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V V f V V A. THE MORNING POSTi FRIDAY. MARCH 7 1003 Durham Citizens Sued to PaV for Paving Sidewalks Southern Railway Calls on Lee to Make Good the Stolen Money. Recent . Gifts to Elon College. Durham, N. C, March 6. Special. It looks now as if there will be litigation to determine the responsibility fos the robbery of the Southern Railway ticket olllce last Sunday afternoon. . This- is a new .turn in the robbery affair. The Southern road has made demand upon Mr. J. B. Lee, the agent who was robbed, for payment of the amount taken from the safe. Mr. Lee has refused payment and gone to Atlanta to take his new position with the Seaboard road. The. Southern claims that Agent Lee had been instructed not to leave more than $20 in the small safe in the ticket office over night, but that he should put all money in the large combination- safe in the freight office every afternoon. This direct instruction as to how the funds should be taken car,e of was vio lated by Mr. Lee, they claim, and that he and his bondsmen are responsible to the road for the loss. Mr. Lee de nies this responsibility .and has refused 10 pay. The road will send .the claim to the bonding company. Should the bonding company refuse to pay the claim ther will 'be litigation, .and if the "cla im is paid there may be litigation on the other side brought by he bonding people. The amount taken was $249.08. The city has started a number of suits against property owners who have re fused to. pay one-half the cost of mak ing sidewalks in front of their property, as provided by law. Before the suite FEATS DONE BY THE ENGINEER About the newest of all great engneer ing structures is, to most people, the commonest, the modern railroad bridge, and it is hard to realize that nothing at all like it, even for highway purposes, existed fifty years ago. Now almost ev erv one of the bridges earliest bu-.It has been found inadequate for the enoimous increase of traffic and the weight of locomotive, and has been replaced by steel. . .Each span is made according to draw ings, with hundreds of beams, girders, bars, rods and columns, riveted and forg ed and bored in distant shops, but never fitted together until they arrive by roz ens of carloads at the site, and are qaickly assembled to make a slender, self-supporting framework with the rigid pieces which weigh thousands of pounds ' r.tted accurately and swiftly in place like the machanism of a watch. This is hard enough to do across a storm-swept bay, over an almost bottom icss river, where there is a fierce current or high tides, or where, as in the Niagara gorge, the height is so great- that no sup port can be built up from the bottom, and the span has to support itself during construction; but all these difficulties are small to the bridge builder, compared to the requirement, often met, that an old bridge, of perhaps many spans must be replaced by a new one. in exactly the same place, of the same dimensions- and supported on the very same piers, with out interrupting apperciably the almost constant traffic which demands passage nearly every hour in the twenty-four for long freight trains or rushing expresses. Such was the case with the Florence bridge across the Tennessee Kiver in Alabama. There were twelve spans of about 120 feet each, which carried a single track railroad on top and. a high vr.y between the trusses. The old woodn spans could not even support the new steel ones during erec tion, although the masonry piers had ample strength. Wooden towers were built on the top edges of the old bridge, outside the track, above two adjacent . piers. Above these towers, nearly twenty-five feet over the track, a complete hew tem porary span of wood and iron as long as tho longest span of the old bridge w buMt. , A new, permanent span was as sembled together, suspended from thJ under side of it, clear of. the trains which passed uninterruptedly thiough it and under the temporary span. Whn it was finished and track laid on top of it the under sid was lashed to the upper side of the old span, and it was additionally suspended,; from the over head temporary spRn tfy four vertical 3VL inch steel sere rods, about 30 feet long" on,; at each corner, which had nuts bearing on top of the temporary span. A suitable interval between trains was selected, the ends of the old span chop pol away, the lashings between the new anl temporary spans removed, and then tho nuts on the great screws were slack ol off by gears operated by a steam engine at each end, and both spans were lowered smoothly and safely together, al-out 22 feet, in less than an hour; tha old one dropping down almost to the water's edge and the new one .following to occupy its former place and rest on masonry seats which were prepared meantime. A few minutes later trains were run ning across the new span, the old one was removed at leisure, and the over head span was rolled along until its tow rrs rested above the next piers, another span was replaced, and so on, until the whole superstructure had been replaced. It took th rty-four men only eighty days to rebuild the bridge. The difficulty and expense of building solid foundations for a. bridge where the water is very deep or swift or the bottom unstable are very great. In soft Koils the utmost effort is made to pre vent any danger of settlement or of undermining by floods and swift current, rrid where piles re noc used it is gen erally necessary to carry the masonry down to solid rock or to a safe distance in earth and sand. This is always very difficult on account of the tremendous pressure of the earth and water at a great