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RUSM MOOR Cr.R.WtLUfsMS <-“l o isz*. by semnci me. J Digging Under Great City i New York.—Ask the average New I Worker to name the greatest engi neering feat in history and prob ably he’ll still answer, "The Panama Canal"—unaware that the most ti tanic and difficult construction job ever attempted is going on under his own feet. The 70-mile rente of the city’s new subway system, now half com pleted, is being bored under sky scrapers, busy streets and rivers with little more disturbance on the surface than would be occasioned by an ordinary paving job. Pedes trians and the traffic move as usual on temporary wooden pave ments above, hardly realizing that anything is happening. But the subway, costing $700,000,000, twice the price of the Panama Canal, in volves 1,000 of the most delicate problems ever approached by engi neers, points out Erijest K. Lindley, writing in the August issue of the Review of Review’s. The new subway, which will bring the total length of the city’s underground passenger railways to 140 miles, was begun in 1925. More than 12,000 men working day and night are engaged in rushing the work to a completion which is ex pected in 1931 although part of the route will be in operation before that time. Three tunnels underneath East river, to conrect Manhattan with Brooklyn and the Borough of Queens, represent the simplest problems of the vast undertaking. The really delicate jobs consist of propping up some of the world’s largest buildings, underpinning the existing subway lines under which the new route will pass and blast ing and boring through ground which is criss-crossed with water mains, electric light and telephone cables without disturbing these services for as much as an hour. At one point the tunnel has been bored 160 feet below the surface. At another in the financial district, buildings are so heavy and deeply imbedded that the railway has been narrowed from the ordinary' four tracks to two—one on top of the other! Chinese Railways Stripped of Cars BY HALLETT ABEND Special Correspondence of the New York Times. Peking.—Worse than actual civil warfare, more disastrous to trade and prosperity in North China than battles and military confiscations. Is what is now termed the “theft” of more than half the rolling stock of the four main railways of North China. This “theft,” according to an of ficial statement put out by the new nationalist ministry of communica tions, was committed by the Ankuo chun or northern party when it withdrew to Manchuria and took with it more than 300 locomotives and more than 6.000 freight and pasenger coaches belonging to rail way lines south of the Great Wall. This rolling stock represents a value of $54 000,000. and in loss of revenue to the railways will mean an addition.*’ $25,200,000 annually unles it is recovered. There Is no question about the truth of the assertions that when the late Marshal Chang Tso-lin gave up Peking and started on the retreat to Mukden, which ended in his assassination by a bomb, he stripped the railways in North China of locomotives and cars. The Peking-Hankow system, the Tientsin-Pukow system, the Peking Kalgan-Sulyuan system and the Pe king-Mukden system were practic ally denuded of all engines that would run and of all frpight and passenger cars that could be hauled away, loaded or empty. There w;as, of course, a valid mili tary' and wartime justification for this “theft,” for by crippling the railways south of the Great Wall by taking all usable rolling stock. Chang Tso-lin also vastly slowed down the nationalist pursuit of his retreating armies. But now the old marshal is dead. His son. Marshal Chang Hsueh-li ang. professes to b? willing to make peace with the nationalists. Of course, the faot that he holds this immense number of locomotives and cars idle on side tracks outside Muk den makes his chance of obtaining good terms much better than it would have been if he had no de sired assets to bargain with. But there is morp involved than military and political considerations. The trade and prosperity of North China languish. The people are al ready Impoverished by years of civil war and merciless taxation. Now. with harvest time at hand, they cannot move their products to the ports for export. Indeed, even Dassenzer. traffic is grievously curtailed, and perishable freight valued at tens of millions ol \ BUFFALO, A LION AND A CROCODILE ’ref. Paul Scliebesta, in the Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna. (Trans lated for the Living Age.) A big horned buffalo worked lowly to the bank of the Zambezi river to quench his thirst. From the oppoeite shore he was watched by a long tailed crocodile, who si lently and rapidly swam across the river. No sooner had the buffalo's snout touched th onilgehco snout touched the cooing water than the croccdle snapped and clung firmly to the head of the un dollars Is spoiling in warehouses all over an area as large as that part of the United States east of the Missisippi and north of the Ohio river. AN OLD TALE All down the countryside, dark and debonair. A minstrel went singing. He filled the bright air With something more than melody. Tire quivering notes Were sweet as golden music from wild bird throats. Folk on the countryside and folk in the town— First they stopped to listen; then they followed down. And their good golden pieces, in a shining shower. Filled the minstrel's pockets in less than an hour. On went the minstrel along the countryside, And he met Love traveling with Beauty, his bride; Looking for a roof and a hearth and a bed; Looking for a green place with boughs overspread. Dust on their sandals and wonder in their eyes. On their lips a low song that trem bled to the skies. And all the golden pieces his gold en voice had earned The minstrel poured before them. And, oh! his heart burned. And “Oh,” he said, and hailed them, "now buy a wide shack And feast you all the fools that fare around the world and back.” And on he went, singing across the countryside. And turning pilgrims to the door of Love and his bride. —Barbara Young. TO PROSPECT BY PLANE From the Detroit News. More than 1,000.000 square miles of virgin territory in northern Can ada will be explored by 200 or more prospectors who are to be sent into that territory in