The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1705, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 7, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DAILY LEADER
VERNOR & ABNEY, Pubs.
LAMPASAS,
TEXAJ3
BUILDING OF CITIES.
The conference of national interests
oh the subject of the building of cities,
at. Washington, has taken up a big
subject, says the Buffalo Express.
Just what progress it can make with
an important problem remains to be
seen. We all realize that almost no
cities are built as they should be. Al-
most no cities are built in circum-
stances that will permit them to be
built as they should be. The few ex-
ceptions are cities like Gary, Ind.,
which is built from nothing to a full
grown community at once. Most cities
are merely a matter of growth. They
have small beginnings, and as the
community grows it provides for its
immediate needs as they arise. The
small community canot afford to look
very far ahead. A comparatively few
years at the most is all that can be
considered. So when the community
outgrows the needs for which it pro-
vided a few years before, it has sim-
ply to do the work oyer again on a
little larger scale. If the modern city
could be planned and built at the out-
set on a scale which would probably
provide for its needs many years
ahead, then it would avoid many of
the evils from which the average city
suffers. And it could safeguard its
own rights and have the enjoyment of
many improved conditions which
would be very difficult and very costly
to obtain at the present time.
Amid many complaints that profes
sions are overcrowded and trades
over-supplied with workmen, it is re-
freshing to learn that there are educa-
tional branches badly undermanned—
or underwomaned, says the Los An-
geles Herald. When the new era in
education was begun, with a recogni-
tion of the importance of the gymna-
sium, the playground and the football
field in the education of a “complete
American,” the demand for medical
inspectors and examiners, school
nurses, supervisors and directors of,
physical education, supervisors of in-
struction for playground work and for
instructors in athletics was increased
steadily until now’ it far exceeds the
supply.
The overturning of a motor boat
was the cause of the drowning of four
persons at Coshocton, O. Small power
craft have become so popular that
“landlubbers” are in need of warning
concerning the dangers of fast going
on the water. Motorboats are mere
cockleshells which sink under the
weight of their machinery when they,
capsize; and their lightness makes
them extremely sensitive to sudden
alterations in weights. There should
be air chambers at the bow and stern
to provide buoyancy in emergencies,
after the manner in which metal row-
boats and sailing boats are con-
structed.
Bolivia is said to have assutpetf a
defiant attitude, refusing t* apologize
to Argentina for the rffronts offered
to the latter’s dyVomatic representa-
tive because jr the boundary line de-
cision is Bolivia acting the part of
p spoiled and sulky child, or is it the
prevailing idea down there that the
only arbitration which “goes” is that
in which the finding is on the Bolivian
side?
Extreme summer heat is a ver>
hard thing to bear and entails real
suffering, but the number of deaths
and prostrations from the heat bear a
very small proportion to the total
population. This is a fact which ought
to encourage people to cultivate en
durance, which really lessens the af-
fliction as much as worry and dweV
'ing upon it increases suffering.
A noblewoman of Austria-Hungar>
is looking .for an American husband
of riches. Considering what success
the titled men have made of annexing
American dollars through matrimonial
means, it is no wonder that the worn-
.en are trying to get into the game.
But the" latter has small chance ol
competing with the American girl on
the latter?s own preserves.
France appears to have caught the
warship fever. The cabinet has ap-
proved a program which involves the
expenditure of $600,000,000 in ten
years for naval construction and the
building of twelve big battleships.
That country is thrifty and has money
in abundance, if not “to burn.” But
is aot that a costly proceeding even
tor a nation so well fixedf
TURBINES ROTATED BY RIVER.
Immense Horse-Power of Mississippi
Between St. Paul and Minneap-
olis to Be Harnessed.
