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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Pasadenas Substitute for the City Dump V i Galleries and Gardens of the Zwinger, Dresden. (Prepared by Society, An exterior view of the new mechanical hog at Pasadena, Calif., with city employees ramming brush and wooden refuse down its throat." This machine digests three to four tons of brush, etc., In about two hours, turning it Into pulp to be burned, thus doing away with unsightly city dumps. The pulp can be burned in a retort. The hog consists of underground revolving Jaws which grind the refuse as it is fed into a hopper. Jungle Prison Is Den of Horrors the dying man, banging, like one crucified, by his manacles, which were chained around the trunk of a large tree. His feet, resting on the ground, His strength were also manacled. was. almost gone and his parched throat gave harsh, hysterical cries for water as he tried in vain to reach bis face with his hands. Make Show of Death. Writer Tells of Unheard of Brutalities Against Con- icts in Guiana. ' lamdon. Eight and a half months the jungle prison camps of French Guiana, inland from Devil's island, have returned W. E. A. Booth ot Los Angeles to civilization, charging unheard of brutalities' and even murders of the most fiendish sort against the soldiery guarding the convicts. Booth came ont of the jungles wracked by tropical disease and has spent five months in a London hospital recovering trom his ordeal. He asserts that stories of crime trickling from the penal camps where crime is supposed to be punished and corrected drove him to an elaborate plan whereby be ingratiated himself with both soldiers and prisoners, and finally purposely stranded himself there In order to see for himself. He was under arrest and imprisoned for eight days in camp, Booth declares, and through his own experiences, observations, and clandestine conversations with the prisoners he has learned a story which taxes belief. In , Had Novel Scheme. In order to make himself known and trusted among prison authorities, Booth declares, he became second mate on the coastwise liner Surinam of the Columbian line out of New York, which touches at a number of South American ports carrying stores. One of the ports is St. Laurent du Maroui, which is on, the coast of French Guiana facing Devils island, 60 miles out in the sea. SL Laurent is the principal penal colony, hacked into .the edge of the jungle, and it is here that most of the prisoners are taken after a disciplinary period on the island. Booth made three trips with the ship as second mate. Each time the boat called at St. Laurent, and when It stopped Booth went ashore, mingled with the soldiers, played the piano while they sang, and became so well known that he went wherever he wished unquestioned. After the third trip Booth shipped ont of New York as an ordinary seaman, he says, in order to make it easier to Jump ship. After the cargo was unloaded he hid himself in the Jungle, watchid the ship weigh anchor, and as she sailed ran to the beach waving his arms and berating the luck which stranded him in a prison. Then he became a member of the camp, and witnessed three murders, he says, before be managed to escape last August. One of the most horrible tales Booth tells is of the death of a prisoner named Jean Brock. During the last trip be made to the island Booth says he stood on deck superintending part of the unloading by the convicts. The heat in the hold was stifling, and one of the prisoners covered with sweat and bare to the wflist finally found it unbearable and cdlapsed. Brock leaped out of th bold and ran for water One of the guards began lashing him with a whip and Brock scurried back into the hold under the sting of the whip which cut his bare shoulders. When the prisoners were called np at the end of the day the soldier again began beating Brock with his whip. Suddenly, Booth narrates, the convict grasped a wire sling used in hoisting cargo, and, whimpering under the pain of the lush, rained savage blows od the soldier s head with the wire. Convict Left to Die. Before the guards could overpower Brock the soldier lay unconscious and three days later he died. Bootli meantime had become a member of the colony and waited with every one else for the expected execution of the convict. For five days Brock was locked In his underground ceil and the guillotine in the camp stood unused. On the sixth day Brock was brought up and placed in line with the prisoners cutting a road through the Jungle, and to every one's amazement was marched away. That evening as the men returned Brock was missing and Booth said the faces of the other convicts were white with fear. No one spoke but during the night Booth learned Brocks fate. The following day he went to see. Alone In the Jungle he came upon HOOVER'S NEW DOG The reason was that myriads