The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
1207 
EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC.  —  Taylor  Ilulett  must 
pass  the  iiext  30  nights  in  county  jail, 
Probate  Judge  L.  I).  Slusser  ruled  at 
Akron,  Ohio,  Sept.  G.  lie  suspended  a 
15-day  jail  sentence  for  driving  an  auto¬ 
mobile  while  intoxicated  on  Hulett’s  plea 
that  his  family  was  urgently  in  need  of 
his  support.  Ilulett  told  the  court  he 
would  lose  his  position  if  forced  to  spend 
15  days  in  jail.  Judge  .Slusser  then  im¬ 
posed  the  unusual  penalty. 
Some  time  Sept.  1,  burglars  entered  ^a 
warehouse  at  15  Vestry  street,  New  York, 
through  a  hole  made  in  a  brick  wall  and 
got  away  with  247  bales  of  raw  silk 
valued  at  $300,000.  The  silk  belonged  to 
the  Japanese  importing  firm  of  Suguki  & 
Co.,  295  Fifth  Avenue.  It  is  thought  ac¬ 
complices  distracted  the  attention  of  the 
watchman  from  t  part  of  the  building 
where  the  silk  was  stored  while  the 
thieves  carried  the  bales  through  the  hole 
and  into  a  waiting  truck.  An  officer  of 
the  importing  company  said  the  value  of 
the  silk  was  now  doubled  because  of  the 
scarcitv  of  silk  due  to  the  earthquake 
disaster  in  Japan.  The  Silk  Association 
of  America  advertised  Sept.  G  in_  the 
Paterson,  N.  ,T.  newspapers  that  $5,000 
would  be  paid  for  information  about  the 
stolen  silk  and  $20,000  for  its  recovery. 
AVith  one  arm  broken  at  the  wrist  Miss 
Sylvia  Rosenthal,  25  years  old,  swam 
several  hundred  feet  and  rescued  an  41- 
year-old  boy  in  AYhite  Bear  Lake,  Minn., 
Sept  5.  The  boy.  son  of  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
John  Parker  of  New  York,  was  knocked 
unconscious  by  a  paddle  when  his  canoe 
capsized.  Miss  Rosenthal  leaped  down 
the  bank  toward  the  water,  slipped  on  a 
loose  stone  and  fell,  breaking  her  wrist. 
Disregarding  her  own  danger,  she  plunged 
into  the  water  and  'finally  brought  the 
boy  to  the  surface,  struggling  in  his 
frantic  grasp.  After  a  brief  fight  she 
broke  his  grip,  and  holding  the  boy’s 
head  above  water  with  her  good  arm 
slowly  propelled  herself  to  shore  with 
her  feet. 
Five  deaths  resulted  from  the  explosion 
of  two  cars  of  powder  on  the  docks  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  at  South  Am¬ 
boy,  N.  .T.,  Sept.  G.  Twenty-four  persons 
were  injured  in  the  explosion  and  in  the 
subsequent  burning  of  three  cars  of 
powder  which  had  been  shunted  to  the 
Pennsylvania  trestle  over  the  Lincoln 
Highway. 
Unusual  wave  and  tidal  conditions  are 
reported  from  Oregon  coast  points.  At 
Newport,  although  the  weather  was  fine, 
with  no  winds,  the  steamship  Robert 
Johnson  was  forced  to  wait  outside  the 
harbor  entrance  for  two  days  because  of 
heavy  and  irregular  swells.  At  Neah- 
Kah-Nie,  on  the  Tilamook  coast,  a  series 
of  huge  waves  dashed  upon  the  beach  at 
low  tide  Sept.  3,  some  of  them  as  high 
as  20  feet. 
Leo  Root,  an  oil  well  “shooter,”  is  miss¬ 
ing  after  an  explosion  of  several  hundred 
quarts  of  nitro-glycerine  in  the  Van  Curen 
magazine  at  Bolivar,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  G.  The 
building  was  destroyed. 
The  revocation  of  421  automobile  li¬ 
censes  for  driving  while  under  the  influ¬ 
ence  of  liquor  during  August  was  an¬ 
nounced  Sept.  G  by  Massachusetts  State 
Registrar  of  Motor  Vehicles  Goodwin. 