The unusual sight may soon be
witnessed of huge turbines rotated by
the water of the Mississippi passing
from the upper to the lower level of a
great lock built originally by the Uni-
ted States government for quite an-
other purpose. The dam is one of tw’O
erected to improve navigation on the
Mississippi just above St. Paul, but
an exhaustive investigation just com-
pleted by a commission of government
engineers, acting with local officers,
city officials of St. Paul and Minneap-
olis, and prominent business men, has
demonstrated that 15,000-horse power
of electrical energy can be developed
there by the expenditure of an addi-
tional $250,000, says Literary Digest.
We quote from a circular sent out by
the Consolidated Publiicty bureau of
St. Paul, which says:
“The government makes the unusual
proposition that it will permit the use
of power at the lock, provided the two
cities or other interests will bear the
additional cost. That the power will
be used is already settled. Whether
it will be used by a private pow’er
company, or qsed jointly by the state
of Minnesota and the two adjacent
cities, is a question which will be de-
termined by a joint commission com-
posed of three men named by Gov.
Johnson and three by each of the two
mayors.
"The government has completed
one lock and dam, and partly complet-
ed the second, or lower of the tw’o.
To develop the power the second dam
must be raised 15 feet, utilizing pi’es-
ent foundations and the -work already
completed. This will provide a 30-
foot dam, raising a large head of wa-
ter and developing enormous power.
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Lower Lock at St. Paul.
The state is already interested and
wishes a part of the power for use at
the state university near the State
Agricultural school, which is one of
the largest in the United States, and
the state fair grounds. The govern-
ment requires 1,000-horse power, and
the two cities of St. Paul and Minne-
apolis have need of the balance.
“The government’s proposition,
while it does not establish a prece-
dent, is unusual and
provement will be
In the northweste
The investigations
power canbe^^e20pe(j exception-
allyJO^rcost. The most important
JlHJblems now to be faced are the di-
vision of the expenses and the divi-
sion of power to be developed as be-
tween the government, state and the
cities. The partnership in power,
while novel, has been proven feasible.
The power plant when built will be
only a short distance from Fort Snel-
ling, an immense military post, ‘and
convenient both to the state institu-
tions and to St. Paul and Minneapolis.
. . . The report of the joint commis-
sion will be made to the board of en-
gineers, after which the project will
be referred to Washington. Legisla-
tion will be required before St. Paul
and Minneapolis will be able to par-
ticipate in the cost.”
Systefh Invented by Indiana Man That
Operates Automatically as Car
Passes Over Switch.
Ever since the trolley lines have
been spreading out through the coun-
try, people have been asking them-
selves why somebody did not invent a
signal system which would not neces-
sitate the stopping of the cars at
switches until the conductor got off
and changed the semaphores or-Lights,
as the case might be. An Indiana
man answered this by designing such
a system, the operation of which is
shown in the illustration. The inven-
a -STOP)
No Stops at Switches.
tion consists of a signal post like the
usual signal post with the signals
operated by means of a lever which
passes under the tracks. A person
wishing to board the car pulls a cord
or wire which swings the semaphore
arm to a horizontal position, if it be
day-time, or lights an electric light,
if it be night. As the car passes over
the switch, after taking the passenger
aboard, the automatic action drops
the semaphore and extinguishes the
light or changes its color.
SMALL ELECTRIC TESTING SET
Directions for Making Contrivance
That is Very Handy in' -
Electrician’s Kit.
A small testing set that will take up
very little space in an electrician’s kit
can be made from two lamp-socket
adapters. The two^adapters are in-
sulated from each other with a fiber
or mica washer and all three parts
held together with a stove bolt. Sol-
der the flexible wire to the shells of
the adapters and cover entirely ove?
with tape, says a writer in Popular
-candle-power
or four-candle-power 110-volt lamps,
you will have the smallest test out-
fit that can be made. The lamps will
burn dimly on 220 voltage. If two in-
sulating washers are used and a third
wire connected between them to the
stove bolt, you will have a 110-volt
test outfit from one lamp. Having the
middle wire a different color will
avoid mistakes.
REMEDY FOR LOOSE SCREWS.
