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y It A f Vp UNDER TH t vr El Hi l NOTED IN TWO FIELDS S Weir Mitchell Author and Physi cian and His Ideas A new story by Dr Weir Mitchell entitled The Red City has just be gun running as a serial in the Century Magazine It is a romance of the sec ond administration of President Wash ington and the first installments de scribe the experiences in America of a joung Frenchman who flees hither af t r the murder of his father during the French revolution by a Jacobin mob f v wSfr V i SV s oir3K2K f j Qv waifs vAjfiBBMF 1 f DR S WEIR MITCHEIiIi Dr Mitchell was born seventy eight years ago on the loth of February hut Is by no means past his usefulness One of the things he has done in his old ago is to furnish aid and encour agement to the new movement com bining medical science and Christian lalth In the treatment of bodily Ills Indeed at Emmanuel Episcopal church Boston where it originated the rector n few Sundays ago made an address In which he credited Dr Mitchell with being the inspiration of the move dent The venerable author was Bit -- wwr vwgrwytftfii SONBI VKIF ww s TzJm mm em of travel under the Hud son river has come at last It means mich to the country at large as wet as Now York city and Its environs Manhattan Is land Is now joined by underground railways with Long Island on the east and the New Jersey shore on the west Distance is annihilated Electric trains can whiz through the tuhes laid under the waters over which great steam ships ply and whether the waves run high and the storms rage or fogs en danger navigation it Is all the same to the tunnel traveler One hundred feet beneath the surface of the rushing wa ters the elements can no longer Inter fere with the schedules or transporta tion Recognizing the general puhlic inter est that would he taken in the opening of the twin tuhes from Hoboken to New York on Feb 23 the officials of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad company decided to invite President Roosevelt to press the electric button which should furnish the impulse for the starting of the first trains and they planned by way of further signal izing the event a dramatic meeting be tween the governors of New York and New Jersey under the bed of the no ble Hudson and midway between the opposite shores Thus the honor of offi cially declaring the tunnel open fell to these two executives Charles E Hughes representing the Empire State and Franklin Fort representing New Jersey The so called McAdoo tunnels pierce the earth beneath the North river to the south of the tunnels which are be ing bored by the Pennsylvania rail road The part of the McAdoo route now complete consists of a twin tube tunnel extending from Hoboken to Sixth avenue and Nineteenth street 2Cew York a distance of nearly three miles This section of the tunnel sys tem is generally spoken of as the Mor ton street or uptown tubes The down town tubes run from Jersey City to the great terminal station at Cortland and Fulton streets Manhattan bor ough The south or downtown tubes will be completed some time during the coming summer On the New Jer sey side between the terminal at Ho boken and that at Jersey City a trans verse tunnel has been constructed It taps all the trunk and local transpor tation lines on the Jersey shore and serves as a feeder to the underriver tubes Passengers on any of the roads whose stations on the Jersey shore are In proximity to the transverse tunnel may reach New York by the under ground route now in readiness At present they can only go to uptown New York by the McAjfloo system but six months or so hence they will be able to travel under the river to the downtown section also Besides the routes described the McAdoo system of railways underground and under river includes a branch running from Jersey City to Newark and a spur running from Sixth avenue New York under Ninth street to Astor place con necting with the Interborough com panys subway at that station The Newark branch is partly underground and partly above the surface The en tire system embraces about eighteen miles of underriver and underground railways Five minutes is all the time necessary for the trip under the Hud sou and the trip from Hoboken to the station at Sixth avenue and Nineteenth street In the heart of upper Manhat tan may be made In less than ten min utes In equipping the new road under the Hudson with facilities for transporta tion the latest devices for comfort con venience and safety have been em ployed The cars are of steel abso lutely fireproof and both tunnel and cars are brilliantly lighted The sta tions are built of concrete and metal so as to preclude the possibility of fire in their case also congestion and crowd ing have been avoided as far as possi ble by providing the cars with en trances both at the ends and In the middle and by arranging the platforms at stations so that passengers enter on one side of the car and leave at the other In the tubes under the river the atmosphere