JOB PRINTING
Magazine
Section.—Tillamook, Oregon, June 7, 1906
Taft. She is rather proud of the fact
that she has never studied abroad, and
also that she has been able to meet
all the expenses of her artistic edu
Evelyn Eongman of Chicago cation herself.
Terrible Destruction of the City
Sculptress Is Already Famous.
by Violent Earthquake
and Flames.
The best known work of Miss Long
raided Fifteen Thousand
Dollar Prize.
Irve Bronze Doors at Annapolis
al Academy Has Attained Fame
rough Her Figure of “ Victory ”
It. Louis Fair.
■en the new bronze entrance doors
li Annapolis Naval Academy are
lleted and hung in place there will
I another monument to the skill
unerican women. Colonel Robert
■Thompson, who presented these
■s to the academy as a memorial
■e class of ’68, stipulated in making
■offer that the design selected for
■doors should be awarded by compe-
ln, the winner to receive a prize of
loot). There were thirty-three com-
itors for this prize, an unusually
L number, and the designs submit-
[ are said to have been of a high
tree of excellence. The votes of all
t jurors were cast for the model pre-
Ited by Miss Evelyn B. Longman, of
icago.
man is the bronze figure of "Victory,”
which was carved for the Festival Hall
at the St. Louis World’s Fair. For
this she was awarded a silver medal.
At the close of the fair the original
was brought to the Chicago Art Insti
tute. A bronze reproduction has been
purchased by the Union League Club
and will adorn the entrance to the club
rooms.
Another one of Miss Longman’s
works which has won commendation is
a bronze figure of “Death,” which she
recently completed, and which is to
be placed on the Story monument in
the cemetery at Lowell, Mass.
Fire Results in All Parts of Metrop
olis—Geological Scientists Say No
Connection Between Quake and
Vesuvian Eruption.
It was during the repose of early
morning; the Springtime sun was
casting its golden rays over the Sierra
Nevadas and striking down into the
peaceful, slumbering valley of the
Sacramento. All the Western Hemi
sphere was at peace with the elements.
Suddenly there came an awful growl
ing and crashing beneath the very cen
WOMAN CIVIL ENGINEER. tre of San Francisco, and in a tenth of
the space of time required to describe
the event, falling walls and Are com
Granddaughter of Mrs. Stanton Has bined to work on the metropolis of the
Offer to Go to China.
Pacific the most appalling natural ca
lamity which has occurred on this
Miss Nora Stanton Blatch, grand continent
since the landing of the Pil
daughter o£ Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stan grims. The
that has been
ton, is now a member of the American accomplished destruction
is almost incalculable.
Society of Civil Engineers. She is the The inferno of flames
which burst forth
first woman admitted to membership, I simultaneously in various
parts of the
and, it is said, there was not a dissent- city was rendered still more
terrible
by the repeated quakings of the earth,
by which the rescuers were in mo
mentary danger of being buried with
the dead beneath the falling structures
The very earth itself—our own mother
earth—proved as treacherous as a
deadly snake, and the usual ocean
breeze, by a strange perversion of na
ture, hauled around to a point where it
fanned the flames to intensity and
became a deadly agent of destruction.
The general dismay of the populace
was augmented by the constant roar
of dynamite explosions, made in a vain
effort to check the progress of the
flames. The vast pall of smoke that
blotted out the sky did not tend to alle
viate the general anxiety. Yet, in such
surroundings, calculated to inspire uni
versal panic and madness, there were
performed numberless feats of heroism
that will remain on the scroll of time
as illustrious proofs of the nobility
which is hidden beneath the surface of
ordinary life. Cool heads and brave
hands, with stout hearts behind them,
performed their work of rescue in the
very face of death, and even the inde
scribable horror of the earthquake was
overcome.
San Francisco, a rich and proud city,
has been swept by fires before and
has, phoenix like, arisen from her
ashes. Moreover, she has more than
once experienced earthquake tremors
which were, to say the least. Injurious
and menacing. But America is a
cemented nation. The disasters of one
Bectlon bring together in one grand
sympathetic bond the inhabitants of
the others, all anxious and insistent
upon holding out the helping hand and
voicing words of sympathy to the af
flicted sister. States, cities and towns
throughout the entire Union have of
fered unstinted assistance in the way
of money, food, clothing and medical
attendance, with which to relieve the
want, not only of San Francisco, but
also the other California cities
and towns which have suffered with
the metropolis of the State.
