JUSTICE Lira
An Estimate of the Jurist Horn-
inated by President Taft to
Succeed Justice Peckham on the
Supreme Bench of the United '
States.
By JAMES A. EDGERTON. 'V:.
IT Is not of tec that a president of
; the United States is called upon
, to naine a member of the supreme
court.' There are onlv nine 1ns-
jtices in our highest tribunal, and they
jremaiu in. office practically for life, al
though theoretically they may' retire
jafter seventy, provided they have
served ten years. As a matter of fact
(few of them do retire. Three of the
jpresent members of the court are over
seventy, Chief Justice Fuller and Jus
jHces Harlan and Brewer. All of them
have served more than ten years, and
hence they are eligible for retirement
on full pay. But do they avail them
selves of the opportunity? Not per
ceptibly. In this they only follow prec
ledent, for 1 voluntary retirement has
jbeen the exception in that court. Many
members of it have served till over
jeighty. ; Very few have retired, except
for ill health. . ' ' .
1 Justice Horace Harmon Lurton, the
iman nominated by President Taft to
succeed the late Rufus W. Peckham,
'Is sixty-five. He has been for sixteen
years a United States circuit judge
ana ior- seven years prior to that time
MESi VAU DEVESTKll, DATJGKTfSB OF JUDGE
' - LOKTON. ,
was on the supreme bench of Tennes
see, part of the me as chief justice.
Justice Lurton is an ex-Confederate
soldier and a Democrat. As Justice
Peckham was also a Democrat the
new appointment does not disturb the
political balance 'of the court The
other Democrats in the body are Chief
Justice Fuller and Justice White, three
out of nme. White was also a Con
federate soldier. A rather striking
coincidence Is that there are likewise
two ex-Union soldiers in the court,
Justices Harlan of " Kentucky and
Holmes of Massachusetts; "
j Served 'With Taft Seven years.
The ponnection, between President
Taft and Justice Lurton has been . of
the closest. When Lurton was ap
pointed United ,States districijudge
In 1893 it was Judge Taft, already a
member of that court, who administer
ed to. him the oath of office. " The two
served, together for seven years. Then
; Taft went to the Philippines inl900,
and it waS through the Instrumentality
of Judge Lurtop that General Luke E.
iWright, also of Tennessee,, was made
Taft's associate and finally his suc-
. cessor -as governor. It .isfnot impos
sible that Lurton also haa 'something
to do with making another -' Tennes
seean, Jacob M. . Dickinson, secretary
of war in President Taft's cabinet. It
Js-known that Taft' surged Roosevelt
to appointJudge Lurton" to "the su-'
breme bench, but Roosevelt .had other
views and gave the office to his attor
ney, gerieral, William H. Moody.
For some time the gupteme court' has
been working with seven members,, the
death of Justice Peckham and the Ill
ness of Justice Moody having caused
two temporary vacancies. Fortunately
Moody Is ' how practically recovered, ,
) ana this, witn tne connrmation ot jus
tice "Lurton, 'will 'again; make a -full
bench. It is fortunate that it is so
not only because of ; a congestion of
' Cases before the eourt,. but for ; the
further reason that two very impor
tant "trust suits are to comeup for
hearing this winter, that against the
if
V ! XCDGS! HOBACB H. LDBTOK. .
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. OF TENNESSEE
Tribute Paid to His Ability In
Rendering Decisions In Monop
olistic Cases What Judge Al
ton B. Parker Says of Lurton Y
Qualifications. '-.
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tobacco trust and the famous decision
of Circuit Judge Sanborn dissolving
the Standard Oil company. Just what
the attitude of the new justice "will be
toward the government cases against
the trusts is a matter that is causing
much . comment '- in Washington and
throughout the country.
One of the arguments urged against
his appointment was that he had de
cided an employer's liability case
against labor, and he was - further
charged , with : corporation leanings.
Against this view It is urged that no
body knows Judge Lurton's record and
habits of thought better than Presi
dent Taft. Not only so, but the only
and original John Wesley Gaines, the
former congressman from Tennessee,
who used to take such keen delight In
making the corpoflmons jump side
ways and. turn double , back;- hand
springs, 'says that the allegation that
Judge Lurton is a trust jurist is abso
lutely false. - "I , wouldn't support my
brother if he was a trust owned "man
or judge," said Mr. Gaines, "aiM I
know what I am talking about whefl I
say that Judge Lurton is ho one sided
man . in anything. His decisions on
monopolistic cases are considered the
greatest in existence in this country
and have been sustained by the sit
preme court. Three of his decisions
were cited the other day by Judge San
born In the Standard Oil case."
