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SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1925.

THE CHINA MAIL:

GREAT BRIDGE TO UNITE THE NORTH

THE MEMORIAL

BP/OCL CF MASAYA

To Be Symbolic of a Permanent Union Structurë Contemplated for More Than Three-Quarters

of a Century - -It Will Connect the Lincoln Memorial With the Old Lee Mansion at "Arlington.

By RENE BACHEL

The Find Wap was cot fright an an, buils further up the divers bud.

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PT by the Sherende od sal kay at years ago, dog was made that it Appunto

The Poster bed- one you linse joining wetly windy the final en rul: 10 Mzee men reived the khan an Aplington, which 'staanis on what

ite

growth of le maldyre

scenty sixth day of April years ago when Stucraina kazeturer of dobroston'a napa's

Phone won a fra seg hier than as Trxha anu abs, but to

Ten peurs lacks thi

-ika mirits led were Alpe sretomas, Anna shakam, then President', ogMted the building of

Pistolae re magidblond laporge de tous the 1a expitis flue exoption of a perio

Ceturtion of the keln

The South.

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Daniel Welder, in an ass debop

old on the fourth of Jag, 4«āk, seferreti 19 Jucks the auth of the idea, the

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The whole sebutar is at a sarmurststad vharacter. At vạn vol of the litigan thin baie verandaph: at the other end is the old hope of the tender of the van

deny. In its the bridge will be a nouupient, impressive and speris.

Across, Columbia Island. Bridge will contneet Washington pot with the Virginie share, but with a taiga Island, Balled Voluulon felach. in the Pitone River Across that isdan

it "roudway #brotund in u. straight line, taking je singl hop vers olgot in ges being 31,4 the Paletas bridge to fuch the Virginin uminku from which is island is with muchos of ever-idung gruudes Myndaleg of x Tirly staffish farmed in a furrow strip of water

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The mori that eros the island and bridge col class - Patotape

het over the wry water-space will the From the Lanendry. Megamed toward

part in a fork to climb the hill on which £+EHR°«itb. Ax

Due Leeussion stonds, and to reneh Originally planner, it was to have seen contemplated nemortal gateway at the

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BLANKS

AS CUT FROM THE SHELTS

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AND ORNAME

prite Pishuntery.

to the great" soldiere:

A large-scale plaster-of-paris model af

THE STATUE

BY THE LACCLA STEMORIAL

|sible, consistently with sound engineer, ing in order that it may not Interfere with the view of the Lincoln Memorial

The bridge has been upade, and Trill plis, ) as seen from Columbia Island. Of its prepared fine agg, include various details presently to be described.", mon itportant being certhia Jaflerspe M:13 mayditeetseal developments Columbis Ind

Details of the Structure.

nins seginental arches, the constre p will be 14 feet long, the length of the th spans decreasing rich way toward inthehoren 100 fout for the arches at

the emiss

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soukro

per-

AND SOUTH

VOPHITHEA

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Heights, bat nob to Interfere with the viaw of it. Thêno triumphal columna will symbolen the North and South.

Author and very important integral part of the scheme will be the Lee High. which now passes over the Francis Feolt Kay bridge into Washington by a nirsaitous and congested route.

When

the Memorial Bridge is finished, it will afford a splendid dieach approach over the hrow of the imposing Arlington Heights and across that bridge so the city.

Features of the Plan....... Tho Les Highway cannot pass over the heights

of Arlington directly to the bridge entrance; because the national cemetery is in the way. It will, how ever, descend to the Virginia ahore ibort distance to the north, cress a short bridge of its own to Columbia Island, si by that ronto gain Becass to the Memorial Bridge and Washington.

The contemplated

meny

bridge ban

features which, taken together, will make it the greatest memorial project under- takon by any nation in recent times.

