Where America's Admirals Are Made
TAKES SKILL TO
COT DIAMONDS
Four Little Princes of J a p a n
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Methods of Turning the Rough
Stones Into Brilliants Ex-
' plained by Expert.
WORLD WAR PUT PRICES UP
But They Are Being Bought and Dis­
played in This Country More Than
Ever Before— Very Few Are
Perfect.
New York.—Diamonds as coveted
gems
and ornaments have lost none of
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their popularity. Since the late war
many persons who never possessed
these brilliants are wearing them to­
The United States naval academy at Annapolis, Md., photographed from an anny airplane. It is here that Amer­ day, even though they cost more than
ica’s naval officers are trained.
formerly.
Few persons realize the
skill it takes to cut and polish dia­
comrades in French legal complica­ monds for the market.
“ Diamonds as they are found In the
tions, but it can not help these latter
rough state,” Herbert P. Whitlock,
cases of deserters.”
The four sons of the crown prince of Japan, on a visit to Nikko, studying
On another occasion I saw the post curator of the department of mineral­
adjutant, Arthur W. Kipling, and the ogy at the Museum of Natural His­ a map of the city in the municipal offices. Their tutor, an army officer, is
post secretary, C. M. Perkins, both con­ tory, said, “ are not impressive. They pointing out the various locations. The lads are studying municipal govern­
tinually on the spot, continually on the have none of the magical flashes of ment in the various cities of Japan.
job, surrounded by old members and light which in the polished .stone
makes them unique among the noble diamond cutting some mechanical im­ er with a portion of the stone on which
Varied Fortunes and Dilemmas —one of the family! In a chateau!” new members, and non-members.
family of gems. And it is here that provements have crept in, and now in the desired facet is to be cut placed
“
Contradict
that
talk
about
the
The young man also told the writer
Faced by Soldiers Who
that it was possible to obtain good graves job,” they said. “The service a goodly part of the price of diamonds most of the shops a rapidly turning uppermost and almost completely sur­
jobs with the graves-registration or­ takes on nobody without satisfactory Is accumulated. For the art o f turn­ spindle takes the place of one o f the rounded by the solder.
Ran Away.
“ The dop is now fastened by means
ganization. Any fellow could go to identity papers and has two applicants ing a rough diamond into a polished hand sticks.
work for these people, he maintained, for every job. They are chauffeurs, brilliant is a long process requiring - “ Having rough-shaped our diamond, of its’ stem in a heavy iron arm called
at $180 a month. This was later de­ automobile mechanicians, conveyors,! a superlative degree of skill. There is we now come to the finishing opera­ the tongs, in such a pqSition as to
nied by the Paris post of the Ameri­ checkers, reboxers, stenographers, etc., no better way to appreciate this than tion, the producing bf the facets which bring the position of the facets to be
can legion, which gets in touch with from $75 to $150 per month. The work to follow the diamond from the mine give brilliancy and sparkle to it and cut exactly underrhost when it is
a good many A. W. O. L. boys and you refer to is done by European labor, to the jeweler and see for ourselves which is technically known as pol­ placed in contact with the polishing
American Ex-Soldiers Are Held to Be
ishing. The holder of the stone dur­ wheel or lap. The latter is made of
whose officers understand their situa­ and no Americans are on it except just what happens to it.
Desperate Characters— Many Who
“When the diamonds are recovered ing the polishing consists of a small soft iron and turns at the rate of
tion. Cabot Ward, vice commander high paid specialists, engaged from
Stayed in Search of Excite­
of the legion in Paris, discussed the the states. As for the reparations from the mine they are not by any metal cup on a long stem which is about 1,000. revolutions a minute. Sev­
ment Found it.
whole matter of the straying Yankees service, it has six applicants for every means all of them clear and colorless, called- a dop, and much resembles a eral hours are required to cut one
job—accountants, stenographers, and as a self-respecting diamond should tulip. A solder composed of one part facet, then the'stone is readjusted for
New York.— Five thousand American in detail with Mr. Heilig. We read:.
special qualifications, at the same sal­ b e; indeed^ only about 25 per cent of tin and three parts lead is placed in another one, until all of the 58 little
Why Doughboys Stay In France.
!A. W. O. L.’s are still wandering about
the stones found are without some the dop and heated until soft. The facets in which lies the secret of its
“ The question is brought up,” Mr. aries, $80 to $150, but men coming faint color.
