The Evening Star from Independence, Kansas • Page 1

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INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1906. TWELVE PAGES TODAY rifirtf CRY FOR ON AMY Ihe Wonderful Ramifications of the World- Wide Agency for Helping the Fallen, the Poor and the Oppressed. Anything and everything of an actual utility may be given as an offering at this Festival, for what may not be locally useful may be of high practical value in less favored parts in The Army's national field. There is, in fact, a saying, humorous, but true, that the Salvation Army can find good use both for people and things that no other body in creation would consider. Remember the Festival and remember the cause to be furthered; be generous and you will nurse no regrets: something like 3,000,000 just such peo pie are upheld by this wonderful organ ization? Do you know that in twenty A PLEA FOR THE ARMY.

Have you ever heard of a poor, troubled, sorrowful, perplexed, hopeless man or woman appealing fruitlessly to The Salvation Army? Do you know that or and life of useful purity? Do you know that in three different havens little children, all the way from nursing babes to sturdy boys and girls, are being succored? Do you know that scattered over the caountrv are seventv-eisrht Shelters in which nightly some 9.000 homeless, often hopeless, men or women are cared for? Do you know that these institutions represent but a mere fraction of the charitable work successfully carried on by the Salvation Army in the United States. How is this enormous expense to be met? Fools and ignorant know-alls will perhaps explain to you that The Arm is in and of itself a sort of bonanza class-corporation, and of a truth it would need be if out of its own re At this particular time the Salvation Army of Independence will try to pay off all its indebtedness. The Citizens National bank has kindly consented to act as treasurer for the Army Helpers League fund. All money will be paid in to the bank, as fast as received. Any amount you wish to give you can hand in at the bank.

The plan is for 350 people to agree to pay on or before December and 350 to pay before above date $2.00, with 300 other people paying on or before the above date $1.00. This will wipe out the entire liabilities of the company. We promise not to call upon anyone helping us in this effort, for one year. We believe that there are one thousand people who will help us to pay the $2,000 in the three months. LENA CHATMAN DEAD.

Young Girl Well Known Here, Passed Away in Bartlesville. Word was received yesterday of the death of Lena Chatman, of Bartlesville. She was 13 years of age, and visited this summer for several weeks with the families of Mr. Frank Breene and Mr. Harry Breene.

It has onlj' been three weeks since she returned to her home. Mrs. Frank Breene left on the afternoon train for Bartlesville. The message bearing the sad news conveyed none of the particulars concerning her sickness or death. I it 4 i 4 i a is'.

lit sir xJ -Tit) three different Homes fallen women are each year restored by the score to hon- Ik i Ht i Ik i III if, i TT TT Tir ed Mr. Cassidy, "courting slumber, but my mind was on the old-timers, and couldn't keep them out or go to sleep. Finally I got up and wrote a list of those whom I recalled who were here in the early days, and I have brought them to you, thinking they might be of AN ARMY COLONY FAMILY. TTrrVTTATT El II I i II .11 II IV 11 11 1UOO Made the Wilderness Blossom As the great work the Salvation Army for the fallen and sin cursed is doing images of our Lord? Do you know that the ramifications of this great soul saving organization extend through forty-nine countries upon the face of this globe? Did you know that the message of Jesus and the glad tidings of salvation are preached in thirty-one languages? Did you realize that these blue garbed missionaries who scarcely have from day to day enough of food and drink to keep them until the morrow are the most potent agents for bringing about that era when all men shall speak one tongue and shall praise one God? Perhaps if you study a few figures you will begin to have more appreciation of the self sacrifice of the little band of workers who daily march out upon the streets of Independence and do what they can to carry out their share of the mighty plan of salvation. From a little card handed in by Captain Horton The Star has gained the following facts and figures concerning the Salvation Army world throughout the This organization has 7,210 corps and outposts; 16,857 officers, cadets and employes; 31 training homes; accommodation homes; accommodation of same' 1,631: of local officers it has of bandsmen, during the year 478,000 meetings are held; it has on its registers 325,600 children; prints 33 periodicals with a circulation per issue of maintains 644 social institutions, with accommodations for 22,547 people daily; maintains 17 prison gate homes, and 116 rescue homes; has 18 land colonies with an acreage of 29,552.