Supported by Democrats. .
Judge Alton B. Parker,t Democratic
candidate for president In 1S104, may
not be as good anti-trust authority as
Mr. Gaines, , but from the fact that
Parker was also urged for this vacan
cy On the supreme bench his tribute to
his successful rival as not only grace
ful, but evidently sincere. Says Judge
Parker:
"I know Judge Lurton both socially
atd professionally, and - in my judg-
it- s
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MBS. H. H. IiUETON.
Ui HOBACB H. .UBTON, JB. ' -
ment .one better equipped for service
4h that greatest of all courts, the su
preme court of the United States, could
not be found., v The country 13 to be
congratulated." ' :'
.It is told of the new supreme court
justice that at one time he had before
him ithe case of a Tennessee bad man
and gun fighter who was known to
haVe several killings nqtehed on his
gun handle. " Thinking to intimidate
Lurton, the bad -man, fully arjhed, en
tered the :, office' of : the judge and
locked the door; -vLnrton looked : the;
bad man out of countenance until he
unlocked the door and slunk out of
tberoom.'; I do- not vouch for this
yarn, but If it is true It shows that the
Tennessee jurist either has plenty of.
nerve-or a hypnotic eye.
While a soldier ; Lurton'; was twice,
taken prisoner," once at the surrender
of Fort. DonelsOn,. after; which he. es
caped and re-enlisted, and again as a
member of Morgan's '? famous ; raid.
This time hie did not get away till the
end of the .war. He" was born In In
.Kentucky in 1844, ran away from col
lege to enter., the army, was admitted
to the bar In 1867 and entered practice
at Clarksvilley Tenu. In 1875 he was
made chancellor, but -resigned three
years later to. resume the practice of
law; He was once a barik president
and is trustee in one or two southern
universities. ,
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III. i
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HILL FOR BETTER FARMING-
Declares That Present Methods Soon
. Will Not Meet DemandX f
, "Seek a system of farming in the'
United States which shall greatly in
crease the productiveness of the soil;"
advised James J. Hill, the great rail
road builder, in an address before the
National Corn exposition in' Omahaj
Neb., the other day.
' Mr. Hill warned the congress that
the time is not far distant when the
farms of the United States as tilled
at present will not feed the people of
the country. , He said: ,
"There, are final limits already in
sight to the- quantity of tillable land.
The1 productivity ; of the soil and the
food supply as compared with acreage
and with population both decline. Our
total agricultural product has been
growing so rapidly and so immensely
that we find it hard to realize that this
may be entirely consistent with failure
at the same time to keep pace with the
growth of national needs. "" . . .
"The country; unless there shall be'a
change, is approaching a time when it
must import . wheat ' to ' meet home
needs, Other food products 'also lag
behind': the constant new demand.
Since that demand cannot 'be escaped
and since not to meet it means want
or a lowering of the standard of life
and comfort in this country, wrhich no
American ; would wish to see, there is
but one course before the nation. That
is to increase the productiveness of the
farm so that the earth's : gifts may
year by year equal or exceed the peo
ple's requirements." ':'';-:, -'
NOVEL; MISSION VILLA
Califomian to Have Attractive Resi
dence on Balboa Island. -
.An island villa home which promises
to be one of the attractions of the
southern California coast will shortly
be started by W. S. Collins on a small
tract of land which he Is having cut
off from the north end of Balboa Is
land.. ; Plans ; have been prepared for
the entire project, including elaborate
landscaping and the building of a re
taining wall andva bridge across the
channel to the main island. The little
island which Mr. Collins is cutting off
for at site is to be when all the dredg
ing and filling work is completed 500
feet by: 250 feet in size. A retaining
.wall of ..'concrete and' stone will be
built around the. Isle. in. Tvhat will be
roughly an Oval shape; . There will be
four mission style entrances at .the
ends and sides of this wall. The pier
ends will be treated in pergola effect.
The bridge will be, of the arch type
and of concrete. It will be wide enough
to accommodate automobiles. .
