VOLUME II SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1902 NUMBER 13

MADRID NEW MEXICO AND THE LOS CERRILLOS MINES Cerrillos Hard and Soft Coal Properties and the Waldo Coke Ovens. A BEAUTIFUL TOWN, WELL WATERED AND WELL DRAINED EXCELLENT STORES, MAIL SERVICE AND SCHOOLS WORK OF THE MEDI- CAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL DEPARTMENTS HISTORY OF THE MINES THEIR MANAGEMENT, EQUIPMENT, AND MEN THE WALDO COKE OVENS. ADRID, in Santa Fe county, New the men working in the Los Cerrillos mines Mexico, is situated about 200 (anthracite No. A 28 and B 33 and bitumin- miles south of the northern ous No. 27) of the Colorado Fuel and Iron boundary of the territory of Company reside. New Mexico, 427 miles south Situation. of Denver by way of Trinidad, and 477 The situation of Madrid is extremely pic- miles by way of La Junta on the turesque, combining interesting features for south- for better Santa Fe Railway ; eighty-two miles the scientist and historian, what west of Las Vegas, fifty miles northeast opportunity could there be to study geology of Albuquerque, and twenty-five miles than where the earth's crust has been rent south of Santa Fe. It is situated on and torn by the volcanoes of ages past, or to the Cerrillos Coal Railroad, which joins the study history, than in a place where are found Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway at the picture writings of a race that inhab- Waldo station, which is four miles north of ited this country before the white man Madrid and where the Waldo coke ovens are came? Only twenty-five miles distant is the situated. The Santa Fe railway station of historic city of Santa Fe, founded by the Los Cerrillos is three miles north by road Franciscan Brotherhood 300 years ago, and from Madrid. Madrid is the town in which claimed by some authorities to be older

Part of Madrid, New Mexico. 298 MADRID, NEW MEXICO, AND THE LOS CERRILLOS MINES.

than Saint Augustine, Florida. In Santa house, a good hotel and an amusement hall. Fe General Lew Wallace found the inspira- Mail Service. tion for and wrote part of "Ben Hur." For The postoffice of Madrid affords efficient "him who finds tongues in trees, books in service. Mail arrives and is taken from the running brooks, sermons in stones and this office every day of the year. James good in everything," Santa Fe county is Wood is postmaster and Miss Lily D. Wood replete with interest, for here her book is his deputy. laid open before him. Colorado Supply Company Store. Elevation, Population, Water Supply. A general merchandise store is operated The town of Madrid is a little place con- here, belonging to the Colorado Supply Com- taining about 100 snug and cozy dwelling pany. This store carries a $17,000 stock of houses and as many more cabins, occupied goods. E. J. Thompson is its manager. This by men working in the mines. The altitude store receives the hearty support of all the is 6,300 feet, the population between 900 residents of Madrid. and 1,000. The principal nationalities repre- Excellent Public Schools. sented are native-born Americans, Germans, The public schools are excellent. Last Italians, Austrians and Mexicans. The water year there were ninety pupils enrolled. Pro- supply, which is a great consideration in all fessor A. S. Bundy took charge last year of

Looking North From House of Superintendent of Los Cerrillos Mines, Madrid, New Mexico.

Western towns, is abundant, and the water the schools as principal, with Mrs. Bundy of good quality. The drainage is excellent, as assistant. The excellent work done by whicn doubtless accounts in no small degree both of them was appreciated, and they for the good health of the town. have been reappointed teachers for the pres- Vegetables, Flowers and Fruit. ent school year, which opened September 2. Thanks to the abundant water supply, The schools are graded, and inclu/ie from many of the men have little garden plots, in first to eighth. The standard has been made which are grown vegetables and flowers. sq high that students finishing the eighth Along each of the three main streets the grade here are accepted without examina- company has planted beautiful shade trees, tion in the Albuquerque high school. Re- mostly maples, which, owing to the care of cently the school board purchased a good R. J. Lumley, are doing well. Although the set of maps and also new blackboards. They rainfall is not quite so heavy as in southern have raised a flagpole in front of the build- Colorado, the soil is more productive ing, and this term, on appropriate occa- where it can be irrigated. An abundance sions, the Stars and Stripes will wave from of the finest fruit in the world is brought its summit. The children all take unusual to the camp by the farmers or ranchers near interest in their school and love to go. by. The summer weather here is temper- Medical Department. ate, and the nights are always cooled by Dr. S. C. Clark, the company surgeon, has pleasant breezes. Madrid has an opera been in charge of the health of our miners MADRID, NEW MEXICO, AND THE LOS CERRILLOS MINES. 299

since last December, when he came here 1, 1902. Mr. Elliot resigned on the above from Coalbasin to succeed Dr. J. O. Michael date to go to Grand Junction, Colo. Gus J. He has recently added to his office equip- Johnson, formerly mine foreman of the an- ment a static electrical machine of great thracite properties, was then appointed act- value. It is to his courtesy that we are ing superintendent. Mr. Johnson is a thor- indebted for the photographs accompanying oughly practical mining man, having worked this article. himself up from the bottom. Sociological Work. Both Anthracite and Bituminous Coal, Be- Under the direction of the Sociological sides Coke Ovens. Department lectures in hygiene and general The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company is topics have been delivered by the resident operating three mines at this place: The surgeon. A reading room is well patronized. Cerrillos bituminous No. 27, the Cerrillos History of the Mines. anthracite A No. 28, and the Cerrillos an- The coal mines have ,been operated in a thracite B No. 33, besides the coke ovens at small way for many years, and near Madrid Waldo, four miles distant All of these are

Main Street, Madrid, New Mexico, Looking North. Company Office on Right. Santa Fe Range in Distance. is a place where coke was made on the under the immediate control of Gus J. John- ground, years ago, for smelting precious son. The office for the three mines and of the mineral. But it was not until 1891, however, coke ovens is in Madrid. William E. Maltby that the coal business was put on a firm and Robert R. Archibald comprise the office and paying basis. At that time the Atchi- force. son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company The Soft Coal Mine. took possession of the property and devel- The Cerrillos bituminous property was oped it. The following men were the su- formerly known as the Cook and White perintendents under the Santa Fe: Robert mine. This mine is on a slope pitching fif- Herricke, 1891 to 1893; James Dugan, 1893 teen degrees. The vein is from three and to 1899, and John Bell from August 15, 1899, one-half to four feet in thickness. It is until October 16, 1899, when the properties said to be the best ventilated mine in New were turned over to the Colorado Fuel and Mexico, the air being kept pure by two Iron Company, and Mr. Bell was relieved by exhaust fans, fifteen feet in diameter, on Harry J. Elliot, who remained until March opposite sides of the slope. The area of 300 MADRID, NEW MEXICO, AND THE LOS CERRILLOS MINES. intake is forty-five square feet and about by means of a Frazer & Chalmers engine, forty-five thousand cubic feet or air is trav- the cylinders of which are sixteen inches in eling per minute. This mine has very re- diameter, with twenty-four inch stroke. The cently been furnished with a supply of the foundation of this engine is built on the Wolf safety lamps. A commodious and con- side of a steep hill, pitching at least sixty venient lamp house has just been completed. degrees. About seventy men are employed The equipment of this mine for hauling coal underground in this mine. Fred Delaney is is particularly efficient. The haulage en- the mine foreman. The production is about gine is a Hews and Phillips Corliss, with 200 tons per day. cylinedrs eighteen inches in diameter and The new anthracite mine B No. 33 is lo- forty-two-inch stroke. About 100 men are cated on a higher vein than the old mine. It employed inside and about twenty out- has only been opened up for about a year, side. The daily production is close to and it is now difficult to predict what its 300 tons. The quality of the coal is un- future will be. The coal is hoisted with an surpassed for commercial purposes, and engine run by compressed air. the demand has always been far in excess The anthracite coal from both mines is

