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unday Bee. PART SEVIN JOBBING PAGE3 1 TO 8. FOR ALL THE NEWS OMAHA BEE YOUR MONEY'S WORTH VOL. XXXVIII NO. 42. OMAHA, SUNDAY MOKNINC, A Till L 4, 190U. SIXOLK COPY FIVH CEN'TS. C. W. Hull Company's New South Twenty-Fourth Street Warehouses ( k 4. Fhe Omaha I U iii i i 1 1 i wmii..ij . . 1 'H t. '" i '1 1 ' 1 ' . 11 . " ' ji-y ,j , a jtUrr i iil ; ,,.,r.ii..i.1.M.il: v rJ ... I r frci, - :w .. t . jj -". 's i coal ' - ""-v. . J.V.. IS- . tfi;f ! LS i ' . . ..l, I . , NORTH AND MAST UT on South Twenty-fourth Outrect, one block north of Vin ton, there la neartng comple tion a mammoth toal and building material warehouse built of steel and concrete, which la the em bodiment of rconomy and puts the coal and material business on a much higher plane. It has excited the curiosity of the curious, been viewed wlh admiration by the many advocates of substantial construction and declared a success by those who realize Its possibilities as a time and labor-saver. This warehouse is bring built on a fifleen-acre trait on the dividing line between Omaha find South Omaha, from which thousand of consumers of coal and building; material In both cities can 1m- qt'icMy supplied. The idea wks c uo'i.cd by Mr. C. W. Hull, the owner. The preliminary plans vere lalj by hlni and were worked out with thu assistance of one of Omaha'B leading architects. It will ioon be completed and occu pied, by the C. W. Hull Company, of wlkh Mr. Hull Is president and gen eral manager. The company has been In business In Omaha eighteen years and is now the largest, most iflfogres slve wholesale and retail dealer in coal and building " Material went-of Chicago. The company has five men constantly soliciting business in the cities of Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs and covers regularly with a strong force of traveling salcs- BY CON S T AN T IN 0 PLE' S W ALLS Imperial City that is Begirt with Ruin, Filth and Decay. SCORN OF EUROPEAN'S RAMPANT Ilovela About Gatea Throh Which Emperor and Trad of the Eaat Oner Paaard and a Gllmpae at the Market Garden. CONSTANTINOPLE, Mch. 13 If one had nut already realized that the Turk la a dearendant of warrior and devaatatora, inherltinf their dislike and Incapacity for peaceful occupation, a walk around the walla of the capital today would soon demonstrate it, for here on all aldea are ruin, decay, neglect, filth and Inconceivable liabUatl'in. la than a year a to aueh a trip waa dnnKcrous, If not Impoxalble, owing to the Moslem's tutemie acorn and hatred of Kuropeuna. The declaration of the con stitution lias made friends, to all outward appraram-ea, of Turk. Jew and Chrlatlan, and every one la free to do as be pleaaea; but aa each man now carrlea a revolver for "aelf-defence" you carry one too, for you are likely to be held up by aome of the loafera who Infest the nelehborhood. The aca walla have been pulled down to make room for wharves and houses, and the land walla have Buffered almost as much from the heada of their conquerors aa from earthquakca and tUne. They con aist of a double line of magnificent walls and torracea. flanked by nearly M towers, , xtcndlnc from Seven Towers (Yedl Route h) on the Marmora to Eyoah 'on the Golden Horn. Daring the time of Theodosius the Great, between 413 and 447. they were partially destroyed by earthnuake, but In leas than two montha the people rebuilt them, with lr.Uitaiy gatea leading to the terracea and public gates leading to the city. - After the conquest by tho Turks It waa rumored that the city would tie recaptured through one of these gaius, which waa ao strong that It had never been taken by an enemy; ao In ord;r to s.ie the city from being re captured by this entrance the aiiperatltlous Turks in a panic set to work and tore the gateway down. Scene f Old-Time Glory. Trobably'no other city la the world possesses such picturesque military rulna us those grand old towers and walls, about whoe base have encamped the armies of surrounding . nations. Arabs, Peralana, tiolhs, Turks, Unitarians and (ireeka have fougtit to possess the Queen I'lty of the east. As oil notes the decay and neglect that now prevail on all aldea It Is almost Im possible to believe that through these gates caravans have passed bearing the wealUi of tw continents: "Mrchandis of gold and Ulver and preti ma stones, ana oi pearls and fine liuen and purple and silk and fccarlot, and all manner of vessels of Ivory, of most precious wood, and of brass aul Iron, and marble and cinnamon, and odours said ointments, and frankincense and wine and oil, and fine flour, aud wtieat, and beasts aid sheep and horses and chariots ,ot a trace of former wealth, VIEW OF C. W. HULL WAKEHOl'SK. Recent Views of Up-to-Date Reinforced Steel-Concrete Buildings for the Storage of Coal and Building Materials Located at Twenty-Fourth and Spring