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.. . . » ‘ \ ' . A — \\\ ‘Q TJOH:N:»:cORB*.ET3F? :;E—D..|..'_f.0—iBp. wA-rxms, .N..5v7..« FE 6. 1913. VOLUME VI, NUMBER 267' SALONIIIA. THE STORY OF . CHALK. TEE BARGE CARAL. THE HAUNTED PALACE. The Foremost Sggport of the Balkan The rlinutg organisms of Its For-L The Bulletin’: Reportuof Progress in In the greenest of our valleys, By good axxgels-tengnted, Once a fair and stately palace-— Radiunt pa!'ace—~r‘eared its head. In the monarch 'I‘hought’5 dominion, It stood thérc; ‘ Never seraph spread 8 pinion Over fabric half so fair. P¢nlnsnla.. Salonika to-day is; the foremusb Aegean seaport of the Balkan Pe sula, the terminus of four railways. the great; import trade center for Macedonia and Alpania. One railway goes to Nish in Set-via, where in den: nests with the main railway rou'pe- bebween Paris, Vienna. and Ooust3a.nt.i- n,0P“e. Another goes (via. Uskub) t.o Mit;rovit.z2i.'in~ Albania. -This is the V A little piece of chalk tells an inter- .e_;B.ting history. To- the unassisted eye il; looks simply like a. very loose and _h(§:pen kind of stone, but if it is ground cfown so thin that one can see through lift‘—-until it is thin enough to be exam- ined with a magnifying glass——it will lije found to be made up of very minute granules, embedded ‘in which are innu- tfierable bodies, some smaller and some larger, but ‘on a. rough average not _ \ore than a hundredth of an inch in Eameter, having well-de shape structure. A cubic inch of some é of chalk may contain hun- ~§i:eds‘ of thousands of these bodies. 'E;4ach of the rounded bodies is made up a number of chambers, communicat- ing freely with one another. These ogcidly shaped bodies are of various forms, but -one of the commonest is spmething like a badly grown raspber- being formed of a number of nearly ‘tfglobular cham-hers. of di sizes ggangregated together. They are the ‘_ lcareous shells. of Foraminilera. gjfhe beds of. the oceans are covered ‘L; a great extent with mud, embedded which are millions upon millions of §El§e‘letons' of Foram_inifera—anima;1s of .'tgh_e simplest imaginable description». A 'Fora.mini'fer is, in fact, a mere par- 'ig.icle\of living\ jelly, without de narts of any fkind——without mouth, iierves, muscles or distinct organs, and manifesting’ its vitality to ordinary _ohseniuition_on1y.by..thm1sting,,ouL.and The Barge Canal Bulletin for Janu- ary contains the following account. of the p_r_QgLe,ss of the work on. the Cayuga. and Seneca Canal for the month of December, 1912: Banners yellow. glorious, golden. ‘ Ou its roof did and flow (This-all this.—-was in the olden Time long ago.) And every gentle air that dallied. In that sweet day. Along the ramparts plumed and pallid A winged odbr went away. Contract A.-—For constructing Look No. land Dam No. 1, near Cayuga. A derrick was placed in the south end of the lock 5nd used to drive steel sheet-piling. place bracing, and for excavating in lock chamber and exten- sion of east lock wall. At the reten- tion dam, forms were removed from piers and wales and rods placed for the south side of the cotfer-darn on the west side of the river. About lineal feet of sheetingwere driven for the ctoffer-dam and began with the derrick. Portions of the lock wall and approach wall were back- tracks changed and other work done. At the Taintor gates, about 8,000. pounds of metal were placed on the piers and the ‘remainder of the steel was placed under cover. Contract B.