Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1926, Page 79

e THE .SUNDAY STAR, U.S.Navy Will Make Aerial Survey Of Southeastern Part of Alaska e curate Maps and Knowledge of Resources. HUNDRED and eighty-five vears after the first visit of the two Russian officers, Bor- Ing and Chirikov, to the vast region later termed “Alaska’ or the “Great Land,” and a century and a half after the first survey made or the British government by Capt. James Cook, the roar of the airplane motor is to blend with the nolsy move- ment of the Arctic pack in an effort to conquer the mountain fastnesses of southeastern Alaska by an aerial survey conducted by the United States Navy. For the first time in the history of the Nation, 12 Government bureaus have combined to insu-e the ultimate success of this important survey, as engineers have tried many long Years to penetrate the virgin forests of the 'wind-swe) 1 glacler dis- trict, and met with but poor results. Strangely enouzh, much of the ter: ritory to be menped Is part of the best-known section of as it is in the line of pass eled by 25.000 tourlsts ea the in- ior of many -of these isiands. viewed from the coast steamers, has vet to be surveye: it is true that the many Jets and bays should phibians and Jand safely, to danger from ice foe 1en partly conce Yet in still other ser anay listen in to the latest ball by innings, from fhe neare b) 8 that the hurdiy he spoken of as a “trackless wildernes: according to experts in the Geological Survey I3ut there are, of cou o wide swaths o vs, ®< for the transcontinental mail. Thus Ahe feat of mapping even the most little in- the am- “hance to which are of- in 1ke water. ns, the t e. no heacons ared airw: LIEUT. DILL Twelve Federal Bureaus Combine to Insure Success for Work Which Will Provide Ac- THIS TYPE OF SWD PLANE WILL PROBABLY BE INCLUDED IN THE “POLAR BEAR” EQUIPMENT. HAS TRAVELED 75,000 MILES IN A SHIP OF THIS KIND. civilized part of the thousands of is- that compose this archipelego « feat to command the admiration a The Polar Bear 1 humorously desij om, a publication of the air squad- 3on of the battle fleet at San Diego, hive already “hopped off” for their Jong fight north. The is to take immediate ad fine weather there r ©f some occasions. k: has had bu ® month, and the dis precipit: Admiral der of the batile Pacifie, has des Wratt ‘as the flig expedition, oflicers and including era yadio oper: . comman- ting in the i Lieut, Ben H. der of the comprises seven y-eight enlisted men, photographers and who are to do the mctual work of mapping forty thou- #ands n @ungercus terrain, with three Loening amphibiane \ccording to “Hop 5. i The Zoom, the new i bians are “egquipped for o =now, 1 were desicn Toening of New Y Yoening pla &30, and sicess by with Comdr ban and Ver similar to 4" of | mphi- ice wer first ars The ith m expedit in ihe tic rd and e at Pana mine to be n 050 pou ny ma. wail . d in the surves car: Epeed or altitude, anz radius of ture is that the Libe horsepower, is inverted. fusilage and metal, and wher ©f the landine geor rest in pockets on | pectal or, 400 BE USED ON ONE OF THE CHIEF PETTY OFFICER PETERSON HOLDING THE CAMERA TO POLAR BEAR” PLANES. each side of 1! fl‘u iion carrled on by naval officers and the accumulation of scientific data 10 enrich the world we live in has {bean one of the most important re-| +urns rendered by the naval service, nside from primary function of naval defense.” In this connection, it is of interes to vecall that in_the first thirty of the history of steam ve 1 deck | were fifty explosions, with resulting from the | fatalities, far in excess of those be com.|charged to airplanes to-day. Spear. The Geological Survey is sending tem of ' M. Sargent as adviser on questions topography that may come up, as liaison officer between the members of the expedition and the the survey. Th ernational Boundar: which is interested in the state of the timber that was cut back 20 feet IV h side of the boundary line that | P s Alaska from Canada: the Bu- | sheri the Coast Guard, | ! Lighthouse Service, the Fores. | o Service, Federal Power, Bureau ! of Public Roads, and the Coast and | Geodetic Survey, upon whose earlier : are to inter- E minesweeper t nett 1 is to accom ex. en route een co mmuni- 8 verted from tion barge, to s cks and a phic staff. mddition, a boom on Rhat lifts an water, it v . and | W R, t b o a kommunica khe traffic which are at or, St. Pau pstone Poin brook, on a wave length of ©ycles, both to and from our ¥hrough our receiving station. planes are equipped to keep in touch | Svith the