Desert Lands and Trembling Sands Echo Past
An evocative fragment recalls desert terrains and shifting sands, linking springtime memories to earlier days and the enduring tremor of history in the landscape.
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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1904
Page
2
An evocative fragment recalls desert terrains and shifting sands, linking springtime memories to earlier days and the enduring tremor of history in the landscape.
Braithwait, a student, tours a massive grain elevator beside harbor docks. He slips into a bin marked 77 and falls into darkness, suspended above the grain as the movable iron spouts and vast machinery loom around him.
Braithwait falls into a wheat bin and sinks with the grain as the flow is cut off. He fights to free himself, abandoning his coat and digging toward the center until a worker halts the flow and a rope ladder saves him. He recalls the incident whenever he sees an elevator.
A Nassau Street tailor discusses a Boston case where Easter clothing found in a Liverpool liner’s hold was smuggled to America. He notes an ongoing New York association’s efforts, the role of London tailors, and how customers pay New York tailors for alterations while benefiting from London cuts. Also recounted is Gottlieb Wittier, who found and returned $62,000 in gold and bonds to General Fremont, then ran large Missouri contracting firms.
Mauser won the feature at Kinloch in St. Louis beating Jack Young and South Breeze by five lengths. The track was very soft after Sunday's rain, and the day saw a large purse taken from the ring after Uncle Charley won the third race.
Paris April 26 Captain Algernon Sartoris grandson of the late General Grant and Mile Germaine Cecile Noufflard niece of artist Charles B D Halle wed in Paris. A religious ceremony will be held tomorrow at St Honore d Hymau with ushers A H Sartoris Maurice Noufflard and Sir Frederick Robinson.
New Haven Conn April 26 There have been no new accessions to the striking ranks at the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad shops and no demonstrations by nonstriking sympathy. machinists at work but fear of nonunion workers in same shops may hinder boilermakers joining the walkout.
A tornado struck Fairland I T killing seventeen people and injuring others. The storm damaged six business blocks and caused about 10606 dollars in property loss. Four miles south the tornado leveled farmhouses and barns and killed livestock. Names of victims include Mrs. Mary Lamar Mrs. John Lemas ter Arthur Brought and Elijah Russell with families. Three of the injured are expected to die.
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