depth, and the danger of working there ven when it is possible to exclude the water. In this country cribs or caissons are often sunk by mechanical processes or by men working pneumatic pressure and then a;-e filled with concrete. In India where the soft" alluvial soil extends to a great depth and is saturated with water and will flow like mud, they make it support heavy foundations partly by its stickiness. For many years they have built hollow cylindrical brick piers from 20 to 100 feet deep which hold are settled it "will be a .test of the con stitutionality of the authority given the city under, the charter. Some of those who have refused to pay say that they will test the matter. The charter gives the city the right to make such side walks as the commissioner may deem necessary and provides that half of the cost of doing such work shall be paid Kir hrnnortiT nnmcrs. There are some twelve -or fifteen suits of this kind to come up in the magistrate's eour.. wumu the next week. ., J. L. Reid, day operator on the boutn ern road, has gone to Sanford on ac count of the illness of his child. Mrs. rt onA niiHi wonf tn s.mford a short while ago on a visit and the child was takea ill while there. B. C. Ilartsell, the new ticket agent at . the Southern office, has arrived and entered upon his duties. He came her from Concord. Judge R. W. Winston has returned from a business trip to Norfolk, where he went on business. He said that the strike situation was very serious and that the hurrying of soldiers along the. streets looked very much like war. Trav el is greatly congested on account of the tie-up in the street car service, and late in .the afternoon when rXe people are out doing their shopping, the streets are almost blocked by travel on foot. Prof. W. P. Lawrence of Elon College spent last night in the city. Speaking of the great good that will result from the recent donations to Elon by Hon. F. A. Palmer of New York, Professor Lawrence said that the gifts resulted in the raising of fifty thousand dollars thirty -thousand given by Mr. Palmer and twenty thousand by other friends of the college. Continuing, he aid that it was thought that Mr. Palmer was con templating another gift to the college, inasmuch as Rev. Frank S. Child, a close friend of Mr. Palmer, is now at Elon. heavy loads chiefly by the friction on their sides. Originally these hollow piers, a few feet in diameter, were built up on wood en rings laid on the ground in the bot tom of pits dug down to. water level. A native diver went inside and dug up the bottom with an adze-like tool, labor iously undermining the walls, so that they gradually settled a few inches a week as the tops were built on high above the surface of the ground. Afterward the excavation was done by dippers attached to long poles and some times by buckets with valves in the bot tom. Recently large pier foundations for railroad bridges have been made with two or three brick cylinders twelve to fifteen feet in diameter, shod with circu lar iron girders having sharp, cutting edges, and a horizontal shelf to receive the brick-work. Steam dredging machines were set . on top of the piers, and undermining the shoes, allowed 'the piers to settle forty or fifty feet below the river bed. The friction on the sides of the pier became at last so great that the weight of the brickwork built high above the surface of the ground would not sink it, and the last of the descent was accomplished by loading the top of the finished pier with hundreds of thousands of pounds of rails piled on in overhanging crossed layers. One of the most important, interesting and remarkable engineering feats on this continent was the construction of the Chicago drainage canal, a canal twenty eight miles long, dug at an expense of over $30,000,000. It taps the Chicago River some distance abovits mouth and causes its foul waters, mixed with a large quantity drawn from the lake, to flow a short distance up stream and then through the canal into the Desplaines River, and thence to the Gulf of Mexico. The canal is cut to a depth of twenty two feet below the water level, and for several miles through the prairie is near ly 300 feet wide on top and reonired the excavation of over 28O.000,0()O cubic yards of earth, which had to be dug up, lifted out and piled in great hills, often hundreds of feet away from the edge of the canal bank. As the average price paid for excavat ing, lifting and removing the earth was about one cent a cubic foot, only a frac tion of what is usually paid for "ordinary quantities of excavation, the contractors werv obliged to invent cheap methods, and the great principle of success was found to be in handling the earth in large quantities and keeping it continuously moving. - Most of it was dug by steam shovels working in the bottdni of the trench, which could scoop up a wagon load at once, and do it on an average of once a minute or oftener all day long. t In one place the steam ho"el worked back and forth across the canal, cutting a section 10 feet wide and 14 feet deep at each trip. Each bucketful, of a ton or more of hard sticky "clay was dumped by the shovel into the hopper of a grinding ma chine, which delivered it on top of an enlless. wide rubber belt extended across the bottom of the canal. A second belt reached up to the top of the slope and in turn overlapped the end of a third, which was carried along the floor of a 200-foot bridge elevated 30 feet above the ground on rolling towers at each end. Each of the three belts was supported on rollers hollowed a lit tle in the centre, like dice boxes, which made it sufficiently concave to retain the