Where America’s Admirals Are Made
TAKES SKILL TO
GUT DIAMONDS
Four Little Princes of Japan
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
their popularity. Since the late war
many persons who never possessed
The United States naval academy at Annapolis, Md., photographed from an army airplane. It is here that Amer these brilliants are wearing them to-
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.
Internauign:
tions, but It can not help these latter
“Diamonds as they are found In the
cases of deserters.”
rough state,” Herbert P. Whitlock,
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, la
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.
The young man also told the writer
“Contradict that talk about the family of gems. And it is here that provements have crept In, and now in the desired facet is to be cut placed
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 of turn spindle takes the place of one of 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 position as to
nied by tho Paris post of the Ameri checkers, reboxers, stenographers, etc., no better way to appreciate this than tion, the producing of the facets which bring the position of the facet to be
can legion, which gets In touch with from $75 to $150 per month. The work i to follow the diamond from the mine give brilliancy and sparkle to it and cut exactly undermost 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
whose officers understand their situa and no Americans are on It except just what happens to it.
ishing. The holder of the stone dur wheel or lap. The latter Is made of
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
New York.—Five thousand American in detail with Mr. Heilig. We read : job—accountants, stenographers, and as a self-respecting diamond should tulip. A solder composed of one part facet, then the stone Is readjusted for
special qualifications, at the same sal be; 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 question is brought up,” Mr. aries, $80 to $150, but men coming the stones found are without some the dop and heated until soft. The facets in which lies the secret of Its
France—2,000 of them being In “that
diamond Is then imbedded in the sol- brilliancy are produced.”
dear Paree.” They are the youths who Ward said, “by certain requests from from the states to take jobs have bet faint color.
“
So
we
find
that
at
the
beginning
ter
wages.
This
Is
true
invariably
—
the
states
asking
what
remedy
we
were simply dying with ennui after the
armistice was signed and hence start have if it be true that there are 2,000 Americans engaged on this side, in of Its travels the diamond is intro
ed out to seek excitement. Apparently American ex-soldiers destitute in banks. In no matter what, have al duced to the sorter. The sorter is a
ways and inevitably the poor end of kind of super-expert on diamonds,
most of them have found It until they Paris.
whose eye has been trained through
the
stick."
"It is all lumped together,” he con
are entirely “fed up,” to judge by all
I asked about the deserters—this years of practice te 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 of Americans abroad, be est variations in color of diamonds
and to And 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.
Its
Problem of the Deserter.
Ing, "busted” the machine Into smith- other organization in France.
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Sorting the Diamonds.
ereens, got scared and ran. Now he Paris post is the bridge-head for all
“They can surrender,” said the post
principle
by
the
department's
special
“The first consideration in sorting Department of Agriculture Car
drives a laundry wagon Into Paris affairs of American soldiers in the adjutant. “Sooner or later they will
ists
that
the
consumer
is
himself
re
diamonds
is
the
adaptability
of
the
from one of the suburbs. He has no land where the war was fought— have to do so. No matter how for
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
home, and Is scared stiff every time he France, and to stand by our com —good night ! A man came here last lowing is sorted into the grade known
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
gations to make sure that pork prod
“Many of our soldiers, for some rea ters! We told him there is no such crystals from which fair-sized bril
and yet he dare not quit. He can't
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: liants can be cut, or, to use the trade
erly cooked, or, If of a kind custom
term,
‘
made.
’
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
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 eight sides or facets triangular In
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 shape. Next comes a re-sorting of Salt and Suitable Temperature Fatal live trichinae.
the
'close
goods
’
into
eight
grades,
in
spite
of
every
effort
to
dissuade
W. O. L. who had been more fortu
te Parasite—Time Element Is
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
products cooked in establishments un
ate characters. The D. C. I. (Depart married French wives, or their experi made up my mind that I will take my low and brown, which are so badly
off
color
as
to
be
unfit
for
gems.
der inspection must be cooked in ac
ence
and
qualifications
bring
them
ment of Criminal Investigation) are
medicine.' We sent him to Rue de Til-
Washington.—A long series of 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
periments to ascertain what treat
Is said that the prefect of police stated a large number who, though anxious forwarded him to the army of occupa- cal test of the sorter and is placed ment, other than cooking, will thor the bureau of animal industry.
in
one
of
the
higher
grades,
it
is
Most of the department's experi
to
make
good,
and
often
capable
of
some time ago, In a friendly way, that
tion.”
weighed, wrapped up in a parcel with oughly destroy trichinae and render mental work was carried out In co
all the automobiles stolen In Paris are making good, are stranded in France.
