Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1924, Page 59

/ Rambler’s Study of Local History T Contributor Assists in Following Record of Career of Matthew Wright, Who Became Prominent in First Decade of the Nineteenth Century. l ELIEVING that you would not eat breakfast before reading your ramble, the Rambler hastens to meet your yearn- ing and takes up the story of lands bevond the Eastern Branch, Itis a long walk from the car line and it is August. The pine stump on which he rested last Sunday beckons and there are few things harder to resist than temptation. Sitting on the stump, thinking how to get facts for this story, he thought of old times and the difference be- tween those times and new times. Customs and manners change. That fact was known some time ago. A few years ago—I think about soventy or seventy-five—I had occa- sion to bring to the notice of the President the claims to high office of a friend. 1 was living on the Island, but I had acquaintance in Foggy Bot- tom, Swampoodle, the Sixth Ward, around Glass House Square and on Windmill Point, Crow Hill, Camp Hill and other residence sections of Washington. | on the way uptown T called on my old #friends Fritz Reuter, George Driver, George Harvey, Andy Han- cock, Shoemaker and Gerstenberg, and it was past the usual bedtime of the President when I got to the White House. I knocked on the front door. A sec- ond-story window went up, and the President, putting his_head, half-hid in a nightcap, through the window, called, “Who's there?” I told him, and he answered, “All right, John, I'll b down as soon as I get my boots on. But he came down in his carpet slip- pers and, as it was a warm nikht, we sat on the front steps. 1 told the President of the ambition and pecuniary need of my friend for a high office. The President was thoughtful and then said: “He ought to make a capable official. He seems to have all the qualifications. With his talent he might be elected to a Dbetter job than 1 can give him, but T will send his nomination to the Sen- ate tomorrow.” The business closed, the President led the way to the Kitchen and what we took there is nobody’s busine but when 1 left the White House the idewerkin omnibuses were run- ning on the Avenuc seventy or s and you sce how have changed in Washington. It is but a short walk from the pine stump to the lands of Matthew Wright, which were of the tracts named Marshall' iventure find“ vley's Purchase and For- | larged. On part of the farm Wright left Ly will to his| i nephews, William Trimble and Josepn Trimble, at his death, in 184 is the scttlement of Bradbury Heights. The bouse in which William Trimble lived was taken down about eight years| 20 and a village street passes across | it< site. About the house wus a Brov tune E which Snappy Game to Play. | BY RING LARDNER. O the editor:: A few weeks ago 1 described in these columns a Kind of a parlor game that could be played to wile away a evening at a house party or something. They such a wild rush for copies of the paper that day that a good many tolks failed to get copies and has| wrote in requesting that 1 repeat| how to play the game, Well the namely that number of rules is very simple. four or five or any| extra bright people set around the parlor or out on the porch and earry on a conversation in which each speech has got to con- tain the name of some certain kind | of a object, like for inst. the name | of a city of over 20 population. When | 1 wrote this game up before it was cities they had to name and I g.ve a sample conversation to show what 1 was getting at. This time we will make it capital cities which will make it a whole lot more difficult. nce sakes we will say engaged in the es are Black, Gary and Mrs, For conven that five people is game and their nam Kelly, Mrs. Kelly, Gary. Kelly (to his wife) call up the Parkers today? You ouzht to Mrs. Kelly—No, T didn’t call them up. but I <ent Paul over to see them. Black (to Gary)—Say, Lem, is that town the Parkers come from a Re- publican town? Gary—No, no. son_city. Kelly—He has averaged which fine score Hagen has been making in the golf match over in Londor? Black—No. What tally has he? Kelly—he has averaged 72, which sounds pretty good, though 1 don't know what par is. Black—My brother Sacra meant to play in that tournament, but couldn’t get aw: Mre, Kelly—He's brother in that damage suit, isn't he? I know my brother said he sent