That is for the world at large. IN THE UNITED STATES. United States CMFWYP; Here is what the Army is doing in the United States: How many of you old settlers could eit down and bring forth from the garret of vour memory the names of more than a dozen of those who participated in the exciting events incident to the wresting of the west from the grasp of the Indian and transforming the virgin 2rairie into thrifty homesteads? It is a task when you come to take it up, and it is astonishing in how many places the silver threads of memory have been broken and matters which once seemed stamped indellibly upon the mind, have been stealthily erased by the passing of time, until they have become wholly obliterated, and try as you may, you cannot weave again the woof, nor bring back an unbroken narrative of the olden days. It was, perhaps, because this faculty is so rare and now so valuable, that the wonderful memory of our old friend, Michael Cassidy, as displayed in his story of the early days, told to the old settlers last week, excited such universal admiration. Away back in his subconsciousness is tucked the names of all those who fought the prairie fire, the cattle thief, and the claim-jumper up in West Cherry, and a great many of those who settled the county at large, and to him the history of the Montgomery county streams is as the page that is writ, though one would seek long for the page.

Thirtv-seven and one-half vears ago Mr. Cassidy came to Montgomery coun- up in what afterwards became West Cherry township, and he has it now. "One night, thirty-seven years ago, said Mr. Cassidy yesterday, had gone to turn my horses out to graze, when looking up I saw silhuetted in the doorway the outline of two men. 'How do you do, I asked as I came to the house, 'and what nan I do for 'We're just out for an evenin' they says, 'but if you don't mind an' we get the invitation, we might stay all night with 'All right I says, if you can put up with the hum-Lie accommodation I am prepared to offer you, you are welcome; if you cannot, you can go on to the next (The next house, Mr.

Cassidy says, was thirty or forty miles to the west). 'One of these men was Patrick Lynn, and the other Teter Bannon, who now in Independence. He was one of the most interesting men I ever listened to, and is yet for that matter. He's a smooth talker, and no mistake. Well, he started in to jollying me.

'It's a big pasture you have, Mr. he says, 'and how big may it I says in reply, 'it is a big pasture, and I'll tell Did vou ever stop to consider Officers, Cadets and Employees 3,773. Corps, Outposts, Slum Posts Social Institutions, 983. Accommodation of Social institutions 10,580. Spent annually upon poor of U.

S. exclusive of colonies, 900,000. Annual provision of beds for poor, 3,000,000. for unemployed, 100 Accommodations (finding work for unemployed), 1,050. Annual income from their work, is $350,000.

Found outside employment, 50.000. Farm Colonies, 3. Acreage, 2,800. Colonists (men women and children) 530. Rescue homes, 21.

Accommodation of same, 500. Girls passed through per annum, Babies cared for in rescue homes dai- Iv, 160. Passing through per annum, 500. Accommodation in orphanages, 150. Accommodation in day nurseries, 100.

Children on colonies with parents 250 Children cared for in various ways, per annum, 1,500. Persons provided with Christmas dinners, clothing and toys, 300,000. A gold medal was awarded at the Paris Exposition for the U. S. exhibit of The Salvation Army operations among the poor.

Two grand prizes and two gold medals have been awarded at the St. Louis exposition for the same reason. Ihey Who you just how big it is. My pasture is bounded on the north by the territory of Nebraska, on the west bv the Rockv mountains, on the south by the state of Texas and on the east by the Missouri river. It goes through to China beneath and on top reaches to the blue Holland Tells of the Philadelphia Press.

New York, Sept. 9. From Colon there came this morning a dispatch telling of the arrival of a steamer whose principal freight consisted of 20,000 barrels of a product which a few weeks ago was no more than limestone rock of central Pennsylvania. In the construction of the Panama canal this product will speedily be utilized and the government engineers estimate that when the canal is completed possibly as many as 5,000,000 barrels of this pulverized limestone or shale of central Pennsylvania will be employed and sq employed as to give good guarantee that whatever else happens to the canal this foundation and basin work will remain intact unless some great convulsion of nature or tremendous outburst of the fires that burn beneath the sur face of the earth takes place. So, too, the engineers now employed in constructing the great tunnels of the Pennsylvania railroad under the Hudson, under Manhattan," also under the East river and a part of Brooklyn estimate that they may need as many as 1,000,000 barrels of this product with which to complete their work.

