Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1926, Page 13

1926—PART 1. prevent further floods and also a bill providing for the Moffat tunnel. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SIX-MILE TUNNEL NEARING FINISH Cut in Colorado Will Lop Off 173 Miles of Railroad MAY 2, because of opposition from the Pueblo district. Flood Sweeps Pueblo. A few months later a flood swept Pueblo, carrying death and destruc- tion to the city. The governor, Oliver H. Shoup, called a special session of the legislature to consider rellef legislation for Pueblo and to 59c BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ NAINSOOK UNION SUITS ' J it shall be owned by the improve-| The Canary Islands will spend $1.- ment district and remain forever a|400,000 in enlarging the port at Las c y for t sportati nd There was enacted Pueblo’s bill for a | BUblic utility for transportation and |, but the little co SiEye quire yvears to do so, conservancy flood district and 2 Denver’s petition for a new link in Mrs. M Gilliland, of transcontinental railroad traffic. A| The Igyptian government has |fsle of W ight, has just celebr tunnel commission was appointed and [started construction of new railway |one hundredth birthday, and i lines, importing the rails from Bel- | recollection of - the bonds issued. The Moffat tunnel act provides that | gium for the purpose. r ge 1 LONG YEARS OF EFFORT REWARDED ntry CETS STOREHOUSE | OF LINCOLN RELICS Government Action Assures Preservation of Oldroyd Newport ted her 15 viv 720-22-24 7th St. N.W. Good quality Collection Here. assage by Congress of the measure authorizing the purchase of the Old- royd collection of 3,000 authentic Lin- coln mementos now on display in the Listoric Peterson house at 516 Tenth street, where the martyr died, will preserve for future gener tions making pilgrimages to Washing: ton a great storehouse of material identified with Lincoln tradition. Only the formal appropriation of to which Congress pledged itself in approval of the present bill, is needed 1o transfer the collection from pri- vate hands to the Government as a public _museum memorializing the Great Emancipator. The decision of the Government to 1ake over the collection is a victory for Osborn H. Oldroyd, owner and founder of the collection, who has re- fused many tempting ' offers from wealthy persons who wished to < quire the collection. For many years Mr. Oldroyd has urged Congress to buy the Lincoln relics, so that they might be preserved for the public. Retain Present Quarters. The bill authorizes a commission, composed of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War and the At- rney General, to buy the collection ’y sum not to exceed $50,000. It will remain in its present quarters. The Petersen house was purchased by the Government as a memorial bulld- 27 years ago. apt. Oldr has been gathering he collection” for 63 years, having tarted on this patriotic work of love v his_chieftain soon after he was released from service in the in- ternecine strife. Mr. Oldroyd now is N) years old. Having for years been a siudent of Lincoln, acting as guide for his collection all through its formation, Capt. Oldroyd has become a rich soure of Lincoln traditions. Visitors leaving the house often have vemarked upon the fund of informa- tion their guide gave during the tour of the quaint old frame building. Incidents throughout the life of Lincoln are memoralized in the col- lection at the Tenth street building, which stands directly across the street from the old Ford Theater where Lincoln was assassinated. Articles collected by Mr. Oldroyd range from the Bible Lincoln heard his mother vead to him as a child to a death mask taken of the face of Lincoln after he had breathed his last. One of the relics which tourists al- wa; sk to see is the spur worn by J. Wilkes Booth which caught a flag as he leaped to the stage of the theater after shooting the President, causing him to break a leg. Each one of the 3,000 relics, ho ever, has a story of its own, all hav- ing a place in the development of the Lincoln saga. Furniture From Illinois. Some of the most valuable portions of the collection are pieces of furni- ture which once were used by Lin- coln in his home at Springtield, Il -Among these are a cook stove, squat and heavy, on which many a Lincoln dinner was prepared; an unpreten- tous looking armchair, in which Lin- coln wrote his first inaugural address und formed his first cabinet; his fa- verite hair-cloth rocking chair; two lounges and the cradle in which he rocked his three sons, Robert T., Wil- liam and Tad (Thomas). A whatnot, relic ot two generations past, made from a walnut bedstead which Lincoln presented to a Spring- tield carpenter who had aided him in packing for the trip to Washington, also is among the collection. There is“a mahogany roundtop ta- ble purchased by Capt. Oldroyd after Lresident Johnson had discarded it when he became the incumbent at tuc White House. Other similar articles are the first desk used by Lincoln at Springfield, containing pigeon holes in which he stuffed legal documents; a