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A Review of Times That Are Past But Live In History-
by J. B. Polley, Floresville, Texas.
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Wlntul K. Barry, of Navasota, who
in tIk HixticH followed tho Stars und
Uai'8 into many great butt leu, writes as
follows of the Battle of Shdrpuburg, or,
as numed by the Federals, Antletam.
On the 4th of September, 1SG2, Hood'#
Texas Brigade crossed Hie Potoinae River
into Maryland, and alter a few days of
mueh-needod rest at Frederick City,
marehed on to I la^ri .slow n via Hoones-
boro Gap, Hepteniber 14th it made a
forced return march to Booncsboro Gap,
and assisted in the holding of that posi-
tion long enough foD General l<e« to
make sure that at a point near Sharps-
burg he would be rejoined uy Stonewall
Jackson, previously sent to capture
Harper's Ferry and
Then, aeilnR as rear
federate Army, it
the troops there,
guard of tho Con-
procee led toward
tllC;
ihl
of Septern-
took position in an open lit• I<I
the old I urn ward Church am!
foree of the I'nion Army which
the Antietam river-Jack-
as I hey came up, coming
confronting the enemy on
•d
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THE FRENCHWOMAN'S PCCKET.
Show of Finery When She Attempts
to Get to It in a Tram Car.
Paris—Many American women have in-
fluenced couturiers to place pockets m
skirts, but after a lonp exprimert the
makers declare that with the kind of
drc sses in vogue at present there is no
place for a pocket. It would surely show
if placed between seams, and so in each
dret-s there is a pocket in the lining
and tlu weat'i thus has to reAch down
u.iui O up again. Such a pocket might
as weil not exist at all.
Jt is not uncommon to see a French-
woman get to her pocket in a tram car,
in a shop or on the street, but in America
tl»o custom has never been adopted and
perhaps never will be. Often the pocket
is put in a silk petticoat separate from
tin- dregs, and as it is generally pretty
and dainty tlu w«-arer has an opportun-
ity to show off her finery. Hut there is
a method in the madness of the French-
woman, for if the pocket be difficult to
reach it has the saving virtue of being
out of harm's way.—New York Evening
£un.
Sharpsburg, and
ber ltith
between
the large !'<
had iTOsst
son's troop
into positiJ
its left.
Later it. the night, the little brigade
was withdrawn from the front and
marched into the grove surrounding the
Dunkard Church, where rations of beef
and Hour were issued to it. These were
most acceptable, for since leaving
liagerstown we had been compelled to
subsist on green corn and coffee alone.
While * ngaged In cooking, day began
t<> dawn, and with it came the sound of
musketry and artillery drawing rapidly
neater and nearer. When shells began
sweeping through the tree-tops, breaking
limbs and hurling I hem at us, we formed
in line of battle in rear of the brigades
of Law ton, llays and Trimble, parts
of Jackson's command, wliieh Im-
mediately moved forward to meet the
approaching Federals. In a little while,
though, these gallant brigades were
overpowered, Generals Walton and Law-
ton severely wounded *and most of their
legimental officers and hundreds of ihe
men in the ranks wounded or kill d. The
Texas brigade and Law s Alabama
brigade moved forward, ai )nce, to tl.«
relic! of the three brigades, and tound
themselves confronted by two corps ot
the Fedi ral army. The situation was
one ot extreme peril Doth to the Con-
federate army as a whole and to the
Texans and Alabamans on whose plu< k
and endurance depended the holding ot
the Confederate hue unbroken. Kealb;-
ing the danger that threatened, General
Hood asked for reinforcement.-*, hat none
could be spare.! without endangering
other parts of the Confederate lite-, and
so, all unaided, we stood our ground
and charged and countercharged until
the dead and the wounded almost
iiterally covered the grouhd where we
fought. Like hero* s, the ragged, starv-
ing men of the two brigades load -«l and
fired, and like heroes, they fell, wounded
or dead.
In his official report of the battle,
General Hood said: "Here I witnessed
the most terrible « h.sh of arms by far
that has occurred during the war. The
two little giant brigades of my command
wrestled with the mighty foree. and
although they lost hundreds of their of-
ficers and men, they drove them from
their position, and forced them to aban-
don their guns on our left."
