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1 1 1 v- v- rcy 1 11 1 ijr Vta 4 THE DISPATCH: RICHMOND VA SUNDAY JANUARY 29 1905 ml1 RAILROADS nd of th wMpon CorapHtttd air Is uppllcd throufhthl pipe and tod breteb block is withdrawn aftsr discharge a powerful current Is forced through the three holes slanting toward TWENTIETH CENTURY IDEAS ABOARD uUR FIGHTING SHIPS THOMAS DIXON AUTHOR AND HOW HE WORKS 1 Xj- 3 Hours and 25 Minutes to Norfolk Jan-IMM I RICUAONIABTBOUXB Week lon-Ltoil te Stnae Ml gawped career the book to said to have boon founded were especially hostile The Anarchists wer offended too Mr Dixon received a great many threatening lutteni One Chicago anarchist said be Subsequently the New York clergy rai-hlm He never earn Shortly after the publication of One Mr Dixon retired from the lecture platform He had made a great uccest Previously he had left the ministry Hto views were too liberal to suit the orthodox As pastor of the Church he had preached to thousands of people at the Academy of Music in New York Here every Sunday afternoon people of i l41 muI way station 4-4 4 Linn Arrive bur a Wtitlanifri' Newport Nine A 1I M-t Ud Pomt AC Mulfulk auiljf Poruiaoutli A 6u Williams vs la st how important ere the fane to the health of the men Electricity likewise operate the ship laundry machinery it turns the deck winches It Illuminates the vessel throughout and It will noon control the steering gear-on of the few important parte of the equipment which has not yet surrendered to the twentieth century plun Men-of-war now have telegraph systems of their own aside from the wireless ap- Saratus with which they are equipped lepcatlng telegraphs are fitted for the-propelling engines with dials on the working platforms and connected to transmitters located in conning towers and on the flying bridges whereby the number of engine revolutions desired can be readily transmitted Other devices make It possible for the engineers to operate the engines In unison and at the same time display the direction of rotation to the navigating officers There are likewise complete fire extinguishing and automatic flooding apparatus Telephones vs Speaking Tubes At the present time most of the communication between different parte of the ship is by speaking tubes This system hu itself beeu developed to a remarkable degree The captain from hie station is now able to -communicate with the engine end dynamo rooms the torpedo directing stations lookout platforms wireless telegraph looms and central stations Local to Old Point i J4A1M LIMfr-WJHiJiUUNlX B-JT 2 Local to OordoasvUla Lraild WIUi Puilmaa set I aS5 LoujiviU gt mule a James river line -V t- iffSEI: '14 traivs LocitrTo Eunoste fjf 5 "V2 '5" News wk dEa OocdoasrlU tp a fuller 0b Paaa Art ifl O- WARTHBX DOTLE Manager There Is an elaborate system of inter- armor-plate baa been a rather sore subject communication between all the various in congress there is a very general im- Krts of the ship Bo large la the num-: preaslon that we have been paying too of these speaking tubes on a modern i much for It because of the absence of co-battleshlp that if placed side by side with petition and Congress will 1 undoubtedly one Inch apace between them they would demand that the Navy Department buy occupy a width of sixty feet It Is Planned now however to establish a telephone central directly under the conning tower with a switch board for concerting any one part of the ship with another The wires for the entire system could be placed Inside any one 6f the peaking tube now used Another Improvement of greet value in the great number of labor-saving appll-reducing the complications In the ances they employ almost neutralises me mechanism and construction Is the pro- difference in the cost of labor here end posed drainage system recommended by abroad This difference le consider George Dickie the Ban Francisco ship- A warship of 13600 tone costs Great Brit' armor from the concern that offers the lowest prices on a satisfactory product The result of all the Improvements designed to make the ship safer and to Increase its fighting efficiency la greet Increase in cost notwithstanding the feet thet the number end facilities of our shipyard are constantly increasing