A convenient method of making a
loose screw hold is illustrated here-
with. Take a soft piece of copper
wire and wind it around the threads
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A Remedy for Loose Wood Screws.
of the screw as shown, thus in effect
increasing the diameter of the
threaded part. This will save plug-
ging or using a larger screw.—Scien-
tific American.
The orient is to be invaded by the
wireless telegraph. American engin-
eers will endeavor to establish a chain
of wireless stations from Vladivostok
to Aden.
One Good Thing About It.
“What do you think of it?” asked
the aspiring dramatist after the pro-
ducing manager had read his play.
“There’s one good thing about it. It
it’s ever produced and any fool yells
fire, after the first night, there will
be no crowding at the exits when the
audience tries to get out.”
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
New York city will have a new fire
alarm system costing $100,000.
An electrical ferryboat plies across
the river Rhine.
Nearly a hundred electric automo-
biles for pleasure service are in use
in Hartford, Conn.
A measure has been passed by the
Connecticut legislature providing for
the compulsory extension of telephone
lines.
A 600:foot wireless telegraph tower
in Washington is expected to place
the capital in communication with
the fleet at a distance of 3,000 miles.
New Mexico produced 2,467,937
short tons of coal last year, a de-
crease of a trifle more than six per
cent, from the output of 1907.
Snow slides, blizzards and rock
slides play such havoc with the tele-
graph lines in the Yukon country that
wireless systems will be substituted
where these troubles prevail.
Ab.out 160,000 automobiles are now
in use in the United States, of which
20,000 are electric. About 69,000 of
the total number are owned in New
York state.
(5&T3DDGCm sraaos
NOT SO BAD.
Gwendolyn de Courtenay, the hand-
some society favorite, was nervously
agitated. Even a blind-baggage car
could see that. She passed up and
down in front of the large cheval glass
In her room. Evidently she was great-
ly aggrieved over something. Finally
her high-strung nerves got churned up
to such a pitch that she lost control
over herself and began to clutch and
tear wildly at her hair, pulling it out
in large handfuls.
Your sympathetic nature is aroused
and you cry: “The poor woman is
temporarily insane. Why doesn’t some
one stop her before she does herself
bodily injury? She must be in terri-
ble mental agony to stand the pain of
pulling her hair out by the roots.”
But hist! Be not too lavish with
your sympathy, friend. Up to now
Gwendolyn has only pulled off 14
pounds of puffs, three miles of inter-
locking switches, and a few detach-
able curls. She has some distance to
go yet before she touches the real,
cross-your-heart hair. Gwendolyn is
merely distracted because her maid
cannot get her floating, hirsute equip-
ment on in becoming .array. She is
simply getting ready for a fresh start!
-Puck.
Putting Him Wise.
“Have you a play for next season?”
asked the low comedian.
“No,” answered the manager.
“Well,” continued the 1. c., “I can
put you next to something that will
draw well.”
“What is it?” queried the manager.
“A mustard plaster,” answered the
other, as he made a hurried getaway.
Gettin ’Em Out of the Way.
Penman—A certain society has
made me an offer to buy all of my
poems.
Wright—It must be the Humane so-
ciety.—Yonkers Statesman.
THE SUBURBAN BREAKFAST
Coffee cup and roll in hand
And fifty seconds late.
Father breakfasts on the run
To catch the 7:08.
Nibbling at a soft boiled egg
And hoofing might and main,
Mother breakfasts as she speeds
To cdtch the shoppers’ train.
Carrying his bowl of mush
And double quickening far,
Tommy breakfasts as he hikes
To catch the high school car.
Thus for suburbs It would seem
Though revenues are lax,
No breakfast tables will be found
©n which to lay a tax.
—McLandburgh Wilson, in . New York
Sun.
THE BRUTE.
Mrs. Fixem—I don’t see what you
men find in your club.
Mr. Fixem—-It’s what we don't find.
Ciever Wiilie.
On his baby sister’s head
Willie broke a piece of tile,
Mamma only smiled and said:
“That will hold her for a while.’