France—2,000 of them being in “ that
diamond is then imbedded in the sol- brilliancy are produced.”
from
the
spates
to
take
jobs
have
bet­
dear Paree.” TUey are the youths who Ward said, “ by certain requests from
“ So we find that at the beginning
werfe simply dying with, ennui after the the states asking what remedy we ter wages. This is true invariably—
of its travels the diamond is intro­
armistice was signed and beuce start­ have if it be true that there are 2,000 Americans engaged on this side, in
duced to the sorter. The sorter is a
ed out to seek excitement. Apparently American ex-soldiers destitute in banks, in no matter what, have al­
kind of super-expert on diamonds,
ways
and
inevitably
the
poor
end
of
most of them have found it until they* Paris.
whose eye has been trained through
are entirely “fed up,” to judge by all
“It is all lumped together,” he con­ the stick.”
I asked about the deserters—this years of practice to detect the slight­
reports of the doings of these runaway tinued. “ The talk of which you know
doughboys, remarks the Literary Di­ is one side of the case. The facts are new category o f Americans abroad, be­ est variations in color o f diamonds
and to find flaws in the stones with
gest. Take the case of one army driver like these: The Legion is in a bet­ tween the devil and the deep sea, hang-
an ease which is little less than un­
on
by
the
eyelids.
What
can
they
do?
after the armistice who went joy-rid­ ter position to realize them than any
canny.
ing, “ busted” the machine into-smith- other organization in Fiance.
Its
Problem of the Deserter.
Sorting the Diamonds.
ereens, got scared and ran. Now he Paris post is the bridge-head for all
“ They can surrender,” said the post
by the department’s special­
“The
first consideration in sorting
drives a laundry wagon into Paris affairs o f American soldiers in the adjutant. “ Sooner or later they will
Department of Agriculture Car­ principle
ists that the consumer is himself re­
from one of the suburbs. He has no land where the war was fought— have to do so. No matter how for­ diamonds is the adaptability of the
sponsible for the proper preparation
ries on Experiments With
discharge papers, has lost the pay he equally to safeguard their high re­ tunately situated, some day their iden­ stone for cutting. Let us assume that
of fresh pork and pork products that
had coming, and also his fare back nown, to foster good relations with tity will come up seriously, and then the stone whose travels we are fol­
Aid
of
Packers.
are usually cooked before eating, but
lowing
Is
sorted
into
the
grade
known
home, and is scared stiff every time he France, and to stand by our com­ —good night! A man came here last
that the manufacturer is under obli­
as ‘close goods,’ comprising flawless
comes to Paris. The French abuse him, rades always!
week, asking for ‘soldiers’ headquar­ crystals from which fair-sized bril­
gations to make sure that pork prod­
“
Many
of
our
soldiers,
for
some
rea­
and yet he dare not quit. He can’t
ters ! We told him there is no such lia n ts can be cut,' or, to use the trade
ucts sold as cooked products are prop­
go home to the United States without son or other, stayed on in France, and thing in Paris any more. He said: term, ‘made.’
erly cooked, or, if of a kind custom­
These usually have
papers, and. he is in constant danger an increasingly large number are com­ ‘I have been A. W. O. L. since last eight sides or facets triangular in
arily eaten without cooking, to make
of being nabbed by the French authori­ ing back to France from America, November, and have tried to marry shape. Next cornés a re-sorting of
sure that the products are free from
ties. As he explained to another A. where they were demobilized. This, and cannot get married, cannot get the ‘close goods’ into eight grades, Salt and Suitable Temperature Fatal live trichinae.
to Parasite— Time Element Is
W. O. L. who had been more fortu­ in spite of every effort to dissuade papers, cannot quit France, cannot ranging from blue white, which com­
In the federal meat Inspection regu­
nate : “ It’s h—.” In Paris the Ameri­ them.
live in France. I have gone this way prises the finest quality stones, to yel­
Also Figured Out for Each
lations
it is therefore provided that
“Many are here legitimately. They as long as I can; and now I have
can ex-soldiers are held to be desper­
Variety of Product.
low and brown, which are so badly
products cooked in establishments un­
married
French
wives,
or
their
experi­
ate characters. The D. C. L (Depart-,
made up my mind that I will take my off color as to be unfit for gems.
der inspection must be cooked in ac*
ment of Criminal Investigation) are ence and qualifications bring them medicine.’ We sent him to Rue de Til-
Washington.—A long series o f ex­ cordance with methods approved by
“ If our stone has passed the criti­
afraid of them and let them alone. It good French salaries. There are also sitt; and they inform us that they cal test- of the sorter and is .placed periments to ascertain what treat­
the bureau of animal industry.
