The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 17, 1920, Image 5
forest lqmqunderwater I
Submerged Petrified Tree* That Muet
Be CenturJee Old Removed/' at
Menace to NavifMtion.
When thp government efelp canal
that Connect# Puget ?ouim1 wltK l.ake
WisUtngton was wit tern of I
the lake were lowered 12 feet. While j
wire-drugging the lake, ??uya t con
trib.u'01 the United. coast and
if *urvey diacovetfd a snhtei
ria* foreat. The tops. of tin* sub
merged tree* wore so close to tic sur- j
face that they were a menace to nav
igation. Under* wafer logging opera
tions to clear the lake were there
fore dtarted.
It Is thought that the forest is piv
historic, a remnant of one that grett
in the Lake Washington area in (tie
days when It wan dry land; or that
great landslides In gemote iigfra car
lied the trees Into the lake.
The treea were vMthoht branches
and stood vertical, or nearly so; they
were semlpetrlfled. The longest trim? *
removed was 121 feet 0 Inches. The
top, 10 Incite* thick, rose to within 4
feet of the surface of the lake. The
butt was f>* feet 0 Inches In dUuueter.
?ad the roots, tlnnly embedded In the
bottom of the lake, had a 20-foot
spread. It was found 1,500 feet from
the shore.
Off the south end of Mercer Island,
la Lake Washington, nearly a hundred
trees were destroyed. The cleanup
gave a count of more than a hundred
trunks during the first three months
of 1920, off Manltou point. The larg
est trunk in that area stoodln 121 feet
of waiter, 1,100 feet from yliore, The
tree was 111 feet long, with a 5-Inch
top and a 3-foot butt*
Wherever possible, the trees were
pulled put by the roots. .Fastenings
were made to the trunks by dragging
the bight of a* cable through the water
at the required depth. When the
hight touched the trunk, one end of I
ihe cable wtfs passed through an eye j
at the other,' end. and the loop formed
was run down to the trees. When tl??* j
trees tvere hauled up, they were cut |
into 4-foot sections and thrown back
into the lake. Since they were water
logged, tfiey Immediately sank.
Sometimes a trunk wus caught that
could not he uprooted. Such trees
were blasted off at the top until ves
sels could pass safely above them.
An idea of the extent of the submerged
forest and the difficulty of removing
the towering ancient trees may be de
termined by the time-? three years and
six months? -that It has taken the en
gineering corps, working steadily, to
make the lake safe 'for navigation. ?
Youth's Companion.
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Wire lew Mast on China's Wall.
? reinforced concrete wireless mast !
ef largo dimensions has been erected !
upon the Chinese wall for the use of \
the American navy. It Is 164 feet In
height. The original program called
for the making of the mast by the pre- |
cast method lh two parts, and then j
erecting them by means of derricks,
but an accident occurred while the
erection was taking place and an
American engineer and four coolies
were killed. The method of forming
In molds wfts then tried, and altftough__
It was wwh more- expensive than~the
other, it was successfully carried- out.
Soft for the Cook.
Dr. Edal B eh rani of Bombay, India,
comes to the fore advocating a perma
nent menu of shredded cabbage, pink
and white; beets, caiTots, whole wheat
an<1 fruits, nuts and raisins, all to be
eaten ihvt. Applications for perma
nent '< in the- Indian army now In
order. Line forma on the right.?
Uouit* IWfctor.
MAIMS FATHER AND BROTHER
Qlrl With Pistol Halt* Argument Ov?r
Furnace ? Claims Self
Defense.
Burlington. la.? Kn raged wlion h?>r
father and brother* engaged in an ar
gument over a furnace about ro l\?> in
atftJted In their home at Dail&p < '11 j
III.. MN OtjUtu Hair ilicw a |>lsio!
?Mhe shot her father. j^eorge Krtrr j
In tlie neck, and her hither. Hubert
Barr, In the chin, Both idihi have been j
hnftllit to a hospital in Burlington ;*n 1
Mis* Barr Is held In the town la'l at
Dalian City.
Hospital authorities nay. both men ?
will probably recover.- '?
. A special <t (split eh nuys thai M m j
Barr flocljrwi that she tired in < 1
I Uefen.se. charging that her father at
tempted ti> chojte her. While the fnr
if&ce dispute w?s n^1' Im.njertliitD ?;iii ?
of the shooting, a disagreement ove.
the estate left by her mother the
j real cause, she say*.
FtXES WORKING AGE AT 16
Bureau Urge* Physical Examination
for All Children Entering
Industry.
Washington? Recommendation that
a minimum age of sixteen years be set
for the entrance ei'>hlldren Into Indus
try In.' made in u report by the per
manent committee on standards of
physical fitness for children entering t
employment.
The committee conducted an Inves
tigation under the children's bureau
of the department of labor, headed hy
Dr. George P. Barth of the Mihvau
kee elty health department*
No child, according to the reeom- I
mendatlo'ns, should he permit led to i
work until he has been declared phys- |
Ically tit for tJ?e particular occupation (
he Is nbout to take up. Periodical ex- j
amlnations are considered necessary, j
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Killed Rattlesnake Family.
Poncopog. Mass. ? -A family of l.'l
small rnttlers and their mother was
slain by a visitor t<* the Blue Hills
reservation near here. The ^bother ;
wake fought for her young to the
last. After she was killed it was an
easy matter to dispose of the little
ones. This Is considered an unusual
ly large rattlesnake family. -j
Dream Showed Husband as Father. ?
? Baltimore.? Seeking annulment of !
her marriage to William M. Jones, his !
wife, Anna Belle Jones of Baltimore, !
slfd.. asserted that In a dream it was j
revealed t-< her that he was her father
Prior to n?M- dream, she said, she had 1
^opposed her husband ? the father of
her two children ? was tier steu,fatb?\ i
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