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About Corvallis daily gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon) 1909-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1909)
EAGER FOR AIRSHIPS Orders Flood Wright Who Cannot Supply Erothers, Demand. AN INQUIRY FROM ICELAND. Shah of Persia Also Wants an Aero plane Eighty Airships Ordered In America Chinese Mandarin Wantsl One Man Applying For Instruction In Flying. More than eighty orders for airships to be used in the United States are now in the hands of the Wright broth ers, Orville and Wilbur. Since their demonstration of their ability to han dle their aeroplanes with safety and to teach others how to do so they have been flooded with letteTs asking for terms for the building of the machines and instruction in flying. The branch of the International Aero club which was organized at Dayton, O., recently for the purpose.of exercising some supervision oyer, prospective jisers of heavier thatfair devices has received many '"applications for membership, some of which have come from .well known men of wealth throughout the United, States: ;. For the present their names iiro kept secret by the Wrights., The American orders, however, arc only a'art of those that are coming in the iheavy mail of the inventors. News of their achievements has pene trated to far. parts of the world,.; From Iceland in thelast few days has come an inquiry as to the cost of delivering an aeroplane and sending an instructor to that far northern island. The "shah of Persia, perhaps remembering one occasion when he had to escape from his palace by stealth and desiring to have a new device to defeat the revo lutionaries, has asked that a machine be constructed for him as soon as pos sible. A Chinese mandarin who is one of the leaders in the awakening 'of that empire to western civilization has also s?nt an order. The Wrights will be unable to fill all their orders because their factory is too small for the work! They will en large its capacity greatly this summer and hope to be able to meet all de mands made upon them. Another trouble they are having is In obtain ing a sufficient quantity of steel of the exact grade to keep the present fac tory working up to capacity. They are endeavoring to make arrangements with steel mills to make them a sup ply in future, but are having some dif ficulty in doing so. That the operations of the Wrights need not be restricted for -want of capital is shown by the fact that they have refused an offer since their re turn for the investment of -a large sura in their . enterprise. ;t This offer came from well known New York capitalists, who believed that the oper ations of the Wrights should be great ly enlarged. They .declared, however, that they had sufficient money of their own to carry on their work. FOR . A JEWISH MESOPOTAMIA. KOME FOR HARVARD LAMPOON Jacob H. Schiff Said to Be Interested Will Be the Only. College Publication In Latest Colony Plan. j That Can Make Such a Boast. Already distinguished as the oldest comic paper in the United States, the Harvard Lampoon is to have a' hand some buildjng, giving it the honor of possessing the only one owned and ocf cupied by a college publication and of being one of the few comic papers to have homes of their own. :, , .-y. " Work has already begun on the structure in Cambridge. Mass., so that the handsome quarters will be ready for "Lampy" by next fall.. An entire block bounded by Bow, Mount Auburn and Plympton streets will be utilized. Edmund, March Wheelwright, '76, who was one of the founders of the paper, now a distinguished architect, has drawn the plans in the style of Dutch renaissance. Molded brick, mul lloned windows and a tiled roof :witn two towers give the building a quaint distinction from other college struc tures. This striking clubhouse, which' is to be flanked with Lombardy pop lars, will, however, harmonize artis tically with its surroundings. ; .1; One of the. features will be the. tow er containing the Ibis nest, an exclu sive apartment for the president of the board of editors. The Ibis is a wise bird which?' interjects remarks in the dialogue of the "By the Way" coir umn; which, is a perennial feature of the Lampoon humor. Professor Bar ret Wendell, '77, when an editor of the Lampoon, originated the ibis as a fea ture of the paper, the sagacious bird being used as was the dog in the Eng lish Punch. .:'.