pellate Division of the Supreme Court has just unanimously affirmed the judgment of the lower court.
Hartford, Conn.—Governor Roberts has appointed Mr. John M. Carrere consulting architect to the Commission on State Arsenal and Armory. The appointment was made in accordance with the request of the Municipal Art Society that a man of national reputation be appointed to the position. Among other names suggested by the Municipal Art Society were those of Walter Cook, of New York, and Professor Laird, head of the Department of Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania.
New Haven, Conn.—Mr. Joseph E. Austin, who qualified before the Commission of Architects for building inspector, has accepted the appointment given him by Mayor Studley, and has resigned his position as foreman with the David H. Clark Co., where he was employed for the past two years.
Thornburgh, Pa.—Mr. S. T. McClarren, architect, whose fine residence was lately burned, is building a temporary frame dwelling for tfie winter and will erect a $10,000 residence in the spring.
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
Some Peculiarities of the Mississippi. —There is no particular portion of the Mis
sissippi River called “the Suck.” The writer, says “G. M. Z.,” in the Boston Transcript, passed many years, before and after the war, on this river, as a steamboat clerk, and is as familiar with every part of it from St. Anthony’s Falls to the Balize as he is with Washington street, from No. 1 to Forest Hills.
Eleven hundred miles from its source and 770 miles above St. Louis are the Falls of St. Anthony. Here the river is about 600 yards wide and is precipitated over a ledge of limestone seventeen feet high. Below the falls is a whirling eddy that may properly suggest a suck of the waters. The scenery around the falls is grand and imposing. Below this point for some distance the river is bounded by limestone bluffs, from 100 to 400 feet high and first begins to exhibit islands. Its current is broken by the rapids at the mouth of the Rock River and the Des Moines, which partially obstructs navigation for a portion of the summer. And here is another suck in the currents. The city of Minneapolis is built around St. Anthony’s Falls. About forty miles below, at the town of Red Wing, is Lake Pepin, which is formed by an expansion of the Mississippi. It is about twenty-five miles long and four miles wide. On the eastern side of the lake is the celebrated Maiden’s Rock, which rises perpendicularly 500 feet. From thence down to where the Missouri River enters, about
twenty miles above St. Louis, the Mississippi is from one to one and a fourth miles in width, with a gentle current, dotted with beautiful islands. Below the mouth of the Missouri the united streams have a width of little more than half a mile. This mighty affluent seems rather to diminish than increase its width, but it perceptibly alters its depth, and wholly changes its chaarcter. It has a furious, boiling current. The surface of the river is covered with huge boils or swells, and in some places it is difficult to navigate a boat. In these instances it tears up the islands, removes the sand-bars, sweeps away the tender alluvial soil of the bends in the river, and deposits the soil in another place. At Cairo, 111., the great Ohio River enters the Mississippi, and from there down the waters are more turbulent. At the town of Columbus, Ky., about twenty miles below Cairo, are the noted iron banks, extending in a bend of the river about two miles, and nearly 100 feet high. The river at this point is nearly 100 feet deep; there is a very heavy suck here that causes a strong eddy in the middle of the stream, which will at times capsize a rowboat unless handled by an experienced person. Sixty miles below Columbus is New Madrid, Missouri. This point was the scene of a violent earthquake in 1811. The centre of its violence was thought to be near Little Prairie, thirty miles below New Madrid. The vibrations were felt all over the valley
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Hartford, Conn.—Governor Roberts has appointed Mr. John M. Carrere consulting architect to the Commission on State Arsenal and Armory. The appointment was made in accordance with the request of the Municipal Art Society that a man of national reputation be appointed to the position. Among other names suggested by the Municipal Art Society were those of Walter Cook, of New York, and Professor Laird, head of the Department of Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania.
New Haven, Conn.—Mr. Joseph E. Austin, who qualified before the Commission of Architects for building inspector, has accepted the appointment given him by Mayor Studley, and has resigned his position as foreman with the David H. Clark Co., where he was employed for the past two years.
Thornburgh, Pa.—Mr. S. T. McClarren, architect, whose fine residence was lately burned, is building a temporary frame dwelling for tfie winter and will erect a $10,000 residence in the spring.
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
Some Peculiarities of the Mississippi. —There is no particular portion of the Mis
sissippi River called “the Suck.” The writer, says “G. M. Z.,” in the Boston Transcript, passed many years, before and after the war, on this river, as a steamboat clerk, and is as familiar with every part of it from St. Anthony’s Falls to the Balize as he is with Washington street, from No. 1 to Forest Hills.
Eleven hundred miles from its source and 770 miles above St. Louis are the Falls of St. Anthony. Here the river is about 600 yards wide and is precipitated over a ledge of limestone seventeen feet high. Below the falls is a whirling eddy that may properly suggest a suck of the waters. The scenery around the falls is grand and imposing. Below this point for some distance the river is bounded by limestone bluffs, from 100 to 400 feet high and first begins to exhibit islands. Its current is broken by the rapids at the mouth of the Rock River and the Des Moines, which partially obstructs navigation for a portion of the summer. And here is another suck in the currents. The city of Minneapolis is built around St. Anthony’s Falls. About forty miles below, at the town of Red Wing, is Lake Pepin, which is formed by an expansion of the Mississippi. It is about twenty-five miles long and four miles wide. On the eastern side of the lake is the celebrated Maiden’s Rock, which rises perpendicularly 500 feet. From thence down to where the Missouri River enters, about
twenty miles above St. Louis, the Mississippi is from one to one and a fourth miles in width, with a gentle current, dotted with beautiful islands. Below the mouth of the Missouri the united streams have a width of little more than half a mile. This mighty affluent seems rather to diminish than increase its width, but it perceptibly alters its depth, and wholly changes its chaarcter. It has a furious, boiling current. The surface of the river is covered with huge boils or swells, and in some places it is difficult to navigate a boat. In these instances it tears up the islands, removes the sand-bars, sweeps away the tender alluvial soil of the bends in the river, and deposits the soil in another place. At Cairo, 111., the great Ohio River enters the Mississippi, and from there down the waters are more turbulent. At the town of Columbus, Ky., about twenty miles below Cairo, are the noted iron banks, extending in a bend of the river about two miles, and nearly 100 feet high. The river at this point is nearly 100 feet deep; there is a very heavy suck here that causes a strong eddy in the middle of the stream, which will at times capsize a rowboat unless handled by an experienced person. Sixty miles below Columbus is New Madrid, Missouri. This point was the scene of a violent earthquake in 1811. The centre of its violence was thought to be near Little Prairie, thirty miles below New Madrid. The vibrations were felt all over the valley
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Erection and Repairs. Send for Catalogues.
Thomas W. Jones, 180 Front Street
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cheerfully given
New York 276-280 Ninth Ave.
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Is the best finish made for FLOORS, Interior Woodwork and Furniture
Not brittle; will neither scratch nor deface, like shellac or varnish. Is not soft and sticky, like beeswax. Pefectly transparent,preservingthe natural color and beauty of the wood. Without doubt the most economical and satisfactory Polish known for Hardwood Floors.
For Sale by Dealers in Paints, Hardware and House-Furnisliings.
Send for our FREE BOOKLET, telling of the many advantages of BUTCHER’S BOSTON POLISH.
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is a superior finish?) for kitchen and piazza floors
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