The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, November 27, 1907, Image 3
Where Congressmen and Sena
tors Will na /e Offices.
FINE ANNEXES OF CAPITOL
Eacn Beautiful Structure Cost $2,500,
OOC and Occupies an Entire Block.
Finely Furnished Apartments—Su
perbly Equipped Dining Saloon.
Our senators and representatives In
eotijiTess " ill soon have their offices In
sph iidid palaces, says IJene Baehe in
Harper’s Weekly. Within a few weeks
fift« r congress meets in Oeceiuber the
tw e new wliite marble palaces which
are to he kmfwn simply as annexes to
the house and the senate will lie ready
for occupation. Each is a beautiful
structure, costing $2,r>0<l,000 and occu
py ng an entire block, and has a total
frontage on its four sides of 1,747 feet,
or about n third of a mile.
These palaces are in effect detached
wings of the capitol. They are gigan
tic office buildings, each of them oc
cupy ing more ground than the Wal
dorf \storiu in New York The h■.>li^e
an..i x. \v 1.i !i is not far from comple-
Uor. w ill , oniain 41b rooms, one bn
ea< b represeni.itive in congress, with
a t< " left over to provide for future
increase in the membership of the
grout legislative body. The senate tin
nex is divided into ninetynine suits,
each comprising a private room for
thf senator, a room for his secretary
and a bathroom. In both palaces will
be employed a multitude of uniformed
meiiit.ls to wait upon the luxurious
statesmen and to make life as easy
and comfortable for them its possible.
Servants' wages, rent, fuel, lights
anil t.ll incidentals tire paid by the gov
eminent. The apartments are beauti
fully furnished and deiwated at I'ncle
Sam's expense. Meals will be served
in the rooms If desired. But in each
pa la is a \a-t and superbly cijiiippcd
dining saloon exclusively for legisla
tors and their guests.
The
.MllilO* »
*s v*'!l! be connected bv
underground
* !*'<•'rie railways with tli*
rapid
d. In *
•aeh paliive one will lind
n sr.f
way station at th** base of the ro-
tund:.
.. the m
o-t striking airhiteetural
fetvtitre of the p.datlal annex. It is
f»r< < I:
ty-four
f****t In diameter and <*x-
tend'
ttl< war*
1 dear through the four
storie
s of the
building, terminating in
a superb don
K* under Mie roof. All of
the :
spar** im<l**rground Ivcncath it*;
flor r
is oeeu[*it**l by the subway sta-
tin.
Ilk**" ise
• circular, into which tin*
tr; in*
COlIH* f
font lb** capitol.
/Ah<
trains
on this newest American
sul ''
ay are v*
. oft h attention.
Th*
ca vy
em h **1
then* only sixteen feet
loTjjr
umP*!* (
hang** of a motormnn and
•! c
ictor, in
>tli of whom are In the
lit :.fe
i*»n nt f
.ill 1 »i i
he T'niteil '■hate-, g >vt*rn-
m*. t
K( 'T .
ators. representativ *>s and those
have Ini'
-ine- s with them will ride
tc ..!
a! fro i
i t!ie trains, which seem
'"■r 1
run
< ys in *•*
above g
mil rNnn w ith th<i®*» that
round. All tue cars are
0\*< T.
nil o!U*
side, the missing si*U* In*-
l! g
< placed
merely by a safety rail.
* h
: t then*
is only one bench running
!• • :■
hvv is**.
i‘assengers, entering at
oi! i i (
•• end. -
"it themselves upon this
betc 1
ti and !'
■ 1; out through the open
p1<1* <
■f the ea
J*
Th*
• t rai ? i
runs through a tunnel
W hi’
!i r.-niit*
•s tli** annex with the
s . ' 1
. end of
the capitol. This subway
is 7r<
(1 feet 1;
r<!!'.: 22 feet wide and 1 I
H' r h !
t tuts a curved roof, ami
«l. t f.
