The New York Herald Newspaper, September 24, 1876, Page 5

We 4 impetus to ship building at nearly overy one of the / ing these days adventurous Yankeo sloops of war would . THE LAST DAY. Illustrations and Deseriptions of the Scene of the Great Explosion. A NEW LINE OF WATER FRONT Important Changes That Will Follow the Clearing of Hell Gate Channel, THR GRIDIRON, THE POP AND THE PRYING PAN Ultimate Removal of ali the Rocky Obstructions. ATIOSPHERIC AND TERRESTRIAL VIBRATIONS. General Abbott's Measurement of the Velocities of the Shock Final Preparations Completed at the Big Mine FAREWELL CHEBRS OF THE WORKMEN Particulars Respecting the Monster Charge and Its Distribution. WAITING FOR THE SIGNAL. To-day, at three o’clock in the afternoon, the final ‘blow in the great battle with the Hallott’s Point reef will be struck by General Newton, with every pros- pect of achieving a complete victory over the rocky enemy. Perhaps since the introduction of Croton ‘Water into New York no event has created such a gen- eral excitemont as this great Hell Gate explosion. The former was, of course, unattended with any danger, but was an occasion of general rejoicing and enthusiasm, but tho latter is one into which the ele- ment of danger enters to give additional interest to itgin ‘he popular mind. Tho ecene of the explosion, which is iilustrated to-day in the Hzraxp in a twofold manner— Shat is by a map of the channel and approaches of Hell Gate and of the adjacent lands, and also by a bird's-eye view of the theatre of operations from an elevated point at the northern end of Blackwell’s Isiand— is one of historic as well as present interest, In the course of the series of articles published in the Hunato, descriptive of the character and progress of the works at Hulleti’s Point reef, occasional reler- @nce was made to the story of Hell Gate in the early days of the occupation of Manhattan Island by tho fol- lowers of Heindrick Hudson and their immediate suc- @essors: But i+ was not until the war of the Revolution that the obstructions in the channels assumed any great importance, because pre- vious to that timo the tonnage of trading vessels along the New England coast was Very small The exigencies of the struggle gave an Y Sound ports, so that in a few years aftor the Declara- Mon of Independence the records show that Hell Gato Decame a familiar name in the mouths of seamen and hat its terrors for the navigator grew in proportion as the tonnage of vessels was iwereased and with the extension of the commerce of New York. When the Americans collected the lew vessels that constituted their navy they found themselves far overmatched by tho swarming cruisers of the enemy and scarcely yever dared to meet him on the high soas for the stmple reason that his ships and armamont were invariably heavier than theirs, But whenever a chance of dyut- ing the Englishmen on anything liko equal terms pre- sonted itself, the hardy American seamen eagerly em- braced it and generally wona handsome victory Dur- ‘venture very close to the English lines at New York in ‘the hope of picking up a prize from among the mer- ehantmen that supplied the city and garrison with Provisions and munitions of war, the Americans would generally slip into tho Kat River from the Bound by the channel now guarded by Fort Schuyler and Fort Willett’s Point The daring captain and crew, keenly alive to their danger, were erally familiar with the Intricate windings of the channels and the location of every pointed rock and treacherous reof, and relied, in the event of pursuit by the Britizh ships, on tho chances of the latter striking on some of the obstructions and coming | to grief. The famous novelist Fenimore Cooper de- scribes such a chaso in the most graphic manner in his story, “Tho Water Witch; how the Enghsh ship fol- lowed closely in the wake of the flying Yankee, Dut did not caro to crippie him, as ho gave by his movements the only clew by which the pursucr could treud the labyrinth of the rocks and escape ction. Trying to escape the Gridiron, the fated 1 might come on the Frying Van, or lucky enough to miss that rock, would be almost certain to tumvie over the Pot Rock. Getting on the Hoag’s Buck at Heli Gate is by no means u proot of a successiul eareer; and the sailors whose ship would strike on Holmes’ Reef would be likely never to see their own homes again. fhe naming of the different rocks ‘was evidently done in a The least inviting of them, even to a seaworn ava hungr: {s called the Bread and Cheese, whil harmless fowis as the hen and chicken furu: for a group of rocks big enough to sink the Gr ern if sho fouled the In point of hardness the Negro Head Rocks wit torpare favorably with tho skulls of our colored iel- low citizens if Dame Rumor does justice to their density and eapacity for hard knocks, the Great and Little Mill rocks are calculated to grind a vessei to powder should she dritt between