flags Calife io, which will be i with a base at San 1 Lieut. Rodd of the g;. ‘tment, and i ixzh-frequency Alaska, Dutch stations in Cor « include the Commission, | | inz to t I d le tes, and, i ‘ Survey, that ha cen | t former work of the Bureau !c Alask: nd i he Pacific Coast beuy @nd Ketchikan, the f expedition. At a luncheon given aerial survey by Navy, t * X Xk X CORDING to a May issué of | A only 43 per cent of ) as been covered MADS, £ a ical Survey twelve G ested in the | made by hoth Army and Nav. of all important harbors and | , Pacific and Gulf | estimates | a equired of | b “The Geological Surv photographs will he «sources of the f the most attempted. ved its|the United States within the terri- . and, ac-| torial limits, under the Temple bill Ad-|program, and that between ten and v ora- | fitteen million dollars will be saved on | ¢ ANNEY. A MINE SWEEPER TO BE USEDIN TRANSPORTATION -OF | Thus n the 1ghly two million square miles of | Coast cities. his project by the use & aerial pho- ography, as cdmpared with what it round survey alon In addition, there is at least 50 per ent saving of time over the old meth- |ods, as three planes fiying in line nder rve present method of aerial can map a strip 12 miles he ing | wide and 100 miles long In an hour’s ime. 5 The Navy is using a tri-lens v which three exposures are made at nce. The central lens covers the area irectly under the plane, and the two wing lenges cover an area of 35 per ent from the vertical on each side. from an altitude of ten thou- feet, strip approximating can be photographed at one e and iles osure “The first air photographs, according o Lieut. Dillon, the executive officer { the flight, who fell last week with is plane en route to Seattle, were all wide by hand-held cameras. He says: They were obliques, and, while hey furnished, valuable information, heir use demo ted the need for a mera from which uld be developed. ‘As a natur result of this need, he K-type, single lens, automatic mer evolved, and was mounted ne in such a way that its ns was parallel to the surface of he earth. which produced a picture ithout distortion. By combining a reliable chart pl successful pictures alac and frequent intervals a map s formed. and topog phers then go over the ground Ad the contours, names and bound- lines to complete the map. M photographs have been avi tors ses on the Atlantiy Sixty vears ago, when the Western States were being settled, many su e, but in a most inac- , according to a recent were ma urate fashion, ATTACHED TO THE PACIFIC FLEET AIR FORCES, WHICH IS THE-EXPEDITION TO MAP ALASKA, iR |report by Thepdore Tilger, American trade commissioner, who says: “The surveyor rode on an ox cart. He had calculated the circumference | of the wheels, and tied a ribbon to a articular spoke and counted the revo- lutions, as he drove all day, using his | compass to set his corner posts at the intervals required by the ievolutions of the cart wheels. The next cay he drove back on the next line 6 miles north. This was a much faster and simpler method than the usual more curate technique and served all pre- liminary purposes. owadays, great accuracy may be obtained with even greater speed and less difficulty with the use of air- plane mapping. Terrestrial stereo- photograph surveys originated with Prof. D. Pulfrich in 1901, but since 1909 the method used is simplified by inventions of V. Orel, which put the system on a commercial basis, The view of a landscape from an airplane gives much the same impres- on as a map, and aerial observation has therefore been employed for war purposes since the beginning of air- craft, but it is only since the World War that it has been developed for land surveying purposes. Surveys which took vears to make n now be completed in a few days or hours, at a fraction of the cost. This is, of course, one reason for the interest taken by rival nations in the latest improvements made in this di- vection by dur Army and Navy avia- tors, who are constantly on the look- out for new designs for airplane cam- eras, that will shorten the actual la- hor of photographing in the a * X % % AVIATION PILOT A. K. ‘who was severely in- jured by a fall in one of the Loening amphibians en route to the base of the Alaska survey on May 26, has recently invented a hand-held camera that was | built by the N: Department work- HIE would cost if the work were done by | men under his supervision. and which ! has ardused great interest. It has a lens of the Bausch and Lomb type, and will be used to take what are known as “fleet pictures,” to | | LIEUT. BEN H. WYATT, WHO