of ants and other rropical insects were slowly eating the man alive. He died that day and his body was brought back for burial so that ail the convicts could see. Booths arrest came along, he says, through his friendship with a convict named Paul Mulct, lie was a member of a gang of automobile thieves In France and the prison pal of iaul Dieuedonue, whose famous escapes from the colony finally brought about his pardon. Molet was the king of the prisoners. His word settled their disputes and officers often looked to hint for advice, Booth said. On the last attempt that Dieuedorine made to escape Molet accompanied him and was recaptured while his companion managed to get away. Molet told Booth the story of his attempt and part of the conversation was overheard by a guard. Several days later soldiers entered Booths room at the back of a thinese shop and placed him under arrest. For eight days ne lay in an underground dungpon. dug like a grave and with only only an iron grate between him and the sky. Bitten by Deadly Fly. Finally he was taken before the commandant ot the camp and learned that the charge against him was plotting Molets escape. Molet was present, Booth said, in an Iron cage. The cell was so small that it was Impossible either to sit or stand inside It, Booth said, and Molet had been kept there for eight hours. The commandant told Booth of the overheard conversation, he said, and charged him outright with laying plans for Molet's getaway. Booth explained that the conversation was only Molets narration of his previous attempt and the charge was dropped, he said, but thereafter he was watched. Meantime two French ships had called at the port but the Surinam, the American boat, had discontinued the run and Booth was ' unable to get aboard either of the other vessels because he had no passport and could not land anywhere except in the United States. Finally a Dutch vessel, the Schwarts, landed at St. Laurent last August and took him to Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana. There he boarded an English ship, the Sonnings, and was put ashore at New Orleans. He came to England then to write his experiences, but he learned after arriving here that be had been bitten by the deadly tse-tsfly in South America and was forced to "o to a hospital for an operation. It was only recently that he was well enough to be discharged. e Two-in-O- The latest addition to the White House kennels Is this shepherd police dog, recently received as a successor of King Tut," the Presidents favorite police dog, who died a short while ago. Egg Laid by This Wisconsin Hen ne Rice Lake, VVis. An egg laid Buff Rock hen at the Dell Lovell near here was really two eggs. outside egg, exceptionally large, by a farm The sur- rounded a layer of thick albumen, which, in turn, surrounded another regular formed egg on the inside. the National Geographic W ashiriKtou. Japanese and Dresden porcelain, and Italian majolica, a glazed pottery. The Albertinura, once an arsenal, now is a sculptuie museum with many historical and modern pieces. Delicately painted limestone reliefs dating back to 27(H) B. C. are displayed there, while a mummy still reposes in a coffin it has occupied for 2,500 years. These and numerous other exhibit places, including the Municipal museum with a fine collection of etchings; the Academy of Art; the School and Museum of Industrial Art; the Zoological and Ethnographical museum, containing a large collection of stuffed birds and ethnological specimens; the Mineralogical and Prehistoric museum with interesting fossils; draw art lovers from ail parts of the world and earn for Dresden the right to be called one of the world's Important art centers. Among the churches the Frauen-Kircha Protestant edifice, is the It can accommodate 5,0(K) largest. worshipers. The church occupies a whole city block. The lantern above its huge dome is 312 feet from the pavement. A magnificent organ and numerous statues are interesting features of its interior. , In point of population Munich (Munchen) is exceeded only hy Berlin and Hamburg among German cities. With 680.000 Inhabitants it is somewhat larger than San Francisco and smaller than Boston. D. C.) capitals of German states, in Saxony and Munich are capitals, as well, of art, and annually draw their thousands of tourists. Dresden Is filled with artistic wonders. Its picturesque setting, astride a beautiful bend In the Elbe river, about 110 miles south of Berlin, caused Herder, the poet, to call it the Florence of the Elbe. From an approaching river steamer, the Saxon capital is a city of graceful spires and huge domes and cupolas, but inside the Altstadt (old city ) on the left bank of the Elbe, the picture changes to one of artistically embellished buildings, handsomely sculptured monuments, galleries of famous paintings, numerous museums with choice collections of