Show WATER FROM FR J JORDAN na T proved to be a drug on NA ne york market famous river liquid poured into flutters fc G utters picturesque u risque project of col of cf kentucky Is recalled new york three thousand gallons of water from the river jordan was emptied the other day into the gut ter along north moore street out of ten enormous casks covered with turkish seals while a crowd of small 71 boys watched it flow in a turbid stream into the street sewer N no 0 s body seemed to hanker much for the f water which looked a little muddy and had bad a slight color there were no ceremonies while 14 f part of the sacred river was flowing 1 through th the e gutter down into the k s sewer but later in the day colonel 14 1 1 1 C col 9 1 cliff of kentucky sir air dropped into the mayo campbell warehouse at greenwich street and asked when the rest of that thai jordan water would be thrown out william 11 taylor secretary of the company I 1 said he know but that the 46 casks that were left were tak pa W ing up bp a lot of room and that have to be getting them out every day or two until it was all gone and if is as forthome for those bottles made in the shape of a cross that the colonel had had bad manufactured to be emptied into the baptismal fonts of this country and europe he really know whit what to do with them and they hey were taking a lot of room too the international river jordan company which was the colonel largely Is busted so tile the colonel ad emitted that was was one reason why the afie water was vas thrown out the company was formed in 1905 by the colonel who then was on gov beckhamm Beck Bec hams khanis staff to import the water and sell bell it tor for baptisms the colonel who look more than 3 35 5 and once ran for congress trill in kentucky had rea reached ched the tha jordan in the course of duany many wanderings and there conceived the scheme to cask the sacred stream and bottle it here everybody told the colonel when he got back with his idea and broached it ft to the people of covington that it was the greatest commercial scheme of the age I theres millions in jt it theres millions in it only the water must be properly attested now it was easy enough to take a bottle or barrel down to the jordan and ad fill it as the colonel admitted but it was nta a bli bit easy to send barrels of A way vay without first getting the con ant avent of the recently deposed deputed abdul haild and likewise proper proofs for purposes that you had bad f i gone to the jordan and not to the kitchen tap but the colonel daunted lie he got letters from secretary root and others here and went to constantinople even ambassador leishman Lel thought it a great scheme and secured an audience for the colonel with the lster of the interior at the sublime porte the sublime porte gave him a letter to the governor of jerusalem then from one official to another went the colonel until he reached the jordan with a caravan only to find he buy any casks there nor any wagons suitable to take the water waler over the mountains ifju of judea dea to jerusalem 4 undoubtedly the inhabitants or of jericho still ren remember lember the to colonel lonel attired in his hid uniform as a kentucky colonel he had his pictured taken filling casks at every stage of the journey to show the people that were going to buy the water for their babies it was the real thing As fast as the water was taken out of the jordan it was boiled in big caldrons caldroni cal drons the casks were cleansed with a disinfectant and then the boiled water poured into them in the presence of a great crowd in the middle of which stood the colonel in his uniform while above him waved the turkish and american flags each of the 66 56 casks was solemnly sealed then by the head of the adonas tery of st SL john near the jordan the Anie american rican consul and all ali riza the turkish governor of jericho to transport the enormous casks over the mountains to jerusalem special wagons magoris had bad to be made in all the caravan comprised 19 horses six wagons and seven men wherever reyer the casks had bad to be trans shipped the tho colonel was careful to get a certificate from the man who did the work from jerusalem the casks were taken to jaffa and thence out in Ins small niall boats to a steamer while the colonel took more pictures or of the crowds and himself as they watched this disembarkation F finally on chris christmas amas eve in id 1906 the casks reached new york to be taken to io tho the warehouse whence the water has flowed |