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The Greatest Stories 
For Boys. 
THE 
North Pole Series 
BY Frof. Edwin J. Houston, 
! cientift, Teacher and Author 
'] hr(’c Vdltimes:—The Searcli for the Nortli Pole, 
The Discov'ery ofthe North Pole. 
Cast Away at the North Pole. 
$1.00 Each; in Sets or Separately 
Every Boy Should 
Have These Books 
At all hookslores; or sent by publisher on receipt of price 
The John C. Winston Co., Phila. 
Of tlie^e bookM, 
REAR ADMIRAL MELVILLE, 
TUe Oroaf Arctic Ex¬ 
plorer., Hstysz 
“Most vividly,though carelully 
portraved. Of great interest to 
the Youth of our Country.” 
A NEW BOOK 
For tourists who have visited or who 
hope to visit the Mediterranean ports 
A Trip to the Orient 
The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise 
With nearly 200 Unique Illustrations 
Price, $1.50 net Postage, 16 cents 
A TRIP TO THE ORIENT, THE STORY OF A MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE, 
by Robert Urie Jacob, bas been written at tbe request of fellow travelers, wbo did 
not have time to take notes by the way. 
One said, ** Do not write a guide book nor a love story, but a simple narrative that 
will recall tbe incidents and delightful experiences of the tour. Following these 
suggestions the author has undertaken tbe work. 
An interesting feature ol tbe book is the large number of illustrations made from 
artistic photographs, all of which have been contributed by amateur photographers. 
It contains nearly 200 illustrations ol views or incidents m Funchal, Granada, Algiers, 
Malta, Athens, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Cairo, Luxor, Naples, and Nice, repro¬ 
duced from unpublished photographs. They enable the reader to see not only the 
histone places and rums, the wonders of these Oriental lands, but also the people 
themselves m their various pursuits, giving to the hook the very atmosphere of the 
countries described. 
The story was intended specially for voyagers who have visited the same places, 
but it should be equally interesting to those who are planning a similar trip. And 
those who must stay at home may in these pages be able to look through another s 
eyes at the places described. 
The hook comprises 392 pages, printed on enamel finished paper, and contains nearly 
200 illustrations. Size, 5)4 x 8 inches. Bound in extra cloth—gold stamping. 
The John C. Winston Co Publishers 1006=1016 Arch St., Philadelphia 
commercially called fuel oil. We have ; 
contracted for this residuum at eighty j 
cents a barrel of forty-two gallons. i 
“Two steel receiving tanks of 8,ooo j 
gallons capacity each were erected near ! 
our track on the Belt railway at Grove i 
Street, at a total cost of ^714.99. It is con- 1 
nected with a 4-inch pipe line from receiv- ; 
ing tanks to the side track, permitting > 
the unloading of tank cars by gravity. 
“When the macadam was absolutely 1 
dry and hard, the entire surface of the 
roadway was swept clean of dirt and 1 
screenings. The sweepings were left 
along the edge of the gutter for protection 1 
to the cement work when the oil was 1 
applied. To our sprinkling carts we i 
attached a tin trough, perforated with 
quarter-inch holes, and thus obtained 
an even distribution of oil. The entire 
surface of the roadway was flooded with 
oil and thoroughly broomed in, after 
which the sweepings from the gutter, 
with sufficient limestone screenings to 
form a slight dressing, were cast over 
the oil and thoroughly rolled with a steam 
roller. Since the last of May we have 
given one application of oil to practically 
all the finished roadways, using 120,477 
gallons of oil, which covered 135,314 
square yards of macadam pavement. 
The cost follows: 
For oil.^2,35.7.15 
For labor and supplies. 3,202.68 
Total.^5G59-83 
“This is an average of 1.48 cents a 
square yard. A second application in 
September, it is estimated, can be made 
at a cost of not to exceed one cent a 
square yard, for less care will be re¬ 
quired in preparing the roadway. The 
second application should carry our 
roadways through the winter and well 
into next season, in excellent shape, and 
at a much less expense for repairs.”— 
Landscape Gardetitng. 
TREES INJURED BY GAS 
I 'HE liability of a gas company in 
damages to the owner of trees on 
a boulevard in front of his premises, 
caused by the escape of gas from mains 
on streets, the Supreme Court of Min¬ 
nesota holds (Gould vs. Winona Gas 
Company, 111 Northwestern Reporter, 
254), is not determined by the doctrine 
of insurance of safety, but by principles 
of negligence applicable to authorized 
public works. 
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