In front of the line occupied by the
Texas brigade at the commencement of
the fight lay a cornfield. Into this
the First Texas charged, holding it
against ten times their number, until
more than two-thirds of its men were
killed and wounded: until, in fact, its
loss was eighty-three and on—third per
cent of the number engaged—the greatest
loss suffered by any command on either
side during the war. Mowed down, like
the corn surrounding them, they held
their ground unflinchingly until their
ammunition was exhausted—then falling
back with stubborn slowness, they still
bade defiance to th< enemy, meeting his
loud, triumnhant huzzas with tin*
blood-curdling Confederate yell. It was
then about 10 o'clock a. m. and Mi Laws'
division having reached the battle field
and pressing forward to take the places
of i he two brigades, they retired to the
rear, renewed their supply of ammuni-
tion, and again took position !n the
wood near the church. With tT»e close of
that bloody day ceased ihe hardest
fought battle of the war.
In front of the cornfield where the
First Texas played so gallant a part
ran a line parallel with our front. Into
I this about fifty Texans rushed, mvself
j among the number, thus securing a.
position in front and to the left >f
the First Texas. Here we knelt, and
resting our guns on the planks of the
fence, loaded and fired at the enemy
until our guns grew almost too hot to
handle. The pall of smoke that hung
over the cornfield was too dense for me
to see what individuals were doing there,
but orn-e when I glanced in that direc-
tion I distinctly «:aw the fragments of
one poor Texan's leg fly up in the air
above the smoke—his body having, evi-
dently, been dismembered by a bursting
shell.
So intent was our squad of fifty In
dealing death and destruction *o ♦ h"
enemv in our immediate front, that be-
fore any of us realized the possibility of
It,, the First Texas, their ammunition
exhausted, and but fifteen or twenty
of thetn left, fell back from th - corn-
field. and the enemy pushed forward
and got in to our rear It "'as : nasty
predicament to be in, and to escape it,
three of us made a break down the
lane, leaving, as we thought, the most
of our comrades in the lane wounded
or dead. But we had gone but a hun-
dred yards when we ran into a New
York regiment—the Thirty-third, 1 think.
They were lying down as we came up,
but no sooner saw us close t'. them
than they rose and poured a volley into
us. killing my two comrades, but. won-
derful to relate, never touching me. Of
course, 1 surrendered; what else could T
do? For awhile, though, agter I did, 1
wished I had not. for when it was dis-
covered that I was a Texan the New
Yorkers got in a terrible rage. They
bad belonged, they said, to Franklin's
division which we had encountered and
repulsed at Eltham's Landing, near West
Point., Va., on the 7th of May pre-
ceding. and thev insisted that on that
occasion we had not only fought them
with negroes but had also cut the
throats of wounded Federals who had
fallen into our hands.
Indignant and truthful as was my de-
nial of both charges. It was of no avail,
and to punish me thev forced me. over
my solemn and energetic nrotest. to take
.a place in the front rank of their line
and join in the attack they immediately
made. With nothing in front of them to
impede the advance, they moved rapidly
forward several hundred yards when,
reaching a fence, end discovering a hun-
dred yard's beyond it a skirt of dense
timber, they came to a sudden halt, in
evident dismay. But their halt did not
relieve mv anpreheh«*ions, for manv of
them appeared to lie under the influence
of liquor and to be seeking a nretext to
kill me. In the timber, perfect quiet
prevailed. But feeling sure we had
troops there, and not wishing to he killed
by my friends, I asked permission of the
Yankee who had m» specially In charge
♦o lie down. Tie consenting, i dropped at
full length on the ground, my hend to-
ward the timber, and drew » large flat
rock up against mv head. Th" v-mk®e
inquiring why I did that, T t»<id him.
loud enouch to be heard bv h-ilf the
regiment that 1 km w the men who were
in that timber, and that in a few min-
ute« there would be the awfidlest wool-
tearing right there whe«;e we were that
the world ever witnessed.
Nor was I a false prophet. Five mill-
et es had not ehipsc-d when there was a
flash, ami a roar and rattle ot artillery
and musketry, and out of the timber
iaim a sheet of lire, gleaming bayonets
and a rebel yell wo terrifying as to make
my blood run eoid and my hair stand
lairly on end. Instantly, my escort gave
me a punch with the bat red of Ills gun,
and as I sprang to my feet, ordered me
to hike to tin- rear at the best gait that
was in me. And we were not alone in
the race the whole regiment got up and
got with a celerity of movement that
beat anything in the way d running 1
had ever seen done. Such speed sootr
brought its in another fence. Just as
we mounted that and began to throw our
legs over it, we heard an extra loud
roat from the Confederate artillery, ami
.1 storm of shot and shell comlni: pour*
Inu in on us. many of the New V >rkers
fell dead nr wounded, backward or for-
ward off it. Thinking it a gooel time to
escape, I made an effort to do so, und
failed.