--For excavating a. chan- nel mainly in the Seneca River from Montezuma to deep‘ water in Cayuga Lake, from Cayuga. Lake to Seneca Falls and from Waterloo to deep water in Seneca Lake. The dredge Clyde continued working on the north side of the Free Bridge Road cutting through the road on December 18th. when the entire dredging equipment Wanderers in that happy valley Through two luminous wiudbws saw Spirits moving musical! y To a lute‘s welhtuned ‘law. Round about a thronewhere. sitting, Porphyrogenc. . In state his glory well be The ruler of the realm was seen. line that Austria particularly cbvets for the possibility of 3. direct route 39 the sea... A third line from Selonika to Monastir is intended one day to run through to the Adriatic.\ The fourth line, to Constantinople, has. been of great. signi 'in the Young Turkish movement, of which. Sa.l'onika. has been a. chief theatre as the headquarters of the committee of Union and Progress. , M ' And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fair palace dopr. Through which came And sparkling evermore. A troop of Echoes. whose sweet duty Was but to sing, In voices of surpassing beauty, The wit and wisdom of their king. Thereis a _fine new harbor with a breakwater 1,836 feet long and 3-‘ quafy 1,475_feet long, branching at the end into piers, each 0565 feet in length. The sweeping winds ere these cradling’ arms were built made the roadstead perilous; now it is _safe_ retuge for ships to the number of about 3,400 ayear. The imports per annum are valued ‘at $25,000,000. Austria gets the lion’s share. Servia, only 200 miles away; Sends grain and; cattle to Salon-e ika for shipment, and would send more were it. not for the organized brigandage of lightermexf, steve‘do_res and porters, in addition to the onerous -port charges. Bulgaria is.‘ powerfully bidding for her own share of. the traffic, and the ports of Varna audi- Burgas,~on the Black Sea, are begin- ning L0 get what should logically come to the favored Aegean port; - ’ _ The inhabitants number about 130,000 of whom 60,000 are 'Jews who came hither in the sixteenth century, from oppression in Spain and Portugal, Their language is a sort of Spanish caxlled Ladino (Latin). Israel Zangwill has declared that Salonika is probably théeopefnity, .where the -Jews, outnugn-, bei'7i’IT.3’ljh7:r7Eaees. \Itlis his eaipresse ed‘ desire .»to. see Salonika become‘ a ha.'ven or refuge for the Jews, of all theworld. This purpose, he thinks. might be realized if, in return for a loa;n,.t.l1e Balkan League, should guar- antee, Salonika independence. He sug- gests that Oscar Straus‘, the Pro- gressive candidate for Governor of New York, his‘ ability and experience released for_ possible service as Chief Magistrate of this proposed Republic. It remains to be seen whether’ £55‘ allocation of Salonika shall be for Austria, with her vast interests at stake, or the Balkan League to de- termine.—l?.hilade1phia Ledger. But evil things in robes of sorrow. Assailed the mouarch’s high estate; (Ah, let us mourn. for never mon-ow ' Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed. Is but a dixn-remembered story Of the old time entombed. And travelers now within_ that yalley Through the red-Iitten. windows see Vas_t forms that move_ fantastically To a discordant melody; While. like a ghastly, rapid river. Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh—but smile no more. GLEN AS A RESORT. was moved to the south side. The cut 1°';’!,5_hJ.«_b£E.1_;J&91$f§!1§!L§I§_h _1.1.ig1g,w.a_y Lrai is now being carried over the new About. 8,520 cubic yards of material were removed. C_ontma'.cb H.—-For excavating a chan- nel in Cayuga Lake Inlet; an Ithaca from Va point.‘ about 300 feet: north of Cascadilla St._reet., to deep water i_n ——EnoA-n—A—n—r.