is said that the prefect bf police stated a large number who, though anxious forwarded him to the arm yjrf occupa­ In one of the higher grades, it is ment, other than cooking, will thor­
Most o f the department’s experi­
some time ago, in a friendly way, that to make good, and often capable of tion.”
weighed, wrapped up in a parcel with oughly destroy trichinae and render mental work was carried out in. co­
making
good,
are
stranded
in
France.
all the automobiles stolen in Paris are
“ Are they severe at Coblenz, with others of its kind, a price per carat pork products safe for consumption operation with certain meat packing
stolen by these remnants of the A. E. For such the Legion’s Paris post has them.”
Is assigned to it and It is sold to a has recently been conducted by the establishments in Chicago. ¿The in­
F. At least such is the talk of the an extended bureau. In the last two
Neither adjutant nor secretary felt diamond dealer and ultimately finds United States Department of Agricul­ vestigators selected the methods of
boulevards, according to Sterling Hei­ months its record is 180 men who qualified to answer. I should consult its way to the workshop of the dia­ ture. It is hoped that the findings
preparing pork without cooking that
It the military attache for such a ques­
lig, who gives an account of the ex­ have been secured positions.
mond polisher* Here at the hands of from these experiments will save seemed likely to be efficacious in de­
soldiers in an article in the Pittsburgh amounts to 20 per cent o f the post’s tion ; but as from man to man I gath­ a highly skilled workman i t is des­ many from the dreaded disease
stroying trichinae and at the same
Dispatch. Some of his information he total membership.
ered that “ if the A. W. O. L. be since tined to be turned into a gem fit to trichinosis. Hygienically, the custom time suited to practical requirements
gained from a lad who, with more luck
Many Idle Americans in Paris.
armistice, we think not. Some, we grace beauty or opulence.
of eating uncooked pork and pork of manufacture. Several new meth­
than most of his companions, was
“But also there are a great number think, go to Leavenworth for a short
“ Most of this is done in Holland, products is regarded by the medical ods were devised.
ready to start home with a roll of 5,000 of other men whom we assist by us­ time, and others are made to serve and especially in Amsterdam, which, profession as very much to be discour­
The investigation shows that pork
francs in his possession.
Of this ing every endeavor to give them the a while in Germany. But deserters since the Fifteenth century, has been aged ; but the toothsome summer
products
o f the kinds customarily
youth Heilig tells us:
means o f returning to the United before armistice— they’re different!”
famous for this industry.
sausage, smoked sausage, pepproni, eaten without cooking may be ren­
The great question is “papers.”
States at once. This is because It is
Fool W as a Scientist.
“ The surface irregularities, together pickled sausage and a number o f oth­ dered safe for consumption, so far as
“A man without papers cannot be with any superficial flaws, are first er dainties continue to tempt the
Jamieson, I will call him, student with the greatest difficulty that any
trichinosis is concerned, but that it
of Massachusetts Tech, came over positions are secured, and despite all helped much, even by the post,” they split away from the stone. . . . American public to defy the physician.
is necessary to follow a special curing
with 'the army and was used in the we can do, there are a large number, said. “All honorably discharged in Sometimes when the stone is large
The experiments proved of double process adapted to each. Salt is an
front line for electrical work. Demob­ o f American ex-soldiers seeking em­ France and staying over, no matter it is of advantage to saw it into two service. In addition to fixing the
how broke, need no passport—their or more pieces so as to save as much safety In the various methods of cur­ essential in most of the processes.
ilized in France, he went with a French ployment in Paris—in vain,
Sausages o f moderate size have
“ And, finally, there is a large number discharge is their passport, none bet­ as possible o f the weight in cut dia­ ing pork without cooking, they cut
foundry near Nante§. In the states
been rendered harmless by mixing not
he learned . a lot about making steel of men, variously estimated from ter ; all it needs, to return home, is the monds.