Boiler House, Los Cerrillos Mines, Madrid, New Mexico. of the supply. Joseph Haske is mine fore- run to a large and well-equipped breaker, man, R. J. Lumley outside foreman, and and there screened to various sizes, lump, James D. Bryden weigh boss. egg, nut, pea and slack. This breaker is The Two Hard Coal Mines. 311 feet long, 63 feet wide and 137 feet The Cerrillos Anthracite A 28 was for- high, containing ten stories. It is equipped merly known as the Lucas mine. This mine with three revolving screens and two sets produces an excellent quality of anthracite of rolls. All machinery in the building is coal, reported by the United States mine run by means of belts attached to a Vulcan inspector to be equal to the Pennsylvania engine. Thomas Hall, who, by the way, is anthracite. The vein is situated above the also Justice of the Peace, has charge of bituminous vein. This hard coal seam lies the breaker and has under him twenty men on a pitch of fifteen degrees, and is worked and boys. in much the same way as the bituminous Power Plant. mine. The vein is three and one-half feet There is one central power plant, con- in thickness. This mine is ventilated by sisting of seven cylinder boilers. Each of means of a Murphy exhaust fan. The coal these boilers is eighteen feet long and sixty is hoisted from the bottom of the main slope inches in diameter. The steam is conducted ITALIAN DEPARTMENT. 301 from here to whatever place the power is al nord est di Albuquerque e venti cinque needed. Also in this power plant are two miglia al sud di Santa F6. Ingersoll Sargent air compressors. The cyl- Vi si giunge per mezzo della Atchison, To- inders of these are eighteen-inch diameter peka & Santa Fe Railway e la Cerrillos Coal and twenty-four inch stroke. Six firemen Railway che congiunge la Santa Fe a Waldo, and two ash wheelers, besides two engineers quattro miglia a nord delle miniere. L' al- for the compressors, are employed to oper- titudine di Madrid e' tre mila piedi. ate this plant. Earl Turner has charge of Situazione. all the mechanical work of the mines and La situazione di Madrid e' molto pittor ovens. esca e bella. La migliaia di persone che The Coke Ovens. vivono in Madrid abitano in circa cento At Waldo, the junction of the Cerrillos agiate case, molte delle quali' sono circon- Coal Railroad and the Atchison, Topeka & date da giardini ed ombrose piante frutti- Santa Fe Railway, four miles north of Mad- fere. L' acqua e' abbondante e di qualita rid, are the fifty bee-hive coke ovens (Colo- eccelente ed il prosciugamento del paese e' rado Fuel and Iron coke ovens "G"), where buono. Benche la pioggia non sia cosi' ab- part of the product of the Los Cerrillos bondante come nel sud del Colorado, il ter-

Los Cerrillos Anthracite Breaker, Madrid, New Mexico. mines is reduced to coke. Twenty-nine men, reno e' piu produttivo dove puo' essere ir- nearly all Mexicans, are employed at these rigate. Un' abbondanza di frutti squisiti, ovens. Mr. Sandoval is in charge of the pari a quelli prodotti in altri luoghi sono school for Mexican children at Waldo. coltivati in Madrid e nei suoi dintorni. II

R. R. A. clima dell' inverno e' mite e 1' estate non e' eccesivamente caldo. Le Miniere. Sono molti anni che si lavorano miniere Le Miniere di Madrid, New Mexico e Los di carbone nella vicinita di Madrid, ma sino Cerrillos. al 1891 nessune di esse daveno un buon ri- ||ADRID, New Mexico, il paese in cui sultato. Dal 1891 al 1899 le proprieta erano gli operai impiegati presso le miniere operate dalla A. T. & S. F. Ry., ed all' ul- di Los Cerrillos della Colorado Fuel tima data furono trasferite alia Colorado and Iron Company vivono, e' situato nella Fuel and Iron Company. Questa compagnia contea di Santa Fe, ottanta due miglia al sta attualmente operando tre miniere, la sud ovest di Las Vegas, cinquanta miglia Cerrillos Anthracite B (No. 33), la Cerril- 302 ITALIAN DEPARTMENT SLAVONIC DEPARTMENT.

los Bituminous (No. 27), e la Cerrillos An- dente. Sotto la direzione del dipartimento thracite A (No. 28), nelle quali lavorano di sociologia egli da delle conferenze in circa due cento uomini. II giornaliero pro- fisiologia ed igiene. Una sala di letture dotto di carbone molle e' di 300 tonnellate, stabilita da detto dipartimento e' molto

quello delle piii vecchie miniere di carbone patronizzata.

duro e' di 200 tonnellate. La piu recente I Forni da Coke. delle due miniere d' Anthracite e' stata A Waldo, la congiunzione della Cerrillos aperta da cosi' breve tempo che e' impos- Coal Ry. e della A., T. & S. F. Ry., a quattro sibile dire quale ne sarS, il risultato. Le miglia nord di Madrid, vi sono cinquanta miniere sono tutte ben ventilate e fornite (bee hive) forni dove parte del prodotto di tutti i piu moderni utensili di sicurezza. della miniera di Cerrillos e' ridotto in coke. Tutte queste miniere e forni sono sotto la Venti operai, quasi tutti Messicani, sono sopraintendenza di Gus. J. Johnson. L' uf- impiegati ai forni. La scuola Messicana e' ficio e' affldato a William E. Maltly e Rob- affidata a Mr. Sandoval.

Children of Employes of Los Cerrillos Mine, Pu pils of the Public School at Madrid, New Mexico

ert R. Archibald. II breaker e' affidato a

Thomas Hall, ed il lavoro tecnico dei forni e miniera 6 diretto da Earl Turner. Madrid v New Mexico in za II Magazzino. Cerrillos-jarne II magazzino della Colorado Supply Com- premog. pany 6 affidato a E. J. Thompson. Madrid ADRID, New Mexico, mesto v kojem ha un servizio giormaliero delle poste. James zive delovci, valuzbovani pri Cerril- Wood e' 1' ufficiale e Miss Lily Wood as- los-premogokopih, kateri so posestvo sistente. "Colorado Fuel and Iron Company" drustvo Scuole Pubbliche. za kurjavo in zelezo v Colorado lezi Le scuole pubbliche che hanno un' at- v Santa Fe County, esemdeset in dve tendenza di novanta scolari sone affidate al milje zapadno od Los Vegas, petde- professore A. S. Bundy con Mrs. Bundy set milj severe zapadno od Albuquer- quale assistente. que in petindvajset milj juzno od Santa

I Dipartimenti di Sociologia e di Medicina. Fe. Po Atchison, Topeka in Santa Fe II dottore S. C. Clarke e' il chirurgo resi- Zeleznici in po Cerrillos zeleznici za pre- SLAVONIC DEPARTMENT. 303 mog, katera slednja se veze z Santa Fe- Mehkega premoga se vsaki dan pri dela zeleznico pri postaji Waldo, stiri milje se- 300 ton, trdega pa se nakoplje v tistemu verno od 427 od jam Madrid je milj juzno casu 200 ton v starejsi jami za te vrste pre- Denvera oddaljen. mog. Novejsa jama se je odkrila se le ned- Lega. avno in radi tega se ne more nataucno pove- Mesto Madrid je sesttisuc in tri stocevljev dati, koliko se bo v njej trdega premoga nad morskem povrsjem vzviseno. Lega vsaki dan nakopalo. mesta Madrid je nenavadno slikovita in Prodajalnica. krasna. V Madrid je jedan tisuc prelival- Prodajalnica za splosno blazo, katera je cev, katri bivajo v licnih hisah, obdanih z imtje "Colorado Supply Company," je pod cednimi vrtovi, katere sencijo lepa sadna drcvesa. Vo' da se tu mahaja v izvrstni upravnistvom gosp. E. J. Thompson. Posta vsaki dobroti in izplljana je tako, da jo nikdar ne rabdeluje dan posiljatve. Gosp. James zmanjka. Akovavno v temu kraju ne dezuje Wood je postar, pomocnica pa muje gospo- tako pogostokrat kakor v delih juznc Colo- dicna Lily D. Wood.

Coke Ovens at Waldo, New Mexico, Four Miles North of Madrid. Javne sole so izvrstne. rade, vendar le so zemljisca veliko bolj Javno katera v razne rodovitna, kjer se more ono po vodovodih solo, je razdeljena okoli devetdeset otrok in namakati. Sadno drevje tukaj osobito dobro razrede, obliskuje A. L. Nje vspeva, ter rodi sadje najflneje vrste. Po njej predstoja g. profesor Bundy Bundy, sodeluje pri zimi je vreme milo, poletja pa niso nikakc gova soproga, gospa prevroca. poduku. Jame. Jame za premog so se v Madrid in blizini niegovi vize pred mnogo leti zacele kopati in obdelovati, pa se le leta 1891 so se za cela te dela izplacevati. Od leta 1891 do leta 1899 je te premogova posestva obdelo 1899 va; la A. T. & S. F| zeleznica. Leta pa jib. je v last prevzela "Colorado Fuel and Iron Co." To drustvo sedaj obdeluje tri jame. Perva se imenvje "Cerrillos Bituminous" (No. 27). v katerej se koplje mchki premog, katero delo izvrsuje sto in dvajset moz; druga jama se zove "Cerrillos Anthracite A" (No. 28), tretja pa "Cerrillos Anthracite B" (No. 33). V slednjih dvch jamah koplje okoli sto moz trdi premog. Colorado Supply Company Store at Madrid, N. M. 304 SLAVONIC DEPARTMENT.

