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The Alamance gleaner 3 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* GAVE HER I THE SOUL I CURE } gWWM?WmWWW9?9WI <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. ** W...Ar *? ? ? ' 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. 4i2a-i?'in" 'rf f 'ii' T:lTOi
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