'Sept.  6.  the  Imperial  Hotel,  Narragan- 
sett  Pier,  R.  I.,  was  destroyed  by  fire, 
with  a  loss  of  $500,000.  Forty  guests 
were  compelled  to  escape  in  their  night¬ 
clothes,  and  adjacent  cottages  and  hotels 
were  damaged. 
Fire  destroyed  the  new  two-story  brick 
building  of  the  General  Woodcraft  Gom- 
pany.  39th  St.  and  2d  Ave.,  North  Ber¬ 
gen,  N.  J.,  Sept.  8.  The  loss  was  about 
$100,000. 
The  ZR-1,  first  American  built  airship, 
made  a  successful  flight  of  500  miles  Sept. 
11,  soaring  over  New  York  at  noon  at  a 
height  varying  between  1,500  and  4,000 
ft.  She  then  went  to  Philadelphia,  cir¬ 
cling  the  city  three  times,  returned  to  her 
hangar  at  Lakehurst,  N.  J.,  and  made  a 
trip  to  Atlantic  City  before  alighting  at 
6  :46  p.  m.  She  was  12  hours  in  the  air, 
attained  a  height  of  7,200  ft.  and  a  speed 
of  50  knots. 
Twenty-three  men  are  known  to  have 
been  drowned  Sept.  8  and  15  were  seri¬ 
ously  injured  when  seven  destroyers  of 
the  United  State  Navy  were  shattered  on 
the  rocks  off  Arguello  Light  near  'Santa 
Barbara,  Cal.  The  drowned  sailors  were 
trapped  in  their  bunks  on  the  destroyer 
Young,  which  capsized  one  and  a  half 
minutes  after  striking.  More  than  500 
men  were  rescued  from  the  wrecked  ships, 
which  are  now  pounding  to  pieces,  all  a 
total  loss.  Of  the  survivors  _  about  100 
were  cut  and  bruised  in  their  swim  to 
safety  over  the  jagged  reefs.  The  de¬ 
stroyers  were  making  20  knots  and  were 
traveling  in  formation  in  a  dense  fog 
when  the  leading  ship  crashed.  Carried 
ahead  by  a  strong  tide,  the  other  vessels 
idled  on  the  beach  in  succession. 
The  Pacific  Mail  liner  Cuba  was 
wrecked  Sept.  8  on  a  reef  off  the  south 
end  of  'San  Miguel  Island,  35  miles  off 
Santa  Barbara,  Cal.  All  passengers  and 
her  crew  either  were  rescued  by  the  de¬ 
stroyer  Reno  or  the  Standard  Oil  tanker 
A\\  S.  Miller,  with  the  exception  of  Capt. 
C.  .T.  Holland,  the  purser,  steward  and 
eight  seamen,  who  remained  on  board  to 
guard  a  shipment  of  82.500.000  in  silver 
bullion.  ^ 
The  four  points  on  which  Gov.  Pinchot 
has  settled  the  coal  strike  are:  1.  Recog¬ 
nition  of  the  basic  eight-hour  day  for  all 
employes.  Tf  longer  hours  are  necessary 
at  certain  times  or  in  certain  occupations, 
the  overtime  to  be  paid  at  the  eight-hour 
rate.  2.  A  uniform  increase  of  10  per 
cent  for  all  employes.  This  increase  to 
take  effect  Sept.  1.  Full  recognition  of 
the  union  by  the  operators,  without  the 
check-off,  but  with  the  right  to  have  a 
union  representative  present  when  men 
are  paid.  4.  Complete  recognition  of  the 
principles  of  collective  bargaining.  An 
additional  point  to  replace  No.  1,  which 
both  side*  had  agreed  upon,  was  made  in 
the  Governor’s  suggestion  to  have  a  joint 
board  investigate  all  conflicting  wage 
rates  to  remove  inequalities. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN —The  Ameri¬ 
can  Pomological  Society  will  hold  its  an¬ 
nual  meeting  in  New  York  City  Nov.  6- 
9.  The  secretary  is  R.  B.  Cruikshank, 
Columbus,  O. 
William  H.  Card,  widely  known  as  a 
judge  of  poultry,  and  formerly  secretary 
of  the  Rhode  Island  Red  Club  of  America, 
died  at  his  home  at  Manchester,  Conn., 
Sept.  7.  Last  year  he  was  chief  judge  of 
poultry  at  the  South  Carolina  State  show 
and  at  Portland,  Me.  He  had  judged 
birds  in  all  parts  of  the  East,  and  had 
spent  years  breeding  what  has  been  ac¬ 
cepted  as  a  standard  type  of  Rhode  Is¬ 
land  Red. 
