" or loses her in terest for need of such Information. Now, if a woman wrot tha earn story: , :. IE SHIRT WAISTS AT $.7. Beautiful New Stylet. - Waist of sheer lawn or batiste, with deftly embroidered fronta and an engaging arrangement 1 of ' fine tuck and delicate iaoe Insertions, set In obliquely. Short slves. ex qulsltely trimmed. Button In back, A general description but the range of choice I Urge. Well mad, with properly fitting shoulder . and waist un. ana run, oft blouse effect. 'All !. .. . IS. 71 Instead of. It because we took. . all that a leading maker had left. - - ".. t There would b no question left to ask. That advertisement does not argue, It persusdea which Is th way;, kind friend, to aeai "wun woman. , ' ' v. ;. . .' '. Oentlemen. did you ever sea a gen eral advertlmnt for dress ahleld that wa aa good as It ought to be? Could you make one- M good as tt ought to be? What do you know about advertising women's hose sup porters? Or momen's stocking of underwear? sDr kitchen utensils? Did vou ever dres a child? Do you think that your-technics!, mechanical description ot a sewing - macnin make any Impression on ths average woman reader! wwit, are tne es sential qualities of hat pin or hair filna (two products that ar not of en advertised under brands., but ought to be)? Do you know how. to fill the yearning abyss that call for good copy about , women's shoes? And. shove all, wont' you give up the vain attempt to writ copy for cor acts .In competition with women? That hurl my feeling worst masculine corset copy. , I never w In all the men-made mngatln. bill board and street car advertising, for special brands of corset, on attempt that I did not want to take by the shoulder and shake Into. som sense of It responsibilities .. 1 . Women know o much more about thl subject thatt men do that I m now - going to suggt to - corset UFOLLETyEAKUTIkTH. ; ... ' XOT TASTTCD MEAT .'Itf TKAKS Ling Itcfore President ? Roosevelt Marie' War on the l'surklng House , . the lighting Wbtconain Senator Hail ; Put Thorn All Out of Business so Far aa Ho Himself la Concerned. ,'.: JOKIAJI KINGSLEV. .President Roosevelt is no pioneer . among publlo men in making war up- ; 0 on the ; beef , trust, j long before tho i President had thought . f 'putUng. -Messrs. , Armour, Swift and thlr aaA eoclatea or: the product of the" ln-vi stltutlons , owned by these - eminent mllllonalra on the black Urt, 8ena-'; tor La Follette, of Wisconsin, had put , ; them all out of buslnea. so far, at- least, a ,he - himself la - concerned. ' For six years not a penny, of fcena. ,v tor La Follette'e money ha gon to- J ' ward swelling the Armour-Swlft-Mor . ris million. Those ir million have ,'' gone on accumulating, it la true,, but ' Wisconsin,; little giant 'hold tn his heart the proud consciousness that ha ; .', has Contributed nothing toward them. . Nor will he, Beyerldg bill or no Bv rrags-Diii. - .. ''! r. , Senator La Folette 1 a vegetarian: Not like ao many, a mere dilettanti in .' tne no-meat crusade, but aa active. ,-, actual,, business vegetarian. Most . men of large affair, especially men engaged In. what, for want of a bet- ter term. Is called. "brain" work, cut down the amount of meat In - their '. : dally diet ar they grow elder.- Bcea- . tor La Follette cut nat out alto- : II... m ... . - fc. 1 V mwwu I 1.1 SV, , CI M . t tends to-day as fin a specimen of : ' -I lo-pouna fighter as the world can v ' how. . . .-' ,;, .';(... ;'r'"'"s With him the metamorphosis was' precipitated by bad health, due Jto V Imnslrait Mllrnetlnn Us vii 'Mnm ; and out" chysicallv. The beat he i'T eould do to a rlckel-ln-the-lot wlgh- T " ing machine was to push the Indl- . . cator to the 120-pouad mark. There fv were aiaiwanr- .in Wisconsin w no e would gladly have contributed to-,y ward footing an undertaker' bill, and -who believed somebody would, have ' that gladsome opportunity. ' . -' I made a thorough and. so far - v aa I waa able, aclantlno study of my- , ; elf,", explained Senator La Follette, . when asked to tell the atory of hi ' dietary change. "I realised .that If I : were going to accompllab any of th-' utmg 1 naa set out to eo, 1 roust have health.