Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 26, 1912, Page 5

ee “a ) | SPECIAL SALE Of Children’s Undermusilns A lot of Children’s and Misses’ Undermuslins will be put on sale this week at prices that will surprise you. Every garment substantially made and bears the sanitary label. In some cases will cost you less than the price of the laces and embroidery that trim them. pa * Call and look them over. ~’ | Boys’ Wash Suits $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 Suits in White, Tan and Tan and Blue. These garments are especially well made and just the thing | for summer wear. A NEW SHIPMENT OF PIONEER STORE JOHN BECKFELT | Ladies’ One-Piece Dresses Just Arrived. Call, Look Them Over — GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. lA Worry Reducer | | For Business Men The business man who is con- stantly jumping up and down to talk over his telephone, will save himself much worry and annoyance by having an EXTENSION SET—it carries mes- sages to and from his desk. 84 Cents a Month In Business Places Commercial Manager, No. 67, will tell you more about it, Call up and ask him. New issue of telephone directory to go to press soon. “ MESABA TELEPHONE CO 0. V. Hemsworth, Manager Office No. 67 Residence No. 100 | j = (eee DISTANCE TELEPHONE J) COsers Grand Rapids Villlage Lots 5 DOWN | | AND $5 PER MONTH We have choice residence lots all over town and we are selling them on such easy terms that anybody can buy. $5 down and \ $5 per month is certainly easy. Come in and talk the matter . over. We also~have some choice business lots on our lists. They are for sale on easy terms. REISHUS-REMER LAND COMPANY a SUPERFLUOUS HAIR, MOLES, WARTS Permanently removed by electricity. Exclusive . specialist, expert operator. MISS AMES, 425 Lindley-Skiles Building, 620 1-2 Nicollet, Minne- apolis, Minnesota, Phones: Main 414, Center 3330, Sao {| Alton B. Parker was elected tempo-| ie YAN IS ABOUT THE STATE DEFEATED pews ot tspecia interest t New Yorker Chosen Temporary. Chairman of the Demo- cratic Covention. — i VOTE ON THE QUESTION St. Paul Road and Several of Its Em- ployes Indicted for Criminal Negligence. | ‘The Big Stone county grand jury at Ortonville has returned an indict- |ment against the St. Paul railroad, charging negligence in operation in rary chairman over the Nebraskan by | > a vote of 579 to 506. H | Dec. 18, 1911, in which ten persons | were killed. | | The indictment virtually amounts to | {manslaughter in the second degree, Nebraskan Secured Support of County Attorney A. B. Karcher main- 506 Belegates and Op- | taining that under the circumstances | @ criminal indictment will lie against | the corporation. ponent 575, ; A similar indictment was returned | against L. W. Gillick, conductor of the | first section of train No. 18. Roy | Law, rear flagman of the first section, Baltimore, June 26.—William J.| was indicted on a charge of willful Bryan lost his fight in the national | negligence to obey rules, amounting, Democratic convention when Judge | !2 effect, to a misdemeanor. Train Dispatcher Noonan of Aber- een, although ‘ordered to appear be- ore the grand jury, did not come. He is now at Regina, Canada. Trans- portation was sent him, but he sent Baltimore, June 26.—A last despe-| word that he would not be able to be rate effort to avert a bitter factional | on hand. fight was made by the Bryan forces See when the Democratic convention took ee YOUNG ENTERS THE CONTEST rary — = era i | Another Aspirant for Governor of lines divide that Mr. Bryan himself | Minnesota. became a candidate for the temporary! In a brief announcement Edward T. chairmanship. Young, former attorney general and After Bryan had made a speech | one time candidate for the Republican nominating Senator Kern of Indiana | nomination for governor, has declared and attacking Alton B. Parker, Kern | himself a candidate for the Republican took the stand. He made a plea fire pe nation, for governor under the harmony, asked Parker to join him in | Via uo caeeane pcos asserts withdrawing from the contest for tel" tat he will be a candidate along pro- Porary chairman and substituting any | gressive lines and’ that he will indi- | one of a list of several men. After | cate his principles in a platform he | waiting in vain for a reply from Par-/ wil give out shortly. | ker, Kern himself withdrew and nomi- | Mr. Young says he does not care to | mated Bryan. accepted the nomination and the line- | fight by my friends.” He entered the jup for the final struggle was com- | ecntest, he says, because he believes plete. | his past experience and general knowl- The report of the national commit: | eqge of state affairs have qualified tee, presenting the name of Judge Al- him to give useful service to the state ton B. Parker of New York for tem- | ag its chief executive. | Dies From Burns Caused by Gas Ex- { plosion in Cellar. i Alma Olson, the sixteen-year-old | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence | Olson of Marshall, was burned to | death in a peculiar manner. She was ;sent to the cellar for vegetables for |dinner. The cellar being dark she | took a match with which to light her ; way. As soon as she lighted the match there was an explosion that shook the house and an instant later the girl came running from the cellar, her clothes on fire. She ran to the front lawn and sank to the ground. Parents and neighbors smothered the flames and did all they could for her relief, but she died in a few hours. The ex- plosion is thought to have been due to a gas formation which may have orig- inated from a cesspool inte which the | cellar is drained. | |APPRAISING STATE LANDS | Big Area in Northern Minnesota to Be | Placed on Market. porary chairman, precipitated the| One hundred and fifteen thousand struggle between the progressive acres of state land are being appraised forces, led by William J. Bryan, and under direction of State Auditor Iver- those of the so called “conservative son to be placed on the market this element.” |fall. Thirty thousand acres are in St. Chairman Mack dropped his gavel Louis county, 25,000 in Aitkin, 30,000 at 12:16 with the announcement: |in Roseau and 30,000 in Koochiching. “The convention will be in order. The| Mr. Iverson within the past week sergeant-at-arms will clear the aisles.” has sold 1,700 acres at public sale at Confusion followed as the officials Aitkin, 600 at Duluth and seven lots endeavored to get the delegates and in Gheen. - spectators into their seats. | Mr. Iverson would make no definite Following the reading of the call statement about entering the'race for Chairman Mack introduced Cardinal governor. Gibbons for the invocation. The great | RES ses audience rose and stood during the | prayer. The great vaulted convention | SENATOR NELSON MAY Quit hall was steeped in silence. | Chairman Mack directed the an-! nouncement of the temporary organiza- | b> oshienies tase amie tion. Assistant Secretary Smith be-| According to a rumor in Washing- gan to read: ‘ton Senator Nelson has concluded not “Temporary Chairman Alton B. Par- | to be a candidate for re-election. Sen- ker of New York.” lator Nelson said he would make no He was interrupted by a cheer. The | statement. band joined in with, “Oh, you beauti- | He will announce in a day or two ful doll.” | what he will do. | To all inquiries the senator replied the easccretary then proceeded with at a statement he would made later paste | would answer whether or not he will ‘As the list was concluded Mr. Bryan *¢¢# Teelection. stepped forward and placed Senator | Kern of Indiana in nomination for Martin Is Gordon’s Manager. temporary chairman. In doing so he; James A. Martin of St. Paul, active declared he stood for any man other | Republican leader for a number of than Parker, conservative or progres- years, former chairman of the state sive. board of control and prominent in the At the conclusion of Mr. Bryan’s | campaigns for Governor Van Sant, J. speech Senator Kern took the platform ¥, Jacobson ani Judge L. W. Collins and nominated Bryan for temporary | of Minneapolis, will assume charge of | chairman. The Nebraskan again ad-|:he Gordon gubernatorial campaign. dressed the convention accepting the| This announcement was made at the nomination and after further debate | headquarters of the lieutenant gov- of fifteen minutes on each side the|ernor at the Merchants hotel in St ALTON B. PARKER. Rumor in Washington Has It He Will “© RESULT OF ODESSA WRECK|} —- NEARLY EVENLY DIVIDED | connection with the wreck at Odessa | HomeCourse In Road Making 15 per cent. The careful engi will set his grade stakes not t fifty feet apart, and in no should they be over a hundred, and these will serve later for the macadam work. in grading ample material should be left to form the shoulders. Care should be used in properly slop- ing cuts and fills to avoid as far as pos- sible settlement of material. A siope of not less than vpe and one-half to one should be used. Care should also be taken to have the gutter grades sv fixed that there will be at least a fall of six | inches in each hundred feet in order to provide surface drainage. In general, any stone that is to be used in road building should be test- United S D ed for hardness, toughness, resistance of Agriculture. to wear and binding or cementing val- Copyright pcremaer Press Asso- ue. The specific gravity, weight per i cubic foot and water absorbed are also ; | determined. With such data as this in | HEN it is considered that 2| hand and a knowledge of the volume | rise of one foot in a hun-! and character of traffic to which the ate X.—The Macadam Road. By LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director Office of Public Roads, dred increases by about/road is subjected the engineer can twenty pounds the amvuunt| make an intelligent selection of the | of force required to haul a load of one | best available material. While the dia- ton the question of grades is one not! bases, diorites and basalts, all com- | to be overlooked in road building. The | monly known as traprock, in general | character of the soil and natural drain-| meet the conditions where macadam | age conditions have much to do with | roads are necessary, yet it is unwise to | the cost of maintenance. Therefore too | select a rock by species alone, as they | much consideration cannot be given to | all vary greatly. | location. The main points to be dealt | There are two distinct types of bro- | with are (1) directness, (2) grade, (3) | ken stone road in use today, known as | natural drainage and (4) character of | macadam and telford roads. The mac- | the soil. | adam road of today is so different from | The foundation to be built for any | the type specified by Macadam that the | road should depend largely upon local | relation is hardly recognizable. By the | conditions. Some soils of a gravelly na- | best practices used this road consists in | ture make the best foundations and|a foundation course of two and one- | will be sufficient without treatment | half inch stone of varying thickness. other than grading upon which to con- | This foundation should be thoroughly | struct a macadam road. | rolled with a steam roller and not more ; |use the stereotyped excuse, “I have | Again Bryan took the platform. He been forced into the gubernatorial | YOUNG GIRL LOSES HER LIFE | | Soils that are of a clayey nature or | | that contain pockets of quicksand, un- | stable earth or organic matter are} | treacherous and require special treat- | than a thickness of five or six inches rolled at a time. On top of this is placed a three or four inch layer of one and one-half inch stone, and after thor- oughly rolling a layer of rock screen- ings below three-quarters of an inch in | size is spread. This layer of screenings | should be sufficient only to fill the sur- face voids of the wearing course and should not be applied all in