and thet i-v SL id Richmond Fredericks- 1 rg Potomac A Xorthward aT BL Through A flt Through Thiflf1A Byrd BL T-M All Puilmaa Can roasts Through I cal S-Wek Doys-Byrd sl Through 125 S- at Through 8L Through iLi AJTve altlwioBd-riouiheirf Elba ao Frwtorfcks- saK5RJfV A M-WakXA M-DaUy-Maia Bt Through r-be- AsEand Ao- WWWWltfdll I'Jf 8t Through Through 1:41 Mala Pullman Can Through Local aIT SL Through BL Through -U: "TKimth AS Pullman Bteaptog oV Parlor Con on aUabor train nent train A dw rad inert acon- Ttow of arrival and departures and smumcm tkma nut guamntMd CL CULP TAYLOR MoaTr AsVL Ges'L THOMAS DIXON JK Anthor of Clansman An Intimate Study of a Picturesque Personality Interesting Literary His Old Virginia Home Incidents of a Strenuous Life as Lawyer Preacher Lecturer and Author he said power to express a prob- lem In terms of Ufa like he continued think (he writer ought to be hampered by the limitation of formal style I believe an author should plunge Into hie subject develop JrS A 9r LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY i Norfolk 11:19 A glops only at pwaroburg Wavarly and A -CHICAGO EXPRESS BuffM -i '-N Psunburg to Lynch mug sad Roanoh JFhdlmas iglwpan Roanok to Cotam-- bus BluotMd to ClnelaaaU aloo te Knoxville and Knuxvlll to Mmphts CCa Dining Car Roanok to Vivian 1 1 ROANOKE EXPRESS tar Fora-till Lynchburg and Roanoko lasp OCEAN SHORE LIMITED Ae- Him Norfolk Stopo only at Prim- burg Warmly mad Suffolk Connects with taaman to Bn too Provldcnc Nw York 'M Bxltlmor nnd Washington For Norfolk sad all station Mat ot Ptnbarg NEW ORLEANS SHORT UNEVV'V Pullman Slpra Richmond to Lynchburg and I'' 2 Rbaaoka Fetamburg to Cut Radford Lyooh-burg to Chattanooga Memphis and Kw Or- 'e ABMOftEO CRUIoEk COLORADO 13080 tons speed 2227 knots cost $5797848 the musslo and everything that remains in the barrel of the gun la forcibly ejected mw flames remnants of poi cite or anything that might ignl charge placed ia the gun -Improvement in armor has of necessity kept pace with improvement In guns Pint there wss the Harvey then the Krupp process and now a new srmor-maklnr process has come Into the the Mlrlvalo Company which ooerateg under American patents Independent ot Ilia Krupp methods Strangely enough the price of armor plate le steadily going down in spite of the improvement Before the Krupp armor process was die- covered the American governimmt paid uniform price of Ml per ton Since 1SJ9 when method wes adopted the price hue been with MS per ton additional for the patent royalty The next drop in price came last year when the Midvale Company bid SN per ton and got a 4000-ton contract Tests made early in December with an eight-inch gun against an eight-inch side armor plate ahowed that the Midvale product was quite as good as the Krupp plates The UnltCb State Government usee about UMNO tons of armor annually the saving on which at the Midvale jirieea would be in the neighborhood of $TuM) A If ae now appears most prohable the Midvale company both a to quality and deliveries there ia no doubt that rival armor-makers will have to meet this prices for it prill have every Incentive to Increase it facilities to such an extent that it can produce all the armor required by the government Slnee the days of the disclosures to the Newport News Shipbuilding Company for each The 'Tennessee" of the same class and tonnage cost the government (4065000-a ton cost of 6278 as compared with 6347 The same variation In ton prices shows up in the battleship division The built In 1900 cost 6264 per ton The newest' battleship for which a contract has been made the "New will east exactly the same But In the Intervening years the -ton cost hag varied greatly the (1M1) standing the gorefmnent 6240 the (1902 1 nd the (1908) 6261 ttf Over one hundred millions to a lot of money to spend annually on the navy it would be more than reason could Justify If all of the sum was expended on naval increase As a matter of fact however hardly a third of th amount asked of Congress this year for the navy to wanted for new ships Estimating the amount appropriated at 1104000000 it will be divided about like this: 888000000 for ray coal repairs and maintenance of ships yards and docks 860400000 for "Increase of the and 