"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
months
Its
record
Is
180
men
who
boulevards, according to Sterling Hei
qualified to answer. I should consult
It the military attache for such a ques its way to the workshop of the dia ture. It Is hoped that the findings preparing pork without cooking that
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 of the post's tion ; but as from man to man I gath
a highly skilled workman It is des many from the dreaded disease stroying trichinae and at the same
Dispatch. Some of his information lie total membership.
ered that "If the A. W. O. L. be since tined to be turned into a gem fit to trichinosis. Hyglenically, the custom time suited to practical requirements
gained from a lad who, with more luck
Many 1dl« 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 6,000 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 of the kinds customarily
youth Heilig tells us:
means of returning to the United before armistice—they’re different!” famous for this industry.
sausage, smoked sausage, pepproni, eaten without cooking may be ren
Fool Was ■ Scientist.
States at once. This Is because it is
The great question is “papers.”
“The surface Irregularities, together pickled sausage and a number of oth dered safe for consumption, so far as
Jamieson, I will call him, student with the greatest difficulty that any
“A man without papers cannot be with any superficial flaws, are first er dainties continue to tempt the
of Massachusetts Tech, came over positions are secured, and despite all helped much, even by the post," they spilt away from the stone. . . . American public to defy the physician. trichinosis is concerned, but that it
is necessary to follow a special curing
with the nrmy 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 of American ex-soldiers seeking em France nnd staying over, no matter it is of advantage to saw it Into two service. In addition to fixing the
ilized in France, he went with a French ployment In Paris—in vain.
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.
Sausages of moderate size have
foundry near Nantes. In the states
“And, finally, there Is a large number discharge is their passport, none bet as possible of the weight in cut dia ing pork without cooking, they cut
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 of 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
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 meat, followed by preliminary curing
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 and then by drying. After the salt
enough not to show them how he fortunately, French police reports and they have it yet. Men coming against another. This was formerly a tle was known concerning the effects has been introduced the sausages
did it, he at last got homesick and show, nil too frequently, that they are on seamen's papers have them, even manual process, the two diamonds be of processes used in curing pork upon must be dried at least 20 days in a
told his boss that he was going to nt it again. In nny 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 temperature not lower than 45 degrees
Fahrenheit. A period of five days Is
quit. The Frenchmen were in conster hns a legni bureau, which Is constant soldier without honorable discharge— hand by the lapidary. But even in cause of trichinosis.
allowed for preliminary curing, which
nation. They had built up a reputa ly giving ndvice 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 I
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 ns 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
ty, ■
temperatures ranging around 80 de
p- th
kid boy on a shiny hike. 'Hello, Amer
grees Fahrenheit for 40 hours, fol
ican soldier!' lie sings out. Tm going
28,46888 4
lowed by drying for ten days. Sausage
to be a cowboy and I've got 300 francs.
smoked at a temperature of 125 de
You carry It!' 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.
le.
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 free from
ing ear 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 me! the
pale-dry them for ten days at a tem
A. W. O. I., 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
Copyright.
mother, confidential.
'Here's our
of smoking at a temperature of not
Undermeed I tad* «bod
money,' he says to her later; ‘you
nsom -nor -- —s—5
less than 80 degrees, and Anally by
madame, had better keep It till we
20 days' drying at a temperature not
start off for America again, some day!'
8. E. J. Vox ot Houston. Tex., whose big oil company has been put In the
lower than 45 degrees.
By gosh, they took him home with hands of a receiver, la here seen In the cockpit of his airplane. “Texas Wild
Scene tn one of the distributing plants of the Salvation Anny In Bertin,
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 of condensed milk
the principal means of destroying
the kid to box and talk Uuited States France.
each for ten weeks in succession.
trichinae.
5,000 A. W. O. L.’S
ARE IN FRANCE *—-------------------------
POLICE ARE AFRAID OF THEM
Tells How to
Kill Trichinae
MAKE PORK SAFE TO EAT
His Oil Company in the Courts
Milk for the Children of Berlin
0cr
. is *
ayer,
nags
ar rry
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