Streets, and is Equipped with Automatic Unloading, Loading and Screening Arrangement men the states of Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and South Dakota. The steadily increasing business of the firm has made the building of ad ditional and larger quarters a mod ern warehouse a matter of necessity, and It waa thought that whatever It did should be done on a large scale with a view to permanency; something in which to store a season's supply of Portland cement and other perishable building materials and thousands of tons of coal. ,The immense structure now nearlng completion will fill a long felt want and reduce the cost of han dling very materially. It has a total floor-space of S 1,500 square feet. The main building, which will be used for the storage of coal and bulk building materials, Is 350 feet long by 60, feet wide, and is magnificence or prosperity remains to be seen, except In the treasury of the sultan, where vast and untold riches are still stored. The Turk appears to be centuries behind all civilized peoples. For the use of the huge capital there is but one railway line connecting it with the west, and this skirts the Marmora between the remains of the sea walla and the Turkish quarter of the city, until It reaches Seven Towers, where the land walls start. On the sea. side the line Is fringed with low hovels, whose tin patched sides have long been covered with rust; bevond them, dividing Europe from Asiatic shores, lies the MaTmora. Cruy Crannies Fall of Life. On the land aide, covering hills and val leys, ia a bewildering mass of crasy looking, weather-beaten dwellings, one or two stories In height. Straggling hither and thither like groups of centenarians or in ebriates, each house feebly props up its neighbor, which appears Ss if about to collapse from sheer Inability to stand alone. Here aud there a new house Is seon; It stands for the moment yellow, crude and aggressive beside the tumble-down wooden structures that surround It, and one won ders how soon It, too, will Join the totter ing throng. Then at the back of the town, like crowns resting upon the summit of the seven hills on which the city la built, are gigantic mosques, while the domes of thousands of smaller ones rise up from the city below, their Innumerable minarets pointing like warning fingers towaid th heaveus. Narrow, winding streets, dirty and ill kept, lead to the Seven Towers, an old Turkish fortress, at one time the F;yzan tlns citadel, which is rented by the gov ernment, with the adjoining moat, to a market gardener who adds to the small Income derived from tho sale of his vege tables by charging 0 piastres ( Jt) cents) for a sight of his property. If you stand tor a moment oulaltiH the main gateway you are immediately accosted by a clean feat ured, red fezzed tiijeek in European ciothea probably tha old gardener's sou who Invites you to come Inside. alsplorlan the Labyrinths. There are: "The golden gate, the prison of the ambassadors, tha carvings and the dungeous only 6 piastres, monsieur," ho adds eagerly as you uesltate, and while you are hunting for the necessary coin the youngster disappears, returning almost im mediately with a lighted lautcra of con siderable ago. lie cscorta you across the courtyard in the center of which Is a solitary minaret all that remains of the liltlo mosque where the Turkish generals once attended prayers ami pushing o)n a door In one of the old towera he holds the lantern low for you to find the steps of a winding marble stairway. l p and up you ascend an interminable number of steps, feeling your way cau tl usly, umll a welcome shaft of daylight j reaches you from the doorless exit on the summit of the walls. And here, upon the broad grass gron road that leads from tower to tower is a view of land and sea, of mountains and valk-ya and fertile plains, the owner of which should be the proudest and happiest of monarchs Instead of the most mistral'le and haunted of human beings. Away to the aoutli, lying at the foot of Seven Towers, is tiie Marmora alth divided into thirty gravity storage bins, each with a capacity of 3 50 tons, or a total maximum capacity of some thing over 10,000 tons. These bins have sloping bottoms converging to the arch of a tunnel, which in many respects resembles the New York Sub way; and the driveway through it is sufficiently wide to permit two teams with heavily loaded wagons, to pass, with plenty of room on either - side. Specially designod adjustable loading chutes project from each of the grav ity bins into the tunnel at a proper height for the loading of wagons and are so arranged-that all coal passes over a screen through which the slack falls Into special bins. These screens are so arranged that they may be re moved and others with larger or smaller meshes inserted, which will Its many ships passing to and fro con tinually and Its