Zdravstveni in socijologicni oddelki. THE, VAMPIRE. Doktor S. C. Clarke je zdravnik. Pod vod The verses as suggested by the painting by Philip Burne-Jones, first exhibited at the new gallery in Lon- stvom socipologicnega oddelka, on v gotvik don, 1897 casih govori javno o raznih obcnih pred: By Rudyard Kipling. metih, o prirodoslovnih in zdravstvenih fool there was and he his stvareh. Teh poducnih zborovanj se vedno A made prayer as and dosti poslusalcev udelezi. Socijologicni od- (Even you I!) To a and a bone and a hank of hair delek, katerega je osnovalo "Drustvo za rag

called her the woman who did not , kurjavo in zelezo v Colorado," je take pre (We care) dave uvedel v svrho, da se znanje in vednost But the fool he called her his lady fair med delavci siri. (Even as you and I!) Peci za kok v Waldo.

V Waldo kjer se strinjatc "Cerrillos-zelez- Oh the years we waste and the tears we nica za premog" in "A. T. & S. F. zeleznica," waste, stiri milje severno od "Madrida, je pretdeset And the work of our head and hand peci za kok, kjer se pidelki premoga v Cer- Belong to the woman who did not know rillos-jamah sperminjajo v kok. Devetind- (And now we know that she never could vajset moz, vecinoma Meksikanci, opravljajo know) to delo. Jospod Sandval poducuje v meksi" And did not understand. kanski soli.

Moving Towers. A fool there was and his goods he spent If one remembers that an inch, although (Even as you and I!), a good deal on a man's nose, is very little Honor and faith and a sure intent in a hundred feet, one will not be surprised (And it wasn't the least what the lady to learn that all high structures sway in meant) , the air. But a fool must follow his natural bent The Eiffel Tower swings perceptibly with (Even as you and I!) the wind, and even stone shafts like those of the Bunker Hill and Washington monu- ments move several inches at the In top. Oh the toil we lost and the spoil we lost these cases the cause of the action is not And the excellent things we planned, the wind, but the heat of the sun. The side Belong to the woman who didn't know why that is toward the sun expands during the (And now we know she never knew why) day more than the side in shadow. Accord- And did not understand. ingly, in the morning the shaft points toward the west, in the afternoon, toward the east. The fool was stripped to his foolish hide (Even as you and I!), Whiskers Lairs for Microbes. Which she might have seen when she threw Presently it will be impossible for a him aside man with whiskers and long hair to get an (But it isn't on record the lady tried) audience to hear his poetry, or listen to his So some of him but the most of him philosophy, says the Schoolmaster. This lived, died will be a deadly blow to journeyman poets, philosophers, and lecturing ex-clergymen, (Even as you and I! ) doctors and the like, whose entire charm and mesmerism lurks in their hair. The And it isn't the shame and it isn't the blame nest of the microbe has been found. Whisk- That stings like a white-hot ers longer than an inch are now quaran- brand, It's to know that she never knew tined. Shortly legislation will prohibit by coming enactment public entertainments conducted why by men who are at this moment the very (Seeing at last she could never know why) rivet and amazement of the times. And never could understand. MISCELLANY. 305

The Iron Industry in Japan. thirty to forty pounds of steam in the boiler A Japanese correspondent, writing to the of a cold engine, and when this pressure is Iron Trade Review from Tokio, refers obtained the engine can take care of itself. Age of Steel. to the depression that has checked importa- tion in the past two years, and that still The Shadrach Bond House. operates to repress industrial development Changes in commercial conditions, says there. The steel recent- government works, the Four Track News, often determine the established with an of ly outlay $10,000,000, fate of a community, but nature rarely con- for the manufacture of plates, rails and spires to wipe a town off the map. Such, other finished is not forms, yet successful, however, has been the ill fate of Kaskaskia, in is though operation. Pig iron imported the first capital of the state of Illinois. for the most part from England and China. Here in a picturesque old house lived Shad- is manufactured in No good coke Japan, but rach Bond, the first governor of the state, importations are made at reasonable cost and here Lafayette was the guest of Illinois from England and Canada. Foundry opera- in 1825. Kaskaskia was then a thriving, tions are a small conducted on scale, but, promising place, but, in 1844, the capricious as financial this the situation works easier, Mississippi changed its course, cut In back other industries are to de- and likely be of the town, and Kaskaskia found itself upon veloped farther. an island; its future hopeless. Now the Postmaster General has discontinued the Oil-Burning Locomotives. postofflce there, and thus completed the The Baldwin Locomotive Works is build- pathetic journey of Kaskaskia Into oblivion. ing fifty oil-burning locomotives for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, Mr. Carnegie's Epitaph. in addition to sixty-nine coal-burning en- Andrew Carnegie has composed his own gines. Lately five locomotives fitted to use epitaph. It reads: "Here lies a man who oil as fuel and equipped with Vanderbilt knew how to get around him men much boilers were completed and shipped to the cleverer than himself." Many a rich man Santa Fe, and following them was another could copy this epitaph, leaving out the oil-burner, but fitted with a fire box designed "him." Philadelphia Ledger. by John Player, the consulting superinten- The Associated Press, in transmitting the dent of motive power for the Santa Fe, who epitaph which Andrew Carnegie proposed has been giving the question of oil as a for himself in his Stevens Institute speech locomotive fuel great attention. The Santa last week made a blunder that has set the Fe officials are now experimenting with the paragraphers gasping at Mr. Carnegie's as- Player locomotive, and upon the results of tonishing candor. As sent across the coun- the tests will depend whether the Vander- try the sentence read: bilt or Player type of fire box will be adopt- "Here lies a man who knew how to get ed in the fifty oil-burning locomotives now around men much cleverer than himself." building. The Vanderbilt fire box Is a single The omission of the third personal pro- corrugated cylinder and the Player design noun after the preposition is a startling Il- uses three cylinders. lustration of the perversities of language. The oil Is burned just as it Is supplied to Age of Steel. the locomotive. A drawback to the system Is that when the locomotive is cold It must Life Saver vs. Life Destroyer. obtain steam from some other source before Michael J. Coyne, a New York policeman, it can begin to generate its own, the pro- says the Chicago Record-Herald, saved five jection of the oil into the fire box depend- lives at a fire. He isn't likely, however, to ing on the force furnished by the steam. be regarded as half as much a hero as he This disadvantage is obviated In Russia, might have been if he had waved a flag where several hundred of oil-burning loco- somewhere and shot a few men to death. motives are in service, by connecting the cold engine with a shifting engine already Children are travelers newly arrived In in steam or by connecting with a stationary a strange country; we should, therefore, boiler in the roundhouse. It takes from make conscience not to mislead them. fifteen to twenty-five minutes to get up Locke. 306 EMERGENCY TREATMENT.

EMERGENCY TREATMENT IX. u and b). This blood enters the right auri- THE HEART. cle, which, when full, contracts or "beats" After seeing the importance of our blood thus forcing the blood through the right auri- we shall consider how this fluid is forced culo-ventricular opening and into the right through our bodies on its life giving errand. ventricle. This ventricle now contracts and The Heart a Small, Though Delicately Ad- the blood seeks an escape. The return to justed Pump. the auricle is shut off by a valve, and the The pump is, of course, the heart (Fig 2). blood is forced into the pulmonary artery This organ is about the size of one's fist, (Fig. 1, Z) through the only other opening. and extends from the upper border of the Here again we find a valve so arranged that third to the space between the fifth and sixth the blood, once forced beyond the ventricle, ribs. When we open the heart (Fig. 4) we cannot return. Passing onward the artery find that it contains four cavities two auri- soon gives off two branches, each branch cles and two ventricles; the former being going to a lung (Fig. 1, RL, LL). Now numer- above the latter. The auricle and the ven- ous branches are met as the blood rushes tricle on each side communicate, but there onward through the lungs until finally the is no opening connecting the two sides. The fluid enters minute vessels called capillaries. openings between the two cavities on the These little vessels surround the air vesicles same side are guarded by the auricular-ven- of the lungs. tricular valves in much the same fashion as We have seen how this blood, coming from we find in a pump, which allows water from various parts of the body, finally reaches the the well to pour out, but not return. When lungs. It is dark in color and laden with such a pump leaks, some of the water does impurities. The waste is now thrown off. return, and the man at the handle soon The blood next takes its load of oxygen (be- learns how much harder it is to secure the coming brighter colored in consequence) and needed amount of water. The same thing is ready to carry its life-giving properties to occurs when a heart valve leaks the heart distant parts. must work just so much the harder to do its Once more the journey is resumed, begin- duty. This is just what happens in ordi- ning at the capillaries and joining numer- nary "heart disease," and we can now realize ous other little streams. Gradually the why such a condition is justly dreaded. The streams grow larger in size and smaller in heart is within a closed sac the pericar- number until but four vessels remain, two dium. The inner wall of the sac is firmly from each lung, which pour their scarlet attached to the heart and beginning of the contents into the left auricle. And not a large vessels leading from it, while the outer drop of blood has been lost on the journey! wall surrounds the inner. Between the two The blood has now reached the left side layers a little fluid is found, just enough of the heart. The left auricle contracts and to keep the two smooth, glistening surfaces forces the blood into the left ventricle. The of the pericardium lubricated, and thus pre- latter immediately "beats." The blood is vent any friction when the heart beats. prevented from passing into the auricle by a The Circulation. (Fig. 1.) valve, and therefore pours into the largest The blood from all parts of the body artery of the body the aorta (Fig. 1, T). At- passes through veins toward the heart until tempting to return to the heart, the way is all is collected in two large vessels, the su- blocked by another valve. Therefore the perior and the inferior vena cava (Fig. 1, blood passes onward, entering various EMERGENCY TREATMENT. 307

The CirculatoryLSystem, Blood Corpuscles and Sections of Heart and Lungs. Arteries black. Veins gray. branches of ihe aorta and other branches, The blood, ever on the move, continues its ever onward, until capilliaries are reached. jouiney, gradually forming larger and larger Through the walls of the latter the nutri- vessels until veins are formed which finally tious products of the blood are readily given unite in the superior aud inferior vena cava. to the tissues and waste products as readily Once more the blood enters the right auricle removed. The capilliaries form a dense on its way to the lungs, and is ready for an- network everywhere throughout the body, other journey. EMERGENCY TREATMENT HINTS ON HYGIENE DOMESTIC SCIENCE.

