Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 7, 1913, Page 2

PAGE TW CEMENT CONSTRUCTION 1s the work that will be fouud bes for the CELLAR GARAGE CURBS WALKS " FOUNDATIONS | Modernizes your property, make» ) 1 look better and haves you meme' ‘,, ®. cutting down repalr costs. ] Bee us for estimate. B LAKELAND ARTIFICIAL ‘ STONE WORKS H. B. Zimmerman, Prop -The Professions DR. SAMUEL 7. SMITR BPRCIALISY. i Xye, lar, Noso and Throns @lasees Bcientifically Prescsih: Phone: Office, 141; Resideacs, | OZ. W. R. GROOVER, PHYSICIAN AND SURURUN Rooms § and ¢ Keatuexy d.oy 1 Lakoland, Florida, b i 8 ) DR N. L. BRYAR, 3 DENTIST. ,8kipper Bullding, Over Pestole Phone 889, " Residence Phone 300 Rea LAKELAND, FLA. DR. C. C. WILSON— PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON b Special Attention Gven to Diseam i of Women and Children. Ofe f Deen-Bryant Bldg., Suite 9. i Phone 357. t W. B. NOON, M. 5. i PHYGICIAN AND SURGESON. 8 Ofiee 1o new Bkipper Sullding ove i postofies. Telophone, ofies and e denee oa same lae 386, KELAEY BLANYOE LAWYER 2 0. Blig. Phene 019, Lainglend, SR GARAK A WIRELED P GSTAOPATE PEYSICEAN Becms §, ¢ and 7, Bryant Bulblin ] Ofce Phens 3Y8 Blus fouse Fieng 70 Blash 3 e e e SRSy ' 6. K & K. D. NENDEKRAIZ Civil mnn-mmmln LAKELAND, FLA. Phosphats land etaminatien. o Bluepriatiag, | A J. MACDONOVGR ! Bosm ¢ Deea & Brrant B4y Architeat. Bowest 1dses in Bungalew Degigm, oy = e BONTOEY, ELLIOT? g & MENDENHALL Associated Arehitests 3 Room 313 Draae Bullding § Lakeland, Fia. D 0. ROGRRS, Seom 1, Bryant' Beune Phone 269. Lakeland, Fiorits 3 B EUTTAXIR, w—Attorney-at-Iaw— Reer 1 Btuart Bidg Bartew » IR W. £ IRVIM DINTINY Retadlished fn July, 1900 Roems 14 and 16 Kentuoky Butia Phenes: Cffice 180; Restdomse © JEREMIAR B. SMITH NOTARY PUBLIC. Leans, Investments 'n Real Mstas fiave some Interesting snaps in of¢ And suburban propérty, farms, o WE VCLE SAM’S treasury building at Washington covers two en- tire city blocks. In this build- ing there are thirteen immense vaults, and several smaller safe vaults, in which are safely packed away billions of dollars in gold, silver, | greenbacks and securities. The vaults are wonderful in Intricate construction. They are sur- rounded by thousands of highly ! charged wires embedded in solid con- crete, any one of which will give an | alarm instantly if touched by any per- ! 8on not intrusted with the secret com- bination. Each vault is about twenty- five feet wide by thirty feet long, and are built of reinforced concrete four and a half feet thick and strong In proportion. The vaults are as nearly burglar-proof as human ingenuity can make them. Doors Are Strong. Electricity, applied by the most modern method, protects the treasure. Each of the vaults is completely sur- rounded by a network of electric wires placed two inches apart. The doors of the vaults being sufficlently strong to resist any attempt to enter them, it is absolutely impossible for anyone to gain entrance to this treas- ure house without giving an alarm that will bring out instantly the cap- tain of the watch and his entire force of guards, for the minute an electric wire {8 cut or even touched the alarm s sounded, and the guardians of Un- cle Sam's treasure at once get busy. The financial transactions of the government are conducted on a scale of such magnitude as to seem almost incredible. For instance, during the period of thirteen years from 1897 to June 30, 1910, the accounts settled in the office of the auditor for the treas- ury department aggregated the Im- mense sum of $68,181,000,000, an aver- age of nmearly $5,250,000,000 a year. This vast sum embraces the income and expenditure of the government, the issue, redemption and exchange of currency, accounts of mints and assay offices, customs, internal revenue, etc. Tt does not, however, include transactions relating to the postal service, the revenues of which for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, amounted to $203,562,383.07, and the expenditures §221.004,102.89, It is not generally known that the