a fee to him, but he wouldn't take it. Black—Fec? Nix! Not when your brother has been so gice about sing- ing for us at parties. Mrs. Kelly (to Gary)—Did you ever hear my brother Lem sing? Gary—No. 1 was at a party once where he sang, but just as he was beginning, Mrs. Gary disappeared and 1 couldn’t have Anna disappear- ing when nearly esery room was supplied with a bowl of punch. Mrs. Gary—And I was only up in the dessing room, fixing my lips. You can’t have much of a bat on rouge. Mrs. Kelly—I've often been at Lem to sing at my parties, but he won't. Kelly—I bet Nash .w Black—Do you remember the night we asked Mr. Ridley to sing and he got so mad his son had to take him home? Gary—He certainly was a mad Rid! Mrs. Gary—Well, we must be start- ing to roam home Mrs. Kelly—Oh, not yet! Monty is coming in a minute with refresh- ments. You must have at least 2 frankfort. Kelly—I bought the frankforts vesterday from a lame man. He was Zoing past the house and I said, “Oh, 1imp here, my man, and I will buy some frankforts.” Mrs. Kelly—Here comes Montgom- ery now. And he’s got some apples, too, Kelly (to Gary)—Did you ever see such apples as that? An Indian ap- ple is much smaller. Mrs. Kelly (to Mvs. Gary)—If you'll wait a minute, I'll have Mont peel your apple for you. Mrs. Gary—How's is Mont's girl friend? She was so quiet and nice I used to call her shy Ann, Kelly—Quiet! Say, she raises hell in a crowd of youngsters! Mrs. Gary—Raleigh? Kelly—Yes, on the square. Her parents made her quit going out with the boys. Gary—I suppose the war saw the start of this coldmess among girls. Mrs. Gary—Well, we really must trot along. We'll see you in August again. —Dear, did ydu You know Its a Jeffer defending my | of the nin MISSES CATHERINE DIXON AND MARIE SNIDER. of box oak trees and many of thesc shade the space where children of Bradbury Heights School play. * ok ok X HE Rambler told last unday many facts concerning Matthew Wright, who came to Washington from Ireland in 1796 and had become in the early part of the first decade éenth century an impor- tant and prosperous man. You were told the substance of the deed b which Samuel Marshull, owner of Marshall's Adventure, and his wife, Drucilla, conveyed that tract to Wright in 181X, In the deed Wright is_ described as of the County of Washington and the inference is that he was living in the highlands of the Eastern Branch, on one of the tracts of which he was in possession when he died. The Rambler has not found in District records a deed of land in the county to Wright antedating the deed conveying Marshall's Adven- ture. The first deed to Matthew Wright recorded in the District is dated No- vember 26, 1504, and conveys from Ralph Charlton to Wright Iot 26 in ROBERT F. BRADBURY AS HE APPEARED IN THE SPANISH- AMERICAN WAR. square 882, “being part of a lot here- tofore sold and conveyed by Banjamin Stoddert to Andrew Armstrong.” Square 882 is bounded by Sixth and Seventh, L and M streets southeast and is the square west of that cov- ered by the old Washington and Georgetown car stables at the navy vard gate, foot of Ilighth street. Lot 26 is on the west side of Seventh street. The second deed to Wright is one from Peter Provott, dated Mz 1805. Provott is described as County of Washington,” and sells for $1 part of lot No. 27 in square 904. That square is bounded by Seventh, Eighth, G and I streets southeast, and the east side of the square faces the Marine Barracks. The Provott-Wright one-third the length of the lot is about of the block north of I street and opposite the barracks. The third deed Wright, May 21, 1808, is from William H. P. Tuckerfield of the County of Wash- ington to a lot in the same square (304), and it is mef xm‘d in the deed that the lot was#®nce owned by Thomas Law. The fourth deed to Wright, May 30, 1808, from Robert Brown, conveying for $800 a lot in the same square. Wright's fifth deed s from William Nevitt of Georgetown, conveying for $130 lot 13 in square 881. In giving the bounds of the lot is this reference: “beginning at Mr. Notley Mattox's house, south.” Square 81 is between K and L streets south- {east. Seventh street and a Govern- ment reservation on the west. Lot 13 fronts on Seventh street and nearer K than L street. On November 16, 1811, three deeds were recordedq by Mr. Wright. One was from Walter Chandler to a lot in square 881, one was a deed from Nicholas Voss and wife to lots 7 