-AN-Po: The Events from \a Private Entérpris to a Public retracting from \all parts of its surface flong ! which serve for arms ind. legs. Yet thiscreature is capable ‘qt feed‘ing..growin2' and multiplying; of separating the small proportion of carbonate of lime which is dissolved in. sea water; “and of building up that substance into._ a skeleton or shell for itself, according to .a pattern which event the skilled artisan of. the present day would dit to imitqte. ‘Some of the Foraminifera. are known *\t_o=exist only’ in the greatest depths: «others that onlthe surface shower the bottom with their minute shells as ,i—h§i1tli«comes,; Mostcf the Foramitiifera ‘of ‘the present day are microscopic, but in a. few species the» shell attains a diameter of an inch or more. In the study of geology the For-aminifera. are of great interest, as they are found in all formations, -from the oldest to the newest, and in many places they make up the chief part of great rock masses. Examples may be cited in. the Chalk Cliffs of England, the numrnuli tic lime- stones of Egypt, and the Silurian beds ,0f_&tn_eLan::(.3eoJ9.; \ ___ Gladys Louise. Reservation. Gladys Louise, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Klube, passed away after three weeks of illness from ailment of the brain, Sunday, Febru- ary 2, 1913, at nearly six are-m. As day dawned upon the scenes qt earth. so her freed spirit entered upon the brightness of the eternal morning. 01 the ‘family circle thus bereaved, Watkins Glen was opened to, public ‘patronage under private a along the Grist Mill path in‘ I_863, and -in 1864 the path- ways were exteudedto the basins -at the head of the rock gorge. The property wag then owned by George‘ G. Freer, but th_e‘active ptopagation of the fame of the Glen was conducted by Morvalden E113, a ixewspaper, man, and the toutiste becatne so numerous,‘ that in a few years capital was tempted to investment. In I869, E. B. Parsons of Pennsylvania, bought the property fo1r_ $25,000, and Cayuga Lake. About. 176,111 cubic yards were excavated-, of which 175,849 cubic yardséwere from prism and 262 cubic yards from the turning‘ basin \near the Cornell boat; house. Two cribs for the breakwater were sunk in the lake using 38,400 feet. B. M. of sawed lumber and 75 cubic yards of sjone._,,Abonu $4 cubie- y_a,rd§ of old stone were removed froin. the lights house pier. Piles were driven and piers built. for foundation of the Cornell boat. house. Contract. I.—For improving the Canal from deep water in Seneca ‘Lake to Montour Falls, gbout. 2.753 miles. No contract. work was done. there remain the_ parents and two little brothers, Herman John an_d_E;a.rry Chester; the grandmother. Mrs.‘ Ada. M. Linzey; the great-aunt. Mrs. Inda. Vosburgh, and the great-grandfather, John W. Warner, who on February 9, 1913, will be 81 years of age. The great _ gra.ndmothei;,____ Q1 9.n_g Corbett. Warner, died September 19, 1912, on the 79th anniversary of her birth. Gladys Louise Klube was born No- vember 13, 1904. She was an amiable child, and in her willing deeds of handiwork, accomplished far beyond a er_years.. She. sszas.._..axL.apt. scholar:,_ excelling in her work in-public school, and devoted in the Sunday School. Such lives come to bless the earth during their short continuance,‘ and’ pass on to the higher realms, to lead the way to its brighter and better conditions of existence. .. The funeral services were conducted at the family home on Reading Street, Tuesday a't.3 p. m.. and the remains — e—-ieie:—a~ \ ! ! a couch of typical of the purity andsweetness oi‘ the years of child- hood. Rev. J. E. Russell, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, spoke words of consolation to the mourners and assembled friends. and to all .h'ea.rts was borne the cheering message -of the ages: Sulfer,litt_le children to come unto Me, for of such is the King- dam of Heaven. :CrI;eqAt“éC 1'_-'21 p11‘1517i<; resort. upon.’ the iieigghts .aVb6‘V‘é\t«h.e efxtrahée, ca1¥1’I?e’d» the Glen Mountain House. ' ~ ’ _ The Glen continued to grow in public favor. and a sentiment similar in kind to‘ that which led to the creation of the State Reservation at Niagara arose, and the property passed in-to the hands of the American Scenic and ‘Historic Preservation Society. The principal owner at the time of the change of title was Mrs. Caroline C. l31i.ttner-Sliivericlz, and the tract acquireci comprised I403 acres of land, lying in a strip extending westward from Franklin Street in the‘ village of Watkins to the Twestward of the New York Cen‘tral\Ra'rlway. The Reservation varies in \width from 150 feet in its coiitracted portion to over 900 feet across the Punch Bowl, its A Palestine Railway. The Hamidieh-Hedjas Railway re- vives bhe s‘acred memories of the Holy '.UilT1aT!'J' 31\ f1'fé—pF6i.)Ti §TI‘M'aIh\6'ITI‘e'T7I' Its real -starting place is at Haifa, gbe Mediterranean port. under the lee of convent,-crowned Mt. Carmel, where Elijah gathered to him all Israel and the prophets of Baal and confuted their false gods by himself bringing down ‘ from Heaven. Here, too. is the brook Kishon, where he slew the priests of Baal. The Railway routes is through the The Wall of Paris. The formidable problem of accom\moda.tion for 120,000 people who are to be evicted from their dwellings, owing to the stile of the antiquated forti of Paris to the city au- thorities by the French government is now before the municipal council of the French capital for solution. average being about 400 feet. « The Glen Creek, the erosive action of which has eaused the remarkable ravine, enters the Reservationat .the western -end, eastward over cascades‘ and through placid pools, and e‘,merges for a course't_hrough the lowlarids to -the waters of Seneca Lalze. The Glen .1f§§f_'two dissimilar parts. '.l‘.h.e western portion is .an_ upland valley, in which the stream makes a gradual descent. At the railroad bridge, the stream enters a deep gorge with precipitous sides,’ which rise in places to a height ofigabout i8o feet above the waters. In this section the stream leaping from ledge to ledge, descends\so1'ne 400 -feet; making it the more picturesque and the principalpbject of pop.ula~r interest, although to the scientist the western half is equally i‘n‘teres_ting. ' e \ THE CAYUGA INDIANS. Their Claims to the Pto on Lind: V \’ Sold in 1795. ' The St.a7t..tég_L§_1: under a.-recent. decision of the Court. of Appeals has heard the claims of ‘the Cayuga Indians ‘of New York Suite for $247,609 and inu,ene,sLJ‘or seven years which they hold is due fr.-om the pro of sales of Indian lands made by the scale back i_nn1'795. . V .. .. . __Tb&snnce.ocoupied_by_1;he_na1L_2 miles in length, encircling Paris, and the \ zone,” 500 yards in width, facing it, is to be converted into public parks. This space is now covered by many thousands of wooden rarnsiiackle houses Occupied in most cases by the --poo;-est class of, wqrk people and rag- pickers, but in many instances, ‘turned into resorLs~fot-‘criminals and tramps. The proprietors pay is small annual .isy;-3_f9r‘ the ,. . allowed plain of Esdraelon, past Nazareth and across Gaililee and along the sweet and tranquil waters of Lake Tiberias with the Mount of Beatitudes in the background; through the canyon or the rlver Heieomiax and up into the cultivated plains of the Hauran the scenes are still scriptural, except that the uniformed boatmen of the excur- sion companies and the steam launches on the‘ Sea. of Galilee have a moderniz- ing etfect which is not entirely atoned for by the ! from their boats as in thepast. I took this journey starting on a blaok—winter’s-mornin-g—and—lincli- - place in the third-class passenger coach among the Bedouins, Arab pil- grims, Turkish of and army en- gine.