61400(1000 for armor and armament Secretary Morton expreareu the popular conception of the kind of naval establishment the public wants when he said the other day In New York: am In favor of a navy so efficient that no other nation ln the-world will want an -engagement with it- It le not necessary that we should have the biggest navy that floats It is necessary 'that our navy should be the most ivy lEE (Copyright WKi by FjtrceJ (The Great Fighters of the Present Being Made So That They Can Hardly be Sunk THE USE OF ELECTRICITY This One bf the Notable Features of Advanced-Tremendous Power of Engines 'TighUng ships more ship finer Such le the lupreme demand of (he nations Money beyond compute lion Ja being poured Into the huge floating torte which the world power are launch- big Brains blood and all that inventive geniua or patriotism can command are being spent lavishly and unremittingly to build and to improve these great fighting machines called warship increasingly complicated in Its machinery ever growing in cost calling constantly for more speed greater destructiveness and greater the naval engineer Is almost bewildered by the problem which confront him when he Is called upon to design a new ship 'The admiralty departments of the nations despairing of keeping their old ahlps in the beet fighting trim are putUng their beet efforts Into new ahlpe allowing the old ones to shift for themselves Husain the other day In the face of the destruction of her Port Arthur fleet announced that 6HKMW090 would be spent In the next few years on her navy great Britain although possessing the largest navy In the world yet announced not long since that her admiralty was designing a battleship of 17000 to 12000 toon with ten 13-inch guns in her main batteries capable of firing a broadside of seven 060-pound shells able to perforate two foot of the best existing In -s other words a ship that would have no iwblt In destroying anything now afloat or yet designed America Not to be Left Behind Into this strenuous race for naval su-prmacr the United Staten has entered with all her militant Americanism It le aid that her Navy Department le even now planning a battleship of M099 tons din placement Secretary Morton backed enthusiastically by the President calls for an American navy which shall be not necessarily the largest but ae an organised unit the most effective on all the seas The secretary asks for the un-' precedented sum- of Ui 000010 to maintain and increase the navy during the next fiscal year In American shipyards there are now in process of construction thirteen first-class battleships S' armored cruisers and 7 protected the greatest aggregate fighting power now being added to the navy of any one of the great powers The armored cruiser "Colorado" le Just going into commission Her sister ship the will soon follow Be- fore the end of the year her other sisters the and possibly the will enter active service Here alone le a squadron of terrific power embodying ere-y twentieth-century idea In construction and equipment 1 cepaoie uf fighting with fearful destnictlvencM and moving with tremendous force On her trial trip the amused even her builder by developing 26 CW bone-power In her engines and driving the ship faster than 8 knots an hour on her way from the Cnunu shipyards to the New York 1 navy yard The United States has been building modern types of cruiser since IMS battleship since U90L Consequently her navy ham nut had much time to grow out of date yet the new ship embody a greet number ot important improvements over their predecessors Making Ships Almost Unsinkable Among these developments none is more fmportunt than the means of insuring the safety of the ship in case of collision grounding explosion or other disaster resulting in puncture of the hull The system devised to tender the new ships of the navy almost unsinkable consists so far as a visitor to the bridge can see of two dials with a hole in the centre of each and borders of small discs around the edges These -are the central emergency-stations each controlling fifteen bulkhead doors and hatch gears below the protected deck Eaoh of the disc Is numbered to correspond to a door or hatchway In some Vital part of the shin But this is