- . :.: The nest Is in the western tower and from a balcony overlooks the big ban queting hall. Lampoon dinners will undoubtedly in the future be as fa mous as those of the past, because the new building will have special kitch ens and halls for the purpose.' There is also to be a large hall or Lampoon celebrations. . That Mr. Wheelwright should be the architect is especially fitting, since he was not only on the first board of edi tors, but also designed the cover piece for the original issue, which has be come a, trademark. -, - "Lampy" was born In the minds of Ralph Wormeley Curtis, '76, and his classmate, John T. Wheelwright, who While attending a course of lectures on the fine arts given by the late Charles Eliot Norton conceived the idea of producing a "college Punch." The first number was issued Feb. 10, 1876. '- Dispatches were recently received In New York from London of a movement among the Jews of Europe to amalga mate all the societies concerned with the improvement of the condition of the Hebrew race-in a scheme for the colonization of Mesopotamia. Israel Zangwill. the head of the Jewish ter ritorial organization, is endeavoring to induce the Jewish Colonization associ ation to join forces with his society to bring this result about. . Jacob H. Schiff, who Is now in Eu rope, is said also to be Interesting him self In the matter and to be doing his best to effect the alliance between the organizations, which will be necessary If the plan is to be a success. He is said to be interviewing the leaders of the Jews in Europe In the interests of this movement. . The Rev.. Dr. Schulman In discuss ing the plan said that he understood that one difficulty which would have to be overcome was the necessity of providing an extensive irrigation sys tem, which would cost a large sum. "There can be no doubt," he said, "of the advantage of diverting some of the crowded Jewish population of Europe, and there is certainly enough territory for them in Mesopotamia. While the country would not appeal to the Jew as would Palestine, It has traditions of value to the race. The Babylonian captivity began in 536, and the Jews enjoyed there for a time an honorable career. They were Independent and had a prince of their own. "They sef.up great schools of learn ing, and the Talmudic tradition grew up in theseparts. They began to de cline in the eighth century, and I do not know if there are; any Jews left there now, but certainly there would be more to. attract them to Mesopota mia now. than to British East Africa, which was proposed as the site of a Jewish colony a few years ago. Of course there would be the Turkish gov ernment to deal with, but we hope that with the regime of the Young Turks much greater toleration would be shewn." " THE SENATE'S LITTLE PAGES. FASHION VERSUS BEAUTY. Boston Sculptor Tells How Female Form Is Being Ruined. v That woman's figure has been ruined ty slavery to fashion is the declaration . of Hugh Cains, the Boston sculptor. He says: "Woman's figure is getting poorer and poorer every year. The women of (today are getting farther and farther away from the Greek figure of 2,000 years ago. "As one instance of this, those who determine what is fashionable are try ing to bring the waist line farther own all the time, At present an ef fort is being made to get It down as low as the hips Thts4s all wrong, of course, for nature long ago determined tUat it should be just below the breast, allowing a soft, graceful line from hip to armpit. So long as fashion dictates that the waist shall be close to the hips, so long will we have women with bulging, lumpy hips and other deform ities. . ' "If women would have just such a waist as they seek the beautiful that we see in classic paintings and sculp ture, the waist that characterized the fincient Greek woman let them avoid fashions." Thomas H. Carter Tells a Story About the Vermont Senator. Senator Thomas H. Carter of .Mon tana, justly reckoned one of the hu morists of congress, is spreading a story about Senator Page of Vermont which, although it Is taken with a grain of salt, is nevertheless making the rounds of the capitol. "I was in the senate chamber one , afternoon after the senate had ad journed," says Senator Carter, "and Senator Page was- in his seat reading. A constituent -.of mine was t with me,! and, vdesir6us that. he ' should shake hands with as many distinguished per sons as possible during his stay in Washington, I escorted him to Senator Page's seat and introduced him. Lat er, as we were walking out of the chamber, we passed a number of the senate pages romping in a corner. "'Who are those lads?' my constit uent asked. " 'They are little pages,' I answered. "He looked back at Senator Page and said: 'Whew! He must have been on good terms with President Roosevelt.'" ' To Blnne? Via Baiioort. Going to dinner forty-two milea away in a balloon was the experience of N. H; Arnold, A. D. Converse and W. H. Richardson, who