will be preserved fresh and cool by the system of ventilation adopt- ENTRANCE TO TUNXEIi FROM NEW XOBK SIDE ed Each train as it proceeds acts as a piston forcing the air ahead of it and drawing it more as it moves on Appa ratus for artificial ventilation has been installed for use in emergencies like the blowing out of a fuse to clear the tunnel quickly of smoke At the downtown terminus of the tunnel a great structure known as the nudson Terminal building is almost completed and beneath it trains com ing into lower New York from Jersey City will discharge their passengers There are two sections of the building Dey street running between them and together they comprise what is said to be the largeftt office building in the world with thirty nine fast running elevators all sorts of conveniences for the public and offices providing room for 10000 people a small city in itself Looking into the tunnel now open to uptown New York one sees extending out under the river from the vaulted archways of the station itself two bril liantly lighted tubes dwindling as they vanish in perspective until they resem ble most the points of polished nee dles Though the effect is subterra nean it is not unpleasant and an im pression of mystery is given which may well be inspired by the sight of a completed work of engineering which has involved an expenditure of 70 000000 and the employment of capital and brains on a scale never before wit nessed in the execution of such an en terprise ting at the time in one of the pews of this church the clearing house for sorrows as thpy call it in Boston The rector Rev Dr Elwood Worces ter acknowledged that he had ob tained from Dr Mitchell many of the ideas which he and his associate have put in practice in Boston and which have now extended to other cities for besides being a noted author Dr Mitchell is eminent as a physician and especially as a neurologist Though an authority on how to treat other peoples nervous troubles his own nerves once got the best of him He was in Austria at the time and he consulted the most eminent nerve spe cialist in Vienna The foreign physi cian noted that he was an American and asked from what city he came Learning that Dr Mitchell lived In Philadelphia he exclaimed You come to Vienna to be cured of a nerve trouble when you live in nhin Why not asked the physician-author Because was the reply you have in Philadelphia the greatest and most famous nerve specialist In the world Dr S Weir Mitchell His Description In the English club at Hongkong a white haired old gentleman who had come down from some northern port was seated at dinner when he sudden ly became very excited He had been brought a letter by a solemn faced Chinese butler and he saw something on the outside of this letter which sent him downstairs two steps at a time to interview the hall porter When he came back he told us what was the matter The hall porter had inscribed on the envelope In Chinese for the in formation of the butler This is for the old baboon with white fur Unfortunately for the hall porter the old gentleman was a first class scholar In the Chinese language London Mail SIRDS AS THEY SLEEP Quail Form a Dense Circlo With All Heads Facing Out The nightcap preparations of tho chubby little quail are very Interesting Each evening the covey forms in a new place and this selection of the spot entails serious efforts Dobwhlte nev er quite loses remembrance of the many dangers which make his life in a wild state one great fear A white throated male with soft clucks calls together a dozen of his comrades and for a few minutes they all huddle to gether but soon from the farther end of the aviary a clear Whew bobwhlte rings out and off scurry the whole band this time perhaps to settle for the night In the new place a dense circle of little forms heads all facing out just as in their native stubble the rest facing in every direction so that at the first hint of danger from any point of the compass the covey may explode and go booming off In safety Poor little fellows their wild life is strenuous Indeed Well for their race that every nest holds from ten to eight een eggs instead of three or four The woodpeckers sleep resting upon their tails even the flickers invariably following this custom although during the day the flickers spend much of their time perching in passerine man ner crosswise upon a twig Small birds such as thrushes and warblers sleep usually upon some small twig with heads tucked behind wings in orthodox bird fashion but they ci sionally vary this in a reinarkabV ay by clinging all night to the voical wires of their cages sleeping apparent ly as soundly in this as in the usual position of rest A bluebird in a small cage slept thus about one or two nights out of each week Any explanation of this voluntary and widespread habit among perching birds would be difficult to suggest The little hanging parrakeets derive their name from their custom of sleep ing always in a reversed position and when distributed