Th*' gallant New Yorkers having, at
last, got pretty well out of range of the
v'onfederjtes mv special escort proudly
marched me back about two miles -on
the w.iy passing Gen. Joe Hooker, who,
wounded in the leg, was having the leg
of a boot cut off and delivered me to a
major commanding two or three com-
panies of cavalry. We were on the main
road from the hitthdi'ld. A seemingly
endless pro'-casiou ol ainbulauces, loaded
with the Federal wounded, was passing
on their way to the fieid hospitals
further in the rear, and blood sprinkled
the roadway until it looked as if a,
stree t-spi inkier bad been at work. 1'p
the road from the firing lin • came about
this time a squad of men escorting a
Confederate flag. As thev came opposite
us, the Major inquired where thev got
the flag, and when they answered,
"Down in the cornfield," he turned t>
me and asked if I knew the colors.
"Yes," said 1. "1 do know tiem. It is the
I lag of the First Texas, and there was
many a dead Texan around it before
you captured it." "Indeed there were,"
said one of the escort; "there were
thirteen men i.ving d ad or wounded on
it and around it." Tlu n I asked him to
let me have it a moment, and when he
handed it to me, I kissed it reverently,
with tears in my eyes.
A few minutes later, noticing that the
main signal station ot tin Federal arm>
was but a snort distance from us, 1
asked permission of the major to climb
a fen • neat It and observe the battle*
adding that it was a privilege I had
neveV enjoyed. "All right," lit kindly
said: "I'll put you under parole to that
extent, but do not get neti enough to
the signal men to near anything they
Entire Town in Arizona to Be De-
molished to Make Homes
for flic Farmers.
WORK ON GREAT Ml
IS MERELY BEGINNING
Martin.)
<i., Oct. 19.—An entire
will be swept away by
in its work of reclaim-
for
•me
(By G. A
EL PASO. Tex.,
town in Arisona
tiie Government
ing arid lauds and making home
farmers. The Government performs
great feats in its reclamation work, but
none greater than this lias ever before
come to the notice of the public. Thy
town was in the way, howa vcr, and it
had to go. In anothe r three years, whe n
the great Roosevelt dam is ceunpleted to
store the water for the
Salt Riv» r Valle> the
America where the elutt
well as in Egypt—the town
or at least the present tow
irrigation of the
only place in
palm grows as
f Roosevelt,
site, will be
say.
From the position thus .secured oil a
high fence I saw Burasieb's corps cross
the Antietam and form in line oi battle
on our side ol the stream, the sun Tabb-
ing from their muskets and the shining
musieal instruments of their regimental
oands, and their .'lags waving in tin
breeze. Off in the distance was the thin
line ot Con fed* rates. Standing on a
hill appeared a man, looking intently
over at the .serried ranks ol the- Federals,
through, I thought, field glasses. My
heart auk low, and I thought the battle
lost to the Confederates. Then 1 saw
a cloud ol dust rising above the tops of
the trees near the old Dunkard church,
and a man dashed forward on horseback,
and in a swift gallop approached the
lone man. A second or two later, a long
line of Confederates, double-quicking,
came out ol the timber and quickly
formed in line of battle. Officers and
couriers galloped back and forth in their
rear and along their front, and wlun at
las', the alignment was accomplished,
the artillery on both sides let loose: its
thunders, and for > minute or two the
space he!we* n the lines, soon to meet in
the sho» k of battle, was clouded by shot
and shell and puffs of white smoke.
Then, while cannon roared, shells burst-
ing their fragments in every direc-
tion, and solid shot flog long furrows In
the ground, the Confederates moved for-
ward- at first, slowly and steadily, and
then with a rush they hurled themselves
against the outnumbering Federal force,
the wild, reckless Confederate yell a.id a
quick, sharp rattle- of musketry that in
a moment deepened into a roar, drown-
ing the noise ot artillery and bursting
shells. For probably two minutes, tho
smoke from the musketry firing hid the
combatant* from my view, but when
it lifted. Burnside's corps was making
tracks toward the safe side of the An-
tietam.