COMMANDS THE FLIGHT OF THE “POLAR BEARS” IN | SURVEYING ALASKA. |and since the news leaked out various photographic companies are said to have maneuvered for a chance to offér it commerciall; Mapping a wild region such as a large part of the thousands of little d big islands that form the Alex- nder Archipelago, which was named in honor of a Russian Czar, will be | something like carpeting a room, as the aviators must determine the dis- tances between the “walls” of the area they are to map, and will base their surveys on the present charts that were made by the Coast and Geo- | detic Survey, which has covered the greater part of the coast line of Alaska. This will give them what is known as “ground control,” though it is not yet known on what scale the map will be based. To those in whose conception of Alaska. .there instantly flashes a pic- ture of a desolate waste of perennial Ice and snow it may come as a sur- prise to hear that the mean tempera- | ture of Sitka, for example, is said by the United States Weather Bureau to be 1 degree warmer in January than it is in the city of St. Louis, while the Summer months of July and August are comparable to the same weather to be had in Denver, Chicago and Boston. Thunderstorms are rare, though by no means unknown, but they are usually of the mild variety unlike the “line” squalls frequent in the Central States. In Alaska snow has been known to fall heavily during a thun- phenomenon have" been noted at Juneau within six years. Southeastern Alaska is a region noted for its scenic features, which possess beauty and grandeur, and in- clude tidal waterways, foaming moun- tain. torrents, mountains whose sum- mits are crowned with éternal snows and whose lower slopes are covered WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 6, 1 926— PART 5. Congregationalists Held Services At Capitol in Early Experience Here Period Following Civil War, One in Which Issues Were Bitterly Fought, Resulting in Resig- nation of Pastor and Division of Church. BY THE RAMBLER. HE Congregationalists of Wash- ington made several efforts, between 1847 and 1865, to or- ganize a_church, and that pe- riod of Congregational history was gone over in last Sunday’s Ramble. The denomination grew in Washington during the Civil War and held services In various halls and rooms. For a while—the Rambler does not know how lons—the Congre- gationalists held services in the Uni- tarlan Church building at the north- east corner of Sixth and D streets. | That building came to be more widels | known as the Police Court than it had been as a church, and the present Police Court building occuples the site. In 1832 Trinity Episcopal Church moved from its church bullding on Fifth street, which it had long occu- pied, to its new building at Third and Tndlana avenue. A group of Congre- gationalists made a part payment on the older structure, held services there and got on prosperously for a time. Congregationalism, with its insistance | on abolition of slavery, made little progress in_the District and the con- gregation, becoming small, gave up| the Wifth street building. A later; owner fitted it as o 1i stable. Co- lumblan ¢ bou the stable building wodeled it for college use. I think it i 1865 that the C | the lectur held Sahbath The (4 the Rev. D ConE: our n preached a y I have sat under deeper and more thoughtful pastors. but I never sat! under one whose crisp sentences more happily filled the public ear, unless it was Lyman Be the Beechers. He soon filled the hall.” | When Congress met in December. | 1865, a tommittee of Congregational ists asked Speaker Schuyler Colfax to B. Boynton. A of him: Boynton, with virgin forests of magnificent spruce, hemlock and cedar. i The larger islands are over 100 miles long, and many of the smaller | are less than an acre, but all are; heavily timbered. Scores of glaciers | abound in this part of Alaska, among the most noted of which is the Taku Glacier, which ches tidewater to deposit’ masses of clearest ice in all colors of the spectrum and is visible | to the passing ocean liners. i Westward of Kodiak Island is the | famous volcano Mount Katmi. which | in eruption in 19 there is the Valley of a Thousand Smokes near its summit, which is} spoken of as one of the natural won- ders of the world, and is now a part of the national park system of the | United States. Unfortunately much of the part to be mapped is very | great, and it will be entirely a ques-| tion of luck as to the good weather to | he encountered by the aviators this Summer. Several vears ago. during W trip over the lava