The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3000, Ed. 1 Monday, August 7, 1911 Page: 2 of 4
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(Lorado Taft’s Monument to
Vanishing Race.
feed Man, Towering Over Valley Long
Indians’ Sole Property, Seems
Leaving the Site Reluctantly
—Made of Concrete.
DICTOGRAPH AS A DETECTIVE
Oregon, 111.—With Impressive cere-
tnonies the statue of the famous Indian
chief Black Hawk was dedicated at
Eagle Nest camp, the summer colony
of Chicago artists and writers, near
(here. The statue of the great chief-
tain is the work of Lorado Taft and
stands on a 200-foot bluff across the
river from the town and just outside
the limits of the camp. Among the
members of the party at the dedica-
tion were some of the best known of
Chicago’s artists, sculptors and writers.
Edgar A. Bancroft was the principal
speaker and presented the statue to
the people of Illinois. Responses were
made by Dr. Charles C. Eastman and
'Miss Laura M. Cornelius.
The statue of Black Hawk occupies
a position on the highest point in
'Rock river valley. It is mammoth In
size—being 47 feet high—and repre-
sents the work of four years. It is
built of concrete and is expected to be
a permanent monument to the red men
fwho once roamed this section. The
(facial lineaments are of Black Hawk,
(but the sculptor’s idea was to make
Ithe statue typical of the vanishing
(North American Indians.
The figure of Black Hawk is repre-
sented girt in a blanket, reluctantly
leaving the valley which served his
tribe as council grounds long before
the white man came to this continent.
This remarkable statue, which is
made of re-enforced concrete by a new
process, is Itself imposing, and has
been placed upon a rock 200 feet above
the water, the highest point in the pic-
turesque Rock river valley. The statue
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Recently Invented Instrument Playt
an Important Part In the Ohio
Bribery Trial.
Columbus, O.—In the trial of Rodney
J. Diegle, sergeant-at-arms of the Ohio
state senate, convicted of aiding and
abetting the alleged bribing of a state
senator, the state relied on a me-
chanical device, the dictograph, a high-
ly sensitized telephone, for its strong-
est evidence.
The dictograph transmitter was se-
created in a detective’s room in a ho-
tel and a court stenographer in anoth-
er room, reported the conversation in
which it was alleged bribes were of-
fered and accepted.
For the first time in the history of
detective work this curious machine
was used.
A dictograph consists of a series of
sensitive metal plates set in a hard
rubber cylinder. In its elements it is
a telephone transmitter magnified.
Used in a business way It enables a
man to sit at his desk in his private
office alone and talk off his correspond-
ence without the stenographer being
Statue of Black Hawk.
8s visible for many miles, and hun-
dreds of people came from adjacent
cities In Illinois to view and admire it.
'Should this work weather well and
preserve its fine contour and lines, Mr.
Taft thinks It is probable it will mark
an era in the erection of statuary in
re-enforced concrete.
On leaving the grove which bordered
the roadway climbing the bluffs, the
statue appeared in its majesty on the
bank of the river. There was no un-
rveiling, as Mr. Taft wished the first
tsight of the monument to be one of its
.entire majesty.
Below, midstream, lies Margaret Ful-
ler’s island, sacred to the memory of
Madam de Ossoli, the poetess who
once lived here. Two miles distant,
beyond the oak groves, rise the spires
of Oregon. Mr. Taft’s other works, the
Indian "Paducah” in the city of that
name in Kentucky and “The Eternal
Silence,” the Graves monument in
Graceland cemetery, Chicago, have a
similar feeling of majesty to that of
'his latest creation.
MARKS MISSOURI SEA LEVELS
Operating the Dictograph.
present. The rtenographer may be in
the next room or the other side of the
building, but she hears the words as
distinctly as though she were at his
elbow and sets them down.