and |3 in square 846 for consideration of $2400, and onc was a deed from Thomas Tinkey and Samuel N. imall- wood for lots in square 831 belonging to Voss and on which Voss had {given a deed of trust to Tingey and Smaliwood. Square 846 Is between | Fifth, Sixth, G and E streets south- e On February 18, 1812, Matthew 1 Wright bought from Lewis Clephane, ‘,\ndro\\' McDonald and the latter's ‘Vlftu Catharine McDonald, a lot in | Georgetown on Causeway street at | the intersection of Fishing Lane, and in bounding the lot Jefferson street ix mentioned. The price paid was $1.900. I have found no deed to Wright between the Causeway street purchase in 1812 and Wright's pur- chase of Marshall's Adventure 1818, though I hope to find Wright's first purchase of land in the District beyona the Eastern Branch. IR TLL FISHER of the Columbia Title Insurance Company has sent the Rambler a reference to a deed to Matthew Wright to part of the tract called Bayley's Purchase. The date of the deed is November 3, 1846, and is from James Dundas of Philadelphia, trustee. Wright is de- scribed as of the County of Washing- ton, which indicates that the house in which he was living was on the District side of the Maryland-Dis- trict line, which runs through Mar- shall's Adventure. The deed recites that William Berry Warman conveyed, December 21, 1793, a tract called Bayley's Purchase, on the cast side of the Eastern Branch, to James Greenleaf, who conveyed the land, September 30, 1796, “upon cer- tain trusts.” to George Simpson. Simpson conveyed the land, March 23, 1797, to Henry Pratt, Thomas W. Fran- cis and others, to hold upon the same trusts. Sheriff Notley Maddox, by deed, February 28, 1798, onveyed the rights and title of James Greenleaf to William H. Dorsey and John M. Gantt, which they conveved, July 30, 1803, to Henry Pratt, Thomas W. Francis and others. Henry Pratt, surviving trus- tee. conveyed the land, October 17, 1837, to Benjamin Tighlman, and Tighlman conveyed “all his estate and property in the said trust” to Henry Pratt, James sDundas and Clement I. Miller. Pratt and Miller died and James Dundas had the tract resurvexed and subdivided by Lewis Carberry, surveyor of the County of Washington. The plat is dated Octo- ber 15, 1845. The property was advertised in the Vational Intelligencer and the Daily Union for sale, and lot No. 15, con- taining 95 plus acres, was bought by Matthew Wright for $1,403.63. The bounds of the land are closely de- scribed, and it was touched by the Marlboro road, now Alabama avenue, and the Benning road to Boones hill, which is the road east from Benning Bfidge to Marlborough road. The Rambler has before him a copy of the will of Matthew Wright, wit- nessed May 11, 1847, by James Cran- dall, Robert M. Coombs and Jobn R. Queen, and recorded May 28, 1847. The Rambler dlso has a copy of the will of Joseph Trimble, one of the two legatees of these Eastern Branch lands. Joseph Trimble died in 1855. We are too far along In this story to glve the contents of the wills today, and in the ramble last Sunday the promise was made to tell something of the man who bought large tracts of the Wright-Trimble lands. His name is Robert F. Bradbury. He was born April 23, 1859, son of John Wes- ley Bradbury of Baltimore and Martha E. daughter of Andrew French of Southeast Washington. Oc- tober 13, 1886, he was married to Annie, Laurle Smart, daughter of Henry’ Smart, who came from Ver- mont to Washington during the Civil War. Annie Laurie Smart's mother 'maiden name was Anne Maria McFar- land, and she was a daughter of the celebrated Billy McFarland of the Marine Band. He served as a fifer in the band an@ became master. or whatever the title is, of the school for fifers and drummers. It is said that he served in the Continental Army When Billy McF.rland died the Marine. Barracks we - Jocked up, because every man, commindant to recruit, went to Billy's ‘uneral, at Congressional Cemetery. Robert F. Bradbury served in the Navy from 1878 to 1884, serving for years as paymaster's yeoman. He built the first house in Twining City, in 1890, when the “new” Pennsyl- vania Avenue Bridge was built. In 1908 he bought 107 acres of the Trim- ble tract, and in 1909 subdivided that part which lies south of Bowen road, or Alabama avenue. The town of Bradbury Heights is on that tract. In 1912 Re bought 87 acres north of the Bowen road and subdivided it. In 1924 he bought 110 