The scheme of the circulation is well colds. If these people would begin gradu- shown in Fig. 16. The direction of the ar- ally by lowering the window from the top, rows shows direction of the blood stream. they could keep the windows open with no A. Vena cava entering R. A. (Right au- ill effects whatever, and that their health ricle.) would indeed be improved. R. V. Right ventricle There need be no draught formed, but P. A. Pulmonary artery. Branches to there should if possible be separate places R. L. and L. L. (right and left lungs). for the entrance and the exit of the air. D. Pulmonary veins returning blood from Two windows left open, or a window and lungs to L. A. (left auricle). a door, a window and transom, or finallly L. V. Left ventricle. one window left open both from the top and G. Aorta sending blood to various parts the bottom. Some people are accustomed of body (H. and I.) to, and enjoy, a breeze blowing over them What a Powerful Little Engine the Heart Is. during the night, just as they enjoy a cold Did you ever consider how much work plunge in the morning before breakfast, but the heart does in a single day? In order I would not advise everyone to undertake to furnish the required amount of blood to follow their example. Nevertheless, to various parts it is necessary for that everyone needs the fresh air and should see organ to beat sixty or eighty times a min- that the windows of his sleeping room do ute, or somewhere in the neighborhood of not remain closed, even in winter time. a hundred thousand beats a day. The only As regards heating arrangements, there rest the heart receives is between the beats. is very little to be said; it is only in large Can you wonder that the heart wears out buildings, hospitals and schools that spe- after continuing its action for sixty or sev- cial difficulties arise. Stoves and open fire- enty years, especially when you consider places are the principal sources of heat that the work it does is equivalent to lifting in our homes, and only a word or two need a ton of coal one hundred and twenty-five be said concerning them. The flues should feet in the air every day? be large enough and be kept clean enough, and the chimney be set high enough so that HILTS ON HYGIENE IX. a good draught is obtained. Otherwise the Ventilation and Heating. poisonous gases liberated by the burning The ventilation and heating of our houses coal and wood (principally carbon monox- should be considered when they are in pro- ide and dioxide) would escape into the room cess of construction, and should not be left and produce their ill effects. And we should to the last moment, or undertaken as an also remember that burning coal uses up afterthought. the oxygen of the air very rapidly; there- The average amount of fresh air which fore more fresh air is required in a room should enter a room each hour is 3,000 cubic with a fire than in one without. feet per individual; and in order to obtain this, some means of ventilation is essential. DOMESTIC SCIENCE VIII. "* There are many devices for this purpose, a Variety in Foods. number of them very simple and effective, The economic value of all foodstuffs is but, as a rule, they are not necessary except by no means to be estimated by the bulk or in hospitals, schools and crowded rooming weight. The actual force producing material houses. Ordinarily the open window is is usually found in beef. A laborer, who all that is required. But how many peo- works many hours daily, should have good ple there are who, when they retire for the bread, butter, sugar and vegetables, com- night, close down all windows and doors bined with eggs or meat, with plenty of pure and allow no fresh air whatever to enter. water and milk. It is a mistake to think, Some do this because they know no better, as most people do, that meat must be eaten some because they are fearful of "catching with every meal, and in large quantities. cold." Here we have a case of the "cart A man can work hard on eggs and vege- before the horse." It is not so much that tables alone. No one kind of food should the open window causes them to catch cold be eaten at all times by a person because as it is that their habits in sleeping in im- he likes it. The proper mixing of all foods poverished air render them more liable to and a variety are what are necessary to DOMESTIC SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE. 309

Head of David Michaelangelo.

sustain life. It is quite singular that with SOCIAL -SCIENCE VIII. the increase of civilization there is more HOME DECORATION INTERIOR (Con.) meat and fowl eaten than in olden days, There is scarcely a home where an at- when men had to use the ox for the plow tempt has not been made to use bric-a-brac they raised corn for the bread of life.Perhaps as a decorative feature. By bric-a-brac are if we could look back upon some of the meant varieties in the way of geological tables that were set for the meals of some specimens, historical relics, curios of other of our ancestors we should find that there nations and peoples, the thousand and one was a scarcity of animal food and more of "souvenirs" one is continually gathering, mush and milk. pieces of statuary and pottery and glass- 310 SOCIAL SCIENCE.

ware and innumerable other such articles for "pretty" things, but they are noble and treasured for memories' sake or for their or- majestic. Every line in them has mean- namental value. ing and adds to the expression and char- Plaster of Paris Casts. acter of the whole. The David Bead is In this issue it is intended to discuss but noted for its expression of determination, one of all these decorative features, namely: iaith, obedience to duty and self-reliance, statuary. Perhaps this name statuary seems qualities we would expect to find expressed rather high sounding for such pieces as in David's face at this moment of beginning would be appropriate to, and really grace, battle with his giant opponent. The head the modest homes of most of us. However, is that of a growing youth, immature, un- those of us who have never given the matter developed, and not yet arrived at the full much thought or attention would be sur- beauty of manhood. prised to learn that very accurate and very Statue of Moses Michaelangelo. beautiful of Paris casts are within plaster Michaelangelo's Moses (see p. 313) is its the reach of a modest It is very purse. author's masterpiece of sculpture and prob- when we come to con- equally surprising, ably, also, of all modern statuary. It is the well sider the matter, how much a few grandest and most admirable emblem of a room's attractive- chosen casts add to strength, severity and power ever produced. ness. "His irresistible glance seems to be over- The Choice of Casts. awing a mutinous people "and reducing them Of course no one would think of putting to submission at his feet." In this face we life-size casts of persons or the larger ani- can see the leadership of the man who res- mals in a miner's little cottage the rooms cued Israel from bondage, the statesmanship are too small but no doubt models of re- of the great law-giver, the resolute courage duced size, busts, etc., could be used to and limitless faith of God's chosen instru- great advantage in making prettier some ment; but we can see also the uncontrol- of these already pretty rooms. What you able temper which killed the Egyptian and should choose depends largely upon what condemned Moses not to enter the promised subjects you are most fond of, but perhaps land. It could not be "pretty" and signify equally upon what your room already con- all this. tains. Some Important Requisites. Here again comes in the question of taste, BuIIrftn which makes it so impossible for one to choose for another. This much, however, Aker, Dominick, of Berwind, who was ad- can be stated as a general propositon: The mitted to the hospital August 12, on account introduction of such ornamental features as of typhoid fever, is doing well. casts presupposes at least comfortable Alexander, Robert, of Walsenburg, who house furnishings and furniture, a few good was sent to the hospital May 16, because of and else it pictures good housekeeping, an abscess on the stump of an amputated be singularly inappropriate and positively leg, and who was again operated upon on inartistic. But for this rule except general June 10, will go home in a few days. it is quite beyond the province or the power Anderson, S. P., of Sopris, who was ad- of this article to give definite sugges- any mitted to the hospital March 12 on account tions. In this and the next issue it is our of an injured hand, caused by a premature to call attention to a few purpose, however, explosion of dynamite, has gone home. of the world's greatest in triumphs sculp- Andretta, Ben, of Gulch, who was admit which are now in ture, reproduced plaster ted to the hospital September 13 on ac of Paris and within the reach of a brought count of pralysis of the face, is much im- limited allowance. proved and went home September 1. Head of David Michaelangelo. Anselmo, Carlo, of Brookside, who was Michaelangelo's conception of the young admitted to the hospital August 25, on ac- hero who slew the giant Goliath is repro- count of a dislocation of the right hip, re- duced on page 309. Michaelangelo's sculp- turned home September 21. tures are never "pretty" he cared nothing A reman, N., of Primero, who was admitted HOSPITAL BULLETIN. 3J'

to the hospital July 16 on account of a con- to the hospital September 10 with typhoid tused head, has gone home. fever, is doing well.