Islands, on one of which the robber viziers of the old regime are isolated; beyond this is the Asiatic shorn with Its gigantic snowcapped mountains dwarfing into Insignificance tha towns and villages that creep along the water's edge. To the north lies the great capital with Us suburbs, the heights upon the Bosporous, tho long line of an cient walls upon whose broad terraces one can aim walk for a considerable distance, and outside these the countryside with Its fringe of cemeteries and Its undulating fertile plains waiting- to be cultivated. While you are 'lost In admiration of this wonderful spot full of such marvellous possibilities yet so grossly neglected your guide calls your attention to several large, ugly buildings near tha main en trance to the fortress. They are the hospitals, lunatic asylums and orphan schools belonging to the Greeks, he telle you with great pride, but If you will de aceiid he will show you the prison and dungeon In which ambassadors, sultans and many other people were confined. 1'rlson of the Ambassador. Stooping in order not to knock your head against the top of low marble gateway you follow the youth with his lantern Into an unlit passage, down which It is only possible for one person to walk at a time, and after turning abruptly twice you enter a high, vaulted chamber. This was originally divided Into two compart ments, one having two openlnga In tha roof, the other totally obscure; and In the former of these It waa customary for the Turks to Imprison the unfortu nate ambassador of a country which was at war with them. ' But in the other dungeon none can say what horrible tragedies have been enacted; you only know that the mysterious hole Into whose depths you peer In the dim light is the road many poor, tortured eouls have taken to eternity-falling down, down, down, a hundred feet, until the bodies were lost In. the underwashlng sea of Marmora, With a feeling of depression you return once more to the daylight, and opposite you. somewhat appropriately stands the Golden Gate the triumphal arch through which victorious emperors passed on the return from war. The Bycantine eagle still sits upon the marble pillars, but the Turks have sealed up two of the three great archways, marking in tawdry paint the sultan's monogram and the Turkish coat-of-arms underneath the cross carved upon the central arch. Smnagllna; Made rnpo polar. Passing through the gateway of the Seven Towers you find a broad cobblestone road skirting the walls outside the city, which is better than many within its gates. At frequent Intervals along this road arc little red, wooden sheds guard houses erected by the Ottoman regie to prevent the smuggling of contraband tobacco and a too close Inspection of one of these Is apt to bring you a shot In your ribs from the guardian of the law. To your left, fringing the road for miles, are the Turkltm cemeteriea, whose thous ands of mosa-grown and newly placed tnmbetonea stand at dangerous angles upon their pointed base. In one of these ancient graveyards a patch of brilliant color which proves to be a funeral rroceeaton moves slowly forward. There Is the re", a comfortable tnok ling old fellow In long rots and bright ' TTT 7T ' ' : : . . T it Mi J ! ' , . 8 " . ;: , : 1 . .. ' . . . . . ; 1 . . . .- -' .- . . .. , - .v..vj.- v i. -': . '- ' -. fi i 'I' i;.'. ' i. " . ' " i..'.... '.. .: 'v. :.'V!'t!".T''.-.'-::.-.'T-"V.. . ... , ; , ' . OFFICE BUILDING OF C. W. HULL COM PA NT. make it possible to load thoroughly screened coal of the size ordered. The driveway through the tunnel will be paved with Colorado sandstone. The tedons with empty wagons will en ter the tunnel from the west end, load and pull out at the east end up an in clined driveway in the shape of the letter "S" to a double scale at the top, where the weighing will be done by a competent weighmaster. The company's plans contemplate, among the many other decided im provements in the lntei cut of economy, doing away with the once indispensa ble "Shovel brigade.". A standard guage railroad track extends through the building from the west, secured to heavy steel girders eight feet above the top of the tunnel, from which it will be possible to unload In approxi green turban; the corpse, covered with a crimson patterned cloth; several small boys In flannelette Jackets of marvelous de sign, and the group of mourners--men In loose, blue trousers, sleeveless vesta which reveal gaudy colored trhlrts, and scarlet bamds swathed round and round their waists to a width of fourteen Inches. A few feet from the group Is the grave digger, he leisurely pats the ground, giv ing a final touch to the open grave, while across his shoulders Is slung a coat whose quaint mode of reparation reminds one of an old maid's patchwork quilt. Nobody weeps; It Is not the custom of the Turks to lament the will of Allah. On the road