acres south of the Trimble lands and which was the home of Squire S. E. Cox. On all these tracts are subdivisions and “Bradbury” forms part of the name of each.” Bob Bradbury's brother, George J., in 1904, bought seven acres of Wright-Trimble land on the top of Boones hill, which the District line crosses. He lives there. He also owns the site of Fort Meigs, on Ala- bama avenue, bought from Mr. Pairo and Eugene Evans of Washington. The Bridge of Sand. NE Spring some years ago a young man from Missouri went into the Texas “Panhandle” to locate a sec- tion of land. At Childress he hired a horsé and a cart and drove west. Late one evening he stopped at a water hole about 30 feet long and 15 feet wide. He thought he would drive acréss it, but no sooner had the horse’s feet touched the water than down, down he went, and as his ears went out of sight the rider turned quickly on the seat, seized his grip and jumped out. Horse and cart went out of sight, but soon came up safe on the other side, none the worse for the bath. The man went on to the town of Memphis and stayed overnight. The next morning he started back to Childress, and when he got to the Red River he found a flat, level waste of sand about three-fourths of a mile wide through which the stream was winding like a lazy serpent. There had been a very severe wind and sand storm the day before and when the Missourl youth started across the river the storm revived. By the time he got to the stream itselt the wind had blown the sand into the water until the stream, which was only a foot or so in depth, was completely filled, although he could see the water above and below 30 or 40 yards away. He was afraid of quicksands. But he got out of the cart, went out on this bridge of sand and jumped up and down on it. It seemed solid enough and, after much coaxing, he induced the horse to start across. About halfway across the sand bridge he whirled round and ran back to the starting point on the bank. He was urged forward again and by liberal use of the whip the creature was gotten across. But then the horse seemed to lose his head, whirled round again, and, in spite of his driver, ran back'across the stream to the other bank. The sand bridge began to show damp spots. The horse in running across it had begun to jar it loose. The driver had no time to lose, 80 he undertook to lead the beast across, and with a great deal of dim=> culty the animal was taken over, and none too soon, for the water was ris- ing in the tracks made by the horse and cart. The youth led the horse to main- land, a distance of about 600 yards, for he feared to drive the beast. The wind was blowing the sand directly in the youth's face and he could g0 only 20 or 30 yards. when he would have to stop and get his breath for a few minutes. Then with his hat be- fore his face he would drag the horse forward again, until finally the bank was reached, the youth almost ex- hausted, with his lips parched and most of the skin peeled from his face by the cutting sand. Electrical Siren. "THERE is an interesting and unique electrically operated trumpet or eiren, invented abroad, which produces a very loud, penetrating and far-reach- ing,sound, particularly suitable for sig- naling and alarm purposes on railways and in mines and collieries, also for fire alarm and marine services. In workshgps a plurality “of these trumpets or eirens are worked in par- allel from the local electric lighting cir- cuit or from the shop power supply maing. They are set in operation by simple pressure of a button. These sirens are suitable for sharply marked off signals according to the Moree code, and may be operated on electric circuits with a pressure of from 10 to 250 volts and with a current of about one-tenth of an ampere at the first-mentioned woltage. The diameter of the membrane is from five to seven inches and the complete equipment varies in welght from seven to nine pounds. The principle on which the apparatus 18 constructed depends on the alternat- ing action of the armature of an electro- magnet of a given numnber of vibrations on a metallic diaphragm by aid of an elastic double-armed lever with unequal By Gift From J. D. Rockefeller, Jr. Fund Provides fo;' Mending, Repairing and Restoring Wherever Needed on P:flace, Trianons and Park—State Architect of Palace Is Consulted. BY STERLING HEILIG. Versailles, August 7. ERSAILLES, with its royal palaces and more than royal