Show am fundus fides 14 hew ew ailt tl te 4 1 sw I 1 1 c or tb mot aa V sti k 4 0 1 ler t lail 9 N lu IF in ila 1 giana ma ne new brunswick ea lie of hydroelectric hydro electric plays we ing IV out it in by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN till S 0 1 un ly I 1 till 1 I 1 il I 1 I 1 I 1 it rs it to d ill 1 PI are ore i n imp lull rul rial ime IWO me lie bior nf of tile dorfy jor fy 1 I in the tile I 1 little title cited s 1 II 11 1 houe louse an n un 0 o u I 1 tt t I 1 HP le of jet t le 6 in to stung i unc america f tit 1 I relt resistless leis inight of f it tie e i in I 1 long ong h liae as the en joir firt lr unel of f old ore n 9 tl if 1 4 f r the in austria use strike of n a 4 1 nil lid 11 I 1 I 1 P re ari nt lit coal lint strike urgos a I 1 11 1 i 1 on F hectric lecari ltv edging edff ini ef eru nowhere here int lilt I 1 tie tt e f ton tom farm and bonie home qu kulkens ikens his quest hut but en er to him the 0 foot font bore that rushes rustles vp the hay tiny ot of rundy undy I 1 to brak in taun der against the shoria of chidemo chit cecio hae has been n tiling thing set apart ty j nature still anda stands the forest breit prini primeval evall but under der the shade vt of it brancha bran cht dwells mother another race w with h other ther cu tons ton and language langu ae t naught but tradition remain remains of 0 the 1 beautiful pillage of orand pre I 1 so wrote Iong longfellow fellow in F langa angeline for ahn Is tte tie historic acadia 1 maine blaine sew new Itra and noa nosia ot of bear car ago here etere erp staged the of the century along long struggle for possession bete betheen oen frenchman and I 1 hman here was enacted the lost story of the falth ful french maiden that thrills auces give generations and it ie Is one of hlll another race the Anne american rican lio auld hit harness nest fund a tides bo so let a forget about dams and turbines and kilowatts for foor a moment and go lack to the ery isery beginning of the atory in IM 1880 in the little town toun of rusti rushi ford minn was torn dexter P cooper he ile inherited a taste borers for en and find run ran imay frum from home boule at lit seventeen Bev enteen to I 1 low 1 I f rge at nineteen he va was as L oain it J ing of 41 men on the tire great rent matilo dani la in brazil next he lie Is sea s n getting X technical e luen tilon ethro ill at tl airty one he ie Is building the reit r it e biln d nu tie I 1 nt at keokuk the orld war ar makes hill a member of stif the power se tion of ofal tit ol 01 11 bounell f fir r national rufen di fens e and puts him at work on hie tile boulous plant vath ath tits hi brother brot lier col huh T cooper U S 8 A I 1 titer still he Is 14 en paged in the are ret it lukes bt st I 1 a trence af rene water waterman wn may sun a mr air cool cooler pir and hie his family haic hale rt it bummer summer home hoine oo 00 ilo island N 11 1 few miles froin fastert maine As curly early ai as 1912 he lezin ie in rit ching the undy iundy I tido floss in 1919 1519 whelp from lit P had bad nothing ole to d i for Sele several rail larr te le iad tenente drawings re itic I 1 list t I 1 e icv ed led entirely to to tile i rk and arid all thie this time he bodied I 1 it I 1 it ity last lost spring mr nir to lieper per to tak hia his I 1 plan to the maine capit if o 0 at 1 1114 t it and nd got the Il lealure through the I 1 lint tilt a rift r endom vote vot th tile peonie le was aps eary sary as alitine fort di tie file exi on ort of electrical power june 12 mr bir cooper brij yr ij I 1 fiad a a e ave lin la at oil wt 01 et pot in an aut minim in I 1 UP ile on his tits cam alpi he lie motored 0 miles visited every county and talked to anybody anil nil everybody who ho 0 abild o lid listen B those who wilo mabelel mr nir cooperr Co opere anllo I 1 11 ro ne t campaign an T he tie 1 no lun larl and no orator I 1 their fea elen tell the story that when he went ent to Augi auguista ista with his hi bill he lie had to inquire his way wa to the statehouse finhen hen he begin speaking he was nn un known n to the I 1 eople of maine blaine to be ure ture IP it hud had no active opposition to overcome but poli alar ignorance and indifference are mightier opponents than active opposite icil n HOW then did he lie succeed in selling his OW OW hydroelectric to the hard headed ankena of melne bell ell they say bay that in tic the first pince place cooper per 1 Is a 1 commanding figure forty he fill sli feet tall fall broad u with ith black hair and cropped mustache mild eeb and find a square jaw then they sa that he eilla ined hie his plan in arins that any intelligent man could understand liy by draft inga on a blackboard if questions etere ere asked he an answered sered them anyone who ho wished ish could haie hale a private later view lew after the meeting september 14 the tilt citizens of maine