Itself, plodding along under heavy baskets of far, produce, are many hnmals human beasta of burden whose travelstained rags and unwashed ap pearance Induce you to give them a wide berth. And when nearlng Top Kapu gate you come In sight of a doubtful look ing encampment containing, as you pre sently discover, the surplus population of the Gipsy quarter within the gate you are Inclined to give this a still wider berth, for were It not that a strong, strange odor of cooking assails your nostrils as you lopk down upon their hovels from the walls you would expect to find yourself In the vicin ity of the recently vacated outhouses of a farm. Women DUflgnred by Disease. Tou are not surprised at the diseases and sores which disfigure many of the women and girls who follow you, dressed in long, baggy trousers, asking for back sheesh aa you hurry your footsteps past the stench that rises from what appears to be the refuse heap of the great city, but neither the Cogs that wallow in the mire, nor the inhabitant of the nearest guardhouse seem to flrxt In It anything unappetizing. In the boneyard near by, w here worn out, useless beasts are slaugh tered, dogs turn over and nose among the filth until they find a stray bone, which thev gluttonously devour. Sickened with these sights and smells you turn around a slight bend and thankr' fully see the little cafes and booths out side tha Adrlanople gate, through which Mohammed the conqueror rode In triumph and through which each auceedlng sultan at his accession to the throne has ridden to the palace after being girded with tho sword of Osman at Kyoub Mosque. But for a while the walls, which are almost perfect here, are forgotten, as on reaching the last hill you come upon a little steep street and see before you, through a nilsl, tha village of Kyoub with the dome and minaret of ita mosque; and beyond these the Goiden Horn threading its way to the sweet waters of Europe, whilo raising lis head out of a gauzy white mantle Is the green hill on the opposite shore. Famoas Gate of Kakoporto. Turning off the road here you enter the city by a little postern gate the famous KXrpirtoe, which lot the city to the Turks during the last airge and pass through a portion of the Greek quarter, where the women lean from their windowa or come to their doors to see a stranger pass. Shoulder to shoulder with the Greek col ony la a group of Turkish houses closed and silent as if only occupied by the dead, and these you pasa In some trepidation, remembering a recent experience In an other Turkish quarter, then hasten your steps as you come suddenly upon several veiled figures at an ancient fountain. : mately five minutes a train of nine thirty-six-foot hopper-bottom cars of coal. The time consumed in loading a wagon In the tunnel beneath will be about two minutes. The south part of the main building, with 10,500 square feet of floor space, will be used for the storage of package materials, cement, lime, plaster and mortar color and will be equipped with gravity carriers and other labor-saving devices. The capacity of this building is 20,000 barrels, which is equivalent to 200 carloads. The yard office building, with Its conrwoditmw- annex for yard employes and drivers, is built of red face brick from the Kansas Gas Belt?, and the ex terior is artistically paneled with a rough coat of cement plaster. The roof is made of red Spanish tiles. which lends Its support to a gigantic old oak in return for its protecting shade In summer. One or two more turns In the narrow, winding streets and you are In the Jewish quarter, where. It being Saturday, the shops are closed, and men, women and children saunter about or stand chatting together In groups, old and young, men and babies, wearing fur lined overcoats of dingy cloth and doubtful age, take no notice as you pass among them to the quay, where a clamor commences among the calqucdJIs (boatmen) directly you put In an appearance. Taking your seat In the nearest caique, the experienced oars man pushes out Into the crowded stream and you are soon lost in amazement at his skill In avoiding accidents. Directed by his strong arm and wat'-hful eye, you cut through the water, only miss ing collision by a hairsbreadth. The idea too of being upset in this stream Is not pleasant, for had you not seen the acres of dlrtheaps outside the walls you would find It difficult to believe that the waters of the Golden Horn did not display the whole of the city's refuse. As if reading your thoughts the placid calquedji smiles reassuringly as he meets your eye. But the next moment your heart is in your mouth. He dexterously dodges with as tunding nerve under the bow of an Incom ing steamer, cuts through the gradually diminishing apace between two others and finally lands you, glowing with nervous excitement, at the quay of Oalata bridge without having received a scratch