The lone man I first saw observing
the movements of the enemy, was, 1 be-
lieve, General L"e—the man who ap-
proached him on horseback was. 1 have
no doubt, Gen. A. I\ Hill, who. with his
corps, reached the field of battle just in
time to save the day to the' Confederates.
Four days later, General Lee wrote the
following letter:
"Headeiuarters Army of Northern Vir-
ginia, Sept. IT, 1S92— Gen. L. T. Wigfall—
General: I have not heard l'tom you witn
regard to the new Texas regiments which
you promised to raise for the army. I
need them very much. I rely upon those
we have in all our tight places and fear
i have to call upon them too e-ltcn. They
have fought grand'y and nobly, ami we
must have more of them. Please make
every possible exertion to get ihem on
lor me. You must help us in this mat-
ter. With a few move regiments such
as Hood now has, as an example of dar-
ing andi bravery, I could feel more con-
fident of the campaign. Very respectful-
ly yours, R. E. Lee, General."
Mv. Barry, the writer of the foregoing,
in mentioning Law's Alabama brigade
Unintentionally docs an injustice, rp to
and during the battle of Sharpsburg,
G> neral Law commanded the Fourth
Alabama, the Second and Fleventh Mis-
sissippi and the Sixth North Carolina
regiments. After that battle the Mis-
sissippians and North Carolinians were
transferred to other brigade s— I «i w get-
ting in their places Alabama regiments
exclusively. In the Texas brigade at the
time of the battle were the Eighteenth
Georgia and Hampton's South •'arolina
Legion, in the reorganization that fol-
lowed the battle these regiments were
transferred, and the Third Arkansas be-
came a part of the Texas Brigade.
In /another respect, also* ;s Air. Barry
mistaken. But few of the'Texans. whom
he and his two unfortunate Companions
left in tlie lane when thev sought to
escape capture by flight, were wounded
or dead—tney were playing "possum," or
at least, did plav that gam" when they
diseevereri the enemy both in front and
rear of them. This we say on the au-
thority of E. R. Crockett, now living in
Temple, who was one of the squad, and
inherits from his famous ancestor, Davy
Crockett, an immense amount of "ooiness
and tact. When the line of advancing
Federals came within a hundred yards
of lie lane, and looking back, he Ijs-
covcred that the main line of the Texans
had withdrawn, it at once occurred to
him that "discretion was the better part
of valor." Posted as the squad was, in
a sunken road that would prevent the
Federals from seeing them until right on
them, if they were caught with arms in
their hands, or even sitting erect the
Federals would be sure to fire on then
at first glimpse. To avoid tills, Crockett
suggested that each of them lie down
and pretend to be dead or wounded, aid
thus, surely, escape a volley. After
the Federals passed they could surrender
at their leisure, and without danger.
The ruse was an unqualified success.
Although at first sight of the Texans
the Federals leveled their guns and were
about io fire, they did not—a cool-headed
officer shouting, "Don't shoot, boys
don't shoot" Those fellows are all dead."
Telling us the story, Crockett said: "The
onlv time in all my life that I felt mv-
self in mortal peril was when I heard
the <-b* k of the gumoeks, and tlie second
that intervened between that sound and
the 'don't' of th*» officer war one of.in-
tensely agonizing suspense. You may
imagine the surprise of our enemies
when, after they passed over our recum-
bent and. presumably, dead bodies, they
beard one of us say, 'We surrender, gen-
tlemen—we surrender.' Luckily, though
the joke wae on them, they were not
bloodthirsty."
at the bottom eif a lake at least sixty
feet in depth.
Roosevelt is a town many years old.
It lias been the; postoffiee and the- general
lounging and buying place for the cow-
boys and cattlemen in the mountain-
thereabout for many years, but at last
it is to go for tiie sake uf the farmer
who tills ilie wonderfully rich valley be-
low, where lemons, orang< s olive.-, dates
and almonds grow si<l£oy side with al-
falfa, watermelons, Wantaloupes and
grapes. It is one- of the richest valleys
in the great West and the Government
is spending a big sum of money to "re-
claim it." as they call the task officially.