The detectives got some of the sus-
pected men, separately and together,
in a hotel room, a dictograph was
under the sota. A court reporter was
at the other end. Word for word his
nimble fingers recorded every word
that was uttered. None but he and
the detectives knew.
Nothing escaped the transmitter—
not even the opening or closing of the
door—and the stenographer trans-
cribed everything which tha_Jittle in-
strument reported to him. This re-
port was admitted as evidence by the
judge who presided at the trial.
The inventor of the instrument Is
K. M. Turner.
In order to entrap the legislators
who were suspected of receiving
bribes, Detective Smiley acted as
briber on the occasion when the dic-
tograph was used and he and O. O.
Walcott, the stenographer, were prin-
cipal witnesses for the prosecution.
The defense objected strenuously to
Wolcott’s evidence being admitted,
but the court ruled that it was cor-
roborative of the direct evidence and
was admissible.
‘The United States Geological Survey
Has Recently Completed Work
in the State.
Jefferson City, Mo.—The United
j States geological survey, working in
i conjunction with the surveyors of the
! state of Missouri, have been establish-
ing the levels in this state and plac-
ing tablets or "bench marks” In many
I places. These markers show the
j height of that point above the sea
(level.
! These bench marks are of two
(forms. One is a circular bronze or
i aluminum table three and one-halt
inches in diameter and one-fourth
inch thick, having a 3-inch stem which
is cemented in a drill hole in solid
rock in the wall of some public build-
ing, bridge abutment or other sub-
stantial masonry structure or in the
solid rock.
The second form to be set in the
ground where there is no rock or ma-
sonry, consists of a hollow wrought
Iron post four feet long. A bronze or
BEEN MISSING THREE YEARS
Rich Texan Who Wandered Away
From Home and “Woke Up"
In Ireland.
San Antonio, Tex.—James McFar
lane, who owns 5,800 acres of farm
land in Edwards county, Texas, and
who has been mourned as dead foi
three years, has been heard from in
his native County Cork, Ireland. How
he reached there he knows not, and
his memory Is a blank from the day
he left his home in Edwards county,
where he has a wife and two sons.
McFarlane had suffered from insan-
ity four years ago and was placed in
a private sanitarium in Dallas, where
he recovered. One afternoon in
April, 1908, he left home on horseback
to look after some land and that was
the last seen or heard of him until
two weeks ago, when a cablegram
was received from him, followed by a
letter received later.
aluminum table is riveted over the top
of the post and it Is sunk into the
ground so that the top protrudes
about six inches.
The tablets are stamped with the
words: "U. S. Geological Survey
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Tablet or Marker.
Missouri.” The elevation in feet above
sea level Is marked on the tablet and
the words: "Two hundred and fifty
dollars fine for disturbing this mark.
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great trans-Atlantic liners
carry thousands and thousands
of Americans into the great
ports of the old world. Most
of them pay a good round
price for the service, although there
are some people who go in the steer-
age rather than miss the trip. But
there are many American, college
students and perhaps some others
who go to Europe and who do not
worry ahead of time about cabin
quarters or staterooms. They are the
fellows who work for their passage on
cattle ships.
Without a doubt the experiences of
one who crosses the Atlantic as a cat-
tleman are unique. Twenty or thirty
years ago a man was paid from $30
to $60 together with all of his ex-
penses to cross the ocean as a cattle-
man, but now there are two men in
Boston who are getting rich charg-
ing college students $5 to get them
positions (for want of a more approp-
riate word) on cattle ships. The boys
get no more for their services than
their passage and board.
Having been assured that we would
have to “rough it” and have lots of
work to do, a college friend and I
went over to the Cunard docks in East
Boston on a beautiful morning. There
we signed up to work for our passage
as cattlemen and to get accommoda-
tions same as the seamen. We didn’t
know what we were doing, but we
knew ten days later. There we met
the rest of our "party,” eight other
college fellows from various parts of
the country, and an Irishman and a
Scotchman who were going back to
see the home folks.