not of part of the system It ie merely trailer On all the main buUnead open- Inge are electric motors connected with the station bv conductor wires Now suppose that the Colorado" is rammed by a careless or hostile navigator The man who- if nearest this emergency station nulla a latch similar to a fire alarm box Instantly the doors are set in motion in rapid succession within less than two minutes every door is brought into Its water-tight groove and immediate danger of sinking averted If there is trouble at any door it win show In the corresponding disc of the sta- tlon if a sailor or seaman has been 1m-prisoned In a compartment he baa only to raise a lever tbs door will move back allow him time to pass through and then close again automatically This control of the bulkhead doors com- biffing as it does distant and local control assures the safety of the ship and the safety of her crew leaving nothing to chance or individual Initiative bravery or efficiency A man in a piece of safety above deck presses a button and ma- oblnerr does the rest Use of Electricity Increasing The use of electricity in providing all the necessities of tho ship Is developing to an antonishing degree Thirty miles of copper wire are required to convey -the current from dynamos to motors to the working devices Electricity now hoists the great shells from ammunition rooms to gun turrets at the rate of 200 feet a minute The same power moves the tremendous gudk into place and un electric button discharges the -deadly broadside Electricity competes with the steam and fire in tho hold of tte ship serving as motive power for ventilating fans in greet number- When it is realised that the temperature below fleck often rises to MO degrees Fahrenheit it may be seen Displacement lan Caf IN) I JO ST ning Fix) UIS EXPRESS Pullman Slpr Ptrbu(g to Roanoh and Roanoko Coluoibua Dining Car Train arrive from Um WMt A M- IS and 1:19 PM-i from Norfolk 11:40 A and (-99 Office No IS East Hate StrML' BEV1LL BOSLEY Gcn'L Pm Agfa Dtot Pas Aft A all creeds were welcomed end topics ot popular Interest were discussed But his ss" 10 At Home in Old Virginial Although Mr Dixon retains his New York eitlsnnshlp and vote there ho spends at least six months of Uie year ai hto beautiful estate Elmlngtnn Manor In Virginia Here in a Ana old Colonial mansion he lives tho life of a country gentleman and dispenses a generous hospitality It is one thing to see Mr Dixon in hto New York study it to quite en-oher to know him in the country Ha was born on farm and the old love of the soil to still with him He wears old elothes and a slouch hat rides over his place of 600 acres or runs his launch in Chesapeake Bay The "Big House the servants call It after th old Virginia fashion with its lurs faces the East You ean stand on tho broad porch and watch the sunlight gleam on the rippling blue waters of the bay Around the house are not le gray elms and stretching down to the water's edge Is a fine lawn Elmlnaton Manor comprises a crown grant It Is a historic country Across It -Bacon drove Lord Berkeley and hto troops long before the Revolution It Is In Gloucester county which has not yet known the shriek of a locomotive Mr Dixon has his own postoffice called Dlx-ondale 1 A Log Study Almost within sight of the mansion to a simple log cabin built by Mr Dixon himself I is sixteen feet wide and twenty-three feet long At one end to a huge fireplace where whole logs crackle Here Mr Dixon works when ha to at home Here are some of hto favorite books: Froude Eliot Dickens He to a student of history The study of the reconstruction has made it necessary to acquire a large library on this subject alone He needs little friction but to a great admirer of James Lane works In the log study the greater part of was written Mr Dixon la an intense admirer of Abraham Lincoln Clansman" shows this and interprets the real attitude of Lincoln towards the South In those soul-trying days before a wounds were healed If you should happen to be at Elmlng-ton Manor ln the winter the chances are that you would be roused (Tom your bed some cold morning to see your host standing before you in a shooting Jacket and urging you to Join him in a duck hunting expedition Mr Dixon is an en-thuslastks