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of five each. Considerable attention has been given to the question of drainage. Gutters are being constructed in the backs of all street bridge abutments, with spouts running down at intervals and to be connected with sewers in the streets below. The very closest attention is being given to the most minute detail with the view of making this Union Station and terminals complete and substantial in modern construction, ornate in style, thoroughly convenient and comfortable in all of its appointments.

The joint passenger coach yards and shops will be located east of the Baltimore & Ohio freight terminal and consist of a joint passenger coach yard, roundhouse, shops, engine yards and repair tracks. Two tracks, between the terminal train yard and the roundhouse, will be set aside for handling engines and cars between the station and coach yard and roundhouse without interfering with the movement of trains over the main passenger tracks.

tracks will be sufficiently depressed to permit loading the cars by shoveling the ashes over an adjustable apron, the top of the car being below the bottom of the engine pit.

The passenger coach yard will be so arranged as to conveniently accommodate at least 600 cars. Much attention was also given to the arrangement of the roundhouse and shops and they will be thoroughly complete. The engine house will be constructed in two sections, each having twenty-five stalls and a turn-table. The coaling plant will consist of storage bins with measuring devices and located between the ash pits and the roundhouse. There will be a trestle incline approach to the storage bins, where coal will be delivered direct from drop-bottom cars. At the ash pits the

The track arrangement will be such that access to both turn-tables can be had from both sides of the coal wharf and from both turn-tables to the storage yard. The shops will provide facilities for making light repairs to the engines and cars. All necessary platforms and tracks will also be installed in this yard.

When the Union Station act was passed the space which will be occupied by the terminal was covered with dwellings, warehouses, coal yards, freight yards, and sheds and the main tracks and sidings of the Washington and Metropolitan branches of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

FIVE FOOT FILL.

All the buildings were removed preparatory to starting construction within ten months after the passage of the act.

The improvements necessitated the Baltimore & Ohio removing its coal yards, between First and Second and M and N streets, N. E. In this space six lines of trestle, each about 600 feet in length and 18 feet high, were constructed, having a capacity in all of about 60,000 tons, with a macadamized driveway 33 feet wide for each trestle. The bins cover three-fifths of the yard's area, and the driveways the remaining two-fifths. The yard is provided with

a system of tide drains.

The new freight terminal is being constructed at New York and Florida

Have you ever met old Abram Krim?
If ye have ye'll long remember him.
He is a strange old man,
I trow,

And lives I cannot tell you how.
He is distraught, the neighbors say,
And roams the land by night and day.
From west to east, from east to west,
He journeys without food or rest,
Save when kind neighbors pity him,
And charity helps old Abram Krim.
His hoary locks, all white and thin,
As is the beard upon his chin;
His form is bent, his cheeks burnt brown,
His eyes upon the earth cast down;
His head is bare, his feet are sore,
Yet still he roams the country o'er.
The biting blast, the angry storm,
Fall on his weary, withered form;
The heavy rain, the dashing snow,
Descend upon his furrowed brow.

But wind, nor rain, nor snowstorm dim,
Can check thy wand'ring, Abram Krim.
Through summer, autumn, winter, spring,
This poor old man is wandering.

You'll meet him here, you'll meet him there,
You'll meet him almost everywhere:
At morn, at noon, at closing day,
You'll find the wanderer on his way.
Nor stops he with the setting sun,
But even at night he journeys on.
He hears the owlet in the wood,
He listens to the rushing flood;
He sees the flowers as they grow,
By moonlight on the mountain's brow.
In shady glens, in valleys deep,
In dingles where the moonbeams sleep.
The fox, awakened in his lair,
Starts up and finds old Abram there.
And would ye know the reason why
He wanders ever restlessly?

Alas! it was a hopeless fate

That left this old man desolate.

He gave his heart in early youth
To one who valued not its truth,
But trampled on the offering
And left him but a blasted thing.
Yet she was young and very fair,
With rosy lips and sunny hair,
And snowy brow, and heart as light
As any fawn's, and eyes as bright.
And pretty foot and pretty hand
I wot fit to wield a fairy's wand;
And with a person light and slim,
Such was the love of Abram Krim.
But like the most of women kind
She had a fickle, wayward mind,
And Abram found, to his despair,
The pretty thing was false as fair.
For on the day they were to wed,
That very day she chose and fled
Across the salt sea's foaming billow
With some fine-looking, worthless fellow.
And from that luckless hour, they say,
Poor Abram's reason fled away,
And he has aye been wandering
To find this foolish, fickle thing.
Forever on her form he ponders,
And hopes to meet her as he wanders.
He seeks her in the shadowy grove,
Where first he breathed his early love.
He hopes to meet her by the fountain,
Where oft he sits, the moments counting,
And listens with impatient ear
Her fairy, fawn-like step to hear.
Alas, old man! no more for thee
Her voice will breathe its melody;
No more her bounding step will come
To meet thee by her cottage home;
No more her little hands will twine
Young roses round those locks of thine!
Those locks are white with many years,
Thy cheek is wet with many tears,
Thy heart is crushed, thine eye is dim,
God bless thee, poor old Abram Krim.

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HE recently published census of the Philippine Islands issued by the United States Census Bureau furnishes the following interesting facts: Total area, 127,853 square miles, embracing 342 islands. In comparison this territory is about the size of the New England States, New York and New Jersey combined.

Total population, 7,635,000; about four times greater than 100 years ago.

Civilized population, 7,000,000; uncivilized and wild, 635,000; Americans, 8, 135; Chinese, 37,500; foreigners, 50,000.

Mixed blood only two-tenths of one per cent of entire population. Eight civilized native tribes, of which the Visayans are the largest, forming one-half of the entire civilized population. They occupy the islands lying between Luzon and Mindanao. The Tagalogs, second, forming one-fifth of entire civilized population, occupy the provinces in the vicinity of Manila.

Among the civilized tribes, the Roman Catholic religion is predominant. Among the Moros, the Mohammedan, while the wild tribes have no religious belief.

There are twenty-one night schools in Manila, with an enrollment of 4,000 adult natives striving to acquire the English language.

In addition to the schools there are fortyone newspapers, twelve English, twentyfour Spanish, four native and one Chinese. Of this number twenty are dailies. Total circulation, 68,236.

Twelve public libraries furnish reading from 4,019 books, half of which are Spanish and one-fourth English.

Seventy public hospitals care for the sick.

The transportation lines embrace three street railways, horse power, and one electric over-head trolley, with one steam railroad four miles in length.