· Aa

above suggested, it provides

I onimner to the compital ig nation, from Virginia, for the Lee

Highway, eaming news the entire ra

from Is Angries,

1 tittent from

The scheme of which it in the contri fonters any

and completes be Anlahing the Tanagin Isndscape in that vicinity, rendering har nanious the surroundings, and carryi the Mall system devised by Goog Washington ad Major L'Enfant, seroka the. Prtomus En Arlington,

With contemplated alteration of the Hine of Batreet, and a suitable 'widening of that thoroughfare, "it opens ip a superk houtgrned from the Capital lo

nf Way by

the Lincoln Arlington Memorial

A Glorious. View:

When the bridge has been finished, a traveller approaching Washington over the, brow of Arlington Heights will ande.. donly behold a paurama that has few equale in the warld. He will see the ofty

Washington cutspread: before him

Washington Monument

of

the Capitol, the

Lin-

: the lang

In arshitecture will be as simple and It is to len a low-level bridge of nine

Rovers as possilife, the structure depend spans, with a slow squar in the centre ins

in its beauty nainly upon the sdorf unch that be lifted; tar ennife

fection of its proportions and its adom ressols to puss up and down the river),

et with significant pieser of senpure. fucked at each side by four" magy

The Washington and will have tw pendile on the structure will

logater] entruaces). failured betreedingle graurful. If total length has

bust tram the Lincoln Memorial particularly in triation to our history. toes and malaria. Army engineers haw Letwin the patrice "pylons" wilt by

There will be similar pics AL tho. other

In the view of the urchilent, the soulp. reclaimed it and converted it into day 2:1BN feet: il width; will be alpety fret in the deer, allowing for a day distys as the Virgin entrance to turn will "vitalize the entire coucopland. Bombtless it would before long be

Brisige rod.

pillars,'

tion which the design of the structure occupied for residential parpoos by and the great public buildings: fort whiletween carbs. bordered by

crowded Wa omboilies, rendering it intelligible,

Washingtoniane but it belongs enin Merarial and the granite structure Once seen, it can 431 double-leaf sigleng all fifteen feet in width.

to the government, The cute arch will be dow

is destined to that spans the river.

It will live for. www he forgotten... become part of the city a ust be regarded ever in memory as an inspiration to Burculo

tipis contrivance for a

"draw"

That island, ladood, in Interrupt

and loyalty. as an integral part of the bridge project, paritia teller: As it will the North degren the architectural

Binding Coerry ong end mity of the bridge. The necessity of ins

insemuch as its ahore wilk introducing a steel arch in a honumental of the bridge, and the roadway "en" and South, the bridge will for all love

of this character is

is deemed retinuing the latter will cross it. The plan continan to express the idea of indie- solable unity for the American republic. very few la to plant it with trees, and to form is Yearls po the Potomac ay higher, the middle of it a largo circular plaza with 13 is bequed that Congress will 800 fit to architecturel adornments supplemental to the Lineoin Manoriai. One festurs allow the bacula to he replaced by a

will be two stately calumnus, aurmounted masonry arch like the others.

Malariai Marsh Reclaimed. by statues of Victory, so placed as to Columbia falsad was formerly a marshy I frame the Lincoln Memorial au sees from fint. productive of nothing sava mosquithe. Lee Mausion on the Arlington

Bali plaualled for in rnulwng muly Forty od wirke; but they were band is

Large trade limited volume.{ That with would be altogether inade,

for

font for

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forts feel high, will be ndertued on their with soulplared groups in reliet and wil inscriptions, uppropriate I sputed by Auricua ongles.

Works.. Art Sculptural he sulptures will be designed to express in varied ways a reguition of

bitte sure it will 1

Jennt

Que rapid moving, congested, the womition hostes asi anirutis of, the strucnd, inasmuch

roter trabe of today,

The bridge will be faced with granite. harmonising with the Colanula withle af the Lineals Mentorin. It is a bemusifnf kind of stone, suggestive of structural solidity, and is displayed to exceptional advantage when in contact with water.

The bilge will be made us how we post-

of

nations, soul the final iriumph of the idea

Tien and completed Puire a colonul Burra along the fridge will represent symbolically the tune nt that harmonicus 'nien, the product of the energies of the entire country s expressed in the axle of praca-inventions. schievements of science and art. etc.,

INLAND SHELLFISH

PRODUCE WEALTH

BULAD SAWS.

CHAND D WHICH HAY

ED WITH SHELLS

ELEPHANTS EXP MUSSEL FROM

INTERIOR OF

'#3155/55/PPI RIVER

Mussels Are the Source of Pearl Buttons

Important Industry Which Has Been Built Up Along Interior Waterways.