A  recent  dispatch  from  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  telling  of  the  plan  of  John  Hewlett 
of  Redlands,  Cal.,  to  establish  a  butterfly 
farm  on  public  domain,  has  produced  some 
unfavorable  comment  in  botanical  and 
horticultural  circles.  Mr.  Hewlett’s  idea 
was  to  use  40  acres,  planting  the  entire 
tract  to  flowers  particularly  attractive  to 
butterflies,  raising  them  for  their  colors 
for  decorative  purposes.  Botanists  say 
that  this  may  prove  a  dangerous  proposi¬ 
tion  for  the  farmers  and  fruit  growers  of 
California,  and  point  out  havoc  wrought 
by  the  browntail  moth  and  the  gypsy 
moth  in  New  England.  These  butterflies, 
says  one  authority  of  the  Western  scheme, 
will  not  stay  on  the  farm  where  they  were 
hatched,  but  will  fly  away  to  other  places 
and  lay  their  eggs,  which  will  hatch  out 
info  caterpillars  and  proceed  to  devour 
other  people’s  crops  and  flowers.  In  case 
Air.  Hewlett’s  application,  recently  made 
to  Supervisor  R.  II.  Charlton  at  Los  An¬ 
geles,  is  granted,  Dr.  Britton,  Connecticut 
State  Entomologist,  said  both  the  Federal 
and  State  authorities  should  be  certain 
that  his  activities  involve  only  such 
species  as  now  occur  in  that  locality. 
Indictment  of  Wilson  G.  Harvey,  for¬ 
merly  Governor  of  South  Carolina  and 
president  of  the  defunct  Enterprise  Bank 
of  Charleston,  S.  C.,  on  a  charge  of  viola¬ 
tion  of  the  State  banking  laws,  was  rec¬ 
ommended  by  the  Charleston  County 
grand  jury  in  a  special  presentment  Sept. 
14  to  the  Court  of  General  Sessions  at 
Charleston.  The  grand  jury  also  recom¬ 
mended  indictments  of  Fred  C.  Peters, 
formerly  Collector  of  the  Port  at  Charles¬ 
ton,  and  II.  Lee  Harvey,  brother  of  the 
former  Governor,  both  of  whom  were  di¬ 
rectors  of  the  bank,  on  similar  charges, 
and  included  in  its  presentment  severe 
censure  of  James  II.  Craig,  formerly 
State  bank  examiner,  for  action  said  to 
have  been  taken  by  him  in  connection 
with  the  bank’s  affairs. 
WASHINGTON. — As  the  result  of  cor¬ 
respondence  between  Secretary  Hughes 
and  Ambassador  Geddes,  representing  the 
British  government  in  Washington,  on  a 
proposal  that  the  Canadian  government 
shall  co-operate  with  the  United  States 
authorities  by  prohibiting  illegal  ship¬ 
ments  of  liquor  from  Canada,  the  Cana¬ 
dian  government  has  proposed  that  this 
government  send  a  representative  to  Otta¬ 
wa  to  discuss  ways  and  means  of  assist¬ 
ing  the  United  States  in  preventing  smug¬ 
gling.  This  government  has  appointed 
McKenzie  AIoss,  Assistant  Secretary  of 
the  Treasury,  to  attend  the  conference  in 
Ottawa.  The  Canadian  government  has 
not  fixed  a  time  for  this  meeting.  If  di¬ 
rect  co-operation  can  be  brought  about  by 
which  the  Canadian  authorities  will  pro¬ 
hibit  the  shipment  of  liquors  from  Can¬ 
ada  to  the  United  States  without  a  per¬ 
mit  from  this  government,  it  is  believed 
that  one  great  source  of  bootlegging  and 
smuggling  of  liquors  will  be  stopped. 
The  United  States  Coal  Commission  in 
a  report  to  President  Coolidge  on  the  coal 
situation  said  the  national  interest  re¬ 
quired  establishment  of  a  fixed  code  for 
settlement  of  this  and  other  industrial 
disputes.  The  commission  held  that  the 
need  for  coal  of  the  general  public  makes 
it  incumbent  upon  both  operators  and 
workers  to  make  some  sacrifices  in  the 
interest  of  the  common  weal. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
'Sept.  24-30 — Dairy  Cattle  Congress 
and  International  Belgian  Horse  Show, 
Waterloo,  Iowa. 