érs,’Syria(n traders, French train crew, dra=gom.en and mail sacl.cs.. The promise of tourist travel had. not then become‘ sut -alluring‘ to» secure ‘better accommodation. But though the car was uncomfortably crowded by the imix~.u‘p at the Arabs and Bedouins with their guns and belts, their tur- bans, their striped blankets-of black and white and their ilunilcs’. , After the State had purchased some 64,000 acres of landlwhich was held by the Cayuga‘. tribe in the time of Gov- ernor Clinton _for‘ cents 95h acre, it immediately sold the tract for $4 an‘ acre. The tract surrounds Cayugii Like; According to the claim's of the rent‘esen_tatives~ of the Cayuga. tribe, who ‘appeared ebetore the Land’ Board\ thestate. according to tradition, agreed’ to turn back‘ into’the_ cotfers of ‘the tribe any pro that mightibe derived. from the’ sale-of the tract. ‘ IN MEMORIUM to construct, these huts on the condi- tion that they are subject. to destruc- tion in case\ of war. There is non sut accommbdanioni for the ten- ts.-i‘n‘ot'7IF” \t7 The ‘.-\Ien’s Bible Class of'the Presby- terian church has adopted the follow- The American Scenic and nHis‘toi'itc Preservation Society b'ecan'1ef «the custodians of Watrki Glen _ Reservation during the season of 1906, and thelfollowitigf Committee was appointed to conduct its .-a \ Col. Henry W. Sackett of New York, counselor-at-law and Trustee aoffCor.ne1I Un’i'v_erisi~ty,. rChairma~n,; Prof. Liberty Hyde Bailey of Ithaca‘, Director‘ of the State ,Co1<1\eg‘e4 of AgLtici1l'ture;. ‘Charles Delamatér Vail, L. ‘D.,,- of Geneva, Professor of“Eng1ish \~1teré.“{1reran. .'.Ef6’.rfa:i_an.&o£.\EI‘gbart College; James B. Rathbone of\ ]E1‘rr_ri’ra1,, Vice P7resi'de,n.tn -of the Chemung Canal ’1‘rustVCompar'1ty;* and the followintgéof Watkins: ‘I.-Ion. W_i11riarn‘E. Le and Manager of the Gien Sjpreings Saniuté1ri'.u1r'1i.;‘ George C; Wait, President of the~Fartners and Merehazrts Bank; Charles M. Wood~ ward counsetlor-at-law, and ‘Secretary of the Co'mmi'-ttee. The first {1‘1ree'men't_ioned were mernbers of -the Board of Trustees and. the ‘other four rnembers of the Society. ’ o T. _ ' _v- z: I 2. a S_..(‘.I'.l.£E'I£.(1Ath.eh0IIl& of the esteemed president of our class, August. Klube, and removed from the family circle his beloved daughter, Gladys; be it Resolved, That we, the members of this class, extend ~f:o Brother Klube and family‘ our profound and heartfelt «sym- pathy izi this their hour of deepHb’e- reavcment; and we commend‘ them for consolation to Him, ~w']'1o -said: \Suffer little‘ children‘ 'to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such: is ‘the kingdom of Heaven.” And we pray that as the years go by their’ present ‘sorrow may he softened and in time, they and we “may fulIy\ ਇ meaning of the zxi that now seems so inscrut'a.b1e’a';nd severe. ‘ Resolved‘, that this brief ‘tribute of our love and sympathy be given to the village ‘papers for publication and a_ copy sent to‘ the bereaved family.‘ a.n=.. .é t$é The amount of money expendede on these old forbi erected in 1840 and now to be razed, is‘ esclmated to have? exceeded $200,000,000. I6 is im- pessib£l_e,Lo ‘enter the city without; pass-0 ing through. one 01 the 70 gyms’ now used as, suazions for’ the =co'11ect,i‘ou of the tax imposed on. .pr‘ovi‘s_io‘ns coming into Paris from the country districts. -—P_x-‘ess Dispatch. ‘ Mystic Arrow, Snowing and Make You; Laugh, thneetCayl.1.9.'aS,_ who ap- :peared' _B.efo're the ‘Land ‘Board? held that. their forefatiheps had. been cheated out of the pt-.o of the sale, The Land Board tdiscarded the claim last year axfxd the attorney for the tribe- brought the matter to the Count of Appeals