them and get Saught om their rugged lodges, while like sentinels pusraiog a causeway Way’s Reel, Shelldrake Rock and @ about to be demolished Hullett’s Point Reet are aligned in battie array. Branching trom the area known as Hell Gate proper ere channels leading in three directions, Oug of these connects with the mouth of the Harlem iver, which lies westward of the group of islands and berween thein and the city of New York. Another leads di- rectly to the Sound, whiie the third, divided mto two by Biackwell’s Isiund, leads to the Bay of New York, Which it enters ut Governor's Isiand. All three, ws will beseen from the map, unite at Hell Gate, aud are dependent on the clearitig of that passage for their baviguble value as paris of a sysiem o1 water commu- Rication, The greater part of the water trout shown on the accompanying map is rendered valuo- less fur commerce by reasun of the obstructed channels, therefore one can readily estimate tho Advantages that must accrue to wat great imeerest by the improvement now in progress. IL owieg to the blockade of the chunnel at ff hs dia have been devoied to puvlic institutions, ‘@ adimiraole in their way, but unproductive to the wellaro of the city commercially, and should, Merefure, not ovcupy so muct valuable space, that Was intended by nature for other purposes, Whie New York has grown to be the metropuiis of the ut the settlements along the Long Island shore, such as Astoria and Fiusuing, aud on the West- chester side, as well, have made no progress compara- tively, although they are armost ax old as New York. The local effect, (herotore, must be immense when the el dangers of Heil Gate are removed. hew fleld will be opened for the extension of our commercial and mapulacturing business which cannot fail to add to the ry rity of both, The iliustrations published bere- with give the clearest ideu ot the surroundings of the great blast = The view from iackwell’s id embraces the New York sho: Pojnt, (he soutnern shore of Ward's [siand facing Hell Gate. ‘be water tront of Astoria, including the flooded shalt, into which the expioding wires ure led trom the great batrer jn the bomb-proot; the area of the peninsula of Astoria with the butidings thereon; the firing poimt at which the operator will stand wh the ctreait is cios the tlocd rock, now tially excavated and surrounded with @ wail uiit of the débris and the great mill rock opposite the mouth of the Hariem River—all tb po! und places can be located as to their relative positions on ihe map, which gives @ more extended field than the opposite Hallett’s 2 Vi ‘Tho str of New York and Astoria «ro named ty faciittate the location” of the various effects pro- fluced by the explosion, the directions of the shock and lerrestial or aimo-pheric phenomena that may result thereirom, ATMOSPHERIC AND TERRESTIAL VINRATIONS, Sound is the eflect provucea on the ear by an im- pulse imparied to the air by a blow or any ot! den local disturbance. A noise rep pulse such as that produced by the firing of | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1876—QUADRUPLE SHEET. ay eatin” VA HALLETTS POINT REEF. Lunatie ISLAND Asylum HAMILTON AV. RAVENSWOOD; 1--MAP OF THE HELL GATE CHANNEL AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. Homeopathic Hospital No. 2—View of the Scene of To-Day’s Great Explosion, the Shaft, the Bombproof and the Firing Point. § or a Diast, and simply causes an unpleasant jar on the organs of hearing. A musical sound, on tho other band, is produced by a series of blows periodically delivered; which generates a wave or vibration of a certein length or duration. Thus a impulses, regularly received, will not cries of ‘nolses, but asa pleasing and ound. When the air ix struck by a sound- ing body the particies of the air pext (hat body impart a motion to those next beyond, which 1 one of con- densati id rarefication, or backward and forward, like the oscillations of a pendulum along tho line of progagation. A part of the energy of motion of the body struck is transmitted to the air, which is the medium of conveyance by whieh the sound reaches the ear. Thus asound is impossible ina vacuum. As in the case of uf , when a wave of sound strikes an ob- staclo—a wail, for instance, or the side of amountain— it 18 reflected by that surfi being oqual to the angle of reflection—that is, if the wave strikes the wail at angle of thirty degrees with the surface of the wall, it will be eoted at a similar angle on the opposite eof a line perpendicular so the surface, Echoes are simply the return of a sound by retleetion from surinces, aud the echoes of the echoes themsclves aro produced by the repetitios of the same process. Tho Velocity 01 Souad in air 1g equal to about 1,100 feet per second, Thus, by observing the flash of a cannov and noting that five seconds ciapse before the report is , itis known that the gun is distant about 6,500 or @ little more than a mile