Arnijlo, B., of El Moro, who was admitted Dunali, James, of Tercio, who was admit- to the hospital August 2 with a contused ted to the hospital July 8 on account of a right ankle, is some little better. burned eye, has gone home. of Barteck, Steve, Starkville, who was Everhart, Charles C., of Trinidad, who admitted to the hospital September 8 on ac- was admitted to the hospital August 21 on count of typhoid fever, is holding his own. account of conjunctivitis, was discharged Bascio, Andrea, of Tabasco, who was ad- August 23 much improved. mitted to the hospital September 1 on ac- Fatour, John, of Primero, who was admit- count of brain trouble, died and was buried ted to the hospital August 8 on account of a in Pueblo. fractured leg, has gone home. Beloti, Joe, of Brookside, who came to Framarme, Frank, of Trinidad, an em- the 13 with hospital September suffering ploye of the Colorado & Wyoming Railway is well. typhoid fever, doing (Southern Division), who entered the hos- Berra, Baptista, of Tercio, who was sent pital July 9 and who was being treated for to the hospital September 3 on account of lacerations of his hands, has returned home. fever, is typhoid improving. Garagliano, Louis, of Berwind, who came Blake, R. R., of Redstone, who was ad- to the hospital September 15, was operated mitted August 23 with typhoid fever, has upon for tubercular glands on the right side gone to .his former home in Colorado of his neck and is now up and around. He will return to Redstone later. Springs. Garda, Felix, of Brookside, who was ad- Brown, William, of Brookside, who was mitted to the hospital August 4 on account sent to the hospital July 16 with a fractured of contused back and legs, is doing all right. right tibia and left is walking about femur, Gratt, Josie, of Primero, who was admit- on crutches. ted to the hospital June 8 on account of a Calangie, Parie, of Segundo, who came fractured leg, is now walking about. to the hospital September 6 with a fractured Hawley, Barney, of Anthracite, who was left scapula, is improving. admitted to the hospital September 13 on ac- Castile, James, an employe of the Colo count of a fractured left clavicle, is doing rado & Wyoming Railway (Southern di- fairly well. vision), of Trinidad, who came to the hos- Hegedus, Joseph, of Primero, who came pital 4, suffering with typhoid September to the hospital March 29 for treatment of a fever, is getting better. compound dislocation of his ankle, is im- Chappettl, Pete, of Madrid, New Mexico, proved and is walking about the yard. (Los Cerrillos Mines), who was admitted to Helms, Arthur, of Coalbasin, who came 2 abscess the hospital July with a hepatic to the hospital September 6, was operated (abscess of the liver), was operated upon upon by Dr. Marbourg for a fatty tumor on July 5 and is getting better. his eye and has returned home. Conzoni, James, of Brookside, who was Hunter, Harry, of Brookside, who was sent to the hospital July 8, ill with typhoid sent to the hospital in Pueblo September fever, died and was buried in Pueblo. 13 suffering from typhoid fever, is doing Conti, Dana, of Coalbasin, who was ad- well. mitted to the hospital March 21 with two Jones, Thomas, of Coal Creek, who was broken legs, had an operation to wire his admitted to the hospital August 30 on ac- right leg, had erysipelas, but is getting bet- count of a fractured right thigh, is improv- ter. ing. Coradina, Joseph, of Starkville, who was Lavas, Peter, of Rockvale, who came to admitted to the hospital August 28 on ac- the hospital August 21 on account of a frac- count of a fractured right hand, is improv- tured left leg, will be up and around soon. ing. Lawrence, Roy, of El Moro, who came to Delmar, Frank, of Starkville, who was ad- the hospital September 1 suffering with ty- mitted to the hospital September 10 on ac- phoid fever, was discharged September 22. count of typhoid fever, is doing well. McGann, James, of Tercio, who came to Donati, F., of Walsen, who was admitted the hospital September 13 for amputation of 312 HOSPITAL BULLETIN. the second, third and fourth fingers of his pound fracture of the right arm, has gone right hand, is getting along nicely. home. Mclntyre, Samuel, of Walsenburg, who Rosenbrook, Louis, of Segundo, who was was admitted to the hospital August 23 on admitted to the hospital September 5 on account of enteritis, has been discharged. account of enteritis, has been discharged. Mankalo, Mike, of Berwind, who was ad- Salvin, Frank, of Primero, who was ad- mitted to the hospital September 13 on ac- mitted to the hospital September 3 on ac- count of a double fracture of the right thigh, count of a fractured right leg, is doing well is doing fairly well. Scanlan, Martin, of Segundo, who was sent Marola, John, of Spring Gulch, who came to the hospital August 6 on account of pleu- to the hospital July 18 because of an in- risy, is doing very well. fected right arm, is slowly improving. Selba, Joe, of Tabasco, who was admitted Michelich, George, of Coalbasin, who was to the hospital September 1 on account of a admitted to the hospital May 3 on account bruised foot, has been discharged. of a fractured leg, has gone to his home in Tomsick, Joe, of Coalbasin, who was ad- Pueblo. mitted to the hospital September 14 on ac Moora, Dan, of Madrid, New Mexico, who count of a puncture wound of the left foot came to the hospital September 10 on ac- is now up and around. count of a corneal ulcer, has been dis- Vavra, Malachi, of Brookside, who was charged. admitted to the hospital July 17, 111 with Muschetti, Rocco, of Coal Creek, who typhoid fever, has gone home. came to the hospital September 17 on ac- Versailli, Frank, of Primero, who was ad- count of a fracture of the great toe of his mitted to the hospital August 21 with a lac- right foot, is doing well. erated hand and a sore eye, is doing well. Pagnolta, Forte, of Segundo, who was ad- Wallace, William, of Segundo, who was mitted to the hospital June 25, on account admitted to the hospital July 5, on account of a contused head, is walking around and of bruises about the body, caused by falling doing well. down a shaft, is walking around and will Peden, Richard, of Engle, who was ad- go home soon. mitted to the hospital September 4 on ac- Watkin, William, of Rockvale, who was ad- count of lumbago, has been discharged. mitted to the hospital July 21 with a com- Perrin, W. G., of Tercio, who was admit- pound fracture of the right leg, is doing ted to the hospital June 21 on account of well. Statements made in daily morning lumbago, is slowly improving. papers to the effect that Watkin's leg was Price, Eli, of Floresta, who was admitted amputated were incorrect, as the leg has to the hospital August 30 on account of been saved. He is now walking about and burns on the arms, face and neck, has been has gone home. recovered. discharged, completely Wilson, J. J., of Rockvale, who early in Randle, C. P., of Redstone, who was ad- this season played with the Colorado Fuel mitted to the hospital August 4 on account and Iron team in Pueblo, and who was ad- of a lacerated and contused leg, injuries mitted to the hospital September 13 on ac- which were sustained by him by being count of a fractured left leg, is doing fairly caught under a moving train, is doing well. nicely. Zambrano, Frank, of Tabasco, who was Reballa, Joseph, of Rockvale, who was admitted to the hospital July 26 on account admitted to the hospital September 19 on of typhoid fever, had a relapse and was very of account an abscess on the right side of critically ill for some time, but is now daily the lower jaw, is doing better. improving. Renaldi, Frank, of Rockvale, who was ad mitted to the hospital August 22 on account The man who is satisfied with himself is of a fractured leg, is now up and around. not very well acquainted with himself. R inker, C. L., of Berwind, who was ad- Puck. mitted to the hospital September 7 on ac- count of tonsilitis, has been discharged. When a man brags about himself you Rose, Peter, of Coalbasin, who was sent may be sure he can find no one else to do to the hospital July 16 on account of a com- it for him. Puck. Statue of Moses by Michaelangelo. 3J4 MINNEQUA WORKS.

CAMP AND PLANT James Graham has resigned his position with the American Bridge Company. The railroad mill and converter has re- A WEEKLY sumed operations after a shut down of one PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF week. THE COLOEADO FUEL AND IKON COMPANY AND DEVOTED TO NEWS FEOM THE MINES AND MILLS James Sullivan, who is employed about the electric shears, had his foot seriously

LAWRENCE LEWIS, .V . . EDITOR injured some time ago, bujt is now doing very well. OFFICES : William McGuire is on a vacation and DENVER ',,. , Boston Building, Room 720 the electric shears are working only three PUEBLO . ', . Minnequa Hospital '.';- men.