No Connection With Vesuvius.
MISS LONGMAN’S STATUE OF “VICTORY”
CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
Miss Longman’s design has two pan
els representing "Peace” and “War.” On
the peace panel is a figure symbolizing
science, an old man in an attitude of
deep thought, explaining a difficult
problem to two students of the acad
emy. On the war panel patriotism is
represented by a female figure, sym
bolical also of the home, the protection
of which is assumed to be the reason
for the existence of the navy. Under
her draperies 1 b a»coat of armor, and
with one hand on a cannon she points
with the other to the distance, where
masts of ships show the destination of
the marching figures in the back
ground.
In the upper panels of the door arc
festoons supported by shells—of oak
leaves over the war panel and olive
over that of peace. In the lower panels
wreaths of the same leaves inclose tie
names of naval heroes. In the transom
is the dedication to the class of '68,
and above the transom is a group rep
resenting Fame—two laurel-crowned
figures on either side of an altar-like
pedestal, with an inscription to John
Paul Jones, whose bones are to reBt
in the crypt of the chapel. The pedes
tal is surmounted by a tripod, from
which issue flames, symbolizing endur
ing fame.
ing opinion offered when she was pro
posed for membership.
Miss Hlatcb was the first woman to
get a degree of Bachelor of Science in
civil engineering at Cornell University.
She took a four years’ course, finish
ing among the first five of the class.
Since her graduation she has been
draughtsman in a big bridge concern.
She is now considering an offer from
Coming as this disaster did, practi
cally coincident with the Vesuvian ca
lamity in Italy, many persons suppose
that there was a direct relation be
tween the two. This idea, however,
is logically contradicted by Director
Charles D. Walcott, of the Geological
Survey. Mr. Walcott holds that there
is no possibility of a connection be
tween the earthquake and the Italian
volcano, for these two are entirely dif
ferent scientific phenomena respon
sible for such earthquakes and vol
canic disturbances.
Great earthquakes, says Mr. Walcott,
in the already hardened shell that sur
rounds the inner mass. That shell
must give way at some point Aside
from the contractions of the earth's
surface, another cause is given that
might affect the changing of the sur
face of a given part of the world. This
cause is the accumulation of a vast
weight of sedimentary deposit brought
down by rivers. For example, the Mis
sissippi River is entirely made up of
the deposits of the streams washing
down from higher lands. The weight
of that deposit would be difficult to
calculate, and resting upon a portion
of the earth's shell, might occasion its
sinking. This theory is held by some
scientists in connection with the Cali
fornia disaster, for the Sacramento
River is the depositor of vast weights
of sediment in the Pacific waters near
San Francisco.
Greatest Natural Disasters
History.
Pompeii and Herculaneum de
stroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius
A. D. 79; more than 20,000 lives lost.
Earthquake in Constantinople, thou
sands killed; year 557.
Catania, Sicily, 15,000 persons killed
by earthquake; year 1137.
Syria, 20,000 killed by earthquake;
year 1158.
Cilicia. 20,000 killed by earthquake;
year 1268.
Palermo, earthquake, B.QQ.O lost; year
1726.
Canton, China, 1,000,000 lost by
earthquake; November 30, 1731.
Kuchan, North Persia, 40,000 lost;
earthquake; year 1755.
Lisbon, city ruined by earthquake,
25,000 killed; November, 1755.
Aleppo, destroyed by earthquake,
thousands killed; year 1822.
Canton, earthquake, 6,000 lost; May
27, 1830.
Calabria, earthquake, 10,000 lost;
year 1857.
Island of Krakatoa volcanic erup
tion, 36,380 lives lost; May 27, 1883.
Eruption of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, 79
killed; year 1880.
Isle of Ischia, earthquake, 2,000 lost;
year 1883.
Charleston, S. C., earthquake, 41
lives lost; August 31, 1886.
Bandalsan, volcanic eruption 1,000
killed, July, 1888.