United States today holds the largest | stock of gold of any nation in the| world. The amount of gold in the United States is more than three times as large es that of Great Britain. It more than equals that of Great Bri- taln and France, Great Britain and Germany, or Great Britain and Russia combined. Interesting Figures. A number of interesting facts re- garding the silver dollar were discov- ered during the writer's investigation of this subject. For instance, 1,000 new standard dollars will weigh exactly 58.92 pounds. If the country’s stock of 564,604,719 silver dollars were loaded into freight cars of 60.000 pounds or thirty ton's capacity, it would require more than 555 cars to carry them. If these same silver dollars could be laid flat, one on top of another, they would make a monument 835 miles high. If placed end to end they would make a handsome “necklace” 13,350 miles in length. Or they would make a belt that would extend more than halt way around the world. One theusand dollars in new gold colns weighs 3.68 pounds. Uncle Sam's stock of gold, therefore, {s their - - UNCILEE, S TRIEASURIE , VAULTS, ING COIN AT TREASURY %Z/;A |8 A Do not making 2= The lucky ones (o our ad were “Get Lakelan:! X bad < How to Find Out If the Fabric I8 All That Is Claimed for It by Merchants, not, boil a sample in a strong solution equivalent to about 3,009 tons, which would require a train of 100 cars to carry it, each car having a carrying capacity of more than 60,000 pounds. Another interesting fact in connec- tion with paper money is that a mill- fon crisp, new $1 paper bills, it placed one on top of another, would make a column about 260 feet in height, or nearly half as high as the Washington mounument, United States paper currency is Is- sued in denominations of $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000. The notes are put up in store. The wool will dissolve with unharmed. the other fibers untouched. ter. packages containing $4,000 of each de- | hol. This will dissolve the cotton | & Visiting brethrea cerdsadly 1n | —————————3 nomination. So while a package of | and leave the linen untouched. Use | rited. J. C. OWENS, W. M. | Lake Ledge Neo. 1 lher 4,000 $1 silver certificates, about seven | & small stick when testing. It only J. 7. WILEON, Gecy. |™eets Priday nights at 1 inches square, contains but $4,000, yet a similar size package of $10,000 gold certificates contains the equivalent of $40,000,000, The nucleus of the present building was authorized by act of congress July 4, 1836. The building was com- pleted in 1842, It extended along Fif- teenth street and was 340 feet long by 170 feet wide. By the act of March 3, 1855, the continuation of the building was authorized. The south wing was completed and occupied in 1861. Op erations were suspended during the Civil war for a while, but in 1864 the west wing was completed. Immedi- ately adjoining this wing at the north end of the east wall was the west end of the old state department building. In November, 1866, this building was vacated by the department, and it was immediately demolished. The work of laying the north wing of the building became necessary In May, 1867. In 1869 this wing was finished, thus completing the building as it stands today. The dimensions of the building today are 468 by 264 feet, The treasury of the United States in a broad sense embraces the treas- ury at Washington as well as sub- treasuries located in many principal cities; thirteen mints and assay of- fices,, and about 2,000 national banks, in all parts of the coutnry, designated as depositaries The treasurer of the United States is charged with the receipt and dis- bursement of all public moneys de- posited in the treasury at Washington and in the various sub-treasuries and natiomal bank depositaries. - He is also‘ paid for. srunumcr GOWN redemption agent for national bank notes, and trustee for bonds held to secure national bank circulation and public deposits in national banks, as well as fiscal gaent for the payment of interest on the public debt. He is a bonded