recently ascended at North Adams, Mass., In the North Adams No. 1. The balloon was sail ing near the ground over the farm of George W. Hodges at Greenfield Cen ter, N. Y., when two of the farmer's daughters Invited the party to conie down and have dinner, and they did. POEM TO MEREDITH. Thomas Hardy, Novelist, Lays Tribute - on Urn of the Dead. On the day of the funeral of George Meredith, the eminent English novel ist, the following lines by Thomas Hardy, the novelist, under the bead ing "G. M., 1828-1909," were published! Forty years back, when much had place That since has perished out of mind, I heard that voice and saw that face. He spoke as one afoot will wind A morning horn ere men awake. 1 His note was trenchant, smart, but kind. He was of those whose words can shake And riddle to the very core The falsities that time will break. Of late when we two met once more The luminous countenance and dear ' Shone just as forty years before. So that when now all tongues declare He is unseen by his green hill I scarce believe he sits not there. No matter; further and further still Through the world's vaporous, vitiate air His words wing oil, as strobe words will. London Times. PLAN TO USE PEAT. Colonel For Astor Invents Machine Utilizing It For Fuel. Colonel John Jacob Astor, who has appeared frequently on the patent of fice records as an inventor of practical devices, has applied" for a patent - for an Invention which, it. is exDecrftvm utll Ize the 'vast deposits' of peat f oun in the United States and other parts of the world. - Peat has been used with fair success as a fuel, but because of the amount of water contained In it a long season of drying is necessary before it can be burned. V i ; . The vibrator disintegrator which has been, invented by Colonel Astor will, it is believed, solve the problem of the commercial manufacture of gas from peat. The disintegrator utilizes the expansive force of the air and gases within the porous peat to disrupt and disintegrate the latter and to permit it to be thoroughly and uniformly heated. The disintegrator will ; be tested in a peat fuel producer gas plant which Colonel Astor. is now erecting at his country place at TRhlne-cliff-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. The plant "will run a stone crusher and is to be of 150 horsepower. f -' If the patent .Is allowed Colonel Astor intends to present it to the pub lic in the hope that it may prove; of general use. In the peat invention the gas gen erated may be supplied to an ordinary internal combustion engine, the engine muffler being placed Inside the gas producer. : The Inventor recommends a slow speed engine, so that the suc cessive charges of exhaust gas will have time to produce the desired, ex pansion in the muffler. The engine which he will use in his test, will be air cooled. . BIG SHIP'S UNKNOWN SPEED. Valuable Fruit Lands. , v . . " Through the agency of W. J. Baker & Co., a young orchard of 10.J- acres east of Hood River was sold this week to E." C. Brownlee, of Omaha, for $12, 000. The orchard formerly be longed to E. C. Long, a Portland rnan,and the trees are Newtowns and Spitzenbergs. ranging from one to eight, years old. The same company also bought ten acres on the west side of the val ley in young trees, for which it paid $10,000. The latter prop erty was bought as an invest Sub-Committee For Coast. The National . Waterways Commision, which will take a western trip during the coming summer, has been invited to vis it Cooa Bay and other Oregon points. It is expected that the entire commission, which is composed of mernters of the Se nate and House, will not visit the Pacific Coast, but that a sub-committee will go t6 places west of the Mississippi. - Could Not Be Better. No one has ever made a salve, oint ment, lotion or balm to compare with Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It's the one perfect healer of Cuts, . Corns, Burns, Bruises, Sores, Scalds, Boils, Ulcers, Eczema, Salt Rheum. For Sore Eyes, Cold Sores, Chapped Hands it's supreme. Infallible for Piles. Only 25c at all druggists. Daily Gazette 50 cents per month. Ths Best Paint There is no bettergfpaint made for appearance and durability than Aoms Quality Paim Specially prepared for exterior and interior use. "FLOOR VARNISH THAT WEARS" WALL PAPER AND PAINT STORE Second Street, Near Palace Theater WOODS BROTHERS GENERAL REPAIR SHOP Prompt attention given to repairing all kinds of gasoline en gines, autos, bicycles. Plows and axes sharpened. . Saws flied. : All work guaranteed satisfactory and done on short notice. Give us a call. We can please you. Located back of Beal Bros-' blacksmith shop on Second street. Phone No. 3145 Ind. - floods Brothers C0RVAL OREGON Occidental Lumber Co, Successors to; Corvallb Lumber Co. We are here to supply your needs in the Lumber line. Please call on J. B IRVING for information and prices. And take notice that if we have not got exactly what you want we will get it for you. .