Sept.  24-Oct.  6 — International  Wheat 
Show,  Wichita,  Kan. 
Sept.  2G-28 — Northern  Nut  Growers’ 
Association,  fourteenth  annual  conven¬ 
tion,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Oct.  5-43 — ‘National  Dairy  Show  and 
World’s  Dairy  Congress.  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Oct.  40-12 — International  Farm  Con¬ 
gress  of  America,  seventeenth  annual  ses¬ 
sion.  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Nov.  6-9 — American  Pomological  So- 
cietv.  annual  meeting.  New  York  City. 
Nov.  20-24 — New  York  State  Farm 
Bureau  Federation,  annual  meeting, 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Nov.  17-24 — American  Royal  Live 
Stock  Show.  Kansas  City,  AIo. 
Nov.  20-24 — Annual  farm  exhibit. 
Monmouth  County  Board  of  Agriculture, 
Beach  Casino,  Asbury  Park,  N.  J. 
Nov.  24 — Annual  meeting,  Monmouth 
County  Board  of  Agriculture,  Beach 
Casino,  Asbury  I ’ark,  N.  J. 
Nov.  27-Dec.  1 — Poultry  Show,  Wash- 
ington.  I).  C.  ‘Secretary,  D.  Lincoln  Orr, 
Orr’s  Mills,  N.  Y. 
Dec.  1-8 — International  Live  Stock  Ex¬ 
position,  Chicago,  Ill. 
Dec.  4-G — -New  Jersey  State  Horticul¬ 
tural  Society,  annual  meeting  and  exhibit, 
Haddon  Hall  Hotel,  Atlantic  City,  N.  J. 
Prohibition  for  Muskrats 
I  have  on  my  farm,  not  far  from  the 
house  and  close  to  the  spring  house  a 
small  artificial  pond,  fed  by  the  spring, 
about  35  feet  across  and  70  feet  long, 
irregular  in  shape.  The  outlet  is  for 
about  30  feet,  a  series  of  artificial  cascades, 
below  that  through  the  meadow  to  a 
larger  stream  the  banks  are  natural. 
The  pond  is  part  of  the  landscape 
scheme  for  the  house  grounds  and  about 
it  have  been  planted  moisture-loving 
plants  and  trees.  I  have  large  groups  of 
purple  loosestrife,  the  wild  orange  lily, 
Japanese  iris,  red  cedar,  pussy  and  other 
willows. 
But  each  Winter  the  muskrats  have 
come  up  from  the  meadow  and  begun  to 
burrow  the  banks  and  destroy  the  roots 
of  the  plants  and  trees,  not  to  mention 
the  disfigurement  to  the  grassbanks  and 
the  occasional  cave-ins  of  their  burrows. 
Last  AYinter  we  did  not  trap  them  as 
usual,  and  so  the  pond  is  overrun  with 
them  with  greater  damage  than  ever  be¬ 
fore. 
My  plan  for  a  remedy  follows  and  I 
want  to  ask  if  it  is  practicable.  As  I 
do  not  want  other  than  earth  banks. 
masonry  or  cement  edges  being  unat¬ 
tractive  and  unnatural  I  propose  to  drain 
the  pond  and  then  paralleling  the  margin 
of  the  pond  about  2%  to  3  feet  in  from 
the  edge,  dig  a  trench  eight  inches  wide 
and  a  depth  which  will  be  2  feet  below 
the  water  line  (the  pond  is  not  over  two 
feet  deep)  and  fill  it  with  concrete  to 
within  four  or  six  inches  of  the  sod  and 
covering  the  last  six  inches  above  the 
concrete  wall  with  earth  and  grass  thus 
concealing  its  presence.  Will  this  be  an 
effective  barrier  to  their  future  home 
making  in  the  pond  banks?  Are  the  rats 
likely  to  use  the  2)4-foot  strip  between 
the  barrier  and  the  water? 
Can  you  give  me  any  other  or  simpler 
remedy  to  drive  them  away?  Your  reply 
will  be  appreciated.  c.  e.  f. 