park, has, in one month, got as much into the public eye as when the grand monarch made them out of nothing. Something near to 18,000,000 francs will be applied at once from the John D. Rockefeller, jr., fund, to mend, re- pair and restore what most needs ir palace, trianons and park. Right after this thrilling news (you cannot call it anythirg elsc) came the arrest f the forzlém pro- paganda film directors and artists, caught at the rontier after they had succeeded ir. “shooting.,” in the palace park of Versajlles, in decent orgies which they, the foreigners, had staged and acted—to show, in foreign movies, how very bad the French people are. #The French people are, indeed, com- plete masters of Versailles and its former royal glories. It is a few miles out of Parig, by rail, trolley and motor car; and the people of Paris.are all over the place. Sundays and week days—when weekly day of rest “by rotation” where Sunday is not given to all, makes a holiday crowd every day in the week from clerks, employees and working people. All kinds crowd peasants and provincial visitors, judges, generals and priests, along with plain middle-class folks and their families. - How there could be orgies in any part, with decent people and police all around, is beyond belief. The foreign filmers, in fact, suc- ceeded in shooting thelr hurry-up reels anly by stealing in on a Mon- day, when the palace, which is a museum, is closed for cleaning. This being well known, there are fewer visitors to Versailles on the day fol- lowing Sunday. z So, if such a movie show should appear - anywhere (for two sets of films, in metal tubes, were smuggled to the frontier, and only one recov- ered) it is well to remember the facts. Astonishing as it may seem, pro- Ppaganda entered largely into them. * K ¥ ¥ F course, there is no such magnif- icent stage setting in the world. A list of the parts on which the Rockefeller money will be used to preserve it, is interesting. The state architect of the palace, M. Chausse- to Versailles— the enforced |. T PART OF THE HAMLET OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, WHERE THE COURT PLAYED VILLAGE LIFE AND SHE PLAYED MILKMAID. TRELLIS WORK HERE MUST BE RESTORED. round him. Sixty ladies-of-honor, in puffed panier skirts 24 feet in cir- cumference, could descend the marble steps, side by side, without touching! Like courtiers, the ambassadors of other powers walked bagkward, bow- ing and scraping. In this palace (and to build it, at such tfabulous expense) the French East India empire which Colbert had actually founded in the “old” French Company of the Oriental Indies was equally disdained by a king who spent 153 millions of his time to raise the roof which Rockefeller is repairing! According to Taine, this figure would have been equivalent to 750, 000,000 francs in 1880. It would have meant about 900.000,000 francs in 1914, and 3,600,000,000 francs in French labor and materials today! The figures are from a bound manu- script, bearing the arms of Mansard. the famous architect, who disbursed them. The king is said to have burned the accounts, himself aghast at the totals. Yet the wood was from state such historical magnificence must not be allowed to molder! In each case, the French common people are (and were the gainers. 1. To remake the joiners’ work and doors and windows of the palace, the two trianons, and the orangery. 2. To put into proper state parks and gardens. So begins the agreement between the head architect of the palace and the Rockefeller committee for the application of the funds to Versailles. It continues: 3. To remake trellis work. 4. To remove statues from the Cour d'Honneur to the side alleys of the Place d'Armes. 5. To make repairs to facade on the side of the Cour Royale, and the re- construction of four balconies with marble columns. 6. To restore Marie Antoinette’s Theater at the Little Trianon. And 7. To mend the palace roof! Some of these headings would be quite misleading to any one not warn- PART OF FACADE OF COUR ROYALE, WHOSE BALCONIES AND MARBLE COLUMNS ARE TO BE RE- CONSTRUCTED FROM THE ROCKEFELLER FU GIANT STATUES ARE TO BE MOVED OUT TO PLACE D’ARMES, TO FORM AN IMPOSING AVENUE OF STATUES, AS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED.. miche, has agreed on them with the Rockefeller committee. “This palace roof will leak, some day, and an American citizen will mend it at his own expense!” If any one had made the prediction in the days when Benjamin Franklin was_pleading for young America at the French court, he would have been deemed crazy. Yet Franklin saw only the still liv- ing remains of Versailles’ glory. Near- 1y a hundred years before his time, Versailles was the world's center of pomp and beauty, culture and fine manners, riches and ostentation, power and pride. R In this vast palace; the fate of Canada was decided as “a few leagues of barren snow.” So, Louis XIV., the “Sun King,” called it. Otherwise, Canada would have been a vast French realm, joined up from Louis- fana to our own northwest! But Louis XIV, the “Grand Mon- greh” who built Versailles, had hi: mind 6n the magnificence closer to him. When he walked, cane in hand, in this park, his cortege gathered e 1 arms, the ratio of which is accurately | determined for obtaining a clear and powerful note or .tone. The diaphragm. which 'is comparatively strong, being pressed of a bronse alloy by a special prooess, is arranged to close hermetical. ly the interior of the apparatus - g TR e e a TN R S F N s o S forests, the stone from state quarri, and the unskilled labor was mostly military, and therefore, in those times, practically gratis! * Kk ok OW, we see why the present French government has not been able, even, to keep up Versailles, in proper repair. Palace and park so vast and magnificent carry with them homely upkeep like “roof,’ rellis work,” “replacing rotten woorwork at windows,” and so on in proportions that would swamp an ordinary his- toric monument appropriation, even before the war! Once, a great man from the middle- class came in and saved Versailles. a hundred years ago. It was Napoleon who set up his own court at Fon- tainebleau, but spent some 18,000,000 francs to merely “conserve” the vast- er palace, run down by long neglect. Now, it is Rockefeller, with a simi- lar sum, for a similar purpose. Of course, it is the American’s own money. which makes a difference. But the same thought governed both— ed, even when familiar, as a tour with Versailles. * ok * GTRELLIS WORK,” in such great need of renewal, makes a job whose magnitude, before the Rocke- feller gift, scemed practically hope- less. All the delicious little houses, “bosquets,” rustic arbors, covered benches in surprise nooks of the forest which are so agreeable to visitors, are trellis- work, as are all supports of climbing vines. In the Hamlet of Marie Antoinette, where the court played village life and the queen played milkmaid, all the supporting woodwork around the rustic porticoes is trellis-work. So, in the colonnade, that circle of arches without roof, in the thickets near the Basin of Apollo, the entire construction is one fountain. Jets of water shoot up from the table-like marble basins between columns. Here, as under so much fountain-water in- fluence throughout the park, the trel- lis-work has rotted. An obvious example is the circular summer shelters, OF THE PARK ROYAL, NEAR THE GREAT FOUNTAIN CALLED “THE BASIN OF APOLLO.™ AN :x%s OF “TRELLIS WORK,” WHICH WILL B! N I fence protecting the central group of statuary in the colonnade. But not one tourist in 50 notices the invisible trellis work which supports flower- ing vines at the colonnade’s circular top. Again, Versailles has an army of marble statues. Long lines of them like guards of honor, stand at inter vals down the broad avenues or tne park. And you come upon them, like sentries, in round, open places of the forest. Rain, wind, dust, accidentals and vandals ha done their work upon the outdoor statues. This one lacks a fi ger an dtwo toes. Here is one whose entire foot is gone. It makes a deplor- able impression All are to be re stored, a great sork. Giant statucs, again, stand ten porarily along the two facades of the Cour Royale—whose balconies and marble columns are to be recon- structed from the Rockefeller funds. en such balconies and columns are place the giant statues will not be ed. iant statues have stood there “temporarily” for a hundred years past; but their true place, d signed by Mansard, is outside, in the grandtose Place d'Armes, to form double line of giant statues—an im PoSing “avenue of approach” for v tors to Versailles Palace The grand monarch himself nev realized that avenue of giant statues. There wa Tway so much to do in park and apalaces. Now, it at last perfects Versaill approach. Thanks o a plain American! X