all sorts, spacious squares and parkways, and canyonlike streets where Kunst (German for art) is heard among the throngs nearly as often as some of the common verbs. A large portion of the Altstadt lies near the Augustus bridge, one of the five spans that connect the old town with Neustadt, on the other bank of the river. The facing the tower, is a bridge with its huge structure, whose parapets are topped with 50 statues of saints and, Ascension inside, Raphael Mengs looks down upon the high altar. passage connects the church Munich Is Magnificent. with the old Saxon palace, whose In physical aspects Munich is one walls are decorated with fine mural of the most impressive of modern paintings; and in the various rooms, cities. Its royal palaces, its magnifilarge collections of Chinese vases and cent national theater, its great royal Dresden china are on display. Even library containing 1,100, IKK) volumes the stable adjoining the palace is em000 rare manuscripts; its broad bellished with a cavalcade of Saxon and 50, thoroughfares, particularly the princes, in porcelain tiles. and Maximilianstrasse, Treasures In Many Buildings. bordered by the great office buildings Within a few blocks of the- palace of the Bavarian government, and its famous university which ranks first numerous buildings contain the collections that have made Dresden fa- among the German institutions of mous as the German art center. Belearning in the number of its medical tween the church and the palace the students and second only to Berlin in the number of students of all classes Gruues Gewoihe (Green Vault) conall these and many other buildings tains a dazzling array of jewels diamonds, rubies and sapphires and and institutions make the municipalworks of art in gold, ivory, bronze ity one of the chief prides of the Teuand Limoges enamels. On a single tonic people. Most of the modern improvements ivory tusk one artist has carved 142 deanother and and ivory piece practically all of its architectural angels splendor Munich owes to Louis (or picts an organ grinder fighting a rob succesher. The Saxon crown jewels, a Ludwig) I and his green diamond, jeweled trinkets sors. Louis came to the throne in of all kinds, a golden tea service and 1825 and ruled for more than 20 years. the largest known onyx are displayed. One of the Impressive monuments of his reign is the beautiful Propylaea, Bronze work Includes statues, pedestals and vases. A striking bronze modeled after the gate to the Athenpiece depicts Charles II of England ian Acropolis, and the reliefs which decorate this structure quite fittingly fighting off a dragon. Across the street, surrounded by tell the tory of Greeces war of indegardens, the Zwinger, built by Au- pendence and the events transpiring gustus the Strong and intended to in that kingdom during the eventful reign of King Otho L Louis son who house banquet and dance halls, promenades and gardens befitting royal life was elected to the throne of Greece in 1832 but was finally expelled after of the Eighteenth century, is a treasex30 a tine years. Another beautiful Munich ury of art. The building is is the Siegestor (Gate of Vicadorned Italian Renaissance, of gateway ample after the Arch of Conmodeled with figures of Greek deities, vases tory), Rome. in in which stantine court Once the flowers. and One Munich gallery exhibits such the Zwinger incloses, the traveler Christ Crowned works as Titians feels that the rose gardens and promenades should fulfill the most regal with Thorns, Rembrandts The Descent from the Cross and a Raphael whim. a museum contains Madonna, and contains works of The Zwinger Rubens, Van Dyck, Holbein the Elder, half million engravings, many drawings, mathematical Instruments, and Perugino, Botticelli and Fra Filippo a picture gallery where some of the Lippi, from which it will be seen that Louis did not hesitate to acquire the finest works of fhe most eminent masterpieces of other nations. Italian, Spanish, Dutch and German Louis II saw Bavaria gradually abartists are on exhibition. Raphael's sorbed In the Empire, but, before Sistine Madonna occupies a prominent place in the collection. It was madness drove him to suicide, he furpurchased in 1754 from Italian monks thered the art development begun by and smuggled out of Italy by painting his grandfather. His reign was notaa landscape over the canvas. There ble for his encouragement of Wagare also works of Rubens, Van Dyck, ners development of the music drama, and to his royal generosity, which Rembrandt and others. The Johanneum museum, formerly would add more to his fame bad it not been for the oppressive taxations stable buildings, contains an interesting collection of war material and It imposed and Its later excesses, wera due the Bayreuth productions. more than 20,000 pfaces of Chinese, TWO art-lovin- g e, Hof-Kirch- 272-fo- se - 40-car- art-lovin- g |