on the side of his delicate caique. FREDERICK MOORE, LEIGH HUNT PAYS THE BILLS Chief Financier of the African Expe dition a Noted Soldier of Fortune, An Interesting fact In connection with the president's African Journey has Just come to light,, in the discovery of the Individual who Is to foot the bills. This person Is I-Igh Hunt, nominally of Seattle, who spends much of his time In Washington, and in other capitals of the world. He Is something of a captain of Industry, but more of a soldier of fortune. He has had a varied and Interesting career, and has been connected with many vast com mercial, Industrial and patrtotlo enterprlsua. He has been much in the east In the last twenty years, having left Seattle early In the 'DOs, to exploit Important mining con cessions obtained from the emperor of Core.. They were so profitable that Mr. Hunt. In returning to America, went to Se attle, where, having failed In business, he owed lsrge sums of money, and voluntarily puld his creditors in full, with interest. He afterward was Interested In a move ment to Import negroes from America to raise cotton In the Sudan, with the assist ance of Irrigation, and waa there closely allied with Lord Cromer, England'a rep resentative In Africa. ' Thla enterprise was less profitable than the mines, and since then Mr. Hunt has been engaged In varloua more or less suc cessful business ventures. Being a warm personal friend of President Roosevelt and his family, he hss, it is understood, ar ranged a pretentious program of entertain ment for them while the Smithsonian In stitution enterprise is In progress, and which Involves travel by houseboat on the Nile, and other features of interest and pleasure. rrovidence Journal. fat" v "w -r- , ' 8 'V'- - . . . ..-- KOUTH ANIJ 12 A ST VIEW OF C. W. This building, heated by an up-to-date hot water plant, aside from being a combination of convenience and architectural beauty, is an innovation In the line of advertising, showing In a very attractive way the possibilities of this type of construction. To prepare the site for laying of track, foundation of warehouse and office 190,000 cubic yards of earth were moved and approximately 10,000 barrels of Portland cement, 300 cars of crushed stone, 200 cars Band, 200 tons reinforcing steel and 150 tons of structural steel were used In the con struction of the building and re taining walls of the inclined ap proaches. To handle the present business of the company thirty teams are kept busy from 7 o'clock in the morning IIARRIMAN'S HILLTOP HOME Palatial Retreat in the Wilds of Ramapo Mountains. ELECTRIC RAILWAY TO THE DOOR Forty-Five Thousand Acres of Play troasd Scenery and Thlnae Surround the Lonely Castle. If Edward H. Harrlman chooses to stand in the tower of his coutry home at Ardpn, when It Is completed, and look to the southeast, he will see a great expanse of hills and valleys uninterrupted by a habita tion of any kind and he will know that everything within the range of his vision all of those hills and valleys belong to him. "It Is Impossible," said Andrew Carnegie, In those words or others, at the dedication of the new Carnegie institute in Pittsburg In 1907, "for a man to feel that he owns a mountain. He may know, intellectually, that he owns It, but I defy any man to feel a sensation of ownership as he looks at a hill or valley. He simply can't realize r. Harrlman can realize It and feel It, If any man can, as he stands on the roof of his completed home and looka over the Ramapo range aa far as he can see It In New York state. It Is venemently denied In every quarter which has Its Inspiration from Harriman that be Is building a palace in those Ramapa wilds. It la simply a home, they say, and there is to be nothing gaudy, nothing splendid. Doubtless this Is so from Mr. ilarriman'a standpoint, and It leads to a feeling of speculation among ordinary citizens, unblessed or uncursed with wealth, as to what Harrlman would have done It he had tried to be a Prince of Ramapo. Harriman waa the Columbus of Tower Hill. Tower Hill Is one tt the bills c the Ramapo range, and until Harrlman came It waa audi a wilderness and al1 about It was such a wildness, as Fenlmore Cooper might have peopled. Grand aud l.ouel. If you ask the address, it Is Arden. But Arden, a little village nestling in the hills, is r.ot to be seen from Ilarriman'a grand and lonely home. You can stand there and search the horizon and the hilltops and never aee Arden. Neither do you get to Ilarriman'a home by wngon. You take your automobile to the top of the hill and then you get aboard one of the Harrlman railroads and go to his house. , One i'f the Harriman railroads? Cer tainly. The smallest of the Harrlman rail roads operaie.s up and down Tower hill, and it ia not a part of the Harrlman sys tem, cither. The master of one of the great railroad systems of the country