While the ity of sound {8 found not to vary with the density of the air, its intensity depends on that condi- tion, “It varies, however, wit temperature, tra’ faster in warm air than im cold The inten: sound diminishes from the point of propagation tn- versely as the square of the distance, so that tho differ- ence of the iwtensity of sound between two points, one 100 feet trom the centre and the other 200 tect, will be as4isto 1, From this data it will be easy to calculate the degree of decrease of the sonid of the Heli Gate expiosion between any two or more poinis on the surrounding country, fhe motion linparted to the matter surroundiag tho crater of tho expiosion will be partially transmitted Whrough the various media. composing the mags, according to their vibratory qualities, To distin’ guish nature of the difference between thexo “ is only necessary to cite the cases of two metais—iron d lead, The firs: when struck a blow vilrates throughout its enure mas, with a clearly perceptible movement of the particies. Loud, on the other lund, does not exhibit the same Vibratory qualities. as it dues not respond throughout its muss to @ Concussion at any part thereat, This is, perhaps, the extrome of difference im metals, but tt co, th angle of incidence serves wo jlingirate the meanmg of vibratory action, Now, we will suppose (hat the formations lying between Now York and Newark are maue up of Various kinds of rock—gneiss, traprock, granite, and, say limestone—the effect o! Btroug coheussion pro- duced in New York on the rock at Newark would be very different from that which would re- | Namber of holes with primer sult if the formation throughous , was all com- posed of uy one of the above named rocks, Deep marshes, sand veins, water in deep clan- nels und all the varying formations (hat lie between points modify the intensity of the terrestrial vibration Mm accordance with their vibratory character; but itis plain that ifa formation of Jow vibratory quality inter- venos between two of a higher capacity the more dis- tant of the latter will not receive more than can be transtoitted by the interinediate one, These conditions have special relation to the transmission of shocks transversely to the line of stratification, Along that line the conditions are different. Take a solid beam of timber thirty feet long with a straight Sbre, Now, ifa common pin is scratched against one ead of this beam the sound can be distinctly heard by applying the oar Ww the other end, Let - pose that a long, narrow and formation like t Hallott’s Reet extends north aud south ior many miles. [1 is probable that the shock at five miles either way will be more felt than at halt a mile from the explosion on a line perpendicular to the Hine of the stratiication. The experiments of General Abbott will be of the greatest value in determining this difference, and will. form not the least important of all those mado in connection with this grand under- taking. ‘ THE END REACHED AT Last. Seven years of severe stady, stern toil and patient expectation on the part of General Newton and bis as- sistants will be crowned at nine minutes before three o'clock this atternoon, when the electric current will speed through the mine upon its mission of demoli- tion. It was atter midnight when the workmen em- ployed in making the connections between the ends of the wires in the battery-house completed their labors and quitted the ground. Yesterday afternoon Captain Mercur made the following ¢eport of the explosives in the mine to General Newton :— WHAT WILL BLOW UP THR REEP + Govensaayt Works, Astonia, LL, September 24, 1976, Grxerat Joun Newrox — E The following ure the numbers and weights, which you desired me to give you, via: — Pounds, Dynamite in tin cartridg: + 24,812 Dynaun + 1,164 Dyuamite in priming cartridges 2.925 Total dynamit + 28,001 Rendrock tn tin cartridges. + 9001s Vulcan powder in paper curtridge + 4, Total charge in mine + 62,206% Total number of tin cariridges 13,696" Total number of brass pri:ne 8,680 8,645 Number of iron pipes. 85 Numoer of holes ebar P . 188 Pipes...... 4,462 Number of fect of connecting wire, about.... 100,000 Number of feet of leading wire... 2 120,000 The number of celis in the priming battery 1s 960, consisting of 12 batteries of 40 cells cach, 4 batteries of 43 cells each and 7 batteries of 44 cells cach. Distance from tiring pomt to the shaft about 650 feet Respecyfully, JAMES MEKCUR, Captain Engineers, U. & A, Tho work of Inserting tho primers was not com. ploted until nearly ono o'clock yesterday morning. The men worked above and below ground by the light of mivers’ lamps attached to their hats and by torehes, Wierd im the extremo was the scene preseniod by 104 of theve figures flitting to and fro in the intense dark- ness of a starless night The pumps having been ro- toved, the water from the river aa it leaked through the roof accumulated in pools wpon