There were 400 cattle' on board. The
ship carried 70 first-class or cabin pas-
sengers and, according to our friend,
the Scotchman, the cattle were second
class and we were third class. I be-
lieve he was right At any rate, the
petty officers of the ship wasted lots
of good time telling us that we were
cattlemen, and can not and must not
do this and that. The Irishman said:
“To be sure they ’ave sartin rhules
givernin' ballast.”
We sat in a fine-looking group on
the for’ard end of the main deck as
the ship left the Boston harbor that
morning.
Up to this point we knew nothing of
what we were to do and just what
sort of “accommodations" we were to
have. A petty officer, with shining
face and shoes, and the characteristic
thin mustache, which is quite the
thing among the young Englishmen,
informed us that our dinner, stores
and “dishes” could be had at the gal-
ley.
Our first meal and pan washing on
the main deck attracted too much of
the attention of the cabin passengers
on the deck above, and the captain
sent down orders for us to repair to
the cattlemen’s quarters in the fo’cas-
tle. The seam,en pronounce that word
in two syllables. The name applies to
the quarters of the seamen and the
cattlemen,
The Cattleman’s Work.
Now, something of the work that
falls to the lot of the cattlemen. We
were called by the night watchmen
(when they were not asleep) at 4
o’clock in the morning, and we literal-
ly rolled out of the hay. Our crowd
of five, all working together, attended
to every want of the 200 cattle. The
first job was to water the stock. The
story about making a horse drink was
invented by a man who never tried to
water a wild steer from a bucket, _for
certainly by substituting the latter for
the former the point would have been
more forcible. We used ten wooden
buckets, dipping the water from large
tanks that we filled from overhead
pipes. There were two main alley-
ways along each side of the cattle
deck and they, dear things, lined each
side of the alleys with their horns
sticking half way across. They had
Woman Has a Great Idea
Flat Dweller Proves the Old Saying
That Necessity Is Mother of
Invention.
We are told that necessity is the
mother of invention, and one feminine
flat-dweller is willing to take a lot of
credit for her own particular achieve-
ment. With two big wardrobes and
a closet to her bedroom she was yet
without room for her big hats and
dresses. There were hats to the left
of her, hats to the right of her—and
dresseB likewise.
So she conceived an Idea. It 1b
nothing more nor less than an under-
bed wardrobe and an underbed hat
box made in the form of a long flat
box mounted on four wooden wheels.
The wardrobe holds several dresses
that can be packed away full length
without crushing. It is easily stowed
away, and being fitted with brass han-
dles at the sides and front, it is quite
simply wheeled from under the bed
when wanted. The hat box is made
on the same principle, only it has Iron
rollers Instead of wheels. One of her
hats has very high trimming and that
reposes in the top of her wardrobe.
Both these underbed wardrobes are
stained mahogany to match the furni-
ture.
A Reasonable Request.
“Sit down!” exclaimed the man of
few inches.
The man of many took no notice.
“Sit down!” repeated the little man
again. “I can’t see anything!”
But still the giant paid no heed, and
the little man could only hear the
tantalizing sounds of feet and car-
riage wheels as the procession passed
along.
“Will—you—sit—down?” he cried,
for the third time. *Tve paid two
guineas for this seat and you’re blot-
ting every blessed thing from view!”
Again no response.
“Well, if you won’t sit down,”
roared the little man, thumping the
giant on his massive back, “will you
at least oblige me by tying your ears
back?”
been tied to the head board by the
’longshoremen; we had nothing to do
with the loading. We put the buckets
in the corn trough along in front of
them, then poured water in the buck-
ets as they were emptied.
It all sounds very well but each;
steer wanted to drink from a bucket!
of his neighbor. They fought and'
jerked and pulled and upset the buck-
ets, but we must make them drink of;
they would die. So, with water splash-
ing on us and running down our shoe
tops, we would pat them kindly on
the nose and say nice words. Three
steers often would not drink when
offered three buckets, but if two
buckets were taken away all three
would fight to drink from the same
one.