sportsman He spends weeks roughing It in Gloucester and adjacent counties He sleeps in a shack and Is In the open all day long Often he goes duck hunting In his launch Once hto launch got caught In a Mto-sard and was Ice bound a week The party on board Included several New York people The coal gave out and of the boat was used for fuel Finally 'a House" as the delightful ts stately pll- Ip 4 and to builder Lmler the present system of Italy 64660000 The same ship drainage 4A feet of pipe which make would cost not less than S6A00900 in the It necessary to keep water-tight more United States and It might cost a good than a thousand joints will be done away deal more with and in its place will be only SM But one of the most deceptive things In feet of pipe and sixteen valves I the world le the pries of a warship- The But It it not iIdm In tbt matter I York flhlpbulldtng Company the cl ber day mtnor njln meviees that there la only BJ4A0Wthe tSmpIrted Jifa will CMt government about 68000 oi r- propellina engines of the ship are being continually studied in the effort to make their material of leu wtetght and their driving power of greater force The human -mind does not easily grasp the meaning Of the power concentrated In a ship like the Her engines gener-tu an energy that equals the united power of 250000 men Installed tn a locomotive engine It could draw 1200 railway wa at the rate of thirty miles an hour Twelve hundred railway cars would stretch-ver Mx miles and would carry an army of M00 mea: But still the cell is ever for more power and the turbine engine is now depended upon by many to meet this demand When the bids for the cruisers and Carolina" were opened at the Navy Department December 17 19M It was found that the For River Shipbuilding Company 'had offered to build the two cruisers' with turbine propulsion machinery for 14244-600 each This to the first time that It had ever been seriously proposed by a mor and armament representing the difference between the 1 two figures Thus while the final of our warships to steauily increasing the ooet per ton of the hulls I just as steadily decreasing and comparative figures on this point have considerable interest at this time It would not be worth while to go back of ISM for the purpose of drawing such a comparison because that would be dealing with different types of construction The armored cruiser "Pennsylvania" whose kael -was laid In the year named cost 6286 a ton and the TBouth Dakota" th contract tor which was in 1902 cost about the seme In 1906 cost per ton of the same etafis of shin the had fallen to 1218 The of -13(80 tone d'splaeement Just now completed cost 62789000 or almost 6260 per ton A considerable drop shows in the hid price for the new cruiser and Ths building of these ships each to be of 14600 tone we awarded last month SOUTHERN RAILWAYS SCHEDULE IN EFFECT DEC B9L TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND V'-V'1 7 JO A Local for Charlotte V- j' Buffet Pullman tq Atlanta and Birmingham Mow Orteaa Mamphia Chattanooga ana all tho Smita JO Mi-Ex Koynllla Local HJ0 Puilmaa ready 0J9 -l for all th South YORK RIVtfft LINE Th favorite route to Baltimore and Tamm point Lear Richmond 4:19 Monday Wednesdays and Fridays P- Monday Wednesdays and 4 Friday V' 439 Except For West PoinL connecting with ateanvsts for Baltimore and river landings Mondays Wednesdays -'-iv-- and Frtdaya Steamer calls at Ohiuceter A Point Alunonda and Clay Bank A Except Local mired for We Point TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND A and 9:49 From all the SMth i From Charlotte and Durham -V: i 9:49 A From Keyavllte A Baltimore and Weet Print A hLWedneedays and Frldaysr 6:19 it dally except From West Point '1 WE8TRURY A Rlriwwed Va HARDWICK TATLOK 4 A ACKBRT Mgr Washington -A" (Special Correspondence of The Times- Dispatch) NEW YORK dan Nearly every morning a tall man walks briskly down Twenty-fourth Street and steps into the doorway of an office building near Sixth Avenue Hie commanding figure rises above the throng of busy New Yorkers His shoulders are broad and bis long anna swing at bis side From under the vtoor of yachting cap flash piercing black eyes The face Is smooth shaven strong and clear cut and the mouth is