'■* of it runs a walk six
:t n <
i * • * i r j ‘
• *t it width, paved with
f'f u-
vie. Be
i!i£ witli whiti* vitri
,T •' 1 • • -, i *• ,1 l.i vi -i
♦» 11
<» t 1 1 * '* ! 1 < 1
’hi :g!i w ithou’ anv skv
t as light a
TREASURE OF THE DESERT.
In the Sahara All Property Is Ex
pressed by Camels.
Primitive peoples who have no mon
ey measure ail values by that posses
sion which is most desired and most
easily transferred. Tims among most
of the inhabitants of the Sahara the
camel is the measure of all values.
Property, riches and camels are sy
nonymous terms among most of the
dwellers in the Sahara. I>r. <loldsteln
of Cermany wrote awhile ago that if
a Tuareg were set down in the streets
of Berlin the business blocks and resi
dences would convey to him no idea of
property. He would simply ask the
greatest real estate landlord in the
city how nffn.\ camels he owned.
When Hichardson met the Tuaregs
and was entertained by one of their
chiefs the traveler was told by ids
host that he wished to make Queen
Victoria the tinest present that any
one could give her. and so he asked
his guest to take back to her a mehari,
which is a camel trained to fleetness
and the most costly of the Saharan
camels..
While Barth was sojourning in Tim
buktu there was danger for a few
days t!mt the street mob would attack
his hnn-u*. One of the women serv
ants advised him to remove his hai-
vau to a place of safety. This word
mean® live ; Hr-l<. such as cattle or
camels, and Barth told the woman that
he had only Ids horse with him. It
was some time before he learned that
the servant did not mean to refer par
ticularly to his horse, but to all his
possessions.
When the Frenchman ilourst suc
ceeded in navigating the Niger from
its month t<> Timbuktu south years
ago a desert dweller, desiring to learn
if lie came of a family of substance,
asked him how many camels his fa
ther owned. and w hen Foureatt crossed
the desert with tlie largest exploring
party that ever entered the Sahara he
received from a wealthy native of As-
ger a present of a white camel and
was told that if was tin* most expen
sive present that the residents of that
region could give to any one.
As a ruli. however, tin* number of
camels in the yossession of one indi
vidual is not large. The average man
considers himself well to do if he owns
two or three* animals, the important
chief is really wealthy if he possesses
a herd of lifty or sixiy, and tin* ri< best
chief whom Nachtigal met in his sev
en years’ wanderings was said to own
about loo camels No one will part
with hi> eatnels exeepting at an exor
bitant price Foureau found it impos
sible to buy tli**m in the* heart of the
desert for less than about 2oO francs,
which was doiibie their value in Al
geria.
The grazing grounds are common to
all, and there is no property in land.
The richest man lives in it tent, and
why should In* ell '-ame.s to acquire
the means to hair! a more commodious
and substantial dwelling when he ex
pects to move to some other piaee in a
few weeks or month : lie simply ac
quires :il! the camels lie ean get for
the mere fun of having them
To he sure, he buys wives with his
camels, jusi as the near*) does with his
cattle, and wives route very high in
the .Sahara, tin* daughter of the ordi
nary man bein'.: worth as much its
four ramels. vvhbi the pri*-eof it ehiof’s
daughter <;iii In* oniiuaiided only by
the wealthy. Some explorers believe
that very fat young women art* most
popular in the desert simply because
camel's milk is fattening, and if a girl
is fleshy it sliov.s hat Iter father hits
given her ail the ranie s milk she can
drink Such a father must have it
number c eainei- is therefore a
Wealthy in.ii and it will bt; u good
thiug t rry into his family .—Wash
ington Fost
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the
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eminent scholars
i, _ ! ! writers and mini .pts of tin* Protcs-
,, ■ tnnt Fpi otial taith in lh<* T'nited
: t OOKS r ut lolls
. U | ( | ,. Mates of America to deliver lectures
|, ,| 1( . au< l sermons nut] to disseminate and
ninth-, and even th <•»* gospel, doctrines and 1m-
. , Itef of the Protestant Episcopal church
• . .# In Newport ctiurcheH.