wooden wheel taken from the family carriage; President Capt. Osborne H. Oldroyd, whose famous collection of Lincoln souvenirs will become property of the United States Government if the President signs the bill passed by Congress last week appropriating $50,000 for their purchase. Capt. Oldroyd is pictured here with his collection of Lincoln heads. Hard-Boiled Earth Will Iron Core Depicted by Scientists at Meeting By the Assoclated Press. Mother earth, although old and crusty, has an iron constitution, in the latest opinion of specialists on her most intimate affairs, assembled here for the meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Old theories of a crust floating on molten rock are being discarded in favor of one which places at the core « piece of oak flooring from the log cabin at New Salem, Ill., owned by Caleb Carmon, with whom Lincoln boarded in 1834, after returning from the Blackhawk war where he had served as a captain; an oak joist from ihe kitchen tloor in the Springtieid home of Lincoln; and a black locust 1ail split’ by Lincoln in 130, which was taken from the fence around the home of Lincoln's father by John iianks, a cousin of the murdered president. An oldfashioned gray checked ~hawl worn by President Lincoln was presented to the Oldroyd collection iy Dora D. Fowler-Stowers, to whose mother Mrs, Lincoln had presented the shawl. Last Bit of Handwriting. The last bit of handwriting of Lin- coln is preserved in the collection. 'wo hours before he was assassinated, President Lincoln wrote the following note to two men, who had asked him ior a pass to Richmond shortly after the surrender of Gen. Lee: “No pass is v now to authorize anyone to nd from Petersburg and Rich- People go and return as they re the war. (Signed) A. ond. did be! Lincol Hanging still on the wall where Lincoln died is a picture of “The Vil- lage Blacksmith.” It is shown in scores of pictures of the President, and the group that was with him when he died. In the same room are 145 pictures, illustrating the assassination and the funeral of Lincoln, and many draw- ings of his bust. Alr. Oldroyd once walked the entire oute of 80 miles taken by Booth in his flight from Washington following the murder, and took pictures of scenes along the route, which now are among his collection. Coples of newspapers which printed 1 )i the assassination are s on the walls of' the The New York Herald car- 1 headline which now seems too small and reserved for a happenings: “Important, nation of President Lincoln.” hington Chronicle, predeces- of The Star, carried the one- column ht.dllne.’ Murder of Presi- dent Lincoln.” Mr. Oldroyd fashioned from a log taken from the log cabin at Peters. burg, I1L, a rough-hewed stand which he intended as a symbol of the rugged character of Lincoln. Other articles in the collection in- clude 11 autographed letters and documents, 1,000 biographies, histories of the Civil War and of slavery and related writings, 100 caricatures of his administration, 62 pictures of his early life, 70 bLadges and flags relat. ing to the campaign of 1860, 325 news- papers dating from 1843 to 1865, 255 funeral sermons and 66 funeral marches written at the time of his death, photographs of Ford's The- ater, the conspirators, their trial and execution; 27 busts, statuets, life masks, ete, and the original bills describing the play, “Our American Cousin,” starring Laura Keene, which Lincoln was witnessing when he was shot, and the play, “The Apostate,” starring the a in, Booth, which was given at Ford's the preceding of the earth a ball of solid iron or iron-nickel alloy, nearly 4,000 miles thick. Dr. P. R. Heyl of the Bureau of Standards, who is weighing the earth, and Dr. R. B. Sosman of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Car- negie Institution agree that this is probably true, and the latter fixes the depth of the surface crust at about 36 miles. This is lighter than the interior, he said, and may be sep- arated from it by a thin fluid or semi- fluid layer. Dr. H. S. Washington, also of the Geophysical Laboratory, has con- cluded that the earth probably was once part of the atmosphere of the sun. The earth and the solar atmos- phere, he pointed out, are composed of the same elements in about the same proportion, and a passing star may have attracted the sun so strong- ly as to break off a part of the atmos- phere which, on cooling, formed this planet. The ocean came from the inside of the earth rather than from the out- side, said Dr. W. J. Humphreys of the Weather Bureau. Water locked up in the earth’s interior blew off as steam through volcanoes and con- densed to form the seas, he asserted. Right of Superiors to Raid Quarters Of Army Officers Upheld by Court By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., May 1.