Tiie site; selected for the dam to im-
pound all the flood waters in the Salt
River is between two mountains of solid
rock, where the liver finds its way out
to the plains below, and the town of
Roosevelt, being unfortunately in the val-
ley above the damsite, will be covered
with water when the- river is force-el
above its present narrow sandy banks
and out over the wide stretch of eountrv
between the two ridges of mountains that
come down on either side and to a point
at this place. This valley is in cultiva-
tion around the town and is full of bear-
ing orchards, teeming gardens and pro-
ductive little farms, but all of these, too,
will sink to the bottom of the lake for
the- sake e)f the much bigger and greater
valley below.
Work Is Merely Beginning.
The Government has already spent sev-
eral hundred thousanel dollars on th<^
work of erecting the dam. but it has only
just commenced. It has all the time been
making preparations. First the townsitc
of Roosevelt had to be benight out and
then the farms that would come under
the water. Then the Government had to
bring out immense traction engines, for
Roosevelt and the damsite are twenty-
sevt n miles from the nearest railroad
station, the little Mormon citv of Mesa,
and mules were not capable of perform-
ing all the work necessary in the trans-
portation line. Then Engineer Louis C.
Hill, through whose genius the great elairi
is being constructed, figured that it
would be elnater for the Government to
put up and oiferate its own sawmill arid
cement plant, and the machinery was
purchased and hauled to the site by the
huge traction engines. The sawmills were
carried into the mountains in pieces by
the Indians and set up to get out the
timber, and the cement mill was put up
at the lam, as the rock on which the dam
is to be constructed turns out a fine
quality of cement when properly treated.
Then the problem of operating the saw-
mill was faced and to overcome this a
small dam they call it small as com-
pared with the one that is to store water
sufficient to irrigate annually over 300,000
acres of rich valley land -was built and a
flume was constructed acfoss country,
part of tiie river diverted, and the saw-
surround.* Phoenix, the capital of Ariz-
ona, w;as surveyed and the total number
of acres arrived at. Then the Govern-
nn rit, free of cost to the people of the
valley, set about investigating the prob-
ability and possibility of a dam. The an-
nual tiow of the river was measured, the
country wa. thoroughly prospected and
eveSy detail car fully gone into. The fig
tires arrlv* d at showed that the Govern-
n>ent could build the dam for a sum that
Would cost each property owner a year
for the next twenty years ami the owners
were asked to "sign up," or in plaia
weirds mortgage their property to l'nel«
Sa.n, I'll• -y gladly did it and I'ncle Sam
got to work. When the dac1 is complet-
ed the entire project will be turned over
to 'lie i,.'fleers of the Salt River Valhy
Water I 'si rs Association and they will
operate it for the owners of the land,
each of whom has a vote for every acn
of land he holds, none of whom, how-
ev« r, can hold over l'»o votes or aer< s.
This is to help the small farmer, and
the man who has a big tract has to sell
ii off, but he will not lose any mom ",
siin e land that formerly sold for from
$"> to $20 an acre will now sell for from
$1<M) upward.
Becuus* lie is doing all the work for Un-
people, I'ncle Sam has to keep accurate
accounts of all the work he does. For
example, he charges tho price of the
townsitc ot Roosevelt and surrounding
farms to the water users and then col-
lects rants from the occupants of the
buildings and In imp- hay from the ranches,
for which credit is given the land owner?
I'ncle Sa n buvs the cement plant and
Ihe traction engines and the sawmill ami
he charges it to the people of the vat-
ley who are to benefit, and then, in tie
course of events, lie buys the products
oi labor of these and credits it to the
owners, the men who possess the land
All of which helps to bring the cost of
the construction of the dam down to Pa-
figure originally estimated, mabe smaller,
in which event the pro rata of the
charge against tho acreage to be, irrigated
will be smaller.
When the great dam is completed an 1
th - water all the year around Is held in
check and conserved for use when need-
ed, the farmers will have water all th*
time?, regardless of seasons, and the Salt
Riv« r Vallov will be a source of never-
failing suaply. The water will be taken
down from the dam, which is far up in
the mountains, to the farms below in th •
old channel of the river and from this
channel diverted by means of small* r
dams Into canals and distributed over the
entire valley.
Principles of Operation.