The house itself will stand at the
center of the oval. ; It will be of mis
sion type and of re-enforced concrete
construction. The dimensions will be
50 by 80 feet, including porches. -. The
living room will be 18 by 32 feet and
contain; a large stone mantel.: -The ceil
ings throughout will-, be beamed, .v The
grounds will be terraced;- and sunken
gardens will be arranged in the four
angles, formed by the walks leading
to the wall gates. ; , . t " v
A CENTRAL BANK.
Would Be Under Standard Oil Control,
Says Leslie M. Shaw. :, .'
Former Secretary - of the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw, speaking to about 400
business men at the board of trade
meetings in Indianapolis the other
night, declared . thiit there was no
doubt in the minds of those who had
studied the proposed central bank that
such an institution would be: owned'
or at least controlled by the. Standard
Oil company.'' Mr. Shaw added:- .
"I am frank to say that it seems to
me quite ' un-Auierican to place with
any group of men the power to con
tract or expand our currency at -will
and to grant or withhold credit to any
bank,- to any merchant and to any cor
poration at pleasure.. --; '
"But, lest it be charged that I am
appealing to popular prejudice, I am
willing to go on record that If we are
to have a central bank Ihall welcome
control by the Standard Oil company
or by the: United States Steel corpora
tion,' though preferably, by both com
bined. This is not based on personal
friendship but it is based wholly on
the question of fitness for the task." . a
Moving Pictures, by Day' ;;
'By a .new development far Paris of
the -cinematograph:; pictures 'can j be
shown with brilliant effect in, the full
light of day and, even In the brightest
of artificial Illuminants. i Hitherto it
has been necessary to hold such exhi
bitions in darkened rooms, a system in
which the danger of sudden panic Is
always a possibility to be considered.
The new. apparatus renders this quite
unnecessary. ' - The ; brighter the light
the-better the pictures show up.- The
process is simple. The lantern ; Is
placed behind the screen, which may
be either of dull glass or prepared can
vas,, and 'the essence of the invention
Is a dark chamber In which the projec
tion Is directly effected. .
i Souvenir Chair For President Taft"
President Taft Is to have a new chair,
which is being made in .one of the
furniture factories In Grand Rapids,
Mich. It is to be a souvenir of the
trip he made as secretary of war to
Japan and the .Philippines. . At that
time members of, the party secured
several koa logs. These were . brought
home and seasoned and after being
sawed into lumber at Grand Rapids
are being made into chairs for vari
ous members of the Taft party.
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Vi-, j. A Christmas Query. ' - ;T
.-...."Why does Santa reindeer use?"
: Asked eager little Kate. 1
-; "This time of year I think snow deer
Much more appropriate!"
. v Upplncott's Magazine.'
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GREAT DEVELOPER
OF ALL MUSCLES
Kansas City Man's Game For
Benefiting Business Men.
TWENTY CAN; PLAY TOGETHER
Athletic Director of Kansas City Club,
Deviser of Push-of-war Game, Tells
How It Can Be Played Deemed Bet
v ter Than Tug-of-war. ...'':;,..'..
the tune worn assertion that
there's nothing new under the sun"
has been given a severe jolt on the
solar plexus, by Dr. J. A, Reilly, ath
letic director of the Kansas f!1fv Ath.
letlc club. The Reilly scheme Is so
new mat ne , nasn't even secured a
name for It, bat t or want of a better
nanaie It Is called tJReilly's push-of-war.";
It is a scheme wherebv twpntv
men can take strenuous exercise at th
same time, combined -with an exciting
game wnicn Drlngs every muscle to the
body Into action. The new ram ia
played with a heavily padded perpen
dicular frame fifteen feet loner hv throa
rana a hair feet high placed on rollers
or casters. Ten men are placed on
eacn side or the frame and attempt to
push the frame across a goal line
twenty-two and a half feet from the
center of the court. Instead of sittine
down and pulling, as in a tug-of-war,
the men stand up and push. t
How Idea For the Game, Was Conceived.
"I believe I have solved the nmhiom
of getting business men to take exer
cise and - derive the fullest benefits
therefrom,", Dr. BeUly said the other
afternoon. "It is new. too.-aa far as
I am able to learn. , I have been Irv
ing for some time to devise some ex
ercise that will induce a erroro of men
to enter Into it with good spirit, and
my experiments along this- line have
extended several vears. ' I conceived
this idea from looking at the dumbbell
ana Indian club rack standing on the
floor there. ; ft is mn-o-o hi a oi7 or
. " ub., u7
experiment I placed a Vrestling mat
across the top of .it and Induced my
noonday class of business men to cet
on opposite sides of ' the frame and
pusn against each other, " The plan
was a success from the start. ,' The
Iron lips or holders used to hang the
Indian clubs , or dumbbells on made
the pushing machine dangerous, so I
ordered one built. i-The new machine
will be so padded that there will be no
danger, from Injury, and if a man's
arm oecomes tared he can . use his
shoulders or back and push against it,
' Better Than a Tug-of-war. ; : '--.'