—An Army officer’'s quarters do not enjoy the constitutional immunity of a civillan home, a court-martial at Fort Sam Houston ruled yesterday in the trial of pt. C. W. Cutchin on charges of illegally possessing liquor. The court held that an officer can make forcible entry into a subordi- nate’s quarters in executing routine orders, overruling an attempt by the defense to prevent the introduction of a flask of liquor alleged to have been seized by Col. John L. Dewitt, 1st In- fantry. Col. Dewitt confiscated the flask after entering Capt. Cutchin's quarters and making a search over protest by the captain, the defense contended in seeking to have the evidence ruled out. CONVICTS ASK FOR WORK. Oregon Prisoners Fear for Jobs TUnless Stone Is Sold. Special Dispatch to The Star. PORTLAND, Oreg., April 24— Prisoners at the county rock quarry on Kelly Bytte near here have written the county court, asking that august body to “Please get busy and sell some rock,” fearing that at the rate crushed rock is piling up in the bins they may soon lose their jobs. The prisoners drafted the following THE LOWEST PRICES BROUGHAM $1519 QU | letter and forwarded it to the court: “Whereas, There has been a defi- clency of orders from your honorable body for the purchase of crushed rock; and “Whereas, There is a great pile of the aforesaid rock on hand at the county rock pile; and ““Whereas, There are many inmates here breaking up rock; and “Whereas, We the prisoners at Kel- ly Butte County rock pile, being afrald that we may soon be out of work; be it “Resolved, That we do hereby pe- tition the county commissioners to utilize this rock by sale or use. AYD. “At Your Door”’ Nothing Else to Pay 1,25 Travel. By the Associated Press. DENVER, May 1.—The Moffet tun- nel, a cut of six miles through the Continentl Divide, is nearing comple- tion in western Colorado. ' ‘The builders are the sons of ploneers who knew that a railroad through the Rocky Mountains would mean the opening of an undeveloped empire. The tunnel will lop oft 178 miles of raflroad travel between Denver and Salt Lake City. They now are 600 miles apart as the train travels. Five lives already have been given up_in the project. The tunnel is going through at an elevation of about 9,200 feet. Above rest the sky-reaching crest of the di- vide—the backbone of America— which swells into the clouds, 12,000 feet above sea level. Work s proceed- ing 24 hours a day, towards the center from the east and west portals. The west portal is near Corona, “the top o' the world.” On the east side ‘Tabernash will be the last station. Bore Will Be Electrifled. The bore will be electrified. Fire will be banked In steam locomotives and electric engines will haul loco- motives and trains through the passage. Suction fans will purify the air. Automobiles also will be provided transportation on flat cars during certain hours of the day. The cost of the project already has exceeded $9,000,000. Gigantic obstacles impeded the path of the builders. Great areas of soft muck required extensive timbering, while the Winter brought hardship to trainmen battling through mountains of snow to reach the portals. The tunnel is about 16 feet in width and 24 feet high. Parallel with the railroad tunnel s a water tunnel 8 feet wide and elght feet high. Through this Denver will get a water supply from tributaries of mountain streams that tap the Colo- rado River. EIght cross cuts are being bullt to connect the water and railroad tunnels. Coal Deposits Extensive. Undeveloped northwestern Colorado, which will be opened by the tunnel, has enough coal, geologists say, to sup- ply the United States for 1,600 years. It has oll shale beds of stupendous proportions. There are almost equal undeveloped resources in northeastern Utah. The raflroad bore of the project, fully enlarged, 52 per cent fin- shed, while the water tunnel and the main heading of the railroad bore are 79 per cent bullt. Last year Carter Lake, a reputed bottomless body of water, 1,600 feet above the workmen in the tunnel, emptied its waters into the passage. ‘The lake was drained and has been forever eliminated as a menace to the tunnel, the buflders say. Among the workmen, numbering nearly 1,000, five lives have been lost since the inception.. The Denver and Salt Lake Ralilroad will run through the tunnel. From the town of Tabernash, three miles from the east portal, it has required trains of the line 14 to 16 hours to make the roundabout course to Den- ver, 90 miles away. It has taken four engines to haul a train of 22 freight cars over the dividle. When the tun- nel s completed this Summer, one lo- comotive will haul a train of 24 cars from Tabernash to Denver in less than half the time. Another Rallroad Extension. It is proposed to extend the Denver and Salt Lake Rallroad, also known as the Moffat Road, through the tunnel and continue its line westward from Craig to Salt Lake City. Thus a new transcontinental route will be provided. Centers like Denver will be brought 173 miles closer to the Pacific Coast. ‘Twenty-flve years ago David H. Mof- fat planned to build the Denver and Salt Lake Rallroad through the bar- riers of rock and gorge dividing Colo- rado and Utah. Moffat died in New York in 1911, while he was trying to finance the extension of the railroad. Others who had faith {n the project carried on his work. 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