blaine cast a record bote ote lo 10 to I 1 in favor of the looper project i 1 take a look at the raap map and note the course of the international boundary line bay lies both side of the line aich also runs one dam a set of danig Is in new ew and another la in maine the power bouses are in maine blaine this this means that before mr air cooper can begin nork he will presumably have hue to nave have the penal sIon of the united state states government of t the he canadian government 01 ol the p provincial ir government of new ick of the international joint cor commission omIssion and of the U 1 s federal lower oh aes eg and here there ie id another thing mr nir cooper must find a croup roup if f financiers willing and able to put jorqe here bet between een tm and into his scheme now the lie must remarkable thing about tits remarkable iv Pe Is glory story that apparently parent ly noboa questions ques tlona that gome some body will ill take the chUl choice loce that maine airline joffere apparently no voice rolce Is raised to question that the scheme Is practical or hot that it will ill wa a or that capital will be fauna now for or the outstanding engineering details of the nature herself offers man the opportunity it is s aid taid that at no other place in the world orld Is I 1 there the same favorable I 1 of high t ides and land coin corn co con flUr figuration atlon itoch Vib bs sook ook bale bas lire ore and andi nearly lull landlocked blocked time ste lill of daina mill ill shut both off from the bay of tundy aundy the la in t owing ildi tide is let into tie aill apler er pool containing square miles of hater ater at ebb tide the tile Is let out of Cobs cook the lower loer water pool i containing contal nin go nilca th leg e flater rum runs by gravity from upper poo pool ln to lov lower er pool th turbine turbines ut ad is el t n fourth dam and ie Is thus charae li and transformed tutu into electric bowa tie be los it la is planned to pet get a constant mi JIM regular flow of through flu thi I 1 turbines with a fall of from 13 15 to a 2 M 1 feet according to the tides ti the dama dams it Is stated present to II 11 I 1 engineering difficult es the tonsil founds 0 r alons are solid granite the water tar 11 J tween islands Is end a 1 the dani lam material ie is close at t hand ban e r they will not be of record size fin B thousand men orkin in n tr 41 shifts on all the da do i at wn as CIA complete them inside t four jean years it 8 D la Is a feature of these dams that ft they be t impound a goi ninth filter titer and funds furnish I 1 so much power with till su h ia Is i ly small lh iti r n 0 il ti this development according arr ordic to 1111 I 1 ui i 1 coopers figures 1 wl I I 1 1 furnish a I 1 mum of h arse loi a er the ys yell li 11 round this makes tie much turi t muscles shoals look ra ru her small brij 11 I 1 i I 1 its promised horse power of COG 0 00 0 I 1 when the th tennessee rl ri er Is in 14 B and at low m water ater 6 translating horse an p into electa elect I 1 cal energy Is unsatisfactory for tit 1 I nonprofessional t tut tit ill alif electric wet la Is bold suld to be seven tit es what 1111 1 I need needs thie this means a 1 9 surplus anil jl able within a radius if of several III t tr 1 dred mile miles in both new ew brunswick new england to aboss tho by bt N that the pow power er will ill be cheap enos 11 ato ft r 1 compete successfully ess fully with any elfr elec el d power now callable aal lable in to new N 13 england or eastern inida aste see in to it the basis nf of a great 40 it buting ri system 9 1 g southwest 11 11 through nevy ew england and br bringing Ingin power frota 1 igara mr cooper Is the 1 8 na nun nain in to dia di a ry ill f pr that he can harness tile tides it n 04 B the full meaning of HP tip ahr phrase ap point points out that the 1 of M est project 13 feasible oil the configuration of tt 0 1 lind an 11 lis I 1 Is emphatic in point in lit that a hit at plan there la ts not a F nale 1 new ides ortric ity it in the of el la Is merely a fresh freshwater u hiir P plan ian adopted bett to salt water vater bent nort East easthon port ie Is at the ery iery sen jumping off place of tl ti ell P L ailed state ir dow truth to tell it Is pretty belotti re lOtti un I 1 it takes sint thing alk it 0 11 is teen houra hours of slow trinel to rescia 0 r from boston it has f ir dally daily w R both 60 of two each way nial op up t that ow v 1 freight and passenger ra rs delort 1 a m boarders boarder the summer tt but v 4 quiel cd ed things are its there theres s one thing that I 1 ier e er sleep W rest the tides rides 0 1 ind irid algron al 14 up they are at work wor kni alo g boats bolits egl 1 street level 11 and drogi ng theo ad a story or so covering in god V pull the shining beach pul pull i ing out some day tiny it velter cooper has lile his wa via I 1 be so quiet |