Ibaliane to linnesota,

LOWERING THE CA BRA INTO THE WITERA

OHIO RIVER

of Arkonsus sad Dakota and from that this will be the condition throughout the territory of production unless prompt Botion ie teken for purpetuating the is dustry through legal regulation.

Cabin/Ke Basily Caught.

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Washington, Lincoln and Lee. Those mighty times in our country's history. The bridge will be not merely a joining of two river-banks. It will signify much itore than that. What it will stand for IN national solidarity, Union-Union forevermore:

NAMES OF THE WEIGHT MEASUREMENTS.

Ask the average person-oven a rehvil teacher-where the word "avoirdupois” les ami the chances are that little information will be gleaned. The word is in common, but most of give little thought to the reason for naing 31 1 deante the system of weights by which we mmsure coni or irou or sugar, The word comes from the Fizich lan

from ge, and is made up avoir.

i "property

Tho French "poids" meaning "weight" word "air" was derived from the Latin word "Bibere," meaning "to have,

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it is out to me why, the French, peopl

used

it for

a person

property inperty."

is something whicks." Praid

Bensing weight, was akin to the Latin word pondus." which memesan

From this

SE STO origin it "avoir" und natural that the two words "ids," when combined into "avoirdu- pais, should live had the literal -

Ting

"property of weight," or, in other words, something that can be weighed bodily. This caused it to be used

heaviness, wat meaning "weight or

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of

necessity.

In

ing

from that it came to be applied to the. system of measuring goods by weight.

Try", waight, which infor weighing silver, gold and precious stoms, was ought from Egypt. Its ne

I was due to the fact that its first ose in Huropa was in the city of Tmyes, in France. The designation of "Apothe caries' weight was obviously due to the fact that this system was déviaivt for the wao ni apothecaries or struggists,

ONE, TWO.

One, two,

Smell of brew;

Three, four,

Knock at door;

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Dry agents' tricks: Roven, eight, Dodged too lato ;... Niao, ten.

In the 'pon;"

Pleven, twelvo

Six months to "dolve.

invention drawing the outfit toward the sbergad float anchor. The windlass was always turned

with the current them, by hand, because of the slow speed at is peded by the tealey of the

of the required.

ks to catch in the river hotion and to

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Ilvar dam, f the prevent stopping progress of his graft the fisherman provenis the ur vides additions prater, furnished by the hooks. Th

nchiested by lower

the lowering the Iocution

The inule, into the river at the stern.

Current. This

bromel

above tlio Inofs. enth of the water pre

the

fishermen

the mR2 bar and

beds in this devised But Aárface of the mula ia made of appliance - the form of a dip nat, coza ebining the principles of the ordinary dip vas; tarpaisiin or similar heavy cloth. wet with beisplayed in molding clara Lowered into position and with its surface rakes. This dip net is somewhat triangu-

right muglew to

tes ti

the wail Jur in form, with a wide mouth at the current,

en ly which it is attached to its polo, forces the 6shing outfit down stres a rently as an overhead sail carries a yacht Coarse teeth at the lower edge of the or schooner. Guide lines connected with mouth sorve to serape mussale from the

bottom: the atorn boat servo na steering apparatus. by means of which the boat is guided nf

Other impleats used in munci fal

any desired angle over the bel of shellishing are tonge, forks, rakes and dredges. takas its name from each of these having its advantages for The "aula"

bottom and tendency to kick" when caught by a varying conditions of

current. lanting urrent, In the kicking proces

How Buttons Are Made. The ail is apt to turn over or dart for

unless properly designed and In preparing the shells for the factories" the first sign in the removal of the soft- portions of the fish. This is accomplish- od by a booking process, conducted in. large vats on whore. The application of heat, by means of water or ateam, makes In this process the with little difficulty, it possible to rid the shells of the mast fishermen find an occasional posti of real precious stories. valuta, and kain watch is kept for these

-60 stages of the industry the button

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** The shells.

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the law opening of the individual of manipulated.