fields. B. L. John son of the Geological Survey was handicapped by a season in which | exactly 50 inches of rain fell in a} month in which two days were clear. That was, of course, xomewhat un- usual, but it is one of the reasons that the district still remains unchart- ed in the interior, for. as a member of the Forestry Service tersely put it, for every inch that the timber cruiser climbs up a mountainside he slip Lack about ten. * X % * CORDING to T. W. Norcross, chief engineer of the Forestry Service, that depaftment is tremen- dously interested the expedition. “We have cruised through the Ton- gass Forest,” he explained. “and have an approximate idea of the stand of timber there, but in addition there is a vast area that we know nothing about. “What we are hoping for is that there will be a clear picture that will show new and untapped lakes and reservolrs that may be valuable for water development & “It is extremely difficult to cruise through that section of ka, for as soon as you leave the water and start climbing upward the soil gets very wet and deep, as the air is thick with precipitation. That is why the For- estry Service is looking forward to this photographic survey by the Navy with such hopes. as it is believed that the maps will be made from an eleva- tion of ten or twelve thousand feet., which will in any event delineate the details of lakes, shore line and rivers. “If these pictures are successful, | the survey will probably be requested to fly at a lower elevation, which | would mean that the aviators would need to fly 16 times more in order to cover a density 16 times greater for a map of 4 inches to the mile. “The larger scale photographs made aerially will illustrate the indentations of timber spaces for pluns of adminis- tration work in the Forest Service. It would probably take as a conserva- tive estimate three or more likely four vears to fly so_enormous an area, as the Tongass Forest has a stand of timber of 78,500,000,000 feet. “This is chiefly hemlock and spruce, the former predominating to approxi- mately 80 per cent or even 90 per cent of the whole, and as spruce is far | more valuable for paper pulp produc-{ tion, it is the duty of the forester to regulate the cut so that when the new growth comes in there will be af heavier growth of spruce than of hem- | loel “The time is fast approaching when it will be necessary to tap the un- touched resources of Alaska timber, as the paper situation in the United States grows daily more acute. The important detail is cheap transporta- tion and cheap means of manufactur- ing the pulp, which means, of course, by water power. “More than that, power plants should be located at tidewater level so that each river can be “rafted” right to the pulp mill, which in most } cases is adjacent to the power plant. Sometimes, when the latte has only five to ten thousand ho coor, it i8 transmitted to another pulp inill far. ther up the line, where the “juice” rom both is utl‘lized by means of elec- ransmission. flf’?“l’n‘m we have discovered a num- ber of desirable sites, but we are un- able to use them, as they lack storage Wvater power, and so_we are pinning great hopes on the Navy survey, as it may disclose hitherto unknown and valuable upland lakes and basins. 'Mr. Sargent said, before he left for the coast, that he was hoping to be permitted actually to do some fiying with the expedition, and since he knows Alaska as the experienced New Yorker kwows his Broudway or Fifth avenue, having explored the greater part of it since his first trip in 1898, he should make a valuable guide. It is hoped that every bureau that can be aided in any way by the survey to be made will seek such berefits, and it is probable that, later in the year, was and also i ked over, a more definite plan of :;c-opernfion and assistance will-~be lotted. . Meantime, all h!o bureaus plan to afford ald as uf in the fleld, if requested by the Navy, but the latter are in complete charge and deserve full credit for this daring adventure. . cher, father of all|al i the precipitation in|An audience of nearly 4.000 assembled | | | HAWKI name Dr. Boynton chaplain House of Representativ was done. Later the Congres: : sts asked the loan of the hall of Rep. exentatives for their Sunday s and the request was granted. move did much to extend the influence f Congregationalism in Washington. lavery had been abolished. War had heen fought, and the people of "Southern preferenc Washington before 18 ¥y outnumbered by d were Northern prot and Western people brought to the Capital | by the Government, or drawn to