The water will be let out of the great
lake by means of gates of bronze, insert-
ed into the solid ryck mountain on either
side of the river at the big dam. an I
extreme pressure against the big dam in
cas" of an unusual rainfall is prevented
by the blasting of spillways through tin
mountain on either end of the dam
proper. These spillways will allow the
water to run on down the old bed of tlu
river and escape into the Colorado Riv r
below, before it rises to tiie top of the
dam. Th-refore no water will ever run
over tho dam, but all waste, in case there
ever is any, will find its way over the
spillways on either side and it can never
do any damage there, as it will be pour-
ing owr the solid rock eif the mountain?
between which tin dam is constructed.
It is classed as an ideal piece of en-
gineering and a task e-qual to the great
Assouan dam of Egypt. But it is no
greater piece of work than will be per-
former! in several of the great govern-
ment undertakings of a similar charact'r
and has not marls the- interest attache I
as the dam which is to reclaim the R o
Grande. This dam is to be constructed,
and part of the work is now under way,
on the Rir> Grande at Engle. X. M., 12."»
miles north of El Paso, and is to irrigate
the New Mexico Valley above here for
that distance, the Texas Valley below
here for thirty miles, and the Mexican
Valley below and opposite El Paso for
tin same distance. Thus It has an inter-
natiemal aspect. That Mexico is to get a
part of this water is not generally under-
stood, but she gets it as a result of a
treaty just concluded with that Govern
nn ut in years gone by. when farming
in this p-rt of Texas and New Mexico
v.is an unknown quantity, vineyards and
wheat farms flourished on th" Mexican
side of the river and the water of the
Rio Grande irrigated the tracts. But set-
tling and irrigation in Colorado am New
Mexico and the depletion of the fores;-
on the watersheds shut off this supply > f
water and Mexico put in a claim against
the I 'niteel States under the priority of
right?- contention The Cnited States r
agnized the iustm.-s of her claim and I
when the reclamation service found the j
Fugle dam possible and feasible, then j
the Cnited States offered to build it and j
give Mexico as much water as she ever
had. This suited all concerned, since
there would still be enough for New
Mexico and Texas, and the dam was de-
cided upon.
But as the reclamation service can only
operate; with the money it has on hand
and must wait till one project is paid for
to get money for another, the work was
delayed. Congress saw that a treaty
obligation was at stake amPappropriated
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THE SAN SfiTONIO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
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dining room in the new Belmont Hotel
in New York. North o'' this room will
l>o a seeond cafe that will seat JT>0 per-
sons. Next north will he a Pompeiian
room that will accommodate 250 guests
The new lobby will contain, in additirn
to tin- present lobby space, the women's
waiting room, the women's ordinary and
the present cafe. The counter eh*rks will
occupy the space on the east side of he
lobby. The key and mail clerks will
use the present office space. The check
room and telephone room will bo given
additional space in the room now occu-
pied by the private office.
A ball room will be built on the second
floor south of ihe present Italian room.
This raom will be two stories high. A
promenade will circle tho arched dome
over the big dining room.
"The new hotel will have between 500
and ii00 rooms, more than 400 with bath,"
said A. J. Dean last night. The com-
pleted hotel will represent an investment
of two million dollars, including the real
estate."—Kansas City Star.
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AS THE HOTEL BALTIMO RE WILL BE NEXT SPRING.
mill was put into operation. All this
dom, the Government was ready for
work on the dam, and that is just now,
for the "preliminaries" arc only just
completed and real work is starting on
the dam.
The Government is not doing all this
in u paternal way. but it is only acting
as financial backer, architect and con-
structor lor tiie farmers whose land is
to be benefited. In the past the farmers
have irrigated from crude canals dun out
through their farms from the Salt River,
ami at times they had plenty Of water,
sometimes an overflow and too much,
while at others they were without water
of any sort and were forced to watch
their orchards and gardens wither and
die or pump water at a cost so exorbitant
that they could never make any money.
The Indians irrigated by the same
method in -the days when Geronimo was
king of the whole section and nobody
but a I'nited States trooper—and several
of him—was safe in the section. This was
not profitable and it was not satisfac-
tory, and the Government, through tiie
reclamation service, which has done so
much to reclaim the arid West and make
'homes for so many thousands of home-
Mess pt ojile, came to the rescue. The
reclamation service was created fof just
such a task aswhis and has performed it
elsewhere, notable among its works be-
ing the great Truckee. Nev.. project,
completed and in operation: the ("arls-
nad and Roswell projects in New Mexico,
completed and operating, and the great
Kngle dam above El Paso, now under
construction and which will reclaim over
1125.000 acres of land in the Rio Grande
Valley in Mexico, New Mexico and
Texas.