- My digestive appara tus wss sadly dlaarranged. Th prob- lam waa how to secure the neceeaary ' nutriment to keep up steam without ' putting upon th digestive machinery more . work than It could do. . The S maximum of nutriment from the mln- ' Imum of food that waa the end to . be aimed at I made a aclentlflo . study of myself and solved the prob lem, so far aa 1 myself am concern ed. The secret? English walnut. Milk and English walnuta." By thla It is not to be understood that Wisconsin's Man of the Hour live exclusively upon these two ar- tlclos of food, but they do form the staple of hi diet. Here 1 hi dally menu: Breakfast Two whole-wheat bis cuit and milk. No coffee or tea - both bad for digestion, , Luncheon More milk. Outside pieces of bread or sweibach. A few ' .' English walnuts if they are within reach. Dinner More English walnut,' a , dosn or two. More milk. Such , fresh vegetables as agree with him, particularly asparagus and spinach. No moat Non or any Kino. . 4. , - I thl diet aufflclent to sustain -life? Well, rather. If there le one man In American public life who Is thoroughly alive. It Is Rotprt Marlon La Follette. Feel hi arm! All mua cle, A prise fighter anxious to get ' Into pink of condition would envy it , . The political life of Senator La Fol-"T lette ha consisted of a eerie of stren- -: uous campaigns. His laat race for Governor waa no race eo far as he was concerned, his re-election being; assured from the first but he waa determined to have a Legislature that would atand faithful to hi reform measure, and to thla end he bent all his energies. For forty-eight day at a tretch he went a-tourlng tb highway and byway of Wisconsin In an automobile, making six. eight ten speeche a day not short ad dresses, but . real speeches,, in wnicn , he carried home to the people of . the different villages and towns the meaning of the freight rate question as It affected them. Hard speeches, full of detailed discussion of an la- sue upon which the people had to be educated from the very bottom; speeches full of comparison of th rate of those town and village In , Wisconsin coming and going wim - th rates of similarly situated villages . and town in Illinois and Iowa, -th two adlolnlna mate, which had '. State railway commission qf th kind ' ' he waa advocating for Wisconsin. . man haa ever done a more strenuous piec of campaigning. Throughout those forty-eight days , his breakfast dinner and auppar he carried In his automobile. For each meal fresh milk the supply being re- ; nlenlshed at dairies and farm nouses and two slice of bread, these but tered. Sometlmee with cheese be- ' tween them. Tha right kind of cnea la not ie.diee.Hhie." he say. "The .stringy , . kind I bad, but th right kind, grated, Is sll right" . ..' f ' -Sometime h eat aardlne when not on a trip ilk thl epecllng the , ekln carefully from each. But, as , a rule, his diet Is milk and English , walnut! " . ' ! mJ- And will such a diet make "steam r v; the beef-eater will auk, - -; ' Take a look ULa J,ollett.3Tat,cH him In action In th Senate, or on .. the lecture platform. Follow hi trails f when h I ftr grafters In Wash- ' . Ingtoa or In Wisconsin. ; V v' V- ; . .physically, there is no better 1I0 ' pounder aMKe. Short-legged, but big- v , muscled: no fat, no -surplus fleshj V complexion clear, eye full of fir. Jr From th tip .of . hi toe to th towz of hi bristling pompadour every lncbY a man... - : - ' '. ,V ' i' Th.. 1 9 srAti tttltt Kewjk anv Anutit .N about hts vim , and hi vigor, sk : Spoonar and the other Wisconsin stal warta -They know. ;'.,, ; ,'-,-";."; maker and advertising . agents some points to consider: - , " . 1. No womsn yearn to look like rf arflst-mde creature, with a figure like an inverted eone set In a cylinder, -pinning a rose tn her hair. . . . I. If aha doe admire a geometrlo shape, At pictured flgmr. with Its . waist smaller than its neck, wilt never be enough to convince her that your corset will achieve that victory over natur. ''" v. I. Th ham ; of th corset in beautiful, fancy letter all through the middle distance, I not persuasive. ' .' Neither l tn mere statement that all women Ilk them, or that' they glv the desired flgur ("what ever." sy the writer to himself. that may be"i, or mat ail ator keep them when fhty do not, and cannot, many : time or that tlwre are a limitless number of model. on of which Will surely fit an woman- who has t th patience to search.'-" -v. ,, rx; .;'.. ; t R. What a woman want to know but sfter all you would not b much ' Wiser, If I told you. Th . psth of safety 1 to let ' a woman write the copy. - ..';":' ,-'.'.-.,; - 4 ..a-J '- .1 , I, a .
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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July 22, 1906, edition 1
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