By taking advantage of this policy of

The boat of the mussel fisherman. is the part of their non-resistance on Fisa Hundred Species of Massel...

quarry, fieberman have been enabled to Ant-bottomed and primitive, but highly In the strains of this broad ares the

develop flahing apparatas which captures, efficient regardless of its crude appear Bahermen found a wealth of mussels with

the mussels with wholesale simplicity ance. The only equipment encouraged is treat shells, thick, clear, Instrous and Mussel fishing is so art of individual. The puts is known as the bar and grow that acinally required for fishing opere frequently of uplandid iridescence. The character, with special methods and food, consisting of nothing more com- tions,

In making a “haul" the boat drifts for number of spoolse is astonishing. They equipment of its own. The basic, priu- have been usified and catalogued to ciple of successtel bahing is found in the plicated than iron bar to which an

pronged

wirehooks. By means of tow dragging in readiness for the suspecting the extent of approximately Ave hundreth, gulleless neture of the musal itself. The attached may short lines bearing four perhaps a hundred yards, with hooks The commercial species

are falt habit of lying ball embedded in ing line the bar is, dragged above the masses on the river bed of the river.

the Whep one-bar" the hooks, trailing along the

raised another in dropped early flowing the practically restricted

the bottom of the stream, with shell bottom, with the current of ile'stroem. Into the stream and the fahing process making was largolinery. In which Ma waters originating

limestone ing opast against the currant. - A stick muse The transformation of former luxury areas, in which the shellfish find an opninok misting the open space between the when a hook entors thell opening the repeated untill the bed his been thorough erms of hand Where do the pearl butions come

ready to be worked. In this way the bottom of shells were held against revolving into an averyday nooësiíty: Forme, sboy dance of time for skall formation, as well! Somerate the mumeel přomptly alone.thegol - clones son. The raising of the boat is noen flied with chells," to usy while the plesen to be used förə buştan through the growth of the shel Asheries is plentiful supply of food Mauds of food, fors The answer sounds like o fish alors for the Mississippi: Basin. The button found along the steamers of the Atlantic shell with fire and relentless lamp the bar is apt to reveal a mussel on pack nothing of the conalles non-descript were out

of each book. the great sdures of supply is the fish industry was established in 1801. In

Simple too small and this for caterial and capture simple matter. the alight, valley of the Mississippi and a tribu- av to locality, as a result

Into the mean, and seized upon by the tarick In theas streams the buttons knowledge then available caring the The Paolo slope is entirely lacking gray in great deutike.

widespread shundance of these soarece of mussels of commercial value.

from?

(By MALCOLM MACDONALD.J

stared for an article

dragged, to the

Lo

the factories. In the

accomplishsa

The

are called,

plocen #rilales picked up by the series of books, blanke Finishing of these blacks Logs, aniga, fin cans, and thousand and largely a matter of operations by hand and

regalar

-To-day the dustry of the inland waters throughout the 'oudy days the fishery beds wife restricted 1 Manboard are hallcapped by chalky hello'. This pharecterisiónkon the armyndarafer:Hall. Is Kandi-

"resembling falniature anabors are dropped 10 audi crowfoot patfit is incom- one specimens of debris"forma

Finalais;» dò haul, the oslob 17lete without its "male" This in a part of the normal catch, simple meciinery of a button

has been one of the Fowlis chapter of Ameriam industrial, develment générations dgn these buttons were domy nod >paratively acaron;:/ Mirine, pearl, from thin it water shellfish of the 20san, little med at un

uma Ma: maniball Industry

With the spiniloa

Milba of the

mand for the shells, bringing; the ipkure of the industry dependu în thỏ donorarios.; Kaown beds wording and reworking ofvenisting fald,

giving, the muralT IVES?

and reproduce, & Bed which would have supported

and continuous-

or expéri. strange contrivance constituing Where there is no Antrent le Lake tory in highly perfected, "It is practically murren naderwater said device pacaliar to the Pepin Minnesota, the Asking boat is to much to say that the developmani

Intel Tahery. Other craft prefer their pelled by a motor launch. This method industry was sotually brought abou walls above the surfan of the water, however, is of comparatively, modern the Introduction of automatic mach

How to drop The grinding, facing and massel host the mobile Tow Barin With the

maked on the surrant histoad old by the

Ramended by the

that the shell

for:

The old

The boat, and

forplsbad

ing from Abe