down the time consumed in the proc­ less than three and one-third pounds
alloys and could produce steel harder 2,000 to 5,000, who had deserted at one passport bureau’s vise. Men demob­
“ The rough shaping of the diamond esses in some cases as much as five o f salt with every hundredweight of
than by any process known to these time or another. Some of them had ilized in the states and coming again is done through an operation called days, permitting considerable saving
meat, followed by preliminary curing
Nantes people. Working with them previous prison records; such did not to France on their own business had ‘bruiting,’ which consists of wearing in the cost of manufacture. Prior to
and then by drying. After the salt
for French wages, but with sense exempt them in the draft. Now, un­ to take out a regular passport to sail, away the corners by rubbing one stone these investigations comparatively lit»
has been introduced the sausages
enough not to show them how he fortunately, French police reports and they have it yet. Men coming against another. This was formerly a tie was known concerning the effects
must be dried at least 20 days in a
did it, he at last got homesick and show, all too frequently, that they are on seamen’s papers have them, evpn manual process, the two diamonds be­ o f processes used in curing pork upon
temperature not lower than 45 degrees
told hjs boss that he was going to at it again. In any case, the Paris post if they jumped their ship. But an ex­ ing mounted on sticks held in either the vitality of trichinae, which is the
Fahrenheit.
A period of five days is
soldier
without
honorable
discharge—
quit. The Frenchmen were in conster­ has a legal bureau, which is constant­
hand by the lapidary. But even in cause of trichinosis.
allowed
for
preliminary
curing, which
nation. They had built up a reputa­ ly giving advice to and representing you can guess his status.”
the ancient and conservative art of
It has been assumed as a governing may be curtailed, provided the time in
tion for this steel— and did not know
the drying room is correspondingly in­
how to make it!
creased.
• *‘The kid is only twenty-three years
Treating Other Varieties.
old,” explains his buddy, “and being
In the case of pepproni, which are
a fool, he sold his process to the
sausages stuffed in long, narrow, thin
French for these 5,000 francs.
He
casings, it was found feasible to re­
might as Well have had 100,000
duce the curing period to 20 days, of
francs!”
which at. least 15 days must be given
This young man told the writer of
to drying.
several fellows he knew and what had
Smoked sausages may be rendered
befallen them. He said he knew one
harmless by being subjected to a pre­
A. W. O. L. who struck it rich.
liminary cure and then smoked at
“ On a country road he met a French
temperatures ranging around 80 de­
kid boy on a shiny bike. ‘Hello, Amer­
grees Fahrenheit for 40 hours, fol­
ican soldier!’ he sings out. ‘I’m going
lowed by drying for ten days. Sausage
to be a cowboy and I’ve got 300 francs.
smoked at a temperature of 125 de­
Yoh carry i t !’ Runaway kid, sure;
grees to 130 degrees Fahrenheit, for
and this A. W. O. L. lad was tempted.
a relatively brief period, following a
That’s right. He took care of the
preliminary curing period of six days,
money and they slept in a hayrack.
is rendered harmless without subse­
Next morning, when he was thinking
quent drying.
how to shake the kid, a big blue tour­
Hams are rendered fiee from
ing car comes rushing down upon ’em.
trichinae by two methods. One is to
A. W. O. L. does quick thinkin’ !
cure them with dry salt—four pounds
‘Please don’t tell them that I blubbed
or more to the hundredweight—for a
(wept or shed tears) last night!’ the
period of 40 days, and then smoke or
kid begged. ‘Leave it all to m e!’ the
pale-dry them for ten days at a tem­
A. W, O. L. answered, -and when the
perature not less than 95 degrees.
kid’s folks jumped out he laughs a
The second method is to cure them on
good laugh. ‘Here we are, O. K., all
the basis of three days for every
homeward bound!’ and winks to the
pound- of meat, followed by 48 hours
mother, confidential.
‘Here’s our
o f smoking at a temperature of not
money,’ he says to her later; ‘you
less than 80 degrees, and finally by
madame, had better keep it till we
20 days’ drying at a temperature not
start off for America again, some.day T
S, E. J. Cox of Houston. Tex., whose big oil company has been put in the
lower than 45 degrees.
By gosh, they took him home with hands o f a receiver, is here seen in the cockpit o f his airplane, “ Texas Wild
Scene in one o f the distributing plants of the Salvation Army In Berlin,
Salt and suitable temperatures are
them. He’s with them yet. Teaches Cat,” which he had built for competition in the Gordon Bennett race in where 10,000 poor and hungry children have received a can o f condensed milk the principal means o f destroying
the ki(l„to.box and_ talk United States France.
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.each for ten weeks in succession. '
trichinae.
S ^ S ^ S S ^ S E â S S S S s ÿ s y e S S S iS ^ B S S S F S â S S S s S S Â s l
5,000 A. W. O. L.’S
ARE IN FRANCE
ic c m w a v i
POLICE ARE AFRAID OF THEM
Tells H ow to
Kill Trichinae
MAKE PORK SAFE TO EAT
His Oil Company in the Courts
Milk for the Children of Berlin