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15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Socotra is at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | It is into this gulf that the Red Sea flows. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | As soon as the accident occurred the life-boats were launched, and some of the passengers and crew were put aboard them. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Unhappily the sea was running so high that the boats could not live in it. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | They were soon overturned and their occupants drowned. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Two other boats were smashed to pieces in the effort to launch them, and finally seven persons found themselves forced to stay by the wreck. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | The accident happened in the dead of night, and until the daylight came they were clinging together, expecting that the vessel would go down at any moment. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | When morning came they found that the ship was so tightly wedged on the rocks that she was not likely to sink, but they were out of sight of land, and had no chance of rescue unless some passing vessel happened to see them. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | To add to their misery, great waves were constantly washing over the wreck. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | They had taken refuge in one of the deck cabins, and here they were forced to stay for three or four days until the waters became calmer. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | They were at first afraid that they would be starved, but a few biscuits were found in the cabin, and on these they subsisted until it was safe to cross the deck to the cook's galley without danger of being washed overboard. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Here they found provisions. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Two women were of the party, and they appear to have behaved very well, doing their share toward making their comrades comfortable, and preparing the best meals they could under the circumstances. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | When the storm was so far abated that they dared to go on deck, they set signals, in the hopes of attracting some passing vessel. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Two vessels, however, passed without noticing them, but at last, after fourteen days of anxiety and fear, help came to them. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | They were taken off the vessel and brought safely to land. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | The owners of the _Aden_ made full inquiry into the cause of the disaster, and attributed it to the storm, and not to any carelessness on the part of captain or crew. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | * |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | * |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | * |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | * |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | * There will have to be a new trial of the case against the Tobacco Trust, the jury having been discharged by the court. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | We told you, in reference to the _Laurada_ trial, that it was necessary for all the twelve jurymen to agree before a verdict could be secured. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | When a trial is finished and the case is given to the jury, the jurymen in the charge of the sheriff are locked up in the jury-room and kept there until they arrive at a decision or the judge dismisses them. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | When the jurors arrive in their own room, a ballot is taken, and if the vote is not unanimous they begin a regular discussion of the case. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | A foreman of the jury is chosen at the beginning of the trial, and serves as chairman of the jury while the case is in their hands. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | After he thinks the matter has been well weighed, the foreman asks the jurymen if they are ready to vote. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Another ballot is then taken, each man registering his opinion. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | The foreman counts the votes. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | If the jury is not all of the same way of thinking, the matter is again discussed and a new ballot taken. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | In the Tobacco Trust trial the jury was "out," as it is called, twenty-one hours. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | During that time forty ballots were taken, ten of the jury voting "guilty" and two "not guilty." |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | At the end of that time one of the jurors was taken ill. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | The foreman sent a request for a doctor, and asked the judge to dismiss the jury, as it was impossible for them to come to a decision. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | The judge has the right to keep the jury locked up until he is satisfied that they cannot arrive at a verdict. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | In this instance he kept them three hours longer, and then, finding them still divided ten to two, he discharged them. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | In English and American law there are only two verdicts, "Guilty" or "Not guilty," and a person who has once been adjudged not guilty can never be tried again for the same crime. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | In Scotland they have a third verdict--"Not proven." |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Under this verdict a person regains his liberty, but he can be tried again at any time that fresh evidence against him is secured. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | The jurors would probably have agreed on the verdict of "Not proven" had it been in use in our courts, but, as it is, there will have to be another trial of the Tobacco Trust as soon as the District Attorney is ready to prosecute. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | * |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | * |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | * |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | * * |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | People living in New York have long complained of the lack of accommodation on the surface and elevated roads. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | During the crowded hours of the day it does not seem possible to put on enough cars to seat the passengers. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Men and women have to stand in these crowded cars, packed as closely as herrings in a barrel. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | After enduring this nuisance for many years with surprising patience, the people have at last sought the aid of the Board of Health. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | They have complained to the Board that standing in the cars is injurious to the health of women and persons in delicate health. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | When the summer came on and the crowding nuisance was not abated, but the discomforts were considerably increased by the neglect of the companies to provide straps in the open cars for the people to hold on to, the complaints increased to such an extent that the Board of Health decided to take immediate action. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | A careful investigation was commenced, and it was found that in rounding the curve at Fourteenth Street and Broadway, and the sharp curves at Fifty-third Street, every person who was not provided with a seat was in danger of losing life or limb. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | The standing passengers were jostled, jolted, and flung this way and that, without sufficient protection against being thrown off the cars. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Inspectors from the Health Board were stationed at the different points to ascertain just how many persons were forced to travel in this dangerous manner. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | The inspector detailed to watch the Lexington Avenue branch of the cable road reported that during two hours, 1,750 had been standing up in the 135 cars that had passed him. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | From the various reports it was seen that most of this crowding could be stopped if the companies made rules to regulate the number of passengers allowed in each car, and provided enough cars to accommodate their patrons. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | When the reports were all in, the Health Board met to discuss the matter. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | One of its members is the President of the Board of Police. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | His department has had a great deal of trouble with the Broadway Cable Company. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | It has been necessary to station extra policemen along the route to help people to cross the tracks in safety. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Several policemen have been injured at the curves, and the Police Board has no love for the railroad. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | At the meeting he introduced a resolution which he wished to make a part of the Sanitary Code. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | The Sanitary Code is a set of rules enacted for the protection of the lives and health of the citizens. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | These rules relate to all matters that concern our daily life. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | They prohibit unhealthy businesses being carried on. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | They require that tenement houses shall be properly built, drained, etc. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | They prevent the keeping of cows, pigs, or poultry within city limits. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | They regulate the sale of provisions, and prevent unwholesome food being sold in the city. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Under these rules, all the meat that is dressed for market within the limits of the city is inspected, and must be prepared in a certain manner. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | No one can offer milk for sale without a permit from the Board of Health, and this permit is only granted when the inspectors have assured themselves that the applicants have clean and airy places in which to handle the milk. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | The Sanitary Code covers everything that applies to our health and comfort, and, as you may suppose, its rules are very far-reaching. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | The new rule proposed by the Police Commissioner is to the effect that no surface car shall be sent around any curve at a greater rate of speed than two miles an hour. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | This rule, if passed, will put an end to the horrors of Dead Man's Curve, as the Fourteenth-Street curve has come to be called, for at this slow pace the passengers will have no difficulty in keeping their feet, and the pedestrians will easily be able to get out of the way of the cars. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | It will be two weeks before this rule can be made part of the Sanitary Code, and during that time arguments for and against it will be heard by the Department. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | If the Health Board will only follow this rule with another, forbidding the overcrowding of cars, New Yorkers will have a chance of getting comfortable service from the car systems. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | * |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | * |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | * |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | * |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | * |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | We told you about the great Yerkes telescope some little while ago. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | It has, if you remember, the largest lens in the world, and with it astronomers can look farther into space than with any other glass now in existence. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | At the end of last May the big telescope was in position, and the scientific world waited anxiously to hear of the wonders it would reveal. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Professor Barnard, who is in charge of the observatory, stated that it was impossible even to guess what discoveries might be made with it. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | He stated that it allowed the observer to penetrate one-fourth farther into space than the famous Lick telescope. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | It was therefore to be supposed that some new knowledge about the moon and the planets would soon be obtainable. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | He expected that in the course of a few weeks he would be able to give some new information about the planet Jupiter and its moons, and Saturn and its rings. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | He hoped also to give a fuller description of the hills and valleys on the desolate surface of the moon. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Unfortunately his hopes will not be fulfilled for a long time to come. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | But eight days after the first peep had been obtained through the great glass, a very unfortunate accident happened in the observatory. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | The elevating floor of the telescope gave way, and fell forty feet, to the bottom of the dome. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Two astronomers had been observing the stars the entire night, but happily they had left the building just before the accident occurred. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | As good luck would have it, the great telescope was also uninjured, but a great deal of damage was done to the building. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | It is estimated that it will take the whole summer to tear out the wreckage and make the repairs. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | During that time the telescope cannot be used. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | This is a great disappointment to the scientists. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | We told you of the labor entailed in the grinding of a lens. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Mr. Alvan G. Clark, the man who made the great glass of which we have been speaking, has just died. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | He and his father and brother had devoted their entire lives to the making of telescopes, and made many of the famous glasses of the world. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | The great glass at the Lick Observatory, which measures thirty-six inches across, is of their manufacture. |
15,828 | The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls | Their greatest triumph was the Yerkes lens, which is forty inches in diameter, and which was completed only a few months before Mr. Clark's death. |