the pital with various purposes, during the war. If the old Southern Washington were not by the newcomers it population of outnumbered 18 rendered nearly dumb by the issue of the war ! and because all public_places of au- thority were held by Northerners or those District natives who had heen loyalists during the war. There was no impediment to the spread of Con- cregationalism in \Washington. Let the Congregational historian speak Then we addressed ourselves to Hon. Schuyler Colfax, speaker of the House, nd told him we wanted the great hall our regul of worship on und: quest ‘and now for the fi vine worship was regu hall of the House of Represen “I have said that Dr. Boynton was u remarkably good sermonizer, and his eloguence and the character of the ice of meeting drew great crowds. every e hall. St an audience was in itself an inspi tion. This audience was undoubtedly the largest Protestant Sabbath audi ence ih the United States, and all this in a church not six months * ok ok ® the matter of the organiza the First Congregational Church of Washington I am going to hand you part of the address made by Walter L. Clift at the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the church, November 1915, Here it is “The first informal gathering ward our permanent church was held October 11, 1865, Rev. E. Robin- on in the chair, when persons agreed to join the new institution The first question that came up was the name to he given the little church. Thirteen names were proposed, the Pioneer Church, the Plymouth Church, h GEORGE H. MORISEY. etc., but the principal controversy lay between the ‘National Congrega- tional Church’ and the ‘First Congre- gational Church’; and the latter final- and parish cordially invited Dr. iCharles B. Boynton to become their pastor—the third time it had been offered to him. He accepted the offer and thus continued in the place held by him since he preached the first sermon before the prospective organ- ization (now our present church) on September 17, 1865, in the Unitarian Church. On November 12, 1865, the members covenanted together, and on the 15thea council assembled to recog. nize the church. Twenty churches were fnvited, but only 9 came. Good of the | the Civil | dominant in | to- ifs follows: “And then came up the question of a site. The Methodists off- ered us the corner of Four-and-a-half and C streets. now occupied by the Metropolitan M. E. Church, for $25,000. But we wanted 4 more central location for the only church of our order. For 75 vears the Van Ness family, the ori- ginal owners of the western half of Washington, had been selling at city prices the pieces of their old tobacco plantation. All had heen sold but one {lot, and that lay at the corner of Tenth and G streets. Tt was promptly bought by the Congregational Church, but it was months hefore we could get the deed, because it had to be sent to | Rome v, for signature. So that {the last piece of land belonging to the | ;original planter l-slave labor v hought by | tional church after slave iabolished throughout the { The Rambler remembers that he {1ooked up the history of the lots owned by the Congregational Church and {Kave you that matter In considerable detall in one of the two rambles on { Dr. Bischoff, the blind organist, long | the master of the organ of that church * % % nily that lived by Congrega ¢ had been is emphasized in the history of the Congresational Church of the North, the Wesi and the District of Columbia that was an anti-slaver; church. 1 thivk that every Congrega- tionalist in Washington, from the meeting of the small group in 1847 down to the Civil War, was an abo- Iitionist, and the men conspicuous in the church history of \Washington { were outspeaking abolitionists. From Imy knowledge of abolitionists, I have no doubt they suid pretty rough things bout people who owned slaves. Most f the abolitionists I have read of ad- e d the colored man as “brother” ed their heart that though God had given a man a black skin he i should be given as good treatment as ‘2 man with a lily complexion and | ftaxen hair. But when, in 1867, three | colored Washingtonians applied for nembership in the Congregational “hurch it almost broke up the church. { i 1 | _ WILLIAM LAMBOR) i ipaper whether the colored persons {were let in or kept out, but my im- {pression is that one was admitted {and that a large part of the congre- cation “asked letters of dismission to found a new church.” Iam not clear ax to_what happened, but no doubt {any Congregationalist could set me {right. Mr. Clift said ‘At that time it was called a qua {rel, but. looking back upon it with the ight of over 20 yvears, I have made mind that it was no quarrel till. this division of sentiment -re were g0od people on hoth sides and people will look at things diffe . Still, htis division of sentiment jis undoubted! mission to the chur cepted hy the j they were |fact., Dr. Boynton preached a sermon {advising people of color to worship { with their own race. At once two of ]lhe three withdrew their applications {for membership. Dr. Boynton's ser- {mon was printed and severely attacked {by every one of our denominational ipapers. ‘The church proceeded at once ito vote that our church doors were {open to all. but they would not dis- {own their pastor's sermon. A request, ysigned by 64 members of the church, iwas now presented asking that a mu- {tual council be called to settle the dif- i ficulties between church and pastor, !but the motion was promptly voted jdown. For many months the battle raged whether a council called where the minorit; large, but it was alws il'he negative by a strictly party vete. ki ME: CLIFT tells of the meeting of a council in January, 1869. and a 'We presented our evidence, narshaled by our leader, William F. | Bascom, and the council found for the {minority on every point presented, and {kreat was rellef to that minority.” iThe minority assumes that the minor- ity was that part of the congregation which opposed the pastor’s stand on the color question. Mr. Clift con- tinues: “Not long after the council depart- ed the pastor stated that he could not meet the expenses of the pastorate without a salary of $3,000. The late iminority, now become the majority, They were ac- mmittee, hut before the first plece to be ! 1 do not make out from Mr. Clift's i i i i | Walter S. Bailey, Ann J. Balley. Julia C. Buker, 1, Harriet Car ter, N. B. Clar] . Nellie R. Clark {Joseph Clarke, Mrs. Julix A. Clarke Josiah in. James S De Iino, Mrs. Delano. Charles * Dailey, Louisa M. Dailey ! Llewellyn Jerome B. Diver. | Daniel Mrs. Fanny W | Baton, Wil Mrs. Margaret R. . Samuel H. Goodman, Mre. { Mary E. Glines, Solomon P. Giddings. {H. R. Grannis, Edwin French, Mrs Mary L. French, Mrs. Olive A. Hop | kins, Silas H. Hodges, Mrs. Julia Ann | Hodges, Lydia S. Hall, James B. John son, Mrs. Louisa E. Johnson, Edwin | A. Kilbourne, David M. Kelsey, Mrs. A. M. Kelsey, Kate F. Keene, A. T. Longley, Mrs. A. K. Longley, Olive J Longley, Charles Lyman, Mrs. Amelia B. Lyman, Mrs. L. Porter Little. uire G. Merrill, Benjamin F. Moy ris, Calvin S. Mattoon, Mrs. Maria W. Mattoon. Mary B. Moore, Mrs. Mary { €. Moors, Willam ¢ | B. Nichols. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Northrop, France: Truman Perry, M lliam Russe sell, Sarah E. Ri iHarrlet H. Russell (Brewer). Eben lezer W. Robinson, Mrs. Sarah B. A. Robinson, Sarah M. Robinson, Emily . Robinson, Mary L. Robinson, } thaniel A. Robbins, John W. Rumsey, Mrs. Mary A. Rumsey, Mary Rumse Sdgerton). Kate Rumsey, Harriet X. Small, William Snell, Mrs. Helen M nell, Roswell H. Steven: a L. Ste vens, Mrs. Catherine S. Stevens, James . Strout, William A. Thompson, Dan- jiel Tyler, Mrs. Levina Tyler, Henry D, vler, William Wheeler. Mrs. Sarah J. { Wheele rd Watson, Mrs. Maril jla M. Watson. Horace T. White, Mrs ne 1. White, Alfred Wallace. muel R. Werd. Mrs. . C. Whitman Mrs. Mar Arsdale, Mrs. Maria Boynton, Charle= - Bailey, James S. At Allen (Howard), F Almirs Mrs Deane . Blake, on. An 1. F < B . Merryfield i.\h's. Amilda McGrew, Margaret Mc Queen, Mrs. Abigail 'Smith. S. W Stacy. Truman W, White, Mrs. Han- {nah_White. When the Rams#r collected his {notes for the Bis-hoff stories a few months ago. Emily E. Robinson and Sarah M. Robinson were still mem | bers of the church, the only members {who were part of the congregation { of 1865, {Taking Alfred W Census of Whales. Even if whales had no value for { blubber. oil and bones, there would be { sympathy with the present enterprise {of the British government in sending {out 1wo vessels—one of them Capt will fire darts with the identification disks, to lodge in the hides and to be !collected at a later date, as evidenc: fof the range, age, habits and long- fevity of these huge mammals of the ocean. ‘The primary aim of the official mis on is to call a halt on the extermi { nation of the beasts that represent {survival of prehistoric monsters. N¢ {long ago the slaughter was whole- ! sale and reckless, as in the case of the buffalo; but even though whales no longer ascend our rivers and the fleets ihave ceased to go forth with their | harpoons and vats to lonely seas, the whale deserves