in 1880, in all the United States only 82,000 barrels of this product was manufactured and as late as 1S90 only 335,000 barrels, whose value was But there came a wonderful impetus between 1S90 and 1905, for within five years the output of all the manufactur-ies in the United States making so- called Portland cement was nearly barrels, valued at $1,500,000 At that time 16 manufaeturies were employed in digging, crushing, pulverizing and perfecting this stone so that it could be made available not only for IF PRODUCT OF 1 UTILIZED TO BE sources it carried on the stupendous undertakings it dares. But the intelligent man or woman of today knows too well The Salvation Army under too many conditions, and through too many seasons to listen to such follv. The Army just now is making a special effort to raise funds, and they are asking for not only cash but articles that can be converted into cash. Xo religious organization of history has depended more fully upon the good offices and charitable warmth of the public than The Salvation Army. Hap-1 pily we are not an ungrateful people, nor a people slow to realize or appreciate great deeds.

That is why we have a right to feel a sincere interest in everything The Salvation Army undertakes, and that is why we all now take an interest in the Army's approaching annual Harvest Festival now on. the Rose interest to the old and young alike." THOSE WHO ARE GONE. Mr. Cassidy had prepared a list of those who came to the county in the years of 1869, 1870 and 1871, and who have since passed to the great beyond. The list includes the names of Mr.

Fitz, who perceived, 75 years ago, the latenj possibilities that were in limestone and shale, whereby building material could be secured. He called his product Portland cement because the color resembled that of the stone of Portland, England. Germany for many years made and marketed the best quality and our own importations of German cement were in large quantities, although the price was $3 or $4 a barrel. It was not until about 25 years ago, however, that American chemists and American capital were brought together so that there could be commercial utilization of the enormous deposits of limestone and shale found in almost every part of the United States. HOW IT IS MADE.

A technical description of the Portland cement is given by the board of engineers of the United States army. They report to the government that this cement is a product obtained by heating or calcining shale and limestone so that there is fusion, the calcined product containing 17-10 times as much lime by weight as of the materials which give the lime hydraulic properties. This product is then finely pulverized and so treated as to make it available for the purpose intended. Probably for a layman that definition would mean that Portland cement is produced by quarrying and then crushing rock so that it becomes an almost impalpable powder, as perfectly reduced and softened as is pulverized sugar. Then this powder is conveyed to rotary kilns and there burned by a fierce heat so constantly and violently burned at a temperature in excess of 3,00 degress that thereby a clinker is produced.

When this clinker is cooled it is again (Continued on Page 5.) OLD 1. ON CANAL Which Also Enters in Construction of Buildings I' 1 is first name not recalled, who had the honor of being the oldest man to come into the county at that time, he being nearly 80 years of age when he braved the dangers of the new country. He was further distinguished by the fact that he had worked with the man who built the bridge over Niagara, Mr. Cassidy says. Then there are the names of Patrick Bcland, Joseph Corbett, Cyrus Burt, George H.

Evans, Thos. Mr. Campbell, James Laughlin, son-in-law of Dr. Busby of West Cherry, Patrick Breen, Thomas Sebring, Mr. Rosen-baum, Reece Hanley, Felix Lynn, John McCaffery, William McMullen, Dominia Quinn, Jas.

Bulger, W. S. Daniels, Joseph Laduke, Mr. Taylor, Dan Shine, Dennis Kelly, William Inglis, II. W.

Kirkpatrick, Jerry Murphy, Alonzo St. Clair, William Cary, Capt. J. B. Rowley, who afterwards became managing editor of the Kansas City Times, Patrick Leonard, William Graham, Bluford Lee Mr.

Maine, Mr. Thomas, Michael Mc-Gown, James Tony, Chas. Herrod, Rev. Vorhees, Jack Gray, Sam Dougherty, Jacob Nidy, Peter Barsch, Vinson Crouse, Rev, W. Meadows, Timothy Doyle, Henry Shaub, John Reddin, James Henderson, of Salt Creek, Henderson of Rubber Creek, John Newell, James McEniry, Riley Crouch, Robert Duncan, George Lippy, William Joseph Redden, George Wintermote, John Simms, Dr.