AT THE
SEASIDE.
oliVe
Miss Qldglrl—Don’t ^you^think it’s
freat"imprufjnety~to be engaged to
three men at once?
Miss De Flippe—Not if they don’t
know it.
No Use.
Newspapers try to post the world.
And keep it posted—do their best—
And yet some city youth each year
Essays to pick a hornet nest.
Opposing Results.
“There is one paradoxical experi-
ence,” remarked the Home Philoso-
pher, “which nearly every person
has.”
“What is that?” asked the Humble
Comapnion.
“That it strikes no one’s sense of
humor to bit his funny-bone.”
Sounded That Way.
"It beats all how many things a
quarter will buy these days.”
“Took hash for dinner, did you?”
An Apartment House Appetizer.
“One of those miserable rainy nights
last week,” said the Harlemite,
"when I entered the house I was
greeted with a strong odor of fried
onions, and being wet and hungry 1
sniffed with approval.”
"‘My! but those onions smell good,’
I said to the animated piece of bronze
that runs our elevator.
“‘Yessir, they do; several people
have admired those onions already—
even been callin’ up on de phone about
ern.”
Precaution.
"If there Is anything a trust hates
to do,” said Mr. Dustin Stax, “it is to
break a law.”
“I understand,” answered Senator
Sorghum, “that is why you have so
often tried to have the law made to
Buit you in the first place.”
Probably.
"Why do you' suppose Mr. Keith
gave orders that no nlother-in-law
jokes would be permitted in his thea-
ter?’
“Probably his mother-in-law told him
to.”
The Language of Love.
“Has he proposed yet?”
“Not in so many words.”
“That’s no answer. Proposals never
come in words—they consist of
signs, ’hems, haws 'and gurgles.”
Already Fulfilled.
Fortune Teller—I can read thav
there is a be a wreck in your home,
and it will be caused by a blonde
woman.
Patron—Oh, that has already oc-
curred. Our new Swedish maid let:
the dumb waiter fall and broke all the-
dishes.
Unprovoked.
“No one will do you a bad turn, If
you do not first do them a bad turn.”
“Oh, I don’t know; look at my wife’s
first husband.”
“Did he ever do you a bad turn?’*
“He died, didn’t he?”
Angry.
“I’ll never speak to you again!”
“Now that’s a nice way for a wom-
an to talk to her husband, isn’t it?”
“Well, I won’t!”
“Never?”
“Well, not till pay-day, anyhow.”
Protected Them.
“He loved his fellow man.”
“How do you know?”
“He refused to insure his life, thus
making it impossible for his wife to
marry again.”
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Soothing.
“I think my wife has mesmeric,
power?. Whenever I am unable to
sleep I get her to run her fingers
through my hair, and she never falls
to make me feel drowsy In a little
while.”
“My wife can put me to sleep in
easier way than that. I just permit!
her to go on talking and she soon;
gets so deeply interested in her sub-
ject that she doesn’t exepect me to
answer.”
The Latest.
Sandy Pikes—Yes, mum, I used to:
be de star wire walker in de days
of Barnum. Couldn’t you loan me a
quarter to join de show in de next
town ?
Housewife (suspiciously)—Where is
your wire?
Sandy Pikes—Don’t carry it any
more, mum. I’m a wireless walkbr
now.
By Inference.
Bridge Teacher—Now, if your pirt-
-ner is dealer and has a dreadful hand,
what'Will she make it?
Mrs. Baker:—No trumps.
Bridge Teacher—Why, you don’t
know anything about bridge!
Mrs. Baker—Possibly not; but I
know all about my partner.-—Harper’s
Bazar.
Adapting Proverbs.
He (dogniantically)—Straws show
which way the wind blows.
She (significantly) — Well, some-
times, in a treating party, they show
somebody is raising the wind’.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1705, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 7, 1909, newspaper, September 7, 1909; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth910959/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.