preservation; and the circumpolar lands increase in value the whale will be in_growing demand as a staple article of food, locally ob- | tainable, for an industrial population o e Road-Cleaning Magnets. EEPING the road clean with an electro-magnet is the new idea along the Yellowstone Trail. Nails, {bolts, wire and scrap metal cause punctures, and they are all attracted by a magnet. Therefore, reasoned the road keepers, why not scour the auto road for them by means of a huge magnet? Following out this idea, they out- fitted a motor truck with a large cir- cular electro-magnet hung from the rear, coming to about 4 inches above the surface of the road. From & {miles of road, according to the Edison Dr. Joshua Leavitt was appointed |immediately voted that it could not | Monthly, more than 150 pounds ot moderator, and Dr. Joseph P. Thomp- son preached the sermon. One hun- dred and four persons stood up before that council to constitute the church, and two weeks later 19 more joined. Quite a respectable number to start | the young church into spiritual life. “The next council was held in Cal- {vary Baptist Church, _in October, L G. KIMBALL. derstorm, and two instances of this|when the resuits of this first trip are | 1866, to install the new pastor, Rev. Charles B. Boynton, into the pastorate. Rev. J. C. Holbrook was moderator and the sermon was preached by Rev. Sam- uel Walcott, and the right hand of fel- could now welcome a well known anti- slavery minister inte a Washington D'lm- . CHI® toM of the cholce of a Site jafford to pay over $1.800 a year. { Whereupon Rev. Dr.” Boynton ten- idered his resignation and it was at once accepted. And a paper was pre- sented, signed by 99 members, or half the church, asking letters of dismis- sion to found a new church. The let- ters were at once granted and 94 resi- dent members were left in this church with: an unfinished building on their hands and $60,000 of debt on their property—nearly $600 for every man, {woman and child in the church. To all outward appearance there was no hope of its survival. Nor could it have survived had it not been for the \influence and character of Gen. How- ard, the financial skill and energy of some of its best members and the very liberal donations made by many of its members.” Much of the matter which the Ram- bler credits to Mr. Clift was quoted by him from a paper written by Wil- liam R. Hooper and read at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the church in 1890. Dr. Boynton was succeeded as pastor by Rev. Dr. Jeremiah E. Rankin of Charlestown, Mass. The church historian says: “He was well nown among Congregationalists of New England as a vigorous preacher and warm-hearted pastor, as well as {an ardent friend to that unfortunate {race whose position in this church had been the subject of so much con- troversy."” The Rambler would like to give you the names of all members of this church, but he has space only for those who were its members in 1865: Charles H. Bliss, Mrs. Eliza M. Bliss, Dwight H. Bliss, Mrs. Mary F. Bliss, ' ired, by local men |lowship given by Dr. Sunderland, who | N. B. Bartlett, Mrs. C. H. Bartlett, Lester A. Bartlett,” Hiram Barber, Mrs. Rebecca G. Barber, Charles H. Buxton. Henry A. Brewster, Mrs. P. L, Brewster, Mrs. Rebecca M. Bigelow % nails, wire, and _other bits of metal were caught up by the magnet, m {of which had been covered by dust and invisible until dragged out by the force of the magnetic field. = Speed-Burning Plants. amazing plant that grows sev- eral feet in a few weeks has been discovered in the mountains of Thibet. It is a yellow sorrel, growing only at high altitudes around 15,000 feet, and a patch of the flowers can be seen a imile away, like candle flames, against {the dark moors. The sorrel is buried under the snow until June, when it suddenly pushes its way through and reaches a height of 8 feet in a few ‘weeks. Another Tire Record. | A FTER reading in the World Maga zine of May 9 of the 13 seconds tire-changing record set by J. A. Ken- nedy of Paris, France, J. H. Spear- man, a tire dealer of Plattsburg, N. Y., had himself timed while changin, a tire. He claims to have accomplished the change—off the rim and on again —in 945 seconds. o e T Two-Century Ship. N the Baltic Sea there Is a ship known as the Constance, which is 202 years old and still in sailing serv- ice. " Sweden has a vessel, the Eman- uel, built in 1749 and still engaged in carrying lumber. The Good Intent, a vessel bullt in 1790, was sold at Car- diff in 1919, at the time dojfig regular service, and brought the respectable sum of 31,