the floor of the tunnels, 60 that the men were knee decp in a short time, When tho last primer was inserted the leading wires were carried out of each tunnel into the opon shaft, Thenco they were carried to the level of the ground above by passing the reels on which they were cotled from band to hand up the steep ladder that led to tho surface, The wire, as it unwound, was stretched in & pine wood trough leading to the levelof the ground above, and thence to tho battery-house. When all had been led out of the mine, Bernard Boyle, the toreman, was ordered to turn on the water in the syphon. The tide was (ben at its beignt, and as the valve of the syphon ‘was turned the water rushed through it with the velocity of ligutming, and, falling upon the floor of the shait below, borled tu foam down the livity into the re- cesses of the tunnel with a sullen roar that reverber- ated {rom arch to arch in the deep cavern as if there wore @ thousand wild beasts drowning in the flood below. TAX HOLLOW ROARED 4 if fo pain; the workmen embied around the pt and replied with a-shout of exultation, The day theirs, dangers of the horrible cave with ite 62,000 pounds of deadly explosive had been safely overcome, and they exuited in their triamph. Three eheers were given for General Newton, Capiain Mercar, for Barnoy Boyloand for Mr. Streidinger, and a tinal shout was sent ap in aspiration tor « successful blast Brief speeches wore made by Captain Mercur ana by Mr, Stroiainger in response, and the men dispersed after P King of some reireshments provided for them, eapatches were sent to Washington declaring the work completed. The water rose 164 imebes in the ex. cuvation during the firat hi At a quarter before seven yesterday morning the floor waa entirely cov. ered. At three o'clock in the afternoon the water had reached the top of the tunnels, and the compressed air from within began to escape in bubbl the pit, but up through the forming the roof of the excavation The surface of the river over an area of two und three-quarter acres was dotted with little whirlpools, whieh boiled and foamed Nike fountains as the air from beneath made ite way through to the surface. At seven ofclock in the even- ing Lue water within the shaft had reached the levo! of not only within sures of the rock the river on the other side of the coffer dam, and iater the pipe forming tho withdrawn, leaving the hole through passed open tor the tide to The appearance of the excava. wns now that ofasimple pool of dark water, trace of the hateful tunnels being lost and slightest thing appearing to give token of the machinery and THR TERRIBLE FOKCE COMPRESSED beneath the innocent, smooth, flowing river. All day long yesterday there was harry and bustie on the part of ail connected with the works. The mighty derrick swinging over the shaft, and by which all the stone from the tunnels has been hoisted up, wus taken to pieces, lowered down and removed to & safe’ distance. In doing this work one of the men sustained a slight injury of the foot, and this was the only accident that oceurred during th day. Much of the machinery was hops; two sleamtugs hauled o: ariem shore the scow trom the deck of which Genera! Newtou and ber iriends will witness the explosion, A short distance from the shaft workmon were piling upon aratt the empty reels on which the wires baa been coiled, and at the littie landing wharf the government tugboat Star lay with all steam up awaiting orders Following thé plank walk recently laid down along the line of the shore one came upon one of the sheds axed for filling the primers. It was deserted and partly torn down. Farther on was another, in which two mon were at work packing u ut 130 cartridges which had been left. From th ise of the circuit were supported at ort distances on the top of poles erected at inter along the shore across the grounds of Mr. J. B. Reboul. Arriving at the Himits of this gentieman’s property the wire encoun. ters several trees in its course, and is attached to them tor support. So it rans on around the line of Pat Cove, @ little indentation of the coast, until {t reaches the farther side of the cove, and then upon the land of Mr, ©. G. Ramsey it The residence of the geutieman nd# apon an elevation about 100 yar and directly in line with his house the river a platform from wnich the m: red. This platform i# about twelve feet square and its floor Is raised some six feet above the water, #0 ‘as to prevent - THR TIDAL WAVE should there be one, from wotting its occupants, To one of the uprights of this piatiorm the end of the wire 19 attach: Tt will bo tostay attnenea ton emall These Ee ene battery. A switeh will be left and Mr. Sheedinger will carry the key for closing it, io will then, with several assistants, proceed to the big basery house, In the frame work above its roof he will fix the ends of the wires tos torpedo. From the torpedo will be suspended the upper