-.. G: O. B ASSET f, Local Mcr. HYDRAULIC WELL DRILLING Powerful and rapid well ma chine run by gasoline engine. anton County Lumber Go, " Manufacturers of all kinds of fir Lunilier, Hlouldinos, Cedar Posts, Sawed and Split. Gedar Shakes Wind mill pump repairing-, and drove wells a specialty. Place your orders now before the Tseason"s rush work is on.' A. N. HARLAN Box 526 Corvallis, Oregon Dealers in Doors, Windows, Urns, BncK Cement, Shingles, etc SEES Tribute to George Meredith. Died May 18, 1909. ' , ' He listened to the mighty lyre of earth And learned the lore of soul compelling song. He pondered on the rune of right and wrong And saw the hearts of men, their woe, their mirth. In him 'our vision had a second birtn. For by his words we saw as through some strong . ' Enchanted lens the conscience of the throng, " : . The font of ill, the hidden source ' of worth. Shall death claim him, on deathless ' knowledge reared? , Shall dreams o'ertake the master of th dreum? Nay; his the perfect love that never feared. . His words send through our grief a ra , dlant gleam "With Life and Death I walked, au5 Ixjve appeared And made them on each side a shadow , seem." , - Joyce Kilmer In Now York Bun. Romanes of a Modern Admiral. Lord Charles Beresford, who recent ly retired as the ranking officer In the British fleet, attributes much of Ms success to nis wire, tie naa a true sailor's romance. Returning from a long cruise in 1878, he was a guest at a reception, and, standing at the top of the stairs watching the company ascend, he was attracted by a face and exclaimed.' "There's a : pretty girl!" She" was Miss Mina Gardner." Lord Charles quickly obtained an Introduc tion, was lust as quick in .his wooing and within a. month- had , won the "pretty girl" as his bride. Lady Beres ford is a lover of music and has a rep utation among her friends as a com' noser. She sits by the hour- at the piano weaving one tune Into another. runnine from ballads to operas, and frequently composing as - she- goes along. . , , . . , ' '--l. Huge Railroad Map of United States, A railroad map of the United States, said to, be the largest ever sentabroad, "has been shirked by the Chicago. Mil waukee and St. Paul railway for ex hibition at the Golden West and Amer ican Industries exhibition at London. It is forty-seven feet nine inches lon and thirteen feet six inches h'eh. is painted In colors on transparent cloth and is Illuminated by electricity. Twenty transparencies of. scenes nlonj the St. Pan! are shown. YOUR VACATION NOW at our expense A CHOICE OF FOUR FREE TRIPS Mauretania's Skipper Says She Has Never Been Tuned Up to Top Notch. Captain Fritchard of the Mauretania. which had lowered her western record by thirteen mihutes, was in fine humor after the big ocean liner had docked the Other day at New York. 'The Mauretania has kept up a speed of 25 knots and over for nine consecutive trips. I do not f believe that any one knows the speed that she can develop. Going home on one occasion 1 gave the order to let her out. This was between Queens town and Liverpool, and the great speed she made astonished me. I learned later that she was not exert ing her full power even at that time." The steamship left quarantine a lit tle after 6 o'clock, making another record by docking earlier than on any other trip. - : Miniature Boy City For Michigan. Judge Brown of Salt Lake City an nounced the other day that the model "boy city" which has been organized in summer fop two years at Winona Lake, Ind.. - will be established this year nt Pine Lake, near Charlevoix, Mich., from July 22 to Aug. 14. It is expected that . more than '1,000 boys from "twenty . states will occupy the tents of the .miniature city.- , Jhey will print a newspaper, conduct a bank and a grocery, organize a common council, political parties and courts and. .hold elections, the purpose being to instruct the boys In "fair play dries." IS OFFERED YOU Cir ATTTT C DURING ALASKA OJli I l Lilli YUKON EXPOSITION , YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK YOSEMITE VALLEY LAKETAHOE ALL YOUR EXPENSES PAID IFtYOU HAVE FRIENDS IN THE EAST WHO WANT TO VlsIT THE PACIFIC COAST WE CAN ARRANGE IT This is your Opportunity For complete information address Sunset Travel Club Room 16, Flood Bld'g San Francisco THE DAILY GAZETTE ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME