THE “MILWAUKEE ’ AGAIN TO THE FRONT
I Through the extensive main-line Electrification of
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tion and wonderfully increased the safety and effi
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CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RY.
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ing. we have hungered in vain for that
unflinching Americanism nt Washing
ton which is needod to exalt the Am
erican soul," he declared. "There Is^
no geographic modification of Vineii ,
can rights. They are the same in.
! Mexico that they are on the high seas,
they are the same in Europe that they j
are in Asia, and are sacred every
where, and the American spirit de
mands their fullest protection.
Respecting America's course with
Europe, the temporary chairman as
serted that no political parly could
draw "a variable chart for our ship
of state amid Europe's warring atnbi
'tinns "
“Justice,” he continued, “points the
way through the sate channel of neu
trality. There are dangers, seeming
or real, looming on every side, but wo
should feel secure along the course
marked by international law and our
own conscientious convictions of Am
erican rights. 'Straight ahead' should
he the command, and when peai o
conies the sober judgment of the
world will exalt us ever higher and
higher as a people strong in heart and
noble in the espousal of justice and
justice's humanity. hr that world
wide respect and confidence which
needs only to he preserved, we shall
have a lofty place in the great recon
struction, and we reasonably may hope
to see this mighty republic again min
istering to the re-establishment of
peace and all its precious blessings.”
In connection with foreign affairs
the senator also discussed widened re j
lationships o,' the United States, de-i
| daring that if this government is to
urge the world’s attention to interna
tional justice and to become the
agency of u progressive civilization it
"must a.Mime the responsibilities of
int'lnnn/.o »» rwl ovnnililn nfltl HPPPPt thp
burdens of enlarged participation. Thu
cloistered life is not possible to the i
potential man or the potential nation
Moreover, the Monroe doctrine,!
stronger for a century's maintenance,
fixes an obligation of new world spon
sorship and old-world relationship.
Our part must not be dictatorial, it
must be trusted leadership in a fra
ternity of American republics."
The senator declared America had
been negligent concerning Us own de
fense, and had been dwelling In fan
cied rather than real security and
should heed the “warning in bleeding
Europe. Republicans," he sBid, “be
lieved in adequate national defense.
The Democratic party,” he insisted,
^interrupted when the Republicans
were building to high rank among the
naval powers.
“1 shall not say it is our to have ,the
greatest navy in the world," said the
senator, “but noting the elimination
i.of distance and the passing of our
one-time isolation, we ought to have
a navy that fears none in the world,
and can say any time and anywhere
—these are American rights and must
be respected.”
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j GERMANS ENCOURAGE THE
BIRTH OF TWINS AND TRIPLETS1
BERLIN, June 8. — A mother who I
gives birth to twins or to triplets in |
Germany is entitled not only to the!
“nursing money" and the “weekly war
assistance,” which the government
provides for its needy women, but may
collect the prescribed sum iit dupli
cate or triplicate acording to the num
ber of children born, according to a
ruling published by the Imperial In-1
surance Bureau.
The decision was the outcome of the
suit of a Borlin woman, who, giving
birth to twins, was refused nursing
money and weekly war alowance for
more than one child. The insurance
branch bureau in her district held that
the law permitted only one payment
regardless of the number of children
born.
The imperial bureau, which con
trols all the municipal branches in
the empire, holds that it is of the ut
most importance for every member to
be nourished in the very best possible
way; and that two or three children
require more nourishment from the
mother than one.
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A megaphone and fan have been
combined in a recent novelty.
BKILIfS SPEND
CHICAGO. June 1. — The sum of
$66,000,000 will have been expended
by several of the great railroads oper
ating In the Chicago district when the
new freight and passenger terminals
now under construction are completed.
The freight terminal will be finished
in about six more months, but it will
take nearly three years to complete
the passenger terminal.
The fn ight terminal will embrace
laving i f trackage on a stretch cover
ing twelve city blocks, from the Chi
cago liver south to Twelfth street.
The plans for the terminal were so ar
range! as to gi\o a miximum speed
and convenience of handling freight
with a minimum of ground space ne
cessary for tl:e buildings involved.
The work is being done by the I’cnm
sylvania lines, went, and will cost for
land acquired, building material and
labor .approximately $lfi,000,000, and
the finished work will be oue of the
greatest accomplishments of its kind
in the history of modern railroads.
The main aim of the builders was
a terminal that would be so arranged
as to eliminate street congestion in
handling traffic and would make
speedy and easy the handling of the
enormous and steadily growing freight
business of Chicago. This result will
be accomplished by close grouping of
the several parts of the terminal struc
ture and by placing the railroad tracks
below the street level, with the freight
house just above the tracks, at street
level, and with a storage warehouse
above the freight house. The idea
of placing the component parts of the
terminal above one another was to
save ground space and to make the
handling of incoming and outgoing
freight easy by a system of powerful,
modern type electric elevators.
Adjoining the freight house, and
tracks, which will accommodate 400
freight cars. Inclosed driveways will
.protect freight and freight handlers
in all sorts of weather.
One thousand men have been work
ing for about ten months, some laying
the heavy piling and concrete founda
tions, and some putting up the struc
tural steel framework of the building.
About 25 per cent of the structural
steel work remains to be finished.
This will be in about six months, and
the total cost of labor, by that time,
will, it Is estimated, amount of about
$1,500,000.
The steel, brick, concrete, piling and
terra cotta that will go into the build
ings will cost about $2,500,000.
The structures will occupy a ground
Bpace of 450 by 750 feet, between Polk
street on the north and Taylor street
on the south, between the Chicago
river and what was once Stewart ave
nue. Acquisition of the ground thu^
used cost the railroad company $12,
mn arm
The union passenger terminal, on
which preparatory work has begun,
inti which will be completed in about
three years, will cost about $50,000,
900, and will be the finest railway pas
senger station in the world, its pro
jectors say. It will be built and oc
cupied by the Chicago, Milwaukee *
St. Paul, the Pennsylvania and the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy roads,
the Pennsylvania being represented
by two branches, the “Panhandle” and
the Port Wayne.
The station will be composed '• ir
tualiy of two buildings, with common
facilities of egress and ingress. A
main building will be west of Canal
street, and 'h concourse, between two
sets of tracks, will bo east of ( anal
street. Each of the two buildings wili
be surrounded by four streets, thus
giving eight points of exit and en
trance to passengers and making a<
cess to trains quick and convenient.
Train sheds will extend from Madison
street south to Harrison street.
The architectural feature of the
main building will be a waiting room
100 by 300 feet and 120 feet high. The
building will occupy a ground spaco
of 325 by 350 feet. The train sheds
will be of the latest covered-in type
und will eliminate columns in the cen
ter of the platform.
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For parcel post purposes there has
been Invented a bag sewed to the bot
tom of which la a flat tag for address
and stamp.
CAS uuMB WAS NOT NEW IN
EUROPEAN WARFARE
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, June; 8.
—(Correspondence of the Associated
Cress.) — The poison gas bomb em
ployed in trench warfare today in Eu
rope appears to have a history dating
hack several centuries.
Attention has just been drawn here
to a discovery made during the carry
ing out of repairs to the naval de
fences of the jairt of Flushing, near
the southern frontier of Holland, In
18S7. Some curious stone jars were
found in a cleft of the outer wall of
the fortress, on the east side of the
naval harbor. In form they resembled
gun shells, and were found to be filled
with asphyxiating materials. A che
mical investigation showed that the
contents Included finely ground Span
ish pepper and pepper seeds, gunpow
der, fine pitch and antimony, these in
gredients giving rise, In a state of
combustion, to an asphyxiating gas.
Moreover, on investigation, twenty
five of such jars, though unfilled, were
actually found still stored In an old
lumber room of the Dutch aincnal at
1 Veere. They must have been cen
j tunes old. The jars agree in form
j with those described In works on pyro
technics of 1614 and 1651.
When the enemy In those days
j stormed the ramparts of a fortress
he whs pelted with these unpleasant
j missiles, which were use! also in
| close quarter fighting at sea. Accord
: ing to a work dated 16;*7. they were
! replaced tow ards the c nd of the
i seventeenth century by < .;, contain
ing such Ingredients ns [ itc h,* resin,
1 saltpeter, brimstone, co! ;.liony. coal,
| horse hoof filings and poisons of vari
ous kinds.
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