THE LUSITANIA'S TRIP
Life Aboard Cunard Liner on Her
Maiden Voyage.
WIRELESS MAN KEPT BUSY.
Passengers Sent and Received 1,000
Words by Marconi System Daily.
Ladies Dined In Gorgeous Toilets,
Escorted by Men In Evening Dress.
When tin* steamship Lusitania, the
Cunard line’s turbine giantess, hove
up her anchor ami steamed out of
Queenstown harbor shortly after noon
on Sunday. Sept. 8, all hands fondly
hoped we were beginning a record
breaking voyage across the Atlantic,
pays it New York Times representative
who was aboard the Lusitania. The I
Lucania hud left half an hour before
us and was completely lost in the fog
when we g<»t outside the harbor.
Looking around on the crowded
decks fore ami aft, it w as easy to real
ize that we were on the largest ship
in the world, w ith it floating population
of fl.OOO, including the crew, men and
women gathered from all parts of
Europe, all bound for the land of the
west.
The steamer was under command of
Captain .1. B. Watt, and the engines i
were in charge of Alexander Duncan,
a Scotsman of tin* old fashioned Clyde
bred type, who are all broiifffit up to
believe that words are not necessary
for engineers: that it is action that
tells. W. .1. Luke, the designer of the
Lusitania, was on board in company
with E. H. Cunard, one of the direct-:
ors of the line, whose famous motto
used to be “We never lost a life.”
With the foghorn blowing at three
minute intervals the liner picked iter
way cautiously out into the Atlantic
In the wake of the Lucania. At 3
p. m. we were told that she was twen
ty miles a!n*ad of us.
The passengers In the first cabin did
not appear to Is* a very lively lot, the
fog seeming to til! them with gloom, j
The fact that vve had to slow down dl- :
rectly after starting was looked upon |
as a had omen by some of the croak- i
ers. One tall S. oiohmau, who still |
wore his kilts and had a voice that
suggested a steady diet of porridge
and haggis, '-aid to me:
“Hoot, mo:i. It’s it raw nicht the
noo. I’m thinking. 1 wish I could see
my bonny bairns again.”
When the fog lifted in 1h<* night the I
liner was put at full speed and bowled j
along at tin* rate of twenty-three
knots. Wireless messages were receiv- i
ed from the l.ucania all through the
night, but <air officers professed to
have no Idea of her position. Ques
tioned do dy by painstaking p.assen- '
gers, they did not even remember the
name of the!* old greyhound Some
time, when v>e wen* all tucked away
in our bunl.s sleeping peacefully, the j
Lusitania passed her paeer. and by i
noon on Monday the Lucania was j
sixty one miles astern, but the major!- j
ty of the passengers did not know
what had '■ tune of her until they '
readied N -w York. By noon on Tues
day the dis :iii i* between the two Ctt-
narders had been Increased to 12b
miles
One of the features of the daily life
on shipboard was furnished by the
two devaior- amidships, which car
ried the passeng* rs op and down to
tin* various decks, five in a;!, which are
designated as A, B. !» and K. Two 1
hoys in g 'd !a ,- ed uniforms were in
charge md *:*e kepi h :sy day and
night, e: eoiaky at dimer time, when
the ladies a|e e, n-d in gorgeous toi
lets. escorted by their husbands In
solemn even. - dii.-s. Sitting in the
splend.- ■ ■ .:ng room, decorated In
white a<hi a I. with its lofty balcony,
am 1 listed'.■■ :• die of' hestra. It was
difficult t" .*'i *ve oneself at sea.