Entered at the Postoffice at Denver, Colo., as second- John Glover has returned from his vaca- class mail matter. tion. Keith has taken Alphonse Ohrtman's ' SUBSCRIPTION PRICE . *. a in Advance \ $1 Year, place as timekeeper for the masons. Single Copies, Ten Cents. E. H. Harris is keeping time at the con- verter during the absence of P. G. Hur- Subscriptions should be mailed to the Editor at either Office. News matter should be sent to the Pueblo ford. Office. J. Wells, craneman at the converter, has gone away for a two weeks' vacation. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1902 Joe Rourke, assistant superintendent of rail for the East last week for NOTICE. the mill, left a vacation of two weeks. Subscribers who wish to have Camp and George Powell, timekeeper for the carpen- Plant sent to a new address should give ters, spent last Sunday at the Springs. their old address, as well as the new. The Michael Pordent and John Burhunt have editor will not guarantee that the change gone to Utah. will be made unless both addresses and the Edward McCake, timekeeper, was ill for subscriber's name in full are given. a few days last week. Lee Benson, aged thirty-seven, a negro helper in the gang employed at relining NEWS ITEMS blast furnace "A," shortly before 9 o'clock Sunday evening, September 21, slipped and c J fell forty feet from a scaffold on which the masons were working and was killed. Death was instantaneous, the unfor- tunate man alighting on his head and side, fracturing his skull and several ribs. Ben- son, who was a steady, industrious man, boarded at the Protho Hotel, and is said to have had a wife in the East. The new Rio Grande station at Bessemer Fred Albrecht, who was formerly a watch- Junction, the shipping point for the Minne- man, is now attending to the distribution qua Works, is almost completed, and will books of the floating gangs. be occupied shortly. Agent McGinnis and E. P. an at the labora- Farley, employe his eight clerks say they will be decidedly has had the first joint of his left hand tory, glad to change their headquarters from the thumb because of a felon. amputated two box cars that have served them for over J. B. Selsor, switchman on the Colorado a year since the old depot burned down. & Wyoming, was a visitor at the office Sat- Bessemer Junction being the shipping point urday. His foot, which was badly mashed for the Nuckolls Packing Company and the some time ago, is getting along very well. Philadelphia smelter, as well as for the Miss Nellie Crowe, daughter of Thomas Steel Works, the business done there is Crowe, superintendent of the converter and greater in volume than at any other station rail mill, went to Chicago last Sunday. She on the Denver & Rio Grande, except Pu- will re-enter the Chicago School of Art. eblo and Denver. MINNEQUA WORKS BASE BALL BROOKSIDE. 3J5

At 5 a. m. Tuesday a negro laborer, named played as the C. F. & I. team used to play, Potts, thirty-four years old, was seriously but failed to do Sunday. The doctor's hit- crushed in the elevator shaft of the conver- ting and especially his base running were ter. When the whistle blew to quit work features. Undoubtedly he is the best base Potts took a short cut by going through the runner that has appeared on the grounds shaft of the elevator that conveys the this year, and to him is the credit for two material to the top of the converter, of the three scores of Sunday's game, when the descending cage caught the un- The following is the tabulated score: fortunate man and bore him to the ground, Old Homesteads, breaking his leg, bruising and cutting his ab. r. 1b. po. a. e. face, and seriously injuring him about the Good, catcher 6 2 2 7 4 back and breast. Eichoff , second base 6 2 3 4 1 1 Berkendohl, short stop 511300 McGelvery, left field 5 During the present^season twenty-eight 11211 Ewmg ' pltcher 6 4 4 l 8 regular games have been played, including

GalSan . third base 4 4 2 2 three games with professional teams. Of

Mesch ' first base ' ' 5 1 6 these twenty were clean victories. The Colo-

Nehoff ' right field 6 2 rado City nine administered one defeat, and Roberts center field 3 * the Old Homesteads of Denver four. All of ' the rest were won by the C. F. & I. except the 16 13 27 14 2 three games with professional teams of Western two with Kansas ** * ' the League City , a '3 ' r ' "">. a. e. and one with Colorado Springs. The nine po. Hahn center field 4 1 2 also played several exhibition games not in > third base. 4 the regular schedule, with the nines of the Spencer, ...... 0002 Colorado Supply Company, the Minnequa Derby, left field 4 2 1 Lee first base 4 l 1 Hospital, etc., which victories are not in- > short 4 eluded in the statement made above. Robson, stop 02312 Cisler, right field 4 Great credit is due Manager Alex. Marks 01003 catcher 3 2 2 7 and the others, including the players, who (Powers, catcher 1 1 made the team a success. The directors (Rounds, Snaw 4 1 1 5 2 and manager desire to extend their thanks > pitcher second base to the patrons of baseball for their liberal (Mullen, 1012 second base. 1 support this season. The organization is in (Graham, ... 00012 excellent financial condition and next year Totals 34 3 10 12 27 10 the Colorado Fuel and Iron team will.be even stronger than this year. Score by Innings: 123456789 Old Homesteads 01032532 016 C. F. Old 16. & I., 3; Homesteads, C. F. & I 2 1 3 Four times this season have the Old Home- Summary: Stolen bases Eichoff, McGel- steam of Denver F. I. team and the C. & Very, Galgano 2, Mesch, Hahn, Powers. Two- crossed bats, and for the fourth time the base hit Robson. Three-base hits Eichoff, home team has met defeat by this nine. The Ewing, Powers, Shaw. Double play Mc- victory of the Old Homesteads is easily Gelvery to Eichoff. Struck out By Shaw, explained, they simply out-played the home 12; by Ewing, 4. Hit by pitched ball, Ew- team, and put up a better than any i i 1. game ng> ; Shaw, Bases on balls Off Shaw, aggregation that has been here this year. 5. wild pitches Shaw, 2. Passed balls The magnificent team work of this nine is Rounds, 2; Powers, 2. Umpire, Harris, in marked contrast to the home team, and Scorer, Righter. while individually their players are not any better than those of the C. F. & I., they play BROOKSIDE. together and this alone is half the game. The home team Sunday, September 21, put John Thomas has returned from a two up the worst game of the season and it weeks' vacation, which he spent hunting in looked as though they would not score at the hills near Glenwood. He brought back all. In the fourth inning, Dr. Powers of the a fine carcass of venison and some grouse. Minnequa Hospital went into the game, and Dr. A. W. Scarlett, of the Minnequa Hos- 316 BROOKSIDE SOPRIS SUNRISE. pital staff, accompanied Mr. Thomas on his Dr. Moore of Canon City was over here hunt. They had an enjoyable trip and re- September 21, in consultation with Dr. port game abundant. Holmes on a case of acute enteritis in an in- fant of Nicola Del Pizzo. Humphrey Davis, pit boss here, left for daughter The lower of the school re- Victor September 22, being called there on grades public account of the death of his old friend, John main very much over-crowded. Some re- Churchill, a foreman in the Portland mine. lief from the county is anxiously looked for to relieve this condition. P. and S. Mrs. Katherine Dobrowski, aged twenty- one, died of typhoid fever, September 21, after an illness of three weeks. Her one- SOPRIS. month-old baby died of cholera infantum two days before her death. Mrs. McGowen of Canta Clara has been visiting her two sisters, Mrs. Allen and Ralph Rider, suffering from typhoid fever, Mrs. Gillam. is reported much better. next with Mrs. Rummel and Miss Rebecca Kennedy, Kindergarten opens Monday Miss Milligan as teacher. Miss Milligan trained nurses from Canon City, have been taught at Rockvale two employed in Brookside for some time. years previously. She possesses a charming and Mrs. P. Morgan has about recovered from personality will doubtless have a very popular school. her long illness. Mrs. Martin Bado is recovering from a A very successful Christian Endeavor siege of typhoid fever. rally was held at the church Friday even- Harry Hunter was sent to Minnequa Hos- ing. pital on September 15, suffering from ty- Colorado & Southern and Denver & Rio phoid fever. Grande officials were in camp in their pri- Price Jones and John Bloxhena are off vate car last week. duty, each suffering with a bruised foot. Dr. Lowery reports the first and only case They expect to return to work soon. of typhoid during the summer, a Mexican Charles Anselmo has returned to work boy, who is safely on the road to recovery. after a two weeks' stay at Minnequa Hos- Mrs. Weeden of Lexington, Missouri, has pital occasioned by a dislocated hip. been visiting her son John at the Central Alonzo Evans received some slight scalp Hotel. wounds while working in the mine Septem Mrs. Wood of Weston is visiting her So- ber 21. pris hotel friends. D. P. Mr. and Mrs. David Richards spent a few days last week at their former home in SUNRISE, WYO. Colorado Springs. They are now making their home on a fruit ranch in Lincoln Our school openel September 2, with Park. twenty pupils and with Miss Blanche Dough- Mr. Myers, our butcher at the company erty as instructress. .iav.-' store, welcomed a fine boy at his home last F. L. Henderson, manager of the Colorado week. Mother and baby are doing well. Supply Company store here, is on a business The Boys' Club held a dance at their hall trip to Denver and Pueblo. Saturday evening, September 14. All en- J. W. Haines and family have moved to joyed a good time. Denver. The Italian Lodge held a conclave here Superintendent Gilchrist returned Tues- on Sunday, September 15. A number of vis- day of last week from a trip through the iting lodges were present. company's iron properties in Colorado. F. W. Patchen. assistant mine clerk, has C. S. Robinson, general manager of the returned from a few days' visit with his iron department; R. W. Corwin, M. D., parents in Rouse. He also took in the State chief surgeon; R. M. Waite, chief clerk to Fair at Pueblo upon his return. the president, and A. E. Jupp, superinten- The mine was shut down half a day on dent Laramie rolling mills, made us a short Friday the twentieth, on account of scar- visit. Tuesday, coming in the special car city of cars. Sunrise. Miss Martha Holmes is attending high Dr. Corwin, in capacity of superintendent school in Canon City. of the Sociological Department, visited the ROUSE EXCHANGES. 317