IDOES your roof leak? So does that of the world's grandest palace: Also, in any photograph of Versailles count the windows that are visible However numerous, they will be only a fraction of the windows and doors whose joiners' work is in need of re- making! No one photograph can show Ver- sailles. nor a half nor a quarter even |of the great palace. The Trianons ar- | two smaller palaces at the far end of the park, whose roofs, doors and windows equally need remaking. The two Tri ons were always scenes of ultra-exclusive roval life | Even magnificent builder found | the palace too magnificently grand for comfort To get a rest from endless halls of parade he built the Trianon. Al though a palace, it scemed 4 co tage in comparison. Hut, in cours: of time, the Trianon itself w found too great for cozy comfort! So they built the Little anon, favored by Marie Antoinett whose bijou theater in it is to be reconstructed The Little Trianon, mere pavilion « villa, has been the last of V palaces of residence Queen toria, on her first visit, under Philippe, inhabited the “little apart ments” of Maric Antoinette, bui tiny, cozy and low-ceilinged. inside great rooms of the palace But the vast paluce was sive to Victoria it had Marie Antoinette. on her i visit, under Napoleon III, she was lodged in the coquettish Littie Trianor The Rockefeller m suid to put the Little Tria ern condition, in the the French governmen visi- tors azain What visitors Can it be an Ame he to see his wife, toria, in the boudoir toinette? ; Salmon Wheel. NE of the picturesque methods of fishing on the Columbia River i by means of what is called the mon whee This fastened to the forward part barge, which is anchored river, but most of the wheel in a framework secured to the bank at a point where the shore juts out into the stream. The be raised and lowered in framework by m |tackle, so that it the height of the w a circular net designed somewhat fafter the fashion of the paddle whecl of a steamboat, the “paddles,” how ever, being covered with heavy wire | nettings with openings into which the fish pass. The wheel {entirely by the action of the current, which at high water is very strong Advantage is taken of the movement of the salmon upstream at differen times of the year to catch them as they hug the shore to avoid th | force of the water in the center, Con | sequently, they. frequently fall into the net at it revolves, and are thrown into troughs in the center of compartment, thence sliding upon the platform, where they are secured by the fishermen. When the salmon are “running” upstream, sometimes over a ton of fish will be taken in 24 hours by the salmon wheel, as opera- tions®are carried on by night as well ak by day with the use of light. i rsailles Vic- Louis as oppres been to R n i ion me of ican n? like Queen V of Marie s somet of in are h the river wheel cun a timber ans of a block and p be adjusted to It ter. is merels is revolved each artificia Pipes Suspended. Eof the most remarkable bridges in this country spans the Skagit River in the State of Washington. A town near the river depends for its water supply upon a number springs in the mountains on the other side of this stream. The water carried to the town in an iron pipe having an opening of about six inche. in diameter. The queston arose how to carry this conduit across the river. To build an ordinary bridge was far too expensive, owing to the width of the stream, and it was found impos- sible to lay the pipe on the river bed because the rapid current would probably break it. Fnally it wa decided to make a sort of suspension bridge. A tower of strong timber was erected on each bank and a wirc cable stretched across from the top of one tower to the ttop of the other. Then the lengths of pipe were fas tened securely to this ble smaller cables as fast as the lengths were joined together. At each e of the cable an elbow was set into the pipe line and connected with other* lengths reaching to the ground When the work was finished two wires were ‘stretched across the pipe and thus a sort of footway was made over the river, which is frequently used by the lumbermen in the viein- ity. This novel ariel conduit has been in use for some time and, although filled with water most of the as not yet broken T = Left Him. “Do you know what it is to go be- fore an audience “No: I spoke before an audience once, but most of it went before 1 of time.