and «forced the ‘State to been thematter. In, deals made with other tribes the [State turned bacgk the pro but held 'out.ton the Cayugas. There are now 180 Cayuga Indians in the State and many of them ‘now live ‘on the Seneca iRese'rvation, The ‘ living descendants spelt only the interest on the» $247,609’ .in‘ ‘annuities, the principal to be’ held by the State‘. Names of ‘British Inns. jl‘.heW1it.tJe inns which we passed go- ing from London to Scotland and even the wine shops; gloried in pretennimis names which were -general] y displayed in iellustrabedisigns hanging‘ on brack-. em Writes F'ran'k Presbrey in the Oubidg Magazine. We had great fun in ewatching for these odd signs and writing’ down some of the most; un- usual‘-. We passed “The Red Bull,” and in neighborly p ! “The Red Cow” and “’JL‘.h‘e~Dun Cow.” ‘'‘Sir.-’ John Ban-1eycorn’\’—was.ne‘ur enough to hear “-Theg Five Bells,” _ and just: beyond this, as if non to be outdone in the 'bell_ line. the proprietor of one ‘inn had cailed pis place? ‘.‘The Rihg 0’ Belle.” Later we passed “The Easy Chair” and \Wait. for the Wagon,” ‘~‘The‘ News Head,” “Spread Ea.gle~,” and down near the end..~of the list. 'wo‘hsd 1_*ecorc1ed “‘1‘he Blsck_Boy” and “The Head, Hind and St.omxch.\’ The mail distribution was primitive; long wait.s:of t;h(2,_§g‘7:gi,g_‘3[._,l_1_i”1§3_,;t,g:1_J_e car- riers from beyond Lake Tiberius re- ceived their‘ packets receipned. for them by aH1'xing their signét. seals and exchanged gossip. There were pack- ages, even newspaper bundles. '-with superscripbioris in Arabic, French and Eng.1ish.+=Scribner. & i« The Scenic _Society,had five years’ .admIinis'tration of Watkins: -Glen State Reservation, from the time or -its’ creation by’ Chapter __676«o‘f the \Laws of 190.6,: until the Legis1»atur‘e by%Chapter 731 of theiLaws of'I91*I-,~ transferred the custody’-of the Reservation to. a. Special Commission ofi memtiers appointed by the Governor as follows: .I_-Ion. VVi11iam E.,Le John A. *C1ute,_ john B. Macxgeery, Thomas McAnarney, James B. Rathbone. In the Act, which became a law July 21:-, 1.9m, it is explicitly ‘stated: \\.I.‘h‘e. State Reservation at Watkins Glen shall forever be reserved by *th.emState for the purpose of preserving it in its naturai condition, and kept open and free of access to ‘a mankind without fee charge or expense to any person for entering upon or passing to or from ,-any part thereof.” , ” I . ‘ i ’The,Stabe Land Board advised the Indians to’ Cake 3 census‘o'f the survivors ot_ the original tribe of Cayugasand send. in to the Land Board in order than the State might -know to whom the interest on the money should be baid in the ‘event of the negatianions being closed to the satisfaction-of the Indians.- Governor Sulzer had _a ahoivt; talk with Mgke You Laugh, the spokesmaxi for the‘ Indians, after the massing. The three Indians sought his ;id in enact- ingt iectlamenb or the cltjim. The Lnhig-h Valley. ~ Wakeman Gilbert. For years» there -has been talk‘ of extending the Lehigh Valiey Rail‘- iioad tracks across Cayuga. Lake and on no Auburn. Again it has been re- vived, and that the crossing is so be made by widening the New York. Cen- era-I roadway. From Cayuga. the: 136-; high has its owp trackage to Union Springs and from there to Auburn with A station at Monroe ‘Sn-oe -éGenc‘vu Adveraisar-Gazette.» Wakemém Gilbert, the oldest. son of the late‘ David Gilbert. of Reading-‘, died as his -home in Ba;bh- on the morning‘ of Wednesday, Feb:-nary 5, 1913', ‘at. the age of eighty years, ‘ The tfmeral services are -t.o- be held on Saturday‘ afternoon. The deceased was aft descendant. of ‘pioneer’ families ‘of Reading, and is suitable. lira sketch will be given in ‘later issue or Chronicle. - «