over their roosting tree they resemble some strange pend ant green fruit rather than sleeping birds Outing Magazine THE BLUE JAY Why Should He Be Selected as Eand Bearer to Satan It is said and believed by many that all the blue jays disappear every Fri day and not one can be seen nntil the next day and this disappearance is ac counted for by the statement that the birds are under a compact with Satan and that they devote each Friday to delivering him a supply of sand to heat his caldron at the point of tor ture But why should the blue jay he select ed as sand bearer to Satan when there are so many birds of stronger and fleeter wing There are many super stitions that have a reasoning basis but this particular one has nothing whatever to go on The origin of it lies in the fact that the blue jay is a most particular home builder He knows how to build his house and he takes a great pride in it no doesnt hang his nest to a limb nor glue it to a tree Instead he selects a substantial fork or crotch of a limb lays down a few twigs of goodly size and strength and on thee he superimposes a strong foundation of clay with layers of pa pers between and when his nest is fin ished it is as substantial in proportion as one of our modern steel structures Thus fitted and finished it is admi rably adapted to the rearing of a strong and healthy brood and the blue jay goes about his business with the earnest energy that characterizes all his movements no raises his young and leads them about from tree to tree and from bush to bush until they have tried and found their wings and then his re sponsibilities being over he proceeds with his career of gayety a veritable practitioner of rough fun and stage humor Uncle Remus Magazine Pounds and Weights Here Is a question that will tax the arithmetical powers of a youth Sup pose that for some reason or another a shopkeeper who sold goods by pounds and half pounds but never in quantities exceeding twenty pounds at a time was told that he must transact all this business with four weights only what must these four weights be The answer is half pound one and a half pound four and a half pound and thirteen and a half pound With these it will be readily seen that any weight from half a pound to twenty pounds may be determined in pounds and half pounds Gateway Magazine Pleasant Anticipation The Rev Dr C M Lamson once president of the American board of for eign missions was called as a pastor over a parish and was undergoing ex amination before a council when the question was asked him Do you be lieve in a hell The retiring clergyman of the parish sat beside him and giving him a nudge said Tell them yes If you dont now you will before you have been here six months Argonaut Just the Other Way Fortune Teller Beware of a short dark woman with a fierce eye She is waiting to give you a check Visitor despairingly No she aint Shes waiting to get one from me Thats my wife Baltimore American Carries Weight Pa said Freddy what is a social scale Generally speaking replied pa Its a place where they weigh money Bohemian Magazine Advising is easier than helping Rochefoucauld THE GENTLE ALLIGATOR Getting Him Out Into the Open For the Camera Man I have seen a barefoot boy when tho alligator refused to respond to his call wade in the mud to his waist explore with his iocs till he felt the wiggle of the gato beneath them then worry him to the surface grab him by tho nose before he could open his jaws and tow tho creature ashore to he photo graphed When an alligator that we were hunting crawled Into his cave 1 held a noosed rope over his mouth while the boy poked a stick through the mud until It hit the creature In his hiding place and soon I had him snared ready to be dragged out on the prairie and tied to be kept till the camera man was ready for him then we turned the reptile loose on a bit of prairie and the boy and I armed with sticks headed him off when he tried to escape while the camera man with his head in the hood of his Instrument fol lowed the creature about seeking for evidence in the case of reason versus instinct When the camera man was through with him the alligator was set free a final shot being taken at him as he walked off Our hunter boys could never be made to comprehend our rea sons for restoring to the creatures their freedom They understood the photo graphing but when this was done why not collect a dollar for the reptiles hide Their manner implied that to this question no sane answer was pos sible A W Dimock in Harpers Mag azine ECONOMY IN ITALY The Roman Season the Only Time When Real Luxury Is the Rule During the greater part of the year we have only the servants that are necessary my husbands valet one but ler the porter who stands at the en trance to the palace and a general utility country boy who in the after noon puts on a livery and acts as foot man The women servants are a cook a scullery maid a laundress and two maids besides my own personal one This list is not as extravagant as the same would be