official, and the financial re- sponsibilities attached to his office are tremendous. Borrower Who Really Came Back. Contributed from the stock yards: Late in the afternoon a poor old back number “hog man” stood at the side of one of the agents in the Exchange building. “It's a long ways home,” he said, ‘and 1 haven't a nickel for car fare. Let me have a dime. I'l return ft Saturday.” “All right,” sald the agent, handing out the money, never thinking of thflt faraway “Saturday;” but he was mis. taken. Some weeks later at about the same hour he came, asking: “Are you the man I got a dime from for car fare one day?” was. “I thought so. Let me have another,” And he got it.—Kansas City Star, toilar and jabot. Rugs and Art Squares sold during July, “And They Are Shure Moving Some.” TEST YOUR DRESS SAMPLES | To find out whether a fabric claim- ed to be all wool contains cotton or of caustic soda, obtained at any drug this test, and if there is any cot- ton in the sample it will remain To test silk, soak a sample in con- centrated hydrochloric acid, ‘which will at once dissolve the slik, leaving Linen suspected of containing cot- ton should first be boiled in clear wa- After drying place the sample for seven minutes in a mixture com- posed of three parts nitrate of potash, ‘Wash thu sample again and dry; then place in a mixture of ether and alco- takes a few moments to make a test, and you are then sure of the quality | Model of gray and black checked | | oIk, with accordeon plaited skirt and The smiling agent answered that he PlaiR panels front aud back. Lace overlook the fact that we are a 20 per cent reduction on all to receive Rugs in getting correct words MRS. O. G. STONE MRS. W. S. PATTERSON Wise” And See Us | Furniture & Hardware COMPANY 1 SEREESEEESEED [ A7 Aar/ At ] o, ) ORDER OF EAGLY The Vraleraal Order o @mosts overy Wednesds) 1:30, at Odd Feliows’ hall J. M. WILLIANSG, B M. SMAILS BRICKLAYERS, MASCNIL | UNION, LOCAL NO. 13 0F Moots eaek Thursy) Morgan & Groqver Bates’ Dry Goeds Ston brethers welcome. Bloera Redexub ivihpelves Mmoot every seeend and tevorms United Bretharkood of Gr sghmai 1 6. 0. “‘,."‘J and Joiners of Amorita, Losal 1776 , 188 brothers and sistary ' wanotuad Lodge No. ¥, F. & A 4. Regular communications held o1 ’ socond and 4th Mondays at 7:30 MRS. F. C. LONGMAY MRS TLA BELLERS b 9. 0. P, halt. Visiting Wi UD' covdlally tuvited. 1by J: L. REYNOLDK! ‘2 R. B, KIMMERMLT ] mmvfl‘u.' K orD Rogular wmeeting over; fuesds) & 7:80 at Odd Fellows Hall Vish tg wembers always welesme P. D. BRYAN. Chanesller Commander + & _ACREON, Becretary - ONCRONNONIONAINIMAHCRRRART L A K# PHARMA} POST 23, 6. A R Moote the first Saturday In oveny @oath at 10 o m. at the home ¢ | Bg companions welsemed Lessard, K P.; J. P. Wilsea, Sesy e Lakeland Camp No. 78, W. 0. W. meets every Thursday night. Wood- v men Circle first and third Thursday - afternoons at 3:00 o'clock. ., J. We Have Tamp’ . Ettridge, Council Commander, Mrs. Sallie Scipper, Guardian of Circle. ———— e POLX KNCAMPMENTY ¥0.3,1L0.0. Polk Baeampment Ne. 3, 1. O, ¢ Mon F., mosts the first and thimg days. Visiting Patriareds weleomss P. A. MeDONALD, Seribe. | H. B. ZIMMERMAN, | Chief Patriareh, | We Take Orders'as! Anywhere {0t City P e & lLAtwBela { Urange Blemsemn Div, No (1 ] (@ 1 A to B of L B mests -ever; socond and fourth Wodnesdays o | | sach mentd at 3:80 b B Visiting Sisters always welcome. | MRA J. C. BROWN ey {Meets every Tuesday Right at ! [o'slock, at MeDonald’s hall, | R. L. MARSHALL, President . 3. W. LAYTON, Vies Prea the. 3. W. LOGAN, Treasurer m—— ! H. FELDS, Fin. Seey. be | Erswmouiess TRANSFER L N. L COX, Conduoter Draying and Havling of ‘1t I8 ;A"‘ “.mm'.‘ | Prompt ana Reasonsble !c.: lc-. L WILLOUSuBY, Gu::::“ V‘E - | Phone 67 Green Last BPOR - . Lakelang Lodge No. 1391, Benevo ent and Protective .Order of Eiks 57 {a meets every TbuM.y night {a lodge U3 me PLA“ ‘T? c Tooms ever postofice. Visitiag breth PECIAL DESIGN S TR ARy GEORGE MOORE §, R o g ' : ren eordtally v SAVE TIME & MO _ORDER YOUR_, X HEY'*,"Z o e S HALT TONES