disk of the circuit-closer, keeping the cireus open. At the last moment, when all ts in readiness, the plates of the big battery wiil be lowered into the id delow, the doors of the house, which are on Opposite the mine, | be closed and party will ron as if for life toward a point the shore fome 300 fees distant, where tugboat Star will be waiting with stean up to com- speod acroes tne cove to the platform, here the switch on the wire will be closed, Ail that will then retnain to complete the car- cuit with the torpedo will be to touch the key of the hutio battery, bringing both ends of the wire into con- tact. When the key 1s pressed a spark will fly along the wire to the torpedo suspending the circuit-closing disk, exploding tt und closing the circuit between the main battery and the charges in the mine, exploding them and causing—what ? In the dusk of yesterday evening the steamers Bristol aud New York passed the reef, their dee! crowded with passengers who lustily cheered the fe about the mouth of the shat, One reckless tudividual cried oat, from the deck of the New York, “Let ber of!” His request was not complied with, At six o’clock last evening tho workmen had re- moved everything of any value from the immediate vicinity of the shaft and then were drawn up in live and formally distnissed from the service of the govern- erument. 1t is understood, however, that a few will be employed on Monday in doing w! is necessary to make the pisce presentublé and secure the govern ment property. The lease of the ground, i is said, was obtained by the government for ap indeim the period with tbe understanding that {t would be given up at any time when the work sbould be com- jored, mits men, before dispersing, cheered Captain Mercur, Captain Huer and Barney Boyle A few minutes aiter six the workmen bad dispersed, and the place was left | 1m possession of a party of skilled workers, who, seated within the bomb proof, connected the wiresin groups. Seated betore a table Mr, Streedinger vested the groups one by one, and by bringing the ne; ative wire irom each grand group of 160 holes in connection with the negative pole of a galvanometer and the positive wires into coutact with the positi pole, thus passing @ current through the explod cartridge in cach bole to show that the cir | was perfect. Strewed all around were bits of rubber covered wire, which wero boing rapidly twisted around the places where the larger wires were joimed, } A quantity of rubber was near ut hand, and, warmed | from time to time ata stove within the structure, was kept tn condition for wrapping around the joints ia the wire. Atter dark Captain Mercur placed six watchmen about the grounds, two being at the battery. Every one was ARMED WITH 4 LOADED REVOLVER, and the Captain said he bad ordered them to shoot any one that attempted to crows within the lines withe out hesitation, The Captain and Lieutenant Joseph Willard removed all their papers and other property from the li:tlo otice reserved for their use, feeling that as the building was within 100 fect of one of the head- ings they might be injured. General Avbott called upon General Newton tn the afternoon to assure hitnsolf that the arrangements for his experiment for determining the velocity ot vibra- tion wero understood. The steamer Henry Smith, with James B. Fi jutant General of the Atiuntic division of the States Ariny on board, will make a tour of th cations in the harbor at an eariy hour this morning to collect troops to. preserve order around the scone of the explosion. The line, which 1s to be formed at a dis- tance of 1,200 feet around the shaft, wtll consist of those troops. They will carry ball cartridges in thelr mus- kets, and, should occasion demand 1t, will use them. Fifty policemen from Long Island City will also be on hand, under the command of Captain Wood, and will act aS patrols without the line of police and will arrest obstreperous visitors. Goneral Newton bad an interview yesterday with Superintendent Walling, and that gentleman agreed to furnish policemen to guard the landings where the fole lowing steamboats are to take guests ou board at one o'clock P. M.:—Foot of Broome street, steamboat Ar- rowsmith; foot of East Thirty-third’ street, Never- sink, and at half-past one P, M., steamboat Henry Smith; Battery, stoamboat Eliza Hancox, The Seneca, with the or and the Potice Com- missioners on board, will lay off Ward’s Ieland, large force 18 to go to Ward’s Island and Blackwell's Island, while 700 men will bo placed under the order of Inspector Thorne, who will distribate them over the streets 1m the Twenty-third precinct likely to be crowded by sight-scers and in which frightened peopl may desert their houses, Superintendent Walling will be on the New York shore and thence direct the opera- | Mons of his force OUSK OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD. Tnero was a rumor yesterday that the mmates of