determined Hie long black hair to streaked with gray It to a (see that resembles Lincoln's and It is on to command attention anywhere The men to Thomas Dixon Jr the publication of whose new novel Clansman" has once mote centered Interest upon his remarkable personality Successively lawyer minister lecturer and author he to one of the most picturesque end interesting figures In contemporary American Ufa: A mlHkm Americans have been thrilled by bis impassioned eloquence and fata books have found their wa to as many readers Interesting Literary Methods Follow him to his study on (he sixth floor This Is his New York work suop It Is a simply furnished front room where the rumble ot the elevated trains and the roar of the busy streets reach him Mr Dixon likes to write In the midst of the hurly-burly of life It to characteristic of the men In this room he began The and it was here I touted with him about his work and bis ambitions To talk with Mr Dixon to to feel the spell of a singularly magnetic personality He talks as he energetically dramatically but earnestly He is frank almost naive In bis candor Like moe suocesaful authors he has bla own methods of work and hts he of a story ia embodied in one of hto rapid-fire sentences: a big theme and exhaust very He blocks out a scenario ae If he were writing a play Since most of hto hooks ero historical novels be becomes saturated with data He makes hie characters live and act before him When he has tje whole moving drama before him he begins to write Instead of sitting at a desk he sits a Morris chalr'wlth a cutting board (usually used for sewing) in hie lap This he can shift about at will and the first draft ot hto story to done with pencil A a chapter to finished it to copied by Mr Dixon on the typewriter Dixon to my best he says The typewritten copy to then revised and cut up How Was Written Clansman" to a striking example of this It is the second of a trilogy of Southern novels dealing with the race problem of which Leopard's Spots" was tho first Mr Dixon began work on this book over two yen ago He wrote One while he was engaged on it The large canvas of Clansman" made It necessary for him to make a profound- study It was difficult to get at the facts concerning the true Thadd'us Slovene who figures so prominently ln tho atory under the name of Stoneman and whose confiscation act brought on the Reconstruction reign of terror Mr Dixon bought 82000 worth of books on this subject alone A single paragraph about tho Ku Klux Klan cost 6300 It Involved a trip to Nashville and an exhaustive research there Having determined to make 'The Interpret the true spirit and purpose of the Ku Klux Klan he spared no effort to reveal the working of this extraordinary organisation Invisible Empire" as it was called that brought law and ordT out of the terror bf black rule In the conquered South His uncle Colonel Leroy McAfee (to whom Thfi Clansman" to dedicated) was Grand Titan of the Ku Klux Klan A member of an old North Carolina family Mr Dixon had heard from his own people tha story of thrir wrong To all this be added a careful study of the ubjcct He had access to the secret ritual and he talked with members of the Klan But the mutter of the Kii Klux Klan to another story Sufficient to bay one has but to rend to realise that Mr Dixon has entered himself Into the spirit of the order you write rapidly I asked Mr Dixon that days I write 60b words some days 6040 The -One was written in thirty days The actual writing of the1 first draft of The was fifty-nine days Emotional chapters are a great strain on me I use myself up to the you revise I asked cut twenty thousand words out of The Clansman he said I asked Mr Dixon what ln hto opinion was the first qualification and It in a logical dramatised way" Mr Dixon himself to one of the beet exponents of this in a ernes he has violated all literary traditions in hto hooks but to offset this there have been tremendous vigor and virility a genuine atory instinct and a rare appreciation of a dramatic situation A Literary Confession MT Dlxoa made a very interesting confession be said determined te be a writer when I wee a boy It has really been a life ambt ion I bad the privilege of starting the student paper at Wake