Russell, John Don-Lavy, Peter McGown, Mike Martin, Martin Mangan. THE LIVING. Among those still living Mr. Cassidy recalls the following: Dr. A.

J. Busby, of West Cherry; Nathan Dougherty, West Cherry; Joseph McEvers, West Cherry; John Wallick, West Cherry; Patrick Mansfield, West Cherry; Dan Starkey, Brooks Mr. Mountain, West Cherry Major II. D. Grant, Independence city; Erastus Surber, West Cherry; Jess Sur-ber, now living in Iowa; Adam Barsch, West Cherry; Walter Frink, West Cherry; Dennis Leonard, now of Fort Smith, Patrick Lynn, living in the Osage-country; Henry Witt, now living at Neodesha; Simon Tincknell, West Cherry; Edgar Burke, West Cherry; John Givens, Cherryvale; J.

C. Thomas, West Cherry; W. H. Garrett, Pawnee, Oklahoma; Monroe Mundy, El Paso, Texas; Dr. Tierney, now in Colorado; George Mosier, West Cherry; Dennis OTtourke, now in Colorado; Cyrus Burton, Elk City; Asbury Burton, Kansas City; Mr.

Houley, West Cherry; John Hanley, now in Oklahoma; Peter Auckes, Wisconsin, M. F. Cassidy, Independence city. vaulted dome of That was enough, and from that chance acquaintance, away out there in the solitude of the prairies, sprang up a friendship which has never been broken. "I was lving in my bed a short time before the old settlers' picnic," continu CEMEN' Demand For the Sticky Stuff, one but for the hundreds of uses of which it is capable.

Swift and as great as was the increase in the 15 years between 1880 and 1905, this, nevertheless, was trivial in comparison with the increase within the following 10 years. Two vears ago in all the United States there were 63 manufactories of this substitute for lumber, even for brick, the common material undoubtedly for much the greater part of building, and the output from these manufactories is nearly barrels, valued at nearly That seems an amazing growth and yet the story told by the incorporators of the great mills at North Cumberland, and at Hannibal, still more vividly illustrate the amazing increase in the demand and use of thii material. Northumberland mills will in this year of 1906 produce alone 50 per cent of the entire production of all the mills of the United States two years ago. And there is no limit in sight for the production either of this great corporation or of the others, some 70 in all, now driven to their utmost capacity in meeting the demand for this product. THE CEMENT AGE.

Sometimes this is called the electric age or the age of skeleton steel and iron with the dawning of the aluminum age, but the story of the wonderful growth of the manufacture and utilization of building material made out of common shale and limestone would justify also the description of these days as those of the cement era. In New York City they have already undertaken the building of a great and lofty of fice building constructed entirely of re- enforced cenjent. Some engineers and BEDS I contractors still wonder whether the durability and safety of this material for building purposes has been proved. But the expert chemists and the best engineers insist that if in some cases accidents have followed the use of cement, these may in every instance be traced to faulty construction, the cement itself not being at fault, but instead the manner in which use was made of it. Buddenseik, a contractor of this city, erected long rows of apartment houses, using brick, mortar and timber.

These houses afterward collapsed, bringing desolation and deatU and Buddenseik was sent to Sing Sing for manslaughter. The fault was not with the brick nor with the timber but in the mixing of the mortar and of the manner in which the buildings were made. WHY PORTLAND? Many persons, conscious at last of the very wide and wonderfully increasing use of this material for building and the promise that it gives of making good our rapidly decreasing timber and lumber supply, have presumed that the name Portland is a trade-mark and has some direct reference to the city of Portland, Maine, possibly because not far from Portland the little town of Rockland, has for many years furnish, ed a certain kind of cement. But there is no trade-mark in the name and any one can use it as any one may if he finds deposits of limestone and shale make Portland cement and market it. There is no monopoly in the business, although some of the greater corporations possess apparatus that is protected by patents by which a superior quality of cement is more economically made.

Portland cement is the inven tion of an Englishman, Joseph Aspdin WO PREMIUM SCHEMES OR CONTEST CRAFTS. IT PRINTS THE NEWS THE STAR.