Island of Hondo, Japan, earthquake,
10,000 killed; October. 1891.
Venezuela, earthquake, 3,000 killed;
April 24, 1894.
Gautemala, earthquake, great loss of
life; April, 1902.
St. Pierre. Martinique, Mont Pelee,
May, 1902; loss of life, 40,000.
Vesuvian towns destroyed by erup
tion of volcano, April, 1906; 400 or
more killed.
San Francisco, April 18, 1906, earth
quake, followed by fire.
THE SURGERY OF THE AN
CIENTS.
What is known to modern dentists
as bridge work was familiar to the
Etruscans, as extant specimens attest,
according to an interesting article in
the British Medical’ Journal. Plaster
ears, noses and lips were common
among the Indians, where the cutting
off of these features was a punishment
much in use, and Greek and Roman
veterans who had lest a leg or an arm
in war tried to make good the de
ficiency by artificial substitutes. It is
stated further:
“What is said to be the oldest artifi
cial leg in existence is now in the mu
seum of the Royal College of Burgeons
of England. It was found in a tomb
at Capua. Pliny speaks of a Roman
warrior who, a century and a half be
fore the birth of Christ, wore an arti-
manipulate a sword. In the Middle
Ages artificial limbs sometimes re
paired the disablements of war. The
‘iron hand' of Goetz von Berlichingen
was an ingenious piece of mechanism
made for that famous knight in 1604.
A century later an artificial hand was
Impressive Ceremony Incident to
Construction of New Capi
tol Buildings.
President Roosevelt and Speaker
Cannon, Both Masons, Are Princi
pal Actors—$10,000,000 for Sen
ate and House.
When President Roosevelt, on April
14th, laid the cornerstone ot the new
office building for the House of Repre
sentatives, it marked the beginning of
improvements on Capitol Hill which
will' make that section of Washington
comparable with the ancient hills of
Work Progressing Rapidly.
Rome and Greece crowned with mag
nificent buildings In which met the
Although the digging of the trenches
solons of ages past.
for the House office building was be
This new building occupies a square gun less than a year ago the structure
and is about a hundred yards distant is now up to the first floor line. To
hasten the work Elliott Woods, Super
intendent of the Capitol, directed that
construction begin before all the speci
fications and contracts were complete.
This was done through letting out the
stone contract first, by authority of the
House Building Commission. It is cal
culated that both buildings will be
ready for the Sixtieth Congress.
In accordance with Masonic tradi
tions. the ceremony was conducted in
the open air, in a simple, unostenta
tious manner.. In every detail it corre
sponded as nearly as practicable with
the historic ceremony in which Presi
dent Washington participated. The
articles placed in the cornerstone were
largely identical in character with
those deposited in the original Capi
tol stone by Federal Lodge, and, aa
both President Roosevelt and Speaker
Cannon are members of the Masonf®
order, the occasion in every way har
monized with the spirit of the cer®-
mony directed by the Virginia jurlsdfo-
tion in laying the cornerstone of th®
Capitol.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
from the south wing of the Capitol,
with which it is to be connected by
an underground passageway, through
which members of Congress may pass
back and forth from the legislative
hall to their offices. There are 410
office rooms, providing a room for each
Representative in Congress and Dele
gate, and leaving vacant nineteen
rooms for a future growth in the mem
bership of the House through a reap
portionment of districts or the admis
sion of new States. The House annex
and the Senate office building, also
under construction at the opposite end
of the plaza, are being put up to pro
vide for the members of the National
Legislature, quarters absolutely needed
for the efficient transaction of public
business. The great growth in size
of both branches of Congress has
caused the Capitol building to be en
larged, but this was only sufficient to
provide the necessary space for the
assembly halls of House and Senate
and the committee rooms, the latter
In many cases being small and badly
ventilated. Under present conditions
individual members (unless they hap
pen to be chairmen of committees)
have no offices and a badly congested
condition exists. Realizing the need
of one great legislative centre where
Senators and Representatives may
concentrate their activities and be
comfortably quartered. Congress three
years ago authorized the construction
Award to Woman Unprecedented
The award of this prize to a woman
is said to be an unprecedented event in
the artistic history of the country, and
a bright future is predicted for the
young sculptress.