operates for his own pleasure and the comfort of his gius:s a little mad with one rsr aa ita rolling stock, and this car runs up and down Tower hill. The motive power now Is stesm, but Mr. Harrlman will shortly change It to electricity. You and your automobile, if you are a guest vt Jiarrl- . . wy r t 111 - - - - JIULt. WAtlKHOt'PK. until 6 In the evening and a conserva tive estimate of the delivery equlp lniiit the operation of tho new yard will require Is thirty-five additional teams and wagons. Plans for a sta ble are now being prepared and It will be sufficiently large to accommodate seventy-five horses. A special feature will be the sanitary arrangement of stalls to Insure cleanliness and lesson the labor necessary to keep them in proper condition.. Here, as elsewhere, the purpose of the company Is to get the best service with the loast amount of work. The main office of the company Is located in the heart of Omaha's retail district and operations at its various yards are directed over private tele phone wires. An intercommunicating system of telephones was installed several years ago, which makes It pos sible to place orders promptly and without interruption. What is true of any large business in this respect applies to the C. W. Hull Company. A capable telephone operator Is em ployed and Is kept busy making con nections, about half of which are en tirely independent of the central office. This is truly the age of advance ment and no concern In Omaha has striven harder to keep abreast of the times than has the C. Y.Holl" Com pany. The thought uppermost In th mind of the management has always been to lead and let others follow; to let others glean where Is has reaped. man's, come down the mountain together on tnat car. Those of you who don't care for locomo tion of that kind can take the winding car riage road which Mr. Harrlman Is building around through tho paths of the moun tain. When Mr. Harrlman came there he found nothing but a silent waste, a wildms He has insured the preservation of that wilderness efrect by securing to himself 45,000 acres of hills and vallovs thereabout. and nobody can Interfere with the solitary grandeur of the place unless the mam.r of Tower hill becomes childish. Blltmore, long famous as the greatest ex ample of a great estate owned by a private person in thla country, will aoon have to yield the palm to Tower hllL There Is probably no place In America where the same sense of Isolation, reinforced by the presence .f nature al Its wildest, can be so balanced by luxury and beauty within. Tho place which Mr. Harrlman selected to give this demonstration Is rocky and strewn with boulders and girt with foresta The hill Is one of the steepest In the Ramapo range. Harriman'a house Is, like that of scripture, builded on a rock, and literally so. A photograph recently taken of the east side of the house, showing the operations so far conducted, looka aa if the whole thing were being Wasted out of the side of a boulder. A large share of the grounds la to be given over to an Italian playground and garden, which will contrast oddly with the solemn grandeur all about. Bl F.uouah for the Family The house lUelf reals In a atone hollow, and to make room for it the rock has had to be blasted on three sides. The building will contain seventy rooms, of which twtnty-two are bath rooms. It Is In the form of a cross, with the entrance hall In the west wing. Thla halt la 30 by 60 feet in alze. The great living room, which Is In the same wing, could be made Into two or three flats if subdivided. Terruces, many of them, fall gracefull away on the south side of the house. A great swimming pool and many sunken courts to be filled with flowers, aud mar. kie fountains are among the many adjrn er,ts of this house, which Harriman de nies Is a palace. Ftor the conveyance of everything needed In the mansion tunnel are being constructed In every direction, and, of course, there are billiard parlors, bowling alleys, and all sorts of rooms needed for amusement, together with a big laundry, a dynamo room, a drying room and a large servans' quarter. The Christopher Columbus of Tower hill could not have found a place more thor. oughly adapted for his purposes, riven tha villagers of Arden have never taken the trouble to explore it fully, and It lay, when he first viewed li. virgin from the hand of nature. It might have luln' there for a thousand years as untouched, unless some other Wealthy man had happened to light upon it as Harriman did and for the sam purpose. The coat of It varies in estimate. Har rlman will not tell. Sometimes It hss been put as high a ,(j0.0tu Those en gaged in the work say this Is an over estimate. Ono put It ss low as t 2UI.0U0. Two millions, say others, will cover all. But that over a million has been spent cu it there is no question, and It al aoi On. lshed yet. New York Times.