Thfe old tug-of-war exercise was bad
in that the chest and other muscles
were drawn together and cramped as
the men pulled on the ropes. In the
new ' plan all of the muscles j are ex
panded and many, parts of the body
never used . In the hardest kinds of
exercise are brought into play. Add
to this the excitement' of a struggle
against an opponent and you can see
that it will be a successful game: --
"One of the hardest, things to over
come for a physical director is to get
a class of business men, interested in
exercise. If a ; man feels- that he is
inferior to other men on the floor he
doesn't enjoy getting out and making
a "show of himself, but in this kind of
exercise it will not be known who is
doing the bulk of the work, and at the
same time every man will be doing his
utmost for the. sake of his team.- I
shall organize several teams as soon as
I get my new-, pushing machine in the
gymnasium."
Museum In a Prison.. .
- Paris is to' have yet another museum
of the revolution; It is to be' fitted
up in the'Conciergerie prison, and the
two apartments devoted to It are to
be the: Salle des Girondins and. the
eell occupied : by - Marie.; Antoinette.
This cell is to be fittl and furnished
exactly as It was when the. .unhappy
queen awaited her fate in it, and a
number of authentic relics are avail
able.? Among them are Included the
queen's i velvet s eated armchair, the
lamp by the light of which she wrote
her last letter and the simple - black
wooden crucifix which she kissed on
her departure to the place of execu
tion. A credit of 1,000 francs has been
voted for the purposes of the museum
by the Paris municipal council. -
A Whistling kitchen, i.
. Official trials'of a "whistling kitch
en" for army use have recently been
made by the Japanese war office, and
the results are said to have been emi
nently successful. .5 The Inventor is a
paymaster named Okezakl. The kitch
en travels on two wheels and can be
drawn over almost any ground by one
horse. It not only boils rice and heats
soup, but itj ; notifies by whistle when
the cooking is finished. It can take
up a supply , of water from the mud
diest of ditches or ponds and trans
form '"t into good drinking condition
and carry it In that state to, the front.
The vehicle can be taken asunder and
tarried on the shoulders of two men.
Biggest Salmon Hatchery. -The
biggest salmon hatchery in the
world has been, opened at Booneville,
Ore. , It will be the central plant for
the state and is located on the Colum
bia river, where most of the fry will
probably be liberated. The building
has a capacity of : 60,000,000 eggsr
There are now 20,000,000 eggs on hand
ready for hatching.:- Nursery and feed
ing ponds are supplied sufficient fot
feeding 3,000,000 young fish. :
NEW COMET TRANSPARENT.'
Discoverer Sees a Star Right Through
lt, Millions of Miles Beyond.
Fifty-six million miles away froiri
the earth, 140,000,000 miles from the
sun. and: more than three times as
large as the earth irf diameter these
are the facts which have been deter
mined by Zaccheus Daniel, a graduate
student of Princeton university,-about
the new comet which he discovered on
the evening of Dec. 6 while perched
oh the roof of the Princeton observa
tory sweeping the heavens, as he has
done on every clear, night,, winter and
summer, for years, with his five and
three-quarter Inch telescope. ' -
Mr. Daniel holds the Thaw fellow
ship in astronomy, the annual income
()f a gift of $10,000 by Mr. William
Thaw of Pittsburg.: However, he has
been absorbed In astronomy ever since
he Was a boy, and long before he went
to the university he possessed a' four
inch telescope mounted ba a tripod. '
When asked about the new -comet
Mr. Daniel said:
"Of course, while the new comet ap
pears about three times as large as
the earth, according to measurements
estimated from the computation f its
orbit, it doesn't contain one-thousandth
part of the matter, or solids, which the
earth does. Gases and vapors appear
to make up a large part of it. Yet it
seems to have a starllke mucleus. ,
;"A; remarkable thing about it,, too,
was that on the nighr. I saw it 1
could distinguish a star many millions
of miles farther away shining right
through: the comet. .. It moved.. very
slowly, however, at the rate of only
one degree of arc a day. We know
its orbit now, and from that we have
determined its distance from the sun
and from the earth, its diameter, which
is about 25,000 miles, and that It was
at -perihelion, or nearest the sun, on
Dec. 5, about a day before it was; dis
covered." - , ,
HUDSON-FULTON PARK.