Th > tde*. , v w hid> are connected
v ’ h e bin. :*'">rd:*d groat
to t 1 • passengers at first,
•" found of great onveu-
len-e in a: king om*' . friends if they
were <* tali, b hmuer ' r for a prom
enade on , .a* ship v.: s so large
hat it v* as i u a ,vays [>•■.- idle to lo
cal. vour frcnils wilboii the aid of
tin* telephones xud tla central offices
<u < •’ !> do* F ’ o< :, : jj the London
ct<s*ot.| tie* p: a rs a!' -aid, "Are
you there''’ In . id of the American
' *r di:.nei on tine even-
in - we a. out on the paciotts veran
(la of the p: . . aa '•* dee!: and listen
ed to mn i
< in* of the ! isiost Uieii on the snip
was the Man <mi operator, who was
besieged al hours by rus-engors
anxious to re"i-' e news and by those*
wh<* w * a* *d • cel <l'spat< lies to
Utl. 1 i ile
lait la.i'r
it
n*
frb
a
11.
wen
wife
throi gl
and thi
•r > eg
had got
h solin'
hiug
■; board
tl
“Suffering Samuel Johnson!” be yell
ed. “What's this cryptic sentence
tnea n ?”
The airret p'uub'nt explained that if
w a ; om* *if hi-i own code words, meu:'.
Ing that tin I i sit inia war going ahoid
ut hlgii spied, i’he word “full” after
“tank," he said, would mean that she
was going at iier top speed of twenty-
five knois.
The weakest pail of the great liner
was the rure*rd Daily Bulletin, which
was so feeble that the printer used to I
go to sleep setting it up. It struck the )
crowd of newspaper men on board that i
it would 1m* a kindness to the purser, j
who was editor as well as press ecu- j
sor. If we took the labor off his hands |
and brought out a real live paper tilled j
with tin* little incidents and romances !
that were happening every minute !
around us. When the proposition was :
put to him Mr. Lancaster stepped hack
at least four feet, with alarm depicted I
on Ids cherub like countenance, and
said:
"Oh, no! One would never know j
what would happen to one If one it I
lowed one’s work to he taken out of 1
one’s hands, would one?”
“We thought that it was possible j
“one would not,” Judging by the re- |
marks the owner of the amateur code i
made daily about the censor.
By noon on Tuesday we had made a |
run of r»r. miles. 1,121 miles from '
Queenstown, and all on hoard felt hap
py with the Idea that the British flag
would once more fly In the van and the
colors of the famous Deutschland j
would he hauled down. Alas. It was |
not to Ik*; That night we hud a rough j
sea and a strong north-northeast wind !
w hich whistled around the promenade j
deck, but did not rock the ship a little j
ML
The pools were auctioned off each
night in the smoking room, which j
teemed to arouse some of the meu on j
board from their lethargy in the ho]K*
of winning money from their fellow
passengers. The highest pool was
S 1.000 and was won by a man who
paid $2t>0 for the nuint*er.
About midday on Wednesday, after
the run of JV70 miles had been put up ;
on the notice hoard, the w histle was i
blown, and as the weather was dear |
vve all rushed out on deck to discover
the cause. By the aid of powerful
glasses we saw a s nail steamer about
twenty miles ahead right in our track.
Tin* vessel looked so near to the ofli
cer from the altitude of eighty feet on
the bridge that he was afraid the Lusi
tania would run her down, and a braw
ny chief from Scotland’s shores shout
ed out over ;!ie how. "Ship ahoy, get
out of the road or vvo’ll sink you!” Al
most before the excitement had died I
away we passed her.
On Wednesday night we had a con
cert in the lounge, with a couple of
spooehe c , in one of which Senato"
Sutherland declared that the Lusitania
v ns mo • * beautiful th'an Solomon’s
temple and large enough to hold nil his
w iv es and motliers-in-law. while Rob
ert Balfour, M. Ik, spoke of the ship |
as another link of friendship between ■
Aiiieriea amt England. Senator Suth !
erlnnd caused the lirst laugh that had !
been raised on tin* ship since leaving !
Queenstown by his speech because he |
came from Ftnh, though not a Mor !
mon.