Construction  of  Septic  Tank 
Can  you  give  me  any  information  in 
regard  to  installing  a  septic  tank?  How 
large  a  one  would  I  need  for  a  family  of 
seven  persons?  How  many  compart¬ 
ments  would  be  necessary,  and  of  what 
size?  Would  iron  pipe  be  better  than 
soil  pipe?  I  have  understood  that  soil 
pipe  clogs  up  after  it  has  been  in  for 
some  time.  How  near  can  you  put  it  to 
the  house?  Is  it  necessary  to  put  in  a 
trap  between  house  and  tank?  Must  the 
tank  be  airtight?  How  much  cement 
would  I  need?  a.  C.  S. 
Forestville,  Conn. 
A  septic  tank  3  ft.  wide,  7  ft.  long  and 
4  ft.  G  in.  deep  would  be  sufficiently  large 
for  an  ordinary  family,  and  one  compart¬ 
ment  is  enough.  Aritrified  tiles  are  used 
in  the  outlet,  or  absorption,  lines  and 
may  be  used  between  the  house  and  tank,  j 
Clogging  is  not  due  to  the  kind  of  pipe 
used,  but  to  improper  construction  or 
grading.  A  tank  may  be  placed  as  near 
the  house  as  necessary,  though  a  distance 
of  a  few  yards  is  to  be  preferred.  A  vent 
between  tank  and  house  is  probably  ad¬ 
visable  to  prevent  forcing  of  inside  traps. 
The  tank  should  have  a  tight  cover,  as 
tight  as  a  concrete  slab,  covered  with  a 
foot  or  more  of  earth,  would  naturally 
be.  The  amount  of  cement  used  will  de¬ 
pend  upon  the  richness  of  the  concrete 
mixture,  the  thickness  of  the  walls,  etc. 
With  G  in.  walls  and  a  4-2-4  mixture,  a 
tank  of  the  above  dimensions,  which  are 
inside  measurements,  would  probably  take 
from  45  to  48  sacks  of  cement. 
Write  the  New  York  State  College  of 
Agriculture  at  Ithaca,  N.  Y.  and  ask  for 
“Extension  Bulletin  4S.”  This  gives  full 
directions  for  building  a  small  septic  tank 
for  household  service.  M.  b.  d. 
Custody  of  Recorded  Will 
When  my  father  died  he  left  a  will 
which  was  recorded  in  his  county  office, 
and  my  mother  kept  the  original  will.  I 
wanted  a  copy  of  the  will,  so  I  sent  in 
to  his  county  and  got  a  copy  which  cost 
me  $3.50.  I  was  told  to  have  it  recorded 
in  my  county  recorder’s  office  so  sent  it 
there  to  have  it  recorded  and  paid  the  re¬ 
corder’s  fee.  They  will  not  send  me  my 
will,  stating  it  will  have  to  stay  in  the 
office.  Have  they  any  right  to  do  it? 
Pennsylvania.  b.  h.  l. 
If  your  will  is  on  record  in  your  county 
you  can  go  to  the  recorder’s  office  at  any 
time  and  see  it,  or  you  can  go  there  and 
make  a  copy  of  it.  N.  T, 
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elli.  Good  neighbors,  buildings  and  markets.  An 
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easy  terms.  Billposter  of  farm  and  persoual 
property  will  be  forwarded  open  request. 
O.  S.  JANSEN,  Auctioneer  Wallklll,  N.Y, 
wheeler c* Electric  Generator 
Switch  Board.  ReostafF,  116  Cells.  Cost  $3,000.  Can 
be  bought  for  less  than  half.  Fine  condition.  In¬ 
spection.  E.  R.  HUMMER,  Agent,  Frenchtown,  N.  J.  R.No.  1 
HOSIERY  SPECIALS 8BMI8! 
stockings  for  men,  women  and  children.  5  pairs,  $1. 
Big  line  of  fast  sellers  for  agents. 
Geo.  B.  Talbot  Box  72-A  Norwood,  Mags. 
Forms  to  Cast  Tin  Soldiers  and  Farm  Animals 
Every  Child  can  pour  these  f  igures  without  difficul¬ 
ty.  Send  for  Catalogue. 
Henry  C.  Schiercke,  1034  72nd  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
This  attractive  234-page 
book  has  some  of  the 
best  of  the  Hope  Farm 
Man’s  popular  sketches — 
philosophy,  humor,  and 
sympathetic  human  touch. 
Price  $1.50.  For  sale  by 
Rural  New-Yorker,  335 
W.  30th  St..  New  York. 
THE 
HOPE 
FARM 
BOOK 