Feeding the Brutes.
The next course was hay. It was
stored near the first hatch in large
bales, averaging about 200 pounds
apiece. Some one forgot t<? put a hay
hook on the boat, so we had to roll
the bales with out finger nails. It
was the early morning duty of each
man to roll a certain number down the
alley, and that was fine exercise be-
fore breakfast. Then we cut the
wires, shook the hay with care, remov-
ing all lumps, and fed it to the brutes.
Our morning work generally was
finished at 11 o’clock and the work in*
the afternoon lasted from 2 to about
5:30. The afternoon menu was an-
other round of more buckets and more
hay. We swept alleys again in the
afternoon. Our brooms were very
artistic, being a bundle of twigs tied
together and a stick jammed into one
end of the bundle. I don’t know how
rich the Inventor has become who-
first thought of that method of water-
ing cattle and sweeping alleys.
The English Seamen.
• We didn’t understand the English:
seamen very well at first—their
speech or manners. But when we be-
came acquainted we liked some of
them better and a few of them be-
came good friends of the cattlemen.
Most of them are down there working:
a month for £4 and a large part of
it goes for drink when they get back
to Liverpool. They are good conver-
sationalists and we were surprised t©
find their vocabulary much more de-
veloped than that of the average
American laborer.
The last three days of the trip most
of the seamen had a paint bucket or
can and was daubing everything in
sight. Brushes were few, but some
used rags and others seemed to paint
with their hands.' We learned that
the reason it was put on in such large
quantities and so carelessly was that
each ship had to use a certain amount
of paint on each trip and show the
empty buckets to prove that it had
been used. I believe that.
The first sight of the lights off the
Irish coast looked pretty good to us.
All that day we could see either Ire-
land or England. In the afternoon
the ship kept pretty close to the
Welsh shore. The coast is high and
rocky and in the sunset it was a
beautiful dull reddish color. The hills
beyond were green and divided by the
old stone fences into small irregular
farms. The stone houses, most of
them white, were scattered here and
there along the fertile valleys. Our
pilot came on at Lynas Point at 5:30
in the evening and had full charge of
things till he reached Liverpool. The
cattle could smell land, so the seamen
said, and were restless the last night
and we slept but little. We turned
down the broad Mersey shortly after
midnight That was Saturday morn-
ing and -we reached Birkenhead, on
the west bank, in a short time. Her©
we landed our 400 cattle, all in ex-
cellent health and we shed no tear©
at seeing them depart. Each of us
carried some cargo down the gang-
plank and set foot for the first time
on English soil.
We bought English bicycles and
spent two months on the perfect roads
of England and the continent
The cattleman has his joys and sor-
rows but the latter are very soon for-
gotten and one finds himself planning
to go again—even as a cattleman.
Know Your Work and Do It.
There Is perennial nobleness and
even sacredness in work; were h©
never so benighted, forgetful of his
high calling, there is always hope
in a man that actually and earnestly
works; in idleness alone is there per-
petual despair. Work, never so mam-
monish, mean, Is in communication
with nature; the real desire to get
work done will itself lead one more
and more to truth, to nature’s ap-
pointments and regulations—which
are truth. The latest gospel in this
world is: Know thy work and do It.
Know thyself—long enough has that
poor self of thine tormented thee;
thou wilt never get to know it, I be-
lieve. Think it not thy business, this
of knowing thyself; thou art an un-
knowable individual; know what thou
canst work at, and work at it like
Hercules! That will be thy better
plan.—Thomas Carlyle.
There is at least one country in the
world where it costs nothing to die.
In some of the cantons of Switzerland
all the dead, rich as well as poor, are
buried at the public ^spense.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3000, Ed. 1 Monday, August 7, 1911, newspaper, August 7, 1911; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth910541/m1/2/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.