Three Dollars a Year Tax. #
All the land suitable for reclamation in
the Salt River Valley, which completely
$1,000,000 with which to start the work.
This is now being expended, but $7,000,000
more are needed and tiie reclamation
Ecrviee is still short on the sum. Con-
gr ss will if.- asked at tiie coming eva-
sion to loan this money to the reclama-
tion service, to be returned to the Na-
tional treasury when the fund is re-
plenished from tiie other enterprises now
nearing completion or completed, and it
is expected that results satisfactory to
all concerned will be obtained. At least )
tiie people of Mexico and of the Rio ,
Grande Valley are hoping so.
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IT'S TO BE A NEW BALTIMORE.
A Description of the Hotel as It Will
Be Next Spring.
The Hotel Baltimore additions and in-
terior work will be finished next spring.
Of the 267 feet frontage on Baltimore
Avenue, 150 feet south of Eleventh Street
will be eight stories high. The rest will
be eleven stories.
No change is to be made In the ar-
rangement of the present basement ex-
cept that the kitchen and store rooms
now on the first floor will be mowd
there. Additional boiler capacity and
machinery for three new passenger ele-
vators and une additional freight elevator
will be installed in the basement. The
present arrangement of the bar. eafe
and grill room in the basement will not
be disturbed.
From the Twelfth Street entrance «m
the first floor a 16-foot corridor will run
through to Eleventh Street. The principal
cafe will be at the southeast corner of
the first floor. It will seat 250 persons
and is designed after the style of th/©
Suit by Lentz, tailor, always corrcct.
THURE DE THULSTRUP.
Story of American Artist Who Began
as an Army Engineer.
In printing a series of his vivacious pic-
tures of Colonial life in Old \ irginia, the
New Broadway Magazine for November
gives a most interesting account of Thure
de Thulstrup, the artist.
"When Thure de Thulctrup was a
young man, riding across Algerian sands
as a member of a French cavalry regi-
ment," says the accoun;, "h • would have
laughed skeptically had l. ■ been told
that when tho Moon of Gray Hair should
u me he would be living ouietiy in New
York, a successful artist and a good
American citizen. In those tiays, to lie
. a artist anywhere, and especially in a
trans-Atlantic land, was as tar from his
int. ntion as a journey to Mars. And yet
it has all come about logically ^ enough,
by slew degrees, one change following
another, until finally he became n prom-
inent member of New York City's grow-
ing colony of artists.
"Mr. de Thulstrup was born in Pweoen.
educated in the National Military Acad-
emy at Stockholm., which ranks in Swe-
den as W«st Point dees iu the Cnitei
.States. His father was for a long time
Swedish minister to France, and lie
therefore spent part of his youth in Paris.
And so it. came about, after he graduat-
ed from the military school, that he re-
eived a eommlsFicn in the Frrnch army.
He entered that famous .»nvalrv ijegiment,
the 'Foreign Legion,' that serv<* in Al-
giers and gives its members as much
stining adventure and thrilling experi-
ence, both inside and outride the com-
mand, as if they were part of a book
instead of a small section of real life.
"In the early seven lies the youna sol-
dier went to Paris, his commission in the
army having expired, and there made a
beginning of th-^ study of art. It ran
in his family to be good draughtsmen, as
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well as valiant soldiers, llr. de Thul-
si.nip speaks warmly of the skill in
ilruwinii of his father and elder brother,
■ illhoti'-rh tiiey never :nade it a study.
I'ven then he had not the slightest in-
tention of hems an artist, and his situdv
'■ f drawing in Pi.ris was carried on, for
the little time h«. remained there, with
tlu. expectation of using it in engineering
wrk. Then came an opening in Can'tfla
ps a topographical engineer. 'P'nere I10
showed such skill that a firm In Boston
heard of him and decided he was Just the
man to help in prei.ari.ig the maps for
an atlas they were publishing.
"l.atei lie began to make sketches of
things he saw. to find pleasure in it, and
finally to think they were so good that,
he ought to be able to do something with
them, tie sent some to the New York
(Iraphlc, ani, suddenly, his artistic career
had beg in."
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