in America Wages are nothing by comparison One can get a good ladys maid for 10 a month a competent butler for 10 a cook for 10 n chambermaid for G Their fare would seem coarse to the spoiled servant of America consisting as it does chiefly of bread soup mac aroni and fruit with tea and coffee of an inferior grade and fresh meat once a week We spend nothing that we can possibly help nntil the Roman sea son Then we have enough surplus to get an additional number of maids and a long row of footmen these for tho most part young women and men from the village of our own estate and both in our country villa and in our Roman palace we open all the rooms that for eight months have been closed and for four months live in luxury An Expatriate in Everybodys Maga zine The Angler Fish A singular superstition about the angler fish is entertained in some parts of Sweden Bohuslan according to Malm and Smitt It is so feared by many that the tackle is cut as soon as the monster reaches the surface and its captor hurries home in order to get there if possible before the misfor tune portouded by the monster over takes him The extreme of misfor tunedeathis believed by some to be indicated Nilsson telis that the Swed ish fishermen on the banks believe that on board the vessel ou which an angler is taken some one is doomed to die soon They therefore never or hardly ever take the angler on board but prefer to cut the line and thus lose tho hook with the fish An anemometrical faculty is attrib uted to the angler in Massachusetts According to Storer among the fisher men in some parts of the bay there is a common saying When you take a goosefish look out for an easterly storm A Human Foot Warmer It is interesting to learn that Julius Caesar found our Celtic ancestors just suffocating themselves with smoke Giraldus the early Welsh historian describes a family as sitting round their smoky central fire by day and lying round it by night But they could have had little comfort from it for the same historian tells us that one of their princes eked out his fire with a human foot warmer This officers duty was to keep his masters feet warm by cherishing them in his bosom during meals For this purpose he squatted under the table and no doubt it did him proud so to nurse the roy al moccasins T Ps London Weekly Why He Was Angry You made a mistake in your paper said an indignant man entering the ed itorial sanctum of a daily journal I was one of the competitors at an ath letic entertainment last night and you referred to me as the well known lightweight champion Well are you not inquired the sporting editor No Im nothing of the kind was the angry response and its confound edly awkward because Im a coal dealer Philadelphia Ledger Thought He Was Going to Shave The new rubber iu the Turkish bath had formerly been a barber Thus it was when his first patron came in that the new rubber looked him over and said pityingly Wash yourself sometimes dont you Louis ville Courier Journal Spare minutes are the gold dust of time the portions of life most fruitful In good or evil the gaps through which temptations enter Mrs Thrall n s - Real Estate Filings Tho following ronl estnto tilings hnvo been mndo iu tho county clorks office since our Inst roport Hermann Schloosser sing to Joseph Kircher wd to so qr 28-1-28 5000 00 Amos B Bower and wife to Oli ver T McContiOlI wd to b hf no qr n hf so qr 18 5 30 T000 00 United States to Eawnrd Brndy pnt to no qr 30 2 29 John F Connor to ilattio Macoy b of a of live stock 137 and othor personal property 1 00 C L DeGroff Co to tho public articles of incorporation Edward Brndy and wife to Ilormnn Thole wd to no qr 30 229 1500 00 Rebecca Lytlo ot al to Ira E and John R Noel wd to so qr 31-4-29 3300 00 Maud Lytlo unmd to Ira E and John R Neol wd to so qr 31-4-29 300 00 ES Hill and wife to William II Galloway wd to lots 1314 151G blk 24 Indianoln 500 00 Anna Murphy wid to Nols J Johnson wd tolotslolG blk 3 McCook 10 00 Charles Carter to Walter E Corwin qcd to n hf nw qr 17 2 29 1 00 Anna Knuth et al to Wnltor E Corwin qcd to n hf nw qr 17-2-29 1 00 William Knuth to Walter E Corwin qcd to n hf nw qr 17-2-29 1 00 John Hayes ofc al to Wnltor E Corwin qcd to n hf nw qr 17-2-29 1 00 Timothy Ilannan and wife to Walter E Corwin qcd to n hf nw qr 17-2-29 02 50 Albert L Ilaseloh and wife to Ira and Emma M Bengtson wd tone qr 32-4-27 4000 00 Mrs E F Couse to Edgar F Couse wd to w hf 11-3-29 1 00 Calvin C Smith sing to Robert S Justice wd to sw qr33 1 29 2500 00 Georgia M Storbuuk to Justus G Ricboy ot al qcd to sw qr 02 30 J L Sargont and wifo to Will iam A Roynolds wd to hf int w hf w hf 9-4-28- Neddy II Fox and wifo to C 11 Boyle wd to nw qr nw qr 21 329 Patrick Walsh to tho Masonic Tomplo Craft wd to lot 2 blk 10 McCook Walter E Corwin and wifo to A G Butrp wd to n hf nw qr 17 129 Samuel R Jolly and wifo to J P Kinne wd to so qr nw qr United Stntes to John R Brown pat to so qr 27-2-27 United Statos to 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