one layer. Each application of screenings should be rolled in before the next application is made. After the surface has been thoroughiy filled with screenings the road should be well sprinkled with a watering cart and rolled with a steam roller until it is thoroughly bonded. This rolling should continue until the surface ceases to wave in front of the roller. Stone should never be dumped on the road, and if specially devised spread- ing wagons are not used the stone | should be dumped on boards and spread |from them on to the road. The con- THE MODERN MACADAM ROAD. |Ment. In such cases the unstable ma- terial should be removed and replaced | with gravel or sand, and wherever | practicable the earth subgrade should be thoroughly rolled, preferably with a steam roller, and made to conform in | crown or camber to the surface of the | finished road. Sandy subgrades may be |improved by the use of a thin layer of clay or soil. sential in road building, (1) surface drainage and (2) subdrainage. There are three essential points to be con- \sidered in connection with surface drainage. (1) The surface of the road should be of such a shape that water will quickly drain from it to the side | ditches; (2) the side ditches should be adequate in size to carry, without overfiow, the maximum rainfall, and they should be of such depth and | grade that water will travel easily to low points on the road, and (3) from the low points there should be suitable outlets to convey the water to the natural drainage of the country. Water should never be permitted to ,Pemain under a macadam road; con- | sequently subdrainage must be resort- jed to at times. Water softens the | foundation, allows the broken stone to be forced into it by the traffic, and in freezing it expands and dislodges the | broken stone, destroying the bond. | There are several ways of removing |the subsurface water, (1) by raising | the subgrade; (2) by side drains con- sisting of narrow trenches filled with | broken stone, with a pipe five or six Hinches in diameter near the bottom. A drain of this type should have fre- | quent side outlets. On hillsides a pipe | or culvert is carried under the road at suitable points. | Another type of subdrain that is | much used in Massachusetts is the “V drain. It consists in shaping the sub- | drain in the form of a “V,” the angle | | being at the center of the road. This is filled with coarse stone up to the | foundation grade and has frequent side outlets. This type is rather expensive | |and very frequently can be dispensed | with by raising the subgrade with suitable sand, gravel or clay. | Another type of drain practical for | |bide hill locations is a subside drain, |located on the upper side of the road | to intercept and provide an outlet for | Feaches the road proper. Great care should be used in properly | grading a road. The practice in America is generally ito place the maximum grade at 5 per jeent for important roads, as a horse {ean trot without difficulty up such a grade, and another important consider- ation in connection with grades is that 8 macadam surface can only be main- tained at great cost on steep grades. in fixing the grades the engineer should so adjust the cuts and fills as to make the least possible waste of mate- rial, and in this he must not overlook the fact that some materials shrink to A great extent when taken from the euts and placed in the fills. This va- ties with the material, but averages There are two forms of drainage es- ' surface and ground water before it ! jtractor should be required to place about a hundred tons of No. 2 stone land screenings at a convenient place | for each mile of road built for the pur- pose of making future repairs. | The telford road of today varies only | from the macadam road in that it has ja hand paved foundation course, con- |sisting of coarse stone eight or nine {inches in its greatest dimensions. These stones are placed on edge in the subgrade by hand on their broadest ! bases and at right angles to the line of | the road, and all irregular portions are broken off with hammers. This type of road was first designed by a French engineer named Tresaguet | forty years in advance of Telford. The roads built by Telford had flat sub- grades, but those constructed by Tre- saguet had cambered subgrades, which |are supposed to have the effect of a keystone arch, and this is the form in which they are constructed today. It is rather an interesting fact that in France practically all of the broken stone roads are of the Macadam type, while in England they are largely of the Tresaguet or Telford type. Experience has proved that the only |way in which roads can be kept in | good condition and at reasonable cost |is by continuous and intelligent main- tenance. It is a mistaken although un- fortunately general impression that jcertain types of road are permanent. |No permanent road has ever been con- | structed or ever can be. Gutters, catch basins and culverts ;ought by all means to be kept clean, }and smal] gullies in shoulders should be filled before they become too large. |The loose stone which nearly always {appears on the surface of a macadam* road the first spring after it is built should be raked up and stacked for fu- ture use. Small holes and incipient \* POORLY OONSTRUCTED MACADAM ROAD. (ruts should be filled as soon as they appear with the same kind and size of stone as that used in the surface course. | If small defects are attended to when | hey first appear it will be unnecessary |bo resurface the roud until it is worn entirely through to the foundation course. When the surface course is worn out it ought to be spiked up with & steam roller or scarifier and this fol- lowed by the spreading of a three inch layer of one and one-half inch rock. This is rolled, bonded with screenings and sprinkled in the same manner as the top course was originally construct- ed, after which the road will be as good as new. —