Forest College in North Carolina and the first atory I wrote was singularly enough a Ku Klux story determined not to write a novel until I was forty years old I believe that a mas who writes should know Ufa before he begins to write about "But didn't you write fiction before the forty time limit wee opr I asked Mr Dixon smiled "Yes" he said "You see I have lived a pretty strenuous life and when 1 was thirty-six I felt tbxt I hod skipped a few years end my conscience hurt me All my work In the pulpit was ln a sense preparation for literary work Beside I have long had the Idea of a trilogy of southern novels dealing with the race problem Leopard's clamored te be written In that book I tried to tell the atory of the negro from his enfranchisement to his disfranchisement while ln I have tried to reveal the meaning of the Iu Klux Klan that overturned reconstruction rule and preserved the' Integrity of the Ang'o-Saxon race In the South I really that the story of the Klan forms one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of the Aryan race "Well to return to the matter of writing I wrote "The Spots' In a whir and sent If to Doubleday Page and Company who accepted It by wire A Youthful Experience Mr Dixon's reference to hie youthful ambition to be a writer recalls th very striking fact hitherto unpubl'shed that he waq the youngest member of the North Carolina Legislature He was twenty years old when he was elected Hi flrit speech was an Impassioned defense of a b'll that he had introduced to pension Confederate soldiers It was the first bill of the kind Introduced in the whole 8outh At that time Mr Dixon was a lawyer which profession he abandoned to enter too ministry where he achieved a remarkable reputation For years he woe perhaps the beet known Only rnsker South- pulpit orator In America and one of the SOUTHERNbtamp ytionert CO most sensational Ills sermons were syndicated and were read every Monday morning all over the country A Strenuous Life Mr Dixon's life has been crowded with dramatic and exciting Incidents hut none was more sensational than his encounter with Tammany when he was pas or of the People's Church in New York city In view of Dr recent charge that the was off it Is well worth recalling Dr Parkhurst after a personal Investigation made first and now fa-moust attack on Tammany graft and corruption ln municipal life The only New York preacher who came to the support of tho doctor was Dr Dixon In a fiery sermon delivered at Association Hall at Twenty-third Street and Fourth Avenue where he conducted the People's Church he bitterly assailed Tammany and denounced the official that the organisation had forced nn the target was the excise Dr Dixon scathingly arra As a result he was Indicted jury on the charge of criminal libel and arretted Tho -warrant was served by four detectives He was taken to the Jefferson Market Jail where he gave bond That night with the itld of some newspnper friends he obta'ncd the records of the members of the grand Jury He found out that twelve of them were Tammany heelers with bad records The Jury had been packed lie announced through the pupera that on the following Sunday he would denounce the Jury Two hours before the door of Association Hall were opened the streets were crowded with people Mr Dixon preached to an enormous audience and lie mercilessly arraigned the Tam-nianyltr In the jury He was cheered The sermon creitcil a profound sensation In few days ho was visited by the district attorney who snld the Indictment was a mistake nnd hud been filed away somebody ha said Mr DJxrn nnd the next Sunday -he flayed the district attorney Subsequently the New oYrk clergy rallied to Dr Fnrkhurst and there was a cleansing of the Tammany stables His Life Threatened But the Tammany Incident Was only one of many "The One Woman" was violently assailed bjr the Socialists Many of the friends (J Dr Ilerron on whm part Mr Dixon made hto war over the ice to the land A Striking Personality This to Thomas Dixon the man At forty-one he le a picturesque and virile force In the making of American fiction has been- called an epoch-making novel and there are reasons to believe that will take an equally impressive place There are people who maintain that Mr