the House of the Good Shepherd were to be removed at midnight (last night) to an establizhment on side, up town. There was no truth whate report, as a Henatn reporter ascertained yesterday alternoon on calling atthe House, It is the intention of the Sisters to have all the inmates in the garden when the tite for the explosion 18 at hand, so as to make assurance of safety doubly sure in case apy- thing of a serious character should happen to the walle of the building, However, none of the Sisters appre hend any danger, though they have taken down all the pictures from the walls, “We will put our truss Providence,” said one of them who anawered the di of tue Ninety-first street entrance, **We have bee red that no one will be burt’? And naively “I think we aro going to get an awfal shock, though.’’ | vente ordon of police on avengo A will prevent any person from going near the river in the immediate | ueighborhood of the Sisters’ house. This fact was not genorally known yesterday, as OMcer Joho Pholaa, twiled nb the establishmnet, tuld the re porter that drove up to the entrance ¢ building to witness replied’ Phelan 1 view irom the stoop, that’s certain. lady evidently anticipated a crowd, tor vhe then asked, “Do you think there will }be room?” Phelan, knowing perfectly well that but few persons would, evon If they were to be allowed to the river's eage, care to venture so near where the explosion will take place, replied, “Ob, if you get on the stoop once you'll have all the room you want, beyond a doubt,” This seemed to be quite satisfactory to the fair inquircr, who drove off, a} parently delighted at the prospect of being ablo to gé “front seat”? to-day. TWENTY MINUTES ON BLOADWAY—FLOTSAM AND IJETSAM OF THE TIDE OF CONVERSATION, A Henaxp reporter was stanaing yesterday afternoon at the corner of Broadway and Fourteenth street, the following 1s what he hoard, in a short-banded way, during the twenty minutes be remained there:— “Blow up the entire city? Why, of course it will It will biow it higher than my last month’s rent, and Icouldn’t got at that with a balloon, As for me, 1’ going over to Jersey this evening.” “Are you going to take your entire family?” Yes; that is, all but my wife’s mother,” “What have you done with her?”? “I succeeded in getting ber a position on the fore most police boat—the one that 18 nearest, you know, prance “Where aro you going to see it from?” “Oh, I don’t know, Charley—I guess from the foot ef Nincty-secoud street, East Riv “But General Nowton says that that point is danger. ous.” “What does it matter? My landlady says that ifshe doesn’t hear trom mo on Tuesday next she will —' “You cun’t tell me, mr. I tell you, sir, that 60,008 pounds of nitro-glycerine, rondrock, giant powder, dynamito and bottles of plain soda will biow the entire roof off of—?* “But General Newton says——\" “Blow General Newton, Didn't 1 to bean em ginoer?, You can’t tell mo, sir. I'm golog to Pittsburg ‘ectiMit iook what a fearful a(fatr that Thomassen bast. was, aud he had only—" know that, but his dynamite was Bromen full of ave to take water, and plonty of it, fliteen feet clear above — fr, are you going ?”” Mamie, darling; I have an invitation {to wion's acow.”” “What do you want to go for? Aren’t you afraid?" “Nota bit of i, want to fitd out how to biow George wheu he and | get married, For you must know, Mamie, that I inteud —” “Carl, you will certainiy reconsider your imtention of oifering your services ag the man to fire the mine?” “Why should I?” ar adopted country, Mr, Schurz, calls you.” and sees mo one better, Am I not e political rom Germany ft”? es, nd didn't I nominate Horace Greeley t*” ‘ou did—you did. ”? ‘uf ced. [he democratic party has shaken me moro than | will be by the explosion 1 shall tage the Astoria boat, and—” “What do you want to get in a small boat right over the reef for, Benjamin “iil tell you; get uround that corner, so that 1 cam look you squre in the face You km acnin for political power in Massaoh es. “Woll, I want to get elevation to see iny chances. Let's go I've got something In my pocket to sur “Do you know, Theodore, that these theatrical critics are greater engineers than General Newton?” “Why so, Stuart??? “Newton only blows up @ rocky ledge, while the eri ics explode a ‘Sandy Bar.’ Now every engineer im the business will tell you that the latter operation ir one of the most dificult known to——"" “You know that litte Deer saloon just below the stoambont landing at Astoria, Joe?” course 1 do. He hasa pretty wife, hasa’s het “The same 1s a litte cruel, you know, bat J} wouldn't mind much if the explosion to-morrow woul . vr y ell he says | owe him ——”" “Do you know, Celeste, that men are the most de 1 wae signed J) oeitfal creatures in the worldt’” “How so? 1 haven't discovered it” “True enough—yoa are not married Only thts morning | found a letter in one of “adciphts Act § tand itappointed an interview tor \