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Home at liew York' Planned Voir Half
Moon and Clermont.
Trustees and members of the Hud
son-Fulton commission and members
of the various committees in charge-of
the recent celebration at New York
city have devised a plan for a Hudson
Fulton park wherein will be a water
basin in which the replicas of the Cler
mont and the Half Moon will be- Dre-
served. ',-'. :-...::
The project now before the commit
tees is to buy a piece of property at
Spuyten Duyvil a few blocks north: of
the Hudson River railroad station at
the foot of Two Hundred and Thirty
first street. New York. On Which there
is a subway station. Three piers are
to be built into the Hudson ntid the
two vessels moored in places .between
the piers. There will be, it Is proposed,
a terrace leading down from Palisade
avenue, and 139-feet above the levet of
the river a bridge crossing the rail-,
road tracks and then, steps down to
the basin, t George Gardiner Fry, a
member of the Half Moon commioo
worked out the plan and has suflacient
runos in hand to start the work. .
FINEST PHYSICS LABORATORY
Martin Ryerson to Give Chicago UnK
versity ?1 ,000,000 to Complete It.
Plans are in contemnlation for (ri-Hnoi
the University of Chieae-n ' he. finosf
physical laboratory In .- the United
ocaies, n not in the world: It is said
that before all the plans are consum
mated the plant will cost Sl.oon.onn
All of the money is to be furnished
by- Martin Eyerson, president of the
board of trustees of . the university,
who also was the donor of the present
Eyerson laboratory . at the university.
One of Mr. Eyerson's objects is to
afford to, the physics deDartment of
the university the best faculties that
cuu oe oDiainea ior original research.
In Professor Albert A. - Michelson, as
winner or tne Nobel prize for discov
eries relating to optics and lieht the
university has a scientist of the first
order, and it is felt that he and the
men associated with him In the lab
oratory work at the university should
command all the aid that intelligent
investment or money can furnish. ,
'- Roosevelt's African Trophies. i. 'V
The American buhtins expedition In
Africa headed by ex-President Eoose
velt to date has -collected and rouehlv
prepared for preservation 6,663 large
and small mammals and birds.
When Christmas Co NIKS.
We're apt to think at this tiine of year
iuBi uiiiAMs ana toys aaa all our sums.
But lessons are whispering, low, yet clear,
" we u cearKen, wnen unrlstmaa
Those grudgesf for instance, we think we
And crish as it they : were bosom
- - -. fihnms. . -
A this week's friend of a last Week's foe
may do maae, ir we will, wnen Chrlst
mas comes.
Hard thoughts are heavy to carry at best
wn.n tneir leaaen welgbt that our love
benumbs. - , ,
Why should we plod on by that load pp-
yi ebacu i - . . .
Why not cast it 'aside when Christmas
comes? . -. '. j-
Do TOU know fL T1Alc-1im. .tta muul an
muuga ne uraws irom tne old world s -.
; nle few nlums ' i
The slightest of favors that you can da j
wm give nun a nit wnen Christmas I
corneas ' , -, - t'
The little folk, too, who play such parts '
i. o, w a uiajr kivo tllolu Itxr mOTO 1
- than A n.Tv. d , , J
.We may give them, more of our Inmost '
... hM.
i r. luxu to, . .. ., t. - 1
Cfnn nlAHM. .A .1 1 n . -V
, comes. . , .- ..-.':-
bon't be afraid that vnn'11 in tnn munTi
-mere are Hungry moutns for a world'.
of crumhfL 'J . . . - - ? 1
f here . are hands stretched out for your t:
every toucn. .
Do a man's. fuU work when Christmas
Warwick James Price in Pittsburg Dis-
paten. -1- , , - ..j
FRENCH JUNK
;: FROMJfyAMA.
Machinery That Cost Millions
J: to Be Transported.
FINDS MADE IN ODD PLAGES.
Old Locomotives, Cars, Dredges and
Girders Will Be Sent to Mew York
to Be Sold How They Helped Us on
the Canal Before Being Condemned.