clay, like a tiough. . They were driven at a speed of about seven feet a second and ceaselessly car ried the clay away from the shovel up the canal slope, on top of .the bridge and over it to a variable point, where a diagonal scraper was set across it, and pushed the load off, to fall through the bridge floor and pile up on the ground, underneath. When the steam shovel comDleted a cut across the canal, which perhaps re-1 ijuueu hvo uuys, us traces, rne Deits and the bridge were all moved ten feet ahead, and the process was kept up continuous ly. Many of the chunks of clay were as large as a man's head, and it was amusing to watch them t ide quietly along until they began the ascent of the steep bank, and then begin to roll and tumble and start down with an evident deter mination not to go up that slope under any circumstances. They would hurry and scramble as fast as possible, but it was not steep enough for them to fall quite as fast as the belt travelled, and it would keep picking them up again and again, each time lifting then a little higher before they would succeed in starting down, until at last they were landed on the level belt on top. . Blasting a tunnel through the solid rock is usually considered an easy and a comparatively safe task; excavating it in solid clay with a good depth of the same material overhead is sometimes still easier. Even quicksand may be pierced at the expense of sufficient time and money, but when it is necessary to tunnel through soft mud and "silt " very near the river bottom in deep water, the task is one of the most difficult, dangerous and costly that can be at tempted. Such a. tunnel with an in side diame ter of ten feet was recently built in a very novel manner. A huge concrete tube, 225 feit long, lined inside and covered outside with steel plates, was built on shore on regular incliued ways. The ends being closed, the 1,000-ton mass was launched like a ship, toward thirty miles to place, sunk, between rows of guide piles driven on both sides of it, and one end connected by divers to the shore tunnel previously built to join it. The most remarkable feature of the work was that a storm arose and threat ened to injure the floating tunnel before it was quite completed. ' Large valves were hastily opened and it was allowed to fill and sink to a depth below the storm action. When it was calm again the water was pumped out and the great pipe rose to the surface, was completed, and again sunk, this time permanently seating itself on the foundation of piles cut off accurately by submerged steam saws at the required level, far below the surface of the river. In sinking deep shafts through quicks sand it is often impossible to keep out the water so men can work in the bot tom. The sides will cave in continuous ly, quicksand will enter like water through the smallest crevice in the. lin ing, and tons of it , will flow from a long distance underground, so as to cause depressions in the surface at re mote places. Recently the expedient of freezing the quicksand far below the surface was adopted, and after that was accomplish ed, the shaft could be excavated easily. The freeiing is accomplished by the use of the modern refrigerating machine. A shaft about 15 feet square and 100 fet deep was sunk in this manuer through water and quicksand to solid rock at Iron Mountain. Mich., a few years ago. Twenty-seven 10-inch iron pipes were arranged about three feet apart on the sides of a rectangle enclos in the shaft and sunk vertically to rock by a water jet and steam hammer. An 8-inch pipe, closed at the bottom, was lowered inside each 10-inch pipe and the latter withdrawn. A l-inch pipe, open at the bottom, was lowered Inside each 8-inch pipe, reaching nearly to its bottom and extending through its cap on top. The tops of the inner pipes were con nected to a pressure pipe, through which brine from the refrigerating machine was pumped at a temperature of about 17 degrees Fahrenheit. and, rising through the 8-inch pipes, escaped from their tops into a connecting horizoutal pipe, which served as the suction main of the circulating pump. The mid brine thus moved around and around the circuit, taking about-twenty-five minutes for each trip, and feing in that time about one degree in tempera ture. As it absorbed the heat from the qucksand and water thin coatings of ice formed around the outside of the 8-inch piles and gradually increased in thick ness until in ten days those on adjacent pipes united and formed a solid wall of frozen water and quicksand, whiclj. after forty days' freezing, atained a thick- j ness of ten feet. , -I This excluded the water, so that the shaft could be excavated through it as in rock. The material had indeed to be blasted and resembled sand-stoiie. The shaft was lined with heavy timber1 walls hung from the too and packed around with hay. A water-tight joint was made with the rock, the refrigera tion was stopped and the ground allowed to thaw, which ic did so slowly that it was fifty days before the water began to enter the shaft. The outer edge of the frozen mass was supposed to be a cylindrical surface 54 feet in diameter. 