aircraft according to an announcement made in New York by Northern Aerial Minerals Exploration. Ltd., of Canada. John E. Hammell. president and managing director of the comoar jl which will operate 17 plane”, equipped with skiis for rough land ing oh snow and ice and pontoons for summer work on the northern lakes, recently went to New York to purchase additional aircraft equip ment. According to Mr. Hammell. the prospectors of the N. A. M. E. will be taken into new areas by fast cab in planes in a few' hours instead of several weeks. They will be kept fortunate beast. The buffalo, bel lowing in pain, spasmodically raided his foamy, bloody mouth which the crocodile's sharp teeth had mangled. Roaring with all the power of a buf falo in pain, near by falo, he awakened a lion in the underbrush near by. The king of beasts surveyed the prize and then, springing with the gigantic strength which only a lion possesses, he landed upon the back of the buf falo, who was killed by the weight and power suddenly thrust upon him. The crocodile, still hanging to the mouth of the buffalo, was killed when thrown against a tree, which was shattered b" the intact. Railway Private Car Probe Reveals Abuse Joy Riders at Expense o$ Railroads Travel Mil lions of Miles BY BASIL MANLY Washington.—Great gloom exists today among railroad presidents and other officials because of the move of the Interstate Commerce commission to abolish the Iree "joy rides" which these same officials, their wives, children, maids and friends have been enjoying for more than a generation in the private cars assigned to them,, by the rail roads with which they are connect ed. Commissioner Prank NcManamy has Just concluded an investigation revealing the gross abuses of the private car privilege by railroad of ficials and their families and has recommended that in future full tariff rates should be charged for the transportation of such private cars off the home lines and that full charges should also be made for furnishing meals and other accom modations to the "joy riders” ir such cars. Figures Astounding The extent of such abuses is shown by the fact that during the years 1923-25 covered by the in vestigation private cars of railroad officials were heuled free over the lines of other railroads a total of 9.930.244 miles. At the minimum published rate of 23 cents a mile this mileage would have cost $2 273, 956. If the full passenger fares had been paid for all persons thus trans ported and full retes paid for meals the amount would have been many times as great. In addition the private cars o? railroad officials traveled 42,176.627 miles cn ‘'home lines.” The inves tigation shows that a larpe Dropor tion \>f this travel of private cars on home lines should alco b= classed as "joy ridine” which should prop erly be paid for by those who enjoy the privilege. Will Hit Resorts The proposed order of the com mission. prohibiMng such abuses and requiring the oayment of the full published tariff in future, will nut a crimp in the patronage of Palm Beach. Newport. Hot Springs, French Lick and the Kentucky derby. In the past, the railroad yards of such resorts have been so filled with the private cars of railroad officials during the height of the season that there was hardly room to handle ordinary freight and passenger traffic. In the last analysis the burden of this abuse of private car privi leges falls on the shinoers and the traveling public. The cost of handling private cars on joy rid°s must be paid out of th^ freight rates and passenger fares collected from the reneral public. In th^ language of the Tnt,erstate Commerce commission, “It is un justly discriminatory and unduly preferential and preiudwial to haul such private cars of other ca-Tiers free, or at less than published tar iff rates.” well supplied with food, tools and explosives, and contact, will be es tablished with skilled engineers and geologists who will be flown to the properties later in large transport planes. The small planes are to be the “prospectors’ taxicabs in the north” and the bieger planes will solve the problem of large transpor tation of men in numbers, supplies in bulk and machinery of consider able capacity. "The days of hardship, starvation and death wb*ch followed the open ing of other famous gold coasts, will be a thing of the past,” says Mr. Hammell. Snarling, though contented, the lion now made a meal of his victims. Negroes from the jungle ate those parts of the buffalo and crocodile which the lion left. This story certainly sounds ficti tious. but it is told as fact by the negroes in Zambezi, who relate it to the traveler today as they did to the first Portuguese explorer, who, when he came to this land 300 years ago, was shewn the tracks of the buffalo and lion on the very spot w'here the fight had taken place. Although the whole story is un doubtedly mythical, it shows the strength of the wild animals who ii&Abit this dark pait of the eartb. Yellow Fever Peril by No Means Ended Contrary to popular belief, yellow fever 1ms not been wiped from the face of the earth. Although It lias been kept out of the United States and Kurupe, It Is still a very great menace. Two tmiln centers of the dis ease exist. One Is in Africa, where Noguchi and two associates died re cently of the disease in the course of their Investigations on it, and the other is In Soul It America. A flaretip from either center is always possible. Just as cholera and plague frequently spread to epidemic proportions from their centers In India. Itecent investigations point to a reservoir of yellow fever in certain monkeys of Africa, and ,KS—SIPT, nnv make. SO for Stic. EHUSCO SALES,- 2222 S W. Sth, Dos Moines, Iowa. Agents war:ted. PARKliR’S HAIR BALSAM Rem o v <‘fl l>an d rn ff ft to pb H ai r Fal 1 lag Reolorei Color and Beauty to Gray and Faded Hair 60e. ami $1.(0 at iTucfrititH. p >. ratcho^nr, N Y. FLORESTON SHAMPOO— Ideal ror nso in connection with l'urker'u Hair Halpam. Makrptha hair soft and fluffy. 60 cent* by mail or at drug gist#. lliscox Chemical Work*, 1’alckogue, N. X. Tiring Post—“Your flower bods nre a par adise, old man.’’ Parker "Garden of Weedin’, I call It." For Galled Korses Hanford’s Balsam of Myrrh AB dealer* art aatboriud it rtiuoa year aoacr tor tW tint bottle it not railed. SIOUX CITY PTG. CO„ NO. 36-1928.