The isthmian canal comission has
begun the job of transporting about
100,000 tons of old French junk from
the isthmus to New York city. The
junk includes old locomotives, dump
cars, tanks, barges, boilers, girders,
dredges, sheet iron, parts of old ma
chinery and other things for which the
French canal company paid millions of
dollars and which it left to go to ruin
on the isthmus. "
The commission is selling on com
petitive bidding all the. old iron and
steel along the canal route, except
such parts as may be reserved for
canal work, - . '
About 700 tons will be moved to the
States every two weeks by the steam
ships Ancon and Cristobal It will
take three years to transport all of the
junk. Most of It will be scrapped
where It lies on the isthmus. The com
mission will ship no pieces of more
than twenty tons in weight. This will
permit the shipping of locomotive boil
ers with fire boxes and flues,
j. Most of this old material is of for
eign manufacture, and as it is landed
in New York Uncle Sam is confronted
with the proposition of being obliged
to pay himself $1 a short ton on-the
entry. Under a provision in the sun
dry civil act of May, 1908, this duty
will be returned by Uncle Sam to the
canal funds, but to-' accomplish this
without a special appropriation ' each
year It wd be necessary to have the
sale-consummated only after the junk
has passed through the New York cus
tom, house. Each contractor will be
ender a bond of $75,000, and payments
are- to be made to the canal commis- -sion
after each delivery.
Much Junk in Gatun Lake Basin.
: The- sale Is being made at this time
chiefly for the purpose of getting out
the old material that lies in the great
basin of Gatun lake before the basin
Is- filled with water. - There are large
quantities of the junk in the lake basin.'
i Each of the locomotives left by the
French yields between $400 and $600 '
worth of copper alone. The commis
sion will-save the old steel rails on the
isthmus to be used as re-enforcement
in. the concrete work and as telephone
and telegraph poles.
Some of this old French junk has :
been found in extraordinary , places. ,
Dredges have been discovered almost
eomDletelv buried in sand hundreds.!..
of feet away fronany body of water-,
and qvergroVn with dense tropical
vegetation. Apparently they had been
carried away from "the river bed by
high, water or the river itself had
shifted its course. Several of these
buried dredges were in a fairly good
state of preservation and are now do- '
ing work on the isthmus. . .
j Some of the junk has been lifted
from the bottom of the Chagres river
and from the bottom of the old French
canal prism, where hundreds of thou
sands of dollars' worth of equipment
sank after the French abandoned the
work. Some of the relics in the canaj
prism hear the crossing of the Rio
Grande river were dislodged only after
heavy Charges of dynamite had been
exploded under them.. Others have
been raised from watery; graves and
are now helping to link the Atlantic
with the 'Pacific
. ' . Relics Put to Good Use.
The profit from the sale of the
French junk will be small compared'
with the value of the service that the
commission - already has derived from -the
castoff, equipment. For the first
two years of their work the commis
sion relied. . absolutely upon the old
locomotives left by ' the French. In
1906 there were 106 of these weather
beaten locomotives in service com
pared with only fifteen American made
engines. Since that time-the percent- ,
age - of ' the " French ' locomotives has ;
steadily decreased. ' :
French dump cars were used almost
exclusively by .the" commission in the :
first two years. At one time . more
than ,2,000 of them were hauling dirt
rrom Uncle Sam's shovels. ; .The French .
relics furnished also many shop tools,
stationary engines and much repair ;
material in the early . days of the con-. ;
struction work.
In fact . Americans may thank the ?
old French equipment for the fact that
the canal is today just half completed.
Without the aid ;of this rusty, storm ,'
battered : assortment of French ma- ' .'
cbinery there would have been long
delays In providing an adequate equip
ment from the States. It is estimated
that the French supplies and ' equip
ment thus far utilized amount to fully
$1,000,000-: : I v ' ; ,
- Big, Yale Honor, For ' Chinaman. .
, Yon Hslang Ts'ao, a Chinese student
at .Yale university, - recently won the . .
Ten Eyck prize' at the. annual junior
exhMtlpn 'This is the first time
smdent.from -.the orient has, captured
the prize. He spoke on "America and
the Far East" The Ten Eyck prize -
was establlshed by the Kingsley Trust ;.
company In 1888 in memory of Henry
J. Ten Eyck of the class of 1879, and
It Is considered one of the biggest hon
ors at Yale. , . , ....