Late ou Wedne day night we noticed j
that the :peed had increased very
iow h, and the steamer was slipping!
through the water at a great rate, i
Then at 11 MO p. m. a fog came on and |
dashed our hopes once more. We could 1
not make out where the had link
came from, as there were no Jonahs
on board and all hands were kind to '
Rill, the ship’:- big black cat. which I
always walked the rounds with the |
master at arms w hen he went through !
tin* ship at night. Then some one i,i
covered that vve were to laud in New !
York on Friday', the Rith. and lie ai j
tin* foot of l hirtoenth street. Then !
we knew that tin* record held by tin
Deutschland for so many years would j
not in* lowei'ed this trip
N< xt day at noon the run of .o!t3 wa-
n hi ii v. as the best sine*
>ul it was to ' late to savf
* ><*d Nantucket lightship
I said le* was pleased with
ii satisfied that she had
was expected from her
I not speak of what the
:ht do in the future,
s ot who had charge of
-aid In an off moment.
censor was not stand
we had .'oi timed about
coal a day; but, judging
ip v. lien she used up for
air. there Is a llkeli
nearer LB hi to
a imotinccd,
wo started.
Its. As vve
i aptaln Wa
the shin a
done .'ill that
but he would
Lusitania mi;
The eaiiny
the engines
when th'* pn
ing' by, that
1,000 tons of
of the trial t:
iy-five tons a
hood that It <
All hands on board enjoyed the trip
but there was a general though tin-
ling of disappointment
•r v.as not driven a lit
DCLEMTES
WELCOME!
a
. m
b*aniers that
One man’®
the l.ucania
Qoccnstown.
I to him by
tin* operator
.'d- were re
r m si >n:>. I
that the*
tie more
rev orils.
steame
to beat the <Jermiin steamer't
(Svlreiess made e on \.
Wince. Abo;;! l.t, :t) u or
celv ed a11 1 •! : - p,tidied daily .
When I went to • end off my first
inos-am* ' - the Times I di- 'overevl that
we had a pie-- censor i n hoard in the
personof.li nh Liineasier. the purser.
Whet I took i* i" him he giutieed at
It severely and. pointing out an olt*
scure vvoia!. a* I<m1. “What’s this?” I
explained, ami fhen h<* ■-■ e<! the of
fending vv< i < ut and vide it afresh.
“Are you r< ; lly the press censor?" 1
asked.
Drawing himself dramatically up to
his full height of fl' i* fe-*t and one inch
the purser replied, “I am.”
Tin.* next, day Tuesday one of the
correspondents on board gave the press
censor a severe shock by suddenly an
nonliving that he was going to send a
message to Ills paper in code. When
the message was handed in tin* pur
ser examined it very carefully and
pounced on the words “W# tank.”
Tooth In a Pow .tc.
Isaac Hildebrand of .Mount Etna
Huntington eoimty. Ind.. grew a pota
to this year ihat contains a lium.i:
tooth, says a F**ru (Ind.i dispatch tv
the Indianapolis News. The potat
patch " a® formerly an Indian burying
ground, and fr <ni It have been taken
nan skulls and hone- When Mi
Hildebrand dug his potatoes recently
In* found one from which protruded .<
human tooth. Tin* freak Is on cxhlb 1
Mon In a store window at Mount Etna
At the Raw Box.
Hern comes thv- oyster! Alt hull to tli«
oyster,
The Chesapeake oyster, beyond all com
par*-!
Thn-'" cheers for He oyster, the beauttf
oyster,
That gem of our waters, rich, luselou*
and rare'
We’ll fry him and stv-w him. we'll pay
tribute to him;
fieptcinli* r l'« h ascH him iindi-r th 1 v
All hall to tie oyster, the in irvelvju.** <.y..
ter.
A lewe! vv'ven he’s moved and a *!r. in
wheii tie's raw!
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While in the city
and not otherwise
engaged dele
gates are invited
to make
The Ledger
their home. Here
you will find writ
ing material, desk
room, water and |
tooth picks and a
warm welcome.
COME IN AND CHAT
THE LE
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—Baltimore San.