8 Whit'i Year Face Worth? Sometimes a fortune, but never, if you have a sallow, complexion, a jaun diced look, moth patches and blotches on the skin all signs of Liver Trouble. But Dr. King's New Life Pills give Clear Skin. Rosy Cheeks. Rich Com plexion. Only 2.1 cents, at all stores. - -O ' Wfdel and His Wind mill (Chicago Record-Herald.) The wrecking of an old mill at Hurley the other day in order that tho material might be used for other purposes wa of unusual interest to the people of that locality, for the reason that the struc ture had no counterpart on the earth's surface, and was erected under the per sonal supervision of an amateur inventor who believed he solved the probblem of utilizing the high winds of this part of the country for the operations of ma chinery in lieu of steam or other power. "Wind power" was the hobby of Cor nelius Wedel. a member of the colony of Russian Mennonites living in the west ern part of Turner county, and the mill was erected to test his theory. Wedel was a man of some ingenuitv. who claimed to have discover a new stvle of ' wheel and attachment which would com pletely revolutionize the modern systems of motive power. The flour mill was built in the fall of 1803 by himself ami an other Russian named William Semur. Wed el was very anxious to put his theory to a test. He invested all the mone he had in the mill and induced Semur to sell his valuable farm .and in vest the proceeds therefrom in the mill. Then Wedel, still not having enough money to carry the project through, borrowed all he could, and finally gut the mill finished and in running order. But it did not work just as expected, and the first high winds took the fans off his wheel. He was not whoolly dis couraged, however, and proceeded to re pair it and put it m Tunning order once more. But the wind took the fans off again. He could get no more funds to repair the mill, and the disappointed in ventor was. forced to abandon the struc ture to his numerous creditors. The mill was four stories high. It was a very odd looking, picturesque land mark, and for years had been a popular target for amateur photographers, a won derful playhouse for boys and a rendez vous for thousands of birds. . Ifan Know What H ou Are Taking When you take Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic becauso the formula is plainly printed on evtcy bottle showing that it is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure, no pay; 50c. TbJs Hoary Old Hat Emptied the Farmer's Prison Calais, Me., Feb. 26. Daniel Pike, a farmer, set a wwe cagetrap in his barn to catch rats. he first morning aftr the trap had been net, he went to the barn and found it nearlv full of half grown rats, but not an old rat in the collection. Thinking that the presence of the captives would attract others, he decided not to empty the trap for an hour or ; two. and wont awav. When he CaTh !,hG trap was pty. The next day and the next a like occurfed anl 'p"? eTtying of trap o?k r Dd .Plke determined to keen atch to see how the thing was do!ie When" the next batch of young rats had been caught he concealed himself in. the barn loft and waited. , . When he had been on watch about half an hour he saw a hoary old rat approach the trap and, apparently, be gin a sort of cross-examination of the prisoners. Then, after satisfying him self as to the exact condition of things, the cute old rat. to the amazement of Pike, deliberately poced his paw through the wires of the cage and tilted up the weight that kept in place the little trap door through which his young friends and relatives had fallen. This opened the trap door sufficiently to let all the prisoners out, and away they scampered, the old rat bringing up the rear and all squeaking joyously. . Mr. Tilden's 66,000 Letters to Frlen s (Utica Observer.) It was Mr. Tilden's faith in the power of the people to form a correct judg-, ment on any question submitted to them that led to his final trouble. "I have spent over $2,000 for postage in this campaign," he said to a young man after 1874. "Do you mean to say that you sent out 6G,000 letters?" asked his aston ished visitor. "That's about the number," answered Mr. Tilden. "But where did you get the names?" "My long connection with the Demo cratic State Committee had familiarized me with the chairman of the County Committee in almost every county in New York. To him I therefore sent for a list of -,name of men ia every village in his county." "And did you send printed letters to them?" "Better than that," Mr. Tilden said, while his gray eyes twinkled. "I sent each of my correspondents a litho graphed facsimile of my own handwrit ing." "And how did it work?" "Splendidly." he answered, in conclu sion. "After I was elected and had gone to Albany occasionally I'd have a call from a citizen who would introduce himself to me by means of one of my let ters to him, and who would say: 'I didn't think you knew me, Mr. Tilden, until I got this.'" S- White ! Turned Yellow Great consternation -was if elt by the friends of M. A. Hogarty of Lexington, Ky., when they saw he was turning yel low. His skin slowly changed color, also his eyes, and he suffered terribly. His malady was Yellow Jaundice. He was treated by the best doctors, but without lwmefit. Then he was advised to try Electric Bitters, the wonderful Stomach and Liver remedy, and he writes: "Af ter taking two bottles I was wholly cured." A trial proves its matchless merit for all Stomach. Liver and Kid ney troubles. Only oOc. Sold bv all A Disappointment. Shopper j'I want a shoe -that is both comfortable and stylish.". Salesman "Very sorry, mad am, but the agetof miracles is past." Judge. , Jack's Pcint of View. '-But. my dear' Doii't you know that opals are awfully 'Unlucky?" "Well, Jack priced a lot of different stones and he says they're only about a fifih as unlucky as diamonds." Brooklyn Life. Seed Potatoes White Bliss, Houlton s Early Rose, Beauty of Heborn and Northern Early Rose. Bluegrass Seed. KAIEIOH, N. C. in n PTnnwiini primp ? -mlmi N?n-warPable oven hot yv.G.STnDNABH SDNS Si3 ?re lin I p ingSt elegant finish. .. 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