Dixon is sensational that he to raking the ashes of a fire long dead But no one can deny that he has sincerely set about the task of unfolding the tragedy of the reconstruction and in so doing has created distinct literature He hoe given to the North a real Idea of the white burden In the South llARCOSSON RUBBER STAMPS Buck's Flexible Pneumatic Stamp beat World Coal no more than th interior kind OLD DOMINION Night Line for Norfolk Ln Richmond enrr mi( (lat Alh Street) 7P MMor9'MM Newport New Mimt Fwl2A0 a 64 50 round trip includiei Kittiem berth 50c each (irirt Ciri luamcr'l Wkirt FOR NEW YORK Via Night Line Iteaewn (eicept lanirdir) nmklnc soonectloo in Nerfelkwitk Main Lias (kip tallowing da at 7 Mlm Norfolk A Western Ry tt A and 9 aad Ckeuaeak A Okta he at 9 A and WALKER VP and TM Mew York NY Vlriglna Navigation Co li pomu in Vlrgnl and North Car IRVIN WEINIOER Mgr A BARKER Jr Secretary UAY LINE TO BALTIMORE via A Uwy and dm Pont MAIL KuUTE Leave Richmond via A daily except Sunday at 4 connecting at Old Point with ei earners of Old Kay LI -e 1 ravin 7:19 arriving Bal more (JO A connactlna North East West Pbr tickets and information apply ft it Key Richmond Tnwafor Oomrany or No East Mata StreaL SEABOARD V-y 'V (f v'V The engines generate an energy equal to that of 250-000 men Installed in a locomotivethis power could draw 1200 railway cars stretching over six miles and containing 26000 men at the rate of thirty miles sn hour TRAINS LEAVE DAILY 1:19 A For Norlina and Hamlet -Seaboard Fast ftavannaV Jnckaonvllle Atlanta and Southeast JO Florida Solid Pullman New York to Bt Augustine Seaboard Express Savannah Jack- onvilla Atlanta and Southweat TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND 9:3 A Soiid Pullman from St Auguatlna 1:49 A Fipm Florida Atlanta and Southwest From Florida Atlanta nod South- WCSte From Local Polate ATLAniIC coast line TRAIX8 LEAVE RICHMOND KYRD SIHaKT blAiiON EFFECTIVE SUNDAY JAN ITH J6 A A Exptsee to all potaid UOUlBe' I'M A Petershurg and Norfolk 12-19 Petersburg and and West J9 Petersburg and Norfolk- ill) Petersburg Local 11 -ifl New York and Florid Special TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND-DAILY 40T A i 9: 9 A 7:41 A tJt A A- a Mi 1J9 1J0 Exceptc- vAMpEELU IMvT Paea AgL CRAIG Gen Paea AgL hiChMuhD AND PETERSBURG ELECTRIC RAILWAY Can leave corner of Perry and 8vnlh tree Maneuenter every hour tun the kouri from 9 A to MI las car mdnlxkt Can leave Petarkburg foot of Syeanwre IDfoPM RAILROADS CLYDE STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S PHILADELPHIA RICHMOND AND Nutt POLK LINE Freight received and delivered daily af and IX Rwy Co'e DeniA tleventeeMh and Brood -Streets Balirittng I Agent Va Nav Ca's Wbut Rocker shipbuilder of great reputation like ex-Chief Constructor Francis Bowles how president of the Fora River Company to place turbine machinery in a 11068 ton cruiser The price was a high one nnd the naval authorities wera not disposed to make an experiment with turbines on such a large scale But there ie no doubt that this la the next epoch-making development to be looked for in the direction of greater power for warships Now kinds of guns new gun mountings new range finding devices new means of protecting guns are being constantly developed Great change in the emplacement of gun are likely to pai the last great see fight at Port Arthur It wea shown that -an effective battle could be fought at 2000 distance and naval experts In consequence are talking of the necessity of changing the present arrangement of a batteries so that they will consist mainly of ther largest possible number of elevated heavy guns and a battery of rapid flrers for defense against torpedo boats When this change- comes about It will put eix and eight-inch gun out of business 'altogether A minor improvement but one that will avert such another disaster as occurred on th battleship in April last is an Invention' of two naval officers to prevent "fiare backs" The 'plan consists of drilling small holes about the toe of a lead pencil through the breech of the rifle 'and entering' the barrel Just ahead Of the breech plug These holes -are connected with a pipe that encircles the ain 64272500 France 65739009 Germany -e I a- a' At- A Af 2.