recreation hall and school. His short talk izer of Sunday schools, were here last week. to the school was very instructive we and, They expect to organize the Sunday school feel assured, highly appreciated. at this place about the first of October. Mr. Whitney of St. Paul, Minnesota, is vis- Mrs. James Cregan of Midway, mention of iting his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and whose illness was made in last week's Mrs. D. F. Whitney. H. C. L. items, was taken Friday evening to the hospital at Trinidad with ROUSE. suffering typhoid fever. She will be under the care of Dr. T. J. For- han, and her many friends at this place Mr. Button was the guest of friends at hope for a safe and speedy recovery. Engle Saturday evening. The night school will be opened soon and Our mail was considerably delayed Sat- from present indications it will be urday and Sunday of last week on account largely attended. of the washout between here and Pueblo. Julius Schonfeld, the veteran book agent That the citizens of Rouse are interested in who makes his headquarters at Pueblo, was their reading room is made manifest by through here last week. the liberal contributions recently made for the J. B. Keller, division civil engineer purpose of furnishing it in reading mat- for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, ter. has just returned from Buffalo, New York, Dr. Chapman's office has recently been where he had been called by the illness of remodeled, papered and carpeted, and the his mother. doctor now has quarters second to none in Rev. Hinch of Walsenburg, and Crayton Southern Colorado, all of which he certainly K. Powell of Colorado Springs, state organ- deserves. FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

A Western Mining Company's Sociological rado the location of its principal mill for Work. the treatment of injured employes, and it is The Outlook for September 20, 1902, has described as being thoroughly equipped the following to say about the Sociological with the most modern surgical appliances, Department of the Colorado Fuel and Iron and in charge of skillful surgeons and Company: nurses, Dr. R. W. Corwin at their head. While the relations of coal miners and * * * "The incurables are not welcome their employers in the East remain so un- at any hospital," says an officer of the com- satisfactory as at present, it is pleasant to pany, "and in view of this fact, and of the note the good feeling that exists between special liability of men employed in heavy employers and employed in a great mining muscular work to become disabled in the industry in the West. The Colorado Fuel discharge of their duties, it is hoped to make and Iron Company employs some fifteen some provision for such cases." A weekly thousand men in its business of mining coal magazine, Camp and Plant, is published, hav- and iron ore and making them into coke, ing for its object the dissemination of news iron and steel. These men are employed in about the various camps, the promotion of nearly forty different camps, rolling mills the sociological work, and, in general, the and steel works in Colorado, Wyoming and bringing together and unifying of the di- New Mexico, in places as far as sixteen verse groups of workers of this great min- hundred miles apart. A Sociological De- ing enterprise. An indication of the human- partment has been formed by the company, izing spirit that characterizes the company's which has for its purpose the organization dealings with its employes is found in this of night schools, kindergartens, circulating sentence from Camp and Plant: "A group and permanent libraries, cooking schools, of fifty houses in the lower part of the town clubs and musical societies among the sev- (Redstone) will shortly be finished and enty-five thousand people who comprise the ready for occupation. These cottages will workers and their families. A hospital is be occupied by the Italians, who are coke maintained by the company at Pueblo, Colo- or stone workers. They believe that their 3J8 ITALIAN STORY.

* health will thus be greatly improved. * * ample which Eastern operators might well We do not have monotonous rows of boxcar emulate. While some persons might criti- houses with battened walls, painted a dreary cise the using of company funds for human- mineral red, but tasteful little cottages in izing purposes, the chairman of the board different styles, prettily ornamented, com- of directors of the company, Mr. John C. fortably arranged internally, and painted Osgood, declares that he is simply carying in every variety of restful color." The sense out good business principles in promoting of responsibility thus shown by this West- the welfare of his employes. "We do not ern mining company in seeking to amelior- ask credit as philanthropists," he says. "We ate the condition of its employes and to are aiming to carry out common-sense busi- beautify their surroundings furnishes an ex- ness ideas in the conduct of the business." CRISTOFORO COLOMBO

Narrazione Storica compilata sulle opere di suo figlio Fernando; di Antonio Galio, suo contemporaneo e sugli scritti degll storici e critic! posteriori: se guita da un Inno popolare Colombiano musicato dal M. Giovanni Basso.

XX. quel 1' evreo fatto cristiano di cui in un altro capitolo vi ho tracciato il profilo. Dormiva BURRASCA UTILE. saporitamente sotto coperta, sognando i mucchi d' oro che venivano a carezzargli A quella prima sfuriata ne successe su- ogni notte la fantasia, quando fu svegliato bito un' altra, poi un' altra ancora, e le di soprassalto dall' improvvisa bufera. Ten- verghe degli algeri tremavano tutte come to rizzarsi in piedi, ma un balzo della nave colpite di corpresa e di spavento, e le vele 10 fece ruzzolare come un gomitolo a dieci si sbatacchiavano con un gran fraustuono di braccia distante; e a sentire sopra la sua tele smosse, e i cordami cigolavano male- testa quel diavoleto, e quello stropiccio di dettamente. piedi dei marinai intenti a un' insolita mano- Ognuno al suo servizio! grido con voce vra sul ponte, credette di capire che si cor- tonante 1' ammiraglio; ma gia da ogni sboc- reva pericolo di affogare. co della nave i marinai ed i mozzi uscivano Per la barba dei profeti! mugold atteri- mezzo assonnati, e gli ufficiali di bordo pre- to 1' illustre shienziato; poi correggendosi: tendevano i loro posti. E carpon carpone usci fuori, e al solo mo- Colombo gird gli occhi verso il cielo, e strare quella sua faccia contratta dallo spa- dentro di se ringrazid Dio di quella salutare vento, i marinai proruppero in una risata. burrasca mandata in cosi buon punto. Mi raccomando a voi! badava a gridare Capi d' aver scampato un pericolo; e i 11 Torres, spero che penserete a salvare marinai, fatti ora certi che bisognava lottare anche me! Ho moglie e figliuoli laggiu in con la burrasca, animosamente si gettarono Ispagna, e non vorrete mica che un povero nella battaglia. Quella almeno la conosce- padre di famiglia muoia annegato in mezzo vano; dunque non li accerchiava piu la ter- all' Oceano! Sono di carne battezzata anch' ribile monotonia dell' ignoto! C' erano an- io come voi! che li delle tempeste come nei mari che essi "Carne di rinnegato! carne tigliosa!" erano soliti di solcare! c' erano i venti c' mormoro Inigo che aveva a noia il Torres era contrasto, c' era movimento, c' era la come il fumo negli occhi. vita! Finalmente con tanto dire lo persuasero Mentre tutti erano affaccendati a ese- a tornarsene sotto il ponte, perche li dava guire con sollecita precisione le manovre, fastidio ai marinai, e c' era anche pericolo una grottesca figura d' uomo usci di sotto che un colpo di vento lo scaraventasse nell' al ponte, con la testa tutta chiusa in un faz- acqua.... per fare una galanteria ai pesci zoletto di cotone, e gestiva come persona (aggiungeva sogghignando il pilota), per- che sia colta da un grande spavento. che tocca loro cosi di rado aver da mangiare Ecco qua 1' ebreo a romperci le sca- carne di ebrei fatti cristiani! tole! brontold Inigo. Spunto il giorno, il vento cess6 come per Ed era difatti quel povero Luigi Torres, miracolo, e il cielo torn6 ad essere una ITALIAN STORY. 319 sterminata distesa d' azzurro: ma il mare solito punteggiare giorno per giorno il cam- durava fatica a ridiventare tranquillo; fe- mino fatto. nomeno anche questo che non sfuggi all' Stando sosl all' aperto per profittare di attenzione del naviganti. Chi sa? quel mis- quel limpido crepuscolo vespertine, mentre cosi terioso Oceano doveva essere smisu- gli ufficiali di bordo gli si schieravano rispet- rato, che i segni della burrasca vi perdu- tosi in cerchio per far tesoro delle osserva- ravano anche dopo che la burrasca era ces- zioni del loro capo, furono bruscamente in- sata; e le tre navi, ora un po' piu distant! terrotti da un forte ripetuto grido che par- 1' una dall' altra, secondo che avevano mag- tiva dalla Pinta, veleggiante a breve dis- giori o minori forze da opporre ai cavalloni, tanza. continuavano loro danza un- sca- quella po' Colombo alzo vivamente la testa e impal- pigliata. lidi, perchd aveva compreso quel grido: ac- Ma pareva che tutto congiurasse perchS cenno quasi a barcollare, afferrando con la le immaginazioni fossero sempre colpite da m'ano il braccio di Luigi Torres che gli circostanze straordinarie. era vicino. Gli altri, attoniti e trepidanti, Infatti verso sera, improvvisamente, come si voltarono dalla parte dove il grido aveva al cenno di comando di qualche invisibile echeggiato, e videro sull' albero maestro delta, il mare di punto in bianco si calmo, della Pinta salire velocissima una bandiera, e fin dove 1' occhio poteva andare, una qui- e spiegare al vento i bei colori di Spagna; ete solenne, silenziosa imponente si duffuse poi sentirono ripetere ancora quel grido, su tutte le acque. Caddero lungo le anten- quella parola, e riconobbero la voce del capi- ne le vele, come persone che si accascino tano Martino Alonzo che gridava: terra! prostrate per una immane fatica; e le ban- terra! deruole le che sventolavano e orifiamme, Un urlo tonante, uno scoppio di voci entu- anzi in vetta non ebbero poc' agli alberi, siastiche echeggio dalle tre navi: e Colombo, che 1' leggiero impresso piu ondeggiamento a cui 1' emozione troncava le parole nella loro dal lento cammino delle navi. gola, cadde in ginocchio sul ponte, e con Cosi di nuovo accostarsi. queste poterono gli occhi rivolti al cielo pianse le sue prime e di conserva. Si scambiarono ra- proceder lagrime di gioia. fra i tre col pide osservazioni comandanti Fu una scena indescrivibile: si vedevano mezzo del e che il giorno portavoce, prima i marinai della Pinta inginocchiati, con le flnisse di si levo la e di nuovo nuovo brezza, braccia alzate, e si sentivano distintamente torno a soffiare vento di levante che quel cantare il Gloria in excelsis Deo: i marinai ai che era invece dava tanta noia marinai, e dell' altra nave la Nina si arrampicavano la grande speranza di Colombo. come scoiattoli sulle verghe degli alberi, salivano in vetta ai cordami, e gesticolando XXI. come pazzi gridavano di vedere anch' essi NUOVE SPERANZE E NUOVE LOTTE. la terra. S' era allora al 25 di settembre. Intanto tutto 1' equipaggio della nave am- II sole, in tutta la magnificenza e in tutta miraglia s' era rovesciato attorno a Colom- la pompa dei suoi raggi, scendeva luminoso bo, e quasi lo soffocavano per potergli baci- a tuffarsi nelle onde: e strani fremiti pareva are le mani, le vesti, i capelli. Spettacolo corressero sulla superficie immensa, e rapidi indimenticabile per coloro che vi assistet- guizzi di pesci dalle squame argentee, e qual- tero; degno premio a tante sofferenze durate che uccello che passava veloce come saetta, a tanti dubbi angosciosi, a tanti rancori sof- e un non so che nell' aria e un presentimento focati. Esclamazioni di giubilo proruppero confuso, e un' aspettativa irrequieta in tut- d' ogni parte; e quelli che si sentivano piu