“I consider Miss Longman to be one
of the most promising of our younger
sculptors.” said Mr. Daniel C. French,
whose assistant she has been for the
last four years.
Miss Longman was born In Win
chester, Ohio, her father. Edwin H.
Ixtngman. being a musician and an ar
tist Drawing was one of her childish
amusements, and she began modeling
without Instruction in the art depart
ment of Olivet College. Her work there
attracted the attention of Lorado Taft,
who invited her to enter the Chicago
Art Institute as his pupil. She did so,
and during the first year paid her ex
penses by doing library work. Then
she was made an assistant Instructor
in the school, and a year or two later
she came to New York, where she
soon after became an assistant to Mr.
THE.CAPITOL PLAZA AS IT WILL APPEAR WHEN NEW BUILDINGS ARE COMPLETED.
China of a place in one of the corps of
engineers organized by that country
for the development of Its railroad
system. The offer came, too, from a
young Chinaman who was taking a
graduate course at Cornell while she
was there, The graduate student was
sent here, it Is said, not only to in-
crease his technical knowledge of en-
glneering. but to obtain for bis coun
try the best engineers to be had. He
watched Miss match's work closely
and offered her a place.
An ostrich egg weighs about three
and a half pounds. It is less delicate
in flavor than a hen’s egg. although
perfectly eatable. It is a curious fact
that ostrich eggs will keep fresh for
two or three months. The flesh of the
ostrich itself is edible, being not unlike
veal in flavor.
are never caused by volcanoes, but by
faulting plains. This is particularly
true of both seaboards of the United
States. Mr. Walcott and other scien
tists of the Geological and Geodetic
Surveys agree that scientifically the
recent disturbances were caused by
conditions identical with those pertain
ing during the earthquake which de
molished Charleston. S. C.. on August
31, 1886. Volcanoes occasionally cause
shaking of the earth's crust, but the
disturbances occasioned by pent-up
gases seeking to escape are felt only,
locally.
The cause generally attributed to
earthquakes Is the gradual cooling of
the earth, which is known to still be a
molten mass Inside. When any object
cools it contracts, and so will the earth
as it grows colder. This contraction
would unavoidably cause a disturbance
worn by Christian, Duke of Brunswick.
Ambrose Pare devised artificial limbs
with movable joints, which were made
for him by artificers, of whom Lor
raine, a locksmith, was the most
famous. Pare devotes a special chap
ter to the means of repairing or sup
plying natural t? accidental defects
in the human body. 'He describes ar
tificial eyes and noses, an artificial
tongue and an artificial palate. At a
later period Father Sebastian, Car
melite monk, made movable arms and
hands. In the earlier part of the sev
enteenth century Peter Ixjwe, in his
Discourses on the Whole Art of
Chirurgery,’ gives representations of
artificial legs. About the middle of
the same century Falcinelli, a Floren
tine surgeon mentions the use of ar
tificial eyes of silver, gold and crystal
painted in various colors.
from the effect of the Capitol itself.
The exterior design for the buildings
is classic, suggesting in its general di
vision of parts the Garde Meuble in the
Place de la Concorde, Paris, while the
pavilions are modeled on those of the
Colonnade de Louvre. Architecturally
the front is divided into two parts, the
lower corresponding to the first story
of the building constituting a "rusti
cated” base, on which, extending
through the second and third stories,
is the colonnade, surmounted by Its
entablature and balustrade. It is be
lieved that the effect of the two flank
ing buildings will be to give unity to
the whole scheme and to emphasize
architecturally the great beauty of the
Capitol, all of the lines leading up to
and centering in its dome.
of the House and
buildings.
Senate
office
Senate Ceremony Next Fall.
The House annex was started first
and is in a more advanced stage of
construction than the Senate building,
though the cornerstone of the latter
may be ready to put in place next Fall.
It Is estimated that the two buildings
together will Involve an outlay of
about ten million dollars. In size and
design they are Identical; they occupy
positions balanced In their relation to
the Capitol and are planned to fit into
a general architectural scheme. The
height of the buildings has been re
stricted that they may not overpower
the Capitol, and they have been kept
simple in design, without pediments,
domes or other accentuated points to
prevent their detracting in any way
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