ti . . . . insomnia si sarebbe detto che le navi colpevoli d' intolleranza e d' indisciplina erano a tocco e non tocco di qualche strep- gettatisi ai piedi di Colombo, implorarono itosa novita. piangendo il suo perdono. Ci furono per- Meditabondo ma sempre sereno, 1' am- flno marinai che, vinti dall' impazienza, si miraglio passeggiava sul ponte, ne piu aveva buttarono in mare, non calcolando che la fatto parola con i marinai che la notte in- terra sarebbe stata ancora cosi distante da nanzi minacciavano quasi la rivolta. Ordi- rendere impossibile a chiunque di raggiun- n6 bensi al pilota Inigo che andasse a pren- gerla a nuoto. dergli nella cabina una certa carta dove era Qual notte passarono gli equipaggi, sulle 320 ITALIAN STORY.

navi rimaste in panna per ordine del co- sull' ultime sarte, nell' ora in cui il sole mandante supremo, e piu facile immaginare tramontando schiude davanti agli occhi piu che dire: ma chi potrebbe dipingere la do- ampio orizzonte, con grande meraviglia ei lorosa, la terribile sorpresa del giorno se- lo videro tuffarsi in quelle acque medesime guente, quando al sorgere del sole non vi- da cui per tante aurore era sorto. E quello

dero piu alcun segno di terra? bast6 : 1' equipaggio credette all' infinita Che era stato dunque? Bisogna pur dirlo, delle acque. La disperazione che vinto lo per quanto anche i lettori debbano ormai aveva, mutossi in sordo furore. Qual ob- partecipare all' irnpazienza di quei poveri bligo piu trattenevali ad un nomo il quale marinai. La famosa terra annunziata da ingannato o ingannatore, sorpresa la confi- Martino Alonzo non era che un gruppo di denza de' sovrani, poneva a sicura morte nuvole, a cui il tramonto avea dato singolari tutti loro? Piu oltre seguirlo non era as- apparenze d' isole e di continenti. Dissa- sociarsi al suo delitto? L' obbedienza non patosi nella notte, aveva portato con sS terminava la ove finiva il mondo? Altra quell' ultima e tremenda illusione. Dapper- speranza non v' era, se pur v' era, che di tutto dove gli occhi si voltavano, non si rivolger le prove inverse 1' Europa, lottare vedeva che acqua e cielo, cielo e acqua. coi venti, complici dell' ammiraglio, e in- L' abbattimento fu tale, che manc6 ai oatenare Colombo all' albero del suo navig- marinai perfino 1' energia della ribellione. lio, perche fosse oggetto della maledizione Alia voce ferma e sicura dall' ammiraglio, del moribondi, se conveniva morire, o della che facea di tutto per nascondere la terri- vendetta di Spagna, se mai il Cielo permet- bile battaglia di sentiment! che lo agitavano, teva loro di toccare il suolo della patria. risposero obbedienti e silenziosi eseguendo Codesti lament! e propositi, insensati ad le manovre. un modo, gia prenrevano corpo; quando 1' Lo stesso Inigo non ebbe forza di reagire. intrepido ammiraglio mostrossi, e solo del Ma piu avvilito di tutti, rincantucciato in un suo sguardo, del suo severe aspetto contenne il il Torres angolo presso timone, povero la furia dell' equapaggio. Contro i sediziosi in e dentro di se si dette piangeva silenzio, egli invoco 1' autorita ond' era dai sovrani per spacciato. investito, sacra pei sudditi. L' Oceano aveva di nuovo spianato la sua II Cielo medesimo chiamo a decidere fra superficie; un sole senza nubi vi si riper- essi e lui. Non si piego, non impallidi: of- cuoteva come in uno fiotti carez- specchio; ferse la vita in pegno delle sue promesse; zanti coronavano i navigli di una schiuma chiese loro soltanto tre giorni, e dopo rxpren- leggera. I delfini piu numerosi fluttuavano derebbero la via dell' Europa; giurd che se ne' solchi lasciati dalla poppa; mare e cielo entro tre giorni non vedessero terra di buon parevano popolati; i pesci slancivansi e ri- grado ricondurrebbeli verso la patria; giur& cadevano sull' acque; tutto veniva in aiuto e fu creduto. Gli indizi percursori di vicine di Colombo, e infondeva ne' marinai rina- isole e continenti erano tali, che Colombo scenti speranze, le quali, una dopo 1' altra, non poteva dubitare esser la terra a poca con varia vicenda, intrattenevali in que' distanza, e mendicando quei tre giorni dall' lunghissimi giorni. ignoranza e dalla paura dell' equipaggio, Colombo, pur esso ingannato sull' immen- avea la speranza e quasi la certezza di sal- sita di quello spazio, del quale da molto cre- vare la causa per cui combatteva. Asseg- deva aggiunger si dovesseri i limiti, abban- nando quel termine, quasi metteva alia pro- dono la strada ideata e segnata sulle sue va il buon Dio, e in lui fidava piu che altro. carte, e segui due giorni e due notti il volo Gli uomini concessero questi tre giorni, e clegli uccelli, piloti celesti che la Provvidenza Dio non lo pun! di aver troppo sperato. forse gli inviava nel momento in cui la dot- (Continua ) trina veniva meno. Quegli uccelli, diceva esso, non si dirigerebbero verso quel punto dell' orizzonte, se una riva non vedessero e Where yet was ever found a mother cogli occhi o coll' istinto. Ma an che Who'd give her booby for another. gli uccelli, quasi cologati coll' oceano e Gay. cogli astri, parevano farsi giuoco delle navi e dell' equipaggio invano sper- Marriage rightly understood, ante in quell' ultima prova. Sulla fine Gives to the tender and good d' un altro giorno, i piloti, salendo A paradise below. Cotton.